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Number 283: Volume 55
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1957
Price Five Cents
Trash Pickup
Starts Cleanup
In CS Monday
Spring cleaning is underway, as
College Station residents clean up
trash and refuse which has ac
cumulated over the past year, in
preparation for the annual city
wide clean-up sponsored each spr
ing by the College Station Civic
Association in cooperation with the
City of College Station.
The clean-up will be held Mon
day and Tuesday of next week.
City residents are asked to gather
all unwanted articles, trash and
rubbish, with the exception of
garbage, and place it in front of
their homes on the pick up dates.
City trucks will make the pick-up
and haul the trash to the dump.
Civic Association officials said
they had always received excellent
cooperation from the citizens in
previous years and hoped for the
most successful drive yet in the
coming clean-up. The purpose of
the drive is to not only improve
the looks of the community, but
also to help sanitary conditions and
eliminate fire hazards.
REAGAN GEORGE, senior from Dallas, leads the Texas Aggie Band around the drill
field the second time at Final Review last Saturday as cadets move up a notch and re
sume the posts they will hold next year.
Pick-up schedule is as follows:
Monday: Everything east of
Highway 6.
Tuesday: All areas north of
Highway 6 and the south part of
the city.
CS Lions Club
Begins Civic
Drive Monday
College Station Lions take to
the streets Monday night when
they will wprk in a three-club ef
fort to obtain funds for civic im
provement by selling light bulbs
from door to door all over College
Station and Bi’yan.
Bags holding nine light bulbs
each will be sold for $2 a bag,
which is a slight savings from the
regular price.
Participating in the sale are
members of the local Lions Club,
the Evening Lions and the Bryan
Lions. Coordinating the sale is an
interclub committee with two men
from each club serving. Represent
ing the College Station group are
Don Davis and L. E. McCall. .
Starting at 5:30, the sale will
last until 8:30 at which time the
local Lions plan to hold a ladies
night dinner.
CS Summer Recreation
Registration
ms
Weather Today
THUNDERSTORMS
Scattered cloudiness with wide
ly scattered thunderstorms is the
forecast for the College Station
area. Yesterday the temperature
rose to 89 degrees, with last
night’s low reading, 67. At 10:30
this morning the mercury stood
at 81 degrees.
Registration began today at 9
a. m. in DeWare Field House for
the College Station 1957 Summer
Recreation Program swimming
classes.
Swimming courses, taught by
Art Adamson, were the only sports
registered for today. Registration
for the remainder of the games
and sports will begin the first of
next week.
The recreation program is spon-
soi’ed each year by the College Sta
tion Civic Association, Community
Chest, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club
and thfe City of College Station.
Top Soph Physics
Student Honored
Wilfred Earl Cleland, sophohiore
physics major from Pasadena, was
named as the outstanding student
of the year in the introductory
courses in physics.
He was awarded the Handbook of
Chemistry and Physics, according
to J. G. Potter, head of the de
partment.
The handbook is a 3,000 page
hook of technical information about
chemistry and physics.
A copy of the book is presented
each year to the outstanding stu
dents of physics and chemistry in
all the leading colleges in the na
tion by the publishers, The Chemi
cal Rubber Company.
Potter said that in response to
numerous requests that Physics 204
will be offered both summer.ses
sions.
Recreation of all types is in
cluded in the program and the
sponsors pay approximately half
the cost of the courses, making the
classes available to all College Sta
tion residents at an extra small
fee.
Activities and sports classes are
arranged on an age level making
it possible for all age groups to
Clark Named
Asst, Editor
Of Aggieland
James A. Clark was named as
sistant editor of the Aggieland ’58
by Roy B. Davis, editor.
Davis also named the section edi
tors for the yearbook who will be
responsible for working with him
on making the Aggieland ’58.
Those named to head the year
book sections were Bill Hampton,
business manager; John Jefferson
and Rod Stepp, chibs section; Seth
Hanovice, military section; Val
Polk, civilian and activities sec
tion; Berry Moosberg, index; Jer
ry Rhea and Ron Stepp, sports
section and David Cox, class sec
tion.
