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Issue For Twenty
a ting Staff Members
Ponthieux Is
ireetor
iummer
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The nierrontlon Council of Col*
ego flwtlon ban announcod the
Appointment of Nlcklo Ponthieux
\n new reorentlonal (Director of
his nren fop the summer monthi
>f June, July and Aufuht
Ponthieux In nn Inetruetor In t|o
kAM Phyalcrvl Educhtlwn Depart r
nent and ha* Avorked lit the AAki
Annex this yenr Instrucllng fresh*
rnnn classes in tumbllnijr and con*
lltlonlnr.^
orgtinlze nntj
nd direct a
nn
ff, and tennis at the
olldnted hifh school. A cop;
program of softhntl, tumbling, box4
and tennis at the MM Con*
program A
direction ot
the exact epfiedule, when com.
twill be placed in the hands of al
srhool children before school lit
dismissed next week
Tho swimming [
‘ i bo under the
Adamsota. 7 A&M !S\A-imming
according to Mrs. Fred Halo
wimming chairman.
Diving instruction willl bo given
»y Emil Mamaliga, A&M diA'ing
poach.
Two junior baseball teams a^UI
be organized and coachied by Les
Richardson, Consolidated High
School principal. Boys from 11 to
14 will be eligible for member-i
ship and games with Bryan Junior
teams will be scheduled,, Ponthieux
paid.
the ser-
!ho Batta-
jjmp Harvey
toi?s, bow out.
J»j(^r from Al-
Arts
and Sciences Achievement Award.
Cherry was a mechanical engineer
ing major from Houston.
Editors Tom Carter and Kenneth
Bond retire with this issue. Carter,
geology major from Beaumont, Avas
a Lt. Colonel on the corps staff.
chitects to Visit
w* of Lady Astor
Lcrd dayoi
fo wn -ded
for, Hjende
Hinoiabe SY scov
Ml
M'i?
|n Sh
he Aar e plap^tud^
The studen
home of
a\'I ichl isj 1|
Moadlr sai
rhqfee st<t<
ar:hi<fects ^
city plannih;
here
Pat in}?
Hor-iwu
rgc
lym
vas
will
Adt
ted
#nts
AO 1|
will
f fii^t |apd f l]at i:
iafge
, (; '|i„
ildmjli students
iyf|tl}tii Depart*
received
dy Astor
don upon
jiljol city of
tfF. Meador,
ojj|trlp said
iitod, that.
iSgroup of
tutor who
Diwllfthom his
I ohf of Eng*
|st| influential
Itt
Students
untry of
ill be re-
son, who
bp
rw J W npd cn
tjt',: replanning a
r the ruins
city. Right
^jAs or is the
buib &nd has
jlty direc-
iri|} compre-
Ltbe new city.
Jk tne coimtry
i “CleA'endon,”
Sir S Plymouth,
»f i
group of
rested^ in
hie to see
ilone Avith
M pities to
U
Mt
ie
»ltesl
jsted
of Big
fij*yiipyize in a
*■ sponsored
lajige Store
itjeJclijurfc Depart-
ieijna« s
class ^com
a new intafior
a
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ntharj
mDinl
prt«t
Hit R. Hol-
801
ign for
iflthb contest.
1 %yn»
nd .nrlM of
np-the third
ilh frijf Ihe ten
’iclnsu re*
got all advantages of the contem
porary philosophies in what tho
ideal city should offer It* citizens,
Meador said. U | ,
Students making/ the trip arc
Richard I. Alterman, Han Antonio;
William A. Bllslng, Galveston;
Jack T. Crook, Corpus Christ!;
Henry H. Davis, an wc-Agglo fron)
Shreveport, La.; A. K.. lloAvard,
San Antonio; Kmmltt Ingram. Ft.
Worth! Mnrmod Jaccard, Jr., Ilous*
ton; Donald E. Jands, Ft. Worth;
Ruitsell I,. Lown. Han Antonio;
Tom B. Llvesay, Beaumont; Ira P.
Montgomery, Baytown; Gerald Sel-
Unger, San Antonio; Clayton B.
Shivers, Amarillo; James K. Good-
rum, Houston; Eugene J. Hugg-
hins, Bryan; and Dr. T. 0. Schind
ler, Galveston.
Turkey Short
Course June 6
Arrangements for the. turkey
short course, which will be held on
the campus from June 6 to June
11, have been completed according
to E. D. Parnell, chairman of the
committee.
