THE 00NER AGAZINE

OCTOBER, 1929

MIGRATION DAY NUMBER

Stanley Vestal and Isabel Campbell Tell How They Wrote Their First Novels

Muna Lee Writes on the Cultural interchanges between the Americas

Adelaide Loomis Parker Contributes A Beautiful Memoir of Professor Parrington

David Ross Boyd, First University President, Tells of the University's Founding

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Sooneristically Speaking little rooms in the auditorium build- ing, of Hello, Sooners everywhere! Here THE SOONER MAGAZINE without facilities any Kind for teaching. we are, in a new dress, * typographi-cally speakng,andinahewcorm of news presentation . As the year It becomes more evident, day by progresscu during the course of the day, that the state will either have nrsc volume of moner to provlue adequate buildings for T he Maga-zine,cnariges inform werecon- the university or severely limit the stantly suggesting themselves . Many enrollment. of these have been incorporated in I 111C university is now four years the present issue, ail designed to A News Magazine for (and King- behind 1h Its building program. By make Lie magazine more service- fisher college) graduates and former students. Established 1928 . the the awe. Published monthly except August' and September, by the time next legislature con-venes, the state will have toplovlue t his issue is being sent to every University of Oklahoma Association, Oklahoma Union build- uullulngs to meet six years growth. ing, Norman, Oklahoma . Raymond Tolbert, '12 law, Oklaho- grauuate of record. 1 he 01 ma q, president ; Mrs . Walter Ferguson, ex-'07, Tulsa, vice- cost such a construction pro- Our Sooner fam-ily ishow orrespectable size-more presidentCI ; Frank N. Watson, '13 law, Dallas, Texas, vice- gram, considered in the sum total, than seven thousand graduates . Our president ; Fred Thompson, '22 arts-sc ., Norman, treasurer ; will stagger our legislators . membership list reveals that Sooners Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus,, secretary . Subscription is through Even the university s staunchest of may tie found literall in the four membership in the University Oklahoma Association, pay- friends cannot realize now raplu has able as follows : Annual membership, $3,00 in advance ; life corners of the earth, engaged in al- been membership, $60, payable in one sum or in quarterly instal- the school s growth . l liephys-ical plantseemslargetotheold must every occupation . Keeping up ments of $3 until paid out, Entered as second-class matter with the members of this great October 13, 1928, at the postoffice at Norman, Oklahoma, under timer, accustomed to the few build- graduate family is no easy matter . the act of March 3, 1 879 . Printed in the by the ings trial were then grouped around Help of graduates in supplying hews University of Oklahoma Press. Contents copyrighted 1929 by the the University of Oklahoma Association . administration building. T his coming to their attention will be appearance of prosperity does the appreciated. T he )ouncr Magazine Editor : Joseph A. Brandt, '21 journ. university a disservice. succeeds only wren it serves the Associate Editors: Betty Kirk, '29 journ.; Duane Roller, '23 sc . And there is an attitude, unfortu- greatest number of graduates . business Manager: John B, Gordon, '30 journ. nate in tile extreme, that regards the Advertising rates may be had on application to the business university as just another state insti- manager, Oklahoma Union building, Norman, Oklahoma . Cor- tution . Legislators feel that they Several events, important in our . respondence should be addressed to the editor Change of ad- have to provlue for the hydra-head- university s History, will occur dur- dress snould be made with the secretary of the association . ed school ing the coming school year . In the system the old political hand-out first place, we resume athletic re- Vol. II, No. 1 October, 1929 system set up during the Haskell days. They fee! that the lations with the University of Tex- state business college, the as, after an interim of several years. CONTENTS state mili- A FOUNTAIN, NEW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY tary school, the state Old timers will well recall how the school of mines FRONTISPIECE -all schools with noble order of Quo Vadis gained small enrollments, OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROAD 5 all schools members through the great games Calendar for October ; With President Bizzell ; Our Chang- duplicating work done by at Dallas, hitcri-hiking, riding the ing Varsity ; Graduates in Embryo; Gifts to Education ; the state university and the A. & M. college-must receive equal rods, walking-any way to get to Association Progress ; Expressed in the Press; In the Edu- cational Wonderland. treatment with the latter . the arena where the Sooners wres- MIGRATION DAY PLANS 15 tled with the Longhorn . The Texas LOYALTY AND SERVICE CHARACTERIZE TOLBERT 16 Other state-., like Texas, older game is an important one-the in- A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT TOLBERT 17 and wiser than Oklahoma, have terest Sooners have shown in let- ONE GENIUS IN A FAMILY- IS seeen how vicious duplication of By Stanley Vestal ters to the editor in the game evince educational effort can be, and have -IS NOT ENOUGH 19 eliminated the leech schools . But in that . By Isabel Campbell Oklahoma, playing politics is the Then there is the dedication of VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON By great order of the day . No one who the hew library, which will be de- Adelaide Loomis Parker A CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE AMERICAS 21 knows will deny that the last scribed in detail as well as illustra- ses- By Muna Lee sion of the legislature made its tions, in an approaching issue. The MY FIRST DAYS AS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT 24 every move from purely political new library in its arrangements has Told by Dr . David Ross Boyd reasoning. The university and the attracted international attention, for THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING 1N A MOTOR AGE 27 By Dr. William Bennett Bizzell A. & M. college were made the po- it is without doubt one of the finest SOONER PERSONS AND PERSONALITIES 28 litical pawns. Both would have college libraries. While opinion dif- HERE AND THERE WITH SOONERS 33 fared far better had they been ac- fers as to the BELLES LETTRES AND BELL RINGERS architectural merit of 44 tively in politics-if material well- the building, all are agreed that in being were the only desideratum . appearance the building is distin- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS But all of us know what a political- guished. It preserves Stanley Vestal is in academic life and refines the Walter S. Campbell, asso- ly-dominated school is-how its fac- collegiate Gothic of the administra- ciate professor of English . His biography, Kit Carson, the Happy Warrior, was ulty is insecure, how ifs instruction tion building, which is built in the one of the outstanding biographies of last year. His novel Dobe Walls is futile, how it belies the very name style promises to equal the success of Queen's college, Cambridge, of the biography . . . . Isabel Campbell, ex '17, is Professor of education . So no one would be England . But the exterior is merely Campbell's wife, mother of two children, writer of clever so rash as to alter the independence the short stories for Harper's Bazaar crust of the meat within-for and other magazines, poet and of the higher schools of the state. the wood carvings, the elaborate in- novelist. Her lack Sprat is one of the most brilliantly executed novels on the fall book list . . . . But discerning people, in retrospect, teriors, the great stack rooms, the Muna Lee, ex '12, is perhaps the most celebrated Sooner woman. She is director of the can see how the Democrats and the reading facilities, and the books, all Lureau of international relations for the University of Porto Republicans, playing for vantage, go to make this Oklahoma's great- Rico . She was the first woman to address the Pan-American were quite willing to toss the uni- est congress . . . . Adelaide Loomis Parker, '06 educational asset. The school of arts-se . (M .A. '10), versity and the A. & M. college to art will occupy the old is the wife of G. B. Parker, '07, editor in chief of the Scripps- library build- Howard newspapers, the side lines, because politically, ing fronting on Boyd . and was formerly a member of the At present, university faculty . She is the mother of two children and these two institutions were power- Mr Jacobson is crowded into a few resides in Bronxville, New York. less. '1'11E SOONER MAGAZINE--PHOTO BY TRUBY A FOUNTAIN, NEW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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OKLAHOMANS AT HOME AND ABROAD

CALENDAR FOR OCTOBER WITH BIZZELL Norman do to justify the confidence of the peo- PRESIDENT ple? I suggest the following : President Bizzell, spending his sum- In the first place, our citizenship can see to it October 1 . Faculty club reception, club- mer vacation in Los Angeles, and being that Norman is free from every vicious inffuence house. Inade a reader of the Huntingdon library, that will contribute to the misdirection of ener- October 2 . Joseph Benton, University his posi- gies or corrupt the morals of students . Every returned to Norman to resign place where students congregate for recreation auditorium . Fine Arts number. tion of chairman of the state textbook should have responsible supervision, There should October 2. Faculty forum, Faculty club, commission. He recommended as his suc- be no place in Norman where liquor can he sec to it that October 4. Kappa Sigma (lance, Teepee. cessor in this herculean task Dean Ells- secured, and every citizen should worth Collings of the college of education. the violation of the federal prohibition act is October 5. Boomers versus varsity, Nor- discouraged in every possible way. The authori- man ; football . He delivered his annual address in the ties of the university are opposed to the drinking Fieldhouse September 17 on "The Spirit of of intoxicating liquors, gambling, and other vices, October 5. PhiD e I t :I Theta dance, Learning in a Motor Age." and students will be punished who engage in house. these practices. But, if our citizenship respects October 5. Delta Upsilon dance, Col- the law themselves and co-operates with the lege shop. officers in the enforcement of law, there will be little for the discipline committee to do, October 7 to 11 . Surgical diagnosis, President Bizzcll, in a statement written In the second place, I urge the citizenship to University hospital, Oklahoma City, au- for the Norman Transcript, urged Nor- co-operate with the law enforcement officers of spices Extension division . man citizens to continue the cordial co- the city where the interests of students are in- October 7. American Association of operation they had shown the university volved . The university authorities have had the University Women, Mrs. J . B . Cheadle, in the past. His statement follows : finest co-operation from the officers in Norman, I am sure that this will continue, It is not only 4 o'clock. The people of Norman will be pleased to the duty of our officers to enforce and sustain October 9. Faculty forum, Faculty club. learn that registration indicates that the enroll- the law, but it is the duty of all of us to co- October 10 to 12. Annual junior-senior ment in the university for the current scholastic operate with the officers and sustain them in the high school conference, "Tulsa, auspices year will exceed that of preceding years, There performance of duty by wholesome public opinion, is reason believe that the year ahead our people can do much Extension Division . every to In the third place, of f us will be the most Satisfactory that the to discourage extravagance and wasteful expendi- October 11. Acacia (lance, house . university bas experienced. ture of funds on the part of students . Hundreds of students in the university are working their October 12. Creighton versus Oklaho- But the realization of this prophecy will be war through school, Parents arc making great determined by our united efforts. The people ma at Norman; football . their children to the of Norman with the authorities of the university sacrifices to send university. October 12. (lance, We should not encourage students to spend in the responsibility of conserving the morals College money foolishly, or waste their funds in extrava- shop. and promoting the spiritual ideals of the great October 14. Sigma Chi dance, College student bod y that is assembled here for the gant living. In the fourth place, we should safeguard the year's work . shop. health of students boarding in our homes by October 16. Faculty f o r u m, Faculty Norman is unlike any other commercial city providing adequate sanitary conveniences, Nor- club. in the state, It bas, of course, the commercial man is blessed with an adcuate supply of pure October 18. Beyond the Horizon., a and business enterprises that are to be found water, Few cities are so fortunate as Norman in in any city of situilar size in the state. But it has this regard . It is relatively easy for us to maintain play by Eugene O'Neill, Playhouse, Uni- much more than this-it has in its midst hun- good sanitary conditions for conserving health versity auditorium . dreds of families that have been drawn here and providing for all necessary physical comforts, October 18. Alpha Sigma Phi dance, because of the excellent public schools, and the Much has been done in recent years, through the Teepee. opportunity for higher education provided by garden club, and other agencies . toward the the university . beautification of our city, This adds greatly to October 19. T h e Hallelujah singers, contentment of the students It has in its midst the largest student body in the happiness and Fine Arts number, University auditorium . who are temporarily residing here, By reasonable the state, numbering approximately 5,000, who supervision of all public eating places where October 23 . Josephus Daniels, chapel have come here from every part of Oklahoma, lard, quantities, and reason- speaker, 10 a.m., University auditorium . and from many other states and foreign coun- food is prepared in able care in the inspection of sanitary tries, There are in our midst the families of October 23 . Faculty f o r u m, Faculty conveni-ences inboardinghousesanddormitories, there more than 250 faculty members who are con- club. standards of health should tributing to the cultural and civic life of the is no reason why the October not surpass those of any other college community 25 . Sigma Nu dance, College city . There is no other town or city in the state in the country, shop. so - large in those human resources that count the fifth the churches have a great October in the scale of human values, In place, 26. Phi Gamma Delta dance, responsibility to the university . as well as a great house. We must not take our happy situation as a responsibility to the community, Uni, rsity au- October 25. United States army band, matter of course . It is the duty of all of us to thorities are denendent noon our r' rches to Fine Arts number, Fieldhouse. be very jealous for the good name of the uni- conserve the spiritual values of student ' . Most awake our responsi- October 30. Faculty f o r u m, Faculty versity and thoroughly to of the students in the university come from re- bility to the students assembled here, and to ligious homes, Their parents desire that church club. the home from whence they came, What can affiliations be maintained . I hope that every re-

