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Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes By ELAINE LARECY -1906- Word was received last month that Herbert A . Everest, '06bs, who has been confined to a wheel chair for a number of years, fractured a leg when he fell recently at his home in Los Angeles. Shortly after his graduation from the University, Mr. Everest's back was injured in a mine accident . In spite of the handicap he has built up a successful business in Los Angeles as a manufacturer of radios and lightweight col- lapsible wheelchairs which he invented and pat- ented . For the information of friends who would like to write to Mr . Everest, his address is 1032 Ogden Road in Los Angeles . -1908- Lack of scientific knowledge and intelligent planning were blamed for the lag in develop- ment of Oklahoma's industries recently by George C. Smith, '08ba, St. Louis, assistant to the president of the M . K . and T . Railroad . Appear- ing before a legislative committee in Oklahoma City, Mr. Smith pointed out that the state failed to get in on the synthetic rubber program and lost a big ammonium nitrate plant because of inadequate research, poorly organized data and failure to present Oklahoma's possibilities clearly to federal authorities. To remedy the situation, Mr. Smith suggested that Oklahoma tax laws be revised to attract more capital and that the job of industrializing the state not to be left to local civic organizations . -1909- Robert L . Hickman, '09ph .c, formerly of Broken Bow, is a pharmacist at Durant. Nationwide rationing of fuel oil is not far distant in the opinion of E. L. DeGolyer, 'llba, assistant federal deputy petroleum administrator who spoke at the Council of State Governments meeting in Baltimore recently . Looking ahead to increasing difficulties in the petroleum situ- ation, Mr . DeGolyer said that oil production has nearly reached capacity while military consump- tion is increasing steadily . The Alumni Office has received word of the death last May in Seattle, Washington of Isaac L . Williamson, 'llba, former High School In- spector and Director of Vocational Education with the Utah Department of Education in Salt Lake City . After receiving his master's degree from Harvard University in 1912, he was an assistant in philosophy there until 1913, when he became superintendent of schools in Eureka, Utah . Mr . Williamson is survived by his wife, the former Ura Estes of Medford, who now lives in Wichita, Kansas. -1912- Earl D . McBride, '12bs, Oklahoma City ortho- pedic surgeon, recently attended the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery convention held in Chicago . -1915- Charles B . Steele, '15ba, has resigned as sec- retary to the commissioners of the Oklahoma State Land Office to resume his law practice with A . N. Boatman, '161aw, at Okmulgee. He was succeeded February 1 by Charles H. Fawks, '19ba, former state director of the United States Employment Service in Oklahoma City. 1 4 Robert W. (Buck) Stinson, '15eng, was re- cently named labor utilization analyst of the War Manpower Commission for the Oklahoma City area . In this capacity Mr. Stinson works with labor and management in solving employ- ment distribution problems and utilizating labor for the greatest good throughout the Oklahoma City industrial region. He has formerly been district manager of the W . P. A . at Muskogee and a member of the Oklahoma City office of the War Production Board . WILLIAMS-McINNIS : Miss Grace Williams' '15ba, New York City, and Emmett E . McInnis, Evanston, Illinois, were married January 20 in New York . Mrs. McInnis is a member of Kap- pa Alpha Theta sorority. Mr McInnis, a gradu- ate of the University of Texas at Austin, is gen- eral counsel for the Santa Fe Railway Company in Evanston. He formerly practiced law in Coalgate, McAlester and Oklahoma City. -1916- HODGES-SNELL : Mrs . Jess Lee Hodges ' Mus- kogee, and Harold F. Snell, '166m, Oklahoma City, were married February 14 in Oklahoma City . Mr. Snell, a