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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1950)
■I u- Musical Ramroi Cadets Has Varied By GEORGE CHARLTON Second to Billj “Pop” Turner, there's probably only one other person on the campus so musically conscious, and that’s Leonard Per kins, assistant director Sin -- ot the linking Cadets. The senior business major from ' Fort Worth is also “Pop” Turner’s right hand man holding his pre sent position in the Music Hall ” since January of. '47. He plays the o*gan, piano, and in past years has mastered the violin, y In 1948 Leonard first tame to A&M, and cine of the first things he did was to join the Cadets. The next year he was 'clected their .. .vice president. i A busy day for Leonard in- eludes supervising the Use of instruments and practice rooms, performing stenographic and clerical duties, relieving “Pop” at various intervals during re hearsals, ahd holding individual practices with members of the Cadets. These ttre just to men tion a few. . Recalling one Of the more pre carious positions in which the Ca dets have been placed in past years, Leonard says: “It was that ill fated rpturd from TSCW December before last. All the Cadets were on two buses returning to College Station. Ahead of Us lay a prearranged evening performance at the A&M Metho dist Church. While on Industrial Boulevard, in Dallas, it happened. “A spring broke in one of the buses. In the meantime, the driver of the first bus was completely unaware of the accident add con- ~tinued back to ^College.” [r, ^ When -time came fo? the con cert to begin that night, only • ■ half the'organization was present. “During the performance,” Leonard says,[ “Buddy Boyd sang all solo parts but one from first tenor on down to baritone.” Another crisis occurred, accord ing to Leonard, when’ the Cadets pi. r _y I were presenting a program jin Beaumont; They were singing one of their most difficult inumbers when one of the Seniors! dressed up in boots and blouse' fain from heat prostration on the front row. « 1. “We just, stopped and jl wai while he was carried off tme stage and then began again Vfhere Kittta Kinta, a senior at Laipar High in Houston, will represent ihe Montgomery County A&M CJubi as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will be .es corted by M. E. Kuta, senior Ag. Ed. major from Montgomery, 1 ':. v I"’ —i- aging Page if HE BATTA TTALIO N THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1950 ies | had left off,” Leonard says. “TTie audience was kind of awed at the ca mness.” i This Spring Leonard will get hiii bachelors degree Hi has pi ca aureate arM probal In June. in business, d the organ at bac- 'or the last three years ly will play for his own the weather is bad, will be held in it would mean that 1 ibly play for my own exercises too,” adds all _ ms afternoons in cluding Sunday ip the Music Hall, onard also aids in recording ses- sibns and | the production of spec- isl broadcasts. In the Summer of ’43, he whs assistant musical di rt ctor of i The Mikado, a Gilbert a id SulliVan light opera. Leonard has played the piano s nee he was six years old and has p ayed thfe organ for the last 11 y jars. Ho learned to master the li tter by practicing on a pipe or gan in church. , In high school he was selected A) Who’s Who in Texas High Schools. | He won the honor due bo scholarship and outstanding work inj the orchestra, mixed chorus, and high school musical program^. Duringj the war, he. served as c rganist and choir director in many j irmy anji Air Force stations. 1 Leonard’s past seem to prove 1e is capable and then some for 1 is responsible job in the Music Hall. And it’s only an occasional < nee tn ja While that when you j ihone to find out aboyt snjne mus- ical activity on the campus that : r ou don’t hear at the other end of the lijne: “Music Hall, Leonard Perkins j (peakihgj” / Mrs. Flowers Card on Mrs. Garden will represent!; the El Paso A&M Club as fheir duchess in the Cotton Pageant ,and Ball. She will be eseprted by her husband Don. B( th, are from El Paso. business Professor To Attend Conference i Ernest R:,-Bulow, assistant pro fessor with^roe Business and Ac- :ounting Department, will attend :he Southwestern Conference of Sales Executives at the Sham rock Hotel in Houston, May 5 and 6. Bulpw Houston Doris Jean Hawthorne ■ !. T I ' ■ -/ Miss Hawthorne will