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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATION
Texas A«M
The B
College
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WEEKLY
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
TEXAS A. & M.
VOLUME 45
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 4, 1945
NUMBER 2
Oh! Those Registration Lines
★ ★★★ ★★★★★★★★
2,572 Enroll For Largest Student Body Since ’43
New Area Full - -- Hart, Leggett, Bizzell Used
Student enrollment at Texas A.
& M. College through Wednesday
for the first peacetime semester
has totaled • 2,572, H. L. Heaton,
registrar, announced today. This
represents an increase of 90 per
cent over total registration during
the semester ended September 21,
which was 1,353.
Registration figures include a-
hout 300 former service men at
tending Texas A. & M. under the
so'-called GI Bill of Rights. There
are 1,441 students who have at
tended the College in the past and
1,131 new students.
Former students began register
ing Monday while new students
reported during the week begin
ning September 23 and underwent
a week’s orientation program.
With the entrance of so many
new men all the prepared dormitor
ies and outfits were filled to ca
pacity and then overflowed. Some
of the old area dormitories were
also used. Those used were Leg
gett, Bizzell, Milner, and Hart
Halls.
What's Cooking
FRIDAY, OCT. 5
3:00 p. m.: A. & M. Garden
Club at home of Mrs. Gibb
Gilchrist.
8:00 p. m.: Football, A. & M.
Consolidated Tigers vs. Buffalo
at Bryan High stadium.
SATURDAY, OCT. 6
8:00 a. m.: Paper collection by
Boy Scouts.
2:30 p. m.: Football, A. & M.
Catfish vs. Allen Academy at
Bryan High School stadium.
2:30 p. m.: Football, Texas
A. & M. vs. Oklahoma Univer
sity, at Owen Field, Norman,
Oklahoma.
7:00 p. m.: Aggieland Jambo
ree, with Aggieland Orchestra
and Singing Cadets, at Guion
Hall.
SUNDAY, OCT. 7
Church services at the church
of your choice.
4:00 p. m.: Meeting of stu
dents interested in Senior Boy
Scouting, at YMCA Assembly
Room.
MONDAY, OCT. 8
8:30 p. m.: Registration for
Dairy Short Course, in foyer
of Agricultural Engineering
Building.
TUESDAY, OCT. 9
12:00 noon: College Station
Kiwanis Club, at Duncan Hall.
2:00 p. .m: Bridge tournament
sponsored by A. & M. Consoli
dated Athletic Committee, at
Bryan Country Club.
The Texas A. & M. College Post
war Enrollment Committee has
made a careful estimate on antici
pated student enrollment for the
next few years. This is expected to
reach 5,000 by the fall semester
of 1946, followed by increases of
about 1,000 yearly until a peak of
9,000 students is expected in the
fall of 1949. Then within one year
enrollment is expected to decline
to about 7,000 where it should re
main for a number of years.
War veterans are expected by
this committee to constitute about
Local High Tigers
Will Meet Buffalo
Tomorrow Night
Local football fans will get a
look at A. & M. Consolidated
School’s Tigers tomorrow night as
they tangle with Buffalo in a night
game at the Bryan High School
stadium.
Scheduled to start for the Tigers
are Potter, left ehd; Street, left
tackle; Rusty Anderson, left guard;
Wilson, center; Rogers, right
guard; Hunt, right tackle; Jones,
right end; Long, at quarterback;
Wally Anderson, left halfback;
Winder, right half; and Echols, at
fullback.
Buffalo lost to Madisonville last
Friday night by a score of 2-0,
while College Station’s Tigers were
taking a 24-0 count over Center
ville.
The Tigers are coached by R. B.
Riddle, who got his football train
ing at Decatur Baptist, and are
using an offensive formation known
as the “C”; they are also reported
to line up in the T formation oc
casionally.
Game time tomorrow nght is
7:30.
Establishes Lost
And Found Office
A long felt need on the campus
is being met by the recently es
tablished Lost & Found Depart
ment located in room 100 of Good
win Hall and operated as a service
to the corps by the office of Stu
dent Affairs.
All persons finding articles of
any description are asked to bring
them to this department where an
attempt will be made to locate the
owner. All persons losing articles
are asked to check with the depart
ment.
