Calling the-1899-

50th Class ReunionJune 5, 1949

-1904-45th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949

1909-40th Class Reunion

June 5,1949Elva McFerron Gittinger, '09bm, ' 12ba, is spe-

cializing in the teaching of reading in the Kendallschool of Tulsa. She received her Master's Degreefrom Columbia University in 1943 .

_1910-Laura J . Mauk, l0ba (Kingfisher), is now teach-

ing in the Japan Biblical Seminary in Tokyo. Shewas interned in Tokyo for four years during thewar while she was teaching in a Bible school inTokyo. She is a missionary of the EvangelicalUnited Brethren Church .

-1912-Carl Brown, '10-'12, is making his home in Ar-

lington, Virginia, since his retirement four yearsago from the American Legion .

-1914-35th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949Paul R. Mills, '14Ph.C ., is president and general

manager of the Cameo, Inc., in Houston, Texas.He has been a partner in the firm for the past twoyears. Mills claims the distinction of having gradu-ated from the Wetumka High School in 1913 andreceived a pharmacy degree from the Universityone year later in 1914 .

Fred J. Hansen, '141-aw, and Mrs. Hansen, theformer Charmian Elizabeth Simpson, '146a, '20ma,are making their home in Oklahoma City whereHansen is employed as the first assistant attorneygeneral of Oklahoma . Ile is a member of SigmaAlpha Epsilon Fraternity and Mrs. Hansen is amember of Delta Delta Delta Sorority . Three ofthe Hansen children are attending the University .They are Richard F., Daniel George, and Rosa-mond Ruth Liggett . Another son, David John,is at home.

-1916-Since 1920, Walter S. Carper, '166a, has been

in the real estate, loan and insurance business . Atpresent he is living in Cleburne, Texas.

~1917William Ross Gahring, '17Ph.G, '23ba, '24ma,

has been employed as owner and geologist withthe Ross Oil Company of Shawnee for the past15 years. Prior to that time, he worked as dis-trict geologist for Marland Oil Company andContinental Oil Company. He is an alumni ofSigma Chi Fraternity .

_19191-30th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949Dr . Allison Roy Hancock, '19med, is now in

charge of a hospital in Gladewater, Texas.Margaret Maude Forbes, '196m, Norman, is

teaching in the fourth grade on the Crow IndianReservation in Montana.

NOVEMBER, 1948

Roll of Sooner ClassesFor the past 11 years James Miller Armstrong,

' 196a, has been a partner in the oil firm of Yeagerand Armstrong, Midland, Texas. Previously he hadbeen a geologist with the Prairie Oil and GasCompany.

Alta Bellrnon Blakely, '196a, has been teachinghome economics in the Broken Arrow High Schoolfor the past eight years.

Morris L. Wardell, '19ba, David Ross Boydprofessor of history at the University, has been as-sociated with the history department for the past14 years. Dr. Wardell, started his teaching careerin 1912 at Geary High School . In 1914 he wasan instructor at the Panhandle Agriculture Insti-tution, Goodwell ; 1915, he was principal of Guy-nion High School ; 1919, principal Pawhuska HighSchool, and in 1922 he was a teacher at CentralHigh School in Tulsa. Dr . Wardell received hisMaster's degree from Harvard University in 1922and his Doctor's Degree in 1930 frorn the Univer-sity of Chicago. He was one of six selected by theCarnegie Corporation in 1939-40, to study prob-lems in higher education in the U. S. and abroad .Ile was listed in Who's Who in America, Directoryof American Scholars, Leaders in Education, andWho's Who in American Education . Dr . Wardellis active in historical societies and associations inthe nation, Oklahoma and the southwest.

~1920Eloise Reid Thompson, '20ba, has a collection

of approximately 1,500 pictures of wild flowerswhich she has painted . The collection has beenon exhibition many times during the past fewyears.

Dr . Jesse Goldfedcr, '206a, '226s, '24med, is aneye, ear, nose and throat specialist in Tyler, Texas.

~1921'--Ted M. Beaird, '21ba, executive secretary-man-

ager of the University of Oklahoma Association,has been appointed by Governor Roy J . Turner aschairman of the Committee on Driver Licensingfor the Highway Safety Conference to be heldDecember 13 and 14 in Oklahoma City . The Com-mittee has as its primary duty the exploration ofpresent operations and contributions that driverlicensing is making to traffic safety . It will developways and means of improving examinations, con-trolling the negligent driver with a bad record, andencouraging the reporting and use of traffic con-victions to the drivers license division .

Chester L. Armstrong, '21Law, was elected presi-(lent of the Kay County Bar Association at a meet-ing September 10 in Ponca City .Rev. John K. Montgomery, 216a, is now resid-

ing at Natick, Massachusetts, where he is pastorof the Fisk Memorial Methodist Church . He servesthe New England Conference as chairman of thecommittee on accepted supply pastors and as amember of the Board of Ministerial Training.

-1922-L. E. "Jap" Haskell, '22geol, has been appointed

assistant general agent for Tulsa and eastern Okla-homa for the Aetna Life Insurance Company.

Byron R. Gayman, 226s, 24med, has been prac-ticing medicine and surgery in Muskogee since1931 .Robert M. Bass, 22, former varsity football play-

er at the University, is in the contracting busi-ness in Kilgore, Texas.

John Stanley Callahan, 22bs, '24med, is a prac-ticing physician in Wilburton. Dr . Callahan is amember of Phi Beta Pi, medical fraternity, andPhi Delta Theta Social Fraternity.

-1923-Col. C. Guy Brown, '23ba, is executive officer of

the IX Air Service Area Command with head-quarters at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City .

Tully Nettleton, '23journ, is the author of aseries of ten articles entitled "Church, State, andSchool" which appeared last April in the ChristianScience Monitor. The articles are being reprinted inbooklet form by the Beacon Press, Boston, Massa-chusetts, the publishing agency of the AmericanUnitarian Association.

Lynn Riggs, '23, is author of a new play Ferdi-g;is Primitive, which began production August 3at Ridgefield, Connecticut. Formerly of Claremore,Riggs wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, play uponwhich Oklahoma! was based. The new play is laidin Oklahoma in 1910, deriving its name from theVerdigris River.

Daniel Freeman Stough, '23ba, '246s, '27med, ispracticing medicine in Geary, Dr . Stough is a mem-ber of Acacia Fraternity .

Cassie Martin Shoemaker, '23ba, '27h .ec, is mak-ing her home in Oklahoma City where her hus-band, Harold Adam Shoemaker, is a professor ofpharmacologv at the University School of Medi-cine .

W. 1" . SOC%LER

~1924-25th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949

Marguerite Giezentanncr, '24ba, has been em-ployed as a librarian with the Quarrie Corporationin Chicago, since 1944 . She is a member of PhiMu, Mortar Board, and was winner of the LetzeiserAward.For the past 20 years, William Ferguson Sockler,

'24ph.g, has been a retaildruggist and partner in theRexallDrug store atGarber .Previously he had been em-ployed as a pharmacistwith the Walton Drugstore in Kingfisher, theCourtney DrugCompany inLamont, and the VinsonDrug Company in Clare-more . At the University,Sockler was a member ofKappa Psi and the Apothe-cary Club . Mr . and Mrs.Sockler have two sons who

are attending the University, Charles William andDavid Lee. Another son, James Allan, is a juniorin high school and plans to enter O.U . after hisgraduation .

Ruth Stanford, '24ed, '36m .ed, has been princi-pal of the elementary school in Pryor for the pastI1 years .Helen Columbia Beauchamp, '24ba, is the chief

social worker at the Veterans Administration Hos-pital in Brecksville, Ohio . She has held the positionfor the past three years.

Forrest LeRoy Stratton, '24bs, '26med, has beenpracticing medicine for the past 22 years. At pres-ent he is making his home in Kilgore, Texas.

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Claude Carson Smith, '24ma, has been a profes-sor of history and political science at the Universityof Nevada, Reno, since 1929 .Herman Birchard Stinson, '24bus, has been di-

vision auditor for the Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany in St . Louis, Missouri, for the past sixyears. Mrs. Stinson is the former Eva Burke, '24 .

