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VOL. 40 122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1941
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NUMBER 94
Commencement Friday Closes College Career of 747
Final Ball
Marks End 01
Social Season
Graduates Come
Free at Jr. Prom
And Final Ball
The finish will be written on the
1941 social season this weekend
when the junior class presents the
Junior Prom and the Final Ball
with Lou Breese furnishing the mu
sic.
Also completing the year are
some 808 seniors whose finish will
be honored by free admission to
both the dances as guests of the
junior class.
Beginning at 10 and lasting until
2, the ball will be featured by the
allowance of all students to make
the affair out of uniform if they
so desire.
An important feature of the ev
ening Friday will be the playing of
Silver Taps at 11:00 p. m. signi
fying the last time taps will be
played during the year. Combining
to furnish the distinctive bugle
ceremony will be the five regular
buglers furnished by the Aggie
Band. They will play from the top
of the Academic building in unison
and in harmony.
Lou Breese with his “Breezy
Rhythm” will be a welcomed res
pite from the trials and woes of
examinations as he makes his first
appearance on the A. & M. campus.
His distinctive rhythm is an under
current in all the band’s arrange
ments, a rhythm pattern that mak
es the orchestra immediately recog
nizable. To musicians it is a varia
tion of the six-eight tempo as con
trasted with the straight four-four
of most bands, or the straight
eight-beats-to-a-bar of the boogie
woogie style.
68 Students Begin
Ship Building Work
Sixty-eight A. & M. students will
be notified within the next day or
two when they will start work for
the Houston Ship Building Corpo
ration, Lucien Morgan, head of the
Student Placement Bureau an
nounced yesterday.
Six representatives of the Texas
State Employment Service and R.
S. Bergquist, personnel director of
the Houston Ship Building Corpo
ration, interviewed 150 A. & M.
students, who have had two or
more years of engineering, several
days ago and a list of sixty-eight
of them is being forwarded to Mor
gan with the designated dates that
these men will start to work.
Those students that were accept
ed for the jobs will be interviewed
again in Houston before starting
to work.
Some of the students will start
work on June 9 and others will
start June 12, June 16 and July 1.
Each job will pay 75 cents per
hours at 40 hours a week with time
and a half overtime. The work that
is offered includes structural work,
mechanical end electrical engineer
ing work, welding and drafting.
The work will be offered to the ap
plicants for just the summer or
permanently.
The Houston Ship Building Cor
poration is a concern recently or
ganized which has contracted to
build 30 cargo vessels of the “ugly
duckling” type. In the near future
more offers for jobs will be made,
Bergquist said.
Plans for Paving City
Street Now Underway
Paving of the Streets of College
Station will begin as soon as suf
ficient funds have been collected
from citizens, Mayor F. G. Ander
son announced this week.
Cost of the Seal-Coat Asphalt
pavement will be approximately
fifty cents per running foot. Of
this, the property owner will be
expected to pay twenty-five cents
per foot.
Commencement Speaker
Blaisdell, Commencement Speaker, Has
Worked for General Electric 37 Years
Leonard Tibbetss Blaisdell, Com
mercial Vice-President of the Gen
eral Electric Company who will de
liver the commencement address to
the graduating seniors of the Class
of ’41, has held almost every sort
of position with GE since 1904.
Born and reared on a New Eng
land farm near Carlisle, Massa
chusetts, Blaisdell attended the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Nautical Training School and grad
uated in marine engineering in
1904. He was employed by GE the
same year and has continued with
them since.
From 1904 to 1907, Blaisdell at
tended the Students’ Testing Course
for Engineering Graduates located
in the factories at Lynn, Massachu
setts. From 1907 to 1911 he was
application engineer and supervisor
of power plant installations on land
and also on ships of the Merchant
Marine and the U. S. Navy. In
1911 he was made commercial engi
neer of the Baltimore, Maryland
office and remained in this posi
tion until 1917.
During the World War I, he was
transferred to the Washington, D.
