The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 15, 1947 Page: 2 of 4
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THE H-SU BRAND
Saiurday November 15. 1947
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EDITORIALS....
It's a very special privilege to have School of Mines
students as visitors on our campus today and we welcome
the opportunity to see the Mucker band and the Gold
Diggers in action at Pair Park stadium tonight.
Wc hope your visit hero will serve to make even bet-
ter the good Tclatioriship that exists between our schools.
Stake your claim to hospitality anywhere on the Cowboy
campus today and may the better team win on the grid-
iron tonight. P.J.
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tadition and JlomtcambUf
Today is Homecoming day at Hardin-Simmons Uni-
versity. 'It has been an annual tradition since before
1920.
Homecoming 'day is set aside so that old acquaintances
.can get together and so we can show off just what Har-aih-Simmons
stands for freedom of religion speech
andNll those things so vital to a democratic form of
government. Education has been and will remain essen-
tial to the maintainence of the America wc know.
Wo are proud of the alumni of Hardin-Simmons and
what they have contributed to the school. We want
them to bo proud of the university from which they
graduated.
Tonight at Fair Park stadium the Cowboy band and
the Cowgirls will parade during half-time. Heading the
parade will be the American flag. Wc like it that way.
We like it to be known that Hardin-Simmons proudly
upholds the traditional American ideals of freedom of
thought free enterprise and freedom to choose our own
social group. George Hine.
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ZticptU 4b Spmctafou
The most deplorable thing that can happen at a foot-
ball game is for some smart aleck sitting in the stands to
boo or otherwise make light of an opposing team's players.
This is becoming more of a problem with each passing
season. It happened just recently between two teams
playing here and it was not only the crowd in the stands
but the pep leaders themselves.
This is really pathetic. When someone throws slur-
ring remarks at a player or team they only show their
discourtesy. Our Cowboys took tha same treatment this
year on one of their trips. I'm almost sure thafno one
here wants that. It can be disheartening to a weary
player to hear some one throwing his wit around.
When two teams meet on the field of battle they are
there to give their best for our entertainment. It's all our
show so it seems that instead of giving them nasty digs
we should cheer them. This will not only make the boys
feel better but it will lead to a better understanding
and feeling between the two schools. Then there is an-
other Bide to the problem. When a team visits us here
we may boo them and razz them good ; but it must be
remembered that our boys play that team's town next
year and they may repay us fourfold. We don't want
this do wot
We should all get together and cheer instead of razz.
No matter if it's football or some other game. Let's show
our appreciation by cheering when a player makes a good
showing of himself. We should all know enough to cheer
a manwhen he gets hurt. When a man goes out and gives
his all and is hurt in the effort it seems only fair that he
be greeted by cheers when ho is carried off the field.
Think this over and the next time you are at a game
try cheering a little harder. You will be rewarded by a
much greater effort from the team. There is also the
possibility that this may-help to make a much cleaner
game on the gridiron. D.M.
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If the Freedom Train is a good idea for reminding the
nation of the basic principles and doctrines on which our
country is founded the same idea might hold true in a
smaller sense for Hardin-Simmons.
Apparently we need to review our school constitution
and fix its provisions a little more firmly in mind.
In past years from time to time the Brand published
the student constitution and amendments cither as a unit
or in installments. Perhaps we need this again although
available space and the quantity of timely news material
seems to make it impractical. Hereafter prior to any
student activity provided for in the constitution we will
strive to publish a summary of the provisions applicable
to the particular situation. F.J.
A Weekly College Newspaper published every Saturday
during the term by the Hardin-Simmons Press Club in the
interest of the Student Body of Hardin-Simmons University.
Entered as' Second Class mail matter June 22 1917 at the
Post Office at Abilene Texas under Act of March 3 1879.
.$1-00
Subscription Price Both Semesters
Advertising Rates on Request
Editorial Office: Rose Field House west side Hickory
Street Circle. ' '
Downtown Office: 241 Hickory Street
Telephones: 7871 4627 and S231
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Associate Edilors-
EsMttial Assist ts..
parts Editor
Helm Jean Bond
- Wayland Yates
Jan Dlckarson
David Bos!
