THE SOONER MAGAZINE OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS

A News Magazine for graduates and under the act of March 3, 1879 . Established 1928. Advertising former students, published monthly except August and Septem- rates on application to the Business Manager, Oklahoma Union ber, by the University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Building . Address all editorial matter to Frank S. Cleckler, Union Building, Norman, Oklahoma. Chester H. Westfall, '16 Secretary-Treasurer, Oklahoma Union Building, Norman, Okla- journ., Ponca City, president ; Frank S. Cleckler, '21bus ., Nor- homa. The Magazine is published the twentieth of the month man, secretary-treasurer . Membership dues : Annual $3, of preceding date of publication . Information designed for the which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE; life $60, of which Magazine should be in the hands of the Editor not later than $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE. Life Membership is the sixth of any month Joseph A. Brandt, '21journ ., editor; payable in quarterly instalments. Entered as second-class mat- Ernie Hill, '32journ, assistant editor ; George McElroy, '34law, ter October 13, 1928, at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, business manager

Oklahomans at home and abroad

Tulsa Meeting October 6 Mrs . Helen Meister Arbuckle, '26, Sec- Oran McCain, '31, Secretary, 321 Com- Northeastern Oklahoma Sooner alum- retary-treasurer . merce Building. ni are invited to attend the University NEW YORK CITY CUSHING of Oklahoma Association dinner spon- Ivan G. Richardson, '17, President, care John B. Gordon, '30, Secretary, Cushing sored by the Tulsa Sooner Club at the Young Ottley Inc., 122 East 42nd St. Citizen. University Club at 6 :30 p . m. the night Robert S. Gordon, '20, Vice president, DALLAS, TEXAS of October 6, by Mrs. Earle S. Porter, 48 Wall Street. Weaver Holland, '13, President, Dallas president of the Tulsa club. CHICAGO Light & Power Company. This dinner takes place the night be- Fred H. Ward, '21, President, 1117 West fore the Tulsa-Oklahoma football game 35th Street. Varsity at Tulsa . Mrs. Porter hopes that alumni LOS ANGELES Robert Waldrop of Oklahoma City from Sapulpa, Skiatook, Claremore, George E. Heap, '23, President, 1926 will be president of the Y. M. C . A. Pawhuska, Bartlesville and other north- Kelton Ave., West Los Angeles, Calif. this year, as the result of the failure of eastern Oklahoma cities will attend . The WASHINGTON, D. C. Jim Riley of Bristow, president-elect, to price of each plate will be only 75 cents. Congressman Wilburn Cartright, '20, return to school . Mr. Riley has accepted The dean of Sooner toastmasters, Wal- President, House Office Building. a position with the Curtis Publishing ter Ferguson, will preside. Bennie William G. Cullen, '16, Secretary-treas- Co. at Bartlesville . Owen, Bo Rowland, Lewie Hardage, urer, Room 827, National Press Build- Perhaps the longest distance any stu- Pete Gracey and President Bizzell are ing, 14th & F. Street, N. W. dent came this year was the trek made expected to speak. BECKHAM COUNTY CLUB by James A. Long of Porte Alegre, Bra- It will aid the Tulsa club if all alum- Dr. V. C . Tisdale, ex '31, President, Elk zil, who enrolled in the University as the ni who can attend this rousing rally will City. second generation in that noted Sooner notify Mrs. Porter, 1115 East 25th Place, H. C . Ivester, '27, Vice president, Sayre. family, the Longs . His father, Frank phones 3-2894, Tulsa, at the earliest pos- Joe McBride, '28, Secretary-treasurer, Elk A. Long, celebrated athelete, graduated sible moment. City in 1908. TULSA Ponies hold more interest than motor- Sooner Club Directory Mrs. Pearl Goodrich Porter, '09, Presi- bikes this year for Walter Davidson of NORMAN dent, 1115 East 25th Place. Wisconsin, son of the motorcycle manu- Harold R. Belknap, '25, President, 111 Travis Milsten, '22, Vice president, 310 facturer, who has enrolled in the Uni- S. Peters Avenue. Tulsa Trust Building . versity. Primary lure of Oklahoma to Frank S. Cleckler, '21, Secretary-treas- Mr. Davidson, , friends say, was Jerry urer, Faculty Exchange . CONTENTS Waters' polo team, which made such a OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahomans at home and abroad 3 remarkable showing in the East-West Earl Foster, '12, President, 920 Perrine The Sooner sport world 12 games . Building. By Harold Keith, '28 It appeared for a while that there Glenn W. Faris, '19, Secretary-treasurer, Your Association 13 might be two presidents of the men's Chamber of Commerce. By Chester Westfall, '16 council but the difficulty seems to be BARNSDALL Just Among us 14 solved with the announcement of Mark Edna Mae Stines, '23, President. By Frank S. Cleckler, '21 Evans of Norman, president, that he Mrs . Marietta Wallace Willis, '23, Vice The University's directed leisure delegated Ewing Sadler of Sulphur to president. program 15 prepare the year's program for the coun- A. Marion Smith, '27, Secretary. Sooners in the New Deal 16 cil, since he was uncertain whether he DUNCAN Alumni and Rush Week 17 would continue as president. Jerome Sullivan, '23, President. Opening Days in Other Years 19 Lecturers who may appear on the A. H. Sills, '24, Vice president, Box 1266, By Ernie Hill, '32 campus during the coming school year, Loco. Belles lettres and bell ringers 28 according to plans being perfected by The Sooner Magazine October

President Bizzell, include R. H. Wedge- as associate professor of chemistry in has been made as to the first Chancellor. wood Benn, former Secretary of State for charge of petroleum technology. In 1925 It seems probable that no one connected India, tentatively scheduled to lecture he was made professor of petroleum en- with the Oklahoma higher education March 7 ; Dr. C. E. M. Joad, celebrated gineering in charge of refinery courses. system will be selected for the office. philosopher of the University of London, He was responsible for the building of Inauguration of the project may be com- February 19; Dr. John Langdon Davies, the refinery of the school of petroleum mitted to President Bizzell, who would author, date not set, and Dr. Sam Sham- engineering. Like Mr. George, Doctor combine his office of President of the alhauser, New York educator, date not Padgett is a graduate of the University University with the Chancellorship. Un- set. of Pittsburgh . der this proposal, two vice-Chancellors The home economics practice house Professor Carson has worked closely would be named, possibly Chancellor this year will be at 425 Park Drive. and cooperatively with the staff of the Findlayson of the University of Tulsa Sigma Epsilon is the name of a new school of petroleum engineering and is and President Bennett, '26M. A., of Ok- local fraternity replacing Sigma Mu Sig- perfectly familiar with the objectives lahoma Agricultural and Mechanical ma, which disbanded last year. The fra- sought in that school. College. ternity, which is seeking the approval of "Professor Carson is unusally well fit- A committee of former Rhodes schol- the University, will have its house at ted to assume his additional duties," ars at the University of Oklahoma, un- 439 West Boyd Street . The local in- President Bizzell says. "For years he has der the chairmanship of Savoie Lottin- tends assume to the unpaid obligations worked to adapt instruction in mechani- ville, '28journ., assistant editor of the of Sigma Mu Sigma, it is understood . cal engineering to the needs of the pe- University Press, has been making a If approved, Sigma Epsilon intends to troleum engineer . He has developed the summary of the Honors Plan as it is in petition for membership in mechanical and gas engineering labor- effect at the University of Oxford. An Epsilon . atory on the campus for training men Honors Plan is contemplated in the One of the first regents of the Uni- in petroleum and natural gas engineer- greater University . versity, William R. Swartout, celebrated ing. Many of the valuable pieces of The Board has recommended that the his fiftieth wedding anniversary Septem- equipment are not found in any other out-of-state tuition fee be increased in ber 3 at Tampa, Florida, his home . The school in the nation ." other state schools to equal that charged Swartouts were married by Henry Ward Under Mr. Carson, the University has by the University, whose fees are $50 a Beecher in New York September 3, 1883. assumed national leadership in the natur- year. The University appeared to be the Mr. Swartout was a regent in 1894. al gas field, forming a perfect comple- only state supported institution having Grantland Rice in his syndicated col- ment to the school of petroleum en- such fees. umn refers to the Vanderbilt-Oklahoma gineering, both of which under bean The Board has decided not to make game as one the of leading intersectional Felgar have added to the already great any changes at the University of Okla- games of the season . national reputation of the college of en- homa. for the