A Series of Brief News Stories of Events That Shaped the Lives of the Alumni Family 1911 1918 Kogcc

The Captain and the Queens

Three lovely coeds and a courtly Navy (lark glasses is Althea (Thea) Ortman, dren, Bob Jr., 5, and twins Marianne and captain snapped by campus photographer '40bfa, and on the right Mary Martha Lo- Melinda, 3 . Roy E. Heffner in 1944 appeared in the gatu, '43-'45. The coeds were attending a Thca is now Mrs. Charles M. Heard of December issue of the Sooner for that track meet. Earlier in the day Mary Mar- Lakewood, Colorado. A Chi Omega, she month's identity guessing game. They tha had been named Track Queen. Thea served her sorority as social chairman and came perilously close to remaining uniden- and Frances were serving as her attendants . majored in fine arts. Heard, a track and tificd for all time. Mary Martha is now Mrs. Emery Swan- football athlete, was an Acacia. He re- The first clue came from Dorothy son of Wichita Falls, Texas. Hailing orig- ceived his RS in petroleum engineering in Hemphill Hamilton, '46, Bartlesville . She inally from Hominy, she was a Delta Gam- 1947. tagged a name on the dark-haired lass in ma and majored in education. Her hus- It remained to reader J . A . Taylor, '45bs, the center, Frances Mayes, '40bs, and the band, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha, re- '51nas, exploration manager for Magnolia course ahead seemed plain-find Frances ceived his 13S in petroleum engineering in Petroleum Co. in Oklahoma City, to sup- Mayes and ask with whom she was pic- 1943. They have four children, Sarah ply the name of Capt. J. F. Donelson, di- tured on that long-ago day. Frances, 14 ; Ford, 11 ; Logan, 9, and Mary rector of the Navy V-12 program at O.U. It was much easier said than done, but Grace, 4 . during the war . The program was the war- after numerous talks with former sorority Frances is now Mrs. Robert L. Dow of time version of the NROTC. Captain Don- sisters (Delta Delta Delta), Frances was in- Tulsa . She majored in business adminis- elson, Annapolis 1910, was the first native- deed traced to Tulsa and the riddle of the tration. Her husband is a Montana Univer- born Oklahoman to graduate from the coeds' identities solved . On the left in sity graduate. The Dows have three chil- U. S. Naval Academy. a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives of the alumni family 1911 1918 kogcc. Past president of the East Central Oklahoma Dr. F. E. Dale, ' I 1 ba, Norman, is author of a Wesley l. Nunn, '18, Chicago, discussed an ad- Medical Socicb-, 1)r. Neely began his practice in book, Frontier 11'avs, which was recently published vertising film, "The Man Who Built a Better Muskogee in 1922 . He is survival by his wife and by the University of Texas Press . I )r . Dale is pro- Mousetrap," at a recent inauguration meeting of a son, Mai. Samuel E. Neely. fessor cincritus of history at O.U . the Oklahoma Public Relations Association. Nunn, 1920 1)r. Frank A. Balyeat, '11ba, '18ma, professor who wrote and produced the film, is now a(Ivertis- T.. B. Ferrell, '20ba, '21eng, '24nw, presented a emeritus of education, and Dr . A. M. Gibson, '47ba, in,g manager for Standard Oil Company of In- paper, "'Time Sharing and Pulse Coding," before '48tna, '54ph .d, archivist of university libraries, diana. the Oklahoma Citv section of the American Insti- have written articles which appeared in the latest 1919 tute of Electrical h.ngineers . Ferrell, director of issue of The Chronicles of Oltluhornu, a quarterly DT:ATHS: Charles Hardwick Fawkes, '19ba, communications techniques research at Bell 'tele- published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. died December 14 in a Claremore hospital after a phonc Laboratories, was recently appointed hono- 1915 long illness. Favvkes had served as executive vice- rarc professor of statistics at Rutgers University . DEATH : Tom C. Wahlrep, '15Law, died Oc- president of the American National Bank at Bris- 1921 tober 7 in his home in Shawnee following a long tovv for some time before retiring and returning to Forrest M. Darrough, '21 ba, '231,aw, Tulsa, has illness. Waldrep, 70, was a former Oklahoina state Claremore. One of the organizers of the American been named associate general counsel of the new senator and widely known in political circles in National Bank of Pryor in 1943, Fawkes served as I fumble Oil & Refining Company, Houston, Texas. Pottawatotnic County . He is survived by his wife a state representative from Kiowa County in 1924 I le was formerly vice President and general counsel and a daughter, Mrs. George Defenbaugh . and 1925 . of Carter Oil Company. He and Mrs. Darrough 1916 Dr . Charles Leonard Brown, '19bs, '21 tried, died have three children, Susan and William, and For- New DEATH : M. L. Cotton, '1Gha, '29ms, died No December 4 in his home at Jersey City, Jersey . rest M. Darrough, Jr., who is a student at the Uni- 22 in the home of his son, 1)r. John M. Cot- A native of Geary, I )r . Brawn was dean of the Sc- versitc of Oklahoma School of Medicine. ton, [)ebbs Ferry, New York . Cotton, who lived in ton Hall College of Med tine and Dentistry at the DEATH : Allen C. Duncan, '21gcol, died Sep- Norman after his retirement, was past president of time of his death. He had held teaching positions tember 18 in New York City where he was a trust the Oklahoma Education Association and superin- at Harvard Medical School, University of Michigan officer for the First National City Company. Dun- tendent of schools at Stigler, Walters, Duncan, Prc- and "temple University . Survivors include his wife can, 61, ",as a past-president of the O.U . Aluntni Or, Lawton and Altus. Survivors include his wife and two daughters . Club in New York City . and another son, Larry, of North I loll,wood, Cali- Dr . Shade Durrett Neck-, '19bs, '20med, died 1922 fornia . ,if a heart attack November 20 in his home in Mus- "Travis 1. Milsten, '22ba, has been appointed a

