I spoke to Dr . Cross about the possibility of tak- To my disappointment, I found that people leave ing some slides or motion pictures of the campus New York City for the summer . Of the ones I knew which could be prepared, together with a state- best, only Robert Calvert, '096a, '10ma, and Mrs . Correspondence . . . ment, and shown at the various alumni meetings Calvert were left . The Hauns were too far away to throughout the world. I understood him to say get back, and the Chester Reeds were not able to that the University now has a photography depart- come in because of sickness . Bob and wife were at Faculty Exchange ment that may be able to take care of this project. the broadcast, and Bob was lucky enough to be Norman, Oklahoma You who have been at the University, except pos- asked a question and smart enough to give an ac- Mr. Reed Crites, sibly for the hard work, do not realize what a ter- ceptable answer and receive a prize. Our daughter, Webb & Crites, Attorneys rific change has taken place there, even in the Edith, student at O.U ., got her voice on the air San Francisco, California short length of time I have been away. when asked if she liked the desert passed around . With best regards, Sincerely, Robert 11 . Parker, I had sent a recipe for my favorite dessert and she Dear Mr. Crites : '34ba. said, "I ought to like it, she (Mrs . Long) is my Excuse this delayed letter . My son (David Ray mother ." Johnson, '41-'42) listened to you tell the stories of We had ten personal friends at the broadcast to Virginia City and we went through that whole our surprise, besides our son Lewis, '476a, and country, Yosemite Valley and over the road that Edmond, Oklahoma Edith. Lewis, you know, was in the Lisle Fellow- you described . We really had a wonderful time . Dear Ted : ship, Watkins Glenn, New York, and had just In fact, many of those things we would have missed finished . Edith was at the Methodist Camp at entirely had we not had that nice lunch with you The Sooner Magazine for September is the best Yonkers, working in the Bronx, and we were able and your wife while we were in San Francisco . copy of any college magazine which I have seen, to wait for her to finish the following week and You will never know just how much we appre- in my opinion . The front cover picture, showing brought her home with us. ciated it and the information you gave us. It opened two white men eagerly learning from man a a of The "Betty Crocker Magazine of the Air" peo- new field of thought to San Francisco and also darker color, is equal to hours of sermons and that barren country where the gold was found. ple were wonderful to us, just could not do enough tons of editorial print in many pulpits and journals . for us while we were their guests . Susan Adams, The one thing I didn't like while I was on my The cartoon, the "Aunt Susan" of Oklahoma City broadcasting trip was those switch-backs down the road after article on the Boston chapter, that about the "King of Queens," and the President's fame, was quite excited when she learned that I you left Yosemite to get down into the valley. But was an O.U . man . It was she who sold the pro- those queer lakes out there in the desert, a patch story about the poor sports who cannot understand of that gram to General Mills. Zella Lane, a Kansas girl, water and sagebrush almost up to the rim . competition, the life of football, also plays an who speaks for Betty Crocker, was pretty as well We enjoyed our stay there in San Francisco and important part in the scarcity of 50-yard line tick- as attractive. In fact, the whole cast are lovely peo- with my son having been stationed there and with ets-all these were good . ple, the kind one likes to have as friends . We got a motorcycle I think we learned more in the few The picture of future fraternity men in Holm- acquainted with them by their given names-An- days there than the same period of time I ever nette, Elsie, Lois, Bill, Winn, Susan, and Zella. spent in my berg Hall, learning that fraternities are joined only life . You Though on invitation, and other facts of life, shows the asked why we got on the program . Well, it's wonderful out there, I still like Okla- this spring Mrs. Long had a lot of sewing to do homa. If you're ever back this way, remember now bigness of O.U .-the rushees fill a hall that used to house the student body with ease. The news of for Edith, and while sewing listened to the radio. that I'm living in Norman, have plenty of room, One day she said to me, "Do you know you might you're welcome, both you and your wife . Don't the classes is interesting as usual, and some of the get a trip to New York, if you would write a let- forget us and thanks a million for the nice time page political ads indicate an advertising solicitor ter about your wife ." I wrote, recommending her you showed us while we were there with you. who could sell the Old Nick an overcoat in August . for "The Homemaker of the Week," because of D. B. R. Johnson, '18ma, Dean, School of Phar- macy. Speaking of corn, the biggest news in Oklahoma her work in Brazil, rearing a family of "better this year was given comparatively scant coverage . babies" against handicaps of having to boil their (Editor's note: Reed Crites, '36Law, is president food, boil all milk and water, as well as filter the of the newly chartered O.U . Alumni Club in San A few weeks ago I read in our leading newspaper water, and yet found time to work in the church, Francisco . While Dean Johnson was visiting in San that Garvin County farmers, several of them, had community and write a weekly article for the best Francisco recently, Reed and Mrs. Crites showed produced 100 to 119 bushels of corn to the acre, daily paper, and write a half dozen books, (of his party what Sooner hospitality is away from the from a species of hybrid seed from Bloomington, course in Portuguese) . campus) . Illinois . The county agent at Pauls Valley, though After we had forgotten about the letter (March doubtless an Aggie, will confirm (or deny) the till June), they sent a man to investigate to see if truth of this story; and if true, it is vastly more im- I had told the truth. They found I had told only a part of the New York, N. Y. portant than all the fiction about the "Iron Cur- story and selected Mrs . Long for their Dear Ted: 29th Homemaker . Of course, I co-starred as her tain ." husband, and had to read a part of my letter on the I am really sorry I missed you while I was in Tell your addressing department that neither the program . Besides all expenses of the trip, two days Norman, but I am glad to hear that you landed "Me" nor any other part of "McReynolds" is silent. in a lovely suite at the Hotel Pennsylvania, they gave several such a substantial advertising contract which I Best wishes, S. A. McReynolds, '25fa. nice presents-blankets, fireless cooker, presume is for the Sooner Magazine . their electric iron that irons both ways, and a half dozen Dr. Cross and Mr. Kraettli (Emil R. Kraettli, steak forks-only we can't afford the steak . 'IS) took me all over the campus, and then we We picked Edith up after her work was finished, flew above the campus in the new plane the Uni- Roanoke, Virginia trade a visit to friends on Cape Cod, then went to versity has acquired . This was quite a thrill for me Dear Ted: Niagara Falls which Edith or Mrs. Long had never as well as my sister-in-law, Frances Parker, and seen . Lewis went on to Boston to see a Navy friend, my niece, Ruth Jane Parker, O.U. student, who Thank you again for sending me the addresses then came home from there. were with me. I would like Ruth Jane to know of O.U. folk in and about New York City . Edith will be back at Norman early, but Lewis you for she is doing very well at the University and I have been a bit remiss about writing you of the is to live at home this winter, teach a couple of she participates in a number of campus activities . trip and folk seen, but you know I am a working courses at Roanoke College and take a couple as I understand she is to teach a course in economics man . I must get my home work clone by the time xvell . at the University this fall . school opens for me, August 31 . Sincerely, Frank M. Long, '086a, '09ma.
Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes -1899- - 1906- -1914- Eva E. Stitzel, '06ba (Kingfisher), is now living 50th Class Reunion in Roswell, New Mexico . Mrs 35th Class Reunion June 5, 1949 . Stitzel has taught in Waukomis, Enid, Medford, and Metropolis, Illinois . June 5, 1949 She is the mother of three sons . Norman Reynolds, '14Law, is associated with the - 1904- -1909- law firm of Reynolds and Ridings in Oklahoma 45th Class Reunion 40th Class Reunion City . He recently won the Democratic nomination June 5, 1949 June 5, 1949 for State Representative in Oklahoma County .
