The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, May 01, 1961, Image 6

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CLASS AGENTS
T. L. Smith, Jr., President of Sul
Ross Group, Drawer 66468, Hous-
ton 6
T, M. Smith, Box 331, West Colum-
13
T. B. Warden, Route 7, Box 74,
Austin
T. W. Blake, 1049 Mellie Esperson
Bldg., Houston
Lamar McLennan, 1920 NW 32nd,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
P. L. Downs, Jr., Box 4784, Col-
lege Station
’07 Louis Lenz, 4390 Harvest Lane,
Houston 4
’08 Brig. Gen, John A. Warden, 609
W. Lamar, McKinney
T. A. Van Amburgh, 4636 Arcady
Ave., Dallas 9
R. S. Reading, 1312 Ficklin Ave.,
Corsicana
’07—Philip Thompson has sold his
ranching operations in Roswell, New
Mexico, and returned to his home in
San Angelo, where he is devoting
most of his time to writing a book
entitled A Texas Honey Wagon. When
completed “it will be a humdinger
and long as a rope,” said Thompson
of his forthcoming publication.
’08—Mr. and Mrs. Lem Adams, who
recently moved to 1850 Willow Road,
Palo Alto, California, departed in
April for a trip around the world.
They expect to return early in July.
’10—Copies of Trails and Trials of
A Texas Ranger by the late William
Warren Sterling may be obtained by
writing the author’s widow, Mrs. W.
W. Sterling, 346 Palmero, Corpus
Christi.
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CLASS AGENTS
’11 Miller McCraw, 8909 McCraw Drive,
Dallas 9
James F. Collins, 137 Meadow View
Dr., Port Lavaca
L. D. Royer, 318 Carnahan Ave.,
San Antonio 9
David H. Levy, 5907 Park Lane,
Dallas 25
Dr. Guy Adriance,
Dept., College Station
Col. E. E. Aldridge, 415 Klaus Road,
San Antonio 9
L. A. Priester, 1800 Griffin St., Dal-
las
J. W. Williams, Box 1590, Dallas
Charles H. Clark, 922 Park Drive,
Hillsboro
H. N. Glezen, 3310 Delaware, Beau-
mont
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Horticulture
’11—A highlight of this year’s Big
Spring Muster program was the pre-
sentation of a new 1911 class ring to
E. V. Spence. Recognized as the typ-
ical Aggie wife, Mrs. Spence was the
recipient of an A&M pin. Manager
of the Colorado River Municipal Water
District, Spence is a staunch supporter
of A&M and Association affairs. He
and Mrs. Spence were on the College
campus in May attending the Golden
Anniversary Reunion of the 1911
lass.
’11—Walter E. Dickerson, Executive
Director of the Texas Industrial Com-
mission, has offices on the 10th floor
of the new State Office Building in
Austin. Formerly Vice-President of
the Victoria Bank & Trust Company
of Victoria, he assumed his present
post in 1958.
’12—Shenango China Inec., of New
Castle, Pennsylvania, has purchased
98 per cent of the stock in the San
Antonio Machine and Supply Company,
San Antonio, according to an an-
nouncement made by C. C. (Polly)
Krueger, President of the Texas firm.
’13—T. R. Spence, who has managed
the construction of such major addi-
tions on the campus as the Memorial
Student Center, the Rollie White Col-
iseum, the W. T. Doherty Petroleum
Engineering Building, the Biological
Sciences Building, the Data Processing
Center, and many others will go on
modified service in September. He
joined the staff of A&M in 1938 as
a member of the civil engineering
faculty and subsequently served as
Vice-Director of the Engineering Ex-
periment Station and as Manager of
the College’s construction program.
He was named Manager of the Office
of Physical Plants in 1949.
’14—Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Clement
have moved to Wichita Falls and are
living at 1631 Dayton Street. Clement
retired last year from Richardson Oils,
Inec.,, in Fort Worth.