For the past four years, Harold Monroe Thorne,'24eng, has been workingas engineer in charge of oilshale research and develop-ment at the petroleum andoil shale experiment stationof the United States Bureauof Mines in Laramie, Wy-oming. Previously he spent14 years as refinery engi-neer in charge of refiningand chemical research inLararnie . At the University,Thorne was a member of

II . M. TtlortNr.

Alpha Chi Sigma, SigmaTau, Scabbard and Blade

and was a student assistant in the chemistry de-partment. Ile is a member of the American Chemi-cal Society, American Petroleum Institute, and Sig-ma Xi .

For the past year and one-half L. Leola Cooper,'24h .ec, has been a specialist in borne managementat New York State College of Home Economics,Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. She re-ceived her Master's Degree from the University ofChicago in 1928 and was then employed as aninstructor in the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Voca-tional School .

Belsur Bristow, '24eng, Chicago, Illinois, is em-ployed as an engineer maintenance of way for theC.R .I . and P.R .R . in Chicago.

George 'I'. Crause, '24bs, Charleston, West Vir-ginia, is employed as district geologist for the Ap-palachian Area of the Texas Company. He has heldthe position for the past five and one-half years. AtO.U . he was a member of Sigma Tau and SigmaGamma Epsilon .

John James Fleet, '24Ph.G, is president of theFleet Drilling and Producing Company in Dallas,Texas. While attending the University he was amember of Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Psi, MysticKeys and Alpha Sigma Phi.

Albert H . Richards, '24geol, has held the posi-tion of district geologist with the Anderson-Prich-artl Oil Corporation in Oklahoma City for the pastfive years. Previously he had been an independentconsulting geologist . He is a member of KappaSigma Fraternity and Sigma Gamtna Epsilon.

Dr . Joel Scott Price, '24Ph.G, '266s, '28tned,Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Price have selected thename William Scott for their son born October 5.Parke R. Ruark, '24Law, is assistant field director

for the American National Red Cross in OklahomaCity . He has held the position in the claims depart-ment for the past four years.

Althea Anderson Reynolds, '24h .ec, is makingher home in Oklahoma City, where her husband,Lee Cass Reynolds, '18, is employed at TinkerField. In 1946 and 1947 Mrs. Reynolds taught bi-

ology in the Oklahoma City school system.

-1926-Frances Smith Catron, '266a, Ponca City, re-

cently took a Clipper Cruise through Central andSouth America, leaving from New Orleans, Louisi-ana, and returning to Miami, Florida . From thereshe took a boat trip to Cuba and back up the coastof Florida.Ruby Wooten Blalock, '266a, is employed as

vice-president of the National Council of CampFire Girls, Inc., in Marshall, Texas.

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Charles A . Recd, '266a, '29tns, '48Ph.I), specialinstructor in the department of physics for twoyears, recently accepted an associate professorshipin physics at Clemson State College, an agriculturalengineering school in Clemson, South Carolina .Ile was a member of Sigma Xi, honorary societyfor graduate students ; Sigma Pi Sigma, physicshonor society, and Pi Mu Epsilon.W. L. "Bill" Kygar, '266us, former assistant

manager of production and drilling, has been madeassistant manager of the Continental Oil Companymotor transportation division at Ponca City .

-1927-A . Marion Smith, '276us, '48pharm, passed the

Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy examinationrecently and is employed as a pharmacist with 'f .Roy Barnes Druggery in Tulsa .

Lynden Mannen, '276a, '38ma, was a guest ofMajor Neil Kellar, '33Law, in a flight from Wash-ington, 1) . C., to the Norman campus when he at-tended the O.U.-Texas A. and M. game player[ onOwes Field. Mannen is tt former staff member ofthe University of Oklahoma . For a number of yearshe was in the department of political science andheld an executive position with the Oklahoma Mu-nicipal League . Mrs. Mannen, the former PatriciaLyon, '34bs, served last year as the president of theUniversity Alumni Club of Washington, 1) . C. Shewas a former employee of Executive Secretary TedBeaird, '216a, of the Alumni Association .

During the past year Mrs. Gertrude Sims Brans-fortl, '27ba, has served as president of the FortWorth, Texas, Pan Hellenic Council . Mrs. Brans-fortl is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamtna Sorority .

-l 928-DAY-CREVELING: Harold F. Creveling, '28ba,

'47ma, and Mrs. Creveling have established a homein Dallas, Texas, after their marriage August 23at Worcester, Massachusetts . Mrs. Creveling is theformer Mildred Louise Day, Collingswood, New

Jersey . Mr . Creveling is a member of the faculty atSouthern Methodist University .

Ross W. Morrison, '28eng, is a partner in thearchitectural firm of Reynolds and Morrison Archi-tects in Oklahoma City .

J . D. Hoover, '28ed, '39m .ed, is an instructor inthe extension division adult training department ofthe Draughon's School of Business in OklahomaCity . Hoover has instructed in clinics for practicalsalesmanship and effective speech in Wichita Falls,Lubbock, Amarillo, Borger and Pampa, Texas. InNovember, clinics were held in Vernon, Texas;Lawton ; Clinton; Hobart, and Elk City .

-1929-20th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949

Curtis M. Smith, '296us, Houston, Texas, isworking as personnel manager of the TennesseeGas Transmission Company of Houston. He wasrecently made vice-chairman of the SouthwestPersonnel Conference of the American Gas Asso-ciation .

Ross Gossard flume, '29ba, '31Law, is employedas district adjuster for the State Farts Mutual AutoInsurance Company in Bloomington, Illinois . Mrs.Home is the former Gladys McDonald, '306a .Sam Harris, '27-'29, was recently matte city edi-

tor of the Arl~ansas Gazette in Little Rock, Arkan-sas. He

hadpreviously spent 13 years with the As-

sociated Press.DELANEY-BALLARD : The wedding of Made-

line Delaney, '29ba, and Joe Porter Ballard, '29ba,'33Law, was an event of September 18 in the Cathe-dral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in OklahomaCity. Mrs. Ballard attended Oklahoma City Uni-versity before entering O.U . She is a member of

Alpha Phi Sorority, Beta Sigma Chi, and is librarianof the Oklahoma County Law Library . Ballard is amember of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif .They are at home in Purcell .

Dr . James 11 . Hodges, '29rn.cd, '31Ph .D, is listedin the 1948 edition of IF ho's 11'ho in American

Education . Ile is principal of Kendall School inTulsa.

Dr . Ralph W. Hubbard, '306s, '42tned, Okla-homa City, and Mrs. Hubbard are the parents ofa daughter, whom they have named Hannah Melis-sa . The infant was born September 23 in St . An-thony I-lospital .

Luther Edwin Patterson, '30geol, '32tus, has beenemployed as district geologist in the West Texas-Nov Mexico district of the Cities Service Oil Com-pany in Midland, Texas, for the past three and one-half years. At the University Patterson was a mem-her of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Sigma Gam-ma Epsilon, Blue Key, Checkmate, Pe-ct, Toga,Pick and Hammer and Sigma No Fraternity . Hewas winner of the Dad's Day Award, the LetzeiserCold Medal and Sigma Gamma Epsilon award.Dr . John Morris, '30ed, has assumed his duties

as superintendent of the church school at the FirstChristian Church of Norman . Dr . Morris is associ-ate professor of geography at the University.

Walter O. Beets, '28-'31, has been promoted tothe rank of lieutenant colonel in the regular Armyand is permanently assigned to the judge Advo-cate Generals Department in Alexandria, Virginia .