C. office where he participated in
the General Electric Company’s
activities with the War and Navy
Department and Bureaus of the
Federal Government. He continued
as the manager of the Washington
office until 1923.
In 1923 Blaisdell was transfer
red to Dallas, Texas, where he was
made district manager in charge
of the company’s activities on the
engineering and apparatus lines
for the several Southwestern
states. In 1936 he was made Com
mercial Vice-President of the Gen
eral Electric Company, living in
Dallas until 1939 when he was
transferred to Cleveland, Ohio.
Thirty-One College Staff Members
Listed in Engineering Who's Who
Thirty-one members of the col--f A. W. Stevens, M. K. Thornton, H.
lege staff have been listed in the J. Vance, and S. R. Wright.
fifth edition of Who’s Who in En
gineering, a boigraphical dictionary
of the engineering profession, re
cently published.
Qualifications for inclusion in
the volume are engineers of out
standing and acknowledged pro
fessional eminence; engineers of
at least ten years active practice,
at least five years of which have
been in responsible charge of im
portant engineering work; teach
ers of engineering subjects in col
leges or schools of accepted stand
ings who have taught such sub
jects for at least ten years, at least
five years of which have been in
responsible charge of a major en
gineering course in such college or
school.
Those listed from A. & M. are
Howard W. Barlow, F. C. Bolton,
F. A. Burt, C. W. Crawford, H. C.
Dillingham, Nat Edmondson, V. M.
Faires, L. L. Fouraker, F. E. Gie-
secke, Gibb Gilchrist, L. L. Grandi,
H. E. Gross, L. M. Haupt, E. J.
Howell, M. C. Huges, A. A. Jak-
kula, F. R. Jones, J. D. Lindsay,
J. T. L. McNew and T. A. Munson.
Also Judson Neff, N. F. Rode,
O. W. Silvey, E. G. Smith, H. P.
Smith, H. C. Spencer, E. W. Steel,
The book is published every four
years and contains only material
as submitted by the indicidual to
publishers.
Bundles for Britain
Headquarters Open
The local Bundles for Britain
headquarters will be closed until
June 9 after which time it will be
opened for the summer according
to an announcement Friday by
Mrs. C. B. Campbell, chairman.
During the summer the head
quarters, which is located at Dean
Puryear’s old residence, will be op
en on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday mornings from 8:30
to 11:30.
Engineering faculty wives will
be in chcarge on Tuesdays while
wives of experiment station work
ers will take over on Wednesdays.
On Thursdays the work will be di
rected by army officers’ wives,
and liberal arts faculty wives do
the work on Fridays.
Mrs. Campbell urged all students
to bring their old clothes over to
to the headquarters instead of
throwing them away.
Motion Picture
Committee Chosen
To Continue Fight
With Last Week’s Exercises [J , ™ e . r stu ? e " te .
Year’s Total Grads No. 808 Here oZ Weekend
Gillis, Heitkamp and
Sterling Will Carry on
Work of Current Committee
The Senior Class Motion Picture
committee announced yesterday af
ternoon the three juniors who will
carry on the work during the forth
coming long session in the event
that the controversy is not settled
by the arbitration which begins in
Dallas June 9.
Battalion Editor-Elect Tom Gil
lis, Longhorn Editor-Elect R. L.
Heitkamp and Varsity Letterman
James Sterling are the men who
have been named by Senior Com
mitteemen W. A. Becker, George
Fuermann and Benton Elliott.
L. W. Klingman, Dallas insur
ance man, has been named arbi
trator of the clearance dispute in
volving the Campus Theater of
College Station, the Bryan Amuse
ment Company, and the Jefferson
Booking Company of Beaumont
Ben Ferguson, manager of the
Campus Theater announced today.
Hearings on the matter will be
gin Monday, June 9. The case as
filed by the Campus Theater con
tends that the Jefferson Amuse
ment Company has a financial in
terest in the Bryan theaters as
booking agent, and further, that
the Palace and the Queen thea
ters in Bryan have 30 to 45 days
clearance over College Station.
