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ROLL CALL of Alumni Newsmakers

GOLDEN DAYS Actually two young ladies were in this surveying class, photographed by Roy E. Heffner, prob- ably in the 1930s. We chose this one, her help- ful classmate and their instructor to test your Sooner memories. Drop a line if you recognize them ; turn the page for the February identities.

17 "The Arms and the Man"

Sooner playgoers of the 1933 season drew Cope as the hero playing opposite Lucille a surprising blank in tagging the romantic Tway, '35. Mrs. Bailey appeared in the role twosome in February's photograph from of the maid. the Roy 1?. Heffner collection. Drama Mrs. Bailey, a Pi Beta Phi from Deerfield, school director Rupel J. Jones finally came Illinois, during her college days, has lived up with the name of the girl, Phyllis Sea- in Altus almost continuously since gradua- go, '34bfa, now Mrs. Temple Bailey of tion. She taught for a while in a junior Altus. Mrs. Bailey in turn identified her college. Bailey attended the University of dashing companion as Bill Cope, '34bfa. Texas. They have a daughter, Mary, 14. The play, George Bernard Shaw's "Arms Bilt Cope also went to college teaching and the Man," set in 1885 Bulgaria, was and was at Oklahoma College for Women Cope and Seago presented at O.U. on May 12, 1933, with at Chickasha in 1948.

a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives of the alumni family 1913 1930 ogy. Dr . Hopps, now at Galveston State Hospital, DEATH : W. W. Hentz, '13Law, Oklahoma Frank Criner Love, '30Law, executive vice- is a former member of the O.U . Medical School City died March 7 at the age of 92 . Hentz en- president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., was faculty. tered law practice in Oklahoma City after gradu- chairman for Oklahoma City's annual Brotherhood Dr. John E. Mertes, Jr., '35bus, professor of ation and later went into the mercantile business, Week observance . Love was named "Christian marketing at O.U., is the author of a study entitled r etiring in 1957. He is survived by two sons, Man of the Year" in 1959 by the Notre Dame Club "Self-Selection in the Retail Store," being published W. W., Jr., and Howard . of Oklahoma City. He and his wife have seven by the Bureau o£ Business Research at O.U . Dr . 1918 children . Mertes received his master's and doctor's degrees DEATH : Mrs. Cora Mundy, '18, died March 1 1931 in business administration from Indiana Univer- in a Pawhuska hospital . Survivors include her Sam W. Schwieger, '31ba, advertising director sity in 1952 and 1956. husband, H. H. "Doe" Munday, two daughters and of Southwestern Electric Power Company, Shreve- 1936 r son. port, Louisiana, has been awarded a George Wash- J. E. Byers, '36eng, has been promoted to sales 1926 ington honor medal from the Freedoms Foundation, manager of the oil field equipment division of Louise Fain, '266a, Port Isabel, Texas, recently Valley Forge, Pennsylvania . Schwieger, a former Black, Sivalls and Bryson, Inc., with headquarters donated a collection of Etude music magazines to manager of the Arkansas Press Association, has at Oklahoma City . Byers was Tulsa district sales the Fine Arts library at O.U . With a few excep- been with the Shreveport company since 1943 . manager for 6 years and more recently was man- tions the collection is complete from January, 1914, 1933 ager of BS&B's Gulf and Pacific regions. to December, 1954 . Howard J . Van Dyke, '33ba, Tulsa, has been James I) . Fellers, '366a, '361,aw, has been elect- 1928 named to receive the George Washington honor ed chairman of the Civic Committee of Oklahoma Maj . Gen. Hal L. Muldrow, '28bus, was the medal given each year to a non-profit publication City for the second year . The committee comprises February recipient of the "Distinguished Oklaho- by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Van representatives of 67 civic organizations in Greater man of the Month" award. Muldrow is command- Dyke is editor of the Carter Oil Company's Tulsa Oklahoma City . Fellers is a member of the firm of ing general of the Oklaltonaa National Guard's 45th publication, The Linl~. He has been with the public Mostellcr, Fellers, Andrews, Snider & Baggett. Infantry Division . relations staff of Carter Oil Company since 1948 Harold Feldstein, '36eng, was recently appoint- DEATH : Leslie Chambers, '286a, '29tna, died and became editor of The Linl( in 1951 . ed area commissioner for Hollywood-Wilshire February 14 in Kansas City, Missouri . Chambers, 1934 District of the Boy Scouts of America . 53, of Merwin, Missouri, was a former Oklahoma Gene Janz, '34ed, has returned to East Orange, Dr . Rheba Edwards, '366s, '38med, acting direc- state senator from Kingfisher and Blaine Counties . New Jersey, after spending the last several months tor of the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health, He is survived by his wife, the former Virginia in Miami, Florida. was speaker at the Leadership Training School Bartley, '28ba, and two sons, Leslie Bartley and Mary E. Grundy, '34ed, '37m .ed, was recently sponsored by the Oklahoma State Federation of James. nominated "Comanche County Teacher of the Women's Clubs on the O.U . campus . The subject 1929 Year ." Miss Grundy is connected with the public of Dr . Edwards' speech was "Why We Behave Like Dr . Charles F. Spencer, '291na, president of East school system in Lawton . Human Beings ." Central State College, Ada, was a recent guest 1935 1937 speaker at a session of the Seminole branch of the '1 '. Hall Collinson, '356a, '37Law, was