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NEWS TIPS
Welcome! New Students and
Teachers to H.-S. U.
Town Hall News Page 1
About Dammit . Pace 1
Opening football tilt Page 4
Student Constitution '. Page 6
Vol. XXII.
HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ABILENE TEXAS SEPTEMBER 18 1937
No. 1
FORTY-SIXTH SESSION OFFICIALLY OPENS TODAY
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Brand
Well as I write this opening:
Branding; Iron of the year the first
run of the paper is on the press sec-
ond run is virtually complete and the
front page is waiting: for this col-
umn booooo I'll have to speak my say
and let it go at that.
First let me welcome all of you
new students and teachers to our 40
acres and say to all those returning
that I am sincerely glad to sec you
back.
With tho first assembly program
and the opening of classes this morn-
ing the 46th season for studious pro-
digies legally opens. Officials still
are predicting a good increase in en-
rollment and it looks now like they
will be at least close to correct in
their latest estimates.
Now listen all of you friends rela-
tives and die-hards to the story that
I shall tell concerning the renovation
of the Brand office and the estab-
lishment of a new lecture room for
journalism classes.
It was near the close of last school
year that some of the officials an-
nounced a remodeling and refinish-
ing of the newspaper office. It was
hard to believe especially amid the
exclamations of former editors that
the same had been promised each year
for some 45 years and four months.
Nevertheless although I have not
been privileged to work in the newly
decorated office (it isn't complete as
yet) the old office was actually under-
going a complete renovation the last
time I had time to look into the
journalistic hovel.
Believe it or not all staff writers
and ex-editors we are really going
to havo more than one typewriter for
the ensuing year.
Pardon the ravings on the journal-
istic center of the campus but hon-
estly the changes just make me feel
good all over.
As we missed the announcements
of the artist courses in our coverage
' of the news this week let me give trie
following list:
Nov. 6 Navy Band.
Dec. 1 Vienna Choir Boys.
Dec. 18 Ted Shawn.
Dec. 30 Salzburg Opera.
Jan. 18 Ballet Russe.
April Kubelik.
The space is about consumed so
I'll have to call it quits until next
week. Maybe by them I will have
time to seek some -scandal
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Radio Equipment
Offers Many Uses
A complete unit of broadcast and
sound system that is found in only
few schools in the United States in-
stalled on the Hardin-Simmons cam-
pus last year will be used for an-
nouncements programs and grid
broadcasts this year.
The set-up joins four major con-
tact points of the campus with a cen-
tral control room and the studio in
the Fine Arts building and connects
with downtown broadcast station
KRBC. Equipment includes the lat-
est type RCA microphones ampli-
fiers controls and record turntable.
The system is used by radio speech
classes and for broadcasts from the
Cowboy stadium band practice room
Mtin auditorium and speech studio
located on the second floor of the
Fine Arts building. Last year regu-
lar broadcasts were made weekly
from the auditorium and football
games were given from an enclosed
broadcast booth at the stadium. Field
announcements were made over the
sound system.
The hook-up was made by the Car-
ver Sound company of Dallas with
the chief engineer from the local
broadcast station and Bill Mlngus
student technician assisting.
Business Manager
Of H.-S.U. Brand
Must Be Renamed
Applicants Position Mi
See Publication Board
Monday At 2:30
New applications for the position
of business manager of tho 1937-38
Brand are in order following an-
nouncement that Russell Day select-
ed manager last spring would be
unable to return to school.
Exact date for appearance of ap-
plicants before the school publica-
tions board will be announced soon.
Principal requirement of applicants
is that they be of senior classifica-
tion. Professor L. Q. Campbell head of
the university English Uepartment
is chairman of the publication ad-
visory group. Other faculty mem-
bers are Dr. R. A. Collins dean of
students Herschcl Schooley instruc-
tor in journalism and a third mem-
ber which will be named to fill the
vacancy left by the resignation of
Dr. W. D. Rich now teaching at Ok-
lahoma A. & M. Student members
of the board include the president and
vice-president of the student assem-
bly president of the junior class
and president of the student press
club.
Day who was named to the busi-
ness manager post last spring is cm-
ployed as news editor for the Has-
kell Free Press. He also assists in
the advertising make-up.
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Cowgirl Bandsters
To Get Underway
Girls To Share Hornblowing
Honors With H.-S. U.
Bandmen
Announcement of the date for or-
ganization and first rehearsals of a
Hardin-Simmons university Cowgirl
band is soon to be issued from the
office of G. B. Sandefer manager of
the girls' and boys' musical organi
zations.
The new unit is to bo organized for
those girl students of Hardin-Sim
mons who are capable of playing in
a band but who heretofore have not
been given the opportunity of doing
so.
