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Oldest Established EVENTS Plumbing Firm in Oklahoma October 11-First of faculty lecture Norman Eats At series. J. E. Smay on "Milestones of Civ- COOPER'S M. F. FISCHER & SON ilization." Coffee Shop October 12-Travel and National 116 N. Peters Phone 73 Traits series. Walter S. Campbell on "Downtown" "Great Britain." COLLEGE October Barber 14-Varsity polo team plays "Oldest & Strongest" and Beauty SHOP freshmen. Satisfaction Guaranteed October 19-Travel and National FIRST NATIONAL Traits series. Dr. Gustav For appointments call Mueller on "Switzerland ." BANK ARTHUR GRAY Norman, Okla. Phone 1362 October 20-Oklahoma polo team plays Blues. "The Home of Homes" October 20-21-Dad's Day. CHICKASAW October 20-21-22-State Hi-Y conven- The Copper Kettle LUMBER CO. tion. W. T. Jameson, Mgr. 529 Buchanan St. October 21-Oklahoma-Iowa State Wall Paper & Paint Department football game. "Norman's Finest Place to Eat" 202 E. Comanche Phone 800 October 26-Travel and National Traits series. Dr. Lucile Dora on "We Have the Best" "France". November 1-Concert of University WIMBER CANDY CO. symphony orchestra.

November 2-Oklahoma polo team 121 W. Main Phone 223 plays Missouri . 600University Cleaners November 2-Travel and National Traits series. L. B . Fritts on "Ceylon and "Don't Buy any Car until you Southern India." CAMPUS PHARMACY Drive the new V-8 Fordl" 796 November 3-4-Homecoming . Asp Phone 2324 HUGHES MOTOR CO. November 4-Oklahoma-Kansas foot- WE Comanche & DELIVER ball game. Highway 77 Phone 21 November 4-Cross-country meet for teams and individuals . Brown Bilt Shoes VARSITY November 4-Oklahoma polo team For MEN Clothing Store plays Missouri . For WOMEN Late Styles "The best in Men's furnishings" November 9-Travel and National Traits series. Todd Downing on "Mexi- Buster Brown Shoe Store Chas. Devorss Miller Thompson co." 214 E. Main Down Town November 10-11-Playhouse presents ELM STREET GROCERY drama, "As Husbands Go." "Free Delivery" and MARKET November 10-11-Oklahoma polo team NORMAN PAINT and "We solicit your thirty plays Iowa State. PAPER CO. day charge account." November 16-Travel and National W. B. Hepp, Mgr. 415 Elm Phone 4 Traits series. Miss Della Brunsteter on Phone 1041 105 E. Main "The Near East."

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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION

PRESIDENT FIRST DISTRICT Chester H . Westfall, '16, Ponca City, Oil Investments. Luther H . White, 14, Tulsa, Geologist, President, Tulsa FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Board of Education . Lewis R. Morris, '15, '17, Oklahoma City, County Attorney, SECOND DISTRICT Oklahoma County. A . N. "Jack" Boatman, ''4, '16, Okmulgee, Attorney. SECOND VICE PRESIDENT THIRD DISTRICT Weaver Holland, '13, , T exas Vice President, Dallas Charles B . Memminger, '14, Atoka, Attorney, State Sen- Light & Power Company . ator. SECRETARY-TREASURER FOURTH DISTRICT Frank S. Cleckler, Norman. Ben Hatcher, '24, '25, Ada, Attorney. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS FIFTH DISTRICT Otto A. "Dutch" Brewer, '17, '20, Hugo, County Attorney, '15, '17, Oklahoma City. Choctaw County. Lewis, R. Morris, Glenn C. Clark, '13, Ponca City, Chief Geologist, Continen- SIXTH DISTRICT tal Oil Company. John Rogers, '14, Tulsa. Mrs. Walter Ferguson, '07, Tulsa, Columnist for Scripps- SEVENTH DISTRICT Howard newspapers. George A. Meacham, '20, Clinton, Attorney. Earl Foster, '12, '13, Oklahoma City, Attorney. Neil R. Johnson, '15, '17, Norman, Rancher-Stockman . EIGHTH DISTRICT Errett R. Newby, '07, '08, Oklahoma City, Oil Operator. Fritz L. Aurin, '14, '15, Ponca City, Chief Geologist, South- John Rogers, '14, Tulsa, Attorney. land Royalty Company.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OKLAHOMA STADIUM-UNION MEMORIAL FUND PRESIDENT Ben G. Owen, Norman, Director of Athletics of the Uni- Neil R. Johnson, '15, '17, Norman, Rancher-Stockman. versity of Oklahoma . VICE PRESIDENT Victor E. Monnett, '12, Norman, Director, School of Ge- William Bennett Bizzell, Norman, President of the Univer- ology, President Athletic Council . sity of Oklahoma. Richard H. Cloyd, '19, '28, Norman, Attorney, State Repre- SECRETARY sentative. Frank S. Cleckler, Norman. Errett R. Newby, '07, '08, Oklahoma City, Oil Operator. TREASURER Tom F . Carey, '08, Oklahoma City, Accountant and Tax Robert W. Hutto, '10, Norman, President, Security National Counsel . Bank. Raymond A. Tolbert, '12, '13, Oklahoma City, Attorney. MEMBERS B. S. Graham, Oklahoma City, Aviator. Emil R. Kraettli, Norman, Secretary of the University of Oklahoma. Robert H . Wood, '1l, Tulsa, Geologist. Edgar D. Meacham, '14, Norman, Assistant Dean of the A. N. "Jack" Boatman, '14, '16, Okmulgee, Attorney. College of Arts and Sciences. Neil R. Johnson, '15, '17, Norman, Rancher-Stockman.

ATHLETIC COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Hubert Ambrister, '12, '14, Oklahoma City, Attorney . Lynwood "Bus" Haskins, '29, Kansas City, Oil Company Neil R. Johnson, '15, '17, Norman, Rancher-Stockman. Executive

ALUMNI MEMBERS OF BOARD OF REGENTS Joseph C. Looney, '20, '22, Wewoka, Attorney. Malcolm E. Rosser, '21, Muskogee, Attorney. Eugene P. Ledbetter, '14, Oklahoma City, Attorney.

TRUSTEES, 0. U. LIFE MEMBERSHIP TRUST Errett R. Newby, '07, '08, Chairman. Tom F. Carey, '08, Vice Chairman . Neil R. Johnson, '15, '17, Secretary.

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Tulsa Meeting October 6 Mrs . Helen Meister Arbuckle, '26, Sec- Oran McCain, '31, Secretary, 321 Com- Northeastern Oklahoma Sooner alum- retary-treasurer . merce Building. ni are invited to attend the University NEW YORK CITY CUSHING of Oklahoma Association dinner spon- Ivan G. Richardson, '17, President, care John B. Gordon, '30, Secretary, Cushing sored by the Tulsa Sooner Club at the Young Ottley Inc., 122 East 42nd St. Citizen. University Club at 6 :30 p . m. the night Robert S. Gordon, '20, Vice president, DALLAS, TEXAS of October 6, by Mrs. Earle S. Porter, 48 Wall Street. Weaver Holland, '13, President, Dallas president of the Tulsa club. Light & Power Company. This dinner takes place the night be- Fred H. Ward, '21, President, 1117 West fore the Tulsa-Oklahoma football game 35th Street. Varsity at Tulsa . Mrs. Porter hopes that alumni LOS ANGELES Robert Waldrop of Oklahoma City from Sapulpa, Skiatook, Claremore, George E. Heap, '23, President, 1926 will be president of the Y. M. C . A. Pawhuska, Bartlesville and other north- Kelton Ave., West Los Angeles, Calif. this year, as the result of the failure of eastern Oklahoma cities will attend . The WASHINGTON, D. C. Jim Riley of Bristow, president-elect, to price of each plate will be only 75 cents. Congressman Wilburn Cartright, '20, return to school . Mr. Riley has accepted The dean of Sooner toastmasters, Wal- President, House Office Building. a position with the Curtis Publishing ter Ferguson, will preside. Bennie William G. Cullen, '16, Secretary-treas- Co. at Bartlesville . Owen, Bo Rowland, , urer, Room 827, National Press Build- Perhaps the longest distance any stu- Pete Gracey and President Bizzell are ing, 14th & F. Street, N. W. dent came this year was the trek made expected to speak. BECKHAM COUNTY CLUB by James A. Long of Porte Alegre, Bra- It will aid the Tulsa club if all alum- Dr. V. C . Tisdale, ex '31, President, Elk zil, who enrolled in the University as the ni who can attend this rousing rally will City. second generation in that noted Sooner notify Mrs. Porter, 1115 East 25th Place, H. C . Ivester, '27, Vice president, Sayre. family, the Longs . His father, Frank phones 3-2894, Tulsa, at the earliest pos- Joe McBride, '28, Secretary-treasurer, Elk A. Long, celebrated athelete, graduated sible moment. City in 1908. TULSA Ponies hold more interest than motor- Sooner Club Directory Mrs. Pearl Goodrich Porter, '09, Presi- bikes this year for Walter Davidson of NORMAN dent, 1115 East 25th Place. Wisconsin, son of the motorcycle manu- Harold R. Belknap, '25, President, 111 Travis Milsten, '22, Vice president, 310 facturer, who has enrolled in the Uni- S. Peters Avenue. Tulsa Trust Building . versity. Primary lure of Oklahoma to Frank S. Cleckler, '21, Secretary-treas- Mr. Davidson, , friends say, was Jerry urer, Faculty Exchange . CONTENTS Waters' polo team, which made such a OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahomans at home and abroad 3 remarkable showing in the East-West Earl Foster, '12, President, 920 Perrine The Sooner sport world 12 games . Building. By Harold Keith, '28 It appeared for a while that there Glenn W. Faris, '19, Secretary-treasurer, Your Association 13 might be two presidents of the men's Chamber of Commerce. By Chester Westfall, '16 council but the difficulty seems to be BARNSDALL Just Among us 14 solved with the announcement of Mark Edna Mae Stines, '23, President. By Frank S. Cleckler, '21 Evans of Norman, president, that he Mrs . Marietta Wallace Willis, '23, Vice The University's directed leisure delegated Ewing Sadler of Sulphur to president. program 15 prepare the year's program for the coun- A. Marion Smith, '27, Secretary. in the New Deal 16 cil, since he was uncertain whether he DUNCAN Alumni and Rush Week 17 would continue as president. Jerome Sullivan, '23, President. Opening Days in Other Years 19 Lecturers who may appear on the A. H. Sills, '24, Vice president, Box 1266, By Ernie Hill, '32 campus during the coming school year, Loco. Belles lettres and bell ringers 28 according to plans being perfected by The Sooner Magazine October

President Bizzell, include R. H. Wedge- as associate professor of chemistry in has been made as to the first Chancellor. wood Benn, former Secretary of State for charge of petroleum technology. In 1925 It seems probable that no one connected India, tentatively scheduled to lecture he was made professor of petroleum en- with the Oklahoma higher education March 7 ; Dr. C. E. M. Joad, celebrated gineering in charge of refinery courses. system will be selected for the office. philosopher of the University of London, He was responsible for the building of Inauguration of the project may be com- February 19; Dr. John Langdon Davies, the refinery of the school of petroleum mitted to President Bizzell, who would author, date not set, and Dr. Sam Sham- engineering. Like Mr. George, Doctor combine his office of President of the alhauser, New York educator, date not Padgett is a graduate of the University University with the Chancellorship. Un- set. of Pittsburgh . der this proposal, two vice-Chancellors The home economics practice house Professor Carson has worked closely would be named, possibly Chancellor this year will be at 425 Park Drive. and cooperatively with the staff of the Findlayson of the University of Tulsa Sigma Epsilon is the name of a new school of petroleum engineering and is and President Bennett, '26M. A., of Ok- local fraternity replacing Sigma Mu Sig- perfectly familiar with the objectives lahoma Agricultural and Mechanical ma, which disbanded last year. The fra- sought in that school. College. ternity, which is seeking the approval of "Professor Carson is unusally well fit- A committee of former Rhodes schol- the University, will have its house at ted to assume his additional duties," ars at the University of Oklahoma, un- 439 West Boyd Street . The local in- President Bizzell says. "For years he has der the chairmanship of Savoie Lottin- tends assume to the unpaid obligations worked to adapt instruction in mechani- ville, '28journ., assistant editor of the of Sigma Mu Sigma, it is understood . cal engineering to the needs of the pe- University Press, has been making a If approved, Sigma Epsilon intends to troleum engineer . He has developed the summary of the Honors Plan as it is in petition for membership in Sigma Phi mechanical and gas engineering labor- effect at the University of Oxford. An Epsilon . atory on the campus for training men Honors Plan is contemplated in the One of the first regents of the Uni- in petroleum and natural gas engineer- greater University . versity, William R. Swartout, celebrated ing. Many of the valuable pieces of The Board has recommended that the his fiftieth wedding anniversary Septem- equipment are not found in any other out-of-state tuition fee be increased in ber 3 at Tampa, Florida, his home . The school in the nation ." other state schools to equal that charged Swartouts were married by Henry Ward Under Mr. Carson, the University has by the University, whose fees are $50 a Beecher in New York September 3, 1883. assumed national leadership in the natur- year. The University appeared to be the Mr. Swartout was a regent in 1894. al gas field, forming a perfect comple- only state supported institution having Grantland Rice in his syndicated col- ment to the school of petroleum en- such fees. umn refers to the Vanderbilt-Oklahoma gineering, both of which under bean The Board has decided not to make game as one the of leading intersectional Felgar have added to the already great any changes at the University of Okla- games of the season . national reputation of the college of en- homa. for the present at least. gineering. Petroleum Engineering Indian Superintendent Sooner Law Firm Professor William H. Carson, director Randolph "Chalk" McCurtain, '28as, of the school of mechanical engineering Alvan Muldrow, '33law, and Neil became superintendent of the Indian res- in the college of engineering, has been Keller, '331aw, both of Norman, have ervation at Gallup, New Mexico, Sep- named director of the school of petrol- formed a law partnership and have es- tember 1 under John Collier, Californian eum engineering, succeeding H. C. tablished their offices in the Stubbeman who recently was appointed United States George, internationally known petroleum Building in Norman. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. engineer, who resigned to become direc McCurtain was superintendent of Bok- tor of the school of petroleum engineer- Co-ordinating Progress chito schools for the past four years and ing of the University of Pittsburgh . The Coordinating Board for educa- had been selected school superintendent A further depletion of the brilliant fac- tion in Oklahoma resumed its meeting at Lexington previous to his federal ap- ulty of this school carne with the resig- in the Capitol at Oklahoma City Mon- pointment. He was a member of Sigma nation of Dr. Fred W. Padgett, profes- day, August 28, to complete plans for a Chi fraternity during his undergraduate sor of petroleum engineering, who has charter for the Greater University of Ok- days. resigned to become a member of the Sun lahoma and to discuss the executive or- Oil Co. staff at Marcus Hook, Pennsyl- ganization for the new educational sys- Modern Language Head vania. Doctor Padgett was working for tem. Reford Bond of Chickasha pre- Dr. H. Michael "Sinky" Lewis, '28as, this firm in their development depart- sided as chairman became head of the modern language de- ment during the summer . Considerable progress has been made partment at the Alabama College for Both Professor George and Doctor on the coordinating plan. A committee Women, Montgomery, Alabama, this fall . Padgett go to handsomely increased sal- inspected the Canadian system of col- Dr. Lewis earned the prefix at the Uni- aries. Both have been greatly instru- leges during the summer, to determine versity of Poitiers, Poitiers, mental in making France in the Oklahoma school the adaptability of certain features of the 1930. He was enrolled here preeminent in again last the world among petro- Canadian coordinated school system to year as a graduate student leum engineering . schools. Mr. George Oklahoma . Another committee has ap- is returning to his alma mater and to proached the Carnegie Foundation for Vinita Band Director the school where he taught from 1904 to the Advancement of Learning, seeking That high-stepping, sway-back drum 1907. He came to the University in 1924, to have that Foundation match funds major who led the University of Okla- from Ardmore, where he was petroleum advanced by the state on a five-year pro- homa band onto the football field be- engineer in charge of the United States gram for research. While the Founda- tween halves during the past three Bureau of Mines office . sea- Doctor Padgett, tion has not yet given consideration to sons has taken his baton to Vinita like Mr. George, where has an international rep- making such a grant, the Coordinating he will direct the municipal utation, having and school been a consultant for the Board has voted to assess each institu- bands this year. Russian government in the Baku petro- tion which will be affiliated with the Hugo Goetz, '33fa, the man who made leum field. He has been a member of new system fifty cents a student, in or- drum majoring an art at the university, the University faculty for sixteen years, der to create a research fund. was elected director of the Vinita bands having come to the University in 1917 Considerable newspaper speculation this fall after he returned from Chicago

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H . C. George (left) has resigned as di- rector of the school of pe troleum engineering to ac- cept a similar position at the University of Pittsburgh. William H . Carson (right), director of the school of mechanical engineering, has been named his successor

where he directed the El Reno high The Altus forensic stars won the na- Harvard Scholarship school band in daily concerts at the tional championship May 11 when their, Harvey McCaleb, '33as, Olustee, has World's Fair Transportation building . debate was broadcast by the Columbia gone to Harvard where he will study for During his years at the University, chain from Akron, Ohio. the diplomatic service. McCaleb was Goetz organized a band at the Central granted a scholarship to study both at State hospital and conducted a class in Telephone Directory Harvard and Tufts College. He was a government major at the University and drum majoring at the University . MEN'S FRATERNITIES : completed a semester of graduate work. Acacia 345 Sapulpa College Sooners Alpha Sigma Phi 1711 Sailing, Sailing The Sapulpa Junior College faculty Alpha Tau Omega 311 Among the most enthusiastic sail boat will be able to open its executive ses- Beta Theta Pi 1477 sions with "Boomer-Sooner" this year, skippers at Lake Overholster, north of Delta Chi 2321 Oklahoma City, are Mathew Kane, '32 since three of the five faculty members Delta Phi Epsilon 445 law, and Evan Chambers, '33ex. Their are University of Oklahoma graduates. Delta Tau Delta 1500 The trio of Sooner alumni are Harry trim Snipe was christened early in the Delta Upsilon 1444 summer and is one of the speediest "Doc" Kniseley, '26as ; Helen Irene Kappa Alpha 1313 crafts on the extensive city lake. Cham- Slentz, M.A.'33; and Linnie Mae Led- Kappa Sigma 152 bers, a former gridiron player, was better, '25as. Lambda Chi Alpha 661 scheduled to attend Phi Beta Delta 772 medical school this fall. Tulsa's Baby Market Phi Delta Theta 235 One of the rivals for speed on the pond The investigation of the alleged "baby Phi Gamma Delta 475 is the good ship piloted by Barney Craw- market" in Tulsa was instigated by Miss Phi Kappa Psi 674 ford, '32law, and Mrs. Barney Ruth Run- Helen Schaeffer, '21he, director of the Phi Kappa Sigma 2300 yan Crawford, '32as, who own one of Tulsa children's service bureau. Pi Kappa Alpha 549 the largest sail boats on the lake . She reported baby sales to the state Pi Kappa Phi 1490 commissioner of charities and corrections Alpha Epsilon 2570 Sigma Young Turns Professional and assisted in digging out information. Sigma Chi 170 Paul Young, '33ex, one of the great- She reported late in August that she was Sigma Mu Sigma 220 est Sooner gridiron centers .of all times, acquainted with at least five cases where Sigma Nu 726 has been signed to play professional foot- babies were sold for $70 to $100 to pay Sigma Alpha Mu 1073 hospital costs of unmarried mothers. ball with the Wisconsin Green Bay Pack- WOMEN'S FRATERNITIES : ers. As captain of the 1932 team, he The Altus Champions Alpha Chi Omega 226 gained a national reputation and earned That famous Altus senior high school Alpha Gamma Delta 1780 All-American mention on several eastern debate team that won the national champ- Alpha Phi 801 and mid-western mythical elevens. ionship this year and spent the summer Alpha Xi Delta 418 touring the north and east is coached Beta Sigma Omicron 1175 Sooners at Tonkawa by Mrs. Eula Boulware Peterson, '32ex. Chi Omega 971 Seven Tonkawa Junior College faculty Mrs. Peterson accompanied her young Delta Delta Delta 260 members this fall are former University champions on the tour to the Century Delta Gamma 650 students. Five of the seven are gradu- of Progress World's Fair, Washington, Gamma Phi Beta 148 ates of the University and the other two D. C., Niagara Falls, New York City Kappa Alpha Theta 2560 have engaged in graduate work here. and points in Canada. The trip was Kappa Kappa Gamma 182 Dr . R. R. Robinson, '18M .A., president arranged by the Altus chamber of com- Phi Mu 896 of the junior college, announced that the merce in cooperation with the General Pi Beta Phi 1516 following Sooners would appear on his Motors, Inc. Sigma Delta Tau 2222 faculty roll: 25 43 6 4 The Sooner Magazine October

