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Alumni Stag Members : George Souris, '47, Assistant Editor ; Ted Beaird, '21, Riding the Range ; Harold Keith, '29, Sooner Sports ; Betty McLean, '48, Roll Call ; Betty Barclay, '45, Staff Photographer ; Mrs . Mary Turnbull, Alumni Records ; Lui Antonelli, '41, and Joe N . Croom, Jr ., '48, mailing .

VOL. XIX NOVEMBER, 1946 NO. 3 The Cover

Sooner Magazine proudly presents for its Home- coming issue, 1946, an outstanding, active Sooner family, namely, Joe Golding, Sooner football star ; Ri~i"5 tke SOottet Raa5e his wife, Jo Lane ; and his daughter, Cheryl Lane . (See feature story, page 2 on "O .U .'s Gold Stan- dard .") By TED' BEAIRD

The O .U . alums arc fast breaking into new news! Earnest T . Hoberecht, '41journ, who as an Okla- Yes, news flooding in from all corners, in these, homa newspaperman set a near-record in wordage the early hours of November, 1946 . Flashes just of unsold fiction written in his spare time, has at Contents corre- off the ticker tape show dozens and dozens of last hit the jackpot in Tokyo, where he is a spondent for the United Press . prominent O.U . Alumni elected to county, dis- RIDING THE RANGE He is the author of a Japanese lest-seller, a ------1 trict, state, and national elective offices, in the big novel which is the Nipponese counterpart of such Ted Beaird election "landslide" experienced some days ago . books in this country as Among the names that click across the desk in these "Forever Amber" or "The closing hours just prior to Armistice Day to come Hucksters ." SOONER SPORTS ------4 in the next 72 hours, are : GLEN JOHNSON, '39, Okemah ; CARL ALBERT, '316a, McAlester ; And the writing and sell- Harold Keith PRESTON PEDEN, '366a, '391aw, Altus, and BILL ing of the book has made '16, Stigler, all going to Congress as him about the wealthiest STIGLER, __ ------6-11 representatives from their districts in the state of correspondent in Tokyo- ROIL CALL the yen, which, Oklahoma . in terms of Betty McLean unhappily for Hoberecht, Sooner names flash across the screen in various he can't spend outside Ja- pursuits of life, not only in the political field, pan . O .U . LAB SCHOOLS _ 13-15 but in all walks of life . The ticker tape always An article describing Ho- records Sooner doins' . Here a news story comes Dr. Garold Holstinc berecht's sensational suc- across the desk about JOE LOONEY, '206a, '221aw, cess as the author of a Wewoka, taking over the job as "prexy" of the Japanese best-seller appears DAD'S outfit of O .U . and to carry forward, in FACULTY ------16 in the October 28 issue of what we predict will be a most constructive man- ERNIE HOBERECHT Time Magazine. the work set up by the retiring president and ner, Hoberecht, noticing ARMED FORCES ______18-19 other Sooner Alum, NORMAN BRILLHART, The Time writeup says that widely popular read- '17ba, Madill . COMMISSIONER PAUL WALKER, that Japan did not have any ing matter, decided to fill the vacancy with a novel '121aw, of Washington, drops by enroute from his MEDICAL SCHOOL NOTES - _19 Federal Comunications Commissioner's office in of his own composition . Washington, to radio hearings in Los Angeles . Says Time : "Last week a Tokyo publisher Here just a minute, but hopes to be back when brought out the result, a richly corned-up novel the whistle sounds for the Homecoming game, called 'Tokyo Romance .' It had a U . S . correspond- November 16 . CHIEF JOHHNY WILKINSON, ent for a hero, a Japanese movie queen for a her- ASSOCIATION '23ba, and wife, of St . Louis, drop in for a visit, oine, a faint flavor of 'Machine Butterfly,' a happy Officers : Maj . Wm . V. Cox, Ponca City, Presi- motoring out from St . Louis to and West ending. Overnight, it became a best-seller ; book- dent ; Mrs. June Baker Durkee, Mangum, first vice- drops printing (100,000 copies) president ; Joe Curtis, Pauls Valley, second vice- Texas points . MIKE MONRONEY, '246a, sellers gobbled the first president ; Ted M . Beaird, Norman, executive sec- by to check up on the "corporation ." Yes, at this and yelled