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Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes 1901- Dr. White has been practicing medicine in Okla- the Woodward Daily Press. He formerly was man- William S. Courtney . '01ph.c, Roosevelt, owns homa City since 1923 . aging editor of the Sayre Daily Headlight-Journal, and operates a drug store in Roosevelt . One of his Fredricka Fitch Weltering, '21ba, St. Louis, where he has been employed the past 20 months . Missouri, is working with the Red Cross in St. sons recently returned from Okinawa following - three years of service as a staff sergeant . Another Louis. 1925- Roland Horton, '21eng, died recently in Web- A. P. Challenner, '25eng, '33m .eng, has been was killed in action in Italy while serving with discharged the 45th Division . ster Grove. from active service and has resumed Boyd-1910- F. Koepke, '21chem, formerly with Leeds his duties as assistant professor of engineering at Northrup Company, Clark Engine Company and the University. Fred E. Tarman, 'lobs, editor of the Norman Western Petroleum Refiners Association, is now a George L. Nye, '24-'25, Okemah, has been Transcript, has been named chairman of the Cleve- salesman with the Aluminum Company of Ameri- elected vice-president of the City National Bank, land county tree-planting program by Governor ca. Mr. Koepke is located in the Dallas District Houston, Texas. Kerr . Sales Office handling chemical products . John P. Audrian, '25ba, '36ma, Fairland, has -1911- been appointed1922- a member of the academic staff at Wentworth Military Academy, Lexington, Mis- Mrs. Collie Goodrich Coots, '11, Norman, died Wetzel S. Welden, '21-'22, '24-'26, El Reno, recently in Palm Beach, Florida. Mrs. Coots was souri. He is conducting courses in English at the was injured fatally in an automobile accident in academy. a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at November near El Reno . Mr . Welden was a mem- the University . Lucyle Haskins, '23-'25, Enid, recently assumed ber of the Canadian County Bar Association and the duties of director of the Grady County Public -1912- was associated with James A. Rinehart in the law Welfare firm Department. Dr. Clinton M. Allen, '126a, veteran dean of of Rinehart and Welden. Subert Turbyfill, '25fa, '26ba, '32ma, is director Oklahoma City University liberal arts college, has Patricia Faye Ragan was born to William B. of dramatics in Ragan, '22ba, the Balboa (Panama Canal Zone) been named to head the counseling staff of the '28ma, and Mrs. Ragan (Fay( Hart- high school and junior college. Mrs. Mary Turby- Veterans' Guidance clinic at O.C.U. He will be man, '376s) on October 1, 1945 . fill, '31fa, is teaching Esther Munn McRuer, music in the Balboa schools . succeeded by Dr. L. l.. Clifton, '16ba, as liberal '22ba, Norman, has been Laile G. Neal, '25med, a former major in the arts dean . named librarian of the Carnegie city library in Army, has resumed his Ardmore . medical practice in Ponca -1915- City . Dr. Neal was recently elected president of Superior judge Howard C. Speakman, '15law, 1923~ the Kay County Medical Society . Howard P. Bonebrake, '23ch .eng, was transferred Drumright, has accepted the nomination for judge - of the U. S. District Court for the southern dis- this last summer from district manager of the 1926- Kansas City district sales office of the Aluminum Victor L. Strange, '22-'26, has been named trict of Arizona . manager of the southwestern sales George Wallace Allen, '15law, Norman, former Company of America to sales manager of the district for Gen- chemical products of the eral Electric Company's air conditioning depart- Cleveland County judge, died March 7 following Aluminum Company . He ment. a brief illness . is residing in St. Louis, Missouri . Capt John Paynter, '26ba, is employed as principal -1916- . George McKinney, '23, Austin, Texas, has of received his discharge from the Army and is now McKinley School in Harvey, Illinois . Mrs. Ethel M. Lowry, '166m, '17ba, Oklahoma a Packard E. A. Shiner, '26bs, '28ms, Wichita, Kansas, is dealer in Austin . educational City, wife of the late Dr. Tom Lowry, dean of the David Hedlcy, '23geol, Houston, Texas, is em- adviser with the Veterans Administra- School of Medicine, died recently in Oklahoma ployed by the Barnsclall Oil Company in Houston . tion in Wichita . City. H. F. Lester Duval, '26, Norman, and Mrs . Duval Thomason, '23geol, '246s, has recently (Nellie Florette McNeese, '16ma, Oklahoma City, died moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he is employed Grim, '26) have moved from Salt Fork, March 27 following a long illness . Previous to her as assistant sales Oklahoma, to Fort Morgan, Colorado. Mr. Duval manager of the Retail Credit Com- plans retirement three years ago she had been teaching pany after having lived in New York City for the to operate a wheat farm at Fort Morgan. at Classen and Central High Schools in Oklahoma last 12 years. Harry B. Kniseley, '26ba, '29ma, has been city. named president of the 1924- Southwestern Association 1917- Byrne A. Bowman, '24, E. E. Boylan, '176a, Caracas, Venezuela, was Oklahoma City, has of Industrial Editors, an been released from military service and has re- organization composed of re-elected president of the North American Society sumed his law practice in Oklahoma in Venezuela . He has held this post for the last City . 450 members in 23 states Orville Edwin Fish, '24, Seminole, has arrived and Canada . three and one-half years. in the The organization had 1,200 members (luring European theater of A member of Beta Theta the war, all Americans, but there have been many operations to serve the Pi social fraternity and Sig- transfers during recent months . anned forces as an ma Delta Chi, professional Mr. Boylan has been in Venezuela for nearly Ameri-nRedCrossassistantfield journalistic fraternity. Mr. 25 years in the oil business, 12 years with Gulf director. Before his Red Kniseley was prominent in Cross appointment, Mr. athletic and publications ac- Oil Company and the last 15 with Caracas Petro- Fish leum as vice-president and general manager. was a conference lead- tivities while in the Univer- -1919- er for Douglas Aircraft sity . Company, Oklahoma City . Now a member of the Vivian Robinson, '17-'19, Sallisaw, is manager Previously, he was an in- KNISELEY public relations department of the Oklahoma Tire and Supply store in Sallisaw . vestigator for the U. S. Ci- of the Carter Oil Company Fayette Copeland, '196a, professor of journal- vil Service Commission . in Tulsa, Mr . Kniseley edits The Link, the com- ism, has received the doctor of philosophy degree Gentry Lee, '24law, is pany's monthly magazine, which was ranked in a from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, with now practicing law with national contest last fall as one of eight leaders a major in history and a minor in journalism. the firm of Conner, Win- in its field. He formerly was director of public Fayette Copeland, '19ba, professor of journalism, FISH ters, Lee and Randolph in relations at the Kansas State Teachers College at has received the doctor of philosophy degree from Tulsa. Emporia, and later held the same title at Spartan Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, with a Margaret McKinney, '24ba, Port Arthur, Texas, School of Aeronautics in Tulsa. major in history and a minor in journalism. is a mathematics instructor at Woodrow Wilson George Nolan, '19, Norman, has been promoted Junior High School in Port Arthur . 1927 from assistant cashier to cashier of the First Na- Merle Campbell Montgomery, '24ba, is now Melville Metcalfe, '24-'27, Port Arthur, Texas, tional Bank, Norman . Mr. Nolan started his bank- lecturing for the Carl Fischer Music Publishing has accepted a position with the Equitable Life ing career with the Norman State Bank in 1916, Company in New York City. Insurance Company in Port Arthur . Mr. Metcalfe and has been assistant cashier of the First National William A. Nolan, '21-'24, is now working as had formerly been with the Port Arthur News for since 1930 . secretary for the W. H. Osborne -Shipping Com- 14 years. Mrs. Metcalfe (Eleanor Stewart, '29he) pany in New Orleans, Louisiana . is a science instructor at the Woodrow Wilson 1921 "Basic Formulas of Fiction" by William Foster Junior High School there. Dr. Oscar White, '21med, Oklahoma City physi- Harris, '24ba, assistant professor T. J. "China" Walne, cian and surgeon, was appointed of English, has '26-'27, '30-'32, is now a member of the been recorded for the Talking Books service of with the National Supply Company in the export Board of Regents of the University for a seven- the Library of Congress, year term to Washington, D. C. division in New York City. He formerly had been succeed E. C, Hopper, Jr., Eufaula . R. Jack Christy, '21-'24, has become editor of working with an English company in Trinidad,

