THE SOONER MAGAZINE May, 1933 OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS Volume 5, Number 8

IVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA I THE SOONER MAGAZINE May, 1933 OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS Volume 5, Number 8

1933 by the University of Oklahoma Association. Entered as A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates and second-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice at former students published monthly except August and Sep- Norman, Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879. Estab- tember by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma lished 1928. Joseph A. Brandt,'21journ, editor; George McElroy, Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall, `341aw, business manager; Betty Kirk,'29, John Joseph Mathews, '16journ., Ponca City, president; Frank S. Cleckler, '20, Dorothy Kirk,'23, Winifred Johnston,'24, Duane Roller,'23, '21bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer . Membership dues : An- Elgin E. Groseclose,'20, Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee, '12, nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith, '28, Ross Taylor, '31, $60 of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright contributing editors.

OFFICERS Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at large Chester H . Westfall, '16journ., Ponca City, President Dr. Ray M. Balyeat, `12as, '16sc, '18M.D., Oklahoma City, at large Lewis R. Morris, `15as, `171aw, '15MA, Oklahoma City, Vice Presi- Lee B. Thompson, '25as, `27law, Oklahoma City, at large dent. John Rogers, '14law, Tulsa, at large Shelley E. Tracy, 'l las, Dallas, Texas, Vice President Mrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first district Frank S Cleckler, '21bus, Norman, Secretary-Treasurer A. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second district Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ, Norman, Editor Hiram Impson, 15as, McAlester, third district Ben Hatcher, '24as, '25law, Ada, fourth district BOARD MEMBERS Fred E. Tarman, 'l0as, Norman, fifth district Mike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma City, ex officio H. Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth district Luther H. White, '14as, Tulsa, at large Dr. Lealon E. Lamb, '26sc, '28M.D., Clinton, seventh district Otto A. Brewer, '17as, '201aw, Hugo, at large Fritz L. Aurin, '14as, '15M.A., Ponca City, eighth district

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ASSOCIATION PROGRESS in its efforts to encourage qualified ap- finding employment, but will be of great plicants to enter Cornell ; to enable stu- social value to the graduate who finds it Stadium-Union compromise dents from each section of the country necessary to live outside his home com- An agreement has been reached by to become better acquainted with the munity . the Stadium-Union Memorial board and students from their respective localities. "The second element is especially im- the bondholders whereby the board will "The first element of the plan is plain- portant today because Cornell, like other pay $250 in cash and interest due on ly important, in the light of current eco- American universities, is faced with a each $1,000 bond on a series of twenty- nomic difficulties . Together with the falling registration, and a situation is de- one now due and give a note for $750 recently-instituted placement service, it veloping in which it may be proposed to III10 on each bond signed by the Stadium- IHWO, will not only aid graduating students in lower the standards required for admis- Inll ~ 4111 Union Memorial board and the Athletic sion. Such a step would inevitably have Council payable December 1 . This will CONTENTS an unfortunate result . Researches con- mean that a total of $15,000 will be pay- Oklahomans at home and abroad 219 ducted by the University of Minnesota able December 1 ; this money is expect- reveal that the colleges and universities ed to be raised in part from past-due Sooner loyalty 227 By Leonard Logan,'14 of the country are just now, after two pledges and the balance from last years' years of economic Commencement-Homecoming 228 depression, sensing football receipts . The total amount pay- the industrial emergency as reflected in able during the next school year is $41,- Animal Psychology 228 their enrollment figures . Many institu- 820, making a grand total payable be- By M . 0. Wilson tions have tried to meet this exigency tween now and the end of the next See you in Norman? 