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Tier CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL of Honor, for heroism (luring a bombing raid on Ra- ing to a telegram received by his parents, the highest tribute which can be paid by baul. Mr. and Mrs. T. Veith of Okemah, the the United States government to one of its 00- Lt. Louis J. Lamm, '37-'39, Vici, Okla- plane fell into the ocean about twelve miles fighting men, was awarded to Maj . John homa, was awarded the Air Medal for gal- south of New Bedford. Ensign Veith, for- L. Smith, '36bus, Marine Corps flier from lantry in action against the Japanese in the mer engineering student in the University, Lexington, on February 24. President Aleutian Islands. The presentation was received his commission last September at Roosevelt personally presented the medal made in February at March Field, Cali- Corpus Christi, Texas. Survivors include to Major Smith in a ceremony witnessed by fornia. While at the University, Lieutenant his parents and a sister, Mrs. Betty Beidle- high-ranking Marine and Navy officials. Lamm was a student in the College of Arts Inan, '40241 . Major Smith is the first Oklahoman to win and Sciences and a member of Theta Kappa 0- Eugene Stead, '40, Dewey, was killed the Congressional Medal. Phi fraternity. in February in an airplane crash at Mari- The accompanying citation read by Presi- Do- Capt. William B. Oldfield, '39ba, Okla- anna, Florida, where he was an aviation Roosevelt, is as follows : (lent homa was decorated with the Order cadet in training with the Army Air Forces . "For conspicuous gallantry and heroic City, of the Purple Heart for wounds received A former engineering student in the Uni- achievement in aerial combat above and in action with the Marines on Guadalcanal versity, Cadet Stead had been in service beyond the call of duty as commanding last December. He was stationed at Phila- since October, 1941 . Survivors include two officer of a Marine fighting squadron, dur- delphia before being transferred overseas. brothers and his parents, Mr. and Mrs . ing operations against enemy Japanese His brother, Maj. John S. Oldfield, '35bus, Harry B. Stead of Dewey. forces in the Solomon Islands area, August- is on duty as a Marine Corps instructor at 00- Capt. C. Clark James, '36eng, formerly September, 1942. Quantico, Virginia . of Tulsa, has been officially listed as killed "Repeatedly risking his life in daring at- in action during the defense of the Philip- Major Smith led his squadron against 0- Capt. David Brooks, '34, tacks, pine Islands in May, 1942. Until late in determined force greatly superior in nun- City, has been commended for meritorious a February he was listed as missing. Before hers, shooting down 16 Japanese service when the transport on which he was personally entering the Army in April, 1941, Captain August 21 and September sailing for Africa was torpedoed by an planes between James was industrial engineer with the enemy submarine. Assuming command of 15, 1942. Oklahoma Natural Gas Company in Tulsa. experi- the soldiers on board, he remained with the "In spite of the limited combat Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Catherine damaged ship while the rest of the convoy ence of many of the pilots of the squadron, Anne James, and a son, Edward, of Mat- total proceeded to its destination, 160 miles away. they achieved the notable record of a toon, Illinois, and his parents, Mr. and of 83 enemy aircraft destroyed in this pe- Later he and his Inen brought the ship to Mrs. Frank James of Independence, . riod, mainly attributable to the thorough safety. 0- Stuart R. Merwin, '37eng, formerly of training under Major Smith and to his in- 00- Ensign Justin Veith, '39-'41, Okemah, trepid and inspiring leadership . His bold was killed February 13 in a plane crash Tulsa, was killed recently when the Mer- tactics and indomitable fighting spirit and near New Bedford, Massachusetts. Accord- chant Marine ship on which he was serving the valiant fortitude of the men of his com- was sunk by enemy action. Before joining Inand not only rendered the enemy's attack the Merchant Marine, Mr. Merwin was a costly to them but contributed to the se- Civil Service architect with the Navy De- curity of our advance base. His loyal and partment in Washington, D.C. He was a courageous devotion to duty sustain and member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Sur- enhance the finest tradition of the United vivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. States Naval service." Herbert F. Merwin of Tulsa. Major Smith later downed three more 00- Lt. Donald Raymond Bried, '34-'35, enemy craft bringing his own total of planes , was killed in an airplane destroyed to 19. crash February 24 at Jacksonville, Florida, where he was assigned to the Naval Air i Lt. Marion Kent Cohenour, '39=41, Ma- Station . He graduated from the Naval rine Corps flyer from Muskogee, has been Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1940 awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and was on sea duty before entering naval for heroism against the enemy over the Solo- aviation last year. While attending the Uni- mon Islands, particularly Guadalcanal. versity he was a student in the College of During last November and December, Arts and Sciences. Survivors include his Lieutenant Cohenour participated in fre- wife, the former Alice Reid of Washington, quent attacks on enemy shipping and air- D.C., his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Bried fields. "All of these many attacks were of Oklahoma City, and a brother, Lt. Theo- made in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire (lore J. Bried, '421aw, who was assigned to and often against enemy fighter opposition . the Army Intelligence School in Harris- All his flights were carried out with skill, burg, Pennsylvania . daring and aggressiveness . . . ." the cita- tion read. I" Lt. Walter Carl Weatherly, '38242, Norman, was killed in line of duty recently 0- Lt. Euel A. Travis, '41ed, has been SINGER Now PILOT in the Panama Canal Zone. He was a mem- awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross Photographed at his base in the South- ber of the Army Air Forces, having received for outstanding ability and devotion to duty. west Pacific wearing the Silver Star his wings last year at Luke Field, Arizona. Former school teacher at Indianola, Lieu- award for gallantry is Capt. Paul Irv- At the University he was a student in the tenant Travis has spent more than 200 hours ing Williams, '40, Norman, former College of Business Administration . Sur- in operational flights against the enemy in voice student in the University . Pilot of vivors include his mother, Mrs. Emma the Pacific. He also holds the Silver Star a Flying Fortress, he has four awards. Weatherly, of Duncan.