OCTOBER, 1948 25 Robinson Bowers, '24ed, is teaching McClelland in Oklahoma City . Kneelantl is a mem- Mrs. Emily Tulsa Public Schools . -1915- ber of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Mrs. Kneelantl is in the attended the conclave Downing, '14-'15, '24-'26, has the former Annie Rowland Miller, '196a. Harold S . Cookscy, '24ba, Richard Lauer po- held in Chicago in August. of the Roswell, New Mexico, Empo Virginia Henry, '19ba, has held the of Acacia Fraternity been vice-president household arts at for the past two and one-half years. sition of associate professor of Harrcll Bailey, '24pharm, '26pharm, is employed State Bank College, Stillwater, since of Downing is a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fra- Oklahoma A. and M. as a salesman with the Eli Litty and Company had been employed at Mac- in Amarillo, ternity. Mr. and Mrs. Downing are the parents of 1946 . Previously she Indianapolis, Indiana . His home is Susan and Julia. Murray College for Women in Jacksonville, Illinois . Texas. three daughters, Lelia Ann, his Robey,'156a, is a practicing physician E. H. Black, '19ba, who recently received McKinney, '24ba, has been Dr. Lucille University of Margaret Gladdie Texas. Doctor of Education Degree from the the past five years in the Port Arthur in Houston, superintendent teaching for Nellie McFerron Littick, '15ba, '19ma, is making Houston, is starting his fifth year as Independent School District, Port Arthur, Texas. Illinois . Her husband, Ar- of schools at La Marque, Texas. Alpha Xi Delta Sorority. her home in Hoopeston, Civil She was a member of Littick, is publisher of the Zanesville Elaine Boylan, 196a, is employed with the bookkeeper thur Spencer in Japan. Dur- Alyce Baker Faulkner, '24nurse, is Publishing Company. Mr. and Mrs. Littick Information and Education libraries Tulsa. Pre- (Ohio) in Tokyo, Kyoto and for the Faulkner Furniture Company in the parents of a daughter, Jane, who entered ing the past year she has been duty nurse in Okla- are Boylan expects to return to the viously she had been a private Ohio Wesleyan College this fall . Takamatsu. Miss States in May, 1949, and plans to visit the homa City and Tulsa. United Bilsky, '24med, is in the private practice University campus upon her return . Nathan '196a, '21mcd, retired from of medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. -1917- Dr. Claude Norris, has been practicing law in Richmond, Virginia, in 1945 . Cron S. Ellifrit, '24Law, his medical practice from the University and is now Oscar Bledsoe Crofford, '17, has been a partner Mrs . Norris, the former Fannie Inez Bell, since his graduation cotton firm in He and Ponca City. He is a member of Phi Alpha in the Randolph Scott and Company, '19ba, recently moved to Riverside, California . located in Memphis, Tennessee, for the past three years. He is Taylor, '19ba, is making her Delta law fraternity. Grace Deatherage '241,aw, is in the practice of a member of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. Dallas, Texas, where her husband, Paul Holly L. Anderson, making home in . and Mrs. Anderson are the par- Florence Keller Ogden, '17ba, '19ma, is Taylor, is plant manager for the J. W. Barthlow law in Tulsa. Mr her husband, two daughters, Dolores and Marilyn . her home in Meno, Oklahoma, where Machinery Company . ents of employed as a linotype operator on her Charles Victor Atherton, '24ed, '32med, is mak- P. R. Ogden, is Sally Hockaday Benson, '19ba, is making he is Daily Eagle. her husband, ing his home in Louisville, Kentucky, where the Enid home in Searcy, Arkansas, where a member of For the past 13 years, Dr. J. A. Guthrie, '17mcd, of Harding College . practicing medicine . Dr. Atherton is George S. Benson, is president and the American has served as secretary of the Newton County (Mis- years Hazel Beckett Irvine, '19 the American Medical Society 7 For the past nine Practice. souri) Medical Society . He is a member of the Mis- her husband, F. S. Irvine, has been Academy of General the nurse, with Earl Connor, '246s, '26med, is a souri State Medical Association and a fellow of and manager of the Irvine Cafe in Stillwater. Dr. Edwin owner physician in Pasadena, Texas. Dr. and American Medical Association . Paul O. Koester, '19eng, is employed as an en- practicing '176a, head of the English de- Gas Mrs. Coonor arc the parents of four children . Iris Baughman, gineering superintendent with the Brazos River home Classen High school in Oklahoma, at has held the Jonnie Sharp Cage, '24h .ec, is teaching partment at Company in Mineral Wells, Texas. He Junior High the Kappa Kappa Gamma convention at economics in the Alice Robinson tended position since 1932 . A. A. Cage, is Sun Valley in June . School of Muskogee. Her husband, owner and manager of the Cage Hardware and -'1921- Supply Company there. Samuel Cole, '24ba, has been owner -1918- '21ba, '24bm, '26ma, '44 Bennett Goldia Dell Cookscy, manager of the Cole Wholesale Drug Company long-time resident ofStrawn, teacher of piano in Norman . and Earl T. Noland, '18, Lib.sci, is a private in Tulsa for the past 13 years. Texas, has been appointed general superintendent over the Strawn plant of the '-'1922 -1925- Featherlite Corporation, '24bs, '26med, is Chancey Henry Dolph, '226a, Edith received the effective September 15. Mr. throat specialist in Baytown, Garret Townes, '256a, '35ms, an eye, ear, nose and Merit which was awarded Noland is in complete the clinical staff of the Jefferson President's Certificate of 'Texas. He is on outstanding services from charge ofthe full time oper- Hospital in Houston, and the San Jacinto "in recognition of your divi- Davis 1942, to November, 1946, as a member ation of the Strawn Memorial Hospital in Baytown . Dr. Dolph is a September, attending the later as chief of the Technical Reports Section sion. While member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. and University he was a mem- of the National Defense Research Committee which ber of the Engineer's Club, proved to be an invaluable contribution to the war Stadia Club, St. Pat's Board -1924- effort of the United States ." Formal presentation associate business the certificate was made September 9, 1948, at and was Class Reunion of manager of the Sooner 25th Fort Shafter, Honolulu, Hawaii . Mrs. Townes is at EARL T. NOLAND June 5, 1949 Yearbook in 1918 . present teaching English and mathematics at Puna- Denison, '24eng, has recently been Craddock, '18ba, spent her vacation this Henry Clark hou Academy, a private school in Honolulu . Mariam to the planning section of the Engineer- summer in the state of Washington . She is em- transferred Department at Oklahoma Gas and Electric ployed as a librarian in Oklahoma City . ing Company in Oklahoma City. He has been employed -1927- for the past 20 years. with the firm Grahame, '27pharm, attended the National Lamoine S. Carson, '24Ph.C, '256s, '26ms, is em- D. E. _1919- Scrimmage of the AMVETS Sad-Sacks in Chicago, ployed in Oklahoma City as a chemist and materials Reunion August 30 to September 1. He served as leader of 30th Class engineer for the State Highway Department. He is 5, 1949 the group for the three days of the meeting . June a member of Kappa Psi, Rho Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, professor of Oklahoma Alma Lois Rodgers, '27ed, associate '196a, '44ma, is now in Acacia Fraternity and was winner of the University, Lin- Elizabeth Alden Settle, in 1922 . Mrs. education at Nebraska Wesleyan teacher of English and director Pharmaceutical Association Award national convention of her fourth year as C. Dahl, '26h .ec . coln, recently attended the publications at Medford Senior High Carson is the former Hazel Gamma in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. of school Andruss, '24ba, has been president of Delta Kappa Medford,Oregon . Previously she had taught Harvey A. third consecutive year she has been ap- School, Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsyl- For the in Wynnewood, Healdton, Lawton, Bristow, Fre- State creative arts chairman of the American since 1939 . Previously he had been director pointed donia, Kansas and Clovis, New Mexico. She was a vania, Association of University Women in Lincoln . Kappa of business education and dean of instruction at the recently member of Theta Sigma Phi and Kappa Phi Beta Beatrice Dalton, '276a, Norman, left College. Mr . Andruss is a member of has accepted a Gamma Sorority. Fraternity. for St . Louis, Missouri, where she '19ba, is making her home Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi and Acacia of elementary educa- Mary Patton Kinkade, '26med, is a practic- position as assistant professor California, where her husband, William Forest Dean, '24bs, University and will complete in Santa Barbara, with the Dean and Need- tion at Washington Daniel Kinkade, is employed as a salesman . ing physician associates) her Doctor's Degree . Miss Dalton re- George Ada. Dr. Dean was a member of work toward Louie G. Kneeland, '19Law, is associated with hain Clinic in resigned as teacher at Cornell College, Mt. Upsilon Fraternity at the University . cently the law firm of McClelland, Kneelantl, Bailey and Delta SOONER MAGAZINE 26 Vernon, Iowa, where she had taught the past sev- Verona Browning Pangburn, '30ba, is making of a jewelry store in Lawton . He opened his own eral years. her home in Alva where her business in 1945 after teaching seven and one-half husband, Samuel L. Pang years at Cameron College, serving the last three burn, is owner of a confec- and one-half years as head of the commerce de- -1928- tionary and cafe. While at- partment . Wcslcy 1) . Sinuns, '286a, '30Law, attorney for tending the University Mrs. Leslie F. Warren, '336us, is employed as a spe- Federal Bureau of Investigation the Shell Oil Company of Tulsa, died at his home Pangburn was a member of cial agent with the August 1 . Mr. Simms was a member of the legal Mortar Board, Alpha Lamb- in Los Angeles . Mr. Warren is a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. committee of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Asso- da Delta, Alpha Gamma ciation, the American, Oklahoma and Tulsa Coun- Delta Sorority, and was John Alley, '336a, '34ma, formerly of Boston, Bar Associations, Sigma Chi Fraternity and the winner of the Letzeiser Massachusetts, has returned to Norman to become ty in Osage Oil and Gas Lessees Association . Medal and Dad's Day a professor in the modern languages department Award. Following her the University . Mrs . Alley is the former Mary Ann graduation she was employ- Raleigh, '436a. They are the parents of one daugh- - 1929- VERONA I) ANOBLJR.N ed with the Federal Emer- ter. gency Administration, State