230 by relaxing their entrance requirements school year of more than $56,000. The next biennium 231 and offering all sorts of inducements to Seward Sheldon 234 prospective students. Cornell's three point plan By Benton Ferguson, '31 "Cornell felt the effects of the depres- The Cornellian Council Bulletin for Inflation and business recovery 235 sion only last September when its reg- April contains an interesting account of By Arthur B. Adams istration fell by four per cent-less than an innovation planned at Cornell to se- Restless New York 237 most institutions, but still creating a ser- cure closer relationship between alumni By Winifred Johnston, '24 ious problem for an institution that is and students. This is known as the The province of the law 239 necessarily closely-budgeted . The obvious "Three-Point Plan" and an outline of it By Julien C. Monnet solution to the problem is to lower the follows : Faculty authors 240 entrance-bars, but this is a solution The Plan aims "to establish contact Grand opera and drama 245 which Cornell is not prepared to accept . with alumni clubs with a view to en- Instead, it has been decided By Savoie Lottinville,'29 to pursue abling new graduates to be re-introduced an intensive program with an end to Debate laurels 246 to their communities with definite Cor- securing a greater number of high-class nell relationships, which may prove help- By William H. Witt, '32 applicants . ful not only socially but economically ; Engineering purposes 247 "The alumni, by making an effort to to co-operate with the alumni Commit- Sooner roll call 250 interest young people of their acquaint- tee on Relations with Preparatory Schools Belles lettres and bell ringers 264 ance in coming to Cornell, can help the 220 The Sooner Magazine May

IN THE HEADLINES

Upper right--- Debaters in the Inter- national debate : left to right, A. 0. Johnson, Ok- lahoma, Alejandro Carrillo, Mexico, Neil Keller, Okla- homa, P. Jaime Montalbo, Mexico . The debaters of the Universidad Nacional de Mejico won the decis- ion, advocating abandon- ment of the Monroe Doc- trine Upper 'left- George B. Parker, '08as, editor-in- chief of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, of New York City, who is the first alum- nus chosen to deliver the Commencement address He will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa at the an- nua! Phi Bete breakfast Extreme left -- George Coleman, jr., '31ex, of Mi- ami, Okl?homa, who won the 1933 outboard motor races in both Class B and Class C in Biscayne Bay, Florida, this spring. Mr Coleman's fleet swept the regatta, winning a $5,000 silver cup for the year. The photograph was made while Mr Coleman was in Florida His pilot averaged nearly forty-five miles an hour in the thrilling races Middle column, upper photograph-Roscoe Cate . '26 journ, city editor of The "Norman Transcript," who ranks among the best columnists of the state. In his column "The Press Box" Mr Cate adds distinguished 1933 The Sooner Magazine 221 personality to one of the zell, Prof. Walter S. Campbell, Prof . A. Robert OUR CHANGING VARSITY Ramey and Prof . Paul Eldridge . best newspaper friends of The music belonged to the occasion . Frances Education in the home the state university with Atwater Lindloff sang two Shakcspearian lyrics thoughtful comments on The child should be taught self-dis- set to music by Shubert, "Ilark, Hark, the and national prob- cipline in the home, President Bizzell Lark 1" and "Who Is Svlvia?" Professor local Charles Giard played two of his own composi- lems. Mr Cate is a former told the Norman Junior-Senior Parent- tions for the piano, "Puck" and "A Memory ." editor of "The Oklahoma Teacher association April 10 . Other- The high point of the evening if an even- Daily," a member of Phi wise, he declared, the home fails as the ing that is all high can be said to have one Kappa, and was form- greatest institution in human society. point, was the unveiling of the portraits of Beta Professors Brewer and Iladsell, painted this year erly associated with various "The habit of home study should be by Prof . Patricio Gimeno . state newspapers acquired in the lower grades by means Both portraits \ an added interest in that Middle column, lower of a five day week program of study they show their subjects in the academic robes of own photograph--Horace Tay- supervised by some member of the fam- their universities, Professor Brewer ily. By such plan, wearing those of Vanderbilt and Professor Had- lor, '22as, of New York a the parent becomes sell those of the University of Chicago. city, who has been made more closely associated with the child Doctor Bizzell, on behalf of the university, head of the undergraduate and the boy and girl learns to find real accepted these portraits which are to be hung in the university courses in Colum- enjoyment in the home," Doctor Bizzell library. economic It was an evening of large talents liberally bia university, on the nam- said. employed for an occasion that merited them . ing of his chief Professor He continued: Tugwell to the post of as- "We are turning our youth into the Pharmacy honors sistant secretary of agricul- world without discipline and are failing Rho Chi, honorary