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TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1945
NUMBER 93
A.&.M Board of Directors
Bases Long-Range Plans
On Six Main Objectives
“The A. & M. College of Texas”, says President Gibb
Gilchrist, “is geared to a postwar program built upon six
important objectives, approved by the board of directors
in October 1944. The A. and M. College system is a big bus
iness. In fact, the budget for the coming year for all divi
sions, departments, and branches of the College, is approxi
mately twelve million dollars. With every agency working
toward the main objectives, it is to be hoped that the College
will go forward to greater heights of usefulness and service
Noguiera Speaks at Guion
★ ★★★★★★★
Good Neighbor Week Combines Fun
With Appeal for Better Relations
By Bob Wren
Good Neighbor Week, sponsored by the Texas A. &
M. Latin-American Club, reached its climax last weekend
with a variety of entertainments. Under the leadership of
Ruben R. Caro-Costas, the club held an exhibit in the
library, a stage show at Guion Hall, the movie “El Gran
Hotel” at Guion, and a dance at the Grove.
These six objectives are:
A state-wide system in accord
with the recognized needs of the
people of Texas and dedicated
primarily to the broad fields of
agriculture, engineering, and mili
tary science, with principal offices
at the main college, for white male
students only, located at College
Station; with such authorized
branch colleges including the
branch college for negroes at
Prairie View, extension services,
experiment stations, and other fa
cilities throughout the State as
may be required to meet all ob
jectives.
An environment for student
bodies comparable to that which
usually prevails in the substantial
Texas homes from which these
students come, superior instruction
including requirements in the study
of the national and state govern
ments under which we live, with
constant training in leadership,
character, tolerance, clean living,
and physical drill and develop
ment, at a cost alike to all at the
lowest and superior instruction; a
staff of competent and worthy
teachers and employees, supporters
of our republican form of govern
ment and of the Constitutions of
the United States and of Texas,
eligible and qualified by training
and example to teach our students,
to work in their interest, and to
work toward other declared ob
jectives of the system.
A strong and effective system
'*>f military training for male stu
dents of the main college or of
any of its branches, compulsory for
all except those to whom credit
may be granted for active military
experience or equivalent training.
Leadership in agriculture, in
cluding, veterinary medicine, for
estry, and wild game; and in en
gineering, including the mechanic
arts and technical and industrial
training; scientific and classical
studies; and auxiliary phases con
nected with the two broad fields,
with the highest possible type and
quality of coordinated instruction,
research, and extension work.
Provision of such graduate in
struction and such research facil
ities and personnel in agriculture
and engineering as may be requir
ed for the maintenance and ad
vancement thereof or to provide
any level of instruction or research
needed.
What’s Cooking
FRIDAY, AUG. 31
5:00 p.m.: Intramural football,
3rd Vo. vs 6th Co.
7:00 p.m.: City softball, Indians
vs. Military at College Park dia
mond.
9:00 p.m.: A. V. M. A. dance at
The Grove, with Aggieland Or
chestra.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 1
9:00 a.m.: Paper collection by
the Boy Scouts.
9:00 p.m.: Corps dance at The
Grove, with Aggieland Orchestra.
MONDAY, SEPT. 3
Labor Day
7:00 p.m.: City softball, Yankees
vs. Tigers at College Hills dia
mond.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 4
12:00 noon: Kiwanis Club lunch
eon at Duncan Hall.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 5
2:30 p.m.: Newcomers Club at
home of Mrs. Roy Garrett, in
Beverly Estates.
7:15 p.m.: Summer Jamboree at
Guion Hall, with Aggieland Or
chestra and Singing Cadets.
THURSDAY, SEPT 6
Board of Directors, A. & M. Col
lege.
7:00 p.m.: City softball, Indians
vs. Orioles, at College Park dia
mond. *
State-wide extension services and
other state-wide work in the broad
phases of agriculture and engineer
ing as may come within the range
of our objectives, and the appro
priate dissemination of information
in these fields to the homes, the
farms, the ranches, and the fields
of endeavor of the people of Texas.
