Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes 49 -1907- survived by his wife and daughter, both of Okla- Dr. William Wade Fox, '24ba, '246s, '26med, lioma City . is a practicing physician and surgeon in Norman . C. V. Lisuian, '05-'07, is division landman with Robert S. Gordon, '20ha, '20ph.g, '20eng, was Ile is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Lion Oil Company in Midland, Texas. elected vice president of the Midwestern opera- the Retail Credit Men's Association. IIe and Mrs. Henry Lewis Stone, '06-'07, died unexpectedly tions of the National Dairy Products Corporation Fox, the former Katie Lee Moak, '26nurse, have April following a heart attack . IIe was an 14 late in April. I le was recently elected president of three children, two of whom are now attending real estate broker . He established Oklahoma City the Town Club in Scarsdale, New York . the University . the Merchandise Mart in Oklahoma City and at one time was an Oklahoma City agent of the -1921- 1925 New York Life Insurance Co. Robert William Henry, '21ba, '21eng, is director Edythe Haswell Jones, '25h.ec, '34ms, is teach- -1912- of the lubricants division in the Refining Depart- ing science at Foster High School, Oklahoma City . ment of the Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartles- Lucile Snapp Dillsworth, '25h .ec, is teaching Earl Foster, '12ba, '13Law, is the executive sec- home economics in high school at Albuquerque, retary of the Interstate Oil Compact Conuuission. villc. D. New Mexico. He was formerly in the general practice of law Max W. Minton, '21ba, is a partner in the J. in Sapulpa and Oklahoma City. He is a member Minton Agency, an insurance, loans and abstracts compan), Enid . 1926- of the Rotary Club, Masonic Blue Lodge, Okla- ALDRIDGE-MOLES : Mrs. Leonora Crisp AI- homa City Golf and Country Club and other 19221-- dridge, '266s, '30ms, Oklahoma City and Earl civic clubs. IIe holds membership in the American William Ragan, '22ba, '28ma, will teach Brookhart Moles, Sioux City, Iowa, were married Bar Association and the Oklahoma Bar Associa- B. the Oregon College of Educa- May 1 in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Moles was formerly tion and is a member of Council, Mineral Section, graduate courses at . a departmental art teacher in Oklahoma City American Bar Association. He and Mrs. Foster, tion, Monmouth, Oregon, June 15 to August 9 schools. She was Creative Arts chairman for the (Alta Estelle Sawyer Foster, '30ma) have two lie will give three addresses at the State Conference of Elementary School Supervisors on the University American Asociation of University Women for six children, both graduates of the University . of California at Los Angeles' campus in August . He years. The couple has established a home in Sioux -1913- will serve as consultant to the staff of Kern County City, Iowa . Miss S. Deborah Haines, '13ba, placed her oil schools, Bakersfield, California, on curriculum Pauline Huey Herber, '26h .ec, is teaching home paintings on exhibit in her home for a group of problems August 15 and 16. Dr. Ragan lives in economics at St. Joseph's School, Norman . friends in May. Miss Haines lives in Norman . Norman . Darrell Althausen, '26bs, is the co-author of the Mary Lou Patteson Price, '22ba, is living in second volume of The Essential Oils . Dr . Althausen -1914- Bartlesville, where her husband, Harold Charles received his doctorate degree in Organic Chemistry Everett Cecil Parker, '14ba, is a geologist with Price, is a general pipeline constructor. Mrs. Price from the University of Illinois. Ile is manager of the Continental Oil Company in Ardmore. was formerly a school teacher in both Bartlesville the Clifton Factor, Fritzsche Brothers, Inc., Clif- -1916- and Hugo. ton, New Jersey. Oscar A. Kinchen, '16ba, '20ina, Lubbock, Opal Roberson, '26h .ec, is a home demonstra- Texas, was a delegate of the University of Okla- -1923- tion agent at Maysville, Missouri . 1. Wendall Mercer, '23ba, '23bs, '25med, is a homa at the inauguration of Dossie Marion Wig- -1927- gins as president of Texas Technological College, practicing physician and surgeon in Enid . He and Lubbock. Mrs. Mercer have two children . The son, James Dr. Chesley Andrew Morgan, '276s, '29med, W. Mercer, is attending the University at the pres- is a practicing surgeon in Oklahoma City . He -1917- ent time . and his wife, Pauline Taylor Morgan, '31nurse, Richard M. Dannenberg, '171a, died May 2 in Zella Nesmith Brake, '23ba, (lied February 18, have one son, James Patrick Morgan, 12 . the Medical Arts Building in Oklahoma City where 1949 . She had been employed by the Vetreans Natalie Broach Davis, '27fa, has lived in Scars- lie had gone for treatment. IIe was a production Administration for the last eight years. Her home dale, New York, for the past 19 years. She and engineer with the Shell Oil Company. He was a was in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Davis have one son. member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and the Ma- Dr . C. N. Talley, '23med, is practicing medicine William Payne Ragsdale, '27ba, and Mrs. Rags- sonic lodge. in Marlow. dale, '27ba, are living in Jacksonville, Florida, _1919_ Arda Evert Frans, '23bs, '31Lib .sci, '33ma, is where Ragsdale is owner of the W. P. Ragsdale Cameron State Agricul- Distributor company. James Miller Armstrong, '19ba, and Mrs. Arm- a teacher and librarian in cata- Josephine Thompson Paulin, '27h .ec, is teach- strong, the former Mary Lee