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Yesterday and Today's News-Marriages, Births, Deaths, New Positions and Addresses-Can Be 1902- Found in Roll Call in Brief Form Marine Corps, has been transferred from 1-t.Leaven-worth, Kansas, toNewport, Rhode Island. Clyde Bogle, '02ba, is a real estate agent in Nor- man . 1925- ~1906 Mrs. Fayette Copeland, the former Edith Jamie- Mrs. Ella T. Williams, '066a, the former Ella R, son, '20ba, '25ma, is living in Norman . Her I homas, is living in Norman . hus-band, FayetteCopeland,'196a,isdirector of the ~1910 school of journalism at the University . M. Darwin Kirk, '25ba, '25Law, is vice presi- Jessie Newby Ray, '106a, '25ma, has been chair- dent and general attorney for the Barnsdall Oil man of the Central State College "Y" Chapel of Company in Tulsa. He holds membership in the Song at Edmond, which was dedicated June 26 . American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petro- Pupils designed and executed most of the interior leum Association and the American Bar decoration of the chapel . Associa- tion . He and Mrs. Kirk have one R. W. Hutto, '10ba, has retired and child, a daughter, is living in Diana Norman . Dorothy Kirk . Dr . James O. Wails, '10, is now employed as a 1926 public health officer in Oklahoma City . Mrs . Ruth M . Memminger, the former Ruth Moore, _1911- '206m, '266a, is living in Atoka . Ruth Redwine, '266a, Spiro, has acccptcd a po- Dr . Everett DeGolyer, 'llba, received a doctor of sition as instructor of speech at Oklahoma Baptist engineering degree from Princeton University June University in Shawnee for the coming year . She 14 . He and Mrs. DeGolyer, the former Nell Good- ROY SAVAGE, '27Law, '25BA will begin her duties in September. rich, '076a, left for Europe on the S. S . Carolina Portrait by Joseph Sigall Ruth Jenkins Floeck, '26h .ec, is a dietitian at the June 27 . Their home is in Dallas, Texas. Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . ~1913 Roland L. Beck, '26ma, '32ph.d, is a visiting Ray Ferrell Meacham, Silent Cal, Lush 'l3ba, is living in Nor- Twenties, professor at the University this summer . Dr . Beck is man. n. But You Remember-- the author of numerous publications, some of the -1917- latest being Test of English Usage for High Schools Mrs. John Rogers, the former Hazel M . Beattie, and Colleges, Evaluation in the Language Arts, '17ba, is living in Tulsa. 25 Years Ago Co-ordinated Scales of Attainment, and Gray-Votaw Want Norman W. Brillhart, '176a, is employed in oil Ad : July 11, 1924 issue, Sooner General Achievement Tests. Dr . Beck lives in Ed- production in Madill . Student, "The young lady who found the mond where he is a professor of education at Cen- Mrs. Walter O. Cralle, the former Marian S. Kappa Sigma pin is known to the owner." tral State College. Brooks, '15ba, Marguerite Mascheck, '26h .ec, is '17ma, is now living in Springfield, Sports Stuf: teaching at the Missouri . Glenn Mead, '27bus, Nor- Junior high school, Elk City . man, and member of the Varsity tennis Edith McKinley, '26h .ec, is head of the home -1918- squad, with economics department at the Panhandle A. & M. Mrs . Edna Muldrow, the former Edna Brockway, Floyd Laird, '21-'24, formerly College, Goodwell . '186a, '27ma, is a teacher in Weatherford, Okla- of Ada, won the championship in the dou- homa . bles in the University summer session ten- -1927- rik Rhodes, '27ba, visited -1920- nis tournament," so said the July 15 E in Oklahoma City Sooner during June, prior to returning to Earl M. Woodson, '206s, is a practicing phy New York to sician Student. (Mead is now an accountant in join a in Poteau . summer stock show . While in Oklahoma Oklahoma City. The alumni office City, Rhodes appeared on the grand opening W. T. Mayfield, '186s, '20med, is a physician has no of in WKY-TV Norman . current occupation or address for Laird) . station. Rhodes has had his own tclc- vision show in New York . Elmer L. Fraker, '206a, '38ma, is living in Okla- Briefs : Josh Lee, '17ba, then head of the Beatrice Dalton, '27ba, is an associate homa City . department professor of public speaking and now a in education at the University of Chattanooga, 1921 member of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mrs. John Getgey, the former Ruth Glidewell, Washington, D. C., had a book, Public Dr . A. M. Brewer, '27med, and Mrs. Brewer an- '216a, is living in Cincinnati, Ohio . Speaking Manual, published . nounced the birth of a son May 14 . They have -1922- named the child Richard Augustus Brewer . '1 'hey Interesting Eyetem-"A Freckle Gives Joe Looney, '206a, '22Law is a practicing lawyer have two other children, Jimmy, 8, and Brenda in Wewoka . its Views of the World's Trouble," appeared Site, 7. The Brewers live in Oklahoma City . Fisher Muldrow, '22, is retired and living in and attempted to do just what the title 1928~ Seminole . suggests. It was written by Mary Bouteller, Allie E. Dragoo, '28h .ec, is teaching at Lexing- Roy M. Smith, '22Law, has been elected as a '26ba. (Miss Corbin ton. member of the National married William Wal- Council of Camp Fire Ross W. Morrison, '28eng, and Mrs. Morrison, Girls lace and now resides in Fort of America, Inc. He lives in Norman . Smith, Arkan- Oklahoma City, sas). are the parents of a daughter -1923- born March 6. Bradford M. Risinger, '236a, is assistant city Gossip: The Sunshine Register appeared Chester Sappington, '28geol, is vice president of attorney in Tulsa. His home is in Sand Springs. on the lower half of the July 25 issue of the the General Geophysical Company in Houston, Mrs. Texas Lucille L. Sullivan, the former Lucille Sooner Student. It was an exact duplicate in . Lawrence, '236a, '47m .ed, is George Elwood Kaiser, '28eng, teaching in Norman . size and format of the Student with the is owner and Mrs. May C. Eischeid, '23, is living in ex- manager of the Kaiser Electric Company in Artesia, Chickasha. ception of the William Henry Conkling, '236a, is a district wording which read : The New Mexico. He is director of the Chamber of