Friday, September 11, 1953 THE BATTALION Sec. Ill—Page 5
Mayor Ernest Langford
His Hobby Is College Station
For 11 Years
Mayor Has Hobby
In Governing City
Everyone has to have a hobby, it
seems, but Ernest Langford, head
of the architecture department, has
one of the strangest hobbies of all
. . . College Station.
“College Station is my hobby,”
said Mayor Langford, who has held
Welfare Work
Heads Duties
Of Men’s Clubs
The three men’s clubs in College
Station devote much time to fel-
loAvship and welfare work.
The College Station Kiwanis
Club and The Lions and Rotary
Clubs of College Station and Bryan
have a total riiembership of 300.
The Rotary Club supports the
Boy Scouts, Little League sports,
Boys and Girls State, the Negro
Fellowship for Health, and the
library at the Consolidated
Schools.
Rotary officers are Dean H. W.
Barlow, president; A. M. Waldrop,
vice-president; Dr. E. P. Hum
bert, secretary-treasurer; R. A.
Houze, editor and W. B. McKenzie,
sergeant at arms.
The Lions Club, that recently
dedicated a wading pool to the city
of Bryan, sets civic improvement
and sight conservation as its
goals.
The Lions Club officers are M. E.
Adams, president; J. M. Daniel,
first vice-president; R. W. Butler,
second vice-president; R. C. Dan-
sby, third vice-president; Walter
C. Holmes, secretary and O. A.
Ashworth, treasurer.
Both the Lions Club and the
Rotaiy Club meet at Maggie Park
er’s Tea Room in Biyan.
The Kiwanis Club, composed ex
clusively of College Station men,
meets at the MSC. It has set civic
development, inter-racial good will,
youth work, church work and inter
club work as its goals.
Kiwanis officers are H. E. Bur
gess, president; J. B. Baty, first
vice-president; J. B. Hervey, sec
ond vice-president; I. Peters, sec
retary and M. V. Krenitsky, treas
urer.
the highest civic post in College
Station for the past 11 years.
Mayor Langford was elected to
his present post in 1942, but he
had been on the city council since
it was first organized in 1938, That
was the year College Station was
incorporated.
Heads Department 25 Years
He has been head of the depart
ment of architecture since 1929,
but the people of this community
think of him as a civic leader.
Evidently he has a split person
ality then, because many A&M
graduates say he is a great teacher.
Langford says teaching is the
fulfillment of a dream. As a boy
in Bertram he “never knew any
thing but a hammer and saw,” but
from that beginning he has estab
lished an architectural knowledge
which he has been able to pass on
to his students.
Possibly because his father was
a building contractor, Langford
was a competent carpenter as a
boy even before he entered A&M
in 1909.
Langford did routine work in an
architect’s office in Austin after he
was graduated.
He began teaching at A&M in
1915. His classes were drawing and
architecture.
Masters From Illinois
In 1919 he went to the Univer
sity of Illinois, where he received
his masters degree in 1924. He re
turned to A&M the following year,
and took over as head of the de
partment four years later.
The quality of Langford’^ teach
ing is measured by the fact that he
has many students in his classes
who are not architecture majors.
They take courses such as the His
tory of Architecture for their elec
tives.
Langford believes that everyone
should know something about ar
chitecture, if only to develope an
ability to appreciate life.
He also believes in helping his
students to grow up as men with
an eagerness to accept life and its
responsibilities.
And as to the future of College
Station and himself; Langford says,
“The town will grow, but I per
sonally would like to see it stay a
college town, with the restful at
mosphere that only a college town
can have.”
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Population Totals 4,500
A&M Causes Town’s Growth
Generally, when a college is to
be built, it is located in or near a
city. Not so with A&M. A col
lege was founded, and the city
grew up around it.
College Station came to have a
separate identity from the college
and now calls itself “the home of
Texas A&M.” The city’s popula
tion is approximately 4,500, exclud
ing students residing on the cam
pus.
The city almost completely sur
rounds the island of state property
that is A&M. Each of the city’s
three main sections are on a dif
ferent side of the college.
