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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1956)
Friday, March 16, 1956 THE BATTALION Page 5 Movies And Dancing, Border Week Style South of the Border Week con tinues tonight in full swing as the Film Society presents “Cheaper by the Dozen” in rooms 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D of the Memorial Student Center. Tommy Short’s High Five Combo presented an hour of Latin Ameri can music today in the main lounge of the MSC in connection with the Week. The Dance Group is sponsoring a special dance tonight in the Ball room of the MSC. Admission will be $1 per person. The Capers Com bo will provide the music. A floor show featuring 28 girls from the University of Texas doing Latin American dances will be presented. ^Tomorrow after the Corps Re view, Charles Burleson of Hunts ville will play Latin American mu sic on the organ in the main lounge. The Food Department, headed by Mrs. Gladys Black, food director, is featuring Latin American foods. 8 U-PAK-M 1 Black j Don , t forget . .. ©SANDWICH MEATS ® COLD BEVERAGES • CRUSHED ICE 0 ASSORTED NICK-NACKS | BOW TIES 95c OPEN 7 A.M. to 11 P.M. 1 for the U-PAK-M MILITARY BALL 3800 So. College Gus Ellis, ’37 LOUPOT’S California Institute of Technology JET PROPULSION LABORATORY PASADENA, CALIFORNIA EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ROCKET AND GUIDED MISSLE FIELDS for - QUALIFIED GRADUATES IN ELECTRONICS MECHANICAL, AERONAUTICAL, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING METALLURGY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS Graduates are urged to attend “On Campus” Interviews AT Placement Office March 20, 1956 Social Whirl GEOLOGY WIVES Club will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Geol ogy Building. Mildred Hummel will present a demonstration in cor rect table decorations, manners and centerpieces carrying out the theme of Easter. All geology wives ai^e invited to this meeting. Anyone needing a ride may call Nancy McCarty at VI 6-5604. ★ MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the YMCA for a talk by Mrs. Fred Smith on “Points of Etiquette”. Plans for the grarua- tion social will be discussed. Mem bers are urged to attend and bring a new member if possible, accord ing to Evelyn Brady, president. ★ BUSINESS WIVES CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Lone Star Gas Co., 201 E. 27th, Bryan. Miss Ann Winters will present a cooking demonstration. ★ AGRICULTURE ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Ag. Eco. and Soc. Building, room 312. W. R. Horsley, direc tor of the placement office, will speak on “How to help you help your husband.” ★ PETROLEUM ENGINEERING Wives Club will meet at 7:45 p.m. Monday at the Bryan Sewing Ma chine Co., in Ridgecrest shopping center for a demonstration of the Necchi. Refreshments will be ser ved at the home of D. D. Picker ing, C-9-Z College View. Mem bers are asked to bring their Eas ter baskets for underprivileged children. ★ AGRICULTURE ENGINEER ING Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Ag. Eng. Building, room 200, then go in a group to Millie’s Beauty Salon in Bryan for a demonstration o f Louzier’s Cosmetics. ★ INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY Wives Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the YMCA. Mrs. R. M. Stevenson will speak on “In your home what is it called? Hospitality”. ★ ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Wives Club will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in room 3D of the Memor ial Student Center. A representa tive of Redmond Real Estate will speak on “Things to Look for when buying a house.” Plans for the spring picnic and graduation exfircises will be discussed. ★ AGGIE WIVES BOWLING Club will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Memorial Student Center Bowling alley for a short meeting preceeding the bowling. 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The purpose of the program is to encourage interest and participa tion in science by more and better students. It provides an oppor tunity for students to express their interest and be properly recognized for their achievements. The fair was sponsored locally by K. C. Morgan, A&M Consolida ted science instructor. Mr. Morgan will accompany the students to Galveston. Announcement Deadline Thursday Graduating seniors are reminded that the deadline for ordering graduation announcements in on Thursday, at 5 p.m. Samples of announcements may be seen in the Student Activities Office, and students are requested to have in mind what they want, in order to speed ordering. Prices of the announcements are leatherbound, 75c; cardboard, 40c; and Frenchfold 10c. Printed personal cards are $1.50 per hundred, and engraved person al cards are $2.50 per hundred. Center News TODAY 7:30 p.m., MSC Film Society pre sents “Cheaper by the Dozen” star ring Clifton Webb, Assembly Room. 8:00 p.m., MSC Bridge Commit tee, social room. 8:30 p.m., South of the Border Dance with music by the Capers Combo, ballroom. 7:30 p.m., A&M Speechmasters Club, executive meeting, director ate office. MONDAY 7-10 p.m., Dance class, assembly room. 7:30 p.m., public relations group, Birch room. 7:30 p.m., Film Society, 2B. 7:30 p.m., Music Group, 2C. 7:30 p.m., Dance Group, 2D. 7:30 p.m. Radio Committee, 3B. 7:30 p.m., MSC Directorate Meeting, Senate chamber. Rue Pinalle will not be held March 16 as scheduled because of a conflict with the South of the Border Dance. Astronomy Club Seeking Members Students interested in astronomy have organized a new club on the campus and invite any interested students that would like to join to contact them, said Dan Purring- ton, president of the new organi zation. The new organization has taken the name of the Texas A&M Astronomical Society. “Our first goal is affiliation with the Ameri can Association of Variable Star Obseiwers,” Purrington added.. The club will hold regular month ly meetings and will set up a regu lar observation program. The club is sponsored by the Physics De partment and the faculty sponsor is J. T. (Cube Root) Kent of the Mathematics Department. Students interested can contact Purrington in dormitory 7, room 204 or Bob Wimberly, secretary, at C-8-X, in College View. Astronomers of three observa tories in California have reported a new age for the expanding universe —5.4 billion years, give or take a billion. ji . Saddle And Sirloin Will Hear Williams D. W. Williams, Vice-Che ncellor of Agriculture for the A&M Sys tem will speak to the Saddle and Sirloin Club Tuesday li ght on his recent trip to Russia. 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