The dinner meeting of O. U. alumni in Chicago. At the speaker's table, left to right : f. W. Hicks, Mrs. W. B. Bizzell, Grace Williams, Dr. W. B. Bizzell, Wesley Nunn, Fred Ward, Lewis Salter and Adelbert Brown.

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T HE beams of the Central Y. M. C. A. A bit of magic was provided by George Starting with the A's, the group pres- Building in Chicago rang the night of Trosath, well-known entertainer of Col- ent included Vern E. Alden, '11, and November 7 with the strains of Boomer lege Inn and the R. K. O. circuit. Mrs. Alden (Jennie B. Dyer, '10), who Sooner and Joe Hicks' new song Cheer As things progressed and people started now live out in Winnetka; Drewsilla . The occasion was the first looking around, it was discovered that Beams, '38h.ec; Lawrence E. Bennett, '32 official get-together of Sooner alumni liv- our own ranks were not without unusual eng, and Mrs. Bennett, '33, whom we ing in Chicago held in recent years, and talent . Esther McRuer, '22, field secre- knew as Lucile Mann ; Adelbert Brown, the dinner was given in honor of Dr. tary of the Presbyterian missions in Chi- an attorney in Chicago, and Mrs. Brown ; W. B . Bizzell, president of the University, cago and an internationally known whist- Priscilla Burch, '36bus ; and C. H. Butt and Mrs. Bizzell . ler, was induced to do some very lovely and Mrs. Butt (Elizabeth Cate, '30bus), and fancy whistling for us. This was fol- who live in Evanston. Elizabeth said With more than sixty loyal Sooners lowed by the discovery of Blanche Morgan that she had heard her brother Roscoe present, the meeting was voted a huge Webb, '05, who back in 1904 wrote the was pretty busy these days, which sur- success. Credit for arranging the fine music to the original Oklahoma song we prised no one, and any number of people meeting goes largely to Wesley 1. Nunn, all know which starts out "Oklahoma, mentioned that they certainly hope Ros- '17ex, chairman of the Chicago Advisory Oklahoma." The words for this song coe will keep right on turning out a Council, assisted by the four other coun- were written by Roy Hadsell, '04, and be- Sooner Magazine that is second to none cil members, Joe Hicks, '23, Adelbert lieve it or not, it was heard for the first among the alumni magazines of the coun- Brown, '17law, Fred Ward, '21, and Les- time in 1904 at the Chicago World Fair. try. lie Salter, '22law. Well, by this time the talent was pop- Alton Crabb, '38eng, is another of the Highlight of the entertainment was ping up from every corner, and Joe Hicks recent Sooner grads who was present. the effort made by Harry Clausey, Uni- had to call a halt in favor of the chicken Then there was Ada R. Crocker, a Soon- versity of Chicago, trying to tell us how which was getting cold . er by adoption now connected with the to sing Boomer Sooner when he was the The Sooners attending this banquet Cook County Hospital ; Joseph A. Diffen- only one in the crowd who couldn't get could have written a history of the Uni- daffer, '26eng, '27ms, a designer and de- it straight. Harry has a swell voice and versity and never missed an incident, veloper of X-Ray equipment, and Mrs. the run of the networks when it comes since they were so well distributed through Diffendaffer (Elsa Kendall, '27h.ec), who to singing. He was accompanied by the years that at least one would have live in Berwyn ; Harry J. Dean and Stella George Moorhead, Whittenburg Univer- been in school every year since the Uni- Garee Dean, '22, who came in from Tin- sity. versity opened. ley Park; R. E. Falls, '35eng, of the Crane

