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1)ewcy 'Snorter' Luster should be placed near the top. Key The average coach wants the sports to Abbreviations writers to play up the opposition and to belittle and Arts and sciences degrees, either Bachelor his players, his team his prospects. Then at of Arts or Bachelor of Science, '00as; the earl of the season if his team wins he ap- fine arts, '00fa ; engineering, '00cng : busi- pears in the role of a master mind, or if not ness administration, '00bus ; pharmacy, so successful, he has a perfect alibi. Luster, Sooner roll call '00pharm ; home economics, '001tc ; edu- has broad Who shoulders and is not afraid to cation, '00cd ; journalism, '00journ ; master take the bitter with the sweet, follows different of arts, '00ma: master of science, '00nas : tactics. TIC wastes no time trying to will football YEAR BY YEAR doctor of philosophy, '00ph.d ; doctor of games with newspaper propaganda, but works education, '00cd.d ; library Science, '00lib . hard to teach his players to perform their as- 1906 sc ; doctor of medicine, '00med ; b telrelor signments just a little better than the best opp- E. E. Hudson, '06, is now State railway en- of science ill medicine, '006s.mc'l . sition . The Norman record of 19 consecutive gineer for the Oklahoma CorporationCommis-sion.Hishome is in Norman. games won in Oklahoma without a loss is the best testimony of his Success. Even then he de- clines to receive the applause of the football 1911 1920 fans and shoves forward his assistants and the of Dr. E. A. Balyeat, 'llas, '18ma, professor A. Clem Wright, '20as, '21ma, has moved players. When a man displays such fine traits it is education in the University, was chairman of a residence from Sltrevelrort, La ., to Tyler, Texas, not so difficult to figure out just why his little sectional meeting on "The Development of New where the Shell petroleum corporation is re- Tiger players were willing to go out and hurl Secondary Schools" at a regional conference of opening a district onice after a lapse of four themselves into . ill( teeth of much larger op- Ok- the Progressive Education association held in years. Mr . Wright will have charge of all ex- ponents and keel, doing it until a victory was lahoma City recently . ploration work in the East Texas area . in the well-known burlap hag ." 1912 Dr . Henry D. Rinsland, '20as, '24ma, profes- Denzel Carr, '22ex, and his wife, Flizabeth Mrs. V. H. Harm, mother of Ray Hann, '12as, sor of education in the University, was chairman Ball Carr, '24as, arc both studying this year at Detroit, Mich ., and Harry L. Haun, '12as, Nor- of the section on "Tests and Measurements" at Yale university, New Haven, Conn . Mr . Carr man, died in early December at Pond Creek. a regional conference of the Progressive Edu- won a fellowship for 1936-37 in linguistics. He Mrs. Haun, a pioneer Oklahoman, also is sur- cation association held in Oklahoma City recently . was appointed Italian consul for the Hawaiian vived by her husband and another son, Paul B. Islands last May. I faun, of Blackwell . 1921 Joseph A. Brandt, '21as, director of the Uni- 1923 (;harks Smith, '12(,x, has been appointed edi- versity Press, and Dr . A. B . Adams, dean of the J. A. Rinehart . '231aw, of Fl Reno, was selected tor of the Truth Seeker a monthly magazine college of business administration, spoke on to act as attorney for the general investigating published in New York City . The publication, "The Spanish Situation" at a meeting of the committee of the star(, Scnatc in tile special according to announcement, will be atheistic. Social Forum School in Oklahoma City recently . session. 1914 T. M. Beaird, '21as, Sooner alumni Secretary, Clarence Mills, '231aw, district judge at Okla- homa City, was one of the Speakers at the an- Claude Reeds, '14as, added another laurel to presided as chairman of a debate broadcast No- nual smoker given by junior laov students of his football coaching record when his Central vember 19 from Chicago over 85 NBC and in- the University . State Teachers college team won the 1936 cham- dependent stations . Mr . Beaird has been chairman pionship of the Oklahoma Collegiate conference . of the National Public Speaking commrttce for 1924 In defeating the East Central Teachers college nine years. Harrington Wintbcrly, '2-la, , Altos ncwslrtpcr team from Ada on Thanksgiving day, the Bron- 1922 publisher, has been re-elected president of the chos finished their 1936 season without a defeat Charles Daffy, '221aw, Ponca City, member Oklahoma Society for Crippled Children . A reso- or a tic in their conference schedule . Reeds was of the State Senate, has proposed the creation lution calling for an addition to the hospital a star fullback on the Sooner team in 1910-14 . of a legislative advisory council to draft and was adopted at the meeting of the association held in early December. Dr . Carl T. Stern, '14med, won the cham- approve measures before they are presented to pionship in the annual golf t:>urnament of the the legislature. He Said the suggestion probably Verltn G. Thompson, '24as, former head of Norman Country club . would be presented to the regular session of the McAlester district of the Works Progress ad- the legislature in January . The advisory group ministration, has taken over management of 1916 would be modeled after the Kansas council which the district office at Oklahoma City . Since gradu- Dave Logan, '16as, has been appointed dis- has been operative for several years and has been ating from the University in engineering geology, trict oil conservation officer for the Corporation cfTcctivc