H. W. Threlkeld, '24M.A., dean of the ed to down Fox with the double Jap- Southern newspaper 'reports said of school ; V. G. Wilhite, '21as, history and anese toe hold, only to have it broken. Mills' diamond work when the sale was government; Mrs. Louise S. Johnson, '29 The fourth time Eubanks snapped on announced : M.A ., Latin and French; Wayne Webb, the hold, Fox's back was wrenched . "The young outfielder was a sensation '31M.A ., physics ; Miss M. Dorothy Long, "Eubanks turned, tried a standing crab with Mobile the few weeks the South- '26as, English ; Mrs. Elizabeth Q. Adams, hold and pinned the Dallas man . Fox eastern league lasted, and when the cir- Mills' contract was trans- '26ex, romance languages ; and H. A. was carried off the mat and given first cuit `blew up' Elmira, Mills hit Matkin, '33ex, commerce. aid treatment. He was unable to re- ferred to Elmira. At turn and forfeited to Eubanks. Fox was .337, giving him the second best average scientific as Eubanks." in the league among players participat- Myra Hess Scheduled strong but not as ing in 100 games . At the close of the known musi- Three internationally 1932 season, he was sold to Rochester at Mrs. Hardenstein Marries cians have been booked to appear in the International league. special particular interest to Delta Gam- the university auditorium in Of "Mills, this season, has played 94 year. They mas and Phi Delts and friends of Delta concerts during the school games, gone to bat 369 times, scoring violinist; Gammas and Phi Delts was the mar- are Jascha Heifetz, famous 60 runs and making 114 hits for a total and last June of Mrs. Frank W. Hard- E . Robert Schmitz, French pianist; riage of 142 bases. His extra base hits in- greatest living enstein to E . S. Candler, Huntsville, Myra Hess, called the clude 26 doubles, seven triples and six Mississippi. woman pianist. homeruns He has stolen 13 bases and Mrs. Hardenstein was hostess on the driven in 32 runs." Monnetian Influence University campus for thirteen years, " 1921, 1922 at the Seven University Law School graduates serving in 1920, and Testimony for Posterity eighth Sooner alumnus hold a Delta Gamma house and for the next ten and an The ten-year record, 1921 to 1931, of the county, district and fed- years at the Phi Delta Theta house. From majority of the university community institutes pro- in Tulsa. Four are a point of service, she was the oldest hos- eral legal offices shown through newspaper and are prosecuting at- tess on the campus and probably the gram as judges and four letters most loved and respected. magazine clippings and was pre- torneys. sented in August to J. L. Rader, '08as, Hurst, '12law, and Harry Her wedding was an interesting union Thurman University librarian . '17law, are district court judges in that she returned this summer to Iuka, Halley, The presentation of the material in The common pleas court has Mississippi, twenty miles from Corinth, there. scrapbook form was made by Rev. Dun- Randolph, '12law, and Leslie the scene of her childhood days. Here William can McRuer, Norman, former organizer Webb, '20law on the benches. she met Candler once more in the of the program throughout the state. Dr. county attorney is Holly Ander- neighborhood where they had been child- The J. W. Scroggs, former director of the '24law, and his two assistants are hood playmates. son, extension division, and one of the mov- W. F. Gilmer, '24law, and John Conway, Candler is known as "the Honorable ing figures in the community institutes '22law . W. B. Blair, '07as, is assistant Mr. Candler of Mississippi" where he program, was present when the scrap- States district attorney in Tulsa . has been prominent in state politics for United book was given the library. judges who died during the year many years. Although a banker in the Two The community institutes program was Owen, '13ex, and Samuel business world, he was representative to are Owen concerned with instigating community Crossland, '20ex. the United States Congress for twenty years. reforms and improvement drives in state towns and cities . Its work was curtail - Three '33 Coaches Honest Fisherman cd in 1931 when a reorganization of the Three Sooner athletes of the June, '33 extension division was made. Its ac- An honest fisherman, may his tribe graduating class are giving orders this complishments are shown in the clip- Charles B. Hickok, '24law, fall to "lay off the pie and fried meat" increase, is pings and letters. instead of being on the receiving end. Shawnee attorney, who admits the big Edsul Curnutt, end on the football catch of the day is "not large enough Another Chicago Hutchins for picture ." He does not even men- team for two years, was appointed a O. E. Hatcher, '27M.A., 32 years old, Chandler high school grid mentor, while tion the one that got away. is the new president of Northwestern Ab Walker, backfield midget for the Bryan Roberts, sports columnist for State Teachers college at Alva . His carries the following past two years, directs the Okmulgee The Shawnee News, youthfulness has been the subject for from Hickok: high school team. Curtis Turner, let- letter in his column comment in Oklahoma educational cir- terman wrestler, went to Sulphur as mat 20 miles north, Brainerd, Minn. cles. Dear Bryan : coach. Mr. Hatcher did his undergraduate my first pickerel - three Caught work at East Central State Teachers col- Eubanks is a Favorite pounds. Not large enough for a pic- lege, Ada, and Phillips university, Enid . A Duncan favorite on the professional ture, but boy! "that's fun!" Also several Also, he has studied law at the Uni- bass. Coming into small mat is Elton Eubanks, '33ex, captain of two pound versity of Tulsa and Drake university, a sign said "George- Coach Paul Keen's 1932 Sooner wrestling town in Iowa, road Des Moines, Iowa. He is two years team. town, V2 mile north, 50 feet east." Pines, younger than Robert Maynard Hutchins, Typical of Duncan's enthusiasm over lakes, etc., are beautiful . youthful University of Chicago president. the young Devol wrestler is a story re- CHARLES B . HICKOK when Eu- Comments Mr. Roberts : "The lucky cently in The Duncan Banner Waterfield is Dean banks pinned "Cyclone" Fox . Said the cuss. : Clement B. Waterfield, assistant in Banner University, "Elton Eubanks, Duncan favorite, won Colonel Sold to Cardinals English last year at the has his match over `Cyclone' Fox, 174-pound Colonel Buster Mills, Ranger, Texas, been chosen by Superintendent of Schools Beaird, '29M.S., as dean of the mat man from Dallas, in just 19%z min- who did big things for Soonerland base- C. C. which was opened this utes at the weekly wrestling show here ball and football back in 1929 and 1930, junior college last night. has been signed by the Saint Louis Card- fall at Poteau. "There was only one fall. Three times inals in the National league to report for Mr. Waterfield was in charge of spec- the University of Oklahoma boy attempt- spring baseball practice in 1934. ial classes for arts and sciences seniors 1933 The Sooner Magazine 7 who were deficient in a knowledge of English composition and grammar. He In short, tutored seniors for the past two years in the long man is Roy Knight, the plan which is designed to raise the freshman from standard of University arts and sciences Eldorado, Arkansas, six graduates. feet, six and one-half " inches of all-Arkansas Newblock M. A. C. Jumper football material, while his fellow classmate is his brilliant Continuing career as a Roger Ben Brown, Po- high jumper and hurdler, Bill New- teau, who is three fee` block, '33bus, captain of the 1933 Sooner and eleven inches tall team, has been signed as a member of the Philadelphia Meadowbrook Athletic Club. Newblock, who holds the Big Six high jump record at six feet three and seven-eighths inches and the Sooner 120- yard low hurdle and 50-yard indoor hurdles records, will attend the What- ton school of finance at the University of Pennsylvania this fall .

Ticket Prices Tickets for the Sooner's home games this year will be of three different prices, according to Athletic Director Ben G. Owen. All contests at Memorial Stadium will start at 3 o'clock, an hour later than last year. Tickets for the Iowa State Dads' Day game, October 21, the Kansas Home- coming game, November 4, and the Ok- lahoma Aggies Thanksgiving game, November 30, will be $2 .20 for the best seats in the west stadium, $1.65 for seats between the 20 and 35-yard lines in the west stadium and in the center of the east stadium and $1 .10 for seats between the 20 and 35-yard lines in the east sta- dium . Slightly advanced prices will be charged for the opening contest, Septem- ber 30, against . The three prices will be $2.65, $2.20 and $1 .65 . Seats for the Oklahoma-Texas game October 14 at Dallas also may be ordered M .E ., former head of the Cameron Col- was a member of the Athletic Council for through the University Athletic Depart- education department which was two years . He was a letterman in foot- ment. The price : box seats $2.50, lege scale is abolished . Jackson was re-employed to ball, basketball and baseball for three west side $2 and east side $1 .50. teach history. years and was captain of the football and All ticket orders should be addressed baseball teams in 1927. He was also a Ben G. Owen, Athletic Director, Uni- to Coach Granny member of various social and honorary versity of Oklahoma, Fieldhouse, Nor- That great one-Granville Thomas fraternities and organizations . man, Oklahoma . Choice of seats should "Granny" Norris, '29as-has checked his "Idabel is unusually fortunate in se- be specified may be made and payment football, baseball and basketball brains curing Coach `Granny' Norris as a mem- by personal check, cashier's check or out of Cushing to become Idabel high ber of its high school faculty . The Ga- money order. Twenty cents, extra for school's athletic director this fall. zette extends its best wishes together en- postage and registration should be The McCurtain Gazette, Idabel's week- with a hearty welcome to Idabel." closed. This applies to the Texas game ly newspaper, greets Norris: Regnold Williams, '31ex, has been em- as well as the four home matches. "Few O . U. students have received ployed by the Idabel high school this higher athletic and general honors than fall to assist Coach Granville Norris Sooners at Cameron `Granny' Norris . In 1927 he was award- with the athletic program . Williams Four new faculty members, three of ed a placque by the President of the Uni- was awarded his B . S. degree at South- them Sooner alumni, were added to the versity-a reward that goes to the best eastern State Teachers college the year Cameron college faculty at Lawton late all-round athlete. He received the after he attended the University as an in August to complete the teaching ros- `Brown Derby' award the same year for undergraduate student. ter. being the student selected who had con- The three former University students tributed the most to the school . For District Representative are W. J. Becker, '31M.A., former Law- two years he was a member of the Uni- Robert A . Yoder, '27ex, formerly of ton high school teacher; J. G . True, '33 versity Student Council, serving this or- New York City, is now established in M.A., Carnegie; and A. L. Jackson, '24 ganization as treasurer in 1926-27. He Norman with his family . He is the

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southwestern manager for the Standard awarded four Sooner alumni and stu- 67.3 pounds of butterfat in a month to Statistics Company of New York and dents at the annual parks and play- win individual production honors in Ok- his Norman address is 624 Classen Boul- grounds pageant late in August in Ok- lahoma County . A stable mate of Mable's evard. Mr. Yoder has been connected lahoma City. took second place for the month with with the New York office of the Stand- Twelve badges in all were given the 65 .7, a mark also considerably above 3.2, . ard Statistic Company for a number of most efficient superintendents. Four of years. the dozen were Mrs. Josephine Romine, A Balloonist's Escape '29M.S., Miss Jimmie Prater, '25ed, Miss The annual James Gordon Bennett Before Three Arts Club Marcella Hill, '32as, and Leslie Hemry, balloon race almost resulted in tragedy There have been many fine tenors '34law . for a Sooner balloonist, Frank A. Trot- from Shawnee back in the pre-pre days ter, '19ex, and his fellow pilot Ward T. but never a soprano like Miss Gladys Tulsa Sooner Principals Van Orman. Their balloon came down Ingram, '32fa, who returned to her Ten of Tulsa's thirty-four public in the wilds of Canada, between Sud- Shawnee home recently after an extend- school principals are University of Okla- bury and Abitibi Canyon, in northern ed period of voice study in New York homa graduates . The list of s hool ex- Ontario, September 3 and the airmen City. ecutives announced late in August were not rescued until September 11. Miss Ingram studied under Madame showed the following University alumni In order to acquaint the world with Luella Melius in the east and was pre- placed for the year: their plight, the airmen cut down a tele- sented in an individual recital before Roy B . Bradshaw, '23as; Add E. Cop- phone pole and attached a note to it, the Three Arts Club of New York City. pers, '29M.S. ; Oscar C. Griggs, '28M.S.; signed by Trotter. The Associated Press She was also selected by the New York Fitzhugh L. Hambrick, '27as; J. H. reported the note as saying: Opera Association for several broadcasts Hodges, '29M.S., Jess S. Huds n, '29M. "This telephone pole was cut Septem- team over station WOR. S.; Robert E. McCollum, '26M. .; Mau ber 10 by U. S. Goodyear balloon The Forward, music review magazine rice Magee, '22bs; Frank Pauly, '17as; of W. T . Van Orman and Frank Trot- of New York, commented concerning and Arthur L. Richards, '13as. ter in the hope that repairmen would Miss Ingram : aid us in getting to civilization from here. "In addition to her remarkable so- Tea and Fog We will continue south along high volt- prano voice, Miss Ingram possesses fine Enough Sooner alumni for a round of age line. Please come after us. We have musicianship and unsurpassed diction bridge will be enrolled at Oxford uni- a gun and some food, but are both sick which enables her to use her voice to the versity, England, this fall. All four of evidently from ptomaine poisoning. Fire ans- best advantage." Oklahoma's out-of-continent students your gun three times and we will Miss Ingram studied under William will be Rhodes scholars. wer. Please hurry. F. A. TROTTER." G. Schmidt while she attended the Uni- They are : Jack Fischer, '32as, Okla- A policeman, out to investigate the versity. homa City; Davis St. Clair, '33as, Nor- cause of the line being down, found the man; Wilmore Kendall, '27as, Tulsa; note and discovered the balloonists. "I Sooner High Coaches and Carl Albert, '31a.s, McAlester. never saw two men in my life who were Frank Crider, '30as, 1929 Sooner foot- so glad to see another human being as ball captain, became the Seminole high Milburn as an Aggie they were," the patrolman said. "They school football coach this fall. Crider George Milburn, '30ex, a contributing hollered with glee and hugged and kissed was offered a contract as assistant coach editor of The Sooner Magazine, once at- me as soon as they saw me." at Norman high school but refused it tended A. & M. college at Stillwater, a The balloonists were caught in a for the head coachship. contributor to Walt Mill's "Don't Wor- storm, and descended from an Hal Muldrow, jr., '28bus, resigned ry" column in the Oklahoma City Times altitude of 8,000 feet landing in a pine during the past summer as athletic di- reminds us. Writing at Stillwater col- tree more than a foot in diameter. The rector and football and basketball coach lege had its perils, the writer remarks. tree broke, damaging the balloon . Both at Norman high school. He entered the The comment follows : men were in an exhausted condition insurance business in Norman. He had "Now that he's gaining recognition, when found and suffering from ptomaine been athletic director for four years. with mention even in the editorial col- poisoning. They had lived on pork and Dewey "Snorter" Luster, Sooner foot- umns, George Milburn is claimed by the beans, which they ate sparingly. ball captain and end in 1920, is back at University as its own-notwithstanding Mr. Trotter was enrolled in the Uni- Norman high school as athletic director the barbs in his writing. But before h° versity as a freshman engineering stu- after serving as Sooner line coach under went to the University, George was a stu- dent. Adrian Lindsay and head coach at the dent at Oklahoma A. and M. College, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, in and that recalls his first visit to the Still- Establish Firm 1932 . Luster put the Norman high water campus in the spring of 1925. Carl O. Craig, '29bus, former treasurer school football team on the map in 1926 Very pale--he had just sold some blood of the University of Oklahoma Press, and and 1927 with all-victorious seasons. for a transfusion-and wearing a shoe- Herbert Smith, '30bus, former book- string tie, George got a ride with a Tulsa keeper of the extension division of the Completes Bust woman motorist . The Stillwater water University, plan to establish themselves David Lester, '35fa, Bethany, the son tower is on the east side of the city, and in the accounting business in Seattle, of the son of the son of the son of David so George wrote a funny piece for The Washington . They left Norman the Crockett, fearless scout and hunter, this O'Collegian called "East of the Water middle of August, and, after a visit in summer completed a bust of his famous Tower." Some of his remarks offended California, expect to arrive in Seattle great-great-grandfather. It was placed the woman motorist, and as a result the latter part of September. in the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas, on George had to thumb his way back to the ninety-seventh anniversary of the Tulsa~I . E. H." A Lucky Swerve year Crockett fell in defense of the his- A protruding drill pipe in the dark toric building . Undergraduate Note being a much more dangerous obstacle Honors came to a buxom member of than the conventional bed post in the Badges of Merit the University hospital dairy department dark, George Selinger, 29law, is thank- Badges of merit for supervising kiddies force during August . One healthy ful for a fractured arm. on Oklahoma City's playgrounds were young Holstein named Mable produced The assistant prorational attorney for 1933 The Sooner Magazine the corporation committee was driving was that of Clare W. Fisher, '06ex, of while Hill was a powerful, hard run- his car toward Oklahoma City from Tul- Norman. ning halfback . Reeds was another Cap- sa early one morning in August when Mr. Vetter's letter, filled with the old- shaw, only 15 pounds heavier and that he discovered a parked truck, drill pipe time Sooner pep, is republished below, would make him just about invincible. protruding, a scant five yards in front while Mr. Fisher's selection, made espec- Boy, what a team! of his speeding automobile. He swerved ially for The Sooner Magazine follows. Just send my ticket to the king of Si- and the pipe struck his windshield . Had Mr. Vetter's selection: am because I'll be there when the referee lie failed to swerve, the corporation com- Looking back over this third of a cen- toots the opening whistle September mittee undoubtedly would have had a tury of O. U. football history, and con- thirtieth at the Vanderbilt game, and new assistant prorational attorney . sidering each man from the standpoint wild horses wouldn't keep me out of of his vital part in a crucial game in a that stadium. Relief Supervisor critical season, I name the following as Yours for O. U. the all-time Closer contact with the families of per- all-star Sooner eleven : Mr. Fisher's selection: sons obtaining federal relief is being End-Tarz Marsh, '20. C--Thompson Hamm Young sought both by state and federal admin- End--, '29. G-Monnett J . Merkle Wolfe istrators of relief funds, and in order to Tackle-Sabe Hott, '12. Bashara Norris Hott obtain this contact in Oklahoma State Tackle-Granny Norris, '27. T--Douglass F. Merkle Tolbert Relief Director Beckett has named Miss Guard-Key Wolf, '08. Campbell Hamilton Wingate Edna McKinnon, '17nurse, of Norman, Guard--Bill McKinley, '20. E--Montgomery Marsh Walling as state supervisor of women's work . Center-Paul Young, '31. Haskell Fields Pickard Miss McKinnon will appoint a trained Quarterback-Bob Dunlap, '32 . QB-Cross Johnson Ambrister case worker in every county in order Halfback--Fred Capshaw, '11. HB-F. Roberts Hughes that proper investigation may be had to Dunlap Halfback-Dutch Hill, '20. Bristow Acton learn whether relief is reaching the per- Mills Fullback-Claude Reeds, '13. RB-Capshaw Warren Pansze sons in need. Her appointment was 1 commenced being an O. U. fan back FB--Reeds Geyer White approved by Governor Murray and the in the days of Paul Mackey, '98, Frank Campbell and Wallace federal relief administration . at center ; Hef- Long, '04, and Roger Berry, '11, because ley, Tolbert, Hott, Smoot, McKinley in all these boys were "home town" fans to the line ; LeCrone and Churchill at ends ; First Graduate's Picture me. When I went to college my team Courtright, Potts, Hill, Truesdale, Want- A place of Donor for one of the two played O. U. on several occasions when land, Chuck Reed, C. C. Roberts, Trim first graduates of the University will be Key Wolf, '08, Charley Wantland, '08 Capshaw, in the backfield, and many in the Oklahoma Union building soon. Fred Capshaw, '11, and Claude Reeds, more, all were fine players and deserve A photograph of the first secretary of '13 were making priceless footprints over to be ranked on an all-time team. the Alumni Association, who was also all opponents. I am not attempting to pick eleven one of the first two graduates, has been Defeat at the hands of Bennie's all- star players . That would be unfair to presented to the Association, handsomely victorious teams only increased my re- the many fine players who have worn framed. Carleton Ross Hume, '98, M. spect and loyalty for the Sooners . Then O. U. colors . I am using a sport writer's A . '00, of Anadarko, has given the As- a sidekick of mine, in the person of one prerogative and selecting three teams of sociation a duplicate of the photograph Sale Hott, made the O. U. team, and what I consider the best men who have which hung in the first Administration did he make it? Ask Mr. Harmon, the played at O. U. and even then I have Building of the University and which 205-pound Nebraska all-American and to give honorable mention to several . I was destroyed by fire when the old build- also every other man Sabe ever played am putting them in three strings merely ing burned in 1903. The present photo- against. for the sake of designating a first string. graph belonged to Mr. Ross's mother for By that time I was coaching teams my- As a matter of fact there isn't a bit of dif- years. Mr. Ross was secretary of the self and once in a while one of my boys ference, in my opinion, between any of Association from 1899 to 1901 and pres- would make Bennie's team also. First the men named, and a number of others ident from 1909 to 1910. there was Switch Light, '17, then Big who could be well placed on the team. 13111 McKinley, Eddie Johnson, '22, Ram I have seen every team from '97 to '14 "The Gay Divorcee" Morrison, '22, and Cliff Bowles, '23. It in every home game. Since that time un- A Sooner actor will play a lead in was a pleasure to send a boy to Bennie til '26, 1 have only seen them in action London this winter. On the stage Erik just as it was a pleasure to play against for a few home games each season . But Rh.odes, he is better known to Sooners Bennie's teams, because every Oklaho- since '26 to date, have seen them in by his campus name of Ernest Sharpe, ma team Bennie ever coached fought every home game. '27as . He has been playing one of the hard and clean. And it was good for I do not claim any special gift in the principal roles in The Gay Divorcee in the boys too. Look how many of Ben- picking. I, played some in high school, New York, with Freda Astaire in the nie's old football players have made a refereed for four years in northeastern leading role, at the Shubert theater. With success in business, politics or as profes- Oklahoma high school contests, and have three other principals, Mr. Rhodes was sional men. handled some sports news for papers . to sail for London September 15, where Getting back to my all-time team, In my pick I am considering football he will be during the winter season in Marsh and Churchill were big, powerful brains, first, the brawn and ability to the New York vehicle. He had pre- ends, smart and versatile. Hott and Nor- use that brain, and the intestinal courage viously appeared in Hey Nonny Nonny ris weren't as big as the average tackle to use it and keep going, even though and The Passing Show. but they knew the game and each had about ready to go on the hospital list. courage and a world of fighting spirit. Take Thompson at center, a fairly Prize-Winning Letter Wolf and McKinley were two of the best heavy player, fast, never had a bad pass, Harry A. Vetter, '29M.S., of Goodwell, guards on the two greatest lines Okla- and could follow the ball better than any Oklahoma, won the first reserved seat homa ever had, while everybody knows other man ever to wear an O. U. uni- ticket in the contest being sponsored by now about Paul Young and Bob Dunlap. form. Hamm, Young and Wallace all The Daily Oklahoman to select an all Capshaw was a sweet back who could as good except for this uncanny knack time Sooner football team. Second let- do anything and do it as well as most of always being on top of the play on ter to be published and to win a prize bigger men despite his lack of weight defense. 10 The Sooner Magazine October