geologist for the Sun Oil Company. He and Mrs. Sunshine Register, published for "Your Commerce there. Conkling live in Midland, Texas. Own Good," Volume Small, Scandalland, Thelma B. Walker, '28h .ec, '37m .h .ec.ed, is teaching -1924- Tellitall, with the issue number titled, "Real home economics at the Central Teachers College at Edmond . Col. S. K. Bird, '24ba, of the United States Hot Number." Louise Perkinson, '28h .ec, '31ms, is a county JULY, 1949 1 7 UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA LIBRARY home demonstration agent in Comanche County, Edith Willene Mayes, '33h .ec, is teaching home Lawton. -1930- Claude S. Kirkpatrick, '29-30, resigned his po- economics at Enid . '-'1929 sition as a board member of the Tulsa Board of Roberta Priscilla Alden, '31h .ec, is teaching home economics Harry C. Ford, '296a, '316s, '33med, is a prac- Education . He is moving to California to make his at Cherokee Junior High School, Tulsa. ticing otolaryngologist in Oklahoma City. Dr. home . Marie Garrett, '33h .ec, is a nurse at Central State Ford is a member of numerous scientific and medi- Hospital, Norman . and Mrs. Ford have one child, Alan Harry. Dr. -1931- cal organizations and societies . Mark Howard McKinsey, '31eng, is a geophysi- ~1934 Harm Musgrave, '346us, has been Robert Martin Saylor, '29med, cist with the Shell Oil Company . He is a member elected vice is a practicing of the junior president of White's Auto Stores, Inc. He has been physician with the U. S. Indian Service in Al- Chamber of Commerce, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, American Geophysical serving as one of the com- buquerque, New Mexico . He and Mrs. Saylor have pany's two sons. Union and the American Association of Petroleum supervisors, and was Geologists. He and Mrs. McKinsey, the former elected to the board of di- Margaret Puryear Peters, '296a, is an instructor Elizabeth Ann Abernethy, '27-'29, live in Midland, rectors at the annual meet- in education at the Austin University Junior School, Texas. They have a son, Mark Howard McKinsey, ing of stockholders in the Austin, Texas. Jr., 15 years old . spring of 1948 . His election Warren B. Weeks, '29eng, is assistant chief geol- Agnes Mae Tillman, '31h .ec, is a home demon- to a vice presidency was "in tlesville . He has been with stration agent at Hollis . recognition of his outstand- Phillips since 1933, serving Gertrude C. Flanagan, '31h .ec, '38ms, is super- ing record with the com- as division geologist, district visor of home economics at the Cherokee Indian pany ." He will soon become geologist and microscopist, School, Cherokee, North Carolina . director of all company per- before assuming his present sonnel and will be placed duties two years ago . Weeks ~1932 in charge of all retail store was active in many campus Lowell Dunham, '326a, '36ma, is on leave of HARM MUSGRAVE supervisors . Musgrave has organizations while attend- absence from the University to work on his doctor's been associated with White's ing the University, includ- degree at the University of California at Los An- Auto Stores since 1937 in Wichita Falls, Green- ing Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Mu geles. He is assistant professor of modern languages ville, and Paris, Texas. He and his family are now Tau and Sigma Gamma at O.U. living in Wichita Falls. Epsilon . He was awarded a -1933 William Howard Bollinger, '34eng, and Mrs. scholarship plaque from the Bollinger, the former Sara Margaret Freeman, '36ba, WARREN B. WEEKS ogist with the Phillips Pe- Don J. Huckaby, '33bus, is employed by General and their son, William Bollinger, visited in Okla- troleum Company in Bar- Mills, Inc., Southwestern Division, Oklahoma City . homa City during May and early June . The Bolling- latter organization . He served as vice president of Elbert Vance Winningham, '336s, '49med, began ers live in Santa Monica, California . the American Association of Petroleum Geologist interneship at Wesley Hospital in Oklahoma City R. F. J. Williams, Jr ., '346us, has been named a in 1940 . Mr. and Mrs. Weeks have three children . July 1. He and Mrs. Winningham, the former member of the industrial health and safety com- Louise Rosser Kemp, '296a, is living in El Paso, Lottie Belle Shanks, '33nurse, have two children . mittee of the National Association of Manufacturers . Texas, where her husband is in the real estate and Ann Loa Buntin, '33h.ec, is an assistant professor He was president of the Oklahoma Laundry Asso- insurance business . of home economics at Plattsburg Normal School, ciation in 1948 and is president of the Oklahoma Richard Dean Mason, '29bs, '316a, '32eng, is a Plattsburg, New York. Operating Company, Oklahoma City. senior partner in the firm of Mason, Kolehmainen, Rathburn & Wyss. He is a patent lawyer . He and The Crash, Talkies, and ~1935~ Mrs. Mason have two daughters, Patricia and John E. Mertes, Jr ., '356us, is chairman of the Marilyn . They live in Winnetka, Illinois. Prosperity Around the Corner department of marketing at the University . He is Anna Belle Busby Moore, '29bs, is a teacher in the faculty sponsor of the student chapter of the the Oklahoma City public schools . She and Mr. 20 Years Ago American Marketing Association and holds a vice- Moore are the parents of a daughter, Martha Ann, presidency in the Oklahoma Chapter of that or- three years old. "Edgar D. Meacham, '14ba, with Guy ganization . He is a member of Alpha Delta Sigma Mayme Walker Bowling Mohrbacher, '296a, is Y. Williams, '066a, held and Delta Sigma Pi. He has had two articles pub- living in Arlington, Virginia, where her husband is '10ma, on to what lished recently . chief of employment in the Federal Security remained of the (Alumni) Association George Richard Carter, '35geol, is division geol- Agency. Mrs. Mohrbacher was formerly a clerk in when almost everyone was ready to bury it. ogist with the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company the treasury department in Washington, D. C. They They evolved the idea of the life member- in