77/e Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Tuesday, May 22, 1956
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Battalion
On behalf of the Aggie Wives
Council, I take this opportunity |
to express appreciation to the fol
lowing people for making the Ag
gie wives life on the Campus more
pleasant:
To Barbara Paige for the excel
lent coverage she has given to our
clubs in the Battalion.
To Mr. Gay for his cooperation
CIRCLE
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“Top of the World”
Dale Robertson
and untiring efforts in furnishing
, a place for oux* meetings.
To the personnel at the MSC
for the many activities they have
planned for us.
To all of the faculty wives who
have given freely of their time to
sponsor our activities.
To John Geiger and his staff for
helping us with our bowling league.
To the department heads who
have assisted us in obtaining lists
of prospective members.
And finally, to the husbands who
have made it possible for us to be
“Aggie Wives.”
Through these people many
friends have been made; wonderful
memories will go with us when we
leave.
Joy Jones
Also
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Robert Newton
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The Battalion
The Editorial Policy of The Battalion
Represents the View r s of the Student Editors
Xtie Battalion, daily newspaper of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of
Texas and the City of College Station, is published by students In the Office of Student
Publications as a non-profit educational service. The Director of Student Publications
is Ross Strader. The governing body of all student publications of the a.&M. College
of Texas is the Student Publications Board. Faculty members are Karl E. Elmquist.
Chairman: Donald D. Burchard. Tom Leland and Bennie Zinn. Student members ;
are Derrcll H. Guiles. Paul Holladay, and Wayne Moore. Ex-officio members are
Charles Roeber. and Ross Strader. Secretary. The Battalion is published four times j
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JIM BOWER
Dave McReynolds
Barry Harf
Jim Neighbors, Joe Tindel
Bill Fullerton, Ralph Cole, Ronnie Greathouse
Welton Jones
Barbara Paige
John West, Leland Boyd, Ed Rivers, A1 Chappel
Editor
Managing Editor
Sports Editor
News Editors
Has-Beens
City Editor
Woman’s Editor
Reporters
Loeffler Speaks
(Continued from Page 1)
of the War Department in the
Pentagon.
“In the same building, the Joint
Chiefs of Staff were meeting when
word came that the Russians were,
in the Balkans. One of the Joint
Chiefs, a famous General, i-equest-
ed a report on the activities of the
Russians in that area. My friend,
after gathering the proper informa
tion from his aides in that area,
assembled the information and with
his college history course at his
finger tips, wrote a graphic report
which was delivered to the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
“The General, after reading the
report was very enthusiastic and
inquired who wrote it. Upon being
told it was my friend, he said ‘Mag
nificent, send that colonel a letter
of commendatiqn.’
“One week later, another report
was submitted by that same Col
onel and it told of the Russians en
tering the villages, stealing the
cattle, burning the buildings and
raping the women.
The General read the report and
purple with rage roared ‘Who
wrote this report—why he doesn’t
like the Russians.’
“So may we all look into our
mirrors for these signs of imma
turity and ask ourselves why we
behave as we do. I too am im
mature if I don’t bring into pi-oper
focus my work at this fine college.
I must attune to life and see my
particular job in its proper per
spective.
And we must all affirm to life,
for affirming to life is being in
volved heart and soul in the process
of living with relation to others.
To be content with knowing a large
number of facts is not alone suffi
cient, but we must grow in knowl
edge and the wise use of it. We
must dare to live and think.
“There is an alarming philosophy
in the world today summed up in
the following phrases: Get with a
large corporation, stay with it, al
ways conform, never get out on a
limb, join a mutual adoration so
ciety and await tenure. I would
suggest a jail sentence would be
more interesting. And I ask you
to search this philosophy and ask
if this is affirming to life as the
mature mind woulj date to live it.
“It seems almost impossible to
convince a certain type of modern
man that it is more important to
live than to succeed (whatever that
is), more vital to be happy than
rich and more essential to have
peace of mind than television sets.
