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FresHman Ball To Be Held
Saturday Night In Sbisa Hall
Five Appointed This Weekend
As Judges For
By 1. 0. TIEDT
Plans for the Freshman Ball, to be held Saturday night
in Sbisa Hall, are nearing completion, Ralph Rowe, fresh
man class president, announced yesterday.
The Aggieland Orchestra will play for the ball, Rowe
said. Invitations to special guests have been sent. Among
these guests are Governor and>
Mrs. Beauford Jester, Lt. Gov. and
Mrs. Allen Shivers, the presidents
and vice presidents of all South
west Conference schools and of
‘ TSCW, the A&M board of Regents
and hoard of Control, the school
officials, the president and vice-
president of the “Exes,” the Corps
^Staff, officers of the Senior class,
officers of the Junior class, com
manding officers of each unit on
the campus, and the entire staff
and faculty of the Annex.
The program committee, head
ed by C. L. Ray, has made plans
for the nights’ entertainment.
The program will begin with the
introduction of the visiting dig
nitaries, followed by the intro
duction of the Freshman class
presidents and vice presidents of
•visiting schools.
A highlight of the ball will be
the selection of the annual Fresh
man Sweetheart of Texas A&M.
The six finalists will appear be
fore a judging panel during the
ball, when one of these girls will
be chosen class sweetheart. Fresh
man class president Rowe will
present the winner with an engrav
ed compact from the Aggie fresh
men.
Skits and other entertainment
by freshmen have been planned,
Ray said, and will be presented
during the intermission around
10:30.
As customary in the college
•.regulations, the dance will be
ended by midnight. All freshmen
are required to be in their bar
racks by 1:00 a.m., announced
Lt. Col. Robert L. Melcher, com-
rtnandant at the Annex.
Senior dates, Ross Volunteers
with dates, and the campus fresh
men may receive their tickets for
the Freshman Ball at the Student
Activities office in Goodwin hall,
the ticket committee said .
PG Hall Opens
For Fish Dates
‘Sweethearts’
The chairmen of the vari
ous dance committees, in a
meeting Tuesday night, ap
pointed a committee to select
the Freshman Class Sweet
heart.
Those selected to serve as
judges on the committee are Lt.
Col. Robert L. Melcher, comman
dant of the Annex, Major W. B.
Wood, tactical officer of the first
battalion at the Annex, Dr. J. P.
Abbott, dean of college for the
Annex, Dr. W. J. Dobson, head
of the Annex biology department,
and T. E. McAfee, agronomy pro
fessor at the Annex.
This group will select the Fresh-
man Sweetheart from a collection
of six girls at the Freshman Ball
Saturday night. Before this, how
ever, they will have to select these
six girls from all the contestants
entered by photographs only. Each
student entering a girl in the con
test must submit a portrait of the
entrant, plus a full-length picture
or snapshot. From these, the
judges will select the six finalists.
Tessies Perform
In Annex Program
Forty-five members of the
TSCW Modern Choir, sang in the
Annex Student Center. at 5 p.m.
Saturday before a small but ap
preciative crowd of freshman Ag
gies.
- The. group, directed by Dr. Wil
liam E. Jones, gave a concert in
the Student Center, then traveled
to the campus for a Guion
Hall show at 8 p.m .
Among the selections rendered
by the vocalists were “Hymn to
the Night,” “Jealousy,” “Begin the
Beguine,” and “The Donkey Sere
nade,” along with several others.
A string trio apneared with the
choir, playing “Serenade,” and
“Russian Dance.”
Among the soloists for the group
was Alice Millikin of Burkburnett,
who also served as Mistress of
Ceremonies.
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Pre-Vet Students
Must Apply Soon
For Admission
Students currently enrolled, who
expect to qualify as applicants for
admission into the School of Vete
rinary Medicine in September 1949,
should file their applications now,
the registrar’s office at the Annex
announced today.
Entrance requirements are set
forth in a leaflet, a copy of which
can be obtained in the Registrar’s
Office. It is expected that the en
tire quota will be filled with stu
dents who are residents of Texas.
