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Up and Down the Military Walk
Cadets torment newly arrived
sailors from the North with the
comforting remark, ‘Never mind,
fella, it'll warm up a bit in Aug-
ust.” The old Texas sun was never
hotter than it has started out this
summer. . . . Departure of the
1000 man Aviation Pre-Flight de-
tachment from the campus leaves
a big hole, filled now only with
1600 Aggies and about the same
number of Sailors and Marines.
That student enrollment, however,
was a pleasant surprise since little
junior or senior work is being of-
fered and the majority of those
entering are new students most
of whom will return for the fall
term. . . Homer Norton, Lil Dim-
mitt and Manning Smith are
working daily with 150 football
hopefuls but fall prospects are in
a heavy fog. There is a possibility
that three or four lads from last
fal’s surprising team will be back,
but the rest will be newcomers
to college football and direct from
high school squads. The Aggie
schedule is complete, calling for
games with all conference teams
except absent Baylor (who will
return to football in 1945) and
Bryan Field, Texas Tech, Okla-
homa Univ. and Miami Univ. in
home University, N. T. A. C,
L. S. U., and Miami University In
Florida. It will be a tough grind
for a green team. . . . The Cadets
have their largest band in several
years and are sweating it out this
summer in preparation for fall.
_.. The “Batt” is coming out twice
out twice weekly this summer in
tablgid style, Calvin Brumley
editor. . . . George Strickhausen,
Cadet Colonel, is proof of the
ability of army doctors. He was
desperately ill last spring after
colliding with a team-mate in an
Aggie-Army baseball game at San
Antonio and injuring his kidney.
He was promptly taken to an army
hospital there and pulled through.
_.. Franklin’s and Mrs. Simon have
returned and Franklin's is a pop-
ular gathering spot. . . . Uncle
Ed’s Place is not operating which
will be a blow to many. . .. Major
Joe Davis, Assistant Commandant
all these years, has been sent to
the C. & G. S. School, Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan., but Harry Boyer
carries on. . . . Art Adamson and
Penny’s swimming Downs pool,
the most popular campus spot this
summer.
Five hundred members of the
staff of the A. & M. Extension
Service attended a conference on
the campus June 26-27-28. With so
many of them A. & M. men it was
like old Home Week. Practically
every county of the state was rep-
resented.
AMONG
A. and M.
Re
PIONEERS
OO
(1876-1897)
Dr. F. E. Giesecke, '86
College Station
COL. G. W. HARDY, one of the first
students to enroll at A. & M. and for
many years a prominent attorney In
Shreveport, La., recently paid the campus
a visit while returning to his home from
the Spanish-American War Veterans meet-
ing at Houston. Despite Col. Hardy's
eighty-five years, he tramped over much
of the campus and enjoyed visiting with
campus friends. His address is 303 City
Bank Bldg., Shreveport, La.
C. S. MITCHELL, ’90, is still living at
Cliff Towers Hotel, Dallas, Texas.
Mail for G. E. GIESECKE, 92, should be
addressed % Guayulerade Saltillo, S. A.,
Apartado 259, Saltillo, Coah., Mexico. - -
H. A. PEARSON, ’93, still receives his
mail at Lorenzo, Texas. - - - FRANK R.
LEWIS, ’44, P. O. Box 232, Forney, Texas,
send a gift to the Development Fund. - - -
The address of LESLIE TRAYLOR, 97
is 443 South Alamo St., San Antonio,
Texas. - ~- =. A. H. FITZGERALD, ’95, is
living at 125 St. Joseph, Gonzales, Texas.
WILLIAM JOHN BRYAN, ’81, gets his
mail at Box 44, Abilene, Tex. He was a
student at A. & M. in ’77-’79, and served
in Legislature and Senate for several
years. - - - W. H. MASON, Jr., ’91, writes
from Brownsville, Tex., and reports that
his son, CAPT. JOHN S. MASON, ’44, is
now overseas and was recently promoted
to that rank. - - - Recently heard from:
EDWARD S. WOODHEAD, ’98, 3009 Bag-
by St., Houston, Texas. - - - A. W. BALL,
’96, 2901 Magnolia, Texarkana, Tex. - - =
JOSEPH WEIDEL, ’93, 4958 Kensington
Dr., San Diego, Calif.
