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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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COLLEGE STATION
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15 ,1945
NUMBER 71
Naval Unit Stationed Here To Leave Campus Saturday
Various Committees Named
For Freshman Ball Mar. 23
Fitzwilliam Heads Ticket Committee;
R. A. Stinson In Charge Of Decorations
M. Y. Swatzell, president of the*
Freshman class made further an
nouncements today regarding the
plans for the Freshman “Bluebon
net” Ball which will be held Fri
day night, March 23, in Sbisa Hall.
Fish Swatzell said that a definite
price of $1.50 per person or couple
will be charged for the Ball, and
that it will probably cost $1.00 per
person, or couple for the Corps
Ball that is to be held Saturday
night, March 24.
Though it is not yet final, ar
rangements are being made so that
the Freshmen’s dates will stay in
dormitory 10. The dorm is now va
cant as the Navy moved out re
cently. No definite price has been
set for the rooms, but it is expect
ed that it will be announced by the
end of this week. H. L. Boyer, who
is in charge of the dormitories,
announced that it will be impos-
ible for the school to furnish bed
ding and linens, and that they will
have to be furnished by the stu
dents. Students may sign up for
room reservations Thursday, March
22nd. Though no definite price has
been set for the rooms it is expect
ed that it will be between $.50 and
$.75.
Tommy Fitzwilliam, Freshman
in “C” Company, has been named
chairman of the ticket committee.
Fitzwilliam said that his committee
consisted of eight men from the
various Freshmen outfits. Mem
bers of the committee are: J. D.
Bonno, P. Hoover, J. R. Stewart,
V. R. Schmidt, C. D. McIntosh, P.
E. Green, Frog Wiegand and B.
Mullens.
R. A. Stinson Chairman of the
decorations committee, announced
that his group had made some defi
nite plans as to the decorations,
but as yet no final plans have been
made. Members of the decorations
committee are: R. D. Garrison, D.
L. Mitchell, and R. A. Stinson.
Music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Aggieland Or
chestra, under the direction of W.
M. Turner. Fish Fitzwilliam, chair
man of the ticket committee, asked
that students who plan to attend
the Ball buy their tickets from the
various men in their dormitory
as soon as possible so that an esti
mation can be made as to the
number of couples that will attend
the Ball.
Latin-American
Students Honor
Kyle At Banquet
Students of the Texas A&M
College from Latin American 'coun
tries Sunday evening presented
Ambassador E. J. Kyle with a
parchment expressing appreciation
for his efforts in creating a place
for them in the curriculum of the
College and wishing him success
in his new position of Ambassador
to Guatemala. Presentation was
made by Ruben R. Caro Costas,
president of the Texas A&M Latin
American Club.
Paul Campos Lynch, vice presi
dent of the club, and Edwin Panin
sky also pointed out the warm
friendship and desire to help that
the former dean of Agriculture has
had for students at the Texas A&M
College from the islands of the
West Indies, and Central and South
America.
In accepting the parchment,
Ambassador Kyle stated he had
only one thing in mind in going to
Guatemala and that was to bring
about a better understanding be
tween the people of the United
States and the Central American
Republic.
Present at the dinner which was
held at Aggieland Inn also were
the following members of the Latin
American Club of the Texas A&M
College: Francisco Serna, secre
tary, Guillermo Moncada, treas
urer, Mario Urbina, Faustino Ro
driguez, Abe Abraham, Gustavo
Lares Ruiz, Marciano Aviles, Ro
drigo Castro, Alvaro Facio, Alfon
so Varela, Guillermo Rodriguez,
Jorge Garron, Manuel Escobar,
Fernando Sanchez, Enrique Cha-
marro, Guillermo Elizondo, Alvaro
Tinajero, Claudio Ortiz, Jaime Tor
res, Armando Valle, Fernando Gon
zales, J. C. Casas, F. E. Acosta and
Oscar Jiminez.
Among the College staff in at
tendance were Joe J. Woolket, spon
sor for the club, and Mrs. Woolket,
Dean and Mrs. Chas. N. Shepard-
son, Dr. Ide P. Trotter, Dr. and
Mrs. Luther Jones, Dr. and Mrs.
Guy W. Adriance, Dr. and Mrs.
John Ashton, Dr. and Mrs. John Q.
Hays, and Joe Skiles.
’46 Officers, As Corps Marched By In Practice Review
wmtm.
G. R. White, Brady Cattleman, Named
President Of A. & M. Board Of Directors
Colonel Willard
Chevalier to Give
Series of Lectures
Coloner Willard Chevalier, USR,
an outstanding lecturer and edi
tor of Business Week, will give a
series of lectures here beginning
Thursday, March 22. No newcom
er to the campus, Colonel ChevaK
ier has appeared before the cadet
corps and College Station residents
several times in the past. He has
visited the college consecutively
for the last four years, giving a
variety of lectures to different as
sembled groups on the campus.
