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The Battalion ROOM 5, ADMINISTRATION BLDG. — VOLUME 42 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12, 1943 2275 NUMBER 87 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION DIAL 4-5444 ERG to Remain in School, Inactive and Unassigned Singing Cadets Featured on Town Program Begins At 8 In Guion Hall Walter Jenkins to Appear with Cadets The Singing Cadets of Ag- gieland, under the direction of Richard Jenkins, will ap pear on Town Hall for their annual performance tonight at 8 o’clock. Appearing on the program with the Singing Cadets is Walter Jenkins, in ternationally known baritone and song leader. This is the first time since the Cadets have appeared on Town Hall, that a guest artist has been with them. The program this evening was moved up from March 15 to this date due to the unsettled condi tions at present. The Singing Ca dets now are 110 strong and Rich ard Jenkins, their director, con siders them the best group ever assembled on the campus. Walter Jenkins has sung before the corps before this time, leading the singing at assemblies in Guion Hall. At the present he is director of the choir at the First Methodist Church in Houston. According to music critics, his reputation goes hand in hand with -his ability to direct choirs and glee clubs, and to make their arrangements. Jen kins will be accompanied by Her bert Rohloff, Houston pianist. The program will consist of two parts, the first of which will be religious and classical- selections. The last part will feature novelty selections and military airs. Town Hall patrons can expect to hear the following by Singing Ca dets: The Lord’s Prayer by Ma- lotte; The Vengeance Song by Verdi; The Soldier’s Chorus by Gounod; Jericho, Spiritual; Der Fuehrer’s Face; This Is My Coun try, by Raye; and The Spirit of Aggieland by Dunn. Walter R. Jenkins, guest soloist will sing Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves by Hawdel; My Prayer by Squire; and The Hills of Home ' by Fox. He will also sing the solo in Land of Hope and Glory by El gar with the Singing Cadets. This is a repeat performance of the same song, as it was sung with the Houston Symphony while the Ca dets were on their tour to Houston in December. Feature selection of this eve ning’s program is a five-part ar rangement of the Spirit of Aggie land, made by Ken Darby of Uni versal Pictures. Kimball To Speak At ASME Banquet Tonight in Sbisa Dr. D. S. Kimball, former dean of engineering at Cornell Univer sity, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the American Society of Mechanical Engineerings, scheduled for 7:30 tonight in the banquet room of Sbisa Hall. The speaker, who will be intro duced by Tommy Bolling, president of the ASME, is head of the Tool Priority Board of the War Pro duction Board. After leaving Washington, D. C. last September, Dr. Kimball came to A. & M. and is now a professor of industrial engineering here, where he con ducted a class for industrial eng ineers last semester. He holds five degrees, served as national president of the ASME, is now president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa tion, president of the American Engineering Council, and holder of numerous other honors. (See ASME, Page 4) Singing Cadets of Aggieland Presented by Town Hall F- im jj^ll Juniors, Sophomores, Fish Affected by New Ruling Shown above are the Singing Cadets of Aggieland, under the direction of Richard W. Jenkins, who will appear on Town Hall tonight as the second of the 1943 programs. This is the one-hundred ten voice, all-male glee dug which recently delighted Houston audiences when it appeared in the Houston Colosseum with Ernst Hoffman and the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Also on that tour they sang before several service clubs and camp audiences, being very successful in each appearance Tonight they will present the new special arrangement of “The Spirit of Aggieland” made for them by Ken Darby, musical di rector for Universal Pictures. Also to be an outstanding feature of the program will be the musical-background narration similar to the stirring one presented on the Showtime broadcast from the stage of Guion Hall several weeks ago. Walter" R. Jenkins, noted songleader and baritone and father of the Cadets director, will be .guest artist tonight. Engineers Excused At 12 Tomorrow To Hear Chevalier Engineering students on the campus will hear lectures during the week by Colonel Willard Chev alier, vice-president of the Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Company and editor of Business Week mag azine. All engineering students will be excused from classes tomor row at 12 o’clock to hear Col. Chevalier in Guion Hall. Col. Chevalier will speak on the subject, “What Price Victory in War and Peace”. This talk will be given to guide the present seniors after they are assigned to (See ENGINEERS, Page 4) Plans Announced By Humbert For Commencement Exercises Plans for the commencement pro gram on the weekend of January 21, 22, and 23 were received yes terday from Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the genetics department and chairman of the commence ment program. Thursday, January 21, opens the activities for that weekend with the Junior Pronj, set for 10 p. m. Friday, January 22, will be the date of the baccalaureate sermon, and the commencement exercises. The baccalaureate sermon will be gin at 10:30 a. m., and will be giv en by the Reverend Marshall Steele, D.D., of the Highland Park Methodist Church of Dallas, Texas. Following the baccalaureate ser mon by the Reverend Mr. Steele, the A Cappella Choir of Stephen F. Austin High School of Bryan, Texas, will