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Sports Queens To Hand Out Texas A. & M. College Battalion Medals Number 58 Aggie Mothers To be Honored During Week-End Aggie mothers will be honored guests on this campus this week end, as the tradition of Mothers Day is revived at A. & M. after a war-time lapse. The schedule of events 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. Tessie Serenad- ers. Floor Show and dance. 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. 10:30 to 11:45—Program honor ing mothers and fathers in Guion Hal,l featuring a program by the Singing Cadets. 12:30—Dinner in Dun'can Hall. 1:45—Reception for visiting par ents at President’s Home. 2:30—Concert by Aggie Band on President’s lawn. A large number of parents, many of whom have never seen the A. & M. campus, is expected to attend this, the first Mothers Day pro gram since 1941. Feature of the celebration will be the cadet re view on Sunday morning. To Consolidate Dorms 17, 14 During Summer The housing office announced to day that dormitories 17 and 14 would be consolidated. The mar ried couples now living in 17 will be moved to 14 for the summer session. Everyone who is now liv ing in 17 is requested to go to the Fiscal Office and pay his June fees, and then make room reser vations in Goodwin Hall. This arrangement will be for the sum mer sessions only, but everyone will be given ample notice as to when they will have to move. Records May Fall Saturday Aft. at SWC Track Meet T. u. Band Will Play for Broadcast; Coupons Not Valid for Event Something new has been added to the doings at the Southwest Con ference track meet, and for a change charming young ladies from several of the member schools will present the trophies and medals to the winners instead of the usual handing out by one of the coaches or team managers. Topping the list of beauties is the host queen, Miss Dale Daird, whose home is in Coleman but who now is a member of the staff at the Aggie Athletic Department and who won the awards job by unani mous vote of the Aggie athletes. Baylor is sending Miss Clair Col lier; T.C.U. will be represented by Miss Mary Lou Halstram; Texas university is to be represented by Miss Norma Ruth Strattan, and Miss Bonnie Taylor will come all the way from the Ozarks to make the awards to winners from the University of Arkansas. S.M.U. and Rice had not replied to invita tions by late Thursday but may have their queens present by start ing time. Added to the list of new innova tions will be the appearance of an official band for the meet, but it will not be the Texas Aggie band. 'The University of Texas Longhorn aggregation has been invited to substitute for the Aggies, who had accepted a prior engagement to play at the Centennial Celebration at New Braunfels. The Aggie band will be back in time for the Moth ers Day program on Sunday. The meet will be broadcast over a Texas network, including WTAW at College Station, with Kern at the microphone. Qualifying heats in the various events will be held at 3:30 Friday afternoon, with admission free. A charge of 25 cents for students and faculty and 50 cents for others will be made for admission to the com petition on Saturday. Field events will begin at 1:30 on Saturday, while the running events will start at 2:00. Programs will be furnished without charge by the Conference organization. * SENIOR FAVORS * Ring Dance favors for the * * Class of ’47 are available in * * limited numbers at the Stu- * * dent Activity Office. Only 22 * * remain. Please order before * * Senior Ring Dance or extras * * will be sold for Mothers’ Day * * gifts. * Athletic coupon books will not be valid for the track meet, since it is an all-conference affair. Ad mission charge for students and faculty members is 25 cer- + «~~ - others will be admit*-','' Plans Made For Flight Training Course, Meeting To Be Called Soon Volume 45 Ring Dance Tops Social Careers Of ’47 Seniors Sbisa Event Tonight, A Gay Event, Is Also Most Solemn Ceremony “This is it,” say the seniors. For tonight, at the Senior Ring Dance, they take the first stqp toward leaving A. & M. College as graduates. Only a few weeks of college life remain. The Ring Dance has been looked forward to eagerly during four long years, and will be looked backward upon nostalgically for all the years to come. The dance tonight is a gay af fair, but it has a touch of solem nity too. In one event, it embodies many of the Aggie traditions, soon to be left behind. Child Cripples To Be Examined At Free Clinic Four Galveston Doctors At College Hospital AH Day Monday An all-day clinic for crippled children will be held Monday in the basement of the College Hos pital under the auspices of the Col lege Station Kiwanis Club. Dr. Daniel Russell, chairman of the committee, announces that four physicians from the State Medical College at Galveston will form the clinic staff. Parents are urged to bring to the clinic any children who may benefit from the examination. The Kiwanis Club is working in coop eration with the Brazos County Health Unit, the Brazos-Robertson County Medical Society and the State Health Department on the project. This is the second such clinic to be held here, and it is planned to have them annually, it was stated. About 70 surgical cas es were examined last year. The staff coming from Galves ton includes Drs. G. W. Eggers, Robert Gardner, W. H. Ainsworth, and John L. Otto. Bennett and Youngblood Win Danforth Awards Danforth Foundation Fellow ship awards have been resumed at Texas A. & M. College and this year’s winners have been announc ed by D«an of Agriculture Charles N. Shepardson. They are Verlin P. Bennett of Henderson, winner of the award for Junior students; and Walton M. Youngblood of Roby, winner of the Freshman award. Bennett is 23 years old and is majoring in agronomy. He served in the Army Air Forces 18 months, and his scholastic proficiency has earned for him two weeks at Pu rina Mills experimental farms and plant at St. Louis and two weeks at the American Youth Foundation camp at Shelby, Michigan, with all expenses paid. Youngblood is only 16 and is a husbandry major. College Station, Texas, Friday Ambassador Kyle To Visit Here; Address Students E. J. Kyle, Ambassador to