Galbraith, '18, are tural College at Lawton . She was formerly a ing home economics at Beggs High School, Beggs. living in Midland, Texas, where Armstrong is a loger at the University of Utah Libarary . partner in the firm of Yeager & Armstrong, oil - 1924- r- 1928- operators. He was formerly a geologist with the Tom W. Garrett, '24Law, is a practicing attor- Ros, Williams Morrison, '28eng, is an architect Sinclair Prairie Oil Company. They have two ney in Oklahoma City. IIe and building manager in children . formed a law partnership the architect firm of Rey -1920- with a son, Tom, Jr ., early nolds & Morrison in Okla- Velma Shaw Jones, '20, lives in Kingfisher, in March, 1949 . He is a homa City . He is a mem- where her husband is a drug store operator. They member of the Men's Din- ber of the Lions Club, have one son, Douglas Jones, 15 . ner Club, Sequoyah Din- Oklahoma City Chamber Dr. A. Linschcid, '20ma, has resigned as presi- ner Club and the Beacon of Commerce and the (lent of East Central State College at Ada . IIe had Club. He recently accepted American Institute of Ar- held that position for the last 28 years. The Board the position as secretary of chitects . I le is on the Board of Regents of Oklahoma colleges unanimously the Lions Club. He is on of Directors of the Okla- elected him president emeritus for life and to the the Executive Committee homa City Building Own- positon of counselor of curriculum for one year . and is a Trustee of the ers and Managers Associa- Dr . Linscheid resigned because of ill health . He Oklahoma City Boy Scouts . tion . He served in the Navy had held his position longer than any teachers' i Ile was president of the R. W. MORRISON during World War II as a college president in the state and longer than any Oklahoma County Bar As- Lieutenant commander, He is president of a teachers' college of the American sociation in 1943 . He is on the Executive Council serving in Europe and the southern Pacific. Association of Teachers' Colleges. of the Oklahoma State Bar Association for 1948-49. a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He and Homer Carl Helins, '20pharm, died May 22 Garrett is the author of several articles on com- Mrs. Morrison are the parents of two children, at the Will Rogers hospital in Oklahoma City nrunity property law and taxation . He and Mrs. Gertrude Ann, 6, and Mary Christine, who was after a six-week illness with heart disease. He is Garrett are the parents of six children . born March 6.

21 former Ruth is teaching home eco- gery for 1949-50. Mrs. Roys, the Ebright Beatty, '28h .ec, is a Bethene Henry, '30h .ec, Leila Margaret Shannon, '36ed, was secretary to the Counselor of Oregon Library, nomics at Eldorado. librarian in the University of the University prior to her marriage . Etta Belle Tolen Hopson, '30h .ec, is teaching Women at Eugene, Oregon. The Roys have two children, David, 10, and De- is co-owner of the in Houston, Texas. Bryan H. Hyder, '28pharm, nise, 2. They live in Seattle, Washington . Ross Drug Store in Clinton. Dr . W. W. Cotton, '35med, has moved to Po- John Michael Hannegan, '28ms, is chief chem- -1931- teau and opened an office there. He and Dr. R. W. ist with the G. H. Packwood Mfg. Co . at St . Louis, Berthe Bourgoin Webb, '316a, '33ma, sailed Lowrey, '366s, '36med, are building a new clinic Missouri. He was formerly the supervisor of the for a visit to France, her native land, on the in Poteau which will be opened the latter part of chemical research laboratories for the Olin Indus- (lucen Elizabeth April 28 . Mrs. Webb taught July. They both have previously been practicing tries. He and Mrs. Hannegan have two children . French at the University of Oklahoma for several in Atoka. Helen Hackett, '28h .ec, '30ms, is a librarian now lives in Skiatook . sent to us re- Library, Ft . Sill . years. She The following information was at the Post '31h .ec, is a dieti- Ruth Adeline Jones Swoor, cently by the Foreign Service of the United States : Dallas, Texas. 1929- tian at the Methodist Hospital, "John Howard Burns, '35ba, Foreign Service of- Kingsley, '31ma, is an instruc- Dr . Charles F. Spencer, '29ma, has been ap- Maurine Rhodes ficer, has been transferred from the State Depart- at Colorado Col- pointed president of East Central State college, tor in the Spanish Department ment to Port an Prince as First Secretary and . She and Mr . Ada. He has served as mayor of Ada, a member lege, Colorado Springs, Colorado Consul . He has been a member of the Foreign of the governor's committee on constitutional re- Kingsley have two sons . Service since 1941 and has served at Ciudad area home vision, a drafter of model city charters and as pres- Mary E. Kuhlman, '31h .ec, is an Juarez, Para, and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in Farmer's Home Admin- ident of the Oklahoma Municipal league. Dr. and management supervisor, the Department of State. Mr. Burns is a native of Mrs. Spencer have two daughters. istration, Oklahoma City. Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and is a graduate of the J. D. Deason, '29ba, recently began publication local High School and of the University of Okla- of a new paper in Altus. The paper is called the -1932- homa . Before joining the Foreign Service he was Altus Sunday News. Deason is also editor and pub- Secretary to a member of Congress for a year . serve as assistant educa- lisher of the Southwest News which he established Pearl Corn, '326a, will Mr . Burns' address in this country is : Pauls Valley, government team sta- in 1946 . tion officer with a military Oklahoma." Japan. She was formerly a teach- Elbert Costner, '29ba, '34ma, has been re-elcted tioned in Osaka, Dr. E. Evans Chambers, '35ba, '38bs, '40med, City schools. superintendent of schools at Poteau . I-Ie has served er in Oklahoma is a practicing surgeon in Enid . He and Mrs. Cham- '32h .ec, is teaching home in this capacity for eight years. Flora Kathrina Wild, bers, the former Virginia Hudson, '366a, have one Junior High School, Okla- Ruby Grant, '29ed, '41m .com .ed, is recuperating economics at Webster child, a son, six years old. at her home in Norman following an illness. Miss homa City. the Ids Lee Warner Gist, '35Lib .sci, is living in chairman of the business department at Louise Winn Getchell, '32ba, is reviser in Grant was Burbank, California, where her husband is a sales- A.&M. College in Wilburton Copyright Cataloging Division of the Library o£ Eastern Oklahoma man. Mrs. Gist was formerly employed as a dress was formerly an assistant Congress, Washington, D.C. She was formerly prior to her illness. She designer by the San Fernando Valley Sportswear Oklahoma Junior Col- head of the Catalog Department at the University professor in the Northern Company in Los Angeles. She is president of the Tonkawa. of Maryland Library, College Park, Maryland . lege at Burbank League of Women Voters . She is a mem- Stevens, '291t.ec, is a home dem- I,elia Beatrice Haddock Collins, '32h .ec, is reach- Bertha Juanita ber of the Women's Club of Burbank, Women's at Okemah . ing home economics at Headrick . onstration agent Council and A.A .U .W. Harry S. McMillan, '29pharm, is pharmacist Ruth Highsmith Riffc, '35h .ec, is teaching home and manager of the McMillan Drug Company in r-1933- economics at Hobart . Seiling. '33eng, is an engineer Alta LeGate McSpadden, '29bus, is living in George Scott Hammond, '33ha, George Louis King, '35cng, is division Texas. in Pryor. She was formerly secretary-treasurer of the oil producer with offices in Dallas, with the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company is with the Muskogee Iron Works in Muskogee for 26 years. Mildred H. Hurst Sessions, '33h.ec, Muskogee. Welfare Board at El Paso, Her husband is an agricultural training officer in El Paso County Child the Veterans Administration . Texas. '22-'26-'33, was appointed by Presi- Camilla Starzer, '29h .ec, is teaching home eco- Jess Larson, -1936- federal works Guthrie. dent Truman as administrator of the nomics at Mildred Lee Shears, '36h .ec, is a dietitian at '29ba, is a public agency late in April. Larson was formerly the Theodore Haskell Maley, Hospital, Norman . for- of Chickasha and secretary of the Oklahoma Municipal relations counselor in Dallas, Texas. He was mayor commission . He lives in Washington, Revah Erma McLain Draper, '36h.ec, is teach- merly editor of the Elk City Daily News . He is a school land ing home economics at Memphis, Texas. member of the Dallas Rotary Club, Sigma Delta D. C. Barbour, '33h .ec, '39m .h.ec.ed, is Chi, and Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He and Mrs. Helen Frances Wesleyan University, Delaware, Maley have one daughter, Amy Lynn Maloy, 15 . teaching at Ohio -1937- Ross Allan Maxwell, '29geol, '31ms, is superin- Ohio . tendent of Big Bend National Park in Marathon, THURMOND-SPRINGER : Virginia Thurmond, Texas. He was formerly a geologist for the Na- -'1934- Healdton, and Harold L. Springer, '37ba, '39Law, tional Park Service. He and Mrs. Maxwell, the Davis, were married in the home of the bride's L. Vaughan, '34h .ec, is teaching home former Helen Elizabeth Newlin, '28h .ec, have two Mildred parents in April. After they return from their wed- Sulphur. sons . economics at ding trip in June they plan to establish a residence Joe C. Jackson, '34ed, '40m .ed, has completed from in the state. -1930- the oral examinations for his doctorate degree the sta- Elizabeth Ruth Sneed, '37h .ec, is on the home J. Hubert Norris, '29-'30, is chief of the University and will probably complete his dis- Air institute staff of the Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa. tistical and cost accounting section at Tinker sertation this summer . is an independent Force Base in Oklahoma City . He has held this Barron C. Housel, Jr., '346us, and Mrs. Housel, Walter W. Butcher, '37geol, was formerly as- position for the past six years. He and Mrs. Norris, the former Geraldine Warner, '386a, have chosen geologist in Oklahoma City. He have two Geology for the Creole Pe- the former Linnie Louise James, '29ba, the name Stephen Warner Housel for their son sistant of Sub-surface Caracas, Venezuela. daughters, Virginia, 10, and Carolyn, 7. born April 22 in Oklahoma City . troleum Corporation in Fay Coil, '30geol, '32ms, is a geologist with the Blanche Portwood, '34h .ec, is State Supervisor Francile Elizabeth Clark, '37ba, is librarian at Superior Oil Company in Midland, Texas. of Home Economics Education in the State De- the Scion School of Nursing Library in Colorado The Reverend Russell L. Dicks, '30ba, received partment of Vocational Education, Oklahoma City. Springs, Colorado . She was formerly head nurse from an honorary Doctor of Literature degree and clinical instructor in the Crippled Children's Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan, June 5, 1949 . -1935- Hospital in Oklahoma City. Prior to that she was He is a teacher in Duke University, Durham, North public health staff nurse for the Seminole County Mrs. Hurry, the former Carolina . He was formerly associate pastor of the F. P. Hurry, '35geol, and Department in Wewoka . adop- Health Church in Dallas, Texas, Helen Marie Jennings, '37ba, announced the Highland Park Methodist Dr . William F. LaFon, '37med, is associated of Practical Theology at tion of a son recently. They have named the boy and assistant professor a clinic in Alva, Oklahoma . He and his wife, Richard Jennings Hurry. Their home is in Purcell. with Southern Methodist University . Dicks has written '38nurse, have two children, '35ba, '39med, has been Jennie Busby LaFon, several books and pamphlets and monthly articles Dr . Richard D. Roys, Academy of Sur- John, 10, and Ann, 7. appear in the Pulpit Digest and The Pastor. elected president of the Seattle

