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By C. C. MUNDOE
The Republic of France will' be
represented at the Corps review
and the Military Ball this weekend^
' John Taylor, chairnnan of the truest
. j. committee said this morning.
Brigadier General :de ; la Boisoe,
military attache with the French
Embassy in Washington, has ac
cepted an invitation to visit A&
,jptyer the weekend.
A~-graduate of the French War
illege,, General de laEoisse served
‘^Both his home country and in
Vt Africa during the Second
orld. War.
The general was born in Paris
and attended the French Military
Academy of St. Cye from which
he was graduated us a, second
lieutenant dn 1920.
_ At the outbreak of the recent
World War, General de lu Boisse
was, serving as u captain bn the
G-!l section of the French General
Staff. Isa ter, he served with the
ilMth Colonial Artillery Battalion
and the general headquarters.
When hostilities in France
’’ Were over. General de la Boisse
was transferred to North Africa.
There he served with the 22nd
Algerian Kifle Regiment and
qn- the general staff of the Le
vant troops.
He assumed command of the 7th
Morrqccan Rifle Regiment in
1948, having been promoted to the
rank J of major. Later he waa as
signed to the staff of the inspec
tor general ofi the French army.
It was while serving with the
inspector general that he wrote a
history of the First French Army.
; The French officer became a
-BWutenant colonel in March, 1944
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i: .Col. Abbott, commander of the
J ‘ "Texas Military District, will be
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one of the honor guests on the
campus this weekend.
Wfentworth to Talk
To Saddle-Sirloin
Colonel R. N. Wentworth, di-
I rector of Armours’ Livestock Bu
reau in Chicago, will speak in the
Chemlltry Lecture Room Thurs
day evening) at 7:!I0. according
to Douglas Wytha, president of
thu Saddle and Hlriotn Club, spon
sors of the talk, J
The subject of his talk will be
nie economics of the livestock
and meat Industry/Wentworth is
the author of a number of scien
tific papers and books 1 on animal
breeding, livestock history and ag
ricultural economics.
He received his B. S. degree in
animal husbandry and his M. S.
Degree in genetics and economlcii
front Iowa State College. He has
been an instructor and. professor
at several colleges and was as
sociate editor of the Breeder’s
. Grazette for one, year. He served
op the Bureaip of Agricultural
Research and Economics for Ar
mour and Company from 1919
to 1922. c /
Arts & Sciences
Hold Spring Meet
The regular spring meeting of
the faculty of the School or Arts
and Sciences Will be held Tuesday,
March 21, 1960, at 7:30 p. m., in
the Physics lecture room, accord^
ing to Dr. J. P. Abbott, Dean of
School of Arts and Sciences.
R. Henderson Shuffler, director
of information iand publications,
will begin the program with a talk
on “The Development of the Schol
arships Program at A&M.” This
will oe followed by “Opportunity
Awards’^ "A Review of the First
Four Years" by E. JET McQuillen,
director of the development fund.
Recognition will be given the
graduating ! senior Opportunity
Award Winners, Joe Hill Mullins,
Physics Major, Carrizo Springs;
Vernon R. Porter, Business. Ma
jor, Italy; and John Lee Taylor,
Business Major, Rotan.
After a response by Joe Hill
Mullins, the program will be con
cluded with a -report of the Facul
ty’s Special Committee by Chair
man Fred W. Jensen.
Brig;. Gen. de la Boisse
Gen. de la Boise, military at
tache at the French Embassy in
Washington, will fly to A&M
with Gen. W. D. Old for the
Miiitay Ball weekend activities.
Aggie Players
To Test Round
Stage ‘Form’
George \Dillavou’s Agg|ie
Players will try their Thespic
hands at Experimental Thea
tre this Monday and Tuesday
evenings, March 20 and 21
in iho- north dining room of
Sbisa Hall.
The three one-act plays to be
presented will feature “theatre in
Hie round" style in tvhich.the t u-
dience forms a circle around a
comparatively bare space tl at
serves as the stage. Greater in
timacy is thus provided betw<en
cast and audience.
Houston’s Alley Theatre and Dal
las’ Theatre ’60 have found the use
of this circular type of theatre
highly successful, and have gained
nationwide acclaim as a resu t.
Dillavou’s three selections tor
the “experiment" are “Aria Da
Capo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay,
“One of Those Things" by Geqjrge
Kelley, and an . Arthur Jeante
dramatization of Louisa Mae |AI-
cott’s “Little Women." - f
To appear In the Millay dine-
acter are Lindy James, Mary RIlea-
imr Vaden, “Rip” Horn,. Chlick
Benshelter, and John Richardson.
