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    VOLUME 46 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946 Number 21
Development Fund Board Meets to Discuss Program
Brooks Named As
’47 Rhodes Scholar
Jack E. Brooks, student at A. & M., has been selected as
one of forty-eight Americaii Rhodes scholars among a record
list of 871 contenders, to enter Oxford University in October,
1947, it was announced by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, American
secretary to the Rhodes trustees. Joe W. McKnight, a Texas
University student, has also been chosen as a Rhodes scholar
for the next school year.
The appointment of Jack Brooks
is the first such honor which A&M
has had since Wright Thomas,
Class of ’22, was named a Rhodes
scholar. Both Brooks and Mc
Knight were included in the “war
scholarships” for men who have
completed at least one year of war
service.
Brooks is a junior Electrical En
gineering student from Port Ar
thur, Texas. His record at A&M
is singularly impressive, since he
is at present taking 27 hours,
with a straight “A” average in all
of them. He has only one grade
below “A” on his entire record,
which was a “B” made in English
203. During his freshman year, he
completed all of his freshman and
sophomore mathematics, taking
differential equations during his
sophomore year.
This year’s list is the first to be
selected since 1938 and includes
representatives of thirty-five col
leges and universities and thirty-
three states, the announcement
said. Six of the final selections
are still on active duty with the
armed forces.
Each of the Rhodes scholars will
receive $1600 per year from the
fund, which was established in
1904 by Cecil John Rhodes, South
African statesman.
College Employee
Christmas Banquet
Set for Thursday
Annual Dinner Will
Honor Those Having
Twenty-five Years
The annual Christmas dinner of
college employees will be held in
conjunction with the College Em
ployee’s Dinner Club at 7 p. m.,
Thursday, December 19 in Sbisa
Hall. All plans have been com
pleted by W. B. Horsley, general
chairman of the committee.
Especially honored at this year’s
banquet will be college employees
who have served twenty five years
with the school. President of the
college, Gibb Gilchrist will deliver
the Christmas messarge and Dean
T. D. Brooks will present the hon
or guest and the awards. Rev.
James F. Fowler will deliver the
invocation and the Singing Cadets,
under the direction of W. M. Tur
ner, will render several songs in
cluding some Christmas carols. A
social will be held following the
dinner and program.
Those comlpeting 25 years in
clude: Guy W. Adriance, Leighton
W. Brittain, Frederick A. Burt, R.
E. Sallender, Frank Gaines, Rob
ert A. Hall, Edward Harter,
Beecher Jones, Fred R. Jones, Er
nest Langford, T. B. Lewis, G. E.
Madely, Mayesie Malone, E. W.
Markle, W. I. Marschall, R. S.
Miller ,S. W. Monroe, John L.
Todd, J. Knox Walker, and George
B. Wilcox. Colored honorees are
Herman L. Brown, Hannah D. Dir-
den, Sam Pierce, and J. V. Smith.
Members of the college staff are
urged to attend the dinner and
honor those who have been with
the college so long.
College Inn Owner
Given Court Fine
CHARLES E. McMILLAN,
OWNER AND OPERATOR OF
THE COLLEGE INN cafe, was
fined in the Corporation Court,
Saturday, December 14, for oper
ating without a permit in violation
of the City of College Station or
dinance, according to Francis A.
Vaughn, city manager of College
Station.
The permit to run the College
Inn Cafe has previously been re
voked by the Brazos County Health
Unit because of the unsanitary
condition existing in the establish
ment. This is the first action tak
en by the city on the cafe.
4616 A&M STUDENTS
STUDY ENGINEERING
Of the 8651 students currently
enroled at A. & M., 4616 of them
are stdying engineering, according
to a recent survey prepared by H.
L. Heaton, registrar.
Enrolled in the School of Ag
riculture are 1975 students, with
670 studying Veterinary Medicine,
1390 in the School of Arts and
Sciences, and 301 in the Graduate
School.
Library Schedule
During Holidays
The library will observe the
following hours durihg the
Christmas Holidays;
9 a. m. to 5 p. m., Monday,
Thursday, and Friday, Decem
ber 23, 26, 27, and Monday and
Wednesday, December 30 and
January 1.
8 a. m. to to noon, Saturday,
December 21, and 9 a. m. to 12
noon, Saturday, December 28.