1900
Hal Moseley,
3807 Skillman St., Dallas
ARTHUR C. HUTSON, 27 N. 21st St,
East Orange, N. J., sends gifts to the De-
velopment Fund for himself and his two
sons, ARTHUR C. HUTSON, JR, 250;
and CAPT. RICHARD W. HUTSON, ’35.
- - - F. K. McGINNIS, 5215 Monticello,
Dallas, Tex., sends news of MAJ. PF. K.
McGINNIS, JR., ’82. - - - JOS. E. ABRA-
HAMS, Box 425 New Braunfels, Tex., sends
the overseas address of MAJ. FRANCIS
R. DePASQUAL, ’30.
1901
Thomas M. Smith
East Columbia
TRACY BECKHAM is
Coolidge, Texas.
1902
V. H. Foy,
3322 Knight St., Dallas
LOUIS SAMUSCH, Hallettsville, Texas,
adds his gift to the Development Fund.
- - - HUBERT A. BECKER lives at 207
Baber St., Brenham, Texas.
1904
Jas. E. Pirie
State Highway Dept., Paris.
J. H. BRIGGS is still living at 133
Harvard Terrace, San Antonio 1, Texas.
- - - DR. H. H. GLASS gets his mail at
301 Lufkin National Bank Bldg., Lufkin,
Texas. - - - W. ERNST JAPHET is get-
ting his mail at P. O. Box 1704, Houston,
Texas. 1905
M. S. Church,
Continental Bldg., Dallas
A gift to the Development Fund comes
from BRUNO L. DURST, 3816 Erie Ave.,
Houston, Texas.
1906
J. Rodney Tabor,
209 Union Nat’l Bk. Bldg., Houston
FRED ALLEN sends a gift to the De-
velopment Fund from Campbellton, Texas.
- - - W. R. ORR receives his mail % John
Orr Wholesale Grocery Co., Llano, Texas.
_ - - JAMES S. DEAN receives his mail
at the Sutter Club, Sacramento. Calif.
1907
F. W. Hensel,
College Station
Comes a gift to the Development Fund
from A. W. CURRIE, 2489 5th St., Port
Arthur, Texas. - - - A. UNDERWOOD
gets his mail at 1107 Eagle 5, Houston,
Texas. - - - ROBERT TRENCKMANN’S
address is Box 124 Route 1, Elma, Wash.
1908
Lem Adams,
Oxweld R. R. Service Co.,
230 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.
still living in
DR. H. SCHMIDT is. Chief, Div. Vet.
Science, Tex. Agr. Exp. Station, College
Station, Texas.
1909
Tom A. Van Amburgh,
PO Box 1590, Dallas
Mail for DAVID B. HARRIS should be
sent %% Humble Oil & Refg. Co., P. O. Box
2180. Houston. Tex. - - < CARL P. BRAN-
NIN lives at 7021 Benning Dr., Dallas 17,
Tex. - - - M. G. ENGLISH now gets his
mail at 511 Williams St., Longview, Tex.
MEN
1910
Under Negotiation.
J. L. LOCHRIDGE is an Engineer with
the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Room
453, Custom House, Denver, Colo. He is
widely known throughout the Southwest
as an Engineer.
The residence address of ROY S. WIL-
LIAMS is 17 Woodhill Drive., Maplewood,
N. J. -- -2C. C. SPEED: is living at: Ker-
ens, Texas - - - The correct address of
C. B. LONG is Gordon, Texas.
1911
Melvin J. Miller,
1601-05 Ft. Worth Nat'l Bk. Bldg.,
Fort Worth, 2.
MAJOR BEN T. SANDERS, Post Engi-
neer, Majors Field, Greenville, entered
his son at A. & M. this summer.
A gift to the Development Fund comes
from J. P. McCONNELL, San Saba, Tex.