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rucrnlrcr of the corrumiuec on savings and loan as- tcrian Church in Ch cago. For ,c\cn'\cars before I)r. J . Teague Self, '3Gph.cl, O.U . zoology pro- sociations of the American Bar Association. Mil- his present position, he served on the staff of the fessor, has written a section on parasites which will sten has been a Tulsa attorney for more than 30 Indonesian Council of Churches . appear in the Encyclopedia of Biology. Self, who years and is a member of the firm of Milsten, Mil- W. B. Weeks, '29cng, was recently appointed has written sections in text books, will deal with stcn and Morehead . He is currently on leave from manager of the land and geological department Pcntastomida parasites in his article. the law faculty of the Universi ty of Tulsa, where he with Phillips Petroleum Company in BartIcs%iIIc. Mare Kiutbrough, '36, was recently - elected na- has served fOr none than I() )cars. Weeks has been with Phillips since 1933 . tional president of Theta Sigma Phi, women's honorary journalism fraternity, at the annual con- 1930 1923 \ention in Seattle, Washington . Mss Kimbrough Or . Gifford 11 . 11cnr\, '23ba, 'Iulsa physician Paul A. Dufficld, 30gcol, lives in Shawnee, where is now a St . Lotus Post-Dispatch staff writer . and surgeon, has been appointed tor the radiation lie is an oil scout for Texaco, Inc. I)uflield was Dr . Rheba Edwards, 36bs, 38mcd, advisory committee of the Oklahoma state depart- president of the Oklahoma district of the Missouri superinten- tlent of Western State Hospital, Fort Supply, has ment of health as a representative of the electric Valley'Fennis Association from 195% to 1959 . been named acting state mental health director . power industry . I)r. Henry has special training in 1932 Mrs. 1"dwards was assistant director of the acute the radiation held, including attendance at a semi- Hugh Gal nctt, '326111, is state chairman of the and intensive services division of Wcstcrn State nar on the use of atomic weapons at Sandia Base, Oklahoma committee on crime and delinquency, Hospital when she was named superintendent in New Mexico, in 1959 . I-le is past president of the sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Na- August, 1956 . Oklahoma State Medical Association and is pres- tional Parole Assocation . He and Mrs. Garnctt cntly radioactivity consultant for Wells Surveys, (the former Glce Miller, '376a) live in At tus. 1937 A. head, '37eng, has been promoted man- Inc., I)osvcll and I)-a Sunray, Inc. Dr. Bruce G. Carter, 32ma, '50d .ed, president l . to of Phillips 1,'arl Gilliatn, '23pharm, Oklaltorna City, own- of Northeastern A & M, Miami, has received the ag'er Chemical Company, subsidiary of Shops, has been prc- Phillips PCtrro!C11m Company, Bartlcsville . Head er of the G71iam Prescription honor of having the college's new student union joined Phillips in 1937 and, prior to his present scnted a gold prescription bottle by the Owens- building named for him. 1)r. Carter has been Ines- appointment, was manager of the manufacturing Illinois Glass Company to commemorate the filling ident at Northeastern since 1934 . two million prescriptions by the Gilliatn shops. di\isions of Phillips Chemical . of 1933 opened his first shop in 1931 . Gilliam Dr . Wendell L. Smith, '33rned, has been chosen 1938 1924 president-elect of the Tulsa Count\ Medical So- A. I.. Deaton, '386a, '401_aw, has been ad- Mr,. A . Walter Krarner (the former Merle ciety for 1961 . Dr . Smith, who has practiced in vance(I to the position of associate general coun- Montgomery, '24fa) has written a book entitled Drumright and Tulsa, is a past president (of the sel for The Carter Oil Company. Engaged in pri- ,14rrsir Composition Papers, recently- published by Tulsa Academy of General Practice . vate practice in Wewoka and Tulsa prior to join- Carl Fischer, Inc., New York . Or . Kramer is L. Dan Jones, '33eng, has been appointed coun- ing Carter's legal staff in 1944, he has keen as- president of the New York Federation of Music sel of the Indcpcndent Petroleum Association of sistant general counsel since 1955 . Clubs, e:!ucational consultant of the music depart- America. Jones has been assistant counsel of the Charles I{ . Ilarp, '38rns, associate professor of incur of Oxford University Press, New York, and IPAA since February, 1946 . Ile and Mrs. James electrical engineering at O.U ., is region six director a nenil,cr of the theory facult\ of the Turtle Bay and daughter, Jaye, live in Arlington, Virginia . for the Institute of Radio Engineers. He and Mrs. 8, Music School, New York . 