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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1945
As An Aggie....
You Will Take An Active Part In Intra-College Activities
Aggies Building Annual Bonfire
Dances, Intramural Program, Highlight
Excellent Activity Program Designed
For Students of All Likes, Dislikes
While Aggieland’s great claim to
fame can be found in the fighting
spirit of its thousands of scrapping
sons and the air of friendliness
ever present on its campus, no less
distinctive of Texas A. & M. Col
lege is the varied and increasingly-
interesting activities program
found at the home of. the fighting
Farmers.
This typical Aggie activity did
not come about by accident. What
Aggies do now at Texas A. & M. is
what they have found by experience^
that they like to do. Hence, sports,
both intramural and intercollegiate,
rank high in the affection of the
men of the mighty Maroon and
White.
Dancing highlights what is prob
ably the most outstanding social
program found at any other Tex
as school, while social clubs, rang
ing from hometown to national
professional organizations, rank
high on the list of things that all
Aggies enjoy.
The range of activity available
to every cadet is one that furnish
es healthy outlets for all the varied
talents, likes and dislikes of A.
& M’s regularly enrolled seven
thousand students, prior to the
war.
Variety of Activity
For instance here’s just a few
of the things available: a full time
theater on the campus, showing
first and second run pictures at
bargain prices; a student work
shop where dance decorations and
hobbies can be developed; a full
time radio station, offering many
opportunities to those who want
to become either technicians, an
nouncers, or performers; more
than one hundred clubs built on
democratic principles, in which the
famous Aggie bonds of equality
and fraternity rule supreme; and
then specifically the more intensive
programs outlined in the following
paragraphs.
Intramural Sports
Everybody plays at A. & M.—
when play time comes. This means
that when work time comes, the
average student is better equipped
mentally and physically for his stu
dies. The keystone of intramurals
at Texas A. & M. is “A sport for
everyone and everyone a sport.”
No Aggie is too small or too in
experienced to participate.
Opportunity is provided for every
student to take part ' in a large
variety of Sports of his own choos
ing, and the department encourages
and promotes competition among
large groups of men who either are
not interested or are not sufficient
ly proficient for varsity competi
tion. The competition is between
the various military organizations.
Eeach organization has an athle
tic officer appbinted by his pap-
tain. It is the duty of this officer
to organize teams in the sports
sponsored by the intramural de
partment, to enter these sports
in the program, and to have his
teams report promptly at the
scheduled times. From five to eight
sports are sponsored each semester
under the present policy. The sea
son and the students’ interest are
the main factors in deciding what
sports will be offered.
The members 1 of the College
Championship teams are awarded
the official intramural medal and
the military oi'ganization having
the best record throughout the se
mester is presented the intramural
championship flag, which it carries
at all reviews the following semes
ter.
Probably at no other college has
Aggies Have Own Radio Station WTAW,
“Voice Of The Fighting Texas Aggies”
A far cry from the little sending
set constructed in 1912 is radio
station WTAW, Texas A. & M.’s
radio voice and now the Blue Net
work outlet for Central Texas and
the Brazos Valley. In this connec
tion, Texas A. & M. perhaps has
a distinction few colleges anywhere
can claim—a full time radio sta
tion operated primarily for the
training of radio technicians and
operators and providing an outlet
for many talents—dramatics, writ
ing, radio promotion and announc
ing.
Texas A. & M. entered the radio
field in 1922. At that time a broad
casting station was built for ex
perimental purposes. Prior to this
time, in 1919 A. & M. preempted
the world on the broadcast of a
sports event. A football game that
year was put on the air in Morse
code, received in Waco by a news
paper that reported the game in
its late edition.
In 1925 the power of the station
was increased from 250 to 500
watts and the station went on the
air regularly twice a week in ad
dition to special broadcasts. In
1939 the operation of the station
was given the Publicity Depart
ment.
One outstanding program now
carried on WTAW, the Texas
Farm and Home program, is car
ried over Texas Quality Network
and the present connection with
the Blue Network enables WTAW
to bring residents of the Brazos
Valley outstanding radio programs.
Membership In Hometown, Technical
Clubs Available To College Students
interest in intramural sports been
more wholesome or the competition
keener. This is a tribute to the ex
cellent staff under the direction
of W. L. Penberthy, a man every
Aggie knows and loves. Some of the
sports in intramurals include touch
football, speedball,'horseshoe pitch
ing, volleyball, handball, swim
ming, cross country, tennis and
baseball.
The facilities for intramurals
—and these are constantly being
expanded—include 30 basketball
courts, 10 softball diamonds, five
football fields, 15 volleyball courts,
handball courts, the P. L. Downs,
Jr., Natatorium, largest and finest
swimming pool in the south, and
a tumbling room.
