Battalion Editorials
Today’s Degree Candidates
Page 2 THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1954
Dr. Morgan Has Proven/
He Can Handle The Job
The Battalion joins with the countless
officials and friends of the college in ex
tending sincere congratulations to Dr. David
H. Morgan, who yesterday was formally in
stalled as A&M’s 13th president.
Leadership of such a large institution is
an exacting job and demands much extra
time of the president. The rewards at times
must seem small to him.
During the past year when Morgan took
over the reins after a short year on the cam
pus as dean of the college, he has time and
again demonstrated his leadership qualities.
The many complex problems that faced him
undoubtedly made him waver at times, but
he always worked out a solution.
One of the barriers to his program plan
ning was the air force order for air force
students to go into blue uniforms for the
fall term. Few people know that through
Morgan’s persistent efforts, the order was
rescinded and the present corps uniform des
ignated as “distinctive.”
The ruling means both the college and the
student have been saved an unnecessary
waste of money. Better still, it prevented
the establishment of another and separate
corps on the campus.
More recently, the hazing episode pointed
up the need for clarification of certain por
tions of the college regulations regarding
punishment. With a resolve that the college
policy toward hazing should be clearly stated,
Morgan offered an amendment to the regu
lations which makes suspension mandatory
in physical hazing cases. Now a student bent
on hazing will know where he stands from
the moment he picks up the board.
All this may seem a round-about way of
offering congratulations to a newly installed
president, but Morgan has already been “un
der fire”. He knows what the job asks of
him, and he has shown he can handle it.
The Battalion does not see eye to eye
with him on every question, but after work
ing with him on most of them, we know he
will always do what he thinks is best for the
school.
Again, may we say, we are convinced he
is completely honest, sincere and fair, and
that he will administer his duties capably.
A Motto Is Posted
Yesterday’s Houston Post carried on the
front page a fine picture of the imposing en
trance to its new home. The Post advertis
ing department expects to move into the $4
million plant in June.
Both the building and the cost impressed
us, but the motto really caught our eye.
Chiseled over the entrance was this portion
of the Declaration of Independence: Let
Facts Be Submitted To A Candid World.
A Post editorial admonition to The Bat
talion staff members in February during the
censorship battle appeared under the title,
“Texas A and M and Freedom of Press,” and
had this closing paragraph.
“Maybe the Battalion staff members who
have resigned rather than submit to censor
ship will some day have their own newspa
pers and can say whatever they darn please
in them. But by that time they’ll know a
whale of a lot more about what they should
or shouldn’t say.”
Considering the carefully expressed edi
torial policy, isn’t that motto a little strong?
Perhaps the motto should read, “Let
Carefully Selected Facts Be Submitted To A
Candid World.”
Shivers To Attend Meet
AUSTIN—May 20—(A>) _ Texas
will be represented at two south
ern meeting's studying the Supreme
Court ban of segregation in pub
lic schools.
One is a conference of governors
of 16 southern states. The other
is. a meeting of attorney generals.
Gov. Allan Shivers said today
he had been invited to the govern
ors’ conference by Gov. Thomas
Stanley of Virginia in Richmond
about June 7-8.
Shivers notified Stanley he
would be glad to attend or to send
a representative if he could not at
tend. Stanley told Shivers the
meeting “could serve a most use
ful purpose for the exchange of
information and views.”
Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd
said he would send a representa
tive to Atlanta next week for a
meeting of attorneys general.
Georgia Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook
called the meeting ■ to study of
legal problems raised by the seg^-
regation decision.
Shepperd said he would not rec
ommend any move to defy the
court’s final ruling and noted that
the present ruling is not final.
“In the event the final decision
does fully apply to Texas, the in
terest of our school children and
teachers will demand orderly ad
justment,” he said.
Shivers disclosed the plans for
the Virginia meeting of southern
governors just before leaving on a
trip that will take him to Korea
with other governors at President
Eisenhower’s invitation.
The governor sent a telegram to
Harry Toy jr., director of the Na
tional Citizens Commission for the
Public Schools, in connection with
a national radio broadcast next
Monday.
Letters to the Editors
The following is a list of all the
degrees to be conferred tonight:
Doctor of Philosophy
Edward Andrew, Elexis Bashaw,
Stewart Becker, Willis Bradford,
Allan Brown, Thomas Cartwright,
Moody Coffman, Royal Collins,
George Crook, Gopinath Das.
Lawrence Dillon, Thomas Fergu
son, Warner Fisher, Stewart Fowl
er, Freeman Fuller, Cleveland
Gerard, Ralph Gilby, Bernard
Hoefelmeyer y Samuel Johnson,
Faud Khuri, Charles King.
A. M. Lasheen, John McCaleb,
William McCormick, James Man-
gram, Walter Matzen, Robert Men-
zel, Walter Mistidc.
Robert Orr, Arth Nakornthap,
William Nell, Don Pickart, Edward
Ruhnke, Harry Savery, Keith Sey
mour, Gerald Thomas, George
Truchelut, Billy Waddle, John
Ward, Billy Welch.
