The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, June 11, 1945, Image 1

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    LIBRARY
CAMPUS
FROM THE
REVIE
WING STAND
Up and Down Military Walk
Last week was Fireman’s Short
Course Week on the campus, with
plenty of red Chiefs’ cars, sirens
and all. 500 present from Texas
and 14 other states and the Dist.
of Columbia . Also under
way the summer cotton school, its
THIRTY-SIXTH session. . . . .
starting soon the Cottonseed Oil
Mill operators short course and the
College Poultry improvement short
course. . . . never a dull moment
and no rest for those in charge . ..
. . That baseball season was a
nightmare. Only one conference
game won and for the first time
in memory the Aggies failed to
place a single man on the all-con-
ference selections. Poor Pete Jones,
Business Manager turned coach,
had a tough assignment and had
nothing to work with but a group
of inexperienced youngsters. . . .
J. E. Parker, Odessa Rancher, re-
cently gave to the college a nine
year old registered bull valued at
$3200. The gift was in behalf of
his son, Alvin Parker, 41 . . . .
Summer enrollment has an un-
usual distribution, 700 NEW fish
and another 500 scattered among
old fish and the three upper class-
es. . ... And, Ho! Hum!, looks like
a new feud on the campus, with
“Sully” wearing a new coat of
white paint allegedly daubed by
the ASTP Army boys in retaliation
for a previously administered
drown-out given them by the
cadets. Never a dull moment for the
commandant’s staff . . . .a brand
new version of the famed old
“Elevator” tickets and Radiator
Oil that new Fish once sought is
their trek to “Close the North Gates
of the campus”. But no “Fish”
Sergeants so far this summer, or
has that hoary old freshman honor
been forgotten?
A Veteran Returns
Ward 22
Wm. Beaumont Gen. Hosp.
El Paso, Texas
23 May 1945
Dear Mr. Mac:
Am back at the hospital now but hope
it’s not for long. They have been doing
a lot of work on me since my arrival and
looks like they should be through soon.
Now about the employment through the
Placement Office. It seems to be a fine
system, and, I for one am thoroughly
pleased with it. Mr. Horsley sent me
several jog contacts, and after selecting
two in Houston, I was interviewed by the
managers of the organizations concerned.
Both seemed to be good as they were both
in air conditioning, which I favor. I have
now decided on one of them and am very
satisfied. The system seems to be a fine
one and surely does work fine from our
end. I wouldn't have known where to
start if it were not for the Placement
Office. Many thanks for your tips and
for giving my letter to Mr. Horsley.
Since I've been back I've met several
Aggies here at the hospital. Capt. Herring,
42, of A Btry, Field; Lt. Rosenbun, ’43.
Lt. Johnny Longley, 43, is home on leave
and haven’t seen him yet. There are more
that I haven’t had a chance to see, but ex-
pect to soon. Got a letter from Dub
Sibley, ’'43, who writes of seeing “Lard”
Oliver, 42, and Jack Coursey, ’42, on Iwo
Jima. He also said Willie Zapalac, ’43, was
in the Palau Island group in the Air
Corps. Jake Webster, ’43, writes from
Hammond Gen. Hosp. in Modesto, Calif.,
that Charley Post, ’43; Arnold Dullnig ;
and Paul Wischkaemper, ’43, are there.
Lt. Roy P. Gates, ’43, wrote from: France
that he was in the Paratroops in a
Repl. Depot there on the 14th of April.
My wife writes that W. H. ‘‘Chuck” Chal-
mers, ’43, is finishing at Fort Sill as a
liaison pilot. Saw Raymond Loomis, ’43,
while home on leave. He was on his way
to Washington to an Air Corps Engineer
School.
Sincerely,
Lt. Frank R. Young.
The Placement Office
There follows a brief list of recent job
calls, some of which you may wish to note
in the forthcoming issue of the ‘Texas
Aggie.”
1. Gulf Atlantic Warehouse Company,
Houston, Texas, needs several accountants.
Mr. John C. Mayfield, Vice President of
this company, informs us that they also
need men capable of handling people, to
start in as foremen, looking towards jobs
as warehouse managers as they progress.
They can use either young accountants with
little or no previous experience, or older
and more experienced men. Salaries for
both, accountants and ‘warehouse mana-
gers, are dependent on qualifications.
