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Rowe Leads Eineigl By One Vote in Race for Class President
65 Men Attend
Initial Biology
Club Meeting
Sixty-five freshmen attend
ed an introductory meeting
of a prospective Annex biol
ogy club Thursday, February
10, announced T. M. Fergu
son, one of the sponsors. Ferguson,
along with Dr. W. J. Dobson, R. B.
Ripma, L. S. Dillon and Dr. John
Merkle, other members of the An
nex Biology Department, are form
ing the club.
At the initial meeting, Ferguson
showed the group a film, “Every
Man’s Empire,” depicting the Unit
ed States National Forests. Other
films selected by the students will
be shown from time to time. Ef
forts are being made to secure a
War Department film of a delicate
heart operation, Ferguson said.
The freshman group is being
organized to benefit those An
nex students who are interested
in furthering their knowledge of
biology by informal activities
out of the classroom. Organiza
tion of the local club will be of
great benefit to the campus
Biology Club when the class
moves to the campus next fall,
Ferguson emphasized.
The original Biology Club of
Texas A&M was organized by Dr.
Charles LaMotte, who saw the
need of uniting such a group to
widen their knowledge by films or
by speakers of the college’s de
partment. This is the first attempt
to organize a branch group of the
club since its beginning under Dr.
LaMotte.
Ferguson said attendance at
the introductory meeting was
satisfying, but that a larger
group is expected at the next
meeting. The first meeting was
held on the same night as a home
basketball game on the campus.
Students representing a majori
ty of the biological courses
taught here were present at the
meeting.
The sponsors stressed that not
only the students now taking or
having taken a biology course may
join, but also that all interested
in the subject are welcome. Pro
grams for the meetings will be
scheduled and arranged at the re
quest of the students entirely, Fer
guson stated.
The next meeting will be held
on Thursday, February 24, at a
■time to be announced in the vari
ous classrooms by the professors.
At this time, officers of the club
will be chosen.
The chance in a life time was realized by Miss Georgia May of Houston when she met Major
General A. D. Bruce. The others in the picture are Bill Mattingly of La Porte on the right and
Miss Mildred Roberts and Philip Stern both of Lufkin.
97 Girls Stay at
Annex-Off Limits
Ninety-seven dates for the fresh
men were housed at the Annex last
weekend, Mrs. Ann Hilliard, stu
dent center directress and hostess
has announced. The girls were
guests for the Military Ball and
were housed in barracks of the
hospital area.
In addition, more than 30 girls
were housed at private homes in
Bryan and College Station by Mrs.
Hilliard.
Units Take Draft
Exemption Tests
Freshman units at the annex
took ROTC deferment tests last
week, February 7, 8, and 9. The
First Battalion took the test Tues
day, the Second Battalion took the
test Wednesday ,and the Third
Squadron Thursday. Each year the
tests are given to freshman stti-
dents. They are used by the Mili
tary Science department in con
nection with deferments.
Sports at Little Aggieland
Flights 9 and 12 Win First
Speedball Games of Year
By FRANK MANITZAS
Flight 12 and Flight 9, both of
league “A,” won the first speed-
ball games to be played at Little
Aggieland this year.
Flight 12 defeated Company 3,
13-9, and Company 2 whitewashed
Company 7 21-6 in the highest
scoring speedball game to be play
ed at the Annex. Company 2 seems
to have one of the strongest speed-
ball teams at the Annex this year.
Company 8 forfeited to Company
4 rounding out the speedball
games scheduled for last week.
The other intramural sport sup
posedly going on at the Annex is
team table tennis. In the two
matches that had been scheduled
both were forfeited.
Company 8 and Flight 11 caus
ed a double forfeit when neither
team appeared for the match. The
popping up
over
People have been wanting more and more
telephone service and we’ve been working hard
to provide it. We’ve added nearly 9,000,000 new
telephones in the past three years. Still more
are needed and are on the way.
But that’s not all that we’ve been doing
to increase the usefulness and value of the
telephone.
Telephone service has been extended to auto
mobiles, trucks, boats, trains and airplanes...
real progress has been made in expanding and
improving rural telephone facilities . . . wire
and radio relay networks have been developed
and enlarged ... research has started on new
electronic devices which promise to bring even
wider horizons of electrical communications
within view.