scholastic pharm- ture . Doctor Taylor aided to realize the truth that the school can- aceutical fraternity, has for the first time in the preparation of eco- not in itself furnish a thorough educa- conferred membership on Sooner alumni. nomic material for cam- tion. The home's present lack of dis- Those voted membership on the basis of paign speeches made by cipline sophisticates children at an early grades follow : J. Braden Black, '13 President Roosevelt on the age and robs them of much of the joy pharm, of Oklahoma City; Everett E. agricultural problem . Doc- of childhood. We must realize that self Duncan, '23pharm, of Oklahoma City; tor Taylor was elected to control and discipline are the greatest David F. McLemore, '22pharm, of Ok- Phi Beta Kappa last year. lessons of life." lahoma City; and Harrell Bailey, '24 pharm, of Hobart . A quarter of a century The English faculty and alumni and Educational legislation friends of Professor Theodore Hampton Of twenty measures affecting the Uni- Brewer, head of the English department, versity of Oklahoma, only two were en- and Dr. Sardis Roy Hadsell, '04, cele- acted into laws, one being the education- brated the completion of the twenty-fifth al co-.ordination bill, the other the ap- university to secure its normal quota of year of these honored faculty members propriation bill. Important features of students without resorting to the danger- with a dinner co-incident with observ- these two measures are recounted else- ous expedient of revising the entrance ance of Shakespeare's birth at the Fac- where in this issue. The proposal of requirements downward . Such a pro- ulty club Sunday night, April 23. Senator Hardin Ballard, '27as, '271aw, of gram is obviously distinct and different Mrs Altha Leah Bass, '21 M.A., described Purcell, to tax fraternal property ; of from any attempt to enlist the aid of the the banquet in an article in The Okla- Representative Thomas Z. Wright, '29 alumni in selling Cornell to capable ath- homa Daily, which follows : bus, of Beaver county, to require en- letes; its object is to help Cornell in its In Stratford-on-Avon Sunday scholars and trance examinations, various tuitions body from townspeople met for their annual celebration and regulatory measures listed in pre- attempt to draw its student of Shakespeare's birthday . But Shakespeare the most desirable elements in Ameri- himself, since he had an eye for brilliant oc- vious issues of the Magazine, all were can life. casions and a mind to record them, might have rejected by the fourteenth legislature. "It has long been felt that the require- preferred to be one of those present at the Fac- have ulty club in Norman . Sigma Xi pledges ments for admission to colleges The English faculty and other guests to the sometimes proved arbitrary and oppres- number of 125 met to honor Prof . Theodore Sigma Xi, national scientific fraternity, sive. Cornell, along with other institu- Hampton Brewer, who for 25 years as head announces newly elected officers and tions, is studying the desirability of mod- of the department of English has taught the pledges for the year. Dr. I. A. Orten- dramas of Shakespeare with thoroness and burger, associate professor of zoology, ifying its entrance requirements to make love . Prof. Sardis Roy Hadsell, who has served them conform with the altered curricula in the department of English for an equal was elected president; Dr. N. A . Court, of high schools and preparatory schools . number of years was the second guest of honor. associate professor of mathematics, vice- "The third point in the program is The university has never had a happier event president ; and Dr. Lloyd E. Swearingen, than that of last night. It was harmoniously professor of chemistry, was re-elected not new to Cornell . For many years planned in every detail and successfully carried now there have been clubs on the campus out, from the Elizabethan costumes and man- secretary-treasurer. composed of students who came from nered curtseys of the undergraduate women New pledges include faculty members, the same section of the country. The who assisted in the receiving to the pouring seniors and graduate students. They are : and drinking of the final toast shortly before William H. Carson, director of the value of such organizations is manifest ; midnight . they establish friendships among fellow- Preceding the dinner a reception was held school of mechanical engineering; Har- citizens who have the common bond of in the cast room of the Faculty club. Dinner old C. George, director of the school of membership in the body of Cornell was served in the west room . A portrait of petroleum engineering; Grace E. Der- Shakespeare over the great mantle, candles in rick, national research fellow ; and M. O . alumni . Meetings for these various tall silver candlesticks, and silver howls of red groups were held in the home-towns Briar-cliff roses made the dining room a rich Wilson, associate professor of psychol- during the Spring vacation by various scene. ogy ; Seymour Ingerson, of Chickasha; alumni clubs, and were successful in Prof. Lawrence N. Morgan presided over the David St. Clair of Norman; Ernest program. No one doubted, from the wit and Handley, of Woodward ; and George stimulating new friendships among Cor- grace and the affection of his introductions nell men and in arousing the interest of that he performed a labor of love . The McGee, of Dallas, Texas ; Ramona Todd, prospective students." speak-ers whom heintroducedwerePresident Biz- of Ada; Thomas G . Spring and John P. The Sooner Magazine May

