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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.”
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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.
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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
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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-;]
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the 1,280 acres asked of them.
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Bill Moon Prop.
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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.
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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.
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