TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1940-
THE BATTALION
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25 Outstanding High School Graduates
Receive First “Opportunity Awards”
Association of Former Students Institutes
New Assistance Program Established Last Spring
Twenty-five outstanding high
school graduates have been named
winners of the 25 Opportunity A-
wards establised last spring by
the Association of Former Stu
dents with the cooperation of the
A. & M. College. The 25 boys
who are given an opportunity for
a complete college education, will
be the first such group of boys to
enter school at A. & M. The new
plan carries the approval of the
Board of Directors and officials
of the College.
Each of the 25 award holders
graduated in the top 25 per cent
of his class and demonstrated in
high school outstnding character-
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fistics of leadership, personality,
and character. In addition each
carries the endorsement of the
A. & M. Club of his community. In
the absense of an active club, the
student is endorsed by from five
to ten A. & M. men.
The award holders are given a
student job by the Student Labor
Office through which they can earn
$150 a year. Included in the award
is the $100 loan each year from
the loan funds of the association.
This money, with the student’s own
financial participation, provides a
complete financial program.
Out of the 25 five boys chosen
for the initial awards this fall, five
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Second Squadron Headquarters
Major
Pinson, J. W.
Squadron Commander
Troop C
Captain
Taylor, G. C.
Troop Commander
First Lieutenant
Drotherton, R. R.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Shelton, I). S.
Troop D
Captain
Crotch, J. H.
Troop Commander
First Lieutenant
Wanner, J. M.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Mostyn, T. E.
ENGINEER REGIMENT
Lieutenant Colonel
Appelt, L. L.
Regimental Commander
Major
Executive
First Battalion Headquarters
Major
Potts, P. S.
Battalion Commander
Captain
Drumwright, H. E.
Executive
Company A
Captain
Yarbrough, D. D.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Carnes, G. K.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
King, T. S.
Company B
Captain
Martin, J. E.
Derrick, H. A.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Earley, D. M.
Company C
Captain
Stanley, V. B.
Company Commander
Second In Command
First Lieutenant
Kepit, J. E.
Acting First Sergeant Evans, A. D.
Major
Captain
Captain
First Lieutenant
Acting First Sergeant
Captain
First Lieutenant
Acting First Sergeant
Captain
First Lieutenant
Evans,
Second Battalion
Byrd, E. E.
McAnally, E. C.
Company D
DeVilbiss, C. F.
Keith, B. G.
Hardie, B. Ill
Company E
Cook, B.
Ball, J.
Blessington, H. L.
Company F
Wright, P. C.
Crawford, G. G.
Headquarters
Battalion Commander
Executive
Company Commander
Second In Command
Company Commander
Second In Command
ay
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant McCutchan, G. C.
COAST ARTILLERY REGIMENT
Lieutenant Colonel
Hagood, T. M., Jr.
Regimental Commander
Major
Dodd, C. L
Executive
First Battalion Headquarters
Major
Kennemer, L. C.
Battalion Commander
Captain
Laird, O. J.
Battery A
Executive
Captain
First Lieutenant
Stovell, T. H.
Battery Commander
Watkins, L. E.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Cyrd, C. L.
Battery B
Captain
Newman, A. R
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Trotter, G. P., Jr.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
King, G. R., Jr.
Battery C
Captain
Reynolds, G. H.
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Galt, R. D.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Smither, J. M.
Battery D
Captain
Slicker, J. A.
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Jordan, G. R.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Moore, L. Ill
Second Battalion Headquarters
Major
Sanders, G. H., Jr.
Battalion Commander
Captain
Taylor, S. R.
Battery E
Executive
Captain
Hill, T. D
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Hendon, W. L., Jr.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Skidmore, R. G.
Battery F
Captain
Little, R. D.
Angell, D. S.
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Walvoord, J. G.
Battery G
Captain
Keese, C J., Jr.
Battery Commander
Captain First LieutenantLewis, C. A.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Flynn, C. J.; Jr.
Battery H
Captain First LieutenantBullard, A. L.
Battery Commander
First Lieutenant
Price, W. M.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
DuBose, L. A.
COMPOSITE REGIMENT
Lieutenant Colonel
Hamilton, A. V
Regimental Commander
Major
Hoff, R. S.
First (Signal Corps) Battalioi
Executive
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Major
Grasshoff, L. H.
Battalion Commander
Captain
Wheeler, E. C.
