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THE BATTALION
Friday, February 13, 1953
Climaxes Season
‘Festival of Song 9
Pleases Town Hall
By JERKY BENNETT
Amusements Editor
Town Hall closed its 1952-53
season last night with a show com
bining almost every type of musi
cal entertainment ever staged in
Guion Hall.
Playing to a full house, Lara
Hoggard’s “Festival of Song” fea
tured two hours of choral music,
orchestrations and interpretative
dances which filled the college aud
itorium with applause.
Popular Selections
Versatility was the show’s key
note with the 36 musicians taking
turns participating in the orches
tra, choir, and dances. Music in
cluded classical, folk, spiritual, and
popular selections. Before the en-
Executives to Hear
Economist Monday
John E. Hodges, head of the
economics department at Rice In
stitute, will be classroom speaker
Monday at the Executive Develop
ment Course.
He is an economist with the
Hughes Tool Co. in charge of
commercial research and forecast
ing. He now is engaged in making
a comprehensive study of the cap r
ital structure of the petroleum in
dustry. Hodges was graduated
from the University of Texas.
Robert Mason of Chicago and
midwestern representative of the
Underwriting Division of Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Beane
was the classroom speaker Wed
nesday and Thursday.
He is a graduate of Hamilton
College and studied in the School
of P’inance at Columbia Univer
sity. He has been in the invest
ment banking business for more
than 30 years and has spent the
last 20 years underwriting.
Air Force
Juniors Visit
Bryan AFB
Air Force Administration and
Logistics juniors are taking field
trips to Bryan Air Force Base
this week.
The trips are divided into four
groups of 25 men, Monday, Tues
day, Thursday, and Friday.
The purpose of the trips is to
orient the men on base supply, the
shipping and receiving depart
ment, the motor pool, and other
air base installations.
Other air science sections plan
field trips in the future.
The Installations section plans
trips to BAFB, the sewage dis
posal plant, and fire-fighting units
around College Station.
The Maintenance section has
planned a field trip to visit base
supply, the air craft maintenance
shops, and the tool equipment
shops.
The Armament, Communications,
and Flight Operations plans for
field trips are indefinite.
cors, “The Twelve Days of Christ
mas”, the audience sang ‘The Spir
it of Aggieland” upon Director
Hoggard’s request. Musical num
bers were presented against a
background of colorful trick light
ing and attractive costumes.
One of the highlights of the
song filled variety was “God’s
Trombones”, a musical adaption of
two Negro folk sennons. Craig
Timberlake of Dallas, was the nar
rator. Another feature was the
dances of beautiful and talented
Felisa Conde. In addition to her
performance, Miss Conde origina
ted most of the show’s choreog
raphy. She also has been featured
on Fred Warings TV show.
Musilal Workshop
“Festival of Song” has been
touring the country since Nov. 4.
Its next performance will be in
San Angelo. The tour ends in
March. Players were selected from
students in the Fred Warings mus
ical workshop schools throughout
the country. The cast first prac
ticed together in October.
Hoggard, who also directs the
Fred Waring Glee Club and all mu
sic on Waring’s TV show, origina
ted and produced “Festival of
Song.” In addition to “Festival”
and his TV work, Hoggard has
lectured eytensively at choral clin
ics throughout the United States.
Before starting to work with War
ing, he was director of choral mu
sic and professor of music educa
tion at the University of Okla
homa.
GIVES ADVICE—Lara Hoggard, director of “Festival of
Song,” makes a suggestion for a dance sequence for Felisa
Conde, featured dancer, and Marc Breaux, who shared
choreographic chores with the tall, Mexico-born brunette.
Chest X-ray
Unit Plans
April Date
The Brazos County chest X-ray
survey will be held here April
11-18, Dean of Men W. L. Pen-
berthy, said today.
The X-raying will be done from
9 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. in the MSC.
“The service is free to everyone
in this area and anyone 15 years
or older is urged to take advan
tage of it,” Penberthy said.
X-raying of students enrolled in
physical education will be conduct
ed during a regularly scheduled
class period, he said.