in presenting a number of sound laws, Thompson has worked on large engineering Several nearby Commission for Oklahoma and Mr . Daffy explained . projects in Florida, served as valuation engineer counties . Logan's term as state senator expired The advisory group probably would consist of for the Oklahoma tax commission and as city November 18 . He was not a candidate for re- 25 members, 15 from the House of Representa- manager of McAlester. election . tives and 10 from the Senate, who would meet periodically between sessions to consider legis- 1925 William J . Lowry, 16bs, recently became srt- lative needs. In addition, the council would be Lucile Huntington, '25as, '351ib.sc, is now on Springfield, Illi- perintentlent of public schools at lrrovided sufficient funds to Set up an office in the staff of the library at the University of Illi- nois, Urbana, nois . the Capitol to maintain a regular research ser- and is working on a master's de- vice to collect data . gree in library science. 1919 "As I sec it," Duffy said, "an advisory council Della Brunsteter, '19as, assistant professor of Mattyc Wilson Williams, '25as, of Altus, was would be a big help in speeding legislation French, gave an illustrated lecture on Mexico author of a full page feature story on "No More through the House and Senate, if bills are prop- Little Red Houses," the November at a recent dinner meeting of the Canadian School in 29 erly prepared before being presented, and would . lie- County Medical association in El Reno . edition of the Doily Ohlaahoman The article eliminate much of the committee work now scribed how Jackson county is the first county William PfcifTcr, '191aw, now of Amarillo, necessary." in the state to reach 100 per cent consolidation Texas, has been made executor of a $6,000,000 of rural schools, thus eliminating all one-room Dewey "Snorter" Luster, '22as, '221aw, has estate . The estate is that of Julius Garfinckel, an schools. won wide acclaim for the record made by his uncle of the University graduate, who was a Norman High School football teams in the last Grace Browning, '25as, assistant state director merchant and philanthropist in Washington, D. two years. The Norman Tigers won the mythical of public welfare, spoke on "Administration of C . He died November 5. The bulk of the estate state championship this year, and counting the Public Welfare in Oklahoma" at a recent meeting was left to charity, but $100,11011 was given to of 1934, have won lt) consecu- of the Social Work club at the University . Mrs. William Pteiffer, mother of the executor, last two games tive contests in Oklahoma without a defeat . In who lives in Oklahoma City . Tessie MoNO, '25ex, Indian opera singer out-of-state games against strong Texas ft:ur known as Lushanya Mobley, is scheduled to give teams, the Tigers won three and drol,pc( l one Richard H. Cloyd, 19as, '281aw, was in charge a concert January 15 in Enid, under auspices of one-point margin . Luster gave much of of arrangements for an elaborate program De- by a Maurits Kesnar, director of the Enid Symphony ccmber 2 at which Norman's new National the credit for the Norman record to his assist- orchestra. Miss Mobley, who has studied in Ber- coaches, Guy Warren, '31(,x, and Arlo Guard armory was formally dedicated. Mr . Cloyd, ant lin and Rome, is paying a short visit to Okla- former secretary "Skivey" Davis, '20ex. All three made good rec- who is a Norman attorney and homa before sailing for Italy to begin an opera ords on Sooner football teams. Discussing Lus- of the University of Oklahoma association, is schedule that will last a year. commander of Company C, 120th Engineers, of ter's record, The Norman Transcript said : the National Guard, and is chairman of the Nor- "When nominations are made for smart and Samuel A. McReynolds, '25fa, Oklahoma City, man armory board. successful football coaches, the name of Coach is now working entirely at musical composition. 86 The Sooner Magazine January

He recently completed "Concerto in D Minor," 1932 America, working for the Standard Oil company for cello and Symphony. Anna Lee of New Jersey, having completed two years of a Neale,'32as, has been named director three-year contract. 1926 of the Norman Nursery school. Mario B. Rodriguez, '26as, is teaching English Eugene Kendall, '32as, '34M.A ., Norman in- Elmer C. Sprague, '33, is superintendent of at the University of Puerto Rico. surance man, has received word that he ranked Kiowa public schools . seventh among all the 9,171 agency men of the Frank Culwell, '33, who has been on the staff 1927 New York Life Insurance company in number Junia Lewis, '27as, has of o£ the Seminole Producer for the last year and a been named public policies written during the first six months half, has moved to Norman and joined the edi- welfare director for Osage county . of 1936. The ranking included all agents of the company in the United States torial staff of The Norman Transcript as reporter. Buff B. Burtis, '27as, Clinton, has consummated and Canada . purchase of the Clinton Daily News and Custer Ruth Buckley' Howard Van Dyke, 33as, who recently joined '32he, has a position with the the editorial staff of the Norman Transcript, has County Chronicle from Eugene Pulliam . Mr. Public Service company at Tulsa as a home ec- Burtis, who is a member of the executive board onomics demonstrator. been appointed city editor to fill a vacancy left of the University of Oklahoma association, has by resignation of Roscoe Cate, '26as, who is now been editor and publisher of the News and As chairman of the news potography divi- at the University as editor of the Sooner