Aggies Open With North Texas On Kyle Field
Eagles Face Farmers In
First Game Since 1942
Norton Says All Squadmen Will Play
Some Part of Game Against Eagles
The Eagles from North Texas State College journey
down from up Denton way to take on the mighty Aggie
eleven for the season opener for both teams on Saturday,
September .21. This is to be the first team to represent
North Texas on the gridiron since before the war as they
dropped all inter-collegiate sports during the war years.
The Eagles will lack experienced men from recent years, but
they will have the usual crop of returning service men to
make up for the lack of experience
from other quarters.
This is the second meeting of
the Eagles and the Aggies. The
previous encounter was in 1928,
Dana X. Bible’s last year as coach,
when the Aggies gave the Eagles
a sound drubbing to the tune of
44-0.
That year the Eagles were op
posed by a relatively weak Aggie
team, as the ’28 Aggies won only
five out of a ten game schedule.
This year the Eagles will have to
meet one of the strongest Aggie
teams in gridiron history.
Norton will start his first string
against the Eagles Saturday after
noon, but he expects to let the
majority of the team play at some
time during the afternoon. If the
coach’s plans go as scheduled, ap
proximately fifty men will see
action at some time or another
against the Eagles Saturday.
Although the Aggies will not be
playing a team of the Southwest
Conference Sathrday, the competi
tion should still be keen, as this is
purportedly one of the greatest
elevens ever to represent the
Eagles on the gridiron. This year
the Eagles have three all-confer
ence players from recent years in
their lineup: Oglesby, right end,
McCain, quarterback, and Curnutt,
left guard. All three of these men
made the mythical Lone Star Con
ference eleven before they went
in to the service, and James Paul
Cooper, the Eagle center, is a let-
terman from T. C. U. who has
transferred to NTSC. All of these
stars intend to make the Eagles
one of the top contenders for the
Lone Star Conference crown, and
they will be out Saturday trying
to knock off the Aggies.
First Meeting of
Astronomy Club to
Be Held Tuesday
The newest society on the cam
pus, the A. & M. Astronomy Club,
will hold its first meeting in the
Physics Building on Tuesday, Sep
tember 24, at 7:30 p. m. Dick Bo
lin, temporary chairman, will pre
side at this organizational meeting,
and all students present will be
charter members.
One of the primary objectives of
the Astronomy Club is the con
struction of an observatory from
the roof of the Physics Building to
be ready for use at all times. The
new society will view the heavens
from atop this building with the
aid of Professor E. E. Vezey’s tel
escope, which he made in 1934.
Twelve inches in diameter, the tel
escope is two and one half inches
in width and has a focal length of
six feet. The telescope, of the
Newtonian principle, has a pyrex
lens and a yoke type mounting.
Professor Vezey spent 120 hours
in grinding and polishing the ap
paratus.
All persons interested in astron
omical studies are urged to attend
this first meeting.
Post-Game Dance
Slated in Santone
A post-game dance at the Gun
ter Hotel Rose Room following
the A. & M. - Texas Tech foot
ball contest will be sponsored by
the San Antonio A. & M. Club on
Sept. 28, according to Tommy John,
vice-president of the San Antonio
Aggies.
Dancing will be from 11 p. m.
to ?y30 a. m. to the music of Bob
by 'Geisler and his 16-piece or-
'chestra. Ducats are being offered
for couples or stag, and may be
procured from any San Antonio
Aggie.
Architecture Sets
Record Enrollment
The Architecture Department
with 330 students is beginning the
new school year with the largest
enrollment in architectural sub
jects in the history of the depart
ment. This figure includes also
the largest freshman class with
125 students registered, in addition
to many returning veteran ex-stu-
dents. Thirty-five freshman stu
dents are at the Bryan Field An
nex beginning a parallel course to
that of the first year students on
the campus.
The addition of five new instruc
tors brings the total teaching staff
of the department to ten. New
members of the enlarged staff in
clude Hal Mosely, ’40, formerly
chief designer with Archie Swank,
prominent Dallas architect; John
Weber, Iowa State College, ’27,
formerly industrial designer with
J. Gordon Lippencott, Chicago; and
three returning veterans: T. R.
