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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 3, 1933)
BASEMENT ir XXXII nmencement weeklPro^m f|[|5j s[NiOf| Ceremonies Planned For Mother’s Day ictivities Have Been lompleted; |j£ ” lOp Haccalui nwi Final Ball laureate Sermon, Junior Banquet, and lone Activities I M Published Weekly By The Students of The A. A M. ( ollege of Texas "COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. NAY 3. 1933. t .f.. NUMBER 31 rr Boaz Will Deliver Address Acth’itiea thi t are to take place on the coname icctnent week pro* gram have be4n worked out and the completed program haf been releaned by tl e comtnittee com posed of Dr. E. P. Humbert, chair- nutfi. Lieutoaan; Colonel A. K. Em ery, aad Dr. S. R. Gammon, of the faulty, and L. W. Storms, Jr., of Sa$ Antonio, i tudent member of tho committee. ffollowiag is the order of the week’s actiritiei: May 2b S:30 a. m.—P trade honoring “T" . me* aad the awarding oPT” med- and intrmn ural medals. Also the awarding o' the Military Rib bon to the men bers of the college rifle and pistol teams. IQ:3# a. m.— Baccalaureate Ser- Bishop H. A. Boaz of the Methodist Epi nopal Church of WEDDING ANNOUNCED 4:30 p. m.—Outdoor concert by the A and M Bi nd. Thursdi y, June 1 > 7:00 p. m.—J inior Banquet. 9:00 p. nv.—Junior Promenade. { Friday, June 2 4:00 p. m.— Jompetitive Drill followed by Exhibition Drill by Voluntnen. 6:00 p. m.—Fermal Presentation of Reserve Con missions by Brig adier General Cl larles R. Howland, Commanding the Third Brigade, Fort Sam Houstim, Texas. ^ 8:00 p. m.—fyesident and Mrs. Walton at hoifie informally to members of the Senior Class and their guests, snti members of the faa|lty i amf^heit families, p. nv—Ifinal Fall. Sakardur, June 3 9:00 a. m.—Commencement Pro- casgiondl. 9:15 a. tbrnmencenient Ex ercises. Address pay Dr. H. Y. Ben edict, President uf Texas Univer sity, Aiistin, Telcas. Vple<$ctory by| Cadet Lieutenant Colpnel H. W. Perkins. Conferring of Idegrees. lt:30 p. m.—(A-aduating Review. , ’ I \ -4-4 r- > School Seniors 1 l^esent Class Play Mia* Leila Law Ihivia and Trueman l). Craddock, and Mbs Marie Elisabeth Wehb and l>ouisr W. Storms, Jr, were married in a doable wedding <*r«mon> in l.akc Charles. Leuisiana. bat Sun- Mrs. OrHdd.K^ is the daughter qf W. C. Davis of Bryan, iudge of the $«th Dis trict Court aad Mrs, Storm» in the daughter of Mrs. R. S. Webb. JT, of Bryan. Craddock b n senior stu dent in agriculture, a first lieutenant in Troop T** Cav alry. and h member of the Rons Votuliteers. Storms is a senior stsdent in petroleum prsdartimi isoftarrrbg. cap tain on the Cavalry Sqaadron Staff, and was king of the Rons Volugteer court at the annual festiiitie* held on the campus April 11-23. Mr. sad Mrs Storms will return Thur-^ai from a short visit in Saw Aa4oak> with the groom's parents. 'At the tdae of going to press the Battalion has been unable to terure any infor mation regarding any fntare plans of either of the cou ples. STAGED MAY I? Will Honor Senior With Banquet for and Dates. | Senior* will inaugurate a prece dent in cam pun social affairs when they h<fld their Senior Prom. Fri day. May 12. from 9 p. m. until 2 a. m, for members of the class of '33 gnd members of all preced ing chisses. Members of these cbsaes with their dates are invit ed to dttend a banquet preceding which will be given by e Mess Hall in honor of r class. The banquet will mptly at 7:00 p. m, the Serenaders furnishing mu he banquet and the Aggie playing for the CHORAL CLUB OFFICERS ION the Col the sen! begin Gapipui sic for land Orchestra dance. ; Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the coll+ge. and Dr. Daniel Russell, head of the department of rural sOfiolonr, will speak at the ban quet. 1’nffugm for the dance wril) be slacks prith white shirts, all un- cbssifigd *33 men being author ised to prear i and y Above are Miss Feawillow Hpltom and Miss Geraldine Slaughter, business manage) and accompanist, respectively, ef the Texas Univer sity Girls’ Glee Club who will pregent s two-hour Concert in th# Assem bly Hall here Friday night. May at 7 o'clock. A & M College Students, Officials, And Faculty Members To Observe May 14 As Mother-father Day , 4.. slacks to the banquet dai^ce. HOR ANNOUNCES BOOK TO BE IBUTED SOON EDI DIB A? Copy In In Ham • er and Moat of Gont T*» I’resH. Hands of Print- Longhorn Annual Oratorical Contest To He Held In Assembly Hall Thursday Evening. All