6 SOONER MAGAZINE 0- Word was received that Lt. T. Hillas Eskridge, '42, , was wounded re- cently in the fighting in North Africa. Lieu- tenant Eskridge's wife, the former Martha Speer, is a student in the University and a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority . The couple were married last year while Lieutenant Eskridge was stationed at Fort Benming, Georgia. 00- Pvt. Elwood Crawford, '38-'40, Dela- ware, Oklahoma, was wounded recently in the fighting in the Southwest Pacific battle area. Private Crawford was a student in the College of Business Administration at the University . t Lt. J. B. Long, '41pharm, May, Okla- homa, was reported missing in action over the European front since February 16. He received his commission in February, 1942, at Brooks Field, Texas, and was stationed at Charming Page Field, Florida, before going overseas as a pilot of a Flying For- tress. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben F. Long of May. At the Univer- sity Lieutenant Long was a member of Acacia fraternity and Galen, pharmacy organization . 0- Maj . Ralph W. Hubbard,'32med, Okla- homa City physician listed as missing in action since last May, has been reported a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. Stationed first at Sternberg Gen- eral Hospital in Manila, Major Hubbard later transferred to Bataan. His father, Maj. John C. Hubbard, is a Medical Corps offi- cer at , and a brother, Lt. William E. Hubbard, '41med, is a flight surgeon at STAR Now IN ARMY SHARES IN MOVIE HONORS Biggs Field, Texas. Chosen by the Motion Picture Academy as the best supporting actor of 1942, 1 Maj . Clinton S. Maupin, '34med, Wau- Lt. Van Heflin, '32ba, formerly of Oklahoma, received the traditional shiny rika, and Capt. J. E. (Buck) Garrett, '22- Oscar at the academy's annual dinner. Other winners are (left to right) Greer '27, Oklahoma City, are prisoners of the Garson, best actress; Teresa Wright, best supporting actress, and James Cagney, Japanese in the Philippine Islands, accord- best actor. Lieutenant Heflin, now stationed at Camp Roberts, California, re- ing to a recent War Department announce- ceived the award for his performance in Johnny Eager. ment. Major Maupin, a member of the Medical Corps, was on Bataan. Captain Cartney piloted a Mitchell bomber on the United Press Association in Oklahoma City, wrote raid . to friends about the momentous occasion, "All day Garrett is a former Oklahoma City insur- long gladdened souls beat a path between Queenie's ance man. 0- Capt. Bill Hoover, '38-'40, Altus, was doghouse and the post exchange, bearing her No- Charles Clark Kegelman, '34-'36, Army navigator aboard the Talisman, one the canned milk, salmon and beer to give her strength . of One of the boys bought a box of cigars which he Air Force pilot from El Reno, has been pro- planes which bombed a Japanese convoy passed around to celebrate the event." moted to the rank of lieutenant and between New Britain and New Guinea "You may have heard the saying, `You can't assigned to Will Rogers Field near Okla- early in March. Dispatches from the area miss the one with your name on it,' but you can homa City. Colonel Kegelman, who has watch out for those labeled `To whom it may con- said the attack was carried out in a driving cern,' " Capt . Kenneth Taylor, '40, Hominy, wrote seen action over Europe and Africa, holds rain, amid thick clouds which cut visibility his parents recently . In the letter Captain Taylor the Distinguished Service .Cross. Without almost to zero. Fighting off 25 enemy described an aerial dogfight in the south Pacific. any advance notice to his folks, Colonel planes, the American fliers bombed .four, "They had the advantages, but as usual we did Kegelman came home El a lot better than trade even," he wrote. to Reno in Febru- possibly more, of the Japanese ships. A Christmas dinner given by Egyptian royalty ary for his first visit after ten months of was attended by Pvt. John Hill, '356us, former aerial operation. Reporters and photograph- Abroad Oklahoma City accountant on duty in northern ers flocked to the Kegelman home and Africa . He was one of a group of American sol- newspapers Capt. J. Ernest Baker, '32ba, '37m .cd, former diers entertained by King Farouk at a feast of for several days carried long superintendent of schools at Purcell now with the baked ham, candied sweet potatoes, pie and coffee . accounts of the pilot's exploits . American forces in England, has a post which Also in Africa is John's brother, Pvt. Howard Hill, DO- Capt. Jay Rousek, '35-'37, Muskogee, keeps him traveling all over Great Britain, Wales, '31-'33, a ineinber of the Medical Corps. A third Scotland and a part of Ireland . Since going to Eng- brother, Robert Hill, '36-'39, is a yeoman on sea and Lt. Warren P. McCartney, '41, Ponca land, Captain Baker has been sort of a one-man duty . City, participated in the February 14 raid chamber of commerce for Uncle Sam, having lec- Sgt. Harold Byrd, '35-'41, pilot with the Royal against Rabaul in New Guinea, termed the tured at several schools and a Rotary banquet. He Canadian Air Force who expected transfer to the largest Allied bombing attack of the war. also was one of seven to represent the American U.S. Army Air Force soon, has been released from forces at a royal function . After call to duty last a British hospital after seven-month treatment for Captain Rousek, according to dispatches summer, he transferred from Field Artillery to the an injury received last year . Sergeant Byrd, former from the sector, "led one particularly sharp Air Force and a short time later was ordered abroad . Sooner wrestling coach, was injured when his land- attack, successfully evading the many- Excitement reigned in the Infantry unit to ing gear stuck and he was forced to make a crash fingered Jap which Lt . Jim Flinchum, '39, was attached in the landing after returning from a reconnaissance beams and their radio-con- Pacific when the unit's mascot, Queenie, had six flight . When his plane crashed into a concrete pill- trolled, high-level guns." Lieutenant Mc- puppies. Lieutenant Flinchum, formerly with the box near the runway his right leg was badly frac-

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tured and his face was hurt, requiring a skin graft- the Medical Corps, and Joe J. Klabzuba, '36geoI, was stationed with the Marine Corps at Camp ing operation . Prague . Pendleton . Paul Hinds, '21-'23, formerly of Weleetka, Army Paul C. Duncan, '371aw, Oklahoma City, with Capt . David H. Bridges, '39fa, and Lt. Wood- Air Force officer on duty in Puerto Rico, has been the Field Artillery in Hawaii, has been promoted row Bledsoe, '40, Lexington, were on desert ma- promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel . to the rank of captain . Bruce Chenault, '41, yeo- neuvers recently. Lt. Jack M. Collier, '40fa, Ardmore, was an man first class, was on duty at the Pearl Harbor Hollis B. Chenery, '42eng, Pelham Manor, New Army Air Force squadron commander on duty Navy Yard. York, was an Army Air Force cadet in training somewhere in China. On duty somewhere overseas were Col . S. H. at the California Institute of Technology at Pasa- Recent promotions among alumni stationed in Griffin, '12eng, formerly of Duluth, Minnesota ; dena. England with the Army Air Force include Stuart Lt. Col. Frank G. White, '376a, Henryetta ; Lt. Porter, '38bus, Muskogee, to the rank of full Com. D. G. Willard, '29med, former Norman phy- Lloyd F. Childers, '40, Oklahoma City, was in colonel, and Thomas E. Ashinhurst, '38-'39, Okla- sician, now a member of the Navy Medical Corps training as a Naval aviation cadet at Moraga. Be- homa City, to first lieutenant. attached to a Marine unit ; Lt. Everett E. Ellerd, fore transferring to the Navy Air Corps he was Charles Nothstein, '34-'37, on duty with the '40-'42, El Reno; Lt . William S. McCready, '41 an aviation radioman on active duty in the Pa- Air Force in the Panama Canal Zone, has been pro- eng, Bartlesville ; Lt. Edward W. Yates, '40=41, cific. