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Volume XXV
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939
NUMBER 13
Club Will Honor Varsity Squad At
Semi-formal Affair At Houston
Light Guard Armory
Featuring the Sanderson Sis-
ters, Frank Williams and his
nationally - known twelve-piece
orchestra will play for the Rally
Club's annual football dance
honoring the varsity to be held
from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. Saturday
at the Houston Light Guard
Armony, Caroline at Truxillo.
Admittance to the semi-formal af-
fair is free to members of the varsity
squad, hut others who wish may come
for $1.50 date or staff.
Committees
Committees from the Rally Club
working on plans for the break-
training dance are Billy Bryant, Bill
Ballew, and Houston Clark, finance;
Harry Albaugh, George Flint, Lee
Capps, Ben Smith, Frank Eidman,
and 0. L. Colley, orchestra and floor;
Thain Leonard, David Famsworth,
and Joe Meyer, bids; Milton Muse,
Hank Hudspeth, and Carey King, con-
cessions; and George Forristall, pub-
licity.
Rally Club members will control
concessions to sell hot dogs, pop corn,
chewing gum, cigarettes, and soda
pop at the dance.
Sweaters Awarded
Continued Service
Reid Presents Awards
To Thirty-Six After
Regular Meeting
Thirty-five members of the Rice
band were awarded sweaters Wednes-
day afternoon at band practice by
Kit Reid, director. To be eligible for
this award, members must have at-
tended all football games, five-sixths
of the rehearsals, baccalaureate and
commencement exercises, and Dr.
Lovett's lawn party.
It was the first time in the history
of the band that these awards were
tnade before the Christmas holidays.
The first-year awards, slip-over
sweaters, were received by Herman
Urech, Dick Hedrick, Larry Prohn,
Micky Johnson, Philip Hardy, Bill
Robin, Buck Wright, Dan Stafford,
Julius Aranofsky, Terry Clark,
Charles Alsworth, Neal Heaps, Bob
Barber, Lewis Taylor, Norman Hue-
ni, Norman Newsome, Tom Evans,
Hagen Taylor, and Jimmy Rosbor-
ough.
Second-year men receiving coat
sweaters were 0. L. Colley, Charles
Mandeville, John Steck, Jerry Dobel-
man, Joseph Sale, Harry Crissman,
Carl Jones, Bill Van Vorst, Bill Rag-
land, Francis Hood, Donald Lang,
Bob Browning, Burt Mast, Arthur
Lftwler, and Warren Simpson.
The Junior award, a pig, was
given to George Thomen.
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Dr, Scott this week released from
the Field House the football schedule
for the 1940 season. The schedule in-
cludes seven home games, three of
which will be played at night.
The schedule follows:
Oct. 5—*Centenary-~Houston.
Oct 12—*L. S. U.—Houston.
Oct. 19—-Tulane-—New Orleans.
Oct. 26—Texas—Houston.
Nov. 2—"Texas A. & I.—Houston
Nov. 9—Arkansas—-Fayettevllle.
Nov. 16—A. and M.—College Sta-
tion.
Oct. 23—T. C, U.—Houston.
Oct. 80—Baylor—Houston,
Dm. 7—S. M. U.—Houston.
♦Night Games.
Rally Club Maestro
Frank Williams
Committee Rushes
Arrangements For
Christmas Program
McCants and Hochuli To
Be Guest Speakers
With Goforth
•J. T. McCants and Paul Hochuli
will be guest speakers at the Dormi-
tory Christmas party beginning at
8 p. m. Wednesday, according to Joe
Meyer, chairman of the dormitory
entertainment committee.
Walter Symonds will be the mas-
ter of ceremonies, and Arthur Go-
forth will speak on "Peace in America
at Yuletide." Symonds, dressed as
Groucho Marx, will lead the Hungry
Five, composed of Symonds, Ivan
Jones, Billy Ross, Walter Bolton, and
Bob Norton, Pappy Clark and his Hill-
billies will also appear on the pro-
gram.
