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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1946)
Rep. Sumners Is Commencement Speaker Baccalaureate To Be Given By Dr. W. H. Andrew Final Ball Thursday Night at Sbisa; Final Review Friday Afternoon Hatton W. Sumners, repre sentative in Congress from the Fifth Texas district, will be the commencement speak er when the class of *47 re ceives its diplomas in Guion Hall Friday night at 7:00. The baccalaureate sermon in Guion Hall Friday morning at 10:30 will be given by Dr. W. H. Andrew, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Bryan. Immediately after conclusion of the commencement exercises, Pres ident and Mrs. Gibb Gilchrist will hold a reception for graduating seniors, their relatives and friends, faculty and staff members, includ ing all members of the Experiment Station, Extension Service and the college teaching staff. The Final Ball will be held at Sbisa Hall Thursday evening from 9:00 to 12:00, with the Aggieland orchestra featured. The Ball is for the benefit of the class of ’48 and the Ex-Servicemen’s Club. It is open to all students and their guests, at $1.00 single or couple. The Final Review will be staged on the Drill Field at 5:00 p. m. Friday. The first review will be for President Gibb Gilchrist and Col. M. C. Welty, commandant, as re viewing officers. Then the corps will parade in honor of the depart ing seniors. 5 EOTC Branch^ May Be Activated For Corps In Fall Woody Varner, assistant dean of men, has announced that after a series of conferences with the Mil itary Department, it seems entirely possible that five additional branches of ROTC will be activated next fall. In order that the Office of Stu dent Affairs may assign all stu dents as early as possible, a pre ference indication blank is being distributed to all students in the corps, with choices for the Infan try, Field Artillery, Armored Corps, Corps of Engineers. Sig nal Corps, Chemical Warfare Ser vice, Quartermaster Corps, and Ordnance Corps. The Coast Artillery was not list ed, as it is contemplated that Coast Artillery and Field Artillery will be combined under Field Artillery. The old Cavalry is being discon tinued for the Armored Corps. Students desiring admission to ROTC Chemical Warfare Service units must be enrolled in ME, ChE, or Accounting. To be admitted to the Engineers, a student must be enrolled in Architecture, ChE, CE, EE, ME, Mining, Sanitary or In dustrial Engineering. For the Ordnance Department, any kind of engineering course qualifies. For the Signal Corps, on ly a student enrolled in EE will be admitted. Students desiring admission to ROTC units of other arms and ser vices may be enrolled in any re cognized field. PROJECTION ROOM FIRE Fire in the projection room of Guion Hall theater was reported about 2:15 Tuesday afternoon. Campus fire wagons rushed to the scene, but were not needed, as em ployees soon had the blaze under control with fire extinguishers. Only slight damage to film oc curred, and movie projection was interrupted for only a short time, according to Tom Puddy, theater manager. Texas A. & M. College BATTALION Volume 45 College Station, Texas, Wednesday Afternoon, May 29, 1946 Number 66 Election Returns Are Tabulated Demopulos, Self Elected Corps Batt, Longhorn Eds Jimmy Demopulos, Texarkana architecture student well known for his cartooning and art work, was elected over Tommy John 116-67 to co-edit the 1947 Longhorn with Jay Cowan, the veterans selectee. Allen Self, present managing editor of the Battalion, received no opposition in the race for Batt Co- Editor, and will assume the post this coming fall. Self is a San Antonio pre-law student. Art Hartman, and Asa Holleman to Be Junior Leaders In the race with the most num ber of candidates Art Hartman collected a grand total of 220 votes. Asa Holleman nosed out Jimmy Tittle f*or the other Junior Yell Leader 86-80. These two, of the class of ’49, will work with Bill Rosser, E. C. Kobs, and Bill Beck to lead the en tire student body at yell practices and football games in the coming season. Kobs Ousts Cavitt For Senior Yell Leader: Rosser In In the race for Senior Yell Lead er, Bill Rosser received 147 votes to assure him his old post, and E. C. Kobs followed with 110. George Cavitt, an incumbent, and “Coun try” Patrick were eliminated re ceiving 62 and 51 votes respec tively. ANDERSON ELECTED AGRONOMY SOCIETY PRESIDENT FOR FALL The Agronomy Society elected new officers at a spring barbecue for the summer semester. Olen E. Anderson was elected president, Forrest E. Carroway, vice presi dent, George W. (Chief) Rivers, Secretary, and Bertis L. Richey, reporter. The society will meet on the sec ond Wednesday night of each month. All Agronomy majors are urged to attend the meetings. SUMMER EMPLOYMENT FOR FARM BOYS Charlie Hohn, Extension Farm Labor Office, 2nd Floor AAA, has 148 requests to date for farm boys who can handle trac tors, and other harvesting ma chinery. The pay will be from $5 to $7 per day with board and room furnished. All interested boys please contact Mr. Hohn at the above address immediate ly. Rusty Elected to Replace Reveille As Official Mascot In the write-in campaign to elect Rusty the pup official mascot for the Aggies, the little black- and-white pup received 487 votes for and only 32 against. It is pre sumed that Tommy Westbrook, present owner of the puppy, will bequeath her to the Aggies, to receive the same privileges and be treated with the same respect ac corded Reveille, who died in 1944. Rusty is practically an exact duplicate of Reveille, having the same black-and-white markings, complete with a white tip on the tail. The most striking diversion from the similarity is evident only when Rusty walks away, display ing a rust-brown posterior. Rusty was seen on the campus Tues. campaigning, wagging her tail at all passers-by, and eagerly approaching Aggies for an affec tionate pat on the head. "Hub” Appeals For Summer Batt Staff Hub Johnson, newly elected Co- Editor of the Battalion, would like to see all persons—male or fe male—who care to work on the Batt staff, or merely suggest im provements, in the Batt office in the Ad building Thursday after noon between four and five-thirty. Johnson is primarily interested in obtaining a staff for the sum mer Battalion, which he will edit. Cadets and veterans went to the polls yesterday and elected many officers for the coming school year. The tabulation of votes is as follows: Veteran Yell Leader Beck 232 Coolidge 104 McKenzie 66 Senior Yell Leader Rosser 147 Kobs 110 Cavitt 62 Patrick 51 Junior Yell Leader Hartman 220 Holleman 86 Tittle 80 Swango 39 Livingston 36 Moore 35 O’Connell 33 Waldrip 30 Wilson '. 