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Sponsored by the Poultry De
partment, the short course will be
attended by approximately thirty
persons.
Registration will be held in the
Poultry Department Office, Agri
cultural Building, from 8 to 10 a.m.
June 6. It will be handled by Poul
try Department personnel, and the
registration fee will be ?5 per per
son, Parnell said.
Rooms may be seem ed in college
comodations during registration
and they will be provided In Dormi-
Bond, tho "grand old man of the
Batt staff,” is a journalism major.
Bond AAill be graduated next Jan*
Uar &ack Spoede, icon Nomer,
Scotty Swinney, and Andy Ma*
tala drop from the ranks of
sportswrlters.
Spoede, sports co-editor, was a
history major and is from Beau
mont, Spoedo has been a disting
uished student and has served ns
na announcer for "News of Aggie*
land.”
Romer, on economics major
from Bernard, was nn announcer
for "News of Aggleland." Mutula
is an English major from Houston.
Carrol Trail, Chuck Mnisel, Bud
dy Luce, and Henry Michalak
leave the feature staff. Trail, from
Korney, was a nhyslcs major, and
formerly served as Halt feature
editor.
Malsel. biology student from
Borger, has been n member of the
Bntt feature staff, student senator,
and Commentator staff member
this year. Luce, business major
from T|lden, has been featured In
his oAvn program on W'TAW this
year. Michalak, from Marlin, was
n business major,
Roily Kolbye and Louis Mor
gan leave their jobs as staff re*
porters. Kolbye, from Houston,
was an accounting major. Mor*
gan, former associate editor and
Batt co-editor last summer, is a
rural sociology major from Kin-
nard. $
Leaving the circulation staff
arc Carl Thrift, Dunvood Erwin,
Bob O'Hara, and Jake Diddle.
Thrift, who was circulation mana
ger, was a business major from
Houston. »
f Alfred Johnston, history major
<from Mexia, leaA’es his post as re
ligious editor.
j Richard Sandidge business major
from Shreveport, has snapped his
shutter as batt staff photo-
apher.
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Over 1,200Seniors
Diplomas At Com
PH:
‘Great Issues’ Is
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Rated By Students
Randolph Churchill will be rated
the speaker most enjoyed by
a Great Issues Class this semen*
Spring Semester, 19419, will
Officially over Friday, Juno 3, tho!
Registrar’s Office said today, af
ter the last conflict finajl has been
taken. Grades Avill be posted in
most courses Friday, n»d by the!
time summer school begins, all
the grades will bo entered In tho
files at tho Registrar’s Office.
Finals will begin Saturday and
continue through Thursday, with
Friday being "conflict day" for
those who took too many coursesi
with the Milne letter : after the
«(oction number.
Registration for the first slim
mer session will be hold Monday,
June A, for those students who did
hot register May 13. The first ses
sion will begin Tuesday, Juno 7,
at 7 o. m.b and will end July 1(1,
Registration (or the second term
hill begin Monday, ’July 18, and
( lasses will atari Tuesday mom*k
ling. Tho Second scsslor will bo
over Saturday, August 37.
Todny’it paper is the last for
this semeston The Battalion avIU
Yibllshed three dnyn n week
be pu
during the summer months, start
ing Wednesday, June 8.
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Square Dance in
Grove Saturday
The Promenadcrs and the "Ag
gie Squares” will have an old
fashion square dance on the Slab
Saturday night at 8, Bob Lyle,
publicity director for the groups,
said today.
Dr. Carl Lyman, and Mrs. Asa
Hildebrand will be the callers for
tjhe evening. Music will be pro
vided by the juke box, Lyle said.
All of the summer Friday-night
dances will be built around these
groups. Non-Members interested
ip square dancing are invited, Lyle
said.
tho Groat Issues Class this semes
ter, according to Dr. S. R. Gammon
after a check of about one-half of
tho questionnaire* filled out by tho
class members. Dr. Elsenhower and
James O’Brien are running a close
race for the next most enjoyed,
but there has been no indication nn
to who Avill Avin last place.
An overwhelming approval of
the Great Issues course is also in
dicated, ns well as the desirability
of having the course offered again.
Nearly tvt/ry questionnaire exam
ined indicated that tea speakers
were not too many In number for
the program and that the topics
discussed have led to considerable
out of class discussion.