Holleman, ’40, Gordon McCutch-
eon, ’42, and Doyle Hammons, '42.
Rooms for Aggie
Dates Are Needed
Anyone living in or near the
college area and having rooms
to rent to Aggie dates who come
down to the season’s functions
is requested to notify the Col
lege Placement Office by calling
4-1196. The following informa
tion should be given: name, ad
dress, telephone number, num
ber of rooms, occupants per
room, and amount of charge.
The crowded condition of the
college necessitates this action
and all who can help are urged
to comply.
Hugh Gillespie
Dies in Crash
Of Light Plane
Hugh Gillespie, senior Aero
nautical student from Corsicana,
was killed Saturday evening and
his brother-in-law, H. R. Stroube
Jr., was critically injured in a
light-plane crash which occured
one mile from the Corsicana
Municipal Airport.
Gillespie was taking some of his
friends and relatives for a ride in
his BT-13, which he recently pur
chased from the Army, and had
just taken off with Stroube when
engine trouble developed. He nosed
the ship down and was making an
effort to land on a near by high
way when it went into a spin and
crashed into a ditch near the road.
Hugh Gillespie first entered A.
& M. in 1944, transferring here
from Kilgore Junior College. Dur
ing the war he worked for the Kil
gore Flying School.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. M. Gillespie, Corsi
cana; two brothers, Cambell Jr. of
Texas Tech., and George Gillespie
of Texas A. and M.; a sistei 1 , Mrs.
H. R. Stroube Jr., Corsicana, and
other relatives.
Silver taps were held for„Gilles-
pie Tuesday night at 10:15 P. M.
Vets Must Fill
Forms Friday
Or Lose Payment
All veterans in school under
Part VIII of the G. I. Bill (non
disabled veterans) must report
to the Veterans Lounge in Sbisa
Hall Friday, September 20 be
tween the hours of 8:00 a. m.
and 5:00 p. m. to complete form
which must be turned in before
subsistence checks will be mail
ed.
Six Profs Added
To Department
Of Agriculture
Dean C. N. Shepardson of the
Texas A. & M. College School of
Agriculture recently announced ad
dition of six new members of the
teaching staff. They are D. J.Han-
kenson, A. V. Moore, John R. Ber-
tx-and, Jim F. Mills, T. F. P. Wisch-
kaemper and J. L. Zei’r.
Professor Moore rejoins the
Dairy Husbandry department. He
has just x’eturned from Michigan
State College where he was doing
work on his doctor’s degi’ee. Pro
fessor Moore will be in chai’ge of
the dairy manufacturing division
of the college creamery. Dr. Han-
kenson, who comes to the college
from industry, will be associate
professor working with Professor
Moore.
Reserve Officers
Hold First Meeting
The Reserve Officers’ Associa
tion of College Station and vicinity
held a meeting Tuesday night in
the Geology lecture room at 7:30
p.m.
C. G. Kirkbride, eyewitness
scientific worker to Operation
Crossroads, gave a talk covei'ing
the background, purpose, and ef
fect of the Atomic bomb test at
Bikini.
After Kirkbride’s lecture, appli
cation blanks were passed out to
potential members. Anyone having
a reserve commission may join the
association upon payment of five
dollars dues. The next meeting was
slated for October.
The latest issue of each of 750
magazines is available in the mag
azine room of the A. & M. library.
Texas A«M
The B
alion
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1946
NUMBER 3
McCormick Elected Senior Class Prexy
“Yea-a-a-a, ’Gig em, Aggies!”
These are the fellows who keep the Twelfth Man yelling in unison. From left to right: Bill
Beck, veteran yell leader; Dutch Hartman, junior; Bill Rosser, senior; Asa Holleman, junior; and E. C.
Kobs, senior.
