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DIAL 4-5444 OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION Texas A«M The B College alion SEMI-WEEKLY STUDENT NEWSPAPER TEXAS A. & M. DEEP IN AGGIELAND VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OTOCBER 24, 1944 NUMBER 38 Texas Junior College Executives To Meet Here Nov. 24 Barlow and Dean Brooks to Preside Sophomore Ball To Be Held In Annex Of Sbisa Hall Friday Night At 3 Day Post-war Planning Session Aggieland Orchestra To Play for Dances Friday night from nine till one o’clock the Sophomore Ball will be held in the anex of Sbisa Hall. Plans are well under way and the Aggieland Orchestra has been se cured for that night and also for the Corps Ball which will be held the next evening. Tickets are being sold by Jack Ward, presi dent of the class. Script will be $1.80, including tax, for the Ball, while $1.20 including tax will be charged for the Corps Ball on the following evening. Dorms 5 and 7 are to be used to house the dates, and reserva tions will be taken beginning Thursday morning. Ward and Wal ter Powell, secretary and treas urer of the class are coordinating the efforts of the following com mittees: program, finance, decora tions, and orchestra. Burton Barnes and Allen Ater comprise the pro gram committee, Herschel Lipp- man, Alfred C. Jefferson, Jere Lewis and Ernest Khoury make up the finance committee. Eli Bar ker and R. C. Prater compose the Decorations committee while Jim (See DANCE, Page 3) BEAT N. T. A. C. Quin Appointed Assistant in Forest Service’s Division Was Forestry Editor Of Marshall Paper A new assistant in the Texas Forest Service’s division of infor mation of A. & M. College has been added to the staff, W. E. White, forest service director, an nounced today, as Harry C. Quin, Jr., former newspaper man, join ed the service. Quin had been forestry editor of the Marshall News Messenger for a year before coming to the college division. Prior to that time he was a lieutenant in the air transport command of the Army Air Forces. He was in the public relations de partment of the Texas Company at Houston before entering the army. The new information assistant was employed on newspapers at Austin ana McAllen after being graduated in journalism from the University of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Quin, also an ex student of the University, reside on Fidelity St., in West Park ad dition. "Footlight Favorites" Opens Town Hall Season Here November 7 Adelaide Abbot ^ H: 4 s By Teddy Bernsteen Town Hall will begin its season this year with Footlight Favorites here on November 7, at Guion Hall. This group of noted entertainers includes Adeliade Abbot, Marjory Hess, Edward Kane, John Brown lee, and Kurt Adler. Adeliade Abbott, coloratura-lyr- Marjory Hess ic soprano, is well known to music festivals and the recital stages of the country. She made her most recent appearance in “Lady in the Dark”, and has been heard in opera frequently. Marjory Hess, soprano, is a dark, vivacious and attractive young lady that will certainly make the even- Edward Kane ★ ing complete. She received her vocal training in Italy and has been heard with notable success <nn opera and light opera. Edward Kane, tenor, came up the contest route, winning the At water Kent National Finals. Since that time he has been much in de mand—both for voice and appear- John Brownlee 4: ^ ^ ance—-for light opera and concert engagements. John Brownlee, Metropolitan Opera baritone, is famous for Gil bert and Sullivan and Lehar as well as he is for Mpzart. These four offer the unforgetta ble music of light opera and musi cal comedy—from Johann Strauss Kurt Adler 4: 4< ^ ^ ^ to Richard Rodgers, from “Die Fledermaus” (Rosalinda) to Okla homa, with Gilbert and Sullivan, Lehar, Victor Herbert, Romberg, Kern between the two. Footlight Favorites is under the direction of Kui-t Adler of the Metropolitan Opera. Town Hall is sponsored by the Student Activities Committee. College Is Host To 1944-45 Longhorn To Be Divided Into Texas Committee of 9 Sections; Comes Off Press In Mag Marine Resources The Texas Postwar Planning Commission and proper agencies of the Federal government will be call ed upon by the Texas Committee to Marine Resources to survey economic benefits of expanded in dustries to utilize the potential sources of food, feed and fertilizer that abound in Gulf of Mexico waters. This action was taken at the meeting of the Texas Committee on Marine Resources held Friday in the Animal Industries Building of the Texas A. & M. College. A great storehouse of utility and wealth lies practically un touched at our very doorsteps, said Dr. Walter P. Taylor, head of the Texas A. & M. Wildlife Research Unit, who is chairman of this com mittee. Its development ties in with aspirations of many Gulf Coast communities and greater balanced economic growth of Texas as a whole. It was voted