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ligious congregation in Norman will encourage technical course with Doctor Adams as COLLEGE OF EDUCATION the students to attend Sunday school and church dean. Now through the recent action of By DR . ELLSWORTH COLLINGS regularly. the board of regents its status has been The fact that the enrollment in the university The continuous expansion of the school changed to a college with a full four year continues to increase year after year is an in- of education during the past few years dication that the people of the state and nation curriculum. and the policy of President Bizzell for a have confidence in the people of Norman to The technical departments of th,_ col- environment for greater University of Oklahoma led to the maintain a wholesome the stu- lege of business administration are listed dents enrolled in the university. Let us remember reorganization of this school into the as follows: economics, finance, business ad- that eternal vigilance is the price we pay for college of education early this spring. civic character. ministration, business law, accounting, secretarial science, and bureau of business The program includes four years of research. undergraduate study and three years of From 1917 to 1923 graduates of the graduate study with two very definite ob- COLLEGE OF BUSINESS jectives. The first objective is to educate ADMINISTRATION school of public and private business were given a certificate with their diploma from teachers, supervisors and administrators By LEONARD LOGAN,'14 on both the undergraduate and graduate With the resumption of class work in the college of arts and sciences . Since 1923 the graduates from this department of the levels for the schools of Oklahoma . Defi- Soonerland this fall returning students of nite programs are planned for kindergar- the school of business will find its status ten teachers, senior high school teachers, has been changed by the board of regents college teachers, elementary supervising during the summer to a college of busi- principals, high school supervising ness administration with three new in- prin-cipals,countyandcitysuperintendents, structors in the professional branches. and college administrators . Freshmen enrolling with the intention of The second objective is to add to the securing a B .S. degree in business will fund of professional knowledge. In this confront a new freshman committee be- connection research in teaching, supervis- cause the college business of administra- ion and administration is carried on as a tion now has a full four year program in- regular part of the work. stead of two. The work of the new college of educa- The organization of the college on a tion is organized around the three major four year basis simplifies administrative divisions of the training school, the teach- details and makes it possible for the stu- ing and administrative fields and the pro- dent to co-ordinate his work to better ad- fessional courses. vantage in the preparation for such occu- The plan of pations as investment and commercial instruction of the college of education is unique in the sense that it in- banking, accountancy, federal and state cludes practice of the principles government service, foreign trade, secre- of modern education in the training of teachers, su- tarial work, insurance, personnel manage- pervisors and administrators . The ment, and merchandising. same fundamental principle The remarkable growth of the univer- that underlies learn- ing in the classroom prevails in the edu- sity has been reflected in the development J. F. FINDLAY cation of teachers, supervisors of the college of business administration . and admin- New clean of men. His job is no easy one istrators. Children learn by doing-so do It was in recognition of his services to the (See page eight) teachers, supervisors and administrators . university in the building of this college that its dean, Dr. A. B. Adams, was elect- This principle determines the type of ed to honorary membership in the Uni- university have been awarded the degree instruction provided by the college of edu- versity of Oklahoma Association June 3. of bachelor of science in business. The de- cation. Teachers, for example, do appren- For it is largely due to his efforts and grees offered now by the newly created col- tice teaching under guidance of expert work that this college has attained the lege of business administration are bache- supervisors in the type of teaching they outstanding rank that it has among the lor of science in business and master of plan to pursue in schools of the state. collegiate schools of business in the Unit- business administration . Along with teaching they pursue both pro- ed States. The college of business adminis- The true test of any institution is the fessional and academic courses that are tration has for some time maintained a character of its products . By this test related to their teaching experiences. This class A rating in the Association of Col- the college of business administration plan includes three lines of work, appren- legiate Schools of Business . Not only has stands highly recommended. Since 1917 tice teaching, teaching fields, and profes- Dean Adams been instrumental in de- beginning with the school of public and sional courses, which are followed simul- veloping the college of business adminis- private business there have been more taneously. tration but largely through his efforts than a thousand graduates. According With this plan the college of education, the Faculty club was enabled to build its to records on file in Dean Adam's office like medicine or engineering, turns out house in 1926. Dean Adams has been one the average annual income of these gradu- experienced and trained teachers. The of the most consistent friends of the alum- ates ranges from $1,850 the first year out same type of education is provided for ni association, and has given generously of college to about $5,000 the fifth year supervisors and administrators . They too of his time to the association and many from graduation. become supervisors and administrators other extra-curricular activities of the uni- But money is not the total measure of through engaging in the process of su- versity. success. The alumni are scattered all over pervision and administration in the train- In 1917 the school of public and private Oklahoma and the United States . Prac- ing school at the same time they pursue . business with a faculty of four was cre- tically all of them are following the voca- professional and subject matter courses re-- taed as a subdivision of the college of arts tions for which they studied. In the lo- lated to their work. and sciences . With a faculty of nine in calities where they live they are known The training school is the foundation 1923 the school was made a separate de- for the service they render their respective of the college of education. It provides gree granting institution with the title of communities and the public spirit that a laboratory for teachers, supervisors and school of business offering a two year dominates their activities. administrators to learn at first hand how OCTOBER, 1929 to cope with the problems of their re- Balyeat has discontinued his work as di- bachelor of divinity from Southwestern spective fields. rector of the university training school, Methodist university this summer . The training school includes the uni- college of education. For the coming year, Professor and Mrs. Joseph F. Paxton versity elementary school, the junior high he will devote part of his time to teach- visited judge and Mrs. Owen at Bella school and the senior high school. The ing extension graduate courses in educa- Vista Arkansas, the last two weeks of curriculum of each student is directed by tion. August . Judge Owen received most of his a series of experiences which distributes The degree of doctor of philosophy was preparation for the bar examinations in his work widely enough to insure a gen- conferred upon Miss Helen Burton by the the university law school . eral education and at the same time call University of Chicago, at the end of the Dr. Paul Vogt, dean of extension, was for concentration in two or three lines as summer quarter. Miss Burton is director elected a member of the executive com- an introduction to lines of interest . The of the school of home economics. Her the- mittee of the national university exten- school tests the work of classes and in- sis for the doctorate was concerned with sion association at the last annual meet- dividuals and devotes much of the time the influence of cereals upon the retention ing, held at the University of Texas. and energy of its staff to the organization of calcium and phosphorus in children Dr. Jennings J. Rhyne has been appoint- materials of instruction and to the of the and adults. ed director of the school of social science . training of college students who are to en- Floyd A. Wright has been appointed He succeeds Professor Jerome Dowd, who the teaching profession . ter professor of law to fill the vacancy left wishes to give his time to other phases of college of education is strictly a The by the death of Dr. Joseph F. Francis. sociology. professional school and for that reason Dean D. B. R. Johnson, of the school enrolls only those students who have a One less asterisk will appear in the of pharmacy, was nominated for the vice- faculty directory with the announcement definite purpose to pursue for teaching, presidency of the American Pharmaceuti- supervision or administration on a high of the marriage, on August 10, of Miss cal association at the August meeting, Trix Haberly, '27 arts-sc. (M.A. '29), of plane. In order to carry out this program held in Rapid City, North Dakota . The the faculty provides the following types Wapanucka, and Dr. Edwin Nungezer, vote for the office is taken by mail and assistant professor of English. Mrs. Nun- of guidance for students : Guidance in the results will not be tabulated until gezer is a . Doctor Nun- choice of curricula, personal fitness for January. educational service and in placement. gezer, whose former home is Columbia, Ten weeks of municipal auditing for Carolina, holds the degrees In addition to the resident program the South of mas- various cities and boards of education was college of education in cooperation with ter of arts and doctor of philosophy from the way W. K. Newton, associate profes- . He is a member of Phi the university extension division includes sor of accounting, chose to spend his sum- . a wide field program. This program in- iner vacation. volves cooperation with the schools of the H. H. Scott, '26 arts-sc. (M.A.'26), for- state in service training for teachers, su- Dr. Aute Richards has returned from merly an assistant in the university exten- his sabbatical leave, part of which he spent pervisors and administrators . The par- sion, has been appointed director of pub- research the Zoologica, ticular line of field work includes gradu- in in Statione Na- lic information, university extension, to ate extension teaching, curriculum revi- ples, Italy, and the remainder in travel in take the place of Miss Elizabeth Andrews, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Ger- sion programs, supervising programs and resigned. school surveys. This work is carried on many, Holland, Belgium, and England . Signal honor was paid to Dr. LeRoy He was accompanied on the tour by Mrs. by the regular faculty members of the Long, sr., dean of the school of medicine, Richards and the children. college of education. when he was selected to preside at one Four undergraduate degrees will be For the third consecutive year, Henry meeting of the world conference of the D. Rinsland, '21 arts-sc. (M.A.'24), asso- conferred by the college of education. international society for crippled children Each degree will include a particular line ciate professor of education, has been ap- in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 30. The of work as follows: bachelor of science in pointed a member of the code of ethics conference at Geneva was held under the committee the national educational as- elementary teaching, bachelor of science of auspices of the World Federation of Edu- in secondary teaching, bachelor of science sociation. cation Associations . The theme of the Miss Elizabeth Andrews has resigned in school administration . Two graduate meeting at which Doctor Long presided degrees in education will be conferred, the as director of public information, univer- was "Examination and Diagnosis." Dr. sity extension, in order to accept a posi- master of science in education and the S. R . Cunningham, orthopedic specialist, doctor of philosophy in education. tion with the McEwen-Halliburton Com- and a member of the staff of University pany, Oklahoma City, as personnel direc- Hospital, also attended the conference and tor. Miss Andrews is a former president appeared on the program with an address FACULTY of the state organization of the American on "State Aid in Hospitalizing Crippled Miss A. Dove Montgomery, '22 arts-sc., association of university women. While in Children." instructor in English in the university ex- Norman, she helped to establish Mortar Doctor Long spent the summer travel- tension, and A. E. Kull, of Oklahoma Board, honor society for women, and was ling on the continent with his son, Dr. City, were married this summer . Mrs. faculty advisor to Pi Beta Phi . Wendell Long, who has been studying in Kull will continue her work with the ex- Dr. M. O. Wilson, associate professor Vienna . tension division and will be in charge of of psychology, attended the ninth interna- A recent lecture at the school of medi- extension classes at the Oklahoma City tional congress of psychology, held at Yale cine was that of Dr. Charles Richet, jr., center. university in September. Doctor Wilson professor of medicine in the University Leonard Logan, '14 arts-sc., associate is a member of this congress of Paris, on Food Idiosyncrasies . Doctor professor of economics, has returned to Dr. Alma Neill attended the thirteenth Richet is an authority in France on as- the university after two years of study at international physiological congress, which thma and hayfever, hives, migraine and the University of Wisconsin. took place in Boston during August. This forms of eczema, all of which are often The Oklahoma highschool curriculum is the first time that the congress has been manifestations of food idiosyncrasies. commission, of which Dr. F. A. Balyeat, held in this country. The next meeting While in Oklahoma City, he was a guest '11 arts-sc. (M.A. '18), is director, will will be in Italy. of Dr. Ray M. Balyeat, '12 arts-sc., '18 publish during the coining year a series Arthur R. Holton, representative of medic., instructor in medicine in the uni- of bulletins giving the course of study for the Church of Christ in the Oklahoma versity, whose hay fever and asthma clinic each of the highschool subjects . Doctor school of religion, received the degree of he is studying. THE SOONER MAGAZINE Gladys A. Barnes, '17 arts-sc. (M.A. in having the course given. There are a museum where discoveries valuable to the '22), assistant professor of Spanish, has total of 114 eye, ear, nose and throat spe- study of biology, of anthropology and of completed her fifth year as faculty adviser cialists in the state. A large percentage of history, may be adequately displayed. to the university Spanish club. This year this number is expected to take the course. she is vice-president of Kappa Gamma Two courses will be given, one at the 5070 Epsilon, local modern language society. state medical school and the other in the The University of Oklahoma is rapidly Ivar Axelson has been appointed as city of Tulsa. Each will be of one week's becoming the Harvard of the Southwest. assistant professor of economics in the col- duration . Doctor Pillat for many years Its enrollment for the first semester as lege of business administration . has been one of the leading instructors for this issue of the magazine goes to press William Cross, '07 arts-sc., a captain American specialists who annually migrate is 5,070, an increase of 163 over the first of the university football team in 1906 from this country to Vienna for special semester enrollment last year. This is the and 1907, is now full-time secretary of the work in eye, ear, nose and throat work. largest enrollment in the history of the athletic association, his appointment hav- The work of Doctor Pillat deals only with university, and the largest of any of the ing been announced by Edgar D. Meach- the eye. He is said to be a very able teach- mid-continent universities . am, '14 arts-sc., president of the associa- er and clinician. For the past two years he Enrollment increases largely come from tion. has been employed by the Rockefeller out of the state and in the college of Dr. Edward Everett Dale, '11 arts-sc., Foundation at the Union Medical college, engineering and in the school of petrole- head of the history department, taught at Peiping, China, where he is now located um engineering. The college of engineer- Williams and Mary College during the as head of the department of ophthalmol- ing had 745 students enrolled the first summer book, . A tentatively entitled "His- ogy. In this capacity he has been in charge semester last year while this year it num- tory of the Range Cattle Industry" will be of all the ophthalmology work for the bers 897 students. Thirty-two states, the published by the University of Oklahoma whole of China as supervised by the de- Philippines, South American countries, Press during February. partment of Union Medical college under China, Canada and Japan are represented M. L. Wardell, '19 arts-sc., acting dean the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation. in the out-of-state enrollment. Texas, with of men last year, and member of the his- Doctor Pillat will leave the Orient during 303 students, leads in the number, while tory department, is on leave of absence, the early part of February and will arrive other states with more or less large num- in San Francisco during the studying at the University of Chicago for middle part bers follow : Louisiana 21 ; Indiana 21 ; Il- his doctorate. of February. He will come directly to linois 17; Iowa 13 ; California 11 ; Pennsyl- Oklahoma under the auspices of the uni- vania 10; New York 9; Nebraska 7; versity extension division APPLIED AERONAUTICS and the univer- Minnesota 4 ; Ohio 3 . And thus they go, sity medical school. As soon as he Courses in applied aeronautics are now has by far the widest representation among completed his course, offered in the school of Doctor Pillat will states Oklahoma has ever had . mechanical engi- depart for Vienna, neering of the college returning to the Fuche's Despite the increase in enrollment, it of engineering. For clinic. the present, the work is confined mainly to * * was never better nor more speedily han- airplane design and airplane motors . dled than this year. Credit for this is due THE ANCIENT OKLAHOMAN principally to George Wadsack, ex-'19, Came Colorado scientists registrar. COMMUNITY INSTITUTES into Oklaho- Students were enrolled in the ma and when they left, they took Oklahoma Union building The community institute program of with and in fast them evidences of Oklahomans time. Wadsack had the university extension division has been of three worked out a system thousand years ago. In caves near Kenton that proved perfect. enlarged this year to include a variety of (in the Panhandle) the careful types of institutes . Plans are being made scientists found materials for a series of county and town institutes with which the life of DEAN OF MEN the early Sooners was concerned. devoted to public health, to parent train- "Every alumnus and every student Immediately, there arose ing, and to the needs of retail business a furore in the should be proud of the feeling of inti- press. Where had the Oklahomans men and municipal and county officials. been macy which your school has retained even a w all the while? Then it developed that as though it has grown in size. This rare far as the university was concerned, there quality COLORED PRINTS saves the school which becomes were no funds available, and, if there physically great from resembling an edu- The departments of Latin and of Greek were, there would be no place to put the cational plant. Oklahoma has this intima- have recently acquired a large number of find. One thing the university does not cy to a marked degree. It is found mounted colored prints illustrative of an- in your possess, thanks to the skepticism of Soon- campus `Howdy!' and your cient life. friendly nods. er state legislators who do not believe in It shall be one of my greatest interests to museums for the state university is a aid in guarding this spirit." PHYSICS LIBRARY suitable museum . Observations from the new dean of men The office and departmental library of The Colorado scientists have expressed of the university, J. F. Findlay, B.A. Grin- the department of physics have been mov- willingness to share their finds with Ok- nell, M. A. Chicago, are being closely ed from the first to the second floor of the lahoma, and it is quite probable that the watched by inquiring students . Dean administration building. The laboratories new state historical museum in Oklahoma Findlay is the first of his species to come and lecture rooms remain on the first City will receive part of them . Certainly, as a full time mentor to the campus. The floor. The new arrangement permits a desirable as they would be for the univer- men are wondering why he is here. Dean better utilization of the space assigned to sity, necessary as they are for teaching, Findlay being wise and youthful (he is this department . there is no place on the campus where 29, married) soothes suspicion : they could be placed . "Whatever program we shall adopt will VIENNESE SCHOLAR GUEST v grow out of the system here. It is neces- Definite arrangements have been made The early Oklahomans were weavers, sary to become acquainted with the cam- with Dr. Amold Pillat of Vienna, Austria, had tools of wood, loved beaded orna- pus before I can declare my plans. Or even who is connected with Fuche's Clinic, for ments, they knew how to ran prairie dog make any plans. two courses in Oklahoma in ophthalmol- hides, they knew the use of fire. "Each campus is an individuality. I ogy. Approximately forty eye, ear, nose w do not propose to set up a given group of and throat specialists of Oklahoma have The entire incident the rules or taboos here just because thev have already signified their interest and desire reveals impor-tanceofprovidingtheuniersity witha been successful in other institutions . I shall OCTOBER, 1929 9 wait to know Oklahoma better before I at- cred rite of the modern Guardians of themselves and held a private initiation . tempt to adopt any measures." Tradition. The ritual is age-old. It consists Newspapers quickly protested at the Dean Findlay was active during his own of a beefy Nek wielding a paddle oh the defiance to the university. The Ruf Neks collegiate days in Grinnell College. He willing neophyte, who is willing to go and the Jazz Hounds found themselves studied journalism and music and took an through hell to add another "honor" after isolated from public favor. The regents active part in dramatics and student gov- his name in the college yearbook. A wom- met, abolished the organizations forever, ernment. Later he became the dean of men an watching this gentle and cultural exhi- announced they would look with disfavor at his Alma Mater. bition last year almost lost an eye when oh the formation of any similar group, Having known campus activities from a splinter flew from a paddle wielded and suspended the old members. A com- the student viewpoint Dean Findlay ob- oh an anatomy equally hard. Protests mittee representing the regents and the serves, "I am primarily interested in voca- came from several parts of the state against disciplinary committee of the university tional training. Student government also the sadistic practices of the "pep" organi- investigated the initiations carefully and is of importance in my program. I antici- zations. The regents passed a regulation readmitted the members into the univer- pate many pleasant contacts during the banning paddles oh the campus. sity, separating the members into groups ..B,"' year. "A" and the latter being the men Observes the Oklahoma Daily in re- ASSOCIATION VICE-PRESIDENT who had encouraged the use of paddles. sponse to Dean Findlay's ambitions for These were required to sigh pledges that student government: "It was interesting. they would abide by the regulations of the . . . because of the tremendous task he university. has on his hands. It was interesting to Frank Buttram, president of the regents, see how he would avoid the looming dis- declared abolition of the organizations was ruption of self government oh this campus. in keeping with making the university It would hot have taken a political seer conform with the standards of other uni- to have observed the reefs ahead of this versities. same self government last year. . . . If " T he university is a decade behind with Dean Findlay with the memories of ideal its two pep organizations with a mem- self government at Grinnell fresh upon bership of about pity in a school of 5,000 him can aid the situation without bringing students," Mr. Buttram told 1 he Norman fire upon his head by both party heads, Transcript "I he University of Oklahoma then let the proletariat heave a sigh of will have as much school spirit as ever. relief. Things might be worse." Traditions will hot be forgotten simply because rilty-seven boys are barred from GRADUATES IN EMBRYO swinging paddles oh freshmen. 1 raditions THE FRATERNITY MENAGE amount to considerably more than this Five kewpie dolls from the beautiful obsolete form of fun. 1 he whole student Kappa Kappa Gammas ; body will be a pep organization . "l eh or Une pair of suspenders from the dili- twelve peppy fellows, dressed in appropri- gent Pill Beta Deltas ; ate loud colors, will be chosen to lead One cowboy hat from the gallant Sigma yells at the football games. This is done Nus; at all the large universities . One alarm clock from idem ; "Ollhand, the abolishing of the two Tree pair of pants (trousers) from the organizations might seem drastic. But we redoubtable Sigma Alpha Epsilons ; FRANK N. WATSON believe it a step forward. T here will be at the football One pair of dress boots from the all- Vice-president of the University of Oklahoma as much pep or more campus Kappa Sigmas ; Association. lie resides in Dallas, Texas, where games this fall." One lumberjack coat from the Chester- on October 1, lie was to become associated with Walter Harrison writing in his Tiny Co ., as vice-president fieldian Beta Theta PIS. the Southwest L. E. Myers The Oklahoma City anti general manager. He was graduated from the 'Times column of 1 hese were some of the items stolen law school in 1913, practical law in Uklanonia Times, declared : from the aforementioned dormitory- City until 1917, being assistant city attorney for No threat or warning will leave the authori- ad-juncts to the university during June. Two two years, served in tire war, as a test lieutenant ties with any standing. There have been threats for boys confessed to Norman police that they of infantry, later in the air service, and was and warnings a plenty. This infraction calls post adjutant finance officer and commander of a punishment that will be something more than stole these and other articles in order that tile 366th aero squadron at Love Field, Dallas, a slap oh tire wrist, some decision that will they might play pool from the proceeds and served in other "thankless" posts. Mr Watson show fire student body that no group of en- of their sale. No books were reported is a captain in the air service reserve corps. Alter thusiastic boys can take the school rules in their stolen. fire war, he became secretary-treasurer of the own hands and do with them as they see tit. W. C. Hedrick Construction Co . at Dallas, then The Daily Oklahoman in its editorial of of the general manager the Texas branch column said: DEFI . . . DEFUNCT Associated General Contractors of America, hold- 1. He is a Kappa It was a deliberate act of defiance and as By action of the board of regents and ing that post until October Sigma. such it cannot be ignored without inviting chaos with the approval of Oklahoma newspa- in university circles. While the punishment in- pers and taxpayers generally, those cele- flicted should be free from the extreme of harsh- brated upholders of "tradition" oh the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity thus far is the ness, if should be sufficient to command that that respect for constituted authority without which university campus, the Ruf Neks and the only national Greek letter fraternity there can be no progress whatever at Okla- Jazz Hounds, were abolished September has publicly announced its intention of homa university . 27. adhering to the regents' ruling. When it The abolishment came as a result of came time to initiate this year, the Ruf Several years ago the Ruf Neks refused exemplifying the holy ritual of these or- Neks and the Jazz Hounds were divided to abide by the decision of the athletic ganizations. Last year the ancient and oh whether they should obey the regents' council requiring members to show their beautiful ritual of the Ruf Neks was ex- rule or defy it. Warned by the university tickets at the gate at football games. They emplified at Varsity corner . A large and of the consequences, nevertheless both or- rushed the gate and a boy, struck on the interested crowd watched this solemn, sa- ganizations decided to run affairs for head by a paddle, was seriously injured.

10 THE SOONER MAGAZINE THEY LAID PLANS FOR MIGRATION DAY AT DALLAS

PHOTO COURTESY THE DALLAS NEWS Members of the University of Oklahoma club of Texas when they met recently in Dallas to make plans for the Oklahoma- Texas game. Right to left, they are: Frank Watson, temporary chairman, and vice-president of the University of Oklahoma Association ; Frank Cleckler, C. H. Newell, Shelley Tracy, Ira W. Davis and Weaver Holland. Back row : E. C. Sullivan, Harry L. Atkinson, temporary secretary, Hugh Hoff, Bert G. Ashby, Henry Meier, Walter H. Meier, A. L. "Bus" Haskins and Chester Cole .

Created to support athletics, nothing the ation were administered to the candidates, and board of regents made on September 27, abolish- known ever did injured their pres- that the hazing or paddling feature of initiation ing the student organizations named and Ruf Neks so was not indulged in by their organizations; that as the Rut Neks and Jazz Hounds and prohibit- tige. If the Ruf Neks could not be depend- the paddles were put into a pile and burned ; ing the members of these organizations and other ed upon to support athletics in a sports- and that no use of the same was made in the students of the university from participating in manlike manner, it was difficult to con- initiation ceremonies . The committee was unable said organizations and in any other student ac- cere- members of said organizations, to be ceive what turn their proteges, the fresh- to obtain any evidence that the paddling tivities as mony was indulged in, as has heretofore been the made permanent; and that the president of the men, would take. practice of these orders in their initiations. From university be authorized and directed to expel university any student violat- The regent-faculty committee declared some members of the faculty and residents liv- promptly from the ing in proximity to the place of the initiation, it ing this regulation . in part: does appear that some use of the paddles was limited number of the members; Prior to the meetings on Wednesday evening, made by a ONE IN FIVE and probably prior to the joint meeting on Tues- however, to a very limited extent and incidental day evening, the candidates elected for initiation to the handling and final disposition of the Rush week, that season of hysteria, to both orders had been instructed to bring paddles, rather than as part of the initiation ended a boomer week on the Sooner cam- with them to the initiation the number of pad- ceremony, and that the use of the paddles, even in this form and manner, was opposed and dis- pus this year with 250 women students dles each candidate had heretofore been re- women's fraternities and quired by custom of the orders to bring to the couraged by the greater part or substantially all pledged to 15 initiation ceremony ; and the candidates of the of the members participating in the initiation . with more than 200 men pledged to 18 two respective orders appeared on the campus The committee finds, upon the frank admission fraternities . with their paddles at or about the time of the and statement of officers of these two orders, the number of convening of the two separate meetings on including both those who favored and supported Disproportion between Wednesday night. a public initiation as well as some of those who active members and the number of pledges Under the practice of initiation heretofore ob- opposed it, that the abandonment of the paddling was the outstanding characteristic shown served, each candidate was required to carry practice virtually destroys the only feature and in the final" count. The idea of "assimila- a bundle of paddles to the initiation, which was tradition of these organizations worth while and freshmen" seems to have gone that unless this practice can be continued there tion of in the process of initiation used by the old enthusiastic members upon the new members. After the ac- is little inducement to continue the orders, There the way of all flesh in this tion taken by the separate meetings, deciding was also frank admission on the part of these world of ours and the idea of quantity upon private initiation, apparently the officers members that these practices attracted an element to have taken its place. of students and members who, despite the efforts and members of the two orders who had been numbers in- active in inducing the two orders to abandon of the more conservative members of the or- Disproportion between the the plan of public initiation directed and pro- ganization, at times control the conduct of the cluded in the fraternal scene and in the cured the paddles to be piled upon trucks . The organization, resulting in disorderly conduct and entire campus is another element which, candidates and a large number of old mem- abuses of the hazing or paddling practice, riotous considered in its proper light, calls spirit and conduct among the members, when bers of the two orders with the two truck loads of the hullabaloo of of paddles thus proceeded to a point in the Your committee, therefore, is of the onininn for a discounting country approximately two miles south of the that these two organizations serve no useful pur- rush week . To the student who takes no university, where the initiations were conducted pose to the student body, but that their influence part in it it is really an overemphasized by the two orders separately . The testimony of has been and could only be if continued detri- thing after all for it takes onlv one fifth every old member of the organizations, who mental and destructive to the prnner college snirit, of the university's total enrollment to participated in or was present at the initiation, conduct and morale of the student body . Your was that only the ritualistic features of the initi- committee recommends that the order of the make all of the racket which signifies OCTOBER, 1929 tember 14. It is which pledging. There are approximately 1,000 a diamond ring valued at $500 from The- Smith absorbed Tau Alpha Sigma, a local . Sig- fraternity members in school . There are ta Markham, $5 in cash from K.A. ma Delta Tau, which confines member- 5,000 students . and $6 and a wrist watch from K. A. ship to those of the Jewish race, was es- Kappa Kappa Gamma was "high man" Haun. In the classic words of the report- tablished at Cornell in 1917. It includes in in the total of pledges among the women ers, "police are investigating." its policies social service . The fraternity's with 38 neophytes donning the blues. Pi pin is a golden torch. National officers in- Kappa Alpha, with 38 pledges, led the COUNTRY GREEKS stalled the local chapter, which gave them list of the men in numbers. Kappa has The astute Lambda Chi Alpha frater- a banquet at which President and Mrs. an active chapter of 22. Pi Kappa Alpha began construction last summer on a nity Bizzell were guests. has an active chapter of 21 . new house on Lindsey street and work Women's fraternities with their totals progressed nicely. Great heaps of red clay of active members and of pledges are: piled up as the basement progressed . Then FRATERNITY GRADES Delta Gamma, active 17, pledges 24; Al- work stopped. Someone had discovered Those mighty intellectuals, the cele- pha Phi, active 18, pledges 13; Delta Del- that the ground on which the L.C.A.'s brated Phi Gamma Deltas, climbed a ta Delta, active 18, pledges 28; Pi Beta were building was in the country. Under notch in scholarship and climbed into the Phi, active 38, pledges 17; Alpha Gamma university regulations, no fraternity may coveted first place in the men's fraternity Delta, active 14, pledges 17; Gamma Phi build outside the city limits. The frater- grade listings for the second semester of Beta, active 17, pledges 19; Kappa Alpha nity drew up a plat for the affable city 1929. The Sigma Alpha Mus, who topped Theta, active 27, pledges 20; Alpha Xi commission ; the plat was rejected . It did the list the first semester last year, dropped Delta, active 10, pledges 18; Kappa Upsi- not show the blocks adjoining that in to fourth place. Acacia kept its ranking lon, active 25, pledges four; Alpha Omi- which was the fraternity's lots. A new in third place. Alpha Tau Omega moved cron Pi, active 12, pledges nine; Chi Ome- plat was made. This showed all the blocks. from fourth place to sixth and Delta Tau ga, active 15, pledges 13 ; , active It was accepted . Sound of hammers soon Delta from fifth to ninth. Pi Kappa Alpha 19, pledges seven; Alpha , after informed the neighborhood that resi- relinquished the cellar it has occupied for active 20, pledges 17. several semesters and moved up to twen- Men's fraternities with their proportions tieth place, while Kappa Sigma looped the of active members and with the number loop from tenth place to bottom . of pledges recorded a week after the end- The comparative standing of the fra- 30, ing of rush are : Sigma Chi, active ternities, with their ranking, follows: Gamma Delta, active 30, pledges 23; Phi Chapter Second First pledges 19; Sigma Nu, active 20, pledges Ranking Semester Semester 23; Kappa Sigma, active 36, pledges 22 ; Average Average Beta Theta Pi, active 32, pledges 16; Phi 1 . Phi Gamma Delta 3.119 3.049 Theta, active 45, pledges 16; Alpha 2. Sigma Alpha Epsilon 3,058 2,748 Delta 3. Acacia 3,037 3,027 Tau Omega, active 26, pledges 21 ; Sigma 4. 2,985 3,138 Alpha Epsilon, active 30, pledges 21 ; Al- 5, Phi Beta Delta 2,963 2,638 pha Sigma Phi, active 25, pledges 12 ; 6. Alpha Tau Omega 2 .839 2,879 22, pledges 17; Acacia, 7. Phi Delta Theta 2 .790 2.684 Delta Chi, active 8. Beta Theta Pi 2,772 2,364 active 24, pledges 17; Delta Tau Delta, 9. Delta Tau Delta 2,751 2,791 active 26, pledges 14 ; Phi Kappa Psi, ac- 10 . Phi Kapna Psi 2,629 2,396 tive 30, pledges 10; Kappa Alpha, active 11 . Siema Chi 2,602 2,495 31, pledges 26 ; Delta Upsilon, active 24, 12, Phi Kapna Sigma 2,561 1,811 13 . Sigma Nu 2 .514 2.233 pledges 12; Lambda Chi Alpha, active 20, 14, Sigma Mu Sigma 2 .486 2,299 pledges 15 ; Pi Kappa Phi, active 24, pledg- 15 . Delta Chi 2 .469 2,226 es 10; Phi Beta Delta, active 15, pledges 16 . Alpha Sigma Phi 2,422 2,164 2.372 12 ; Sigma Alpha Mu, active 15, pledges 17. Pi Kappa Phi 2.399 18 . Lambda Chi Alpha 2 .099 2,401 10 . 19 . Kapna Alpha 2,099 2.164 20, Pi Kapna Alpha 2,099 1 .790 UNWILLING RUSHEES 21 . Delta Upsilon 2 .057 2,056 MRS. WALTER FERGUSON, '07 22 . Kappa Sigma 2 .050 2,441 Messrs. J . T. Hann, '30, Blackwell, and Vice-president of the University of Ok- s * Frank Smith, '32, Marlow, and Misses and celebrated as a Marianne England, '32, and Jewell Marie lahoma Association CATHOLIC STUDENT PARISH syndicate writer whose editorials appear Markham, '33, both of Ponca City, had unique is the in twenty-six newspapers daily. See "Hats An organization which is something to write home about before parish which was estab- Off To" in The Sooner Magazine for Feb- Catholic student school began. The young gentlemen, mem- the univer- ruary, 1929. lished by Catholic students of bers of that grand old Southern order, sity in September. It is the onlv organiza- Kappa Alpha, and the voung ladies, mem- tion of its kind which is confined to stu- bers of the intellectual Kappa Alpha Theta dents would soon have many neighbors all dents in its membership and depends unon fraternity, were rushed by hiiackers. They house. A block away the Italian- the students for its maintenance. The pledged without a word. The four were in one style house of frater- group has as its center a chapel two blocks in the act of getting out of their automo- nity echoed to the excited talk of rush from the campus where all lectures and bile in front of the Kappa Kappa Gamma had had the same ex- sermons are arranged for students. house (which fronts on the Kappa Alpha week. A.O.Pi, too, perience. Being women, though, they Theta house) September 10 when two had their lots taken into the city before men, whose inebriated condition indicated ENROLLED they began to build. All Scotchmen are gross ignorance of Mr. Volstead's cele- Paul R. Stimson of Springfield, Illinois, not of the male sex. in the school of journalism. Nephew of brated legal dictum. approached . The visi- * * * tors saluted the undergraduates by aiming the Hon. Henry L. Stimson, famous as revolvers at them. Without further urging SIGMA DELTA TAU secretary of state and as owner of Bones the quartet was taken for a ride towards The fifteenth national fraternity for (no bones about being a goat) and a cuss- Purcell. Before leaving, the visitors took women was installed at the university Sep- ing parrot ; cousin of the Hon. Arthur 1 2 THE SOONER MAGAZINE

