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122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAR. 19, 1942
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QMC Training Is Ordered Into Effect Immediately
Student Loan
Fund System
Is Revamped
More Assistance
Available Under
New Four Year Plan
Sweeping changes in the student
loan fund program of the Asso
ciation of Former Students, de
signed to make greater assistance
available to outstanding students,
and the establishment of a gener
al loan fund award committee to
assist in the new program, have
been announced effective at the
beginning of the next term of
school. The eventual aim of the
new program is that no outstand
ing student should be forced to
leave college for financial reasons.
The new plan will endeavor to
work out a complete financial
program for each student selected
for an assistance award; a prog
ram designed to enable comple
tion of the college course. Repay-
rpent of money advanced will fol
low graduation or college attend
ance. In the past student loans
have been made on a term to
term basis and often have not of
fered permanent solution of the
student’s problem.
The new plan is an extension
of the Opportunity Award prog
ram of the Association of Former
Students, inaugurated three years
ago on a trial basis. Forty out
standing high school graduates
have entered A. & M. under this
financial plan that covers their
four or five year period of at
tendance. During the present
emergency and speed-up program
no more high school graduates
will be eligible and all awards will
go to men who have already com
pleted one or more semester’s
work at A. & M. A limited num
ber of the new awards will be
available at the beginning of the
June term.
To assist in the administration
of the new program and in the
selection of students to receive
awards the following campus
committee has been established,
M. L. Cashion, Y. M. C. A. secre
tary; W, L, Penberthy, head, de
partment of physical education;
W. R. Horsley, student employ
ment officer; H. L. Heaton, acting
registrar, and Thomas Mayo, lib
rarian. Also serving on the com
mittee will be the student Loan
Fund Trustees of the Ex-Student
Association, Tyree L. Bell, ’31,
Dallas; A. F. Mitchell, ’09, Corsi-
(See STUDENT LOAN, Page 4)
A & M Has Provided More Navy Officer Here
Officers Than Any Other School Trainees"^ April
By Bess Stephenson
in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Texas A. & M. College, which
trains more men than West Point
contributed 2,200 officers to the
United States Army in the World
War in 1917-18.
Since 1918, it has added 5,135 of-
111
fils
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J. A. WARDEN
. . . now a brigadier general.
ficers to the army’s reservoir of
organized reserves and most of
these long since have been called
those from the class of 1908. Three
of their number are generals now.
One is Maj. General George Flem
ing Moore, commanding the Coast
Artillery defense of Corregidor
Island. One is Brig. Gen. D. B.
Netherwood of the United States
Army Air Corps, and one is Brig.
Gen. John A. Warden.
Still another is A. B. Whittett,
a ranking engineer in the United
States Ordnance Department, and
another was Jesse L. Easterwood.
A. & M.’s half-million-dollar air
port is named in honor of “Red”
Easterwood.
First Flying Ace
Easterwood distinguished him
self and brought honor to Aggie-
land as the navy’s first flying ace
in World War I. The Navy flier
lost his life in an accident in
in command of Corregidor Fort
ress in the Philippines.
Rose to Major General
Captain Moses, commandant
from 1907 to 1911, rose to the
rank of major general himself be
fore his retirement in 1938. His
last command was the Hawaiian
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GEORGE FLEMING MOORE
. . . he’s at Corregidor.
to active duty in a new world con
flict.
They are with MacArthur in the
Philippines. They are in Java, in
Ireland and the Dutch West In
dies. They are in training camps
throughout the country and with
the United States Army wherever
troops may be.
1908 Class Proudest
Proudest of all Aggie exes are
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D. B. NETHERWOOD
. . . Air Corps general.
Panama after the Armistice. He
crashed in a seaplane while testing
it over the Gulf of Panama.
He died a hero.
The class of ’08, which contrib
uted a naval ace to World War I,
and three generals to World War
II, had Capt. Andrew Moses for
its military idea. He was com
mandant and professor of military
science and tactics and one of the
most popular “Bulls” A. & M. has
ever had.
The Longhorn (Aggie yearbook)
was dedicated in 1908 to Capt.
Andy Moses.
Recently one of the new dormi
tories constructed on the campus
was named after Andy Moses,
now a retired general, and an
other in honor of one of the out
standing members of the class of
’08, General George F. Moore, now
A. B. WHITTETT
. . . he’s in Ordnance
Department. He is now in Walter
Reed Hospital in Washington,
D. C.
JESSE L. EASTERWOOD
. . . Red was a Navy ace.
