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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 .