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PAGE 2 Friday, October 19, 1956
Congratu la lions. Senators
Sobered by a short talk from Doug DeCluitt, senior class
president, the Senate last night quickly got down to business
and proved that student governing bodies need not be filled
with foolish argument and sideplay.
DeCluitt outlined some of the qualities necessary for a
president and more or less issued a challenge to the senators.
He told them what was needed and expected froyi them and
what they were capable of doing though it would take a lot
of hard work.
Apparently the challenge was accepted since the first
meeting was so successful.
Congratulations are due to the senators and the people
who voted them into office. Keep up the good work.
Assistance Needed
Those not here last spring probably will question the
purpose of the tubs placed at each gate into Kyle Field when
they enter the stadium Saturday.
But to those of us who were here, the sight will be quite
significant as we realize that once more we are being called
upon to help a fellow student desperately in need of assist
ance.
Bill Curry, freshman from Comanche, fractured his neck
last April 13 while practicing on the trampoline. Ever since
then, he has been confined to a bed, not even able to raise
or move his legs and arms.
Although miraculously his life was saved when the
vertebrae in his neck pinched his spinal cord, he has been
continuously fighting one complication after the other.
Curry’s family has been hard pressed by the situation.
His father is a public school teacher and his mother can’t
work for having to stay at his bedside.
So when entering Kyle Field tomorrow, stop and give.
Every little bit will help.
SDX To Hold Banquet,
Initiation Tonight
Sorrels is Elected
Kiwanis Lt. Governor
A&M Chapter of Sigma Delta
Chi, National Journalistic Frater
nity, plans to hold their fall initia
tion tonight at 6, followed by a
dinner in honor of the new mem
bers.
Dave McReynolds, chapter pres
ident, has announced that Sid Fed-
der, prominent journalist from Vic
toria, will be the speaker for the
dinner. Fedder is a former w a r
correspondent, columnist for the
Associated Press, noted author and
is presently writing an article for
the Saturday Evening Post.
Don Bisett, Ken George, Norman
Davidson and J. B. McLeroy will
be initiated into the fraternity. The
ceremony and dinner will be held at
the Triangle Banquet Hall.
Qualifications for membership in
the fraternity include an interest
in journalism, at least one year’s
experience in the field of journal
ism and a desire to follow the
field of journalism after gradua
tion.
A&M’s chapter was chartered in
1955. Sigma Delta Chi is the larg
est professional fraternity in the
U. S. Only six colleges and uni
versities in Texas are members of
the fraternity.
REVEILLE II and friends Joe Grubbs, left, and Don Davis strolling about the campus.
Woe to Strangers
Guardian of the Aggie Band
Adlai Says Draft System
At Present Is Wasteful
By DAVE McREYNOLDS
Battalion Managing Editor
Capturing the imagination and
interest of the fans during half
time activities a little brown and
white Shetland shepard dog named
Reveille II has made her place at
Texas A&M, if for no other reason
than her jealousy of the football
field during the marching of the
Fighting Texas Aggie Band.
Woe be it to any strange pho
tographers, football managers or
other misplaced wanderers to set
foot on the field while the band
is performing. She won’t bite, but
the strangers don’t know it!
Her name dates her for many
former students who remember her
namesake, Rev. 1 and the first of
the officially adopted dogs that
have roamed the campus over the
past years.
Rev. I was possibly the most
famous mascot known in the South
west Conference between 1931 and
1944. She was a little black mon
grel with white paws and tugged
at the heart strings of Aggies for
13 years.
She was brought to the campus
by a group of students returning
from' Houston one Sunday night.
They ran over her near Navasota
and brought her to A&M where it
was discovered she wasn’t badly
hurt and soon she made Terse If at
home on the campus.
According to Mrs. Irene (Mom)
Claghorn, superintendent of the
college hospital, the train had just
left Hearne and was about four*
miles from fown when it suddently
stopped in the middle of a cotton
patch. A brakemali came running
up to Mom and asked her to get
those boys to let the conductor
back on the train. She inquired
why the conductor was thrown off
and he said he couldn’t understand
what the Aggies were mad about.
All he did was kick off a little
old bitch dog. The train backed in
to town, got Rev and all was well.
Her death in 1944 brought tears
to the eyes of the people of Texas
and she was buried with full mili
tary honors one January morning
1944. A memorial to her is loca-
(See REVEILLE, Page 4)
Joe H. Sorrels, of the Civil En
gineering Department, was elected
Lt. Governor of division nine, Tex-
as-Oklahoma district of Kiwanis
International, at the district con
vention which ended Tuesday in
Corpus Christi.
Sorrels’ election was announced
in a telegram from Dr. Charles La-
Motte, club president, who is in
Corpus Christi for the meeting.