Each year many valuable books,
slide rules, raincoats, caps and oth
er articles are lost through forget
fulness of the owners. The lost and
found department is expected to
do a land office business.
40 per cent of total enrollment from
1946 through 1948, then drop to
22 per cent in 1949, and to about
12 per cent of total enrollment of
7,000 in 1950.
Decline of enrollment at the
main college of from 9,000 in 1949
to 7,000 in 1950, the committee
says, will be the effect of carrying
through their college years the
young men who have been in the
armed services and who have re
turned to school in 1946, 1947, and
1948.
Veteran’s Advisory
Committee Formed
President Gibb Gilchrist of Tex
as A. & M. College today an
nounced formation of a Veterans’
Advisory Committee to facilitate
the entrance **of veterans into col
lege, to assist them in making ad
justment as rapidly as possible to
college life and to serve in a liai
son and advisory capacity for the
veterans and for regularly estab
lished college agencies.
The_membership on the veterans
committee is as follows: Chairman,
J. W. Rollins, dean of men; Frank
G. Anderson, athletic department;
E. L. Angell, soon to return from
military leave; H. H. Brayton,
chemistry department; H. L. Hea
ton, registrar; W. R. Horsley,
placement service and vice director
of student affairs; J. T. L. Mc-
New, vice president for engineer
ing; E. E. McQuillen, executive
secretary Association of Former
Students; Joe Skiles, director of
student activities; A. B. Stevens,
petroleum engineering department,
and B. A. Zinn, veterans counsellor.
In addition, one man from each
school, preferably a returned vete
ran, is to be selected by the deans
of the various schools. The com
mittee will work with and through
the established college agencies in
scholastic matters, President Gil
christ announced.
PAPER DRIVE
We are still shipping essential
supplies to the Armed Forces
in Occupied Areas. Paper will
be collected on Saturday, Octo
ber 6th from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m.
by troops 102, 411 and the Cubs.
Collectors will be Messrs. P. J.
Alwin Zeller, A. C. Magee, Vir
gil Miller, Coleman A. O’Brien,
L. G. Jones and the Scouts and
Cubs. Residents are requested
to tie the paper in bundles to
facilitate handling.
Twelve Aggie Seniors Will Leave
For TSCW To Pick Sweetheart
Seniors, Juniors Elect Class Officers
Bob King Will Lead
New Class of 1947
The senior class met last Tues
day night to select its leader's for
the next year. Bob King was
elected president, and promised to
do everything that he could to help
better the school working through
the class. Melvin Pruitt was elected
vice-president, and Hilton Hall
was chosen as the secretary-treas
urer.
The social secretary of the class
is to be L. B. Wardlaw.
Other business transacted tvas
the election of Eli Barker to the
position of Longhorn editor.
Juniors Name Bell,
Heath, and Self
In its first meeting of this se
mester, the junior class selected
its leaders for the coming school
year last Wednesday night. After
some discussion of the candidates,
Glenn Bell was elected president
by a narrow margin over Charlie
Heath. Vice-president was named
as Heath, who was elected almost
unanimously. The secretary-treas
urer of the class is to be Alan
Self.
The election was the only bus
iness transacted at the meeting.
Another Jamboree Saturday Night;
Aggieland, Cadets, Rogers Star Again
Bill Turner’s Aggieland Orches
tra and Singing Cadets will stage
another big jamboree this Satur
day night at seven o’clock. This
entertainment will be for the bene
fit of those men who cannot make
the trip to Oklahoma. Also, the
new freshmen will have an op
portunity to see both of these or
ganizations at their best, as there
has been little change in the roster
of the Singing Cadets and only
one change in the orchestra.
Renowned Artist to
Offer Course Here
A meeting of all people of the
community who may be interested
in a special art course will be held
in Room 33 of the A. & M. Civil
Engineering Building at 1:30 p. m.
Saturday, W. E. Street, head of the
Engineering Drawing Department,
has announced.
George W. Kadel, nationally
known artist with headquarters in
Dallas, will be at the meeting to
interview interested people. If as
many as 15 individuals show a
desire to take the course Mr. Kadel
will teach it during the fall semes
ter.
It is contemplated that the course
will include one and one-half hours
of instruction weekly, Mr. Street
said. It will be conducted on a
nominal tuition basis.