Midland, Texas. He was formerly a geologist have one child, Ann, eight years old. with the Gulf Oil Corporation . Douglas C. Mitchell, '29bs, is a biology teacher ship-and here we are, fairly prosperous as an MAYALL-EVERETT : Mary Lou Mayall, '35ma, in the Joplin, Missouri, senior high school. association," so said the October, 1929 Oklahoma City, and Millard S. Everett, Chicago, Clarice Lucile Hadsell McMillan, '296a, is living Sooner Magazine . (Dr. Meacham is now Illinois, were married June 9 in the First Christian in Vinita, where her husband, James Moughan Mc- dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Church in Oklahoma City. The couple is at home Millan, '31bs, '33med, is a practicing physician. Dr. Williams is professor in Chicago. They have three children . of chemistry). Feature article in the October issue was Leon W. Polk, '35-'39, is now attending George Ohland Morton, '29ma, is the supervisor of Washington University in Washington, D. C. He Secondary Education at Edinburg, Texas. He was a story entitled "My Days as First Univer- is also employed by the Applied Physics Laboratory acting president of Eastern Oklahoma College at sity President" as told by Dr. David Ross of the John Hopkins University, Silver Spring, Wilburton in 1936-37 . In 1948 his book Teran and Boyd to Dr. Roy Hadsell (deceased) and Maryland . Texas, a chapter in Texas-Mexican Relations, was R. D. Jolly, '35ed, is a science instructor in the published. Betty Kirk, '29ba. Weddings: Miss Pryor High School . He was formerly an instructor Wallace W. Irwin, '29eng, is vice president of Mary Elizabeth Shu- in Washita and Okay High Schools . the firm of Culbertson & Irwin, Inc. He is a geolo- mate and Henry Barxdale McRea, '26, Au- Memorial services for Pfc. James W. Cochran, gist . He was formerly district geologist with the gust 24 in Pauls Valley. Miss Mary Ellen '356a, '36Law, former Oklahoma City lawyer, Nordon Oil Corporation . He and Mrs. Irwin have Hron, and Jack Bartell, '28bs, '30med, at were held June 6 in Oklahoma City. He was killed two children. They live in Midland, Texas. Stillwater, September 3 . March 5, 1945, in Germany. Mary Stahl Simmons, '29ma, is the owner of a Frank Moseley Woods, '35med, is a practicing business school in Canon City, Colorado . Births: Walker B. Comegys and Dorcas physician in Miami, Florida . He and Mrs. Woods Ethel Baird Spradling, '29h.ec, is teaching at McConnell Comegys, '24, a son, Walker B. have three children. Their home is in Coral Gables, Falwell, District 12, Bixby. Comegys, Jr., on July 30 in Oklahoma City. Florida . Ruth Donham Sanger, '29h.ec, is teaching home Graham B Chrystene Trowbridge Vance, '35h.ec, is vice economics at Mangum . . Johnson, '19ba, and Genevieve Farrar Johnson, '20, a son, Graham B president of the women's auxiliary, National Elizabeth Phillips Day, '29h .ec, '45m.h.ec, is ., Jr., Sheep and Goat Raisers Association at Coleman, teaching home economics at Wewoka . on July 31 in Norman. Texas.

18 SOONER MAGAZINE Lynn W. Burrus -1936- and Mrs. Burrus, the former -1939- Margaret Ray, '38fa, announced the birth son 1. J. Lappin and of a Mrs. Lappin, the former Ann April 19. They have named him Stephen Lynn . Ray Clement Morris, '39geo1, is a geologist with Fishman, '366a, are the parents of a daughter born They have another child, a daughter, Marcia Ray. the Stanolind Oil & Gas Company . He and Mrs. March 24 in homa City. They have another The Burruses live in Oklahoma City . Morris, the former Evelyn Morton, Oklachild, '406us, have Myra Ann, hree years old. one child, Kenneth Morton Morris, two years old Jeanne tDorothy Morris Bernard Michel and Mrs. Michel, the former Rose . Mote, '36h .ec, is teach- Fisher, '386a, They live in Amarillo, Texas. ing home ics at Crooked Oak School, announced the birth of a son May CityeconomOklahoma . 29. They have named the child Robert Winston Earl C. Veech, '37-'39, is an accountant with Michel . They the General Edna Lucas He ges, '36h .ec, is teaching home live in Oklahoma City. Mills, Inc., Southwestern Division, in Oklahoma City . economics at Classen High School, Oklahoma City. HILL-HOFFMAN : Jean Hill, '386us, Wichita, Cora Lee Monical Hoover, '36h.ec, is teaching in Kansas, and Jack Hoffman, Wichita, were married Capt. Jammie M. Philpott, '38-'39, and Mrs. grade school at Norman. May 21 in Oklahoma City. They are at home in Philpott announced the birth of their second daugh- Detroit, Michigan . ter May 21 in Savannah, Georgia . Philpott is a ~1937 George Inglis, '386us, formerly of Muskogee, pilot in the Air Corps. has been transferred to Tulsa where Augusta May Lohmann, Albert Brent, '37bs, '38ma, received the Ph. D. he is to be in '39h .ec, is teaching degree in Spanish at the June the credit department of Sears store. home economics in high school at Miami, Okla- commencement at homa . Princeton University . He has been at Princeton Helen Verda Gunn, '38m.ed, is a personnel since 1945 as a graduate student and technician for the United States Air Force at Tinker Kenneth Harris, '396a, '49Law, senior public instructor in Air Force relations assistant the department of modern languages and litera- Base, Oklahoma City . She has held this in the Bureau of Public Rela- position for seven years. She is tions at the University and tures. He has been appointed assistant professor of also chief of the assistant director of Spanish at the University of Personnel Testing Unit, Civilian Personnel Section. short courses and conferences, has headed up the Missouri beginning She state publicity next September . Brent's home is in Columbia, is a member of the American Psychology Asso- for two major state fund-raising Missouri. ciation and several of its divisions. drives during the past six months . Harris served as, Harold State Publicity William J. Campbell, '376s, '39med, is a prac- Spain, '386a, is a research analyst for Chairman for the 1949 Oklahoma the U. S. Civil Service in Washington, March of Dimes and is now ticing physician in Amarillo, Texas. He and Mrs. D. C. completing