Time : July . Temperature : 100 degrees . Situation: romantic campus bench deserted in the sunset . Reason : cooler inside Library or Union.

JULY, 1957 PAGE 1 7 a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives of the alumni family 1908-20 man, will travel to the Beirut (Lebanon) College of 1931-35 Paul A. Walker, '12Law, recenay moved to Women to teach coeds modern American home- Lieut. Col. William H. Witt, '326a, now is as- Norman from Washington, D. C. Now retired, he making methods during the coming school year. signed as officer in charge of the Pacific Stars and served several years as an Oklahoma official, then Mrs. Snoddy, assistant professor of home economics Stripes, daily newspaper for the U. S. security forces for 20 years as a member of the Federal Communi- at O. U., will do the work through a scholarship in the Far East . Witt formerly worked for the Tul- cations Commission. He was given by one of the original Omicron Nu, national home economics sa World, Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City Times, members of the F. C. C. when it was organized in honor society. She will sail in August . Norman Transcript, Oklahoma News and Colum- 1934 . MARRIAGE : Mrs. Elveta Minteer Hughes, '24, bus (Ohio) Citizen. Also, he served as a contribut- Dr. Roy A. Morter, '13med, Kalamazoo, Michi- Norman, and Albert Marks Lehr, Jr ., Tulsa, were ing editor of Sooner Magazine and as publicity di- gan, received an honorary degree June from married June 7 in Tulsa, 15 where they have made rector of O. U.'s Extension Division and radio sta- Western Michigan University at the school's com- their home . tion WNAD . mencement services . Morter, psychiatrist and for R. E. McPhail, '33geo1, was promoted to south- 27 years director of the Kalamazoo State Hospital, east regional manager in Phillips Petroleum Com- was designated Doctor of Science. In all, he has pany's land and geological department in June . His been with the hospital 41 years, but he retired in Executive Meeting offices will be in Bartlesville. McPhail, who has 1956 to devote full time to the private practice of been with Phillips since 1938, formerly psychiatry . was assist- The Executive Board of the Uni- ant manager and regional geologist for the south- Miss Grace E. Ray, '206a, '23ma, contributed an versity of Oklahoma Alumni Associ- east region which includes parts of Texas, Louisiana article entitled "Oklahoma Marks 50th Birthday" ation met June 8 for the and Mississippi. to the June 9 issue of the New York Herald Trib- annual com- Charles E. Engleman, '336a, Clinton, was elect- une. She is an O. U. professor of journalism . mencement meeting in the Union ed president of the Oklahoma Press Association DEATHS : Guy W. Wilcox, '08pharm ., Okla- Building. Rhys Evans, '36ba, '39Law, June 15 at the organization's annual spring meet homa City, died recently in Wesley Hospital where president, presided . at Sequoyah State Park . He succeeded George B. he had undergone surgery a month previously . Highlight of the meeting was Hill, publisher of the Coalgate Record-Register. Wilcox was a retired insurance man and former elec- Engleman is publisher of the Clinton Daily News, pharmacist. He was 74. tion of officers. Milt Phillips, '22, and president of the Foss Reservoir Conservancy Mrs. Earl Sneed (the former Nellie Johnson, Seminole publisher, was named pres- district board of governors. He has been president '10), Tulsa, died July 5 in Genoa, Italy, while on a ident, and O. T. McCall, '406us, Nor- of both the Clinton Chamber of Commerce and tour of Europe . She was the widow of Earl Sneed, man businessman, was elected vice Rotary Club . Sr., former attorney, newspaperman and oilman, E. G. McCurtain, '356a, '36ma, will become and mother of Earl Sneed, Jr., dean of O. U.'s Col- president. chairman of the department of sociology and a pro- lege of Law. Mrs. Sneed was a pioneer resident of Four new members of the Execu- fessor at the University of Omaha, Nebraska, Sep- the Norman area . She was 68 and a charter mem- tive Board, all members-at-large, tember l. McCurtain has been teaching sociology ber of the University's chapter of Pi Beta Phi so- at Drury College, Springfield, Missouri . cial sorority . were formally seated. The four were Alice L. Marriott, '35ba, was speaker at O. U.'s Oma F. Hatley, '206a, '24ma, Chicago, Illinois, elected as the result of the Spring annual professional writing short course June 10- died March 23 in Chicago. mail election . They are Ross W. 12 . A total of 310 writers heard Miss Marriott 1921-30 Cole, Jr., '47eng, Ardmore; Charles Speak on "Waste Not, Want Not, or You Never Boyd P. Koepke, '21chem, Tulsa, recently pre- Dowell, '50ba, Oklahoma City; Clee Know When It Will Come in Handy." A noted