All members of the faculty are in-
ted to attend, and hall residents are
invited to invite dates.
Christmas Decorations
Christmas decorations and a tree
will be appropriate background for
Santa Claus as he slides down the
faculty tower to present nonsensical
presents to the notorious few.
Contributions for refreshments
(hot chocolate and cookies) will be
collected from the hall residents.
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Sopranos, Basses
Resignation For "Best
Interests of All
Concerned"
Whitlow Named Captain; Cordill Wins Trophy
Lou Hertenberger, Rice line coach,
announced his resignation from the
coaching staff as the Thresher went
to press last night.
Hertenberger has been line coach at
Rice for the past ten years, and his
resignation was somewhat of a sur-
prise pending the scheduled meeting
of the committee on outdoor athletics
Friday afternoon.
J. T. McCants, chairman of the
committee, received the resignation
which Hertenberger stated was "for
the best interest of all concerned."
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Mathematicians To
HearBeckenbachAt
Convention In Ohio
Instructor Here Plans
Address For Group
At University
Dr. E, F. Beckenbach, instructor in
mathematics, has accepted an invi-
tation to lecture before the American
Mathematical Society and the Math-
ematical Association of America at
a joint meeting of these groups De-
cember 28-30 at Ohio State Univer-
sity in Columbus.
Absent Seven Years
Dr. Beckenbach will be visiting the
university after an absence of seven
yaars. He studied there in 1932 as a
National Research Council Fellow,
position which he held at Princeton
the year before.
The Saturday morning session will
hear Professor Saunders MacLane of
Harvard, Professor G. T. Whyburn
of the University of Virginia, and
Dr. Beckenbach, whose paper is on
"Space analogues of function-theo-
retic results."
Rado To Lecture
Both Professor Tibor Rado of Ohio
and Professor Karl Monger of Notre
Dame will be heard during the ses-
sions, which will be held in conjunc-
tion with the meetings of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science and the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics.
Professor Rado was at Rice in 1929.
Dr. Beckenbach studied under him at
Ohio. Professor Menger this week
delivered a series of three lectures
at the Institute.
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Writers' Club Meets
Monday at Residence
Of George Williams
Writers' Club will meet at 8 p. m.
Monday at the home of George G.
Williams, sponsor of the club, at 2732
University Blvd/
All members are invited to bring
their manuscripts, according to Grace
Word, president.
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many .
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. . . at the annual R Association foot-1 the Common's
ball bamjuet last Wednesday night in: Whitlow, Owl
[captain of the
mess hall. Kenneth < >1 lit* Cordill
center, w as elected ; George Martin
19-10 Uice s(|uad, and
u> presented
Ward.
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The Rice Choral Club today an-
nounced through its president, Jack
Geldert, that it will admit several
more soprnnoes and basses to its
membership. On the advice of Mr.
Edward Acton, director of the chorus,
it was decided to enlarge these two
section slightly in order to round out
the group for bettor interpretation of
its new selection of songs.
Any voices interested in singing
with the Rice Choral Club for the
spring concerts and for the informal
weekly singing gatherings are invited
to attend tryouts at 7:30 p. m. Mon-
day night, January 8, at Autry House,
at which time, Mr. Acton will hold a
series of tests.
Immediately following the Christ-
mas holidays, there will be a series
of tryouts which must be taken by
every member of the club in order
to preserve the tone and clarity of
the group. Monotones will be elimin-
ated. The club is striving for near
perfection this year. At both of its
fall concerts, at the Art Museum and
the Autry House, the group received
many compliments for its work from
competent critics of music,
Thirty-One Awarded Letter
At R Association Banquet
Faculty To Attend
New Orleans Meet
On December 28-30
Moraud, Meyer, Oberle,
Bourgeois to Speak
At Convention
When the Modern Language Asso-
ciation of America meets in New Or-
leans oil December 28 to 30, the Rice
language department will bo well
represented- Planning to attend the
meeting are Dr. parcel Moraud, Dr.
