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Thursday, August 24,1961 College Station, Texas Page 3 The Kilgore Rangerettes Performed at Intercollegiate Talen Show The Ray Connif'f Singers . . Part of last year’s town Hall Series during >r of re- U secre- ! chape!, v Agriciil- College il ,s Agriciil- on at Col :as Forel ition; Tit ^xperitnei ition; Tli asion Sen- were o?fi owns 1 proir roxiinatei)- ;ed by 4 the execi- The oil i collegtii other part Activities, Entertainment Center Around MSC In addition to being the “campus living room”, a building designed to meet the everyday and leisure needs of students, the Memorial Student Center houses facilities and services for a varied social and recreational program—with activities for both the spectator and for the student who wishes to participate in special areas of extracurricular college life. Many of the Memorial Student Center activities are organized to please both the spectator and the participant. Among these organi zations are the Aggieland Orches tra, Great Issues Committee, Sing ing Cadets, Talent Committee, Film Society, Music Committee, Bowling team, Student Conference and Na tional Affairs committee and the Town Hall series. Membership in the Aggieland Orchestra and the Singing Cadets is open to students interested in auditioning for these groups. The orchestra furnishes the music for stage shown in Guion Hall and G. Rollie White Coliseum and for col lege dances, and the Cadets provide music for numerous campus enter tainments and make a concert tour each Spring. One of the biggest entertain ment programs sponsored by the MSC is the “Town Hall Series”, which brings top-flight entertain ment to the A&M Campus from all over the nation. Tenatively scheduled for the first “Town Hall” presentation is Ray Anthony and “The Bookends”. This group will present two Las Vegas nightclub numbers on October 27. On November 13 the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra will be at A&M. This group has been estab lished as one of the outstanding symphonic organizations in the na tion and personifies the vigor and resourcefulness associated with the great Southwest. Internationally acclaimed Victor Alessandro con ducts the orchestra. “Ferrante and Teicher Flip Their Lids,” will provide two hours of merriment and melody on February 15. This show injects a bright, witty note into concert hall enter tainment, with the recording stars whose versions of “Exodus” and “The Apartment” sold over two million records. With the long established high standard maintained by his com pany, Jose Greco promises audi ences a new and exciting production on March 5. The Greco program will offer a number of new dances as well as some of the old favorites without which no Jose Greco pro gram would be complete. Two nights of entertainment will be presented my Carlos Montoya on March 22 and 23. Montoya, with one of the most extensive repertoires of any living guitarist, is one of the handful of masters t)f the instrument who is able to devote an entire evening’s program to the flamenco genure. The final “Town Hall” presenta tion will be April 9 and 10 and will feature Henry L. Scott, Amer ica’s first concert humorist who believes music can be fun. His “one man show” is full of sur prises and has reduced audiences to hysteria throughout the North American continent. He has been hailed as the greatest pianist- humorist of our generation 'and has won tremendous acclaim from edu- 260 Piece Texas Aggie Band Is Largest Marching Band another ,e of serr- tting i*i 1. jow orpr n of Ho® mt, Brasil ti, Dallas 3xas, Foil 1 of Ho® River Vaij Shreveport exas, T> r ' Anderson [1 Conntfi ’ex, Cherts )el KiOi D o County pe Vallef -K-F Con' J otosos gore, Welcome Aggies SHIPLEY DO-NUT & COFFEE SHOP OPEN 6:00 A.M. —1:00 A.M. 3312 S. College Ave. BREAKFAST AND SHORT ORDERS The Texas Aggie Band is the largest marching band in the world. There are about 260 members in the band, which is divided into two groups. One group is called the Maroon Band and the other is called the White Band. There is no difference in the two bands. The members of the, band live in dorms 11 and 9. The band is con ducted by Lt. Col. E. V. Adams. The band begins practice the first week of school. Most of their practice time is used in preparing a half-time performance for the football games. The band members get to watch the football, basket ball and baseball games free be cause they play at the games. They play for all of the home football games and most of the out-of-town games. When the band goes to another college to play for a game they travel by chartered buses at no extra charge to the members. The only expense they are out is their meals. The band also plays for yell practice in The Grove. It plays, for the home basketball and base ball games. The Drum and Bugle Corps, which is composed of the drum and cornet players in the band, plays the troops to chow. Manley McGill, plant and soil science major from Amarillo, has been selected as next year’s head drum major of A&M’s famed Ag gie Band. McGill, who was once drum maj or at Palo Duro High School in Amarillo, was chosen after try outs conducting the band in the band room and on the drill field. John A. Betts of Austin was named drum major of the school’s Maroon Band, and Dennis Sander of Houston, drum major of the White Band. Band Director Col. E. V. Adams, said the future drum majors were chosen by a 14-man selection com mittee made up of Col. Adams, the three band commanding officers, the present drum majors, the two first sergeants, th£ sergeant-major and a representative from each class. laajgfr 11 ’ Welcome Aggies BRYAN’S ONLY CHRYSLER CORP. 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