represent the Port Arthur A&M Chib as their duchess in the Cotton Pa geant and Bail. She will be es corted by Jack Alexander, jun- 'ior accounting major. Both are . from Port Arthur. NOLAN HUFF ’49 FORD SALESMAN • "" i 1 r !i.., 7 USED CAR AND TRUCK i HEADQUARTERS h Specials 1948 FORD — Two Door Super DeLuxo — Radio Heater — White Side- A wall* — Clean .. *$1195 1947 STUDEBAKER Club i 1 Coupe Heater — Ov- ,• erdnve — Plastic Seat will be a guest of the Sales Executives Club. This Conference will feature many speakers from outstanding sales organizations throughout the country,] Bulow said. i Mary Partain / Miss Partain has been selected as. their duchess to represent the Liberty County A&M Club 'in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will b’ David Nelson^ sophomore Ag Ed majoii from:' Devers, Texas. jJacque Galloway Jacquy, a junior at the Uni versity of Arkansas and from Littlej Rock, has been named to represent Arkansas U. as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and Bail. She will be escorted by James Pace, junior agronomy major from Kenedy, Texas. Keepsake Covers. Like ifew . $1195 1948 JEEP . . . . $795 i. I Bryaii Motor Co. Hi-way 6 So. 2-1323 415 N. Main 2-1507 t «t *•*•[ . . . (w iti« KWpitiV*- t till. ItM rtog , . . tK< Mltanalty S •« *. ... wh* IS* *f onil Wl (MClKll irM^pUKhtM. ! SANKEY PARK y 1 * - ■ ' 1 i i • t JEWELER 111 N. Main Bry in JtirrHOkizto "Kttysaki dba tn Leonard Perkins, musically inclined from way assistant director of the Singing Cadets, strik side the Mdifari Hall organ. and presently ready pose be- MoTe n’s By BILL BILL1N0SI.EY Here is the text of an editor ial, Entitled “Water Keeps RippL ing through Library Walts,” whiirh appeared in the Wednesday, April 19 Daily Texan: (Quote;) .... .... L._ We can see it now, a trainlond of Texas rooters, climbing along the banks of the Colorado River. Up paat the scenic drive, down by Mount Bonnell, and ground the bend. And right behind them a trainload of Aggies, standing, to the man, although the cadets arc five lengths behind. That would be the first South west Conference regatta—the in itial crew race between. A&M and Texas. And that would be tdinor aports carried to its ultimate at the Uni- versity. Oddly enough, in ai the first propose a little li; Lake Austin, es C. Dooley has been mentio t. pulls gives Specialist Attends Memphis Meeting M. C. Jaynes, extension organiza tion and cooperative marketing specialist of Texas A&M College left Sunday for Memphis, Tenn essee. He will attend and par ticipate, as’ a member of a na tional planning committee, in a meeting called for the purpose of outlining a program for the Ex tension Workshop on Cooperative Education to be held at Oklahoma A&M College, August 14-19, 1950. In making the announcement, Director G. G. Gibson of the.[Tex as Agricultural Extension Service, said the summer workshop is to.be sponsored by the American Insti- ture of Cooperation and the In stitute has asked that Extension personnel take a leading patt in planning the workshop program. According to Gibson, Jaynep has had considerable experience in planning surih meetings' and is in a position to make many contri butions to the Memphis meeting. He will return to College Station on April 26.; Cooperation Plus Haifa—'Ah—This is a new kind of cooperation among motorists— but it doesn’t help the police any. Traveling along the Mediterran ean coast to and from this Is raeli industrial and boat city, one sees frequently a single blinking headlight on passenger cars and trucks. Drivers so blink their their lights to inform each other there’s a police check post not far ahead.! . Mary Lots Wick Miss Wickes, of San Antonio, will represent the I*a Villita Chapter, D. A. R., College Station, as their duchess in the Cotton Pa geant and Ball. Her escort will be Hubert Davis, junior ME ma jor also from San Antonio. Marilyn Eiland Marilyn, a student st the Uni- versily of Houston and hailing from Houston, has been select ed jss duchess to represent the Amlrricsn Foundry men’s Hociotv in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. Her escort will be Jsmes K. NiMiast, from Bweetwater, Tea- University fevei a University of Chicago and up footballj it might be a time to mention it again. Shell rating, of come a year after Yacht Club had been one rati two or thrde years and had i _ its first national regatta On