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Second-Place Winner But Delilah Started It Anyhow . Lady Barber Operates In North (tale Viewing her second-place winning arrangement of fruit depicting a Thanksgiving scheme at the A&.M Garden Club Flower Show is Mrs. W.‘ W. Armistead who took sweepstakes honors. Mrs. Armi- stead also entered an arrangement of chrysanthemums which re ceived a first place ribbon. Study Club Hears Museum Director Robert _ Preusser, co-director of elements is his own business. What the Museum of Contemporary Art r individuals see in a picture varie^ tin Houston, spoke to the Campus Study Club Tuesday afternoon. Frank Coulter introduced Preus- " ser who spoke on American paint ing in the past 25 years. He said too often the statement, “I don’t like modern art means I don’t un derstand it. We learn to under stand contemporary art only by exposure. “An attempt to explain it is baffling though it parallels the abstract qualities in music and an engineer might understand it ■ in terms of balance, weights and tensions. The basic principle is that ele- "ments in a painting- have, meaning only when in relation to each other. What a painter does with these Greece, Turkey Extentionists Visit Campus Five representatives of the extension service of Greece and Turkey are visiting the A&M campus this week. They are studying Agricul ture and Extension Service work of each state they visit, according . to Izzet Baykol, assistant director of . the agriculture school, Adana, Turkey. ' 'Other visitors are, Christas Pap- .agearian, director of agriculture, Eubes Island, , Central Greece; George Papanaaus, director of ag riculture, Kavalla, North Eastern Greece; Albert M. Simantov, assist ant to the chief of extension train ing and research, Athens, Greece; and, Neurttin Madran, chief of cot ton experiment sub station, Man- isa, Turkey. While they are on the campus they will visit various extension service facilities. Included are vis its to the Brazos River field lab oratory and horticulture farm, the beef cattle center, dairy cattle cen ter, poultry farm, entomological laboratory and agricultural experi ment station and laboratory. The group has visited some east ern colleges and universities and the states of Michigan and Arkan sas, Simantov said. The five men came to Texas under a technical assistant pro ject of the Economic Cooperation Administration and plan to stay •until December 1, when they will resume their trip. with their own experiences, Preus ser said. Contemporary art requires both an intellectual and an emo tional approach. Only experience can help one determine what is good in contemporary art. Preusser said men painting to day have been influenced by the men who departed from the Re naissance, notably Cezanne. Dur ing the Renaissance looking at a picture was a static experience. The movement in painting known as cubism no longer exists. It was a period of experimenta tions. There was a supremacy of design over contents. The tradi tion of experimentation, however, has remained. The artist attempts to stimulate the imigination of the observer. Modern architecture, streamline designing of modern cars, the functional beauty of modern furni ture all have been influenced by the new concepts in modern art. Preusser illustrated his talk with colored kodachrome slides showing works of modern artists including his own compositions. In closing he said he believed a beginning artist should be stim ulated to find his own technique, to have a creative approach. Uy GEORGE CHARLTON Ever since Delilah gave Samson that first historical haircut, there have been female barbers clipping their way down through the cen turies. Maybe not many of them, but they’ve existed just the same. In the last few years, their num ber has increased two-fold. And, upcoming, progressive little com munity .that we are, there’s one right here in College Station. Her place of business at North Gate, appropriately enough, is call 'd the Queen Barber Shop. For that’s exactly what she is, in the lenient sense of the word. Tall with clear green eyes, auburn hair, and definite good looks describes her. Armed with a pair of scissors and a shaving brush, she’s unbeatable. Hilda Varner is her name. There’s another barber at North Gate named Varner—her hus band. His shop is just down the street. “The people around here are much nicer than most places, and they at least don’t stare when they come in and see me cutting’ hair,” she says. She doesn’t have particular trouble with finicky people. Her customers are usually polite, and “if they don’t like the way I cut their hair, they just don’t come back—so I know by the number of customers when I’m doing all right Bn Ita Hon CIT Y News - Society THUR., NOV. 16, 1950 Page 3 Hospitals Report New Babies Born The St. Joseph Hospital of Bry an reports the birth of a 6 lb. 14 oz. girl to Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wil liams of Bryan. The baby was born at 4:42 a. m., November 14. The father is a business major at A&M and hails from Waco. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hebert are the proud parents of an 8 lb. 1 oz. baby boy born yesterday at 2:08 a. m. H. E. Hampton, professor in the Agronomy Department of A&M, has been admitted to St. Joseph’s Hospital as a surgical patient. Hampton resides in College Sta tion. State, Local KC Officers Meet, Plan Program / v r rl i ..on M. J. Babin Jr., state de puty of the State Council of Texas of the Knights of Col umbus, has been in College Station discussing the Colum bian Squire program with Lt. Col. Walter H. Parsons Jr., state chair man of the program. Babin approved the addition of one member to the state committee from each of the following diocese: Abilene, Corpus Christi, Amarillo, El Paso, and two additional mem bers from the Arch-diocese of San Antonio. Names of the new members of the committee will be announced early next week, said Colonel Par sons. The next meeting of the state committee will be held in San An tonio