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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1946)
Page 2 The Battalion Monday Afternoon, May 13, 1946 Class of 47's History Includes Rev \s Death, Return of Outfits We are the Class of ’47, and this is our story. It begins on Septem ber 20, 1943 when we first arrived on this campus to enter college. We • were green, dumb, and scared, but we still felt terribly important, a hangover from our high school days. The feeling was quickly cut short when upperclassmen with their biting remarks and strange desires filtered into our midst. We didn’t like them at first, but later w'e began to look to them for their guidance and advice. We learned much that first semester—more outside the classroom than inside. We think back now over that first winter with great feeling and pride. Never shall we forget those long | hours of humping at yell practice, the “Kiddie Korps” which lost only one football game, the building of the bonfire of which we were so proud, Silver Taps on Thanksgiv ing Day, and the Christmas Carols we sang on cold, crisp nights. On January 17, 1944, the most beloved character of Aggie history passed away. We buried Reveille with full military honors and saw our juniors and seniors shed shameless tears. With heavy hearts, we left Kyle Field that day realizing for the first time what a truly great, living thing that the Spirit of A.ggieland was. After Rev’s death, fnany ex-Aggies said that the last of the old A. & M. had disappear ed. Aggieland had definitely chang ed greatly because of the war, but we knew that it wasn’t dead. Tho’ we had been here only four months we became as determined as any class that ever entered A. & M. to bring back the power, and the glo ry, and the splendor that Aggie land had once possessed. In February, the second half of our class joined us and we took on our duties together. The Corps was very ^discontented; to us, it seemed that the administration was doing everything within its power to destroy completely Aggieland traditions and everything they stood for. The unrest grew until finally toward the end of our fresh man year the climax was reached and a small but determined Corps burst forth in an open rebellion which accomplished little, but whoch proved that the Spirit of Aggieland was far from being LAST TIME TODAY THE HARVEY GIRLS — with — Judy Garland TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY “LADY ON A TRAIN” — with — Deanna Durbin dead. We became sophomores and changed our handles from Fish to Mister. We moved over to the Dun can Hall area to spend the swelter ing summer of 1944. The halls of old Dorm 9 echoed with a strange popping noise the entire summer, and that which we had missed during our freshman year was ade quately made up for in our first sophomore semester. That Septem ber saw the return of outfits and we moved in with freshmen. Our chests swelled; we now felt re sponsibilities, new duties. We put on our corporal stripes and went to work on the freshmen. We drilled them, taught them and became proud of them. Another football season, unforgettable Corps trips, another bonfire, and Silver Taps at Memorial Stadium in which Ad miral Bible and the Navy defeated a fighting Aggie team. Our sophomore year drew to a close and we donned our serge a- long with our stripes. We took over our new positions in outfits and be came more serious and worked harder than ever to keep Aggie traditions alive. Our Junior Prom rolled around and we saw how small our class had become. Only one-fourth of the original number remained. We began to realize how much we had grown to love Aggie land and those things for which it stands. We knew then what it meant to be a member of the great est fraternity on earth—the Aggie fraternity. The war ended; things began to look brighter for A. & M".. At the end of our junior year it was agreed that the first class of 1947 and the second class of ’47 should combine in order that there might be a large senior class for the following year. We became seniors in September of 1945. We put on our boots and pinks, and took over our new out fits. We have worked hard to keep the old A.& M. alive and to bring Air-Conditioned Opens 1:00 P.M. — 4-1181 Last Day “Perilous Holiday” Tuesday and Wednesday Revival of a Great Picture “Northwest Mounted """""Police” Gary Cooper Paulette Goddard Madeline Carroll Preston Foster Robert Preston QUALITY - COURTEOUS DRY CLEANING SERVICE Owned and Operated by the Former Students Association Campus Cleaners Over the Exchange — Substation Near George’s Man, Your Manners By I. Sherwood “The air force taught me some flying which I can use on my ranch. I’m majoring in animal hus bandry here at Texas A. & M. under four years of G. I. Bill of Rights time. My wife is here to help me study it too,” said Army Veteran Wallace L. Locke, whose parents* Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Locke reside at Miami, Texas. His wife is the former Moselle Briggs of Canadian, Texas. Locke was a pilot instructor for the army air forces at Lockburn Army Air Field, Columbus, Ohio. He was discharged in September, 1945. back as much of it as possible. We are proud because we have done our job well, under the circum stances now existing. Tonight we have come to the greatest event of an Aggie’s col lege career—the Senior Ring Dance. We are happy, for we know that our efforts to keep Aggie tra dition alive have not been in vain. Also we know that though tradi tions come and go, those things which Aggie tradition stands for— honor, courage, and loyalty—shall always be here and the Spirit of Aggieland shall live forever. —Chester Reed At the dance “Is it proper to ask a girl to dance while she is sitting out a dance, with another man?” A man should not ask a girl to dance who is obviously sitting out a dance wtih another man. He should not break up any animated conversations, but is quite proper to ask for a dance from a girl who is seated in a group. Rule number one says anyone who accepts an invitation to a dance must be able to dance the modern dances. However, if you are particularly agile and adept in the intricate steps, it is unfair to try them on a partner whose abil ity on the dance floor is routine. She is certain to appear awkward and, if you instruct her during the dance, you will both be conspicu ous. Typical “Mom” and “Pop” Are Presented At Sunday Ceremony in Guion Hall The typical Mom and Pop of the Texas Aggies were presented at the Mother’s Day program Sun day morning in Guion Hall. Driscoll Henkhaus, Corps Exe cutive officers, presented “Mom” Claghorn to the visiting parents. The Corps of Cadets gave her, in appreciation for her helpfulness, a string of pearls and a bouquet. Chester J. Reed, commander of GERMAN POW’s DONATE $257,000, TO *Y. M. C. A. German prisoners of war in Am erican camps made voluntary con tributions of $257,000 to War Pris oners Aid of the YMCA during the past 15 months, M. L. Cashion, general secretary of the Texas A. & M. YMCA revealed today. The funds, contributed from the 80 cents a day paid the prisoners for their work in fields and factor ies, are being used to aid former war prisoners and displaced per sons in Europe, Cashion said. Many of the individual gifts were the equivalent of two to three months’ payments at the 80 cents a day rate. B troop Cavalry, and general chair man of the week-end, introduced as the typical Aggie father Major J. E. “Pop” Breland. He was given a gold watch and chain from the cadet corps. The rest of the Mother’s Day program was a welcome from the cadets by Eli F. Barker, Cadet Col onel; a welcome from the veterans by Raymond Parrish, president of the Ex-Servicemen’s Club; a wel come from the college by E. L. Angell, assistant to the presi dent; a program by the Singing Cadets. The invocation was deliv ered by Martin Vick, Lt. 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