his work Campbell have three children. John Robinson Browne, '386a, '39Law, is man- as State Publicity and Public Relations Chairman ager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company for the 1949 Oklahoma Cancer Samuel Ebb White, '37eng, is district produc- in Colo- Campaign. tion superintendent of the Seaboard rado Springs, Colorado. Basel Van Schuyver, '39ed, '47m .ed, and Mrs . Oil Company Van Schuyver, of Delaware . He was formerly employed with the Virginia Portwood, '38h .ec, is buyer for the the former Marie Hawkins, '46h.ec, Clothing Department of are visiting in Norman Barnsdall Oil Company. He and Mrs. White, the G. Harris and Company with her parents. Mr. Van former Ruth S. Morris, '376a, at Dallas, Texas. Schuyver is on leave from Michigan State Col- have four children . lege, They live in Midland, Texas. East Lansing, Michigan, where he teaches . Harry LeRoy Beckmann, '37eng, They have a daughter, Jan Marie. is a production Dr. Lillian geologist with the Humble Oil & Refining Company 15 Years Ago Harris Robinson, '396a, and her hus- in Midland, Texas. band, Dr. Earl Welch Robinson, '35-'38, are liv- Mary Conkling Stubbs, Jolson Hits ing in Enid, where both are practicing physicians. '37h.ec, is an assistant Movie Peak They dietitian at the University of Oklahoma, have three children, Earl, Jr., 5, Christine Norman . And At the University Ann, and Julia Horace L. Hensley, '37m.ed, returned to Nor- 2 1/2 Jean, 1. man Ruby Pearl Sites Skinner, '39h .ec, is home serv- recently from Stillwater to open a music store. "The president this year of the Women's Hensley has been counselor of the ice director at Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, Veterans Center Athletic Association at the University is Tulsa. at Oklahoma A. & M. College, Stillwater. Max Leon Moorhead, '376a, '38ma, is assistant Marion Priddy, '35phys.ed, a senior, and professor of history at O.U . He has held this po- perhaps the most versatile sportswoman -1940- sition since 1945 . Prior to assuming his duties here enrolled in school ." This tidy tid-bit of info Frank Plater, '406s, '40m .bus, is he was employed a certified by the H. J. Kaiser Corporation was featured in the Who's Who on the public accountant with offices in the Apco Tower, in Richmond, California. Campus section of the November 1934 is- Oklahoma City . He and Mrs. Plater are the parents Mrs . Frances Ranson Dunham, '37ma, has re- of two children . Their second son cently sold sue of Sooner Magazine . (Mrs. Priddy is a was born April 1 . a short story to Colliers' national maga- Glenn E. Hess, '40eng, and Mrs . Hess, the for- zine. She also sold a teacher poem to Atlantic Monthly . The in McAlester) . mer Jo Ellen Kennedy, '406a, have selected the poem appeared in the June issue. Mrs. Dunham Three Fine Sons: name Carolyn Rae for their is "Imagine how T. Jack daughter born May 16. an instructor in the University High School at They have two other children, Sara Ann, Norman . Foster, '29, must have felt this fall when 7, and Elizabeth Ellen, 2. They live in Oklahoma City. Duane W. Davis, and Dr. W. T. Mayfield, '18bs, '20med, came Mrs. Davis, the former Jim McNeese, '406a, '47Law, is employed by the Betty Jo Taylor, '37-'39, have chosen the name from a quiet room in the American Legion Continental Oil Company in Ponca Betty Ann City. He and for their daughter born June 3 . Their Hospital at Norman and announced : `Jack, Mrs. McNeese, the former Ruby Porter, '416s, are home is in Springfield, Ohio . the parents of three sons. Dorothy you're the proud father of three fine sons'." L. Sheldon, '37ma, is an instructor in The following information was supplied re- literature and writing at (This was not triplets, merely the third in the University of Minne- cently by the Foreign Service of the United States: sota, Minneapolis, Minnesota . a series.) "John Gibson Gossett, '406a, Officer Doris of the United Elizabeth Wolfe, '37h.ec, is teaching home Shorts : Announcement was made in Oc- States Foreign Service, has been transferred to Sao economics at senior high school, Edmond . tober of the selection of Maude Richman Paulo as Vice Consul from Bogota where he was Calvert, '20ms, to the Oklahoma Hall of Third Secretary and Vice Consul . He was com- -1938- missioned Fame. Richard Gurley, '32ba, '34Law, in the Foreign Service in March, 1947, George Miller, Jr., '386a, '38Law, and Mrs. Miller and after a few months' duty in the State Depart- have established a home in Oklahoma City. They Blackwell, made the highest grade when ment was assigned to Bogota . Mr. Gossett is a returned from Germany last October after almost ninety-eight persons took the state bar veteran of World War II, having served in the U. S. four years there. Miller served as a judge of the examination in July. Seventy of the group Army from 1942 to 1947 in the rank of captain, military government court in Munich, trying dis- passed the test. . . . John L. Beauchamp, both in this country and in the European theater of placed persons, Germans and U. S. civilians who operations . He is a native of Lawton, Oklahoma, '34Law, Tulsa was the second highest. violate the military government law and direc- a graduate of Grandfield High School, and of the tives. He has opened a private law office in Okla- Sports : Jim Blanton,'31ba,'31Law, Pauls University of Oklahoma where he received his homa City. Valley attorney, was a star third baseman A. B. degree in 1940 . He remained at the Uni- James William McColl, '386a, '38Law, is an on the Pauls Valley softball team that holds versity of Oklahoma for a year of graduate study. attorney with the Cities Service Oil Company in Mr . Gossett's the championship of McClain county. Mrs. address is: Milburn, Oklahoma ." Bartlesville . He is a member of the Washington Jack C. Owens, '40elec.eng, '47pet.eng, is em- County Bar Association and the Oklahoma State Jane Bowman Blanton, '30h.ec, was one of ployed by the Richardson-Bass Oil Company in Bar Association . the teams staunchest supporters . Kermit, Texas.

