Campus Corner lights starburst behind stonework fronting the Engineering Building . It's a warm spring night. Note the pop bottle at right center.

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This drawing gi%ex an idea of what the I n ;%ersity's projected athletic dormitory will look like . Plans for the modern stone, brick anti glass structure are the work of Richard N . Kuhlman, University Architect, and the "go ahead" for completing it was given by the Board of Regents recently .

a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives ofthe 'alumni family

1906 "Y work m 1y9*3, Long spent sc%cn NCars as a ricrs will award prize, to those students exhibiting \tr .. Frank Buttrain (the former Mcrlc Newby, visiting teacher for the Roanoke public school the best visual skills for driving. in-111u,, '12ba) was honored with a string en- svstem . ,cinbic program recently in the Jewel Box Theatre 1924 of the First Christian Church . Dr . W. Everett 1910 ten itor Mike Monroncy, '246x, visited the (late-,, Jr ., composed for the occasion a tribute to Icic Ncwby Ray, '106a, '25ma, Edmond, con- (). l' . -unpus in March to participate in a panel Mrs. Buttrain which was played, under his dirrc- ii,imted an article to the December issue of The discussion sfmnsorcd b% the Society for Atlcance- t on, by the String Symphonette of the Uklahonta Teather called "provoked to Action"' nient of Management in Meacham Auditorium . C.t% Symphony Orchestra . Mrs. Buttram was in- Another article by her will appear in the forth- 'I hr &scu,sion topic was "Management, Unions ,-rumental in the forming of the first Oklahoma coming edition of The C:hrunules ul Oklahoma . anti (:o%rrnmrm-Present and Future ." Munruney S\inphoni. Orchestra. Miss Ray taught at Central State (:allege for many urged setting up the office of executive vice prc%%- %ears and retired in 1956 . dent who would ha%c charge of the housekeeping 1907 duties of the president. tic later spoke to O. U. Mr,. Walter Ferguson, '117, Tulsa columnist 1913 Journalism classes, discussing current news pol- ~~ 1, ., writes "Woman's View" on the Tulsa Tribune l)1. .\'1'H : J. Braden Black, '13pharm, Okla- icies of the administration . cdiu,rial page, is writing a series ,d articles while li-n .i City, died March IV at the age of 7.3 . A Mrs. King price (the firmer Inez Br%cr, '24ed on a trip to Jamaica. Mrs. Ferguson is the wife of Ingtinic druggist anti civic leader . Oklahoma City, was featured in an article the late Walter Ferguson, whoin she formed% Black was associated with his son and son-in-law rppearing in the Oklahoma Cuy Times. Mrs . Price a,sistrd in editing the Cherokcr Repuhluan and in the pharmaly business in Oklahoma City, opcr- is a "f,o,tcr bionic finder" for the Sunbeam Home If'a(unga Rrpublhan. ating the Black anti Ward drug shire. He was acti%c :nil Family Senicc (:enter . She has teen in- in Girl Scout and B,q Scout work and served on %ol%rtl insocwl work since she received her master', 1908 th, Oklahoma Citp Bark conuni-ion since 193N . degree from the Uni%rr,ity in 1952 . I-rank M. Long, '0Rba, '09ina, was the subject .,I i feature article app,aring in the Roanoke, Vir- 1922 1925 ginia, B'urld N'ru s ,n March 15 . (;cnrral secretan I .c  (:ode, '22ha, national Signia Alpha Epsilon Wilbur F. Ch,ud, '25bs, '26ins, '42cng, pro- id the (;entrap Y.M .C .A . in Roanoke from 1936 to I, rc,ident, spoke on "Responsibilities of the Fra- t-,or of petroleum engineering, gave the opening 1945, Long and his wife (the furrier Eula Lrc tcrnity and Sorority Systrin" at the Greek Week grcr'ing for the short Cuur,r in piraffin control on Kennedy) returned t the O. U. campus in 1952 banquet it the Uni%cr,itN' . About 110 guests t%crc h_-1d the O.U . North Campus March 12 and 13 . for while he studied journalism . He has had a lung present the affair . Cli)td is a member of the short course planning career of service beginning a, student Y.M .C .A . Fisher Muldrow, '22, executive vice president committee. secretar y at State University, then to of the Asuxiated Motor Carriers of Oklahoma, is Profrssurs V1'. Foster Harris, '256a, and Dwight Brazil for 21 years of church work before taking helping sponsor a safety contest among high Swain, '54ma, teachers in the school of profes- the position at Ruanokr. After his retirement from school dri%er education classes. The Motor Car- sional writing at O. U ., ha%c been mentioned in

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an article, Dr Campbell's Wonderlrd School, pub- War- - He also spoke to lished be The S.rturday Evening Post recently . This iournalisrn classes on April 14 . is the first endorsement of a school of writing ever made by the national magazine . The article was written by Dick Smith, '53bus, who was en- 1931 rolled last September in a course in creative writ- \\'illi ::nt Deal, '316us : Benton Ferguson, '316a : ing taught be Campbell . Noble Hood, '24, '29, anti Sam Coleman, '38Law, DEATH : Miss Marguerete Baldwin, '29ba, '40 hasc been e!ectcd directors of the Empire Club, a Uniccrsitc nta, Oklahoma City, died February 13 in Wt,lcy of Oklahtnna alumni organization in hospital . Miss lialthvin had been active in the Tulsa. '.Names of the new directors were revealed at a party in Oklahoma City school system since 1925 and was February honoring Eddic Crowder, ,on the staff of John Marshall junior-Senic,r high '55geol, and several of last tall's O. U. varsity School when she became ill . 1laccrs .