ENGINEERS Ray Dunson, little Indian outfielder, the Co-operative club of Tulsa April 5. Every Sooner Engineer who continues to pace the hitters with an The address was broadcast by KVOO. average of .368. However he is closely Dr. J. O. Hassler, professor of mathe- can do so ought to plan return- pursued by Doyle Tolleson, brawny matics and astronomy, delivered the final ing to Norman for the forty- catcher who as cleanup man has hit Public Lecture April 4 on "The Wonders first Commencement - Home- more extra-base blows than any other of Space." man on the squad. Other ranking hit- coming . If you can't return, A plan for formation of an ters are Billy Amend .352, Andy Beck, Industrial why not write Dean Felgar a Stabilization Corporation to remedy .343, Bill Brakebill .342 and Francis present chaotic conditions was advanced letter of appreciation of the Cobb .333. work he and his fac- by Dr. Howard O. Eaton at the Phi- splendid When Coach Lawrence "Jap" Has- losophy Forum March 30. in creating one kell's club trimmed the Oklahoma Ag- ulty have done Dr. Ralph D. Bird, assistant gies twice at Stillwater by scores of 6-2 professor of the finest engineering col- of zoology, is the author of an article country? and 2-1, they performed a feat no Soon- leges in the er team has accomplished in modern called "Dragonfly Hunting in Oklaho- ma," published in The Scientific baseball history. The Sooners have won Monthly for April. Alden of Agra; Jean Paul Jones, of seven of eight games so far this season Dr. M. Perry, Danville, Illinois ; Mathille Elizabeth despite all their players are new men Charles head of the de- Bjerregaard, of Okmulgee ; John P. Klep, save Beck and Brand. partment of philosophy, praised the ex- of Brussells, Belgium ; Kuan I. Lu, Haskell crossed up everybody by trot- cellent manner in which the universities China; Roger Sawyer, of Chickasha; ting out Andy Beck, his veteran first- are discharging their public functions, in an address Richard V. Hollingsworth, of Madill ; sacker, to pitch the second Aggie game. to the Philosophy club Febru- Claude Stuard Johnston, Roland F. Beck was not a bit flustered and gained ary 16. Doctor Perry called attention Hughes and Claude Milner Harris, of the verdict after a torrid ten-inning duel to the "brain trust" of Columbia professors which aided President Roosevelt Norman; Mrs Claude Wilkins, of Okla- with Carl Williams, Aggie ace, holding in his reconstruction program. homa City ; Esther Gassett, of Owasso; the Aggies to six hits and a lone run. Everett Bruce Miller, of Siloam Springs, His control was marvelous, only one Ag- N. E. Wolford, associate professor of Arkansas; Ralph Duffs Lynn, Hughes gie drawing a base on balls. "He was civil engineering, is vice president of the M. Zenor, of Port Arthur, Texas; Wil- workin' the corners nicely in there," state division of the American Associa- liam Roe Carson; Mary Louise Kropp, says Haskell, "I'll bet he didn't `groove' tion of Engineers. of Memphis, Tennessee; Roy Jones, of half a dozen balls all afternoon." Dr. Ernest C . Ross, assistant profes- Edmond ; and J. Teague Self, of Tamesa, Woody Woodson of Okarche, a recruit sor of English, underwent an operation Texas. who replaced the injured Amend, drove for appendicitis at the American Legion in the winning run in the second Aggie hospital at Norman April 10 . Regent Ledbetter game with a sharp single to left in the Dr. Forrest E. Clements, head of the Eugene P. Ledbetter, '141aw, of Ok- tenth. anthropology department, is the author lahoma City, was named a regent of the of an article entitled "The Folsom Ar- university by Governor Murray and con- Joint recital row" to be published in June in The American firmed by the state senate March 29. More than two thousand music lovers Anthropologist . Dr. Roy Temple House, head of the Mr Ledbetter succeeds Raymond A. Tol- attended the combination recital given modern language department bert, '12as, '13law, of Oklahoma City, March 10 by the Glee Club, the Sooner and co-editor of Books Abroad, who was named regent two years ago but Quartet and the university quintet. is the editor of the foreign literature section in the 1932 whose name was