Howdy Ags,

I am a current resident of Schuhmacher Hall and I was wondering if any of the Ol' Army residents would be so kind as to give me some of the history (yells, stories, etc.) related to the hall. Walton has been giving us a bunch of crap lately, and we need some ammo.

Thanks and Gig 'em

Well, it's because you both suck!

Moses Hall Red arsed *******s
Means MFer's on campus

Walton should be giving you crap. Your dorm ceased to be Schuchmacher when it went coed.

I live in HHH my freshman year back in 99. It was alot of fun. Going to cut, having parties in the middle of nowhere, drinking the beast up on the 4th floor. Was a letterhead as well. Not sure if they even do that still? Are there even crew cheifs anymore? Anyways not sure if I have any "ammo" on walton? They did get caught for setting a couch on fire out there in the area between the two dorms. They tried to blame it on us but someone in Walton ratted the one of their own out! Man I miss those days!

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[This message has been edited by tdidy03 (edited 9/20/2004 1:15p).]

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Tdidy I had no idea you were living there then. I remember that couch fire. We really did think it was you all that started that one until one of our own got ratted out. Was that the only couch fire that year?

Yeah, or the only one I remember. It was a good one too. Went on for a good while. It was right outside my door. I guess they had soaked it in some lighter fluid, or those things just burn really well. Just glad it didnt catch that huge tree on fire as well.

Schuhmacher was the perfect place to have Dial-A Ride pick you up after stumbling across the street at 1:30...

That wasn't lighter fluid. Needed something a bit more flammable.

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Schuhmacher was the perfect place to have Dial-A Ride pick you up after stumbling across the street at 1:30...

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Good call. I actually slept on the sidewalk in front of my buddy's dorm one night. I slept fairly well as I recall it... Most comfortable concrete ever.

Dial A Ride knew me by name. 9:00 Quad to Schuhmacher. 1:30 Schuhmacher to the Quad. Every night. It was like having my own personal Northgate shuttle.

I was told that HHH was actually a 2%er dorm until one guy stood up in '86 or so and just about singlehandedly turned it into a redass, motivated dorm.

When Lechner opened in '89, they initially cut with HHH. Hence the flourescent orange Lechner pots - to go with the HHH flourescent green - and both dorms having the tradition of not painting pots with anything but a skunk stripe until centerpole goes up.

I am not sure if you guys have seen this but this is off a website I found online- It looks like it hasn't been updated in a number of years-

The original Schuhmacher Hall, also known as Dorm 7, was located on the Corps of Cadets quadrangle on the south side of campus from 1939 until 1969, when it was renamed Leonard Hall in honor of Congressional Medal of Honor winner Turney W. Leonard. In 1964, the current Schuhmacher Hall was built on the north side of campus. In 1973, Schuhmacher Hall became the first civilian residence hall in the history of A&M to top the 3.0 GPR mark.

Schuhmacher Hall is named for Henry C. Schuhmacher of Houston, head of a wholesale grocery business bearing his name. He became a member of the Board of Directors of Texas A&M in 1925. Mr. Schuhmacher served as chairman of the Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College Committee of the Board and devoted much time and interest in behalf of that institution. He also served as a member of the Board Committees on Auditing and Finances and as a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Schuhmacher died in 1940.

The residents of Schuhmacher Hall, known as the Seamen, had been building Fightin’ Texas Aggie Bonfire for over thirty years. There were four lines of Bonfire pots, all traditionally held by Pissheads. The Yellow Pot (established in 1982) led Bonfire activities for the dorm, assisted by the Puke Pot, the Drunk Pot and the Clueless Pot (also known as “Hoss Line”). During the ’90s the Seamen went to cut with the Hobby Heartthrobs and the Legett Longnecks. Other dorm activities included Replant, Big Event and attending traditional Aggie events such as Muster and Silver Taps. Schuhmacher also held a baseball throw in front of Sbisa each year and adopted two miles of U.S. Highway 21 between Bryan and Caldwell. The famous HHH symbol derives from the fact that, although often misspelled, Schuhmacher properly contains three Hs. Dorm yells in the ’80s and ’90s included the Dong yell, the Seamen yell, the Walton Wussies yell and the K Ramp yell, none of which is appropriate for reproduction here. The first known Schuhmacher yell, back when residents were known as the Shockers, was

Schuhmacher Shockers!
Closest to the Chicken!
Never took a lickin’!
Best damn dorm on campus!

