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yo FROM THE REVIEWING STAND The Muster Reports Roll In Perhaps the day will come when a special issue of THE TEXAS AGGIE can be devoted entirely to ‘a report of the annual April 21 Aggie Musters. Since it is impos- sible now, the AGGIE must con- tent itself with brief summaries of the observance of a great tradition. There is a thrill in every Muster report, and a double thrill in those from far away. Lt. Hap Russell, ’43, reports from Munich, Ger- many; Lt. Jack Keith, ’44, from Paris; Brig. Gen. Jerry Lee, 27, from Rome; Lt. Bob Shuffler, ’43, from Berlin and Bad Homburg; and Lt. Thomas H. Benson, '42, from Bremerhaven, Germany. On the other side of the world, Major D. C. Imboden, ’12, reports a grand Muster at Tokyo’s Imper- ial Hotel, with himself and Maj. Gen. Percy W. Clarkson, ’15, as arrangements committee. Lts. Gus Boech, ’44, and Arthur Garrett, ’45, report from the great Corregidor Muster of the Manila A. & M. Club. It was to that Muster that General MacArthur directed his special greetings. Lt. R. K. Wil- liams, ’45, reports on the fine Mus- ter at Okinawa, and in far away Calcutta Maj. Max MecCullar, 40, got the few Aggies remaining there together, Maj. Gen. George F. Moore, ’08, was the principal speaker at a great Muster held at Honolulu. W. A. (Kizer) Wright, 44, writes of a Muster at Chungking, and also reported a Shankhai Mus- ter under leadership of Capt. Homer Pace, 43. Those far away Musters were just high spots in another great observance of the April 21 tradi- tion. The Campus Reporter’s Notebook Chris Groneman, Acting Head of the Industrial Educ. Dept. of the College, is the new president of the Texas Vocational Association. . .. R. V. Johnson, Texas Forestry Service, has received from the government of Czechoslovakia the Medal of Merit for his work in directing the photography of “The Beaches of Dunkirk”. NRE ye Hobart M. Smith, Assoc. Prof, Dept. of Fish and Game, is the author of a new book “Handbook of Lizards”, recently published by the Comstock Publishing Company. Lucky Guy Nolan B. Huff, a freshman G. I. student at the College, was the lucky guy in the drawing of num- bers for the 1946 Ford given away at the local Consolidated High School recently. . . . The General George F. Moore Trophy has been established for presentation to the best all-around organization in the Aggie cadet corps each year. Out- fits will be judged on scholarship, military proficiency, intramural proficiency, and extra-curricular participation. ; Looky, Engineers! * Professor Virgil Faires, Head of the Dept. of Management Engrn. reminds engineering graduates that they can add a B.S. in Man- agement Engineering with an addi- tional two 19-hour semesters of work. . . . Six regular army offi- d cers of the Corps of Engineers have been assigned to Texas A. & M. for a year’s specialized train- ing in advanced engineering, starting in June, and nine more will be ordered here shortly. The Big Wind Delivery of a 900-horse power blower motor, expected next fall, will bring to completion the South- west’s largest wind tunnel and aerodynamics research laboratory, located at Texas A. & M. College’s Easterwood airport. The wind tunnel is 90 feet long, with an intake bell diameter of 22 feet, and the test chamber, flanked by an ample observation window, measures seven feet high and ten wide. : : Graduate and research work will be done at the laboratory and its “built-in” wind tunnel, according | to Robert M. Pinkerton, acting head of the aeronautical engineer- ing department and prime mover in the construction of the $100,000— so-far—plant. < Speeds up to 160 mph are ex- "pected .of the wind tunnel when it is planned to install a toroidal put into operation, and eventually steel shell from blower to in- take ends and circulate the same air time and again, building up to 300 mph veloccities. : Anonymous Santa Claus A 1700-acre dairy on the Brazos River in McLennan and Falls counties to be known as the Central