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-1895- -1913- -1921- Paintings by S. Deborah Haines, '136a, Norman, Lloyd Noble, '21, Ardmore oil executive and Jack Harts, '95, who coached the University's were shown earlier in the year at the Oklahoma member of the University Board of Regents since first football team in 1895, is associated with a City YWCA. The display, second by Miss Haines, 1934, was recently elected president of the O.U . seed company near Los Angeles, California . Only included oil, water color and India ink paint- governing body . a few doors away is R. C. Reynolds, '96-'97, who ings produced during 1946 . Six of her works were Dr . George L. Borecky, '216s, '23med, Okla- was a member of the O.U . football squad in exhibited at the 28th annual showing of Okla- homa City, has been on the faculty of the Univer- J896-97. homa artists staged in Municipal Auditorium, sity School of Medicine since 1925 as an instruc- Oklahoma City, last winter with three winning tor in biology. He was discharged from the Army -1906- awards . Medical Corps in February, 1946, with the rank of major and is also practicing surgery in Okla- A campaign has been started by friends of the -1914- homa City . late Walter Ferguson, '06, prominent state news- Roy D. Eaton, '146a, and Gail Parker Eaton, Ludwig Schmidt, '21chem, '24eng, is now em- paperman, to raise $30,000 '146a, have retired as apartment house operators ployed by the Bureau of Mines in Bartlesville . for the purchase of his in Dallas, Texas. Lt . Col. Onis G. Hazel, '21ph.g, '23ph.c, collection of southwestern '23pharm, '316s, '31med, has served with the books, pictures and other -1917- Public Health Service as a consultant dermatolo- historical materials for pres- Newly assigned to the position of inspector gen- gist in Florida and at Will Rogers Field, Oklaho- entation to the University eral with the Air Inspector Division at the Europe ma City . of Oklahoma . The collec- Air Transport Service Headquarters is Lt. Col . An article, "Calling All Rattlesnakes," by Grace tion is now in the posses- Eldon Breeden, '17ba. Colonel Breeden has been E. Ray, '20ba, '23ma, associate professor of jour- sion of Mrs. Ferguson, '07, overseas since May, 1944, and in the service since nalism at O. U., is included in a workbook for pioneer newspaper woman March, 1941 . He holds the Distinguished Service use in conjunction with a reader planned for sev- and author of a nationally Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and French Croix enth grade students. Originally published in Travel syndicated column appear- de Guerre. magazine, the article concerns extraction of venom ing in Scripps-Howard C. A. Nichols, '14pharm, '14bs, '176a, has served at a snake farm in Tulsa and uses made of it as newspapers . Ferguson be- as treasurer of Phi Delta Chi, national professional a serum. The book was published by Scott, Fore- gan gathering material for pharmacy and chemistry fraternity, for the past man and Company. his collection several years 27 years. Nichols has been in the drug business in before his death in 1936, 1922- Anadarko since being graduated from the Uni- Leonard W. Harley, '20-'22, is now manager of and it is considered one of the best devoted to versity. the Hadley & Company Distributors, gas appli- southwestern lore and history. Mrs. Minnaletha White, '17fa, '23fa, has returned ances, for the state of Georgia in Macon. to Oklahoma City to establish a home after spend- Dr. Chantey H. Dolpb, '22ba, '246s, '26med, is - ing -1908 the last 14 years in Los Angeles, California . on the staff of the Jefferson Davis hospital, Hous- Mrs. White formerly taught voice at the University . Lloyd Curtis, '08bs, '10eng, Lander, Wyoming, ton, Texas, and is practicing medicine in Baytown, Thomas Robert Blaine, 'J4-'17, Enid, has been Texas. has made his home in Lander for the last 17 in service as district judge for the fourth district Hugh M. Bland, '18-'22, is now associated with years, where he is associated with the Lander High for the last four years. School as an instructor . Mr . and Mrs. Curtis are the law firm of Bland, Chastain and Kilcannon Hazlitt Bond Caldwell, '17ba, Oklahoma City, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. the parents of a daughter, Mary Louise, born has completed his 27th year as a telephone engi- July 2, 1946, in Lander. Dr . Lloyd Harris. '20ph.g, '22ph.c, '22pharm, neer with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Com- '24ms, former professor of pharmacy and chemistry An outstanding record pany in Oklahoma . was City He discharged in at the University, is now teaching pharmaceutical as a rural mail carrier January, 1946, from the Army Air Corps with has been achieved by Edgar chemistry at the University of Ohio . Mrs. Harris, the rank of lieutenant colonel. the former Maurine Dill, '23h .ec, accompanied L. Harris, '08ba, of Nor- Louis Reilly, '17law, and John A. Ruth, '41law, man. Harris, who also at- Dr . Harris to Norman recently where they visited recently formed a firm under the name of Reilly tended the O.U . prepara- friends. and Ruth, attorneys and counselors at law in Warren B. Ryder, '22ba, is general manager of tory school early in the cen- Kingfisher . tury, has been connected the E. C. Abernathy Lumber Company in Joplin, with the postoffice depart- -1919- Missouri. ment the past 36 years. He "Anyone who says it can't be done is usually served three terms as na- interrupted by someone doing it ." That's the motto tional president of the Na- in the Los Angeles, California, office of the Veter- tional Federation of Rural ans Administration program for rehabilitation of Letter Carriers and is ac- the blind, headed by Dr . F. I,. Tibbitts, '19ma. A tive in Norman civic affairs. former member of the University of Tulsa, Oklaho- ma