ROLL CALL of Alumni Newsmakers

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Reunion Highlights Distinguished Service Citations . . . Page 20 New Alumni President Page 23 Class Reunions 1910 Page 24 HAC Page 25 1940 . Page 25 1930 Page 26 1925 . Page 27 1935 . Page 28 1915 . Page 29 1920 , Page 30 1945 Page 31 1955 Page 31 1950 Page 32 GOLDEN DAYS--The 1937 baseball teaiu must liavc been in a ti~lit spot %Nbeu Ilclincr snapped this Sooner study. Identities should be easier than March's mystery men-as yet unnamed .

19 An Award of Distinction

A large mahogany plaque was given a prominent place in the outer office of the University of Oklahoma Association this spring. The 39 men and women whose names were first inscribed on this plaque had received the highest honor which the University and the Association can bestow for "contributions to human prog- ress through their devotion to enduring values and their unselfish and sustained service to others ." Their award-the Distinguished Service Citation. At commencement, June 5, 1960, five new names were added to this impressive list of honored citizens by unanimous choice of an anonymous committee of faculty and alumni . The committee worked throughout the year evaluating the records of those eligible for the citations--outstanding O.U. graduates or former students and residents or former residents of Oklahoma. The recipients were Dean E. Wool- dridge, '32ba, '33ms ; Van Heflin, '32ba ; Edwin C. McReynolds, '22ba, '26ma, '45 ph.d ; John Rogers, '14Law, and K. S. Adams.

DEAN E. IVOOLDRIDGF,-has reached II technical group assigned to the develop- a position of leadership and respect in the ment of airborne computers with primary field of electronics which ranks him as one emphasis on bombing and navigation de- of the University of Oklahoma's most dis- vices. He returned to Bell as director of the tinguished graduates. After nearly 25 years physical electronics research program. of achievements in research and develop- In 1946 he joined Hughes Aircraft Com- ment, Dr. Wooldridge is now president and pany as director of electronic research and director of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, development, working in fire control and Inc., a Los Angeles, California, electronics missile systems. He became a Hughes vice firm. president before leaving to found The Dr. Wooldridge was born in Chickasha Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation with Dr. and received both a bachelor's and a mas- Simon Ramo in 1953. This firm merged ter's degree in physics from O.U. He took with Thompson Products, Inc., to form the a Ph.D. in physics (summa cum laude) at present corporation. the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Wooldridge is the holder of a dozen As a member of the technical staff of Bell patents and author of numerous scientific Telephone Laboratories, he soon gained articles. He is a fellow of the American recognition for his research in the fields of Physical Society and the Institute of Radio physical electronics and magnetic record- Engineers and a trustee of Harvey Mudd ing. Dr. Wooldridge headed a World War College.

VAN HEFLIN-fully intended to make a "The Philadelphia Story" with Katherine career of the merchant marine. He even Hepburn - the play which eventually left the University of Oklahoma at the end pointed the way to Hollywood and such of his sophomore year to go to sea and re- memorable films as "Johnny Eager," his turned to finish his education because he Academy Award-winning performance, felt it would speed his advance as an officer. "Green Dolphin Street," "Tap Roots," "My But during this second college session, he Son, John," "Shane," "Battle Cry," "3 :10 developed an interest in dramatics which to Yuma" and many others. has led him to Broadway and Hollywood Heflin's standing in the entertainment stardom and made him one of the most world was illustrated by his selection as the respected actors, in the industry . state department's official representative at Born Emmet Evan Heflin in Walters, the 1959 Berlin Film Festival . Oklahoma, he attended Oklahoma City As a result of Heflin's appearance on schools before his family moved to Long "This Is Your Life," a Van Heflin Award Beach, California . Although his major at plaque was given to O .U.'s School of Drama O .U. was sociology, his was a familiar face in 1955 to honor each year's outstanding to 1931-32 University playgoers. drama student. The oil painting of Heflin Professional theatrical success first came in the Green Room of the Drama Building to Heflin on Broadway where he appeared was presented to the school by the actor- in "End of Summer" with Ina Claire and alumnus during a visit to the state last fall.

20 EDWIN C. McREYNOLDS-has spent ville (Kansas) Junior College from 1935 to be- his life serving the state of Oklahoma, and 1937, then with Duncan Junior College Jop- more particularly the University of Okla- fore becoming professor of history at homa, as historian, teacher, counselor. The lin (Missouri) Junior College. In 1943 he honors he has received, the books and ar- returned to O.U. and finished his doctoral ticles he has published have given him work in 1945 . (University prominence in his field, but even more He is the author of two books Seminoles and important has been the enthusiasm for of Oklahoma Press), The Sooner State, Oklahoma and its history which he has Oklahoma: A History of the articles have passed on to countless Sooner students. now in its third printing . His . Dr. McReynolds first came to O.U. as a appeared in numerous periodicals selected as freshman in 1908, lettering in football in In 1952 Dr. McReynolds was members to 1910. Following service in World War I, one of the ten O.U. faculty University of Oklahoma he returned to Norman and completed his receive the first recognition bachelor's degree in 1922 while a faculty Foundation teaching awards in excellence in assistant in the history department . He was of his outstanding service, counseling. He ended his ac- elected to Phi Beta Kappa. By 1926 he bad teaching and with the spring se- earned a master's degree and accepted an tive teaching career was granted the rank of associate professorship at Central Teachers' mester, 1960, and the Board of Regents. College, Edmond. He was dean of Coffey- professor emeritus by

of Churches JOHN ROGERS-completed his formal president of the Tulsa Council of Dis- education with a 1914 O.U. law degree, but and the International Convention (Christian Churches), ten years later he was back in the thick of ciples of Christ Commerce and YMCA higher education as a member of the Uni- Tulsa Chamber of Tulsa Community Chest versity of Oklahoma Board of Regents. advisory boards, Social Agencies. Since that time his interests have never and Council of membership on the board been far from the needs of the state's uni- Rogers holds Medical Center, the versities and colleges . of Tulsa's Children's of Science Founda- Rogers, a Tulsa attorney since 1915, re- board of the Frontiers committee on human tired from the Oklahoma State Regents tion, the governor's John Brown Uni- for Higher Education in 1959, having held relations, the boards of Christian College . He has that post since creation of this governing versity and Jarvis Oklahoma Medical board in 1941. His years as an O.U. regent been president of the since 1955 and is covered 1924 to 1931 and 1940 to 1941 . For Research Foundation the Oklahoma Advisory Com- the past 25 years he has been a member and chairman of Commission on Civil Rights . past chairman of the University of Tulsa's mittee to the professional Board of Trustees . A member of numerous of the Uni- But his contributions have not been to groups, Rogers served as dean Tulsa's School of Law from 1949 higher education alone. Recognized as the versity of now a part-time instructor. outstanding Tulsan of 1945, Rogers is past to 1957 and is

production K. S. ADAMS-was a former Kansas Uni- fulness to work in diversifying oil and versity basketball star turned warehouse to include not only gasoline, motor but fer- clerk for Phillips Petroleum Company in conventional petroleum products, chem- 1920. Today he holds the imposing title of tilizers, synthetic rubber, plastics, develop- chairman of the board of directors and icals and space age research and chief executive officer of this company ment as well. for which he ramrodded to gianthood in the When he leaves the Phillips office of nation's petroleum industry . his 1,500-acre farm, Ken-Ada, north A short 18 years after corning to Bartles- Bartlesville, "Boots" Adams becomes a ville, Adams (at 38) was president of prize-winning dairy rancher. His farming Phillips, having moved quickly from the interests extend to experimental methods warehouse to the production and account- of soil improvement and grassland develop- ing departments, to assistant secretary and rnent, which he supervises on his 32,000- assistant treasurer, assistant to the presi- acre ranch in Osage county. dent, then treasurer and director and execu- A leader in both civic and industrial af- t've vice president. He became chairman fairs, locally and nationally, Adams has held of the board in 1951, succeeding the late office in the National Kidney Disease Foun- Frank Phillips . dation, Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce, While directing Phillips' rapid expansion, Boy Scouts, DeMolay Council and petrol- Adams was putting his vision and resource- eum associations .