Most of the activities of the Col
lege are divided into two general
fields: agriculture, which in this
sense includes such subjects as
veterinary medicine, forestry and
wild game; and engineering, which
includes the mechanic arts, and
technical and industrial training
with scientific studies. These two
great divisions have been consider
ed wholly unrelated by many; but,
as a matter of fact, their interests
are identical in many phases and
are becoming more so each year.
A Postwar Emrollment Commit
tee has made some careful esti
mates for the next few years.
Student enrollment is expected to
reach 5,000 by the fall of 1946,
followed by increases at about one
thousand yearly until a peak of
9,000 is reached in the fall of 1949.
Then within one year this is ex
pected to decline to an average
of 7,000 where it should stand for
several years. War veterans are
anticipated to constitute about 40
per cent of the total enrollment
from 1946 through 1948, about 22
per cent in 1949, and about 12; per
cent of the enrollment of 7,000
in 1950. Decline in enrollment at
the main college of from 9,000
in 1949 to 7,000 in 1950, will be
the effect of carrying through
their college years the young men
who have been in the armed serv
ices and who have returned to
school in 1946, 1947, and 1948.
Departments of the main college
dealing with junior and senior
classes are not expected to reach
their peak loads until 1948, but
departments which teach the
freshmen class are being prepared
for expansion to maximum strength
by September of 1946. Throughout
the teaching departments new
courses have been planned and ex
isting courses have been reviewed
critically, and in several instances
revised. The enrollment commit
tee cautions that the estimates on
postwar planning could be greatly
influenced by several factors, such
as the response to the GI Bill of
Rights and the rate of demobiliza
tion.
The College has much to do in
connection with research. To the
long established Agricultural and
Engineering Experiment Statioifs
has been added the Texas A. and
M. Research Foundation, incor
porated under the laws of Texas
in November, 1944. The foundation
has on its directorate men prom
inent in the fields of agriculture
and engineering throughout Texas,
with some members living in other
parts of the country. The overall
purpose of the foundation is to
advance the knowledge of mankind
and to train men to impart this
knowledge for the mutual benefit
of society.
In order to further the activities
of the two great main divisions of
the College, the board of directors
has authorized the appointment
of two advisory committees, one
for agriculture and one for en
gineering. These two committees
will work with the College on the
adequacy of instruction, research,
and general service, and will bring
in outside viewpoints from year to
year.
A program of agricultural and
mechanic arts terminal schools has
been proposed at several points
over the State. While the recent
Legislature did not give the go-
ahead signal on this extension of
CSee A.&M. PLANS, Page 4)
The highlight was, of course,
the dance, to which all seniors, ex-
servicemen, and couples were ad
mitted free. The music, provided
by the Aggieland Orchestra, was
both in the Tin Pan Alley and Latin
moods, but the floor show was
strictly Latin and excellent. Ac
companied by Sr. Trinidad Villa-
real, four very attractive girls, Sen-
aritas Eloisa, Olivia, and Socorro
de la Paz, and Gloria Reyes, sang
“Por Eso No Debes”. The audience
was then in the mood for the viva
cious “Rancho Grande” by the same
group. They followed with a bole
ro, “Adios, Mi Vida”. The audience
then cried for “Linda Mujer”, the
Latin “You Never Say Yes”, which
Senorita Olivia Gonzalez sang
while Senoritas Eloisa and Socorro
de la Paz danced—ably assisted by
Faustino Rodriguez, who created a
mild sensation with his Latin jitter-
bugging.
The program at Guion Hall Sat
urday evening was the most impor
tant part of the entertainment. Dr.
J. J. Woolket introduced Guillermo
Moncada from Honduras, who was
master of ceremonies for the even
ing. Caro-Costas was the first
speaker, and gave credit to Frank
lin Roosevelt for the development
of good relations among the nations
of America. Joe Skiles, of Student
Activities spoke next. He looked
forward to great development of
Humble Oil Places
Three-Year Project
The Humble Oil and Refining
Company has just placed a three-
year research project with the Tex
as A&M Research Foundation ac
cording to an announcement made
today by President George Chance
and Acting Director Howard W.
Barlow. The project involves an in
vestigation of chemical reaction ki
netics as applied to the process
for making high octane aviation
gasoline.
