The Battalion
Number 116: Volume 54
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1955
Price Five Cents
Ring Dance Marks Seniors’ Night
Press Club Gives
Aivards Tonight
At Annual Banquet
More than 150 staff members of
A&M’s six student publications,
will be honored tonight at the an
nual^ Press Club awards banquet.
The banquet will start at 6:30
p.m. in the Memorial Student Cen
ter ballroom, with the serving of
a smorgasbord meal.
Highlight of the banquet will be
the presentation of keys to the
publications’ staff members, and
the presentation of engraved
watches to the tditors.
Speaker will be Clay Bailey, as
sistant director of U. S. Steel cor
poration, who will talk on the value
of the written word to college grad
uates.
The editors will introduce the
members of their staffs, and Karl
E. Elmquist, chairman of the stu
dent publications board, will pre
sent the watches to the editors.
Also to be announced at the ban
quet are the winners of the seven
Battalion AAvards for his year.
The'* awards are given for “out
standing service in the field of. stu
dent relations.”
With the student staff members
‘Miss Rue Pinalle’
Will Be Named
Outstanding talent from sur
rounding areas will participate in
the final Cafe Rue Pinalle of the
year at 8:30 p.m. Friday on the
Memorial Student Center starlight
terrace.
The selection of Miss Rue Pinalle
for 1955 will highlight the eve
ning’s entertainment. Members of
the MSC dance group will select
four girls from the crowd as final
ists. From this group, Miss Rue
Pinalle will be chosen by audience
applause.
The winner will be given a
French present and the other girls
will receive gifts.
The Capers Combo will furnish
music for the dance.
at the banquet will be about 100
guests and friends. Harri Baker,
editor of The Battalion and chair
man of the Pi*ess club, will be mas
ter of ceremonies.
A&M’s six student publications
are The Battalion, the Aggieland,
the Commentator, the Agricultur
ist, the Engineer, and the South
western Veterinarian. The Student
Director is also in the student pub
lications organization.
A novel feature of the banquet
will be the program, which will be
a copy of today’s Battalion, altered
to fit the occasion.
After the regular press run, the
press will be stopped, the “lead”
story, at the aboye right, will be
removed and a special story and
program inserted. Also, the pic
ture to the right will be replaced
with a special montage of the pub
lication’s nameplates.
After these changes, the press
will be started again and 250 cop
ies of the “new” paper will be run
off for programs.
OUTSTANDING—Five books (in French) were awarded to five students in the first
and second year French classes. The books were given by the French Consul in Hous
ton, the Hon. Pierre Pelon, to the outstanding student in each of the French sections.
Shown above are, left to right, Wayne McAfee, freshman; Lee H. Smith, sophomore;
Nicholas Gallopoulos, sophomore, receiving the book from T. E. Comfort of the modern
languages department; Richard Weick, senior, and George Crane, sophomore.
Buell Elected Vice-President
Pariiam Is Senate President
Byron A. (Scotty) Parham was
elected next year’s Student Senate
president at the first meeting of
the new senators held last night
in the Memorial Student Center.
Glenn Buell was elected vice-
president; Jim Rowland, secretary;
Jon Hagler, corresponding secre
tary; Dave Parnell, treasurer;
Wayne Young, chaplain; and Tom
my Short, parliamentarian.
Frank (Pancho) Patterson, Glenn
Buell and Dave Parnell were elect
ed to the Senate’s Student Life
committee. Five vacancies on the
Welcoming committee were filled
by Gus Mijalis, Richard Tachibana,
No Major Quizzes
Week
Starts
of Ease
Monday
By BILL FULLERTON
Battalion Editor
What everybody calls “dead
week” starts Monday, and most
students will be able to sit back
and relax for a few days.
But this week, which marks the
last respite before finals start,
does not officially exist for this
purpose.
What the real idea behind this
week is probably does not occur
to the average student. This period
was set up so that exams would
Weather Today
The weather for today will be
partly cloudy with the possibility
of light thunderstorms and rain
showers late today. The high
temperature yesterday was 83 and
the low last night was 64. Tem
perature at 11 a.m. was 74.
not crowd up during the last week
before finals. It is not, as most
students happily take it to be, just
a chance to get out of studying
for a while.
Individual Discretion
The Academic council of the
school, in setting up this action,
said: “The matter of course con
tent review during the last week
of the semester will be left to
the discretion of the individual
instructor, with the provision,
however, that no major quiz be
given during the last week prior
to the final exam.”
Graduating seniors have a
strong interest in this “dead
week,” especially. To protect the
credit rating of the school, these
students are required to attend
classes during this time — even
though grades are already in for
them.