1932 1926 Fugcne Kendall, I- T.dward Davis, '26, is supervisory account- '326a, '34rna, Norman, spoke .It two educational meetings for ,11! t.-i humble Oil anti Refining Company, Huus- leading repre- sentatives of the New York Life x.o . Mrs. Davis is member of the Houston Insurance Coin- t,on, 'It a held in April in Florida . Kendall, a repre- Art league and Conservative Arts and radio d.rec- Iran), for the Bercan Baptist Church in Hourstoon . s_ntativc of the company's Oklahoma City general t,r office, has qualified for membership in New York Life's Top Club for leading agents for the past 1927 tiubert Turbvfill, '25fa, '26ba, '32nta, director 21 consecutive years. \'crnon B. Stansell, '27, '29, is assistant hice of speech and drama at the Canal Lone Junior College at the Panama Canal, will be the key- ~rt~ulcnt in the T. J. Bettes Company, located in 1933 C)klalwma City . He and Mrs. Mansell have a soon, note speaker at the national convention of f'hi Howard, 9, Theta Kappa fraternity in April in North Caro- I .nk H . Abcrnathy,'33eng, Oklahoma City, has Vernon age lina . He is an ex-actor and a prominent author . I,ccit reelected (lirector-at-large of the U . S. Chain- M. Lyndcn Manner, '27ha, '38tna, Washington, hcr represented the University if Oklahotnr at of Commerce . Abernathy was re-elected for an- It. C., other year's term at a meeting 4 the national chanr- the inaugural ceremonies for Dr. William Joseph fiircrs, Man and Slytht, published March 20 by ber in March in Washington, . C McDonald as rector of the Catholic University of 1) :. Doubleday and Company . Brittain is a native of Mrs . Katherine Hudson, '336a, senior psychi- America on April 16 in Washington . Duncan, Oklahoma, and now lives in Williams- atric social worker for the social service department town, Massachusetts . of University Hospital, Oklahoma City, was the 1928 Mrs. Clifford Whitzel (the former Fanny Kelly, subject of a feature article in the March 12 issue of Mai. Gcn . H . L. Muldrow, Jr ., '28bus, spoke at '29ba) has moved with her husband and children, the Oklahoma City Times. Mrs. Hudson works the Pcrshing Rifles' spring smoker February 20 in Larry and Linda to Medford, Oklahoma . They had with relatives of the psychiatric patients who are Norman . The commander of the Oklahoma Na- lived in Wakita, where they were in business for receiving treatment at University Hospital . She tional Guard's 45th Division discussed benefits of many years. toys to help them understand and adjust to the the R . O. T. C:. program. Frank L. Tennis, '29ba, former Oklahoma patient's illness and assist with his recovery . Mrs. Victor Holt, Jr ., '286us, has been narned vice newsman recently named director of the U. S. In- Hudson has a master's degree from the New president in charge of sales for Goo d%car Rubber formation Agency's press and publications branch, York School of Social Work, Columbia University . Company in Akron, Ohio. Holt has been with the Washington, D. C ., was the noon luncheon speaker C. C. Ludwick, '33eng, has been appointed firm since 1929. at the Oklahoma Press Association news clinic held exploration manager for Shell Oil Company's Den- Leslie Hewes, '286a, chairman of the Dep,rt- April 13 in the Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City . The ver area . The appointment will become effective ment of Geography at the University of Nebraska title of his speech was "Who's Winning the World in the middle of the year . Ludwick, who is cur- in Lincoln, is snaking plans to spend the following year in Europe as a lecturer under the Fulbright program. He and Mrs. Hcwc, (the former Elena Bcary, '33) plan to lcayc for Vienna from New York on September 5. Conrad J . Masterson, '28pharm, '30bs, was featured as "Our Prominent Alumni Member" in the February, 1958, issue oif the Conrmtinic itor, official publication (if the Phi De!ta Chi 1"rfcs- sional pharmaceutical fraternity . Joe W. McBride, '28bus, Anadsrkoo publisher, is the newly elected president of the O. U. bo rd of regents . He has been on the board for 211 years. W. 1). "Dick" Grisso, '266a, '28Law, Oklahoma City, was elected vice president, and Emil R. Kraetth, 'I8, was rc-clcct.d regents' secretary .

1929 1- dtcard A. Bartolina, '29cng, has been e'.ected r,, th, lartrd of directors of Mooorlane Company . B.irtolina is now vice president and general man- ager of the manufacturing division of Moorlane in Tulsa. Bruce Drake, '296s, was the recipient of the first sportsmanship award given by the Basketball Writers' Association recently . The award is given to the outstanding coach in the National Industrial Basketball League. I)rzkc is coach of the Wichita, Kansas, N. 1 . B. L . team . Everett F. Drumright, '296us, has assumed duties as United States ambassador to Nationalist China. Drumright arrived in Taipei from Hong Kong where he has been consul general . Harry D'amond, '121-aw, Holdenville attorney, retired from the O. U. Alumni Development Fund Robert Brittain, '29ba, has written a book, Board and received a special plaque in recognition of his 10 years' service with that organization .

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rently on a foreign assignment, has been division exploration manager of the company's Casper di- vision since June, 1955 .

1935 Mrs. W. 1. Cross, '35cd, Norman, was honored at the Washington P-TA's Founders Day tea Feb- ruary 25 . She is retiring at the end of the school term after 15 years as second grade teacher at Washington School in Norman . Dr . John E. Mertes, '356us, O. U. professor of marketing, attended a regional meeting of the American Marketing Association in , Texas, ,,n March 15 . He is a member of the committee on athertising of the National American Marketing Association. Also, Mertes has been named as repre- sentative for the 1958 Grey Advertising Agency . Theme of this annual collegiate award contest fle,-rge lie mixed swmker . hi~torv . Jacket design of Edit with Lead : Off-trail. vear's contest is "What Would Happen to Our Ecoonornv If There Were No Advertising,"