THE SOONER MAGAZINE Company Research Laboratory; Dr. H. versity and is now district manager for newspaper series) gets to make that trip. Glen Gardiner, '35med, who is practic- the Fuller Brush Company) ; Dr. J. L. In the final talk that climaxed the meet- ing in Chicago, and Mrs . Gardiner ; Mar- Walther, '22ex, who lives, as most of these ing, Dr . Bizzell discussed some of the guerite Giercntanner, '24, who is living in Chicago people do, in a suburb-Wiltnette hopes for the future of the University and Oak Park ; and Ada Hawkins, '28nursc, this time ; Fred H. Ward and Mrs. Ward pointed to soiree of the things already ac- X32, Cook County Hospital. (Bereniecc Bush, '18), of Park Ridge; complished . Joe Hicks, '23, who wrote the new Robert P. Webb and Blanche Morgan This dinner event was an example of Sooner song and provided the swell en- Webb, '05 ; and Grace Williams, '15, said Sooner spirit at its best . Dr. Bizzell's tertainmcnt, lives in Winnetka with his to be the first person to graduate from straighforward and sincere discussion of charming wife (Lois Marshall, '22ex) and the School of Journalism, who now writes the University's problems aroused real en- a couple of little Hicks . Then there was ads for the Fair in Chicago . thusiasm among the Sooner group present . Rosalie High, '27bus ; Dr. C . K. (Casey) Those who planned to attend but found -Boyd Gunning, '371au,. Jones, '12, and Mrs . Jones, W. D. Ken- it impossible to get to the dinner because dall, '38fa, now doing graduate study in of the rain, the pending election, or per- '29 Law Reunion commercial art in Chicago ; Arthur and sonal reasons include : Thompson Gene Members of the Law Class of '29 held Mrs . Littick, who drove over one hun- Hodges, '34bus, and Mrs . Hodges ; R. L. a reunion Friday afternoon November 11, dred miles for this banquet from Hoopes- McBrien, '33eng ; A . H. Benjamin and in the Wilson room of the Skirvin Hotel . ton, Illinois (Mrs . Littick was Nellie Jane Mrs . Benjamin (Ethel Byrd, '29ed) ; A. After dinner, the group joined the general McFerrow, 'l5, '19ma) ; and Alfred R. H. Schmidt, Jr., '36bus ; T. O. Westhaver, Homecoming Dinner-Dance held in the Loeblick, '37, '381ns, who is working '14, and Mrs. Westhaver (Addle Maloy, Silver Glade Room of the Skirvin Tower toward a Ph . D. in the Walker Museum, '14) ; Dr . Ralph W. Rucker, '36med ; W. Hotel under auspices of the Oklahoma University of Chicago . H. Mothersead, '20 ; and Mrs. Mary Ford City Alumni Club . Others present were Peggy Maguire, Waldrop, '35 . Officers of the class are E . G. De Pa- '.31, formerly of Norman and now a sec- Judging from the number of regrets rade, president ; Walter D . Hanson, Mart retary in the office of the National Edi- that Wesley Nunn received and the en- Brown and Frank Chilson, vice presidents, torial Association in Chicago ; the Myrath thusiasm shown by those who attended, and Frank Jones, secretary . twins, Thomas and Robert, '33eng, who we have a feeling that the next meeting shot the University through many a stiff will be twice the size of this one . It New Sooner song pistol team meet during their years in seemed that practically everyone there had A new Sooner song, Cheer Oklahoma, school and who are now both doing the listened to the Sooner-Kansas State foot- arrived on the University campus last same things at the same place-working ball game over the NBC network the month . It came from the piano of Joseph for the Bcndix Corporation in South previous week and was ready to hold an W. Hicks, '23, editor of a trade journal Ilend, Indiana ; Raymond Meade, '23ed, amateur quarterbacks'session on a mo- published at Chicago by H . M. Byllesby and Mildred Noble Meade, '24, who came ment's notice . Engineering and Management Corpor- from their home in Aurora, Illinois ; Carl Dr. Bizzell, acting as the chief informer, ation. H . Milam, '07, who lives in F,vanston but was not to be outdone on a knowledge of In sending copies of the song to Lewis has his office in Chicago where he is sec- Oklahoma football and could answer any Salter, dean of the college of tine arts, retary of the American Library Associa- question they put to him . and Dr . W. B . Bizzell, president of the tion . Plans arc already under way for a vic- University, Mr . Hicks explained the or- W. M. Morgan, '26ex, of the Oklaho- tory dinner next year when the Sooners igin of the song as follows : ma Publishing Company at Oklahoma play Northwestern . Somebody said to tell During 1921 and 1922 I had the privilege of heard of this meeting in Springfield Tom Stidhatrn that they sure hope old being a member of the University of Oklahoina City Ouartet and Glee Club, and occasionally at the alumnus and came on to "Charley Horse" (the freshman football from a fellow end of a concert when we would sing