For those students enrolled on
the main campus, application forms
may be obtained at the information
desk in the Registrar’s Office.
These forms must be properly fill
ed out and returned to the Regis
trar’s Ofifce not later than noon
April 1.
Students enrolled at the Annex
may obtain application forms from
the Registrar’s Office at the An
nex Administration Building. These
forms should be properly filled
out and returned by April 1.
Tickets for AH,
Dairy Students
Now on Sale
Tickets for the Cattlemen’s Ball,
to be held at the campus on March
19, will be on sale in the office of
Luke Harrison, Annex dean of
men, in the Annex administration
building, from March 14-19.
Tickets will be two dollars each,
stag or drag. Only advanced sales
for tickets will be held, with no
tickets being sold at the door.
Only animal husbandry and dai
ry husbandry students may pur
chase tickets for the annual Cat
tlemen’s Ball.
Get The Khakis
Out Of Storage!
The Freshman Regiment at the
Annex will start wearing the sum
mer khaki uniform about April 1,
according to Lt. Col. Robert L.
Melcher, commandant at the An
nex.
_ “This date could vary two weeks
either way, however, depending up
on the weather,” he said.
Post Graduate Hall on the
campus will be open for hous
ing girls visiting this week
end, according to a memoran
dum issued by Bennie A. Zinn,
assistant director of Student
Affairs.
In compliance with the request
housing, the hall will be open Sat
urday night, the night of the
Freshman Ball.
Students having guests staying
in the hall will be assessed a
charge of $1 per night for each
guest. Refunds cannot be made,
Zinn said.
Guests will be admitted to their
rooms at 1 p.m. Saturday, and
rooms must b evacated by 11:30
a.m. Sunday. Luggage will be re
moved from rooms, and the dormi
tory will be locked promptly at
that time. The college cannot be
responsible for the personal prop
erty of any guest or student, Zinn
said.
Room assignments may be made
at Room 100, Goodwin Hall now.
In compliance with College
regulations, guests staying in
the dorm must be in not later
than 1 a.m. Saturday night.
Guest must check in with the
matron upon their return to the
dormitory after the dance.
When reservations have been
made for the guests, they will not
be permitted to check out until
departure for their homes. This
will be done with the matron. Es
corts will be held strictly account
able for compliance with these in
structions, Zinn stressed.
At the Annex, Mrs. Ann Hilliard,
student center hostess, said that
she has made arrangements for
over 100 dates to be housed this
weekend.
Of this number, many have
been secured rooms in Bryan or
College Station, while many oth
ers will be housed at the Annex
or in Post Graduate Hall at the
campus.
The same regulations will apply
as usual for guests housed at the
Annex, Mrs. Hilliard said.
THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES of the Freshman Ball are shown planning the activities of
the various committees. Committeemen are, in the usual order, Russell Smith, L. O. Tiedt, James
Arnold, class president Ralph Rowe, William E. Sears, R. D. Hinton, and George Grupe.
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LeTourneau New Commander
Of Annex Fish Regiment
Roy S. LeTourneau, mechanical engineering student^
from Longview and former freshman regimental chaplain,
is now the freshman regimental Commander, according to
the general order issued by the commandant’s office at the
Annex this week. Executive officer under the new order is
Raymond J. Eineigl, another me--f
chanical engineer from Taylor.
Voris R. Burch, business student
from Liberty, has been named
freshman commanding officer of
the Annex’s first battalion. R. T.
Nicosia of Houston is the execu
tive officer.
Harold T. Chandler, an engi
neering student from Dallas, is
the new Corps vice president of
the Freshman Class.
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Two Fish Named
To Naval Academy
Two A&M Annex cadets have
received appointments to the Unit
ed State Naval Academy at An
napolis during the past week.
They are H. B. Mellina, an en
gineering major from Galveston,
and Victor B. Russek, a pre-med
student from East Bernard.
