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1926
LT. R. H. “BOB” BERRY is physical
director of the U. S. Naval Post at Grand
Prairie, Texas. He was formerly football
coach and athletic director at the East
Texas State Teachers College at Commerce
and played quarterback on the champion-
ship Aggie team of 1925.
LT. THOMAS R. BLACK, former Cham-
ber of Commerce manager at Brownfield,
Texas, has reported for Army duty in
New Orleans.
WOODY L. COWAN asks that his ad-
dress be changed to 1704 Dakota, Lincoln,
Nebraska. He is with the Soil Conserva-
tion Service.
ROBERT K. EASON was promoted to
the grade of Major in August and trans-
ferred to Headquarters, Third Air Force,
Tampa, Fla.
W. R. KERR is an Ensign, U.S.N.R.,
and receives his mail Box ND 12, 15th
District, Balboa, Canal Zone. He was
formerly accountant for the Superior Oil
Co. at Houston.
LT MARSHALL S. McDOUGAL is on
active duty in the Corps of Engineers and
stationed at Camp Ringgold. He was for-
merly of Houston and an active member
of the Houston A. and M. Club.
W. C. PATE is Vice-Principal of Fort
Worth Technical High School, and lives
at 3521 Bellaire Dr., South.
J. W. ROSS, JR. is with the United
States Steel Corporation, P. O. Box 159,
Houston, Texas.
MAJOR L. A. (WAGGS) WAYMAN is
commanding officer, 1st Squadron, 124th
Cavalry, at Fort Brown, Brownsville,
Texas.
LT. COL. E. L. WILSON is command-
ing officer of the 12th Quartermaster Reg-/
iment at Camp Lee, Va. He entered active |_
duty as a Captain and was formerly sales
engineer for the Alamo Iron Works in
Houston. His home town is Luling, Texas.
He and Mrs. Wilson reside at 29 S.
Adams St., Petersburg, Va.
LT JOHN L. WILSON, former San
Antonio architect now on active duty with
the U. S. District Engineer office at San
Antonio, has been promoted to Captain.
MACK WOODRUM, county agent for
Dickens County, has been granted a leave
of absence by the A. & M. Extension
Service for the duration for military serv-
ice.
1927
R A. BAKER, formerly of Amarillo,
asks that his mailing address for the
TEXAS AGGIE be changed to 410 N. W.
Street, Pampa, Texas. ’
CAPTAIN PAUL A. CUNYUS was re-
cently promoted to a Major. He is some-
where in the middle east and receives his
mail in care of the Postmaster, APO 1227,
New York, N. Y.
F. R. BENNETT has been ordered to
active duty as a First Lt. in the Chemical
Warfare Service at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.
He was formerly in the insurance busi-
ness in Dallas and is a past president of
the Dallas A. & M. Club.
WILL T. CLARK has changed to the
Production Department of General Elec-
tric’s Plastics organization, making things
that will keep Japanazis busy. His new ad-
dress is 125 East Houstonic St., Pittsfield,
Mass. He was formerly an illuminating
expert in Cleveland, Ohio, but felt he
- could be of more service in the war ef-
fort in his new work.
MAJOR ALFRED HARRY DAVIDSON
JR., formerly with the U. S. Engineers
Office, Louisville, Ky. is now somewhere
in England. His wife forwards all mail ad-
dressed to him at 214 Maple St., Bridge-
port, W. Va,
JAMES J. DURHAM is on an exten-
sive visit in Texas from his work with
the U. S. Department of Interior in the
Dakotas. He will be in Texas until Christ-
mas and located at his old home, Hico.
ISAAC D. FLORES now receives his
mail c/o “La Victoria” Ave., Madero 229
Pte. Monterrey, N. L., Mex. He was a
Chemical Engineer major at A. and M.
HARRY HOLTZER, deputy county aud-
itor for the last nine years, left recently
for the Army. As a token of high esteem,
his fellow employees presented him with
a watch. Mrs. Holtzer will remain at their
home, 3018 Cockrell, Fort Worth, Texas.