Hyde, secretary of agriculture. Ribboned our day, hence large universities are en- Wilfred B. Shaw of the University of by Alpha Tau Omega. larging their service to interest these alum- Michigan association, described Willis Dickinson of Dickinson, North the alum- ni in continuing their education after col- ni Dakota, in the college of engineering. university, as he had observed it in lege. Lafayette has an alumni university traveling from school to school in this The five-thousandth person to enroll the week at commencement time, when alum- country first semester, and the first student in the for the Carnegie foundation-a ni attend classes. Several colleges supply history of the university to make the var- visit that included Oklahoma . The rah-rah graduates with reading lists recommended appeal that once sent the old alumnus' sity's enrollment 5,000. by members of their faculties. Mr. Shaw blood Mrs. Anna Laskey of Oklahoma City, tingling is more or less absent in has not completed his survey, but when in the school of law. Mrs. Laskey repre- he has completed it, he will report what sented Oklahoma county in the state leg- progress NOT RED GRANGE he has observed in the country islature last year. and make recommendations as to a feasi- ble alumni university . VOX COLLEGIUM The fact that alumni no longer feel the She was a freshman and a rushee and old emotional response to their old var- she was rushing about hither and yon in sities was regarded by the secretaries at- a raincoat in the women's big fraternity tending the meeting as symptomatic of house and an old member after about an the times, similar to the falling away from hour decided to enlighten herself about lodges, churches and institutions generally. the matter and so asked : Alumni associations must have more to "Dearie why are you wearing that rain- offer to retain the wavering interest of coat inside the house?" members. "Why, honey, it's raining outside, is- Secretaries representing state universities n't it?" held a separate session, presided over by Fred Ellsworth of Kansas. Their problem GIFTS TO EDUCATION differs from that of secretaries of endowed institutions, VERMONT-By the terms of the will of in that the latter usually are a part Mrs. Miriam B. Blake of New York and of the faculty, while the former must obtain funds through Manchester, a trust fund of $60,000 will be memberships. The available for the University of Vermont council will meet next year at on the death of Mrs. Blake's half-sister. Northampton, Massachusetts, the guest jointly of The income of the trust fund shall be Amherst and Smith colleges . used thereafter for the maintenance of a Secretary Cleckler made many contacts professionally trained organist at the Ira with secretaries representing practically Allen chapel . every American alumni organization . He had A total of $3,000,000 is made available attended earlier in the year a district eventually to the University of Vermont meeting of Missouri Valley secretaries held through the will of the late James B. in Kansas City. Wilbur, a trustee of the university . The University of Vermont has an enrollment `MY CARD' of 1,300. John Rogers, '14 law, of Tulsa. Here OKLAHOMA-TO Cameron Agricultural for freshmen week. Encouraged by im- college Oklahoma's civic-minded million- proved financial status of Oklahoma aire Lew Wentz, chairman of the state Union. highway commission, gave $5,000 for a Elmer D. Fagan, '20 arts-sc., Los Ange- student loan fund. les, California . Now associate professor OKLAHOMA--Four thousand dollars by of economics at the University of Southern the Carnegie corporation and $2,000 from California . an anonymous donor, were given to the Maurice Merrill, '19 arts-sc., '22 law, of University of Oklahoma in September for Lincoln, Nebraska . Now associate profes- art teaching material, President Bizzell sor of law at University of Nebraska . announced. The gift makes available in- valuable teaching materials. SAILED Savoie Lottinville, '29 journ., Rhodes ASSOCIATION PROGRESS scholar for Oklahoma, on the Aquitania, for three years of residence at the Univer- ALUMNI COUNCIL AT TORONTO sity of Oxford . Scholar Lottinville (edi . A new type of alumnus was pictured at for of The Oklahorna Daily last year) will the international conference of the Ameri- read the honors school of history, econom-ics and politics. can Council held at Toronto, Canada, June 25 to 29, an alumnus who is moved less by emotion than by a feeling of con- ARRIVED crete good he may receive from his Alma Eugene Springer, '27 sc., Rhodes scholar Mater. for Oklahoma, on the Aquitania after two This new alumnus was discussed among years residence at Merton college, Univer- other problems confronting alumni secre- Frigidaire and Kelvinator found solid sity of Oxford . Read mathematics. Mathe- taries . Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus., secre- competition last summer in the genial matician Springer rowed on the Merton tary of the University of Oklahoma Asso- smile of Tom Churchill, celebrated Soon- eight. Reason for return before expiration ciation, represented Oklahoma . It was the er athlete, Olympian, basketball captain, of scholarship : to read for a doctor of first Council meeting in several years at footballer, tracker. Iceman Churchill iced philosophy degree at the University of which Oklahoma was represented. in Ponca City Chicago, where he now is. OCTOBER, 1929 THREE FACULTY ALUMNI WARHORSES

Guy Y. WILLIAMS, '06 arts-sc., '10 M.A ., re- fused to say "die" to an alumni association. EDGAR D. MEACHAM, '14 arts-sc., with Guy When others gave up in despair, Guy VICTOR of Y. put E. MONNETT, '12 arts-sc., director Y. Williams, held on to what remained of his keen mind to work . The association of the school of geology in the college of arts the association when almost everyone was today is practically the product of Williams and sciences and of the school of geological & Meacham . Doctor Williams was a member engineering in the college of engineering, ready to bury it, They evolved the idea of the of the gym team, of the track team and of has always worked with and for the Uni- life membership-and here we are, fairly the Senate society. He was athletic editor of versity of Oklahoma Association. Wherever prosperous as an association. Varsity football the first yearbook, He is a member of Phi there are geologists, they know Doctor Mon- in '11, '12, '13 ; track team in '12, '13, '14; Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Alpha Chi Sigma and nett ; and if they know Doct or Monnctt, they Rho Chi. He is head of the chemistry depart- know of the University of Oklahoma Asso- editor of '13 Sooner ; Pe-et, Sigma Delta Chi, ment and is director of the school of chemical ciation. He is president of the local chapter Phi Beta Kappa, Kappa Sigma. President of engineering. He organized military training of Phi Beta Kappa and is a member of Sig- the athletic council ; assistant dean of the col- in the university in the spring of 1917 and ma Chi. lege of arts and sciences and professor of had charge of exemptions and discipline mat- ters from 1917 to 1927 as chairman of the mathematics. Doctor Meacham was awarded board of reviews. He was chairman of the the only Letzeiser medal awarded in 1914 . eligibility committee at the time eligibility Member of the association executive board rules were put into effect. If any two men and of the stadium-union memorial board. may be said to have rescued alumni affairs from oblivion, they are Guy Y. and Ed Studied English under Prof . Lawrence N. Meacham. Morgan .

EXPRESSED IN THE PRESS arts-sc., Chickasha lawyer, to membership no better than the teachers that serve Ok- FAMOUS THROUGHOUT NATION on the state board of education: "In ap- lahoma .' . . . This young man born down Albert Shaw, editor of the Review Of pointing James F. Hatcher of Chickasha in the hills of Pontotoc county has won Reviews, writes editorially in the Septem- on the state board of education recently, his spurs in the world of hard knocks as ber issue: "Dr. Charles N. Gould, direc- the governor has given the state a young usual with wiry farm lads. Jim got up to tor of the Oklahoma geological survey, man of proved character and resources Edmond and the Central Normal, he famous throughout the nation for his re- and whose close relationship to all the feebly remembers how, but he stuck until search work, has worked faithfully to dis- public schools through a long period of he graduated in 1910; then he taught; then cover the hidden riches of his state. His vears, thoroughly qualifies him to do a took his A.B . in Oklahoma university and records show that there is present in the big service for the state's lamest business, southeastern Oklahoma knew and re- state unlimited zinc, 79,000,000,000 tons of education. . . . When Mr. Hatcher was spected him as a high school principal coal, incalculable amounts of glass sands, asked the other day what he considered at Madill and Idabel ; after a little Flori- 123,000,000,000 tons of gypsum, lead, salt, the largest work of the state board of edu- da work, war came and Jim Hatcher limestone, Portland cement rock, brick cation, he answered at once with that found himself at Norfolk in Uncle Sam's clay and shale, granite, sandstone, gravel firmness and clearness that made him navy; since the war Superintendent T. T. and building sands, novaculite, tripoli, through his seven vears as high school Montgomery and Jim Hatcher gave Chick- marble, volcanic ash." principal of Chickasha a recognized leader asha a system of schools that won it more SALARIES FIRST in Oklahoma education, `Undoubtedly than statewide fame; the tang of a more Writing in Harlow's Weekly for Sep- the strengthening of the entire public intimate contact with men was in Hatch- tember 7, Charles Evans declares anent school svstem by advancing teachers' sal- er's nostrils and it swept him into the the appointment of James F. Hatcher, '13 aries; education can rise no higher or grow law where he has made himself felt

THE SOONER MAGAZINE 1 4 and teacher training schools, throughout southwest Oklahoma ." tion, has closed its doors permanently. universities Commencement time last summer news- or institutions above the secondary level . paper readers discovered that the members No nation in the world ever bad anything NO LUCY SOONER of the board of the school were egged. like that spread of the benefits of educa- In his ``Don't Worry" column in the The board members had just come from tion ." Oklahoma City Times for September 11 the administration building where they Walter W. Mills writes: "Recently among had performed a major operation on the THREE ROUSING CHEERS! the letters to the editor in the New York staff by dismissing President H. C. Way- of American colleges Telegram we encountered one credited to The athleticization man and the faculty. The quarrel was university's 70- `Mrs. Heywood Broun,' and we have been is complete. New York be-tweenfundamentalistsandultra-funda- the wondering since whether Ruth Hale has piece band went into training before mentalists, if such a distinction is possible. to prepare for the foot- gone domestic, or whether she threw a opening of school Doctor Wayman thought himself a funda- without fit when she saw it. She who might have ball season . Now for the school mentalist; the board thought he wasn't . Heywood Broun' had she felt a textbook! been `Mrs fundamental enough. The selection of that marrying the man called for a chang- Wayman was a "mistake" according to moniker was an enthusiastic Lucy COACH ed a statement of the trustees early in Sep- WENTWORTH Stoner when we saw her last, and clung tember. At the commencement time, after William V. to her maiden name, as if that made some the happy old custom of egg salutation "Bill" C o x, '21 difference. We are among those who had been concluded, seniors went to court arts-sc. (M.A.'24), couldn't see that it mattered one way or and obtained an order compelling the S o o n e r baseball the other, and Heywood was a liberal board to give them their diplomas. The a n d basketball then, as now. In fact, a writing man, it trustees, miffed because they bad ordered star, has been ap- seems to us, if he should wed a writing diplomas withheld until the Bath of Yolk pointed director of woman, should be rather glad if she would had been investigated, closed the school, athletics at Went use the name she started with, and not "The board Is closing the school because w o r t h Military meddle with his. Walter Ferguson (ex- it feels it only has the high privilege of academy at Lex- '07), the veteran banker, never seemed to paying the school bills," a statement said. ington, Missouri . mind it because his wife made his name Students seeking an education in funda- Cox has coached a household word, but you will observe mentals fundamentally no longer can re- Helena, Carmen that he quit writing, and he was pretty gard Des Moines as a Mecca. It is a Pere a n d Henryetta good at it." Lachaise instead. high schools. At Wentworth, a s BAIT? CRANKY TEACHERS head coach, Cox won the Missouri state Under the heading of "Militarist Bait makes teachers cranky is told by conference: title in football one year, and for Students" in The New Republic for What August Century. All is in two years finished second. Last year, October 2, by Duff Gilfond, one reads: one of them in the in the highly de- his team held the West Point plebes to " `Military Science,' declares the University not roses for the teacher modern school, with its a 13-13 tie. Last year, his basketball team of Oklahoma, `furnishes excellent materi- partmentahzed . And then: " well the Missouri state conference cham- al for intellectual development and charac- tests and foibles, she says Even and the shoe clerk pionship . ter building .'" Military training is de- now the stenographer that a teacher has to scribed as a "splurge" at all schools where are not convinced her living. `Think,' they cry, `of FLOWERS R. O. T. C. units are established. work for the long summer vacation!' The summer For the boy who budgets his way vacation has vanished along with the pro- through school, a sad thought. HONORED GUESTS verbial pulchritude of the milkmaid . Tnose For the girl who dances, thrills . Equal Rights in its issue of August 10 who wish to hold their positions are to In the new Whistler Spanish-type build- writes : be found in summer schools. Compare, ings at the varsity corner the Southern "A suite of rooms in the new palace of if you will, the winter and summer at- Floral Co., has opened. B. L. Wennestrom peace and justice in has been set tendance of the average large normal and H. A. Schowalter, proprietors, have as aside by the Cuban government for the school, college or university . It will be their assistants Gladys Pierce, '30 fine arts use of the inter-American commission of seen that many of the three quarters of a and Burford Miller, '28 geol. women, which was created as a result of million school teachers are not swinging flowers?What dance will there be without action taken in Havana last year at the in hammocks and reading French novels . sixth conference of the American repub- True, not all of them are to be found in lics. summer schools. A visit to a large teach- RUSSIA IN BOOKS ABROAD "This latest governmental recognition agency will be enlightening to the ers' The Russian government has assured of the work of the inter-American com- ." average stenographer Dr. Roy Temple House, editor of Books mission of women was revealed by Muna Abroad, published by the University of Lee (ex '12), director of the bureau of AND MORE ARE COMING Oklahoma Press, that it will co-operate in international relations of the University supplying books review for the mag- of Porto Rico, now working in Washing- Frederick B . Robinson of the College for York writes in the azine. It will also interest Russian critics ton with the commission, at a garden of the City of New in contributing articles to this unusual party in her honor at national headquar- Educational Record (Washington, D. C.) ters of the National Woman's Party on for July of the e d u c a t i o n a 1 prospect : quarterly devoted to reviewing the world's exactly the literature . Two articles on Russian liter- July 30." " has had same history as our industry . We have al- ature are promised in approaching issues most reached the margin in continental of Books Abroad, "Contemporary Rus- IN THE EDUCATIONAL United States of our extensive develop- sian Fiction" and Contemporary Russian WONDERLAND ment. What do we find? There are about Poetry ." The magazine recently received EGGS . . . . EXIT 24,000,000 students in the elementary a subsidy from the Belgian Relief com- The battle of Des Moines has ended. schools, over 4,000,000 students in the sec- mission; previously, it had been aided by Des Moines university, a Baptist institu- ondary schools, and 1,000,000 in colleges, the Carnegie Foundation . OCTOBER, 1929 15 migration day to draw thousands to texas fair oct.19 dallas alumni planning royal entertainment for greatest of games HE IDEAL game of Sooners from Alaska to Afghanis- 2 or 2 :30 p.m.-Texas versus Oklahoma, state fair stadium tan, that grand old battle with the Texas Longhorns, seating 16,000 persons. Night-The Red Robe, New York is going to be played again this year for the first time in musical comedy brought Tsix years, and before directly from New York for the Texas state fair. A bloc of the Texas state fair at Dallas October 19. the choicest seats In the days wheel the Spoonholder was the center of campus in the house has been reserved by the Uni- versity of Club tradition the Texas game was the game of games. Everyone Oklahoma of Texas. Other relevant went to Dallas . Riding the blinds, riding the rods, riding Pull- facts about the Texas game: Headquarters - Baker mans, walking, or any old way. The Texas game stirred the hotel, with Secretary Cleckler in charge. All imagination more than any other football game in our sched- room reservations and reservations for the musical comedy should be made of ule, unless it was the Aggie game-in those days when old Frank N. Watson, 713 Construc- tion building, Boyd field with its small wooden grandstands accommodated Dallas, Texas. the Sooner rooters . Ticket reservation-Oklahoma will have a bloc of 5,000 choice seats reserved. These cost $3 each and should be pur- There was a glamor about the Texas game missing in any chased of Ben G. Owen, athletic director, University of Okla- other . It was prayed before the great crowds of the Texas state homa, Norman. Students having student tickets may reserve fair at Dallas . People from all over the southwest came to see Dallas seats for $1 extra . All ticket reservations should be the tussle . It was a money maker, too. made in advance. Wita the entry of Oklahoma into the Missouri Valley con- Transportation-By auto: Dallas is 219 miles from Okla- ference, the Sooners had to forego the Dallas game. Missouri homa City and 117 from Ardmore, on United States highway Valley rules required that football games be played in the 77 all the way Buses make the trip in eight hours from Okla- town where one of the contesting universities was situated. homa City. The road is paved or gravelled the entire distance, In 1922 the Longhorns invaded Oklahoma and the following except for ten miles between Denton and Dallas, near Lewis- year the Sooners played in Austin. But the interest, the glamor ville. In case of rain, the motorist has two optional routes, both of the Dallas crowds, was missing, and Texas played Vander- all paved: Via Denton-Fort Worth, with Dallas about twenty bilt at Dallas and Oklahoma dropped the Longhorns from its miles farther; or via Denton-Keller-Grapevine-Dallas, schedule . about ten miles farther than via Lewisville but ten miles shorter than O KLAHOMA has now signed a contract with Texas for the other optional route, and also, minus the Fort Worth traffic. ten years. 'the game is to be played at Dallas, receipts By train-The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway plans are to be split equally two ways. The game has done a great to run a special train from Norman, with fare to be either one- deal to waken alumni interest in Texas. Vice-president Frank way or one-way-and-a-third for the round trip. Watson has always been a loyal booster and he has taken charge By plane-Arrangements are being made with various air of the Sooner arrangements at Dallas with eagerness and celer- lines at Oklahoma City and Tulsa to charter special passenger ity. He is ably backed 'in Oklahoma by President Raymond planes . For details and fares, write to the Safeway lines, Okla- Toibert. Every indication has it that the Dallas Migration is homa City. going to be the equal almost of tire annual Homecoming . Attractions-The Texas state fair, nationally famous ; the Migration Day is October 19, but the program in Dallas musical comedy, The Red Robe ; the Peacock Terrace dance will begin the day before. Dallas alumni met Tuesday, Sep- and banquet Friday night preceding the game ; and the game. tember T/, with Secretary Frank Cleckler and outlined the Migration Day committee-Frank N. Watson, general chair- program. Those attending the luncheon at the Athletic club man ; Shelley Tracy; C. H. Newell; Weaver Holland; Walter in Dallas were Watson, Cleckler, C. H. Newell, Shelley Tracy, Meier; Miss Josephine Duvall; Mrs . Anna McCall Fitzpatrick. Ira W. Davis, Weaver Holland, E. C. Sullivan, Harry L. At- Out of nineteen games played between Oklahoma and Texas, kinson, Hugh Hoff, Bert G. Ashby, Henry Meier, Walter H. one game was tied, eleven were won by Texas and seven were Meier, A. L. "Bus" Haskins and Unester Cole. They planned won by Oklahoma . 'I he detailed record follows : the following program: 1900. Oklahoma 2, Texas 28 1912. Oklahoma 21, Texas 6 October 18-Banquet and dance in the celebrated Peacock 1901 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 6 1913. Oklahoma 6, Texas 14 Terrace of the Baker hotel. The Terrace, most popular ren- 1903. Oklahoma 6, Texas 22 1914. Oklahoma 7, Texas 32 dezvous in Texas, has been set aside by the Baker manage- 19U4. Oklahoma 6, Texas 40 1915. Oklahoma 14, Texas 13 ment for Sooners exclusively, a most fortunate augury for a 19U5 . Oklahoma 2, Texas 0 1916. Oklahoma 7, Texas 21 successful Migration day. Plans are being made to take to 1906. Oklahoma 10, Texas 1917.29 Oklahoma 14, Texas 0 Dailas one of the student orchestras on the campus. 1909. Oklahoma 0, Texas 30 1919. Oklahoma 12, Texas 7 October 19-Parade in the morning. Visit to state fair ex- 1910. Oklahoma 3, Texas 0 1922 . Oklahoma 7, Texas 37 hibits. 1911 . Oklahoma 6, Texas 3 1923 . Oklahoma 14, Texas 26