One of the most interesting re
actions, according to Dr. Gammon,
was the question "Do you think
the course of study in each of the
several schools should be revised
so that Great Issues would be re
quired of all seniors here (as is
the case at Dartmouth) with ho
increase in present total of hours
necessary for' graduation?” On
this, the vote was two to one in
fa\'or of such a change. The vote
on Whether tho course should be
changed from a two-hour to a
three hour course was about two
to one against the change.
Summer Forest
Tour Outlined
Everett F. Evans, school spec
ialist for the Texas Forest Service,
will bo consultant in forestry and
resource use education this sum
mer for 34 college summer work
shops.
Thcrto workshops are In coopera
tion with the Htste Deportment of
Education, Evans said, and they
Include similar instruction in soils,
wildlife, water and minerals, and
health and safety.
’ Tho principal feature of the
workshqpn is Instruction In meth
ods and materials for teaching con
servation within tho Texas schools.
Rcmiost* for consultants In the
various subjects off instruction
have steadily grown since 19*1(1,
ho continued. Tills will bo Evan's
fourth summer to serve ns forestry
consultant In these summer work*
shopfl. : ' • /
The colleges which Evnnn avIU
Arisit are Southern Methodist at
Dallas, East Texas State Teachers'
College at Commerce; the Univer
sity of Houston, Texas College of
Arts and Industries at Kingsville,
Southwest Texas State College at
San Marcos, Stephen F. Austin
State Teachers’ College at Nacog
doches, Sam Houston State Teach
More than
CotnmMicPlnon
A&M will b*gln
Saturday, Juni
Included
prwcntntion o
IT
Suggestions for changing the
course Indicates a desire to avoid
two-hour night meeting, on aver
sion to required parallel reading,
n preference for quizzes on essen
tials touched by visiting rpenkers
ovwr qulzzea on the Sunday New
York Times, and a preference for
a closer check on absences from
public meetings of the class. Other
preferences expressed were: more
time for discussion In class on artl-
cles In the New York* Times; one
or more debate sc*'•ions by visit
ing speakers; and an objection to
A’lsitors who read their speeches.
Spence Accepts
Bids for NeW 5
Science Hall I
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Sealed proposals for the con
struction of the Science Building
will be received by T. EL Spence,
manager of physical plants of the
A&M System, beginning next Tues
day, J. H. Getz, assistant to the
A&M System architect, announced
today. ^
The new building Arill liato
floor area of approximately 5(1,
square feet. The proposals will
received in Room 33 qf the: Ad
ministration Building, Getz said.
Proposals will bo roe rived until 2
p. m. on Tuesday, Juno 28. At that
Umo all the proposals will be pub
licly opened and read.
Beparato bids will bo/re.celved
for general construction, plumbing,
heating, electrical work and the
freight elevator, Gets continued.
jrprY'r r/rr £««^*"«f
talnoa at tho office of the A&M * .
i!
System architect In Room 238 of
tho Administration Building.
A deposit of $80 will bo required
>r either (funeral construction or
lechanlcal plans or a deposit of
50 to cover both. All deposit* will
for eltl
mechanical . , , ,
$50 to cover both. All deposit* wll
be refunded upon the retturn of the
plans, Get* concluded
Phone Officials! :
City Council Meet
Officials of the SauthAvovtem
States Telephone Company will
meet with the College Station City
Council and interested citizens at
3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, June
2 in tho city hall.: :
This meeting Was arranged in
response to action by the College
Station Development Association
, _ „ A _ , _ and city council asking the tcle-
v at Duntsnlle. Sul Rosa phone company to show cause why
State Teachers’ College at Alpine, • f t }ia8 failed ' to n vo up ^ terni3
A&M, Southwestern at George- 0 f j ta contract. Tho company is
town, Praine \ lew A&M, Texas now operating under a frunch^
College at Tyler, Bishop College
at Marshall, and Paul Quinn Col-
m
William P. Rymc
of the claxs of ’
William Paiuo
gordn is the vo)
1940 graduating c
lege at Waco.
Evans plans to work with these
years to run. The franchise bind.:
the company to "furnish services
to its subscribers and to maintain
summer workshops from June 61 their plant and equipment in good
through July 9. 'condition.”
ipling, Poe and Potts — Poets All. •
accomodations during registration
and they will be provided In Dormi-
tory^lfi. A charge of $1 per night
per person will be made AVith the
r
4 hu
I'Dli'll
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d»|>m
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mill (
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ialS
0 Cl«i ll
lo
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mm:
contemp
ts, (Jar!
tho An*
fU*r the
n moved
inter and
found
on*
ffS
• one of
>f any of
Hall.
