Volume 45
Texas A*M
The B
College Station, Texas, Monday Afternoon, May 6, 1946
Number 56
Mother’s Day Sunday Is First Since ’42
Seniors Honor Penberthy In Gift
of Intromurol Center to Corps
Dr.. Asa C. Chandler of Rice In
stitute will be the guest speaker
at the spring banquet of the AAUP
and the Society Sigma Xi. He will
deliver an illustrated address on
travels and observations in India.
The banquet will be held in Sbisa
Hall, Wednesday evening. May 8,
at 7:15.
Veterans to Hear
Aggie Orchestra at
Jamboree Tonight
Ex-Servicemen and their wives
were reminded this morning to at
tend the business meeting and so
cial jamboree scheduled for 7:00
this evening at the Assembly Hall.
Featured attraction of the get-
together will be the “swing and
sweet” music of the Aggieland Or
chestra with Boyd Rogers, vocal
ist.
GI WIVES TO HONOR
OUTGOING MEMBERS
A party honoring members who
are leaving the campus after this
semester will be held along with
a short business session Tuesday
night at Sbisa Lounge at 7:30 p.m.
by the Ex-Servicemen’s Wives
Club. This is the regular May
meeting of the organization.
President Wilma Parker reminds
that an election may be necessary
to fill a vacancy on the oficer
list. She also reminds that the
voting privilege is extended only
to those members who have paid
their dues before the meeting.
Mrs. Parker or Treasurer Lib Lit
tle will accept dues until meeting
time.
Bridge and party games will be
played and refreshments will be
served.
OFFICERS TO DISCUSS
NAVAL RESERVE HERE
Commander Holton and Colonel
Keene will be present at a meet
ing of men who were formerly at
tached to the Air Corps of the
Navy or Marine Corps, which has
been scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in
the Agricultural Engineering lec
ture room.
The two officers will answer any
questions presented and will dis
cuss the operation of the Naval
Reserve. All former personnel of
the two branches are invited to
attend, both officers and enlisted
men. Persons not attached to the
College have also been invited.
Town Hall Concert
Starts at 8:00
Curtain time on tonight’s Town
Hall performance by Miss Vir
ginia Thomas has been set for
8:00.
A junior piano concertist, Miss
Thomas last June won the Student
Artist Competition sponsored by
the Dallas Civic Federation, and
appeared in a four-concert series
of road performance last winter.
She is a sixteen-year-old student
at the North Texas State College
Demonstration School in Denton,
and is a sister of Mrs. F. I. Dahl-
berg of College Station.
Town Hall season tickets are
good at tonight’s concert. Single
admission tickets will be sold at
25tf for students and 60<£ for adults,
while a few reserved seats will be
placed on sale at $1.00 each at the
boxoffice.
Grady Elms Returns
To Activities Staff
Grady Elms returned to the staff
of Student Activities at Texas A.
& M. College on May 1 after 46
months of service with the U. S.
Army, Counter-Intelligence Corps.
Elms served 18 months in France,
Austria, and Germany during
World War II and earned the
Rhineland and Central Germany
campaign ribbons. He was attach
ed to the 103rd Infantry Division
for a year.
Elms will serve as Assistant
Manager of Student Activities and
will act as advisor on Club activi
ties. He is married and has one
child, and is residing at 216 South
Hereford.
What’s Cooking
Today
6:30 p.m.: College Circle of First
Christian Church, picnic supper at
YMCA.
7:00 p.m.: Ex-Servicemen’s Club,
business meeting and jamboree at
Assembly Hall.
7:15 p.m.: Biology Club, at
Science Hall lecture room.
7:15 p. m.: Atlantic Refining
Company interviews with graduat
ing Seniors, in Mechanical Engi
neering lecture room.
7:30 p.m.: American Society of
Civil Engineers, at Civil Engi
neering lecture room.
7:45 p.m.: Evening Circle of
Women’s Auxiliary of A. & M.
Presbyterian Church, at home of
Mrs. R. G. Berryman.
8:00 p.m.: Town Hall, Miss Vir
ginia Thomas in Junior Piano Con
cert at Guion Hall.
Tomorrow
12:00 noon: Kiwanis Club lunch
eon at Sbisa Hall.
