The Battalion .... College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, April 26, 1956
Meet James Bower
Heading The Battalion next year
will be a slim brown-haired jour
nalism major from Victoria, James
JIM BOWER
“You May Be Right,
But I’m The Editor”
(Jim) Martin Bower. The 22-yeai’-
old Bower, formerly a pre-vet ma
jor before switching to Journalism
two years ago, has served The Bat
talion this year as news editor. He
also is associated with the Aggie-
land ’56 as business manager.
Good things often come after
hard work, Bower philosophizes
and this idea applies to him. For
he will be married this summer,
August 17, after summer ROTC
camp. The bride-to-be is Miss Bax*-
bara McConnell, a resident of Dal
las and now a sophomoi’e advei'tis-
ing major at Southern Methodist
Univexsity. The wedding will take
place in Highland Park Methodist
Chuxch, Dallas.
Newspaper woxk was no stxaxigex-
to the new Batt editor, as he work
ed as a repo it ex - for his high school
newspaper in Taylor, Tex. “I was
only a i-epoitei - , but wrote the edi-
tox-ials,” he said. “I even won a
national award for an editoi'ial on
tubei’culosis.”
Bower also woxked last summer
Letter to Jim Bower
Editor To Be, The Battalion
I’m jumping- the gun a little on your new job, but I’d
like to take this way to offer my congratulations, plus a little
free advice about some matters.
Just a few days short of a year ago, I took over the
reins of The Battalion; now I am about to relinquish them
to you. I’m still too close to my own efforts to decide what
I accomplished. After I leave, it’s possible I may not have
the desire ever to evaluate this last year.
Your work—the way you fulfill your responsibilities—
will depend quite a lot on the way you can evaluate this past
[ on an internship with the Dexxison
Hex-aid.
Box-n in McAlester, Okla., Maix-h
30, 1934, Bower lived in that state
until he was nine yeaxs old, moving
then to Texas. He was gxaduated
fx-om Taylor High School in 1952.
Activities he has thus far paxti-
cipated in while at A&M include
membex-ship in the A&M Band;
executive secx-etary of the South
west Conference Sportsmanship
Committee; pax-liamentarian, Jun
ior class; vice-px-esident, Sigma
Delta Chi; and editor of the Nava-
sota-Examiner-Review during the
Easter holidays this yeax-. Bower
led a gxoup of A&M journalism
students thxough one issue of the
paper as paxt of lab woxk in a de-
paxtmental coux-se.
Bower will take over as editox-
of The Battalion next week, fol
lowing a pxactice of year’s standing
that the new staff have about a
month to get used to the new work
befox-e the “has-beens” ax-e gone.
I’ve been satisfied with Battal
ion policies this yeax-, and basically,
they will not be changed dux-ing the
coming. school yeax*. I feel our
main objective is to x-epox-t evexy-
thing we can find.”
Being well-acquainted with the
houx-s Battalion staff members nox*-
mally keep, Bower informed his
fiance that he might not i-eturn
home “very eax-ly, very often.”
“Bax-bara didn’t believe me,” he
said, “but she also added, ‘I’m not
worx-ied’.”
This summer while Bower is at
summer camp and getting married,
The Battalion will be headed by
MAUREEN O'HARA GEORGE NADER
.... « vinod McLAGlEN ■ Bf X IHASON
•itn TOBIN THATCHER • EDUARD FRANZ • ARTHUR SHIELDS
A UNIVERSAl-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
year. You will be expected to retain any gains the paper may
have made, and also to profit by the errors that we let slip in. j David McReynolds, junior agricul-
Trying to cover both the campus and the city is an im-| tural journalism major from Pales-
possible job, especially since you have course requirements
to complete. And yet you must try to cover as much as pos
sible, as well as possible, and put it in your four-to-eight-page
paper. Some stories don’t get in. You have to decide what
the relative importance of each story is and the number of
persons that a story concerns in deciding what you run.
Don’t ever be scared by someone accusing you of not
knowing what you are talking about. You will be in a posi
tion to keep many things in perspective. You won’t begin
to know it all; but you will find that many persons who ac
cuse you of not knowing, come to you when they need in
formation. Knowing information, more than you’ll ever
have need or time to use. is another of your jobs.
Another point which will be charged to you as a fault
will be that The Battalion is just a “mouthpiece” for the
administration. Don’t worry about this charge; you’ll find
yourself expressing opinions that you do wish were the ad
ministration’s “party line.” The Battalion is in a middle
position between the student body and the administration.
Both sides have their own ideas about what is good for A&M
College, and these ideas are not always—and often seem
never—the same. You have to choose: you can take either,
both, parts, or none of the opinions. You have to weigh the
merits of “right” and “wrong” in making your decisions
about what is best for A&M College—for what is best for
A&M is your job.
Remember, however, what is best will entail both agree
ment and disagreement with others’ ideas. The Battalion is
not a publicity sheet; you report on what is happening, and
you editorialize if need be for or against—whichever seems
to be for the good of the school.
Try to be open minded about opinions besides your own.
I do not mean, don’t hold an opinion: make your considered
decision, and stay by it. If facts prove you wrong, an open
mind will then allow you to change your idea. To have no
opinion is not having an open mind; it’s having no mind at
all.
I’ve got to cut this letter short, leaving out much I’d like
to remind you of that I’ve throughout the year tried to sup
ply you information with. Most of what you need you’ll have
to learn for yourself, for some knowledge you have to live
Congratulations, and best wishes
Bill Fullerton.
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