present at least. gineering. Petroleum Engineering Indian Superintendent Sooner Law Firm Professor William H. Carson, director Randolph "Chalk" McCurtain, '28as, of the school of mechanical engineering Alvan Muldrow, '33law, and Neil became superintendent of the Indian res- in the college of engineering, has been Keller, '331aw, both of Norman, have ervation at Gallup, New Mexico, Sep- named director of the school of petrol- formed a law partnership and have es- tember 1 under John Collier, Californian eum engineering, succeeding H. C. tablished their offices in the Stubbeman who recently was appointed United States George, internationally known petroleum Building in Norman. Commissioner of Indian Affairs. engineer, who resigned to become direc McCurtain was superintendent of Bok- tor of the school of petroleum engineer- Co-ordinating Progress chito schools for the past four years and ing of the University of Pittsburgh . The Coordinating Board for educa- had been selected school superintendent A further depletion of the brilliant fac- tion in Oklahoma resumed its meeting at Lexington previous to his federal ap- ulty of this school carne with the resig- in the Capitol at Oklahoma City Mon- pointment. He was a member of Sigma nation of Dr. Fred W. Padgett, profes- day, August 28, to complete plans for a Chi fraternity during his undergraduate sor of petroleum engineering, who has charter for the Greater University of Ok- days. resigned to become a member of the Sun lahoma and to discuss the executive or- Oil Co. staff at Marcus Hook, Pennsyl- ganization for the new educational sys- Modern Language Head vania. Doctor Padgett was working for tem. Reford Bond of Chickasha pre- Dr. H. Michael "Sinky" Lewis, '28as, this firm in their development depart- sided as chairman became head of the modern language de- ment during the summer . Considerable progress has been made partment at the Alabama College for Both Professor George and Doctor on the coordinating plan. A committee Women, Montgomery, Alabama, this fall . Padgett go to handsomely increased sal- inspected the Canadian system of col- Dr. Lewis earned the prefix at the Uni- aries. Both have been greatly instru- leges during the summer, to determine versity of Poitiers, Poitiers, mental in making France in the Oklahoma school the adaptability of certain features of the 1930. He was enrolled here preeminent in again last the world among petro- Canadian coordinated school system to year as a graduate student leum engineering . schools. Mr. George Oklahoma . Another committee has ap- is returning to his alma mater and to proached the Carnegie Foundation for Vinita Band Director the school where he taught from 1904 to the Advancement of Learning, seeking That high-stepping, sway-back drum 1907. He came to the University in 1924, to have that Foundation match funds major who led the University of Okla- from Ardmore, where he was petroleum advanced by the state on a five-year pro- homa band onto the football field be- engineer in charge of the United States gram for research. While the Founda- tween halves during the past three Bureau of Mines office . sea- Doctor Padgett, tion has not yet given consideration to sons has taken his baton to Vinita like Mr. George, where has an international rep- making such a grant, the Coordinating he will direct the municipal utation, having and school been a consultant for the Board has voted to assess each institu- bands this year. Russian government in the Baku petro- tion which will be affiliated with the Hugo Goetz, '33fa, the man who made leum field. He has been a member of new system fifty cents a student, in or- drum majoring an art at the university, the University faculty for sixteen years, der to create a research fund. was elected director of the Vinita bands having come to the University in 1917 Considerable newspaper speculation this fall after he returned from Chicago

1933 The Sooner Magazine

H . C. George (left) has resigned as di- rector of the school of pe troleum engineering to ac- cept a similar position at the University of Pittsburgh. William H . Carson (right), director of the school of mechanical engineering, has been named his successor

where he directed the El Reno high The Altus forensic stars won the na- Harvard Scholarship school band in daily concerts at the tional championship May 11 when their, Harvey McCaleb, '33as, Olustee, has World's Fair Transportation building . debate was broadcast by the Columbia gone to Harvard where he will study for During his years at the University, chain from Akron, Ohio. the diplomatic service. McCaleb was Goetz organized a band at the Central granted a scholarship to study both at State hospital and conducted a class in Telephone Directory Harvard and Tufts College. He was a government major at the University and drum majoring at the University . MEN'S FRATERNITIES : completed a semester of graduate work. 345 Sapulpa College Sooners 1711 Sailing, Sailing The Sapulpa Junior College faculty 311 Among the most enthusiastic sail boat will be able to open its executive ses- 1477 sions with "Boomer-Sooner" this year, skippers at Lake Overholster, north of 2321 Oklahoma City, are Mathew Kane, '32 since three of the five faculty members Epsilon 445 law, and Evan Chambers, '33ex. Their are University of Oklahoma graduates. 1500 The trio of Sooner alumni are Harry trim Snipe was christened early in the 1444 summer and is one of the speediest "Doc" Kniseley, '26as ; Helen Irene Kappa Alpha 1313 crafts on the extensive city lake. Cham- Slentz, M.A.'33; and Linnie Mae Led- 152 bers, a former gridiron player, was better, '25as. 661 scheduled to attend Baylor university Phi Beta Delta 772 medical school this fall. Tulsa's Baby Market 235 One of the rivals for speed on the pond The investigation of the alleged "baby 475 is the good ship piloted by Barney Craw- market" in Tulsa was instigated by Miss 674 ford, '32law, and Mrs. Barney Ruth Run- Helen Schaeffer, '21he, director of the 2300 yan Crawford, '32as, who own one of Tulsa children's service bureau. 549 the largest sail boats on the lake . She reported baby sales to the state 1490 commissioner of charities and corrections Alpha Epsilon 2570 Sigma Young Turns Professional and assisted in digging out information. 170 Paul Young, '33ex, one of the great- She reported late in August that she was Sigma Mu Sigma 220 est Sooner gridiron centers .of all times, acquainted with at least five cases where 726 has been signed to play professional foot- babies were sold for $70 to $100 to pay 1073 hospital costs of unmarried mothers. ball with the Wisconsin Green Bay Pack- WOMEN'S FRATERNITIES : ers. As captain of the 1932 team, he The Altus Champions Alpha Chi Omega 226 gained a national reputation and earned That famous Altus senior high school Alpha Gamma Delta 1780 All-American mention on several eastern debate team that won the national champ- Alpha Phi 801 and mid-western mythical elevens. ionship this year and spent the summer Alpha Xi Delta 418 touring the north and east is coached Beta Sigma Omicron 1175 Sooners at Tonkawa by Mrs. Eula Boulware Peterson, '32ex. Chi Omega 971 Seven Tonkawa Junior College faculty Mrs. Peterson accompanied her young Delta Delta Delta 260 members this fall are former University champions on the tour to the Century Delta Gamma 650 students. Five of the seven are gradu- of Progress World's Fair, Washington, Gamma Phi Beta 148 ates of the University and the other two D. C., Niagara Falls, New York City Kappa Alpha Theta 2560 have engaged in graduate work here. and points in Canada. The trip was Kappa Kappa Gamma 182 Dr . R. R. Robinson, '18M .A., president arranged by the Altus chamber of com- Phi Mu 896 of the junior college, announced that the merce in cooperation with the General Pi Beta Phi 1516 following Sooners would appear on his Motors, Inc. Sigma Delta Tau 2222 faculty roll: 25 43 6 4 The Sooner Magazine October

