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College Station, Texas
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and Provides Pulse Of The Spirit Of Aggieland
Across Texas, high school and
liege band directors are taking
ser and more critical looks at
eir present marching tech-
ues and are apparently com
ing to the realization that to
day’s audiences hre looking for
a more streamlined approach to
performances.
A leader and imitated march
ing unit in this revolution is one
which a California sports writer
in a flight of imagination de
scribed as “reminiscent of the
powerful Roman legions victori-
LOUPOT Has Top Standing
Among Merchants, Students
A small maroon and white building at the West edge of North Gate has a
traditional standing both in the business asmosphere of the A&M College area as well
as the personal life of its students.
Inside Loupot’s Trading Post, the Aggies will find one of the best friends they
can’make while at A&M, J. E. Loupot, ’32. He is not hard to spot, being a little more
than thin, a little lacking in hair, and with an ever-present grin.
Old Army Lou, as many have come to know him, has many ties with A&M,
dating back to 1928, when he entered A&M as a fish. After leaving A&M a few years
later, he tried business in other parts of the state.
alma mater.
North Gate.
But after a few years, Loupot decided he could do more for the Aggies, and
nater, right here in College Station. So he returned and set up a small shop
his
at
Determined to make his future here Loupot moved his business to its present
location in a modest brick and stucco building across from the new dormitory area
in 1942. Partially destroyed by fire in the fall of 1963, the building has subsequently
been remodeled to provide even better service.
Since that day, Old Army Lou has done as much for the Aggies as its possible
for a man of his means to do. A few examples will prove the point.
He sells books on the rental system. A student pays 95 cents to $1.95 rent, plus
a deposit on the book. When brought back to Lou at the end of the semester, the
deposit is returned if the book is still on the current book list.
At times, when the need becomes evident, Lou has asked professors to give their
time to tutoring students who need help, in order to keep the freshmen at A&M during
their hardest year.
Lou considers the friendship of Aggies and the local community one of his
best assets.
“This is nothing but good business,” said Loupot. “If the Aggies like the way
I do business, they will keep coming back. And they will tell their friends about it,
too.”
Loupot’s'is probably known best as a book store, where the customers don’t
have to pay new book prices, but can usually find used books at much better rates
However, all books are University approved.
Aside from the book business, Lou has a complete line of name-brand clothing,
both for civilian students and Corps men. A complete line of accessories are also found
at Lou’s and he will not be beat on prices. He has the brass, belts, shoes, extra uni
forms, school supplies, and room furnishings that the beginning Aggie needs.
The reason Lou can offer such low prices is obvious. There are no high over
head costs to pay, no set amount to be given to outside interests.
“I do business to give the Aggies the best value possible,” Loupot said. “When
an Aggie needs help, I will give it to him individually.”
The tradition of Loupot will live as long as Aggies exist. For he has helped
them, and they have in turn helped him. A mutual trust and a mutual interest such
as this cannot help benefit past, present, and future Aggies.
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ously parading into the coli
seum.”
It is the world’s largest mili
tary band, the Fightin’ Texas
Aggie Band.
Band directors all over the
country have been known to stop,
stare and say aloud, “How I wish
my band could do that.”
THE CADETS’ formula for
success is, however, anything but
a well-kept secret. The fact is
that complete mastery of the
Aggie technique is possible only
in an organization like the A&M
Band.
Without previous warning, how
many bands could assemble their
entire marching contingent in gi
formation with instruments and
music at any hour of the day or
night? Not so many to be sure. ^ •
But a combination of obedience
alertness and strict marching
discipline combined with the fact
that the Aggie Band lives to
gether makes this possible in the
250-piece organization.
ONE OF THE remarkable facts
about the band is that it exists
at an institution where there is
no school of music. No scouting
program is carried out by the
band’s director, Lt. Col. E. V.
Adams.
Practice, obedience and desire
go into making the Cadets what
they are. The band lives, works
and plays together, enabling
them to strive that much harder
for those they know the best.
Adjoining the four-story dor
mitory which houses the band is
an actual-size football field used
exclusively to work out the pre
cision drills.
SINCE ALL members of the
band must also be members of
the A&M Corps of Cadets, uni
forms are not among problems
the band encounters. Band mem
bers wear the only distinctive
unit insignia on the campus, the
band lyre.
The Band is divided into two
company-sized outfits for con
venience of Corps administration.
The Maroon Band and the White
Band take turns appearing at
yell practices, basketball games
and other affairs at which the
entire band would be too bulky.
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FIGHTIN’ TEXAS AGGIE BAND
... in their famous marching: “T” formation during a halftime performance.
A Shine For
POLISHING SULLY
Though they don’t get the
same amount of publicity,
the great number of small
er, day-to-day traditions
make Texas A&M one of
the most unique schools in
the world. A group of en
thusiastic freshmen is
shown here polishing the
Statue of Lawrence Sulli
van Ross, which stands in
front of the Academic
Building in the center of
the campus, before a big
weekend.
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