All this means better telephone service for
you . . . more people you can reach easily and
quickly... more time in your day... a larger
world in your grasp.
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Veterans forfeited to Flight 12,
also. Those forfeits hurt a team’s
record and should be avoided. All
the table tennis matches are be
ing held in the rear of the public
address building.
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ANNEX SPORTS SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 17
Speedball — Company 7 versus
Company 8, league “B.” Company
2 versus Company 5, league “A.”
Team table tennis—Company 1
versus Flight 10, league “A.”
Flight 11 versus Flight 12, league
“B.” Company 3 versus Company
6, league “B.”
Friday, February 18
Speedball — Company 2 versus
Flight 12, league “B.” Flight 11
versus Company 8, league “B.”
Team table tennis — Flight 12
versus Company 5, league “B.”
Veterans versus Company 6,
league “B.” Flight 9 versus Com
pany 4, league “A.”
Tuesday, February 22
Speedball — Company 1 versus
Veterans, league “A.” Flight 12
Versus Flight 9, league “A.”
Team table tennis—Company 6
versus Company 5, league “B.”
Flight 11 versus Company 3, league
“B.” Flight 10 versus Company
2, league “A.” Company 4 ver
sus Company 7, league “A.”
Wednesday, February 23
Speedball.— Company 8 versus
Flight 10, league “B.” Company
6 versus Flight 9, league “A.”
Team table tennis — Veterans
versus Company 3, league “B.”
Company 7 versus Company 2,
league “A.” Company 1 versus
Company 4, league “A.”
K of C Council
Slated for A&M
Knights of Columbus Council
has now commenced at A&M, L. F.
Dominguez, treasurer of the An
nex Newman Club announced.
Transfers from former members
are accepted and new members are
being asked for.
Before the iniation program gets
underway, all recruits must under
go a physical examination and
purchase insurance. Initiations will
be an all day affair commencing
the morning of February 20. This
occasion will be climaxed by a
banquet honoring the Knights of
Columbus just inaugurated.
Haydon Jenkins Defeats Pettit for Veterans Vice President
Ralph W. Rowe led Raymond J. Eineigl by one vote The next three leaders in the 10 man presidential field
in the race for Freshman class president in the first complete were Bob Linceum, Lewis Jobe and R. M. Davis. These five
returns for the election held Monday afternoon. These were will enter a run off to select the class head official,
the results of the first unofficial tabulations made by the Haydon Jenkins defeated his opponent, Bobby Pettit,
Dean of Men’s office at the Annex at noon Wednesday. for the veteran’s vice presidency without a run off. The
balloting in this election was 300
Grady Hardin Main Speaker
At Annex Religious Services
Given Names
Give Trouble
In Company 8
* _ Religious Emphasis Week has been the highlight of all
activity at the Annex since its beginning Sunday. Reverend
Grady Hardin, associate pastor of the First Methodist
Church of Houston, has been conducting morning services
which follow an outline of faith in the Christian job.
♦' The first of his series was de
livered Sunday evening in the An
nex chapel, where all services are
being held, and was entitled “Job
Even way out here at the Bryan
Field Annex, coincidences occur.
Company 8 is now boasting mem
bers blessed with the cognomens
of Williams, Taylor, and Melcher.
Usually one would associate
these names with Captain H. R.
Williams, tactical officer of the
Third Squadron, Captain C. M.
Taylor of the Second Battalion,
and Lt. Col. Robert L. Melcher,
Annex commandant.
These names, however, belong
to freshmen who are striving to
reach the military heights of their
namesakes. Before the end of the
last semester, a freshman named
Greer was also enrolled at the
Annex. Oddly enough, he was an
acting major in the freshman reg
imental set-up, suggesting a simi
larity to Major H. B. Greer, head
of the Annex Military Science De
partment.
Speaking of names, one fresh
man here has the surname of Ab
bott, which in itself is no accom^
plishment, but he is associated
with Dr. J. P. Abbott, dean of
college at the Annex, which sheds
new light upon the name. Ironi
cally enough, he is one of the first-
stringers on the local “Dean’s
team.” Coincidences are the darn-
dest things.