At guard 1 am moving Big Jim Mon- I am picking rabbitbacks to go with Ira Powell Crouthamel, '33eng ., 531 West Mis- souri street, El Paso, Texas. nett over from tackle, as the man who this spread in the persons of F. Capshaw, Paul B. Cullen, '24as., Central Baptist Church, made the all-American Houser look like Courtright, Warren and Panszc . Cap- Muskogee . a grade school player can not be left off shaw is perhaps in a class by himself, as Hortense Edwards, '23ex, 215 south St . An- any all star selection. Bashara, here is he and Courtright seem to be the ex- drews, Los Angeles, California . got Miss Gaylord D. Epperson, '32as., Wilson . one boy who has not the credit he ample with which all present day light Dr. George Randle Felts, '30B .S ., '32med ., Tu- deserves. Always in every play. A hard backs are compared . Warren and Panszc lare County Hospital, Tulare, California. man to get out of the way. Opens up are just about as good and either of Dr . Richard B. Ford, '26B . s., '28med., 404 the line well and is always bobbing up them was a fine broken field runner and Medical Arts Building, Tulsa. . Joseph G. Gordon, '15B .S ., Logo Petri Com- when least expected Watch him in his dangerous at all times. pany, Maracaibo, Venezuela. next game. Wolfe, Merkle Norris, Hott, It all resolves itself into the fact that Victor P. (:rage, '29geol., 104 East Lister, Hefley, Talbot. All rate equal with these it is absolutely impossible to pick the Shreveport, Louisiana. two. eleven or the twenty-two or even the A. L. "Bus" Haskins, '29as., 4746 Ronoke street, Kansas City, Missouri . At tackle, there never have been two thirty-three best men who have played 0. W. Johnson, '02Ph.C ., 300 Rossiter Avenue, men quite the all-around equal of big here . Baltimore, Maryland . Douglass and Campbell . Fast, tricky, cool, The old time teams were better phy- Zelda Freyda Kirschner, '32as., 3528 Park, Kans- they roamed over the field at will . Hard sically, because they were composed of as City, Missouri . Robert Lisk, '33eng., 1128 76th street, N. W., smashers, deadly tacklers . Merkle, Ham- more mature men, who had all done Washington, D. C. ilton, Wingate, Hott, all the same type manual labor from the time they were 1)r. Ralph Leon Marx, '30B .S ., '32med, Bro- but not quite so fast. old enough to go out and help dad. If ken Arrow. At ends I take Montgomery and Has- you would take out the Dr. s. R. Medley, '21med ., Spooner, Wisconsin. Harry Nighswonger, '12B .S ., 'Has ., 210 Center kell, both deadly pass snatchers, fast and the old timers would probably wallop the street, Alva . hard to get around . Seldom, if ever, daylights out of a present day team, but Sam s. Nowlin, '321aw, Montgomery City, boxed, and good down the field on punts. put it in and the team of today would Missouri . Marsh, Walling Fields, Pickard . All the have a track meet. So there you are. Dr . Dwight Dillion Pierson, '31B .S ., '32med ., Clinton. same breed. One as good as the other. But pick your men for an all-time team Mrs. Susan Westmoreland Powers, 13nurse, At quarter Bill Cross gets the call . A from the way they played under the rules 1445 East 8th street, Tucson, Arizona. good kicker, a fine field general, who of the game at the time they wore mole- Floranna Ruhl, '32fa., Mannford . was always boss of the team, a good re- skins and there will be many an old- Clarence Roscoe Stevens, '28eng., Box 1597, Kilgore, Texas. returner of punts, and a good broken timer ranked high on the rolls . Virgil D. Tinkelpaugh, '26eng., 1415 Rio field runner. He gets a slight edge on I would like to mention that in those Grande, Fort Worth, Texas. Johnson and Ambrister. Although there days the quarterback kick was employed Shelley Tracy. 'Has ., care Tracy-Lockc-Dawson, is really not enough difference to be very and was much harder to direct and hand- 28th floor, 22 East 40th street, New York City. cranky about any one of the three. le than the forward pass . Also I heard a Elbert Voss, '28B .S ., '30M .S ., care Pharmacy At half. Now here is a man that all certain coach remark the other day that Department, , Gainesville, these would-be team pickers have missed the early day men were not as hard play- Florida. because he was away back in the dim, ers as those of today. Oh, yes, you're tell- W. C. Woodward, '296us ., 219 Petroleum Buildnig, Fort Worth, Texas. (lark ages, and yet Fred Roberts in th°_ ing me. What was the reason for the opinion of every coach and eastern foot- adoption of the forward pass and the MARRIAGES ball man who saw him in action was open game? I dimly remember that it rated at the top of the bunch. As hard had something to do with so many men PECK-LAMBERT: Miss Page Peck, '33as., and McMillan Lambert, '33ex, August 30 in Okla- a line plunger as either Sloan or Howell getting killed or badly injured. The in- homa City . Pi Beta Phi-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. of Nebraska, as shifty in a broken field jured list after a big game back in the home, Ardmore. as Fred Capshaw and an instinctive foot- days of the old "army" game looked very SPURR-LAMPL: Dorothy Nunnellcy Spurr, '33 hall thinker. An all-O. U. team without much like a world war casualty list. But ex, and Henry Lampl, August 17 in Seminole . Delta Gamma. Home, Topeka, Kansas . him is like an all-Michigan team without 1 suppose I am wrong and they played BEARD-CHURCH: Miss Elizabeth Pauline Beard, Hueston, or Yale without Hinkey, or tag football then and served pink tea. '29ex, and Robert A. Church, '30eng ., August Harvard without Brickley . Bristow at the Oh, yeah. Notwithstanding, the great 20 in Oklahoma City. Home, Ponca City . other half is a good kicker, passer, block- Hinkeys, Huestons, Thorps, Hefflingers, THOMPSON-HALL: Miss Caroline Thompson . '33ex, and Albert LeClair Hall, '33eng .. No- er, and could plunge the line or skirt the Poes, Whites, et cetera . No one ever re- vember 26, 1932 . Home, 223 Northeast 4th line. Hughes, Action, Mills and Dunlap fers to these boys nowdays. Only just to street, Oklahoma City. arc of the same type of backs as was compare some present day boy by say- EDWARDS-CROMWELL: Miss Mary Edwards, Hill, Swateke, White. ing "he's pretty near as good as-" '31ex, and Lee Cromwell, '24as., June 21, Kap- pa Alpha Theta-Phi Ganuna Delta. Home, At fullback Claude Reeds was prob- And Benjamin Gilbert Owen for the 523 south Pierce street, Enid. ably the best all-round man ever de- coach. When a man can take eleven men shinaberger-kirk: Miss Marie Shinaberger, veloped at O. U. in this position. He and a water boy and mould winning and '33as., and Clyde Kirk, July 8 in McAlester. could plunge, skirt the ends, was a good all-victorious teams, he is good enough Home . Norman . ELLIS-STEELE: Miss Myrne Ellis, '29phys.ed ., line backer and kicker, and an exception- for yours truly. and Roy Steele, '321aw, June 12 in Shawnee. ally fine passer and interferer. Geyer Home, Granite. and White were also good men, but did SOONER ROLL CALL SHOEMATE-BELKNAP: Miss Helen Lucille Shoe- not possess all the fine points of Reed. mate, '33ex, and Harold Belknap. '25as., Jill', DIRECTORY CHANGES 11 in Oklahoma City . Home, 1002 south Mil- And here let me make mention of a boy, William Glenn Bowles, '33geol.eng., 628 North ler, Norman . who for his inches and ounces was one Broadway, Shawnee. JOHNSON-MARSHALL: Miss Virginia Johnson, of the best backs ever in an O. U. lineup . Dr. Gaines Levy Brightwell, '29B.S.,'30med., and A. M. Marshall, jr., '29ex, June 7 in Ok- I refer to Hugh Roberts who had he pos- Marbine, Colorado . lahoma Citv . Home, Chandler . ., 411 Sth, Gary . HUGHES-BOW: Miss Anna Hughes . and Row sessed 15 or 20 more pounds could have Rodney R. Burns, '33bus West Indiana. H. Bow, '21Ph.G. June 1, Home, 1537 North- made anybody's team . Weighing around Walter M. Burress, '21as., Box 515, Houston, west 45th street, Oklahoma Citv . 140 to 150 with a few rocks in his pock- Texas. MIL LER-ACKER : Miss Lucille Miller, and Louie Beta Pi . Home, et, he made his letter in the days of the John 13 . Charles, 15ex, Stroud . E. Acker, '29eng ., June 9 . Tat Charles Norman Cornwall, '25as_ 633 East 202'/, North Walnut, Oklahoma City . "big man game." I am not listing him on Calfax, Denver, Colorado . LONGMIRE-OTWELL: Miss Rozella Longmire, this "all time team" but he sure deserves Dr. Matt A. Cormell, '30B .S ., Picher Hospital, '32ed., and James Jay Orwell, June 1. Home, it. 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SHIPE-SHAW: Miss Ruth Shipe, '27as., and HARMON-TISDAL: Miss Helen Harmon, '32ex, Norman for burial . He was the Son of Mr . James Langford Shaw, May 10 . Home, Ada. and William C. Tisdal, '33med ., June 17 in and Mrs. J . O. Shead of Norman . lie left the Miss Mary CHAMPLIN-CHAMBERS: Champlin, Elk City. Chi Omega-Kappa Alpha. Home, University in 1918 to enter theater work and '32as., and Lawrence T. Chambers, June 24 . Santa Barbara, California . at the time of his death was manager of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, 706 Columbia, FRANKIAN-RHEA : Miss Jewell Josephnie Frank- Garden Theater at Patterson, New Jersey . Mr . Lawton . lin, '32ex, and Evert Presley Rhea, '33ex, June Shead was a member of Kappa Alpha fratrnity. BROWN-FERGUSON: Miss Carole Maxine Brown, 28 in Oklahoma 'City. Pi Beta Phi-Kappa WESLEY ENSEY '31ex, and Benton Ferguson, '31as., July 15 in Sigma. Home, Norman . Tulsa. Kappa Wesley Enscy, '31M .A ., of Weatherford, died Kappa Gamma- Kappa Alpha. IM: Miss Carrot Constant, CONSTANT-P '31 early in September as a result of typhoid fever. Home, Ft . Worth, Texas. dramatic art, and James Pim, June 21 in Ponca Mr. Ensey taught school in Weatherford. WIGGER-FRYER: Miss Vera Wigger, '29as., and City . Home, New York City. Dr, JOHN JAMES Samuel Richard Fryer, '33med ., July 21 . SMITH-DENNIS: Miss Lola . Smith, '32nurse, COWMAN Mystery surrounds Kappa Kappa Garnma-Phi Kappa Psi. Home, and Herbert Dennis, June 5. Home, Bradley the death of John James . Cowman, '27ex, 441 Northwest 28th Street, Oklahoma City . PATTE RSON-BROWN: Miss Mildred Patterson, Oklahoma City, whose body was found SWATEK-BOHANON: Miss Marie Swatek, '30as., '32as., and George William Brown, '30as August 27 in Lake Overholster. He ., had disappeared and Luther Bohanon, '271aw, July 17 in Chi- '32law, May .30 . Delta Gamma-Sigma Alpha three days previously after re- turning cago . Kappa Kappa Gamma-Sigma Nu . Home, Epsilon. Home, Duncan . from a vacation trip . His mother and step-father, Kee R. Oklahoma City . BRAND-MILLER R : Miss Lucite Brand, '29ex, and McKee, city loan man and vice-president of NUGENT-MUNTZ: Miss Ursula Nugent, '25ex, Fred Albert Miller, June 24 . Home, 835 East the Liberty National bank, and J. W. Muntz, July 16 in Okmulgee. Home, Drive, Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, returned from an outing shortly before Tulsa. Miss Viola his body was found and started SHUSTLER_MCGINNIS: Shuster, '3L the search . HOWARD-POE : Miss Milba O'Dell Howard, ex, and Loran W. McGinnis, '19ex, His car was parked near the lake recently in which '31as., and Lewis Milton Poe, '281aw, July 15 . Chickasha. Home, Choctaw. is northwest of Oklahoma City . The Pi former university student Beta Phi-Phi Ganuna Delta. Home, Tulsa. DELLINGER_HORNER: Miss Dorothy Dee Del- is survived by his BRYDIA-GRIFFIN : mother and step-father and one Miss Marvene Brydia, '27ed., lingcr, '28ex, and B. E. Horner, June 22 Kap- sister, Mrs. and Irving Manley Cowman Griffin, jr ., at Ada. Kappa pa Kappa Gamma . Home, 702 West Randolf Genevieve Vaughey, '28as, Kansas Alpha Theta. Home, Houston, Texas. Avenue, Enid. City, Missouri . Mr. Cowman was a clerk at I LIRE-TOI the Liberty- National bank . .BERT : Miss Mary Jane Hare, '30as., HOLLOWAY-MAGAW : Miss Mildred Holloway, and Miles G. Tolbert, '21as., '23 law, July 25 '31ex, and Eldon S. Magaw, '28as., '31law, in YEAR BY YEAR in Oklahoma City . Alpha Phi-Sigma Alpha Jute in Concordia, Kansas . Alpha Phi. Home, Arthur Eugene White, upsilon. Home, Hobart. Philadelphia. '308 .5 ., '32med., has been appointed first lieutenant M. C., regular WOODS-SINGLETARY: Miss Katherine Harrison STEVENS-HYDE: Miss May Belle Elizabeth Woods, and army, assigned to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Alfred Singlary, '32ex, July 21 Stevens, '29ex, and Zola 13 . Hyde, June 29 . in Roy L. Mapes, '33as., 1805 West Main Oklahoma City . Phi Kappa Sigma. Home, Home, 1511 South Lweis Place, Tulsa. Street, Perry. Oklahoma City, has entered the United HAWLEY-KROUTIL: Miss Bessie Hawley, and States military training school at West Point SOULIGNY-SPEMCER: Miss Wannette Souligny, Norman F. Kroutil '33as., June 29 . Alpha . W, G. Stigter, '16ex, of Stigler, '33ex, and Tom Spencer, July 30 . Delta Gam- Sigma Pi . Home, 219 South 5th, Yukon. was elected of the American ma . Home, Hodson Apartments, Ponca City . YOUNG-COATS : Miss Mary Ola Young, Commander Legion at the and fifteenth annual state LECRONE:-COUCH: Miss Ida Marguerite Le- Sanford C. Coats, '28ex, June 30 . convention at Tulsa. Pi Kappa Miss Dorothy Swank, Crone, and Glenn Couch, '31B.S ., July 30 . Alpha. Home, Oklahoma City . '31as., 32Lib Sci., is employed as librarian Home, Norman . Miss Marjorie in the School of Mines, PAYNTER-PINKNER: Paynter, Rolla, Missouri . ADKISSON-LEAHY : Mrs. Cleo Adkisson, and '28as., and Charles A. Pinkner, '31cx, June 25 R. F. Hughes, '26eng., has Edward Leahy, '24ex, August 1, at Dodge City, in Blackwell. Alpha Xi Delta-Phi Kappa Sig- entered the em- ploy of the geophysical Kansas . Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Home, Pawhuska . ma . Home, Longview, Texas. division of the Con- tinental Oil Company of HARDEMAN-GRAHAM: Miss Dorothy Jane Miss Sims, '30cx, Ponca City . His ad- SIMS-EWING: Jony and J . dress is box 43, Carnegie Hardeman, and Charles Graham, '32ex, April P. Ewing, June 19 . Home, Enid. . Miss Elsie Brown, 2') in Waurika. Home, Chickasha. Miss Mary '27as., '28M .A ., head of CRABTREE_RALLS: Frances Crab- the foreign language JOIINsTONE-WILSON : Miss Dorothy Marie tree, and Clayton Carter department at Bethel Wo- Ralls, '30ex, June 18 . man's College, Johnstone, '30ex, and Dr . C. C. Wilson, June ]-Ionic, Ada. Hopkinsvillc, Kentucky, has been touring Europe and Spending 10 . Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, Bartlesville . Miss Beulah C. part of the sum- SPURLOCK_NOELL: Spurlock, mer studying at the TERHUNE-BELL: Miss Marguerite Terhune, '32ex, and Marcus A. Nocll, '32ex, July Sorbonne in Paris. 23 in Miss Thelma '26as., and J. Willard Bell, '25as., June 14 in Oklahoma City. Home, Altus Walker, '28he., has accepted . the position of home Oklahoma City . Alpha Chi Omega-Delta Chi. economics teacher in the HARTSHORNE-MAYHEW: Miss Marie Harts- Mitchell School, Home, Okemah . horne, and James Albert '30bus., Meisenheimer, North Carolina. Mayhew, G. Scott SWARTZ-MORAN : Miss Rachel Swartz, 32fa ., June 5 in St . Joseph, Hammonds, '33as., 33eng., and Missouri . Kappa Sigma. Sam and Fonnie Moran, '32ex, June 14 in Oklahoma Home, Claremore. Alexander, '31eng ., have been awarded graduate scholarships City. Home, 117 East Castro, Norman . FOSTER-BRYAN: Miss Frances Foster, and for the ensuing year in '33ex, the Massachusetts COOK-COFFEY: Miss Anna Lynn Cook, '31as., Harry Bryan, '33law, July 16 institute of Technology . at Alex . Home, Strother Simpson, and Alden Coffey, June 12 in Oklahoma City . Lone Wolf . '33as., Tulsa, was to en- roll as a freshman Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, Tampa Florida. Miss in the Harvard law school, Mary Frances Cambridge, GOOD-GILHRIST: Miss LaVonta Good, and Massachusetts, this fall . KILGORE-MARTIN: kIL-GOREandDr. John W. Martin,'30med., July Josephine Ralph Gilchrist, '311aw, June 11 in Canton . 29 in Kansas City . Paxton, '31as., daughter of Pro- Home, 409 East Broadway, fessor Home, Taloga . Cushing. and Mrs. Joseph Paxton, is engaged in library work at the STOVALL-JACOBS: Miss Jewell Stovall, '30ex, 'Tulsa city library. BIRTHS Errett R. and Porter Jacobs, June 10 in Sayre, Home, Elk Newby, '071rms., '08as., of Okla- homa City, is the thirteenth City. Mrs. Ruth Chase Tyres, '26as., and Wood- division inspector for the Sigma Nu fraternity, PAYNE-DAWSON : Miss Nellie Mae Pavne, and son Tyree, '26as., a son, William Hagen, covering the states April of Texas and Wyclif Dawson, '14ex, June 21 . Home, Okla- 10, 1933 . Home, 208 Wayne, Ponca Arkansas. City . When Kenneth homa City . Leonard Logan, '14as., and Mrs C . Kaufman, 16as, '19M.A ., . Logan, a professor of LATIMER-DUDLEY: Miss Ann Lou Latimer, son, Matthew Kuykendall . modern languages in the Uni- Home 1006 Clas- versity and '3ex, and Paul Wingate Dudley, '29as., '331aw, sen BOUdevard, Norman . co-editor of Books Abroad, went on his June 28 . Kappa Alpha Theta- Phi Gamma Del- Robert A. Yoder, vacation last summer, he was expect- '27ex, and Mrs. Yoder, a ing a restful ta . Home, 2307 North Walker Avenue, daughter,, Stephanie fortnight on the Gulf coast. He Okla- Helen, July 12 . Home, and homa City. Norman . his family had scarcely arrived at the home of relatives MULHEIRN-DOOLEY: Miss Helen Mary Mul- Mrs. Elsae Andrews Dyer, '27ed in Weslaeo, near Brownsville, ., and Don- Texas, until the heirn, '33ex, and Sam Dooley, '33B .S ., June me E. Dyer, '24as., a Son, Max hurricane which devasted the Donnell. Home, Rio Grande 25 in Norman . Home, Oklahoma City . 1417 Northeast 16th, Oklahoma region, vented its fury on Weslaeo. City . Part of the CARDEN-STEWART : Miss Martha Carden, '30 home in which the Kaufmans were staying was wrecked ex, and William Stewart, '29ex, June 17 in DEATHS and the family was de- layed Several days Tulsa. Delta Delta Delta-Beta Theta Pi . Home . MARGARET BROOKS in returning to Norman, due to the condition of the Enid . Margaret Brooks, '25as., died June 9 at her roads. Hicks Epton, is BARTI,FTT-MORRISON : Miss Veda Grace Bart- home near Sapulpa after an illness of two years. '32law, practicing law in Wewoka . As an outstanding lett, '30ex, and John S. Morrison, June 14 . civic worker and LAWRENCE SHEAD chamber of commerce Home, 1524 Northwest 21, Oklahoma City . Lawrence member, he has been Shead, who attended the Uni- instrumental in UMPHY: Miss Olive booking university entertain- SNYDER-MOL Snyder, '30as., versity for two gears in 1917-1918, was found ment and Garvie June 18 talent for meetings in and around We- Molumphy, in Oklahoma dead in his apartment, in Paterson, New Jersey, wolca Citv. Pi Beta Phi. Home, . Epton was a member of the university China. September 10 . He had apparently been mur- BI ALOCK-COUNCIL : debate team for four years. Miss Frances Blalock, '33 dered, his death being caused by blows upon ex, and Ralph James Robinson, '32law, was appointed prin- Council, '33ex, June 17 in Nor- the head, but no motive for the murder has man. Home, cipal of Sulphur high school this fall after serv- Oklahoma City. been established. The body was returned to (TURN '10 PAGE 26, PLEASE) 1 2 The Sooner Magazine October