Room k
tho
cludod,
oy deposit! Iwill bo made
at the Aggislsnd Inn, Parnell con*
B Jnfantry Hoh
Barbecue June 3
R Infantry plans a bnrbocuo for
Friday night, Juno 8, as a final
farewsll to tho graduating seniors.
Freshmen from Brytn Field that
plan to be in the outfit and old
mombtrs are invited, according to
J. C. Roberto B Company publicity
man. h
♦ • , II - » . t
grsduattng
who
«rbo-
. B Corneany^hss^reo grsdm
Charles! and B. C. Nichols,
will bo spodal snoots st the bi
due, Roberts added.
Poet Laureate Of Campus Named!
After Dis-spirited Contest Ends |
Of poe 1
Avould bo soiled with a mi
ly a last lino whllch would
By FRANK CUSHING - | (alien staff to ignite tho creative
.. . . ^ J | desire" within those who obeorvod
Tho Battalion which has prided tho pictures. Beneath each picture
itself during the past two semes* was a carefully Avritten but incom*
tars on faaturing the moat point- plots poem. The idea was that by
less and least interesting contest* psoinf the cartoons
oyer designed by a warred nrdnd tho linsi ‘
(i.«. So You Know A&M 7, Tall
Teles) is overjoyed to announce it
has reached the ultimate of such
contests. Further, The Batt would
like to state that this contest- The
Poetry Contest—has succeeded In
securing the most npathetlo read
er-reaction ever recorded to an
accredited, competitive event of
this nature. . /
In short the recent efforts by
the Battalion to locato tho Poet
Lauerate of A&M have ended
The
with a terrific pl^P* Tho oipet-
ted hotly-contested batUo elm*
mered down to something quite
tho contrary.
For thoee readers who failed to
notice tho cartoodi run on tho edi
torial page for the put few weeks
—and there evidentally was a lane
number who did—they were de
signed by the members of the Bat-
oonti and reading
(try—each student
with a mad desire
mch
K
ms were skillfully con
y Marvin Rice who hai,
tho position of poetry editor
iso of his ability and qualifi
es. (He can rhyme all sorto
e mx'ms were skillfully
meted by Marvin. Klee who has
(old
tecauao
Atona.
things
like moon
i tilths, when he's
daily ; gifted
e poems and
>o.)
Unf<
and Junet
fooling es*
r ho mages throe
use the w^nrd spoon
austbo
herald
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itoly a slight snafu
whan no ono acooptod
W
tted
‘ versos ai
kh little
ir coming.
However, despite the lack of
contestants or rsthsr beeasse of
thorn, an individual hu bson a-
warded tho tiUo of Tho Poet
lauroato of A&M. By dint of
Potts
from Denison who le majoi
chemical engineering,
Along with tho title of Poet Lau
reate, Pott* will receive the first
My nnil
contest by th! Memorial Center's
foetioneriw
and the Cave.
coni
lrutmtrs*ui
warg to |
os— Campus Comer
lor tbs
' in
Su^
The prolific if
writer who appeared under the
pen umo of PoeUcus Leuitleuf*.
devoted the majority of his
poems to slandering the Bette*
Uon and Its editorial'
BIMMRMM
burned Poetleua'a Pootn&<
Single contributions in tho con-
toot were made by 11. jC. [Wlson,
who lives in Bryan, David A. T
ders, Jacksonvine, and Hilton
tie, CoUege Htetlon. Lytle’s p
was the best of all those
However, quality alotu*
win this contest,
With the awarding of tho
tic domlooe»r-whlch should
te
te
T
tolpoems.made 1 up to&ffiubimy
toy locked In meter.
I what they locked In
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t activities for
yw, bowtvsr, m«rs _
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A geology mnjc
grndo point radio
tho Housion (loo
annual nwnrd of
membership in the
elation of Potroleili
May P. Rymon; re<
for delivering n ||
asNOclatlqn entitlq
of the Cplcltoi /
Rock of tho Gul
Rymon ontei
tembor. 1042 am,,
3rd Hq. Batt
tillrry. In .IhnUd
‘ the AAF ahq
rotor and was
First Lieutenant.
He returned to
ruary 1040, and!
continuously exec
mer session In lot
ing, he has sewik
Blatant laboratory
as a laboratory in
Rymnn is a mo:
ology Club, thei S<
Society, and Tau
25 years old, mant
Bryan.
X 1 t 1
Ryman plans to
next fall to work
degree in geology.
