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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1946 THE TEXAS AGGIE Page 3 1925 that we know are coming have not yet sent definite reservations. We need these in order to estimate how much barbecue and so forth to have ready. If your name is not on the list of reservations which follows, please invest in a postal card and send it to the Ex- Students Association, College Sta- tion, Texas. Put down the num- ber that will be in your party. The women and children are in- vited. A prize will be given to the man bringing the most chil- dren to the reunion and any grandfathers will be named “Kings” of the Day. A final follow-up letter from the Committee will be mailed each member of the class around October 5. Don’t wait for that but make up your mind now to come and send in your reserva- tions. Get here early because we have all got lots of visiting to catch up on. Early reservations with the number in each family party in- clude: M. E. Dealy (2); J. A. Mueller (2); C. D, Speed (2); G. Dave Williamson (4); Ike Dahl- berg (5); Lester Young (3); R. B. Thacker, Jr.; V. R. Kennedy (3); E. B. Darby‘ (2); Lt. Col. Thomas R. Black (2); Edwin P. Ruhmann, Jr. (7); John J. Led- better (4); Tom S. Curtis; T. R. Halsey (2); Homer A. Hunter (2); R. O. Cox; A. E. Hinman; Claude A. Mast (4); Guy Powell; William D. Bo- zek (3); A. D. Howdeshell (4); Ross L. Grogin (2); Frederick D. Herrmann (2); A. M. McNeel; A. D. Schmid (4); K. E, Engel (2); Spencer J. Buchanan (4); Wm. A. Wurzbach (2); Marlin D. Lewis (4); W. B. Orr (3); J. F. Hodge (3); L. H. Callaway; J. R. Hun- nicutt (4); Gaston M. Wood (2); John M. Kindle; J. M. “Happy” Graham. Sincerely yours, Bassett Orr, 1121 Ursuline Ave., Bryan Lester Young, Prod. & Marketing Adm. USDA, College Station. Joe Kaufman, Box 1482, College Station Ike Dahlberg, A. H. Dept. Col- lege Station Spencer Buchanan, C. E. Dept., College Station Dr. Ashley Robey, 421 College Ave., Salem, Va., regrets that he cannot attend the October 19 re- union. He writes, “Will be swamp- ed teaching Chemistry here at Roanoke College, Salem, Va. Best regards to all the gang.” Elmo M. Schaefer, Schulenburg, Texas, may contact Jack King, 44, General Delivery, College Station, and get his ring back. Elmo’s ring was found recently and Jack, knowing Aggies, came to the As- sociation Office recently in search of Elme’s address. C. C. Wilson (4); 1926 Jack Williams Box 196, San Marcos Sam B. Ricks is farming at Somerset, Texas. . . . L. V. Norris, 2402 Glady, Beaumont, is engaged in consulting engineering, drain- age, sub-division and surveying work. He has been in Beaumont since 1937. . . . Marvin H .Mimms has been Principal and Coach of the Banquete High School for the past three years, and last year his team won the bi-district cham- pionship in football and has the record of winning 20 games out of 21 for the past two years. He added “prospects look good for this year”. Paul M. Guyer is with the U. S. Engineers at Sacramento 16, Calif. His mailing address is 1426 41st St. . . . Edgar F. Stieneker, 3808 Amherst, Dallas, is Area In- stallation Supervisor for the S. W. Bell Tel. Co. . .. Donald M. Park has returned to his home in Dallas at 210 South Clinton St. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Phocion S. Park, Jr. and their children reside at 735 Elm- wood Drive, San Antonio, . . . Lt. Col. M. S. McDougal was released from service in April and made a trip to the Grand Canyon and California before returning to Houston where he is with Wyatt C. Hedrick Architects and Engi- neers. His mailing address is 2408 Stanmore Drive of that city. Lt. Col. W. T. Ellis is doing oc- cupational duty in Germany. Mrs. Ellis, the former Miss Emile Coch- ran of Bryan, and their two daugh- ters are living at 715 E. 27th St., Bryan. . . . Howard S. Price is living at Seagoville, Texas. . . . J. B. Batchler is General Supt. of the Wonderly Construction Co., 2694 Lime Aenvue, Long Beach 6, Calif. Jack Pope Forgason is County Agent at Beeville, Texas. . . . Mack W. Higginbotham is with Higgin- botham-Bailey and Logan Co., Dallas. . . . Carl M. Thorn is living in San Antonio and working for the S. W. Bell Tel. Co. . . . Harry B. Gerbens, 3248 12th St. Port Arthur, at last report was on the faculty of Lamar College at Beau- mont. . . . E. W. Boehne, research engineer for the General Electric Co., Philadelphia, Pa., received