Carroll Camden. Dr. Alan Dugald
McKillop, Dr. George Wesley Whit-
ing. Amire Georges Bourgeois, Eu-
gene Jean plierle, Walter Peter
Mikseh, Fred , Vernon Shelton, Dr.-
Heinrieh Meyer, Dr. Max Freund, and
Joseph Kstil Jones.
Faculty members who are sched-
uled to make talks at this meeting of
the Modern Language Association of
America are Dr. Meyer, l\J. Oberle,
M. pourgeois and Dr. Moraud, who
will also make a talk at the meet-
ing of the American Association of
teachers of French.
Dramatic Club Will
Try Hand At Carols
At Wednesday Party
Members of I he Dramatic Club will
meet at 7 :.'!0 p. m. Wednesday at Au-
try Mouse to: go cavolling. They will
call on the club's patrons and will
conclude the evening with thoir
Christmas party and tree at the home
of Trl Mowei v.
Whitlow Is Elected i Revival of French
Captain ' Drama Viewed Bv
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Thirty-one men wore awarded
Rice R's at the annual "R" Asso-
ciation, banquet held in the mess
licill Wednesday nigiil. Ken
Whitlow, Rice's thundering- cen-
ter, was elected captain of the
1940 squad by his teammates,
replacing his roommate Captain
Ed Singletary, who headed the
1939 team.
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A capacity, crowd attended, the first )
full-length French play seen in Hous-
ton in two years when the Fie^ch; L.mdei-. t
societies of the Institute, assisted by -j'DUnp, ''';£ ,
.the -French Alliance, pkM'lufod j-
itude I'iiJl nt ,A,kWi( W''V*
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Sarci lion,-ion
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Lucaire's "Altitude 'Sij'Q© nf At.itfy
Oliie (%dil! wore a beaten path
from his Seat to the: speaker's table
as he ,, received the George Martin blouse,
Award, the Ani&'itan General Life Outstanding- « iis-<ni.
Insurance H''< ji>p:i::v a"-cu f iSter.ce
award, the :A:ut.!;i- riitniC'i-iiri
and^his k. ^ lavala-nehe hi 'the- Alps, are . Andre::!
lhe George Martin Award is mi.' ■ , , , y ■ I t.■ , j
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(rt-veiv :,boys
a .vj,i i.l, i i.li,<;'r:'t1:api)ed. "hou-l'' .ijy.'iM 1
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engraved footbail given each year by ><."•
Mr. Martin, of the College Inn io the
player voted liiost valuable by his
teammates. The American General
trophy, a beautiful 18-inch statue of
a football player in action, is/embie-
niatic of having been chosen in a
radio poll of Southwest fans as the
best player at a given position in this
sector. -Members- t'cceiving the award
this year other than Cordill are Loon-
ey and Barnes, ends; Boyd and
Bijowning, tackles; Robnett and
Aiken; guards, Nelson, center; Eakili,
Kimbrough, .and .Tlibmason, backs.
Autry Awards To Eight
Eight men received Autry Memo-
rial blankets, beautiful blue and gray
wool robes given to all Rice athletes
lettering for three years in any sin-
gle sport. Recipients Wednesday
night were Ollie Cordill, .). R. Green,
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Kobert Marshall; as Vict.o-iv l.;-addr,
of the company, played his; long part
\yeli,..as did IJxtzel Etulo '''aok'pjiy.
who played the paid of M.ivtho. leader |
of the, worneS|| company., .Vid 1 ^Pobli1;
played, well tire J>a fc flf./tb'tj'
priest, Irenee,' while Milton Tobinn j
was the timid' Arthur. Edward Gvoff [ , ;
did well as Vincient, who handled the; I'he i:iv> -i:;, . I i . r-:-:,:!.ua
culinjvry duties for- the troxipt. at'itl jbate teil'ii ■ i J- • .r ■ i .■
Marion-' Wright',,was the. intellecinali.-.iuivp'y toii'r. ;iVilj;|^:tjiu(f :!n- Kiei'
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Get Experience
Running Waters* Choo-Choo
By Ed Schulenburg
This story would have been written
sooner but we've been toying with
the subject. It all started when Mrs.