City University and University of Oklahoma '-1909- faculties, Tibbitts joined the V. A. in Los Angeles early in 1945 as vocational adviser for blinded Mrs. A. Blair Boylin, '09, Wadcsboro, North war Veterans . Mrs. Tibbitts, the former Ruth Carolina, recently visited her father, James Dowd, Lucille Bull, received her bachelor of arts degree professor emeritus of sociology. Mrs. James Mal- from the University in 1924 . colm, '33, '34, is the daughter of Mr . and Mrs. Maurine H. Merrill, '19ba, '22law, attended Boylin . a meeting of the American Bar Association Coun- cil in Chicago, Illinois, February 22 and 23 . He was present as an observer in the position of chair- man of the Committee on Co-operation with the Everette Lee DeGolyer, '11ba, is the owner of Rench and Bar of the Association of American Law the nation's top literary weekly, the "Saturday Re- Schools. view of Literature ." He is a member of Phi Beta Garner G. Collums, '19ba, director of University Kappa; an owner of a fabulous library of work on housing, has been named president of the Cleveland the southwest; a geologist and author, publisher County Reserve Officers Association. and editor . Mr. DeGolyer's library of Southwestern items -1920- was started more than 30 years ago. He has written R. W. Keller, '20ba, and Mrs. Keller have been more than 100 technical articles for magazines, as living on a ranch near Crystal City, Texas, for well as a book, "My Adventures in Zuni ." He is a the last eighteen years. Mr . Keller is a partner in senior partner of DeGolyer and MacNaughton, the Keller Seed Store in Shawnee. Lt. Col. Bernard B. Smith, 22law, whose ap- tonsulting geologists, consultants for Petroleos Edgar T. Keller, '206a, is now working with pointment as judge advocate of the 15th Air Mexicanos, Conselha National do Petrolo of Bra- the Veterans Administration in Los Angeles, Cali- Force was recently announced according to the zil, and Naval Petroleum Reserves for the U. S. fornia . He served for three and one-half years with public relations officer, Headquarters 15th Air Navy . the Navy . Force, Colorado Springs, Colorado .

APRIL, 1947 29 Appointment of Lt . Col. Bernard B. Smith, ilies move in top Hollywood society. Goff, stocky Maj. John Powers Wolff, '256s, '27med, served Evacuation unit in '22law, as judge advocate of the 15th Air Force and outdoorish, hunts with Clark Gable. He also with the University Hospital was recently announced through the public rela- operates a wealthy, modern ranch. Tall, professional the South Pacific. tions officer, headquarters, 15th Air Force, Colo- Laucks owns a 143,000-acre nevada ranch and rado Springs, Colorado. has one-third interest in a racing stable. Colonel Smith, a veteran of 15 months in the -1926- Pacific theater, was a practicing attorney in Okla- homa City from 1922 until he was called to active -1925- O. B. Martin, '26law, has been employed with duty from reserve officer status in February, 1942 . Administration in Oklahoma Stanton Thatcher, '256a, is now owner and op- the office of Price Colonel and Mrs. Smith have three children : erator of the McDonald Auto Supply Company in City for the last four years. He is now attorney in Wendell, 21, a Navy pilot, Bernard, Jr ., and Berk- Amarillo, Texas. charge of the enforcement branch office. ley, 13 . The appointment of Bernice Paton, '25ba, as Roy Guffey, '26bus, is now a drilling contractor In addition to the Army Commendation ribbon, head cataloger at the Kansas State College Library residing in Dallas, Texas, and is a director in the Colonel Smith wears the Pacific Theater ribbon was announced recently by William Baehr, head Dallas Petroleum Club. with three campaign stars, and the Philippine librarian. Miss Paton began her work April 1. with Liberation ribbon with one campaign star . Eldon "Bud" Larecy, '26, is now serving Miss Paton succeeds Miss Gladys Baker. The po- Army in occupational duty in Europe with Glen C. Van Horn, '20ph.g, '22ph.c, is man- the sition has been vacant since October of last year . permanent rank of captain. aging a drug store in Stillwater . the Miss Paton was formerly head of the catalog Cecil Preston Price, '22ba, Wichita Falls, Texas, Jay Taylor, '26, and Eddie Johnson, '24ba, have department at Montana State University . She re- has been an internal revenue agent for the Treas- developed one of the largest cattle stockyards and ceived her bachelor of arts degree from the Uni- ury department, Bureau of Internal Revenue for sales rings in the southwest. The business is located versity of Oklahoma, a bachelor's degree in library the last eight years. in Amarillo, Texas, and is handling over 9,000 science from Columbia University and her master's Earl Eugene James, '22, Oklahoma City, has cattle each week . degree from the University of Michigan in 1944 . been practicing law in Oklahoma City for the has been associated Cecil Dryden Baird, '256s, '27med, Eureka, Lewis M. Brodnax, '26eng, last 24 years. He is a charter member of the Okla- estate Kansas, is now engaged in general physician prac- with the T. J. Brodnax Investments, real homa Citv Junior Chamber of Commerce and was tice in Eureka . He has been located in Eureka since and property management, in Kansas City, Mis- a member of the Board of Directors for four August, 1928 . He served four years with the Army souri, for the last 15 years. years. and was discharged in January, 1946, with the William David Bucher, '26law, has been prac- Phil C. Ashby, '22ph.g, Oklahoma City, man- rank of major. ticing law in Enid for the last 20 years. ager of the Ashby Chemical Company, Inc., Okla- homa City, is also corresponding secretary for the Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni Association of Okla- homa City . -1923- Glenn G. Mordy, '22-'23, is owner and man- ager of the