Page 2 THE BATTALION Friday, September 24, 1954
14 Years Experience
Battalion Staff Is Named
For This Year’s Publication
A staff which totals more than
14 years of experience on The
Battalion will put out this year’s
papers under the guidance of Co-
Editors Harri Baker and Bob Bo-
riskie.
Baker, a senior journalism ma-
Thc documented history of Tex
as A&M is growing by leaps and
bounds says Prof. D. B. Gofer,
college archivist.
The archives was established
four years ago and since that time
the archives office has received
hundreds of historical documents
and is receiving more each day.
Gofer is an authority on A&M
history. In the collection are four
books written by Gofer on the early
history of A&M, told through the
lives and activities of the men who
administered and served the col
lege from its opening in 1876 to
1905.
Former students throughout the
state and elsewhere have sent in
historical documents, some dating
back many years and some up to
the present.
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jor from Memphis, Tenn., started
with the paper his freshman year.
During his sophomore year he was
city editor and last year was cam
pus editor.
Last spring he was elected act
ing co-editor after the resignation
For example, Louis A. Hartung
of San Antonio sent a scrapbook
of 1925-29, carrying the signatures
of 165* classmates, pictures, pro
grams, ticket stubs and other his
torical data, showing student life
at that time.
Mrs. W. E. Joor of Houston sent
in biographic notes on her uncle,
William Lorraine Bringhurst, the
sixth president of the college, and
an autograph of W. B. Philpott,
class of 1884.
A picture of the 1896 football
team was sent in by Dr. and Mrs.
Tom Coke Hairston of Columbus.
Rides For SA Ags
The San Antonio A&M Mothei’S
club transportation chairman has
written The Battalion asking that
her address and phone number be
published so San Antonio students
will be able to get rides to and
from San Antonio. She is Mrs.
E. W.ulfe, 503 Mission sti’eet. Her
phone number is LE-2-4894.
of the former co-editoi’s. He has
worked for the Memphis Commer
cial-Appeal and has edited the Big
Bend Sentinel, weekly newspaper
of Marfa. He was summer Bat
talion editoi'-advertising manager.
A Woxdd War II veteran, Boi’is-
kie is a native of Bryan. He
started his work on The Battalion
his sophomore year and has been
sports editor and news editox\
He was elected with Baker last
spring as acting co-editoi\ This
summer Boriskie worked for the
San Angelo Standard-Times. He
is also a senior journalism major.
Managing Editor
Another senior journalism ma
jor, Jon Kinslow will be the Bat
talion managing editor this year.
A native of Dallas, Kinslow has
three years experience on The Bat
talion.
He has been city editor and was
managing editor last spring. He
has also worked on The Dallas
Morning News as a reporter.
Sports Editor
Sports Editor Jerry Wizig, a
senior journalism major, has been
working on the paper since his
freshman year. He has woi'ked on
the sports staff all thi-ee years
and last year was sports editox*.
This summer, Wizig, who lives in
Waco, worked as a police reporter
for the Galveston News.
News Editor
Ralph Cole, junior agricultural
journalism major from Muenster
and Don Shepard, senior agi'icul-
tural journalism major from Jei*-
myn, will be news editors this
yeai 1 . Both men began their Bat
talion wox-k last spring. In addi
tion to his news editor duties, Cole
will also cover the city news.
Women’s Editor
Mrs. Nora Burge, a native of
Paris, Texas, is the woman’s editor
this yeai\ She came to The Bat
talion from the Pains News. Her
husband, Bill Burge, is senior ar
chitecture major.
Mrs. Bui-ge attended Texas State
College for Women.
Reporters
Reporters for this year will be
Jim Neighbors, Welton Jones and
Dick Rabe. Neighbors and Jones
are freshmen journalism majors
and Rabe is a sophomore who
wrote inti’amural athletics last
y ear *
Advertising Manager
John Hubei’, Korean war veteran
and a graduate student from Tex
arkana, will be Battalion advertis
ing manager. He is married and
has two sons, one of whom was
born Monday. His advertising
salesmen will be Charles Ritchey
and Samuel L. Dunlap.
Also on the Battalion staff this
year are Miss Kerstin Ekfelt, Miss
Betsy Burchard, and Maurice Olian.
Miss Ekfelt is how assistant wo
man’s editor, working mainly on
compiling a cookbook to be pub
lished by The Battalion sometime
before Christmas. When this is
finished she will become a feature
writer. She is a senior at Stephen
F. Austin high school in Bryan.
Miss Burchard, a senior at
A&M Consolidated high school,
will write The Battalion’s weekly
“Hi, School” column of news at
CHS. She will also write some
news and features about the school.
She is editor of CHS’ newspaper,
The Round-Up.
Maurice Olian will write A&M
Consolidated sports for The Bat
talion. His stories will appear on
the sports page, several times a
week. He is a senior at CHS.
The staff is incomplete, and will
be added to during the year.
“Positions are always open, and
anyone who wants to work is in
vited to come by the office,” said
the editors.
The Battalion office is on the
second floor of Goodwin hall.
Agriculturist
Staff To Meet
Agriculturist staff members,
and students wishing to work on
the school agriculture magazine,
will meet in room 2B of the Me
morial Student Center Tuesday
night after yell practice, F. E.
(Sonny) Tutt, editor, announced
yesterday. I
Tutt said that prizes may be
awarded for the top story in each
issue.
The United States imports
around eight million pounds of
dried daisy blooms annually to
make pyrethrum, an insecticide.
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The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the Views of the Student Editors
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 year. During the summer terms, and examination
and vacation periods, The Battalion is published twice a week. Days of
publications are Tuesday through Friday for the regular school year,
and Tuesday and Thursday during examination and vacation periods
and the summer terms. Subscription rates $9.00 per year or $ .75 per
month. Advertising rates furnished on request.
Entered as second-class
matter at Post Office at
College Station, Texas
under the Ac© of Con
gress of March 3, 1870.
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York City, Chicago, Los
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the paper and local news of spontaneous origin published herein. Rights
of republication of all other matter herein are also reserved.
News contributions may be made by telephone (4-5444 or 4-7604) or
at the editorial office room, 202 Goodwin Hall. Classified ads may be
placed by telephone (4-5324) or at the Student Activities Office, Room
209 Goodwin Hall.
BOB BORISKIE, HARRI BAKER Co-Editors
Jon Kinslow... Managing Editor
Jerry Wizig Sports Editor
Ralph Cole, Don Shepard ; News Editors
Nora Burge Woman’s Editor
Kerstin Ekfelt Assistant Woman’s Editor
Betsy Burchard A&M Consolidated Correspondent
Maurice Olian A&M Consolidated Sports Correspondent
John Huber. .Advertising Manager
Larry Lightfoot Circulation Manager
Tom Syler, Russell Reed, Ken Livingston Circulation Staff
awards next week for federal service in the College Station-
Bryan area. The awards, presented by the Civil Aeronautics
administration, will go to B. C. McCallum, seated, and P. B.
Lflore, standing. M. J. Richardson, not shown, will also
receive an award. Receiving 10-year awards will be Frank
F. Dunn, Claud M. Grace, M. C. Powell, and Vernon W.
Turner, all from Bryan, Paul J. Bell, N. Miles Payne, Bobby
Clay and J. C. Stewart, all of College Station.
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