Battalion
Number 20: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1954
Price 5 Cents
A&M Nominees
For Who’s Who
Begins Tomorrow
Nomination for Who’s Who at
Texas A&iVL will beg-in tomorrow.
A box will be placed near the
post office entrance of the Memo
rial Student Center to allow anyone
to nominate a student for the
Who’s Who honor.
Final selection will be made by
the Student Life committee at its
Deft 13 meeting. About 25 stu
dents are named, based on a per
centage of the total enrollment.
'Jhe percentage is set by the
National Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities, of which
A&M is a member.
The box will be in the Center
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and
Tuesday. (To aid in nominating
a student, there is a form in the
lower right comer of this page.
However, this form need not be
vised.)
To be eligible for Who’s Who, a
student must have completed a
minimum of six semesters at A&M,
or four if he is a transfer student.
No man will be considered for
Who’s Who more than one time.
If a student is nominated, he may
Center Pole
For Bonfire
Foot Higher
Logs on the bonfire are
growing and so did the center
pole. It was found by meas
urement that it is now 73
feet tall, instead of 72 feet as
everyone had thought, Howard
Childers said.
Childers, head yell leader, said
he is pleased with the work that
students are doing on the bonfire,
but that there is a definite need
for more men to work in the woods.
More logs have to fce brought in
to the drill field, he said.
Six to eight more tandem trucks,
besides the ones now being used
to haul the logs from the cutting
area, are expected to be available
this weekend, Childers said.
“If rain doesn’t fall this week
end, we will probably finish the
work on the bonfire,” he said.
The eating schedule for Satur
day and Sunday is tentatively set,
pending approval, at 5:30 a.m. for
breakfast and 6:30 p.m. for sup
per. This schedule would give us
much needed time for working,
Childers said.
He added that he wished to thank
Dr. W. E. Street, who donated the
present cutting area, for making
available an additional area for
cutting.
“This additional area makes it
unnecessary to use the other avail
able cutting areas,” he said.
decline to be considered until the
followdng year.
A student also cannot be named
to Who’s Who more than once.
Considered in the award are
grade point ratio, extracurricular
activities, class and club offices
held, athletics, membership in hon-
(See WHO’S WHO on Page 2)
Fish Injured
In Bonfire
Cutting Area
William E. Olander, a fresh
man, has been hospitalized as
a result of an injury at the
bonfire cutting area.
Olander’s thigh was braised
when a limb he was trimming
off a log swung around and hit
him on the leg. No bones
were broken, hospital authori
ties said.
He also was scraped on the
arms and chest.
According to the hospital,
this is the first serious injury
resulting from the bonfire re
ported this year.
“But we’ve had lots of blisters
and splinters,” hospital author
ities said.
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CONSULTANT—Tom Brown, called “Dr. Tom” by the
students in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is the man
students at the new veterinary hospital go to with their
problems. He has been with the veterinary school since
1920, and has worked for A&M 42 years.
‘Dr. Tom’
MSC Announces
Holiday Schedule
The following schedule has been
set up for the Memorial Student
Center during the Thanksgiving
holidays:
Nov. 24 — Open except for
the browsing- library.
Nov. 25—Closed except for
the coffee shop which will be
open from 6 to 9 a.m.
Nov. 26-27—Closed all day.
Nov. 28—Open at 11 a.m.
except for the browsing li
brary and bowling alley which
will be closed.
Nov. 29—Regular schedule.
Freshman Officers
To Be Elected Soon
The class of ’58 officers will be
elected Dec. 8, said Dave Lane,
chairman of the student election
committee.
Names of candidates will be filed
at the office of student activities
from November 30 until noon De
cember 6. Any freshman with a
one-point grade point ratio at mid
semester can submit his name.
The officers to be elected are
president, vice president, social
secretary, recording secretary,
terasurer, reporter, parliamentar
ian and sargeant-at-arms.
MAKING PROGRESS—Slowly but surely the logs are
put on the bonfire by hard-working students. Pictured
above is the progress that has been made on the bonfire
as of yesterday afternoon. The bonfire is scheduled to
burn Tuesday night.
Hospital Worker
Knows His Medicine
By JON KINSLOW
Battalion Managing Editor
The unofficial consultant for the
veterinary medicine students is a
man who has been with the School
of Veterinary Medicine since its
first student received his degree
in 1920.
The man is Tom Brown, a gray
haired Negro with a small mous
tache and an ever-present smile.
Called “Dr. Tom” by the veteri
nary students, Brown has worked
for A&M for the last 42 years. He
has been with the veterinary school
since 1920 and now he is chief
kennelman.
Had to Quit School
Although he had to quit school
when he was 10 years old, Brown
says he has studied veterinary
medicine “as hard as if I were
taking- the course.”
Students often ask him for ad
vice on how to treat some of the
animals, too, but he says he es
pecially likes to help with the dogs.