The library will be closed on
December 22, 24, 25, and 29 and
regular hours will be resumed
on January 2.
Eight A&M Officials
Attend Land Grant
College Conference
Eight officials of A. & M. are
attending the annual meet of the
Association of Land Grant College
and Universities being held in Chi
cago December 13-18.
Those attending the meet
include: F. C. Bolton, executive
vice-president and dean of the
college; D. W. Williams, vice-pres
ident for agriculture; C. N. Shep-
ardson, dean of agriculture; H. W.
Barlow, dean of engineering and
director of the Engineering Exper
iment Station; R. D. Lewis, direc
tor of the Agricultural Experiment
Station; Ide P. Trotter, director of
the Extension Service; Miss Maur-
ine Hearn, vice-director for women
and State Home Demonstration
Agent; and A. C. Wamble, acting
vice-director of the Engineering
Experiment Station.
The purpose of the meeting is
to discuss problems related to the
functioning of Land Grant
leges, Dean Bolton said.
Col-
Cashion Selects
Five Aggies For
Urbana “Y” Meet
Five students will leave college
on December 26 to represent A&M
at the National Conference of
YMCA’s and YWCA’s held at the
University of Illinois from De
cember 27 to January 3.
The Aggies attending the meet
were named by M. L. Cashion,
secretary of the YMCA on the
campus, Monday afternoon. They
are: J. W. Robinson, Newton Cole,
Donald Hanks, Herman Neusch,
and Gordon Gay.
This year marks the renewal of
the YMCA and YWCA conferen
ces, that were discontinued during
the war. Normally these meets
are held every four years, one
school generation.
The purpose of the convention,
which brings together students
from every college in the country,
is to determine policy for the
YMCA and YWCA for the next
four years.
Coming io Town Hall
Tito Guizar
Three Features to Be Presented
On Town Hall Stage Next Month
If you like entertainment, if
you are pleased by feats of magic
and hypnotism, if you thrill to
the sound of soft slow music, or
if you prefer music of that torrid
Latin American tempo, January
Town Hall will fill the bill.
When holiday festivities are over
and Aggies allow their thoughts to
stray to themes, examinations and
books once more, they will find
that Town Hall has booked a vari
ety of outstanding artists for Jan
uary. They are Dr. Franz Polgar,
hypnotist; Patricia Travers, violin
ist; and Tito Guizar and his com
pany.
Polgar, who comes to Guion on
January 15, will present his “Mir
acles of the Mind” show. He is
widely advertised as “The Greatest
One Man Show on Earth.” Polgar
is an exponent of telepathy, mem
ory feats and hypnotism.
He appeared at Town . Hall last
year and those who saw him are
still marvelling over his check
finding performance. Polgar,
asked Lamar Fly who had a check
covering Polgar’s appearance fee,
to hide the check in the audience.
He further told him that if he
failed to find the check there would
be no charge for the perfomance.
After a short search, Polgar found
his check.
Press reports concerning Polgar
say that his wife won’t stand or
sit at his left. That’s the side on
which he invariably places his
subjects when he reattjs their
minds.
Patricia Travers, violinist, will
appear on Town Hall January 28.
She is currently appearing as so
loist with twelve of the leading
symphony orchestras in this coun
try including the New York Phil
harmonic-Symphony.
Last but not least, Tito Guizar
and his company will present a
concert of Latin American songs
and dances on either January 30
or 31. There will be both matinee
and night performances.
Guizar’s records are played
wherever beautiful music is ap
preciated. He has appeared in
many pictures including, St. Louis
Blues”, “Llano Kid” and “Tropic
Holiday”.
Williams, Brown
Named to A. V. A.
Ed L. Williams, director of the
A.&M. Industrial Extension Ser
vice, named vice-president repre
senting industrial education in the
United States, and J. J. Brown,
state director of vocational re
habilitation, chosen vice-president
for that branch of the American
Vocational Association. Williams
also received the Presidency of the
National Association of Industrial
Teacher Trainers, a sub-group of
which he was a trustee last year.
This marks the first time that
Texans have gained executive rank
in the 25,000-member organization.
Two other A.&M. faculty members
attended the St. Louis convention
last week (Dec. 3-7). They were
Chris Groneman, acting head of
the industrial education depart
ment and Associate Professor M.
D. Darrow of the Industrial Ex
tension Service.