LT. COL. RICHARD H. JONES has
been in desert maneuvers for the past
two months. He is assigned to 34th A. R.,
Camp Cooke, Calif.
LT. COL. WILBURN E. LANGLOTZ,
assigned to the Corps of Engineers, Camp
Wolters, Texas, and is post engineer. It
will be remembered that “Willie” Lang-
lotz loved to tickle the ivory for the en-
joyment of the Aggies in old Sbhisa at
hash time, during his college days.
CAPT. W. D. McELROY is in the Tac-
tics Department of the Armored Force
School at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. He was
vocational agriculture teacher at Italy,
Texas before going into active service.
MAJOR HORACE L. REYNOLDS has
returned to the States from foreign duty.
He spent some time in Washington, but
expects another assignment soon. He gets
his mail ¢/o Mrs. Reynolds at 2607 W.
Pierce, Milwaukee, Wis.
R. B. “CORP” TATE has been appoint-
ed First Lieutenant in the army specialists
corps and has reported for duty. He has
been County Agent at Sweetwater for the
past seven years.
LT. NOLAND VARLEY is now in the
U. 8S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Galves-
ton District, and stationed at Ellington
Field.
1928
R. M. DIXON, formerly sanitary engi-
neer for the City of Dallas, is with the
U. S. Engineers at San Antonio.
GEORGE ELLIS is a Civilian Sanitary
Engineer at Williams Field, Chandler, Ari-
zona. His former home was San Antonio.
B. L. GRIMES, JR., sanitary engineer,
reported to the U. S. Engineering Corps
at Fort Sam Houston in September.
JOEL HUNT, Aggie football immortal
and formerly backfield coach at L. S. U.,
has been commissioned as a first lieuten-
ant in the Army Air Corps.
CAPTAIN T. A. “TED” KRAUEL, for-
mer Beaumont architect, is on active duty
and assigned to the Real Estate, Repairs
and Utilities Division of the Eighth Serv-
ice Corps. He recently visited Bryan Iook-
ing over the housing situation in connec-
tion with the new Army Airport being
built near that city.
LT. A. E. “BILL” MORGAN, JR., has
completed training at the Aberdeen Prov-
ing Grounds and reported for duty to
Fort Douglas, Utah. He formerly was in
the oil business in Longview. Mrs. Mor-
gan will go to Salt Lake City with him.
CAPTAIN HENRY L. PHILLIPS, for-
mer safety engineer of Dallas, went on
active duty with the National Guard and
later transferred to the Air Force for
special observer work. He has attended the
general staff and line officers schools at
Leavenworth and most recently was on a
temporary assignment at San Antonio.
THE TEXAS AGGIE
Honor Man
JINKS
HAROLD M.
SEAMAN HAROLD M. JINKS, former-
ly of Piggott, Ark., has been graduated
from recruit training at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station as honor man of
his company. He was formerly Soil Con-
servationist for the S.C.S. and enlisted
this summer. He will now attend one of
the Navy’s Service Schools. Mrs. Jinks
still lives at Piggott.
CAMERON SIDDALL, entomologist of
the A. & M. Extension Service, has been
appointed a first lieutenant in the U. S.
Army and reported for duty at Camp
Barkeley to the Sanitary Corps.
COL. CARL R. STORRIE, U. S. Air
Force, has been transferred to Tampa,
Fla., where he will be in command of a
fighter group. He goes there from assign-
ments in Newfoundland, Greenland, Ice-
land and Maine. A few years ago he was
Director of Training of the Gulf Coast
Air Force Training program in the South-
west and many of the new fields and
programs in Texas were started under his
direction.
A. J. WOOLVERTON, formerly of
Shreveport, La., is now associated with
the Defense Supplies Corp., Division of
American Republics Aviation, 607 Com-
monwealth Bldg., 1625 “K’ Street, Wash-
ington, D. C.
1929
MAJOR JAY BERTRAND, former
Houston independent oil operator, has
been assigned to the 98th Inf. Division at
Camp Breckenridge, Ky., as assistant ad-
jutant general. He was formerly stationed
at Fort Sam Houston.
