VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12, 1944
NUMBER 29
No Commencement Exercises To Be Held
Game Concessions
Dormitories To Be
Opened For Dance
It has been announced by the
Student Activities Office that a
dormitory will be available for the
dates for the final Corps Ball which
will be held on September 22. This
dance will be held in connection
with the week-end activities to be
climaxed the following afternoon
when the Aggie football team
opens the season against the Bryan
Army Air Field.
Tickets for the ball can be pur
chased only at the door on the
night of the dance, no advance
sale being announced. The price
of admission will be $1.20 in
cluding tax.
Music for the dance will be sup
plied by the Aggieland Orchestra,
which has recently been expanded
to thirteen members and put under
the direction of W. M. Turner,
director of the Singing Cadets. The
orchestra has recently acquired
many of the latest popular songs
and also some new arrangements
of old favorites. All these will be
featured at the dance. Very inter
esting to all should be the fact that
soloists are being auditioned.
This is the first of several dan
ces which have been planned for
the fall semester. Others have been
tentatively set to coincide with
the home football games of the
Aggies.
Charles Haenisch, a member of
the Student Activities Committee,
will be in charge of decorations for
the dance.
Another Aggie holding a respon
sible position on the campus is
Marc B. Smith, senior Agricultural
student from Fort Worth.
Recently named editor of the
Aggie Longhorn publication,
Smith is in charge of a very deli
cate, and important undertaking,
as the Longhorn is a manuscript
Batt Needs Reporters
Positions are available on the
Battalion reportorial staff for
interested qualified students at
A. & M.
Those interested should con
tact the editor of the Battalion
in Room 5 of the Administra
tion Building or at 118 Dorm 3.
Mechanical Cotton
Harvesting Display
Scheduled For Wed.
A public demonstration of me
chanical cotton harvesting will be
held on the Roger Astin planta
tion in the Brazos Bottoms begin
ning at one o’clock Wednesday af
ternoon. This demonstration will
be held in connection with the
arrival of the International Har
vester Cotton Picker Caravan con
sisting of two mechanical cotton
picking machines which will arrive
on the campus Friday afternoon.
Due to the widespread interest
in the mechanical cotton harvest
ing machinery the two picking ma
chines wil be on public display at
the Agricultural Engineering
building Saturday and Sunday.
The machines will be used by
the Experiment Station to harvest
some special varieties of cotton
grown for experimental purposes.
The picked cotton will be used to
test the manufactured performance
of machine picked cotton, said H.
P. Smith of the Agricultural Ex
periment Station.
—Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance—
Dallas A. & M. Club
Will Make Final Plans
For Party Wednesday
The Dallas A. & M. Club will
hold a meeting Wednesday night
at 7:00 in the Reading Room of
the New Y.M.C.A., announced Bob
English, club president.
English requests that all stu
dents from Dallas be present to
help complete plans for the be-
tween-semesters party to be given
in Dallas by the club.
which remains with an Aggie al
ways, to be read and re-read, fond
led and loved, to be prized among
all possessions.
Hailing from Fort Worth, Marc
was born on August 7, 1924, the
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Smith.
Attending the public schools there
Marc worked on the Paschal High
Journalism staff while also sing
ing in the school Glee Club and
participating on the track team.
Coming to Aggieland in Septem
ber 1942, Fish Smith joined the
Second Headquarters Battery, Field
Artillery. Bob Wilds was his Bat
tery commander. Since his arrival
on the campus Marc has worked
v ith the publicity office, gaining
(See AGGIE, Page 2)
Norton, Dimmitt to
Speak At Club Meet
Coaches Homer Norton and Lil
Dimmitt will be the speakers at
the monthly meeting of the Brazos
County 9. & M. Club to be held at
the Bryan Country Club at 8:00
p.m., September 18, W. R. Carmich
ael, club vice president, has an
nounced. Norton will outline the
Texas Aggie gridiron prospects for
the coming season, and Dimmitt
will dig deep in his inexhaustible
bag of good stories of sports
events and competition.
All former students of the Tex
as A. & M. College in this area
at the time are invited to attend
the meeting, Carmichael said.
Other oficers of the Brazos
County A. & M. Club are J. E.
(Jocko) Roberts, president, and
Fred Hale, secretary.