nouncement of a statewide cross-country meet sponsored by the University of Ok- lahoma at Norman November 4, the date of the Homecoming day football The Sooner sport world game with Kansas. Also the Sooners will engage state colleges in a number of dual meets over the five-mile distance. BY HAROLD KEITH, '28 Old-time University of Oklahoma football players and coaches are sending Contributing Editor their sons to Soonerland . Bob McMahan, son of Mark McMahan, of Fort Worth, Texas, Sooner football coach back in 1902 and 1903, is seriously considering the University as a prospective alma JUSTonething, andit not However Vanderbilt, too, has severa' mater. So is Harry Hughes, jr., son of tailbacks who can "go," as the players very concrete, gives University of Okla- Harry Hughes, now football coach at behind the blocking of homa fans hope that the Sooners may say. Especially Colorado Agricultural college but bet- Talley give the classy Vanderbilt team a stiff her big backs and the veterans ter known in Norman as Oklahoma's go in the big intersectional opener at and Dickison, two of the finest guards hurdling halfback of 1905 . James A. "These tailbacks are Rand Owen Field September 30-Oklahoma in the South. Long, 16-year old son of Frank A. Long, Bobby Oliver and has not lost an opening day game at Nor- Dixon, Pete Curley, Sooner football and track luminary of 6-6 man in nine years. Larry Burton, hero of Vanderbilt's 1908, is now in Norman to attend the Aside from that, the game has a de- draw with mighty Tulane last fall. University after a 25-day trip from Brazil Sooners are pretty well fixed cided Vanderbilt complexion . Sooner fans The 1933 where his father is a Y. M. C. A. sec- the important can't help remembering that last year in all departments save retary . . Coach Dan McGugin's Vanderbilt team one of being able to gain .off the ground Glen Dawson, former University of drove through the best elevens in the Although "green," the squad is big and Oklahoma distance running phenom, will have good South for six victories and two ties be- strong defensively. It won the mile championship of the Ca- have ample fore finally meeting defeat in the last kicking and passing. It will nadian National Exposition at Toronto, game. And the Southern conference reserve strength for the first time in Canada on Labor Day for the third con- plays a much faster brand of football years which means the regulars will have secutive year. Although he gave gen- stale. than the Big Six loop. In fact Lewie more rest and won't go erous handicaps to all his opponents, weak Hardage, Sooner coach, says the fastest Last year Oklahoma was a Dawson breezed home a winner by six football played in the nation today is blocking team, which, coupled with yards in 4:21 . played in the South. Halfback Bill Pansze's early loss because "The game that Washington, D. C. rely al- Another thing that makes Oklaho- of a knee injury, was forced to fans liked best last year was that between ma's chance look poor is the fact that most wholly upon a kicking and passing George Washington university and the Vanderbilt will have had twenty-three game. The best teams are those which . The Westerners practice days and the Sooners only six- can run with the ball as well as kick played the type of football that greatly is pre- teen when they clash on the green turf and pass it, but a running attack thrilled the crowd and next season Pix- at Owen Field. Also that the Commo- dicated mainly upon good blocking, lee hopes to have them back," says Earn- dores, with ten letter men and seven especially by the backs, and Oklahoma est Mehl, in the Kansas City Star. blocking back since squad men back, can start a veteran hasn't had a good An inspiration for better scholarship team whereas the Sooner coaches must Frank Crider, '29 and Clyde Kirk, '30. has been given freshmen athletes of the shoot the works with sophomores. Two sets of playing jersies, one red University of Oklahoma by Chester But the Sooners always fight their and one white, will be worn by the Uni- Westfall, of Ponca City, president of the heads off in an opening day game played versity of Oklahoma football squad this University of Oklahoma Association, at Norman. And if Coach Lewie Hard- fall, says Lewie Hardage, head coach. who has announced that he will give a age's boys follow that precedent against Each will have playing numbers on both valuable trophy to the Sooner freshman the dashing Southern team, fans who front and back of the jersey, eight inch athlete who makes the best grades next throng Memorial Stadium here Septem- numbers on back and six inch on front, school year. The trophy may be a gold ber 30 may see a real football game in- so even the most short-sighted spectator wrist watch, although Mr. Westfall has stead of a rout. may recognize them from any point of not definitely decided yet. In his un- Spectators will probably see a duel of the stadium. The team will again wear dergraduate days at the University, Mr. rival tailbacks that should sparkle like its lightweight "scanties" and helmets, Westfall was sports editor of the Uni- early sunshine off a frosty field on a with an improved knee pad the only versity of Oklahoma, student newspaper, clear November morning. The Sooner change from last year. and an enthusiastic devotee of athletics. tailbacks are more or less well-known Each women's fraternity on the Uni- University of Oklahoma band will to state football fans, and include Bob versity of Oklahoma campus will select have some new stunts for spectators at Dunlap, Bill Pansze and the three soph- one of its most beautiful girls to spon- Sooner home football games this fall, omores, "Nig" Robertson of Seminole, sor a Vanderbilt player at the Vander- says William R. Wehrend, director. A Delmar Steinbock of Frederick, and bilt-Oklahoma dance in Oklahoma City, new drum major and baton twirler will Raleigh Francis of Blanchard. Of the September 30, night after the Vandy- take the place of Hugo Goetz, Pryor, five, Dunlap so far has been the most Sooner intersectional game. efficient leader of the last three years, versatile. He can run, plunge, block After a four-year lapse, the old five- who graduated. His successors are and tackle reasonably well . Besides he mile cross-country run is coming back Ralph Erwin, Muskogee ; Archie Gra- is probably as fine a quick-kicker and at the University of Oklahoma. Aband- ham, Tahlequah ; and Leo Ball, Cement. passer as the Mid-west has seen in years. onment of the two-mile team race by the A new set of colorful formations will Lawrence Perry last year selected Dun- Big Six conference precipitated a discus- also be worked out, Wehrend said. lap as quarterback on his second all- sion between Ben G. Owen, Sooner ath- Two highway cutoffs that will permit American team, ranking him second letic director, and John Jacobs, track spectators motoring to University of Ok only to Harry Newman of Michigan . coach, the result of which is the an- (TURN TO PAGE 20, PLEASE 1933 The Sooner Magazine 1 3

and a short talk by a representative of the Association. This could be used as a basis for get-together meetings of alumni in each city and town in the state . Your Association C. Work systematically through alum- ni, teachers and friends of the Univer- sity to get the best students from each high school to enter the University . BY CHESTER WESTFALL, '16 1 . There should be named by the As- President, University of Oklahoma Association sociation a committee of three in each county; committees so formed would have the specific task of getting the best students and the real leaders from each high school graduating class to go to (I don't believe this is as dry as it sounds . tions of your Association and have sug- the University . Numbers of students is I trust every alumnus will read it .- gested certain specified lines of action far less important than quality of stu- The Author.) for the coming year. dents . If you believe this a proper program D. Work systematically to place Soon- for your Association for the coming year, ers in important positions in secondary A and if you stand ready to throw you, schools throughout the state, assuming shoulder to the wheel whenever neces- always that Sooner applicants can com- ALMOST every alumnus has sary, write to us. And especially, send pete successfully in matters involving a desire to be of some service to his Uni- in criticisms and suggestions from which ability and training with other candi- versity. Some have the desire because a better and more complete program can dates for positions. of old associations and friendships . Some be developed. E. Work systematically to get Sooners have a feeling of obligation to the Uni- THE PROPOSED PROGRAM placed as coaches in the athletic depart- versity as an institution. Most have ments of state high schools. reached that stage of mature good citi- 1 . Build an esprit de corps among the F. Work systematically to get the best zenship where they view the University alumni of the University through : athletes from state high schools to come as a great service agent to the people of A. The Sooner Magazine : let the Mag- to the University . Many over-emphasize, the state. These, in addition to the per- azine become a sort of "trade journal" many others under-emphasize the real sonal element, realize that any act of for alumni. Let it confine itself, for importance of good athletic teams to an theirs that helps to build and protect the most part, first, to keeping alumni institution. The fact is that more peo- and keep sound and strong their State informed of the development and ac- ple have the opportunity to judge the University is in the purest sense an act tivity of the University ; and, second, to football team than any other college of public spirited good citizenship. maintaining among alumni "Sooner function or activity . Personally, if I see An efficient educational system is a traditions," thus preserving the ideals a sloppy, poorly trained football team first essential for a state if it is to provide and atmosphere that have endeared the representing an institution, I assume that material opportunity and the bases for University to all who have gone there; perhaps classroom work is of the same sound, wholesome living to us and our and, third, to keeping alumni informed standard . Snappy, well-trained, hard children . No system can be sound with- of the activities and progress of other fighting, but purely amateur teams come out the inspiration and leadership of a alumni . from institutions that attract, develop great university, any more than a univer- B. Through other Association activi- and inspire fighting men . The inspir- sity itself could be built on some other ties, many in number, such as meetings ation that comes to other students from foundation than good common and sec- in various parts of the state, Homecom- a hard-fighting team, football, debating, ondary schools. ing and other "pep" meetings, etc. All what-not, is of tremendous im- An appeal to alumni to get into the of these will contribute toward the esprit track, or portance to an institution. harness and help their University is de corps that it is desirable to stimulate . therefore not merely an appeal to that 11. Activities for promoting and build- G. Help in the promotion of big old "rah-rah" college spirit that is quite ing at the University : crowds for 0. U. football games. Large important in campus days, but has less A. Of first importance is the knowledge football receipts are essential to the con- place later. It is primarily an appeal of who are the active and aggressive tinued existence of the Stadium-Union. for a highly essential public service. The alumni in every section of the state. This H. Some solution must be worked out building of esprit de corps among alumni information must be assembled and cat- with reference to the more than two is a means, not an end, though it is alogued systematically, so that alumni hundred thousand dollars of unpaid a highly important "means ." efforts can be used to best advantage . Stadium-Union pledges. This is not The function of your Association is to Through systematic information of this merely a problem of collecting funds for provide the direction and coordination kind, it will be possible to get specific, the Stadium-Union. These pledges are of your efforts to serve your state well-qualified alumni to do specific tasks owed by about four thousand men and through service to its University. Ex- of value to the University and to the women who in the past were among the cept through the labors of its members, 'Association . It is the foundation of all most loyal and enthusiastic alumni. Fail- the Association can accomplish nothing. Association work. ure to pay in most cases is due to the If the Association can search out and B. Use ingenuity in promoting pub- general economic conditions which make translate into acts the desires of alumni licity through the newspapers and radio payment impossible, and often, also, to to serve, then if it can coordinate the stations of the state for the University . the fact that many original pledges were action of our thousands of alumni and A University of Oklahoma Radio Night too high. So long as these unpaid and former students, nothing is beyond its should be arranged, perhaps through long past-due pledges hang over them, possibilities for accomplishment. WKY if possible, which would feature the psychology of the situation remain- In the outline liven below, I have a short talk by President Bizzell, music, ing what it is, hundreds of alumni will attempted to analyze the proper func- and short talks by other University men ; (TURN TO PAGE 20, PLEASE) 1 4 The Sooner Magazine October