LT. HERSCHEL E. BURGESS is as-
signed to the Army Air Base at Miami,
Fla. He was formerly in the real estaie
and insurance business at College Sta-
tion, where Mrs. Burgess and their daugh-
ter still make their home. Burgess had the
experience of having movie star Clark
Gable as a pupil and reported him a
“swell soldier.”
LT. JAMES R. DAY is attached to the
310th Coast Artillery at Camp Tyson,
Tenn., and will shortly enter the Barrage
Balloon Training School there. His ad-
dress is Box 615, Paris, Tenn. He was
formerly assistant geologist for the Amer-
ada Petroleum Corp., Midland.
HECTOR H. HICKMAN, who formerly
ran the Student Co-op store near the
campus, is building Liberty Ships afid gets
his mail at 625% Grace Ave., Panama City,
Fla. He is a welder, having studied that
trade in order to prepare himself to be of
service in the war. In his absence the
Student Co-op is being run by partner
Ray Hirons, ’32. ;
CLIFF B. MARSHALL, county agricul-
tural agent for Rains County, has been
called to active military service and giv-
en a leave of absence by the A. & M.
Extension Service.
MAJOR JOHN H. MONTFORT wishes
his address changed to GCAAFTC A-3 Sec-
tion, Randolph Field, Texas.
JAMES A. TRAIL, former Southwestern
industrial representative for Hyatt Bear-
ings Div., General Motors Corp., Chicago,
I1l.,, will be transferred to the Detroit Di-
vision Nov. 1. His business address will
be Hyatt Bearings Division, General Mo-
tors Corp., 8-164 General Motors Building,
Detroit, Mich. He solicits the assistance of
all Detroit Aggies to guide him around
the big city.
1930
CAPT. M. H. BAUGHN and Mrs.
Baughn recently visited relatives and
friends in Hearne. Capt. Baughn is sta-
tioned at Camp Hood.
LT. (jg) ROBERT H. BLAKE, USNR,
Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif.,
writes that weather in his location is de-
lightfully cool. He is anxious to hear from
his friends.
MAJOR E. HUGH BOLAND is assigned
to Luke Field, Phoenix, Arizona, where
he is Post Signal Officer. Other Aggies at
Luke Field are: Major J. Ashy, ’29, who
is Sub-Depot Commander ; and Capt. Chas.
A. King, ’32, a Squadron Commander.
LT. T. BROOK DOUGHERTY is in
charge of buildings and grounds at the
United States Naval Base at Grand Prai-
rie, Texas.
MAJOR PIERRE M. HONNELL is as-
signed to the staff and faculty of the U. S.
Military Academy, Department of Chem-
istry and Electricity, West Point, N. Y.
Honnell finds this a wonderful assign-
ment.
In a recent issue of LIFE was a picture
of CAPT. ALLEN G. McMAHAN engaged
in a ping pong game with one of the
Army nurses. He is on foreign duty and
gets his mail at APO 502 c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco. He is the son of Waul
McMahan, ‘Whitney, Texas.
LT. JOHN H. TURNER, former San
Antonio architect now on duty with the
District Office, U. S. Engineers, at San
Antonio, has been promoted to the rank
of Captain.
KERMIT E. VOELKEL has been trans-
ferred from Austin to Dallas, where he,
Mrs. Voelkel, Anita Lee, and Patricia Sue
are living at 6000 Velasco. He is Associate
Marketing Specialist, Agr. Marketing Ad-
ministration, USDA.
LT. PAUL WORDEN is on duty, Haq.
and Station Complement, Camp Claiborne,
La., and receives his mail at 100 B Lin-
coln St., Forest Glen, Pineville, La.
1931
R. C. “BEAU” BELL, a real veteran of
professional baseball who has played many
years in the Big Leagues, has been sold
to New Orleans of the Southern Ass'n.
CAPTAIN EARL J. BERRYHILL, for-
mer Aggie yell-leaer, is at the Army Air
Base, Yakima, Washington.
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C. J. BURGIN is Pharmacist Mate, 2nd
Class at the National Naval Medical Cen-
ter, Methesda, Md., where he will remain
until he completes his laboratory techni-
cian course, upon completion of which he
expects to be sent to sea or to a Naval
Hospital.
