The Class of 1959 Memory Book In 1959 at TU:

President of the University: TU Royalty: Dr. Ben Graf Henneke Kaye Duncan Engineers Queen Chancellor: Clarence I. Pontius Lucy Hyneman ROTC Honorary Cadet Colonel The deans of the Colleges: Freda Chandler Band Queen College of Petroleum Science and Engineering Sandra Pugh Football Queen Dean R.L. Langenheim Pam Smith Basketball Queen

College of Liberal Arts Out and about on campus: Dean Donald E. Hayden Inauguration of new president, Ben Graf Henneke College of Music The dedication of the North Campus Dean Robert L. Briggs The opening of Sharp Chapel College of Business Administration The opening of McClure Administration building Dean M.M. Hargrove First attempt at pre-enrollment Graduate School Dean W. V. Holloway Events of 1959 • Average yearly wages: $5,010.00 School of Law • Average cost of a new house: $12,400.00 Dean Allen King • Average cost of a new car: $2,200.00 Evening Division • Average cost of a gallon of gas: 25 cents Dean Andrew Springfield • Ladies stockings: $1.00 • Mattel’s Barbie Doll is launched Student Council: • Alaska and Hawaii become respectively the President Don McCrary 49th and 50th states of the United States Vice-President Herb Tragethorn • The St. Lawrence Seaway, a joint US/ Coed Vice-President Theda Doughtery Canadian venture, is completed linking the Secretary Kaye Duncan Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean Treasurer Charles Stewart • NASA introduces the first astronauts, John Glenn and Alan Shepard, to the world Kendallabrum Beauty Queens: • The first known human with HIV dies in the Val Ann Watson Independent Students Assoc. Congo Peggy Russell Kappa Alpha Theta • Boeing 707 Jet Airliner comes into service, Sandra Pugh Kappa Alpha Theta cutting eight hours from a transatlantic flight Janie Parker Delta Gamma • Xerox launches the first commercial copier Sandra Costello Kappa Alpha Theta • The Grammy Music Awards started Cynthia Sellers Kappa Kappa Gamma

1959 John A. Bailey 7705 South Gary Place • Tulsa, OK 74136 918-494-5609 [email protected] MS Petroleum Engineering Q Employment: I worked from 1958-1961 for Shell Please share what you have been up to for the Oil Co; 1961-1969, Sinclair Oil and Gas Co.; and past 50 years: I worked for 6 years as a petroleum then, from1969 to the present, The University of engineer followed by 45 years computer software Tulsa. design and management. I have traveled the world promoting Petroleum Abstracts. I was a user group Leisure time activities: I enjoy computers. technical director for a major computer vendor, an advisory board member for Tulsa Undergraduate What or who are you most looking forward to Research Challenge, and cofounder and member of seeing at your reunion? I’m hoping to see any of T&# 364, “Table of Knowledge”. the PE graduate students from 1957-1958.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? As an employee for 40 years!!

1959 Gary Stiers Baker 3115 Burningtree Mountain Road • Decatur, Al 35603 256-353-6783 [email protected] BS Marketing

Spouse: Rita Rosser Baker BA ’59 Boeing in Huntsville, Alabama. I retired as associate Spouse’s current job/activities: Rita is a contract integration manager for the space station civic leader and board member of every nonprofit in June 1994. From 1994-1995, I was with Lora in organization you can name. Chantilly, Virginia. From 1995-2004, I was with Camber in Huntsville, Alabama. From 2005-2007, I Family: Terri Baker McMahan, our oldest daughter worked for 3Dsolve in Cary, North Carolina on the and graduate of OU lives in Altus, , with Board of Advisors; and from 2007 to present, I work her husband, Kyle, and her two daughters: Megan, with Lockheed Martin in a part-time role as senior who has graduated from OU and is now in OU advisor for new business in Cary, North Carolina. Medical School; and Ally, who is a junior at OU and planning to be a dentist. Terri is the head PT for the Leisure time activities: I enjoy general aviation Altus City Schools. flying, expanding my aviation library which now exceeds 2,000 volumes and includes hundreds of Sharrill Baker Hemry, our other daughter and pictures and lithographs, golf, golf ball logos, (over graduate of OU lives in Owings Mills, 2,500 in that collection), travel, I am a certified BBQ Maryland, with her husband, John; and three judge for Kansas City Barbeque Society, Rotary and children, Carolyn, Jack and James. Sharrill is a retired still enjoy good bourbon. Commander from the U.S. Navy and works as an intelligence analyst for the government. What or who are you most looking forward to seeing? I’m hoping to see former Sigma Chi Kendall Rosser Baker, our only son and graduate of brothers and other familiar faces. the University of Texas/Arlington with four degrees, lives in Mansfield, Texas, and is a Please share what you’ve been up to for the confirmed bachelor. He works for past 50 years: I’ll think of a whole bunch right Johnson & Johnson as a software program manager. after I send this in. I traveled the world and even got to Antarctica three times. I survived several tours to Employment: From 1959-1980, I was in the United Vietnam. I was promoted to Colonel in the USAF. I States Air Force. I retired as chief pilot for Military had a successful business career in the civilian world. Airlift Command in October 1980. From 1967-68, I I maintained a five or less golf handicap for nearly was in Saigon, S. Vietnam as advisor pilot to the S. 40 years (just a memory now). I’ve been an active Vietnam AF. From 1976-1977, I was a C-5 Squadron Rotarian for a number of years, and finally, thanks to Commander, 56 MAS and C-141 Squadron an incredible wife who raised our three children as I Commander, 57 MAS both at Altus AFB, Oklahoma. was gone for nearly half the time, I have been blessed From 1980-83, I was with Boeing in Seattle. From with a 52-year marriage. Since I met her at TU, the 1983-1986, I worked with American Airlines in university gets the credit for my lifelong good fortune. Dallas/Ft. Worth. From 1986-1994, I worked for

1959 Rita Rosser Baker 3115 Burningtree Mountain Road SE • Decatur, AL 35603 256 353-6783 [email protected] BA Education Q Spouse: Gary BS ’59 graders, presenting (in costume) a tree conservation Spouse’s current job/activities: Retired (kind of) program, a Reading Rotarian with a second grader, coordinate the Volunteer Ushers for the Professional Family: After a career of being an Air Force pilot’s Series at the Princess Theatre, webmaster for four wife and moving way too many times, living in the organizations and publish annual directories for same house for 23 years has been great. We have three. I have received an American Red Cross 25 three children and five grandchildren, two of whom Year Volunteer Pin and have been the recipient of are at OU and OU med school. an award for Outstanding Chamber of Commerce Commodore in 1998, the Outstanding Volunteer Employment: I have been a teacher, a model, Award in 2003 and the Chamber of Commerce a salesperson, an office manager and a campaign Citizen of the Year Award in 2005. coordinator.

Leisure time activities: Golf, gardening, computer, volunteering — what leisure time?

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion? The campus has changed so much since we were there — just hope we can find some familiar sites and faces.

Please share what you have been up to for the past 50 years: I have pretty much been a full- time volunteer for a number of local nonprofits, past president of a number of organizations, chaired several golf tournaments each year including a four- day men’s tournament which attracts low handicap players from across the U.S. and several countries and have served on the Alabama Women’s Golf Association board. I am currently on the boards of United Way of Morgan County, Volunteer Center of Morgan County, Princess Theatre for Performing Arts, Hospice of the Valley Foundation, Burningtree Women’s Golf Association, Morgan County Master Gardeners and the Spirit of America Golf Classic. I’m The Tree Lady for area kindergarten and first

1959 Judge William R. “Bill” Beasley Box 1555 Claremore, OK 74018 918-342-2400

BS Marketing, JD ‘67

Spouse: Donna Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Donna is a memories: I enjoyed classes with Dean Hargrove homemaker. and Professor Howell.

Employment: From 1968 to 1973, I was an Please share what you have been up to for assistant district attorney. I retired in 2000 after the past 50 years: Enjoying life and my family and serving as a judge in the State of Oklahoma District serving the community. I am listed in Who’s Who in Court for 27 years. America and Who’s Who in Law.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy duplicate bridge.

1959 Ray F. Biery 10022 South Braden Avenue • Tulsa, OK 74137 918-299-9766 [email protected] BS Business Administration

Spouse’s name: Marilyn Jones and Russell Realtors, then as a self-employed Spouse’s job/activities: Marilyn is a homemaker. commercial broker. I was a partner of Lincoln Property Company of America and finally as a Family: We have two children, Brenda A. Harwood partner at Winbury Group of Oklahoma. All of these and Brett A. Biery. Our grandchildren are Linda organizations are involved in real estate development. Biery and Barrett Biery. Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf, fishing and Employment: I work at Winbury Group of hunting. Oklahoma, a real estate development company. Upon discharge from the US Air Force, I worked at Hughes

1959 Barbara Blaine 9222 Trentham Lane • Louisville, KY 40242 502-425-6824 [email protected] BA Commercial Art and Education

Spouse: Kent Blaine Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Kent is a retired memories: I remember all the great art classes with administrative law judge. Brad Place and Alexandre Hogue, students art league etc. Family: We have two sons: Steve, his wife, Diana, and their son, Brennan; and son, Mike, wife, Becky Please share what you have been up to for the and son, Miles. past 50 years: My classes for LUAA were featured on the KET television program Louisville Life, and Employment: I was an art teacher in the Tulsa also in the magazine section of the Courier Journal. Public Schools and taught studio classes in Philbrook Art Center. I am currently an art teacher for the Louisville Visual Art Association teaching after school art classes for talented students. I also substitute teach in the Louisville Catholic Schools.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy playing the violin with the KLING Chamber Orchestra and the Harvey Browne Presbyterian Church Orchestra.

1959 Ronald W. “Ron” Blair 3016 Wilton Lane • Oklahoma City OK 73120 405-842-4732 [email protected] BA Marketing

Spouse: Jeanne Employment history: I am retired. I worked from Spouse’s current job/activities: Retired. 1959 – 1981 at William Volker and Company as a sales manager, and from 1981 – 2000 at Interstate Family: We have one daughter and one Supply as a manager. granddaughter. Leisure time activities: I volunteer with SCORE. I also enjoy playing golf and bridge.

1959 Johnnie H. Cherblanc 4744 South 66th East Avenue • Tulsa, OK 74145 918-665-8938 [email protected] BA Speech

Spouse: Judie BA ’59 Sociology How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: Volunteer graduation? I was employed at TU for 16 years, a season ticket holder for both football and basketball Family: We have two children, Jeff Cherblanc and and attended bowl games and tournament games. Joyce Cherblanc Please share what you have been up to for Employment: I am currently Vice President the past 50 years: I refereed the first-ever football Prudential Detrick Realty. I was employed from 1959 games in the Soviet Union, directed musicals, to 1965 with KTUL TV, from 1965 to 1972 with performed in plays and musicals. I was the past Blue Cross and Blue Shield, from 1972 to 1979 with president Tulsa Jaycees, past president Tulsa Central U.S. Senator Dewey Bartlett, from 1979 to 1995 with Rotary, was inducted into the Oklahoma Officiating The University of Tulsa and from 1995 to present Hall of Fame, was inducted into the Tulsa Central with Prudential. High School Hal of Fame, director of the Boston Avenue Methodist Television Ministries and traveled Leisure time activities: I have been a member the state making speeches. of Jaycee’s, Rotary, refereed football and basketball, umpired Division I baseball and was a past president of the Camp Fire Board.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed being a head cheerleader, joining Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, KWGS FM, Ben Henneke, Ed Dumit, the walkout when we beat Oklahoma A&M, plays and Varsity Night.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? Everyone, renew old friendships.

1959 Judie Johanson Cherblanc 4744 South 66th East Avenue Tulsa, OK 74145 BA Sociology, minors Psychology and Education

Spouse: Johnnie Cherblanc BA ’59 Have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: Johnnie is the graduation? I was a TU athletics office employee, Vice President Prudential Detrick Realty. football and basketball season ticket holder, and I have attended bowl games and basketball Family: We have one son, Jeff Cherblanc and one tournaments. I’ve also been active with the Tri Delta daughter, Joyce Cherblanc. house corporation as president.