6:30 p.m.: Student Council meet
ing, at Board of Directors’ dining
room, Sbisa Hall.
7:15 p.m.: Joint lecture, all stu
dent Engineering Societies, at Pet
roleum Engineering, Sbisa Hall.
7:15 p.m.: Pre-Med Club.
7:15 p. m.: Spanish Club, last
meeting of semester, at Academic
Building.
7:30 pm.: Economics Club,
Chemistry Lecture Room.
7:30 p. m.: Ex-Servicemen’s
Wives Club, at Sbisa Lounge.
8:15 p.m.: Homer P. Rainey lec
ture on “Education” at First Bap-
“Presented by the Class of 1947
in appreciation of the friendship
and services of W. L. ‘“Mr. Pen
ny’ Penberthy.”
These words will be inscribed
on the parting gift of the graduat
ing Seniors to the Corps, an intra
mural message center and bulletin
board to be constructed between
Hobby Show Slated
For Boys and Girls
Of Consolidated
Students of the A. & M. Consoli
dated School will display their hob
bies and handicraft in a contest
scheduled for Friday and Satur
day, May 10-11, at the Consolidated
High School Science Room. Spon
sored by the Boys and Girls Com
mittee of the College Station Ki
wanis Club, arrangements for the
show are under the chairmanship
of C. G. “Spike” White.
Ribbons will be awarded to the
winners of the High School Di
visions in the various classes of
exhibit, while separate ribbons will
go to winners in the Grammar
School Division. In addition, the
winning entries will be exhibited
by local merchants during the week
following the contest.
Classes for handicraft entries
include leatherwork, woodwork,
model airplanes, soap carving, clay
modeling, metalwork, and miscel
laneous. In the hobbies category
entries are invited for stamps,
coins, match covers, butterflies and
insects, stones, rocks, and fossils,
Indian relics, bottles and bottle
caps and miscellaneous. Each en
try must have been collected or
constructed by the person who
enters it.
Judges in each class have been
appointed from the personnel of
the Kiwanis Club. The weekly ra
dio program sponsored by the Club
each Tuesday morning at 7:15 on
WTAW will be devoted to the pro
ject.
Guppies ’42 Joins
Westinghouse Corp.
James J. Cupples, ’42, has join
ed the Westinghouse Electric Cor
poration as a member of the grad
uate student course. Recently dis
charged from the U. S. Army, Cup
ples was awarded the European
Theatre ribbon with nine battle
stars, three bronze arrowheads for
Africa, Italy, and Anzio landings,
and citations for devotion to duty.
He received his degree in elec
trical engineering from Texas A.
& M. in 1942.
One of many young men select
ed from colleges and universities
throughout the county, Mr .Cupples
is receiving engineering and manu
facturing and classroom instruc
tion designed to fit him for future
leadership inthe electrical industry
and for active participation in the
Corporation’s postwar production
program.
His present address is 7712 Bra-
shear Street, Pittsburgh 21, Pa.
If the earth were a square or
triangle, the horizon would be
square or triangular too.
the two entrances to Duncan Mess
Hall. Built of red brick piles and
aluminum forging, the unit will
match the architecture of the dorm-
itores in the new area.
Bob King, senior class president,
submitted the general specifica
tions to the Architecture Depart
ment, which sponsored a contest
among the students for the best
designs. An announcement of the
winners will be published soon.
The gift will serve as a bulle
tin board for posting intramural
notices and a pick-up center for
notices from the Physical Educa
tion Department to intramural
managers of the various organiza
tions, as well as a memorial and
honor roll of the annual intramural
champion teams. The honor roll
will start with the championship
teams of 1927, it was stated.
“Mr. Penny”, who became head
of Texas A. & M.’s department of
physical education in 1937, came
here from Ohio State University,
where he was an assistant profes
sor of physical education and
intramural sports director.
“Junior Miss” Goes
Into Last Week of
Rehearsals
Junior Miss by Chodorov and
Fields, second major production of
the Aggie Players, is now in its
last week of rehearsal. Produc
tion dates are May 14 and 15 in
the Assembly Hall.
