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
VOLUME 41
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 11,1941
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NUMBER 2
Promotions On
II u v at if Teaching Staff
Held on \ Steps at Seven Recently Approved
College Night Activities
8,500 Civilians,
Cadets Expected At
First Yell Practice
The largest College Night cele
bration ever to be held in the 65-
year history of A. & M. will be
gin at seven p.m. Skeen Staley,
head yell leader predicted last
night.
With an expected attendance of
more than 8,500 cadets and civi
lians the event is the first yell
practice of the year and will be
the first opportunity that fresh
men will have to see what lies a-
head of them in the coming nine
months.
The College Night exercises will
feature short talks by President
T. 0. Walton, E. L. Angell, Gibb
Gilchrist, D. W. Williams repre
senting the Athletic ouncil, Joe
E. Davis representing the Com
mandant, Tom Gillis, Cadet Colonel
and Coach Homer Norton.
Coach Norton will introduce
members of his coaching staff and
members of the team, explaining
the prospects for this year and
the hopes that he has for the team
that authoritative critics state is
going to be the most unpredictable
in the southwest conference.
As at all yell practices the 216
piece Aggie Band will be present
to aid with popular Aggie music
and also in the yells.
The A. & M. yell leaders who will
officiate at the College Night ex
ercises include Skeen Staley, head
yell leader, J. O. Alexander, senior
assistant yell leader, Jack Nagel
and “Chuck” Chalmers, junior yell
leaders. College Night will be held
at the traditional location of all
yell practices, on the steps of the
Y.M.C.A. and the area immediate
ly surrounding the Y.
The yell leaders predict that the
College Night program will be one
of the most successful in the A.
& M. College history. Civilians in
surrounding communities are wel
come and invited to attend the
colorful and interesting functions.
One of the features of the Col
lege Night program will be the
presentation of batons to three
of the band majors—Jack Balagia,
Infantry Band, Claude Stewart,
F. A. Band, and “Bo” Hinds, Band
Major. The batons will be present
ed by Skeen Staley for Holick’s
Boot Shop.
Staley will give instructions to
the freshmen concerning the yell
practices and plans for the coming
year.
Jenkins Replaces
Woolket as Singing
Cadet Director
Beginning Group
To Supplement Advanced
Singers in the Future
R. W. Jenkins has been appoint
ed to the college faculty as a full
time director of the Singing Ca
dets to replace Dr. J. J. Woolket
who has been the director of the
choral group in the past.
Jenkins comes from Houston,
where he has been the assistant
choir director of the First Metho
dist Church and has been the choir
New Director
Deadline For
1942 Longhorn
Pictures Is Fixed
The deadline for the class pic
tures for the 1942 Longhorn have
been set. As in previous years,
the pictures will be made accord
ing to classes, and the classes will
be taken by organizations.
The senior pictures will be taken
from September 16 through Octo
ber 17, the first organization be
ing the Field Artillery, which will
have their pictures taken from Sep
tember 16 through the 22.
Each week The Battalion will
run a block column of the dates
of deadlines showing the dates each
organization will get its seniors
pictures taken. The Longhorn
staff, in order to facilitate their
work, asks that the student body
cooperate by the observance of all
deadlines, and that in filling in
class cards all spelling is cor
rect, since the writing on the card
appears in the book as it is on the
card.
R. L. Heitkamp, editor of the
yearbook, announced that there are
available two junior assistant po
sitions on the Longhorn staff, and
any juniors interested should con
tact him at the Longhorn office.
Following is a list of the dates
that seniors are to get their pic
tures taken:
September 16 through 22—Field
Artillery.
September 23 through 29—Infan
try.
September 30 through October
5—Composite Regiment.
October 6 through 8—Cavalry.
October 9 through 13—Engi
neers.
October 14 through 17—Coast
Artillery.
Richard Jenkins
director of the Collins Memorial
Methodist Church.
Jenkins is the son of Walter R.
Jenkins, who has lead singing at
A. & M. on many occasions and
will lead the singing at the Fresh
man Assembly today.
The officers of the Singing Ca
dets for the coming season will
be Pete Adams, preisdent; Tom
Collins, vice-president; J. O. Bart
lett, business manager; and C. A.
Martin, publicity.
The Singing Cadets will be di
vided into two groups, an afternoon
group, which will meet from 4 to
5 p. m. on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays, and an evening group,
meeting from seven to eight p. m.
on Mondays, Tuesday, and Thurs
days. The evening section will be
the major and most advanced
group, which will be used on con
cert tours. It will be fed by the
best singers from the afternoon
section. This evening section will
be limited to about 90 to 110 mem
bers, but the afternoon group will
be open to all Aggies who like
to sing, regardless of their abil
ity or experience.