sented the University's Bizzell Library a valuable Fitzgerald, '496a, '51Law, Stillwa- author and anthropologist, she has written Ten collection of 688 books and Grandmothers, Maria, Hell on Horses and Women, documents. The gift ter, and Don Walker, '15ba, Tulsa. was originally part of the library of the late Pierce and several other books. All will serve three-year Larkin, '09geol, Tulsa oil man. Koepke works as terms. DEATH: Mrs. Annice Bettis (the former An- a research organization representative. Business brought before the Board nice Florine Parnell, '32h .ec, '52m .h .ec), Oklahoma The Rev. Vernon T. Suddeth, '236a, has re- included the budget for the Associa- City, died June 10 in University Hospital . She was turned to the an instructor in nutrition active ministry and is located at the tion, and the annual President's Re- for O. U.'s School of Med- First Presbyterian Church in Connell, Washington icine. She was 46 . The family requested that, in . port of alumni activities during the I. L. Cook, Jr ., '266a, and Mrs. Cook have sold lieu of flowers, donations be made to the cancer the Bristow Record and Bristow Citizen to Ed W. past year. Following the meeting, fund . Mackensen, '48journ, Mrs. Mackensen, and Mr . Executive Board members attended a and Mrs. C. P. Penfield (see below, 1948). Mr . and dinner to hear O. U. speakers Mrs. Cook outline plan an immediate year's vacation . Dur- 1936-40 ing the 30 years in University policy to Board members. which they have published the Stewart Harral, '36ma, was a principal speak- two newspapers, they have taken less than two er at the 69th annual spring meet of the Oklahoma months' leave . Press Association June 15 at Sequoyah State Park . Benjamin Anderson McElyea, '276a, '36ms, Ho- DEATHS : Mrs. L. C. Summers (the former Harral, who is an O. U. professor of journalism, bart, has been chosen Father of the Year by the Katherine Tatom, '236a, '26ma) was killed January spoke against newspaper "guesswork" as to reader Oklahoma Cow Belles, auxiliary of the Oklahoma 14 in an automobile accident near Norman . Mrs. interests. He is author of Keys to Successful Inter- Cattlemen's Association. The honor was accompa- Summers was 64 . She is survived by Mr . Summers, viewing and several other books on public relations. nied by a cowhide briefcase given him by Mrs. a resident of Oklahoma City. Dr . Jack E. Douglas, '36ba, Norman, will speak J. B. Smith, president of the Belles . McElyea, an John T. Skelton, '306a, '31Lib .sci, died January at Ayers Laboratories' annual invitational sales insurance man, is father of four adopted children : 9 in Missouri after a year's illness. He had served assembly on communications in the pharmacy pro- John, stationed at Fort Chaffee; Alice, married ; as first librarian of Jackson County (Missouri), as fession August 21 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Joe, junior high school student, and Susie, a fifth- assistant librarian of Kansas City Public Library, on New York City. He and Mrs. Douglas will be grader. the staff of the University of Missouri Libraries, and guests for three days of the biological and pharma- Mrs. Allen Wood Rigsby (the former Freda Wil- in many other capacities . He was 47 . Survivors ceutical company. Douglas is an associate professor liams, '276a), Denver, Colorado, received her mas- include his wife, Mattilee Skelton, '30h .ec, '37Lib . of speech at O. U. ter of arts degree in June from the University of sci, circulation librarian of the University of Kan- Lieut. Col. William LaFon, '37med, completed Denver . sas City libraries; a son, Jon, and brother, Alan C. a course in management of mass casualties June 7 Mrs. Ruth G. Snoddy, '30ed, '45m .h .ec, Nor- Skelton, '33-'34, Vicksburg, Mississippi. at the Army Medical Service School, Fort Sam

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Yale University Graduate School . Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He is regularly sta- homa Corporation Commission . Rogers has been poetry in May at student regularly enrolled tioned at Vance Air Base, Oklahoma . His wife, assistant conservation attorney for the past six The prize is given to a unpublished poem or group of Lucille, lives in Enid . years and succeeds Floyd Green, who resigned be- at Yale for the best for the doctor of Joe Robinett, '39eng, Springfield, Missouri, was cause of poor health . poems. Feldzamen is a candidate honored June 14 with a National Quality Award, Dr . Frank G. Gatchell, '48med, has completed a philosophy degree . Ray Tassin, '506a, '57ma, authored an article one of the highest citations in the life insurance fellowship in surgery at the Mayo Foundation for in Editor and Publisher, national business . The award came to Robinett at a meet of Medical