Rebel-E Freshmen Clean Rev’s Grave
By JOHN FULLER
“There’s one kind favor I’ll ask
of you—
See that my grave is kept
clean.”
(“One Kind Favor,” Yarrow-
Stookey)
It all started last November
during Bonfire Week. Company
E-2 (Rebel-E) was on g-uard
duty at Kyle Field, and during
the long night an upperclassman
pointed out the grave of Rev
eille I, A&M’s first mascot, to
some of the freshman in the
outfit.
“We were pretty shocked to
see the shape it was in,” says
freshman Bill Jones. “There
wasn’t any marker, and the only
thing that set it off from the
rest of the area was a ring of
stones.”
The grave is across the drive
way from the pink granite mark
er, at the entrance to the endzone
ramp, which was set up shortly
after Reveille’s death January
19, 1944.
“Mr. Smith (Andrew Smith, a
junior in the company) told us
we ought to clean it off, since
our outfit is traditionally re
sponsible for taking care of Rev
eille,” Jones went on. “Then,
later on, we got to thinking that
we ought to do something more
permanent. I can’t really pin
down whose idea it was — it
seemed to occur to everybody at
once — to have a marker made.”
This “group action” charac
teristic is evident throughout
the story. Jones repeatedly em
phasized that he didn’t want to
be singled out in any way.
“This was a completely com
bined effort from start to fin
ish,” he pointed out. “I can’t
tell you anything about it that
any other Rebel-E fish can’t.
Everybody pretty well had an
equal hand in it.”
The fish held a meeting and
appointed a committee to visit
local memorial companies and
get prices on tombstones. They
found one for $65, and when the
owner heard their story he
agreed to cut the price to $50.
“A committee collected the
money — $2 from each of the
25 fish — in just two days,” he
remarked.
The inscription they ordered
reads “REVEILLE I — E-2 fish
— Class of ’69.” When the grey
granite stone was ready and aft
er getting the approval of Dean
of Students James P. Hannigan,
they set the marker in place
March 24.
Later that day the fish “ap
propriated” some leftover bricks,
in a daring midnight raid, from
a pile behind President Earl Rud
der’s home. They removed the
weather-beaten and timeworn
rocks from around the plot and
replaced them with the bricks.
“We felt like a bunch of brand-
new fathers when that marker
was set up,” Jones recalls. “Here
was something that was purely
our own —' none of the upper
classmen even knew about it for
several days.”
Their upperclassmen weren’t
the only ones who didn’t find
out about it until days or weeks
later. According to Jones, the
fish didn’t tell anybody what
they had done.
“We weren’t looking for a lot
of glory,” he says. “The marker
was set up to honor Rev and no
body else, so we didn’t go look
ing for publicity.”
Company Commander Andrew
Salge expressed pride in the
project.
“It’s the best thing the Rebel-
E fish have done to improve
morale, and it’s certainly some
thing they can be proud of for
ever,” he said.
The fish expressed a similar
look to the future.
“From now on, it’s going to be
a traditional ‘fish privilege’ in
this outfit to take care of the
gravesite, as well as of the mas
cot,” Jones said. “And they
might even add the inscription to
the ones in the Campusology
books.”
Cbe Battalion
Volume 61
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1966
Number 303
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By Glenn Dromgoole
A lovely coed corner, a touch
of humor and an effort at solid
feature writing (in that order)
should have made the Texas A&M
Review spring issue a top-notch
college magazine.
Somehow, they just didn’t.
Still determined to be an all
campus magazine, The Review
took a stab at general reader in
terest but missed.
The Review lacks one major in
gredient to be an impressive, in
fluential or respectable publica
tion: Personality.
The current issue attempts to
combine all the ingredients vari
ous people desire: Humor, fic
tion, comment, photography and
feature material. Unfortunate
ly, the combination is not excit
ing.
Hampered for years by conflict
ing definitions of what the maga
zine should offer, The Review has
Vied to satisfy each facet to a
liinited extent. It has attempted
literature and humor for those
who believe it should be a literary
magazine; it has tried comment,
photography and feature articles
to satisfy the journalistic seg
ment; it has printed articles about
the Colleges of Liberal Arts, Sci
ences and Geosciences to appease
those who think it should serve
as an information organ for these
areas. It has combined these de
finitions and has leaned, heavily
first to one area, then another.
