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FEATURESAND NEWSTHEATERSAND SOCIETY1 I .......VOL. XXXIAUSTIN, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 22, 1929.No. 1BronzeTabletPlacedonStadiumThisFalll|rn—|iWI UM I■ .Panel to Bear Names Of5,280 Men, Women Killed in WorldSTADIUM DRIVE LEADERSwho have preceded them.”Betore trie winter term of school opened, Mr. Stark, Mr. Richard-j son, and Mr. McGill began workas members of the permanent el-ecutive committee. Herbert M. Greeno, University architect, drew | plans, and Max Fichtenbaum was | chosen executive secretary.The Athletic Council, with L. Theo Bellmont as director, made an appropriation of $5000 for the preliminary work. On January 15, the general executive committee decided to start building within ten days after the architects plans were complete. The engineers began at once to lay out the ground with stakes.With the ideal of the purposeBy BESS JANE LOGANSometime this fall, probably in October, a bronze memorial tablet will be placed on the north wall of the University Memorial Stadium.The placing of this memorial tablet was authorized by the FortiethLegislature which appropriated $10,000 for the construction and erection of the tablet. In a recent interview with Hugo Villa, sculptor, R. L. White, Uni-4-----—-versity Supervising Architect, concrete which will stand throughlearned that the model is complete. thfi af?es A„ new students whohas been cast in plaster, and is _T . . ..... . . . , ■ enter the University will have im-ready to be cast in bronze. There jis a possibility, however, that the 1 Press^d upon their mind and mem-model might be sent to Italy for cries the splendid tribute of those | the bronze casting.S. C. P. Vosper, formerly connected with the University, designed the panel. The model is forty feet long and ten feet high, in the center is the figure of a woman with her arms outstretched representing the artist’s conception of ’‘Freedom.” 5,280 names of Texas men and women who died in the World War will be placed on the tablet. The Legislature provided that the war records of Washington shall govern t h e names to be placed thereon.A committee consisting of the Governor, the head of the American Legion in Texas, and the president of the Texas Fine Art*Association was created to select this tablet.State ApprovalThe placing of this memorial tablet in the stadium stamps the approval of the entire state on the efforts of the University Sta-dium Association in erecting the University Memorial Stadium.The Texas Memorial Stadium, a heritage of all time, now stands as the results of the dream of a man who loved ideals and believed that those ideals should be commemorated in a proper and fitting way. That man, who instigated the idea of the Texas Memorial Stadium, who called the first meeting, and who stayed with the guns until the brick and mortar became a living reality, is L. Theo Bellmont, at that time Athletic Director of the University.In the fall of 1923, a small group of approximately 30 students, under the guidance of Mr.Bellmont, met in the University Cafeteria, to discuss the need of a stadium for the University.A short time later, the matter was presented to the Board of Regents of the University with the request that the proposition be indorsed and approved. This was done by the Regents in December,1923, and early in 1924 the Regents appointed a central commit tee to have charge of all stadium affairs. On this committee were representatives of the student body, the faculty, ex-student?, the Regents, the Athletic Council,Austin business men, and business men of the State. Final preparatory step was taken when the stadium committee was formed into a corporation under the name of ’‘Texas Memorial Stadium Associa* tion, Inc.,” with H, L. Lutcher Stark as president; Ed. C. Connor, vice-president; L. Theo Bellmont, secretary; directors: Lucy jHarding Adams, E. C. H. Bantel, L.Theo Bellmont, D. C. Biand, W. T. j Caswell, Cecil Chamberlain, Ed.