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DIAL 4-5444 STUDENT TRI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE The Battalion DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1941 NUMBER 92 Special Commencement Exercises Scheduled Friday Cavalry and Field Artillery Seniors Get “"I 11 , 1 *' 1 '"' Orders to Report for Active Army Duty Agriculturist Head Cavalry Goes to Fort Bliss, Field To go to Fort Sill Orders for 31 Cavalry and 29 Field Artillery seniors to report for active duty following their gradu ation have been received by the commandant’s office from the Eighth Corps Area Headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. Thirty of the Cavalry seniors will report for temporary duty with the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, Texas, June 20, pending in structions on permanent assign ments. One of the Cavalrymen is scheduled for duty at Pictatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey, and is to report June 23. The Field Artillery seniors were given permanent assignments in the Field Artillery replacement cen ters, 27 going to Fort Sill, Okla homa, June 20, and two going to Camp Roberts, California, August 4. All of the assignments for the Field Artillery and Cavalry groups are for a period of one year. The orders for the Field Ar tillery followed assignments re ceived last week for 47 graduating seniors to report to the Field Ar tillery Officers School at Fort Sill. Those seniors going to Fort Bliss are Robert Warren Alexander, Dwight Watkins Berry, Olin Find ley Brewster, Raymond Herbert Brown, William Hardie Butler, Wallis Brown Chapman, Robert (Continued on Pace 4) Honor Companies Chosen Wednesday Yesterday afternoon the honor organizations within the respec tive regiments were announced by the senior military science in structors. The honor battalions were also selected as they contain ed the honor organizations. In the Field Artillery Regiment I Battery was selected as the hon or battery and was honored after the review Thursday afternoon with a regimental parade. E Battery Coast Artillery was announced as the honor organiza tion in the Coast Artillery Regi ment and next year will march be hind a silver guidon staff and a special guidon. A Company Chemical Warfare Service is the winner of the an nual Baker Trophy containg the best-drilled platoon in the Chemical Warfare Battalion. A Company Engineers is the hon or organization of that regiment and will be awarded two trophies as a reward. F Company Infantry, Headquar ters Company Signal Corps, and Headquarters Troop Cavalry are the honor organizations in their regiments and will be recognized as such next year. Ticket Deadline For Junior Prom is June 4 The deadline for the purchasing of tickets for the Junior Prom and Banquet is 6 o’clock, Wednesday, June 4, Gene Perry, committeeman in charge of tickets announced yes terday. Favors for the dance may still be ordered until Wednesday, June 4. Seniors may also purchase the favors if they desire, Pei-ry said. Separate tickets for the dance and banquet will not be sold. Tick ets will sell for $1.85. Admission for the dance or the banquet will be the same price, $1.85. Tickets may be purchased to attend the dance only up until dance time Thursday, June 5, Perry also stat ed. Tickets for the dance and ban quet may be obtained from the first sergeants of each organiza tion. First sergeants may obtain tickets from Gene Perry, Room 308 No. 9. Student Aid Fund Presents Fuermann Gift At Banquet Annual Banquet Precedes Final Business Meeting For Committee’s First Year George Fuermann, retiring chairman of the Student Aid Fund, was presented with an engraved cigarette lighter at the annual Stu dent Aid Fund committee banquet at Aggieland Inn Tuesday night. J. H. Focke, other senior member of the committee, made the pre sentation. The gift was presented as a token of appreciation for the work Fuermann did in conceiving the idea for the fund, getting it authorized and organized, and serv ing this year as its first chair man. The last regular meeting of the committee for the current year will be held soon, at which time all business undertaken during this year will be ended and Fuer mann will submit the chairman’s report of the committee’s activities. The report will include a financial statement and a record of activi ties in administering the fund and assisting Aggies in obtaining med ical treatment. The report will be published after approval by the committee. Dr. and Mrs. T. 0. Walton and E. E. McQuillen, secretary of the Former Student’s association, were present at the banquet as guests. Fuermann and Focke, the two senior members of the Student Aid Fund committee, attended the ban quet as their last meeting. The other members of the committee who will return next year include Secretary Tom Gillis, Skeen Staley, Executive Secretary Dan Russell, head of the rural sociology de partment; E. L. Angell, manager of student publications; and G. B. Wilcox, professor