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Texas A«M A v ♦ ♦ The B College alion < . r « * ^ - > VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 18, 1944 NUMBER 35 Longhorn Photograph Schedule Is Announced Pictures Will Be Taken Individually At Studio T. S. C. W. Beauty Chosen Aggie Sweetheart Vicki Moran, Tessyite, To Be Presented At S. M. U. Aggie Sweetheart Twelve Seniors Make Selection Late Saturday Night; Presentation on Nov. 11 Freshmen To Meet Monday After Mess All second semester freshmen meet in the Assembly Hall Mon day, immediately after supper for a most important meeting. Tom Alley, President Senior Class. Navy Opens New Aircrew Program Recently opened by the Navy De partment is a new Aviation pro gram for the training of aircrew- men. In general the requirements for the program for the training of the air crewmen consists of (1) 17 to 26 years of age, inclusive; (2) unmarried; (3) maximum weight, 185 lbs., maximum height, 72 inches; (4) 20/20 vision in each eye with normal color perception; (5) must not have received notice of induction and must not have been placed in the Army or Navy pool; (6) desire to engage in aerial operations is an essential qualifi cation for service as an aircrew- man. If you apply for this program, you will be given aptitude tests and a physical examination will be completed in Houston. You will be interviewed by Naval officers. You will then be sent to Dallas where an Aviation Medical Examiner will give you a final check. You will be enlisted in the rating of Seaman Second Class, Combat Aircrew V-6, USNR. If you are 18 years old or older, you will be given a letter of directed assignment. After your enlistment you will probably be returned home for a short period of time before being called to ac- (See NAVY, Page 3) Vicki Moran, the girl with the^f valentine shaped face and her heart in her eyes, smiled her way into the hearts of 12 Aggie judges who chose her as the Aggie Sweet heart for the fall football semester of 1944. Miss Moran will sit in the seat of honor at the game between the Ag gies and SMU in Dallas November 11 and will be presented to the corps and the crowd at a between halves ceremony. She will be es corted by George Strickhausen, ca det colonel. Twelve senior Aggie beauty judges selected Miss Moran from a group of 12 TSCW nominees for the honor last Saturday evening late after a heated discussion. The announcement of the selection was witheld until today and the Sweet heart herself did not know of her selection until last Tuesday when she was informed by Mrs. Mattie Lloyd Nouten, TSCW Dean of Women, that she was the official Aggie Sweetheart. Miss Moran is a junior at TSCW coming from Arlington Heights High School in Ft. Worth. She is majoring in Costume De sign and Fashion Illustration and nourishes an ambition to be 'a magazine illustrator with portrait ure as a sideline and hobby. Her chief interests are sports with horseback riding and dancing her preference. She is also interested in music and art. A blue-eyed brunette, Miss Moran weighs 115 and barely reaches five feet four inches. She is vice-pres ident of the Army Daughters Club at TSCW, is a member of the Art Club, was treasurer of the Fort Worth Club in 1943, and is now Chaparral Club Pledge. She was a beauty nominee from the sopho more class, a Redbud Princess, and a nominee for A. & M. represen tative to the Texas u. Roundup last year. The Sweetheart is the daughter of Lt. Colonel and Mrs. John S. Moran of Ft. Worth. While in High School she was a representative to the NTAC Coronation Festival and snapshot editor of the Arlington Heights yearbook, the Yellow Jack et. Junior Prom Cost Is $2.40 Couple; Banquet $.75 Each Serge May Be Worn; Tickets Available Now From Officers Class of '47 will have its prom on Friday, October 20 at 9:00 o’clock. The tickets to the Junior prom will be $2.40, stag or couple. The Junior banquet will be on Friday, October 20 at 7:30 in the Sbisa Banquet room. The tickets to the Junior banquet are 75tf per person. Committees have been made and appointed to take care of the dec orations and financial ends of the dance. All members of the class are asked to volunteer to help dec orate the Annex for the dance. Any suggestions as to the method of decorating should be turned over to Delbert Runyon. The banquet will feature several speeches of interest. President Gilchrist will make the speech of the evening. Vice-President John Huebner will make a welcoming address and Secretary-Treasurer Jere Higgs will deliver the inno vation. The entertainment of the banquet will be composed of music. Tickets may be obtained from any officers of the class. The sen ior class is cordially invited to at tend the dance. Seniors attending the dance will be asked to pay a tax of 40<t. All members of the military staff of the school are also invited. Oldest Employee