Arriving on the Campus Thurs
day, Chevalier will visit over the
city, making no talks. His first
appearance is scheduled for Friday
evening at 7:30 p.m., when he will
address the veterans in the lecture
room of the Chemistry Building.
On Monday, March 26, he will speak
to the faculty and all desiring to
attend, also at 7:30 p.m. in the
Chemistry Building. Tuesday, at
11 a.m., he will speak to the new
Freshmen in the Y chapel, and will
address the entire corps in Guion
Hall at 4 p.m. that afternoon. He
will wind up his appearances on
the campus Wednesday when he
will speak to the Engineering
Faculty at 4 p.m. in the Civil En
gineering Lecture room.
By profession, Colonel Chevalier
is a Civil Engineer, he also saw
action in the last war as a Captain,
Major, and Lt. Colonel in the 11th
U. S. Engineers.
Other Girls Just Dont Compare With
The Tessyites, Student Poll Reveals
By L. H. Calahan
A survey was made among var
ious men on the campus recently to
determine what girls at what
school treated the Aggies the best,
as a whole. As could be expected,
good old T.S.C.W. won hands
down, although Texas ran a pret
ty close second. Your roving re
porter tried to make the rounds
of all the great lovers of the cam
pus, and therefore their views
should be fairly accurate.
Butch Butchofsky, past com
mander of the corps, said that
he believed the girls from Tessie-
land paid more attention to the
lads in khaki as a whole, but cer
tain individuals up in the Capital
city were pretty good entertainers
also. Butch said that the Tessies
will always treat the Aggies swell
because they are just like brothers
and sisters, oh brother! Speaking
on the social gatherings held by
both T.S.C.W. and Texas, he had
this to say, “T.S.C.W. parties . . .
Hallaluah! . . . Texas U. parties..
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
Bill Geer, football star, also is
of the opinion that the girls from
Denton pay more, and better at
tention to the Farmers than do
the ferns from other Texas col
leges, but he believes that the gals
from the land of Tea run a close
second. On a whole, Geer said, you
can’t beat the Tessies for a swell
and lively time, but T. U. is sec
ond for a SPECIAL REASON.
Johnny Spragins, senior, says
that T.S.C.W. women are beyond
a doubt partial to Aggies, and
therefore treat them better than
any other group of females. Spra
gins said that the Denton Dishes
realize what the score is and don’t
make any bones about it when
it comes to Aggies. T. U. girls are
o. k., though, he said.
Roy Bandy, sophomore, said that
since he is a man who knows all
about college women, he feels that
he is able to make an honest and
true statement. Bandy feels that
Texas’ women go for the Aggies
quicker than the other schools,
and they also show the boys a good
time whenever they are around the
T. U. campus. He believes that
the T. U. girls know what they
want and that’s why they go for
the Farmers in a big way.
Dick Baugh who has never been
to T.S.C.W. but knows quite a
few of its inmates, says that as
far as he’s concerned there is no
other girls school in the state. He
said that they seem to be the
most co-operative with the Aggies
because they are so much alike;
Both away from the opposite sex
most of the time.
Bob Wilson cast his vote for
ole’ Orange and White saying,
I’ve been with more girls from T.
U. than any other school, and so
from what I’ve seen the gals really
treat the boys swell, but I might
feel different had I gone with
more of the girls from the other
colleges. Wilson has been to Den
ton only once, and he said that he
would very much like to go back
real soon.
Tommy League falls in line with
a few of the rest and says the
women from Texas come first with
him. He said that these girls real
ly appreciate the Aggies, while
others just take them for granted.
League has only one complaint
about T.S.C.W., it should be moved
closer to Dallas.
These opinions are from a small
number of men around the cam
pus, but they are from men who
really know what they are talking
about, and are capable of giving a
true picture of the subject of col
lege women, and the Aggies.
Kokernot Elected Vice
Pres. At Arlington Meet
G. R. White of Brady was elect
ed president and Herbert Kokernot
of Alpine, vice president, by the
A. & M. College board of directors
at their annual meeting held at
the North Texas Agricultural Col
lege at Arlington Saturday.
In addition to routine business
the board had as its guest Dudley
K. Woodward, chairman of the
University of Texas boai'd of re
gents. Woodward discussed legis
lative matters of interest to the
two institutions.
Among the items transacted at
the business meeting were:
Authorization of appointment of
a poultry marketing specialist for
Texas at the request of the indus
try. Annual appropriation of $12,-
500 for the office will come from
pure feed funds collected by the
college.