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Schedule of Classes
To Be Listed Friday
Friday’s Battalion will contain a
complete schedule of the courses
to be offered this fall. It was an
nounced by H. L. Heaton, Regis
trar, that as many junior and
senior courses as possible would be
offered this fall. It is planned to
offer all prescribed courses for
first and second semester fresh
men and sophomore work along
with all first semester junior and
senior work in the Schools of Agri
culture, Engineering, and Arts and
Sciences.
In the School of Veterinary
Medicine students will be able to
register for all courses prescribed
for the first two years and also
for the third and fourth years.
Only second semester courses will
be offered for the fifth year of
veterinary work.
It was also announced by Hea
ton that approximately 650 new
students are expected to enroll
for the fall semester, and this
would boost to 1650 the estimated
enrollment for the coming semes
ter. All old students will register
Monday afternoon from 1 to 5,
October 2, and new freshmen will
register Monday morning. Regu
larly scheduled classes will begin
Tuesday morning.
Students - interested in selling.,
peanuts, popcorn, and soft
drinks at football games this
fall must sign up for this work
with the Student Activities Of
fice. Men working at this job
will be admitted to the games at
Kyle Field free.
Jewish Services to
Be Held In Bryan
The Jewish community of Bryan,
in its traditional observance of
the Jewish High Holy Days be
ginning at sundown September 17,
has made special provision for
Jewish men at Bryan Field, Col
lege Station, Hearne and Hunts
ville to join them in religious wor
ship at Temple Freda, Bryan, it
was announced by Harold E. Drey
fus, chairman of the Army and
Navy committee of the National
Jewish Welfare Board.
Julius L. Fischbach, Assistant
Director of the Bryan USO Club
will conduct the services.
Military, Naval and Marine au
thorities in this area are provid
ing every reasonable opportunity
for the observance of the High
Holy Days.
The festival marks the begin
ning of the year 5705 of the Jew
ish Calendar. The liturgy of the
New Year’s service emphasize the
(See JEWISH, Page 4)
A Battalion Feature
F. Marion Law, outstanding
business man and renowned edu
cator, has served on the Texas
A. & M. Board of Directors con
tinuously since his first appoint
ment in 1914. After more than half
a century of close contact with
A. & M., both as a student and
director, Law hes repeated time
and again that “If we give A. & M.
a fair chance it will become the
number one land grant college of
the nation. It already is the top
ranking college in many respects.”
Law has devoted many hours of
his life to the well being of A. &
M. The college recognized this
and conferred on him an L. L. D.
in June of 1934. He was previously
honored with the erection of Law
Hall in 1928.
Forty-Eight Named
To Receive Degrees
In a statement issued by the
Registrar’s office, it was announc
ed that there would be no com
mencement exercises at the end of
the semester. Although forty-eight
men are scheduled to receive de
grees at the end of this semester,
it was decided not to hold the
regular graduation exercises.
Following is a list of the stu
dents scheduled to receive degrees
with their respective majors and
(See COMMENCEMENT, Page 7)
—Attend San Antonio Aggie Dance—
Former Editor-in-
Chief of Battalion
To Marry in October
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Benbow of
Bryan have announced the en
gagement and approaching mar
riage of their daughter, Margaret
Sue, to Homer Sylvester Boone,
’46, of Seguin. The marriage will
occur on October 6 at 7 o’clock
in the evening at the First Meth
odist Church, in Bryan.
Miss Benbow is a graduate of
Stephen F. Austin High School and
for the past year has been em
ployed in the Bookkeeping De
partment of the Extension Service
on the campus.
The groom-to-be is assistant to
the county agent in Guadalupe
County. For two semesters he was
editor-in-chief of The Battalion.
Law was born in Bryan and en
tered A. & M. in 1893 and grad
uated with the class of 1895. While
a student at A. & M. Law was a
Senior Captain, the highest cadet
rank at that time. Since graduation
Law has been engaged in banking
and at the present time is president
of the First National Bank, Hous
ton, Texas. The American Bankers
Association has bestowed on Law
the highest honor which that or
ganization can give.
Law has served 30 years on the
Board of Directors and his last
appointment in January of 1943
does not expire until 1949. Law
also serves as chairman of the
executive committee of the Board
besides serving on several other
Board committees.
“Aggie Of The Week” . . .
Marc Smith, Longhorn Editor Has
Impressive Journalistic Background
Number One Land Grant College Of
Nation Is Law's Dream For A. and M.