- - - HUGH C. MILLER is still living at
Brenham, Texas. - - - The correct address
of ROSS ELLIOTT is P. O. Box 22, Breck-
enridge, Texas. - - - E. E. McADAMS’
address is 2604 Jarratt Ave., Austin 21,
Texas. - - - Development Fund gifts come
from HARRY J. KELLY, Gulf Oil Corp.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.; and COL. CLARENCE
L. ‘GILBERT, ‘Smithville, Texas. ~- =- -
ROSS ®. ROGERS, 2119 Van Buren St.,
Amarillo, Tex., reports that his son, PVT.
ERNEST T. ROGERS, ’46, is now sta-
tioned at Camp Shelby, Miss. -.- - SAM
H. RAY is with the Success Mills, 635
Adams St., Kansas City, Mo. - - - MIL-
LER McCRAW gets his mail at 9105 Mec-
Craw Drive, Dallas, Texas. He reports that
his son, MILLER McCRAW, JR., ’44, is
now stationed in Maxton, N. C.
1912
W. M. Goodwin,
1811 N. Lamar, Dallas
FRANK McMILLAN of Cameron and
Calvert entered his son at A. & M. this
summer.
S. P. MARTIN gets his mail at 3546
Purdue, Dallas 5, Tex. - - - W. R. SMY-
LIE, Room 8, Grand Central Depot, Hous-
ton, Tex., sends news of his son, A/S
W. F. SMYLIE, ’46, who is now at Jack-
son, Miss. - - - LESSER NEWTON is with
the Cameron Production Credit Ass'n.
Cameron, Tex. He gave the address of
A/S ROBERT T. NEWTON, ’45, as Cole-
man, Tex. - - - A. B. COLLINS is Chief
Engineer at the Savanna Ord. Dept.
Proving Ground, Ill. - - - ADD G. WIL-
SON, SR., 207 W. Tenn. St., McKinney,
Texas, reports that CAPT. ADD G. WIL-
SON,  JR., ’'41, is now overseas and
CART. THOMAS B. WILSON, ’37, is sta-
tioned at Fort Belvoir, Va.
JAMES F. COLLINS now gets his mail
at 1114 Tyler St., Corpus Christi, Texas.
Recently heard from: GUS A. MIS-
TROT, 149 Haywood Drive, Houston, Tex.
- - = FRANK N. McMILLAN, RFD 2,
Cameron, Texas.
1913
L. D. Royer,
911 Transit Tower, San Antonie
JOHN P. IMPSON is living at Beeville,
Texas. - - - JAMES H. COLLINS is Chief
Accountant with the Cities Service Oil
Co., Bartlesville, Okla. - - - The correct
address of T. L. CHAMBERS is R-1 400
E. Heron St., Denison, Tex. - - - RT. REV.
GOODRICH R. FENNER gets his mail at
Bethany Place, Topeka, Kansas. - - - Jd.
RUTLEDGE HILL, president of Gifford-
Hill & Co., Inc., 412 Texas Bank Bldg.
Dallas, Texas, reports that LT. JOHN R.
HILL, JR., ’44, is now stationed at Camp
Mackall, N. C.
Box 452
Balboa Heights, C. Z.
May 2, 1944.
Dear Class Mate Royer:
The first issue of “The 1913 Fireman”
has been received, and it was a surprise
and a treat to get it. It is a fine spirit
and a fine thing for our Class that some
of the members have been endowed with
plenty of “Pep” and Aggie Spirit. The
first issue of Fireman is a nice piece of
work with which ‘to start the ball roll-
ing,” and I enjoyed President “Beef” Sco-
field’s start off, giving the highlights of
his life, as well as similar write-ups that
you gave about others.