But in so doing, it has failed to
excite, stimulate, impress or in
vite new talent.
Mixed emotions and opinions
as to what the magazine should
be have strongly impaired the
personality it must have.
The current issue contains very
little unusual material — fiction
or non-fiction — that could serve
to establish such a uniqueness or
personality for the magazine.
None of the non-fiction articles,
with the possible exception of a
Ku Klux Klan interview, are any,
different from the day-to-day
coverage of The Battalion; and
even the KKK piece would have
been more exciting had it ap
peared in the campus newspaper
than in The Review two months
after the interview.
The magazine’s only fiction was
written by a TWU student; liter
ary talent on this campus has
not been sufficiently encouraged
to warrant even a single short
story or poem by an A&M stu
dent for the past two issues.
Only a humorous creation call
ed “The Game of Aggieland” pro
vides The Review with anything
unusual, something that could not
be found in a newspaper. Coed
Corner also stands out as a maga
zine specialty.
Timeliness and space are tech
nical difficulties faced by The
Review, but not as major as lack
of personality and punch.
It is time to quit bickering
about what the magazine should
be and start deciding what it can
be.
It can be what the editor wants
it to be, his critics — including
me — be damned.
SECOND MANNERS PROGRAM TONIGHT
Two of these three Texas Woman’s Univer
sity coeds will participate in the second
“Man Your Manners” program at 7:30 p. m.
in the YMCA. From left are Linda Mason,
who appeared on last week’s panel, and
Jane Sullins and Carol Cater. Aggie Sweet
heart Cheri Holland and Suzanne Peters will
also appear tonight. The girls will discuss
dating etiquette, table manners, formal din
ners, cocktail parties, receptions and driving
etiquette.
MSC Council, Directorate
Schedules Awards Banquet
The new Thomas H. Rountree
Award honoring the outstanding
Memorial Student Center Coun
cil or Directorate member will be
presented for the first time at
the MSC Council and Directorate
Banquet Thursday.
Scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
in the MSC Ballroom, the annual
banquet is the year’s highlight
for all Council and Directorate
members and advisors.
Outgoing members will be hon
ored and next year’s officers of
the Council and Directorate in
stalled at the final joint meeting.
Texas A&M will conduct its
annual Blood Drive Wednesday
and Thursday in the basement of
the Memorial Student Center.
Co-sponsored by the Student
Senate and Alpha Phi Omega,
the blood collected will be donated
to the Wadley Research Institute
and Blood Bank in Dallas.
According to Senate Welfare
Chairman James Morris, the
drive’s preliminary goal is 550
pints. More than 650 students
have pre-registered.
Donors and their immediate
families will be permitted to draw
blood without charge from the
bank during the next year.
“We urge all Aggies to take
advantage of this program,” Mor
ris said. “Normally blood costs
$25-$30 a pint, but by using this
plan Aggies can get it free.”
Morris explained that all stu
dents, faculty and staff are eli
gible for the donation program,
including graduating seniors.
Beds will be placed in the MSC,
with nurses from the Wadley
Center conduct the drive. Donors
will receive free cookies, coffee
and orange juice.
The program has been in effect
Members of the Board of Direc
tors, the Executive Committee and
faculty members who serve as ad
visors to the Council and Direc
torate have been invited to the
banquet. Also invited are the
presidents of the Student Senate
and the Civilian Student Council
and the Commander of the Corps,
reported Steve Gummer, Council-
Directorate president-elect.
Established March 14 by the
Council, the Rountree Award will
replace the Distinguished Service
Award as the highest award a
here eight of the past nine years.
More than 2,900 units of blood
have been collected during this
period.
Blood donated is used mainly
for leukemia research.
Wadley Reseearch Institute and
Blood Bank belongs to a national
blood collection association, which
allows it to draw blood from any
bank in the country.
Filing Opens
For Senate
Filing is now open for col
lege representatives to the
Student Senate, Election Com
mission Chairman Harris Pap
pas announced Monday.
Positions available include
sophomore, junior and senior
representatives from the Col
leges of Agriculture, Liberal
Arts, Science, Geosciences,
Engineering and Veterinary
Medicine.
