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A history of A&M could not be
’omplete without mention of Ber
nard Sbisa, a native of Austria
who came to the A&M campus un-
the first president, Thomas
Gathright, and devoted the balance
of his life to feeding Aggies.
“He was straight as a ramrod
and walked with the precision of
a metronome,” Ernest Langford,
then a student and now the college
1 ^ archivist, said.
Sbisa, who served for 50 years
college steward, was late in
serving a meal only once and one
’"P 5 of the two A&M dining halls to-
lasfj day bears his name as a result
of that occasion.
IN THE EARLY morning hours
Ril^ of Nov. 11, 1911, the college mess
hall burned to the ground, fueled
by the frame flooring and roof
after a fire broke out in the kitch
en area.
Sbisa and his staff were unusu
ally busy that morning as they
finally rounded up old washpots
and cooking utensils. Breakfast
was served at 10 a.m.
The mess hall which burned in
1911 was located in front of the
present hospital site and a tem
porary kitchen area was built in
the vicinity.
“When we were issued our mili
tary equipment in those days, they
also issued a mess kit,” Langford
said. Mess kits were put to un-
ihi expected use from the time of the
Jj fire to an earlier-than-expected
"^Christmas holiday period. The tem
porary kitchen caught fire to speed
up the start of the holiday period.
STUDENTS WERE sheltered
under tents while they ate until
a large temporary building was
completed to serve as mess hall
until Sbisa Hall was completed.
The first unit of Bernard Sbisa
Hall was completed in 1913, and a
second unit was added in the 1920s.
'otal cost of the building, which
long has had the reputation of
having the largest unobstructed
dining room in the world, was
$205,000.
“Whether the whole world should
be encompassed or not may be
debatable,” Langford said, “but
the fact remains that of the three
dining rooms jn.. the building the
largest has an area of slightly less
than one half of an acre.” Small
est of the three dining rooms mea
sures 80 by 55 feet.
The one-story building of semi-
k classic architecture has been the
scene of many social gatherings
II. I through the years. The largest col
lege banquets and dances still are
held in Sbisa Hall.
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MRS. TEXAS A&M CONTEST
1962
Name of Contestant:
Name of Husband
.Class of: Major.
Address
Telephone Number:
Group, Club or Student Represented:
Please enclose the $3.00 entry fee, which includes admission of the contestant’s husband
to the Contest and Dance, and mail to:
Mrs. Nat Alvis
903 Fairview Street
College Station, Texas
VI 6-5686
Make checks payable to “Aggie Wives Council."
Mrs, A&M Application Blank
This is an official application blank that entrant be married
can be used for entering the third annual
Mrs. Texas A&M contest. Deadline for ap
plications is Dec. 1, while the winner will be
named Dec. 8. Only requirement is that an
to a current student.
Additional blanks can be obtained from
Mrs. Nat Alvis, president of the Aggie
Wives Council.
Texas Honey Queen Named
Miss Donna McDonald of Uvalde
was named Texas Honey Queen
here Tuesday at the 81st annual
Texas Beekeepers Conference.
The 19-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. O. H. McDonald of
Uvalde was chosen by a panel of
judges on the basis of her beauty
and personality. She will com
pete next in the national Honey
Queen contest in January at San
Antonio.
Runner-up honors here went to
Miss Olive Ralph of San Antonio.
The stimated 125 persons attend
ing* the conference elected John
Milam of Devine as new president
of the association. He replaces
Roland T. Sykes of San Antonio.
H. A. Victor of Hutto was named
vice president, and Claud J. Bur-
Nudes Protest
LONDON (A 3 ) — Britain's two
biggest nudist groups have united
in a campaign to get on to more
public beaches.
“We have had differences in the
past,” said Douglas Gibson, spokes
man for the British Sun Bathing
Association, “but we are now
United. We will now be stronger
in approaching local councils for
the acquisition of public beaches.”
The other organization is the
Federation of British Sun Clubs.
Milt Plum of the Detroit Lions
has completed 57.9 percent of his
passes in five National Football
League seasons.
STUDENT RATE
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS
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PUBLICATION
SCHOOL TERM RATE
1 YEAR
Atlantic Monthly
3.50 (8 mo.)
8.50
Downbeat
3.50 (8 mo.)
5.00'
Ebony
2.00 (8 mo.)
3.50
Esquire
2.00 (8 mo.)
6.00
Fortune
7.50
Holiday
1.80 (6 Issues)
3.60
Life
2.00 (6 mo.)
2.98
Look
2.00
Negro Digest
2.40 (8 mo.)
4.00
New Yorker
3.00 (8 mo.)
Newsweek
2.75 (34 wks.)
3.50
Reader’s Digest
2.97
Reporter
2.50 (8 mo.)
4.50
Saturday Eve. Post
2.00 (25 issues)
3.00
Sports Illustrated
rates go up 1-1-63
4.00
Time
3.00 (8 mo.)
4.00
A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE STORES SERVICE
To: THE EXCHANGE STORE
CAMPUS
Please enter my order for the following magazines on the
current Student Rate. I am including the 2% State Tax current
ly collectable.
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The Exchange Store
‘Serving Texas Aggies”
gin of A&M, secretary-treasurer.
Bubgin is a state entomologist with
the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Conference members discussed
new ways to remove bees from a
hive when honey is harvested. One
of the systems is a chemical and
the other is compressed air to
blow the bees off the frames.
The meeting was sponsored by
the Department of Entomology in
co-operation with the Texas Bee
keepers Association.
Delegates
Will Study
Pesticides
“Pesticides in Agricultural
Progress” is the theme for the
1962 Texas Insect and Plant Dis
ease Conference in the Memorial
Student Center next Monday and
Tuesday.
Headlining the list of speakers
is the chief of the Pesticide Chem
icals Research Branch, Division of
Research Entomology, U.S. De
partment of Agriculture, Belts-
ville, Md., S. A. Hall. His address
will outline the contributions pes
ticides have made to the progress
of American agriculture. He will
speak at 9:15 a.m. Monday.
Chief Chemist Norman Foster,
Food and Drug Administration,
Dallas, will follow with a report
on 1962 activities of the FDA.
Members of the teaching, research
and extension staffs of the Depart
ment of Entomology will handle
many of the subjects up for dis
cussion during the day and a half
conference.
Opening the second day’s first
session will be Dr. C. D. Raney,
USDA plant pathologist from the
Delta Branch Experiment Station
at Stoneville, Miss., with a discus
sion on “Control of Cotton Boll
Rots.” Members of A&M’s plant
science and agricultural engineer
ing faculties will appear on Tues
day morning’s program.
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