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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1961)
Page 6 College Station, Texas Thursday, September 14, 1961 THE BATTALION Junction Adjunct preparation is the key Junction Adjunct Prepares Fish For Campus Life Two summer sessions at A&M’s Junction adjunct are over, mean ing 240 of the expected freshman class this fall will be better equipped to tackle the big job of college that lies before them. Located on the banks of the South Llano River, 250 miles west of College Station in Kimble Coun ty, the Adjunct combines camp life with college training in a remark able way. The 411-acre campus, a gift of the citizens of Kimble County to the State of Texas, provides the setting each summer for approxi mately 335 students in their quest for higher education. Physical facilities will accom modate only 120 freshman each six weeks, although demand is much greater and there is a wait ing list for both sessions. In addi tion civil engineering and geology majors complete necessary labora tory work at the Adjunct. Adjunct freshmen take six se mester hours of classroom work, usually mathematics and English, plus one course in either college reading or college study. Physical education is required in either life saving or conditioning. Professors and instructors from the main A&M campus conduct activities at the Adjunct each summer. The camp is directed by W. Dee Kutach of the Counseling and Testing Center. A. E. Denton is camp counselor. This summer, English was taught by Louis F. Hauer, Roy E. Cain and H. S. Creswell. Mathematics courses were con ducted by Haile D. Perry, R. R. Lyle and R. A. Knapp. W. J. Dob son and R. L. Provost provided instruction in college study and college reading. Physical education classes were in charge of by H. B. Segrest and Paul M. Andrews. The Department of Civil Engi neering requires one six-week ses sion be spent at the Adjunct. This laboratory work is usually done between the student’s junior and senior years. J. A. Orr and E. L. Harrington had 40 students en rolled for each of the two summer, 1961, sessions. Students do land surveying, topographic mapping, highway surveying and. measure ment of stream flow. In addition, 15 geology majors used the Adjunct this session. Under the direction of Karl Koenig of the Department of Geology, this group did field work preparing maps and plane tabling. Labora tory operations extended as far as the Marathon Basin and the Big Bend country. “The A&M Adjunct is student- centered, not institutional cen tered,” Kutach pointed out. “Only two privileges exist: One is to teach and the other is to learn. We are dedicated to the develop ment of the complete student in all of his capabilities.” Why is the demand for admis sion to the Junction Adjunct so great? First session students offer an insight: Stephen Williams, freshman from Gilmer who plans to major in architecture, says, “I went to the Adjunct to learn how to study. In addition I wanted to get some of my English and mathematics requirements behind me so I will not have to take such a heavy load in the fall.” Dickey Foms, a mechanical en gineering major from Eagle Pass, said that his high school counselor had recommended the summer Ad junct program as ideal prepara tion for college. Tom Ralph, junior civil engi neering major from Clifton, points out, “this is not a place for fresh men to pick up easy credit; it is just as difficult, scholastically, as the main campus. But boys get more help from the professor here and a student studies in a more relaxed atmosphere.” all-w6ather favorite M r s 23£eJc£: DffcWes keeps you smartly preparecf for the weatherman’s best or his wor§t#. This year-round, right weight topper wears well on the campus \ or on the town. Weatherized combed poplin — Zelan 55 * Zeset* finish — lA/rinlcte.WicTctjmf Hrin.rTrv The Exchange Store ‘Serving Texas Aggies’’ Aggie Mascot 30-Year-Old Tradition Aggie spirit takes life at each football game halftime when a 50- pound biown and white collie walks onto the field at thd’ head of A&M's famous 260-piece band. The story of this lovable Aggie mascot, Reveille IT, and her earlier counterpart, Reveille I, began in 1931 when a group of Aggies re turning to A&M from Houston in an automobile ran over a little mongrel pup near Navasota. They picked up the yelping, injured pup and brought her to College Station and began one of the greatest traditions in the his tory of a tradition-rich school. The next morning the dog began barking at the sound of reveille and was immediately dubbed “Rev eille.” For 13 years the little dog en deared herself to thousands of Aggies’ hearts as the school’s offi cial mascot. In January, 1944, Reveille I died and was buried with full military honors. A memorial in her honor was erected at the north entrance of Kyle Field. Two dogs, “Rusty” and “Spot,” were then in as the official mas cot of the school, but never re gained the prominence of Reveille I. In an election in the fall of 1951, the students expressed a desire for another mascot. Their wish was granted in Jan uary of 1952, when the late Arthur Weinert, ’00, donated a three- month-old Shetland shepherd pup to the school. TT r *”’ J. j*} 1, 'Yr Thi- mmm < E Music Makers Of ’95 . . . 