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel . Maj . Rex Norman, assistant personnel adjutant with an Aviation cadets in training at the Santa Ana C. House, '32med, was stationed at a hospital in Armored Force battalion ; Lt . Leonard Battle, '41 Army Air Base included Raymond Crews, '411aw, Cristobal . Mrs. House, the former Kathleen Barnes, eng, Bartlesville ; Lt . James D. Holt, '38-'41, Clovis, Norman ; Joe T. Price, '42, Oklahoma City, and '286a, of Idabel, is with him in Panama. ; James R. Lamar, '37-'42, Fairland ; Hubert Fraker, '39-'42, Norman . Capt . Virgil O. Johnson, '35ma, '40ph.d, Uni- Maj. N. P. Wood, Jr ., '366us, Poteau, with the Capt . Dwight L. Dunlap, '40bus, was taking versity Biology Department technician on leave of Marines ; Lt . Alex Semryck, '41geol, formerly with flight training in officer grade at the Polaris Flight absence, is on duty in Australia. Lt. Robert B. the National Gas Company at Monahan, Texas, Academy at Lancaster near the Mojave Desert . Mrs. Prock, '406us, Oklahoma City, was reported with and Pfc. Morgan L. Powell, Jr., '39journ, Seminole . Dunlap is the former Jo Ann Johnson, '40-'41. the Quartermaster Corps on Guadalcanal Island, Maurice C. Foster, '36-'39, Oklahoma City, on after transfer from Hawaii, where he had been sta- At Sea duty at the Pomona Ordnance Depot, has been pro- tioned since 1940 . Dick West, '41fa, former teacher at Bacone Col- moted to the rank of captain . Ensign Paul J. Sterr, '42eng, Lindsay, has been lege near Muskogee, was on duty aboard ship as Maj. Victor L. Glines, '16-'17, has been trans- transferred to the at Kodiak, a painter third class. Artist and football player, ferred to Camp Haan, where he is with the Coast Alaska . Capt. Julian Jacobi, '38-'40, Marietta, was Mr. West received art training at Bacone under Artillery. Also there were Lt. Earl Doughty, '36, in Alaska with the Army Air Force. Acee Blue Eagle, '32. His murals appear in the and Lt . Edward K. Livermore, '40journ, former R. B. Holtzendorff, Oklahoma City, has been post office at Okemah and at Bacone . Anadarko newspaperman. promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel at his Aboard ships somewhere at sea were Lt. (jg) Ensign Joe E. Graham, '39phys, was on duty station in Africa. Other alumni on duty in Africa Richard C. Lovelace, '39geo1, Waco, Texas; En- with the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at were Lt . Col. John A. Way, '31bus, with the Air sign Charles R. Kerr, '421aw, Pawnee ; Ensign Ray- the School of Meteorology in West Los Angeles . Force; Capt. J. W. Chalfant, '40pharm, , mond C. Palmer, '36ed, '38ma, Ponca City, and Roy Grantham, '34ba, '341aw, '40m.ed, on duty Oklahoma ; Capt . Murble Pearson, '38med, with Harold Fritzlan, '38-'41, Norman, a pharmacist's at Camp Roberts, has been promoted to the rank mate second class. of captain . Also stationed there was Pvt . Stanley Kenneth Kinney, '41-'42, Purcell, has entered Miles Demand, '41-'42, Oklahoma City. service with the Merchant Marine. He was for- Lt . Col . A. L. Jennings, '29med, former Wash- merly employed in a California shipyard . ington, D.C. physician, was on duty with the How Sooners Serve Medical Corps at Bakersfield . Pvt. Billy Dale Jones, '42-'43, Duncan, was sta- ARMY Alabama tioned at Camp Callan . Privates ------442 Cadet John D. Marks, '421aw, Guthrie, has been Pfc . Robert R. Kirk, '41242, Muskogee, was Corporals ------94 transferred to Maxwell Field. selected to attend a course in clerks and supplies Sergeants ______135 at Woodbury College in Los Angeles . Warrant Officers ------27 Arizona Lt. E. Douglas Lewis, '38-'42, Coyle, Oklahoma, Cadets ______224 Lt. Jim Almond, '42, has been transferred to was stationed at the Muroc Army Air Base as a Lieutenants ______1,770 Tucson where he is on duty with the Air Force. navigator . Captains ------647 Nathaniel Jones, '33-'36, Tulsa, on duty with Louis E. McCarter, '266us, former Pond Creek Majors ______272 the Infantry at Phoenix, has been promoted to the lumberman now on duty in Fresno, was recently Lieutenant Colonels ------64 rank of captain. promoted to the rank of major. Colonels ------15 Lt. Robert T. Morgan, '41-'42, Walters, was as- On duty with the Marine Corps in San Diego Major Generals ------2 signed to the Army Air School at Luke Field. were Pvt. Leo G. Presley, '41-'42, Elk City; Pvt. WAACS ------42 Wendell J. Smith, '37, Enid, was in training James L. Terrell, '42, Woodward ; Pvt. Joe M. as an air cadet at the Marana Basic Flying School . Johnson, '38-'41, Norman, and Pvt. Robert L. TOTAL ______3,734 Ensign Joseph S. Thompson, '351aw, former Donnelly, '42, Portland, Oregon . Robert J. Elson, Miami attorney, was assigned to the Naval Train- '41-'42, Shawnee, was to attend a radio and tele- NAVY ing School at Tucson for indoctrination . vision school after his completion of the training Seamen ------198 P Petty Officers ______34 course at the Marine Base there. Cadets ______67 Arkansas Lt. William H. Reedy, '40-'41, Shawnee, was Ensigns ------249 Lt. Preston J. Moore, '40, Pawhuska, was sta- with the Field Artillery at Camp Beale. Lieutenants ------153 tioned at Camp Robinson as an instructor at the On duty at the Mare Island Naval Ammunition Lieutenant Commanders ______21 Medical Replacement Training Center. Pvt . George Depot were Ensign Robert H. Searcy, Jr., '33bus Commander ------1 Baremore, '38-'41, Pawhuska, was assigned there and Lt . (jg) W. Neal Searcy, '346us, brothers from Captain ------1 for Infantry training. Tulsa, and Ensign W. Palmer Boles, '356us, Ard- WAVES ------21 Jack D. Powell, '40bus, on duty with the Air more. Force at Stuttgart, has been promoted to the rank Capt. Doane Tolleson, '24eng, '28eng, formerly TOTAL of major. with the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company in ______745 Oklahoma City, was on duty at the Chico Army MARINES California Flying School . Privates ------21 Jimmy Tucker, '36-'39, former University jour- Ensign Cecil E. Waller, '42eng, Seminole, was Sergeant ------I nalism student and photographer, returned to the on duty at the San Diego Naval Air Station. Also Cadet ------I United States in February after almost a year of with the Navy in San Diego was R. Wendell Tom- Lieutenants ------23 sea duty in the Pacific. Former printer aboard an berlin, '38fa, former University art professor, an Captains ------5 aircraft carrier, Tucker was accepted for naval air apprentice seaman. Majors ______3 cadet training and was assigned to the University Sgt . John P. Wright, '41journ, Collinsville, has Lieutenant Colonel ------I of Southern California for indoctrination. After he been transferred to March Field where he is with Colonel ------I went on sea duty shortly after Pearl Harbor, Cadet a communications squadron . Tucker traveled 40,000 miles, and took part in five TOTAL ------56 naval battles . Colorado John J. Miller, '41journ, Elk City, has been trans- Lt . Woodrow Wentzy, '40-'41, former Uni- COAST GUARD ferred to the Naval Flight Preparatory School in versity journalism teacher, was assigned to the Seamen ------29 Los Angeles for training with the Navy Air Corps. Army Air Base at Colorado Springs to teach en- Petty Officers ------4 He was formerly a storekeeper second class on sea listed men and pilots aircraft identification and Cadets ------2 duty in the Atlantic . airdrome interpretation from aerial photographs . Ensign ------_____ 1 John Miskovsky, '38bus, former football coach Kenneth G. Ward, '40fa, Lawton, with a photo- Lieutenant ------1 at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, has graphic reconnaissance squadron there, has been TOTAL ------37 been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant at promoted to corporal . He was a singer with the Camp Young, where he is on duty with a Tank Columbia Broadcasting System in Chicago before GRAND TOTAL ______4,572 Destroyer battalion. entering the service. Pvt. Kenneth Anquoe, '40-'41, Mountain View, Pvt . Rex B. Bulleigh, '41-'43, Wichita, Kansas,