H. W. Threlkeld, '24M.A., dean of the ed to down Fox with the double Jap- Southern newspaper 'reports said of school ; V. G. Wilhite, '21as, history and anese toe hold, only to have it broken. Mills' diamond work when the sale was government; Mrs. Louise S. Johnson, '29 The fourth time Eubanks snapped on announced : M.A ., Latin and French; Wayne Webb, the hold, Fox's back was wrenched . "The young outfielder was a sensation '31M.A ., physics ; Miss M. Dorothy Long, "Eubanks turned, tried a standing crab with Mobile the few weeks the South- '26as, English ; Mrs. Elizabeth Q. Adams, hold and pinned the Dallas man . Fox eastern league lasted, and when the cir- Mills' contract was trans- '26ex, romance languages ; and H. A. was carried off the mat and given first cuit `blew up' Elmira, Mills hit Matkin, '33ex, commerce. aid treatment. He was unable to re- ferred to Elmira. At turn and forfeited to Eubanks. Fox was .337, giving him the second best average scientific as Eubanks." in the league among players participat- Myra Hess Scheduled strong but not as ing in 100 games . At the close of the known musi- Three internationally 1932 season, he was sold to Rochester at Mrs. Hardenstein Marries cians have been booked to appear in the International league. special particular interest to Delta Gam- the university auditorium in Of "Mills, this season, has played 94 year. They mas and Phi Delts and friends of Delta concerts during the school games, gone to bat 369 times, scoring violinist; Gammas and Phi Delts was the mar- are Jascha Heifetz, famous 60 runs and making 114 hits for a total and last June of Mrs. Frank W. Hard- E . Robert Schmitz, French pianist; riage of 142 bases. His extra base hits in- greatest living enstein to E . S. Candler, Huntsville, Myra Hess, called the clude 26 doubles, seven triples and six Mississippi. woman pianist. homeruns He has stolen 13 bases and Mrs. Hardenstein was hostess on the driven in 32 runs." Monnetian Influence University campus for thirteen years, " 1921, 1922 at the Seven University Law School graduates serving in 1920, and Testimony for Posterity eighth Sooner alumnus hold a Delta Gamma house and for the next ten and an The ten-year record, 1921 to 1931, of the county, district and fed- years at the Phi Delta Theta house. From majority of the university community institutes pro- in Tulsa. Four are a point of service, she was the oldest hos- eral legal offices shown through newspaper and are prosecuting at- tess on the campus and probably the gram as judges and four letters most loved and respected. magazine clippings and was pre- torneys. sented in August to J. L. Rader, '08as, Hurst, '12law, and Harry Her wedding was an interesting union Thurman University librarian . '17law, are district court judges in that she returned this summer to Iuka, Halley, The presentation of the material in The common pleas court has Mississippi, twenty miles from Corinth, there. scrapbook form was made by Rev. Dun- Randolph, '12law, and Leslie the scene of her childhood days. Here William can McRuer, Norman, former organizer Webb, '20law on the benches. she met Candler once more in the of the program throughout the state. Dr. county attorney is Holly Ander- neighborhood where they had been child- The J. W. Scroggs, former director of the '24law, and his two assistants are hood playmates. son, extension division, and one of the mov- W. F. Gilmer, '24law, and John Conway, Candler is known as "the Honorable ing figures in the community institutes '22law . W. B. Blair, '07as, is assistant Mr. Candler of Mississippi" where he program, was present when the scrap- States district attorney in Tulsa . has been prominent in state politics for United book was given the library. judges who died during the year many years. Although a banker in the Two The community institutes program was Owen, '13ex, and Samuel business world, he was representative to are Owen concerned with instigating community Crossland, '20ex. the United States Congress for twenty years. reforms and improvement drives in state towns and cities . Its work was curtail - Three '33 Coaches Honest Fisherman cd in 1931 when a reorganization of the Three Sooner athletes of the June, '33 extension division was made. Its ac- An honest fisherman, may his tribe graduating class are giving orders this complishments are shown in the clip- Charles B. Hickok, '24law, fall to "lay off the pie and fried meat" increase, is pings and letters. instead of being on the receiving end. Shawnee attorney, who admits the big Edsul Curnutt, end on the football catch of the day is "not large enough Another Chicago Hutchins for picture ." He does not even men- team for two years, was appointed a O. E. Hatcher, '27M.A., 32 years old, Chandler high school grid mentor, while tion the one that got away. is the new president of Northwestern Ab Walker, backfield midget for the Bryan Roberts, sports columnist for State Teachers college at Alva . His carries the following past two years, directs the Okmulgee The Shawnee News, youthfulness has been the subject for from Hickok: high school team. Curtis Turner, let- letter in his column comment in Oklahoma educational cir- terman wrestler, went to Sulphur as mat 20 miles north, Brainerd, Minn. cles. Dear Bryan : coach. Mr. Hatcher did his undergraduate my first pickerel - three Caught work at East Central State Teachers col- Eubanks is a Favorite pounds. Not large enough for a pic- lege, Ada, and Phillips university, Enid . A Duncan favorite on the professional ture, but boy! "that's fun!" Also several Also, he has studied law at the Uni- bass. Coming into small mat is Elton Eubanks, '33ex, captain of two pound versity of Tulsa and Drake university, a sign said "George- Coach Paul Keen's 1932 Sooner wrestling town in Iowa, road Des Moines, Iowa. He is two years team. town, V2 mile north, 50 feet east." Pines, younger than Robert Maynard Hutchins, Typical of Duncan's enthusiasm over lakes, etc., are beautiful . youthful University of Chicago president. the young Devol wrestler is a story re- CHARLES B . HICKOK when Eu- Comments Mr. Roberts : "The lucky cently in The Duncan Banner Waterfield is Dean banks pinned "Cyclone" Fox . Said the cuss. : Clement B. Waterfield, assistant in Banner University, "Elton Eubanks, Duncan favorite, won Colonel Sold to Cardinals English last year at the has his match over `Cyclone' Fox, 174-pound Colonel Buster Mills, Ranger, Texas, been chosen by Superintendent of Schools Beaird, '29M.S., as dean of the mat man from Dallas, in just 19%z min- who did big things for Soonerland base- C. C. which was opened this utes at the weekly wrestling show here ball and football back in 1929 and 1930, junior college last night. has been signed by the Saint Louis Card- fall at Poteau. "There was only one fall. Three times inals in the National league to report for Mr. Waterfield was in charge of spec- the University of Oklahoma boy attempt- spring baseball practice in 1934. ial classes for arts and sciences seniors 1933 The Sooner Magazine 7 who were deficient in a knowledge of English composition and grammar. He In short, tutored seniors for the past two years in the long man is Roy Knight, the plan which is designed to raise the freshman from standard of University arts and sciences Eldorado, Arkansas, six graduates. feet, six and one-half " inches of all-Arkansas Newblock M. A. C. Jumper football material, while his fellow classmate is his brilliant Continuing career as a Roger Ben Brown, Po- high jumper and hurdler, Bill New- teau, who is three fee` block, '33bus, captain of the 1933 Sooner and eleven inches tall team, has been signed as a member of the Philadelphia Meadowbrook Athletic Club. Newblock, who holds the Big Six high jump record at six feet three and seven-eighths inches and the Sooner 120- yard low hurdle and 50-yard indoor hurdles records, will attend the What- ton school of finance at the University of Pennsylvania this fall .

Ticket Prices Tickets for the Sooner's home games this year will be of three different prices, according to Athletic Director Ben G. Owen. All contests at Memorial Stadium will start at 3 o'clock, an hour later than last year. Tickets for the Iowa State Dads' Day game, October 21, the Kansas Home- coming game, November 4, and the Ok- lahoma Aggies Thanksgiving game, November 30, will be $2 .20 for the best seats in the west stadium, $1.65 for seats between the 20 and 35-yard lines in the west stadium and in the center of the east stadium and $1 .10 for seats between the 20 and 35-yard lines in the east sta- dium . Slightly advanced prices will be charged for the opening contest, Septem- ber 30, against Vanderbilt University . The three prices will be $2.65, $2.20 and $1 .65 . Seats for the Oklahoma-Texas game October 14 at Dallas also may be ordered M .E ., former head of the Cameron Col- was a member of the Athletic Council for through the University Athletic Depart- education department which was two years . He was a letterman in foot- ment. The price : box seats $2.50, lege scale is abolished . Jackson was re-employed to ball, basketball and baseball for three west side $2 and east side $1 .50. teach history. years and was captain of the football and All ticket orders should be addressed baseball teams in 1927. He was also a Ben G. Owen, Athletic Director, Uni- to Coach Granny member of various social and honorary versity of Oklahoma, Fieldhouse, Nor- That great one-Granville Thomas fraternities and organizations . man, Oklahoma . Choice of seats should "Granny" Norris, '29as-has checked his "Idabel is unusually fortunate in se- be specified may be made and payment football, baseball and basketball brains curing Coach `Granny' Norris as a mem- by personal check, cashier's check or out of Cushing to become Idabel high ber of its high school faculty . The Ga- money order. Twenty cents, extra for school's athletic director this fall. zette extends its best wishes together en- postage and registration should be The McCurtain Gazette, Idabel's week- with a hearty welcome to Idabel." closed. This applies to the Texas game ly newspaper, greets Norris: Regnold Williams, '31ex, has been em- as well as the four home matches. "Few O . U. students have received ployed by the Idabel high school this higher athletic and general honors than fall to assist Coach Granville Norris Sooners at Cameron `Granny' Norris . In 1927 he was award- with the athletic program . Williams Four new faculty members, three of ed a placque by the President of the Uni- was awarded his B . S. degree at South- them Sooner alumni, were added to the versity-a reward that goes to the best eastern State Teachers college the year Cameron college faculty at Lawton late all-round athlete. He received the after he attended the University as an in August to complete the teaching ros- `Brown Derby' award the same year for undergraduate student. ter. being the student selected who had con- The three former University students tributed the most to the school . For District Representative are W. J. Becker, '31M.A., former Law- two years he was a member of the Uni- Robert A . Yoder, '27ex, formerly of ton high school teacher; J. G . True, '33 versity Student Council, serving this or- New York City, is now established in M.A., Carnegie; and A. L. Jackson, '24 ganization as treasurer in 1926-27. He Norman with his family . He is the

