THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 25, 1945
THE BATTALION
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“Textbook Widows”
According to state law, Texas menu planning, budgeting, interior
A. & M. College is not coeduca
tional, but that is not preventing
girls from going to school on the
A. & M. campus and living in a
college dormitory. These precedent
breaking young women ai’e mem
bers of the A. & M. Ex-Service
men’s Wives Club, half of whom
live in Walton Hall, a dormitory
converted into apartments for vet
eran students. The girls’ classes
are in the form of club-sponsored
lectures, demonstrations, and pro
jects.
The .A. & M. Ex-Servicemen’s
Wives Club was organized as an
auxiliary of the men’s organiza
tion with the purposes of helping
the girls know each other, provid
ing social and other activities for
the so-called “text-book widows”
and to help solve mutual problems.
With the ready assistance of fac
ulty wives, the Extension Service,
and various specialists of the cam
pus, the club has arranged for in
struction in interest fields such as
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decorating, child care, and family
relations—all adapted to an income
of less than $100 per month. As
further projects the Ex-Service-
men’s Wives have a plan for coop
erative buying of supplies and the
management of a nursery school
for their small children.
Many of these young women are
college graduates, maiiy otherls
have special training and abilities.
This, plus the aid of outside spec
ialists and a desire to learn on the
part of the girls, is the factor re
sponsible for enterprising young
wives and mothers being able to
go to school on the A. & M. cam
pus and remain quite within the
letter of the law which established
Texas A. & M. as a boys’ school.
McDowell leaves
FOR COLUMBUS
C. H. McDowell, acting director
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station, is leaving today for
Columbus, Ohio, where he will
look over work done by the Ohio
Agricultural Experiment Station in
hybrid corn.
Director McDowell will be join
ed in Columbus by Dr. Ide P. Trot
ter, Extension director.
CUB PACK
There will be a meeting of
the Cub Scouts No. 102 on the
top floor of the American Legion
House on Thursday, October 25,
at 7:00 p. m. Parents are in
vited.
JAMES G. POTTER
Dr. James G. Potter succeeded
Dr. 0. W. Silvey as head of the
physics department September 1
. . . is new arrival on campus, for
merly research physicist for Bell
Telephone Research Laboratories
. . . was at one time head of phys
ics department at South Dakota
School of Mines and Technology
. . . Since 1940, has been chairman
of physics division of Society for
Promotion of Engineering Educa
tion . . . has been program chair
man for American Association of
Physics Teachers for past two
years ... is a Presbyterian and
gets recreation from music and
Ridin’ high
BOTTLED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE COCA-COLA COMPANY BY
BRYAN COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY, INC.
GEORGE STEPHAN, President
GEORGE B. WILCOX
George B. Wilcox is head of new
ly combined departments of educa
tion and psychology . . . was for
merly Director of Student Person
nel . . . graduated from Sam Hous
ton Teachers College, took B.A. at
A. & M., M.A. at Columbia, other
graduate work at T. U. . . . came
to A. & M. in 1920 as superinten
dent of Consolidated School . . .is
past president of Texas State
Teachers Association, new serves
on Legislative Committee ... is
member of State Teachers Retire
ment Board, Advisory Committee
on Financing Public Education of
N.E.A., Brazos County Board of
Education, and City Commission
. . . chairman of Y.M.C.A. Board
and of A. & M. Postwar Planning
Committee . . . vice president of
College Station Kiwanis Club . .
a Presbyterian, a fisherman who
manufactures some of his own
piscatorial equipment, and a gar
dener ... is married, and has one
daughter, a senior at Consolidated.
DONORS
The names of additional don
ors to the evening of fun and
frolic presented under the joint
sponsorship of the College Sta
tion Business Men’s League and
the Student Activities Office
for the Class of 1949 on Septem
ber 27 have been announced by
the League, as follows:
Campus Variety Store
Campus Cleaners
Casey’s Confectionery
Bishop’s Texaco Service Sta
tion
gardening . . . Mrs. Potter was
formerly principal of Rapid City,
S. D., high schools.
THE
EXCHANGE
STORE
“SERVING
TEXAS
AGGIES’’
G. W. SCHLESSELMAN
Dr. G. W. Schlesselman is head
of new department of geography
this semester . . . Came to A. & M.
in 1934 as associate professor of
agricultural economics . . . has
B. A. from Iowa State Teachers
College, M. A. from Clark Univer
sity, Ph. D. from University of
Nebraska . . . took graduate work
at University of Zurich, Switzer
land . . . taught at Hillsdale Col
lege, Michigan; State Normal
School, Athens, W. Va.; Sam Hous
ton State Teachers College; and
University of Nebraska ... is
known to friends as “Skipper” . . .
became active in Civilian Pilot
Training in 1942 ... is married
and has two children.
D.A.R. Hears Steen
On Foreign Policy,
Elects New Members
La Villita chapter of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution
met on Thursday evening, October
18th, at 7:30 at the home of Dr.
and Mrs. Bolton with Mrs. W. E.
Echols and Mrs. J. M. Nance as
cohostesses. There were thirteen
present. Mrs. S. W. Bilsing, regent,
presided over the business meeting
which was opened with the Lord’s
Prayer led by Mrs. Fudge. It was
decided to send a box of gifts to
the Kate Duncan Smith school, a
D. A. R. approved school, follow
ing the November meeting. Three
candidates for membership were
elected to the chapter. They are
Mrs. John Mitchell, Mrs. R. E.
Callendar and Mrs. A. A. L. Mat
hews. Mrs. T. D. Hendrickson was
appointed to serve out the unex
pired term of Mrs. L. L. Fouraker
as Press Relations chairman.
Mrs. W. E. Echols introduced Dr.
Ralph Steen, who addressed the
chapter with some very timely
remarks on the foreign policy of
the United States. A question and
answer period was conducted at
which time Dr. Steen led a round
table discussion.
Following the program period
the hostesses invited guests into
the dining room which was lovely
with roses, colored zinnias and tall
green tapers in silver holders,
where a refreshment plate was
served. Mrs. Nance poured coffee
from a silver coffee service.
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in Quebec Province, Canada, and
in South Africa, the United States,
and Russia.
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood
Good manners at table include
the following “Nevers”:
Never take a drink immediately
when you sit down at the table.
Never start to eat any course
until the hostess makes the first
move. But at a large public dinner,
where your food would be cold by
the time the twenty-first person
were served, you may began as
soon as a few others around you
have been served.
Never take large amounts of
food, regardless of your mouth’s
size. Don’t bend your head low
over your plate, stir your food in
to a hash, or wash down a mouth
ful with water.
Never eat so that the sound is
audible.
Never stir food, liquid or solid,
to cool it.
Never take fried chicken in the
fingers unless your hostess has
done so, and even then it’s not
necessary or considered proper.
Never wipe or mop your plate
with bread or scrape it clean.
Never offer to another person
anything which has been on your
plate.
Never call attention to foreign
matter in your food. Remove it un
noticed if you can, or stop eating
that particular portion.
Never cover your mouth with
the napkin while removing some
thing you can’t eat. Remove it
with the thumb and forefinger, as
inconspicuously as possible, and
lay it on your plate.
Never sing, hum, whistle, yawn,
stretch, or scratch your head at
the dining table.
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