for more." retary . hour MIKE is safely back in Congress by a ma- And here is Time's summary of the plot : Executive Board Members : Hal Muldrow, Jr., over another Sooner son, Norman ; Herbert Branan, ; Max jority of 3,498 votes "In captured Jap strongholds in the Pacific, War Cook, Clinton ; C. V . Nichols, Anadarko, and Wil- '291aw, Oklahoma City, as CARMON HARRIS, Correspondent Kent Wood, found faded pin-up liam F . Absher, Bartlesville, all members-at-large ; a result of the ballots a few hours ago in Okla- Emerson Price, Vinita, District I representative ; pictures of an almond-eyed cinema star (who homa's Fifth Congressional District . "JAP" HAS- James L . Robinson, Tahlequah, District II ; James looked like Movie Actress Yetkiko Todoroki, a C . Hamill, Madill, District III ; James R . Frazier, KELL, '22bs, O.U .'s Athletic Department High- good friend of the author) . Later in Tokyo, they Wewoka, District IV ; Joe W . Curtis, Pauls Valley, Mogul-dashes in, grabs SOONER-ARMY color District V ; Grady D. Harris, Alex, District VI ; met and fell in love . But they had to woo in picture film-dashes out-catches Santa Fe, Mrs . June Baker Durkee, Mangum, District VII ; motion secret, for her studio forbade fraternization . When Cox, Ponca City, District VIII, bound, to meet the O .U . Alumni Club Maj . William V. WICHITA another correspondent was murdered by a former and George D . Hann, Ardmore, immediate past Jayhawker city tonight-there to in that K .U . Nazi spy, Hero Kent Wood was suspect. His girl president . tidings of O.U . Thus it comes Trustees of Life Membership Fund : Errett R . spread the good friend tossed away her chance for a big role by Carey, Oklahoma goes-the ticker tape always recording Newby, Oklahoma City ; Tom F. and thus it confessing that she was with him at the time of City, and Neil R . Johnson, Norman. Sooner activities . 1946-47 Alumni Representatives of the O . U . the murder. R . interesting "recordings" on Athletic Council : Paul Reed, Sulphur ; Neil One of the most "She was fired, married her American and they Johnson, Norman ; Granville T. Norris, Muskogee . however, is the good true- that ticker tape tonight, went honeymooning at Atami hot springs. A tele- Sooner Magazine is published the fifth day of yarn on the "Ole" journalist, ERNIE HOBE- each month by the University of Oklahoma Asso- gram came from her studio : in view of her "dem- Okla . Entered as RECHT, '41journ. Whether it be in Berlin, in re- ciation, Union Building, Norman, ocratic sacrifice' all was forgiven, and the big role second-class matter Oct. 13, 1928, at the post office cently war-torn France ; in South America ; in of was hers after all . Fadeout ." in Norman, Okla ., under the Act of Congress Tokyo, plus points East and plus points West-or March 3, 1879 . Subscription $3 .00 per year, of novel's setting for the most part is at No . magazine and $1 .00 for in these United States, there is always a Sooner The which $2.00 is for the Shimbun alley, the official billet for foreign cor- Alumni Dues . Foreign, $4 .00. Life, $60 .00. Single alumnus in the news! Some Sooner making inter- 1 are those of -Hoberecht got many of the resi- copies 25 cents . Opinions expressed esting news and headlines, due to his, her, or their respondents, and the editor and do not neessarily, represent official covers . Member contributions! The dope on ERNIE? Well, here it dents between the action of the Alumni Executive Board. of American Alumni Council . 'tiz . (Continued on next page)