by the marine re sources committee to hold future meetings quarterly and rotate the site between the Texas A. & M. College and the cities along the Gulf Coast. At the next meeting, to be held in Corpus Christi some time in January, members were asked to survey specific aspects of the situation, make reports, and (See COLLEGE, Page 4) Marc Smith, Editor of the Long horn, announced yesterday that the 1944-45 edition would be divided into nine sections and would con tain about 332 pages. As the plans have been outlined, the publication will be made up of a section each on Campus Views, Administration, Classes, Activities, Favorites, Military Life, Athletics, Organizations, and Aggieland. All of the sections will not be made up of the same number of pages, explained Smith, depending upon the importance of the subject to the students. Smith also added that this year’s edition would be very similar to past Longhorn’s. Explaining that there was still a great amount of work to be done, Smith urged all students having one or two afternoons off during the week to come down to the Longhorn office in room 5 of the Administration Building and help with the publication. Smith hoped that Sophomores and Jun iors especially would answer this call for more workers. As present plans call for, the Longhorn is scheduled to be avail able to the students during the second week of May, said Smith. The remainder of the seniors will have their pictures taken this week with those living in Law, Puryear, and Bizzell Halls to have their picture taken from October 23-25, and those residing in Hart Hall and all of the Day students, (Seniors), to have their picture taken from October 26-28. Freshmen Name Bob Lane Class Pres, for 1944-45 Saturday morning in the Fresh man Orientation class officers were ’elected for the current year. From the fish class, Robert Edward Lane was elected president and John Mac vice president, Vvhile Harry Hopkins and Richard Dennis of the frog class were elected secre- (See FRESHMEN. Page 3) Dr. H. W. Barlow, New Engineering Dean, Made A.&M. College Aero Dept. One of Finest In Nation A Batt Feature Early in June, when Gibb Gil christ left the School of Engineer ing, where he had been dean for seven years, and moved into the quarters of the president of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of Texas, he appointed as act ing dean Dr. Howax-d W. Barlow who had been brought to the col lege from the University of Min nesota in 1940 to head its newly created Department of Aeronau tical Engineering. A. & M.’s Board of Directors on October 14 made Dr. Barlow dean of the Engineer ing School. Under Dean Barlow, the De partment of Aeronautical Engi neering had enjoyed outstanding growth in the number of students enrolled and stature among other schools of like activities and cali ber. It had gained the respect of the aviation industry of the coun- tr-y, including the armed, services. Unable to purchase a wind tun nel, students in this department constructed one. The sum of $60,000 was appropriated by the Texas Legislature for the first stages of a new high-pressure, high-speed modern tunnel, con struction of which has begun at Easterwood Field. This new tun nel will have a high speed of 600 miles per hour and can be used for high pressure as well as high alti tude testing. Other equipment in the areonau- tical laboratory had been selected by Dean Barlow and his assistants with the object of making it avail able for research as well as for teaching. Equipment and appara tus are provided for navigation, meterology and instrument courses and the school has been given the highest possible rating by the ci vilian pilot training service for teaching these subjects. As a necessai’y part of the Col leges’ aeronautical training plans, the million dollar Easterwood Field Airport was built on a plot of 800 acres just west of the main cam pus. It has over 400 aci’es in the airport pi’oper, with the balance in reserve for approaches and expan sion of facilities. This airport is the lai’gest and finest owned by any educational institution in the country, and it can handle the largest bombers produced today. With the outbreak of the war, Dean Barlow established special training courses in Fort Worth and Dallas to aid aircraft com panies in North Texas with their training problems. For several months Dean Barlow has been the A. & M. College institutional rep resentative for the Engineering, Science, Management War Train ing program, through which several thousand men and women have been and axe being tx-ained to bet ter perform their jobs in wax- industries. In close connection with these ac tivities, Dean Barlow inaugurated at Texas A. & M. College in 1942 an annual Wartime Aviation Plan ning Conference which has grown to be the largest aviation confer ence in the country. A coverage of this field has been an airport man agement and planning conference