1934 Harp have two children, John, and Charla, 7 . Mrs. J. O. McCalman (the former Marjorie Cal- Torn Ashton, 346111, is a representative for the Dr . Charles F. . McArthur, 38mcd, Olympia, lawa\, '266a, is living in Sallisaw, where her hus- New York Life Insurance Company in Oklahenna Washington, was guest speaker for the Tulsa Acad- band is a contractor of homes. She teaches Latin, City . Ashton has ofhccs at 1500 Libcrty Bank emy of General Practice. F)r. McArthur is past- French and Spanish in the Sallisaw High School . Building . president of the Washington state chapter, Ameri- 1926 Ray Pool, '34cng, is now assistant chief engineer can Academy of General Practice and former chair- Jesse 1) . Davis, '26, '27, has accepted the posi- of the steam-electric, Tulsa generating station of the man of the section on general practice of the AMA. tion of general counsel and director of industry Public Service Company of Oklahoma . Pool has He is now clinical associate in general practice at relations with the Southwestern Lumbermen's As- had 22 years service with the company. the University of Washington School of Medicine . sociation. Da\is was previously vice-president and Fred E. Cochran, '34, recently organized the Col. L. A. Traunuan, '38eng, is working as director of Tarnko Asphalt Products, Inc. The Cochran Chemical Company, operating out of electronics engineer for the U. S. Air Force at Tink- Southwestern Association has headquarters in Kan- Houston, Texas, and Wewoka . The firm offers er Air Force Base . Trautman has been elected vice- sas City, Missouri, but the Davis family, including chemicals for oil treating . He and Mrs. Coch- president of the Tinker chapter of the Reserve OHi- a son and daughter in high school, will continue ran (the former Mary Phillips, '38) and (Lntghter, cers Association . He is also program chairman of to maintain residence in Tulsa . - Susan Ann, 9, live in Houston. Texas. Tinker-Oklahoma City chapter of the Arnncd Forces Col. Henry F. Taylor, '26, '27, conunssioncd Hugh F. Owens, 3-ILaw . Oklahoma Citv attor- Communications Electronics Association. in the U. S. Army since 1926, took a final review ney, has been appointed administrator of the Okla- 1939 recent]\ on Fort Sam Houston's Arthur MacArthur homa State Securities Act. Owens is a native of John G. BCICIlCr, '396us, was recently appointed Field. Codoncl Taylor has been commander of Muskogee . assistant comptroller of Standard Oil Company Fort Sara Houston since 1957 . Ile and Mrs. Ta\- 1935 (New Jersey) . IIe has offices at 30 Rockefeller ]or are making their home in San Antonio, Texas. Col. J. 11 . Boling, '35eng, is chief of the Atomic Plaza, New Yo ik City . Belcher was formerly as- They hake two sons, Bruce, 12, and James, a cadet Targeting Branch of Supreme Headquarters Allied sistant comptroller rof International Petroleum Cor- at West Point. Powers Europe . poration, Ltd., Coral Gables, Florida. 1928 Morris F. Flynn, '351,aw, has been named as- Paul B. Cooke, '39, and Mrs. Cooke live in Victor I loll, Jr ., '286us, executive vice-president sistant mental health director for Oklahoma . Fly nn Wichita Falls, Texas. The Cookcs have two chil- of Goodyear 'Fire & Rubber Company, has been has been marshal for the state supreme court for the dren, Paul Berl, Jr ., 9, and Paula GayIC, 5. awarded a pin marking 30 years' service with Good- past 20 )'ears and was legal assistant to Justice N . S. 1940 year since his graduation from O.U . in 1929 . Holt Corn . Lt . (,rot. Godfrey Sperling, '40Law, recently Ann is a native of Heavener . Mrs. Elgin Kern (the former jetfic Band, served a 15-day dot\ tour in the information office DEATH: H. W. llumpas, '28, '29, was killed '35c(l), Clinton, partic pated in the Oklahoma Hall at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City. Sper- in an airplane crash in the Gulf Of Mexico, NON cro- of Fame induction ceremonies recently as the es- ling is chief of the central news bureau of the her 16, 1959 . cort of Professor H. H. Herbert of the O.U. jour- Christian Scienr e Monitor. 1929 nalism faculty. Mrs. Kent is Professor Herbert's It . 1' . Ryan, '40Law, eastern division manager Mrs. Ruby Clopton, '29cd, was CIc-+eland Coun- sister-in-law. for The Carter Oil Company at Matoon, Illinois, t\'s nominee for Teacher of the Year . Mrs. Clop-on, 1936 has been named general counsel and a director of who reaches second grade at Jefferson School in John F. O'Neil, '36fa, '391nfa, director of the the company. He, Mrs. Rvan and their six children Norman, plans to retire at the end of the school school of art at O.U ., has been incited to exhibit six w-11 move from Matoon to Tulsa in the near future . year and enroll in painting and music classes at of his recent paintings in a show to be held in Feb- C. Dan Admen, Jr., '40ba . '42Law, vice-presi- O.U . ruary in Copenhagen, I )eninark . O'Neil will also (Icnt and manager of the Midland, Texas, division Rev. Winburn T. Thomas, '29ba, is author of a write an article for the show's catalog. of Sindair Oil & Gas Company, is being trans- book, Protestant Beginnings in Japan, being pub- Lt. Col. John F. Taylor, '36ba, '39Law, is at ferred to the offices of Sindair Corporation in New lished by the Charles F . Tuttle Company. 1)r. lending the Associate Command and General Staff York City, where he will died the corporation's Thomas is lnesently serving on the Commission on Officer Course at Fort Lcavcnworth, Kansas . exploration and production acti\itics . Almen is Ecumenical Mission and Relations of the Presby- net 'F :r\lror is stationed at Fort I lo od,'I cxas . married to the former I)oroah\ Lambert, '42.

