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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1950)
r Page 12 THE BATTALION Friday, September 22, 195' Frida Carillon System To Be Bought As Class Gift A Strom b^rg-Carlson Carillon system, gift of the Class of ’49, has been ordered for the Memorial Student Center. It will be mounted in a 25 note console and installed in the tower. The Westminister chimes will strike the quarter-hour with four beats, the half-hour with eight beats, the three-quarter-hour with twelve, and the hour with sixteen. The hour will also be- sounded by a single Big Ben Tone Bell. The traditional carillon con sists of 25 or more cast bells, hung stationary and tuned to the notes of the chromatic scale, so that two-part music or inverted melody can be played. Such bells weigh many tons and require a special strengthened tower to support them. Bells are played from a key board, the levers of which, when struck downward, pull the clappers to the bells by wires. Keys are banged down with balled fists, g'ently or vigorously, depending up on the expression desired. The carillonneur uses both his hands and his feet in playing the instru ment. It takes at least two full years to teach a better-than-aver- age musician the technique of play ing the instrument. Utilizing but a few ounces of metal, these carillons will pro duce bell-tones as authentic as the ringing blow of a great clap per upon tons of tuned bronze. The metal clapper hits tone bar, and the metal vibrates in the same way as a bell. Because of the small size of the tone-bars in these instruments, the vibrations are for the most part inaudible. Electronically they are picked up and converted to electri cal impulses by a small electro magnet. Through amplifying equipment these electrical impulses are raised to any desired volume from a whis per to a deluge of sound far great er than that of even the largest cast bell. Carl Brock Heads Maintenance Staff Carl R. Brock, assistant super intendent in charge of maintenance of the Memorial Student Center, has had considerable experience in contracting business in Tuscon, Ariz., before coming to College Station. Brock is responsible for the 300 tons of air-conditioning, all motors, refrigeration, electrical, and plumbing equipment. He is in charge of anything pertaining to the physical building itself except the cleaning of it. Brock is the brother of E. H. “Gene” Brock, an assistant pro fessor in the Architecture Depart ment, who at present is on leave of absence from the staff to Los Alamos, N.M. MSC Social Director Familiar to Students For four years director of the Annex student center, Mrs. Ann Hilliard is now assistant director —social and educational work at the Memorial Student Center. Al ways willing to lend a sympathetic ear and a great deal of good ad vice, she offered top-notch organi- Assistant Director Is A&M Graduate Mrs. Marie Moncrief Mrs. Ann Hilliard Known for her top-notch organizational ability in planning recrea tional and social functions at the Annex Student Center, Mrs. Hilliard is now assistant director in charge of social and educational activities of the Memorial Student Center. With her is Mrs. Moncrief, her stenographer. Assistant to Social Director Is Michigan State Graduate All loyal Texans take note. Here’s a little lady five feet two inches tall with light brown hair and blue green eyes who thought that there weren’t any trees iri our sovereign state of Texas. Her source of information was some Yankee propagandist, no doubt. But now that Betty Bolander, assistant director of the Memorial Student Center, has arrived in Tex as, she realizes that our state isn’t such a bad place after all. Betty graduated from Michigan State College in 1946 and worked for a year as citation writer for the Navy in Washington D.C. During the time she was in the Capitol she also took interviews for the Washington Post and worked with the American The ater Wing as a musician. She plays both the piano and the French horn. Activities Director The following year she returned to her alma mater as activities dir ector in a girls character program. In 1948, she journeyed to Color ado for graduate study in the children’s theater of music at the University of Denver. While pur suing her studies in Denver she did accompanying work for differ ent schools and wrote music for children’s plays and television. Last year she was a first grade teacher in the Denver Public Schools. Betty likes bowling, table ten nis, bridge, ice skating, and any thing to do with music. Her home is in Lapeer, Michigan, near De troit, and she is the oldest of a family of five children. ‘Feels at Home’ She already feels at home in A&M because her father is with the Michigan State Agriculture De partment. Also she was accom panist for an all male glee club P. H. S. TOBACCO CO. Incorporated Wholesale Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco Johnston Candies and Chocolates * * * 1414 Preston Avenue HOUSTON 2, TEXAS EL PRODUCTO PHILLIES LOVERA MELBA KING EDWARD KING ALBERT JOHN RUSKIN HUNTER L. D. (Dusty) RHODES Representative at Michigan State, has traveled with a dance band, and has been camp counselor at a boys and girls camp. Betty hopes to know a lot of stu dents and is going to use her tal ents to encourage use of the Me morial Student Center. Perhaps the students can persuade her that our Lone Star State is the place to stay. C. F. Gent, assistant director and business manager, has worked with the Memorial Student Center since December, 1947, when he be gan as student manager of the campus fund. In May, 1948, he moved into the office of personnel manager. Since June, 1949, he has held his present position. As assistant director his duties include personnel work, purchasing management, and supervision of the various business departments of the Center. These departments ■^include the 66 air-conditioned guest rooms, the 32 rooms in the Aggie- land Inn, the dining room, coffee shop, and the fountain room. He will also act as director in the absence of J. Wayne Stark. A native of Moody, Tex., Gent enrolled in A&M in 1936. He later spent 10 years in the Army and was in the Fourth Infantry Division during the war. This division was among the forces that made the assault landing on the beaches of Normandy. Gent was discharged as a major and came back to >A&M in 1946. In June, 1949, he received his de gree in business. He is married and has one child, Nancy, 4. zational ability to freshmen stu dents in planning recreational an social functions. ' * With the opening of the Msmo _ , 'i; rial Student Center, she is contin uing her work by organizing an I^tudc i advising the activity program fo, |l a n* wc the entire student body. __ Hkhat jinterio knowh MSC Phone is 4-5124 Now that the switchboard ha, been installed, the new telethon* number of the Memorial Studen Center is 4-5124. MSC director J Wayne Stark suggests that every one record this number in theii directory. Five other numbers will auto matically ring if this one is iousy m fuxn- To TEXAS ASM COLLEGE On The Opening Of Their New MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER “My job isn’t to tell the student what to do,” Mrs. Hilliard states “They will choose their own activi Itop m ties, and I will give them advic i— and will aid them in organizing their clubs and groups.” The social and recreational ac tivities headed by Mrs. Hilliard in elude the browsing library, an ar program, crafts Shop, photography a record room, dance areas, an housing for the bulk of the meet ings for the organizations on th campus. To help her with he large job, she has an assistant so cial director, Miss Betty Bolandei and will have a staff composed o the committee heads of the var ious activities in the building. Mrs. Hilliard came to College Station in 1941 as secretary th Placement Office. Beginnii^ ii 1946 as director of the studen center at the Annex, she has gaine< experience that makes her espe cially well prepared to take he: present position in the Memoria Student Center. HI