Crystal Laundry and Cleaners in El Reno . C. Lattimer Baker, '20-'23, is now vice-president of the Mercantile National Bank in Dallas, Texas. Donnell Robinson, '23ba, '25eng, is now em- ployed as a construction superintendent with the Johnes and Laughlin Supply Company, Engineer- ing and Construction Division in Tulsa. James Harvey Van Zant, '23ba, '26ms, Fort Worth, Texas, is now working as a geologist in Fort Worth. Ray Glenn Atherton, '23ba, is general manager of the American Trucking Association in Wash- ington, D. C., and is making his home in Arling- ton, Virginia . Lowell Turner, '23geol, is now editor of the McAlister Globe Democrat . -1924- William Granville Tierney, '24ba, Jackson, Mis- sissippi, has been employed by the Amerada Petro- leum Corporation since April, 1926, and is now district land manager in Jackson. Gwynne E. Felton, '24, is now associated with the Phillips Petroleum Company Natural Gasoline Department in Oklahoma City. Dennis E. Boothe, '24ba, '26pharm, is owner and operator of a drug store in Hobart . SCHAEFER-BERNARD : Joanna Schaefer, '24bs, Oklahoma City, became the bride of Dr . Richard G. Bernard, Sanatorium, Texas, in a ceremony performed February 8 in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Bernard is a member of Delta Gamma Sorority . A medical technician, she was stationed during the war at Nichols General Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, and Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia . She was last employed at Lutheran Hospital, New York . Dr. Bernard is a graduate of the University of Florence, Italy. The couple is at home in Sanatorium. A pair of radio oldtimers recently celebrated their 16th anniversary of being among America's best loved comedians. They are Chester Laucks and Norris Goff, '23-'24, better known as Lum 'n' Abner. They still preside over the jot 'Em Down store in Pine Ridge, Arkansas, (ABC Monday- Thursday, 7 p.m . CST) . Since a station owner first heard them imitate the townspeople in Mena, Arkansas, the two have stuck to their old cracker- Little John Keeley and tiny Miss Trude Jean Steel, both 4, nearly steal the show from the engineers' barrel line . Neithed Lum nor Abner takes his radio lovely queen, Bobbie Jean Craig of Frederick, and St. Pat, Gordon Dempsey, engineer senior from folksiness home with him. They and their fam- Oklahoma City, at the coronation ceremonies .

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Jerome Oliver Edwards, '31-'33, formerly of Herbert H. Scott, '26ba, '26ma, Navy veteran - -1930 Seminole, is now managing a large cotton planta- of World War II, is connected with branch office tion near Leachville, Arkansas . His family is No . 9, St . Louis, Missouri, of the veterans admin- Harry W. Day, '30bus, assistant general agent making its home in Blytheville. istration as chief of the education and training of New England Mutual Life Insurance Company division, vocational rehabilitation service. Herb's at San Francisco, observes his fifth anniversary George Frickel jr., '29-'33, is a Boy Scout ex- duties cover the entire state. One of his daughters, with the company this month. ecutive at Port Arthur, Texas. Sue, is now a student at O.U ., and another, Ann, Dr . 1"'. Adelbert Hoshall, '30med, and Mrs. Robert G. MacDonald, '336a, '376s, left March attends Washington University, St . Louis, where Hoshall (Mercedes Erixon, '26fa) are now making 1, 1946, for Honolulu, Hawaii, to be gone two she is prominent in student affairs, having been in Charleston, South Carolina . their home years as assistant executive of Boy Scouts in the named as one of the school's ten leading voice Hughes, '27-'30, Noble, and Mrs. Raymond Honolulu area . A former lieutenant senior grade, students . Herb formerly was district president of parents of a daughter, Melinda Ray, Hughes are the he was released from the Navy in December, J945 . Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, serving over chapters born February 16 in Noble. Mr . Hughes is em- at O.U ., Texas U., S.M .U ., Oklahoma A. & M., ployed at the Liberty theater. Tulsa U., and Arkansas U. Call and Mrs. Call (Norma Ann Com- L. E. - stock, '306a, '32lib .sci), Oklahoma City, are the -1934 Jim Randolph, born September 16 -1927- parents of a son, John L. Fortson, '346a, former Oklahoma news- in Oklahoma City. paperman, recently began a regular radio broad- James W. Pipkin, '27, has re-established his law '30eng, San Antonio, Maynard Gerald Fuller, cast, "Religion in the News," over the facilities of office in Seminole after serving as a diesel engineer of the Roads, Texas, is now chief civil engineer the National Broadcasting company. in the Merchant Marine during the war. Railroads and Runways Branch of the 4th Army Jack Davis Sides, '26-'27, Dallas, Texas, has Headquarters . Mr. Fortson is public re- been assistant to the vice-president and field man- W. C. McAllister, '30, is now a certified public lations director for the Fed- ager of the Praetorian Life Insurance Company accountant . cral Council of Churches of in Dallas for the last 20 years. Christ of America and edi- Dr. Troy F. Long, '27, is now a practicing sur- tor of the organization's in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Tulane official organ, the Federal geon -1931- He University in 1938 . Council Bulletin . has Frank Duggan Smith, '26-'27, Pampa, Texas, Edward L. Howard, '31geol, former lieutenant been a reporter on the has been owner and manager of the Smith's Quali- with the Navy, is now employed as a consulting Oklahoma City Times and ty Shoe Store for the last eight years. He was dis- geologist in Tyler, Texas. news editor of the Seminole charged in October, 1945, from the Army Engi- Maurine Bowling, '31phys.ed, assistant profes- Producer and in 1935 did neers. sor of physical