Both students are from the same
congressional districts and re
ceived their appointments through
Congressman Clark W. Thompson,
member of the House of Represen
tatives from Texas.
The students were among a
group of mn who took the com
petitive examination at the A&M
campus on January 17.
In the second battalion, John
W. Coolidge, of Dallas, has been
appointed commanding officer.
His executive officer is a busi
ness and accounting student, al
so from Dallas, Edgar D. Miller.
Eric Carlson, economics major
from Elgin, is the new commanding
officer of the squadron. W. B. Ken-
nard of Gonzales is the executive i
for the air force cadets.
Following is a list of the new
company commanders as desig
nated by the new general order:
Co. 1, J. W. Rogers
Co. 2, Jack Helton
Co. 3, K. B. Anderson
Co. 4, E. W. Dancer
Co. 5, J. A. Enloe
Co. 6, H. M. Newtsrom
Co. 7, Alfred Nichols
Co. 8, C. R. Williams
Flight 9, B. R. Bain
Flight 10, L. S. Goats
Flight 11, W. E. Campbell
Flight 12, S. J. Hillis.
A complete list of all officers
and non-coms will be posted on the
three battalion bulletin boards
soon, Col. Melcher said.
Around the Annex
Sun-bathers Appear at Annex;
‘Lazy’ Sports Gain Interest
By DEAN REED
Spring is still several weeks away, but a mild form of
its usual disease has already descended on the Annex. Eve
rywhere you look, people are shedding the heavy winter
clothing and getting outside again. Highlighting the symp
toms of spring are the numerous freshmen, thinly clad, lying
on mattresses atop their respec
tive barracks, striving to capture
some solar rays with which to
darken the pigmentation of the
skin, they say. Some seem to have
overdone it, though, and have noth
ing more than a common sunburn!
Horse-shoes are said to be for
good luck, but its not luck when
one seems to be chasing you. So
run the thoughts of those fresh-
ment, not too interested in the
sports of horseshoes and washers,
when they happen to encounter
one of the games’ properties in
mid-air. These two forms of ath
letic amusement seem to devour
most of the free time here these
past days.
Putting one little word after
another, and have you noticed all
that dirt being spread around the
mess-hall? Rumors that Oscar
Plant and his culinary staff are
contemplating the planting of a
“Victory” garden have been mak
ing the usual rounds. Really, fel
lows, we have it by a very autho
ritative grape-vine that its only
for re-sodding purposes. Anyway,
what kind of victory would they
be celebrating?
The new phone booth in the
Student Center (the placement of
which now brings the S.C. total
to TWO) is doing a gigantic bus
iness. It really eases the long
distance line situation.
Besides the sports mentioned
above, baseball and softball fever
seems to have hit the Annex, too.
All possible fields are being util
ized and prospects look good for
an outtsanding interest in this
game.
Speaking of sports, several of
the Annex officers have been
seen lately manicuring the grass
with a lawnmower away down
by the gate. On a closer exami
nation, these men were cutting
their green for a one-hole golf
course built there.
Biology Club Will
Meet Here Tonight
The Annex Biology Club will
meet tonight in the Biology Lec
ture Room, T. M. Ferguson, one
of the club’s faculty sponsors, an
nounced this week.
Time for the meeting will be an
nounced in the classrooms.
Tonight’s meeting will he chief
ly for organizational purposes,
Ferguson said.
FRESHMAN STAFF
Editor Dean Reed
Managing Editor L. O. Tiedt
Feature Editor. G. F. “Fig” Newton
Sports Writers Jim LoCaste, Charles Sebesta
Military Editor John Tapley
Photographer Hank Cole
Staff Writers R. A. Moreland, E. W. Neuvar, David Rice, Phillip Stern,
Bill Thompson, Alfred Thorpe
Feature Writers Weldon Aldridge, Willie Davis, Robert Bynes,
Zane Martin, Joe Martinez
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 tla
Student Center at the Annex.
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Last Yell-Practice
Held by Freshmen
The last yell-practice of the
Class of ’52 as freshmen was held
at the Annex last Thursday.