Boomer- Chicago for the occasion . He was on character fictionized by Harold Keith in a Sooner . an alumnus of Yalc or spine other uni- his way to Detroit . Roy D. Norton, '22, versity would comment upon the use by Okla- Boola-Boolo and Frances Fry Norton, '26, drove in horna University of Yale's famous Boomer-Sooner . air with words. from their home in Hinsdale, Illinois Since my grauation in 1923, perhaps someone Roy is president of the Norton Oil Com- has come through with something more original pany. and apropos in the form of a University of Ok- Incidentally, Wes Nunn, chairman, lahoma football song . If so, I tender my apol- confusion when he ogies for the subject of this letter . caused all kinds of One evening before dinner several weeks ago, asked the "head" of each family to make I was attempting to entertain my two small the introductions. The husbands didn't daughters with some jingles at the piano and snake nearly as good an average as Tom my wife inquired the name of the tune 1 was I Stidharn's football tean, has, but it was playing . I told her it was just something stumbled onto, but the more we played it over, about fifty-fifty . the more it began to develop into a completed More alumni at the rally : Kerr C. Mc- air . Quown, '22, who lies in LaGrange ; Har- Several days later I played it for a friend who ry L. Rice, 'l9, a pharmacist in Chicago ; is a composer and publisher and he reconuuend- I sonie further sug- Robey, ed write words for it. He Lorna Robinson, '20; Winifred gestcd it would make an excellent college or '13 ; D. D. Roseberry,'38eng, who last year football song . I attempted sonie words, kccp- performed for John Jacobs on the track ing Oklahoma in mind and the attaches) printed team but now works for the Crane Com- professional copy is the result. engineering ; Leslie Salt- The publisher has agrees) to furnish me with pany in chemical a hnutcd number of copies for preliminary dis- er, '22, Chicago attorney, and Mrs. Salter tribution and if by any chance the University (Maud Carroll Salter, '22), who live in would care to consider it as an O. U. song, I Flossmoor; Alice Smith, '33 ; Lee Stigler, would be glad to have tlretn do so . '17ex, who comes from a whole family I atn not presuming to suggest that it be the nets Sooner loy- adopted as an "official" university song, but of Sooners and seemed to know as many This is the cover of rather for such use as mad be desirable, and I present as the next fellow ; Jeptha C. alty song,"Cheer Oklahoma," written by can assure you that any use that may- be made Stone, '15, and Katherine Smith Stone, of Joe Hicks, '23, and introduced cu the No- of it by the University, will be ample rcsnuner (PLEASE. TURN TO hAGIL 32) Evanston (he studied geology at the Uni- vember dinner of O. U. alumni in Chicago

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vember 7 at Ardmore, with Fisher Mul- At Home and Abroad drow, '22ex, chairman of the Carter Coun- (CONI'INUeo reoxt nA(rr. 21) ty Advisory ation to me personally, Council, presiding. Moving being a loyal Oklahoma pictures CHEVROLET'S THE CHOICE alumnus and anxious to contribute to the tra- of three Sooner football games ditions of the University and the State. were shown by Jack Baer and Al Corotto, For 1939 I have not considered this in any sense a com- assistants on the Sooner coaching staff. mercial adventure and while I have had the song The brief program included talks by M. copyrighted, I shall be glad to waive such rights L. Wardell, '19, assistant as might be necessary for a broad use by the to the president University . The publisher, of course, reserves of the University ; Charles B. Memminger, the rights for sale of copies in sheet music form '14, '331aw, of Atoka, president of the as is customary under such circumstances. Alumni Association ; and T. M. Beaird, 1 am sending a copy to the director of the '21, executive secretary of the Association. University band and a four part quartet arrange- ment to the director of the Glee Club, and a Members of the Ardtnore High School few copies to some of my good Oklahoma friends. football team were special guests and were The first reaction on the campus when introduced by Paul