"One of Those Things’’ will star
C. G. Milne, Phyllis Arhus, John
Laufenherg, Surah Puddly, and
Jeanne Ostner.
And the; "Little Women” dust
will be composed of "big" men—
Eddie Abranamson, J. H. Davis,
Rolsnd Gauntt, Norton McDuffie,
Jim McMahon, George Willnian,
Chuck Benshetler, and David
Mitchell. -—Gollob— ' ,
itation
and infSept., 1946 he was promoted
to full? colonel.
At Ahe time of his promotion
to colonel, de la Boisse became
military attache to the French
Embassy in Washington. Four
years? Jater he received promo
tion (o his present rank of brig
adier’ general.
e la Boisse has been
award$dithe French legion of Hon
or, degree of officer.
The ^attache will join Gen. W. D.
Old in his plane when the party
of Washington guests flies to
A&M for the weekend
G^nera^ de la Boisse will be
honored at the corps review when
the Aggie Band plays the French
National Anthem.
Aggie Debaters
Meet Pointers
Here Saturday
The West Point debate
team of Cadets William Wat
son Rnd John & shopper will
participate in a debate in the
YMCA Chapel Saturday af
ternoon at 2 against the Aggie
/team ii of James Famer and Dan
Davis^ Harry, Hier ;h, co-sponsor
of thO A&M discussjon and Debate
Club ^announced.
Annually, the
Military Academy
Ignited States
t ends a debate
team jjjinto the Sout iwest to ; meet
team! from this rtej ion. Last year
the™West Point debaters were de
feitfell by A&M.
Th|s year’s team jof Watson and
ihogpejr will come to A&M after
Saturday morning in
against a' team from the
Univirsity of Texas. The West
Pointers will. debat»' the negative
side io the national debate subject
being| used "here Saturday after-
noonT “Resolved: That the United
States should natio lalize its basic
-agricultural industries.*’-*
haries Kirkham has been
an alternate debater to the
A&M team of Farmer and Davis
by Hierth. Farmer is reported “a
bit uir.der the weather” with a cold,
Hierth said.
Joe Fuller, president of the
A&M Discussion and Debate Club
will ket as chairman to the debate.
Allett Watson is the only dne of
three judges who has been an
nounced. Watson i i pastor Of the
First Christian Church in Bryan.
After the aclection of the queen ind eight duch-
eHNCM the Royal Court of Cotton for the 16th
Annual Cotton Ball and Pageant posed for its
first formal picture. From left to right, the
members of the court are Imogene Newton and
Leo Mikeska, Patricia St. Clair and Dave Rives,
Pat Herron and Tommie Duffle, Norma
Cooke and Conrad Ohlendorf, Queen Cotton ]
Schultz and King Cotton Nelson Brunneman,
Sally Witmer and Roy Cook, Nan Haaaler and
Don Hegi, Jean Bond and R#y Kuttae and Mar^
jorie Cupples and Jim Troubiefield.
organizations which are to
r in the Aggieland I960 are
to, send an
‘ etivitles Office, club
a:
•pi ^
requested
the Student Ac
editor Don Diet*; has reported
Diet*, explained that the officer
wou|d lie given information ami
the necessary materials for pre-
paring his organization rosier for
thle lAgglelaml.
iTIjio dub editor said that the
rasters were needed before March
.immediate action was needed
part of each club concern-
lie receptionist in the second
floor Office in Goodwin Hail cun
give all needed information, he
concluded.
‘Great Issues’
Hear Kellogg
In Food Talks
Dr. Charles E. Kellogg, Chief of
the Division of the Soil Survey,
Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils
and Agricultural Engineering, U.
S. Department of Agriculture, will
be bn the A&M campus next week
to deliver two lectures.
He will address the Great Is
sues class Monday, March 20, at 8
p. m. in the Chemistry Lecture
Room on the subject “National
and World Food Production Po
tentials”, He will also meet the
same group at 11 a. m. on Tues
day to answer questions.
Dr. Kellog will speak on “Tropi
cal Soils’’ in the Physics- Lecture
Room, Wednesday, March 22, at
8 p. m. under the joint, sponsor
ship of the Sigma Xi Club and the
Graduate School of the college.
Dr. Kellogg, an internationally
recognized soil scientist, has served
with distinction asari advisor to
agricultural agencies throughout
the world.
Williams Handles
Colton Ball Pics
Battalion staffer Kay Wil
liams has been named Coiton
Ball, photographic supervisor
to Increase efficiency in hand
ling pictures -of ..the ..varlOtw
Duchess’s pictures, the co-edi
tors said this morning.
