SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941-
THE BATTALION
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Russ Morgan Is Bright Spot In Social Season
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Playing at A. & M. twice in as many years, Russ Morgan furnished
the music this year for the Field Artillery Ball. He played the year
before for the Senior Ring dance. Morgan features sweet music and
the voice of Maxine Conrad.
Female-less...But A&M
Has Topnotch Social Season
Eight Big-Name Orchestras Play Here
For Various Organization Dances and Balls
By Tom Gillis
Not so is the opinion which one might form that there
is no social season at A. & M. Just because it is an all boys
school is insufficient evidence in the light of the facts that
this year eight big name bands have already played for cam
pus dances and another has yet to be selected.
Russ Morgan and his Morganairs, Bernie Cummins, A1
Donahue and Eddie Fitzpatrick are some of those that have
played here this year. With Rhythms by Royd Raeburn,
Bill Carlsen, Phil Levant, and Duke Ellington various regi
ments have had their balls and numerous corps dances.
And Ed Minnock and the Ag-
gieland Orchestra, Ed Gerlack
from Hunsville, and Johnny Sul
livan from Houston play frequent
ly for dances and social events
during the football season.
A1 Donahue and his nationally
famed orchestra will play for the
Senior Ring Dance this year, and
only such a top notch orchestra
would do for this occasion. This
ceremony has so much tradition
and meaning behind it that it is
more than just an ordinary dance.
During the evening each senior
and his date steps into a huge rep
lica of the Aggie senior ring. The
girl then removes the Aggie’s
ring and turns it around so that
he wears it with the numeral
down, signifying graduation, and
they embrace and step from the
ring to dance. A1 will also play
for the corps dance following.
An orchestra for the Junior
Prom and Final Ball has not yet
been selected but it will be some
big name band. The Final Ball is
always the night before Final Re
view, where every cadet bids his
friends farewell until next year
and seniors bid the corps boodbye.
But these dances are only more
poured on top of the already suc
cessful social season. Things start
ed last October and November with
a corps dance after every home
football game. This year each was
fortunately a victory dance. And
early in the second semester began
the series of regimental balls and
corps dances. Each of the six mil
itary regiments on the campus has
its ball on some Friday night, at
tended only by members of that
regiment, followed on Saturday by
an official corps dance which any
cadet or friend may attend.
The Field Artillery regiment this
year had Russ Morgan and his
Morganairs for their prom. Last
year Russ played for the Senior
Ring dance and was voted the sec
ond best orchestra to play here
that year by a campus poll. With
his Music in the Morgan Manner,
Russ made his theme song “Does
Your Heart Beat For Me” the most
popular tune of the week.
Bernie Cummins and his new
vocalist Jeri Sullivan furnished the
music for the Coast Artillery ball
and corps dance. His arrangements
of “Dark Eyes” and “Perfidia”
showed why he was selected as the
best band last year and made a
good bid for the same honor this
time.
Then followed Rhythms by Rae
burn as Boyd Raeburn played for
the Composite regiment. Raeburn
made his first trip into Texas to
play for this occasion for most of
his fame has been built up in the
Wisconsin and Minnesota area. Bill
Carlsen, who has played engage
ments at the Edgewater Beach
Hotel in Chicago, furnished the
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Pre-Med School Is Outstanding Division of Arts and
Sciences; 100 Students Study to Enter Medical Schools
By Bill Clarkson
A. & M. is generally thought of
as being an institution exclusively
for agricultural and engineering
students or students taking cours
es in conjunction with these two
fields. However, the school of arts
and sciences, now in its tenth year
of existence, has many divisions
under it that do not pertain to
agriculture or engineering. One
of the outstanding divisions of the
arts and sciences school is the
preparatory medicine division.
Approximately 100 students were
enrolled as pre-meds at the be
ginning of school last September,
62 of which were members of the
freshman class. The courses of
fered in this division will enable
any of these students to enter a
Class A medical school upon com
pletion of the requirements.
Closely connected with the pre-
med program is the A. & M. Pre-
Medical Society, composed of more
than 40 students. Its primarly pur
pose is to aid the students in be
coming acquainted with their pro
fessors and fellow students. Also
it helps them become acquainted
with the point of view of medical
men. Each year the society as a
group makes an inspection trip
to one of the Texas medical
schools, viewing class rooms and
laboratories and witnessing sev
eral operations in the hospitals
adjoining the schools. The Society
makes a trip to Austin every
spring to attend the State Pre-
Medical Banquet at which repre
sentatives from almost every Tex
as college are present.
The Pre-Medical Society invites
the deans of the two Texas medi
cal schools to A. & M. each year
as guest speakers at the annual
banquet. While they are here, they
usually have personal interviews
with the students, giving the fu
ture doctors advice as to what
courses are necessary for medical
school preparation and also giving
them an insight into the life of
a medical student.
Other activities of the club this
year included two medical films
and several speakers picked from
the College faculty.
A new organization, the United
Science Clubs, affiliated with the
Collegiate Division of the Texas
Academy of Science, was formed
this year, the Pre-Medical Society
being a member. Its purpose is to
bind together several of the
science clubs into one coordinated
whole, foster the scientific atti
tude and promote interest in
science, promote friendly inter
club rivalry and to furnish a basis
for the selection of speakers and
delegates to represent A. & M. at
the meetings of the Texas Acad
emy of Science.
The two Texas medical schools
require at least three years of
college work and less than ten
per cent of the students admitted
to medical schools in the United
States have as little as two years
of pre-medical training.
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