The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 29, 1946, Image 1

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    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.”