The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1950 Page: 2 of 4
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2—THE J-TAC
Tuesday, March 7,, 1950
Official Student Publication of Tarleton State College
Published Weekly by Students of Tarleton State' College
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HO HUM!
It comes this time every year when the boys think of nothing
but girls, swimming holies, and other things. To the girls spring
makes one think of the latest spring fashions and make-up that
will make them more glamorous.
Officially spring is not here yet but it seerits that the trees,
the weather, the students of TSC, and other humans have rush-
ed that beautiful season. And since they have, "Ole Man Winter"
has recently stepped back into the atmosphere on the Tarleton
campus.
Though spring brings many beautiful things, the average
student is deep in his studies and it seems that he just can
not find enough to do or the time to do it in. So deep in tho'ught
is the student that it is doubted that he will let the coming
social activities interfere in his work.
Social activities may interfere, with the help of spring fever,
a little in jsehool work but they are a definite boost to the morale
of the students.
Let's control "spring fever" but a few social activities will
not interfere in school work too much.
NEW PARLOR
; By now, everyone has seen our lucious new parlor. It looks
like something out of {'Vogue". The color-scheme is beautiful;
in fact, the entire effect is practically breath-taking after being
accustomed to our old parlor.
But Gee! It's sort of sad to see the old Wilkerson parlor so
empty and lonely now,. Just think of the evenings fepent there,
the girls, the soft lights, etc. Never again, will you dance across
that lumpy old floor, weaving in- and out among the posts- arid
the ping-pong tabl4, or take your girl;half-way down to hall to
say "Goodnight." ^tribute, is fa&ahliljto a wonderful old ga).,
With more than a little regret we bid ner a fond "Adieu."
GOOD TEAM
Has Tarleton got a good track team? Ha! brother, you
haven't been around long or else you just haven't asked the right
people. Let me tell you. Tarleton most certainly1 has got a good
track team. She not only has run up some wonderftil scores in
individual competition, but for the past 14 years she, has won
conference championships.
What do you think people say the results will be this year?
Well, they say that if there, is such a thing as getting'into a rut,
a winning rut, Tarleton's in it. %
That's the way I like to see you do, brother—smile. People
ought to smile when they have' something like that behind them.
But that's not all—they should back that team just as hard as
they can. They should be,proud of that team and really push
it wherever they go. When that happens in Tarleton, brother,
our track team will go a long way; there's no telling how far.
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X Campusology X
Hunewell Park is apt to be
very thickly populated for the re-
mainder of the semester. It seems
that the opening of the new parlor
has made the art of "courting" a
very difficult ..process.
During the past week things
really popped. It seems that every-
one is either had a visitor or was
"visited."
Joe Alexander was down to see
Lavonne. That's been a weekly oc-
eurance lately. Looks as though
both parties are very interested in
—well, Tarleton.
• Peggy Hoover rushed home this
week-end to straig-hten out a few
things. Sure hope everything turns
out all right.
M. C., Jane Jones, and Richard
went home with Babs last week-
end, Naturally, they all had loads
of fun—did someone say "Looking
for cactus."
C. A. has been going out some
with Eva Von Wyatt, who has,
herself, been making the rounds.
Paula, is Lacy's fencing! jacket
real warm? Paula is another who
has been "Making the rounds,"
•but Laey has been her most fre-
quent ^escort lately.
Bottle Corder and Doug Jones
are seen .together a great deal late-
ly, Plash!—By the last report, she
was seen with Jack Serpas,
Herman Thompson was down to
see Dottie Jackson last week-end.
These visits are becoming quite
frequent aren't they Dottie?
Frances Caldwell and Dale Biggs
a Howard Payne student, are going*
steady. Looks like Tarleton just
lost out for Ginger.
Mai-y Jo Deen and John Dish-
eroon have been having huge dif-
ferences between themselves. How-
ever, they're fine now, so all's well
that ends well.
