A- & M. CLUBS FORMED.
Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Austin,
Beaumont and Bryan Now
Have Clubs.
A. & M. Clubs, composed of
Alumni and other old students of the
A. & M. College, are steadily being
formed throughout the state. These
clubs are largely social in nature, and
are expected to keep up a strong loy
alty to this institution among ex-stu
dents. The clubs will also advertise
the college, and will make it easier
for an A. & M. graduate to secure a
position.
We reprint below some clippings
from the daily papers concerning the
clubs now formed.
Bryan: At the lastAlnmni meeting in
June it was decided to organize Agri-
culturial and Mechanical College
Clubs in such cities and towns where a
sufficent number of the old students
are residing. The executive comm ittee
was charged with the exertion of
this plan, and this compiittee has
made a ruling that it is npt necessary
for one to be a graduate bf the college
to be eligible for membership in these
clubs. They need only be ex-stu
dents. On this basis the first club
was organized a few days ago at Col
lege and is known as the Brazos
County A. and M. College Club.
The membership is about fifty and is
composed of Bryan and Campus resi
dents.
During the next two weeeks plans
have heen made to organize clubs at
Houston, Galveston, San Antonio,
Austin, Dallas, Waco, Palestine and
Beaumont. This will be the begin
ning, as other towns will be organized
as soon as conditions warrant. It is
believed these clubs will serve some
good purposes.
Houston: Forty-three alumni and
ex-students of the Texas Agricultural
and Mechanical College organized as
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege club at a meeting held in the
Elks’ club room last night. The
meeting was enthusiastic; there was
manifest the same old spirit that char
acterized college days, and it is pro
posed to boom the club until its
membership shall include every man,
young and old, in Harris county who
ever wore the cadet gray of the old
college.
The move toward the organization
that was effected last night was first
made on the preceding Friday.
Then a few of the college men me,
and formed a temporary organizationt
setting Friday night as the meeting
time and calling on all alumni and
ex-students to attend and take part in
the permanent organization. The
attendance last night was much bet
ter, though many college men were
detained and unable to be present.
But many of these indicated how heart
ily they are in sympathy with the
movement by sending in their names
and asking that they be enrolled as
charter members.
H. M. Rollins of the class of ’97
was elected president. No other
officers were elected, for the constitu
tion perscribing the various offices
that the club is to have, has not yet
been accepted or even prepared. A
committee, consisting of Captain F.
A. Reichardt. H. L. Hudson and
Flint McGregor, was appointed last
night to prepare a constitution and
by-laws and present it to the club for
its approval next Friday night.
This is as far as the organization has
proceeded. It is impossible to go
any futher until a constitution is in
effect. But this has not limited the
enthusiasm and interest of the boys.
From veterans of the class of ’78 to
the young grads of the class of ’06
they are every one heartily and sin
cerely behind the organization. They
believe in “college,” believe in it with
all the deep-seated devotion that in
undergraduate days was expressed by
the intensity with which they marched
out on a “field of battle,” willing to
root or to fight as the provocation
might arise, for the football team and
for the honor and prestige of “alma
mater.
Beaumont: A constitution and by
laws was adopted and officers elected
at a meeting held last everting of the
Agricultural and Mechanical club of
this city. The object ok the club is
to foster and promote the tie that
binds the alumni to each other and to
assist the members i,h securing posi
tions. Another puij^ose is to secure
an endowment to Assist worthy and
needy students to complete their
courses. Regular meetings of the
club are to be held on the first Mon
day night/in each month. The fol-
lowihg.officers were elected: C* L.
Scherer, captain; H. A. Gribon, first
lieutenant; S. T. Brogdon, adjutant;
W. W. Krug, officer of the day; L.
J. Kopke, chaplain.
San Antonio: Local ex-students
and members of the alumni of the A.
& M. College met last night in the
Alamo Bank Building and formed a
club for social and educational pur
poses. The club was temporarily
organized by Profs. Potts and Mar
shall, both from the college.
The organization was completed by
the election of officers as follows: C.
C. Todd, president; Judge A. W.
Seelingson, vice president; E. J.
Atlgelt, secretary; G. Giesecke, treas
urer; executive committee, C. C.
Todd, E. J. Altgelt, W. A. Wurz-
bach, R. B. Green, E. C. Jonas, C.
C. Foutrel, I. C. Baker, P. H. Shook
and Fritz Groos.
The club will hold regular meet
ings and will some time in the imme
diate future have a big banquet.