Of College Dies George W. Orms, in length of service the oldest employee of the A. and M. College Extension Serv ice, died in his sleep at his home, 606 Ennis Avenue, Bryan, last night. He was 68 years old, and since October, 1935, had been dis trict agent for Extension District four which comprises 17 north Texas counties. His total service spanned more than 37 years. Oi’ms spent Wednesday at his desk in the Extension headquarters building on the A. and M. campus and appeared to be in normal health other staff members said. He was born near Marshall De cember 31, 1874, and finished school at Cumby in 1895. He taught school from 1896 until 1906, farm ed between school terms, and (at tended college at Tyler for two years. Meanwhile, Dr. Seaman A. Knapp (See OLDEST, Page 3) Hillel Club To Open Activities Friday The Hillel Club will open its fall semester with services Friday, Oc tober 13, at 7 p.m. in the chapel of the YMCA. These services will be held regularly throughout the se mester, and will replace those held on Sunday morning last semester, said Hershel Lippmann, president of the club. Joel Harris, Aggie sophomore will be in charge of the religious services. The first social of the semester will be held in Sbisa Hall at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, October 15, according to Lippmann. He says that all re turning members, new feshmen, and Jewish servicemen on the cam pus are urged to attend these two functions regularly. Vanity Fair and Senior Favorite Photos To Be Judged by Nationally Known Man Announcements have been made by Marc Smith, editor of the Longhorn, concerning the photographs to be taken for the yearbook. Individual pictures will be taken of every member of the Corps, beginning Monday, October 16th, at the Aggieland Studio. All men except non-reg students will have their pictures •■ftaken in winter uniform. Non-regs will be allowed to wear suits. Smith has announced that the individual pictures will be taken as follows: Seniors: Those living in Dormi- | tories 14, 15, and 16 will be photo graphed October 16, 17, and 18; Dorm 17, Milner, Mitchell, and Walton Halls, on October 19, 20, and 21; Law, Puryear, and Bizzell Halls on October 23, 24, and 26; Hart Hall and all day-student sen iors on October 26, 27, and 28. Juniors: Dorms 14, 15, 16, and Walton Hall on October 30, 31, and November 1; Dorms 17, Milner, Mitchell, and Bizzell Halls on No vember 2, 3, and 4; Law, Puryear, and Hart Halls, and all day-stu dent juniors on November 6, 7, and 8. • Sophomores: Dorms 14, 15, 16, and Walton Halls on November 9, 10, and 11; Dorm 17, Milner, Mitch ell, and Bizzell Halls on Novem ber 13, 14, and 15; Law, Puryear, Hart Halls and all day-student sophomores on November 16, 17, and 18. Freshmen: Dorms 14, 15, and Walton Hall on November 20-25; Dorms 16, 17, and Milner Hall from November 27 to December 2; Mitch ell, Bizzell, and Hart Halls on December 4-9; Law, Puryear Halls, and all day-student freshmen on December 11-16. Full-length pictures of the corps commander, regimental command ers, battalion commanders, and company commanders will be taken (See LONGHORNS, Page 4) TWELVE GIRLS constituted the group from which the Aggie Sweetheart was chosen. At the upper right are the senior nominees; Barbara Cook, Bonnie Jo Crumpacker, Elecia Murnane, and Mar jorie Monaghan. Juniors, Elaine O’Leary, Ann McPherson, Bobbie Joe George, and Vicki Moran are at lower left. At lower right are the sophomores, Virginia Carroll, Ruth Dinwiddie, Peggy Hendricks, and Jolene Proctor. All pictures read from left to right. Aeronautics Club To Form In Bryan Much interest is being shown by local citizens in the formation of a Bryan-College Station chapter of the National Aeronautic Asso ciation, committee members work ing to organize a N.A.A. unit here report. Tonight a large meeting is to be held at the Chamber of Com merce offices to complete organi zation plans and sign up charter members and anyone interested in learning more about the NAA is invited to attend. The meeting will start at 8 p.m. Attention is called to the fact that NAA was formed in 1922, two years after the Wright Broth ers made their first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, for the pur pose of promoting private and commercial use of the airplane. Through the years, NAA’s basic aim has been to serve the consum er of aviation products and serv ices, the men and women who own, rent or fly private planes, who travel by airlines, who use the air mail and who ship their goods by air freight. It has been outstanding in its (See AERO, Page 4) Wallace Praises New School for Honduras The inauguration of the new School of Pan American Agricul ture was held yesterday in the Re public of Honduras. Vice President Wallace acted as the honored speaker of the evening. In his address, Wallace praised the founding of this free school