($175.00 up). I
2. Carnation Company, 5225 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, of
which there are three divisions; namely,
Milk and Ice Cream, Evaporated Milk, and
Albers Milling Company, need men for
production, sales, laboratory technicians,
accountants, etc. They are expanding in
this area and have several good jobs avail-
able for qualified people. Mr. W. D. Dobson
is the General Sales Manager of this
firm.
3. Freeport Sulphur Company, 1804
American Bank Building, New Orleans,
Louisiana, Mr. James A. Carpenter, Per-
sonnel Manager, have openings for ac-
countants to handle tax and income work.
Also, they have an opening for an ex-
perienced man for supervisory work. He
should have no physical handicaps, nor
be over forty-five years old.
4, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas,
Dean H. E. Jenkins, Dean of College,
needs a man to teach engineer drawing,
descriptive geometry, engineering prob-
lems and similar work.
5. Monsanto Chemical Company, Mar-
shall, Texas, Mr. R. H. Beidel, Employ-
ment Supervisor, have openings for the
following: one requisition engineer, two
engineers for assistants to requisition en-
gineer, one draftsman, and one estimator.
6. American Food Products Corpora-
tion, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Diamond Al-
kali Company of Texas, Dallas, Texas;
Morrison Milling Company, Denton, Tex-
as; and several others have immediate
needs for chemists.
7. The City of Amarillo, Amarillo, Tex-
as, Mr. Austin P. Hancock, City Manager,
informs us of an opening in their City En-
gineering Dept. The applicant should be a
civil engineering graduate, whc has special-
ized in structural engineering and can
serve as assistant building inspector. Also,
one instrument man who is capable of
making surveys such as establishing street
lines, side walks lines, curb lines and
grades, paving grades, etc.
8. Mr. Charles J. Dalton, Common-
wealth Building, Cleveland 6, Ohio, has a
client who. is interested in employing a
Director of Engineering. The applicant
must have proven TOP executive ability
to manage through proper organization
channel, all fields of engineering, research, |
development, and testing departments.
Must have had twenty or twenty-five years
of broad experience in engineering with
recognized professional standing in tech-
nical societies. ($8000-up).
9. Mr. A. J. Leach, Regional Director,
Tenth United States Civil Service Region,
Dallas, Texas, informs us of an opening
for one or more Housing Economists to
perform general economic or statistical
research of a highly responsible character
in the field of housing. Prerequisites for
this position are eight years responsible
research or analytical experience in econo-
mics or statistics with a substitution of
two years experience for undergraduate
education in economies. ($5600 up).
10. Mr. Thomas D. Saathoff, Acting
Regional Director, Tenth United States
Civil Service Region, Dallas, Texas, in-
forms us of an opening in Washington,
D. C. for Economic Analyst. The appli-
cant selected to fill this position will
conduct and direct research relating to
price, financial, labor or industrial prob-
lems pertaining to some region within La-
tin America., ($5600 up).
11. H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh 30,
Pa., in need of an experienced buyer of
raw food products; one having a broad
experience in the food field, particularly
with other food processors. The applicant
should have some background in agricul-
ture, for he will deal principally in vege-
tables and fruits. Prefer a man between
40 and 50 years of age. Salary approximate-
ly $6500.00 per year. Contact Mr. R. C.
McCleary-Assistant to Personnel Director.
12. Uncle Johnny Mills, Box 236, Hous-
ton, Texas, their Vice President and Sales
Manager is Mr. L. F. Van Stone, who in-
forms us of their need for a competent
man to assume complete control of their
Nutrition Department. Also, have openings
for five veterinarians, and one chemist.
13. American Can Company, Houston,
Texas, District Sales Manager-Mr. Ivan
F. Diekmann, wants a man with college
training and capable of developing into a
salesman. He is to start in the Houston
office at about $175 per month, and after
three months a 10 percent increase in
salary, a 25 percent increase the next
year, and later $300.00 per month and an
automobile and expense account.
14. E. I. DuPont De Nemours and Com-
pany, Wilmington 98, Delaware, Mr. TB,
Weissinger, Personnel Division, have need
for the following: 200 chemists, 140 chem-
jcal engineers, 135 mechanical engineers,
10 metallurgical engineers, 2 mining en-
gineers, and 15 civil engineers.