lahoma Union building this year in the manner originally planned by alumni, faculty members and friends of the Uni- versity is held in abeyance as the Union board of trustees awaits a decision on dust among us its request for federal emergency funds to make the necessary additions. If the request for $130,000 is granted, the tower over the main front entrance BY FRANK S. CLECKLER, '21 wall be constructed and the building as it was originally visualized will become a reality. Although the building is rend- ering a remarkable service today in pro- viding student members of the Union with a community center, much remains OUR Association Secretary ing the sacrifices which such loyalty incomplete, especially, the finishing o building . could perhaps give a much better ac- must have entailed in many instances. the interior of the " Under the plan which has been ap- counting to you of his activities as man Board of Trustees and will ager of the Oklahoma Union during the I hope that all Sooners will form the proved by the or rejected this fall past summer, than as alumni secretary . habit of dropping into the alumni of- be either approved the directors of the National Emer- A vacation fishing in Colorado vanished fices when they visit Norman. This is by rooms for campus visitors into a great program which may result a convenient meeting place (my offices gency Act, are on the third floor to in completion o1: the Oklahoma Union on the second floor of the Oklaho- would be finished building-something all of us want. I ma Union building), and from it you meet a need which has always been felt Norman . was glad to give up the vacation, for it can call your friends or old teachers. If in be able to take ad- will be as restful to me as to the students, you are visiting friends, why not give Alumni would accommodations when to see something beside unfinished walls me a ring to let me know that you are vantage of these visited the the campus at any time in this building . in Norman. That will help us make they year. The rooms would be All of us know the ambitions of the our Magazine all the more representa- during the furnished and kept open to founders of the Union. They wanted to tive. completely give students a club house where all University visitors. east side of the first floor would could meet on one common ground. We Names make news. And if you will The and made into a women's know why these ambitions could not be remember that every Sooner is a Maga- be finished Here women visitors and realized . Scarcely had the building been zine reporter, we'll really make The lounge room. could relax for a few finished until the w. k. depression set in. Sooner Magazine a homecoming every alumni members or dur- Pledges could not meet their pledges. We month . Won't you do your part? minutes after a football game celebration . The west all understood this . All but a tew stu- " ing an alumni building would house the dents on the campus, who lent themselves Although I have urged ever since I side of the alumni offices and the Y. M. C. A. of- to litigation . But, I am glad to say, all have been secretary that we are not in- students are beginning to see the real terested in degrees of Sooners but the fices . unfinished north lounge idea of the Oklahoma Union-a univer- fact that they attended the University, I The large room would be completed and extended sity club for alumni and undergraduates. still meet with the regretful statement, the part of the building now Under the public works program we "I wish that I were eligible for member- through by the alumni offices. The hope to be able to obtain enough money ship; but I never got my degree ." occupied the first floor where to complete the building and dedicate it Alumni are persons who attended the south end of WNAll, University broadcasting studio, to 100 per cent service to everyone . We University of Oklahoma and who got would be converted into a feel that our project is a most worthy the spirit of real education. It doesn't is located writing and library room. one and we are greatly encouraged at the make any difference whether it took four reading, the second floor would preliminary progress . There is a more months or four years to get that spirit. Office space on used for student meetings and offices complete report on this work elsewhere If you've got it, you're a Sooner--and be important campus organizations. The in this Magazine . eligible for membership in our Associa- of would be moved to the tion. WNAll studio tower. Also, chimes would be placed in Need any help at Norman, like get- This begins my sixth year of service as tower. ting tickets, finding lost addresses? Let the your secretary. Many trials and ac- utility of the building for alum- me know. Looking for a job? Perhaps The complishments have marked the five ni members and student members would we can help. Know where there's a job years since I left the Veteran's service of be increased immeasurably. According for some worthy Sooner' Let me know. the Government for the uncertain des- the plan now pending, the Union We help best by helping each other. to tinies of the then infant University of reimburse the Federal Government " would Oklahoma Association. for the loan over a period of thirty years. minute longer to The greatest pleasure to me, apart It will take but a Thirty per cent of the $130,000 would and from the cooperation I have had right drop into the Association offices reg- be given outright under the regulations you come down for the game. and left from loyal alumni, has been ister when of the Federal Emergency Act. the sure steady growth of the Associa- Why not form the habit? Any groups tion, despite a period of depression . It that may want to have a reunion lunch- eon that time can get one if they notify F. C. Conrad, '32 law, who has been lo- is easy to build during the flush days at cated in Dallas, Texas, for the past year has of easy money; it is something else to me in time. Just let me know how many moved his law offices to Duncan . have a strong Association continue strong there will be in your party, the hour, Ross Dugger, '26ex, has been elected vice- during a period when continuance of and how much you want it to cost, and president of the Sayre Wholesale Grocery com- pany at Sayre. He is in charge of the buying . membership means a sacrifice. I thank IT take care of the rest. The recently elected president of the Okla- all of the Sooners who have kept our homa Educational association is George Mann, Association alive and active, not count- A plan for the completion of the Ok- '26ex, school superintendent at Clinton. 1933 The Sooner Magazine 1 5

President Bizzell has taken the national leadership with new leisure as a result of the NRA pro gram . I-ie formulated in August a com- plete night and Saturday program of classes and lectures especially for adult citizens of Oklahoma who have shorter working weeks. Shortly after he had completed his plan, the Uni- versity president was asked to co-op- erate in a national program designed to direct leisure into educational chan- nels

The university's directed leisure program

I DING on the wings of the A number of formal courses are to be Subjects of additional lectures in this famous blurR eagle the University of Ok- given on each Saturday and in the even- series are to be announced later. lahoma is taking the lead in a new edu ings of the scholastic year by members In addition to the formal Saturday cational movement which is undoubted- of the faculty of the University . Credit and night classes and the series of in- ly to result from the increased free time will be given for these courses and the formal lectures above described there will being afforded the people of the nation standards of the regular session classes be a series of travel lectures conducted through the N. R. A. will be maintained in these classes. by the various members of the faculty Immc(liately after the N. R. A. code There will also be offered a series who have made special study of and had been put into effect President Biz- ofinformallecturesanddiscussions to be have traveled or lived in various parts zell called a meeting of representative directed by members of the several fac- of the world. These include an intro- faculty members and placed before them ulties of the University, which will re- ductory lecture by Dr . Bizzell on Sep- a plan which he propos-d as the mean . late to various aspects of the National tember 21 ; "China," Harvey Curtis Roys, by which the University could serve its Program. These lectures will be given Assistant Professor in Physics, September share in the National Recovery Act. both on the campus and to interested 28 ; "Our Southwestern Desert," Forrest Ever mindful of the double duty of groups throughout the state and are to E. Clements, Associate Professor of An- the University to serve not only the stu- be open to the public without charge . thropology, October 5 ; "Great Britain," dents actually enrolled in school during This series includes such subjects as W. S. Campbell, Associate Professor o . the regular session but to serve the en- "The New Deal-Before and After," by English, October 12 ; "Switzerland," Gus- tire populace of the state-that populace Arthur B. Adams, Dean of the Col- tav Mueller, Associate Professor of Phi- to whom the University belongs-Dr . lege of Business Administration, sched- losophy, October 19 ; "France," Lucille Bizzell visions a greater service the school October 5 ; "Debt and Dora, Professor of French, October 26 ; can make to those people who have more uled for MortgageLegislation,"E.C.Petty, Assistant "Ceylon and Southern India," Louis free time as a result of the N. R. A. Professor of Business Administration, Fritts, Public Relations Department, No- than they have ever had in their lives October 12 ; "Inflation and Banking vember 2 ; "Mexico," Todd Downing, since they entered into the industrial sys- Changes," Elgin Groseclose, Assistant Instructor in Spanish, November 9 ; "The tem. Professor of Secretarial Work, October Near East," Della Brunsteter, Assistant "The utilization of this free time rep- 19 ; "The National Recovery Act," F. Professor of French, November 16 ; resents a social problem second only to L. Vaughan, Pfofessor of Business Ad- "Russia," Nathan Court, Associate Pro- the problem of reemployment which th . ministration, October 26 ; "The National fessor of Mathematics, November 23 ; Federal Government is fostering through Recovery Act, (Public Works and Con- "Denmark," Jens Rud Nielson, Professor the National Industrial Recovery Act," struction Projects) R. J. Dangerfield, of Theoretical Physics, December 7 ; 1)r. Bizzell states in classes. Assistant Professor of Government, No- "North Africa," Oscar Brousse Jacobson, "The University of Oklahoma," h vember 2 ; "The National Securities Act," Director of the School of Art, December continues, "is fuly conscious of its obli- J. B . Professor of Law, 14 ; "The Old South," Jerome Dowd, gations as well as its opportunities to Cheadle, Novem-ber 9; "TheAgricultural Adjustment Professor of Sociology, January 4 ; render a public service at this critical Act," H. M. Armstrong, Head of the "Spain," Alfred B . Thomas, Associate time ." Department of Public Relations, Novem- Professor of History, January 11 ; "Ger- And conscious of its obligations the fol- ber 16 ; "Unemployment Relief," Major many," William Anthony Willibrand, lowing comprehensive program is being H. J. Maloney, Professor of Military Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, offered this fall with the objective of Science, and F. L. Ryan, Assistant Pro- January 18 . There are also a series of providing for self-profitable leisure. fessor of Economics, November 23 . TURN TO PAGE 26, PLEASE) 1 6 The Sooner Magazine October

Leslie Salter, '21 (left), is at the fore- front in the nation's war on crime in his position as assistant attorney general of the United States. Char- les D. Mahaffie, '05 King- fisher (right), a former Rhodes scholar, will have much to say about reor- ganization of transporta- tion in the United States in his position as member of the interstate commerce commission

Sooners in the New Deal

NUMBER of Sooners have master General Farley, under whose di- periments without risk to the nation," places ofAresponsibility in the adminis- rection the survey is being made. Mr. Riley declared . "However, other tration of the so-called New Deal. Roy Mr. Murphy, who has had several fel- states and the nation have followed in trail of Oklahoma. St. Lewis, '13ex, continues as an assist- lowships for research, was a fellow at the pioneer of ant United States attorney general at the Brooking Institute in St. Louis when Justice Riley saw in the licensing Washington . Leslie Salter, '21as, '22law, Mr. Farley called on him to make the ice plants by Oklahoma an analogy to the also an assistant United States attorney survey. Mr. Murphy was engaged in a licensing of business through NRA Oklahoma's experiments in regu- general, occupies a most important place study of Republican patronage in the codes. and opera- in the Government's war on crime. Short- South in the postoffice department . Mr. lation of oil and the number the ly after the Roosevelt Administration be- Farley asked him to undertake a more tion of cotton gins was sustained by courts but the licensing of ice gan, Mr. Salter was shifted to Chicago comprehensive study and on the findings highest by the United States to direct the prosecution of gangsters of this survey Mr. Farley hopes to pre- plants was ruled out . The licensing there . Recently, he was sent to Okla- sent to the next Congress legislation de- supreme court in 1925 homa City to aid the Government in the signed to place all postmasters under act sought to eliminate duplication, over- alleged Urschel kidnapers . In the Ur- civil service. production and speculation and waste in schel case, Roy "Slick" Hyde, '19ex, west- As a member of the interstate com- the ice industry, he said, and "the net eliminate ern district attorney of Oklahoma, oc- merce commission, Charles D. Mahaffie, result was an abortive effort to cupies the leading role for the Govern- '05as (Kingfisher) will have a most im- `unbridged competition' so as to reduce ment, assisted by S. D. S. Hodges, '25as, portant role in solving the tangled prob- producing facilities to a reasonable mar- there was no emer- '27law. lem of transportation in the United ket demand . But as dur- (Mr. Hyde moved to a farm near Ok- States, a solution of which seems funda- gency recited, no limitation to lahoma City several years ago, and since mental to sound recovery . ation . It was intended to be a perman- that time has not attended a motion pic- Fletcher S. Riley, '17as, chief justice ent policy of government. ture show. The other day a motion pic- of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, in an "Action in this case denied the state ture was made of him, and capital news- address before the American Bar Associ- by the Fourteenth Amendment to the papers speculated whether he would ation at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Aug- Federal Constitution under a majority break a two-year picture hiatus by seeing ust 29, declared that Oklahoma had opinion of the United States Supreme himself on the silver screen.) furnished precedent for the NRA pro- Court, is the self-same action that is Many Sooners are active in the NRA gram. sought to be exercised by the Federal campaign . Frank Buttram, '10as, '12M. In a speech entitled "Methods of Government as a temporary measure, for A., of Oklahoma City, is chairman of Judges in Preparation, Conduct and Dis- the purpose of delivering this country of the Oklahoma NRA board. Other Soon- position of Cases Orally Argued and ours from the economic and social ers occupy responsible positions in the Necessity for Reform," the chief justice sloughs." administration of the Recovery Act in declared that Oklahoma had pioneered At Wainright, Oklahoma, Soonerland's the state. in socializing industry and licensing bus- own Blue Eagle was reported by the Lionel V. Murphy, '28as, '29M.A., a iness, through oil proration and licensing United Press pleased with the adoption former instructor in government in the ice manufacturers. of the blue eagle as the emblem of the University, will make a survey for the "For a long time, Oklahoma stood NRA. postoffice department during the next alone in this field, i.e., the conservation "I was very much surprised to learn six months of the relation of patronage of natural resources, and served as a lab- the Government had adopted the Blue to postmasterships and report to Post- oratory to try social and economic ex- (TURN TO PAGE 24, PLEASE) 1933 The Sooner Magazine

Valley ; Miss Fay Rackley, Purcell ; Mrs. Joe Haight, Mrs. Shannon Hamm, and Miss Floy Grinunitt, of Shawnee; Mrs. O. C. Keegan, Bartlcsville, and Mrs. Curtis F. Bryan, Tulsa. ('In Omega; Mrs. D. L. Rittito, Mrs. Vernon C. Mitchell, Mrs. Junius W. Dyke, Mrs. J . Lloyd Party, Mrs. Robert D. Curran, Mrs. P. Week P. Gibbons, Mrs. A. E. Gray, Mrs. Nesbitt L. Alumni and Rush Cor- Miller, Mrs. Jack Shaffcr, Mrs. Robert S. win, Mrs. James A. Jones, jr ., Mrs. Clifford Loucks, Miss Christine Spalsbury, Miss Eliza- beth Bcarly, Miss Mary Morrison, Miss Louise Garret, Miss Patty Patterson, Miss Enid Cole, garct Pyle, Pauls Valley ; Mrs. Bob Brown and record was estab- Miss Petway, Miss ANEW Mrs. Bill Brown, Duncan ; Mrs. Paul Rice, Miss Virginia Miller, Miss Jack lished in fraternity pledging at fall rush Louise Craddock, Miss Mary Stewart, Miss Rob- Cleo Clark, Miss Doris Duncan, Miss Eleanor this year, with a total of 393 students erta Bagby, Mrs. Jack Pugh, Miss Margaret Hansen, and Miss Margaret Eisenbcis, of Ok- dates of men's Moody, Miss Virginia Moody, Miss Catherine lahoma City ; Miss Jessie Lone Clarkson, Miss pledged as a result of first Sin Claire Harnss, and Mrs. Clarence McElroy, Leavitt, Miss Joanna Schaffer, Miss Beryl Bar- fraternities and preferential pledging of of Chickasha; Vernelle Seward, Shawnee ; nett, Mrs. Lester Sharp, Mrs. John Tate Brit- Miss Mrs. women's fraternities . Women pledges tain, Mrs. Elizabeth Steen, Mrs. William Krepps, George Russell and Miss Margaret Stanley, numbered 161 (compared to 150 last Miss Evelyn Boring, Miss Margaret Harrison, of Norman . with 215 Mrs. Ross Hume, Miss Louise Street, Miss Myra Kappa Alpha Theta: Mrs. Roy Johnson, New- year) and men 230 (compared kirk ; Mrs. Phil Kidd, and Mrs. , Ross, Mrs. Walter Thornton, Mrs. John Lambe, at the end of first dates last year). Norman ; Miss Peggy Stephenson, Mrs. Carl Mrs. George Birdscyc, Mrs. Jim Musgrave, Miss Ford, Mrs Winston Enid ; Miss Mary More alumni returned this year for Mary Louise Stokes and Miss Anne Stinnett, of . Eason, Lee Gribi, ; Marjorie Norris, rush than any previous time, a survey Oklahoma City ; Mrs. T. Jack Foster, Mrs. Jap Chickasha Miss made by The Sooner Magazine shows. Haskell, Mrs. John (able, Mrs. L. N. Morgan, Ada; Mrs. Frederick Shaw, Mrs. Earl Bentley, Mrs. Ed Meacham, Mrs. Jo Richards, and Mrs. Mrs. I-Larry Griffin, Mrs. Paul Klarrow, Mrs. Alumni who returned as reported to the Walter Morgan, Mrs. Claude Monnett, Mrs. Hu ;h McDermott, of Norman. Louie Kneeland, Mrs. C. O. Burnside, Mrs. J. Magazine follow : Kappa Kappa Gamma ; Miss Mary Helen Alpha Xi Delta ; Miss Marian Flinn, Miss J. Bolinger, Mrs. Paul Dudley, Mrs. Lyle Brush, Potter, Miss Betty Evans, Miss Betty Cassidy, Julia Elcy, Miss Margaret Kernodle, Miss Eliza- Miss Mex Rodman, Miss Aleyne Finerty, Miss Mrs. Bjorne Rossebo, Mrs. Don Walker, and beth Norta, Miss Alice Garet, Miss Virginia Mor- Lois Steel, Miss Nell Marie Berry, Miss Har- Miss Leslie Crawford, of Ardmore ; Miss Helen ris, Miss Bonnie Thomas, and Miss Irene Bar- riet Willis, Miss Evelyn Hcfner and Miss Rose Virginia Kelly, Drutnright ; Mrs. John L. Col- bour, of Oklahoma City. Mary Lamb, of Oklahoma City . lins, Bristow ; Mrs. William Stacy, Mrs. L. M. Phi Mu : Mrs. Martin Mars, Dallas, Texas; Delta Delta Delta; Miss Martha Garber, Miss Black, Mrs. Ned Holman, Mrs. Gale Grubbs, Mrs. Lydia Roarein, New York City ; Mrs. Antoinette Martin, Miss Doris McKnight and Miss Elizabeth Crist, Miss Virginia Lester, Miss Phil Gale, San Antonio, Texas; Mrs. Roberta Miss Helen Gottschalk, of Enid ; Mrs. Lee Mor- Phocbc Jo Shull, Mrs. Ralph May and Miss Alden, Tulsa ; Miss Edith Mayes and Miss My- rison, Mrs. Ruth Moore Jones, Mrs. Vernon Clement Cruce, of Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Rob- riam Moyer, Enid ; Mrs. L. K. Anderson, Miss Crook, Miss Virnie Goudlock, and Mrs. Pearl ert Jordan, Mrs. William Berry, Mrs. Christine Doris Taylor, Miss Kathleen Mauck, Miss Eva Concgys, of Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Bill Marrs, Squire Hill and Miss IIylagene Robberson, of Louise Lanire, Mrs. Stella Siler, Mrs. Barney Omega, New Jersey ; Miss Ruth Ray, Bartlesville ; Norman ; Miss Mary Anna Millican and Miss Crawford, Mrs. Raymond West, Mrs. William Miss Mary Robinson, Vernon, Texas; Miss Ann Joyce Cole, of Fort Worth, Texas; Miss Mar- Pretty, Miss Lucille Nash . Holt, Dallas, Texas; Miss Mary Catherine Pierce, garet Holtzendorff and Miss Leta Holtzendorff, Alpha Chi Omega: Mrs. Carl Windsor, Wich- Quanah, Texas. of Claremore; Mrs. J. T. Hann, of McPherson, ita, Kansas ; Mrs. Peyton Wemyss-Smith, Okla- Kappa Sigma: Ralph Brand, Moore; Bill Wil- Kansas ; Miss Martha Ovcrlees, Bartlcsville ; Mrs. homa City ; Miss Mary Bowers, Fort Worth, Tex- liaxns, Hal Williams, Sam Gilstrap, Ardmore; Frank Wymer, Miss Marjorie Hudson, Mrs. Nor- as, Miss Betty Campbell, Anadarko ; Miss Cath- Emerson Price, Miami; Dr . Fred Hood, Short- man Hulings, Miss Mary Lou Niles and Mrs. erine Gurley, Blackwell; Miss Antoinette Hal- grass; William Fogg, Fred Thompson, Watt Seldon Chick, of Tulsa; Mrs. Gus Funk, Mrs. ko, Wcwoka ; Miss Edna Hoffman Newkirk; Richards, Gilbert Richards, El Reno ; Charles Robert Howl and Miss Lillian Aderhold, of El Miss Duane Northup, Miss Margaret Owen, G. Steward, Waurika; Dr. Wagoner, Tonkawa; Reno ; Miss Ruth Champlin, Miss Virginia Enid; Mrs. Clarence King, Miss Helen Baugh- Otho Newman, Rex Spur, Forest Skinner, Shaw- Richardson, Miss Jane hdwards and Miss Vera man, Miss Dorothy Bolend, Mrs. Raymond Boggs nee; Carl Kress, Charles Manochot, Don Nichol- Frances Swiggart, of Enid ; Miss Pansy Love Everest, Mrs. William McKinley Harris, Miss son, Dr. Carl Lindstrom, William H. Witt, and Miss Betty May Love, of Purcell ; Miss Dorothy Forsythe, Mrs. Carleton Wright, Miss Oklahoma City . Virginia Stone and Miss Frances Price of Chick- Margaret Meredith, Mrs. Frank Blackwood, Miss Delta Chi: Tom Wright, Chester Napps, Dick asha . Caroline Pipkin, of Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Kings- Norton, Milton Silverberger, Ferguson Hood, ford Price, Mrs. Lawrence Cullison, Miss Eliza- Beta Sigma Omicron : Mrs. George Swisher, Arnold Britton, John Isenhour, Hatnrnit Hough, beth Halbert, and Mrs. William Bryant, of Nor- Mrs. Stephen King, Mrs. Tom Stevens, Mrs. of Oklahoma City ; Gordon Morrison, Guthrte; man. W. E. Collier, Mrs. Lewis Saeger, Mrs. James Rene Francis, Blanchard ; Ed Jerkey, Carthage, Pi Beta Phi ; Miss Helen Bethel and Miss Shaddock, Miss Jeanette Gordon, Miss Helene Missouri ; Wayne Alge, Nash ; George Geotz, J. Martha Watson, Tulsa; Miss Sue Turner Fitts, McNally, Miss Lucille Robertson, Miss Sue Hay- C. Wickham, Pryor; Hurst Swiggart, Bryant Muskogee ; Miss Trower,Merdee Bartlesville ; den, Miss Rosemary Hamit, Miss Virginia Sam, Swiggart, of Gushing; and Ralph Livingston, Miss Catherine Grant, Miss Helen Lowery, and Miss Ruth Irelan, and Miss Ruth Cooper, of W. S. Livingston, of Seminole . Miss Virginia Bissell, of Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Charles Smith a%d Mrs. Phi Kappa Sigma: Clarence Fife, Pat Jarrett, Edward Galt, Mrs. Dan Poland, Mrs. Fred E. L. Barnes, of Norman . Oklahoma City ; Dr. Victor H. Kulp, Prof . Paul Chapman, Miss Cathryn Poland, Miss Ruth Tom Alpha Gamma Delta : Miss Donna Schumaker, Eldridge, and Roscoe Cate, Norman ; Marion Frame, Miss Mardine Cochrin, and Mrs. Mc- Miss Gencise Hughes, Miss Lena McCarrell, Miss Baker, Milton Elliott, of Shawnee. Millan Lambert, of Ardmore; Miss Alice Hyde, Leva McCarrell, Miss Margaret Hammers, Miss Phi Beta Delta : Jack J. Berry, Philip Berry, Mrs. Claudc Servin, Mrs. Donald Bretch, Mrs. Mary Neal, Miss Grace Browning and Mrs. Carl Ravis, Henry Ravis, Joe Merson, Morrie Kay McEldowney, Mrs. Wynn Ledbetter Puiley, Verona Pangburn, of Oklahoma City ; Miss Kirschner, Ben Marks, Harry Pines, and Sid- of Oklahoma City . Elizabeth Halfast, Mu'skogee; Miss Ferral Pru- ney Rudin, of Tulsa ; Said Gordon, Philip Sur- Alpha Phi: Miss Alta Thomas, Miss Frances itt, Anadarko ; Miss Wanda Browning and Miss eck, Victor Jacobson, Gcorgc Sellinger, and Thomas, Mrs. Leo Sanders, Mrs. Charles Dres- Glenn Dunnington, of Lawton . Harry Berry, of Oklahoma City . ser, Mrs. Charles McPherron, Mrs. Horaee Sigma Delta Tau: Miss Gcrtrude White, Delta Tau Delta : Pile Hamilton, Lawton ; Thompson, Miss Frances Flynn, Miss Muriel Prague ; Mrs. Gcrtrude Myers, Kansas City, Mis- George McLaughlin, Tuscan, Arizona; ;Carl Ballard, Mrs. Ray Trosper, Miss Dorothy Gil- souri; Mrs. Lucille Goldsmith-Schwartz, Okla- Loomis, Lawton ; Joyce Coffey, Ardmore; Rob- bert and Mrs. Leah Dennis, Miss Blanche Davis homa City ; Miss Mildred Lapp, Wilburton; and ert Bates, George McKinney, Ronald Johnson, Ratliff, Miss Caroline Mason and Miss Itna Lee Miss Shirley Horberg, Chicago, Illinois . Claude Mathcrs, of Tulsa ; Raymond Grisso, Phillips, of Oklahoma City ; Mrs. L. I-1. Rice, Gamma Phi Beta : Mrs. R. Q. Blakcncy, jr ., Kermit Grisso, Seminole ; Dick Beal, William Kansas City, Missouri ; Mrs. Emma Estill Har- Miss Genevieve Morgan, Mrs. Jack Steve And- McDonald, George Cent, Henry Cent, Harry bour, Edmond ; Mrs. L. R. Lewis and Miss erson, jr ., Miss Lillian White, Miss Pauline Mc- Moran, Oklahoma City ; Ray Bannister, Morris Amy Comstock, Tulsa ; and Miss Irenc Saund- Kinney, Mrs. Howard Suesz, Miss Marcella Hill, Schrader, El Reno ; Martin Coblentz, Quinton ; ers, Blanchard. Mrs. Russell Dozier, Mrs. John A. Brett, Mrs. Donald Atkins, Holdenville; Charles Duffy. Delta Gamma : Miss Pauline Rector, El Reno; James White, Miss Mary Trippidy, Miss Gene Ludwig Webber, Ponca City ; Jud Larson, Miss Mary Porter, McAlester ; Miss Marian Goss, Carter, Miss Maurine Holt, and Miss Jean Gum- Chickasha, and Tully A. Nettleton, Boston, Watonga ; Mrs. Dolf Montgomery, Lawton ; Mrs. ming, of Oklahoma City ; Miss Ruth Beidletnan, Massachusetts. W. R. Shorbough, Eutaw, Alabama ; Miss Char- Oktnulgee ; Miss Louise Lillard, Mrs. Tom Wil- Alpha Tau Omega ; Dean James Findlay and line Apperman, Baxter Springs, Kansas ; Miss son and Mrs. B . (lark, of Wcwoka ; Miss Hel- , Norman ; Tom Hutto, Spring- Nancy Lou Fullenwider, Muskogee ; Miss Mar- en Colar, Chickasha; Miss Stella Grant, Pauls field, Illinois ; Joe Hess and Jack Milloway, The Sooner Magazine October

