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Town Hall To
Have Singing
Cadets 14th
Program to Feature
Both Classical and
Popular Selections
' The Singing Cadets of Aggie-
land will be guests of Town Hall
next Tuesday, December 14, when
they furnish an entire program of
classical, semi-classical and popu
lar music under the direction of
Euell Porter, the new director.
The program will begin with the
more classical religious numbers,
before a transition takes place
between the negro spirituals and
service songs. The highlight of
the program will be the Christmas
Carols that were featured in
“We’ve Never Been Licked”, un-1
der the direction of Richard Jen
kins. “Silent Night” and The
First Noel” will be followed
“The Spirit of Aggieland” and
“Auld Land Syne” and “Taps.”
In previous years the Singing
Cadets have furnished one of the
most popular hits of the Town Hall
season. The reason lies in the fact
that our all-male chorus renders
a program that can be appreciated
by every listener, demonstrating
their versatility and wide range
favorites.
During this week the cadets
have practiced nearly every after
noon and several nights. This week
end proceeding their College Sta
tion appearance there will be the
customary Club Christmas party.
Sunday night they will journey to
Navasota to make a “brush-up”
appearance. So far this season they
have made limited tours of the
surrounding territory including
Houston, Nacagdoches, Huntsville,
Tyler, Henderson, Jacksonville, and
Palestine. These appearances furn
ish beneficial advertisement to
Aggieland and the work that is
going on here.
Besides the club’s performance,
there will be several solo num
bers by guest artists, including the
carol “O Holy Night” sung by the
director, Euell Porter. The octette
will render a popular arrangement
of “The Bells of St. Mary’s”.
Tickets are now available for
this performance at the Student
Activities Office in the Adminis
tration Building. Prices for indiv
idual tickets being fifty cents.
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1943
VOLUME 43—NUMBER 78
GENERAL REVEILLE’S PORTRAIT—Just as ^the veils dropped
from around the po £, ,.t this shot was taken. Dr. Frank C. Bolton,
acting president r ..ie college, stands to the left where he pulled
the cords which .rveiled the picture. Jack Xnox, head yell leader,
stands in front of the picture.
Book Reviewer to
Discuss “Under
Cover” Monday Nite
Wartime Book Given
Major Commendation
By Wartime Council
A book review by Evelyn Oppen-
heimer is to be sponsored by the
Bryan Lions Club at the Stephen F.
Austin High School auditorium,
Monday, December 13, at 8 p. m.,
according to announcement made
by the Club this morning. The book
to be reviewed by Miss Oppen-
heimer is “Under Cover,” a book
of major importance during this
war.
Miss Oppenheimer has reviewed
the book many times in her tour
of cities. Dallas citizens enjoyed
her timely review ten times while
it was reviewed in Ft. Worth three
times. Other cities which were in
cluded in the tour includes Hous
ton, San Antonio, Austin, and
Waco. This book has been given a
major recommendation by the Uni
ted States Council of Books in
Wartime.
Tickets to this review are now
on sale at the Aggieland Pharmacy,
Luke’s Grocery and the Southside
Food Market. These three places
are located in College Station. Pro
ceeds are to go to Iflie Lion’s Club
Christmas Charity Fund. College
Station residents are urged to pur
chase tickets and hear this review
as it promises to be a very inter
esting review.
Jewish Club to Give
Program Celebrate
Religious Holidays
All Jews On Campus Are
Invited To Hear Guest
Cantor Isaac S. Wall
A program of Ancient Jewish
music featuring the feast of the
Maccabeans-Hanukah-will be given
by the Hillel Club, Sunday, Dec.,
12th at 6:45 P- M., at the Lounge
Room of Sbisa Hall. Cantor Isaac
S. Walls of Houston will be the
guest artist. Cantor Walls will nar
rate the story of the Maccabeans
and illustrate the spirit of the
festival with traditional old He
brew songs. Harold Borofsky, Pres
ident of the Club and Pvt. Richard
Gottlieb will also take part in the
program.