“When I was a boy, I had a big
dog who walked to work with me
each day,” he said. “Thei-e were
plenty of wildcats around there
and that dog was a life saver.”
Proof of his like for dogs is an
oil portrait that hangs in the new
veterinary hospital. The picture
shows him holding a small dog in
his hands, a familiar pose for him
when he’s around the hospital.
A man who is by no means em
barrassed to tell his gae—he is
58—Brown says he has never had
any trouble during his life. He
said he has gotten along by “be
ing fair and square with every
body.”
“It’s nice to be nice,” is how he
sums it up.
Brown has two children, one in
Waco and one in Chicago. When
asked why his children didn’t be
Civilian Council
To Meet Monday
The Civilian Council will meet
at 7 p.m. Monday in room 2C of the
Memorial Student Center.
John Jones, council president,
said that business taken up would
include the civilian dance plans, a
section in the Aggieland for civil
ian group pictures, civilian disci
pline at dances, constitutional
amendments concerning attendance
of meetings and publication of ori
entational material for new civilian
students.
Civilian students should contact
their dormitory representatives
about other matters which can be
brought before the council, Jones
said.
Weather Today
The weather will be clear and
warmer this afternoon. Yesterday’s
high was 71, low 41> The tempera
ture at 10:30 this morning was 59.
come veterinai’ians, he said, “They
just weren’t too much interested
in dogs.”
An ardent churchman, Brown
has also been a member of the Ma
sonic lodge for the last 30 years.
He was treasurer of a Bryan
church for 10 years.
Brown says he has done about
everything at the veterinary hos
pital that there is to do. He proud
ly says he often made the deposits
at the bank, some as high as $700,
“without ever misplacing- as much
as a penny.”
“I had to quit school, and there
are a lot of things I don’t know,”
he said, “but there are a lot of
things I do know, too.”
He was born in Burleson county
just across the Brazos river from
Brazos county. His mother, who
died seven years ago, was born in*
Texas while it was still Indian
country. Both Brown’s parents
and grandparents are native Tex
ans.
As to his job, all Brown said
was, “I like it fine. It’s a lot of
fun.” And then he broadened his
grin, showing how much fun he
thinks it is.
Thanksgiving Meal
Set For Monday
The annual Thanksgiving dinner
will be at 6:30 Monday night, said
J. C. Peniston, supervisor of din
ing halls.
Only students and their guests
will be allowed to attend the dinner
in the two dining halls. Price fox-
guests will be $1.
The meal will consist of roast
turkey and dressing, giblet gravy,
candied yams, green peas, celery
sticks, olives, sweet gherkins,
pumpkin pie, x-olls and butter, and
milk and coffee.
Photo Exhibit
Now On Display
An exhibit of 113 px-ints showing
the stox-y of px-intmaking in Ameri
ca fi-om the histoxical and technical
view is now in the Memorial Stu
dent Center’s showcases.
The exhibit shows samples of
the three classes of pxints—inta
glio, x-elief, and planographic.
The exhibit is from the peima-
nent collection of the fine arts de
partment of International Business
Machines cox-pox-ation. It is spon
sored by the MSC’s Ax-t Gallex-y
committee.
Two Profs Attend
Meeting In Ennis
Dr. Tyrus R. Timm, head of the
agriciulture economics and sociol
ogy department, and R. G. Cherry,
member of the department, at
tended a feeder-bi*eeder meeting
Monday at Coleman.
Eversberg Asks Senate
To Combat Disinterest
Students Now Resigned
To Going Coed, He Says
Student Senator Wallace Eversberg- last night challenged
the senate to combat a “tremendous lack of enthusiasm in
all activities on the campus.”
Eversberg said he “didn’t know what the trouble was,
but we (the senate) can do something about it.” He said
he had been watching the feeling of disinterest develop, and
it was time the problem was brought before the school.
After the meeting, in an interview with The Battalion,
Eversberg named specific instances that he felt showed a
lag in interest. Among these were poor attendance at class
meetings and Student Senate meetings.
Two senior class meetings were cancelled because there
+ was not a quorum present.
“Too many students are
taking their privileges and
not their responsibilities,” he
said. “The seniors should
lead the Way toward combatting
this lack of intex-est.”
In showing how this lack of en
thusiasm was affecting the stu
dents, Evex-sbei-g said many of the
students seem to have x-esigned
themselves to “the fact that we’re
going coed.”
“It is impossible, however, to
put your finger on what the trou
ble is,” he said. “One thing is
that a small per cent of the stu
dents ax-e doing everything, and
this number is slowly becoming less
and less.” Eversberg has been a
student senator for two years, and
is also secx-etary of the senior
class.
Eversbex-g’s . comments to the
senate came at the close of the
meeting.
