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Number 232: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION (Aggieland), TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1954
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NEW CITIZEN—Pierre Mommessin received his natural
ization papers today in the district court in Bryan. He is
jj a graduate student in chemistry, and is studying toward
his PhD.
From Paris
Aggie Receives
US Citizenship
“I declare you to be citizens. , ”
the district judge said to the 10
people standing in front of him
yestei’day.
Included in the applicants for
citizenship, was Pierre Mommessin,
A&M graduate chemistry student
from Fx*ance. Two of the applicants
were fi'om England, one from Ger
many, one from Panama and five
fi’om Mexico.
Mommessin, 26, has attended
A&M for five years. He has been
in the United States for eight
years.
“When I came to this counti’y T
wasn’t planning to stay,” he said.
“It just grows on you.”
Before coming to the United
States Mommessin lived in Paris,
including during the war yeai’s.
He said he met many Americans
Edwards Elected
FFA Pi 'esident
Charles Edwards was elected
president of the A&M chapter
Future Farmexrs of Amei'ica Tues
day night.
Other officers elected wex’e Lloyd
Cook, vice pi’esident; Cliffoxd
Hobbs, secx’etary; Johnny Davis,
sentinel; Roscoe Holt, historian;
Doyle Smith, student adviser; Lee
Williams, second vice pi’esident;
and Bobby Vexdine, third vice px-es-
ident.
Jeri’y Johnson was elected pai’lia-
mentarian and club repi’esentative
to the agricultui-al council.
Panel Removes Suspension
Ruling on Three Seniors
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dpring the war and this influenced
his decision to come to this country.
Immediately after signing the
naturalization papers, Mommessin
said he felt “wonderful”. It was
“kind of exciting in coui’t,” he said.
“When I got to this country I
liked the place and decided to
stay,” he said. “I felt thei’e was
much to be gained by becoming a
citizen.”
After he completes his work on
a PhD, Mommessin said he plans
to go into chemical research work.
He has made no definite plans
.about whei'e he wants to work.
“I like A&M”, he said. He ex
plained there was no way to com
pare American schools with Fi’ench
schools. “They both have their good
points and bad points,” he said.
Some of the judge’s closing
wox’ds to the applicants wei’e, “I
think you will love our counti’y.”
At the close of the ceremony, the
packed courtroom stood and ap
plauded.
The long awaited Ring dance
weekend is hexe.
With their class woxk completed,
the seniors will begin celebrating
tonight. The highlight of the
weekend will be the traditional
Ring dance in the Grove Satui’day
night.
Cafe Rue Pinalle will close out
its season tonight with music by
the Capers Combo and a floor
show by Josie Guei’i*a and Ana
Ochoa from Laredo. The audience
will choose “Miss Rue Pinalle of
1954” from the gix’ls present.
The Cafe will be held in the
games area of the Memorial Stu
dent Center from 8:30 to 12.
Press Club Banquet
J. Frank Dobie, noted Texas au
thor will speak to the Press club
banquet tonight. Battalion achieve-
.ment awards will be presented to
x faculty and staff members.
Press keys will be given to club
members. The banquet will be held
at 7 p.m. in the balli’oom of the
MSC and will be followed by a
dance.
Banquet Saturday
The seniors will hear Sen. Lyn
don Johnson at thejr banquet Sat
urday night in Duncan dining hall.
Ide Trotter will give the prayers
and Ed Stern will read the class
history. President Pat Wood will
be the master of ceremonies.
Association Drive
Progressing Good
The membership drive of the
College Station Civic Development
association and Chamber of Com-
mei’ce is progressing satisfactorily,
said K. A. Manning, president.
“There are representatives in (
most departments or buildings on
the A&M campus, and at the busi
ness establishments at the north,
east, and west gates that are soli
citing members,” he said.
The membership cai'ds are still
out and no tickets have been turned
in yet, so we don’t know just ex
actly how the monetai'y situation
is, Manning added.
