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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1950)
Page 8 THE BATTALION Friday, September 22, 1950 M. E. Thomas Handling all purchasing duties of the Memorial Student Center is Thomas, purchasing agent and building superintendent. His depart ment is also responsible for maintenance and housekeeping of the building. Wayne Smith When the Fountain Room of the Memorial Student Center gets into high gear, the man you’ll see doing the shifting will be Smith, manager of the Fountain Room. With modern equipment and a competent staff. Smith expects the room to give the best service possible to MSC patrons. Car! Brock If the air-conditioning in the MSC ever falters, maintenance super intendent Brock is the man who will hear of it first. Responsible for the 300 tons of air-conditioning, all motors, refrigeration, electri cal. and plumbing equipment, he does everything around the building eacept sweeping. Hobby and Craft Committees Begin A ttractive Programs With an array of famous exhibits and showings of skill at the infor mal opening of the Memorial Stu dent Center, the activities of the MSC are getting off to a big start. Featured in these exhibits, which are currently being shown Thurs day, Friday, and Saturday, are photography exhibits, craft shop exhibits, in addition to demonstra tions by a world-title-winner bowl er, and bowling teams from over the state. Sixteen oil paintings from Dallas and thirty-five water-colors from San Antonio, the works of nation ally prominent artists, will be shown. Oil Paintings The oil paintings will include paintings of G. E. Eisenlohr, Miss Martha Simkins, Frank Klepper, Reveae Bassett, Miss Adele Brunet, Katherine Backstrom, Roma Sro- man, Charles Thompson, Janet Shook, Alice Naylor, and Polly Howerton. Water-color artists whose works will be on display are Robert K. Reed, Ruth Dunn, and Margaret Pace. Martha Simkins and Katherine Backstrom are present in person and will be happy to meet all art lovers. Photography exhibits of Paul Gittings, John Steele, and Mau rice Tobard are being shown. Gittings has been a professional photographer since 1920. Since 1932 he has owned his own busi ness and maintains studios in Dal las and Houston. His photographs at the MSC are part of a one man show presented by the Photograph ers’ Association of America, which have hung in museums, universi ties, and camera clubs all over the country. He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a rare honor bestowed up on an American photographer. At present he is vice-president of the Photographers’ Association o f America. Exhibits by Steele An exhibit of the works of John Steele, young Canadian photo grapher, were shipped by the Pho tographer’s Association of Ameri ca. Steele maintains studios in Toronto, Canada. Maurice Tobard is the Harper Bazaar Photographer for Europe, North Africa, and the Scandina vian countries. He headquarters in Paris and London, and his work is used principally in the Paris Edition of Bazaar. For the past three years, he has been invited by the Photographer’s Association of America to lecture and teach in this country. He reduces his lec tures to terms which can be under stood by the average photographer or art student, and is among the first five creative photographers of the world today. The MSC Craft Shop, located in the lower level, can be reached by the stairs at the west end of the promenade. On display are cera mics, metal work, and leather dis plays. Bowling Ace Joe Wilman, one of bowling’s all- time greats, will bring his ball to College Station Friday and Satur day, to display his ten pin skill at the Memorial Student Center bowling lanes. Wilman, who hails from Berwyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb, is consider ed one of the nation’s top bowlers. He holds three world’s titles. Wilman captured the national match game crown in December, 1945. He won the 1946 Waibel Classic in St. Louis with a count of 1,797 for eight games, a new classic record; he took the Ander son Classic in Moline, Ill., with a mark of 1322 for six games, an other record; and that he rolled the high season average in the Chicago Classic League, the Ber wyn Major League and the Chicago All-Star League. Joe captured his third world’s title at the 1946 ABC at Buffalo, New York; scoring 2,054 for his nine games 'and averaging 228.2. Incidentally, that marked the only time in kegling history that any bowler had scored over 2,000 twice in ABC competition, he having pre viously turned the trick with a 2,028 in 1939. Wilman will roll three games in the afternoon, starting at 2:30, after which he will be available for instructions and questions. In the evening, he will roll six games, be ginning at 7:30 p.m., against the best talent that Price Smith, man ager of the Memorial Student Cen ter Bowling Lanes, can line up. He will then be available for ques tions. In addition to his bowling, Wil man is a bowling coach. Post Office Plans To Increase Boxes Besides the 1,585 post office boxes transferred from the sub station at the Campus Corner, an additional 1,458 new boxes will bring the total post office boxes at the MSC U. S. Post Office to 3,043. Ernest Gregg, superintendent of the station, said that students liv ing in the new area should rerTt their boxes here, but that students in the freshman dormitories and in Milner should rent their boxes at the North Gate. BEST WISHES TEXAS A&M Rothenberg & Schloss Cigar Co. Kansas City, Denver, Wichita Omaha, Tulsa, Oklahoma City When you serve your guest one of these delicious Sex ton juices, you have given him all there is . . . the full flavor, the sparkle, the vitamin value. 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