"Sugar" Williams- 'and "Troub-
les" Laird have been going toget-
her quite frequently lately. Could
this be serious? We wondey.
It seems that George Green has
expressed thg desire to go with
Joan Crockett. Why be , bashful
George, go ahead and ask her.
A few 'cadets are already mak-
ing extensive plans for the Mili-
tary Ball. Fellows like Milligan,
Long, Couch, Wilkins, Pawling, Zo-
bal, and Walker are asking home-
town girls to the event.
Frances Holloway and Bert
Lindley have been going steady
all year, Could be for keeps with
this couple, ^
Robert Fowler and Johnnie Faye
Carlisle are seen together qui|e
frequently. They make a very nice
twosome.
Jimmy Darling has given all
his affection to his girl in Abilene.
In a way, it's a shame, 'cause se-
veral of the girls have sho' been
giving him the eye.^
Kenneth Hill came back for a
visit last week-end. Pudn' and Ken
surely seemed happy the whole
time he was here.
Nita Martin and Bosh Lowry go
together constantly. Wondei- if
there's anything1 to this?
Bobby Myers, what's this about
you shootin' a machine gun q.nd
searing all the fellows— including
Captain Woelfer?
Get Your Coon Dogs Here
COLUMBIA, Tenn, (UP)—Co-
lumbia built up< a reputation years
ago as the world's largest street
mule market. The mule sales long
since moved' into barns but now
Columbia, is known as a leading
street coon dog market. Coon dogs
are auctioned on the streets on
the first Monday in each month.
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Next Door to Western Union
Chas. W. Froh, oldest 'Tarleton
•faculty member, who will re-
tire this year, has been transferr-
ing from his office to hi^s home
his voluminous collection of mus-
ician's protraits before leavirg the
music department at the end of
the semester.
The 500 protraits include pho-
tographs of his pupils since he be-
gan teaching music, masters un-
der whom he studied, all Tarle-
ton music professors with whom
he has taught since 1910, and other
musicians with whom he has been
closely associated.
The collection was amassed th-
roughout his 40 years at Tarleton,
the longest period of continous
service of. anyone who has ever
taught here.
>He came to Tarleton in 1910
after having taught three years
at Add-Ran Christian College at
Thorpe Springs (predecessor of
Texas Christian University). Pre-
vious to this he had been a member
of the faculty at the Western
Piano Conservatory at Fresco,
California.
Mr. Froh, who is affectionately
called "Charlie" by his almost 4,-
000 students since 1904, he has
studied under musicians as Chas.
W. Landon, Edward Baxter Perry,
and Eva Frances Kinsley.
Even though" his parents did
not encourage a musical career
for their son, Charlie decided that
only music could offer him con-
tentment when he was helping
his painter-father redecorate the
"gingerbread" work on the Ohio
River show boats and heard their
steaming, shrieking.calliopes which
lured crowds to the water fronts.
He finally persuaded his moth-
er to teach him to play the old
reed organ and soon becac;e so
proficient thai he won the position
of organist at the Methodist Chruch
in Shelbyville, Indiana, at 50 cents
a service when he was 14. He held
this position until he was 18. when
he came to Texas.
While working in a shoe store
at a, salary from $2 to $8 a week,
he eventually saved the $250 nec-
essary for paying the balance af-
ter trading the family organ for
an Emerson square piano upon
which he practiced while attend-
ing the Indianapolis Conservatory.
When he was 18, he bega.:" an-
swering ads and writing letters to
find the school where the $750 he
had saved would go the faithest
The place \fras the Landon Conser-
vatory in Dallas, which had been
organized by Charles W. Landon,
a pioneer in Texas music.
Landon, possibly feeling that it
would be good advertising- to have
a student from ■ such a long way
come to Texas, offered Charlie,
who was then characterized by a
head of flowing black hair Which
has long since turned wh'te, a
part-time <job as an inducement for
coming. When lie arrived, he found
the job to be that of a part-time
janitor.
