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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1943)
Texas A&M B Room 5, Administration Bldg.—2275 College Station, Texas, Saturday Morning, June 5, 1943 Volume 43—Number 4 BRYAN FIELD TO BE DEDICATED SUNDAY JUNE 6 Singing Cadets Name Officers For Summer Semester At an election of officers Milton Beerwinkle was named president of the Singing Cadets organization at the first practice meeting held Wednesday afternoon in the As sembly Hall. Fred Hess was elect ed vice-president; Barney Myatt, business manager; Burl Ervin, li brarian 1 and Andy Matula, direc tor of publicity. The Singing Cadets are still ac cepting membership applications for the Summer Semester, accord ing to Richard Jerkins, the direc- :or the organization for the "" three years. Mr. Jenkins wel- es any new students who may interested in the organization. All students who can stay on pitch and like to sing are eligible for membership he stated. All men who have had any experience singing in their High School Glee Clubs, church choirs, or any other mu sical organizations are urged by Mr. Jenkins to apply for member ship in the Assembly Hall any aft ernoon after four o'clock. There is an immediate need for first tenors, it was announced. The Singing Cadets have built up a very worthwhile organiza tion, it was pointed out, and have gained statewide recognition in presenting shows and programs or service clubs, schools, churches, army camps, and U.S.O. Centers throughout the entire state. Intramurals Begin On Monday, June 14 Friday afternoon W. L. Pen- berthy, head of the Department of Physical Education, announced some details on this summer’s in tramural sports which are sup posed to begin Monday, June 14. Sports included are: soft ball, volley ball, tennis, swimming meet, hand ball, badminton, golf, horse shoe throwing, and any other sport which enough students are interested in. Student managers are badly neede. Anybody interested is urged to apply. This work gives valuable experience in organizing and administrative work. Athletic officers are to be se lected from the different comp anies, and a banquet will be given for the officers selected next week. Land 409 Students Urged To See Their Deans Immediately All students who are taking Land. 409 are asked to report to their respective deans so that assignment cards can be check ed for required work. This is to be done immediately so that all students who are taking this camouflage course can get their cards straight. DANCER—Beautiful and talented Mary Jane Reynolds, dancer, will be featured tonight in the Kadet Kapers first Summer Semester show, presented at 61IO p.m. in the Assembly Hall. * * * * * * Kadet Kapers To Present “Texanites” Tonight In Assembly Hall Program Dr. Mayo Urges Use of Library Due to the decrease in enroll ment, Dr. T. F. Mayo, librarian for the college, today urged that a greater opportunity exists for students to receive greater advan tages from library work, both in the checking out of books to read and in the use of reference ma terial. “It seems to the library staff,” Dr. Mayo stated, “that the present smallness of our student body pre sents an unusual opportunity for studefTts to receive intensively the advantages of library work. “We therefore invite you to re quire an unusual amount of library work of your students. Smaller sections and fewer of them will now make it possible for us to give more personal assistance to the library and perhaps for you to check reports with less difficul ty. “Any instructor who may decide to make such additional assign ments is requested to discuss them in advance with the reference and circulation librarians, so that the project may be carried out satis factorily.” Mary Jane Reynolds To Be Featured In Dancing And Comedy Campus Show Featuring lovely Mary Jane Reynolds, dancer of Houston, Ka pers will present the first campus show of the Summer Semester, en titled “Texanites,” tonight at 6:10 at the Assembly Hall, according to announcement made today by Richard W. Jenkins of the Student Activities office. This excellent production is under the direction of Louis C. Quoyeser, and will fea ture dancing, singing and comedy, Mr. Jenkins pointed out. The customary singsong will be held before the presentation of the stage show, it was stated. Mr. Jenkins pointed out that a special invitation was extended to sailors, marines, airforce. Aggies, engineers and Stars to attend this performance, which is open to everyone who is interested in an entertaining evening. The show will be about one hour in length, it was stated. STAY OFF THE GRASS All students are asked to stay off of the grass so that a beauti ful yard can be had for visitors when they visit the campus. The Military Police are instructed to enforce this order. SPEAKERS Dr. George Potter and Dr. Ide Trotter were speakers at the Ro tary Club meeting in Bryan Wed nesday noon at the