as “an enlistment of strong, enlight ened private enterprise in the great Pan American program of Hemi sphere solidarity.” Wallace de scribed the schooL as “a bulwark against waste of resources, against covetousness and wars” adding that “it stands for prosperity and high er standards of living.” Press Club to Meet Next Monday Night There will be a very important meeting of the Press Club Monday night after mess in the Cabinet of the YMCA. All members of the press club are urged to attend. Also all members of the RS 415 class (a i-equired meeting) and members of the Longhorn staff are urged to atteend. Any students wishing to join the Press Club are invited to attend. Discharged Men Form Organization The veterans of World War II met in an informal gathering Wed nesday night to elect officers and gather information from various committees which had been ap pointed to find out their status as students. Those elected were: Ralph Flecher, president; Richard S. Parker, vice-president; William A. Sammis, secretary; Leland Main, treasurer; C. T. Parker, Sgt. at Arms; R. R. White, reporter. Representing Pres. Gilchrist and the CoAege, Dean Bolton, gave an invitation to the Ex-Service men, telling them that they were on the same footing as the regular Ag gies, and were to be considered as members of the student body. The American Legion Project house has been bought by the College and will be used as a clubhouse for the men. Also, the College is consider ing plans for housing the families of Ex-service men. and is working on details of the requirements of veterans as to Military Science, Credits, uniform, and standing in the Corps. A committee from the Bryan American Legion Post No. 159 was present at the meeting and gave wholehearted support to the vet erans’ plan for organization. Three of its members addressed the group. They told of the Legion Service officer who assists veterans on claims, army regulations, and ex-service law. College Poetry Anthology Entries Must Be Sent In Students who wish to have their poetry published in the 1944 An thology of College Poetry must submit their entries by November 5 to the National Poetry Association, 3210 Selby Avenue, Los Angeles 34, California. No fees will be charged for en tering verse in the volume. Each poem must be written or typed on one side of a single sheet of paper with the following information: “The verse entitled is my own personal effort.” The paper must be signed and the name of the college attended and home ad dress given. Writers will be able to compare their work with that done in other colleges over the nation, according to Dennis Hartman, secretary to the National Poeti’y Association. Latin American Club Elects New Officers With a larger attendance than it ordinarily has, the Latin Ameri can A. & M. Club met last Wed nesday to elect officers and make plans for the semester. The offi cers elected are as follows: presi dent, Ruben Caro; vice-president, Paul Campos-Lynch; secretary, A. A. Tinajer, and treasurer, Gustavo Lares Ruiz. Plans are being made for a dance on November 25. New Improvements Being Started Here Bids were received this week by the Construction Office for the construction of 11,000 square yards of concrete sidewalk in the new area. The asphalt walks will be torn up due to their deterioration and age, and replaced with the concrete sidewalks. Thirteen bids were received, the three lowest being from R. B. Butler of Bryan, $23,000; W. S. Crawford of Dal las, $24,725; and Ricks Construc tion Company of Austin, $24,901. The bids will be referred by Presi dent Gilchrist to the Board of Di rectors at the meeting Saturday and it is probable that a contract will be awarded at that time. If the contract is awarded at that time, construction will begin in two weeks and will be completed by the last of January. The refinishing that is being done on the Academic building and Walton Hall is for the inspection of the Board of Directors. A typi cal classi'oom, office and a corri dor are being prepared for an in spection Saturday. This inspection will be for the Board of Directors to consider for a rehabilitation program of the physical plant of the college. A program of this sort is under consideration now, but nothing final can be done with out the advice of the Board of Di rectors. The work in the Academic building is in the nature of a demonstration of what can and should be done if funds permit. A, B, and C ramps of Walton are undergoing a repainting job for the inspection of the Board of Directors also. The purpose of this demonstration is that the Board be shown what can be done for the halls in appearance. This will serve to demonstrate the improvement which can be made in respect of appearance of the dormitories, es pecially in respect to the older halls. It is expected that the Board of Directors will authorize more work of this nature.