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College Station, Texas
Thursday, August 18, 1966
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Corps Publication
4 Cadence’ Gives
Facts About A&M
L. D. WYTHE JR.
A&M Prof
To Judge
In France
L. D. Wythe Jr., of the Texas
A&M Department of Animal
Science has been invited to serve
as one of three official cattle
judges for the International
Charolais Show Aug. 31-Sept. 3
at Vichy, France.
He will be the first American
to judge at the event, which is
the largest Charolais cattle show
in France.
Wythe also will participate in
the International Charolais Con
ference to be held Sept. 3 in con
junction wtih the show. Purpose
of the meeting is to discuss
Charolais type and research.
The assistant professor is
widely known for his livestock
judging abilities and has served
at major shows in Texas and
other states. He has coached
A&M livestock teams that have
won first places at the Inter
national Livestock Exposition in
Chicago, the American Royal
Livestock Show at Kansas City,
the National Western Livestock
Show at Denver, and the South
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show at Fort Worth.
Wythe said the invitation to
the Charolais show in France
came while he was judging
Charolais cattle during the Hous
ton Livestock Show last winter.
Jefferson Davis was the first
man offered the presidency of
Texas A&M.
Marvin Minims wrote the famed
“Spirit of Aggieland” in 1925 dur
ing his junior year.
Texas A&M has the tallest flag
pole in Texas — 101 feet.
A Tea Sipper is a student at
the University of Texas.
These and other facts are dis
closed in the “Cadence,” a seg
ment of the “Standard,” publish
ed by Texas A&M’s Corps of
Cadets. It contains rules govern
ing Cadet Corps life and history
of A&M.
The “Cadence,” first published
in 1942, was an offshoot of World
War II. Members of the 1941-42
Senior Class realized the war
would seriously disturb A&M tra
ditions and practices, and decided
to develop a formal handbook.
Task of gathering data for the
book fell to Tom S. Gillis Jr.,
now president of Arrowhead Tool
Company in Houston. Gillis stud
ied similar books from the U. S.
Military Academy, U. S. Naval
Academy, and the Citadel. In
April, 1942, he persuaded the Ex
ecutive Committee of A&M to
grant full semester credit for his
final semester, and began working
full-time on the publication.
The book’s name was suggested
by Gillis’s mother as an indication
of direction and tempo for college
life. A photograph of the favor
used for the 1942 Ring Dance
provided the cover.
Graduation day came and Gillis
missed his hour upon the stage.
He was to give the valedictory ad
dress. E. L. Angell, assistant to
the president, dictated the speech
to Mrs. Willie Mae Shepperd, now
class secretary for the Association
of Former Students. Fred Smit-
ham, a Dallas realtor today, read
the address as Gillis’ stand-in.
Gillis terms his malady “lucky”
because he whizzed through a
mass of editing and dictating. He
praises Angell and Mrs. Shepperd
with major roles in completing
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LONG-DISTANCE COMPUTING
IBM systems engineers Bill Conner, seated, and Bob Ander
son, right, demonstrate remote terminal computer opera
tions for Dr. John C. Calhoun, vice president for programs
at Texas A&M. Problem solving and information retrieval
is achieved by standard telephone circuitry through a 7094
computer in Phoenix, Ariz. Terminal demonstrations are
part of a six-week Electronics Information Processing
course under way at A&M.
PAKDNER
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823-8626
We are again pleased to an
nounce our staff for the school
year;
KINDERGARTEN
Mrs. Sue Allbaugh
Five year olds
PLAYSCHOOL
Mrs. Donna Whitt
Three and Four year olds
TODDLERS
Miss Lois Baker
18 mos. to three years
INFANTS
Mrs. Carolyn Collins
Owner, Mrs. Larry Jones, R«N.
the publication. With Walter
Cardwell, now a Lockhart cattle
man, Angell and Mrs. Shepperd
applied finishing touches during
the summer after Gillis marched
off to war. Cardwell was Corps
Commander in 1943.
Of approximately 20 contribu
tors to “Cadence,” Gillis remem
bers E. E. McQuillen, who wrote
of A&M’s history and provided
numerous pictures; First Lt. Joe
Davis, who later headed A&M’s
Military Science Department as
Col. Joe Davis; Dick Hervey, class
president and now a College Sta
tion banker; Joe Skiles, then di
rector of student publications; the
late President T. O. Walton, and
the late Col. M. D. Welty, com
mandant of the Corps of Cadets.
Firearms Safety
School Scheduled
Area boys and girls will begin
training in firearms and hunter
safety at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 3, ac
cording to Sid Loveless, National
Rifle Association counselor. The
school will continue through the
succeeding two months at Plea
sant Acres for youngsters be
tween the ages of 11 and 19.
This year’s school marks the
beginning of the 32nd school con
ducted by the Twin City Junior
Rifle Club under the auspices of
the National Rifle Association and
YOU-TOMORROW, a non-profit
educational corporation for the
benefit of youth. Although em
phasis will be placed on marks
manship and safety, the class will
have an opportunity to fire the
.22 shotgun on the Mo-Skeet
range at minature clay pigeons
thrown by foot operated traps.
For the hunter there will be
instruction in tenting, cooking and
orienteering. Graduates of the
school will receive certificates and
will be eligible for selection to
membership in the Twin City
Junior Rifle Club Loveless said.
Rifles, ranges, texts, ammuni
tion and instruction will be fur
nished. All the student need
bring is a canteen of water and
wear a long-sleeved garment.
Chief instructor for the school
will be Jack Trammel, and he will
be assisted by Dr. Mack Prescott,
Jim Durham, Bernard Colvin,
David Gay, David Furr, and Jack
Bowen.
Ag College
Gets Grant
The Texas A&M College of
Agriculture has received a re
search grant from Salsbury
Laboratories of Charles City,
Iowa, to study the effect of
dimetridazole in turkey breeder
hen diets.
Dr. R. E. Patterson, dean of
the College of Agriculture, said
the project is being conducted
by Dr. J. R. Couch of the Depart
ment of Poultry Science.
Dimetridazole is a drug used
for prevention and treatment of
blackhead in turkeys. It is
marketed as Emtryl in tablet
and soluble powder form, and
Emtrymix in feed-additive form.
The compound has been cleared
for blackhead treatment by the
Food and Drug Administration.
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