THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Thursday, April 28, 1960
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Worth Mentioning )
By Johnny Johnson
A year ago control of The Battalion came into the hands
of a new group of dedicated men and now today two of this
number prepare to turn over the control of The Battalion to
new hands.
Myself and Bob Saile are the outgoing members of The
Battalion staff. Two of the group which took control last
year—Bob Weekley and Dave Stoker—departed at the end
of the first semester.
Tomorrow Bill Hicklin assumes editorship of The Bat
talion. Names appearing in bylines tomorrow and next year
will be familiar to Battalion readers—most of them are men
who have served on The Battalion during the past year.
But the names are the only*'
thing that will be the same
about these men, for tomor
row all of them will assume
new positions of responsibili
ty.
On May 1, 1959, The Battalion,
under its then new leadership,
pledged itself to “. . .work for
and favor any plan which we be
lieve wil help make Texas A&M
an even better and greater insti
tution.
At the same time we promised
to “carefully study and evaluate
each situation on its own merits
and then make decisions regard
ing editorial policy.”
We feel that we have done our
best to live up to the goals we
set for ourselves. We hope part
of our readers share these views.
The year of my editorship has
seen many changes at Texas
A&M.
In May a dean of students was
named and the Aggies won the
Southwest Conference Baseball
Crown. During the summer a
new dean of the School of Arts
and Sciences was named. Last
fall, enrollment showed an in
crease, freshman drop-outs were
reduced, and the number of soph
omores returning showed .an in
crease and the Ags went through
another Christmas holiday with
out any fatalities. This spring
President Earl Rudder was in
stalled. These were happenings
on the bright side.
On the darker side of the pic
ture, two Aggies died violent
deaths last May and another met
a similar fate this April, Dean
of the College and Graduate
School John B. Page announced
earlier this month his resigna
tion to take a job at Iowa State
and the Texas Legislature de
layed until almost the opening
of the fall semester before an
nouncing its reduced appropria
tions for Texas A&M for 1959-61.
These are just a few of the
things we remember during the
past 12 months. There were
many more, both good and bad.
Other things an editor remem
bers are the phone calls he gets
from people complaining that
their name was misspelled or that
a story about their favorite or
ganization was left out. Such
things as these 'happen daily.
These people think the editor
puts out the paper singlehanded-
ly. They don’t stop to think of
all the other responsibilities that
belong to the editor or the vast
number- of people who work to
gether to put out an issue of The
Battalion.
Approximately 25 to 30 people
work four days a week to put out
The Battalion. This number in
cludes reporters—the backbone of
any publication—photographers,
editors, typesetters, pressmen,
printers, circulation people, book
keepers and advertising salesman.
Not included are the people who
are not regular workers on The
Battalion who turn in the many
news tips we get without which
no publication could survive. The
Battalion is also continuously in
debt to the many people who give
such splendid cooperation when
called by a reporter for a story.
These are some of the things
that come to this editor’s mind
when he looks back over the past
year. Unfortunately all of his
memories are not pleasant ones,
but I am grateful that the pleas
ant ones far outnumber the un
pleasant ones.
Fortunately a publication does
not die when the editorship
changes. The only thing that
may change is the personality of
the publication. The Battalion
will continue to be one of the
class of enterprises which puts
out its mistakes for everyone to
see—something newspapers have
been doing since their inception
and will continue to do as long
hs' they’ are published.
I cannot begin to thank all
the many people who have helped
me during the past year. All I
can do is ask one more favor of
them—that they give Bill Hick
lin and his staff the same fine
cooperation they have seen fit
to give me and my staff.
As this will be the last appear
ance of Worth Mentioning and
my last effort as editor of The
Battalion, I consider it appropri
ate to end this column with an
old journalist’s term for the end
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tatt^my JOHNSON - - EDITOR
Bill Hicklin Managing Editor
Joe Cailicoatte Sports Editor
Robbie Godwin News Editor
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Editor,
The Battalion:
A hearty congratulations should
be given to that worthy soul
whose responsibility it is to pro
vide obstacles to the educational
process at A&M. Certainly he
spends many long hours—much
more than the usual eight per
day—at his task. As evidence
of this, we see in action every
day, the perfectly coordinated
scheme he has devised.
Just today, I saw and experi
enced many of his ingenious op
erations. Early this morning, I
arrived at the Academic Building
in time to see the arrival of the
merry tin-snippers. These people
have an excellent repertoire of
discord with which they serenade
the busy students, but this is not
their best weapon against our
education. When I arrived at
the room where I customarily
meet my morning class, I found
that some genius—and he must
have been a genius—had decided
to use this room for a warehouse.
An excellent use for the room, I
say—much better than leaving it
in the irresponsible hands of
some mad educator.
This was only the first of many
such diversions available today.
Later on in the morning, I wit
nessed the execution of a capital
idea. You see, our trusty coord
inator of interference found that
if one turns the sprinkler system
on just before the hour, the stu
dents can’t go to class. Of course,
some brave spirits do dash
through the watery cross-fires
and go anyway, but they just
aren’t playing fair.
Of course, the attack upon
study in the dormitories must be
mentioned. With excellent fore
sight, he has unleashed fiery and
unmuffled lawnmowers to circle
regularly all dormitories during
the day, and then at night, he
delivers the supreme attack. A
distinguished team of ex-armor
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This coupled with the whining of
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touches on his campaign for the
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In the light of these and other
truly worthwhile efforts of this
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a hearty “Well done!”
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He told a National Press Club
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the question with which the sum
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He said this would create the
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