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Robert Shaw Chorale Appears
In Concert Here November 9
By LOUISE JONES Deutsches Requiem,” in which he
conducts the RCA Victor Chorale
America’s number one choral and Symphony Orchestra, with
conductor, Robert Shaw, will give soprano Eleanor Steber and basso
< * a concert here November 9. His James Pease as soloists. *
recorded performance of Bach’s The actual recording of the
B Minor Mass for RCA Victor work climaxed three years of in-
earned the Recorded Music Award tense study and preparation.
" for 1947. Shaw pointed out that his
The Birmingham News-Age- choral group is really a group
Herald acclaimed the conductor
with “greatness” last year. It said
further that the quality is “only
1M yery rarely attained in concert.”
Shaw, t who is tall and husky
looks like a gridiron hero, is re
garded by his singers as the high
priest of choral art. His specialties
are teaching amateurs how to sing
"together and achieving the kind
of artistry that has made eminent
conductors like Toscanini and
Stokowski select him as choral
director for important works.
Distinguished conductors, in
strumentalists, and singers cite his
remarkable thoroughness and
painstaking care for every detail.
An illustration of this is his
Victor recording of Brahms’ “Ein
of solo artists and concertmast-
ers because he has limited it to
profesional singers.
Other Shaw RCA Victor Red
Seal recordings include five vocal
miniatures for female voices and
two children’s albums, “Kanga and
Baby Roo,” and “In Which a
House is Built at Pooh Corner
for Eeyore.”
Ann Hilliard Helps
‘Troubled’ Fish
By BILL COLVILLE
Whenever Freshmen feel like
unloading a few mental burdens,
Mrs. Anna Maze Hilliard, director
of the student center at the an
nex, is always ready to listen.
From girl troubles to “I just
can’t seem to pass Math 101,”
Mrs. Hilliard is always on hand
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Robert Shaw, America’s number one choral conductor, will bring
his famous Chorale here November 9 for a concert on the 1949-50
Town Hall series.
in her office at the student center
to lend a sympathetic ear and a
great deal of good advice.
Born in Rogers, Texas, Mrs.
Hilliard came to the College in
1941 as a secretary in the Place
ment Office, and held that position
until she became director of the
Annex Student Center in 1946, the
first year Freshmen wei’e housed
at the Annex.
Her main duty is working with
the Freshmen in planning all of
the parties, dances, and other dif
ferent forms of recreation that are
held at the annex throughout the
year.
1 She also arranges for rooms for
parents and sweethearts when they
come to visit the Freshmen, and
corsages for the dances.
“The Student Center is open from
7:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.,” says Mrs.
Hilliard, “and has at the disposal
of the Freshmen a piano, juke box,
magazines, pool tables, cards, dom
inoes, or almost anything else along
that line that the Freshmen could
want.”
Mrs. Hilliard has a phonograph
and a good collection of records in
her office, and students may use
these anytime they wish.
“Any games or recreational fa
cilities that the students might
want,” said Mrs. Hilliard, “I al
ways try to get for them.”
So if any Freshmen are beset
with worries, and feel the need of
a little feminine understanding,
Mrs. Anna Hilliard is the person to
When 1949 football practice be
gins, Barlow (Bones) Irvin of Tex
as A&M will be out of gridiron
toggery for the first time in 31
years. Now the Aggies’ athletic
director, Irvin played and coached
high school, college and pro ball
during that long span.
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his
orchestra, and his daughter Marjorie, the
orchestra vocalist, will start the 1949-50 Town Hall series with
a concert in Guion Hall October 21.
60 Years Priesthood
Rev. Gleissner Completes
45 Years of Service Here
By LOUISE JONES
Few Texans have such a record
as that of Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleis
sner, Catholic priest of Bryan and
College Station.
A true Texan, he came here in
pioneer days and passed his 60th
year -of priesthood on July 10 this
year. He has spent 45 years of
that time in Bryan.
During that time Monsiegneur
Gleissner has been father, guide,
and friend to people all over the
state. Coming to Texas in 1889,
he spent 14 years working in Tex
as missions; he has started several
parochial schools; and he has lived
to see his beginning A&M con
gregation of 6 Catholic Aggies in
crease to well over a thousand
people.
The 84 year old Father is a
modest man who speaks with
energy and enthusiasm of his
work.
“I decided to come to the United
States,” he said, “to help priests
in the German-speaking communi
ties.” Born in Bavaria, a section in
southern Germany, the Father
studied in Holland and completed
his education at Niagara Univer
sity in New York when he was 24.
Monsigneur Glissner recalled
that he was the only German
speaking boy among his Irish
classmates. “I certainly learned to
Gen. George Moore Retires
After 40 Years Active Duty
Major General George F. Moore, class of ’08, retired^
during the Summer after 40 years of active service. A na
tive Texan, Moore began his military career as a coast artil
lery officer after graduating from A&M.
Moore, who commanded the Manila Bay defenses against
superior Japanese forces until-F
ordered by higher authority to sur
render Corregidor, was honored on
his retirement at Sixth Army
Headquarters.
Army, Navy, and Air Force of
ficers attended, including surviv
ing prisoners of war from the
Philippine Defense Campaign, who
shared confinement with Moore in
Japanese prison camps.
His long army service ended aft
er a year’s service as deputy com
manding general of the Armed
Forces Headquarters for Unifica
tion of Facilities and Service.
Commandant At A&M
Part of Moore’s service was
spent! at A&M, where he returned
in 1937 as Lt. Colonel and Pro
fessor of Military Science and Tac
tics. He was commandant until he
was transferred to the Philippines
in 1940.