of education. The Student Aid Fund will func tion during the long session begin ning in September. Two junior members will be appointed by the president as student representativ es and officers will be elected at the first meeting next year. Bride-to-be Miss Virginia Virle Crow, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Crow of Fairforest, South Carolina, will become the bride of Alfred Cook Payne, of College Station on June 21. Payne is the assistant secre tary, in charge of the south branch of the Y. M. C. A. at A. & M. Naval Commissions Open to Graduates Graduating seniors will be eli gible for appointment as Ensigns in the United States Naval Re serve upon the completion of a preliminary training course, offic ers of the Navy recruiting service have announced. To be eligible for a commission, a candidate must have graduated from an accredited university or college. He must have a course in plane trigonometry in college or in high school. Applicants must be native-born, unmarried citizens, not less than 20 and under 28 years of (Continued on page 4) Flight Training Program Continues In Summer Session Barlow Announces Offering of Primary, Secondary Courses Here Flight training in the Civilian Pilot Training program of the Civil Aeronautics Administration will again be available to A. & M. stu dents this summer according to information received yesterday by H. W. Barlow, head of the depart ment of aeronautical engineering and coordinator of flight training. The largest quota ever received by any institution for a summer program has been allotted the col lege and it is believed that ample opportunity exists for all those who want to participate. 50 stu dents have been allotted in the pri mary and 30 students in the sec ondary. The primary course consists of 72 hours of ground school and 35 to 40 hours of flight training. The ground courses are in the subjects of civil air regulations, air naviga tion and airway meteorology, and will be taught by regular members of the faculty of the department of aeronautical engineering. These classes will be held throughout the day, for two hours a day, five days a week for six weeks. The flight training will be given at the col lege airport, and flight schedules will be arranged with the individ ual flight instructors. The secondary course consists of 96 hours of ground school and ap proximately 40 hours of flight in advanced type training airplanes. The secondary ground school will (Continued en page 4) Bing, Who Succeeds Power as Editor, Was Club Manager This Year Roland Bing, agricultural educa tional junior from Oakwood, was elected editor of the 1941-42 Agri culturist magazine at a meeting of representatives of the various agri- cutlural societies, it was announced Tuesday. Bing, a member of B Infantry, and Lee Rice, of A Cavalry, were the only candidates submitted by the Student Publications Board as being eligible for the position. Bing has been a member of the Agriculturist staff this year and has served in the capacity of club manager. He was one of the orga nizers and planners of the first official “Ag” day in the history of A. & M. College Plans to Hold Six Summer Short Courses Here Six short courses of the non college division will be held this summer. Last summer these courses were attended by more than 4,500 men and women from all over the state, and a larger at tendance is expected this year. The short course is a part of that large adult education move ment which has developed in this country during the past two dec ades. Its purpose is to serve the persons who can not be away from their business for more than a week or two at a time. Dean Winkler said these courses are of great value because they afford people the opportunity to discuss problems with their fellows and hear lectures by specialists in their particular field in order to keep abreast with progress. The short courses to be offered this summer are: The Cotton Seed Oil Miller’s Short Course from June 16-20 under Dr. J. D. Lind say; The Annual Conference of County Superintendents and Rural School Supervisors from June 23-28 under Professor W. L. Hughes; Texas School Administration Con ference from June 23-28 under Dean T. D. Brooks; Farmers’ Short Course from July 13-18 under W. H. Williamson; The Fireman’s Training School from July 18-23 under Df. C. C. Hughes; and the Annual Coaching School from August 18-23 under Coach Homer H. Norton. A & M Cooperates in National Defense Efforts by Early Graduation of Seniors Ashburn Delivers Commencement Address To Engineer, Signal Corps, Coast Grads Red Socks, Green Slacks Become Reg “Senior Week” Begins This can’t be A. & M.! Every other man looks like a page fresh out of “Esquire.” But don’t be alarmed, it’s just “senior week,” and members of the class of ’41 are taking full advant age of it. It’s an old Aggie custom that seniors should lay aside the uniform and go non-reg during the last week of school. This year is no exception and seniors