ERC Holds First
Annex Meeting
The first meeting of newly en
listed members of the Enlisted Re
serve Corps was held February 9,
in Military Science Building T-365.
Major O. D. Butler, commander of
the 352nd Armored Field Artil
lery Battalion, and several of his
staff personnel were present.
Freshmen reservists will meet the
first and third Wednesday of each
month at 6:30 in T-365.
The initial training period con
sisted of a movie about the Ar
ticles of War and a further dis
cussion of the Articles by Major
F. W. Hensel. Capt. R. N. Craig,
S-3, submitted a training schedule
for the Annex which includes lec
tures on elementary gunnery, or
ganization of the Armored F. A.
Battalion, the 105 mm. gun squad,
interior guard duty, Battalion com
munications net, and organization
al data.
Officers in charge of these
training periods will be Major H.
D. Mayfield, Jr., Major Joe R. Bar
ron, and Major O. D. Butler.
“These are not closed meetings,”
Major Butler said, “and any one
interested in the Enlisted Reserve
Corps amy come to them and ob
serve the activities of the ERC.”
Wood Promoted to Major By
General H. Miller Ainsworth
By G. F. “Fig” NEWTON
Major W. B. Wood, assistant G-2
of the 36th Infantry Division, re
ceived his promotion Saturday,
February 12, from Major General
H. Miller Ainsworth, commander
of the 36th division. The highest
position he had held before this
was that of captain in the regular
army. Maj. Wood is tactical offi
cer of the Annex’s First Battalion.
In 1938, Major Wood joined the
National Guard. When his division,
one of the first to become a part
of the Army, was mobilized on No
vember 30, 1940, he became a ser
geant and remained in this posi
tion until June, 1942, when he
Lindsay Speaks To
Chemical Engineer
Students taking petroleum, ge
ological, and chemical engineering
met last week in the Chemistry
Building at the Annex for their
regular AICHE meeting. Tempor
ary officers of the freshman group
were chosen, said C. H. Ransdell,
head of the Annex Department of
Engineering Drawing.
Dr. J. D. Lindsay, head of the
Department of Chemical Engineer
ing for the college, met with the
group and spoke. Several senior
engineering students accompanied
Dr. Lindsay.
No decision for future meetings
was announced. The program for
the meeting was featured by tech
nicolor movies of “Refining Oil”
and “Finding of Oil.”
FRESHMEN
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
Page 3
FRESHMAN STAFF
Editor — Dean Reed
Managing Editor — L. O. Tiedt
Feature Editor — G. F. “Fig” Newton
Sports Editor — Frank N. Manitzas
Assistant Sports Editor - Jim Locaste
News Editor A. C. Margoitta
Chief Photographer Hank Col<
Military Editor — - John TapleJ
Club Editor H. M. Corl
Feature Writers W. W. Aldridge, Joe Creighton, Zane Martin, Fred Stanley
Staff Reporters.... R. A. Moreland, E. W. Neuvar, David Rice, Bill
Thompson, Alfred Thorpe.
The Freshman Page, newspaper of the Texas A. & M. Annex freshmen, is published
each Thursday as an inside page of the BATTALION, and is sponsored by.Saa
Southwell, faculty advisor.
News contributions may be made at the Freshman BATTALION office in thi
Student Center at the Annex.
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graduated from Officers’ Candi
date School at Fort Benning, Geor
gia. After a year’s tour at Fort
McClellan, Alabama, he went back
to Fort Benning, where he took
Officer’s Advanced Class.
After graduating from OAC,
he reported to the 84th Infan
try division at Camp Claiborne,
Louisiana, in October, 1943. In
the 84th, one of the first divi
sions to meet the Russians along
the Elbe River, he served as a
platoon leader and battalion in
telligence officer.
When, in December, 1944, the
84th division went overseas, Major
Wood served as battalion intelli
gence officer for about two weeks,
and then was made rifle Company
Commander of Company “C,”
335th Infantry, which he command
ed until May 9, 1945.
At the end of the war, he went
to the American University in
England for three months. He was
discharged in December, 1945.