Duane Saadlln
Mute Editors..
JUHflUtw Editors
rMfcuv Editor-
Jl iiteat Business Manager
VHmw Editor
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David Garrett
Estos Joaaa
Betty Dollar
Itena Williams
-Cary Has Button
..George Hlae Jr.
Robert Kaox
Wiggins Homecoming
Speaker Is H-SU Grad
And Former Dean Here
By WAYLAND YATES
A man with a multitude of in-
terests from administrating a col-
lege to following sports events is
Dr. D. M. Wiggins president of
the Texas College of Mines and
Metallurgy who was to speak
during the opening exercises of
Hardin-Simmons' annual Home-
coming celebration in Bchrens
chapel at 10 a.m. today.
Educators refer to him as one
of the most dynamic personalities
in the Texas field of education. A
member of Rotary International
and active in religious work he
is constantly in demand as speak-
er for commencement exercises
chamber of commerce and other
civic meetings young people's
gatherings and educational pro-
grams. Dr. -Wiggins takes a lively in-
terest in all types of sports. While
at H-SU he never missed an in-
tercollegiate contest and was one
of the leading advocates of intra-
mural athletics. A golf enthu-
siast he strokes a better than
average amateur round.
Dr. and Mrs. Wiggins H-SU
alumni were to arrive in Abilene
Friday morning and be house
guests of President and Mrs. Ru-
pert N. Richardson during the
Homecoming week-end.
Walton Pays Tribute
The educator's poised and pleas-
ing manner his bouyant and witty
personality his warm friendship
and ability as a story teller adapt
him to any audience. "It I were
going to be exiled to Siberia and
could take one person along I'd
take that man" asserts W. T.
Walton dean of students at H-
SU. "No man in America is more
keenly alive to all that goes on in
the fields of society and educa-
tion." A naturaUy energetic and
hard-working man Dr. Wiggins
launched the Miners school on an
extensive program of expansion
and construction following his
appointment as president of the
institution.
During his administration the
campus has been improved and
enlarged to more than twice its
former size. Four new build-
ings including a new adminis-
tration building and library have
been constructed. Enrollment has
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Thought For The Week
It's only a dime. I'm not on
speaking terms with the butcher.
I'm too small to buy a pint of ice
cream. I'm not large eno"Ugh to
purchase a box of candy. I can-
not be exchanged for a gallon of
gas. I'm hardly fit for a tip but
believe me when I go to church
bn Sunday I'm considered some
money.
increased approximately 25 per
cent.
The School of Mines president
is a member of the Baptist Church
and has long been prominent in
religious activities. While in Abi-
lene he taught Sunday School
classes in the First Baptist Church
and has continued that work in
an El Paso church.
In 1943 in recognition of his
success as an educator and his
leadership In the field of college
education he was awarded an
honorary LLB degree by Hardin-
Simmons University.
Dr. Wiggins was born on a
ranch in Hemphill County Texas.
After an elementary education he
attended the Canadian Baptist
Academy and Goodnight Junior
College.
He enrolled in Simmons College
in 1916 and was a member of tha
basketball tennis and debating
teams winning Texas state ora-
torical honors one year.
Graduated with Honors
After dropping out of school
for one year to serve in the Army
during World War I he returned
to f Simmons to receive his BA
degree in 1919 graduating magna
cum laudc.
He was then employed in the
Canadian public schools where
he served five years as principal
coach and superintendent. Re-
signing that position the Mines
president entered Yle where he
was granted his MA in education
in 1924. After a year of grad-
uate work in the University of
Chicago he became dean of stu-
dents and professor of education
in Simmons College.
The former Simmons dean ob-
tained a leave of absence in 1929
and re-entered Yale to receive
his Ph. D. in June 1930. Resum-
ing his duties at Simmons he
served in the same capacity until
Sept. 1 1935 when he was ap-
pointed president of the School
of Mines at El Paso.
-Dorothy Crabtree
So They Say
Almost everyone has a favorite popular song; and there's always
a special reason for liking it. Here are the answers of several
Hardin-Simmons students when asked
What is your favorite popular song and why?