The work will be carried on under
the direction of Professor C. G'.
Kirkbride and Dr. P. G. Murdoch
of the Department of Chemical
Enginering. One or possibly two
fellowships providing for advanced
study and research in chemical
engineering as applied to the pe
troleum refining field will be pro
vided by the project.
Dr. Barlow regards the Humble
research project as one of the most
important which the Foundation
has received since its inception
last fall.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
“All ’students who wish part
time employment during the fall
term (September 24 to Febru
ary 2, 1946) are urged to file
an application renewal with the
Placement office immediately.
Also, those students who have
not filed applications but de
sire employment, should file
with us an application at this
time. Renewals and applications
will be accepted beginning
Thursday, August 30, 1945.
Wendell R. Horsley
the Pan-American organization
here at A. & M. as well as in all
the Americas. Luis Duplan, the
guest speaker, consul of Mexico in
Austin, unfortunately hurt his
main subject, the premise that fut
ure peace may be protected by mut
ual understanding and respect be
tween the nations of this hemis
phere, by defending at too great
length the revolutionary spirit of
Mexico and confining the greater
part of his speech to U. S.-Mexican
relations.
On the sheer entertainment side,
Miss Santos Montalvo danced to
“La Madre del Cordero” and later
danced with Sr. Villareal to “Jarabe
Tapatio”, the “Hat Dance” of Mex
ico. The girls who later sang at the
dance entertained, and Sr. Villareal
sang “Serenata Tapatia” and
“Noche Plateada”.
The last part of the celebration
was a showing of “El Gran Hotel”
at Guion Sunday afternoon. The
film starred Cantinflas, the great
Mexican comic. It was a rare op
portunity offered to the corps to
see the man who is probably the
world’s greatest master of panto
mime.
As an entire celebration, the club
deserves great credit. Every part
was excellent in its field. The fut
ure should prove that Good Neigh
bor Week will be one of the high
lights of the school year.
Orchard Resigns to
Join “Farm & Ranch”
John Malcolm Orchard, associate
professor of agricultural educa
tion, has resigned his position to
accept an editorial position with
Farm and Ranch, an outstanding
agricultural publication with off
ices in Dallas, Texas, it has been
announced.
Orchard has been a member of
the Texas A. & M. faculty since
1937, during which time he has
been a part of the vocational ag
riculture teacher training program.
For several years he has written
publicity releases for the Agricul
tural Department and, turning a
writing hobby into business, has
cohtributed to numerous farm per
iodicals. He has been for several
years contributing editor of the
Lone Star Farmer, journal of the
Vocational Agricultural Education
Association.
Mrs. Orchard and three children
will continue to make their home
in College Station until housing
can be obtained in Dallas.
Valley A. & M. Club
Gets Under Way
The Lower R-ro Grande Valley
A&M Club got the ball rolling on
its summer program with a meet
ing Tuesday night in the Academic
Building. Fount Ray was elected
president, Joe Putagnat vice-presi
dent, Van Lawrence secretary and
treasurer, Henry Pate reporter,
and Darby Crixell social chairman.
Club aims and plans for a party,
to be held Wednesday, September
26, were discussed.
Meetings will be held on the
first and third Tuesdays of each
month in room 120 of the Academic
Building, and all Valleyites who
•are 'interested are invited to come.
Student Affairs Office Will Assume
Discipline Function on September 1
AVMA Dance Will
Be Held at Sbisa
Instead of Grove
Corps Dance to
Move Inside Also
Old Man Weather took a hand
in plans of the American Veterinary
Medicine Association this week, and
the semi-annual club dance was
shifted from The Grove to Sbisa
Hall. The Corps Dance has also
been tentatively scheduled for
Sbisa on Saturday night, according
to present plans of the Student
Activities office.
Admittance to the A. V. M. A.
affair will be by membership card,
stated Bob Ward, chairman of the
Dance Committee, and pre-veteri-
nary students will also be admitted
upon presentation of their identi
fication cards. All faculty members
of the veterinary school are also
invited.
The club dance is scheduled to
begin at 9:00 p. m. and to last un
til 1:00 a. m. Music will be furn
ished by the popular Aggieland
Orchestra, and refreshments will
be served.