Three Men Receive
Promotions to Full
Professorship Positions
The Board of Directors of A.
& M. approved the promotion of
several members of the college
teaching staff at their last meet
ing held here August 29.
These promotions were made up
on the recommendation of Dean F.
C. Bolton to Dr. T. O. Walton. The
promotions approved by the board
are:
Animal husbandry: N. G. Schu-
essler, associate professor to pro
fessor.
Horticulture: S. B. Apple, in
structor to assistant professor.
Biology: Dr. S. H. Hopkins, as
sistant professor to associate pro
fessor; Dr. T. W. Bretz, instructor
to assistant professor.
Chemistry: Dr. H. H. Garretson,
instructor to assistant professor.
Economics: P. A. Nutter, asso
ciate professor to professor.
English: J. Q. Hayes, assistant
professor to associate professor;
Dr. W. A. Owens, instructor to
associate professor; P. C. Key, as
sistant professor to associate pro
fessor; K. E. Elmquist, instructor
to assistant professor; F. E. Ekfelt,
instructor to assistant professor;
E. D. Hedgcock, instructor to as
sistant professor.
Geology: Dr. S. S. Goldich, as
sistant professor to associate pro
fessor; Dr. C. S. Bacon, assist
ant professor to associate profes
sor; Dr. L. D. Toulmin, Jr., instruc
tor to assistant professor; Dr. J.
F. Smith, Jr., instructor to assist
ant professor.
History: Dr. J. L. Dodson, in
structor to assistant professor.
Mathematics: Dr. E. C. Klipple,
assistant professor to associate
professor; Dr. B. W. Brewer, in
structor to assistant professor.
Physical Education: A. D. Adam
son, instructor to assistant profes
sor.
Physics: Dr. G. K. Schoepfle,
assistant professor to associate
professor; Dr. Joseph Morgan, in
structor to assistant professor.
Architecture: S. B. Zisman, as
sistant professor to associate pro
fessor.
Chemical engineering: F. F.
Bishop, associate professor to pro
fessor.
Freshman Registration Figure
Racing Toward All-Time High
Story of Aggieland
Pictured Next Month
In National Magazine
A picture story of A. & M.
taken by Harold Kulik last spring
will appear in PIC magazine next
issue. It covers the whole range
of A. & M. from the airport to
the main entrance and from the
North Gate to Uncle Ed's.
It is not known how many pic
tures will be used but the fact
that at long last some photograph
er was ^ble to sell the story' of
Aggieland to a picture magazine is
important to the near 45,000 ex-
Aggies and the almost 7,000 stu
dents now in school.
Church Groups
Entertain Fish
Tomorrow Evening
Programs Are Part Of
Orientation Plan Carried
Out at First of Each Year
Services for the purpose of ac
quainting freshmen with the va
rious churches and their pastors
will be conducted throught the cam
pus Friday night at seven o’clock.
These programs are conducted
at the beginning of each year as
a part of freshman orientation in
order that the new students may
learn the location of College Sta
tion churches and their members.
Church leaders of the differrent
churches are strongly urging the
freshmen to attend these meetings.
The First Baptist Chtirch and
the Baptist Student Union will
conduct its services at the Baptist
Tabernacle at the North Gate. Rev-
erand R. L. Brown will be in
charge of the activities.
Catholic services will be conduct
ed by Monsignor J. B. Gleissner at
the St. Mary’s Chapel.
R. B. Sweet, minister of the
Church of Christ will meet with
students of that religion at the
Church of Christ at the North
Gate.
Members of the Episcopal Church
will meet at the Episcopal Chapel
which is located on the south side
of the campus, directly across from
the drill field. Reverend Roscoe C.
Hauser will be in charge.
Those attending the Methodist
'Church will meet
James Carlin at
ernacle which
north entrance
Services will
Y. M. C. A. for Lr?
on the second
Kurt Hartman; by Nor:
son in the “Y” chapel for Pres
byterian students, and by Mrs. J.
J. Taubenhaus for Jewish students.
Students of the First Christian
Church will meet on the lawn of
Guion Hall with Reverend E. S.
Bledsoe of that church.
All other groups will meet at
Guion Hall.
Acting Registrar
H. Lloyd Heaton, who was as
sistant registrar until Major
E. J. Howell was called to
active service in the United
States Army, has been ap
pointed acting registrar by
president T. O. Walton during
Howell’s absence. R. G. Perry
man, a graduate of North Tex
as State Teachers’ College, will
act as assistant registrar.