Hanukah commemmorates the
victory of Judas Maccabeus and
his heroic band over the vast army
of Antiochus Epiphanes, King of
Syria, as narrated in Books I and
II of the Apocrypha. The exact
date of the festival this year is
Dec. 22-29 but because of the
Christmas holidays has been
Psychological Quiz
To Be Given Transfer
Students at 3:10 PM
A make-up intelligence quiz will
be given in the Chemistry Building
in room 108 at 3:10 p. m. Thursday
December 9th. The exam if for the
purpose of giving it to those stu
dents who have transferred to this
school from others during the year
and have not had the quiz, it was
announced by W. A. Varvel of the
Psychology department. Most of
teh students who must take this
quiz have been notified through
the registrar’s office; however, if
there are any students who have
transferred and have not had the
quiz, they are urged to attend this
meeting today.
for the club for Dec. 12th. Cantor
Walls is well known in Houston
musical circles. This is his first
appearance at College Station, and
the Hillel Club is happy of the
privilege of presenting so fine
an artist to music lovers of College
and Bryan Community.
The program will be held in the
form of a party and all Jewish
students and servicemen are cor
set dially invited to attend.
Quiz Show Slated
For Stage-Radio
Next Sunday Here
Servicemen and Wives
To Be Presented In
Half Hour Fun Fest
Servicemen will be pitted against
their wives in a “Battle of the
Sexes” quiz program Sunday af
ternoon on the stage of the Guion
Hall Theatre when the Sunday
All-Service show is presented over
radio station WTAW it was an
nounced this morning by Tom
Journeay, producer of the coming
Sunday show.
Plans have been made to present
several variety numbers as well as
the “Battle of the Sexes” quiz and.
the program will feature Col.
Richard J. Dunn and his' Aggie
band, who will play a tribute to
the Air Corps.
At a meeting of the technical
staff of the radio and stage show
Tuesday night plans were made
for the performance which will
begin promptly at thr'ee o’clock.
This feature is an added attraction
to the regular Guion Hall pro
gram, it was pointed out, and no
(See QUIZ, Page 2)
Three Free Movies to
Be Shown Sat. 7 PM
At the Assembly Hall at 7 p. m.
Saturday, free movies will be pre
sented, the program consisting of
three features. Leading the billing
is the film “The Count of Monte
Christo,” a two-hour picture star
ring Robert Donat. This is an old,
but nonetheless popular attraction.
Next is an OWI short entitled
“Our Enemy, the Japanese.” This
is one of the type given out by
that government department which
should be both educational as well
a sentertaining. Last, but not least,
is a color cartoon, “Jack Frost.”
It has been reported by T. G.
Puddy, Guion Hall manager, that
this is one of the best programs to
be given in this series and should
prove very entertaining to the au
dience. These shows are for the
purpose of providing free enter
tainment to those men stationed
on the campus as well as the stu
dents.
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BONFIRE—This is a scene of the bonfire that was lit on the night
before the Texas University and Texas Aggie football game. Some of
the men who have been associated with Aggieland for a long period
of time stated that this stack of wood exceeded all other fires.
TOWN HALL
TICKETS
Town Hall tickets will go on
sale in the Student Activities
Office Friday, December 10, for
the appearance of the Singing
Cadets on that stage. The prices
are fifty cents for general ad
mission or for servicemen and
their wives and one dollar for
reserved seats. The tickets will
be on sale until 3 o’clock on
Tuesday, December 14, it was
announced by the Student Ac
tivities Office today.
Consolidated Home
Making Clubs Host
To Three Groups
Collection of Waste
Fat Is Planned For
This School District
The Homemaking students of
the A. and M. Consolidated High
School have been quite active re
cently. There have been three note
worthy occasions held in the school
of worth while mention.
One day recently the Home Eco
nomics la girls had a lessdn on
flower arranging. Some of the
girls brought flowers while others
brought vases. The girls wera
divided into groups and they chose
vases and flowers that pleased
them- After a discussion on the
flower arrangements, the flowers
were distributed in the various
rooms. The girls had a very enjoy
able and worth while time.