SOONER MAGAZINE 2 2 former have one son, Duane Scott Strachan, aged 20 Roy Winfichl Jones, '37ph.d, is a professor of W. Boron Smith and Mrs. Smith, the zoology at Oklahoma A.& joy McBath, '40fa, are the parents of a daughter months . William S. McCready, '41eng, is an engineer M. College, Stillwater . He born April 7 in Wesley hospital . They have named in the production department of Phillips Petroleum is chairman of course in the child Dana Mackey Smith. The Smiths live Company. He lives in Ardmore. biological science. He has in Oklahoma City. held this position since Edmund 1'. Anderson, '40eng, has recently -1942- 1947 . He was superintendent of the C. T. September, been made production J. S. Munsey, '38-'42, former University football college at Cen- headquarters in Snyder, dean of the McLaughlin company with star, was buried May 11 in St . Louis, Missouri. Edmond, with Dowell, tral State College, Texas. He was formerly associated Munsey was killed April 22, 1944 when his B-24 accept- two children . for 18 years before Inc. He and Mrs. Anderson have went down in flames in an English swamp. He present position. He Texas. ing his They live in Midland, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Serv- the former and Mrs. Jones, Clara Bernice Petty, '40h.ec, is teaching in ice Cross for extraordinary heroism, the Air Medal, .ed, Maurine King, '32m grade school at Pink Valley. one Oak Leaf cluster and Purple Heart. two children, Neil, have Jesse Schrameck, '406us, is employed by the John A. Blaschke, '42, and Mrs. Blaschke, Okla- JoNLS 10, and Marian, 8. Mrs. James 1Zoi- \b' :~,  ,.u Deep Rock Oil Corporation. He and Mrs. Schram- homa City, have named their son Michael Jones is also teaching . Dur- eck, the former Katherine Grim, '406us, are living Blaschke . He was born April 18 at St . Anthony Jones was an executive officer ing the reccut War, in Tulsa. He was formerly employed by the Halli- hospital in Oklahoma City . of the V-12 Unit, Penn State. burton Oil Well Cementing Company at Duncan . Marjory Curtis, '42h .ec, is with the statistical University of Oklahoma, Dewey Lance, '40bus, is in charge of the state- service laboratory at the ment section of Halfiburton Oil Well Cementing Norman . -1938- Finley, '41-'42, and Mrs. Finley, Company. Robert W. speaker at a Amarillo, Texas, announced the birth of a son William 11 . Strang, '38eng, was a Charles H. Young, '40Law, is serving as execu- Club May 9. meeting of the O.U . Petroleum Engineering tive legal assistant to Chief Justice Denver N. Davi- A . Heierding, '42, and Mrs. Heierding late in April. String is executive secretary of the and mar- William son, '15Law, of the state supreme court May 1 in Oklahoma Petroleum division of the American Institute of announced the birth of a son shal of the court. Young succeeded Jack E. Wilson, H. He lives in City . They have named the infant William Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. '396us, '42Law, who resigned January 1 to be- Dallas, Texas. Heierding, Jr . come assistant county attorney. Davis, '42bus, is employed Clarence D. Northcutt, '38Law, '396a, and Mrs. Vivian Saukeah Larettia K. Sager, '40h .ec, is teaching home the zoological sciences Northcutt, the former Ruth Storms, '386a, have as a clerical secretary in economics at Central High School, Tulsa. the University of Oklahoma . Her named their son, born April 6, John Edward department at Lynn D. Wright, '40, is a design draftsman at Davis, is attending O.U. Northcutt. They live in Ponca City. husband, Jesse the Chase Aircraft Company in Trenton, New Fuller, '42fa, is working toward William George McCreight, '386s, '40med, re- Marcus Willard Jersey . the University of Southern ceived a master of science degree in dermatology a master's degree at Orville C. Rogers, '40eng, and Mrs. Rogers, the Los Angeles. He is also an instructor . and syphilology from the University of Minnesota California at Esther Beth Shannon, '41ba, announced the '42h .ec, is a county home demon- in March, 1949 . lie is living in Oklahoma City . former Illene Street, . They have named the boy Unionville, Missouri . Illustrations by Mary Baker, '28, were featured birth of a son April 22 stration agent at . They live in Dallas, resigned as fiction editor in a 3-page layout in a recent issue of Life . The William Shannon Rogers Walt Grove, '42, has plans to free-lance. pictures were from a book which Miss Baker il- Texas. for Collier's magazine. He Adams, '42bs, and Mrs. Adams, At- lustrated. She has clone such work for New York Browning visited in Norman the latter part publishers for several years. Miss Baker is from lanta, Georgia, parents. Adams is instructor- Okmulgee . of April with their Aeronautics administration