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DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 3, 1944 NUMBER 41
ARKANSAS NEXT ON AGGIE LIST
F. M. Law Resigns As Chief Of Directors
Gives Absence of
Problems asReason
Dough Rollins Establishes Offices In Hart Hall
Dry Field Assured For
Saturday’s Grid Battle
Cashion Recovered From Injuries, Back
In Line-up; Last Home Game This Season
E. W. Harrison, An
A. & M. Graduate
Is Now Appointee
F. M. Law, chairman of the
Board of Directors of Texas A.
& M. and member for 28 years,
was relived of that position at
his own request by Governor Coke
Stevenson Tuesday after a confer
ence between the two. Edwin W.
Harrison, class of ’13, and a farm
er from South Bend, Young County,
was named to succeed Law.
Pressure of personal business
and activities connected with war
bond sales are understood to have
been the reason for Law’s resigna
tion. Two years ago Law requested
the governor not to reappoint him
but consented to serve two more
yeards at Stevenson’s insistence.
“At that time they had a lot of
problems shaping up, said Law
Wednesday.
“But we no longer have any
problems now. They' have the new
president and the next extension
director and everyone is working
together with excellent teamwork.
There is no dissension among the
board of directors or faculty or
former students, and that goes for
the three branch colleges too.
“The sun is shining brightly
and I have never seen the college
with finer prospects for the future
than now. I felt it was just an
ideal time for me to ask for a
(See LAW, Page 3)
BEAT THE HOGS
Committee Adopts
New Soil Program
Culminating a series of meetings
held at the Texas A. & M. College
to adopt a program for coordinat
ing the efforts of all agencies hav
ing to do with the maintenance of
soil values, the Texas Committee
on Conservation of Soil Resources
Tuesday adopted a five-point edu
cational campaign and elected Dr.
Ide P. Trotter, new director of Ex
tension, permanent chairman, and
Paul H. Walser, State coordinator,
USDA Soil Conservation Service,
permanent secretary.
The Texas Committee on Con
servation of Soil Resources was ap
pointed by E. J. Kyle, dean of Ag
riculture, and comprises represent
atives of State and Federal soil
agencies, key personnel of agricul
tural branches of the Texas A. &
M. College, and individual farmers
and. ranchmen.
The TCCSR authorized Dr. Trot
ter to appoint an executive com
mittee of five members. This com
mittee was directed to prepare and
set in motion a campaign to reach:
1. City and town resident land-
owners.
2. Industrial organizations.
3. Community organizations and
service clubs.
4. Furnish material for these
groups to use in soil conser
vation brochures and pro
grams.
5. Reach and stimulate interest
of farmers and ranchmen.
In the call for Tuesday’s meet
ing, Dean Kyle warned members
of the TCCSR that “the welfare of
the State, as well as the nation,
depends primarily upon our being
able to give better protection to
our soils and to increase their pro
ductive capacity.”
Represented in the meeting were
the main soil divisions of Texas by
practical farmers, many of whom
are members of soil conservation
districts set up to carry out pro
visions of the State law on soil
conservation. Livestock interests
were represented by Marsh Lea of
Fort Stockton, president of the
Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers As
sociation, and Claude K. McCan
of Victoria, former president of
the Texas and Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Association.
Invites Students
To Visit Anytime
John W. “Dough” Rollins, new
ly appointed director of the newly
created Office of Student Affairs,
has arrived on the A. & M. cam
pus and will establish his offices
in Hart Hall.
In assuming the duties of the
office Rollins requested that all
students at A. & M. come by to
see him. He added that he stands
ready to advise and help any stu
dent at any time.
Rollins was appointed to the di
rectorship of the Office of Student
Affairs last summer and the an
nouncement of his appointment
was made on September 18. He will
be the direct representative of the
executive office in the administra
tion of student affairs and activi
ties. Rollins will handle numerous
duties that were formerly per
formed by other offices as part
time or extra activities. When
President Gibb Gilchrist announced
the appointment last summer he
said, “The new director of student
affairs will deal closely with stu
dents in a civilian capacity, and
will act as representative of the
president in connection with mili
tary discipline and cooperation
outside the academic field.”
Rollins is well qualified to han
dle the position as he has been
Connected with the college since
1913 and comes from a family
closely associated with A. & M. He
has seven brothers who are gradu
ates of A. & M. and 12 nephews
who have attended. He was com
missioned a captain in 1942 and
upon receiving the commission
was relieved of his duties as man
ager of athletics, varsity track
coach, and football end coach.
