The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 01, 1950, Image 1

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 01, 1950, Image 1

Newspaper Page TextBecomes President Satur •V''* ★ it i ★ ★ City 01 College Station Offieial Newspaper ★ it The Battalion PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE Nation’s Top Collegiate Daily NAS 1949 Survey Number 160: Volume 49 COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1950 Price: Five Cents Senior Cadets Receive Gold Bars Tomorrow Three hundred and six senior ROTC cadets will be presented with commissions in the Officers Reserve Corps tomorrow afternoon at 1. The ceremony will be held in Guion Hall, with Lieut. Gen. Le- Roy Lutes, commanding g-eneral of the Fourth Army, presenting - Army commissions. Maj. Gen. Alden R. Crawford will present .the Air Force commissions. All cadets to receive commissions will be present and seat as desig nated by 12:45 p.m., according to the Military Department. Cadets Sworn In Men eligible for the commissions were sworn en masse this morning i|r the Assembly Hall. The entire group was sworn in, then split to formally sign the oath. Infantry, . Field Artillery, Air Force, Army Security, and Signal sjorps men remained at the Assem bly Hall for the signing, while the Ordnance, Engineers, Cavalry, Quartermaster, Transportation, and Coast Artillery went to their re spective offices in Ross Hall. The splitting of the group was to ease the pressure of signing such a large number of cadets. Uniforms Set Cadets attending the , commis sioning ceremony are requested by the Military Department to wear Ames Leaves Travel Agency For Sales lob t, E. E. Ames, who has oper ated a travel agency at Col lege Station for the past five years, is one of three new representatives added to the sales staff of Coronet Furniture. Company in Bryan. k Mrs. Ames will continue to oper ate the travel agency. Ames will represent the company in the sales of all home furnish ings and is a specialist in floor 1 coverings. He will be the only outside salesman of the new men. He has been associated with the store in a part-time capacity for the past .30 days, and begins all- time work Thursday. Ames formerly lived near Tex arkana. He and Mrs. Ames have one daughter. Another of the new salesman is an ex-student of A&M. He is Roger Powers Jr., a native of Bryan. He is a graduate of Feath er and Feather School of Design in Houston, a school for interior decorators. His work with Coronet will be his first association since graduation. Powers graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School in Bryan ’1^ 1944, then spent one semester at A&M. After spending 20 months in the armed forces, he returned for another semester at fy&.M. The third new staff salesman is Norman G'. Haisler, a native of Caldwell. Haisler, who spent two and a half years at the University of Texas studying languages, has been employed at Houston with a publishing company. the summer uniform with ties, boots optional. Air Force cadets may . wear the summer uniform, with blue cap, tie, and belt, and black shoes and sox. The distinguished party will en ter Guion’s stage at approximately 1 p.m. Cadet Charles H. Aiken will call the Corps to attention when the party reaches the stage. After , the group has been seated, Cadet Dean “Buddy” Boyd will lead the audience in the singing of “The Spirit of Aggieland.” Bolton, Bradley Speak On completion of the song, the assembly will be seated and Col. H. L. Boatner, commandant and PMS&T of the college, will pre sent Cadet Lt. Col. King Egger, corps chaplain, who will give the invocation. Talks by Dr. F. C. Bolton, retir ing president of the college, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will follow the invocation. Upon completion of the talks, Colonel Boatner will have the Corps rise and the mass Oath of Office will be administered by Lieut. Col. William F. Lewis. Pinning of Bars After the commissions have been presented by Gen. Lutes and Gen. Crawford, Colonel Boatner will an nounce the “Pinning of Bars.” At that time each newly-commissioned officer will have his set of second- lieutenant’s bars properly attached to his uniform. The pinning will be done by parents, friends, or guests. Upon completion of the pinning, Egger will give the benediction, after which Boyd will lead the au dience in singing “The Star Span gled Banner.” Elkins Is Appointed To London Position R. L. Elkins, administrative as sistant to the president of the col lege, , has been named assistant chief of the Food and Agricultural Division of the Special Economics Cooperation Administration, to the United Kingdom. The EGA is a part of the Marshall plan. Elkins, who has been connected with A&M since 1933 has been granted a leave of absence. His new position