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The book, moreover, has romantic illustrations, Against Dana Bible's mighty Texas, like Army described O.U .'s Gold Standard as the first kissing scenes ever to aclorn rated No . 1 in the Nation the week Oklahoma met a Japanese novel. Hoberecht explains that since The gold Oklahoma's found six years them and which had averaged nearly 300 yards per Japanese are unaccustomed to western-style em- ago down in the smoky hills of McIntosh County game rushing while murdering Missouri 42-0, braces, he went into "great, quivering detail ." Colorado 76-0 and Oklahoma A&M 54-6, Golding is buying Coach Jim Tatum's rugged team a lot Hoberecht wrote his novel in English and got single-handed out-rushed the whole Texas team, a Japanese friend to translate it . A Tokyo news- of prestige these days-inflation or no inflation. gaining 86 net yards to Texas' 81 while Bobby paper wanted to run the book as a serial, and two It was six years ago that Joe "Junior" Golding, Layne, the Texas tailback, was collecting only 13 net yards in nine rushes. of Japan's three leading movie makers have put in a Eufaula, Oklahoma, high school boy, was ar- Golding also robbed bids for the screen rights . dently courted and won by the Sooners. Tom Stid- Layne when the chips were ham, brawny Sooner head coach, not only per- down by intercepting a flat pass Layne flung to Time magazine's article quoted Hoberecht as sonally visited the fancy-footed Eufaula boy in Hub Bechtol, Texas All-American end, and sprint- saying he "probably wouldn't refuse" if were he those days but also sent his brother, George, a ing 99 yards to a touchdown that put Oklahoma asked play the hero's role for the motion to pic- personable Checotah, Oklahoma, banker, over to back in the game 13-14 early in the fourth quarter. tures. win and woo the curly-thatched lad who had He's as great a defensive back as offensive. As a student at the University of Oklahoma, scored all 71 points Eufaula made in its 71-0 Golding's fourth game was against Kansas State Hoberecht was an indefatigable writer, and prob- spanking of Haileyville. in Oklahoma's Big Six Conference opener on ably has Owen a record for rejection slips. He took a full It was a successful courtship that has paid off Field, O.U . Campus . Although he carried the the ball course in University, was Norman correspond- with six years of happy married life (Golding only seven times, Golding exploded against for Daily the ent the Oklahoman and Oklahoma City has been to war four of the six years), and as far Wildcats and when the detonations died away, Times and, in his spare time, turned out scores of as the Sooners are concerned, the union can con- new records lay scattered about like bright ore. stories, mostly westerns which he was unable to tinue indefinitely . Golding played only 17 minutes in Oklahoma's sell . 63-0 shellacking of Iowa State at Ames but scored Golding was a good provider the very first one touchdown. In Oklahoma's 14-12 victory over When he left the University in 1941, Hoberecht year after the nuptials . As a sophomore for Coach Texas Christian in a driving rain storm at Fort got a job as a reporter on the Memphis (Tenn.) Dcwcy "Snorter" Luster in 1941 he became the Worth, Golding gained 59 net yards in nine plays, Press-Scimitar . There he wrote a couple of novels best wingback in Oklahoma's modern football and numerous stories which joined his unpublished averaging over six yards per carry in the mud . history, averaging 5.8 net yards on each rush manuscripts. Golding's total of 164 net yards rushing against although running laterally to the weakside . He Kansas State broke Bob Brumley's When the war came along, Hoberecht got a modern Okla- snared .21 forward passes for 238 yards, grabbed homa record of 146 job as a laborer in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, made against the Oklahoma off three pass interceptions, ran back two kick- Aggies in 1943 . Golding's but he didn't stay long at his unskilled work of average of 23 .4 net offs 91 yards and scored eight touchdowns . He yards per each rushing play scraping the bottoms of ships. In a few weeks, he broke Orville Mat- could run either inside or outside. thews' 16 .2 five turned up as editor of the Pearl Harbor Bulletin . set years ago against Marquette. Then he went away to war. Golding was in Golding's 81-yard touchdown run was the longest He held this job until almost the end of the war, the thick of the early fighting, when the Nazis scoring rush ever made by a Sooner player in when he joined the United Press. overran Europe . He