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: W. A. "Tate" Taylor, '40pharn), is owner and DEATH 9uinnm Peters, '48journ, died De- Poughkeepsie, New York . He and Mrs. Jeffer- Store No. cember 9 in a Tulsa hospital . Peters, 40, was manager of the new Tabor Rexall Drug as- son (the former Ann Hathaway, '57ba) have a son, 2 in the downtown shopping center in Norman . A sistant manager of public relations for Sunray Mid- James Michael, 20 months . in Continent Oil Company native of Cordell, Taylor has been a druggist and a former editor of the Gordon T. Price, '51hus, has been promoted to llhlahoma Daily. Norman since 1944 . He and Mrs. Taylor have three Peters joined Sunray in 1955, manager of the cast Tulsa division of the South- and formerly having chadrcn, ages 3, 11, 11 . been a reporter for the Tulsa western Bell Telephone Company. Price has been World. Survivors include his wife and 1942 three district manager at Ponca City . daughters, Susan, 9, Christine, 7, and Mack Burks, '42, '-13, has been made chairman Teresa, 5 . Dr . Robert Ashley, '516s, '551ned, has been ,of the Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board. 1949 made acting superintendent at Central State Hos- He also operates :t retail clothing business in Ok- Jesse E. Davis, II, '49fa, recently wpm first place pital, Norman . He was previously clinical director and lahoma City . He and Mrs. Burks have three chil- with his painting, "'The Sentinel," in the Arts ;in(] at the hospital . He Mrs. Ashley (the for- dren, Cynthia, 12, Susan, 10, and Carol, 8 . Crafts 1?xposition of the Indian Da\s at Sheridan, mer Ruth Forrest, '53c(l) have three children . Sloan K. Childers, '426a, has been promoted to Wyoming. The painting also took top prize of BIRTH: Richard 1) . McMurray, '5Leng, and special repre"'cntative in Phillips petroleum Com- $200 in Philbrook Art Center's Oklahoma Indian Mrs. McMurray (the former Barbara Morgan, pany's international department. Ile will be head- exhibition at Tulsa. Davis is employed as a plan- '48l)us), Oklahoma City, have selected the name quartered in Bartlesville. Childers, who has worked ner of production control at Tinker Air Force Base, Charles Eric for their son born September 9. The for Phillips since 1946, was previously assistant to Oklahoma City . McMurravs have :mother son, Richard Morgan, 5, and the manager of the company's land geological Robert F. Bouse, '49bus, has accepted a posi- 1952 d epartment. tion as district Boy Scout executive for the Dan William T. James, '52m .ed, superintendent of Beard District, Last Frontier schools at Berwyn for the past 25 years, 1943 Council, Oklahoma has been City . Ile in(] Mrs. Bousc appointed audio-visual specialist, Cal Acrec, '43, '44, was elected director of the have two children, Rob- educational ma- ert, 10, and Randy-, 6. terials services, University Extension basketball division of the Gulf Coast Officials Asso Division at Jack Black, '49gcol, has been named regional O.U . ciation for 1959-60. chairman for the 1960 Red Cross fund drive. He B. R. Farris, '52geol, and Mrs. Farris, '51ba, and 1945 will work with local chapters in Grad\, Garvin, children, William Thomas, 5, Linda Sue, 3, have '45soc .wk, has been as- Counties Capt . Maida Lambeth, McClain and Cleveland . n)ovcd to Port Stockton, Texas, where Farris is ill Cornell signed to the U. S. Arm\ R.O .T .C. staff O. G . Simpson, '49cng, division In-oduction district engineer with Standard Oil Company of was University, Ithaca, Ncw York . Capt. Lambeth superintendent for Sinclair Oil & Gas Company Texas. formerly stationetl at the Brooke Army Medical at Midland, -Texas, has been appointed assistant-di- Tote Hatcher, '52ba, Tulsa, recently appeared Fort Sam Houston, Texas. ('enter at vision manager at Midland. Simpson began work- in the role of Carr in the Hall of Fame television 1946 ing for Sinclair in 1919 as ;t petroleum engineer at production of "Wintcrset ." Hatcher has appeared John J. Vatcr, '46bus, Enid businessman, has Maysvillc. in "West Side Story" in New York and "Anasta- been appointed a member of the board of regents Daniel A. Painter, '49eng, Dallas, Texas, has sia" in Paris, and played summer stock in Denver for higher education in Oklahoma . IIc is married been appointed staff geologist in the geological in 1959 . and has three children . department of Delhi--Taylor Oil Corporation. William J. Rea, Jr., '526us, is now employed Painter was Gulf Coast regional development by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., as 1947 geologist for another firm prior to joining Delhi. an account executive in Tulsa. Pete W. Cawthon, Jr ., '47eng, '49nlxng, has Ted V. Sherman, '52ru .ed, has accepted the been elected chairman of the Gulf Coast Section of 1950 position of training director of the Seadrift Plant, the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME. Caw- Richard II . Bitttnan, '506a, and Mrs. Bittman Union Carbide Chemical Company, Port LaVaca, thon is assistant vice-president of the First City (tile former Agnes Leachman, '52fa) recently Texas. Ile was previously with the O.U . National Bank of Houston, "Texas . Serving as moved to Odessa, Texas. Bittman has been elected business and industrial services in the extension secretary-treasurer of the society is Jack McWil- president of Fairmart (formerly Ferguson-McCul- division . The Shern)ans have two sons, hams, '42eng, district engineer for Pan An)eri- loch, Inc.) of Odessa . Richard and Don. Bruce W. Gambill, '52ed, '571,aw, has been can Petroleum Corporat_on, Houston. J. Don Harry Magafos, '50jown, has joined the Los elected president of the Tulsa County Young Re- (:lark, '49n).eng, and Gene L. Scllcirinan, '48cng, Angeles office of The Philip I.esly Company, inter- publicans. A former assistant county attorney, both of Houston, are directors. Clark is senior I)e- national public relations counsel and service firm . Gambill is now attorney for a Tulsa oil company trolemn engineer with Union Oil Company of He will serve as assistant account executive. Maga- . 