Class Reunion 20th Department of Public Welfare and the U.S .O . Trav- June S, 1949 elers Aid in Oklahoma City. Mr . and Mrs. Pang- 1934- Bruce Drake, '29phys .cd, has been varsity basket- burn arc the parents of two sons, Samuel Wesley 15th Class Reunion ball and golf coach at the University for the past and John Browning. June 5, 1949 ten years. From 1929 to 1938 he served as freshman Dr. Joseph C. Edwards, '30ba, who received his Robert M. Jordan, '346a, '341,aw, Oklahoma basketball coach. Following medical degree from Harvard University, has re- City, and Mrs. Jordan have chosen the name Jeanne his graduation from the cently published several articles and studies in med- Jordan for their daughter born July 29 . University, Drake attended ical journals on heart disease and diagnostic prob- Margaret Roys Stevenson, '346a, is making her the University of Wisconsin lems . Dr. Edwards is teaching clinical medicine at home in Jacksonville, Florida, where her husband, and New York University Barnes Hospital and Washington University Medi- William Robert Stevenson, '37-'38, is minister of during the summer terms cal School, St. Louis, Missouri. the Union Congregational Church . Mr. and Mrs. working on his Master's George H. Penney, '28-'30, is employed in the Stevenson have three children, Judith Ann, Mar- Degree in Recreation. At Claim Department of the Phoenix Insurance Com- garet Elaine and William R., Jr ., Mrs. Stevenson the University of Oklahoma pany in San Francisco . was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi he was an All-American, J. Rex McGehee, '30geol, and Mrs . McGehee and Beta Kappa honorary fraternities at the University . holds three varsity letters in small daughter, Ann, recently returned to Tulsa She received the Dad's Day Award, Letzeiser Medal basketball, three in track to make their home. For the past three years they and Chi Omega Award. and two in football. He was have been living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Britt E. Clapham, '34eng, is employed as a test BRUCE DRAKE winner of the Dad's Day where Mr. McGehee has been working with the engineer with the Omaha Public Power District in Award and the Letzeiser Shell Oil Company. Omaha, Nebraska . Medal . He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Dennis Cubbage, '34Law, formerly of El Reno, Fraternity, Pe-et and Ruf-Neks . At the present time is practicing law in Cushing . Mr . and Mrs. Cub- Drake is a member of the National Basketball -1931- bage, the former Marion Bryant, '30ba, are the Rules Committee and is also on the international Velma Jones Collins, '31ba, is living in Bristow parents of four sons, Dennis, Stephen, Bill and Ken. committee of this organization . He is a member of where her husband, John L. Collins, is superin- Dr. Louis J. Kennedy, '34bs, '36mcd, and Dr. the Board of Directors of the National Basketball tcndcnt of rental farms for the Estate Land Com- James R. Kennedy, '39bs, '41med, are practicing Coaches Association . Mrs. Drake is the former Myr- pany. Mrs . Collins was a member of Mortar Board, medicine in Colorado Springs, Colorado . E. L. tle 'Posh, '30h.ec . They are the parents of two University Players, Chi Delta Phi, Kappa Kappa Kennedy, '18, is employed with a drug company daughters, Deonne and Donna. Gamma Sorority, Glee Club and was secretary of in Colorado Springs . DANIEL-DEW : The marriage of Mrs. Arteola the student council at the University . She received John A. Watters, '34eng, Norman, is employed B. Daniel, '29fa, Norman, to Charles Eugene Dew, the Bronze Lctzciscr Medal and the Dad's Day as a chemical engineer with the Gulf Corporation Foss, was a recent event. Mrs. Dew is an assistant Award. Mr. and Mrs. Collins are the parents of two in Port Arthur, Texas. professor of speech and dramatics at Central State children, Rowland Lee and J. Roger. Sammy Foster Doyle, '34ba, is making her home College, Edmond . Mr. Dew is associated with the The Rev. Clarence M. Ball, '31ba, and Mrs . Ball in Nashville, Tennessee, where her husband, Ver- J. C. Penney Company in Oklahoma City. They are are the parents of two adopted children, Max and non M. Doyle, is employed as an engineer . at home in Edmond. Louise . Reverend Ball is now serving in his third Howard W. Sooter, '29bus, is now teaching busi- year as pastor of the Centenary Methodist Church -1935- ness administration in a Mission, Texas, school . of Tulsa. Douglas R. Wood, '28-'29, is the new executive Joe E. Johnson, '35eng, is now working as a representative for Braniff International Airways in -1932- petroleum engineer for the Atlantic Refining Com- Havana. Wood is in charge of all phases of Braniff's pany in Port Arthur, Texas. operations in Cuba. He is a member of Phi Kappa Xenia B. Nail, '32ed, Oklahoma City, has been J. J. Dupy, '35eng, is employed as a chemical en- Psi Fraternity. named instructor of handicraft at the Community gineer with the Gulf Oil Corporation in Port Ar- Dr. A. M. Brixey, Okla- Workshop in Oklahoma City. thur, Texas. '296a, '406s, '43med, is Scott homa City, and Mrs. Brixey, the former Blanche Jo Neher Watters, '32, Guthrie, is teaching gen- Now employed as a chemical engineer Reeburgh, '35eng . He is associated with the Gulf Tarlton, '376a, '39Lib .sci, are the parents of a son eral science in Woodrow Wilson Junior High born August 18 in the University Hospital . School, Port Arthur, Texas. Oil Corporation in Port Arthur, Texas. Hogan, '32bs, a superintendent the William "Pat" Patterson, '35eng, is working as Mex Rodman Frates, '29ba, is making her home T. M. is for ARMCO American Arabian Oil Company and is a chemical engineer with the Texas Company in in Oklahoma City where her husband, Clifford L. Port Arthur, Texas. Frates, is employed in the insurance and bonds located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia . SPIELMAN-BARTLEY : Edith Spielman, '33ed, Frank Thomas McCoy, Jr ., '35ba, is an attorney business. Mrs. Frates is a member of Phi Beta Kap- and officer for the E. K. Hardison Seed Company pa, Mortar Board, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority, and Oklahoma City, and Herbert Bartley, Edmond, were married August 9 in the First Lutheran in Nashville, Tennessee . Until 1940 he was asso- was winner of the Letzeiser Award and the Dad's . . a ciated with the law firm of McCoy, Craig and Pear- Day Award. Church of Oklahoma City Mrs Bartley is mem- ber of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority . The couple is son in Pawhuska. He is a member of Beta Theta at home in Edmond . Pi Fraternity . Winifred Ketchum Wright, '35ba, is making her - 1930- home in Selma, California, where her husband, V. M. Garton, '30eng, '34ms, is employed as an -1933- Dr. Sydney T. Wright, has a private practice of engineer for the Gulf Oil Corporation in Port Ar- medicine . thur, Texas. James G. True, '33m.ed, is owner and manager Jackson Scovel, '35ba, certified public accountant,
OCTOBER, 1948 27
at La Grange Col- recently joined the staff of Waller and Wood- she had held a similar position has -1937'-- Georgia . house in Norfolk, Virginia . lege, La Grange, Mrs . Boyd, the '35ba, is now living in King Denzil Boyd, '37eng, and Capt . Fred Ball, '39ed, Mrs. Ball and children, Rev. A. Ervine Swife, '41h .ec, Houston, Texas, where Captain Ball Philippine Islands. former Eleanore Norman, have gone to Fort Bliss, Texas, Manila, parents of a daughter, Carole King, born the First Guided Missile Regi- ad- are the has been assigned to Elmer M. Million, '35Law, was recently April 4 . Boyd is zone manager for the Detroit family recently returned to the United associate professor at ment. The vanced to the position of Diesel Engineering Division in charge of diesel States from Korea. University School of Law . He assumed New York sales for the Gulf Coast. has been made a mem- new duties September 1 . George England, '39Law, his W. C. Moyer, '37eng, is employed as a chemical firm of Long and Levit. For the past chosen for their her of the law Cynthia Jane Hahn is the name engineer with the Texas Company in Port Arthur, year lie has been serving as an associate to the firm . William Hahn, Jr., '33-'35, and Mrs. daughter by Texas. Jake Barron, '39ma, is serving as superintendent Duncan. The little girl was born August 27 Hahn, Neville Bowers, '37ba, '376s, '39mcd, of the Durham, Oklahoma, Public Schools, and is in Duncan. Comdr. Tulsa, is a resident psychiatrist in the naval hospital teaching history. Mrs. Barron, the former Leona at Newport, Rhode Island . His brother, Faubion Stamps, '39ma, is teaching high school English -1936- Bowers, '33-'36, is employed in the War Depart- and home economics . ment censorship in Shanghai, China. Dr. Paul T. Powell, '396s, '406a, '41med, and James D. Fellers, '36ba, '36Law, Oklahoma City, Mrs . Powell, the former Lucille Elaine Hinshaw, James Cletis T. Eskew, '37ms, was recently appointed and Mrs. Fellers have selected the name Wichita '38fa, '39m .fa, Ponca City, are the parents of a born September 14 in dean of administration at Hardin College, Davidson, Jr., for their son had been head of the son, whom they have named Philip Raymond. The Hospital . Mrs. Fellers is the former Falls, Texas. Previously he St. Anthony sciences . Before going to Hardin, Mr . little boy was born June 23 in St. Mary's Hospital, Margaret Ellen Randerson, '36ba. division of another son, Eskew was professor of botany at Southwestern Ponca City . Dr . and Mrs. Powell have of Ursula old. Dr. Powell is a WENDT-PEDEN : The marriage Institute of Technology at Weatherford . Paul Hinshaw, three years Wendt, Bavaria, and Rep. Preston E. Peden, '36ba, pediatrics specialist in Ponca City . after Mrs . Mrs . Lourea Hickman, '37ed, '42m.h .ec, has '39Law, Altus, was announced recently co-ordinator in the arrived in the United States . been employed as homemaking Peden and son, Robert, Public Schools . and Robert have been living in Falls Tyler (Texas) ~1940- Mrs . Peden Stewart Winston Mark, '37ba, '39Law, is an at- Church, Virginia, for several months, during which Tomerlin, John David Miller is the name selected by George hardships under torney associated with the law firm of they have recovered from effects of Oklahoma City. Mark is a mem- E. Miller, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Miller, the for- . High and Mark in the nazi occupation ber of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and was mer Vera B. Hayes, '40bus, for their son born Au- Charles L. Follansbee, Jr., '36ba, is an attorney winner of the Dad's Day Award in 1936 . Mrs. gust 9. employed in the legal department of the Gulf Oil Mark is the former Ruth Eleanor Grimes, '37ba. Frank Hawkins, '40eng, Borger, Texas, and