the 1945 best paper prize for District 2 of the AIEE. He went into the employ of the General Electric Company soon after graduation. Home address is 4508 Cedar Lane, Drexel Hill. Pa. Lt. Comdr, W. R. Kerr was a recent campus visitor following his release from service in the Navy. He was stationed for 2% years at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. An accountant before the war, he has not yet decided if he will return to that field. His permanent address is 808 Lake Park, Baton Rouge, La. Mr. Collins has been secretary of the Corpus Christi A. & M. Club since ’41 and with the Cooperation of the Ex-Stu- dents Office will try to keep a record of all Aggies in this part of Texas including the Rio Grande Valley. When in Corpus Christi Drop in at His Office, Mezzanine Floor, White Plaza Hotel, Ph. 3-2645 Residence 1114 Tyler — Phone 4883 THE SOUTHWEST RESERVE LIFE INSURANCE CO. of Longview, Texas ANNOUNCES The Appointment of J. FRANK COLLINS, ’12 As General Agent in the Corpus Christi Territory Concrete Blocks CHASE and McGINNIS, Inc. WACO — AMARILLO — ABILENE BAYOU CONCRETE PRODUCTS CO. HOUSTON Concrete Sewer and Culvert Pipe Water Troughs and Other Concrete Specialties Septic Tanks pendent Oil Write today. ANTED A. & M. Graduates to Grow Up With the Oil Well Supply Business There is a real future for unmarried Petroleum and Mechanical Engineer Graduates to Develop into Sales En- gineers, with the worlds largest Inde- Well Supply VIC LeMAY, Class ’25 414 Mid-Continent Building FORT WORTH 2, TEXAS Company. 1927 Allen R. Menger 111 W. Travis, San Antonio 5 W. D. Cowan was retired from military service and for the past eleven months has been at his have at 1030 Bishop, Dallas 8. He recently went back to work at his old job with the Paramount Pic- tures in Dallas. J. B. “Pete” Cashell, Box 2146, Longview, has a freshman son at A. & M. this year. Pete is in the oil production and refining busi- ness with R. Lacy. He is the im- mediate past president of the Deep East Texas A. & M. Club of Longview. Major Lundy L. Zeigler has been presented the Bronze Star Medal for his service as adminis- trative officer of a prison camp from December 1942 to August 1945. Major Zeigler was captured at Java, being a member of the Lost Battalion, and liberated on August 13, 1945. His home ad- dress is 1675 Keeler St., Wichita Falls, Texas. 1928 J. F. Blount 3424 Caruth, Dallas 5 James E. Booth has left Boulder City, Nev. and left no forwarding address. Anyone knowing his whereabouts, please advise the Asgociation Office, College Sta- tion . . . K. E. Oberholtzer is Supt. of Schools, at Long Beach, Calif. and gets mail at 3955 Myrtle St. Dick Bernhard, 1518 Milam St, Houston is Branch Manager of the Pacific Finance Corp. Roddy Peeples, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Peeples, Tehuacana showed the reserve champion calf at the recent Corsicana 4-H and FFA club show. The 880 pound Angus was sold for the show’s top price, bringing $352 to its young feeder. 1929 A. C. Bray, Box 262, Dallas 1 Roy F. Ewing is with the Hum- Proud Papas: Henderson Shuffler September 14, 1946 Dear Austin: After reading the last issue of the Texas Aggie I was pleased to see so much “news” of the “twenty-niners”. More than I’ve seen in many a moon, and the thought occurred to me that if we all just took a spare minute and dropped you a line we could much better keep up with current ac- tivities. So anyway, since I have recently made a change in my pro- fessional status I thought I would just give you the lowdown on my- self. Prior to August 1st, 1946, I spent 10 years as Sales Engineer for The Texas Construction Material Co., Houston, and on the above-men- tioned date I started operating un- der by own name as a Consulting Concrete Engineer at the address below. Along with my concrete en- gineering service I am introducing and promoting the sale of a new slip form for concrete building con- struction the easy way, the con- crete forms being known as the Holl-0-Way forms, which produce air-insulated concrete hollow walls. This particular feature of my bus- iness will take me over all of this great state of ours, so don’t be surprised to see me most anywhere at any time. Will try to see you on my next trip to Dallas, which I hope will be seon. Sincerely, Ed C. Jancik, ’29 Concrete Eng. Service 3313 Main St. Houston 4, Texas George Wilmoth is District Rep- resentative for the Humble Oil