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Published Weekly by Tarleton Students
31ST YEAR
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950 .
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NEW GRASSBURR ASSISTANTS—Four of the departmental editors added to tfie Grass-
burr staff iast week are Herb Seigler, Mary Russell, Bill Kirkpatrick, John Walker, and
Jane Hieks, Only other senior on the staff, other than Editor-in-Chief Bill Nix, is Dorothy
Corder, the new Feature Editor.
LAND ELECTED •
FFA PRESIDENT
FOR 1950 TERM
Norvis Land, acting president
of the FFA, was elected and sworn
in for the year at-a recent meeting
of the Tarleton FFA Collegiate
Chapter.
_ Elected also were Bill Kii-kpat-
rich o*-' San Saba, vice-president;
John Walker, Breckenridge, secre-
tary; Herb Seigler of Matador,
treasurer, Lawrence Patton, Sun-
down, sentinel; Andy Smith, Llano,
parlimentarian, and . Dale Draper,
Fort Worth, reporter for the chap-
ter.
Historian James Adams of San
Sab-t was re-elected.
It was agreed that the chapter
would meet on the first Monday of
every month at 0:30 p.m. in Room
(i of the Agriculture Building-.
CALENDAR
Tuesday, Oct. 17-~Flying "T" Club
Meeting, 4 p.m., Rec Hall.
Tuesday, Oct. 17—DST Rush Tea,
Little Dining Hall,
Tuesday, Oct. 17—Los Cobb Smok-
er, Rec Hglli
Tuesday, Oct. 17—Barons-Coronas
Meeting, 6:30, f)orm Parlor.
Wednesday, Oct. 18—Lords and
Commoners Smoker, Rec Hall.
Wednesday, Oct. 18—Canterbury
. Club Meeting, 7 p.m., 1055 Van-
derbilt.
Thursday, Oct. 19—OWLS Rush
Tea, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Miss May
' Jones' home.
Thursday, Oct. 19—OWLS-Silver
Keys Rush Dance, 8-10 p.m., Rec
Hall.
Thursday, Oct. 19—Yell Practice,
7:30, in front of Auditorium.
Friday, Oct. 19 — "Aggie" Club
meeting1, 7 p.m., Rec Hall.
Friday, Oct. 20—-Football Game,
Tarleton vs. Midwestern U., 8
Pjm.,,Memorial Field.
NewMembers Added
To Grassburr Staff
A new squad of departmental
editors was added to the staff of
■the Grassburr. last week following
approval by President Howell of
their appointments.
New staff members are Bill
Kirkpatrick, Cecil Barton, Jane
Hicks, Beth Garrett, Herbert Seig-
ler, John Walker, Dorothy Corder,
Mary Russell'and Marie Ledbetter,
The appointments, announced
Thursday by yearbook editor, Bill
Nix, filled all positions except that
of faculty editor.
The new departmental editors
were appointed by a faculty com-
mittee including J. A. Hart, chair-
man, Gerald Fanning, college busi-
ness manager, Jack Herrington,
architecture prof, and Miss Mattie
Walker, head of the home eco-
nomics department.
. Seven of the new staff members
are seniors.
Kirkpatrick, who will serve as
business manager, is a senior gen-
eral ag major from San Saba, He
is a member of the FFA and served
as parliamentarian last year and
will be vice-president this year,
and was assistant business man-
ager of the Grassburr last year,
Jane Hicks, the new senior class
editor, is a senior from Dublin
majoring in business administra-
tion. She is a Scholarship Society
member and non-athletic f'T" win-
ner, and had the fourth highest
grade point ratio at Tarleton last
year.
Seigler, military editor; is an
acting lieutenant in the cadet
corps and a squad leader in the
Wainwright Rifles. A senior voca-
tional agriculture major from
Matador, he is FFA treasurer.
John Walker, a senior general ag
major from Breckenridge, is secre-
tary of the Tarleton FFA and
played intramural sports last year.
He will serve as sports editor.
Dorothy, feature editor for this
year's Grassburr, is a senior ele-
mentary education major from
Burnet. She' is a member of the
Scholarship Society and an officer
of the Sine Ceras,
Mary, who is a senior social
science major from Stephenville, is
organizations editor. She is a mem-
ber of the OWLS, vice-president of
the Scholarship Society, a BSU
officer, and had a 3.00 grade point
ratio last- semester. She was as-
sociate editor of the Stephenville
High School Yellow Jacket.
The three freghmen, Cecil Bar-
ton, an agriculture major from De
Leon, Beth Garrett, a home eco-
nomics major from Stephenville,
and Marie Ledbetter, a business
major from San Saba, will serve
as assistant business manager,
junior class editor, and assistant
editor, respectively.
CHORUS TO SING
FOR GUEST PROFS
The seventy-voice Tarleton
chorus will make its first appear-
ance of the year Friday, Tha
chorus under the direction of Royal
Brantley will present a varied pro-
gram to the annual English work-
shop of District 11 which will be
held on this campus this year.
One of the numbers presented by
the chorus will be a French folk-
song, "Madame Jeanette," arrang-
ed by. Murrary. This song is an
outgrowth of World War I.
"Jesu, Priceless Treasure," i^
possibly the best-known of Bach's
chorals. It is a very religious piece
of music, and it was in such music
that Bach reached his highest level
of greatness.