’16—C. H. Gunn of Port Arthur,
retired Texas Company employee, and
Mrs. Gunn toured Europe last spring
and had a “most interesting and en-
joyable time.”
’16—Uel Stephens, Director of the
City of Fort Worth Water Depart-
ment since 1942, has retired from that
post but will continue to be concerned
with the city’s water needs by serving
as an adviser on countywide water
and sewer projects. He will have
his offices in the new Mutual Savings
Building. Stephens is a member of
the State Board of Registration for
Professional Engineers, and a Past
President of the Texas Section of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
and of the Texas Water and Sewage
Works Association,
’17—Sam W. Martin, a long-time
employee of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture who retired in 1958, lives
in Dallas and is engaged in breeding
registered Polled Hereford cattle.
’17—V. E. Hafner, President of the
Hardeman County Farm Bureau and
Secretary-Treasurer of the Northwest
Texas A&M Club, is farming and
ranching at Chillicothe. Hafner re-
tired in 1955 from the County Agri-
cultural Agents service.
’17—J. K. Mattox, Bay City, is Dis-
trict Manager of the Central Power
and Light Company’s Rice Belt Dis-
trict.
’17—Paul Reily
at Hondo.
’18—Preston Goen, retired County
Agent, is ranching at San Augustine.
’19—For “his contributions to the
community over the years,” Mayor
A. F. Madison has been named Ama-
rillo’s First Citizen of 1960. A long-
time creamery operator in that city,
Madison has served as President of the
Chamber of Commerce, Director of
the United Fund, and President of
the Downtown Kiwanis Club. He was
also a leading figure in the Canadian
River Dam settlement.
’20—William V. Holik, President of
the El Paso Electric Company, was
acclaimed “Engineer of the Year” at
a banquet attended by more than 200
engineers. Holik has overseen the
expansion of the electric company in
various supervisory capacities since
1942, when he returned to the firm
after assignments with various engi-
neering affiliates of the utility organ-
ization. He is Past Chairman of the
El Paso Industrial Development Corp.,
a Director of the State National Bank,
a Past Director of the El Paso Cham-
ber of Commerce, and a member of
the Executive Board of the Yucca
Council of Boy Scouts.
21 Box 126, FE
College Station
George J. Kempen, Jr., Civil Engi-
neer, lives in Alpine.
John O. Gieseke would like to pur-
chase a 1921 Longhorn. Anyone having
an extra copy of this publication,
please contact Gieseke at 4332 Bryn
Mawr Drive, Dallas 25.
Edwin C. Lyle, who suffered a
stroke in 1959, is living at 1102 West
22nd Street in Houston.
is a stock farmer
Fred R. Brison
Manufacturers
P. O. Box 19188
PLANTS:
Mexico
BRANCH OFFICES:
Louisiana; Calgary, Alberta, Canad
SUBSIDIARY AND AFFILIATED
S. A.; Southwest Engineers, Inc.
SOUTHWEST INDUSTRIES
INC.
Engineers, Designers,
of
Packaged Compressors -
Natural Gasoline Plants - CO; & H.,S Removal
Units - Sulphur Recovery Units - Tenex Exhaust
Gas Injection Units
Russell L. Jolley; E. C. “Ned” Broun, Jr., ’45; J. M. Haring,
’43; Stewart E. Cartwright, "44
Houston, Texas; Calgary, Alberta. Canada; Mexico, D. F.,
Midland, Texas; Tulsa, Oklahoma; New Orleans,
tional Corp.; Southwest Barber, Ltd.; Industrias Southwest de Mexico,
and Contractors
Inert Gas Generators -
Houston 24, Texas
a; Mexico, D. F., Mexico
COMPANIES: Southwest Interna-
W. Lambert Ballard
110 Glenn Drive
22 Longview
John W. Mayo, 7106 Wabash Circle,
Dallas, is in the mortgage loan and
investment business.
23
11767 Valley Dale Drive
Dallas 30
Langston H. Wood, prominent Waco
business man and civic leader,
ceived the “Engineer of the
plaque at the annual banquet of the
Central Texas Chapter of the Texas
Society of Professional Engineers.
