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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1943)
V i lioL khr ' ? Texas A&M Room 5, Administration Bldg.—2275 College Station, Texas, Thursday Morning, June 3, 1943 Volume 43—Number 3 SUMMER SEMESTER ENROLLMENT REACHES 1,655 Final Figures Released By Registrar On Enrollment To Date; Big Loss Noted Australian Ace Writes Graphic Descriptioir of War in Pacific A.C.T.D. Lieutenant Receives Letter From Boyhood Friend; Commander Caldwell Has Thirty-Six Enemy Planes to His Credit L»t. Logan Bagby of the A. C. T.- D. is in receipt of a letter from a friend, Wing Commander C. R. Caldwell, of the RAAF Group 461, stationed near Darwin, Australia, in which he graphically pictures scenes from the South Pacific the atre of war. Wing Commander Caldwell, whose rank is equivalent to that of a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, and Lt. Bagby were school mates in Aus tralia many years ago. Commander Caldwell has 36 enemy planes to his credit since the beginning of the present con flict, it is stated, and is consid- '""r' 1 •'^ase-in the RAAF; Excerpts from his letter to Lt. Bagby are reproduced herewith: ***«<! was in the States last September and had planned to visit you. Unfortunately my plans were upset and I was unable to make it, though I did try to telephone you from New York without suc cess. I left Libya last May and flew to England via America and did a bit of flying with the Spit fires until August when I was posted back to Australia for duty out here via the states again where I had a job to do trying out some of your new fighter aircraft. In all I spent about seven weeks over the job and had a really wonderful (See ACE, Page 7) i Placement Office leeksInformation About Students All seniors are urged to come by the Placement Office and se cure a personnel record, blank and file it as soon as possible with the Placement Office. Few men are left in school who haven’t filed this information and these are asked to do so to make the files complete of all seniors who will sometime in the future seek em ployment. * Seniors are reminded that it is after the war when they are seeking positions that the Placement Office and their records will be able to benefit them most. There are still plenty of jobs on campus available to any student who desires employment, according to W. R. Horsley, direc tor of the Placement Office. A model drugstore, complete with medicaments and sick-room ac cessories, is part of the equip ment of the college of pharmacy -at the University of Texas. A dozen midwest universities have been designated to train cooks and bakers for the navy. Girls in universities and colleges who wil complete their courses dur ing the current term may enlist in the women’s army auxiliary corps with the privilege of remain ing inactive until completion of courses. “Texunites” To Be Presented June 5 At Assembly Hall The first show of the Summer Semester will be presented Satur day, June 5, at 6:10 p.m. in the Assembly Hall, featuring the “Texanites,” according to an nouncement issued Wednesday by Richard W. Jenkins of the Student Activities office. Singing, dancing and comedy will be the feature of this presen tation, Mr. Jenkins pointed - out, and the production is under the capable direction of Louis C. Quoyeser. The performance will be one hour in length, it was an nounced, and prior to the presen tation of the “Texanites,” the usual singsong will be held. Mr. Jenkins, who is staging the performance, stated that attend ance was open to everyone and that a special invitation was ex tended to the sailors, marines, air force, Aggies, Engineers, and stars. Mr. Jenkins pointed out that further information concerning this initial production of the sum mer semester would appear in the next issue of the Battalion, Subscribe To The Battalion Attention freshmen: The Battalion has long been the official newspaper of the city of College Sta tion and now that you have become students of A. & M. it is your paper, too. Your Student Activities Fee pays for your subscrip tion for one semester. If you have not paid that fee, a separate subscription may be had at the Student Activ ities Office in the basement of the Administration build ing. The Battalion is part of the backbone of the Spirit of Aggieland and you are urged to make any contribu tion you can to help keep it so. Twenty-five professors of Hol land’s University of Amsterdam Have been pressure. dismissed under Nine States Are Represented At Cotton School Nine different cotton producing states of the United States and representatives from some South American states opened the 34th annual Summer Cotton School Monday here. The school is under the direction of Dr. Ide P. Trotter, head of the Agronomy Department at A. & M. Lectures will be given by noted authorities on cotton production and will be valuable to all. Class es began Tuesday morning and will last for 6 weeks ending on July 10. Lectures on grading and stap ling as well as cotton breeding will be given after the course gets under way. The cotton industry is faced More Than Five Thousand Were Registered For Summer Semester One Year Ago Check of Records Reveals; More Than Four Thousand For Term Total registration for the current semester is 1,655, according to the final figures from the Registrar’s Office. Of this figure, 968 are old returning students and 687 are new students, including both transfer students and fresh men entering college for their first time. Of all those enrolled, 630 had registered before Monday. At first, 800 students were expected to enroll Monday but by 5 o’clock approximately 700 had turned in their assignment cards. Since that time a good many more have bben received by the registrar’s office however. This semester’s enroll ment falls approximately 900 be low that of last semester’s. In comparison with the enroll ment of the summer semester last year, there is a great decrease in the student body. Last year, 5339 registered at the beginning of the semester, and 4708 completed the session. Juke Box Prom To Be Held At Grove Every Saturday A Juke-box prom every Saturday night during the summer semester has been announced by the Stud ent Activities office, beginning Sat urday night, June 5. The dance will be held at The Grove on the west end of the main drill field and an admission price of 25c per couple and 25c per stag will be charged. Dancing will begin at 8:30 and will continue until 11:30. All serv icemen and Aggies are urged to make note of this announcement and attend these dances.' with a decreasing number of cotton classers and this course is designed to help those who wish to go into this fieTd, Dr. Trotter pointed out. Among those attending the class es are cotton ginners, classers, pro fessional workers in agriculture, and others. John Arthur Randal, for 14 years president of the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics in stitute, has been appointed dean of research and management at Park college, Parkville, Mo. It id* tL * i'j W . *131. ^ - ■*» 4 £ ‘ - • mm % f:. $' .'***£* wim ‘ W 4 A typical Aggie dormitory room scene in the film “We’ve Never Been Licked’ Aggieland with Richard Quine and his Aggie friend in a dispute. which portrays life Two Ex-Students Report For Flight Training in Army Two ex-students of Texas A. & M. have reported to the Army Air Forces Pre-Flight School for Pi lots at Maxwell Field, Alabama, from the Nashville Army Air Cen ter (AAFCC) Nashville, Tennes see, to begin the second phase of their training as pilots in the U. S. Army Air Forces* expanding program. These aviation cadets are receiv ing nine weeks of intensive physi cal, military and academic instruc tion at Maxwell Field, preparatory to beginning their actual flight training at one of the many pri mary flying schools located in the Army Air Forces Southeast Train ing Center. These men are: Aviation Cadet George Washington Albritton, 2336 Braeswood Boulevard, Hous ton, Texas, was a student at Tex as A. & M. College when he was accepted as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces. He was a member of Ross Volunteers; Cadet First Sergeant, and Town Hall as sistant. Aviation Cadet Frank Ed ward Cude, 523 East Whittier, San Antonio, Texas, ’39-’40 student. He served 18 months in the U. S. Army as an enlisted man before he was accepted as an aviation ca det for pilot training in the Army Air Forces. These cadets began their pre flight course in May, and are now upperclassmen at Maxwell Field» Alabama. The University of Kansas is in its seventy-seventh year. University of Minnesota now has a co-ed mail carrier—Helen Hanson, a home economics fresh man. The University of California li brary has a collection of 47,056 Chinese volumes.