Education and Research at Rochester, Min- published June 15 journal. Entitled "Semi-Merger the Springfield Association of Life Underwriters . nesota, and received the master of science degree in newspaper trade it covers the subject Less than four percent of the insurance agents in surgery from the University of Minnesota. Plans Marked With Success," Tassin is former own- the nation qualified for it this year . Robinett is a Lyman L. Bryan, '48journ, will resign his post of his master's thesis at O. U. editor of representative of the Equitable Life Assurance So- s executive director of the Oklahoma Development er of the Konawa Leader and managing the Clinton Daily News. He will become an assist- ciety. Council on August 1 . He has held the position since Owes Townsend, '406a, '40Law, Oklahoma list October and previously was manager of com- ant professor at Baylor University in September. MARRIAGE : Miss Emogene Appleby, '476a, City, became new chairman of the Oklahoma State munity relations for Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, F. Huslig, both of Norman, Board of Affairs in June . Townsend, a native of Michigan . Bryan won the Kayser award in 1947 Norman, and Clarence 22 in Dallas, Texas. She is as- Kiowa, is an attorney in the office of Governor at O. U. for being the outstanding junior in jour- were married June Raymond Gary . For two years he has dealt with nalism . sistant to the dean of O. U.'s College of Arts and extradition cases and been the governor's liaison Ed W. Mackensen, '48journ, Mrs. Mackensen, Sciences . He has a dental laboratory in Norman, with the Pardon and Parole Board. and Mr . and Mrs. C. P. Penfield have purchased the where they have made their home . Best man at George Terry Guess, '40m .ed, Lexington, Ken- Bristow Record and Bristow Citizen. The four, the wedding was Dr . Max L. Moorhead, professor University, and Mrs. Moorhead tucky, received his doctor of education degree May owners of News Company, Incorporated, already of history at the 31 from George Peabody College for Teachers, owned the Bristow News, and the financial tran- was matron of honor. Nashville, Tennessee. saction now consolidates all newspapers in the BIRTHS : John D. Harrison, '49journ, and Mrs. city . The latter paper will be published on Thurs- Harrison (the former Sue Smith, '48journ), Okla- homa City, have become parents of a son born 1941-45 days and the other two, merged under the title of May 23 . Harrison is president and publisher The Rev. F. Grover Fulkerson, '41ba, '46ma, the Bristow Record-Citizen, on Sundays. Seller of of the North Star, Oklahoma City. Norman, has resigned as executive secretary of the the two newspapers was 1. L. Cook, Jr ., '266a, and Mortimer I). Schwartz and Mrs. Schwartz (the Department of Social Welfare to become director of Mrs. Cook (see above, 1926) . former Gwendolyn Carpenter, '506a), Norman, the Department of Christian Social Relations for the Charles R. Smith, '49eng, Mrs. Smith and their have chosen the name Henry Jonathan for their son Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, Illinois . He is a sons, Harold and Bruce, recently moved to Wichita born May 28 . Schwartz is associate professor of law former faculty member of the University of Okla- Fal!s, Texas. Smith is district engineer with Con- and law librarian at O. U. homa and served with the Church World Service's tinental Oil Company there. Jack W. White and Mrs. White (the former European refugee program in Munich, Germany, Robert H. Peterson, '49journ, '51ma, Norman, Betty J. Edgington, '50geol), Pampa, Texas, have from 1949 to 1950 . has left O. U.'s public relations staff to become man- selected the name Gregory Kim for their son born Harold R. Rubin, '41journ, Auburn, California, aging editor of the Durant Daily Democrat and Robert V. Peter- June 15 . White is an engineer at the Celanese recently was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Durant Weekly News . His father, pur- Corporation of America plant in Pampa. teach English and American history in Groningen, son, professor of journalists at O. U., recently Holland. Rubin, at present an instructor of jour- chased the two newspapers and the Durant radio nalism at Sierra College, will depart from New station KSEO ; he will retain his teaching position 1951 former reporter for the and turn the operation of the enterprises to his two York on August 13 . He is a Carlton Poling, '51fa, '52fa, '54m .ed, took of- San Antonio (Texas) Evening News . sons, Robert and Richard. The latter has been fice as superintendent of the Oklahoma County Charles M. Cole, Jr ., '42eng, Tulsa, was named working with the Southwestern Bell Telephone schools July 1. Poling taught in Midwest City for for Tulotna Gas Products Company