Air Reserve Unit
Holds Ground School
Pilots in the Air Reserve unit
of the Brazos County Reserve Of
ficers Association will hold ground
school, Wednesday, December 18
at 6:30 p. m. in the Petroleum lec
ture room.
The Operations Officer of the
Reserve Unit at Ellington Field,
Texas will conduct the class.
Questionaires on AT-6, review of
AAF Flying Regulations, and local
flying regulations will begin. The
questionaires must be completed
before flying can start.
Corps to Review for Colonel Welty
On Retirement From Army Duty
Col. M. D. Welty, Ret., former
Commandant of A. & M. from No
vember 1, 1941, until the beginning
of this semester, will be honored
on his retirement from the service
with a review of the Cadet Corps
Wednesday evening, December 18,
at 4:30 p. m. All members of the
Corps will participate.
Col. Welty, who graduated from
West Point in 1910, went to the
Phillipine Islands for three years.
He then served at Fort Ontaria,
N. Y. and Eagle Pass, Texas before
going overseas with Second Army
Headquarters. Upon returning to
the United States, he was detailed
as Professor of Military Science
and Tactics at Pennsylvania State
College.
From there, he went to Command
and General Staff School and then
became Senior Instructor, 205th
Infantry, Minnesota National
Guard. In the latter capacity he
was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal. Col. Welty then
graduated from the War College
and spent three years as Plans
Training Officer in Washington.
Fort Benning, Fort Meade, Fort
Snelling, Minnesotta, and Fort
Jackson, Mississippi were his next
stations in the army. He was then
assigned commanding officer of
US troops in Newfoundland, for
which he received the Distinguish
ed Service Medal for outstanding
service. This Medal was awarded
in a review at A.&M. in Mav.
1943.
From Newfoundland, Col. Welty
was ordered to A.&M. as Com
mandant, arriving here November
1, 1941. He retired September 30,
1946, and since that time he has
been on terminal leave.
First call for the review of the
Corps will be 4:05 Wednesday, and
units will move out at 4:13. First,
second, and third regiments will
parade in the respective order.
Col. G. S. Meloy, Jr., present
Commandant, has announced that
this is the second review of the
Corps for this semester. In the
future, reviews will be held once
each month, he added.
J. T. L. McNew Is
Still in Serious
Condition Today
J. T. L. McNew, vice-presi
dent for engineering, was re
ported to be “breathing more
easily” but still seriously ill as
the Battalion went to press. In
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Houston,
after suffering several cerebral
hemorraghes, Mr. McNew was
reported to have also contrac
ted pneumonia.
Mr. McNew first suffered a
stroke several weeks ago in his
office in the Administrative
Building. He was taken to
Galveston, where he improved
rapidly. However, while being
driven home Saturday a week
ago he took the wheel for a
short time in Houston, and col
lapsed again. He was taken to
St. Joseph’s Hospital there and
has remained in a serious state
for more than a week.
Radio Station WTAW
Presents “Aggie
Pickins” on Friday
For Aggieland’s own variety
show, “Aggie Pickins” tune your
dial to WTAW, every Friday af
ternoon at 3:30 p. m.
The show, which lasts thirty
minutes, features recordings, guest
vocalists, sketches and imperson
ations.
For impersonations, J. B. Fox
of Dallas, can always be depended
upon to take off on the Great
Gildersleeve. In addition, there
is a negro comedy sketch entitled,
“Rastus and Sam”, which is done
by Wally Pierie and Charley Har
rison.
After the first of the year,
WTAW will broadcast “Aggie
Pickins” from the stage of Guion
Hall.
Librarian Listed in
Who’s Who for ’47
The Editorial Board of the 1947
edition of the International World
Who’s Who has decided to include
a short biographical sketch of all
Librarians heading important in
stitutions. The Library of A. &
M. has been selected as one of the
country’s leading institutions, and
Paul S. Balance, as Head Librar
ian, has been requested to submit
the necessary biographical data
for publication in the 1947 Inter
national World Who’s Who.
Formerly published in London,
the Who’s Who is being published
in the United States for the first
time. The annual publication con
tains the names of men and women
prominent in their fields of en
deavor in over twenty different
countries.
Final Plans For
Air ROTC Made By
Tenth Air Force
The Tenth Air Force has taken
over supervision of the Senior Air
ROTC program at the universities
and colleges within its five-state
area, Major General Howard M.
