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THE BATTALION
Tliursday, December 3,1959
Worth Mentioning
By Johnny Johnson
With most of the campus still talking about the heroic
battle by the Aggies against Texas Thanksgiving Day
and subsequent letters to the football team, an interesting
letter was sent to the Memorial Student Center Gift Shop.
The letter was written by Mrs. Ralph S. Fuller of
Austin for her 10-year-old son, Ralphie.
The letter is as follows:
“Please send a list of record albums (any speed)
recorded by the Aggie Band. Our 10-year-old son has been
a confirmed Aggie from way back.
Until Thanksgiving Day we questioned his misplaced
lojalty (with a Baylor dental graduate father and a Texas
graduate mother) but ^
after the sterling perfor
mance on the Aggie foot
ball field we can under-
. stand.
Ralphie cannot be denied. Ag
gie record albums are a must!”
The letter goes to prove a
point that most of us w^re al
ready well aware of — Texas
A&M is a great place.
It’s too bad Ralphie isn’t old
enough to be entering Texas A&M
next fall. We need more like him
and with as much spirit as he
already has. Just think how many
of his friends he would convince
to come to Texas A&M with him.
★ ★ ★
You can’t fool ole’ Pinky!
Pinky Downs’ first statement
after reading the letter from
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Student Publications, chairman ; Dr. A. h. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr.
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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR
David Stoker ! Managing Editor
Bob Weekley ; Sports Editor
Bill Hicklin, Robbie Godwin News Editors
Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor
Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob
Sloan, Bob Saile, A1 Vela and Alan Payne. Staff Writers
Dave Mueller Photographer
Russell Brown CHS Correspondent
— WhaVs Cooking
“John J. Wilson” was, “He’s no
Aggie!”
Sure enough Pinky was right.
'A' 'A A r
The Clay Pits are officially
closed to Aggies now.
It was declared off limits to
Corps of Cadets personnel earli
er in the year and recently Mrs.
Dorothy Buchanan, one of the
owners of the property, called
Dean of Students James P. Han-
nigan to tell him that the pro
perty is now enclosed by a double
fence. A new metal gate has
been erected at the entrance and
the property is posted.
Mrs. Buchanan said that the
property is completely dosed to
the public and in view of the
fact that Texas A&M personnel
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The following clubs and organ
izations will meet tonight:
7:15
Grayson County Hometown Club
will meet in the Gay Room of
the YMCA.
Sam Houston Hometown €lub
of Houston will meet in the Foun
tain Room of the YMCA.
Shelby-Doches Hometown Club
will meet in Room 307 of the
Academic Bldg.
California Hometown Club will
meet in the MSC.
7:30
Amarillo Hometown Club meets
in Room 225 of the Academic
Bldg.
Angelina Hometown Club will
meet in the Coffee Shop of the
Memorial Student Center.
Austin Hometown Club meets
in Room 125 of the Academic
Bldg.
Brazoria County Hometown
Club will meet in Room 103 of
the Academic Bldg.
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club will meet in the basement
of the MSC.
Jeff Davis Hometown Club
meets in Room 2-C of the MSC.
Pasadena Hometown Club will
meet on the front steps of the
MSC in Class “A” uniform.
Port Arthur Hometown Club
will meet in Room 107 of the Bio
logical Sciences Bldg.
San Angelo-West Texas Home
town Club meets in Room 104 of
the Agricultural Bldg.
Waco-McLennan County Home
town Club will meet in Room 2-B
of the MSC. Christmas party
plans will be discussed.
Galveston County Hometown
Club will meet in the YMCA Gay
Room.
Wichita Falls Hometown Club
will meet in Room 3B in the MSC.
Odessa Hometown Club will
meet in the Academic Bldg.
El Paso Hometown Club will
meet in Room 12G of the Academ
ic Bldg.
Southern Louisiana Hometown
Social Whirl
The Industrial Education Wives
Club will have a weiner roast and
dance for the members and their
husbands at the Episcopal Stu
dent Center Friday night at 7:30.