education for women, had an a newscast over WKY, article published in the February, 1947, issue of Oklahoma City . -1928- "The Woman Golfer" magazine . Miss Bowling Later Mr . Fortson worked has been assistant professor at the University for for the United Press in Vernon S. Nicholson, '25-'28, Oklahoma City, the last 12 years. JOHN L. FORTSON New York and Washing- of the Lincoln and Mercury divi- now manager ton. He became public relations director for the Fred Jones, Inc., has been with the Benton Ferguson, '316a, sion of the Federal Council of Churches in 1940 . company for the last 18 years. recently was elected to a J. Walter Long, Jr ., '26=28, is now practicing vice-presidency of Camp- Mr . Fortson served in the navy from 1942 to law in Dallas, Texas. bell-Mithun, Incorporated, 1945, holding the rank of lieutenant commander J. I. Goins, '28law, Marietta, former judge of Minneapolis and Chicago at the time of his discharge. the 20th judicial District, has formed a law part- advertising agency. Fergu- Philip C. Honnold, '34, nership with Jack H. Smith, Madill, and is prac- son formerly was an ac- Oklahoma City, has ticing in Ardmore. count executive in the been employed as general Merle Andrew Sparks, '23-'28, Dallas, Texas, firm's Minneapolis office manager and northeastern is an administrative petroleum engineer with the and has been associated representative of the C. Sun Oil Company in Dallas . He was discharged with Campbell -Mithun's I dgar Honnold Investment July, 1946, from the Army with the rank of colonel. seven years. 1' Anker in Oklahoma City T. R. Benedum, '28law . Norman attorney, was for the last ten years. He he was appointed by Governor Turner to serve on the Working in Washington, D. C., where previously had served as University of Oklahoma Board of Regents and his ordered early in the year to serve with the research t special agent with the selection was approved by the State Senate early and development division of the War Depart- Federal Bureau of Investi- James C. Todd, in April. Newest member of the board and former ment's general staff, is Lt . Col. gation He is a member of Mrs Todd president of the Alumni Association, Benedum will '31law, formerly of Tulsa. Mr. and . :a Theta Pi Fraternity . living at serve a seven-year term . (the former Louise Bagby, '346a) are Mrs. Honnold is the former 114 Brookside Drive, Arlington, Virginia . Helen Elaine Buck, '35-'38, -1929- Oklahoma City . Charles A. Forrest, '29ms, has been employed as -1932- a chemist with the Bureau of Internal Revenue in news- -1935- Detroit, Michigan, for the last 18 and one-half John Fischer, '32ba, former Oklahoma years. paperman and now an editor of Harper's Magazine, Ward "Red" Lynn, '35bus, is now associated speakers at the annual Whitney Conrad Thrower, '28-'29, Kennett, will be one of the principal with the Seminole Investment Company after his at the Uni- Missouri, has been owner and operator of the institute on International Relations return from duty in Europe . address at the Thrower Printing Company in Kennett for the versity. Fischer will give the first Wendel Black, '35eng, is now employed as su- last 15 years. He served with the Army for one Institute June 8. Cali- perintendent for the Stanolind Oil and Gas Com- year and was discharged in December, 1945 . Capt. Margaret Giles, '32fa, Pasadena, in Lubbock, Texas. John Worley, '29law, after serving on the State fornia, was assigned to the office of chief nurse pany Manila, Philippine Industrial Commission for the last four years, is with the 10th General Hospital, Carl L. Easterling, Jr ., '35ba, Muskogee, is em- now associated with Leo J . Williams and Charles Islands, December 1 . ployed as U. S. Probation Officer for the Eastern D. Crandall in the general practice of law in Okla- Thomas Britt Burns, '32, Oklahoma City, is District of Oklahoma located in Muskogee . homa City . now district sales manager for the Selected In- Everett Thomas, '35bus, has been transfered to Dr . Robert Randolph Ebersole, '24-'29, Musko- vestments Corporation in Oklahoma City . appointed the Norman office of the Oklahoma Gas and Elec- gee, died February 19, 1947, in Muskogee follow- Hicks B. Epton, '32law, was recently by tric Company from Ada, where he was a dis- ing a heart attack. Dr . Ebersole received his doc- a member of the Judicial Committee created tribution clerk. He is working as an accountant in torate from Kansas City Western Dental College the State Supreme Court. the Norman office. in 1932 . J. Raymond Tucker, '326s, and Mrs. Tucker Milton Asfahl, '296a, '30ma, Oklahoma City, (Geneva Hemmer, '31) are the parents of a son, Cline Lee Mansur, '356s, Vinita, and Mrs. Man- was recently appointed General Agent for the David Alan, born December 13 in Fort Worth, sur (Betty Jo Chitwood, '38journ) are the parents State of Oklahoma by the Equitable Life Insur- Texas. of a son, Thomas Dee, born October 15 in the ance Company, Des Moines, Iowa. Vinita Hospital . Mr . Mansur is design engineer COULSON-VAN LEUVEN : Violet Mary In- for the engineering firm of W. R. Holway and galls-Tenneyson Coulson, Sheffield and London, -1933- Associates in Vinita . England, and Kermit Van Leuven, '26-'29, Okla- Dot Jeannette Edmondson, '346a, '35ma, a married in London during the Major Francis Crane, '33med, of Wilburton, has homa City, were member of the faculty at Oklahoma College for Christmas holidays. Mr. Van Leuven is now as- been admitted to the Medical Corps of the Regular Women, was a special instructor on the summer sociated with the United States claims service in Army. Major Crane served during World War 11 staff of State Teachers College, Platteville, Wis- France . Mr . and Mrs. Van Leuven are at home in in the Pacific Theater where he attained the tem- consin . Metz . porary rank of lieutenant colonel.

