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The Ballulion College Station (Brazos County), Texas
PAGE 2 Thursday, April 25, 1957
‘Coke’, New Name
For Ad Building
Exactly a year ago the Associa
tion of Former Students suggested
to the A&M System Board of Di
rectors that the College adminis
tration building be renamed and
said they would foot the bill.
The board accepted.
On May 11 at 4:30 p. m. the
building will be publicly named the
Richard Coke Building in honor of
the Texas governor who served
from 1876-1894.
Ceremonies at that time will be
highlighted with the unveiling of
a white marble tablet three feet
wide and seven feet tall.
Mental Health
Code Approved
By Senators
AUSTIN, (TP)—Senators
yesterday voiced their approv
al of a modernized Texas men
tal health code but slapped on
several amendments which
will require House consent.
Sen. A. M. Aikin sponsored the
bill, the enabling legislation to the
constitutional amendment approv
ed last November by the voters
which removed jury trials for lun
acy hearings.
Senators advanced a proposed
constitutional amendment provid
ing $80 monthly pensions to former
Texas Rangers and their widows
who retired before the present re
tirement system was set up in the
mid 30s.
Speaker Waggoner Carr ruled
that further study was necessary
op a bill transferring one per cent
of the permanent school fund to the
available school fund for the next
three years.
Rep. Barefoot Sanders question
ed whether representatives could
consider the bill until the appro
priations bill was passed since he
said the proposal was an ap
propriation. f
The mental health code, already
passed by the house, would allow
admittance of patients to state
hospitals on the certificate of two
doctors. The bill reduces from 10
days to 96 hours the length of
time a person may be detained by
a peace or health officer without
a court order. /
Sen. Charles Herring sponsored
the measure for the ranger pen
sion but will have to pick up three
more votes if it is to be passed.
Colorado’s Fees
Kill Wildlife Trip
The annual required summer
field trip for the Wildlife students
Will not be held this year, accord
ing to Dr. W. B. Davis, head of
the Wildlife Management Depart
ment.
Davis says the main reason for
- cancelling was the collecting fee
that Colorado requires. This made
the trip impractical, he said.
Davis had previously planned to
take the trip with the men to Kan
sas where they wei'e to attend the
annual meeting of the American
Society of Mammalogists.
The tablet will carry a bronze
medallion of Coke and will be re
cessed ino the wall of the main
lobby.
Coke is called the “father of A.
and M.” because while governor he
pushed through legislative acts
which established the school and
then served as president of the
College’s first board of directors.
Presiding over the public cere
monies will be W. T. Doherty of
Houston, president of the present
board of directors.
Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, noted
Texas historian and Distinguished
Professor of History at the Uni
versity of Texas will give the ded
icatory address.
Prayer will be given by Don
Huffman, student chaplain; Presi
dent D. W. Williams will give the
welcome; and the Singing Cadets
will sing “This is My Country” and
“The Spirit of Aggieland.”
E. M. Freeman of Shreveport,
La., newly elected president o'f the
Association of Former Students,
will present the check to pay for
the memorial.
Student to Attend
World Assembly
Farid Khan, graduate Mechani
cal Engineering student from
Pacca, Pakistan, has been chosen
as one of the foreign students to
attend the first Williamsburg In
ternational Assembly. -
The Assembly, which will meet
in Williamsburg, Va., from June
9-12, will be composed of fifty for
eign students and fifty Americans.
They will discuss the advantages
of the Student Exchange program
and the various suggestions that
will help foreign students.
At the present time Khan is
working on his Masters DegTee.
He plans to return home after he
receives his degree.
Codie Wells Wins
$300 Fellowship
Codie Wells, a 1956 civil engi
neering graduate has been award
ed the $300 United Gas Fellowship
in Engineering Oceanography for
1957-58, by the College’s Depart
ment of Oceanography and Me
teorology.
This fellowship carries a stipend
of $200 a month, with an addi
tional $600 available throughout
the year for tuition, books, travel
and equipment. It is offered
through the A&M Research Foun
dation.
