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TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
VOL. 39 122 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1940
Z725 NO. 84
Parents’ Day, Engineers’ Day This Weekend
Each Dept.
Engineering
Offers Show
Exhibits Will Open At
Nine in Each Building
On Saturday, May 11, the Stu
dent Engineers’ Council will open
their eleventh annual Engineers’
Day at 9:00 a. m.
Engineers’ Day is sponsored by
student chapters of: the Architec
tural Society, the American Insti
tute of Chemical Engineers, the
American Society of Civil Engi
neers, the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers,
and the Petroleum Engineers Club.
Exhibits will be opened by all
departments at nine a. m. and will
remain open until nine o’clock in
the evening. Immediately follow
ing will be a corps dance in Sbisa
Hall arrangements for which have
been turned over to the Engineers.
All arrangements and decorations
for this dance are being made by
the Student Engineers Council.
Special inviations are being mailed
out by this council to leading
Texas engineers, many of whom
are graduates of A. & M.
The goal of the engineers of this
year is to make this day the larg-
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PORTRAIT OF
WALTON TO BE
UNVEILED SOON
Will Be Exhibited In
Duncan and Sbisa Halls
The portrait of Dr. Walton, re
cently painted by Seymore Stone,
of New York, will be presented to
the college at a joint luncheon of
the faculty and the Former Stu
dents’ Association at noon on June
1. The presentation will be made
by Marion S. Church, ’05, of Dal
las. The picture will be accepted
by F. M. Law, chairman of the
Board of Directors. The luncheon
is an annual commencement-day
affair, and it was deemed as the
most appropriate occasion at which
this much-discussed painting might
be presented. Thereafter the por
trait will be hung in the Cushing
Memorial Library.
The portrait is life-size, and its
painter is one of the better-known
artists of this type. Mr. Stone was
called from New York for the job
on which he spent nearly two
weeks. The painting was done com
pletely in the office of Dr. Walton.
The movement for this picture
was originated by a group of for
mer students of Fort Worth. Funds
to meet the expense of this por
trait were amassed by voluntary
subscriptions coming from a wide
variety of sources.
In order that the student body
may have an opportunity to see
this painting before the end of the
school term, The Former Students’
Association is considering placing
this portrait on display at some
point accessable to the entire stu
dent body. It is possible that it will
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AGRICULTURAL
MULE BARN RAZED
BY FIRE MAY 4
Fire starting shortly after 7
o’clock last Saturday morning com
pletely destroyed the agricultural
mule barn at Texas A. & M., caus
ing a loss of approximately $2,500,
according to Chas. N. Shepardson,
head of the Dairy Husbandry De
partment.
The building destroyed was a
two-story frame and sheet iron
structure with the second floor
used as a hay mow and the ground
floor as stables for mules used on
the college farms. All of the ani
mals were out of the building and
were being harnessed at the time
the fire was discovered. All equip
ment was saved, but about 10 tons
of hay and some other feed stored
in the loft were destroyed.
Spontaneous combustion was said
to be the probable cause.
Plans For
Ring Dance
Now Ready
Money Must Be In
By 5 P. M. Today
Plans for the 1940 Senior Ring
Dance and Banquet are approaching
completion, class president Max
McCullar announced yesterday.
Company commanders will, by
Wednesday night, have a detailed
memorandum concerning the ban
quet and ring ceremonies for the
benefit of other seniors in the or
ganization.
All money for the dance must be
in by 5 p. m. this afternoon, ac
cording to McCullar. The cost is
$3.50 and includes the banquet,
dance, favor and an invitation to
the dance.
As has been the custom in the
past, seniors will wear number
one uniform to the banquet, which
lasts from 7 until 9 p. m., but may
don other apparel for the dance.
C. W. Varner, local jeweler, has
announced that he will be in Sbisa
Hall from 8 o’clock on, to engrave
initials on the backs of the favors
which are to be presented by the
seniors to their dates during the
banquet. He will engrave 6 let
ters for 20 cents.
