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Religious Emphasis Week Begins
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BI-WEEKLY
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TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16, 1945
NUMBER 65
Class Officers To Be Elected Next Week
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President Gilchrist
Holds Open House
For New Freshmen
Heads Of Departments
And Wives Included
In Receiving Line
Open house was held Wednesday
night, February 14, by President
and Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist for the
new freshmen, its purpose being
to better acquaint the new stu
dents with the school and its fac
ulty. Heads of the various de
partments and their wives were in
the receiving line. All students
were afforded a chance to meet
the heads of their departments, as
well as President Gilchrist and
his wife.
Marching from their dormitory,
the first group of cadets arrived
at about 7:30 and was followed
soon after by the other freshman
company that also lives in Dormi
tory two. After passing through
the receiving line they were served
cookies and hot chocolate.
Wednesday’s Open House was
the second of its kind held by
President and Mrs. Gilchrist to
extend a hearty welcome to the
new students, the first being held
at the beginning of last semester
with the arrival of the second
class of 1948.
FLORENCE LOW IS ACTING
EXTENSION SPECIALIST
Florence Low, Fayette County
home demonstration agent, has
been appointed acting specialist in
landscape gardening for the A. and
M. College Extension Service.
Miss Maurine Hearn, Extension
vice director for women and state
home demonstration agent, who
announced the appointment, said it
would cover the period March 1945
to January 31, 1946.
Mrs. Low temporarily succeeds
Miss Sadie Hatfield who has ob
tained a year’s leave for graduate
study.
Motor Vehicle
Short Course To Be
HeldFebruary 19-23
Eighteen conservation and safety
subjects stressing possible short
(Cuts under present-day manpower
and equipment shortages have
been adopted for the short course
for motor vehicle fleet operators
to be held at the Texas A. & M.
College, February 19-23, W. R.
Horsley, chairman of the short
course committee, declared.
Lectures before the short course,
the first of its kind ever to be held
in Texas, include officials of the
Automobile Manufacturers Asso
ciation, Interstate Commerce Com
mission, Texas Department of Pub
lic Safety, National Safety Coun
cil, Center for Safety Education
of New York University, Insti
tute of Public Safety of Pennsyl
vania State College, American
Trucking Association, Texas State
Board for Vocational Education,
representatives of Texas trucking
and industrial concerns and the
Texas A. & M. College.
Evening sessions will be held
as needed to complete unfinished
topics and to hear special speak
ers, Horsley said.
Enrollment at the short course
will be limited to 32 individuals
selected by cooperating Texas au
tomotive and safety groups from
superintendents and assistant sup
erintendents of motor fleets, chjef
mechanics, dispatchers, driver in
structors, transportation officials,
and others in the motor transpor
tation industry.
State agencies cooperating with
the Texas A&M College in staging
the short course are the Texas
Safety Association, Texas Depart
ment of Public Safety and the Tex
as Motor Transportation Associa
tion.
Religious Emphasis Week Services To Be Held Daily
Students Excused
From Classes Daily
To Attend Services
By L. H. Calahan
Religious Emphasis Week is to
be observed at A.\ & M. College,
February 18 to 23, inclusive. Each
morning there will be a service in
Guion Hall in which Dr. Wallace
Bassett of the Cliff Temple Bap
tist Church, Dallas, will be the
speaker, and all students will be
excused from classes which come
at the hour of service so that they
may attend the religious service.
All of the people of the community
are invited to attend each and
every one of the services held dur
ing the week.
The service in Guion Hall will
be held from 9 to 10 o’clock Mon
day morning; from 10 to 11 o’clock
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings
and from 11 to 12 o’clock on Thurs
day and Friday mornings. This
will make it possible for students
to attend without missing a par
ticular class more than once.
Evening services will be held by
the various campus churches, be
ginning at 7:15 o’clock each eve
ning.
Dr. Wallace Bassett will be guest
speaker at the evening services
held in the Baptist Church build-
Rabbi Wolf to
Speak to Hillel Club
Brotherhood Interfaith Week will
be obseiwed by the Hillel Club
and the student Presbyterian
League at A. & M. with joint serv
ices Sunday evening February 18th
at 6:45 p. m., at the Y. M. C. A.
Chapel.
Rabbi Sidney Wolf of Temple
Beth-El, Corpus Christi will be the
guest speaker. His subject will be
Jewish Attitude to War and Peace
as reflected in Jewish Literature
and Philosophy.
Rabbi Wolf is a graduate of the
Hebrew Union College of Cincin
nati and of Cincinnati University.