not submitted to the Mem(i°°-rs of the quartet are: Allen supplement to The World Book Ency- senate for confirmation by the governor. DeShong of Ardmore; Dick Richards Mr Tolbert's term was supposed to have clopedia . and Frank Ashby of Norman ; Bob "Ethics teaches you respect for what expired in April, 1934, had he been pro- Smellage of Waxahachie, Texas . The posed to, and confirmed by, the senate. is above you, for yourself and for what quintet is composed of: Frances Marx is below you," Dr. Gustav Mueller, as- Mr Ledbetter is a member of the Kap- of Pawnee; Paul S. Carpenter, profes- pa Sigma fraternity. sociate professor of philosophy, declared sor of violin, Adele Reeburgh of Ok- in an address called "The Golden Mean" lahoma City, Milton Dieterich, instruc- Paleontology fellowships before the Philosophy club March 9. tor in cello and theory of music, and Dr. Morris E. Wardell, '19as, profes- Four former students of paleontology Eugene G. Hassell, associate professor have been awarded fellowships based on sor of history, attended the national meet- of piano. Professor R. H. Richards di- ing of Phi Eta Sigma at Madison, Wis- work done in the university . Cecil Lal- rected the glee club. icker, '30geol, South Haven, Kansas, has consin, Friday and Saturday, April 14 received a teaching and 15. Doctor Wardell is grand his- fellowship at Har- Faculty vard university, Cambridge, Massachu- torian of Phi Eta Sigma. setts; Dick Hollingsworth, '31 geol, '33 Dr. Paul B. Sears, head of the botany Dr. B . A. Botkin of the English fac- M.A., Madill, and C. L. Cooper, '23geol department, is national chancellor of Phi ulty, has received word that Folk-Say, '26M.A., Parkersburg, West Virginia, Sigma, national honorary biological fra- the regional miscellany which he edits have been awarded fellowships at the ternity. for the University of Oklahoma Press, University of Chicago ; and Ross Max- Captain Jerome J. Waters and Lieu- has been selected as one of fourteen well, '29geo1, '31 M.S., has received a tenant Ivan D. Yeaton, both assistant "books of the day" by the University of teaching fellowship at Northwestern uni- professors of military science, have been Utah extension lecture course at Salt versity, Evanston, Illinois. granted a one-year extension of their Lake City. The book was selected as services at Norman by the war depart- typifying -the regional movement in the Batting average ment. Captain Waters is polo coach in literature of the United States . Six regulars on the University of Ok- addition to assistant professor of mili- lahoma's hustling baseball team are hit- tary science. Soonerland in brief ting .333 or better, averages compiled Dean Arthur B. Adams of the college Frederick Barth of St. Louis, Missouri, April 24 indicated. of business administration, spoke before was elected president of the Internation- 1933 The Sooner Magazine 223

A university 6enefactor

What men with vision could do in Oklahoma for higher education is illustrated in the gift of Frank Phillips, of Bartlesville, president of the Phillips Petroleum corporation, who this year has paid the final instalment on a $10,000 gift establishing the Frank Phillips Historical Collection in the university. Mr Phillips gave $2,000 per annum to be expended by the Frank Phillips Historical Collection trustees (Edward Everett Dale, '1l, Patrick; J . Hurley hand President Bizzell) in the acquiring of books and archival material relating to southwestern history. As a result of Mr Phillips' generosity and vision, Doctor Dale, head of the history department, has built up what is perhaps the best collection of southwestern history sources in the southwest. Mr Phillips per- mitted the greatest freedom to Doctor Dale, simply depositing to, the credit of the Collection, each year $2,000. The Collection is not the only evidence of Mr Phillips' public service to the state. He gave the university the original sketch of Philip White's mur- als in the stated Capitol . For his generosity to the university Mr Phillips was awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Scroll of Honor two years ago 224 The Sooner Magazine May

If you can't come to the an- presided over the spring recognition ser- $427.50, of which $292.50 is interest, vices March 28. nual Commencement - Home- on a $45,000 note, and $135 dues on The latest and most coming scientific way of ninety shares of stock in the association. June 3 to 5, why don't how to make a bed, select and prepare "The defendants in the case were the you write President William food, wash a baby, and decorate the liv- Delta Chi Alumni Bennett Bizzell Association, the Se- a letter of ap- ing room were demonstrated by the uni- curity National bank of Norman, the preciation, as suggested by versity home economics department at Peerless Printing Co., and Collms-Dietz- Leonard Logan, '14, president an open house April 5 . The purpose of Morris Co. of the Norman Sooner club? the show is to illustrate how classes in the university prepare students for home- Phi Beta Kappa President Bizzell and his fac- making. Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary ulty are keeping our university At a meeting in Norman April 4 of scholastic fraternity, has selected two seventy-five army reserve officers in con- at the highest possible degree faculty members and four alumni this vention a unique light truck drawn field of usefulness in spite of great year to be initiated with the six students artillery unit brought from Fort Sill and of the junior class having the highest reduction in funds said only to be the one of its kind in ranking and thirty members of the senior existence, was displayed . class. A new plan is being adopted by the al Relations club for the second semester . The ranking junior six are : Earl school of library science H. L. Conley of Harrah is the presi- this summer Sneed, Tulsa, Dotjeannette Gifford, Nor- dent of Phi Delta Xi, pharmaceutical when three new courses in cataloging, man ; Lorraine Ketchum, Tulsa ; Bland fraternity, for the second semester. classification and reference will be of- West, Norman ; Stephen Huff, Oklaho- The university has abandoned its rose fered with credit given toward a degree ma City; Marguerite Bella Womack, garden in the north oval but has added in the college of arts and sciences with Holl is. an iris garden, in the area between the a major in library science. In the sum- Alumni of the class of 1923 who were liberal arts and administration buildings. mer of 1934 seven more hours will be selected are Dr. Duane E. Roller, associ- offered, permitting a student to complete Milton Dieterich's miniature sym- ate professor of physics ; Dr. A. C. Shead, phony orchestra visited Edmond, Perry, the equivalent of a semester's work in assistant professor of physics ; John Her- Ponca City, Fairfax, Pawhuska, Bartles- two summer sessions, making it possible vey, assistant dean of Temple univer- ville and Collinsville during February. for one to secure a degree through sum- sity law school, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- mer work. The Oklahoma Library Joe Fred Gibson of Wellston was vania ; and Roger Sawyer, of the class of now elected editor of the 1934 Sooner and commission requires fifteen hours 1915, a graduate student in the univer- Line Jane Walker of Tulsa was named instead of six as formerly for a certi- sitv. business manager by the publication ficate in library science. The thirty members of the senior class board. The Oklahoma Federation of Music are: clubs its Alta Maxwell of Norman, has been held state convention at Nor- Samuel K. Abrams, Guthrie; John Al- named president of the Kappa Phi, Meth- man on the university campus April 5 ley, Norman ; Margaret Barnes, Guthrie ; odist sorority . to 8. Charles Eugene Bathe, Oklahoma City ; Richard Buchanan of Oklahoma City, Laurence Elderkin of Springville, New Oliver E. Benson, Guthrie; Sam Braden, York, was elected has been awarded the Scabbard and president of the En- McAlester; Thelma Bradford, Norman ; gineers' Blade key for being the best all-around club for the coming school year. Jamie Eloise Chandler, Tulsa; Hugh man initiated into the organization this Dudley Tichenor of Oklahoma City Comfort, Norman ; David Crockett, Ok- year. was elected business manager of The lahoma City ; Robert Florence, Antlers ; Oklahoma Daily Jess Nathan, a sophomore in the col- by the publication Mary Ellen Haines, Bartlesville ; Naomi lege of education, was entered as a can- board, to succeed Baxter Taylor of Ok- Howard, Norman ; Nan Estelle Hunter, didate but failed to get the nomination lahoma City. Oklahoma City : Daniel John Jones, Col- James Hawes of Norman as mayor of Norman in March. Mr was elected linsville; A. Jones Lee, Okmulgee; Dor- president of Phi Nathan made his run on an independent Eta Sigma fraternity for othy Davis Lewis, Oklahoma City; ticket. the second semester. Frances Madison, Enid; Lucile Margaret Six students were expelled and sixty Ennie Hill, '33journ., of Norman, was Mann, Oklahoma City ; Angus Henry elected president of Sigma Delta placed on probation by the university as Chi for McDonald, Fayetteville, Arkansas ; Mar- the coming a result of poor scholarship on the basis year. iorie Ruth Miller, Oklahoma City; of grades during the first nine-weeks George Crews McGhee, Dallas, Texas; period . GRADUATES IN EMBRYO Helen Elizabeth Myers, Oklahoma City; Bryan Rakestraw of Hobart, was elect- Charles Leslie Pain, Carnegie; Virginia ed president of the university chapter of Doctoral examination Irene Pattison, Oklahoma City ; Murble the League of Young Democrats. Mrs Emma Estill Harbour, head of Henry Pearson, Norman; Alan G. Skel- John Fortson, '34journ, of Tecumseh, the history department of the Central ton, Norman ; Hugh Albert Stout, Shaw- was elected editor of The Oklahoma State Teachers college at Edmond, passed nee ; Gretchen Swisher, Oklahoma City; Daily for the next school year, succeed- her oral examinations for the degree of and Martha Eleanor Watson, Tulsa. ing Samuel Abrams, '33journ, of Guth- doctor of philosophy April 10 and will Initiation preceded a banquet Tues- rie. receive the degree at the June commence- day, April 25 in the Union ballroom at Annual Senior day was to be held May ment. Her thesis was "The History of which Radoslav Andrea Tsanoff, profes- 4, ';preceded by a junior-Senior Prom the Red River Countries since 1803 ."' sor of philosophy at Rice Institute, Hous- May 3. ton, Texas, talked on "Through Knowl- The annual inspection of the cadet Foreclosure suit edge to Wisdom ." brigade of the R. O. T. C. unit was The Aetna Building and Loan Associ- held Tuesday, April 25, by Col . W. A. ation has filed a suit to foreclose a first Phi Gamma Delta formal Castle of Houston, Texas, and Maj. mortgage on the Delta Chi fraternity Phi Gamma Delta fraternity enter- Henry B. Parker of Oklahoma City. house. The amount is for $49,201 .50, tained with a formal dance at its chapter Miss Margaret Roys, Norman, newly payable, according to the petition of the house March 11 . Chaperons were Prof- elected president of the Y. W. C. A. plaintiff, in monthly instalments of essor and Mrs Wyatt Marrs, Mr and

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Mrs Ben Lindsly, Mr and Mrs Lawrence administration for interference in the ac- The Commencement-Home- E. Haskell and Mrs Dwight E. Ault- tivities of the men's council, as in the coming is the leisurely way to ma n, Dates and guests follow : case when the council attempted to su- renew old friendships. All of Wendell Ford and Geraldine Mason, Vance persede the administrative council of Broach and Alice Elliott, Andy Beck and Lou- the university by inviting a legislative your old teachers are on hand Charles Davis and Helen Flem- am ma Edwards, investigation of the university . without classes to hinder long ing, Oklahoma City ; William Dixon and Dor- Alumni with long memories may re- othy Beck, Glenn Hall and Margaret Reeves, visits. The campus is at its John Dudley, and Margaret Hanna, William call that several years ago student poli- best, space is available for Major and Wilma Klein ; Ben Harned and Louise tics were "purified" by dusting off the Johnson, Tulsa; John R. Clover and Mary Eliz- reunions, weather condi- old constitution, installing a men's coun- group abeth Stanton, Otis Petty and Charlene Hand- tions are best for those who in- lev, Stanley Marsh and Estelle Fariss, Frank- cil, and promising a "new deal ." Since lin Schofield and Marion Barrowman, William this was the nth time that student poli- tend driving to Norman. Let's Waid and Kathren Burr, Thomas Finney and tics had been "purified" it was no sur- the 1933 Commence- Frances Neal, James Bynum and Marjorie New- make prise that the men's council since its bcrn, James Major and Jean Garnet, Dalton ment-Homecoming the great- Lain and Julia Kennedy, Jarvis Woodward and organization has been a point of at times univer- Elizabeth Plaster, William Stephens and Bar- bitter recrimination on the campus . The est in the history of the bara Harrison, Oklahoma City; Robert Lisk coming elections promise even more in- sity. and Winette Souligny, Rupert McClung and teresting times. Martha LcFlore, William Rogers and Margue- rite Gurley, Joe Barnhill and Fula Lee Burch, to be filled before they could pledge . Amarillo, Texas; Murray Gordon and Mildred Letzeiser safeguards It was believed that this would prevent Chase, Lynn J. Bullis and Marjorie McIntyre, In order to safeguard the standards of Frank Leech and Nadine Sherman, Bob Grady the so-called "sweat-box" method from and Mary Lois Holmes, Edmond Alden and awarding the annual Letzeiser medal, being used in getting boys to pledge Mary Virginia Cavett, Jimmy McWilliams and one of the coveted honors of the uni- without considering the merits of the Mary Grimes, Wallace Thomas and Virginia versity for the best students, Alexander various fraternities . The system was re- Barnard, El Reno ; Bill Bullis and Maurine Harvey, James Mount and Mary Elizabeth Letzeiser of the Letzeiser Jewelry Co., jected because the cost involved was pro- Lucas, Byrurn Kroutil and Louise Simon, Ok- of Oklahoma City, donors of the medal, hibitive and such procedure would leave lahoma City ; Albert Rollins and Virginia Par- recently requested the men's council to every fraternity uncertain as to the num- riss, Scott Beasley and Mary Anna Millican, select candidates with the co-operation her of pledges it could secure during Richard Lawrence and Marietta Darling, Milton Garber and Ve,ra Frances Swigert, Mr and of the faculty. the rush period . Mrs Ned Poe, Mr and Mrs William Funk, Lieut. Mr