The oldest section is to the
south, past the new area dormito
ries. This ai'ea has four subdivi
sions, College Park, the oldest,
Breezy Heights, West Park, and
Oakwood.
Across Highway 6 from East
Gate is the largest section of the
city. College Hills, Woodland,
Ringhoffer, Kelley, and Cooner
Additions are in this area. The
streets in this section are named
for well-known men of the col
lege: Walton, Puryear, Kyle, Mil
ner, Foster, and others.
The third section is behind
North Gate. Composed of Boyett
and Tauber, this section has most
of the city’s churches. It is also
the location of the City Hall.
The new subdivision near the
circle, which is partly in Biyan
and partly in College .Station, is
limited to personnel from Bryan
Air Force Base.
Each Has Shopping Area
Each section of the city has its
own business district and shop
ping center, and each is a city
ward.
The city was incorporated in Oc
tober, 1938. A city manager type
of government was adopted in
1944. A mayor and a six-man
Three Academic Clubs
♦ _
Provide for Freshmen
Phi Eta Sigma, national scholas
tic honor society for freshman men,
is one of the three academic honors
open to A&M Basic Division stu
dents.
The purpose of this fraternity
is to encourage and reward schol
arship among freshmen. A grade
point ratio of 2.5 in either the
first semester or the entire first
year of college work is required.
Life Membership
Although membership is for life,
the active Phi Eta Sigma chapter
is composed of sophomore members
only. At the present, members at
A&M number more than 200.
Other scholastic honors open to
freshmen are the Alpha Zeta
Freshman Award qnd Distinguish
ed Student classification.
In order to qualify as a distin
guished student, a person must
have no grade below C at the end
of each semester, have completed
at least 16 semester hours, and
have a grade point ratio of not
less than 2.25.
A distinguished student receives
a card from the Registrar’s Of
fice which entitles him to miss
any class in which an announced
quiz has not been scheduled.
Alpha Zeta, national honorary
agricultural fraternity, recognizes
the five highest freshman agricul
tural majors. A special award is
presented at the school’s spring
banquet to the student who is con
sidered the. outstanding freshman
in the School of Agriculture.
This award is based on grades
as well as other activities indicat
ing leadership ability.
Various departments at A&M
sponsor 44 different annual pro
fessional meetings and short
courses on the campus with a to
tal average attendance of nearly
10,000.
A&M, the largest military col
lege in the country, offers training
in eleven branches of the Army
ROTC and last year the Air Force
ROTC carried six options.
council form the legislative branch
of the city.
Property is assessed at 50 per
cent of value and the tax rate is
$1 per one hundred dollars valua
tion. The fire insurance key rate
is 30 cents. A 16-man volunteer
fire department serves the city.
The city police officers work in
conjunction with the A&M Cam
pus Security Office, Bryan police,
and county and state officers.
City Officials
Ernest Langford is mayor. The
city council includes Marion C.
Pugh, Joe Sorrels, A. P. Boyett,
J. A. Orr, G. W. Black, and Er
nest Seeger. The mayor and one
councilman from each of the city’s
three wards are elected every two
years.
N. M. McGinnis is city secretary;
J. W. Barger, city attorney; Fred
J. Benson, city engineer; and
Philip Goode is city judge.
Ran Boswell, a veteran of seven
years in various capacities with the
city, was hired as city manager
last year.
The city limits of Bryan and
College Station meet off the north
boundary of College Station.
Scholarship Award
Donor Is Honored
James (Rich) Richardson, editor
of last year’s “Engineer”, presen
ted recently in Lufkin a bouquet of
flowers to Mrs. S. W. Henderson at
an Aggie-ex luncheon in honor of
the work she has done for A&M.
Richai'dson was the first boy of
10 who Mrs. Henderson sent or is
sending on an Opportunity Award
Scholarship. Richardson gradua
ted this past summer.
Approximately 150 Aggie-exes
and their guests attended the meet
ing. Ex-Chancellor Gibb Gilchrist
made the principal address.
Mr. and Mrs. John Redditt and
the late E. C. Durham and Mrs.
Durham were honored for their
contributions to the scholarship
cause in Angelina County. Both
couples have given two award
scholarships.
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