Any organization or indivi
dual wishing to turn in pictures
of Duchesses should give them
to Williams In The liuttulion
office, 201 Goodwin llnll, and
pick up the photos from him
after engravings have hern
made, the co-editors added.
For best reproduction, pic
tures should hsve a high con
trast (tinted pirturew repro
duce poorly), and be from H x 10
to 3'/ 4 x I </4.
Aggie-Ex qF Air Inspector
On Military Ball Guest List
By DAVE COSL
H
hen he
turday
11. Pre-
U.i S.
Maj. Gen. William
be on familiar ground
reviews, the corps parade
preceding the Military
sently Air Inspector for
Air Force, he once march
Aggie ranks as a membe
class of ’24.
A native of Uvalde, Tiex., the
general accepted a regular com
mission as second lieutenant the
same month in which he received
his degree in Electrical engineering
from A&M 26 years ago.
After a session at both Brooks
and Kelly Fields in San Antonio,
he received his wings in Septem
ber of 1926. Two yeans later,
he returned to the latter base as
an instructor at the advanced fly
ing school. '
For the next dozen or so years
he served ia various capacities at
fields in the United States and the
Philippines.
While he was at Langley Field
in 1939, he waa selected with
Maj. Gen. C. V. Haynes to fly
a B-1S bomber to carry needed
medical supplies to Santiago,
Chile, following the severe earth
quake in that country. When
later flew a good will tour
Brazil, he waa awarded
lern Cross from the govern-
tt of that country.
1942, Old, now a colonel, pion-
the “hump” operation by fly
ing’ jsupplies and equipment into
Burma and China over the treach-
Himalayan peaks.
, years later he organized
the Troop Carrier Command at
Commilla, India, to move General
Wingate’s expedition into Central
Burma, supplying by air General
Stilwell’s Chinese armies who were
driving, the Japanese out of north
ern Burma, and supplying elements
of the British 14th Army operat
ing against Japanese.
For his operations in India,
General Old was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal, the
Silver Star, the Distinguished
Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf
Cluster, the Air Medal, and the
Legion of Merit. For his work
with the British 14 th Army;
he received the British Distin
guished Service Order.
A year and a half after the war,
he returned to the United States to
assume command of the 12th Air
Force at March Field, California.
Three more!.appointments moved
him to his present position as Air
Inspector at USAF headquarters
in Washington, D. C., in October
of 1949.
General Old will be accompanied
on his trip from Washington Sat
urday by Brig. Gen. Jacques de la
Boisse, military attache of the
Embassy of the French Republic,
and Colonel Umberto de Martino,
military attache of the Italian Em
bassy.
Mi
jrds
Two Dairy Awa.
Offered Freshmen
By SID ABERNATHY
A Successful interview with
prospective employers depends up
on your ability to sell your per
sonal skills as well as your tech
nical skill W. R. Horsley, head
of the placement service, told the
Senior Class last night in the
third of a series of manner^) talks.
“Probably the most important of
the personal skills is the ability
to get along with people. This
ability does not come naturally.
It must be cultivated and college
ia one of the best places to devel
op such an ability, Horsley said.
The students best chance to
sell his personal and technical
skills to a prospective employer
pomes through the personal inter
view, he added.
First Interview Important
“Whether or not you will get
further attention after your first
interview depends on whether or
not yoii make a good impression
’nterviewer.
rsonal interview, Horsley
said, is simply an opportunity for
two people to get together and
The Americah Guernsey Cattle
Club of Peterborough, New Hamp
shire, is offering two $250 trail
ing scholarships to outstanding
college freshmen who are major
ing in dairy husbandry, A. L.
Darnell, professor of the Dairy
Husbandry Department, announced
today.
Freshmen dairy husbandry mja-
jors in alii the Schools ami collegjes
in the nation are eligible. Applica
tion blanks for the scholarships
are available in Darnell’s office.
The scholarships will pay $250
each year for the remainder jof
the student’s Undergraduate col
lege career. The awards require
that the students work J three
months every summer on. aoine
Guernsey breeding establishment.
This employment will pay a stand
ard wage and will give the student
some practical training in the
field of dairying, Darnell stated.
Freshmjen students who are in
terested ijn the daily industry sjnd
who havp a dairying background
are the most desirable candidates
for the scholarships, Darnell said.
Students whO apply but are hot
MIhh Vivian Naples
I a pies will represent the
of Automotive Engin-
their duchess lo the I960
Cotton Ball and Pageant. She
will be escorted by Roger !E.