Menxx for the banquet will be
tomato juice cocktail, chilled x-elish
txay, peach and cheese salad, bx-oil-
ed fillet mignon, demi-French po
tatoes, fi’ozen lima beans and iced
tea. Baked alaska will be sei’ved
for dessei’t. The banquet will start
at 6 p.m.
Ray Anthony and his orchestra
will play for the Ring dance which
will be held in the Grove from 8
to 12.
Ring Ceremony
Seniors and their dates are
scheduled to go through two lai'ge
replicas of the senior ring at 15
minute intervals. Green tickets
will be used for one ring and white
for the other.
“Any senior whose picture ticket
does not have a time written on the
back of it should bi’ing that ticket
Senior Class Group
To Meet With FSA
The class committee of the class
of ’54 will meet Monday at 4 p.m.
in the office of the Former Stu
dents association.
The pui’pose of the meeting will
be to check the foirner student
questionnaires against the list of
gx-aduates to make sure that every
senior has completed a question
naire.
Beaumont Group
To Build Shelter
Thi-ough the efforts of the
A&M Mothers club of Beaumont,
an Aggie x'ide station has been
built thex-e.
The station, an open-sided iron
and stone building, was designed
fi’om sketches submitted by stu
dents in the ai’chitecture depart
ment hei’e.
Darwall Heads
Committee
On Curriculum
The Rev. R. L. Darwall is
heading a committee to eval
uate the religious education
curriculum. Darwall is the
Episcopal Student Chaplain.
“Some people felt that there
were too many courses in our pres
ent curriculum,” said the Rev. Nor
man Anderson as he appointed the
committee. Anderson is minister
of the A&M Presbytex’ian church
s^nd head of the religious education
department.
At present students are allowed
six elective hours in religious edu
cation to be credited towai’d any
degree. The curriculum contains
a two hour inti’oductoi’y course and
three hour suiwey courses covering
the old and new testaments.
Additional courses of one, two
and three hours are offered cover
ing various sections of the Bible.
“A prerequisite course covering
both testaments has been suggest
ed,” Anderson said, “but it would
have to be at least three credit
hours and that would leave the stu
dent only three hours to make a
thorough study of those areas in
which he is most interested.”
The courses are taught on a
sti’ictly non-denominational basis
by ministers of several faiths, An-
dex-son said.
“Salvation is not in science; it
is ixx the moi’al factor and the study
of the Bible is the soui’ce of our
basic political and moi’al think
ing,” Andex-son said.
to the place where he purchased it
and have the proper time indicat
ed,” said Pete Hardesty, business
manager of student activities.
Hai’desty also urged the senioi’s
not to get in line earlier than the
time indicated on their picture
ticket. “Your picture will not be
taken until all persons with earlier
times have had theirs made,” Har-
desty said. For the past three
years all pictures have been made
by 10:30, he added.
The senior and his date will step
into the ring and be guided into
the best position for the pictui’e
by the photogi’apher over a mi
crophone concealed in the ring. One
pictui-e will be made as the girl is
turning the ring.
The senior will then kiss his
date and they will step out of the
ring on the opposite side fi’om that
which they entered. A picture
will be made of the senior kissing
his date if he has previously or-
dei’ed it.
Gil Sti’ibbling, the class social
secretary, is general chaii’man for
the dance. Harold Kupfer is in
charge of the program and War
ren Sexton is guests chairman.
The dance is undei’ the chairman
ship of Max’ion Baujjh and the ban
quet is under Stanton Bell and
Cai’l Wilson. Wayne Dean and
Joe West are in charge of the
tickets and Andy Andx-ew Gary is
in chai’ge of the ring ceremony.
Robert E. Lee will supervise the
photogi’aphy.
Replaced With Six
Discipline Acts
The three seniors who received a punishment of indef
inite suspension for use of the board have had the sentence
lifted by a faculty appeal panel.
The appeal panel replaced the indefinite suspension with
six disciplinary actions.