21 a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives of the alumni family

1910 1925 1932 I'd Davis, '10ba, has retired, and he and his Dr. Hervey A . Foerster, '256s, '27med, a der- James Robinson, '326a, '32Law, was the wife are speaker living in San Gabriel, California . inatologist in Oklahoma City, is commander of at a recent National Forensic League banquet in Oklahoma's first semi-mobile army reserve hospital. Lawton. Robinson is director of the Oklahoma High The staff of the 44th evacuation hospital took part 1911 School Speech League and is specialist in adult in summer active training at Camp Hood, Texas, education and director of the Oklahoma Speech Dr. Edward E. Dale, 'llba, was a recent guest in June . speaker at National Library Week program in and Drama Services for O.U . Seminole . Dr. Dale, O.U . research professor of history emeritus, spoke on "Statehood Day: 1907 ." 1927 1933 Col. John R. White, '27bus, Norman, recently Dr. Paul B. Lingenfelter, '336s, '33med, was was assigned as chief, the communications 1918 electron- recently elected to serve as president of the Clinton ics branch, in the signal division of the Army's Chamber of Commerce for 1960 . Bob Nelson, Calvin T. Ilughes, '18eng, retired in July, 1959, European '37, headquarters, Heidelberg, Germany . was elected to another term as treasurer of the after more than 40 years with the Connecticut Light Reid Brazell, '276a, Alma, Michigan, partici- & Power Company. At the time of his retirement organization . pated in a forum on the future of independent Ralph Rockwood, '33eng, has been promoted he was vice-president and consulting engineer . He producers, refiners and marketers in the petroleum is presently doing limited consulting work. by the Air Force to the grade of brigadier general . industry, held recently by the Independent Pe- He is deputy director of supply, air materiel com- troleum Association of America in Denver, Colo- mand, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio . 1919 rado. Brazell is president of Leonard Refineries, Rockwood entered the Army Air Corps as a cadet Mrs. Sue Irwin Branson, '196a, Oklahoma City, Inc., an independent refining company, and past at Randolph Field following his graduation in 1933 . who retired from the teaching profession this year, president of the Western Petroleum Refiners Asso- has been honored with a reception given by former ciation. associates and students . Mrs. Branson will main- 1934 tain her home in Oklahoma City. Her plans include Mrs . Ann Wilson Crosby, '34fa, has been ap- 1928 pointed permanent co-ordinator of volunteer serv- travel and a visit to Washington, D. C., during the Lt. Col . Joseph F. Hinton, '286us, presidential inauguration . Big Spring, ices for Fairview State Hospital at Costa Mesa, Texas, recently attended the logistical command California. Fairview, equipped for 4,500 patients, refresher course at the command and general staff is under the California department of mental 1921 college, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . Col . Hinton is hygiene . Rolf Engleman, '21ba, has announced his re- assigned as commander of the 4221st logistical Col . Cliff C. Hines, '34, is now serving with tirement from Standard Oil Company of New command, an Army reserve unit in Big Spring. the Army in Korea. Jersey. He and his family will move from Ha- David H. Stormont, '34eng, has been trans- vana, Cuba, to Oklahoma City. Engleman plans ferred to New York City where he will be refinery to do independent geologic work in southeastern 1929 Col . Robert P. Gardner, '29pharm, has been editor for the oil and Gas Journal. He has been Oklahoma. The Englemans have four sons, Rolf, transferred from west coast editor at Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Jr., Toby, . Jacksonville, Florida, to Fort Sill . Jack and Frank I Ie will retire from the Army in the fall of 1960 . Merritt H. Brown, '29geol, Tulsa geologist and 1935 1922 engineer, recently announced his resignation as J. Bruce Wiley, '35eng, '41m.eng. has been DEATHS: J. A. Mouser, '22ed, Norman, died vice-president and director of J. F. Darby Oil Com- elected to the town council of Columbine Valley, in April at the age of 82 . Houser was a former pany, Tulsa. He has been with the Darby interests Colorado . Wiley is associated with the Martin Com- principal of Jefferson School in Norman and had since 1029 . Brown is listed in the new edition of pany of Denver . taught school in various places in Oklahoma. Ile "Who's Who in Commerce and Industry ." Col . Homer C. Blake, '35eng, Wagoner, is com- is survived by his wife, two sons and two stepsons. mander of the 2nd Army research group's head- Campbell LeFlore, '22, died April 10 in Vet- 1930 quarters at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland . Col. erans Hospital, Oklahoma City. Ile was state par- I'.d Gerkey, Jr ., '30bus, is in the marine supply Blake recently participated in the 2nd Army rifle don and parole officer, appointed by Gov. Roy business at Berth 209, Terminal Island, California . and pistol matches at Fort Meade. "turner in 1949 . In 1957 LeFlore was elected presi- Gerkey lives in Wilmington, California . Miss Alice Marriott, '356a, is the recipient of a dent of the 14 Southern States Probation and DEATH : Ruby D. John Simon Guggenheim fellowship award. Miss Parole Conference Davis, '30ed, (lied March 23 after previously serving as vice- in Oklahoma City . Mrs . Davis had been an em- MarrLat is acting curator of ethnology, Stovall president, secretary and treasurer of the organiza- ploye of the state department of public welfare Museum . tion. He was also a member of the National Proba- since 1939 . tion and Parole Association's executive committee . Survivors include his wife and a daughter, Mrs. 1936 Jerry Bernardy . 1931 Robert B. Allen, Jr., '36, managing editor of the Curbing Daily Citizen, Charles 1) . James, '31, is a certified architect and was the guest speaker resides in Madera, California . at the University of Tulsa Journalism Day. Allen 1924 Col . W. (,. Dunnington, '31ba, '32bs, '341ned, has been with the Cushing paper since 1948 . Dr. Merle Montgomery, '24ba, New York, has has been assigned as chief of the department of been appointed by the Eastman School of Music to medicine at General Hospital in Phoenixville, Penn- 1937 teach in a newly-formed piano teachers' institute sylvania. William Horn, '37eng, superintendent of pub- running from June 29 through August 5 . Dr. DEATH : Mrs. Herbert K. Smith (the former lic plant for Guiberson Corporation, Dallas, Texas, Montgomery, who is Mrs. A. Walter Kramer in Nadine Westervelt, '31h .ec), Apple Valley, Cali- completed 18 years with that firm on 15. private life, will teach "Presenting Music March History to fornia, died May 4 at the age of 50 . Mrs. Smith was The Horns' son, Jerry, received an electrical engi- Young Pianists" and "Elementary Theory for the a native of Norman . She is survived by her hus- neering degree from Texas A. & M. Young Pianist." in June . band, a son, David Zay, and a daughter, Janet. John A. McReynolds, '376a, '50ma, Kaneohe, 22 Oahu, Hawaii, is now senior historian at Head- the staff of J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco the opening of an office in Wichita, Kansas, for the quarters, United States Army, Pacific, located at Fort as a senior copywriter. A native of Enid, Levers has practice of law in patent, trade mark, and copy- Shafter, Hawaii . He and Mrs . McRcynolds have two been a copy group head with BBDO, Los Angeles, right fields . Breidenthal was formerly with Gulf sons, John Michael, 4, and Roger Andrew, 3 . for the past three years. He and Mrs. Levers have Oil Corporation . a daughter, Laura, 5. Joe L. Artman, '476us, and Mrs. Artman (the BIRTH : Robert L. Maidt, '42, '43, and Mrs. former Sallie Teegardin, '486a) have been trans- 1938 Maidt (the former Mary Jane Bell, '476a), Okla- ferred from Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Tulsa. Lt. Col. Walter C. Pittman, '386s, Norman, homa City, have chosen the name Michael Lindsay Artman is a district representative for Texaco, Inc. has assumed command of the Army's seventh La- for their son born April 5 . They have three other They have two children, Jcan Ann and Joey. crosse Battalion at Fort Sill . The newly-activated children, Margo, 11, Mari Gretchen, 8, and Robert James W. Carion, '476us, has been transferred battalion was designated the 5th missile battalion, L., Jr., 4 . Texas, to Williston, North Dakota, 33rd artillery . from Houston, as district landman with the Hunt Oil Company . Charles L. Schrameck, '476us, .Cranston, Rhode 1939 1944 Island, acted as registration chairman for the recent Martha T. Earl E.. Patterson, '44eng, '47m.eng, is currently meeting of the advertising seminar of the combined Carter, '39ed, is teaching third grade with the corporate planning department of Reyn- at Casady Lower School, a private school in Okla- eastern and western chapters of the Association of olds Metals Company in Richmond, Virginia . He . Schrameck is presently asso- homa City. have a daughter, Patricia Ann, Industrial Advertisers and Mrs. Patterson ciated with the Grinnell Manufacturing publicity Joe Dunham, '396a, '41m .ed, has been ap- born September 1, 1959 . pointed principal of Tulsa's new Eli Whitney Junior and promotion department, Providence, Rhode High School . Dunham has been assistant principal Island . of Hale Senior High and Whitney Junior High 1945 Schools. He and Mrs. Dunham have two children, William H. Wilson, '45geo1, lives in McAllen, Connie and Linda. Texas, where he is owner of Fairway Motor Hotel . 1948 Frank Rendelhuber, '48eng, has been named 1940 1946 Capt . James O. Worrell, '406us, has reported director general of Francorelab, French affiliate of Eugene Bavinger, '46fa, recently won the jury's Core Laboratories, Inc., Dallas, Texas, a petroleum for duty as assistant staff judge advocate in head first honorable mention and the $500 Hallmark quarters, Oklahoma City air defense sector at Okla- reservoir engineering firm . He and Mrs. Rendel- purchase award with his oil painting, "Black But- huber have moved to Paris, France, with their three homa City Air Force Station. Worrell, from Okla- terfly," in the tenth annual Mid-America Exhibition homa City, is a captain in the Air Force reserve. children, ages 6, 5, and 2 . which opened recently in Kansas City, Missouri . Charles F. Goodwin, '486us, '49Law, is engaged Bavinger is a member of the faculty of the School in private practice of law in Anadarko and is 1941 of Art at O.U. assistant Caddo county attorney . He and Mrs. Lester L. Drum, '41m .fa, professor in voice at Berton J. Scull, '46geol, '47ms, '56ph.d, has had by Goodwin, '496us, have two children, Steven Mark, Bethany Nazarene College, presented the a cappella his doctoral dissertation converted into a report 9, and Kimberli Kay, 2. choir in a concert at the First Church of the Naza- the Arkansas geological and conservation commis- now Major Clayton B. Turpin, '40, '46, and Mrs. rene. The group makes an annual 2,500-mile tour, sion on the barite industry in Arkansas . Scull is (the former June Farley, '486us) are now Company, Richardson, Texas. Turpin appearing in more than 50 cities . with the Sun Oil living in Bahenhausen, Germany . They will be in Germany for the next three years. 1942 1947 Virgil (Bull) Spradlin, '48geol, has recently Houston f.. Levers, '42journ, has been added to Robert E. Breidenthal, '47eng, has announced opened new and expanded offices in Wichita, Kan-