was a sergeant in the infantry, modern times, breaking the former record of 71 Hoberecht served as a correspondent aboard won a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart set last year by Johnny Steward against Kansas . the U.S .S . Iowa in the invasion of the Ryukyus with assorted clusters, the Combat Infantryman's Oklahoma has gone back on the gold standard! islands. At the war's end, he was assigned to cov- Badge and comported himself so well in battle that erage of General MacArthur's headquarters in he won a battlefield commission to second lieu- GOLDING'S RUSHING RECORD 1946 Tokyo. tenant. He played no service football . Times Yards Yards Net One of his most widely published stories was This fall Golding came back to play his first Game Carried Gain Lost Gain his account of kissing Japan's first lady of the football in five years and to stamp himself the Army 13 78 0 78 screen, Miss Todoroki, such osculation apparently finest running back developed at Norman in mod- Texas Aggies 20 86 8 78 being newsworthy because of its rarity in the land ern times. Instead of the single wing and A for- Texas 13 96 10 86 of the cherry blossoms . mations the Sooners had used when he played Kansas State 7 164 0 164 So, while the boys arc now shaping around, under Luster in 1941, Oklahoma uses T forma- Iowa State 9 83 29 54 getting ready to go to Congress, while ERNIE is tion . Golding had never played T formation (the Texas Christian 9 59 0 59 laboriously spending his Japanese yen, because of Army game was his first at the strange style) but Kansas 15 135 5 130 a good "love-yarn," while all the other Sooners he quickly adapted himself to it . are busying themselves about their various busi- He was the best back on the field in the Okla- Total 86 701 52 649 nesses and professions, we must clear this desk out homa-Army game . His slashing running gained 75 Average per play 7.9 net yards. and prepare the trail for Homecoming, 1946 . There net yards to 83 for the whole Army team (All- Sooners will be in by the multiplied thousands. It American Glenn Davis gained 22 yards in 12 Enrolment is hard to keep 'em from Riding the Sooner Range, carried) . Against Homer Norton's Texas Peak Yet to Be Seen Aggies It's really not the finish-only the beginning- more especially on Homecoming Day, November Golding picked up .68 to a minus eight for the of more and more students in the nation's colleges 16, 1946 . So, here's to "getting set!" whole Texas Aggie team . and universities, believes Dr . George L. Cross, president of the University . The University temporarily has solved its press- ing needs for the autumn semester, but President Cross predicted that more students will flock to the campus in the future and the pressure on already crowded conditions will continue. "Enrolment in higher education in the U.S . has been increasing about two and one-half times each 20 years since 1900," Cross explained. "Even with- out the war and the subsidy for veterans, we would need to provide for about 12,000 students at the University by 1950 and about 16,000 by 1960 ." Because of the large number of married students now going to college, new services such as nursery schools and new family-type recreational programs must be provided, and public health nurses and sanitarians must be employed to prevent epidemics. President Cross said that O.U ., by virtue of a $I million issue to provide veterans' housing and of two large Naval bases near the campus, had obtained a high position among the nation's large universities in meeting many of the new issues . In the total of 10,140 students, more than 5,800 are veterans, and a greater number is expected during the second semester. By January the Fed- eral Public Housing Authority will complete 527 apartment units in former Naval barracks . The Uni- versity's new 96-unit apartment dormitory also will be completed late this fall to provide addi- tional housing for married couples. President Cross pointed out that many of the DOWN TO SEE ABOUT SON-Representative of the hundreds of O.U . Dads on the campus for the Navy structures used for housing and classrooms '46 Dads' Day, were Cal Harrah (left) and Tom Garrett, '24law, both of Oklahoma City. now must be replaced by permanent-type buildings,