JUNE, 1949 19 Vernon Bryan Bottoms, '40eng, has been a dis- James J. Johnson, '41eng, has been transferred served on the staff of Oklahoma Boys' State trict engineer in with the Superior Oil Company for to the Oklahoma City Central division office of 1918 and 1949 . the past four years. Prior Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. lie was formerly Clark Hetherington, '42bus, and Mrs. Hether- to assuming his present stationed in Shreveport, Louisiana. ington, '43h .ec, announced the birth of a son, duties he was district en- Garland C. Council, '41, and Mrs. Council, the Steven Kent Hetherington, May 20, They have gineer for the Sinclair- former Barbara Jackson, '41ba, announced the another son, Billy, two years old . The Hethering- Prairie Oil Company for birth of their fourth daughter May 23 . The Councils tons live in Norman . 12 years. He was a meni- live in Norman . Virgil Lee Smith, '42eng, is district production her of the Knights of St . Mildred L. Lack Hayes, '41h.ec, is teaching in superintendent of the Sunray Oil Corporation in Patrick while attending the high school at Hobart . Wewoka . He is a member of the Chamber of Coni- University . At present he - merce and the American Petroleum Institute. Mrs. holds membership in the 1942- Selwyn S. Webber, '42ba, '48Law, recently an- Smith, the former Irene Irby, '42com.ed, was em- Texas Society of profession- nounced the opening of his offices lot- the general ployed as a secretary at Tinker Field in Oklahoma al Engineers and the Na- practice of law in Odessa, Texas. He is a member City . They have one child, a son, Stephen Dale tional Society of Profession- of the Texas and Oklahoma Bar Associations . Smith, two years old. V. R. BOTTOMS al Engineers. His wife, Paul Fielding, '42ba, '47Law, and Mrs. Fielding, A. M. Specht, '42eng, is a petroleum engineer Shirley E. Bottoms, the former Joanne Higdon, '47ba, announced the with the Atlantic Refining Company in Denver attend-edtheUniversity in1937-38. Theyhave one child, birth of a daughter May 24 in Tulsa. They have City, Texas. Brenda Bryan Bottoms, ten years old. They live in named the child Harriet Ann Fielding. Lourea B. Hickman, '42m .h .ec.ed, is a home- Midland, Texas. WATSON-O'DEA : Verlec Watson, Waurika, making co-ordinator at Tyler, Texas. O. T. McCall, '40bus, was the only member of and William A. O'Dea, '41-'42, Durant, were mar- Ruth G. Spencer, '42h .ec.ed, is teaching home the Norman City Commission who was re-elected ried recently . O'Dea received a degree from South- economics at Lawton . in the recent spring election . He and Mrs. McCall western State College, Durant . The couple has Gladys IL Davis, '421i.ec, '48ni.li.ec, is teaching arc the parents of a daughter born November 29, established a home in Durant . home economics at Poteau . Her daughter is a 1948 . They live in Norman . Jack A. Rhodes, '42ba, is assistant director of sophomore at the University . Eula Power Wallace, '40h .ec, is teaching )come the State Legislative Council in Oklahoma Citv. He - economics at Wayne. is secretary of the American Legislatures Commit- 1943'-- Charles Titus, Jr ., '43bus, '48nia, is an instructor Mary Lee Nelson, tee and American Political Science Association. He '40h .ec, is teaching home in the Department of Economics at the Universitv economics at Dover. of Maryland, College Park, Maryland . He has re- Carl Hayden Atchison, '40geol, is a geologist We Couldn't Be Bothered turned to the University of Oklahoma this summer with the Honolulu Oil Corporation in Midland, By Hitler and Company to do work on his doctor's degree . He plans to Texas. He was formerly associated with the Ryan resume teaching duties in Maryland this fall . Consolidated Petroleum Corporation and The Dr. Robert Wayne Griffin, '41-'43, graduated Texas Company. He holds membership in the 10 Years Ago from the School of Medicine at Western Reserve American Association of Petroleum Geologists and University, Cleveland, Ohio, on June 15 . the West Texas Geological Society. Richard Maurice Huff, '376a, '39Law, re- Mrs. Lavonia McArthur Leo, '436us, and Mr . ceived the highest grade in the July State Leo announced the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth -1941- Bar examinations . . . . Stewart Mark, '37ba, Lavonia, May 30 . Their home is in Seattle, Wash- ington . Walter Neustadt, Jr ., '41 ms, is a geologist with '39Law, Oklahoma City and Glenn R . Wat- Bill Kennedy, '48bs, and Mrs. Kennedy, the for- the Westheimer-Neustadt Oil Company in Ard-more. son, '39Law, Ada, tied for second. (Huff nier Florence Hammons, '43ba, announced the and Mark are attorneys in Oklahoma City. birth of a daughter, Florence Ann, born April 23 William Froug, Jr ., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Froug, Watson lives in Los Angeles, California). on her mother's birthday . Kennedy is employed at the former Betty Oppenheim, '40-'41, announced Marriages : Miss Mavis Ridge, '35, and L. O. Haninions Men's Store, Wewoka . the birth of a daughter May 29 . The child has been Wickliffe Skinner, '43bs, '48m.chem.eng, is em- named Susan Paul Wayne McCluskey, '35pharm, were Leslie Froug. ployed with the Technical Division of the Alumi- William 13e) ton Cooke, '41m.ed, is general agent married July 30 in Oklahoma City. Miss num Ore Company in East St . Louis, Illinois . for the Atlas Life Insurance Company in Amarillo, Particia Flynn of Oklahoma City and Joe Fletcher S. Crowe, Jr ., '43ba, '48eng, and Mrs. Texas. Ross, '36, were married July 16 at Sapulpa. Crowe, the former Marjorie C. Muchmore, '47ba, are living KENDRICKS-EMANUEL : Verna Kendricks, Miss Marie Louis Fritts, '38, and John Paul in Liverpool, New York . Crowe is em- Albany, and ployed by the General Electric Company as an Texas Norbit T. Emanuel, '35-'41, Remy, '38bus, were married August 6 in Wichita Falls, Texas, were married in May. They electrical engineer . They have two sons, Fletcher, have established a home in Wichita Falls, where Norman. 