THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1942-
Dean Ryle
Crowns King
At 11th Show
Duchesses Selected
Leaders From Texas
Cities and Colleges
Dr. E. J. Kyle, dean of the
school of agriculture will crown
the king and the king in turn will
crown the queen. The maids to
the queen will be dressed in white
cotton dresses and will carry red
rosebuds tied with blue ribbon
carrying out the victory theme
popular at this time.
One of the duchesses to the
queen of the Cotton Pageant to
morrow night will be Miss Laura
Beesley of Texas university. She
will be duchess from The Battal
ion and will be escorted by Clyde
C. Franklin, junior managing edi
tor of The Battalion. She is a
member of Pi Lambda Theta, hon
orary fraternity for women at
Texas U.
Requirements for membership in
the organization include a B-plus
average and recommendation by
two members of the faculty. New
members were initiated, at a ban
quet recently at which Mrs. Horn
er P. Rainey was the guest speak
er.
Miss Beesley is a junior at the
university and is also a member
of The Bluestockings,' a dramatic
club which studies and presents
plays in connection with the cur
ricula in which they are engaged.
A great deal of attention is paid
to Shakespeare, the faculty there
states. She also belongs to the Cap
and Gown.
Duchesses will enter the court
which will be staged in Guion Hall
down one aisle and exit down the
other. Escorts will meet their dates
at the foot of the stage after the
duchess has made one full turn
on the stage to display her dress.
The names of the duchesses and
their escorts will be announced
over the public address system
and the escort will take his date
and walk up the aisle and go up
stairs to the balcony to be seated
for the remainder of the perform
ance.
Origipal plans for this year’s
Cotton Pageant called for it to
be held in Sbisa Hall but the plans
had to be changed because it would
not be possible to clear the floor
in time for the show. It had been
customary in the past to hold the
pageant in the Deware Field
House, commonly called the gym,
but this was ruled out early in the
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Pictured above is Miss Laura Beesley, Texas uni
versity junior who has been selected as duchess of The
Battalion in the Cotton Pageant.
To the right is her escort Clyde C. Franklin, Battalion
Reporter for the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Franklin is a
junior in civil engineering.
H H Brians, Social Secretary,
Directs Duchesses and Escorts
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By Clyde C. Franklin
Howard H. Brians, C Cavalry,
social secretary of the eleventh an
nual Cotton Pageant and Ball is a
senior in Agronomy from El Paso.
He is in charge of all the corre
spondence with the 160 odd duch
esses and their escorts who will be
presented on the stage of Guion
Hall at 8 p.m. May 1.
Brians is Lieutenant Colonel of
the Cavalry regiment and was
chosen as one of the representa
tives in Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities this year.
Last year he was junior social
secretary of the Cotton Ball and
parlimentarian of the Agronomy
society.
Brians follows in the footsteps
of Jim Pinson, social secretary of
the tenth annual Cotton Ball held
last year. Brians and Pinson were
both parlimentarians in the Ag
ronomy society the year before
they were elected to the office of
social secretary and they are both
from C Cavalry.
Having handled the correspond
ence and pictures of the duchesses
year in favor of the old mess hall.
The tradition of having the Cot
ton Ball in the mess hall has not
been broken and that event will
begin immediately after the pag
eant is over. Probably about 10:15
p. m. Tickets will be sold at the
door for $1.50.
Winners of this year’s cotton
tour will' be announced at the
pageant and the winners intro
duced to the audience from the
stage.
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he states that the girls entering
into the pageant this year are the
prettiest ever and that this year
the society will present the grand
est Cotton Pageant ever to he
staged on the A. & M. campus.
Brians asserted “Interest is run
ning high as evidenced by the rap
id sale of reserved seat tickets.
Already tickets are getting scarce
as everyone wanting a reserved
seat is trying to avoid the mad
dening last-minute rush at the
ticket window.” Reserved seats are
still to be had by calling either at
the W.S.D. store in Bryan or at
the Agronomy office Room 300
Agriculture Building. Reserved
seats are 50 cents and general ad
mission seats 35 cents.
Miss Ernestine Ashe, Cotton
Pageant queen, was chosen by the
members of the society to reign
over the Cotton Court with Gene
Wilmeth, King Cotton, at the Red
bud Festival held last month on
the TSCW campus. At the same
time eight maids to the queen were
chosen from the girls in the festi
val.
This year’s pageant will differ
from those of the past few years
in that there will be no style show
of cotton creations. This had to be
left out because of the increased
number of duchesses and the lack
of space in Guion Hall.
The duchesses and their escorts
will enter the main auditorium of
Guion Hall, march down the aisle,
the duchess will mount the stage
and display her gown, meet her
escort in front of the stage and
exit down the other aisle and pro
ceed to the balcony to be seated.
The king and queen and the maids
to the queen will be seated on the
stage which will be set as a pala
tial room.
The route to be followed by this
year’s Cotton Tour has not been
mapped yet but it is almost cer
tain that it will be confined to the
borders of the United States.
