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r66: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1953
Price Five Cents
President Rejects Proposal
For Consolidation of Corps
Reactions Vary
On President’s Act
Dr. D. J. Clazzic
Looking for “man-of-distinction*
Cartoon by Bob Hendry
> NEX T PRESIDENT—II
zzic Was Once
vest at
lears as an instructor
college seems to be
llazzic’s major qualifi-
)e presidentcy of A&M.
I I’m qualified for the
told one of his friends
|ear-old professor of
phanics (car washing)
BS degree from a
[college in the Corn
|nd his MS from the
[f Cuba. While in Cuba,
ireh work in advertis-
to find the “man of
ited a Ph. D. from the
Kelogg University,
known as the “most
lefnan in the profes-
isas bootlegging at the
the “professor of in-
i'lazzic is given unof-
for inventing crib
Ithe Hathaway patch,
jer’s formula used for
discharged from his
jan instructor when he
crib sheets. He was
to students in oppon-
Irs’ classes.
ter accepted an instruc-
^^Hon with all-girls
(he East where he re-
nstructor foi; 15 yeai*s.
irs Suggest
p^ate
’er for Gift
ar between the Col-
m post office park-
nd Sulphur Springs
be one of the major
of the class of ’53
oh Andrews, chairman
of ’53 gift committee,
cer. will be inscribed
ge, Gift of class of
jor suggestions include
as a pulpuit, to be put
:ith chapel, built by the
ents association, and a
iewing stand to replace
one on the main drill
oposals are a trophy
'trie ;;timing clock for
ysical education plant,
id in the new area and
nt fund to be used for
>f the members of the
3.
said the class intends
ut $12,00 for the gift,
committee will meet
ttei, senior class presi-
m. Thursday to dis-
f suggestions,
of the gift committee
ndrews, chirman, Bill
'ale Bientendorf, Kieth
:ob Hutchison, Spencer
nd Bill Chamlee.
; Reserved
] for 53-54
.ervations in the MSC
>3-54 school year will
through May 31, said
e Holland, guest room
iy be reserved by nam-
nt during which hous
ed, she said,
fo or more events oc-
ame week-end, a draw-
held for the available
“I was not promoted during this
time,” the pi-esidential-candidate
claims,” because the president of
the college didn’t know I was
teaching until the girls’ dormi
tory burned down. I’d like the
change at A&M and I can make
gentlemen out of those men.”
Besides being a bachelor, a good
bridge player, ex-polo star for the
Cuban Hotshots, Dr. Clazzic is well
known as a mixer. He was official
mascot for the East Coast Bar
Maids Association for eight con
secutive years.
A consistant reader of the Dallas
Morning News and The Rotarian,
Clazzic considers himself well
qualified for the job of presidency
and “in the know on Texas politics
and its higher education.”
Military Cut
Won’t Hit A&M
Says Col. Davis
The Defense Department’s
plan to cut military manpow
er should not materially af
fect the A&M Corps of Ca
dets, said Col. Joe E. Davis,
commandant.
When the Korean war ends,
250,000 men will be discharged.
About 180,000 men will be dis
charged if the war pursues its
present stalemated course.
“This is my own opinion,” Davis
said. “The military department has
not received any official word from
Washington as yet.”
High defense officials said the
cut would save an estimated
$2,400,000 during the 1953-54 fiscal
year which starts July 1.
President Eisenhower, at a news
conference last week, gave little in
dication that an immediate induc
tion in defense output would be
made.
In reply to a question, the Presi
dent said it possibly is true that
there will be fewer armed services
personnel in the distant future.
Defense Department sources
were unable to supply a break
down by services or commands of
any slackening in the defense ef
fort.
Follies, 4 Harvey’
Set Friday in Guion
The Aggie Follies will be pre
sented in conjunction with the Ag
gie Player's’ presentation of “Har
vey” Friday and Saturday in
Guion Hall.