The specific actions are as follows:
1. Each was reduced to the grade of private imme
diately.
2. Each was required to move out of the cadet corps
and college housing.
3. All three were removed from the Ross Volunteer com
pany immediately.
4. They will not be allow
ed to take part in the final re-
Horn Much
Have You
Got Left?
About 25 members of the
Journalism club wei’e given a
rice supper Tuesday night by
D. D. Burchard, head of the
journalism department.
The supper was prepared by
Mrs. Bui'chai’d, and Mrs. Otis
Miller aided in the servixig.
Burchai'd won 60 pounds of
rice at the Sigma Delta Chi
convention in Houston during
March.
“I had been eating rice for
weeks,” said Burchard, “and
we still had 55 pounds left, so
we just decided this was the
best way to get rid of it.”
Suspension
Given 130
Since 1950
Thirty-one students have
been indefinitely suspended
for hazing in the last five
years.
“Most of them have been
allowed to come back to A&M later
on,” said Bennie A. Zinn, assistant
dean of men, “and only those deem
ed unfit for college life have been
stopped from coming back.”
“Indefinite suspension” doesn’t
mean a student won’t ha allowed
to come back to A&M. It only
keeps him from coming back until
the college feels that he has been
properly punished.
“Some seniors graduating in
June have been suspended for haz
ing before,” said Zinn.
Over 130 students have been sus
pended since September 1950 for
different offenses. Theft is the
second highest offense for which
students have been suspended. Oth
er violations include cheating, vio
lation of traffic restrictions, foi’g-
ery and immorality.
Batt Announces
Summer Schedule
The Battalion will be published
twice weekly beginning May 25
said Cax’l Jobe, assistant manager
of student publications.
The four papers a week schedule
will be resumed when classes begin
next fall.
The decrease in the number of
weekly issues is because most of
the student body will have gone
home for summer vacation, Jobe
said.
Saturday Night
Anthony To Play For Seniors
By JOHN AKARD
Battalion Feature Editor
Ray Anthony and his orchestra
will provide the music Satux-day
night as the senioxs participate ixx
the traditional Ring dance.
With Anthony will be vocalists
Marcie Miller and Tommy Mei’cer.
The Skyliners, vocal quintet, The
Anthony Choir and Brother Lee
Roy, the baritone saxophonist, are
also on the progxam.
Tickets for the dance are on
sale at Student Activities Office
or from dorm repx-esentatives.
Anthony stresses versatility in
his music. His orchesti’al presenta
tions nxn from jazz and swing to
novelties and sweet ballads for a
well-balanced musical program de-
sigxxed to please almost every taste.
Showmanship is an important
feature of the Anthony crew. Ray
goes to extremes to provide a maxi
mum of visual appeal with his
music, utilizing such gimmicks as
paxading the band thxough the
audience.
In a comparatively short span of
time the Anthony aggi'egation has
won acclaim as America’s top band
in dance, sports, radio, television,
motion pictures axxd on recoi’ds.
Ray’s annual itinexary now includes
a cii’cuit of x-epeat engagements at
such leading name band emporiums
as the Pax-amount Theater and the
Cafe Rouge of the Hotel Statler in
New Yoi’k, Frank Dailey’s Mead-
owbrook in New Jersey and the
famed Hollywood Palladium.
Ray is regarded in musical
circles as one of the most brilliant
musicians in the business. An out
standing soloist, he goes all out ! n
his ti’umpet playing and paces his
band’s distinctive eight-man bx-ass
section on both slow and jump ar-
x’angements.
One of the most important
factors in Ray’s rise to the top of
the name band heap has been the
tremendous populai’ity of his re
coi’ds with the nation’s disc-jockeys.
The platter-spinners gave Ray his
first big boost in electing his crew
the No. 1 dance band on records
and- it has been estimated that
Ray’s Capitol records are accoi’ded
more air play through the countx-y
than the combined total of any
thx-ee other bands.