Anyone desiring more detailed
information in advance of the
meeting Saturday should call Mr.
Street at the Engineering Drawing
Department, Phone 4-7294.
Library Adds Singleton
Miss Dorothy Singleton of Den
ton has been named assistant cata
loguer for the Texas A. & M. Li
brary, replacing Miss Lois J. Park
er who resigned to become libra
rian of the Victoria Junior College.
For the past two years Miss
Singleton has been in the cata
loguing department of the TSCW
Library. She graduated at the Den
ton school in 1943 with a major in
Library Science.
Pied Piper Potter
Conducts Zoo Class
Beneath Pecan Tree
“Beneath the spreading chestnut
tree the village smithy stood”. So
said Longfellow. “Beneath the
shedding pecan tree our Dr. Potter
stood.” So said one of 70 enrollees
in General Zoology. Unable to find
classroom space for such a large
assembly Dr. Potter, like the Pied
Piper, lured his charges down the
hall, out of the door, and into the
great open spaces. Finally he came
to a large pecan tree where he
stopped and gathered his flock
around him. And it was here in
the shade of this tree beneath a
sky of blue that the first General
Zoology of the semester was held.
And here it will be held next time,
come rain or shine. But in case it
does rain umbrellas will be required
along with raincoats.
The Cadets will sing “Sky An
chors” and “Twelfth Man”. Fish
Boyd Rogers, a singing sensation
from Abilene, will send the aud
ience out of this world with ‘Gotta
Be This or That” and “A Friend
of Yours.” Patti Grabowsky, from
College Station, will sing “Smoke
Gets In Your Eyes” and “Always.”
The Aggieland Orchestra will give
special renditions of Les Brown’s
“Leap Frog” and “No More To-
jours L’Amour”.
Accident Fatally
Injures Babcock
Charles L. Babcock, Jr., 23, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Babcock,
Beaumont, Texas, was fatally in
jured in a jeep accident and died
in a Durant, Oklahoma hospital
September 8, it was learned here.
A member of Patton’s Third
Army, Lt. Babcock had just re
turned to duty following a 45
day leave during which he visited
Texas A. & M.
Lt. Babcock was graduated with
the class of ’43, majoring in Liberal
Arts. He was a member of A iFeld
Artillery and served as junior edi
tor and Backwash editor of the
Battalion. Babcock was Junior
Representative on the Activities
Committee, a member of the Econ
omics Club, Radio Club, YWCA
Cabinet and Beaumont A. & M.
Club. C. L. Babcock, Sr., is an out
standing Former-Aggie and has
been active in affairs of the Asso
ciation of Former Students of A.
& M.
No details were available here ex
cept that the accident was blamed
on wet highways. In memory of
Lt. Babcock, a beautiful bouquet
of roses was placed in the Battalion
office Tuesday by P. L. Downs,
long-time friend of the family.
Manning Smith
Rejoins Aggies
Coach Manning Smith returned
to Aggieland this week to rejoin
the coaching staff after several
months in the merchant marine.
He will assist the second string
backfield and take over as coach
of minor sports such as golf and
tennis. This now boosts the Aggie
coaching staff to eight.
Moore to Complete Ph. D.
Leave of absence has been given
A. V. Moore, A. & M.’s professor
of dairy manufactures, to attend
Michigan State College for a year
to complete work for a doctor of
philosophy degree.
Major subject which Moore will
study will be dairy manufacturing
and his principal minor subject
will be bacteriology. He will leave
College Station around Oct. 15.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of
those students interested in Sen
ior Boy Scouting at 4 p. m.,
Sunday, Oct. 7 at the LMCA
Assembly Room.
M. C. Hughes
Cadets Will Escort Nominees to Dance;
Winner to Be Presented at TCU Game
Reservations Are
Being Taken For
Town Hall Tickets
Reserved seat season tickets for
the 1945-46 Town Hall will go
on sale October 8, according to an
announcement from the office of
Student Activities. There has been
no increase in the price over last
year.
Beginning with the popular
Rubinoff and his Violin on Octo
ber 26th, the 1945-46 season will
include 10 outstanding numbers.