cbpy for the Longhorn has been tufned in, and most of it has ' gvne to press, B. M. Gottlieb. Oor- 'sirans, editor of the 19S3 annual ; aagouneed today. Though no defi nite date can be set for distribu ting the Longhorn, if present plans ge thrtftigh the copies should ar rive by May 20. An announcement will soon be made rpmeming the method that will be used in distributing copies i to the jtudents, Gottlieb said. Printing Started On Guerdrum Is Given Prize For Recort In Hearst Match A and M Rifle Team Places Fourth In Nattaial. Hearsf Match. Placing second in the West sec* tion and fifth in the United States^ T. J. Guerdrum, **B" Company Em gineers, of San Anbeiio. has com tributed more points > to the scor< of the A and M Rifle Team in Cattlemen’s Ball Scheduled For May Fifth Aggieland Orchestra Will Play for Saddle and Sir loin- kream and Kow klub Dance On Friday, jMay 5, the ^members of the Saddle and Sirloii| ('lob in conjunction with the Keeam and Kow Klub will entertain 4rith their nual ('sttlevnen’s Ball in the SIMMER CAMP Contrary to the rumors that there < will be no sum mer camp this summer, Lieu tenant Colonel A. R. Emery announced today that pre parations for the annual for ty-two day R. O. T. C. camp held each summer are being made without any altera tions. Colonel Emery also stated that to date he had not re ceived any word from the Eighth Corps Area Com mander to the effect that there would not be any camp, and that he believed the sum mer camp would be held at it has in the past. Programs Honoring Visitors Will Be Held Saturday Night and Sunday. A & AA COLLEGE REPRESENTED AT as Mother's and Dad- s Day, Sikndad, May 14, will bo honored as Such by the students, faculty mcenbefs, and officers of the college. A Special program for the week-ttid has been arranged for the beaefit. of parents, sweet hearts, and relatives of the student. The program ‘.to be foUowed Sat urday will rdnsjst of the following events: a reception, at the home of the President of the college at 7:30 p. m., a picture show at the as sembly hall at 8:30 and 8:80 p. m., and a corps dartre in the mesa hall from 9 until 12'p- m. On Sunday, the program for the day will be qpened with the tradi tional ceremony.of pinning of flow ers on cadets by youtifc ladies chosen by commanders of the or ganizations. Following this cere mony, a honvocation Will be held in (iuion hafll at 10:30 a. m., with ser vices honoring the mothers and fathers. As guests of the cadets, the visitors will be served lunch in the mess t^all at 12:t5 a. m. Dor mitories will be opened for inspec tion by the Visitors at 1:30 p. m. and will reraaih open for two hours. The H -Ss Volunteers will prenent an exhibition drill on the p. m., and this competition than any other mem| Mess Hall A#»ex, according to H. A an«' ill took foqrtfc ‘ place the Hearst Trophy Match in th4 West Section and ninth in the Mihh Frances Stewart. Escort ed By Homer Hayea. Sweetheart of A and M. United Statae; competing against 14 states in the West section an«i against 174 teams id th# United States. The A and M score would have placed second lr MOipetitiort with either the East *r South sec tions. The team won second plant ,i in in this section of the National In-i men {. A. Fitzhugh, president of the for- ''f mer group, ftaur* for dadring will be from nine \il two w-itH the mu sic for the ortasion being furnish ed by the Agjyieland Orchestra. HoMing* its plm-c as ofie of the foremost events on the *hcial cal endar of the"’college, the Cattle men's Ball this year promises to exceed those <tf the past from the point of brilliance and entertain- Invitations Monday in Ageoraing to rs. H. C. Spencer, Knglid jteaeher 11 the Consolidated High School, th * senior class of the A 4 n< l M ( < nsolidated School ka t j n(f team. Tie declamations will present *'W1 io Wouldn’t Be sUrt eJ(rht iviock. Craxy” as their «snior play Thurs- FlVt . (X)ntPHU (Rt« who have been day night. May 1, in the Assem- f or and the sui>- kljMbly PV>X j jectg upon which they will apeak The play is a c imedy with Doro- D L Tisit^cr, GarUnd, “Aec- thy He«%r«-s and T. O. Walton. Jr., ,, . V as the leading c) aracters. j (Continued on Page 4) Ranking orators of the student body, chosen irsprelimintry tryouts held recently, will compete for the annual P. L* Dowhs oratorical award at the Apsepilily Hall Thurs- graduation exercises was received day evening, tecordlng to C. 0. last weik. and after it was