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“Chic” Faires
D. H. TEAM
Faires is mig'hty likeable! He’s a
good sport; and A-l prof, and a real
man. That’s a lot to say for any
one, especially a prof, but most of
those who have FINISHED a course
under him will coi'roborate the state
ment. He is hard and firm, and you
work and dig and burn the midnight
oil or you don’t get by, and you cuss
him and call him ‘chick’ but he don’t
mind, he trades you smiles for jeers
and piles on more work and as he
faces you each day, firmer and hard
er, you respect him more for it,
and know him as a real man. Later,
when the course is over and you
have laid away that C or B, you
realize that you KNOW that partic
ular subject, and that the next one
up the ladder will be a whole lot
easier because of it, and you wake
up to the fact that it was “Chic”
that made you learn all about it
and you like him for it and realize
his worth as an A-l professor. Soon
you come to learn that Faires doesn’t
play favorites, and is grand master
at forgetting little unpleasant things,
and that he chalks up for you, the
honest grade you’ve earned; you
learn then that he’s ’ a true
sport. Wherever you meet him he’s
the same character. In his office, on
the campus, at the tennis court,
you feel at ease and sense that he
enjoys your company.
V. M. Faires has developed these
qualities by assimilating a broad edu-
cat : on and has polished them through
contact and travel. He took his prep
work at Georgia Tech., then enjoyed
two years life in the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis before he
realized that he wasn’t cut out for
even a Rear Admiral, so he “went
west” and earned a B. S. and M. E.
at Colorado. Then he traveled a lot
and worked on interesting jobs, (why
only last summer he was the big
propeller in an airplane factory).
In ’25 he joined A. and M. as assist
ant professor in the M. E. Depart
ment—and he like it, so he stayed.
Now he is associate professor and
likes Aggieland even better, and as
this feeling is mutual we will have
a friend in Fairies for a good long
time to come.
Captain Richards
Captain Richards, DDL, Ft. Bragg,
is our new Artillery Officer and
Equitation Instructor. He is the type
of man one likes at first sight;
small but extremely vital, hard-boil
ed and yet friendly. He has been
in the Army for twenty years, and
has worked his way up from a buck
private, so he knows and understands
both sides. Captain Richards said,
“I didn’t really know whether or
not I would like this assignment
but now I wouldn’t trade it for a
Senator’s chair. My friends in the
North and East predicted A. and M.
as a place where I would enjoy my
work, and it has been more than
true.”
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to win an individual medal, placing
second in the Jersey contest to cap
ture a silver medal. He also placed
in the Guernsey contest, taking ninth
place. The other members of the team
who competed were Alfred Crocker,
Center; L. C. Breazeale, Crockett.
J. W. Richards, Waco, was alter
nate.
Twenty-eight teams, one of which
was from Canada and the others
from leading colleges of the United
States, took part in the contest, mak
ing a total of 84 men in the individ
ual contests. University of Missouri
took first place in the contest with
University of Tennessee second.
AGGIES PARTICIPATE
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is this man, and he states in no
uncertain terms that he came to A.
and M. to take advantage of the
technical value that it holds forth
to the man whose interests lie in
technical fields. Besides Evans, the
College is honored by having on its
rolls three other men who were en
tered in the State contest, after
having been selected from their res
pective high schools. These men are:
Fish Martin Luderman, of Marysville;
Fish T. D. Owens of Bonham, and
Fish Miller.
William Thurman Evans is the
seventeen year-old son of Mrs. W. T.
Evans, of Corsicana. It was here
that he was born and attended high
school. He graduated in June, 1929,
and now that the following fall has
rolled around, we are glad to note
that it has ushered him in as Fish
Evans, Agricultural and Mevhanical
College of Texas, Class of ’33.
Sunday evening in Dallas, Evans
appeared in a short radio talk over
Station WFAA, and Monday noon at
the meeting of the Dallas Electric
Club, he was presented with a de
luxe radio set, the gift of Thomas A.
Edison. The set was presented by
Norman R. Crozier, superintendent
of the Dallas public schools, and
bears a gold plate with Evans’ name
on it.
The contest, as conceived by Mr.
Edison, was for the purpose of se
lecting the outstanding American
boy, and to award to this boy a four-
year scholarship with all expenses
to any American technical school. Be-
his toes . . .
ALERT. Fit in mind and body,
his enthusiasm kept at the peak by
the stimulating criticism of the coach.
Roberts, ’28, after wrestling
with his job for a year, is finding
that development work in tele
phone manufacture provides the
same sort of inspiration to accom
plish more, and to do things better.
No dummy tackling either, but real
plays against man-sized difficulties,
matching his wits with problems
that almost refuse to be solved,
attaining his goal with the help of
his supervisor — coach and faculty
adviser rolled into one.
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