Employment history: I taught kindergarten Please share what you have been up to for for three years. I was the ticket manager for the the past 50 years: Johnnie and I celebrated our Oklahoma Outlaws professional football team. I Golden Wedding Anniversary in August 2008. We worked at the ticket office for TU athletics, and I had a “Reunion of Friends” open house including old worked at the Camp Fire Girls’ store. and new friends from , TU, Tri Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Boston Avenue United Leisure time activities: I enjoy playing bridge, Methodist Church, Tulsa and Oklahoma Jaycees and knitting, cooking and baking, crafts, gardening, Jaycee Ettes, Cerebral Palsy Association, Red Glove organizing, sewing baby items for The Stork’s Nest. Revue, Republican politics, real estate, Camp Fire I am active at many levels at Boston Avenue United Girls, Valley View Home and Community Education, Methodist Church, Roundtable Class, History and Johnnie’s football and basketball officiating, song Archives, United Methodist Women and PM Circle. I and dance theater and friends from 70+ years of a am also active in Oklahoma Home and Community wonderful life. Education and Republican politics.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I transferred back to TU from Colorado University after three years. It was great being accepted by my Delta Delta Delta sorority sisters and friends in Lottie Jane dorm.

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion: I am looking forward to seeing Tri Delta sorority sisters and many fellow classmates.

1959 Charlene Happel Chesshir 5025 Cascade Drive • Corpus Christi, TX 78413 361-991-9161 [email protected] BS Religion

Spouse: John B. Chesshir Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: John is a retired memories: I enjoyed dorm life, Kappa Alpha CPA. Theta, religion and philosophy classes with Paul Brown and Grady Snuggs. I also enjoyed being an Family: We have four children and seven RA at Lottie Jane with Mrs. Whitmore helping to grandchildren. “control” panty raids.

Employment: I am currently retired, but I have been an elementary school teacher and drug counselor.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy my grandchildren, tennis, working out, travel, church projects, adult literacy and art museums.

1959 Frances Cox Conkling P.O. Box 105 • Green Village, NJ 07935 (973) 377-0298 [email protected] BS Business Administration

Spouse: William C. Conkling (deceased, March 27, Please share what you have been up for the 2009) past 50 years: I worked in contract carpet, fabric, and furniture sales in New York where I lived with my Employment: I am retired. husband until retirement in 1996. We took advantage of all that New York has to offer and spent vacations Leisure time activities: I travel and spend a lot of traveling. time in New York enjoying the arts. I also volunteer at church and work for fund raisers at my area’s volunteer fire department.

Have you been involved with TU since graduation? I attended the 25th Reunion, and have donated each year to the Annual Fund since 1987.

1959 Charles E. Cook 85 Sugar Creek • Waco, TX 76712 254-399-8668 [email protected] BS Geophysics

Spouse: Dodie Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Dodie is a memories: I was president of the engineers’ club, housewife. I enjoyed Dr. Hugh Zanor and other geophysics students, Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, President Ben Family: We have three children and five Henneke, Dean Langenheim and Mr. Carter. There grandchildren. were lots of veterans attending TU on the GI bill at that time. I lived in Veteran Village with my wife and Employment: I am currently retired. I worked two children. for Mobil Oil for three years, Hercules Inc. for nine years, Chemical Lime for 29 years and Southern Lime for three years.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf and travel.

1959 S. E. “Ed” Daniel 4137 East 63rd Street • Tulsa OK 74136 918-492-4572 [email protected] BS Accounting and Management

Spouse: Betty Daniel Leisure time activities: I am a collector of old Spouse’s current job/activities: She is a cars and muscle cars. I also enjoy church work. homemaker. Please share some of your favorite TU Family: We have three sons, Phil Daniel (BS ’82), memories: I enjoyed Paul Graber and Cliff Hutton Gary Daniel and Ron Daniel. We also have three as professors. grandchildren. Please share what you have been up to for Employment: I am a self-employed tax consultant the past 50 years: I survived both a heart attack in at S. E. Daniel and Co. I am also the owner of 1994 and cancer in 1999. Majestic Homes (custom builder of fine homes) with 45 years experience. I spent 48 years with PSO and its subsidiaries.

1959 Lynette Bennett Danskin 4160 East 47th Street • Tulsa, OK 74135 918-712-9085 [email protected] BA English Literature

Spouse: Rev. Dr. Warren Danskin up. This summer we served as enrichment leaders Spouse’s current job/activities: My husband at Project Transformation, a literacy day camp for is a retired United Methodist minister. He has children. I work with the Junior League Sustainers, served churches in , Rio de Janeiro, Chi Omega alumni, SAI alumni and PEO. , and London. He also worked as a NBC Broadcaster in New York City, and he speaks Please share some of your favorite TU Portuguese and Spanish. memories: As head cheerleader, I loved the excitement of pre-homecoming night with students Employment: I am currently a professional actor/ creatively decorating the lodges and houses on singer/dancer making films and commercials, and sorority/fraternity rows and the dorms. The writing one-woman shows such as , Spirit cheerleaders ran along gathering everybody, with the of American, His Wife’s Story, an official project of group growing larger and larger until we reached the the Oklahoma Centennial. My husband, Warren, huge bonfire where we cheered on the team. The and I have a commercial running for Urban Financial Hestwood Modern Choir was good training for show Group, and I have one running for Hard Rock. business. The campus newspaper was memorable for They’re both regional commercials and may go several reasons. A favorite was my brother, Dr. Bill national. We’re both in a film that runs on Lifetime TV Bennett’s, weekly article “Uncle Willy Says.” I was each December entitled The Christmas Child. I’ve just honored to be voted Varsity Nite Queen. finished the film The Gray Man and recorded CDs Dynamic professors were my English Literature Lynette Sings Christmas! and Lynette Sings Broadway! professor and advisor, Dr. Donald Hayden, Literary I’ve played on Broadway with in Criticism Professor Dr. Manly Johnson, and Dr. Z Funny Girl, with David Hartman in The Yearling, in for zoology, Mr. Eikenberry for Shakespeare, Boyd the National Company of Once Upon A Mattress with Ringo and Arthur Hestwood for piano and voice Imogene Coca and in London’s West End as reporter respectively. What an exceptional group! Mary Sunshine in Chicago. I’ve played the lead in musicals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Please share what you have been up to for Fisher Hall and . Off-Broadway, the past 50 years: I love to travel, have lived in I’ve played leading roles in Gigi and The Lion In London for eight years and visited 50 countries. I Winter. I’ve been in TV’s daytime dramas One Life to developed a program “Bloom Where You’re Planted” Live and As The World Turns. My former pianist and to help Americans living abroad with cross-culture arranger was with whom I cut a demo adaptation. I’ve served as director of music in record. In the film, The Woman Chaser, which played Warren’s churches in New York City and Los Angeles. the New York and SunDance Film Festivals, I play the Warren and I are directors of Travel Ministry mom of Patrick Warburton (Puddy from Seinfeld). for Educational Opportunities, a Christian travel company. Currently, I’m writing a memoir about my Leisure time activities: Warren and I are active at first years in show business in New York City, in other Boston Avenue United Methodist church where I grew words, life after graduation from TU! 1959 Charles Jerry Fillebrown P.O. Box 1010 • Anna, TX 75409 972-924-4467 [email protected] BS Geophysics, MS ’60 Geophysics

Spouse: Sue Please share what you have been up to for the Spouse’s job/activities: Sue is retired. past 50 years: I have done exploration in the U.S., South America, Ethiopia, Laos, and the North Sea. Family: We have four children, ten grandchildren, In doing so, Sue and I have visited over 250 cities and two great-grandchildren. in over 40 countries. Our biggest travel adventure was a 47-day trip in a Volkswagen bus going from Employment: I retired in 1994 after many years London to Izmir, Turkey through Western Europe as an exploration geophysicist and manager in the and returning to London through Eastern Europe in petroleum industry. 1973 with four children under the age of 12. In more recent times, we’ve toured the four corners of the Leisure time activities: My leisure time is U.S., Russia, Turkey, and Thailand, among others. consumed by working on family history and genealogy. We still snow ski occasionally and like to travel.

1959 Alfred C. Frampton III 8 Westwind Drive • Sand Springs, OK 74063 918-865-3601 BS Geology

Spouse: Monika Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Monika is memories: They are too varied and extensive to list. retired. Please share what you have been up for the Family: We have eleven children, 20 grandchildren past 50 years: Too many, too varied and too and three great grandchildren. extensive to mention.

Employment: Varied and extensive. I am currently retired.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf, tennis, hiking, travel, gardening, boating, walking, skiing, running, biking and napping.

1959 Lynn Geyer 300 Trail Ridge • Silver City, NM 88061 (575)538-2341 [email protected] BA Commercial Design

Spouse: Suzanne Please share what you have been up to for Spouse’s current job/activities: Sue is a retired the past 50 years: I have been on the Citizens’ RN. Review Board, Planning and Zoning Commission, Incentive Review Committee, toured the wine regions Family: We have five children, four boys and one of France and Italy while working with Brown- girl, 14 grandchildren, seven boys and seven girls. Forman Distillers, traveled to several U.S. and foreign Air Bases on special VIP Tours with the Arizona Employment: I was in the US Air Force and Air National Guard and took part in air refueling worked at Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. I was also operations. Now that I have retired, I am going to the CEO of Azalea Corp. I have been an auctioneer enjoy the surrounding 3.3 million acres of the Gila appraiser consultant and a small business owner — National Forest and Wilderness Gila Windows (Marvin Window Dealer).

Leisure time activities: I collect western art, books on western and southwestern history, antiques and collectibles. I enjoy travel and gaming. I played in the final event of the 2007 World Series of Poker.

1959 Theonie Kollias Gilmore 24242 SW Gage Road • Wilsonville, OR 97070 503-638-6933 [email protected] BA Music

Spouse: William L. Gilmore BA ’48, MS ’53 I have been involved in the arts since I left TU, first as (deceased) a music school teacher, and then as a community arts administrator. I believe in community development Family: I have three daughters in their 40s, a through the arts and have spent my life focused on grandson that just graduated from high school, and a this. granddaughter who is a sophomore this year. How have you been involved with TU Employment: I was the CEO of the Wilsonville since graduation? No. It would be fun to be at Arts & Culture Council, the third of three arts Homecoming, but money’s a problem. Let me know organizations I’ve cofounded. The first was the if you hear of bargain airplane flights from Portland, Center for Endangered Arts: MUSIC. In 2007-08, Oregon. I received the “Wilsonville Citizen of the Year”. I was a public school music teacher from 1960-1985. 2009 is the sesquicentennial of the state of Oregon. We’re doing “Oregon 150...the Wilsonville Way,” which includes a historic parade and upcoming play covering 1850’s to 1950’s—”A Ferry Tale: Wilsonville Oregon’s Transportation Town.”

1959 Homer Goering 8106 Wexford Drive • Austin, TX 78759 512-335-6339 [email protected] BS Petroleum Engineering

Spouse: Mary How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: Mary is retired. graduation? My only involvement is financial support. Family: We have four children and three grandchildren. Please share what you have been up to for the past 50 years: I was involved in establishing Employment: I was a petroleum production the first Little League in East Harlem in the late engineer at Conoco. I was in corporate HQ 60s by soliciting several sponsorships from major oil planning after earning my MBA at Stanford. I was companies based in Manhattan. I survived the first the aftermarket manager and director of marketing big East Coast blackout. After career moves around for energy services companies. I was also in project the country from the southwest, New York City management and financial services. and California, I enjoyed every place I have lived, including Odessa, Texas. Leisure time activities: I enjoy travel, reading, volunteer work, and Rotary International.