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southwestern manager for the Standard awarded four Sooner alumni and stu- 67.3 pounds of butterfat in a month to Statistics Company of New York and dents at the annual parks and play- win individual production honors in Ok- his Norman address is 624 Classen Boul- grounds pageant late in August in Ok- lahoma County . A stable mate of Mable's evard. Mr. Yoder has been connected lahoma City. took second place for the month with with the New York office of the Stand- Twelve badges in all were given the 65 .7, a mark also considerably above 3.2, . ard Statistic Company for a number of most efficient superintendents. Four of years. the dozen were Mrs. Josephine Romine, A Balloonist's Escape '29M.S., Miss Jimmie Prater, '25ed, Miss The annual James Gordon Bennett Before Three Arts Club Marcella Hill, '32as, and Leslie Hemry, balloon race almost resulted in tragedy There have been many fine tenors '34law . for a Sooner balloonist, Frank A. Trot- from Shawnee back in the pre-pre days ter, '19ex, and his fellow pilot Ward T. but never a soprano like Miss Gladys Tulsa Sooner Principals Van Orman. Their balloon came down Ingram, '32fa, who returned to her Ten of Tulsa's thirty-four public in the wilds of Canada, between Sud- Shawnee home recently after an extend- school principals are University of Okla- bury and Abitibi Canyon, in northern ed period of voice study in New York homa graduates . The list of s hool ex- Ontario, September 3 and the airmen City. ecutives announced late in August were not rescued until September 11. Miss Ingram studied under Madame showed the following University alumni In order to acquaint the world with Luella Melius in the east and was pre- placed for the year: their plight, the airmen cut down a tele- sented in an individual recital before Roy B . Bradshaw, '23as; Add E. Cop- phone pole and attached a note to it, the Three Arts Club of New York City. pers, '29M.S. ; Oscar C. Griggs, '28M.S.; signed by Trotter. The Associated Press She was also selected by the New York Fitzhugh L. Hambrick, '27as; J. H. reported the note as saying: Opera Association for several broadcasts Hodges, '29M.S., Jess S. Huds n, '29M. "This telephone pole was cut Septem- team over station WOR. S.; Robert E. McCollum, '26M. .; Mau ber 10 by U. S. Goodyear balloon The Forward, music review magazine rice Magee, '22bs; Frank Pauly, '17as; of W. T . Van Orman and Frank Trot- of New York, commented concerning and Arthur L. Richards, '13as. ter in the hope that repairmen would Miss Ingram : aid us in getting to civilization from here. "In addition to her remarkable so- Tea and Fog We will continue south along high volt- prano voice, Miss Ingram possesses fine Enough Sooner alumni for a round of age line. Please come after us. We have musicianship and unsurpassed diction bridge will be enrolled at Oxford uni- a gun and some food, but are both sick which enables her to use her voice to the versity, England, this fall. All four of evidently from ptomaine poisoning. Fire ans- best advantage." Oklahoma's out-of-continent students your gun three times and we will Miss Ingram studied under William will be Rhodes scholars. wer. Please hurry. F. A. TROTTER." G. Schmidt while she attended the Uni- They are : Jack Fischer, '32as, Okla- A policeman, out to investigate the versity. homa City; Davis St. Clair, '33as, Nor- cause of the line being down, found the man; Wilmore Kendall, '27as, Tulsa; note and discovered the balloonists. "I Sooner High Coaches and Carl Albert, '31a.s, McAlester. never saw two men in my life who were Frank Crider, '30as, 1929 Sooner foot- so glad to see another human being as ball captain, became the Seminole high Milburn as an Aggie they were," the patrolman said. "They school football coach this fall. Crider George Milburn, '30ex, a contributing hollered with glee and hugged and kissed was offered a contract as assistant coach editor of The Sooner Magazine, once at- me as soon as they saw me." at Norman high school but refused it tended A. & M. college at Stillwater, a The balloonists were caught in a for the head coachship. contributor to Walt Mill's "Don't Wor- thunder storm, and descended from an Hal Muldrow, jr., '28bus, resigned ry" column in the Oklahoma City Times altitude of 8,000 feet landing in a pine during the past summer as athletic di- reminds us. Writing at Stillwater col- tree more than a foot in diameter. The rector and football and basketball coach lege had its perils, the writer remarks. tree broke, damaging the balloon . Both at Norman high school. He entered the The comment follows : men were in an exhausted condition insurance business in Norman. He had "Now that he's gaining recognition, when found and suffering from ptomaine been athletic director for four years. with mention even in the editorial col- poisoning. They had lived on pork and Dewey "Snorter" Luster, Sooner foot- umns, George Milburn is claimed by the beans, which they ate sparingly. ball captain and end in 1920, is back at University as its own-notwithstanding Mr. Trotter was enrolled in the Uni- Norman high school as athletic director the barbs in his writing. But before h° versity as a freshman engineering stu- after serving as Sooner line coach under went to the University, George was a stu- dent. Adrian Lindsay and head coach at the dent at Oklahoma A. and M. College, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, in and that recalls his first visit to the Still- Establish Firm 1932 . Luster put the Norman high water campus in the spring of 1925. Carl O. Craig, '29bus, former treasurer school football team on the map in 1926 Very pale--he had just sold some blood of the University of Oklahoma Press, and and 1927 with all-victorious seasons. for a transfusion-and wearing a shoe- Herbert Smith, '30bus, former book- string tie, George got a ride with a Tulsa keeper of the extension division of the Completes Bust woman motorist . The Stillwater water University, plan to establish themselves David Lester, '35fa, Bethany, the son tower is on the east side of the city, and in the accounting business in Seattle, of the son of the son of the son of David so George wrote a funny piece for The Washington . They left Norman the Crockett, fearless scout and hunter, this O'Collegian called "East of the Water middle of August, and, after a visit in summer completed a bust of his famous Tower." Some of his remarks offended California, expect to arrive in Seattle great-great-grandfather. It was placed the woman motorist, and as a result the latter part of September. in the Alamo at San Antonio, Texas, on George had to thumb his way back to the ninety-seventh anniversary of the Tulsa~I . E. H." A Lucky Swerve year Crockett fell in defense of the his- A protruding drill pipe in the dark toric building . Undergraduate Note being a much more dangerous obstacle Honors came to a buxom member of than the conventional bed post in the Badges of Merit the University hospital dairy department dark, George Selinger, 29law, is thank- Badges of merit for supervising kiddies force during August . One healthy ful for a fractured arm. on Oklahoma City's playgrounds were young Holstein named Mable produced The assistant prorational attorney for 1933 The Sooner Magazine the corporation committee was driving was that of Clare W. Fisher, '06ex, of while Hill was a powerful, hard run- his car toward Oklahoma City from Tul- Norman. ning halfback . Reeds was another Cap- sa early one morning in August when Mr. Vetter's letter, filled with the old- shaw, only 15 pounds heavier and that he discovered a parked truck, drill pipe time Sooner pep, is republished below, would make him just about invincible. protruding, a scant five yards in front while Mr. Fisher's selection, made espec- Boy, what