Margaret Speaks, Conrad Thibault,
Percy Grainger, John B. Hughes,
Lois Bannerman and the popular
dance group headed by Teresita
Ostas will be featured this season,
it was stated.
A full length operetta by the
famous North Texas State Teach
ers College School of Music, un
der the direction of W. C. Bain,
will also be included on the com
ing season.
Students who did not purchase
Town Hall tickets during 1’egistra-
tion may buy the 1945-46 season
ticket for only $2.40 at the office
of Student Activities, it has been
•announced. Featuring 10 outstand
ing numbers, including the famous
David Rubinoff and his $100,000
violin, Margaret Speaks, Percy
Grainger, Conrad Thibault and
many others the 1945-46 program
is to be one of the best in many
years.
Reservations Are
Being Made for
Bridge Tournament
A large number of reservations
have been made for the Bridge
Tournament planned by the Ath
letic Committee of the A. & M.
Consolidated School for Tuesday,
October 9, according to Mrs. Frank
Anderson, chairman of the com
mittee. The tournament will begin
at 2:00 p.m. at the Bryan Country
Club, and all proceeds will go into
the school athletic fund.
Prizes for- high score and for
door numbers will be awarded.
Tables for “42” are also being ar
ranged. Persons who have not
completed their tables or who wish
to attend individually will be pro
vided for, Mrs. Anderson stated.
Those who wish to make ad
vance reservatiqns are requested
to call Mrs. A. D. Adamson at
4-4244.
Friday, October 5, twelve
representatives of the senior
class will leave for TSCW
to pick the Aggie Sweetheart.
Those to make the trip in
clude Bob King, president;
Melvin Pruitt, vice-president;
Hilton Hall, secretary-treasur
er; L. B. Wardlaw, social sec
retary; Sam Nixon, editor of
the Battalion; Eli Barker,
editor of the Longhorn; Mar
tin Vick, head yell leader; Orville
Baker, ’ senior yell leader; R. M.
Botard, senior representative to
Student Activities; Jere Higgs, J.
B. Kearby, and Bubba Jones. Two
alternates to go in case one of
the preceding twelve cannot make
the trip are Willie Williams and
A1 B. Presnal.
The group is to meet the twelve
nominees from TSCW at 10:00 A.
M. Saturday morning. These twelve
girls were selected by the Tessie
student body and each class is
represented by three girls. The
Aggies will escort the nominees
to a dance to be held in Denton
Saturday night and then the Ag
gie sweetheart will be announced
at a later date.
The sweetheart will be presented
at the half of the Aggie-TCU game
orr October 20 by the cadet colonel
who will escort her onto the field
and present her with a bouquet
while the Aggie band plays “Let
Me Call You Sweetheart.” A. &
M.’s representative to the Texas
university roundup next spring
will also be the girl selected this
week.
Campus Club Has
Election and Tea
At Gilchrist Home
New officers were installed by
the Campus Study Club on October
2 at a tea held at the home of
Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist.
Mrs. P. B. Pearson accepted the
office of president of the club,
while other officers installed were
Mrs. H. L. Heaton, vice president;
Mrs. J. L. Shawn, recording secre
tary; Mrs. E. P. Humbert, corres
ponding secretary; Mrs. C. W.
Crawford, treasurer; Mrs. John
Ashton, parliamentarian; Mrs. Roy
Snyder, auditor; and Mrs. F. B.
Clark, historian.
A musical program was enjoyed
by the members and their guests.
Baptists Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Rev. and Mrs. Brown
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The First Baptist Church will
celebrate its twenty-fifth anniver
sary of services here at A. & M.
Sunday, October 7. The occasion
will also mark the twenty-fifth an
niversary of Rev. and Mrs. R. L.
Brown at College Station.
Speakers at the morning pro
gram will include W. F. Brown,
Mrs. R. L. Brown, D. B. Gofer, and
Ralph Langly, president of the
Baptist Student Union of Texas.
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The sermon will be by Dr. J. P.
Boone of Waxahachie.
The speakers for the evening
program will be C. F. Craighead,
J. D. Prewit, and Dr. John A. Held
of Houston who will deliver the
sermon.
Open house will‘be held by the
women of the church at 3:30 p.m.
The evening service will begin at
6:35 in the auditorium, and every
one is invited.