and Refining Co., Service Station Department, with headquarters at Longview. He has been in that location for several years. Under the leadership and direc- tion of Lt. Col. E. Vergne Adams, the Aggie band is back up to its pre-war strength of 225 cadets. Backbone of the Aggie band will be 25 veterans, former Aggie band members, and the one hundred ca- dets remaining from last year’s band. Col. Adams has organized the band into two units for mili- tary training purposes, the Infan- try Band of 110 pieces and the Artillery Band, of equal size, He will be assisted by five cadet offi- cers. L. J. Starr has changed his ad- dress to Itasca, Texas . .. Walter Schutze, 901 Blanco St., Austin, Texas, is Assistant Manager, Re- tail Credit Company, in San An- tonio, but continues to get mail at the Austin address. . . . Lt. Thomas K. Lagow is out of the army after three years at the La- redo Army Air Field as Post En- gineer and back at work with Cen- tral Texas Iron Works, Waco, as Chief Draftsman. Flanoy C. Taylor is an electri- cal engineer at Denison, Tex. . . . Herschel H, Weatherby has moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico, 511 N. Guadalpue. . . . Dr. Frank OC. Steinman is practicing at Minne- apolis, Minn, 9. His mailing ad- dress is 4620 Grand Avenue, South Avenue. R. Henderson Shuffler, Director of the Texas A. & M. Develop- ment Fund is mighty proud of the first daughter born in five gener- ations of Shufflers. The young lady’s name is Ragna Shuffler, born Sept. 14, at the Bryan Hos- pital, in Bryan, Texas. Ragna has a brother, age 10 years, named Ralph. 1930 J. A. “Hop” Reynolds Dreyfus & Son, Dallas Richard “Dick” Conner is look- ing after the Conner farming in- terests at Rosebud, Texas. Dr. L. W. Johnston is associated with the Holton-Johnston Hospital at Terrell, Tex. . . . Ildefonso de la Fuente is working for the Am- erican Smelting and Refining Co. at their Selby Plant as a chem- ist. His mailing address is 833 Loring Ave., Crockett, Calif. Capt. Gilbert M. Vick has gone overseas and gets mail at APO 957, C/O P.M. San Francisco, Cal- if. Mrs. Viek is residing at 216 Hawthorn Ave., Houston 6. . . . Alton W. Bryant is living at 5907 Martel Ave., Dallas. G. R. Schumann has moved to Bellville where he will become manager of the San Bernard Elec- tric Co-eperative and will also ep- erate his farming and livestock interest there. He had been ser- ving as county agent at Olney, Texas. His successor was R. Dunkle, ’19. 1931 C. R. Coneway Humble Bldg. Houston Proud Papas: Capt. Byron A. Black. Thomas F. Abbott, Jr. is Pres- ident of Frontier Pontiac, Inc, 313 Commerce St., Fort Worth. Anyone knowing the address of Theodore J. Bianchi, please send it to the Association of Former Students, College Station. Marion H. Badger, who has been Concho County Agricultural Agent, has been employed by Tom Green County in the same capa- city. He succeeds H. C. Atchi- son, ’23. Commander H. L. Hendrick is stationed in China and gets mail at Staff Comdr. F. Fleet, FPO, San Francisco, Calif. . . . Thomas J. Moon is Area Supervisor of the Emergency Farm Labor at Find- ley, Ohio. . . After living in Maryland and Pennsylvania for the past ten years, Dr. Clyde P. Myers is back in “good old Texas.” He is practicing at Cotulla, Texas. Dr. W. C. Butler, who was Mgr. of Animal Plant Health Depart- ment, McKesson and Robbins, Co., Exchange Bldg., Fort Worth, mov- ed without sending in an address. Anyone knowing his whereabouts, please send to the Associatien Of- fice, College Station. . . . Marion H. Badger has moved to San An- gelo where he will be county agent. Robert “Bob” Conner, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Conner, 04, of Marlin, is farming and ranch- ing at Spur, Texas. Bob was elec- ted county attorney of Dickens County recently. 1932 Luther E. Bell 2424 Hillside Drive, Dallas 14 Percy J. Mims, veterans Adm. Dallas, is getting mail at 3025 Meadowbrook Drive, Fort Worth 3, Texas. Mrs. Mims will make her home in Bryan until suitable housing facilities can be found in Dallas. Christian W. Bruns is in the geophysical laboratory of the Car- ter Oil Co., at Tulsa, Okla. . . . John M. Landrum gets mail at 2713 Pine St., Waco. . . . Jude J. Adams has purchased a home in San Rafael, Calif. He is working as sanitary engineer for the Haq. 6th Army, Upper Fremont Road, Calif, W. F. Frey has accepted a posi- tion as airport engineer with the Civil Aeronautics Adm. and loca- ted in a district office at Big Spring, Texas. . . . W. C. O’Down is in the Soil Conservation work at Cleburne, Texas. . . . Major G. L. Christian, is back in civilian life and living at 1834 Hickory St., Abilene. Morris Benz is in the landscape architectural and florist business, 2701 Fannin, Houston 4. . . . D. V. Fitz is chemical engineer for the Sinclair Rubber Inec., and lives at 3511 Oakdale, Houston. . . . Fol- lowing extensive militarv service, Major John A. Pranglin is a civil- ian again and working for the Hal- liburton Oil Well Cementing Co. He resides at 10115 Houston 6. 