1936 Jain- C. Hamill, '361aw, Oklahoma City at- has been appointed by the Grand River Dam Authority to begin obtaining needed land titles for the Markham Ferry reservoir. He is Man With a A l csSa~e working on the project with Charles Dierker, also of Oklahoma City . James H . Bragg, '36ms, and Mrs. Bragg (the former Beatrice McKenzie,'366a) now live in Kirk- wood, Missouri, with their two daughters Carolyn, 16, and Lyn, 10. Bragg is with Perceptual Develop- "I'm trying to prove that anybody doing five jobs ment Laboratories as manager of the film depart- ment, specializing in industrial training films. Mrs. can be prosperous," says this part-time novelist. Bragg is editor of St. Louis County Outlook, a mag- azine for 20 chambers of commerce in St . Louis County. She is also secretary of the citizens' ad- visory council to Kirkwood school board. Dr . J. Teague Self, '36ph.d, chairman of the s~k ARY 28 WAS A BIG DAY for George Madison Grooms, '47ba, Oklahoma City . Department of Zoology at O. U ., has been selected J -I"hat's the date on which the Macmillan Company published his first novel, a west- as one of three distinguished visiting professors ern entitled Edit with Lead. for the faculty of Baylo r University's 1958 summer Concerning a crusading newspaper editor who uses both newsprint and bullets institute of science to be held June 2 to . July 25 . The institute is designed to train high school science for his purposes, the book is set in Nevada . "I first saw Nevada from the top side of teachers and will be specifically concerned with a Western Pacific freight train," said (:rooms, "and I never could forget the rugged radiation biology . high country. DEATH: Everett Edwin Cotter, '36Law, died "While the story takes place in the shadow of violence and ends with violence," of a heart attack February 14 in his home at Okla- homa City . ('_otter was a partner in the Johnson, he added, "it isn't the usual slam-bang western. Some of the ideas are carefully re- Twrtcrlin, Cotter and High law firm . A lieutenant searched ." commander with the Navy during World War 11 . Grooms learned the art of careful research back some dozen years ago ; while work- Outer serve(] in the European theater of war. Fic ing toward a degree in psychology, he studied writing techniques under Foster Harris was 45 at the time of his death. in the University of Oklahoma's professional writing curriculum . Born in Ranger, Texas, start 1937 at the of the Roaring Twenties, (rooms grew up in R.,% E. Vinyard, '37eng, is now general still the drifting, insecure Thirties, the heart of the : "I delivered papers t"rctnan for the Phillips Petroleum Company, lo- night and day for six years. Always liked to travel . During the lean years I taught :atcd at Phillips, Texas. Vinyard has been with English in high school and used to hitchhike down to ()Id Mexico every summer and Phillips for 21 years. He and Mrs. Vinyard have work for a tourist company." one daughter, Martha Sue, now married to Charles David Hood . In the course of three years service with the Infantry during the second World War, H. G . Dunn, '376us, has been promoted to he saw action in the Battle of the Bulge and was decorated for it . "But the Bulge," he Assistant manager of the ail valorem tax depart- declared, "was a picnic compared to teaching ." tnent of Magnolia Petroleum Company . Dunn has (:rooms studied at the Universities of Nebraska and Nancy (France) lwcn tax agent in the Dallas, Texas, department as well as at since 1948 . () . U. His favorite subjects : snooker and pool, philosophy and history. Charles W. Garrett. '37m .ed, is field labor Today he works for an Oklahoma City hydraulic hoist manufacturing company . representative for the State Employment Security "Whatever is needed," he said, "1'm it . I'm salesman, drill press operator, steel sat+' Commission with offices in Oklahoma City . Gar- man, cutting torch handle, and just plain grunt. In my spare time I write some ad- rett has held this position since December, 1942 . Previously, he was superintendent of schools at vertising copy, and sometimes I work on my second novel." Arapaho And teacher at Bethany High School . Yet, if anyone believes ( :rooms' crammed work schedule has cut the wanderlust out of the man, then he is dead wrong. 1938 "My favorite vice," he said, "is fishing-anywhere, anytime, anyhow . We have F larold Bonc, '38cng, associate professor of a tent and a battered station wagon, and the wife and kids . ngineering drawing ; Wilbur F . Cloud, '25ba, '26 are ready to go camping at ins, professor of petroleum engineering, and Don- a second's notice . In fact, they give me 'notice' these busy days while Fin trying; to ald E. Menzie, associate professor of petroleum prove that anybody doing five jobs can be prosperous ."

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engineering, were dubbed "honorary knights" at the annual O. U. Engineer's Banquet on March 15 . Dr . Otto J. M. Smith, '38eng, has authored a book, Feedback Control Systems, being published by the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Smith is professor of electrical engineering at the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley . 1)r. William E. Ham, '38geol, '39ms, of the Oklahoma Survey spoke at an industrial develop- ment workshop at Woo dward on March 12 . Ham talked on the geological resources of .