Jackets and divided skirts of the
traditional purple and gold have been
selected for the forthcoming organi
zation. Cowgirl hats of a special
design by the John B. Stetson Co.
and cowgirl boots made by the Olsen
Stelzer producers will complete the
uniform.
The Cowgirls will have the same
practice rooms the same sort of mu
sic and the same programs provided
for the Cowboy band.
Trips to nearby towns will be ar-
( Continued on page C)
BACK TO SCHOOL
All Vacation With No Work
Would Make A Dull Group
Home again home again jiggety
jog they're jogging home from
Mexico Colorado and all points of
the compass and all with the same
destination a group of red brick
buildings with lots of shrubbery sit-
uated in north Abilene Hardin-Simmons
university
Ruidosa proved a popular spot for
Jean Christopher Mary Fry Char-
lotte and Dorothy Sue Collins
Sue Savage and Helen and Hazel
Day.
Ranch life appealed to Frances
Thomas and Charlotte Cope.
"Come and sit by my side if you
love me" could well be June Frost's
and Wanda Norton's theme song be-
cause they spent quite a bit of time
in the Red River Valley.
Dallas and Fort Worth boasts of
the "lion's share" of visitors with
the following on the list: June Bra'
haney Elisabeth Bagwell Helen and
Lorena Dunnagan Lesa Williams
Choral Club Schedules
First Regular Session
For Tuesday. Evening
First meeting of the Hardln-Sim-
mons university choral club will be
held Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in
ri"-J31
"An interesting and valuable pro
gram is planned for the choral club
this semester including the sacred
operetta 'Queen Esther'" says Mrs.
Lola Gibson Dcaton director. All
students desiring membership in this
chorus should be present at the first
important meeting. The organiza
tion is open to all students of the uni
versity and carries one semester
hour credit.
A new unit to be known as the
university concert choir will be
formed from members of the voice
and choral music department. Mem
bers are to be selected by special
audition. All students who are in
terested should see Mrs. Deaton for
further details.
Miss Mildred Jcnkens contralto
will bo student assistant and will
work in addition to Miss Louise Buck
ley official accompanist and coach
for the voice department. Miss Jen-
kens accompanied Mrs. Deaton to
Hollywood in August to coach with
Isaac Van Grove Grace Moore's per-
sonal radio and picture director.
Special auditions for the male
quartet and girls quartet trio and
sextette are scheduled for Monday
aftemocft. Special appointments
must be made with Mrs. Dcaton for
tryouts. Quartet units are to be or-
ganized for use in the university con-
cert choir.
Mrs. Deaton recently has been un-
animously elected by the board of
deacons of the University Baptist
church to direct musical activities of
the church and to organize the choir.
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Cowboy Bandmen
Go Toft Worth
Musicians Assist Boosters
On Advertising Jaunt
To Fiesta
The famed Cowboy band from
Hardin-Simmons university was an
added attraction on the Frontier
Fiesta grounds at Fort Worth Wed-
nesday night when an Abilene dele-
gation journeyed to the cow town in a
seven-bus caravan to be the honor
guests at the show and boosters for
the Abilene fair.
The band headed a downtown pa-
rade shortly after the delegation ar-
rived at 2:30 p.m. and then paraded
again that night on Sunset Trail at
the Fiesta. Two broadcasts from the
Gulf Studio on the grounds one at
5:45 p.m. ana again at 8 p.m. were
included in the itinerary of the mu-
sicians. Abilcne's boosters and the band
were in Fort Worth for the double
purpose of seeing the Fiesta and
boosting the West Texas Free Fair
and Cotton Festival in October.
Charlotte Cope La vol I Raynle and
Jeanette Patterson.
Holman Jenkens accompanied his
father Dr. M. A. Jenkens on his re-
vival tour to Nova Scotia in Canada.
Sumpter Reed was along too.
Lesa Williams divided her time
between stops to Yellowstone and
Los Angeles.
Ten days in "cool Colorado" un-
der quilts was Frances' vacation.
It was hard to keep up with Flo
Winston. She juit (went Ml over
Texas all summer it seems.
Jeanette Patterson and Bagwell
enjoyed their respective visits to
Houston. However Jeanette is a bit
partial to Baytown.
Mildred Pender proved that she's
a "Galveston Gal" by spending part
of the summer on the gulf.
But all "play and no work makes
a dull feature story" so here's the
(Continued on page 6)
At this the 46th opening of Hardin-Simmons University and
tho beginning of my 29th year as president I nm happy to extend
our cordial greetings and good wishes to all our students new and
old for tho year just beginning. Indications now point to the
brightest year we have had since 1920 and I take this opportunity
to nsk your earnest co-operation to make it the best in the history
of this great western institution.