True, Keegan.

"Uncle Troy", Schuhmacher Yellow, '86

Troy spent his fish year in one of the Commons dorms. Dunn, I think. Moved to Schuhmacher, and showed a little leadership and motivation as a soph. Was Yellow as a Jr. HHH had a good group of fish that year. I was an OCA, but cut with HHH because I had a buddy from HS living there. He was a crew chief that year.

We had a really good turnout at every cut. Had a big ass dorm log that we wound up being unable to f___ out to the road. So we cut the road back to the log. Memory getting foggy, but we won a keg from (the Jr Reds) for being the most redass dorm. Had the kegger at my apartment.

We helped DG load one afternoon, on the same day the DG yellow (Rob Hogg?) broke his ankle when a log was thrown up on his leg. The DG yellow that broke his ankle was killed by a drunk driver several years ago. It may not have been RH, I keep getting the names confused.

One of the other crew chiefs from HHH that year was picked for Junior Climber the next year.

My buddy was dorm president his senior year. Got put on RHA probation (or some such) for shooting a bottle rocket into Walton. Another guy from our high school lived in K ramp. They had one of those three-man water balloon launchers. Used to shoot balloons out of the stairwell window, toward Northgate. Sometimes we'd spot their shots and call in "Tennessee windage" corrections. Knocked a ceramic "face" off the front of the Flying Tomato Brothers Pizza joint's facade. Landed a balloon right in the middle of (an occupied) table out on the sidewalk. That got the managers out on the sidewalk, and they noticed the crowd out on the 4th floor balcony. The next day the Kampus Kops came asking questions around Schuhmacher. I think someone pointed the finger at Walton, but I don't think anyone got in trouble.

My buddy's roommate penned a few pretty good grode yells aimed at Walton. I sent my buddy a link to this thread, maybe he'll respond.

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In 1973, Schuhmacher Hall became the first civilian residence hall in the history of A&M to top the 3.0 GPR mark.

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Wow. How embarrassing.

I also lived in HHH in '99 when I was a freshman. Weren't we called the Dongs too, along with Seamen? My favorite memory was the spring party. I think it was called Ripfest 2000. It's was (and will always be) the biggest party ever attended by the mitch!

Thanks guys. Our dorm isn't nearly as redass as it used to be. We only had six of us go to first cut, but I'm trying to change that. Maybe if I can get some good stories to tell, more will show up.

Thanks for that intro 88. I was a Crew Chief in 1986, the year that we really turned things around in Schuhmacher. What was once considered a "study" dorm, became a Bonfire dorm. As previously mentioned, we had a Junior Climber picked from our group in '86 and again in '87. Down the road, there was also someone in my Crew Chief line that became a Red Pot. I do remember some of the yells that were aimed at Walton, but I can't print them here. Here is a link to the website mentioned before. There is a good list of some former residents.

cec.wustl.edu/~rhl1/hhh.html

What else would you like to know?

Woah Jason Brazeal was a yellow? He went to my ELEMENTARY.

Mitch, yeah I only remember dongs. Don't remember much about seamen. And the whole stripe thing on the pot till centerpole was kinda right. They painted neon green smiley faces on ours that year. Then after bonfire we would be able to paint the whole thing and decorate to liking. But since we never made it that far I was never able to do that, and to this day still have my pot with the smiley face on it. Even though I moved on, I didnt think it would be right to decorate my pot since bonfire never burned.

can you email me some of the yells?

zsh0@aol.com

HHH's mascot used to be a cardboard carpet tube with a green stripe spraypainted on it.

In 1998 Walton tusseled with them a bit at all U night and the mascot got destroyed. Crew chief reaction is as follows:

"OH NO!!! THEY GOT OUR MASCOT!!!!"

*10 second pause*

"TIME TO MAKE ANOTHER ONE!!!"

*crew chiefs pick up another cardboard tube and spraypaint a stripe on it.

I think it took about an hour for either dorm to get about 50 yards away from the dorms.

You mentioned cut. Are the dorms involved in cut for the off-campus Bonfire? Are there still Crew Chiefs, Yellow Pots, etc.? Just curious.