The Electrical Engineering-
Wives Club will hold their Christ
mas Banquet Dec. il at the Tri
angle Restaurant, Members
wanting to make reservations
should get in touch with Mary
Dicke, A-l-B College View, VI 6-
8294, by Dec. 7.
Club meets in Room 306 of the
Academic Bldg.
Austin of Houston Hometown
Club will meet in Room 105 of
the Biological Sciences Bldg.
Rio Grande Valley Hometown
Chib will meet in Room 2D of the
MSC.
Jefferson Hometown Club will
meet in Room 127 of the Aca
demic Bldg.
Wheeler County Hometown
Club will meet in the YMCA Lob
by.
Marshall Hometown Club will
meet in the Serpentine Lounge
of the MSC. Pictures will be
taken for The Aggieland ’60.
Civilian Student Wee AggWS
SC ON A Prepares
StudentsforF\uture
Portrait Dates Set
Civilian students will have
their portrait made for The Ag
gieland ’60 at the Aggieland Stu
dio between the hours of 8 a.m.
and 5 p.m. according to the fol
lowing schedule.
Coats and ties should be worm
Sophomores & Juniors
We Aggies like to read about Wee Ag
gies. When a wee one arrives, call VI
6-4910 and ask for the Wee Aggie Edl-
Dec. 2-3
Dec. 7-8
Dec. 9-10
Dec. 14-15
Surnames
A-D
E-K
L-R
S-Z
By JACK HARTSFIELD
Battalion Staff Writer
Through SCONA, students at
Texas A&M are preparing them
selves and their fellow students
at other universities as future
leaders.
This fact was pointed out in
the 1958 Congressional Record
where Sen. Hubert Humphrey ad
dressed the U. S. Senate on
SCONA’s outstanding work.
SCONA is the student-spon
sored conference held at A&M
each December to promote a gen
eration of responsible leaders in
national and international af
fairs.
Its full name is the Student
Conference on National Affairs.
The fifth such annual conference
is scheduled to be held Dec. 9-12
in the Memorial Student Center
located in the center of the cam
pus.
In four years, SCONA grew in
all directions. The number of
conferees increased, students
from more colleges and univer
sities attended, and more spon
sors have given financial backing.
It has grown from a represen
tation of two delegates from each
of 48 schools into an attendance
of 176 students from 75 schools.
The delegates, selected as stu
dent leaders on their own cam
puses by the presidents of their
schools, come from all over the
South and Southwest, Canada
and Mexico Most of the dele
gates’ expenses are paid by
SCONA.
Eminent keynote speakers who
are leaders in the United States
and other countries address each
conference, and “round-table”
conferences with distinguished co-
chairmen and small groups of stu
dent delegates permit student
participation in active discussion.
The theme of this year’s con
ference will be “The United
States: Problems of World Lead
ership.”
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Principal speakers expected to
be present include Gen. John B.
Medaris, chief of Redstone Ar
senal and a top man in the new
Space Program; Ceylon’s Ambas
sador R. S. S. Gunewardene; Dr.
Howard R. Bowen, president of
Grinnell College in Iowa; Dr. Na-
bor Carrillo, rector of the Na
tional University of Mexico; Sir
Leslie Munro, former president
of the United Nations General
Assembly, former Ambassador of
New Zealand to the United
States, and now United Nations’
special representative to the
State of Hungary; and William
H. Lawrence,, president of the
National Press Club and New
York Times correspondent for
the Washington Bureau.
Civilian Seniors and Graduates
(Including Jr. and Sr. Yet Med.,
5th Year Architects)
Jan. 6-7 A-D
Jan.11-12 E-K
Jan. 13-14 L-R
Jan. 18-19 S-Z
A 9 lb., 1 oz. boy was born to
Dr. and Mrs. Fred Kasten Dec.
1 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Bryan. Kasten is an assistant
professor in the Department of
Biology. The fourth son for the
Kastens was named Glenn ThOin-
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