MAJOR H. A. EDDINS is Commanding
Officer of the 7th Engr. Trng. Bn., E. R.
T. C. at Fort Belvoir, Va. He reports that
LT. CHARLES H. ROLLINS, ’35, is also
a member of the 7th Bn.
CAPTAIN THERON S. JOBSON is with
the United Air Lines at Burbank, Cali-
fornia. He has been flying for that com-
pany for several years. It fell his unhappy
duty to write the TEXAS AGGIE some
details of the recent death of Captain W.
E. “Shiek” Davis, 29, who formerly had
been a United Air Lines captain and pilot.
ELEHUGH LEVY, formerly of Waco,
has been promoted to the rank of Cap-
tain. He is stationed at Camp Cooke, Cali-
fornia.
1ST. LT. JOE BUCK LLOYD is Senior
Instructor, Group IX, Wing II, San An-
tonio Aviation Cadet Center, San Antonio,
Texas.
LT. RICHARD E. MORRIS, JR., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Morris of Dal-
las, is now Post Engineer at the Army
Air Forces Basic Flying School, Walnut
Ridge, Arkansas.
LT. ALFREDO C. STEIN, formerly with
the Texas State Health Department, is om
active duty at Camp Livingston, La.
1932
CAPT. J. HARVEY CADDESS is on
active duty somewhere in India.
CAPT. GEO. E. CARPENTER, former
Div. Safety Engr. for the Humble Oil &
Refg. Co., Houston, is now Personnel Ad-
jutant at the. Officer Candidate School at
Fort Belvoir, Va. He writes that he is
surrounded by Aggies, among them being:
Luther Bell, ’32; Percy Mims, ’32 ; Howard
Arno, ’33; and Bert Whaley, ’32.
LEWIS E. KAUFFMAN, formerly of
Houston, is now stationed at the U. S.
Naval Air Station, Pearl Harbor, T. H.
1ST. LT. DAYTON A. KITLEY is Com-
mandant of Aviation Cadets in the Pri-
mary School at Chickasha, Okla.
1933
LOOKS COMFORTABLE
CAPT. JOHN KIRBY JONES, ’33
From the above snapshot and the fact
that in the letter he mentions Kangaroos,
it is obvious that Capt. J. Kirby Jones is
on duty somewhere in the South Pacific.
He formerly live in Beaumont where he
was with the Gulf States Utilities Com-
pany. His address is A.P.O. 923 c/o Post-
master, San Francisco, California. He re-
ports that the “old man’ is getting along
fine.
CAPT. MARTIN F. LUDEMAN is sta-
tioned at Camp Swift, Texas, Headquar-
ters 18th Ord. Bn. Mrs. Ludeman and their
young baby are still living in San Antonio.
SGT. MEREDITH A. RAWLINS of
Ardmore, Okla. has been promoted from
technician fifth grade to technician fourth
grade. He is personnel clerk of Co. L of
the 800th Sig. Serv. Rgt. Before going
into active service, Sgt. Rawlins was as-
sociated with his father in the A. B.
Rawlins Furniture Co.
T. A. ADAMS, JR. has been promoted
to Captain, and is now located at Beeville,
Texas. He receives his mail at 106 N.
Berry. Before going into active duty, he
was with the State Highway Dept. at
Austin.
HOWARD BOSWELL receives his mail
at Box 325, Seymour, Texas.
LT. (jg) T. B. HARRIS, JR. is on active
duty with the U. S. Naval Reserve at
Sampson Naval Training Station, Samp-
son, N. Y. He is with the Recruit Train-
ing Department.
M. EDWIN HAYES has accepted a
position in the Electrical Engineering De-
partment of A. & M. and has moved to
Bryan from New Orleans, La., where he
was with Westinghouse.
LT. P. C. JOYCE asks that his address
be changed to Hq. 2nd Bn., E. R. C., Ft.
Belvoir, Va.
A. J. MILLER, 1336 S. Armstrong,
Bartlesville, Okla., isn’t happy over the
fact that he has about lost contact with
his Alma Mater. He received his degree
from A. & M. in Chemical Engineering.
