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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
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Texas A«M
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1945
NUMBER 70
Review Prepares Corps For Federal Inspection
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Social Calendar For Semester Includes Five Balls
Freshman “Bluebonnet” Ball In Sbisa Hall
March 23, Heads Semester Social Calendar
Aggieland Orchestra to Play for Both
Fish Ball and Corps Ball Sat. Night
The Freshmen “Bluebonnet” Ball will be held Friday
night, March 23, in Sbisa Hall. M. Y. Swatzell, recently elect
ed President of the Freshmen Class, has appointed commit
tees for the function and work on the event has already
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Rise Stevens, Met, Opera Star, to
Appear On Town Hall Here Tuesday
begun.
The admission price has been
set at $1.50, stag or drag, W. M.
Turner’s Aggieland Orchestra will
furnish the music for the occa
sion and also for the Corps Ball
the following night also in Sbisa
Hall.
No Dormitory has been set aside
yet for the guests that night but
an announcement will be forth
coming to that effect soon. Wal
ton Hall will probably be the re
sidence of the visiting girl over the
week-end.
Also scheduled on the enter
tainment program for the Fresh
men and their dates that weekend
is the Senior \Frolic to be staged
Saturday afternoon. The com
plete program for this affair has
not yet been announced.
Other than Fish Swatzell, other
class officers elected last Friday
night include Gentry, Vice Presi
dent, Leeper, Secretary, and Wieg-
and, Treasurer.
Singing Cadets Go
On Tour Saturday
Cadet Choral Group to
Sing At Denton, Dallas
W. M. Turner announces today
that 32 members of the Aggie
Singing Cadets will journey north
to perform for soldiers and civil
ians. They will leave at 12:00
o’clock noon for Denton. Saturday
night will mark their first per
formance for the students of North
Texas College where they will ap
pear on Fessor Graham’s famed
Saturday night stage show. It is
hoped that there will be a good
representation of Tessies from the
north part of town in the audience.
They will spend the night in Den
ton as guests of North Texas State
Teachers College and then will go
to Dallas Sunday morning where
See CADETS, Page 6
One of the best academic records
on the campus belongs to Sam
Law, a Veterinary Medicine maj
or. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Law, of Cameron, Texas, and
it was there that he was born and
attended grammar and high school.
He graduated from Yoe High
School in Cameron, and was saluta-
torian of his senior class. He also
played in the band for seven years.
“I started playing the sousaphone
in the fifth grade when it was
about two inches higher than I
was,” Sam explained.
Upon entering A. <6 M., he was
assigned to “F” Battery Field
Artillery, in June, 1942. It was
then one of the four horse-drawn
Field Artillery outfits on the cam
pus, and Law’s battery commander
was E. 0. Jonsson, of Crystal
City. Since them, Sam has made
a worthy record here, being a First
Lieutenant (Executive Officer) of
“B” Battery, Sec’y-Treasurer of
bis Senior Class, one of the four
teen Aggies to be in the College
Who’s Who, and he has been all
this besides among the distin
guished students every semester
except one, which in itself is a
notable achievement.
Geraldine Fitch
Is Rotary Speaker
Noted Lecturer To
Discuss “New China”
Mrs. Geraldine Townsend Fitch,
author and lecturer, will discuss
“The New China in the New Pa
cific” as a phase of new forces
in world affairs Friday in two
lectures at the Stephen F. Aus
tin High School. The first will be
before the Bryan and College Sta
tion high schol students at 12:45
p.m., and the second at 7:30 p.m.
before the general public.
This is the third of four out
standing lecturers brought to this
county as a public service by the
Bryan Rotary Club under arrange
ments made with Rotary’s Insti
tute of International Understand
ing They have been arranged to
give students and adults an op
portunity of hearing from noted
authorities about world problems
in terms of the relationship of
peoples of the world to each
other.
Guion Hall To Give
Free Show for Corps
The Guion Hall Theater, in keep
ing with its policy of bringing
outstanding events to the campus,
will give the corps an opportunity
to see free of charge Major Clark’s
vivid technicolor picture show,
“Combat America”, to be shown
March 13 in Guion Hall and March
14 in Assembly Hall, according to
an announcement by Tom Puddy,
Guion Hall manager. Both show
ings will begin promptly at 1:00
and will be open to the general
(See GUION HALL, Page 6)
Sam Law
H: * $ + ♦
The lighter side of Sam’s life
consists, among other things, of
a longing for steaks at mealtime,
and a genuine love for hunting,
which he lists as his favorite pas
time. He states that he has no
favorite tune or type of music,
but that football and baseball top
his list of enjoyable sports. When
asked aobut women, Law declined
By L. H. Calahan
Rise Stevens, lovely star' of the
Metropolitan Opera and many
Hollywood productions, will ap
pear on Town Hall Tuesday night,
March 13. Miss Stevens boasts of
a handsome soldier husband, A
Fashion Academy Award as Best
Dressed Opera Star, and two dots
over the “e” in her first name.