THE SPORTS OUTLOOK choose from for his first team. This great youngsters all fighting for team positions, The outlook for Coach Ad Lindsey, strength comes mostly from the sopho- first team positions aren't sure for hardly newly married director of football for the more crew, with such men as Guy War- anyone. university, has never been brighter than ren, celebrated as a broken field runner Oklahoma enters the season with one of at the start of practice for the Big Six in Norman high school football . the potentially strongest teams in the Big football season . Frank Crider, captain, seems assured of Six conference . No energy is being wasted For the first time in several years he being fullback. Tom Churchill, at end last on a fruitless trip to play a Big Ten team will have a beefy team to put up against year, will probably be seen in the back- -a great mistake last year, for it took some of the heavyweights in the Big Six field this year. Bus Mills seems certain of some time for the Sooners to recover from conference. Tall and heavy seems to be the quarterback position. But at that, with the general run of the men Lindsey can more than twenty veterans and husky (Continued on page 17)

1 6 THE SOONER MAGAZINE HIS LOYALTY AND UNSELFISH SERVICE TO SOONERS CHARACTERIZES CAREER OF ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT

RAYMOND A. TOLBERT, governors of the Okla- '12 arts-sc., '13 law, homa Union. As legal president of the Uni- counsel he incorporat- versity of Oklahoma ed thase two organiza- Association, is a prom- tions and handled all inent Oklahoma attor- the legal proceedings ney residing in Okla- for them relating to homa City. He was the $400,000 bond is- born at Vernon, Texas, sue without compensa- March 17, 1890, at- tion. For his many dis- tending grade school tinguished services to with several future the university, Mr Tol- Sooners like Peyton E. bert was awarded the Brown, ex '13, of coveted Sigma Delta Blackwell, Shelley Tra- Chi scroll of honor in cy, '12 arts-sc., of Dal- 1928 . las, and others. President T o 1 b e r t From 1913 to 1919 was a member of Sig- he engaged in the prac- ma Delta Chi, Phi Del- tice of law at Hobart, ta Phi, Sigma Alpha service at city attorney, Epsilon fraternities, of and as president of the the Sooner bar and the library board. He as- Senate society. He was sisted i n establishing law librarian. He several Carnegie libra- played on the law ries in western Okla- school class champion- homa. Rejected for the ship football team and first officers' training was secretary of the camp and in the first mi- student committee of draft on account of six that procured the nor physical disabili- appropriation for the ties, Mr Tolbert law school building plunged into war ser- from the state legisla- vice whole heartedly, ture. service as city attorney, Mr Tolbert has al- man of the Red Cross, ways been in the fore- the food and the Y. M. front of alumni activi- C. A. drives. He served ties. Several times he in the Y. M. C. A. in was a member of the the A. E. F. from De- association executive cember 15, 1917, to board and was presi- March 30, 1918, and dent of the Oklahoma then entered the air City branch of the as- service, April 1, 1918, sociation when he call- serving until January ed the state wide meet- 26, 1919, being dis- ing of graduates and charged February 14, former students in 1919. He now holds 1923 to oppose the ef- the commission of cap- forts of the then Gov- tain in the air ser- ernor Walton to re- vice reserve corps. move President Strat- WATTON STUDIO PHOTO On his return from ton D. Brooks. He the war, Mr. Tol- proposed at this meet- TOLBERT bert became assistant ing that the University atorney f o r Okla- Alumni association be reorganized as the services and successfully represented the homa for the C. R. I. & P. railway with University of Oklahoma Association, board of regents in the supreme court in headquarters at El Reno. From 1922 he membership to be open to former students the case of Peebly versus Childers, a vic- has been a member of the law firm of as well as graduates. tory which restored $420,000 to the uni- Embry, Johnson & Tolbert, one of the Oklahoma This proposal, which marked the be- versity salary appropriations which had oldest legal firms in City, with ginning of the present association, was been eliminated by Governor Walton. offices in the Perrine building adopted. Mr Tolbert's services to the stadium- Mr Tolbert was married on March 1, With Paul A. Walker, '13 law (see union organization have been invaluable 1920, to Miss Irma Roop of Stillwater, a Sooner Persons & Personalities in this is- and most unselfish. He is a member of the graduate of Oklahoma Agricultural & Me- sue) Mr Tolbert formed a committee of stadium union board of the stadium union chanical college, class of '17. Mrs Tol- law school graduates that volunteered its building committee; and of the board of bert is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta

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fraternity and is a member of the execu- the most interesting game on the home Lindsey this year will be able to rely tive board of the A. & M. Former Students schedule this year. on straight football or on forward passing. association. The Tolberts live at 1516 He seems to be using both in early prac- Kansas will furnish fodder for Home- tice. . coming. This is big West Twenty-first street, Oklahoma City news to most Soon- The schedule follows : ers Mr Tolbert is president of the Oklaho- who like to see the Jayhawkers in ac- October 5-Freshmen versus varsity at tion. The Oklahoma Aggies will also play ma Auto club, and is probably the first Norman. in Norman this year-a great game, for October 12-Creighton at Norman. alumnus to be made a member of the ex- Waldorf, at the head of affairs in Still- October 19-Texas at Dallas (Migra- ecutive committee of the Oklahoma state water, is putting the Aggies through stiff tion Day). training. bar association. October 26-Kansas Aggies at Manhat- What Dana X. Bible will do to Nebras- tan. MIGRATION DAY ka is still problematical. Nebraska is a November 2-Iowa State at Norman (Continued from page 15) problem for any coach, due to the "win (Dad's Day). the Indiana game. Long trips, cold climate, or die" attitude of Cornhusker fans. If November 9-Kansas a t Norman do not help southern football teams. Bible is football gospel, he may be able to (Homecoming) . The home schedule is interesting chiefly survive. But there are few who envy him November 16-Nebraska at Lincoln. for the advent of Ames on the Norman his job. At that, the Cornhuskers are go- November 16-Nebraska Freshmen at field. This is the first time Iowa State has ing to have sweet opposition this year in Norman. ever played in Norman, and the Iowans Oklahoma, for man for man, the teams November 23-Oklahoma Aggies at are a tough lot, as they demonstrated last that go into action at Lincoln should Norman. year. By all odds, this should prove to be weigh about the same. November 28-Missouri at Columbia .

LET'S WORK TOGETHER FOR GREATER ASSOCIATION

By RAYMOND A. TOLBERI

T is said that each ten thousand dollars invested in Gen- My telephone rang. I had been unable to attend Commence- eral Motors a decade ago has paid handsome dividends and ment. Our efficient secretary, Frank Cleckler, '21 bus., was '~ now represents a value of more than one million dollars. talking. "You are the new president of the association," he A small initial investment in the University of Oklahoma, said. Before I could demur, he continued, "The executive made nearly four decades ago by our Sooner forefathers, sup- board that elected you has already adjourned. All you need plemented each year by the taxpayers of our state and fostered do is to send down your photograph, outline your program by faithful regents, faculty, students and former students, has and conduct a page in the magazine." Hence, the "outline" returned to the state of Oklahoma and its taxpayers large indicated in the preceding paragraphs. Write me your ideas. dividends in education and good citizenship (citizens to lead Let's work out the details on this page from month to month. in her statecraft and in the development of her material and I have been checking up on this man Cleckler this summer . other resources) and now represents an asset of untold value Never heard of him until a year and a half ago when someone to the state. handed me a life subscription blank and a fountain pen, say- ing: "The executive board has been trying to get this man Fathers and mothers by sacrifice have accumulated savings for a year. He is a ranking junior executive of the veteran's which they have invested in the education of children at the bureau. His duties take him to all leading universities . He university and have received therefrom substantial and satis- has been studying other associations . He sees a great field here factory dividends. and will come here if we put the association's finances in shape Students have invested their time (four years is ten per cent and get the requisite number of life members." Of course I signed but not without mental or more of one's earning span of life) with immeasurable reservations . But I didn't know returns in education, culture, earning power and, by no means Cleckler. least, many lasting and valuable friendships formed which Never met him personally until he stepped into the breach and took over the administrative grow in sentimental and pecuniary value as time passes. management of our stadium- union project and proceeded promptly to cut the pay roll Let us, Sooners All, work together to increase these dividends until it could hardly be recognized and began to make recom- to the state of Oklahoma, its taxpayers, our parents and to mendations that disclosed that some of his ancestors must ourselves. have been Glasgow business men. Let us, each year, strive together to improve the physical This summer I have been going over association records, plant, its maintenance, the faculty, our friendships one with reports and plans with great interest and satisfaction . Our another and see to it that not only those who enter he served executive board, Cleckler and Brandt have done a good job. but that the institution receives the best raw material in the The association has arrived . Its set-up, plans and policies state, much of which still misguidedly goes elsewhere . are sound . It has no debts. Some possibly have been waiting These are some of the things that loval Sooners through the to see if it survived the first year. agency of this association are striving together to do. This Now is the time for all good Sooners to join an organiza- magazine was founded to renew and strengthen friendships tion with a future, The University of Oklahoma Association, among Sooners to their mutual advantage and to work for the and thereby get The Sooner Magazine. advancement of the university and increase its returns to those Little need be said about Joseph Brandt, '21 arts-sc., Rhodes who have made investments in it. scholar, Oxford graduate and for several years city editor Written suggestions as to details of plans and means to of a leading Tulsa daily, and now editor of The Sooner Maga- better accomplish these ends are invited by Your officers and zine. The initial volume of that publication marks him as executive board. An interchange of constructive ideas will editor of one of the best alumni magazines of the country. be very helpful in the advancement of the university and the Enough said. You will be interested in comparing our maga- association. zine with others.

1 8 THE SOONER MAGAZINE

WA LLS one genius BY STAN L in a family A romance of the Santa Fe Trail by the author of `Kit Carson' by stanley veslal theory-namely, that writing as a joint affair is the only way for a man and his wife to see anything of each other, especially when both have other work than writing to attend to. People might suppose that we took up writing as golf-widows take up golf- so as to see something of each other now and then.

UT the truth is, we both wanted to write, both began to write, and both found ourselves writing without any expressed plans. And considering the satisfaction of the work, it seems likely we shall go on writing for some time. Everyone admits that the woman who knows nothing of business, the man who takes no interest in his home, are both missing a great deal of common experience which they might share. But when two people practice the same art, they have a bond which arises from a mutual understanding of each other's problems and triumphs . And this, I should say, is the major satisfaction of having two writers in one house. For, after all, there is no talk like shop talk . Golfers talk golf. Business men talk business. Horsey men talk horses. Mothers talk children . We all love to talk of the thing we are interested in, and to talk to others who know what we mean. And that is one of the chief blessings of having two writers in one house. Especially when they are man and wife. Everyone has seen professional writ- OT long ago I saw a picture in a comic ers, living alone, distrustful, carefully avoiding all magazine . It represented a disturbed writer reference to their work in the presence of other N in writers, never really letting themselves go looking up from his desk to scold the cat. argu-mentorcriticismorpraise,menwholeadalife The caption (addressed to the cat) read as fol- cheerful and sociable as that of the wander- lows: "What are you doing, stamping through the about as ing Jew. No wonder people call them irritable, house?" They are. It would do them good to talk shop That picture presents the ancient reputation of with someone who is neither a collaborator nor a the writers, for from the very beginning they have rival . been dubbed the irritable tribe, theirs the cranky, touchy, and altogether difficult profession . They OR that describes the two of us, I think, Isabel do their work in solitary confinement, and often F Campbell and Stanley Vestal have never col- are unable to think of anything else even when laborated, and probably could not do so. The ma- they are not working. And so they are apt to seem terials which stimulate the imagination of one lonely souls, irritable as a porcupine. not stir the other; and our techniques are Of course this picture is overdrawn, a caricature. would widely different, as anyone who reads what we But there is enough truth in it to make people will agree. But for that very reason we find wonder what happens in a house where there is write very profitable, because each one brings not only one writer-but two!! And why, if there shop talk something which is fresh and novel to the other. is already one person writing in that house, another have plenty of discussion, debate, and one should wish to do so. At least, that is what And so we argument about technical matters of writing-dis- the editor of The Sooner Magazine has asked me which to me, at least, are extremely divert- to discuss. cussions And we have such a good time at At first, one might suppose that it was a mere ing and useful . that we never notice whether the cat is trick of self-defense on the part of one or the other. them, through the house or not. One might try to explain it on the proverbial prin- stamping ciple that Misery Loves Company. One might con- tend that the only way to put up with a writer is to become a writer oneself. But like all plausible theories, this one has a catch in it. For the fact EDITOR'S NOTE--Reviews Of Dobe Walls by that both of the Campbells have always wished Stanley Vestal and Jack Sprat by Isabel Campbell, to write, and have been working towards it in- as appearing in newspapers and magazines, will appear in The Sooner Magazine for November. dependently from the start. And so this theory STANLEY falls to the ground . Facts kill it. Jack Sprat in particular has received unstinted VESTAL Facts also dispose pretty effectively of another praise for its brilliance and finish .

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i.3 not enough say the campbells by isabel campbell

F I could bring myself to believe in ghosts, I would say, III answer to queries of my friends as to how it feels to be a novelist, "I don't know-I never wrote a novel-that book in the yellow cover named `Jack Sprat' was written by some woman named Isabel Campbell . The name seems familiar but the book looks just like any other novel to me." If it weren't for the memory of those three months I spent in Connecticut pounding away at the typewriter four, five and six hours a day, I should state in all seriousness that someone else wrote, so complete is my present detachment toward it. I felt the same way toward my first baby. It took me some months to realize that she was mine. Anyway it seems that the novel is here to stay. One novelist in a family is bad enough, but two novelists, writing at the same time, as Mr. Campbell and I did during the summer of 1927, is awful . We were living in an old colonial country home in Connecticut. My husband gen- erously insisted that I take the only study, so he had to do his work on the dining room table, which was a long refectory table . Our schedule was rather strenuous. After breakfast our little girls attempted to do the dishes for us, I shut my- self into the study and Mr. Campbell shut himself into the dining room. Only the horrible clatter of our Underwoods kept our thoughts from being dis- tracted by the cries coming from the kitchen This would be about four o'clock in the after- "Mother, Malory is splashing dishwater on my- noon. Then we would get in the Chevie, drive Mother, Dorothy won't dry the forks properly ." the three miles to town and buy our food for the There was only one way to keep thinking about next day's rations. the project on hand, and that was to keep the After supper we scandalously wasted an hour typewriters going full tilt all morning. sitting under the big maples that lined the brook, After the dishes were finally washed, the chil- which was a gurgling one, of course, and nine dren waded in a stream running through the o'clock saw us sound asleep. Oh, it was a great life, property and visited three little friends up the hill. it was one of the happiest summers I ever spent. T twelve o'clock, I dashed into the kitchen, ® NE of the nicest things about the New Eng- threw some potatoes into the oven to bake, land country life was the total absence of cooked some steak and prepared any green vege- window and door screens. The outdoors seemed tables we could get from the huckster who drove to come right into the house. There was no past every day. Incidentally, our green vegetable shed wire to blur the beauty of the round green man brought us food in a Packard while we mod- wooded hills. Even the bumble bees were friend- estly tool: the air in a Chevrolet. But we consoled ly. One big yellow fellow regularly flew into ourselves with the thought that we had satisfac- my study door, buzzed curiously around my table tions of the mind and spirit that the green grocer and then flew away again. One day two irrides- knew not of. Whether the satisfactions of the mind cent humming birds flew in, but they were so really do compensate for an eight cylinder car, I frightened that they tried to fly through one win- am not prepared to say. I have never had a Packard . dow that was closed and were about to batter After dinner and another bout at the dishes, themselves to death. We captured them in an we went back to more writing. During the after- old felt hat and turned them loose, noon as our daily stints neared completion, we T'S lots of fun to write, particularly when were both anxious to get an opinion on what had I there is a wise and sympathetic ear to listen. been written and it often happened that we col- Contrary to the belief that it is the sight of the lided in the doorway, each with a sheaf of yellow, name in print that is the lure, I think the most single spaced pages grasped in the hand. fascinating part of the whole business is the ac- "Listen," I would cry at the same time that tual work at the typewriter . Writing takes in- Mr. Campbell would shout, "What do you tense concentration, full use of every ounce of think of this?" and we would both begin to read available energy and continuous application. In ISABEL at once. Then we would straighten the tangle other words it gives one a chance to function fully, CAMPBELL out and read to each other what we had written. and that is my definition of happiness. 20 THE SOONER MAGAZINE

VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON AN APPRECIATION BY A STUDENT DISCIPLE, ADELAIDE LOOMIS PARKER '06

SINCE Professor Vernon Louis Parrington died in July there have been lessly bedizened courtesan who dropped a garter, and something much publisned in the literary magazines, in the reviewers' columns in New more serious than a garter if we had only known. We shed a bitter tear York dailies, and elsewhere, many articles in appreciation of his work when rate had played its game out with Tess . We lost ourselves in the as a writer . love of David Copperfield for his Dora . We agonized over Steerforth and There will be a thousand tributes to his work as a teacher, but only Emily and felt that Pegotty loved us too, and incidentally we learned how roll of a very few will ever see the light in print. an English novel was put together. We listened to the majestic The critics have columns open to them . His former students for the Milton, were stirred by the deep and tragic music of Carlyle, and were frail sweet flute. Then one day we begain to most part have not. Their tributes, deeply felt though they may be, are charmed by DeQuincy's verbal only, and at that they are only half articulate, less than half study Keats, and that day the door to Beauty opened, a high wide door that has never since quite closed. adequate . respect for them, the The critics have a very tangible work before them, two large volumes And Shakespeare, and the love of words, the unsus- soon to be finished by a third, which cover definite ground, thought out concern that they should not be abused, the thrill at discovering relations between them, and the far flung romantic histories of along certain lines, and well written in a well defined style. pected room, smooth and One who has sat under his instruction finds less definite results. After them, all these were taught in that quiet in that quiet voice. all it was not the facts given, nor the ideas developed, though these were Parrington went to Europe . After that we learned most stimulating, nor was it even the manner of their presentation, though One year Professor this or that cathedral that was always smooth, and often beautiful, that made Professor Par- something of Gothic architecture, we had details of traced with an artist's hand upon our blackboard . He built a house, rington an inspiring teacher. The inspiration resulted from all these, plus something of good taste of simplicity that vague, intangible, endlessly important thing we call personality. and all his students came to know and something of the history of furniture. A mind that was capable of How can I tell you all it meant to us to have him for a teacher? Okla- profound scholarship, as witness his two volumes on the Main homa was young in those days . Most of the students were born in other the most Thought, was anything but a single-track mind . states, for the simple reason that Oklahoma was not as old as the fresh- Currents in American There were other great teachers there then . In those days we were men. All of theta were poor. No matter what the background had been many sooner or later we all sat under the highest and elsewhere, here the one pervading problem was how in God's name to not so but that the best . But somehow in Professor Parrington's room we forgot the make a living . Every morning in chapel we were reminded by someone the never-ending wind, and the painful and pressing prob- that our parents were making sacrifices to send us there. They were . dry sun and living, and, while we were there, we lived. Sometimes we heard the same fact from home, from the little frame lem of how to make a When one realizes how a teacher like that can galvanize facts into houses that braced themselves in such shallow toe-holds against the can thought and speculation where before was in- prairie winds. living things, induce difference, who creates appreciations which grow throughout a lifetime Then we went into this man's room and for an hour at least we lived remain a source of happiness, one wonders how any profes- in a different world. It was always quiet there and we could relax. We and always sion could be so important as that of the teacher. could take our eyes off the windy horizon. We could follow the grim hoped that my son would go to him when he comes of college and watery struggle between Grendel and Beowulf, or laugh at the I had have to age, so that one who had opened doors for me might open doors for table manners of Chaucer's dainty prioress who did not even him too, and show him paths that would gleam all through the years. lick her fingers, or behold with indignation the soldiers of Cromwell my grief that this is not to he, who stabled in a glorious cathedral, or snigger with Pepys at the shame- Words cannot speak