Texas Memorial Farm will be operated by the College, accord- ing to recent announcement by Dean of Agriculture Charles N. Shepardson. The dairy-farming demonstration project is an outright gift to the college from an anonymous donor. L. L. Fouraker, ’14, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineer- ing of the College, recently finish- ed a tour as instructor at the “G I” University at Biarritz, France, and has begun a lecture tour «in Europe under sponsorship of the Army Information and Education Division. He will return to his teaching duties at the College in July. H. L. Heaton, 36, Registrar of the College, was recently elected President of the Texas Association of Collegiate Registrars. “Junior Miss” will be the next play produced by the newly or- ganized College Dramatic Club. The Aggie band will be an out- standing feature of the New Braunfels centennial celebration when that community celebrates its 100th anniversary May 10 and 11. Grady Elms, ’41, has returned to his job with the Student Activities Office here at the College after serving for 46 months with the Counter Intelligence Corps. Mr. and Mrs. Elms and their son, Tony, age 18 months, are living at 216 S. Hereford, College Station. Texas highway engineers and contractors met for their twentieth annual short course at College Sta- tion, April 30-May 1. J. A. Orr, ’22, Professor of the Department of Civil Engineering at the College, was Acting Director of the Con- ference. Robert E. Schiller, a 1940 grad- uate, has been appointed instruc- tor in the Civil Engineering De- partment at the College. William G. Rowland, '23, Instruc- tor in the Engineering Drawing De- partment of the College, has be- come the 6277th licensed profes- sional engineer in Texas. Major E. K. Spahr, former mem- ber of the English Dept., was a campus visitor during the month of April. He has just returned from 89 months service in the ETO and is spending a 45-day leave at 5005 Hutchins St., Houston, where Mrs. Saphr has been making her home while the Major was overseas, Detroit, Mich. Club Elects New President H. O. von Rosenberg, '20, 481 Neff Road, Grosse Point 30, Michi- gan, was named President for the coming year for the Detroit, Mich- igan A. & M. Club. Their next meeting will be held in the form of a basket picnic the afternoon of June 1 (Saturday) at Bob-Lo Is- land. All visiting Aggies in that part of the United States are given a cordial invitation to be present for that meeting. Guadalupe County Silver Whitsett, 24, County Agent, and B. P. Gregg, 31, Box 310, Seguin, were re-elected to serve the Guadalupe County A. & M. Club as President and Secre- tary, respectively, at a recent meet- ing of that club. The next meeting will be held on May 28, or there- abouts, at which time the club plans to have a barbecue for the club members and their families. A definite date of the barbecue will be announced later. Central Plains Round-Up Sixty A. & M. men and their guests were present at the annual Central Plains Club Round-up at Plainview in April. Lawrence Lude- ‘man, ’18, Plainview, was elected President for the coming year; J. M. Hill, ’28, Tulia, Vice-President; ‘and Harry C. Igo, ’38, Plainview, Secretary. Retiring officers includ- ed: President, Leon Ranson, ’32, Levelland; Vice-President, Law- rence Luderman (elected Presi- dent); and Secretary, R. H. “Bud” Cotton, ’32, Hale Center. Although the Plainview group joined with the Lubbock Aggies in observance of the April 21st Mus- ter, a brief service was held at their meeting commemorating for- mer members of the club who died in military service. : Hopkins County Club Organized The Hopkins County A. & M. Club was organized in April and Aubrey L. Thompson, ’37, Soil Con- servation Service, Waxahachie, Texas, was elected President. John Sheffield, ’23, 641 Gilmer St., Sulphur Spring, Vice President, and Wm. A. “Billie” Carothers, ’28, Sulphur Springs, Secretary-Treas. The Club plans to hold meetings monthly. All A. & M. men in that area are