Snoddy, '39 Corporation in Tulsa. Previously he had been em Since July, 1947, Glenn E. Pottz, '37ba, '47ms, Mrs. Hawkins, the former Elizabeth ployed with the Midstates has been director of Oakes Tuberculosis Research h.ec, announce the birth of a son born August 4. Oil Corporation in Tulsa. Laboratory of Saint Luke's Hospital in Denver . He Ben Lovell Burdick, '40ba, is an associate attor- Mr. Follansbee received his recently had published three articles dealing with ney in the law firm of Embry, Johnson, Carwe, law degree from the Har- tuberculosis and allied chest diseases. Tolbert, and Shelton in Oklahoma City. Mr. Bur- vard Law School in 1941 . Harry N. Britten, Jr ., '37ba, is now commander click is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sig- At O.U. he was a member of the Vermund G. Hansen American Legion Post ma and Sigma Chi Fraternity. City, of Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Beta in Pharr, Texas. He is a captain in the Military In- Dr. Ben Bell, '40bs, '42med, Oklahoma kappa, Student Council telligence Reserve. was killed September 5 when the plane he was Od Phi Kappa Psi Fratern- piloting crashed near Oklahoma City. Dr. Bell, a it% - . He was business man- staff physician at Coyne Campbell Sanitarium, was ng, cr of the 1935 Sooner ~1938 an instructor at the University School of Medicine . editor of neurologist and psychiatrist. }'rarboolt and was '38bs, '40ms, Dallas, and Mrs. He was a clinical publication . In Jack W. Barbour, A. Rollow, '406a, '431ried, is in the pri- the 1936 Barbour, have chosen Linda Jean as the name for Dr . John C. L. FOLLANSnrr 1935 he was winner of the vate practice of medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas . their daughter born August 31 . of two chil- Dad's Day Award. At pres- Nev- Dr. and Mrs. Rollow are the parents Bar Associa- Beverly Ann Brehm is the name chosen by IV, and Linda Ann . ent he is a member of the American Brehm, '38, Oklahoma City and Mrs. Brehm dren, John Arch, Bar Association and the Tulsa ille M. Horace O. Poole, '40bs, is now a junior in the tion, the Oklahoma for their daughter born August 8 . County Bar Association . He also is a member of the School of Dentistry at the University of Texas, Junior C. McFerron Gittingcr, '386a, '406s, is now head Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa the Houston . of the Business Administration Department at '37-'40, Oklahoma City, was Chamber of Commerce . University of South Carolina . At O.U . he was affil- Ted M. Beveridge, Dr. Louis S. Weinstein, '36ba, Houston, Texas, elected president of the Oklahoma County chapter iated with Sigma Chi Fraternity. United and Mrs. Weinstein, the former Maxine Jekicho, of the Reserve Officers Association of the '36, announce the birth of a daughter, Jeri Lou, States last June . is making born August 4. Dr. and Mrs. Weinstein have one -1939- Margaret Davis Van Dusen, '40h .ec, other child, Paul . her home in Evanston, Illinois, where her hus- 10th Class Reunion band, A. C. Van Dusen, is employed . Mrs. Van A. G. Meyers, Jr ., '35-'36, who was president of June 5, 1949 Commerce Dusen is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar the Oklahoma City Junior Chamber of president of 1946-57, was elected vice- RABUN-ASHINHURST : The wedding of Mar- Board, Alpha Lambda Delta and was during the fiscal year Students . Steve Pennington Construction ian Rabun, Oklahoma City, and Thomas Elbert the Association of Women president of the Larmen J. Heath, '40eng, is working in the pro- Company recently. He will retain his title as general Ashinhurst, '38-'39, Oklahoma City, was an event duction department of the Stanolind Oil and Gas manager of the firm. of August 14 in the First Baptist Church. They and Mrs. Hoyt, have established a home in Oklahoma City . Company in Oklahoma City . Frederick J. Hoyt, '36ba, '37Law, Hardy, '40ba, formerly of Poteau, of a son, Christopher Alan, at Basil B. Van Schuyver, '39ed, '47ms, and Mrs. Willa Grace announce the birth is beginning her second year as city librarian in Hospital, Oklahoma City, on July 26. Van Schuyver, the former Marie Hawkins, '46h .ec, St. Anthony Cushing . Betty Hume Black, '36h .ec, is making her home are the parents of a daughter, Jan Marie, born Au- in Glendale, California, where her husband, Dr. gust 24. Mr. Van Schuyver is now on the faculty John Robert Black, is an orthopedic surgeon . At of Michigan State College of Agriculture and Ap- -'1941- O.U. Mrs. Black was a member of Alpha Lambda plied Science, East Lansing. Kappa, Mortar Board, Omicron Rene E. Du Bois, North Reading, Massachusetts, McLAURY-TAYLOR : Mary McLaury, '416us, Delta, Phi Beta Wash- Nu, Panhellenic Council, Alpha Chi Omega Soror- and Mrs. Du Bois, the former Elizabeth Patton, Snyder, and Richard White Taylor, Seattle, winner of the Gold Letzeiser Award. '396a, are the parents of a daughter, Janine Claire, ington, were married August 25 in Snyder . Mrs. ity and was Mother's Robert Bruce Howard, '36bs, '38med, is making born recently in North Reading. Taylor received both the Dad's Day and Oklahoma City where he is practicing lone Dillcy, '27ba, '46m .com .ed, has accepted a Day Awards while attending the University. She his home in member medicine. Dr. Howard is a member of Pi Kappa position as associate professor of commerce at Cen- served as president of the Y.W .C.A., was a Gamma Sigma, Mor- Alpha Fraternity. tenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana . Previously of Alpha Lambda Delta, Beta
28 SOONER MAGAZINE tar Board and Chi Omega Sorority. Mr. and Mrs. Help. Mayhall was affiliated with Kappa Alpha let in Indianapolis, Indiana. At O.U . he was affil- Taylor are at home in Seattle where Taylor is a Fraternity. They are at home in Oklahoma City. iated with Sigma Nu Fraternity . flight test engineer for the Boeing Airplane Com- JARBOE-NACCI : Amy Hill Thomas, '43ba, is making her home pany . Lavada Frances Jarboe, '42 h.ec, Norman, and 1st Lt . Vincent Nacci, Darien, in Bartlesville, where her husband, Warren M. Charles Julian Vahlberg, '41arch, '41eng, Okla- Connecticut, were married August 28 in Tokyo, Thomas, is employed as an engineer . Mrs. Thomas homa City, and Mrs . Vahlberg announce the birth Japan. Mrs. Nacci was a member of Alpha Lambda was employed in 1943 and of a daughter, whom they have named Vivian 1944 as anadvertising sales- Delta, Oikonomia, Hestia . She is working in Japan man Eleanor. The infant was born August 12 in Wesley in the office of the director of supply at Tokyo for the Bartlesville Hospital . Quartermaster Depot. Lieutenant and Mrs. Nacci E.raininer-Enterprise. At McNeill Conine, '41, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. :ire at home in Tokyo. the University she was a Conine have selected the name member of Alpha Lambda John Frederick for DOWD-MARSH BURN : In the Center Congre- their son born September 4 in Mercy Hospital . I),lta, Mortar Board, Theta gational Church, Manchester, Connecticut, Patricia Sigma Phi, Phi Beta Kappa Jack McKinney, '41, and Mrs . McKinney, Dallas, Dowd, Manchester, was married to Joseph Han- are the parents of and Delta Delta Delta So- a son, Jack Norman, born July 20. cock Marshburn, Jr., '42journ, Columbus, Ohio. rority . She served as editor George W. McCollom, '41ed, Los Angeles, died Mr. Marshburn was affiliated with Sigma Chi Fra- of the Oklahoma Daily and October 7, 1947 . Mr. McCollom had been a lan- ternity at O.U. He is the son of Dr. J. 1-1. Marsh- guage was president of Associated instructor at Laguna Beach, California, for burn, Norman, and Mrs . Marshburn . Women Students She the four years previous . He attended high school . was HILL TIIOXIAS winner of the Dad's Day in Oklahoma City. IIAMBLETON-MOORS : The marriage of Mary Amy Ruth Hamblcton, '42cd, '47m .ed, Tuttle, to James Award. At present she is Jack Lucas, '41eng, formerly of Wetumka, is liv- R. Moore, Blanchard, serving as recording secretary for the American As- ing in Highland Park, Illinois, took place recently in the where he is em- home of the bride's parents . Mrs. Moore has sociation of University Women. Mr . and Mrs. ployed as an engineer for the Club Aluminum been a member of the Oklahoma City school system for Thomas arc the parents of a 16-month old son, Company in Racine, Wisconsin . Mr. and Mrs. Lucas David Warren. Mr . Thomas is a graduate of the are a number of years. She is now on the faculty at the parents of a daughter, Sandra Carol, born Putnarn Heights grade University of Kansas . July 13. school. Moore is attending the University . Dick F. Boyd, '43eng, has been employed as a Ruby Lurlccn McKclvy, '41m .ed, has recently CORRY-ENOS : The marriage Barbara project engineer with Univis Lens Company in been named head of the commercial department of of Nan Corry, Rayville, Louisiana, to Earl Penn Enos, '42 Dayton, Ohio, for the past four months . Formerly Central High School in Oklahoma City. ba, '47Law, Shawnee, was a recent event in Ray- he had been working as a Capt . Robert Wheeler, '416a, Tulsa, spent a tour villc. They have established a home in Enid where design engineer with the of duty during the summer with the Marine Corps Mr. Enos is assistant county attorney for Pottawat- Commonwealth Engineer- Reserve Company at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, omic County . ing Company in Dayton . California. Captain Wheeler is the assistant attor- Boyd was a member of Pe- ney for the City Ray Shirley, Crowell, Texas, and Mrs . Shirley, of Tulsa. the former Virginia Lee Minnick, et, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Mu Ep- '426us, announce silon, Sigma Norman Raman, '41geol, is doing surface geo- the birth of a daughter, Karen Adele, born April 2 . ']'an, phi Eta logical work in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico Sigma, Pi Tau Sigma, for the J. Carl Lochner, '42, is now general sales man- Checkmate, Tau Omega Texas Company. ager for the Dr. William B. Morrison, '416a, is Pepper Bottling Company in Tyler, and Delta Tau Delta Fra- now living in Fort Texas. Worth, where he is writing business news for the ternity at the University . Fort Worth Press. He also edits the weekly real Jack Oden, '42geol, is party chief of a seismo- He was named outstanding estate and building page of the paper. graph crew working in the San Juan Basin of New junior ordnance cadet in Mexico for the Magnolia Petroleum Company . the University R.O.T.C. Roy Calvin, '39-'41, is now employed with the DICK 1 . Boy-n Dallas office of United Press. Recently he covered Ermine D. Lewis, '38-'42, has opened a studio and was winner of the the State Democratic Convention in Fort Worth. in Dallas, Texas, specializing