State Highway Engineer D. C. Greer
was one of the main speakers at the
Pacific meeting of the International
Board Federation in Sydney, Aus-
tralia, in February.
Robert Emmett Harris 23
2503 Bluffview Dr.
Austin 4
J. W. Bartlett
Dr. Fred P. Jaggi
Dept. of Vet. Publ. Health
College Station
Bric: -B. Ewbank,
Head of Dallas Power
and Light Company’s
Underground Lines Di-
vision, supervises the
construction, installa-
tion, operation, and
maintenance of the
underground distribu-
tion system of the util-
ities company. A Na-
: val Reservist, Ewbank
Ewbank is Commanding Officer
of a Composite Com-
pany that has ranked first for two
consecutive years in competition with
all non-pay units (91) of the Eighth
Naval District.
R. S. Crockett, Port Arthur, a long—
time employee of the Gulf Oil Com-
pany, is Coordinator of Butadiene Pro-
duction, Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc.
Jack Forgason, who retired from the
Army Reserves as a Colonel, is Agri-
cultural Agent for Bee County.
24
J. C. Allen, a Dallas resident for
35 years, is Credit Manager and Secre-
tary-Treasurer of Cavanaugh and
Company.
. R. C. Armstrong
25 4425 Tonawanda
Houston 35
M. E. (Dime) Dealy has been pro-
moted to Assistant General Passenger
Agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
roads, with headquarters in Houston.
Irving Bock, President of Carrier-
Bock Company, has been helping resi-
dents of Dallas keep cool for 25 years,
according to a feature article con-
cerning the air-conditioning-firm pres-
ident that appeared in a recent issue
of the Dallas News.
2 6 Jack Williams
Box 196
San Marcos
Berry M. Stephens,
Jr., Assistant to the
Executive  Vice-Presi-
dent of the Texas and
New Orleans Railroad
Company, Houston, has
been elected a Director
of the Bast Texas
Chamber of Commerce.
Stephens entered the
railroad service in No-
vember, 1926, as a
draftsman and subse-
; quently held increas-
ingly important positions. Among his
many affiliations are the American
Railway Engineering Association, the
American Railway Bridge & Building
Association, the Houston Engineering
& Scientific Society, and the Houston
Chamber of Commerce.
E. W. Boehne retired last year from
the staff at the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology to become Con-
sultant for Research and Development
of the I. T. E. Circuit Breaker Com-
pany of Philadelphia. He and his
family live at 608 Spruce Lane, Villa—
nova, Pennsylvania.
Make plans to be on hand for the
1926 Class Reunion to be held October
28 on the College campus. A Reunion
mailing will be sent out from the
Association office containing detailed
information.
7
Victor P. Gayle, System Sales Pro-
motion Director for the Gulf States
Utilities Company in Beaumont, has
been promoted to System Residential
Sales Superintendent. Joining the
Stephens
D. C. (Spike) Arnold
P. O. Box 2332
Houston 1
PUSH BUTTON — MANUAL
BATCHING PLANTS
FEED-CONCRETE-CHEMICALS
APACHE
Engineering & Mfg. Co.
PO 3-3173 Box 786
PO 3-3981 Lubbock
company after graduating from A&M,
Gayle went to Beaumont in 1945.
J. P. (Jake) Hamblen, Chairman of
the Board of the Southern Electric
Supply Company and Vice-Chairman
of the Fannin State Bank, Houston,
is also a Board member of the Naviga-
tion and Canal - Commissioners of the
Harris County Houston Ship Channel
Navigation District.
W. R. “Bill” Carmichael
708 E. 30th
Bryan
28
Harold Jinks, former
Postmaster of Piggott,
Arkansas, has been ap-
pointed Head of the
Post Office Depart-
ment’s Postmasters Di-
vision in Washington,
GC. The division
has administrative re-
sponsibilty for the
nation’s more than
i 35,000 postmaster, The
: 55-year-old Federal em-
Jinks ployee has been active
in the National Association of Post-
masters of the United States and is
a former President of the Arkansas
Chapter of that organization. He has
numerous other professional and civic
affiliations.