Jay Ingram: You Do because it is the theme song of the girl
to whom I will be engaged.
Belty and Mary Pose: We like Civilization because it's crazy
like we are.
Louie Beam: Woodchopper's Ball sends me. It's wonderful.
Patty Davis: I Want to Be Loved is my favorite song for obvious
reasons.
Doris Reid: I Can't Get Off My Horse is the song I like. Prob-
ably because I like riding so much.
Mary Len Smith: There's No One But You gets my vote. It
brings back wonderful memories.
Richard Harris: I don't like any of the popular songs at all.
Jessie Myers: Always will always be my favorite popular song.
It's so sweet.
"Tooter" Hampton: The Old Grey Mare is first on my hit
parade. I like to hear it more than any other song and especially
at football games.
Melba Cook: I just love You Do. I associate it with so many
swell kids. -
.Charles Tandy: Begin the Beguine is much better than the
current popular tunes. I like- it because of its percussion effects.
. 'Margaret Rhodes: I just love Near You especially the recording
in which the piano is featured.
George Kennedy: I surely like the beat of Tommy Dorsey's
Boogie Woogie.
Mickey Johnston: Fishing for the Moon by Vaughn Monroe gets
my vote. I like that deep mellow sweet voice.
Bill Damon: Green Eyes Ah that South American rhythm!
Wilma Martin: You Do. It reminds me of someone.
Jo Kirk: Sentimental Reasons oh those memoriesl
Charles Sorrell: Civilization. It expresses my thoughts on the
subject.
Pat Storey: Green Eyes for sentimental reasons.
Wayland Yates: When You're a Long Long Way From Home.
It was my favorite 'song overseas.
Mary Sommervllle: Sentimental Reasons the reason Is self-
explanatory. . J
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The H-SU Post Office sub-station
does a thriving business as
its $898.79 stamp sales for the
month of October indicates but
perhaps more important is the
link it forms between students
and their "home folks."
Addresses Interesting
Four hundred forty-nine Iock
boxes are shared by '807 students
and between 75 and 100 students
call for (and sometimes receive)
mail at the general delivery win-
dow. Putting up mail for that
many students twice a day might
become quite boresome says Mrs.
Browder H-SU post mistress if it
weren't for the interesting ad-
dresses on some of the letters
such as "Miss Shallowbrain c-o
Box " "Miss Willowbrat c-o
Box " "Mr. Hardin-Simmons"
"Simmons High School" "Rupert
Richardson Assistant to the Presi-
dent" etc.
Other interesting incidents in
the H-SU post office have been
the time that a student received
a couple of cans of honey which
were crushed in transit liberally
spreading the mail bags and the
office with the sticky stuff. Then
there was the time a student's
IDrs Beard Registrar
Senes In many Ways
By ETTA JANE STEPHENSON
The woman who greets you in
the Registrar's office of H-SU
when you have a problem about
your major or minor whether or
not you will graduate next June
or whether or not your credits
have arrived from another school
is more than likely to be the
genial and friendly Mrs. J. A.
Beard Registrar of H-SU.
Mrs. Beard entered Simmons
College as a student in the spring
of 1924.- She began working in
the Dean of Students office under
Dr. D. M. Wiggins who was at
that time Dean of Students and
who is now president of the Texas
School of Mines at El Paso. Mrs.
Beard was later assigned to do
work in the registrar's office un-
der Miss Ivy Rhodes registrar.
When Mrs. Beard entered Sim-
mons she had no idea of working
toward a degree. She was regis-
tered as a special student and she
was taking only one or two
courses but Dean Wiggins urged
Mrs. Beard to work toward a de-
gree. She received her B. A. de-
gree from Hardin-Simmons in
1935.
In the fall of 1935 the office
of the registrar became vacant.
At the request of President J. D.
Sandcfer Mrs. Beard accepted an
appointment as temporary regis-
trar of H-SU and she has held
that position for the past 12 years.
