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Batt Will Resume
June 10
PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A & M COLLEGE
VOLUME 46
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1947
Number 75
Commencement Will Be Friday at Kyle Field
What We’ve Been Doing Since April
Dr. Alexander to Deliver
Baccalaureate Message
Seven hundred and twenty-four gradua
ting seniors, an overwhelming majority of
them veterans of World War II, will receive
their diplomas from A. & M. Friday in Kyle
Field Stadium. Ceremonies are scheduled to
begin at 6:15 p.m.
Edward S. Boyles, Houston attorney,
will deliver the commencement address. Dr.
W. H. Alexander, Oklahoma City pastor, will
ALLEN SELF, corps editor of The Battalion, testified before
the legislative investigating committee when it met on the cam
pus, in the YMCA, last week.
Seated around the table, left to right, are Reps. ED HUGHES,
CLAUD GILMER, SEARCY BRACEWELL; L. K. Dickson, spec
ial investigator; Sens. FRED HARRIS, chairman, GEORGE MOF
FETT, and DORSEY HARDEMAN. The stenographer is taking
a complete transcription of all the testimony.
Committee Plans Facilities
For Coming Student Center
Hope that the long awaited Me
morial Student Center or Union
Building can.be started next spring
has been expressed by members of
the Student Center committee.
Composed of members of the col
lege staff, ex-students and stu
dents, the committee has been meet
ing almost weekly during the past
several months.
Set up by President Gilchrist
over a year ago, the committee
makes recommendations in con
nection with the construction, op
eration, organization and finan
cing of the Student Center and its
program. In a few weeks the
committee expects to submit spe
cific recommendations for the em
ployment of a director of the Stu
dent Center, and in connection with
other phases of the Building and
its program.
Members of the committee in
clude H. C. Dillingham, E. E. de
partment; J. J. Woolket, Modern
Language department; E. N.
Holmgreen, college business man
ager; Dean of Men J. W. Rollins;
E. L. Angell; and Carleton W. Ad
ams, A.&M. System architect, from
the college staff. Ex-student mem
bers of the committee are W. R.
Carmichael, Bryan; Sid Loveless,
College Station; and E. E. Mc-
Quillen, Ex-Students Association
secretary. Student representatives
on the group are Pat Y. Spillman,
Sam Williams, Elmo Livingston,
Robert Leatherwood and Powell
Scheumach. The last three were
recently added to the committee.
Although final plans and designs
of the building have not been com
pleted, it is certain that the follow
ing facilities will be included; bil
liards; bowling; lounges; student
organization meeting rooms; guest
accommodations; dining rooms;
record room; music room; craft
rooms; exhibit room; medium
sized ballroom; a large, informal
lounge and social recreation room
possibly best described by its pre
liminary name, “Aggie Bar”.
Also under consideration is the
inclusion of a first class picture
show. Recommendations in con
nection with these and any other
items is the responsibilty of the
committee, which will continue its
work during the summer.
Community Chest
Expenditures Over
$8,000 For Year
Expenditures of over $8,000 have
been made this year from the A.
& M. College Community Chest,
according to a statement made to
day by Dr. Ralph W. Steen, com
munity chest chairman. The re
port showed disbursements as fol
lows:
Texas City relief, $1,000; Amer
ican Red Cross, $1,800; World Stu
dent Service fund, $500; Mother’s
Club, Consolidated School, $400;
Tubercular fund, $300; Boy Scouts,
$1,331; Girl Scouts, $900; China
relief, $400; Bryan YMCA, $400;
USO, $400; Salvation Army, $240;
March of Dimes, $50; Jewish Re
lief, $100; County hospitalization,
$75; local charity, $25; contingent
fund, $98.72.
Contributions during the 1946-
47 period have amounted to $9,064
Students Go
ToNewRooms
By 5, May 31
Men who intend to go to
summer school must pay fees,
secure new assignments, and
be moved into their new rooms
before 5 p.m., Saturday, May 31,
William G. Breazeale, acting as
sistant dean of men, has stated.
This is necessary since there are
several short courses beginning
Sunday, June 1 and the dormitor
ies must be vacated by that time.
Those students who desire to re
main on the campus between the
terms may do so by paying a $2
room rent fee, plus $1 key deposit
in the Fiscal Office, and sign up
for their rooms in Room 100, Good
win Hall before 5 p.m., Saturday,
May 31. Students who desire may
trade their present key for their
key to the room to which they will
be assigned. All dormitories will
be closed except Bizzell, which will
be used for those students staying
over between semesters. In order
to protect student property, all
dormitories will be closed and lock
ed at 5 p.m., Saturday, May 31.
Meals for the men who stay over
between the present semester and
the first summer term may be ob
tained at the Aggieland Inn during
the period June 1-7, inclusive.
Students who desire to turn their
room key. must present their key
and the yellow receipt showing
their key deposit, to Room 100,
Commencement Speaker
Edward S. Boyles
07, Dr. Steen reported. Expendi- ... ,
tures totalled $8,019.72. The un- Goodwin Hall during office hours,
expended balance now on hand in- The dormitories that are to be
eluding $2,439.33 from last year used this summer will be unlocked
amounts to $3,483.68. at 9 a.m., June 7.