L. G. Coppedge, Dallas, is owner
and developer of Marsh Hill Shopping
Village. His A&M son is Harold
Glenn Coppedge ’59. :
Robert M. Craig, Division Engineer
for the Gulf States Utilities Company
at Navasota, has two Aggie sons: Lt.
W. Rogers Craig ’59, Nellis Air Force
Base, Nevada; and Elliott Craig ’61,
A&M basketballer, who is a veterinary
medicine student at the College. :
D. D. Dillingham, Jr., is Executive
Vice-President of the United Gas Pipe
Line Company, Shreveport, Louisiana.
B. F. (Tom) Donald, the 1960 Alice
Country Club Golf “Champ” and Pres-
ident of the First State Bank at San
Diego, makes his home in Alice and
commutes to his bank duties.
John and Naoma Easton live in
Beeville, where he is in the real estate
business.
Box 263
29 Dallas 1
John Scott, who has been associated
with the Rural Electrification Admin-
istration, Washington, Cs for a
number of years, has been named
Assistant Administrator of the REA.
In his new job, Scott will direct the
A. C. Bray
Agency’s information program, per-
sonnel management, and budget ac-
counting.
The Texas Company has transferred
Hubert G. Green from Longview to
the Dallas division as Contractor Sales
Representative, The division is com-
prised of North Texas, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, and a part of Northwestern
Arkansas.
J. A. Reynolds
Dreyfuss and Son
’30
Main at Ervay, Dallas
Brig. General Norman L. Callish,
Commander of Mather Air Force Base
and the 3535th Navigator Training
Wing, has announced that he will
retire from the Air Force this year.
The assignment to Mather in 1959 was
the culmination of a number of years
of operating navigator training schools
for the General. He commanded the
Navigator Training Center at Elling-
ton Air Force Base and at the Har-
lingen Air Force Base before going to
his present post. A Command Pilot,
he has more than 5,400 flying hours
in his log.
3
Walter C. McGee, Jr.
Box 2511
Houston 1
Walter R. Swank
704 E. Lawndale
Victoria
R. H. Campbell, who
holds: a BS and a
Master of Education in
Agricultural Education
from A&M, has been
teaching in the school
system at Coquille,
Oregon, since 1958.
He formerly taught at
DeLeon.
Lt. Col. and Mrs.
Byron Black, who have
recently returned to
the States from an
overseas assignment, have purchased
acreage on the Guadalupe River. Their
mailing address is Star Route 2, New
Braunfels.
Charles F. Girand is Section Chief
of the Exploitation Section, Engineer-
ing Department, of the Mobil Oil Com—
pany in Denver, Colorado. Before
going to his assignment with the
Denver Division, he worked in the
Dallas engineering office of the Mag-
nolia Petroleum Company.
32
Houston
A. O. (Al) Saenger, Houston, has
been promoted to Assistant Regional
Marketing Manager of the Southwest
Region of the Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company.
Oscar Loessin, Jr., who lives at
Granger, operates ga radio and TV
Service business and a gin at Circle-
ville.
Campbell
Sam C. Smith
Box 1000
Uvalde
J. U. Parker
Box 505, R. Route 4
SB eansyid
andom kitchens
OUTSTANDING
DESIGNS
: KEENE
TEXAS
R. L. Elkins
205 Highland
College Station
A Certificate of
Achievement has been
presented Earl B. Har-
ben, 123 Downing
Drive, San Antonio, in
recognition of his ‘“out-
standing service and
unswerving devotion to
. the youth of Fort Sam
53
Houston.” A Civil
Service employee of
Headquarters Fourth
U. S. Army Engineer-
ing Section at Fort
Harben
Sam Houston, Harben is Chief of the
Refrigeration Branch. In
to being Assistant Scout-
master for Fort Sam Houston Boy
Scout Troop 23, and Manager and
Coach of a Little League baseball
team on the Army reservation, he is
also Cub Master of Cub Scout Pack
254 at Lamar School.