1939 l.tntcs L. Kincaid, '39eng, and Mrs. Kincaid (th, trmer Mary Ann Myers, '40h .ec) attended the annual American Institute of Mining, Metal- lurgical and Petroleum Engineers meeting in New The Kansas City (Mo. t O. U. Alumni Club gathered March 1 to view a film of latest Orange Bowl York City front February 14 m 20 . The Kincaids game and talk over old times. Attendants included (above, from left ) Dr . Joe Woodson,'49bs; Dr . are from Snyder, Texas. John Brixey, '24ba, '25ma (O . U . math professor) : R. Mel.a u¬hlin : Bill Kite . 54eng. and Lloyd Ivy Coffey, '39journ, women's editor of the Lynd, Jr ., '50eng,'51bus. Present from O. L?- Alumni office were R . Boyd Gunning and Guy Brown. Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times, spoke to a University of Oklahoma journalism class February 11 . Miss Coffey discussed her lan- ices . He and Mrs. Cates (the former Geneva principal who retired last year . He acted as chair- uarv trip to New York to attend the midwinter Mitchell, '39m-ed) have a daughter, 17 . man of the evaluation committee. fashion shows sponsored by the New York Dress DEATH : Clyde K. Harris, '39fa, former Okla- Charles R. Hetherington, '40eng, '41m .eng, has Institute. homa City interior decorator, died March 2 of a been named managing director of Pacific Petro- Grady H. Nunn,'396a, A1 ma, Tuscaloosa, Ala- cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Amarillo, leum, Ltd., independent Canadian oil company, bama, has returned to the Department of Political Texas. Harris, 39, was the husband of the former and of West Coast Transmission Co ., Ltd., a pipe- . Science at the University of Alabama where he has Princess Cecelia of the House of Hohenzollern . line company partially owned by Pacific Petroleum taught since 1949 . Nunn has been engaged in re- They have one daughter, Kira Alexandrine, 3. He was previously vice president of the firm . Heth- search on federalism in Nigeria with a Ford Foun- erington, his wife and four children have lived in dation foreign arms training fellowship . Mrs. Nunn 1940 Calgary, Alberta, for the last six years. and their four-year-old daughter . Tay, accompanied Clifton Wilhite, '40ed, owner of Clifton Wil- Dr . Rene G. Gerard, '406s, '41ba, '44med, was him to England and to Nigeria where the majority hite Company (manufacturers of girls' and wom- elected a delegate to the Texas Medical Association of the research was done. en's formal dresses), has been elected treasurer of from Grayson County Medical Society. Gerard is Cancer Eugene F. Cates, '39m .ed, former superin- the Dallas Fashion Center . He is married to the also chairman of the Blackford Memorial tendent of schools at Hollis, has joined the Univer- former Wyema Adams, '38fa, '40m .ed . lectureship held annually in Denison, Texas. sity extension division staff. Cates will serve as Dr . J. F. Plett, '40m .ed, principal at McKinley extension specialist in School and Community Serv- School, Tulsa, attended the 1958 conference of the 1941 National Education Association's department of Jack McCafferty, '416us, and Mrs. McCafferty elementary school principals in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, March 23-26. Also attending were George (the former Betty Shire, '41bus) have moved to a new residence in Houston, Texas, 6159 Cedar Hooper, '51ed, Lanier principal, who served as a Creek, with their 15-year-old twin daughters, Patsy discussion leader for state representatives, and Dr . and Peggy. McCafferty is assistant sales manager ifJrvv Okla&mawfatink J. H. Hodges, '29ed, '31ph.d, former Kendall of the Southern Division of Pacific Valves, Inc. Robert C. Harper, '416a, Burlingame, Califor- nia, is representing the University of Oklahoma at the inaugural ceremonies for Glenn S . Dumke as Oklahoma Electrical Supply Co. President of San Francisco State College in May. CAIN'S Harper is with Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. SinrP Dr . John L. Shibley, '416s, is a professor of biology at La Grange College, La Grange, . 427 N . W. Fourth Street He received his master's degree in 1949 and his Ph .D . degree in 1956 from the University of COFFEE Oklahoma City 3, Oklahoma Georgia, Athens . The Shibleys have four children, than any other brand Marianne, 8 ; Joe, 7; Becky, 4, and Sue Beth, 1 . Earnest Hoberecht, '41journ, United Press vice president for Asia, has been included in a Who's Who in Japan, recently published. Hoberecht has been in the orient since 1945 . Dr . Thurman White, 'films, dean of the Uni- FIRST NATIONAL BANK versity of Oklahoma Extension Division, recently attended the sixth annual leadership conference of the National University Extension Association and the Association of University Evening Colleges . OF NORMAN White also spent the last week in March in the Panama Canal zone, visiting education programs of U. S. military installations. We appreciate your Raymond W. I-owe, '41eng, process superin- tendent of Du Pont and Company's Kinston, North patronage Carolina, plant is being transferred to Old Hickory, Tennessee. At Old Hickory he will be assistant plant manager of textile fiber installations, includ- ing the present rayon plant and the new "Dacron" Member F. D. I. C. plant to be built. BIRTH: Ira J. Banta, '41journ, and Mrs. Banta have selected the name Lenore Gaye for their

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(laughter born February 8. Banta is publisher of the McCnrtain Gazette, Idabel, Oklahoma . They have two other children .

1942 F.. R . Warr, '426a, '48Law', Billings, Montana, landman in the Shell Oil Company's Billings di- eision land department, completed ten years service with the firm on March 3. Prior to coming too Billings, he had served in the Oklahoma division and Tulsa area ]anti offices . DEATH: Miss Helen Clare Keyes, '42ed, died February 16 . Miss Keyes was a teacher at Lake- land, Florida . She vyas a native of Washing- ton, 1). C.

