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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1950)
T* r TTT' r» a n' v T'' a i . rage 10 IHE BATTALION Friday, September 22, 1950 Student Center Staff is Large and Experienced “The MSC, as it is now, is only a piece of great architecture,” J. Wayne Stark, manager of the Me morial Student Center, told a fresh man assembly early this semester. “It will be you, the students, to gether with our staff in the Center, who will actually put the heart into the building,” he said. And unless some catastrophe be falls that staff, it should hold up its end of the “bargain.”. Care fully selected, this experienced group will keep the Center in top- notch operation. Stark said. Secretary to the director is Helen Atterbury. Before coming to the MSC one month ago, Helen was secretary to Martin Hamilton and George Ramsey, L. G. Balfour Co. representatives. She has one child, Majure, 11, and lives in Col lege Station. PBX operator, Gwen Cress, is the wife of Ronald D. Cress, a freshman vet medicine student. She hails from Sweetwater, Texas, and previously has worked with Southwestern Bell for three years. Michigan’s Moller Craft shop advisor, Carl A. Mol ler, a graduate of Michigan State College, is a long way from his home in Saginaw, Mich. He is a graduate student in industrial ed ucation, lives in College View and has a son. Bill, age 17 months. He taught in the public schools at Saginaw before coming to College Station. Secretary in the front office, Elaine Lester from Bardwell, Ken. is the wife of Douthit Lester, a junior agricultural engineering stu dent. Previously, she was a U. S. Postal Clerk for nine years. She lives in College View and has a girl, Suzzanne, age one year. Martha Williams, assistant book keeper, comes from Arlington, is the wife of T. F. Williams, agricul tural education major. She lives in College View and has worked with the MSC for one month. Personnel Secretary Estha F. Nowlin, personnel sec retary, formerly was with the U. S. Quartermaster Depot, Ft. Worth. She lives in College Station and is the wife of I. E. Nowlin, manage ment engineering senior. Frances Allen, cashier, has work- Recreation (Continued from Page 2) eommittee plans exhibits of both their work and outside work. The games committee will be composed of sub-committees of majors of that department would be invited. the different games offered. For example last year the Bridge Com mittee won the regional finals of the Intercollegiate Bridge Tour nament and were given a paid trip to enter the national finals in Chi- 1 cago. The Bowling Committee last year entered into competetive play with the University of Texas, Uni versity of Houston, and other schools. Other game subcommittees will be organized as the students indi cate interest. Plans are being made for checkers, chess, dominoes, and canasta committees. Plans are also being made to organize a table ten nis league. The Music Committee will be a group of students interested in or ganizing musical entertainment for the Student Center. They will pur chase “high-brow” and “lowbrow” records for the music room and the sound system. The Photography Club will help instruct those who have common interests in photography, and will bring in outstanding exhibits and photographers. The Crafts Committee, with Carl Moller as advisor, will offer stu dents the opportunity to learn plastics, leather, pottery, wood work, and general ‘‘tinkering.” The committee will be offered instruc tions in hobbies from time to time and will plan exhibits of its work. The dance committee will be open to all members of the Student Center (which includes all stu dents). It hopes to offer instruc tion in ball room and folk dancing for those who wish to learn. Near 100 Students Employed in MSC Approximately 100 students »re employed at the MSC. Reporting for an orientation course a week before school began, they were taught all phases of the Center’s operations. Unlike the usual plan of hiring students on the campus, these students are work ing under a merit plan, which will stimulate initiative and courtesy, will aid in selection of those eli gible for promotion. ed with the MSC for one year. From McAllen, she is the wife of Mickey Allen, MSC draftsman. Mickey is an architecture student, and is from Pharr. Claude Onxley, acocuntant for the MSC, from Lake Charles, La., is a senior accounting student. Typist and clerk in the purchas ing department, Marilyn Gower, is from Port Arthur, and is the wife of Robert .Gower, junior business student. Glenda Brown, typist, has pre viously worked in the management engineering office. She lives with her parents in College Station. Student Warehouse Clerk Moore F. Floyd, assistant ware house clerk, is a business major and lives in Vet Village. He and his wife have two children, Judith Carol, two, and Patricia Floyd, fQur months. He is from Lufkin and has worked with the MSC for five months. Rufus E. Meads, who has been night clerk of Aggieland Inn will continue in the same capacity at MSC. He has held this position for eight years, is married and lives in Bryan. Charles “Babe” Lopez, well known to thousands of exes, has been assistant to C. M. Sykes in the Aggieland Inn and will continue in that capacity in the operation of guest rooms in MSC. 25-Year Men Though only 43, Babe has work ed over 25 years for A&M and has spent all of this time either in the dining hails or in the Aggieland He is married, has two children, and lives in Bryan. Division in Europe during the war. Mrs. C. M. Dibrell, in charge of the Browsing Library, is a grad uate of Southwestern Texas State Teachers College. Her husband is a senior agriculture education ma jor. Gallery Club Leader Mrs. Ralph Terry, supervisor of the Gallery Club, holds an art de gree from Howard Payne College. She has also had private instruc tions under such artists as Jose Arpa, Spain’s foremost artist, Will Stevens, of New Orleans, and Har ry Anthony de Young. She is a member of the Texas Fine Arts Association. As super visor of the Gallery Club, she will conduct classes of those having mixed experience in art and is go ing to have art displays continually before the students so that they will automatically appreciate it. Morris Walker, assistant manag er of the fountain, was previously assistant fountain manager of the Campus Corner. He is from Bry an. Jennie Spray, office clerk in the purchasing office, is from Wichita Falls. Her husband, James T. Spray, is a senior agricultural edu cation student. She has one child, Jeanette Frances, three years old. Former Dallasite Marie Carter Moncrief, steno grapher in the front office, is the wife of A. M. Moncrief, petroleum engineering senior. She is from Dallas where she worked for the Prudential Insurance Co. for two years. Dorothy Faye Kennedy, tele phone operator, is from Haynes- ville, La. and is the wife Of Billy B. Kennedy, senior petroleum en gineering and geology major. Russell C. Wright, senior M.E. major from Olmito, is in the main tenance department. J. L. McFarling, Jr., mainten ance department, is from Hereford. He is a senior business major. Dean S. Bowers, in the mainten ance department, is from Alice, and is a junior Ch.E. major. He served with the 3rd Infantry MARS Incorporated congratulates Texas A and M on the opening of the new memorial student center ★ "Klmbelts Fine Foods" Kimbell-Bryan Company WHOLESALE GROCERS Bryan, Texas Texas A and M-ers, in a line as long as the “MILKY WAY/ 9 have swarmed into the college stores for a long time now and asked for Mars candy bars. 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