15. Battelle Memorial Institute, Indus-
trial and Scientific hesearch, Columbus
1, Ohio, Mr. #ohn S. Crout, needs metal-
lurgists, chemical engineers, sales engin-
neers, organic chemists (Ph. D’s and B. S.
majors), physicists, mechanical and elec-
trical engineers.
16. Other calls received for Engineers
of all kinds, with several Texas Oil Com-
panies having openings.
Anyone available and interested should
write or contact either the offices listed
above or The Placement Office, W. R.
Horsley, Director, College Station, Texas.
AMONG
. and M.
1900
Hal Moseley
3807 Skillman St., Dallas
B. G. VON ROEDER, 1601 Ruth, Hous-
ton 4, Texas, chides the AGGIE, but gent-
ly, for also including him in the ’34
class. “Wish I could qualify,” he wrote,
“but it’s too big a jump for me to ’34, so
put me back inte the “Nothing-Nothing’
class” where I am proud to belong.
1906
J. Rodney Tabor
209 Union Nat’l Bank Bldg.
Houston, Texas
ROBERT J. POTTS, Potts-Moore Gravel
Co., Amicable Bldg., Waco, sends Devel-
opment Fund contributions for himself and
his two sons, CAPT. FRANCIS M. POTTS,
'39, and LT. ROBERT J. POTTS, JR, 37,
who lives at 2601 Ensenada Way, North
Sacramento, Calif. Capt. Francis Potts
has been “Missing in Action” in New Gui-
nea since Sept. 6, 1942.
1907
F. W. Hensel
College Station
COL. CLIFFORD D. CUNY is stationed
at the New Cumberland, Pa., ASF Depot,
Sig. C. 1908
Lem Adams
Oxweld R. R. Service Co.
230 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.
" Bryan, Texas
600 East 27th Street
May 19, 1945
Dear Lem:
Since this is Sunday evening and nothing
much to do, I have persuaded myself to
try to answer your letter to the Grandest
Class ever to finish at A. & M. I told
Doc Lipscomb a few days past (later we
had received word of his son’s death) that
we used to take our classmates as a
matter of course but as we grow older
they take on a new meaning. Men that
I knew in college were formerly just
another good fellow, but now they are
MEN
very ‘‘dear friends” for they are so few
in number in comparison with the people
we have met since leaving school.
I had not heard of the loss of Tom
McElroy. He was a grand guy. I knew
him very well in school and he was the
same good sport each time you met him,
as well as being a good student. It seems
that he was too young a man to pass
away but, of course, we are not getting
old in our own sight, but in the sight of
younger men we are very ‘ancient’.
As you know, Lem, I was in the bank-
ing business for very nearly thirty-four.
years. 1 retired last year, May Ist, and
since that time while I have not lived
the life of Riley, I have been free to
do most anything I wished. I am ranch-
ing in a small way. I run a few hundred
head of mother cows, raise some feed for
them and enjoy life. The wife and I live
in Bryan and our cow headquarters are
about 9 miles from town. We have no
children but do have a great many
friends in Bryan, as well as some very
good. friends living in the country. I see
Nester McGinnis, Dr. H. Schmidt and E.
A. (Hell-Raiser) Miller pretty often. Doc
Lipscomb is in business at College and I
see him very nearly every week. A. J.
(Niley) Smith is still at Cameron and
farming, also a Director in the Citizens
National Bank of that place. I under-
stand that Niley has done very well for
himself.
I would certainly like to hear some
good news from General George , F. Moore
(Maude) and General D. B. (Pike) Ne-
therwood. I am sure that Maude has
died a thousand deaths and I feel very
deeply the suffering he and his family
have gone through since the fall of
Bataan.
Lem, this should about fill your require-
ments of what we are doing and I am not
doing much work except when I want
to work. I like to loaf, play checkers and
dominoes, and ride the range when the
notion hits me.
Yours of ’08,
(Signed) C. E. (Chem) Jones
1909
Tom A. Van Amburgh
PO Box 1590, Dallas
JEROME W. SORENSON, JR., is get-
ting mail in Box 565, Rockport, Texas.
for which is guaranteed.
