Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes John Stanley 22bs, -1899- For the past 11 years James Miller Armstrong, Callahan, '24med, is a prac- ' 196a, has been a partner in the oil firm of Yeager ticing physician in Wilburton. Dr . Callahan is a 50th Class Reunion and Armstrong, Midland, Texas. Previously he had member of Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity, and June 5, 1949 been a geologist with the Prairie Oil and Gas Phi Delta Theta Social Fraternity. Company. -1904- Alta Bellrnon Blakely, '196a, has been teaching -1923- 45th Class Reunion home economics in the Broken Arrow High School June 5, 1949 for the past eight years. Col. C. Guy Brown, '23ba, is executive officer of Morris L. Wardell, '19ba, David Ross Boyd the IX Air Service Area Command with head- 1909- professor of history at the University, has been as- quarters at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City . 40th Class Reunion sociated with the history department for the past Tully Nettleton, '23journ, is the author of a June 5,1949 14 years. Dr. Wardell, started his teaching career series of ten articles entitled "Church, State, and Elva McFerron Gittinger, '09bm, ' 12ba, is spe- in 1912 at Geary High School . In 1914 he was School" which appeared last April in the Christian cializing in the teaching of reading in the Kendall an instructor at the Panhandle Agriculture Insti- Science Monitor. The articles are being reprinted in school of Tulsa. She received her Master's Degree tution, Goodwell ; 1915, he was principal of Guy- booklet form by the Beacon Press, Boston, Massa- from Columbia University in 1943 . nion High School ; 1919, principal Pawhuska High chusetts, the publishing agency of the American School, and in 1922 he was a teacher at Central Unitarian Association. _1910- High School in Tulsa. Dr . Wardell received his Lynn Riggs, '23, is author of a new play Ferdi- Master's Laura J. Mauk, l0ba (Kingfisher), is now teach- degree from Harvard University in 1922 g;is Primitive, which began production August 3 ing in the Japan Biblical Seminary in Tokyo. She and his Doctor's Degree in 1930 frorn the Univer- at Ridgefield, Connecticut. Formerly of Claremore, sity of Chicago. He was one of six selected by the was interned in Tokyo for four years during the Riggs wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, play upon Carnegie Corporation in 1939-40, to war while she was teaching in a Bible school in study prob- which Oklahoma! was based. The new play is laid lems in higher education in the U. S. Tokyo. She is a missionary of the Evangelical and abroad . in Oklahoma in 1910, deriving its name from the Ile was listed in Who's Who in United Brethren Church . America, Directory Verdigris River. of American Scholars, Leaders in Education, and Daniel Freeman Stough, '23ba, '246s, '27med, is -1912- Who's Who in American Education . Dr . Wardell practicing medicine in Geary, Dr . Stough is a mem- is active in historical societies and associations in ber of Fraternity . Carl Brown, '10-'12, is making his home in Ar- and Acacia the nation, Oklahoma the southwest. lington, Virginia, since his retirement four years Cassie Martin Shoemaker, '23ba, '27h .ec, is mak- ago from the American Legion . ing her home in Oklahoma City where her hus- ~1920 band, Harold Adam Shoemaker, is a professor of -1914- Eloise Reid Thompson, '20ba, has a collection pharmacologv at the University School of Medi- of approximately 1,500 cine . 35th Class Reunion pictures of wild flowers which she has painted. The collection has been June 5, 1949 on exhibition many times during the Paul R. Mills, '14Ph.C ., is president and general past few ~1924- years. manager of the Cameo, Inc., in Houston, Texas. Dr . Jesse Goldfedcr, '206a, '226s, 25th Class Reunion He has been a partner in the firm for the past two '24med, is an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist in June 5, 1949 years. Mills claims the distinction of having gradu- Tyler, Texas. ated from the Wetumka High School in 1913 and Marguerite Giezentanncr, '24ba, has been em- received a pharmacy degree from the University ~1921'-- ployed as a librarian with the Quarrie Corporation one year later in 1914 . Ted M. Beaird, '21ba, executive secretary-man- in Chicago, since 1944 . She is a member of Phi and Fred J. Hansen, '141-aw, and Mrs. Hansen, the ager of the University of Oklahoma Association, Mu, Mortar Board, was winner of the Letzeiser former Charmian Elizabeth Simpson, '146a, '20ma, has been appointed by Governor Roy J. Turner as Award. are making their home in Oklahoma City where chairman of the Committee on Driver Licensing For the past 20 years, William Ferguson Sockler, Hansen is employed as the first assistant attorney for the Highway Safety Conference to be held '24ph.g, has been a retail general of Oklahoma . Ile is a member of Sigma December 13 and 14 in Oklahoma City . The Com- druggist and partner in the Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and Mrs. Hansen is a mittee has as its primary duty the exploration of RexallDrug store atGarber . member of Delta Delta . Delta Sorority Three of present operations and contributions that driver Previously he had been em- the Hansen children are attending the University . licensing is making to traffic safety . It will develop ployed as a pharmacist They are Richard F., Daniel George, and Rosa- ways and means of improving examinations, con- with the Walton Drug mond Ruth Liggett. Another son, David John, trolling the negligent driver with a bad record, and store in Kingfisher, the is at home. encouraging the reporting and use of traffic con- Courtney DrugCompany in -1916- victions to the drivers license division . Lamont, and the Vinson Since 1920, Walter S. Carper, '166a, has been Chester L. Armstrong, '21Law, was elected presi- Drug Company in Clare- in the real estate, loan and insurance business . At (lent of the Kay County Bar Association at a meet- more . At the University, present he is living in Cleburne, Texas. ing September 10 in Ponca City . Sockler was a member of Rev. John K. Montgomery, 216a, is now resid- Kappa Psi and the Apothe- ~1917 ing at Natick, Massachusetts, where he is pastor cary Club . Mr . and Mrs. William Ross Gahring, '17Ph.G, '23ba, '24ma, of the Fisk Memorial Methodist Church . He serves W. 1". SOC%LER Sockler have two sons who has been employed as owner and geologist with the New England Conference as chairman of the are attending the University, Charles William and the Ross Oil Company of Shawnee for the past committee on accepted supply pastors and as a David Lee. Another son, James Allan, is a junior 15 years. Prior to that time, he worked as dis- member of the Board of Ministerial Training. in high school and plans to enter O.U . after his trict geologist for Marland Oil Company and Continental graduation . Oil Company. He is an alumni of -1922- Sigma Chi Fraternity . Ruth Stanford, '24ed, '36m .ed, has been princi- L. E. "Jap" Haskell, '22geol, has been appointed pal of the elementary school in Pryor for the past _19191- assistant general agent for Tulsa and eastern Okla- I1 years . 30th Class Reunion homa for the Aetna Life Insurance Company. Helen Columbia Beauchamp, '24ba, is the chief June 5, 1949 Byron R. Gayman, 226s, 24med, has been prac- social worker at the Veterans Administration Hos- Dr . Allison Roy Hancock, '19med, is now in ticing medicine and surgery in Muskogee since pital in Brecksville, Ohio . She has held the position charge of a hospital in Gladewater, Texas. 1931 . for the past three years. Margaret Maude Forbes, '196m, Norman, is Robert M. Bass, 22, former varsity football play- Forrest LeRoy Stratton, '24bs, '26med, has been teaching in the fourth grade on the Crow Indian er at the University, is in the contracting busi- practicing medicine for the past 22 years. At pres- Reservation in Montana. ness in Kilgore, Texas. ent he is making his home in Kilgore, Texas.