everywhere are stepping out in sport suits, colored slacks, and two-tone shoes. After four long years, the senior has a right to enjoy a bit of relaxation before he graduates. Also very much in evi dence during “senior week” are the little red parking tags which some how seem to stick on the wind shield of a senior’s new car. Walton Speaks to Medical School Grads Band Juniors Elect A. M. Hinds Head Drum Major Hinds Is Successor to Pat Ledbetter; Stewart, Balagia Are Assistants A. M. Hinds of Tye, Texas, was recently elected head drum major of the A. & M. band for the next school year, Jack Hendrick, cadet captain of the Infantry Band, an nounced yesterday. Claud Stewart of Waco and Jack Balagia, Austin, were elected assistant drum majors to Hinds. Only the junior members of the band participated in the election. The principal duty of the head drum major is to originate forma tions to be used at the football games and with the aid of his as sistants, lead and direct the band. An entirely different formation must be used at each game. Head drum major for this year was Pat Ledbetter, who was as sisted by James Cargile and Tom Harrison. Speaker Willing to cooperate to the fullest with all National Defense moves, A. & M. College will have a double-header commencement this year so that the members of the class of 1941 who have been called to active service as second lieutenants prior to the formal graduation, Friday, June 6, at 7:30 p. m. can have the pleasure of a formal com mencement. Following a meeting of the Academic Council, Dr. T. O. Walton announced Friday, May 30, as the date set for the special commence ment exercises honoring the men called to serve their country. “The Council in its desire to accord all honor to those young men who, after four years of prepara tion through the R.O.T.C., are now subordinating their normal object ives and ambitions to answer their country’s call for military service, hereby sets Friday, May 30, for special commencement and grad uation exercises for all such mem bers of the graduating class who have completed the requirements for graduation,” Dr. Walton an nounced. Ashburn is Speaker Following organ music played by Marion Lyle, the commence ment program will begin with an invocation given by Dr. Thomas Gordon Watts, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Bryan. Announcements will then be giv en by President T. O. Walton after which Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Montgomery will present his val edictory address. Immediately following the val edictory, Colonel Ike Ashburn will give the commencement address. Following this the College Wom en’s Choral Club will offer two musical numbers. Degrees will be presented by President Walton after which F. Marion Law, president of the Board of Directors will present the diplomas. After presentation of reserve commissions by Lieut. Colonel James A. Watson, Commandant, Dr. Watts will close the exercises with the benediction, and organ music will complete the program. Assignment of Seniors The Seniors who have received their orders and their place of as- (Continued on page 4) Colonel Ike Ashburn Dr. T. O. Walton, President of A. & M., will deliver an address to the graduates of the University of Texas School of Medicine at Galveston. He will speak on “The Physician’s Place as a Citizen.” Dr. Walton has delivered many I jobs around the shipyards. Work excellent speeches to graduating will be both permanent and tern- classes in the past. porary in nature. Summer Jobs Exist In Shipbuilding Work Summer work will come in a wholesale lot today when R. S. Bergquist, personnel director of the Houston Shipbuilding corpora tion, and a representative of the Texas State Employment Agency interviews over 150 applicants for jobs in the shipbuilding industry at Houston, Texas. Feeling the need for skilled la bor on the new defense orders re ceived by them, the Houston Ship building corporation is interviewing all interested sophomore, junior and senior engineers at A. & M. The men accepted will be used for welders, drafters, and other Seniors in Class of’17 Graduated in Camp The special graduating exercises 1 to be held here Friday night for a portion of this year’s graduating class have brought back memories of a similar occurrence which hap pened back in 1917. Aggie-exes will recall that the class of ’17 received their diplomas while attending the officers’ train ing camp at Leon Springs, which is now Camp Bullis. J. W. “Dough” Rollins, now as sociated with the athletic depart ment here, was a member of that graduating class in 1917 which had its graduation exercises in an army camp. “Soon after war was declared, most of the senior class at school that year volunteered for active duty and were sent to the officers’^onel Scott, who was commander+Springs were commissioned as sec training camp at Leon Springs,” Rollins recalled. A few men in the class of ’17 joined the Marines, but a majority of the class went to Leon