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Seven Aggie Sweethearts Corps Will See At Fort Worth Game Saturday
ROOM 5 ADMINISTRATION BLDG.—2275
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 55
Aggies Prepare For Trip To Ft. Worth For T.C.U. Game
Aggie Sweetheart Rules
Corps Receives Dance Bids
From Juniors At T.S.C.W.
All Aggies Invited To Attend Dance
Friday Night; Juniors Given Absences
The following letter was received by the Student Ac
tivities office October 12 concerning the dance at T. S. C. W.
honoring all Aggies on Friday night of October 15.
Dear Sir:
The Junior class of T. S. C. W.
is sponsoring an all-college open
house honoring the Aggies on Fri
day night, October 15 in the Stu
dent Union Building from 8 to 11
o’clock. The members of the class
have asked that I extend an invi
tation through you to the Aggies
and their T. S. C. W. dates. The
Campus Serenaders will play for
the occasion.
The Aggies from the A. & M.
Junior Class agreed, when they
were here last week, that a date
bureau was not feasible and’ that
they would make their own ar
rangements for T. S. C. W. dates.
It was a pleasure to have the
eight boys who selected the Aggie
Day Sweetheart on the campus last
week, and we hope next Saturday
will be a most succesful day for
A. & M.
Sincerely yours,
Mrs. Mattie Lloyd Wooten
Dean of Women
The executive committee has an
nounced that all classified Juniors
will be granted authorized absences,
beginning Friday morning at 9,
and these men must obtain passes
from the Commandant’s office.
Psychological
Tests Given
Again Today
Tests Regiven For
Transfer And
Late Students
All those students who have not
taken the psychological test are re
quired to take it on Thursday af
ternoon, October 14, from 3 to 6.
It will be given in room 123 of the
Academic Building.
The freshmen who did not take
the psychological test on Septem
ber 30 or October 1, are absolutely
required to be present. Those
transfer students who have not
taken the test or whose results
from other schools have not been
sent to the Registrar’s Office must
take the test at that time.
It is necessary that all students
take this psychological test at the
aforementioned time and place.
Meeting This
Morning Called
By President
Released To Hear
11 o’CIock Classes
Bolton Speak
There will be a meeting of the
entire student body in Guion Hall
at the 11 o’clock period this morn
ing. Classes for all regular stu
dents will be suspended at that
period. Students in military units
will attend in formation. Other
students are expected to come in
dividually.
The meeting was called by Pres
ident Bolton. He did not state the
actual purpose of the meeting on
ly that he wished to speak to the
student body on general matters.
All students in the 2nd Student
Training Co. of the A. S. T. P.
Unit will march to Guion Hall. This
meeting is for present students
only and does not include the re
cently returned class of 1945.
Batt Cards Must
Be On Doors
In order to facilitate the delivery
of the Battalion,all student sub
scribers are urged to post their
subscription cards on their doors.
The number of Battalions delivered
to each room will depend directly
upon the number of cards on tse
door.
City Appreciates
Paving Project
The city government of the City
of College Station has expressed
thanks and appreciation to the
Highway Department of the State
of Texas for the construction of
the new highway running along
the north side of the campus and
extending to the city limits of
Bryan on the Sulphur Springs
road.
In a letter to D. G. Greer, State
Highway Engineer of the depart
ment, City Manager Lloyd D.
Smith stated that the Mayor and
City Council in regular meeting
passed a resolution of appreciation
to the department for “the splen
did and much needed concrete pave
ment which you recently completed
through our city.”
The letter went ahead to state:
“We especially want to express to
you our compliments on the selec
tion of your personnel. Your engi
neer, Mr. Garrett, and all of his
co-workers, to the humblest em
ployee, was so amiable and con
siderate in every manner. It was a
pleasure to have you pass through
our city.”
The city council is made up of the
Mayor, Hon. Ernest Langford and
the following councilmen: C. W.
Crawford; J. A. Orr; F. B. Wilcox;
E. E. Brown; R. L. Brown, and
M. T. Harrington.
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Gracing the top of today’s Bat--t
talion masthead are the seven Ag
gie beauties who along with Lena
Marie Adams, official Aggie Day
Sweetheart, will rule over the
Corps at the coming game be
tween Texas A. & M. and Texas
Christian University. Reading
above from left to right, the girls
are as follows: Miss Mary Kath
erine Cain, Miss Mar Gwen Ball,
Miss Mary Louise Auld, Miss
Kathyrine Turner, Miss Janet Hud
son, Miss Barbara Cook, and Miss
Bonnie Jo Crumpacker.
