Page 3, THE BATTALION, Thurs., Nov. 9
A Young Grad Returned to Instruct
These were members of the A&M Chemistry Department when
M. T. Harrington began his career as an instructor here. Harring
ton is third from the right in the rear row. Others in the back row
still associated with the college are (left to right) Dr. George Bauer,
now deceased but whose wife is ring clerk at the Registrar^ Office;
(third from left) Dr. H. C. Tidwell, now on the faculty of the SMU
Medical School; E. L. Harter, currently teaching in the Chemistry
Department; Harrington; R. E. Snuggs, also still teaching in that
department; and F. F. Bishop, presently teaching in the Chemical
Engineering Department. On the middle row B. C. Jones and L. A.
Koenig (third and fourth from the right) are both retired and living
in Bryan. C. C. Hedges, head of the department at the time and still
an instructor there; H. R. Brayton, currently director of the Indus
trial Extension Service’s Fireman’s Training School; M. K. Thorn
ton, now connected with the Ag Extension Service; and C. W. Burch-
ard, still a member of the department, are on the front row in left
to right order.
New President is Civic Leader, Too...
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have been lifelong members of the
Baptist Church and have been ac
tive in church work. For the past
several years he has taught a class
of young married men in the Bap
tist Sunday School, while Mrs.
Harrington has taught a class
made up largely of the wives of
his pupils.
The new executive is also a
member of several professional so
cieties including the American
Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, hon
orary research society and Phi
Lambda Epsilon, honor society for
chemists and chemical engineers, new head of the nation’s largest
One of Dr. Harrington’s inter- technical college is from neither
ests is the desire to travel, which ^ ie School of Agriculture nor the
resulted in his organizing and School of Engineering. He has
conducting Summer Tours to throughout his teaching career
Western Europe. The first trip been a member of the School of
was for adventure—those after it Arts and Sciences,
have been for pleasure. The edu- This fact is significant in view
cational value of these trips is of the current trend toward pro-
one of his treasures. viding all graduates, professional
He enjoys music, especially the an< ^ otherwise, with the liberal
classics. And occasionally he visits background necessary to most ef-
Dallas and Houston to hear the factive citizenship,
symphonies. Probably no words can better
Though he followed professional describe Dr. Harrington than those
lines in his own education, the of T. D. Brooks, Dean Emeritus
of Arts and Sciences at A&M,
when he said, “Dr. Harrington is
an unusually genial and friendly
person who has demonstrated his
ability to think directly on any
subject confronting him, and who
has been rated as one of the best
class room lecturers and teachers
on the campus.”
Now, as he steers the college
into a new era, he enjoys the con
fidence of students, former stu
dents and citizens of the state.
The lad whom Success awaited did
not leave her waiting long.