Unofficial Total For First Day
Reaches 2308; 145 More Than ’40
In an endless stream of humanity, the Freshman Class for the
college session 1941-42 flowed through the Administration building
yesterday and forced the registrar’s office to remain open past the
usual five o’clock closing time. The unofficial registration figure for
the freshmen at the close of the day was 2,308.
This represents an increase of 145 freshmen over the same figures
at the close of the first day of reg
istration last year. At that time
'2,163 freshmen had entered A. &
M.
A & M Instructor
Publishes Article
In Trade Magazine
Chris R. Groneman, instructor
in the industrial education depart
ment here is one of the contributors
to the current issue of “Industrial
Arts and Vocational Education”
published in Milwaukee. Mr.
Groneman pens an article on how
to construct a radio end-table. Late
this fall the Bruce Publishing Com
pany has scheduled a book from
Mr. Groneman’s pen, entitled “Bent
Tubular Furniture.”
Baptists Break
Ground for 1000
Seat Church Mon.
Ground will be broken Monday
for the new Baptist Church building
which will seat over a thousand
people upon completion.
The ground will be broken by
A. D. Foreman, President of the
Baptist General Convention of Tex
as, Dr. F. B. Thorn, Pastor of the
Second Baptist Church of Hous
ton, and Dr. T. C. Jester, Pastor
of the Baptist Temple of Houston.
Construction of the new building
will begin immediately and is plan
ned to be finished and ready for
use by the beginning of the second
semester.
The auditorium of the present
will be left intact and moved to the
back of the lot for use as a recre
ational and educational center.
The new structure will be of
brick and will have a two story
auditorium. The construction work
is being done by the Brown Con
struction Company of Houston ac
cording to architectural plans by
Ralph Buffington of Houston.
The College Station Baptist
Church was started in 1921 by Mr.
and Mrs. R. L. Brown who came
here from Pennsylvania. It is the
only church here organized by stu
dent work on the campus. The
present building was completed in
1918 and enlarged in order to ac
comodate increased membership
in 1939.
Largest Campus
Building Planned
At Board Meeting
Structure Will House
Inside Drill Area, Class
Rooms, and Laboratories
Suggestions for a classroom-re-
creational building planned at pres
ent to be the largest building on
the A. & M. campus were made
at the latest meeting of the Board
of Directors of A. & M. College.
The board authorized the appli
cation for a P. W. A. loan for the
construction of the building. It
is to contain an arena that might
be used for indoor drill when
weather does not permit outdoor
activities and will be surrounded
by classrooms and laboratories to
supplement those buildings that
are becoming crowded as a result
of increasing enrollment at the col
lege.
The completion of the basement
to the college hospital and the addi
tion of a number of rooms to care
for a larger number of boys was
authorized at a cost of $6,600.
The board also directed that the
roof and floor of the field house
at Kyle Field be redone with new
materials.
lake This A&M’s
Best Year’Walton
Challenges Seniors
Cadet Officers and other student
leaders were challenged by Presi
dent T. O. Walton to meet the re
sponsibilities of the coming year
and make it the greatest in the his
tory of the college at a meeting
of the seniors and first sergeants
in the Assembly Hall Tuesday
morning.
“The people of the State of
Texas in this time of emergency
are expecting that this be the
best year in the history of A. &
M., and it depends upon the sen
iors and student leaders to fulfill
their expectations,” Dr. Walton
said. To do this you must do right
regardless and help eliminate those
practices that are harmful. Young
gentlemen, I challenge you to make
this our best year,” President
Walton continued.
Throughout the day the class of
’45 stomped and pushed their way
through registration lines. From
early in the morning, when the
freshmen attended a preliminary
meeting in the Assembly hall where
they received their instructions, the
big rush was on.
Complete figures for registra
tion will not be available for several
days as more names are constantly
being added to the college rolls by
late comers. Upperclassmen regis
tration will continue today, clas
sified seniors registered Tuesday.
Registration this year got off
to an early start compared with
last year. The first man through
the lines turned in his card at
8:25; last year the first fish didn’t
show up until 8:45 in the morning.
By nine a. m. 61 freshmen had com
pleted their registration. At ten
a. m. the number had increased to
286. Throughout the morning the
number of fish who had filed
through the registrar’s office
Steadily increased. By 12 o’clock
noon 726 men were finished.
During the afternoon the num
ber increased by successive stages
from 851 at one p. m., to 1,039 at
two p. m., 1,233 at three p. m.,
1,512 at four p. m., and 1,758 at
five p. m. At 5:30 when the last
count before the final one was
taken 1,931 fish had completed
their first official day at A. & M.
Tuesday’s early registration was
taken advantage of by 555 classi
fied seniors and first sergeants.