On Thursday afternoon, Decem
ber 2, a group of Homemaking
Ilia girls gave the Mother’s Club
a tea, after the second business
meeting of the year. The labora
tory was attractively decorated
with yellow chrysanthemums and
YMCA Promotes Plan
To Wrap Xmas Gifts
The local Y. M. C. A. will furn
ish Christmas wrappings and
labels in order that the Aggies and
servicemen located in the vicinity
of College Station may send home
attractively decorated packages
this season. There will also be as
sistants available to help wrap
the packages, or wrap them for
you. If the individual prefers to
bring his own wrapping paper,
then the assistants will also help
in the process. For further infor
mation concerning this service, you
may ask at the Y desk.
marigolds. Dainty open-faced sand
wiches, cookies, and tea were
served. Betty Outlaw was the act
ing hostess, while Nan Ingram
served the tea. These two girls
were assisted by Marie Jones, Ja
nice Bruecher, Jaunice Bruecher,
Annie Kapchinski, Agnes Kosh,
Charline Pearson, Louise Chen-
shaw, and Mrs. Georgia Belle Lan
dis, the Homemaking teacher.
The Home Economics Club met
on Wednesday, November 24, with
Superintendent W. B. Bunting, as
the guest speaker. Mr. Bunting is
the head of the fat salvage drive
(See CONSOLIDATED, Page 3)
Lecturer Will
SpeakonPost
War Matters
Ex-Prussian Senator
To Appear In Guion
Hall December 10th
“After Hitler What?” will be
the subject of the noted speaker.
Max Bauer, a former member of
the Prussian Senate, in his lec
ture to be given in Guion Hall on
Friday, December 10, at 7:45 in
the evening. Bauer is being brought
to the college by the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ
in America. His lecture will dis
cuss the post-war reorganization
and reconstruction of Germany.
Born in Altona, Germany near
Hamburg, Bauer gained promi
nence at the age of twenty-one as
an official of the internationally
famous “Production” one of the
greatest consumer cooperative
movements in Germany. When he
was thirty-one, he was elected
Mayor of Altona, the youngest
man ever to hold that position. His
vigorous opposition to the Nazi
party witheld his election as may
or of Berlin.
For ten years Bauer was a
member of the Prussian Senate,
also serving on the government
board of the Association of Ger
man cities. In January, 1933, the
Nazis gained control of the Ger
man government, forcing him and
his family to flee Germany for
France. His belongings were seized
and property confiscated, having
his valuable library destroyed.
Later in 1933, Bauer went to
China at the request of the League
(See LECTURER, Page 3)
Town Hall Presents
Additional Feature
Walter K. Kerr, baritone, of Aus
tin will be an additional feature
to the Town Hall program Decem
ber 14. Town Hall has procured
him as a guest artist for the occa
sion to accompany the already
scheduled attraction, the Singing
Cadets.
Kerr comes from a musical fami
ly and was soloist with the Har-
din-Simmons College Band when it
made its 1930 tour of Europe. He
has played the leading roles in
many aperettas including “The Mi
kado,” “H. M. S. Pinafore,” and
“Bohemian Girl.” He sang the bar
itone lead with the San Antonio
Civic Opera Company for one sea
son.
Although he sang professionally
for a year in New York Ciey, Kerr
is now doing private teaching and
directing the student choir at the
University Methodist Church in
Austin.
President F. C. Bolton Pays Tribute To Reveille At The
Unveiling Ceremonies of Her Portrait On November 24th
If a tradition may be called
beautiful then there is heart ren
dering beauty in the love and de
votion shown by students of the
Texas A. & M. College over the
past twelve years for a plain, un-
pedigreed member of the canine
family, a female dog almost black
named Reveille but affectionately
called “Rev” by the student body
from 1931 to date.
Like her date of birth, Rev’s
bloodline is obscure. She was pick
ed up one night in 1931 by some
A. & M. boys on a road south of
the campus and taken to a dorm
itory where a leg-hurt was dress
ed and she was allowed to remain.
Soon Rev was able to go to Sbisa
Hall (the mess hall) and rustle her
own food. As other boys began to
play wtih her, especially throwing
sticks and rocks which she re
trieved, Rev began to roam over
the campus bedding down at
night where she chose. If she hap
pened to pick some boy’s bed it
was up to him to sleep with her
or find other quarters.