"Cindy," is a third number to
be given by the chorus. It is Well-
known as a dance tune. Harry
Robert Wilson's arrangement will
be rendered by the chorus.
English Teachers To
Converge On Campus
Approximately 120 visitors are
expected to attend the annual Dis-
trict 11 English workshop confer-
ence at Tarleton Oct, 20 and 21.
The assemply on this- campus
marks the fourth meeting of the
fiioup.
President I-Iowell will give the
welcome address for the opening
session, .which will begin at 2 p.m.
Friday in the home economics audi-
ta mm. Speakers for this session
include Mrs. Helen Wright of Dan-
New Color Movie
To Be Exhibited
At Next Assembly
"Waves of Green," a 20Tminute
color film, will be shown in the
next assembly to be held in the
main auditorium Thursday at 3:10
p.m.
The sound .movie was produced
by the Ford Mortor Company, and
shows portions which were filmed
in Texas of A&M agricultural ac-
tivities. Filmed last year, the
movie was shown at A&M last
spring where President E. J.
Howell saw it.
The Stewart Cpmpany. of Dal-
las, which Iiqs charge of the film,
will send representatives to show
it to the students and faculty of
Tarleton.
The film shows the development
of agriculture in America, and is
being shown on the campus to
educate students in appreciating
the art of agriculture and its rela-
tion to each student and the life
for which he is preparing, Dean
Paul A. Cunyus said recently.
Can Reveals New
Nature of Public
"Generous, gullible, and some-
times dishonest" was the label
given the American public by
. Tarleton architect George Sea-
born after his collecting experi-
ence last week.
He had a five-gallon can in
his hand as he walked over the
ag building project, and a work-
er dropped some pennies in "to
make it rattle." Others, think-
ing the Canadian-born architect
was taking' up contributions,
added nickels and. dimes.
Always a man for a joke,
Seaborn set the can beside th£
construction office and, placed
beside it a' placard bearing a
simple, provocative "Please."
Days passed, and the money
in the can increased. Every
night, Seaborn counted iti and
sometimes found LESS than
there had been the. previous
time, but always by the next
morning, the sum would be
greater than before.
The total of $2.76 was turned
over to the Stadium Fund at the
end of the week.
ENROLLMENT .
CLIMBS TO 899
Tarleton has three men for every
girls, final enrollment figures
showed last week. Total enrollment
figure for the fall term reached
899.
Of this number 684 are men and
215 are women. The total enroll-
ment figure includes 64 veteran
students, one of which is a woman.
Thirty-four students are enroll-
ed in night classes.
of Bangs High School, Mrs. June
Guyer of Brownwood High School,
and V. C. Windsor of San Angelo
Junior College.
Following a tea, a former Tarle-
ton student; Miss Marguerite Kelso
of Big Lake-High School, will dis-"
cuss "General Trends." Dr. Troy
C, Crenshaw of Texas Christian
University, will discuss corrected
themes.
"A St:id?nt's Progress in English
Courses and Other Courses" is the
topic for the Saturday morning
meeting which begins at 8 a.m.
Leading in the discussion will be
Mrs. Lucille Duke of De Leon High
School .and Yantis Robinett of
Howard Payne College, A general
discussion will be under the direc-
tion of Mrs. J. B. Shannon of May
High School.
Robinett went to school with
Miss Do.'lio Marie Glover, profes-
sor of.English, While he was
teaching a'eourse in Milton at Tex-
as Technological College, he had
Miss Mary Hope Westbrook, head
of Tarlfcton's English department,-
as one o: his students.
The workshop, called the Mayo
plan, originated several years ago
when Dr. Thomas Franklin Mayo,
head of the English department
at Texas A&M,''was made chair-
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JUNIORS PICK
LINDSAY, MOHAN
TO HEAD CLASS
Joe Lindsay and Mac Mohan
were elected to head the jtiniot
class in the class meeting Thurs-
day, Octobr 12.
Other officers chosen were Pau-
la Lassiter as secretary; Marilyn
Reimer as class treasurer, and Dan
Hudson as reporter.
The meeting Thursday com-
pleted, Student Council members
chosen were Nancy Calloway, Bet-
ty Fry, Oren Ellis, and Carl
Shaffer.
Dr. O. A. Grant and Miss Dor.
othy Pit nnan were chosen as class
sponsors with Dick King and Mi$s
Mary Hope Westbrook alternates.
A committee, appointed to dis-
cuss class rings, included Frances
Carlton, Paula Lassiter, Nan Bur-
rows and Glenn Stakes.
Freedom Scrolls
Find 800 Signers
Eight hundred students and fac-
ulty members signed Freedom
Scrolls Tuesday through Friday to
conclude "Crusade for Freedom
Week' on the campus. Contribu-
tions netted $5.27.
The scrolls bearing the signa-
tures were- signed by cadets in
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
military science classes, by girls
living in the dormitories at a Tues-
day night house meeting, and -by
other students in the' Rec hall,
where a table was manned by the
Student Council.
Scrolls were sent to the faculty
by departments.
NOTICE
The regular Reading Hour will
not; be held next Thursday after-
noon at 4:00 as scheduled, accord-
ing- to Mr, Jeff Ray Davis, instruc-
tor of English. At that time mem-
bers of the English department
will be making preparations for
the English Workshop beginning
October 20.
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