Well, in order to help “keep the ball
rolling” and to comply with your request,
following are the main highlights of an-
other Thirteener:
In my case I came to the Panama
Canal in July, 1913, as did about eight
others of the ’13 Class, as I now remember
it. Among those who came was Cadet
Corps Colonel ROBERT EMMETT BAY-
LOR, “VENUS” RALPH ADOLPHUS
BIRK, “OLD RELIABLE” WILLIE BE-
LEW GIST, “LITTLE OVER 5-FOOT—
ALL MUSCLES” PAUL CLIFFORD GIL-
LETTE, “NEVER GET MAD” JOHN
NEWTON DAVIS, JR., “HEAVY-
WEIGHT” BRANDON FITZPATRICK,
«SIX FOOT PLUS” JOHN VINSTON
LYLES, and others, I believe, but I have
forgotten now. However, all left the Pan-
ama Canal within a few months or years,
with the exception of JOHN DAVIS and
me, who remained continuously. He and !
have lived in the same town since our ar-
rival, and for a great part of the time
on the same street. COLONEL “BOB”
BAYLOR, after wandering all over the
west half of South America, since August,
1913, returned to Panama for several
years in the early thirties to manage a
large sugar cane plantation, where he
contented himself with raising sugar cane
and making sugar while the rest of the
world struggled with the marathon depres-
syion. After the world began to get on its
feet again, he could not resist his boyhood
calling cf Civil Eng'neering and the Tran-
sit, so back to South America he went to
eep the world svnnlied with eonnor, t'n
nitrates, and 1 think guano. This field
scope takes him from the guano regions
for which is guaranteed.
POSTMASTER: If undeliverable
for any reason, notify sender stat-
ing reason on Form 3578-P, postage
THE TEXAS AGGIE
for any reason, notify sender stat-
ing reason on Form 3578-P, postage
for which is guaranteed.
POSTMASTER: If undeliverable
Published Semi-Monthly Except During the Summer Months when issued Monthly by the Association of Former Students of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
VOLUME XII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1944
NUMBER 70
Ass’n Directors to
Meet July 14-15-16
Inks Lake School
The Board of Directors of the
Association will hold its regular
summer meeting this year at the
Inks Lake Technical School, near
the Inks Lake Dam on the Colo-
rado River near Burnett. The
school, located in a former NYA
Center, is operated jointly by the
A. & M. College and the State
Dept. of Education for the train-
ing of crippled men and boys.
Business sessions are scheduled for
Saturday afternoon, evening and
Sunday morning, July 15-16. Many
directors will arrive a day early for
a bit of fishing and relaxing at
the beautiful meeting spot. As-
sociation President Rufus R. Pee-
ples, ’28, will preside. Full plans
for the year’s activities, approval
of a budget, reports of various
kinds, determination of this year’s
Development Fund objective and
other items are on file for con-
sideration and action.
Fort Worth President
Roy P. Bates, 28
Roy P. Bates, 28, recently elect-
ed President of the Fort Worth A.
& M. Club, is Assistant Plant
Superintendent with the Texas
Electric Service Company, Fort
Worth Generating Station. He
started out with the G. E. Supply
Corporation but went with the
Texas Electric in 1930. Mr. and
Mrs. Bates have a two ycar old
son and a daughter born May 17.
He reports his hobbies as being
First Aid, Photography and Elec-
tronics—the latter, he confesses in
a mild sort of way. He recevied his
degree in Electrical Engineering
and was a Cadet Officer in the
Signal Corps.
to 20,000 and “80,000” feet up the Andes,
a range that few of us could cover. Once
in a while he gets back to his post office
address, Chuquicamata, Chile, % Chile Ex-
ploration Co., where he may be reached by
mail.
It has always been a great pleasure to
Davis and me when Bob and family would
make us a visit occasicnally when they
passed through the Canal back and forth
from South America to the U. S. A. How-
ever, it was a great shock to both of us,
when our esteemed friend and classmate,
JOHN N. DAVIS, passed on_ suddenly with
a heart attack in May, 1941. Davis left a
fine wife and two fine sons who are car-
rying cn in the same high degree as the
example set them by a f.ne husband and
father.