Appropriated funds to carry out
provisions of the blanket salary
increase voted by the legislature
for all state employees. An emer
gency appropriation will provide
funds for employees on state funds
and all college employees earning
less than $3000 annually will be
granted increases.
Authorized expenditure of $37,-
000 for cement walks on the A. &
M. College carripus.
Confirmed award of contract for
40,000 feet of asphalt tile for the
academic building to Miller Broth
ers’ Floor company of Houston at
a cost of $5600.
Gave authority for the college to
accept as a gift 12.9 acres of land
in Lavaca county for tomato dis
ease investigations.
Authorized lease of office and
laboratory space for pink boll-
worm investigations in El Paso
county for which the Legislature
already has passed an emergency
appropriation.
Authorized President Gibb Gil
christ to submit to the legislature
a request to dedicate to the use of
Prairie View state normal and in
dustrial college the 1388 acres of
land it now occupies, and to ask
that 110 acres not used be dis
posed of.
McNew To Address
Brazos County Exes
On Monday Evening
J. T. L. McNew, vice president
for Engineering, will be the fea
tured speaker at the monthly
meeting of the Brazos County
A. & M. Club 8:00 p.m. Monday at
the Bryan Country Club. The for
mer lieutenant colonel of the
Army’s Engineering Corps will re
late his experiences in the China-
Burma-India theatre and gave his
impression of the peoples of these
countries.
Other routine business of the
club will be transacted, including
arrangements for the annual Ag
gie Muster to be held April 21,
Secretai-y Fred Hale has announc
ed.
All former students of the Tex
as A. & &M. College in this section
are invited to be present at this
meeting.
Agricultural
Fellowships
To Be Offered
An announcement from the Dan-
forth Foundation that freshman
and junior fellowships will again
be offered to Texas A. & M. agri
cultural students in 1945 has been
received in Dean of Agriculture
C. N. Shepardson’s office. These
fellowships provide for all-expense
trips to St. Louis and Michigan
during the summer. The Danforth
Foundation program has two ma
jor divisions—one dealing with
freshmen and the second with jun
ior students.
The freshman division scholar
ship provides for a two-week pe
riod spent in the American Youth
Foundation camp at New Era,
Michigan. The main purpose of
this camp is leadership training,
and while here the camper has op
portunities to develop himself along
the lines of the four-fold program
of the camp. These four fields are
social, mental, religious, and phys
ical. Combined with this individual
development program is an up-to-
date sports program. Classes are
handled by some of the most dis
tinguished and experienced youth
advisors in America. Camp Mini-
wanca is located on the eastern
banks of Lake Michigan and has
all the facilities of the better
equipped summer camps in the
United States. Sailing, swimming,
canoeing, and a number of other
summer sports comprise the after
noon activities of campers. The
dates for Camp Miniwanca this
(See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 6)
College Station
Scouts Collect 14
Tons Waste Paper
College Station*. Boy and Cub
Scouts have collected 28,400 pounds
of waste paper for the war effort
in the past four months, according
to Dr. Luther G. Jones, chairman
of the Scout paper collections. Dr.
Jones praised residents of the Col
lege Station community and offices
on the A&M College campus for
their cooperation in these drives.
The three groups collecting the
paper and placing it in hands of a
buyer for shipment to a processing
center are Troop 102, C. J. Hesse,
scoutmaster Troop 411, E. H.
Brock, scoutmaster, and the Cubs
under P. J. Alwin Zeller.
These boys made collections as
follows: Dec. 9, 3,260 pounds; Jan.
6, 7,900 pounds; Feb. 16, 9,440
pounds, and March 3, 7,800 pounds.
“We are now in the paper-drive
month for the War Production
Board and the Scouts are doing
everything they can to fill the
badly needed paper quotas, not
only in College Station and Bryan,
but also all over the country.
Scouts are rendering service to
their government in the only way
those in these age brackets can be
of service,” Dr. Jones said.
Two Schools Established
Here For Trainees In 1942
Navy Now Consolidating, Decommissioning
Contracts In Favor of Schools At Stations
By Lt.-Comdr. Jean A. Lambert, USNR
The closing of the Naval Training Schools at the A.
& M. College of Texas and the departure of the bluejackets
from this campus not only mark the end of a unique asso
ciation of Army and Navy training programs, but also
signify the end of a vital, although somewhat hectic, per
iod of training and preparation for war by the military es
tablishments of this country.
Although the United States undertook its program of
'irearmament in the summer and
Ninety-Two Cadets
On Last Semester
Distinguished List
Five Students Receive
Maximum Grade Points
With 3.00 Average
Ninety-two Texas A. & M. Col
lege students made the distin
guished list for the recent school
semester, according to a list re
leased by H. L. Heaton, registrar.