is next to the top post in that organization. He will leave for London, his headquar ters, June 15, following a 5-day indoctrination in Washington, D.C. The new ECA official is a native of Palestine, and a graduate of A&M. He served for four and a half years in the Army. He went into the service in 1941 as a first The Rt. Rev. John E. Hines The Reverend Hines, bishop co adjutor of the Episcopal diocese of Texas, will speak at the bac calaureate service to be held in Guion Hall tomorrow morning. lieutenant and was mustered out of the service as a lieutenant col onel April 21, 1945. Elkins served in the North Afri can campaign and in Italy. His division, the First Armored, got tangled up with the wily German general, Rommell, during the early stages of the war, when that gen eral was in his heyday, and 800 of his men, including himself, were captured. They were not prisoners of war fen - long—Rommell’s air corps bombed their own tanks, and dur ing the bombardment, Elkins and a number of his men escaped. In Italian Invasion Later, Elkins’ division invaded Italy, landing at Naples. They fought their way to Casino and from there battled their way to Anzio and then into Rome. From there they Avent to Pisa and then home for Elkins. Elkins special field is personnel management, having worked with several business concerns. He is the author of a publication on workmen’s compensation insur ance. He holds membership in the National Management Association, the Dallas Personnel Association and the Texas Personnel Associa tion. He is a reserve officer, stu dent counsellor and a Mason. His wife and three children, Bobby, Claire and Ann, will ac company him to London. He ex pects to be in that country for two years. Bryan City Band Will Meet Tonight The Bryan City Band will meet Thursday night at 8 p.m. at the Carnegie Library in Bryan, accord ing to Tom Sweeney, band director. “All musicians in Bryan and Col lege Station are invited to join us,” Sweeney said. "Bring your instru ment and music stand. High school pupils are especially invited to play with the band.” fe 1 mm* fit- t ^ * sb v'-.Vv.Vr: • v*, » 7/-m^ mm ■*'4, Leading the Texas Aggie band onto the football fields at half-time next year will be Tommy Alderson, center; Wayne Dunlap, left; and Rob ert “Buck” Buchanan. Alderson was recently chosen head drum major for next year, Dunlap ■ HbB •> . wm drum major of the White Band, with Buchanan to head the Maroon Band. The trio was selected by band members and Lt. Col. E. V. Adams, director. -* ■ Dr. M. T. Harrington This smiling gentleman will become A&M’s eleventh president when he takes office Saturday. Dr. Harrington succeeds Dr. Frank C. Bolton, who will retire to modified service as the college’s first president emeritus. The inauguration ceremony will be held next October 5 as one of the features of the Diamond Jubilee year. Harrington Will Be First Aggie Prexy 1190 Grads To Hear Bradley Give Address By JOHN WHITMORE Four years of college work will reach a climax as 1190 graduating seniors walk down the aisles at Kyle Field Friday night to receive their diplomas, signifying they have completed the work necessary for a bachelor’s degree from A&M. General Omar N. Bradley, chair man of the joint chiefs of staff of the national military establish ment, will deliver the commence ment address. G. R. White, presi dent of the Board of Directors of the A&M System, will present the diplomas. Commencement services will end the day’s activities, which begin at 9 a.m. with two baccalaureate processions forming. The proces sions will lead to the Assembly Hall and to Guion Hall. Roll call will be held at 9:15, with the actual processions into the halls at 9:30. All candidates for degrees in the School of Agriculture, School of Arts and Sciences, and all ad vanced degree candidates will form at 9 a.m. on the west side of the Academic Building and south of Sully’s statue. Candidates for Engineering de grees and Veterinary Medicine de grees will form on the west side of the Academic Building and north of the statue. Both of the baccalaureate ser mons will start at the same time. Baccalaureate Speakers Dr. W. Boyd Hunt, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Houston, will address the group in the As sembly Hall. The Right Reverend John E. Hines, bishop coadjutor of the Four Will Receive Honorary Degrees Saturday, June 3, a member of the class of ’22 will do what no other A&M graduate has ever done. Dr. M. T. Harrington, pres ently dean of the college, will take over the office of president of his alma mater. Dr. F. C. Bolton, now completing his forty-first year of service to the college, will hand over the reigns to his younger assistant and retire to modified service as pres ident emeritus. There will be little fanfare at tached to