Young, '36ex, former Again More Quality the song was first tried out by the glee Sooner football star who is now coach club and other groups was that the music of the Ardmore team . is At SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED Prices particularly good for a football pep The delegation from Norman which song. The words of the song go like this : attended the meeting also included C. O. Check the greatly reduced prices for VERSE Hunt, of the Extension Division staff, Indians and tom-toms, the oil wells and prairies and Roscoe Cate, editor and manager of 1939. . . Consider the greatly increased Have set a stage for Oklahoma's farne. The Sooner Magazine . Its Boomers and Sooners quality of this beautiful new motor car Its athletes and crooners Those present included Norman Brill- Have spread the news hart, '17, . . . Examine its many new features of of Oklahoma's fame. of Madill, member of the Ex- CHORUS ecutive Board of the Alumni Association ; styling, contort, performance, driving Oh here's to Boomer Soonerland and Lloyd Noble, '21ex, of Ardmore, No better place can be found. ease . . . And then you'll know that, price There is so much pep in our gang member of the University Board of Re- As there is oil gents. for in our ground . price, feature for feature, Chevrolet So watch our boys go, urge them on, Others present included State Senator is the nation's greatest dollar Buy The way they fight sure is grand. Joe Thompson, Harry Revell, Laurence value. Now let's all join in song a Chevrolet and be satisfied. And a cheer for each Oklahoma man. Beattie, Rutherford Brett, Earl A. Brown, A Ruel Little, Reese Evans, Will Daniel '31 Law class reunion Evans, Doris Coffey, Joyce Coffey, Betty About forty members of the law class Evans, Mary Elizabeth Polk, Mike Mas- of '31 had an afternoon and evening re- sad, Haskell Carpenter, Dick Davis, H. union Friday, October 21, at the Biltmore B. Bogart, Earl Q. Gray, Joe Somerville, Hotel in . A dinner was Gerald Mobley, Tom Johnson, Ned Brett, HUGHES MOTOR CO. served in the evening. Dr. G. M. Gordon, Dr. W. R . Mote, Ed Corner Highway 77 and Comanche Plans were discussed for the class's ten Galt, Paul Liebhardt, Richard Norman, Phone 21 year reunion in 1941, and tentative ar- Harold Mullen and George Hann. rangements were started for another an- nual reunion next year. Hugh Comfort dead Alumni, faculty members and people Senator Lee on campus of Norman were deeply grieved last Returning to the University as a pub- month by the death of Hugh Comfort, lic speaker for the first time since his '33, '35ma, the 24-year-old son of Dean election to the Senate in and Mrs. E. N. Comfort. He was found 1936, Josh Lee, '17, formerly head of the asphyxiated in his room at Yale Univer- department of speech, will preside at an sity, New Haven, Connecticut on October international debate December 6. 27. He will be the principal speaker at a The accidental death was caused by il- banquet given in his honor preceding the luminating gas escaping from a partially debate . Outstanding alumni and former open jet on a small gas plate in the stu- members of the debate team will be spec- dent's room. Burial was made in New ial guests. Haven and a memorial service was con- Don Wright, Blackwell, and Paul Cum- ducted later in Norman. mings, Alva, will represent the Univer- Mr. Comfort had received a master's sity in debate with a team from England degree in English and had begun work composed of a representative of Oxford on a doctor's degree at Yale. After his University and one from Cambridge Unt- graduation from O. U. he taught two ! versity. years at Central State Teachers collegg, The subject for the debate is "Resolved : Edmond, and was advisor in the boys' That the United States should form an dormitory. He returned to the University alliance with Great Britain." This is the last summer to teach an English course . AMPRO SOUND PROJECTORS national subject for high school debate, He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, for l6mm Films and high school debaters of Oklahoma national honorary scholastic fraternity, Prices $395 to $455 have been invited to attend. General dis- and was a Rhodes scholarship candidate The ideal machine for modern visual education. cussion will follow the debate. while in the University . He was in an Write for full details. automobile accident in 1934, a few months H. 0. DAVIS Football rally at Ardmore before he was to take the test, and re- 522 N. Broadway Oklahoma City Nearly 150 persons attended a Sooner mained in a cast for several months . football program held the night of No- His other activities at the University in-

