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CLASS AGENTS
’98 T. L. Smith, Jr., President of Sul
Ross Group, Drawer 66468, Hous-
ton 6
01 T. M. Smith, Box 331, West
Columbia
’03 T. B. Warden, Route 7, Box 74,
Austin
'04 T. W. Blake, 1049 Mellie Esperson
Bldg., Houston
’05 Lamar McLennan, 1920 NW 32nd,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
’06 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
’09 T. A. Van Amburgh, 4636 Arcady
Ave., Dallas 9
'10 R. S. Reading, 1812 Ficklin Ave.
Corsicana
’11 Miller McCraw,
Drive, Dallas 9
8909 McCraw
’09—Herbert Voelcker senior part-
ner in Herbert Voelcker and Associ-
ates, a Houston architectural firm, is
ighty proud of his nine grandchil-
ren.
’10—Rock Granite
Taber, Chairman of
the Board of Atlanta
Gas Light Company,
Atlanta, Georgia, re-
tired from the com-
pany in December.
former Board
Chairman joined the
organization in 1944
as Vice - President
Se and was named Pres-
Taber ident a year later.
He has enjoyed an
enviable career as a business man
and as a civic leader. A distinguished
figure in the gas industry, he is cred-
ited with having guided Atlanta Gas
Light through the difficult post-
World War II business re-adjustment
and the years of tremendous expan-
sion that followed. He has served as
a Director of the American Gas As-
sociation, the Southern Gas Associa-
tion, and the Independent Natural
Gas Association. He and his wife, the
former Miss Julia M. White of Dal-
las, have a son, Richard G. Taber ’41,
Assistant Vice-President of the Ful-
ton National Bank in Atlanta, and
two daughters.
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CLASS AGENTS
’12 James F. Collins, 137 Meadow
View Dr., Port Lavaca
’13 L. D. Royer, 318 Carnahan Ave.
San Antonio 9
’14 David H. Levy, 5907 Park Lane,
Dallas 25
’15 Dr. Guy Adriance, Horticulture
Dept., College Station
’16 Col. E. E. Aldridge, 415 Klaus
Road, San Antonio 9
’17 L. A. Priester, 1800 Griffin St.,
Dallas
’18 J. W. Williams, Box 1590, Dallas
'19 Charles H. Clark, 922 Park Drive,
Hillsboro
’20 H. N. Glezen,
Beaumont
’21 Fred R. Brison,
College Station
3310 Delaware,
Box 126, FE,
’12—Mike Devine, Corpus Christi, a
speedster half-back from Ray High
School’s 1961 state semi-finalist who
has signed a pre-enrollment applica-
tion with A&M, is the grandson of
the late P. S. Devine of Pharr.
’13—Wm. A. (Bill)
Orth was honored
with an appreciation
dinner on the eve of
his retirement from
the Federal Govern-
ment. After more
than 26 years of
service with several
agencies, he retired
from the Housing
i and Home Finance
Orth Agency where he had
been Regional Engi-
neer for the past 12 years. At the
dinner, attended by more than 125
persons, Orth was presented a Fish-
Lo-Kator attachment for his boat.
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’16—Lt. Gen. A. D. Bruce (Ret.),
Chancellor Emeritus of the Universi-
ty of Houston, who has moved to
Temple, was honored at a Temple
Chamber of Commerce Military Af-
fairs Committee luncheon. Known as
“the Father of Fort Hood,” General
Bruce was accorded high praise for
his long and distinguished military
career.
’16—Frank Lee Moffett, father of
Senator George Moffett of Chilli-
cothe, died at the age of 101. The old-
est survivor of a pioneer settlement
in Hardeman County called Lost
Wander’s Creek Valley, he served as
County Commissioner for 12 years.
’16—Senator Penrose Metcalfe, San
Angelo rancher, has been re-elected
President of the National Wool Grow-
ers Association.
’17—Julius Schepps, Dallas philan-
thropist, has been named Vice-Presi-
dent of the Cotton Bowl Council,
'17—John and Lillian Gibbs of
Fort Worth have a real Aggie family.
The older daughter, Mary Lynn, mar-
ried C. B. Marsh, Jr. ’42, Amarillo,
and their son, C. B. Marsh, III, will
enter A&M this fall. Jean, the young-
er of the two Gibbs girls, and her
husband, Joseph E. Martin 44, Wil-
mington, Delaware, have four future
Texas Aggies.
’20—Joe L Scudder, retired banker,
is living at Big Sandy. He has been
living in the East Texas community
since retiring from the Citizens Na-
tional Bank, Waco, in the early
spring.