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VOLUME XII
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1945
NUMBER 90
Brig. Gen. W. L. “Jerry’’ Lee,
cutting the huge cake that was a |
up to lend a hand with an approving
A. & M. men were present.
GEN. LEE CUTS A CAKE
27, APO 520, New York City, is shown above
feature of the group’s April 21 Muster. Standing
smile is Lt. Col. Philip John, ’32. Thirty-five
to observe the April 21
ing, (left to right):
Riley, ’41; Capt. Donald L. Z iler, Lt.
left to right) Lt. Col. J. W. Gibbs, 32;
E. Schunior, ’32; Col. Mike J. Conway,
Carl Grounds, a guest.
Maj. Darwyn Robins, Maj. Peter
Col. M.
THEY MUSTERED ON LUZON
[J
Officers from the 14th Corps Headquarters on Luzon in the Philippines found time
Muster tradition. In the above picture are:
(front row, kneel-
Maj. James J.
(second row,
Comnas, ’39;
A. Mosesman, ’36;
Lt. Col. James D. Edgar, 32; Col. George
’T7;
row, left to right) Maj. J. M. Tarver, ’33;
Lt. Col. M. B. Kendrick, ’35; (third
Lt. J. B. Honeycutt, Jr., 45; and Maj.
1910
Rock G. Taber
Atlanta Gas Light Company .
Atlanta, Ga.
CAPT. CHARLES L. HYNDS, ’42, son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. HYNDS, Box 644,
Waco, was recently killed in a plane crash
in Nebraska.
FLEM E. HARRIS is living at 1810
11th St., Brownwood, Texas.
1911
Melvin J. Miller k
1601-05 Ft. Worth Nat‘l Bk. Bldg
DR. A. H. NEIGHBORS, SR, 611 W.
17th St., Austin, has reason to be proud
of his son, LT. (jg) A. H. NEIGHBORS,
JR., ’41, who is also a doctor, but now
in the U. S. Navy.
1912
W. M. Goodwin
1811 N. Lamar, Dallas
DR. VERNE A. SCOTT, Stephenville,
is normally a cheery soul with a big chest
expansion, but that smile these days that
won’t wear off, and that greater chest
expansion than usual, is in pride over son
VERNE SCOTT, known to the family and
friends as “SCOTTY”, who has been
named Cadet Colonel of the Aggie Corps
this summer. The red-head youngster is a
senior student in veterinary medicine, fol-
lowing his father’s footsteps there but far
outstepping the former Aggie quarter-
back in the cadet military field. Mrs.
Scott is the former Miss Pearl Kern of
Bryan. The Scotts have another son in
school at Stephenville.
1914
Dave H. Levy
P.O. Box 900, Dallas 1, Texas
EDWARD L. AYERS requests a change
of address from Sarasota, Fla., to Braden-
ton, Fla., 605 19th Ave.
Dr. Guy W. Adriance
College Station. Texas
Silver Taps: GUSTAVE A. SAPER.
W. L. “RUNT” STANGEL, head of the
Department of Animal Husbandry at Tex-
as Tech, Lubbock, has been named Dean
of Agriculture, succeeding DR. Noi FH.
LEIDIGH, ’22, retired. Both Dr. Leidigh
and Mr. Stangel were members of the
original faculty of Texas Tech.
1916
Capt. P. H. Olsen
APO 658, N. Y. C.
GAY C. MERIWETHER, prominent
rancher of Alpine entered his son at A.
& M. for the summer term. An interesting
note is the fact that although a successful
rancher, Meriwether received his degree in
Electrical Engineering.
1917
Jack C. Shelton
Farm Credit Adm., Fed. Land Bk.
Houston, Texas
MAJOR HOMER L. FRY is commanding
a battalion somewhere in England. At a
recent inspection his battalion was rated
the best and cleanest dressed in 13 depots
of France and England. He moved over-
seas from Camp Hood, Texas.
CAPT. CHARLES T. TRICKEY, SR. is
assigned to the 2nd AA, 200th AAFBU,
Colorado Springs. Colo.
1918
J. W. Williams
Box 1590, Dallas, Texas
PFC. THOMAS R. LEARY, ’36, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. REX LEARY, Box 277,
Laredo was killed in action in Germany in
January.
