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Echoes from the Hill Issue 1 Fall 1981 Echoes from the Hill Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office ofns I titutional Advancement and Alumni Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/echoes Recommended Citation Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni (1981) "Echoes from the Hill," Echoes from the Hill: Vol. 66 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/echoes/vol66/iss2/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Magazines at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Echoes from the Hill by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 3 ALUMNI NAMED TO HONORS Millie Thomas, former registrar Distinguished Alumni Hall of scheduled at halftime of the 2:00 and known as “Ms. Southwest Fame. p.m. Homecoming Football ern;” Harry Mabry, well-known The three honorees will be re Game. attorney, poet, and musician, and cognized Saturday, October 10, at Dr. Leonard Campbell, SWOSU Joe Schwemin, Executive Secre the Southwestern Alumni Associ president, will present each a tary for the Oklahoma State Board ation Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. in bronze plaque mounted on wal of Pharmacy have been elected to the Memorial Student Center nut. The plaques read in part: the Southwestern State University Ballroom, with formal induction “Presented with pride for achievement of eminence in his chosen field of endeavor and for notable contributions to his com Echoes from The Hill munity and to his nation.” Southwestern State University Alumni Newsletter Color portraits of the honorees will be hung in the Distinguished Volume 66, Number 2 • Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096 Sept 1981 Alumni Hall of Fame located in the AI Harris Library Southwest ern Room. MILLIE THOMAS Millie Thomas, originally from Homecoming Activities Arapaho, Oklahoma, came to Southwestern as a freshman in Theme: 1921, received her Life Teaching Certificate, and from there worked "Oklahoma in The Space Age" as a teacher and assistant county FRIDA Y, OCTOBER 9 superintendent. Homecoming Assembly....................... 11 a.m In 1928, Mrs. Thomas returned Gymnasium to Southwestern and in 1930 after graduation, took a job in the reg Homecoming Queen Coronation....................11 a.m istrar’s office. She became regis Gymnasium trar in 1940, where she remained Southwestern Room Open House.............. 1:30-5 p.m until her retirement in 1966. Al Harris Library Mrs. Thomas has remained ac Southwestern Jazz Band Concert.................... 3 p.m tive since her retirement, working West of Memorial Student Center for such organizations as the Pi Kappa Alpha and Beta Tau Beta Meeting .. 5 p.m Western Plains Library Board, T-Bone Restaurant Senior Citizen's Club, Former 1940 Class Reunion....................................7 p.m Students Association, United 1940 Reception Mixer............................. 8:30 p.m Fund Drive, American Associa tion of University Women, Kappa Mark Restaurant HARRY C. MABRY Kappa Iota, and the Federated Drama Production, “All Over Town ”.........8 p.m Church. She has also served as Auditorium Oklahoma State Director of the National Retired Teacher’s Asso SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 ciation and the off-campus spon Home Economics Alumni Coffee...................8-9 a.m. sor of the Southwestern State In Home Economics Department ternational Student Association, Social Sciences Former Students Reception. .8-10 a.m. which she helped create in 1963. First National Bank Community Room A large number of SWOSU School of Business Alumni Coffee/Reception..9 a.m. alumni have said, “I would never have finished my education if it Arts and Science Room 207 hadn’t been for the help and guid Homecoming Parade...............................9:30 a.m. ance of Millie Thomas. ” Downtown Weatherford During her tenure at South SWOSU Alumni Association Luncheon ... 11:30 a.m. western, Mrs. Thomas worked for Memorial Student Center Ballroom seven presidents and between Band Directors Luncheon................. 11:30 a.m. 1928, when she began as a stu Memorial Student Center Skyview Room-Sponsored dent worker, and 1940 when she by the Weatherford Chamber of Commerce became registrar, she worked for Pre-Game Ceremonies............................ 1:45 p.m. Homecoming Football Game....... ............2 p.m. JOE SCHWEMIN [Continued on Page 2] Southwestern vs. Eastern New Mexico, Milam Stadium ADDRESS BOX' Association of Physics Alumni Meeting .. After Game Southwestern State University Chemistry-Pharmacy-Physics, Room 203 Alumni Newsletter School of Pharmacy Open House........After Game Pi Kappa Alpha and Beta Tau Beta Dinner/Dance............After Game T-Bone Restaurant Pharmacy Alumni Association Dinner..... 6:30 p.m. T-Bone Restaurant Homecoming Dance................................... 