8 SOONER MAGAZINE was assigned to a school squadron at Lowry Field. Carl W. Hogge, '311aw, former Oklahoma City Richard C. Capps, '40-'43, Mountain Park, was lawyer, was stationed at Cairo with the Coast on duty with a Technical School Squadron at Guard. Buckley Field . Woodrow W. Massad, '416s, Hcaldton, was on Pfc. Francis J. Christy, '41ed, Bartlesville, was duty at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station stationed with the Quartermaster Corps at Camp as a pharmacist mate second class. Victor R. Achc- Carson . son, '42-'43, Oklahoma City, was in training there. Lt. Leon V. Davis, '40ba, I-icnryctta, was trans- ferred to Camp Hale and assigned to a ski troop. Indiana Pvt. Cameron f.. Kerran, '42-'43, Oklahoma City, was stationed at Fort Logan. In training at the Naval Rescrvc Midshipmen's School at Notre Dame University were William J. Connecticut Ivester, '43ba, Sayre; Louis 13. Myrick, '43bus, Oklahoma City ; Walter L. Stephenson, '43bus, Emerson Jordan, '39-'42, was an aviation cadet Henryetta ; Charles B. Titus, '43bus, Sayre; John in training at New Haven. H. Fezler, '38-'42, Oklahoma City; Edwin R. Walker, '43ba, Sapulpa ; Charles A. McWilliams, District of Columbia '43journ, Rush Springs, and Joe Bud Minton, '43 Col. Donald M. Danvers, '17-'24, San Antonio, bus, Walters . Texas, is on duty in the Office of the Chief of Air Corps. Iowa Lt. Jules Bloch, '37bus, Oklahoma City, was in Among those recently receiving their corrunis- Washington taking advanced Naval training. sions as second lieutenants in the WAACS at Fort William G. Davis, Jr ., '366us, on duty in the Des Moines were Helen Mae Barr, '36ed, on leave Office of Chief of Ordnance, was recently promoted of absence from Stephens College in Columbia, to the rank of captain. Missouri ; Eileen Hoggard, '41, '42, Cushing ; Bar- Capt. John B. Dudley, Jr., '351aw, former Okla- bara Ann Nelson, '41-'42, Tulsa, and Jane Ellen homa City attorney, was stationed in the Office of Reeves, '37journ, former assistant editor of the the Judge Advocate General . Breckenridge American at Breckenridge, Texas. In training as auxiliaries there were Emma Pawson, Florida '38fa ; Mamie Louise Ware, '34-'36, Norman ; Thel- C. Gerald Forbes, '36ba, '37ma, '39ph.d, re- TRAVELING FOR UNCLE SAM ma M. Bills, '256a, '27ed, Gotebo ; Marguerite cently commissioned a second lieutenant in the Capt. J. Ernest Baker, '32ba, '37m.ed, Patchin, '36-'38, Pawhuska, and Marjorie Cuff, Army Air Forces, was attending Officer Training former superintendent of schools at '426a, Tulsa. School at Miami Beach. Lieutenant Forbes' former Lt. Earl L. Jolly, '39m .ed, formerly of Dallas, professor of history at Northeastern State College Purcell, travels throughout the British was stationed at the Burlington Ordnance Plant. in Tahlequah, is the author of a recent University Isles representing the U.S.A. at gath- Press publication, Flush Production . erings as a sort of one-man chamber Kansas Harold W. Baker, '39journ, Omaha, Nebraska, recently commissioned an ensign in the Naval of commerce. 1-t . Ellis Brown, '39cng, Duncan, was stationer) Reserve, was at the Topeka Air Base as commander of a bomber assigned to duty at Miami. Before squadron . entering service, he was a radio news editor in Omaha. Maj . George S. Brown, '35m .ed, and Capt . Ollie Lt. Houston J. Blankenship, '391aw, both of Norman, were H. Bartley, '37-'40, Oklahoma City, assigned to the Garden City Army Air Base . was stationed at MacDill Field as a bomber pilot. Edward . T. J. Hardman, '34med, former Enid physician, E Dale, Jr ., '426a, Norman, on duty was on duty at the Dodge City Army Flying School . at Camp Carrabelle, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Orville Holt, '41-'42, was stationed at the Hut- Ensign Lon Davis, '42, Floydada, Texas, was on chinson Naval Air Station as a hospital apprentice duty with first class. the Naval Air Force at Jacksonville . Capt . Charles Harry Mee, '30ba, Oklahoma City, Paul Gamine, '396us, Tulsa, and John K. Hanks, '38, Purcell, were attending the Army Air Force was recently assigned for training in the Com- Administrative mand and General Staff School at Fort Leaven- Officer Candidate School at Miami worth. Beach. Also stationed there with the Air Force was Pvt. Jory Sciborski, '42journ, Brooklyn . Sgt. Jack Stamper, '38-'39, was on duty at the Lt. George W. Long, '41eng, Oklahoma City, Salina Army Air Base . was John C. (Jack) Stuart, '39-'40, Oklahoma City, attached to the Signal Corps at Camp Murphy. intelligence officer with an observation squadron at Bus Mills, '426a, was an Army aviation cadet in Fort Riley, has been promoted to the rank of first training at Jacksonville. lieutenant . Capt . Edward T. Cook, '38med, was Warren F. Pilchcr, '41eng, San Angelo, Texas, was recently commissioned an ensign in the Navy there with the Medical Corps. Air Corps Lt. William C. Woodward, '42zool, Norman, at Pensacola . Bill Lyda, '42, former Soon- was attached to the Field Artillery at Camp Phillips . er track star, in training there as a Naval aviation cadet, expected to receive his wings soon . Capt . Walter R. McClelland, '24gcol, and Lt. Kentucky Dan Savage, '38-'41, Tulsa, were stationed with Cpl . Dale Knight, '39bus, was assigned to the the Army Air Forces at Orlando . University of Kentucky in Lexington to study Lt. Tom H. Wilson, Jr., '40ma, Norman, was maps and mathematics with a service unit. with the Army Air Forces at Morrison Field, West Charles R. Nesbitt, '42ba, Tulsa, on duty at Palm Beach . Camp Campbell, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Georgia ACE OF NEW GUINEA Assigned to were Pvt. John A. Rector, Recently commissioned second lieutenants at Third high man among 60 pilots who '39-'42, El Reno; Hugh McBirney, '39ba, and Pvt. were W. Kenneth Swan, '39bus, shot down a total of 129 Japanese planes Ray L. Ary, '42-'43, both of Oklahoma City. Blackwell, and Edgar Harold Graham, '40m .ed, Ada. Also stationed there were Lt. B. D. Me- during the New Guinea campaign was Campbell, '41eng, Oklahoma City, with a Para- Capt. James Bruce Morehead, '39, Lt. Neville C. Bowers, '39med, of the Navy troop unit, and Lt . Charles M. Firebaugh, '38-'39, Washington, Oklahoma, who had a Medical Corps, was transferred to the Naval Air Hugo. total of seven craft to his credit . Capt. Station at Houma. Lt. Robert E. Moseley, '41ba, Tulsa, was sta- Cpl . C. V. Caviness, '42, Oklahoma City, was tioned at Warner Robins Field. Nathan Blanton, '38, Earlsboro, got stationed near New Orleans with a Station Hos- Dana R. Pickup, '366us, assistant supply officer four and Maj. Mitchell Sims, '34-'39, pital . at Hunter Field, has been promoted to the rank Norman, one. Charles H. Gingles, '36med, who entered the of major. Army Medical Corps soon after graduation, has Wilma Jane Stafford, '39-'42, Norman, was as- been promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel signed for training with the WAACS at Fort Oglc- of first lieutenant. Also there was Lt . Jesse D. at , where he is stationed . thorpe, preparatory to becoming an officer candi- Burton, '39journ, Shawnee. Elmer H. Gish, '42cd, Weslaco, Texas, on duty rlatc. with the Field Artillery at Camp Livingston, was Illinois recently promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Idaho Pvt. John K. Flickinger, '406a, former school Ensign James F. Haning, '391aw, former Ada Robert D. Coggeshall, '37-'39, Tulsa, on duty teacher at Fairland, Oklahoma, was on duty with lawyer, has been transferred to the personnel office at Gowen Field, has been promoted to the rank the Army Air Forces in Chicago . of the Naval Station at New Orleans .

