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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, March 3, 1953
Directors Accept
Scholarship Aid
BACKWARD
GLANCES
LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
The A&M board of directors Sat- man Fund, New York, N.Y.; Uni-
urday accepted $57,293,05 i n ted States Golf Association, Belts-
grants-in-aid, scholarships, fellow- ville, Maryland; American Potash
ships, gifts and awards, all of Institute Inc., Atlanta, Ga.; Dow
Five Years Ago Today
The Student Senate discussed
forming a quiz file in the library.
Ten Years Ago Today
Worth Crouch, a movies stunt
Former Yell Leader Agrees
A&M Would Be Better—Coed
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which were made since the last Chemical Company, Midland, Mich- man, was killed while working on Editors, The Battalion: An A&M degree is no better than Ihe young men enjoy athletics, There are girls as
meeting of the board in November, igan. the Walter Wagner production, Vour editorial of last Wednes- current popular public opinion dates, lecieational activities, etc., win.) need Ihe advant;
1952. T n-ins of maehinerv from the “We’ve Never Been Licked.” He day was one of the best and most of the school. more than books and military pre- School. Together tt.MikscP»_
Grants-in-aid to the Texas Agrri- was thrown from a caison on the firndy articles that I have seen It is impossible to put ones fee|- canon. ‘ ct me ,mply that -
cultural Experiment Station total- pany, San Antonio and The Oliver field artillery runaway scene. 11 a ' . . , - ., la £ l°t . 11 '' vo !'If’ defini- ' should come to cnllpeo I never thoncht 1 linst '—w
pd SI33 928• scholarshins Corporation (two) Dallas. r r * v a r,, j Speaking as one who loves A&M, tion of Aggie Spirit cannot be ^'hat you should come to college I nevei thought I t unst I
fellowship^' $1,000; awards^ $30o! The college received gifts from ' W< Lf + *° iy 1 feel that y° u entirely cor- made—its too big. As a former for though. For normal develop- day when 1 mmselSa^
gifts, $5,540.05; grant-in-aid to the A&M Mothers’ clubs of Erath lhe Battalion (magazine) was rect. You have brought up a prob- head yell leader, I tried to put ment you need the other too. Texas A&M changing Ohlen
A&M, $500. Loans in machinery County, San Angelo, Laredo, Deep carrying on a traditional feud with lem that we must meet and solve, it in words and illustrations Recently 1 have had considerable college. s 52-453
also were made to the station.
The grants-in-aid to the Experi
ment Station came from the Na- , ^ i j- td
tional Cottonseed Products Asso- ? rs . Clubs ’ Encyclopedia Brit-
East Texas, San Antonio, Port Ar- The Texas Ranger of the Univer- It’s up to each of us to do all that
thur, Corpus Christi, Fort Worth, sity of Texas. is possible to keep A&M great.
State Federation of A&M Moth-
ciation Inc., (two) Memphis; Quak
er Oats Company, (two) Chicago;
tanica Inc., Houston, Mrs. A. D.
Mebane, Lockhart, Hayes-Sam-
IT MIGHT UPSET SOME OF THE TENANTS
Nutrition Foundation Inc., New mo , n +-’ dohn F. Younger
York, N.Y.; Midwest Research In
stitute, Kansas City, Mo.; Hail In
surance Adjustment and Research
Association, Chicago; Texas Turf ei
Association, (two) Tyler; Goldth-
waite’s Texas Toro Company, Fort
Worth; The Julius Hyman and
and family Midland; Westinghouse
Electric Corp., St. Louis, Mo.; J.
S. Farmer, Junction; Roy A. Brew-
San Antonio; Class of 1925.
B’nai B’rith Offers Two
Scholarships came from B’nai
Company Division of the Shell B Nth Hillcl P oundation, Houston
Chemical Corp., Denver, Colo.; The
Research Corp., Williams-Water-
Board Approves
New Promotions
Endowment Inc. (two), Texas
Farm Products Co., Tom J. Wolfe,
Midland A&M Club, Dallas A&M
Mothers’ Club, Louise Henderson,
Mosher Steel Company, Gifford-
Hill and Co., Dick Price, J. F.