Only three of the original five
yell-leaders elected remain in
school, and they led the group at
that time. They were Lewis Jobe,
Jim Farrell, and Arlen Reese.
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Flight 12 Places
First in Review
Winners of the regimental re
view held Monday at retreat have
been announced by the Comman
dant’s office and the Military
Science Department.
First place was taken by Flight
12, with an 89.43 percentage; sec
ond was Company 2, 88.88 percen
tage; third, Company 8, 88.37 per
centage; and fourth, Flight 11,
88.31 percentage.
Company 2’s showing boosted
them into the lead in the years’
regimental standings, which have
been altered twice lately, once aft
er the corps parade and now after
the regular Monday review.
Flight 11 maintained second
place while Company 1 fell to third
in the regimental standings. Com
pany 8 was fourth.
THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1949 Page 3
Sports at Little Aggieland
Freshman Cinder Team to Face
Allen Academy Men Saturday
By CHARLES SEBESTA
J. R. Hill, P.E. instructor at the Annex, has organized
an Annex track team for all men interested in this sport.
Hill says that the purpose uf the team is to give the men
competition so, when they + ry out for track on the campus
next year, they will not have been idle.
The team meets each Monday,-f
Wednesday and Friday in the
gym. Prospects o nthe team in
clude: E. W. Dancer, A. G. Stell,
A. M. Owens, J. Q. Walker, A1
Thrope, H. J. Keibler, W. R. Lamp-
kin, Tom Pantazis, J. L. Howells,
Ed Avery, B. A. Kunsiek, J. T.
Brandt, Bill Lockridge, Preston
Lockridge, Vernon Evans, A. A.
Mendieta, C. Anderson, A. H. Willi
ford, T. W. Pepper, N. W. Naugle,
Cullen Dansby, and R. T. Nicosia.
The Annex freshman track team
kick off their season Saturday,
March 12, against the thinly-clads
of Allen Academy at the Bryan
Cadets Take R0TC
Description Tests
In Practice Period
Freshman cadets at the Annex
took the ROTC self-description
test on Tuesday and Thursday aft
ernoons during the Military Sci
ence practical work period.
The tests are given to arrive at a
general estimation of the student’s
value to the ROTC and will be
compared with the rating report
of Annex staff members.
All cadets here were required to
take the test, which lasted approx
imately two hours. This test will
he machine-graded, said members
of the Military Science Depart
ment, and will have to he sent back
to Washington for this grading.
The test was received from the
Washington headquarters for
ROTC training.
This test is being given at a
number of military colleges at this
time, it was announced at the ex
amination.
school’s track.
Company 2 and Flight 9 met
Tuesday night for the League
“A” pingpong championship, while
Flight 12 and Company 8 met for
the League “B” championship. Re
sults of these matches were not
known at presstime, but will be
printed next week.
An open pingpong tournament
is scheduled for the Annex, also.
The tourney will conisst of sin
gles matches and the champion
will receive a medal. Deadline
for entries is March 11.
An open tennis tourney is also
scheduled, and medals will be pre
sented again. Singles and doubles
matches will be played.
Intramural volleyball will start
March 16 and continue through
April 5. The best two-out-of-three
game series will decide each in
tramural win.
Boxing starts April 5 and all
entries must weigh in by March
28 through April 1. This process
will take place from 4 to 6 p.m.
in the gym. Eight divisions are
scheduled for boxing—119 lbs.
and under, 129 lbs. and under,
139 lbs. and under, 149 lbs. and
under, 159 Ib.s and under, 169
and under, and 179 and under,
and the heavyweight division.
Horseshoes and softball are slat
ed to begin around April 15.
★
N. A. Ponthieux, of the Annef
P.E. department and intramural
sponsor, has come to the defense
of the intramural referees in stat
ing “These recent gripes against
intramural officials are unwar
ranted. The officials have had ex
perience in refereeing games and
call the games as they should be
called. If we have better referees
to take their place, I would like
to have them join our staff. We
would he glad to have them.”
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