Pilots Raise Eye
Brows — No Wonder
RANDOLPH FIELD, April 29.,
—We just know there’s no con
nection—but pilots here reached
bacl^ and felt their parachutes,
raised their eyebrows a bit when
this ad appeared in today’s “Daily
Bulletin:”
“For Sale—Hand crocheted bed
spread. Can be seen at Parachute
Department.”
J S Mogford Original 'Daddy’
Of Now Famous CottonNTours
Beginning almost in obscurity
J. S. Mogford started the first
Cotton Pageant. It was his own
idea to promote a world tour for
worthy students of Agronomy. At
pregent a series of nine examina
tions is given covering all the
phases of agronomy and the three
men receiving the highest grades
get the tvip.
Mogford received his first de
gree from A. & M. in 1916 and
later completed the work required
for a M. S. in 1920.
At the beginning of his Cotton
Pageants he had all the little girls
in the vicinity of the college whom
he could get to be in his show
participate. They wore cotton
wash-dresses, bringing them out
with them and changing their cos
tumes in the lounge of the old
Y.M.C.A.
His project gained in momentum
and has kept rolling for eleven
years and this year he is again
presenting the Cotton Pageant
which now carries with it the Cot
ton Ball and in it will be some 160
of the most beautiful girls in the
Southwest. The show begins in
Guion Hall at 8 p.m. May 1.
Page 3
Wilmeth Pays Own Way, Wins
Many High Honors and Awards
Gene Wilmeth, king cotton of
1942, a senior in D Infantry comes
from Ebony, Texas and will reign
over the Cotton Pageant in Guion
Hall May 1. In his court will be
some 160 of the most beautiful
girls in the Southwest. These girls
will represent over 120 schools and
clubs. All of their escorts are
Aggies.
Wilmeth is president of the Ag
ronomy society and last year was
junior business manager of the
Cotton Ball. He is a member of
the scholarship Honor society, a
member of the Press club and
Gum-Shoe for the Duncan Diners.
He is circulation manager for
The Battalion this year and was
a member of the circulation staff
of the publication last year.
He won a coveted Fish numeral
in track in the spring of 1939 and
won cross-country letters in 1939
and 1940. He was captain of the
cross-country team in 1940.
Besides the achievements enum
erated above he has paid his own
expenses through school, having
worked as a waiter in the mess
hall for four years.
Wilmeth states, “Up until this
Cotton School
Will Be Held For
Thirty-Third Year
Although most of the short
courses generaly scheduled at A.
& M. during the summer months
have been cancelled due to the
speed-up program at the college,
the annual summer cotton school
will be held for the thirty-third
year.
The course will last six weeks,
June 1-July 11 and during the
same period three ginner’s courses
will be offered.
The first will run from June
1-June 13; the second from June
15-June 27; and the final one from
June 29-July 11.
Owing to the large enrollment
expected for the regular courses
and the number of men taking de
fense training, it was announced
that living facilities will not be
available for students taking the
cotton school course but that
rooms will be available just off
the campus.
Picture Not Blackout
But Group of Negro
Spiritualists in Dark
Some comment is still going
around about the picture which
appeared on the front page of
The Battalion a few days ago
under the caption reading “Langs
ton A Capella Choir.” Most of the
corps assumed that it was a pic
ture of a black cat in a blackout
but this was erroneous.
The picture was of a negro
choral group but was unfortunate
ly run upside down. Another mis
take in the picture was in the
making. Before snapping the negro
group the house lights were dim
med, adding to the shady appear
ance.
Students commuting from their
homes to Massachusetts State
college and back again pile up 2,-
479 miles each day.
year I preferred blonds.” He
changed his ideals when he saw
Miss Ernestine Ashe whom he and
the social committee selected to
be the prettiest of 100 of the most
beautiful girls on the TSCW
campus to be queen of this year’s
Cotton Pageant. Miss Ashe is a
freshman at TSCW and a sister
to Miss Anna Ruth Ashe who was
chosen as Aggie Day Sweetheart
at the TSCW football game last
fall. Miss Ashe is a senior at
TSCW.
Staged as a throne room in a
Agronomy Duchess
Pictured above is Miss Pauline
Webster, duchess to the Cotton
Pageant from the Agronomy
society. Her escort is Howard
Warner, business manager of
the Cotton Ball and Pageant.
palace the stage of Guion Hall
will seat the king and queen sur
rounded by the maids of honor to
the queen and their escorts.
Cotton Ball Net
Profits Will Be
Split Fifty-Fifty
All proceeds from this year’s
Cotton Ball will be split equally
with the Student Activities office
and the Agronomy department as
trustees of the Cotton' Tour fund.
This is in accordance with the
agreement made at the beginning
of this year by the Student Ac
tivities committee at the same
time that it was agreed that the
Guion Hall picture show would
give 20 percent of its profits to
that committee to be re-distributed
to various clubs and organizations
on the campus.
The additional money available
through the Cotton Ball will be
distributed to the clubs next year
along with the other proceeds go
ing into the office in charge.
Because the money is being di
vided in this way there are no
passes being issued to the dance
as it is being held in accordance
with the rule that all dances held
by regiments or organizations not
open to the general student
body should be corps dances. An
other regular corps dance will fol
low the Cotton Ball on Saturday
night, also to be held in Sbisa
Hall. N
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