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Thursday, January 25, 2001
NEWS
THE BATTALION
Page 5
Former Battalion editor dies at 82
By Brady Creel
The Battalion
James S. Critz, a 1940 graduate of
Texas A&M and former managing ed
itor of The Battalion, died Jan. 20.
Critz was born Aug. 28, 1918, in
Teague, Texas.
After graduating
from high school,
he entered A&M,
majoring in geolo
gy. He turned 16
just two days be
fore beginning his
freshman year.
“A lot of East
Texas kids in
those days went to A&M,'’ said
Critz’s son, Ward, recalling the
stereotypical socioeconomic dis
parity between men who attended
A&M and the students at the Uni
versity of Texas.
The 1940 A&M yearbook, Long
horn, lists Critz’s involvement at
A&M, which included the geology
club and petroleum geology club.
At that time A&M did not have a
journalism program, but the younger
CRITZ IN 1940
Critz said his father “just had an
affinity for it,” which drew him to
work at the school newspaper.
“Some people do (love to write),”
he said.
Kimberly Critz, Critz’s grand
daughter, is a senior information and
operations management major at
A&M. She remembers her grandfa
ther talking about working at the
newspaper.
“It was one of his fondest memo
ries, being editor,” she said.
Besides her grandfather, she is the
only person in her family to attend
A&M, and she said the University
provided a special connection be
tween them. Kimberly Critz ordered
her own Aggie ring, one of the only
tangible manifestations of that bond,
Wednesday.
“Everything I have done and been
through he remembers, and talking
about it was the only thing that would
light up his face,” she said. “I told
him two weeks ago that I’m getting
to order my ring.”
The 1940 Longhorn listed
Critz’s nickname as “Hymie.”
Kimberly Critz said she remem
bered some of her grandfather’s
Corps friends still calling him that
at reunions, decades after he had
graduated.
“He had hell in Spanish class,”
Kimberly Critz said. “He could not
pass Spanish class for anything, so
they called him ‘Hymie.’ ”
When Critz graduated, he was
commissioned as a second lieutenant
in the U.S. Army field artillery, just
before the dawn of U.S. involvement
in World War II.
“The whole generation went off
and served in the service because the
country was threatened,” Ward Critz
said. “It’s a fascinating group that
was basically just a bunch of kids,
then the country was attacked.”
Ward Critz remembered his fa
ther’s stories of meeting Aggies dur
ing his military service, which took
him to Australia with Gen. Douglas
MacArthur during the war.
“He used to tell a story of meeting
an Aggie in a liquor store in Aus
tralia,” he said.
Critz’s World War II military ser
vice included five amphibious land
ings. He fought in New Guinea,
Nooemfoor and the Philippine Is
lands and was discharged from the
Army in 1946, after the war.
Ward Critz said his father never
forgot his tie to A&M. After he left
the service, Critz maintained contact
with former members of his old
Corps outfit.
“His best friend was an Aggie
and was killed in Normandy,” he
said. “He always told a story about
getting a letter.”
Critz is eligible to be on the roll
call of this year’s April 21 annual
campus Muster ceremony, said Julie
Weber, Muster Committee subchair
woman for the roll call and a senior
agricultural business major.
Ward Critz said his father was
proud of being an Aggie, and his fam
ily still has his Class of ’40 Aggie ring,
which they have considered adding to
the collection on display at the Clay
ton Williams Jr. Alumni Center.
“Old Aggies have a lot of inter
esting stories about those times,”
Ward Critz said. “It’s hard for people
like us to think about that.
“They are a fascinating group,” he
said. “He was one of the last.”
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