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APRIL, 1947 - Marshall W. Pipkin, '39bus, has been employed Eugene T. White, '356a, l938- LOVE-TAPSCOTT: with the Veterans Administration in Muskogee for news editor of the Alva Virginia Dale Love, Okla- homa City, and George F. Tapscott, '35-'38, also the last four months . He was discharged from the Review-Courier for the of Oklahoma City, were married March Navy in February, 1946 . past year, has resigned to 2 in Okla- homa City . The couple is at home join the promotion and in Oklahoma The appointment of Charles E. Hughes, '39bus, City where Mr . Tapscott is employed public relations staff of by the Okla- as assistant cashier in the office of the comptroller homa Publishing Company. radio station WKY, Okla- at the University was made recently by the Board homa City . White began Hursbal H. Risinger, '38ma, Weatherford, is of Regents. his newspaper now employed at the Southwestern Institute of career in James Harley Ivy, '396a, '41law, is now work- Oklahoma reporter Technology in Weatherford. He formerly had as a for ing with his father in the abstract business in the taught in Collingsworth County, Texas. Wewoka Times-Demo- Waurika following a tour of military duty in crat after receiving a degree Sheldon Crocker, '38bus, and Mrs. Crocker are Germany. in journalism from O.U . now making their home in Houston, Texas, where John William Breeden, '396a, he is in charge of Braniff Airline operations . Odessa, Texas, is the West Texas representative for the American Ryan Russell, '33-'35, former captain Clyde T. Patrick, '386a, '391aw, is now an attor- in the Steel and Wire Company stationed in Odessa . He Army, served in the European and Asiatic ney with the U.S . Department of Labor in Dallas, thea- has been with the company for the last four years. ters of operation before being released in April, Texas. 1946 . Dale Vliet, '38law, Oklahoma City, is now attending Harvard Law School at Cambridge, 1940- -1936- Massachusetts. He was discharged from the Army Among the newest Life Members of the Uni- in March, 1946, with the rank of major. The frigid winter of neither Innesfree nor the Rocky Mountains compares versity of Oklahoma Association are John E. Wood- Paul Dennis , '38eng, VermilionAlberta,, with the bitter cold in Warsaw, Poland, ward, '32ba, '35ma, and Mrs. Woodward (Norma is theBowleCanada, ging director of the Regent according to J. T. Kendrick, '40. Kendrick was Paine, '32ba) of Lawton. Company,manaDrilling imited, in Vermilion. enroute to his post with the Stuart Brady, foreign service department in Russia when '36, and Mrs. Brady (Jean John McCune kle, '38bus, Hunter, is now he Schwartz, '37fa) are the parents of a daughter, mailed the "weather report" on a Christmas card in farmingMeiengaged ear Hunte . from Siedra, born recently in Temple, Texas. Mr . Brady Warsaw to friends at Innesfree. is now serving overseas and Mrs. Brady WINKLER-BAILEIowa, Y: Florence Winkler, Sib ey, is at home became Charlyne Moon Feray, '38-'40, is now living in in Temple. the ride of Donald F. Bailey, Bartlesville, b'38bus,in Madison, Wisconsin, where her husband is teach- Roger W. Booth, '36, has been employed as a ceremony read Febru- ary 8 in Bartlesville. Mr . ing at the University of Wisconsin while com- chief engineer with the Lennox Furnace Com- Bailey was affiliated with Delta Tau Delta pleting work on his doctorate in micropaleontology. pany in Marshalltown, Iowa, for the last three Frat rnity. years. Woodrow Hardy, '39-'40, Norman, and Mrs. Charles H. Eaton, '36bus, is now an associate Hardy are the parents of a son, Victor Gordon, attorney with the Veterans Administration in 1939~ born March 25 at the Norman Municipal Hospital . Dallas, Texas. James M. Flinchummanager , '39, United Press bureau Dick Favor, '35-'40, has been made drilling su- Joe Murray, '34-'36, and Mrs. Murray, Norman, at Edinburghas , Texas, since March, 1946, perintendent for the Gulf coast district of the Stano- are the parents of a daughter, Marilyn, born re- been transferred o the business department as lind Oil Company and is making his home in New cently in Norman . representative in Oklaho- Orleans, Louisiana. CATES-SHACKELFORD : Melba Cates, '36fa, ma, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma City, and Ralph M. Weldon Smith, '36-'40, Altus, and Mrs. Smith Shackelford, Tex- Texas. arkana, Arkansas, (Mary Helen Whittet, '39-'42) are the parents were married January 29 in Mr. Flinchum was as- of Oklahoma City . Mrs. Shackelford is a member a daughter born recently in Altus. signed to the Edinburg of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority and is now music bureau shortly after re- Tom Reed Coats, '40law, is now employed in director of radio station KTOK, Oklahoma City . turning to the Oklahoma the Legal Department of the Halliburton Oil Com- James F. Haning, '36ba, '39law, has opened a City staff after his discharge pany in Duncan . He recently was discharged from law office in Wewoka following three and one- from the Army in Novem- the Navy. half years spent