Landon, however, gradually of-
fered Froh more renumerative and
dignified work, finally soliciting
for students. By working hard and
going home only once during the
four-year period, he finishe 1 the
course and won his degree with
part of thy $750' left.
While at the Landon Conserva-
tory, Edward Baxter Perry, the
famous blind pianist who had been
a pUpil of Franz Liszt, came to
Dallas for a series of concerts.
Charlie became a personal valet to
the musician, taking him from ho-
tel to concert hall and making his
as comfortable as possible ?n re-
turn for lesons.
"He was a through but hard
taskmaster," commented Froh, re-
minising on his ' association with
Perry. "He would yell at me as
he put me through hard piano ex-
ercises. I can still hear him shout-
ing 'Froh, for God's sake, get that
G-sharp and stop playing like mas-
hed potatoes. Make it crisp like
Saratoga chips! Perry was, the
best teacher I ever had,' said Mr.
Froh.
While at Dallas, Charlie met
red-haired Edna McKinzie of Cor-'
pus Christi. In 190G she became
his wife and teaching associate.
They worked together until her
death in 1920.
His first job was teaching piano
in the Western Piano Conserva-
tory in Fresno, California, where
he stayed for two years. In 1906
he returned to Texas and taught
thre years at Thorpe Springs Chri-
stian College under the guidance
of Addison and. Randolph Clark,
pioneer Texas educators.
The next, Charlie Froh came to
Tarleton to be head of the music
department which occupied the
! attic floor of the origional Mc-
Llhaney Institute building.
The equipment in the first mu-
sic department at Tarleton con-
sisted of a single upright piano.
When visiting concert artist per-
formed, a grand piano was haul-
ed down from Fort Worth, and
set in the Crow Opera House in
downtown Stephenville.
The floor of this first music
department was soaked with used
lubricating oil, creating such fire
hazard that finally Froh in des-
peration built a ladder outside one
of the windows. Fortunately, the
building was never ignited, be-
cause if it had, everyone probably
could not have evacuated the build-
ing.
As Tarleton grew, Froh built
the music department from a few
well-rounded music department and
a competent faculty, offering all
phases of work in music.
When Tarleton began expanding
too rapidly for the rickety old
building to hold the ever-increas-
ing numbers, Froh had a new
brick conservatory built where
Marston Hall stands, and in it he
taught for 15 years, until the pre-
sent auditorium was erected.
Throughout the years of teach-
ing Mr. Froh has retained all his
original love for good music, and
maintains a piano record library
of 48 volumes and more than 250
individual records. He also uses the
collection as a student aid, and em-
ploys the use of a recorder which
he said his students hflve always
hated.
The short, bushy-haired profes-
sor is fond of practical jokes, and
recalled with a chuckle one incid-
ent i>f a music test. For weeks he
had drilled the class, and. areated
a frenzy of nervous expectancy.
On the appointed day the class
tiptoed cautiously into the room'
to find—Mr Froh busily serving
cake and ice cream instead of giv-
ing' a test! "One girl actually eri-
ed," he said fondly.
Many pupils remember being ta-
ken to Fort Worth "for a radio
broadcast" on a moment's notice,
then finding that,they were to at-
tend a concert by .some great visit-
ing artist instead.
A passionate baseball fan, Froh
attends almost every game of the
Fort Worth Cats and local teams,
and often takes pupils with him
foi$ the game and dinner after-
ward.
His favorite avocations are smo-
king long cigars, drinking coffee,
and zooming- from his home to the
conservatory in his long black
Buick, He has amassed an impres-
sive record of 14 cups of coffee in
one' day, .with each accompanied
by a cigar.