He is a well known speaker and
civic leader. Aside from his local
ministerial duties he is acting
Chaplain for the Naval Air Base
in Corpus Christi.
Rabbi Wolf is also well known
for his researches on Jewish Music.
His Ph. D dissertation is on the
subject of Jewish Music.
On Monday February 19th at the
Mothers’ Lounge of the Y. M. C. A.
Rabbi Wolf will speak on the sub
ject of Jewish Music under the
auspices of the Hillel Club. The
public is cordially invited to both
events.
On Tuesday Rabbi Wolf will
speak at the Bryan Army Ail
Field as the guest of Chaplain
Stone and the Bryan U S 0 Club.
Seismograph Expert
Addresses Petroleum
Engineers Meeting
Neal Clayton of the North
American Geo-physical Company
addressed a large group of Petro
leum Engineers and Geologists in
a joint meeting Thursday night,
February.15.
After introducing the many broad
uses of geo-physics in modern in
dustry, Mr. Clayton narrowed his
discussion down to the application
of seismography to the oil indus
try. He preceded into a very de
tailed description of the reflection
methods of determining sub-surfac6
structures with the aid of seis
mograph detector. The meeting,
then, became a modified round table
discussion, Mr. Clayton answering
all questions that arose.
Interesting, too, was Mr. Clay
ton’s delineation of his experiences
with seismograph work in Vene
zuela and other South American
countries. He spent two years in
that area with the Shell Oil Com
pany.
ing at the North Gate. Dr. Bassett
who has been pastor of the Cliff
Temple Baptist Church in Dallas
for the past 27 years is also a
member of the Board of Directors
of Baylor University, and the ex
ecutive board of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Lou
isville, Kentucky. Aside from his
other regular church duties he is
also president of the Executive
Board of the Baptist General Con
vention of Texas.
Services in the Church of Christ
will be conducted by R. B. Sweet,
local minister of the church, who
is known throughout the South for
his various articles and booklets
on religion. He has been a teacher
in Religious Education at A. & M.
and also taught Bible in the Con
solidated High School last semes
ter. He is very active in civic af
fairs and has been elected vice-
president of the Bryan-College Sta
tion Rotary Club.
Dr. R. F. Gribble, acting presi
dent of the Presbyterian Theologi
cal Seminary of Austin, will be
guest speaker of the A. & M.
Presbyterian Church, and evening
services will be held in the chapel
of the Y.M.C.A. Dr. Gribble was
reared in Waco, and graduated
from Austin College at Sherman,
Texas. For many years he has held
the chair of Hebrew in the Semi
nary at Austin.
Rev. Stewart Clendenin, Super
intendent of the Bryan District, is
to be the speaker at the services
that are to be held in the Meth
odist Church at the North Gate.
Rev. Clendenin is a graduate of
Southwestern University, and
Southern Methodist University
School of Theology. He is chair
man of the Texas Conference Plan
ning Committee. In 1944 he was
Texas Conference Delegate to the
Jurisdictional Conference of the
Methodist Church.
The Lutheran Church will hold
only one evening service, on Wed
nesday evening, and will meet in
the Y.M.C.A. assembly room with
their local pastor, Kurt Hartmann,
in charge. A special prayer service
will be held Sunday morning, Feb
ruary 18, at 11 o’clock, with stu
dents participating in the service,
in the Y.M.C.A. Chapel.
The work of the Episcopal
Church will be in charge of their
local pastor, J. Hugh Farrell, and
will be conducted by group meet-
Students Attending
Will Not Miss Same
Class Twice
ing, with different groups meeting
at various times according to an
nouncements made to them.
Rabbi Sidney Wolf of the Tem
ple Beth-El, Corpus Christi, will
be guest speaker at the meeting
of the Jewish group. He is to
speak Sunday evening at 7 o’clock
in a joint session with the Presby
terian League, and on Monday eve
ning in the mothers’ lounge in the
Y.M.C.A. Rabbi Wolf received his
A.B. degree at the University of
Cincinnati in 1929, and was or
dained at the Hebrew Union Col
lege in 1932. He is at present vice-
chairman of the USO council, a
member of the Fapiily Service Bu
reau, council of Social Agencies
and Rotary Club. Besides being a
competent pianist, he has written
several papers on Jewish and gen
eral music.
A two-week revival is going to
be held by the First Christian
Church of Bryan, and Dr. Homer
E. Strong will be the guest evan
gelist. The Religious Emphasis
Week at the College will mark the
beginning of the two-week revival,
which is to be held at the First
Christian. Church in Bryan.
