THE BATTALION
Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 13, 1961
| BATTALION EDITORIALS
Good Answer
What sets an Aggie graduate apart from graduates of
other schools? Is it the fact that so many successful Aggies
preceeded him?
Maybe so. At least Houston Post writer Jim Clark, in an
copyrighted article in the Post Dec. 10, suggests this might
be partly correct.
Clark was visiting a meeting of Aggie Exes in Houston
and, he said, the talk got around to trying to decide on who
was the greatest Aggie of them all in the oil and gas business.
Names began to fly—Burt Hull, ’04, who built the Big
and Little Inch pipelines and the biggest line ever built, the
Tapline from the Persian Gulf to Sidon; Presidents of oil
companies J. W. Foley of Texaco, Del Brockett of Gulf, Les
Potter of Lone Star Gas and a host of others.
But Aggies excell in field other than oil and gas. Take
such names as Felix McKnight, President of the American
Society of Newspaper Editors’; E. H. Leavey, president of
International Telephone and Telegraph; Earle Cabell, mayor
of Dallas . . . the list of bank and insurance company execu
tives, writers, educators, and even artists grew.
What about the military ? Six Medal of Honor winners,
and generals like Gen. A. B. Schreiver, director of the coun
try’s entire intercontinental missile program and Maj. Gen.
Alvin Luedcke, general manager of the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
Sports? All-Americans Joel Hunt, Joe Routt, John Kim
brough, Yale Larry, John David Crow, etc., etc ....
We suggest you get a copy of the article (section 5,
page 5 of last Sunday’s Houston Post.) It’s a good answer
to that old question, “Why did you go to A&M?”
CADET SLOUCH
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by Jim Earle
The United States leads the
world in newsprint consumption,
taking at least half the world
supply.
1962 AGGIELAND
Texas A&M College
College Station, Texas
Civilian Yearbook
Portrait Schedule
Civilian students will have their
portrait made for the AGGIE
LAND ’62 according to the fol
lowing schedule. Portraits will
be made at the Aggieland Studio
between the hours of 8 a. m. and
5 p. m. on the days scheduled.
COATS AND
BE WORN.
TIES SHOULD
Fish, Soph, and Jr. Civilians
Dec.
11-12
12-13
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T-Z
Sr. and Grad. Civilians
Jan.
4-5
8- 9
9- 10
10-11
11-12
15- 16
16- 17
17- 18
18- 19
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C-E
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O-Q
R-S
T-V
W-Z
(Surnames)
“ . . . my campaign manager and I would appreciate your
votes, men!”
Sound Off
‘An Exciting Stay’
Hruska Writes
(Editor’s note: Michael
Schneider, who was with Sen.
Roman Hruska (R-Neb) dur
ing the senator’s visit to A&M
for his SCONA VII talk, re
ceived this letter Monday.
Mr. Michael Schneider,
President, MSC Council:
This is to let you know how
very much I appreciated your
most efficient and coux-teous as
sistance and the kindness which
you extended during my brief
but exciting stay at your school.
It is with gratitude that I re
view the receipt of the invita
tion and my stay there. It gave
me the idea that the story of
Texas A&M should be spread far
and wide inasmuch as the school
is a tremendous institution, and
makes such a meaningful and
large contribution to the national
life.
This is to extend to you the
very best wishes for all that you
undertake.
Roman L. Hruska
U. S. Senator
Nebraska
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SCOAMA Needed
Say Two Seniors
Editor,
The Battalion:
The Student Conference on Na
tional Affaii’s should reveal to
the students on this campus that
we need a Student Conference
on A&M Affairs.
Not only have we witnessed
during the past week a changing
of certain Texas A&M ti'aditions
to suit the presence of distin
guished visitors, but also we
have seen the glossing over of
the existing racial discrimina
tion policies of this school.
We ask the student body of
this campus why certain cui’i'ent
practices of this college are con
cealed by false fronts ? The im
petus for this crucial question
arises fx-om two facts:
1. Even though “wildcatting”
has long been a tradition in the
dining halls of this school, we
were told to cease this practice
during the presence our distin
guished guests.
Are we ashamed of our tradi
tions, and if so why do we con
tinue with them ?
2. Although the racial prob
lems of this country are among
the nation’s most pressing and
embarrassing, the victims of this
dilemma are not even repre
sented at this conference.
We ask why?
James L. Long, ’62
Richard F. Halter, ’62
Bulletin Board
Church Groups
Lutheran Student Association
will have their Christmas party
at 6 p.m. at the home of the Rev.
and Mrs. Carlton E. Ruch, 4304
Maywood, Bryan. Cai's will
leave the Lutheran Student Cen
ter at 5:45 p.m.
Hillel Foundation will hear Dr.
C. Harold Brown of the Depart
ment of Sociology and Louis
Stexm of the Department of Eco
nomics discuss “Integration in
the South’’ at 7:45 p.m. at the
Hillel Building.
Wives Clubs
Aggie Wives Bridge Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Memo
rial Student Center.
Cbditnm
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“Serving Texas Aggies’
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