Cecil

'" crner Armstrong, '32eng, '37tn.eng, isemployed as a consultingengineer with plastics inBurket, Indiana. From 1945to 1947, Armstrong wasvice-president and generalmanager of the ArmstrongPlastic Company, Inc., inWarsaw, Indiana . He is amember of Tau Beta Pi,Sigma Tau, Phi Eta Sigma,Kappa Tau Pi, Pe-ct,Amcr-ican Society of MechanicalEngineers and the St . Pat'sCouncil . While attendingthe University he was win-

ner of the Letzciser Award. Mrs. Armstrong is theformer Marie Louise Irelan, '32ba. She is a mem-her of Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board and PiZeta Kappa. Mr . and Mrs. Armstrong arc the par-ents of two children, Elizabeth Louise and RobertWerner .

John I-I . Anthony, '32ba, is now in business forhimself as a consulting psychologist under the firmname of The Personnel Counselors . He is doingpsychological research for industry and vocationalguidance for individuals . Anthony has been electedas president of the Houston, Texas, branch of theNational Vocational Guidance Association, is vice-chairman of the Houston Occupational PlanningCommittee, is handling the vocational guidanceand counseling for the South "Texas Junior Col-lege, and is an active member of the Society for theAdvancement of Management .

Earl A. Virden, '32fa, was elected mayor ofOnawa, Iowa, last spring .

Joe S. Rockwood, '31cd, '37Law, is assistant re-gional attorney for the Federal Security Agency inKansas City, Missouri .

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-1931-

-1932-

SOONER MAGAZINE

-1933Theodore B. Stith, '33hus, is now located in

Kansas City, Missouri, where he is connected withthe Cameron Coal Company. For 15 years previous-ly he had been associated with the Rialto MiningCorporation in Pieher .

Major Ncil Kellar, '33Law, stationed with theadjutant general's office in Washington, 1) . C.,flew down from Washington for the O.U.-TexasA. and M. game last month. Major Kellar was aformer resident of Norman and was municipaljudge for several months just prior to his leavingfor Army service .

Everett B. Miller, '33tns, is employed as geo-physical supervisor for the San Antonio and Hous-ton, Texas, districts of Continental Oil Companyof Ponca City . Ile is making his home in San An-tonio.

-1934-15th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949Mary Roach Casady, '346a, is making her home

in Berkeley, California, where her husband,Thomas Casady, Jr ., is an underwriter for MutualLife Insurance Company of New York . Mrs. Cas-ady is an alumna of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority .Fred Owen Newton, '346a, '34eng, has been

employed as assistant to the vice-president of theUniversal Oil Product Company in Chicago for thepast three years. Newton was president of the seniorclass in 1933 and was winner of the Dad's DayAward in 1932 .

Joe C. Jackson, '34ed, '40m .ed, is employed asdebate coach at Central State College, Edmond . Heformerly had taught history, government andcoached debate in Bristow. In addition, at Centralhe will serve as associate professor of history andsocial science and will teach American and Okla-homa history.

William J . Wallace, Jr ., '31-'34, Oklahoma City,and Mrs. Wallace have selected the name RoyBruner for their son born October 4 in St. AnthonyHospital .

~1935Mrs. Merle Brown Johnson, '35ed, died January

17 at her home in Shawnee. Mrs. Johnson was avictim of cancer .

Randolph H. McCurtain, '356a, '36ma, wastransferred to Norman in July where he is em-ployed with the U. S. Indian Service, Departmentof the Interior . McCurtain is working with Indianstudents attending colleges in the U. S. and issupervisor of all Indian schools in Oklahoma andKansas .

-1936-Fredericka 1). Fcldman, '36ba, is president of the

Lynn Hebrew School Auxiliary in Lynn, Massa-chusetts .

Dr. Mildred Rose Pool, '36ba, '40ma, is doingher internship at the Osteopathic Hospital in Kan-sas City, Missouri .

Dr. Eugene 13 . Ley, '366s, '38med, is practicingmedicine in Pueblo, Colorado .

John Mcrkle, '36ba, is now assistant professor ofbiology at Texas A. and M. College, College Sta-tion, Texas. He completed work on his Doctor'sDegree last June at Oregon State College.Foy L. George, '36ba, '40ed, is now employed as

division field chemist for the Halliburton Oil WellCementing Company in Odessa, Texas.Elma Smith Washam, '34-'36, is making her

home in Oklahoma City where she is employed asa secretary for Dr . W. E. Eastland. Her husband,Capt . Raymond W. Washam, '35ba, was killed inaction while serving with the 45th Division in Italyin November, 1943 .

NovEMBER, 1948

Dr . Ben I-1 . Cooley, '21 nrcd, F.1 Paso, Texas; Ted Beaird, '21ba, and Dorrance Rodcrick, '22ba, El Paso,compare notes at the airport in El Paso, "Home of the Sun Bowl," as to possibilities of the Sooner

football squad breezing down that way for a post-season tilt.

DUNNETT-WHITEMAN : Clarene EdwardsDunnctt, Oklahoma City, became the bride of Wil-liain Worthy Whiteman, Jr ., '36ba, '37Law, '40bus,'47m .bus, in a ceremony solemnized October 5 inOklahoma City . Whiteman graduated from Kemp-er Military School, Booneville, Missouri, and servedas a member of the faculty at O.U . for two years.While at the University he was named to Phi BetaKappa and was affiliated with Phi Gamma DeltaFraternity. A home has been established in Okla-homa City by the couple.

Mary V. Burns, '36ba, has been appointed editorof the Woodward Daily Press. Mrs. Burns has beenassociated at intervals with the Daily Press for sev-eral years.

-1937-Paul Goodwin Reeve, '37eng, is vice-president

and assistant general manager of the Lewis-DieselEngine Company in Memphis, Tennessee.

Major James H. McCord, '37ba, '37eng, returnedto the United States in May, 1948, after spendingthree years with the Office of Military Governmentfor Bavaria.Edwin Yourman, '37ba, '391.aw, is a senior at-

torney with the Federal Security Agency in Wash-ington, D. C.Mrs. Mary Lockett Bush, '37soe .wk, Norman,

has assumed her duties as director of the Normanchild welfare service . She was appointed by childwelfare service of the Department of Public Wel-fare .

Frank C. Hughes, '37fa, '391n.mus .ed, is doingpost graduate work at the Eastman School of Musicthis year. He is assistant professor of music at theUniversity. Mrs. Hughes and children have joinedhim in Webster, New York, where they will maketheir home.

Capt. Glenn 1) . Kelley, '33-'37, reported to Vcr-nam Army Air Force Base in Jamaica early in Sep-tember . Captain Kelley is commanding an air res-cue squadron . Mrs. Kelley, the former MaxyneAlexander, '36fa, '45ma, and children plan to joinhim there soon .The body of First Lt. James E. Overstreet, '37

eng, has been returned to the United States fromManila and has been buried in Memorial Cemeteryin Tulsa. Lieutenant Overstreet died April 24, 1945 .

Bartlett A. Ward, '37fa, '38fa, '39m .fa, recentlybegan working with Stan Ramsey Company in

Oklahoma City as a commercial sculptor for dis-plays. lie has had displays shown in 20 foreigncountries and most of the large cities of the U. S.

-1938-Woodrow Crumbo, '36-'38, formerly associated

with the Gilcrease Foundation in Tulsa, now hasestablished a studio in Taos Village, Taos, NewMexico .RENNIE-FRANKS: In a ceremony solemnized

in San Francisco, California, Kathryn Rennie, '38cd, Pauls Valley, became the bride of Clarence FordFranks, San Francisco . Mr . and Mrs. Franks areat home in San Francisco .W. E. Ham, '38geol, '39ms, associate geologist

of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, spoke in St .Louis, Missouri, at a meeting of the industrialmineral division of the American Institute of Min-ing and Metallurgical Engineers October 14 to 16 .Subject of his discussion was the recent develop-ment of industrial minerals in Oklahoma .Edwin R. Page, '38eng, '40rrt .eng, is doing de-

velopment work in electronics with General Elec-tric Company in Syracuse, New York .

Recent visitors to the campus were Ferrill Rogers,'48Law, Oltlahonra City, and Wayne Quinlan,

'g8rna, '481.aw, State President of the League ofYoung Democrats.