Our mission at Hardin-Simmons is to make it possible for young
men and women to find a richer spiritual life and a greater oppor-
tunity for intellectual expansion blending these two ideals into that
unity which should characterize the leaders of our social order. To
this end we pledge you our best efforts and we believe you will
respond in a way that will make it easy for your time here to be
the richest experiences in your lives.
JV happy Plcome to each of your from every faculty member
tho board of trustees and the administration of Hardin-Simmons
Universityl
Sandefer Begins
Twenty-Ninth Year
As University Prexy
Pioneer Educator Is Dean
Of School Leaders
In Texas
Dr. Jefferson D. Sandefer presi-
dent of Hardin-Simmons university
began today his 29th year as head
of the West Texas denominational
institution established as a pioneer
in the field of Christian education by
a group of Abilene Baptist leaders
in 1891.
Hardin-Simmons today begins its
46th annual session with an in-
creased enrollment over the first
day of registration a year ago.
Dr. Sandefer president of H.-S.U.
since 1909 became the dean of all
Texas senior college and university
presidents in point of continuous
(Continued on page 6)
Y.W.A.ToMeet
Tuesday Evening
"Cornel Be a pojrt of our organiza-
tion. Have fun all the year" says
Ann Rader prsident of the Young
Women's Auxiliary in extending her
welcome to all girls of Hardin-Simmons
university.
First meeting of this H.-S. U. girl's
organization is scheduled for next
Tuesday evening in the parlors of
Mary Frances hall. Regular meeting
time is the second and fourth Tues
day evening in each month during
the school year.
Only two elected officers have re-
turned to school and the vacancies
coupled with those purposely left
open last spring must be filled. The
two returning officers are president
Ann Rader; and secretary Martha
Rigney.
Membership in the unit is open to
any girl who wishes to participate
in the activities of the group.
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Demonstration School
Opens Second Session
Second annual Hardin-Simmons
university demonstration school com-
mences its regular school year with
a physical examination of each child
by the university physician and
nurse on Monday September 20.
Registration of the pupils began Sep-
tember 13.
With announcement of the opening
comes a list of officials who are to
direct the activities of the depart
ment. Miss Ethel Hatchett who was
in charge of the school last year will
again have direct supervision of this
guidance in kindergarten and the
first seven grades.
Dalton Caffcy former principal of
the Stith school is to be principal.
Teachers named are Mrs. Jessie
Smith a June graduate of H-SU
(Continued on page G)
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ABOUT DAMMIT
Request For Epitaph Revives
Memories of Pet Mascot
"Dammit" is gone but not forgot-
ten. Memories of tho one-time Cowboy
mascot and one of Hardin-Simmons
university's most loyal supporters
were revived by P. G. Swearingen of
Dallas recently when he wrote to the
college business office. The novel
story was then spread throughout
the country by an Associated Press
account of the incident.
Swearingen whose hobby is col-
lecting queer epitaphs asked for the
inscription on the stone which marks
Dammlt's grave. It bears the words
which freshmen learn as soon as they
enter the university "Dammit he's
dead."
For those newcomers who are as
yet unfamiliar with the location of
this honored shrine of the dead the
grave is located on the west side of
the campus between the entrance and
the tennis courts. Within the large
STUDENT ASSEMBLY
OFFICERS
President of student body Frank
Self ridge.
Vice-president Gerald Jarvia.
Secretary Louise Toombs.
Council Members Dorothy Sue
Collins Mack Alexander Avery
Lee.
Intramural Council Robin Clack
Clarence Hcadstrcam Kirk Mc-
Kinnon.
Yell Leaders Tommlc Black
Charlie I'ond Milton Tcague.
Annual Campaign
For Class Pictures
Begins Wednesday
Sittings For 1936 Yearbook
Are Made By Thurman
Says Editor
"Work on the 1938 Bronco is nl-
reudy under way and sittings for
class pictures will be started imme-
diately" announces Editor Clyde
Crawford.
Thurman studio located at 1124
North Second has been selected as
the official school photographer for
this year and pictures of the build
ings already have been completed.
Football pictures are now being made.
"Student representation is the goal
of each annual and all students are
urged to have their pictures made
for the yearbook" Crawford said.
Better pictures at cheaper prices will
mnkc. this easier for students. Four
poses are offered this year for fifty
cents."
Freshmen and new students should
understand that the school activity
fee pays for tho book which will be
distributed in the spring. Everyone
is urged by the student management
to have their pictures mado for the
publication especially in view of this
new low cost of pictures.