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a by muna lee, cultural ex '12 interchange famous between sooner poet the and americas stateswoman ANY of the agen- already buttered, with none cies which are of the potato's drawbacks helping to draw and all its advantages! It M the Americas is nourishing and delicious, closer together either work but does not make one put so quietly that the general on flesh. The university's public rarely hears of them, bulletins on tropical vegeta- or else are individually bles give methods of pre- small, seemingly of little paring these and many mportance, though of great others. Some of them are significance when one dis- traditional tropical recipes, covers bow numerous and brought i n t o accordance how constant and how ef- with modern knowledge of fective these small factors dietetics; some are frank are. and delightful exportations Since Porto Rico is Span- from the United States . Our ish-American in its past, adaptations o fnorthern Anglo-Saxon in its present, recipes might amaze you, and, I trust, in the deepest at times; just as we are sense Pan-American in its amazed to see you making future, I shall note briefly salads of alligator pears. some of these unofficial cul- We use the alligator pear tural interexchanges as we for almost everything else, in the University of Porto but the mere thought of Rico have seen them ac- adding more oil to that oil- tually at work on the is- MUNA LEE AND HER SON LUISIT () MUNOZ LEE iest member of the vegeta- land. The university with ble kingdom seems to us its bilingual and bi-cultural program has parts of the modern world to underesti- eccentric beyond words. Have you ever been especially active in fostering such mate the importance of methods of cook- cut it into little cubes and scattered them interchanges, and, to use a time honored ery. Yet, bow often international misun- over a clear soup with which they blend metaphor, we have been able to observe derstanding is complicated by preparing deliciously? Out of the dozen satisfying through the press of the Americas, bow the right food in the wrong way! The ways in which it may be eaten, won't you the ripples have continued widening from University of Porto Rico is doing its best try this one, next time, in the interest of every pebble tossed into the Caribbean. to forestall any further such complica- international understanding? Some of you may remember, for example, tions as regards the Americas by prepar- The purpose of the university of Porto the accounts of the bi-lingual debate be- ing a series of bulletins on tropical foods, Rico has been not merely to introduce tween and the University under the direction of its department of what is best from our university system of Porto Rico, which took place this home economics. We have in the tropics in the States, but to conserve the rich His- spring. On that occasion the young met: many fruits and vegetables which should panic culture of the Porto Rican past : to from Yale, North-American all of them, be a valuable addition to your diet; you make the island a point of confluence of spoke brilliantly in Spanish against Im- have many which we need and are begin- these two magnificent currents. It is a perialism, which was defended by the ning to acclimatize as well as import. North American university in a Spanish Porto Rican debaters . On the following Moreover, recipes should be both inter- American environment! We feel each of evening these latter youthful American changeable and adaptable. When I speak these two factors to be an advantage. To citizens whose native language is Spanish, of your familiarizing yourself with our the university have come, for instance, attacked Imperialism, in English, in their fruits and vegetables I am not thinking some of the greatest figures in the intellec- turn, and were answered by the Yale of the more spectacular varieties-the tual life of contemporary Spain: men such group. The delight and interest of the pink coconuts, for instance, which are as Dr. Tomas Navarro Tomas, Americo audience, and their equal pleasure in found in a few spots in Porto Rico and Castro, and Fernando de los Rios. I men- both groups of debaters, were apparent the Philippines; and the white egg-plant, tion them not merely for their own emi- at every moment. The four days during with fruit the color and size of an egg, nence and the benefits they have conferred which the young visitors from the north a native of our part of the world and the on our university, but in order to speak of were in Porto Rico were of real impor- variety which gave the familiar name to an important cultural agency developed tance, both on account of the impression the species; and the rose-apple which is by Spain, whose example in this the which they left and because of the impres- almost as a much flower as a fruit. I re- United States would do well to adopt. sion which they carried back north with fer rather to such every-day practical vege- Spain bas never reconciled herself to them. tables as the yautia, which is-how shall the loss of her Spanish American colonies, We have a regrettable tendency in most we describe it?-like a potato that grows and in many ways, indeed, has never lost 22 THE SOONER MAGAZINE

them wholly. And now, Spain has decided it is hardly surprising that they are apt to reconquer them. Not as colonies, not to confuse Uruguay with Uganda . Only as territories, but as the inheritors and de- last week, in Washington one of the most velopers of that culture which made the eminent scientists of the United States, a Golden Age of Spain magnificent beyond man whose name is known all over the any other triumphant epoch of the world. world and with whose achievements we And as agents of this re-conquest, the In- are all familiar, said to me, speaking of stituciones Culturales Espanoles, the Span- our recently appointed governor, "I sup- ish Cultural Institutions, are being estab- pose he has a hard task ahead in Porto lished throughout the Hispanic world. Rico, with all those scattered islands hav- Ours in Porto Rico was the third to be ing no settled government ." Porto Rico established ; they exist also in Chile, Ar- is one island, one very small island al- gentina, Santo Domingo, , , most exactly the size of Long Island, and New York, and elsewhere. Their purpose its government house, still in use, was is purely cultural : they take no part, no already hoary with age when the Pilgrims interest, in politics, commerce nor any- landed at Plymouth! It has, moreover, a thing other than the conservation and long tradition of obtaining legislation by growth of what is legitimately Spanish in peaceful methods ; it was the only Spanish Spanish America. The Cultural in Porto colony of the New World which in all Rico, for example, has been generous in its history never had a revolution . Yet giving the aid which has made it possible though Porto Ricans have been citizens for our university, a young school con- of the United States for more than a fronted with great financial difficulties, quarter century, I have heard a very dis- to number among its faculty those men tinguished southern writer ask my hus- I have mentioned, and others: men who band with keen interest, "What do you have filled chairs at Oxford, Cambridge, people think of your king?" Columbia, Hamburg and Vienna, and One important and too little recognized whom we could not have called to us for factor in removing or in creating misun- years to come, without this aid. One of derstanding is fiction. The North Ameri- them, explaining their role in this hemis- can in a Spanish story is apt to be tall, phere, said simply, "We are missionaries" ; uncouth, and childish in everything ex- and all who have been benefited by their cept his ability to strike a bargain, if a mission will, I am sure, agree with me man: and arrogant, domineering and ugly, in hoping that such missionaries may con- if a woman. The Latin American of the tinue to come; and to wish that the United North American films and the blood-and- States might establish similar cultural thunder novel is like something that never agencies . If we had a cultural center for was on land or sea. Our novelists who the United States in each of the countries write about Spanish America have usually mentioned, distinct from politics and com- spent only a few months there at the merce, a center such as these Spanish Cul- most; and even the Spanish phrases sup- turales which ask nothing but an oppor- posed to give color to their books are al- tunity to contribute to the enrichment of most always wrong, in grammar and in the national life, I am sure we should feel spelling. Too many are like the traveler the benefit in every way-even commer- who saw on foot, and in cially and politically. I might add that his book about his trip, bitterly criticizes these are not established by the Spanish the inhospitality of the "" government but by the voluntary associa- because an Indian family in a stone but tion of enlightened Spaniards resident in high up in the Andes were afraid to let the different countries. him in when he suddenly appeared at That, by the way, indicates a very im- their door one night demanding food portant source of mutual friendship or from their inadequate stores . And yet, misunderstanding: the North Americans even according to his own story, he was resident in Latin America and the Latin ultimately given not only food but shelter Americans resident here. One need not in spite of the natural lack of enthusiasm go into details of the criticisms usually of his involuntary hosts l levelled against such groups. Basically, There is at least one American writer criticism reduces itself to the elemental who is doing golden service in helping fact that a resident in a foreign country to break down these barriers of ignorance. is generally a transient and adopts the Constance Lindsay Skinner has written viewpoint of a transient - which does a delightful book for boys, The Tiger not make for good fellowhship. The im- Who Walks Alone, in which the hero is portant thing in such a relationship is a South American revolutionist who is to do away with foregone conclusions and a gentleman and a patriot and, what is keep an open mind. If to this may be more, displays that sense of humor which added a real interest in one's environment, all Spanish Americans have in real life no problems are likely to arise. BUST OF MUNOZ-RIVERA but which they all seem to lose in fiction. HE lack of T understanding that comes Known as the George Washington of She has also a book on California, The from actual ignorance is notorious. Ranch Of the Golden Flowers, in which Most North Americans know nothing Porto Rico, Munoz-Rivera was Luisito the inter-action of Spanish and Anglo- even of Porto Rico, which has been under Munoz Lee's grandfather. This bust is Saxon traits are sympathetically portrayed. the Stars and Stripes for thirty years ; so in the principal park of San Juan. The same author's publishers announce a OCTOBER, 1929 23 new novel for fall publication, Red Wil- committee, Doctor Waxman, visited Porto -and, I assume, men-in our different lows with North American and Latin Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba, a short countries can co-operate quickly, efficient- American characters, in which we may time ago, and the reception which he re- ly, and delightfully, once their interest is confidently expect a similarly faithful, dis- ceived in these places evidenced their ap- really aroused and they are convinced of cerning and illuminating portrayal. preciation of the interest shown in their the need of action. Translators, again-the most abused writers by the great northern university. Another example of such co-operation and patient lot of folk on earth-are help- These investigators may well prove to be is the institute of Public Affairs of the and ful in making us better acquainted; cultural missionaries in the sense in which . The growth though we hope the time will soon come our visiting professor from Spain used increasing interest in the round table on when citizens of the twenty-one republics the word. Latin American relations is proof of the the will no longer need translators. There is general desire for accurate knowledge, no reason for our not speaking each oth- GAIN, the Inter American Commis- determination to do away with old bar- er's language. Among these translators we sion of Women is a very vigorous riers of ignorance and misunderstanding. may mention Alice Stone Blackwell, Isaac and a very friendly force in promoting Williamstown has for some years past Goldberg, the late Thomas Walsh. We friendship and understanding. It is the been proving the same thing. may recall also such friendly gestures as illustrious offspring of an agency, at first Last year, in another section of the in- one made that of Harriet Monroe who dedicated an purely unofficial-a committee of four, of stitute mentioned above, some bill- entire number of her magazine, Poetry, the National Woman's Party-which won a stirring plea for fewer and better to poets of Spanish America; and Mr popular and governmental approval re- boards. The reason was the wholly inade- Goldberg's services in writing and Knopf's sulting in the official creation of the pres- quate one of delivering our landscape in publishing his studies of Latin-Ameri- ent body. It consists of one representative from defacement . But how many have can poets. Ernesto Montenegro, on the from each of the countries of the Pan stopped to think in how great part bill- advertising represent other hand, has introduced Sandburg, American Union, appointed by the sixth boards and other Frost, Robinson, Masters, and many other Pan American Conference to determine us and misrepresent us abroad? Too often North American poets to the Spanish the present status of women in these twen- our advertising is written for that mythical reading public . In fact, there are a dozen ty-one countries and to make a report Latin-American of the cheap novels-the translators of our writers into Spanish for to the seventh conference when it meets one who, fortunately, has never existed every one who translates from Spanish in- in Montevideo in 1933 ; together with rec- in human form. But many pages of ad- to English. Babbitt and Main Street have ommendations looking toward the estab- vertising matter carry material written for become familiar terms in Spanish Ameri- lishment of equal rights for men and his presumable taste and creating an un- ca; and many commentators in the Span- women in this hemisphere . The commis- conscious prejudice against the United ish press have called gleeful attention to sion's first year has largely been devoted States. In our advertising in English here the fact that gentlemen prefer blondes to the vexed question of the nationality of in the states, we often show a fine imag- but marry brunettes. married women and their children; a ination, poetic and practical at the same has just initiated an subject so vital and immediate that it has time. It would be helpful in many ways investigation w h i c h w i 1 l undoubtedly claimed the attention of the press all over if we employed those qualities in the mat- prove to be a valuable contribution to the world, thereby serving to introduce ter sent to advertise our products in Span- knowledge, and incidentally to friendship . the purposes and methods of the com- ish America. Even matter which is ex- A committee has been appointed, with mission under highly favorable circum- cellently presented in English may not five years to work in, to complete a bib- tances. The consequent friendly and wide- prove effective nor even intelligible in liography for each of the Latin American spread response throughout the Americas Spanish: This is particularly true of that republics. One of the members of this has been overwhelming proof that women favorite device of our advertisers, an ap-

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WOMEN'S DORMITORY AT UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICO peal based on a pun; which of course est yet known in the history of Tropical dozens of others, are unceasingly at work. loses all effect in a foreign language. Medicine; and American research, north, And the rest of us will benefit by their "I cannot understand," a puzzled Do- south, and central, is already playing a work if we permit ourselves to do so. minican said to me as he studied a large very important part in making it great. When my little sister was ten years and striking bill board, "why the fact Men like Ashford in Porto Rico, Lutz in old, I gave her a Spanish First Reader that that extremely attractive child wants Brazil, Iturbe in Venezuela, by their or- and began teaching her Spanish. After a to go to bed should presumably induce ganized work of investigation and their week or so of the book with its stories me to buy a new tire for my car!" generous interchange of ideas, are of the and pictures of children in the Spanish Science of course, is the great interna- noblest type of international mediator. countries, she exclaimed one day, "Why, tional bond. Especially, has medical re- I have mentioned almost at random a those people speak differently but they search helped to unite investigators in this number of different agencies, some large are really just like we are!" hemisphere . It has been prophesied that and some small but all helping to make It was the most important lesson she the next quarter century will be the great- up the sum total of influence. These, and learned that summer.

MY DAYS AS FIRST UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT Told by Dr. David Ross Boyd to Dr. Roy Hadsell, '04, and Betty Kirk, '29 PART I N 1892 the . Territorial University of university's birth and early existence. To "I looked off to the southwest where Oklahoma invited the youth of its understand the concrete side of the de- our university was to be located. There seven counties: "Any young man or velopment it is best to listen to Dr. David was not a tree or shrub in sight. All I stillness of woman who has finished the course in a Ross Boyd, the university's first president, could see was the monotonous good country school may enter the univer- tell of it and to hear the chuckles and prairie grass. Later I was to find out that so monotonous sity and find educational work and a anecdotes of Dr. S. Roy Hadsell, who as this prairie grass wasn't broken welcome." plain Roy Hadsell, undergraduate, served as it seemed for its sameness was These words were written with deliber- Doctor Boyd as secretary. at quite frequent intervals by buffalo wal- dry and hard ate seriousness for in 1892 the Territorial Today Doctor Boyd is more than seven- lows. In August they were University of Oklahoma had the spiritual ty years old. He is tall, his body struc- and not even prairie grass could grow commodities of work and cheer to offer in ture is accented, his eye is alert and his on them. it couldn't plenty . Of material things it had little . voice still holds a chuckle. He is of the "To the southwest led a trail, learn The equipment it did possess was more stuff of pioneers. possibly be called a road. I was to to Adkins ford discouraging than encouraging. That his work was to be the work of that this trail lead out bridge across So it was that the Territorial Univer- a pioneer becomes obvious when we view which was near the present sity of Oklahoma began its existence by with Doctor Boyd in retrospect the physi- the South Canadian . It was the trail fol- cowboys who came placing importance on cheer and work, cal appearance of Norman, O.T., the site lowed by the thirsty They the things of the spirit. So it is that per- selected in 1890 by the territorial legisla- into Norman on Saturday nights. liquor in the Chickasaw Na- haps because of this quite elemental be- ture for the University of Oklahoma. couldn't get they made plentiful ginning it has grown into the present "I got off the train on the hot afternoon tion across the river so magnificent State University of Oklaho- of August sixth in 1892 . You too have use of Norman's fifteen saloons. This was be followed by my stu- ma, with an annual enrollment of 5,000 experienced August afternoons in Okla- also the trail to time when our students and several millions of dollars in- homa. It is probable you have experienced dents a year from that vested in buildings and grounds. them on trains. At any rate you know that first building was to be built. couldn't know of then, This far in our history mention has been after that trip my spirits were none too "These details I actualities made only of the abstract things of the high. though. I could know only the OCTOBER, 1929 25 that I could see. Behind me was a crude N the selection of Norman as a site met and this did not occur until 1890. little town of 1,500 people and before me for the university the legislature had "`Parents, even pioneer parents, were was a stretch of prairie on which my help- specified that the town must provide ambitious for their children's education ers and I were to build an institution of $10,000 and forty acres for the location of and they knew that if they waited for culture. Discouraged? Not a bit. The sight the school. territorial laws there would be an awful was a challenge. "Selection of several sites offered by the gap in their children's schooling. the board of regents. "Accordingly, provision was made by "I went to my hotel and dressed and town was left to against the pres- officials that the people should had supper. The next morning I had my They might have voted the county in school districts. This first caller. He was the Hon. Tom R. Wag- ent location because their buggy stuck organize their own went out to seet it, sounded very fine but the hitch was that goner, a member of the territorial legis- the mud when they between also have to provide school lature. When he left me he said he'd be but they did not. They debated they should acreage of the state hospital, equipment. back 'in the evening. I thought he meant the present site which the uni- "Voluntary services were immediately after supper. I found out when he returned east of town, and the organized to construct the little school- that it was afternoon he meant. It was versity now occupies." simple matter for the houses which were soon dotted over my first experience with Oklahoma collo- It had been a the ground Payne, Logan, Kingfisher, Canadian, Ok- quialisms. people of Norman to provide for their new school. It was an extremely lahoma and Cleveland counties. Volunteer "Tom Waggoner was an intelligent difficult one for them to raise the $10,000 hauling, volunteer labor, volunteer man. He had played an important part specified in the agreement. This difficulty materials solved parts of the problem. Do- in the first legislature and proved his far arose from the fact that there was little nations of money with which to buy sightedness. or no taxable land in the county. When nails and window glasses and hardware "The main problem of this legislature, homesteads had been staked out in 1889 helped further in the provision of the as you may have heard, was the location the settlers were given five years in which school house. of the capital. One group wanted it in to prove their claims. Until the claims "But it was not until the school house Guthrie, a second group wanted it in were proved the property was still govern- was finished that another great lack was Oklahoma City. ment land and could not be taxed. Con- discovered . The missing item now was "After much dickering a bill was draft- sequently, in 1892 the settlers had two school furniture. Benches to seat the stu- ed for locating the capital at Oklahoma years to expire before their land could be dents, desks for the teachers, black boards City, the university at Norman, the agri- taxed and the city and county had no for the exercises, all were needed. cultural college at Stillwater and the nor- funds. "With this problem on hand the only mal school at Edmond . The selection was The pioneer qualities of courage and solution was to get the furniture on credit . to be submitted as one bill. It was then ambition were dominant in the people It was here that the integrity of the Ok- that Tom Waggoner insisted that each of Norman however and they sold bonds lahoma pioneer came into question and selection be a separate bill for if the gover- for $10,000 when they had no taxable was found not wanting. nor should disapprove of one site he would property . The bonds were bought by M. "Loans could not be made officially un- have to veto all of them. Waggoner's ad- L. Turner of Oklahoma City for $8,500 til the legislature had met and authorized vice was followed, and true to his prophe- and the remaining $1,500 was raised by the establishment of the schools. But on cy, the three school bills passed, but the subscription from Norman business men. the recommendation of another Oklaho- capital bill was vetoed and Guthrie finally At a time when cash was an exceedingly ma pioneer, Jasper Sipes, representative of selected as its site. rare commodity this represented one of Thomas Kane and company of Chicago, school fur- "An interesting thing about the passage the major sacrifices for education in the his company sent car loads of new territory. Their only of many of the first Oklahoma laws is state. niture into the were not legally that often they were just adopted in bulk "A similar sacrifice was being made all security was notes which from the laws of another state. A whole over the territory though," says Doctor valid. says Doctor Boyd, nod- book of other laws would be passed with- Boyd. "When the country was opened "Yet I know," a pleased expres- out close investigation. It was this condi- there was no law providing for an educa- ding his head and with face, "I know that all of those tion that lead to the incorporation in the tional system. The only law which existed sion on his exception of one, were Oklahoma statute, books of a maritime in '89 was the proclamation opening the notes, with the the note had the law regulating the state's shipping in- land to settlement . Furthermore there was paid. The signers of the payment of this one but dustry! to be no law until the state legislature money for

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THIS IS THE FIRST PICTURE taken of students of the University of Oklahoma about six weeks after the opening on Septem- ber 15, 1892. Reading left to right they are: Top row: Oliver Richardson, Odessa Wallace, now Mr. Ed Rixse of Oklahoma City, Carrie Rockefeller, deceased daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Rockefeller of Oklahoma City, Elbert Long well, Lem Dorrance, Lizzie Pool, James Wadley of Norman, Perry Alexander of Alex, John T. Ilefley of Henryetta, Etta Alien, Maudc Gossett, W. N. Rice of Capitol Hill, and Roy Stoops, Scotts Bluff, Nebraska. Second row : F. S. E. Amos, city manager of Vinita, John Barbour of Norman, Marvin Miller of Boise, Idaho, Agnes Pool, Ona Barrow, George T. Leavy, Alice Johns, Marion Donehue of Pauls Valley, Harry Brown, Leah Warren, Attie Roberts, Miss French, Ollie Hunt, now Mrs . English of Edmond, Will Depue, Hattie Jacobs of Pawhuska, Otis Houghton, Pearl Trimble, now Mrs. J. Freeman of Tonkawa, Winnie Edwards and Roscoe Helvie. Third row: Edwin DeBarr, later vice-president of the university, Joe Merkle, Jennie Jarboe, now Mrs. Harry Hammock of El Reno, Jesse Hefley of Norman, Etta Warren, now Mrs. J . O. Howard of Shawnee, Ethel Wadley, Clara Wallace, Marshall Tucker of Oklahoma City, Wallace Jacobs of Tulsa, Willie Allen, Jennie Barbour, Mrs. Minnie Ritter, now Mrs. George Cathey of Tulsa, Ed Barbour, Maud Compton, J. F. Taylor, Helen Marr, Rose Compton, J. N. Coulter, Dr. David Ross Boyd. Fourth row : L. R. Bond, Beulah Wood, Alma Dickard, Herman Meuller, Mrs. Lucy Dill, Hillie Braden of Norman, Kather- ine Barbour of Norman and Mamie Martin of Britton.

could not deliver it because of some legal They had come to Oklahoma to get rich "When, after a year or two of being technicality . but their allegiance was to Indiana, and president of the university I was appointed "After the legislature did meet and Pennsylvania and Georgia. on the state school board, I used this po- provided for local schools there was yet "They all took their home town papers sition to preach the gospel of the Uni- a difficulty to be overcome. This did not and had relatives to whom they wrote. versity of Oklahoma and of culture all present itself so strongly. in the elementary So when the time came for educating over the state. I accepted every invitation schools but in our territorial university their children their first thoughts were of to speak and each speech I concluded with and preparatory school it was a fearful `back home.' It was, consequently, 'back an invitation to come to our school . It thing to contend with. home' that their children were sent. Our was `educational work and a welcome' "I am referring to the `back home' spir- problem was to divert this stream of youths which I promised them and if their means it among the settlers. You see, they had into our channels and away from those were very limited I aided in finding work come from all of the states of the union. of other states. for them to do."