GEORGE R. WARREN, County Agent,
Denton, is being widely quoted and com-
plimented on a recent address before the
Dallas Agricultural Club on “Why We
West Texas - San Angelo
The West Texas A. & M. Club of San
Angelo elected the following officers at its
April 21 Muster: H. E. mcCullough, ’41,
president ; E. E. Young, 27, vice-president ;
Thomas B. Hill, ’32, treasurer; and Ray-
mond Pipkin, ’39, secretary. The club
meets monthly on the fisrt Friday night
of each month, usually at the Cactus
Hotel, San Angelo.
Have Livestock”. He presented a very
thoughtful and far-reaching program for
the development of an international mar-
ket for Texas livestock.
1919
Charles H. Clark
County Agent
Hillsboro, Texas
W. P. McOSKER, 811 N. Leland, San
Pedro, Calif., reports his courageous daugh-
ter, Patsy, continues to make good progress
at her long fight to recover from the ef-
fects of infantile paralysis.
JEFF P. ROYDER, 229 Michigan St.
Baytown Texas, reports his son, TT.
JEFF P. ROYDER, III, ’45, on duty at
APO 629, NYC.
1920
Hugh N. Glezen
4207 Highland Ave., Beaumont
DR. DONALD V. SHUHART, APO 879,
NYC, is advisor to the Chinese Ministry of
Agriculture. He reports recently meeting
BILL GREEN on the street in Chungking.
_ . . "MABRY L. ADAMS gets mail on
Route 2, Cleburne, Texas.
1921
W. T. Strange
415 Myrick Bldg., Lubbock
LOUIS H. ALSMEYER is Secretary-
Treasurer of the Highlands County, Farm
Bureau, Sebring Fla.
RALPH W. BUSSELL is Manager for
Central Power and Light Co. at Bay City,
Texas, and on the side is also President of
the Lions Club, a member of the School
Board, City Recreation Council, Methodist
board of Stewards, County Ration Board,
and Secretary of the Bay City A. & M.
Club. He and Mrs. Bussell have three
children. Their daughter finished her
junior year at Texas U. this spring. A son
finished his freshman year at A. & M. in
February before enlisting in the Navy. The
youngest son played on the Bay City High
School football team and plans to attend
A. & M. after high school graduation in
1946. Ralph writes that his favorite pas-
time is golf, but that his score doesn’t
bother him. Hmmmm!!
From Germany comes a Nazi dagger as
a souvenir from COL. HERBERT E. De-
LEE, who promises to tell the story of the
wicked looking weapon on his next visit. He
has been in an Ord. Group APO 230, NYC.
1922
W. E. “Ted” Winn
Box 2880, Dallas, 1.
HERBERT E. SCHMIDT is Pricipal
Engineer, U. S. Engineer Office, Galveston,
Texas. He is a native of that city. In a
recent telephone call he reported being in
need of a Mechanical Draftsman.
MAJOR W. SANGSTER BIZZELL, now
in- the Philippines, has a son, William
Bennett Bizzell, II, who was recently sworn
into the U. S. Navy. He was named for
his grandfather, famed former A. & M.
and Oklahoma University president, Dr.
William Bennett Bizzell.
LT. COL. E. N. “SKINNY” HOLM-
GREEN, on duty in Italy with the Allied
Military Government has been moved
northward with the advance of the Allied
trocps. Col. Holmgreen has been in several
cities in Italy after first being senior
Civil Affairs Officer at Anzio. Other
towns where he did AMG work included
Florence, Naples, Nola. and Verona.
1923
Ben F. Brown
Box 1405, Waco
D. W. CARLTON, recently released af-
ter extensive overseas Army duty, has
Norton Undergoes
Major Operation
Coach Homer H. Norton, Aggie
Athletic Director, underwent a ma-
jor operation at the Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, Minnesota, on June 4. He
was recovering “as well as can be
expected” according to word re-
ceived from Mrs. Norton as the
AGGIE goes to press.
Norton was preparing to make
a trip to Europe to lecture on
football to the Army of Occupation
as a member of a selected staff of
instructors, and would have sailed
May 25.
Summer football practice at A.
& M. opens next week with Coach
Lil Dimmitt in charge. He will be
assisted by Bochey Koch and Pete
Jone, Business Manager.
former Baylor all-American, was
added to the football staff this
summer. He is a guard and has had
extensive coaching and pro football
experience. Friends of Coach Nor-
ton hope he will be recovered be-
ore fall practice opens in Septem-
er.