Austin: At a meeting which was
held last night in the parlors of the
Driskill hotel for the purpose of or
ganizing an Agricultural and Me
chanical College Club, a temporary
organization was effected. Fred C.
von Rosenberg was elected president
and J. H. Freeman secretary. A num
ber of former cadets from the Agri
cultural and Mechanical college were
present and several addresses were
made. Those who attended were in
favor of pushing the matter to a per
manent organization and it was de
cided to hold another meeting in Fred
C. von Rosenberg’s office next Thurs
day night.
The following address was deliver
ed to the meeting by Professor R. J.
Potts of the Agricultural and Me
chanical college:
“In view of the fact that the Agri
cultural and Mechanical college is
the only pure technical school in the
state, and in view of the further fact
that Texas is one wide field of op
portunity waiting for industrial devel
opment, it is not at all strange that
the graduates of this college are so
actively in demand. The crying need
of the hour is for men with a technical
education; men who, in their training,
have so blended the theoretical with
the practical as to be able at once to
transmute the abstract findings of the
scientist into improved conditions on
the farm, greater economy in business
or better efficiency in the machinery
of our great industrial enterprises. It
is of course, particularly gratifying to
the older graduates of the college to
know that, at the present time, the
actual demand for the service of Agri-
| cultural and Mechanical men is per-
I haps stronger than that for the grad-
| uates of any other college in the
j country.
“There are now nearly 600 grad-
I uates of the college, and the number
! of ex-cadets is, of course, very large.
, These all feel a very active interest in
the wellfare of the college and it is
the purpose of these clubs to enable
them to express this interest in some
practical, substantial way.
“The clubs will be largely social
and will enable the Agricultural and
Mechanical men in any city to know
each other and keep up old associa
tions.
“They will be centers for the dis
tribution of information to the benefit
of those who have boys to educate,
pointing out to them the advantages
offered by the Agricultural and Mech
anical college.
“They will also diffuse information
to the general public in regard to the
work of the college and of its needs
and thus educate the people and their
representatives up to a liberal support
of so valuable an institution.
“They can assist in the distribution
of the new graduates to the best ad
vantages, enabling the old men to get
needed assistants from among the
youngsters ond the young men to land
in the most acceptable positions.
“They will enable the authorities of
the college to keep track of ex-cadets
as well as graduates and enlist them
all in any movement for the good of
the institution.”
At the conclusion of the meeting a
resolution was adopted thanking the
management of the Driskill hotel for
the use of their parlors.
Dallas: Alumni of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College organized a
local association last night, electing
t he following officers: B. C. Pittuck,
president; Tom Griffiths, vice presi
dent; W. E. Beilharz, secretary and
treasurer; H. Moseley, sergeant at
arms.
With H, E. Elrod acting as tem
porary chairman, the meeting was
called to order in the Comercial Club
rooms. Short talks were made by
Messrs. Griffiths, Hull, Robertson,
Moseley-, Harry and Woodall, who
spoke of what the purpose of the or
ganization should be. While the
alumni will hold social sessions, it is
proposed that one of the primary ob
jects shall be to aid in securing legis
lation favorable to the work of the
Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege.
The following committee on organ
ization was appointed: J. M. Harry,
Hal Moseley, H. Heidelberg and
Frank Gray, with President Pittuck
ex-officio chairman.
After a resolution had been passed
thanking the News for courtesies ex
tended, adjournment was taken until
next Wednesday night. i
The following were present: B. 1
Hull, J. T. Wyse, J. W. Carter, H.
Woodall, E. Day, Tom Griffiths, H. |
E. Elrod, W\ E. Beilharz, J. Harry, j
D. K. Robertson, F. Vinther, S. E. |
Gillespie, J. C. Manning, Hal Mose
ley, Frank Gray, H. Heidelberg, A.
W. Curry, W. W. Lillard, J. E.
Pirie, T. B. Hoffer and E. D. Dun
can.
ESSAY ON GIRLS.
“Girls are sisters of boys and has
long hare and wares dresses and pow
der. The fust girl wuz called Christ
mas Eve though I do not see why.
Most every family has one girl, and
some of ’em that is in hard luck has
two or three. We have a girl in ourn
who is my sister. Girls can grow
older and get younger. My sister
has been twenty-five for three years
and some day we will be twins. Girls
play planner and talk about each
other. Fat girls want to be thin and
thin girls want to be fat and all of
them want to marry doods. Why
the Lord made girls nobody noes,
but think it it was to go to church
and eat ice cream. They is three
kinds of girls—brunet girls and blond
girls and them that has got money.
Girls is afraid of mice and bugs,
which makes it fun to put them down
their back.”—Ex.
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