recently DEATH : Russell Albert Newton, '37bus, died American Association of University Women. Dr . elected vice-president of the Metropolitan Area February 16 of a heart attack at his home in Tulsa. Spencer discussed "Our 49th State," using material Planning Council in Kansas City, Missouri . Col- Newton, 48, was an crnploye of the Triangle Oil obtained while helping three cities in Alaska write linson is editor and publisher of the Independence, Company. Survivors include his wife and three city charters . Missouri, Examiner and in charge of the ten farm sons, Ronald, Larry and Timothy. Ford Michael, '29bs, '37m.ed, has been award- magazines published by Stauffer-Capper Publica- 1938 ed a National Science Foundation scholarship to tions, Inc. He is also a director of all 28 Stauffer- Lt . Col. James R. McBrayer, Jr ., '38ed, is cur- attend a course in mathematics for science teachers Capper Corporations . rently assigned to Headquarters, U. S. Air Force, at O.U . during the summer . Michael is a science Dr. Howard C. Hopps, '35med, is the author of The Pentagon, as chief of the security policy divi- teacher at Norman High School . a newly published textbook, Principles of Pathol- sion, office of the provost marshal. Colonel Me-

1 8 Brave, recently graduated from the resident course of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, NEW BOOKS: ri. mcNair, D. C. From SOONERS 1940 The Uniwrsily John I. Peters, '406us, was recently appointed and manager of the state of Kansas for Travelers Ex- of Oklallotlm Press Company. He will continue to reside in press pubhshcrs in Wichita, Kansas . tit: University of Oklahoma Press outstripped the rest of the natio 's runners-up. Mrs . Grace J. Penny, '406a, '53ma, specialist in 1959 with four of the year's top ten western books an(] a fifth among the materials services at O.U., is author of organi- educational TheT annual selection is made by the Chicago Corral of the Westerners, a national . .'a book, Mold, her second book, which went on sale other book, Tales of the zation dedicated to western history and literature. April 18. Mrs . Penny's Mur ay: Bill Sublette: Cheyennes, was published in 1953 . On the "best" list were The Modocs and Their War by Keith A. Mountain Man by John E. Sunder ; The Rampaging Herd : A Bibliography of Books and 1943 Indians of Dr. J. Raymond Hinshaw, '43ba, '46mcd, ad- Pamphlets on Men and Events in the Cattle Industry by Ramon F. Adams, and George dressed the Atomic Energy Commission April 7 in the High Plains: From the Prehistoric Period to the Coming of Europeans by Washington, D. C. Before the A.E.C. conference a meeting of the American College of E. Hyde. he attended Catlin : Episodes from Life Among the Indians and Surge~uts at White Sulphur Springs, West Vir- The runner-up book was George ginia. Hinshaw is director of Atomic Burn Re- Last Rambles edited by Marvin C. Ross. search for the Navy at Rochester, New York, and teaches surgery at the University of Rochester Med- wealth and tragedy, and concludes that for Melville's Shorter Tales by Richard ical School . the novelist convention changes but truth H. Fogle 1945 does not. Virgd A. Stites, '45, and Mrs. Stites (the for- University of Oklahoma Press Fortunately for the reader, Mrs. Lyde's mer ;\line Elmore, '466a), have moved from Lub- bock to Dallas, Texas, where Stites is employed It may come as somewhat of a shock to commentary is liberally sprinkled with quo- by the Federal National Mortgage Association . the average reader to learn that the sum to- tations to facilitate reference and presents '45eng, '58ma, has been Alexander M. Ospovat, tal of Herman Melville's contribution to lit- a well-annotated reconciliation of artistic named assistant professor of history at the Univer- end . Forks. He will re- erature is not packed between the covers of purpose and artistic sity of North Dakota, Grand -PJF cove his Ph.D. degree in history at O.U. in June . He the mammoth Moby Dick. The chronicler and Mrs. Ospovat (the former Joyce Conolcy, '56 of the great white whale also authored a ba) have two sons. number of shorter tales of varying quality, '45eng, is an apparatus sales F. Mac Rupnow, ignored by both critic and public. The Splendid Misery by Jack Bell engineer for General Electric Company, Milwaukee, generally Wisconsin. The Rupnows have three children, Richard Harter Fogle's book does not in- Doubleday . themselves, as the title might Linda, 9, Kathy, 7, and Sally, 3 clude the tales Reading The Splendid Misery by Jack suggest, but rather a brief synopsis of each 1946 1.. Bell, '25journ, is a comfortable, enter- BIRTH : Lee Rodgers, '46eng, '53ms, and Mrs, with interpretation of the various facets of taining experience rather like having a chat Rodgers (the former Mary Joyce Norwood, '45 plot. Fortunately Fogle, who the name Lawrence Richard character and with a newsman in the know. journ) have selected English depart- over coffee for their son born February 5 . They have three is chairman of Tulane's polit- and Distinguished Newsman Bell, chief other children, Joseph Lee, 7, Mary Ellen, 5T/2, ment, has restricted himself largely to ex- ical writer for the Associated Press and Robert Norwood, 3. Rodgers is with the Oklaho- plaining the tales as such and avoids bog- Studies, for- chief of the AP Senate staff, uses knowl- ma ('.enter of Urban and Regional ging down in the guessing game of the out- merly the Institute of Community Development, edge gleaned from 22'/2 years spent cover- side influences which may have made the at O U. the nation's capitol to