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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1946)
PAGE 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1946 ^3»OME PEOPLE cm StM LON<i€&lN. AN WOUE THAN OTHEUi CAN IN A GREETINGS AGGIES A.&M. GRILL North Gate You’11 note immediately the QUALITY Dry Cleaning and Pressing Alterations Military Supplies SMITH’S CLEANING — PRESSING WELCOME TO Aggieland’s Home of Refreshment GEORGE’S Around the Campus . . . Looking for a rr U.S.O.”? Try The Y.M.C.A. on the Campus Memo to new veteran students who are still in the habit of look ing for a U.S.O.: try the Y. M. C. A. on the college campus. What the USO’s were to the man in service, the Y is to Aggies. The College Y.M.C.A. is the building with tall pillars that flanks the West drive at Bellinger circle. It has been a center of soc ial activity for Aggies since 1912. A branch is also operated in the New Area opposite George’s for students in that part of the cam pus. Facilities include reading rooms, billiards and bowling alleys. The first effort to erect a Y.M.C.A. building on the A&M College Campus was made on Jan uary 12, 1910 when a joint com mittee representing the alumni, the faculty and the student body met in the office of the College President, Col. R. T. Milner, “for the purpose of considering the erection of a joint alumni and Y. M. C. A. building. The contract for the building was signed on April 12, 1912. Contribu tions amounting to more than thirty thousand dollars had been secured along with a donation of thirty thousand dollars from the Rockefeller Foundation. A two- story building was completed. In 1919 & third story was added to the building and paid for by the Y.M.C.A. The building was remodeled in 1941. It now contains 19 dormitory rooms on the third floor, two as sembly rooms and offices for the secretaries on the second floor, a chapel, a lobby office, a reading room and three parlors including a ladies’ powder room, the base ment contains a confectionery, a barber shop, four bowling alleys and eight billiard tables. In addition, the Y.M.C.A. oper ates a parlor for guests of the students in the New Area as well as a reading room, billiard tables and furnishes space for a confec tionery, barber shop, cleaning and pressing establishment and a sub post office. The Y.M.C.A. furnishes free sta tionery to all students. In the read ing rooms are two to four copies of eight of the leading newspapers of the state, magazines and pamph lets. It also makes available the latest books on religion, race rela tions, relations of men and women and international problems. It has provided local and long distance telephones and all facilities for pa rents and guests of students. It furnishes a hostess room for dances and parties both in the main building and in Keist Lounge. It lo cates rooms, houses and furnishes information on bus and train sched ules, furnishes meeting places for four church organizations and numerous student groups as well as faculty groups, extension serv ice and short courses. It pays for student help around five thousand dollars per year. The religious and educational programs are conducted through student organizations, a senior cab inet and a freshman council. The freshmen are all contacted by letter and a handbook before they leave home. The handbook contains information of interest to the prospective aggie. The coun cil consists of one to two hundred students. It is open to all fresh men, and a program is made in include every freshman with facul ty leadership. Eight or ten outside speakers are invited annually to the campus. Student Cabinets Active The Senior Cabinet is composed of about sixty outstanding stu dents who are divided into commit tees to carry out the program of regular weekly meetings, Bible study, international questions, es pecially through the Cosmopolitan Club and the Latin-American Club, the religious emphasis week, re lations of men and women, con ferences and visiting speakers. In its annual report the local asso ciation estimates that the total attendance of all these activities reaches eight to ten thousand. Numerous students are contacted daily for personal advice and coun sel. Student groups are assisted in making programs, multigraphing announcements, suggesting speak- Six Softball Teams To Vie In Summer Evening League Guion Hall Orders New Sound Heads, More Current Fix. Guion hall will, in the future, show a run of bigger and better movies, according to Tom Puddy, theater manager. Arrangements have been made for more up to date and popular movies. Two new sound heads have been ordered from New York and are expected to be in operation within three weeks. These heads will re place the old sound equipment that dates back to about 1930. Parts for this equipment were becoming in creasingly difficult to obtain as it was no longer manufactured. Because, in the past, suspense and “blood and guts” movies have been more popular here than melo dramas and psychological dramas, more movies of this type will be shown in the future. ers and arranging meetings. The Y.M.C.A. endeavors to ren der any service that can be inter preted in the light of interest and Christian attitude. M. L. Cashion is general secre tary of the Y.M.C.A. and is more familiarly known as “Brother Cash”. J. Gordon Gay is associate secretary; W. C. Hill is supervisor of the basement; and Mrs. D. R. Schwertner is office secretary. NOW IS THE TIME JUNIORS!! Order your Senior Boots. % COWBOYS!! Order your boots for fall delivery. HOLICK’S BOOT SHOP NORTH GATE WELCOME NEW STUDENTS We are ready to serve you in your tailoring* needs . . . Custom Tailored Clothes Alterations and Repairs Only Experienced Tailors Employed ZUBIK & SONS / UNIFORM SPECIALISTS 1896 — 50 Years of Tailoring — 1946 for EATS — SMOKES — DRINKS WELCOME TO AGGIELAND... May we make your acquaintances soon. Visit our shop at North Gate. Inspect our photographic laboratory. Look for Little Jack Horner i when hc gc¥§ a Trco ue can stop badoung > ’ Appearing Weekly in the ' BATTALION A&M Photo Shop North Gate Six teams will take part in the College Station softball league this summer, playing at 6:00 in the evening on the College Park and College Hills diamonds and on the drill field. The teams are composed of College Station residents, and their loop is sponsored by the city recreation committee. The Yankees are headed by C. O. Spriggs, the Cubs by Sol Wright, the Tigers by Norman Anderson, the Indians by Ed Garner, the Pi rates by C. A. Bonnen and the Giants by Carl Tishler. The schedule is as follows: June 7: Cubs vs. Tigers at Col- leg Park. June 10: Pirates vs. Tigers at College Park. June 12:Cubs vs. Pirates at drill field. June 12: Indians vs. Yankees at drill field. June 14: Tigers vs. Giants at College Hills. June 17: Cubs vs. Tigers at College Hills. June 19: Indians vs. Pirates at College Park. June 21: Yankees vs. Giants at College Hills. June 24: Cubs vs. Indians at Col lege Park. June 26: Tigers vs. Yankees at College Hills. June 28: Pirates vs. Giants at College Hills. July 1: Indians vs. Tigers at Col lege Hills. July 3: Giants vs. Cubs at Col lege Park. July 5: Pirates vs. Yankees at College Hills. July 8: Indians vs. Giants at College Park. When at the North Gate Come In to See Our Factory Methods of SHOE AND BOOT REPAIRS Shop-made Boots Invisable Half Sole Leather Goods > ^ „!■ Welcome to Aggieland COLLEGE STATION SHOE REPAIR LUKE COURT, Prop. North Gate WELCOME New Aggies We Offer You New and Used BOOKS 7 DRAWING SETS ;JJ DRAWING BOARDS £ T- SQUARES J LAMPS j STATIONERY / All Materials and Aggie Needs COLLEGE BOOK STORE /’I B. W. Bobbitt % \ " ' /V