n rain-filled Lake Travis. With'sails and Southetnly gusts on the upper waters, the calm waters of Lake Austih would be Just too tembting fbr the crow racing cnthusiailtlets to pass by, Anri whajt a day it Would be wiren the Texas; lads, fourteen set* of arm muscles rippling in uhlson tio the knojek of a coxswain’s heart, came tearing across the finish line to the triumphant sound of W Te*hs Fight” fend j2t .p*’’ r ybe there will never be any with crossed oars. Laverna Avera Laverne, of Katy, Texas, has been selected as duchess to re present the Saddle and Sirloin Club in the Cotton Pageant and Bail. Her escort will be John Rhemann, junior ddiry husban dry major from Brookshire, Texas. Thelma tril Thelma of been seleci present the in the Cottb She will Barrett,! Bellville. Jean Churchill Bellville, Texas, has as duchess to re- Poultry Science Club n P^eant and Bali, escorted by Delvin ior PH major from Beth Broadway Mi s s' Broadway will represent the Painhandle A&M Cluh as their diiich *sa in the Cott geant and Ball. She escorted by Bill Cunning senior ME nwjor. Both hail Panhandle, .Texas. Delayed Delivery Mackirinw, til. —C*)— A mfell carrier about to start oh his rounds picked lip an old pouch j in the Mackinaw post office. Ife it he found aj postcard mailed jby Mrs. H(lruee,:Boyd of Roberts,: Ill., to Mrs. Hciitiry Pnrmele of Mackinaw. The carrier delivered it. Distance by the card: 60 miles. Elapsed tithe: 12 years. higher, and s mari wmirr-mny IU nvxiMiK with the aun straying . _ the waters turning cooler, and sound of rippling water drift! through the library walls—a mai can dream; can’t he? (end quote] Ah, what crystal halls these Texan editorialista have! Not only can they see racing shell* on th* puddle proportioned bed im of water that surround our atale MbpiUl, hal ‘ vUiahj a win by i and How esln anyone beligv* that a boat crow, trained on the milky- thin waters' of the peaceful Colo- radlo, could defeat a team of robust youths deep of chest hnd Strong oi baric Worn slushing a ahell thi the lilt-laden Waters ol Now there ib a body of watet with real hotly. Some of the besi top soil in Texas—washed, ol course, from North potential training opposition foi Brazos Boy’s School boat crews And why, tell us, dries the Trix. as editorialist in his ivory towey (with orange lights, 6f course make that a two-»chool race excluding the oarsmen of SMU hardened among the cat tails an< cast off Cadijlac convertibles ii Bachman’s Lake; or the 'white asl tuggers of Baylor, kept ’free fron the lung-collapsing eftects of nico tine, and on intimate relations With water for: the sheer lack of an] | thing stronger to gargle with. Ol the. rowers from Rice, where Navi J tradition is so strong they have, a sholl-back initiari»h every tift e they cross South Main to the Co U lege Inn; or any of the other pi- tential Southwest shell sponsoren 1 It's sheer selfishness, we tell] you, and frankly we suspec. more than that. We have rea' son to believe ouC cosmopolitali comrades at the University hav:» clandestinely secured the' ser •; vices of Admiral Halsey aa u I rowing coach, sent out pick-u<» orders to their far-flung recruit ers for Boy Scout cahoein;; champions who want d colleg • education, and are holding dail r workouts on Littlefield Memot- ial fountain. Biit have no fear. Their di s* tardily plan to dominate the ro v- ing racket will come to a no go k end. As any university s t u d c 11 can plainly see, sailors never : «• main rational long In the preset c< of cream-colored convertibles am cuddly co-eds, the foundation stoic of all university athletic Thus SouthWesil rowing saved from j the orange tentacles, dind will quire only a lightly liisak of the sanity coda. Did we say it was a cysts! b»! that editorialist h^lT W* beg ytu pardon. It sounds moc llte h was puffing on a pipefil of wll poppy seed! Dgrar iw It all hi wh t bly x vers: o Lovera Veach Lovera will represent the Dallas A&M Club as their duchess in the Cotton Pageant and | Ball. She will be escorted by Ed Cur tis, senior Ghent E. major. Both hail from Dallas. y' . i .'v-'VJ. m iSStsXiisS i; Ruth Maxwell Miss Maxwell, a student at San Jacinto High in Houston, has been chosen to represeiit the Wacom and Northern Stiar Seed (''arms aa their duchess! in the Cotton Pageant and Ball. She will he escorted by W. Rj. 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