The Corps Dance will also move
to Sbisa,' unless the weather sud
denly turns dry and hot, according
to Joe Skiles, manager of Student
Activities. If plans are changed,
announcement will be made in the
mess hall, according to Skiles.
Spirit of Glenn
Miller Furnishes
Theme for Jamboree
By Billie Cantrell
The spirit of Glenn Miller, great
orchestra leader who died in the
service of his country last year,
was present at Wednesday’s Guion
Hall Jamboree.
The soft strains of “Moonlight
Serenade”, Miller’s theme song,
drifted over an attentive audience
as the curtains parted to reveal
Bill Turner and the Aggieland Or
chestra playing the thehne melody
almost as well as the Maestro
and his band used to do. First num
ber on the show was “String of
Pearls”, followed by “Here We
Go Again”, “Jingle Bells”, “Amer
ican Patrol”, and “St. Louis.
Blues”, all arrangements by Glenn
Miller.
Turner sprang a surprise when
he presented a new male crooner,
Cadet Rogers of 5th Company,
whose home is Abilene, Texas.
Rogers’ first number “Yes, Indeed”
was wildly applauded, and for an
encore he song the lilting “There,
I’ve Said It Again”. Rogers is a
sensational find, and will probably
appear often on the Jamboree pro
grams.
Miss Marian Holick next ap
peared in a green evening gown
which lent the proper atmosphere
for “You Made Me Love You” and
“The Very Thought of You”.
The Singing Cadets filed on stage
to sing “I’d Rather Be a Texas
Aggie” and the spiritual “Old Man
River”. The program closed with
everyone joining in on “The Spirit
of Aggieland” and “The Aggie
War Hymn”.
Dr. Edgar A. Grist
Will Join Staff of
Extension Service
Dr. Edgar A. Grist of Ft.
Worth, for the past two years chief
veterinarian for the Livestock San
itary Commision of Texas and
State Veterinarian, will join the
A. and M. College Extension Ser
vice headquarters corps of speci
alists on Sept. 16 with the title
of poultry veterinarian. While his
work will be directed to solving
poultry disease problems, director
Ide Trotter said in announcing the
appointment, other pressing ani
mal disease problems could also be
dealt with.
Goodwin to House Student Life and
Activities Offices; Bucek Is Add ed
The change in the supervision of student dormitory
life and general discipline from the Commandant to the Of
fice of Student Affairs will be effective Saturday, September
1, according to an announcement made Thursday by the
college. ,
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Effective at midnight August
31, 1945, duties heretofore per
formed by the Commandant’s
Office in connection with stu
dent affairs and campus secur
ity will be assumed by the Di
rector of Student Affairs and
his staff.
The Military Department will
have jurisdiction over the cadet
corps only when the students
are in military formation or
military science classes.
Gibb Gilchrist,
President.
Preston Bolton
Tells Kiwanis of
War Experiences
Lieutenant Preston Bolton gave
a first-hand account of the activi
ties of the 28th Infantry Division
in the European theater Tuesday
at the regular luncneon meeting of
the College Station Kiwanis Club.
Lt. Bolton traced the movements
of the division from the time that
it embarked from Boston, Massa
chusetts to its redeployment after
V-E Day. His account was enlivened
by a number of interesting personal
experiences which held his audi
ence’s close attention. throughout
the talk.
The 28th Division sailed from
Boston in 1943, according to Bol
ton, and landed in Y/ales, Scotland.
After a short training period it was
moved To an English embarkation
area, and from there was trans
ferred to the original invasion
beach about six weeks after D-
Day. The Division took part in the
battle of St. Lo and several other
combats, after which it was assign
ed to the task of “mopping up” in
the city of Cherbourg and later
to an occupation area under the
supervision of the French. Lt. Bol
ton also explained the operation
of redeployment and the system of
discharge of eligible officers and
men.
Lt. Bolton is the son of Dean F.
C. Bolton, and graduated from Tex
as A. & M. in Architecture with
the Class of 1941. While in school,
he was Captain of 2nd Hq. F. A.,
3rd Battalion Staff; president of
the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet; secretary
of the Architectural Club; a mem
ber of the Ross Volunteers; and
Student Welfare representative
from the Sophomore Class.