Maga- Chronicle for seven years. sion of the American Association of Teachers of zine and assistant in the press relations depart- Journalism, A. Clarence Smith, '32ma, was in ment. Bat Shunatona, now an attorney charge '27law, at of an extensive program scheduled at the "Precious Wewoka, has officiated in 125 athletic events in annual convention of the association December Land," a three-act play by Bob the last five years, according to a writeup pub- 31 in St. Louis. Whitehand, '33as, which was produced at the lished recently in the Oklahoma News, Oklahoma University of Oklahoma originally, has been City. Shunatona, who played quarterback for the Bus Mills, '32ex, former Sooner football and recommended by the National Play bureau of the Sooners while in school, Says that it is not enough baseball star, is scheduled to start in the outfield Federal Theater project to be a featured play in for an official to understand the rules and en- for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in the 1937 the project . Copies of the play were sent to all force them honestly-he must be physically able season, according to announcements by Tom theater project directors in the United States . Yawkey. Yawkey was quoted as saying : "I ex- to follow the game. Archie Soucek, '33ex, won a regular berth in "I play the game because I like it," he said. pect Buster Mills, another rookie, will start in the outfield. Yes, I know been up before, the line of the 1936 Navy football team and "If a coach wants to get mean and rave and tear he's radio fans who listened to the broadcast of the his hair over one of my decisions, I tell him not but they tell me he has learned to hit curve ball pitching, and that's the only weakness he had . Army-Navy game that climaxed the season heard to hire me any more. I make my living prac- his name mentioned several times. ticing law ; I do this for fun . When it ceases to When he hits a ball, Mills hits it." be fun I will quit." Helen Barbour, '33as, has resigned as home He takes Mrs. Zoralic Killough, '32as, has been ap- the razzing of spectators good- pointed social welfare director for Caddo county, economics teacher in Norman High school to naturedly . "The fans pay their money and they and Mrs. Reita Stratton, '32as, has been appointed take a position as dietitian in the Physicians and have a right to boo . But most of the time we similar position in Canadian county . Surgeons hospital at San Antonio, Texas. don't even hear them. We are too busy with to a the game." Patricia Clark, '33as, has been appointed pub- 1933 lic welfare director for Jackson county . 1928 Harvey McCaleb, '33as, has been appointed A collection of paintings by Olinka Hrdy, '28fa, professor of history on the faculty of the Cam- 1934 has been placed on exhibition at the PWA-Tulsa eron junior college, Lawton . Harry E. Moore, '34, Ed.M., is superintendent Art association gallery at the Central Library, Hugh Comfort, '33as, '35M.A ., has been ap- of schools at Pawhuska this fall after serving Tulsa. Miss Hrdy has done mural paintings in pointed instructor in English at Central State the last two years at Weleetka . Norman, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, and Teachers college, Edmond . has designed textiles and furniture in New York. A position as assistant in physics and mathe- Her first book illustrations, 200 diagrams il- Rebecca Davis,'33as, Norman, has been named matics at Northwestern State Teachers college, lustrating "Japanese Flower Arrangements for modern language teacher in the Shepherd school Alva, has been given Dot Jeanette Gifford, '34 the Modern House," by Margaret Preninger, are of individual progress at Oklahoma City . as, '36M .A . Her mother, Mrs. J. S. Gifford, to be published soon . Norman, who completed work for a master's Daisybelle Dunn,'331ib-sci, is new assistant li- degree this summer, was appointed instructor Mary Lou Woodard, '28fa, appeared in a series brarian and catalogues at Oklahoma College for in Spanish at the college. of grand operas given during the latter part of Women, Chickasha . November and early December in C. R. Arterburn, '34Ed.M., has moved from Oklahoma A position as city editor of the Bristow Record Norman to Comanche where he is principal City. She sang in "I Pagliacci," "Cavalleria Rusti- has been taken by Robert Aldo Park,'33as . cana," and "Carmen ." cipal of Comanche High school . Glenn Hall,'33ex, is now assistant adjutant at Dr. Johnny A. Blue,'34M .D., has been appoint- Ross Taylor, '28ex, was elected president of the Lubbock District CCC headquarters . Mrs the Oklahoma . ed medical supervisor for the Panhandle district Municipal league at the league's Hall is the former Mary Bigger Walthall, member of Oklahoma by Dr. Charles M. Pearce, state annual convention November 23 in Tulsa. of the University of Texas chapter of Kappa Alpha health commissioner . Theta. 