9 p.m. Memorial Student Center Ballroom Drama Production, “All Over Town ”................8 p.m. Auditorium Page 2 Echoes from The Hill September 1981 will also set up booths in both Composers of Music in Mexico. Quail Springs and Crossroads In 1956, Mabry began the Malls in Oklahoma City. This year Mabry Forensic Award which will also see Southwestern repre goes to the outstanding Forensic sented at the State Fair and State Student at Southwestern State. Teacher’s Meeting. The winner each year gets his/her The Public Relations office is name added to a Forensic Plaque interested in setting up alumni that hangs in the President’s Con chapters in different areas. Ama ference Room. rillo, Tex., will have its first Joe Schwemin graduated from Alumni Meeting September 21 at Southwestern State University in the First National Bank of Ama 1948 with a degree in Pharmacy rillo. and was president of Beta Tau Amarillo will also be the site of Beta fraternity. He owned and op the Tri-State Fair parade, which erated his own drug stores and will be held on September 21. several non-drug businesses for “Brandy,” the Southwestern 25 years. State mascot, will appear in that He received the Outstanding spectacle. Contributor to Pharmacy Award Southwestern State’s Office of in 1971; Special Recognition Public Relations urges all alumni Award in 1974 from the School of Help Us Sell Southwestern and interested friends who want Pharmacy at SWOSU. He is also a “Taking Southwestern to the The Assistant Director, Charles to help promote, recruit or sell member of the SWOSU Alumni Public” is both the philosophy “Bud” Elder, is originally from Southwestern to contact our of Foundation. He received the Pres and practice of the Public Rela Purcell, Okla., and is a 1981 grad fice. The office also urges alumni tigious Pharmacy Award “Bowl tions office at Southwestern State. uate of the University of Okla to fill out the form located in of Hygeia” in 1962, presented by This summer has seen a new staff homa with a degree in journalism. Echoes and return it. Four edi the National Association of Retail enter the office which is now lo Shirley Cole, who is the office sec tions of the newsletter are sched Druggists. He has been a member cated in Oklahoma Hall on camp retary, is a graduate of Texhoma uled for this year. of the Oklahoma Pharmaceutical us but will soon move into the High School and has her bache Association since 1948 and served Administration Building. as president in 1961-62. He has lor’s degree in business adminis Alumni Honored been a member of the National Otis Sanders has been named tration from Panhandle State. [Continued from Page 1] Association of Boards of Pharm Director of Public Relations. The Public Relations office has three registrars. acy since 1964 and served as pre Sanders was the first Director of started the school year off with a Mrs. Thomas was quoted as sident in 1973-74. He is also a Public Relations at Panhandle bang. They have already taken in saying in 1974, “I guess I'm hap member of the American Pharma State University in Goodwell and formational booths to Amarillo, pier when I’m busy, maybe one of ceutical Association and served as is a graduate of Elk City High Tex., where they participated in a these days I’ll really retire.” Ap president of the Midwest Drug School, has a BS from Panhandle “Bach to School” promotion, and parently, Mrs. Thomas has not Conference in 1963. and a master's from Oklahoma the Washita, Jackson, Kiowa and followed her own advice, in that Joe is chairman of the Control University. Custer County Fairs. The office she is still very active. led Dangerous Substances-Diver- sion Investigation Unit for the Harry C. Mabry is a 1916 grad State of Oklahoma Policy Board. uate of then Southwestern State He is a member of the Board of Echoes from The Hill College before receiving both his Directors of the Bureau of Narcot L.L.B. and J.D. from Yale Uni ics and Dangerous Drugs; a mem Southwestern Oklahoma versity. ber of several drug committees Mabry, whose motto is “Faith for the State Board of Health, De State University ful Work and Fervent Prayer,” partment of Mental Health, and Weatherford, Oklahoma has been named to both the Department of Public Safety. “Who’s Who in America” and He is a member of the Gover Dr. Leonard Campbell...............................President “Who’s Who in the World.” nors Mini-Cabinet; representative Mr. Mabry’s speeches have to several National Associations Otis J. Sanders, Jr............. Director of Public Relations garnered national attention, ap of Board of Pharmacy, and chair pearing in Vital Speeches of the man of the American Association Southwestern Alumni Association Officers Day. He has spoken at the South of Colleges of Pharmacy for Bill Brogden, Oklahoma City.......................President western State Awards Assembly District 6. Vida Gay Haney, Weatherford............... President-Elect in 1964 as well as its commence Besides his professional contri Joe Battles, Seminole........................