New Alumni President

Donald E. Walker, '15geol, has been colonel on the staff of the Governor of elected president of the University of Okla- Oklahoma in 1954 . He is a member of the homa Association for 1960-61 . New vice Episcopal church . president will be Wallace C. Kidd,'37journ, During his student days in Norman, of Anadarko . Walker was treasurer of the sophomore Director of safety, personnel and public class, president of the junior class, vice relations for Noble Drilling Corporation, president of the student council, treasurer Tulsa, Walker served last year as Associa- of the YMCA, secretary of the Pick and tion vice president under Paul Reed, Jr., Hammer geology club, a member of the '50bs, Sulphur, who will continue as presi- German club and on the Sooner Yearbook . dent of the Oklahoma Alumni Council for Walker was a first lieutenant in the air Higher Education . corps during World War 1 . Returning from Before joining Noble Drilling, Walker the service in 1919, he studied for two years was a petroleum engineer with Marland Oil at the University of Pittsburgh and received Company, Ponca City, and production man- a petroleum engineering degree in 1921 . ager of Win Franklin Petroleum Corpora- During World War 11, Walker was on tion in Ardmore. special assignment with the Lend Lease pro- He has continued his interest, begun at gram in England . O.U ., in Sigma Chi social fraternity, and Association Vice President Wallace C. has been Grand Praetor of the Southwestern Kidd is editor and co-publisher of the Ana- Province of that organization . He was cited darko Daily News. Kidd is married to the in 1952 for outstanding service to the O .U . former Dorothy Lucas, '3. He has served on band and Kappa Kappa Psi, honorary band the Association's executive board for the fraternity, and was named an honorary past two years. non Walker

23 sas, for geological consultation . has been appointed to the national advisory com- in gaseous electronics and molecular J. Roger Heumann, '48eng, has been spectroscopy, named mittee for the White House Conference on Aging. C. Truman Wright, '49ed, has been appointed process sales engineer for Delta Tank Manufactur- Steen is co-ordinator of the state committee which accident and sickness policy supervisor in the Dallas ing Company at a new office in Houston, Texas. He is gathering information for the national con- office of Hartford Insurance Company. Wright was has been with Delta since January . ference in Washington, D. C., in January, 1961 . athletics C. instructor at Hobart High School before Terry Saul, '48fa, '49m .fa, acted as judge at Vernon A. (Bert) Green, '49pharm, '50ms, re- joining Hartford in 1955 . the Tulsa Philbrook Art Center's 15th annual na- ceived his Ph.D degree in pharmacology in January Timothy P. Donovan, '496a, '50ma, tional competition for Indian artists . Saul has en- has been from the University of Texas, where he is also an appointed assistant professor of history at Texas tered 11 Philbrook annuals and has had one-man assistant professor of pharmacology . He and Mrs. Technological College, exhibitions there, Lubbock, Texas. Donovan, as well as having exhibited at Green (the former Rowena Snoddy, '48ma) have who will receive his Ph .D. degree in other museums. He is a patent draughtsman in the August, has two children, Donald, 3, and Barbara, 1. been a teaching assistant at O.U. for the past three engineering department of Phillips Petroleum Com- Dr. Eldon Earl Ferguson, '496s, '50ms, '53ph.d, years. He and pany, Bartlesville. Mrs. Donovan have four children, a member of the University of Texas faculty, is the Kevin, 8, Becky, 6, David, 5, and Ricky, 3. recipient of a 1960 Guggenheim Memorial Founda- Charles W. Thompson, '496a, '51m 1949 .bus, is one tion fellowship . Ferguson will use the grant for a of four Ohio city managers selected to attend W. David Steen, '496s, O.U . extension the specialist, year in Germany and Switzerland to do research advanced management training program, sponsored by International Association of City Managers at the University of Chicago. The Thompsons live at Middletown, Ohiq .