1929 After teaching the last two years at Hollis, Joe Kennedy, '29law, Muskogee, is a member Resigning her position as old age pension di- Georgia Ledbetter,'34fa, is teaching Spanish and of a citizens' committee appointed by the Okla- rector for Cleveland county, Mrs. Wildah Morris, dramatic art in Alva high school . homa Public Welfare commission to assist in the '33piano, has accepted a similar position in Ok- social security program and other phases of state lahoma county. Ray Anthony,'34bus, recently was elected presi- welfare work. dent of the Oklahoma City alumni association of Edgar Baster, '33eng, and George L. King, Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. '33eng, are both employed with the Oklahoma 1931 Gas and Electric company, at Ardmore, Okla. Rising rapidly in the radio profession, Clifton Calvin T. Smith, '31ex, superintendent of Daniel,'34ex, has been appointed chief of an- Seminole county schools, has been elected presi- Paul Dooley, '33, and his wife who bought nouncers for radio station WCAE in Pittsburgh, dent of the east central district of the Oklahoma and lived on a yacht to solving the housing which is owned by the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. Education association . problem in Washington, D.C., have moved their Daniel has been in Pittsburgh since August, 1935 . "residence" to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to remain Before that he was announcer for WKY, Okla- Henry Meyer, '31ex, Norman funeral home indefinitely. homa City . director, has been elected president of the Nor- Kiwanis Charles Engleman, '33as, news editor of the John Richard Carpenter,'34M ., now man club and will be installed in the Hobart Democrat-Chief for the last two years, .S a Rhodes office in January . has resigned to scholar at Oxford university, made a bicycle tour accept a position as advertising of Germany last summer . He returned to his work Ben manager of the Elk City Daily News . He was Huey, '311aw, Cleveland county repre- succeeded at Oxford and plans to complete work on a Ph.D. sentative, introduced a hill for a state police sys- on the Democrat-Chief by his brother, degree before returning to America . tem organized along military lines in the special Allan Engleman, '36bus . session 'of the legislature in December. The bill George E. Massey, Jr., '331aw, who recently Mrs. Rosetta Dorsett Scott,'34as,'36M .A., has called for a force of approximately one hundred resigned as assistant United States district at- resigned as assistant in the University mathemat- men directed by a superintendent appointed by torney at Oklahoma City, has opened a private ics department to accept a position as mathematics the governor . The plan was designed to bring law office in 1350 First National building, Okla- teacher at Bacone college, Muskogee. homa City. about a non-political state police system, Mr. Alma Shaw, '34ex, was recently appointed to Huey said. Gaiscr Maddox, '33eng, is in Venezuela, South supervise a new southwestern research bureau for

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the Works Progress administration drama pro- Ainclia Rolle, '35cd, has resigned her position Catheryne Commons, '35sc, has taken a posi- ject. Working under the general direction of John as fourth grade teacher in the Talihina School tion as librarian in the Sevmour High school, Dunn, project director, Miss Shaw was instructed system to take a similar olace at Poteau . Seymour, Texas. to gather drama material from Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico as well as Oklahoma. It was an- Mildred F.. Lee, '35, is now teaching third Elizabeth Klein Maycs,'35fa, appeared in the nounced the bureau also would serve as a clearing grade at Pond Creek, cast of the miracle play, "Everynan," ;is present- house and dramatic agency for original plays by ed recently in Hollywood . Twenty thousand per- Southwestern authors. The southwestern drama re- Paul McClusky, '35phanu, is now representing sons Saw the premiere of the sixteenth century search bureau was the fourth to be establishctl in Upjohn & Co. with headquarters at Chickasha . morality play done in modern version . the country and the second south of Chicago . Inez Price, '35, is doing graduate work in F. D. Behrin,ger,'35as,'36M .A., former Secretary Louisville. Ky ., and after completing work lot to Dr. V. E. Monnett, director of the school of Chester 11. Linchcid, '341ib-sci, has been em- go plo.ed in the library at South Dakota State col- her master's -degree plans to to Japan as a geology, is now an instructor in government at Icgc, Brookings, S.D. 11aptist missionary. the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque . J. Richard Gurley, '341 aw, Blackwcll, was William Tutin, '35as, and Russell C:. Jones, Virginia Creager,'35as, is teaching Spanish and elected county attorney of Kay count- in the '35as, who were commissioned as reserve of- history at Addington, Oklahoma, this .cur. general election November 3. ficers when they graduated from the University, have been assigned to regular army units at Theresa Huffman,'35fa, is band instructor this Robert Lowry, '34ex, has been appointed to Fort Sill for a year's study. }-ear at Tishomingo high School . During last sum- the faculty of Panhandle A. and M. college, mer she studied at Estes Park, Colorado, with GoodwclI . Erncstina Cortazar, '35as, '35M .A ., is teaching Nohlc Cain, noted hand instructor. Spanish and English in FI Reno high School Charline F. Penner '14journ, has taken a po- this year. Robert Kyle,'35enq, has been appointed city sition in the advertising department of Kerr's Awarded a special Greek scholarship, Jackson chemist at Ardmore . Dry Goods company at Oklahoma City. Scowl, '35as, has enter(,(] Duke university, Dur- H. Gray Hilton,'35Fd .M., has been promoted ham, N. C., to continue work on a master's de- from a position as teacher in Roosevelt junior A program of guidance in the use of leisure- gree. time, rather than one aimed directly at vocation- high school at Oklahoma City to principal of al adjustments, is being tried out in Britton high Dr. A. C;. Redding, '35M.D ., after a .ear as Linwood school . interne at St. John's hospital in St. Louis, has school this year under direction of John R . Rack- Stanley 'I'. Tyler, '356us, who has been with Icy, '34ms. "Less than 20 per cent of our