1953 California, and Scheirtnan is division reservoir en- fos has been west coast radio and television repre- William g; neer with Shell Oil Company. sentative for the YMCA of North America. G. Chambers, '53rn.ed, has been appointed deputy state securities C. L. Baker, it- ., '47ha, is now serving as execu- Mrs. Elaine Haddad, '50pharm, is employed at administrator. Chambers had been an tive vice-president of the Dallas Leasing Company, Hoge's Drug Store, Knox City, Texas. Mrs. Had- auditor for the state securities commission for the past year . Inc., in Dallas, Texas. Baker has also been e'cct- dad has two children, Larry Lee, 5, and Fred, 3. BIRTHS : Dr . John H. Carney, '536s, '56tned, esl to the board of directors of the National Truck J. EIdridge Rose, '50eng, and Mrs. Rose live in and Mrs. Carney (the former Kaye King, '53ba) Leasing System . Ardnlore. The Roses have four children, ages 8, 6, have selected Ed Msder, '47bs, '48Law, assistant city attorney -}, and 3 years old. the name Susan Elizabeth for their third slaughter for Oklahoma City, was recently named the new K. S. Blanchard, '50geol, has been transferred . Dr . Carney is now assistant chief of anesthesiology at Keesler Air director of the Oklahoma City legal department. to Midland from Wichita Falls, Texas, as division Force Base Hospi- tal, Biloxi, Mississippi. Before joining the city legal department, Molcr (Icvclopnient geologist for Phillips petroleum Com- was with the Reynolds and Ridings first. pany . Blanchard, who started with the company in 1952, had been division development geologist 1948 ill Wichita Falls since July, 1)r. Virgil 'F. Hill, '486a, '51tna, '54ph .d, has 1958 . Robert L. Cox, '50, joined the staff of Central State College, Edmond, Blackwell, has been named Now in our new home chairman of the consultant in mental hygiene to the state depart- committee which will select the site of the 1961 national Young Republican where he will serve as teacher and psychological conven- at Peters & Comanche tion . Cox is national vice-chairman mcnt of health, and consultant in clinical psychol- from region seven of the organization . ogy to the Children's Study Center at the University BIRTH : John E. llcancy, '50journ, of Oklal)un)a Medical Center . Dr . Hill has been ,in(] Mrs. Heaney, Whittier, California, psychologist director of pupil services for Okla- have chosen the name FIRST NATIONAL BANK F.Ilen Read for their homa City schools. He is married and has two (laughter burn December 7. I' 1)e,\ also have it son, soils. Mike, 2. Ted Brandt, '48, '50, and Mrs. Brandt are liv- 1951 ing in Los Angeles, California . '1 'hey have two R. David 1lusby, '511,aw, New York, was offi- OF NORMAN children, Linda and Eric . cial delegate from the University of Oklahoma to Wallace Keating, '49Law, Oklahoma City, has the academic convocaton held by The Cooper been named director of Oklallorna's newest merit Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on Member F. D. I . C. system for state employes . Keating has been per- November 2, its 100th anniversary. sonnel and safety director for the Robbcrson Steel J. J. Jefferson, '51eng, '571n.cng, is presently Company for the past 11 years. employed as an associate engineer with I. 11 . M. in

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in Muskogee. The Yadons '53pharm, and Mrs. Farrow, Miss Mary Alice Boyle, Auburn, New York, and Moore Business Forms James L. Farrow, have three sons, David, Ricky, and Mike. city, have selected the name Stanley Paul Alexander Lipski, '556us, Ponca City, were Oklahoma Tulsa, their son born November 27 . The married November 28 in the Holy Family Church, Lt. Gerald G. Stamper, '57ba, '59Law, Franklin for in Syra- recently graduated from the Navy's Officer Candi- have two other children, Theresa Sue, Auburn. They have established residence Farrows date School in Newport, Rhode Island . Lieutenant and James Paul, 2%2 . cuse, New York. 50, Irwin Ballinger, '53med, and Mrs. Bal- Connie Jean Gill, Spiro, and Lloyd B. Stamper received orders assigning him to the U. S. Dr. T. Miss Naval at the Naval Station, New- selected the name Walter Edmond for Cordell, '55eng, Tulsa, were married November School of justice linger have port. son born November 15, 1959 . They have three 28 in the First Baptist Church, Spiro, The Cor- their Ellen, 6, and Lawrence, 3. William M. Murray, '57bus, has accepted a other children, Fred, 11, dells are living in Tulsa. Ballinger has been in general practice in Ft. Tom Purcell, '55eng, and Mrs . Pur- pos tion with the business and industrial services Dr. BIRTHS : extension division. The Worth, Texas, for the past 5 years. have selected the name Timothy Mitchell for department of the O.U . cell Murrays have three sons, Bill, 6, Jay, 5, and Mike, 4. 1954 their son born November 4 in Houston, Texas. MARRIAGES : Miss Kay Jocelyn Upton, Nash- '556us, '56m .ed, and Mrs. Edwin S. Knezek, Jr., '57eng, and Mrs. Knezek, Washington, C. Henry Gold, ville, Tennessee, and John Francis have chosen the name Kimberly (the former Ann Lynn, '58) are living in Fort married November 30, Gold, '59ed, Texas. They have a daughter, Deborah '546us, Tahlequah, were Beth for their daughter born September 20 in Worth, in the Belmont Methodist Church, Nash- Ann, 1 . 