Local Sigma XI
Chapter to Meet
An informal meeting of the Tex
as A. & M. College Sigma Xi Club
will be held at 8:00 p. m., Feb. 21,
in the College Museum, A. A. L.
Mathews, secretary, has announced.
This will be a get-together meet-
ting for local members of the
scientific research society, during
which Curtis J. Hesse, Museum
curator, will disepss the Museum
program in relation to the Texas
A. & M. College, Mr. Mathews
said.
College Kiwanis Club
To Meet Tuesday
In Duncan Mess Hall
The College Station Kiwanis
Club will meet on Tuesday, Feb
ruary 20, at Duncan Hall in the
new area. Members are to go in
the south door on the east side.
A change in the meeting place
was made necessary by the closing
of Sbisa Hall.
Campus Study Club
To Meet Tuesday
Professor L. S. Paine will pre
sent “A Picture of China” at the
meeting of the Campus Study
Club to be held Tuesday afternoon,
Feb. 20, at three o’clock in the
Y.M.C.A. parlor.
Mrs. E. P. Humbert and Mrs.
H. K. Stephenson will be hostesses
for the afternoon.
A letter has been received by
the local branch from Dr. George
A. Baitsell, executive secretary of
the national organization, advising
that the petition for establishing
a Sigma Xi Club at the College
has been approved. Members at the
Feb. 21 meeting will be given a full
report of this action.
Other officers of the Texas A.
& M. Sigma Xi Club include Dr.
J. D. Lindsay, president, and Dr.
W. A. Varvel, president elect.
Aggie of the Week . . .
“Bull Sessions” And Football Games
To Linger Long With Charlie Haenisch
By Ed Wendt
“Never will I forget the fiery
spirit exhibited by the 12th man
on the immortal opening of the
Aggie ’42 gridiron season,” mused
Charles Haenisch. Nowhere else,
at any time had he been so im
pressed as he was at his first Ag
gie football game. Also to linger
long in his memories in parallel
with the corps spirit is the inter
minable “bull sessions” in which
every cadet finds himself involved
at one time or another.
Charlie is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. K. Haenisch of Rosebud,
Texas. He attended grammar and
high school at Rosebud and it was
here that Charlie set the founda
tion for his splendid achievements
in college. Lettering in track, foot
ball, and basketball, Haenisch, upon
leaving was recognized as one of
the best all around athletes that
the school had ever produced. Dur
ing the last of his high school
years, Haenisch moved to Dallas,
Charlie Haenisch
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attended Dallas Tech, and received
his diploma there.
When he entered Texas A. & M.
in June of 1942, he was in E Bat
tery, Field Artillery, “Ace” Hud
son being his captain. Since his
entrance Charlie has made quite
a record for himself. Besides being
Battalion Commander of “F” and
“G” Batteries of the 3rd Battalion,
for the^ last two semesters, he was
social secretary of his class during
the same period of time. He also
has been privileged to serve on the
Student Activities Committee for
the past two semesters.
Taking a brief look at the ro
mantic side of Charlie’s life, we
find he has a weakness for Glenn
Miller’s Orchestra. There’s noth
ing he’d rather do than spend an
evening dancing to Glenn Miller’s
arrangement of “Star Dust.” Char
lie’s menu calls for no favorite
foods; rather, he states that he is
“favorite to every food.”
Charlie is majoring in Fish and
Game and is due to graduate this
September. Upon graduation he is
looking forward to serving with
the Texas Fish, Game and Oyster
Commission.
Newly Appointed Cadet Col.
To Preside At Elections
Elections to Be Held Soon After Promotion
List Announced; Fish, Frogs Divide Offices
Winstead Elected
District Director
At Publicity Meet
G. Byron Winstead, director of
information services of A. & M.,
was elected 1945-46 director of
District 10, American College Pub
licity Association at the last meet
ing of a shortcourse and confer
ence at the University of Houston,
February 8-10. A. & M. was
selected as host "college for the
1945-46 conference, which will
probably be held in March, 1946.
Winstead succeeds N. S. Patter
son, director of public relations
of the University of Houston.
This region covers Texas and
Oklahoma. Mr. Winstead was one
of the speakers on the three-day
short course, discussing use of col
lege publications in the college pub
lic relations program.
Other speakers on the three-day
session, which had as its theme
“Public Relations for Education
and for Colleges,” included Pres
ident J. N. R. Score of Southwest
ern University; Dr. W. W. Kem-
merer, assistant to the president
of the University of Houston; T.