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Edward M. Schlaffke, '38eng, was fatally gassedwhile trying to save the life of a fellow worker ona new well that had just been completed in theWorland, Wyoming, oil field .Schlaffke was a pe-troleum engineer and production superintendentfor the Tri-Good Oil Company.

Lt . William Perry Carmichael, '38-'39, Weather-ford, is stationed with theUnited States Navy at CoeoSolo, Panama Canal Zone .Lieutenant Carmichael wasgraduated from the UnitedStates Naval Academy, An-napolis, Maryland, in 1942with a Bachelor's Degree inelectrical engineering. At .O.U . he was a member ofthe University band andwas employed in the Okla-homa Memorial UnionBuilding. Mrs. Carmichaelis the former Mozelle Barn-

well, '46ba. Lieutenant and Mrs. Carmichael arethe parents of one daughter, Jo Lynn, three yearsold.DOUGLASS-WHITE : Ruby Jane Douglass, '39

fa, became the bride of Gail C. White in the FifthAvenue Presbyterian Church of New York CityJune 2. Mrs. White is writing comedy songs andballads for stars of radio, stage and night-clubshows, and is currently appearing as featured en-tertainer at Cafe Maurice in New York City . Thecouple has established a home in New York .

W. P. CMtMIC :HAEr-

R. E. DuBois, North Reading, Massachusetts, andMrs. DuBois, the former Elizabeth Patton, '396a,announce the birth of a daughter, Janine Claire, onSeptember 13 in North Reading.

Mary Springer Hopps, '39soc.wk, '41m .soe .wk,is employed as supervisor of the Tom Green Coun-

ty Child Welfare Unit in San Angelo, Texas.

George Thomas Montgomery, '396a, '41Law, isemployed in the office ofthe attorney general at theCapitol Building, Okla-homa City . Previously,Montgomery was an attor-ney with the law firm ofMethvin and Montgomeryin Chickasha for one andone-half years. At the Uni-versity, Montgomery was amember of Phi Beta Kappa,Phi Eta Sigma, Order of theCoif, Pe-et, Phi Delta The-ta Fraternity, and was win-ner of the Dad's Day

Award. He was discharged from the Field Artillerywith the reserve rank of major. Mrs. Montgomeryis the former Pauline Frances Gage, '35. They haveone son, Thomas Gage, three years old.

G. T. MONTGOMERY

Bunn D. Hale, '35-'39, a lieutenant colonel inthe Field Artillery branch of the Organized Re-serves, has returned to extended active duty and isstationed in the office of the Chief of Staff, Penta-gon Building, Washington, D. C.

RUSSELL-ERDMANN: In the First MethodistChurch of Picher, Ramona Regina Russell, '39ba,'41Law, and Reinhold Paar Erdmann, Quapaw,were united in marriage October 2 . Mrs. Erdmannis a member of Chi Omega Sorority. She is an at-torney and a member of the Oklahoma House of

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-1939-10th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949

Representatives. Mr . and Mrs. Erdmann have es-tablished a home in Tulsa where he is attendingthe University of Tulsa.

Jack Stamper, '38-'39, has purchased the weeklyKclsonian Tribune, Kelso, Oregon, assuming hisduties as editor and publisher September 1 . Stamp-

er has been acting as advertising manager of theClinton Daily News.DAVIS-LAMPTON : Georgia Katherine Davis,

Altus, became the bride of Maurice E. Lampton,'396a, '41Law, Sapulpa, in a ceremony read Oc-tober 10 in the home of the bride's parents . Mr .and Mrs. Lampton have established a home inSapulpa where he is practicing law.

-1940-Margaret L. Sprankle, '40fa, is employed as elec-

trical engineering draftsman supervisor at TinkerAir Force Base in Oklahoma City . She is vice-presi-dent of the Association of Oklahoma Artists, presi-dent of the Oklahoma Mineral and Gem Society,Inc., and is editor of Sooner Rockologist, officialpublication of the society.Tom Brett, '40bus, '48Law, recently opened his

law office in Norman . He was district chairman ofthe Truman-Barkley Club and is chairman of theTuberculosis Christmas Seal Drive.

James A. McNeese, '40ba, '47Law, was elected

secretary of the Kay County Bar Association at ameeting held September 10 in Ponca City .

In February of this year H. H. Holman, '40eng,resigned as petroleum engineer with the StanolindOil and Gas Company in Oklahoma City to join

the consulting firm of Meyer and Achtschin, Dallas,Texas, in a similar capacity.BENTON-EVINS : Dorothy Anne Benton, New

Orleans, Louisiana, and Lewis Lyles Evins, '40bus,Wilburton, were married recently in Caracas, Vene-zuela. Mr. and Mrs. Evins established a home in

San Tome, Venezuela, October 1 .Charles Suggs, '40fa, former director of drama

at Ripon College, Wisconsin, has assumed dutiesas assistant professor of drama at the University.Suggs received his Master's Degree from Yale Uni-versity .

Dorothy Elson, '40fa, '42m .fa, is now acting

under the stage name of Diana Rivers in the Car-son Kanin production of Leading Lady. Her hus-band, Charles Elson, is a former member of the

University faculty. At present he is designing setsfor four plays for the new season while maintain-

ing his professorship of drama at Hunter College,New York City .

Joe Coulter, '406a, instructor in aeronautics, was

recently appointed assistant professor of aeronauticsat the University of Oklahoma .

Frank X. Loefer, III, is the name selected by

Frank X. Loeffler, Jr ., '37-'40, Oklahoma City, and

Mrs. Loeffler for their son born September 20 .

CONGRATULATIONS!The University of Oklahoma (Alumni)

Association extends hearty congratulationsto the 31 new babies born recently to O.U .Alumni . These births are all announced in

this issue of the Sooner Magazine . AlthoughJune is the month for brides there are 34

wedding announcements. To each of thehappy couples the Alumni Association sendscongratulations and best wishes for many

years of happiness. University graduatesand former students are anxious to read

about the new babies and the weddings .Please send your information to the SoonerMagazine so that your friends may knowthe good news .

J . G. Whitchurch, '40eng, Ardmore, and Mrs.Whitchurch have selected the name Ann for theirdaughter born October 3.

Noel E. Vaughn, '40m .ed, and Mrs. Vaughn arethe parents of a daughter born July 8 in Healdton .The little girl has been named Brenda Jo .

-1941~Luanne Spence, '41fa, is making her home in

San Antonio, Texas, where she has been elected tothe presidency of Daughters of the United StatesArmy . She is a past corresponding secretary of PiBeta Phi Alumnae Club of San Antonio.Thomas P. McAdams, '41bus, Bristow, and Mrs.

McAdams, the former Dorothy Cloyd, '41fa, arethe parents of a daughter, whom they have namedJanet Eileen. The little girl was born September 2.Edwin Bond Burgess, Jr ., Amarillo, Texas, and

Mrs. Burgess, the former Jean MacTaggart, '41ba,'42ma, became the parents September 21 of a sonwhom they named Edwin Bond, III.

Ralph T. Asbury, '41eng, Houston, Texas, andMrs. Asbury have selected the name Linda Susanfor their daughter born September 14 .

Lt . (j .g .) Richard M. McCool, Jr ., '416a, Nor-man, and Mrs. McCool, the former Elaine Larecy,'426a, announce the birth of a son whom they havenamed Richard Miles McCool, III, born Septem-ber 9.

Bert W. Boozman, '41bus, Fort Smith, Arkansas,was recently promoted to traveling auditor for theRetail Department of the Long-Bell Lumber Com-pany in Kansas City, Missouri. Boozman waselected in June as national president of the Boardof Regents, Delta Sigma, national secondary fra-ternity.

