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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1955)
* Tuesday, 3tyT$y 17, 1955 THE BATTALION Page 3 ‘The Champs 9 Aggies Celebrate Victory Lawrence Sullivan Ross would have turned over in his grave last night if he could have seen how the Aggies lived up to being “sol diers, statesmen, and knightly gentlemen.” The last out announced by radio station WTAW, which clinched the 1955 Southwest conference base ball title for the Aggies, brought a mighty roar from the entire student body. Education Director 'To Speak at CHS P. R. Culpepper, director of the 'field service of the Texas State Teachers associationt, will address the Education Commission of the A&M Consolidated stehool district at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Topic of the speech will be “Re cent Texas Legislative! Action Af fecting our Schools.” Recent recommendations of the Texas Research League, a private ly sponsored educational organiza tion devoted to research in the field of public administration, will be discussed by Dr. L. S. Richardson, sup erintendent. Implications of the recommenda tions will be presented by C. A. Bonnen, president of the school board; J. Skrivanek, principal of the high school; and W. T. Riedel, principal of junior high school. All adult residents .of the A&M Consolidated school district are in- X vited to attend. Before the last echoes had died out, students were streaming from the dormitories where they had been glued to their radios, “sweat ing out” the ball game with South ern Methodist university. Then bedlam broke loose. Yell practices started everywhere on the campus. A few students made it to The Grove; most of them just let loose wherever they happened to be. The idea of a holiday from school today was not far from anyone’s mind. Students crowded onto the lawn of President David H. Mor gan’s home. Morgan was out of town, so the group headed toward J. P. Abbott’s house. He wasn’t at home either. Tissue paper was strewn along lawns and streets, as the students let the world know that no ruling could strip them of this champion ship. By 8:30 last night, most stu dents had finally settled down. Probably everyone, anyway, but the engineers at WTAW. They were having to reshelve the radio law books they had pored through dur ing the game, trying to find some legal way to stay on the air if the game ran overtime. They had to go off at 7:15 p.m. Luckily, John Stockton and Tex Vanzura solved their problems. And come to think of it, Ole Sul probably would have been celebrat ing too.* Group (Continued from Page 2) helicopters and light army air craft have landed on the campus. The committee felt that this could constitute a definite safety hazard, mentioning that the army airplanes had made their landing approach over the A&M Consoli dated school during school hours. To start its report, which was addressed to thfe president, the committee said that “we believe the committee has helped correct many bad habits and remove many hazards from the campus.” “We have received excellent co operation from many departments on the campus,” the report con tinued, “particularly the office of E NOTIC SENIORS All Typ es of Corsages ALSO Call Us Early FOR SPECIAL PRICES ON CORSAGES J. COULTER SMITH, Florist 1800 So. College PHONE 3 7 2 7 physical plants and the buildings and college utilities department.” The report recommended that the committee be continued next yeai’, and that it be supplemented with a sub-committee composed of representative from each de partment on the campus. Such a srxb-committee has been in operation this year, and “we think that if this group should be continued, more and more people will become safety conscious and will stimulate their fellow work men to pay attention to the haz ards on the campus,” the report says. The committee recommended five replacements in its membership, the addition of a civilian student representative, and the replace ment of the cadet corps command er with the cadet corps safety of ficer. Holdovers on the committee for next year will be Herman Segrest,< Larry Cobble, B. F. K. Mullins, and Ralph. King. Bill Fullerton, editor of The Battalion, will also be a member. The Accident Prevention com mittee was organized three years ago. Bead Battalion Classified Ads UGLIEST OF THE UGLY—Bob McClary, of Pasadena, above, beat out a tough field of five finalists to be named A&M’s ugliest civilian student, as a part of the first an nual Civilian Student weekend. Knights of Columbus Elect Manning, Koehl Bob Manning, junior electrical engineer major from Dallas, will be next year’s grand knight of Col lege Station' council No. 3205, Knights of Columbus. Manning will take over his duties at an installation of officers next September. Other officers elected were Ja cob Koehl, deputy grand knight; Clyde Wharton, chancellor; John Ferguson, recorder; Bert Hoff, treasurer; Don Dierschke, advo cate; Richard Dilts, warden; Bob Peters, inside guard; Jules Cabeen and Bill Cooper, outside guards; and John Hammonds, of Bryan air force base, trustee. Other offices—chaplain, lecturer, and committee heads—will be filled by appointment by the grand knight. Dierschke, as present grand knight, and Raymond Broussard, as past grand knight, were the reg ular delegates from the local coun cil to the Knights of Columbus state convention in Houston last week. Other members of the Council who attended the convention as visitors were Harry Kalina and Johnny Petter. liliiPBiil (Advertisement) Ain't much flrr talK-iki' \_] TA ANVSAAUb ~'t>PECIALt-V 'POS'bUM.S - BUT WHAT VO' VEt_l_lN'? xr (/ i s ONu&trr YO' OUCMTA CMECk. TU' EXCHANGE. 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