Lynn W. Burrus and Mrs. Burrus, the former Ruth Kamber Osherwitz, '41journ, is living in inspector with the Civil Margaret Ray, '38fa, Oklahoma City, announced Duncan where her husband is associated with the at Atlanta. '42geol.eng, '42pet .eng, is a pro- the birth of a son April 20 . They have named the Dixie Store. They are the parents of three daugh- C. D. Jones, for the Humble Company at boy Stephen Lynn Burrus . ters, two of whom are twins. duction geologist McCamcy, Texas. B. D. McCampbell, '41eng, is a petroleum engi- Harry H. Broadbent, '42ba, formerly wrestling neer with the Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., -1939- coach at Washington and Lee University has re- Oklahoma City . He was team captain of the San signed his position to accept a similar one at Adelaide Snider, '39h .ec, is a dietitian at Varsity Polo team for three years while attending Marv Diego State College in California . Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana. O.U . He is a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Lakeshore Ernest M. Hite, '42bus, and Mrs. Hite, the for- McDaniels and Mrs. McDaniels, He served five years in the army, serving in Aus- Dr. Herbert mer Bettv Donaldson, '40soc .wk, have selected the Clay, '39ed, announced the tralia, New Guinea, Philippine Islands and Nether- the former Thelma name John Melvin Hite for their son born May 11 son May 9. They have named the infant lands East Indies . birth of a in Oklahoma City . have another son, coun- Michael Clay McDaniels. They G. D. Spradlin, '41ed, '481 .aw, is general Elmo Heerwald, '42bus, and Mrs. Heerwald, McDaniels, 2 years old. The Me- Phillips Oil Company in Caracas, Vene- William Eli sel for the the former Betty Blanton, '43ed, have selected the Western Springs, Illinois. They Spradlin have two children, Daniels now live in zuela. He and Mrs. name Helen Gaye for their daughter born May 12 lived in Chicago. Tamara Dare Spradlin, 4, and Wendy Diane two formerly in Norman. They have another child, Johnny, : Dorris Riley, '39ed, '46 Spradlin, 5 months . RILEY-GARRETT and one-half years old. was married to Hugh Garrett, Friedrichs, '41phys.ed, former coach at m.ed, Healdton, L. G. Harold A. Landsman, '42bus, has become affili- 8. The couple has established New Orleans, Louisiana, Wetumka, on April Holy Cross high school in ated with a public accounting firm in New York coach at St . a home in Wetumka. has accepted the position as head City . is living in Tulsa, Alice Kistler Lawson, '39fa, Louis University high school . R. M. Carroll, Jr., '42eng, is an exploitation husband is in the oil business . They Geffen, '40-'41, and Mrs. Geffen, where her Samuel Edward engineer with the Shell Oil Co ., Inc. at McCaptey, two boys and a girl . Harris, '43journ, announced have three children, the former Korene Texas. lie and Mrs. Carroll, the former ,nne Mannen, '39h .ec, is secretary- 15 . They Marilyn L. Lack the birth of their first child on March Petry, '40-'42, live in Electra, Texas. treasurer and chief accountant of Enterprise Pub- have named the boy Charles Harris Geffen . The lishing Company at Pauls Valley . Geffens live in Midland, Texas, where Geffen is 1943 '42-'43, assistant superintendent of the Baroid Sales Di- McNEES-WALKER : Marjorie McNees, Wa,!:er, '46 vision . formerly of Ardmore, and Huffman ~1940- Houston Rexina Hempler, '41Lib .sci, is a librarian at the bus, Houston, Texas, are at home iii their recent marriage . Antonia Sandlin Forward, '40, is living in Mid- University of California at Los Angeles. She was following librarian at the Fitzsimmons Janice Meredith Howell, '43ma, is affiliated with land, Texas, where her husband, Frederick William formerly assistant the Capital Hill Junior High School speech de- Forward, is a district geophysicist with the Phil- General Army Hospital in Denver, Colorado. partment . She has beer head of th . department lips Petrolemn Company. They have one child, Nina Lynn Scott Strachan, '41nurse, is living for the past two years. Frederick William Forward, Jr ., 5 years old. in Pueblo, Colorado, where her husband, Edwin McMURRY kLERANi)1R : Lucie McMurry, Ida Maude Emerye Brett, '40h .ec, is a medical Duane Strachan, is bandmaster at a high school . Dallas, Texas, anti Robert 17 . Alexander, '41-'43, research librarian at Ellison Infirmary, University Mrs. Strachan was formerly a field staff nurse for Oklahoma City, were married May 21 in the of Oklahoma, Norman . the Oklahoma State Health Department . They 23 JUNE, 1949 home birth of a daughter Dorothy Jane Canfield, '47h .ec, is teaching in Dallas . They are at New Mexico, announced the First Presbyterian church economics at Oklahoma City. April 29 . Thorp is employed by the Tidewater home in Denver, Colorado. . GROSZKRUGER-TRAPP : Electa Jean Grosz- Mosely, '43eng, is a patent agent for Oil Company Neal J. kruger, Belle Plaine, Iowa, and James Allen Trapp, Company in Detroit, Mich- NAIFEH-HANIOTIS : Dorothy Mae Naifeh, '45 the Detroit Lubricating were married May 12 in served as and C. G. Haniotis, Jr ., New '47eng, Ames, Iowa, igan . For the past two years he has soc.wk, Sapulpa, home York following their Belle Plaine . The couple has established a of the Detroit O.U . Alumni Club, hav- York, are at home in New president in Ames. Trapp is working on a master's degree the club and made it a success. He marriage in April. ing organized at Iowa State College where he is an assistant pro- at Wayne University, '48bus, is employed by is attending law school Keith Fowler, '45ba, engineering. grade average. Amarillo, fessor of electrical where he is head of his class in the Phillips Petroleum Company at Alumni Club Dr. Henry Grady Ryan, II, '47med, and Mrs. He is active in the Pi Kappa Alpha 'I exas. Healdton, became the parents of a son and is secretary-treasurer this year. assistant state super- Ryan, in Detroit May Rollow, '45m .h .ec, is named the child William '436us, received a master's May 13 . They have George P. Vlahakis, visor at the State Capitol, Oklahoma City . from the Stan- Roger Ryan. degree in business administration in June . 