And, incidentally, her first name is
pronounced as if it were written
Ree-suh.
Perhaps Miss Stevens is better
known to the people around Col
lege Station as the feminine star
in the recent Paramount picture,
“Going My Way”, in which the
male lead was played by Bing
Crosby.
to make a statement, saying that
he was certainly no authority on
that subject. Howeve, he lists as
his two most enjoyable times since
he has been at A. & M. the week
end of the Senior Ring Dance and
the Corps trip to Rice U. when
he was a fish, so one can draw
almost any conclusion. Sam says
that his favorite hobby is photo
graphy, but that he hasn’t had
much time to pursue this interest
since his enrollment at A. & M.
When asked what he thought
made A. & M. the outstanding
school that it is, Sam thoughtfully
said, “Well, better men have tried
to put their finger on that, so may
be I’d better say that it’s just
because it is A. & M.” Law hopes
that speaking and finendliness
will return to the campus to the
extent that they once were prac
ticed. He also says that the Final
Review of his Fish year made an
indelible impression on his mind,
and that he will never forget that
event. .
Sam Law is majoring in Vet
erinary Medicine. He plans to
gradtfate this coming September,
after which he anticipates hanging
out a shingle in Cameron.
Miss Stevens began her musical
career at ten when she sang on
one of the early Milton Cross
radio programs. At seventeen she
was leading lady with the Opera
Comique at the Hechscher Theatre
in New York where she was heard
by the famous discoverer of sing
ers, Madame Anna Schoen-Rene.
She was so impressed that she of
fered to teach the young singer;
an offer which resulted shortly
in a three year scholarship for the
Julliard School of Music.
In 1935, the New York born song
stress was a semi-finalist in the
Metropolitan Auditions of the
Air, but never participated in the
actual finals because of her deci
sion to go aboad for further study.
During this period, Miss Stevens
was offered a contract with the
Metropolitan Opera, which she al
so declined, choosing instead to
continue her studies in Salzburg
and Paris. With Mme. Maria Guth-
eil-Schoder in Salzburg, she stud
ied her most celebrated role—Oc-
tavian in “Der Rosenkavalier”.
The young star could have had no
better mentor, for Mme. Gutheil-
Schoder herself was the original
Octavian.
In 1936, Miss Stevens made her
operatic debut at the Prague
Opera House in the title role of
“Mignon”. Following this she sang
in opera in Vienna, Cairo and the
Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires,
South America. She then returned
to the United States and won the
unanimous praise of the most crit
ical audience in the world—a Met
ropolitan Opera audience—when
she appeared in her American de
but in the title role of “Mignon.”
Later that year she went to Eng
land and sang for Queen Mary
at the musical festival in Gylnd-
bourne.
Miss Stevens has made several
motion pictures, the most famous
of which are “The Chocolate Sold
ier,” and her latest “Going My
Way”. In the Chocolate Soldier
she played opposite Nelson Eddy,
who is also noted as being one
See TOWN HALL, Page 6
Ag-gie of the Week . . .
Sam Law, 9 46, Secretary-Treasurer
Freshmen Ball Is
First On Calendar
At a meeting of the new Stu
dent Activities Committee held last
week, the social calendar for this
semester has been virtually com
pleted.
First on the entertainment list
for the season is the Freshman
“Bluebonnet Ball” to be held on
March 23. Fish Swatzell, president
of the Freshman class, has named
his committees and preparations
for the affair have already begun.
A Coi'ps Ball will be held Saturday
night.
Following the Freshman Ball
will be the Junior Ball on April
13. Due to the mixup in classes at
the present time, a banquet for
the Juniors probably will not be
permissible, as that usually ac
companied the traditional Junior
Prom. Therefore, the dance will
probably be called the Junior Ball.
A corps ball will also follow this
event Saturday night, to which all
members of the campus personnel
will be allowed to go.
The Sophomores will reign on
April 27th when they will have
their annual Ball. Dick Baugh is
president of the Sophomore class
(See BALLS, Page 6)
Field Day Program
To Be Held Here
Key farmers of Brazos County
and representatives of interested
governmental agencies will attend
a field day, March 9, at the Main!
Experiment Station, according to
J. E. Roberts, station superintend
ent. The theme of the meeting, will
be Soil Improvement Practices and
Labor Saving Services.
Some 75 leader’s are to gather
at the farm where they first will
be taken on a tour during which
several types of demonstrations
will be given. One interesting fea
ture will be a demonstration of a
brush saw, a new light-weight
model costing less than $400, which
is reported to be ideal for clean
ing ranges, pastures, etc. Another
interesting demonstration will be
a posthole digger operated by trac
tor power.