Professional Degrees
Walter Echols, petroleum engi
neer; Hans Glitch, mechanical engi
neer; Roy Krezdora, electrical
engineer.
Master Of Education
Dia Hyen Baick, agricultural
education; Truman Isbell, industri
al education; Don Morrison, in
dustrial education; William Swin
dle, agricultural education.
Master of Engineering
Ramon Jorge Enrique Agrasar,
agricultural engineering; Robert
Bradford, petroleum engineering;
Robert Hillman, C.E.; Clarence
Hooper, civil engineering; William
Jordan, civil engineering; George
Ortega, civil engineering; Billy
Pendergrass, civil engineering; Ed
mund Preston, civil engineering.
Master of Science
Willie Adcock, range manage
ment; Floyd Anderson, physics;
William Blair, agricultural engi
neering; Albeif Blankenship, ani
mal husbandry; Oswald Bowlin,
economics; Joseph Burdett, chemi
cal engineering; Richard Case, in
dustrial engineering; Harry Cook,
biochemistry and nutrition.
Sabit Gabay, biochemisti’y and
nutrition; Albert Gondran, physics;
Edward Grubbs, geology; Kenzy
Hallmark, entomology; Dale Hand-
lin, animal breeding; Garlyn Hoff
man, range management; Joseph
DECREE.? I SAW A LIME
OP WON-R.EC AGGIE'S
aw i thoucut tu»s
WAS WHERE YO CHECK,
Southwest Needs
Better Irrigation
WASHINGTON, May 20—bP)—
Secretary of Interior McKay said
today the irrigation water situa
tion is serious in much of the
Southwest, including parts of Tex-
prospects at the end of April ex
cept for the Colorado river of
Texas project and the Balmorhea
project in Texas.
Holt, physics; Donald Huss, range
management; Jack Inglis, wildlife
management.
Rafael Martelino, agronomy;
Raid Musa, physics; Albert Nova-
sad, agronomy; John Perry me-
chinical engineering; Robert Pfile,
petroleum engineering; Melvin
Pierce, mathematics; Floyd Pond,
range management; Joel Rubel, in
dustrial engineering; Ralph Rus
sell, physics; Lewis Sams, bio
chemistry and nutrition; John
Scroggin, wildlife management.
Joy Springer, industrial engi
neering; , Roy Stout, chemistry;
Dixon Van Tuyl, chemistry; Tar-
vin Webb, agricultural economics;
Lewis Yarlett, range management.
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Doctor of Veterinary
Medicine
Edward Aman, Gillett Berger,
Everett Besch, Joe Braden, Vance
Broussard, Ernest Bracks, Herman
Bruechner, George Cadwalder, Paul
Cardeilhac, Neville Clarke, Phillip
Cochran, Herbert Corum.
Ronald Cress, Robert Curbello,
James Fish, Charles Edward
Francis, Gerald Fuller, Howard
Gregory, Carl Griffin, Billy Hen-
dedson, Ernest Horres, Richard
Hull, Trotter Hyler, Howard Jones,
James Lanningham, Clyde Odom,
Donald Ogden, Billy Parker.
Martin Phillips, Richard Pigott,
Charlie Price, Robert Pruett, Frank
Ramsey, Lloyd Reedy, Wilmer
Rhodes, Daniel Scott, Charles
Smith, William Smith, Edmund
Smyka, Lewis Springer, Wendell
Tarver, James Vernon, Raymond
Williford.
Agricultural
Administration
Marion Baugh, Elbert Blum,
Charles Caldwell, Oscar Coindreau,
Dieu Crowley, Bobby Damron,
Thelbert Dunman, Travis Gibson,
Michael Halverson, Andrew Hud
son.
Victor Kennedy, Frank Luther,
Emory McWhorter, Carter Price,
William Riddick, Barton Sandlin,
John Scott, Bob Stevenson, Wil
liam Young.
Agricultural Education
Frank Adamcik, James Addison,
Norbert James Blohowiak, William
Dreston Brashear, Herbert Brewer,
Gus Cain, Ted Cranford, Milton
Crenwelge, Thomas Darling, James
Everett, James Faubion, Ernest
Fincher, Charles Gard, Bobby
Heard, Roy Hickman, Marcus An
drew Hoelscher.
Noel Franklin Holland, Melton
Holubec, Charles Huff, Walker
Jacobs, Nathaniel Johnson, Glynn
Key, Ray Allen Kropp, Louis Lit
tle, Blake Lovelace, Harry Lueders
Jack Dudley McClary, Ray Valris
MacManus, H. D. Maxwell, Edward
Migura, Eric Ervin Miller, Billy
Mobley, Lamar Peterson, Bobby
Rankin, Robert Rauch.
Leon Rochen, Bille Sewell, Harry
Smith, Lester Smith Joseph Solis,
James SoRelle, Douglas Symmank,
Sammy Tatum, Jack Thedford, Ted
Uptmore, Ray Walker, Carl Wendl-
er.