1959, Van- Oklahoma City. ville. Washington holds a law degree from Webb John A. Philbin, '576us, is an agent for the bu- Washington is a grad- Lt. Gerald M. Webb, '556us, and Mrs. derbilt University, and Mrs . Elizabeth Ann for their reau of internal revenue in Oklahoma City. He Vanderbilt School of Nursing . The have chosen the name uate of the June 30, 1959 . The Webbs arc liv- and Mrs. Philbin have a son, John, Jr ., 2. Philbin has established a home in Johnson City, daughter born of directors of the couple ing in Riverside, California. is also chairman of the board Tennessee . Oklahoma City Investors, Inc . Miss Marge Ann Jones, Phoenix, Arizona, and 1956 Lebanon, Mis- Mrs. William C. Downing (the former Susan Harry Von Worten, '54ba, Pawhuska, were mar- Larry Hartzog, '56bus, '59Law, Baptist Clinton, has been employed as Berry, '57ba), Norman, has been named executive ried November 26 in the North Phoenix souri, formerly of elirector of the Council of Camp Fire Girls in Nor- Church, Phoenix, Arizona . The Wortens are at- a legal clerk to U. S. District Judge Ross Rizley in Semi- man . Mrs. Downing's husband attends Oklahoma tending the Southern Baptist Theological Oklahoma City. . have a daughter, Norah expect to receive Randolph, '56bus, has joined the City University They nary, Fort Worth, Texas. Both Robert M. Kathleen . in May. General American Transportation Corporation as the master's degree Beverly Joan Wynn, Farm- Miss Marlene Elizabeth Miller, '54ba, and Rob. general sales representative for the Tulsa district . MARRIAGE : Miss both of Corpus Christi, Texas, Randolph has offices in the Tulsa Bank Bu1ding. ington, New Mexico, and Tommy E. Sheets, '57eng, ert Andrew Kearley, St. John's married November 28 in the Church of the Neil Stewart, '56journ, is now account repre- Lawton, were married October 3 in were Episcopal Church, Farmington. Sheets is employed Good Shepherd, Corpus Christi . The Kearleys are sentative with the Aubrey, Finlay, Marlcy and Corpus Christi. Hodgson Advertising Agency in Chicago, Illinois . as a drilling engineer for the Atlantic Refining living in Company Farmington. Miss Geraldine Bollinger and Floyd Davis He was formerly account executive with Bryan and in Raupe, '54bus, both of Oklahoma City, were mar- Bryan Advertising Agency, Shreveport, Louis ana . BIRTH : William R. Council, Jr., '57eng, and ried December 8 in Crown Heights Metho&st Stewart is a former advertising manager for the Mrs . Council have chosen the name Karen Elaine Church, Oklahoma City. They are living in Ok- Sooner Magazine. for their daughter born October 31, 1959 . Council lahoma City. MARRIAGES: Miss Patricia Joyce Hudson, is employed by the Union Carbide Chemical Com- 'S6m .bus, 1955 Pawhuska, and William Robert Wilson, pany in the design and construction department as Charles E. Hill, '55ms, has been appointed li- Greeley, Colorado, were married November 27 in a project superintendent at Institute, West Vir- brarian for Michigan State University's Institute the Immaculate Conception Church, Pawhuska. ginia. The Councils live in St. Albans, West Vir- for Community Development and Services. Be- Miss Betty Ann Pratt, Joplin, Missouri, and ginia. fore going to Michigan State, Hill was a cataloger Robert Howard Jones, '56Law, Shawnee, were 1958 in the Oklahoma State University Library, Still- married December 12 in FAumanuel Baptist Church, Don W. Fitzgerald, '58bus, and Mrs . Fitzgerald water. Shawnee. The couple is living in Shawnee. (the former SoRelle Land, '58) now live in Spring- Leon T. Harney, '55ecl, '56 m.ed, and Mrs . Har- BIRTH: Terry Perkins and Mrs. Perkins (the field, Missouri, where he is associated with the the ney are living in University Park, Pennsylvania, former Jeanne Reeder, '56ed) have selected sales department of Phillips Petroleum Company. where both are attending Pennsylvania State Uni- name Carol Jeanne for their daughter born July 3, Perkins is a petroleum Ens. Billy Starch, '586s, Yuba, recently made a versity . On leave from East Texas State College, 1959, in Midland, Texas. Pensacola, Florida, where he is Humble Oil and Refining Company first solo flight at Harney is a graduate assistant in industrial art edu- engineer with undergoing basic flight training. Harneys were married February 14, in Midland, Texas. cation. The Wayne C. Smith, '58eng, Kismet, Kansas, re- 1959, in the First Presbyterian Church, Commerce, 1957 Wesley W. Beck, Jr ., '57ed, '59m.ed, history cently graduated from the 25th Officer Candidate Texas. Course at the Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Dr. J. R. Betson, Jr ., '55med, has contributed an teacher at Classen High School, Oklahoma City, issue of the American lortr- won a $5,000 federal scholarship to study coun- Virginia. Lieutenant Smith will attend an addi- article to the October has course for newly commissioned nal of Obstetrics and Gynecology . Dr. Betson is as- seling and guidance at Columbia University in tional eight-month Clinic in Albuquerque, officers . sociated with the Lovelace New York . teaching a New Mexico . Dr. Winfred L. Medcalf, '57med, and Mrs. Pvt . Tommy N. Klentos, '58Law, is MARRIAGES : Miss Ronnie Claire Edwards, Medcalf, Fort Worth, Texas, have been appointed class at Fort Carson, Colorado, designed to pre- City, and Robert Kenneth Sands, miss~onarics to Thailand by the Southern Baptist pare foreign-born military dependents for citizen- '55fa, Oklahoma ship . Klentos is regularly assigned to the judge Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, were married Foreign Mission Board. Dr . Medcalf will do medi- Watchorn Chapel of the First Pres- mission work . A native of Marlow, Dr. Med- Advocate General legal assistance office . December 12 in cal ., '586a, is attending a Metho- byterian Church, Oklahoma City. They are living calf is now a student at Southwestern Baptist Theo- E. H. Wotring, Jr is associated with the law Seminary in Fort Worth. The Mcdcalfs clist seminary, The Iliff School of Theology in in Dallas, where Sands logical Wotring (the for- firm of Matthews, Fisher, Budd and Stroud . Mrs. have a son, Paul Ira, 5. Denver, Colorado . He and Mrs. Sands, who played summer stock with the Vir- Roland A. Cartwright, '576s, Norman, recently mer Nancy Robertson, '57h .ec) have a