invited to take part in the club program. Wharton-Jackson County Club R. B. Boettcher, Sr. ’00, East Bernard banker and businessman, was elected president of the Whar- ton-Jackson Counties A. & M. Club at a ladies’ night banquet at the Wharton Community Center on the evening of May 7. He succeed- ed James A. Stark, 21, El Campo. Clarence A. Elwood, "12, El Campo, was ‘re-elected vice-president. M. W. Mauritz, ’32,, Ganado was named secretary-treasurer, and Charles C. Ingram, Jr., ’30, Wharton, was nominated as a Director of the Association. Charles Ingram was chairman of the Arrangements Committee for the ladies’ night party, assist- ed by Mr. and Mrs. M. Sorrel, II, 26, of Wharton. Retiring officers included Stark, president; and Clyde Wheeler, 27, El Campo, secretary-treasurer. on 74 Ssh Ma a POSTMASTER: If undeliverable for any reason, notify sender stat- ing reason on Form 3578-P, postage for which is guaranteed. HE TEXAS AGGIE x A - pr - 5 we y pF - ~ 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 XIII COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1946 : NUMBER 8 nnual Association Meeting To Be Held Happy Ending to One Feud C. K. Bowen, ’99, is shown as he delivers a Bible, in which the Bowen family had recorded births and deaths for 82 years, to General Jonathan M. Wainwright last De- cember while the General was vis- iting in Los Angeles. The Bible belonged to the General’s grand- father, Commodore Wainwright, who was killed while commanding the Union flagship Harriet Lane in a skirmish between the Con- federate and Union ships on Jan- uary 1, 1863, in the Galveston Bay. Among the spoils of war which Captain William A. Bowen, Com- mander of the Confederate ship and grandfather of C. K. Bowen, and his men took away was a family bible belonging to the Commodore. At the General's suggestion, Mr. Bowen removed the pages contain- ing the family records, and to the accompaniment of cordial hand- shakes, justice was fulfilled. Mr. Bowen is Assistant to the President of the Pacific Electric Railroad =~ Company and lives at Los Angeles, Calif. His mailing address is 694 Pacific Electric Building, of that city. He is a member of the Texas A, & M. Club of Southern California. Seniors Honor P enberthy In Gift of Intramural Center to Corps “Presented by the Class of 1947 in appreciation of the friendship and services of W. L. “Mr. Pen- ny’ Penberthy.” ; These words will be inscribed on the parting gift of the graduat- ing Seniors to the Corps, an intra- mural message center and bulletin board to be constructed between the two entrances to Duncan Mess Hall. Built of red brick piles and aluminum forging, the unit will match the architecture of the dorm- itores in the new area. Bob King, senior class president, submitted the general specifica- tions to the Architecture Depart- ment, which sponsored a contest among the students for the best .champion teams. The honor designs. An announcement of the winners will be published soon. The gift will serve as a bulle- tin board for posting intramural notices and a pick-up center for notices from the Physical Educa- tion Department to intramural managers of the various organiza- tions, as well as a memorial and honor roll of the annual intramural roll will start with the championship teams of 1927, it was stated. “Mr. Penny”, who became head of Texas A. & M.’s department of physical education in 1937, came here from Ohio State University, where he was an assistant profes- sor of physical education and intramural sports director, St. Louis Club Elects New Officers E. Eugene Ballard. ’12 E. Eugene Ballard, ’12, official | of the National Bearing Division, American Brake Shoe Co., 4930 Manchester Ave., St. Louis 10, Mo., has been elected President of the Texas A. & M. Club. He has long been an active member of the club. Other new officers include: R. A. McBride, ’34, 265 Ninth St., Wood River, Ill, Vice-President; Jack Oliver, 41, Westinghouse Electric Co.,, 417 N. 7th St., St. Louis, Mo., Secretary. Retiring officers are: R. A. Wil- son, 27, President; T. H. Daniel, ’27, Secretary. Ballard served as Vice President of the club last year. The St. Louis Club meets month- ly and all A. & M. men in that area are invited to join in its activities. Oklahoma City At the last meeting of the Okla- homa City A. & M. Club, with some 150 present, the following new of- ficers were elected: Harry H. Kee- ton, Jr., 30, P. O. Box 1164, Pres.; he served, the club as Vice-Presi- dent the past year. Roland C. Hoppe, ’19, 816 N. W. 20th St, Vice-Pres. and Lamar McLennan, ’05, Room 917 Braniff Bldg. was re-elected Sec.