during December. The exact date and place of meeting will be announced later, Colonel Parsons added. A&M Film Society Sets Second Meet “The Last of the Line” and “Civ- j ilization,” two early films produced by pioneer movie-maker, Thomas Dice, will be featured at the sec ond meeting of the A&M Film , Society Monday night, at 7:30, in the YMCA Chapel. Ince, along with D. W. Griffith, was one of the earliest innovators ,in motion picture history. Much of our present day technical skill in Hollywood can be traced to ground work laid by Ince. Among films scheduled for fu ture meetings are “All Quiet On The Western Front,” “Intolerance,” and “The Thin Man.” Coffee will be served after the ‘ meeting, Herman Gollob, presi dent of the Film Society, said. •Dairymen Slate Short Course December 6-7 A dairyman’s short course will be held here Dec. 6 - 7. The course is designed to serve the dairyman and plant field men who do not have the time for more extensive training in dairying or refresher work. • Outstanding men in dairying will be on the program which will be climaxed by a dinner Dec. 7. or not.” Working a 60-hour-a-week sche dule, Mrs. Varner still finds time to keep house and give her two child ren and husband an occasional haircut. She cuts her own hair also. About Hire years ago, she first got the urge to enter the hair shearing profession. Before that time, she had done office work which she calls “not very inter esting.” Barbering paid more, too. Mrs. Varner paid the college tui tion, and as she says “I couldn’t back out then. We couldn’t get the money bark. I got cold feet a few times—being in a class with over 60 men.” At first her male class, asso ciates resented her every action, she says, but sooij enough they took all in their stride and were nice to her. Six months later at the Mohler Barber College in Fres no, California, she passed her ex amination. Upon coming to Texas, she had to take another test for a state practicing license. Mrs. Varner has barbered in Austin and Lufkin. As far as ad justing herself to the College Station barbering routine, she says “The hardest thing to learn to do properly was how to give a good freshman burr cut.” The most hectic times in the shop are before reviews and big weekends. She tells the story of how an Aggie one day went up to Mr. Var ner and asked him how he felt about “that woman barber down the street taking away some of his business.” Varner played along a little while and then finally told the cadet the truth—that it didn’t make too much difference. On pay day, the checks went in the family fund. An avocation with Mrs. Varner is writing. Teachers in high school encouraged her short stories and poems and even went so far as to suggest she send some of them to magazines as publication material. Her knowledge of College Sta tion did not begin when she came down here to live one and a half years ago. While in high school at Dickens, Texas, she came to the campus many weekends to at tend football games. When asked whether she thought she would get more business mere ly because she was a woman, Mrs. Varner said: “I don’t think it makes any difference whether you’re, a man or a woman barber. The quality of the job is always Iho determining factor.” CS Chest Drive Gets Extension The College Station Com munity Chest drive will be extended until noon Saturday, John B. Longley, Commun ity Chest secretary-treasurer has announced. The reason for the extension of the drive was that there have been several conflicts during tbe drive such as President Harrington’s in auguration, the Corps Trip, and quizzes Longley added. People who have contributed to the Community Chest and who want Tuberculosis Seals may re ceive them by calling Longley at his office or by phoning 4-1139. If contributors to the chest drive receive Seals through the mail, they may keep them without mak ing an additional contribution Longley stated. A&M Officials to Attend Land Grant Convention Twelve representatives from A&M will meet with 600 other educators from 54 colleges and uni versities in Washington, D. C. next week for the sixty-fourth annual convention of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Univer sities. General theme of the conference will be the importance of the indi vidual, whether he be student, staff member, or seeker of extension in formation, in the work of the grant institutions, A. S. Adams, Associa tion president said. More intensive work of the con vention will be carried on in ses sions of special interest divisions, he said. Major units of the Association are divisions of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Home and Councils on Graduate Work and Instruction. Within these units, Adams ex plained, are sections, groups and committees covering the many fields in which land-grant colleges operate, with emphasis given to extension work and research as well as to resident teaching. Attending the convention from A&M will be M. T. Harrington, President of the College; C. C^ French, Dean of the College; Gibb Gilchrist, Chancellor; C. N. Shep- ardson, Dean of Agriculture; H. W. Barlow, Dean of Engineering; J. P. Abbott, Dean of Arts and Sci ences; I. P. Trotter, Dean of Grad-, uate School; and I. B. Boughton, Dean of Veterinary Medicine. R. D. Lewis, Texas Agriculture Experiment Station; G. G. Gibson, Director of Agriculture Experiment Station; Bonnie Cox, Organization Service; and Marine Hearn, State Home Demonstration Leader will also attend from College Station. PERFECT COMPLIMENTS TO YOUR SKIRTS AND SUITS i SHOWN: Rayon Crepes and lace SIZES: SStodO Pink, Blue and Neutral $5.95 #1 {0* Smart Shop Bryan Second Floor “Sandy”, a snow-white Angora goat, was the prize winner of the grand parade held at the eleventh annual A&M Consolidated Pet Show Tuesday night, feeding the goat is Betty Jean Williams who entered it in the contest. Corsages for Friday’s Ball Orchids Gardenias Vandas Roses Mums for Saturday’s Game I. COULTER SMITH 1800 S. 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