1946- : Hazel Lee Becker, '47 ford Graduate School of Business BECKER-VAMMEN in I-t. H. R. Mackey, '46, and Mrs. Mackey, the both of Garland Moore, '43, is currently appearing journ, and Dr. A. N. Vammen, '44med, Burnham, '45h .ec, announced the "Paisan." Moore has signed a film former Toni Lawton, were married April 9 in the home of the the Italian movie named the boy . birth of a son Mayll. They have parents. The couple has established a home contract with David O. Selznick stationed bride's Farmer Richard Ross Mackey . Lt. Mackey is is a physician at Dr. Gayle V. Farmer, '42-'43, and Mrs. in Lawton where Dr. Vammen Dwayne Farmer in Guam with the marine corps. Indian hospital. Mrs. Vammen is a have selected the name Terry the Kiowa Roberta Blanche Strong, '46h .ec, is teaching in at the their son born May 1 in Oklahoma City. public relations and speech instructor for Maplewood, New Jersey . Hames Foushee, '43h.ec, is a dieti- kindergarten at Young Academy of Arts, Ada. Dorothy R. Harriet B. Harde- Durham, North Carolina . HARDEMAN-BARBOUR : tian at Watts Hospital at Bar- Herbert M. Krigel, '47eng, is practicing law in for man, '44-'46, McAlester, and Mack Edwin Barbara Christian, '436a, chief stewardess Kansas City, Missouri . '46Lib .sci, Norman, are at home in Norman Airlines in Dallas, was a speaker at the hour, American Easter Sunday in Mc- Daniel Hayes, '47geol, is employed with the held on the O.U . cam- following their wedding annual Career Conference of the Sohio Oil Company in Oklahoma City . requirements of Alester. Barbour is administrative assistant pus. Miss Christian spoke on the '47pet.eng, '47geol.eng, is a 120th Medical battalion, Oklahoma National John R. Murray, a stewardess . petroleum engineer with the Ohio Oil Company, Liles, '436a, is a child Guard at Norman . Cleo Maxine Meredith Houston, Texas. Wel- DISCUS-ROGERS : Nadine Discus, Denver City, welfare worker in the Department of Public and Vcrdon Rogers, '42-'43-'46, Eldorado, Leon Parish, '48bus, is an oil scout with Carter County. She lives in Ardmore. Texas, Louise fare for City late in April. Rogers in Ardmore. '43m .h .ec, is teaching at were married in Denver the Skelly Oil Company Eunice Alice Cormack, . The is the publisher of the Eldorado Courier G. W. Woods, '48eng, and Mrs. Woods, Okla- Ohio University, Athens, Ohio . couple has established a home in Eldorado . selected the name Susan Marie William Byron Hill, '43eng, is an office engineer homa City, have Construction Gloria Turner, '46h .ec, is a dietitian at Phila- Woods for their daughter born May 10 in Wesley with the Ditmars Dickmann Pickens engi- delphia General Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- . Co ., Muskogee . He was formerly an office hospital and vania. V. Norvill, '48eng, has begun the train- neer in the Utilities Department at O.U . -He Robert in retailing at the Emporium in San Mrs. Hill, the former Mary Alice Carmichael, '43 -1947- ing program years old. become manag- Francisco. He received a master's degree in busi- h.ec, have one child, Harriet Lou Hill, 2 Leo D. Ward, '47, leas recently formerly ness administration from the Stanford Graduate ing editor of the Lindsay News. He was Sea- School of Business in March, 1949 . associated with the Gaines County News, - 1944V- M. Schiff, '48bus, is an accountant with the gravcs, Texas. Max Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company in the former Charles O'Neal an(] Mrs. O'Neal, the former Cliff Horton, '44, and Mrs. Horton, City . '47ba, have named their daughter, Duncan . . Bare, '47, are living in Oklahoma Betty Oliver, Bobbie D Elizabeth Gayle O'Neal . Shirley Erlenc Batchelor, '48fa, is living in Enid, of a commercial interior dec- born April 5 in Stillwater, Horton is manager where she is employed by Penney's Department son, Robert Dale Horton, They live in Stillwater . orating firm . They have a on Store. Harry S. Baer, Jr ., '47journ, police reporter six months old. spent a vacation William A. Dow, '48eng, and Mrs. Dow, the '44eng, and Mrs. Hamil- the Dayton ( Ohio) Daily News, Dan C. Hamilton, Jr ., Esthe Anne Shook, '48ed, are living in May 8. in Oklahoma late in April. He formerly was avia- former ton announced the birth of a daughter fellow with the the Dayton Journal. Baer received a Bartlesville . Dow is a research named the child Cynthia Hamilton . tion editor of They have University in June, Engineering Experiment Station, Iowa State Col- Worth, Texas. master's degree at Columbia They live in Fort lege . dietitian at Uni- 1948 . Norma B. Collins, '44h .ec, is a '48eng, is a petroleum engi- City . Vanna Pauline Mershon, '47h .ec, is home serv- Jack Allen Morgan, of Oklahoma Hospitals at Oklahoma Texas. versity Natural Gas Company neer with the Sun Oil Company, Kilgore, '44eng, is an independent oil ice director at Okialtorna Porter Rankin, He and Mrs. Morgan have a daughter, Marye He and Mrs. Rankin at Clinton. operator in Midland, Texas. 