( . Connor, I. P. Hildebrand, J. A.Kemp, William L. McGill, Dave C. Reed, W. H. Richardson, H. J Lutcher Stark, Frost WoodhulL The executive secretary was MaxFichtenbaum.This committee held its first meeting in January, 1924. It was decided that the stadium would be a state-wide memorial to all! the Texas men and women who served in the World War. The following quotation from t h e j workers’ manual used during the campaign explains more fully the real purpose of the whole movement:Commemorates War“The Stadium will commemorate the great World War and the participation therein of the splendid Texas men and women who devoted their lives in the serviceof our country' in order that our ideals might be perpetuated. No finer tribute could be paid to these on and women than to erect: upon the campus of the State University a great memorial offJura to Page 3, This SectionL. Theo Bellmont (left) who was the originator and guiding influence in the Stadium movement. William L. McGill, (right)now president of the Ex-Students’ Association, who acted as chairman of the student drive for funds for construction.of the stadium running through j their minds, with the words “For Texas I Will” ringing in their ears, and under the direct leadership of William L. McGill, executive chairman, the student body met in a monster mass meeting to organize for actual work.A working organization of 500 students, with 08 team captains was formed. In a six-day campus drive, Bill McGill, unanimous choice for the position of leader,through his tireless energy and dynamic personality, guided h i s workers to a victory in which $165,357.47 was pledged among students and faculty.Luncheon HeldExcitement ran high. Luncheons were held each day. The soul of the entire University was stirred. At each luncheon, interesting phases of the day’s work were reported. Lutcher Stark played a most important part in the entireprogram. It was he who madei the initial speech in Houston inaugurating the idea of a Texas Stadium. He was at many of theluncheons with encouragement for all. He startled the campus by his statement that for each ten dollars raised by the students, he would pledge a dollar. At the end of the drive, the Stadium Association received a check from Mr. and Mrs. Stark for the pledged amount totaling over $15,000.As each $10,000 was raised, a cannon boomed out words of thevictory. A huge thermometer was erected in front of the Main Build* ing, and each day the amount raised was placed on it in huge red letters. The main slogan of the drive was ’’Bust the Darn Thing.”From all sections of the state and from Texans in distant parts of the country came letters and telegrams telling the University to go ahead with plans for a stadium and pledging support. As a fitting climax for so great a victory, the final night when more than the stipulated amount had been raised by the students, a huge bonfire was staged in celebration.No pressure was brought to bear upon any individual or student in order to make him or her subscribe. There was a general spirit of cooperation and an evident desire on the part of the students to help promote the cause.Harry D. Cross, representative of the Lyman Pierce Company, was engaged by the members of the central stadium committee toadvise with the local committee onits problems.who came on the campus decidedthat they wanted ga part in the The next campaign was held in movement and subscribed somethe city of Austin, sad was conducted by the business men and$36,000.^W/m Contract for the building of thewomen of the city under the lead- east and west stands was let in theership of Sam Sparks. A week of j spring of 1924, and work wasactual stadium work resulted inAustin citizens subscnoing $115,-000 to the fund.Campaign in Other CitiesThe campaign spread out into ether cities of the state and continued throughout the year. Inthe fall, the new group of students ' vrar heroes. Over 36,000 personspushed to completion with all possible speed. Thanksgiving Day, 1924, one year and two days after the first meeting, the University Memorial Stadium was dedicated. All Texas was represented in the tribute of concrete and steel towitnessed the baptism of immortalglory wnen Doc Stewart’s team downed the Aggies for a 7-0 victory. Rivalry, however, was forgotten for the moment as the dedicatory exercises were in progress, for the Stadium stands as a monument to all Texas soldiers who lost their lives in the WorldWar. The Stadium stands as amonument of Texas spirit, of the will to do and to carry on for the old University.Two hundred and twenty-three individual bronze tablets have been Turn to Page 3 This Section.Scarbrough SonsI he “Fashion Center” of AustinSuch Things as TheseDetermine AutumnChickiI** hIi(An afternoon ensemble in blackwith notes of beige . . . corjrect in every detail)%JEWELRY expresses individuality ineach smart Autumn costume. 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Of course it’s all the more important that they be sheer, as longer skirts show less of one’s hose. $1.85.SHOES are simplified, and the regent pump of dull black silk kid is an unerring choice. The heel is a graceful part of the classic lines, $10.00.ACCESSORIES ON STREET FLOOR
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Sun, Sep 22, 1929
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