Bartlesville ; Don Elison, Dorsey Douglas, Lowe Smith, Frederick ; Lena Stonum, Ardmorc; Bar- ton, New Mexico ; George Champlin, Lawton ; Runklc, Pat Sinclair, Bill Morgan, Ray Lytell, bara Jo Taylor, Oklahoma City ; Beryl Taylor, Jim Wright, Dallas, Texas; Chester Mingcls, Frances Chilson, Joe Whitten, Howard Fergu- Oklahoma City ; Lenora White, Weatherford, McAlester; and Bill Loftin, Idabel . son, J. C. Paddock, Pat Donahuc and Ronald cxas ; police Wood, Bartlcsvlilc . Delta Phi Epsilon: Harry Quinn, Tulsa; Dave Jarrett, of Oklahoma City . Pi Beta Phi: Joanne Alcorn, Ponca City ; Hel- Morris and Thomas Hays, both of Lawton ; Sigma. Chi ; Ralph Schafer, Bert Varvch Bill en Beckman, Oklahoma Cite ; Sue Nell liethell, and Charles O'Brien, McAlester. Bronson, Clarence Black, Alvin Egnew, Ker- Tulsa; Sara Bill-ups, Oklahoma Catty ; Marie Delta Upsilon: Bill I-lenthorn, Dale Watts, mit Schaeftcr, At Maidt, Mathew Kanc, Ray hobst, Tulsa; Betty' Boddy, Tulsa; Ann Boylin, Jerry Bates, Jack McKay and F. M. Reynolds, Trosper, of Oklahoina City ; A. D. Kennedy, Wadesboro, North Carolina ; Ruth Clark, Tulsa; all of Tulsa; Hunter Pedigo, Bob Rapp, Bill Frank Kcnncdy, Okmulgee; Paul Harrison, Elaine Davis, Norman ; Mabcl Donahoe, Ponca Hcfncr and Bill Smythe, all of Oklahoma City ; Ripley; Frank Flood, Charles Stanley, jr ., Dr . City ; Esleta Gayle, Shreveport, Louisiana ; Vir- J. D. Ligon and Jim Haning, both of Wewoka : Joseph Marshburn, Dr . Victor Monnett, and ginia Lee Griffey, Tulsa ; Elywn Hatchett, Dur- Ben Nicholas, Kansas City, Missouri ; and El- F.rnic Hill, Norman . ant; Virginia Lee, Bartlesville ; Frances Peek, win Gilcrest, Enid . Acacia : Leslie Hamm, Carleton Wright, and Oklahoma City ; Arline Wict, Tulsa; Elizabeth Phi Beta Delta; Morris Gershon and Bernie and Lawrence Swansbcrger, Oklahoma City ; Glenn Shores, Ardmorc; Norma Stovall, Huge; Mar- Merson Felix Gordon, all of Oklahoma Hughes, Henryetta; James Wilson, Find ; Bill garet Thompson, Oklahoma City ; Clare Tucker, City ; Paul Gctzoff and Abraham Latman, both Moon, and Jess Elliot, Blanchard; Jack Carter, Ardmore; Mary Jo West, Sapulpa. of New York City ; Louis Weinstein, Maurice Guthrie; Claude Bloss, Okcmah ; Bert Oliver, Delta Gamma: Mary Virginia Binger, Broken Maltz and Ed Pauliski, all of Houston, Texas; Anadarko ; George Verity, McLeod ; Lyndcn Bow; Eloise Brand, Moorc ; Natalie Crook, Ida- Joe Singer, Nathan Selinger, Sol Taubman, Mannen, Cecil Brite and Boots Atkins, Norman . bel ; Ann Durand, Hobart ; Helen Hand, Okla- Anon Mesirow, and Leo Marks, all of Tulsa; Kappa Alpha; Al Sellars, Paul Rice, Kendall homa City; Jane Hobart, Winnetka, Illinois ; Phil Glenn, Muskogee ; Bill Koeningsdorf, Kans- Hirt, Pete McGehee, George Massey, and Leon- Helen Hodgson, Wichita, Kansas, Marian as City, Missouri ; Joe Meycrs, Hot Springs, ard Aughtry, of Oklahoma City ; George Fisher, Holmes, Tulsa ; Joyce Hutchinson, Eutaw, Ala- Arkansas; Elliott Davis, Arkansas City, Kansas ; 1 Ioldenville. bama ; Dorothy Kelly, Oklahoma City ; Joe Dell and Jules Weinberger, Guthric. Phi Delta Theta ; Don O'Neil, Jack Coates, Kendall, Oklahoma City ; Betty Ann Kincannon, Kappa Sigma : LeRoy Gill and James Pierre, Leonard Savage, Cobb Burnside, George E. Olaalwma City; Lois Lewis, Shreveport, Lou- both of Okmulgec ; Bob Tidwell and Bill Camp- Dais, Ward 1:. Moorc, Jim Hcnlcy, Barron isana; Suzanne McClaskey, Oklahoma City ; Bet- bell, both of Miami; Frank Sister, Bristow: Houscl, and Tom Peacock, of Oklahoma City ; sy Ann Neer, Vinita ; Gladys Sellers, Abilene, Marshall Grecmnan, Oklahoma City ; Nolan Jack Foster, Dick Pendleton, Norman ; Harry Texas; Carolyn Stcwart, Muskogee ; Mildred Methvin, Chickasha; Arthur Miller, Carbondale, McKccvcr, Paul Edwards, Phil Edwards, Gene Suffield, Gage ; Onlec West, Cleveland. Illinois ; Ernest Williams, Ardmore; Harold Champlin, Fred Champlin, Enid ; Bob Adams, Ganuna Phi Beta ; Sarah Batten, Oklahoma Woolverton, Chickasha; anti Don Richards, Royce Savage, Sam Clatnmer, and Lat Baker, City ; Betty Bradbury, Oklahoma City ; Eloise Shawnee. of 'I'uka ; Herbert Champlin, Lawton ; Victor Bryan, Oklahoma City ; Lorna Coates, Oklaho- Lambda Chi Alpha: Ralph Brown, Hobart ; Peck, Fort Worth; Robert L. Bell, McAlester. ma City ; O'Rhaitia Cunnnigham, Norman ; Jack Blair, Pampa, Texas; Lawrence Ritter, Phi Kappa Psi: Robert Searcy, Joe Brewer, Theda Deen, Oklahoma City ; Mary Lee Gal- New Orleans, Louisiana; Dick Coleman, Fort Charlie Brewer, Tulsa ; Robert Simpson, Eu- laher, Shawnee; Elizabeth Garner, Okmulgee ; Worth, Texas; Chester Dill, Cement ; Bill faula; Bill Muglcr, Perry; Carl McAlister, Sans Dorothy (;uerricro, Monroc, Louisiana; Mary Downing, Oklahoma City ; Tommy Weiss, Ok- Fryer, Oklahoma City ; Steve Holloway, Nor- Helen Hirshfield, Oklahoma City ; Marjoric lahoma City ; Nelson Collier, Fletcher ; Joe Mc- man; Joe Wilson, Dallas, Texas; Fred Ham- Hoover, Tulsa; Morene Marshall, Oklahoma Farlin, Tulia, Texas ; and Bob Vestal], Cement . mond, Lawton ; Norman Jones, Perry; George City ; Dora Montgomery, Tulsa; Clare Gilc Mor- Phi Gamma Delta: Bob Stripling, Louis Sneddcn and Ralph Kistler, of Tulsa. ton, Oklahoma City ; Helen Phillips, Norman . White, Bill Whiteman, Duncan Threlkcld, John Alpha Sigma Phi: General Charles McTherecn, Delta Delta Delta; Pauline Iicllenger, Altus: Carstarthen, Bob Loy, Jim Blackeney, Earl Tros- Robert Durkee, P. G. Norman, Dr. Ralph C. Madelyn Buckles, Lakeland, Florida ; Ann And- per, Gwynne Laughlin, and Ed Garnett all of Myers, William Atkinson, Glenn Foster, Calvin rews, Hu,go; Nova Hodges, Iowa Park, Texas; Oklahoma City ; Emery S. Crow, Olustee; Ted Bosley, Dan Hogan, Jack Stone, Lee Cruce, Le- Frances Kile, Coalgatc ; Frances Morse, Okla- Schrader, Bristow ; Don Minning, Bartlesville ; land Snow, and Leon Willitts, of Oklahoma homa City ; Rosemary Parks, El Reno ; Jane El- Judson Wells, Bristow; Hall Collinson, Bob City ; Joe Bailey Gordon, Konawa ; Glen Daw- len Reeves, Lawton ; Louise Scott, Muskogee ; Stanton, Arkansas City, Kansas ; Kenneth Smith, son, Skiatook ; Carl Sleet, John Sleet, Ada; Dr . Helen Sipes, Oklahoma City ; Ruth Stripling, and Max Pischcl, both of Tulsa; and M. I, . M. L. Henry, Wilburton; Harrell Bailey, Ho- Edntond; Yvonne Welch, Oklahoma City . Swinncy, Norman . bart ; Senator J. Woody Dixon, Willis Choate, Sigma Delta Tau : Hannah 1,oreman, Vernon, Phi Kappa Psi: Bob Jones, Bob Hanson and Marietta ; and Robert Hull, Tulsa. Texas; Hcrmine Goldsmith, Coyle; Regba Pul- Malcom Kellcr, all of Oklhoma City ; Paul Day Pi Kappa Phi : Ewdard K. Wood, Okmulgee; aski, Houston, Texas; Lillian Rose, Oklahoma and Virgil Kittrell, both of Tulsa; Arthur Mel- Ralph Gilchrist, Taloga ; Lloyd Story, O. O. City ; Doris Sigel, Dallas, Texas; Muriel Spiro, rose, Eufaula; C. B. McHugh, Frederick; Burt Hammond, J. C. Elliott, Leon Shippe, of Ok- Oklahoma City ; Edy"the Winer, Pueblo, Colo- McGinty, Terrcll, Texas; James Fishburne, Gush- lahoma City ; Ray McKinney, Llyc Van Ars- rado ; Ella Zak, Lawton ; Molly Zak, Lawton . ing; Jean Ley, Perry ; Marion Holland, Hutch- dale, Tulsa; Lyman Edwards, Enid ; Frank Ew- Alpha Phi ; Hilmer Foster, Oklahoma City ; inson, Kansas ; and J. R. Dial, Durant. ing, Carl Cawthon, Amarillo, Texas; Bitsey Mary Katherine Frost, Norman ; Cecile Johnson, Sigma Alpha Mu : Joe Stocker, Bartlesville ; Cook, of Idabel . Tulsa; Carol McKnight, Oklahoma City ; Helen Harold Goodman, Dallas, Texas; Marvin Trope, The list of pledges, complete for the Mathews, Oklahoma City ; Pauline Robinson, Lawton ; Robert Kahn, Lawton ; Suinner Russ- Tonkawa; Ann fraternities, and incomplete for Taylor, Oklahoma City ; Ida man, Henryetta; Joe Leavitt, New York City ; women's Lee Warner, Lawton . Nathan Ravity, Julius Bankoff and Gus Zcld- the men's fraternities, follows: Alpha Chi Omega : Gladys Filer, Oklahoma ich, all of Tulsa ; Harold Feldstein, Larry Gold- Kappa Alpha Theta : Virginia Anderson, Ok- City ; Edna Jo Fanning, Norman ; Mildred Ful- berg and Dave Aranow, all of New York City ; lahoma City ; Helen Barnes, Oklahoma City ; ler, Lawton ; Marguerite Koerner, Oklahoma Joe Kalpin, Geary ; and Victor Kalman, Jamacia, Ruth Darling, Oklahoma City ; Virginia Cox, City ; Frances Krauss, Wichita Falls, Texas ; Mil- New York. Fort Worth, Texas: Nathalie Campbell, El Reno ; cited Long, Guthric; Morene Warren, Lone Sigma Alpha Epsilon: Jack Seward, Mickey LaRuc DeLana, EI Reno ; Willcna Dycr, Miami ; Wolf. Parks, Leslie Ford, C. A. Bell, and Dudlcv Patricia Finerty, Oklahoma City ; Stella Fisher, Chi Omega: Alice ])to Anderson, Oklahoma Kelley, all of Shawnee; Stewart Mark, Beau- El Reno ; Helen Focht, Oklahoma City ; Evelyn City ; Lorene Burt, Bartlesville ; June Rose Cope- cautp Selman, and J. H. Shelburn, all of Ok- Gray, Ponca City ; Elizabeth Haney, Ada; Wanda land, Houston, Texas ; Maxine Johnson, Norman ; lahoma City ; Davis Reed, John Richard Murray Mae Hays, Muskogee ; Marian Jones, El Reno ; Dorothy Kilpatrick, Hcnryetta, Robert Earle and Don Nix, all of Tulsa; Charles Marshall, Nancy Meents, Ada; Ruth Melton, Chickasha ; Wilson, Chickasha; Jean Portlow, Norman : Jean Chandler ; Bill Barnes, Bartlesville ; Russell Helen Morell, Enid ; Ruth Owen, Norman ; Eli- McLennan, Oklahoma City . Frakes, Kingfisher ; Roc Knight, Eldorado, Ar- nor Peery, Kansas City, Missouri ; Margaret Alpha .Xi Delta : Sibylla Andrews, Nornuur ; kansas ; M. O. Rife, Ft. Worth, Texas; Wen- Randerson, Oklahoma City ; Mary Roberts, Ncw- Rosemary Brooks, Norman ; Frances Sue Cecil, (fell Sparks, Ardmore; Curtis Year),, Elmore kirk ; Sue Schofield, Oklahoma City ; Gayle Valliant ; Peggy Miller, Oklahoma City ; Molly City ; Trimble Latting, Chickasha; Brown Mon- Turner, Shawnee ; Emma Lou Walker, Paris, Wright, Oklahoma City . nett, Norman ; and D. Holcomb, Shreveport, Texas; Sally West, Oklahoma City . Alpha Gamma Delta; Margaret Cook, Pratt, Louisiana. Kappa Kappa Ganuna : Betsy Billings, Tulsa; Kansas ; Alice May Dildine, Pawhuska ; Eleanor Pi Kappa Phi; Jack Church, Stilwell ; Lyle Be Ann Brown, McAlester; Betty Canticld, Ok- Kyle, Oklahoma City ; Margaret Osborne, Ok- Hammonds, Ponca City ; Richard Wilson, Barns- lahoma City ; Melville Cannon, Ardmore; Rose- lahoma City. dall ; Kenneth Atkins, Camden, Arkansas ; Ed marv Cooley, Oklahoma City; Mary Jane Fitz- Phi Mu : Eloise Gray, Guthrie; Floreda Shep- Berry and Ervin Swift, both of Claremore; patrick, Paris, Texas; Blarney Frisbic, Yukon; ard, Oklahoma City. Lewis Shawbcll, Konowa ; Bob Loftin, Idabel ; Jean Frost, Tulsa; Mary Huffhines, Oklahoma Beta Sigma Omicron : Virginia Doss, Norman . ]lilt Norris, Lawton ; Bill Cole, Lawton ; and City ; Wilson Gary, Enid; Mildred Keegan, Law- Phi Delta Theta; J. E. Thompson, Ned "Mac" McKenzie. ton ; Antoinette Kennedy, Enid ; Lorine Loomis, Brooks, Joe Murray and Gayfree Ellison, all Phi Kappa Sigma; Lawrence Bolen, Morrison Enid : Frances McGowen, Ponca City ; Joyce of Norman ; Bob LeBron and Dick Yeager, Stevens and Rex Bartlet, all of Oklahoma City ; Marshall, Oklahoma City ; Frances Pearce, Tulsa ; both of Oklahoma City ; Waync Turk and Bob Bill Lewis, Shawnee; Harold White, Tulsa; Bill Billy Mae Plock, Eufaula; Ruth Pollock, Ard- Vance, both of Enid ; Tee Connelev, El Reno ; Hendrixson, Norman ; Bill Huddleston, Kono more ; Margaret Simpson, Kingfisher ; Helen Mack Boring, Ft. Worth; Charles Grooms, Ra- (TURA TO PACt'. 26, PLEASE) 1933 The Sooner Magazine 19