As to myself, I married February 9,
1916, in Beaumont. Mrs. Alexander and I
have reared two girls and are rearing two
boys. Both the girls have married, one
living in the Canal Zone and the other
living in New Ycrk State, and we have a
great deal of pleasure with our grand-
child, a boy. I was very unfortunate in
having a severe accident in September,
1916, which left me permanently maimed,
but fortunately I have been able to get
around and to keep going. Have followed
the Engineering profession (Civil and
Structural) entirely since leaving school
and plan to continue in same until retire-
ment. Am looking forward to this, for I
can again return to Texas to live, and in-
c:dential’y take up other activities which
are already planned. One of these activi-
ties is the putting on the market of a
special slide rule for designing reinforced
concrete members, as beams, slabs, and
T-beams. It was interesting and surprising
to know what can be done with logarith-
mic scales, if one will persevere, not to
mention the volumes of tabulated figures
a logarithmic scale will cover. (Note: I
hope everyone will excuse any seeming
perscnal boasting for I feel embarrassed
in writing it—but Class Agent ‘‘Dad”
Royer asked for it.)
Best luck and wishes to every member
of Class ’13 and to many other good friends
cf Texas A. & M. (and l2{’s don’t forget
“them thar’ checks to ’27 Jake Hamblen
for A. M. Development Fund—Every
dollar serves two purposes, First, War
Bonds, and second, a memorial Student
Activities Center at A. & M.)
Cordially,
MELVILLE R. ALEXANDER, ’13
Assistant Office Engineer.
1914
Dave H. Levy
P. O. Box 900, Dallas 1
BERT W. KING is with the Anderson-
Clayton Co., in Waco, Texas. - - - The
mailing address of W. N. REED is Box
573, Sterling City, Texas. - © - BERT L.
THRASHER is living at 1311 Heights
Blvd., Houston, Texas. - - - A. W. WALK-
ER gets his mail at Box 1043, Harlingen,
Texas.
COL. ROBERT R. NEYLAND, JR.. for-
merly Southwest Division Engineer, U. S.
Engr. Corps, has departed for overseas
duty. He attended A. & M. two years be-
fore entering West Point, where he was
one of the Academy’s greatest all-around
athletes. He became famous as a football
coach at the University of Tennessee.
GEORGE P. KNOX, San Antonio, was
on the campus in June to enter his son
at A. & M. for the summer term.
1915
Under Negotiation.
LT. COL. VICTOR A. BARRACO is
commanding a Marine Bn. somewhere in
the Pacific. His address is First Provision-
-]1 Base Hdgs., Navy No. 3240, ¢, Fleet
Postoffice, San Francisco, Calif. He reports
Rufus R. Peeples, 28
College Pleased With
Summer Enrollment
College officials were highly
pleased with the surprising enroll-
ment of over 1600 students for the
summer session, which started in
early June. With only a few Jun-
ior and Senior courses offered,
most of the summer student body
is made up of freshmen and sopho-
mores. Approximately 1100 of
the student body are freshmen.
With the departure of the Aviation
Cadet Detachment from the cam-
pus, there remain only the cadet
corps, the Navy-Marine Detach-
ment of approximately 1500 men,
and a scattering of ASTP and
special students.
Heads Harvester War
Veteran Program
Major Troy P. Wakefield, ’38
Major Troy P. Wakefield, ’38,
recently retired from the Army
Air Forces, has been placed in
charge of the International Har-
vester Company’s program of re-
employment and training of Har-
vester employees who are honor-
ably discharged from military
service. The Harvester Company
has one of the most comprehensive
programs to be announced by any
of the nation’s major industrial
concerns. The company has more
than 15,000 Harvester men and
women in military service.
Wakefield was called to active
duty in July ’41 as a Personnel
Classification and Assignment Of-
ficer. He was in this type of
personnel work for 29 months. He
graduated from A. & M. in 1938
and completed his M. S. degree
in 1940. He completed most of the
work for his doctorate at Iowa
State in 1940-41. His home is in
Madisonville, Texas. His office is
in the International Harvester
Company Building, 180 N. Michi-
gan Ave., Chicago, Ill., but his
work requires considerable travel
over the United States and among
his company’s many sales and man-
ufacturing branches.
runing into Maj. Gen. A. D. Bruce, ’16.