Some of his over 500 pupils have
been very successful in profession-
al music. Margaret Henderlite, one
of Tarleton's outstanding music
graduates, has appeared as solo
artist with the Evanston, San An-
tonio, and Chicago Symphony Or-
chestras. Her brother Peter, after
having won his master's degree
from the American Conservatory
in Chicago, was appointed head,
of the music school in a Georgia
girls' college.
'If I had my life to live over,"
said Mr. Froh musingly at the end
of the interview, I would certain-
ly choose music again. I have been
very happy, and I can recommend
the musician's life to all students
interested in the field."
A PROBLEM
Cox's to Show
Wingless Chicks
IBy ROBERT KENNY
Wingless chickens ihave come
to Stephenville! Two of. the new v.
.breed were exhibited in Cox's De-
partment Store Saturday,. priced
at $500 each, with eggs selling
for $10 per dozen.
The chickens were developed by
Peter H. Baumann of Iowa ,£vho
had bpcome convinced that the eli-
mination of wings would add ra-
ther than detract from , the value
of the birds, and had often seen
wingless mutations that. the ' ve-
terinary medicine supply house
where he worked. He developed a
chicken later that would regular-
ly produce wingless chicks, and
the idea was a reality.
The new breed has the advan-
tage of not being able to waste
energy flying and flapping their .
wings, and spend all their effort
growing meat. As a result, . the
birds are heavier than ordinary
chickens, with the extra weight jn
larger and thicker breasts, legs,
and thighs.
They are shown by Allee Corp.
of Ft. Worth, manufacturers of
mens' work cloths.' ,
It was quite a problem for Harold Warford to draw this cari-
cature depicting Charles Froh and his diversified activities.
,But there they are—his coffee, his piano playing, his cigar,
and his love of baseball.
A&M COLLEGE
NEW SCHOOL
Construction of ,a, summer camp
on the Llano river in Kimble
County by Texas A&M College
is scheduled to start April 1. Com-
pletion is expected by August 1:
The A&M facility near Junc;
tion will be used for testing and
orientation classes . for youths
planning to enter college in the
fall and for summer work of ci-
vil engineering, geology, and ot-
her technical studies.
A 411-acre site has been dona-
ted, and an appropriation has been
made by the Legislature,
Bids on a group of five build-
ings with 13,000 square feet of
floor space will be received until
March 16 with March 24 set as
the date for opening contracts.
Completion of buildings .is slated
July 15.
All structures will have steel
frames, masonry walls, and corru-
gated abestos roofs. Forty-two ten
slabs and frames and also plum-
bing .and electrical work are in-
cluded in the construction con-
tract.
A separate contract for water
and sewer facilities will be award-
ed at the same time.
The SS Savannah Was the first
steamship to cross the Atlantic.
Massachusetts is the only state
governed under its original consti-
tution.
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CLUB CAFE
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AG ENGINEERS
TO GIVE DANCE
An informal dance in the rec
hall will be given Friday at 7:30
p. m. by the Ag. Engineering Club,
according to R. V. Derrick, club
sponsor.
"As this is the night before the
Military Ball, we want all the boys
to bring their girls up from home
one night earlier, so they can go
to bote dances," Derrick said.
Tickets will be sold by ag. engin-
eers, Derrick, and the arrigiculture
division secretary. The price is 50
cents, for either couples and sin-
gles.
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FOR OYER FORTY-THREE YEARS
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AG ENGINEERS
TO SEE FILMS
Two new technicolor films,
"Planning to Prosper" and "Hay,"
will be shown at the Ag. Engineer-
ing Club meeting tomorrow night
in the ag building projection room.
The first film is a documentary
movie on soil conservation farm-
ing, and illustrates new and past
accepted methods of good farm-
ing and includes many sugges-
tions on improving standard pro-
cedures.
The second movie illustrates eq-
uipment used in making hay.
"Both films will have a great
deal of interest for all ag. majors,
and we would like to have as many
out as possible," said R. V. Der-
rick, club sponsor.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, March 7, 1950, newspaper, March 7, 1950; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth141092/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.