CYCLONIC STORM 7 and broken only by a thundershower towers to solid cement. Pisa may have its Norman's year of vexatious weather early in August . The spring had been not- leaning tower. But buildings on the cam- reached a climax September 8, when a cy- ably wet, three fourths of the average rain- pus are too scarce to wait until four walls clonic storm struck the city, unroofing fall being recorded before July. collapse because the towers were not un- houses near the airport, where planes were derpinned when the building was erected hurled from the field onto the Norman- LEANING TOWERS (during the post-war period). Oklahoma City road, and damaged trees Workmen sunk their spades into earth in the city. of concrete hardness . Up came shrubs, FRESHMEN WEEK The grand old trees along Lahoma, treelets, flowers. Piles of sand were laid Begun two years ago, freshmen week Chautauqua and College avenues were around the fine arts building, like barri- (orientation week for educational neo- worst damaged. Trees were uprooted, not- cades against the beauty of the campus . phytes) this year was reported to be the ably the non-bearing mulberry, locusts and At the four corners of the building-or most successful . Ninety per cent of the maples. Chimneys were blown down, five, if you count the bravura front, hil- freshmen class attended various meetings while a vigorous hail that followed the locks of red clay, some hardpan testified held in university auditorium . Prof. Law- wind storm damaged leaves and roofs. to progress. The towers of the building rence Nelson Morgan presided over the The storm was part of a four day peri- were leaning three inches from the verti- week. Speakers included President Bizzell od of rain that broke a drouth begun July cal. And the workmen were pinning the and John Rogers, '14 law, regent . OCTOBER, 1929 27 THE SPIRIT OF LEARNING IN A MOTOR AGE High Points in President Bizzell's Annual Address

THAT there is no "royal road to learn- and all nations but, at the same time, they uminous volumes on which they are ing" was the admonition of President Wil- are preempting the sacred precincts of based. liam Bennett Bizzell in his annual address learning of the quietude so essential to This in itself may not be a misfortune. delivered at the Fieldhouse on September uninterrupted thought and meditation. The thing to be regretted is that the men- 17. Doctor Bizzell deplored the noise and One wonders what effect the enormous tal distractions of today have left us with- confusion of our mechanistic age and de- advance in mechanical invention with the out an inclination to read the masterpieces clared that they are the greatest handicaps changing habits produced by these inven- of the literature of the past. Plato's Re- to scholasticism today. A digest of Presi- tions will have upon the spirit of learning . public, Bacon's Novum Orgonum, Kant's dent Bizzell's address follows: There are those today who contend that Critique Of Pure Reason, Hegel's Philoso- The assembling of a great student body civilization will be destroyed by the very phy Of History, Carl Pierson's Grammar at the beginning of an academic year is agencies that have determined its progress. Of Science, Darwin's Origin of Species, an occasion for serious introspection and These pessimists have expressed the belief and Spencer's First Principles are conspic- the searching of hearts. The resources of that increased leisure made possible by uous sign posts on the intellectual high- the university are two kinds-material machine production is resulting in habits way of the centuries. But few people ever and human. About us here today are a that are undermining health and physical read these books today or even realize number of buildings that house thousands vigor. We know that security to life has that they are sources of the intellectualism of dollars worth of equipment that will greatly declined as the use of motor driv- of the present time. Probably, not one of be utilized for your instruction. Much en machinery has increased. We read in these authors, if he were living today, has been expended in terms of money the daily newspapers of so many people would have been able to produce the work and effort in the beautification of this being killed in motor accidents that we on which his title to fame now rests. campus. When we speak of the university have almost ceased to be interested in these The conditions for clear thinking are we usually think of these physical facili- tragical occurrences. The automobile has not favorable. The mind is peopled with ties but I remind you that the real uni- certainly increased the insecurity of prop- too many obsessions . The spirit of learn- versity is not a material thing of brick and erty and, as far as I am able to see, this ing implies the opportunity, as well as stone and mortar. The thing that con- will be further increased as commercial the power, to concentrate on the single stitutes a real university is its human re- aviation develops . It seems that man's me- object that engages one's attention . This sources. In final analysis, it is this factor chanical ingenuity has surpassed his social means that the mind must be able to se- that determines the greatness of a uni- discernment. He is threatening the stabili- lect the ideas to which it will attend at versity. These resources comprise officers, ty of the social institutions that he has the moment and completely eliminate all teachers and students. created by the mechanical contrivances he images and impressions foreign to the ,It has become a habit with me to say has developed for his convenience. object of thought. at this annual convocation that this is The fact that people can no longer bear Every individual is constantly making the largest assembly of students that has either solitude or remaining in one place choices. We not only choose to go to col- ever enrolled at the beginning of an aca- is detrimental to those mental habits that lege or to stay at home, but we choose demic session. Students have enrolled in are essential to intellectual accomplish- between the vocation of banking or the the university for this scholastic year from ment. It is quite obvious that few students profession of law or medicine. No one in- every section and, perhaps, from every today in any part of the world are per- dividual can be an athlete, a social lion, county in Oklahoma . Many of you have mitted to pursue their studies under the the best dressed man on the campus, a come from other states and even from for- most favorable conditions . As a general member of the glee club, a leader in de- eign countries. To each and all of you I thing, our educational institutions are lo- bate, a student politician and a scholar extend a cordial welcome to the univer- cated in the midst of a feverish environ- at the same time. Every one who enters sity and express the hope and prayer that ment. The University of Oklahoma is college must make choices between these the days ahead may bring happiness, the more favorably situated than many edu- conflicting interests. Upon the relative consciousness of increasing strength of cational institutions . I thing it is exceed- merits of these choices will depend one's character and a realization of intellectual ingly fortunate that this university is not happiness and success as a college student. accomplishment. located in a large city. But, you stand today confronted with It is our earnest desire to create here an The task ahead of all of us interested the problem of making numerous deci- atmosphere of learning. I realize that the in the promotion of real scholarship is to sions. Some of these decisions will affect "temper of the times" is not conducive to create an atmosphere around our educa- your character, others will affect your in- straight thinking . We are living in a ma- tional institutions that will make the ac tellectual life. Some of these decisions will chine age with all attendant noises and quisition of knowledge relatively easy. We not be easy for you to make but they distractions that result from the use of see evidence of high tension here as well must be made and no one can make them mechanical contrivances . In the past, as elsewhere. Students rush from class to for you. I remind you that there is no learning has been associated with the quiet class. royal road to learning. Character and wis- places-the cloister, the hermit's lodge The emotional strain has profoundly in- dom come high but they are worth the and the mountain fastness . fluenced the literature of today. This is price you must pay in terms of long hours It is getting more and more difficult to the day of outlines. We have outlines of of labor and sacrifice to possess them. find a place where one may freely exercise literature, of art, of science, of philosophy, his intellectual powers. The motor car of religion, et cetera. The popularity of Names of Sooners are to be observed and the aeroplane now go everywhere . these outlines reflects the predominant in the faculty roster of eastern and south- There are no places, no matter how re- characteristic of the age. We get satisfac- ern colleges more and more. Mattie Mac- mote from the haunts of man, where the tion out of having a conversational knowl- Addison, '18 Kingfisher (M. S, '29 Okla- hum of a motor may not be heard today. edge of the literature of the past. These homa), began this semester l er position These great agencies of civilization are condensed outlines enable us to do this as assistant registrar of Winth op college, making one community out of all races without the necessity of reading the vol- Rock Hill, South Carolina . 2s THE SOONER MAGAZINE sooner persons and personalities he saved oklahoma $15,000,000--a sooner who sells the world new ideas as advertising manager of america's largest woman's magazine--an alumnus who answered a want ad and brought the talkies to the southwest--a

PAUL WALKER, '12 of the Holmes Inn of the Phi Delta Phi become effective, marking the end of one THE freight rates on shipping potatoes legal fraternity. He was a member of the of the most protracted and sharply liti- from Spiro, Oklahoma, to Fort Sill, Ok- Oklahoma-Kansas debating team in 1909- gated rate proceedings in the history of lahoma, has been reduced nine and a half 10 and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsi- the Interstate Commerce Commission . Six cents on every hundred pounds. lon social fraternity. or seven years ago Paul Walker instituted This statement sounds like one of those After his graduation Walker went to a complaint for the corporation commis- dull things that could be of interest only Shawnee where he entered private prac- sion of Oklahoma complaining of Okla- to shippers of potatoes. It sounds like one tice in law. At the end of two years he homa interstate class rates as unreason- of the many things in which you and I left private life for public life and has able and discriminatory . This was combin- would never be interested . If this were ed with several other cases and with them all there were to the story we should un- became known as the Consolidated South- doubtedly pass it by and return to read- western Cases. . . . Existing rates were ing our True Story or Time or Vanity found to be in a chaotic condition, many Fair . But like most statistical statements of them being two or three times as high of dull fact there is a story and a per- in one part of the territory involved as sonality behind it. in other parts, notwithstanding substan- It is a story in which you and I are tially similar transportation conditions . interested when we know that it has re- The report provided an entirely new rate sulted in the potential advantage to our structure, which has been termed the most state of $15,000,000. Fifteen millions of constructive and statesmanlike piece of dollars which you and I may divert into rate making yet to the credit of the com, other channels of culture, amusement or mission. The revision provided advances food. The story becomes more interesting. as well as reductions, and naturally some It is the personality behind the story shippers were dissatisfied ; and the carri- that is of immediate interest to Sooners ers were dissatisfied . Reconsideration was and to Soonerland, however. It is the per- sought and granted. . . . They were dis- sonality of Paul Walker, '12 law, which posed of early in July. . . . Certain ship- has been the chief element in creating pers in the southeast made an application this advantage to our state and which pro- for an injunction . The application was duced the most exhaustive freight rate heard at St. Louis on July 9 and 10. J. survey yet made by the interstate com- Standley Payne appeared for the commis- merce commission. sion and Paul Walker and Albert Reed It has taken seven years for Walker of Dallas intervened in support of the and his workers to complete this survey commission's order. On July 12 the court and achieve the adjustment which grew announced its decision denying the in- from the case of the state of Oklahoma junction . Hence the PAUL WALKER rates as prescribed to include the case of the states of Kan- became effective and Walker feels entitled sas, Missouri, Texas and Arkansas. They ever since been connected with some legal to a vacation." have been seven years which would have department of the state. First serving as The estimate of Walker's service to the wearied many a less diligent worker and attorney for the corporation commission state may be judged from a notice given would have discouraged another with a he turned after four years to become out by the Oklahoma corporation commis- less courageous heart. Because he has con- referee of the supreme court of Oklahoma . sion in which it states : "The new rates tinued to work and refused to be down- The refereeship held him for four more will give added impetus to the location hearted it is to Walker that the credit years at the end of which time he re- and development of factories, distributing is due. turned to the corporation commission as and jobbing houses within the state of Walker has devoted fifteen of the seven- special counsel to work on rate cases. His Oklahoma. They have already brought to teen years he has spent since his gradua- work on the Consolidated Southwestern Oklahoma City a new steel mill, and ad- tion in the service of the state. Not the Cases led in 1925 to his being appointed ditional industrial development as the re- least of these services was his chairman- chairman of the committee on co-opera- sult of these new rates has been reported ship of the students' legislative committee tion between federal and state commis- from other Oklahoma cities and towns." which secured the appropriation for the sions of the National Association of Rail- law school building . His intensive interest road and Utilities Commissioners. That RAY H. HAUN, '12 in the university and the law school after such distinction was deserved can best be THERE was once a day when $20 a graduation had been prefaced by varied realized from the scanning of excerpts month paid all of a student's expenses activities while in school . from a report made by John S. Benton, through school. That was back in 1911 While studying law he was a student general solicitor of the National Associa- and '12 before the war could be held instructor and debating coach. He was a tion of Railroad and Utilities Commission- responsible for all manner of things, in- member of the Senate Literary society and ers. Says Benton: cluding the well known "high price of was a charter member and first president "Consolidated Southwestern rates have living." But if $20 was a modest amount OCTOBER, 1929 29 it was just as hard to command as its facturers of the country first became aware diana, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, quadruple is today. of the fact that women were spending the Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota a n d For this reason the office of business bulk of the money of the country. Sta- North and South Dakota . manager of "The Umpire," the student tistics proving that the woman was the McQuown's job is the installation of paper which later became "The Oklahoma spender caused an immediate boost in the Movietone and Vitaphone machines, pro- Daily," was a coveted one for it paid the advertising value of the women's publica- duced by his company, in theaters over exact sum of $20 a month which would tions and Haun, with his new connection this area and it is a matter of enlighten- carry its possessor through school . Ray with The Ladies Home Journal was one ment to hear him converse upon the intri- H. Haun, graduate of Pond Creek high- of the first to take advantage of the new cacies of these two sound devices and their school and teacher for a year, desired the trend. How successful this move was is significance in the entertainment of thou- office and got it during his junior year. In illustrated in the fact that during his sands of people today and tomorrow . his senior year he also desired the same three years in Detroit his publication in- "In general," says McQuown, "there are office-and got it, thereby establishing a creased its advertising revenue by more two practical methods of recording sound. precedent for he was the first of all stu- than one half million dollars. One is by means of `wax' phonograph dent business managers to hold his office This record was responsible for his pro- methods, as exemplified in the Vitaphone. for two successive years. Today this inci- motion in 1927 to the Philadelphia office The other is by film records, as used in dent is perhaps a trivial one to Hann of the Curtis company. His first duty here the Movietone. The latter produces varia- but it is indicative of his character and was to organize a sales promotional de- tions in sound from variations in light ability for "managing things" and is the partment for the advertising staff of The passing through a film of variable density. very trait which enabled him to become Ladies Home Journal. His capacity now "Close speed regulation is necessary, a bachelor of arts in 1912 and the adver- is that of advertising director of that mag- both in recording and reproducing, not gauged tising director of The Ladies Home Jour- azine, which responsibility may he only to keep the picture and sound ma- nal division of the Curtis Publishing Co. from the knowledge that the publication chines in step, but also to prevent any in 1929. ha; a circulation of the change in the sound's pitch which may be The Ladies Home Journal had an ad, 2,500,000, sec-ondlargestintheUnitedStatesandthe caused by variation in speed. Failure in vertising volume in 1928 of sixteeen and largest in its own field. speed regulation for even a fraction of a one half million dollars and Haun was second would cause music to sound like the director of the earning and expendi- KERR MCQUOWN '22 that from a phonograph which is run- ture of this sum. It was not, however, "WANTED:" how often has this ad been ning down. through any wizardry of juggling figures inserted in the daily papers to send hope "A picture of a section of Movietone or mastering of a secret code that he springing eternal into the breasts of the film shows the sound track on the side learned to fill such a position. It was the ambitious ones who are ever seeeking to as a series of parallel black lines of differ- unbeatable combination of persistence and improve their lot. And how often does the ent densities. To reproduce these lines as experience which worked the miracle. answering of such an ad prove that it sound, the film is passed in front of a With Haun the persistence was innate was either another sucker or else a genius narrow slit through which shines a pow- and the base of all his experience was who was in demand! erful light. The resulting variation in obtained right within Oklahoma . Rare it is indeed for a "Wanted" in- light intensity fall upon a photoelectric After his graduation he first became sert to open up that golden future that all cell which converts them into variations advertising solicitor for The Dailv youth is seeking . Yet, that the word is in electric current. These are amplified in Okla-homanandtheninswiftsuccession the sometimes a magic one, is evidenced in the a five stage audio amplifier whose output advertising manager of The Oklahoma fortune which Kerr McQuown, '22 eng., feeds the loudspeakers behind the screen. Farmer-Stockman, and director of the has found from answering just such an "The organization of the Vitaphone, service department of The Daily Oklaho- ad back in the spring of 1923 . however is on quite a different principle. man, The Oklahoma City Times and The It isn't exactly fortune in the moneyed The `wax' records used in the Vitaphone Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman. sense that McQuown has feund but for- are cut with a groove of constant depth He remained in the advertising field in which oscillates or undulates laterally Oklahoma for seven years and then, look- about a smooth spiral . The recorder is an ing for more extensive fields for his grow- electromechanical device . ing capacities, moved to Detroit to be- "The original discs are composed of a come manager of the local office of the metallic soap and are from thirteen to Capper Publications . Two years sufficed seventeen inches in diameter. This is for him to master the managership of the placed in the recording machine which is one office and succeed in 1921 to the di- essentially a high-grade lathe whose stylus rectorship of the central district for Cap- cuts from the center toward the outer per Publications, which covered the terri- edge of the disc. The `wax' shaving is re- tories of both Detroit and Cleveland . A moved by air suction. The cutting speed year later he was made director of adver- is from seventy to 140 feet a minute, the tising for the Capper Farm Press which space between grooves being about .004 included all of the eight Capper farm inches . The original wax record is brush- papers . ed with an extremely fine conducting pow- In 1924 the "woman's influence" en- der and is then electroplated, the first KERR MCQUOWN AND MRS MCQUOWN tered into Hann's life. No, this is not electrotype being called a `master.' This romance but business, for it was the tune in that he is working in a field negative is in turn electroplated to pro- "woman's influence" in advertising in- which he finds intensely interesting and duce a positive from which is plated a stead of the home which became a mile- which offers perhaps as great a future and metal mold or 'stamper .' A thousand or stone in his career. He had just joined the opportunity for advancement as any in- more pressings may be made from a sing- staff of the Curtis Publishing Co. and dustry open today. le `stamper .' The sound is then repro- had become director of advertising of The His position is that of installation engi- duced by means of an electric pickup Ladies Home journal for the state of neer for the Electrical Research Products, similar to that used in the electric phono- Michigan . Incorporated, with headquarters in Chi- graph." It was at this time also that the manu- cago and a territory covering Illinois, In- McQuown sees the talking movie as 30 THE SOONER MAGAZINE the greatest of all entertainment devices in tile country and is directing his own energies to try to keep abreast of the ad- vancement and importance which the "talkies" promise to gain.

CHARLES A. LONG, '05 "READ it yourself! Read it yourself!" is tile advice of Heywood Broun in recom- mending a recent book. w e shall echo tile words of Mr. Broun in referring you to tile following article by Charles A. Long, '05 sc., who has been president of Granbery college, Julz de rora, state of Minas Geraes, Brazil, and is now in charge of the P etropolis dis- trict, tile fasmonable summer resort and diplomatic residence of Brazil. Long tells of early days in Soonerland, of student pranks and collegiate diver- sions, and of his experiences in tile South American republic. But we cannot tell if as he noes- Read it yourself! Read it yourself!" ' 1 entered the preparatory department of tile university in tile fall of 1899," Long writes, -when there were more preps than CHARLES A. LONG AND WIFE college students and when the total ma- triculation was under 400, when every- to my credit. I am one of the few 'rene- "In tile fall of 1906 I entered the Meth- bouy knew everybody else, when digni- gades' who did not follow the good train- odist Itinerary and was sent to grand fied college professors were still teaching ing given in the geological department by circuit in Day county (now Ellis), where preparatory classes and were the intimate, Doctor Gould, the student's supreme 1 spent two years in frontier conditions . personal friends of all their students (they friend. "in 1908, obtaining leave, I matriculat- would be yet if there were not so many "I was a member of the Forum Lit- ed in the biblical department of Vander- of the latter), when Sooners were just erary Society, glee club, Rock club, Good bilt university and three years later re- beginning to learn the looks and use of Roads club, Y .M.C.A., etc. In athletics, ceived my B .D. degree . Was also accepted football togs and athletic suits. My class I won the walking race in the locals the by tile mission board for work in Brazil. was file last college class to complete a last year if was included in college ath- "It happened also, that the Methodist whole college year in the original build- letics . I also won innumerable tourna- Training school then existed in Nashville ing before it burned. After this fire we ments with pick and shovel, broom and and that the Student Volunteer Union were obliged to return to the old rock axe handles, buck saw blades, and office frequently met there. The result was that building on Main Street where the uni- work, whereby I was enabled to win the a certain young lady who was being ac- versity held its first classes. It was the finals over lack of funds to carry on my cepted by the women's board for work in time of the original faculty, President studies. These latter courses were worth China asked that her papers be trans- Boyd, Professors Paxton, Parrington, Bu- as much or more to me than others I took, ferred to the men's board for work as chanan, Elder, Miss Grace King, Doctors though I believe the (then) registrar, Roy 'permanent pastor's help' in Brazil. Wed- DcBarr and Van Vleet, etc. Later addi- Hadsell, failed to give me credit for them ding bells rang in Eldorado, Oklahoma, tions included Professors Sturgis, Hum- on my credit card. July 8, 1911, and Miss Lucy York, whose phreys, Cole, Doctor Upjohn, and "Kirby" "I remember the last class fight that sister Ruth recently attended the univer- f . N. Pricket, superintendent of buildings occurred inside buildings. It was in the sity, started her 'Long' journey to Brazil. and grounds. old building The juniors had hoisted "We sailed from New York July 20 "Among the students were Roberts, their flag on the tower. The freshmen, and landed in Rio on August 6. Our first Hertz, Hefley, Mackey, Bucklin, Hadsell, usual lineup, pulled it down and hoisted work was English congregation and su- Gittinger, Ferguson, the Reeds brothers, theirs . During the day following Profes- perintendence of an institutional church. Kirk, Larkin, Williams, Darling and the sor Cole removed apparatus from under The next year a seamen's mission was Misses Ruth House, Fantine Samuels and the tower, foreseeing the battle brewing. added and the next the English work Rena Williams. Sufficient to say that it was not amiss- passed to a' successor. Of course language "The university then consisted of col- the fight was a draw and a number of study came at once. lege, a school of pharmacy, school of us, including the president's secretary and "After those three years in Rio, we had commerce, fine arts and the preparatory registrar, had the privilege of `walking a year and a half in pastoral work in the department . Medicine and engineering on the carpet' and paying the bill. We interior, and then I was elected president were added during my course. suspected, like the little colonel chewing of Granbery college, Juiz de Fora, State "As to my own activities, I am not a up the artillerymen who fired without of Minaz Geraes. That was the hardest wearer of the Phi Beta Kappa key and orders in Empey's Over the Top, the lec- task I think I ever had, for the school was was never accused of being in serious turing we got was 'for the sake of good in `a pickle of a bad fix .' The governing danger of such. On the other hand Pro- order and form' in part. bodies and personnel were in serious dis- fessor Elder is the only professor that "After graduating, having declined greement, due to lack of information and ever had the privilege of handing me an several offer, of scholarships in Vander- misinformation and misinterpretation . A F. If was in college algebra. My motto bilt university, I attended summer normal former president had offended members was `Stick to the Bush' and thereby I in Norman, and taught in the Lexington of the faculty and patrons of the school came to graduation with seven extra hours highschool the following winter. so that an opposition school had been or-

OLD BEAUTYREST WINS AGAIN

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The Famous Blindfold Test Filbert J. Blotz, president of the Endorsers' Union, chooses the Beautyrest Mattress over three other nationally advertised brands.