23 Baron 22 Morrow 21 Evans 19 Horany 13 Moses 10 Kennelley 6 Veteran Longhorn Editor Jay Cowan (no opponent) Corps Longhorn Editor Demopulos 116 John .... 67 Veteran Battalion Editor Johnson (no opponent) Corps Battalion Editor Self (no opponent> Gaines Elected Ex-Student Prexy Carroll M. Gaines, San Antonio attorney, of the class of 1912, was elected president of the Ex-Stu dent’s Association for the coming year. He is the father of C. M. Gaines, Jr., and the father-in-law of Bob Gulley, valedictorian of the "1 T. W. Mohle, ’19, Houston, and C. M. Elwell, ’23, Austin, were named vice presidents and E. E. McQuillen, ’20, re-relected Execu tive Secretary. S. A. “Doc” Lipscomb, ’07, Col lege Station druggist was elected as a representative of the Athletic Council. Kyle and Guatemalan Guests Visit College Edwin J. “Dean” Kyle, ’99, am bassador to Guatemala and former dean of agriculture at A. & M., visited on the campus Saturday, Sunday, and Monday with a group of prominent Guatemalan agricul turists and businessmen. During the party’s stay, they vis ited various branches of the college on a tour conducted by C. N. Shep- ardson, dean of agriculture. Mon day noon, Dean Kyle and his Cen tral American guests lunched in Duncan Dining Hall with eight members of the junior class and several other Latin American stu dents. Monday night Dean Kyle spoke before the student body at yell practice, praising Aggieland and Guatemala with equal ardor. The party left College Station for Hous ton on the Sunbeam Monday night. Bill Beck Chosen Vet Yell Leader; Cowan, Johnson In Bill Beck, Junior Yell Leader before leaving for the service, was elected overwhelmingly to resume his place on the steps of Goodwin Hall, representing the non-military students. Out of 402 votes cast, Beck netted 232, or more than twice as many as his nearest op ponent, “Whispering” Joe Coolidge, who collected 104. Bill McKenzie received 66 votes. Jay Cowan, architecture student who did the art work for the lat est Longhorn, being the only can didate from the veterans for Long horn Co-Editor automatically as- summed his position for .1946-47. Hub Johnson, newly returned vet eran, also ascended to Battalion Co- Editor by the same method. Hub has had considerable experience as a sports writer for the Battalion in prewar days. Wednesday 7:15 p. m.—Newman Club meet ing in new Y. 7:30 p. m. — Ex-Servicemen’s Wives Club meeting; election of of ficers, Sbisa Hall. Thursday 7:30 p. m.—Cub Scout Pack No. 102 monthly pack meeting, Con solidated School gymnasium. 9:00 p. m.—FINAL BALL, Ag gieland Orchestra, $1 stag or drag, Sbisa Hall. Friday 5:00 p. m.—Final Review, Drill Field. Met a fellow in the big city re cently, whom we hadn’t seen in ages. Had a difficult time recall ing his name until he said we had slept in adjoining pews in the same church for ten years. EE Student Wins First Krueger $500 Scholarship Harlingen Boy Has 2.38 GP Ratio, Plays Tackle on Football Team The most surprised—and the happiest man on the campus a 1 noon today was Dean M. Denton, Jr., of A Company Infantry, Tech nical Sergeant on the Infantry 1st Battalion staff. As a surprise announcement in Duncan Hall during the noon hour, Denton was named as the first winner of the new Krueger Award, a grant of $500 to be used during his senior year at A. & M. This award comes from a fund established through the Texas A. & M. College Development Fund early this year by C. C. and W. H. Krueger, owners of the San Antonio Machine and Supply Com pany, both former Aggies. It pro vides each year for an award of $500 to an outstanding member of the Junior Class who is to be a classified senior in the regular Dean Denton fall term. In order to qualify for the av^ard a man must have earn ed an appreciable portion of his own expenses during his first three years at student labor. The Krueger award goes to that member of the new Senior group who has, in addition to earning a portion of his own expenses, has made an outstanding scholastic re cord and has shown evidence of leadership, character and general value to the school in addition. Denton, the first winner, quali fies in every respect. He has con sistently earned a good portion of his expenses with from two to three student labor jobs since he has been in school. Taking Elec trical-Mechanical Engineering, he has been a distinguished student every semester since he entered, except one. He has never failed a course. His grade-point ratio to date is 2.38. To complete the picture, Denton has lettered in football two sea sons as a tackle, has participated in intramurals for his organization, is popular among the cadets, and has an excellent military depart ment record. In establishing the award fund, the Krueger brothers said: “One of the finest traditions of our school is a healthy respect for the man who earns a part of his own ex penses. The man who does this and still is capable of making excel lent grades and taking part in the life of the campus is worthy of re cognition. It is our desire that this award serve as recognition for this type of man, and that it makes his final year in school more pleas ant and profitable. “With this award, the winner should be able to complete his edu cation without the necessity of working at student labor in his final year, and devote his entire energies to securing the greatest value possible from his last year in school.”