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eluded Phi Eta Sigma, national honorary fraternity for freshmen; Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary band fraternity; Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity, and English Club. He played with the A SYNONYM FOR . . . . University Band and the University Sym- phony Orchestra. Mr. Comfort was a leader in campus affairs and was popular with the students GOOD TASTE and faculty members. A large group of his friends gathered with his parents at the First Presbyterian Church of Norman Sunday afternoon, November 6, to pay tribute to his memory . There are some things you just Dr. Homer L. Dodge, dean of the grad- naturally associate with high qual- uate school, praised Mr. Comfort as "stu- dent and campus citizen." Dick Disney, ity . CAIN'S BETTER COFFEE is '37journ, long-time friend to whom Hugh them . This friendly, zest- wrote his last letter, spoke to honor the one of memory of his friend. ful, roaster-fresh coffee is always Dr. John O. Moseley, '16ma, president of Central State Teachers College, and in good taste . . . . when you drink Dr. Jewel Wurtzbaugh, associate profes- it for its rich, full-bodied, satisfy- sor of English in the University, paid trib- ute to him . Musical numbers by ensem- ing flavor . . . . when you buy it for bles of the University band and the a its surprisingly low price. capella choir of Central State Teachers college were presented. As these friends praised his memory in word and song, other friends continued their activities to raise a Hugh Comfort hour memorial fund for the Oklahoma School with of Religion, of which his father is dean. TUNEQuarte clubh a pleasant Coffee Survivors in addition to the parents Spend ther 111 Hall and WKY~ M include three sisters, Elizabeth, 18 years 1 Marty P M. ove 3 old, and Ann, 13 years old, of the home Gang at Fridays' throu9h - , address, and Mrs. Tom Losey, Houston, days Texas, and a brother, Richard, 20 years NO EXPENSIVE CONTAINERS old, a student at Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater. TO PAY FOR He was engaged to be married in the near future to Lucille McGuire, '32fa, who also was doing graduate work at Yale University . .4 Hall of fame awards Two O. U. graduates and one former student were included in the list of nine- selection for the Oklaho- CAIN S teen persons by ma Hall of Fame at the annual Statehood Day dinner of the Oklahoma Memorial Association, November 16. 0 COFFEE Sooners honored are : and includes Scott Squyres, '24law, Oklahoma City, Life Membership in the Alumni Association costs $60 former national commander-in-chief of the Life Subscription to the Sooner Magazine. Veterans of Foreign Wars. president of Dr. H. G. Bennett, '24ma, L. MOORE Oklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater. STANLEY Scott Ferris, ' 19ex, Oklahoma City at- General Electric Radios from our fine display Carburetor "Consult torney, national Democratic committee- Choose a Christmas gift of new 1939 General Electric radios and other A man, political leader. appliances for the home . modern electrical Electric Co. Specialist" Reunion for '30 law Fred Thompson Co . 204 N. Porter Norman Phone 877 Main Norman Phone 161 About thirty members of the law class 125 E. of 1930 attended a reunion luncheon at Homecoming Day, in Room 106 of noon Courteous Service - Low Prices the Union Building. The plans for the ten-year reunion of the class in 1940 were discussed, and Henry S . Griffing, of Ok- OSCAR McCALL lahoma City, was appointed chairman of CASH GROCERY the committee on arrangements . It was 310 W. Main Norman Phone 288 agreed that the 1939 meeting of the class 33 DECEMBER, 1938