1943 I )r. Loyal L. Conrad, '43rned . is co-author of .on article, "Clinical Pathological Conference," ap- pearing ni the February issue of The Journal of the t)ktihoina 1lrdical Association. Dr. Conrad is as- sistant professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine and chief of the cardiovascular disease section for the Veterans Ad- ministration Hospital in Oklahoma City . BIRTH : Otto W. Walter, '43, and Mrs. Walter, Grand Forks, North Dakota, have chosen the name David Allen for their sore born March 2 in St. Michael's Hospital, Grand Forks. Tommy L. Walker (right), :56bus, of Oklahoma City, recently was promoted to rank of Arnty first his bars from Brig. Gen. Charles Chase. 19='4 lieutenant at Fort Bragg. North Carolina . Here he receives Ira Y. Rice, Jr ., '44journ, recently returned to Norman to speak at the Central Church of Christ concerning his missionary work in Singapore . Rice I>ccn elected vice president of the newly organized named reference librarian of the Oklahoma City has been with the Singapore Far East Missionary Oklahoma Citizens Commission for Public Schools . libraries . He was formerly catalog librarian for the Service for the past three years. 1)urwtxxf Pate, '47eng, '48m .eng, Oklahoma Lockheed Corporation, Burbank, California . Mildred Nichols Schroeder, '44journ, has been (:icy, was honored as "Man of the Month" by Paul Brent, '49m .ed, has resigned his position a staff writer in the San Francisco, California, Petroleum Log, published by the Petroi cure Club as superintendent of the Alden, Oklahoma, schools . bureau of International News Service for the past of Oklahoma City . An independent geologist, Pate Brent plans to enroll at the University to complete year. Her husband, John H. Schroeder, is on the recently presented a report for the A. A. 13. G. work on his doctor's degree in education . He h.is news staff of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin. regiona l meeting and before the Oklahoma City been at Alden for three years . Merritt A. Neale, '44eng, is employed as assist- Geological Society . He and Mrs. Pate (the former MARRIAGES : Miss Leveda Margaret Carroll, ant director and chief engineer for the Public Park- Nathalie Ray], '446us) have two children, Jimmy, Oklahoma City, anti William B. Faulkner, '49eng, ing Authority of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, respon- 11, anti Cathy, 9. Tulsa, were married February 15 in Oklahoma sible for the technical planning and design of off- Mrs . Celia Mae Bryant (the former Celia Small, City . The Faulkners live in Tulsa. street parking facilities of the city. Neale has '47fa, '48m .fa), assistant professor of music at Miss Helen Anne Duboc and Rex Duain John- served in this capacity for the past three years. O. U. recently presided at the fourth biennial con- son, '49bus, were married December 28, 1957, in BIRTH : Dale G. Jenkins, '44, Oklahoma City, vention of the Music Teachers' National Associa- the First Presbyterian Church, Fort Scott, Kansas. anti Mrs. Jenkins have selected the name Sherri tion southwestern division in Tulsa. The division They are living in Dallas, Texas, where Johnson Cray for their daughter born February 13 at St. which she heads includes Oklahoma, Texas, New is assistant vice president in the commercial loan Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City . They have Mexico and Arkansas. division of the Republic National Bank of Dallas . three sons, Timothy Dale, 6; Daniel (cordon, 4, and Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of Wellesley College, Greg Weaver, 2 . 1948 Wclleslev, Massachusetts . Drank J. Newkuniet, '48geol, and Mrs . New- BIRTH : Jack W. Berry, '49bus, and Mrs. Berry, 1946 kuinet have moved too a new home at 46(15 North Amarillo, Texas, have selected the name Linda John H. Crawford, '46-'47, has opened an SLitc Street, Oklahoma City . The Newkumets have Carol for their daughter born February 21 . They .id,crtising, public relations anti tax service office four children, two boys and two girls. have two other children, Peggy, 4! and Glenn, in downtown Tulsa. He started the firm this year, quarters of which are on West Street . 1949 Eugene A . Bavinger, '46fa, director of the O. U. l :. R. McMurry, '49eng, '5llni .cng, is now Museum of Art, has had a painting recommended division sales and engineering manager, Louisiana USE for purchase by Friends of Art of Kansas State division, for Plastic Applicators, Inc ., of Houston, College, Manhattan . The work, "Winter Image," Texas. McMurry is located in New Orleans, was among paintings submitted for the fifth bien- Louisiana . SECURITY nial exhibition of regional painting and sculpture . Ross B. K:ker, '49iourn, has been appointed BIRTH : J. Stewart Bell, '46ba, and Mrs. Bell, ](will sales manager of KOCO-TV, Enitf-Oklahoonta Oklahoma Citv, have selected the name William City . He has been working at station KWWL-TV, NATIONAL Catlett for their adopted son . He was born Octo- Waterloo, Iowa . ber 7, 1957. Jasper E. Cobb, Jr ., '49phano, is a pharmacist BANK in Walgreen's Drug Store in Wichita Falls, Texas. 1947 Iic and Mrs. Cobb have three children, Harriet, 11 ; to solve your Jerry' Keen, '476us, Norman, was elected pres- Fph, 7, and Bidde Nell, born in October, 1957 . ban~ing problems ident of the Norman Rotarv Club on March 13. Phil L. Kramer, '49bus, '561 .aw, joined the Keen is with the Tyler ant] Simpson Company, law firth of Mcloonc, Robertson and Melonc in -Tulsa Member F.D.I .C. wholesale grocers . He also serves as a class agent on February 2 . Kramcr has been assistant county 200 East Main for the University of Oklahoma Alumni De- attorney in Tulsa County under J. Howard Ed- Phone JE 4-7170 velopment Fund . nioondsoon for more than a year . Norman, Oklahoma Jess Burkett, '47ed, '50m .ed, Norman, has Thomas 1. Baker, '496a, '55ni.lib.sci, has been