Melvin R.
veterinary s
rillo, was c
standing Vi
for the yeay
cording to Fran
son, president
veterinary clgssi
The award was
at a meeting of tl
day night. A
j*wards# will
brsry of tho 8
Modidno.
Tho committee \1
Ilham was com^
iors, ono nwmte
lower classes, andt
bars, Ho was or o n
natod by the set
which the seloet on
!*al||ham hoi wo
Husbandry
itemy Doporti
ss
100
aftr of tho
nariau la Ifl
the open h(
chairman of
9
ons Will Be
atembly Hall
IfrAduAlotl from A&M &t
mmencomont nctlvltirrt Al
,|atjd will oontlnuw through
la over. •
ojRa<^alaifrt*nto .Sermons,
in i, President's Recaption,
ilmirncemeht Exercises, Flft-
al, and Final Review,
mlnurcatc srrmonS will bn
Mm n two plnce* Friday at 19.
nd Joseph ConclaniJ of tho
Mt Prcxbytcrlon Church In D*n-
n av 11 Rponk in. Guion Hall io
' ring, A'ctcrlnary JneUU'la*-
nnd candidate* for ad^
n^dlidcgrcc*. 1 ■' ' ] T ^- ' ■ ,
RftVflrpttd Albert P. Shlrkey of
PhuP* Methodist Church In
i will npcak in the Assem-
l;for agricultural nnd artA
«* graduate*. According
Stroet, chairman of the
cement Committee, two
rentes will bo given this
so of the largo gradual-
w .Y: Y
rve Commissions
o| commissions ivill bo pro-
ndvancod ROTC students
Major General I^WI! A.
i hiof of Engineers, U. 8.
d' Major General Glenn O.
commanding general of
Air Force^wlll speak
utsontation.
erjt and Mr*. F. C. Bolton
f h<fM ! Upon House from 2:80
Friday afternoon for
graduntioRd tbeir relative* nnd
fglcqtK fthd for faculty and staff
bets. I . ■ |
ement exemsos will bo
* Field at 8 p. m. Prasl-
Iggins of Texas Tcch-
1 College ini Lubbock will
th! address, iDr. Wiggins
hi* bnchelor'k degrer from
went to Vor-
p '
irhmpn*
h iBchool
i there
s principal
r made super!
Wl
f 'CO |
principal and
cut to Ca-
rbnch, and
tendent at
Where bn
ohjlHRI
oioklc !
ellvcrji!
«* VC(
ar In
on l HI
T-
I Years of Hervlce
In* went to Yale,
) hiii master's degree. Ho
who resolved his Ph.D. from Yaln
emfs Inter. Appointed 4e!n
(-Hltnmons, no served un-\
cut to the El Posh Kchool \
ih4* nls president in i IMS, Ho
nn Honorary LLD from
fnrdihfllmmon* in 1943, and ml
4 hli present appointment at.
in 1948. Dr. Wiggins
terf In Who's Who in'Amerion.
Atfent Fi C. Bolton will dvn
Inj (ind the program wllfb#* •
Avi(ih Urn processional. Music •.
he i processional will he fum-
h ' the Aggie Band,
rootioh for the'exorfise* will
Itxln by the Rev. Jnmeo M.
of the A&M Christian ’
Benediction avIU be gteen '
c Rev. James E. Fowler, of
i! A&M Church of Christ,
\ j Ryman Is Valedlotornin
D(an M. T. Harrington will pre- S
ntf th« valedictorian, William I*, f
yman I of Matagorda. President
oltjm k ill confer tho degrees, and
R, White, president of the Board .
Ij ireftorii, will preHent the di-j
n aa.!,!T!h(f band will play for t}»e
riKa sioM. .> 11 . • a
Friday night tho Finai Ball will
t ) cld. in Th* Grove, Music vrill
|}f imiBhed by the Aggieland Or-
Chcstrai An All-College Dance, it
W>U be£
ftitiW--, •*, —
al Reviewiof the Corps wilj bo
d onTthe Main Drill .Field,] b«-
nningi at 9:30. At the review,
a ting [seniors wilt turn bv«r ..
illations to the juniors
mmaud them next fall,
be the official end of the
for the spring semester
I
his Avi
Htic
titteo Members
| 1^! Committee
t everyoae come
Btoy throughout; the
lent Services aa a cour-
ote^. Member* of
oft Col. 11. L. Boot
I L, Heaton, 8. A. Lynch,
Stlnn, and Bob Murray. W.
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