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t - rj/T Texas A&M The B College alion Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Friday Afternoon, February 15, 1946 Number 23 Plan Two Six-Weeks Terms for Summer ' . _ , . w / | _ n ^Veterans May Qualify for Continued ReligiOUS tmphosis Week lO Be Subsistence Payments Under Plan Featured by Special Services Classes Suspended One Hour Each Day During Next Week Religious Emphasis Week will be observed on the campus of A. & M. College by special services both morning and evening. Morning services will be held in Guion Hall at various hours with Dr. Frank B. Hall, pastor .of the Central Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, as speaker. Services will be held and classes suspended in accordance with the following schedule: Monday, 9:00 to 10:00 a. m. Tuesday, 10:00 to 11:00 a. m. Wednesday, 10:00 to 11:00 a. m. Thursday, 11:00 to 12:00 a. m. Friday, 11:00 to 12:00 a. m. Evening services will be con ducted by the several denomination al groups. At the First Baptist Church of College Station, there will be Rev. Joe Boyd, a former outstanding A. & M. athlete and All-American tackle. He will be assisted by Joe Trussell, one of the outstanding gospel song leaders and choir di rectors in the South. Both will be here Sunday to conduct the regu lar church worship, and will con tinue each evening until Sunday morning February 24. The Church of Christ will have as guest speaker Dr. M. Norval Young, minister of the Broadway Church in Lubbock. He will speak each night in the church building at North Gate, Monday through Friday at 7:15. The A. & M. Presbyterian Church and the A. & M. Hillel Foundation will hold joint services Sunday, Feb. 17, at 7:00 p. m. in the Y. M; C. A. chapel. The services will be conducted by Rev. Norman Ander son, pastor of the A. & M. Pres byterian Church, and Rabbi Alan S. Green of Temple Emanuel in Houston. Rev. Anderson will pre side, while Rabbi Green will con duct regular Jewish services in both Hebrew and English. Dr. B. Frank Hall of St. Louis will be the speaker for the Pres byterian Church at 7:15 each eve ning in the Y. chapel. His topics for Monday, “The Inner Conflict”, for Tuesday, “He, She, and I”. The public is welcome. Catholic Students Invited To K.C. Dance in Bryan All Catholic students at A. & M. are invited to a dance which will be held at the K. of C. Hall in Bryan this Saturday night, Febru ary 16, at 8:00 p. m. Will Sing At Two Dances Dance in the Morgan manner! Russ Morgan and his orchestra will play for the Ex-Servicemen’s Ball to be held Friday night, Feb. 22, 9:00 p.m. to 1 a.m. at Sbisa Hall. The following night Feb. 23, the Morgan orchestra will play again for the Corps dance. Tickets for the Ex-Servicemen’s Ball are on sale at Guion Hall, Student Activities Office, Lipscomb Pharmacy, Sbisa and Duncan mess halls, and from all committee mem bers. The veterans dance will be semi-formal, and admission is $1.50 couple or single. Marjorie Lee, lovely vocalist with the Russ Morgan orchestra, who will sing at the Ex-Servicemen’s Ball and the Corps Dance next week. A program of summer study at Texas A. & M. College that will meet the requirements of returned service men and allow wives to take college level courses has been worked out by the Executive Com mittee, it was announced today by Dean F. C. Bolton, executive vice- president. The Summer Session will be divided into two six-week terms, and the two weeks intervening be tween the end of the summer school and the beginning of the regular Fall semester will give veterans a needed vacation, Dean Bolton point ed out. Under the G. I. Bill, studies may be interrupted up to 30 days without disturbing the regular sub sistence allotment of veterans. By taking a full schedule both terms of the session, the student can make 14 hours toward a degree provided one course each term car ries laboratory practice* in addition to theory. If the student’s schedule calls for theory courses only, a to tal of six hours can be made each of the two terms. For students who make high scholastic records during the cur rent regular semester—those mak ing 28 grade points—there is the opportunity to take eight hours per summer term, a total