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Plans Big for 1946 Junior Prom-Banquet Texas A. & M. College Battalion Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Wednesday Afternoon, May 1, 1946 Number 54 Tiger Field to be Lighted This Fall, Thanks to Kiwanis $3000 Raised by Sports Night Community Supper Plans of the College Station Ki wanis Club to light the football field of the A. & M. Consolidated School were assured of success Saturday night as more than $3,000 was realized at the Sports Night community supper held at the school gymnasium. Estimates on the cost of lighting Aggie Band Pleases Hearers With Marches, Swing and 'Drammer' The Texas Aggie Band showed its ability and skill to the general public last night as they presented a Spring Concert in the Assembly Hall under the baton of E. Vergne Adams, director. A crowd that virtually filled the lower floor of the hall seemed to appreciate to the fullest extent the hours of practice by the band members which culminated in a performance Six Weeks of Free Education . . . Three Scholarly Ag Students To Tour Agricultural America How would you like to spend six weeks of this coming summer va cation traveling through the states along the Atlantic seaboard, Can ada, and the middle west? And have all expenses paid? And that traveling doesn’t mean by the old Aggie thumb, either; the whole trip will be by private car. Well, all you junior and senior agriculture students, prick up your ears. Martin Vick, president of the Aeronomv Societv. announced to- FREE DANCE An all-college dance will be presented for the enjoyment of every student in school by the Dean of Men’s office on Saturday night of this week. Admission will be free to all students, and the Aggieland or chestra will furnish the music. the exact figure raised by a Fi nance Committee headed by Frank Anderson. Ford Munnerlyn is chairman of the Lighting Commit tee appointed by Kiwanis President George Wilcox. Miss Sue Scofield, a senior at Consolidated High, was crowned Queen of Sports at a coronation held immediately after the supper. Her “king” was Charles Wilson, and in the court were Princesses Mary Munnerlyn and Dorma Lee Bernard and their escorts, Edsel Jones and Charles Neeley, all mem bers of the Senior Class. Under classmen in the court were Duch esses Virginia Prewit, Mary Park er, Betty Copeland, Betty Potter, Suzanne Moore, and Jean Black and their respective Dukes, Gra ham Horsley, Holland Winder, Johnny Lancaster, Bill Eckles, La mar McNew, and Johnny Killough. 92 Oil Men Attend Short Course Here Ninety-two representatives of the oil industry, some from as far distant as Wyoming, were present today for the final session of a short course on reservoir engi neering presented by the Texas A. & M. College petroleum engi neering department. The short course was the second of a series intended to “refresh” war veterans and introduce new techniques. The third and final conference of the services, on dril ling fluids, will be held here May 13-15. Easterwood Field Used for Ground, Air Instruction Flight training courses will be come part of Texas A&M College’s curriculum on June 1, thus making the school one of the few in the nation which have recognized the value of pilot training to the ex tent of making it a credit-carry ing course, it was announced to day by Dr. Howard W. Barlow, dean of the school of engineering. Six courses, all meeting Civil Aeronautics Administration re quirements, are planned, covering instruction leading tp licenses as private pilot, commercial pilot, instrument pilot and instructor instructor pilot, plus advanced and commercial refresher courses. Each of the courses, open to any student of the college or to special students through arrange ment with the college Industrial Extension Service, will be of one- semester duration. A student may take more than one course at a time if he has special qualifica tions. ed. An old-fashioned “meller-dram- mer”, in the good old pattern of “farmer in the dell, and his beautiful and gifted daughter Nell” threatened with a mortgage fore closure by the villain, Desperate Desmond, and rescued from both foreclosure and the flashing wheels of a locomotive by the hero, Jack Dalton, provided many laughs be cause of the corny sound effects and musical accompaniment. John Stiles narrated the tale of woe, sorrow, and ultimate happiness. A medley of tunes from “The New Moon”, a musical show by Sigmund Romberg of some years ago, and the fantasie “Over There” based on favorites of World War I, made many of the older people in the audience smile with hap piness as they recollected the memories of their youth. P. B. Kosub, T. D. Prater, and