He can claim one, perhaps two,,
other brigadier generals as his
boys. Brig. Gen. Howard David
son of the Army Air Corps is
from the class of ’ll. Col. E. A.
Eversburg, who recently abandon
ed the rank of brigadier general
to take up new duties with the
Quartermaster Corps at San An
tonio, is from the Aggie class of
1913.
66 Air Raid Wardens Finish Courses;
Will Be in Charge College Station Area
Basic civilian training in the air
raid warden course has been com
pleted by 68 residents of College
Station, and these men are now
qualified to act as air raid war
dens. This training is required by
law for all wardens, and comprises
26 hours of instruction in first aid,
fire defense, gas protection, gen
eral air raid instruction and drill.
Instruction has also been com
menced in an advanced 10-hour
first aid course, which will give
men completing it a higher rating.
No training is being required of
student air raid wardens at the
college proper because of their
lack of available time.
Names following are of those
civilians who have completed the
first course:
West Park Zone: Eddie Chew,
D. R. Davis, H. L. Kidd, R. F.
Mitchell, L. Molyneaux, Raymond
Reiser, R. L. Simms.
North Gate Zone: Norman An
derson, A. P. Boyett, G. F. Boyett,
E. E. Brown, J. K. Mackey, W. H.
Freiberger.
College Park Zone: G. W. Ad-
riance, A. A. Blumberg, R. L. Don
ahue, E. C. Klipple, H. A. Luther,
R. R. Lyle, M. L. Patranella, G. E.
Potter, C. H. Ransdell, G. J. Sam-
uelson, G. W. Schlesselman, F. M.
Smith, R. W. Steen, E. E. Vezey.
Oak Wood Zone: H. E. Burgess,
J. W. Collier, J. F. Fudge, J. C.
Gaines, C. B. Godbey, R. C. Haus-
ery, H. L. Heaton, A. R. Kemmer-
er, V. A. Little, A. C. Magee, Leroy
Nixon, James Overall, L. S. Paine,
N. E. Rigler, G. K. Schoepfle, J.
F. Smith, Walter Steen, Ide P.
Trotter.
College Hills Zone: K. F. Al
drich, J. E. Breland, W. D. Burk-
halter, P. W. Burns, R. W. Hagler,
B. B. Hammer, Ross Herring, J.
B. Lauterstein, Lovis Mais, R. C.
Potts, J. Quisenberry, A. L. Ros-
pin, S. I. Scheldrup, E. H. Schmidt,
Editor-elect Named
Junior Editor for ’42
This year there will be no jun
ior editor of the Longhorn named
but the editor-elect of the 1943
Longhorn will be named junior
editor.
In past years it has been the
custom for the editor to name the
most outstanding junior as junior
editor. This year no one junior has
proven more outstanding or su
perior to the others and in order
to avoid giving one junior the edge
over the others in the election by
naming a junior editor, the editor-
elect will be named junior editor,
A. F. 3n M e, E. E. S„u ggs . E. M. ^
White.
West of Railroad Tracks Zone:
A. S. Nemec, R. M. Sherwood.
Campus Zone: H. L. Boyer, A.
J. Sterges, A. M. Madeley, J. J.
Woolket.
Lieutenant Strother
Transferred to Hulen
First Lieut. Tom B. Strother,
Coast Artillery, has been transfer
red to Camp Hulen, at Palacios,
and left the campus Wednesday
to take up his new assignment.
Lieut. Strother is an ex-Aggie,
having graduated in 1938. Upon
graduation he entered the U. S.
Army and was assigned to Fort
Crockett. On Sept. 10, 1940, Lieut.
Strother assumed his duties as
instructor in the Coast Artillery
at A. & M., and has served here
until the present time. His duties
at Camp Hulen have not been des
ignated. A replacement officer has
not been named.
Classes Conducted
On College Level
Held in AAA Building
Lieut. E. Phillips of the Eighth
Q. S. Naval District arrived here
this week to make arrangements
for the 600 new naval trainees
who will start arriving here April
1. Two hundred men will arrive
on this date followed by 200 on
April 28 and 200 May 26.
About 600 men will be main
tained here in the divisions of
naval materials corps and will
train men at the rate of 200 a
month. Each group will be re
placed by another when training
is finished.