Tickets will be 75^ for the Fri
day performances and one dollar
for the Saturday shows, single
ticket will gain admission to both
shows. ‘ X
The first .'performance of “Har
vey” will be presented Friday at
7:30 p. m. The Aggie Follies will
follow it immediately. A matinee
performance of Harvey will be pre
sented Saturday at 3 p. m.
The Saturday Follies show will
start at 7:30 p. m. and the All-
College Mother’s Day Dance will
follow it in the Grove.
International Theme
The Follies will be presented on
an international theme, John Sam
uels, chairman of the Follies Com
mittee said. The program will be
in the form of a trip around the
world made by an Aggie, John
(Dukey) Childs. His tour will be
conducted by H. L. McAdams, a
“genie.”
The opening scene will be at
A&M. The Singing Cadets and the
Aggieland Orchestra will repre
sent A&M in this scene. McAdams’
Bryan Kiwanians
Installed Friday
A Kiwanis Club for Bryan will
be formally installed at 7:15 p.
m. Friday in Maggie Parker’s
Dining Hall: The College Station
Kiwanis Club assisted in forming
the Bryan club.
Speaker for the evening will be
Kiwanis District Governor Bailey
Choate. The Bryan Kiwanians in
vited members of the College Sta
tion Club and their wives to attend
the meeting.
Jesse Thames will be installed
as president of the Bryan club.
Senate to Discuss
Election Board
The powers and duties of the
Election Commission will be dis
cussed by the Student Senate at
7:30 p. m. Thursday in the MSC.
Next year’s senators are invited
to attend.
Other business to be discussed
is final plans for the Mothers Day
program in Guion Hall and final
arrangements for the Senate Ban
quet May 12.
Hillbilly Combo will represent
West Texas in the second scene.
The next stop on Childs’ trip
will be an Italian Street Market
where Lamar McNew will sing to
the music of Roddy Peeples’ Com
bo. Trpett Fields’ Barbershop
Quartet. and singer Pete Mayeaux
furnish;’ the entertainment in a
French'“Night Club scene.
Ernesto Martelino and his Latin
American Combo and Latin Ameri
can Trio will perform in a Latin
American scene. The final scene
will be back at-A&M. The Fresh
man Drill Team and Dean H. W.
Barlow’s Faculty Orchestra re
present A&M in the final scene.
Phi Kappa
Czech for
Tells Juniors
Ties! for A&M’
By CHUCK NEIGHBORS
Battalion News Editor
Freshmen will remain segregated from the rest of the
corps next year.
“I cannot approve the recommendation that members of
all classes be housed together on company level throughout
the corps,” said President of the College M. T. Harrington,
in a report to the 15-man junior steering committee which
presented the original plan for consolidation.
The results and advantages of the Third Division have
proven most satisfactory, the president said. The number
of freshmen withdrawing from school has been greatly re
duced since the Third Division was established, he said.
It is in the best interests of the corps that we continue
oui’ present housing and unit or- +
ganization, said Harrington.
Classes should not “control” ca
det life, said Harrington. Desig
nated authority should come from
cadet officers and non-commission
ed officers if the corps is to func
tion successfully.
Harrington recommended that
the committee makes every effort
to improve the spirit and “disin
terested” feeling in the First and
Second Division towards the Third
Division.
He commended the committee
for showing evidence of leadei*ship,
and said he hoped their attitude
could be adopted by the whole
corps next year.
Some of the steering committee’s
original recommendations for con
solidation included military and
academic reasons.
The group of juniors contended
that CQ could be more rigidly en
forced under consolidation of the
corps and that freshmen would de
velop a competitive spirit toward
studies because of the ‘ General
Moore award competition.
Military Advantages
In military advantages of doing
away with the Third Division, the
committee said sophomores would -
have more responsibility, ease of
control over discipline would re
sult, sophomorers would serve one
year instead of two as “low man”
in the corps set up and greater
interest in individual outfits would
result.
The committee also named some
morale advantages. These includ
ed the fact that spirit at A&M is
divided under the present system,
good examples would be "set by all
upperclassmen instead of a few,
more friendships would result in
(See CONSOLIDATION, Page 2)
Reaction to the president’s deci
sion on the consolidation issue was
varied.