regular week ly luncheon. Dr. Potter discussed classification of Rotary member ship and Dr. Trotter reported on the activities at the International convention held in St. Louis. Aerial Maneuvers To Highlight Days Program; Airship To Be Christened ✓ Field, Classrooms, Buildings Will Be Open For Public Inspection Before and After Formal Dedication Ceremonies On Sunday Plans are complete for the gigantic aerial review and many other features to entertain visitors when Bryan Field is formally opened and dedicated Sunday, June 6, according to announcement released here Friday afternoon. The finale of the program, the announcement stated, will be the air show with the field’s top instructors flying their planes in intricate formations and maneuvers. This program and dedication will prove of great interest to many, it was pointed out, in that visitors for the occasion will, be permitted + into areas of the field that have been and will be in the future re stricted to civilians. However, due to military regulations, no camera will be permitted «to be taken onto the fields or into any of the build ings. Special preparations are being made to permit visitors to view the interior of the ships by a special ramp which will permit them to see the flying class rooms of the No Annuals Are Available; More Expected In Soon Announcement was made today from the Student Publications of fice that no more copies of the 1944 Longhorn were available for distribution at the present time. However, the announcement stated that additional copies of the an nual were expected in at most any time and that their arrival would be announced in the Battalion and in the Mess Hall. Students who have left school and gave the publications office a forwarding address will receive their Longhorn direct from the publishers by mail, it was stated. Publications office also an nounced that several copies of the April and May issues of the J3at- talion Magazine were available and could be purchased from the Student Activities office in the Administration Building. Also back copies of the Battalion mag azine for several issues are avail able, it was announced. A. & M. Methodist Church Plans New Building After War “The wooden tabernacle which, through many years, has been Methodism’s bid for the confidence and loyalty of the multiplied thousands of Methodist boys who have attended A. & M. College, must go. There is no longer any virtue in its inadequacy and crude simplicity. It has had a glorious history but the amazing growth of A. & M. College and the devel opment of religion around the cam pus has made it appropriate now only for apologies.^ “As its sacred altar, hundreds of cadets have accepted Christ’s way of life. In spite of its appear ance and meager equipment. Ag gies, through the years, though disappointed in it, have turned to it as their church and have sought religious help in its services. Sen iors who were going out to lead in their chosen professions have found Christ at its altars but, through recent years particularly, there has been a growing undercur rent of feeling among the boys that their great church in Texas was letting them down and that surely did not know or it would do something about the situation.” Men of the ACTD stationed on the Campus of A. & M. will have free post Sunday to at tend the dedication of Bryan , Field, it was announced this morning. No convoy or group movement of the ACTD was ar ranged, but it is expected that a number of this group will be in attendance. air force. It was also announced that the buildings that house the Link Trainers will be open for public inspection. The public will be permitted to inspect the sol diers’ quarters, the mess halls and other places of interest on the field. Open for the public on Ded ication Day will be the Headquar ters Building which houses the of fices of Col. Joseph B. Duckworth,, commanding officer of the unit, as well £s those of the Provost Marshal, the Intelligence office, the Administrative Inspector’s office and the Trial Judge Advocate. The post chapel, the theatre, recreation hall, hospital, and other buildings will be opened for in spection and the headquarters squadron will serve as guides to take the public through these buildings. The buildings will be (See DEDICATION, Page 4) Juke Box Prom Tonight At Grove Tonight marks the first Juke-box prom for the summer semester. The dance will be held at The Grove which is lo cated on the west end of the main drill field. Admission price for each couple is 25c and the admission per stag is also 25tf. The Student Activi ties office has announced that a Juke-box prom will be held every Saturday night during the summer semester. At 8:30 the Juk^-box will pour forth your favorite tunes and dancing under the stars will continue until 11:30. All servicemen and Aggies who are looking for a place to go to night are urged to remember this dance for tonight and fu ture Saturday nights.