In other action taken by the sen
ate, a campus beautification com
mittee was fox-med to study the
problem of a need of sidewalks.
Specifically named wex-e the areas
between donnitories 6 and 8, and
between 8 aqd 10.
A motion was passed by the
gx-oup to restx-ict all fox-ms of ad
vertising in the dormitox-ies to
space px-ovided on the bulletin
boards. The matter was suggested
to the senate in a letter from Lt.
Col. Taylor Wilkins, assistant com
mandant.
The senate also voted unanimous
ly to invite the Texas Intercolle
giate Students association to hold
their February executive session at
A&M.
A x-eport fi-om John Benefield,
chairman of the seating commit
tee, said “all the student body had
coopex-ated with the seating plan”
and thex-e “had been no major iix-
stances of non-coopex-ation.”
Senior Class
Project,
‘Sell A&M’
The senior class last night
decided to adopt “selling Tex
as A&M” as a class project,
with a committee to be set up
to coordinate the project.
The project would involve talk
ing to high school seniors and try
ing to get them to attend A&M.
According to the class project com
mittee, the idea was suggested by
Px-esident David H. Morgan.
The 150 seniox-s pi’esent also dis
cussed possible class gifts. Sug
gested were a $1,500 scholarship to
be given to a sophomore, and hav
ing stx-eet signs placed on the captx-
pus.
No action was taken, and the
class asked the gift committee,
headed by John Leimbrook, to get
more suggestions.
After a discxxssion on lights be
ing on dux-ing Silvex- Taps, it was
decided to refer the matter to the
traditions committee, headed by
Joe Bob Walkex-.
Suggested methods of turning
out the lights included having a
master switch to tux-n off all cam
pus electx-icity, having a master
switch that would tunx off only
the lights, and having teams of
men inspect each building for lights
left on.
The class also discussed methods
of keeping January gi’aduates in
touch with the Fox-mer Students
association. No action was taken.
After discussion, a question on
the weax-ing of high school letter
jackets on the campus was refer
red to the traditions committee.
City Taxes Due
By January 31
Half of the city taxes can be
paid now and the rest paid June
30, said Ran Boswell, city man
ager.
If citizens do not want to pay
their taxes now, they ax-e due Jan.
31. An 8 per cent penalty and a
6 per cent interest will be charged
if taxes ax*e paid late, Boswell said.
Student-Prof Week
Student-Faculty Relations week
will be Dec. 5-12 inclusive instead
of Dec. 6-13 as reported in Tues
day’s Battalion, Carl W. Landiss
said yestei'day. The dates were
selected to give host professors an
opportunity of entex-taining stu
dents on Sunday to begin or end
the week-long occasion, Landiss
said.
Christmas
Pageant Sets
First Meeting
More than 60 College Sta
tion and Bryan residents will
meet Sunday for the first
meeting of the entire cast of
the Community Christmas
pageant.
The pageant, “A Star Shines
Through,” will be presented at 8
p. m. Sunday, Dec. 12, in Guion
hall. The public is invited and
there will be no admission chax-ge.
The Sunday rehersal will be at
2 p.m. at the A&M Presbyterian
church.
The pageant is sponsored by the
College Station Council of Church
Women, the Interfaith coxxncil, the
YMCA cabinet and the Aggie Play
ers. Included on the general com
mittee ai’e repi’esentatives of all
phases of community life.
Segments of the pi’oduction,
which will include both dramatic
and musical parts, have been in x'e-
hersal, but the Sunday meeting
will be the first meeting of the
entire cast.
Persons playing Biblical X’oles
will get their first look at the cos
tumes Sunday. The costumes ax - e
the first of a “Community Cos
tume Closet” fi'om which churches
may di’aw for religious dramas.
C. K. Esten will dii'ect the pag
eant, and W. W. Turner will be
musical dix*ector. Mrs. J. B. Baty
is organist and Mrs. David H. Mor
gan is general chairman.
“We ai’e following a sugges
tion that many people might like
to come together to observe Chi’ist-
mas this way,” Mrs. Morgan said.
“It is in line with the national
move to re-emphasize in this time
of increasing commercialism and
merry-making, the true signific
ance of Christmas.”
CHS Sets Holidays
A&M Consolidated high school
Thanksgiving holidays will begin
at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 24, said J. J.
Skrivanek, principal. Classes will
stai’t again Monday, Nov. 29. Ef-
foi't is being made to ai’range holi
days at CHS coincide with college
holidays.
Who’s Who
IVomination
Name:
Classification:
Major and GPR:
BORDEN WINNERS—Frank Ford, left, of the School of Agriculture, and Wayne Moore,
center, of the School of Veterinary Medicine, receive Borden Awards from J. B. Maury,
assistant director of quality control of the Southern Division of the Borden Company
from Houston. The $300 awards are given annually to the outstanding students in the
two schools.