Roy D. Wilson presented the minia-
ture railroad system that belonged to
the late Dr. Wilson to the Engineer-
ing department of Rice.
The systehi consists of several
hundred feet of track, switches, two
streamliner trains, two steam type
locomotives, one for a passenger
train anil one for a freight train, and
two standard gauge passenger trains.
Several station houses and a circuit-
breaker are also In the inventory
along with many transformers and
switches,
Mr. MeCann nccepted the system
for the school and gave it into the |
care of Mr. J. S. Waters, assistant
professor in electrical engineering.
The trains have practically disrupted
normal activity around the Engineer-
ing Building. Amateur Casey Joneses
have sprung up in legion to handle
the affairs of the new Rice Line.
See Enginners Get page 4
Dr. Waters Explains Lionel Engineering
.. to Philip Albanese, senior electrical
engineer. This intricate network of
steel and electricity la harbored in the
Mechanical Laboratory Building un-
der the key of James S. Waters, as-
sistant professor of electrical engi-
neering, who spends much of his
time with his advanced class in this
section of the building.
Zizi, Florence Kless played the timid
Georgette, and Lucy Oavetinugh was
the gentle Marie Pnule.
Smith and-Prince Handle Lighting
Gibson Smith and Neal Prince
handled the lighting effects for the
production, and Walter Mikseh did
the sound effects. Louisette Roser
supervised the make-up and did the
prompting. Andre Bourgeois directed
the production.
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Rings Ordered For ||
Seniors In October
Senior rings ordered before Oc-
tober 25 will be in the Co-Op Monday
and possibly Saturday, according to
Dave Johnston, chairman of the ring
committee.
Word has been received from Star
Engraving Company, the firm that
is handling the order, that some of
the rings will probably be delivered
Saturday. Johnston-snid that seniors
who are planning to leave early
might drop by the Co-Op Saturday to
see if their rings have come.
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Bearkats 65-51
In Early Game
Owl Quintet Led By
Carswell In High
Scoring Affair
i in a free-scoring K'anie Wed-
nesday night, the Rice Owls
took rovr-nyo an tin- Sam llou.s-;
tan Hearkats to the Unit- o-f 1
it I 'ailroc, Texas.
' I'-anli "!l!l jif'T ei-Mt" t'at avell.
,i . ; 1 ■ I! <h! fi'ih'-d (■)> '„lT (W.jistv;
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bate t'Ulb Moil all I)!..- t-aiiliUl:- ■
Laura Stone played the flirtatious .Friday at'a-i un-iii, Jiir.«;>v>. > A
inite tjinc and place, an •debaa-
will lie a'nii-.e.ini-ed laiei y Be: Kn >x.
debate m.-itui^i •.
The Vnivi-i .-.ty pi CaSifornis
nually boast:- .f a -:>.x>ng team, and
last year batlded the; debate "club one
Of its only fctvo defeats it' the \\a:.
This \ear the visitim; .schsirij will 5>«-
represented by, two senior debaters.
Ji'mi Keene who is alsto pve-iden! of
the tinivevsity of California student
body, and Phil Ver'.eger. student fnm-
missiiiner of debate- :it- California. The
visiting party also Include Le< M
Roberts, manager of debate a{ Cali-
fornia.
The Rice Debate Club will be rep-
resented by two of its most experi-
enced debaters, Frank Zuniwalr and
Karl Johnson who will debate the
negative side of tin- Phi Kappa Delta
ipiestion.
Y Plans Christmas
Party For Children
Plans for a Christmas party for
the children at the Husk Settlement
were made by the Young Women's
Christian Association at its regular
meeting Thursday.
Helen Sullivan will make the ar-
rangements, with Mildred Eberspach-
er in charge of finances and Betty
June Fitch in charge of food.
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The Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1939, newspaper, December 15, 1939; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth230470/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.