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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1946
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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.
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JUNIORS!!
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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.
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