Work Begun On the
Improvement of
Dancing Pavilion
Larger Stage and Slab,
Outdoor Theater Among
Proposed Improvements
Goods news for Aggie dancers
is the proposed plan to enlarge the
Grove, outdoor dancing pavilion, to
three times its present size, the
Student Activities Office has an
nounced. Work began on this pro
ject just recently, and it is hoped
that the new aixd better Grove will
be initiated within the next two
months.
As may be remembered by many
returning students, the Grove was
dedicated in the summer of 1942,
with the music of Ina Ray Hutton
and her orchestra. Enlarging the
slab will accommodate more coup
les than heretofore and will lessen
the congestion of dance fans.
In addition to enlarging the
dance floor, the stage will be in
creased in size to accommodate
outdoor shows. Rest rooms will be
installed, and tables and chairs
will be placed around the slab
among the cedar trees. An out
door projection booth will be ai’-
ranged so as to provide for open-
air movies. In order to insure pi'i-
vacy, a chain-link fence will sur
round the Grove, similar to that
which is around Kyle Field.
The Grove will be opened in the
spring, at which time an unan
nounced, well-known orchestra will
be available.
All-College
Ball Planned
For Sept. 21
The first All-College dance of
the 1946 fall semester will be held
in Sbisa Hall, Saturday night, Sep
tember 21, 1946. Admission will
be $1.50 with or without a date.
Commencing at 9 p. m. the dance
will last until 12 p. m. This will
be the first dance of this kind
since the return of the many war
veterans to the campus.
Dates will be accommodated in
P. G. Hall, which will open at 10
a.m. Saturday and will close at
noon Sunday. The fee will be $1.00,
including linens and towels. A
matron and two maids will be on
duty to assist the gilds. Accommo
dations for 104 girls are available
and students desiring rooms for
dates should register at the Place
ment Office located in the Admin
istration Building.
Music for the dance will be furn
ished by the newly organized Ag-
gieland Orchestra, under the direc
tion of Bill Turner. The lineup of
the band is as follows: trumpets:
J. C. Mayes, Don Simpson, and
Glen Torrence; tx'ombones: Jack
McGi'egor, Nelson McLain and G.
C. Stanley; saxes: Don Hackney,
Jerry Steves, Braxton Doak, Glenn
Duhon and Edwax-ds. Freddy Nel
son will handle piano honors, Fred
Forste, guitar; Richard Parker,
bass; and Tom Blankenship, drums.
Boyd Rogers will handle the vocals
this year.
2 Campus Musical
Groups to Present
Guion HallProgram
Aggieland Orchestra,
Singing Cadets, and
Vocalists On Sept. 21
On Friday, September 20, at 7:15
p. m., two Aggie organizations will
be featured on the stage of Guion
Hall, it was announced by Bill Tur
ner, director of the Singing Ca
dets and the Aggieland Orchestra.
To be held immediately before the
All-College Dance, the program
will be free to all persons.
The Aggieland Orchestra, new
ly organized with several return
ing members, will be featured in
several instrumeixtal arrangements
of both the swing and sweet va-
xnety. Three school songs, “The
Spirit of Aggieland, Twelfth Man,
and I’d Rather Be a Texas Ag
gie”, will be sung by the Singing
Cadets.
Besides these two musical or
ganizations, the show will feature
the singing of Mixnam Forman,
star of the summer production H.
M. S. Pinafore, and Boyd Rogers,
Aggie singer, whose vocal style
won the applause of the Cadet
Corps last year on the Jamboree.
All Aggies and their wives and
residents of College Station are
cordially invited to attend this
hour’s entertainment.
One reason the gentleman of
today doesn’t kiss the modern
girl’s hand is that he’d burn his
nose on her cigarette.
We-e-ell, 01’ Army, Who's Got the Spirit? ..
College Night Puts Fish on Line
Gives Corps Spirit Once Again
Last Friday evening on the steps
of Goodwin Hall, A & M witness
ed its biggest college night since
the fall of 1942. To all who were
Leader Kobs
there, it was an exciting exper
ience, from the lowest Fish to the
veteran ten-year man.
