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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
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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. The fellowship will pi'o-
vide tuition fees and $2,200 for a
12-month period.
A distinguished student, he is a
member of Phi Eta Sigma, fresh
man honor society, and Alpha
Zeta, agricultural honor fraternity.
In May he will be initiated into
Phi Kappa Phi, an' honor society
for students who are within a year
of graduation in a foui'-year course
and who are in the top one-eighth
of their class scholastically. He is
also a member of the Agronomy
Society.
Richardson was a laboratory as
sistant in the Department of Bi
ology during the spring and fall
of 1957, and was employed in the
Foundation Seed Section of the
Texas Agricultural Experiment
Station from the spring of 1958
to the spring of 1959.
During his junior yeax - , Richard
son was awarded a two-year John
I. Bowling scholarship, an awaxd
for agronomy students.
Police School Set
For April 6-10
The Police Training Short
Course will be held by the En
gineering Extension Service in the
Memorial Student Center April
6-10.
Wallace D. Beasley, police train
ing co-ordinator, said the purpose
of the course is to teach the basic
fundamentals in police action.
The course will consist of field
and class work and simulated
crime pi’oblems. Guest instnxetox’s
have been invited fi’om vax’ious
police foi’ces in San Antonio, Dal
las and Houston.
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