1919 September 16- announces that "for the second time in the last six years, University of Oklaho- ma nearly lost its football coach, Bennie in years (liven, x,,,ho has been here since 1905. opening days other The University of Nebraska made a strenuous effort in August to land Owen as a coach there. Owen has never told ERNIE HILL, '32 BY anyone here about the offer. When questioned, he admitted it had been made." September 16-H. H. Lane, president 1899 local_ alumni chapter of Phi Beta CTOBER 20-The Um- Kates, another sophomore, is tossed in of the Kappa, announces that a national char- pire, studentOpaper, gets away to a flying a blanket. ter for a University of Oklahoma chapter start under the editorship of Vernon L. 1911 has been granted the petitioning group Parrington with an announcement of the Oeptember 19-Two important wed- here. An installation will be held soon. marriage of John Barbour, 1897 graduate dings are announced in the student pa- of the pharmacy school, to Miss Phronie per. Jess Rader, '08, a Sigma Nu, has 1920 Jackson at the residence of the bride. married Fannie Simpson, Norman high September 24-Dr. E. E. Dale returns Rev. A. C. Pickens, of the M. E. Church, school teacher and a member of Delta from Harvard where he has been grant- South, performs the ceremony . Delta Delta . ed Ills Ph. D. degree. He served, while The Umpire staff includes Ross Hume, John Foster, pharmacy graduate and he was in Boston, on the volunteer po- associate editor ; Maud Rule, literary ed- now pharmacist in Fred Reed's Drug lice force . The regular police force of itor; Sylvia Watson, C . C. Roberts and stare, has married Eva Blake, a Norman 1,200 men walked out on a strike when Jay Ferguson, local editors; and Paul resident . they were not allowed to join the Amer- Mackey, business manager. September 22-The sophomores win ican Federation of Labor. Dale was on the annual class fight from the freshmen duty in an exciting slum section. 1906 for the first time in eight years . September 25-Miss lma James. October 8--"All freshmen desiring red Parson, Reeds and Boatman are the women's physical education instruc- caps must see Miss Bessie McLennan or sophomorc leaders who ]cad their class- tor, says that 85 per cent of the Charles Gray before 12 :30 Friday, Oc- mates against the yearlings directed by women taking physical education are un- tober 12," says the The Umpire. Ray Flood and John Rodgers . The derweight and that 50 per cent of them October 8-Results of a Y. M. C. A. sopliomores sleep in Prof. Felgar's barn have flat feet. track meet alleged to have been held at and come out fifty-eight strong at mid- 1923 the city park are announced. The win- night to meet the freshmen who sleep in September 19-After electing Winston ners are : a barn 200 yards southwest of the cam- Jeidie, El Reno, class president, the Mc- 200-yard dash for fat girls--Miss hus. The first year students have sixty- freshman class marchs downtown and Gill, first, Cordelia Wilhite, second. six men in their ranks. raids drug stores . The first year stu- 200-yard dash for lean girls-Emma Martin, a junior, is caught by the dents stock up on toilet water and lip Alexander, first, Eloise Williams, second. sophomores and chastised for playing a sticks. Merchants place claims for $974.60 200-yard walk for lean girls-Miss "too prominent" part in instigating the in stolen and damaged goods. The stu- Grady, first, Bertha Salter, second. fight. dents vote a class' assessment of two Shoe race (oxford)--Miss Thompson, 1916 dollars a man to pay for the fun. first, Miss Boyd, second. September 18-Advertisement in Ok- 1924 Three-legged race-Miss Salter and lahoma Daily: "Monday, only, Bluebird September 24-D. D. M. C.'s appear Blanche Ruedy, first, and Miss McMalc- Photoplays, Inc., presents Love's Lariet, on the stage at the freshman election and in and Miss Alexander, second . an American comedy drama in five ap- explain to the class of new students that 1908 pealing acts introducing Harry Carey. their organization is in existence to pre- September 15-Freshmen, using one of Olive Fuller Golden and a company of serve Soonerland traditions. The class their class as a decoy, succeed in captur- superior merit . Tuesday, only. James cheers them and sings Boomer-Sooner ing Woods, Conklin and one other soph- Morrison in The Redemption of Dave and then elects the following officers : omore near the north end of University Darkey . University theater where the Leon Vinson, Shawnee, president ; Georg- boulevard . Woods and Conklin and the crowd goes. 5 and 15 cents. ia Harter, Ponca City, queen ; Charles third sophomore are blind-folded, their September 29-Bonnie Owen's power- Robbins, Tulsa, vice president; Loretta faces painted black and turpentine pour- ful Sooner football team gains almost West, Oklahoma City, secretary ; Tom ed down their backs. Sophomores stay at will to trim the Oklahoma Baptist McBryde, Ardmore, treasurer; and Bill in doors at night or go about the streets college eleven, 107 to 7. The Sooners Maurer, Oklahoma City, yell leader. in gangs. score seven touchdowns in the first 1926 September 18--Earl Baker leads his half and nine in the second . Tyler and September 18--Ershel Crow, Ponca Epsilon, lo- freshman raiders successfully through a James kick H goals. City, is pledged to Kappa skirmish with the sophomore class. Vern 1918 cal, (now Phi Kappa Sigma, national) Alden, a sophomore, is captured by the September 23-A special course in while taking an airplane ride. . M. Mul- first year students and his hair is clipped . philosophy, interpreting the philosophic lins pins the colors on Crow while the plane rockets through the sky . T. J. George also is taken prisoner but thought that has led to the World wal escapes in the early hours of the morn- will be offered by Prof. Holly Estil Cun- September 23-The university girl's place in the na- ing. ningham. track team wins sixth Black- At a critical combat late at night the September 30-Skivy Davis kicks 23 tional telegraphic meet. Dorothy freshmen take Nairn, Earl Gray, Bud goals out of 26 attempts as BenniL! man, Xenia Bryant and Amy Corneliuson results . Other Dawson and Warren Hazeltine prisoners, Owen's Sooners beat Kingfisher collego place in the national Kirk, Idabel and tie thetas to trees on the campus. 179 to 0 on the Norman field. Sooners to compete are Cleo

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Seitz, Ruth Hackler, Leota Smith, Paul- Loud, saving them eight miles and al- ine Foreman, Florence Henry, Mary Wil- lowing them to dodge the Oklahoma liamson, Mary Elizabeth Filson and City traffic. Both detour roads are Bertha McGuire. either graveled or hard-surfaced. 1927 Ben G. Owen will watch his twenty- Sooner roll call September 25-Six schools, including ninth consecutive annual Sooner football announce withdrawal from practice this fall. Owen coached at Ok- Cox-BECRFR : Miss Milbray Cox, '32ex, and Oklahoma, Herman A. Becker, '30ex, July 16 in Carmen . the Missouri Valley conference and the lahoma from 1905 through 1926, and Home, Meno . establishment of the Big Six conference. not only developed powerful teams but GRABLE-NAY : Miss Margaret Gladys Grabel, Unwieldy schedules with too many teams also teams that were known all over and Joseph Boyd Nay, '31bus ., July 22 . Home, the southwest for their hard, clean play- 428 Southwest 28th Street, Oklahoma City . to compete for the titles is given by BARR-WEST : Miss Angie Barr, and Johnic Dean S. W. Reaves as the reason for ing and sportsmanship. West, '31ex, July 19 in Nashville, Tennessee. the withdrawal . Starting time of all University of Ok- Home, Louisville, Tennessee. September 28-Excavation work is lahoma home football games this fall SITTON-DA VSON : Miss Louise Sitton, '32,-x . . will be 3 o'clock instead of 2 o'clock, and Madison Dawson, August 6. Chi Omega. started on the new $130,000 university Home, Ardmore. infirmary. starting hour in the past. SILVER-SULLAWAY : Miss Myona Belle Silver, September 28-Marguerite Croy, of and Guy Burrell Sullaway, '30eng ., August 16 . Drumright, is elected freshman queen at Home, 1816 Northwest 15th Street, Oklaho- ma City . a hilarious meeting. William Scheeler, HARRAL-BATCIIELOR: Miss Virginia Harral, Oklahoma City, is elected president at YOUR ASSOCIATION '28ex, and James W. Batchelor, '28as., '291aw, the meeting. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13) August 24 . Home, Durant . 1929 BEARY-IIEWRS : Miss Elma Beary, and Leslie be kept from being active, loyal, en- Hewes, '28as., June 24 in Earlville, Iowa . Home, September 20-Mex Curry's anti-ad- Norman. ministration party sweeps the adminis- thusiastic supporters of the University . tration group out of office in a big Some thorough revision of these pledges, An unusual record as a fine prosecutor of student council upset. Curry is elected satisfactory alike to the Union and to -riminal cases is being made by David Ruther- Glance manager in the place of of Clarence those who made the commitments, is ford, '231aw, as Jackson county's attorney at an early essential . Altus. McElroy. Each party has the same Helen Myers, '33as, Oklahoma City, is at- number of votes on the floor, but the 111. Activities for the protection of the tending the Horner's Conservatory in Kansas deadlock is broken on each question by University in times of need. City this fall . She studied piano under C. F. A. This is largely political activity. Giard while she attended the university. the ballot .of President Merton Munson . John Squire, '33eng., Chandler, has been September 28-Suspension of all Ruf The Association through alumni who are employed by the Standolind Pipeline company Neks and Jazz Hounds from the uni- scattered throughout the state, should in Oklahoma City . He was a maior in electrical versity is threatened by the board of keep in closest contact possible with can- engineering. He is making his home at 1501 and other state East 10th Street. regents as a result of rough initiations. didate9 for legislative J. F. Hatcher, '13as., Chickasha lawyer, has After numerous meetings, the pep lead- offices. Activities of the Association been appointed to membership on the state ers are reinstated in school with a warn- should result in the thorough education board of education. He resigned to accept a . of candidates before their election, rather university board of regents, ing never to paddle again nomination to the than in the attempted defeat of unfriend- but was reappointed to the board of educa- 1931 ly candidates . The latter could be re- tion when the legislature failed to approve his September 28-Swede Ellstrom plunges regent appointment. sorted to only in extreme cases. An ac- for a touchdown and kicks a field goal Ab Walker, '33phys ed ., Oktnulgee, was one tive interest by alumni in political af- of the principal speakers at the closing session of to give the varsity eleven a close 10 to fairs will result in most candidates' com- the three-day coaching school held for Okla- 7 victory over the freshmen. The Walk- mitting themselves to a friendly attitude homa and Kansas mentors at Blackwell. Boomers score when Bud Browning was a backfield man on the 1933 and 1932 toward the University before their elec- sails a pass to Melbourne "Nig" Rob- Sooner P , id teams. tion, and also will cause those elected Homer Courtright, '33fa., has accepted a po- ertson who runs 25 yards to the goal to be careful not to take a destructive at- sition in the department of music, at the Mur- line . ray School of Agriculture, Tishomingo. I-le will titude toward the University, whose in- 1932 have charge of the school band . terests are watched over by a large band September 30-Marian Mills and Ber- John Clark, '32phar., Lawton, has accepted a of active and aggressive men and wo- position as registered pharmacist in the new nard Doud, both of Norman, are elected men. Earl Drug company which opened recently in to the Whirlwind, humor magazine, hall Lawton . Clark has been employed for the past B. This activity must be handled with of fame. The pictures of the univer- year in Stillwater . the greatest discretion and judgment . Van Zant, 23as ., '26M .S ., outstanding students will ap- J. Harvey "Zek" sity's two Above all, care must be taken not to was elected secretary-treasurer of the Grisso pear in the first issue of the publication . Royalties company. He also is chief geologist build a "University political clique." The for the Eason Oil company at Enid . Van Zant latter would result ultimately in great is remembered at the university as the win- harm to the University. Political activity Wrightsman scholarship in ge- ner of the first of the "University folk" as such must ological engineering. THE SOONER SPORT WORLD Cecil Rhea Crawford, '32fa., was to open be confined to building up soundly and a studio to teach piano and violin September (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12) protecting the University of Oklahoma 1 in Wewoka. Crawford was a student uncle- and the Oklahoma school system. Charles Francois Giard during his undergraclu- lahoma football games to avoid traffic ate days. His early training was done under and save time, will be marked soon, IV. Activities for strengthening the Mrs. Carl Soderstrom of Pawhuska . Ben G. Owen, athletic director, has an- Association itself, i.e., adding to its mem- nounced. One will route fans driving bership, keeping it alive and active. U N I V E R S I T Y south on highway 77 from Tulsa, Ponca A. Despite the fact that the Associa- City and Guthrie, around Oklahoma tion has been built from nothing over a City via the gravel road cutting south off period of a few years to its present po- Book Exchange highway 77 at a point three miles east of sition of some influence and assistance to Charles C. Miles, Manager Edmond. The other will divert fans the University, the fact is that it now has from Shawnee, Seminole and Wewoka only a few hundred voluntarily paving straight west off highway 270 from Mc- members, a very large number of them

1933 The Sooner Magazine 21 Who's Who Who's Who Who's Who In Norman On the Campus In Norman

Drive a Chevrolet Earl Sneed, Tulsa, recently received double military honors. Maj . Harry J. Malony, commandant, conferred the high- Klein Motor Co . university 48 est honors upon him that the "Six cylinders-No More-No less" military department bestows, when he was I '' selected as ranking colonel for the first 118 N. Crawford W11%-/ -/ semester. Shortly thereafter he was chosen as the outstanding cadet officer in the L eight corps area, as the result of work "Norman's Greatest" Gordon's Department BAKE-RITE BAKERY Store 211 E. Main Phone 718 108 E. Main

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Book Sellers Popular with the Students To Sooners The SOONER VARSITY BOOK and SHOP Earl Sneed UNIVERSITY Theatres 221 W. Boyd done at the regular encampment at Ft. by a board of officers, Sill this summer, "Prescriptions our Specialty" and awarded a trip to Washington, D. C. Sneed is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Store Phone Lindsay Drug Phone national honorary scholastic fraternity and was a member of President Bizzell's James Downing, Owner year. He also was busi- VARSITY CLEANERS honor class last Phone 362 116 E. Main 25 of the 1933 Sooner year- ness manager book. membership We Serve You "Ride the Busses" His other activities include in Scabbard and Blade and Bombardiers, We Save You McIntire honory military organizations, Tau Omega, aeronautical fraternity, and Skele- McCall & Birchum Transportation Lines ton Key, honorary leadership fraternity. Grocery of Jazz Hounds, Phone 565 113 W. Main Sneed is also a member Phone 1818 315 E. Main men's pep organization . He is president of Pe-et, senior men's honorary fraternity, a member of Beta Theta Pi, social fratern- J s ity. THIS SPACE FOR SALE ackson' He plans to follow in the foot steps of his father Earle Sneed, Sr., a Sooner grad Business Manager FUNERAL HOME of the class of 1913, by entering law school "The Sooner Magazine" after graduating from Arts and Sciences Norman, Oklahoma Phone 24 AMBULANCE next spring .

