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Campus Religious Groups Foster
Spiritual Growth Among Students
The many churches surrounding
the campus offer students an ex
cellent opportunity to grow spirit
ually as well as intellectually in
their college life.
Virtually all denominations are
represented in the immediate col
lege area, with both churches and
religious leaders easily available to
all students. Most are located in
the north gate region, including the
Roman Catholic Chapel, the Metho
dist Church, the Church of Christ,
the Christian Church, and the Bap
tist Church.
In the absence of their own build
ings, many denominations utilize
the Y.M.C.A. Chapel and Assembly
Room. The Christian Scientist,
Jewish, Presbyterian groups will
use the Y.M.C.A. facilities for
worship during the coming year.
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CHURCH SCHEDULES
ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
Rev. Orin G. Helvey, Chaplin
Phone 4-9404
The Chapel is located on the
south side of the campus, directly
across the drill field from the new
Mess Hall. The schedule for Sun
day Services is as follows:
Holy Communion—9:00 a. m.
Coffee Club—9:45 a. m.
Church School—9:45 a. m.
Morning Prayer & Sermon—
11:00 a. m.
Young People’s Service League—
6:30 p. m.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
and
WESLEY FOUNDATION
Rev. R. C. Terry, Pastor-Director
Phone 4-4874
The Methodist Church is located
near the north gate of the campus.
Its schedule of services is as fol
lows:
9:45—Church School.
10:50—Morning Worship.
6:15—Wesley Foundation (Stu
dents)
7:15—Evening Worship.
7:15—Mid-Week Devotion
(Wednesday)
7:00—Choir practice (Thursday)
THE HIILEL CLUB
A fully accredited unit of the
National Hillel Foundation is or
ganized at A. & M. College.
ST. MARY’S CHAPEL
Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleissner and
Rev. T. J. Valenta, Chaplains
Phone 2-2659
The Catholic Church is located
near the north entrance to the com-
pus.
The order of service is as fol
lows:
9:00—Mass, Sermon, and Holy
Communion.
10:30—Mass, Sermon, and Holy
Communion.
Confessions will be heard before
Mass on Sunday mornings.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Rev. Norman Anderson, Pastor
Residence Phone 4-6189
Office Phone 4-9207
The services of the Presbyterian
Church are held in the Y.M.C.A.
Chapel. The evening service in the
Y.M.C.A. Chapel.
9:45 a. m. Sunday School Y.M.
C.A. Chapel.
11:00 a. m.—Morning Worship,
Y.M.C.A. Chapel.
Student League 6:30 in the Y.
M.C.A. Chapel.
Student Forum 7:30 in the Y.M.
C. A. Chapel.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
Christian Science services are
held every Sunday morning in the
Y.M.C.A. parlor at eleven o’clock.
A college organization is at pre
sent being formed on the campus.
Mrs. N. M. McGinnis, Phone 4-7364.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Mr. Holland L. Loring Acting
Phone 4-1163
The Church of Christ and minis
ter’s residence are located one block
north of the Post Office at the
north entrance. The services are as
follows:
9:45 a. m.—Bible Classes.
10:45 a. m.—Morning Worship
6:15 p. m.—After supper discus
sion.
7:15 p. m.—Evening Worship.
Wednesday evenings—
7:15 p. m.—Prayer meeting.
JEWISH SERVICES
Mrs. J. J. Taubenhaus, Sponsor
Jewish Religious Services (Y.M.
C.A. Chapel) every Friday evening,
7:00 p. m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. R. L. Brown, Pastor
Phone 4-8226 Res. 4-1197
The church is located one block
north of the Post Office at the
North Gate.
Schedule of services:
' Sunday:
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School
10:50 a. m.—Morning Worship
services.
6:1b n. m. Training Union
7:15 p. m.—Evening Woship ser
vices. *
Wednesday.
7:15 p. m.—Prayer service
Fri lay:
7:00 p. m.—B.S.U. Council.
FIRvlT CHRISTIAN CHURCH
S. College and 27th, Bryan
Rev. Francis J. Smythe, Pastor
The Christian Church boys catch
the bus at the “Y” Station to at
tend the services in Bryan. The
church is located on the bus line.
Free tokens are supplied those
boys who attend regularly.
9:45 a. m.—Sunday School.
10:50 a. m.—Communion and
Morining Worship.
6:00 p. m.—Young People’s
Christian Endeavor.
7:00 p. m.—Evening Worship.
The A. & M. Sunday School class
and the Christian Endeavor are
active organizations which you will
enjoy attending.
LUTHERANS
F. J. Mgebroff, Minister
Sunday School and Student
Bible Classes are held each Sun
day in the Y.M.C.A. Assembly
Room. A cordial welcome to wor
ship with us is extended to all.
GI Bill of Rights to
Give Pilot Training
Flight training will be taught,
this semester at the A&M College
Airport according to an announce
ment by Dean H. W. Barlow,
School of Engineering. Officially
known as Aero 221, this course is
commonly referred to as. the pri
vate pilot’s course.
The private pilot’s course in
cludes 45 hours of flying and 36
hours of ground school instruction.
The cost of this course is $490.80.
Veterans are eligible to take flight
training and to have the costs de
frayed under the provisions of the
G. I. Bill. Only students with a
classification of sophomore or bet
ter are eligible.