LT. O. L. MIMMS is in the Army Air
Forces, and wants his AGGIE sent to him
at 98th B Hq. & A. B. Sq., Esler Field, La.
CAPT. S. S. SUMMERS has been pro-
moted to the rank of Major and is in the
Quartermaster General’s office in Washing-
ton. Mrs. Summers and their son are liv-
ing in Washington with him and he has
been on active duty since Aug. 1941.
CAPT. RICHARD H. WRIGHT, home
Alice and remembered as ‘Bear’ Wright
and an Aggie football end, is attending
the Cavalry School at Ft. Riley, Kan. He
has been stationed at Ft. Bliss and Ft.
Ringold in Texas.
1934
DAN C. ALANIS has been promoted
from Captain to Major. He has been at
Pine Camp, New York, and more re-
cently on Louisiana maneuvers. He was
coach and PhyzEd teacher at North Side
High in Ft. Worth before going on active
duty. Mrs. Alanis and their son, Dan, Jr.,
have been visiting in Ennis and Dallas.
CAPTAIN
mer Shreveport newspaper writer,
been placed on the general staff of the
3rd Armored Division at Camp Polk, La.
Captain Dugan wrote several of the slo-
gans and coined the names of several of
the new armored divisions.
CAPT. JOE A. GOLASINSKI is com-
manding officer, Reconnaissance Company,
of the 809th T. D. Bn., at Camp Hood.
Joe writes that it is a pleasant change
after having been stationed in Kansas and
Tennessee.
Private to Lieutenant
Is Record Jump of
E. R. Stephenson, ’32
From Buck Private in Uncle
Sam’s army to First Lieutenant
was a big jump made by Ernest
R. Stephenson, ’32. “Big Steve” al-
lowed his reserve commission to
lapse in 1936 and was drafted into
the army last July. Recently his
commission was reinstated and he
was assigned to duty at Camp Wal-
lace, Texas. Before entering the
army he was with the Farm Se-
curity Administration,
Several other A.&M. men are
known to be in the same situation
as Stephenson before his commis-
sion was reinstated. The AGGIE
would like to hear from any others
who have received reinstatements
or have failed at reinstatement.
JACK W. McCORD, formerly of Port
Arthur, is in the officer training school
at Ft. Sill.
MAJOR LOUIS R. PIETZSCH, former-
ly of Beaumont, is stationed at Camp Rob-
erts, California. He has a younger broth-
er at A. & M. i
LT. ROBERT T. NELSON is now as-
signed to an Engineer Regiment, and re-
ceives his mail through A. P. 0. 922,
c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, California.
CAPT. JOHN F. SMITH, of Houston, is
with the 359th Inf. at Camp Barkeley,
“Texas. Before being called to duty in the
Army, he was connected with Crosby-
Wynn Drilling Co., Houston.
J. M. STARR has been appointed Coun-
ty Agricultural Agent for Nolan County,
with headquarters at Sweetwater, Texas.
MAJOR T. L. UHR is temporarily lo-
cated at San Antonio, Headquarters Third
Army. His permanent address is 316 Med-
ical Arts Bldg., Dallas.
PVT. JAMES D. “BUSTER” WORLEY
has been in the army since Sept. 11. He
hopes to be able to go to Officers Train-
ing School in about two months. His ad-
dress is: Pvt. James E. Worley, 405th Air
Squadron, T. S. S. Barracks 207, Sheppard
Field, Texas. He was formerly at Plain-
view and was an officer in the Central
Plains A. & M. Club.
1935
PVT. JOHN R. ALLEN, JR. is happy
asked for the address of Major Luther
E. Bell, ’32.
GLENN G. COMMONS, District Engr.
for the Soil Conservation Service, Nacog-
doches, is anxious to learn the where-
abouts of EUGENE C. BUIE, ’33, who
probably was on the Western front at
the start of hostilities.
CAPT. KARL F. ELLIOTT is assigned
to Co. 2, 6th Bn., Engr. Replacement
Training Center, Ft. Belvoir, Va.