gradu- begun duties as interne at the Ponca City hos- the pital. Goodyear Tire and Rubber company at ates enter college, So they have to form cultural Akron, has been transferred to the Pacific coast. tastes in high School," Rackley explains. Students Nclle Fuller, '35as, is teaching on the He writes : "I was transferred from the Flying are given instruction in ethics, hobbies Such as English faculty of the Hathaway-Brown School, Squadron in August into the sole and heel de- bridge, handball, golf and handicrafts ; and ap- Cleveland, Ohio . Miss Fuller last spring re- partment ant] I am now in missionary sales work preciation of music, art and literature. ceived a master's degree from Smith college, in and around San Francisco." Northampton, Mass . While in Cleveland she Mildred Coston, '34as, who has been teaching will do graduate work antler the direction of Russel Filer, '35pharm, has enrolled in the at Thomas, Okla ., has returned to Norman to Dr. J. H. Henford, noted Milton scholar . College of Osteopathy and Surgery at Kansas assume a position with radio station WNAD. Dr. Fred C. Buffington, '35mcd, has started City, Mo. 1935 practicing medicine in Norman as associate of Anna Margaret Binklcy, '35fa, now art teacher Burrows,'35fa, has 1)r. C*. M. Clifton. Odille and been appointed in- in Putnam heights school at Oklahoma City, has structor of dramatics director of the Chil- Julia Rutledge, '35as, '36sc, became librarian put her art training to an unusual use. She is dren's Little theater of Oklahoma City university. and English teacher at Perry High School at the painting on the dining room walls of her par- Don Garlick, '35fa, has returned to the fine beginning of the present school year . ents' home the highlights of her parents' lives arts faculty of Oklahoma City university after a Ruth Somerville, '35 nurse, has accepted a from the time they were married in 1904 . year of study at the Settlement Music school in position in the operating department of the River- Beating Donahoe, '35ex, Oklahoma City, who Philadelphia . side County hospital, Arlington, Calif. studied pottery making in the University, found Dwight Hamlin, '35as, has joined the Anat- Joyce Everts, '35cd, has obtained at social serv- the pottery he made for friends so popular that darko Daily News as advertising manager . ice position at Sioux Cite, Iowa . he recently turned his home into a shop and decided to make a business of it. He produces several types of finishes and glazes that are said to be rare in this part of the country . 1936 Lester LeRoy Wiles, '30cng, is with the Pen- Reddy nowa Oil and Gas company, Borger, "Texas. Doing geophysical work for the Texas com- Kilowatt pany, George F.. Woods, Jr ., '36as, is located at Vernon, Texas. Your Electrical Servant N. Preston Wood, jr ., '36, is a second lieu- Says : tenant in the United States Marine corps, Stationed at the basic school, Navy Yard . Philadelphia, Pa . Mrs. Thomas Myron Pyle, Jr ., '36, who was Adequate Lighting Eloise Chcrryhoincs before her marriage Novem- ber 28, is a home maker in Oklahoma City. Will Help Protect Norman Burwell, '36bus, is with the Firestone Auto Supply and Service store, Tulsa, Okla. EYE-SIGHT Robert J. Jorden, '36 is a royalty gaugcr at Oklahoma City. Your Most Priceless Employed by the Works Progress administration, Doris Speir, '36, is clerical supervisor on a Possession federal archives survey at Oklahoma City. Donald R. Tcis, '36eng, is working as petroleum engineer at Oklahoma City . OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY M. W. Mahone, '36, is a medical Student in Oklahoma City. An 9klahama Institution a Established. 96/shame Territory, /992 George G. Smith, '36, is a graduate student University. J. F. OWENS, President in the John James Christian, '36as, is a student in Tulane Medical school, New Orleans . 1937 The Sooner Magazine 89

Albert A. Othick, '36, is an accountant at for Europe . Edwards has worked for WNAD, 26 in Stone Lake, Wisconsin . Pi Beta Phi-Delta Cuzco, Peru . University radio station, and WKY, Oklahoma Tau Delta. Home, Norman . City. Lenor Stephen Loerke, '36mcd, is an interne 1930 in the Good Samaritan hospital, Portland, Ore . John H. Turner, '36ex, deskinan on the Drily MITCrtt, .r-ANTHONY : Mrs . Lacy Mac Mitchell, Ohlakoman, has been placed in charge of a and Clarence Warren Anthrm, 3flbs, November Ernest Crain, '36cd .m, is teaching in a rural newly formed SOuthwcstern news division of the 21 . Home, Oklahoma City school near Indianapolis, Okla . newspaper, with headquarters at Ilobart. lie Charles E. Jennings, '36eng, has left the State will cover important news events in the South- 1931 anti is now working in the western part of the State and write special fea- Lowrey-Chesnut Mill JoyceAnnettLowr V, Highway department '31cx, and Harold Guy Chesnut '31ex November 11asolinc department of the Indian "Territory 11- tures. Turner was editor of the ()l(hrkonxs Daily Oil company, at Oklahoma City. during his last semester in school . 