All flight instruction will be
given at Easterwood Field, the
college airport. Transportation to
and from the main campus is pro
vided for those taking flight
courses.
All students who have register
ed for Aero 221 and those who are
interested in taking the course
are requested to meet in the Petro
leum Engineering Lecture Room
at 7:30 P.M. on September 13.
Help, Help, Help
If you have had experience as
a linotype operator, print shpp
floorman or a press feeder, and
would like to work in the after
noons or at night, contact Mr. J.
W. Hall of the A&M Press. His
office is in the basement of the
Administration Building.
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Thirty Year Struggle Pays Off
$2,500 to Ag Man for Wheat
460 Prefab Units to
Ease Vets’ Housing
Four hundred and sixty vet
erans 'and their families will have
their housing worries solved when
the Federal Housing Project on the
old cavalry drill field is .completed.
Present plans call for the con
struction of 460 prefabricated ap
artments. Construction has already
started and it is hoped that they
will be ready for occupancy by
December 1.
It is expected that veterans and
their families now occupying Hart
Hall will be placed in new living
quarters by the end of the spring
semester. Hart Hall will then be
occupied by single students. Walton
Hall will also be converted to the
use of single students by the open
ing of the fall term in September
1947.
Housing shortages were eased
somewhat by the acquisition of
housing space at Bryan Field, now
known as the Texas A&M College
Annex. The Annex will house some
1100 students. Two areas have been
set aside for trailer camps at the
Annex.
Even though most every type of
facility is being utilized to house
married veterans there is still not
enough housing available. At pre
sent they are occupying prefabric
ated apartments, project houses,
trailer houses and dormitories.
Range Management
Course Offered
Texas, the largest range state,
henceforth will train its own range
management specialists it was an
nounced here by Dean Charles N.
Shepardson of the Texas A. & M.
College school of agriculture.
The range management depart
ment already has admitted 25 stu
dents from among upper classes,
and freshmen will be able to regis
ter for the course when the fall
semester beings Setember 9.
As an author we have never
written anything that will live.
But, when it come to a question of
whether our writings shall live,
or we shall live, we’ll sacrifice our
writings.
Edgar S. McFadden, USDA as
sociate agronomist in cereal crops
and diseases and assigned since
1935 cooperative work with the
Texas A&M Agricultural Experi
ment Station, has been granted a
Distinguished Service Award of
$2,500.00 by Reader’s Digest for
“his exceptionally meritorius con
tribution to public welfare” through
making it possible for millions of
people to have food to eat today.
The award was announced in
Reader’s Digest for September with
condensation of an article on Mc-
Fadden’s 30-year struggle to de
velop disease-resistant wheat. This
article, “Burbank of the Wheat
Field,” by J. D. Ratcliff, was carri
ed originally in the Farm Journal
for September.
Research begun by McFadden in
1916 while still a student at South
Dakota State College “has added
hundreds of millions of dollars to
our national wealth,” and “possibly
twenty-five million people who
would otherwise be dead or dying
of starvation are alive and eating,”
Ratcliff said.
McFadden used his own meager
resources the first several years
to develop a cross between Yaro
slav emmer, a tough, filbrous,
worthless feed wheat, which he
had noticed was not attacked by
stem rust, and Marquis, a highly
popular bread wheat, but not rust
resistant.
After eight years of practically
unaided backyard research, Mc
Fadden named his product Hope
and, said Ratcliff, “the wheat of
fered little more than hope.” It
was resistant to stem rust, leaf
rust, and five other wheat diseases,
but it produced low yields of light
weight grain, and it was highly
susceptible to spring frosts. It
could, however, be crossed with
high-yielding bread wheats, a pos
sibility scoffed at by plant breed
ers when McFadden began his
experiments.
Since 1929, McFadden has con
tinued his wheat breeding experi
ments as a plant breeding scientist
with the U.S. Department of Agri
culture.- Just as World War II
started, Ratcliff said, a host of
Hope derivatives—grandchildren of
McFadden’s original cross—began
hitting the market, crowding older,
more susceptible varieties out of
the wheat fields.
Austin wheat, a cross made by
McFadden between Hope and Medi
terranean, was planted on a million
acres in Texas, much of it on land
that could never produce wheat
before because of the rust pestil
ence. Another Hope derivative took
over almost all of the California
wheat belt. Fifteen million acres
are now given over to Hope grand
children in the North, Ratcliff said.
For all the millions of dollars he
has put in the pockets of American
farmers, McFadden has profited
not one penny. New wheat varie
ties are not patentable, Ratcliff
pointed out. McFadden lives mod
estly in College Station, Texas,
now, still fighting man’s bloodless
battle for bread.
By Producing better grain es
pecially adapted to the Texas cli
mate, McFadden feels that he
might whip the rust problem once
and for all. With Texas planted to
rust-resistant wheat, the migra
tory spores which cause the dis
ease will have no place to spend
the winter. At that point, Ratcliff
said, McFadden’s final victory will
be won.
Horsley and Morgan
Now in Charge of
Placement Office
Wendell R. Horsley formerly
Vice-Director of Student Affairs,
is now in charge of the Placement
Office in the Administration Build
ing. Lucien Morgan, also in the
Dean of Men’s Office as an assis
tant director, is now associated
with Horsley in the new office.
The Placement Office acts as an
employment agency for A. & M.
graduates and former students.
For the past year, its main task
has been finding positions for vet
erans returning from the service.
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