1933 Tom C. Morris 1408 W Main St., Waxahachie Stephen .J “Bow” Flood is in civilian life again and back at work for the Humble Oil and Re- fining Company, in the Produe- tion Research Division. His mail- ing address is 710 Ridge Street, Houston, Texas. A. C. Wamble has been named acting vice director of the Texas A. & M. College Engineering Ex- periment Station until such a time as the position can be permanently filled. He will continue his duties as manager of the Cottonseed Products Research Laboratories. Earl S. Horn returned from the Pacific in April and is now co- owner of the Horn and Kelley Grocery Store. His mailing ad- dress is 3837 Collinwood, Fort Worth. W. Howell White is engineering field supervisor for the Interna- tional Business Machines, 5506 Ridgedale Avenue, Dallas. Oscar H. Hays is agronomist in the Grounds Maintenance War Dep., Hdq. 4h Army, Fort Sam Houston. . Frank is chemist for the Shell Oil Co., in Houston. His mailing address is 1403 Scott St. : Theodore T. Carter has resign- ed from his position with the San Antonio Health Dept. and moved to Anniston, Ala. His mailing ad- dress is 1830 Quintard Avenue. There is a correction in the ti- tle of Rupert W. Green’s position with the Sinclair Refinery, at Houston. He is Ass’t. Foreman of the Light Oil Treating Plant and Cargo and Terminal Depart- ments, in charge of the Docks and Pump Houses. His departments do all the blending and prepara- tion of any oil (except lubricating oils) that is shipped by boat, barge, pipe line, tank car or tank truck. He sends regards to his friends and may be addressed at 138 Cayton St. Houston 12. Wm. E. Holke has offices at 317 Citizens State Bank Houston 1, Texas. A Civil Engineering ma- jor, Bill was a member of the A. S. C. E. while in school, and also a member of the R.V.s and ser- ved as Sec.-Treas. of the Houston Club in his senior year. Spencer Apple is with the Rio Stratford, Farms Inc., Edcouch, Texas. At one time Spencer taught in the Horticulture Dept. at the College. . . . Horatio Durst III is with the Humble Oil and Refining Co., Box 2180 Houston. He was formerly located in New Orleans, La. 1934 Lt. Col. T. N. Gearreald Fairfax, Va. Elmer E. Huffhines, a chemist with the Gulf Refining Co., lives O.| at 5201 Lakeshore Drive, Port Ar- thur. . . . John D. Cunningham is district FSA Sup. with 19 coun- ties to take care of. His mailing address is Haskell, Texas. . . John J. Bender is teaching in the Houston Public Schools and liv- ing at 1936 Portsmouth, Houston, Tex. . .. B. M. Irwin lives at 1002 W. 26th St., Byan, Texas. John F. Smith is owner of For- rest’s Serv. Station, 915 Guada- lupe, Austin. John Jacob Taylor is petroleum engineer for the Stanolind Oil and Gas Co., Fort Worth. His mail- ing address is 6421 Kenwick Ave- | 1935 Frederick W. H. Wehner Box 871, Big Spring Proud Papas: Sam N, Davidson F. H. “Dusty” Helm, Jr. was released from the Army last March as a Lt. Col. and on April 1, purchased the business known as H. O. Adler “The Store of A Million Articles” at Boerne, Tex- as. The firm handles groceries, meats, hardware and dry goods. Edward M. Neal has moved to Beeville, Texas, Wm. P. Alexander, Jr. has mov- ed from Hillsboro, to Dallas. He gets mail at Box 1683. . . . ditto for James W. Wilson from Dallas to 135 Ligustrum Drive, San An- tonio. . . . Dr. Henry Fisherman, veterinarian, is located at 1711 Telephone Rd., Houston .. . J. M. Davis, 2903 Dunmore Road, Dun- dalk, Md. is with the Western Electric Company. 