Abbott Sparks, '41bm, '43ba, is now promotionmanager of the Petroleum Engineer PublishingCompany in Dallas, Texas. Mr . and Mrs. Sparkshave been making their home in Dallas for the

past two years.Jack D. Strong, '41eng, is employed as a chemi-

cal engineer by the Gulf Research and Develop-ment Company in Springdale, Pennsylvania . He iscompleting his Master's Degree in chemical engi-

neering at the Pittsburgh University night school .Homer Moore, '41ed, and Mrs. Moore, the for-

mer Bobbe Jean Pace, '41mus .ed, have returned

from California to Houston, Texas, to make theirhome .STEWART-BUST : The wedding of Marjorie

Stewart, '41h .ec, Norman, and Francis Bust, Char-lotte, Michigan, was solemnized October 9 in theMemorial Christian Church at Ann Arbor, Michi-gan. At present Mrs. Bust is instructor of nursingand dietetics at the University of Michigan, anddietitian at the hospital there. Mr . and Mrs. Bustare at home in Ann Arbor.

Gregory David Doggett is the name chosen byWendell J . Doggett, '416a, '47Law, Oklahoma City,and Mrs. Doggett for their son born September 18in St . Anthony Hospital . Mrs. Doggett is the for-mer Patricia Murphey, '46bs.SCHNELLBACHER-ZERBONI: William, Foster

Zerboni, '39-'41, Oklahoma City and Mrs. Zerbonihave established a home in Van Buren, Arkansas .Mrs. Zerboni is the former Margaret Schnellbacher,Eltndale, Kansas . Zerboni attended George Wash-ington University, Washington, D. C., before en-tering O.U . where he was affiliated with Pi KappaAlpha Fraternity .

-1942-George H. Jabara, Wichita, Kansas, and Mrs.

Jabara, the former Helen Naifeh, '42bus, are theparents of a son, George H., Jr., born September 3.

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A watercolor by the late Elmer Capshaw, Jr .,'42fa, has been selected as the October "Master-piece of the Month" at the Oklahoma Art Center .

It represents a gift to the Center from the artist'sparents, Mr . and Mrs. Elmer Capshaw of Norman .

Bill Black, '42, Marietta, is now working withthe Chase Bag Company of Dallas, Texas. He ismaking his home in Oklahoma City .Helen Slesnick Wolk, '42ba, is making her home

in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where her husband,Leo Welk, is a partner in the Welk Transfer Com-pany of Minneapolis . Following her graduationfrom the University, Mrs. Wolk was employed forfour years as a public relations representative withthe Central State Bank in Oklahoma City . She wasa member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board,Phi Beta Kappa, Orchesis, El Modjii, Theta SigmaPhi, Psi Chi and Sigma Delta Tau Sorority at O.U .

C. E. McKinney, '42ed, instructor of businesscommunication at the University, had an article,"Letter Writing Is Fun," published in the Mayissue of journal Of Business Education. Mrs. Mc-Kinney is the former Edith E. Quigg, '476us .

M. L. D. Stone, '42m .ed, is nowsuperintendent ofthe Beebe (Arkansas) Public Schools . His son,Maroin, received his Bachelor of Arts Degree at theUniversity in August and is now attending CornellUniversity .

Frank Sneed, '426a, is now district manager ofFarnsworth Television and Radio Corporation inDallas, Texas. Mrs. Sneed is the former Doris LeeSmith, '416a.

Earl B. Kilpatrick, '426s, and Mrs. Kilpatrick arethe parents of a daughter, Janet Lynn, who wasborn September 20 at the Norman Municipal Hos-pital . Kilpatrick is a graduate assistant in the de-partment of zoology.

Janis Gayle Hiatt is the name chosen by Dr .Lambert Wilk Hiatt, '42, Oklahoma City, andMrs. Hiatt for their daughter born September 19 inSt. Anthony Hospital .Sam H. Johnson, Jr ., '42ba, is attending the Uni-

versity of Kansas, Lawrence, where he received hisMaster's Degree last June and is now working onhis Doctor of Philosophy Degree in pharmaceuticalchemistry under a Parke-Davis fellowship .

Peter Lee Ehlers, '42, Gorham, Kansas, and Mrs.Ehlers, the former Alidee Tellegen, '44ed, an-nounce the birth of a daughter, whom they havenamed Georgia Lee Ehlers . The little girl wasborn September 19 . Ehlers is employed as an en-gineer with the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company.

Daisy McLauren Cook, '42ba, is making herhome in Tulsa where her husband, Jimmy P. Cook,is working with Stanolind Oil and Gas Companyin Cushing. Mr . and Mrs. Cook are the parents ofa 14-month-old daughter, Laurie.

Frank Sneed, '42ba, Lawton, and Mrs. Sneed,the former Doris Lee Smith, '41journ, are snakingtheir home in Dallas, Texas, where he is workingwith radio and television.

Roger Harrison, '426us, and Mrs. Harrison, theformer Mary K. Farr, '446s, are living in Altuswhere he is in the investment business . Mr . andMrs. Harrison are the parents of two sons.

Harvey Harmon, '426s, '47Law, is associatedwith the law firm of Satterfield and Franklin inOklahoma City.

James F. Stevenson, '39-'42, Tulsa, has beenawarded a University of Rochester fellowship tostudy for his Ph.D . Degree under the university'snew graduate program to train outstanding teach-ers of American history .

Services were held recently for Lt. Herman R.Collins, '42, Oklahoma City, who was killed overLondon August 6, 1944 .

NOVEMBER, 1948

John W. Anderson, '41-'42, Beverly Hills, Cali-fornia, and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of ason born October 11 in Beverly Hills.

Woodrow W. Baldwin, '42ed, has been ap-pointed to the faculty of the College of BusinessAdministration at University of California in LosAngeles. He had been doing part-time teachingthere since August, 1946, while working on hisadvanced degrees . At O.U ., Baldwin was affiliatedwith Delta Chi Fraternity .

Charles Turnbull, '426us, Norman, accepted aposition in October with the National Cash Regis-ter Company in Oklahoma City . He is employedin the bookkeeping department of the firm as ajunior salesman. Turnbull was formerly workingas an accountant with the Mid-State Oil Companyin New York .

FANNELL-RANSON : Betty Fannell, Guthrie,became the bride of Dr . Robert F. Ranson, '426s,'47med, Oklahoma City, in the First ChristianChurch in Oklahoma City October 2. Dr . and Mrs.Ranson are at home in Oklahoma City where Dr .Ranson is taking a residency in pathology at Wes-ley Hospital.

-1943-James W. Clopton, '436s, is taking post graduate

work in otolaryngology at Northwestern Univer-sity School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois .

Dr . Freeman F. Suagee, '43ba, Tulsa, has beenappointed assistant professor of labor relations inthe University of Cincinnati College of BusinessAdministration . During the past summer, Dr .Suagee was instructor in labor problems andAmerican labor history at the University of Wis-consin, where he received his Doctor of PhilosophyDegree this year . Dr . Suagee was graduated withPhi Beta Kappa honors from O.U .

Earl Stone, '41-'43, Chickasha, and Mrs. Stone,the former Ramona Yergler, '46bm, announce thebirth of a son on September 13 in Chickasha. Theyhave selected the name Earl Neil, Jr., for the in-fant.

First Lt . Robert N. Starr, '436us, Oklahoma City,is now stationed at Camp Hood, Texas, followinghis return to the United States from a 30 monthtour of duty in Europe .

HENDERSON-SMITH : The marriage of Dor-othy Jane Henderson, '43geol, Oklahoma City, toStanley Doyle Smith, '48geol, Norman, was sol-emnized recently in Albuquerque, New Mexico .

Robert Tyler, '43ed, '481n.ed, former superin-tendent of schools at Cyril, is now assistant profes-sor of education at Southwestern School of Tech-nology at Weatherford.

Neal J. Mosely, '43eng, was recently granted hisregistration to practice before the Patent Office . Hehandles preparation and prosecution of Patent andTrade Mark applications . Mrs. Mosely is the formerMarjorie Duerksen, '43.

Wallace Emmit Eater, '43eng, Chicago, and Mrs .Eater have selected the name Wallace Emmit, Jr .,for their son born October 3 in St . Anthony Hos-pital . Mrs. Eater is the former Helen ElizabethSmith, '41 .