The Ring Dance will begin at
10 o’clock, or as soon thereafter
as possible, depending on the length
of the Ring Ceremony. Russ Mor
gan and his celebrated orchestra
will play until 2 a. m.
Morgan will also play for the
Corps Dance Saturday night, 9
until 12, at the regular price of
$1, senior social secretary Charlie
Hamner has announced.
Second Platoon,
TOWS, Winner
Of Baker Trophy
The second Platoon of Company
“C”, C.W.S. Battalion, made the
best score in the competition for
the Baker Trophy held here during
the past week. Six platoons were
entered in the tests which involve
precision and accuracy in the ex
ecution of prescribed drills for both
garrison and field training.
B. C. Barnes of Dallas is com
mander of the winning platoon. C.
H. Colgin of Brownsville and R.
L. Sweeney, of Hagerman are his
immediate non-commissioned as
sistants. Company “C” is under
the command of D. R. McChesney
of Del Rio.
The Baker Trophy for the best
drilled chemical platoon in the A.
& M. College of Texas Chemical
Warfare R. O. T. C. unit is a plaque
presented by Major-General Walter
C. Baker, Chief of the Chemical
Warfare Service, United States
Army, awarded annually to the
best drilled platoon in chemical
mortar drills and exercises. Each
winning platoon will have the num
ber and name of the organization,
together with the name and rank
of the platoon leader, engraved up
on a suitable plate which will be
affixed to the plaque each year.
General Baker will personally
present the trophy at an appro
priate ceremony to be held at a
later date, probably May 17, at
which time he will be a guest on |
the campus.
WILLIAMS ATTENDS
HOUSTON MEET OF
GAS ASSOCIATION
E. L. Williams of the Industrial
Education Department left yester
day morning for Houston, where
he will attend a meeting of the
American Gas Association. The
meeting will last through Thurs
day, and 2500 delegates are expect
ed to attend.
Monday afternoon, Mr. Williams
presented a talk on “Adaptability
of the Conference in Employee
Training”.
The Class of ’40 Will Dance to Music By This Orchestra
Outstanding Lecturers Speak To
Veterinary Students; Darby Today
Dr. R. P. Marstellar, dean of the-
School of Veterinary Medicine, has
announced that Dr. Howard L.
Darby of Fort Worth who is in
spector in charge of the Texas
Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S.
D. A., is a visitor on the campus
today. Doctor Darby adminis
ters federal activities in tick,
Bang’s disease and tubei’culosis
eradication, hog cholera control,
sheep and cattle scab field inspec
tion. He is today conferring with
senior veterinary students, some of
whom will accept appointments in
the B. A. I., and veterinarians on
the teaching staff of the School
of Veterinary Medicine here.
During the past week Doctor J.
E. Shillinger, veterinarian in
AGGIE M. E. STUDENT
WINS FIRST PLACE
AT CONVENTION
J. W. Wood, an M. E. senior
from Milford, won first place at
the A. S. M. E. Convention which
was held at the Texas Technolo- j
gical College at Lubbock. Wood’s ;
paper on “Forced Draft Cooling
Towers” was given first place out j
of the sixteen papers that were en- j
tered. George W. Wheeler 'won j
tenth place with his paper on “Re-1
pairing Casting by New Methods”, j
Nine schools were represented at
this convention.
V. M. Fares and J. S. Hopper of
the mechanical engineering faculty
accompanied the students to the
convention.
►charge of disease control, Divi
sion of Wild Life Research, Bu
reau of Biological Survey, and De
partment of Interior, gave an illu
strated lecture on diseases of wild
life to the senior veterinary stu
dents. He also conferred with
Dr. H. L. Van Volkenberg, Head
of the Department of Veterinary
Parasitology, about a survey of dis
eases of wild life in Texas which
Doctor Van Volkenberg is conduct
ing.
Dr. Henry H. Dudes, Head of
the Department of Veterinary
Physiology, College of Veterinary
Medicine, Cornell University, on
sabbatical leave, visited the School
of Veterinary Medicine last week
end. He conferred with Dr. Patton
W. Burns, Head of the Depart
ment of Physiology and Pharma
cology and other veterinarians
here on the campus.