the change because it is being saved until October 5, when Dr. Harrington’s inauguration will be the first official ceremony of the college’s seventy-fifth anniver sary observance. Bolton Pleased Commenting on his successor, Dr. Bolton said, “Dr. Harrington and I have worked together for A&M for almost a quarter of a century and I am pleased that I will be able to relinquish the lead ership of the college to such ca pable and experienced hands.” Dr. Harrington’s rise on the aca demic ladder has been an almost year-to-year affair since 1946. It was in that year that he took over the duties of assistant dean of the college in charge of organizing and directing the A&M Annex. A year later he came back to the campus as dean of arts and sciences. The following year, he was named acting dean of the col lege when Dr. Bolton moved from that position to the presidency. And this year he was elected Dr. Bolton’s successor by the Board of Directors after being recommended by Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist. A Fish in 1918 Dean Harrington first came to the A&M campus as a fish in 1918. Four years later he graduat ed with a bachelor of science de gree in chemical engineering. He joined the college staff as a chem istry instructor in 1925 and began work on his master’s, completing it in 1927. Taking a leave of absence, he studied at MIT, the University of Michigan, the University of South ern California and received his Ph.D. at Iowa State College. In his 25 years service here, Dr. Harrington has established an en viable record as a teacher and lec turer in his field, and early estab lished the reputation of being “the student’s friend.” He is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi, an honorary research society, and Phi Lambda Epsilon, an honor society for chemists and chemical engi neers. Four honorary doctor’s degrees will be conferred by A&M at com mencement exercises June 2. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair man of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff who will deliver the com mencement address, will receive an honorary doctor of laws degree. General Bradley, who command ed the Twelfth Army Group in Europe during World War II and headed the Veteran’s Administra tion in the critical period at the end of the war, is being so recog nized for “distinguished - accom plishments in the field of interna tional affairs, both military and diplomatic.” “Outstanding Leadership” The ' citation credits him with “outstanding leadership in foster ing world-wide understanding be tween governments and safe-guard ing the rights of free peoples.” Burton Elias Hull, president of Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Com pany, will be awarded a doctor of engineering degree “for his dis tinguished leadership in transpor tation of petroleum products by means of pipe lines, for his out standing performance in the con struction and operation of the world’s greatest facilities of this nature and for his contributions to the safety and welfare of his na tion and its people through these accomplishments.” A native of Navasota, Tex., Hull graduated from A&M in 1904. He has served as vice president of the Texas Company and president of the Texas Pipe Line Company. He surveyed and designed the Big Inch and Little Inch pipe lines. N. W. Smith Gets Degree Also to receive an honorary doc tor of engineering degree is Mar vin Wadsworth Smith, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The degree will be conferred upon Smith “for distinguished accom plishments in the professional field : of electrical engineering, for out standing leadership in civic and cultural development of the com munities in which he has lived and | for his abilities as an executive - and business leader. . .” Born in Overton, Tex., Smith i graduated from A&M as valedic torian in 1915. He went to work 1 1 for Westinghouse Electric Cor poration and became manager of engineering for the firm in 1936. In 1939 he was elected president in charge of all engineering re search, and in 1948 was elected executive vice president of Bald win Locomotive Works. He be came president of that company in May 1949. Col. John F. Davis, a native of Waco, who attended A&M 1908- 1911 before going to the U. S. Mili tary Academy at West Point, will be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree. Dr. W. Boyd Hunt Dr. Hunt, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Houston, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon tomorrow morning in the Assem bly Hall. Japanese Graduate Escapes FromRussianlmprisonment By B. F. ROLAND From A&M to Japan to Siberia and back to Japan—its a long way. Yet that same route is one that has been followed by an A&M graduate, Seiichi Sakamoto. Sakamoto came to A&M from