SOONER MAGAZINE British West Indies, for about eight years. has been on terminal leave, has resumed his posi- Burl Cathey, '28-'32, '34, Norman, has resumed ' C. M. Wilbanks, '27eng, is production engineer tion as head of the legal department with the Con- his civilian occupation as foreman of the job print- for the Creole Petroleum Company, Caripeto, tinental Supply Company in Dallas . ing department of the Norman Transcript after Venezuela. He has been with this company in Henry Austin Bealmear, '30, '34-'36, former being released from the Navy at the Norman South America for about four years. Associated Press and Blackwell Journal-Tribune separation center. Mr . Cathey entered the Navy REYNOLDS-FORD : Frances Reynolds, Mineral sports writer, has covered the war in Europe as an Seabees in June, 1944, and saw service on Tinian, Wells, Texas, became the bride of Charles E. Ford, accredited correspondent . He was assigned to the Saipan and Guam in the Marianas. He has been Jr., '27ba, Oklahoma City, March 6. Mr. Ford re- aerial warfare over France and Germany and the an employee of the Transcript for 15 years before ceived a commission in the Air Corps and was final fighting in Germany . He is now again a entering the service . stationed at Orlando, Florida, for three years. Re- sports writer for Associated Press in New York. F. H. Godfrey, '29-'32, '36, Medford, has been cently discharged, he is associated with his brother MAHEW-KENNEDY : Charlotte Mahew, '29- named vocal instructor in Healdton High School . in the oil brokerage business in Enid . '32, '34, Enid, and Richard F. Kennedy, '28-'30, Howard Cowan, '31-'32, has gone to the Arctic J. Howard Courtner, '27, assistant district man- Enid, were married in November . Mrs. Kennedy with a Canadian Army expedition . Mr. Cowan ac- ager of the industrial division of the Dowell Chemi- had been home service director of the Oklahoma companied a group of 45 army men to a site 500 cal Company, Tulsa, died recently in a Chicago Natural Gas Company, Enid. Mr . Kennedy had miles north of Winnipeg where experiments in- hospital where he had undergone treatment after recently received his discharge from the Army volving the use of snowmobiles and other motor- an illness of several months. after serving 34 months in Iran . The couple plan- ized equipment are being made. Lt. Herbert L. Durgan, '27eng, has been dis- ned to establish their home in Enid . Lt . Col . Tillman A. Ragan, '32med, Fairfax, charged from the Army and is employed with the Dr. Mark V. Ravitch, '306a, has been named has recently been released from the Army and has Sun Oil Company in Beaumont, Texas. director of the newly established out-patient clinic opened an office in Norman ._ for -1928-pediatric surgery at the John Hopkins Hospital, Cecil Armstrong, '32bs, '37m.eng, is now build- Baltimore, Maryland . Dr. Ravitch had been in ing a plant in Chicago for Armstrong Plastic Com- Wilbur L. Morse, '286a, '30law, and Mrs. Morse, since 1943 . He served pany, which will (Edna Goodner, '29ba), have moved from St. the Army Medical Corps in manufacture plastic furniture . England, Belgium and France during the war. Dwight D. Pierson, '32med, Buffalo, who re- Louis, Missouri, to Arlington, Virginia, where Mr. After the end of the fighting, Dr . Ravitch obtained cently was discharged from the Army, Morse is employed as an attorney in the office . has opened of Agriculture. further training in surgery in England and Sweden an office in Mangum . of solicitor, Department before returning to the States. He assumed his new Charles Vowell, '32bus, Norman, was dis- WILDE-BUERBAUM : Mrs. Ann C. Wilde, Okla- on April 1 . charged homa City, and Carl Buerbaum, Jr., '28ba, '30geol, duties at John Hopkins March 19 at the Norman Navy Separa- tion center after 29 months of service. He spent Tulsa, were married March 9 in Dallas, Texas. -1931- 19 months at Pearl Harbor and his last duty was Mr. Buerbaum is a broker and in the oil business Maurice Hefley, '31eng, Norman, former lieu- Tulsa. He attended Southern Methodist Univer- at San Francisco. Mr. Vowell plans to return to in tenant colonel in the Army, recently was dis- his former position as field auditor with the Em- sity, Dallas, and the University where he was a charged. He is now employed in Shreveport, Louis- ployment member of Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Gamma Security Commission, Oklahoma City . iana. Sam E. Braden, '32bs, former first lieutenant in Epsilon fraternities. He was a captain in the Field Ralph D. Lynn, '31ba, '32ma, Tulsa, is employed the Army Air Corps, is now employed in the Artillery during the war and recently received in the research department of the Carter Oil Com- De- medical discharge . The couple has established a partment of Economics, Indiana University, Bloom- a pany, Tulsa. ington, Indiana . home in Tulsa. Roxey Fitch Tallant, '31ed, Oklahoma City, has MORRISON-SILVERMAN : The Lt. Comdr. Tom R. Moore, '28bus, Wewoka, is been with the American Red Cross at the McClos- marriage of of Navy Air Corps surplus Nanette Ruth Morrison, '326a, Bartlesville, and A. now in charge pro- key General Hospital, Temple, Texas, for the Mitchell Silverman, Highland Mills, New perty for the entire western Naval district stationed past two and one-half years. York, Los Angeles, California. was solemnized March 6 in New York. Mrs. Sil- in Capt . Earl C. Everett, '316a, '34m .ed, Anadarko, verman Bartlesville Lt. Chester Sappington, '28eng, Laverne, has was formerly employed by the has been discharged from the Army Air Corps and Examiner. The couple is at home in New York. received his discharge from the military forces has returned to his duties as principal of the Ana- COX-SMITH : and has returned to his office with General Geo- Wedding Manor in Los Angeles, darko High School . California, was the setting for, the marriage of Physical, Houston, Texas. William J. Becker, '31ma, Lawton, is now head Georgia Cox, '326a, Guthrie, Paul R. Dillard, '28ba, Waurika, has been dis- of the arts and and Capt. Francis science department at Cameron G. Smith, Jr ., Los Angeles . Mrs. Smith is a mem- charged from military service and has established College, Lawton. ber of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority a law practice in Artesia, New Mexico. Frederick and the Ameri- Louise Martin, '29-'31, has joined the can Association of University Women. Press as a Prior to -1929- reporter and advertising salesman . her marriage she was employed in Guthrie with Joe H. Carson, '29, Stilwell, has received his dis- N. L. George, '31m.ed, Oklahoma City, has re- the U. S. Department of Soil Conservation. The charge from the Navy and is now working as turned to his job as business manager of the Okla- couple is at home in Los Angeles . cashier in the Bank of Commerce at Stilwell. homa City public school system after being on - Willard L. Bassmann, '29ba, Tulsa, has received leave of absence to study at Columbia University, his discharge from the Army and has been named New York City . John B. Waldrip, '33ma, Oklahoma City, is em- editor of the trade publication issued by the Inter- Staff Sgt. Vernon Rice, '31ba, New York City, ployed as an engineer draftsman at Tinker Field, state Oil Pipeline Company. Mr. Bassmann served received his discharge from military service and Oklahoma City . as regimental sergeant major of the headquarters planned to return to his work with the New York A daughter, Ann Hope, was born to Alan Skel- detachment at Camp Reynolds, Pennsylvania, until Post as radio and drama critic. ton, '33lib.sci, '34ba, Norman, and Mrs. Skelton his regiment was moved to Fort Jackson, South Dr. James O. Hood, '31med, was recently elected (Martha Butcher, '39geol, Norman) in Tulsa re- Carolina, where he received his discharge . president of the Cleveland County Medical society. cently . Mr. Skelton is employed in the research J. D. Osborne, Jr., '29, '34-'35, '38, former prin- He has been named by the society to represent the department of Mid-Continent Gas and Oil associa- cipal of the El Paso, Texas, senior high school, organization as acting chief of staff at Norman tion in Tulsa. has been made executive secretary of the Detroit Municipal Hospital . James P. Hindman, '30-'33, Tulsa, has been Teachers' Association. George C. Wight, '31eng, Midwest, Wyoming, elected agent with the Aetna Life Insurance Com- Olin Herbert Wright, '29bus, Sweet Home, was placed on terminal leave February 2, which pany in Tulsa. - Arkansas, is employed by the Arkansas State Tax will expire April 25 . He is now employed by the Lt. Comdr. Harold M. Gay, '33eng, Oklahoma Commission and works in the state capitol build- Stanolind Oil and Gas Company as a field engi- City, received his discharge from military service