Texas A and M University - Aggieland Yearbook (College Station, TX)

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rr A Mother is not someone to lean upon, but someone who makes leaning unnecessary.” No single person or group of persons does so much for us and asks so little in return as our mothers. Through the years they have watched over us with unending de¬ votion, and our every wish has been their command. This love has not faded during our years in A M, for their interest in our welfare will last forever. In 1922 Mrs. H. L. Peoples of Dallas saw a need for an organization of A M mothers to help their boys cope with problems that arose while they were in school and to offer aid in any appropriate manner. In an attempt to fulfill this need she organized the first A M Mothers’ Club. Today every large town in Texas and many of the smaller ones have furthered the movement. Their help, whether for an individual or a group, has been accepted with deep appreciation by their sons. Through our overwhelming gratitude, we the student body of A M College dedicate the 1956 Aggieland to Mrs. H. L. Peoples, the A M Mothers’ Clubs, and all mothers of Aggies . . . past, present, and future.

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In the following pages yon will find your Texas A M during the 1955- 56 school year. It is impossible to record in so few pages a complete history of a year at Aggieland, but we have made an effort to ' preserve on paper a part of every phase of Aggie life. As the years pass and your memory grows dim, we hope that these pages will he ever present to recall the many places you saw, the events that you were a part, of, and the friends that you made during 1955-56. Editing the 1956 Aggleland has been both a privilege and a pleasure- We hope you like what you see. And if you do, don’t thank us, the editors, hut thank the many people who have ivorked untiringly with ns — Gene Sutpfaen, Helen Martin, and Karen Tedder at the Aggieland Studio; SgL Ihompstm, photographer of the 805 Air Force Detachment; Jones Ramsey, sports pub¬ licity director; Ross Strader, Cecilia Prihoda, Polly Patranella. Janice Cocke, and Barbara Paige of the Student Publications ‘Office, our photographers Mike Keen, Guv Fernandez, and James Schubert, and above alii, the mem¬ bers of our staff who have worked so diligently asking no reward. It is to these people that we all owe a vote of thanks. Now. here is your AGGIELAND ’56, we hope you enjoy it. Sincerely- yiaiiES, EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR

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Silently they gather, moving shadows Under restless trees. Tight-lipped boys, Full by day of rough, gay comradeship. Have nothing to say tonight. Clustered in hundreds round the Old Main Building, They come to bid a last Farewell” To a fellow Aggie, whose footsteps Will never tread familiar campus paths again. 4