’20—Gainer B. Jones, former resi-
dent of Bryan, has been elected Pres-
ident of the Houston Clearing House
Association. Jones is Senior Vice-
President of the National Bank of
Commerce in Houston.
’21—Dan Clinton, who has provid-
ed leadership for the development of
a dynamic agricultural program in
Harris County, has announced this re-
tirement. The oldest County Agent in
point of service in the state, Clinton
will devote his time to the operation
of his farm holdings in Colorado
County, where he once was a County
Agent. The first Texas County Agent
to receive the Distinguished Service
Award of the National County
Agents Association, he served as
President of the Texas County
Agents Association from 1951-56,
23 W. Lambert Ballard
110 Glen Drive
Longview
Craig Rosborough,
who has been affili-
ated with the Soil
Conservation Service
since its inception in
1933 and who for
more than 21 years
has administered its
program in Benton
County, Arkansas,
has retired and plans
Ee to remain in Benton-
Rosborougn  yijjle, where he is
particularly interested in the devel-
opment of the nut and blackberry in-
dustries. The veteran agriculturist is
a member of the Arkansas Horticul-
tural Society, the National Conserv-
ancy, the Kansas Nut Growers Asso-
ciation, and a number of other pro-
fessional organizations. Rosborough,
who attended the 1962 Northwest
Arkansas Muster in Fayetteville, has
not missed a Muster since the end of
World War II.
11767 Valley Dale Drive
25
Wendell B. Bullock, a native Wa-
coan, has been named General Mana-
ger of Regional Operations for West-
inghouse Electric Corporation’s Ele-
vator Division. A resident of Bronx-
ville, New York, Bullock has been
with Westinghouse since 1927.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Alsmeyer
are making their home in College
Station, following his retirement
from 40 years of service to agricul-
ture, Alsmeyer, who began his out-
standing agricultural career as a vo-
cational agriculture teacher in Cam-
eron County, established an enviable
record in various phases of County
Agents’ work. Joining the Interna-
tional Cooperation Administration in
1954, his first foreign assignment
was in the Philippine Islands, where
Robert Emmett Harris ’23
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H. L. Roberts is President of the
Oil City Iron Works in Corsicana, a
company that has been serving Texas
industry since 1886.
George M, Lewis, a member of the
staff of the American Meat Institute
since 1930 and a Vice-President since
1950, has announced his resignation.
For a number of years he has coordi-
nated the activities of many indus-
try committees as part of his execu-
tive responsibilities and participated
actively in closely related businesses
and other organizations. Since 1938,
Lewis has been Director and Profes-
sorial Lecturer in Meat Packing
Management at the Institute of Meat
Packing, an educational program
conducted jointly by the American
Meat Institute and the Graduate
School of Business of the University
of Chicago.
E. E. Kuehn is Valuation Engineer
in the Rate Section of the Lone Star
Gas Company in Dallas.
Walter Davidson, who is prominent
in the gas industry and who is Vice-
President of Operations, Transcon-
tinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation,
Houston, has been named a Director
of the Southern Gas Association.
3 R. C. Armstrong
4425 Tonawanda
Dr. Fred P. Jaggi
Dept. of Vet. Publ, Health
College Station
Houston 35
a Frank Stubbs of
~~ Corpus Christi has
been elected to the
13 - member Federal
Farm Credit Board.
The Board sets the
policies nationally
for the cooperative
Farm Credit System
which is supervised
by the Farm Credit
Administration. A
former livestock
rancher and County
Stubbs
Extension Agent, Stubbs is Manager
and Treasurer of Gulf Compress, a
regional cotton cooperative in Corpus
Christi. He was formerly a Regional
Manager for the Federal Land Bank
of Houston. :
A Dallas man, John M. Kindle,
Transmission Vice - President for
Lone Star Gas Company, is the new
President of the Natural Gas Proces-
sors Association. A leader in the ex-
panding natural gas processing busi-
ness, Kindle was named to this post
at the Association’s meeting held in
Denver, Colorado.
26 Box 196
San Marcos
H. D. Roberts, a veteran vocational
agriculture teacher who has been a
member of the Denton High School
faculty in Denton for 24 years, has
announced his retirement.
Robert F. Rosborough, who recent-
ly sold his interest in the Marshall
Oil Company to devote his time to
the Federal Savings and Loan As-
sociation of Marshall, has been elect-
ed a Vice-President of the organiza-
tion. :
For more than 40 years of service
to Girl Scouting, Sadie Tucker, wife
of Bert Tucker, was awarded a
bronze plaque at a recent meeting of
the South Texas Girl Scout Council.
Also receiving a Girl Scout statuette,
one of the highest awards an adult
can get, was Bert, who is a long-
time employee of the Union Carbide
Chemical Company in Texas City.
