Battalion
Number 270: Volume 53
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1954
Price 5 Cents
System Directors To Meet;
Routine Discussions Set
For Board Chairman
Saturday Dedication Set
For New White Coliseum
STAGE SHOW—The only stage show in this building will be the pounding hammers and
the sound of saws until January 1. The building is the new assembly music hall at A&M
Consolidated high school.
Jobe Resigns
After 3 Years
In Publications
Carl Jobe, assistant man-
agser of student publications,
has resigned to become assist
ant to the publisher of the
Record Publishing company
ofTlballas, effective Oct. 1.
Jobe, who came to A&M in 1951
as assistant manager, had served
as manager of student publications
from Sept., 1953, to March, 1954.
He was made assistant manager
when Karl Elmquist was appointed
manager in March.
Jobe received a n engraved
watch in May, 1953, in apprecia
tion for his work as assistant man
ager his first two years at A&M.
Last spring, he was given a Bat
talion award for outstanding serv
ice to the college. It read:
“To Carl Jobe for stepping in to
guide student publications through
a turmoil-ridden period and for
leading student publications to the
highest earned money level ever
recorded. And most important of
*11, for being a cherished fi’iend to
*11 the members of the publica
tions.”
His wife, Alice, also received a
Epecial Battalion award last spring.
“To Alice Jobe,” it said in part,
“for serving us coffee at all hours
of ■'ihe night and listening sympa
thetically to our problems.”
A veteran, Jobe served in the
Navy from 1945 to 1947. He has
attended Texas Tech, Southwestern
university and Southem Methodist
university. Jobe came to A&M
from the Temple Telegram, where
he did advertising work.
Jobe, who lives at 110 Hardy
street in Bryan, is married and
has a daughter, Barbara, 9.
“We are sorry to lose Jobe,”
said Elmquist, now executive chair
man of the Student Publications
board. “He has contiibuted a
great deal to our student publica
tions program.” '
“We’ll miss him,” said Battalion
Co-editor Hai'ri Bakei*, speaking
for the students of student publi
cations. “He has been more of a
friend to all the students with
which he has worked—he’s been
our friend, too.”
Weather Today
Directors Meeting
Are No Mystery
Just exactly what goes on at a
meeting of the A&M System board
of directors?
The board will meet here this
weekend, and their meeting is not
the mysterious, ivory-tower type
meeting usually associated with
them.
When the meeting is scheduled
for the A&M campus, as most of
them are, it is held at the board
of directors home, the big white
building across from Walton hall.
This building has meeting rooms
and guests rooms for the directors
and their wives. It is their home
any time they are on the campus.
The day before the regular meet
ing, Friday in this case, is taken
up with committee meetings. The
members of the board are broken
into several committees, covering
each facet of the operation of the
system.
They meet and discuss what will
be brought up at the board meeting
the next day. Most of the work is
done here. It is a case of simpli
fying and weeding out.
An agenda for the meeting is
prepared several weeks in advance
and sent to each of the directors.
PARTLY CLOUDY
Scattered clouds, light winds,
clouds disappearing this afternoon.
High yesterday was 99 degrees;
low last night was 70 degrees.
New Course Open
In Oceanography
A new one hour oceanography
course will be offered to students
in any department this year.
The course, oceanography 201,
requires no prerequisites and will
cover some features of the stu
dent’s natui’al environment which
affect his daily life and activities.
Students in any one of A&M’s
schools or departments may regis
ter for the course. ■
This agenda, which is a mimeo
graphed book the size of a tele
phone directory, has everything
that is scheduled to be discussed,
with all the statistical information
that the board will need.
Saturday early, the board will
meet in executive session, which is
closed to the public. They will call
in the presidents of the schools,
or the heads of the system agen
cies, or anyone else they need to
give them information.
At 9 a.m. the board will have
their open meeting. It will be in
the big conference room on the
second floor of the house.
The members of the board will
sit around a mahogany table in the
center of the room. In chairs
around the edges of the room will
be the chancellor, the presidents of
the colleges, the heads of the sys
tem agencies, and other officers of
the system.
E. L. Angell, who is assistant
chancellor and secretary for the
board, will sit close to the presi
dent of the board, where he can
take the minutes of the meeting.
A table will be set up for Hen
derson Shuffler, system director
of information, and representatives
of newspapers, including The Bat
talion.
This meeting usually lasts three
hours. The agenda is gone over,
and necessary action taken. Al
though the committees have al
ready done a lot of discussing by
this time, the board still has lively
discussions.
Also at this time will come up
anything else the board wants to
discuss, under the “other business”
section of the agenda.
And this is, the way the business
of the A&M System is run.
Dedication of the new G. Rollie
White coliseum, largest structure
on the campus, will be at 4 p.m.