ing at Little Rock. neer in Midwest. January 24 and has returned to his position with Capt. D. G. Willard, '29med, Norman, is on Roy McCurley, '31ba, Sentinel, has joined the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company. terminal leave from the Army and plans to re- staff of Congressman Wickersham. Mr . McCurley, Ed Baxter, '33eng, Lawton, is now employed turn soon to medical practice. former editor of the Sentinel Leader, received his with the Continental Oil Company as a sales engi- discharge from the Navy, after three years' service, neer in the marketing department in Ponca City . -1930 with the rank of lieutenant, junior grade. He Lawrence Bellatti, '32-'33, '36-'38, naval cor- L. N. Bertholf, '30, Cherokee, is now out of the served six months overseas. his release from service and is the manager of the Draper Drug Dr. John R. Winston, '31med, '33m.d, Ardmore, respondent, has arrived home with Store, Loveland, Colorado . the Navy. Mr . Bellatti entered service in the Sea- has been named chief of staff of the Santa Fe Hospi- out to the fleet Marine, and then First Lt. J. E. Briscoe, '29-'30, Drumright, has tal, Temple, Texas. He is also one of the staff bees, transferred received his discharge from the Army and is now returned to the Seabees . After this he was as- physicians of the Scott-White Hospital . Tennessee, manager of the C. R. Anthony store at Drumright . signed as Naval correspondent to the on Lucius Babcock, '3111b, veteran district judge which he served in Tokyo waters and returned to SUTTON-FRANKLIN : The marriage of Myrtle for Canadian County, will retire from the bench Lucille Sutton, '30, Tulsa, and Benjamin Franklin, the Atlantic by way of Singapore, Ceylon, and at the conclusion of his present term. He has held Africa. He has joined his fath- Fort Worth, Texas, was an event in January in the district judgeship for 21 years. Cape Town, South Tulsa. Mr. Franklin had received his discharge 1932- er in operation of the family newspaper at Still- after serving 25 months in the China-Burma-India water. His wife and son, Larry, lived in Norman theater of operations. The couple planned to make Lt. Comdr. William L. Fogg, '32law, El Reno, while he was in the service. their home in Fort Worth. has been on terminal leave and has resumed the Winston V. Cruzan, '32-'33, Oklahoma City, Capt . Dan M. Bailey, '30law, Dallas, Texas, who practice of law with his father in El Reno. has received his discharge from military service

MAY, 1946 and has resumed his dental practice in Okla- Nashville, Tennessee, during the present school serving in the Pacific .a t the close of the Japanese homa City. year. war. Carl W. Smith, Jr., '31-'33, '35-'38, discharged Tom Riggers, '34law, recently returned from Lt . Harrell McCullough, '35bus, Oklahoma City, from the Army January 10 after service in Europe, the European theater of operations and has re- has been placed on terminal leave from the Army. has joined the staff of Beals Creative Printers, opened his law office in Wewoka . Lieutenant McCullough has entered the Graduate Oklahoma City, as an advertising and printing Dr. W. P. Longmire, Jr., '34ba, has recently School of the University of Chicago where he is salesman. been appointed head of the division of plastic majoring in economics . Wilma Thrash, '33ba, has joined the Carter Oil surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, J. Bruce Wiley, '35eng, Norman, assistant pro- Company's public relations staff. Maryland . fessor of electrical engineering on leave of absence PARKER-KNIGHT: Media Parker, '33pharm, E. E. Stong, '34eng, colonel in the reserve corps, from the University is making a special study of Frederick, became the bride of Lester Leroy Knight, has been discharged from the Army and is as- valuation engineering at Iowa State College, Ames. Wilmington, California, in a ceremony performed sociated with Phillips and Stong, Engineers, in February 22 in Wilmington. During the war Mrs. Oklahoma City. He was awarded the Legion of -1936- Kihld s harmacist inthngt was empoyeaparmacst in te hos- Merit for service with the War Department Gen- pital at NIXON-KOONS : Harriet Josephine Nixon, Camp Fannin, Texas. The couple has eral Staff. Oklahoma City, and Rollin Conklin Koons, '36zool, established a home in Los Angeles . Lt. Arnold Court, '34ba, is serving a three month Lt. Col. Robert Oklahoma City, were married in November. Mrs. F. Brooks, '33geol, and Mrs. terminal leave from the Army . Mr . Court was with Koons has been employed by the Federal Reserve Brooks are the parents. of a son born February 14 the Army Air Corps weather service in Alaska Bank, Oklahoma City. Mr. Koons was discharged in Oklahoma City. Robert Carson is the name for two and one-half years during the war. He will chosen for the from the Army after serving 34 'months in the little boy . be given an assignment in the U. S. Weather European theater of operations . Olive Hawes, '33ba, '35ma, is working as a Bureau . David radio monitor in Washington, C. Winslow, '36ba, has joined the geology D. C. She helps and geographic department faculty at the Univer- translate broadcasts from Latin America, Madrid, 1935~ sity, replacing London and Paris. Edward E. Keso. Roy S. Taylor, '35eng, Oklahoma City, has been Dr. Paul Powell, '366s, '39med, '41m.d, and released to inactive duty in the Naval reserve with Mrs. Powell are the parents of a son, Paul Hen- -1934- the rank of lieutenant commander. He is employed show, born September 2 in Oklahoma City. Dr. Jay W. Anderson, '34ba, has become commercial in the sales department of Oklahoma Gas and Elec- Powell is director of Kay County Health Depart- manager of radio station KTBS at Shreveport, tric Company, Enid . ment. Louisiana. Previously he had been associated with Hubert A. Gilbert, '32-'35, Yale, is employed as Virginia Katherine Rader, '36ba, '40ma, has the Bryan and Bryan Advertising Agency at Shreve- inspector for General Land Office in Anchorage, been added to the faculty of Northeastern State port. Alaska, since his discharge from the Army . College as assistant professor of English and jour- Dr. Laurence M. Williamson, '346s, Lindsay, Lt. Col . George F. Bozalis, '35med, Oklahoma nalism . She is faculty supervisor of the college has been released from military service and is now City, has been on terminal leave and is now tak- paper. practicing medicine in Oklahoma City. ing a refresher course at the St. Louis Children's William S. Morris, '34-'36, Norman, died there Lt. Col. Preston Woodruff, '34ba, '36law, '37ma, Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Colonel Bozalis was, recently following a heart attack . For a number of Tulsa, has been on terminal leave. He planned to with the 109th Evacuation Hospital in the Euro- years he had been an employee of the University resume his work with Skelly Oil Company in pean theater of operations. utilities department . Tulsa. Eugene T. White, '356a, Ada, has resigned Glenn B. Hess, '366s, '37ms, and Mrs. Hess Ira Levine, '34, Ardmore, died recently in the from a position with the State Health Department announce the birth of their second child, Lee Ed- Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas, after a long to become news editor of the Alva Review-Courier . ward, on December 8, 1945, in Flushing, New illness . He had been in the men's clothing busi- THACKER-CROSBY : Virginia Thacker, '33- York. ness in Ardmore for the past several years. '35, '37, formerly of Oklahoma City, and Leigh Jack Smith, '36-'37, Elk City, has been dis- Walter V. Culpepper, '31-'34, Tonkawa, has re- Crosby, Los Angeles, California, were married charged from the Navy and is employed by the ceived his discharge as captain in the Quartermas- September 29 at Barrington, Illinois . Mrs. Crosby Elk City Journal. ter'Corps and is now practicing law in Tonkawa. had been writing radio scripts in Chicago, Illinois, First Lt . Josh M. Drake, Jr ., Mr. '36-'38, Mangum, Culpepper was in the Army for five years and and Los Angeles. The couple planned to make has received his discharge from the Army and is was stationed overseas in the European theater of their home in Los Angeles and on the Alta Mira employed as secretary of the Chamber of Com- operations for 19 months. Ranch, Puente, California . merce at Mangum . Lieutenant Drake lost his Delbert W. Scott, '34m .ed, '42ma, is teaching Marion A. Flesher, '34-'35, Oklahoma City, left hand in the Battle of Lupao on Luzon, Febru- English in the Parlier Union High School, Cali- has received his discharge from military service ary 7, 1945 . He was awarded the Silver Star for fornia. Before going to California in 1944, Mr. and has resumed his dental practice in Oklahoma gallantry in action . Scott was an instructor in the Army Air Forces in City. R. C. Walker, '36pharm, Ponca City, recently Gulfport, Mississippi . He was previously an Eng- William L. Lanagan, '31=35, Cushing, recently opened the Walker's Prescription shop in Ponca lish teacher in El Reno High School . Mr. Scott discharged from the Army, has re-opened his law City . and his family live on a ranch about a mile from office in Cushing . Rea McKinney, '32-'36, Parlier Crystal City, Texas, is . Maj . Glenn Davis, '35law, Muskogee, has re- employed as an examiner at the alien detention Ray Pool, '34eng, Lawton, has been elected com- turned to his position with the Indian Agency in camp in Crystal City. missioner of Girl Scouts in the Lawton district. Muskogee after receiving his discharge from mili- HILLER-KEY : The wedding of Kamilla Hiller, Mr. Pool is the first commissioner of the newly tary service. Budapest, Hungary, and Lt . William S. Key, Jr., formed organization in Lawton. Lt. Everett F. Goins, '356a, Yukon, has received '36ba, Oklahoma City was solemnized in Wash- Charles A. Moser, '34ed, '41law, Guthrie, re- his discharge from military service and is now as- ington, D. C., March 25. Mrs. Key is the daughter centty discharged from the Navy, has joined the sociated with the Frisbie Insurance . Agency in of the late Mr . Hiller, who was president of the law firm of Bierer and Bierer, Guthrie. Yukon. bauxite trust in Hungary when the war started in Maj. John B. Cole, '34, was released from ac- LANDRUM-KYLE : The wedding of Shirley Europe in 1939 . Mrs. Key was educated in a con- tive duty with the Army Air Forces and has re- Landrum, Marietta, to Lt. Robert Henry Kyle, vent school in Hungary, later studying in Eng- turned to Norman to re-open his dental office . He '35eng, Ardmore, was solemnized March 10 in land, where she took her oxford matriculation was an assistant dental surgeon . the Noble Memorial chapel in Ardmore. Mr, Kyle examinations in 1938 . Lieutenant Key also attended was a member of Pi Lt. Comdr. John L. Fortson, '34journ, New Kappa Alpha fraternity at the Virginia Military Academy, Lexington . He York City, has the University . The couple is at home in Dallas, was manager of the Key Building in Oklahoma received his discharge after serving Texas. for more than three years in the Navy. Command- City for a number of years prior to serving in the er Fortson was assigned to the George A. Weisser, '35eng, Fort Worth, Texas, British field service. He reported to his station on procurement office received his discharge in Washington, D. C., before being stationed at from the Army February 7 the east coast March 29, to return to Budapest, Pearl Harbor with the intelligence and is associated with the public roads administra- where he is aide to General Key. division of the tion in Fort Worth. Pacific air fleet. He planned to return to his former Dr . Hubert T. Goodman, '36med, Sapulpa, has position as public relations William N. Sholl, '35, Durant, has received a established a private medical practice in Terre director of the Federal discharge Council of Churches of Christ in America with from military service and has gone to Haute, Indiana, following his release from the headquarters in New York. work for the Texas-New Mexico Pipe Line Com- Army. pany at San Marcos, Texas. Vincent Dale, '29-'34, Hooker, has Robert B. Allen, Jr ., '36, has returned to the staff been dis- Ross M. Stuntz, Jr ., '35eng, former captain in of the Cushing Daily Citizen as managing editor charged from the Navy and has re-entered the practice of law the Army, is now working for the Gulf Oil Com- after serving in the Army about three years. at Guymon . pany in Dr. Forest Tulsa. Austin Bealmear, '34-'36, Blackwell, is now the Brown, '34bs, '36m.d, Lawton, is Vincent Igoe, '35, Odessa, Missouri, has re- sports writer for' Associated Press in Garden City, working for the Panama Canal Health ment. Depart- ceived his discharge from the Navy and is now New Jersey. mayor of Odessa. Maj. Cecil E. Miner, '366s, '39med, has been Jose D. Fajardo, '33-'34, is on leave from his Col . Leslie Pain, '35ba, '35law, Chickasha, has discharged from military service and has estab- school work at Cali, Columbia, South America, been discharged from the lished a medical practice in Samsota, Florida. for the purpose Army and has opened of attending Peabody College at up a law office in Chickasha, Colonel Pain was (Continued on page 25)

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Roll Call - Lawrence H. Robinson, '37journ, Oklahoma Max Sims Lale, '38journ, recently discharged City, has joined the statistics and research staff of from the Army after five years' service, has joined ,-(Con tinued frompage8 ) the Oklahoma State Department of Agriculture the staff of the Marshall (Texas) News-Messenger. Capt . Irwin E. Bingham, '29-'36, Quinlan, has since he was released from the Navy after four T. L. Bleakmore, Jr., '38law, Sapulpa, has gone has been released to inactive duty with the Army years' service. Part of his duties includes the writ- to Tokyo with the State Department as a legal Air Corps. Captain Bingham was in service for four ing and editing of informational releases for news- adviser . Mr . Bleakmore studied in Japan two years years, 26 months of which were spent overseas in papers and the preparation of a radio program . Mr. before the war. the European theater of operations. He is entitled Robinson formerly worked for the Carpenter Pa- Kenneth M. Robinson, '38ba, '38law, and Her- to wear the Air Medal, Bronze Star medal, Presi- per Company, Oklahoma City, the El Reno Ameri- schcl D. French, '38ba, have formed a law part- dential Citation, and six battle stars on his FAME can and the Oklahoma Live Stock News, Oklahoma nership in Oklahoma City . ribbon . Captain Bingham, former news editor of city. DONART-EDGINGTON : Wilbcrts Donart, '38, station KANS, Wichita, Kansas, is now operating -1938- Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Glen L. Edgington, his cattle ranch at Quiilan. HARTMAN-SOOY : Margaret Love Hartman, Huntington, Indiana, were married February 14 in 1937- Greenwood, Indiana . Mrs. Edgington has been a Louisville, Kentucky, and Floyd Sooy,'35-'38, Man- teacher Wilson H. Gibson, '376a, '39law, has been dis- gum, were married recently in Louisville . Follow- in the Stillwater public school system. Mr. charged from military service and is practicing ing-his recent discharge as a major after a year's Edgington recently received his discharge from law in New Orleans, Louisiana. service in the Pacific, Mr. Sooy entered George- the Army after spending 19 months overseas. town University, Washington, D. C., as a senior PARKER-CITLAN: Barbara Janet Parker, San Harlan Mendenhall, '37 Francisco, California, and George Carl Citlan, '37- journ, former Oklahoma student. Upon graduation he will enter the diplo- '38, formerly of matic service. While a student at the University, Tulsa, were married December 29 newspaperman and contri- in Ellensburg, Washington . Mr . Citlan has re- butor of fact-fiction de- Mr. Sooy received a scholarship as an exchange student to study Hamburg, Germany . cently been discharged from military service after tective articles to magazines, at duty in the South Pacific . The couple planned to has been discharged from the PATCHIN-OLMSTEAD : Marguerite Patchin, G Olmstead, '39 make their home in Kennewich, Washington . Army and has returned to '36-'38, Pawhuska, and Harris . MORSMAN-BOLLENBACH : Laura Eloise Denver, Colorado, where he bus, Tonkawa, were married March 7 in Pawhus- Morsman, recently discharged from Kingfisher, and Irvin K. Bollenbach, is continuing his magazine ka. Mrs. Olmstead was '37-'38, '4H-'42, Kingfisher, were married in Feb- writing-career . Mr. Menden- the Women's Army Corps after serving for three ruary. Mr. Bollenbach has received his discharge hall worked for a time as a years at Fort Custer, Michigan, and Fort Sam from Delta the Army, and is serving as manager of the reporter on the Daily Okla- Houston, Texas. She was a member of the Kingfisher airport. homan. He resigned to de- Gamma sorority at the University . Mr. Olmstead which BENNETT-LEIBER : The wedding of Ruth vote his full time to maga- served for four years with the Navy, two of Mozelle Bennett, '38ba, Oklahoma City, and Cpl. zine writing . , were spent in the Caribbean area . lie was a mem- Robert Joseph Leiber, MENDENHALL River Vale, New Jersey, was her of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity at the Univer- an event of November 8 in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Dr. Charles G. Stuard, '37med, Tulsa, and Mrs. sity. He is manager of the Ford Motor Company was librarian Stuard, are the parents of a son, James Charles, Leiber at Camp Bowie, Texas. Cor- in Tonkawa . poral Leiber has been stationed at Camp Chaffee, born recently in Tulsa. Dr. Stuard has been dis- ASTON-TRAVIS : The wedding of Claribel As- Arkansas . charged from the Army Medical Corps, having Travis, '38ed, Indianola, ton, Durant, and Dale C. Lt . Jack Barbour, '38chem, '40ms, Norman, who served as a major in the Army hospital in Greens- was an event of late March in Durant. Mrs. Travis has boro, North Carolina. been on terminal leave with the Navy, has re- is a graduate of Oklahoma A. and M. College . Mr. turned to his work with the Core Laboratories in HOUK-PETERSON : Nancy Whitelaw Houk, Travis served three years in the Army Air Corps Dallas, Texas. Duke, and Lt. John T. Peterson, '37, Duke, were and spent 18 months in the China-Burma-India married in January at SPFAGLE-MARSHALL: Virginia Darlene Waco, Texas. Lieutenant theater . He is now football coach at Indianola High Speagle, Mattoon, Illinois, and Edward l'. Peterson recently returned from 17 months' service School . Mar- in the South Pacific . shall, Jr ., '35-'38, Tulsa, were married in Novem- BAUGHMAN-PEACH : Betty Baughman, '38 her in Mattoon . Mrs. Marshall had taught school at Dr. R. R. Coates, '37med, plans to open a medi- journ, Tulsa, became the bride of Eugene Harwood Edinburg cal office in Chickasha . He is returning to practice High School, Edinburg, Illinois . Mr. Peach, San Diego, California, in a ceremony per- Marshall had recently received his discharge from after serving four years in the Army Medical Corps formed February 17 in Sapulpa. Mrs. Peach has the Army after as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Dr. Coates spending three years overseas . done publicity for Steve Hannagan in Miami, BARNARD-WALKER : Elizabeth Barnard, spent 32 months overseas in the Southwest Pacific Florida, was a member of the staff of the Oklaho- area and had been stationed at Borden General Little Rock, Arkansas, and Lt . Donald D. Walker, ma City Times and until recently was a member of '35-'38, Tuttle, Arkansas, were married October Hospital in Chickasha . the Tulsa World editorial staff. She spent a year Clifton L. Bell, '376a, has 27 in Little Rock. Mrs . Walker had been been discharged from with the Red Cross in New Guinea . em-ployedasmanageroftheStateOpticalshop,Little the service and has returned to his old job as geol- GALVIN-GRAYSON: A home in Muskogee has ogist for Phillips Petroleum Company Rock . The couple planned to make their home in in Jackson, been established by John A. Grayson, '38ed, and Washington, D. C. Mississippi . Mrs . Grayson following their marriage February 9 Ben Langdon, '36-'37, has resumed his duties Three former University students who have in Detroit, Michigan . Mrs. Grayson is the former been discharged from military service have formed as editor and publisher of the Mangum Star after Maxine Elizabeth Galvin, Detroit . Mr . Grayson is more than two years of service in the Army . a law firm of Phillips, Harwood and Sullivan in assistant athletic director and basketball coach at Durant. They are Sam Sullivan, '38law ; Odes J. John A. Phillips, '37law, Durant, former staff Muskogee High School . Harwood, sergeant, has established a law practice with Odes '44law, and John Allen Phillips, '37law . Harwood in Durant following his release Purchase of the Nowata daily and weekly news- Frederick S. Sloan, '34-'38, Sayre, and Mrs. from papers by David P. John- Sloan are the parents of a son, Ronald Frederick service. son, '38ma, was made re born in November in Sayre. Jack C. Davis, '37bus, is attending school at cently . Mr . Johnson was re- James H. Childs, Jr ., '38, Oklahoma City, has Columbia University, New York City, and was released from the Navy in been discharged from military service and is at- cently chosen as one of the 15 most outstanding November after more than tending the St. Louis, Missouri, School of Phar- boys in the junior class. three years' service. macy, Allyn W. Hale, '37eng, has recently been ap- His newspaper experi- Lloyd Saunders, '37-'38, former lieutenant in pointed as foundry products engineer and sales nee includes reporter on the Army Air Corps, completed his terminal leave manager for the East Texas Electric Steel Company, the Perry Journal, Finita January 5 and is associated with Cities Service Houston, Texas. 1 Daily Journal and Stillwa- Oil Company in Dallas, Texas. Mr . Saunders was Dr. James Harold Hammond, '37med, and Mrs. ter Daily News. He was in a prisoner of war camp in Germany for one Hammond, (Dorothy Hume, '37law), are the secretary-manager of the year . parents of a daughter, Marilyn Laverne, born \'inita Chamber of Com Ewing Sadler, '38ba, '38law, Oklahoma City, March 31 at the University of Pennsylvania Hospi- JOHNSONmerce when he entered the assistant attorney general, was named to investi- tal in Philadelphia . Dr. Hammond is taking a re- Navy in 1942 . gate alleged misuse of state aid funds in six school fresher course in the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Johnson served aboard ship during the cam- districts in Sequoyah County . since his discharge last September . paigns for the Solomon, Marshall and Marianas -1939- Bill Koenigsdorf, '37law, Kansas City, Mis- Islands. For the year preceding his discharge, he Wayne Sander, '39law, former lieutenant, was souri, has gone into law practice with his brother in was instructor in the fleet radar center at Pearl discharged from the Navy in November and is now Kansas City since receiving his discharge from the Harbor. associated with the Reconstruction Finance Cor- Army . Marshall Word, '38ba, '4011b, has formed a law poration in Denver, Colorado . Edwin P. Horner, '37bus, has received his dis- partnership with Milton Keen in Clinton . Mr . Word Howard Waddle, '39eng, has been appointed charge from military service and is attending Law was recently discharged from military service. manager of the McKamie Gas Cleaning Company, School at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Robert T. Sturm, '38med, Oklahoma City, has Magnolia, Arkansas . Mrs. Waddle, the former Inez Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Horner are the parents of a entered private medical practice in Oklahoma City Crotto, '36=39, Tulsa, won a year's scholarship to daughter, Suzanne Locke, born in January. following his release from the Army. Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in

MAY, 1946 25 the fall of 1944 by winning the Arkansas state- from the Army and joined the advertising and received his discharge and is attending the Uni- wide dress design contest. business staff of the Cushing Daily Citizen . Mr . versity. Mary Gladys Kyle, '39journ, is now enrolled Elam was an advertising salesman on the Shawnee John L. Riddle, '38-'40, Norman, has returned in the School of Social Work at the Catholic Uni- News-Star when he entered the Army in Decem- to his studies at the University following his re- versity, Washington, D. C. Miss Kyle served in ber, 1941 . He received his commission in 1942, lease from military service. the WAVES during the war. went overseas in 1943, received the rank of major James B. Rogers, '40eng, recently received his James M. Flinchum, '39journ, who returned to in 1944 and served as adjutant of Lt. Col . Lester discharge from the Army and is in the manufac- the Oklahoma City bureau of the United Press aft- W. Nicel's group in the Ninth Air force service turing business in Demopolis, Alabama. He held er his release from the Army in November, has command in the European Theater. the rank of captain while in the service. been transferred to Edinburg, Texas, where he will H. Paul "Flip" Flippin, '39journ, has been dis- Lt. Louis C. Roark, '40geol, Houston, Texas, have charge of a new one-man bureau . charged after three years service in the Army. Dur- has received his discharge from military service John Lokey, '39journ, is a joint owner of the ing his Army career he was editor of the Borden and is now taking graduate work in geology at Johnston County Capital Democrat, Tishomingo. News, camp newspaper for Borden General Hospi- Stanford University, California. Mr. Lokey received his discharge from the Navy tal, Chickasha, in addition to duties in the special Lt. Warren G. Van Brunt, '38-'40, is on terminal January 17. services department. He was occupational counse- leave and has returned to the University to con- Donald R. McVay, '39journ, has resigned as a lor at the Camp Fannin separation center before tinue his education . special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investiga- receiving his discharge there in February. Patricia Josephine Conner, '40voice, is in New tion to join the American Newspaper Publishers Mr. Flippin is a former advertising manager of York and has a chorus part in the Broadway musi- Association . the Clinton Daily News, and staff member of the cal show, "Up In Central Park ." Col . Orville Tackett, '39med, Oklahoma City, Seminole Producer. He also was advertising man- Helen Swan