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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1939)
r 1 * SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1939 SUMMER EVENTS— (Continued from page 4) YARTZ WINS SCHOLARSHIP Johnny Yartz, 17-year-old Port Arthur, Texas boy, was the recip ient of the $300 A & M. scholar ship awarded annually by the Port Arthur A. & M. Club. This schol arship combines a $150 cash gift from the club with a student job at the college through which an ad ditional $150 may be earned. THE BATTALION PAGE 5 MUSEUM GETS $500 The Geological Society of Amer ica made a grant of $500 to C. J. Hesse, assistant curator of the A. & M. Museum. This money is to provide the services of an artist to make suitable drawings of the more important specimens in the famous Mark Francis collection of fossil vertebrates. Hal Moseley of the Department of Architecture is making the drawings. They Played for Second Summer Prom " ' V / PROMMOTION LIST- Captain (Continued from page Company “B” Huebel, John, Jr. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Connor, J, M., Jr. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Lewis, F. R. Company “C” Captain McChesney, D. R. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Todd, J. A. D. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. McMillan, W. CAVALRY REGIMENT Lieut. Col. Harris, T. D. Regimental Cmdr. Major Adams, C. B. Executive Officer Headquarters Troop Captain Lyons, J. F., Jr. Troop Commander 1st Lieutenant Black, H. J. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Tonkin, R. G. Machine Gun Troop Captain Burrus, M. M. Troop, Commander 1st Lieutenant Walker, J. W., Jr. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. McDonald, S. H. - First Squadron Headquarters Major Daniels, P. R. Squadron Commander Troop “A” Captain Early, D. C. Troop Commander 1st Lieutenant Pool, F. M. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Power, T. L. Troop “B” Captain Davidson, R. H., Jr. Troop Commander 1st Lieutenant Forbes, H. C. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Hubbard, K. W. • Second Squadron Headquarters Major Calvert, H, W. Squadron Commander Captain Hill, C. Executive Officer Troop “C” Captain Doran, J. B. Troop Commander 1st Lieutenant Patton, J. D. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Taylor, G. C. Troop “D” Captain Mostyn, H. B. Troop Commander 1st Lieutenant Lippard, J. H. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Purcell, G. B., Jr. ENGINEER REGIMENT Lieut. Col. Collins, J. W. Regimental Cmdr. First Battalion Headquarters Major Miller, B. J. Battalion Commander Company “A” Captain Burns, B. H. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Kirven, P. E. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Yarbrough, D. B. Company “B” Captain Cassin, W. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Doyle, C. R. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Martin, J. E. Company “C” Captain Harral, P. W. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant McKee, J. M. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Stanley, E. G. Second Battalion Headquarters Major Guy, W. T. Battalion Commander Captain Bolin, S. H. Executive Officer Company “D” Captain Cloud, B. B. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Keith, B. G. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. DeVilbiss, C. F. Company “E” Captain Smith, T. E. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Roddy, R. C. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Cook, B. Company “F” Captain Copeland, J. E. Company Commander 1st Lieutenant Mason, J. P. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Johnston, L. R. COAST ARTILLERY REQIMENT Lieut. Col- Dodson, J. L. Regimental Cmdr. Major Friedline, S. Executive Officer First Battalion Headquarters Major Hertner, H. E. Battalion Commander Captain Schneider, C. C. Executive Officer Battery “A” Captain Mayhew, I. Q. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Lawder, W. H. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Stovell, T. H. Battery “B” Captain Bornefeld, H. H. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Stechman, C. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Newman, A. R. Battery “C” Captain Parris, H. B. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Thomas, J. W. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Reynolds, G. H. Battery “D” Captain Slaton, W. T. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Grisenbeck, C. A. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Slicker, J. A. Second Battalion Headquarters Major Adams, L. J. Battalion Commander Captain Patrick, R. L. Executive Officer Battery “E” Captain Lefkofsky, L. J. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Hamilton, W. A. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Hill, T. D. Battery “F” Captain Kirkpatrick, C. V. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Gourley, Jack Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Godbold, R. Battery “G”’ Captain Biron, J. N. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Biggs, M. L. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Thompson, M. J. Battery “H” Captain Langdon, W. A. Battery Commander 1st Lieutenant Schmidt, W. A. Second in Command Act. 1st Sgt. Bullard, A. L. By order of Colonel MOORE: CLAUDE F 4 BURBACH Captain, F.A. Adjutant / RUSSELL STUDIES COOPERATIVES On July 26 Dan Russell left for a four-weeks’ tour of Nova Scotia to study the cooperative system there and see how its outstanding features might be applied to the A. & M. system. N. Y. A. FUNDS INCREASED Texas A. & M. will receive $10,- 173—an increase of thirty-five per cent over last year—in National Youth Administration funds used to create student part-time employ ment during the current long ses sion, according to an announcement made by J. C. Kellam, state admin istrator of N. Y. A. funds. The figure was considerably more than was expected and O. R. Simpson, Director of Student em ployment, pointed out that this would mean an additional hundred jobs. AGGIE HIGHWAYING CHAMPION Aggie Keyes Carson, founder of the National College and Univer sity Travel Club, set a hitch-hiking record in “thumbing” from Texas to New York City and then to San Francisco. He made it from the * V - , B E _ Johnny Sullivan and his popular Houston orchestra, which played for the Pasture Prom, m DENNY AND PERKINS BEST SPORTS STARS “Chick” Denny was judged the best all-round boy athlete during the first semester. Denny is a Field Artillery senior this year. Josephine Perkins, Rice Institute coed of Houston, was chosen as the best all-round sports girl. CORPS ORGANIZATION CHANGES MADE With the announcement that there will be no more day-student organizations, the Commandant’s Office revealed many changes in corps organization for the 1939-40 session. The changes included the manner in which day-students would be assimilated into the dor mitory organizations, the number of juniors and seniors in each or ganization, the separation of the various military staffs from or ganizations, and the addition of a third battalion to the Field Ar tillery Regiment. NEW EXCESS CUTS RULING Instead of reducing a student’s grade because of excess absences as has been the rule in the past, a new ruling provides that for ev ery two unexcused cuts above the credit value of the course in any one semester, one grade point will be deducted from that student’s grade point total. This was the Registrar’s answer to an apparent desire on the part of the student body for a change in the system. SECOND-SEMESTER ENROLLMENT The summer session’s second se mester witnessed an enrollment drop with a registration of 1,138, which included 43 women. FIREMEN’S TRAINING SCHOOL More than 550 firemen from 280 Texas towns and cities convened for the tenth annual Firemen’s Training School. The five-day meet began Monday, July 17, and saw the firemen study new develop ments in fire-fighting technique and equipment. LAST TWO SERIES PROGRAMS The summer entertainment series ended with two popular numbers following close to each other, was presented on Wednesday night, July 19, and the next day Loring Campbell, magician of note, pre sented his show in the Assembly Hall. SEABOARD WINS FIRST ROUND IN SOFTBALL Seaboard Life Insurance Com pany won the first round of the Twilight Softball League. The second-semester league, however, was composed of only six teams as the Ag Educators and Seaboard dropped out. SUMMER PRESS CLUB BANQUET The Summer Press Club ban quet was held in Sbisa Hall Friday night, July 21, with 40 persons in attendance The banquet was ad dressed by Col. Ike Ashburn and was attended by many of the col lege officials. VOCATIONAL AG COURSES August 9 to 12 witnessed the convening of 600 vocational agri cultural teachers on the campus for their annual short course. They were preceded by 650 Farm Se curity Administration agents who held their fifth annual conference here from July 31 to August 4. 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Sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Depart ment, the meeting was attended by 'over 100 men. • And so it went . . . Final Exam inations were taken and the 1939 summer session was officially over. A summer session that brought out many unprecedented happenings, the nearly 2,000 students who at tended it look back on it as the first A. & M. summer school which had a long-term atmosphere. A BIG COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT In business or play cooperation is import ant. The player contributes his help to the success" jji of the entire team. By combining your savings with the sav ings of thousands of others you profit from the largest movement known to mankind— — Life Insurance .. i A Public Trust SEABOARD Life Insurance Company FORD MUNNERLYN, ’26, Dist. Mgr. H. E. Burgess, ’29 Sid Loveless, ’38 O. B. 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