When the band would play, Rev
would frolic in and out of the band
formation. Finally established as
the mascot of the Texas Aggies,
Rev made trips with the cadet
corps, having a Freshman detail
ed to see that she made the trip
and returned safely. She was
adorned with a dog blanket in the
maroon and white colors of the
school.
Twelve or thirteen years is a
long time to live as dogs go. Rev
has put on weight with the years
and does not get around as she
did in the early and middle 30’s.
Fearing Reveille may not get up
some morning—and when she dies
a part of the spirit of the school
will pass with her—students at
A. & M. decided to preserve her
likeness in oils on canvas for the
Texas Aggies of future years.
The way was opened when the
K-9 division of Dogs for Defense
of the WACs was created. Any
owner could purchase a rank for
his dog in this division, the cost
running from $1 for a private
to S100 for a general, with similar
costs and corresponding designa
tions of naval rank.
The highest was none too good
for Reveille and a drive was
launched among the students to
raise necessary 1 funds. It was
agreed at the time that more
than $100 should be collected; Re
veille needed a collar on which her
rank could be shown, and the re
mainder would be devoted to hav
ing her portrait done in oil.
Miss Marie Haines, local artist
v/ith nationwide recognition, was
chosen to paint Rev’s portarit. er
work exceeded even the fondest
hopes of the cadet sponsors. Tem
porarily placed in the Library
Rev’s painting’s viewed at all hours
of the day by cadets and other
visitors. In time this painting will
hang in an appropriate niche of a
building to be selected.
Rev’s painting was unveiled with
fitting ceremony on the night be
fore Thanksgiving 1943, the night
before the annual football game
with the University of Texas.
“Reveille is more than an ani
mal”, Dr. Frank C. Bolton, ac
ting President of the Texas A. &
M. College, said as the veils were
drown. “She is a tradition. To
many a homesick freshman Reveille
represents the dog he left at
home; that dumb friend that could
always be depended on for a wag
of the tail and a friendly bark no
matter how dark the clouds or how
negligent were other friends. Rev
eille was a tangible, visible con
necting link with a carefree boy
hood. She has rendered a service
that we have chosen to commem
orate.
“This occasion and the event it
commemorates depicts something
of the character of the Cadet Corps
of this college and of the Ameri
can people that some nations would
not understand. They have said
that we Americans are soft. I sus
pect that had a certain paper han
ger heard of this occasion a few
years ago he would have delighted
in using it as an illustration of that
fact. To a nation which has no
regard for the individual, and where
human life is valued chiefly as can
non fodder,—a nation which boasts
of so high a degree of efficency
that it can call calously liquidate
the unfortunate of its own nation
and can destroy men, women and
children without compunction for
the sole reason that they are of
idifferent racial stock; to such a
people this occasion would un
doubtedly prove puzzling. But we
have shown them that with our
reverence for womanhood, our
respect for the individual, and
even our kindness for dumb ani
mals, we can and will fight all the
more earnestly for our ideals and
the right to continue them. We
have shown them that as a nation
we do not have to be hard hearted
to maintain our existence.
“I am happy to unveil this paint
ing, a tribute to ten thousand
masters, May it preserve to future
generations of Aggies the tradi
tions of Reveille, a faithful, lov
able dog.”
When Reveille is called to Dog
Heaven the funeral services her
masters will give her will be
worth coming from afar to witness.
Taken from Files of
THE BATTALION
DECEMBER 8, 1937—J. P. Giles
was chosen as president of the
Freshman class of this year. He
was in A battery Field Artillery
.... Dean Gilchrist was the guest
speaker at the A. S. M. E. on the
subject “Texas Complexes.” The
Dean was recently appointed to
the post of Dean Engineering of
the College .... Ted Shawn and
a male ensemble presented “O Li-
bertad” at Guion Hall .... The
college is sponsoring a short course
for dairymen in keeping with its
annual offering of this curriculum.
DECEMBER 10, 1940—Parker,
T. S., was elected to head the
freshman class this year ....
The Aggies are allowed 10,000
seats in the Cotton Bowl game on
New Year’s Day. The Christmas
holidays were changed to Decem
ber 19 to January 2 to allow stu
dents to attend the Cotton Bowl
game .... The college hospital
was packed to accomodate the nu
merous cases of flu in an epidemic
in progress here.