2 years old. Richard Ward Hillyer, '47eng, is a reservoir Morgan, have one child, a son, 4 months old. engineer recovery engineer with the Carter Carl A. Bentley, '48eng, is a petroleum Graham Seikel, '44journ, is now liv- and secondary Ernestine his wife, Betty with the Mack Oil Company, Duncan . her husband has recently Oil Company in Seminole . He and ing in Hennessey, where is a geologist with Phillips has been Nell Cheadle Hillyer, '46=47, are the parents of I:d Kerr, '48geol, purchased a dry goods store. Mrs. Seikel Texas. Richard W. Hillyer, Jr ., three months old . Petroleum Company in Midland, president of the Hennessey chapter of the a son, elected '47geol, is a geologist Peggy Lynne Jordan Whitton, '48ba, is em- of University Women. The William Dale Trumbly, American Association caseworker with the Department of second son born with the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company in ployed as a Seikels have two children, their husband, Walter Midland, Texas. He and Mrs. Trumbly have two Public Welfare in Ardmore. Her December 29 at Enid . maker ., 2 and one-half, and Harold Whitton, Jr., '46-'47, is a cabinet Chambers Judd, '446us, is living in East children, William Dale, Jr Eunice Ardmore. Her husband, Roy Lee Mary Adair, 8 months. in Greenwich, Rhode Island . Wozencraft, '48h .ec, is an as- U.S .S . Terry Tidwell, '47eng, is a sales engi- Frances Preston Juchl, '41, is chief warrant officer on the Luther Uni- Supply Company in Mid- sistant in Home Economics Nursery School, Kearsarge, C.V .33. They have a daughter, Judith neer with the Oil%vell Ile and Mrs. Tidwell are the parents versity of Oklahoma, Norman . Lee Judd, 3 . land, Texas. 1 year and Joan, YARGER-CHAMill ON : Bette Jean Yarger, '48 E. Green Loyd, '44h .ec, is teaching of two daughters, Patricia Ann, Luverne journ, Madill, became the bride of Roland Cham- at Farewell, Texas. 1 month. home economics '47ba, Tulsa, in a ceremony performed in William 1) . Schubert, '45-'47, and Mrs. SChn- pion, Methodist Church at Madill Easter Sun- bert, the former Virginia Fisenloltr, '456us, an- the First Champion was awarded the Dad's Day -1945- nounced the birth of a daughter in March. They day. Mrs. Schubert graduated Award as the most outstanding woman student, '45eng, and Mrs. Smith, have named the child Susan. Donald Eugene Smith, was president of the Student Union Activities They have from New York University in January and is now announced the birth of a son April 23 . Gamma Alpha Chi, advertis- and manager for the general merchan- Board; president of named the infant David Kennedy Smith. The a buyer and India Export Co . The ing fraternity ; vice-president of Mortar Board, Zelma. dise department of the East Smiths live in was active in many other groups while a student .h .ec.ed, is teaching home Schuberts live in New York . Ethel M. Locke, '45nt at the University . Since her graduation Bette has . Josephine Schiefer Scott, '476us, is a public ac- economics at Eufaula High School, Eufaula Division of the University, countant in Duncan . been with the Extension J. M. Thorp, '45eng, and Mrs. Thorp, Hobbs,

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working with interscholastic activities . Champion Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . Stanley James Rubenstein, '49ba, was chairman also served as president of the U.A .B ., was chair- Helen Lee Wayne, '48h .ec, is a clerk-typist with of the Book Drive and Senior Class Memorial man of the 1946 Homecoming and the founder the Atlantic Refining Company, Midland, Texas. Committee for the graduating class of 1949 . His of the All-University Sing . The couple is now at -19491- home is in Alton, Illinois . '42-'49, former archi- home in Tulsa, where Champion is employed by Robert D. Hay, '496us, has accepted a position Lewis Richmond Powers, a the Carter Oil Company. as instructor in business letter writing at the Uni- tect student at the University, was killed in Gene Ritter, '48Law, and Mrs. Ritter, the former versity of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Hay has been truck-automobile collision May 8 in Oklahoma Barbara Christian, '43ba, announced the birth of employed in the department of business communi- City . Powers was returning to Oklahoma City from played with a dance band . a daughter April 14. Polly Ann is the name chos- cations at the University since his graduation . Norman, where he had L. Powers, en for the infant . The Ritters live in Ardmore. Dan Herbert Schustertnan, '49eng, served as He was 26 years old. He is the son of J. princi- Ritter is county attorney for Carter County . co-chairman of the Awards Committee for the sen- '176a, '27ms, Webster junior high school Carolyn Jean Huber Houser, '48h .ec, is a grad- ior class of 1949 . He was active in numerous or- pal, Oklahoma City . uate student and dietetic interne at A.& .M. Col- ganizations on the campus and served two terms as lege, Stillwater . president of the Hillel Council. His home is in Harold E. Spears, '486us, and Mrs. Spears, the Tulsa. former Ruth Chappell, '37-'40, announced the Robert M. Tidwell, '49bs, was chairman of the birth of a daughter on March 4. They have named Caps and Gowns Committee for the senior grad- INSURANCE the child Barbara Ann. Spears owns several ice uating class of 1949 . His home is in Poteau. cream stores in Portland, Oregon . Virgil Clifton Neal, 49bs, served as treasurer King G. Price Agency Russell L. Brown, '486us, and Mrs. Brown, of the Senior Class of 1949 . His home is in Helena . 