1959 Clyde D. Graeber 2400 Kingman • Leavenworth, KS 66048 913-682-4514 [email protected] JD

Spouse: Pauline How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: Pauline is graduation? Financially the president of the Board of Directors of the Leavenworth Library and President of the Board of Please share what you have been up to for the Directors of the Women’s’ Community Y. past 50 years: In 1979, I was elected to the city commission of Leavenworth and served for six years. Employment: From 1959 – 1962, I worked at From 1983-1984, I served as mayor of the city of the National Bank of Tulsa and from 1962 – 1964, Leavenworth. In 1984, I was elected to the Kansas the First National Bank of Norman, Oklahoma, as House of Representatives and served six terms (12 vice president. From 1964 – 1968, I worked at the years). From 1996 – 1998, I served as a member of American Exchange Bank Norman, Oklahoma, as the governor’s staff as Senate liaison. I served as the executive vice president and from 1968 – 1993, I was Kansas State Treasurer from 1998 – 1999, followed the president and CEO of Leavenworth National by serving from 1999 – 2003 as the Kansas Secretary Bank and Trust. Health and Environment. In 2004, I was elected to the Leavenworth County Commission and in 2008; Leisure time activities: I enjoy skeet shooting, I was reelected to the same position. From 1998 – trap shooting and fishing. I am currently the 1999, I was a member of the Kansas Pooled Money chairman of the Leavenworth County Commission. Investment Board, 2001 Kansas Health Foundation From 1988 – 1992, I was on the board of directors Community Leadership Award. of St. John (Leavenworth) Hospital, Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce as president and director from 1972 – 1973, St. Mary College (Leavenworth) president’s council 1969 – 1992 and was honored in 1978 as Leavenworth Citizen of the Year.

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I’m looking forward to seeing my law school classmates.

1959 Carol Griffee #1 Parkstone Circle #508 • North Little Rock, AR 72116 501-812-6763 [email protected] BA Journalism, History/Political Science

Employment: I began my professional journalism Leisure time activities: I enjoy reading. career the Monday I graduated from Fort Smith High School in 1955, working as a full-time reporter for Please share some of your favorite TU the Fort Smith Times-Record. While attending The memories: I still haven’t forgiven the Sigma Nu’s University of Tulsa, I worked my senior and graduate for running my bicycle up the TU flagpole. It took years as a full-time reporter for the Tulsa World. Born calling maintenance to get it down! in Washington, D.C., I returned to that area in 1961 and was a reporter/photographer/editor for two Please share what you have been up to for the Fairfax County (Virginia) weekly newspapers before past 50 years: I am the current parliamentarian joining the staff of the old Washington Star from and a former president of the Arkansas Press Women 1963-1966. From 1966 until returning to Arkansas in Association, a former board member of the National December 1972, I was city and then executive editor Federation of Press Women and have been active of the Arlington-based Northern Virginia Sun, a in the Arkansas Professional chapter of The Society daily. of Professional Journalists. Among other honors, I was the Arkansas Wildlife Federation’s 1985 I was a reporter for the old Arkansas Gazette Conservationist of the Year, 1996 Arkansas Journalist from 1973 until resigning in 1985 to become from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; I an independent journalist and to add book and received the Arkansas Press Association’s Freedom magazine writing to my efforts through my own of Information Award in 1997 and was inducted company, Editorial Services, Inc. Although my into the Arkansas Outdoor Hall of Fame in 1999. Gazette assignments had varied widely, I became I also received the Ernie Deane Award for valor in known primarily for environmental, investigative and journalism in 2004. I also have served on the boards political coverage and for being a fierce protector of of the former Greater Little Rock Mental Health the Freedom of Information Act, including serving Center and the Arkansas Women’s History Institute on the state Electronics Records Study Commission and I am the volunteer resident librarian at Parkstone in 1999. Place Retirement Center, where I live.

I have written a half dozen published histories, including those of the Little Rock Wastewater Utility, the Arkansas Conservation Sales Tax and the Bayou Metro Wildlife Management Area.

Poor health forced my retirement on December 31, 2007.

1959 Orval C. “O.C.” Guinn 10540 N. Portal Ave. • Cupertino, CA 95014 [email protected] BA ’57 English, MA ’59 Education

Spouse: Wanda W. Guinn was a killer. Don Hayden was the model professor. He Spouse’s current job/activities: She, like me, was witty, creative, scholarly, joyful, a man to admire. has been a caregiver to our older relatives and to our Professor Eikenberry was renowned as the last word grandchildren for the past 12 years. on Shakespeare. You had to earn your way into one of his seminars with scholarship and flattery. He Family: Our children are Corry (53), Phyllis (50), became intimate with his chosen few; and if you took and Alan (45), and our grandchildren are Corrinne a trip, he always asked you to “Send me a postcard (14), Cameron (11) and Cade (12). with a picture of a church on the corner.” And, who was the speech teacher who injured his Employment: I worked for five years in the Tulsa back while lifting his partner in a theatrical touring Public Schools ending in 1961 with embarrassment. company? He lingered in Tulsa for recuperation, was Then I worked in the California Public Schools for employed by TU, became my teacher, and I taught 30 years and in the Stanford University Teacher him how to drive. I told him to never brake or swerve Education Program for ten years. for birds in the road because they always escaped. Before the next corner he ran over a bird. Immature Leisure time activities: I enjoy writing, reading, and inept as a student, I was on probation at the end hiking and building. of my first year. Then I was drafted. I returned from Korea two years later and made the dean’s list of Please share some of your favorite TU those who excel. memories: As for specific classes, Ben Henneke taught “Reading Aloud Effectively”, or was that the There is nothing to guarantee that a good student title of his book? He once took a trip and asked me will become a good teacher. As a teacher of seniors to cover his class. Surprise!! He insisted that I be at Edison High School, I didn’t recognize my paid, and I still have a copy of the check he gave me. shortcomings because I was so overwhelmed by what I used the techniques he taught every day in my 40- I was trying to do. Those students excelled despite year career. Dr. Lester Fred Zimmerman, English my teaching. Many of them were Merit Scholarship Department, once agreed to enter a faculty-student finalists. I wish I could have taught them later in tennis tournament with me. I admired him greatly. I my career. During the last ten years of my career, I recall the thrill of getting to address him by his first was working with graduate students in the Stanford name during a frantic moment of play: “Back, Les, Teacher Education Program (STEP), and I am still in back; it’s a lob!” touch with some of them. E.H. Criswell taught the “gatekeeper course” that I had an errand in Menlo Park last week that took me all English majors had to pass before graduation. past the last high school where I once taught. Despite The first day of class he handed out 100 research all the renovations and additions of new buildings, I questions that became the content of the course. He saw nothing with my name on it. I checked the new chose from this list when he wrote his final exam. It library. I’m not there. 1959 I have come to terms with the fact that we’re all just Berkeley. Mike McCurry was President Clinton’s passing through. We’re all temps. I’m pretty sure I’m press secretary. Lindsey Got is a baker. I got not going to end up on the side of Mount Rushmore Christmas notes. I keep up with Bonita Sharma, a either. That possibility I have with some confidence teacher. Jeff Rabin is a reporter. Carrie Todd dances discarded. Maybe I’ll get one of those bricks that the nude at a San Francisco bar and was once jailed for Alumni Association wrote me about. You can buy one shooting her husband. Keith Seinfeld is a reporter for $100, and they will put a name on it, someone you for a public radio station in Seattle. I’m building admire. I could afford a hundred bucks and get one my own Mount Rushmore now, with perhaps a 50- for myself. year memory bank. But, where are my university I saw something like that, a public plaza with bricks classmates? Bob and Beverly Brinlee? Charleen to walk on or view, at Disneyland a few years ago. It’s Yeager? Jack Haynes? All those whose names I’ve sort of like the palm prints on the sidewalk in front forgotten? of Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, but I wish I could come to Homecoming. Perhaps available to anyone. I could purchase a brick on a another year. walkway near the Magic Kingdom so that my family’s Please share what you have been up to for name will be there forever, at least for a very long the past fifty years: I have spent 40 years among time. books, lecterns, and classrooms while teaching But, ten years after you retire, will you be literature, composition, and journalism. My coat remembered at your work? Will your name come pockets are full of chalk dust. I cherish my students, up among those having lunch? When I was a kid especially those young men and women from the in Tulsa, I and my friends painted our initials on a Stanford Teacher Education Program. My wife of section of big pipe that emptied runoff rainwater 57 years leads the way as we devote our time to three into the Arkansas River. It was my first attempt to grandchildren and to the care of Rosie (92) and Vern try to assure myself a lasting presence in a place that (95). mattered to me. By the time I entered high school, I can see the end of my life from here and realize that some other group of kids had painted their initials every object in this well-lighted office will outlive me: over mine. It’s the way of the world. I did the same the carpet, my radio, the bookshelf and my chair. Not thing backstage when TU’s Kendall Hall housed the one of these things will attend my last services, not theater. I painted my name on a stage flat and found even this phonograph with its chest of 33-rpm vinyl it obliterated the next year. records that has provided a steady benediction of Now, at 77, I am aware that whatever lasting presence sound for so many years. I am trying to forge, someone will soon enough come I’m thinking of embracing reincarnation. Once along with their own can of paint the same way I did. around may be enough for most people, but I think I measure my own influence with a shorter I would like to return as a waterfall, or maybe a yardstick these days. It’s enough to know that my Halloween party, or as an enormous piano. I would granddaughter is really doing well at school, and also choose to place that piano where Victor Borge in fact, wants to be a teacher according to a recent might get to play it. Better yet, with my wife and journal entry that 8th graders keep. granddaughter, we could be a trio of ushers and There is some gravy too. I am in touch with several hang out for a lifetime hearing good music and seeing young teachers. I get updates from a few old high terrific plays. school students. Marion Abbott from San Carlos owns a bookstore and is published regularly in

1959 Diana Davis Haley 6424 South Jamestown Avenue • Tulsa, OK 74136-1425 918-492-7001 [email protected] BA History

Spouse: John Robert Haley BS ’59 Mathematics Please share what you have been up to for the Spouse’s current job/activities: John is retired. past 50 years: I have spent my time mostly raising a family and being involved in family, school and Family: We have two daughters. One is a graduate community activities as a volunteer or participant of TU (Jennifer Haley-Ehlers ’83, ’89) who lives in or spectator. I have been on the boards of several Park City Utah with her husband, their 16-year-old important volunteer organizations. I have traveled all daughter and 13-year-old son. The other graduated around the USA, made several trips to Europe and a from SMU and University of Texas Southwestern three-month visit to Australia and New Zealand. Medical School in Dallas. She now lives in Bartlesville, Oklahoma with her husband, daughters 16 and 15 and a son 13. We usually have them all here in the summer for a week or so and have a wonderful time.

Employment: I am a homemaker.

Leisure time activities: Hobbies include my book clubs (I belong to two) and other opportunities to get together with my friends. I have been a church officer and have taught the two-year-olds for decades.

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I am looking forward to seeing classmates and friends.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? We have followed the athletic teams and of course, our daughter, Jennifer, was there too, so we feel involved.

1959 John R. Haley 6424 South Jamestown Avenue • Tulsa, OK 74136 918-492-7001 [email protected] BS Mathematics

Spouse: Diana BS ’59 History How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current employment/activities: She graduation? We hold season football tickets and is a homemaker. have sent one daughter to TU.

Family: We have two daughters, Jennifer and Please share what you have been up to for Elizabeth; Jennifer is a housewife and part-time the past 50 years: Working in the IT field and as IT person in Park City, UT. She has two children: an entrepreneur, I have been involved in starting two Haley (16) and Jaron (13). Elizabeth is an M.D. in companies. We raised two wonderful daughters, one Bartlesville, OK. She has two children: Allison (16) who attended TU. I have coached championship girls’ and Andrew (13). teams in soccer, a game I have never played. I have been an adult bible study teacher, an active investor Employment: I retired as the COB and CEO of and stock market trader. I have been in every state Viking Software Services, Inc. except Hawaii and every continent except Antarctica.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf, church, and gardening, Rotary, Literacy and Evangelism International serving as the chairman of the board of trustees.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? Everyone.