111, and Randel Allan. Emanuel is connected with the Warren Oil Com- Elmer Fraker, '20ba, '38ma, has left his W. IL Martin,'43eng, is an engineer with Dowell, pany . position as principal of Chickasha High Inc., at Brownfield, Texas. Mildred Mabel Hill Montford T. Johnson, Jr ., '4l-'42, is a rancher School Pope, '43h.ec, is teaching in order to become superintendent home economics in Amarillo, Texas. at Grange, Texas. of schools at Mangum . (He is now Depart- John Gray Street, '41-'43, and Mrs. Street, Okla- Everett Warren Sherman, '40-'47, and Mrs. ment Adjutant of the American Legion in homa City, have chosen the name Joseph Clay Sherman, have chosen the name Jerry Mike for Oklahoma City) . Street for their son born May 29. They have one their son born May 29 at Norman . '1 They live near other child, a daughter . Norman . Dr. Harvey A. Andruss, '24ba, formerly Rosemary Kneeland Walbert, '41-'43, and her and dean of instruction at George E. Saunders, '41eng, Mrs. Saunders, Bloomsburg State husband and daughter have moved to San Antonio, Riverdale, Maryland, have chosen the name Alan Teachers College, Bloomsburg, Pennsyl- Texas, where Mr . Walbert has accepted a position Roy Saunders for their son born May 18 . vania, has been named acting president of as legal counsel to Slick Airways, Inc. They former- and W. C. Moore, '41eng, Mrs. Moore announced the college and is reportedly slated to be- ly lived in Oklahoma City . the birth of a Winona F. is teaching home eco- daughter May 24 . They have named come president. (Report confirmed. Dr. Koch, '43h.ec, the child Carol Sue. The Moores live in Denver, nomics at Pauls Valley . Colorado . Andruss is currently president of that col- Louise H . Shanahan, '43h.ec, is teaching ]ionic Mayfield Jackson Huff, '40-'41, is practicing law lege). economics at Choctaw. in Midland, Texas. He is secretary-treasurer of the Hicks Epton, '32Law, Wewoka, was se- Marthelle E. Sullivan Merritt, '43h .ec, is teach- Midland Bar Association. He is a member of the lected to head the University of Oklahoma ing home economics at Lawton . Midland Chamber of Gwendolyn Chandler, '43h .ec, is teaching home Commerce and Jaycees. (Alumni) Association for the 1939-40 year. O'Pal Havely, '41, will have completed seven economics at Prague. years service in Civil Service in September. She is (Epton is currently practicing law in We- with the Adjutant General's Office at the Tinker woka and is still very much interested in -1944- Betty Sue Johnson Lassiter, '44soc .wk, is living in Air Force Base in Oklahoma City . the Association) . Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her husband,

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Charles B. Lassiter, is a captain in the U. S. Air former Jeanette Alexander, '45-'47, are now living Margaret Smallwood Stephens, '47h.ec, is a Force. They have one child, Charles Johnson Las- in Houston, Texas. They formerly resided in New graduate student siter, three at the University of Oklahoma, years old. Orleans, Louisiana . Reynolds is employed by the Norman . R. Neal Carter, '44bus, is employed in the ac- Humble Oil Company . counting office of General Mills, Inc., Southwestern -1948- DALE-MORROW : The wedding of Catherine Anna Louise Samples, '48h .ec, is a stenographer Division in Oklahoma City. Jeanet Dale, '47ba, Jones E. and Hal Pat Morrow, '48eng, in the purchasing office at the University. Her home Witcher, '44med, is a practicing physi- took place June 5 in Oklahoma cian in Amarillo, Texas. City. They are is in Norman . He and Mrs. Witcher have both from Oklahoma City. The couple has estab- two children, Jones Likely, 4, W. B. Kennedy, '486us, and Mrs. Kennedy, the and Virginia Lynn, 2. lished a home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alice M. Strong, '44h.ec, received a master of former Florence Hammons, '43ba, are the parents of Betty Lynn, '47fa, has returned a daughter born arts degree from the Teachers' College, Columbia to her home in April 23 . Kennedy is in the men's University, New York City, Norman for the summer months. She has been clothing business in Wewoka. June 1 . She expects teaching north to remain in school to complete some research . of Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Lila Ferne Escoe Parrish, '48mus .ed, is employed past nine months . by the Dick Virtue, '44ba, is head of the Life and Ac- Woodmansee-Abbott Music Company in cident and Health Department of the C. L. Frates Mary Lou Miller, '47fa, received a master of Oklahoma City . Warren J. King, & Company General Insurance in Oklahoma City. arts degree from the Teachers' College, Columbia '48ba, is working toward his He is president of the Oklahoma County Alumni University, New York City on June L Miss Miller master's degree at the University . He has been em- Club. is expected to return to her home in Norman ployed as a graduate assistant in English for the last two Jeff Hugh Davis, '44eng; is now living in Dallas, shortly. semesters. Texas. He formerly lived in Levelland, Texas. Charles E. Wright, '47eng, is employed in the John Giddings Richards, '44eng, is a petroleum engineering department of Oklahoma Gas & Elec- August graduates of the class of '48 engineer with The Texas Company in North Cow- tric Company, Oklahoma City . should mail their Association Dues to the den, Texas. He and Mrs. Richards are the parents PARRISH-LAWS : Nancy Lee Parrish, Norman, University of Oklahoma (Alumni) Asso- of two children, Elizabeth, 2 1/2 and Gertrude Gid- and Samuel L. Laws, '47ba, Oklahoma City, were ciation before September 1, 1949, for contin- dings Richards, 3 months. married May 12 in Norman . Mrs. Laws is a stu- uous membership in the Association. dent in the University. Laws is associated with an Membership which was paid with matric- '-'1945 Oklahoma City department store. ulation fees expires with the July issue of HELLAR-IHRIG : Peggy Jean Hellar, '456a, Dr. B. Ogden Young, '47med, SOONER MAGAZINE . Membership Oklahoma has completed a City, and Howard Kenneth Ihrig, '476s, year's training as Resident in Medicine at the Uni- dues for one year is $3. McAlester, were married June 3 in St. Paul's Epis- versity Hospitals, Oklahoma City and copal has accepted cathedral, Oklahoma City. Mrs. Ihrig was an appointment to the house staff at Olive View Claude