NOVEMBER, 1948 23

Claude Carson Smith, '24ma, has been a profes- Charles A . Recd, '266a, '29tns, '48Ph.I), special Alpha Phi Sorority, Beta Sigma Chi, and is librarian sor of history and political science at the University instructor in the department of physics for two of the Oklahoma County Law Library. Ballard is a and of Nevada, Reno, since 1929 . years, recently accepted an associate professorship member of Phi Beta Kappa Order of the Coif . Herman Birchard Stinson, '24bus, has been di- in physics at Clemson State College, an agricultural They are at home in Purcell. vision auditor for the Southwestern Bell Telephone engineering school in Clemson, South Carolina . Dr . James 11 . Hodges, '29rn.cd, '31Ph .D, is listed Company in St . Louis, Missouri, for the past six Ile was a member of Sigma Xi, honorary society in the 1948 edition of IF ho's 11'ho in American years. Mrs. Stinson is the former Eva Burke, '24 . for graduate students ; Sigma Pi Sigma, physics Education . Ile is principal of Kendall School in For the past four years, Harold Monroe Thorne, honor society, and Pi Mu Epsilon. Tulsa. '24eng, has been working W. L. "Bill" Kygar, '266us, former assistant as engineer in charge of oil manager of production and drilling, has been made -1930- Oil Company shale research and develop- assistant manager of the Continental Dr . Ralph W. Hubbard, '306s, '42tned, Okla- ment at the petroleum and motor transportation division at Ponca City . homa City, and Mrs. Hubbard are the parents of oil shale experiment station a daughter, whom they have named Hannah Melis- of the Bureau -1927- sa . The infant was born September 23 in St . An- A . Marion Smith, '276us, '48pharm, passed the of Mines in Laramie, Wy- thony I-lospital . Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy examination oming. Previously he spent Luther Edwin Patterson, '30geol, '32tus, has been recently and is employed as a pharmacist with 'f . 14 years as refinery engi- employed as district geologist in the West Texas- Roy Barnes Druggery in Tulsa . neer in charge of refining Nov Mexico district of the Cities Service Oil Com- Lynden Mannen, '276a, '38ma, was a guest of and and chemical research in pany in Midland, Texas, for the past three one- Major Neil Kellar, '33Law, in a flight from Wash- Lararnie . At the University, half years. At the University Patterson was a mem- ington, 1) . C., to the Norman campus when he at- Thorne was a member of her of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma Gam- tended the O.U .-Texas A. and M. game player[ on Alpha Chi Sigma, Sigma ma Epsilon, Blue Key, Checkmate, Pe-ct, Toga, II . M. TtlortNr. Owes Field. Mannen is tt former staff member of Tau, Scabbard and Blade Pick and Hammer and Sigma No Fraternity . He the University of Oklahoma . For a number of years and was a student assistant in the chemistry de- was winner of the Dad's Day Award, the Letzeiser he was in the department of political science and partment. Ile is a member of the American Chemi- Cold Medal and Sigma Gamma Epsilon award. held an executive position with the Oklahoma Mu- cal Society, American Petroleum Institute, and Sig- Dr . John Morris, '30ed, has assumed his duties nicipal League . Mrs. Mannen, the former Patricia ma Xi . as superintendent of the church school at the First Lyon, '34bs, served last year as the president of the For the past year and one-half L. Leola Cooper, Christian Church of Norman . Dr . Morris is associ- University Alumni Club of Washington, 1) . C. She '24h .ec, has been a specialist in borne management professor of geography at the University. of Executive Secretary Ted ate at New York State College of Home Economics, was a former employee Association. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She re- Beaird, '216a, of the Alumni past year Mrs. Gertrude Sims Brans- ceived her Master's Degree from the University of During the -1931- fortl, '27ba, has served as president of the Fort Chicago in 1928 and was then employed as an Walter O. Beets, '28-'31, has been promoted to Worth, Texas, Pan Hellenic Council . Mrs. Brans- instructor in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Voca- the rank of lieutenant colonel in the regular Army fortl is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamtna Sorority . tional School . and is permanently assigned to the judge Advo- Belsur Bristow, '24eng, Chicago, , is em- cate Generals Department in Alexandria, Virginia . ployed as an engineer maintenance of way for the -l 928- DAY-CREVELING: Harold F. Creveling, '28ba, C.R .I . and P.R .R . in Chicago. '47ma, and Mrs. Creveling have established a home George 'I'. Crause, '24bs, Charleston, West Vir- -1932- in Dallas, Texas, after their marriage August 23 ginia, is employed as district geologist for the Ap- Cecil '" crner Armstrong, '32eng, '37tn.eng, is at Worcester, Massachusetts . Mrs. Creveling is the palachian Area of the Texas Company. He has held employed as a consulting former Mildred Louise Day, Collingswood, New the position for the past five and one-half years. At engineer with plastics in Jersey . Mr . Creveling is a member of the faculty at O.U . he was a member of Sigma Tau and Sigma Burket, Indiana. From 1945 Southern Methodist University . Gamma Epsilon. to 1947, Armstrong was Ross W. Morrison, '28eng, is a partner in the John James Fleet, '24Ph.G, is president of the vice-president and general architectural firm of Reynolds and Morrison Archi- Fleet Drilling and Producing Company in Dallas, manager of the Armstrong tects in Oklahoma City . Texas. While attending the University he was a Plastic Company, Inc., in J. D. Hoover, '28ed, '39m .ed, is an instructor in member of Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Psi, Mystic Warsaw, Indiana . He is a the extension division adult training department of Keys and Alpha Sigma Phi. member of Tau Beta Pi, the Draughon's School of Business in Oklahoma Albert H . Richards, '24geol, has held the posi- Sigma Tau, Phi Eta Sigma, City . Hoover has instructed in clinics for practical tion of district geologist with the Anderson-Prich- Kappa Tau Pi, Pe-ct,Amcr- salesmanship and effective speech in Wichita Falls, Oil Corporation in Oklahoma City for the past ican Society of Mechanical artl Lubbock, Amarillo, Borger and Pampa, Texas. In five years. Previously he had been an independent Engineers and the St . Pat's November, clinics were held in Vernon, Texas; consulting geologist. He is a member of Kappa Council . While attending Lawton ; Clinton; Hobart, and Elk City . C. yy'. Aicstsrimm ; Sigma Fraternity and Sigma Gamtna Epsilon. the University he was win- Dr . Joel Scott Price, '24Ph.G, '266s, '28tned, -1929- ner of the Letzciser Award. Mrs. Armstrong is the Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Price have selected the 20th Class Reunion former Marie Louise Irelan, '32ba. She is a mem- name William Scott for their son born October 5. June 5, 1949 her of Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board and Pi and Parke R. Ruark, '24Law, is assistant