1959 J. W. Hand 106 Red Oak Lane • Flower Mound, TX 75028 972-539-1020 [email protected] BS Zoology

Spouse: Marsha Hand Amazon.com and other outlets. I love to sing, make Spouse’s current job/activities: Marsha is the that joyful noise. I have dabbled at painting, even executive assistant to the president of Health Texas taking life drawing at TU. I still enjoy gardening after Harris Methodist Hospital in Southlake, Texas. conducting experiments in TU’s old green house way back when. Family: I was married for 46 years to Martha Jean O’Bryant Hand. We had two daughters, Coral What or who are you most looking forward and Joanna. Both earned masters degrees. My wife to seeing at your reunion? I would like to see if became ill after we had been married about nine anyone has more wrinkles than me. If one of our years and eventually received one of the earliest, alums is a plastic surgeon and can make me a really number five to be exact, liver transplants. She was good deal, I might be willing to part with a pound of the world’s longest transplant survivor at the time of flesh. her passing — more than 27 years with a secondhand liver. She saw four grandchildren born and grow to How have you been you been involved with adulthood after she was given “six months to live.” TU since graduation? I have not set foot on the campus in 50 years. I read the publications and I About a year-and-a-half after she passed away, I attended the game last year when TU played SMU in married Marsha Lynn Hand. I have to be careful, Dallas. I occasionally contribute financially. since there is just one letter different in their names, but life is good. Marsha has 11 grandchildren, and Please share what you have been up to for we are involved with all 15 of our grandkids, at least the last 50 years: I was in federal law enforcement we sit in the stands and cheer at their games, recitals, as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement plays, etc. Administration, Department of Justice and was a supervisor of both an enforcement group and an Employment: I am a justice of the peace in Judge intelligence group. After that, I had my own security Precinct Four, Denton County. After retirement business. My specialty as a private investigator was from the Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement hopeless cases and much of my business came from Administration, I was a private investigator. When referrals from other private investigators. One thing I was young, I played young men’s games. Being was on my bucket list and that was holding an elective a judge is a good gig for an old fellow, as it doesn’t office, so I ran for justice of the peace. In Texas, the involve heavy lifting. I do that with projects at home. school districts are charged with education, and we have a compulsory education law in the state. The Leisure time activities: I wrote a novel, Jeremiah’s truancy enforcement belongs with the justice of the Journey, an action, adventure, spy thriller strangely peace’s office. Currently, 90% of the Texas prison set in the Old Testament. It is still available on population did not finish school. It makes one wonder

1959 where all the justices of the peace have been. One of the biggest thrills I have had in this last job is having a high school principal shout at me as I came in the school for a visit, “Judge Hand, I can think of at least five students off the top of my head who would not have graduated if you hadn’t gotten hold of them.” If I’d gotten run over by a truck on the way, it would have been okay.

I probably have thrown up enough on the keyboard, but I have worked in 47 states, worked on three continents and traveled on two more. I was once president of the association of Federal Investigators, I was appointed by two Texas governors on the Crime and Narcotics Advisory Commission. I have been a longtime member of the Board of Consultants for the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist.

1959 Donald W. Harris 17 Pennwood • Sherwood, AR 72120 501-835-9666 BA Journalism

Spouse: Lacretica Ann

Family: We have one son.

1959 William C. “John” Hill 1802 Mount. Pisgah Road Kilgore, TX 75662 903-984-1830 [email protected] BS Chemical Engineering

Spouse: Ann Doerrie Hill Please share what you have been up to for the Spouse’s current employment/activities: Ann past 50 years: I spent the time working. is retired.

Employment: From 1959 – 1991, I worked at Texas Eastman Co, Division of Eastman Kodak.

1959 Donna Helen Ross Hogan 9318 Woodheather Street. San Antonio, TX 78254 210-256-9771 [email protected] BA English

Family: My daughter, Laura Hogan, lives with her Leisure time activities: I have not found husband, Tom Kinscherf, and daughter, Emma, in retirement exactly “leisurely,” but it does mean that Madison, Wisconsin. Both Tom and Laura work I can choose from a wide variety of activities. I sing for the University of Madison, in research-related with the San Antonio Choral Society, a volunteer fields. Emma plays piano, volleyball, swims on a community chorus, and continue to serve on the neighborhood team, rides horse back and participates board of directors this year as past president and in scholastic meets. She entered 7th grade this development chair. I sing in our church choir and September. traveled with them to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York this year. I travel to see family and adventure is My daughter, Leslie Hogan, and her husband, John always in the plans. At home, I garden, sew and quilt Rickey, live in Santa Barbara, California, with their a little, visit with friends and volunteer as a Maverick two daughters, Clara (four and 1/2 years) and Eliza Library Friend in San Antonio. I love the monthly Helen (four months). Leslie is a composer and teaches lunch brunch socials and special events with my Chi at UCSB in the College of Creative Studies. John Omega sisters here in SA. is CEO of Far West Technology, Inc. and Health Physics Instruments, manufacturing radiation What or who are you most looking forward measuring products. to seeing at your reunion: I’ll see several special friends because they keep in touch, but will enjoy Don Hogan, my son, works as the lead artist in a seeing former friends who remind me of those years computer games company in Austin, Texas. His wife, at TU. I want to see all the changes to the campus. Shelly, is the regional communications liaison for the The last time I visited, the construction was amazing American Cancer Society. Grandchildren Tanner (9) and also kept me off the campus. and Lily (6) are entering fourth and first grades this fall. Tanner plays lacrosse, and both like to swim. Have you been involved with TU since graduation? No, except for a few visits back to see Employment: After some years as a teacher and the campus and as an occasional donor, I have not small business owner, I earned my Master of Library had family in Tulsa for over 20 years. I was pleased Science degree in 1990. I worked in the Oklahoma to see The University of Tulsa’s partnership with City Public Library System, as a Reference Librarian the Gilcrease Museum, where I was a volunteer and at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and retired participated in summer digs with Thomas Gilcrease in 2005 as Assistant Dean for Public Services at the in the ’50s. University of Texas at San Antonio Library Please share what you have been up to for the past 50 years: Hmmm. I was married in 1960

1959 and moved to Madison, where our first daughter was born. Then I followed my Marine Corps husband to Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where our second daughter was born. I lived in New Mexico before returning to our “roots” in Oklahoma. Our son was born at Tinker AFB in OKC, while at a duty station in Norman, Oklahoma. I also taught school briefly. Among other things, we enjoyed a 35-acre “ranchette” and raised sheep before going into the flooring business for ourselves in Purcell, Oklahoma. I moved on to Norman after a few years and went back to school for my MLS, graduating the same year as Don and Shelly in 1990, then we moved to Alabama for several years where I still have many friends. Moving to San Antonio in 1998, I felt I’d found my home again. Life is good.

1959 Phil Keeter 5834 East 62nd Street Tulsa, OK 74136 918-494-8704 [email protected] Bachelor of Arts

Spouse: Marilyn BA ’58 Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Marilyn is a memories: The best memory was meeting my homemaker. “soon to be wife” in the Student Union, “hanging out” with Jess Youngblood and Bobby Small who Family: We have four children: Kim DeMarco and were both Sigma Chi’s, religion classes with Grady her son, Austin; Kelly and husband, John Roth, and Snuggs, English Lit with Professor Morris, where I their children, Amanda and Zack; Scott Keeter, wife, also sat next to my “soon to be wife.” Cheri and their daughter, Morgan. What or who are you looking forward most to Employment: I was the owner of Romer Marine seeing? Everyone. from 1959 – 1986. Please share what you have been up to for Leisure time activities: Boating, boating, boating, the last 50 years: Enjoying life, getting in debt, avid reader of fiction, serving on church committees spending time with grandchildren at the lake. and flower gardening, both at home and at the lake. I am the president of the Marine Retailers Association of America as well as the president of Magic Empire Recreation Inc. I’m a 30-year member of the administrative board of Boston Avenue Methodist Church and a 25-year member of the executive committee of Boston Avenue Methodist Church.

1959 Jean Ann Vanwy Kerlin 2859 East 34th Street • Tulsa OK 74105 918-747-1557 [email protected] BS Business Administration

Spouse: James K. Kerlin BS ’63 What or who are you most looking forward to Spouse’s current job/activities: James is retired. seeing at your reunion? Lots of friends I haven’t seen in forever. Family: We have two children, Katie and Keelty; and two grandchildren, Caleb and Kane. Please share what you have been up for the past 50 years: I spent most of my time enjoying my Employment: I was a stenographer before marriage and family along with volunteer work. marriage. After I married, I was a homemaker and volunteer.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed accounting with Cliff Hutton, English Lit with Paul Alworth, shorthand and transcription with Anthony Lis and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority activities.

1959 Stanley Jerral Laster 6918 Meadowcreek Drive • Dallas, TX 75254 972-934-8623 [email protected] BS Engineering and Physics

Spouse: Susan Zane Laster What or who are you most looking forward Spouse’s current job/activities: Susan is retired, to seeing at your reunion: I hope my former but active in volunteer activities. roommate, Robert Bloden, attends; also, there are a lot of my other old friends from John Mabee Hall Family: We have four children, three sons and that I would like to see. Unfortunately, most of my one daughter. Our oldest son attended TU for faculty friends are gone, but I hope to see some old one semester. We have five grandchildren, three student friends from the engineering school. granddaughters, one a new TCU freshman, and two very new grandsons. My wife’s maternal family lived How have you been involved with TU since in Tulsa, and had three TU graduates - Harold H. graduation? I taught in the engineering school, Cooper BS ’31, Helen Cooper Zane BS ’32, and 1974-1980. I’m a member, but not very active, of Ruth Cooper Hone’s husband, Herb BS ’40. Ruth the Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter of the TU Alumni and her husband, Herb, were contemporaries of Ben Association. I always contribute (although at a low Henneke. All things cooperative, my wife and I will level) to the Annual Fund. celebrate our 50th anniversary in March. Please share what you have been up to for Employment: From 1959-1974, I was with Texas the last 50 years: I’ve been trying to keep my Instruments /Geophysical Services Inc. Then I head afloat economically and raise a family. I was worked at The University of Tulsa from 1974 – 1980 fortunate to complete advanced degrees at SMU in the department of Earth Sciences (Geophysics). (MS Physics) and MIT (PhD Geophysics) and that From 1980-1995, I was employed by Mobil Research I was able to spend most of my active career doing and Development Co. From 1996-2002, I was at things I enjoyed. I am still a scientist and try to learn various telecom companies as a contract software new things every day. I enjoyed living in Tulsa twice engineer. From 2004-present, I have worked as an and can’t think of a better place to raise children. adjunct professor of physics at Richland College of I have been active in the Society of Exploration the Dallas Community College District Geophysicists, headquartered in Tulsa, as a member from 1961-2009. I was the associate editor of the Leisure time activities: Being old and tired seems SEG Journal Geophysics 1984-1986. I have been an to fit. Actually I enjoy teaching, working in the yard associate member of the American Association of (temperatures below 100 F), playing bridge (very Petroleum Geologists, headquartered in Tulsa, since poorly), and doing genealogy studies. I am an avid 1975, and I have been a member American Institute history nut and computer geek. of Archaeology since 1970.

1959 Hank Lawrence 2125 East 60th Street • Tulsa OK 74105 918-742-5427 [email protected] BS Business Administration

Spouse: Barbara Leisure time activities: I volunteer at the Parent Spouse’s current job/activities: Hank is retired. Child Center and enjoy playing golf.

Family: We have six children and 15 grandchildren. How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I am a member of the Golden Employment: I am currently retired. Hurricane Club.

1959 Tom Ledbetter 340 Beltramo Lane • Canon City, CO 81212 719-276-3480 [email protected] BA ’59 Speech, MS ’59

Spouse: Jeanne What or who are you looking forward to Spouse’s current job/activities: Jeanne is an seeing at your reunion? At this time, it’s doubtful occupational therapist. that I will attend, but keep me informed. I would like to tour the campus. I’m told there are a number of Family: My first wife, Pat Hartline, BS ’57, died new buildings. I’d like to see the new theatre stage. I in 1990. We had two daughters, Jeri, who operates can’t remember who else graduated that year, but I’m a company which boats the Grand Canyon; and sure I could find someone. Jaque, BS ’85, who is a well site geologist. I have two grandchildren and one great-grandson. Please share what you have been up to for the past 50 years: I have a “Trophy Wall” with Employment: I worked at Tulsa Little Theatre as a several plaques from Time-Warner and The Canon tech director/assistant director, as KTUTV director City Chamber and Jaycees. I was once pictured and “Shaggy Dog.” I also worked at the University of on the cover of the Times Warner Cable annual Wisconsin. Then I worked as an instructor of radio- report. There is also a large color picture of myself TV-film at the Tulsa City County Library, and then as Shaggy Dog with Mr. Zing (John Chick BA ’56, as manager of the government access TV channel at MS ’60 and theatre major) and Tuffy. This is a copy Time-Warner Cable system manager in Canon City. of the picture which was on a large billboard on the Broken Arrow Expressway. Leisure time activities: At 76, I’ve slowed a bit, but I still like rafting. After 12 years on the wait list, I got a permit and rowed my raft on an 18-day private trip through the Grand Canyon. My daughters were along in their own boats. I have a small shop where I like to repair broken things and make new things to break. For years, Pat and I backpacked in Utah and Arizona. Our favorite place was the Grand Canyon. One year we took an 8-day raft trip in the Canyon. Since then I’ve run the full length of the Canyon several times, and have also run hundreds of miles on several trips on the upper Colorado and Green Rivers. I learned to fly a few years ago and enjoyed that for a while, but my eyes began failing and I had to ground myself.

