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PAGE 2 THE BATTALION Tuesday, December 8, 1959 CADET SLOUCH Letters To The Editor The Battalion welcomes letters to the editor hut reserves the right to edit letters for brevity, clearness and accuracy. Short letters stand a better chance for publication since space is at a premium. Unsigned letters will not be published. .. Editor The Battalion: First off, I am not an Aggie, but an LSU Tiger; however, my son is a junior in the Mechanical Engineering School, so you might say I am an adopted Ag gie. I am assuming that some ex- Aggies will reply to Mr. John Wilson regarding his letter to Mr. Milstead. However, just to make sure that Mr. Wilson gets a reply, I would like to let him know how I feel. First of all, I think Mr. Wil son is probably one of those freaks of nature who never was imbued with the true Aggie Spirit. What gives him the right to state that there isn’t an Aggie in Houston who feels proud of the Aggies, beats me. (I’m as suming he talked with all of them.) Rather than to write such a letter to the team, if he was so ashamed of the Aggies, why didn’t he just throw his Aggie ring away and not tell anyone that he graduated from A&M. You can’t have a winner all of the time. True school spirit is that spirit which makes a man stand by during the darkest mo ments, even though these mo ments may seem to be an eter nity. There is nothing wrong United Nations Clul) Picks Prexy Khalilur Rahman, an I. C. A. Participant from Pakistan, has been elected president of the A&M United Nations Club for 1959-GO. He entered A&M in the fall of 1958 and has since been working for a Ph.D. degree with a major in agricultural economics. A graduate of the University of Dacca, East Pakistan, Rahman holds an M.A. degree in econom ics. Before coming to A&M, he worked at the Government Col lege of Commerce, Chittagong, East Pakistan. Earlier this year he was elect ed president of the Pakistani Stu dent Assn, of America, Texas A&M Chapter. Rahman plans to complete his studies at A&M in 1961. His spe cial field of interest is agricul tural finance in the under-devel oped countries. with Charles Milstead, Gordon LeBoeuf, Gale Oliver, Randy Sims, and Coach Jim Myers. To me they displayed more guts by far than Mr. Wilson has. There are a lot of things 1 would like to say, but then, of course, you can’t print them. However, I do want the boys in volved, and all the rest of the squad, to know that I, as an in dividual, could not have been prouder of them t'$an if they had won every game.* The Texas game of this year should have proven to the skeptics, such as Mr. Wilson, that the old Aggie Spirit is still there. Mr. Wilson has hidden behind the printed word to give vent to his feelings. Evidently he doesn’t have the intestinal for titude to stand up to any one of the boys mentioned, especially Coach Jim Myers, to tell them to their face that they are not fighters. I do not know Mr. Wil son from Adam’s off-ox, and I am sure there are many Aggies who are also happy they don’t know hiih. I have already sug gested what Mr. Wilson can do— send his ring back to the school for a refund. In fact, I will be glad to buy it from him myself. I think that what Grantland Rice wrote years ago applies to people like Mr. Wilson, “And when the one Great Scorer comes to score against your name, He will care not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.” J. D. Mihalick 450 Gingham Lane Houston 24, Texas ★ ★ ★ Editor The Battalion: The Board "of Trustees of the A&M, Consolidated School Dis trict wishes to express their ap preciation for the excellent cov erage your newspaper gave the recent school bond issue. The information presented by your newspaper was both ac curate and complete enabling the citizens of our community to be well informed on matters concerning the school and its needs. May I add my personal thanks for the fine cooperation your paper gives the A&M Consoli dated Schools. W. T. Riedel Superintendent A&M Consolidated Schools ihv Jim Eart* Ordnance Group To Hear Expert Talk on Astronomy “WE’VE GOT ’EM” AND ARE NOW DELIVERING FORD STANDARD 1960 MODEL , CARS AND TRUCKS. . , FORD’S FAMOUS FALCON SIX PASSENGER COMPACT CAR, AND THUNDERBIRDS. CADE- MOTOR COMPANY 1309 Texas Are. Dial TA 2-1333 1700 Texas Ave. Dial TA 2-6374 THE BATTALION Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the stu dent 'writers only. The Battalion is a non-tax-supported, non profit, self-supporting educational enterprise edited and op erated hy students as a community newspaper arid is undei the supervision of the director of Student Publications at Texas A&M College. The Battalion, a student newspaper at Texas A.&M. is published in Colleg-i Station, Texas, daily except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, and holiday periods September through May, and once a week during summer school. Members of the Student Publications Beard are L. A. Duewall, director ol Student Publications, chairman ; Dr. A. L. Bennett, School of Arts and Sciences ; Dr. K. J. Koenig, School of Engineering; Otto K. Kunze, School of Agriculture; and Dr. E. D. MeMurry, School of Veterinary Medicine. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office in College Station, Texas, under the Act of Con gress of March 8, 1870. MEMBER: The Associated Press Texas Press Ass’n, Represented nationally by N a t i o n a 1 Advertising Services, Inc., New York City, Chicago, Los An geles and Sun Francisci Mail subscriptions are $3.50 per semester, $6 per school year, $6.50 per full year. Advertising rate furnished on request. Address: The Battalion Room 4, YMCA, CoMege Station, Texas. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all newt dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in the paper and local news o' spontaneous origin published herein. 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JOHNNY JOHNSON EDITOR David Stoker Managing Editoi Bob Weekley Sports Editoi Bill Hicklin, Robbie Godwin y News Editors Joe Callicoatte Assistant Sports Editor Jack Hartsfield, Ken Coppage, Tommy Holbein, Bob Sloan, Bob Saile, A1 Vela and Alan Payne Staff Writers Joe Jackson Photographer Russell Brown CHS Correspondent “I can't understand why my grades are low—I think Fll talk to a counselor at the Basic Division after this movie!” Job Interviews The following companies will interview graduating seniors to morrow in the Placement Office on the second floor of the YMCA: Cities Service Research & De velopment Co. will interview chemical, mechanical and petro- 1 e u m engineering, chemistry, mathematics and physics M.S. and Ph.D. degree candidates for positions in research and devel opment. Shamrock Oil and Gas Co. will interview chemical, civil and me chanical engineering B.S. degree candidates for positions as jun ior processing engineers, junior mechanical engineers and gas compression engineers. Ralston Purina Co. will inter view agricultural and mechanical engineering, agricultural econom ics and business administration B.S. and B.B.A. degree candidates for positions in agricultural and mechanical engineering, general business and agricultural eco nomics. Ampex Corp. will interview electrical, industrial and mechani- Sammie Glass Wins Veterinary Award Sammie Edward Glass of Gon zales has been awarded the Bor den Award for Students of Vet erinary Medicine. The presentation was made by Dr. E. D. MeMurry, assistant to the dean, School of Veterinary Medicine. The Borclen Award is given an nually tq the senior student in veterinary* medicine who has com piled the'scholastic record- and is outstanding in his class. Glass is president of his class and has been elected to Phi Kap pa Phi and Phi Zeta. He was giv- ep ■ the Faculty Achievement Award for the junior students last May. Glass .grew up on a ranch and was active in 4-H and FFA live stock projects. He is due to grad uate in May, 1960, and plans to enter the practice of veterinary medicine. cal engineering and accounting degree candidates for positions in design, development, production and sales. Bussmann Manufacturing Divi sion will interview electrical en gineering B.S. degree candidates for positions in engineering and sales service. Varvel To Attend Fort Worth Meeting Dr. W. A. Varvel of the De partment of Education and Psy chology will attend a meeting of the Texas Psychological Assn, to be held in Fort Worth Friday and Saturday. He will serve as a member of a panel to discuss training grad uate students in psychology. Varvel’s part will deal princi- , pally with undergraduate back grounds for the graduate pro gram. The principal speaker will be Dr. Raymond Cattell, professor and chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois. The A&M Chapter of the American Ordnance Assn, will present Mrs. Jan P. Davis, an in structor in astronomy with Chance Vought Aircraft Corp. in Dallas, Wednesday night at 7:30 in the Biological Sciences Lecture Room. Mrs. Davis will speak on “The Mechanics of Getting a Man into Space, Where and How He will Go Once There.” Before joining Chance Vought, Mrs. Davis was associated with the Atomic Energy Commission working on medical uses of radi ation for four years at the Uni versity of Kansas. She was also senior weapons designer with op erations research and before that she taught in a high school for two years. She is the author of the handbook “Basic Astronomy For Astronauts” which has gone through five printings at Chance Vought. Now a widow with three chil dren, Mrs. Davis’ husband was the Dean and professor of the School of Law at the University of Kansas. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Mrs. Davis has re ceived Bachelor degrees in music and mathematics and a masters in radiation biophysics. The meeting is open to the general public and all A.O.A. members. Social Whirl 7:30 Agronomy Wives Club ' V1 meet in the YMCA to hear Mrs Hubner speak on “Gifts and Dec orations.” Japanese women first voted in 1946. Mrs. Jan P. Davis . . . speaks Wednesday Service Dinner To Fete Employes Long-time staff and faculty members of the A&M College System, from all parts of the sys tem with College Station head quarters, will be honorees at the annual System Service Recog nition Dinner, to be held Satur day, Jan. 23, at 7 p. rrt., in Sbisa Hall. The dinner will honor system personnel who have completed 25 years of service this year and will also serve as an occasion for introduction of new system per sonnel. 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