field director Curtis M. Smith, '296us, Houston, Texas, is Zeta Kappa. Mr . Mrs. Armstrong arc the par- for the American National Red Cross in Oklahoma working as personnel manager of the Tennessee ents of two children, Elizabeth Louise and Robert City . He has held the position in the claims depart- Gas Transmission Company of Houston. He was Werner . ment for the past four years. recently made vice-chairman of the Southwest John I-I . Anthony, '32ba, is now in business for Althea Anderson Reynolds, '24h .ec, is making Personnel Conference of the American Gas Asso- himself as a consulting psychologist under the firm her home in Oklahoma City, where her husband, ciation. name of The Personnel Counselors . He is doing Lee Cass Reynolds, '18, is employed at Tinker Ross Gossard flume, '29ba, '31Law, is employed psychological research for industry and vocational Field. In 1946 and 1947 Mrs. Reynolds taught bi- as district adjuster for the State Farts Mutual Auto guidance for individuals. Anthony has been elected ology in the Oklahoma City school system. Insurance Company in Bloomington, Illinois . Mrs. as president of the Houston, Texas, branch of the Home is the former Gladys McDonald, '306a . National Vocational Guidance Association, is vice- -1926- Sam Harris, '27-'29, was recently matte city edi- chairman of the Houston Occupational Planning Frances Smith Catron, '266a, Ponca City, re- tor of the Arl~ansas Gazette in Little Rock, Arkan- Committee, is handling the vocational guidance had and cently took a Clipper Cruise through Central and sas. He previously spent 13 years with the As- for the South "Texas Junior Col- and Society for the South America, leaving from New Orleans, Louisi- sociated Press. lege, is an active member of the ana, and returning to Miami, Florida. From there DELANEY-BALLARD : The wedding of Made- Advancement of Management . was elected mayor of she took a boat trip to Cuba and back up the coast line Delaney, '29ba, and Joe Porter Ballard, '29ba, Earl A. Virden, '32fa, of Florida. '33Law, was an event of September 18 in the Cathe- Onawa, , last spring . re- Ruby Wooten Blalock, '266a, is employed as dral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Oklahoma Joe S. Rockwood, '31cd, '37Law, is assistant Agency in vice-president of the National Council of Camp City. Mrs. Ballard attended Oklahoma City Uni- gional attorney for the Federal Security Fire Girls, Inc., in Marshall, Texas. versity before entering O.U . She is a member of Kansas City, Missouri .

24 SOONER MAGAZINE -1933 Theodore B. Stith, '33hus, is now located in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is connected with the Cameron Coal Company. For 15 years previous- ly he had been associated with the Rialto Mining Corporation in Pieher . Major Ncil Kellar, '33Law, stationed with the adjutant general's office in Washington, 1) . C., flew down from Washington for the O.U .-Texas A. and M. game last month. Major Kellar was a former resident of Norman and was municipal judge for several months just prior to his leaving for Army service. Everett B. Miller, '33tns, is employed as geo- physical supervisor for the San Antonio and Hous- ton, Texas, districts of Continental Oil Company of Ponca City . Ile is making his home in San An- tonio. - 1934- 15th Class Reunion June 5, 1949 Mary Roach Casady, '346a, is making her home in Berkeley, California, where her husband, Thomas Casady, Jr ., is an underwriter for Mutual Dr . Ben I-1. Cooley, '21 nrcd, F.1 Paso, Texas; Ted Beaird, '21ba, and Dorrance Rodcrick, '22ba, El Paso, . Cas- Life Insurance Company of New York Mrs. compare notes at the airport in El Paso, "Home of the Sun Bowl," as to possibilities of the Sooner ady is an alumna of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority . football squad breezing down that way for a post-season tilt. Fred Owen Newton, '346a, '34eng, has been employed as assistant to the vice-president of the Universal Oil Product Company in Chicago for the DUNNETT-WHITEMAN : Clarene Edwards Oklahoma City as a commercial sculptor for dis- past three years. Newton was president of the senior Dunnctt, Oklahoma City, became the bride of Wil- plays. lie has had displays shown in 20 foreign class in 1933 and was winner of the Dad's Day liain Worthy Whiteman, Jr ., '36ba, '37Law, '40bus, countries and most of the large cities of the U. S. Award in 1932 . '47m .bus, in a ceremony solemnized October 5 in - Joe C. Jackson, '34ed, '40m .ed, is employed as Oklahoma City . Whiteman graduated from Kemp- 1938- Woodrow Crumbo, '36-'38, formerly associated debate coach at Central State College, Edmond . He er Military School, Booneville, Missouri, and served with the Gilcrease Foundation in Tulsa, formerly had taught history, government and as a member of the faculty at O.U . for two years. now has established a studio in Taos Village, Taos, New coached debate in Bristow. In addition, at Central While at the University he was named to Phi Beta Mexico . he will serve as associate professor of history and Kappa and was affiliated with Phi Gamma Delta RENNIE-FRANKS: In a ceremony solemnized social science and will teach American and Okla- Fraternity. A home has been established in Okla- in San Francisco, California, Kathryn Rennie, '38 homa history. homa City by the couple. cd, Pauls Valley, became the bride of Clarence Ford William J. Wallace, Jr ., '31-'34, Oklahoma City, Mary V. Burns, '36ba, has been appointed editor Franks, San Francisco. Mr . and Mrs. Franks are and Mrs. Wallace have selected the name Roy of the Woodward Daily Press. Mrs. Burns has been at home in San Francisco. Bruner for their son born October 4 in St. Anthony associated at intervals with the Daily Press for sev- W. E. Ham, '38geol, '39ms, associate geologist Hospital . eral years. of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, spoke in St . ~1935 -1937- Louis, Missouri, at a meeting of the industrial Paul Goodwin Reeve, '37eng, is vice-president Mrs. Merle Brown Johnson, '35ed, died January mineral division of the American Institute of Min- and assistant general manager of the Lewis-Diesel 17 at her home in Shawnee. Mrs. Johnson was a ing and Metallurgical Engineers October 14 to 16 . Engine Company in Memphis, Tennessee. victim of cancer . Subject of his discussion was the recent develop- Major James H. McCord, '37ba, '37eng, returned Randolph H. McCurtain, '356a, '36ma, was ment of industrial minerals in Oklahoma . to the United States in May, 1948, after spending transferred to Norman in July where he is em- Edwin R. Page, '38eng, '40rrt .eng, is doing de- three years with of Military Government ployed with the U. S. Indian Service, Department velopment work in electronics with General Elec- for Bavaria. of the Interior . McCurtain is working with Indian tric Company in Syracuse, New York . Edwin Yourman, '37ba, '391.aw, is a senior at- students attending colleges in the U. S. and is torney with the Federal Security Agency in Wash- supervisor of all Indian schools in Oklahoma and ington, D. C. Kansas . Mrs. Mary