Intercollegiate Sports
While fewer participate, inter
collegiate sports, directed by Hom
er Hill Norton, occupy a deep place
in Aggies’ affections. A. & M.
teams rank high in competition. A
charter member of the Southwest
Conference, established in 1914,
the Aggies have won many honors.
Football championships were won
in 1917, 1919, 1921, 1925, 1927,
1939 and 1940. The Aggies tied for
the title with SMU in 1941. The
1939 Aggie team was selected over
whelmingly the Number One team
of the nation. The great names of
Maroon and White football fame
include Jarrin’ John Kimbrough,
great All-American fullback in ’39
and ’40, Joe Routt, All-American
guard in ’37 and ’38, and All-
American tackle, Joe Boyd. Such
names as Martin Ruby, Jitterbug
Henderson, Leo Daniels, and before
them Dick Todd and Joel Hunt, are
Fish Bathe “Sully”
In the above picture “Sully” is shown receiving his regular
Sunday bath. The statue is of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, former
President of A. & M. College and a onetime Governor of Texas.
It has been a tradition for years for the freshmen to learn the
inscription on his statue and bathe him each Sunday during the
summer months.
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others lending to the fame of Ag
gie gridiron prowess.
Corps Trips
The average Aggie, while he may
not be a member of the team, plays
a definite role in any athletic con
test. Yell practice and corps trips
provide him an opportunity to
build the Aggie spirit so essential
in keeping the morale of the team
at high pitch. No Aggie sits while
his team is on the field—that’s
part of the tradition of the Aggie
Twelfth Man. If the team plays
away from Aggieland, the entire
Corps turns out to see it off and
to welcome it home—win, lose or
draw. Several times during the sea
son the entire Corps to a man,
band, bugles and campus mascots,
follows the team by special train,
bus, car, or via the well known
“Aggie Thumb.”
Social Highlights
The outstanding socials include
the Senior Ring Dance, the Junior
Prom, the Sophomore Ball, the
Freshman Ball, the Cotton Ball
and Pageant, and the various mil
itary formals. In normal times as
many as 2000 Aggies have danced
in the huge ballroom to the music
{Spirited Intramural Competition Is
Feature Of Company Life For Cadets
of the leading bands in America—
Jimmy Lunceford, Art Castle, Her
bie Kay, Jan Garber, Boyd Rae
burn, and others. In 1941-42 there
were more than 25,000 paid admis
sions at college dances. Dates for
these socials are invited from
TSCW, Baylor Belton, Sam Hous
ton Teachers College and from oth
er colleges and hometowns through
out Texas.
Town Hall
An entertainment program spon
sored by the Corps, Town Hall
brings outstanding entertainment
to the campus. Season tickets sell
for a small sum. Some of the stars
brought to the Town Hall stage
have included Rise Stevens, one
of the stars of “Going My Way”;
Quentin Reynolds, H. R. Knicker
bocker, and Kaltenborn, famous
war correspondents; Helen Jepson
and Gladys Swarthout, opera stars;
Albert Spalding and Francescatti,
violinists; and many others. '
Publications
The normal student publications
program at Texas A. & M. is one
of the most varied offered in any
Texas institution. THie Corps pub
lishes, in peace time when ma
terials can be obtained, a tri-week
ly newspaper, a monthly humor
magazine, two scientific magazines
known as The Agriculturist and
The Engineer respectively, the
YMCA handbook, a student direc
tory, the football programs sold in
Kyle Field, the Longhorn, college
annual, The Cadence, a Corps
handbook for Freshmen, and nu-
mei’ous other special publications.
The editorial work on all of these
publications is done by Aggies.
Students with high school experi
ence in journalism are urged to
participate as well as any other
student who has ambitions in this
direction.
In short, the men of Texas A. &
M. find time to do a variety of
things—getting an education while
enjoying doing it. That’s why most
Aggies urge their friends to come
to A. & M.
The Passing Parade of Heroes
Is Led bg Men of A. & M.
From the bitter hour of Correg*idor to the last bomb-
fall on foul Nazidom, men trained at Texas A. & M.
have marched in the van of that great parade of brave
Americans. Texas A. & M. embodies all that is great in
the fighting code of fighting Texans—honor, brother
hood, bravery, sportsmanship—all that goes to make a
man’s man. When you think of the school to be your
Alma Mater, be assured the great bond of Aggie broth
erhood, a fraternity extending now to all the battle-
fronts, extends you a welcome to Aggieland and says
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