Upon graduation from A. & M.
in 1917 he was commissioned a
captain and took a company of in
fantry to France. When discharged
after the last war he began coach
ing football in 1923 at Wesley Col
lege in Greenville. He worked in
county agricultural extension work
until 1928 when he again returned
to Wesley. From 1930 to 1935 he
coached at East Texas State Teach
ers College and joined Homer Nor
ton’s coaching staff at A. & M. in
1935.
At the time of his release from
the army Rollins held a commis
sion as a major.
BEAT THE HOGS
E. E. Profs Attend
Meeting In Houston
L. M. Haupt announced that six
members of the Electrical Engi
neering staff of A. & M. attended
the American Institute of Electri
cal Engineers meeting in Houston,
Thursday, November 2.
Those who attended were M. C.
Hughes, L. L. Fouraker, H. C. Dil
lingham, A. R. Elliott, C. 0. Phelps
and himself, Haupt added. The
speaker was Samuel G. Hibben of
the Westinghouse Lamp Division,
and his topic was “Lighting Is
Your Business.”
BEAT THE HOGS
Turner Asks For
More Singing Cadets
W. M. Turner, director of the
Singing Cadets, asked all Aggies
interested in singing to come to
rehearsals which are held at 4:00
p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays
and at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesdays and
Thursdays in the Band Room of
Dormitory 16.
Future plans call for a number
of out of town engagements
throughout the state. He invites
every Aggie who is interested in
singing to join the Cadets. Turner
declared that no one should hes
itate because he feels that his voice
is not good enough. He wants the
Singing Cadets to be an Organiza
tion of which every Aggie can be
proud.
It’s now or never for the Texas Aggies as far as the
Southwest Conference football race is concerned, for Satur
day afternoon at 2:30 the Cadets meet the Arkansas Razor-
backs in a game which will tell whether or not the Aggies
are to stay in the race. Rice Institute, by virtue of their
7-0 win over Texas last Saturday, are now in the favorites
seat, and only by winning their four remaining conference
games can the Aggies stay in the race.
FORMATIONS — Pictured below
is the famous Aggie “T” as it
was formed here on Kyle Field
at the A. & M.-T.C.U. game two
weeks ago. At the left is
shown the Aggie Band as it
marched down the field after the
“T” had broken.
+ Coach Homer Norton said yes
terday that covers had been placed
over the Field so that a dry turf
would be assured for the game
Saturday.
The Razorbacks will bring a big
and fairly well experienced team
to Kyle Field Saturday, a team
that has won two games, lost two,
and tied one. Arkansas holds vic
tories over Missouri and Missis
sippi, while they have lost to the
Norman Navy Air Station and
Oklahoma A. & M. The tie game
was played with Texas Christian
University.
Leading the Hog s offense will
be Leon Pense, 183 pound quarter
back. Pense was selected as an
all-conference guard in 1943, but
he has been moved to the back-
field this year to fully utalize his
passing abilities.
This game will mark the final
home appearance of the Aggies
during 1944, the remaining games
with.S. M. U-, Texas, and Miami
are all to be played on the road.
The Cadets will also be seeking
their initial conference win of the
season, and should they fail, it
will be the first itme in many
years that A. & M. has failed to
win at least one conference vic
tory on Kyle Field during a sea
son.
(See AGGIES, Page 3)
BEAT THE HOGS
Committee
Plans Bond
Drive Soon
Freshmen Dance In Sbisa Tonight;
Aggie-Navy Dance Saturday Night
WTAW To Present
Spanish Lessons
Radio Station WTAW will pre
sent a series of radio Spanish les
sons beginning Monday morning
at 7:15. The lessons will also be
broadcast on Wednesday and Fri
day mornings.
The program forms will be
dramatized with a man-in-the-
street conversation and his Span
ish speaking friends. The Spanish
^lessons will be in conversational
style rather than classical.
These programs are produced by
Time and Life magazines and are
designed so that a beginning can
learn Spanish in three weeks. They
are further designed so that if one
lesson is mixed there is no diffi
culty in taking up the lesson on
the next broadcast.
WTAW has booklets that are
used in conjunction with the pro
gram which are available for 50
cents each. They may be had by
enclosing 50with a request to
Radio Station WTAW.
BEAT THE HOGS
College Station To
Vote At High School
National election day arrives
next Tuesday, November 7. The
voting place for College Station
will be in the Music Room of the
Consolidated School Building. The
polls will be open from 8:00 a.m.
until 7:00 p.m.
Aggieland Orchestra
To Play for Dances
Tonight the Class of ’48 will
present its Freshman Ball in the
main dining hall of Sbisa from 9
p.m. until 1 a.m. Regulation uni
form will be the usual khaki num
ber two uniform, not O. D. wools.