Padberg, '406s, is studying violin is stationed in the Panama Canal Zone in the sur- ager of the Oklahoma Daily during his senior year . and playing in two New York orchestras. geons office at Quarry Heights . Mr. Flippin has resumed his duties as advertising Lt. Col . J. Paul Johnson, '40law, has re-opened E. E. Lands, Jr ., '39eng, Wilbarton, Texas, has manager of the Altus Times-Democrat. his law office in Ponca City following his dis- accepted a position as petroleum engineer with BRADY-MAY : Helen Margaret charge from the Army . Mr. the Brady, '39bus, Johnson was recently Union Oil of California . He recently received and Warren Stone May, '37-'41, both of Oklahoma elected Democratic chairman of Kay County . his discharge as a captain from the Army Air City, were married April 24 in Oklahoma City. H. L. Hawkinson, Jr ., '40eng, has been dis- Forces . Mrs. May is a member of charged from the Navy and Capt . Kappa Kappa Gamma is employed with the Raymond T. Mayhall, '396us, has returned sorority. She is now employed by Phillips Petrole- Bethlehem Supply Company in Odessa, Texas. He from the European theater of operations where um Company. Mr . May is a member of Sigma served with the Navy for four years. he served as an artillery officer for 16 months. He Chi fraternity. After Wayne B. Lollar, '39-'40, received serving 46 months in the Hooker, has been dis- his discharge after serving four years Army Air Forces, he was discharged in October charged from the Army and is employed in the with the armed forces. Mr. Mayhall will resume as a first lieutenant, bombardier Valley Point, Georgia, school the management . He is associated system . of his business in Lawton. with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance J. Leland Gourley, '40, became owner and pub- Capt . Shaw D. Ray, Jr., '39, Oklahoma City, has Company. lisher of the Henryetta Free Lance, April 1 . Mr. received his discharge from military service and FOGLE-MORRIS : Martha Harriett Fogle, '39 Gourley served as city editor on the Oklahoma is now attending the University . lib.sci, and Staff Sgt . William Howard Morris, '40, Daily, and was editor of the Extension Division Mr. and Mrs. John H. Mitcham (Virginia Wat- Bartlesville, were married March 29 in Oklahoma News while in college. kins, '39he) are the parents of a son, John Barton, City. Mrs. Morris also attended Northeastern Okla- Copt. J. W. Shepherd, '40bus, Norman, has re- born December 24 in Corpus Christi, Texas. ' homa Junior College, Miami. ceived his discharge from military service and is Marshall Pipkin, '39bus, Seminole, recently dis- BISHOP-RAY: Peggy Bishop, El Reno, and now attending the University . charged from the Navy, has formed a partner- Charles Payton Ray, '39, - Oklahoma City, were Rodney Benton, '39-'40, and Robert Benton, ship to practice law with his brother, James W. married May 5 in Oklahoma City. Mr. Ray has re- '38-'40, twins from Oklahoma City, have received Pipkin, under the firm name of Pipkin and Pip- turned to the University following his discharge their discharges from the Medical Corps of the In- kin in Seminole . from the Army Air Forces . He served in England fantry and are now attending the University . William S. Inglish, '39journ, has returned to as a co-pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress and later Maj. William B. Armstrong, '40geol, Tulsa, the staff of the Muskogee Phoenix as sports editor spent 16 months as a prisoner of war of the Ger- has received his discharge from military service. after about five years' service in the Army Air mans. He holds the Distinguished Service Cross, Major Armstrong planned to resume his work as Force. the Air Medal and the Purple Heart. geologist with the Mid-Continent Petroleum Cor- Theatus E. Greeson, '39journ, a veteran of about EAKINS-STEWART : Lillian Ruth Eakins, King- poration in Tulsa. five years' service in the Army, recently joined fisher, and Montgomery Beatty Stewart, Jr., '396us, William B. Arper, Jr., '40geol, '42ms, Shreve- the public relations staff of the Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, were married in February in Okla- port, Louisiana, has received his discharge from Chamber of Commerce . homa City. Mrs. Stewart has been employed by the Army and is now working in the geological Rex V. Phelps, '39eng, is employed by the War- the First National Bank and Trust Company, Okla- department of Phillips Petroleum Company at ren Petroleum Corporation in Tulsa. homa City. Mr . Stewart was a member of Sigma Shreveport . John B. Spence, '39journ, has been named veter- Chi fraternity at the University, and has recently Ted A. Armstrong, '40journ, Okmulgee, has re- ans' service officer for the city of Pawhuska. He is received his discharge from the Army . The couple ceived his discharge as first lieutenant in the the first municipally employed official with these planned to make their home in Oklahoma City U.S.M.C.R., and is now employed by the Daily duties in the United States. He is a veteran where Mr. Stewart will be associated with the T. Oklahoman in Oklahoma City . of over- H. Rogers seas service. Lumber Company. Harry Ford, '40journ, Snyder, has received his Henry Hallock Johnson, '39bus, Tulsa, is em- WALKER-JOHNSON : Mary Jane Walker, Boise discharge from the Army and has opened a com- ployed as an accountant in the economics depart- City, and Maj. Henry Hallock Johnson, '396us, mercial photography studio at Snyder . Mr. Ford, ment of Carter Oil Company, Tulsa. Wichita, Kansas, were married February 6 in former reporter-photographer for the Altus Boise City. Times- Robert L. Lindsey, '39ba, Norman, and Edgar Mrs. Johnson attended Christian Col- Democrat, served in England with a photographic F. Hallock, '376a, Norman, are serving lege, Columbia, Missouri . Major Johnson had re- unit of the Army. in foreign cently returned from three years' service in the Paci- missionary fields . Mr. Lindsey, his wife and two fic Specialist First Class Everett L. Garner, '40journ, children, are in Jerusalem, Palestine . Dr. theater, and has been on terminal leave. The Oklahoma City, is now Hallock couple planned to make their home in Tulsa. employed by the National and his wife and children are in Brazil . Cash Register Company in Oklahoma City after WALKER-JOHNSON : Helen Wilson Walker, receiving -Herman W. Mertes, '396s, is now owner and Boise his discharge from the Coast Guard. Mr. operator of Ideal Supply City, and John C. Johnson, Jr., '38-'39, were Garner, former printing Company, Independence, married February 6 in Boise City . Mrs. Johnson salesman in Oklahoma Kansas . For the last six years he has been manager City, did public relations work for the Coast Guard for attended Christian College, Columbia, Missouri. in the, States and Panama Railroad Commissaries . Mr. Mertes Mr. Johnson was recently released was a combat correspondent belonged to Delta Tau Delta fraternity. from military aboard the USS Leonard Wood in service after spending four years in Puerto Rico the Gilbert Now connected with the Reda Pump Islands campaign. He was also combat correspon- Company, and the European theater. The couple planned to dent for the McPherson, Kansas, Maj . Nathan W. Anderson, make their home in Boise City . Normandy invasion and later cor- '39eng, Norman, respondent aboard the USS Admiral Eberle, mak- is a recently discharged service WOELBER-ROSS : Emma Gene Woelber, El ing trips man who received his majority while on terminal Paso, to New Guinea and the Philippines . Texas, and Sgt. Sam Gene Ross, '37-'39, Capt. Wayne B. Smith, leave. Oklahoma City, were married in October in El '40law, Kingfisher, was placed on terminal leave status October 4 and He holds four battle stars for the European Paso. Sergeant Ross returned from overseas where discharged was theater he served January 3. He is now serving as county including participation in the Battle of in France and Germany . The couple attorney for Kingfisher the Bulge. He was with the 259th Field Artil- planned to make their home in El Paso. County . Nathan S. Lee, '40bus, Ponca City, has been dis- lery and served with the Ninth and Third Armies . charged Prior to coming home in October, 940- from military service and has resumed his Major Anderson J. C. Grimes, '40journ, has opened a public studies at the University . was stationed at Camp Oklahoma City, Rheims, relations France, where 'office in Oklahoma City . He was public Dan Jennings, '38-'40, Edmond, and Mrs. Jen- he was assistant coach of the foot- relations director for the Oklahoma City ball team . He was overseas 15 months . Chamber nings (Julia Jane Small, '38-40) are in business in of Commerce until December 1. Edmond since Mr. Jennings received his dis- Steve M. Elam, '35-'39, has been discharged Clinton Allen Sayles, '40-'41, Ponca City, has charge from military service.