in the Navy . Previous to his ber, 1945 . Navy service he had offices in Ada. Madeline Ferguson Henderson, '40nurse, is now After leaving the Uni- Jackson D. Scott, '36law, Seminole, employed as school nurse at the Fort Knox In- and Mrs. versity of Oklahoma School Scott are the parents of a son, Jackson dependent School, Kentucky, where her husband, Dennis, III, of journalism in 1939, Mr. born February 1 in Seminole . Mr . Scott recently Capt . Hubert Henderson, Jr., is attending the Ad- Flinchum was employed as took office as County Attorney of Seminole vanced Armored School . County . editor of the Hobbs (New JAMES M. FLINCHUM Joe Cole, is managing - Mexico) Morning Post- '40bus, a real estate 1937- agency in Atoka. Courier. He became a member of the Oklahoma Max K. Gilstrap, '37ba, assistant to the manag- City United Press staff in September, 1939, and ing editor of the Christian Science Monitor, has was employed there until he entered the Army 1941 been elected an honorary member of the University January 20, 1941 . chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic fraternity . Mr. Flinchum took part in the WATKINS-PENFOLD: Frances Watkins, '37 New Britain, BENDER-HANVILLE: The wedding of Aletta Luzon and Visayan campaigns as a Bender, '39-'41, lib.sci, Oklahoma City, became the bride of Sgt. reconnaissance Shawnee, to Scott H. Hanville, Jr., officer in the infantry . He was Huron, Charles W. Penfold, St . Louis, Missouri, Septem- awarded the Bronze Ohio,, was solemnized recently in Shawnee. Star for rescuing an American her 18 . Mrs. Penfold was a member of Beta Alpha mining engineer After leaving the University Mrs. Hanville was and his family on Luzon. Phi Sorority and until recently was a post librari- employed in headquarters Army Ground Forces, Washington, D. C. In January, 1945, an at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri . Dr . Wilson Mahone and Dr . Ralph S. Phelan, she went to London, England, with the office M. O. Boring, Jr., '37eng, has formed a partner- both '36ba, '376s, '39med, have established offices of strategic serv- ices and later to Paris, France, ship with his father known as the Dixilyn Drilling together in the Lemon Building, Hobart, contin- with the Air Trans- Company port Command. She returned in March, 1946, with offices in Odessa, Texas. uing an association that began when they were and since that time has been employed in James A. Embry, '376s, and Mrs. Embry (Betty graduated from the University. Both are veterans Washington, D. C. The couple is at home in Washington, Lou Clark, '396a) are the parents of a son, James of World War II . After serving their internship D. C. A., III, born January 8. Mr . Embry is stationed at together at Jefferson Davis Hospital, Houston, Robert E. Drewry, '41, Norman, and Mrs. Quantico, Virginia, as a lieutenant colonel in the Texas, they entered the service in July, 1941 . After Drewry (Norma Jones, '43ed) are the parents of a Marines. 21 months with the Army Ground Forces in son, Robert Edwin, born recently in Norman. CARPENTER-BAKER: China, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carpen- Mahone was discharged recently with Bobby Cawthon, '41, who served in the Canadian ter, '36-'37, Oklahoma the rank City, became the bride of of lieutenant colonel. Dr . Phelan served Air Force throughout the war, is back home in Russell A. Baker, overseas Oklahoma City, in a ceremony 30 months, seeing combat in the Italian Seminole, where he is connected with a grocery performed the early part of January. Mrs. Baker campaign, and was discharged from the Army with concern. attended Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Mississippi, :t captain's rank . A graduate student at Minnesota since before coming to the University. July An alumnus with a unique occupation is Joe Jack- 1943, Fair has completed a three-year Frank Hughes, '37fa, '39m .mus .ed, fellowship and Mrs. son Johnson, '37fa, '38ma, of Washington, D. C. at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Hughes became the parents of a daughter, Minnesota, where Mar- He's a copyright research expert. From a list of he is an assistant in surgery. jorie Lee, March 26 in Norman . Mrs Fair, a graduate of . Hughes is popular songs, both old and new, he obtains all Heavener High School in 1933, the former Barbara Germany, '42fa later attended the . available information on their copyright status University of Oklahoma Ebb White, II, '37eng, is where he was active in now in Midland, at the United States copyright offices. Johnson intramural athletics Texas, where he is superintendent and Methodist youth acviti- of the Sea- then gets all original copies of songs from the ties. Sports, religious board Oil Company of work and his home are his Delaware . music division of the Library of Congress, com- current Charles Selby, '37law, hobbies. Dr. and Mrs. Fair are the parents is now practicing law in pares them then writes briefs on their present of Bartlesville . copy- a young daughter, Linda Lee, two and one- right standing . half years old. Their home is in Rochester.

