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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 Unsigned letters will not be published.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
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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
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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.
Formerly held during the
Christmas holidays, the dinner
has been set for January to pre
vent conflicts with personal holi
day season plans of system per
sonnel.
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The following clubs and socie
ties will meet tonight:
7:30
Accounting Society will meet
in Room 229 of the Chemistry
Building.
Pre-Vet Society will meet in
the Vet Hospital.
The Pre-Law Society will meet
tonight in the Memorial Student
Center. L. L. Martin, Bryan Po
lice Chief, will speak on the
“Aspects of Law Enforcement.”
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