Ross Strader, student publica
tions director, and Davis will ven
ture to Columbus, Mo. for a short
course in yearbooks June 17-22
where Davis hopes to gain some
ideas for a bigger and better Ag
gieland.
Anyone interested in joining the
staff may contact Roy Davis in
room 321 in dormitory 10 or they
may apply at the Aggieland office
next fall, he said.
take part in the program. Also
the program is divided into two
sessions of six weeks each this
year, instead of the one session
of eight weeks held in previous
year. This will make possible the
admission of more participants and
give a better overall program, ac
cording to the College Station
Recreation Council.
Preference for the second session
will be given to those who were
unable to get in the sport of their
choice the first term. The council
has arranged the program es
pecially so that it will not inter
fere with previously scheduled
summer activities such as camps
and. schools attended by a number
of College Station young people.
Sports and activities to be
offered are swimming, tennis,
tumbling, golf, baseball, pre
school, bowling, reading and com
munity picnics. A Competitive
swimming team, coached by Adam
son, will also be formed. All swim
mers who are interested in swim
ming competitively and good swim
mers are invited by Adamson to
try out for the team.
Program registration and spon
sors or instructors are as follows:
Swimming
Instruction by Art Adamson,
Tel. VI 6-5316. Register for second
term July 11, 9 a. m. at DeWare
Field House.
Tennis
Instruction by Horace Schaffer,
Tel. VI 6-6893. Register June 5,
7-9 a. m. at Consolidated Jr. High
School Math Room.
Golf
Instruction by Joe Fagan, Tel.
VI 6-4813| Register June 4, 9 a. m.
at Golf Coui'se. Adults register
at 5 p. m.
(See RECREATION Page 2)
Colbert Resigns
As Architect Head
CHARLES R. COLBERT, head of the Architecture Di
vision, who leaves his position July 1, to become a private
architect in New Orleans, says “personal opportunities are
greater in private practice.”
Charles R. Colbert, head of the
Axchitecture Division, has resign
ed his position effective July 1, be
cause “personal opportunities are
greater in private practice in New
Orleans.”
He returns to a private practice
he left last September to succeed
Ernest Langford, then division
head. During the year one of his
outstanding accomplishments was
the guest lecture series the Archi
tecture Division sponsored.
While heading the A&M archi
tects, Colbert said he has “not
made any major changes as I did
not think any were called for.”
Dean John C. Calhoun, of the
School of Engineering, has said in
regard to Colbert’s replacement,
“If we do not have a man to take
over as head when Mr. Colbert
leaves, an acting head from the
faculty will be appointed.”
Before coming to A&M in Sep
tember Colbert, two years earlier,
had been supervising architect
and director for the Orleans Parish
school board in New Orleans.
He is the author of several ar
ticles which have appeared in na
tional technical publications. His
membership is listed with the
American Institute of Architects,
Louisiana Architects Association,
American Association of School
Administrators, American Society
of Planning Officials, National
Council on Schoolhouse Construc
tion' and the American Planning
and Civic Association.
“I have never had a better asso
ciation with school administrators
and everyone has been superb,”
said , Colbert about his position as
division head.
Memorial Day
Parade
Summer
Millions of Cars
Clog U.S. Roads
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
America observes Memorial Day
today with prayers for its dead,
military parades and the opening
of thousands of beaches and recre
ation spots for a summer of play.
Millions of cars will clog the
highways. As in other years, news
papers throughout the land will
keep the grim tally on the traffic
deaths as a reminder that more
have died on the roads than died
in the country’s wars.
Over the years Memorial Day
has gradually changed from a re
membrance of the Northerners who
died in the Civil War to a remem
brance of the dead of all wars from
the Revolutionary to the Koeran.
Veterans will don old uniforms
and march in local parades in
memory of the friends who didn’t
come back. In cemeteries, Boy
Scouts and other groups will place
fflRv'ers and small flags gpr mili
tary graves, and then stand stiffly
to attention as the traditional rifle
salutes are fired and the bugle
blown “Taps” echoes out.