1959 Nancy Trippett Liggin 53 Jardinero Drive • Hot Springs Village, AR 71909-6813 501-915-9970 [email protected] BA Speech

Spouse: William (deceased) Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed playing Rue McLanahan’s Family: We have two daughters, Annette Marie daughter in my first play and being in Kappa Delta Brown and Rebecca Lynn Liggin M.D.; and one sorority. grandson, Joshua William Brown. Annette is a stay- at-home mom with a handicapped son (CP). Rebecca Please share what you have been up for the is an emergency physician and pediatrician who does last 50 years: I have had five moves, lots of travel, yearly medical mission. including Antarctica, Galapagos Islands, polar bear watching and more to come. I run a mystery book Employment: I was a public librarian. discussion group.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy playing cards, traveling and reading. I am involved with several volunteer activities through church, Women’s club, Republican women’s club and symphony guild.

1959 Jack Maddux 1906 Polaris Drive • Bartlesville, OK 74006 918-335-1225 [email protected] BA Management

Spouse: Judy Maddux Please share what you have been up to for Spouse’s current job/activities: Judy enjoys the last 50 years: We lived in Kansas City, Stroud, playing golf and other social activities. Weatherford and in Bartlesville, Oklahoma for the last 23 years. We’ve watched lots of TU football and Family: We have three grown children, Stacy, Andy basketball games and played a lot of golf. I was on and Chris; and seven grandchildren. the board of Hillcrest Country Club for four years and served one year as president. At the age of 69, Employment: I worked for 33 years in the I graduated from a leadership Bartlesville class. We marketing department with Phillips Petroleum have taken several nice trips to South Africa (twice), Company. Japan, Thailand, South America, Europe and China. While in Botswana S. Africa, we spent 12 days on Leisure time activities: I play golf, travel and am safari in the jungle involved in civic activities. I am presently on two City of Bartlesville boards.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? Hopefully, I’m hoping to see a TU football victory. I want to go to the Liberty Bowl.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I’ve enjoyed TU athletics, been on some great trips to bowl games and NCAA tournament basketball games.

1959 Carrol Ann Guthridge McCartney 6211 SW 85th Street • Auburn, KS 66402 785-256-2200 [email protected] BA Secondary Education

Spouse: Robert J. McCartney BS ’60 Management Please share what you have been up to for Spouse’s current job/ activities: My husband is the past 50 years: Since moving to the Topeka, retired. Kansas area in 1969, my world has centered on my family and community activities, especially 4-H Family: We have two daughters, Ingrid Vandervort and FFA. When my younger daughter completed and Karin Harrison; and three grandchildren, Jordan high school, I returned to college and received an and Justin Vandervort and Nathan Harrison. MA from Washburn University. In 1990, I resumed teaching. Throughout my children’s lives, horses have Employment: I am currently the store manager for been a major interest and activity. It was an easy the Rocking V Equine Supply. I was transition retiring from teaching to a daily life in the a junior high school teacher from 1960 to 1965 with horse world. In 2004, an old college boy friend called Tulsa Public Schools and then a high school teacher and a year later we married. He found my phone 1990-2002 with Topeka Public Schools. number in the TU Alumni Directory! Bob enjoys my grandchildren, tolerates my horses, and we owe much Leisure time activities: I enjoy playing with my to the TU connection. horses, reading, especially history; needlework and traveling in the U.S. with my husband.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: My favorite class times were in the history, political science and English departments. I also enjoyed coffee in the Union and of course, the parties.

1959 Don McCreary 4768 Oak Street #541 • Kansas City, MO 64112 816-561-0100 [email protected] BA Religion

Family: I have three children and five grand How have you been involved with TU since children: Wes, 27, is an attorney; Will, 25, has earned graduation? I enjoyed attending a gathering of past an MBA from Missouri University; Michael, 20, is and present TU Student Association presidents a few a sophomore at Duke; Matthew, 18, is a senior at years ago and have maintained my connection with Joplin, Missouri high school; and Meghan, 14, a the Alumni Association. freshman at Joplin, Missouri high school. Please share what you have been up to for Employment: From 1959-1963 I attended the past 50 years: I have been raising my family, Seminary. From 1964-1969, I served the First developing and managing housing for very low Christian Church in St. Joseph, Missouri. From income elderly persons for 37 years, serving on the 1970-1987, I worked at Inter-Serv, a faith-based board of directors of CHF International for 25 years nonprofit housing organization serving low income and chair of the board for six years. This involved elderly. From 1987-2007, I was the CEO of Christian traveling once to Iraq, several times to the Middle Church Homes in Northern California, serving East, Africa and Central America. I spent the first housing needs of low income elderly, and then in three months of 2007 volunteering in Mongolia and 2007, I retired. will be working in Honduras during October of this year. Leisure time activities: I enjoy hanging out and traveling with my children and grandchildren, volunteering with an international humanitarian organization working in developing countries. I have pursued an avocation of studying transpersonal psychology for 40 years.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? During my freshman year at TU, I met two other pre-ministerial students, Clay Ballard and Nelson Irving. We became fraternity brothers at Sigma Chi. The three of us all continued our path into the ministry, married and had children. My children call them Uncle Nelson and Uncle Clay, and I am close to their children as well. It has been a terrific 50-plus year friendship with these two TU alums.

1959 Joseph R. “Joe” McGraw 10900 South Louisville • Tulsa OK 74137 918-299-4847 [email protected] JD

Spouse: Carol Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Carol does memories: I attended law school at night, worked charitable work for Brush Creek Boys’ Ranch. for two years in the law library and worked full time for Kewanee Oil Company in the lease records Family: I have five children and four grandchildren. section for four years. My favorite professors were Joe Carol has three living children and seven Morris, John Hager and Philly Landa. grandchildren. Who or what are you most looking forward Employment: I am chairman of the board to seeing at your reunion? David Hall was in our of McGraw Realtors and vice chairman of the class. It would be fun to catch up with him. Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Gardens. After graduating from law school, I joined Bank of How have you been involved with TU since America in San Francisco where I worked from graduation? I am an active member of The 1959 to 1961 as an assistant trust officer. Part of my University of Tulsa law alumni board. responsibility was to manage properties. In 1961, I returned to Tulsa and joined Crouch Davisson Mulhall Realtors as a real estate sales associate until 1965. I formed McGraw Breckinridge Realtors in 1965, which merged into McGraw Davisson Stewart Realtors in 1986. In 1986, I served as president of the Greater Tulsa Board of Realtors and then past board director for over ten years. I served two years in the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Then in 1966, I served six years in the Oklahoma State Senate. I was honored by being inducted to the RELO Hall of Fame.

Leisure time activities: We travel quite a bit and enjoy photography. We have traveled to more than 75 foreign countries.

1959 Marc Nekhom 5112 Paint Rock Court • Fort Worth, TX 76132 817-370-2178 [email protected] MS Petroleum Engineering

Spouse: Lisa MS ’79 History Spouse’s current job/activities: She is enjoying the role of grandma.

Family: Alan is self employed. Deborah is judge for the criminal court of Tarrant County and her son, Marc, is 5-years old.

Employment: I was the data center manager for Cities Service Oil & Gas, Southern and Gulf of Mexico regions for what was then OXY USA. I “retired” in 1990, and in 1991, I was hired at Kingwood College in Houston to start a computer network program. To give more credence to my position, I passed 24 certification exams from Novell and obtained the title of Master Certified Novell Instructor. Besides networks, I also taught C and UNIX. We moved to Ft. Worth in 2004 when our grandson was born, but I’m still teaching!

Leisure time activities: I cast silver statuettes by the lost wax method and paint. I show at various amateur art clubs.

1959 Anne Apperson Nunnelee 2116 East 32nd Place • Tulsa, OK 74105 918-691-0997 [email protected] BA Sociology and Teaching Certificate

Spouse: Ed Please share what you have been up to for the Spouse’s current job/activities: Ed is retired past 50 years: We moved a lot with IBM to Kansas, from IBM and enjoys lots of golf and volunteering. Chicago and Michigan, for example. We skied all over Colorado and had other travel experiences in Family: We have four children, Michael, Susan, India, Russia and Egypt. I love learning other cultures Christopher and Matthew; and nine grandchildren, and living with them. We also had a mission trip to seven boys and two girls. Africa. I’ve had a wonderful 50 years with lots of adventures. It helps to be spontaneous. I’m hoping to Employment: I have been an associate/broker with retire to Italy some day or an apartment in New York. McGraw Realty for 32 years. I’m still selling those houses and loving it as much as ever!

Leisure time activities: I am involved with Junior League activities and have volunteered with Meals on Wheels for 25 years. I have a passion for travel! I enjoyed skiing and running until my knee gave out. Now I walk lots. I have been tutoring children at CARA in North Tulsa. I also babysit my “grands” as often as possible.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed sorority rush, Dr. Lowe’s philosophy class, Grady Snuggs’ Old and New Testament classes and visiting the prison at McAlester with my sociology class. I’m a pacifist!

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion? Everyone. I want to see if I remember anyone!

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I have been an advisor to the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter here at TU. I have audited various courses and attended most of their guest lectures.

1959 Robert M. Peterson 9030 East 63rd Street • Tulsa, OK 74133 918-259-9433 [email protected] JD

Spouse: Susan L. Fisher Peterson Spouse’s current job/activities: Susan is a Leisure time activities: I enjoy working on the teacher. computer, exercising and reading.

Family: We have two daughters and three What or who are you most looking forward to grandchildren, including a set of twins. seeing at your reunion? The Law Class of 1959.

Employment: I served as an attorney for 25 years with the federal government and subsequent employment was with the City of Tulsa and the aerospace industry.