The initial purpose of college
night is the introduction of fresh
men to Aggieland. Naturally when
the 225-piece Aggie Band burst out
with the Aggie War Hymn, the
new members of the Corps didn’t
exactly know what was taking
place; but by the time for the
ending yell, the Fish appeared to
be veering toward “The Line.”
The contagious enthusiasm that is
so dominant at college nights not
only had its effect on the fresh
man class but quite a few of the
returning veterans again felt those
“butterflies” in their stomachs—
a feeling that had been absent for
several years.
Not only was Goodwin Hall dec
orated by the Aggie Band, but
also long streamers of “Aggie con
fetti” came flowing through the
air toward the humped fish. Col
lege authorities believe that if
many more yell practices take place
the corps will have to find a sub
stitute for “Aggie confetti.”
After the introductory yells, the
head yell leader, Bill Rosser, in
troduced the president of the col
lege, Gibb Gilchrist. After rolling
up his sleeves, “Prexy” expressed
his backing of the team and an
nounced that two holidays, one for
the Baylor game and one for the
SMU game, were in the offing for
students this Fall.
After “Prexy’s” talk the entire
football team was introduced to
the corps by assistant coaches
Botchy Koch and Marty Karow.
Freshmen are expected to know
all of the individual football play
ers so that they can readily pass
their names back on certain yells.
All in all, college night this
year was more than a success. Not
Prexy Speaks
only did the newcomer freshman
become ecquainted with the corps
that is to be a part of their lives
for the next four years, but the
newly returned veteran met his
school friends that he had missed
for several years.
Cecil, Haws, Huston, and Hamon Will
Assist In Class of ’48 Leadership
Bill McCormick was elected to lead the Class of ’48
through the 1946-47 school year as Senior Class President
Monday night in a meeting held in the Y. M. C. A. Chapel.
McCormick, a Dallas mechanical engineering student, has
been a member of “B” Co. Infantry since his arrival at A. &
M. in 1944.
Fish, Here’s Cash
For Your Signs!
Carrying on with the policy
of awarding prizes to the cadet
organization presenting the
best football caption, Loupot is
again making this offer.
Prizes totaling $75 will be
presented during the current
football season. Each week $5
will be presented for the best
sign exhibited on the dormitor
ies. A bonus prize of $25 will
apply to the Turkey Day Game.
Dog Dawson Issues
Plea For Students
Of “Brain-Trust”
“Dog” Dawson, Assistant Ath
letic Director, has made an urgent
plea to all intelligencia to apply
for jobs as tutors for the football
boys. Students who are good in
mathematics, English, and chem-
istx’y are especially needed, but
there is some need for tutors in
all courses.
These jobs will pay substantially
more than student labor prices, and
all the work will have to be done
at night, after eight o’clock.
Anyone interested in doing this
type of work is asked to get a
slip from the head of the depart
ment in which they would like to
instx'uct and take it to “Dog” Daw
son, and he will assign students to
tlxem.
Parking Rules Set
For College Autos
Every effort is being made by
the Campus Security Office to
ease the problem of parking both
student and employee automobiles
on the campus.
If all students and employees
will park their vehicles properly,
use them only when necessary, and
enter and leave the campus by the
most direct route to and from their
respective parking space, the auto
mobiles will not be too trouble
some, according to Fred Hickman,
Chief of Campus Security.
Students living in Dorms 1 thru
12 will use the parking lots be
hind dorms 11 and 12; in the
event these areas are filled, the
streets adjacent will be used.
Dorms 14 through 17 will use the
parking lot behind No. 17 and the
lane in the AAA parking lot. Biz-
zell, Hart, Legett, Mitchell, Law
and Puryear Halls will use the
streets xxearest the dormitories.
Students in Milner and Walton
Halls are requested to use the
parking area behind the buildings.
Day students with automobiles
will use the ax-ea to the rear of the
Petroleum Engineering Building
and the area south of the old pa
rade ground.
All drivers are cautioned to ob
serve the “No Pax’king” signs, and
are asked to refrain from pax-king
at walkway entrances.