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3. Berry is now division manager for Sears-Roe their son born February 14 . The Heaneys live in cal Association. The paper was previously presented buck Company in Amarillo . Jamaica, New York . at the third annual meeting of the Oklahoma Asso- Mort Glassner, '50journ, and Mrs . Glassner, ciation of House Staff Physicians, May 31, 1957, 1950 Great Bend, Kansas, have chosen the name Carol in Oklahoma Citv . W . F. Ridgeway, '50eng, has recently become Diane for their daughter born February 28. They ,, 1,,iitir r in the firm of K. L. Bourdo and Asso- have two other daughters . He is city editor of the 1952 ciates, an oil field service and supply company (Great Rend Daily Trihrcne. Captain David E. Conrad, '526a, '55ma, was operating in North Africa and the Middle East . named battery commander of the San Marcos, Ridgeway is located in the main office in Beirut, 1951 Texas, National Guard unit on March 1 . Conrad, a Lebanon. He was previously chief drilling engi- I . ( ;Icnn Wilson, '516a, '52ma, and Mrs . Wil- veteran of the Korean Conflict, succeeded Cap- neer for the Kuwait Oil Company, a subsidiary of -ci (iltc former Helen O'Dell, '52journ) now live tain Hayden McDaniel, commander for the past Gulf Oil Corp. in Columbus, Ohio, where he is medical care re- six years. Conrad is an instructor in history at William R. Van Fcchtmann, '50eng, has been search manager of Nationwide Insurance Com- Southwest Texas State Teachers College . He is appointed manager of broadcast tube manufactur- panies in Columbus . They previously lived in working toward his Ph . 1) . from O. U. and is mar- ing in the General Electric power tube department, Knoxville, Tennessee . ried to the former Beverly Lester of Norman, located in Schenectady, New York. Prior to this Alfred Houser, '516u,, '57ms, has been trans- Oklahoma . They have a daughter . assignment, Van Fechtmann was foreman of the ferred to Norman as director (of the O. U. research James Monroe, '52ba, recently was chosen ceramic transmitting tube unit, power tube depart- fishery laboratory . He was formerly with the Wild- president of the new Oklahoma City Press Club. ment. He and his wife have three children, Steven, life Conservation Department at Wagoner . The Now a staff writer for Associated Press, he formerly Richard and Russell . Mousers have three children, Mary Sue, 10 ; Jim, S, worked for the Norman Transr -rips, Daily Okla- L. 1). "Deacon" New, '50journ, Oklahoma City and Ann, 3. homan, and the Enid Aforning News . Included in Times reporter, has resigned to join the editorial Dr. Ccrald W. McCullough . '516s, '54ined, is the club's board of directors is Kuyk Logan, '55 staff of the Oil and Gas Journal, Tulsa. New has author of an article, "Diverticula of the Pericar- journ, former editor of and been with the Times since 1950 . dium," which appeared in the Journal of the Okla- now a United Press staffer. Robert A. Erickson, '50eng, '51 ms, was pro- homa State Medical Association. McCullough is an h:. Deane Kanaly, '526us, '53m .bus, was recent- moted to supervisor of barometric and acceleration associate resident in the University Hospital's sur- ly promoted to assistant trust officer by Bank of the devices section at Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, New gcr- residency program at Central State Hospital . Southwest, Houston, Texas. Kanaly joined the Mexico. Erickson has been with the corporation Mel Newsom, '516us, Norman studio pho- bank in July, 1955. He and Mrs. Kanaly (the for three years, working in barometric devices and tographer, made two of the ten prize-winning former Virginia Johnson, '526us) have two chil- component groups . prints shown at the Southwestern Photographers dren, Steven, 4, and Jeffrey, 2. Dr. Robert W. Dean, '50ba, '55mcd, contrilr Association convention in Fort Worth, Texas. I-on R. Argabright, '52journ, is establishing a uted an article, "The Control of a Postnatal Epi- Stephen Atwater, '51ms, '53ph.d, is this year General Agency office for Northwestern Mutual demic of Breast Abscesses in a General Hospital," assistant professor of psychology at Knox College, Life Insurance Company in Dallas, Texas. He has to the March, 1958, issue of the Journal of the Galesburg, Illinois . He has been associated with been with Northwestern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Oklahoma Medical Association. Dean is now a the college psychology department as an instructor as assistant to the director of education and field resident in obstetrics and gynecology at St. John's since 1953. training for the past five years. The Argabrights Hospital, Tulsa. James Earl Bishop, '516us, '53Law, trust of- have one daughter, LuAnn, 8 . BIRTHS: John E. Heaney, '50journ, and Mrs. ficer at the First National Bank and Trust ('out- Harrison L. Hays III, '526us, was promoted t Heaney have chosen the name Michael Edward for pany of Tulsa, addressed the Tulsa Life Under- purchasing agent for the Newark, Ohio, plant of writers recently. Bishop spoke on "A Trust Officer Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. Looks at Life Insurance Men ." Jim Weatherall, '526us ; Tommy McDonald, AN OKLAHOMA U. RING Dr. William E. Hood, Jr., '51ha, '55med, pub- '57, and Jimmy Harris, '58, All-Americans under lished an article, "Difficulties in Differential Be- coach Bud Wilkinson, will return to Owen Field, tween Chorio-Adenoma Destruens anti C.horio- Norman, in their professional status as members of 14 sytnild 4 a carcin"na" in the lorcrnal of the Oklahoma Medi- the Philadelphia Eagles football team when they