The telegram was read before the
weekly College Station Kiwanis
Club luncheon in the Memorial
Student Center Tuesday.
Only one other College Station
Kiwanian, Sid Loveless, has held
the office. Loveless was Lt. Gov
ernor in 1954. The area in divis
ion nine includes Brenham, Con
roe, Bryan, Navasota, Huntsville,
Cameron and College Station.
Accompanying LaMotte to the
convention were Woody Briles,
president - elect, and Luther Jones.
Vice President-Elect John Longley
presided in their absence.
Taylor Riedel, Luther Jones and
! John Sperry attended the annual
meeting of the Texas Society for
Crippled Children which was held
Oct. 12 and 13 in San Antonio.
CJHS Elect Reps.
To New Council
Eleven sections of A&M Con
solidated Junior High elected home-
roorh representatives to the new
Student Council recently. The
rooms, sponsors and representa
tives are listed below.
Homeroom 8A, Mrs. Zachery,
Hal Delaplane and Sharon Grish
am; 8B, Mi’s. Rhodenbaugh, Condy
Pugh and Mary Ann Franklin; and
BC, Mr. Baugh, Danny Garner and
Mary Ann Malik.
Homeroom 7A, Mrs. Nye, Peter
Dehlinger and Carla Denison; 7B,
Mrs. Fleming, Charles Rayburn and
Betty Franklin; 7C, Mr. Holland,
Lane Coulter and Judy Mills; and
7D, Mr. Coulter, Russell Welch and
Margaret Patterson.
Homeroom 6A, Mrs. Steel, Mike
Arnold and Charles Gandy; 6B,
Mr. Jones and Allen Coulter; 6C,
Mr. Brown, Robert Du Bose and
Glenda Nolan; and 6D, Mr. Barger,
Kurt Sehember and Sherry Smith.
YOUNGSTOWN, UP) — Adlai
Stevenson last night called the
present draft system “an incred
ible waste” of manpower and mon
ey.
He said a better way must be
found to preserve the nation’s mil
itary strength in what he called
an era of shaky peace “based on a
balance of terror.”
In the prepared windup speech
of a two-day whistle stop tour of
Michigan and Ohio, the Democratic
presidental nominee also declared
the Republicans ‘.‘twist and dis
tort” any new idea for strength
ening the country.
“They seem to despise new
ideas,” Stevenson- said, elabora
ting on a theme he developed all
across Ohio in company with Gov.
Frank J. Lausche who is trying to
unseat Republican George Bender,
and Mike DiSalle the Democratic
candidate for governor.
Sjtevenson’s Youngstown speech
followed briefer addresses along
the way in which he:
1. Said in Elyria, Ohio, that
“greedy and frightened” Republi
cans of advanced age are willing
to “cripple the younger genera
tion to cut taxes.” He blamed the
GOP—which had blamed .the Dem
ocrats—for the failure of Con
gress to approve federal aid to
schools.
2. Contended at Toledo, speak
ing in front of a statue of William
McKinley, that the Republicans
are trying to set the block back
to the beginning-of-the-century
era of McKinley. He said the op
position party is bogged down in
“creeping complacency.”
Stevenson took sharp issue with
President Eisenhower and other
Republicans who have opposed his
suggestions that a way should be
sought to end the draft in the not
too distant future and that efforts
should be made to stop hydrogen
bomb tests through international
agreement.
Denying Republican claims that
his draft proposal would weaken
the nation’s military strength, he
said, “It is a proposal for strength
ening our armed forces.” And he
went on to say, “We need more
and more today a type of military
personnel — experienced and pro
fessional—which our present draft
system does not give us.
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Barry Halt Sports Editor
Welton Jones ... City Editor
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Next to Caso Loma Courts
Riedel was elected to the state
board of directors and Jones, an
outgoing director, received a scroll
of appreciation.
Final arrangements were an
nounced for box lunch sales this
weekend. The Kiwanis Club sells
box lunches at various spots in
the city before all home A&M foot
ball games.
Dr. Harry V. Rankin, pastor of
the First Methodist Ghurch in Bry
an, spoke to the group on the sub
ject “Not Yes Or No, But To What
Degree”..
Guests at the meeting were Mrs.
Joe Mogford of College Station;
Adlowe Larson, Stillwater, Okla.;
Joe Motherall, Washington D. C.;
and Tony Valesquez of College
Station.
Freshmen To Meet
Advisors Tuesday
All entering freshmen will meet
with their faculty advisor Tues
day at 4 p.m. according to C. H.
Ransdell, associate dean of the
Basic Division.
Students meet with this advisor
several times during the year. This
meeting is provided to give the
students experience and close con
tact with a professional person
who is acquainted with his chosen
field.
Faculty advisors will have- the
names of the students who are do
ing unsatisfactory work with the
courses and the approximate aver
ages.
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