Echoes from the Hill Issue 1 Fall 1983 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 (1983) "Echoes from the Hill," Echoes from the Hill: Vol. 67 : Iss. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/echoes/vol67/iss3/1 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]. Echoes from The Hill Distinguished Alumni Southwestern State University Alumni Newsletter Volume 67, Number 3 Weatherford, Oklahoma 73096 October 1983 Induction at Game Three outstanding alumni of Southwestern Oklahoma State University will be inducted in the Homecoming Activities Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. They are: Margaret Renz Theme: Replogle, M. A. Diel, and “Southwestern Homecoming Fiesta” Frances Avritt Curb. The three honorees will be re­ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 cognized Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Homecoming Assembly and Queen Coronation.. .11 a.m. Southwestern Alumni Luncheon Gymnasium at 11:30 a.m. in the Student Union 1933 Southwestern Football Team Reunion........7 p.m. Ballroom, with formal inductions Mark Restaurant scheduled at halftime of the 2 p.m. Homecoming football game. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 Dr. Leonard Campbell, South­ Home Economics Alumni Coffee.................8-9 a.m. western Oklahoma State Univer­ Home Economics Department, Room S214 sity president, will present each a Class Reunions.................................... 9-11 a.m. MARGARET RENZ REPLOGLE bronze plaque mounted on 1933 - President's Conference Room walnut. The plaques read in part: 1958 - Regent's Room, Student Union “Presented with pride for 1973 - Library Auditorium achievement of eminence in his/ Psychology Alumni Coffee................................. 9 a.m. her community and to his/her Psychology Building-Adjacent to H & PE Building nation.” Homecoming Parade....................................9:30 a.m. A color portrait of the honorees Downtown Weatherford will be hung in the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame located at Pi Kappa Alpha and Beta Tau Beta.... Hutto’s Downtown the A1 Harris Library in the South­ Before and during parade—Contact Tom Nabors, 772-6224 western Room. Division of Nursing Alumni Brunch........11 a.m.-l p.m. Tables will be reserved for the Department of Nursing classes of 1933, 1958, 1973, and BSU Brunch and Open House.............................11 a.m. the 1933 football team. South­ BSU Center western alumni blankets will be SWOSU Alumni Association Luncheon.............. 11:30 a.m. presented to the alumni that Distinguished Alumni Presentations traveled the furthest distance, and alumnmi that had the most child­ Recognition of 1933, 1958 and 1973 Classes M. A. DIEL ren to graduate from SWOSU, and the oldest alumni. Student Union Ballroom Distinguished Alumni Hall of (Tickets sold at door - $5.00 each) Fame member, Margaret Renz Band Directors Luncheon..............................11:30 a.m. Replogle, was born in Odessa, Memorial Student Center Skyview Room Russia, where her father was Indo Sponsored by Weatherford Chamber of Commerce European telegrapher. When she Alumni Band Rehearsal............................... 11:30 a.m. was only a small child, her Milam Stadium parents, Jacob and Marie Renz, Pharmacy Pre-Game Snacks.............................. 12 noon decided to leave the wealth and Pharmacy Building - Third Floor prosperity of their heritage and I Alumni Band Luncheon............................... 12:15 p.m. move their young family of six Band Room away from Russia’s increasing I Pre-Game Ceremonies..................................1:45 p.m. turmoil and impending bloody re­ Milam Stadium volution. On Aug. 15, 1911, they I Homecoming Football Game...............................2 p.m. boarded the passenger ship Southwestern vs. Northeastern Hanover for the 22-day trip to the I Southwestern Room Open House. After game until 6 p.m. United States. I Pharmacy Open House.............. .............4:30 p.m. FRANCES AVRITT CURB (Continued on Page 2) Pharmacy Building - Third Floor I School of Business Alumni Reception.........4:30-7 p.m. ADDRESS BOX Security State Bank Community Room I Physics Alumni Reception.................After the Game Southwestern State University Physics Building - Room 103 Alumni Newsletter I Biology Alumni Barbeque. Sponsored by Biology Faculty FORM 3579 ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED 508 N. Bradley - Call 772-6611, Ext. 4302 I BSU Banquet...............................................5 p.m. First Baptist Church, Family Life Center I Pharmacy Alumni Dinner..............................6:30 p.m. Home of Dr. H. F. Timmons, 1601 E. Davis Rd. Kappa Psi Fraternity Party................................ 