a team! of his speeding automobile. He swerved ially for The Sooner Magazine follows. Just send my ticket to the king of Si- and the pipe struck his windshield . Had Mr. Vetter's selection: am because I'll be there when the referee lie failed to swerve, the corporation com- Looking back over this third of a cen- toots the opening whistle September mittee undoubtedly would have had a tury of O. U. football history, and con- thirtieth at the Vanderbilt game, and new assistant prorational attorney . sidering each man from the standpoint wild horses wouldn't keep me out of of his vital part in a crucial game in a that stadium. Relief Supervisor critical season, I name the following as Yours for O. U. the all-time Closer contact with the families of per- all-star Sooner eleven : Mr. Fisher's selection: sons obtaining federal relief is being End-Tarz Marsh, '20. C--Thompson Hamm Young sought both by state and federal admin- End--Tom Churchill, '29. G-Monnett J . Merkle Wolfe istrators of relief funds, and in order to Tackle-Sabe Hott, '12. Bashara Norris Hott obtain this contact in Oklahoma State Tackle-Granny Norris, '27. T--Douglass F. Merkle Tolbert Relief Director Beckett has named Miss Guard-Key Wolf, '08. Campbell Hamilton Wingate Edna McKinnon, '17nurse, of Norman, Guard--Bill McKinley, '20. E--Montgomery Marsh Walling as state supervisor of women's work . Center-Paul Young, '31. Haskell Fields Pickard Miss McKinnon will appoint a trained Quarterback-Bob Dunlap, '32 . QB-Cross Johnson Ambrister case worker in every county in order Halfback--Fred Capshaw, '11. HB-F. Roberts Hughes that proper investigation may be had to Dunlap Halfback-Dutch Hill, '20. Bristow Acton learn whether relief is reaching the per- Mills Fullback-Claude Reeds, '13. RB-Capshaw Warren Pansze sons in need. Her appointment was 1 commenced being an O. U. fan back FB--Reeds Geyer White approved by Governor Murray and the in the days of Paul Mackey, '98, Frank Campbell and Wallace federal relief administration . at center ; Hef- Long, '04, and Roger Berry, '11, because ley, Tolbert, Hott, Smoot, McKinley in all these boys were "home town" fans to the line ; LeCrone and Churchill at ends ; First Graduate's Picture me. When I went to college my team Courtright, Potts, Hill, Truesdale, Want- A place of Donor for one of the two played O. U. on several occasions when land, Chuck Reed, C. C. Roberts, Trim first graduates of the University will be Key Wolf, '08, Charley Wantland, '08 Capshaw, in the backfield, and many in the Oklahoma Union building soon. Fred Capshaw, '11, and Claude Reeds, more, all were fine players and deserve A photograph of the first secretary of '13 were making priceless footprints over to be ranked on an all-time team. the Alumni Association, who was also all opponents. I am not attempting to pick eleven one of the first two graduates, has been Defeat at the hands of Bennie's all- star players . That would be unfair to presented to the Association, handsomely victorious teams only increased my re- the many fine players who have worn framed. Carleton Ross Hume, '98, M. spect and loyalty for the Sooners . Then O. U. colors . I am using a sport writer's A . '00, of Anadarko, has given the As- a sidekick of mine, in the person of one prerogative and selecting three teams of sociation a duplicate of the photograph Sale Hott, made the O. U. team, and what I consider the best men who have which hung in the first Administration did he make it? Ask Mr. Harmon, the played at O. U. and even then I have Building of the University and which 205-pound Nebraska all-American and to give honorable mention to several . I was destroyed by fire when the old build- also every other man Sabe ever played am putting them in three strings merely ing burned in 1903. The present photo- against. for the sake of designating a first string. graph belonged to Mr. Ross's mother for By that time I was coaching teams my- As a matter of fact there isn't a bit of dif- years. Mr. Ross was secretary of the self and once in a while one of my boys ference, in my opinion, between any of Association from 1899 to 1901 and pres- would make Bennie's team also. First the men named, and a number of others ident from 1909 to 1910. there was Switch Light, '17, then Big who could be well placed on the team. 13111 McKinley, Eddie Johnson, '22, Ram I have seen every team from '97 to '14 "The Gay Divorcee" Morrison, '22, and Cliff Bowles, '23. It in every home game. Since that time un- A Sooner actor will play a lead in was a pleasure to send a boy to Bennie til '26, 1 have only seen them in action London this winter. On the stage Erik just as it was a pleasure to play against for a few home games each season . But Rh.odes, he is better known to Sooners Bennie's teams, because every Oklaho- since '26 to date, have seen them in by his campus name of Ernest Sharpe, ma team Bennie ever coached fought every home game. '27as . He has been playing one of the hard and clean. And it was good for I do not claim any special gift in the principal roles in The Gay Divorcee in the boys too. Look how many of Ben- picking. I, played some in high school, New York, with Freda Astaire in the nie's old football players have made a refereed for four years in northeastern leading role, at the Shubert theater. With success in business, politics or as profes- Oklahoma high school contests, and have three other principals, Mr. Rhodes was sional men. handled some sports news for papers . to sail for London September 15, where Getting back to my all-time team, In my pick I am considering football he will be during the winter season in Marsh and Churchill were big, powerful brains, first, the brawn and ability to the New York vehicle. He had pre- ends, smart and versatile. Hott and Nor- use that brain, and the intestinal courage viously appeared in Hey Nonny Nonny ris weren't as big as the average tackle to use it and keep going, even though and The Passing Show. but they knew the game and each had about ready to go on the hospital list. courage and a world of fighting spirit. Take Thompson at center, a fairly Prize-Winning Letter Wolf and McKinley were two of the best heavy player, fast, never had a bad pass, Harry A. Vetter, '29M.S., of Goodwell, guards on the two greatest lines Okla- and could follow the ball better than any Oklahoma, won the first reserved seat homa ever had, while everybody knows other man ever to wear an O. U. uni- ticket in the contest being sponsored by now about Paul Young and Bob Dunlap. form. Hamm, Young and Wallace all The Daily Oklahoman to select an all Capshaw was a sweet back who could as good except for this uncanny knack time Sooner football team. Second let- do anything and do it as well as most of always being on top of the play on ter to be published and to win a prize bigger men despite his lack of weight defense. 10 The Sooner Magazine October

At guard 1 am moving Big Jim Mon- I am picking rabbitbacks to go with Ira Powell Crouthamel, '33eng ., 531 West Mis- souri street, El Paso, Texas. nett over from tackle, as the man who this spread in the persons of F. Capshaw, Paul B. Cullen, '24as., Central Baptist Church, made the all-American Houser look like Courtright, Warren and Panszc . Cap- Muskogee . a grade school player can not be left off shaw is perhaps in a class by himself, as Hortense Edwards, '23ex, 215 south St . An- any all star selection. Bashara, here is he and Courtright seem to be the ex- drews, Los Angeles, California . got Miss Gaylord D. Epperson, '32as., Wilson . one boy who has not the credit he ample with which all present day light Dr. George Randle Felts, '30B .S ., '32med ., Tu- deserves. Always in every play. A hard backs are compared . Warren and Panszc lare County Hospital, Tulare, California. man to get out of the way. Opens up are just about as good and either of Dr . Richard B. Ford, '26B . s., '28med., 404 the line well and is always bobbing up them was a fine broken field runner and Medical Arts Building, Tulsa. . Joseph G. Gordon, '15B .S ., Logo Petri Com- when least expected Watch him in his dangerous at all times. pany, Maracaibo, Venezuela. next game. Wolfe, Merkle Norris, Hott, It all resolves itself into the fact that Victor P. (:rage, '29geol., 104 East Lister, Hefley, Talbot. All rate equal with these it is absolutely impossible to pick the Shreveport, Louisiana. two. eleven or the twenty-two or even the A. L. "Bus" Haskins, '29as., 4746 Ronoke street, Kansas City, Missouri . At tackle, there never have been two thirty-three best men who have played 0. W. Johnson, '02Ph.C ., 300 Rossiter Avenue, men quite the all-around equal of big here . Baltimore, Maryland . Douglass and Campbell . Fast, tricky, cool, The old time teams were better phy- Zelda Freyda Kirschner, '32as., 3528 Park, Kans- they roamed over the field at will . Hard sically, because they were composed of as City, Missouri . Robert Lisk, '33eng., 1128 76th street, N. W., smashers, deadly tacklers . Merkle, Ham- more mature men, who had all done Washington, D. C. ilton, Wingate, Hott, all