Turner, Commanding General, an
nounced at this headquarters.
At present there are seven Air
ROTC units in the Tenth’s area to
which professors of Air Science
and Tactics are assigned. These
units and the professors assigned
to them are as follows: Univer
sity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Ma
jor Arden S. Freer; University of
Oklahoma, Norman, Major Rich
ard S. Reid; Oklahoma A&M, Still
water, Major Perry H. Penn; Lou
isiana State University, Baton
Rouge, Lt. Col. L. B. Matthews;
Texas A&M, College Station, Lt.
Col. Dexter L. Hodge; Texas Tech,
Lubbock, Lt. Col. Robert P. Rior-
dan; and New Mexico A&M, Las
Cruces, Lt. Col. David W. Wallace.
The total complement of AAF
Scholarships for 400 Men
Ultimate Goal of Group
Graduate Fellowships, Research
And Chapel in Plans for This Year
Members of the governing board of the A.&M. Develop
ment Fund met this weekend in an annual business session.
Nine of the sixteen men forming this group heard reports of
the work of the organization during its first year of opera
tion. Plans for the coming year were also made in a two-day
session which included a luncheon honoring the winners of
the recently set up Opportunity Awards.
Following a dinner Saturday at 6:30 p. m., the first
Petition Fails to
Get Extention of
Christmas Holidays
Recently a petition signed by a
large number of students reached
F. C. Bolton, dean of the college.
The letter asked that the Christ
mas holidays be extended to in
clude January 2, 3, 4, and 5. To
cope with the request a special
meeting of the Academic Council
was called last Friday. By unan
imous vote the members of the
council decided to follow the pre
scribed schedule as set up at the
beginning of the year.
The reason given for the de
cision by the group was that any
time taken off during the semes
ter would have to be added at the
end to meet with national accred
iting associations standards. Un
der the existent plan for next se
mester, there would not be enough
time for an addition of extra days
at the end of the present period,
the council concluded.
In a letter to the first signer of
the petition Dean Bolton stated the
decision of the council. “‘When
the original calendar was adopted,
the Faculty included what seemed
to be a reasonable time for the
Christmas holidays and also in
cluded two Saturdays when foot
ball games were being played and
these days were counted out of
instruction time,” part of the let
ter read.
Twelve A&M Staff
Members Speak
To Texas Academy
Twelve A. & M. staff members
delivered papers at the Texas
Academy of Science meeting held
December 13 and 14 in Dallas, and
nearly a dozen other faculty and
staff members attended, according
to announcements by the various
departments.
Those delivering papers at the
two-day meet are: Dr. S. O. Brown,
Dr. Victor Grewlach, Dr. A. L.
Schipper, Dr. T. M. Ferguson, Dr.
_ E. M. Hildebrand, Dr. G. E. Pot-
personnei to these institutions will ter, who is also vice-president of
consist of three officers and three
enlisted men.
The first year’s advanced cur
riculum—which is the students’ ju
nior year at college—calls for 82
hours’ study of AAF subjects fol
lowed by a summer encampment of
from six to eight weeks.
The last year will be made up of
89 hours’ study in one of the fol
lowing subjects: AAF Supply, Sta
tistical Control, Personnel Admin
istration, Armament, Communica
tions, Meteorology, and Aircraft
Maintenance Engineering. No one
institution is expected to offer all
seven of these advanced subjects
to Senior Air ROTC’s, but will
specialize in one or more of them.
Quotas for enrollment will be
allocated each year by the War
See AIR ROTC Page 4
the Academy in charge of the bio
logical section, and Dr. Sewell
Hopkins, all of the Biology de
partment at A.&M.; Dr. Homer
Smith, Fish and Game department;
Mrs. Neta S. Brown, Agricultural
Experiment Station; Dr. Bryant
Holland, Engineering Experiment
Station; Dr. E. G. Smith, Physics
department; Mr. J. W. Hayward,
Cotton Research Committee.
Many of those attending the
Academy also attended various
other professional meetings being
held in Dallas at the same time.
DEL RIO DANCE DEC. 27
The Del Rio Club’s Christmas
Dance will be held at the Del Rio
Country Club on December 27 at
9:00 p. m.
Admission is free.
