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Some of the more than 5,000 students seem to form a “boot line” on the lawn in front of the System Administration Building as they observe Muster ceremonies Monday for Aggies who have died while on campus, within the country, and in Vietnam. HONORED One of the honored guests at Muster is Lawrence W. Wallace of Davenport, Iowa, president of the class of ’03 and leader of the march on the university president that year that established the Muster tradition. With him are Student Senate president Bill Carter and A&M President Earl Rudder, right. Ross Volunteer rifles stand at ease, awaiting the command to execute a 21-gun salute, honoring for a final time departed com rades. After the volley came silver taps and ‘Auld Lang Syne’, by the A&M Singing Cadets. (Muster photos by Bob Stump) Attorney Scorns Civil Disobedience By TONY HUDDLESTON Civil disobedience is an assault on our democratic society, an affront to our legal order and an attack on our Constitutional government, Houston attorney and Aggie-ex Mayo Thompson declared Monday at Aggie Mus ter. “To indulge in civil disobedience is to invite anarchy,” Thompson, a 1941 graduate, said. More than 5,000 persons at tended the campus Muster held in front of the System Adminis tration Building, the largest of the traditional San Jacinto Day ceremonies at 500 sites through out the world. Thompson attacked the radicals who are currently advocating dis obedience and praised the law and order and democracy of this coun try. “THERE IS NO man who is above the law, and there is no man who has a right to break the law,” Thompson declared. “Civil disobedience is not above the law, but against the law. When the civil disobedient dis obeys the law, he subverts all law. “When the civil disobedient says that he is above the law, he is saying that democracy is beneath him. His disobedience shows a distrust for the demo cratic system.” "Now or never, law must assert its supremacy,” he added. “At this high tide in human events, it must for today and for pos terity, be established that at all ROLL CALL Head yell leader Bill Youngkin calls the roll of 35 Aggies who died with in the past year. costs domestic disorder and vio lence will not be tolerated; that the shameful abuse of the Consti tutional rights of the peaceful majority by the shameless, dis sonant, and vicious will no longer be countenanced; and that this nation under God, shall be gov erned by law.” A special guest at the Muster was Lawrence W. Wallace, of Iowa, president of the class of ’03 and leader of a march that year on the institution’s president demanding the San Jacinto Day observance which transpired into Muster. “IT WAS WORTH all the ef fort,” Wallace exclaimed as he looked over the crowd gathered for Muster. The ceremony also included a presentation of a plaque to the university by John H. LeClair, national commander of the Ameri can Defenders of Bataan and Cor- regidor. The plaque lists the names of Aggies killed or im prisoned when the Japanese over ran the Philipines at the start of World War II. LeClair was ac companied by Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jerome A. McDavitt of San An tonio, a 1933 A&M graduate and active ADB&C member. McDavitt displayed an Ameri can flag made by the defenders of Corregidor and Bataan to show their love for their country. “Shortly before the end of World War II, American planes dropped red, white, and blue para chutes containing food,” McDavitt said. “It was the first American food we had received in three and a half years, and to show our gratitude to our country, we con structed the flag.” PHIL CALLAHAN, Aggie Mus ter chairman, said that he was pleased that the Muster went so smoothly, and that he thought that Thompson was an eloquent speaker who presented a mean ingful message. The new junior members of the Ross Volunteers participated for the first time in the Muster by executing a 21-gun salute. Thirty-five Aggies were named on the Roll Call for the absent at the Muster, including 16 who had died in Vietnam this year. Those Aggies who died in Viet nam during the past year were Major Teddy Tomchesson, ’52; Lt. John C. Dougherty, ’65; Capt. Thomas Ralph, ’62; Lt. Colin E. Lamb, ’64; Lt. James Neely, ’66; Lt. Stephen Tubre, ’66; and Lt. Col. Elden Golden, ’50. Other Vietnam casualties in cluded Lt. Jose C. Santos, ’65; Capt. Jack Patrick Blake, ’66; Capt. Gerald J. Walla, ’61; Capt. (See Attorney, Page 3) PF Will Present Candidates Candidates for president and vice president of the Student Sen ate will have a chance to present their platforms to the student body Wednesday at 2 p. m. The informal rally, sponsored by the Political Forum, will be Andy Scott, Garry Mauro and A1 Reinert, the three can didates for president of the student body, will each give a 3-minute talk on their respec tive platforms on the “Aggie Hour,” a KORA radio program at 10:10 p. m. tonight. Show host Ron Hinds said each can didate will also field three phoned-in questions from the listening audience. conducted on the grass lot be tween Guion Hall and the Memo rial Student Center, according to University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. committee member Larry Cer- venka. “Each candidate will have about five minutes to present his views and then there will be a question and answer period,” Cervenka said. The presentation will be mode rated by Ron Hinds, chairman of Political Forum. Candidates for president are Garry Mauro, A1 Reinert and Andy Scott. Vice presidential candidates are Gerald Geistweidt and Bill Holt. Bait Will Publish Senate Interviews The Battalion