11 horns and a snare drum Aggie Marching Baih A&M’s proud, famous 2G0-piece marching band—the world’s largest—is an ancient Aggie institution. The first band was founded around 1895, and had a whopping 12 mem bers, not counting the drum major. Today, the nearly 260 members of the band are divided into two groups, the Maroon anti the White bands, each with its own company headquarters and drum major. The con solidated band staff, made up of cadet officers from both bands, commands the big unit. Head drum major for the consolidated band this year is Manley McGill, senior plant and soil science major from Amarillo. Last year McGill was supply sergeant for the con solidated band. John A. Betts of Austin will be drum major for the Maroon Band, and Dennis Sander of Houston will lead the White Band. Betts was band liaison sergeant and Sander was a sergeant in the White Band last year. Band Director Col. E. V. Adams said the new drum Civil War Law Gives Birth To A& v& During the 1961-62 school year, A&M, along with 68 other land- grant colleges and universities in the United States, will celebrate the centennial of the Morrill Act, the law that brought the school into existence. Signed by President Abraham Lincoln July 2, 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, the Morrill Act authorized the federal government to offer each state a grant of public lands which might be sold to secure funds for the establish ment of a college designed to offer education in “agriculture and the mechanic arts” at a cost which would enable boys from all eco-' nomic levels to attend. The Civil War had caused the government to realize the value of a trained citizen-army to defend the country, so the act also speci fied that these colleges should of fer instruction in military tactics. Texas, as a member of the Con federacy, coqld not take advantage of the act until the close of the war. But in 1861, during the re construction period, the Texas Legislature passed an act accept ing the terms of the federal bill. Then, on April 17. 1871, the Legislature took the first major step in the founding of A&M. The 180,000 acres of land given to the state by the federal government as a grant for the college were sold for 87 cents an acre, and the $174,000 received from the sale was invested in seven per cent gold frontier defense bonds as the college’s first endowment. At the same time, a $75,000 appropriation was made for the erection of the main building. The next step was to find a place to build the college. A throe- man committee appointed by the Legislature for this purpose soon found themselves in the five-year- old railroad boom town of Bryan. In picking the site for the school, the committee looked for a spot as close as possible to the center of the state’s population mass (in 1871) and close enough to rail roads so the students could get to and from the college. Bryan was the place. Saloons on every street corner of the new town caused the law makers to frown, however, so they tramped five miles south until they came to a spot thick with y«ti Hi <1 dewberries. Despite these criticiua They stuck a stake in the ground opened with 4o studcoU, and said, “Here we'll build the ulty members and fow college.** I that day in 1876. The people of Brazos County, A&M has grown from8 knowing a good thing when they i “cow-college” to the fiwt saw it, promptly donated 2,416 ‘ sity it i^ today, with 609 aP‘ .(d* acres of land on which to build the members teaching huaiiaui v college—considerably more than , courses in 51 department! j-;] , n -' la the 1,280 acres asked of them. ^JSowclij ^QcjcjieS COME IN AND GET ACQUAINTED With Our Friendly Barbers “DUTCH”, “FISH”, “JESSE” AND “BILL”. Serving Aggies For 35 Years In Same Location (J3arler College Station, Texas Bill Moon Prop. sions to an annual enrols nearly 7,000 students. Hometown Clu Major Activity But building was slow, and the college, ran out of money when nothing but the foundations for itw two original buildings hud been completed. More money was raised, however, and a main building, combination dormitory and mess hall and five residenc es for pro-1 of ex tnW« fessors were completed. activities on the AA* a At the first meeting of the col- aome of the most impotti lege board in 1875, the presidency men are the hciuSbj of the college was offered to for- nr e a clubs, mer president of the Confederacy j These clubs are th* i Jefferson Davi*. Davis M i nK i e student activity • hut suggested the board insider cnmpuJ| W i th his friend. Thomas 8. Gathright, cent of the Btudent bo4y then superintendent of •"'•tfuction i j njf j n JJome wa y j n g j club. ltd a Bpu i € for the State of Mississippi. Gathright accepted the position. The clubs offer the and the formal opening of the opportunity to widen hil school was set for Oct. 4, 1876. (The college had originally opened its doors on Sept. 17, but only six students showed up for registra tion.) When the college opened, the frank opinion of the majority of people of Texas regarding this experiment in high-toned farming and experiences. Through] pation in his hometown student gains the value of i ship and cooperation. Some of the purpos« various clubs are to high school graduates to I A&M, provide social actint* the club members on car at home, to help one anotl 4 and mechanics was not only that it was silly, but Yankee-instigated I better Aggies and to be W silliness. Others spoke of it as a ice to students in gettini “nest for a military aristocracy.” 1 home and back to school. Jim E. BATSON HUMBLE SERVICE Humble Products North Gate UPPERCLASSMEN KNOW WHERE TO GET THE BEST DEAL ON BOOKS AND SUPPLIES — If You Are In Doubt Ask An Upperclassman LOPPOT'S TRADING POST