The action of the play takes
place in the Graves’ New York
apartment. Gail Crawford as Judy
Graves and her “bosom friend”
Fluffy Adams (Nell Arhopulas)
have a knack for interfering in
other people’s business. They make
life rather miserable for Harry
and Grace Graves, played by Phil
ip McIntyre and Will Beth Ste
phens. Betty Smith is Lois, Judy’s
“charming” sister
Other members of the cast in
elude Walter Norris, Ruth Dan
iels, Fred Collins, Judy McQuil-
len, Donald Waldrip, Poole Rob
ert Swinney, Roy Garner, Billy
Yowell, John Hammond, John
Helm, Mermod Jaccard, and Stan
ley Keese. The director is Forrest
Hood.
RAINEY TO SPEAK HERE
ON EDUCATION TUESDAY
Dr. Homer P. Rainey, former
president of Texas u. and potential
candidate for governor of Texas,
will speak at the First Baptist
Church at College Station at 8:15
Tuesday evening.
The address will concern educa
tion and a loudspeaker system will
be installed, as a large crowd is
expected.
FROST IS APPOINTED
FORESTRY CHAIRMAN
S. L. Frost, chief of the educa
tion and information division of
the Texas Forest Service, A. & M.
College, recently was appointed
chairman of southern states for
estry educational directors at a
meeting in Jackson, Miss., Director
W. E. White, announced. Eleven*
states are included in the new or
ganization.
Old Tradition Has
New Start in ’46
Heralding one more step in the
return of Aggieland to normal will
be the resumption of the annual
Mother’s Day ceremony this Sun
day, May 12. Aggies have been
urged to have their parents visit
them through meetings of the out
fits, and through the Battalion.
Several hundred mothers are ex
pected.
The week-end will be as full and
as entertaining as it can possibly
be, from noon Saturday to Sun
day afternoon. A condensed sche
dule of the program is as follows:
Saturday
3:00 to 5:00—Tea for Parents
at YMCA, given by Brazos A. &
M. Mothers Club. Southwest Con
ference Track Meet at Kyle Field.
5:30—Supper at Duncan Hall.
All guests of Cadet Corps admit
ted free to dining hall Saturday
and Sunday.
7:00—Free movie at Guion Hall.
9:30—Aggie Party at Sbisa in
honor of parents. Everyone invit
ed. Refreshments, dancing, and
novelty numbers.
Sunday
7:30—Breakfast in Duncan Hall.
8:15 to 9:00—Pinning of flowers
on cadets by organization com
manders’ Mother and sweetheart.
9:30 to 10:15—Review of Cadet
Corps.
Tessyites from Denton, forty-odd
strong and headed by the popular
dance orchestra, The Serenaders,
will appear on the all-college fun
night Saturday in Sbisa Hall as a
part of the entertainment schedule
in honor of visiting parents.
The floor show will last approxi
mately one hour and will be fol
lowed by dancing until mid-night.
10:30 to 11:45—Program honor
ing mothers and fathers in Guion
Hall, featuring a program by the
Singing Cadets.
12:30—Dinner in Duncan Hall.
1:00—Reception for visiting par
ents at President’s Home.
2:30—Concert by Aggie Band on
President’s lawn.
The Committee for the Parent’s
Day Program consists of Chester
Reed, chairman; Eli Barker, Hilton
Hall, A1 Presnal, Martin Vick, and
Driscoll Henkhaus.
This is the first Parents Day
Celebration since 1942, and every
one is going all-out to make it one
of the best.
H. D. DODGEN VISITS
GAME WARDEN CLASS
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H. D. Dodgen, executive secre
tary Texas Game Fish and Oyster
Commission, visited A. and M.
yesterday and spoke to the class
of fourteen prospective game war
dens in the special Game Warden
Course now going on in the De
partment of Fish and Game, School
of Agriculture. He was introduced
by E. T. Dawson, Game Supervisor,
and instructor in game laws and
law enforcement in the Warden
School.
While here Mr. Dodgen met with
the Administrative Committee of
the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Re
search Unit, of which Dean C. N.
Shepardson, School of Agriculture,
is chairman; the other Committee
members are Mr. Dodgen and Wal
ter P. Taylor.
Bacteria have appetites much
greater than man’s. Some species
of bacteria consume twice their
own weight of sugar in an hour.