Lockett Bush, '37soe .wk, Norman, -1936- has assumed her duties as director of the Norman Fredericka 1). Fcldman, '36ba, is president of the child welfare service. She was appointed by child Lynn Hebrew School Auxiliary in Lynn, Massa- welfare service of the Department of Public Wel- chusetts . fare . Dr. Mildred Rose Pool, '36ba, '40ma, is doing Frank C. Hughes, '37fa, '391n.mus .ed, is doing her internship at the Osteopathic Hospital in Kan- post graduate work at the Eastman School of Music sas City, Missouri . this year. He is assistant professor of music at the Dr. Eugene 13 . Ley, '366s, '38med, is practicing University. Mrs. Hughes and children have joined medicine in Pueblo, Colorado . him in Webster, New York, where they will make John Mcrkle, '36ba, is now assistant professor of their home. biology at Texas A. and M. College, College Sta- Capt. Glenn 1) . Kelley, '33-'37, reported to Vcr- tion, Texas. He completed work on his Doctor's nam Army Air Force Base in Jamaica early in Sep- Degree last June at Oregon State College. tember . Captain Kelley is commanding an air res- Foy L. George, '36ba, '40ed, is now employed as cue squadron . Mrs. Kelley, the former Maxyne division field chemist for the Halliburton Oil Well Alexander, '36fa, '45ma, and children plan to join Cementing Company in Odessa, Texas. him there soon . Elma Smith Washam, '34-'36, is making her The body of First Lt. James E. Overstreet, '37 home in Oklahoma City where she is employed as eng, has been returned to the United States from a secretary for Dr . W. E. Eastland. Her husband, Manila and has been buried in Memorial Cemetery Recent visitors to the campus were Ferrill Rogers, Capt . Raymond W. Washam, '35ba, was killed in in Tulsa. Lieutenant Overstreet died April 24, 1945 . '48Law, Oltlahonra City, and Wayne Quinlan, action while serving with the 45th Division in Italy Bartlett A. Ward, '37fa, '38fa, '39m .fa, recently 'g8rna, '481.aw, State President of the League of in November, 1943 . began working with Stan Ramsey Company in Young Democrats.

NovEMBER, 1948 25 J. G. Whitchurch, '40eng, Ardmore, and Mrs. Edward M. Schlaffke, '38eng, was fatally gassed Representatives. Mr . and Mrs. Erdmann have es- selected the name Ann for their while trying to save the life of a fellow worker on tablished a home in Tulsa where he is attending Whitchurch have daughter born October 3. a new well that had just been completed in the the University of Tulsa. Worland, Wyoming, oil field .Schlaffke was a pe- Jack Stamper, '38-'39, has purchased the weekly Noel E. Vaughn, '40m .ed, and Mrs. Vaughn are troleum engineer and production superintendent Kclsonian Tribune, Kelso, Oregon, assuming his the parents of a daughter born July 8 in Healdton . Stamp- for the Tri-Good Oil Company. duties as editor and publisher September 1. The little girl has been named Brenda Jo . er has been acting as advertising manager of the Clinton Daily News. -1941~ -1939- DAVIS-LAMPTON : Georgia Katherine Davis, Altus, became the bride of Maurice E. Lampton, Luanne Spence, '41fa, is making her home in 10th Class Reunion '396a, '41Law, Sapulpa, in a ceremony read Oc- Antonio, Texas, where she has been elected to June 5, 1949 San tober 10 in the home of the bride's parents. Mr . the presidency of Daughters of the United States Lt . William Perry Carmichael, '38-'39, Weather- and Mrs. Lampton have established a home in Army . She is a past corresponding secretary of Pi ford, is stationed with the Sapulpa where he is practicing law. Beta Phi Alumnae Club of San Antonio. United States Navy at Coeo Thomas P. McAdams, '41bus, Bristow, and Mrs. Solo, Panama Canal Zone . -1940- McAdams, the former Dorothy Cloyd, '41fa, are Lieutenant Carmichael was Margaret L. Sprankle, '40fa, is employed as elec- the parents of a daughter, whom they have named graduated from the United trical engineering draftsman supervisor at Tinker Janet Eileen. The little girl was born September 2. States Naval Academy, An- Air Force Base in Oklahoma City . She is vice-presi- Edwin Bond Burgess, Jr ., Amarillo, Texas, and napolis, Maryland, in 1942 dent of the Association of Oklahoma Artists, presi- Mrs. Burgess, the former Jean MacTaggart, '41ba, with a Bachelor's Degree in dent of the Oklahoma Mineral and Gem Society, '42ma, became the parents September 21 of a son electrical engineering. At . Inc., and is editor of Sooner Rockologist, official whom they named Edwin Bond, III. O.U . he was a member of publication of the society. Ralph T. Asbury, '41eng, Houston, Texas, and the University band and Tom Brett, '40bus, '48Law, recently opened his Mrs. Asbury have selected the name Linda Susan was employed in the Okla- law office in Norman . He was district chairman of for their daughter born September 14 . homa Memorial Union the Truman-Barkley Club and is chairman of the Lt . (j .g .) Richard M. McCool, Jr ., '416a, Nor- Building. Mrs. Carmichael Christmas Seal Drive. man, and Mrs. McCool, the former Elaine Larecy, W. P. CMtMIC :HAEr- Tuberculosis is the former Mozelle Barn- James A. McNeese, '40ba, '47Law, was elected '426a, announce the birth of a son whom they have well, '46ba. Lieutenant and Mrs. Carmichael are secretary of the Kay County Bar Association at a named Richard Miles McCool, III, born Septem- the parents of one daughter, Jo Lynn, three years meeting held September 10 in Ponca City . ber 9. old. In February of this year H. H. Holman, '40eng, Bert W. Boozman, '41bus, Fort Smith, Arkansas, DOUGLASS-WHITE : Ruby Jane Douglass, '39 resigned as petroleum engineer with the Stanolind was recently promoted to traveling auditor for the fa, became the bride of Gail C. White in the Fifth Oil and Gas Company in Oklahoma City to join Retail Department of the Long-Bell Lumber Com- . Boozman was Avenue Presbyterian Church of New York City the consulting firm of Meyer and Achtschin, Dallas, pany in Kansas City, Missouri Board June 2. Mrs. White is writing comedy songs and Texas, in a similar capacity. elected in June as national president of the ballads for stars of radio, stage and night-club BENTON-EVINS : Dorothy Anne Benton, New of Regents, Delta Sigma, national secondary fra- shows, and is currently appearing as featured en- Orleans, Louisiana, and Lewis Lyles Evins, '40bus, ternity. promotion tertainer at Cafe Maurice in New York City . The Wilburton, were married recently in Caracas, Vene- Abbott Sparks, '41bm, '43ba, is now in Engineer Publishing couple has established a home in New York . zuela. Mr. and Mrs. Evins established a home manager of the Petroleum Venezuela, October 1. Company in Dallas, Texas. Mr . and Mrs. Sparks R. E. DuBois, North Reading, Massachusetts, and San Tome, '40fa, former director of drama have been making their home in Dallas for the Mrs. DuBois, the former Elizabeth Patton, '396a, Charles Suggs, Ripon College, Wisconsin, has assumed duties past two years. announce the birth of a daughter, Janine Claire, on at professor of drama at the University. Jack D. Strong, '41eng, is employed as a chemi- September 13 in North Reading. as