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PUBLISHED PALLY IN THE INTEREST OF A GREATER A&M COLLEGE
Number 183: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1954
Published By
A&M Students
For 75 Years
Price Five Ceuta
iors Set Plans
For Selection Of
Class Sweetheart
Plans ’naVe started for the select
ion of a sweetheart for the junior
clas dance and banquet, March 20.
All. juniors are eligible to enter
a girl in the contest, and pictures
may be turned in at the Student
Activities office, second floor of
Goodwin hall.
At Least 5x7
Pictures must be at least 5” by
7”, but 8” by 10” pictures are pre-
fered, according to Howard Chil-
dres, sweetheart committee chair
man.
Ijlore than one picture may be
entered, Childers said, but all
pictures must be clipped to gether
or in a folder.
Attached to the bicture must be
the candidates full name, home
town, mailing address and tele
phone number.
Childers said the finalists will
be wired or telephoned at once
after the selection.
The following statistics should
also be attached to the picture:
height, weight, bust, waist, hips,,
eye color and hair color.
March 6 Deadline
Deadline for turning in pictui'es
is March 6.
A judge for the pictures will be
chosen by the junior class officers
and dance committee members next
Tuesday.
Other members of the sweetheart
committee are Sam Akard, Sammy
Netterville, Bob Carpenter and
Buck Isbell.
Pictures of the finalists will be
published in The Battalion before
the dance. The sweetheart will be
selected at the‘dance.
Press Conference
Lufkin Publisher
To Speak Feb. 12
Speculation
On Fate of Preseat
W. R. Beaumier, vice-president
and general manager of the Luf
kin Publishing Company and
publisher of the Lufkin Daily-
News, will be principal speaker for
the First Texas Junior College
Press conference to be held here
February 12-18.
Approximately 55 students and
faculty advisors from 10 junior col
leges have indicated they will at
tend the affair, the first of its
kind in the state.
Wayne R. Dean, senior journ-
Blism'student from Brownwood, is
general chairttiftTf^Wr” the con
ference. He says the purpose of
the convention is to “organize a
press conference for Texas junior
colleges and to strengthen the
prestige of student publications in
smaller schools.”
The conference will open Friday
With registration at 3 p. m. Presi
dent David H. Morgan will form
ally welcome the delegates with
an address that evening at a ban
quet in the student center ball
room. A dance will follow in the
assembly room.
Saturday morning the convention
will be broken down into separate
. workshop sessions for student
publications workers and faculty
advisors. The sessions will deal
with problems common to all small
college student publications. Mode
rators for the sessions will be A&M
students Jim Ashlock, Tom
Skrabanek, Harri Baker, Jerry
Bennett, Ed Holder, Jon Kinslow,
and Bob Boriskie.
Roland Bing, manager of A&M
student publications on leave of
absence, will direct the session
dealing with finance and the col
lege yearbook. Assisting him will
be Tom Mmray, chief artist for
Taylor Publishing company of Dal
las, and Carl Jobe, manager
of A&M student publications. Mur
ray will be special speaker for the
yearbook session, discussing “Lay
out In Choosing A Theme.” The
Conference will close with final
remarks at 3 p.m. Saturday. Col
leges attending are Arlington State
college, Tarleton State college,
Wharton junior college, Howard
County junior, Decatur Baptist
college, Kilgore junior college, Par
is junior college, Schreiner insti
tute, Southwestern Bible institute,
and Victoria college.
Architect Shows
Color Slides Today
Seventy color slides portraying
the work of Osmundson and Staley,
San Francisco landscape architects,
will be shown in the Memorial Stu
dent Center today.
Robert F. White of the depart
ment of floriculture and landscape
architecture will give the narration
which accompanies the color slides.
White’s department is sponsoring
the showing of contemporary de
sign gardens, and the show is open
to the public.
Students Refuse
To Go to Mexico U.
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 —CP> —
The senior class of the National
Law School refused today to go to
the new 20 million dollar Univer
sity City to study.
They said the new university is
too far from the city, is not prop
erly furnished, lacks communica
tions, and is not ready for use.
Bryant Will Decide
On His Assistants
By JERRY WIZIG
Battalion Sports Editor
A&M is wondering today what the fate of its former
athletic director will be and if the present assistant coaches
will be retained after Paul (Bear) Bryant, new head football
coach and athletic director, arrives.