member of Sigma Chi fra- ternity, was formerly an advertising man in New York and Kansas City . He is now man- ager of Goodwill Industries in Oklahoma City where the couple are at home . To Asian Post ELGIN GROSECLOSE, '20BA New treasurer of the ancient country of Iran in Asia is economist and author Elgin Groseclose, '20ba, who left for his new post in January as a member of a financial mis- sion headed by A . C. Millspaugh of the Brookings Institution. Mr . Groseclose was chief liaison officer and economic adviser in the Bureau of Internal Revenue before accepting the new appointment. He taught for three years in a mission school in Iran, from 1920 to 1923, and white there gained background for his books, Ararat, The Per- sian journey and the most recent The Fire- drake . -1920- Enoch B . Ferrell, '20ba, '21eng, '24ma, is as- sociated with the Bell laboratories in New York City. Mrs. Ferrell is the former Grace Coker, '23ba . Willard Wickizer, '206a, has been traveling about the country speaking in churches near camps and posts as a member of the War Ser- vice Committee of the Disciples of Christ . He makes suggestions about what churches can do for servicemen and checks on need for additional personnel . Mr. Wickizer spoke in Norman Jan- uary 24 and went on west in his circuit of the country. `-'1921- G. S . Marvin, '21geol, formerly of Oklahoma City and Ardmore, is chief geologist with the Central Pipe Line Company at Salem, Illinois . Charles W . McKown, father of two alumni, died recently at an Oklahoma City hospital after an illness of four years . A native of Illinois and former resident of Chickasha, Mr. McKown's survivors include Dave McKown, '21geol, mem- ber of the Oklahoma City school board, and George McKown '23, Miami, Oklahoma . GODDARD-MINTON : Mrs. Louise Bucher Goddard, Bartlesville, and Max W. Minton, '21ba, Enid, were married January 16 at Muskogee. The couple are living at Enid where Mr. Minton is in the insurance and abstract business. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity . Waldo T . Oden, '211aw, former Altus lawyer, has been appointed chief enforcement attorney for the state Office of Price Administration with headquarters in Oklahoma City . Mr. Oden has practiced law at Altus for more than 20 years as a member of the Robinson and Oden law firm and planned to continue that connec- tion . -1922- Claude Monnet, '22law, Oklahoma City lawyer, was elected president of the 1943 Oklahoma City War Chest drive. The War Chest was formerly known as the Community Fund . Glenn W . Patchett, '226a, for 15 years an economist and staff assistant with Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association in Tulsa, resigned in January to join the income tax department of the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company . He is secretary of the nomenclature committee of the Kansas- Oklahoma division of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, a group which selects names for new oil and gas pools . Following his gradu- ation from the University, Mr . Patchett was em- ployed on a ranch and later was connected with a railroad in Arizona and New Mexico . He returned to Oklahoma in 1924 and has been as- sociated with the oil industry since that time . -1923- Homer V. Crawford, '23ba, is an employee of the Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas . Mrs . Margaret M . Gerlach, mother of Mrs . 'Josh Lee, (Louise Gerlach, '23) died at her home in Norman on January 10 . - She was formerly a resident of Woodward, where Mr . Gerlach homesteaded when the Cherokee Strip opened in 1893 . Survivors include two daugh- ters, Mrs . Lee, wife of the former United States senator, and Mr's . J . C. Stephenson, Norman, wife of the late director of the department of anatomy at the School of Medicine . Meredith Hickey, '19=23, has been appointed production manager of a large government armor plant recently constructed at Madison, Illinois . He was formerly an executive with the General SOONER MAGAZINE