assistant Suggs received his Master's Degree from Yale Uni- cal engineer by the Gulf Research and Develop- Mary Springer Hopps, '39soc.wk, '41m .soe .wk, versity. ment Company in Springdale, Pennsylvania . He is is employed as supervisor of the Tom Green Coun- Dorothy Elson, '40fa, '42m .fa, is now acting completing his Master's Degree in chemical engi- ty Child Welfare Unit in San Angelo, Texas. under the stage name of Diana Rivers in the Car- neering at the Pittsburgh University night school . '41Law, is George Thomas Montgomery, '396a, son Kanin production of Leading Lady. Her hus- Homer Moore, '41ed, and Mrs. Moore, the for- of employed in the office band, Charles Elson, is a former member of the mer Bobbe Jean Pace, '41mus .ed, have returned attorney general at the the University faculty. At present he is designing sets from California to Houston, Texas, to make their Okla- Capitol Building, for four plays for the new season while maintain- home . homa City . Previously, ing his professorship of drama at Hunter College, STEWART-BUST : The wedding of Marjorie was an attor- Montgomery New York City . Stewart, '41h .ec, Norman, and Francis Bust, Char- firm of ney with the law Joe Coulter, '406a, instructor in aeronautics, was lotte, Michigan, was solemnized October 9 in the and Montgomery Methvin recently appointed assistant professor of aeronautics Memorial Christian Church at Ann Arbor, Michi- for one and in Chickasha at the University of Oklahoma . gan. At present Mrs. Bust is instructor of nursing one-half years. At the Uni- Frank X. Loefer, III, is the name selected by and dietetics at the University of Michigan, and Montgomery was a versity, Frank X. Loeffler, Jr ., '37-'40, Oklahoma City, and dietitian at the hospital there. Mr . and Mrs. Bust member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mrs. Loeffler for their son born September 20 . are at home in Ann Arbor. Phi Eta Sigma, Order of the Gregory David Doggett is the name chosen by Coif, Pe-et, Phi Delta The- Wendell J. Doggett, '416a, '47Law, Oklahoma City, ta Fraternity, and was win- and Mrs. Doggett for their son born September 18 G. T. MONTGOMERY CONGRATULATIONS! ner of the Dad's Day Anthony Hospital . Mrs. Doggett is the for- The University of Oklahoma (Alumni) in St . Award. He was discharged from the Field Artillery '46bs. Association extends hearty congratulations mer Patricia Murphey, with the reserve rank of major. Mrs. Montgomery SCHNELLBACHER-ZERBONI: William, Foster to the 31 new babies born recently to O.U . is the former Pauline Frances Gage, '35. They have Oklahoma City and Mrs. Zerboni Alumni . These births are all announced in Zerboni, '39-'41, one son, Thomas Gage, three years old. have established a home in Van Buren, Arkansas . this issue of the Sooner Magazine . Although lieutenant colonel in Zerboni is the former Margaret Schnellbacher, Bunn D. Hale, '35-'39, a June is the month for brides there are 34 Mrs. Artillery branch of the Organized Re- Eltndale, Kansas . Zerboni attended George Wash- the Field wedding announcements. To each of the extended active duty and is University, Washington, D. C., before en- serves, has returned to happy couples the Alumni Association sends ington Chief of Staff, Penta- where he was affiliated with Pi Kappa stationed in the office of the congratulations and best wishes for many tering O.U . Washington, D. C. Alpha Fraternity . gon Building, years of happiness. University graduates RUSSELL-ERDMANN: In the First Methodist and former students are anxious to read Church of Picher, Ramona Regina Russell, '39ba, about the new babies and the weddings . -1942- '41Law, and Reinhold Paar Erdmann, Quapaw, Please send your information to the Sooner George H. Jabara, Wichita, Kansas, and Mrs. were united in marriage October 2 . Mrs. Erdmann Magazine so that your friends may know Jabara, the former Helen Naifeh, '42bus, are the is a member of Chi Omega Sorority. She is an at- the good news . ., born September 3. torney and a member of the Oklahoma House of parents of a son, George H., Jr

SOONER MAGAZINE 26 A watercolor by the late Elmer Capshaw, Jr ., John W. Anderson, '41-'42, Beverly Hills, Cali- 1944- the October "Master- fornia, and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of a '42fa, has been selected as 5th Class Reunion of the Month" at the Oklahoma Art Center . son born October 11 in Beverly Hills. piece June 5, 1949 It represents a gift to the Center from the artist's Woodrow W. Baldwin, '42ed, has been ap- Roy L. Seikel, '44eng, is employed as a design parents, Mr . and Mrs. Elmer Capshaw of Norman . pointed to the faculty of the College of Business with engineer with the Monsanto Chemical Plantin Texas Bill Black, '42, Marietta, is now working Administration at University of California in Los City, Texas. Following his discharge from the Navy the Chase Bag Company of Dallas, Texas. He is Angeles. He had been doing part-time teaching in 1946, Seikel attended Massachusetts Institute making his home in Oklahoma City . there since August, 1946, while working on his of Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Helen Slesnick Wolk, '42ba, is making her home advanced degrees. At O.U ., Baldwin was affiliated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where her husband, with Delta Chi Fraternity . Memorial services for Sgt. Walter J. Smith, '44, Leo Welk, is a partner in the Welk Transfer Com- Oklahoma City, were held recently in Oklahoma Charles Turnbull, '426us, Norman, accepted a pany of Minneapolis. Following her graduation City . Sergeant Smith was killed in Germany in Jan- position in October with the National Cash Regis- from the University, Mrs. Wolk was employed for uary, 1945 . ter Company in Oklahoma City . He is employed four years as a public relations representative with Norman Chester Stephens, '44eng, is employed in the bookkeeping department of the firm as a the Central State Bank in Oklahoma City . She was as a chemical salesman with the Griffin Chemical junior salesman. Turnbull was formerly working member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board, Company in Los Angeles, California . a as an accountant with the Mid-State Oil Company He attended Phi Beta Kappa, Orchesis, El Modjii, Theta Sigma the University as a student in the Navy V-12 pro- in New York . Phi, Psi Chi and Sigma Delta Tau Sorority at O.U . gram . FANNELL-RANSON : Betty Fannell, Guthrie, C. E. McKinney, '42ed, instructor of business M. Herbert Lloyd Keener, '44eng, has been em- became the bride of Dr . Robert F. Ranson, '426s, communication at the University, had an article, ployed as a junior development geologist with the Oklahoma City, in the First Christian "Letter Writing Is Fun," published in the May '47med, Pure Oil Company of Fort Worth, Texas, since Church in Oklahoma City October 2. Dr . and Mrs. issue of journal Of Business Education. Mrs. Mc- July . While attending the University Keener was a Ranson are at home in Oklahoma City where Dr . Kinney is the former Edith E. Quigg, '476us . member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, L.K .O .T., Ranson is taking a residency in pathology at Wes- M. L. D. Stone, '42m .ed, is nowsuperintendent of Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Delta '1'au Delta Fra- ley Hospital. the Beebe (Arkansas) Public Schools. His son, ternity. He served as president of the Engineers Maroin, received his Bachelor of Arts Degree at the Club and St . Pat's Council. Keener was winner of University in August and is now attending Cornell -1943- the Dad's Day Award in 1943 . Mrs. Keener is the University . former Mary Katherine Lively, '44. James W. Clopton, '436s, is taking post graduate Frank Sneed, '426a, is now district manager of Mrs . Virginia Hester Cherry, '44nurse, has re- work in otolaryngology at Northwestern Univer- Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation in turned to Oklahoma City from St. Louis, Missouri, sity School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois . Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Sneed is the former Doris Lee where she took postgraduate work for a year at the Smith, '416a. Dr . Freeman F. Suagee, '43ba, Tulsa, has been Barnes Hospital School of Anesthesia for nurses . Earl B. Kilpatrick, '426s, and Mrs. Kilpatrick are appointed assistant professor of labor relations in Nathan M. Kane, '44eng, is employed as re- College of Business the parents of a daughter, Janet Lynn, who was the University of finery piping designer by the Lummus Company in . born September 20 at the Norman Municipal Hos- Administration . During the past summer, Dr New York . He is making his home in Brooklyn. in labor problems and pital. Kilpatrick is a graduate assistant in the de- Suagee was instructor HARROD-BUXTON : The marriage of Eleanor University of Wis- partment of zoology. American labor history at the Sue Harrod, '446a, to Dr . Merwin Thomas Buxton, consin, where he received his Doctor of Philosophy Janis Gayle Hiatt is the name chosen by Dr . Jr ., '456s, '47med, both of Oklahoma City, was an Degree this year . Dr . Suagee was graduated with Lambert Wilk Hiatt, '42, Oklahoma City, and event of early autumn in Epworth Methodist Phi Beta Kappa honors from O.U . Mrs. Hiatt for their daughter born September 19 in Church of Oklahoma City. Mrs. Buxton is a mem- St. Anthony Hospital . Earl Stone, '41-'43, Chickasha, and Mrs. Stone, ber of Delta Gamma Sorority and Phi Chi, honor- Sam H. Johnson, Jr ., '42ba, is attending the Uni- the former Ramona Yergler, '46bm, announce the ary psychology fraternity . For the past two years They she has been counselor and teacher at Northeast versity of Kansas, Lawrence, where he received his birth of a son on September 13 in Chickasha. High School Master's Degree last June and is now working on have selected the name Earl Neil, Jr., for the in- in Oklahoma City . Dr . Buxton at- his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in pharmaceutical fant. tended Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, and served his internship at St. Anthony Hospital . chemistry under a Parke-Davis fellowship . First Lt . Robert N. Starr, '436us, Oklahoma City, They have established a home in Shawnee where Peter Lee Ehlers, '42, Gorham, Kansas, and Mrs. is now stationed at Camp Hood, Texas, following Dr . Buxton is associated with the A.C .H . clinic . Ehlers, the former Alidee Tellegen, '44ed, an- his return to the United States from a 30 month Bill Wayne Field, Berkley, California, and Mrs. nounce the birth of a daughter, whom they have tour of duty in Europe . named Georgia Lee Ehlers . The little girl was Field, the former Cornelia Ann Lasley, '446a, '45 HENDERSON-SMITH : The marriage of Dor- Dia announce the birth of a son, Douglas Lasley, born September 19 . Ehlers is employed as an en- l othy Jane Henderson, '43geol, Oklahoma City, to born gineer with the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. June 30 at Harrick Memorial Hospital, Berke- Stanley Doyle Smith, '48geol, Norman, was sol- ley. Mr . Field is a student at the University of Cal- Daisy McLauren Cook, '42ba, is making her emnized recently in Albuquerque, New Mexico . ifornia. home in Tulsa where her husband, Jimmy P. Cook, Robert Tyler, '43ed, '481n.ed, former superin- is working with Stanolind Oil and Gas Company Karen Renee Silven, is the name chosen by Jack tendent of schools at Cyril, is now assistant profes- in Cushing. Mr . and Mrs. Cook are the parents of Silven, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Silven, sor of education at Southwestern School of Tech- a 14-month-old daughter, Laurie. the former Sylvia Lichtenstein, '446a. The little nology at Weatherford. girl was born July 10 . Frank Sneed, '42ba, Lawton, and Mrs. Sneed, Neal J. Mosely, '43eng, was recently granted his KLIMKOSKI-WILKES : The the former Doris Lee Smith, '41journ, are snaking wedding of Mar- registration to practice before the Patent Office . He grett their home in Dallas, Texas, where he is working Jean Klimkoski, Oklahoma City, and Bob handles preparation and prosecution of Patent and with radio and television. G. Wilkes, '43-'44, was an event of October 2 in Trade Mark applications . Mrs. Mosely is the former Christ Methodist Church, Oklahoma City. They Roger Harrison, '426us, and Mrs. Harrison, the Marjorie Duerksen, '43. are at home in Oklahoma City . former Mary K. Farr, '446s, are living in Altus Wallace Emmit Eater, '43eng, Chicago, and Mrs . where he is in the investment business . Mr . and Bert W. Huls, '44, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Eater have selected the name Wallace Emmit, Jr ., Huls are Mrs. Harrison are the parents of two sons. the parents of a slaughter, Barbara Ellen, for their son born October 3 in St . Anthony Hos- Harvey Harmon, '426s, '47Law, is associated born August 15 . pital . Mrs. Eater is the former Helen Elizabeth Lt . Mark R. Johnson, '44bs, '46med, Oklahoma with the law firm of Satterfield and Franklin in Smith, '41 . Oklahoma City. City, and Mrs. Johnson have chosen the name Mark making her James F. Stevenson, '39-'42, Tulsa, has been Madelene Dale Maguire, '43h .ec, is Copeland for their son born September 12 . In the Oklahoma City where her husband is em- Army pres- awarded a University of Rochester fellowship to home in Medical Corps, Lieutenant Johnson is at Company. Mr . and study for his Ph .D . Degree under the university's ployed with the Carpenter Paper ent stationed in the Azores . Mrs. Maguire are the parents of two children . Cecil D. Elliott, '44arch, '44arch.eng, received his new graduate program to train outstanding teach- ers of American history. John Larkin O'Hern, Jr ., is the name chosen by Master of Architecture Degree from Harvard Uni- versity in June, 1948 . He is now employed as as- Services were held recently for Lt. Herman R. John L. O'Hern and Mrs. O'Hern, the former Mary Collins, '42, Oklahoma City, who was killed over Jane McAnnally, '43ba, for their son born May 15 sistant professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. London August 6, 1944 . in Tulsa.