14. Kappa Kappa Gamma-kappa Alpha . Home, luminating Oklahoma City . Marguerite Louise Koerner, '36, is teaching in Oklahoma City. Coles-Grove Miss Ruth Coles and Stephen G. School MARRIAGES Grove, Jr ., 'ilex, in Quealy, Wyoming- home . Sam Maddux, Jr ., '36, is with a flying cadet 1928 Rock Springs, Wyoming . detachment, Company A, Randolph Field, Texas. BURNE)-TUCK : Miss Grace Elizabeth Burner, '28ex, and Dr . Vernon I,ce 'I uck, November 17 1932 Henry Lee McConnell, '36as, is in the United in Oklahoma Citv . Pi Beta Phi . Home, Sherman, AUSTIN_CEKOSKY Miss Leora Austin, '32ex, and States Marine corps, stationed in the basic school 'Texas. Elmer P. Cekosky, November 21 . Kappa Phi . at Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Pa. 1929 Home, Wichita, Kansas . Sidney S. Chazanow, '36eng, is a research TRUxtBO-BRANAN : Miss Elizabeth Trumho, '29 TAYLOR NICHOLSON; Miss Rosemary Taylor, and chemist for the Phillips Petroleum corporation hs, and Ilcrbcrt I,. Branan . '32as, '381aw, August Howard A. Nicholson, '32ex, Phi Ganuna Delta. at Bartlesville . Whitley Cox, '36, is a merchant at Tulsa, Okla . Janie Brown, '36as, is a home maker at No- wata . Mrs. Lacy Boutwell Gaylcr, '36, is a housewife in Norman. A position as sales engineer for Hanlon-Waters, Inc., took Albert Charles Jensen, '36eng, to Hobbs, N. M. Clara McCoy Borjes, '36ed, is now a housewife at Elk City. She is a niece of Mrs. Clara McCoy Wallen (Mrs . J. W. Wallen), of Okla- homa City, who was a student in the University 35 years ago. W. G. Davis, Jr., '36, is now an accountant with the General Electric company, Schenectady, N. Y. Kathryn Miller Wise, '36, is a teacher in Nor- man . assistant in Julian A. Howard, '36, is now an and the botany department of Tulane university, is working on a master's degree . Ile spent the summer as a ranger in Yosemite National Park . E. Paige Mullins, '36as, is taking a secretarial course at Chickasaw, Ala , Elloui Mayer, '36, is doing secretarial work at McAlester, Okla . Myron C. England, '36med, is an intone at "-and so I say that RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM is all City Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. Ile writes that right, but not in a Mattress." Doctors George Seibold, Lee Etnenliciser, M. C. England, Louis Kennedy, W . H. McKenzie and Joe Edwards met for a steak dinner November 19. You too, can sleep on the "Millionaire Mattress"-the famous Sim- Mrs. Ora Baker Smith, '361ie, is home adviser mons Beautyrest-for only 50c a week. for the Resettlement Administration at Chicka- sha. Herbert M. Sanford, '36as, '36bs.med, is a student in the University medical school at Ok- lahoma City. Geneva A. Patterson, '36gn, is a graduate nurse at Oklahoma City. Wesley Moore Langdon, Jr.. '36as, is studying law at the University . Harriet Hicks, '36journ, has joined the state- house staff of the United Press in Oklahoma City. She will operate the teletypewriter at the state Doc Bill capitol and assist with legislative reporting . She & previously had been employed by the LeRoy A. Ritter news service at the capitol. Roger L. Messman, '36geol, is now employed Furniture Company by the Continental Oil company in the Ponca City offices . He will work in the geological department, studying well samples . 10 West Grand Oklahoma City Harry Edwards, '36ex, of Duncan, took a position in November as radio operator on the S . S. Westmoreland, which sailed from Galveston

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Home, 2913 North Florida Avenue, Oklahoma JOHNSTON-LEVER : Miss Martha Oliver Johnston, DEATHS City. and Thomas Etnbrey Lever, '33ex, November 15 STAGY-BROSSEAU : Mr. William F. Stacy, and in Chickasha . Home 1125 Northeast 17th Street, Jack A. Brosseau, ., Oklahoma City . Ilal T. Niemann, popular University polo Jr '32bs, November 26. Kap- player, was fatally injured pa Kappa Gamma-Phi Ganurta Delta. Home, 1934 in a game Thanks- Oklahoma City. giving day between the Sooner team and riders FiANN-MURPHY : Miss Helen Elizabeth Flynn, of the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, HUDSON-SMELLOW : Miss Margeurite Huston, '35cx, and Thomas Joseph Murphy, Jr., '34as, N. M., the school at which Niemann completed '32ex, and Samuel 1) . Smellow, November 2 in November 5 in Ponca City . Home, Fort Worth, his preparatory work Minneapolis, Minnesota . Home, Fort Braggs, Texas. and took his first two North Carolina . HAR'KINS-JOHNSON : Miss Mary Frances Hawk- \cars of college work. HAINES-WPST : Miss Mary Ellen Haines, '32as, ins, '34as, and Glenn Blay Johnson, November Niemann's horse col- '35ma, and Bland West, '34as, '371aw, August 26 in Carnegie . Home, Des Moines, Iowa. lided with another, the 20 in Bartlesville . Sigma Alpha Epsilon . Home, front legs of Nicmann's Norman . GIBSON-Ttwt=BLOOD : Miss Frances Gibson, and mount became entan- Eltner C. Trueblood, Jr ., '34ex, November 24 . gled with the hind legs 1933 [[,)me, Oklahoma City . of the other and both ANDERSON-HOGAN : Miss h.velyn Marie Ander- horse and rider went son, '33as, and Daniel Wise Hogan, Jr., STANDIFER-LUDLUM: Miss Dorothy Blanche Novem- Standifer, '34as, and James N. Ludlum, '34law, down . The youth died her 9 in Norman . Delta Delta Delta. Home, in an ambulance on Oklahoma City. October 26 in Oklahoma City . Pi Beta Phi-Kappa Alpha . Home, Fort Worth, Texas. the way to a hospital. Niemann, 22 years 1935 NIEMANN Major H. P. Sanders, Jr., FOWLER-IIECKARD : Miss Elizabeth Dale Fowler, institute commandant and Hucy M. Heckard, '35ex, November 16 . said that no one was guilty of any negligence in Home, 1841 Northwest 18th Street, Oklahoma the accident . Russell Smith's City. Niemann, 22 years old, was the son of Dr. and Mrs. George 11 . Niemann, of Ponca City. JONES-HAYS: Miss Eleanor Aileen Jones, and He was an outstanding student at Roswell and Studio Donald R. Hays, '356s, November 26 . Home, had the distinction of being the first high school "Where photography is an Art" Tonkawa. student there ever to make the polo team . His rank on leaving Roswell was that of cadet 127' E. Main Phone 413 O'SULLIVAN-HULLETT: Miss Patsy O'Sullivan, colonel, the highest the school offers, '35ex, and James C. Hullett, November 24 in and he was To- chosen by a