give a short program. That evening at 6:00 in Guion hall the commencement procession al will begin; the commencement exercises will open at 6:15 with the main address by the Honorable Neth L. Leachman, a member of the A. & M. College Board of Di rectors. Leachman is from Dallas. William J. (Bill) Galloway, A Battery field artillery, who was voted valedictorian of the Senior Class last Friday, will give the (See COMMENCEMENT, Page 4) Information Given As To Assignment Of Signal Seniors From the Information Letter, official publication of the army signal corps, the following story was published which might shed some light on where Signal corps seniors will be sent. This might serve as an indication of just what training will be undergone by sen iors in other branches too. The article appeared in the December issue. “The enrollment in the Officer Candidate School reached its ca pacity November 13. Enrollment of the school will be swelled further (See SIGNAL, Page 4) Fourteen-Year-Old Reveille, Aggie Mascot, Has Led Life of Queen Here at Aggieland Revielle, famed symbol of Ag gieland, had an humble beginning at this institution one summer night in 1931- when W. L. (Rip) Codings, found her in the weeds alongside the road between the campus and Wellborn and brought her. to his dormitory room. A let ter received from Collins, who graduated in 1934 and is at pres ent County Agent of King County, tells of Rev’s early history that has become somewhat clouded by the years that have passed since she became an integral part of the college and its life. Excerpts from Collins’ letter follow: “One night in the late summer school of 1931 I was coming from a little dance at Wellborn with two other Aggies in a model T and had a flat near a railroad crossing. While we were fixing the flat I heard a pup whining and went out into the grass to investi gate. It seems that the pup had been thrown out there or was wan dering along and hit by a car be cause it was slightly wounded in one of its back legs. I took it home to the dormitory and brought it food from the mess hall until she outgrew the little ailment. After a few days she began to feel at home and was of such little trouble and friendly we decided to keep her. She immediately made friends with all of the boys in the dormi tory and began taking her meals in the mess hall too. She would always come back and sleep in my room. Every night when she thought I was asleep she would crawl up on the bed and sleep be tween by feet. The following morn- mer she was accidentally run over again gy a “hoopee” loaded with Aggies—but she was taken care of by a couple of veterinary students who gave her a general tune-up besides, and she soon recovered, never to be a mother of pups. The reason all boys made friends with her was because of a little trick she played. When she saw a boy standing around idle, she would go about looking for a rock or piece of brick and would place it in front of the boy who would of course throw it off so she would bring it back, then when the boy would reach for it she would dodge around and try to make him chase her. I have seen as many as eight or ten boys trying to hem her in and take the rock. Her teeth were finally worn down from biting rocks. That game and leading the band became her favorite sports. There was never a more proud- acting majorette than Rev. She seemed to be pleased to parade in front of one of the world’s largest college bands. “During the regular terms of school Rev. learned to like all boys with khaki, because I guess, she was never abused by them. I’ll never forget how much she liked P. O. (Pat) Bellinger (now de ceased) because he could blow a bugle. I know she missed him when he didn’t return from summer camp. “About a week after the regular term started Reveille was stolen from me and of course I had about a dozen fish out looking for her. They brought her in but the same thing happened nearly every night. We always found her in a different Aggie’s room in bed. In the morn ing when she heard reveille sound she would jump up barking and running around the hall waking everybody up. This is why we call ed her Reveille. About the first three or four weeks of schoo II nearly ran my legs off trying to keep her at home. I finally let her go because 1 knew she was some where safe on the campus. That was my last claim on her because I guess she found out that all Ag gies were about alike, and like most other girls she just liked khaki. Later she started staying around the Y.M.C.A. following the night watchman, and greeting ev- every passing Aggie that came in late at night. After she began act ing as maporette, our yell-leader, Herman (Two-Gun) Parker took up nickles from Fish to buy her a jacket and some light harness. A Fish was always appointed to care for her on visiting trips. If she happened not to go on some of the trips she would meet all trains and busses until the boys and the band came back. “Now, I have a three-legged spitz, and a bird dog in the clinic with a broken thigh and being treated by a couple of Ex-Aggie Veterinarians—Burch and Roberts of Wichita Falls. No one likes pets better than I, but I have never seen a more loyal pet and mascot than Rev. She always remembered me when I went back to the short course every summer. I know you Aggies will take care of her to the end and pay just tribute to her for all of us. “Here it is Rev.: Many are regrets over loss of pets By people who possess them But none compare by Aggies out there Who knew Reveille of A. & M.” Walton Says Regular Courses To be Taken; Order Effective Until End of Next Semester By Tom Journeay Juniors, sophomores and freshmen in the Enlisted Re serve Corps will remain in school