Col. Joe E. Davis, commandant
of cadets, said he feels much the
same as the president does, but
the steering committee’s sugges
tions were a “step in the right di
rection.”
“We are not ready for consoli
dation,” Davis said, “until we com
pletely do away with any adverse
criticism of the corps.”
Dean John R. Bertrand of the
Basic Division, commends the ideas
MSC Art Director
Mrs. Terry Named
For Top 10 Women
By PEGGY MODDOX
Battalion Women’s Editor
Recently nominated by the local
women’s clubs as “One of the
Top 10 Women in Texas,” Mrs.
Ralph B. (Emalita Newton Terry
is continuing her work to promote
art at A&M and College Station.
“It was more wonderful than I
ever dreamed,” said the MSC Ait
Advisor and instructor about the
recognition paid her by the local
women’s clubs. “I don’t care if it
never goes any further.”
The project sponsored by a
Corpus Christi organization has
been postponed until next year;
however, Mrs. Terry says she
still feels honored by her nomina
tion.
She is constantly striving toward
completion of her dream: to make
A&M the art center of Texas. Con
sequently, Emalita Terry is one
of the busiest women on the cam
pus.
“I get tired, tired to death, but
never bored,” she says. “I have
taught art since I was in high
school, but I have never thought
of it as work. I guess it is because
I am never bored.”
It does seem unusual that
she should have taught while
attending high school. More un
usual and amazing is the fact that
Eduard Taborsky, who has lived
under Communist. rule, will speak
on the • consequences of Stalin’s
death at the annual Phi Kappa
Phi initiation banquet Thursday
in the MSC.
Taborsky, a history professor at
the University of Texas, was once
secretary to the latq Eduard
Benes, president of Czechslovakia.
He was. that nation’s envoy to
Sweden when the Communists took
she began work on her degree at
Howard Payne College in Brown-
wood when she was 13 years old
and completed it when she was 15.
Mrs. Terry finished her high
school course at the Howard Payne
Academy instead of the Brown-
wood high school so she could
spend all her spare time in the art
studio. While doing all of this,
she also was instructing.
Her painting career began when
she was 11 years old. For three
years during the summer she
attended the Texas Artists’ Camp
at Christoval, a little town near-
San Angelo, her birthplace.
After she was graduated she
did extensive study in San An
tonio under Avier Gonzales and
Jose Aipa, both natives of Spain.
Since that time she has studied
under Adele Brunet of Dallas and
New York, Will Stevens of New
Orleans, Anthony de Young of San
Antonio.
In 1942 she was married to
Ralph Terry who now is attend
ing A&M. While Uncle Sam was
moving him around the country
and overseas, she was em
ployed at the only job that she
considered work—drafting.
When the war ended, Ralph re-
tm-ned to college here. Emalita
was selected as the first MSC Art
(See MRS. TERRY, Page 4)
Eduard Taborsky
over in 1948. Taborsky’s speech
will be “What After Stalin ?
Initiates 123 People
Phi Kappa Phi, the National
Honor Society for all branches of
higher learning, will initiate 20
faculty members and 103 students
at the banquet before Taborsky’s
speech.
Students from the schools of
Agriculture, Arts and Sciences,
Engineering, and Veterinary Medi
cine will be honored.
Taborsky, who received his
Phi Sets
Speaker
versity in Prague, entered the
Czechoslavakian diplomatic ser
vice in 1937.
Fled to Britain
After the Nazi invasion he fled
to Britain where he acted as
Benes’ secretary.
In this capacity he attended
state meets with Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Stalin and Molotov.
After the libei’ation, he was ap
pointed to the Swedish post. He
resigned in 1948 when the Com
munists came into power.
Since then he has taught his
tory and political science at the
University of Stockholm, Ohio
State University and University of
Texas.
Taborsky is the author of several
books on political theory, two of
which have been translated into
English.