Weyland, ’19; Goss, ’22
Head Ark. Nat. Gas
A. H. Weyland, ’19, was elected
to the office of Vice President of
the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Com-
pany, Arkansas Natural Gas Cor-
poration, Arkansas Fuel Oil Com-
pany, and Arkansas Pipeline Cor-
poration at a recent meeting of the
board of directors of those com-
panies in New York City. Their
home office is Shreveport, and
Weyland was previously General
Superintendent. At the same meet-
ing. Harvey T. Goss, ’22, was
promoted from Chief Engineer to
General Superintendent of all the
Arkansas Natural companies.
Weyland joined the Cities Serv-
ice organization as a junior en-
gineer at Bartlesville, Oklahoma,
in 1919 and has moved up through
successive promotions to his pres-
ent position. He is the immediate
past president of the Shreveport
A. & M. Club and a member of
numerous professional societies
and also a Director and Vice Pres-
ident of the Cities Service Refining
Corporation and of the Orange
State Oil Company. Mr. and Mrs.
Weyland have two sons. The oldest
completed a year at A. & M. be-
fore withdrawing in preparation for
military service.
Goss also received his degree in
Mechanical Engineering and has
been with the Cities Service or-
ganization for twenty-three years.
He and Mrs. Goss and their child-
ren, a son and a daughter, reside
at 251 Patton Street, Shreveport.
Prof. Richey Sends
Regards to C. E.'s
John J. Richey, for many years Pro-
fessor and Head of the Civil Engineering
Department of the College, is living at
Escondido, California, P. O. Box 214. He
writes that being an orange rancher is
anything but being a ‘retired professor’’,
but that he is enjoying the life and keep-
ing well. He retired several years ago,
but Feturned to the College to teach a
term last winter when there was a
shortage of engineering instructors. He
sends regards to all of his civil engineers.
The editor has never seen it in print,
but Professor Richey’s nickname is a
badge of distinction and regard among his
former students, so the bars are broken
down and best wishes are extended from
them to Professor ‘Cue Ball” Richey.
been made Director of Sales and Adver-
tising for the Hotel New Yorker in New
York City. He had previously returned to
his pre-war job as Executive Assistant
Manager of the Hotel Adolphus, Dallas. He
started his new assignment June 1.
WENDELL B. BULLOCK is District
Manager of the Westinghous Elect. Ele-
vator Co., in Atlanta, Ga.
N. A. CLEVELAND is living at Gaines-
ville, Texas.
D. P. RICHARDSON resigned in March
after 21 years of service with the Otis
Elevator Co. in Dallas to accept a position
Manager of the Westinghouse Elect. Ele-
tric Corp., Dallas, in the Elevator and Air
Conditioning Division.
1924
R. M. Sherman
Central Texas Iron Works, Waco
ALBERT S. BRIENT has been named
City Manager of Gainesville Texas. He has
been County Agricultural Agent there for
the past six years.
SAM A. NIXON, of the Soil Conserva-
tion Service, gets his mail at 318 Sayles
Blvd., Abilene, Texas. Sam, Jr., is finish-
ing his junior year at A. & M. in pre-
med and is still under 18. Sam, Sr., is en-
gaged in engineering work having to do
with Spillway Studies on the Lakes of the
Soil Conservation Service’s Land Utilization
Projects.
1925
R. C. Armstrong
3439 Wichita, Houston, 4
MAJOR JAMES BERNARD BATY, Sn.
C, was recently promoted to that rank.
He is in the Office of the Surgeon Gen.,
ASF 1818 H St, N. W., Rm. 1211, Wash-
ington, D. C. His home is at Taylor, Texas,
but he has lived out of the state for
many years. Prior to going on active duty,
he was head of the Civil and Sanitary En-
gineering Departments of Queen’s Univer-
sity in Canada.
LT. COL. C. HAL JONES, JR., Tem-
ple, Texas, was recently released from a
German prisoner of war camp after 22
months of imprisonment. Col. Jones went
overseas with the 36th Division and was
captured early in the Italian campaign.
Mrs. Jones is making her home in Tem-
ple.
PAUL J. WASHBURN, “Admiral” to his
classmates, is Staff Manager of Acoustics
for the Johns-Manville Sales Corp., with
headquarters at New York City. He lives
at No. 7 Park Avenue.
