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Texas A&M
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Volume 45
College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, February 11, 1946
Number 21
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Spring Social Calendar Is Revised
To Avoid Conflict With Other Schools
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AGGIELAND’S SINGING CADETS, shown above in their latest picture, have just returned from a
program at Baylor University where they were well received by an audience of over a thousand people.
According to Bill Turner, their director, this was the best performance the Cadets have yet presented.
Their program was sponsored by Baylor’s Mu .Phi Epsilon, national honorary music sorority.
Students who would like to join the Singing Cadets are invited to see W. M. Turner at the Student
Activities Office.
R. M. Vick Announces Committee for
Composite Regimental Ball on March 1
Plans for the Composite Regi
mental Ball are rapidly taking
.announced Martin Vic*k r*a-
det Lt. Col. in command of the regi
ment. The dance will be on the
night of March 1, and will be fol
lowed the next night, March 2,
with a Corps Ball.
The battery and troop captains
held a meeting last week to dis
cuss tentative plans for the dance
and to select committees to put
the plans into action. These com
mittees are:
Decorations: Ronny Reger, Jim
my Thompson, Glynn Bell, Glen
Butler, Charlie Spence, and Ar
thur Haws.
General Arrangements: Martin
Vick, Chester Reed, L. B. Ward-
law, Scott Haggard, and Joe Mc-
G'owan.
Vick stated, “The men in the
Composite Regiment should really
get behind these men and help
them out all they can, as the com
mittees were selected from artillery
and cavalry first sergeants and
commanding officers.”
The band has been named as the
Aggieland Orchestra.
Well Logging .
Conference Slaceri
A conference on we^l logging
methods, sponsored by Petro
leum Engineering department,
begin in the Petroleum Engi
neering Building at Texas A. &
M. College from Monday, March
11, at 1:30 p. m., through Friday,
March 15, at 5:00 p. m. The con
ference will cover all types of well
logging.
Hubert Guyod, well logging con
sultant and graduate of the School
of Mines, St. Etienne, France, will
lead the conference. Mr. Guyod
served as chief engineer for
Schlumberger from 1935 through
1940, and as research engineer for
Halliburton from 1940 through
1945.
The Halliburton Oil and Cement
ing company, Bariod Sales com-
p a n y , Lane-Wells company,
Schlumberger Well Surveying cor
poration, Horvitz Laboratories, and
Dowell company are cooperating
and will give field demonstrations.
A.&M. Directors
Are Included In
McLarty Citation
Directors of Texas A. & M. Col
lege are being cited to appear as
defendants in the mandamus suit
brought by Ewing S. McLarty in
the 98th District Court to force
admission into the college.
McLarty had first attempted to
bring the suit in the State supreme
court, which had denied jurisdic
tion. Three A. & M. officials, named
as defendants in the suit, sought
Friday a change of venue from Tra
vis County to Brazos County, their
place of residence, contending that
they were not state officials, but
merely employees of the Board of
Directors. McLarty’s counsel ar
gued that the suit was not a per
sonal suit, but one against ‘‘certain
state officials to require them to
perform a pre-existing legal duty”,
and that venue lies in Travis Coun
ty, where cases against state de
partments must be filed.
Originally named as defendants
in the suit were President Gibb Gil
christ, Dean F. C. Bolton, and
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Ticket Sales for
“Tiger” Banquet
To Close Tomorrow
Ticket sales for the Kiwanis-
sponsored banquet for members
of the A. & M. Consolidated foot
ball team will end at 5:30 p. m.
Tuesday, February 12, according
to Gene Brock, chairman of ar
rangements for the dinner.
Featured speaker at the dinner
will be Kern Tips, well-known
sports broadcaster for Station
KPRC in Houston, and dinner mu
sic will be provided by the Con
solidated School orchestra.
Committee chairmen for the af
fair have been appointed as fol
lows: General sponsoring commit
tee, Gene Brock; Publicity and
Speaker, Byron Winstead; Ticket
sales, Gordon Gay; Decorating, H.
E. Hampton; Menu, A. C. Magee;
and Souvenir folder, Ralph Steen.
A group of high school girls will
act in conjunction with four Kiwan-
ians as a Houser Committee.
Tickets are available for the
public at the Southside Food Mar
ket, Luke’s Grocery, and Lips
comb’s Pharmancy at $1.25 each.
18 Attend Game
Warden School
Eighteen ex-service men have
enrolled in the first Texas game
warden school at Texas A. & M.
College and they represent widely
scattered sections of the state, Dr.
W. B. Davis, head of the depart
ment of Fish and Game, announced.