His awards are the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, American De
fense Ribbons, ETO ribbon with
three battle stars. Major Wood
has also been decorated by the
Russian government.
Last September, Major Wood
heard of the position at A&M and,
since he liked to work with young
men, applied to Lt. Colonel Joe
Davis for the position.
Born in Waco in 1921, he is
married, has one 14-months-old
boy and lives at Bryan Field Vil
lage.
Major Wood hopes to make a
career of his work here. “In the
summer of 1950,” he says, “I
hope to have my Master’s De
gree in Personnel Management.
Perhaps I can then help to solve
problems better.”
Says the major, “Naturally,
when a man goes to college, he
has so much to take up his time
that he will have several problems
to bother him. If anyone has any
particular problem, come to me
and I will try to help.”
When asked how he liked his
work here, Major Wood replied,
“It’s the most interesting work I
have ever done in my life.”
Newmans to Hold
Dance February 26
The Newman Club has planned
a dance February 26 in the Knights
of Columbus Hall in Bryan, ac
cording to J. Q. Walker, chairman
of the Annex Newman Club.
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Hunting.” The subject for morn
ing sermons during the week are
as follows:
“Education for Work,” Monday
“On the Job,” Tuesday,
“Doing the Dirty Work,” Wed
nesday
“The Pay Check,” Thursday
“When Day Is Done,” Friday.
C. G. “Spike” White, of the
Student Activities department,
is directing singing for the An
nex meetings, while Jimmy Rol
lins, cadet of Company 2, is or
ganist. Roy LeTourneau, chap
lain of the freshman regiment,
assists with the music.
Presidents of the various Annex
religious clubs have been in charge
of the morning services each day.
Monday, Bill Dalston, president of
the YMCA cabinet of the Annex,
was in charge of the service. Presi
dent of Canterbury Club served
Tuesday, while J. Q. Walker, pres
ident of the Annex Newman Club,
presided Wednesday. David How
ard from the Baptist Student
Union Council, conducted the meet
ing Thursday morning. David Rice
from the Aggie Christian Fellow
ship will be in charge Friday.
to 197.
In the election for vice presi
dent of the Annex corp members
Harold Chandler led the first bal
lot with 228 votes. Cecil Leather-
wood was second with 134. The
next 3 in order were: Jim Far
rell, 74; Tex Avrett, 54; and J. M.
Schaefer, 53. David Yeager receiv
ed 243 votes to W. L. Anderson’s
196. B. E. Nicholson was third
with 61.
From the seven men running
for Class secretary, Eugene
Fatheree emerged with the lead,
carrying 243 ballots. Henderson
Murray was second with 128.
Paul Law received 121 for third
position. Lee Cain and J. W.
Dalston, complete the run off
field getting 102 and 90 votes
respectively.
Ted Stevens led the field for
treasurer with 197 votes on the
first ballot. J. G. Walker was run-
nerup with 108 votes. Woody
Thornton received 101 votes for
the third place spot. The two other
men in the run off will be Joe
Ishey, 81 votes, and Tom Magness,
76 votes.
A. C. Burkhalter received 357
votes for Social Secretary over
C. L. Ray with 236. Joe Creigh
ton was third with 192.
In the most uncertain see-saw
race of the day Erie Carlson stayed
ahead of his opponent for Parlia
mentarian, G. J. Grupe. At the
final count Carlson had 292 votes.
Grupe had 240. A. C. Margoitta
had 149.
For Sergeant at Arms, Robert
Bynes led with 172 votes in his
favor while Arlen Reese follow
ed with 149. Third was Rex Mad
dox with 136. Fourth place was
held by Jimmy Rollins with 130
votes, and fifth place was taken
by John Peeler with 124 votes.
Tentative plans announced by
officials in Luke Harrison’s office
(See ELECTIONS, Page 4)
COMING TO THE PALACE
Texas’ Hero, AUDIE MURPHY, who was honor guest at
A&M’s Military Ball Saturday night will be seen in the new movie
“BAD BOY” which will be prevued at the Palace Theater in Bryan
Saturday night at 11 p.m. In the movie, Murphy is seen as a
wild youngster who reforms and comes to A&M to school.
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