daughter, ginia (Montana) Players and the Imperial received the Alpha Omega M. S. Kornblum award Cynthia, 1 . City "Mickey" Edwards, '58journ, is now Players of Cripple Creek, Colorado, is now with at the annual awards program of the Washington Marvin H . in Dallas. School of Dentistry in St . Louis, Mis- (,n the staff of the Oklahoma City Times. Edwards the Theater Center University Muskogee Daily souri. has been telegraph editor of the Lt. Robert A . Gregory, '57bus, Shawnee, has Phoenix . THE NORMAN TRANSCRIPT been chosen to coach the 27th Transportation Bat- Roger I'. Robinson, '53fa, '59m .ed, Shawnee, is 71st Year! talion football team at Fort Eustis, Virginia . Lieu- currently serving six months with the Army Re- Kentucky . Thorough Coverage of tenant Gregory, a platoon leader in the 63rd Trans- serve at Fort Knox, " NORMAN NEWS portation Company, entered the Army in Novean- Glenn A. Pierson, '58ba, is now working as a Ken Poynor Agency in " UNIVERSITY NEWS her, 1957 . real estate broker for the " ALL O .U . SPORTS Joe Summars, '57eng, is now employed by Hal- Norman . Company in Bristow . Ray James, '58arch, Lawton, and P. M. Glas- Member of the Associated Press liburton Oilwell Cementing Charley Yadon, '576us, is associated with gow, '59, Muncie, Indiana, exhibited architectural

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drawings at the recent regional meeting of the Pvt. Donald E. Webber, '59geol, Tulsa, has Lt . Charles E. Hazelwood, '59geol, Oklahoma American Institute of Architects in Des Moines, completed the eight-week telephone switchboard City, recently made his first solo flight at Pensa- Iowa . Their work will be displayed in a traveling operation and maintenance course at The South- cola, Florida, where he is undergoing basic flight exhibit at six midwest schools. Glasgow is a stu- eastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia . Web- training. dent at O.U., and James is associated with a Law- ber entered the army last June and completed basic Lt . Billy R. Delp, '59bus, Foss, has completed ton architectural firm. training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri . the 10-week officer basic course at The Trans- Ensign Robert S. Jones, '58bus, Oklahoma Lt. William W. Thatcher, '59eng, Clinton, re- portation School, Ft. Eustis, Virginia . Patricia Ann Leonard, '59ba, is social worker city, has qualified as a carrier pilot after making cently was assigned to the Transportation Research landings aboard the support aircraft car- Command at Fort Eustis, Virginia . Thatcher was for Massachusetts Children's Service Bureau in eight daughter of the late USS Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico . He is employed by the Kansas Highway Commission in Boston . Miss Leonard is the rier Hugh H. Leonard, '34, and Mrs. Leonard, '31. now undergoing multi-engine instruction with Topeka prior to entering the Army in August, Advanced Training Unit 501 at the Naval Air 1959 . MARRIAGES : Miss Janice Sue Alden, '596s, Corpus Christi, Texas. the production Princeton, New Jersey, and Tucker Harrison, '60, Station, Jay J. O'Neal, '59eng, has joined were married November 21 in University Claremore, is assistant department of Shell Oil Company in New Or- Tulsa, W. R. Howell, '58bus, Methodist Church, Tulsa. They are living in manager of the new J. C. Penney store recently leans, Louisiana, as a junior exploitation engineer . center, Nor- Norman. opened in the downtown shopping James A. Blue, '59journ, Coalgate, participat- Miss Javonna Sue David, '59ed, Oklahoma City, man. Howell was formerly employed in the Sher- ed in recent ground breaking ceremonies at the new married and Mrs. and Alfred Joseph Nett, Marietta, were idan Village Penney's store in Tulsa. He Eisenhower Library site in Abilene, Kansas . Blue December 12 in the First Baptist Church, Midwest daughter. Howell have one entered the Army last August and is assigned to the City . They are now living in San Diego, Califor- Lt. Thomas C. Schneider, '58ba, Butler, Penn- 4th Cavalry's Troop B at Fort Riley, Kansas . nia. Nett is serving in the U. S. Navy, submarine sylvania, recently completed the seven-week ran- Lt. Neale M. Horton, '59bus, Oklahoma City, service . ger course at The Infantry School, Fort Benning, has completed the officer basic course at The Fi- Miss Elaine Upton, Brownsville, Texas, and Georgia. Lieutenant Schneider entered the Army nance School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Ens . Jared Earl Hazelton, '596us, Oklahoma City, last April. Lt. Frederick P. Dobson, '586a, '59Law, and were married November 27 in the First Methodist Lt. Gordon W. Seaward, Jr., '586a, Lawton, Lt. George E. Day, Jr., '596s, '59eng, both of Ok- Church, Brownsville . The couple will establish a was recently assigned to the 101st Airborne Di- lahcana City, recently completed the 12-week field home in Athens, Georgia . vision at Fort Campbell, Kentucky . An aviator artillery officer basic course at The Artillery and Miss Donna Jean Bruza, '59fa, Oklahoma City, in the division's 101st Aviation Company, Lieu- Missile School, Fort Sill . and Lt . Kent Brooks, '58eng, Asher, were married tenant Seaward entered the Army in July, 1958, David A. T. Donohue, '59eng, Montreal, Que- November 28 in Christ Methodist Church, Okla- and was last stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama. bec, Canada, has been appointed a Pan American homa City . They have established a home in Har- Gerbert Rebell, '556s, '58ms, a senior member Petroleum Foundation fellow in petroleum engi- lingen, Texas. Lt. Brooks was previously sta- of the Colgate-Palmolive Biological Research staff, neering for the 1959-60 academic year at Penn- tioned at Bartow Air Force Base, Florida . took part in the recent dedication ceremonies for sylvania State University. Donohue is studying for BIRTHS : Lawrence A. Herron, '59eng, and