Agricultural Engineering
Robert Truett Childress, John
Cowsar, William Robert Hale, Cal
vin Jackson, John Jackson, Frank
lin Kohlund, William Massey,
James Milligan, Hames Rogers,
Harry Ruffini, Earl Schumacher,
James Tarrant, James Trousdale,
Joe Whitaker.
Agricultural Joarnali^ift
Donald Kemp, Robert Mayo, Ed
win Stern, Roy Sullivan.
Agronomy
James Altus, William Andrews,
Gerald Buster, Carl Anthony
Cotropia, Andres Cuellar, Kenneth
Durham, Ernie Enloe, Silverstre
Gonzalez, John Goode, Billy Bob
Gregory, Hall Hegi, Hilmer Hult-
gren, Davie Richmond, Charles
Roberts, Leonard Stasney, Ernest
(See DEGREES, Page 3)
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Dear Co-Editors,
After reading your recent letter
editorial titled “What Is The Col
lege Attitude Toward Hazing”, I
can say I’ve read everything. What
sort of children are running the
Battalion? As an Ex-Student, class
of ’50, and a very interested person
among “the people of Texas”, I
think your attitude on hazing is
very childish. What do you know
about the old problem of hazing,
especially when you were not hazed
your Freshman year ?
I’m not saying the seniors
shouldn’t have used the board, and
I thank God I’m not among the
Aggies who have to have explained
to them what a “board” is, but I
believe * the faculty panel acted
wisely, and you, the editors, very
foolishly.
I’m proud to say that my “Fish
Year” at A&M on the campus made
a man out of me and all the Fresh
man years before. Nothing was
handed to us on a silver platter.
It was a hard and rough nine
months, but well worth it. Because
it was hard and trying, we came
as boys, and left as men. Those
who couldn’t make the grade drop
ped out, those who could, stayed
and liked it. These made the best
officers in the army, leaders in
industry. Have you ever seen an
officer “go to pieces” under fire ?
I have, but do not know or heard
of this happening to an Aggie.
Why, because they had learned how
to rise up and keep a level head
while everyone around is losing
theirs. That is the principle of
discipline and leadership as taught
by the army and at A&M.
Not every boy that goes to A&M
is fit to be an officer, or leader
in industry. The problem used to
solve itself, those who had the
determination, the willpower £o
over come, and the desire to suc
ceed, those stayed; they became
men. They became outstanding of
ficers, they led others in industry.
They were a credit to their country
and college. What about those who
couldn’t make the grade ? Didn’t
want the heavy responsibility of
being a leader, these will be led
throughout life. A&M should pro
duce leaders, not followers!
Have you ever thought how much
more raw courage and guts it took
to step up and say “I use(i the
boai’d” then it did for the weak
minded person who ran and told
about it ? Just as there are those
who let their dynaihic enthusiasm
and spirit get the best of them at
times, unfortunately, there are
those who expect personal gain and
satisfaction by telling every little
infraction of the rales their twisted
mind sees. Who is the best man ?
Who would make the best leader?
Who would Texas A&M be proud
of?
Roland E. Bussell, ’50
Freeport, Texas
P. S. Why not print this letter
to let the students know that the
EX’s are interested in “THE BEST
SCHOOL IN THE WORLD?”
Editors, The Battalion
In yesterday’s Battalion we
came upon an article concerning a
petition signed by some 85 Aggies.
It was in the article that we no
ticed a very tragic and betraying
phrase. This final letter is ad
dressed to those men who signed
the petition claiming that they
“were good friends” of the men
whose dismissal they are request
ing!
In our four years at A&M we
have met and said goodbye to
many men. During this time it
has been our aim to cultivate and
gain friends (true friends) to
stand beside us in trial and happi
ness. Our four years are over—
we know that in these four years
we have gained these friends—
and we have vowed with ourselves
that we will uphold the standard
of true friendship.
We sincerely hope that these
men who signed the petition under
these circumstances can rest with
a clear conscience the rest of their
lives. We also hope that they can
face their fidends face to face with
out shame- Honor is a fine and
noble word—but lost by many. If
these Aggies are really your
friends—be horonrable-r-either be
a friend or don’t claim to be one.
Red Harris ’54
Geek Strange ’54
The Battalion
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Founder of Aggie Traditions
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Managing Editor
as.
In a report on prospects for this
crop season in the 17 western
states, he said the outlook for fed
eral irrigation water from Rec
lamation bureau reservoirs in mid-
May was “essentially unchanged”
from a month earlier.
“Abnormally hot and dry weath
er persisted throughout the West,
causing disappearance of snow at
lower elevations without adding to
the runoff,” he said.
“The situation is serious in much
of the Southwest including parts
of Texas. The southern drainage
ran-off is subnormal.”
A Reclamation bureau list show
ed these areas with a poor or sub
normal outlook:
Part of New Mexico, the San
Luis valley area in Colorado,
southern Kansas, Texas and Okla
homa had “distinctly subnormal”
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