The University of Tulsa • Class of 1960 Memory Book Greetings from the President
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The University of Tulsa • Class of 1960 Memory Book Greetings from the President Dear Friends: As members of the TU Class of 1960, you have witnessed dramatic changes – in civil rights, technology, commerce, and in the realm of what is possible for humankind. You have certainly noted the dramatic changes to our campus since your day, as well. In the past decade alone, we have doubled the value of our campus through an aggressive program of construction that continues today with our Lorton Performance Center and engineering expansion. For all the physical changes you can see, many others are taking place in less obvious areas. Year by year, our student body is becoming more academically distinguished and more geographically diverse. Our research enterprise is expanding and last year attracted a record $22 million in funding from outside sources. And we are increasingly partnering with other organizations – Gilcrease Museum, OU-Tulsa, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the Kendall-Whittier Neighborhood Association and many others – to bring about change in our community. We are grateful when our alumni return to help us envision change and build an exciting future. You do that through service on our advisory boards, giving to our Annual Fund, mentorship of our student interns and hiring of our graduates, active participation in your local alumni chapter, and in many other ways. Your very participation in Homecoming 2010 helps strengthen and renew our family. As this weekend winds down and you leave campus to return to your regular routines, I encourage each of you to remember that you are part of TU’s ongoing success. I hope you will use your restored connections and rekindled friendships as inroads into new levels of involvement with the Alumni Association and with the University as a whole. There are many more dramatic changes in the works, and your experience and energy will help us take full advantage of the opportunities ahead. With best regards, Steadman Upham President In 1960 at TU: President of the University Miss Carolyn Olson - Delta Delta Events of 1960 Dr. Ben Graf Henneke Delta • First televised debate between Chancellor Miss Jani Cochran - Chi Omega presidential candidates Dr. Clarence I. Pontius Miss Judi Punton - Kappa Alpha • American spy plane “U2” is Theta shot down over the USSR The Deans of the Colleges Miss Barbara Palm - Kappa Alpha • White House report finds U.S. Theta children getting too fat College of Petroleum Sciences and Miss Julie Levengood - Kappa Alpha • Summer Olympic Games held Engineering Theta in Rome and Wilma Rudolf Acting Dean H. N. Carter wins three gold medals College of Liberal Arts TU Royalty • Bye Bye Birdie opens up on Dean Donald E. Hayden Miss Janet Ries - Band Queen Broadway School of Music Miss Nancy Ryan - ROTC Honorary • FDA gives approval to oral Dean Robert L. Briggs Cadet Colonel contraceptives Miss Virginia Scott - Football Queen • Civil Rights Act is signed College of Business Administration Miss Janice Pitchford - Basketball • First Japanese color television Dean M. M. Hargrove Queen broadcast Graduate School Miss Ann Lamkin - Engineers Queen • Tulsa’s population grew by Dean W. V. Holloway 25% TU Landmarks • Etch-A-Sketch was invented Evening Division • The opening of McClure Hall • Hurricane Donna hits East Dean Andrew L. Springfield • The dedication of and daily Coast, called worst on record School of Law services at Sharp Memorial • Harper Lee publishes To Kill a Dean Allen King Chapel Mockingbird • The razing of Robertson Hall, • Top movie money maker was Senior Class Officers campus landmark for 52 years Psycho bringing in $32,000,000 Jim Schmidt • Construction began on Oliphant • We watch on television The Nancy Steffens Hall and Alexander Infirmary Many Lives of Dobie Gillis, The Earl Morris • The Kingston Trio chooses the Untouchables, Rawhide, My Three Pam Smith 1960 Kendallabrum Beauty Sons and Andy Griffith. Queens • We listen to “Cathy’s Clown,” Student Senate • Asian flu plagued the 2nd semester “He’ll Have to Go,” ”Theme President - Milt McKenzie • Miss Florence Blackmore is Miss from A Summer Place,” “It’s Vice-President - John Walsh Homecoming Now or Never” and “Teen Coed Vice - President - Sandy • The Sound of the Golden Angel” DeHanas Hurricane is 25 years old • Gallon of gas costs $0.31 Secretary - Nancy Scott Tauk • First year of organized men’s • Cost of a new home about Treasurer - Jan Wright soccer $16,500 • Men of Kappa Alpha receive a Kendallabrum Beauty Queens cannon for their lawn Miss Gayle Cumpton - Phi Mu 1960 Sue Esser Amstutz 4190 East 46th Place Tulsa, Oklahoma74135 (918) 742-8374 BME Music Education’60, BA ’61 and MME ’65 Q Spouse: Dale Amstutz Spouse’s current job/activities: Dale is retired. Employment: I taught music and speech at Jane Addams