Plans for New Aggie Chapel
Show Beautiful Building
Plans to procure for A. & M. a
chapel to serve as a non-denomi-
national religious center were an
nounced recently by President Gibb
Gilchrist. To be erected as a me
morial to some donor who would
provide an endowment to cover
the- cost and upkeep, the chapel
would house the college chaplain.
The employment of such a re
ligious leader is a step being taken
by the college to aid the students
find help and advice not available
from any source at present.
Dreams for the building include
a large nave seating 400 and a
small chapel adjoining which seatl
100. Also a part of the plant
would be a few activity rooms,
chaplain’s office, and an outdoor
arrangement for services. The
idea is not to have a large church
to take care of all of the student
body but a small place to hold
Aggie weddings and other ceremo
nies which require a setting such
as a chapel provides, said R. H.
Shuffler, Development Fund di
rector.
The building is to be made ex
ceptionally beautiful and enough
money available to keep up the
plant with earnings from the prin
cipal left from the construction
expense, it was explained, and to
provide the college with an inspir
ing religious center of which Ag
gies can be proud. It is hoped that
Aggies will come to be married in
large numbers in this chapel as is
practiced in so many other schools
throughout the country, Shuffler
said.
business meeting was held in the'
director’s home. An election of
officers resulted in the reelection
of A. F. Mitchell of Corsicana as
chairman and F. W. Hensel, head
of the Landscape Art Dept, win
ning the vice-chairman position,
replacing J. T. L. McNew whose
illness has kept him from an active
part in the activity of the organ-
iation.
Members of Board
The governing board is made up
of three members from the Board
of Directors, Rufus R. Peeples, H.
L. Kokernot, and Henry Reese III;
three members of the college staff,
H. F. Hensel, J. T. L. McNew, and
C. W. Crawford; six members of
the Former Students Association;
T. W. Mohle, A. F. Mitchell, J. P.
Hamblen, C. C. Krueger, A. P.
Rollins, and C. H. Fleming; and
four ex-officio members of the
college administrative staff, Gibb
Gilchrist, president; Carrol M.
Gaines, president of Former Stu
dents; W. H. Holzman, college
comptroller; and E. E. McQuillen,
executive secretary of Former Stu
dents. This group directs the ac
tion of the organization which is
made up of the members of the
Board of Directors and the For
mer Students Association.
Director’s Report
In a report by R. H. Shuffler,
director, the past year’s accom
plishments were cited. The growth
of the Scholarship Fund to include
16 students and the increase of
the total number of men studying
in the college under various en
dowments from seven at the begin
ning of the year to forty-two was
announced to the group. A sum
mary of the special gifts to the
college, excluding annual gifts, was
read. A sum of $221,549.60 was
donated for various purposes spe
cified by the donors. Projects now
in progress include activities such
as major research endowments,
improvement of equipment and
herds, building a chapel, fellow
ships from industry, and scholar
ship endowments.
Future Plans
The Sunday session dealt pri
marily with the plans of the or
ganization for 1947. It has set
as its ultimate goal a scholarship
program, permanently endowed,
furnishing the difference between
what they can earn and the cost
of schooling for 400 men. These
men are to be chosen on the basis
of grades, leadership, and need,
and will get a chance to receive a
college education, which without,
would be impossible.
It was announced that funds for
the Student Union Building have
been completely allocated for a
sum of $950,000, and only delay
in such matters as labor and ma
terials now stand in the way. The
need for a chapel and the author
ization for the raising of funds
were discussed and agreed upon, it
was said. Also on the future sche
dule of the organization are the
raising of support for research and
graduate fellowships.
North American
Gives $10,000 for
Scholarship Fund
North American Aviation Com
pany of Dallas recently gave
$10,000 to the College for estab
lishment of the North American
Foundation Scholarship Fund. In
terest from this fund will be used
to provide a scholarship for a
graduate student in the school of
engineering to do work in aero
nautical engineering.
If no suitable graduate student
is awarded the funds, they may be
given to an undergraduate stu
dent under the same conditions.
Ag Council Plans
Agriculture Day
Plans for Agriculture Day Ex
hibits and activities were discussed
at the meeting of the Student Ag
ricultural council held on Wednes
day night, December 11.
V. A. Yentzen, council chairman,
was authorized to appoint a com
mittee to coordinate Agriculture
Day Activities with the Engineer
ing Council.