1950 Mort Glassner, '50journ, city editor of the Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune for the past three years, has assumed duties as sports editor and news editor of the Weivoka Times. Warren L. Hipsher, Jr ., '50m .ed, formerly assistant principal at Will Rogers High School, Tulsa, has joined the University of Tulsa faculty as assistant professor of education . Hipsher received his doctor of education degree from T.U. in May. He and Mrs. Hipsher have a son, Terry, 6. Harry Magafos, '50journ, has joined the Los Angeles office of the Philip Lesly Company, international public relations counsel and service firm. He will serve as assistant account executive. Maga- fos has been west coast radio and television representative for the YMCA of North America. W. P. Rodgers, '50eng, Redlands, California, has recently returned from five we,,ks in England where he was a member of a senior staff engineering team from San Bernardino air materiel area repre- senting the Air Force. The team assisted the British bomber command on various problems encountered with the Thor, ICBM, missiles. Mrs . Ralph Barrett (the former Joan Woodall, '506us) is now secretary to the Class of 1910 had a lot to talk about-or so it would seem from this serious discussion comptroller of Ohio between Frank Herald, (left), C. Edwin Davis, and Class Co-Chairman Fred Tarman . State University, Columbus, Ohio . John W. Cooke, Jr ., '50geol, chief geologist for the Texas National Petroleum Company, has been 1910 appointed vice-president of the firm. Cooke joined the company last June after spending nine years Reminiscences flew fast and furious vited guests felt justly honored to be on with the geology department of the Continental when the members of the Class of 1910 the list. Oil Company . He and Mrs. Cooke, '50ba, live in Houston, Texas. held its 50-year reunion dinner Saturday On the following Sunday afternoon- MARRIAGE : Miss June Walker Marion, Den- night, June 4. The fate of the "spoon Commencement Day-the 1910 grad- ver, Colorado, and Creed Taylor Huddleston, '506a, holder" (see cover) on the North Oval uates were welcomed into the Honored '50Law, Oklahoma City, were married May 14 in Montview Boulevard Presbyterian . came in for some lively discussion . The Alumni Club, Sooners Church, Denver of more than 50 They have established a home in Denver . semi-circular bench (a place for Sooner years ago. BIRTHS : Walter C. Britton, '50eng, and Mrs. couples to sit and spoon) was constructed Those who gathered for the Sunday Britton, Mendoza, Argentina, have selected the name Janet Kay for their 25, under the cover of darkness in front of class meeting daughter born January included Harry G. Powell, 1960 . The Brittons have a son, Jim Kirk, 18 the administration building-with the Oak Ridge, Illinois, who is this month's months . They plan to return to the United States class members pouring the cement them- cover subject; Dr. Jessie Newby Ray, in January, 1961 . Jack H. . selves . One of these days, the 1910ers Davison, '50ba, '50tn.cd, and Mrs Edmond ; Gola Bible Clarke, Frederick ; Davison have selected the mine Holly Lynne for fear that the spoon holder may have to Fred Tarman, Norman; Mrs . Nannie J . their daughter born December 21, 1959 . They have give way to other plans that the Uni- Gifford, Norman ; Peter W. Swartz, two other daughters, Kathv, 8. and Patty, 5 . Davison teaches mentally retarded children in the public versity may have for the Oval. Oklahoma City ; Artie Reeds, Newcastle; schools of Joliet, Illinois . Class co-chairmen Fred Tarman, Nor- Jesse T. Owens, Oklahoma City ; Dr. man, and Artie Reeds, Newcastle, en- Robert Calvert, Scarsdale, N. Y.; Floyd 1951 gineered the calling in of their class- Wheeler, Oklahoma City ; C. George O. Palmer, '51eng, has established an Edwin architectural office in Clinton mates for the . He was formerly get-together, which was Davis, San Gabriel, California, and associated with the Collins and Flood architectural strictly a closed-shop affair. The few in- Frank Herald, Austin, Texas. firm in Ardmore, The Palmers have three children. Rebecca, 6, Griffin, 3 /z,t and Tommy, 14 months. Delmar L. Cox, '51eng, Tulsa, has been named 24 Honored Alumni Class Chairman Edgar l.. Harris, '08ba, Norman, took charge of marshaling those who graduated more than 50 years ago- O.U.'s Honored Alumni Club-a group re- ceiving special recognition at each year's alumni luncheon on Commencement Day. The earliest graduate at the reunions this year was a man who is also the state's oldest registered pharmacist, H. A. Sommers, C'ass of 1900, now retired in Perry. Accorn- panied by Mrs . Sommers, he had many tnctnories to share with another pharmacy graduate, from 1901, Mrs. Evans Mont- gomery Hill, who came by bus from Mo desto, California, to check up on the changes the years have made in O.U. Mrs . Hill re- called that 16 of her class of 22 were phar- macists. Another representative of that profession among the Honored Alumni was a Norman druggist, J . W. Foster, '08 . Two other Nortnanites, Clyde Bogle, a real estate man, and Mrs. S . R. Hodsell, the former Florena Williams, a housewife, represented the Class of 1902. Among those Honored Alumni spotted in the Union Sunday were Errett R . Newby, '07bfr, '08ba, Oklahoma City; Lilla Miller, '04ba, Norman ; Charles 1,. Long, '056s, Ardmore; H. N. Morner,'08ba, Davis ; Mrs. Elva McFerron Gittinger, '09bm, '12ba, Sooner cousins, Eta llutch- Clem 0. Gittinger, '08bs, Tulsa, gets a big laugh from a couple of Tulsa; S. G. Ambrister,'08ba, Norman ; A. (center), and Pearl Hutchins Pendergraft, 08ba, Lawton. ins Ambrister, '06bm, Norman Martin Kingkade, '08ba, Oklahoma City ; Bill Cross, '09ba, Norman.

1940 The reunited Class of 1940 was small but enthusiastic under the leadership of class co-chairmen Mrs. Maxine White, Norman, and B. P. (Jiggs) Walker, Oklahoma City. Mrs. White, the former Maxine Hayden, '40m.ed, is now principal of Washington Elementary School in Norman. She is married to Raymond R. White, chairman of the University's department of secretarial science. Among those greeted by Mrs. White were Charles L. Wil- liams, '40bs, and his wife Trieonne of Corpus Christi, Texas. Williams is a geologist. Past President of the alumni association, O. T. McCall,'40bs, was also on hand for the reunion festivities. McCall is a Norman grocer . Others checking in at the registration desk in the Union lobby were Mrs. Joyce M. Richard, the former Joyce Machlan, '40ba in journalism, now a Hobart housewife, and Frank W. Lawson, '40bs in geology. Lawson, an executive with Standard from Princeton, N. J., Oil of New Jersey traveled all the way Class Co-Chairman Mrs. Maxine White,'40m.ed, straightens the'40 sign '40bs. Trieonne Williams is at right . for his class' reunion. being held by Charles L. Williams, 25 chief engineer of Blackwell Oil and Gas Company. 1952 employed by Berg Compressed Steel Corporation, (:ox joined the Tulsa office in August, 1957, serv- Charles D. Ablard, '52bus, '54Law, is tile autlxn- ing as a stall engineer until his promotiom to chief of an article, "An American Lalvycr in London," 1953 engineer . which appeared in the Decciriber issue of The M. J. England, '53cng, was recently assigned William P. Brown, '51cn, and Mrs. Brown Student L(uoyen Ablard, formerly the postal de- to the division office of tile Ohio Oil Conipany at (the forin;r Melva June Richardson, '51ed) hayc partnnent's judicial officer, is now doing research Cas- pcr, Wyoining . It(- and Mrs. Enghrnd have recently inoced to Midland, Texas, farm Roswell, for :in American Bar Association cununittec on four children, Jeffrey, 6, Kristi and Kathy, 4, and New Mexico . Brown is employed as salts engineer legal services and procedure. Ray- mond, 1 . for SchlumlCrgcr Well Surveying Corporation.The MARRIAGE : Miss Paulinc Elizabeth Ingrain, Vimil Downing, '53m .ed, recently attended Browns have thre- children, Karen, 6, Janice, 4, '52rna, Welch, and Rov E. Owens, Oklahoma City, a meeting of the South Central District Association and Billy, 3 . were married April 10 in tile First Methodist of Elementary Principals in Dall ;rs, Texas. William Hill Elliott, Jr ., '51eng, was recently Church, Welch. Mrs. Owens is assistant professor Down- ing is president-elect of the Oklahoma Elementary transferred front Tulsa to California and promoted of English at Central State College, Edmond . The Principals Association. He is principal of Washing- to division reservoir engineer supervisor for the Los couple has established a home in Oklahoma City. ton School in Clinton . Angeles division of The Ohio Oil Connpany, cover- BIRTH: Steve Bicspiel, '52bus, and Mrs . Bic- Don Crabtrec, '53fa, '551n.fa, has appeared ing activities in California and Alaska . The EIliotts spiel, Tulsa, have selected the name Matthew Bruce in the stnrrin~ role of Teen Dcstry, licro of tile B'-(r" love dace childr, n, Carolyn, 8, liininy 4, and for their son horn May 8. They have another sun, tl- way horse opera, "Destry Rides Again," at tile S in(Ira Lcc, born November 2, 1959 . Scott Richard, born February 3, 1959 . Bicspiel is Imperial Theater in New York . Crabtrec replaced Andy Griflith, creator of the role, who was ill. This was the third role Crabtree has sung in the musical. He is married to the former Jcan Gardenhire, '52ba. MARRIAGE : Miss Paulinc Sinith, Skiatook, and Cli;ules E. Pavne, '53ba, '58Law, Oklahoma City, were married April 23 in the Innuanuel Baptist Church, Skiatook. The Paynes are living in Fort Smith, Arkansas . BIRTH: Lcc Rand Sinith, '53ba, '59nia, and Mrs. Sinitli, Sand Springs, have selected the name Wan(la Michelle for their daughter born January 11 . Smith is completing his fourth year as counselor in tile S,rml Spings Senior Iligh School . Murray B . Stewart, '53ba, '551,aw, and Mrs. Stewart, '54, Tulsa, have announced the birth of their third child, Cheryl Diane on January 12 . Jack Cow--, '53cng, '58m .cng, an(] Mrs . Cuw; ,n have chosen the name Gracnic Patrick for their son born February 20 in Anaco, Venezuela.