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James L. Lett, '43pharm, Norman, has returned 1942- to the United States from Austria where he had been for two years with the Army . He was dis- charged from the Rainbow division in March, 1946, and accepted a position as pharmacist in the 124th station hospital in Linz, Austria. Travel in OWNBY-MULLEN : Lois Ownby, Shawnee, and Ray Mullen, '43rd, Seminole, were married re- Roomy cently in Duncan . Mr. Mullen is a member of Al- pha Tau Omega Fraternity. Following his gradu- ation from the University, he served as a lieutenant Comfort in the Marine Corps. The couple is at home in Healdton . in Santa Fe 1944 Chair Cars Bob Blackert, '41-'44, Oklahoma City, has been appointed by the University Board of Regents to serve as studio engineer for WNAD during the spring semester . Mr . Blackert has returned to the University following two years service with the Navy . MYERS-CUNNINGHAM : Mildred E. Myers, '44, and Paul M. Cunningham, both of Oklahoma City, were married February 1 in the First Pres- byterian church . The couple is at home in Tulsa where Mr. Cunningham is attending Tulsa Uni- versity. The resignations of Vada Ozell Nelms, '44soc.wk, BETTY BROWN PRESTON . . . New York Sun and Mrs. Elveta Hughes, '24, were accepted at a writer. recent meeting of the Board of Regents. Miss Nelms Going a long way in the journalistic field is Mrs. has been employed as a special instructor in social Charles Preston, known to her New York Sun work and Mrs. Hughes as secretary in the athletic readers and by Sooner friends as Betty Brown, '41, department . No '42. Mrs. Anna Field Elder, '446us, is now making nerve strain...no tangles... no slippery Married recently to Preston, who operates a her home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where her fm literary agency in New York City, Miss Brown husband, Robert M. Elder, is with the Cummins roads. . . it's comfortable was a feature writer for several song hit maga- Deisel Engine Company. zines and a movie magazine before joining the Melvin Moyer, '44ms, has rejoined the staff of and carefree to travel Sun staff as a special columnist. Her feature col- Cities Service Chemical Research Laboratory at Santa Fe. No more umn, which appears on Fridays, contains interest- Tallant, after an extended tour of the Pacific ing interviews, covering all kinds of youth events, while in the military service. crowded chair cars-- projects and entertainment. CARLOCK-HILL : Mozelle Carlock, '446us, and now there a Besides contributing to the Sun, Betty writes free Houston E. Hill, '26law, both of Oklahoma City, is seat for lance under several pen names including Mary were married February 23 in Oklahoma City . every passenger. Step Walter and Candy McClure. The following is an Mrs. Hill is a member of Chi Omega Sorority . Mr . excerpt from a biographical sketch which appeared Hill is a member of Kappa Alpha Fraternity . He aboard and enjoy the recently in the New York paper: "Betty has a has established a law practice in Oklahoma City . roomy comfort of a writing style of her own. Free, and easy . You're bound to like reading it ." chair car trip via de- While attending the University, Mrs. Preston -1945- pendable, all-weather participated extensively in radio station WNAD Mrs. Margaret Bannister, the former Margaret activities . Trimble, '456a, resigned her staff position on the Santa Fe Service. Clinton Daily News following her recent mar- Wilbur A. Baetz, Detroit, Michigan, and Mrs. riage. She had worked at Clinton since February, Baetz (Martha Baxter, '39-'42, Oklahoma City), 1946 . are the parents of a son, Kenneth Alan, born Editing a Daily may be rough, but getting out January 30 in Detroit. Mr . Baetz is employed by a weekly in Nagoya, Japan, is like "beating your the Veterans' Administration in Detroit. head against the wall ." That's the report of Rob- "Round trips" Guy Brown, '42ba, head of the speech depart- ert Peterson, '44-'45. ment at Cameron college, Lawton, has resigned Peterson is now in Nagoya where his sole duty cost less by train! to accept a position with the speech department is the publishing of a weekly, four-page tabloid at the University . newspaper for the air force. Getting material is Morris B. Tucker, '37ba, '42ma, and Mrs. Tuck- "comparatively easy," according to his report . "It's For example, round trip from er (Beatrice James, '40) are the parents of a son, getting it printed that drives us mad." NORMAN to Paul Borden, born January 6 in Oklahoma City . The apparent reason for this difficulty has been IN Mr. Tucker is a teacher in the Tulsa public school traced to the big Jap newspapers who do the SLEEPING system . printing . "We work," Peterson wrote, "through IN CAR CHAIR (BERTH the foreign affairs section, principally because they CAR EXTRA) -1943- jokingly say they can understand English. Los Angeles $59.85 $78.90 Lt . Robert B. Lewis, '40-'43, Dallas, Texas, is "All type is set by hand by shop men who can't Denver 29.10 36.30 now stationed with the Army at the Holabird Sig- read, write or understand English. They look at Kansas City 14.35 17.85 nal Depot at Baltimore, Maryland. a letter on the copy, then look all over their case Chicago 32.55 40.60 Harry H. "Buddy" Diamond, Jr ., '38-'43, and to find one like it. If they find something similar Houston 17.15 21 .35 Mrs. Diamond (Betty Malloy, '42ba) are the par- first, they put it in. Consequently, the first proof (Federal Tax not included) ents of a son, Jeffrey, born in November in Holden- looks worse than a proof-reading problem for ville. They have a daughter, Margery Ann, now journalism 101." two and one-half years old. Peterson added that reproduction was also a R. E. CHAPPELL Emerson Jordan, '43eng, is now employed as a problem. "Up to last week," he said, "pictures Passenger Traffic junior engineer with Stanolind Oil Company in were very bad-a mass of grey in some cases. Last Manager Wewoka. week they were clear and sharp-and the paper Topeka, Kansas Douglas Stewart, '43eng, is now employed with was a mass of oil. Four days later, they still are the Humble Oil and Refining Company in Hous- not dry." ton, Texas. Editorial offices for the air force tabloid are Neal J. Mosely, '43eng, and Mrs. Mosely (Mar- located in a modern office building for the con- jorie Duerksen, '41-'43) are the parents of a daugh- venience of those "going mad." ter, Janet Marie, born March 21 in Alliance City, Robert Peterson is the son of Robert V. Peterson, Ohio . Dr . Ray R. Mosely, '15med, was the attend- former visiting professor of journalism and now ing physician. associate publisher of the Norman Transcript.