in children's portraits. Dad's Day Award, Pi Tau Sigma Award, and Tau William O. Young, '41, is employed in the con- Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are the parents of a son, Ermine Beta Pi Award. He was also listed in Who's Who in struction department of the Tulsa Rig, Reel and D., II, born February 8, 1947 . American Universities and Colleges. Mrs . Boyd at- Manufacturing Company . Browning Adams, '42bs, who is connected with tended the University of Indiana . They arc the parents of W. Warren Putnam, '41ba, who is now with the the Civil Aeronautics authority, has been trans- a three-year old son, Steven Thomas. U. S. Merchant Marine, recently returned from a ferred from Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, to Sue Green, '43fa, is now an art instructor at Oklahoma City year's tour of duty in the Orient . Hopcsville, Georgia, where he and Mrs . Adams are University in charge of commercial Robert C. Wilkerson, '416s, is employed as a making their home . and industrial art. Formerly she was employed as physicist with the Celanese Research Company, assistant advertising manager for an Oklahoma City Eugene L. Kennedy, Jr., '42eng, Hennessey, is department store. Clarkwood, Texas. employed as a sales manager for the General Elec- Lt. B. R. Daughtrey, '40-'41, is stationed with tric Company in Chicago. Marilyn Harper, '43ba, recently joined the fa- the Air Force at Fort Smith, Arkansas . Lieu- culty of the drama department at Nebraska Wes- tenant and Mrs. Roger Harrison, '426us, formerly of Clinton, is leyan University, Lincoln . Daughtrey are the parents of a now in Altus daughter, Dana Lee . where he is associated with the Se- lected Investment Corporation . Mrs. Harrison Dr. James B. Eskridge, III, '436s, '45med, re- Capt . William J. Winder, '41eng, ordnance re- is the cently former Mary Kay Farr, '446s. moved from Waco, Texas, to Oklahoma City serve officer, has accepted extended active 'duty in where he is a resident physician at the University the Army and recently reported to the Red River Chris Sheedy, '39eng, is making his home in Hospital . Mrs . Eskridge is the former Margaret Arsenal, Texarkana, Texas. Captain Winder is a Yates Center, Kansas, where he is in the oil busi- Fischer, '43ba, El Reno. ness. Mr. and Mrs. Sheedy are the parents of two former University graduate assistant in mechanics. C. E. Gene Kibler, '42-'43, is in his first intern- Dr. John E. Teverbaugh, '416s, and Mrs. Tever- children, Ellen and Charles . Mr . Sheedy is a mem- ber of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity . ship at the Yale University baugh, the former Wanda Freeman, '41bs, are now School of Medicine, depart residing in New Orleans . Dr. Teverbaugh was re- ment of pathology . He re- cently released from duty with the Navy. - 1943- ceived a Medical Degree in J. Edward Jones, '40-'43, Mexico City, and Mrs. June from Johns Hopkins . While -1942- Jones have chosen the name Patricia Ruth for their a student at the Uni- daughter born August 1 . versity, he was called to Bernard J. Gechter, Arlington, Virginia, and Mrs. active duty from the re- William J. Rosenberry, Gechter, the former Ruth Janet Slesnick, '426us, '43eng, Magnolia, Arkan- serves at the age of 18. He announce the birth of a son in Garfield Hospital, sas, and Mrs. Rosenberry, the former Gladys Schlae- served for three and a half Washington, D. C. pfer, '43ba, have selected the name Susan Kay for years in World War II and LESTER-MAYHALL : The marriage of Mollie their daughter born September 7 in Magnolia . received an A . B. Degree Lee Lester, Oklahoma City, and William John May- Herschell Gene Emery, '41-'43, who graduated from Stanford University at hall, '426a, Oklahoma City, was performed in early from the Harvard Law School in September, is asso- C. E. GLM~ KiBLLI( Palo Alto in June of 1946. June in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual ciated with the law firm of Ross, McCord and Mil- He had his basic training
OCTOBER, 1948 29 Classes come and go, but the University remains-and grows. This aerial view was taken over the City of Norman looking south toward the Main Campus . On the right near the center of the picture may be seen the row on row of pre-fabricated houses of Sooner City . These furnish housing for hundreds of veteran families . In the upper left is the South Campus (former naval base) which furnishes housing, classrooms, and dozens of other facilities for the University . at Camp Maxie during the war and his family Dr . Raymond Hinshaw, '436a, '46med, Rhodes Lylith Medbery Bush, '446a, is making her home home is, at present, in Oklahoma City . Scholar at Hertford College, Oxford, England, who in Clinton where her hus- William Roy Baker, Jr ., '43bs, is an instructor in band, Houston Leslie Bush, has recently been cited for outstanding work done mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, Jr ., '41-'42, is in the furni- Oxford University last year, will have his article, Nashville, Tennessee. While at the University, at ture business . At the Uni- Baker was a member of Kappa Alpha Social Fra- "Innervation of the Iris" published in the Anatomi- versity Mrs. Bush was ac- ternity and Tau Omega. cal Journal of Great Britain in the October issue. tive in intramural sports, Margaret West Duncan, '43ba, was married Au- Dr . Hinshaw will write a series of articles for the was a member of Mortar gust 1, and is now living in Lubbock, Texas. Her publication. He spent part of his summer vacation Board, Phi Sigma, Wom- husband is William Duncan . Mrs. Duncan is em- visiting historical places in England. Returning to en's Athletic Association and the Camera Club . She ployed by the Social Security Administration . Southern England in time to attend the Olympics, Second Lt . Tommye J. Duncan, '43journ, has served as president of her Dr . Hinshaw then went to Paris, France, to spend been transferred from Brooke General Hospital, sorority, Pi Beta Phi, and several days sightseeing. Dr. Hinshaw is the son of San Antonio, to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washing- was treasurer of Panhellen- Dr. J. R. Hinshaw, '196s, '21med, and Mrs. Hin- ton, D. C. He will take a five months post graduate LYLITII BUSH ic . She was winner of the course in occupational therapy for neuro-psychiatric shaw, the former Lucille Whitenack, '20ba, '21ma. Dad's Day Award, and was patients . On completion of the course, he will be listed in Who's Who In American Universities and assigned to another Army general hospital . ~1944- Colleges. Mr . and Mrs. Bush have one daughter, Mrs. Mildred Morrel Linke, '43bs, is living in Beverly, two years old. Spanish Fork, Utah, and is the mother of a son, 5th Class Reunion Calvin W. Hendrickson, '446us, '48Law, and Harold Robert, born August 6. June 5, 1949 Mrs. Hendrickson, the former Frances Hewitt, '47
30 SOONER MAGAZINE
ba, announce the birth of a son, Mark Hewitt, born Kappa, Alpha Lambda Delta, Kappa Alpha Theta is now serving as financial advisor for Kappa Kappa September 2 in Norman . Mr. Hendrickson is now Sorority. She was listed in Who's Who in American Gamma. Her husband, Thomas George Braddock, associated with the law firm of Pierce, Rucker, Universities and Colleges. Miss Fitzwater was win- '47bus, is a senior in the School of Law at O.U. Mock, Fabor and Duncan in Oklahoma City. ner of the Choral Club Bracelet, which is a four- Samuel Herbert Miller, '46eng, has been work- Gerald A. Conger, '44eng, and Mrs. Conger, are year award, and the Dad's Day Award. ing as an area petroleum engineer with the Gulf the parents of a son born January 15 in Ann Arbor, Bobby G. Thacker, '45eng, is employed as a me- Oil Corporation in Daketta, Texas, for the past Michigan . Conger has been appointed instructor in chanical engineer in the re- four months. He has been associated with the firm the department of metal processing at the Univer- finery administration of the for 28 months. sity of Michigan . Creole Petroleum Corpora- Deryle K. Allen, '46m .ed, Norman, and Mrs. tion in Caracas, Venezuela . Allen, the former Jean Smith, '47journ, announce BRILEY-WHITWORTH : In the Ridglea Pres- While at the University . Mr . byterian Church of Fort the birth of a son, Boyd Kenneth,-on August 15 at Worth, Texas, Helen Briley Thacker was a letterman in became the bride of Forrest Kinzer Whitworth, '44, the Norman Municipal Hospital . Allen is now em- track, was a member of ployed as vocational counselor at the Veterans Ad- Seminole . They have established a home in Rich- Tau Beta Pi, SigmaTau, rnond, Virginia, Tau ministration Guidance Center at the University . where Whitworth is attending Omega, Pi Tau Sigma, St. Union Theological Seminary. Kenneth C. Anderson, '46ms, is now employed Pat's Council and L.K .O .T. as a geologist with the Anderson-Prichard Oil Cor- BROWDER-McDANIEL . : The marriage of Ai- Mr Thacke r attended the poration in Midland, Texas. leen Browder, Oklahoma City, to Durward Mc- University as a student in Daniel, '44ba, '44Law, was solemnized August 2 the Navy V-12 program . In William W. Weese, '46com .ed, is employed in Stanolind Oil in Tulsa. They have established a home in Okla- B. G. Tf1ACKr t 1945 he received the Dad's the accounting department of the and homa City. Day Award and was se- Gas Company in Tulsa. lected the best all-round male student on the earn- William M. Spatts, '46eng, is now employed as pus. a salesman with a road machinery firm in Dallas, -1945- Bonne Knight, '45ba, assumed her duties Sep- Texas. tember 4 as head resident of one of the dormitories Clement C. Constant, Jr ., '466s, is employed in Jack Davis, '45, recently toured Europe and at Indiana University . the Tulsa general office of the Stanolind Oil and ended up with a job in the state department. He Gas Company . He is assigned to the manufactur- is employed by the American Embassy in Paris and The Stanolind Oil and Gas Company has etrr- ployed Richard F. Lemon, '45eng, in the producing ing department . is doing work in connection with organization of department of the company in Wink, Texas. Richard Lyle Crawford, '46eng, was recently the European Relief program . married to Miss Patricia Maxine Davis, '48, in a C. R. Gates, '45eng, and George Grogan, '45eng, double-ring ceremony held in the Epworth Meth- are both working for Convair in Fort Worth, Texas, -1946- odist Church, Oklahoma City . designing airplanes . Both graduated from Massa- Mr . Sidney Schiff, Jr ., '466us, and his wife, the chusetts Institute of Technology in June . RICE-AVEN : Aileen Merrell Rice, '46bus, Okla- former Helen Starry, '44ba, announced the birth Bill Akers, '45eng, graduated in June from Mas- homa City and Cordell, became the