At noon lunch will be served
at the Animal Industries Pavilion
with the Bryan-Brazos County
Chamber of Commerce acting as
host. At 12:45 the group will move
to the Agricultural Engineering
Building where a picture will be
shown. This film depicts the science
of farming from West Texas to
the Gulf Coast and many scenes
are from the campus of Texas A.
& M.
’46 Cadet Officers Given
Certificates At Ceremony
Retaining Of Blue Star for School Depends
On Outcome of Fed. Inspection March 27
Today, at 5 p.m., a trial review, in preparation for a
Federal Inspection to be held on March 27, was held on the
Infantry Drill Field. An added feature of the ceremony was
the presentation of certificates to Cadet Officers of the class
of ’46, who relinquished their positions at the beginning of
this semester.
The Federal Inspection on the 27th will determine
whether or not the school will continue to be able to wear
Dr. Sherwood
Eddy Speaks
Here Tuesday
World Traveler And
Lecturer To Deliver
To Addresses Here
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, world travel
er and lecturer, will deliver two
addresses on the A. & M. Col
lege campus March 12 and 13.
The first lecture will be on “To
day’s War, Tomorrow’s World”,
and will be delivered in Guion Hall
at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12.
Dr. Eddy will speak in the YMCA
Dr. Sherwood Eddy
7:30 p.m. on ,“Two Hot Spots, In
dia and Russia.”
Admission will be free to both
lectures, and the public is cordial
ly invited to attend. Dr. Eddy’s ap
pearances will be under sponsor-
See EDDY, Page 6
"■the blue star on the cuffs of the
blouses. At this ceremony, there
will be more or less two reviews.
Present cadet officers will lead
their men past the reviewing stand
the first time, and then men will
be called from the ranks to lead
the outfits around the second time.
The reason for this is that only
those now taking R.O.T.C. train
ing will be judged by the inspec
tors. The Frogs, since they have
only been on the campus one
month, will be judged separately
and for that reason will not be
combined into the other companies.
The corps had been practicing
since Tuesday evening for the re
view held today. A practice ses
sion was held Tuesday at 5 p.m.
and also during the drill period
Thursday afternoon.
As today’s ceremony was only
a trial review, no guests were in
the reviewing stand but they will
be present at the Federal Inspec
tion later on.
1500 Students Now
Enrolled In School
According to information releas
ed from the registrar’s office yes
terday there are only 1500 students
now enrolled this year as com
pared 1674 at this time last year.
These students are enrolled un
der 19 different heads. There are
47 students taking AA this year
to last years .53. This year there
are 32 students enrolled in AgEd.
Last year there were 37 enrolled.
In the AgEd department there are
33 students enrolled this year
where there were 18 last year.
There are 171 students enrolled in
Ag to last years 155. There are no
students enrolled in CM this year.
Last year there was one. In LA
there are 125 students enrolled
this year where there were 95
last yea. In Landscape art there
is one student enrolled. Last year
there were 2. There are 67 students
enrolled this year in Science to
See STUDENTS, Page 6
Seniors To Include Tessie Talent In
Frolic Show Scheduled For March 24
It was announced today that the
Senior Class will present a stage
show in Guion Hall on March 24,
for the purpose of raising funds
which will be used by the class for
its various activities this semes
ter. The program will be in addi
tion to the regular feature, and is
expected to last about an hour. Ta
lent for the occasion has not been
selected but it is expected
that groups from T.S.C.W. and
Sam Houston State Teachers Col
lege will participate in the prog
ram. Jere Higgs, social chairman
for the class, said that he had
written to Prairie View College
and asked for a few entertainers,
but no word has been re
ceived from them. Also on the
program will be the Singing Ca
dets and the Aggieland Orchestra,
both of which are under the di
rection of W. M. Turner.
Arrangements are now being
made so that the Singers will put
on a play in which they themselves
will be stars. It is expected that
Dan McGurk
President of Senior Class
the play will deal with the life of
a Freshman, and his first days at
A. & M. No final arrangements
have been made as to the type of
play, or to the players, but it is
expected that these plans will be
completed sometime in the very
near future.
March 24 was selected as the
day for the program as it will
add greatly to the entertainment
of visitors that are in Aggieland
for the Freshman ball which is to
be held Friday night, March 23.
Dan McGurk, President of the
Senior Class, said that no final
arangements have been made as
to the price of admission, but that
this will also be decided when the
seniors make their final plans for
the program and its entertainers.
The Battalion extends its
deepest condolences to the fami
lies of the late Paul Haines and
Webb Lipscomb who were report
ed killed in action recently. Both
men, ex-students of A. & M.,
resided here in College Station.