Company's public relations staff in Oklahoma City . chef engineer the past six years and did graduate work at O. U. firm is nationwide marketer of Charles L. Ward, '48journ, who has been managing in June . The a this summer . products . Cole's position editor of the Durant publications for the past two liquefied petroleum gas Hubert H. Anderson, '516s, '52m .eng, has ac- is newly created and involves supervising construc- years, has been promoted to general manager of cepted a position with Selfridge Air Base and now tion and operation of product storage installations, the three properties . is living in Mount Clemens, M chigan . He is chief truck terminals and other supply facilities . Norman D. Glasscock, '496s, '53ms, received a of classification and wage administration . Weber, '436us, was presented the doctor of dental surgery degree June 2 at the Uni- Russell E. Lieut. James W. Smith, '516a, New York City, Superior Performance versity of Kansas City's 22nd annual commence- Atomic Energy Commission participated in "Operation Big Shot," a three-week Award on July 3 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A ment, target practice conducted by the Army in late June J. C. Peterson, '49Law, was promoted to divi- cash award of $200 accompanied the certificate cit- and early July at Fort Niagara, New York . Smith superintendent for Pan ing Weber's "superior performance in effectively sion industrial relations was a teacher and coach at Tennessee Military In- American Petroleum Corporation's Canadian divi- discharging the responsibilities not only of his own stitute, before entering service in 1953 . Amer- position but also those of the director of the S. S. sion on July 1 . Peterson has been with Pan MARRIAGE : Miss Mary Ann Miller, Kingfish- Materials Management Division for an interim ican in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for the past two er, and Jack Munn, '5 led, San Angelo, Texas, were period during which that position was vacant ." years and will remain there in the newly-created married in June in Duncan, where they will make He has been associated with the A. E. C. since 1951 . position. He is a native of Oklahoma . their home. She is a graduate of Central State Robert W. Danielson, '436us, was appointed ex- John S. Chappclear, '506s, now works as a College. ecutive vice president of Pathecolor, Incorporated, physicist with Shell Oil Company in Bellaire, DEATH: William Farron Winn, '51eng, West by the firm's board of directors on June 13 . He will Texas. He received his doctor's degree in 1954 Long Branch, New Jersey, died May 12 . He was 60 . until recently lived take over the responsibility for marketing, sales from Indiana University and and promotion. Danielson is a former staff mem- in Houston, Texas. ber of Harvard Business School and now owns John C. Johnson, '50journ, began work with 1952 '52m .ed, was appointed Hospital Picture Service, Incorporated, originators Shell Oil Company's Shell News June 24 in New Mrs. Ruth Langston, teacher of the Oklahoma and marketers of automatic camera equipment to York City . Johnson, a writer, works with two supervisor and visiting June . Mrs. photograph new-born babies in hospitals. other O. U. alumni employed by Shell, John E. County schools superintendent's staff in Heaney and Conley Higdon, both '50journ . Johnson Langston also serves as president of the Oklahoma and Heaney are former employees of United Press Speech Association. 1946-50 Jacqueline Marcia Hixson, Dr . Arrell Morgan Gibson, '47ba, '48ma, '54 in Oklahoma City, and Higdon served as editor of MARRIAGE : Miss 45th Division News in Korea and as feature '52phys.ed, and Willard Robert Gootlner, '52journ, ph.d, Norman, began work in June as archivist for the Future magazine . both of Miami, Oklahoma, were married June 22 in the University of Oklahoma libraries. In Septem- editor of received his doctor of Miami. She is also a graduate of Stanford Uni- ber he will take up duties as an assistant professor. Robert Meyers, '50ma, has completed service with the Louis Hetler, '47fa, Denver, Colorado, received philosophy degree June 12 from Washington Uni- versity. He just Louis, Missouri, at that institution's Navy. They have made their home in Fresno, his doctor of philosophy degree in June from the versity, St . University of Denver . 96th annual commencement . California. Feldzamen, '506s, New York City, John Y. Kaufman, '52eng, and Mrs. Ferrill Rogers, '48Law, Oklahoma City, has Alvin N. BIRTH: former Joan Bader, '50fa), South been appointed conservation attorney by the Okla- was awarded the Stanburrough Cook Prize in Kaufman (the

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Bend, Indiana, have selected the name Richard William for their son born June 18 .