APRIL, 1943 9 Lt Hooley B. Raper, '391aw, former Norman Lt. Charles F. Spencer, '29ma, was on duty Fort Sill lawyer, was on maneuvers in Louisiana last month. at the Naval Training School at Princeton . '346a, former Miami Capt . L. R. Ware, '376a, coached the Field Ar- Robert R. Rothrock, '39cng, formerly production Capt. John R. Wallace, tillery boxing team from Fort Sill which took engineer for the Cities Service Oil Company in lawyer, was on duty at the Raritan Arsenal, Me- four state championships in the Golden Gloves con- Wellington, Kansas, has been promoted to the rank tuchen . tests held recently. Captain Ware was with the of first lieutenant at Camp Polk . Also there was Civilian Conservation Corps before entering the Cpl . Jack McKinney, '41, Norman . New Mexico Army . Lt. James O. Stinnett, '36-'38, Crushing, has Lt. Calvin G. Brown, '38-'39, was on duty Lt. Gordon R. Cubbison, '37-'38, former engi- been transferred to with the Army at the Alamogordo Air Base as a navigator . neer in Atlanta, Georgia, was on the staff of the Engineers . Charles A. Bell, Jr., '37gcol, Oklahoma frank Miskovsky, '33-'34, former Oklahoma Field Artillery School . Capt . John W. Ervin, '406a, City, on duty there, has been promoted to the City attorney now trial judge advocate of general Oklahoma City, was in training there. rank of captain. and special courts martial at the Carlsbad Army Recent promotions at Fort Sill were announced Air Base, has been promoted to the rank of first for Bill 11 . Fleetwood, '386us, Lawton, to first Maryland lieutenant. lieutenant, and Denver W. Meacham, '351aw, Clin- Cpl . Francis L. Carriker, '39ba, '40ina, was on William C. Tisdal, '33mcd, former Clinton phy- ton, to captain . duty with the Field Artillery at Fort Meade. sician, was on duty at the Station Hospital at the IIt. James H. Ivy, Jr., '411aw, former Waurika Charles M. Cole, Jr ., '42eng, Oklahoma City, Roswell Internment Camp. lawyer, was on duty at Fort Sill as assistant post is a midshipman in the Navy Reserve School at internal security officer . Annapolis . New York Robert Lawrence, '42, Anadarko, recently com- Robert H. Kyle, '35eng, Ardmore, who recently Ike B. Bond, '42eng, Vallejo, California, was missioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery, received his commission as a second lieutenant in at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn awaiting assign- was attending a Battery Executives Course . the Chemical Warfare Service, was stationed at ment as an oiler aboard a Merchant Marine vessel . On duty at the Field Artillery Replacement Edgewood Arsenal . Mr. Bond was formerly maintenance engineer with Training Center were Maj. Louis M. Long, '31bus, Capt . George W. McKinney, '23, Dallas, was the DuPont Company in Tulsa. Acla ; Lt . Sam D. Miller, '24-'28, Elk City; Pvt . on duty with the Ordnance Department at Aber- Ensign Ann Fogle, '38ed, Bartlesville, of the George Gibbons, '40-'42, former Sooner football deen Proving Ground. WAVES, was on duty in New York City . star ; T. B. (Mutt) Miller, '38phys .ed, former ath- Capt . Francis B. Henry, '34eng, former Des letic coach at Wewoka High School ; Maj . L. Kirk Massachusetts Moines chemist, was on duty with the Chemical Woodlifl, '371aw, Wewoka, and Cpl . George J. Ensign Ronald Bollenbach, '41ma, Kingfisher, Warfare in New York City . Enos, Jr ., '42-'43, Canton, Kansas, last year base- was stationed at Soldiers Field, Boston . Leon Litwin, '41-'42, Iola, Kansas, was in train- ball letterman and president of Scabbard and Estella Knapp, '426a, San Antonio, Texas, mem- ing at the Navy Training Station in Brooklyn . Blade military fraternity. ber of the WAVES at Northampton, played the Recently commissioned second lieutenants at the lead in a Fox Movictone publicity short recently North Carolina Field Artillery Officer Candidate School were Wil- filmed to explain the function of the women's Lt. Seth K. Barrett, '37, was stationed with the liam J. Wallace, '31-'34, Paris Glenn Stringer, '36 Navy. Army Air Force at Red Springs . bus, and Roy C. Tanner, '35, all of Oklahoma City. Ensign Marya Welch, '39phys .ed, Guthrie, has Lt. Merle Dean Bridges, '42bus, Bartlesville, was Still in training there were Ernest J. Webster, Jr., been assigned as an instructor on the WAVES on duty with an Ordnance Heavy Maintenance '426a, Bartlesville, and Leo D. Marks, '37ba, for- Physical Education staff at Smith College, North- battalion at Camp Sutton . tner city editor of the MrislCogee Pkoenix. ampton. Another WAVES instructor on duty at Lt. W. M. Harrison, Jr., '38ha, Oklahoma City ; Also on duty at Fort Sill were Maj. Morrison Smith is Ensign Mary Louise McElwcc, '39phys.ed. has been assigned to the Army Air Base at Win- Stephens, '38eng, former Oklahoma City architect; Margaret M. Kruse, '28ba, Enid, was assigned ston-Salem . Pfc . Gerald