Guatemala and former Dean of Agriculture at A&M, will be on the campus on Sunday, May 26, and will address the student body at this time. It is undecided at the present time as to what his topic will be, but it is possible that he will speak on either “Internation al Affairs” or the “Possibilities of South America”. He is well qual ified to speak on either subject. Cotton Winners Announced; Will Tour the Country Professor J. S. Mogford of the Department of Agronomy has fin ished totaling the grades on the 12th Annual Cotton Contest and finds that Howard Anderson, James Ed Melson, Le Roy Hen dricks, and Martin Vick, alternate, are the 1946 winners. Mr. Ander son being the highest point man will also receive receive the San ger Brothers Traveling Fellow ship Award. Three of these boys and an in structor from the Department of Agronomy will leave on June 2 for a study tour which will carry them to several points of cotton interest in the United States. The proposed route for their travel will include Houston, Dallas, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi Delta, Southern Research Laboratory, New Orleans, Tuskogee Institute, Auburn, Alabama, Clemson Col lege, South Carolina, government offices and laboratories in Wash ington, D. C., Cotton, Commodity and Stock Market New York City and other points of interest along this route. From New York City the party plans to travel north and west going into Southern Canada for a visit to Niagara Falls and travel through the agricultural sections of Ontario. They will re-enter the United States and spend sometime in Chicago studying the grain ex change and agricultural interests. Their return will be through the Great Plains region where they will observe crop condition, soil conservation practices, etc. They will return to College Station about the middle of July. NOTICE VETERANS * * Veterans should secure fee * * waiver slips at the office of * * the Veterans Advisor and se- * * cure receipts at the Fiscal Of- * * fice as soon as possible. * * Bennie Zinn, * * Veterans Advisor. * $15,000,000 BONDS ASKED FOR BUILDINGS The committee on permanent buildings for all state supported colleges and universities, meeting in Waco, has recommended a $15,- 000,000 bond issue for benefit of A. & M. and Texas u. A constitu tional amendment will be required for the program. CHANGE TIME FOR MASS AT CATHOLIC CHURCH Mass will be said this Sunday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church at 7:00 and 11:00 instead of at the usual times. Afternoon, May 10, 1946 Gen. Moore Trophy Will Be Awarded Sunday Morning White Banner With Red Letters Will Go to Best Outfit in ROTC By noon Sunday, one of the 18 ROTC outfits at Texas A. & M. will be proudly bearing the title “General Moore Trophy Winner”. For they will have qualified as the best all-around outfit on the cam pus. During the review Sunday morn ing, while Aggie parents look on, the winning organization will be presented with a banner of red letters on a white satin field. This flag they will carry in all reviews during the coming year, until the next Moore competition is held twelve months from now. Members of the outfit will be authorized to wear a distinctive shoulder patch on their uniforms, certifying that they belong to “the Moore outfit”. Outgoing seniors, who will not have the chance to wear the shoulder patch, may be given a special gold medal under present plans. Sunday’s presentation will be the first award of the new trophy, which is expected to become an important part of A. & M. tradi tion. Presence of parents at the review makes anxiety to win all the greater in the hearts of the cadets. Two Cafeterias To Feed Students In Summer Term Both Duncan and Sbisa halls will operate during the summer in cafeteria style only, in view of the fact that there will be no ROTC this summer, and no meal forma tions. Some classes will be held from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m., which means that meal-times will be staggered. What’s Cooking FRIDAY 9:00 p.m. Senior Ring Dance, Sbisa Hall. SATURDAY 1:15 p.m.: Auction technical pamphlets, Ag. Eng. Building. 1:30 p.m.: SWC track meet fin als. 25tf, students and faculty. 9:00 p.m.: Party at Sbisa—see separate Mother’s Day schedule. Graduate Club barbecue, home of Dr. Chas. LaMotte. SUNDAY (See separate Mother’s Day schedule). 2:30 p.m.: Brazos County Ken nel Club at AH Pavilion. MONDAY All day: Drilling Fluid Confer ence. Registration at Petroleum Eng. Building. Meetings in P. E. lecture room. All day: Clinic for crippled child ren, College Hospital. 7:00 p.m.: Non-regs and non- vets meeting at Architecture Li brary. 7:00 p.m.: Aggie Airborne Club at Sbisa Lounge. Election of offi cers. Wives invited. A general meeting of the more- than-200 students who have expres sed interest in flight training will be called soon, Dean H. W. Bar- low of the engineering school prom ised today, and at the gathering complete information regarding pilot-training plans will be given. At present, plans are being worked upon to begin operation of the flight department at Easter- wood field June 4, pending final decision by the Veterans Admin istration to bring the training un der the GI Bill of Rights. Dr. Barlow already has confer red with state V. A. officials, whom he reports “enthusiastic” about Texas A. & M.’s air plans, and will present a final contract for V. A. signature within the next two weeks. A change in the original curri culum has been made, eliminating a commercial refresher course and adding a basic flight coursd 1 be tween the private pilot and advanc ed pilot stages, Dr. Barlow said* Costs of the course, which will be the same for the G. I. student and the regular cadet, are being computed. The V. A. has agreed to accelerated spending of the G. I. students’ educational grant, based on a figure of $722.22 year ly, in order that they may take flight training, Dr. Barlow reveal ed. The cost, when finally arrived at, will include the price of an ade quate insurance policy and pay for transportation to and from Eas- terwood field. Veteran students taking flight training probably will not have to apply for an additional certificate of eligibility, Barlow believes, if they have already are in school.