Bryant succeeds Barlow (Bones) Irvin as athletic direc
tor, and President David H. Morgan said Bryant has been
given a free rein in naming his assistants. Bryant, 41, ac
cepted a six year, $15,000 a year contract shortly after Mor
gan wired the offer to Lexington, Ky. Bryant said he had
submitted his resignation at Kentucky and that he will be
here in a week or 10 days if his resignation is accepted.
The selection was made exactly a month after Ray
-♦George resigned as head
coach. Bryant, who still had
Paul (Bear) Bryant
Bryant Tells Why
He Took A&M Job
LEXINGTON, Feb. 5—Paul
(Bear) Bryant offered a two-fold
reason today for leaving Kentucky
to become football coach at Texas
A&M.
“When we played at A&M in the
1952 season I was tremendously
impressed, particularly by the
spirit of student body.
“I think it presents certain chal
lenges that appeal to me-”
Nine Years
Bryant, with nine years to go on
his contract at Kentucky, said he
was “very thankful for all the nice
things that happened to me and my
family in Kentucky.”
The coach went to Frankfort
earlier today and talked with Gov.
Lawrence Wetherby, a close friend.
“I hate to see Kentucky lose
Bryant. I think he’s the greatest
coach in the country,” Wetherby
said.
New Groups Set for RE
Two new discussion groups for
Religious Emphasis Week, Feb.
15-16, will be for faculty members
and married students.
Until this year, discussion groups
have held in dormitory lounges for
students only.
Leaders and the two new groups
will be Dr. Sidney Hamilton, mar
ried students, and Di\ Kelley Bar
nett, faculty members.
Hamilton, a professor, North
Texas State college, Denton, will
lead the forums and discussion
groups for married students in the
YMCA chapel.
Courses taught by Hamilton in-
Seniors to Meet
To Hear Reports
The senior clas will meet Mon
day, with committee reports as the
main item on the agenda. The
meeting will be at 7:15 p. m. in
the Memorial Student Center ball
room.
Committees reporting and their
chairmen are social, Gil Stribling;
class gift, Charles Fenner; evalua
tion, Marvin Ford; constitution,
Harold Kupfer; and traditions,
Jimmy Tyree.
Old business to be discussed in
cludes the student senate and the
Student Life committee*
elude mental testing, clinical
psychology, projective techniques,
adolescent development, guidance
and marital psychology.
A writer as well as teacher,
Hamilton is author of “Workbook
in Marital Psychology,” and co
author of “Workbook in Adolescent
Psychology” and “Workbook in
Adolescent Development”. He also
does consultant work in marital
adjustments and personality pro
blems.
Hamilton received his B A and
M A from NTSC in administrative
education and sociology. He later
received his doctorate from New
York university with emphasis in
psychology.
The leader of the faculty discus
sion groups, Barnett, is with the
Episcopal Theological seminary,
Austin.
Barnett received his AB degree
fi’om Hardin Simmons university
and his Doctor of Theology from
Southem Baptist Theological Semi
nary. He has done post-graduate
work at the University of North
Carolina and Columbia university,
and completed residence work for
his PhD. degree at Yale university.
At present, he is associate pro
fessor of Christian ethics of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary of
the Southwest, professor of mar
riage and morals under the canter
bury Bible chair at the .University
of Texas, and Interim - Vicar in
charge of St. George’s Episcopal
church in Austin.
Barnett is a 32nd degree Mason,
and active in the Scottish Rite. He
was listed in “Who’s Who” and
awarded the Rosenwald Fellowship,
1946.
Weather Today
The governor, who frequently
travels with Kentucky teams, add
ed, “I also think he is one of the
best builders of young men” in the
coaching profession.
“I have submitted my resignation
to Mr. Shively (Athletic Director
Bernie Shively) and we would have
talked with Dr. Donovan (Univer
sity President H. L. Donovan) per
sonally but he was busy and un
available,” Bryant said.
“I assume my resignation will
be accepted at which time I will
officially accept the position at
A&M.”
Athletic Board
Shively said Donovan would act
on the resignation and presumably
take it up with the athletic board.
The question of a successor would
be up to the president, he added.
Bryant asked that the resigna
tion become effective “as soon as
practical.” The coach said he would
name his staff at A&M, but “that
will come laterJ’
Bryant’s salary at Kentucky was
estimated variously at from $12,000
to $17,000.
Bryant had a 6-2-1 record at
Maryland in 1945 before coming to
Kentucky. His mark here was
60-23-5.