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O.U . Dads Name Looney as Prexy Joe Looney, '206a, '221aw, Wewoka, former inetnber of the University Board of Regents, was elected president of the Sooner Dads' Association in the annual meeting of the O.U . group, late in October. The election was one of the highlights of the 1946 meeting, attended by more than 500 Univer- sity dads . Besides Mr . Looney, E. R. Kraettli, '18, secretary of the University, was renamed in a sim- ilar capacity for the Dads and R. W. Hutto, '10ba, Norman, was re-elected treasurer. First, second and third vice-presidents from the eight Oklahoma con- gressional districts were named. Two resolutions were passed unanimously by the Dads . The first was in support of the request by the University to the state regents of higher education to ask the 21st Oklahoma Legislature for an appropriation of $500,000 to supplement a bond issue to build needed girls' dormitories on the O.U . campus . The second resolution asked the state regents of higher education and the Legislature to raise salaries of O.U . faculty and staff members to a level comparable with those of other colleges and universities . Norman W. Brillhart, '176a, Madill, 1945-46 president of Dads' Association, presided at the meeting. ' Dr . George L. Cross, University president, wel- comed the Dads . Following the election of officers and vice -prcsiden is, Dutch Fchring, assistant Soon- er football coach substituting for Headman Jim Tatutn, screened films of the Oklahoma-Texas football gatue. The Dads attended the Oklahoma-Kansas State Looney, '20ba, '22law, Wewoka (left) chats with Norman Brillhart, '17ba, Madill, as he takes over football game with their sons and daughters in Joe his duties as O.U . Dads Prexie and Brillhart retires from the office . the afternoon. Vice presidents by congressional districts are : First vice president-W. S. Myers, Tulsa, first; W. S. Warner, '186a, Muskogee, second ; O. W. expenses which might be entailed for mailing, Joe McBride Succeeds Beaird Davison, Durant, third ; II. D. Hinson, Prague, entertainment arrangements and meeting places fourth ; Earl Pruet, '27ba, Oklahoma City, fifth; for the club . As Rotary District Governor sixth; Grover C. Wheel- The three committees met following the meet- C. V. Leonard, Chickasha, Chicago, Ill.-Joe W. McBride, '28bs, was elected seventh; W. W. 19Jusser, Enid, eighth . ing and an announcement was made that the next er,'Clinton, a district governor of Rotary International for the vice presidents-G . C. Henley, Miami, meeting would be held at 8 p.m ., Wednesday, Oc- Second fiscal year 1946-1947 at the recent Rotary Con- Smith, Iienryetta, second ; Guy B. tober 2 in the Auditorium of the Mercantile Na- first; E. W. vention held in Atlantic City, New Jersey . Mr . third; Neil R. Woodcock, tional Bank Building . Massey, Wilburton, McBride was one of 158 district governors chosen ; Joe H. Curtis, '206a, '221aw, At this second meeting, the following officers Shawnee, fourth to supervise the activities of Rotary Clubs in North ; Bill Taylor, Carnegie, sixth; were elected : Pauls Valley, fifth and South America, in Europe, Asia and Africa, seventh; and Elmer L. Potter, President; Walter Ditzler, '146a, '171aw ; execu- A. G. Vaughn, Altus, and in the islands of the Pacific. tive vice-president, John Cheadle, '24ba, '271aw ; Boise City, eighth . Mr . McBride is the editor and publisher of the . M. Butcher, Tulsa, vice-president, Dick Dulaney, '42bs; vice-president, Third vice presidents-A Anadarko (Okla.) Daily News . Ile is on the Board second ; Clarence Har- Mendenhall, '356us ; vice-president, James first; J. R. Staib, Muskogee, Cotton of Directors of the Oklahoma Press Association B. Dodds, Ada fourth ; Lewis, '356a; vice-president, Bill Strang, ris, Ardmore, third; Luke "Tig" and is a member of the Executive Board of the