MAJOR STEVE A. NOBLE, Greenville,
is ATC Pacific Division liaison officer,
Hamilton Field, Calif.
DR. HENRY A .HOLLE, Austin, is
Senior Surgeon with the U. S. Public
Health Service and recently returned from
duty in England. He expects to return to
Europe for further duty soon.
1926
Jack Williams
Box 196, San Marcos
MRS. J. D. LANGFORD, JR., wife of
J. D. LANGFORD, JR., died on May 8.
Jake lives at Tyler, where he is with the
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Complete Rep
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1945 FUND—No. Donors; 7,800—Total Amount $73,800.00
(1944 FUND———(No. Donors: 7404) —— (Total: Amount: $63,780.78
total amount were set by the 1945
order that their names might be
That report will be in the form of
this summer.
the annual audit is completed but
Association.
New high records both in number of men contributing and in
Development Fund which officially
closed its books on May 31. Unofficially, the fund remained open for
a few days to accommodate late comers and overseas contributors in
included in the final fund report.
a special edition of the Texas Aggie
The preliminary figures above may be adjusted slightly when
they show a healthy increase and
growth over last year which was previously the top record of the
4
Harold Dunn Elected
Natural Gas Chief
J. Harold Dunn, ’25
J. Harold Dunn, ’25, Amarillo,
Vice President and General Mana-
ger of the Shamrock Oil and Gas
Corporation, was recently elected
President of the Natural Gasoline
Association of America. He has
been in the natural gasoline bus-
iness since 1926, serving with the
Lone Star Gas Company until 1938,
when he went with his present
company. He received his degree
in Mechanical Engineering and in
1928 received his professional de-
gree in that field from A. & M.
He is also a Director of the Con-
tinental Carbon Company and the
Northern Natural Gas Company
and is Vice President of the In-
dependent Natural Gas Association
of America. He is a director and
member of several other profes-
sional and business associations.
His home is in Amarillo, but he
divides time between that city and
Dallas, maintaining offices in both
places. Mrs. Dunn is the former
Louise McCallum of Garland. Har-
old confesses to a little golf, but
finds his principal hobby and re-
laxation in horses and horseback
riding.
Bureau of Internal Revenue. He is secre-
tary-treasurer of the Smith County A. &
M. Club.
C. L. “JACK” BROCKSCHMIDT gets
his mail at 80 Rockefeller Plaza 26th
Floor, Standard Oil Co. (N. J.), N.. ¥.
20, N. Y. He is Gas Specialist (Foreign
Marketing Coordination) for his company.
His travels are extensive and take him to
many points in South and Central America.
= a —
1927
Allen R. Menger
111 West Travis St., San Antonio
Silver Taps: MAJ. GEORGE SELMAN.
COL. CHARLES VALENTINE at last
report was Chief of Staff, GFQC Ha.,
Paris.
MAJOR SAM D. CAMP, APO 216, NYC,
is in the 10th Air Force Ha., somewhere in
Burma. He is pleased with his assignment
as Asst. A-4.
E. V. SCOTT is Ass’t. General Manager,
Southwest Stone Co., Mercantile Bank
Bldg., Dallas. PreSident of the Company is
W. F. WISE, ’09.
1928
J. F. Blount
Box 431, Amarillo
Alfred H. Davidson,
Col. Jr.
Col. Alfred H. Davidson, Jr., better
known to A. & M. men as “Harry”, has
been awarded the Bronze Star in recog-
nition of his service as U. S.: Engineering
representative on the joint Allied planning
staff which prepared plans for the invasion
of France. He received his degree in Civil
Engineering and later attended West Vir-
ginia U. on a Research Prize Fellowship
to receive his Masters Degree in 1932. He
was Resident Engineer at the Denison Dam
Project when called to active duty in 1940.
His home address is 8159 Glen Garden
Drive, Ft. Worth. He arrived in England
July, 1942, and since landing on the Con-
tinent in July, 1944, participated in the
campaigns of Normandy, Northern France,
and Germany.
COL. CARL R. STORRIE, Denton, com-
mands a veteran B-29 Bomber Group on
Guam and is rapidly achieving additional
fame in the bombing of Japan. The men
of his group call him “Fire Chief”. He is
an Air Corps veteran and saw extensive
European service before going to the
Pacific.