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being graduates of many years past . This condition must be remedied . B . Nothing is a greater damper to pep meetings than an insistent appeal to Send "pepsters" to join something at $3 per. $3 There are, however, ways of presenting the matter that are not objectionable and that will aid immensely. Every activity Be a member of the Association should be coordinated Toasted Peanuts to strengthen the Association itself . Granted that the Association fills its place, its membership should be counted The Wilson label protects your table in the thousands rather than in the hundreds . Question : Should the pres- ent $3 .00 fee be lowered? WILSON & CO. Inc. C . The influence of the Association" of OKLAHOMA extends to many thousands of alumni, Packers and Provisioners former students and friends of the Uni- that influence would be versity, but STOCK YARDS STATION strengthened by the extension of the OKLAHOMA CITY formal membership list . The cause of the Association should be presented to Alumni in such a way that they would want to join, rather than feel that they were being high-pressured into joining . The Magazine can be made to fill such HOTEL DIRECTORY a place that it will aid much . I) . The Association office can be made FC-E a clearing house for information service ADA for all alumni who have children or The Aldridge friends who contemplate entering the Our ice is made from pure CHICKASHA University . This should not involve a deep well water, distilled, re lot of work . It would involve the trans- boiled, skimmed and filtered. New Chickasha mission of inquiries received to the prop- CLAREMORE er department or authority of the Uni- IT MUST BE PURE versity . Will Robers E. Under the present arrangements, DUNCAN seniors are charged $2 .00 as part of the The Wade graduation fee, and become involuntary members of the Association for one year . Ice & Id _St a$e CO. ELK CITY The Magazine must become a stronger Grande factor in catering to last year's seniors, "White Truck Delivery" Casa in order that as many of them as pos- HOLLIS sible may be held on the Association rolls. Guy Spottswood, Mgr. Norman The Motley V. Through the Stadium-Union con- tact lay the foundation for added mem- Patronize Sooner Advertisers McALESTER bership in and greater strength of ------The Aldridge the Associanon in the years to come . Poster an alumni-student esprit de corps. NORMAN Let the Association, through th° We Manufacture Cleanliness The University Stadium-Union and by other means be of such service to students that we OKLAHOMA CITY can rightly assume that many of them Biltmore will become members of the Association after graduation . Let us not only make OKMULGEE the Union of greater service to students, NORMAN Beauclair but let us keep before them the fact that alumni and other friends of the Uni- SHAWNEE versity are doing this for them . Steam Laundry A. Perhaps there could be a night in The Aldridge L. C. Lindsay, Mgr. the crowded graduation period of Soon- TULSA ers when they could be guests of alumni The Alvin at a dinner somewhat like the Alumni WAGONER Banquet of this year . B. Let a permanent picture gallery be The Wagoner started in the Union Building. In tim- DRY CLEANING WEWOKA it could be hoped that pictures would cover the walls of most of the rooms Suits 75c Dresses 75c Up The Aldridge and halls. Patronize the hotels which 1. Assign space for each scholastic patronize you! year . In these spaces would be placed Patronize Sooner Advertisers photos and records of each person who 1933 The Sooner Magazine 23

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represented the University in any com- ent: "In order to preserve the records of tact, the Secretary can be of immense petition during the year, or held any of- the past, and in the hope that the ac- service, not only in employment but in fice or position by virtue of selection by complishments of those who have gone many other ways . After all, an associ- the student body as a whole. This would before may be a source of inspiration to ation's life and strength depend upon include athletic "O" men, debaters, pres- those yet to come, Mr of the degree of service to its members . This idents of the Student Council, editors ol: - Oklahoma, has made pos- feature of association work could be de- the student newspaper and the Sooner sible the assembly of this record from v,-loped into perhaps the outstanding ac- honor men, etc. This space would also the founding of the University to the tivity of the Association. include pictures of that year's Board of year 1933 ." VII . Coordination of all activities, to Regents, members of the Alumni Asso- 4. All this would result in the Union the end that each activity will aid all elation (governing Board and the Board Building's becoming the happy center of others . of the Stadium-Union . The pictures of every reunion, a place any old grad the presidents of the University should would enjoy visiting ; it might really be also be hung in the Union Building. a source of inspiration, especially for the SOONERS IN THE NEW DEAL 2. There would be a committee of the sons and daughters and grandsons and (COVrtnuen FROM PAGE 16) Stadium-Union to make rules governing granddaughters of those whose pictures positions or honors the holders of which made a part of the permanent record. I- 1?agle as a patriotic emblem," said Acee would be entitled to place in the Stadium- would be an added recognition to those Blite Eagle, '32ex, a member of the Paw- Union galleries, for the first years of the who served as members of the boards of nee and Creek Indian tribes . "Yet I University perhaps to include almost ev- regents and of alumni boards . Once couldn't help having a feeling of pride . ery student activity, more restricted and started, the student council or graduat- Everytime 1 see the Blue Eagle, I ex- selected in recent years and years to ing class could be depended upon to perience a sort of thrill." come . It goes without saying that it keep the current record. The Norman Transcript reports how would be a real honor for any student S . Perhaps the Alumni Association Acee Blue Eagle got his name : to accomplish anything that would result could each year name three persons Papooses of the Creeks and Pawnees were in his picture being added to the Union given three names, one at birth, one during whose pictures would be added to the up, since pictures in the childhood, and one after they grew at a gallery, especially list for that year. First, some alumnus time when they had proved themselves in or- gallery would form a perpetual monu- for his outstanding achievement in his deals of bravery and strength . The last name ment to student achievement. chosen line of work ; second, some alum- becomes permanent . Blue Eagle's grandfather, a young warrior, 3. I believe that we could get some nus for his outstanding service to the was preparing for the warpath one day when public spirited man to permit us to place University; third, some person not an a white eagle flew across the sky. He drew his name in a placque like that which alumnus, for outstanding service to the his bow, killed the bird and tossed it into follows in return for financing the gal- University or the State. his teepee . Next day the Indians found the eagle had lery of pictures referred to; from the VI. Service to alumni themselves . landed in some blueberries and its breast was founding of the University to the pres- Through the Magazine and direct con- stained blue by the crushed berries. Friends

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named the young warrior after it . The tribe all of Tulsa; George Hughes, Marshall Weir, W. E. Binkley, '33ed., has been appointed then adopted the Angle-Saxon custom of hand- Wilson Brown, Jerry Maray and Mark Micster, instrumental music director of Norman high ing down names from generation to genera- all of Oklahoma City ; George Noble, Okctrtah ; schools and organizer of the school band for tion . Blue Eagle became the family name . Floyd Hinton, Henryetta; Bill Walls, Independ- the coming year . At the same time Binkley Grandmother Blue Eagle reared Acec Blue ence, Kansas ; Wendell Andrews, Ncwkirk; Les- will continue his work at the university toward Eagle and gave him his first name . Friends lie Pain, Carnegie ; Walter Emery, Shawnee a degree in fine arts . He already holds a bach- often asked where the bright-eyed youngster and Rhys Evans, Ardmore. elor of physical education degree from the was. "Acce," she would reply, meaning "that's Sigma Nu : Connie Ahrens, Bob Stephens, American College of Physical Education, Chi- it ." hiByron Jones, Bill Wylie, Frank Hamilton, Rob- cago, and a bachelor of science degree from the Blue Eagle is a dancer, an artist and a sing r. ert Hill, Emery Grinnell, Millard Purdy, Mark university . For two years he ar d throughout tile Donovan, and John Reinhart, all of Oklahoma Congressman-at-Large William C. Rogers . States on tile appeUnited stag e, eaturing three In- City ; Morris Bailey, Neodasha, Kansas ; Billy '30M .S ., formerly of Moore, has opened an of- dian solo dances, snake d nce, war dance and Roberts, Dan Thompson, Howard Lodge, and fice at 1320 VI N. W. 17th street in Oklahoma blue eagle dance. Blue Eag e prefers the blue Marvin Owen, all of Miami; Paul Guild, and City. eagle dance. In it he wears gen ine eagle Hugh Cash, Shawnee; Don Birch, Artesia, New According to Ardmore's Daily Ardmorite the wing feathers on his arms and ca(_le tail feathers Mexico ; Morgan Bell and Frank Bell, Pryor; law firm of Williams and Williams has a third on his back . To the ythm f ton,-tone, he John Burns, Pauls Valley ; James Harrison and Williams in the office now. He is William through tile motionsrhgoes of an e gle, punctu- Charles Dingcr, both of Oklahoma City ; Eltoo Williams, '331aw, the prominent law student ating the drum beats h a shrill whistle. Southard, Norman ; and Charles Waglcy, Kans- who was elected to Coif last spring . The first Eagle's En ;"lish witBlueis erfect, his voice be ng as City, Missouri . Williams in the firm is J. Ernest, father of tile low and musical, and s manner is one that Pi Kappa Alpha: Tom Hammonds, Dick next two Willamses, Howell and William. grace a Boston hiwould a tabl . Roberts, Gene Hopping, Emil Meis and Ed Mrs. Esther Hall, '33(x, Lindsay, is teaching a long time BlueteFor Ea le signed his paint- Schmoldt, all of Oklahoma City ; Bob Harris, in a Cleveland county grade school . Her term ing with the symbol of the blue eagle. Re- Tulsa; Bob Taylor, DeButte, Iowa ; Clyde Pat- started August 1. She will return to the uni- cently he began writing his name . His work rick, Sapulpa; and Wayne LeCrone, Norman . versity to complete undergradluate work be- is the typical Indian art used on tepees . Water Delta Tau Delta; Harry Schrader, El Reno ; ttwccn grade school sessions. colors are used] for the flat work in two di- Frank Ashby, Norman ; Ray McNeill, Tonka- Dr . Paul Wchlon Singer, '28as., son of the mensions . wa ; J. A. Muff and Edwin Stahl, Oklahoma late Dr . Paul Sanger, has taken over his fath- Blue Fagle won internart, ational fame with his City ; Kenneth Wilson, Pawnee ; William John- er's medical practice in Drumright. The young- having held ons in Paris, Berlin, son, Ardmore ; Charles Hanson, Kansas City, er Dr . Sanger completed his medical wark at New YorkexhibitiStockholm, nd Chicago and was Missouri ; R. B. Gentry, Lawton ; Joe Somerville, Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tennessee, and fourth prize inaawarded a contest with 520 Ardmore; Brinker Ivcy, Duncan ; John H. Crew, did interne work at the Augustana hospital of others at the world art exhibition in Los An- Shawnee; Spotswood Dandridge, Okmulgee ; Chicago and the Duke university hospital, Dur- geles. Kenneth Richards, Norman ; Stanley Stronbcrg, llain, North Carolina . Blue Eagle is 24 . He is more than six feet Ardmore ; Logan McDonald, Chickasha; Edwin Turner Bynum, '32bs., will complete his un- tall, a perfect Indian rave type . With his Bingham, Norman ; Jim Noels, Wichita, Kans- dergrad'uate work at the Northwestern uni- suit he wears a bblack lack tie and a silver as ; Richards Hammonds . Kansas ; Tom Ensch, versity medical school, Chicago, this year . By- rngifos own design . One symbol means Bartlcsvillc ; and Howard Morriss, Bartlcsvillc . num entered the University medical school in good fuck, crossed arrows are for protection ; Kappa Alpha ; Bill Roach, Kenneth Craig, 1930 and transferred to the Chicago school a horse means journey; sunrays, prosperity ; Bob Perrv and Pete Cltamlev, all of Oklahoma last year . bird, light-heartcdncss; tepees, home . City ; Charles Haygood, Shreveport, Louisiana; Four former university students were added Mervin Elwcll, Fairvicw ; Bill Harries, McAl- to the public school faculty at Tonkawa this estcr; Findlev Holbrook, Perkins; Ben Borden, fall . Each of the four has been engaged in Norman ; Mike Montgomery, Amarillo, Texas; graduate work here within the past three years. Rav Young and Francis Hubl,ard, hoth of They are W. T. Kendall, principal; Miss Hazel ALUMNI AND RUSH WEEK 1 -, "dcrick ; and Walter Da\idson, V~twaukce. Wile, l. Sterling Gilbert and T. R. Schaffler. Charles W. Haxcl, '28ex, several years ago (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 111) Wi,consin. in charec of extension division bookkeeping, is now wa ; Dick Johnson, Ponca City ; Tom Lauder- affiliated with the Continental Oil com- onn\, (lale, Ranger, Texas; Snooks Jones, Tulsa; Li- OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND Ponca Cite . oncl Edwards, Ponca City ; Bob Culver, Bartles- A A ville; Joe Mannin, Tulsa ; and James Barnett, ABROAD Hitchcock. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11) Alpha Sigma Phi ; (a-dc McGinnis, Larry Moody and William Conkright, all of Tulsa; in,, one \car on tile faculty there. His record THE UNIVERSITY'S DIRECTED Owen Townsend, Marietta ; M. C. Smith, Fort ;is debate coach and forensic clubs organizer Worth, Texas; Jimmy Logen and James Furbec, last year qualified him for the promotion. LEISURE PROGRAM both of Norman ; Woody Sherrill, Madison, William Cram, '32ex, a former announcer for Wisconsin; Ed Bartlett, Idabel ; Edward Smith, the university broadcasting station, WNAD, is (CONTINUED PROxr PAGE 15) Oklahoma City ; and Floyd Lockner, Agra . affiliated with the NBC station at Tuscon, Alpha Tau Omega : Dudley Tichenor and Arizona. He will enrol at the University of lectures for writers and another of gen- George Allen, both of Oklahoma City ; Dick Arizona to complete laly school work while eral interest to everyone. Askew, of Tulsa; H. S. Carrington, Mart, Tex- he is employed by the radio station. A new service program is also being as ; Roy Caldwell, McAlester; John Hunter, Tom C. Guy Brown, '23as., head of the Okla- Street and Tom Paris, all of Springfield, Illi- homa City public schools commercial depart- formulated whereby the University will nois ; Millard Williams, Marshall, Texas; and ment, and Walter D. Snell, '24bus ., Oklaho- share its talent with the various com- Gilmer Long, Pauls Valley . ma City accountant, attended the national con- tnunities of the state in a lyceum and Beta Theta Pi ; Jake Eston, Cy Everett, Phil ,-ention of Pi Kanna Alpha social fraternity at chautauqua plan. The University pro- Harris, Wilson Gibson and Bob Hastings, all Denver, Colorado, late in August . They were of Tulsa; Jimmy Powell and Joe Hurt, both of dunuu representatives of the University of Ok- poses that this talent be made available Muskogee ; Horace Calvart, Saginaw, Michigan ; lahotna chanter. to the various communities of the state R. C. Cox, Oklahoma City ; Dick Gilliland. Miriam Dearth, '33fa., the star of many leaving the possibility that the communi- Clinton : Sutherland Sykes, Ardmore; Lewis university musical DrOduetlons, is planning to ty might make a small charge for the Stuart, Okmulgee ; John Ferguson, Sioux City, onen a voice studio in Bartlesville this fall . Iowa ; Edward Corn, Tucumcari, New Mexico ; Miss Dearth was particularly active at the uni- lecture, musical program, drama, or Bill Knappenberver, Eldorado, Arkansas ; Lee versity in oratories directed by R. H. Richards . whatever type of entertainment has been Buxton . Fnid ; Bill Crump, Wynnewood ; Roger Nin Estelle Hunter, '33as, has been emolov- sent and thus create for that communi- Davis, Baxter Springs, Kansas ; R. L. Mitchell, cd as secretary of schools at Marietta . During Houston, Texas; Jimmy Stevenson, Gearv; undergraduate davs, Miss Hunter was on the ty a student loan fund to help worth- Grover Oztnun, Lawton ; and John Rainbolt, women's debate team for three years, a mem- while students from that location through Cordell. her of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic fraternity, the University. Acacia ; Don Gilkerson and Paul Methvin, and outstanding in activities . The registrar of the University or the both of Anadarko ; Vernon Fields and John Robert J. Bell, '231aw . the Sooner student Community Fogartv, both of Guthrie: William P. Staoleton. council nrcsident who led the an ti-Waltcn pa- members of the Cultural Carnegie ; George Tarter, Norman ; Jim Cleary . rade back in the days when Leslie Salter, '211aw . Series, T. M. Begird, Frank Cleckler and Duncan ; Martin Wauchap, Shawnee; J. Foster was leadim, r1le impeachment fight, is practic- Joseph A . Brandt, are all prepared to Smith, jr ., Oklahoma Citv ; Rea McKinney, Nor- ing law in McAlester. answer questions and send further in- man ; and Earnest Irwin, Gainsville, Texas. An outstanding record as a hustling county concerning the New Sigma Chi ; Martin Jones, Dexter Moss, attorney is bean(, made by Earl Pruet, '27as., at formation Deal in Charles Glass, Prislcy Ford and Harry Allen, Wattrika in Jefferson county . Education at Oklahoma.

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Todd Downing, '24as, '28M. A., became one of Oklahoma's most interesting fiction writers this fall when his murder mystery, "Murder on Tour," was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The young University Spanish instructor collected ma- terial for his book during student tours to Mexico City during the past four years. As a student of the murder mystery form, Downinq is almost certain to h,~ heard from again in this field

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No More Trumpets the past several years. They are stories mystery until you've solved it. Con- which every Oklahoman will want on his firmed mystery story readers on the library table and which should head the campus have rated Mr. Downing's first George Milburn, '30ex, No More fall reading. With one exception, all of published novel as a triumph, and one Trumpets and Other Stories. New York . the stories have an Oklahoma setting. of the best and most interesting of the Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1933 . Many social strata are pictured, from year. President Bizzell almost missed $2.50. university campus to city and farm. an appointment with the committee ar- People will differ on their favorite ranging the Saturday night classes be- stories, of course . Here, to take from cause of Murder on Tour. And you'll Mr. Milburn's own titles, is all white appreciate his position, with only a few meat. "A Student in Economics" seems more pages to go, when you yourself to be the campus favorite . Craftsmen start reading, for Mr. Downing is very I N a remarkably short time seem to like "Heel, Toe, and A 1, 2, 3, deft at spreading suspicion and equally George Milburn, '30ex, a contributing 4" best. "Pilgrim's Progress" best il- deft in covering up clues. editor of The Sooner Magazine, has lustrates Mr. Milburn''s mastery of sa- Payne, made himself one of the few short story tire. "Inquire Within" has more heart- near solution of a smuggling mystery, writers of the United States who are im- beats in it than any story Mr. Milburn is murdered in a hotel room in San Antonio. portant and significant. If Oklahoma has written and it is a perfect demon- He is strangled with a pair Town demonstrated that he was a crafts- stration of his essential greatness as a of black silk stockings . Rennert of the Treasury department man and story teller par excellence, No writer, the effortless ease with which he takes up the search, and at the More Trumpets adds stature through makes people live and ordinary people same time, seeks Payne's murder subtle humor and satire. Mr. Milburn important people . "Sugar Be Sweet" is .. Tae joins Dr. Lips- comb's tour of Mexico. will never be satisfied with the world as perhaps the best example of milburnia . There are thir= teen people in the it is and that is one reason why he is It is a novel in short story form of the party. It isn't fair to tell more. an important figure in contemporary let- barrenness of American life told as only . ters In his earlier stories, he was in- a master can tell it, in a few pages. It Mr. Downing is a past-master at tell- clined to be rather bitter about social alone would make No More Trumpets ing mystery stories. He has read almost injustice ; while he is still concerned, he a triumph for any writer. every mystery story of recent years pub- making is now full use of his marvelous lished in English, Spanish or Italian. power of )satire, seasoned with ispon,- He has been writing mystery novels for taneous humor, as in the opening story some years. He not only knows how to of this all-star selection, "The Visit to tell a mystery story but he supplies the Uncle Murder on Tour Jake's." interesting background of Mexico, which There are eighteen stories in this sec- he knows so well. Rennert Todd Downing, '24as, '28M.A. is a new ond collection, which is bound uniform- Mur- and pleasing type der on New York. G. P. of detective and you'll ly with Oklahoma Town. Many of them Tour. Putnam's enjoy the Sons. 1933. $2.00. smooth way he works. Mr. have had the highest honors of the short Downing is well on his way to becoming story in America, such as inclusion in the leading mystery novelist of the coun- George O'Brien's collections, highest Do not begin reading Murder on Tour try. You'll agree when you've read ranking in the Mur- O. Henry Memorial if you have an appointment with a dent- der on Tour, with its unusual situations, awards, etc. They are stories which Ok- ist in half an hour, for you are not going its fool-proof construction and its easy- lahomans have been talking about for to be able to lay aside Mr. Downing's on-the-eye style.

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