staged at the College in June, which is expected to be made an annual affair. Dean Baxiow assumed the direc torate of the School of Engineer ing with a bachelor of science de gree in Aex'onautical Engineering from Purdue University, a master’s degree from the University of Min nesota. An engineering science doctorate degree was conferred on him in 1941 by New York Univer sity. Educational Policies Meeting Attended by Dean Bolton, Heaton Dean Bolton and H. L. Heaton, College Registrar, have just re turned from a meeting of the Ed ucational Policies Commission held at the Rice Hotel in Houston on October 20 and 21. The commission was appointed by the National Education Associ ation of the United States and the American Association of School Administi-ators. The general theme of the meeting was education for all American youth. At the first meeting on the 20th it was pointed out that too few of the American youth really had the opportunity for a true education. The theme for Saturday’s meet ing was education and the people’s peace. The committee concluded that the peace should not be made by a selected few individuals, but that the people themselves should have a fair chance at expressing their beliefs in what would consti tute a permanent peace. BEAT NT. T. A. C. W. A. Hall Appointed To Vice Consular Dr. George Summey, Jx\,,head of the College English Department, has announced tnat W. A. Hall, fox-mer English instx’uctor here, has been appointed to the United States Consular Sex-vice in Paris, France. Hall, who visited Dr. Summey here on the campus recently, is scheduled to sail for Paris around November 1, leaving the college Wednesday, October 25. He has served with the English Depart ment since 1939 and since May of this year he has been attending lectures given by the State De partment to best himself for the position. Hall received his B. A. from T. U. in 1934 and was granted his M. A. at the University of Mis souri in 1939 prior to his coming to A. & M. Dr.TurkNamedVet. Parasitology Head Dr. Richard Duncan Turk has been appointed head of the depart ment and Professor of Veterinary Parasitology, it was announced to day by Dr. R. P. Marsteller, dean of the A. & M. College school of veterinax-y medicine. Dr. Turk suc ceeds the late Dr. H. L. Van Vol- kenburg, who died suddenly recent ly- Dr. Turk was graduated with high honors from the Kansas State School of Veterinary Medicine in 1933. He earned his master of sci ence degree in Biology (parasitol ogy) at Texas A. & M. College in 1939. Since 1936 he has been vet erinarian for the Texas Agricul tural Experiment Station. He prac ticed veterinary medicine in Kan sas and Oklahoma and from 1934 to 1936 Dr. Turk was with the Bu reau of Animal Industry, U.S.D.A., in chax-ge of Bang’s disease work in Oklahoma. Since coming to Texas A. & M. College, Dr. Turk has done exten sion veterinary work, has taught classes in veterinary parasitology in emergency cases, and his addi tion to the faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine brings wide experience, desirable versatility and x-ecognized dependability, Dr. Marsteller declared. BEAT N. T. A. C. Sick Call at Hospital For Colds Increases During Past 2 Weeks Dr. Marsh, head physician at the hospital said today that the x-e- cent cold epidemic is not unusual for this time of the year. He stat- (See SICK CALL, Page 3) College Stage Show To Be Held in Guion Hall Saturday Nite Initial Program To Feature Singing Cadets, Orchestra Plans are being made by the Committee of Student Activities to have a college stage show this Satux-day night in Guion Hall at 7:00 p.m., with the provision that if there is enough interest shown that they will be continued. As far as possible, talent will be taken from the Corps, but occa sionally a visiting artist will be featured. This Saturday, songs by the Singing Cadets and music by the Aggieland Orchestra with Natalie Lane handling the vocalist chox-es will be the main items on the program. Natalie will be remem bered for her excellent prefor- mances with the Aggieland Orches tra this past weekend at the Jun ior Prom and the Cox*ps Ball. These stage shows have been ar ranged by the Committee of Stu dent Activities and should prove very intex-esting. Thex-e is to be no advance in price, and one will be able to enter at 7:00 p.m. and see the stage show along with the reg ular feature for the customary px-ice of twenty cents. These shows are being initiated in order to provide some interesting enter tainment on Satux-day night to make for more enjoyable weekends on the campus. BEAT N. T. A. C. Fix-st classes at North Texas State Teachers College, Denton, were held on the second floor of a hardware store. -f Texas junior college execu tives will devote three days to a study of post war obliga tions in session at the Texas A. & M. College November 2-4, according to announce ment by