The cooperation of all students
is asked by Mr. Hickman in the
solving of this problem in the
shox-test possible length of time.
Results in Plastic
Contest Announced
Results of a fourth year design
problem held last week have been
announced by the Department of
Architecture. Tying for first place
were Jimmie Demopolus of Tex
arkana and Harry B. Smith of
New Orleans.
The problem, a one-day affair
held in cooperation with the In
dustrial Education Department was
to design an object using plastics.
Actual objects made of plastics as
well as numerous photographs
were on display. Objects designed
by the Architecture students in
cluded trays, beverage sets, coffee
tables, and other similar items.
A design by Bob Simpson won
second place; and Irving Gewertz
and Charlie Carleton tied for
third.
Vice-presidential choice of the
seniors is Clyde Cecil, captain of
“A” Co. Engineers. Recording sec
retary of senior meeting proceed
ings and class correspondence is
Art Haws, “F” Battery Field Ar
tillery captain from LaFeria.
Senior class finances will be in
the hands of Bob Huston, captain
of “A” Co. Chemical Warfare Ser
vice from Stamford. Social secre
tary in charge of directing senior
social activities in the coming year
is A. O. Hamon of Gonzales.
These officers were elected from
among the members of the Class
of ’48, the only requirement being
that they fulfill the qualifications
for a cadet commissioned officer.
Following elections, the class
engaged in a general discussion of
problems facing the Cadet Corps.
Veterans Club to
Meet Monday Night
To Pick Officers
« The Ex-Servicemen’s Club will
meet Monday, September 23, 1946
at 7:30 p.m. in the Assembly Hall.
All veterans are urged to attend
the meeting.
A complete reorganization of
the club will be made, and new
officers are to be elected as fol
lows: President, Vice-President,
Secretary, Treas., Parliamentar
ian, and Sergeant-at-arms. A new
Board of Representatives, which is
made up of members elected to
represent each veteran dormitory
on the campus, will also be elected.
The Board of Representatives is
the most important committee
functioning in the club, and each
member should be considered care
fully before being elected.
Co-editors of the Battalion and
Longhorn will also be elected.
All veterans who have served in
the Army, Navy, Marines, or Coast
Guard in World War II are eligible
as members of the club.
Newman Club to
Entertain Tessies
The Texas A&M Newman Club
met for the first time this semes
ter Wednesday evening, September
11 at St. Mary’s Chapel with
nearly 150 in attendance.
The welcoming and opening ad
dress was delivered by Monsignor
J. B. Gleisner and a subsequent
talk was given by Fr. Tim Valen-
ta. Newly elected officers for the
club include Herman Neusch, as
president, Joe Culinan as vice-pres
ident, Bill O’Mara as 'secretary,
Dick Plouch as treasurer, and Joe
Kavanaugh as historian. Dr. Hil
debrand was selected to the posi
tion of Faculty Advisor.
The next meeting of the New
man Club will be Sunday night,
September 22 at 6:30 in the As
sembly hall, where plans will be
discussed for the Newman Club
dance on October 5. The club will
be host to 350 students of TSCW
on that occasion. A further meet
ing will be held in St. Mary’s
Chapel on Wednesday evening,
September 25, at 7:15.
Officers Elected
For Agronomy Club
The Agronomy Society of the A,
& M. College met Tuesday night,
September 17 and elected officers
for the Fall semester of 1946-1947.
The meeting was called to or
der by acting president George
Rivers and he introduced Mr. Rich
ard C. Potts, Professor of Agron
omy who talked on the history of
the Agronomy Society and spoke
of its laws and by-laws. Potts
spoke also of the annual Cotton
Balls held by the Society each
Spring and of the educational ac
tivities of the club.
Newly elected president for the
present semester is George Rivers.
Bertis L. Richey was elected as
vice-president, and Darius B. Mc
Combs becomes secretary and
treasurer. Verlin L. Bennett as
sumes the position of parliamen
tarian and John P. Stanford be
comes reporter.