Possible Alternative
According to administration of
ficials, the alternative to having
seniors attend class would be to
have commencement exercises set
after final exams. This would de
lay the deadline for turning in
graduating senior’s grades.
For those with distinguished
student cards, J. P. Abbott, Dean
of the college, said that he knew
of “no policy.”
He also said that, although no
such cases had arisen so far, a
student’s degree would be held up
in case of an unauthorized ab
sence from a class during this
week.
Jack Edwards, Bill Swann
Short.
Seven students were elected to
the Welcoming committee. They
were Wade Ingram, Johnnie Pet
ty, Don (Red) Davis, Ted Lowe,
Bill Midgett, James Gatlin and
Don Elledge.
One special committee, the Seat
ing committee, was appointed by
President Parham. New members
are Mijalis, chairman; Parnell;
Rowland; Davis; Tony Bracks; and
Bill Libby. Douglas DeCluitt was
elected Senate representative to
the MSC Council.
Before the new Senate convened,
the outgoing senators held their fi
nal meeting, hearing reports from
this year’s committees.
Bill Bass reported that A&M’s
membership in the Texas Intercol
legiate Student association was of
“no benefit” to the school, and rec-
and ommended that at least some of the
money appropriated for it could be
better spent elsewhere.
After a short discussion, Bass
made a motion that A&M withdraw
from the association, the discussion
of which drew lively argument
from senators.
After a prolonged discussion,
during which both sides of the pro
posal were strongly defended, the
motion was found to be out of or
der. To withdraw A&M from the
association would have required
Ministers Meeting
Will Host 200
More than 200 ministers and lay
men are expected to attend the
10th annual Rural Church confer
ence to be held here June 28 to 30.
The program for the three-day
conference will be prepared by the
officers of the conference. These
include the Rev. O. B. Rogers of
Winnsboro, president; the Rev. W.
A. Engstrom of Natalia, vice-presi
dent; and Mrs. J. S. Mogford of
College Station, secretary.
Council members are the Rev.
Ed Kloppe of Kyle, the Rev. Brace
Harper of Tyler, the Rev. A. J.
Mohr of Bellville, the Rev. John
Geiser of West, the Rev. R. R.
Lloyd of Austin, and the Rev. John
H. Crow of Abilene.
several constitutional changes,
needing a three-fourths vote of this
year’s senators. Barely a quorum
was present. *
The question of Reveille’s sum
mer whereabouts was settled by
the Senate’s approval and accept
ance of the Reveille committee’s
report. In presenting the report,
Chairman Buell had recommended
that Reveille be allowed to stay
with Clarence Kerns, junior from
Borger, during the summer vaca
tion.
Johnny Long
Ring Dance Has
Two** Orchestras’
Saturday’s Senior Ring dance which all play a tune on the same
will really be a two-orchestra dance piano.
Civilian Students
To Meet Tuesday
A meeting for all civilian stu
dents will be held at 4 p.m. Tues
day in the chemistry lecture room.
The meeting is for the presenta
tion of keys to eligible ramp, floor
and row representatives for the ci
vilian dormitories and college
housing.
Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of A&M, will present keys to about
20 students. The Civilian Student
Council gives the keys to students
who have served at least one se
mester and part of another.
—Johnny Long and his orchestra,
billed as “Young America’s Favor
ite,” and the Quintet Allegro, a
crazy mixed-up fivesome of Italian
musicians.
Long will be the main orchestra
at the dance, with the Quintet play
ing during the two half-hour inter
missions, giving an evening of un
broken music. The Quintet will also
play dinner music for the senior
banquet.
Besides his 15-piece orchestra,
Long will bring with him the Long
Shots singing group, a glee club,
and vocalists Barbara Hammond
and Jimmy Sedlar.
Long makes the rounds of most
of the big dances at the Eastern
colleges, and is well known for
his records, with “Just a Shanty
in Old Shantytown” probably the
most famous.
Incidentally, Long, who is a na
tive of North Carolina, carries a
Confederate flag on his car when
he travels.
This Quintet Allegro, the divi
dend for the night, is composed of
five wild Italians, all of whom can
play at least three musical instru
ments and sing, too.
With a symphonic background,
they can read music and play soft
and sweet with the best of them.
But they get their kicks—and mon
ey—from cutting up with novelty
numbers.
They clown, pantomine, swap in
struments, and sing in Italian,
Spanish, and what is called “hor
rible but amusing English.”
They also have a number in
The Quintet has played mostly
nightclubs since they came to the
U.S. in 1952.