S. Verla formed a cornet trio to render the “Bolero” by Smith. Two numbers of a swingy nature which had toes tapping and hands lightly beating time brought the acclaim of Aggies who heretofore had believed that the Aggie Band played only military marches. “At the Gremlin Ball” attempted to represent a convention of these elfin creatures on the wings of a mighty transport soaring through the sky. Followers of the Hit Pa rade applauded an arrangement of the current popular tune “Oh What It Seemed To Be”. The roar of hundreds oi Aggies singing the War Hymn was the final high spot of the program. Negotiations are being made with the Veterans Administration to bring the flight training courses under the GI Bill of Rights, in order that veteran students may enroll without cost to themselves. College facilities at nearby Eas terwood field will be employed for ground school and flight instruc tion, and college-owned planes and college-employed instructors, in conjunction with the aeronatuical engineering department, will be used. Ground instruction will include civil air regulations, navigation, radio aids, aircraft theory and en gine theory. The college airport, one of the finest of its type in the nation, has three concrete runways nearly a mile long, and a number of modern training ships are available for instruction, with more ordered. A questionnaire to determine the number of students now at college desiring to register for fight training will be distributed within a few days, and a complete curriculum will be released soon, probably in the Friday edition of The Battalion. day that a comprehensive quiz on general agriculture will be given in the near future to all interested and the three making the highest grades will go on the trip. These three high men on the cotton stalk, so to speak, will leave immediately after Commencement exercises. An agronomy professor, yet to be named, will accompany team to all the points of interest, agricultural and otherwise, along the route. The emphasis will be upon cotton production in the var ious states, but, of course, every thing of general agricultural in terest will be studied. Many of the huge cotton plantations in the South will be visited, and the stu dents will have a good opportun ity to exchange views with farmers in other states. After crossing the international boundary and visiting parts of Can ada, the group will descend through the Middle West and the Great Plains area. The trip is being financed with the proceeds from the Cotton Pag eant and Ball recently staged by the Agronomy Society here on the campus. All junior and senior agriculture students who are interested will meet tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Agronomy Library to discuss the date to be set for the examina tion. American Vet Group Fights for Rights Under “GI Bill” The why’s and wherefore’s of the American Veterans Committee will be discussed at Wednesday night’s meeting in the YMCA by Fred Schmidt, Austin, state secre tary of AVC, E. V. Walton, tem porary chairman of the local chap ter, has announced. Veterans of World War II in terested in the AVC have been in vited to attend the meeting which will be at 7:00 p. m. Wednesday, in the Cabinet Room of the Col lege YMCA. “AVC is continuing its aggres sive fight for veterans’ rights to peace, jobs and freedom,” Walton said. “Testimony this week before a Senate committee hearing on the OP A by AVC officials has focused national attention on the organization, which already is in the forefront of the housing fight. Here in the Bryan-College area, we hope to establish an active group which will do its part to wards achieving the goals which have been set up.” He pointed out that the dead line for counting members to be included in the voting strength of the local chapter at the Des Moines national convention in June has been set for May 1, the date of this week’s meeting. He urged that all veterans who wish to investi gate AVC and its potentialities sit in on the meeting. Aggies Served In All World, County Service Book Shows The Aggie veteran section of the Brazos County Service Book pre sents a cross section of Aggie men from every branch of the service and with duty in all parts of the globe. Favored by Aggies according to the percentage were the infantry and the air corps. The proportion of veterans already in the book remains about half commissioned and half non-commissioned. How ever, many of these men listed as officers entered the army as pri vates. The present statistics show that most of the veterans spent their time overseas in the ETO but some have ranged as far as China and the Middle East. Before the