1953 Los Angeles Group Wayne E. Mason, '53, has been promoted to the position of wire editor for the Lawton Constitu- Meets for tion . Mason joined the newspaper's staff last Sep- Election tember as sports writer . He is a former part-time sports writer for the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City. "I'm from Oklahoma, too," the headwaitress told her staff, "and I want you to Sam A. Wilson, '53eng, Norman, has been hired give these people first-class service." by Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation as techni- cal assistant And first-class service to the vice president and manager of it was. To the passerby, the dining room scene must the company's metals and have chemicals division . He looked like only another fine chicken dinner for 60 at Knott's Berry Farm, will work in the firm's North Chicago, Illinois, near Los Angeles, California . To the 60 persons at table, it meant more-the first plant for two years, then transfer to another plant get-together in a year for the Los Angeles Alumni Club. at Muskogee . Ed Carter, '536a, recently After the meal, President Dewey Rowland, joined the Associated '226a, Glendale, introduced the Press' Oklahoma City staff. He was cited last guests : year as Oklahoma's outstanding young A.P . correspon- Carl M. Franklin, former vice president of O. U., and Mrs. Franklin, Los An- dent . Carter formerly was city editor for the Daily Ardmoreite, geles; Dr. Dale Vliet, O. U. David Ross Boyd professor of law and visiting pro- Ardmore. Charles Lee Townsend, '536s, received fessor at the University of Southern California for the his summer ; Mrs. Vliet (the master of science degree June 15 from Iowa State former Genevieve Kern, '37fa, '42mfa) ; R. Boyd Gunning, '37ba, '37Law, executive College, Ames . The commencement was the 86th secretary of the Alumni Association, Norman, Oklahoma ; Guy Brown, '42ba, for Iowa State. Townsend had majored in elec- trical '48ma, field director of Alumni Relations, Norman; David engineering at O. U. Burr, '52ba, assistant Major William to the president at O. U. ; C. Strong, '53eng, Edmond, Miss Myrtle Waltonson, Sapulpa, Oklahoma ; Mr. and completed a refresher course Mrs recently while on two . A. T. Watson, Ada, Oklahoma, and Bill Fryday, '57ba, editor of the Sooner weeks active duty at the infantry school, Fort Ben- Magazine, Norman. ning, Georgia. He is adjutant and personnel and administration officer Vliet, Gunning, Brown and Burr each spoke briefly to the group on Univer- in the 45th Infantry Divi- sity matters, sion's 179th Regiment, an Oklahoma National and a movie, "Football Highlights of 1956," was shown. Then new Guard unit . club officers were chosen and installed. Richard H. Kamp, '536a, was awarded a doctor Elected by acclamation were, president, W. A. "Bill" Smith, Jr., '44eng, Long of dental surgery degree June 2 at the annual com- Beach (former vice president) ; vice president, mencement program of the University of Kansas Floyd Norris, '35Law, Los Ange- City . les (former secretary) ; secretary, Mrs. Pearl Henry, '22, North Hollywood (for- Lieut. Halbert J. Hopper, '536s, Cisco, mer Texas, treasurer), and treasurer, O. W. Davidson, '49d.ed, Los Angeles. Davidson completed a 29-week hospital administration course holds office for the first time. on June 21 at the Army Medical Service School, Fort Others attending the meeting included the following: Sam Houston, Texas. Hopper is an Air Force officer and has received orders assigning him Richard G. "Dick" Askew, '47eng, '48m.eng, to Pasadena; Russell E. Anthony, Maxwell Air Base, Montgomery, Alabama. He en- '46, and Mrs. Anthony, Anaheim; George Bloch, '44eng, and Mrs. Bloch, Bur- tered service in 1952 . bank; James C. Caperton and Mrs. Caperton (the former Opal Noe, '24ba), Los 1954 Ange'es ; Mrs. O. W. Davidson, Los Angeles ; Shelby M. Eddington, '546s, geologist for Arthur Dedgerton, '35ed, and Mrs. Stan- Dedgerton, Los Angeles ; Paul Eldridge, dard Oil Company of New Jersey, is being sent to '19ba, University of Nevada, Reno; R. L. Elmore, '53eng, and Mrs. Elmore, North Libya on a special assignment for an indefinite Hollywood ; Hiawatha Estes, '40eng, and Mrs. Estes, Northridge ; Charlie E. period . His new address will be P. O. Box 385, Tripoli, Forbes, '22ba, '25ma, and Mrs. Forbes Libya. (the former Ferne Keniston, '28ed), Long Robert L. Beach; Lattimore, '54m .journ, has been sep- arated from active duty with the Air Force and re- Jackie Ging, '54bus, and Mrs. Ging (the former Gretchen Graening, '51255), turned to Oklahoma . He served 30 months on Okinawa Hollywood; Mrs. Wolf Goodman (the former Naomi Schaeffer, '43fa), North as an information services officer and several months in Hollywood; Ira