entertain, eluci- sea-loving author what he was. ing 1947 date and instruct . '47eng, is the newly elected To Melville devotees and/or enduring R. L. "Bob" Stover, Published in February by Doubleday & president of the Great Bend Chapter of A.I.M.E. fans of Moby Dick, this new book is a valu- Co., The Splendid Misery is sure to cause Stover is the superintendent of Anderson-Prichard's able aid to understanding. The difficulty Kansas production department. He and his wife election-year comment. Bell details just is in deciding whether the original tales (the former Ann Kccslar, '476us) and their three how the office of the Presidency has been live in Great Bend, Kansas . should be read before or after Fogle's analy- children handled with particular emphasis on Mr. BIRTH : Alfredo Bello-Leon, '47eng, and Mrs. sis-but at any rate, they should be read. Bello-Leon have chosen the name Carmen Cecilia -CJR Presidents of the 20th century. for their daughter born January 27 in Caracas, Republicans are likely moaning in an- Venezuela . guish at Bell's view of Eisenhower's polit- Edith Wharton : Convention and 1948 ical ineptitude, but the author insists the Kaul, '486a, Hillsdale, Michigan, Morality in the Work of a Nov- Lyman W. facts speak for themselves . His view of has been elected president of Game-Time, Inc., a Jones Lyde elist by Marilyn .D.R . as a champion among Presidents is playground equipment manufacturing company in Press F Litchfield, Michigan . He is also president of Fre- University of Oklahoma in large part based on Bell's sincere belief mont Manufacturing Corporation of Fremont, Edith Wharton's nearly 50 years of lit- that there has been "no epoch of true na- manufacturing business. Maryland, an into parts and tional advancement that did not have as its Corporation is an associated company erary output spans a gap (1891-1937) The Fremont figure a strong chief execu- with the Simpson Manufacturing Company of as a consequence belongs to neither century. commanding Litchfield, for which Kaul is executive vice presi- The purpose behind the novelist's works tive." directors. dent and a member of the board of has been a subject of controversy among All the familiar names of 20th century '54ma, received his Ph.D. Jeff Clark, '48journ, controversy Marilyn Jones Lyde political life parade across Bell's pages and Iowa State University at the February critics-a degree from study. his insights into the characters of Taft, graduation exercises. attempts to resolve in this 179-page Floy W. Smith, '48eng, '50m .eng, has accepted Mrs. Lyde, who is associated with the de- Nixon, Sherman Adams and Harry Hop- the position of chief of operations of the nuclear partment of English at Georgia State Col- kins, to name but a few, arc nothing less College. Smith science center at Texas A. & M. lege, explores Mrs. Wharton's theory of than fascinating. be in charge of a five-megawatt reactor which will behavior as related to truth, -CGH is to be in operation in September. conventional 19 Maj. Carl W. Eley, '48geol, is presently hospi- name Mary Kay for their daughter born February They are living in Birmingham, Alabama, where talized at U.S .A .F . Hospital, Lackland Air Force 17 . They also have a son, Jay, 3. Mills teaches vo- Dr . Hall is completing his training at the Univer- Base, Texas, with chronic leukemia . His family is cal and instrumental music at Stanton Junior High, sity of Alabama Medical Center . Mrs. Hall is a now living in Altus. Stanton, Delaware. graduate of DePauw University. Robert 1949 Dec Allen, '516a, '55Law, and Mrs. BIRTH: Capt . D. O. Clark, '536a, and Mrs. Allen (the former Mary Conner, '54ba), Joseph Z. Racz, '49ed, St . Louis, Missouri, is first Oklahoma Clark (the former Terry Brandon, '54) have se- City, have chosen the name David aid and water safety representative for the Midwest- Randel for their Iccted the name David Olson for their son born son born February 24 in Baptist Memorial Hospital . February 28 . He is their second ern Area of the American Red Cross. Racz recent- child. Captain They have another son, Robert Scott, 19 months . Clark is currently serving with ly acted as instructor for two water safety instructor the staff and faculty courses offered at O.U . 1952 at Fort Sill . Foster T. Howland, Dr. J. J. Frankel, '49bs, '50ms, '54med, is com- '52geol, formerly in Okla- 1954 homa City, pleting a residency in internal medicine at Michael is now district mine geologist in Falls Robert D. Parks, '54bus, Oklahoma City, has City, Texas. Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois . He and Mrs. received official notice that he has passed the certi- Frankel have a son, Stanley, 23 months old. Lt . Murland W. Searight, '52, Missoula, Mon- fied public accountants' examination. Parks is em- tana, was recently initiated as Capt . Joseph J. Dusbabek, '49eng, is enrolled a member of Phi ployed by Ernst and Ernst, accountants and audi- Beta Kappa at the University in graduate aeronautical engineering at the Insti- of Southern Califor- tors, in Oklahoma City. nia. Lieutenant Searight, tute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force who is attending South- John W. Rogers, '54eng, has resigned from Base, Ohio . ern California under the Navy College Training Humble Oil & Refining Co. to join Butler, Miller Program, is a Dr . N. D. Glasscock, '49bs, '53ms, and Mrs. senior in astronomy. He expects to and Lents, consulting engineers, in Houston, Texas. return to shipboard duty after his Glasscock are living in Albuquerque, New Mexico . graduation in Dr . William H. Frost, '54bs, recently