26 SOONER MAGAZINE Raymond Stephens, '40, Shawnee, has been dis- McALISTER-DIETERICH : Zelma McAlister, William E. Dougherty, Jr., '41law, Shawnee, charged from the Army and is studying at the '40nurse, Marlow, became the bride of Henry A. completed his terminal leave March 17 and has Institute of Musical Art, New York City. Dieterich, Lackawanna, New York, February H6 opened a law office in Shawnee. BROOKS-ECTON : Marian Elizabeth Brooks in Lackawanna. Mr . and Mrs. Dieterich were both John A. Ruth, '41law, Hennessey, has been dis- and Wiley Robert Ecton, '40ba, '42law, both of lieutenants in the Army until their recent discharged from the Army and has returned to his Oklahoma City, were married April 12 in Okla- charges . Mrs. Dieterich was in the Army hospital law office in Hennessey . His last duty with the homa City. Mr. Ecton is a member of Phi Gamma corps 44 months. Army was as instructor in vocational and educa- Delta fraternity at the University . He served as a FRANKLIN-CAMPBELL: Lois Evelyn Frank- tional counseling in the adjutant general's school captain in the Field Artillery for 39 months over- lin, '40ed, formerly of Norman, and Ensign Elvin at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. seas in the Pacific . He bolds the Purple Heart and Odell Campbell, '42ba, Norman, were married Lt. William Barton Morrison, '41journ, Hugo, the Bronze Star. December 31 in Washington, D. C. The couple has assumed the duties of editor of the Hugo Daily WRAY-COX : Mary Francis Wray, '40, Ada, planned to make their home in Washington . News after three and a half years in the Navy. and Alvin L. Cox, Ontario, California, were mar- Lieutenant Morrison served on an LST for 11 1941 months and was with ried Christmas Day in Ada. The couple is at home Maj. Charles W. Giffin, '36-'41, Oklahoma City, the public relations division in Los Angeles, California. for the of the Navy at Norfolk, Virginia, at the time of has been named public relations officer his discharge. SCHWARTZ-TILLMAN : Irene Bernice Sch- Crossroads project of the Army and Navy joint task wartz, '40ed, Medford, and Lt . (j.g.) Thomas Till- tests Sam P. Leeman, '41eng, Hawkins, Texas, bas married January force one, which will conduct atomic bomb been working for the Humble Oil and man, '436s, Oklahoma City, were on Bikini Island in the Marshalls . Refining H9 in the Navy yard chapel, Charleston, South Idaho, is night edi- Company at Hawkins, Texas, since receiving his studied at the University Bill J. Harris, '39-'41, Boise, discharge from the Air Corps. Carolina . Mrs. Tillman of the Idaho Statesman. of Michigan as well as at O. U. Lieutenant Tillman tor Pvt. Jack McKinney, '41, Dallas, Texas, has re- Lt. John W. Kelly, '39-'41, has been discharged ceived his discharge was associated with the Petty Engineering Com- from the Army and is now attending Oklahoma from the Army and has been pany of San Antonio, Texas, before entering the College, Stillwater. awaiting an assignment with the U. S. border service. He wears the Purple Heart for wounds re- A. and M. patrol. Capt . Kenneth Roy Short, '37-'41, Norman, has Jean L. ceived when his ship was bombed by the Japanese received his discharge from the Army and is now Pazoureck, '41law, Yukon, is now as- off Biak in Dutch New Guinea . sociated with state Senator James A. Rinehart in attending the University . his law office WELLS-JEFFRESS : The wedding of Dorris W. L. D. Thomas, '41ba, Norman, has been dis- at El Reno. Wells, Oklahoma City, to Capt. Clarence Edwin charged from military service and is enrolled in James Connor, '41ba, has been discharged from Jeffress, '40bus, Chickasha, was solemnized recent- the Navy and is now attending New York Uni- the University . versity . ly in Chickasha . Mrs. Jeffress is a graduate of Lawson A. Thomas, '41, Muleshoe, Texas, has Oklahoma College for Women. Captain Jeffress from the Army and is in school at Janice Graham Street, '38, '40-'41, has moved is a graduate of Oklahoma Military Academy, been discharged to Scarsdale, New York, where her husband is in the University . the Claremore . He entered the service in 1942 and has Dr. Wesley W. Davis, '41med, Chickasha, has importing business . just returned after having served two and one-half Lt . Shelby H. Green, Jr ., '39-'41, Tulsa, has received his discharge from military service and returned years in the European theater. has resumed his practice of medicine in Chickasha . to the University Law School following STEWART-BARTON : Jane Stewart, '40lib.sci, his discharge from military service. of Calvin LaVaugh Dr. David Paris, '41med, has been discharged Mrs. Geraldine Duncan, became the bride from military service and is practicing medicine Prickett Trenam, '41 ba, recently Barton, '40ed, Norman, in a ceremony performed returned from 29 months overseas with the W.A.C. April 7. Mrs. Barton was employed 18 in Brooklyn, New York. in the Mediterranean theater in Duncan Githen K. Rhoads, '40-'41, Geronimo, is now and has received her months by the Oklahoma Publishing Company, discharge from the service. She is making her on terminal leave from the Army and is attending home and worked for American Airlines in San Antonio, the University . in Brushton, New York, temporarily, where Texas, and Oklahoma City for two years. Mr. Mr. Trenam is a member of the New York State Artil- William Thomas Porter, '41bus, Oklahoma City, Troopers . Barton served as a major in the Army Field has been discharged from military service and is lery and spent 27 months in Italy. He won the Fred Fort Gill, '41, plans to return to the Uni- Leaf Cluster. The couple is working with real estate and investments in Okla- Bronze Star with Oak homa City. versity at the summer session after receiving his at home in Oklahoma City. J. D. Holt, '38-'41, and Mrs. Holt, (Imogene discharge from the Navy. He was in the service CLEGG-KING : Virginia Lee Clegg, Oklahoma four and a half years. Clement E. King, '38-'40, Johnson, '406s), Clovis, New Mexico, announce City, and Staff Sgt. the birth of a daughter, Judith Dee, January 23, Frank H. Spence, '41journ, Sayre, is now on Gambier, Ohio, were married November 11 in 1946 . Mr. Holt was discharged from the Army terminal leave from the Army in which he served Oklahoma City. Sergeant King saw more than two about four years, three of which were spent in member of the Air Forces after 49 months of service. He bas resumed his years' active service as a position with the Santa Fe Railway . England and Europe . He returned to the staff of in the South Pacific . He received his discharge in the Norman Transcript George Robert Sullivan, '41bus, returned to the in April. November. The couple is making a home in Ver- Lt. William N. Greene, '41law, bas been dis- where . employed with the campus in January as instructor in accounting non, Ohio, Mr King is and plans to be on the campus at least through the charged from military service and is attending the DuPont Company . summer term . graduate Law School at Michigan University. CARMEAN-RICE : Mrs . Ruthe Carmean, Day- Franklin W. Harris, '39-'41, Norman, has been ton, Ohio, became the bride of Chief Petty Officer Lt. (j .g.) James Watkins Mayfield, '39-'41, Nor- discharged from military service and is working William Locke Rice, '38-'40, Oklahoma City, man, plans to open a dentist office in the First Na- in the electrical department at the University . February 14 in Norman . tional Bank building in Norman . He received his Capt. Emery M. Craighead, '41, discharge from the Navy in March . has been dis- Marjorie Hoffman, '40, Parsons, Kansas, has ar- charged from the Army and is attending the Uni- rived in the Philippines to Raymond W. Lowe, '41eng ; former captain in versity of Oklahoma . serve the armed forces as an the Army, has accepted a job with the DuPont Mary Beth Hess, '41fa, Fort Scott, Kansas, has American Red Cross staff Company in the nylon division in Martinsville, been sent to the Southwest Pacific area to serve assistant . Until her Red Virginia . He received his discharge January 23 . the armed forces as an American Red Cross staff Cross appointment, Miss First Lt. Harold Wood, '41, Norman, now on assistant . Until her Red Cross appointment, Miss Hoffman was employed at terminal leave from the Army Air Forces, is now Hess was an illustrator for Boeing Airplane Com- the U. S. Naval Air Station, with the Norman fire department . Lieutenant pany, Wichita, Kansas . Alameda, California, and Wood received a letter of appreciation from Gen . STITH-BROOKS : Edelle Stith, '40-'41, Fair- previously by Butler Broth- H. A. Arnold, commanding general of the Army fax, and Capt. Richard Seals Brooks, Montgomery, ers, San Francisco. Prior to Air Forces . Alabama, were married September H8 in Fairfax . this, she taught in Pryor Capt. James R. Kennedy, '41med, one of the Mrs. Brooks had been employed as society editor High School . five Kennedy boys from Purcell who attended the of the Ponca City News, Ponca City. Captain Brooks C. R. Richardson, '40, University, is now serving with the Medical Corps