Admission will be $1.50, either
with or without dates. Seniors will
be required to pay only the regu
lar tax of 25«f. Exes now in the
service are cordially invited, said
R. E. Lane, class president.
Dates are being housed in Dor
mitories 5 and 7 of the Duncan
Hall area. They will be expected
to leave sometime Sunday morn
ing.
Music will be furnished by the
Aggieland Orchestra under the di
rection of W. M. Turner. Natalie
Lane will handle the vocal num
bers.
Tomorrow night beginning at 9
p.m. there will be an all-service
dance held in honor of Navy men
stationed on the campus. Admis
sion for the Aggie-Navy dance
will be $1.20.
Other freshman officers are: R.
E. Lane, president; John Macs,
vice-president; Harry Hopkins, sec
retary; and Richard Dennings,
treasurer. Committees for the ball
are headed by E. R. Baugh and
Raymond Hennig, finance and dec
orations chairmen respectively.
A. & M. Professor
Heads Committee to
Study Agriculture
Postwar Economic
Recommendations
Will Be Main Duty
After a full day’s discussion of
the major problems confronting
Texas agriculture, V. C. Marshall,
administrative officer for the Tex
as State Soil Conservation Board,
appointed a seven-man committee
to study recommendations made by
members of the agricultural com
mittee of the Texas Postwar Eco
nomic Planning Commission and
to formulate an agricultural pro
gram for the State in the postwar
period.
Heading this committee will be
E. R. Alexander, head of the De
partment of Agricultural Educa
tion of Texas A. & M. College, and
its other members will be Roy H.
(See A. & M., Page 3)
BEAT THE HOGS
Marlin Pastor to
Speak to Freshmen
Reverend H. B. Streater, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church in Mar
lin, Texas will speak at the Fresh
men Assembly, 11:00 a.m., Satur
day, November 4, according to G.
R. Wilcox, director of the Student
Personel Office.
The Y. M. C. A. will have charge
of the program and invites all
those interested to attend. Wilcox
urges all Freshmen to assemble
without delay.
Mayo to Succeed
Summey As English
Department Head
Dr. George Summey, Jr., since
1922 professor and head of the
Department of English of the Tex
as A. & M. College, has been re
lieved of administrative responsi
bilities of the Department at his
own request and will occupy his
time wholly with teaching as pro
fessor of English, being succeeded
immediately as head of the De
partment by Dr. T. F. Mayo, now
professor of English and College
Librarian, Dr. T. D. Brooks, dean
of the School of Arts and Sciences,
has announced.
Dr. Summey’s request for this
change has been presented orally
several times, Dean Brooks said,
and added, “I have valued Dr.
Summey’s services in his present
capacity so highly that I have been
slow to grant his request and have
more than once asked him to defer
it. It seems unfair to delay longer.”
A native of Covington, Ky., Dr.
Summey received his B.A. and
M.A. degrees at Southwestern
Presbyterian University, and his
Ph.D. in English from Columbia.
He did postgraduate work at the
University of Leipzig and at the
University of Wisconsin. His teach
ing assignments embraced South
western Presbyterian University,
North Carolina College of Agri
culture, Alabama Polytechnic In
stitute, Columbia and the Texas
A. & M. College.
Dr. T. F. Mayo came to the
Texas A. & M. College in 1916 as
(See MAYO, Page 4)
Plans were made Wednesday
night by 11 members of the corps
working with W. L. Penberthy,
head of the physical education de
partment, to begin a war bond and
stamp buying campaign among the
student body.
The drive at A. & M. is a part
of a nationwide plan to encourage
college students to invest in gov
ernment war securities. Colleges
with adequate participation will be
privileged to fly a “College At
War” flag as long as they maintain
a record of 90 per cent of the stu
dent body buying war bonds or
stamps.
A finance committee will be ap
pointed in each company to handle
the details of collection and ad
ministration. Although each organ
ization will be responsible for
working out its own method of
participatiotn the committe rec
ommends that the students buy
their stamps and report to the fi
nance officer between the first
and tenth of each month as to the
amount purchased. ,
To be eligible to fly the “Col
leges At War” flag A. & M. will
(See COMMITTEE, Page 4)
BEAT THE HOGS
President Gilchrist
Returns From Fast
Southeast Texas Trip
President Gibb Gilchrist left
early Thursday morning for Beau
mont and Port Arthur where he
will make a series of addresses.
Yesterday noon he spoke to a
group at a luncheon and last night
he addressed the Beaumont A. &
M. Club. From Beaumont he went
to Port Arthur where he spoke to
Lions Club at their weekly luncheon
meeting.
Gilchrist will return to the A.
& M. College late tonight.