CLEAR and WARM
Clear with warm days and cool
nights. High yesterday 78. Low
this morning 44.
Craft Shop
Solves MSC
Problem
If the Memorial Student
Center craft shop is as good
as its signs say, the worries
about getting television in the
MSC are over.
There is a beautiful, large-
screen TV set on display in
the MSC fountain room. Prop
ped up against it is a sign
saying “Made in the MSC
craft shop.”
Those fellows must be good,
or maybe the sign was referr
ing to the pottery in the show
case below it.
Senior Class Gift
Ideas Taken in MSC
Senioi's can drop their sugges
tions for a class gift in a box
placed in the Memorial Student
Center today.
The box will remain in the MSC
Xor only one day.
The Battalion
Was First
To Run Story
Thanks to the cooperation of
the employees at A&M Press,
The Battalion was the first
newspaper in the state to carry
the news that Paul (Bear)
Bryant had been offered the
job of new head football coach
at A&M.
The papers which went to
the dormitories carried the
news, but unfortunately the
out-of-town and some of the
locally mailed papers didn’t
carry the announcement.
President David H. Morgan
held the press conference to
announce the news yesterday
at 4:10 p.m. Five minutes
later copies of The Battalion
which carried the news were
circulated among the newsmen
present at the conference.
Bruckart to Leave
For Israel Feb. 8
R. F. Bruckart of the industrial
engineering department will leave
Feb. 8 for Tel Aviv, Israel, on - a
Point IV program assignment.
He will work on a controlling
and teaching assignment to develop
methods of improving Israel’s in
dustries, while on a two-year leave
from the college.
nine years remaining on a 12
year contract, gets the high
est salary ever paid an A&M
coach. He was receiving an amount
estimated to be from 12,000 to
$17,000 a year. George got $10,-
500 a year.
Yesterday, Morgan said, “There
has been some delay in the selec
tion, but once the decision is reach
ed, the college is behind him 100
per cent.” He said that Bryant
wil] receive no additional payment
as head coach and athletic director
from outside sources. “As far as
outside employment,, we have a
method of allowing employees to
engage in outside work if it does
n’t interfere and is approved,” said
Morgan.
Had TV Program
At Kentucky, Bryant had a tele
vision program and an interest in
an insurance business.
Morgan said Bryant had never
visited the campus. He was first
contacted in Cincinnati at the De
cember convention of the National
Collegiate Athletic association. At
that time, Bryant said he wasn’t
interested in the three-year $12,000
a year contract offered then.
Reportedly Bryant was visited in
a Dallas hotel over the weekend
by G. R. V/hite, chairman of the
board of directors, and W. T.
.Doherty and R. H. (Jack) Finney,
jr., members of the three-man sub
committee named by the board of
directors to aid the athletic coun
cil in an “advisory capacity.”
Line Coach Mike Michalske told
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Debaters Win
Four Tourneys
In Road Tour
A&M’s traveling debate
team won first place in the
Ohio State university debate
tourney during its tour of
seven colleges between semes
ters.
Making the tour were Bud
Whitney, sophomore from Big
Spring; John Wilson, sophomore
from' Dallas; and Rick Black,
senior from Houston.
Besides the OSU meet, the team
won three debates, lost two, and
received a “no decision” on one.
Debates won were with West
Point, Columbia and New York
university. Debates with Princeton
and the U. S. Merchant Marine
academy were lost. Their meet with
Temple university ended in a ‘no
decision”.
This next tournaments scheduled
by the Debate team are at Baylor
this weekend and in Abilene Feb.
12 and 13.
The Baylor tourney will feature
college orators from five South
western states, debating on U. S.
free trade policy.
Texas schools among the 25
colleges competing are A&M, Tex
as Christian university, University
of Houston, WRarton junior col
lege, Texas . College of Arts and
Industries, Mary Hardin - Baylor
college, North Texas State col
lege, Southern Methodist uni
versity, Abilene Christian college,
University of Texas, Rice institute,
Hardin Simmons university,
Stephen F. Austin State college,
and Baylor.
DeMars to Head
Golden State Club
Jim DeMars of South Pasedena,
Calif., wull be president of the
Golden State club for the spring
semester.
The Golden State club is com
posed of A&M students from
California.
Other officers are Frank Hill,
vice-president; Robert Ruiz, secre
tary-treasurer; and Pete Rathbone,
reporter.
THE WINNERS — Holding the first-place trophy they
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