had been stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Noble, recently suffered of the Second Army Air Force in Colorado Springs, PAPALIA-TUCKER : Rosemary Papalia, New mild concussion, several Colorado. The other four Kennedy boys are Louis Orleans, Louisiana, and Johnny Tucker, '38-'41, MARJORIE HOFFMAN lacerations about the face J. Kennedy, '36med, former lieutenant colonel Oklahoma City, were married recently and have and cuts on his right leg who bas been discharged ; John E. Kennedy, established a home when his car turned over '30, in Oklahoma City. Mr. Tucker south of Norman. Mr. now a druggist in Purcell ; Paul B. Kennedy, '256a, served in the U. S. Coast Guard for three years. He Richardson was a second lieutenant in the Army a druggist in Medford, and E. L. Kennedy, '18-'19, attended the National School of Dancing Masters Air Corps and is a veteran of nine missions over who is a druggist in Hennessey. in New York Germany . City, and Chicago, Illinois, and is Fred C. Stalder, '38-'41, and Mrs . Stalder are co-owner of the John-Lee dance studios in Okla- C. W. (Custer), '40law, and Mrs. Sandlin are the parents of a daughter, Claudia Ann, who was homa City . now living at 1409 East Park, Oklahoma City. He born February 13, 1946 . Mr. Stalder recently ZEISS-McCAMPBELL is in government legal re- : Rachel Zeiss, Lincoln, employment. ceived his discharge from the Army after five years Nebraska, and Capt . Basil D. McCampbell, '41eng, Mr. Lawrence Peters, '27fa, and Mrs. Mary Faye of active duty with the Air Corps. Mr. and Mrs . Oklahoma City, were married March 20 in Okla- (Ensey) Peters now reside in Hobart, Oklahoma. Stalder are making their home in San Diego, Cali- homa City . Captain McCampbell was president of Mr. Peters is director of Hobart High School music. fornia. Scabbard and Blade and was an officer in Kappa

MAY, 1946 27 Alpha fraternity . He was a member of the Uni- versity polo team . TAYLOR-McLEAN: Mary Ann Taylor, Ard- more, and Carl Thomas McLean, '39-'41, also of UNIVERSITY Ardmore, were married February 26 in Ardmore. OF OKLAHOMA Mr . McLean recently was discharged from the Marine Corps with the rank of captain after 23 DEPARTMENT months of service in the South Pacific. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clusters. OF GASSAWAY-KNECHT: Clarice Gassaway, Po- teau, became the bride of Gilbert Knecht, '38-'41, Heavener, March 8 in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Knecht ATHLETICS is employed in the state department of public welfare in Oklahoma City . Mr . Knecht has returned to the University to complete his work for a degree. The couple is at home in Oklahoma City . WILLIAMS-HAMILTON : Betty Williams, '41 mus.ed, Hobart, became the bride of John Eric Hamilton, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 26 . Mrs. Hamilton Winning 17 of 20. games, Coach Jack Baer's University of Oklahoma baseball team has been employed by American Air- lines for three years prior to her marriage . finished its 1946 season with a higher won-and-lost percentage than any Sooner club of VANCE-HURST: Betty Anne Vance, '39-'41, became the bride of Capt. Edwin Scott Hurst, '4064, the last 22 years. '42law, in Oklahoma City December 21 . Mrs. Hurst is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Captain Hurst was on terminal leave following Composed largely of discharged war veterans, the 1946 Sooners swept their Texas 43 months with the Infantry. He is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. trip against Texas, Texas Christian and Baylor . The Sooners won five of six Big Six RENNIE-WAXLAX: The marriage vows of Peggy Rennie, '41ed, Pauls Valley, and Lt. C. E. games and barring a strong finish by Kansas, will win the Big Six flag . The season's Waxlax, Minneapolis, Minnesota, were solemnized March 22 in Pauls Valley. Mrs. Waxlax was re- percentage mark of .850 is all the more remarkable when one considers Oklahoma met cently discharged from the Navy, where she held the rank of lieutenant, junior grade. Prior to en- the best clubs in the Southwest, Big Six and Missouri Valley leagues. tering the service she was employed with the land department of Carter. Oil Company in Tulsa. Ace of the Norman Baers was Center-fielder Malt Mitchell of Cloud Chief who hit KITCHEL-STONE: Nelle Skirvin Kitchel, '4'1 bus, Ada, and John Thacker Stone, '37-'41, Okla- a phenomenal .507 over the 20-game span . Some fine hitters have played for Oklahoma homa City, were married March 9 in Ada. Mr. Stone received his discharge from the Army in since the founding of baseball here in 1892 but there is no record of any Sooner batsman January. SIMMS-CLARK :' Nuptial vows were read for ever before hitting .507 for the year . Kathrine Esther Simms, Hazelhurst, Mississippi, and Dr . LeMon Clark III, '40-'41, Oklahoma City, April 2 in Oklahoma City. Dr. Clark was a mem- Back in 1925 Coach Bill Owen's Sooners won 10 of 11 games for a percentage of .909, ber of Delta Upsilon fraternity . He received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee losing a single game to the Oklahoma Aggies when Hayman pitched and batted the and served his internship at Bethesda hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr . Clark will report to'Oakland, Stillwaters to a 4-2 tenth-inning triumph. That Sooner club had a great battery with California, where he is to report to the Navy hospital and receive a commission as a lieutenant. pitchers Hall Snodgrass and Norde 'Hunter throwing to Joe "Skunk" Mayes, finest SMITH-COATS : Benny Lee Smith, '41ed, Sooner catcher of modern times. Ryan, and Lt . Col. Wendell J. Coats, Sterling, Colorado, were married February 24 in the Old Post Chapel, Fort Sill . Colonel Coats is a graduate Back in 1915 Bennie Owen developed a Sooner baseball team that won 17 of 21 games of the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York . The couple is at home in Deavenworth, and finished, .809 . It beat a strong Chinese University team from Honolulu, and won Kansas. HUSBAND-FROEBER: Marjorie Husband, '41 three of four from the Oklahoma Aggies . Some of its players were Felt, a fine catcher ; ba, Hollis, and Lt. Col. Robert Jones Froeber, Wins- ton-Salem, North Carolina, were married Decem- Shortstop Neil Johnson, Raybourn Smiser, Billie Clark, Norman Brillhart, Price and ber 16 in Hollis . Mrs. Froeber was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority at the University . Colonel Elmer Ponder, a pitcher who later went to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Froeber had returned from the Pacific theater of operations where he had spent three years. The couple planned to establish their home in Only known all-victorious Oklahoma team was Owen's outfit of 1909 that won Wins- all ton-Salem. 13 collegiate games CLONTS-SAWALLIS on its slate, but lost twice each to Oklahoma City of the Texas League : Nancy Eleanor Clonts, '41ed, Muskogee, and Capt. Robert Funston Sa- and Enid of the Western Association. Some of its players were First-sacker Ed Fleming, wallis, Lime Rock, Connecticut, were married October 19 in Muskogee . Mrs. Sawallis was a Catcher Dick Conkling, and Pitcher Frank Buttram. It built some fantastic scores, beat- member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority at the Univer- sity . Captain Sawallis has recently returned from ing Southwestern 30-4, Oklahoma Aggies 18-1, Henry Kendall 15-0 and Christian Uni- overseas where he served in Italy. BRITAIN-BOWLES : Rachel versity 23-8. Britain, '41bus, Shawnee, and James E. Bowles, Shawnee, were married December 1 . Mrs. Bowles was a member of Chi Omega sorority at the University, and has been employed by the Federal National Bank in Shawnee. Mr. Bowles has received his discharge from military service. The couple planned to make their home in Shawnee. GOSSAGE-ALLEN: Mary Ellen Gossage, '41bus, Kansas City, Missouri, and William Martin Allen, '39-'41, Oklahoma City, were married December 29 in Kansas City, Missouri . Mr. Allen has rc-

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ceived his discharge from the Army after serving overseas more than three years. The couple planned to make their home in Oklahoma City. WELLS-JEFFRESS : Dorris W. Wells, Oklaho- ina City, and Capt . Clarence E. Jeffress, '38-'41, Chickasha, were married February 16 in Chicka- sha. Captain Jeffress has just returned after two and one-half years in the European theater of operations. He wilt return to Germany where Mrs. Jeffress will join him later. GUENTHER-BERRY: Mrs. Lelah Maymbby Guenther, '40-'41, Oklahoma City, . and James . . . William Berry, Oklahoma City, were married plenty of seats, novel February 14 in Lebanon, Tennessee . Mrs. Berry was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority at the University . Mr. Berry had recently received his release from the Army after serving as pilot on a B-24 with the Eighth Air Force in England . The couple planned to make their home in Lebanon where Mr. Berry is attending Cumberland Uni- versity.

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