will be held at noon on Homecoming Day field while working at the University of as in the past . Oklahoma on the Ray M. Balyeat Fel- F. Leonard Sibel, of Oklahoma City, lowship . He expects to continue to as- presided at the luncheon . Special guests semble literature concerning the group included Dr. Victor H . Kulp, Dr . Wil- during this year and spend next August liam B. Swinford, Dr. Floyd A. Wright and September in study at the New York and A . H . Huggins, of the law school Botanical Garden and the National Her- monconco. faculty . barium of Washington, D. C. Class members present were : Fisher Ames, D. M. Bailey, S. W. Biggers, Louise Information by short wave Black, Clarence Black, Frederick H. Brig- When somebody in the Philippine Is- ~jR ham, E. S. Champlin, A. David Erdberg, lands wanted to know about a certain O. George J . Fagin, J. 1. Gibson, Stephen U. alumnus, the following things hap- D. Holloway, J. Harry Johnson, Albert pened, as reported in the Norman Trans- Kidd, F. C. Love, Jr ., R. R. McCornack, cript. A . F. Nossarnan, Farris M. Petree, Hous- Short wave radio, as a means of communi- Vfl, ton W. Reeves, Ralph H. Schaller, cating quickly, was used by a department of F. Leonard Sibel, Paul Updegraff, Lee Ver- agricultural official in the Philippines in an attempt to learn whether Fred Passmore was a non and Richard L. Wagner . graduate of the Universiq . Other guests were : Mrs. Richard L. Interested in getting details about the youth Wagner and Roy J. Elam. as soon as possible, the official sent his message via short wave ; it was picked up by a resident of California and sent to the University Regis- Accidentally shot to death trar by air snail. Webb L. Campbell, '23ex, was fatally The message as received by G. F. Wadsack, wounded by a fellow member of the Ok- the registrar, said : "If ],red Passmore graduated Rtl~ lahoma City police force October 29 when school of ourmaisnl i, radio reply via RCA today collect ; if not reply via amateur radio only ." they were chasing a prowler in the res- Records showed Passmore was graduated from idential district of the city . the University, and the reply was sent via RCA . MMP Mr. Campbell was an engineering stu- Out of the whole thing rose the coincidental situation of the California resident living in the dent at the University in 1922-23 and same town as Mr. Wadsack's brother. Mr earned a letter that year in freshman foot- Wadsack planned to notify F. M. Graver, Van 3 RD. STREET at ' CHEYENNE ball . Nuys, California, who relayed the message by Tim, 0m, Survivors include a wife and three mail, of the situation and also his brother, who daughters . is city engineer in Van Nuys. Compliment to 0. U . "We Have the Best" Mills goes to Yankees Some kind words about the University Bus Mills, '31ex, former Sooner foot- of Oklahoma and the Alumni Association ball star, has been secured by the New WIMBER were printed in a recent issue of the Spec- world's champion base- York Yankees, tator column in the Fl Reno American . CANDY CO . trade with the St. Louis ball club, in a The column is written by "J. L. C.," who 121 W. Main, Norman Phone 223 Browns . The Yankees traded catcher according to Merle Woods, '17, the edi- Joe Glenn and outfielder Myral Hoag to tor and publisher of the American, is one the Browns for pitcher Oral Hildebrand of the very few men he ever saw who and outfielder Mills. The deal was re- can operate a linotype well and also write TRY Variety in BREAD! Asociated Press to be a ported by the a good newspaper column . Bake-Rite offers you Sandwich Bread, Whole money involved. Wheat, Rye, plain Nut Bread, Orange Nut, straight swap with no J. 1.. C.'s comments about (). U. follow : Nutty Brown, Raisin, Boston Brown, French, Mills is remembered by Sooner football and Salt Rising Bread. Try a different bread fans for his spectacular ball carrying And by the way, it's time folks who've ever every week to dress up your menus. been associated with our university at Norman, against Nebraska in 1930, the last game were taking on an extra load of pride and in which the Sooners had defeated the satisfaction in the achievements of "Ole 0. U." Huskers until this year. -not only on account of the fact that they've a A cracker-jack football