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PAGE G Thursday, April 2, 1959 The Battalion College Station (Brazos County), Texas I Cotton Ball to be Dedicated Student Given To Retired Agronomy Prof The 25th annual Cotton Pageant and Ball on the night of April 17 will be dedicated to Joe S. Mog- ford, who retired in February af ter more than a third of a cen tury of service to the Department of Agronomy. , It was Professor Mogford who promoted the first Cotton Style Show and Pageant in 1932 to raise funds to take students on cotton study tours in this country and abroad to stimulate more in terest in cotton. There were two years during World War II in which no Cotton Pageants were held. These tours have taken groups of students to many parts of the United States and to Europe, Afri ca, Asia and South America to study all phases of cotton. The Cotton Pageant and Ball has been sponsored each year by the Agronomy Society and fea tures scores of young ladies com peting for the title of Queen Cot ton. In addition to raising funds for the cotton study tours, the Cot ton Pageant and Ball has served as a means by which agronomy students pay tribute to the king of Texas crops—cotton. Until 1952, three students were selected annually by competitive examination to make an extended foreign study tour. The Agronomy Society decided that more bene fit would be received from a larg er number of students making the tour. As a result, approximately 40 junior and senior students have toured areas in and around Tex as each year for the past five yeax-s. In 1956 the entii*e theme of the pageant was changed. The style show was eliminated to shorten the program and to give more recognition to the duchesses. The show now consists of a beauty contest among 150 or more duch esses representing various colleges and universities, clubs and other organizations. The duchesses are presented to King Cotton and his eight dukes, who have been selected fxxxm among agronomy students. As the duchesses are presented, they ai’e judged on their beauty and poise by three judges from the fields of art and fashion. The winner is TRY THEM . . . ... BUY THEM Austin Healey Roadsters MGA Roadsters See Salesman Bob Taylor 415 N. Main TA 3-3309 Fresh Shipment and Oother Cars Arriving Daily. 100% Financing Available to COM MISSIONED SENIORS who have re ceived Army or Air Force Orders. Senior ROTC Students United Services Life Insurance Co. of Washington, D. C. Field Representative MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER Rooms 2, 3, 4 1, 2, 3 and 4 April 1959 Col. John F. Guillett USAF Ret Visit or call any time ci’owned Queen Cotton and the eight runners-up become princess es of the court. Mogford, internationally known for his cotton research and teach ing, served in the Department of Agronomy for 34 years. He start’ed his cotton research in 1916 when, upon graduating fi’om A&M, he x'eceived a scholar ship in plant breeding, specializ ing in cotton. Following World War I, in which he served overseas as an infantry officex-, Professor Mog ford completed work on his mas ter’s degree here and then went to Lockhart whei - e he spent the next five years in commercial cotton breeding work. He joined the A&M staff in 1925 as an associate professor of agronomy to teach courses in cot ton production and farm crops. For the last 10 years, all agri- cultural fi'eshmen have studied “Production of Faxm Crops,” a textbook written by Mogford. Hie cotton studies earned him to many parts of the woidd. Stu dents fi-om all of the leading cot- hei'e to take his courses in cotton here totake his courses in cotton production. In the announcement to honor Professor Mogford, the following statement was made by the Agron omy Society: “We proudly dedicate this, the 25th anniversax’y of the Cotton Pageant and Ball, to the man who took over the responsibility and sponsored the project over the past 25 years, and to the man lov ingly known among his students as “Cotton Joe,” Mr. Joe S. Mog ford. “We, the Agronomy Society, ex tend to you, Mr.'. Mogford, our hand of thanks for your untiring efforts in making our cotton tour entei’taining as well as education al.” Stage and screen star Conrad Nagle served in the U.S. Navy in World War I. $2,200 Grant Richard H. Richardson, a senior plant and soil science majoi’, has been selected to receive a fellow ship in the Cooperative Graduate Fellowship Progi-am of the Nation al Science Foundation. He will graduate in May and will enter North Carolina State College at Raleigh next September for graduate work in forage crop bi’eeding. 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