Madelene Dale Maguire, '43h .ec, is making herhome in Oklahoma City where her husband is em-ployed with the Carpenter Paper Company. Mr . andMrs. Maguire are the parents of two children .

John Larkin O'Hern, Jr ., is the name chosen byJohn L. O'Hern and Mrs. O'Hern, the former MaryJane McAnnally, '43ba, for their son born May 15in Tulsa.

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Roy L. Seikel, '44eng, is employed as a designengineer with the Monsanto ChemicalPlantin TexasCity, Texas. Following his discharge from the Navyin 1946, Seikel attended Massachusetts Instituteof Technology at Cambridge, Massachusetts .

Memorial services for Sgt. Walter J. Smith, '44,Oklahoma City, were held recently in OklahomaCity . Sergeant Smith was killed in Germany in Jan-uary, 1945 .Norman Chester Stephens, '44eng, is employed

as a chemical salesman with the Griffin ChemicalCompany in Los Angeles, California . He attendedthe University as a student in the Navy V-12 pro-gram .M. Herbert Lloyd Keener, '44eng, has been em-

ployed as a junior development geologist with thePure Oil Company of Fort Worth, Texas, sinceJuly . While attending the University Keener was amember of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Tau, L.K .O.T.,Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Delta '1'au Delta Fra-ternity. He served as president of the EngineersClub and St . Pat's Council. Keener was winner ofthe Dad's Day Award in 1943 . Mrs. Keener is theformer Mary Katherine Lively, '44.

Mrs . Virginia Hester Cherry, '44nurse, has re-turned to Oklahoma City from St. Louis, Missouri,where she took postgraduate work for a year at theBarnes Hospital School of Anesthesia for nurses .

Nathan M. Kane, '44eng, is employed as re-finery piping designer by the Lummus Company inNew York . He is making his home in Brooklyn.HARROD-BUXTON : The marriage of Eleanor

Sue Harrod, '446a, to Dr . Merwin Thomas Buxton,Jr ., '456s, '47med, both of Oklahoma City, was anevent of early autumn in Epworth MethodistChurch of Oklahoma City. Mrs. Buxton is a mem-ber of Delta Gamma Sorority and Phi Chi, honor-ary psychology fraternity . For the past two yearsshe has been counselor and teacher at NortheastHigh School in Oklahoma City . Dr . Buxton at-tended Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,and served his internship at St. Anthony Hospital .They have established a home in Shawnee whereDr . Buxton is associated with the A.C.H . clinic .

Bill Wayne Field, Berkley, California, and Mrs.Field, the former Cornelia Ann Lasley, '446a, '45Dial announce the birth of a son, Douglas Lasley,born June 30 at Harrick Memorial Hospital, Berke-ley. Mr . Field is a student at the University of Cal-ifornia .

Karen Renee Silven, is the name chosen by JackSilven, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Silven,the former Sylvia Lichtenstein, '446a. The littlegirl was born July 10 .KLIMKOSKI-WILKES : The wedding of Mar-

grett Jean Klimkoski, Oklahoma City, and BobG. Wilkes, '43-'44, was an event of October 2 inChrist Methodist Church, Oklahoma City. Theyare at home in Oklahoma City .

Bert W. Huls, '44, Oklahoma City, and Mrs.Huls are the parents of a slaughter, Barbara Ellen,born August 15 .

Lt . Mark R. Johnson, '44bs, '46med, OklahomaCity, and Mrs. Johnson have chosen the name MarkCopeland for their son born September 12 . In theArmy Medical Corps, Lieutenant Johnson is at pres-ent stationed in the Azores .

Cecil D. Elliott, '44arch, '44arch.eng, received hisMaster of Architecture Degree from Harvard Uni-versity in June, 1948 . He is now employed as as-sistant professor of architecture at the Universityof Minnesota.

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On hand as speakers for the October 4-8 meeting of the Police Officers short course conducted at theextension study center were Earl Welch, '11, Oklahoma City, State Supreme Court Justice; A. P. Murrah, '28Law, Oklahoma City, Circuit Court Judge; and George Lipe, Oklahoma City, executive-

secretary of the OI<lahoma Bar Association.

Alice M. Strong, '44h .ec, is attending TeachersCollege at Columbia University where she is work-ing on her Master's Degree in institutional manage-ment .

'-,1945'MERRICK-COE: In the First Baptist Church of

Ardmore, Elizabeth Ikard Merrick, '45ba, becamethe bride of Charles Robert Coe. Mrs. Coe attendedPine Manor, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and theKatharine Gibbs school, New York . At the Uni-versity she was affiliated with Kappa Alpha ThetaSorority .

Robert J. Penney, '45bs, '48Law, Oklahoma City,and Mrs. Penney are the parents of a daughter,Pamela Kay, born September 4. Penney is em-ployed in the land department of the Carter OilCompany.LOVETT-ROBERDS : At twilight in the Little

Chapel in the Woods, Denton, Texas, Edith Har-riet Lovett, Dumas, Texas, was married to PaulTracy Roberds, Jr ., '45eng, Ardmore, on Septem-ber 18 . Roberds is an engineer with the Bureauof Reclamation in Amarillo, where the couple isat home .

Churchill E. Blakey, Oklahoma City, and Mrs.Blakey, the former Gail Kathryn Riley, '456a, havechosen the name Caroline Elizabeth Blakey fortheir daughter born September 20 in Wesley Hos-pital .

Mrs. Marjorie Buck, '45ba, died recently in SanDiego, California . Mrs. Buck was avictim of polio-myelitis .Mary Joyce Norwood Rodgers, '45ba, has been

appointed acting director of the Wesley Foundationby the Wesley Foundation board of directors. Sheis in charge of the student activities program andworks with the Wesley Foundation council andother staff members.

1946~CONNER-SMITH : Joyce Ann Conner, '48,

Oklahoma City, and Clifford E. Smith, '46ba, '48ills, Shawnee, were married August 29 in the Trin-ity Baptist Church of Oklahoma City . They have

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established a home in Stillwater where Mr . Smithis on the faculty of Oklahoma A. and M. Collegeand is also working toward a Ph.D . Degree .C. S. Mullen, Jr ., Richmond, Virginia, and Mrs.

Mullen, the former Rosemary Newby, '466a, an-nounce the birth of a son on August 31 in Rich-mond . They have selected the name Douglas Clayfor the infant .

Elizabeth Ann Brenz, '466a, is editor of KermacNews, published for the Kcrr-McGec Oil Industries,Inc., in Oklahoma City . She is a member of South-western Association of Industrial Editors and In-ternational Council of Industrial Editors . FormerlyMiss Brenz was on the advertising staff of the ElReno Daily Tribune.

Ruth Ann Hyde, '46soc .wk, has received a grad-uate assistantship position in the office of the deanof women at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NewYork . She plans to spend the next two years work-ing on her Master's Degree in Student Personnel .Abel J. Sands, '46med, Oklahoma City, who is

serving with the Army in the Philippines, has beenpromoted to the rank of captain . Captain Sands,who has been overseas since September, 1942, isassigned as commanding officer and post surgeonof the 46th Station Hospital at Camp John Hay inBaguio City, Northern Luzon.

1947-RASH-HIGHLAND : Wanda Rash, Wetumka,

became the bride of Robert Owen Highland, '47eng, Miami, in a ceremony read inWetumka. High-land was affiliated with Alpha Tau Omega Fra-ternity . They have established a home in Purcellwhere he is director of instrumental music in thehigh school .AFFHOLDER-YEAGER : lone Affholder, '47ba,

Blackwcll, and Weldon O. Yeager, Hillsboro, Ohio,were married recently in the Woodward AvenueBaptist Church, Detroit, Michigan .Paul T. Jackson, Jr ., '476us, Amarillo, Texas, and

Mrs. Jackson have selected the name Paul T. Jack-son, III, for their son born September 7 .