Saturday in the lobby of the big
building.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, chancellor
of the A&M System, will preside.
A. E. Cudlipp of Lufkin, a mem
ber of the System board of direc
tors, will dedicate the coliseum to
White, banker and ranchman from
Brady who is serving his 29th
year as a member of the board and
his 10th year as chairman. A
bronze plaque will be unveiled.
The board of directors is sched
uled to meet on the campus earlier
the same day.
Gibb Gilchrist, former chancel
lor, will give the invocation.
Tyree L. Bell, president of the
Austin Road company of Dallas,
will be another speaker on the
dedication program.
He served as chairman of the
building committee of the board of
directors during the period in
which original plans and appropri
ations were made for construction
of the coliseum.
Other members of the directors’
committee at that time were C. C.
Krueger of San Antonio and Ru
fus R. Peeples of Tehuacana.
New Students
End Week
With Movie
As new student week comes
to a close freshmen begin to
prepare for the busy school
year ahead.
Group meetings and indiv
idual conferences end the ori
entation this afternoon, and
all new students can relax with
a movie at the Grove tonight.
Tomorrow all new basic di
vision students are scheduled
to begin registration at 8 a.m.
Students with previous college
credit and those with irreg
ular programs will register
during the afternoon.
The coliseum has a total floor
space of 154,000 square feet on
its three floors and includes facili
ties for practically all indoor sports
and physical education. Cost of
the original building ran well over
one and a half million dollars.
Maximum seating capacity for
sports events is 7,427. The use
of folding bleachers and chairs on
the floor provide a total of 8,500
seats for staged events such as
commencement exercises, enter
tainments and ceremonies.
Commissioning and commence
ment exercises were held in the col
iseum last May.
An addition now under construc
tion, scheduled for completion in
-mid-1955, will extend the coliseum
80 feet to the south for its full
width and height.
It will contain three floors and
framing will permit, at any future
date, removal of third of the sec
ond floor and two-thirds of the top
floor to make room for 2,000 more
seats, if they are needed.
Committee Rejects
Sophomore Appeal
Diarrhea Leads
CS Disease List
College Station reported six
eases of diarrhea last week ac
cording to the Bryan-Brazos coun
ty health unit.
Two cases of mumps were also
in the College Station report.
White To Be Honored
For 29 Years of Service
By HARRI BAKER
Battalion Co-editor
The summer that the first boai’d
of dh’ectors of Texas A&M college
met, a boy named G. Rollie White
was born on a ranch near Lock
hart.
That was 1875, the year before
A&M opened for students. Since
then, G. Rollie White and Texas
A&M have been inseparable.
Besides graduating from here,
White has served on the board of
directors longer than any other
man 1 —29 years, 11 years as presi
dent.
In 1891, when he was 16, White
enrolled in Texas A&M. Although
he studied civil engineering, he
never practiced that profession.
While at A&M, White was a
member of the Ross* Volunteers,
named for Lawrence Sullivan Ross,
who took over the presidency the
same year White entered.
White was also a second lieu
tenant of company C. At that time.
the first lieutenant of company C
was Francis Marion Law jr., who
later was to become the only man
in the history of the college to
even come close to equaling White’s
length of service on the board of
directors.
White graduated in 1895. He
went to Eastman Business college
after leaving here, and then re
turned to his home in Brady to en
ter the cattle business.
He has long been one of the big
gest operators in the Texas cattle
Frosli Honored
Wednesday Night
Dr. and Mrs. I. G. Adams hon
ored the freshmen with an ice
cream supper Wednesday night at
the A&M Presbyterian church.
Fair Colvin, president of the
Presbyterian student league, spoke
to about 90 students on the Ser
mon on the Mount.
industry. He and his partners have,
at times, handled as many as 25,-
000 cattle, 50,000 sheep, and 20,000
goats, with ranching operations
from Texas to Canada.
White has also been president
of the Commercial National Bank
of Brady for the past 47 years.
White’s term on the board of di
rectors has been during much of
the college’s growth. Enrollment
has more than doubled, and facili
ties for instruction have improved
many times more.
Dming this time the college’s
claim to a share in the income from
the university endowment fund was
established and two major build
ing programs were started.
So G. Rollie White, as student,
former student, friend and director,
has seen A&M grow from a small
state college to one of the nation’s
leading technical institutions.
This is the man A&M’s new mil-
lipn-dollar coliseum will be dedi
cated to Saturday.
Cadet John W. Robertson’s ap
peal for admission in school as a
civilian student was rejected by
the college’s executive committee.
“The committee carefully stud
ied the appeal and found no reason
to change the original decision,”
Dr. John P. Abbott, committee
chairman, said.