MAJOR D. C. JERNIGAN, former
U. S. Postal Inspector, of Fort Worth, is
in charge of the handling of all V-Mail
in England.
LT. "COL. EDWARD A. STERLING,
Inspector General's Dept., Ogden Air De-
pot, Hill Field, Ogden, Utah, reports en-
joying the Muster held at the Utah Q. M.
Depot. His son, CAPT. E. A. STERLING,
III, ’42, is now in Italy.
1916
Capt. P. H. Olsen
U. S. Army
MAJOR GENERAL A. D. BRUCE has
been awarded beth the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal and the Legion of Merit. The
decorations were bestowed somewhere in
the Pacific where he is in command of an
Alamo Club Meets
Every Thursday Noon
At New Location
The Alamo A. & M. Club, San
Antonio, has announced a new
luncheon location at the Travis
Park Methodist Church, with meet-
ings EVERY Thursday noon. The
club has previously been meeting
on alternate Thursdays. Club
president Carroll Gaines, ’12, and
Secretary Leon Braskamp, ’29, ex-
tend a cordial invitation to San
Antonio visitors to have lunch with
the Alamo Aggies when in that
city. The Travis Park Church is
in down town San Antonio and
conveniently located.
The Club staged another of its
famous chicken barbecues on the
evening of June 26 with an at-
tendance of several hundred A. &
M. men and their friends.
Brazos Aggies
Three hundred members of the
Brazos County A. & M. Club were
present at the recent annual sum-
mer barbecue of the club held at
the American Legion Hall, Bryan.
Meat for the occasion was donated
by Carl Wipprecht, ’18, and Jud-
son Loupot, ’32, and that old bar-
becue master George Long, ’17,
was general Chairman. Walter
Coulter, ’95, president, presided at
a very abbreciated business meet-
ing.
.
Army Infantry Division. Mrs. Bruce and
their daughter and youngest sory make
their home at Temple where General Bruce
organized and developed the Camp Hood
tank destroyer center befcre going over-
seas.)
CAPT. P. H. “PAT” OLSEN sends re-
gards to the class from England. He has
been assigned to special duty with the
British and reports that a very interesting
and pleasant task.
L. B. BLALOCK lives at 2401 Auburn,
Dallas’ 14, Texas. - - - V. W. CRAW.-
FORD’C address has changed to Box 297,
Menard, Texas.>- - - MAJOR JOEL I.
McGREGOR is still located at Acad. Reg.,
T. D. School, Camp Hood, Texas. - - -
The new mailing address of BRIG. GEN.
RALPH H. WOOTEN is APO 676, % PM,
Miami, Florida. - - - “I have bought a
little ‘hunk’ of California and moved into
it recently—an apartment building, inci-
dentally,” reports CLAYTON J. FOSTER.
His new address is 925 Rose Ave., Oak-
land 11, Calif. - - - Development Fund
gifts have been received from DAVID
C. CHAMBERS, Liberty National Bank
Bldg., Paris, Texas; CAPT. ED L. JAR-
RETT, Stu. Regt., T. D. School, Camp
Hood, Tex.; and GEORGE H. KRISTEK,
Ellinger, Texas.
Mrs. Grover C. Heldenfels sends a De-
velopment Fund gift for her husband, LT.
COL. GROVER C. HELDENFELS, who
has been stationed in England for twenty
months. His address is APO 653, ¢% PM.
New York City. Col. Heldenfels served
during World War I and was wounded
twice during that time. He and Mrs. Hel-
denfels have a son, Richard, who is now
a Captain in the Air Corps.
JOHN M. ROBERTSON,
Blvd., Houston 5, Texas ,is now furnish-
ing natural gas as fuel to war effort
plants of the Gulf Coast on the mains of
Houston Natural Gas Corp. He sends De-
velopment Fund gifts for himself and his
son, SGT. JOHN M. ROBERTSON, ’45.