Details of the yearbook will be kept
secret until the time of its presenta-
tion next May. Snapshots and pho-
(Continued on page 6)
Cowboy Musicians To Play
For Tri-State Exposition
Engagement of the world famous
Hardin-Simmons v)iiverslty Cowboy
band as the official band of the 16th
annual Tri-State Fair which opens in
Amarillo next Monday has been an-
nounced by band manager G. B. Son-
defer. The band is scheduled to play con-
ceits on the grounds and at all pa-
rades and will furnish music for the
rodeo and night revue dally. It will
augment two scores of band which
will journoy to Amarillo from towns
over the Panhandle eastern New
Mexico and Oklahoma.
Negotiations with tho Cowboy di-
rectors were made by Ted Taylor
secretary-manager of the exposition.
oval curb just beneath the evergreen
hedge lies Dammit.
Briefly his history runs thus: Dam-
mit was a big white bulldog but he
lived a collegiate life. He was brought
to the campus by Gib Sandefer son
of President J. D. Sandefer. As
Prof. Emmctt Landers put it Dam-
mit attended class as any college stu-
dent docs "all the classes some of
the time and none of the classes all
the time."
When he died the student body
turned out for the funeral. It was
conducted by Ira Harrison now pas-
tor of the First Baptist church at Pa-
ducah. They still tell how Dammit car-
ried a rock in his teeth. Nobody
knew why but it served a purpose.
If a clasBi-oom was hot and the pro-
fessor didn't make much noise Dam-
mit frequently droused When he
did the rock fell to the floor and he
awoke.
First Assembly
Classes Started
In Day's Program
Unofficial Estimate Indicates
Over 500 Enrolled
First Day
The campus of Hardin-Simmons
university was greatly astir Wednes-
day and Thursday aa both old and
new students went about their tasks
of registering for the 46th session
which officially opens this morning
with the first classes and the open-
ing assembly program.
Some half thousand students were
busily engaged in "signing up" Wed-
nesday and an additional several
hundred was to be enrolled yesterday
and today. H.-S. U. officials declin-
ed to make a statement as to the num-
ber of students rounded up on the
first day but an unofficial estimate
places the number somewhere in ex-
cess of five hundred.
"Indications are that we will have
at least one hundred more students
than were enrolled last year and that
Hardin-Simmons may establish a new
all-time high mark for its registra
tion" Dr. R. A. Collins dean of stu-
dents said.
Demand Reservation
Reservations in the campus dormi-
tories have been in demand includ-
ing locations in the two brick apart-
ment houses on Ambler avenue oppo-
site the campus which have been re-
modeled and refurnished for women
student's occupancy.
Opening activities of the first year
students included a special session
for beginners at which instructions
for registration were given. Wel-
come addresses were made by Dr.
Collins and by Frank Selfridge
president of the student assembly.
Assembly Program
Principal speaker for the opening
chapel exercises this morning was
Rev. Fred C. Eastham pastor of the
First Baptist church at Wichita Falls
and ex-student of the university.
Mayor W. W. Hair welcomed students
to Abilene. Mrs. Lola Gibson Dea-
ton head of the voice department
sang and Herbert Preston head of
the violin department played.
"Doxology" sung by the students
(Continued on page G)
B. T. U. Convention
Meets On Campus
Some five hundred B. T. U. work-
ers and leaders from over West Texas
completed n two-day conference Wed-
nesday evening. The meeting was
held in the Hardin-Simmons univer-
sity chapel and special conferences
were held in lecture rooms of the
school.
Dr. T. C. Gardner Texas Baptist
Training Union secretary was direc-
tor of the program. He has just
returned from a trip to Europe and
the Holy Land and reviewed high-
lights from his trip for the group
Tuesday evening. Dr. R. C. Camp-
bell secretary of the Baptist Gen-
eral Convention of Texas closed the
sessions by delivering a stirring mes-
sage to the B. T. U. leaders.
Included on the program were out-
standing speakers of Texas and the
Southern Baptist ranks. Dr. T. L.
Holcomb secretary of the Baptist
Sunday Schol Board Dr. W. A. Har-
rell southwide B. T. U. leader and
B. B. McKinney music editor of
the Sunday School Board all of
Nashville Tenn. and Gardner Camp-
bell Dr. R. A. Collins of H.-S. U.
J. D. Riddle of Abilene and State B.
T. U. President R A. Springer Ama-
rillo were among the principal speak-
ers. This convention was sponsored and
financed by the Sunday School Board
through the State organization call-
ing all assoclational officers of the
western half of Texas to meet here.
Besides the addresses there were con-
ference periods for all departments.
These study periods were led by some
of the best Baptist leaders in Texas.
A similar meeting was held in Tem-
ple Thursday and Friday for the ear t-
ern portion of the state.
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