SMITH-BJORK : The marriage of Bobby RuthSmith, '47ba, Chicago, formerly of Oklahoma City,and Theodore Ernest Bjork, Evanston, Illinois, wassolemnized in September. Mrs. Bjork is a memberof Phi Beta Kappa, was president of Alpha EpsilonRho, and was a member of Gamma Alpha Chinational advertising women's fraternity . She is nownational editor of the news magazine of GammaAlpha Chi.

HAIRS-SMITII : Betty Lou Haire, Wichita, Kan-sas, became the bride of Donald Valden Smith, '47ba, Oklahoma City, September 18 in the PlymouthCongregation Church of Wichita. They have es-tablished a home in Oklahoma City .

Edward Davis Dyer is the name chosen by Ed-ward Dyer, '47m .ed, Enid, and Mrs. Dyer for theirson born September 17 . Dyer is former minister ofmusic and student director in the First ChristianChurch in Norman .

ROBERTS-GARY : Solemnized October 16 inthe home of the bride's parents was the wedding ofNancy Jean Roberts, '47ed, and Robert Rugh Gary,both of Oklahoma City . Mrs. Gary attended Steph-cns College, Columbia, Missouri, and was affiliatedwith Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority at O.U . '1'ltcyhave established a home in Oklahoma City .

Rosamond Morris, '47ed, is now teaching Eng-lish, Spanish and history in the high school atEureka, Kansas .

Jay Hightower, '47ba, is now a member of theArkansas Gazette staff in Little Rock, Arkansas .

Esther Mae Henke, '471ib .sci, has accepted theposition as head librarian of the Ray County li-brary. She assumed her duties October 1.

Dr. Henry R. Hansen, '47m .ed, has joined thestaff of the county superintendent of schools inModesto, California, as co-ordinator of supervisionand elementary curriculum . He recently completedhis doctorate at Stanford University in the audio-visual and curriculum areas. Dr . Hansen has beena teacher in elementary schools and an elementaryprincipal . Mrs. Hansen is the former Mary MargaretStewart, '38-'39 .

Elir : ;la th J~,hntnn,

'476s, El Reno,

completedwork for her dietetic in-ternship at the UniversityHospital, University ofMichigan, Ann Arbor, inSeptember. Following hergraduation she was accept-ed into membership of theAmerican Dietetic Associa-tion . On November 7 shebegan work as a theropeut-ic dietitian at the SantaBarbara Cottage Hospital,Santa Barbara, California .At one time Miss Johnsonwas employed as assistant

dietitian in the Oklahoma Memorial Union foodservice .

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Betty Lynn, '47fa, Norman, left recently forSanta Fe, New Mexico, where she will teach musicin the public schools .

Jeanct Dale, '476s, is working for Texas A. andM. College at Bryan, Texas, in the research depart-ment .

John DeWitt "Dick" Walters, '47eng, is nowworking for the South Penn Oil Company in Brad-ford, Pennsylvania, as a petroleum engineer incharge of core analysis . He formerly was employedby the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Wy-oming. Walters helped with the installation andoperation of the famous pipeline running fromCalcutta, India, to Kunming, China.

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Just to give your voice a lift

WHEN you make a longdistance telephone

call, your voice would soonfade out were it not forvacuum tube repeaters .

They give your voice a lift wheneverneeded - carry it clearly from coastto coast .Vacuum tubes and other electronic

devices are playing an ever-growingpart in your Bell telephone service . Asthe manufacturing unit ofthe Bell Sys-

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telephone companies.

tem, Western Electric makes millionsof these intricate little things .To produce them to highest stand-

ards of precision and at lowest cost,Western Electric has just completedits new Allentown, Pa., plant-latestaddition to vast telephone makingfacilities in 18 cities . Now, and inthe years ahead, this new WesternElectric plant will help to makeyour Bell telephone service betterthan ever .

DISTRIBUTOR INSTALLERof Bell telephone appora-

of Bell System centraltus and supplies .

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At Western Electric'snew Allentown Plant,over 2,500 people work amid conditionsofalmost surgical cleanliness-for a speckof dust or trace of perspiration may seri-ously impair the quality of electronicdevices they make!To provide such conditions, the entire

plant is air conditioned . The interior iscompletely sealed off and is slightly pres-surized to prevent dust laden outside airfrom seeping in the doors . Temperatureis maintained year 'round at 700 to 800,with relative humidity of 4096 to 50% .Over 40 miles of pipes deliver 13 need-

ed services to working locations Theseare hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, city gas,city water, deionized water, soft water(cold, hot, cooling) high pressure air, lowpressure air, process steam and conden-sate return .The plant has its own steam generating,

water softening and gas making plantsand uses as much electric power as acity of 20,000 .

Mack Easley, '47Law, and John F. Quinn, '47ba,announce the formation of a partnership for thegeneral practice of law under the firm name ofEasley and Quinn in Hobbs, New Mexico . Theiroffices were opened September 21 .

Ensign R. C. Doerpinghaus, '47eng, is stationedwith the U. S. Navy at Pearl Harbor . His worktakes him into China, the Philippines and manyother bases in the Pacific. Ensign Doerpinghaus at-tended the University as a student in the NavalReserve.

Levona S. Williams, '476s, is a second year stu-dent at the University of Oklahoma School ofMedicine in Oklahoma City .

Fred W. Spielberger, '47bus, formerly of Okla-homa City, is now working in Salt Lake City, Utah,with the land department of the Carter Oil Com-pany.Raymond Evans Ard, '47eng, is employed as an

engineer in the research department of the CoreLaboratories, Inc., in Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Ard isthe former Trudy Gunther, '426us . At present sheis business office supervisor for the Dallas office ofSouthwestern Bell Telephone Company.R. E. Boatman, '47eng, is employed with the

seismograph party for the Stanolind Oil and GasCompany in Port Arthur, Texas.Howard Kenneth Ihrig, '476s, junior in the Uni-

versity School of Medicine, attended the MedicalR.O.T .C . summer camp for six weeks at Fort SamHouston, Texas.Kenneth W. Richardson, '47eng, is working as a

resident engineer with the Panhandle Eastern Pipe

Line Company in Liberal, Kansas . Formerly hehad been employed with Exploration Surveys.

James Clay Hancock, '47ba, and Mrs. Hancockhave established a home in Odessa, Texas. Hancockreceived his law degree from the University this

past summer .Willis Alderman, '476s, was recently transferred

to the Wichita Falls, Texas, office of Stanolind Oiland Gas Company. Previously he had been sta-tioned in Sweetwater, Texas. Mrs. Alderman is theformer Dorothy Myers, '47ba.V. F. "Red" Bone, '47journ, '47ba, is now work-

ing on the Texas City (Texas) Sun. Also employedon the paper is Clifton Caldwell, '47ba. Previously

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Bone had been working for the Alice Echo, Alice,Texas.

Harry S. Culver, '476a, has resigned as news edi-tor of the Anadarko Daily News to join the staff ofthe Shawnee News-Star, while Frank D. Skinner,'476a, has succeeded him at Anadarko. Richard C.Ratliff, '48ba, wire editor of the News-Star sinceJanuary, has returned to the University of Okla-homa to do graduate work .

William D. Sawyer, '47bus, recently accepted aposition as controller with the John B. BarbourTrucking Company in Iowa Park, Texas. Previous-ly Sawyer had been employed in the accountingdepartment of the Magnate Cove Barium Corpora-tion in Houston, Texas.