A grade point ratio of 1.25
is required.
The filing deadline is Mon
day, with the election sched
uled for May 12.
student can receive for his Coun
cil or Directorate work.
“The purpose of this award is
to recognize and honor an out
standing member of the MSC
Council and Directorate who has
made a significant contribution
to the recreational, educational
and cultural programs of the
Council and Directorate and
whose accomplishment has
brought credit to the MSC Coun
cil or Directorate,” Gummer said.
Tom Rountree, class of 1952,
did much to establish the MSC
Directorate cultural and recrea
tional program for the students
and faculty of A&M during 1950-
52. He was a member of the Di
rectorate and chairman of the
Dance Committee in 1950-51 and
the House Committee in 1951-52.
He was killed in an automobile
accident in 1955.
The award will be a metal pla
que mounted on wood with a
portrait sculptured into the metal
plaque.
In addition to this award, 14
Distinguished Service Awards and
23 Appreciation Awards will be
presented to committee members
and faculty advisors.
To be eligible for selection, a
student must meet four qualifica
tions:
1. Have attained prominence
through his efforts to develop
the MSC Council and Directorate
objectives.
2. Be a person of such integrity,
stature and demonstrated ability
that the students, faculty, staff
and former students of A&M will
take pride in and be inspired by
his recognition.
3. Be a person eminently suc
cessful in both the MSC Council
and Directorate and campus
activities, with a record of accom
plishment that will be impressive
to the student body and faculty.
4. Be a person who by his
deeds and actions reflects and
recognizes the importance of his
position on the Council or Direc
torate Committee, and who will
reflect pride, loyalty and inter
est in the Council or a Directorate
standing committee.
Aggie Blood Drive
Slated Wednesday
$73 Million Budget
Approved By Board
A $73 million budget to oper
ate the Texas A&M University
System in 1966-67 was approved
Saturday by the System’s Board
of Directors.
The figure represents a 13 per
cent increase over the current
budget of $64,650,000.
The main campus received $34,-
151,146 for teaching programs.
Prairie View A&M College in
Hempstead got $6,770,336; while
Tarleton State College in Steph-
enville received $2,526,285. The
James Connally Technical Insti
tute in Waco had a $1,364,969
budget approved, and the Gal
veston-based Texas Maritime
Academy received $713,345.
The remainder was appropriat
ed for research and public service
branches of A&M.
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A million dollar contract for a
Services Building was the larg
est construction award approved
by the directors.
The $1,106,625 contract went
to Vance and Thurmond of Bryan
to build the 3-story structure to
house information activities, the
campus post office and labora
tories of the state chemist.
Other contracts covered cam
pus repairs and improvements.
Young Brothers Inc. of Waco,
was awarded the $59,310.50 con
tract to construct new parking
lots east of Kyle Field.
Loyd Electric Company of San
Exes Association
Cited For Service
The Association of Former Stu
dents has won the inaugural
Alumni Administration Award of
1966.
American Alumni Council pro
grams director Robert L. Pierce
said A&M was one of 14 U. S.
and Canadian institutions to take
the honor. The association added
the prize to two other awards
from the council.
The association was first to
win the A AC’s alumni service
award in 1963 and initial winner
of the U. S. Steel Incentive Award
in 1957.
The Association of Former Stu
dents has won every award given
by the AAC for alumni pro
grams, service and annual giving
plus the U. S. Steel award,” noted
Richard (Buck) Weirus, execu
tive secretary. The list includes
the council’s sustained perform
ance annual giving award of 1962.
The latest award recognizes
mobilization of educational sup
port. A&M’s Muster program,
Sul Ross group and conversion
of records to magnetic tape were
key factors in the triumph, Wei
rus said.
Facets of the association’s serv
ice to students in Career Day
activities, opportunity awards
scholarships, teacher recognition,
student loans, graduate student
awards and activities of 190 clubs
will be presented by a three-man
panel at Greenbriar Hotel, W. Va.,
in July.
First Bank & Trust now pays
4%% per annum on savings cer
tificates. —Adv.
Antonio had low bid of $35,650
to improve electrical power serv
ice to student apartment areas on
the campus.
A sum of $21,000 was appro
priated to complete plans to air-
condition and rennovate the Civil
Engineering and the Geological-
Chemical Engineering buildings.