P. O. Box 2332
27 L5H
James D. Amend is a cattle farmer
in Amarillo.
2110 Ave. O
28 Huntsville
During his tenure of service as
President of Champion Celulose, S.
A., subsidiary of the Champion Pa-
per and Fibre Company, Robert C.
Haynie was in charge of the con-
struction and operation of a $20 mil-
lion pulp mill in Brazil. Mr. and
Mrs, Haynie live at 348 Grove Road,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Texas Water Development
Board has named Howard Boswell its
new Executive Director. He was Ex-
ecutor Director of the Association of
Texas Soil Conservation Districts for
the past eight years and served for
two years as a member of the Texas
Water Resources Committee.
Jack Williams
D. C. (Spike) Arnold
W. K. Carmichael
A. C. Bray
Box 263
Dallas 1
James H. Pipkin,
Senior Vice - Presi-
dent of Texaco, Inc.,
Washington, D. C.,
and a former resi-
dent of Bryan, re-
ceived his LL. B. de-
gree in 1931 from
the University of
Texas and an honor-
ary degree of Doc-
? = 9 ews from
inks thaca College, Itha-
Pipkin ca, New York, in
1955. Prior to establishing headquar-
ters in Washington, Pipkin was Vice-
President of the company’s Industrial
and Public Relations Department in
New York. Pipkin has received many
honors and awards, including the
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honor medal of Freedoms Foundation,
Inc., for “outstanding achievement in
bringing about a better understand-
ing of the American way of life.”
Another accolade has been added to
the many held by Francis C. Turner,
Assistant Federal Highway Adminis-
trator and Chief Engineer, Bureau of
Public Roads, Washington, D. C. He
has been awarded the Department of
Commerce Gold Medal for Exception-
al Service, the highest award of the
Department and the first that has
been given in the Bureau of Public
Roads for some five or six years.
30 J. A. Reynolds
Dreyfus and Son
Main at Ervay, Dallas
Internationally known for his sci-
entific ability to find oil and gas,
Michel T. Halbouty has applied a
similar factual approach to his en-
try into the banking business in San
Angelo. The million-dollar new home
of the First National Bank of San
Angelo, of which Halbouty is Board
Chairman, opened its doors early this
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. Bell live at
328 Texas Street in Sulphur Springs.
E. L. Boehm lives in Houston,
where he is employed by the Houston
Lighting and Power Company.
Walter C. McGee, Jr.
Box 2511
Houston 1
Walter R. Swank
704 E. Lawndale
Victoria
The Gulf Oil Cor-
poration has an-
nounced that O. O.
Mattiza, Chief Main-
tenance Analyst at
the Port Arthur re-
finery, has been
named Superintend-
ent of Engineering
for the Cedar Bayou
olefin plant. Mattiza,
HR a Registered Profes-
Mattiza sional Engineer, has
been employed at
Gulf’s Port Arthur refinery since he
joined the company in 1933.
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General Bernard Schriever,
Commander of the Air Force Sys-
tems Command, was awarded an
honorary degree of Doctor of Engi-
neering at the dedication of the Poly-
technic Institute of Brooklyn's $2
million graduate center,
Sam C. Smith
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Box 1000
Uvalde
J. U. Parker
P. O. Box 2180
Houston
Brig. General Graber Kidwell, Com-
manding General of the 90th Infantry
Division Artillery, USAR, will retire
from the U. S. Army Reserve in
June. During World War II, Kidwell
participated in the Central Europe,
Rhineland, and Ardennes Campaigns
and also served with U. S. forces in
Austria. He and his wife live at 4101
Greenbrier in Dallas, where he is a
partner in the Kidwell-Rogers Con-
struction Couipaiiy.
Brig. General John W. White is
stationed at Wright Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio.
Colonel John T. Massingale, Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, has retired from the
Army after 30 years of commissioned
service.
R. L. Elkins
702 Park Place
College Station
Harvey Cash, Vice-
President in Charge
of Foreign Opera-
tions—Eastern Hem-
isphere for Texaco,
has been elevated to
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Senior Vice-Pres-
ident in Charge of
Worldwide Produc-
ing Activities. Cash
has been with the oil
company since grad
uating, except or
Cash his tour of duty dur-
ing World War II. He served in the
Signal Corps, rising to the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel.
Allen P. Goforth of Jacksonville
has been installed as President of the
Cherokee County Board of Realtors.