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play the world champion Detroit Lions in an Richard A. Elms, '54eng, and Mrs. Elms (the Miss Lavinia Camile Brock, Freeport, Texas, exhibition game on September 13 . former Ann West, '55journ) are living at Port- and James E. B. Berry, '556a, Oklahoma City, William W. Waldroop, '52eng, assistant pro- land, Indiana, where Elms is employed as editor were married February 17 in Bethel Presbyterian fessor of air science at the University, has been of the Graphic, a weekly newspaper. He has been Church, Freeport, Texas. They are living in Okla- promoted to the rank of major in the Air Force. engaged in study for a master's degree on a Mc- homa City . He will end his tour of duty at O. U. this summer Mahon Foundation fellowship for the past semester . BIRTH : Walt Morrison, '55eng, '56m .eng, and and will be assigned to another base in August . He Mrs. Elms was editorial assistant in the O. U. Mrs. Morrison (the former Martha Spillman, '55 is married and has three children . bureau of business research . ba), Victoria, Texas, have chosen the name Shan- William R. Brooks, '526s, '54ms, and Mrs. BIRTHS : Lee B. Thompson, Jr., '546us, and non Elizabeth for their daughter born February 6. Brooks (the former Helen Bousky, '54ed) now arc Mrs. Thompson (the former Ann Richards, '53 living in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Brooks is journ), Bartlesville, have chosen the name Kath- employed by Eli Lilly and Company in the bio- erine Elaine for their daughter born February 13 . 1956 Lieut. Thomas G. Norris, '56eng, logical control division . The Brookses have one son, Donald Lambdin, '54Law, and Mrs. Lambdin, '57m .eng, and Mrs. Norris are living in Okinawa where he is Jimmie, born December 16, 1956 . Wichita, Kansas, have chosen the name Lisa Loree, stationed with the Air Force. The Norriscs have a BIRTH : Burton Stern, '52eng, and Mrs. Stern, for their daughter born February 14 . six-month-old Fresh Meadows, New York, have selected the son, Thomas G. Norris, Jr . Lieut. name Elise Merle for their daughter born Feb- David F. Dickerson, '566us, is a navi- 1955 gator for the Air Force, stationed at El Paso, Texas. ruary 26 . They also have a son, Steven, 3. Stern Miss Loella Sansing, '55m .fa, presented a voice He was married to the former Miss Erin McRae, is presently employed by Grumman Aircraft En- recital January 27 in the Little Hall of the Con- Harlingen, Texas, on July 26, 1957 . gineering Corp . as project coordinator on early servatory of Music in Milan, Italy, and received MARRIAGES: Miss Margaret Dykes, '566a, warning aircraft. favorable reviews in two Milan newspapers. Miss Oklahoma City, and Arthur R. Body, Jr ., Tulsa, Sansing, whose home is in McAlester, has been were married in Crown Heights Christian Church, studying in England and Italy since graduating 1953 Oklahoma City . Rody is a graduate of University Margaret De Priest, '53fa, has a role in Arthur from the University of Oklahoma . of Tulsa and is enrolled in Kansas City Dental Miller's latest production, The Crucible, which Whinery, has entered Dr . Kenneth '55med, School . opened last month in New York City . Since re- private practice at Yosemite National Park, Califor- Miss Trela Hodges, '56ed, Alva, and Jesse Ray cently moving to New York, she has appeared in nia. He has just been released from active duty Young, Hobart, were married March 2 in the First such network productions as "Studio One," "Lamp with the Navy . Baptist Church, Beaver . The couple is living in Unto My Feet," "Mama" and "Producer's Show- Dr . Harry W. Allison, '55ph .d, Tulsa psychol- Alva . case ." She is married to Glen Kezer, '50fa, '51m .fa. ogist, was moderator of a panel of parents and teen- BIRTH : Rob Hanan, '566us, and Mrs. Hanan, Ralph H. Childs, '53ma, has accepted the agers at the monthly membership meeting of the Enid, have chosen the name Scott Alan for their post of executive secretary of the Kent County Tulsa B'nai B'rith Lodge No . 798 on March 19 . son born March 25 . The Hanans have another son, Tuberculosis Society in Grand Rapids, Michigan . Allison has served as psychologist for the Tulsa Gregg, 18 months . He will serve in that same capacity for the Kalama- public school system, and in recent months he has DEATHS : Jim Tisdal, '56, Clinton, and Glenn zoo County Tuberculosis Association until May 1 . been clinical psychologist for the Tulsa juvenile Castle, '56, Altus, were killed March 1 in the BIRTH: Kenneth W. Parker, '50eng, and Mrs. court. crash of a light plane near Colony, Oklahoma . Parker have selected the name Leslie for their Jack W. Lawter, '551aw, was elected presi- Tisdal swam on the varsity freshman team at daughter born January 20 in Oklahoma City . They of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Com- dent O. U., and Castle was a pre-dental major at the have two other daughters, Terri, 4, and Tracey, 2. pany of Tulsa on March 20 during a board of University . directors meeting. Lawter, who was assistant to 1954 Joe B. Hunt, state insurance commissioner, resigned Kenneth L. Smalley, '54eng, now is with the his state-held post immediately after the election . 1957 production engineering section, natural gas de- MARRIAGES: Miss Virginia Frisbie, '556a, and Pvt. John V. Page, '57bus, Hugo, now is sta- partment of Phillips Petroleum Company in Du- Bill Barbee, both of Amarillo, Texas, were married t6,ned with the 4th Armored Division in Germany. mas, Texas. He and Mrs. Smalley (the former March 15 in Polk Street Methodist Church, Ama- He was stationed a Fort Hood, Texas, before Janet Glasgow, '54) have a new daughter, Mary rillo. Barbee is a graduate of Texas Technological arriving in Europe in December, 1957 . Kathleen, born October 2, 1957 . College. The couple plans to live in Amarillo . Arthur Bartow, '57fa, O. U. graduate student from Cushing, portrayed Dan Hilliard, whose home is invaded by escaped convicts in University Drama School's presentation of The Desperate Hours. The play was performed February 2 and 3. Lieut. George H. Lokcy, '57bus, Amarillo, Texas, graduated recently from Marine officer basic school at Quantico, Virginia . Arthur Nayland Page, '57, has received a Ful- bright scholarship to study history at the Univer- sity of Chile. Page, a graduate history student at O. U., has been doing research in Washington, D. C., on his doctorate. Lieut. Charles B . Cowde, '57bus, now is en- to OU's New gaged in pre-flight training at Lackland Air Base, San Antonio, Texas. John Dowling, '576us, was master of cere- monies recently for a program of folk songs of the world presented at the Stovall Museum, Norman . Martha Kobler, '556a, museum secretary, was di- Addition rector for the affair . Ensign A. M. Coats, '576a, and Mrs. Coats (the former Millie Imel, '57) are living in Taipei, For- mosa, while Coats is attached to MAAG for a two- Oklahoma Chapter year assignment . Jack S. Moorhead, '57journ, is employed on the staff of the Hayward (California) Review, a daily of the San Francisco Bay area . City editor of the paper, which has about 14,000 circulation, is Del- mar L- Nelson, '48journ . Moorhead is a former AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS advertising manager for Sooner Magazine . Bo Bolinger, '57ed, former guard at O. U., was appointed February 20 as football line coach at