F. Keen, '39-'43, Norman ; Pvt. War- there for training . Capt . F. W. Lamirand, '376us, was assigned to ren J. King, '42-'43, Dustin, and Pvt. D. P. Lowe, a Field Artillery battalion at Camp Butner . Also '35, former teacher at Seminole Junior College . Michigan there was Lt. Obbie Lewis, '39-'42, Houston, Lt. Douglass C:. Mitchell, '296s, former school Texas. Oklahoma teacher in Webb City, Missouri, was stationed at Maurice E. Stuart, '381aw, Oklahoma City, has Pvt . Robert C. Bailey, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, Fort Custer with the Corps of Military Police. been promoted to the rank of captain at Fort Bragg, was assigned to duty with a squadron at the Enid where he is in the Adjutant General's department. Army Flying School . Mississippi Lt. George O. Young, '42eng, Oklahoma City, Pfc . Carl V. Bovard, '41ba, was on duty with Lt. Thomas B. Fessenger, Jr., '35-'36, San Jose, has been transferred to Camp Davis for Antiair- the Army in the Federal Building in Tulsa. California, was stationed at Key Field as an Air craft training . George W. Duke, '38m.ed, Heald- Transferred recently to Will Rogers Field were Force pilot. ton, was attending Coast Artillery Officer Candi- Lt. Louis M. Gorman, '35-'37, Lawton; Capt. Pvt. Fred 1.. Hooper, '41-'43, Hastings, and Pvt . clate School there. James E. Mahon, '32-'33, Chickasha ; Lt. Jack Charles McKean, '41-'42, were stationed at Kceslcr Marks, '40, Holdenville, and Capt . Clarence C. Field. Ohio Cain, '39, who taught school at Kingfisher before James 11. Sellers, '42bus, Depew, was assigned entering the service. Mrs. Cain (Frances Smith, Joe Cowdrey, '336us, Oklahoma City, on duty '306a, '40ma) is living in Oklahoma City. for training in Officer Candidate School at State at Wright Field, has been promoted to the rank College. Lt . Max E. Johnson, '39med, member of the of captain . Also there was Lt. Frank J. Heller, Army Medical Corps, was stationed at Borden Gen- '40eng, Bartlesville . eral Hospital in Chickasha . Also there was Pvt. H . Missouri Lt. Jake Jones, Jr ., '42geol, Shawnee, was with Flight Officer Bill Barrowman, '41, Norman, was Paul Flippin, '39journ, former advertising manager the supply division of the Air Service Command the Altus Times-Democrat . stationed at the Sedalia Army Air Base. Miller R. at Patterson Field. of Peat-son, '38-'40, Holdenville, was recently com- Assigned to were Capt . Herman missioned flight officer there. He was married last A. Jones, Jr ., '36pharm, Coalgate, with the Medi- fall to Miss Judy Ann Dillon of Clovis, New cal Administrative Corps; Capt. J. W. Zaclik, '39 Mexico. Recently transferred to the Sedalia base gcol, former Dallas geologist, with the Field Ar- was Pvt. Clancy Pearce, '38-'42, El Reno, former tillery, and Lt . Lemoyne S. Eckles, '35-'38, Lawton, member of the United Press bureau in Little Rock, with the Quartermaster Corps. Arkansas . Frances Lemoine, '40, Temple, Oklahoma, was Lt. W. Earl Hendricks, '256a, formerly with the in training with the WAVES at Stillwater as an Pure Oil Company at Madill, and Lt. D. Clinton apprentice seaman. Henry, Jr ., '39-'41, Chelsea, were stationed at Fort Pfc. Eugene E. Lindahl, '38-'42, Norman, was Leonard Wood . on duty in the Army Recruiting Office at McAlester . Pvt . J. R. McKinley, '34-'37, former managing Nebraska editor of the Magnolia Daily Banner-News in Mag- Lt. Richard D. Jones, '40l>us, Oklahoma City, nolia, Arkansas, was stationed at Murray State Col- has been transferred to the Advanced Glider Pool lege at Tishomingo, attending an Army Clerks at Lincoln . School . Assigned to duty with the Army Air Force at Joe M. Morris, '28-'31, Oklahoma City, has been Kearney were Lt . William C. Maher, '42eng, Okla- promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Lieu- homa City; Lt . Frank W. Ayars, '42eng, Mitchell, tenant Morris is commanding officer of Hat Box and Cpl . Robert L. Collins, '42, Field at Muskogee, a sub-depot of Tinker Field at Ringling, BACK TO SCHOOL Oklahoma City . New Jersey Ensign Jack Baer, '42ed, former Soon- Lt. William P. Ragsdale, '276a, formerly of er baseball mentor shown at the right, Coral Gables, Florida, was stationed with the Navy Garner B. Fanning, '39, on duty with the Signal at Norman . Corps at Fort Monmouth, has been promoted to learns about a Thompson submachine C. E. Truinbo, Jr ., '41, was an aviation cadet the rank o£ captain. Capt . J. Bruce Stout, '37eng, gun as part of officer indoctrination at in training at the Army Flying School at Chickasha . Alva, was an instructor in the Signal Corps School there. the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Oregon Lt. T. P. Ryan, '42eng, Ponca City, has been Hill, North Carolina. With him are Henry E. Brodersen, '35eng, on duty at Camp transferred to the Ordnance Depot at Pedricktown, two former coaches, White, was recently promoted to major.