1917
Jack C. Shelton
Farm Credit Adm., Fed. Land Bk.,
Houston
MAJOR J. F. BLANTON, USMC, sends
some delightful pictures of the April 21
Muster, which was held in the beautiful
back yard of the Blanton home at 4368
Hilldale Road, San Diego. It was an en-
joyable occasion and attended by some
twenty-five A. & M. men and their ladies.
An A. & M. Club was organized with
Major Blanton as its president.
DR. CHARLES J. KOERTH, who re-
tired last year as Medical Director of the
WOW Memorial Hospital, in San Antonio,
is now associated with Dr. Thompson, in
Kerrville. Dr. Koerth gets his mail at
Junction, however. He is one of the best-
known men in the southwest in pulmonary
diseases.
L COL: IL: “C.=“*WOLPF> DONEY is
reeoverine from an emercency oneration
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Who Finds Time to
New President Rufus R. Peeples, "28
Is Honest-to-Gosh Farmer-Rancher
Be a Leader
’44 Fund Report
Impressive...
Pres. Peeples
Rufus R. Peeples, ’28, new
president of the Ex-Student As-
sociation, wrote upon receipt of
the recent annual Fund Report
in a special edition of the Texas
Aggie, “Every A. & M. man can
well feel proud of that report,
showing as it does our devotion
to A. & M. and our willingness to
each do his part. Jake Hamblen,
last year’s Association President,
really did a great jcb and set me
a pattern that will be hard to
follow. The $132,000 in War Bonds
that we have given to the College
for the Memerial Student Activi-
ties Center is a fine record. Nev-
ertheless, if all who have “pitched
In” will again do so this year, and
we can round up some of the strag-
glers who are willing but have
the “Manana” habit, we can still
beat that 1944 record. Look for-
ward with me now to the 1945
Fund. We have until next June
first to break last year’s record.”
Seeks Congressional
Seat Ninth District
Major Ben H. Faber, ’15
Major Ben H. Faber has an-
nounced his candidacy for Congress
from the Ninth Congressional Dis-
trict. His home is at Eagle Lake,
Texas but he is now at the Me-
Closky General Hospital, Temple.
He expects soon to be retired from
military service.
Major Faber has been engaged
in the general practice of Engi-
neering since his graduation and
has been on active duty in the
Corps of Engineers for the past
four years. He has not previously
held or sought a political office.
He served in the U. S. Eng. Corps
in World War I and has been in
service in World War II for four
years. In addition to his extensive
engineering experience he has suc-
cessfully operated a farm and
ranch for many years.
Three Hands Handy
At April 21 Muster
Major John E. Mitchell, 28
From the April 21st Muster at
APO 520 in England comes this
unusual exhibit of what is des-
cribed as the Army’s “only three-
handed chow hound.” It’s Major
John E. Mitchell of the 15th Air
Force, one-time Commandant at
A. & M. He was with the Hart-
ford Insurance Company before
going into active duty and his
promotion from Captain came
through recently. The extra arm
would come in handy declared
Mitchell who said the competition
for food at the Muster was ter-
rific.
Colonel W. L. “Jerry” Lee, ’27,
commands the Bomber Wing to
which Mitchell is assigned. Sever-
al other Aggies are in the eame
command.
+ Rufus R. Peeples, ’28,
1 elected
President of the Association of
Former Students at the annual
Membership Commencement meet-
ing, 1s one of the best known far-
mers and live stock men of the
State. He operates and manages
the Peeples Farm and Ranch for
his mother at Tehuacana near
Mexia. The Peeples’ farm is a well-
balanced operation and includes
herds of registered Angus cattle
and Hampshire hogs. There are
Herefords on the place for com-
mercial purposes but Peeples is a
dyed-in-the-wool Angus enthusiast.
He is probably the first honest-to-
gosh farmer-rancher to serve as
President of the Association.
Despite the demands of farm
management, Peeples has found
time to devote to several outside
interests. He served last year as
Vice-President of the Association
and under his leadership the Class
Agent program was inaugurated.