118 N. Peters Norman Oklahoma City, announced the birth of a daugh- Mary Alice Archer, '49bs, served as secretary ter May 9 in Wesley Hospital, Oklahoma City . of the Senior Class of 1949 . She was active on the They have named the child Rebecca Ann Brown. Union Activities Board and was a member of Knox Allen Slagle, '48eng, is a chemical engi- Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. Her home is in neer with the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Oklahoma City . Company, Duncan . Margaret Lillian Dent, '496a, was chairman o£ LINDSAY DRUG STORE Dean F. Werner, '48med, and Mrs. Werner, the the Senior Day Activities for the graduating class James S. Downing - The Druggist former Phyllis Tengdin, '45journ, are living in of 1949 . Her home is in Mexico, Missouri. Whitman's and Pangburn's Candies Denver, Colorado, where Dr . Werner is an interne Shirley Leah Sureck, '49ba, was chairman of PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY at Denver General Hospital . the Announcement Committee for the senior class Phone 362 Vera I. Parman, '48h.ec, is an instructor in die- 116 E. Main ...Norman... of 1949 . She has been active in the Pan Hellenic tetics at University of Oklahoma Hospitals, Okla- Council, Associated Women Students, and served homa City. as secretary of the Hillel Council. Her home is Wilfred W. Dawson, '48arch, is an architectural to Oklahoma City. BUILDING MATERIALS designer in Ardmore. Joe B. Woodson, '49bs, was president of the Of All Kinds Thelma Mitchell Gunning, '48h .ec, is a librarian senior class of 1949. He has been active in the at Junior Agricultural College, Wilburton. International Club and the Independent Men's Arthur G. Webster, '48ba, is teaching history Association. Woodson hopes to enter the Syra- and Spanish Long-Bell Lum6er Co. at Chandler High School, Chandler. cuse University College of Medicine in Syracuse, Phase 51 Donald E. Powers, '48Law, is country attorney New York . His home is in Poteau . 127 W. Main Norman of Lincoln County. He resides in Chandler . Milton Paul Christensen, '49eng, was co-chair- John Creig Coogan, '48eng, is a petroleum engi- man of the Awards Committee and the Awards neer with the Sohio Petroleum Company, Edmond . Day Activity for the senior class of 1949 . He was He is a member of Beta Theta Pi . employed as a mathematics assistant while he was Fred Jones, Jr., '48geo1, is a geologist with the attending the University . He is a member of Tau "We Manufacture Gulf Oil Corporation. He is living in Ardmore. Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, and Pi Epsilon Tau, honorary Mary Teague Fisher, '48h .ec, is assistant county fraternities . His home is Hartington, Nebraska . home demonstration agent at Cordell. Cleanliness" Herman E. Nichols, Jr ., '48geo1, is assistant geologist with the Gulf Oil Corporation at Ard- Wet Wash - Rough Dry more. For Thine Is the Kingdom . . . Flat Finish Ross Roger Gahring, '48geo1, has been a geolog- ist with the Phillips Petroleum Company for the ONI: INCRPASING PURPOSE, The Life- of Henry past year. He lives in Ardmore with his wife and Winters lure, by B. A. Garside, '13ba. Fleming 14 . NORMAN (laughter. Rcvcll Company, $3 .75. Wallace Saultz, '48geol, is a geologist with "On Easter Sunday in 1892 a Yale undergrad- STEAM LAUNDRY Pure Oil Company. He is doing surface work in uate decided that the one purpose of his life would southeastern New Mexico . be to seek first the Kingdom of God," the cover HUNTER-PHILLIPS: Jackye Lou Hunter, '48 reads and it is with this philosophy and tone that ba, and James Maurice Phillips, Jr., '49bus, both the biography of Henry Winters Luce is written. r, of Oklahoma City, were married April 30 in the Author Bettis A. Garside lived among the same Westminster Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma CANDY CO . City . Mrs. Phillips was secretary of her senior conditions that missionary Luce did. One of the RAY REED class. She also served as president of Jefferson compelling features of this book is the knowledge House. Phillips is a member of Delta Upsilon Fra- and warm understanding that permeates the writ- Ray Reed, Owner ternity. They have established a home in Okla- ten word . homa City. Overlooking the shortcomings-a lack of con- SOLLIDAY-WHITE : Anne Van Ness Solliday, centration on his spiritual work in favor of his per- Tobacco '48ba, Tulsa, and Robert D. White, '48bus, Ama- sonal leadership, and little mention of his famous Cigars, Cigarettes, rillo, Texas, were married April 18 . White is a cluldrcn-Author Garside leads the reader across Mints and Gum scout for the Continental Oil Company in Ama- the world with the man who helped to diffuse rillo, where the couple has established a home . knowledge, both academically and theologically, to Lt . Warren G. Van Brunt, '48ba, will be joined the Chinese. in Tokyo by his wife, their son, and their daugh- The story tells of the missionary's preparation at Telephone 512 ter, Vickie, who was born April 24 in Norman. Princeton, his voyage to Tengchow College to Mrs. Van Brunt'plans to leave in August. teach and his physical departure from the Chinese Doris C. Colpitt, '48fa, is living in Pasadena, scene. 231 E . Symmes Norman California . In between he found tirite to propose that sec- Dick T. Quisenberry, '48eng, is employed with tarian schools should be relinquished for a vastly .J

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