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Electrical
addition
Vernon G. Young
Agri. Ext. Service
College Station
Major Nathan Bahme
recently retired with
the rank of Lieutenant
Colonel after twenty
vears of Army service.
A chemical engineer-
ing graduate, he en-
tered the Army in
1941. During World
War II he took part
in Central European
campaigns. For the
past two years he has
been serving as Senior
Army Advisor to the 3rd Rocket How-
itzer Battalion, 12th Artillery.
Joe Hatton, who is a partner in the
Bahme
real estate firm of Burghart-Hatton
in Colorado Springs, Colorado, also
owns and operates a number of
ranches. Joe’s firm recently com-
pleted the sale of a 145,000 acre ranch
for 2% million dollars.
Jack Sloan has completed a course
in communications at Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Jack is Visual Aids Spe-
cialist for the Agricultural Extension
Service at A&M.
Dept. of Student Affairs
’35
College Station
Sam N. Davidson is Treasurer of
the Corpus Christi A&M Club.
George KE. Roesner, Radio and Tele-
vision Farm Director of KPRC and
KPRC-TV in Houston, was Master of
Ceremonies for the 27th Annual Cot-
ton Pageant held on the campus in
April. A widely known agriculturist,
Roesner is President of the National
Association of Television and Radio
Farm Directors.
Lt. Colonel Wayne M. Harris of
Midland is again wearing the patch
of the 90th Division; he is Commander
of the 90th Transportation Battalion.
Harris participated in ‘campaigns in
Normandy with the 343rd Howitzer
Battalion. The battalion served as
support for the 357th Infantry from
1942 until the end of World War II.
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Wm. G. Breazeale
Col. Taylor Wilkins
Commandant, Allen Military
Academy
Bryan
The newly elected
President of the Sac-
ramento Valley, Cal-
ifornia, A&M Club is
Colonel Carter C.
Speed, Commandant of
Cadets at the Hiram
W. Johnson Senior
High School in Sacra-
mento. The club plans
to have a family picnic
and barbecue in Sep-
tember. In addition
to his military duties
Speed
at the school, the Colonel also teaches
mathematics and history.
R. C. Halter has been promoted to
Senior Research Specialist in Humble
Oil & Refining Company’s Research
and Development Division at Baytown.
One of Halter’s sons, Richard F., is
a junior at A&M.
Marine Corps Colonel Wood B. Kyle,
who has been stationed in Paris,
France, for the past two years, was
recently promoted to Brig. General.
General Kyle entered the U. S. Marine
Corps following his graduation from
A&M and has enjoyed a brilliant
military career. He is the son of the
late Albert J. Kyle ’97 and a nephew
of Dean E. J. Kyle ’99 of Bryan.
W. A. “Doc” Ruhmann
J 18th Floor
1st. City Natl, Bank Bldg.
Houston 2
Col. Kyle L. Riddle,
a native of Decatur,
has been nominated by
the President for the
rank of Brigadier Gen-
eral in the Air Force.
Riddle has been Com-
mander of the 66th
Tactical Reconnaissance
Wing at Laon Air
Base in France since
August 1959. He for-
merly was Commander
of the Webb Air Force
Base in Big Spring.
Beaumont’s A&M Club President is
Charles L. Schmucker, who has been
promoted to Vice-President of the
First National Bank of that city.
Early in his career, Schmucker taught
school at Bellville and at A&M. He
joined the bank in 1957, becoming
Assistant Vice-President a year later.
Active in numerous civie organizations,
he is a Past President of the Beau-
mont Lions Club and President of
the Beaumont Farm and Ranch Club.
J. D. Metcalfe has taken a leave as
Vice-President of Standard Industries,
Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma, to assume the
position of Project Manager of
OKAtoka Constructors, a joint venture
organization that has been awarded
Riddle