Postelle, Lilly Ice Cream Co., Uni
versal Oil Products, A. F. Mitchell,
Atlantic Refining- Co., E. O. Cart
wright, M. T. Halbouty, graduate
fellowship; awards, T. W. Mohle
Promotions in the Texas Agri- and T. W. Mohle and Company,
cultural Experiment Station, Tex- Phillips Petroleum Co., fellowship,
as Agricultural Extension Service Mr. and Mrs. H. Larsen, addi-
and’ Texas Forest Service, were tional gift to principal of Leonard
confirmed Saturday by the A&M Gage Larsen Memorial Scholar-
board of directors. shi P fund ; Earl H - Hulsey, for the
„ Earl H. Hulsey Opportunity Award.
The promotions follow: Texas . , . . ,
. . J; , . , c,, .. A grant-m-aid was from Cali-
Agricultural Experiment Station, fornia Spray Chemical Corp.
Jack L. Hubbard, assistant agron
omist to associate agronomist, Sub
station No. 15, Weslaco; Elton K.
Crouch, assistant animal husband
man to associate animal husband
man, East Texas Pasture Investi
gations Laboratory, Lufkin.
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service: Bluefford G. Hancock, as
sistant horticulturist to horticul
turist; Archie M. Meekma, asso
ciate dairy husbandman to dairy
husbandman; Warren W
Jr
Praire View A&M College, gifts,
came from American Cancer So
ciety and the Kiwanis Club of Col
lege Station.
though I knew it couldn’t be done, experience attempting to talk stu-
The real reason probably can be den t s and athletes into attending
explained by the fact the “Aggie A&M. It’s a tough job; the chief
Spirit” is something a little bit objection is “no girls.”
different to each of us who has You might sdy that A&M is bet
ter off without that kind, but it’s
not true. Many a potential good
Aggie and all around boy will not
, u i n i attend A&M. We are getting less
tives as they actually are, and we s ^ ut j cnts . ( p 0 f
cared for the school and those we
knew there.
Your article sees our alterna-
John M. Kii(,3-9 rec_^ .
Oklahoma (jUjIwho
seaso i
’* * 1 ^adlwit Yr
‘Old Guard’C 1 ^
Ross Hall L ' 1 " -
will have to choose our path or
accept mediocrity. TSCW is an
example to observe. In the twen
ties and thirties is was an out-
see th
Editors, The Battalia in the;
We as “Old Guard’ he I A S
£tructu££
“ J $
time. At ran-
dom, pick a group of high school the Law Hall non-ref 3 ^ hnlf-
students or ex-GI’s that you would magnificently honored
like to see come to A&M and see derful favor bestowed^hf 611 s
lUO* mix 1,11^ io ,w,o cm mix man y y ou Can Se H 0n A&M. lllght by U feW Of 'jHcfe VS
standing school that was well T , , . , , lead tl-. .
i ,i , i . x xi. cj I tried it it s tough. soldier boys who pa ieaa <
known throughout the Southwest. r u i- i a r n/r tt n x- x maxed
xt xi. ex x I believe we can make A&M Hall. We refer to h inaxca
Now even North Texas State is j j ,, h tine-—.
, ,, , x ni a' a*/ coed and still have the best school hirelings of the co er .
better known outside lexas. We . .. , .. ,, , , ... , , e . b and
■ x xu • • i 4i ,.^u spirit and college in the land. We department. ailu
still appreciate their girls though. . 1 x-- x- n i .W xi =>
z x . . . have a fine faculty and comman- These gentlemen
ROTC in every college is delin- dant. Through that the college and valiantly supervk^. ^ co1 'g
itely the cause of our relative de- . CO uld grow and expand its pro- of names of student 1 ^
cline. A larger percentage of peo- g lam> a&M appeals to those who enter the hallo 1
pie are going to college but^ the have a regard for their fellow grounds of the founl
enrollments at A&M and ISGW man , a desire to improve oneself, the MSC, sans unife
are not keeping pace. We could ant j with little interest in high “t rue-blue” troopers
maintain a national reputation by soc i e ty and “frats.
having an outstanding military
program and high academic stan
dards. This route would lead to a
small student body with a second
x-ate athletic program (as ax-e
found at VMI, The Citadel, etc).