Tate, senior Aero major. Both
hail from Waxahachie.
Walton Hall Open
To Ball Visitors
! Ramps I, J, and K of Wajlton
have been assigned by the Office'
of the Dean of Students for the use
of visiting girls attending the Mil
itary Ball, March 18, 1960. Studhnts
will be assessed $1.25 per night; per
guest to cover costs. (Linens L “
be provided.) Refunds canno 1
made.
Drink Salesmen Want
For Home Ball Game
Students interested in selling
cold drinks sit the local baseball
games have been asked to con
tact J. Carroll at the Student! Ac
tivities Office; at 1 p. m. Friday.
Tan Beta Pi
There will be a Tau Beta Pi
election meeting Friday night
in the CE lecture Room at 7?15
according to Dean Howard F
It is imperative that all
dergraduate Tau Beta Pi m<
here attend this meeting
low said.
awarded a scholarship will be eli
gible for similar training work oA
a Guernsey farm if it can : be ar
ranged by the Guernsey j Cattle
Club, Darnell pointed out.
The scholarships offer a student
an opportunity to get some good
practical experience in working
with a good herd. The student will
also be tying himself into oppor
tunities for a good job after grad
uation, Darnell said.
Winners of th* scholarships lyill
spend their first summer in work
ing with a herdsman to become
familiar with dairy management
practices such as milking, care of
calves and yearlings, clipping,
brushings, trimming feet and
sketching.
During the second summer the
student will be required to take
care of cows in a general herd and
will also care for a string of test
cows. |
While working the third summer,
the student will act as a relief
man in getting acquainted with
all work related to dairying. This
will include the caring for herd
sires, cows in the maternity barn,
dry e°ws and calves/ He will also
assist with the breeding program
both natural and artificial, keep
records, figure rations, clean milk
house equipment, fit show animals
and exhibit them at fairs.!
Cox Addresses
Short Course
: ! II ’
Dri George W. Cox, statii! health
office)', cited the progress in water
supply and sewage disponal dur
ing the post year In a banquet ud-
drass at the Texas Water ami
Sewage Works Association's short
school here last night.
Dr. Cox gave recognition to cit
ies which nave made outittandlng
program and achievement in
water works and sewage facilities
by announcing the State Health
Department’s nonor roll. ! j
This short course is belni
t 1
In cooperation with the State
partment of Health, the Southwest
Section, American Water Worka
Association, the State Board for
Vocational Education, and A&M.
The school, which opened Mon
day, is one of the best attended
and one of the most successful’
schools held at A&M, according to
Joe H. Sorrels, professor of the
Civil Engineering Department and
past vice-president of the associa
tion.
Uel Stephens, director of the
Fort Worth city water department,
was elected president of the asso
ciation.
The school will close,today.
■ LIT
Third Installment
Fees Now Payable
Third installment fees of $46.00
are now payable at the Fiscal
Department.
These fees must be paid before
March 20 to avoid penalty an
nounced W. H. Holzmann, comp
troller of the college.
Penberthy, White
At NAD AM Meet
,-S'd- J’ \ ;
W. L. Penberthy, Dean, of Men;
Lt. Col. Joe E. Davis, Military
Science Department; and C. G.
“Spike” White, Assistant Dean of
Men for Activities, will return
Saturday from the annual meeting
of the National Association of
Deans and Advisors of, Men in
Williamuburg, Va.
Need Buildingl
Horsley States i
E. L. Britt
Britt Presents
Winning Paper
E. L, Britt, senior chemical
engineering student at Texas
A£M College, presented the
winning student paper at the
recent regional meeting of the
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers in Houston. /
f His subject was “Synthetl^ Ll-i
quid Fuels." T
Britt, technical editor of "The
Engineer,” is the kon of / K. G.
Britt of 610 Cedar Hill /Avenue,
D»HM. p; f, J
Thlrty-two papers were submit
ted by students attending the meet
ing, out only four were chosen to
be presented on the student techni
cal urogram.
All members of (lie chemical
engineering faculty attended some
phasq of the four/day meeting,
Feb.j20-March 1. Dr( W. D, Harris,
professor of chemifiar engineering,
and Dr. J. D. Linsay, head of the
department, served on arrangei
ments committee for the meeting,
for which the South Texas, chap
ter of the Organization, was host)
Three Companies
Win Passby Firsts
First place winners of the corps
pass-by review Tuesday afternoon
were “E” Field Artillery in the
east column and “A” Cavalry tied
with “H” Aiiy Forqe in the west
column. Each of these first place
winners were accessed 400 points.