'--1948Clarence A. Vicklund, '48eng, Iron Mountain,

Michigan, has been employed as a construction en-gineer with the Creole Petroleum Corporation inCaripito, Venezuela, since his graduation from theUniversity. Vicklund is a member of Tau Beta Pi,Sigma Tau, American Society of Civil Engineersand Phi Delta Theta Fraternity . He was a memberof the Senior Committee and received a commissionas ensign with the University N.R.O.T.C . in June,1945 . He was a Knight of St . Pat's and was win-ner of the Dad's Day Award in 1946 .ADAMS-UPSHER : The wedding of Margaret

Eleanor Adams, '486s, Norman, and Sidney PhelpsUpsher, '47ba, '48Law, Oklahoma City, was sol-emnized October 1 in St. John's Episcopal Church,Norman . Mrs. Upsher is a member of Kappa KappaGamma Sorority and Mr. Upsher is affiliated withPhi Gamma Delta Fraternity . The couple is at homein Oklahoma City.REISTLE-HOLLIDAY : The ceremony for

Nancy Reistle, Houston, Texas, and Wilson HayesHolliday, '486us, Muskogee, was read October 2in Houston.SHIRE-OLSON: The wedding of Shirley Shire,

Oklahoma City, and Dr . Forrest Olson, '48med,Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was performed recentlyin the Elim Baptist Church of Chicago. The couplehas established a home in Zion, Illinois . Dr . Olsonis taking an internship at Great Lakes Naval Hospi-tal, Great Lakes, Illinois . He is a lieutenant juniorgrade in the Naval Reserve.

SAY - - .Maq T4risfmas - - with 0. U. Alumni Memberships

The Alumni Association has the answer to the question of Christmas shopping for

Sooner Alumni .Make this Christmas a merry one by giving them memberships in the Alumni Asso-

ciation .It is something they will enjoy all year, through regular visits of The Sooner Maga-

zine and other Association publications . They will be happy over being reunited with theircampus .

The Association will forward certificates of membership to you to be sent to thehappy recipients . Christmas cards telling them of their membership gift also will besupplied if desired .

What better way to say "Merry Christmas" to a Sooner friend or relative?Fill out the Christmas gift order blank below and mail to the University of Okla-

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ANDERSON-CRAVENS : In the ceremony Sol-emnized October 2 in the Youth chapel of theFirst Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City, Vir-ginia Lee Anderson, '48fa, became the bride ofJohn Logan Cravens, '40ba, '40Law, Tulsa. Mrs.Cravens is a member of Delta Gamma Sorority .Cravens is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and didgraduate work at Harvard University, Cambridge,Massachusetts .

KILLINGSWORTH-BURNS: Margaret Eliza-beth Killingsworth, '48Lib .sci, Seminole, and Rob-ert Bailey Burns, Oklahoma City, were married re-cently in Seminole . Mrs. Burns is a member ofDelta Gamma Sorority and is now associated withthe Oklahoma Library Commission . Burns is affil-iated with Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity and is asenior in the College of Business Administration .The couple has established a home in OklahomaCity .

Arthur L. Ellsworth, '386a, '41Law, OklahomaCity attorney, is one of the professors named toLangston University School of Law in Oklahoma

City . Following his gradua-tion from the University,he attended Harvard Uni-versity, Cambridge, Massa-chusetts, on a graduate fel-lowship. He served threeyears with the Army FieldArtillery and was dischargedwith the reserve rank ofmajor. He is a member ofAlpha Tau Omega Fratern-ity . Mrs. Ellsworth is theformer Marjorie Carroll Re-plogle, '416a. They havetwo children, Nancy Anne,

3, and Robert Arthur, 1.

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John Walter Gillis, '48ba, Norman, and Mrs.Gillis have chosen the name John Michael for theirson born recently in Norman .

LILLIBRIDGE-SPRING : The wedding of RuthLillibridge, '48ba, Enid, and Jess Spring, Jr ., '47-'48, Ardmore, was an event of September 4 in theFirst Presbyterian Church of Enid . Mrs. Spring isa member of Sigma Alpha Iota, national profession-al music fraternity for women. Spring is now en-rolled in the School of Petroleum Engineering atthe University. He is a member of Acacia Fratern-ity .

HENRY-WIGGINS: The marriage of RobertaHenry, '48eng, Bartlesville and Thomas R. Wig-gins, '47-'48, also of Bartlesville, was an event ofSeptember 6 in St . Luke's Episcopal Church ofBartlesville . Mrs. Wiggins is a member of MortarBoard, Pi Tau Sigma and Delta Gamma Sorority .Wiggins is a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fra-ternity, Alpha Chi Sigma and the American Insti-tute of Chemical Engineers. They are at home inNorman .

HUTCHISON-VICKERS: Solemnized Septem-ber 25 in the Cathedral of Our Lady of PerpetualHelp was the wedding of Doris Hutchison, '48ba,Oklahoma City, and John Aldwrid Vickers, Jr.,Wichita, Kansas . Mrs. Vickers attended MonticelloJunior College, Godfrey, Illinois, and served as pres-ident of Delta Delta Delta Sorority at O.U . A homein Wichita has been established by the couple.

BURNS-LOGAN: The marriage of PatriciaLouise Burns, '48ba, Little Rock, Arkansas, andBurton Beldon Logan, '48ba, Oklahoma City, wassolemnized September 25 in Little Rock . Mrs. Lo-gan was graduated from Monticello Junior College,Alton, Illinois . She is a member of Chi OmegaSorority and Psi Chi, honorary psychology fratern-

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ity, at the University. Logan is a member of PhiKappa Sigma Fraternity. They have established ahome in Tulsa.Lt . Col Harry L. Evans, '48eng, Miami, recently

arrived at Yokota Air ForceBase in Japan, and has assumed command ofthc3lstReconnaissance Squadron .Prior to his arrival in Japan,Colonel Evans was DeputyCommander of the 29thBombardment Group atRandolph Air Force Base,Texas. For his meritoriousservice during 1945 in thePhilippine Islands and onGuam, he was awarded theDistinguished Flying Cross,the Air Medal with an Oak

Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations Ribbon . ColonelEvans' wife plans to join him in Japan in the nearfuture .

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Richard Leslie Rose was born September 1 inHobbs, New Mexico, to Carl S. Rose, '48geol, andMrs. Rose . Rose is a geologist for Amerada Petro-leum Corporation in Monumet, New Mexico.

Gloria June McFarland, '48geol, Henryetta, isemployed as an editorial secretary with the Ameri-can Association of Petroleum Geologists in Tulsa.Miss McFarland is a member of Pi Zeta Kappa, Pickand Hammer Club, Kappa Phi, Sequoyah Club,O.S.W.E ., and the Independent Women's Associ-ation Council. She was a "Big Woman on the Cam-pus" in 1948 .

Fred B. Jones, Jr ., '48geol, is employed as ageologist with the Gulf Oil Corporation in Ard-more. Formerly he had been working in Durant.Leon Renfrew, '48pharm, is working at the Ncil-

Simpson Drug Store in Tyler, Texas.Russell V. Johnson, Jr ., '48geol, is employed by

the Mack Oil Company of Duncan as a junior geol-ogist .

James C. Woodward, '486a, Apache, has beenaccepted as a student in the Graduate School atGeorgetown University, Washington, D. C. He isworking toward a Master's Degree in foreign serv-ice . Previously Sooner Magazine was in error in re-porting Woodward as attending Blackwood-DavisBusiness College in Oklahoma City .HILEMAN-WILSON : Jeanne Hilcman, Berke-

ley, California, and George William Wilson, '48gcol, were married October 30 in St . Mary Mag-dalen Church of Berkeley.SMITH-HARDY : Joyce Elaine Smith, Galves-

ton, Texas, and Hugh W. Hardy, '48eng, Okla-homa City, were married October 2 in the FirstBaptist Church of Galveston. Hardy is a memberof Sigma Gamma Epsilon and Sigma Tau honor-ary fraternities . They have established a home inGalveston.

Fred M. Ratliff, III, is the name chosen by FredM. Ratliff, Jr ., '48geol, Brownfield, Texas, andMrs. Ratliff for their son born recently in St . An-thony Hospital, Oklahoma City .SULLIVAN-WOOD : The marriage of Ada Lea

Sullivan, '486a, Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, toDavid Douglass Wood, '48ba, Norman, was anevent of September 24 in the First PresbyterianChurch of Norman . Mrs. Sullivan is librarian forthe School of Architecture at the University . Sul-livan served as state representative from Musko-gee County in the 21st legislature.

Dorothyle McClure, '48com .ed, Millerton, is em-ployed in a secretarial position of the educationalsales department of Radio Corporation of Americain Camden, New Jersey .

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