For many years he has served as
Superintendent of the Student Live-
stock judging contests at the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show. He is
First Vice-President of the Texas
Aberdeen-Angus Association and
President of the Texas Horse, Jack
and Mule Breeders’ Association.
He is also a member of the Lime-
stone County Rationing Board,
and active in other civic and agri-
cultural affairs of his county.
As a student at A. & M., he
was in the band and the Cavalry.
He was a member of the 1927 In-
ternational Stock Judging Team
and Managing Editor of the Batt.
The was Chairman of the Com-
mittee that started the Cattle-
men’s Ball, one of the big events
of the Cadet Spring Social Season.
Mr. and Mrs. Peeples have two
sons, aged 12 and 7. They live on
the Peeples farm at Tehuacana,
five miles from Mexia. It’s pro-
nounced ‘“Te-Wa-Cana.”
In accepting the presidency at
the annual meeting Peeples de-
clared, “I appreciate the honor and
I realize its responsibilities. I ae-
cept with the confidence that A.
& M. men, and the officers and di-
rectors of the Association will give
me the same wholehearted sup-
port they have always given their
elected officers. Together we can
go places, and together we will
continue to stand.”
Texas Aggie Club of
San Francisco Holds
Meetings Monthly
“Tall Tales” featured the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the recent-
ly organized Texas Aggie Club of
San Francisco, with every member
present called to enter the com-
petition. Lit. Col. Meredith T. Lewis,
27, is President of the Club and
W. K. Davis, ’16, Secretary. En-
sign V. M. Peterson, ’42, is serv-
ing as reporter. Entertainment
Committee for the meeting was
Lt. Col. B. G. Cook, 29, Capt."M.
K. Taylor, ’36, Lt. E. O. Veselka,
’40, and their wives.
Honor guests of the meeting
were George M. Moore and Miss
Anne Moore, wife and daughter of
General George F. Moore, '08, hero
of Corregidor and now a Japanese
prisoner of War.
The Texas Aggie Club of San
Francisco meets on the seventh
day of every month at the Officers
Club of the San Francisco Fighter
Wing, 277 Pine St. All A. & M.
men in that area are invited to
attend. Additional details can be
secured from club oficers or A.
& M. men in San Francisco. The
address of W. K. Davis, club sec-
retary and long-time resident of
San Francisco, is 4444 Geary St.
The following Aggies, most of
them accompanied by their wives,
daughters, or guests, were present:
W. K. Davis, ’16; O. O. Taylor, ’16;
Captain Roark, Montgomery, ’17,
USN: “Lt. Col.=M. T.:l.ewis, 27;
Lt. Col, E.G. Cook, 229; Capt. E.
H. Wilder, ’29; Capt. R. L. Dixon,
31; Capt. C. W. Evans, ’31; Major
0. B.. Hocker; 32; Capt W. 4s
Alexander, Jr.; 35; Capt... H.o L.
Pearce, Jr., ’36; Capt. M. K. Tay-
lor, 36; Capt.- R. B. Pearce, 238;
Lt. T. Daniel, ’39; Ensign W. M.
Peterson, USNR, ’42,
San Diego Club
San Diego, California, Aggies
organized a club at the April 21st
Muster, with Major John F. Blan-
ton, ’17, Marine Corps veteran, as
President. Major Blanton’s home
is at 4368 Hilldale Road, San Diego,
ang the group plans to meet month-
y.
Barlow Acting Dean
Dr. Howard W. Barlow, Head of
the Aeronautical Engineering De-
partment since 1940, has been
named Acting Dean of Engineering
by President Gibb Gilchrist. Pro-
fessor Robert M. Pinkerton moves
up as Acting Head of the Aero.
Eng. Department. Dr. Barlow is a
eraduate of Purdue, has a Master’s
Degree from Minnesota and holds
a Doctorate in Engineering Science
from New York University. He
came to A. & M. from the Univer-
sity of Minnesota to establish the
Aeronautical Engineering Depart-
ment, and has made an outstand-
ing record with that Department.