Page 6 THE BATTALION MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 21, 1942
Senior Leaders Finish Half of ’42-’43 Task
Social Secretary
Bobby Stephens
Battalion Editor
Brooks Cofer
BOBBY STEPHENS
The important position of social
secretary of the senior class will
be filled by Bobby Stephens of
the Infantry Band. It will be
Stephen’s duty to plan and super
vise the corps dances put on by
the senior class. Stephens also
heads the new outdoor dance hall
which the college built especially
Town Hall Manager
John Lawrence
for summer entertainment.
JOHN LAWRENCE
At the head of Town Hall is
John Lawrence, who has announced
already an outstanding program
for the entertainment of the corps.
Lawrence is a Liberal Arts stu
dent and comes from nearby Bry
an.
BROOKS COFER
The editor of the tri-weekly stu
dent Battalion will be Brooks Cof
er, Liberal Arts major from College
Station. Thg Battalion is also the
official newspaper for the city of
College Station. Cofer is in the
Coast Artillery on the campus.
KEN BRESNEN
Ably assisting the Battalion ed
itor will be Ken Bresnen, associ
ate editor. Bresnen served as jun
ior editor on the paper and is well
qualified. He is from Dallas and
is a member of the Scholarship
Honor Society.
REGGIE SMITH
Reggie Smith heads a strong
advertising staff for the Battal
ion. This year’s new advertising
manager led the junior assistants
in soliciting for the paper. Smith
is from Waco and is a member of
A Troop Cavalry.
Class of 1943 Continues Work of Guiding
Corps in Various Publications, Activities
Cofer, Longley, Miller, Gordon Edit Student Publications;
Chalmers Is Head Yell Leader; Stephens Is Social Secretary
The leadership of the student-^
body for the coming school term
will be in the hand of a certain
group of students, whqse responsi
bility it will be to guide the many
activities of the corps. Most of
these men have been elected by
the student body at large, while
some have been put in office by
the senior class of ’43. These men
will head the corps for the 1942-43
school year: John Lawrence, Town
Hall manager; John Longley, Edi
tor the Longhorn; Ed Gordon, Edi
tor the Engineer; Jack Miller, Edi
tor of the Agriculturist; Brooks
Cofer, Battalion Editor; Bobby
Stephens. Social Secretary of the
Senior Class; Ken Bresnen, Associ
ate Editor of the Battalion; Chuck
Chalmers, Head Yell Leader; Bob
Haney assistant yell leader; Reg
gie Smith, advertising manager of
the Battalion; and Bill McKenzie
and J. B. Booth, junior yell leader.
These men look to the corps for
cooperation in the many activities
which they represent. The success
of the many student activities will
depend upon the way in which these
men perform their duties.
McKENZIE AND BOOTH
Bill McKenzie and J. B Booth
will assist Chalmers and Haney
as junior yell leaders. McKenzie is
in the Field Artillery and Booth
in the Engineers.
JACK MILLER
Jack Miller, is the new editor of
the Agriculturist magazine as he
takes the place of Dave Pinson who
resigned. Miller is a major on the
Cavalry regimental staff, and won
the Danforth scholarship his fresh
man year.
All but two of the American
states, the District of Columbia,
five outlying possessions and three
foreign countries are represented
by correspondence students of the
University of Wisconsin.
Manager
Student Activities
L. D. Boone
L. D. BOONE
L. D. Boone, who replaced Joe
Skiles as director of student ac
tivities, is a graduate of Rice In
stitute. He came to the Aggie
campus in June of this year.
Use of Technical
Equipment Results
In Officer Shortage
The increased use of electronic
devices, communication apparatus
and the complexity of the newer
apparatus has produced a critical
shortage of officers with sufficient
training in these fields. The armed
forces have been required to con
duct long full time training pro
grams for officers. This has pro
duced serious delays in getting of
ficers in the field after they have
reported for service.
JOHN LONGLEY
The Longhorn, the college an
nual, will bq edited by John Long
ley, AA major front Giddings.
Longley served as junior editor of
the staff on this year’s Longhorn.
The plan under the new speed-up
program of the college is to have
a Longhorn with each graduating
class, that is for each class which
was in school at the time of the
change.
CHUCK CHALMERS
The leader of the famous Twelfth
Man will be Chuch Chalmers from
Houston. As senior yell leader Chal
mers will direct the activty of the
corps as it supports the Aggie
athletic teams. Chalmers is an
agricultural administration major
and is a major on the corps staff
for the coming- year.
A conference was held at Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
the first of September, which Pro
fessor H. C. Dillingham of the
Electrical Engineering department
attended, to consider what the col
leges might do to assist in giving
increased training the electronic
and communication arts with the
view of ^providing more officers
and reducing the full time service
training. Representatives from
seventy colleges, the Army, the
Navy, and the U. S. Office of Ed
ucation were present.
The conference laid out of a
course of study very similar to
the communication option in most
engineering schools and urged that
all qualified electrical engineering
students take the new course. In
order to fit this program in the
Electrical Engineering curriculum
here certain temporary- changes
have been made effective this com
ing term. These changes are prin
cipally a shifting of electives to
required courses with minor modi-
Longhorn Editor
John Longley
fication in content in some cases.
A revised curriculum is under con
sideration and will be announced
soon.
Air Corps Needs More
Experienced Workers
The Army Air Force needs more
experienced technicians like Tech-
ncial Sergeant F. T. Cook of Sher
man, Texas.
An electrician before enlisting
two years ago, Cook has designed
and built an electrical and instru
ment test bench that reduces re
quired testing and repair time
from a day or more to less than an
hour.
Using mostly salvage materials,
Cook has installed on his 8 by 14
foot bench instruments which ac
curately check magnetos, gene
rators, spark plugs, voltage regu
lators, coils, tachometers, also
hydraulic systems, brakes and
wheel assemblies.
Daniel M. Pearce, Jr., who re
cently was graduated from Harvard
university with a degree in me
chanical engineering, paid part of
his tuition by performing as a
clown at private parties.
Head Yell Leader
Chuck Chalmers
Engineer Editor
Ed Gordon
ED GORDON
“Flash” Gordon will edit the
Engineer, the student engineering
publication. Gordon is a mechani
cal engineering student from Gil
mer.
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