attended June . They have four children, Janet, Joe, Jerri and Jack . the Kansas City Western Dental College alumni Capt . Robert B. Jones, and Lester E. Glass, Jr., '49bs, has been appointed '52ed, Mrs. Jones, meeting. Dr . Frost is practicing in phoenix, Ari- '55bus, expect to be at Ft. Monmouth, attorney in the Office o£ the Chief Counsel, Inter- New Jer- zona . sey, in June, where nal Revenue Service. Glass has been assigned to he will attend the advanced sig- Jim Gean Crabb, '54eng, is now with the Linde nal course . They will the Washington, D. C., office . begin a tour of duty in Ger- Air Corporation, Tulsa. He was formerly located many in October. in Wichita Vester C. Jones, '49journ, is now employed as a Falls, Texas. Charles D. Ablard, '526us, '54Law, Enid, technical writer for the technical information de- has Ben E. Kapp, '54bus, is living in Tulsa where resigned his posts as judicial officer and partment of the U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, chairman he is marketing statistician for Warren Petroleum of the board of contract appeals with China Lake, California . N.O .T .S. is the Navy's the U. S. Post Company. office department . Ablard will largest naval weapons research and development undertake a proj- Roger L. Billings, '54geol, '56ms, and Mrs. Bil- center . ect on admin"strative law and procedure for the lings have moved from Rawlins, Wyoming, to Du- special committee on legal services and procedure rango, Colorado, where he is with the Carter Divi- 1950 of the American Bar Association. He will remain sion of the Humble Oil & Refining Company. William C. Lampkin, '50bus, has been trans- in Washington. Dr. Kent Kyger, '54pharm, has been designated ferred from St . Louis, Missouri, to Lubbock, Texas, BIRTHS : Charles R. Hoover, '526us, and Mrs. naval flight surgeon and is stationed at the Naval by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company . He has Hoover (the former Ann Pearson Hammond, Air Station, Memphis, Tennessee, with his wife, been promoted to district accounting manager. The '546a), Phoenix, Arizona, have chosen the name Patricia, and daughter, Patricia Anne, 10 months . Lampkins are living temporarily in Fort Worth. Douglas Pearson for their son born February 17 . Dr. Kyger received his medical degree from Van- Dale Buckmaster, '506us, has been transferred Hoover practices law in the firm of Jennings, derbilt University in 1958 . from Abadan, Iran, to Teheran, Iran . He is em- Strouss, Salmon and Trask. The Hoovers have C. Stewart Sorcy, '54eng, has joined Fisher and ployed with Williams Brothers Company. another son, Russell, 2. Davis, an architect firm, in Denver, Colorado . John Paul Pritchard, Jr ., '506a, '55ms, Norman, Bill Christie, '39pharna, and Mrs. Christie (the The Soreys, who have two children, are living tem- is now employed by the Texas Instruments Corpora- former Edith Johnson, '52pharm, Oklahoma City, porarily in Idaho Springs, Colorado . tion in Dallas, Texas. He recently received the de- have chosen the name William M. III for their son Harry E. Nicholls, '54geol, and Mrs. Nicholls gree of doctor of philosophy in electrical engineer- born February 13 . The Christies also have a (laugh- (the former Carolyn Sue Darr, '54h.ec) live in Abi- ing, mathematics and physics from Iowa State Uni- ter, Lisa Ann, 20 months old. lene, Texas, where Nicholls is intermediate geolo- versity. 1953 gist with the Pan American Petroleum Corpora- MARRIAGE : Miss Carolyn Hopkins and Rich- H. Norman Winkle, '53, is now a co-partner in tion . They have two sons, Harry, Jr ., and Jeffery ard Lee Walton, '50eng, both of Dallas, were mar- the newly-formed Kwik Oil Company with offices Neal . ried March 5 in the First Presbyterian Church, in the Liberty Bank Building in Oklahoma City . Don A. Coulter, '546us, has been transferred Dallas . Walton received a master's degree from Winkle was employed by Midstates Oil Corpora- from Healdton to Little Rock, Arkansas, where the University of Texas, and Mrs. Walton is a tion from 1953 until January, 1959, when he joined he will be a sales representative for the marketing graduate of Southern Methodist University . They Jocelyn-Varn as Oklahoma district manager. department of the Mobil Oil Company. He was pre- have established a home in Dallas . Edward M. Evans, Jr ., '53eng, and Mrs. Evans viously with the production department . He and BIRTHS : James R. Galloway, '50ed, '53m .ed, are living in Tripoli, Libya, where he is a petroleum Mrs. Coulter have a son, Christopher Allen, born '58ph.d, and Mrs. Galloway have selected the engineer with Mobil Oil Company. They have a September 1(1, 1959 . name James Dwight for their son born November daughter, Mary Ellen, born in July, 1958 . MARRIAGE : Miss Margaret Teresa O'Reilly, 30, 1959, in Norman . John M. Sowle and Mrs. Sowle (the former Me- Cranston, Rhode Island, and Dr . Paul R. O'Bar, Lloyd Leveridge, '50bus, and Mrs. Leveridge, lissa Wardell, '536a) are living in Houston, Texas, Oklahoma City, have chosen the name Kimberly where he is employed by Shell Chemical Co . They Rae for their daughter born December 23, 1959 . have two sons, Mark McKeeth and Daniel Wardell . They also have two sons, Charles Anthony, 4ii, Capt. E. E. Fisher, '53eng, '541ns, was promoted and Stanley Brett, 2. to captain in the Air Force in January. Fisher is TREAT YOURSELF TO William H. Baker, '506us, and Mrs. Baker, squadron commander and base aviation physiolo- Oklahoma City, have chosen the name Kathryn gist . He and Mrs. Fisher have a son, Dan, 1. Suzanne for their daughter born February 21 in MARRIAGE : Miss Katherine Ayres Suydaui, St . Anthony Hospital . The Bakers' son is William Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Hugh David Hall, '536s, Allen, 22 months . Oklalronaa City, were inarried February 20 in 1951 Larchmont Avenue Church, Larchmont, New York. Jose A. C. Kauffman, '51eng, is a petroleum engineer with Loffland Brothers . Ile is located in the Tampico, Mexico, office . TYLER U SIMPSON CO. James F. Cook, '51eng, has joined Grand Cen- Wholesale Grocers tral Rocket Company as the chief production proc- ess engineer. He, Mrs. Cook, and their two sons, Norman Jimmy, 6, and Tommy, 4, are living in Redlands, California . Ardmore, Oklahoma BIRTHS : John A. Mills, '52fa, and Mrs. Mills Gainesville, Texas Potato Chips (the former Patsy Pannell, '53fa) have chosen the