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Page 1: Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes - Digital CollectionsCharles B. Steele, '15ba, has resigned as sec-retary to the commissioners of the Oklahoma State Land Office to resume his law

Calling the Roll of Sooner ClassesBy ELAINE LARECY

-1906-Word was received last month that Herbert

A . Everest, '06bs, who has been confined to awheel chair for a number of years, fractured aleg when he fell recently at his home in LosAngeles. Shortly after his graduation from theUniversity, Mr. Everest's back was injured in amine accident . In spite of the handicap he hasbuilt up a successful business in Los Angeles asa manufacturer of radios and lightweight col-lapsible wheelchairs which he invented and pat-ented . For the information of friends who wouldlike to write to Mr . Everest, his address is 1032Ogden Road in Los Angeles .

-1908-Lack of scientific knowledge and intelligent

planning were blamed for the lag in develop-ment of Oklahoma's industries recently byGeorge C. Smith, '08ba, St. Louis, assistant to thepresident of the M . K . and T . Railroad . Appear-ing before a legislative committee in OklahomaCity, Mr. Smith pointed out that the state failedto get in on the synthetic rubber program andlost a big ammonium nitrate plant because ofinadequate research, poorly organized data andfailure to present Oklahoma's possibilities clearlyto federal authorities. To remedy the situation,Mr. Smith suggested that Oklahoma tax lawsbe revised to attract more capital and that thejob of industrializing the state not to be left tolocal civic organizations .

-1909-Robert L . Hickman, '09ph .c, formerly of

Broken Bow, is a pharmacist at Durant.

Nationwide rationing of fuel oil is not fardistant in the opinion of E. L. DeGolyer, 'llba,assistant federal deputy petroleum administratorwho spoke at the Council of State Governmentsmeeting in Baltimore recently . Looking aheadto increasing difficulties in the petroleum situ-ation, Mr . DeGolyer said that oil production hasnearly reached capacity while military consump-tion is increasing steadily .The Alumni Office has received word of the

death last May in Seattle, Washington of IsaacL . Williamson, 'llba, former High School In-spector and Director of Vocational Educationwith the Utah Department of Education in SaltLake City . After receiving his master's degreefrom Harvard University in 1912, he was anassistant in philosophy there until 1913, whenhe became superintendent of schools in Eureka,Utah . Mr . Williamson is survived by his wife,the former Ura Estes of Medford, who now livesin Wichita, Kansas.

-1912-Earl D . McBride, '12bs, Oklahoma City ortho-

pedic surgeon, recently attended the AmericanAcademy of Orthopedic Surgery convention heldin Chicago.

-1915-Charles B . Steele, '15ba, has resigned as sec-

retary to the commissioners of the OklahomaState Land Office to resume his law practicewith A . N. Boatman, '161aw, at Okmulgee. Hewas succeeded February 1 by Charles H. Fawks,'19ba, former state director of the United StatesEmployment Service in Oklahoma City.

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Robert W. (Buck) Stinson, '15eng, was re-

cently named labor utilization analyst of theWar Manpower Commission for the OklahomaCity area . In this capacity Mr. Stinson workswith labor and management in solving employ-ment distribution problems and utilizating laborfor the greatest good throughout the OklahomaCity industrial region. He has formerly beendistrict manager of the W . P. A . at Muskogeeand a member of the Oklahoma City office ofthe War Production Board.WILLIAMS-McINNIS : Miss Grace Williams'

'15ba, New York City, and Emmett E . McInnis,Evanston, Illinois, were married January 20 inNew York. Mrs. McInnis is a member of Kap-pa Alpha Theta sorority. Mr McInnis, a gradu-ate of the University of Texas at Austin, is gen-eral counsel for the Santa Fe Railway Companyin Evanston. He formerly practiced law inCoalgate, McAlester and Oklahoma City.

-1916-HODGES-SNELL : Mrs . Jess Lee Hodges ' Mus-

kogee, and Harold F. Snell, '166m, OklahomaCity, were married February 14 in OklahomaCity . Mr. Snell, a member of Sigma Chi fra-ternity, was formerly an advertising man inNew York and Kansas City . He is now man-ager of Goodwill Industries in Oklahoma Citywhere the couple are at home .

To Asian Post

ELGIN GROSECLOSE, '20BANew treasurer of the ancient country of

Iran in Asia is economist and author ElginGroseclose, '20ba, who left for his new postin January as a member of a financial mis-sion headed by A . C. Millspaugh of theBrookings Institution. Mr . Groseclose waschief liaison officer and economic adviserin the Bureau of Internal Revenue beforeaccepting the new appointment. He taughtfor three years in a mission school in Iran,from 1920 to 1923, and white there gainedbackground for his books, Ararat, The Per-sian journey and the most recent The Fire-drake .

-1920-Enoch B . Ferrell, '20ba, '21eng, '24ma, is as-

sociated with the Bell laboratories in New YorkCity. Mrs. Ferrell is the former Grace Coker,'23ba .Willard Wickizer, '206a, has been traveling

about the country speaking in churches nearcamps and posts as a member of the War Ser-vice Committee of the Disciples of Christ . Hemakes suggestions about what churches can dofor servicemen and checks on need for additionalpersonnel . Mr. Wickizer spoke in Norman Jan-uary 24 and went on west in his circuit of thecountry.