Ray was born in Bentleyville,
Pa., a small community near Pitts
burgh, 29 years ago. He seemed to
be destined for a musical career
from the moment he made his first
noise with a trumpet at the age
of five.
Anthony was just 17 years old
when he landed his first job as a
name band musician with A1 Don
ahue’s band and a year later he
began making a name for himself
as a member of the late Glenn
Miller’s aggi'egation. Ray was with
the Miller orchestra until 1942
when he enlisted in the Navy at
the Great Lakes Training station,
just a few weeks before Glenn dis
banded the orchestra to enter the
Army Air Coi’ps.
Young Anthony was singled out
by the Navy’s morale division to
foim a dance band to tour the
Pacific island bases. In three yeai’s
time he and his Navy band covered
such areas as Pearl Hai’bor, Oki
nawa, Guam, Midway and Tarawa.
Upon discharge from the Navy
in 1946, Ray foi’med his pi’esent
orchestra.
Ray’s musical stock received its
biggest boost in 1950 when he
was signed to a long-term Capitol
recording contract. Dui’ing his first
year of recording Ray chalked up
sales figui’es of moi’e than two-
million platters with such disc hits
as “Mr. Anthony’s Boogie”, “Count
Every Star ”, “Nevertheless,”
“Tenderly”, “Sentimental Me” and
“Darktown Stmtters Ball.”
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PRACTICING—Sherwin and Barbara Rubin get ready for
the ring-turning ceremony at the Ring dance, Saturday.
The cover will be removed from the ring replica for the
dance.
view ceremonies.
5. They will be removed
from the list of candidates for de
grees at the May commencement.
6. Each will be required to take
all final exams, regai’dless of schol
astic standing.
The faculty panel met fi’om 1:30
p.m. yesterday to 5 p.m.
“If they complete the require
ments for a degree this semester
they will be allowed to get a de-
gi’ee at the August graduation cer
emonies,” said Dean of the College
J. P. Abbott, who reviewed the de
cision of the faculty panel.
The seniors, Dale Dowell, Bruce
Sterzing and Dennis Cole, were
given the indefinite suspension pun
ishment by a militay panel Tues
day. They appealed to the faculty
panel op the grounds that “the
punishment was too severe consid-
ei’ing the nearness of graduation.”
The three admitted Monday to
using a board (an instrument of
hazing) on juniors at an informal
Ross Volunteer party off the cam
pus.
The faculty panel was composed
of five faculty members, with an
undei'graduate dean as chairman.
Abbott said the names of the
panel members could not be re-
1 Gcised
Col.’ Shelley P. Myers, PMS&T,
who will recommend what is to be
done regarding the military status
of the three, said yesterday after
noon that he hadn’t decided.
“It depends on what this panel
does how strictly I have to act, if
any action is indicated,” Myers
said.
He could recommend that the
contracts be cancelled, suspended,
or retained.
Nine RV juniors who had marks
of hazing on their bodies at an
inspection Monday were tried by
the military panel. They were sen
tenced to official reprimand, copy
of the transcript of the panel in
their 201 file, and campused for
the fall semester.
President David H. Morgan said
last night that he did not want to
comment on the panel’s decision
until he had seen the complete re-
poi’t.
Llenza To Receive
Engineer Award
Harry B. Llenza jr., senior from
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, will receive
the 1954 Industrial Engineering
awai’d, announced R. G. Perryman,
secretary of the faculty committee
on scholarships.
This award is provided by A. R.
Burgess, head of the industi’ial en
gineering depai’tment. The terms
of this awai’d provide that $250
shall go to the June graduate ma
joring in industrial engineering
who has the highest gx*ade point
average of his class at the begin
ning of the final semester for his
undergraduate degree.
Llenza’s grade point ratio is 2.62.
In 1949 he received a BS degree in
electrical engineering from the
University of Puerto Rico. He en
tered A&M in September, 1953. .
He is married and has two child-
dren.
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