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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.