LI L ABNER Battalion Editorials Page 2 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1953 Absence of Faircloth Will Be Felt By Many The absence of Dalton Faircloth as as sistant coach on the football team will be greatly felt by many people. He has been a big help to many of the players this year, not only as a coach for the technical aspect of the game, but as a coach in the game of life. Faircloth was a friend to many of the boys on the team. When he came here in 1949, he worked with the “scrubs,” many of which went on to make the varsity starting line up. He taught them their fundamentals, and showed them how to give their best. When he became defensive coacl|, he de veloped two backs during their first year on the varsity who were named All-SWC, one first team and the other second team. Then he became offensive backfield coach this year, and one of his men made All-SWC. His record speaks for itself. Faircloth has been the coordinator for the A&M Quarterback Club which has car ried all the films of previous games for the benefit of residents and students who missed football games. The Battalion co-sponsors the club with the Memorial Student Center. The Battal ion is deeply grateful to Faircloth for his close cooperation with us in helping to make these programs possible. Faircloth took his job at A&M with all seriousness and has tried his utmost to help build a football team the college can be proud of. He has helped instill in the team the spirit and determination which has brought so many comments from people throughout the state. Some high school in the state of Texas is going to be very lucky when it signs Fair cloth as their coach. It will have a man who has ability not only to teach the funda mentals of the game, but who has that qual ity of leadership to instill in his men the de sire to play and the will to win. Letters to ike Editors Editors, The Battalion: According to an article which ap peared in the December 2nd issue of The Battalion, Corps Com mander Fred Mitchell refused an invitation to appear at TSCW for a mock wedding. This wedding was to be filmed by a company com missioned by Lever Bros, to make an educational film using only data! collected in a Nutrition Study of Teenagers which is being conducted on the campus of TSCW. It is a privilege for the campus to be chosen as the site for such a pri- jc.ct and any person would feel lucky to have his or her picture, used in such a worthwhile study., The publicity which ' TSCW and A&M got from this film (which will be distributed to all high schools and colleges over the United States) is worth more to the schools than any individual’s per sonal interest. If the Aggies asked to be in the film would have ration ally read the release and investigat ed through authorized sources what their part would have been, instead of blindly jumping to an ignorant conclusion, they would have found that their minor part in the film: wmuld have given A&M some de sperately needed favorable publ- city. The release to be signed by each person in the film plainly states that the signer’s picture can; be used only in the specified named; educational film, not for any so- called “soap” ads. One doesn’t need 1 a pre-law student to interpret the plain words of the release. Even if one couldn’t read, one ought to, know that any company with the News Briefs DR. BARDIN NELSON, agri cultural economics and sociology department, attended a meeting of the technical committee of the re gional family life research project at the Women’s College of the Uni versity of North Carolina in Greensboro, N. C. •T' 3}» 4- MIDSHIPMAN Walter S. Ander son, son of Mi-, and Mrs. Frank G. Anderson of College Station, has been appointed brigade captain at the U. S. Naval Academy at An napolis. Brigade captain is the highest rank at the academy, com parable to A&M’s cadet colonel of the corps. * * Hs FIRST LT. Ramon Garcia of Laredo recently received the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service. He attended A&M before entering the service in 1952. sit * * STAMP COLLECTORS in this area will meet Friday at 7:30 p. m. in the Academic building to orga nize a club here. Dr. R. G. Layer of the economics department and Philip Stern are forming the club. CHILDREN of Bryan AFB mili tary personnel will meet an air borne Santa Claus with gifts for 500 youngsters Dec. 12. Santa is expected to arrive in a T-33 jet airplane. He will be taken in a fire truck to the base gymnasium for a party. DURING the month of Novem ber, 1,568 persons visited the A&M campus. From June 1 to Nov. 1, the campus had 3,744 visitors. * * * SECOND LT. Robert Callaway ’52 recently received the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in Korea. He is a forward observer with the 48th field artillery batta lion. The Battalion Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions “Soldier, Statesman, Knightly Gentleman” •The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechan ical College of Texas, is published by students four times a week, during the regular school: yfcAir. During the summer terms, and eXanjihation and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. T)ayk of publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year, and TuCsdap Aid Thursday during examination and vacation periods savOiM—and k P0a! mOney-sarer for you, too! This yekr, as always, we are featuring a large variety of Bo-xed Assortments Of Christfnafe Cards. Each box contains not.'one, but several different designs—and the number of cards in each box ranges from 12 up to 25 or more. And the prices are amazingly low. 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