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SMITH-BJORK : The marriage of Bobby Ruth Smith, '47ba, Chicago, formerly of Oklahoma City, and Theodore Ernest Bjork, Evanston, Illinois, was solemnized in September. Mrs. Bjork is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was president of Alpha Epsilon Rho, and was a member of Gamma Alpha Chi national advertising women's fraternity . She is now national editor of the news magazine of Gamma Alpha Chi. HAIRS-SMITII : Betty Lou Haire, Wichita, Kan- sas, became the bride of Donald Valden Smith, '47 ba, Oklahoma City, September 18 in the Plymouth Congregation Church of Wichita. They have es- tablished a home in Oklahoma City . Edward Davis Dyer is the name chosen by Ed- ward Dyer, '47m .ed, Enid, and Mrs. Dyer for their son born September 17 . Dyer is former minister of music and student director in the First Christian Church in Norman . ROBERTS-GARY : Solemnized October 16 in the home of the bride's parents was the wedding of Nancy Jean Roberts, '47ed, and Robert Rugh Gary, both of Oklahoma City . Mrs. Gary attended Steph- cns College, Columbia, Missouri, and was affiliated with Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority at O.U . '1'ltcy have established a home in Oklahoma City . Rosamond Morris, '47ed, is now teaching Eng- lish, Spanish and history in the high school at Eureka, Kansas . On hand as speakers for the October 4-8 meeting of the Police Officers short course conducted at the extension study center were Earl Welch, '11, Oklahoma City, State Supreme Court Justice; A. P. Mur Jay Hightower, '47ba, is now a member of the rah, '28Law, Oklahoma City, Circuit Court Judge; and George Lipe, Oklahoma City, executive- Arkansas Gazette staff in Little Rock, Arkansas . secretary of the OI

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Mack Easley, '47Law, and John F. Quinn, '47ba, Bone had been working for the Alice Echo, Alice, ANDERSON-CRAVENS : In the ceremony Sol- announce the formation of a partnership for the Texas. emnized October 2 in the Youth chapel of the general practice of law under the firm name of Harry S. Culver, '476a, has resigned as news edi- First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City, Vir- Easley and Quinn in Hobbs, New Mexico . Their tor of the Anadarko Daily News to join the staff of ginia Lee Anderson, '48fa, became the bride of offices were opened September 21 . the Shawnee News-Star, while Frank D. Skinner, John Logan Cravens, '40ba, '40Law, Tulsa. Mrs. Gamma Ensign R. C. Doerpinghaus, '47eng, is stationed '476a, has succeeded him at Anadarko. Richard C. Cravens is a member of Delta Sorority . News-Star since Cravens is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and did with the U. S. Navy at Pearl Harbor . His work Ratliff, '48ba, wire editor of the work Harvard University, Cambridge, takes him into China, the Philippines and many January, has returned to the University of Okla- graduate at work . Massachusetts. other bases in the Pacific. Ensign Doerpinghaus at- homa to do graduate recently accepted a tended the University as a student in the Naval William D. Sawyer, '47bus, KILLINGSWORTH-BURNS: Margaret Eliza- controller with the John B. Barbour Reserve. position as beth Killingsworth, '48Lib .sci, Seminole, and Rob- Trucking Company in Iowa Park, Texas. Previous- Levona S. Williams, '476s, is a second year stu- ert Bailey Burns, Oklahoma City, were married re- ly Sawyer had been employed in the accounting dent at the University of Oklahoma School of cently in Seminole . Mrs. Burns is a member of department of the Magnate Cove Barium Corpora- Medicine in Oklahoma City . Delta Gamma Sorority and is now associated with tion in Houston, Texas. Fred W. Spielberger, '47bus, formerly of Okla- the Oklahoma Library Commission . Burns is affil- homa City, is now working in Salt Lake City, Utah, '--1948 iated with Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity and is a with the land department of the Carter Oil Com- Clarence A. Vicklund, '48eng, Iron Mountain, senior in the College of Business Administration . pany. Michigan, has been employed as a construction en- The couple has established a home in Oklahoma Raymond Evans Ard, '47eng, is employed as an gineer with the Creole Petroleum Corporation in City . Caripito, Venezuela, since his graduation from the engineer in the research department of the Core Arthur L. Ellsworth, '386a, '41Law, Oklahoma Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Ard is University. Vicklund is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Laboratories, Inc., in City attorney, is one of the professors named to she Sigma Tau, American Society of Civil Engineers the former Trudy Gunther, '426us . At present Langston University School of Law in Oklahoma for the Dallas office of and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity . He was a member is business office supervisor City . Following his gradua- Company. of the Senior Committee and received a commission Southwestern Bell Telephone tion from the University, '47eng, is employed with the as ensign with the University N.R.O .T.C . in June, R. E. Boatman, he attended Harvard Uni- Stanolind Oil and Gas 1945 . He was a Knight of St . Pat's and was win- seismograph party for the versity, Cambridge, Massa- Port Arthur, Texas. ner of the Dad's Day Award in 1946 . Company in chusetts, on a graduate fel- Ihrig, '476s, junior in the Uni- ADAMS-UPSHER : The wedding of Margaret Howard Kenneth lowship. He served three School of Medicine, attended the Medical Eleanor Adams, '486s, Norman, and Sidney Phelps versity years with the Army Field summer camp for six weeks at Fort Sam Upsher, '47ba, '48Law, Oklahoma City, was sol- R.O.T .C . Artillery and was discharged emnized October 1 in St. John's Episcopal Church, Houston, Texas. with the reserve rank of Kenneth W. Richardson, '47eng, is working as a Norman . Mrs. Upsher is a member of Kappa Kappa major. He is a member of the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Gamma Sorority and Mr. Upsher is affiliated with resident engineer with Alpha Tau Omega Fratern- Company in Liberal, Kansas . Formerly he Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity . The couple is at home Line ity. Mrs. Ellsworth is the employed with Exploration Surveys. in Oklahoma City. had been former Marjorie Carroll Re- James Clay Hancock, '47ba, and Mrs. Hancock REISTLE-HOLLIDAY : The ceremony for A. L. ELLSWORTH plogle, '416a. They have established a home in Odessa, Texas. Hancock Nancy Reistle, Houston, Texas, and Wilson Hayes have two children, Nancy Anne, received his law degree from the University this Holliday, '486us, Muskogee, was read October 2 3, and Robert Arthur, 1. past summer . in Houston. Willis Alderman, '476s, was recently transferred SHIRE-OLSON: The wedding of Shirley Shire, John Walter Gillis, '48ba, Norman, and Mrs. Forrest Olson, '48med, to the Wichita Falls, Texas, office of Stanolind Oil Oklahoma City, and Dr . Gillis have chosen the name John Michael for their and Gas