1954 Charles MCDuff, '54eng, Oklaliouaa City, was a recent guest speaker at :r meeting of the Dcsk and Derrick Club, Serninolc. McDuff is a reservoir engineer with Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Conip~ny, Okl , h(nna City . He and Mrs. MCDu!I have three sons . Dr. Kent Ky,ger, '54pharni, Mo nett, Missouri, recently graduated from the naval school of aviation incdicine at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Flor- ida. He has received orders to the Naval Air Sta- tion, Memphis, Tennessee. Dr . Kvger is a graduate Mabel L. Jones, '30ma, head of Ill( " El Reno English deparfnient (cower), and her Inollier, of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Mrs. W. W. Jones, 30ma (left), greet classmate Mary E. Sfith, '30ha (Track to camera) . Nashville. MARRIAGE : Miss Mary Carlene Smith, Dallas, and Robert Lee Rollins, '54bus, Oklahoma City, 1930 were marric(l April 16 in the First Congregational (;hutch, Fort Worth, Texas. They are niaking their The Jones family of El Reno probably cataloger at the O.U . library, while Ruth honne in Oklahoma City . BIRTH: Robert G. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers (the made graduation history in 1930 when G . Snoddy, '30bs, '45ms, is a member of former Mary Applegate, '54eng), Ithaca, New mother, father and daughter all received the home economics faculty. Mary E. York, have chosen the name Beverly June four their their degrees in the same commencement Snih, '30ba, is editor of the O.U . Press. daughter born December 31, 1959 . 'I -hcy also have ;I son, Robert G., Jr . exercises. Mabel L. Jones, '30ma, and Leonard H. Savage, '30Law, Okla- her mother, Mrs. W. W. Jones, '30ms, homa City, is now on the University 1955 who attended the reunions, both entered Board of Regents. Two other Norman- Kinley McClure, '55m .cd, was recently cited as Lawton teacher-of-the-year of the teaching profession as did Miss Jones' ites on the registration list were Odies . Former nc%vs c(litor the Democrat-Chief, I-hrhart, lie is presently debate father, the late W. W. Jones, '30m .ed. Primrose, '30ba, a funeral director, and co ;rch, English teacher all(] guidance counselor in Mrs. Jones is now retired . Banker D. H. Grisso, '30geol. Lawton High School . McClure has been awarded :ill $1,080 at Several of the 1930crs arc still with Out-of-towners included Robert E . grant to do further graduate work Oklah(una State University, Stillwater . the University, including the class co- Wood, '30ba, Oklahoma City ; Mrs. W. Rolf Englcman, Jr ., '55bs, and Mrs. Englonan chairmen, Brunette Shanklin, '30ba, li- A. Clark, Jr . (the former Ruth Gibson), (the former Donna Morris, '54) are living in Los brarian at O.U ., and Dr . Blanche Som- '30, Houston, Texas; Jewell Newborn Alamos, New Mexico. Engleman received a Ph .D . degree from California Institute of Technology in mers, '30bs, associate professor of phar- Grisham, '30bfa, Purcell, and W. S. 1959, The Englcrnans have two children, Diana macy . Mary Evelyn Potts, '30ba, is chief I loward,'30eng, Chickasha . and William Rolf. I lunicr Huline, fr ., '55bus, Chickasha, and J. D, O'1)cll, Ada, have funned a partnership, tlm Ada

26 1925 mathematics ; E. V. McCollum, '25ba, '261ns, Tulsa, geophysicist; Bess Back Row-Dr. C. E. Springer, '25ba, Norman, professor of Thompson ; Lee B. Thompson, '25ba, '27Law, Oklahoma City, at- Killough, '25nurs, ()klaholna City, nursing consultant ; Mrs. Lee B . publisher. Front Row-Mrs. C.1". Texhoma, pharmacist; Harold Belknap,'25ba Norman newspaper torney ; W. (>. Crismon,'25pharm, Rob- Angeles, California ; Mrs . Evelyn llond,'25ba, Norman, teacher; Mrs. Springer Norman ; Mrs. Vera Jo Glenn Smith, '25nurs, Los work . ert Robson (Fay Helen Rackley), '25bfa, Norman, child welfare

Pyeatte is serving his residency Robert L. Scruggs, '561ws, and Mrs. Scruggs Transit Mix, a ready-mix concrete company. Hospital, and Dr, '55) are living in San opthalmology at Georgetown University Hospital . (the former Susan Richards, lilR"1115 : Wallace Mann, '55geol, '57ms, and in California, where lie is manager of the San Trepel, '57journ) Diego, Mrs. Mann (the former Gail Diego office of Denver-Gardner Company . They Have chosen the name Michael Scott for their son, 1956 Todd . employed by Bankers have three s(ns, Davis, Jcffcry and born January 18 in New Orleans, Louisiana. They Thomas Cox, '56ba, is Robert L. Adams, '56eng, is working as an have another son, Jeffrey, 3. Mann is a geologist Trust Company in Ncw York City . Mitchell, an independent oil now an electronics engineer for M. J. with Humble Oil & Refining Company in New Donald 1.. King, '56eng, is producer with offices in Dallas . Adams is head- Orleans . engineer with Tcmco Aircraft, Garland, Texas. Ile Abilene office . White, '56) quartered in the Dr. J. 1:. Pyeatte, '55med, and Mrs. Pycattc and Mrs . King (the former Barbara Thomas G . Norris, '56eng, '57m .eng, is now (Dr. Joella Campbell, '50bs, '54tned), Washing- live in Richardson, Texas, with their three children, Oil Company in Ponea daughter Kimberly Leigh, 1. working for Continental ton, I). C., have announced the birth of a Robert, 5, Leslie Michele, 3, and City . He recently returned from Okinawa where Washington University FIos- T. Weeks, '56journ, is one of seven sports on May 7 in George James he was serving with the Air Force. Campbell is on the staff of the anestliesi- writers in Texas nominated by the Texas High pital . Dr. as sports writers of the BIRTHS : J. D. Gammill, '56bus, and Mrs. Gain- ology department at George Washington University School Coaches Association Mexico, have chosen \,ear. A former Norman Transcript sports writer, he Mill, '54bus, Roswell, New (Texas) American sports the name of Susan Elizabeth for their slaughter is now on the ndessa have wife, the former Mary Lyle Childs, born December 5, 1959, in Roswell . They staff. His Gregory, 4, and Juliana '56journ, is on the continuity staff of KOSA, Odessa two other children, John television station. Louise, 2. USE Russell Morris, '56ba, Norman, recently re- Louis Alexander, '56eng, and Mrs. Alexander ceived the bachelor of divinity degree from the (the former Pat Bobb, '56m.cd) have chosen the ('olden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill name Sharon Elizabeth for their daughter born SECURITY Valley, California . Morris plans to work with the March 25 . They have another daughter, Carol, 2. Baptist student union department of the Southern Alexander is a production engineer with Humble NATIONAL Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Richmond, Virginia . Oil Company in "Tyler, Texas.