will publish transcribed interviews with Stu dent Senate presidential candi dates Garry Mauro, A1 Reinert and Andy Scott, stating their positions on major election issues, in the Wednesday edition. €bc Battalion VOLUME 64 Number 102 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1969 Telephone 845-2226 ’70 Commanders Named In Wings, Brigades, Band | Civilians Honor Faculty, | | Students, To Begin 6 Week’ j The Civilian Student Council Monday honored eight faculty leaders and a similar number of civilian students to kick off the university’s first “Civilian Stu dent Week.” Council President David Wilks of Pampa presented “Faculty- Student Relation” awards to the recipients at a noon luncheon in the Memorial Student Canter. Receiving the new awards, first of their type, were Dr. How ard Gravett, biology; Dr. James L. Rand, aerospace engineering; Dr. G. M. Gowing, veterinary medicine; Dr. Manuel M. Daven port, philosophy; Horace W. Van Cleave, entomology; James H. March III, architecture; Miss Barbara J. Davis, marketing, and Fred E. Smith, geology. FACULTY members were hon ored for outstanding academic achievements, as well as their personal relationships with stu dents, Wilks described students re ceiving certificates as “leaders in the civilian student body and having achieved distinguished student status,” while serving in a “significant leadership posi tion.” Honored students were Roger S. Knapp, Corpus Christi; James M. Looney, Dallas; Paul W. Gos- nell, McAllen; David T. Maddox, College Station; John E. Clark, Marshall; James R. Turley, Lub bock; Lome A. Davis Jr., Wich ita Falls, and Ernest E. Godsey, San Antonio. The special luncheon was at tended by Civilian Student Coun cil Executive Committee mem bers and recipients, plus several guests. HOWARD S. PERRY, resi dence hall adviser, pointed out the week-long emphasis will in clude mud football games, greas ed pig chases and dances. Activities will be held daily. Tuesday had been named “Res idence Hall Day,” with open house scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. in Davis-Gary, Walton and Leg gett Halls. Egg throwing and molasses-drop contests will be held at 6 p.m. in the quadrangle opposite Sbisa Dining Hall. “Activity Day’’ highlights Wednesday with various activi ties planned, including a mud football tournament from 5:30 to 8 p.m. behind the Civil Engineer ing Building. “GET OUT to Vote Day” will be observed Thursday with gen eral elections to be held. Pool, spades and chess tournaments will be at 8 p.m. in the MSC. Friday has been set aside for Aggies to get their dates on campus for weekend plans. Saturday, students have plan ned a noon barbecue followed by a greased pig contest, finals for all competitions and the award ing of trophies. Several dances will be held Saturday night including dances in Sbisa Hall and the MSC Ball room. The university has observed “Civilian Student Weekend” dur ing previous years, but the stu dents elected to expand the pro gram to a full week this spring. Fish Drill Team Takes TU Meet The 1969 national champion Fish Drill Team successfully de fended the title of the University of Texas Scabbard and Blade meet. UT President Dr. Norman Hackerman presented the first place overall trophy to George Barrientos of San Antonio, team commander. Second place overall went to the UT Buccaneers, third to Sam Houston State’s Lowman Rifles. The A&M team also collected first place trophies in fancy and basic phases in the Saturday meet. First in inspection was claimed by UT. “There was no question the Fish fancy drill was as good as at Washington, D. C.,” comment ed M a 1 o n Southerland, team sponsor. “The ripple was the best I’ve seen. It won the crowd. The throw came off fine.” Southerland noted the team had to march in a very small working area. He said the team’s 1,020 points, out of a possible 1,100 made it the best basic phase in two years. Overall winner in four com petitions entered this year, the freshmen will march next week end in the LSU meet at Baton Rouge. Bryan Building & Loan Association. Your Sav ing Center, since 1919. BB&L —Adv. AIR FORCE ‘DREAM QUEEN’ Linda Gayle Hubbard of Brady was selected the “Dream Queen” of Air Force ROTC cadets at the Air Force Ball Saturday. The Baylor sophomore, 19, was escorted by sophomore Rod Taylor of Wiesbaden, Germany. Cadets To Assume Positions May 24 Wing, Brigade and Combined Band commanders for the 1969- 70 Corps of Cadets were an nounced Monday night by Matt Carroll, Corps sergeant major and 1969-70 Corps commander. The five juniors who will be major commanders next year are members of the Ross Volunteers, WILLIAM D. REED . . . First Brigade KENNETH W. TRAWICK . . . Second Wing Corps honor company for juniors and seniors. Ken Trawick is next year’s Second Wing commander. The junior mathematics major hails from Chipley, Florida. He is sergeant major of the Fourth Group this year, and served as scholastic corporal of Squadron 12 his sophomore year. He is a distinguished student, and was a member of the SCON A XIV com mittee. He will serve on the RV firing squad next year. WILLIAM DAVID Reed will command the First Brigade for 1969-70. A management major, Reed’s hometown is San Antonio. He is Corps operations sergeant this year, and a member of next year’s RV firing squad. As a sophomore, he was an assistant squad leader in Company F-l. He served as a SCONA XIV dele gate this year. First Wing commander next year is John D. White. White is a political science major and calls Pearsall his hometown. He is this year’s sergeant major for the First Wing, and was its out- (See Cadets, Page 3) EDWIN LAMM . . . Combined Bands