check- Spriggs, plipfftior of public speak-1 «n1 with the files of the registrar’s tercollegiate Match. Guerdrum’s score of 3X8 in-Utei intercollegiate dual matches was! only beaten by two of 1410 men.i He had no previous experience, and! as a result of his' showing I*n»of on the printed matter to apjiear in the invitations to the greatest improvement during the season, the reward of a watch i H - i, i chain was presented him by Lieu ing and coach bf the A and M de- (office, if was returned to the manU- u , narit j g Reierson. coach of the A and M Rifle Tteam. Elaborate decorations depicting Spanish scene* ami adobir houses are being installed undef the di rection of S. C. P. Vos pgr of the College architdrt’s office -with the Homer Hayes of Mount Plea sant. first lieutenant in Company “H” Infantry, acted as escort to Mias Frances Stewart, the sweet heart of A and 'M, at the annual University of Texas Round-up held in Austin last week. Miss Stewart, whose home is in Pittsburg, Texas, is a student in the University. Both Miss Stewart and Hayes, together with the sweethearts of the othei - conference schools and their escorts, were elaborately re ceived and extensively entertained during their connection with the round-up activities. drill field at 3 drill will be fol Is tion for the that organ:za| ture of the dpyji a concert by 4:30 p. m. On the cation servic Hall, Sunday lowing: pi Mr. R. J Dun invocation by Jackson, pas church; greet Dr. T. O. Wa Gle« Club wi ecting; add(v AI Handler, iwed by competi- 11 led medal for The closing fca lm will be ' Aggie Band at the; assistance of R. L. Striping. The entire personnel of‘the Uni versity of Tea., Girls’ (flee Ulub Ptepa nual ho rat rse lions H show rtment Completes or Tenth Annual Horse To Be Held May Twentieth j fur the tenth an-*of a two or foi|r wheeled vehicle; factureH of the invitations, accord ing to Ri E. OVonnell. chairman of the invgation committee. ig was begun last Mon- the invitations should ar rive on (the campus and be ready ution in two more weeks, added. to Rt E. O’Co invRation ct , PrintiL day and| t rive on itl for distijib 0 ( onnell Elected Head illei Club for School Year year by i the Coll ige Military De partment, have tx pn completed and will be held Sa urday, May 20, •n the drill field. according to Ma- sponsored each jor J. P. Wheeler Cavalry. Major Wheeler is chairman of the committee v hich consists of Captain C. S. Rm hards. Field Ar tillery, gfouno* ai id arrangements; Firak lieutenant L. R. Nachman, Infaetry, entries; larcos, •pferkf? Binns, judged oa manner of going at walk or trot. Class 11—Children’s Three Gait- ed—Open te any mount and any child not over fifteen years old; to show walk, troUand canter. Class III—Three Gaited Sadd e Horses—Open to any cadet per troop, battery, ajuadron, battalion, and regimental ktaff; to show walk, trot, and gallop. United States First Lieutenant Government mobnU. Cavalry, Cavalry Class IV—Mounted Tug of War First Lieuten- —Open to one team each of eight Field Artillery, sophomore cadets from the Cavalry illery te tms and entries; Squadron and Field Artillery Reg- Lieut >nant T. B. Ket- iment. C .R.C„ publicity. Class V—Equipment Race—Open horse show have tp one cadet from each battery and initelj decided, but arill the sa)M as last year’s uded Exhibition—Fine Har to any exhibitor troop. Conditions: contestants to start at scratch, assemble equip ment, harness, atic race across line; (Cofitinued on Page 3) Lev* Gross, Waco, was elected president of the Hillel club for the school Wear 1933-'34 at a meeting of the cljib held in the Asbury room of [the tbrary last Sunday night Other officers elected at this meeting weed Harry Schrieber. Gatwams, viep^rMUnA -i Abe Moaemah, Greenville, secretary. Alexander, La Grange. meeting, plans for a pic- held Sunday, Mhy 6 were Rifle team letters will be award ed to the following twelve men who made the highest scores during the year. According to Lieutenant Reierson. the list is in the order of the highest scores for the sea son, with the total number of let ters received following each name: T J. Guerdrum, 1st; (1. R. Rhine. 4th; R. Huffaker, 1st; G. H. Sam uels, 2nd; W. S. Sinclair, 2nd; C. A. Toach, 1st; K. Tucker, 1st; W. G. Allen, 4th; O. A. Seward, 1st; J. A. Frans, 1st; 0. J. Anderson, 1st; and j. A- McDavitt, 3rd.