Problem Seen,
Support Given
However I like to think of A&M Editors, The Battalion:
as a school for the masses, the More power to you! You’ve got
all-ax-ound boy and the normal the ball rolling. Now keep plug-
college student.
Directors Approve
(Continued from page 1)
other mineral development. This
was in oi'der that iron ox-e and
An appi’opi’iation of $19,000 was othei' minerals may be sold on a
Pickens made for the purchase of radiolog- ton basis instead of a royalty
assistant county agricultural ical equipment by the school of vet- basis.
medicine. The equipment Other action by the board in-
incel-
the
_ . the
000 additional funds for depart- board to sell certain lands at Ar-
ment maintenance and equipment lington State College; a slight in-
and $7,500 for improvements to crease in maintenance fee was au-
the president’s home.
Patent Rights Given
CHS Slates
Folk Opera
Next Monday
Aggie-ex Still
£ing.
No one can say for sure what
the solution is, but few will deny
corps blushingly gave,
to the cadet appoint^
them.
It was a t hrilling eiDA Y
deed, to be accidently ts-r l :; 5
the same dark pit\vitlB:38 -
poor unfortunates who*
vances.” May we addfll
Boys, please let
coffee in peace. You i
of our rank, put us
Ring” or throw us
patch, but PLEASE,
there is a problem and something the cadence, huh’
An Aggie
agent to county agricultural agent- erinaxy medicine. J ne equipment Other action by the board i
at-large; Gerald M. York, assist- H to be .. used for Agnostic and eluded the following: The Chanct
, ” , ,, , , , therapeutic purposes. lor was given authority to ask tl
ant county agricultural agent to Prairie View A&M received $20,- legislature for permission for tl
Editors, The Battalion:
I am enclosing 25 cents for five
extra copies of your Feb. 25 edi
tion which had the article “Loss
of Greatest Distinction Faced.” 1
county agricultural agent.
Texas Foxiest Service, Fire Con-
ti'ol Department: Arthur Lee
Bi'ock, senior cx*ewleader to spe
cial in equipment maintenance;
Donald W. Smith, District No. 1,
Linden, assistant forester to as-
An American folk opera will be
px-esented by the A&M Consolidat
ed High School chioi'us Monday h ave talked quite a bit about us
and Tuesday of next week. R oin S: coed ; the horse and buggy
“Down in the Valley” was writ- da ys are over for keeps,
ten by Kurt Weill. The opex-a is I have a banker friend hex - e. His
should be done!
Rodney Heath ’54
Billy C. Wallace ’53
Frank J. Koenig ’52
Bill G. Felix ’54
B. H. Anderson ’54
I). B. Fagg ’54
J. L. Shelton ’55
T. M. Howaif
F. J. Koenig
K. C. tVallNew .
W. G. Felix
B. H. AndcHTS
Mack Bantap
Rodney Heal
John Sheltn
will begin
thorized for Tarleton State Col- based on five folk songs. Weill is daughter attends TSCW. That
lege; a new boy’s dormitory at the author of “September Song” school’s enrollment has dropped so
, • • x Tarleton was named in honor of and the musical comedy “Con-
t T The dn-ectors gave permission to CoL j ames D . Bender, former necticut Yankee.”