This clearance, the complaint
holds, is unreasonable because
College Station and Bryan are
separate municipalities. The re
quest for arbitration asks that
this clearance be eliminated or ad
justed to a reasanable basis.
Many Students
Make Applications
With recruiting officers from
both the Army Quartermaster
corps and Air corps on the cam
pus many students are treking
daily to Ross Hall to make appli
cation.
Students who will receive com
missions this week but who desire
to do construction work in the army
should make application to Captain
C. W. Terry, QMC, who will be in
Room 18, Ross Hall at 8 p. m. to
day, Friday, and Saturday.
Engineering or architecture
graduates who will not receive
commissions but who want Quar
termaster corps service in a civil
ian capacity should also contact
Captain Terry.
Many applications for flying ca
det training have been received by
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Weekend's Festivities Begin Today
With Concert and End with Final Review
Seven hundred and forty-seven graduates—the remainder from the
special early graduation exercises held last week—will parade across
the stand to receive a diploma certifying that their college careers
have come to a close. With the 61 graduated Friday, the total figure
for the year is 808, the largest graduating class to come forth from the
college in its 65-year history.
The weekend’s activities open this afternoon with a concert from
the Aggie Band at 4:30 in Guion hall. The program will be presented
from the stage with Lieut. Col. R. J. Dunn directing.
Tonight from 10 ’till 2 the juniors hold their prom in Sbisa hall,
dancing to the music of Lou Breese and his orchestra. Graduating sen
iors will be the guests of the class at the dance and will be allowed
to enter free of charge both at the Junior Prom and the Final Ball.
The baccalaureate, sermon will be given Friday morning at 10:30
by Rev. Umphrey Lee, D.D., president of Southern Methodist univer
sity at Dallas. Seniors and parents will attend.
The processional to Guion hall for the sermon will form in the
order as follows: President Walton, Rev. Lee, members of the board
of directors, deans and directors, heads of departments and candidates
for degrees. The formation will be in column of two’s, and with the
exception of the candidates, will^. -
form in the lobby of the Academic
building.
The graduating class will form
on the lawn west of the Academic
building and south of the sidewalk,
arranged alphabetically according
to courses, those receiving ad
vanced degrees first in line.
Marvin McMillan
Receives Danforth
Scholarship Award
Friday at 6:00 p. m. the com
mencement program will begin.
Leonard T. Blaisdell, commercial
vice-president of General Electric
at Cleveland will make the com
mencement address. This speech
will be followed by the valedic
tory address, delivered by Jeff
Montgomery who was elected by
the graduating class as its scho
lastic leader. The same order of
procession will be observed for the
commencement program as for the
baccalaureate address. As is cus
tomary, President Walton will con
fer the degrees and the president
of the board of directors, F. M.
Law of Houston will present the
Montgomery,
Haines Presented
Harvard Awards
W. Jefferson Montgomery of
Mason, Texas, and Paul G. Haines
of College Station have received
word from Harvard University
that they have been awarded schol
arships in the Harvard Business
School.
Only two other schools in Texas,
Rice Institute and Southern Metho
dist University, were represented
by the fifty-five students who will
enter the business school next Sep
tember. Twenty-one students have
receiver National Scholarships
ranging in amount from $100 to
graduates with their diplomas.
Marvin McMillan, Jr., animal
husbandry freshman from Mason,
Texas, has been named as winner
of the Freshman Danforth Award
for this year, according to an an
nouncement from Dean E. J. Kyle
of the school of agriculture.
This fellowship is awarded by
W. H. Danforth, president of the
Ralston Purina Mills of St. Louis,
Mo. The outstanding freshman ag
riculture student from every major
state agriculture college is given
a two-weeks trip to a summer camp
on the shores of Lake Michigan to
the American Youth Foundation
Leadership Training Camp.
Previously this year Stephen B.
Williams and Jack B. Taylor were
named as winners of the Danforth
fellowships for outstanding junior
agriculture students in 38 colleges
and universities over the nation.