bride of Wil- of a son which they have named Michael Frank. sachusetts Institute of Technology and is now work- liam Ralph Aven III, Oklahoma City, in a cere- Mr . Edwin Schilde, '38ba, '46ma, is the director ing for the United States Engineers in Mississippi mony performed September 2 in Oklahoma City. of instrumental music in the Cushing High School, designing earth dams and levees. Mrs. Aven is a member of Delta Gamma Sorority. Cushing, Oklahoma . She has worked for the past two years for Braniff Miss Frances Wright, '46ma, is an assistant pro- J. T. Harley, Jr ., '456s, is selling drilling equip- Airways in Oklahoma City . The couple has estab- ment in Dallas and was recently married in Cali- fessor of history at Cameron Junior College, Law- lished a home in College Station, Texas, where Mr. ton . fornia. Aven is a senior in Texas A. and M. College. in Elise R. Cornell, '466s, is an associate public ac- J. E. Windham, '45eng, is married and living SMITH-ALLEN : Barbara Elizabeth Smith, '46 Public Accounting Kingsville, Texas, where he works for Humble Oil. countant in the K. B. Cornell ed, Oklahoma City, and Robert William Allen, '48 office, Clinton, Oklahoma-a position she has held BOLES-GRAYBILL : Billee Zach Boles, '45ed, ba, also of Oklahoma City, were married August for five years. She is recording secretary of the Ardmore, became the bride of Dr. Ray Bryson 19 in the First Unitarian Church . They have estab- Business and Professional Women's Club and Graybill, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, August 21 in the lished a home in Norman . treasurer of the American Tax Association. Ardmore First Christian Church. Mrs . Graybill is WILDMAN-MORGAN : The marriage of Betty a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Dr. and Lou Wildman, '46ba, Oklahoma City, to Phillip Mrs. Graybill have established a home in Norfolk, Edward Morgan, '47-'48, Tecumseh, was an event -1947- Virginia, where Dr. Graybill is stationed with the of September 2 in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas . Mrs. Edwards, the for- Navy Medical Corps. Gene Edwards, '476a, and Mrs. Morgan, is a member of Delta Gamma Sorority and mer Elaine Johnson, '46ba, are the parents of a son Elizabeth Lees, '45journ, Oklahoma City, sailed Alpha Lambda Delta. Morgan, who is now attend- born during the summer . Edwards is a student in from New York September 11 to give a series of ing the University School of Medicine, is a member the University School of Law . lectures on journalism and higher education in 11 of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Phi Sigma, Phi DIAZ-BRALY: Margarita Diaz, Santurce, Puerto European countries under auspices of the Inter- Beta Pi and Scabbard and Blade. Rico, and Dr. M. K. Braly, '47med, Buffalo, were national Association of Correspondence and Ex- Ann Hardy Braddock, '46ba, is employed on the married recently in the First Baptist Church of Tul- change . She will be abroad six months . University campus as secretary in the department of sa . The couple are at home in Mooreland where BOURNE-SNOW : Nuptial vows were solemn- English . She has lrcld the position since September Dr. Braly is affiliated with the Northwest Commu- ized September 11 in the First Baptist Church of 1 . Formerly Mrs. Braddock nity Hospital . Woodward for Martha Margaret Bourne, '45ba, and had been employed as sec- ALEXANDER-REYNOLDS : The wedding of Wayne Bruce Snow, '42ba, '47Law, Oklahoma retary to Dean Arthur B. Helen Jeanette Alexander, '46-'47, Tulsa, and Fred City. While at O.U. Mrs . Snow was president of Adams, secretary to person- Samuel Reynolds, '47eng, Norman, was solemnized Theta Sigma Phi, honorary professional fraternity nel manager of the Shell in early June in Tulsa. At the University she was for women in journalism, and was named in Who's Oil Company, Inc ., Tulsa, affiliated with Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Rey- Who Among Students in American Universities and secretary to president nolds is a member of Sigma Gamma Epsilon and and Colleges. She served as editor of The Oltla- of Mid-Continent Pipe Line Sigma Tau, honorary fraternities, and Kappa Al- honra Daily, student newspaper, and was selected Company in Tulsa. Mrs. pha Fraternity. Mr . and Mrs. Reynolds have estab- for membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Snow is a Braddock is a member of lished a home in New Orleans, where Mr. Reynolds member of Phi Delta Phi, honorary scholastic law Chi Delta Phi, Phi Beta is an engineer with the Humble Oil Company . fraternity. He is now engaged in the private prac- Kappa, Mortar Board and RODECAPE-LONERING: In a ceremony read tice of law in Oklahoma City, where the couple is Alpha Lambda Delta. She August 14 in Baytown, Texas, Annelle Rodccape at home . ANN H. BRADDOCK served as treasurer of Kap- became the bride of Eugene H. Loncring, '47eng. Bonita Fitzwater, '45ba, is employed as director pa Kappa Gamma Sorority Loncring was a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma of social activities at Southern Methodist University, for two years. She received the Mortar Board Tau, and Alpha Chi Sigma honorary fraternities at Dallas, Texas. While attending the University, Miss Award to Outstanding Freshman, Mortar Board O.U . They are at home in Baytown. Fitzwater was a member of Mortar Board, Phi Beta Scholarship Award and the Dad's Day Award. She Eldon Hatfield, '47bus, Oklahoma City, and Mrs.
OCTOBER, 1948 3 1 Hatfield have chosen the name James Frederick for Roland F. Champion, '47ba, assumed duties Oc- personnel department of the Oklahoma Gas and their son who was born September 9 in St. Anthony tober 1 as assistant employment manager of the Electric Company's Oklahoma City office . She is a Hospital . Carter Oil Company in Tulsa. former member of Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority. EIFERT-BURGERT : In a ceremony solemnized John R. Murray, '47eng, '47eng, was transferred Evelyn E. Keil, '47m.ed, is employed as an ele- in the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren July 1 from Midland, Texas, to Houston where he mentary school music teacher in the Clinton Public Church, Enid, Helen Louise Eifert became the is working as a petroleum engineer for the Ohio Schools . bride of Dr. Eran Omer Burgert, Jr., '47med, Colo- Oil Company. rado Springs, formerly of Enid . The couple is at Glynn C. DeHaas, '47eng, is employed as a sales -1948- home in Rochester, Minnesota, where Dr. Burgert engineer with the Rockwell Manufacturing Com- is a fellow in pediatrics at Mayo Foundation . ROLLINS-WASSON : Ramona Lou Rollins, '48 pany in Tulsa. com .ed, Moore, and Kenneth Ray Wasson, '48eng, ADAMS-POWELL : The wedding of Kathleen Carolyn W. Steiger, '47ba, is employed as secre- Chickasha, were married June 11 in the Crown Mississippi, to John Cole- Adams, '47h.ec, Gulfport, tary to the personnel department of Omar Incor- Heights Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. Mr. man Powell, Jr., '47-'48, Sulphur, was a recent porated in Omaha, Nebraska . and Mrs . Wasson have established a home in Okla- event in the home of the bride's parents . Mrs. Henry R. Hansen, '47m .ed, formerly Sorority. Mr. of Norman, homa City . Powell is a member of Delta Gamma is now serving as co-ordinator of elementary super- ESCOE-PARRISH : Lila Escoe, '48ed, became the with Sigma Chi Fraternity. Powell is affiliated visors and consultant in audio-visual education in bride of David D. Parrish, Oklahoma City, in a Duane L. Blake, '46-'47, and Mrs. Blake, the Stanislaus County in California . In August he re- ceremony performed in the home of the bride's sis- former Margaret Tate, '476us, announce the birth ceived the Doctor's Degree from Stanford Univer- ter . Mr. and Mrs. Parrish have established a home of a son, Richard Duane, born August 2 at Mary sity. in Oklahoma City . Blake is a Greeley Hospital in Ames, Iowa. Mr. Edward H. Molen, '47ba, '48Law, is ADAMS-HOWARD : Solemnized August 8 in agriculture at Iowa State Uni- associated senior in vocational with the law firm of Reynolds and Ridings in Okla- Oklahoma City was the wedding of Betty May versity. homa City. Adams, '48mus .ed, Cyril, and William Lowry Bynum, '47bs, formerly of Henryetta, is Patricia Frank Howard, '43chem, '48ms, Oklahoma City. Mrs . now a special instructor in zoology at the Univer- A. Sewell, Jr ., '476us, is employed as a banker in Clinton . Howard was a member of the University band and sity of Oklahoma. She is a member of Alpha Lamb- orchestra, Sigma Alpha Iota and Tau Beta Sigma. da Delta, Alpha Epsilon Delta, Phi Sigma, Sigma Roy M. Bell, '47ba, is currently serving aboard Howard is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Delta Gamma Sorority and Mortar Board. Miss the U. S. S. Coral Sea, one of the Navy's newest Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma and Pi Mu Epsilon. Mr. and Bynum served as president of the Association of and largest aircraft carriers. Mrs. Howard are at home in Oxford, England, Women Students, president of Y.W.C.A . and was The former Miss Jewel Jeanne Vinson, '46-'47, where Mr. Howard is attending Oxford University a coed counselor. She was listed in Who's Who In was recently married to Robert Webster Berry. Fol- as a Rhodes Scholar . American Colleges and Universities, received the lowing a trip to Grand Lake, Colorado, the cou- DITSON-LLOYD : Helen Elizabeth Ditson, '48 Dad's Day Award and the Mortar Board Award. ple will make their home in Norman. ba, Joplin, Missouri, became the bride of James Mrs. Lelia Moore, '47m .ed, Oklahoma City, is Robert Slonneger, '476s, is employed as an in- Benton Lloyd, '47-'48, Oklahoma City, in a cere- teaching in Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, structor in mechanical engineering at the Univer- mony performed in Joplin. Mrs. Lloyd is a member Port Arthur, Texas. sity of Texas, Austin . of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, Mortar Board, Uni- Maxine Grissom, '47m.ed, director of field serv- Earl Foster, Jr., '40ba, '47I,aw, has been named versity Players, El Modjii, and Kappa Delta Pi, na- ice for the Oklahoma Congress of Parents and to join the city attorney's staff in charge of police tional education society . Lloyd is a member of Teachers, attended the Parent-Teacher leadership court matters in Oklahoma City . Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. He is a junior in the workshop of the National Congress of Parents and Charles J. Murphy, '47ba, has been employed by College of Business Administration at the Univer- Teachers in Evanston, Illinois in August . the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company to work in sity . Tom Smith, '47Law, was recently elected presi- their manufacturing department, Tulsa general of- PHILLIPPE-SPRADLIN : Margaret Lee Phillip- clent of the Oklahoma City Junior Chamber of fice . pe, Oklahoma City and Hallsville, Missouri, became Commerce . Mrs. Bruce A. Scott, formerly Miss Kathryn the bride of Virgil Spradlin, '48geol, Oklahoma Gene Gregston, '46-'47, sports editor of the Fisher, '47ba, and her husband announced the City, in a ceremony read August 14 in the First Odessa (Texas) American since June, 1947, has re- birth of a daughter whom they have named Teresa Presbyterian Church. The couple is at home in Nor- signed to accept a position on the sports staff of Ann Scott. man where Mr . Spradlin is doing work on his Mas- The Reporter-News in Abilene, Texas. He assumed Kenneth V. Doughty, '446s, '47ms, is employed ter's Degree in geology. his new duties September 1 . in the manufacturing department of the Tulsa gen- BAKER-SANFORD : The wedding of Mary Thomas Mark Campbell, Jr., '47ba, Atlanta, eral office, Stanolind Oil and Gas Company . Clyde Baker, '47-'48, Hobart, and Edwin William Georgia, has returned to New Haven, Connecticut, Miss Elizabeth Kitchens, '476s, has moved to Sanford, '48eng, also of Hobart, was an event of for his second year as a student in the School of Tulsa where she will teach the first grade work in August 12. Mrs. Sanford is a member of Pi Beta Divinity at Yale University . During the summer the public schools . She received a Master's Degree Phi Sorority . Sanford is attending the University months he worked with the Peachtree Christian in elementary education this August . where he is working on his Master's Degree . He is Church in Atlanta in the vacation church school . FARWELL-DODDS : Before a white arch decor- affiliated with Kappa Alpha Fraternity . At O.U . Campbell was a member of Sigma Alpha ated with fern, flowers and white satin ribbon, the WALTERS-PETERS : Freda Walters, '48, Prague, Epsilon Fraternity. nuptial vows of Miss Marjorie Grace Dodds, '47ba, became the bride of Quinton Peters, '48journ, Since October, 1947, Joe A. Laird, '47ms, has and Kit Carson Farwell, Jr ., a student at the Uni- Hominy, in a ceremony performed August 5 in been working as an independent geologist and versity, were read in the Ada First Presbyterian Norman . Mr. Peters is news editor of the McAlester petroleum engineer and vice-president of the Laird Church, late in August. Following a wedding trip Democrat . Lumber Company in Houston, Texas. to Monterrey, Mexico, the couple will be at home GRESHAM-PHILLIPS : The marriage of Gene- O. K. Daniels, '476us, formerly of Oklahoma in Norman where both will resume studies at the vieve Gresham, '48ba, Guthrie, to John A. Phillips, City, is now associated with the Hartford Casualty University . '486us, Chandler, was an event of August 7 in the and Idemnity Corporation as an auditor in Hous- Bob Harris, '47eng, was chosen to play a leading St. Mary Church of Guthrie . Mrs. Phillips is a ton, Texas. role in the first acts of the three famous operas member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority. Mr. Phil- Carolyn Carter, '47ba, is associated with the Lit- Carmen, Pagliacci, and Lucia, at the National Mu- lips is affiliated with Delta Upsilon Fraternity . Both tle Rock, Arkansas, Associated Press Bureau . sic Camp, Interlochen, Michigan . At present, he is Mr . and Mrs . Phillips are enrolled in the Univer- Jackie Tracy, '47ba, is living in Little Rock, Ar- in Chicago studying with Barre Hill who is in his sity . She is doing graduate work in education and kansas, where she is employed with the State Wel- second season as head of the voice and opera de- he is enrolled in the School of Law. fare Department . She has done graduate work at partments of the camp. Harris is studying at the WARD-BOULTON : Grace Ward, '486a, Okla- O.U. and Tulane University. American Conservatory of Music. homa City, became the bride of Don Carroll Boul- Donald Bond, '47m.ed, formerly high school Billy G. Skillman, '47fa, has completed his Mas- ton, '47-'48, Oklahoma City, in a ceremony per- principal at Seymour, Texas, is now principal of ters Degree in a New York school and is now teach- formed August 14 in the Crown Heights Church . Travis Elementary School in Mineral Wells, Texas. ing speech at Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas . Mrs. Boulton was a member of the Y.W.C.A. cabi- Vivian M. Clark, '47m.ed, is a member of the Lily Frances Stafford, '196a, '47m.ed, is a teach- net, Iota Sigma Pi and Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. teaching faculty at Lee School in Oklahoma City. er of physical sciences and head of the science de- Mr . Boulton is a senior in the College of Business She has been elected as recording secretary of Eta partment in Lawton High School . Administration and is affiliated with Delta Upsilon Conclave, Kappa Kappa Iota Sorority. Mary Jane Conley, '476s, is a stenographer in the Fraternity. They are at home in Oklahoma City.
32 SOONER MAGAZINE
CARLSON-JOHNSON: Jeannette MargaretCarl- Graves, Norman, to Paul Winston Rice, '48eng, is a tnetnber of Kappa Alpha Fraternity. They are son, '48ed, Tulsa, became the bride of Robert Al- Lake Ozark, Missouri, was September 4 in Nor- at home in Norman where Mr. Conrad is attending fred Johnson, Norman, August 28 in the Tulsa man . Mr. and Mrs . Rice have established a home the University School of Law . Christ the King Church . Mrs. Johnson is a member in New Haven, Connecticut, where he is doing ROCK-GRANT: Jacqueline Louise Rock, '48ba, of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. They are at home in Still- graduate work in civil engineering at Yale Uni- Oglesby, Illinois, became the bride of Howard water where Johnson is attending Oklahoma A. versity. Tobey Grant, Marblehead,Massachusetts,onAugust and M. College . SEREX-CLEMENTS : The wedding of Mrs. Lora 21 in the Episcopal Church at La Salle, Illinois . SIMMERING-SCHULTZ : A home has been Burks Serex, Norman, and Edward D. Clements, They are at home in Norman where Mr. Grant is established in Norman by Robert Allen Schultz, '48eng, Waurika, was solemnized September 3 in a junior in the School of Architectural Engineering . Norman '486us, Shattuck, and Mrs. Schultz, the former . Mr. and Mrs. Clements have established Robert Schmidt, '48bus, Wichita, Kansas, and Vehna Ruth Simmering, Garber . The wedding was a home in Sweetwater, Texas, where he is associ- Mrs. Schmidt are the parents of a daughter, whom ated with the an event of August 22 in the Garber Evangelical Stanolind Oil Company . they have named Kathy Jean . The infant was born Lutheran Church. Mr. Schultz has resumed his DODSON-TARPLEY : Solemnized in the First August 11 . work on a Master's Degree at O.U. where he is Presbyterian Church of Muskogee was the mar- Gerald M. Bauer, '48bus, recently passed the affiliated with Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity; Delta riage of Jo Ann Dodson, '486a, and Francis Marion examination for certified public accountants in Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity, and Tarpley, Jr., '47-'48, Oklahoma City. Mrs. Tarpley Oklahoma . He is employed by T. Dwight Wil- Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity . is a member of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and the liams and Company in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Sequoyah Club . Tarpley is a student in the College Mrs. Bauer is the former Mary Jeanne McCann, HELLAR-BROWN : Solemnized in early June of Business Administration at O.U . '43ba. was the marriage of Phyllis Hellar, "47-'48, and Bill Van Eaton, '48bus, and Mrs. Van Eaton, the Bonnie Zweifel, '48m .ed, Shawnee, assume([ Russell L. Brown. '48bus, both of Oklahoma City. former Joyce Howard, '44, are the duties in September as executive director of Camp Mrs. Brown is a parents of a member of Delta Delta Delta So- son, Bryan Martin, born July 27 in Tulsa. Mr . Van Fire Girls in the Greater Seminole Area . Her po- rority. Brown is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Eaton is employed in the personnel department of sition as executive director is primarily supervisory, They are at home in Oklahoma City. the Carter Oil Company . and it involves guidance and personnel work. WEBBER-PEREBOOM : The marriage of Elaine STUMP-ARMOR : Mary Ann Stump the Orville F. Meyer, '48eng, has been employed became with Webber, '486a, Mountain Park, to Eugene G. Pere- bride of James Burton Armor, '48bus, September the Gulf Oil Refining Company in Port Ar- boom, '48eng, Helena, was an event of September 4 in the Wesley Methodist Church, Oklahoma City. thur, Texas, since last June . Lester Reynolds, has plans 3 in the First Baptist Church of Norman . Mrs. Mr. Armor attended Duke University, Durham, '48Law, announced Pereboomn is employed as a receptionist at the Uni- North Carolina, and is affiliated with Phi Delta to open a law office in Norman. Reynolds was ad- mitted to the Oklahoma Bar in March after pass- versity Press. Mr. Pereboom is doing graduate work Theta Fraternity at O.U . They have established a in electrical engineering. home in Oklahoma City . ing examinations in February . Bill Woodruff, '48eng, formerly of Norman, and POST-HENTON BROWN-HEETER : : The marriage of Myra Post, Norma Loraine Brown, '48 Mrs . Woodruff, the former Bonita Williams, '48bs, '48fa, Oklahoma City, to Rossler Hampton Henton, ba, Tulsa, became the bride of William Haynes have established a home in Odessa, Texas. '47-'48, Rush Springs, took place recently in the Heeter, '47-'48, Shawnee, September 3 in the Rose Carl B. Morrell, '48bus, Lexington, is employed chapel home of the bride's parents . Mr. Henton is a stu- of Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Tulsa. as an accountant with the Continental Oil Com- dent in the University School of Medicine and is a Mrs. Heeter is a member of Delta Delta Delta So- pany in Ponca City . Formerly he had worked as a rority. Mr. Heeter member of Phi Chi medical fraternity. attended Oklahoma Military bookkeeper with the Norman Lumber Company. Academy, Claremore ; Texas A. and SMITH-HARRISON : Margaret Sue M., and is now Donald 1) . Hampton, '48eng, is employed as a Smith, '48 a senior in the School of Geology at O.U . He is journ, Guthrie, became the bride of John Deverdux, chemical engineer in cellophane production with affiliated journ, Guthrie, became the bride of John D. Harri- with Sigma Nu Fraternity. the E. I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Inc., son, '47-'48, Oklahoma City, in a ceremony solemn- MUNGER-CONRAD : Doris Catherine Munger, in Clinton, Iowa. ized September 2 at the First Methodist Church of '47-'48, and Franz Cecil Conrad, Jr ., '48ba, Okla- Doris L. Gillespie, '48journ, is employed with Guthrie . Mrs . Harrison is a member of Kappa Kap- homa City, were married September 3 in the home the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company with the tax pa Gamma Sorority; Theta Sigma Phi, honorary of the bride's parents in Enid . Mrs. Conrad is a department in Tulsa. journalism fraternity for women, and Gamma Al- member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority . Mr . Conrad Nona J. Markland, '48ba, is working in the ac- pha Chi, honorary advertising fraternity for women. Harrison is a member of Phi Gamma Delta Fratern- ity. He is a senior at the University where he is majoring in radio journalism . They have estab- lished a home in Oklahoma City. . REID-BALL : In a ceremony performed recently in Alfalfa, Nella Jean Reid became the bride of Glen Chester Ball, '48pharm, Enid . They are at home in Oklahoma City. KIESOW-LAWSON : Betty Louise Kiesow, '48 fa, Wagoner, and James Wilks Lawson, '47-'48, "Tulsa, were married recently in the Methodist Church of Wagoner. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson are at home in Norman where he is a junior in the School TO of Pharmacy. O'NEILL-BLECKLEY : Mary Helen O'Neill, '48 GUARANTEE bs, Enid, and Harris Clayton Bleckley, '47-'48, Woodward, were married in St. Francis Xavier fiPE,flfllYffl ..: " : Catholic Church at Enid . Mr. and Mrs . Bleckley are at home in Norman where he is a senior in the College of Business Administration and Mrs . Bleck- ley is doing graduate work. HUBER-HOUSER : Solemnized September G in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was the wedding of Carolyn Jean Huber, '48h.ec, and Arthur Pryor Houser, both of Oklahoma City. Mr. and Mrs. Houser are at home in Stillwater where he is a junior at Oklahoma A. and M. College . GRAVES-RICE : The marriage of Dorothy Jean
OCTOBER, 1948 33 O. U.--In Step With the Times
CLASSROOM BUILDING FINE ARTS ADDITION RESEARCH INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY PRESS GIRLS DORMITORY ENGINEERING ADDITION (One of four Units) counting department of the Stanolind Oil and Gas Working in the exploration department of the Henry H. Montgomery, '48ba, '48Law, is asso- Company in Tulsa. Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Wichita Falls, ciated with Tom Pace in the practice of law in Harold L. Ambler, '48gcol, is employed by the Texas, is Lavoice H. Carroll, '48geol . Purcell . Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in the Exploration Leonard Blood, '48geol, is employed with the Department at Oklahoma City. Blackwell Oil and Gas Company in Cushing . Almon E. Henson, '48Law, recently opened an
34 SOONER MAGAZINE office for the practice of law in Shawnee. campus basketball star, and Pauline Cook, for three REEDER-ADAMS : Miss Neta Fern Reeder, '48 G. H. "Herb" True, Jr ., '48journ, is employed by years a member of the cheerleading group, were bs, and Mr . Robert James Adams, a student in en- the Watts-Payne advertising agency in Tulsa. While married late in August. The ceremony took place gineering at the University, were recently married at the University True was winner of the Gordon in the McFarlin Memorial Methodist Church, Nor- in the First Christian Church of C(xwperton . They Fuller Memorial Oratorical Award. Mrs. True is man. After a wedding trip to Missouri, the will make their home in Norman . the former Betty Ann McMahon, '48ba, Tulsa . couple are at home in Nieman Apartments, Nor- LAURENCE-RUMMELL : Miss Betty man. Both are Laurence, Permanent citations for the Distinguished Flying juniors in the business school and '48fa, and Mr. Willis Ballentine Rummell were Cross, Air plan to continue their education . Medal and Gold Stars in lieu of second married recently in Winfield, Kansas . Mr. Rum- and third Air Medals have been sent to Lt. (jg) BRICE-SWAN: Miss Carolyn Brice, '48ba, be- mell will receive a B. A. Degree in January from Andrew J. Gravitt, Jr ., '486s, U.S.N.R. Navy Sec- came the bride of Russell Swan, a student at the the University and the couple plan to make their retary John L. Sullivan cited Lieutenant Gravitt University, early in August. The wedding was held home in Oklahoma City . for "heroism, extraordinary and meritorious in the First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, and Fred A. Huston, '48ba, is the Western Okla- achievements" as second pilot of a bomber in Patrol the couple have established a home in Oklahoma homa Squadron 13, operating representative for the Dierks Lumber and from advanced bases in City. Coal Company of the central Pacific against enemy forces. Gravitt Kansas City, Missouri. The following graduates of the class of 1948 Joe D. Bruton, '48eng, is employed by the Texas spent four months of his 15 months overseas in the have been employed by the Stanolind Oil and Gas Okinawa campaign Pipe Line Company, Wichita Falls, Texas. and took part in three major Company : Royce A. Coffin, '486s, accounting de- Bryan campaigns in the Pacific war. Martin is the name chosen by Billy Van partment, Tulsa General Office; Glenn M. White, Eaton, '48bus, and his wife, Tulsa, for their son Ralph R. Cole, '48bus, is director of research '486s, manufacturing department, Tulsa General born July 27. for the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce . Office ; Mark L. Douglass, '486s, exploration de- HERNDON-WELLS : The marriage of Robert E. Gaston M. Broyles, '48bus, is partment, Shreveport, Louisiana ; Raymond K . the new office man- Herndon, '48med, and Miss Shirley Wells, Gotcbo, ager of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce . Freelin, '48ba, exploration department, Stamford, was an event of June 26. The couple Texas; Curtis E. Turney, have estab- His wife is the former Betty Jane Swanson, '446a, '486s, exploration de- lished a home in St. Louis, Missouri, where who partment, Anadarko; and Howard Dr. served as Dean Meacham's office assistant dur- G. Moyer, '486s, Herndon will serve an internship at St. Luke's Hos- ing school and as Dean Couch's secretary after exploration department, San Antonio. Five grad- pital. graduation . uates were employed in the producing department Betty Brown Robertson, '446us, and her hus- Raymond Balyeat, who completed his premedi- by Stanolind . They are: Eleanor S. Moorman, Okla- homa City; Thomas F. Kendrick, Oklahoma City ; band, Keith A. Robertson, '486s, arc the proud par- cal work last June, is enrolled in the University of ents of a (laughter born August 11, at Florence Pennsylvania Medical School . A daughter, Susan Wayne E. Swearingen, Oklahoma City ; Richard M. Barber, '486s, Zenith, Kansas ; and Thomas A. Nightingale Hospital, Dallas . They have named Ann, was born July 22 . the child Mary Allen Robertson. KILLAM-COURTY: Miss Billie Delores Killam, Colbert, '486s, Wewoka, Oklahoma. '48ba, was married recently to Paul MOORS-BARQUERA : Stanley Leigh Moore, Charles Dawson, '48bm, was chosen to play a Jack Courty of leading role in Windsor, Missouri . The couple plan to make their Jr., '486s, was married to Miss Clara Barquera, San three scenes from great operas at the National Music Camp, Interlochen, home in Norman after a wedding trip which took Jose, Costa Rica, August 6. The wedding took place Michigan . them to in Almirante, Panama, where Mrs. Moore is serv- At the moment, he is in Chicago studying with Rockaway Beach, Missouri, and to Kan- Barre Hill, sas City. Mr. Courty will resume his studies at the ing as a nurse. Mr . Moore is employed as an en- head of the voice and opera department University . gineer by the United Fruit Company in Panama . of the camp, at the American Conservatory of Mu- sic. Margaret Eleanor Adams, '486s, is the newest Fred Cobb, Jr., '48eng, and his wife have moved member of the staff of the Y.W.C.A., Oklahoma to Bellefourche, South Dakota, where Mr. Cobb SALYER-MORRISON : Miss Eleanor Louise Sal- City. She is the daughter of Dr. Arthur B. Adams, will be associated with his father-in-law, John Frye, yer, '48ba, became the bride of Bruce Fleming Mor- former dean of the College of Business Administra- in the furniture and hardware business . rison, '48ba, late in August in Cambridge, Massa- tion at the University, and Mrs. Adams. She will CLARK-SNYDER: Miss Margaret Clark, '48, chusetts . Mrs. Morrison was a member of Delta teach swimming and gymnasium classes and is to became the bride of Floyd W. Snyder, Albuquer- Delta Sorority and Mr . Morrison, after spending be married October 1 to Sidney Upsher, '476a, que New Mexico, in the First Presbyterian Church, three years in the Army, is a first year student in '48Law . Bartlesville . The couple will establish a home in the Harvard Law School . The couple have made Raymond S. Byrun, '48ba, Modesto, California, Albuquerque . their home in Cambridge . was appointed as an assistant business and dormi- Richard P. Chambers, '48ma, and his wife have David Webster Sevier, '48ba, plans to return to tory secretary on the staff of the Oklahoma City established a residence in Seattle, Washington, school for graduate work. During World War II, Y.M.C.A. Byrun served four years in the Navy where Chambers will be a member of the faculty of he served as a sergeant in the Army Air Force. during World War II . the University of Washington and will complete Alfred J. Ashton, Jr ., '48Law, Tulsa, has been St. Luke's Methodist Church, Oklahoma Citf, requirements for his Doctor's Degree in Sociology . assigned to the post of assistant judge advocate at was the scene early in August for the marriage of UNZNER-HILLERMAN : At anuptial Mass in St. Fairbanks, Alaska, since May . He will be there for David Scruton, '48ba, and Miss Myrna Ruppert. Benedict's Catholic Church, Shawnee, Miss Marie approximately two years. Mrs. Ashton and their Their plans called for them to go to St. Louis where Unzner, '48ba, became the bride of Anthony G. son have recently joined him in Fairbanks . Mr. and Mr. Scruton will be a graduate assistant in anthro- Hillerman, '48ba. The couple will reside in Borger, Mrs. Ashton were housemaster and hostess at Irving pology at Washington University . Texas, where Mr . Hillerman is on the staff of the House for three years. He was a member of Phi PRYOR-COOK: Kenneth Pryor, well-known Borger News-Herald . Delta Phi, law fraternity. r.
Visit UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
i (ALUMNI) ASSOCIATION SKYMERE FARM'S WAGON WHEEL and receive Before and after the game O SOONER MAGAZINE Monthly 4 miles west of Norman on Highway 74 I 1 Year PHONE 4141 FOR RESERVATIONS Life . 80.00 Oklahoma Styled Country Club Fine Foods and Dancing N ($25 down, $5 per quarter) J '
OCTOBER, 1948 35