Letzeiser stated that it was his Willis Stark, who earlier presented the and Mrs James V. Collier, Frank Cleckler, Mr wish that no politics enter into the plan of eliminating all work among and Mrs Josh Lee, Dr. and Mrs Ben Cooley, awarding of the medals, three of which neophytes, took the lead in defeating his Mr and Mrs Ralph Beegle, James Taylor and Kathryn Polk, Fort Worth, Texas; Mauricc are conferred annually on the three best own proposal at a late meeting of the Gann and Ruth Nesbitt, Wayne Chestnut and all-around men of the campus, and three council. Mary Trapp, Robert Lee Wilson and Mary to the best all-around women of the Jo Sullivan, James Ludlum, Robert Hert, Nor- campus, selected by student vote from man Jones, Lawrence Wilson, Fred Newton, Miami Triad dance Fenton Lamb, Hugh Owens, James Evans, qualified candidates . The men's council The annual Miami Triad dance was Jack Fleming, Tom Biggers, Lewis Hill, Billy agreed to the stipulation and this year held in the Oklahoma Union ball room Longmire, Barron House], William Majors, O. candidates were to be selected by a joint Friday, March 10, the participating fra- W. Hammonds, Ralph Bogart, Denver Meach- committee of the men's council and the being Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta am, Wayne Heckler, William Lewis, Don ternities Stinchecum, Dudley Culp, John Edward Coop- faculty. Theta and Sigma Chi . Chaperons were er, Otho Sparks and Robert Kutz . Mrs Ned Miller, Mrs F. W. Harden- Women's grades stein, Mrs W. D. Perkins, Mr and Mrs Student politics The W. S. G . A. awarded a scholar- Wyatt Marrs, Captain and Mrs George Regardless of other changes on the ship cup to the Jones' rooming house R . 'Hayman and Lieutenant and Mrs campus, student politics remain un- at a banquet March 14 for having the Ivan D. Yeaton . Clay Underwood, changed. The annual spring election highest rating for the year in the or- president of Sigma Chi, with Miss Louise campaign got under way in April with ganized women's houses . The relative Coffield, led the march, followed by Bil- three parties in the field, the Beta Com- standing follows: ly Longmire and Miss Polly Taylor and bine, the Administration and New Deal Jones 2.08 Porter 1 .09 Willis Stark and Miss Betty Hume . parties. Allman 2.00 Baggett 1 .08 Dates and guests were : Pazoureek 1 .80 Pinnick .95 McClus- The New Deal party held a mass Willis Stark and Betty Hume, Paul McCord 1 .65 Roberts .93 key and Cleo "Jerry" Mason, William Hewitt meeting at which members of the Ad- Franklin 1 .60 Cook .87 and Martha Watson, Emmett Henley and Helen ministration party got voting control. Eady 1 .53 Shanks .78 Spain, Ab Walker and Lucille Paynter, James As a result, the Administration party Fisher 1 .48 Benham .68 Riley and Elizabeth Plaster, William Barnsford Morgan 1 .39 Gaines .58 henchmen were able to dictate the "slate" and Gayle McCorkle, Charles Fogleman and Horn 1 .25 Newman hall 1 .40 Jean Garnett, B. B . Barefoot and Helen Hanby of the New Deal party. When this was Wells 1 .20 Hester hall 1 .33 of Chickasha, Dan Alguire and Jimmie Hill, discovered, the New Deal leaders shuf- Hooks 1.17 Robertson hall 1.32 Gene Nolen and Vera Frances Swigert, Boyce fled the cards and postponed the selec- Loar 1.12 Logan hall 1.00 Hildt and Evelyn Boring, Max Kelly and Sue tion of their slate. Soloman of Oklahoma City, Don Stinchecum and Joyce Cole, Tom Peacock and Mary Stan- Ralph Johnson, '35law, of Ada, is one No fraternity reform ton, George Birdseye and Vivien Hoyt, Mr and of the leaders of this group and was After five months investigation of Mrs Lawrence A. Cullison, Clay Underwood quoted in The Oklahoma Daily as stat- plans submitted to the interfraternity and Louise Coffield, James Taylor and Kathryn ing that "if members of our party are council to revise the annual rush sys- Polk, of Fort Worth, Texas, William Perryman and Leta Holtzendorff, Fred Hoyt and Mary elected, will not sell out to any party." tem and to grant complete freedom to I Grimes, Thomas Carson and Mildred Miller, When Mr Johnson had concluded ex- fraternity pledges, causing organizations Roland Phillips and lone Wright, Jack High- coriating the Administration party, Her- to hire non-fraternity men to perform ley and Helen Spivey of Oklahoma City, Mont man Greenhaw of Hobart, secretary of all pledge jobs, both ideas have been re- Highley and Mary Doyle, Myron Pyle and Letitia Chowning, Seymour Spears and Winet- the men's council, defended the Admin- jected because of economic reasons. te Souligny, Bernard Kennedy and Betty Le istration party and the men's council, The new rush system proposed pro- Compte, Dennis Cubbage and Marion Bryant, and took pains to criticise the university vided five dates for rushees which had of Cushing, Edward Clarke and Garnet 13, 226 The Sooner Magazine May

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