Williams is a dairy husbandry
major from Los Fresnos, Texas,
and a member of Headquarters
Troop Cavalry. Taylor is taking
animal husbandry. His home is As-
permont, Texas, and is in 3rd
Battery Field Artillery.
These junior fellowships are
awarded jointly by the Danforth
Foundation and the Ralston Purina
Mills. Students are given an op
portunity to study, through actual
experience, problems of manufac
turing, commercial research, sales
promotion, advertising, • personnel
and leadership.
The trips, which will begin July
28, consists of two phases. The
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A uld Lang Syne
Above The Battalion’s editors for the 1940-41 session are seen working on the last edition of the
publication issued under their editorship. Left to right, they are Associate Editor George Fuermann,
Houston; Editor-in-Chief Bob Nisbet, Bryan; Managing Editor Bill Clarkson, Corsicana and Manag
ing Editor Earle A. Shields Jr., Amarillo.
Several Changes Made
In Arrangements to Make
It a Livelier Occasion
Friday and Saturday Aggie-Exes
from all parts of the country will
trek to Aggieland for the annual
meeting of the Former Students’
Association.
“Service to A. & M. men who
have been called to military duty”
will be the central theme of this
year’s meeting. At a recent called
meeting the Executive Committee
of the Association declared this
subject to be the most important
facing A. & M. men today. Speak
ing for the Committee, Association
President Bert Pfaff of Tyler, said,
“We believe this subject should
have the earnest consideration of
every A. & M. man and the of
ficers and directors of the Associa
tion of Former Students need your
thoughts upon what we and our
organization can do along this
line.”
Meeting Changes
In an effort to make the annual
meeting this year a livelier occa
sion the Executive Committee at
its recent meeting authorized sev
eral changes in general arrange
ments. The annual Association
business meeting will follow im
mediately the Faculty-Former Stu
dent luncheon at Sbisa Hall, Sat.
noon, June 7. This will eliminate
the usual delay in moving from
the luncheon to the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel.
Another change designed to both
improve and facilitate the business
meeting will be delaying the meet
ing of the newly elected Board of
Directors until after the conclusion
of the general session. In the past
the Directors have retired during
the meeting for the election of of
ficers, as provided by the by-laws
of the organization. Under the new
program their session will be held
after the general meeting and new
ly elected officers announced thru
the Press and the Texas Aggie.
These changes and a general
shortening of other routine items
of business have been designed by
the Executive Committee to pro
vide more time for general dis
cussion by Association members.
Busy Week-End
The annual meeting will get
under way Friday, June 6, with re
union classes leading the way with
special class parties that after
noon. Graduation exercises at Kyle
Field, the lawn party of President
and Mrs. T. O. Walton and the
Final Ball will complete the Friday
program. Commencement speaker
will be Mr. L. T. Blaisdell, Com
mercial Vice President, General
Electric Co., Cleveland, Ohio. Mr.
Blaisdell is an honorary member
of the Dallas A. & M. Club.
On Saturday morning the Final
Review will provide its old, old
thrill to visiting A. & M. men.
Members of the Auditing, Nomina
tions and Resolutions Committees,
appointed by President Pfaff, will
meet for business sessions that
morning in preparation for the gen
eral meeting.
YMCA Sponsors Trip
To Camp in Hollister
This morning J. Gordon Gay and
Alfred Paine of the Y. M. C. A.
leave with several A. & M. stu
dents to go to Hollister, Missouri
for a nine-day camp beginning
June 6 and ending June 15.
This camp is held each year at
the close of the academic school
year and is maintained by the Y.
M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. of the
southwest. The A. & M. Y. M. C. A.
has attended this camp every sum
mer for several years, taking from
three to six students for the train
ing program that is carried on
there. The camp is attended by
both students and faculty members
from the various colleges and uni
versities of the southwest and in
cludes training courses in leader
ship and planning, religious inspi
ration, and includes opportunities
for outdoor i-ecreation.