sistant district forester; District ^neerfn^ iepartlLnt lo neBoti^ STon^he^cM^r B ° th P«'f<>''nances
No. 3, Lufkin, Robert H. Strauss, for patent rights on a rubber-pad- s tono of 4&M’s new Phvsical Edu-
assistant forester to distinct fox*- die type x’oller for use with me- ca tion Building with names of cei , A s for adults and 25 cents for _
ester; Distinct N*o. 5, Kii’byville, chanxcal cotton stxippxng machines, boai’d of dii'ectoi's members at that children, with pioceeds going to now The Aggie Club, I have been
Fred R Hetzel, lookout, to crew- They _also authorized Chancellor time. the music department for new an Aggie since 1902
Committee appointments for the
much that about half of the gilds
have a separate room—no coed.
I have been a member of the ex-
Tickets will be 50 students associatioh since it or
ganized, also Aggie Limited, and
man; District No. 6, Conroe, Jas. Gibb Gilchrist to request the state
legislature to amend the statutes
chorus robes.
B. Webster, assistant district for- le & lsIatul ’e to amend the statutes b d ,, announced by president “ lt win be worth five times the
ester to district forester. SrSlf-d’s eonSol foj S G. R White of Brady ^follows: price of the ticket,” said Robert
tne noaid s contioi ioi on, gas, or ™wownix Q x> u r. w;,a_ T. Rccmo HivontoT- nf +Hxx CHS
Directors Accept
Bid for Gym Floor
Scholarships
(Continued from page 1)
executive committee—H. L. Win- L. Boone, director of the
field, E. W. Harrison, and W. T. chorus.
Doherty; building committee—A. Leads will be taken by Janet
E. Cudlipp, J. Harold Dunn, and F 0 l we iler, as Jenny, and Jimmy
Robert Allen; chancellors commit- Bond; ag Black Weaver . There will
for students who have overcome
The A&M College System Di- obstacles in bringing out these
rectors accepted the $26,875 bid qualities in themselves,
of Di Natale Floors Inc. to fur- Freshmen may apply for the Ft.
nish a removable gymnasium floor Worth A&M Mothers’ Club Award,
for the main floor of the new a $200 scholarship given to a boy
Physical Education Building. whose home is in Tarrant county
One hundred feet wide and 136 who has shown outstanding qual-
feet long, the floor may be re- ities of leadership, scholarship and
moved if it becomes desirable to character.
hold a show or display, such as Juniors are eligible for a $100
animal shows or machinery ex- scholarship Sponsored by the Bra-
hibits. zos County A&M Mothers’ Club.
Also accepted was a bid of The main consideration besides be-
$15,135 by the Bleacher Sales Co. ing outstanding in leadership,
of Houston to install 1190 folding scholarship and character is resi-
gym seats in the new building. dence in Brazos county.
Now under construction, the The faculty committee on schol-
building will be ready for use in arships will award the stipends
September. later this spring, said McQuillen.
tee, Harrison, Winfield, and Dunn;
and relations with Texas Tech
committee — J. W. Witherspoon,
Winfield, and R. H. (Jack) Finney.
Famous Oil Executive
Speaks Here Tonight
be seven major characters and
22-voice chorus.
Sarah Puddy designed the sets
and music will be provided by Bet
ty Bolander and Margaret Berry
on twin pianos.
“Down in the Valley” is an
opera because it ends tragically,
Boone said. The hero is hanged
in the last act.
“This opera is usually perform
ed by college students,” Boone
said. “Only a few high school
groups have tried it.”
Dr. Kenneth C. Beach will speak
tonight at 8 p. m. in the Biological
Science lecture room.
Dr. Beach is coordinator of
training services for the Ameri
can Oil Company of New York
City and Saudi Arabia.
A technicolor film, “Education ^ l
Through an American Industry IVanan MateU tO fepeaK
for Improving International Re
lations,” will also be shown, said
Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of grad
uate school.
Th e Battalion
To Meteorology Group
“The Current Status of Rain-
Making” will be discussed by Ar
chie M. Kahan, oceanography de
partment, at 7:45 p. m. Friday in
the biological science room.
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