From April 8th to April 22nd
inclusive, Dr. M. G. Fincher lectur
ed on diseases of dairy cattle.
SENIOR CALLING CARDS
MAY BE ORDERED NOW
Those seniors who failed to
get their engraved calling
cards to go with the invita
tions last Thursday and Fri
day may get them any time
this week from Arch Greig
in room 51 of Legett Hall.
Above is shown the celebrated orchestra of Russ Morgan—with
a total of 19 members including the girl singer and the leader, who
is himself one of the country’s best trombonists. Famed from appear
ances on the stage, the screen, in the nation’s exclusive ballrooms, and
over the nationwide networks, this is the band whose familiar “Music
in the Morgan Manner” will entertain the class of ’40 at its annual
Senior Banquet and Ring Dance in Sbisa Hall Friday night.
And at the left is lovely Carolyn Clarke, featured vocalist with
Morgan.
‘Music in Morgan Manner” To
Be Feature of Ring Dance, Banquet
The crowning social occasion of
their college years for the 700 se
niors of Aggieland will take place
Friday night in Sbisa Hall, when
the long-awaited Senior Ring Dance
and Banquet take place.
Presiding over the festivities will
be the old maestro with the slide
trombone, Russ Morgan, and his
group of entertainers who please
listeners with “music in the Mor
gan manner”. Unquestionably one
of the finest musical groups ever
to visit the campus, Morgan and
his 18-piece band will come here
from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they
have a short engagement. They re
cently played for the annual Se
nior Formal at T. S. C. W., and
earlier were located at the Blue
Room of the Roosevelt in New Or
leans.
Russ Morgan has had one of the
most outstanding careers of any
orchestra leader in America. At the
age of 18 he joined Paul Specht,
then a popular band leader. Two
years later, he was arranger for
the immortal John Philip Sousa
and for Victor Herbert, two of the
country’s greatest musicians.
-f-cal director of radio station WXYZ
with nine simultaneous commer
cials. In between, he found time to
arrange for the Detroit Symphony
of one hundred pieces.
He came to New York, where he
arranged the musical scores for
George White’s Scandals and Mu
sical Comedies, also the Cotton
Club show and some of the musical
work for Mendoza at the Capitol.
Russ also styled Freddie Martin’s
band, heading that popular leader
towai’d success.
Upon overtures from NBC, Russ
soon organized his own band, and
one month later started an en
gagement at the Biltmore Hotel,
New York. He was on the Colum
bia network for Rinso for 39 weeks,
securing the engagement without
an audition. He appeared for two
years on the Philip Morris pro
gram.
An extremely talented musical
personality, Russ plays expertly
the trombone, piano, vibraphone,
saxophone, guitar, celeste and ma
rimba, and is now studying the or
gan and harp.
He was soon called to Detroit,
where he organized the Goldkette
Orchestra, which included such re
cently-recognized radio stars as
Tommy . and Jimmy Dorsey, Joe
Venuti, Eddie Lang, Chauncey
Morehouse, Bill Rank, Steve Brown,
Howdy Quicksell and Fuzzy Far
rar. While in Detroit he was for
two years musical director of the
State Theatre, and was also musi-
Russell Named
Head Of Texas
Welfare Ass’n.
Dr. Daniel Russell, head of the
Rural Sociology Department, was
elected president of the Texas Wel
fare Association at its annual con
vention, held this year a t Galves
ton from April 30 to 3Vt a y 3.
The convention was tjmde up of
members from all the Welfare de
partments in Texas, in C ] U ding the
Red Cross, Community Chest, Child
Welfare and several others. The
theme of the convention ^ras “Wel
fare for Texas People”,
Eight rural sociology sen iors at
tended the meeting and were giv
en jobs while attending
The Association voto^j to meet
in Dallas in 1941.