The survey is sponsored jointly
by the Texas State Department of
Health, the Bryan-Brazos County
Health Unit, the Brazos-Robert-
son County Medical Society, and
the Brazos County Tuberculosis
Association.
Floor Construction
Lecture Set Monday
There will be a slide illustrated
lecture on Robertson Q-Floor Con-
sti'uction and related subjects, at
7:30 p. m. Monday in the civil en
gineering building lecture room.
Two company representatives
from the Houston office of the
firm will present the lecture. It
is a joint meeting for civil en
gineering and architecture stu
dents, said K. F. Robinson, archi
tecture instructor.
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CHS Students Get
Driving Lessons
A course in driver training at
Consolidated High School, was
started Monday said Welcome
Wright, supervisor of the class
and professor in the industrial ed
ucation department.
Eighteen students have regis
tered for the course which will
give them an opportunity to get
their operator’s license.
Teaching Course
1 he course is set up as a practice
teaching course for A&M indus
trial education students. A&M stu
dents who complete the course here
in driver education receive a cer
tificate which entitles them to
teach driver training.
In addition to special training
devices for depth perception and
reaction timing, the class will use
a car for road training.
The car, obtained through the
American Automobile Association
and donated by Dishman Pontiac
Company of Bryan, should be
available for the class sometime
this week, Wright said.
Written Test
Students passing the written
test given in the driver training
class receive a road test by the
State Highway Department.
“If they satisfactorily complete
this test, they will be issued their
Texas operator’s license,” Wright
said.
Students who already have their
license will be given driving cer
tificates after completing the
course, he said.
Poll Tax Receipts
Are 6,268 in County
The 1953 poll tax has been paid
by 6,268 people in Brazos County,
according to Norton R. Burk-
halter, county tax collector.
Burkhalter estimated that from
1500 to 1800 of these were in
College Station, which has a resi
dential population of 4,000.
Of the total receipts given to
tax payers, 4,948 were paid tax
and l,320 were exemption receipts.
Amputees, 21-year-olds, and peo
ple over 60 are exempt from pay
ment.
The $1.75 tax wifi be divided in
to one dolar for schools, 50
cents for state government, and
25 cents for county government.
Students from A&M teaching
at Consolidated High School are
M. C. Flentye, H. I. Hart, Calvin
Zabcik, W. E. Kemball, Tony
Houston , Thomas Hurta, Alvin
Gilless, R. B. Blaylock, Ray Cov-
eney, and Alvin Eisenberg.
A &M Com mission s
173 at Mid-term
“One hundred and seventy-three
January graduates received Arm
ed Forces commissions,” said Lt.
Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com
mandant. “Of these, 117 were in
the Army and 56 were Air Force.”
“All graduates have taken phy
sical examinations for active duty
and have received their orders to
report,” he said.
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CHAPULTEPEC
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Senior Favorites
Are Now Accepted
Senior favorite pictures are now
being accepted for the Aggieland
’53, said Harvey (Spider) Mil
ler, Aggieland co-editor.
The picture should be a bust
shot of any size, but should not be
in a folder or frame, he said.
Pictures may be turned in to
the office of student publications
on the second floor of Goodwin
Hall. The price for putting the
pictures in the senior favorite sec
tion of the Aggieland will be $1.50,
said Miller. «
WTAW Schedules
Education Series
The first program of the “Con
stant Invader,” a series of dra
matic education programs, will be
broadcast Tuesday, Feb. 17, at
12:45 p. m. over WTAW.
Spohsored by the Brazos County
TB Association, through coopera
tion with WTAW, the weekly pro
grams will be 15 minutes long.
Herbert Marshall will play the
principal role, with H. U. Chain
directing and Ben Ludlow acting
as composer-director of the tran
scribed programs.
Coffee Set Sunday For
Gonzalez in MSC
Students and residents of the
Bryan and College Station com
munity arc invited to meet Xavier
Gonzalez, noted artist at a coffee,
Sunday afternoon in the Social
Room of the Memorial Student
Center from 3 to 5 p.m. ac
cording to Mrs, Ernalita Terry, art
director of the MSC.
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i featuring Chevrolet’s new
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