« Meml Hoi ?rs of Vet Club Annual Picnic of the Veterinary Mad- held their annual bar- over-night picnic on the River last week-end. The gioup left College in trucks Sa turds] at noon and returned Sunday afternoon, according to W. A. Wilson. McKinney, president of the clubl R. A. Goodman, instruc tor in th* school of veterinary med icine ardompanied the group. “B” Battery Handball Team Wins Doubles Championship Agr&in J. M. Mitchell and H. C. Stefani both of Galveston, “B" Battery Ar tillery, won the intramural hand ball doubles championship last week for the third consecutive time by defeating W. D. Sorrels, Gil mer. and L. A. Shone. El Paso, by scores of 21-3 and 21-16. Not only have Stefani and Mit chell won the doubles championship for the last three years but they have also figured largely in the team won championships by their organixation. during the same pe riod. Mitchell has added two years of individual championships to his handball laurels and will play Ste fani in the near future to deter mine the individual championahip for this year. j. (Continopd on Page: 4> ' i . *>1. i— | Annual Military Inspection Will Be HeldMay8-10 l ] Inspection Wil Include a Re view of the Cadet Corps Tuesday Morning. Inspection of the military de partment of A and M by the board of inspectors of the Eighth Corps Area will begin Monday. May 8, and extend through Wednesday, May 10. The inspection will include the visiting of theory classes, the in spection of facilities, general and unit administration, and a review of the corps between 11:00 and 12 a. m. Tuesday. Colonel W. A. Caatle. Eighth Corps Area R. O. T. cJ officer, will be in charge of the inspection The different R. O. T. C. uQits here will be inspected by aony of ficers from the same organiza tion*. These officers inclpde Col onel Daniel D. Tompkins, Cavalry; Major Henry B. Holmes. J^n Coast Artillery; Major Herbert $. Clark- it. Field Artillery; Captain Clay Anderson, Engineers; Captain Howard S. Paddock, Signal Corps; and Captain Steward D. Harvey, lifaatvj. T- - • Gold Medals Will Be Awarded Members of College Debate Team from the Glais, San A 0. Lyons, Spnj the fathers T Aranxa* Pass Reverend Jic m Ter the ronvo- t 10:30 in Guion rning, are the tol- e|by the band witf» reeling; doxology; eread Robert L. of the Methodist' to the visitors by rendition by the R. K. Beach dir- the mothers by jG^lveston; address by Mrs. J. M. io; a song by A. tonio; address to J[, W. Wells, of benediction by Team for Next Year XlUT Six gold medals to be awarded f • A. TOSob ( hoSeil To for meritorious work in debate Captain Aggie Rifle have been received and will be pre sented to members of the debate team sometime this week, George Summey, head of the English de partment, announced today. This year D. L. Tisinger, Gar land; I. Al Handler, Galveston; and J. E. Gaston, Henderson, will have the numeral ’33 added to their medals. Tisinger and Handler were awarded their medals last ycdr and Gaston received his in 1931. Those who arill receive medals for this year areUW. 0. Vela, Laredo; D. T. Lusk. Scotia; G. E. Wyse, Pal estine; J. W. Wells, Aransas Pass; R. B. Jenkins, DeLeon; and H. N. Irvine, Ft. Worth. M.E. Shop Plans Open House for Visitors On Saturday, May 13 Tentative plans for an open house in the Mechanical Engineer ing Shops on the night of May 13 for the benefit of the visitors ex pected on the campus for the Mother’s And Dad’s Day program were discussed at the meeting of the student chapter of the Amer ican Society of the Mechanical Engineers in the Mechanical En gineering Building last Thursday night These plans are the forerunner of what is hoped will be a campus wide exhibition similar to those of the “Engineering Days” of the past €. A. Touch, Mpsquite, “H” Com pany Infantry, vra* elected cap tain of the' Rifle Team for next year at a sieetjng la*t night of the lettermen ef this year. He arill succeed co-raptalrt* G. H. Rhine. San Antonio, ahd W. G. Allen, Dal- Ml i/; Ml; A committee was appointed to make arrangements for the annual Rifle Team banquet to be held in the next few We^ks for all mem bers who halve fired op the team this year. The jtoUmittee will also* select sweaters for the 12 letter men of this iy^hil- FIRST GAME HOUSTON -M- . A and M’sjfifst water-polo game in the new swikuping pool, will be played against the Houston Swim ming Chib af 8c3Q Saturday Tright, ml Nachman, according to coach of . n4i| will be c man: co-ca Urockett and J mont. New aad M team the following D. Rowder, Ft. Moeller, Larch- T. J. Uhr and G. Page t| J TTjL Ness 1 r i Ml