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the University of Denver, Colorado . He replaces Miss Joyce Palmatary, '58journ, is author of an I'IiE'1"1'Y PLUCKY J. D. Roberts, '55ed, who resigned recently to take article on O. U . journalism courses a position on O. U.'s coaching staff. in the winter, 1958, issue of Impressions, published Continued from page 14 Richard G. Bell, '57ed, Norman, is teaching quarterly by Fairchild Graphic Equipment, Inc. junior high mathematics and history in Blanchard. MARRIAGES : Mrs. Dianne Baker and Robert Lee Nelson, '58, were married March 7 in the Bell retired from the Navy in 1954 after 20 years volved and the financial need . This year's of duty and took a degree in education and mathe- Church of Christ, Oklahoma City . They are living individual grants, for instance, range from matics at the University . He has begun work on a in Corpus Christi, Texas. master's degree . He and Mrs. Bell, who teaches Miss Hilda Ann Hopkins, Washington, Okla- $10 to $60 a month . fourth grade at Midwest City, have two children, homa, and Robert D. Albrecht, '58, Oklahoma "By the way," he added, "O . U. is one of Paul, 12, and Vivian, 11 . City, were married in the Pennsylvania Avenue the three universities in the country which Methodist Church, Oklahoma City . The couple Miss Jamie Bell Brown, '57bs, Wewoka, has offer students the Will Rogers funds . The lives 901 N.W . the been selected to represent Oklahoma in the national at 13th . Albrecht is a senior at University. University of Texas and the University of Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D. C. She Miss Carla and California are the others . The applicant was selected by the Oklahoma State Society in Kay Buttolph, '58, Bartlesville, to Theodore Washington . Since graduation from the Univer- R. Solarz, '56geol, Cleveland, Oklahoma, O. U. who receives Will Rogers funds must were married February 21 in Norman, where they, sity she has been employed at the District of Colum- have a handicap, be a resident of Okla- have made their home while attending O. U. She bia General Hospital bureau of maternal and child homa, and have financial need . health . expects to receive her bachelor's degree this year, "There are approximately 50 or stu- Colbert Wilhite, '57bus, has been elected presi- and he his master's. so Miss Carolyn Elizabeth Belisle, '58, Oklahoma dents enrolled at O. U. dent of the Business Statistics Club at the Univer- today who could sity . Wilhite is a graduate student from Beaver . City, and Lieut. Richard Milton Oliphant, '56eng, take advantage of the funds . Most do . Lieut. Gary T. Benton, '57ba, Grove, recently Bartlesville, were married February 15 in Okla- homa Others lack one of the qualifications or are was graduated from the 15-week basic officer City . They have made their home at his too sensitive about their handicap to accept course at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, station, Pope Air Base in North Carolina . Georgia. Benton entered the Army in October, Miss Sandra Jo Wolfe and Johnny Charles aid. The latter type are rare, though : the Corona, '586us, both of Wilson, were married there 1957 . handicapped who continue their education in the First Baptist Church in February . The MARRIAGES : Miss Sarah Carlene Rowell, '57 are nearly all pretty plucky ." Coronas live in Centralia, Illinois . bus, and James Haskell Howard, '566us, were "Pretty plucky" is a pleasant understate- married March 1 in the First Presbyterian Church, DEATH: Wayne N. Rucker, Jr ., '58, Norman, was killed February 14 in an automobile accident ment . Just how much pluck they have is Ponca City. The Howards are living in Houston, Texas. in Tulsa. Rucker, 33, would have graduated June evident from the vocational success some 1 from the University's College of Law. He was Miss Janie Marie Jones, '576a, Tulsa, and handicapped graduates have achieved . married and the father of two. Rucker studied at James W. Cheek, '57ba, Ada, were married Feb- An outstanding example William F . Oklahoma Military Academy before coming is ruary 15 in Boston Avenue Methodist Church, to Combes, who began teaching at Tulsa Uni- Tulsa. The couple has established a home in O. U., and during World War II he served in Europe for three years. versity last year after obtaining a Ph .D . Memphis where Cheek will enter the University of Tennessee medical school . Miss Mary Chloe Burton, '57ba, and Gaines Loros Godfrey, '58, both of Fort Worth, Texas, were married February 22 in Robert Carr Chapel, Fort Worth. Miss Kathryn Maria Glasgow, '57, and Robert S. Wheeler, '57eng, were married March 1 in Crown Heights Christian Church in Oklahoma e City . She is from Oklahoma City, and he is frorn Okmulgee. #MWA 19&k Miss Sue Ellen Raeuber and Franklin D. Rahhal, .. '57Law, both of Weleetka, were married October 5, 1957, in Coalgate . She attended Oklahoma State QUEEN'S WARE University . They live in Okemah . BIRTH: Lieut. Cameron A. Deen, '57eng, and by WEDGWOOD Mrs. Dccn have chosen the name Jana Beth for their daughter born January 28 at Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Deen is temporarily re- siding with her husband's parents while he is sta- The Oklahoma Memorial Union presents tioned in Seoul, Korea, with the Air Force. this set of Dinner Plates with four in DEATH : Marion "Nick" Kuzmic, '57, died dividual scenes of the campus . Etched in soft crimson, the off-white, 10-inch March 9 in Norman as a result of an auto accident . plates have scenes of the Administration Building, The Oklahoma Kuzmic, 26, was a University of Oklahoma stu- Memorial Union, The Memorial Stadium-Owen Field, dent until this semester and operated the 315 Res- and Bizzell Memorial Library. taurant in Norman . He was originally from Wood- (includes handling A Set of four plates is $11 .50. . n, l .aler tail ward and served in the Army in England for several years. Send This Form With Your Check Oklahoma Memorial Union 1958 University of Oklahoma Robert F. Holland, '58journ, has taken up Faculty Exchange duties as reporter on the Guymon Daily Herald. Norman, Oklahoma Jerry Lloyd Ray, '58eng, is working for the Attached is a check (money order) in the amount of : for Texas Company as a chemical engineer . He is sets of University of Oklahoma Commemorative Wedgwood Dinner located at Texaco's research and development Plates . To be shipped express collect. laboratories in Port Arthur, Texas, where he is engaged in research leading to the development Mail Plates to : - of new petroleum products . Morgan Thompson, '58, has been employed by the American Legion Home School of Oklahoma, located in Ponca City. Thompson began work there on April l .

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