20 '54bs, '57med, Tulsa, were married February 27 in St. Paul's Church, Cranston . The couple will live in Oklahoma City . BIRTHS : Glenn O. Smith, '54bs, and Mrs. Smith, St. Louis, Missouri, have selected the name Allan for their son born November 23, 1959 . Smith Flashing Finish is currently employed by McDonnell Aircraft Cor- poration in the airframe producibility department. HEN the U. S. Olympic basketball The Smiths also have a daughter, Sylvia, 2. .ed, and Mrs . Edclen (the W team takes to the court in Rome E. W. Edclen, '54m Dolores Shelley, '51fa), Amarillo, Texas, a flashy, 28-year-old guard former this summer, have selected the name Annette Michelle for their will be bringing his laurel-loaded career daughter born January 6. They have another supervisor to a climatic close. (laughter, Shelley Diane, 7 . Edclen is Amarillo Air Force Lester Lane, '55ed, one of the Univer- of driver training school at a civilian employee . Mrs. Edelen teaches Oklahoma's most versatile ath- base as sity of piano to private pupils . letes, was named to the 12-man Olympic at the conclusion of his fifth season 1955 team Jr ., '55ms, is the super- Wichita Vickers of the Nation- Carl F. Hildebrand, with the of schools at Berlin, Oklahoma. His . A four- intendent al Industrial Basketball League former residence was in Alfalfa. time NIBL All-Star, the 5-foot-10 Lane Bill Cook, '55journ, took second place in the sponsored sparked the Vickers to the runner-up semi-annual photography competition Lensmen of New Mexico . in the National AAU tourney twice by the Desert spot Clyde R. Ferguson, '556a, is a graduate student tied for the champion- before the team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel ship in 1958 and took the crown in 1959. Hill . He is a native of Marlow. Though the Vickers did not win the Charlotte Kelley Camerer, '55fa, is now a ticket in Kansas City, Missouri . in 1960 to qualify for the Olympic agent for Braniff Airways AAU Sarchet, '55, former Ada Evening News chosen by the Phillips Corb trials, Lane was city editor, is joining the Oklahoma City Times as 66ers to play in the trials with them . The ( deskman. Sarchet has been on the Ada daily since team selected in the trials will open prac- September, 1959 . been transferred August 1 in West Point, New York, Daniel M. Touma, '556us, has tice to Tulsa as district Rome about 10 days by Continental Oil Company and will arrive in representative. He was previously district . sales before the August 25 games begin staff assistant to the district manager of market- Lane's success in the country's tough- ing, Arkansas district, with offices in Memphis, est amateur basketball league followed Tennesece . Wolfenberger, '55bs, '59phys.ther, recent- honor-filled collegiate athletic career J. H. an moved to Okmulgee, where he is employed at roundball scoring ly at O.U. While setting Oklahoma Technological Rehabilitation Center as a records, Lane also spent two seasons as physical therapist. The Wolfcnhcrgers have four defensive halfback for Coach Bud Wil- Lester Lane (No. 33) children, 2 boys and 2 girls. teaching before knee injuries Marjorie Bayer Brandon, '55h .ec, is kinson's Big Red Elementary School in him to tional tourney, including 29 points kindergarten in Springdale and basketball conflicts forced schools system . Phillips in the finals, placed him the Tulsa give up the gridiron . He collected an against Dr . J. R. Betson, Jr ., '55med, has contributed an AAU All-America list . O.U. track letter as a pole vaulter and on the article, °961 Selected Cases of Hysterectomy," from active play with the the February, 1960, issue of was on the championship intramural Retirement which appeared in Vickers is being forced by the increas- surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, the official swimming and softball teams. College of Surgeons . responsibilities that go with Lane's publication of the American In four years of Sooner basketball ing is with the Lovelace Clinic in Albu- manager of the Tires- Dr. Betson (1951-1955), Lane twice made the new position as querque, New Mexico . Batteries-Accessories line for 350 Vick- '55ba, '57Law, and Helms Foundation All-America team BIRTH : Donald L. Wilson, stations . Lane's job includes Mrs. Wilson (the former Nancy Harris, '54ed) and was All-Big Seven two seasons . Lane ers service of the newly-acquired have chosen the name Wade Harris for their son chalked up a record 1,180 points for Ok- the introduction line to Vickers dealers born December 27, 1959 . lahoma, averaging 13.5 per game, with Goodyear T-B-A when he and jobbers, the supplying of T-B-A 1956 his big year coming in 1954-55 Haynes, '56eng, is now studying for items to these outlets and the co-ordina- John Hays