fifth ; Leonard Butnpus, vice-president, Jack Timmons, '35-'40; vice- L. A. Wiedman, Norman, '38pe ; American Association of Universities and Allied Mountain View, Steele, '43ed ; treasurer, Jerry No- Duncan, sixth ; C. C. Caldwell, president, Jack Institutions . He was president of the Anadarko Web Glidewell, '19ba, Helena, eighth . lan, '396us ; secretary-publicity chairman, Betty seventh ; and Chamber of Commerce in 1943 and 1945 and, German, '44journ, and assistant secretary, Roberta during World War 11, he served as county chair- Campbell, '44mus.ed. man for many war bond drives . He is affiliated Reports were then given from Jack Timmons, O.U. Alumni of Dallas Reactivate with Alpha Tau Omega, Alpha Sigma Phi and Chairman of the Planning Committee, Jerry No- Alpha Delta Sigma Fraternities, and is a mem- GERMAN, ' , I4journ, Dallas, Texas Chairman of the Organization Committee, By BE,ra'Y lan, ber of the Board of Regents of the University . Mendenhall and Anna Kaye Swinney, Co- The first reorganization meeting of the Univer- Cotton A member of the Rotary Club of Anadarko, Entertainment Committee. Plans sity of Oklahoma Alumni Association of Dallas was Chairmen of the Mr . McBride has served his club as vice-president the O.U .-Texas weekend. held at 8 p.m . Wednesday, September 25, 1946, were discussed for and has been active on numerous committees . As officers and the business at Lakewood Country Club . John Cheadle, '24ba, Following election of district governor, he will co-ordinate the activities Betty German took the '271aw, was host and chairman of the meeting. meeting, Jerry Nolan and of 65 of the Rotary Clubs in Oklahoma designated building to get a Fifty-six attended . group to the Penthouse of the as the 124th Rotary District. night. Mr . Cheadle opened a discussion on O.U . Clubs view of the "City in the Sky" at McBride succeeds Ted Beaird, '216a, executive John overseas, what our purpose should be, and then Saturday, October 12, under the direction of secretary-manager Oklahoma, Dallas con- of the University of asked for ideas from the group. Cheadle, the O.U . Alumni Club of . in who was district governor of Rotary last fiscal year The following committees were appointed : ducted an information center for the Sooners Organization : Jerry Nolan, '39bus, Chairman ; Dick the lobby of the Baker Hotel . They had a special Mendenhall, '356us ; Tig section reserved for Sooners at the Plantation Club Dulaney, '42bs; Cotton The University of Oklahoma zoological museum ; Roberta Camp- at 9:30 p.m . Saturday, where Charles Agnew and Lewis, '356a ; Jack Steele, '43ed has on display over 800 mounted specimens of birds Elizabeth his orchestra played on the inside and the O.U . bell, '44mus.ed; Clifton Wilhite, '40ed ; and mammals, and a collection of over 3,700 birds Betty and Texas University orchestra played alternately Duncan Nolan, '43; Bill Strang, '38pe; and eggs . German, '44journ . Planning : Jack Timmons, '35- on the terrace. '40 ; Mrs. Jack Timmons, '39soc .wk, '41m .soc .wk ; At the SOONER-LONGHORN game, the O.U . Lawrence Williams, '39-'41 ; Joe Glover, '40geoh Alum Club of Dallas banner was carried through- All the prehistoric cultures of Oklahoma arc Virginia Klein, '356us ; George Nathman, '41chem ; out the bleachers by the Ruf Neks . represented the archeological collections of sev- Laron Quaid, '39m .ed; and Katherine Ann Beck- in eral hundred thousand museum specimens at the man, '42bs. Entertainment: Cotton Mendenhall, '356us, and Anna Kaye Swinney, '43mus.ed, C0_ Joining the University of Oklahoma staff in 1902, University of Oklahoma . worked Chairmen ; Jack Steele, '43ed; Joe Mehan, '45bs; Dr. Roy Gittinger, clean of admission, has Roberta Campbell, '44mus .ed ; Jerry Nolan, '39hus, with every president of the institution, from its and Katherine Ann Beckman, '42bs. first-Dr. David Ross Boyd-to Dr . George L. The law library at the University of Oklahoma Thirty-eight dollars was collected to defer any Cross. contains over 24,000 volumes.

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