CAPT. HENRY FISHERMAN is at-
tached to the Station Hospital, Office of
the Veterinarian, Williams Field, Chandler,
Arizona. He was former Veterinarian for
the Bureau of Animal Industries, ' Fort
Worth, Texas. His present address is Box
86, Chandler, Ariz.
LT. JOE B. GERSHOVITZ is assigned
to the 36th Cml. Co., Camp Livingston, La.
S/SGT. J. H. KELLY wishes his address
changed to Hq. Sq. 74th Obsn. Group, De
Ridder Army Air Base, De Ridder, La.
MAJOR W. R. LANGSTON was re-
cently promoted to that rank. He is serv-
ing with a coast artillery regiment on
the West Coast.
CAPT. MARVIN E. LINDEMANN is
Commandant of students at the South
Plains Glider School at Lubbock.
LT. ERVIN B. McLEROY, former Co.
Agent at Gail, Texas and now taking spe-
cial officers training in the air corps at
Miami Beach, Fla., visited recently in
Bryan with his mother, Mrs. Henry Wat-
son.
CAPT. LUCIAN M. MORGAN was a
recent campus visitor. He is still sta-
tioned at Camp Wolters, Texas.
H. S. PATRICK is Electrical Inspector
for Black & Veatch, Engrs., and is lo-
cated at Pando, Colo.
KENNETH TUCKER received his cap-
taincy recently. He is stationed at Foster
Field, Victoria, Texas.
LT. J. WOODROW WALKER recently
got a break when another Aggie, Captain
C. B. Christian, ’41, found his A. & M.
ring at Fort Belvoir, Va. It was lost on
a night maneuver and several months
elapsed before it was found by Christian.
In the meantime, Walker had been trans-
ferred to construction work in Alaska and
promoted to a first lieutenant.
BENTON A. ZORNS has resigned as
County Agent for Collingsworth County,
Wellington, Texas.
MAJOR JAMES A. MULLER receives
his mail at A.P.O. 3195, c/o Postmaster,
San Francisco, Calif., instead of with the
100th C. A. in Michigan, as stated in an
earlier issue of THE AGGIE.
1936
Commandant
HAYNES W. DUGAN, for- |
has |
MAJOR CARTER D. SPEED
CARTER D. SPEED has been promoted |
| to the rank of Major. He is Commandant |
at Minter Field, Bakersfield,
Calif., largest Air Force basic training
center on the West Coast. He must be
turning in a grand job by the speed of
his promotions. He and Mrs. Speed and
their young daughter make their home in
Bakersfield and Carter is highly enthusi-
astic over his work and his assignment.
PFC HERMAN WALDMAN entered the
of Cadets
at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. He |
Army on Aug. 15 and is stationed at Camp
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Dean E J Kyle Styled as “The
Fighting Dean of Texas A ggies”
“The Fighting Dean of the Fight-
ing Texas Aggies” is the new title
bestowed upon Dean E. J. Kyle by
the October issue of the “Country
Gentlemen”, one of the leading
agricultural journals of the na-
tion.
In an illustrated feature the part
played by Dean Kyle in the mak-
ing of the A. & M. as we know it
today, is widely portrayed. As the
magazine stated, Dean Kyle has
been at Texas A. & M. for forty-
six of his sixty-six years. The lit-
tle town of Kyle, Texas, situated
on the highway between Austin
and San Antonio received its name
from Dean Kyle’s grandfather who
settled thereabouts in 1848. He
moved there from his native Mis-
sissippi after he was defeated in
his ambition to become governor.
When the Civil War came, the
five husky sons of Grandfather be-
ame famous as the original “Fight-
ing Kyles”. Edwin Jackson Kyle
was one of the nine children of
Captain Ferg Kyle an grew up
in the town his father founded—
and hardly left it until his enroll-
ment in A. & M. in 1896. Both he
and the college were twenty years
old.
The Kyles were well-to-do, the
article continued, but as more than
half of the Aggies do today, he
earned his own way through school.