final date for accepting photos, cur rently set at May 10, there will be few countries in Asia or Europe represented where Aggies have not been stationed. A few members of the faculty have already inserted photos and records. The publishers urge all veterans of the staff or undergrad uates to file their photos today. Pictures are accepted each day in the rotunda of the Academic building. Aggie Orchestra To Play; Banquet 8:30, Dance 9:30 The most extravagant social event of the year so far will be the Junior Prom of the Class of 1948, scheduled for Friday night at Sbisa Hall. By now all the juniors have sent out their invitations to comely young lasses, and have re ceived a good number of affirma tive answers. Decorations for Sbisa for the dance and banquet will follow the garden theme. A sweetheart trel lis and a small picket fence will separate the group of tables from the main dance floor, where potted palms and flowers will convert the old mess hall into little less than a lush tropical garden. A spectac ular balloon fountain will be sit uated immediately opposite the bandstand. Suspended from the ceiling will be a revolving crystal chandelier, constantly sparkling witht the reflected light of colored lanterns. Creators of this plan for decoration is a committee of Ron- ny Reger, Jack Nelson, Ed Brandt, Jimmy Thompson, Charles Thoma, So Davidson and Jimmy Demopo- lous. Dining hall chefs will prepare a menu of filet mignon steak, French-fried potatoes and garden peas to suit the tastes of the ban queters. After the banquet, juniors and their dates will adjourn to the' dance floor to shuffle and hop to the sweet and hot music of Bill Turner’s Aggieland Orchestra. Dance programs and invitations have been engraved and will be distributed to all attending. Also on sale will be a limited number of silver heart-shaped Junior Prom favor pins. Ducats are priced at $5.00 per couple for banquet and dance, or $2.50 for either banquet or dance. Graduating seniors, ajl corps com missioned officers and classified seniors, and all classified juniors in the corps or non-reg, have been invited. Seniors will be admitted for $1.00 tax. Time for the banquet has been set up to 8:30 p. m. in order to accommodate girls who will be ar riving on the late train from Dal las. Dance time will be 9:30. HORTICULTURISTS MEET TONIGHT AT SEVEN The Horticulture Society will meet tonight at seven p. m. in the northeast corner of the Ani mal Husbandry pavilion. A dis cussion of the barbecue planned by the club will be the main topic of discussion. Refreshments will be served. Records of Student Aid Fund Show Many Financial Assists Paul Martin The Student Aid Fund, estab lished in 1941 for the purpose of helping students of Texas A. & M. College who were in need of emergency medical treatments or any other deserving cause, has made a remarkable record for it self. In addition to fulfilling lesser needs the fund is accredited with saving the life of at least one Aggie and the health of many more. It has also proven that faith in human nature is no|t wasted. Some $2200 to $2300 have been loaned through this fund and of that amount, all but $400 has been paid in full and most of the rest is expected to be repaid. Al though students are required to sign a note stating when they hope to be able to repay the loan, they are not forced in any way to make payment. Though the loans bear no in terest, many of the notes are re paid plus a substantial contribu tion. Many ex-students have repaid their loans while in the armed forces. Payments have been re ceived from Europe, the Pacific, and Asia. Sometimes the wives of men in the service have repaid the loans from allotment checks. In 1941 a student borrowed a small amount, promising to repay it Jan uary 1, 1946. On that date, five years later, the loan was repaid in full, plus a nine dollar contri bution. Another student who pro cured a loan in order to get spe cial medical treatment, which is reported to have saved his life, repaid it while in the Naval Hos pital at San Diego recovering from wounds received in the Pacific. The fund was established in 1941 when a group of students collect ed money to help a fellow Aggie who had been injured. From this gesture, the idea was conceived of a permanent' fund to help those who were in need of cash for emer gencies. A football game was play ed at which even the coaches were charged admission. Over $900 was netted and this was increased by contributions. The Student Aid Fund is under the auspices of the Student Life Committee and is administrated by a special committee headed by Dr. Dan Russell. College Offers Six Full-Credit Student Pilot Training Courses