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Virginia Morris, '45nurse, is now head nurse of the New Born Nursery in Oklahoma City . Earl E. James, Jr., '45, Oklahoma City, is now making his home in Coronado, California, where he is an engineer with Consolidated Aircraft Com- pany . Anne Treske, '44-'45, Hartford, Connecticut, is now attending the University o£ Boston . She served with the WAVES as a Dental Technician and was stationed at Norman for some time . Hazel Jane Hackett Evans, '44-'45, Alva, is studying voice at the University of Southern Cali- fornia . She expects to receive her degree in June . Jean Adams, '45bus, Duncan, is studying voice under the direction of Clark Snell, '18ba, Oklaho- ina City, who formerly was an instructor at the University .

-1946- James A. Dugger, '46med, reported for active duty with the U. S. Naval Medical Corps recently . DEVORE-McCOY: Hallie Louise DeVore and Chandler Jerry McCoy, '46, both of Oklahoma City, were married February 15 in Wichita, Kansas, Mr . McCoy is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. BAKER-LAWS : Rose Lee Baker, Pawnee, be- came the bride of William Loury Law, '43, '46, Oklahoma City, February 15 in Wichita, Kansas . Mr . Laws is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity . Frances Carroll, '46journ, has joined the staff of the Grandfield Enterprise as advertising man- Cooley (seated), ager . Presenting newly elected officers of O.U .'s Association of Women Students . . . Carolyn Christie Dough- SMITH-VADAKIN : Billie Jean Smith, '43-'46, junior arts and science student from Norman, president; standing from left to right, Persh Wewoka, became the bride of William Hale Vada- erty, freshman from Amarillo, Texas, secretary; Ann Blanton, sophomore business student from kin, '39-'40, '45-'46, Enid, December 29 in We- ing, and Marty Meacham, arts and science sophomore from Norman . woka. They have established a home in Norman where Mrs. Vadakin is a senior in the College of WARKENTIN-BENDER : Dorothy Jeanne War- Education and Mr . Vadakin is a junior in the -1947- kentin, '43-'47, Oklahoma City, and Floyd E. College of Business Administration. Bender, '44-'47, Ames, Iowa, were married Janu- '46bus, Weather- school WEBB-LEACI-I : Patti Webb, Miss Dixie McDonald, '47ba, journalism ary 25 in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Bender is a mem- Texas, ford and Guy W. Leach, '45-'47, Borger, graduate, is serving as press relations secretary of ber of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority, which she has January in Norman . Mrs. and the Tulsa Council were married in late the Tulsa Community Chest served as president. Mr . Bender is continuing his Gamma Sigma, honor- Leach is a member of Beta of Social Agencies . studies at the University and the couple is at home is a member of ary business fraternity. Mr. Leach GRAVES-CHRISTY : Dorothy Graves, Black- in Norman . Phi Epsilon Fraternity . The couple is at Sigma well, was married to Robert Christy, '46-'47, Jerry Keen, '47, Norman, has been employed by Norman where Mr . Leach is continuing his The home in Ponca City, January 4 in Oklahoma City . Tyler and Simpson Wholesale grocery in Gaines- University . studies at the couple is at home in Norman where Mr . Christy ville, Texas. Dietrich, '45-'46, Imlay City, Michigan, attending the University. Carolyn is Thomas D. Davis, '47journ, has joined the staff music at Michigan State College, is now studying BIBB-OLIVER : Mrs. Na Decn Bibb, Elk City, of the Altus Times-Democrat as a reporter. Mr. Michigan . were Ypsilanti, and Jack J. Oliver, '46-'47, Oklahoma City, Davis returned to the journalism school last Sep- named the Bill Jennings, '46ed, Norman, was married in late December in Senatobia, Missis- tember after four year's service in the Army . football coach for the University sippi. The couple is at home in Oklahoma City third assistant Clifton F. Caldwell, '47journ, Mountain View, Jennings is known as the "greatest and Mr . Oliver is a pre-medical student at the recently. Mr. has joined the Ada Evening News as an advertis- Oklahoma's modern football his- . pass-catcher in University ing salesman. He served as assistant photographer Okla- tory." BREEDING -HERNDON : Sue Breeding, for the University photography bureau, and last homa City, became the bride of Ray Herndon, semester was an advertising manager on the Okla- Jr ., '46-'47, also of Oklahoma City, December 31 . homa Daily. The couple is at home in Oklahoma City while WOOLEY-GREENLEE: Mary Evelyn Wooley, Mr . Herndon is attending the University . Vinson, became the bride of Robert E. Greenlee, SHELTON-WILSON : Moselle Loretta Shelton, '46-'47, Moore, December 21 in Norman . The LINDOUIST '46-'47, Hollis, became the bride of Billy Bob Wil- Used Tires - Retreading, Repairing couple is at home in Oklahoma City while Mr. son, '46-'47, also of Hollis, January 1 in the First attending the University . Rental, Recharge Greenlee is Battery Service - Baptist church . The couple is at home in Norman 217 W. Main Norman Phone 704 where they are both students at the University. Hal Muldrow, '28 Insurance of all Kinds Welcome Bonds Security National Bank Bldg. Norman New Sooners--

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