1959 James E. “Jim” Poe 5805 East 63rd Street • Tulsa, OK 74136 918-494-3658 [email protected] BA Political Science ’57, JD ’59

Spouse: Ginny BA ’93 Phil Landa, “Look at the person to your right” he Spouse’s current job/activities: Ginny is the said. “Take a good look because he won’t be here secretary/treasurer of my Professional Corporation next semester, we’re going to flunk him out.” and producer of “Tattletale Lectures.” What or who are you most looking forward Family: We have two sons, John Mark (deceased) to seeing at your reunion? I’m hoping to see and Edward Poe. We have one daughter, Emily Poe former classmates who are still with us, as many are van Eerten, JD ’90, who has three children, Darcy, deceased. Reinger and Silke van Eerten. How have you been involved with TU since Employment: I work at my law practice, James graduation? I am a fan of TU sports and various E. Poe Attorney, P.C. (d/b/a Covington and Poe). law school activities. In May 2007, I received the law I have been in private law practice since law school school’s “Lifetime Achievement in Law” award, of graduation in 1959. I recently received my 50-year which I’m very proud. pin from the Oklahoma Bar Association. I’m still in active civil practice in Tulsa. In the past, I also served Please share what you have been up to for eight years on the Tulsa County Excise/Equalization the past 50 years: I have been involved in various Board, three times as chairman. I am currently a law-related activities in Tulsa and Oklahoma member of the Board of Directors of Oklahoma and with miscellaneous associated travel including a a former chairman of Attorneys Mutual Insurance comparative law study tour of four Russian cities Co., a professional liability insurer. in 1984, just after President Reagan’s decision to deploy missiles around Europe. Later, I was with Leisure time activities: We enjoy traveling other lawyers visiting Hong Kong just before its and have visited over 20 foreign countries; fishing, transfer from the Brits to China. My wife, Ginny, has hunting, spectator sports etc. I am a former board served on the Board of Visitors of the Henry Kendall member of the Tulsa Area Junior Achievement and College of Arts and Sciences. We have three children, Oklahoma/Western Arkansas Alzheimer Association. all of whom attended TU or law school and one is a I am also a former adult sponsor for Young Tulsans law graduate. concert band.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: Regarding law school, all classes were at night when I started in 1955 as the day division on campus began between then and 1959. Everything was at 512 South Cincinnati initially. Especially vivid is our introduction to the study of law by Professor

1959 Dee Ann Ray 8 East Janice #104 • Yukon, OK 73099 405-354-3647 [email protected] BA Spanish

Family: I took care of my aunt and sister until both I served in every office for the Oklahoma Library died, and I never married. I guess the libraries I Association and was given the Distinguished Service served were my children. Award in 1974. I was named to the Oklahoma Library Association “Library Legend” list in 2007. Employment: I was a field librarian for the I served 12 years on the Oklahoma Historical Oklahoma Department of Libraries from 1960- Society Board, an elected position and am a board 63. I was the director of Library Demo Services member emeritus. I was awarded the Paul Harris for the Missouri State Library from 1964-1966. I Fellowship by the Clinton Rotary; served five years served as the library director of the Western Plains on the Clinton Regional Hospital Board, with two Library System in western Oklahoma, including terms as president. I was the cochair of the Clinton Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills and Washita Counties, Centennial celebration in 2003. I was honored by from 1966-2003. While I was a student, I worked the Oklahoma Heritage Association for historical in the TU Library and on the Tulsa Public Library research, history slide/tapes and newspaper articles. I bookmobile. I also worked under Allie Beth Martin served on the American Library Association Council, on the election campaign in Tulsa to create the Tulsa as well as serving on the Caldecott-Newberry award County Library System and build the new building in committee. I worked with the Oklahoma State downtown Tulsa in the Civic Center area. Library on two Governors’ Conferences. I was a Congressional appointed delegate to the 1990 White Leisure time activities: I enjoy reading, writing, House Conference on Libraries. I worked on 27 book reviews and historical articles. I write a library elections and participated in a number of newspaper column for Weatherford and Clinton, other community oriented events. I was a Sasakawa Oklahoma newspapers reviewing books. I also enjoy Fellow to Australia in 1985 and worked on several photography. A cat named Busyf runs my life. humanities grant projects in Oklahoma and on the local level. I was recognized by the Oklahoma What or who are you looking forward to Legislature when I retired for my service to seeing at your reunion? I won’t be attending. I Oklahoma and to libraries. I have a lot of recognition graduated in three years and three summers and so items, but what I appreciate the most was all the did not graduate with my class. I went on to graduate wonderful people with whom I worked. Trying to school at the University of Oklahoma where I create libraries where there are none and to get folks obtained my Masters in Library Science in a year and to vote a tax to support them was/is never easy. I was a summer. privileged to work with many people who cared about books and libraries and stepped up to the plate for Please share what you have been up to them and for me. for the past 50 years: I worked for libraries, books and worked on many community projects.

1959 Anne Setzer Robbins 2429 Bear Road • Nashville, TN 37215 615-385-1341 [email protected] BS Speech

Spouse: Dr. Lansdon B. Robbins How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: He is a retired graduation? I have just lived too far away to be surgeon. active. My good friend, Carolyn Torr McKinny, and I have stayed in touch. She has been a very special TU Family: We have one daughter, two sons and seven friend. grandchildren. Our daughter, Elizabeth, lives very close to us here in Nashville. Our son, Lansdon, lives Please share what you have been up to for the in Louisville; and son, John, lives in Atlanta. past 50 years: I have had a wonderful, full happy life. I have sung in the church choir for 30 years and Employment: I was a speech therapist for several been very active in church activities. years in the Memphis, Tennessee, Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee school systems.

Leisure time activities: In our retirement, my husband and I collect antiques. He refinishes them, and then we sell them in shops around town. I play tennis twice a week, love cooking and being with our grandchildren any time I’m asked to help.

What or who are you most looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I hope that I can be there. I would love to see my Oklahoma friends, Theta sisters, cheerleader friends!!! I was one of the only injuries in the football family one year when I broke my foot cheerleading. Ha!

1959 Don Sands 9079 East 118th Place • Bixby, OK 74008 918-369-1373 [email protected] BS Mathematics

Spouse: Bonnie BS ’60 How have you been involved with TU since Spouse’s current job/activities: Bonnie is a graduation? I’ve been a Hurricane Club member homemaker and involved in church work. for over 30 years.

Family: We have a son and daughter, both of whom Please share what you have been doing for live in the Tulsa area. We have three granddaughters the last 50 years: We have lived mostly in Tulsa, and one great grandson. Our son is also a TU grad, but we have also lived for short periods in Texas and class of ’84, and our daughter is an ORU grad, class Louisiana. Also, we have enjoyed several vacations in of ’88. Hawaii.

Employment: I worked over 39 years in the casualty-property insurance business handling commercial accounts for a direct writer and as an independent insurance agent.

Leisure time activities: Since retiring in 2000, I’ve been playing a lot of golf, attending TU football and basketball games and enjoying grandkids and one great grandson. I work as a part-time ad account representative for a locally published magazine, Community Spirit. Also, I spend some time supporting our church and my Kiwanis Club.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I look forward to seeing some of the men that were in ROTC. Since I was not a frat rat, they were as close to being brothers as any of my class.

1959 Richard H. “Dick” Sheridan 9605 Park Street • Manassas, VA 22110 703-368-5720 [email protected] BS Accounting

Spouse: Nance Sheridan Hobbies: I enjoy golf, travel and being in the Spouse’s current job/activities: Nance is Virginia and Washington, D.C. area. retired. Please share some of your favorite TU Employment: I was a financial analyst with IBM memories: I enjoyed my membership in Kappa Corporation, working on government contracts. I am Alpha fraternity. currently retired and involved with church activities.

1959 David W. Simms 3924 South Jamestown • Tulsa, OK 74135 918-742-1530 [email protected] BA History

Spouse: Rosemary Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s job/activities: Rosemary is retired. memories: I attended night school.

Family: We have one daughter, Cindy Angle; and What or who are you most looking forward to two sons, John Simms and Mike Simms. seeing at your reunion? I am looking forward to seeing how many people I know. Employment: I retired from AMOCO in 1992 after 36 years as a corrosion and water treating Have you been involved with TU since specialist. graduation? I volunteer at the Golden Hurricane Club. Leisure time activities: I volunteer at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church and at Clarehouse. I enjoy golf and TU sports as a season ticket holder for both football and basketball. I have attended the last five Bowl games.

1959 Richard C. Smith 5415 Trent Street • Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5513 301-654-2084 [email protected] BS Applied Mathematics, MS ’61

Spouse: Grethe Jepsen Please share what you’ve been up to for the Spouse’s job/activities: Grethe is retired. past 50 years: I transferred from a ship in the Pacific to the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., in Family: We have one son, now 44, his spouse, September 1963. I worked in the development of and one granddaughter, now 12. They live near computer war games for the next couple of years. Winchester, Virginia. We have relatives in Denmark Then I left active duty and joined the IBM Company. where my wife grew up and scattered around the Grethe and I met in Washington, D.C., were married southwest, my home country. in Aarhus, Denmark, and made this area our home ever since. Employment: I continued at TU another year to complete my MS in mathematics. Then I spent five years active duty US Navy, followed by 31 years with IBM and also continued in the Navy Reserve. I have retired from both.

1959 Weister O. Smith 3609 South Orange Circle • Broken Arrow, OK 74011 918-252-0508 BS Marketing

Family: I have four children and three Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf and travel to grandchildren. my home in Arizona.

Employment: I have been the owner of Arkansas Valley Companies since 1971.

1959 Garland Spurgin 15 Wesley Drive • Bella Vista, AR 72715 479-855-4114 BA Religion

Spouse: Helen Crouse Spurgin (deceased) Leisure time activities: In 2006, I took a cruise to Athens, Greece, the Holy Land and Cyprus. I Employment: From 1960 – 1985, I was a minister played golf but had to give it up in 2001. I have been at the Methodist Church, Oklahoma Conference. I active in independent living activities at Concordia retired to Bella Vista, Arkansas in 1981. of Bella Vista. I’m active in my church, prayer line, communion and teaching.

1959 Jack H. Staab 7412 South 94th East Avenue Tulsa, OK 74133 BS Telecommunications

Spouse: Wilma Glenn Staab Leisure time activities: I enjoy fishing and travel. Spouse’s current job/activities: Wilma is retired. How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I have attended almost all of the men’s Family: We have two daughters: Debra Staab Hayes basketball games since 1954. and her children, Christopher, Aaron and Katrina Hayes; and Jill Staab McKenzie and her children, Madison and Rebecca.

Employment: I worked for the Social Security Administration from 1961 – 1985. I am currently retired.

1959 Janet Bascom Sutter 764 G Avenue • Coronado, CA 92118 619-435-5029 [email protected] BS Print/Broadcast Journalism

Spouse: Joe Russell Sutter (passed away 1999) What or who are you looking forward to Spouse’s job/activities: Joe was a U.S. Naval seeing at your reunion? I’m looking forward to Officer, then a bankruptcy attorney. seeing the university and friends I made there are very important to me. If I’m unable to attend, I hope Family: I have no children, but many wonderful those friends will get in touch via e-mail. I booked friends. My family consists of my cousins, Mike and an October trip last spring before I knew about the Don in New Orleans and Betty in Tahlequah. reunion. On trips home over the years, I so enjoy simply walking around the TU campus to reminisce Employment: I worked on the Tulsa World, the and see the buildings, old and new. London/U.S.Travel Service, New York/Home Garden magazine, San Diego/Copley newspapers as How have you been involved with TU since a features writer. I was the editor of the San Diego graduation? In 1984, I attended the 25th year Union, then the corporate director of publications reunion and was able to see and talk with old friends and awards. I edited the Copley Press magazine from TU days. While working at the Tulsa World, I and got some nice awards. After 31 years with the served on the TU Alumni Board. company, I retired. Please share what you have been up to for the Leisure time activities: I travel when possible, last 50 years: I served on the boards of the San including an annual walking trip to Cornwall Diego Historical Society and its Costume Council England this year. Donna Ross Hogan got me as chairman, as well as Friends of UC San Diego started on these walks. So far, I’ve fallen in a creek Libraries. I am a USA trustee of the Royal Society in Scotland. I enjoy art lectures in San Diego and of Arts, London. I was named a Distinguished London. I write travel stories. I read both fiction and San Diego Mortar Board Alumna in 2004. Some nonfiction. I am a member of two lecture clubs, memberships include the Timken Museum of Art, and actually gave a popular talk on Oklahoma English Speaking Union, Coronado Historical complete with country music. I walk when possible Association, Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, in San Diego Zoo. I also enjoy films and good Coronado Hospital Foundation and two journalism restaurants. These days, when possible, I rent a little societies. studio flat in London for a month and pretend I live there, as I did for five years in the ’60s. I have lots more of the world to see and want to return everywhere I’ve been. My base camp is my little Coronado house. My next big goal is Botswana, a wonderful place I’m told. I’ve saved all my life for these adventures.

1959 Neal A. Taylor 2522 North Greenleaf Court • Wichita, KS 67226 316-634-2427 [email protected] BS Petroleum Engineering, MS ’65 Petroleum Engineering

Spouse: Helen Vanwy Taylor, former student Leisure time activities: I enjoy golf and Spouse’s job/activities: Helen has retired. woodworking.

Family: We have two children, Allison Taylor What or who are you most looking forward Vaughan, and Brian Taylor. We also have two to seeing at your reunion? I’m looking forward grandchildren, Ryan Vaughan and Taylor Vaughan. to seeing my fraternity brothers. I have not lived in Tulsa for most of the time since I graduated. Employment: From 1959-77, I worked at Kewanee Oil Co. Then from 1978-87, I worked at various oil How have you been involved with TU since companies in Denver. From 1988-2001, I worked at graduation? Mostly through financial support. Lario Oil and Gas in Wichita, Kansas. After working with various oil companies at different locations, I retired in 2001.