“So tonight you are not being
forced to listen to one, who not
having a warped intellect because
of the excessive acquisition of dol
lars, scientific achievements or
military success, will try to tell
you how to live your future life.
I am only suggesting you search
for maturity and once achieving it,
that you have a fuller life.
“Then if enough of us mature
eventually, there will be enough
mature people in the right place.
We can look about us everyday
and realize affairs are out of joint
because there are not enough ma
ture people in the right places. If
that is the present condition, un
less we all dare to live the life
of the mature with linkages to life
being constantly strengthened with
new experiences, then we are lost
and progress is a delusion.
“Yes, many are the criteria of
the immature; ignorance, irrespon
sibility and selfishness. Your col
lege education has, I hope, helped
you overcome some, if not all of
these things. But going into the
world, you will find another ob
stacle to youi - becoming a mature
individual and attaining to life.
You will be afraid of many things
and fear will rob you of attaining
that goal of maturity. You may
find some sort of security, but I
urge you on beyond that by asking
that you dare to live.
“For each new experience you
have will give you a deeper appre
ciation of life. If you shut life out,
life will shut you out. True, you
may achieve safety but that is the
most contemptible of life’s gifts.
You may avoid the storms but you
will never know the glory of the
sun, the moon, the stars nor ride
the rough waves nor walk with the
dawn.
“Dare to live, dare to love, dare
to laugh, dare to cry and dare to
yearn. Dare to stand up and face
life like a man. If you do, life
will whip you cruelly, will scar
you and blister you, and will cast
you down to the darkest depths.
But it will also lift you to heights
sublime. That is what life will
do for you if you will but face it.
If you will not, life will leave you
alone and that is the cruellest hell
a man may know.
“And so let me conclude with the
words of a poet whose name es
capes me for the moment.
‘Let me live oh mighty master
Such a life as men should know.
Tasting triumph and disaster,
Joy but not too much of woe.
Let me run the gamut over,
Let me love and fight and laugh.
Then when I’m beneath the
clover,
Let this be my epitaph:
Here lies one who took his
chances
Tn the boy’s world of men.
Battled luck and circumstances,
Fought and fell and fought
again.
Sometimes won but did no
crowing;
Sometimes lost but did not wail.
Always kept on forward going,
Never let his courage fail.
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What young people are doing at General Electri
Young ad man
handles G-E jet
and rocket engine
advertising
The first jet engine ever to power an Ameri
can plane was built by General Electric in
1942. Since 1948, G.E. has supplied the Air
Force with ov^- 30,000 of its famous J47
jet engines. And General Electric’s jet ex
perience soon will be paying additional new
dividends to national defense. Its J79 —
called the most advanced engine of its type
in the world—will soon enter production.
The man responsible for reporting G.E.’s
jet and rocket engine progress to its cus
tomer's and the public is Roy O. Stratton, Jr.,
27-year-old account supervisor in the Com
pany’s Apparatus Advertising and Sales
Promotion Department.
Stratton’s Work Important, Interesting
Stratton supervises the planning and prepa
ration of direct-mail promotion, brochures,
films and presentations, as well as public-
informational space advertisements for Time,
U.S. News & World Report, Business Week,
Aviation Week, and other magazines.
Considerable personal contact with the
Armed Services makes Stratton’s job an in
teresting one. Last year he traveled over
60,000 miles, visiting many of the country’s
Air Force bases to gather necessary infor
mation and pictures.
25,000 College Graduates at General Electric
When Stratton came to General Electric in
1952, he already knew the kind of work he
wanted to do. Like each of our 25,000 col
lege graduates, he is being given the chance
to grow and realize his full potential. For
General Electric has long believed this: when
fresh young minds are given the freedom to
develop, everybody benefits—the individual,
the Company, and the country.
Educational Relations, General Electric
Company, Schenectady 5, New York
AFTER RECEIVING a B.A.
in English from Brown
University, Hoy Stratton
joined G.E. in 1952 in the
Advertising and Public
Relations Training Pro
gram. He worked as in
struction-book editor and
advertising copy writer
before his current job.
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