Springs. By May 8, 1917 the senior class had left the college. Regular graduation exercises had been scheduled for June 5, but since no members of the class were left, the exercises were not held at school. The faculty voted to give degrees to all members of the class who were passing all their work at the time they left to join the army. One Sunday, early in June, Dr. Bizzell, president of A. & M. and Mr. Friley, registrar of the col lege, came to Leon Springs to con duct the graduation exercises. Col- of the officers training camp there, was a former commandant at A. & M. and served as the commence ment speaker for the occasion. After a few words by the Col onel in which he related some of his experiences at A. & M. the members of the class were lined up in order and the diplomas were presented by Friley. Friley is now the president of Iowa State college. “What was really unusual about the entire affair was that after we had received the diplomas, we form ed another line and handed them back to the registrar” Rollins ex plained. “They took our diplomas back and mailed them to our par ents at home,” he added. Members of the class at Leon ond lieutenants in the army on August 15, 1917. They had only been at camp for three months and were members of the famous “90 day wonders” which the army turn ed out during the first world war. The class of ’17 had missed one thing which was' a tradition for A. & M. The class had never had a final review. In 1937, 20 years after their college career was end ed, the class of ’17 was invited by the graduating class of ’37 to par ticipate in the graduation and final review to be held that year. About seventy-five members out of a class of 143 were able to return to A. & M. and participate in the official commencement program and a fi nal review. Taylor Elected Scholarship Honor Society President Walton is Guest Speaker at Banquet Preceding the Election Jack Taylor, Field Artillery ju nior from Aspermont, was elected president of the Scholarship Honor Society following its annual ban quet Monday night. Ransom Kenny, D battery Coast Artillery junior from Houston, was chosen as vice-president. Alton J. Landua, A company Infantry from Brenham was elected secretary- treasurer. The election was held following a banquet given for all members at Sbisa hall. Among the visitors at the banquet were Dean and Mrs. F. C. Bolton, Dean and Mrs. R. P. Marsteller, and Dean T. D. Brooks. Each of these men made a few short remarks to the assembled group. Dr. T. O. Walton, president of the college, was the principal speaker of the evening. Mrs. Wal ton was also a guest of the so ciety at the banquet. At the conclusion of the banquet, Gabe D. Anderson, retiring pres ident of the club was presented a gift by George Taylor, secretary- treasurer of the club, in behalf of the members of the society this year. Manny Smith Heads Hillel For 1941-42 At its last regular meeting of the year last Sunday night in Sbisa Hall, the Hillel Club elected offic ers for the coming school year. The new officers are Manny Smith, president; Selig Frank, vice-president; Sammy Rosenstein, treasurer; David Leventhal, sec retary; and Buddy Kaufman, par liamentarian. The three members who were chosen for the organi zation’s council are Manny Rosen thal, Sam Kesner and Jack Foi’- Open House Planned For Friday Graduates Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Walton have announced that they will hold open house for the graduating seniors immediately following the special graduating exercises Friday night. Parents of the graduating seniors are also invited. Banquet Honors Intramural Boys The annual Intramural Banquet, with W. L. Penberthy acting as toastmaster, was held in Sbisa hall Tuesday night, honoring the Intramural Managers and the In tramural Board. Some 125 persons were present with Dean Brooks, Dean Bolton, D. W. Williams, chairman of the Intramural Board and the Intra mural Managers. All Intramural Managers will receive sweaters in the near fu ture as a reward for their service. Special awards were made to B. B. Giffith, Sherman, and D. W. Simmons, Dallas, who were the Class A and B Intramural Man agers of the winning intramural teams in the form of pen and pen cil sets. Pen and pencil sets were also awarded to L. R. Johnston, Port Arthur, and T. M. Lamberth, Dallas, who were the managers of the two intramural teams who went through the season without a for feit. Murray And Dunnam Made Navy Ensigns James Gorden Murrey, Merkel, and P. H. Dunham, Dallas, non military students received their commissions as ensigns in the Unit ed States Navy on May 28 when they took their oaths as Naval Ensigns. They are assigned to special aviation duty. They received their appointments as the result of pass ing before the Naval Examination Board which has been in College Station in search of officers to serve as ensigns in the Navy and in the Naval Air Corps. Both are students of mechani cal engineering in their senior year at A. & M.