Some of the bigger, more organized dorms like Moses and Walton still have cheifs and pots. Most of the Northside dorms are represented at cut, but they usually only have 10-20 people. Right now, we're cutting with Hotard, but if I can get enough people from the dorm to go, we'll get our own woods.

what does EAD mean? if it's not postable, email me

zsh0@aol.com

Eat A Di<k

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I lived in HHH my fish and soph years (95-97). My room was on the first floor facing Nortgate. I had to deal with drunks walking by all the time, but it was also nice when I would stumble from Northgate back to my room.

I vaguely remember the dong yell, but that was quite a few years back. The trash talking between HHH and Walton was always fun.

You have no idea how pissed I am that I took the advice of others and chose Southside over Northside. What a waste...
Kind of sad to hear only a few HHH out for cut. Was Dunn or (for an even more remote possibility) Appelt represented?

Brian Duckworth, one of the Front Porch Boys from the old house on Church Street, who played fiddle and mandolin with Robert Keen for several years, lived in Schumacher during the fall of 1976. I don't remember which room number, but it was on the first floor facing the Dixie Chicken.

After that, he moved out of the dorm and into the Front Porch house with Robert.

Dunn was there. There was about 6 or 7 donning rebel pots. I didn't see any signs of Appelt though.

This is kinda long. Be warned.

Most of you are getting pretty close. I lived in Schuhmacher in 98 and 99 (tdidy03 actually lived down the hall from me).

Our mascot was Sammy the seamen and he kind of looked like the number 9 with a little sailors hat and a smiley face. Wish I could draw it out for you, but I think I get the idea.

During my stay there we were VERY involved in bonfire. I'll never forget the day my dad dropped me off to college. I moved in VERY early into a stinky little room that smelled like a gym. I remember thinking "MAN, screw this crap.. why couldn't I have gotten into the commons?!" I was very scared about starting out college life and I remember my dad (class of '69) was very proud and emotional. Once we got everything unloaded he dropped off a sentimental letter for me to read and all this stuff. So I read his letter and already get a little homesick and not knowing a single soul in the dorms (hell, no one had moved in yet)

Then I hear a knock at the door. Some dude holding a beer (at 3 in the afternoon) invites me upstairs to hang out. I mosey on up to the 4th floor to the crew cheif's room and theres a chair with hair clippings on the ground and 2 dudes with letters shaved in their heads, sipping beers. The crew cheif introduces himself, offers me a beer, and asks if I want a letter head. First day of college and you wanna give me an f'd up hair cut? No thanks I'll take the beer for now.

Turns out these things called "letter heads" are pretty redass and they needed enough freshmen to spell out "Schuhmacher Dongs class of 2002 build the hell out of bonfire." (yes, some guy had to have a period shaved into his head). That's a lot of letters! After 3 more beers and an hour and a half of pressure I gave in and proudly rocked the E in Schuhmacher.

I'll never forget that first week. Considering I didn't party much in high school, I had a freakin' BLAST.

ALSO -- We had a 3 man water balloon launcher and used to shoot box fans out of the windows at Walton. It wasn't uncommon to have 50+ guys in Walton, Schuhmacher shouting at each other at 3 am.

I lived there 2 years and absolutely loved it. I was really disappointed when it went co-ed.. I still remember the dorm yells to but I don't think I can post them here if you know what I mean.

If you want more stories or history, shoot me an email at will02@aggienetwork.com. Lord knows my old crew cheif friends are much more versed in the history of Schuhmacher than I am, but I can help.

Hahaha! Yeah, I had the honor of living 2 doors down from Will02. Those were some good times. My favorite story occured one drunken evening, or so I assume or just a night where Will was really bored. I wake up to go to cless and I open my door to my dorm to find a wall of trash cans sitting in front of me. Through the night, Will went and got every trashcan in HHH and stacked them in front of my door. And there was crap in all of them so I couldnt move them. You'd think I'd be pissed but I couldnt help but laugh. I had to cut through the bathroom and leave out my suite mates dorm just so I could get out and go to class. My roomate and I tried to get him back but though many attempts never could live up to Wills trash can wall.

howdy, I know this is an ancient post at this point, but I was wondering if you had any of the schuhmacher grode yells on hand, I was a crew chief last year and we have no record of some of the grode yells mentioned in this post. Also, the wustl link posted is no longer usable and i'd love to find out more about old army things