sank 19.6 points per game. master's degree in civil engineering at Purdue Goodyear and Vickers . a The Vickers Petroleum Company tion between University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and has re- wife, the former Jan Haynes, a native of in Wichita was just being organ- Lane and his ceived a research fellowship . team to three years in the Navy. NIBL when Lane was English of Altus, '52, will continue Ada, recently finished ized to join the "Max" Copeland, '56ba, Grove, was re- . He has make their home in Wichita . They have W. A. graduated from O.U . in 1955 cently awarded the master's degree at the winter since been joined by Sooner forward Joe a son, Kevin, 6. convocation of The George Washington University . surprising that for relaxation from '58journ. In 1958, the year the It is not Copeland received his degree in foreign affairs King, at which the championship, Lane Lane turns to the many sports the school of government. Vickers tied for (the former Beverlee Ma- five seasons he excels . One of the outstanding ama- Mrs . Mark McKinsey had a 17.9 average . In his '56fa) now has her own daily television teur golfers in Wichita, he is also an gruder, with the Wichita team, he has averaged show on a Boston station. It is a children's program expert swimmer and diver and has de- McKinsey, over 14 points per game and his total called "Miss Beverlce's Clipper Ship ." voted much time in the summer to graduate student in the business school points rank him in the top four all-time '56eng, is a teaching swimming to the city's young- at Harvard University . NIBL scorers . Philip C. Ingraham, '566us, North Hollywood, the 1959 na- sters. Lane's performance in California, is chief of proposals division of Pack- ard-Bell Electronics Corporation . He and Mrs. In-

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Carolyn Gimpel, '58journ, editor of the Sooner News-Makers. Mrs. E. B . Ferguson, Jr . (the former Hope Her- Class Reunions rington, '586s) is now living in Orlando, Florida, where her husband is interning at Orange County The campus will be bulging with alumni Sunday, June 5-alumni returned to Hospital . Ferguson expects to enter the air force in July. O.U. for the annual class reunions preceding the 1960 commencement exercises in Dr. Bill E. Woodruff, Owen stadium . In fact the classes of 1910, 1915 '58med, is now in general and 1920 will beat the rush by ar- practice in Reed Wolfe Clinic, Hugo . riving at the Oklahoma Memorial Union Saturday for a special 6:30 p.m . dinner John W. Kearney, '58bus, Henryetta, has party. re- signed from Procter & Gamble and has entered the Registration Sunday will begin at 10 a.m. in the Union lobby with the alumni Immigration and Naturalization Service. He has been assigned luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the ballroom (reservations $1 to Chula Vista, California . .50 each) . Class meetings Gary E. Cox, '58bus, has and pictures follow at 2 p been transferred from .m. for 1910-1915-1920-1925-1930-1935-1940-1945-1950- Oklahoma City to Tulsa, where he is 1955 tabulating and the honorary alumni club for 50-year graduates. supervisor in accounting department of Southwest- And through it all the Sooner Magazine photographer will be recording the re- ern Bell Telephone Company . He is married to the former Lillian union happenings for the July issue, which will also feature the recipients of the Morgan, '58journ . Lt . Monte G. Campbell, '58bus, and University's Distinguished Service Citations . Mrs. Camp- bell are living in North Carolina where he is sta- tioned with the marine corps at Camp Lejeune. The Campbells have a son, Mark Carroll, born July 3, 1959 . graham (the former Roberta Martineau, '47journ) Alfred Pugh, '576a, '58Law, is practicing law Mrs . Robert C. Fraser (the former have four Beverly children, Patricia, 7, Mary, 5%, Clifford, in the Fidelity National Building, Oklahoma City. Kathryn Badger, '58ed) is attending the Ameri- 3, and Philip, 11 months . John Wheat, '57pharm, and Mrs. Wheat (the can Institute for Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Arizona . John E. Hoegg, '56bs, a second year student in former Nancy Goudelock, '556us) are living in Her husband, also a student at the Institute, is the Stanford University Graduate School of Busi- Tulsa, where Wheat is a representative for Squibb specializing in Latin America . ness, has been awarded a $500 David B. Faville Pharmaceutical Company . The Wheats have a son, Lt . James L. Cunningham, '58bus, and Mrs . Scholarship on the basis of scholastic achievement. Johnny, 2. Cunningham (the former Margaret Howell, '58) Hoegg will receive his master's degree in business Jack Warkentin, '576us, has recently moved from are currently -stationed at Aberdeen Proving administration in June . day to night director at KMID, Midland, Texas. Ground, Maryland . The Cunninghams plan to re- Lt. James D. Cooper, '56bs, Mrs. Cooper and Thomas T. Hartman, '57eng, '58m .eng, is now turn to O.U ., where he will attend the College of (laughter, Becky, are now stationed in Ulm, Ger- a physicist in the solid state physics section with Law, in September, 1961 . many . Lt. Cooper, an army medical service corps Texas Instruments, Inc. He and Mrs. Hartman John Goggin, '58eng, is employed as a de- officer, is commanding officer of an ambulance (the former Elinor Bynum, '56ed) live in Richard- sign engineer for Convair in Fort Worth. He and medical company . son, Texas, with their daughter, Jennifer, 1V2 . Wayne Mullincan, '56journ, is now section MARRIAGES : Miss Martha Ann