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VOL. 39
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COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1940
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COHON BALL, PAGEANT TAKE PLACE TOMORROW
Cotton Royalty To
Rule At Aggieland
Royal Court of 7 Maids of Honor
And 76 Duchesses To Occupy Stage
The most glamorous event of the entire social season at Aggieland
■will take place tomorrow night when the Agronomy Society presents
the Ninth Annual Cotton Pageant, Style Show, and Ball.
With mythical Ole King Cotton ruling firmly over all campus
festivities of the weekend cadet Wesley Seay will take over the ruling
throne and represent His Majesty when he is crowned King of Cotton
by the Honorable Oscar Johnson,-f —
Club’s Social Head
President of the National Cotton
Council of America. Ruling beside
King Seay will be his queen, Mamie
Tramonte, popular student from
the Texas State College for Women.
Along with the ruling royalty
will be the Royal Court of seven
maids of honor, selected at T. S. C.
W., and 76 duchesses selected by
various organizations throughout
the state.
Royal Court for the pageant will
include the following, besides the
King and Queen:
Queen’s maids-in-waiting and es
corts—Christine Maddox, Abilene
and Cadet Ray Stephenson; Eliza
beth Gene Austin, Abilene, and J.
W. Bailey; Ann Tarry, Wichita
Falls, and P. B. Bennett; Kathryn
Day, Justin, and Joe Boren; Mar
garet Ramsey, Port Arthur, and
Johnny Rice; Mary Elizabeth Hugh-
ston, Crowell, and J. Y. Alexander;
Alice Keck, Dallas, and Oscar Law
rence.
Train bearers—William Burkett,
Oklahoma City, and Charles Aston,
Dallas, both cadets of Allen Acad
emy, Bryan.
Duchesses and escorts, drawn
from the A. & M. cadet corps, and
the organizations represented—
Frances V. Long, Houston, and Bob
Stone, Anderson, Clayton & Co.;
Maurine Cross, Houston, and Don
Parker, Farm Credit Administra
tion; Scottie Womack, Ennis, and
J. D. Eiland, Department of Agri
culture; Elwyn Espy, Fort Worth,
and Keith Hubbard, Texas Christ
ian University; Elizabeth Potter,
Houston, and Jack Roach Jr., Rice
Institute; Juanita Rushing, Dallas,
and J. T. Anderson, Southern
Methodist University; Billy Dan
iel, Waco, and Joe Doran, Baylor
University; Virginia Ford, Austin,
and Tommy Richards, University
of Texas; Nancy Davis, Dallas, and
Jack Smithers, Hockaday Junior
College.
(Continued on page 4)
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SENIORS ELECT
VALEDICTORIAN .
WEDNESDAY
Only Classified Seniors
To Be Eligible To Vote
The valedictorian of the graduat
ing class of ’40 will be elected, as
is traditional, by vote of classified
seniors, Wednesday, April 24, in
the rotunda of the Academic Build
ing. The polls will be open at 8:00
a. m. and close at 5:30 p. m. A
senior ring or other proof that the
voter is a classified senior will be
necessary to vote in the election.
The ballots will be counted Wed
nesday night by a committee of
seniors, and results will be an
nounced in Friday’s Battalion.
A list of the ten highest grad
uating seniors, as certified by the
Registrar, follows in order
with their courses: H. A.
Jones, Electrical Engineering; D.
B. Varner, Agricultural Adminis
tration; A. T. Hingle, Chemical
Engineering; H. H. Liebhofsky,
Liberal Arts; T. P. Higgins, Elec
trical Engineering; D. F. Herzing,
Electrical Engineering; Roy Cald
well, Liberal Arts; F. C. Brown,
Chemical Engineering; C. L. Mason,
Agriculture; W. T. Guy, Mechan
ical Engineering.
It is hoped that this method of
having the valedictorian election
at the same time as the runoff of
the junior election will be better
than the past-method of running
the ballots in The Battalion. Last
year only 72 votes were cast in the
election of the graduating senior
for this office, but it is believed
that this method will bring a truly
representative vote.
Harry Forbes, captain of B
Cavalry, social secretary of the
Agronomy Society and its Cotton
Ball.