Churches everywhere scheduled
prayer services, many of them in
the open. In a pine grove at
Rindge, N.H., nondenominational
services will be held before the
“Altar of the Nation.”
This altar, built of stones from
every part of the nation and from
many foreign lands, looks out
across a majestic sweeping valley
to a range of distant hills.
President Eisenhower, for the
fifth time, will send a wreath. The
governors of all 48 states will send
tributes to the altar which has
been recognized by Congress as a
memorial to all America’s war
dead. It was started by parents
grieving for a dead son.
ME Students Win
Lift-Slab Awards
Lawrence G. Diehl and Calvin C.
Reigel, mechanical engineering stu
dents have been informed by R.
I. Peurifoy, chairman of the local
Lift- Slab Awards Committee, that
they have written winning papers
in the contest.
Through the interest and gene
rosity of John Porter, president of
the Lift-Slab Inc. of San Antonio
and a graduate of the College, each
student will receive a 1957-1958
scholarship for $500 and, if agree
able to both students and the
donor, may also have summer em
ployment with Lift Slab at $350 per
month plus living expenses.
Good Luck!
Another year has come to an end and every one of us
is a year older in age and experience.
One of the most valuable things about going to college
and to A&M in particular is that thing called experience.
Not one of us doesn’t benefit from it at one time or another.
Whether the experiences of this year have been good
or bad depends upon how each person takes them and makes
them a part of his life and comes to his own conclusions
about whether they can aid development.
Most Aggies this year probably learned more from ex
perience than they did both semesters in the course they
took. This points up the fact that regardless of how edu
cated a person is in “book learning”, experience is still the
best teacher.
Good luck to everybody during the summer. See you
next year!
Gibb Gilchrist Retires From
System After 20 Years
Gibb Gilchrist, who served as
dean of engineering and president
of A&M and as the first chan
cellor of the system, will retire
after 20 years service to the col
lege and System, Saturday.
Gilchrist joined the faculty at
A&M in 1937, as dean of the
School of Engineering. He became
the 14th president of the college
in 1944 and in 1948, on formation
of the Texas A&M College System,
was named chancellor. In 1954,
Gilchrist went on modified service
as chancellor emeritus, and as head
of the Water Research and Infor
mation Center.
A distinguished highway engi
neer, Gilchrist is credited with
being the man who reorganized
and modernized the Texas State
Highway Department into a model
for similar organizations over the
nation. He served as a resident
engineer and division engineer
from 1919 to 1923, and as State
Highway Engineer in 1924. He was
in private practice as a consulting
engineer, in Dallas, from 1925 to
1927.
In 1928, he was again named
State Highway Engineer, and from
then until 1937, Gilchrist served
as chief engineer for the depart
ment. It was during this time that
the Texas State Highway Depart
ment was reorganized and the Tex
as highway system made rapid
growth. In recognition of his out
standing record, Gilchrist was
elected president of the American
Association of Highway Officials
in 1935.
Born in Wills Point, Van Zandt
county, Gilchrist graduated from
the Wills Point High School. He
attended Southwestern University
and graduated as a civil engineer
from the University of Texas, in
1909.
From 1909 to 1917, he was an
employe of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad, beginning as a
chainman and finishing his career
with the company as assistant to
the chief engineer.
A veteran of World War I, he
served in France as a captain, U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers, return
ing in 1919.
Chancellor Emeritus Gilchrist
has been awarded honorary de
grees by Austin College (D.SC,
1939), Baylor University (L.LD.,
1946) and Southwestern University
(L.LD., 1946). He is a member of
the American Society of Civil
Engineers, Texas Society for Pro
fessional Engineers, Texas State
Historical Association, Philosophi
cal Society of Texas, and the New
comen Society.
A Mason, he was made Grand
Master of the Masonic Lodge of
Texas in 1951.
GIBB GILCHRIST, who has served as president of the col
lege, was the first chancellor of the A&M system and
served as dean of engineering, retires Saturday after 20
years of service.