By MARIE ROSS
thoughtful parents sent a barbe-
cue all the way from Arkansas
(in mid-summer) the smell
would have weakened the strong-
est of constitutions and the time
a student's boy friend sent her
a paper sack full of ripe persim-
mons which obligingly spread
its contents all over the other
packages and letters..
Requests Follow Pattern
Students seem to have little
originality when it comes to ask-
ing questions at the post office
window. "Has the mall come in
yet?" "Is is up?" "Do I have
any?" is the set pattern of con-
versation for most of the cus-
tomers. "Seriously though" says Mrs.
Browder "putting up the mail for
Uncle Sam and passing it out for
the students is a comparatively
pleasant job and its drawbacks
are paid for in full by the smile
on a student's face at the sight
of a letter addressed to him or
her."
MEET THE SENIOR
By WILMA MARTIN
Being president of the Dallas Club member of Cowgirls and
treasurer of the senior class just about takes up all of Dorothy
Featherston's time. This English and psychology major graduated
from Sunset High School Dallas in 1942. Her
minor is Bible.
She likes the color blue finds soft sweet
music very soothing and loves to eat hambur-
gers and enchiladas. She is interested in play-
ingtennis and watching football and basketball
games. Most of her leisure time is spent in the
H-SU business office. She admires sincerity
most in people and is very much engrossed in
her family.
She isn't going steady but may often be
seen with a certain fellow named Norman. She
likes good jokes and is very apt at telling them too. She isn't
sure about what she will be doing after graduation but she might
be an English teacher.
fRounding Up QThe Strays
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One couple who will become a
permanent twosome Nov. 25 are
Freddye Martin and Ed Hudnall.
A recently engaged pair are
Alma Carson and Carl Walker.
Other tha nbeing stars in sports
the guys from Cowden-Paxton
know how to get along with the
fairer sex also. A few of them
listed opposite the present "one
and only" are:
Howard McChesney Pat Mur-
ray. Verne Stamper Irene Roller.
Herman Raphell Jae Massey.
J B. Glbbs Norma Pott.
Dean "Sweetie" Hennlngor
Helen Jo Graham.
J. D. "Splc" Kirby Barbara
Lopes.
Hugh Higgins Barbara Gor-
man. Moe Hedrick Edith Esmond.
Paul Bailey Wistie Reid.
Joe England Loulso Cole.
Scene around the campus: Mel-
vin Smith Buss Nodge Glen Sut-
ton and Frank Bounds working
out dally on the tennis courts
prospects look good. . . . Corlis
Holt and Leo Reynolds working
In the press box at the game
vTuesday. . . . Red leaves coats
and bright sweaters since cool
weather arrived. . . . Alice Os-
borne and Dorothy Harber hav-
ing a coke together. . . . Cheer-
leader and Mrs. Bob Erwln en
joying the colored football game
Saturday night. . . . Seen at th(
Armistice day parade: Bob and"
Howard McChesney Al Johnson.
Dalmon McNair. Jack Ellison the
Mason brothers. ... Jo Grant
having fun in chemistry lab. . . .
Earl Dry and his camera on the
sidelines at the Raider-Cowboy
game.
Things we like: Dick Busse's
friendly smile. ... Mr. Briggs'
sense of humor. . . . Norma Knlf-
fen's twirling. ... Hot coffee In
the bookstore on cold mornings.
. . . That bright green shirt of
Nolan Harvey's. ... The broadcast
Dr. Richardson and Prof. Bond
did Tuesday night. . . . Dorothy
Crabtroe's posters and cartoons.
... The prospect of a basketball
gome in the field house soon. . . .
Mary Ruth Gentry's singing. . . .
Having exes and Mines visitors
on our campus today. . . . Nancy
Mallet's individuality. . . . Those
little red corduroy hats every
one's wearing. . . . Virginia Duna-
gan's portrayal of Mother Fisher
in "The Show-off." ... The al-r
ways courteous service Joan FreeF
man gives In the-bookstore. . . .
Those appetizing smells drifting
from Mrs. Tomme's home ec lab.
. . . The idea of a standardized
design for H-SU class rings. . . .
Heard around the campus: The
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