Business Manager
Byron Bing, B Infantry senior,
business manager for the Agron
omy Society and the cotton festiv
ities.
DISTINGUISHED
STUDENT BAR’S
DESIGN CHANGED
With the approval of Col. George
F. Moore the Scholarship Honor
Society has announced a change
in the design of the distinguished
student’s bar. The new bar will be
two inches long, about twice as
long as the one now being used,
and will be divided into three sect
ions with maroon on each end and
white in the center.
The rules concerning the wear
ing of the new distinguished bar
will be the same as they have
formerly been except that they will
be more stringently enforced. Be
fore a student will have the prive-
lege of wearing one he must first
have made a grade-point average
of at least 2.25 with no grade under
“C” for one semester. For each
succeeding semester that the stu
dent is distinguished he will be al
lowed to add one star.
The Exchange Store will have
the bars for sale in about two
weeks and will also have a list
from the Registrar’s Office of all
students who have obtained the
distinguished rating. No one will
be allowed to purchase a bar or
star unless his name is on this
list. In any case that a bar is lost
permission to procure another one
must be received through the Reg
istrar’s Office. Those who wish to
continue to wear the old bar may
do so.
A. & M. COTTON PAGEANT QUEEN AND MAIDS
Elaborate Show To
Entertain Guests
Oscar Johnson To Crown King;
Sheridan Unable To Attend Pageant
The greatest cotton show in the South will open at 8:00 o’clock
Friday night with an introductory address by Dean Kyle of the School
of Agriculture. Dean Kyle will introduce Oscar M. Johnson, President
of the National Cotton Council of America, who will crown Wesley
Seay as King Cotton. After the presentation of the Royal Court, King
Seay will then perform the ceremony of crowning his queen, Miss
Mamie Tramonte, of Galveston.
4- In a telegram received by Har-
Pageanl Director
Miss Mamie Tramonte, of Galveston, student of T exas State College for Women at Denton, will be
crowned queen of the Ninth Annual Cotton Pageant, Style Show, and Ball at Texas A. & M. College
Friday evening, having been selected for this honor by a committee of Texas Aggies. She will reign
over the pageant with King Wesley Seay, A. & M. senior in agronomy from Waxahachie.
Queen Mamie of the House of Tramonte and her seven maids of honor are shown in the above pic
ture as follows: Center, the queen. Top row, left to right: Ann Tarry, Wichita Falls; Alice Keck, Dallas;
Margaret Ramsey, Port Arthur. Second row, left to right, Elizabeth Gene Austin, Abilene; Kathryn
Day, Justin. Bottom row, left to right: Christine Maddox, Abilene; Mary Hughston, Crowell.
KING COTTON
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the
Agronomy Department which with
the student Agronomy Society each
spring sponsors the cotton festiv
ities.
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Edgar Wesley Seay, captain of B Field Artillery, King of the
Cotton Ball and Pageant of 1940.
Mrs. L. L. Fouraker, director t
of the Cotton Pageant and advisor
to the Queen’s Court.
Local Duchess
old Forbes, social secretary of
the show, Ann Sheridan, sponsor-
elect for the Aggie football team,
was found to be unable to attend
the weekend activities. The tele
gram stated:
“I appreciate your kind invita
tion and regret exceedingly that
I will be unable to attend the
Agronomy Society Pageant as I
have a soft spot in my heart for
all activities at Texas A. & M.”
Following the pageant and style
show in the DeWare Field House,
the annual Cotton Ball will be held
in Sbisa Hall from 10:00 p. m.
until 2:00 a. m. Friday night.
Tickets for the dance are $1.50.
The Aggieland Orchestra will play
for the Cotton Ball as well as
for the corps dance from 9:00 un
til 12:00 Saturday night. Tickets
for the corps dance will be $1.00.
During the Cotton Pageant the
royal couple will reign in a baroque
setting, designed by Hal Moseley,
fifth-year senior in architecture
from Dallas, over a court of 76
duchesses, representing colleges,
universities, A. & M. Mothers’
clubs, ex-student associations and
other organizations from through
out the state, and their escorts.
(Continued on page 4)
Miss Betty Jane Winkler, duch
ess representing the Brazos Coun
ty A. & M. Mothers’ Club in the
pageant.