Wayne Sigler, Manager of the
Federal Land Bank of Devine, is
President of the Texas Association
of Federal Land Bank Managers.
b) Vernon G. Young
34 Agri. Ext. Service
College Station
Arch W. Baucum,
who was named an
Executive Vice-Pres-
ident of Texaco last
fall, joined the com-
pany in 1934 and
held increasingly im-
portant positions in
the Domestic Produc-
ing Department. In
1954 he became As-
sistant to the Presi-
dent. He subsequent-
ly served as General
Manager of the Foreign Operations
Department and of the Foreign Pro-
ducing Department (Western Hemi-
sphere and West Africa) and as
Vice-President in Charge of the Do-
mestic Producing Department.
Jack Harding, consultant and au-
thor of “Retail Selling Is Fun,” has
been named Vice-President and Gen-
eral Manager of Huey & Philp Com-
pany in Dallas. He will be in charge
of sales and operations of both the
wholesale hardware and hotel supply
Baucum
Reunions
Nov. 9-10—1942 Class Re-
union (Dallas; A&M-
SMU football game)
Nov. 9-10—1947 Class Re-
union (Dallas; A&M-
SMU football game)
Nov. 16-17—1952 Class Re-
union (Houston; A&M-
Rice football game)
Nov. 17—1954 Class Get-
Together (Houston;
A&M-Rice football game)
divisions of the firm, as well as its
El Paso subsidiary. Harding was
formerly Manager of retail services
for the Southwestern Drug Corpora-
tion.
Stoney M. Stubbs of Dallas has
been elected Chairman of the Board
of the Frozen Food Express.
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According to a feature carried in a
recent issue of the Houston Post,
George Roesner, KPRC Farm Direc-
tor, ‘talks a language sweeter and
clearer than English to some of his
listeners. He talks pure dee Texas.”
William J. Reed, President of the
First National Bank in San Angelo,
has served on numerous community
agencies since going there in 1959
from Houston. He is a Director of
the Board of City Development, the
Community Council, and the Citizens
Progress Committee. He has also
served as President of the San Ange-
lo Improvement Association.
A 1935 Class Ring has been found
in Houston. A gem is mounted in it.
For information write the Associa-
tion of Former Students, College Sta-
tion, Texas.
Wm. G. Breazeaie
Dept. of Student Affairs
College Station
Col. Taylor Wilkins
) Commandant, Allen
Military Academy
Bryan
Winfield W., Mellroy is on an as-
signment with the U. S. Department
of State at Santiago, Chile. His mail-
ing address is USOM/Chile, Casilla
13120, Santiago, Chile.
Ing. Anastasio Garcia, Jr., lives in
Tampico, Mexico, where he is City
Engineer.
Col. Clarence W. Hahn is on duty
at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.
George W. Underwood, Consulting
Geologist with the Iranian govern-
ment, is located in Tehran, Iran.
W. A. “Doc” Ruhmann
) 18th Floor
1st City Natl. Bank Bldg.
Houston 2
Clyde T. Norman
“and his family live
in Atlanta, Georgia,
where he is District
Sales Manager for
Johns-Manville Sales
Corporation
Elmer Lee Sum-
mers, the Houston
Chronicle’s veteran
Agriculture Editor,
has been made Har-
ris County’s first
honorary member of
the Texas A&M College Class of 1937.
“We're awarding him this honor be-
cause of his worthy achievements
and his dedication to the community,
state, and country,” said Class Agent
Ruhmann in presenting Summers the
honorary membership card. In ex-
pressing his appreciation, Summers
said, in part: “As a newspaperman I
have been weighing words the great-
er part of my life to describe situa-
tions, effects, etc., but now  § find
myself completely unable to describe
the depth of my feetings, my emo-
tions, pride, and appreciation at be-
ing made an honorary member of
Texas A&M Class of 1937 . .. It is an
outstanding honor of which all mem-
bers of my family and all my friends
are proud with me. I will be proud
to be an Aggie supporter and I will
start with a small contribution to a
special fund which I understand you
have.”
Norman
John H. Bone
5030 Columbine Road
El Paso
Joe Potter is the
newly appointed
Manager of Services
of Gulf Oil Corpora-
Ohio,
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tion’s Toledo, O
refinery. He joined
Gulf at the Port
Arthur refinery in
1938, where he held
various positions In
the Accounting De-
: partment, being
P named Staff Ac-
otter count in 1955. Two
years later he made Section Head
of Payroll Benefits and Office Serv-
ices.
F. M. Knapp, prominent Houston
Chevrolet dealer, has been elected
President of the Houston Automo-
bile Dealers Association,
John Kuykendall is Livestock Man-
ager of the Houston Fat Stock Show.
Olin F. Sebesta, formerly Assistant
General Manager for Texaco in
Houston, is living in Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma, where he is Division Manager.
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