A. Greenberg, '49journ, Los Angeles Tokyo, Japan, as a member of ; R. H. Henry, North Holly- the Stars and Stripes newspaper staff. wood; Arnold H. Lattimore is Ismach, '51journ, The Sun-Telegram, San Bernardino ; a former graduate assistant in public relations at Dr. Paul Kouri, '45med, Lynwood; Olive Leeper, '1 lba, Los Angeles; James S. O. U. and worked for a time as a reporter and news Martindale, '496s, '50ma, The Sun-Telegram, San Bernardino ; Harry E. Moore, editor for the Sulphur Times-Democrat . Dwight '34m.ed, and Mrs. Moore (the former Allis Smith, '34ba, V. Swain, '54m .journ, Norman, spoke '36ma), Los Angeles; on "The Dominant Beatrice H. Morrell, Element" at O. U.'s 19th an- '50ed, Riverside; nual professional writing short course June 10-12. Mrs. Floyd Norris, Los Angeles; John Donald Owens, '10, Los Angeles ; K. E. Swain is an assistant professor of journalism at the Sharrock, 'I Iph.c, and Mrs. Sharrock, Santa Ana; Mrs. Wilson E. Smith (the for- University, a contributor to several national maga- zines and scripter of the film mer Gladys McLennan, '17), Glendale; Bob Talley, '56journ, and Mrs. Talley Anger at Work, re- (the cently produced by the University's motion picture former Kay Smith, '56journ), La Crescenta; unit. Dr. F. L. Tibbitts, '16ba, '19ma, and Mrs. Tibbitts (the former Lucille Bull, '246a), Los Angeles ; T. J. Toma, '39bs, Bell; Lonnie T. Vanderveer, '39m.ed, and 1955 Robert L. Bryson, Mrs. Vanderveer, Inglewood; Glenn R. Watson, '39Law, and Mrs. Watson, La Jr ., '55journ, '56m .journ, Norman, was employed in June as assistant Canada, and O. C. White, '57eng, and Mrs. White, La adver- Crescenta. tising manager of the Norman Transcript . He held an advertising internship with the Oklahoma Pub- lishing Company in 1954 and served as assistant promotion manager of station KWTV, Oklahoma City, for the past year .

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Rex Duhon, '55eng, '56m .eng, has been award- ed a new fellowship by Magnolia Oil Corporation of Dallas, Texas. Duhon, originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, is studying toward his doctor's degree at O. U. f-lc plans to marry in August . Al . J. Alschuler, '55journ, was promoted to Air Force first lieutenant recently in Japan. He has been in the Far East since August, 1956, and is wing information officer for an air transport wing at Tokyo International Airport. Alschuler and his wife, joy, live in Yokohama . Major Walter H . Roderick, '556us, is stationed at Efington Air Base, Houston, Texas, for the sum- mer. Roderick is training officer for the summer ROTC encampment there. Regularly he is Air ROTC training officer for O. U. Raymond D. Powers, '55bs, Jackson, Mississippi, received a master of science degree in June from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena . Ile majored in physics. Pvt. Charles C. Baker, '556a, '57Law, Chey- enne, Wyoming, has begun six months of active military training under the Reserve Forces Act pro- gram . He is stationed at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas . Lieut. Robert M. Hurt, '55bus, Chickasha, re- cently finished an officers basic course at the Army's Thirty members of the Law class of 1927 attended a reunion dinner June 7 in Oklahoma City . finance school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Five judges among thelu were, from left, standing, S. B. "Dick" Jones, formerly of criminal Hurts new station is the Antiaircraft and Guided court of appeals ; J. K. Byrum, Shawnee district court ; A. 1' . Van Meter, Oklahoma City district Missile Center, Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma . Be- court. Seated, F. L. Jackson, Oklahoma supreme court, and John Brett, court of appeals. fore entering service he was employed as a produc- tion accountant by Continental Oil Company, Pon- ca City . Mathew M. Dowling, '55bus, '57Law, Okla- company of the homa City, now is affiliated with his father in the Marine Lieut. Jams F. Fentriss, '566us, Okla- the headquarters and service law firth Dowlings, Incorporated . Mrs. Dowling homa City, made his first solo flight recently in groups 91st Battalion. (the former Ann Davenport, '55journ) is serving Pensacola, Florida, where he is receiving basic flight Pfc. Earl L. Baugher, '56eng, Enid, has been of the Arm% Air Defense her second year in the women's department of the training . assigned to the 6th Region Baugher, now Daily Oklahomnn and Oklahoma City Times. James Richard Collet, '566us, Oklahoma City, Command at Fort Baker, California. en- Pvt. Anthony De Paola, Jr ., '55journ, East Pat- recently completed a training program for the a supply clerk and draftsman, was a petroleum erson, New Jersey, has completed basic training National