This was the first year in which
this group was permitted to regis
ter early. Seniors who failed to
register on Tuesday can complete
their registration today.
A regular schedule of time to
register has been prepared by the
registrar’s office and should be fol
lowed by the old students. A com
plete list of registration instruc
tions is found in the official
schedule of classes which is dis
tributed by the registrar’s office.
All students who are unable to
register at their regularly sched-
duled time will be permitted to
register at three p. m. today.
A complete total of registration
figures including today’s registra
tion will be carried in The Bat
talion as soon as they are released.
E. L. ‘Chief Angell and Joe Skiles Encounter Important New Duties
E. L. Angell, known to student
publications boys and Aggies
throughout the school as “Chief”
has taken the place of the Colonel
Ike Ashburn as assistant to the
President. He assumed his new
duties when Colonel Ashburn went
to Houston to serve as the execu
tive secretary of the Harris Coun
ty League for Industrial Peace.
Taking Chief’s place in the Stu
dent Publications office is Joe
Skiles, former member of the
State Legislature, of Denton.
Skiles has taken over his new work
as the Publications director follow
ing three regular sessions of ser
vice in the legislature, tendering
his resignation to Governor Coke
Stevenson to take his new position.
In the choice of Joe Skiles as
chief of the Student Publications,
President T. O. Walton received
the following reccomendation from
President W. J. McConnell of N.
T. S. T. C. “Joe and Mrs. Skiles
are two of the finest young people
whom we have ever graduated and
I am glad to see them step into a
situation which I believe they can
fill with credit to themselves, to
us, and to you.”
Angell was the second manager
of the student publications succeed-
his brother, J. E. Angell who took
Takes Job...
Joe Skiles
the position in 1931. “Chief”
came back to A. & M. in the spring
of 1936 and has served as publica
tions chief ever suice. He receiv-
e4 his B. S. degree from N. T. S.
T. C. and his M. S. from Columbia
University after a year at the
University of Chicago. He came
to A. & M. from Beaumont where
he was a member of the State De
partment of Education.
Skiles received his Bachelor’s
degree from N. T. S. T. C. where
he later completed on a Masters.
He attended Texas University Law
School until he was admitted to the
State Bar Association.
During his college career he
served as editor of the College pa
per as editor of the college year
book and as manager of college
publications. Boys holding simi
lar jobs at A. & M. will now be
under his supervision. Following
several months service in the un
expired term of a member of the
Legislature, Skiles was later elect
ed to the seat permanently. He
served for three regular sessions,
holding a place on the appropria
tions committee and the commit
tee on higher education.
Colonel Ashburn served as exe
cutive assistant to the President
for four years, receiving his ap
pointment to this position in 1937.
He was succeeded by E. L. Angell
when he resigned to become a
As Chief Advances
E. L. Angell
member of the Harris County Lea
gue for Industrial Peace in June.
When Angell became chief of
student publications in 1936 there
was no publications board in the
present sense nor was there an ac
tivities committee. In 1939, Town
Hall, the Longhorn, The Battalion,
and the other student activities
such as clubs and organizations as
well as the class activities came
under one office and was under
the charge of the Student Activi
ties committee. At the present a
new arrangement has been brought
about with Joe Skiles in charge of
student publications and, aiding in
student activities, Grady Elms will
deal principally with student ac
tivities and W. C. Stone will serve
as assistant chief of student publi
cations.
Martin B. Winfrey, Dallas Law
yer had the following statement
to make concerning Skiles’ appoint
ment at A. & M. “To my way of
thinking Joe Skiles was one of the
most valuable public officials the
State of Texas has had. He was
energetic, unusually able and al
together a wholesome, high class,
honorable man who will be sorely
missed by the Legislature.”
Senior Ring Orders
Accepted on 1st And
15th of Each Month
All seniors who did not receive
rings following Tuesday’s regis
tration will be able to pla ce their
orders at the registrar’s | office
during the coming year, on the
first and fifteenth of each /nonth.
The rings are available fn light
Russian, dark Russian, an ^antique
green metalic finishes. T' icy come
in a range of weights .from 12
to 18 pennyweight. Pric< j for the
rings according to weigh is are 12
pennyweight, $18.50; 13, ? 19.35; 14,
$20.20; 15, $21.05; 16, 5 ;1.90; 17,
$22.75; 18, $23.60. A t’ te dollar
deposit is required to 'Race the
order..
BATT STAFF
MEETS TONIGHT
The Battalion Stal^f will
hold its first meeting tonight
immediately after the College
Night activities in room 122
Administration building! . ’1
°ld members and prospec
tive members are urged Ip at
tend; staff organization for
the new year will be com
pleted and promotions will be
announced.