Dr. T. D. Brooks, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School. Serving as co-host to the visiting educators with Dean Brooks will be Dean Howard W. Barlow of the A. & M. School of Engineering. Cooperating in the discussion of post war pi*oblems of the junior colleges will be the deans of A. & M.’s branch colleges, E. E. Davis of North Texas Agricultural Col lege, Ax-lington and J. Thomas Davis of John Tarleton Agricultur al College, Stephenville. The meeting is being held, Dean Bx-ooks, said, primarily for service to municipal junior colleges, but othex-s have been invited and will participate in the discussion. The executive committee of the State Association of Junior Colleges re quested that the meeting be sched uled and advance reservations indi cate widespread participation in the discussions of the three-day meeting. Visiting educators will be quar tered in a special short course dormitory recently redecorated for use of visiting groups, and at gieland Inn. Meals will be served on the campus for the visitors. L. W. Hartsfield, president of Hillsboro College, will preside at the opening session on Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 p.m. The subject for discussion will be the px-obable post-war conditions that will affect the junior college pro- gx-am. Various phases of this topic will be discussed by H. E. Jenkins of Tyler; B. E. Masters, Kilgore; and the A. & M. staff members to speak include L. P. Gabbard, J. W. Bax-ger, Daniel Russell and C. G. Kirkbride. Friday morning’s session will be the junior college’s responsibility to college youth, with Dean E. E. Davis, Arlington, presiding. Speak ers will include H. A. Hodges, Edin- buxg; J. J. Delaney, Schreiner In stitute, Kerx-ville; Ernest C. Shear- ex-, Amarillo; H. O. McCain, Gaines ville; E. L. Harvin, Corpus Christi and Roy Bux-dett, Arlington. The aftenoon session November 3 will be presided over by Dean J. Thomas Davis of Stephenville, and the subject will be a continuation of the morning’s topic. Speakers will include C. C. Mason, Arlington; G. B. Wilcox and W. A. Varvel of A. & M.; J. R. McLemore, Paris; G. C. Boswell, Ranger; W. P. Akin, Texarkana. The junior college’s responsibil ity to out of school youth and adults will be the subject for dis cussion Friday evening with Dean Emory E. Anderson of Lee Junior College, presiding. Speakers will be E. E. Davis, Arlington; John W. (See EXECUTIVES, Page 4) Executive Committee Is Composed Of Six Deans And President Of School; Was Organized In 1912 By Robert S. Gold In 1912 the Executive Committee of the College was formed, and from that date it has performed many important functions pertain ing to the activities of the college. Of all the various committees on the campus it has more to do with the students themselves than any other. It is composed of the President of the College, the Dean of the College, Dean of the School of Engineering, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine, Dean of the School of Agriculture, and Dean of the School of Arts and Science. These six men meet sever al times a week to decide on the issues brought before them. The duties of the Executive Com mittee as put down in the by-laws of the college are: to submit nom inations for membership in the ! minor faculties, to administer the rules regarding deficient students, and to administer such general col lege duties as may be assigned to it by the president. The last of these has been taken very literally and the committee now has many duties. The faculty is too large to per mit it to meet however necessary, and if it could meet whenever the occasion ax-ose it would be too large to accomplish anything. The Exe cutive Committee acts for the fac ulty of the college in almost all instances. All curriculum changes are recommended by the commit tee* to the Academic Council,, which is made up of various membex*s of the faculty. The Academic Council then either passes on the changes recommended or vetoes them. As for administering the rules regarding deficient students, the procedure is simple. First the defi cient student’s record is considered by the dean of his respective school. If he feels the student can bx-ing his work up within the next se mester, the student may re-regis ter. If there is any doubt in his mind, he sends the case to the com mittee. Thex-e the final decision is made and the deficient student is told the good, or bad, news. The committee has many other jobs and duties. It acts on peti tions that are submitted to it by the students. A good example of this is a petition for exemption from taking M. S., or P. E. These are rarely given to students. The committee also sets the school calendar, such as when the semester starts and ends, and it recommends to the Academic Council what days should be de clared holidays for the students. All salary changes and promotions are also recommended by the Exe cutive Coxiimittee