JED N. ROBINSON, Assistant State
Highway District Engineer at Tyler, has
been named State Construction Engineer
5 Three Year Record
During the three year operation
of the Development Fund, A. & M.
men have given a total of $180,000
in Wai bonds to the College to be
later used in the construction of
the Memorial Student Center or
Union Building. Out of this year’s
Fund $25,000 has been set aside
as a special Gold Star Fund, to
extend financial assistance to the
children of Gold Star Aggies in
securing an education. In addition,
restricted gifts totalling several
thousand dollars have been given
to the Student Loan Funds, the
College and the Engineering Li-
braries, and to current student aid
and assistance. Those special gifts
have been spent as directed by
their donors.
The Development Fund is the
only financial solicitation of the
Association and seeks an annual
gift from each A. & M. man of
whatever amount he wishes to give.
It has been in operation for three
years and has been highly success-
ful. Thru the Fund A. & M. men
will give to the College some of
the things so badly needed but for
which state funds not available.
The Fund replaced the former dues
system of Association of Former
Student membership and EVERY
A. & M. man is now automatically
a member of the Association. The
outstanding response to the Fund
is fine proof of the approval that
A. & M. men have given to the
new program.
Class standings and percentages
of contributors, full financial state-
ments and top honor classes will be
listed in the 1945 Fund Report is-
sue of The Texas Aggie to appear
later in the summer.
San Antonio Holds
Annual Barbecue
Three hundred A. & M. men and
their guests and friends were pre-
sent for the umpteenth annual
chicken barbecue of the Alamo A.
& M. Club of San Antonio on
June 3. The party was held at the
club’s regular barbecue location
on the ranch of Henry Weir, ’13.
Louis Hartung, ’29, Hugh Wharton,
28, and Mr. Hartung senior,
handled the big job of barbecuing
the chicken. Frank Bitter was in
charge of the event’s finances and
ticket sales. The party was another
one in the long and successful his-
tory of an event that grows in at-
tendance and pleasure each year.
Officers of the San Antonio Club
are: W. W. Flannery, ’33, president;
Leon H. Braskamp, 29, vice pres-
ident; C. J. Stromberger, ’26, treas-
urer; and John O. Flannery, 27,
secretary.
DATE LINE TRAPPED
THIS AGGIE MUSTER  . |
Five A. & M. men aboard a
transport en route to the South-
west Pacific laid all plans for the
traditional Aggie Muster on April
21. The group spent most of the
day Friday, April 20, talking about
the Muster program and plans,
special refreshments and food, ete.
that had been arranged. They prov-
ed to be strictly land lubbers when
they awoke next morning to find
that it was Sunday, April 22. The
international date line had been
crossed during the night, and April
21, 1945, was gone forever. Never-
theless, according to Lt. Col. James
F. Kerr, ’23, ASFPRD, Camp Beale,
Calif., they celebrated in good
style. Others present in addition to
Kerr were Maj. Joel I. McGregor,
Sr., ’16; Capt. Carl S. Anchicks,
22; Maj. Oscar D. Price, ’32; and
Capt. Jesse L. Owens, '39.
No. Am. Plant Aggies
Elect New Officers
W. F. Banks, 44, has been elected
president of the Texas A. & M. Club
of the North American Aviation
Company Plant, Grand Prairie. The
Club is composed of A. & M. men
with North American. Other new
officers include G. M. Geer, ’42,
vice president; and W. L. Doster-
schill, ’30, secretary-treasurer. Re-
tiring officers are R. H. Kinkel,
’41; Harry Cohn, ’39; and Preston
Spaulding, ’28.
New president Banks is a vete-
ran of World War II and wears
the Purple Heart for wounds re-
ceived in Normandy. He is in the
Engineering Department and re-
sides at 3544 McFarlin, Dallas 5.
with headquarters at Austin. A native of
Athens, he has been with the Highway
Department for 17 years. He left Tyler
shortly after being elected as president
of the Smith County A. & M. Club.
C. ALLEN SMITH, 225 Ridgefield Rd.,
Memphis, Tenn., served as April 21 Mus-
ter chairman at Memphis. He and Mrs.
Smith have a daughter, born January
3. 1943, and a son, who followed on Jan-
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