Later there will be 800 students
to be trained in naval radio op
erations but details are not as yet
complete.**
The AAA building will be
worked over after the AAA moves
about April 1 so that it can be
used for offices and classrooms
for the navy.
This unit will be housed in the
four new dormitories which have
been built in the north gate area
and they will be messed in the
old mess hall. Although these men
will be enlisted navy personnel
they will be men about the same
age of the students here and will
be functioning as students while
here.
Mary Had a Little
Lamb, She Took It
To Her Classes; Illegal
Baylor university’s dormitory
matrons ruled today that even
baby lambs must not follow Mary
to her classes.
The lamb in question, bathed
carefully and decorated with rib
bon and orchid, was given to Anna
Katheryn Elder, senior beauty
from Greenville, by E. F. Grim, a
gridster from Henderson.
But “a baa baa here and a baa
baa there” drove the matrons to
distraction. Now Herman, the lit
tle lamb, must reside with Crim
until it gets big enough for lamb
chops.
Woodward Speaks
At ASCE Meeting
E. C. Woodward, district en
gineer for the Texas State High
way department out of Fort
Worth, and president of the Texas
Section of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, will speak to
night in the C. E. lecture room at
a meeting of the A.S.C.E.
Woodward has sent no informa
tion about the subject of his
speech but the paper has been pre
pared for the students, Jesse A.
Teague, president of the student
chapter stated.
Eighteen students attended the
spring meeting of the Texas sec
tion in Austin last Friday and Sat
urday. While there the students
made an inspection trip to the
Lamar Street bridge which is a
concrete arch bridge being built
using as little critical material as
possible.
Speer Acts as Tactical
Officer Pending Arrival
Of Senior QMC Instructor
Juniors Sign Today for 32 Hour Course;
Class Schedules Will Not Be Affected
By Clyde C. Franklin
“Instructions from Colonel E. A. Keyes are to start
immediate training in the Quartermaster corps,” Major A.
J. Bennett stated yesterday. Lieut, M. E. Speer has tem
porarily been assigned to this unit and is now signing men
to go into it probably Monday, Major Bennett said.
A 32 hour course has been set up and an officer from
the Quartermaster Corps will arrive soon to act as senior
instructor in the course. He will probably be a captain.
Contract Seniors Get Preference
Lieut. Speer is choosing men from available students.
Twelve seniors have already been selected to transfer their
contracts from other branches to the Quartermasters and
38 more will be chosen from seniors who desire the course,
have applied for the transfer and whose transfers were
not granted at that time. Other4--
vacancies in the course for seniors
will be filled from men whose
academic work fits them for the
QMC who are are now taking
military science.
Any remaining senior contracts
will be given seniors taking mili
tary science as an elective.
Courses which are considered as
fitting men for the QMC are eco
nomics, accounting and marketing
and finance. Animal husbandry
Juniors enrolled in the In
fantry, Field Artillery and
Cavalry who do or do not
have contracts in the Quarter
master Corps may get these
by seeing Lieut. M. E. Speer
in Room 36 Ross hall between
9 a.m. and 6 p.m. today. No
one enrolled in engineering
need apply as no engineers
will be included in the QMC.
majors who have had special
meats work are also eligible. No
engineers will be taken for the
QMC. Engineering students need
not apply for transfer into these
new QMC courses, said the adjut
ant.
Ordnance Activated Soon
The ordnance corps is expected
by the military department to
start a similar move here in the
near future and will sign only en
gineering students. In the ord
nance no students other than en
gineers need apply.
No juniors will be considered
for either course who are not now
taking military science either as
an elective or as contract men un
til June 1. The reason for this is
that these men must take a physi
cal examination before they can
be signeck
In the junid? course first con
sideration is being given to men
now taking military science as an
elective. Second consideration will
be given contract men whose
courses suit them to the QMC or
ordnance. Any others will follow
on the eligible list.
No Schedules Changed
Classes will be arranged in the
new course so as not to interfere
with academic work. Course num
bers for these new courses will be
M. S. 317 and M. S. 318 for the
junior QMC and M. S. 319 and M.
