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Section III
The Battalion
Number 15: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955
MS l^epa riment
L is Is Co rps.
Uni form Changes
Several changes have taken place
during the summer concerning the
Military Science Department and
Corps uniform privileges.
The Military Science Department
has been placed under the Dean
of the College and Corps activities
taken from under the Dean of Stu
dent Personnel Services.
Under the old organization was
Student Affairs, Student Activities,
the Commandant and the Basic
Division.
A new curricula in military
science is being prepared and
Fall Military Day
Will Be Nov. 5
The second annual Fall Military
Day will be Nov. 5, the day of the
A&M-Southern Methodist Univer
sity football game here.
The first Fall Military Day was
held last Nov. 13, when the Aggies
lost to Rice Institute on Kyle Field.
An impressive host of generals and
other distinguished personnel were
guests of the college.
On the moiming of Nov. 5, the
Council of Military College Presi
dents will also gather at A&M.
The schools invited, and their pres
idents are, besides Texas A&M and
Dr. David H. Morgan, New Mexico
Military Institute, Col. C. F. Waid;
North Georgia College, M. E.
Hoag;< Pennsylvania Military Col
lege, E. E. MacMorland; The Cita
del, Gen. Mark W. Clark;
Norwich University, Maj. Gen.
E. N. Harmon; Virginia Polytech
nic Institute, W. S. Newman; Vir
ginia Military Institute, W. H. Mil-
ton Jr.; and Clenlson Agricultural
College, R. F. Poole.
Among the guests so far for the
Military Day program is the Hon
orable Carter Bux-gess, assistant
Secretary of Defense and head of
all ROTC units in the nation.
should be completed by next year.
Under the new program, the Mili
tary Science Department will be
come the School of Military
Science.
Other changes in the corps of
cadets are several new uniform
regulations for students to recog
nize and abide by, effective imme
diately.
All students, freshmen through
seniors, will wear the green tie and
not the old khaki colored tie. The
khaki tie will not be worn by any
student with any uniform.
Cardovan shoes will be worn ex
clusively to all reviews and pa
rades. Green boot pants, pink
shirts, olive drab items, shoes with
peebled finish, gold plated brass
and low-top “fruit boots” will be
prohibited in the corps of cadets.
Green belts will not be worn
with green pants, khaki belts must
be “sun-tan” color and pink caps
will be worn with pink pants only.
Service stripes must be on all
blouses.
Pink caps and belts will not be
authoxized after June, 1956.
Ciiion To Open
This Saturday
Guion Hall will open Satui’day at
1 p.m., said manager Tom Puddy,
with the showing of “The Wild
One,” staiming Mailon Brando.
Tlxe grounds of Guion have been
woi'ked ovei’ and sidewalks have
been laid around the bxiilding. Also,
about 110 xrew seats have been
added. The seats were gathex*ed
fi*om the YMCA Cabinet Room and
ai'e in bettex - shape than the ones
taken fi’om the theatre. .
Stereophonic sound has been
added for the betterment of A&M's
own movie, Puddy said.
A late movie will also be shown
Satux-day night.
WELCOME HOME—Dr. David H. Morgan, president
of the college, center, welcomes several cadet officers who
returned “home” two weeks early to assist incoming fresh
men in orientation programs. Besides drilling freshmen,
lecturing to them and greeting parents, these officers have
had saber drill and lectures to attenrl. This picture was
taken at the end of a two-day orientation period for cadet
officers. Left to right is Scotty Parham, Harold Sellers,
Charles E. Stinnett, Larry Kennedy, Donald Burton, Er
nest Biehunko, Morgan, Harvey Richards, John Jenkins,
Herbert Whitney, Glenn Rice and Paul Holladay.
A&M Freshmen Learn Aggie Customs, Traditions
A&M fi'eshmen, 1,800 strong, be
gin to fill the campus eaidy Fri
day moiming for the opening of
new student week.
Housing assignments and a gen
eral assembly filled the day for
the bright eyed young fish. A
yell practice led by Head Yell
Leader Paul Holladay, rounded out
the night.
Accoi'ding to David H. Moi'gan,
pi'esident of the college, this is
the “lax-gest and noisiest” class
A&M has had in the past few
years.
Freshmen spent all day Satur
day taking tests and ended up that
night with a genei’al assembly and
an open house in local chui’ches.
The Sunday afternoon reception
was attended by more than 1,600
freshmen, who apparently had a
good time talking with local gii'ls.
Of course, they know by now they
will never see that many gilds to
gether again in one place while at
A&M until next year’s freshman
x’eception.
Most of Monday was taken up
with unit commandei's speaking to
their individual units, issuing of
unifoi’ms and identification pho
tographs. The annual welcome ad-
di’ess was given that night by Di\
Morgan.
The rest of the week included
more training on the Aggie way
of life and other various subjects,
'-such as meetings with individual
students and individual faculty
members for the purpose of ex
changing information on the stu
dent’s major coui*se of study.
Coi’ps freshmen haven’t been the
only new students being orientated.
Civilian students have been meet
ing with W. G. Breazeale and Rob
ert O. Murray, Civilian Advisors
to leai’n A&M’s customs and tra
ditions.
A free movie will be shown to-
(See FRESHMEN, Page 4)
Price Five Cents
Town Hall
Schedules
Eight Shows
The 1955 - 56 Town Hall
calendar has been announced
with eight shows scheduled
for the year.
The first production, Fiesta
Mexicana, will ‘be given Oct. 4
in White Coliseum. Tickets for
the show will be included in the
student activities fee or may be
pui-chased at the door or the Of
fice of Student Activities.
Other shows and their dates are
as follows:
Robert Shaw Chorale and Or-
chestx-a, Oct. 19; Stan Kenton and
Ox-chestra, Oct. 24; The Four
Freshmen, Nov. 18; Philharmonic
Piano Quartet, Dec. 16; San An
tonio Symphony Oi’chestra, Jan.
16; Don Juan in Hell, Feb. 9; and
the Air Force Band and Singing
Sei’geants, March 22.
Tickets to Town Hall produc
tions will be $4 general admission
and $6 reserve seats for students
and wives not electing to pay the
activities fee. For non students,
tickets will be $6 general admis
sion and $8 reserve seat.
The reserve seat section includes
the first 10 rows on the main floor
of the Coliseum and the first 12
x’ows of sections 104-108 on the
west side of the balcony.
Single tickets to the shows will
be $2 general admission and $2.50
reserve seats, if any are left.
Student opinion, last year, fa
vored Mai’ge and Gower Champion
and the voices of Walter Schu
mann. Eight Baylor beauties were
judged by Marge Champion fol
lowing the program.
Another popular presentation
was the “Caine Mutiny Court Mar
tial”, stari-ing William Bendix.
The Town Hall Committee had
quite a time getting the program
but finally succeeded.
Other programs last year in
cluded the Sauter-Finegan Or
chestra, The Teltschiks piano duet.
The Houston Symphony Orchestra,
Fred Waring and Chorus and The
Serenaders Male Quartet.
WELCOME
From The Official Photographer
For The "Aggieland '56"
Once again we have been chosen
to do the photography for the
Aggieland”—Yearbook of Texas A&M
Portrait schedules will begin
soon—starting with Freshmen.
Plan to have your portrait in
the annual
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