1957 BANK Lt . Donald M. Phillips, '57mcd, Fairvicw, re- to solve your cently graduated from the naval school of aviation medicine at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Flor- banking problems ida. Dr. Phillips has received orders to fleet air Member F.D.I.C. Norman wing 14, San Diego, California. '57bus, Tulsa, re- Ardmore, Oklahoma Lt. John I). Dorchester, )r ., 200 East Main cently arrived in Bremerhaven, Germany, and is Phone JE 4-7170 Gainesville, Texas now a member of the Ariny pent of cinharkation . Norman, Oklahoma I le is assistant accounting branch chief in the port's

1935 Class of 1935 Chairman, Mrs. Florence llaxter, '35bus, took her job seriously, had an even dozen of her classmates on the registration list, came equipped with her own camera and already had her reunion group on film before the Sooner photographer arrived . Mrs . 1'axter, a secretary in Oklahoma City, was one of the first arrivals at the reunion, coining with Viola Carr, '35bs, Oklahoma City accountant. Their long fr'endship began in an O.U. accounting cuss. ().U .'s contributlon to the University of Omaha, E. G. McCurtain, '35ba, '36ma, was present for the reunion. He is chairman of the sociology department there. Others included Jerome E . Mooney, 13 51111s, Norman ; W. Dalton McBee, Jr., '35geo1, Oklahoma City ; Everett R. Thom- as, '35bus, Norman ; Paul R. Hammond, '35ba, Oklahoma City ; Mrs. Rosalie 13. Cross, '35bs, Norman, and Mrs. Leonard H. Savage (Phoebe l,arimore), '35bus, Everett Thomas (left) and F . ( : . Vc( :urlain stand patiently waiting lira _Nlr,. \largaret Swain and Mrs. Earle Garrison to suspend reminiscing with Theresa lluffman long enough for class picture . Oklahoma City.

headquarters couipeny . was recently transferred from Dallas to Charleston, named tot) weapons controller in h.urope. Moore Patricia Ann Davis, '57bus, a graduate student West Virginia, as a unit sales manager for Procter controls and guided missiles to their targets. He was in marketing from Oklahoma City, represented Gamble. public relations officer for the Air Force while at- O.U. at the Collegiate Advertising Conference of Jim 1'. Miller, '57bus, and Mrs . Miller (the lending O.U . Mid-America in Chicago . Miss Davis will complete former Edmona Macdonald '57c(l) have selected Ensign Milburn L. Hart, '58ba, the name Dean Oklahoma City, her graduate studies in August . Macdonald Miller for their son recently made his first solo flight at Pensacola, L. A. Griffith, '57bus, has been serving as ma- born February 24 . They also have a daughter Melissa Florida, during basic flight training. terials and transport supervisor for Burden Drilling Ann, 2 1,~ . Miller is employed by the Na- Lt. Thomas C. tional Gypsum Company in Sherman, Texas Schneider, '58ba, Butler, Penn- and Pipeline Contractors in Tripoli, Libya, since . sylvania, is a platoon leader in company D of the January, 1959, DEATH: Bill Doran, '57m.ed, died April 20 1st armored of a cerebral hemorrhage in Los division at Fort Hood, Texas. He en- David W. Hunt, '57ba, is employed by The Angeles, Cali- tered the Army in April, 1959 . Ilanover fornia. He was 34 . He taught school at Burns Flat, Bank in New York City. and Lt . Robert L. Wantland, '58ba, Scrninole, re- Joe R. Ransom, '57m .ed, principal of Chelsea Lake Valley Cyril before accepting a similar Post in Los Angeles . cently received the silver wings of an Air Force High School, will attend a nine-week course at jet pilot at Iairedo Air Force Base, Texas. the counseling and guidance clinic at Oklahoma Lt. Rex 1. Woods, '586us, Lawton, is executive State University . 1958 officer of the armored division's 50th infantry, com- Dr. Dan Willson, '58ph.d, is A . M. Stanfill, '57bus, is now living in LAHTI, the recipient of a pany (; at Fort Hood, Texas. Woods entered the Mississippi, where lie is a sales representative for National Defense Fellowship which will enable him Army in 1952 . to do research in Oregon during the summer h .hn N. Martin, Manufacturers and Baird Manu- Dr Kay Belknap, '58bs, recently represented the facturing Company . months . . Willson is professor of biology at University of Oklahoma at a Houston, Texas, high Miss Joan Richardson, '57ba, is working at Central State College, Edmond . school's career day . Miss Belknap is a medical the Cerebral Palsy Institute, Norman, as a member Gordon W. Seaward, Jr ., '58ba, has been pro- technologist at St. John's Hospital, Houston . of the physical therapy department . Miss Richard- inotcd to first lieutenant at Fort Campbell, Ken- MARRIAGES tucky, where he is a member of the 101st airborne : Miss Diane Barton, '58ed, Nor- son has been at St. Joseph's Hospital, Tulsa, for division. man, and Norbert Pohl, New Gretna, New Jersey, the past two and one-half years. Lt. Frank W. Moore, '58ba, Tulsa, recently was were married April 18 in the Catholic Chapel, MARRIAGES : Miss Geraldine Phelps, Perry- Norman . The couple has established s home in ton, Texas, and Bob Bond, '57bus, Oklahoma City, were married February 6 in the First Baptist Church, Perryton . Bond is new editor o£ The (Ichil- tree County Herald in Perryton . Miss Patricia Ann Tubb, '57fa, Oklahoma THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT I I City, and Robert Richard Weaver, Denver, were 71st Yearl married March 19 in First Baptist Church, Midwest Tho,ough Coverage of Hal Muldrow Agency city. 'rhe Weavers are living in Kansas City, Mis- NORMAN NEWS '28 souri. " UNIVERSITY NEWS Insurance of All Kinds BIRTHS : Austin H. Bell, '57bus, and Mrs . Bell 0 ALL O.U. SPORTS Bonds (the former Barbara Allen Hall, '58c(l) have an- Member of the Associated Press 117 E. Comanche Norman nounced the birth of a daughter on March 24. Bell

28 Luke's Methodist Church, Oklahoma City . Mrs . Norman where Pohl is attending O.U. while serv- of Oklahoma City, were married April 16 in the First Christian Church, Oklahoma City . They are Holmes is a former Neiman-Marcus model. The ing in the Air Force. Mrs. Polil has been employed Bainbridge, Georgia, for the past living at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where Holmes are now residing in in the Oklahoma City school system where Lt. Holmes is on active duty with the 3306th two years. Zachritz is stationed with the Army . After August 1, the couple will live at Oakland, California. pilot training group at Bainbridge Air Force Base . Miss Lucy Mae Stevens, Dallas, Texas, and Jack '596a, Shawnee, married December Miss Patricia Ann Leonard, '596x, Duncan, and Miss Rhoda Eugenia Grady, Louis McGee, '586s, Alva, were Bailey Poole, Dallas, Texas, were 24, 1959, in Northridge, California. The McGees William Roger Louis, '596a, Oklahoma City, were and Thomas married April 9 in the chapel of the Church of the married April 9 in the First Presbyterian Church, live in Malibu, California . couple is living in Dallas where Miss Carolyn Riddle, '58ba, and Peter M. Hurt- Assumption, Duncan. At present they are living Shawnee. The are living in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Louis is at- Poole is doing graduate work in the engineering ing were married March 26 . They University . Evanston, Illinois . Mrs. Husting has been employed tending Harvard University on a Woodrow Wilson school at Southern Methodist to attend oxford University Miss Jean Ann Miller, '59, Nashville, "Tennessee, for the past year by the Wells Fargo Bank, San scholarship . I-le plans Tulsa were in England next year on a Marshall fellowship . and Michael Lee McNally, '59gegl, Francisco, California . the Westminster Presbyterian Sue Paschall, '60ed, Fort Worth. Mrs . Louis is presently employed as a case aide for married April 8 in Miss Sandra Church, Nashville . They plan to snake their Innic Texas, and Frederic Earl Fajen, '586s, Guymon, Boston's Children's Service, Boston, Massachusetts . Miss Nance Anne Weeks, '596a, and Lt. Gil- in Nashville . were married April 14 in Ridglea Presbyterian BIRTH : ludic "Buck" Lansford, '59geol, and Worth, Texas. They are living in Old hert 13. Holmes, Jr., '596us, both of Oklahoma Church, Fort 1959, in St. Mrs. Lansford have chosen the name Maricllen for Lyme, Connecticut, near where Fajen is an in- City, were married December 12, structor in the nuclear power school at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, Connecticut . Miss Bobbie Marie Ferguson, '58bs, and Lt. Robert G. Tracy, '58bus, both of Oklahoma City, were married April 3 in Crown Heights Metho- (list Church, Oklahoma City. Tracy is a navigator with the Air Force, stationed at Mather Air Force Base, California, and the couple is living in Sacra- mento. BIRTHS : Lee Coggan and Mrs. Coggan (the former Pat Conner, '58ed), Dallas, Texas, have chosen the name Robert Leslie for their son born April 18 at Baylor Hosp .tal . Coggan is an S.M.U. graduate practicing law in Dallas with Bur- ford, Ryburn and Ford . Mrs. Coggan taught in the Dallas public schools for the past year. Tommy Sellers, '58eng, and Mrs. Sellers (the former Patricia Frost, '58e(l), Albuquerque, New Mexico, have selected the name Sandra Sue for their daughter born April 22 . The Sellers have two other daughters, Comue Lynn, 4, and Kimberly Kave, 2 .