The luncheon meeting was open
ed with group singing of “Amer
ica, led by Bill Turner. A number
of guests were present and were
introduced under the direction of
President Jim Breland.
v Director J. W. Rollins and his
staff will’ assume as one of their
important functions the direction
of campus student life formerly ex
ercised by tactical officers. Rol
lins’ staff includes W. R. Horsley,
who will act as Vice Director of
Student Affairs in addition to be
ing head of the office of Student
Placement and Employment; Jim
my Parker, assistant director, and
Roy Bucek, assistant director. Par
ker is a graduate of A. & M., class
of ’41 and Bucek graduated with
the ’42 class. Both have outstand
ing war records.
Until new offices in Goodwin
Hall have been completed, the work
of the department will be done in
the present office located in Hart
Hall. When Goodwin Hall has been
completed it will house the office
of Director Rollins, Student Em
ployment and Placement, Housing
Officer Harry Boyer and his as
sistants, and campus security
forces. It is hoped that in time all
offices related to student life and
activities may be centrally located.
At present, in addition to Director
Rollins’ organization, this would
include Student Activities^ publi
cations, concessions, and other
student program now operating
under the supervision of the office
of Student Affairs.
Several outstanding ex-Aggies
are prospective staff members of
the office of Student Affairs and
will be added to the organization
when they have been released from
army duty, it was stated. The as
sistant directors, it is stated, will
have direct supervision of the stu
dent life in the dormitories and,
operating on a full-time basis, will
be in a position to devote their
entire time to working with the
corps.
V. F. Gay Tells Story
Of Rainbow Corner
A visitor here last week was
Verbon F. Gay, who has spent the
past 35 months on the staff of the
famous Red Cross “Rainbow Cor
ner” club in London, England. He
is a brother of Gordon Gay, assist
ant secretary of the local Y.M.C.A.
Recently released is the book
“The Story of Rainbow Corner”
written by Gay, which describes the
activities of the club from its open
ing in November, 1942 to Decem
ber, 1943. “Rainbow Corner”, lo
cated in Piccadilly Circus in Lon
don, is organized to take the place
of the G. I.’s hometown comer
drug store, and is staffed by some
500 paid workers and about 300
volunteer workers. Food, dancing,
valet service, barber service, in
formation, and many other services
are rendered at the Rainbow Club
to the thousands of G. I.’s who visit
it each month.
Gay was formerly secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. at Tulane Univer
sity, and still claims New Orleans
as his home town.
Ex-Aggie Promotes “Vild Vest”
Rodeo in Austrian Foothills
By Bob Wren
With a thunder of hoof-beats and
a hearty “Heigh-ho Hullabaloo!”
began the first genuine Wild-West
rodeo ever held in Austria. To the
amazement of even the most stoical
patriarchs, ex-Aggie Lt. Sam H.
Wheeler and his friends of the 71st
Division’s 61st Regiment staged
the greatest, and the only, rodeo
ever held in the foothills of the
Austrian Alps.
From information gleaned from
a Third Army release and Lt.
Wheeler’s letter concerning the
event to his mother in Houston, it
seems clear that the affair was no
ordinary cowpunchin’ show. “It
takes a right sharp cowboy to rope
a steer from a bucking jeep,” he ob
served. And the “purty cow-gals”
were some Polish lassies who
were liberated from a German slave
camp. They seemed to be having
a terrific time in spite of the fact
that none quite knew what was
going on.
After rounding up the horses,
cattle, and even donkeys, “der
Vestern Vild men” applied a new
American secret weapon ((possibly
atomic) which persuaded the tame
Austrian ponies to perform like
bucking broncos. Like the cow-gals,
the confused European cows were
not sure what was happening, but
they furnished bull-dogging ma
terial for the show, and had quite
as rough a time as their antago
nists.
Lt. Wheeler said the rodeo was
held to relieve the monotony of
peace after a 1,000 mile, 92 day
fight across France, Germany and
Austria, and in the meantime it
made history.