Cluck, formerly employed as '486us, is an accountant with stewardess with Trans- Sanatorium, Olive View, California. His duties be- General Mills, Inc ., Oklahoma World airlines and was a faculty City. member of Brock gan July 1. Glenda Lou Clayton, '486us, is employed with Park school in Oklahoma City. Ihrig is attending Howard Paul Foltz, '47ba, is the service de- the University General Mills, Inc., in Oklahoma City. School of Medicine . The couple is partment manager with the North American Ac- CURRIE-AUGHTRY: at home in Oklahoma City. Barbara Currie, '486s, and cident Insurance Company in Oklahoma City. He Charles Edward Aughtry, '49, both of Oklahoma Fredericka Dale, '45h.ec, is a dietitian at the is a member of the junior Chamber of Commerce, State Capitol, City, were married June 4 in St. Luke's Methodist Oklahoma City. the Knights of Columbus and Eta Sigma, law Church in Oklahoma Ruth G. Snoddy, City. Mrs . Aughtry is an '45m.h.ec, is teaching home fraternity. interne at St. Anthony Hospital . Aughtry economics at the University of is a stu- Oklahoma, Norman . Clay Courter, '47eng, is an engineer with Dowell, dent at the University . They have established a Inc., at Levelland, Texas. home in Norman . ~1946- Treva Joyce Lynn Henry, Jr ., '47h .ec, is teach- Russell V. Johnson, Jr ., '48geol, Leila B. Nagel, '46h.ec, is a dietitian is a junior geolo- at Valley ing sixth grade at American Elementary School in gist with the Mack Oil Company in Duncan. View Hospital, Ada. Yokohama, Japan. Field Walter F. Blair, '486us, '49m .bus, has accepted Duskin, '466us, is employed in the ac- Mary Anne Currie Nichols, '47h teaching counting office of .ec, is a position as accounting job analyst with the Shell General Mills, Inc., Southwestern at Oklahoma City . Oil Division, in Oklahoma City. Company in Midland, Texas. Nannie Flo Allen, '466a, received a master's degree in speech June 6. She has been teaching at Franklin Junior High School in Oklahoma City since September, 1948 and will continue to teach there next year. KING-HALL: Mrs. Billie Jean Leatherman King, formerly of Oklahoma City, and Cleveland C. Hall, '46bs, Oklahoma City, were married May 14 in the First Christian Church of Oklahoma City. Martha Wilma Edwards, '46h.ec, is teaching home economics at Monticello, Arkansas . Mary Alice Fisher, '46h .ec, is teaching home economics at Noble. TO Nettie Berneice Holsted Gunn, '46ec, is teaching home economics at Mountain View. GUARANTEE Virginia Lee Jones, '46h.ec, i~teaching home economics in Santa Barbara High School at Santa FRESHNESS Barbara, California. __ Betty June Means, '46h .ec; is teaching home ;...... economics at Stigler .

- 1947- R. A. Stephenson and Mrs. Stephenson, the. former Patty Shattuck, '47fa, are living in Carmel, California. They have a fivc-month-old son, Robert Craig Stephenson. Billie McKinnon Daugherty, '47fa, has been appointed a clerical secretary in the Reading Clinic at O.U. Fred S. Reynolds, '47eng, and his wife, the

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Eugene D. Rosen, '48eng, is now employed with Wayne Copeland Montgomery, '48eng, is a sales the Industrial Engineering Division of the Naval engineer with the Aluminum Company of America Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Maryland . in Cleveland, Ohio . Roy Edd Trout, '48, is a stenographer for the Talford Graham, '48chem, received his master's Sohio Oil Company in Oklahoma City . He was degree in chemical engineering at the University in formerly a clerk for the General Electric Company. the June ceremonies . He has been employed its a MORGAN-McMURRAY : Barbara June Morgan, graduate assistant, nn Alcoa Research Fellow and '486us, Oklahoma became the bride of Rich- City, it counselor. lie formerly worked for the Tennessee ard Dayton MCMurray, Oklahoma City, in a ccrc- Eastman Corporation at Kingsport, Tennessee. mony performed June 1 in the First Methodist Church . McMurray is a student at the University . Gilbert L. Tierce, Jr ., '486us, is employed with They have established a home in Oklahoma City. the Arkansas Natural Gas Company in Shreveport, FOX-HASSLER: Dorothy Fox, '48ed, Harviell, Louisiana. Missouri, and Ray Hassler, '43ba, Norman, were James W. Bawcom, a senior in mechanical en- married May 28 in Memphis, Tennessee. Mrs. gineering at O.U ., and Mrs. Bawcom, the former Hassler has been teaching school at Harviell . Hassler Jean Hansen, '48ba, are living in Oklahoma City . is an accountant with the Southwestern Bell Tele- They arc the parents of one child, Kenneth Jean phone Company in Oklahoma City . The couple Bawcom, born November 13, 1948 . has established a home in Oklahoma City . Glenn F. Welch, '48eng, is with the Soil Con- servation Service in Shawnee. Capt . Bruce L. Kates, '48ba, interviews Jacqueline Charles F. Zalabak, '486s, is employed by the Cochran bran, famedaviatrix, as she en rives ire Wies-baden, Germany, for a tour of theBerlin Air National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics in 314 E. Comanche, Norman Cleveland, Ohio . lift bases. Miss Cochran is gathering material George D. Bischoff, '48ba, has been employed for several articles. Captain Kates is with the Clyde Black Dodge Motor Co. in the purchasing department of the Ralston Purina U. s. Air Force. Company in St . Louis, Missouri, since last De- Dale Russell Weston, '48eng, is an instrument Phone 228 cember . engineer with the Phillips Petroleum Company in 4` Phillips, Texas . I He served live )ears in the Signal Corps. Katherine \b'. Nunnally, '48h.ec, is teaching CAMPUS SAM home economics at Schenectady, New York . J . Wiley Richardson I Hal Fry, '48ba, is assistant manager of Cedarville Resort near Din is . FLOWERS AND GIFTS Don C. Phelps, '48bs, '49Law, has joined the 107 N. Peters, Norman Haw firm of Douglass, Delis and Spradling of Okla- phoneWhere Friends Meet CAMPUS Phone 1500 homa City . Sylvanus G. Felix, '36bs, '39Law, and 2 1 7 a K N corner John T. Spradling, '41ba, '4`/Law, are Oklahoma University graduates. Margie Ro McDonald, '48h.ec, is a dietetic interne at Stanford University Hospital, DietaryDe-partment, SanFrancisco, California.