These students had no grade below
“C” and a grade point average of
not less than 2.25 per credit hour
for the semester beginning Oct. 2,
1944, and ending Feb. 3, 1945.
Five of the students made a
grade point ratio of 3.00, the high
est given. These were: Marciano
Aviles Cordero, Puerto Rico, grad
uate student in Agricultural Eco
nomics; Rafael H. Cintron, Puerto
Rico, graduate student in Horticul
ture; Malcolm A. Horton, Gold-
thwaite, sophotnore in Mechanical
Engineering; Paul F. Jungerman,
Dallas, sophomore In Veterinary
Medicine, and John M. Sellen, Lub
bock, freshmen in Civil Engineer
ing.
Sixth on the list was James C.
Thompson, Hebronville, freshman
in Science, with grade point ratio
of 2.94. Filling out the highest ten
grade point ratio with 2.90 each
were: Harry J. Auvermann, Fort
Worth, freshman in Electrical En-
fall of 1940, the attack on Pearl
Harbor found our Army and Navy
in a state of readiness not scaled
or developed to meet the previous
ly unimagined technical and per
sonnel demands of a total war. The
Navy, called upon to protect the
vital supply lines to Europe and
Australia, desperately needed more
ships, more equipment, more qual
ified men to man both ships and
equipment.
Selective service could provide
the men, but how could they be
trained quickly and thoroughly to
meet the emergency facing us ?
Modern war, with the inventive
energy it unleashed, was being
fought with highly refined, tech
nical weapons. The Navy needed
machinst mates, electrician mates,
radiomen, radio technicians, qual
ified Diesel engineers. But where
were the teachers, the school
rooms, the laboratory equipment to
come from? The Navy, to grow
from one hundred thousand men to
three million, was not equipped
with sufficient instructors to meet
these pressing, immediate demands.
The Navy soon learned that radio
technician had to be put into train
ing one year before he would be
qualified fo duty at sea in that
capacity. That meant no time
could be wasted, no delay could be
countenanced.
The problem was solved by turn
ing to the leading colleges and
universities of our country and ob
taining their assistance, making
use of their equipment, hiring
their faculties, and so, the Navy
gineering; O. Clyde Cecil, Hous-1 contract schools came into being,
ton, freshman in Civil Engineer- l In April of 1942, two such schools
ing; Robert L. Cleland, Genoa,
freshman in Chemical Engineering,
and Shannon Jones, Jr., Kaufman,
sophomore in Liberal Arts.
The following are listed as dis
tinguished students:
Alan D. Albert, Tom K. Alley,
Archie B. Ammons, Harry J. Au-
verman, H. C. Avery, Marciano
Aviles-Cordero, Quin M. Baker,
(See CADTES, Page 6)
were commissioned at the A. &
M. College of Texas, one to train
radiomen, the other to train radio
technicians. Into these schools came
bluejackets from all over the coun
try, men of selected intelligence.
The blue of the Navy and the
khaki of the Aggies and the Army
units at A. & M. became a custo
mary sight for the members of this
(See NAVAL UNIT, Page 6)
M. P. Greenwood-Adams To Lecture In
Last Of Rotary Sponsored Programs
M. P. Greenwood-Adams, noted
journalist and lecturer, will dis
cuss “Australia, New Zealand and
the Pacific Islands” as a phase of
new forces in world affairs Friday
in two lectures in Bryan and Col
lege Station. The first will be at
12:45 p.m. at Stephen F. Austin
High School before the combined
high school student bodies in
Brazos county, and the second at
7:30 p.m. before the general pub
lic at the College Station First
Baptist Church.
This is the last of four lectures
by the Institute of International
Understanding which are sponsor
ed locally by the Bryan Rotary
Club. They have been contracted
to give residents, service men and
students an opportunity of head
ing about world problems in terms
of the relationship of peoples in
the world to each other.
There is no admission charge
to these lectures and the general
public is urged to attend, said
George Garrett, president of the
Bryan Rotary Club.
Mr. Greenwood-Adams was born
and educated in Melbourne, Aus
tralia, where he is widely known
as a former all-round amateur
athlete. He has traveled extensively
through Australia, New Zealand,
the Dutch Indies, and other Pa
cific islands, and Europe. While
M. P. Greenwood-Adams
★
serving on the staff of a weekly
newspaper he become a popular
contributor to various magazines
published in Australia.
For the past twenty years Mr.
Greenwood-Adams has been lectur
ing extensively around the world,
doing a series of lectures in the
Philharmonic Hall in London, for
the National Geographic Society
in Washington, and for men in the
armed services under the direction
of the Public Service Division of
the U. S. War Department.