1959 Robert Webb, '59fa, has been named winner of tl( Young Artist Award given annually by the Rcdlands (California) Bowl. Webb is a native of Find . Benson C. Clark, 111, '59bs, has been awarded a special Atomic 13ncrgv Commission fellowship in nuclear science and engineering for 1960-61 . Clark and his wife now live in Berkeley, California, where he is working on a mas'er's degree in physics at the University of California . Lt. Melvan 1) . Cart^r,'586s,'59ma, Fort Worth, Texas, was among 326 second lieutenants who completed the 30-week officers' basic course at the Virginia, re- City Marine Corps schools in Quantico, a better time at class reunions than Jennie Erickson Loucks, an Oklahoma the course No one had members of 1915 . cently. Other O.U. graduates completing housewife, and Grady Kirby, with Overland, file ., Houston, Texas, were Larry 13 . Hannah, '59eng, Edmond ; Sherman P. Carter, '59ba, Bristow ; Carl L. Gipson, '59eng, Oklahoma City ; Jan C. Tupper, '59geol, Tulsa ; Enid ; Terry C. North- 1915 James Sturdivant, '59bus, reunion '156a, '16ma, '21 Law, Oklahoma City ; Amarillo, Texas; and Robert C. Mac- The Class of 1915 started its cutt, '50fa, ; 1-1oldenville ; Minn., '596us, Arlington, Virginia . with a Saturday night dinner and laid Alfred Stevenson, '15Law re- Lt. Harvey M. Lewis, '596us, Geronimo, time of any of Lucile Snider Parks, '15ba, Reno, Ne- completed the final phase of six months claim to having the best cently Jones Northcutt, '156a, active military training under the Reserve Forces the reunion classes-a claim disputed by vada; Ella Vera will Newby, Act program at Fort Eustis, Virginia . He 1910 and the Honored Alumni, but a Oklahoma City; Edna Cash remainder of his military service with spend the Chairmen '15ba, Oklahoma City ; Ruth Morris, the Anny at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas . mighty hard one to disprove . John B. Mitchell, Thomas R. Paxton, '59fa, Bristow, was recently for the gathering were Don Walker, '156a, Oklahoma City ; undergoing basic named outstanding trainee while (see page 23), Tulsa, and Charles '15ba, Oklahoma City ; Wanda A. Ma- infantry division at Fort Riley, '156a training with the 1st larkey McCollum, ' 156a, '521ib .sci ., Kansas . He entered the Army in December, 1959 . Steele, '15ba, Okmulgee. Litrick, Lt. Lawrence K. Brainard, '59journ, and Mrs. Among those attending were Mrs. Tulsa ; Nellie Jane McFerron Lawton where Brainard Hiratn Brainard, '57ed, live in Lem Tittle (Mallie Jo Miller), '15ba, '15ba,'19ma, Rockville, Indiana ; the artillery and missile school at Fort is attending Tulsa; Impson, '15ba, McAlester; Joe Gordon, Sill . He recently completed the 12-week field Mangum ; Joe Watson, '15eng, artillery officer basic course. W. K. West, '15med ; Gerald S. Tebbe, '15bs, '18eng, Dallas, Texas. MARRIAGES: Miss Carolyn Elaine Thompson, '59h.ec, and Don Thomas Zachritz, '606us, both 29

their daughter born April fi in Norman . The Lans- Roy Adams, '60, Wewoka, has been selected by ing Central State College at Edmond . fords have two other children, Buck),, 4, and Julie the Westinghouse Corporation for an advanced Miss Judith Johns, 'h0, Okmulgee, and Clifton 2!i . They are living in Norman while Lansford study program leading to a doctor's degree from S. Lydick, '60, Norman, were married April 3 in is studying for a teaching certificate . Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland . the I'Tiscopal Church of the Redeemer, Okmulgee. Adams, an engineering physics major, will begin The couple has established a home in Norman 1960 studies in the Johns Hopkins electrical engineering where Lydick is a student of law at O.U. Roger Lambert, '60, has accepted a position as department. Miss Polly Lice Ishutael, '60, Oklahoma City, assistant professor of history at Wichita Universitv, Carline Nardhcim, '60 Tonkawa, has been and Robert Forney Sandlin, '566us, '58Law, Mus- Wichita Kansas . Lambert recently spent several named recipient of a $2,200 scholarship to attend kogee, were married April 9 in Wesley Methodist weeks in Washington, 1) . C., completing research the University of Wisconsin graduate school . Miss Church, Oklahoma City. The Sandlins are living for his dissertation. Nardheim will enroll in a special program on in Muskogee. Dr. William R. Kirkham, '60tned, presided over correctional administration next fall . Miss Sharon Tuttle, '60, Norman, and the John 10th anniversary student American Medical MARRIAGES : Miss Margaret Ellen Booth, 'fill, Tom Poynor, Liberty, Texas, were married April Association meeting which opened recently in Los Oklahoma City, and Edward A. Luke, Jr., '60, Ard- more, 30 in St. John's Episcopal Church, Norman . Thcv Angeles, California. Dr. Kirkhatn holds an M.A. were married April 3 in St. Luke's Methodist have established a ]tome in Liberty, where Poynor and a Ph.D . degree in biochemistry from the Uni- Church, Oklahoma City . They are living in is employed as a petroleum engineer . versity of Missouri . Norman . Miss Jane Anne Morrison, '60, and Michael Mrs . Mary M. Fish, '60, has been awarded a Miss Judith Elaine Riley, '60, and Kenneth Chandler Stewart, '60, both of Oklahoma City, $2,500 fellowship by the American Association of Gordon Hansen, both of Oklahoma City, were were married April 4 in St. Luke's Methodist University Women Educational Foundation . Mrs . married April 16 in the Pennsylvania Avenue Church, Oklahoma City . The couple is living in Fish has completed her course work at O.U. for Christian Church, Oklahoma City . The llansens Oklahoma City. the Ph.D . degree and is now living at Amarillo . are living in Oklahoma City while lie is attend- Miss Margaret Ann Bucy, Oklahoma City, and 'Illonlas C. Ihowcr, '60, "Tulsa, wcrc married April 2 in St. Luke's Methodist Church, Oklahoma City . The Howcrs have established a luorne in Norman . Miss Karen Susan Trower, '60, Tulsa, and Miclr, el K . Fentriss, '60, Oklahoma Citv, were nt :uried April 2 in the Southminster Preshvterian Church, Tulsa. Miss Donna Drake, '60h .ec, and Robert Lee Pendarvis, '51ba, '57Law, both of Norman, were married April I in McFarlin Methodist Church, Norman . The couple has establish-:d a hoine in Norman where Pendarvis is assistant uOunty attorney for Cleveland County.