And does it blindfolded. Another triumph for the Beautyrest Mattress. Above you see Filbert, who has endorsed almost everything except his friends' notes, taking the famous blindfold test before a distinguished gathering of experts. To the extreme right, joining him in the test, is Ethelbert Blimp, one of Oklahoma's big officials, a notary public. (Hat cour- tsy Rothchild's B and M) . the Gentleman with the lighter (courtesy Diamond Match Co.) is Romeo Gumdrop, a rep- resentative of the American Amalgamated and Augmented Candy Manufacturers' firing squad (no pun) . He "reached" too late in life. At the extreme left, almost out of the picture, are rep- resentatives of the press. (Courtesy O. D . McIntyre .) Before and after each smoke, President Blotz cleared his taste with coffee delicately flavored with Listerine to prevent his friends from telling him . "I choose this one," finally shouted President Blotz, as he reached for a package of Lux. "I find it's good to the last drop . It saves embarrassment and preserves my schoolgirl complexion . Realizing that the peril comes to four out of five, I do not hesitate to say that when better cars are built, Packard will ask who owns them." Immediately after this test, which was ever so exhausting, President Blotz retired to luxuriousiced $39.50 at sleep on a package of Lucky Strike cigarets and an Ivory bed, It floats. D C & BILL And so old Beautyrest mattresses triumph FURNITURE COMPANY again . Not a nightmare in a carload. Oklahoma City 32 THE SOONER MAGAZINE ganized and was working havoc and at- treasurerships of one year each; dean of Lloyd is much interested in the program tendance had dropped to a minimum. The the seminary one year ; professor in sem- of the greater University of Oklahoma remaining faculty had some porcupines inaries eight years; chaplain of the Sea- Association. He is very enthusiastic over in the midst and debts had accumulated men's Mission two years, etc. I have oc- the addition of "Snorter" Luster, '21 arts- to $10,000. Also the federal government cupied every place of responsibility on the sc., to the coaching staff. was making demands on one department field. Floyd P. Benson, '28 geol., is geologist which were choking the life out of it. To "I watch with interest and pleasure the for the South American Gulf Oil Co. His straighten out this required courage. That growth of my Alma Mater and my old headquarters are at Cartagena, Colombia . is, courage to the point of disobeying or- friends among the students who are now He is at present engaged in field work. ders cabled out in the strongest terms in doctors, professors, etc. Success to you W. J. Bacon, ex '24, is editor and man- English. all ." ager of the Sayre Publishing Co. at Sayre. "But in the six years of my incumbency, Clarence A. Babcock, ex '21, is an in- 1915-21, I did it. I paid the debt and Lloyd Noble, ex '21, Ardmore, is presi- terior decorator living in Los Angeles, turned over more than that amount in (lent of Noble Drilling Co., one of the California, at 2719 South Hill street. cash to my successor, everything was put largest drilling contracting firms in Okla- Hanna Asher, ex '21, is a musician liv- into smooth running order, buildings were homa. The company is now drilling wells ing in . Her address is improved, furniture added, faculty in- in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Canada . 542 West 112th street. creased, enrollment increased and the plans made for a vast program of develop- ment, carried out by my successor. The commercial department and equipment were added, the whole course strength- ened. "When I took the school, it was of highschool-junior college grade. I left it Try Our Sudden service a good iunior college and it has since beep improved. It also had a primary and school of pharmacy and dentistry, said to be the best in Brazil, and a theological department . The government's war on private professional schools had obliged the school to close out the school of law it had had and obliged us to close out the school of pharmacy and dentistrv. "From the presidency of the school I went to the pastorate of the local church in that city. where I built one of our best edifices in the country. Outsiders call it the `Methodist Cathedral.' "I was delegate to the Congress of The "Sooner," Aristocrat of the Highway Christian Work in Latin America, held in Montevideo in 1925. "That same vear I was sent back to Rio as presiding elder there, as pastor and as dean and professor in Union Theologi- cal Seminary, as well as treasurer of the mission board, of the annual conference MANY . and of the superannuate endowment fund. ALUMNI I had been presiding elder for several Will complete his journey from Oklahoma City to the Uni- years before, even while in the school . Of sity in this giant comfortable bus this fall . course this does pot count a score and You pay 45 cents and in as many minutes you are at the front more of boards. committees, etc., which call for only occasional time and attention. door of the Administration Bldg. That's service for you. "In 1926 we returned home from our The schedule follows : second furlough and in 1927 I was an- pointed to Petropolis charge and district BUSES LEAVE ADMINISTRATION BUSES LEAVE OKLAHOMA CITY BUILDING FOR OKLAHOMA CITY : FOR UNIVERSITY : where we are at the present. Petronolis 6 :10 A. M. 7 :20 A. M. is the fashionable summer resort and dip- 8:10 A. M . 9 :20 A. M . lomat;c residence of Brazil. 10 :10 A. M . 11 :20 A. M . "Summing up years of service, over- 12 :10 P. M 1 :20 P. M. 2:10 P. M. :230 P. M. lapping of course, during these eighteen 4 :10 P. M. 5 :20 P. M. years I have been pastor in English work 6 :10 P. M. 7 :20 P. M. two years : Portuguese work ten and a half years: presiding_ elder eight years, in which time I have had charge of everv pastoral charge in the states of Rio de Janiero, Minas, Espirito Santo and the Federal district and have done my share L.C. Giles Transportation Co. on mule back through the trails and mud holes of almost impassable interior coun- try; president of college six years: three OCTOBER, 1929 33 here and there with sooners news of sooners everywhere by classes

IMPORTANT NOTICE--All news for in Oklahoma City September 1 . Pi Beta WHITEFORD - THORNTON : Miss Dorothy this department should reach the editor of Phi-Beta Theta Pi . Home, Norman. Whiteford, '21 arts-sc., and Hamilton The Sooner Magazine, not later than the SAUNDERS-MAYFIELD: Miss Wilma Joyce Thornton in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, tenth of the month preceding the date of Saunders, '29 arts-sc ., and J . Cleo Mayfield, on June 30. Delta Gamma. Home, St. publication. News for the November is- '28 arts-sc., September Louis. sue, for instance, should be in our hands 3 in Marietta . Gam- ma Phi Beta-Phi Beta Kappa. Home, by October 10. Keep the magazine in- LAWSON-GUNBY : Miss Gladys Lawson, Marietta . ex-'28, and R. H. formed of important Sooner news-make Gunby, June 30 in Ok- it a representative magazine . LITTLE-MCCLAIN : Miss Wanda Little, lahoma City. Home, Vallejo, California . '28 arts-sc., and Carl McClain, '28 arts-sc., AMIS-LEHEW: Miss Elizabeth Amis, ex- WEDDINGS in Oklahoma City on September 4. Pi '29, and Elton Wilmot LeHew, '28 medic., RACKLEY-HAIGHT: Mlss Corinne Rack- Beta Phi-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Home, in Shawnee July 10. Pi Beta Phi-Kappa Waltcrs. ley, ex-'26 and Willett Miller Haight, ex- Sigma . Home, Norman. 1, in 1 urcell August .50. Gamma Phi 'Beta-Sigma2 Alpha Epsilon. Home, Shaw- nee. SHUMATE-McREA: Miss Mary Elizabeth Shumate and Henry Barxdale McRea, ex- '26, August 24 in Pauls Valley. Sigma We Welcome You Alpha Epsilon. Home, Pauls Valley . HRON-BARTELL: Miss Mary Ellen Hron, To The Remaining and Jack Bartell, '30 medic., at Stillwater September 3. Alpha Kappa kappa. Home, Oklahoma City. Home Games GIBSON-GIBSON: Miss Louise Gibson, '26 art, and William Dow Gibson, '26 arts-sc., Oct. 12 Sooners vs. Creighton in Norman September 2 . Home, Harrah . TODD-CLARK : Miss Faye Louise Todd, Nov. 2 Sooners vs. Iowa State '26 arts-sc., and Ralph Logan Clark, ex- Nov. 9 Sooners vs. Kansas Uni. '26, September 19 in T ulsa. Gamma Phi Nov. 16 Sooners vs. Nebraska (Freshman Game) Beta-Sigma Nu. Home, Tulsa. Nov. 23 Sooners vs. Okla. A. & M. FRANCE-MCCOY : Miss Georgia France, ex-'21, and Harvey L. McCoy in Okla- homa City on September 21 . Delta Gam- ma-Kappa Alpha. Home, Cape Girardeau, And to male your stay comfortable Missouri . RUSSELL-GUFFEY : Miss Jo Russell, '27 arts-sc., and Roy Guffey, '26 bus., August 28 in New York City. - HOTEL HUDSON Kappa Sigma. Home, Ardmore. HORNE-GROUNDS: Miss Elizabeth Horne, l2.®®to.50$1 ex-'24, and William H. Grounds, ex-'24, in Tulsa, September 4. Phi Gamma Delta. 50 Rooms With Bath 50 Rooms Without Bath Home, Okmulgee. Interurbans, Cars, and Bus Service at Our Door BELL-MULDROW : Miss Clara Mae Bell, '27 arts-sc., and Hal Muldrow, '27 arts-sc.,

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CASEY-BARNETT: Mrs . Bernice Casey to Oklahoma City, July 15 . Delta Gamma- '29, June 22 in Sapulpa . Pi Beta Phi. Buford Barnett, '24 pharm., on June 27 Pi Kappa Sigma . Home, Ada. Home, Norman. in Oklahoma City. Home, Yukon. SNELL-WICKHAM: Miss Margaret Jua- BURLINGAME - BEY : Miss Ruth Burlin- WALKER-PEARSON : Miss Wynola Walk- nita Snell, ex '29, and Howard Charles game, ex '29, and Donald Bey, June 15 er, ex '28, and John Pearson, '29 arts-sc, Wickham, ex '29, July 21, in Oklahoma in Bartlesville . Kappa Kappa Gamma. law, July 20, in Pawhuska. Pi Beta Phi- City . -. Home, Bartlesville . Beta Theta Pi. Home, Pawhuska. WALKER-MURRELL : Miss Opal Walker JOIINSON-BATEMAN : Miss Janice Johnson, BUERCKLIN - WALLRAVEN : Miss Agnes and Lloyd Murrell, '28 bus., July 14 in ex '28, and Harris Bateman, August 18 in Buercklin, ex '26, and J. E, Wall-raven, Frederick . Lambda Chi Alpha . Bartlesville . Beta Theta Pi. Home, Bar- '25 arts-sc., in Elk City June 23. Phi Ome- WOOD-DAVISON : Miss Pauline Wood, ex tlesville. ga Pi-Sigma Mu Sigma. Home, Anadarko. '23, and Walter Davison in Tulsa, July LONG - GODFREY : Miss Elizabeth Fay MONTGOMERY-KULL: Miss Dove Mont- 10. Kappa Kappa Gamma-Beta Theta Pi. Long, ex '29, and Thomas Godfrey, ex gomery, '22 arts-sc., and Alec C. Kull, Home, Tulsa . '26, in Norman August 18. Kappa Kappa June 26 in Oklahoma City . Chi Omega. GILBERT-KRESSMAN: Miss Alice Gilbert, Gamma-Sigma Nu. Home, Oklahoma Home, Oklahoma City. ex '24, and Pierre E. Kressman, in Toledo, City. DELANEY-MURPHY : Miss Mary Delaney, Ohio, on July 10. . Home, Bor- UPSHAW -ANDERSON :Miss Elizabeth ex '23, and Timothy J. Murphy, jr., in deaux, France. Wade Upshaw, '28 arts-sc., '29 M.A., and Oklahoma City June 24. Alpha Phi . GUILDERSLEEVE-SPECK : Miss L a v o n Owen William Anderson, '28 arts-sc., '29 Home, Oklahoma City. Guildersleeve and John Speck, '28 arts-sc., M.A., in Oklahoma City July 31 . Kappa SHANNON-BOGGS: Miss Lorraine Shan- Upsilon-Pi Epsilon. Home, Minneapo- July 14 in Sapulpa. Delta Chi. Home, Still- Mu non, ex '26, and Foster Pickard Bogs, water. lis. '26 arts-sc., June 29 in Oklahoma City. MALOY-WILLIAMS: Miss Mary Virginia MEISTER-ARBUCKLE: Miss Helen Meister, Alpha Sigma Phi. Home, Oklahoma City. Maloy, '29 arts-sc, and Roland L. Williams, '26 arts-sc., '27 M.A., and HAUGHT - MARTIN : Miss Margery Loll Glenwood Dale ex '27, in Norman August 2. Kappa Kap- Arbuckle, '27 law, August 16 in Oklaho- Haught, ex '22, and Ward Martin, ex '23, pa Gamma-Alpha Tau Omega. Home, ma City. Chi Omega-Phi Gamma Delta. June in Shamrock . Home, Brooklyn, New Oklahoma City. Home, Duncan . York . BARNHILL - BROWN : Miss Fay Barnhill, HEWITT-MORE: Miss Nancv Jane Hewitt HOLMES-WILLIAMS : Miss Celia Holmes '26 arts-sc., and Joe Brown, '26 law, July and Leon S. More, ex '27, in Tulsa August and Thomas Elbert Williams, ex '27, on 27 in Olahoma City . Delta Gamma-Sig- 10 . Kappa Alpha Theta-Sigma Alpha Ep- July 27 in Oklahoma City. Phi Gamma ma Nu. Home, Ardmore. silon. Home, Bartlesville . Delta. Home, Dallas . PIERCE-SISSON: Miss Alice Pierce, '26 O'DELL-SHENAULT: Miss Elizabeth O'- GARDNER - WOODWARD: M i s s M a u d e arts-sc., and Edward L, Sisson, ex '26, Ju- Dell, ex '26, and James Shenault, Okla- Gardner, '27 fine arts, and George Ed- ly 27 in Norman . Delta Gamma-Sigma homa A. and M., in Shawnee, July 31 . ward Woodward, ex '26, in Oklahoma Nu. Home, Cordell. Kappa Alpha Theta-Sigma Nu. Home, City on July 21 . Delta Gamma-Beta Theta VERITY-GOFER : Miss (',lady-. Verity, ex Shawnee. Pi. Home, Oklahoma City . '28, and Averyt Gober, '23 arts-sc., '27 M. GEE-WIMBLISH : Miss Elizabeth Gee, ex MASTERS - STIVERS: Miss Eugenia Mas- A., in Oklahoma City August 15. Home, '27, and Robert J. Wimblish, ex '23, in ters, ex '29, and Ovid DeWitt Stivers, ex Oklahoma City.

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JANEWAY-MCCANN : Miss Catherine Jane- in Oklahoma City late in July. Gamma way, '28 arts-sc., and Ward McCann, ex Phi Beta-Delta T au Delta. Home, Nor- '27, on August 2 in Oklahoma City. Kap- man. pa Kappa Gamma-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. HODGES-PENICK: Miss Mabel Hodges, Home, Oklahoma City. '23 educ., '27 M.A., and Dr. Grider 1en- THE HUMPHREY-KIMBALL : M i s s E v e I y n ick in Norman, September 4. Phi Omega Humphrey and Ray Kimball, '30 arts-sc., Pi. Home, Oklahoma City. on September 3 in Oklahoma City. Kim- BILBREY-DANIEL: Miss Arteola Bilbrey, ball is a Delta Chi and business manager '29 fine arts, and Warren Edward Daniel, of the Oklahoma Daily. ex '29, in Norman August 4. KappaEp-silon-KappaTauPi.Home,Tulsa. SUPREME DOYLE - REVELETTE : Miss Alice Doyle, '32 arts-sc., and Joe Revelette, '31 arts-sc., VAUGHAN-BALLS : Miss Marie Vaughan and Joseph G. Rails, jr., ex '20, Juiy 25 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Home, Ato- ka. Authority BAY-NEUMEYER: Miss Zelma Bay, ex '29, SAND AND Gravel . Wholesale & Co and Hugh Neumeyer, ex '29, July 30 in Norman. Home, UKlanoma City. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma KELLER-OGDEN: Miss Florence Keller, Webster's New OFFICE '17 arts-sc., '19 M.A., and Pete Ray Ug- 307 Commerce Exchange Bldg, den August 3 at l aloga. Home, Enid. Phone 3-1900 DASHNER-EVANS: Miss Frances Dasnner International Dictionary L, D. 544 and Don Evans, ex '24, in Ada August 7. RETAIL YARDS Home, Ada. 410 North Western W EBB-STEELE: Miss Pauline Webb and Constantly revised and improved Phone 3-1901 Earl Steele, ex '26, Oklahoma City August to keep abreast of modern needs 11 . EAST G. & STILES Home, Enid. and information. Phone 3-3377 KELLY-bELAND : Miss Vera Kelly to Eu- Thousands of NEW WORDS such gene B. Beland, GRAVEL, PLANTS ex '21, in Guthrie August as audion, joy-stick, Coolidge tube, T4. Home, Guthrie. Dougherty, Okla. Fascisti, radiophone, Freud, aero- Fort Gibson, Okla. FARGO-DLACKARD: Miss Fay Marie Far- graph, eugenism, etc. go, and Homer blackard, ex '25, in SAND PLANTS Mul-drow July25.Home,Nluldrow. Whatever Your Question about Oklahoma City, Okla. words, persons, places, you find Dougherty, Okla. McGUIRE-SPREHE: Miss Stella Marie Mc- here a ready accurate answer. 2,700 Guire and Francis L. Sprehe, '27 civ. en- C. H . MAKINS, President pages ; 452,000 entries, including C. J . MURPHY, Sec'y-Treas. gin., in Oklahoma City September 25. 403,000 vocabulary terms, 12,000 T au Beta Pi. Home, Oklahoma City. biographical names, 32,000 geo- WOOD-ALLEN : Miss Beulah Wood, and graphical subjects ; 100 Curtis Allen, '25 arts-sc., July tables, 6,000 23, 1928, in illustrations . Fayetteville, Arkansas. Home, Ponca City. TWO WHOLESOME WHITWELL - Y ORK : Miss Audra Whit- well, ex '29, and Leon J. York, '29 arts- sc., in Cusning July 21 . Home, Cushing. PRODUCTS HUFF-SKALNIK : MISS Mabel Huff, '26 arts-sc., and Charles Skalnik, '25 law, in Hobart August 7. Phi Mu-Lambda Chi (1) Pasteurized Milk Alpha. Home, Tulsa. BRYAN-BRYAN : Miss Eurith Bryan and (2) Gilt Edge Ice Cream Willie Bryan, '23 arts-sc., in Lone Wolf August 4. Home, Lone Wolf. THORNTON -THORNTON : M i s s S a r a h Thornton, '20 arts-sc., '25 M.A., and Mur- rell H. Thornton, ex '10 in Norman. Al- pha Gamma Delta. Home, Muskogee. MOORE-COX : Miss Carrie Tex Moore, One of the wisest of our school superin- '26 home-ec., and Arthur Cox, '26 eng., tendents says: "I have never seen a Both Are Sold in Oklahoma City August 12. Home, Ok- person, whether pupil or teacher, who lahoma City. was accustomed to the frequent use of In Norman the dictionary STYRON-DoUTHIT : Miss Helen Styron, who was not at the same time a good or superior all-round By The '26 arts-sc., and Roy Douthit, ex '29, in A better test than this of the Cue Konawa August 8. Home, Konawa. of dictionary work could not be found." ROBERTS-CROSBY : Miss Catherine Rob- erts and James Harold Crosby, '27 sc. M. NORMAN MILK A., in Enid August 7. Acacia. Home, Pon- AND ca City. JENSEN-GEORGE: Miss Ida Mae. Jensen O and Norville George, '26 educ., in Black- G. and C. Merriam Co. well August 6. Home, Geary. Springfield, Massachusetts Phone 130 Norman,Okla. KENISTON-WILLIAMS: Miss Marie Kenis- ton, ex '24, and Dr. Gordon Darnell Wil- liams, '25 medic., in Oklahoma City, July