Kirk, '57ba, Continued on Page 24 chief, public affairs and information, for Western '59m.lib.sci, and James David McMakin, '57, both Electric Company in Oklahoma City. He was for- of Norman, were married recently in the Kirk O' merly sports editor on Enid newspapers. the Valley Presbyterian Church, Rcsada, Califor- MARRIAGES : Miss Nancy Lee Norton, '56 nia. The McMakins are living in Van Nuys, Cali- journ, Norman, and William Earls, San Angelo, fornia, where he is employed as an electronic tech- AN OKLAHOMA U . RING Texas, were married March 14 in the First Chris- nician with Atomic International, a division of tian Church, Norman . They have established a North American Aviation, Inc. Mrs. McMakin is home in San Angelo, where Earls is associated with an assistant librarian of the engineering library in q74 40MAal a his father in the office supply and printing business. the west coast missile and radar division of the 4 Miss Eileen Conway and Robert A. Patchett, '56 Radio Corporation of America . eng, were married January 16 in the Church of Our Miss Nancy Taube, '59, and Lt. Raymond C. Lady of Lourdes, Queens Village, Long Island, New Kerr, '576us, both of Oklahoma City, were mar- York. They are living at Ann Arbor, Michigan, ried February 20 in the 'Pinker Air Force Base where Patchett is working toward a master's de- Chapel . The Kerrs are living in Wichita, Kansas, gree in aeronautical engineering at the University where he is stationed with the U. S. Air Force. of Michigan . Miss Dorothy Ann Uccke and Billy Kirk Reed, Miss Norma Milligan, Hartford, Illinois, and '57nis, were married March 19 in Los Angeles, Delbert J. Metheny, '56bus, Ponca City, were mar- California. ried March 26. Mrs. Metheny is a graduate of BIRTHS : Clarence E. Mathis and Mrs . Mathis Southern Illinois University . (the former Diane Stewart, '57fa) of Midwest City 1957 have selected the name Stephen Eugene for their James W. Landers, Jr ., '576us, Phillips, Texas, son born February 21 at Mercy Hospital, Oklahoma is now an interviewer with the Texas Employment City. The Mathises have another son, Robert Keith, Wear always the distinctive ring which Commission and is a partner in the firm of Lan- 17 months . tells the world you are proud of your col- ders and Mather, real estate agency, in Borger, James A. Horn, '57eng, and Mrs. Horn have lege, proud of your class-with your class Texas. chosen the name, Debora Kay, for their daughter year on the sides and school name en- Edward N. Iwankow, '57eng, born circling the stone. '58m.eng, is a January 25, in Tulsa. STONES AVAILABLE petroleum engineer in Caracas, Venezuela . He was Everet D. "Mike" Reynolds, '57eng, and Mrs . Onyx (black) -Sardonyx (red) formerly in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada . Reynolds (the former Doris Mend, '526a) have James H. Hockings, Synthetic ruby (red)-Synthetic Sapphire (blue) '57eng, is a practicing ar- chosen the name John Robert for their son born De- Topaz (yellow) -Amethyst (purple) chitect in Tucson, Arizona . He is with the firm cember 31, 1959 . Reynolds is employed by the Tourmaline (green) of Freidman and Jobrisch. U . S. Bureau of Reclamation on the Glen Canyon Massive 10K gold $48.00* Mrs. Jim Nelson (the former Nina Lee Kelso, Project, Page, Arizona. Standard 10K gold $36.00* '57c(l) is now living in Sherwood Park, Alberta, 1958 Ladies 10K miniature $29.50* Canada . She is a native of Marlow. Richard M. Hunter, '58eng, Phoenix, Arizona, *Plus 10% federal tax. Lt. Thurman Bilbrey, '57eng, Weatherford, re- is now an architect in San Francisco, California. State name of school, finger cently completed the 16-week officer rotary-wing Philip D. Hart, '58ha, Ada, is the winner of size, class year, stone desired . qualification course at the Primary Helicopter the eighth annual $500 scholarship award by the School, Camp Walters, Texas. Before going on Liberty National Bank and Trust Company of Ok- COLLEGE active duty, Lieutenant Bilbrey was employed by lahoma City. Hart will do research on the subject SEAL and CREST CO. Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma 236A Broadway, Cambridge 39, Mass. City. of estate planning . He is married to the former Manufacturers of College Jewelry Since 1875 22

ONE-NIGHT STANDS Mrs. Goggin (the former Georgia Baird, '51ed) Roger Lambert, '60, has accepted a position as have a son, David Jon, 4. instructor in the history department at the Univer- Continued from Page 23 MARRIAGES: Miss Caroline Wiest, '586a, sity of Wichita, Kansas . Lambert is now a can. Lawton, and Jerome J. Cavanaugh, Austin, Min- didate for the Ph .D. degree in history at O.U. ager. It is his responsibility to see that the nesota, were married February 23 in the Blessed Frank Richard Harris, '606a, Cushing, is en- play goes without a hitch. Carol Gladstein Sacrament Catholic Church, Lawton. They arc liv- rolled as a student at the American Institute for ing in Fort Lewis, Washington, where Cavanaugh Foreign Trade, Phoenix, Arizona . Specializing must see that the wardrobe, designed by in is an artillery officer . Latin America, Harris is taking the school's in- Mrs. Helen Lauterer, associate professor of Miss Patricia Ann Walker, '58journ, Chicka- tensive training course in preparation for a ca- drama, is pressed and ready for each per- sha, and Charles Stuart Wallace, Jr ., Houston, Tex- recr in American business or government abroad. formance. as, were married February 27 in the First Christian MARRIAGES : Miss Lynnda Lee Wolford, '60, Church, Chickasha . The Wallaces have estab- and Stanley Edward