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AGGIE MUSTER APRIL 21, 1946 Texas A*M The B College alion Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Thursday Morning, April 18, 1946 Number 49 ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ + + + + Aggie Muster Meets In Prayer This Year Coke R. Stevenson, chief execu tive of Texas, who will attend the San Jacinto Day muster at A. & M. this week-end. Louis Bromfield Famous Author, To Speak Here Louis Bromfield, famous author who in recent years has become one of the nation’s most zealous conservationists, will visit Texas A. & M. College April 25. He will speak on “Our Land""and Our Liv ing” at Guion Hall at 8:00 p. m., and the public is invited. Mr. Bromfield is visiting the col lege upon the invitation of Presi dent Gibb Gilchrist. He was invited to the state by Pat Mayse, editor of the Paris News, and arrange ments have been made for public appearances at Paris, Dallas, Tem ple and Austin. While he is known principally for his novels, such as “The Green Bay Tree” and “Mrs. Parkington,” Mr. Bromfield’s most recent book about his own farm near Lucas, Ohio, has received wide circulation. It is entitled “Pleasant Valley.” One chapter of the book “The Ma son Place” was reproduced last year and sent by President Gilchrist to several thousand agricultural leaders and workers in Texas. Mr. Bromfield is also first vice president of “Friends of the Land,” a non-profit, non-partisan society for the conservation of soil, rain, and man, which he helped organize. President of the organization is Chester Davis, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and former War Food administra tor. President Gilchrist is inviting agricultural leaders, representa tives of government agricultural agencies, civic groups, farm and trade organizations to hear Mr. Bromfield’s address at the college. K. J. Edwards, district agent for the A. & M. College Extension Service is chairman of arrange ments for Mr. Bromfield’s visit at College Station. WORLD-WIDE MUSTERS In addition to the Muster at A. & M. College, Aggies will meet this year in Tokyo, Corregidor, Los An geles, Detroit, Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D. C., Valley Forge, the Alamo and anywhere that Ag gies may be found. Architect Submits Plans for Student Union Building Tentative floor plans for the * Sunday Service * Will Be Held ^ On Kyle Field In a solemn prayerful mood, thousands of ex-Aggies will gather in Kyle Field sta- -L WA UCA, V O.XV/WX X.VTX l/AAX^ Will gdl/UCi 111 1C -L’lClVl O long proposed Student Union build- ^ dium Sunday morning to pay ^ ing have been put forward by Carl- tribute to 800 A. & M. men ton W. Adams, A. & M. System who gave their lives in the architect, after an extensive sur- service of their country. For,, vey of the various union buildings "K this 1946 San Jacinto Day ^ in the Middle West. The building, which will cost be- muster is dedicated to the memory of those heroes of World Wars I and II whose tween $800,000 and $900,000, is to ^ World Wars I and II whose ^ be a memorial to those Aggies who ^ names will never be forgotten served in World War II and were killed. It is designed to serve the needs of the student body first and foremost, to provide them with a place to eat, dance, drink cokes, read, fest, play billiards, or pursue their various hobbies. at A. & M. The living will be honored ^ too. At a convocation Satur- ^ ^ day night in Guion Hall hon- orary degrees will be award ed to those of the 29 Aggie ^ generals who are able to be present, and to General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, who led the Allied troops to Rather than fit the content of the building to its outside appearance, the architect has attempted to . . , . make the building fulfill its desired victory m Europe, functions efficiently and conveni- Gen. Eisenhower will be ^ ently, with exterior effect as only the principal speaker at the the secondary objective. Besides sunrise service Sunday mom- a large memorial hall, there will be M ing. y* guest rooms, meeting rooms for the A total of 29 former A. & convenience of campus clubs and M. students served as gene- organizations, and many of the lit- rals. Two already have re tie items which make the union -K ceived their honorary de- building socially and academically grees and are with commands desirable. overseas . . . ; Major General The Former Students’ Associa- k George Fleming Moore and tion has already raised more than General Percy W. $200,000 through voluntary sub- Clarkson. scriptions, and more is promised to . WO t generals lost pour in now that the war is over. them lives . . . . Douglas B. The remainder of the money need- ^ Netherwood and Claudius M. ed will be drawn from the college ^ • • • • their degrees building fund. Location for the will be awarded posthumous- building has not been decided yet, }° Mrs. Easley of Wash- but it will be placed in such a place m gton, and J. S. Netherwood, that the students may gravitate a brother, of Houston, toward it conveniently all through ^t least six generals still the day and on the weekends. ar .® serving overseas, and will not be able to attend the *r ROTARY ELECTS HUMBERT DISTRICT GOVERNOR Dr. E. P. Humbert, head of the genetics department, was elected District Governor of the 130th Ro tary district by the Conference at Galveston recently. Attending the conference at Gal veston were Joe Woolket, Marvin Atkins, and R. B. Sweet from the Bryan club. (See MUSTER, page 4) * MEMORIAL STARS: Each * of the stars forming the T on this page stands for ten Aggies who gave their lives -f* during World War I and II. ^ It is to their memory that the 1946 muster is dedicated. General of the Armies Dwight Eisenhower, who will be the principal speaker of the memorial muster in Kyle Field Sunday morn ing. Gen. Eisenhower will receive an honorary degree Saturday night. SPECIAL CONVOCATION The attention of all members of the teaching, experiment sta tion and extension staffs is called to the special convoca tion to be held Saturday night, April 20, at 8:00 P. M. for the purpose of conferring honorary degrees upon the group of high ranking army officers, including General Eisenhower. The exer cises will be held in Guion Hall. It is planned to have the usual processional with these exercises and the procession will be form ed promptly at 7:45 P. M. All staff members are urged to at tend these exercises and to join in the processional if at all possible. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated. Convocation Committee. Landmarks for Aggie Exes Gen. Ike Due to Arrive Saturday With Congressmen General Dwight Eisenhower and a distinguished group of Texas Congressmen accompanying the Army Chief of Staff will arrive here in late afternoon on Satur day, April 20 to participate in the Victory Homecoming ceremonies. Included in Gen. Eisenhower’s party will be Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn, Bonham and Congressmen Ewing Thomason, El Paso; Luther John son, Corsicana; Wright Patman, Texarkana and Eugene Worley, Shamrock, a former student of the A&M College. Rep. Patman’s son, V. O. Pat man, is a civil engineering student of the college. Military attaches accompanying Gen. Eisenhower will include Maj. Gen. A. D. Surles and Capt. C. Craig Cannon, aide. Colonel Oscar B. Abbott also will be with the party. He is one of 29 former students of A&M who serv ed as general officers during the war. All will be awarded honorary degrees along with Gen. Eisenhow er. Governor Coke R. Stevenson will be on hand with college of ficials to greet the Eisenhower party as it arrives on the college airport from Denison. OPERSTENY AND PATTON ARE SLIDE RULE WINNERS Edward J. Opersteny of Texas City, a regular student, and Leon Luis Patton of Amarillo, a vete- eran, today emerged as top win ners in the annual freshman slide- rule contest staged by the Texas A. & M. College mechanical en gineering department.