8 p.m. Homecoming Dance........................................9 p.m. Memorial Student Center Ballroom Page 2 Echoes from The Hill October 1983 She later accepted a position as Replogle Scholarship. ern where he lettered in basket­ Distinguished Alumni a laboratory technician in the Uni­ The Replogle Chapel at the ball, and served for a time as (Continued from Page 1) versity of Oklahoma Medical First Christian Church in Okla­ postmaster of Weatherford. He School Histology and Embryology homa City was funded in the now lives in Torrance, Calif. After visting with relatives for Department, and still later be­ amount of $35,000.00 by Mrs. Other members of her family several weeks in Hillsboro, Kan., came an X-ray technician in the Replogle in 1978. are two brothers-Reverend F. J. the Renz family settled on farm­ Balyeat Hayfever and Asthma In 1982, Margaret presented Renz, Coronado, Calif., and Ri­ land at Weatherford. Mrs. Re­ Clinic in Oklahoma City where she Deaconess Hospital a gift for chard Renz, New Smyrna Beach, plogle remembers well the hours met her future husband, Dakotah $100,000.00 earmarked for equip­ Fla. Her sisters are Mrs. Walter she spent helping bale hay, chop Replogle. They were married in ment and furnishings for the hos­ (Emma) Kaiser, Santa Fe, N.M.; com, milk cows, and wash the 1944. pital’s center for newborn infants. Miss Peggy Renz, Tulsa, Okla.; family laundry on scrub boards. Since the loss of Mr. Replogle The gift was one of the largest in Mrs. Ben (Adelia) Kissler, Den­ Determined and intensely in­ in 1957, Margaret has kept an ac­ the hospital’s history. The center ver, Colo., and Elinor Anderson, terested in acquiring an educa­ tive volunteer involvement with a has been named the Margaret R. who died from an accidental tion, she worked for the Ben Kra­ number of organizations. Replogle Neonatology Center. drowning. mer’s for her room and board In 1975, Mrs. Replogle made a Mrs. Replogle was involved in M. A. Diel, a lifetime supporter while attending high school and $38,400.00 contribution to South­ the organization of the Ladies Ad­ of Southwestern Oklahoma State college. Upon receiving her covet­ western Oklahoma State Univer­ visory Board of the Deaconess University, was bom in Hitchcock ed bachelor of science degree, she sity for the purpose of establish­ Home and served three terms as and graduated from high school began teaching school in Erick. ing a permanent scholarship fund president. She also was active in there in 1932. He received both and named the Margaret Renz planning the new home which was his B.A. degree in 1936 and his completed in 1971. She served on master’s degree in 1958 from the executive committee and co­ Southwestern. He spent one year Echoes from The Hill chaired the fund drive for the as elementary principal at home, contributing $40,000.00 to­ Watonga before going to Cyril in Southwestern Oklahoma ward its construction. a similar capacity for four years. The Margaret R. Replogle En­ From 1941 to 1946 he was em­ State University dowed Chair in Religion was es­ ployed as an accountant in Cali­ Weatherford, OK 73096 tablished at Oklahoma City Uni­ fornia, and he returned to Okla­ versity through the generous gift homa and operated a hardware Dr. Leonard Campbell....................................President of $250,000.00 in memory of her and implement business firm of Otis J. Sanders, Jr....................Director of Public Relations late husband, D. Replogle. She Lorenz and Sons and Lorenz and SOUTHWESTERN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS received an honorary doctor’s de­ Diel. Lucille Patton, Edmond..................................President gree from OCU at the commence­ He was named principal of John Beech, Clinton............................... President-Elect ment ceremonies in 1982. She also Southwest Elementary School in Millie Thomas, Weatherford............................Treasurer endowed $200,000.00 for music Clinton in 1956 through 1964, Mark Mouse, Weatherford...............................Secretary scholarships at OCU in 1965 and when he accepted the position of Joe Battles, Seminole...............................Past-President 1967. superintendent of the Com Public She serves on the Board of Di­ Schools. He resigned at Com BOARD OF DIRECTORS rectors and the Executive Board when he was appointed registrar of the Salvation Army and Wo­ at Southwestern, a position he Arch Alexander.......................................... Stillwater men’s Auxiliary. She donated held from 1966-68. He accepted