Publisher of Oil
Weekly Will Visit
Here on Thursday
Mr. Ray L. Dudley, president of
the Gulf Publishing Company and
publisher of the Oil Weekly, will
address the Petroleum Engineering
Club, Thursday at 7:30 p. m.
Mr. Dudley has just recently
returned from a trip through South
America in which he visited all of
the more important oil fields and
in his talk he will discuss some of
the interesting features and high
lights of his trip.
Mr. Dudley is universally known
in the petroleum industry, having
been associated with the industry
in various capacities for many
years. It is through Mr. Dudley’s
influence and cooperation that the
cash prizes awarded annually for
the best papers in Petroleum Engi
neering 405 have been perpetuated.
In addition to his address, Mr.
Dudley will personally award the
prizes for the winning papers for
this year.
Mr. Warren L. Baker, editor of
Oil Weekly, will accompany Mr.
Dudley on his visit to College Sta
tion.
Mothers,
Dads Will
Be Guests
Entertaining Week-
End Is on Schedule
For Visiting Parents
A weekend of royal entertain
ment has been planned for the hun
dreds of mothers and dads who will
visit their sons here Saturday and
Sunday, May 11 and 12, for the
Mothers’ and Dads’ Day Program.
An annual event, the program is
the tribute of the members of the
cadet corps to their parents, and
everything possible is done to make
the visitors feel that their pres
ence is a delight to the entire stu
dent body.
The entertainment will begin
Saturday morning at 9 a. m., when
the Engineers’ Day will be begun
in the various departments of the
Engineering School. It will con
tinue until 9 p. m. Saturday night.
A show of real Engineering magic
is promised.
A tea honoring the visiting par
ents will be held in the lobby of
the Y. M. C. A. Building, from 2
until 5 p. m. Saturday afternoon.
Also beginning at 2 o’clock will
be a baseball game between A. &
M. and Baylor University on Kyle
Field.
At 6:45 and 8:45 p. m., there will
be a picture show in the Assembly
Hall.
A reception for the parents will
be held in President and Mrs. T.
O. Walton’s home at 7. For those
who wish to dance, there will be
a corps dance in Sbisa Hall from
9 until 12, with Russ Morgan and
his orchestra.
The traditional flower-pinning
ceremony, at which a representa
tive of the organization command
er, usually his mother or sweet
heart, pins a flower on the breast
of each cadet, will begin the Sun
day morning program at 8:30. Fol
lowing this will be a review of the
entire cadet corps at 10 o’clock.
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Rice Institute
Prexy To Speak
To Local A.A.U.P.
Crowd Of 200 Is
Expected To Attend
A large crowd is expected to
hear President O. E. Lovett of
Rice Institute address the local
chapter of the American Associa
tion of University Professors on
Thursday evening. The banquet
is open to the public and the ad
ministrative officials of the college
are cooperating in welcoming Pres
ident Lovett to the A. & M. cam
pus. President Lovett, who served
as math professor and astronomer
at Princeton University before com
ing to Houston to accept the pres
idency of Rice, will use as his
subject “Student Interest in In
tellectual Standards.”
Dr. Lovett has attended several
foreign and American universities
and has been President of Rice
Institute since 1908. He is a mem
ber of the Phi Beta Kappa fra
ternity.
A crowd of two hundred is ex
pected for the banquet, which is
to be held in Sbisa Hall. Members
of the San Marcos College and Bay
lor University A. A. U. P. will
be here to attend the banquet. Dr.
Joseph Morgan will entertain the
audience with an organ solo before
Dr. Walton introduces the speaker
of the evening. Dr. Ide Trotter
will preside as the local president
of the American Association of
University Professors. Professor
Crawford is the Vice President and
Charles La Motte is secretary.
Tickets for the banquet may be
obtanied from Professors Gofer,
Zisman, Lyle, Samuelson, La
Moote, Quisenberry, Trotter,
Faires, Schoepfle, Campbell,
Schlesselman, and Steen, and from
Mrs. F. E. Turner, and at the desk
in the Y. M. C. A. <