Corpus Christi Club
Elects, Plans Party
Thursday night Joe Mueller was
elected president of the Corpus
Christi Club for the 1947-48 school
year. Tom Wise and Forrest Parks
were elected vice-president and
secretary, respectively.
It was decided at the meeting
that a dinner-dance would be held
at the Country Club at 8 p.m., on
June 4. Price will be $2.50 per
plate, and girls will come formal.
All Aggies and former students
in that vicinity wishing to attend
should notify Ed Andrew, Tom
Wise, or Joe Mueller at their homes
before Tuesday noon, June 3, for
reservations.
Juniors Nominate 3 for Cadet Colonel;
Publication Editors Elected for NextfYear
give the baccalaureate address at 10 a.m.
Friday morning in Guion Hall.
The valedictory address will be delivered
by Thomas D. Tankersley, Jr., of Bertram, an
agricultural education major, who was elect
ed from the top ten seniors of the graduating
class.
Dr. Fred R. Jones, chairman of the com
mencement committee has announced that
~Hhe Aggie Band will be present to
play the processional and reces
sional music for the ceremonies.
Final Ball, traditionally* prior
to the review, will be held as
previously announced Thursday,
May 29, in Sbisa Hall. Admis
sion will be free. Bill Turner’s
Aggieland Orchestra will provide
the music for dancing.
Final review is slated for Friday
afternoon at 4 p. m.
Native Texas
Attorney To
AddressGrads
Edward S. Boyles, Houston
attorney, will deliver the
commencement address to the
graduating class of 1947 on
the night of May 30.
Mr. Boyles, general counsel of
the A. & M. Research Foundation,
is general counsel for the First
National Bank of Houston, which
he has represented for the last 35
years.
Born April 18, 1889, Mr. Boyles
attended Houston public schools,
and graduated from the University
of Texas in 1911 with the degree
of Ll. B.
Throughout World War II, he
was chairman of the Harris
County-Houston U.S.O. Council.
A leader in community affairs in
Houston, Mr. Boyles is a member
of the board of directors of several
Harris County service organiza
tions and is an elder in the First
Presbyterian Church of Houston.
He is the chairman of the Com
mittee on Real Estate, Probate
and Trust Law of the State Bar
of Texas, with a commission to re
draft and present to the Legisla
ture a revision of the Probate Sta
tutes of Texas.
1947 Longhorn to Be Issued in Fall;
To Include All Spring Activities
The 1947 LONGHORN will be>~
distributed during September reg
istration, it has been announced by
Harry Saunders, veteran editor.
May and summer graduating se
niors are urged to come by the
Student Activities Office and leave
mailing addresses so that copies
can be sent after books have been
published.
The same size as the 1943 book,
the 1947 LONGHORN will be the
first in the history of the school
to include the activities of a com
plete school year. Carrying the
general theme of A YEAR AT A.
& M., the annual will feature Div
ision pages covering the year,
month by month and including the
Picture of the Month and pictures
of outstanding events and higlu
lights of each month.
Similarly the Aggieland section
will be arranged in chronological
order to completely picture a year
on the campus. This section will
close the book with pictures of the
Ring Dance, Final Ball, Final Re
view, and commencement Exer
cises.
A special feature of the Admin
istration section of the book will
be a preview of advanced pictor
ial plans of buildings for the future
A.&M. taken from the office of
Carleton W. Adams, A.&M. System
Architect. Sketches have been
made by Brooks Martin ’40 and
Wallie Scott ’43 especially for this
section.
Sports will be covered complete
ly to include the Championship
Track Squad and all spring intra
mural winners.
Sanders, Dieckert
Given Scholarship
Aid in Bio-Science
B. G. Sanders and Julius Dieck
ert were awarded Julia Ball Lee
Scholarships this week according to
R. Henderson Shuffler, director of
the A.&M. Development Fund.
A payment of $50 dollars a
month was given Sanders, a mar
ried veteran with two children and
Dieckert was allowed $35 dollars
per month under the award es
tablished to aid outstanding biolog
ical science students. These pay
ments will continue as long as the
students are enrolled in school and
meet the requirements of the schol
arships.
This award was begun at the re-
See AWARDS, Page 4
Yates, Hard
Named Protem
VS A Officers
Frank Yates a,nd E. D.
Hord have been named tem
porary officers of the Veter
ans Students Association to
initiate activities at the begin
ning of the summer semester
and to act as an election com
mittee. Yates was named
president protem and Hord secre
tary protem at a meeting of the
associations board of representa
tives held this week at Pete Slaugh
ter’s Fin Feather Club.
Candidates for summer offi
cers of the VSA must file by
noon Thursday, June 12, at the
Student Activities Office, the
committee has announced.
The hoard asked that some
change be made in the use of Ex
change Store profits assigned to
Physical Education department.
Though not objecting to expendi
tures so far made from the fund,
the board liked a suggestion made
by one member, to the effect that
athletic officers of veteran dorm
itories have an account on which
they could draw such supplies as
footballs, baseballs, and bats. No
formal action was taken on the
suggestion.