board of army officers as one of the Oklahoma City . Delta Delta Delta. Home, two ranking cadets in American military in- ledo, Ohio. stitutes, an unusual distinction. FULLENWIDER-THOMAS : Miss Ellen Fullenwider, This fall he was a senior and first year law '36as, and Wallace Crawford Thomas, '35as, student in the University, and was a member '37law, August 20 in Muskogee. Delta Gamma- of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Phi Gamma Delta. Home Norman . Funeral services were conducted in Ponca City, with many of his University classmates and fra- 1936 ternity brothers present . HUDSON-WIN SLOW : Miss Josephine Hudson, '36ed, and David Clinton Winslow, '36as, May 23 in Norman . Home, 1928 "S" Street, Lincoln, An automobile accident early Thanksgiving Nebraska . day on Highway 77 north of Norman took the life of Gordon G. Fuller, '31law, Oklahoma City WRIGHT-ENGLENIAN : Miss Kathryn Wright, attorney . '36hs, and F. Allen Engleman, '36ex, November He was found Delta dead in his automobile, which 7 in Blackwell . Kappa Kappa Gamma-Phi investigating officers said apparently had slipped Theta. Home, Hobart. off the highway and struck the edge of a culvert LAREAU-S.trrtt : Mssi Wynona LaReau, '37, when he attempted to straighten the course of and George C. Smith, '36as. Home, Norman . the car. SATTERFtta.D-LAREAU : Miss Alice Satterfield, Fuller was active in debating while in the '36ex, and F. C. LaReau, Jr., '36. Home, 423 University, was a member of Delta Sigma Rho, South Denver, Tulsa. national honorary debate fraternity, Congress, was active in student council activities and sang FALLOTT-WALKER : Miss June Elizabeth Fallot, with the University and R. C. Walker, '36bs, November 15 in glee club . Tonkawa. Phi Delta Theta. Home, 215 North- He was 27 years old. east 13th, Oklahoma City . BRtca:-BLACK : Miss Virginia Brice, '36ex, ant[ Roscoe Cox, '13law, attorney and civic leader Harper Black, '366s, November 7 in Checotah . at (:handler, died in late November in an Okla- Kappa Kappa Gamma-Kappa Alpha. Home, homa City hospital of peritonitis . Houston, Texas. After graduating from the University he prac- BAILFY-McKINNEY : Miss Virginia Elizabeth ticed law in Tr_von a Short time but went to Chandler in 1914 . He We Manufacture Cleanliness Bailey, and Charles Noel McKinney, '36as, No- vember 25. Home, Sapulpa . served as county attorney there from 1925 to 1937 1929, served several BRAND-GAMBLE : Miss Eloise Brand, '37, and Years as member of J:uncs C. (,amble, '37, November 24 . Delta Gain- the school board, was ma-Kappa Sigma. Home, 827 South Miller Ave- a past president of the NORMAN nue, Norman . Chamber of Commerce McGOVERN-TRUSCOrr : Miss Mary Katherine and a member of the Steam Laundry McGovern, and Gene Truscott, '37law, Septem- lions club . ber 8 in Wewoka . Pi Beta Phi-Sigma NO . Home, Norman . He was a former ser- cice man and a mem- L. C. Lindsay, Mgr. hcr of the American BIRTHS legion . At the time of ROSCOL COx his death he was serving Mrs. Hazel James Williams, '26as, '3Uma, and as commander of the Chandler post of the Le- Mr. Tony Williams, a daughter, Katherine Ann, gion. He was also a member of the Masonic, PHONES 1. O. O. F., Knights of Pythias and Modern November 20. Home, Ada . Woodmen lodges . Mr. C. Eugene Springer, '25as, '26ma, and Funeral services were conducted in the Pres- 71 71 Mrs. Springer, a daughter, November 19. Home, byterian church at Chandler, of which he was 305 Chautauqua, Norman . a member . 92 The Sooner Magazine January

Newspaper comments on his death paid trib- Thomas James Davey, '34 bus, 1034 Murray Hill DAVID ROSS BOYD, 1853-1936 ute to him as "one of Chandler's leading citizens, Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . a man who during his years of association with Mary I. Davis, '32as, 484 Orange Street, New the people of this community, endeared himself Haven, Connecticut . (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 80) to all with whom he came in contact." Luther John Donaghey, '316us, 203 North Syca- more Street, Pauls Valley . most beautiful towns in the state and the Charles E. Edgerton, '30geol, 1537 West Mag- Richard Van Duyne, '35ex, mathematics teach- campus of the University one of the most er in nolia Street, San Antonio, Texas. Woodward junior college, died in an Ok- Johnnie Hendricks, '33nurse, Nurses Quarters, attractive in the entire country. lahoma City hospital in November as a result of injuries received when he was struck by an Veterans Facility, Los Angeles, California. While president of the University Dr. automobile . John D. Hockensmith, '32geol, 422 Beacon Life Boyd checked credits Building, Tulsa. and enrolled per- Van Duyne, who was 27 years old, had al- sonally all students " " seeking admission. He most completed work for a master's degree in also the University . Funeral services were held at traveled thousands of miles each year Plainview church near Weatherford . TOM STIDHAM MOVES UP visiting remote villages and country school houses to speak to the people assembled there Dr. Gaines Brightwell, '29as, '31med, and (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 83) and tell them of the University and Mrs. Brightwell were killed when a tire on its work. During the fourteen years he their automobile blew out near Beaver, Okla . duced. Homecoming Day spectators at served as president of the Territorial Their car was hurled over a 15-foot embank- the Missouri game this year were amazed Board of Education, he made up examina- ment and lay unseen until a passing motorist tion questions for heard the cries of the Brightwells' 5-months-old to see