Immediately above is Miss Lena
Marie Adams of Bryan selected by
eight juniors from A. & M. as Ag
gie Day Sweetheart. Her escort
for this coming Saturday’s game
will be Sumner Hunter, who is
shown to the left. President of the
Junior Class at A. & M.
No Service Show,
Dance This Week
There will be no service show
or service dance on the campus
this Saturday night. The absence
of these attractions is due because
of the Corps Trip this week-end.
The service dance is to be held
in the Banquet Room of Sbisa Hall
when the fall program is resumed
in the near future. The Assembly
Hall will be the scene of the Ser
vice Show as has been the past
practice.
Five out of every six members
of the 1943 graduating class in the
agriculture at Washington State
College are in the armed services.
Of these who are not in uniform,
three are working for state govern
ments or institutions, one is teach
ing vocational agriculture and two
are farming.
Corps For Game Saturday
Students Leave Campus As Soon As They
Finish Their Last Class On This Friday
With the announcement Monday afternoon of the official
Corps Trip to the T. C. U. game, all Aggieland began getting
ready for an unexpected vacation. The Junior Class was
promised authorized absences to the game but the entire
Corps did not expect to receive the weekend off.
Regulations
With the approval of the Com
mandant and the Executive Com
mittee, those students desiring to
attend the football game at Fort
Worth on October 16, will be per
mitted to leave the campus after
their last class on Friday. Passes
will not be required, although
those Aggies must return not la
ter than 8:30 p. m., Sunday, Octo
ber 17.
The regulation uniform for the
corps trip will be optional, either
wool or khaki. Jack Knox, junior
yell leader, prefers that Aggies
wear wools, however, this will be
left entirely up to the cadets.
Ninety-Piece Aggie
Band To Parade At
The T. C. U. Game
Membership of Band
Increased , for
Games To Come
According to Col. R. J. Dunn,
director of the Aggie Band, there
will be a 90-piece band at Fort
Worth for the A. & M.-T. C. U.
game this Saturday. Col. Dunn
stated that the band will perform
between halves at the game with a
series of marches and counter
marches.
Transportation has been ar
ranged for the instruments to be
taken to Fort Worth, leaving ear
ly Saturday morning. Although
transportation will not be furnish
ed for band members, they will
get to T. C. U. by their own means.
Corps Votes On
New Yell Leaders
Votes were counted yesterday
afternoon at 5 o’clock by the Stu
dent Elections Committee for the
Yell Leader election held on the
campus Wednesday. Arthur Graf,
Senior; Jack Knox, Junior, and
Hayes Stripling, second semester
sophomore were the three candi
dates. All they needed was a vote
of confidence.
265 votes was the total number
cast. Of this number, Graf re
ceived 119, Knox, 247 and Strip
ling 250. These men will lead the
Corps’ yells for all future games.
This year the Tufts College Me
dical School is celebrating its fif
tieth anniversary.
The campus has been the scene
of much planning and activity this
whole week. The occasion is one of
the greatest events to occur in
quite some time. This is the first
official Corps Trip since the fall
of 1941. The corps is allowed to
leave after their last classes Fri
day and return Sunday in time
for call-to-quarters.
Those Juniors who are classified
as such will be given authorized
absences from all of their classes
after 9 a. m. Friday. They will be
the guests and dates of the Juniors
at T. S. C. W. at a dance Friday
night. The class officers will es
cort the sweetheart candidates and
the Aggie Sweetheart to the af
fair.
The main event of the week-end
is the ball game held in the Frog
stadium in Fort Worth. The cam
pus should be a very dead place
because the reports say that all but
the few Two-Percenters will be at
T. C. U. to witness the Aggies’
first conference game of the sea
son. Everybody who can should
take advantage of the Corps Trip
that the Executive Committee and
the Commandant’s Office have
granted us.
Spirits are running high about
the campus. The Yell Practices
are sounding better and evryone
is getting the fell of the Aggie
Spirit. The Aggies know they are
going Frog gigging and are uot
to make the most of the whole
affair.
As a side attraction, which
should by no means be underrat
ed, is the Sweetheart portion of
the program at the “half”. The
Aggie Sweetheart of 1943, escort
ed by the Junior Class President,
will appear on the field with her
attendants and their ^escorts. This
has always been a popular event
with the audience. The Sweetheart
will rule over the game as has been
a previous practice.
Another entertaining feature at
the game will be the debut of the
new Aggie band. This is their first
appearance at a football game. The
band, composed of about 75 mem
bers of the Freshman class and
directed by Col. R. J. Dunn, will
perform at the game’s half. The
music for the Aggie section will
be furnished by them also. The
presence of the music from the
band should boost the spirit and
yelling of the Aggies to even high
er than it has been this year. This
means that the team will play a
All in all the Aggies are very
much better game.
(See AGGIE, Page 4)