the same type manual labor from the time they were 1)r. Ralph Leon Marx, '30B .S ., '32med, Bro- but not quite so fast. old enough to go out and help dad. If ken Arrow. At ends I take Montgomery and Has- you would take out the forward pass Dr. s. R. Medley, '21med ., Spooner, Wisconsin. Harry Nighswonger, '12B .S ., 'Has ., 210 Center kell, both deadly pass snatchers, fast and the old timers would probably wallop the street, Alva . hard to get around . Seldom, if ever, daylights out of a present day team, but Sam s. Nowlin, '321aw, Montgomery City, boxed, and good down the field on punts. put it in and the team of today would Missouri . Marsh, Walling Fields, Pickard . All the have a track meet. So there you are. Dr . Dwight Dillion Pierson, '31B .S ., '32med ., Clinton. same breed. One as good as the other. But pick your men for an all-time team Mrs. Susan Westmoreland Powers, 13nurse, At quarter Bill Cross gets the call . A from the way they played under the rules 1445 East 8th street, Tucson, Arizona. good kicker, a fine field general, who of the game at the time they wore mole- Floranna Ruhl, '32fa., Mannford . was always boss of the team, a good re- skins and there will be many an old- Clarence Roscoe Stevens, '28eng., Box 1597, Kilgore, Texas. returner of punts, and a good broken timer ranked high on the rolls . Virgil D. Tinkelpaugh, '26eng., 1415 Rio field runner. He gets a slight edge on I would like to mention that in those Grande, Fort Worth, Texas. Johnson and Ambrister. Although there days the quarterback kick was employed Shelley Tracy. 'Has ., care Tracy-Lockc-Dawson, is really not enough difference to be very and was much harder to direct and hand- 28th floor, 22 East 40th street, New York City. cranky about any one of the three. le than the forward pass . Also I heard a Elbert Voss, '28B .S ., '30M .S ., care Pharmacy At half. Now here is a man that all certain coach remark the other day that Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, these would-be team pickers have missed the early day men were not as hard play- Florida. because he was away back in the dim, ers as those of today. Oh, yes, you're tell- W. C. Woodward, '296us ., 219 Petroleum Buildnig, Fort Worth, Texas. (lark ages, and yet Fred Roberts in th°_ ing me. What was the reason for the opinion of every coach and eastern foot- adoption of the forward pass and the MARRIAGES ball man who saw him in action was open game? I dimly remember that it rated at the top of the bunch. As hard had something to do with so many men PECK-LAMBERT: Miss Page Peck, '33as., and McMillan Lambert, '33ex, August 30 in Okla- a line plunger as either Sloan or Howell getting killed or badly injured. The in- homa City . Pi Beta Phi-. of Nebraska, as shifty in a broken field jured list after a big game back in the home, Ardmore. as Fred Capshaw and an instinctive foot- days of the old "army" game looked very SPURR-LAMPL: Dorothy Nunnellcy Spurr, '33 hall thinker. An all-O. U. team without much like a world war casualty list. But ex, and Henry Lampl, August 17 in Seminole . Delta Gamma. Home, Topeka, Kansas . him is like an all-Michigan team without 1 suppose I am wrong and they played BEARD-CHURCH: Miss Elizabeth Pauline Beard, Hueston, or Yale without Hinkey, or tag football then and served pink tea. '29ex, and Robert A. Church, '30eng ., August Harvard without Brickley . Bristow at the Oh, yeah. Notwithstanding, the great 20 in Oklahoma City. Home, Ponca City . other half is a good kicker, passer, block- Hinkeys, Huestons, Thorps, Hefflingers, THOMPSON-HALL: Miss Caroline Thompson . '33ex, and Albert LeClair Hall, '33eng .. No- er, and could plunge the line or skirt the Poes, Whites, et cetera . No one ever re- vember 26, 1932 . Home, 223 Northeast 4th line. Hughes, Action, Mills and Dunlap fers to these boys nowdays. Only just to street, Oklahoma City. arc of the same type of backs as was compare some present day boy by say- EDWARDS-CROMWELL: Miss Mary Edwards, Hill, Swateke, White. ing "he's pretty near as good as-" '31ex, and Lee Cromwell, '24as., June 21, Kap- pa Alpha Theta-Phi Ganuna Delta. Home, At fullback Claude Reeds was prob- And Benjamin Gilbert Owen for the 523 south Pierce street, Enid. ably the best all-round man ever de- coach. When a man can take eleven men shinaberger-kirk: Miss Marie Shinaberger, veloped at O. U. in this position. He and a water boy and mould winning and '33as., and Clyde Kirk, July 8 in McAlester. could plunge, skirt the ends, was a good all-victorious teams, he is good enough Home . Norman . ELLIS-STEELE: Miss Myrne Ellis, '29phys.ed ., line backer and kicker, and an exception- for yours truly. and Roy Steele, '321aw, June 12 in Shawnee. ally fine passer and interferer. Geyer Home, Granite. and White were also good men, but did SOONER ROLL CALL SHOEMATE-BELKNAP: Miss Helen Lucille Shoe- not possess all the fine points of Reed. mate, '33ex, and Harold Belknap. '25as., Jill', DIRECTORY CHANGES 11 in Oklahoma City . Home, 1002 south Mil- And here let me make mention of a boy, William Glenn Bowles, '33geol.eng., 628 North ler, Norman . who for his inches and ounces was one Broadway, Shawnee. JOHNSON-MARSHALL: Miss Virginia Johnson, of the best backs ever in an O. U. lineup . Dr. Gaines Levy Brightwell, '29B.S.,'30med., and A. M. Marshall, jr., '29ex, June 7 in Ok- I refer to Hugh Roberts who had he pos- Marbine, Colorado . lahoma Citv . Home, Chandler . ., 411 Sth, Gary . HUGHES-BOW: Miss Anna Hughes . and Row sessed 15 or 20 more pounds could have Rodney R. Burns, '33bus West Indiana. H. Bow, '21Ph.G. June 1, Home, 1537 North- made anybody's team . Weighing around Walter M. Burress, '21as., Box 515, Houston, west 45th street, Oklahoma Citv . 140 to 150 with a few rocks in his pock- Texas. MIL LER-ACKER : Miss Lucille Miller, and Louie Beta Pi . Home, et, he made his letter in the days of the John 13 . Charles, 15ex, Stroud . E. Acker, '29eng ., June 9 . Tat Charles Norman Cornwall, '25as_ 633 East 202'/, North Walnut, Oklahoma City . "big man game." I am not listing him on Calfax, Denver, Colorado . LONGMIRE-OTWELL: Miss Rozella Longmire, this "all time team" but he sure deserves Dr. Matt A. Cormell, '30B .S ., Picher Hospital, '32ed., and James Jay Orwell, June 1. Home, it. 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SHIPE-SHAW: Miss Ruth Shipe, '27as., and HARMON-TISDAL: Miss Helen Harmon, '32ex, Norman for burial . He was the Son of Mr . James Langford Shaw, May 10 . Home, Ada. and William C. Tisdal, '33med ., June 17 in and Mrs. J . O. Shead of Norman . lie left the Miss Mary CHAMPLIN-CHAMBERS: Champlin, Elk City. Chi Omega-Kappa Alpha. Home, University in 1918 to enter theater work and '32as., and Lawrence T. Chambers, June 24 . Santa Barbara, California . at the time of his death was manager of the Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, 706 Columbia, FRANKIAN-RHEA : Miss Jewell Josephnie Frank- Garden Theater at Patterson, New Jersey . Mr . Lawton . lin, '32ex, and Evert Presley Rhea, '33ex, June Shead was a member of Kappa Alpha fratrnity. BROWN-FERGUSON: Miss Carole Maxine Brown, 28 in Oklahoma 'City. Pi Beta Phi-Kappa WESLEY ENSEY '31ex, and Benton Ferguson, '31as., July 15 in Sigma. Home, Norman . Tulsa. Kappa Wesley Enscy, '31M .A ., of Weatherford, died Kappa Gamma- Kappa Alpha. IM: Miss Carrot Constant, CONSTANT-P '31 early in September as a result of typhoid fever. Home, Ft . Worth, Texas. dramatic art, and James Pim, June 21 in Ponca Mr. Ensey taught school in Weatherford. WIGGER-FRYER: Miss Vera Wigger, '29as., and City . Home, New York City. Dr, JOHN JAMES Samuel Richard Fryer, '33med ., July 21 . SMITH-DENNIS: Miss Lola . Smith, '32nurse, COWMAN Mystery surrounds Kappa Kappa Garnma-Phi Kappa Psi. Home, and Herbert Dennis, June 5. Home, Bradley the death of John James . Cowman, '27ex, 441 Northwest 28th Street, Oklahoma City . PATTE RSON-BROWN: Miss Mildred Patterson, Oklahoma City, whose body was found SWATEK-BOHANON: Miss Marie Swatek, '30as., '32as., and George William Brown, '30as August 27 in Lake Overholster. He ., had disappeared and Luther Bohanon, '271aw, July 17 in Chi- '32law, May .30 . Delta Gamma-Sigma Alpha three days previously after re- turning cago . Kappa Kappa Gamma-Sigma Nu . Home, Epsilon. Home, Duncan . from a vacation trip . His mother and step-father, Kee R. Oklahoma City . BRAND-MILLER R : Miss Lucite Brand, '29ex, and McKee, city loan man and vice-president of NUGENT-MUNTZ: Miss Ursula Nugent, '25ex, Fred Albert Miller, June 24 . Home, 835 East the Liberty National bank, and J. W. Muntz, July 16 in Okmulgee. Home, Drive, Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City, returned from an outing shortly before Tulsa. Miss Viola his body was found and started SHUSTLER_MCGINNIS: Shuster, '3L the search . HOWARD-POE : Miss Milba O'Dell Howard, ex, and Loran W. McGinnis, '19ex, His car was parked near the lake recently in which '31as., and Lewis Milton Poe, '281aw, July 15 . Chickasha. Home, Choctaw. is northwest of Oklahoma City . The Pi former university student Beta Phi-Phi Ganuna Delta. Home, Tulsa. DELLINGER_HORNER: Miss Dorothy Dee Del- is survived by his BRYDIA-GRIFFIN : mother and step-father and one Miss Marvene Brydia, '27ed., lingcr, '28ex, and B. E. Horner, June 22 Kap- sister, Mrs. and Irving Manley Cowman Griffin, jr ., at Ada. Kappa pa Kappa Gamma . Home, 702 West Randolf Genevieve Vaughey, '28as, Kansas Alpha Theta. Home, Houston, Texas. Avenue, Enid. City, Missouri . Mr. Cowman was a clerk at I LIRE-TOI the Liberty- National bank . .BERT : Miss Mary Jane Hare, '30as., HOLLOWAY-MAGAW : Miss Mildred Holloway, and Miles G. Tolbert, '21as., '23 law, July 25 '31ex, and Eldon S. Magaw, '28as., '31law, in YEAR BY YEAR in Oklahoma City . Alpha Phi-Sigma Alpha Jute in Concordia, Kansas . Alpha Phi. Home, Arthur Eugene White, upsilon. Home, Hobart. Philadelphia. '308 .5 ., '32med., has been appointed first lieutenant M. C., regular WOODS-SINGLETARY: Miss Katherine Harrison STEVENS-HYDE: Miss May Belle Elizabeth Woods, and army, assigned to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Alfred Singlary, '32ex, July 21 Stevens, '29ex, and Zola 13 . Hyde, June 29 . in Roy L. Mapes, '33as., 1805 West Main Oklahoma City . Phi Kappa Sigma. Home, Home, 1511 South Lweis Place, Tulsa. Street, Perry. Oklahoma City, has entered the United HAWLEY-KROUTIL: Miss Bessie Hawley, and States military training school at West Point SOULIGNY-SPEMCER: Miss Wannette Souligny, Norman F. Kroutil '33as., June 29 . Alpha . W, G. Stigter, '16ex, of Stigler, '33ex, and Tom Spencer, July 30 . Delta Gam- . Home, 219 South 5th, Yukon. was elected of the American ma . Home, Hodson Apartments, Ponca City . YOUNG-COATS : Miss Mary Ola Young, Commander Legion at the and fifteenth annual state LECRONE:-COUCH: Miss Ida Marguerite Le- Sanford C. Coats, '28ex, June 30 . convention at Tulsa. Pi Kappa Miss Dorothy Swank, Crone, and Glenn Couch, '31B.S ., July 30 . Alpha. Home, Oklahoma City . '31as., 32Lib Sci., is employed as librarian Home, Norman . Miss Marjorie in the School of Mines, PAYNTER-PINKNER: Paynter, Rolla, Missouri . ADKISSON-LEAHY : Mrs. Cleo Adkisson, and '28as., and Charles A. Pinkner, '31cx, June 25 R. F. Hughes, '26eng., has Edward Leahy, '24ex, August 1, at Dodge City, in Blackwell. Alpha Xi Delta-Phi Kappa Sig- entered the em- ploy of the geophysical Kansas . Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Home, Pawhuska . ma . Home, Longview, Texas. division of the Con- tinental Oil Company of HARDEMAN-GRAHAM: Miss Dorothy Jane Miss Sims, '30cx, Ponca City . His ad- SIMS-EWING: Jony and J . dress is box 43, Carnegie Hardeman, and Charles Graham, '32ex, April P. Ewing, June 19 . Home, Enid. . Miss Elsie Brown, 2') in Waurika. Home, Chickasha. Miss Mary '27as., '28M .A ., head of CRABTREE_RALLS: Frances Crab- the foreign language JOIINsTONE-WILSON : Miss Dorothy Marie tree, and Clayton Carter department at Bethel Wo- Ralls, '30ex, June 18 . man's College, Johnstone, '30ex, and Dr . C. C. Wilson, June ]-Ionic, Ada. Hopkinsvillc, Kentucky, has been touring Europe and Spending 10 . Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, Bartlesville . Miss Beulah C. part of the sum- SPURLOCK_NOELL: Spurlock, mer studying at the TERHUNE-BELL: Miss Marguerite Terhune, '32ex, and Marcus A. Nocll, '32ex, July Sorbonne in Paris. 23 in Miss Thelma '26as., and J. Willard Bell, '25as., June 14 in Oklahoma City. Home, Altus Walker, '28he., has accepted . the position of home Oklahoma City . Alpha Chi Omega-Delta Chi. economics teacher in the HARTSHORNE-MAYHEW: Miss Marie Harts- Mitchell School, Home, Okemah . horne, and James Albert '30bus., Meisenheimer, North Carolina. Mayhew, G. Scott SWARTZ-MORAN : Miss Rachel Swartz, 32fa ., June 5 in St . Joseph, Hammonds, '33as., 33eng., and Missouri . Kappa Sigma. Sam and Fonnie Moran, '32ex, June 14 in Oklahoma Home, Claremore. Alexander, '31eng ., have been awarded graduate scholarships City. Home, 117 East Castro, Norman . FOSTER-BRYAN: Miss Frances Foster, and for the ensuing year in '33ex, the Massachusetts COOK-COFFEY: Miss Anna Lynn Cook, '31as., Harry Bryan, '33law, July 16 institute of Technology . at Alex . Home, Strother Simpson, and Alden Coffey, June 12 in Oklahoma City . Lone Wolf . '33as., Tulsa, was to en- roll as a freshman Kappa Kappa Gamma. Home, Tampa Florida. Miss in the Harvard law school, Mary Frances Cambridge, GOOD-GILHRIST: Miss LaVonta Good, and Massachusetts, this fall . KILGORE-MARTIN: kIL-GOREandDr. John W. Martin,'30med., July Josephine Ralph Gilchrist, '311aw, June 11 in Canton . 29 in Kansas City . Paxton, '31as., daughter of Pro- Home, 409 East Broadway, fessor Home, Taloga . Cushing. and Mrs. Joseph Paxton, is engaged in library work at the STOVALL-JACOBS: Miss Jewell Stovall, '30ex, 'Tulsa city library. BIRTHS Errett R. and Porter Jacobs, June 10 in Sayre, Home, Elk Newby, '071rms., '08as., of Okla- homa City, is the thirteenth City. Mrs. Ruth Chase Tyres, '26as., and Wood- division inspector for the Sigma Nu fraternity, PAYNE-DAWSON : Miss Nellie Mae Pavne, and son Tyree, '26as., a son, William Hagen, covering the states April of Texas and Wyclif Dawson, '14ex, June 21 . Home, Okla- 10, 1933 . Home, 208 Wayne, Ponca Arkansas. City . When Kenneth homa City . Leonard Logan, '14as., and Mrs C . Kaufman, 16as, '19M.A ., . Logan, a professor of LATIMER-DUDLEY: Miss Ann Lou Latimer, son, Matthew Kuykendall . modern languages in the Uni- Home 1006 Clas- versity and '3ex, and Paul Wingate Dudley, '29as., '331aw, sen BOUdevard, Norman . co-editor of Books Abroad, went on his June 28 . Kappa Alpha Theta- Phi Gamma Del- Robert A. Yoder, vacation last summer, he was expect- '27ex, and Mrs. Yoder, a ing a restful ta . Home, 2307 North Walker Avenue, daughter,, Stephanie fortnight on the Gulf coast. He Okla- Helen, July 12 . Home, and homa City. Norman . his family had scarcely arrived at the home of relatives MULHEIRN-DOOLEY: Miss Helen Mary Mul- Mrs. Elsae Andrews Dyer, '27ed in Weslaeo, near Brownsville, ., and Don- Texas, until the heirn, '33ex, and Sam Dooley, '33B .S ., June me E. Dyer, '24as., a Son, Max hurricane which devasted the Donnell. Home, Rio Grande 25 in Norman . Home, Oklahoma City . 1417 Northeast 16th, Oklahoma region, vented its fury on Weslaeo. City . Part of the CARDEN-STEWART : Miss Martha Carden, '30 home in which the Kaufmans were staying was wrecked ex, and William Stewart, '29ex, June 17 in DEATHS and the family was de- layed Several days Tulsa. Delta Delta Delta-Beta Theta Pi . Home . MARGARET BROOKS in returning to Norman, due to the condition of the Enid . Margaret Brooks, '25as., died June 9 at her roads. Hicks Epton, is BARTI,FTT-MORRISON : Miss Veda Grace Bart- home near Sapulpa after an illness of two years. '32law, practicing law in Wewoka . As an outstanding lett, '30ex, and John S. Morrison, June 14 . civic worker and LAWRENCE SHEAD chamber of commerce Home, 1524 Northwest 21, Oklahoma City . Lawrence member, he has been Shead, who attended the Uni- instrumental in UMPHY: Miss Olive booking university entertain- SNYDER-MOL Snyder, '30as., versity for two gears in 1917-1918, was found ment and Garvie June 18 talent for meetings in and around We- Molumphy, in Oklahoma dead in his apartment, in Paterson, New Jersey, wolca Citv. Pi Beta Phi. Home, . Epton was a member of the university China. September 10 . He had apparently been mur- BI ALOCK-COUNCIL : debate team for four years. Miss Frances Blalock, '33 dered, his death being caused by blows upon ex, and Ralph James Robinson, '32law, was appointed prin- Council, '33ex, June 17 in Nor- the head, but no motive for the murder has man. Home, cipal of Sulphur high school this fall after serv- Oklahoma City. been established. The body was returned to (TURN '10 PAGE 26, PLEASE)