Serving with the coast artillery
end at times with the Ordinance
Department, Moore was stationed
at Fort Monroe, Virginia; Fort
Worden, Washington; Fort Sill,
Oklahoma; Fort Adams, Rhode Is
land; Fort Sam Houston, Texas;
Stockton, California, the War De
partment, and four tours of duty at
Corregidor.
Commanded Manila Defenses
Early in 1941, he became a brig
adier general and assumed com
mand of the harbor defenses of
Manila and Subic Bays, with head
quarters at Corregidor.
Throughout the bitter Philip
pine Defense Campaign, he com
manded these fortifications, and
was entirely responsible for their
air, sea and land defense against
the Japanese attacks from Decem
ber 7, 1941, until May 6, 1942,
when his battered, half-starved
command was ordered by the Com
manding General, U. S. Army
Forces in the Philippines to sur
render Corregidor.
POW For 3 Years
With survivors of his gallant
force, Moore, a major general
since January 9, 1942, was a pris
oner-of-war. He spent three years
and four months at Japanese pris
on camps in the Philippines, For
mosa, Japan, Korea and Man
churia.
When Moore returned to A&M
after his release from Japanese
prison camps, to receive an honor
ary degree from the college,
Bryan and College Station held a
“General Moore Day.” A dormi
tory here bears his name.
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Aggies
Following liberation and tem
porary duty in the United States,
Moore was in turn commanding-
general of the Hawaiian Artillery
Command, of the Army Forces,
Middle Pacific, ‘and of the Philip
pines Ryukyus Command. He re
turned to the mainland last year
to join the Armed Forces unifica
tion organization.
Awarded Citations
For extraordinary heroism at
Corregidor, Moore was awarded
the Distinguished Service Cross.
The citation told of “his great
gallantry by continually visiting
the most exposed elements ctf his
command, giving encouragcJient,
directing operations . . . inspiring
heroic efforts of his command.”
General Moore also received the
Distinguished Service Medal. The
Philippine Commonwealth awarded
Moore its Distinguished Conduct
Star.
During his post-war command
in the Philippines, he was awarded
the republic’s highest decoration,
Commander, Philippine Legion of
Honor, for war service, his post
war acitvities in strengthening
U.S.-Filipino friendship and re-,
building the Philippine anned
forces.
Lancaster to Make
Study of Pastures
R. R. Lancaster, extension pas
ture specialist here will attend a
conference in Woodward, Oklaho
ma at the Great Plains Field Sta
tion that will deal with pasture
problems in that section, according
to G. G. Gibson, director of Texas
Extension Service.'
The conference is the first in
series to be held along with a tour
of the West Texas range country,
says Gibson. Representatives from
the USD A and departments of the
A&M System under the guidance
of the Texas Production and Mar
keting Administration will make
the tour and will participate in the
discussions. They will be studying
the need and opportunity for shrub
control work in that section of the
state.
Vice Chancellor for Agriculture
D. W. Williams, will join Lancas
ter at Woodward and will accom
pany him on the tour of West
Texas.
C. N. Shepardson is Dean of the
School of Agriculture.
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Remarkable to say, the Father
wanted to come to Texas because
of what he had heard about it.
“People told me that if you wanted
to go anywhere in Texas, you had
to take an ax to cut down the
trees and make a road as you
went; they talked of rattlesnakes
as big as trees,” he said.
Ordained in the Galveston
diocese on July 10, 1889, he
found a Texas full of many
things that people hadn’t spoken
of.
Father Gleissner lived for a time
six miles from the nearest post
office and often had to pull his
horse out of mires in wet weather.
He remembered that the trip from
Caldwell to Bryan via horse and
buggy took three hours in good
weather.
“Those were pioneer days, but
happy ones,” he said.
Monsiegneur Gleissner spent
seven and a half years in Tours,
near Waco, where he started a
parochial school which is still in
existence. Stationed at Hearne for
the next seven years, the Father
said that he lived there because it
was a central railroad point for
the missions he visited. His mis
sion territory extended from Mex-
ia south to Waller near Houston.
Moving to Bryan in 1904, he
said, “We thought A&M was a
big school with its 400 enroll
ment, and if anyone had told us
it would be this big today, we
might have been skeptical.”
Father Gleissner organized the
first denominational church on the
campus. Although his congrega
tion consisted of 6 Aggies for
while, it soon grew. Since there
was no chapel, mass was held on
the fourth floor of the Academic
building in the architecture de
partment.
“Having just conducted mass in
Bryan, I often had to run up the
four flights of stairs to be on
time.” The rapid pace began to get
rather tiresome so eventually mass
was changed to the CE building.
“It was about 20 years before
we got our own chapel,” the Fath
er explained. The Knights of Col
umbus financed it.
He added that he thought the
300 person seating capacity of
the new chapel would never be
filled. “Now we don’t have
enough room.”
Particularly vivid in the Fath
er’s memory was the influenza ep
idemic at A&M after the first
World War. Flu was a dred sick
ness then due to lack of medical
knowledge. He remembers the hor
ror with which it struck the col
lege. He said that the “small” boys
usually pulled through, but it was
the “big” boys who often develop
ed pneumonia.
Today Monseigneur Gleissner
speaks with pride of the six Cath
olic churches and parochial schools
in Bryan and College Station.
Five Aggies from his congre
gation are now priests and five
others are in training at La
Porte.
His congregations have become
so big that he has Father Timm
Valenta and Father Edward Mat-
acha to help him.
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