T. Frankenberg of Columbus, Ohio,
founder of ACPA; National Pres
ident Arthur Brandon of Vander
bilt; Boyd McKeown of Nashville,
secretary of the national joint
committee on public relations of
Methodist colleges; Miss Lorena
Drummond, director of informa
tion service of the University of
Texas; Harold Young, city editor,
the Houston Post; and Dr. Robert
L. Sutherland, director of the
Hogg Foundation, the University
of Texas.
Resolutions passed by the group
included a recommendation to pool
resources of the 500 member col
leges of the nation toward promo
tion of better educational pubile
relations; a recommendation that
the name be changed to American
College Public Relations Associa
tion; and a recommendation that
the terms of peace include free
international access to news.
Livestock Auction to
Be Held Here Thurs.
Fifty-five high quality Here
ford bulls and females selected
from 19 well known purebred herds
of this area are consigned to the
5th annual auction sale by the Mid-
South Texas Hereford Association
to be held at 1:00 Feb. 22 in the
livestock judging pavilion of the
Texas A.&M. College.
This offering is equal to and
in many features superior to those
handled in four previous auctions,
declared Ward Mooring, secretary
of the oi'ganization. They will be
on display in the sales arena the
morning of Feb. 22.
Last year 49 Hereford bulls sold
for Mid-South Texas breeders at
an average of $248, while seven
females returned $319 each.
Sale consignors include Texas
A&M College; J. Bruce Duncan,
Waco; Mooring & Wimberly and
M. W. Sims, Bryan; Stanton Here
ford Ranch, Alvin; Jenkins Here
ford Ranch, Normangee; Wiley
Maris, Franklin; John R. Black,
Granbury; H. G. Olmstead, Hem-
stead; M. & H. Stock Farm, Kel
ler; Lott Hereford Ranch, Nava-
sota; B. F. Phillips, Frisco; Parks
Hereford Ranch, Clifton; E. H.
& Leon Noack, Frank and Lewis
Worley, and A. W. Butts of
Rockdale; and J. F. Ross, Goodlett.
At a meeting of the Student Ac
tivities Committee held yesterday
afternoon it was decided to hold
an election of class officers as soon
as possible after the promotion
list has been completed. Other new
offices to be filled are the student
activities committee and the elec
tion of a new editor for a 1947
Longhorn.
As in the past class officers will
be elected in the following man
ner: The newly appointed Cadet
Colonel will preside at the separate
class meetings and will act as
chairman and declare nominations
in order for the respective class
offices. A president, vice-president,
secretary, and social secretary
will be elected by the Senior class.
Positions to be held by Junior class
officers are those of president,
vice-president, and secretary. The
same positions will be named by
the Sophomores and the Freshmen
will add a treasurer. The president
and vice-president of the Fresh
man class will be Fish, or second
semester freshmen, while the po
sitions of secretary and treasurer
will be filled by Frogs. Require
ments for the holding of class of
fices as set up in the Blue Book
will be strictly adhered to in the
elections and students should take
this into consideration in nominat
ing their candidates.
The naming of a new Student
Activities Committee is necessary
as a result of the class of 1947 now
holding Senior class positions on
the campus. As set up in the Blue
Book, the committee is composed
of a representative from each of
the classes, the editors of the Bat
talion and Longhorn, and the fac
ulty members appointed by the
president of the college.
The promotion list is expected to
be announced soon and the elec
tions will be held soon afterwards.
Federal Extension
Staff Members Are
Conferring Here
Two members of the Federal Ex
tension staff in Washington have
been in College Station this week
conferring with members of the
Texas A. and M. College Extension
Service. They are Miss Starley M.
Hunter, senior home economist,
who spent Monday and Tuesday
here, and Dr. E. H. Shinn, field
agent for 4-H Club work in 13
southern states.
Miss Hunter, who aids in ad
ministering work of emergency
war food assistants, discussed with
state emergency war food assist
ants and the food preservation spe
cialist what has been done in Tex
as and other states in food produc
tion and preservation, particularly
in regard to Victory gardens and
canning.
With special reference to war
time needs, Dr. Shinn conferred
with the director, state agents, and
state boys’ club agent Tuesday
through Thursday on the organiza
tion of Texas 4-H Club work. Points
discussed were the state organiza
tion as a whole; the selection of a
between boys’ and girls’ club work;
closer coordination and cooperation
between boys’ and girls’ cluk work;
a plan for fuller participation of
Texas 4-H members in the National
4-H Congress; and methods by
which Extension staff members can
more effectively support county
workers to the end that rural boys
and girls may participate more
fully in the production and con
servation of food products needed
in the war effort.