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named the young warrior after it . The tribe all of Tulsa; George Hughes, Marshall Weir, W. E. Binkley, '33ed., has been appointed then adopted the Angle-Saxon custom of hand- Wilson Brown, Jerry Maray and Mark Micster, instrumental music director of Norman high ing down names from generation to genera- all of Oklahoma City ; George Noble, Okctrtah ; schools and organizer of the school band for tion . Blue Eagle became the family name . Floyd Hinton, Henryetta; Bill Walls, Independ- the coming year . At the same time Binkley Grandmother Blue Eagle reared Acec Blue ence, Kansas ; Wendell Andrews, Ncwkirk; Les- will continue his work at the university toward Eagle and gave him his first name . Friends lie Pain, Carnegie ; Walter Emery, Shawnee a degree in fine arts . He already holds a bach- often asked where the bright-eyed youngster and Rhys Evans, Ardmore. elor of physical education degree from the was. "Acce," she would reply, meaning "that's Sigma Nu : Connie Ahrens, Bob Stephens, American College of Physical Education, Chi- it ." hiByron Jones, Bill Wylie, Frank Hamilton, Rob- cago, and a bachelor of science degree from the Blue Eagle is a dancer, an artist and a sing r. ert Hill, Emery Grinnell, Millard Purdy, Mark university . For two years he ar d throughout tile Donovan, and John Reinhart, all of Oklahoma Congressman-at-Large William C. Rogers . States on tile appeUnited stag e, eaturing three In- City ; Morris Bailey, Neodasha, Kansas ; Billy '30M .S ., formerly of Moore, has opened an of- dian solo dances, snake d nce, war dance and Roberts, Dan Thompson, Howard Lodge, and fice at 1320 VI N. W. 17th street in Oklahoma blue eagle dance. Blue Eag e prefers the blue Marvin Owen, all of Miami; Paul Guild, and City. eagle dance. In it he wears gen ine eagle Hugh Cash, Shawnee; Don Birch, Artesia, New According to Ardmore's Daily Ardmorite the wing feathers on his arms and ca(_le tail feathers Mexico ; Morgan Bell and Frank Bell, Pryor; law firm of Williams and Williams has a third on his back . To the ythm f ton,-tone, he John Burns, Pauls Valley ; James Harrison and Williams in the office now. He is William through tile motionsrhgoes of an e gle, punctu- Charles Dingcr, both of Oklahoma City ; Eltoo Williams, '331aw, the prominent law student ating the drum beats h a shrill whistle. Southard, Norman ; and Charles Waglcy, Kans- who was elected to Coif last spring . The first Eagle's En ;"lish witBlueis erfect, his voice be ng as City, Missouri . Williams in the firm is J. Ernest, father of tile low and musical, and s manner is one that Pi Kappa Alpha: Tom Hammonds, Dick next two Willamses, Howell and William. grace a Boston hiwould a tabl . Roberts, Gene Hopping, Emil Meis and Ed Mrs. Esther Hall, '33(x, Lindsay, is teaching a long time BlueteFor Ea le signed his paint- Schmoldt, all of Oklahoma City ; Bob Harris, in a Cleveland county grade school . Her term ing with the symbol of the blue eagle. Re- Tulsa; Bob Taylor, DeButte, Iowa ; Clyde Pat- started August 1. She will return to the uni- cently he began writing his name . His work rick, Sapulpa; and Wayne LeCrone, Norman . versity to complete undergradluate work be- is the typical Indian art used on tepees . Water Delta Tau Delta; Harry Schrader, El Reno ; ttwccn grade school sessions. colors are used] for the flat work in two di- Frank Ashby, Norman ; Ray McNeill, Tonka- Dr . Paul Wchlon Singer, '28as., son of the mensions . wa ; J. A. Muff and Edwin Stahl, Oklahoma late Dr . Paul Sanger, has taken over his fath- Blue Fagle won internart, ational fame with his City ; Kenneth Wilson, Pawnee ; William John- er's medical practice in Drumright. The young- having held ons in Paris, Berlin, son, Ardmore ; Charles Hanson, Kansas City, er Dr . Sanger completed his medical wark at New YorkexhibitiStockholm, nd Chicago and was Missouri ; R. B. Gentry, Lawton ; Joe Somerville, Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tennessee, and fourth prize inaawarded a contest with 520 Ardmore; Brinker Ivcy, Duncan ; John H. Crew, did interne work at the Augustana hospital of others at the world art exhibition in Los An- Shawnee; Spotswood Dandridge, Okmulgee ; Chicago and the Duke university hospital, Dur- geles. Kenneth Richards, Norman ; Stanley Stronbcrg, llain, North Carolina . Blue Eagle is 24 . He is more than six feet Ardmore ; Logan McDonald, Chickasha; Edwin Turner Bynum, '32bs., will complete his un- tall, a perfect Indian rave type . With his Bingham, Norman ; Jim Noels, Wichita, Kans- dergrad'uate work at the Northwestern uni- suit he wears a bblack lack tie and a silver as ; Richards Hammonds . Kansas ; Tom Ensch, versity medical school, Chicago, this year . By- rngifos own design . One symbol means Bartlcsvillc ; and Howard Morriss, Bartlcsvillc . num entered the University medical school in good fuck, crossed arrows are for protection ; Kappa Alpha ; Bill Roach, Kenneth Craig, 1930 and transferred to the Chicago school a horse means journey; sunrays, prosperity ; Bob Perrv and Pete Cltamlev, all of Oklahoma last year . bird, light-heartcdncss; tepees, home . City ; Charles Haygood, Shreveport, Louisiana; Four former university students were added Mervin Elwcll, Fairvicw ; Bill Harries, McAl- to the public school faculty at Tonkawa this estcr; Findlev Holbrook, Perkins; Ben Borden, fall . Each of the four has been engaged in Norman ; Mike Montgomery, Amarillo, Texas; graduate work here within the past three years. Rav Young and Francis Hubl,ard, hoth of They are W. T. Kendall, principal; Miss Hazel ALUMNI AND RUSH WEEK 1 -, "dcrick ; and Walter Da\idson, V~twaukce. Wile, l. Sterling Gilbert and T. R. Schaffler. Charles W. Haxcl, '28ex, several years ago (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 111) Wi,consin. in charec of extension division bookkeeping, is now wa ; Dick Johnson, Ponca City ; Tom Lauder- affiliated with the Continental Oil com- onn\, (lale, Ranger, Texas; Snooks Jones, Tulsa; Li- OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND Ponca Cite . oncl Edwards, Ponca City ; Bob Culver, Bartles- A A ville; Joe Mannin, Tulsa ; and James Barnett, ABROAD Hitchcock. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11) Alpha Sigma Phi ; (a-dc McGinnis, Larry Moody and William Conkright, all of Tulsa; in,, one \car on tile faculty there. His record THE UNIVERSITY'S DIRECTED Owen Townsend, Marietta ; M. C. Smith, Fort ;is debate coach and forensic clubs organizer Worth, Texas; Jimmy Logen and James Furbec, last year qualified him for the promotion. LEISURE PROGRAM both of Norman ; Woody Sherrill, Madison, William Cram, '32ex, a former announcer for Wisconsin; Ed Bartlett, Idabel ; Edward Smith, the university broadcasting station, WNAD, is (CONTINUED PROxr PAGE 15) Oklahoma City ; and Floyd Lockner, Agra . affiliated with the NBC station at Tuscon, Alpha Tau Omega : Dudley Tichenor and Arizona. He will enrol at the University of lectures for writers and another of gen- George Allen, both of Oklahoma City ; Dick Arizona to complete laly school work while eral interest to everyone. Askew, of Tulsa; H. S. Carrington, Mart, Tex- he is employed by the radio station. A new service program is also being as ; Roy Caldwell, McAlester; John Hunter, Tom C. Guy Brown, '23as., head of the Okla- Street and Tom Paris, all of Springfield, Illi- homa City public schools commercial depart- formulated whereby the University will nois ; Millard Williams, Marshall, Texas; and ment, and Walter D. Snell, '24bus ., Oklaho- share its talent with the various com- Gilmer Long, Pauls Valley . ma City accountant, attended the national con- tnunities of the state in a lyceum and Beta Theta Pi ; Jake Eston, Cy Everett, Phil ,-ention of Pi Kanna Alpha social fraternity at chautauqua plan. The University pro- Harris, Wilson Gibson and Bob Hastings, all Denver, Colorado, late in August . They were of Tulsa; Jimmy Powell and Joe Hurt, both of dunuu representatives of the University of Ok- poses that this talent be made available Muskogee ; Horace Calvart, Saginaw, Michigan ; lahotna chanter. to the various communities of the state R. C. Cox, Oklahoma City ; Dick Gilliland. Miriam Dearth, '33fa., the star of many leaving the possibility that the communi- Clinton : Sutherland Sykes, Ardmore; Lewis university musical DrOduetlons, is planning to ty might make a small charge for the Stuart, Okmulgee ; John Ferguson, Sioux City, onen a voice studio in Bartlesville this fall . Iowa ; Edward Corn, Tucumcari, New Mexico ; Miss Dearth was particularly active at the uni- lecture, musical program, drama, or Bill Knappenberver, Eldorado, Arkansas ; Lee versity in oratories directed by R. H. Richards . whatever type of entertainment has been Buxton . Fnid ; Bill Crump, Wynnewood ; Roger Nin Estelle Hunter, '33as, has been emolov- sent and thus create for that communi- Davis, Baxter Springs, Kansas ; R. L. Mitchell, cd as secretary of schools at Marietta . During Houston, Texas; Jimmy Stevenson, Gearv; undergraduate davs, Miss Hunter was on the ty a student loan fund to help worth- Grover Oztnun, Lawton ; and John Rainbolt, women's debate team for three years, a mem- while students from that location through Cordell. her of Phi , scholastic fraternity, the University. Acacia ; Don Gilkerson and Paul Methvin, and outstanding in activities . The registrar of the University or the both of Anadarko ; Vernon Fields and John Robert J. Bell, '231aw . the Sooner student Community Fogartv, both of Guthrie: William P. Staoleton. council nrcsident who led the an ti-Waltcn pa- members of the Cultural Carnegie ; George Tarter, Norman ; Jim Cleary . rade back in the days when Leslie Salter, '211aw . Series, T. M. Begird, Frank Cleckler and Duncan ; Martin Wauchap, Shawnee; J. Foster was leadim, r1le impeachment fight, is practic- Joseph A . Brandt, are all prepared to Smith, jr ., Oklahoma Citv ; Rea McKinney, Nor- ing law in McAlester. answer questions and send further in- man ; and Earnest Irwin, Gainsville, Texas. An outstanding record as a hustling county concerning the New Sigma Chi ; Martin Jones, Dexter Moss, attorney is bean(, made by Earl Pruet, '27as., at formation Deal in Charles Glass, Prislcy Ford and Harry Allen, Wattrika in Jefferson county . Education at Oklahoma.