1959 Paul H. Vaughter 1243 4th Street South • Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 320-251-0021 BA History

Spouse: Kay Ellen Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Kay Ellen is a memories: I remember listening to students volunteer at the Salvation Army. stumble over words in The Canterbury Tales, reciting for Professor Dean Hayden, watching the regional Family: We have five children and six grandchildren. tryouts for the Metropolitan Opera in Kendall Hall and watching Sharp Chapel take shape. I was a mess! Employment: From 1960 – 1962, I worked as a history instructor at the University of Mississippi and Please share what you have been up to the the University of Kentucky. From 1962 to 1996, I was past 50 years: I enjoy gardening, both flowers a professor of history at St.Cloud State University in and vegetables, as well as landscaping my two acres Minnesota. just outside Sauk Rapids. I have been watching the Vietnamese, Hmong, Ethiopian, Ugandan and Leisure time activities: I have traveled extensively Somali populations grow in central Minnesota. St. in , England, Wales, Ireland, Orkney, the Cloud State University had very little to do with this. Shetland Islands, France and the Isle of Man. I was It was beginning in the late 1960s that local and state previously involved in Cub Scouting and Explorer religious groups began helping refugees from war- Scouting. I was the chairman of the Benton County ravaged regions of the world. DFL Party, State DFL Conventions, 1968, 1970 and 1972.

1959 Ralph W. Veatch, Jr. 20 East Woodward Boulevard • Tulsa, OK 74114 918-599-8926 (home) 918-744-1899 (office) [email protected] BS Petroleum Engineering, MS Petroleum Engineering ’65, PhD ’71

Spouse: Quendrid Williams Veatch BA Art Please share some of your favorite TU Education ’59 memories: Where else could I have found someone Spouse’s current job/activities: Quendy is a like Quendy Williams as a prospective wife? Tolerant community volunteer. woman, that Quendy. She’s hung in there for 50 years and helped produce three good kids and four Family: We have three children and four fine grand kids. But there were also some other grandchildren. Our daughter Melinda Veatch is great things, such as the old and evil professors who married to Glen S. Ely. Amanda Veatch is married prepared us really well for our professions, especially to Miles C. Wright and their two children are Helon the engineering sciences aspects. Participation on the Alese Wright and Leila Potter Wright. Our son Ross track team from 1955-1958 and living in Memorial is married to Erika L. Peterson-Veatch and their Hall were great – I made many friends there. two children are Ralph Oscar Peterson-Veatch and The Student Union respites also resulted in many Arthur William Peterson-Veatch. good friendships as I learned to play bridge there. Remember Ben Simler’s Bookstore and snack shop? Employment: I am currently employed as the Cheap books, good hamburgers, chili and malts! How president of Software Enterprises Inc., a petroleum about the many friends from KA fraternity? Ahh, the engineering consulting firm and I also teach industry old rivalry between the KA’s and the Engineers’ Club school courses on hydraulic fracturing. From 1960- over the KA cannon. Ahh, the good revelry at the 1967, I worked at Amoco Production Company in Engineers’ Club outings. I saved Arthur Hestwood the producing department as a petroleum engineer. the agony of having to kick me out of his choir by not I was in The University of Tulsa PhD graduate auditioning to join it. program from 1967-1970. I returned to Amoco Production Company in 1970 as a senior research What or who are you most looking forward engineer in the research department, where I stayed to seeing at your reunion? I am most looking until 1974. From 1974-1975, I was at Louisiana State forward to seeing my classmates and team mates, University in Lafayette as an associate professor. I because they were fun. returned to Amoco in 1975 and remained until 1993 as a research supervisor in the research department. I How have you been involved with TU since started Software Enterprises in 1993. graduation? I am an industry advisory board member for The University of Tulsa Petroleum Leisure time activities: I enjoy travel, music, Engineering Department, advisory board member of photography and watching sports. Tulsa Undergraduate Research Challenge (TURC) and a member of the Lettermen’s Association board, the Golden Hurricane Club and the TU alumni association.

1959 Please share what you have been up to the past 50 years: My long time friend, Ronnie Morris and I usually do some guitar strumming when we get together. Ron’s pretty good, I’m not, but Ron is sympathetic. I got a Bolivian charango and a ronroco. Both have very strange tuning. I couldn’t play them so I developed a computer program to show me how to fret the chords. The program will work for any three to six stringed instrument. The program didn’t improve my playing, but at least I can fret the chords! I went to China on business in 1980. I have been back about a dozen times since then, doing consulting and lecturing. I’ve made some good friends on those trips. The last four times I’ve gone, the agreement was that after I finish my work, some of those friends I designate get an expense paid, week long holiday to any place in China they choose and they have to take me along. I have had some fun trips to interesting places.

1959 Quendrid “Quendy” Williams Veatch 20 East Woodward Boulevard • Tulsa OK 74114 918-599-8926 [email protected] BA Art Education

Spouse: Ralph Veatch, Jr. BS ’59, MS ’65, PhD ’71 been to Tulsa. I was from Little Rock and many Spouse’s current job/activities: Petroleum students thought I had a funny accent. I loved all my art consultant professors and remember great outings with Alexandre Hogue. He took us on sketch trips to Osage Hills State Family: We have three children and four Park, girls in one cabin and boys in another. What a grandchildren. Our daughter Melinda Veatch is great experience to have been taught by him, Brad married to Glen S. Ely. Amanda Veatch is married Place and Woody Cochran. I lived in Lottie Jane Mabee to Miles C. Wright and their two children are Helon Hall and was the first freshman councilor along with Alese Wright and Leila Potter Wright. Our son Ross my roommate Charlene Happel. We had great times is married to Erika L. Peterson-Veatch and their two in Lottie Jane. At Christmas we and the boys from children are Ralph Oscar Peterson-Veatch and Arthur John Mabee Hall caroled the Mabee’s at their beautiful William Peterson-Veatch. home. They seemed to look forward to our time with them, served us cookies and hot chocolate. I had many Employment: I taught school at Hoover Elementary great times in Phi Mu Fraternity while on campus. I was school in Tulsa for one year and it was the best job the pledge advisor for two years and president my senior in the world. Our principal was the best and I taught year. It was that year that the men of Kappa Alpha with Mrs. Maggie Jo Hogue. I hated to leave but we came to the lodge to sing to me because Ralph Veatch were moving out of Tulsa and beginning to raise our and I were pinned! Now we’ve been married 50 years! I family. I am not employed any more, but through the remember Sharp Chapel being built and watching the years, I’ve been involved in many volunteer activities. beautiful windows being installed. They were thick glass Everything from PTA, many types of work in the pieces of brilliant color, I love them. I had a wonderful church and boards, including being an Elder in my time at TU and have many more memories… just too church and Sunday school teacher, a board member many to share in this space. of Eastern Oklahoma Planned Parenthood, Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, United What or who are you most looking forward to Campus Ministry at The University of Tulsa and seeing at your reunion? I’m looking forward to moderator on the Justice for Women Committee at the seeing all of my classmates, because they were fun. PC (USA), Synod and Presbytery levels. How have you been involved with TU since Leisure time activities: I love to travel and we graduation? I have been active through United lived in many wonderful cities where Ralph’s jobs sent Campus Ministry. us. I enjoy community service and take opportunities to volunteer when I can. I am a water aerobics person Please share what you have been up to the past which keeps me well. I enjoy reading, movies, plays, 50 years: The kids have all married and we have four music and having a good time with friends. wonderful grandchildren. I have from time to time done some pottery and jewelry making. We celebrated our Please share some of your favorite TU 50th wedding anniversary by taking our family on a memories: When I first came to TU, I had never 1959 cruise to Alaska which was the event of a lifetime. Don Wagner 9420 South 53rd West Place • Tulsa, OK 74131 918-224-8881 [email protected] BA Management

Spouse: Louise gang of night posters at First National Bank: Phil Judkins, Spouse’s current job/activities: Louise is a John Philips and many others. Sad to say, an unusual homemaker. number of our night posters have passed away: Howard Brown and Wally Maxey, to mention two. Family: Our children are Susan Hall and Robert Wagner. Our grandchildren are Eric, Lindsey, How have you been involved with TU since Meredith, Allison and Trevor Hall; and Jessie, graduation? I served as a participant in the Annual Carson, Angie, Brady, Rachelle, Duke, Teresa, Conference of Accountants, representing the Tulsa Sullivan and Nikki Wagner. We have one great Chapter of the National Association of Accountants. grandchild, Ruby Hall. I also represented the Conference of Accountants as Employment: I was employed by Skelly Oil National Vice President of the Institute of Management Company after graduation. Skelly was acquired Accountants. I taught two semesters of management by Getty Oil Company, and Getty was acquired administration for Chuck Scott in the evening program. by Texaco. I worked in management areas with increasing responsibilities, retiring in 1987 as Texaco’s This is a good place to say our class probably enjoyed the manager of administrative and corporate services for best career and social opportunities in recent U.S. history. Tulsa. I truly love Tulsa; I’m always proud of Tulsa and enjoy seeing the people that I either knew or knew of all over Leisure time activities: Louise and I have been the city, even those people who are getting quite elderly, lifetime outdoor people, enjoying camping, fishing, where I threw their paper on Reservoir Hill during WW hunting and traveling. By being able to retire in 1987, II. We were transferred to Vancouver, Washington, from we have thoroughly enjoyed all these hobbies. We 1966 to 1969, where I served as controller of a plywood are RV people and have a Holiday Rambler travel company that Skelly bought. The Northwest area is trailer. We have enjoyed cruises to the Caribbean and beautiful, but Tulsa is where my roots are. Alaska. Honestly, I never imagined how enjoyable a Caribbean Cruise can be. Our church is and Please share what you have been doing for the always has been the center of our lives, and we have past 50 years: Aside from the 28 years employment participated in the usual activities of our church, such with the oil companies, I really enjoyed being interim as mission trips, building new churches in the Virgin president of Junior Achievement of Tulsa, an Islands, and teaching Sunday School and singing in organization that teaches by example economics at the the choir. I have been singing tenor since the early 8th grade level and entrepreneurship at the high school days of John Burroughs elementary, Roosevelt junior level. I would be remiss if I did not mention the love of high, and in the Nifty Class of ’50 at Tulsa Central, our lives, our two children and their spouses and our belonging to the opera club and the annual Messiah 14 grandchildren and one great grandchild. In addition in the old coliseum. Great memories. to them all being in Tulsa, we have the pleasure of all living on the same 40 acres two miles west of Jenks. It’s a What or who are you looking forward to grandparents’ dream. seeing at your reunion? I want to see the old 1959 Nathan Wilcox 123 Ivydale Manor Drive • Deland, FL 32724 386-473-7215 [email protected] BA Speech

Spouse: Patricia Please share what you have been up to for the Spouse’s current job/activities: Patricia is a past 50 years: Immediately following graduation I watercolor artist and interior decorator. volunteered for the Army draft and was stationed at the Army Pictorial Center in New York City where I Family: I’ve been married to Pat for 45 years. We directed some 15 training films and was sent to CBS have three children, three grandchildren and one Television Workshop for six months of training with Yorkshire terrier. Alber McCleery. After the Army, I received a Master’s of Business Administration degree from Oklahoma Employment: Most of my career was working in University. I started working for Hallmark cards and international business with consumer package goods met my wife in the New York office of Hallmark. companies. Mainly I worked for Vicks, 21 years; After one year with Hallmark and one wife, I started Procter & Gamble, four years; Noxell, two years; working for Vicks. While working in international Bristol-Myers Squibb, three years; and Combe, six business, we lived in Australia for two years, the years. Procter & Gamble acquired Vicks, Noxell Philippines for three years, Japan for five years and and Clairol Division of Bristol-Myers, so I’m well Puerto Rico for two years. I’ve traveled to 45 foreign acquainted with company mergers. countries and have been fortunate to see much of the world and experience many cultures. Wherever we’ve Leisure time activities: I enjoy reading, church moved, we’ve been active church volunteers including activities, volunteering as a literacy coach, watching teaching Sunday School, serving as a deacon and TV, including commercials, and watching my currently hosting a small group Bible study. investments gradually disappear.