PROFJS. g-™-
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Professor J. S. Mogford, of the
Agronomy Department, general
chairman of the Cotton Ball com
mittee.
Election Committee Rules 22 Candidates Are
Eligible For Senior And Junior Posts
The primary election to fill the-ftions
posts of Longhorn editor, senior
social secretary, manager of Town
Hall, and the junior yell-leaders for
the coming 1940-41 session has
been set by the Student Election
Committee for Monday, April 22.
The runoff for the offices, if one
is required, will be held on Thurs
day, April 15.
This year, for the first time,
requirements as to the qualifica-
candidates
office were drawn up and adopted
by the Student Election Commit
tee. The closing date for the fil
ing of candidacy was Monday,
April 15, and the Election Com
mittee met Tuesday afternoon to
pass upon the qualifications of the
candidates for the respective of
fices.
Two candidates filed for editor
ship of the Longhorn, both of
each-f-whom were declared eligible. They
are W. A. Becker, C Field Artil
lery, and Ele Baggett, B Infantry.
For senior social secretary nine
candidates filed. The six of these
who met the requirements were
Jack Nelson, Infantry Band; J. P.
Giles, A Field Artillery; A. V.
Hamilton, A Chemical Warfare;
Bob Little, F Coast Artillery; Ed
Ivey, B Chemical Warfare; and W.
(Continued on page 4)
Plans for Annual
Spring Dairy Show
Being Completed
The Seventh Annual Spring
Dairy Show will be held at A. & M.
College, Saturday, April 20, ac
cording to announcement made by
A. L. Darnell, professor of dairy
husbandry.
The show, as is customary, will
be under the joint sponsorship of
the Kream and Kow Klub, organi
zation of students majoring in
dairy husbandry, and the Dairy
Husbandry Department. The Dairy
Department will hold open house
all day and the members of the
club will stage judging contests
during the afternoon to compete
for cash prizes.
Joe W. Bradley, high point individ
ual on the 1937 International cham
pionship Texas Aggie judging team,
and now assistant county agricul
tural agent at Conroe, will serve as
judge for the contests.
Winners of the contests who are
members of the present junior class
will probably be members of the
Aggie dairy judging team which
will compete in the International
Livestock Show at Harrisburg, Pa.,
next October.
All residents of College Station
and Bryan and all students of the
college who are interested are ex
tended a cordial invitation to at
tend the dairy show Saturday.
SENIOR ORDERS
FOR INVITATIONS
NOW BEING MADE
Commencement Invitation
Orders To Be Taken Today
And Tomorrow in Rotunda
Orders for the invitations for
the commencement exercises of this
year’s graduating Senior Class
may be placed at the table in the
rotunda of the Academic Building
Thursday and Friday afternoons,
April 18 and 19, Max McCullar,
class president, announced Wednes
day.
A deposit of 10 cents for each
leather bound invitation, 5 cents
for each cardboard bound, and 5
cents for each two French-fold
ordered will be required.
Prices of the invitation are 50
cents for the maroon leather bound,
25 cents for the cardboard bound,
and 12.5 cents for the French-fold
announcements.
The designers of the new invita
tions, The Southern Engraving
Company of Houston, have com
bined simplicity with intricate de
tail to give a design that is pleas
ing, balanced, and one that is
strictly typical of Texas A. & M.
The cover design itself is made up
of an addition of both sides of the
new class ring with the lettering
“Texas A. & M., 1940” in a modern
istic style. The work on the die for
the cover was cut by hand by metal
working artists—not by machines
as in the case of run-of-the-mill
jobs.
Available in either the maroon
leather or in the white cardboard,
the college booklet type of invita
tion contains besides the com
mencement announcement and class
rolls themselves, hand-made etch
ings of the Administration Build
ing, the Academic Building, and a
view of the new dormitory area.
Also included is an engraved page
of the “Spirit of Aggieland” with
a shadow “T” in the background.
All of this work is done by hand
and is not to be confused with the
more common so-called etchings
done by photogravure and print
ing.
The French-fold has only the
cover and the commencement an
nouncement. All invitations are of
course in double envelopes.