Rental of newer campus hous
ing for married students was
raised from $65 to $75 per month
to meet operation expenses. The
increase affects only apartments
in the Hensel addition. Prices
in College View and other mar
ried student housing areas were
unchanged.
A $50,000 purchase of Centrex
telephone equipment from South
western State Telephone Compa
ny was approved. The system, to
be installed in the new library,
is scheduled to be operational by
1968.
Features of the new campus
switchboard will be a telephone in
each dormitory room and use of
leased telephone lines.
The board reviewed an applica
tion from the Department of In
dustrial Engineering to grant the
Ph.D. degree and passed it to the
Texas College and University Co
ordinating Board for approval.
NotedEducator
To Join Staff
In Psychology
Dr. Tim Moore Stinnett will
join the Department of Education
and Psychology Sept. 1, Depart
ment Head Dr. Paul Hensarling
has announced.
An internationally known edu
cator, Stinnett presently is as
sistant executive secretary of the
National Education Association
in Washington, D. C.
“His leadership in professional
standards work has been a major
factor in raising teacher education
quality,” Hensarling said. “We
are fortunate Dr. Stinnett chose
A&M. He has been sought by
several leading colleges and uni
versities.”
A prolific researcher and writ
er, the new professor will devote
time to completion of several pub
lications in addition to profession
al development of teachers, super
visors and administrators. Stin
nett is expected to strengthen
A&M’s education doctoral pro
gram, Hensarling added.
“Dr. Stinnett’s name is recog
nized with distinction throughout
the nation,” Dr. Frank W. R. Hu
bert, dean of the Liberal Arts
College, said. “His employment
is part of a continuing effort to
place teacher education at A&M
in a distinguished role of lead
ership.”
The Arkansas native has a bib
liography numbering over 150
major publications. He has au
thored 12 books and made con
tributions to 18 others. He has
been editor of 16 periodicals and
magazines and has 83 articles in
professional journals in print.
His writings primarily concern
professional development and re
lationships between profession
als, superintendent to principal to
teacher, boards of education and
the total public relationship.
A total of $323,121.85 in gifts
and grants was also accepted by
the directors.
Law Authority
Schedules Talk
Wednesday
Dr. Quincy Wright, Weingar-
ten Professor of Peace at Rice
University, will deliver the final
University Lecture of the year
at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Chem
istry Lecture Room.
The address, “Foreign Policy in
the Atomic Age,” will be open
to the public.
Wright is an American author
ity on international law and for
eign affairs. According to Wayne
C. Hall, dean of the Graduate
College, Wright’s advice on in
ternational affairs has frequently
been sought by national and
world agencies.
A native of New England,
Wright earned his doctorate at
the University of Illinois and has
taught at Harvard University of
Minnesota and the University of
Chicago. He has served as pres
ident of the American .Political
Science Association, the Interna
tional Political Science Associa
tion and the American Society for
International Law.
He has written several books,
including “Control of American
Foreign Relations,” “The Causes
of War and the Conditions of
Peace,” “International Law and
the United Nations” and “The
Study of International Law.”
Wright will also hold a press
conference Wednesday at 2 p.m.
in the Birch Room of the Mem
orial Student Center, said Dr.
Haskell M. Monroe, assistant dean
of the Graduate College.
Solon’s Mom
Sidelined
The political “right arm” of
Senator Neveille Colson is miss
ing from the campaign trail for
the first time in her long public
service career.
Mrs. W. J. Higgs, the senator’s
84-year-old mother, must remain
in the Bryan Hospital beyond the
May 7 election. She is recover
ing from a fractured pelvis and
subsequent heart flareups.
A pioneer Central Texas resi
dent, Mrs. Higgs has managed
every campaign of her daughter
without a single defeat. Mrs.
Colson has served 17 years in the
Texas Senate after a decade in
the House.
Now Mrs. Colson bids for re-
election in the realigned 5th Sen
atorial District, much of which she
has represented. Her mother will
not be at her side but illness isn’t
keeping Mrs. Higgs from par
ticipating. From her hospital
bed, she hands out cards and
urges visitors to vote for Mrs.
Colson.
And judging from the stream
of friends who call daily, Mrs.
Higgs is still very much in the
political swim.