team that has licked the socks off all opponents this year, including Coach Grant for research Biff Jones' squad from Nebraska-but the school Dr. Fred A. Barkley, '30, '32ms, fac- is rapidly becoming one of the greater institu- ulty member at Montana State University, tions of learning in the country . . . . With an Phone 718 211 E. Main Missoula, has received a grant of $550 enrollment for the winter term of about 6,51)0, Fellowship Society of and an entire yearly enrollment of something from the American near 10,000, Ole O. U. is bound to be playing a Philadelphia, for continuance of mono- most important role in the life and progress of graphic studies in the sumac family of "Ole Oklahoma ." trees. Dr . Barkley wrote the first volume And did you know that the University pub- lishes splendid big periodical, Sooner Magazine, of the monograph, covering the classi- a T is our pleasure to devoted to the interests of the school and former I fication, morphology and geographical students ? . . . . .And you are urgently requested assist in building a greater distribution while at Washington Univer- to send in your enrolment fee in the University of University of Oklahoma . sity, St . Louis, Missouri . Oklahoma Association, which includes a sub- The sumac family is rather poorly rep- scription to the monthly magazine . Address your letter : Sooner Magazine, Union Building, resented in temperate regions but is of Norman-and enclose three "bucks ." great economic importance, producing And by the way again, if you were never The First National Bank the finest grades of lacquers, pistachio regularly enrolled in the University, there is still Norman, Okla . and cashew nuts, various oils and most a chance that your name appears on the list of those considered former students-if you hap- of the commercial supply of tanic acid Phil C. Kidd, President pened to have been among those who were en- used in the tanning industry. listed in the army during the World War and Dr . Barkley started his research in this sent to the University for training in the de-

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I!111111!Illlllllllllllllllllllllll1111111111illlllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII tachment barracks there at that time. Moreover, '34ba, Mrs. Geraldine Smith, '371ib.sc, your name may be found on the bronze tablets Nancy Trammell, '371ib .sc, Eloise Wheel- that grace the walls of the Memorial tower at .sc, Edna Sue Wilson, '38 campus . . . . er, '31, '331ib the student union building on the '381ih.sc, and Mrs. Fula Look yourself up, and send in your dues to the 1ib .sc, Sara Lee, Association . Froman, '24ex.

'33 Law reunion First campus visit in 27 years Thirty-two members of the law class A Homecoming visitor who had the afternoon of 1933 attended a reunion in the unusual experience of visiting the O . U. and evening of October 21 at the Black campus for the first time in twenty-seven Ok- Hotel in Oklahoma City. Paul Pugh, years was J. L. Highsaw, '1l, who is prin- lahoma Citv, was elected president of the cipal of the Memphis Technical High class ; Murray Gordon, Oklahoma City, School, Memphis, Tennessee. was elected treasurer, and Charles B . Kelly Mr . Highsaw took both preparatory and in charge was elected secretary and placed college work in the University . He re- next re- of some arrangements for the calls that every building now on the union. campus has been built since he first came Those from Oklahoma City who at- to school on the O . U. campus in 1901 . tended the reunion are : Lynn J. Bullis, He was living close to the campus in Every Man Wants Elliott, G. A . Jr., Sterling Byers, Milton 1903 when the Administration Building Gordon, Fisher, Sam Glassman, Murray burned and believes that he was the first Well Laundered Shirts C. B . Saul J. Gordon, Curtis P. Harris, person to see the fire and report it to Kelly, Dorothy Maystrik White, John H. the city fire department . Along with There's nothing like the trim, neat efficient ap- Philip Sureck, John Poe, Paul Pugh, other students whom he aroused, he pearance of a shirt that's been laundered in a Bryan W. Tabor, Walker Swinford, helped save from the office most of the laundry