Headquarters Company
Executive
Captain
Windsor, J. K.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Noyes, G. W.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Cupples, J. J.
Company A
Captain
Oliver, W. M.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Hernandez, H. A.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Haltom, G. W.
Company B
Nichols, F. K.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Memitz, J. C.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Miller, M. A
SECOND (CHEMICAL WARFARE SERVICE) BATTALION
Major
Ivey, E. H.
Battalion Commander
Captain
Neuson, W. R.
Company A
Executive
Captain
Warnke, H. F.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Hausman, H. L.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Terrell, K. V.
Company B
Captain
Lewis, F. R.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Davis, R. M.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Seeley, J. F.
Company C
Captain
McMillan, W. D.
Company Commander
First Lieutenant
Sweeney, R. L., Jr.
Second In Command
Acting First Sergeant
Powell, R. G.
were class valedictorians, the top
ranking students of their graduat
ing classes. All were student lead
ers in some phase of high school
activities. Two of the group of 25
will be candidates for the Aggie
football team this fall.
Opportunity award holders will
be required to maintain complete
records of their personal financial
standings and to make reports at
the end of each term to the A. &
M. club or A. & M. men who have
endorsed and are sponsoring them.
Winners of the first awards in
clude the following: Aaron Allbert,
Gonzales; Harold A. Berry and
William E. Holland, Dallas; George
Bolen, Ennis; Clifford Estes, Here
ford; W. H. Faughn, Corsicana;
Herbert Haile, Jr., Uvalde; Clinton
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NORTH GATE
Grid Stars
Featured In
Life Magazine
By Jack Hollimon
Burke and Hoffman, star re
porters for Life magazine, boarded
a transcontinental plane for Austin
last August eleventh to do a picture
store of the National Champions
during the off season. A. & M.
representatives met the plane and
they drove to Aggieland where sev
eral of the gridmen were working
on construction jobs or attending
school.
Many pictures were taken of the
boys in and around A. & M. at
the various occupations in which
they were engaged for the past
summer. Some of the boys were
studying during the summer ses
sion of school, and others were
scattered throughout the state.
Dairy work, roughneck work in the
oil fields, boys’ camps, and other
manual labor jobs occupied the
1939 National Football Champions
summer vacation. Chip Routt, a
cowpuncher of no mean ability, had
some great action pictures used.
John Kimbrough, the All-Amer
ican fullback, was busy at Camp
Stewart, near Hunt, Texas. Bill
James, Aggie coach, is the director
of the camp.
The photography was taken care
of by Hoffman of Chicago, while
Burke of New York undertook the
writing responsibilities. Life came
to Aggieland and surrounding ter
ritory and found the Texas Aggies
getting in great shape for the 1940
gridiron wars.
COLLEGE HAS
AN ENVIABLE
RECORD IN WAR
It often has been said that Texas
A. & M. College makes men out of
boys and a glance at the military
record of the college bears this out.
Since the day the doors of the
institution first opened in 1876,
military science and tactics has
been a required course of study.
During'the Spanish-American War
the government found many grad
uates and students prepared to
answer the call.
When the Mexican Border trouble
arose in 1914, again Texas A. & M.
men were on hand. In World War
I, A. & M. men flocked to the
colors in such numbers that a sur
vey showed 2,200 students and grad
uates of Texas A. & M. had served
in the armed forces of their coun
try.
Of the 2,200 Texas Aggies in the
last war, the vast majority of them
served as commissioned officers
and most of those who were not
commissioned were non-commis
sioned officers. Since 1918 approx
imately 4,600 graduates of Texas
A. & M. College have received re
serve commissions for completion
of the four-year course in military
science and all of them who heed
their country’s call will have com
mands in the army-to-be.
E. Hearne, Perryton; Thomas R.
Jones, Breckenridge; James R.
Jenkins, San Antonio; Russel B.
Latimer, Fort Worth; Earl Meyer,
Ellinger; Marvin K. Monk, Fa-
bens; John M. Mullins, Carrizo
Springs; F. J. Spacek, Jr., Luling;
Dellie R. Voelkel, Yoakum; Alvin
Caudle, Odessa; Lloyd Bailey, Wa
co; Milton Beerwinkle, Moody;
Truman R. Daniel, Paris; Julian
P. Leathers, Oakwood, H. J. Baker,
Gober; Franklin Johnson, Brady;
Claude H. Ritchey, Austin; and
Edwin T. Brown, Harlinger.
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