Robertson, a sophomore, was
seen Saturday night at the North
Gate area making freshmen
“brace” and “wildcat,” according
to a report submitted by a college
staff member. He was charged
with “assuming unauthorized auth
ority as a sophomore private,” Col.
Joe Davis, commandant, said, and
he was denied admission for hazing
freshmen.
A board, consisting of the com
mandant, the assistant command
ant, the professor of air science,
and a member of the cadet corps
staff assessed the punishment on
which Robertson’s appeal was
based.
Robertson, who said he was here
early to bring a friend to enroll
A&M Students
Receive Awards
Five A&M students have been
awarded Vita Craft sales awards
totaling $650.
The winners and the amount of
their scholarship are Randy How
ard, $200; David Morris, $150; Car
los Tarver, Mike Gaines and Rich
ard Martin, $100 each.
All the \Vinners were engaged in
direct selling. Howard won with
a total of $5,624,65 in sales last
summer. Morris’ sales were $4,-
058 and Traver, Gaines and Martin
sales totaled more than $3,000 each.
These prizes won by the top col
lege salesmen of the Southwest are
to be used only for school expenses.
(JSCS Outlines
Studies for Year
At the meeting of the Woman’s
Society of Christian Service of the
A&M Methodist church Mrs. W. A.
Varvel, misisonary education sec
retary, outlined the studies for the
coming year.
They are Man and God in the
City, Under Three Flags, the Mas
ter Calleth for Thee, and Christi
anity and Wealth.
The devotional, given by Dr. Syl
via Coner, was based on the theme
“Jesus’ Concern for Cities.” Mrs.
R. E. Leig’hton directed the pro
gram topic on the same theme and
was assisted by a panel discussion
by Mrs. John H. Southem, Mrs. W.
W. Mills and Mrs. A. F. Buchanan.
Mrs. Stewart E. Brown, presi
dent, presided over the meeting
which was held Monday, Sept. 13,
at the home of Mrs. J. Gordon
Gay. The hostess and her co-hos
tesses, Mrs. L. A. DuBose and
Mrs. L. J. Horn, served refresh
ments.
as a freshman, was not in uniform
at the time of the hazing.
“Although sophomores are not
supposed to be here before school
starts” Col. Davis said, “we would
not have minded if he had conduc
ted himself properly."”
David H. Morgan, president, said
the A&M System board of direc
tors at their July meeting instruc
ted the administration to see that
hazing, both mental and physical
is eliminated.
“This punishment shows that we
mean business,” Morgan said.
However, since Robertson was
only denied permission to register
for the current semester, he is eli
gible to request admission at a
later semester, possibly the spring
semester, if he so desires, Mor
gan said.
Creative Writing
Will Be Offered
A creative writing course will
be offered again by the English
department this year.
The course, English 325, was not
offered last year because not
enough students enrolled for it.
Taught by Harry L. Kidd, the
course will be offered in alternate
years. This year, classes will meet
at 11 a.m. on Tuesday and Thurs
day.
New Construction,
Finances To Be
Agenda Items
The A&M System board of
directors will meet here this
weekend, with mostly routine
business on the agenda.
Construction items and fi
nancial matters will come up for
discussion. The directors will also
take time out to attend the A&M-
Texas Tech football game, two
dinners and the dedication of the
G. Rollie White coliseum.
The board will have committee
meetings all day Friday and Fri
day night. The board meeting will
be at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Items on the agenda are as fol
lows :
Considei’ation of a revenue bond
issue for the new A&M Press
building and bids for construction
of the building.
Repoi't from an engineer on the
needs for an increase in A&M’s
electrical power supply.
Bids for a feed building at the
Poultry center.
Consideration of confirmation of
the building of a residence on the
college plantation.
Other minor building contracts.
The directors of the Bryan
Chamber of Commerce will give a
dinner honoring the members of
the board of directors Friday
night.
Also invited to the dinner;,
which will be at 7:30 p.m. at The
Oaks in Bryan, will be college of
ficials and local civic leaders.
The dedication of the coliseum
will be at 4 p.m. Saturday. At
6 p.m. Saturday the members of
the board and their wives will be
the guests of Chancellor M. T.
Harrington for dinner at his
house.
The directors will attend the
A&M-Texas Tech football game
that night.
The next meeting of the board
will be in Austin at the time of
the A&M-University of Texas
football game.
Groesbeck Man
Charged in Murder
GROESBECK, Sept. 16—OP)—A
Groesbeck man was charged today
with the double murder of his wife
and mother-in-law. Two charges
were filed against Peter Andry, 28.
ALMOST PERFECT—Monroe Shulz, left, of the military
property custodians office, tries hard to convince Harris
Dunn, freshman from Freona, that the blouse he is trying
on will be all right after a little alteration. New students
have been drawing their uniforms all week.