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24. Chi Omega-Sigma Alpha Epsilon. STEWART-CHEUVRONT : Miss Faye Stew- welfare. of the university. In 1923, he was PALMER-STRIBLING : Miss Talva Palmer art and Clifton Cheuvront, ex '29, August one of a group of former students that and Jesse B. Stribling, ex '27, August 7 4 in Oklahoma City . Home, Oklahoma volunteered their services and successfully in Walters. Home, Walters. City. represented the board of regents in :;n ac- GROSECLOSE-DAMM : Miss Esther Grose- BADGER-BAUGHMAN : Miss Dorothy Badg- tion in the supreme court which restored close, ex '29, and Rev. Henry J. Damm, er and Karl Baughman, ex '29, in Mus- to the university salary appropriation bi!' ex '29, in Waurika August 5. Home, St. kogee August 14. Pi Beta Phi-Kappa Sig- the sum of $420,000 .00 which Governor Louis. ma. Home, Ponca City. Walton attempted to eliminate. He is VENABLE-COLCLASURE : MISS WILSON-TONEY: MISS Opal Wilson, '24 Mary Ruth survived by his widow and two small sons. Venable and Cecil T. Colclasure, '29 arts-sc., and Ted Toney, ex '29, in Nor- UNCLE BEN CLAY chem., in Norman August 14. Kappa man in May. Home, Norman. Psi. "Uncle Bennie" Clay, night watchman Home, Cordell. and police officer of the campus for a STRICKLER - KENNETT: Miss Josephine SHELLENBERGER - DUNCAN : Miss Murl Strickler, ex '29, and Lester decade, died on the night of August 26 Kennett, ex Shellenberger and J. Gard Duncan, ex '25, in Enid July after an attack of appendicitis. "Uncle 23. Kappa Kappa Gam- '28, August 17 in Oklahoma City. Home, ma. Home, Little Rock. Bennie" came to Norman with the open- Oklahoma City. ing of the territory in 1889 and has served FULLER-PARKS : Miss Dorothy Allen Ful- MORTON-SCOTT : Miss Helen Morton, '27 as Clevald county police officer under a ler, ex '20, and Kirtland G . Parks, '21 arts-sc., and Fred Scott in Newkirk on half dozen different sheriffs. He was 69 science, '23 medic., in August in Okla- August 16. Pi Beta Phi-Sigma Alpha Ep- years old. Hundreds of alumni knew homa City. Alpha Omicron Pi. Home, silon. Home, Norman. him-his broad hat, his clanking keys, Oklahoma City. GOODS-HARD : Miss Virginia Goode, ex his cheery hail to the late straggler, will '29, and Wallace Edmund Hard in Okla- be missed by everyone. homa City August 4. Home, Tulsa. ARTHUR A . SHERMAN MOORS-RABON : Miss Corinne Moore, ex Arthur A. Sherman, 30 arts-sc., 22 years '28, and Otway W. Rabon in McAlester old, was killed in a collision between a on August 25. Home, Kinta . motorcycle and an automobile near Nor- School Science BALDWIN-ROBINSON : Miss Frances Bald- man the night of September 14. Sher- win, ex '29, and Powell Robinson in Altus man was riding in a side car of the motor- July 23, 1928. & Mathematics Home, Frederick. cycle. He was captain of the Cross-coun- BEAUMAN-GLASS : Miss Avis Beauman, try track team last year and was a track '27 arts-sc., and Albert Raymond Glass in leter man, and was rated as one of the The only Journal in the Waurika July 18 . Pi Beta Phi. Home, most consistent performers for Oklahoma. English Duncan. language devoted His home was in Tulsa. SPARKs-LITTRELL: Miss C l primarily to the needs of a r a Dial JOSEPH A. GRAHAM Sparks, unclassified, and C. D. Littrell in science and mathematics Plunging two thousand feet in the air- Woodward on August 9. Home, Oklaho- teachers. ma City. MCNABB-CREW : Miss Mavnee McNabb, ex '29, and Here is a publication issued nine Robert Reynolds Crew, '23 pharm., in Tulsa August times each year that will keep 9. Alpha Chi Omega-Beta Theta Pi. Home, you in touch with the most recent ad- Muskogee. Time Chan BRUNT-WAGNER : Miss vances in scientific knowledge Blanche Brunt and and Richard Lorraine teaching methods. 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Johnson, '19, arts-sc., and Nine Issues a year Genevieve Farrar Johnson, ex-'20. a son, Price $2 .50 a Year Graham B . Jr., on July 31 in Norman. Dr. E. Eldon Baum, '28, medic, and MIDEKE Become a leader in the teaching Hettie Maloy Baum, fine arts, '26, a son, William Eldon, on June profession by associating with leaders. 21 in Tulsa. SUPPLY CO. Send your subscription today. Plumbing, Mill and Machine- DEATHS ry Supplies & Power Plant JACKMAN A. GILL Jackman A. Gill, ex=13, prominent Mc- - - Equipment School Science and Alester attorney and United States com- 100 E. Main Street Mathematics missioner was killed near McAlester on OKLAHOMA CITY August 22 when his car skidded on a Phone 3-7331 L. D. 173 1439 14th Street gravel road and Milwaukee, Wisconsin overturned. Mr. Gill was always active in matters affecting the OCTOBER, 1929 39

plane in which he was about to complete Savage and are practicing in Tulsa. He has recently signed a two year con- his test for a commercial pilot's license, Francis M. Dudley, '16 law, was ap- tract with one of the leading European Joseph A. Graham, '27 arts-sc., died al- pointed by Governor Holloway September booking companies. Among the operas most instantly on July 24 at the muni- 24 to be assistant attorney general of Okla- in which Benton has sung are "La Travi- cipal airport at Oklahoma City. Mr Gra- homa, succeeding J. Berry King, who in ata," "Il Trovatore," "Faust," "Madame had been an assistant in public turn has been named attorney general. Butterfly" and "Rigoletto ." ham speak-ingintheuniversityfortwoyearsprior For two terms Dudley was county at- Elmer D. Fagan, '20 arts-sc., Ph. D. ofto his resignation June 1 . He was promi- or, Carter county. His home is in Harvard '26, stole time away from his nent as a participant in dramatics and Ardmore. He is married and has one activities as professor of economics to vis- debating while an undergraduate. He child. it the campus and the Alumna office in was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity. 1820 July. Doctor Feagan who is assistant PROFESSOR JOSEF NOLL Joseph Benton, '20 arts-sc., '21 voice, professor of economics at Leland Stand- A loss of its most brilliant accompanist has made his 1928 debut in European ford university during the year, taught and one of the finest musicians in the grand opera not only a matter of achieve- this summer in the University of Virginia . southwest was felt by the piano depart- ment but one of prosperous achievement. Fagan is a Kappa Alpha. ment and by the university in the death of Prof. Josef Noll, age 34, on the morn- ing of August 4. Mr Noll succumbed to peritonitis following an operation for ap- pendicitis: He is survived by Mrs Noll and their son, Josef jr., and by his mother, father: and sister of Chicago. We Have It -- Let Us Serve You!

1912 Carrol S. Moore, ex '12, owner of Moore Advertising Co., leading advertising agen- cy in Fort Worth, Texas, says that the Texas-O. U. game will be one of the greatest sports events of the southwest. Adding national to local honor, Dr. Ray Balyeat, '12 arts-s ., '18 medic, was elect- ed president of the American Society for the Study of Allergy. The election was made at the national convention of the society held in Portland,. Oregon, in, July. Considerable recognition. has been given to Doctor Balveat recently because of his treatises on ay fever and asthma treat- ments: Lloyd W. Maxwell, '12 arts-sc., M. A. Columbia '16, is now associated with the Standard Trade and Securities Service, P OLICE, a publication of the Standard Statistics Co., Inc., located at 200 Varick Street, New York City. THIS YEAR, HAVE PROMISED 1914 Dr. John R. Neal, '14 medic., is deputy NOT TO INTERFERE WITH OUR health officer of Los Angeles, California county, and a practicing physician there. CUSTOMERS AFTER GAMES. His address is 449 Fourteenth street, San Monica . 1915 Overton M. Bounds, ex-'15, who has been general manager of the Garland Air- National craft company at Tulsa, has been advanced Tire Stores. Texaco to the position of vice president and tech- Products nical adviser of the firm. While in school : Inc. Bounds was a member of the baseball team. Highway ;1916 Alva Jarboe (Mrs. T. J.) Torkelson, '16 arts-sc., husband and infant daughter, Ja- Service Station net Gayle reside at: 715. East Fifteenth Street, Oklahoma City . Mr Torkelson, a graduate of-the , Highway at Gray Stanley L. Moore, Prop is in . the wholesale lumber business. - Eugene Monnet, '16 '20 arts-sc., law,andRoyce-Savage,'25arts-sc.,'27law, have formed the law firm of Monnet &

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The legal department of the Phillips Petroleum Co., at Bartlesville has a lib- eral representation from Dean Monnet's SOONER ALUMNI school. There you'll find Cecil Hunt, '26 law, Walter Barnes, 22 arts-sc., Kirk Hud- PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY son, '22 arts-sc, '26 law, and Darwin Kirk. '23 arts-sc., '25, law. IRVING PERRINE, A, :M,, PI-I . D. RAYMOND A . TOLBERT, '12 Senator Reed Smoot is not the only man Bell Isle Royally Company fohnson Tolbert, in Washington worrying these days about Petroleum Geologist Embrey, & I.awyers the tarilf, for Edgar 1. Mullins, '22 arts- 1619 1204 Perrine Building, Petroleum Geologist sc., also is vitally interested. He is an Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Okla. economist for the United States Tariff commission and is also assistant professor CARL 1-1 . KUNSEMULLER, '20 ELGIN E. GROSECLOSE, of economics of the Foreign Service School M. A,. Ph. U, Secial Agent of . Notional Lnife Insurance Co. Guaranty Company of New York of Vermont 140 Broadway John Thompson, '22 law is assistant 303 W. Symmes St. Phone 753 New York, N. Y . county attorney of Carter county and lives in Ardmore. W, C, KITE, '16 B . RAY I INTER, M. D. '21 Gilbert Fulton, '22 law, has been ap- Geologist and Oil Investments Physician and Surgeon pointed assistant to the municipal coun- 709 706 Braniff Bldg, Med. Arts Bldg, sellor of Oklahoma City. Fulton has been Oklahoma City Phone 3-1920 Oklahoma City for some time an assistant attorney general of the state. LOUIS D. ABNEY, '16 OSCAR WHITE, M. I), '2I School Furniture 1923 Surgery 207 South Compress St., James R . (Bon) Tolbert, jr., '23 law, President-Oklahoma School 1108 Med. Arts Bldg. and wife (Mary Noble, Equipment Co. Oklahoma City ex '24), now reside Oklahoma City at Amarillo, Texas, where "Bon" is prac- ticing law with offices in the Bivins build- TOM F. CAREY, '08 DAVE LOGAN, M . L), . B. A, '16 ing. Certified Public Accountant Income Tax Councel ConsullingGeologisy John L. Waller, '23 ed., associate profes- Braniff Building sor of history in the University of Okla- Oklahoma City Okmulgee, Okla. homa received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Texas at the summer commencement. Willard A. Darrow, '20 music, '23, arts- is Charles B. Minner, '21 arts-sc., who is Hutton Bellah, '23 sc., is president of the All Arts journ., editor and conserva- head of the department of philosophy at publisher of tory which has recently the Altus Times-Democrat, been established Wheaton college, Norton, Massachussetts. this in Oklahoma City. summer sold his interest in his pub- Frank S. Cleckler, '21 bus., secretary lishing company to the Pulliam'interests, Dr. Hesler H. Wyand, '20 science, '22 of the University of Oklahoma Associa- represented by Eugene Pulliam of Indiana, medic., who has been practising in Cleve- tion, attended the international conven- one of the founders of the Sigma Delta land, Ohio, has been appointed official tion of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity Chi journalistic fraternity. delegate of the university on the occasion held at Swampscott, Massachussetts, June Nathan Scarrett, '23 law, is associated of the dedication of the new building for 19 to 22. with the legal department of the Champ- the Institute of Pathology at the Western lain Refining Co. in Enid. Reserve university, October Tully A. Nettleton, '21 journ., an edi- 7. Doctor Wy- Dan Mitchell, '23 law, is county attorney and has offices at 642 torial executive on the Christian Science Guardian Bank of Garfield building . Monitor at Boston, has been advanced to county. take charge of a new office created by the 1924 1921 newspaper, a joint editorial-circulation Kirby Warren, '24 law, is working in A new air transport company has been post. Nettleton completed a survey of the legal department the formed in Norman. Dr. Ben H. Cooley, principal American cities last summer for of Mid-Kansas Oil Co. in Tulsa. '21 med., of Norman, is secretary. The the Monitor, and during the trip, inter- Curtiss Flying Service abandoned its air- viewed George Eastman, the Kodak man- Leslie Fain, ex '24, is associated with port in Norman following its destruction ufacturer and philanthropist . Nettleton's the Hall-Briscoe Construction Co. of by a cyclonic storm. home address is 107 Falmouth street, Chickasha. A. M. Meyer, '21 geol ., is district geol- Boston . S. F. Babb, '24 educ., has become ath- ogist with the Atlantic Oil Producing Hattie Mae Lachenmeyer (Nee Mc- letic director of the Oklahoma Presbyter- company. He and Mrs. Meyers, (Fern Atee), '21 journ., conducts a column in ian college at Durant . Hazel Houston, '21 arts-sc .,) and their her newspaper, the Cushing Daily Citi- Study at the National University of daughter, Miss Doris Fern, are living in zen, called "On Parade." Mexico and escorting a party of students Ardmore. Allen Duncan, '21 arts-sc., is employed about the country filled the summer Van Stewart, '21 law, has become a by the City National bank, New York months for G. Todd Downing '24 arts- partner in the firm of McKeever, Elam, City. sc. Included in the group who accom- Moore & Stewart in Enid . panied him were: Florence McClure and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kull, (Dove Mont- 1922 Stella Edmiston, Oklahoma City; Mrs. gomery ex '21, spent the month of August A Sooner with an occupation where Gertrude Sidener Phillips and Willard in Lansing, Michigan . precision is vital is Leslie E. 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1925 Cy Ellinger, '26 arts-sc., is in the lease Helen Boyle, '27. arts-sc., who. spent two Fairview has as its county judge How- and royalty business in Okmulgee. years on a fellowship in Chase house, ard "Red" Lindley, ex '25. Fred Shields, ex '26, is a geologist for Chicago, is now in Japan, teaching in the John Mugler, ex '25, is connected with the Sinclair Co., in Okmulgee . Episcopal training school- in Tokyo. the Perry Mill and Elevator Co. Frank Abbott, '26 law, is associated Petroleum engineering bailing Herman Long, '25 arts-sc., '28 medic., with the Hall iburton-Abbott Co., of Tul- and ay may seem a is serving as an interne at John Hopkins sa. good distance apart to"the average person but they became allied in- university this year. Tom Mayes, ex '26, is in the employ dustries in the hands of John Lorenzen, Edward D. Hodges, '25 arts-sc., is now of the General Motors' Acceptance Corp. '27 arts-sc. Lorenzen had -been -reared on city attorney at Newkirk. He received of Oklahoma City. . a farm near El Reno and after graduation his law degree in '27 from the university . Marsden Austin, ex '26 is a representa- eserted his career as a petroeuml engineer Ralph W. Keahey, '25 arts-sc., is as- tive of the New York Life Insurance Co:, d Chickasha. to return to a farm. Faced with the labor sistant professor in the department of off Austin was awarded a , bailing hay . Lorenzen then used his political science in Butler university. to Canada last summer by °£ the com- engineering knowledge to invent bailing Eleanor Drennan, '25 arts-sc., teach- pang for his rating a is as one of the four machine that dispenses with the services ing in Roosevelt junior high school in host salesmen in the state. of four men and four horses and works Oklahoma City. John Coffman, '26 eng., entered the twice as fast as the ordinary baler. He Leo F. Cailey, '25 medic, is practicing United States Marine Corps immediately has proved its: efficiency by using. :only medicine in Oklahoma City with offices after graduation. Since then he has beenthree men five days to bale 3,000 bales at 503 Medical Arts building . Doctor many ports of the world to . His latest of` hay from a 100 acre field. Cailey spent the past year in the graduate station was Shanghai, China, but he is .to school of medicine of the University of leave there socn and return to the states Tom Harris . '27 bus.. is owner and Pennsylvania at Philadelphia where he early in October. manager of the Harris Auto Accessories studied ophthalmology. S. F. E. Baggett, ex '26, is a railway in Add. Lois Kelley, '25 arts-sc., spent the sum- postal clerk on the Guthrie-Kiowa, Kan- Walter Arnote; '27 arts-sc., '28 law, has mer studying in Chicago with Hubert sas, division of the Santa Fe. He lives become a member of the firm of Arnote Witherspoon, Florence Hinkle and Rich- in Guthrie. , & Arnote at McAlester. Arnote spent ard Hageman. Miss Kelley has been Francis 'Bush Atkinson, ex '26, is an the summer travelling in Europe and. the awarded the Florence Hinkle fellowship accountant at Roswell, New Mexico . .past year taking post graduate work at the last two summers. 1927 Harvard. 1926 Luther Bohannon, '27 law, has been Douglas McMurray, ex '27, is associated John Smith, ex '26, is manager of the practicing since his graduation in. Semi- with John Bryan"in the lease and royalty Smith Oil Tool Supply Co., in Sapulpa. nole. business in Chickasha, - _

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Miss Jane Harden, ex '27, sailed from school in Perry this year. Paul Cress, '29 law, is a member of the New York City early in September for an Dr. E. Eldon Haum, '28, medic., is law firm of Cress & Cress in Okmulgee. extended trip on the continent. She was practicing medicine in Tulsa with offices Cannon McMahan, '29 law, is practic- accompanied by her sister, Miss Frances at 708 Medical Arts Building. Doctor ing law in Okmulgee. Harden who will enter school at Le Ma- Baum and Mrs. Baum, Hettie Maloy, Ann Raub, ex '29, is teaching in the noir, Lausanne, Switzerland. fine arts '26, are living at 1315 South St. public schools of Caldwell, Kansas, this Jack Curran, '27 arts-sc., '29 law, has Louis in Tulsa . year. become a member of the law firm of 1929 Curran &. Curran in Enid. Mrs. Harold M. Lewis, (Wilma Starns, Carmon C . Harris, '29 law, and Ray ex '27), will devote her winter to study Teague, '29 law, have opened their own in law firm at 223 West G street, Oklahoma Salamanca, Spain. She will remain for Ci ty. Norman Business a year and a half. Mrs. Lewis received the Hickman medal for the best language stu- Juanita Stevens, '29 science, will teach in People Invite You To dent when she was graduated from the the Okeene schools this year. She has Central highschool in Oklahoma City in taught in the Wapanucka schools the past Visit O. U. often This 1925, and in her junior year there won two terms. the state contest in Spanish. Ethel James Byrd, '29 arts-sc., is an in- Year. Dorothy Lee Patswald, '27 music, has structor in East Central State Normal at been awarded a scholarship for next sea- Ada . At the, Sig n of son in the opera class of the American Walter French and Pete Caldwell, grad- Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Miss uates of the class of '29, are associated The Gold Hatchet Patswald was graduated with honors from with the Empire Company in Bartlesville . Special Dinners Plate Lunches the conservatory last year. As a student German French is employed by the 1 . T. in the opera classes of Eduardo Sacerdote, 1 . O. Company in Bartlesville . Anything Cooked to Order she made several appearances in the oper- Fred T. Klingensmith, ex '29, has gone $5.50 Meal jackets .for $5.00 atic performances at Kimball hall under into the oil business and has his offices his direction. Okmulgee. PARTIES 1928 Sam Clammer, '29 law, and assistant Aubrey Kerr, '28 law, organizer of freshman football coach last year has left Sooner politics and one-time president of successful career as an athlete to enter the student council, is a member of the the profession of Gladstone. He is as- We Manufacture Clean- firm of Kerr & Kerr in Ada. sociated with the firm of Aby & Tucker liness Marie Roberts, '2.8 arts-sc., is teaching in Tulsa. MAN STEAM

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George Milburn, '30 journ., a contribu- tor to The Sooner Magazine, has had a belles lettres and bell ringers series of Oklahoma sketches accepted by for FOLK-SAY . A Regional Miscellany Milburn and J . Frank Dobie, and with The American Mercury, publication soon. The of folk-literature. Published by the the sympathetic cooperation of Joseph A. sketches will appear in two University of Oklahoma Press for the Brandt, the scholarly and efficient editor installments. Milburn is also preparing for Ives Washburn, Inc., Oklahoma Folk-Lore Society. B . A. of the University of Oklahoma Press, New York pub- lisher, a book Botkin, editor. Price $1 .50 net. Folk-Say should attract wide spread at- of hobo songs and ballads. tention and contribute substantially to our By PRESIDENT W. B. BIZZELL 'cnowledge of the material in this field." Among American literary people who In the Daily Oklahoman more and more find New Mexico a con- THIS is the first volume of a new BY JOHN MCCLURE, '15 genial place in which to write is Philip series of publications dealing with the In the New Orleans Times-Picayune Back, ex-'23, short story writer, who re- folk lore of the southwest. This new THE Oklahoma Folk-Lore Society, fol- sides in Artesia, New Mexico. publication is sponsored by the Oklahoma lowing in the path of the Texas society, Folk-Lore Society and it is the first book whose excellent miscellanies have been re- Cameo is the title of a one-act play writ- printed by the University of Oklahoma viewed at length on this page, has begun ten by Prof. Ray E. Holcombe, director of Press. "The talents of several artists and the publication of Folk-Say, a Regional the department of dramatic art of the uni- the skill of the printer have been combined Miscellany, edited by B. A. Botkin, which versity, which will be published this fall to make this an unusually attractive vol- promises to be one of the most valuable by Row, Peterson & Co., Evanston, Illi- ume. repositories of folk-lore and criticism of nois. The contents cover a surprisingly wide folkways in America. Mr. Botkin, an ex- The play is a domestic tragedy, center- range of material from other sources. The cellent poet and critic and keen student of ing about the love of a benchman in a lore naturally occupies a large place in popular lore, has made a highly successful battery works for fine things, this publication, it does not exclude a wide beginning in the fist number of the series. range of material from other sources, The Folk-Say deals primarily with the litera- high quality of the contents is assured by ture of the southwest but is concerned the names of the contributors, which in- with any distinctively regional material, clude J. Frank Dobie, Lynn Riggs, Stan- south, north, east or west. One of the THE ley Vestal and other well known writers most natural and convincing specimens and authorities in the field of southwestern in this number is "The Indiana Log-Rol- OKLAH folk-lore. ling" as told by Cliff Frank to Mr. Botkin. The introduction by B. A. Botkin, the Folk-Say, too, includes more than sim- SASH editor, is a scholarly survey of the field ple folk-lore. The editor has included in to which he has added a discriminating this number and will include in others to bibliography . The range of material may follow new material in prose and verse be illustrated by "Choctaw Fables" by of definitely regional tone. "Oklahoma COMPANY James Culberson, "The Taxi Talk" by Opera" by George Milburn, who spent George Milburn, and the poems entitled last year in New Orleans and is a contri- People of the Backwater" by Lynn Riggs. butor to Quarter is much the best work 1 his is not a volume of the general pop- in the volume. These sketches of Oklaho- ular magazine type out of which one se- ma small town life resemble Sherwood lects two or three articles that interest Anderson's sketches in their simplicity, but nim and ignores the other contributions. are richer and more significant than any It is a book that one may read through but Anderson's best. Milburn promises trom page to page finding something in- to do very fine work indeed. teresting in every paragraph throughout Mr. Botkin who starts Folk-Say with an Wholesalers the volume . article on "The Folk in Literature : An In- The appearance of Folk Say is an event troduction to the New Regionalism", Manufacturers in the literary history of Oklahoma . Its points out that both scholars and writers contents constitute a contribution to com- in America, after over a century of vague parative literature . It is surprising how aspiration for an "American Literature" rich our Southwestern country is in ma- conceived as some sort of generality, have Office 8-20 terial of this kind, and the Oklahoma awakened to the fact that good literature E, Grand Ave. Folk-Lore society is to be congratulated is primarily provincial . A new interest OKLAHOMA CITY, U. S. A. on this literary enterprise. Under the in regional traditions and culture has sup- able editorship of B. A. Botkin, George planted the old democratic abstractions .

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