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Lt. Col. Ad Lindsey, '30ba, former coach at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, was on duty at Camp Adair assigned to division headquarters staff. Stationed at the Reception Center there was Tech. Sgt. Lewis G. Hotchkiss, '40cd, Enid . Pennsylvania Watch for Dates- Lt. Samuel L. House, '42, Miami, Florida, was on duty with the Infantry at the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation . Ensign Robert Klabzuba, '40gco1, Prague, was stationed in Philadelphia with the Naval Air Force. Lt. Frank B . Spence, '41journ, Sayre, adjutant Sooner at the Philadelphia Army Air Base, has been ap- pointed public relations officer, in charge of the weekly base paper, On the Air. Lieutenant Spence, former sports writer on the Norman Transcript, recently underwent an appendectomy in Phila- Track delphia. Lt. Victor Yeakel, '42ba, Oklahoma City, was assigned to the Army Air Force Intelligence School in Harrisburg . and Rhode Island Ensign William Crawford, Jr., '426us, Mobile, Alabama, has been stationed at Newport. Baseball Lt. Max R. Wiecks, '391aw, formerly on foreign duty, was transferred to Green Field, near Provi- dence. South Carolina Events Bill Baumann, '42bus, Tulsa, was attending Ma- rine Officer Candidate School at Parris Island. Lt. Clyde W. Bcson, Jr ., '41eng, Claremore, has A Sooner-Aggie dual track meet, been transferred to the Air Service Command at NEW SOONER PILOT Charleston. Newly Byrne A. Bowman, '24, Oklahoma City, was commissioned Lt . Bruce L. and baseball games with the Aggies assigned to Fort Jackson as judge advocate and Katz,'40-'42, Oklahoma City, with his promoted to the rank of major. Also there were wife, the former Betty Caldwell,'42ba, Maj . D. G. Harrel, '36med, former Detroit physi- and nearby service teams are ten- cian, and Bates R. Stinson, '426us, Sayre, recently after receiving his silver pilot's wings promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. at the Army Air Forces Advanced Fly- H. K. Speed, Jr., '33med, former Sayre physician ing School at Pampa, Texas tatively scheduled for April. Watch now in the Medical Corps at Walterboro Field, has been promoted to the rank of major. Lt. Kenneth C. Dean, and Pfc. Robert E. Holland, '41m.ed, former Mid- your local newspapers for an- '40-'41, Prescott, Ari- lothian, zona, pilot, and Lt . Hobart G. Osburn, '40-'41, Texas, school teacher. Pfc. Robert Kobdish, '39-'40, Platteville, Wis- Enid, navigator, were stationed at the Columbia nouncement of exact dates. Army Air Base. consin, of the Marine Corps, was transferred to Corpus Christi. Ensign Ray Leon, '42bus, Sayre, was stationed South Dakota at Corpus Christi with the Coast Guard . Pvt. Ralph Boggess, '27-'30, Ocllclata, and Pvt . Gent T. Ritter, '41-'42, Ardmore, was recently Arthur L. Davis, '36-'37, were with the Army Air commissioned an ensign in the Navy Air Corps at Force at Sioux City. Private Davis was taking train- Corpus Christi . Because so many Sooner athletes ing in radio mechanics . Lt. Wrexel Spurr, '27-'33, former Seminole at- torney, was on duty at the San Antonio Aviation are in the armed forces, and be- Tennessee Cadet Center. Recently the pre-flight students un- Capt . Charles N. Breeding, '37-'39, is command- der his command won three trophies for the ex- ing officer of an Air Force Flying Training Detach- cellence of their military, academic and physical cause of transportation problems, ment stationed at Union City. training. Also assigned to the Cadet Center were Ensign John J. Miltenberger, '366us, former Lt. W. G. Scott, '311aw, former Oklahoma City Oklahoma City accountant, was assigned to Mem- lawyer ; Cadet C. E. Trumbo, Jr., '40-'41, former there will be no Big Six conference phis. Seminole and Wcwoka newspaperman, and Pfc . George W. Gable, '421aw, Tulsa. Lt. Norman G. Walker, '37-'40, Bethany, was baseball schedule . on duty with a ferrying squadron in Memphis . Mace Spangler, '27ba, former Oklahoma City Capt . Lawrence G. Boyts, '35eng, is stationed school teacher, has been promoted to the rank at the Memphis Municipal Airport with a ferry- of major at Randolph Field. Also there were Maj . ing group. ' , Harold J. Watters, '30-'36, transferred recently Harold II. LeCrone, '356a, on duty with from Cimarron Field, Oklahoma, where he was the commandant of cadets, and Pvt . Jean H. Field Artillery at , has been pro- Finnell, Schedule of April events will be moted to captain . '40-'43, Norman, member of an AAF band . Capt . Obie Bristow, '18-'25, one of the Univer- Texas sity's outstanding football heroes, and Lt. Dan L. announced as soon as definite dates Garrett, '39-'40, Ponca City, were on duty with J. G. Anderson, '39bus, Taloga, recently was the Air transferred Force at Childress . to and promoted to Joe E. Thompson, '40-'42, Cushing, received his can be arranged . the rank of major. Capt. L. A. Vanderpool, '33, was commission on duty as a second lieutenant in the Army at Brooks General Hospital there. Air Force recently at the Lubbock Army Flying Col. K. A. Brewer, '30med, Oklahoma City, has School . Staff been Sgt . Clifford Gordon, '39-'40, Burney- transferred to Camp Barkelcy, where he is ville, Oklahoma, and Pvt . David 1) . Blair, '40journ, in command of an evacuation hospital. Robert K. were also on duty there. Lewis, '35, Tulsa, was commissioned a second Rex Grozicr, lieutenant '42, Tipton, was commissioned at the Medical Administrative Officer a second lieutenant in the Army Air Force at El- ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT Candidate School there recently. Officer Candidate lington Field. Melvin Sgt. William W. Gresham, '406a, McElroy, '39-'42, Tuttle, and Sgt. Roger Oklahoma City, was on duty there with a pre- L. Messman, '36geol, Hays, Kansas, were stationed flight training squadron . UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA at Barkcley . Four Sooners At on duty with the 'rank Destroyer were Maj . Carl -N. Chambers, '35 division of the Army at Camp Hood have been bus ; Robert W. Ingrain, '26ba, former El Paso promoted to the newspaperman, rank of first lieutenant. They arc in the public relations department, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 23)

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 4 Woodward ; Edward F. Taylor, '38-'39, Perry;  , ........... ,...... Eugene F. Adams, '40-'41, Norman, and Robert L. David, '39-'40, Fort Worth. Those receiving Lt. Clark Hetherington, '426us, Lt. Charles Landt, their wings at Pampa Field were Harold E. Otto- '42bus, and Lt. John Jacobs, '42, all of Norman, way, '40-'41, Tyrone ; Thomas N. Keltner, '39-'42, and Lt. Bob Frantz, '426us, Enid . Also on duty Tishomingo ; Hugh F. Burnett, '34-'35, Seminole ; at Camp Hood were Lt. James K. Kerr, '40-'41, Bruce L. Katz, '40-'42, Oklahoma City ; Tom Cal- Muskogee; Lt . Dan R. Owen, '346us, Blackwell, vin Grant, '34-'37, Oklahoma City ; Robert L. and Pvt. Sam Sullivan, '381aw, Durant, in the McReynolds, '36-'40, Mangum, and Ira D. Cor- Judge Advocate's office . nelius, '38-40, Chickasha . Graduating at Foster A number of alumni recently called to duty Field were James E. Hill, '41-'42, Stillwater ; Wil- with the Army Air Forces were stationed at Shep- liam H. Hagebush, '39-'41, and Robert J. Group, pard Field for examination and preliminary train- '38, both of Oklahoma City . Those at Lubbock ing. Among them were Ernest E. Davenport, '42- Field were Robert C. Weldon, '39-'42, Tulsa; Joe '43, Weatherford ; A. J. Alexander, '42-'43, Clin- E. Thompson, '40-'42, Glen M. Heffron, '36, and ton; Bob W. Heard, '41-'42, Tulsa; A. B. Hensley, Bill Bentley, Jr ., '38-'41, all of Oklahoma City ; Jr., '41242, Anadarko ; Kenneth Richardson, '36 Melvin M. Anderson, '39-'40, Oilton, and James ba, Oklahoma City; Carl B. Wood, Jr., '38-'40, D. Madole, '35-'39, Logansport, Louisiana . Loyl Bartlesville ; L. K. Walker, '42, Oklahoma City; W. Skinner, '39-'41, Purcell, and George P. Carl C. Ball, '35236, former chemist with the Phil- Pitcher, Jr., '42law, Miami, received their wings lips Petroleum Company at Okmulgee; James A. at Brooks Field. Ellington Field graduated Robert Hamilton, Jr ., '41-'42, Seminole ; Glen Finefrock, F. Revard, '36-'39, Pawhuska ; Roy D. Clem, '39- '41=43, Wewoka ; Arthur F. White, '33ed; Wil- '42, Granite, and John S. Cook, '39-'41, Brecken- Use the Union Cafeteria liam O. Leach, Jr., '40-'41 ; Paul Loafman, '39m .ed; ridge, Texas. At Moore Field were Gaines W. Vin- Leroy Esadooah, '42-'43, Lawton, and Harry Cul- cent, '37-'38, and Adrian O. Heston, Jr., '39-'40, ver, '40-'43, Homestead. Lt. Archie A. Acree, '38- both of Oklahoma City ; Ben G. Southward, '41- By using the Union Cafeteria when visiting the '39, Norman, was with a Signal Corps detachment '42, Norman ; George G. Hamilton, '37238, Har- campus, alumni can profit in several ways. First, at Sheppard Field. mon ; Owen S. Parrish, Jr., '38-'40, Las Vegas, New there is a saving of gasoline and tires because Pvt. John R. Arant, '42ed, Pauls Valley, was as- Mexico, and Stephen R. Gammon, '38-'39, Ennis. signed to the Air Force band at Del Rio. James Lee Woods, '38-'40, Norman, was commis- of the central location of the Oklahoma Me- King W. Broadrick, '41, Chickasha, has been sioned at Eagle Pass Field, and Julius H. Almond, morial Union. Second, alumni will probably assigned to the Plainview Army Air Base for train- Jr., '40-'42, Enid, received his wings at Victoria find more old cronies gathered in the Cafeteria ing as a liaison pilot with the Air Support Com- Field. than in any other one place. Third, the Union mand Carrier Service . Pvt . Howard B. Eddins, '42journ, Farmersville, Vermont Cafeteria continues to serve well-balanced, Texas, was assigned to the staff of the Longhorn, Staff Sgt. Samuel Huff, '39-'40, Ponca City, has nourishing meals at a reasonable price despite post paper at Camp Wolters . been assigned to Fort Ethan Allen as a Field Ar- the scarcity of some foods. Lt. James W. Gulick, '40-'41, Calgary, Alberta, tillery liaison pilot. Sergeant Huff received his train- Canada, was stationed at the Air Force Glider ing in the newly organized air arm of the Artillery School at Dalhart . at Fort Sill . Lt . Bobby Lancaster, '32-'35, Okla- E. H. Harrelson, '326a, recently transferred to homa City, also was stationed at Fort Ethan Allen Oklahoma Memorial Union Camp Swift, has been promoted to the rank of with the Field Artillery. lieutenant colonel of Infantry. Colonel Harrelson Virginia University of Oklahoma, Norman was formerly an Oklahoma C.C.C. officer. Pvt. Ray E. Hinkley, '426a, former actor and George G. Harris, Jr ., '40-'43, Helena, Okla- ......  ., ..,.., .. homa, was assigned to Corsicans for training as stage manager in Middleport, New York, was on an aviation cadet. duty with the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee . Pvt. Wayne C. Harshman, '42-'43, Tulsa, was James H. Stevens, '40ed, Tulsa, recently commis- on duty with a Tank Destroyer battalion at Camp sioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster BUY WAR BONDS HERE Bowie. Corps, was assigned there. Russell L. Hendrickson, '32-35, Oklahoma City, Lt. (jg) George L. King, '33eng, Muskogee, was Join the 10°76 Club-put 1007° into was an aviation cadet in training at the Mission on duty with the Navy in Norfolk . Army Flying School . Capt . Archie C. Graham, '37fa, and Lt . Julius War Bonds every pay day . This bank Lt. Glenn D. Kelley, '34-'37, Altus, has been H. Almond, '42, Enid, were on duty with a fighter group at the Richmond Army Air Base. is an official agency for sale of U. S. transferred to the Midland Army Air Base. Lt. Col. Nesbitt L. Miller, '27med, Oklahoma Robert E. Kinnebrew, '41243, Oklahoma City, War Bonds. was stationed at the Navy Pre-flight School at Aus- City, has been transferred to Camp Pickett where tin as an aviation cadet. ' he is a division surgeon with the 45th Division . Charles H. Larson, '42ed, Norman, on duty with Capt. Robert L. Kendall, '40med, Ardmore, is also the Field Artillery at Camp Maxey, was recently attached to the Medical Corps. FIRST NATIONAL BANK promoted to first lieutenant. Pvt. John O'Neil, '36fa, '39m .fa, former in- Phil C. Kidd, President Rea McKinney, '37, Norman, is chief liaison structor in art at the University, was stationed at officer at the Alien Detention Camp at Kenedy. with an Engineering topographical NORMAN, OKLAHOMA Capt . Mark G. Meister, '381aw, of the Coast battalion . Also there were Tom Morton, '40eng, Artillery Anti-aircraft, was on duty at Camp Hulen. Wewoka, who was assigned for officer candidate Harlan Mendenhall, '37journ, Denver, was as- training and Pvt. Archille W. Doshier, '42eng, signed for training at the Glider Replacement Cen- Amarillo, Texas, with the Corps of Engineers . ter at Hondo. Before entering the service he was Paul P. Rudell, '426us, Sulphur, was recently a leading fact-detective story writer. commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Sooner Women Lt. Harold Reedy, '42, former assistant manager Corps at Quantico . -of the Oklahoma Memorial Unior at the Univer- Cpl. Wade H. McCown, '43journ, Duncan, has Join 4,500 O. U. Alumni sity, has been transferred to Denton for training been transferred to Warrenton, where he is in duty all as a liaison pilot with the Field Artillery. training with the Signal Corps. already on active P. P. Richardson, '37-'38, was stationed with Washington over the world. the Navy at Kingsville as aviation radioman sec- Marion W. Mahone, '39med, Hobart, with a ond class. Coast Artillery Medical Detachment in Seattle, has Enlist now in your choice of Maj. Leroy H. Sadler, '29med, Oklahoma City, been promoted to the rank of captain . has been transferred to Dallas . Lt. John G. Gossett, '40ba, Chattanooga, Okla- the services -- Pvt. L. L. Sessions, '326a, Corpus Christi, was homa, and Capt. R. D. Williams, '31eng, were stationed at Biggs Field. with the Field Artillery at Fort Lewis. Also there, WAAC Lt. B. P. Spears, '41eng, Louisville, Kentucky, with a Medical detachment, was Pvt . John C. Crapo, was stationed at Foster Field. '41-'43, Alderson, Oklahoma. WAVES Lloyd E. Swearingen, '20ba, '21ms, former Uni- versity professor of chemistry now with the Chemi- Wisconsin SPARS cal Warfare Service in Dallas, has been promoted Capt. Edmond S. Aldredge, '40, Hobart, was to the rank of colonel . assigned to a Tank Destroyer unit at Camp Mc- MARINES Lt. Orion Wilbanks, '36-'39, was stationed at Coy. Attached to a Medical battalion there was Pvt . Goodfellow Field near San Angelo as an instructor . Howard LeFlore, '41-'42, Purcell . -- and free our men for Thirty three-alumni received their commissions Katherine Depuy, '276a, Tulsa, who recently from schools in the Army Air Forces Gulf Coast graduated from the WAVES Navy Training School combat duty. Training Center in February . Graduates of Black- in Madison, was to be assigned to a shore station land Field were Theodore T. Handley, '40-'41, as a radio operator.

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