S. 320 for junior ordnance. Senior
course numbers will be senior
QMC M. S. 417 and M. S. 418. Jun
ior ordnance will be designated as
M. S. 319 and M. S. 320. The larg
er of the two numbers in each
(See QUARTERMASTER, Page 4)
Walton and Kyle
Leave on Business
President T. O. Walton is in
Washington for a meeting of the
Executive Committee of Land
Grant colleges and the meeting of
the Works Committee on Higher
Education. He left yesterday and
will be back March 25.
Dean E. J. Kyle, of the school of
agriculture, is in Houston for a
meeting of the Federal Land bank
and will be back Friday. He left
yesterday.
Problem Solved; Booth, Clark, Brauchle, Pledger,
Bulkley, Cokinos, Barton, LeBus File for Yell Leader
By Ed Kingery
Responding bravely to the plea
for candidates for junior yell lead
er, the sophomore class has come
forth with a total of eight candi
dates as of Tuesday afternoon.
Those now composing the field are
Bernard Booth, Joe Clark, Flave
Pledger, Rodney Brauchle, W. B.
“Buck” Bulkley, Andrew P. Co
kinos, Jack Barton and Frank Le
Bus.
Deadline for filing candidacy
for the two junior yell leaderships
has been extended until noon Mon
day, March 23, according to Tom
Gillis, chairman of the Student
Elections committee. This is to
allow any other candidates time
to file petition signed by 200 sen
iors, juniors or sophomores, in
stead of the 50 names previously
announced in error.
Past years have seen an over
supply of would-be yell leaders.
Because of the small number of
candidates this year, the sopho
more class will not meet to narrow
down the field, and a joint meet
ing of the junior and sophomore
classes will be held Tuesday night,
March 24, to elect two men from
the total list of applicants.
Other candidates for various
positions have entered the race
since Monday. Bill Dreiss and
Dwain Treadwell filed yesterday
for Town Hall manager, R. O.
Thompson for junior representa
tive on the student activities com
mittee, H. O. Kunkel and John B.
Longley for Longhorn editor, C.
H. Wallace for editor of The En
gineer and Jack Miller for social
secretary.
None of the candidates have
been certified as to qualifications
by the Student Elections commit
tee, which will meet Monday aft
ernoon, March 23, for that pur
pose.
Dallas Architect
Gives Rare Books
Otto H. Lang, oft-styled “dean
of the architectural profession in
Texas,” has made an extensive do
nation of documents to the library
of the college Architecture depart
ment, according to an announce
ment of Department Head Ernest
Langford. Mr. Lang has recently
retired from active business.
Born in Germany, Mr. Lang was
educated there and came to the
United States in 1888. He entered
the architectural field in Dallas
at that time, and has been in that
city until the present. Shortly
after the turn of the century the
firm of Lang and Witchell was
established, and rose to a domin
ant position in architecture in the
Southwest. The concern designed
many of the outstanding buildings
in Dallas, as well as other struc
tures of note throughout the state.
Many rare and valuable docu
ments are contained in the collec
tion, which consists of about 100
volumes of reference works and
approximately the same number of
perspective drawings and photo
graphs of proposed and finished
work. These are an important ad
dition to the Architecture library.
Langford has announced that
the collection will be on display in
the library in the Academic build
ing the rest of this week during
the hours from 9 to 1 and 2 to 6,
and the public is invited to inspect
it.
Ags Win Swine
Judging Event
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The A. and M. Junior Livestock
Judging team won first honors in
swine judging while competing
with fifteen other teams in the
collegiate livestock judging con
test held March 14 at the South
western Fat Stock Show, Ft.
Worth. The team also ranked
fourth in judging beef cattle,
fourth in sheep, and fourteenth in
horses and mules. Although rank
ing tenth in judging all
classes of livestock, the team was
only forty-six points below New
Mexico State College, the third
ranking team of the contest. First
place was won by Colorado State
College.
Members of the team included
Heston McBride, Joe Lemley,
Marvin McMillan, John Powell,
Jay Pumphrey, and John Wheat,
alternate. Jay Pumphrey was third
high individual in judging all
classes of livestock among eighty
contestants. He ranked sixth in
judging beef cattle, fifth in swine
and seventh in horses and mules.
Heston McBride tied for first
place in judging beef cattle and
second place in swine judging.
John Powell tied for second place
in judging beef cattle.
The team was coached by Irvin
F. Edwards and William M. War
ren of the Animal Husbandry de
partment. Some of the outstanding
herds and flocks in the state were
visited during practice judging
workouts in preparation for the
contest.