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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1944)
THE BATTALION VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23, 1944 NUMBER 6 Committee Announces Election Results Cadet Officer Roster Issued Thomas and Olschner Command Regiments Effective immediately within the Corps, the following promotions and assignments have been made. These promotions have met with the approval of Mr. Gilchrist, Pres ident, and are in accordance with the plan of organization of the corps, as announced in an order dated June 21, 1944. Promotions and assignments for the corps staff are as follows: George Strickhausen, Colonel, Corps Commander; Calvin E. Brumley, Lieutenant Colonel, Ex ecutive Officer; Major, Boyd F. Davis, Adjutant; Major Louie P. Clarke, Plans and Training Officer; Major James A. Winne, Jr., Per sonnel Officer; Captain John R. Wade, Athletic Officer. The non commissioned officers are as fol lows: Master Sergeant Charles T. (See CADET, Page 3) ' i l < .1 mm •* v*j Es i ■ m " 1 ■ ■ Batt Delivery Made Now by Mailing List All students who did not re ceive their Battalion newspaper cards for the summer semester should bring their yellow re ceipt to the Student Activities Office, Room 3, Administration Building in order that they may receive each issue of the Battal ion. Student Activities Office. i mmm Ms ■ HANDS ACROSS THE SAXOPHONE—This Air Corps man was really cutting a rug with lovely Doris McBride, blues singer of the Sunkist Vanities Show, at Guion Hall on Tuesday, June 13. He was one of five or six men from the audience who were lucky enough to be asked to dance with members of the company. Metro Opera Singer Kyle Field July 11 Outstanding among the features to be presented by the Student Activities Office, in connection with Town Hall, will be Mr. John Gurney. The show will begin at five o’clock, and will be held at Kyle Field. Gurney is a member of the Metropolitan Opera and has been associated with them for the past five seasons. He has sung several hundred performances in this time, and he has made many friends and admirers, and has done very well on his spring road tour each year. Gurney has had a very interest- | Services On Sunday ing career for a bass-baritone. He I never thought about a singing ca-1 Regular Sunday services will be until he had finished Oberlin ! begun by the Hillel Club next Sun day, June 25th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Cabinet Room of the Y. M. C. A., according to Hershel Lipp- mann, club president. The services will be followed by a meeting of the club to discuss the summer activities. All old member, new freshmen, and Jewish servicemen are urged to come. Corps Has Holiday On July First Saturday, July 1, will be a holi day in lieu of July fourth it was decided Wednesday in a meeting of the Executive Committee which is composed of the deans of the four schools and the dean of the college. College holidays because of the speedup program are necessarily (See CORPS, Page 5) Hillel Club Begins reer College in Ohio. He distinguished himself as a football player and captain of the varsity baseball team at Oberlin. He then entered the Harvard University Business School. He had some musical inter ests, and was soon made soloist for the Harvard Glee Club. It was ( See OPERA, Page 2) Complete Schedule Games Announced With the signing up of the foot ball team from Bryan Air Field to play A. & M. Sept. 23, the cur rent football schedule has been completed. The Aggies will play the game on the home field of the college, Kyle Field. The score last year was 48 to 6 in favor of the Aggies. The games with T.C.U., Univer- (See FOOTBALL, Page 4) Jones Elected Head Yell Leader; Jr. Class President Race Needs Run-off Today the results of the Corps election were made public by the Students Elections Committee. A. C. Jones was chosen head yell leader, with H. Q. Sibley running as the other. Officers of the Senior Class are Tom K. Alley, president; William B. Griffin, vice-president; Sam Law, secretary-treasurer; and Calvin Brumley, social secretary. Brumley won over Oscar Charles Hoenisch by a very small margin. A run-off will be held in the very near future to decide between J. B. Kearby, who collected 24 votes, and E. A. Baetz, who re ceived 23, for Junior class presi dent. Also, there will be a run-off between John A. Huebner and Morris Boone for the office of vice- president. Jere Higgs was elected secretary-treasurer for the Jun iors. The elections in the Sophomore Class were uncontested. Jack Lee Ward is to be president; Bill Pratt, (See ELECTIONS, Page 3) Fees Can Be Paid Now At Fiscal Dept. Second installment of Main tenance fees of $37.00, due July 1-9, inclusive, can be paid now. These fees include board $28.80; room rent $5.70; and laundry $2.50 to August 10th. The Cashier of the Fiscal De partment will accept these fees from 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Fish Authorized To Wear White Stripe All freshmen on the campus will have fish stripes sewed on the sleeves of all shirts just above the left cuff by retreat Wednesday, June 28, said Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Bennett. The wearing of the fish stripe has been approved by the Executive Committee and by the Commandant’s Office. The fish stripe has a colorful history behind it. It has been worn on the sleeves of freshmen aS far back as anyone can remember. They have become a deeply rooted (See FISH, Page 4) A&M Is Host To Teacher Conference After an interval of two years because of war conditions, the an nual Texas School Administration Conference, comprising high school executives of cities and larger towns of the State, has been re instated and will hold its ninth meeting at the Texas A. & M. Col lege, June 26-29, Dean T. D. Brooks of the School of Arts and Sciences and executive secretary of the or ganization, announced today. Meeting at the same time and place but holding separate busi ness sessions, will be the Texas Association of County School Su perintendents and Rural School Su pervisors. The two groups will come together at the annual ban quet the night of June 28. A feature of the conference will (See A. & M., Page 3) % b p -v" i 2 plj 'MM • V ***• ilf’ • 'v' > - ■ M’S * -ry'ly v ' . M •• V’- '/ • ym Goad Is Elected Pres. Press Club At the first meeting of the Press Club during the present semester, Dick Goad was elected president by a unanimous vote, and Alfred Jef ferson was elected secretary-treas urer. Important business was dis cussed and Dick Goad and Alfred Jefferson were named as manag ing editors, J. W. Bell, sports ed itor, and Dick Osterholm, Eli Bar ker, and Robert Gold were named reporters. Plans for the coming semester were discussed and it was pointed out that new blood, including freshmen and upperclassmen, were needed if the paper was to be brought up to the pre-war stan dards. All men who are interested in working on the paper should come down to room 3 in the base ment of the Administration Build ing, either Monday or Thursday afternoon. d AUDIENCE seems to have real ly liked the Sunkist Vanities. This is Fred Boren, taken as Doris McBride sang “Ration Blues.” “Y” Chairmen Been Competent Men Since the Y.M.C.A. was charter ed in 1911 it has had several gen eral secretaries. The first one em ployed was Frank D. Steger who served from 1912-1917. He resigned to go over seas during the first World War. After serving in France he was sent into Egypt and then to Syria. After returning to America he resigned to go into business in New York City. The second secretary was Charles Firth who succeeded Frank Steger during the War period. Murray A. Miller, a member of (See “Y”, Page 8)