Thursday, September 15, 1955
THE BATTALION
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Freshman Reception
1,600 Attend Open House
More than 1,600 new students
attended the Open House and Re
ception held in the Memorial Stu
dent Center last Sunday.
President David H. Morgan wel
comed the new students to the re
ception. Others in the receiving
line were Dr. and Mrs. Robert B.
Kamm, new dean of student per
sonnel services and wife; Bud
Whitney, president of the MSC
council, and Dick Wall, MSC coun
cil vice-president.
Students met deans, and heads
of the various departments of the
college, such as Student -Activities,
Student Affairs, Basic Division,
Office of the Commandant, MSC,
Registrar’s Office, Dining Halls,
YMCA, Exchange Store and Ath
letic Department.
MSC committees set up booths
Pet.E. Department
Gets Equipment
A new reservoir fluid and core
analysis equipment apparatus has
been donated to the petroleum En
gineering Department, according
to Robert L. Whiting, head of the
department. The equipment was
given by the Core Laboratories,
Inc., of Dallas.
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and displays in the ballroom with
leaders there to welcome students
and explain the committees to
them. Also on hand to greet the
students were many girls from
College Station and Bryan who
met the students, introduced them
to officials, and directed them to
the various exhibits.
Freshmen also took the opportu
nity to look over the facilities of
the MSC. The dark room, art gal
leries, craft shop, record room,
piano room. Ham Club room,
browsing library, directorate of
fices and game room were open all
afternoon.
Capers Combo furnished musical
entertainment in the fountain room
and Miss Sandra Sevier of Crock
ett played the organ in the main
lounge.
BA Department
Hires More
Instructors
An associate professor, H.
G. Kenagy, and four new in
structors have been employed
recently by the Business Ad
ministration Department, an
nounced T. W. Leland, head of the
department.
Kenagy was formerly vice-pres
ident in charge of public relations
for the Mutual Benefit Life Insur
ance Co. of Newark, N.J. He is
a graduate of the University of
Missouri and has a master’s degree
in economics from the University
of Minnesota.
New instructors are James N.
Byers of Lubbock who received his
Bachelor of Business Administra
tion degree in management from
Texas Technological College and
also received his masters there in
accounting; Dan Copeland Lowe
of Bryan who has an A.B. from
Lon Morris College and a B.S. and
M.Ed. from Stephen F. Austin; Ed
ward S. Packenham from Gales
burg, Ill., a graduate of Lombard
College; and James H. Dozier of
College Station who deceived his
L.L.B. degree from the University
of Texas.
A&M 12th B
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draw, and it’s usually been lose, time left to play, K
the whole state of Texas knows to one backfielti sul
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out on 1'-
the game but since he was called
upon from the stands and was!
ready, he became the first “Twelfth
the 12th man on the team—the
foot-sore A&M student body.
The Twelfth Man tradition was
born in Dallas, Jan. 22, 1922, in a
game between the Aggies and the
famous Praying Colonels of Centre
College.
As the game entered the fourth
quarter, the Aggie coach, Dana X.
Bible, now athletic director at the
University of Texas, saw his fast
wasn’t exactly
the team.
the bes
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Gill d d not play in Man.”
Then he remembered a sopho
more back who had been working
out with the squad all season, a
boy named King Gill, with plenty
of heart but without the weight
apd experience. Gill had not been
taken to Dallas with the team but,
like all good Aggies, had gone to
the game and was in the stands
but light backs one by one being with the Cadet Corps.
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College Station
Phone 4-4682
Reserve Program
Now Underway
Under the new Reserve Act of
1955, qualified young men are eli
gible to participate in a six-month
Army training program in the
United States Army Reserve.
Plans are curently underway to
conduct training under this pro
gram at Fort Bliss, Tex., and Camp
Chaffee, Ark., depending upon the
reservist’s branch assignment. Fort
Sam Houston, Tex., will also be the
location of a training camp in 1956.
Interested persons may obtain
additional information by contact
ing the local USAR training center.
This center for the College Station-
Bryan area is located two miles
south of Kyle Field on old High
way 6.
White Coliseum
Anniversary Near
A&M’s G. Rollie White Coliseum
will celebrate its first anniversary
next Wednesday. The new build
ing was dedicated on this day.
Sept. 21, last year.
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