on an inactive basis until the end of the semester starting February 1, according to a statement made to the press late yesterday afternoon by President T. O. Walton, on his return-from Washington. Seniors taking second year advanced military science will be called to active duty upon the completion of the cur rent semester and sent to their respective base training schools. — + Present Juniors will be allowed to continue at least one more se mester of schooling on an inactive status, continuing their regular Curley Brient To Play For Junior Prom Ticket Sales Start Thursday, Jan. 14; Dance Held In Sbisa Curley Brient’s Aggieland or chestra has been signed to play for the Junior Prom and the Final Ball on Friday and Saturday nights, January 22-23, according to Prom-Chairman Bob Latimer. Choice of the Aggieland came as a result of the difficulty in securing bands, and because only one or two small bands were avail able through the regular booking channels. Juniors only may purchase tick ets for the banquet, Prom, and Final Ball from Thursday of this week until Wednesday of next. Either one ticket covering all three events may be bought for $3.15, or a separate ticket for each may be had. Banquet tickets are $1; Prom tickets $1.50, and Final Ball $1.65. (See JUNIOR PROM, Page 4) Freshmen Present Largest Fish Ball In Class’ History Thirteen hundred dancers filled Sbisa Hall at the annual Fresh man ball Saturday night. Presi dent of the Fi-eshman class, C. E. McWilliams, said the ticket sales at the door were heavy and the total intake more than met all corirtacts. There were plenty of girls at the dance, in spite of early transportation problems. Seniors, guests of the fresh men, came stag and drag to help fill the dance floor. Summing up the dance, L. D. Boone, acting manager of student activities, said the dance was one of the most successful freshmen balls ever scheduled here. Rosser Found Dead In Automobile Here John O. Rosser, 27, manager of Radio Station WTAW, was found dead in his garage at his residence in College Park yesterday morn ing. Sam Royder, Brazos county cor oner, returned a verdict of acci dental death from carbon monoxide poison. He said Rosser had been dead about eight hours. Rosser came to A. & M. in No vember 1939, and was well known throughout the Southwest for his early morning Farm and Home programs and his School of the Air broadcasts each Thursday afternoon. Before coming to A. & M. he was with the Transradio Press Service, Radio Station KGKO and the Dallas Morning News, all in Dallas. He graduated from South ern Methodist University in 1936 and lated worked for one year in New York Station WQXR and other stations before returning to Texas. His home is in Dallas and he is survived by his wife and parents. Funeral arrangements are as yet unsettled. All engineering freshmen, re gardless of their ERG status, who have completed one year of their schooling with satisfactory grades will be allowed to stay through the next semester. The same will ap ply to sophomores taking engineer ing, Walton added. “These are the definite plans of the war department at the present date,” stated Walton, “and every indication points that these will be the plans followed.” President Walton made the fol lowing additional statement: “Military authorities will require men who remain in college for the purpose of taking additional aca demic and military work, to be placed under a much more definite military regime. Certain hours for study and recreation and other nec essary activities will be set aside and all cadets will follow that schedule. The cadet system will remain substantially as it is until military requirements demand a change. Military and physical training will be much more accentuated. In oth er words the status of cadets here will probably be very similar to what it would be if those cadets were actually in the army and as signed here. Walton further went on to say that students taking and making satisfactory grades in engineering courses, whether or not they are in the ERC, will be allowed to con tinue with their schooling. “Ultimately, we will have prob ably many more regular army of ficers here to instruct military sci ence since there will probably be additional training given, although the actual number of hours spent in military drill might remain the same,” states the president. “We might take this opportu nity of effectively and definitely squelching the rumor that this col lege would be taken over and that there would be no classes held here after this semester,” continued Walton. “That is absolutely not true. Classes will be held as usual and registration will take place at the date heretofore announced, and I strongly urge all students, both those in the ERC and those not in the ERC, to go ahead with their plans for next semester as they normally would.” Classes will go on as before as nearly as possible with emphasis placed on training all students for a specific place in the war effort, further states the president. The Navy V-l enlistees will also be allowed to continue their edu- catio nuntil the Navy changes its policy, and that class is open as yet to enlistments of students un der 18. Walton concluded his statement to the press with this announce ment: “The War Department ulti mately will completely utilize all the facilities of A. & M. College for a united stand in the war ef fort.” Senior Class Holds Meet Tomorrow Night There will be a meeting of the Senior Class tomorrow night in the Assembly hall at 7:45 p. m. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss a good beneficial and useful gift for the seniors to leave A. & M. College on the departure into the armed service of Un«le Sam.