Porch, Lighting is under Dave Spradling's su- '60, both of Oklahoma lrshed a home in Houston . City, were married February 20 in Watchorn pervision while Eldon Hallum handles the BIRTH : Bill Rosen, '58, and Mrs . Rosen, '58, Chapel of St. Luke's Methodist Church, Oklahoma sound. El Paso, Texas, have chosen the name Donna Lynn City. Both are seniors at O.U. All cast members work under the direc- for their daughter born in January . Miss Linda Lackey Bennett, '60, Oklahoma City, and tion of Nofle to set up the scenery before 1959 John Lampton Belt, '60, Norman, were Laurence B. Benton, '59, Tulsa, was commis- married March 12 in the home of the bride's each performance and strike (dismantle) it par- sioned a navy ensign at the Naval School of Pre- ents in Oklahoma City . The Belts are living in after a show. This too was rehearsed before Flight, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida . En- Norman . They are both members of the O.U. the exodus to the Orient and, working as sign Benton has been assigned to the Sauflcy Field production of "George Washington Slept Here," closely together as show horses in harness, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, also in Pensacola . which went on a 20,000-mile tour of U. S. mili- John T. French, tary installations in Asia and the the troupe cut the time for setting up to 28 '59, Erick, recently completed Pacific in April. the 30-week officer's basic course at the Marine Miss Patricia Ruth Osborne, '60, and John Don- minutes and striking time to 10 minutes. Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia . (lore Cics, '60, both of Oklahoma City, were mar- The job doesn't end with striking, how- Atnos R. Reed, '59, Duncan, recently completed ried March 18 in Ingham Chapel of the First Meth- ever, for the sets, costumes, props and light- the 30-week officer's basic course at the Marine odist Church, Oklahoma City . The couple has es- tablished a home ing and sound equipment must all be pack- Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia . in Norman, where both will Jerry Williams, '596us, Wilburton, is attending continue their studies at O.U . Cies is working ed away, ready for tomorrow's move. Then The George Washington University School of Law . toward his master's degree in economics . the troupe members are likely to head for Williams is employed in the office of U. S. Sena- BIRTH : Peter J. Ristuben, '60, and Mrs. Ris- the officers' or enlisted men's clubs, perhaps tor Robert S. Kerr. tuben, Norman, have chosen the name Peter John to offer a variety show which the cast put Lt. Theodore K. James, '59eng, Washington, for their son born March 16 . They also have a has completed the nine-week ranger course at The daughter, Ann, 20 months. Ristuben is a graduate between rehearsals in Norman. together in Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia . James assistant in the history department at O.U. at pres- Although entertaining servicemen is entered the army in May, 1959 . ent and has accepted a position in the history de- their goal, the cast members are under no Terry West, '59, former editor of the Arla Week- partment at Pacific Lutheran College, Tacoma, illusion that entertainment is the only prod- ly News, has joined the public relations staff of Washington . Sunray Mid-Continent . Perhaps even more im- Oil Company, Tulsa. uct of their tour Lt. William S. Thompson, 111, '59eng, recently portant, they realize, is the impression they completed the 30-week officer's basic course at the are leaving behind them in their travels. Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia . Thomp- In shopping and sightseeing tours, in son is from Amarillo, Texas. MARRIAGES : Miss personal contacts with natives of the coun- Louise Allen Rucker, Bar- , tlesville, and James William Connor, '59Law, Tul- Nota Mal)maw,Od#k tries they visit, these 14 young Americans sa, were married February 27 in St. John's Catholic and their director are leaving behind pic- Church, Bartlesville . They are living in Bartles- tures of America and Americans. ville where Connor is assistant county attorney of It is almost a certainty that this picture Washington county and Mrs. Connor is associated with radio station KWON. CAIN'S is a good one for these young people bent all Miss Nancy Fulmer, '59bus, and Daniel Rey- their energies and enthusiasm on the trip, nolds Japhet, both of Houston, were married Feb- many finishing 12 hours of classwork in ruary 20 in the First Methodist Church, Idabel . eight weeks in order to go. The Japhets have established a home in Houston . COFFEE Japhet is a graduate of the University As for tact-this troupe has it. of Texas. Miss Sally Jo Anderson, '59h .ec, and Lynn M. than any other brand The original script leans heavily for hu- Geyer, Jr., were married recently and are living in mor upon the inundation of the hapless Tulsa. Fullers by every variety of insect imagin- Miss Rosalie Vivian Patterson, '59, Ponca City, and Charles Thomas able, with particular emphasis on those Cross, '59, Houston, Texas, were married February 27 in the First Presbyterian pesky Japanese beetles. Willing to take a Church, Ponca City . They are living in Houston . giant step in tact to avoid even the sugges- 1960 tion of offense to Orientals, the troupe now Joe Rector, '60, Oklahoma City, has joined the has a heck of a time with those dratted sales office of Uarco Business Forms. Rector is a native of Muskogee Mexican beetles. and was a co-captain of O.U .'s 1959 football team .

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