Oklahoma put on touchdown drives county teachers' exam- baby which was in a basket in the car. of 72 and 50 yards without throwing a inations and for eighth grade graduates The parents were dead, but the baby had only, single pass, something an Oklahoma team and was in general the leader of educa- head bruises. The child was taken to the home tional work in the Territory. of Mrs. Brightwell's parents in Denver . hadn't done in years. Dr. Brightwell had been practicing in Leedy There have been other contributions too, Before the opening of the Cherokee for the last two years and was en route to Glen- most notable of which was installation of Outlet to settlement in 1893, Dr. Boyd wood Springs, Colo ., where he had been offered a training room with modern apparatus journeyed to Washington and persuaded position. a hospital for taking care of the players; a central the president to set aside sections thirteen and thirty-three in Mrs. R. W. Skinner, the former Nora Cole, equipment office, thousands of dollars in each township for '27ex, died in December and funeral services stadium improvements secured through higher education and for public buildings. - were held at Dallas, Texas. She was the wife of NYA labor, and a decided increase in This precedent was followed in subse- a former member of the state legislature from player morale. Every time a Sooner team quent openings and later while president Miami, Okla . Mrs. Skinner wrote for newspapers has gone on the field, it of the University of New Mexico he and magazines in both Oklahoma and Texas has played to also under the name Nora Cole Skinner . win and not just to keep down the score. selected and had set aside lands for that Major Jones' system also calls for a fre- University . The importance of this work Gerald Koos, 20-year-old student from Turpin, quent check and encouragement of each in both states can hardly be overestimated. Okla., died December 2 in the University Infir- player scholastically and as a result, in- Dr. Boyd's father was active in the work mary. Death was due to complications which set eligibility because of grades was not a of the "Underground Railroad" and his in from a ruptured appendix, according to Dr. worry this year and the players have been home C. S. Bobo, director of the student health service. was a "station" on the route fol- Physicians who examined him reported that the taught that it is better not to get behind lowed by escaping slaves on their way to appendix was already ruptured when he was ad- in their studies than to get behind and Canada. As a little boy Dr. Boyd often mitted to the Infirmary. He was a pre-medical to have to make it up by summer school accompanied his father on trips to take student and was classified as a junior. attendance and correspondence . fugitive slaves to the next station farther Major Jones' record at Oklahoma : north. Perhaps these experiences helped Chad Williams, 20 years old, a junior student to fix in his young mind in the University, died November 21 at Wood- 1935 that deep sym- ward as a result of blood poisoning that developed Sooners 3 Colorado 0 pathy for the poor and helpless and op- from a glandular infection. He was the son of Sooners 25 New Mexico 0 pressed which was ever after one of his C. E. Williams, Woodward . Sooners 7 Texas 12 most pronounced characteristics. Sooners 16 Iowa State 0 As president both of the University and the Territorial DIRECTORY CHANGES Sooners 0 Nebraska 19 Board of Education Dr. Sooners 0 Kansas 7 Boyd was by far the most prominent man engaged in Fred J. Anderson, '23pharm, Box 148, Elko, Nev. Sooners 20 Missouri 6 educational work in Oklaho- Georgia M. Ball, '29as, 5708 Maryland, Chicago, Sooners 3 Kansas State 0 ma. Yet throughout his life he remained Illinois . Sooners 25 Oklahoma Aggies 0 intensely democratic, never losing touch Mrs. Mariel Ballard Baldwin, '321ib.sci, 209 South with the plain people from whom he Independence, Cushing . sprang and whom Asher H. Bard, '29as, care Kiowa News, Kiowa, 99 44 he loved most. In Kansas . Sooners won 6. travels about over Oklahoma to tell people Mrs . Marianne Bays Bard, '30fa, '31ed, care Sooners lost 3. about the University he visited in homes Kiowa News, Kiowa, Kansas . 1936 of the humblest of people, sleeping in sod Fred William Becker, '35geol, Box 934, King- Sooners 0 Tulsa houses, dugouts and log cabins. man, Arizona . 0 He sat Sooners at the tables of the poorest Robert E. Brittain, '29as, 2846 East Avenue, 8 Colorado 0 of the settlers, Columbus, Ohio . Sooners 0 Texas 6 talked to them of their problems and of Mrs. Carrie Buttram Wails, '19as, '19fa, Ayer, Sooners 14 Kansas 0 the future of their children, eagerly seek- Massachusetts . Sooners 0 Nebraska 14 ing to interest them in education. Mary Camille Carey, '31phys .ed, 739 Northeast 17th, Oklahoma City. Sooners 7 Iowa State 7 Young men who had but the barest John Ernest Cannon, '27ma, Checotah . Sooners 6 Kansas State 6 rudiments of schooling were urged to Haskell Carpenter, '30eng, 1217 North Francis, Sooners 14 Missouri 21 come to the University . For these he or- Oklahoma City. Sooners 35 Okla. Aggies 13 ganized his famous "Push Class" com- William A. Clark, Jr., '32as, 6341 Vanderbilt, Houston, Texas. posed of mature persons who had had lit- Robert B. Collins, '351aw, 1908 West 20th, Okla- 84 67 tle educational opportunities. Sometimes homa City. Sooners won 3. four or five of these young men would William V. Cox, '21as, '24ma, Missouri Military Sooners lost 3 . rent a little cottage and do their own Academy, Mexico, Missouri. Sooners tied 3. housekeeping. Dr. Boyd would often visit