San Antonio. He majored in ag ronomy here and was a member of the Crops Judging Team. In his senior year he was high-point man in the crops judging contest at Kansas City. He scored the highest number of points ever chalked up by a contestant at that time. Those who knew him while a student here say that he was a brilliant student and a willing worker. He was a distinguished student, a member of the swimming team, secretary of numerous cam pus organizations, including his sophomore class. Active “Y” Worker He was active in YMCA work and M. L. Cushion, secretary of the “Y,” remembers Sakamoto as one of the most enthusiastic stu dents ever affiliated with the YMCA at A&M. After graduation in 1938, Saka moto went to work with his father in 1941. His father was respon sible for maintaining the Japanese gardens in San Antonio. In the summer of 1941, Saka moto visited Japan. Since he had been born in Japan, he was still a Japanese citizen. As a citizen, he was forced to enlist in the Jap anese Army. Captured by Russians While in the Army there, he spent a year and a half in Japan, one year in Central China, and two years in north China before he was captured by the invading Russians. After four and one half years in Siberia, Sakamoto escaped and made his way back to Japan. Shortly after arriving back in Japan, Sakamoto wrote to Cushion about Siberia and Japan. “I was taken by the Russians to Siberia, where I struggled against life and death for four and a half years,” he wrote. “No church, nor moral or spiritual virtues in Rus sia. How sorry I felt for their people. They only know the police state and human slavery.” Disavows Communism “Today I ask all men to form a new united front of those people who disavow Communism, who stand for morals and religion and who love freedom.” “I was surprised to find Japan as changed. She is no longer a feudalistic country. She is a new 1 democratic country and she is be coming a Christian nation.” “Japan made a great mistake in entering the war. But I am glad she lost the war, because of American aid she is becoming a new nation.” “I am resting in the summer home of my friend Mitsuo Matsuo- ko. My ribs were like a washing board when I- got back from Si beria, but now I am returning to normal.” Episcopal Diocese of Texas, will address candidates for degrees who will be in Guion Hall. Following the presentation of commissions to eligible cadets Fri day afternoon, the annual presi dent’s reception will be held at the home of Dr. Frank C. Bolton, re tiring president of the college. The home will be open from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The reception is for all grad uates, their relatives and friends. Commencement Friday Commencement will be the last academic affair of the weekend. The commencement procession will form at 5:30 Friday afternoon, with roll call at 5:45. The pro cession begins at 6 p.m. Main speaker at the commence ment services on Kyle Field will be Gen. Bradley. Dr. Bolton will deliver a greeting to the graduates, preceding Gen. Bradley’s talk. Dr. M. T. Harrington, dean of the college and president-elect, will present the valedictorian of the class, Donald E. Jarvis. Bolton Confers Degrees Dr. Bolton will confer the de grees, with board president White presenting the diplomas. Jarvis Miller will deliver the ben ediction. In the Grove Friday night at 9, the Final Ball will take place. Dancing will be to the music of the Aggieland Orchestra. In case of inclimate weather, the dance will be moved to Sbisa Hall. Saturday the Corps of Cadets will hold its annual Final Review. Seniors will be honored by the men of their units as they pass in re view for the graduates. Senior Calendar Friday 9 a.m. Procession Forms for Baccalaureate Services 9:30 a.m. Procession Moves off for Baccalaureate Serv ices in Guion or the As sembly Hall 1 p.m. Presentation of Reserve Commissions in Guion Hall 2:30-4:30 p.m. President’s Re ception 5:30 p.m. Processions form for Commencement exercises 6 p.m. Commencement Services begin 9 p.m. Final Ball in the Grove Saturday 9:30 p.m. Final Review Mother of Mogford Buried in Brady Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Mogford, 92, mother of J. S. Mog ford of College Station, were held Wednesday afternoon at Eden. She passed away Monday night at a hospital in Brady. Mr. and Mrs. Mogford and son Bill attended the funeral. *;?• v 1 General Omar N. Bradley General Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, will deliver the principle address tomorrow night at the commencement exercises on Kyle Field. He will also speak at commissioning exercises for senior cadets tomorrow afternoon in Guion Hall. ')

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 01, 1950, Image 1

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