Even in college, Kyle was not
without his share of distinction. He
won the positions of senior cap-
tain, then the highest ranking of-
ficer in the corps; president of the
Y.M.C.A.; president of his class;
and valedictorian. He even served
as commandant during the Spanish-
American War.
In those days, the teaching of
agriculture was in its infancy and
practically unheard of in the state
of Texas. To remedy this situation
became one of Dean Kyle’s ambi-
tions and therefore, he studied
agriculture at the University of
Cornell and received a degree of
Master of Science in Agriculture
in 1902. After this he received
the position of professor of horti-
culture at A. & M.
Two books published by Dean
Kyle have also made him famous,
“Agriculture in the Southwest”
and “Fundamentals of Farming
and Farm Life”, which have be-
come part of the library of Texas
high school boys throughout the
state.
In the field of athletics, Dean
Kyle has also won himself a place.
He has the knack of inspiring vie-
tory and in each of the five years
he has been boss of athletics dur-
ing his teaching period at A. &
M. he produced a winning team.
There was a season four years
ago when civil war threatened Ag-
gieland. The football team went
into a tail spin. The students were
in open rebellion; faculty members
were at loggerheads. Ex-students
were howling for a change in
coaches. And to completely make
things bad, the stadium bonds had
been in default for two years. At
this critical time Dean Kyle was
appointed chairman of athletics.
The results were the nationally
famous teams of Coach Homer
Norton.
Throughout the entire article
a fine tribute was paid to Dean
Kyle and the school. All through
the state he is called, as the art-
icle concluded, the “most popular”
and “most useful citizen.” Friends
assert that he has hunting dates
with every filling station boy
across the state of Texas—a furth-
er illustration of his renown
throughout the state. In every re-
spect, he has truely earned his
reputation as the “Fighting Dean”
of the “Fighting Aggies”.
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Maxey. He would like for his friends to
write him at Det. QMC, 1882nd Unit S. C.,
Camp Maxey, Texas.
JAMES E. BOOTS, formerly with the
General Electric Co., and the Air Condi-
tioning Co., of Houston, has joined the
organization of the Remington Arms Divi-
sion of the DuPont Co., and is working
somewhere in the midwest. He received
his degree in Mechanical Engineering.
CAPT. E. O. NEVILLS was recently
promoted to Major at Ft. Reno, Okla. Lt.
Louis Nagy, ’38, was also promoted at
this station, his new rank being Captain.
CAPT. H. M. QUALTROUGH’S correct
address is 614 T. D. Bn., Camp Carson,
Colo.
CLARENCE L. SPACEK has resigned
as County Agent for Zavala Co. and re-
ceived a leave of absence for duration of
war for military service.
JOHN D. WHITFIELD, assistant coun-
ty agricultural agent of Tarrant County,
has been granted a leave of absence by
the A. & M. Extension Service for military
duty.
T. W. WILEY was a recent campus
visitor and is now making his home in
Huntsville, Texas, where he is serving as
livestock supervisor for the Texas Prison
System. He is married and has a son 2
years old.
Robert Cummings Selected
For Lead in “Texas A&M”
Anne Gwynne Will
Play Opposing Lead
In Wanger Picture
Robert Cummings, youthful Hol-
lywood star of “King’s Row”, has
been selected by Walter Wanger
and his staff to play the masculine
lead in the forthcoming Aggie film
tentatively titled, “Texas A. & M.”
Opposite Cummings will be a
Texas product, Miss Anne Gwynne,
formerly of San Antonio. Miss
Gwynne has been chosen for the
female lead by Wanger, who said
she was chosen because he thought
she would not only put fresh tal-
ent into the film, but was as pro-
mising a young star as there is in
Hollywood.
John Rawlins, director of the
picture, and several other Wanger
and Universal officials are now
on the campus absorbing Aggie
atmosphere and acquiring the pro-
per technique of saying, “Fish
Rawlins is my name, sir!”
Writing the screen play is Nor-
man Reilley Raine, ace scenarist
and creator of the Saturday Even-
ing Post’s “Tugboat Anne” stories.
Long a minor actor in Holly-
wood, Cummings has in the past
year come into his own, largely
through his successes with Dear-
na Durbin.
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