What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I’m hoping everyone will have name tag to refresh my aging memory.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? Very little, since I seldom visit Tulsa. I follow the football and basketball teams when I can either in the newspaper or on TV.

1959 James Glen “Jim” Williams 2115 Brookhaven Drive Edmond, OK 73034 [email protected] BA History

Spouse: Margaret Yvonne Williams Please share what you’ve been up for the Spouse’s current job/activities: Margaret is a past 50 years: I received a Masters of Divinity retired occupational therapist and enjoys gardening. degree from Perkins School of Theology, S.M.U., in 1962, took courses at the University of Chicago Family: We have three children, five grandchildren, in 1962-1963, and completed my Ph.D. in Hebrew and five great-grandchildren. Bible and Cognate Studies at Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in 1966. Besides teaching Employment: I am Professor Emeritus Religion at university courses, I have written four books and Syracuse University, where I taught from 1966-1998. edited or translated eight others. The most important I served Methodist churches as a student minister books I have authored are The Bible, Violence, and from 1956 to 1962. During my Ph.D. studies, I was a the Sacred (Harper, 1991), and Trinity (1995). I am part-time pastor in Illinois and Ohio, 1962-1966. currently writing a history of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, which I organized in 1990. In Leisure time activities: I enjoy reading and doing 1993, I converted to the Roman Catholic Church and volunteer work for my church. have been active in parishes in Syracuse, New York and Edmond, Oklahoma. I teach for the Archdiocese How have you been involved with TU since of Oklahoma City, which offers college courses graduation? I participated in the memorial in theology as an extension program of Newman conference for Prof. John Gammie in 1990, and I University in Wichita. I am a volunteer in a senior was a visiting professor of religion from 2000-2001. I citizen program of St. John the Baptist Catholic reconnected with Paul Brown in 2001. Church in Edmond. Since retirement, I have traveled to Peru on a mission trip and more recently to Spain, Austria, and England in connection with my current writing project. .

1959 Perry Wimpey 4422 East 93rd Place • Tulsa OK 74137 918-627-5447 BS Accounting

Spouse: Bernice Please share some of your favorite TU Spouse’s current job/activities: Bernice is a memories: I attended TU night school on the GI homemaker. Bill after the Korean War. Vets were not welcome at TU back then, especially those who attended night Family: We have two children, Rick in Tulsa and school. That being said, I don’t really have fond Rhonda Rausch in Maumelle, Arkansas. We have memories. four grandchildren, two boys and two girls. What or who are you most looking forward to Employment: I retired from ONEOK in January seeing at your reunion? I look forward to seeing of 1991, after 42 years. I retired as senior vice Johnnie Cherblanc. president and chief financial officer. I spent all my working years with the same company.

Leisure time activities: I enjoy hunting, fishing and church.

1959 Carol Kriete Wise 5739 East 72nd Court • Tulsa OK 74136 (winter) • PO Box 908 Georgetown, CO 80444 (summer) 303-569-2252 [email protected] BA Art

Family: My children are Tiffany Wise in Gainesville, What or who are you most looking forward Florida;, Courtney Wise in Phoenix, Arizona; and to seeing at your reunion? I’m hoping to see any Jason Wise in Kennebunk, Maine. My grandchildren classmates from the School of Art. are Dalton and Keegan Cook, and Violet and Stella Wise. How have you been involved with TU since graduation? Since I’ve been away from Tulsa most Employment: I retired as the planning director of of the time, I’ve had little contact with the university. Clear Creek County, Colorado in 2003. I previously I’ve attended a few art shows, plays and lectures. worked as the school secretary at Georgetown Elementary and art director at the U.S. Jaycee Please share what you have been up to for the National Headquarters in Tulsa. I owned a flower past 50 years: I’ve loved living in a Victorian town shop in Bixby, a frame shop and gallery in Pryor and high in the mountains of Colorado. I live in an 1875 an antique shop in Blackhawk, Colorado. Victorian Italianate house, which I’ve been gradually restoring over 28 years. Leisure time activities: I enjoy painting, walking, hiking, gardening and community service. Although I’m “retired”, I work as a senior tax advisor at H & R Block in Tulsa during the winter. I volunteer at the Tulsa Garden Center and various community projects in Georgetown. I have served on most local (Georgetown) boards and commissions, including the Board of Selectmen.

Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed everything about the School of Art department, Alexandre Hogue, Brad Place, Woody Cochran and Duane Hachett. I also enjoyed Theta activities, including doing Homecoming decorations.

1959 Marilyn McClure Yoder 2397 West Mary Drive • Fayetteville, AR 72704 479 582-0602 [email protected] BA Music, MS ’71

Family: I had one son, Stephen William Yoder, Please share what you have been up to for the 1964-1992. past 50 years: Primarily teaching. I love working with teens and watching their confidence grow Employment: I worked for BBD&O in New York through theater. I am glad I had the opportunity to City doing advertising. I taught drama and English in work in diverse cultures, 50 years of “following my Madison, Central, and Tulsa Junior College in Tulsa; bliss” and finally accepting that I had it all the time. and then I taught the same in Arkansas schools, I enjoy interacting with young people and watching Berryville, Kingston, and Huntsville. them grow as actors and discovering who they are and what they will be. I discovered the writer in Leisure time activities: I write seriously, quilt for myself while writing about my teaching during fun, read and swim. integration at Central High, “The Elephant in My Classroom.” What or who are you looking forward to seeing at your reunion? I’m hoping to see anyone from the theater or radio departments. I would love to see a play. I like the new building, but I miss the prefabs and creaky floors on the top floor of Kendall.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I earned my Masters in Theater in ’69. I have appeared in several plays and musicals and attended many more.

1959 Ronald Zarski 5719 East 45th Street • Tulsa, OK 74135 918-270-2028 [email protected] BS Secondary Education

Spouse: Marilyn Please share what you have been up for the Spouse’s current job/activities: Marilyn is busy past 50 years: We lived in Singapore and Kuala grand mothering. Lumpur, Malaysia for five years. I was responsible for information technology consulting for Ernst & Family: We have three children, nine grandchildren Young in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and seven great-grandchildren. Hong Kong, and Taiwan. We traveled around the world about a dozen times. We focused on strategic Employment: I was the Southeast Asia regional information systems planning and advanced director of information technology for Ernst & computer auditing in SE Asia and for the Arthur Young. I was the vice president of MIS for LSB Young Southwest Region. I worked in Washington, Industries. I was the director of MIS for the Laureate D.C. for three years, holding secret clearance in Psychiatric Hospital. the Navy and top-secret security clearance in the Air Force for work on the Strategic Total Atomic Leisure time activities: I enjoy gardening, Global Exchange System and the Polaris Submarine photography, travel, I’m a beach freak, Las Positioning Analysis System. I had frequent speaking Vegas, craps and horse race handicapping, E-Bay engagements related to computer auditing, computer collectibles, and I am a serious coin and seashell security and information systems planning in Tulsa, collector. Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang. I taught computer seminars for Tulsa Computing What or who are you looking forward to Society and computer auditing seminars for EDP seeing at your reunion? Clay Ballard, Janet Auditors Association. I am a Certified Information Bascom, Lynnette Bennett, Don Black, John Culter, Systems Auditor, Certified Management Consultant, Felicia Danuser, Hal DeShong, Donna Ross — all Certified Master Gardener by OSU and a Certified from Will Rogers High School; and Thomas Sontag SCUBA diver by Malaysia Armed Services. from Marquette High School.

How have you been involved with TU since graduation? I am an occasional donor, and we have previously held season tickets to basketball and football programs.

1959 In Memorium

Mr. James Allen Mr. William Dettmer Mr. B. D. Lowe Mr. Ralph Sanders Mr. William Almen Mr. Ernest Dolence Ms. Margabel Lund Mr. James Schaber Mr. Hans Altegoer Mrs. Marie Dollarhide Mr. Thomas Manhart Mr. William Schwinn Mr. Bill Anthis Mr. Milton Dreger Mr. Paul Marks Mr. H Scott Mr. Jack Anthony Dr. Norris Dyer Mrs. Betty Martin Mrs. Ruth Scott Mr. Everett Ashley Mr. Gerald Earl Mr. Louis Martin Mr. Donald Seaver Mr. James Bailey Mr. Charles East Dr. Charles Mason Mr. Thomas Self Mrs. Wyonia Bailey Mr. Kenneth East Mr. Gordon Matthews Mr. Robert Sharp Mr. Opie Bandy Mr. Robert Eastman Mr. Morris Mayfield Mr. William Simons Mr. Robert Barclay Dr. Frank Eaton Mr. Delmar McBride Mr. William Slater Ms. Ada Barnes Mr. Paul England Ms. Jeoraldean McClain Mrs. Bettye Smith Mrs. Marjorie Barnes Mr. Jack English Mr. Dale McDaniel Mrs. Lorraine Smith Mr. Kenneth Baxter Mr. Calvin Epps Dr. Ross McDonald Mr. Robert Snowden Mr. Robert Biery Mrs. Marian Ferguson Mr. John McGay Honorable Edward Mr. Bill Borthick Mr. Lindsey Fogleman Mr. Hugh McKee Stephens Mrs. Joan Boughner Mr. Bob Foster Mr. Francis McKillip Mr. Charles Stewart Mr. Phillips Breckenridge Mr. Kenneth Fox Mr. John McKinney Mr. Charles Stewart Mr. Warren Breiner Dr. Haskell Gaddis Mr. James McMinn Mr. Ronald Stoots Mr. Robert Brinlee Mr. James Gerard Mr. Daniel McRae Mr. William Tam Mr. Greg Broadd Mr. Bob Goodwin Mr. Lawrence McSoud Mrs. Janet Tanner Dr. Fred Broadhead Mr. Porter Gray Mr. Raymond Meyer Dr. Willis Tate Mrs. Constance Brooks Mrs. Charlotte Grove Mr. Glen Michael Ms. Geraldene Teagarden Dr. Paul Buck Mr. Walter Hallgarth Mr. Edwin Middleton Mrs. Susann Thisler Mr. Jay Byers Mr. Jack Handley Mr. Gilbert Miller Mr. Katsunari Toyoda Mr. Dwight Cacy Mr. John Harris Mr. John Miller Mr. Roy Traband Mr. Jimmy Carmichael Mr. Richard Harris Ms. Phyllis Mook Mr. Ray Trimble Col. Dennis Casey Mr. Hershel Hearn Mr. Harold Moore Mrs. Bonnie Truka Mr. Bob Chancey Mr. Knox Henderson Mr. Wesley Morris Mr. Joe Turley Mrs. Maxine Clark Mr. James Hicks Mr. John Naumann Mr. Fuller Uckaby Mr. Steve Clark Mrs. Suzanne Hicks Rev. Martin O’Neill Mr. Gene Vance Mr. Robert Comstock Mr. Henry Hobart Mr. Ronald Osborn Mr. Donald Vaughan Mr. B. E. Cook Mr. Alfred Hoffman Mr. William Parks Mr. William Wickett Ms. Judith Cook Mr. Billy Huddleston Dr. Donald Payne Mr. Robert Williams Mr. Robert Copeland Mr. Taylor Hunter Mr. Bill Pigman Mrs. Coleen Withgott Ms. Evelyn Cornwell Mr. Melvin Hutts Mr. Arthur Pool Mr. Donald Wold Mr. Larkin Coulter Mr. David Jacobus Mr. William Porter Mr. Charles Woodruff Mr. Paul Craft Mrs. Ruth James Dr. Robert Rachels Mrs. Helen Wrany Mr. Kenneth Cressman Mr. Basil Johnson Mr. Roy Rains Mr. Raymond Wrona Mr. Sherman Cundiff Mr. Richard Johnson Mr. Norman Rennie Mrs. Barbara Wynn Mr. William Dale Mr. Gerald Kersten Mr. John Robinson Mr. Jack Yandle Mr. Charles Davis Mr. Stanley Knapp Mr. Ray Robison Mrs. Mahals Zimmerman Mr. William Deshazer Mr. Edward Leonard Mr. Ellis Rudd

1959