Second place winners were ,“C”
Field Artillery tieing with “A"
Chemical Coitps and "B” Engin
eers in the east column, and “A”
A(ir Force in the west column.
Points were awarded to other
outfits according to the grades
given by the'reviewing officers.’
find out the intangible qualittsats
of one another that cannot
put oh paper.
Some df the qualitieg>that the iu-pp
terviewer looks for in the prosper-jg, ‘
tive employee were outlined by we
Horsley.
The f rst thing he notices Is «e
your personal appearance. Al- it
though in is a tangible thing it in- >u
dicutes many intangible qualities if
to the iiterviewer. : ai
Your I'arriage, your handshake, I,
your manners, and your clothes ir
and the way you wear them itjdl- i-
eates a lot to the interviewer. ; a
Social Adaptability Jj
Second tiling you are judged on
is your ability to get along With u
other pi opto, he continued, Tnpy
are particularly interested in (his
because | industry today is toatn **
work. A|ny job you take will re-
quire that you be able to htlx J”
and mingle with people.
Your command of the EngitohI;Jf
language is another Important fac-Vj
tor. The, ability to use It in speak-T
ing or writing is. a prime reauis-"^’
ite for success on any Job. A&M is .
frequently criticized, he cautioned,
because of the spelling of grqd- ^
uates of this schirtl.
Another quality necessary foil a
good impression to common sense
and good judgement, i.
The l ifth quality is your /irp-
sourcefulness and adaptabiiji
Can yod do a job right and dq]
on time and are you willing to jac-
cept responsibility?
More Than Grade Points
“The employer ii naturally
terested in your grade point ratio,
gnd extra curricular activities”^,
said Hoksley “butj mainly from the
standpo nt of how you went about
getting your education.
“Although a ijiigh grade point
ratio is definitely in' youF, favor,
there i.re instances where men
With a 'ery high ratio were a
erable failure a|t a job beci__.
they had not cultivated their bel-
sonal shills along with their tech
nical slfiJIs.” ,U ,
Three Phases
Horsley said tnat the interview
iS\ divided into three main parts;
before, during, and after the in-
You should bq prepared before,
making’/ an .appointment fori ah
interview Know something about
the cortipahy thst you are trying
t°I«rct a job with, he advised. I
laxed, be accu’
ific. Be? sure to
son foif wanting
comparty beeaust
ly aiwiys one
ti°n^
’ie follow
replien tc
S* patton
ospectlvs
ilequaUt
plication
i nterview be
te, and.' be s
have a good ren-'*
_ tq work forj the
i« this is practical-
njf the main ques-
up of^e later-. .
sc Ini
■slay ended
thae tile averMs
a nptn [will wort
40 veays. A rim
cxhect iluring th
P«f yeir. This
Pi'omjR and criueise ...
nv corrieepon-
( anil don’t itoedto
employer. Gjvs
time to cottfiitor
before bothering
th a letter of Inquiry
his talk by saying
e length of time
for a company Is
aonahle salar
Is period is $
i dds up to a
„»0»t which, he adde,
our tlmh and effort t<l d*.
jplpj
Cadet Meal Hour
Scheduled at Six
Dinner for the corps of cadets
Saturday evening will be at 6
p. m., Walt Zimmerman, general
chairman, said this morning.
The time has been set to allow
cadets ample opportunity to
return to the corps area/ fol
lowing the review on the
drill fieM. • Y\\>. ,
rd from a conversation ■
an old| and a newl col-
ployee-fj’There are. Some
things you JUST DO around here. I
and there are other things that /
just AREN’T .DONE.” ! j
A v(»ry sage J observation. \
FILE FOR FUTURE REFER
ENCE DEPARTMENT — Betty!
Burns, a professional model Irom
Foley’d and diriectofess of ! the it
clothing exhibit to be giveh in L
Guion Mjfrch 29, was on the cam- r
pus yesterday. |
While making arrangements for L 1
We production she asked to see the '
troops who volunteered to exhibit
the clothing. “You see, I’ll [have
to select all th4 girls who are go
ing to come up here and help you
all and I want to be sure to get
them the right height.”
As the j troops took an | even
greater interest in the plan*—for
Betty is easy | on the eyeS-rShe :
looked at their leering faces,
laughed and said, “Oh we have;
them *11 heights, tall and willowv
and short and pert.”
r -‘- qn she commented,; “You
he first time I’ve
hing like this at
I'll probably learn
Yes, wa imagine she will.
I