the company's new Biological Research Labora- an M.S. degree . Mrs. Herron, '586s, have chosen the name Mark tories . Rebell is engaged in dermatological re- Pvt. Harold F. Bradburn, '59eng, Oklahoma Weston for their son born August 25 in St. An- search. City, recently completed the six-week disbursing thony Hospital, Oklahoma City . David R. Morgan, '58ba, Oklahoma City munici- specialist course at The Finance School, Fort Ben- Lawrence K. Brainard, '59journ, and Mrs. pal personnel technician, has become city manager jamin Harrison, Indiana . Bradburn entered the Brainard (the former Marilyn Nicholas, '57ed) for Yukon. Morgan was acting city manager at Army last April and completed basic training at have selected the name Christopher Mark for Norman in 1956 and served as city purchasing Fort Carson, Colorado. their son born December 1 at St. Anthony Hos- agent. He is a native of Muskogee, is married and Lt. Jimmie K. Morehead, '59eng, Oklahoma pital, Oklahoma City . The Brainards have another has two children. City, recently completed the 17-week field artil- son, Stephen King, 18 months . MARRIAGES : Miss Arthene McGuckin, '58fa, lery officer basic course at The Artillery and Mis- MARRIAGE : Miss Lois Edelle Hammond, '60, Norman, and Joe A. Pask Van, Midwest City, were sile School, Fort Sill . The course is specifically de- and Richard Hedge Holley, '60, were married married November 28 in Miss McGuckin's home . signed for newly-commissioned officers . November 26 in St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, They are living in Oklahoma City, where Mrs. Pvt. John L. Powell, '596us, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City . The Holleys have established a Pask Van is in charge of the operating room at recently completed the eight-week finance proced- home in Norman where both are students at O.U. Oklahoma City Baptist Memorial Hospital. Pask ures course under the Reserve Forces Act program Miss Miriam Hellman, '59ba, Chandler, and Van is attending Central State Teachers College, at The Finance School, Fort Benjamin Harrison, George Stanley Ephraim, Oklahoma City, were Edmond, and is employed at Tinker Field. Indiana . married November 1, 1959, in Temple B'nai Israel, Miss Jane Sloan and Bill J. Jennings, '58eng, Lt. John W. LaFon, '59eng, has completed the Oklahoma City. The Ephraims are living in Okla- both of Norman, were married November 13 at military orientation course at Brooke Army Medi- homa City . McFarlin Methodist Church, Norman . They are cal Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Miss Lucy Bo Wheeler, Oklahoma City, and living in Liberal, Kansas . James E. Stephenson, '596us, Madill, has been Jerry Lee Salyer, '59ba, Lawton, were married Miss Mary Faith Templeton, '58ba, Tulsa, and commissioned a Navy ensign after completion of September 15, 1959, in the First Methodist Church, Charles Alvin Rountree, '576a, Oklahoma City, sixteen weeks of training at the Naval School of Lindsay. Salyer is a junior in the O.U . College of were married November 28 in Kerr Chapel of the Pre-Flight in Pensacola, Florida. Ensign Stephen- Law . First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa. The couple lives son is now undergoing primary flight training at Miss Darlene Ann Owens, '59, Tulsa, and Jef- in Oklahoma City. the Saufley Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Pen- ferson Davis Sandefer, III, '59bus, Breckenritlge, Miss Jacqueline Edmonds and Joseph Robert sacola. Texas, were married September 19, 1959, in the Woolslayer, '58eng, both of Tulsa, were married Lt. George D. Pasquella, '59eng, Oklahoma Wheeling Avenue Christian Church, Tulsa. The December 15 in the chapel of the First Baptist City, recently completed the ten-week officer basic Sandefers are living in Breckenritlge . Church, Tulsa. The couple will live in Tulsa. course at the Army Signal School, Fort Monmouth, Miss Therese Doepfner, '59, Zurich, Switzer- 1959 New Jersey. land, and Leslie Johnson Barnette, Jr ., '59ba, Okla- William D. Borders, '59, has been assigned the Lt. Neal B. Hambleton, '59geol, recently com- homa City, were married September 20, 1959, in the post of municipal court prosecutor in Oklahoma pleted the 17-week field artillery officer basic course Pilgrim Congregational Church, Oklahoma City. City. Borders was formerly assistant Pottawatomie at The Artillery and Missile School, Fort Sill . Miss Jimmie Marie Dixon, Seminole, and Don- county attorney . He and Mrs. Borders have twin Hambleton is from Chickasha . ald L. Estes, '59eng, Ponca City, were married No- sons, Stuart and Dwight, 4 months. James W. Miller, '59pharm, has been employed vember 14, 1959, in the First Baptist Church, Miss Joan Elizabeth Woodward, '59journ, has as a salesman for Eli Lilly and Company in El Seminole . They are living in Ponca City, where accepted a position with the Southern Baptist Ra- Paso, Texas. Miller has been associated with the Estes is associated with the Cameron Oil Com- dio and Television Commission in Fort Worth, Kolb Prescription Shop in Oklahoma City for the pany . Texas. Miss Woodward is from Lawton. last two years. Miss Katherine L. Hackett, '59, Oklahoma Robert Webb, '59fa, has been given the role of Miss Ruth Walter, '59ba, Canton, is now a City, and Curtis R. French, '59ed, Norman, were Dr. Miracle in "The Tales of Hoffman" by Offen- stewardess with Delta Air Lines in New Orleans, married October 23, 1959, in the Western Hills bach, a production by the Opera Workshop of Louisiana . She received her stewardess training Baptist Church, Oklahoma City . They are mak- Redlands University . Webb was a student of Dr. at Delta's Stewardess School at the Atlanta Air- ing their home in Irving, Texas. French is en- Orcenith Smith while at O.U . port, Atlanta, Georgia . gaged in evangelistic work.

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