plant. Thomas Dud- fully equipped and modern Charles Harold Thweatt, books and records of the late James S. Winings and Leave it to the Norman Steam Laundry to do ley Turner, Jr., Darrell Buchanan, one of the much loved, early just like a man wants them. Wendell Webb. day faculty members. Mr. Highsaw re- up shirts Oklaho- Those attending from out of called that "Uncle Buck's" students made ma City were: Hugh J. Adams, Guthrie ; much of the report that their professor Joe Porter Ballard, Norman ; Milton W. would have been hard put to recall his Norman Steam Laundry Hieronymus, Hardy, Tulsa ; Thomas L. usual jokes if his lecture notes bad been Kermit Buffalo; Neil Keller, Norman ; lost in the fire. 71 PHONES 71 Nash, Drumright; William E. Poteet, Mr. Highsaw was president of the Uni- Wil- IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIflllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Commerce ; Kenneth P. Reed, Perry; versity Press Club which issued the first liam Woodson Rodgers, Blackwell; Web- numbers of the University of Oklahoma ster Wilder, Jr., Cherokee ; William J. Magazine, and he was on the University Exide Batteries U.S. Tires Wilson, Williams, Ardmore; James M. debate team which met a University of . Enid; and Sam Whitaker, Marlow Kansas team in 1911 . The Sooner team's " and Gas speeches that year were considered good Stop Library alumni dinner enough to use as models in a national With Us During the meeting of the Southwest- debate handbook . ern Library Association October 19 to 22 Mrs. Highsaw is the former May Baker, in Oklahoma City, alumni of the Uni- '10. They have two sons, James L. Jr., a UNI SERVICE versity School of Library Science had a graduate of Princeton University, who is STATIONS dinner in the Skirvin Hotel. now in the Harvard Law School, and VAN PICK OIL CO. Those who attended the dinner were Robert B., who is now a senior in Prince- J. L. Rader, '08, '13ma, librarian of the ton. Tydol Ga~ulint Veedol Motor Oils University and director of the School of Science; James J. Hill, '15, '15ma, Library News letter for nurse alumnae assistant librarian; and Ruth Jo Bandel . as Gifts An eight-page mimeographed news let- Cameras '341ib .sc, Rosemary Barnett, '331ib .sc, Haz- Nothing is more acceptable than cameras or ter was published in October by the Al- el Beaty, '311ib .sc, Verna Benham, '33ed, accessories as Christmas gifts. See our umnae Association of the University photo '341ib.sc, and Nina Pearl Briggs, '311ib .se, Everything for the Photographer . According to a mes- displays . Opal Carr, '29h.ec, '331ib .sc, Mary Evelyn School of Nursing from Effie K. PHOTO SUPPLY CO. Potts, '30, Eunice Cockrum, '301ib.sc, Nor- sage to alumnae nurses OKLAHOMA Association president, 308 N. Broadway Oklahoma City ma Ann Comstock, '30, '321ib.sc, Eliza- Smith Root, '23, graduates . beth Cooper, '361ib .c, Winifred Cox, '37 the school now has 338 was formed in 1931 lib.sc, Theresa Cromwell, '341ib.sc, Kath- The association and improvement in pro- ryn Dibbins, '361ib .sc, Eleanor Escue, for mutual help promotion of good '34lib . sc, Mrs. Janet Greer Coleman, '.35 fessional work, for advancement of the lib.sc, and Esther Grimes, '29, '361ib.sc . fellowship and for nursing. And Mrs . Evelyn Hayes Williams, '31 interests of the school of the association this year, in lib.sc, Ralph Hudson, '32, '331ib .sc, Mar- Officers of Root, include Thelma garet Hurst, '371ib .sc, Mildred Wallis, '29, addition to Mrs. Seals ; Mary Jo Kel- '311ib .sc, Mrs. Lola McAninch, '321ib .sc, Forbes, '37, vice-president Rubber Stamps ; Ethel Gar- Advertising Novelties Joan WcKowen, '371ib .sc, Juanita Miller, ly, '35, second vice-president chairman of the financial com- '361ib .sc, Anne Ethelyn Markley, '311ib .sc, rett, '24, Write for Big Illustrated Catalog Peace, business manager. Elizabeth Mish, '371ib .sc, Rosa Lee Mont- mittee ; Julia the association is the gomery, '371ib .sc, Mrs . Josephine Paxton A new activity of Southwestern Stamp Works award each year to a 303 N. Harvey Oklahoma City Sandron, '29, '321ib.sc, Mrs. Ellen Shaunty presentation of an graduating class Halton, '341ib .sc, Alan Skelton, '33lib.sc, member of the 35 DECEMBER, 1938