Geneva Lee Brown, '48h.ec, is teaching at Lind- sat y. Mary Elizabeth Kloos, '48m.h.ec, is head Of the home economics department at lust Central State We're Not Teachers College, Ada. Doris Louise Barney, 48h.ec, is assistant hone demonstration agent at Norman . Making Speeches-- - 1949 - A . M. Dinges, '496u,, is employed by Woodrow Hulme, '40bus, a certified public accountant in Ard- more. binges was initiated into Beta Gamma Sig- ma and is a member of the Optimist Club . He and Mrs. Dinges, the former Jerry Leeman, '44, are the But We're Wishing parents of one child, Madeleine, two \cars old . Charles Ned Hockman, '49ed, is a motion pic- ture producer at Ill(, Extension Division of the Uni- You Teachers \crsit\. While a student at the University Hockman A Great Success! was a photographer and an announcer on the Univer- sity radios station. WNAD . During the war he served with the First Motion Pic- ture- Unit, flit] Roach Stu- diOS in Culver City, Cali- fornia for one .\car. He Norman Hardware served two years with the 10th Combat Camera Unit LEONARD BUCHER, Manager in India, Burma and the C:. N. HOCKMANChina Theater of Opera- tion . He and Mrs. Hock- 228 E. Main Phone 188 man are the parents of one child, Shiree Dane Hockman, two years old . GRAY-MILLS : Dorothy Frances Gray, '49ba, Oklahoma City, and Warner Everett Mills, Jr .,

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Houston, Texas, were married June I1 in the First Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City. The couple took an extended wedding trip through North- INSURANCE western states and Canada . They are at home in Houston. King G. Price Agency CAYLOR-JOHNSON : Nila Jean Caylor, '496s, 118 N. Peters Norman Norman, became the bride of Zane Quentin Johnston, '47eng, Port Arthur, Texas, June 4 in L Norman . The couple has established a home in Port Arthur. Mrs. Johnson is on the faculty at Robert E. Lee elementary school in Port Arthur . LINDSAY DRUG STORE James S. Downing - The Druggist Hal Muldrow, Whitman's and Pangburn's Candies '28 President Speaks PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY Insurance of all Kinds 116 E. Main ...Norman... Phone 362 Bonds The general objective of the research is to pro- greater Security National Bank Bldg . Norman cure information which may lead to a production of fishes in all Oklahoma lakes and which may be applied even to obtain a greater BUILDING MATERIALS yield in farm fish ponds. The entire project is, of Of All Kinds course, educational and one of the most important CALL benefits will be the training and education of young men to carry out Oklahoma's wildlife research and Long-Bell Lumber Co. MORTON'S CONOCO management programs in the years ahead. 227 W. Main Norman Phone 51 STATION When the laboratory is completed the program can, of course, be expanded greatly, for it will be possible then to have research equipment and per- Lubricating, Washing, Polishing, on the shore of the lake which is available Steam Cleaning, Batteries, Tires, sonnel Tire Repairing, battery charging. now only on the Norman campus . Looking to the future, many problems are being Welcome Located at 332 E. Main lined up for investigation. Some of our biologists interested in human parasites, especially those New Sooners-- NORMAN which transmit malaria, are planning studies of and get acquainted . Let us help malaria at the Lake Texoma area with reference Drop in you solve your financial problems . Phone 3084 to hazards to fishermen and methods of control of malarial outbreaks. Other of our scientists are interested in the com- FIRST NATIONAL BANK possibility of using rough fish . Some work mercial Phil C. Kidd, President has already been clone in methods of using rough NORMAN, OKLAHOMA AN OKLAHOMA U. RING fish for table use-fresh, canned, pickled, smoked and dried. Other studies involve the use of rough fish such as shall, carp, gar, cts., as fertilizer, as fish The Symbol iv of a meal for stock food and even as food for pets . Enough information is now available to indicate Manufacture that rough fish in Lake Texoma might provide the "We basis for a small industrial development and such development would, of course, he favorable to Okla- Cleanliness" homa fishermen, for the taking of the rough fish from our lakes would make it possible for the game Wet Wash - Rough Dry fish to develop in greater abundance. Flat Finish Another project that will receive attention is the effects of climatic factors such as wind direction, NORMAN barometric pressure, humidity, moon phases, etc., on fishing. That such climatic factors (to affect the success of fishermen is rather generally admitted, STEAM LAUNDRY but very little is known as to why and how these Wear always the distinctive ring which factors exert their effects. tells the world you are proud of your college, proud of your class-with your class The information obtained from the investigations year on the sides and school name encirc- now being conducted and planned for the future RAY REED CANDY CO. ling the stone. on Lake Texoma will be made available to the pub- STONES AVAILABLE lic in various ways-through publication in scien- Onyx (black)-Sardonyx (red) tific journals ; through publications of bulletins and Ray Reed, Owner Synthetic Ruby (red)-Synthetic Sapphire (blue) pamphlets for distribution to those interested ; and Topaz (yellow)-Amethyst (purple) by the conduction of short courses on lake man- Tourmaline (green) agement, especially short courses on farm pond Massive 10K gold $48.00* Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco management . When the new laboratory is com- Standard 10K gold $36.00* facilities on the shore of the lake will be Ladies 10K miniature $29.50* pleted, Mints and Gum available for these short courses. "Plus 20% federal tax State name of school, finger It is conceivable that the development of the new size, class year, stone desired. Biological Laboratory on the shores of Lake Tex- Telephone 512 oma may be one of the most far reaching and sig- COLLEGE SEAL and CREST CO. nificant educational developments in recent years. Certainly the project illustrates how a generous 236A Broadway, Cambridge 39, Mass . 231 E . Symmes Norman I Manufacturers of College Jewelry Since 1875 gift supplemented by State funds can lead to benefits far beyond those anticipated by the giver. J,

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