Banquet Will
Start Evening
Tomorrow is the class of 'SB’s long-awaited big night,
with the Senior Ring dance marking unofficially the end of
the graduates’ college days.
The senior banquet starts off the evening at 6 p.m. and
the dance, with the music of Johnny Long and the Quintet
Allegro, will be from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Included in the dance, which wilFbe in The Grove, will
be the traditional ring ceremony, when the senior’s date
turns his ring around and gives him a kiss to mark the oc
casion.
Slated to be the biggest Ring dance and banquet in
A&M’s history, the weekend has seen advance sales of more
than 850 banquet tickets. ♦“
Dance ticket sale is not com
plete, since tickets will be sold
at the door, but it promises to
be a big one.
Coke R. Stevenson, former Tex
as governor, will be the principal
speaker at the banquet, which will
be in Duncan hall. Other features
of the program will be the presen
tation of the Vanity Fair winners
by Harry Tilley, Aggieland co-ed
itor; Who’s Who awards by Joe
Sorrels, chairman of the Student
Life committee; and the class his
tory by Harri Baker, Battalion ed
itor. Conrad Cummings, class pres
ident, will be master of ceremonies.
Menu for the banquet will be
relish tray, filet mignon, demi-
French potatoes, lima beans, peach
and cheese salad, rolls and butter
and baked alaska.
The Quintet Allegro will play
dinner music during the meal.
The ring ceremony and the pic
ture-taking that goes along with
it will start at 8:30 p.m. Tickets
for the ring pictures will be on sale
at the student activities office un
til noon Saturday. These tickets
have the time for the pictures on
the back of them. Two of the big
ring replicas will be used.
The Grove will be decorated in
a Hawaiian theme for the dance,
with palm fronds all around the
sides.
During the intermission at the
dance, the Quintet Allegro will
perform. For one of the half-hour
intermissions, they will put on a
floor show, and they will play
dance music for the other.
The Easterwood airport weather
station, which has been besieged
with requests for information on
the weekend’s weather, doesn’t
have the facilities for completely
accurate forecasts past 12 hours,
but the weather man said yester
day he “would guess that we’ll
have a pretty good we'ekend.”
W. D. (Pete) Hardesty, busi
ness manager of student activities
and class advisor, said the dance
would be held, come rain or shine.
“A little rain won’t hurt,” he
said, “but if it starts raining hard
we’ll just have to move to some
place else.”
Reservations
Begin Monday
For Summer
All students living in Biz-
zell, Law, Puryear and the
second, third, and fourth
floors of Leggett who plan to
attend summer school this
year and wish to keep their pres
ent rooms during the summer may
reserve them from 8 a.m. until 5
p.m. Monday at the housing office
in Goodwin hall.
All other students that intend
to attend summer school may re
serve rooms in Bizzell, Law, Pur
year and Leggett on a first come
-—first serve basis beginning Tues
day morning at 8 a.m. at the hous
ing office. Room reservations will
be accepted until noon, June 4-
Students, including those living
in college apartments, who do not
plan to live in dormitories during
the summer session must secure
day student permits from the hous
ing office before paying fees.
These permits can be secured in
the housing office prior to regis
tration, June 6.
Fees for the summer session may
be paid beginning Monday at 8
a.m. in the Administration build
ing by the following procedure:
World War II veterans (not Ko
rean) will secure fee waiver slips
from the veterans advisor’s office
in Goodwin hall.
Korean veterans report to vet
erans advisor’s office to sign en
rollment papers.
All students pay fees in the fis
cal office in the Administration
building.
Miss Barbara Hammond
Johnny Long’s Vocalist
News
of the
World
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Major flood threats waned but
beneficial rains kept falling over
large parts of Texas Thursday
night in the wake of violent weath
er that brought death and damage.
In most areas the heavy rain did
crops and farmland enough good
to outweigh the damage.
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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
Dag Hammarskjold suggested
yesterday the Big Four foreign
ministers could confer at the
U. N. commemorative session in
San Francisco next month as a
preliminary to a later meeting of
their government chiefs.
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AUSTIN—The Texas senate yes
terday refused to take up the bill
raising Arlington and Tarleton
state colleges, members of the A&M
System, from junior to senior col
lege status. It rejected 15-13 the
motion of Sen. George Parkhouse
of Dallas to take up the House-
passed bill out of its regular order.
it it it
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina—
The Argentine House of Depu
ties voted 121-12 last night to
separate the Roman Catholic
Church from the state. The vote
came after two days of debate
on the crucial issue of the dis
pute between President Juan D.
Peron and the church.