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Robert Gordon, '20ba, '20pharm, '20eng, Scarsdale, N. Y. (left), gave his family a tour of the campus before the luncheon where they were joined by Mr. and Mrs . R . F. Danner . 1090

Mrs. Lewis Salter, '20ba, '23ma (the Two '20 grads from Wichita, Kansas, former Reaves Alford), Norman, and signed in at the front desk Sunday- Mrs . Ruth Mcmminger, '20bma, '26ba, Mrs. X. H. Wilkinson (the former Lu- Wear always the distinctive ring which Atoka, were charged with the task of cile Carson), '20ba, '21bfa, and Carl O. tells the world you are proud of your college, proud of your class-with your class overseeing the reunion of the Class of Kunsetnuller, '20ba, now with the vet- year on the sides and school name en- 1920, both at the Saturday night dinner erans administration . Omar R . Lyon, circling the stone. and the alutr)ni luncheon on Sunday . '20bs, brought his wife back to see the STONES AVAILABLE Onyx (black) -Sardonyx (red) Mr. and Mrs. Wallace C . Thompson old alma mater from Wood River, Illi- Synthetic ruby (red)-Synthetic Sapphire (blue) of Houston ; Texas, were on hand with nois, where he is in life insurance. Topaz (yellow) -Amethyst (purple) Tourmaline (green) their daughter, Katrina, who did grad- Oklahomans on the 1920 list included Massive 10K gold $48.00* uate work in ornithology at O.U. Mrs. Dr. Lloyd E. Swearingen, (see page 12) Standard 10K gold $36.00* Ladies 10K miniature $29.50* Thompson is the former Eloise Reid, Norman ; Reuben W. Keller, Shawnee ; *Plus 10% federal tax. '20ba. Another Texan at the reunion was Clarence L. Williams, Nicoma Park ; State name of school, finger Robert Mitchell Sayre, now with the Bennie Henry, Alva ; Mrs. W. L. Eagle- size, class year, stone desired . small business administration in Fort ton (Pauline Dellinger), Tulsa, and W. Worth. Floyd Absher, Bartlesville . COLLEGE SEAL and CREST CO. 236A Broadway, Cambridge 39, Mass. Manufacturers of College Jewelry Since 1875

30 1945 The 1945 graduate traveling the greatest distance to attend the reunion of his class was William B. Akers, '45eng, an engineer from Nashville, Tennessee. Several Texans from that class were also in evidence Sun- day, among them Marjorie Pittman, '45bs, Wolle City ; Marvin F. Kraettli,'45bs, a con- and struction engineer in Waco, Mrs. John H. Bone (the former Wanda Warden), '45bs, El Paso. Mrs. Jim Artman (the former Martha L. Teegardin), '456fa, wife of the editor of University publications, and Oklahoma City Banker Grady Harris, Jr., '45ba, '49 Law, served as class chairmen for the reunion. Others attending were Jaunna Weber, '45bfa, Norman interior designer ; Jack Tay- lor, '45bs, '49ms, Mobil Oil Company district manager in Oklahoma City ; Richard C . Jackson, '45eng, with Cities Service Gas Company in Oklahoma City; Enola M. Fielder Jackson,'45ba ; Corinnc Elbert Feld- Corinne Elbert Feldman,'45ba, Oklahoma City 640, Pat Murphy, '45bs, Shawnee, and Mrs. Ruth Lewis, '45bus, Norman, catch up on news of members of the Class of 1945 at the alumni luncheon. man, '45ba, Oklahoma City teacher; Pat Murphy, '45hs, Service Pipe Line Company engineer in Shawnee, and Jack Mandeville, '45eng, Tulsa insurance broker.

1955 June 5, 1960, was the first reunion for the Class of 1955 . Chairmen for the meeting were M. Kuyk Logan, '55journ, Oklahoma City newspaperman, and Lynn Foreman, '55bus, Norman real estate man. Mrs. Graham M. Johnston (the former Janis K. Thompson), '55ed, traveled the greatest distance-from Villa Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The Johnstons have just returned from a year and a half in Welkom, South Africa . They have a daughter, Jennifer Lynn, one year. William J. Kennedy, '55bs, completed work at the Harvard Graduate School of Business in June after three years in the Air Force. He is living in Norman and is employed by the Mid-America Corporation of Oklahoma City. Also living in Norman are G. Dennis Leadbetter, '55bus, and Mrs. Leadbetter (the former Janet Tucker), '55ed . Others at the gathering of 1955 were JoAnn Summers Stewart, '55ba, Oklahoma City ; Willis K. Maycumber, '55ba, district Boy Scout executive in Shawnee, and Bar- ton Carley, '55eng, aircraft engineer in JoAnn Summers Stewart, Oklahoma City, brought husband, Boyd, to the first reunion of her Class Fort Worth, Texas. of 1955. At the luncheon they compare notes with Class Co-chairman Kuyk Logan, Oklahoma City.

31 VICE PRESIDENTS IN PROFILE Continued from Pa_e 11 In Dr. Brown's regard the September is so high in the busi- degree with three other faculty members ness education field that he was invited to lacking only completion of dissertations. be a visiting professor of business SOONER admin- Latest addition has been the initiation of istration at Harvard Graduate School of the doctorate degree for business adminis- Are you wondering just what 1960 Business in While at 1 955- Harvard he was tration from the O.U. school. This degree has in store for the Big Red? appointed consultant of recruiting and has been approved by University and state After last year's season of surprises training for the Controller General of the officials and first enrolment for the pro- on the Sooner gridiron, predicting the United States . In [)]-annual meetings he gram will begin in fall 196o. unpredictable Big Red is becoming and a board of four others decide on im- Dr. Brown as vice president is responsible quite an assignment . Yet, as always, provements and changes for the govern- for the general administration of the fiscal O.U.'s director of public information, tnent accounting program. affairs of the University and the develop- David A. Burr, '52journ, will take During his more than 1o-year span as ment of its financial policies and practices. typewriter in hand to come up with clean, Dr. Brown has been responsible for His responsibilities extend over the business his annual football forecast for the improving the standing of the College of agencies and services maintained by the September issue of Sooner- Magazine . Business Administration . While in 1949 University which include the controller, Burr's standing among the campus only 2,3 per cent of the 43 teachers who were purchasing, accounting, auditing, housing, prognosticators is practically without members of the graduate faculty held doc- employment, student publications, the air equal-but the fall campaign, kicking torate degrees, now 62 per cent hold the field, laundry and book exchange. off with Northwestern, Pittsburgh and Texas, should be enough to test the powers of even the most intrepid forecaster.

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Posing for the annual class picture, Class of 1950, are (front row) Mrs. irene Bond Cook, Birdie Sparks Word, Emma Richert ; (back row) Bill Jordon, Robert Naifeli, Thoma, flyers. 1950

With one exception, those returning ready-mix concrete business in Sulphur; Now in our new home for the reunion of the Class of 1950 were Emma E. Richert, '50m.ed, who is re- at Peters c& Comanche from close to home. The exception was tired from teaching and living in Beth- Carolyn Moody Lockhart, '506a, whose any. home is in Long Beach, California . Joe D. Wheeler, '50Law, Oklahoma FIRST NATIONAL Class chairmen were Bill Jordan, City attorney; Mrs. lrene Bond Cook, BANK '50bus, internal auditor for the Univer- '50bfa, Oklahoma City ; Birdie Sparks sity, Norman, and Robert N. Naifeh, Word, '50trn .ed, Oklahoma City teacher ; '47ba, OF NORMAN '50Law, Norman attorney. C. J. McFerron, '50bs, transportation en- Other class members in attendance gineer in Oklahoma City, and Thomas were Paul W. Reed, Jr., '50bs, outgoing B. Myers, '50bus, a supervisory budget Member F. D. I . C. alumni association president, in the analyst in Midwest City.