Supply Company and now works at the gineer with the Texas Company in Tulsa before with the Third Infantry Division at Fort Benning, firm's plant in Houston, Texas. The program last- entering service. Georgia. He formerly was a reporter for the Pater- ed a year . National Supply is the world's largest Lieut. Gene Mears, '56eng, Seminole, graduated school basic ofli- son Evening News. manufacturer and distributor of oil field machinery June 22 from the Army's infantry Lieut. Aubrey E. Swift, '55eng, Tulsa, has been and equipment. CCrS course at Fort penning, Georgia. He was foot- graduated from the field artillery officers basic Mrs. Sarah Jane Bell, '56nas, Oklahoma City, re- ball coach at El Campo (Texas) High School be- course at the Artillery and Guided Missile Center, ceived the Grace E. Herrick Award for 1956-57 in fore entering service. Grubb and Saln Fort Sill, Lawton. He entered the Army last Feb- May. The award was made by faculty members MARRIAGES : Miss Kathryn ruary. of the School of Library Science at O. U. Mrs. Wilburn, '566us, both of Norman, were married Lieut. Lynn E. Lott, '55eng, Memphis, Tennes- Bell is librarian of Douglass High School, Okla- March 23 in Chandler . Ile is employed in Okla- see, has been assigned to the .Army Engineers' re- homa City. homa City, and they have made their home in serve training support unit at Fort Bclvoir, Virginia . Pvt. James D. Jordan, '56bus, Oklahoma City, Norman . Durham, His wife, Shirley, lives in Alexandria, Virginia . graduated June 7 from an equipment repair course Miss Linda Carolyn Hampton, North MARRIAGE : Miss Betty Janelle Gibson, '55, at the Army's Southeastern Signal School, Fort Carolina, and William Charles Spann, '56, Ada, and John Wayne McDaniel, both of Yukon, were Gordon, Georgia. The course lasted for 20 weeks. were married June R in Duke University chapel, are married June 7 in Yukon and have matte their home Pfc. Marvin Gerson, '56ba, Oklahoma City, re- Durham . Both graduates of Duke . He is study- there. cently qualified as an expert rifleman with the ing toward a graduate degree in banking and in- Army in France. He is a clerk at the Army's quar- ternational finance at New York University . termaster depot in Metz and has been in Europe Miss Beverly Rae Sasser, '57, Norman, and Da- 1956 since July, 1956 . vid R. Morgan, '56ba, Cheyenne, Wyoming, were Marta Stephen, '56journ, has joined the Law- Lieut. Roger K. Coppock, '566s, Ponca City, married June 8 in Norman . ton Constitution and Morning Press advertising was graduated from a 12-week military orientation staff. For the past year she had been working for course at the Army Medical Service School, Fort 1957 a Michigan newspaper. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. He is training Ann Ilodgson, '57ba, Kingfisher, has been Lewis L. Ferguson, '56journ, has been trans- under the Reserve Forces Act. cinplo)ed by the Titche-Gocttinger Department ferred to Fort Riley, Kansas, from Fort Benning, Pfc. Joel M. Bagby, '56ba, Oklahoma City, grad- Store in Dallas, Texas. Miss Hodgson is presently Georgia, where he had been engaged in basic in- uated June 7 from the Army Information School's engaged in the firm's training program. fantry officer training . Ferguson will leave service public information course at Fort Slocum, New Gene O. 'Thrasher, '57journ, has been appoint- in August, work briefly for the Ponca City News, York . He is regularly stationed at Fort Bclvoir, ed sports writer for the Lawton Constitution and then return to O. U. in September to take up grad- Virginia, and is information specialist in headquar- Horning Press. Thrasher worked for the Sports uate study. ters company of the engineer center regiment's First Publicity department while a student, and served Lieuts . Jerry W. Segroves, '56bus, and Richard Battalion. a:s sports editor for the Oklahoma Daily. N. Sorenson, Jr., '56ba, both reported to the U. S. Lieut. Robert W. Davis, Jr ., '56arch, Bartles- Miles L. Dawson, '57eng, and Mrs. Dawson (the Army's Armor School at Fort Knox, Kentucky, on ville, was graduated from the Army's antiaircraft former Johanna Mochow, '51 ba, '551na) and their June 24 . They attended an armored officers' basic artillery and guided missile school, Fort Bliss, daughter moved from Norman to Albuquerque, course, and while there they encountered several Texas. New Mexico, in June . Ile is now employed with Oklahomans, among them Lieut. Mack Palmer, Lieut. Robert L. Adams, '56eng, Norman, has Sandia Corporation. '55journ, '57rna, former staff member of O. U.'s been assigned to the 79th Engineer Group, Fort Gilbert W. Denison, '57eng, has joined Humble Oklahoma Daily student newspaper. Belvoir, Virginia . He serves as supply officer in Oil and Refining Company's research and dcvelop-