Elementary School, in the Tulsa Public School system from 1960-1989. I also taught private flute lessons. I am currently retired. Leisure time activities: I am the principal flute player in our church orchestra. Additionally, I’m a member of the Oklahoma Native Plant Society, an organization that studies and photographs wild flowers and native plants. I belong to the Oklahoma State Chapter of the P.E.O Sisterhood and am the state Cottey Scholarship chair. I also enjoy annual vacations in the Colorado Rockies. Please share some of your favorite TU memories: I enjoyed music activities, including the band, orchestra, and private studies with Max Waits. I had the privilege of knowing Ellen Henneke who was our Mortar Board sponsor in 1959-1960. I traveled with her to a regional Mortar Board conference in Austin, Texas. 1960 Orville Roger Berg 9949 Beaver Creek Drive Shreveport, Louisiana 71106 (318) 798-1748 [email protected] BS Geology, MS Geology ’63 Spouse: Bonnie Kay Berg Spouse’s current job/activities: Bonnie Kay is a housewife with various hobbies. Family: Our daughter, Angela Kay, is a 1994 graduate of TU. Employment: I have worked for Phillips Petroleum Company, Andover Oil Company, Santa Fe Minerals and Arkla Exploration Company in the field of oil and gas exploration. Leisure time activities: I enjoy hunting, fishing and traveling. Please share some of your favorite TU memories: There were professors at TU I considered important. Beyond what they taught, it was what they expected of their students. Several of those important professors were Dr. Murray (geology), Dr. Veatch (math), Dr. Kaufman (chemistry), Dr. Hopkins (geology), Dr. Baker (geography) and Dr. Enlos (geology). Have you been involved with TU since graduation? Yes. I have provided financial support, and my daughter graduated from TU. What have you been up to for the past 50 years? While working for Phillips Petroleum Company, my family spent several years in Singapore and Egypt. I continue to work in the oil and gas business. 1960 Daniel M. Bisett 1534 South 77th East Avenue Tulsa, Oklahoma 74112 (918) 622-4453 [email protected] BS Economics Q Spouse: Mary Frances Ham Bisett, BA ’61 Spanish Spouse’s current job/activities: Mary Fran is a retired housewife. Family: We have three children, Andrea, Daniel, Jr. and Deirdre. We have six grandchildren: Lauren, Tommy, Marybeth, Lindsey, Daniel III and Elizabeth. Employment: I worked as the director of human resources at McDonnell Douglas in Tulsa for 16 years, Burtek for 14 years and Norris Sucker Rods for eight years. Leisure time activities: I enjoy playing golf, reading and travel, especially to Europe and Mexico. Please share some of your favorite TU memories: Dr. Phillip Howell was a great professor. Have you been involved with TU since graduation? I have been a season ticket holder for about 30 years. I also attended law school for a year as well as graduate school. 1960 Don E. Black 10705 Royal View Avenue Las Vegas, Nevada 89144 (702) 256-8892 BS Chemical Engineering MS Chemical Engineering ’65 University of Idaho Spouse: Alice B. Black Spouse’s current job/activities: Alice is retired. Family: We have eight children and stepchildren, 18 grand and step-grandchildren and four great- grandchildren. Employment: I worked for 1½ years in petrochemicals and 27 ½ years in the nuclear industry at Idaho National Laboratory; 10 years in environmental and nuclear engineering and 8 years in the nuclear industry at the Nevada Test Site. Leisure time activities: I enjoy fishing, skiing, travel, church choirs, hunting and reading. Please share some of your favorite TU memories: Three of my favorite memories were helping build an analog (vacuum tube) computer, being a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and graduating. Special professors were chemical engineering department chair, Paul Buthod and Dr. Kaufmann. Have you been involved with TU since graduation? I have been involved financially. Who or what are you most looking forward to seeing when you return to TU? I won’t be able to return for the reunion. 1960 Carolyn Sue Ginn Clover 5309 Sage Court Ft. Worth, Texas 76132 (817) 294-5403 [email protected] BS Elementary Education Spouse: Glen E. “Ed” Clover - deceased those sorority sisters and dorm friends. Maybe this will be an opportunity to reconnect. Family: I have a daughter, Angela Clover Milligan, who is married to Jim Milligan. Their sons are What have you been up to for the past 50 Hunter and Drake. I also have a son, Kevin Clover, years? I married my husband, Glen E. “Ed” who is married to Alisa Monk Clover. Their children Clover, shortly after graduation in 1960. He was are Hailee, Garrett and Jake. newly commissioned in the U.S. Navy. We were stationed many places along the east coast, ending Leisure time activities: I spent years volunteering up in Brunswick, Maine. Along the way, our children for schools in which my children were enrolled, arrived.