Company. Previously he had been sta- Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was performed recently son born recently in Norman . in the Elim Baptist Church of Chicago. The couple tioned in Sweetwater, Texas. Mrs. Alderman is the LILLIBRIDGE-SPRING : The wedding of Ruth has established a home in Zion, Illinois . Dr . Olson former Dorothy Myers, '47ba. Lillibridge, '48ba, Enid, and Jess Spring, Jr ., '47- is taking an internship at Great Lakes Naval Hospi- V. F. "Red" Bone, '47journ, '47ba, is now work- '48, Ardmore, was an event of September 4 in the Great Lakes, Illinois . He is a lieutenant junior ing on the Texas City (Texas) Sun. Also employed tal, First Presbyterian Church of Enid . Mrs. Spring is grade in the Naval Reserve. on the paper is Clifton Caldwell, '47ba. Previously a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, national profession- al music fraternity for women. Spring is now en- rolled in the School of Petroleum Engineering at T4risfmas with 0. U. Alumni Memberships the University. He is a member of Acacia Fratern- SAY - - .Maq - - ity. The Alumni Association has the answer to the question of Christmas shopping for HENRY-WIGGINS: The marriage of Roberta Sooner Alumni . Henry, '48eng, Bartlesville and Thomas R. Wig- Make this Christmas a merry one by giving them memberships in the Alumni Asso- gins, '47-'48, also of Bartlesville, was an event of ciation . September 6 in St . Luke's Episcopal Church of It is something they will enjoy all year, through regular visits of The Sooner Maga- Bartlesville . Mrs. Wiggins is a member of Mortar Gamma Sorority . zine and other Association publications . They will be happy over being reunited with their Board, Pi Tau Sigma and Delta Wiggins is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fra- campus . ternity, Alpha Chi Sigma and the American Insti- The Association will forward certificates of membership to you to be sent to the tute of Chemical Engineers. They are at home in of their membership gift also will be happy recipients. Christmas cards telling them Norman . supplied if desired . : Solemnized Septem- What better way to say "Merry Christmas" to a Sooner friend or relative? HUTCHISON-VICKERS ber 25 in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Fill out the Christmas gift order blank below and mail to the University of Okla- Help was the wedding of Doris Hutchison, '48ba, homa Alumni Association, O.U., Norman Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, and John Aldwrid Vickers, Jr., Name ______-______Wichita, Kansas . Mrs. Vickers attended Monticello Junior College, Godfrey, Illinois, and served as pres- ______Address ident of Delta Delta Delta Sorority at O.U . A home City ------State ------in Wichita has been established by the couple. ------$ 3.00 ( ) One-Year Memberships BURNS-LOGAN: The marriage of Patricia Three-Year Membership ------8.00 Louise Burns, '48ba, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Life Membership ------. . 80.00 Burton Beldon Logan, '48ba, Oklahoma City, was solemnized September 25 in Little Rock . Mrs. Lo- Check enclosed for payment ------gan was graduated from Monticello Junior College, Signed ______.-____ Alton, Illinois . She is a member of Chi Omega Address ------Sorority and Psi Chi, honorary psychology fratern-

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ity, at the University. Logan is a member of Phi James C. Woodward, '486a, Apache, has been Kappa Sigma Fraternity. They have established a accepted as a student in the Graduate School at home in Tulsa. Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. He is Lt . Col Harry L. Evans, '48eng, Miami, recently working toward a Master's Degree in foreign serv- arrived at Yokota Air Force ice. Previously Sooner Magazine was in error in re- Base in Japan, and has as porting Woodward as attending Blackwood-Davis sumed command ofthc3lst Business College in Oklahoma City . Reconnaissance Squadron . HILEMAN-WILSON : Jeanne Hilcman, Berke- Prior to his arrival in Japan, ley, California, and George William Wilson, '48 Colonel Evans was Deputy gcol, were married October 30 in St . Mary Mag- Commander of the 29th dalen Church of Berkeley. Bombardment Group at SMITH-HARDY : Joyce Elaine Smith, Galves- Randolph Air Force Base, ton, Texas, and Hugh W. Hardy, '48eng, Okla- Hal Muldrow, Texas. For his meritorious homa City, were married October 2 in the First '28 Jr. service during 1945 in the Baptist Church of Galveston. Hardy is a member Insurance all Kinds Philippine Islands and on of Sigma Gamma Epsilon of and Sigma Tau honor- Bonds Guam, he was awarded the ary fraternities . They have established a home in Security National Bank Bldg. Norman LT . ( )1 . . EVAN$ Distinguished Flying Cross, Galveston. the Air Medal with an Oak Fred M. Ratliff, III, is the name chosen by Fred Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, and the Asiatic- M. Ratliff, Jr ., '48geol, Brownfield, Texas, and Pacific Theater of Operations Ribbon . Colonel Mrs. Ratliff for their son born recently in St . An- LINDSAY DRUG STORE Evans' wife plans to join him in Japan in the near thony Hospital, Oklahoma City . James S. Downing - The Druggist future . SULLIVAN-WOOD : The marriage of Ada Lea Whitman's and Pangburn's Candies Richard Leslie Rose was born September 1 in Sullivan, '486a, Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, to PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY Hobbs, New Mexico, David Douglass Wood, '48ba, Norman, was to Carl S. Rose, '48geol, and an 116 E. Main ...Norman... Phone 362 Mrs. Rose . Rose is a geologist for Amerada Petro- event of September 24 in the First Presbyterian leum Corporation in Monumet, New Mexico. Church of Norman . Mrs. Sullivan is librarian for Gloria June McFarland, '48geol, Henryetta, is the School of Architecture at the University . Sul- employed as an editorial secretary with the Ameri- livan served as state representative from Musko- can Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa. gee County in the 21st legislature. CALL Miss McFarland is a member of Pi Zeta Kappa, Pick Dorothyle McClure, '48com .ed, Millerton, is em- and Hammer Club, Kappa Phi, Sequoyah Club, ployed in a secretarial position of the educational MORTON'S CONOCO O.S .W .E ., and the Independent Women's Associ- sales department of Radio Corporation of America ation Council. She was a "Big Woman on the Cam- in Camden, New Jersey . STATION pus" in 1948 . Fred B. Jones, Jr ., '48geol, is employed as a Lubricating, Washing, Polishing, geologist with the Gulf Oil Corporation in Ard- Steam Cleaning, Batteries, Tires, more. Formerly he had been working in Durant. BUILDING MATERIALS Tire Repairing, battery charging. Leon Renfrew, '48pharm, is working at the Ncil- Of All Kinds Simpson Drug Store in Tyler, Texas. Located at 332 E. Main Russell V. Johnson, Jr ., '48geol, is employed by the Mack Oil Company of Duncan as a junior geol- Long-Bell Lum6er Co . NORMAN ogist. 227 W. Main Norman Phone 51 Phone 3084

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