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merit division at the Baytown, Texas, refinery. The job will last through the summer ; he will return to the University in Scpteinhcr to du graduate work . Erik Lunde, '57, is working for the summer with Oklahoma City's United Press bureau . Lundc is from Oslo, Norway, and son of an editor of the Aftenposten there. He attended O. U. )it a Ful- bright scholarship the past year and will return to Oslo in September. Rocllcn Estes, '57phys.ed, Moore, was voted outstanding senior in the University's women's phcsical education school in June. ']'lie honor came is for in the form of the Silver Whistle Award . Miss Estes has participated in volley hall, badminton, softball, field hockey, swimming intratnurals and swing clubs. KILo Henry, Oklahoma City, was Thomas C. '57ed, (1000 units (watts) of elec- scheduled to enter active duty at the Naval Pre- paratory School, Bainbridge, Maryland, on Jul% 8. tric energy working for one 1 IC joined the Navy RO'T'C unit at O. U. in 1954, hour. Your electric bill is attended reserve officer candidate school in the sum- for "kilowatthours" used mers of 1955 and 1956 in Newport, Rhode Island, by all your atonliances dur- and was then commissioned at the University this ing the month.) year . Henry's tour of duty will be for three years. Lieut. Ronald W. Summers, '57geol, Setninole, has graduated from an officers basic course at Fort McClellan, Alabama. The schooling covered 12 So that you may know how long some weeks at the Army's Chemical Corps School . of your electric appliances will work be- Lieut. Thomas A. Kehoc, '576a, New Orleans, fore using a kilowatthour of electricity, Louisiana, has graduated from the field artillery below are some interesting figures : officers basic course at Fort Sill's artillery and gu_d- ed missile center in Lawton . He is an Army reserve Approximate officer. Watts used lenath of time Lieutenants Harold W. I'owell, '57ed, Wichita Appliance per hour it takes to use Falls, Texas, and Malcolm 11 . Wood, Jr ., '57bs, 1 kilowatthour Gushing, recently were graduated from a 12-week orientation course under the Reserve Forces Act T .iaht bulb 40 watts 25 hours program at the Army Medical Service School, Fort T s-11+ bulb 10n watts 10 hours Saut Houston, San Antonio, Texas. The classes k watts 50x1 hours ?stressed medical service in combat . Powell's wife, rl,,r hours Lois, lives in Temple, Oklahoma . pnrio 3fl watts 33 Morgan McCullar, '576a, recently was hired as T-Irwision 2p5 watts 5 hours advertising salesman for the Shawnee News-Star. Tr-,n 10nn watts 1 hour McCullar has in the past worked for the Daily T-~ 175 watts F hours Ardmoreite and for a commercial photography lnnket studio. `tlngher (auto .) 4n0 watts 21b hours Tciji "'feel" Shimizu, '57journ, Tokyo, Japan, C_wint-t marbinp 75 watts 13 hours has completed a tour of U. S . eastern cities . The trip was made possible for him by Earnest 1-1o- The average cost per kilowatthour of berccht, '-11journ, and served as "l'ad's graduation electricity in 3.21 gift. (Iluberecltt is stat-oned in Tokyo as United OG&E served homes is Press' vice president and general manager for Asia .) cents which is a very low wage, par- While on tour Ted helped Japanese correspondents ticularly when you consider that the cover their Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi's con- energy expended in one kilowatthour of ference with President Eisenhower in Washington, n. c. electricity is 1/3 more than could be ex- MARRIAGES : Miss Aliph Avery, '57, Scars- pended by a strong horse working 1 dale, New York, and Loren Truman Moss, '57, hour . . . or 1 strong man working about Vinita, were married June 6 in Norman's Baptist 28 hours. Student Center . They have trade their home in student at O. U. Norman, where he is a pre-law So when you pay your electric bill please Utah, and En- Miss Arlene Colby, Huntington, realize sign Steve R. Mires, '57geol, Norman, were tnar- that you are paying for work that ried June 15 in Huntington . He received his, com- has been performed for you, tirelessly mission from O. U.'s Naval ROTC, unit in early and efficiently . . . and for a very, very June . The couple has gone to Long Beach, Cali- fornia, where he boarded the aircraft carrier Prince- low wage . ton for a tour of duty . Miss Virginia Grace Green, '576a, Oklahoma City, and George Norman Hoover, '57arch, Shaw- nee, were married May 11 in Gainesville, Texas. She OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY is a member of Alpha Chi Omega social sorority ~uvE ."I Epsilon social Xo and he is a member of Sigma Alpha fycrnlso fraternity .

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