of 16 possible for two terms of summer school. The permission to take 8 hours per term will be granted by the deans to proficient students in their respective schools, Dean Bol ton pointed out. A study is being made at the present time to ascertain what of ferings will best suit the veteran- student during the summer terms, Dean Bolton said, and this will be especially true of offerings for the second summer term. This survey of the needs of the students for summer courses will be completed as soon as possible, and announce ment of the offerings will be made at the earliest possible time, Dean Bolton said. Since the college has returned to its pre-war basis of two regular semesters and two summer terms of six weeks each per year, it again will be possible to accommodate Martin Vick is King- Cotton of 1946 By Sam Nixon One of the big buzzes on the campus this past week was “Who is going to be King Cotton?” This was an important question because whoever is the Cotton King will represent this college to leading stylists all over the Southwest. Well, at last the question is ans wered. In the Agronomy Society’s last meeting, the election was held. The King Cotton for the 1946 Cotton Ball and Pageant is a tall, dark, and handsome lad from Con roe. He’s a senior, taking Agrono my, and is the head yell leader, the Lt.-Col. of the Composite Regi ment. Besides all of that, he^s also president of the Agronomy Society. If you haven’t already guessed his name, it’s Martin “T-Model” Vick, who dislikes being called by his first name, Bobby. Working with Vick on the Pag eant are three committees. These are: Decorations, Karl Williams and John Cox; Publicity, Leland Main and Joe Brannon; and Arrange ments, LeRoy Hendricks, R. L. Moore, and B. J. Suster. The Cotton Style Show Pageant is under the sponsorship of Sanger Brothers, of Dallas, who will furn ish an undetermined number of models for the event. Mrs. Man ning Smith is the director of the show, which is to be held April 12, with the Cotton Ball on the follow- ing^night. women students during both terms of the summer school, Dean Bolton explained. During the war, due to the speed-up program of three se mesters per year, each of 16 weeks duration, it was impossible to give women permission to attend and take courses which they could transfer to some other institution toward a degree. Some questions had been asked as to the advisability of attempting to change the college schedule in order to get in a full semester dur ing the summer, Dean Bolton said, but all inquiries seemed based on the assumption that the veterans? schooling would be interrupted, and that payments under the G. I. bill would be lost. Such is NOT the' case, Dean Bolton emphasized. The veteran students will be able to take six hours of theory and one hour of practice each term of the summer session, a total of 14 hours,;- and those with 28 grade points dur ing the present semester will be allowed to take two extra hours, or a total of 16 hours for their summers’ work. Under the present plans the wives of the veterans and other women will be allowed to take courses during the summer which they may apply toward a de gree at some other school, the dean concluded. Veterans to Meet Monday Night, See A. & M. Movie By S. J. McConnell The A. & M. Ex-Servicemen’s Club wil hold another open meet ing for all veterans and wives or dates on Monday night, Feb. 18, 7:30 at Guion Hall. After the business meeting is concluded, the Student Activities Office will show “We’ve Never Been Licked”, for the benefit of all ex-Aggies and veterans who^ were unable to see the picture overseas. “We’ve Never Been Licked”, which was billed as “the story of the fighting sons of Texas A. & M,”, is a Universal production -filmed on the A. & M. campus in 1942. The cast includes Noah Beery, Jr., Martha O’Driscoll, An ne Gwynne and Robert Mitchum. Overseas, the picture was titled “Texas to Tokio.” Who’s who on the committees for the Ex-Servicemen’s Ball: Decorations, Pat Y. Spillman- Taylor Siedel, Pete Utesch, Ben Hopson, Melvin Johnson, Mrs; Wilma Parker, Mrs. Thomas Ford! Ticket sales: John Rouganac, Bob Chaffin, Odell Hall, Bill Tayt lor, John Tobin, Bill Hammersely, X. o. Dutton, Lester Richardson.