Wells is a member of Tau Beta
Pi and Phi Kappa Phi. Since his
graduation in January 1956, he has
been employed on various wave
force projects conducted by the
department.
A young German hairdresser
in London invented a machine in
1906 that would curl hair into a
“permanent wave.” Trouble was
that the lady had to remain 18
hours under this machine designed
to replace the marcel wave.
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Sophomore Class
Finalists
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Sophomore Ball Planned For
Saturday Night In Sbisa Hall
Jan Ellis
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Mary Shaw
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By VAL POLK
Sbisa will “rock and roll” again
Saturday night as the class ’59
starts its “swingin and swayin’’ at
the annual Sophomore Ball.
Joe Luby and his orchestra will
furnish the music for the annual
event. Luby and orchestra are
from Houston.
Highlighting the dance will be
the presentation of the Sophomore
Sweetheart from the five finalists
of the sweetheart contest.
Finalists and their escorts are
What’s Cooking
7:15
South Central Texas Club will
meet in room 208 in the Academic
Building for an election of officers.
Fayette Colorado County Club
will meet in room 3C in the Me
morial Student Center.
7:30
Austin Hometown club will meet
in room 226 in the Academic Build
ing.
Panhandle Club will meet in
room 305 in the Academic Building.
Eastland Stephens Shackleford
Hometown Club will meet in room
306 in the Academic Building to
select an official name.
Kaufman County Hometown Club
will meet in the North Solaiium
room of the YMCA.
Fannin County Hometown Club
will meet in Bagley Hall.
Deep East Texas Hometown Club
will meet in room 207 of the
Academic Building to discuss plans
of a forthcoming party.
’57 Aggieland
Plans More Beauty
Aggieland ’57 promises to be
even better than last year’s ac
cording to Don Burt, editor.
Burt said the book would be es
pecially larger in the Vanity Fair
and Senior Favorite sections. The
’57 yearbook has 100 Vanity entries
against 65 for last year and 418
Senior Favorites compared with
280 last year.
Steen Fop Speaker
For Phi Eta Sigma
Dr. Ralph Steen, head of the De
partment of History, will be the
guest speaker for the annual Phi
Eta Sigma banquet, planned for
May 2, at 7 p.m. in the MSC.
Tickets for the banquet includ
ing those for parents must be pick
ed up at the Basic Division Office
before April 30.^
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F R I E N D L Y
PERSONAL
LOANS
L O U P O T ’ S
Arden Edwards, Dallas, escorted
by Mark Jackson; Joanne Garner,
HuntsviUe, escorted by Jay B.
Bisbey; Bunny Jean Dever, San
Antonio, escorted by Carl F. Raba
Jr.; Jan Ellis, Dallas, escorted by
Davis Black and Mary Elizabeth
Shaw, Waco, escorted by Richard
Noack.
Judges will be introduced at
the first intermission and then the
finalists will be presented and the
winner will be picked by the judges
at this presentation.
At the second intermission, the
winner of the contest will be pre
sented to the audience.
Junior class officers elect will
also be introduced to the dancers at
the second break.
“I feel like this year’s bail is
coming about the right time of the
year thereby setting it apart from
other school activities giving us, as
a result, a good turnout,” said
James Rindfuss, class ’59 president.
Heading the dance arrangements
committee was the class Social
Secretary Don Cornwall with the
following â–  class officers working
on the sub-committees; William R.
Markillie, vice-president, decora
tions committee; James Rindfuss,
president, program committee;
Robert Lassiter, treasurer, tickets
committee; Parliamentarian Robert
E. Edwards and Sergeant-at-Arms
Robert C. Barr, invitations com
mittee.
“I want to thank all the com
pany clerks and representatives for
their job in selling the dance
tickete. They have helped in get
ting the large turnout for the
dance that we are expecting,”
Rindfuss said.
Tickets for the ball are now on
sale in Student Activities on the
second floor of the YMCA. If they
are bought before the dance they
will be. $2 drag or stag but if
bought at the door they will cost
$3 drag or stag.
Tickets go off sale at noon
Saturday, April 27.
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