-Treas. W. W. Pyeatt, 39, retired as President. Baton Rouge, La. H. L. Eversberg, 26, P, O. Box 943, was elected President of the Baton Rouge A. & M. Club, at a meeting on April 11. He had served the club as Vice-Pres. the past year. E. B. Rice, "29, Box 8877, was elected Vice-Pres.; P. J. Guelfi, ’26, Gulf State Utilities, Sec-Treas.; and J. B. Best, ’43, Box 1469, Sgt.- At-Arms. R. M. Craig, 28, and M. B. ‘Sturgis, 24, retired as Presi- dent and Secretary, respectively. Mitchell County Club Organizes Walter W. Whipkey, ’11, pub- lisher of the Colorado Record, Colo- rado City, was chosen president of the Texas A. & M. Club at the organization meeting of the Mit- chell County ex-students at their Muster on April 21st. Dr. James D. Williams, ’35, Box 341, Colorado City, was named Secretary-Treas. of the club. Meetings will be held quarterly and all A. & M. men in that area are invited to participate. Bl |ed Vice-Pres., and J. Roy Quinby, ‘I lingham, ’31, 1606 N. Ricketts, LY LORS SRE NE. ee PRE Ie ht EE SE GET TICKETS EARLY * * * The famed annual chicken * barbecue of the Alamo Club of * San Antonio will be held on * Saturday, June 8, at the Club’s * park near San Antonio. Tickets * will be $1.75 to June 5 and * $2.25 after that date. The club * extends a cordial invitation to * all Aggies to attend. * Those planning attendance * are urged to send checks to * Ticket Chairman Forrest * Wood, 612 Transit Tower, San * Antonio. The party will open * at 6 p. m. with barbecued * chicken served at 7 p.m. * To arrive at the park, go * out Fredericksburg Road to * West Avenue, turn right on * West Avenue and keep going * until you reach the spot. The * location is approximately 7 * miles from downtown San An- * tonio. (That’s the editor’s 5 * guess.) HE TORE as TL wis inst Wey UIE SEIN ¥ KKK KK KKK XE KKK KKK KEE KEK KK XK RX Xx Northwest Texas Bill N. Rector, ’38, Quanah, was elected President of the Northwest Texas A. & M. Club at a meeting held in Vernon in April. A. M. Hiatt, ’25, Box 2040, Vernon, elect- 24, Substation 12, Chillicothe, re- elected Secretary. Retiring officers included: Geo. Self, ’20, President; Frank Wendt, 22, 1st Vice-President; Carl Quis- enberry, ’28, 2nd Vice-President. Grayson County The Grayson County A. & M. Club is looking forward to a great year in their work with J. J. Wil- Sherman, as President. Jack C. Brown, ’43, 113 Church St., Whites- boro, was elected Vice-President and Wm. E. Conatser, ’41, Box 256, Denison, Sec.-Treas. Retiring of-|C. P. Dodson, '11, Decatur, and M. : : The present by-laws were written in 1923 with slight amend- ments in 1929. ficers included: Dr. J. E. Meador, 10, President; R. Frank Ashburn, 24, Vice-President; Mavis Jeter, ’39, Sec. and Doyle Wiliams, ’29, Assoc. Secretary. y He Came Through Col. Edwin E. Aldridge, ’16 Col. Edwin E. Aldridge, liberated prisoner of war of the Japanese, has been presented the Purple Heart with one Oak Leaf Cluster for wounds received as a result of mistreatment at the hands of the Japanese. The award was pre- sented on April 10, exactly four years after Col. Aldridge surrend- ered himself and his little band of war-torn men to the Japs on Bataan. Col. Aldridge has been in service 29 years. He was gradauted from Texas A. & M. in 1916, and return- ed to his old school as ROTC in- structor from 1925-1929. During the First World War he served with the 62nd Infantry, Eighth