The men will undergo training for
the next four months in wildlife
management, natural history, game
laws, law enforcement, public re
lations and public speaking. Most
of the courses carry college credit.
Instructions is by college person
nel and a representative from the
Game, Fish and Oyster Commis
sion.
Ex-Servicemen’s
Dance Leads Off
On February 22
The corrected spring social calen
dar has been announced by the
office of Student Activities and
has been so arranged as to avoid
conflicting with outstanding social
events at other colleges, particu
larly TSCW’s Redbud Festival.
The corrected schedule is as
follows:
Feb. 22, Ex-Servicemen’s Dance.
Feb. 23, Corps Dance .
March 1, Composite Regimental
Formal.
March 2, Corps Dance.
March 8, Infantry Regimental
Formal
March 9, Corps Dance.
March 29, Fish Ball.
March 30, Corps Dance.
April 12, Cotton Pageant.
April 13, Corps Dance.
April 26, Soph Dance. '1
April 27, Corps Dance.
May 3, Junior Prom.
May 4, Corps Dance.
May 10, Senior Ring Dance.
May 11, Corps Dance.
May 17, Cattlemen’s Ball.
BA'FT STAFF MEETING
There will be a BATTALION
staff meeting Tuesday after
noon at five p. m. in the BATT
office. All staff members are
expected to be there, and any
one who wishes to join the staff
is also invited to attend.
Modern Choir Draws Capacity Crowd
SERVICEMEN BOOKS!
In cases where the Exchange
Store is unable to furnish a re
quired book or item or equip
ment to Ex-Servicemen students,
and the student can locate these
items.at some other store, it is
possible for the Exchange Store
to issue an order authorizing the
student to buy the book and pay
ment will be made under the GI
bill. Books should not be pur
chased without first obtaining
the order from the Exchange
Store, if the students expect
the Veterans Administration to
pay for the item.
By Vick Lindley
Thirty-seven girls from T.S.C.W.,
who sang as beautifully as they
looked, drew a near-capacity aud
ience to Town Hall last Friday.
Molded into a fine musical organi
zation by Dr. William E. Jones,
the Modern Choir proved itself a
singing group that could win hon
ors even in Dr. Jones’ native Wales,
where the “eistefodds” have raised
choral music to great heights.
The girls sang in three “moods”:
somber, gay, and popular. The som
ber songs showed the group at its
finest, with the Crusaders Hymn
and “Souls of the Righteous” the
most moving numbers. Then they
went into a gay mood, singing a
group that varied from “Ay! Ay!
Ay!” to a Brahms waltz to
“Three Blind Mice”.
The final group was of operetta
airs and included many favorites
from the musical shows of Kern,
Romberg and Friml.
Betty Jo Cook, a female Bob
Hope, brought down the house time
after time with her comments and
verses and established an immed
iate rappaport between the Aggies
in the audience and their “sister-
students” on the stage. Miss Cook
is a girl from Bryan who made the
trip from town to Guion Hall via
Denton.
Billi Jean Sheihagan, who has
been assistant to Dr. Jones, anoth
er Bryan girl appearing with the
choir, was making her last appear
ance with the group, having been
graduated at mid-semester. After
a solo number, “Lover Come Back
to Me”, she was introduced to the
audience with the statement that
she was retiring to marry an ex-
Aggie. The cadets in the audience
approved.
The Modern Choir was the third
Texan choral group to appear on
the Town Hall program this sea
son, the others being the Aggies’
own Singing Cadets and the A Ca-
pella Choir of the Bryan High
School. Truly, Texas seems to be
creatiijtg a tradition of fine choral
singing. ' ~
Pre-Med Club Will
Reorganize Tuesday
There will be a meeting of the
Pre-Med Club Tuesday night at
seven p. m. in the Science Halt
lecture room. This meeting is for
the purpose of reorganizing the
club, which has been inactive for
the past semester. All advanced
pre-meds are urg*ed to be present,
and new freshmen taking the course
are invited to attend.
NEW STUDENTS
By direction of the Executive
Committee, there will be a meet
ing of all new students in Guion
Hall at 11:00 A. M. Tuesday,
February 12. This includes new
freshmen and transfers whether
veterans or others.
Following a brief program,
the group will divide by schools
and the new students will meet
their deans for the rest of the
hour as follows: Students in
Agriculture, Chemistry Lecture
Room; Students in Arts & Sci
ences, Physics Lecture Room;
Students in Engineering, Guion
Hall; Students in Veterinary
Medicine, Amphitheatre No. 102,
Veterinary Hospital.
T. D. Brooks, *
For the Executive Committee.