Guests of the board included
the retiring VSA officers, also
Taylor Wilkins, veterans advisor;
W. G. Breazeale and Bob Murray,
office of student affairs. Also,
John Laufenberg, president of in
dependent Annex Veterans Club.
Reports were made by the mess
hall and hospital committees, and
“gripes” given by students to rep
resentatives were passed to the
committeemen.
‘ Clyde Patterson, Norman Luker, and Jimmy Tittle are*f
the three nominees of the Junior Class for next year’s cadet
colonel. The class of ’49 at a meeting Thursday evening se
lected these three names to be forwarded to Col. Guy S. Meloy
Jr. fpr further consideration, together with recommenda
tions by other officials and groups.
Patterson, a Veterinary Medicine student, is from Mem
phis, Tennessee, and a member of Troop C, Cavalry. Luker
is in Company A, Infantry and>
hails from Wichita Falls. He is
taking Mechanical Engineering.
Tittle is an architect student in
Battery C, Field Artillery, and is
from Abilene.
★
Athletic Council Representative
Ray Holbrook will be the Cadet
Corps representative on the Ath
letic Council next year. The Junior
Class elected Holbrook at their
meeting Thursday night.
He is a member of the Field
Artillery Band from Goose Creek.
He is a Chemical Engineering stu
dent and a track man.
★
Robert B. Letz will edit the 1947-
48 AGRICULTURIST. He was
elected by the Agricultural Coun
cil Wednesday night.
★
Junior Yell Leaders
Junior yell leaders for next year
are Jimmy Stephens, Petroleum
and Geology student from Houston,
and Tommy Splitgerber, business
major from Mason. Stephens was
elected by an overwhelming major
ity vote of the Sophomore Class
at a meeting Wednesday night.
Second place was a tie between
Splitgerber and George Edwards,
president of the Sophomore Class.
Splitgerber was high man at the
run-off held Thursday night.
★
Battalion Editors
J. K. B. Nelson of Bryah and
Charlie Murray of Eagle Pass will
be co-editors of the BATTALION
next year. Both were unopposed
in the election. Nelson, a member
of Company F, Infantry and the
Class of ’49, is taking Petroleum
and Mechanical Engineering. Mur
ray, Class of ’46, is an English ma
jor and a brother of former Bat
talion editor, Bill Murray, ’40.
★
Engineer Editors
Henry J. Gilchrist and J. M. Hud
dleston were elected co-editors of
the ENGINEER earlier this se
mester by the Student Engineers
Council. Gene Doggett was also
elected business manager of the
ENGINEER at that time.
Gilchrist from College Station
is a civil engineer, and this past
year has been serving as a junior
editor. Huddleston is from
Shreveport, La., and is taking ar
chitecture. Another civil engineer
ing student is Doggett, of Hamil
ton.
★
Longhorn Editors
Bobby Lee Williamson and
Henry T. “Tommy” John will be
co-editors of the LONGHORN next
year. Williamson of Zephyr, Tex
as defeated Henry A. Pate of San
Antonio in a Junior Class election
held Thursday night. A member
of the Class of ’49, Williamson is
studying Agricultural Education
and is in Company F. Infantry.
John was unopposed in the elec
tion for veteran editor of the
LONGHORN. He is from San An
tonio and is a member of the Class
of ’48, now studying Mechanical
Engineering. In the service, he
was with the Marine Corps.
Vet Yell Leader
Cecil Harrison defeated George
B. Marlette and Jack Willoughby
in a light election yesterday. Har
rison, a Business and Accounting
veteran, hails from Harlingen. For
merly a member of Battery F,
Field Artillery, he served with the
armored infantry in the service.
Summer elections of six veteran
officers will take place during the
early part of the summer terms.
Filings must be made in the Stu
dent Activities Office before noon,
Thursday, June 12.
EXAM CHANGE
The final examination in Math
ematics 104 was originally sche
duled for Sbisa Hall at < 1 p.m.
Thursday, May 29. It has be
come necessary for the place of
this examination to be changed
to the East Wing of Duncan Hall
with no change in the hour of
the examination.
Winners of Krueger, Banta Awards
Receive Financial Aid in Last Year
Billy M. Vaughn
Loren Stiles and Billy M.
Vaughn were announced this week
as winners of the Krueger and Al
bert Banta Scholarship Awards re
spectively. Stiles, a Civil Engi
neering student from Celina re
ceived $500 and Vaughn of Temple
an Accounting student, was given
$300, to be used as financial aid
during their Senior years.
These two scholarships, estab
lished by Walter and C. C. Krue
ger of San Antonio and Albert
Banta of Shreveport, Louisiana, to
Loren Stiles
be given outstanding Juniors, are
based on scholarships, character,
and need. The scholarships are pre
sented to the choices of the Schol
arship Committee of the College
headed by Dean F. C. Bolton.
Stiles first entered school in the
summer of 1942, had his training
interrupted in 1943 when he en
tered the army, after which he re
turned to school in 1946. Distin
guishing every semester of his col
lege career, Stiles has maintained a
See KRUEGER, Page 4