Division. He also had tours of duty in Panama, Fort Howard, Mary- land, and Fort McPherson, Ga. From 1934 to 1940 he was on duty with the organized reserves at San Antonio and Beaumont, Texas. He went to the Philippines in 1940, was captured on Bataan, and liberated by the Russians from prison camp at Mukden, Man- churia, on September 15, 1945. Col. Aldridge attended the Vie- tory Homecoming held on the cam- pus April 19-20-21, and his many, many friends were delighted to see him looking so splendidly after the four years he was held as a prisoner of war. His mailing ad- dress is Box 58, Eagle Pass, Texas. Col. Aldridge is the father of Maj. Edwin E. Aldridge, Jr., ’40, 1139 Fairoaks Blvd., Houston, and Lt. Herbert James Aldridge, '45, Per- rin Field, Sherman, Texas. include R. H. Maxwell, ’21, 386, who served the club last year as Vice-President; C. F. Roderick, ’32, Huntsville, Vice-President; R. B. Thomason, ’42, Treas. Proposed By-Laws Take Elections Closer to Membership - Pres. Winters Urges Attendance at Meeting May 26 Election of Directors and officers, consideration of new by-laws recommended by the present Board of Directors, and a full discussion of the expanded Development Fund Program and other important college affairs will highlight the annual meeting of the Association of Former Students, to be held in The meeting will be called to order by President Dick Winters, ’16, Sbisa Hall at College on May 26. Brady, at 10:30 that morning. The business meeting will continue thru lunch which will also be served at Sbisa Hall. Following the meeting the new Board of Directors will meet for the election of officers and other business. CLOSER TO MEMBERSHIP Most significant feature of the suggested new by-laws is election of the governing board of the the Association. “We have made a definite effort to take the election of the governing board direct to the membership of the Association” declared Clarence Elwell, ’23, Austin, By-Law Revision Committee Chairman, in presenting his committee’s suggestions to the Directors of the Association, “To do that the new by-laws provide that every active A. & M. Club may elect a member of that governing board. Every graduated and organ- ized class of the college likewise will name its own representative on the board. In addition, a district representative from each of the | thirty-one state senatorial districts will be elected by ballot of the A. & M. men of that district. It all adds up that EVERY member of the Association, and that mean EVERY A. & M. man, will have voice in the naming of the governing body.” d a SUGGESTED NEW BY-LAWS ON PAGE 4 “Because of its increased size,” continued Elwell, “We suggest that this body be called the Association Council. The council will de- termine the policies and supervise It will elect an the operations of the Association. Executive Board of ten of its members to handle many details and to serve in emergencies. The Council will meet twice each year. In addition to its responsibilities in connection with the operation and policies of the Association the Council will provide a perfect contact and liaison between A. & M. men and the college and between the College and A. & The suggested new by-laws also set up definite dates of elections M. men.” and how those elections are to be held. A second vice president is suggested. Also recognized for the first time in the by-laws of the Association are the A. & M. Clubs, the organized classes and the Development Fund. The new by-laws will be presented to the annual meeting by Chairman Elwell. They have been unanimously approved by the Board of Directors of the Association and recommended to the mem- bership for adoption. Other members of Elwell’s committee include J. Miller, ’11, Fort Worth. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE President Winters has already requested local A. & M. Clubs to nominate directors of the Association for the coming year and has | named a Nominating Committee to canvass those nominations and to make suggestions to the annual meeting .The Committee is composed of the following men, Edward D. Coulson, '38, Chairman, President Houston A. & M. Club; L. N. Oliphant, ’13, President Dallas Club; Leon Braskamp, ’29, President Alamo Club, San Antonio; John Fun- derburgh, 30, President Ft. Worth Club; W. A. “Doc” Ruhmann, 37, Extension Service, College Station, and President of the 1937 class; Dan R. “Rocky” Sutherland, President of the 1943 Class, home Winnsboro, now in school taking pre-med; Marion Pugh, ’41, Fort Worth, taking graduate work at A. and R. J. “Bob” Potts, 06, Waco. “With the Victory Homecoming so recently held,” writes Pres. & M.; J. Earl Rudder, ’32, Brady; Winters, “We realize it will be difficult for a large attendance at this year’s annual meeting. Nevertheless, I urge every A. & M. Club to be represented, and for as many men as possible to attend. The pres- ence of as many as possible will be helpful. The date was set on Sunday, May 26, in order that as many as possible might attend.” Central West Texas The Central West Texas A & || M. Club (Abilene) met recently and elected as their President William A. French, Jr. ’38, 841 Poplar, Abilene, Vice-President; Jack A. Harden, ’26, Hamlin, Texas; Sec.- Treas., H. W. Gist, '32, Box 129 Sta. A, Abilene, (re-elected). Di- rectors: Thomas J. McCarty, ’22, i | West Texas Utilities Co., Abilene; J. Lockett Shelton, ’27, retired as President and Joe Clubertson, ’13, retired as Vice President. Matagorda County The Matagorda County A. & M. Club met April 23 and elected Dr. I. C. Mark, ’41, President, (Bay City); Sidney H. ’19, (Box 350, Bay City), Vice Presi dent; and C. C. Willis, ’22, (Box 994, Bay City), Secretary-Treas- urer. Retiring officers of the club were: John Hutchinson, 36, Pres.; C. Scott Jones, 26, Vice-Pres.; Ralph Bussell, "20, Sec.-Treas. Huntsville New officers for the Huntsville A. & M. Club for the coming year Box President, Madisonvile, as Huntsville, Sec.- G. H. Richards, ’35, retired as President and H. R. Brentzel, ’30, as Sec. WESTINGHOUSE TO GIVE THREE FELLOWSHIPS Westinghouse Electric Corp. has announced the reestablishment of post-doctorate fellowships for re- search in physics, including chem- ical physics, physical metallurgy, and applied mechanics. Three ap- pointments spring. will be made this 13,000 Readers of The Texas Aggie a ——————————————— | HELP CLOSE THIS GAP! Contributions to Date 1,337 To The 1946 Fund THE 1946 FUND CLOSES MAY 31 — Send your gift today if you have not contributed since June 1, 1945. Will you be one of 1663 additional contributors needed to reach goal of 9000? Lt. Col. Robert R. Herring, ’41 Lt. Col. Robert R. Herring, ’41, recently released from military service has announced his candi- dacy for the office of Representa- tive of the 17th District of Texas to the Congress of the United at Ranger, attended John Tarleton, then graduated from A. & M. in work at Georgetown University, he entered service as a 2nd Lt. in the Intelligence Corps of the U. 8S. Air Force. He saw. 46 months serv- ed for gallantry and outstanding service four times. He returned to the U. S. in December 1945 for re- lease from service and is now at Breckenridge. Fort Worth officers for the Fort Worth A. & M. Club were elected: Pres., H. E. merce St.; 1st Vice Pres., R. Le- land Hunter, ’30, 4001 W. 6th St.; 2nd Vice Pres., Carl Oliphant, 27, 1613 Western St.; Warren D. Barton, ’39. Directors: Ralph Ely, 29; Chas. H. Fleming, 16; Bert D. Barber, ’42; Dr. J. W. Heaton, Jr. ’38; Roy T. Falken- Reviere, ’26; S. J. Barker, ’23; Mel- vin Miller, ’11; John W. Funder- burgh, ’36. John Funderburgh, as President. R. L. Hunter served In Race for Congress States. He was born and reared 41. After a year with the USDA in Washington and taking graduate ice in the Pacific and was decorat- On April 19, the following new “Buck” Cunningham, ’32, 505 Com- Sec.-Treas., berg, 27; Robert Schley, 27; N. H. Ir retired 5 as Vice President last year and Carl Oliphant served as Sec.-Treas. 1 :