1936 Dudley J. Lewis C. E. Dept. Humble Oil & Ref. Co. Alfred H. “Fred” Walker, ’36, Menard County Agricultural Agent, the first recipient of the Texas Extension Service-Sears- Roebuck Foundation Fellowship Fund, has selected range manage- ment as the subject for his grad- uate work. He has been granted a vear’s leave of absence to take ad- vantage of the fellowship and will attend either Utah State Agricul- tural College, the University of California, Nebraska University, or Texas A. & M., the four colleges which offer the outstanding courses in this subject. Born in San Antonio and reared on a ranch near Comstock, Fred was graduated in Animal Hus- bandry with distinguished student rating. After a year with the USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, he served three Alfred H. Walker, ’36 years as County Agricultural Agent for Culberson County and two years at Menard County. He entered the armed forces in 1942 as an Air Force Captain and was shot down while on a raid over Germany. After his liberation as a prisoner of war he was released from the service and returned to Menard in November 1945. He is married and has one child. Recently heard from: Guilford B. Grant with the U, S. Coast and Geo. Surv. Div. of Photogram- metry, Washington, D. C. Albert C. Hall, 17 Edison Ave., Medford 55, Mass. . ., . William B. Pace has accepted a civil service posi- tion as Agricultural Marketing Specialist and left for his duties in South America in mid Septem- ber. His mailing address is C/O American Embassy, Asuncion, Paraguay, S. A. Tom B. Randolph is Quarantine Insp. for the USDA Bur. of Ento. and Plt. Quarn, He and Mrs. Randolph live at 1202 Corpus Christi St., Laredo, Texas. Woodrow W. Bailey has accept- ed a position with the Houston Packing Co., and will reside at 4148 Riley St. of that city. 1937 W. A. “Doc” Ruhmann Extension Service, Campus Silver Taps: Frank Bewley Robert L. Pou, Jr., is working for the Veterans Adm since his release from service and lives at 7903 Wanebe, Dallas. Among those working with hi mare Charles B. Crook, ’37, Kenneth Liles, ’39, Fred Carpenter, ’28, and Wallace Langston, ’385. X. B. Cox has been made a member of the Order of Orange- Nassau, degree of office by the authority of Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands. This award was presented Col. Cox for his per- formance with the 82nd airborne division. Upon Col. Cox’s returr to civilian life, he attended the | short course for county agent given at the College by the Ex- tension Service and for the past several months has been serving as County Agricultural Agent for Snyder, Texas. He is a native of San Angelo and during his colle- giate days served as Capt. of B Inf, participated in basketball in ’34 and ’36, and was intramural manager in ’36, ’37. Joseph D, Metcalfe, who has been associated with the Bucyrus- Erie Co., at Shreveport, La. has moved to Dallas and is living at 3602 Almazan Drive. While at A. & M. Joe served on the YMCA, member of the R.V.’s, Director of Entertainment Series in 1936 and was in the Who’s Who in Amer- ican Colleges and Universities. Lt. Comdr. Chas W. Atkinson was separated from the Navy in June at Norfolk, Va., after serv- ing for 5 years and 4 months. He is married and he and Mrs. At- kinson are living at College Sta- tion while Chas. continues his ed- ucation. . . . Major Oris E, Mec- Gregor, Jr. has been transferred to the Intelligence Div. of the War Dept. General Staff and is living at 3314 Porter St. Wash- ington, 8, D. C. While at Ran- dolph Field, his last station, he was Assistant to the Base S-4, He has just recently been commission- ed into the regular service and will hold a 1st Lt.s rank in the Air Corps. Fred A. Collier is Industrial Re- lations Supervisor for the Creole Petroleum Corp, Caripito, Vene- zuela. He assumed his new duties in September. . . . Harry G. Brown, Jr. has moved to 5718 Richmond, Dallas 6, Texas, 1938 “ John Bone : 1620 Main St., (I. B. M.) Houston, Texas Proud Papas: Major Doyle M. Ransom; Wm. E. Stiles. Lt. Col. Will Hubbard is sta- tioned at Hensley Field, Dallas, as advisor to the National Guard. He was Major, CAC, member of the swimming team and of the R. V.’s during his college days. Hal M. Moseley. after extensive military service. has returned to civilian life and is employed by the Architectural Department of the College as Instructor. Wm. E. Stiles, Division Mana- ger for the Core Laboratories, Inc., lives at 9254 Peninsula Drive, Dallas. He recently advised the Asseciation Office that William E. Stiles, Jr. had joined the family circle. He and Mrs. Stiles have (See 1938, Page 4) FLOOR TRUCKS SKIDS JACK LIFTS For Materials Handling Equipment H. 0. 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