The banquet will begin at 7:30
in the MSC Ballroom.
TSFW Director
Hold Meet in MSC
The Board of directors of the
Texas State Federation of Wo
men’s clubs is meeting in the MSC
today and tomorrow.
About 120 women are expected
to be on hand for the program
which will include business meet
ings, luncheons and speakers.
President M. T. Harrington will
speak to the group on “Education
at A&M” at 7 p. m. today.
The five federated women’s clubs
of Brazos County will serve as
hostesses at a tea in the house of
Mrs. M. T. Harrington this after
noon.
The five cloubs are The Bryan
Women’s Club, the Extension Ser
vice Club, the Campus Study Club,
the Bryan Reading Club, and the
College Station - Bryan Evening
Study Club.
Mrs. Van Hook Stubbs of Worth
am is president of the organiza-
doctor’s degree from Charles Uni- tion.
HIGHEST ACADEMIC HONORS—Three senior students
recently were named to receive the Faculty Achievement
Award, highest academic award granted by the School of
Arts and Sciences. They are (L to R) Otto Ashley Prather
Jr. of Donna, business administration; Frank G. Nedbalek
of Bryan, English; Dean J. P. Abbott, dean of the School
of arts and sciences; and Robert E. Huffman of Brecken
ridge, chemistry.
of the committee, but feels that a
move to end segregation of the
freshman class at this time is
unnecessary.
With more upperclassmen added
to Third Division organizations
next year, the load on junioi - s and
seniors there will be lightened, he
said.
Dean Bertrand expressed a hope
for a better corps of cadets in the
year 1953-54, one which would
show evidence of readiness for a
future change in its organizational
structure.
Fred H. Mitchell, sergeant ma
jor of the corps of cadets and
spokesman for the committee, said
President of the College M. T.
Harrington is not opposed to the
consolidation program, but thinks
instead that we are not ready for
it at present.
“If we really work on the prob
lem next year, it looks like we
might have the coips together
again sometime in the near fu
ture,” Mitchell said.
A&M Marching
Units Will Be In
Bryan Parade
The Freshman Band,
Freshman Drill Team and the
George Moore Trophy winner
unit will take part in the
Armed Forces Day Parade
May 16, said Lt. Col. Taylor Wil
kins, assistant commandant.
The parade will be held in Bry
an.
The purpose of Armed Forces
Day is to better inform the public
on the nature of the armed forces.
The Armed Forces Day parade,
bing arranged by Major Robert
H. Sanctuary, planning officer for
this area, will include units from
A&M, Allen Academy, Veterans of:
Foreign Wars, American Legion
and Bryan Air Force Base-
Air cover will be provided for
the parade by both jet and prop
driven planes from th base. A
helicopter will lead the march.
A Battery
AAA Wins
Best Drilled
A Battery Anti-Aircraft Artil
lery placed first in competition for
the best drilled unit in the corps
for the 1952-53 school year.
It won with a total of 4,644
points.
Placing second with 4,460 points
was the White Band. Others plac
ing in the top 10 were Squadron
10, third; A Infantry, fourth; Ma
roon Band, fifth; Freshman Band,
sixth; Squadron 22, seventh;
Squadron 5, eighth; Squadron 24,
ninth; and Squadron 21, tenth.
The Freshman Band won fii’st
place in the Federal Inspection re
view with 1,000 points.
Others placing in top positions
were a Battery Anti - Aircraft
Artillery, second; Squadron 10,
third; White Band, Maroon Band,
and Squadron 6 fourth; Squadron
22, and Company A, sixth; A In
fantry, Squadron 21, Squadron 23,
and Squadron 3, eighth.
Parade for Mothers
Set for Sunday
The annual Mother’s Day parade
will be held at 9:05 a. m. Sunday
on the main drill field.
Uniform will be number one
khaki with helmet liners, but with
out white glives. Seniors and staff
juniors will wear green ties; all
other cadets will wear khaki ties.
Order of march will be the same
used for other corps reviews this
year. The parade will not be grad
ed.