`-'1921-G. S . Marvin, '21geol, formerly of Oklahoma

City and Ardmore, is chief geologist with theCentral Pipe Line Company at Salem, Illinois .

Charles W . McKown, father of two alumni,died recently at an Oklahoma City hospital afteran illness of four years . A native of Illinois andformer resident of Chickasha, Mr. McKown'ssurvivors include Dave McKown, '21geol, mem-ber of the Oklahoma City school board, andGeorge McKown '23, Miami, Oklahoma .GODDARD-MINTON : Mrs. Louise Bucher

Goddard, Bartlesville, and Max W. Minton, '21ba,Enid, were married January 16 at Muskogee. Thecouple are living at Enid where Mr. Minton isin the insurance and abstract business. He isa member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity .Waldo T . Oden, '211aw, former Altus lawyer,

has been appointed chief enforcement attorneyfor the state Office of Price Administrationwith headquarters in Oklahoma City . Mr. Odenhas practiced law at Altus for more than 20years as a member of the Robinson and Odenlaw firm and planned to continue that connec-tion .

-1922-Claude Monnet, '22law, Oklahoma City lawyer,

was elected president of the 1943 Oklahoma CityWar Chest drive. The War Chest was formerlyknown as the Community Fund.

Glenn W . Patchett, '226a, for 15 years aneconomist and staff assistant with Mid-ContinentOil and Gas Association in Tulsa, resigned inJanuary to join the income tax department of theStanolind Oil and Gas Company . He is secretaryof the nomenclature committee of the Kansas-Oklahoma division of the Mid-Continent Oil andGas Association, a group which selects namesfor new oil and gas pools . Following his gradu-ation from the University, Mr . Patchett was em-ployed on a ranch and later was connected witha railroad in Arizona and New Mexico . Hereturned to Oklahoma in 1924 and has been as-sociated with the oil industry since that time .

-1923-Homer V. Crawford, '23ba, is an employee

of the Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita,Kansas .Mrs . Margaret M . Gerlach, mother of Mrs .

'Josh Lee, (Louise Gerlach, '23) died at herhome in Norman on January 10 . - She wasformerly a resident of Woodward, where Mr .Gerlach homesteaded when the Cherokee Stripopened in 1893 . Survivors include two daugh-ters, Mrs . Lee, wife of the former United Statessenator, and Mr's . J . C. Stephenson, Norman,wife of the late director of the department ofanatomy at the School of Medicine .Meredith Hickey, '19=23, has been appointed

production manager of a large government armorplant recently constructed at Madison, Illinois .He was formerly an executive with the General

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Steel Casting Corporation at Eddystone, Pennsyl-vania . Mr. Hickey, one-time resident of Mus-kogee and Oklahoma City, served in the firstWorld War . He was a member of Beta ThetaPi fraternity while attending the University .

William B . Hogg, '23ed, '30ms, is a physicistwith the National Geophysical Company in Lit-tle Rock, Arkansas .

Marble J . Carpenter, '24geo1, formerly ofWoodward, is an engineer with the War Depart-ment at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York .Mike Monroney, '24ba, Oklahoma represent-

ative, has been appointed assistant housewhip forZone 12, consisting of Oklahoma, for this sessionof Congress. As assistant to the majority whip,he wilt help round up Democratic party mem-bers for votes and keep the representatives onthe floor at critical moments .

Harrington Wimberly, '24ba, has resigned asOklahoma director of the Office of War Infor-mation to devote more time to the publicationof his newspaper, the Altus Times-Democrat . Hewas succeeded by Dan Delaney, '22, long-timeOklahoma City newspaperman.

"Invertebrate Fauna from the Blaine and DogCreek Formations of the Permian Leonard Series"is the title of an article by R. L . Clifton, '25ma,Enid, which appeared in the November, 1942issue of journal of Paleontology . In the articleMr. Clifton, geologist with the Champlin Re-fining Company at Enid, lists descriptions for37 series of invertebrates, four of them new. Hewas formerly a professor at Northwestern StateCollege at Alva .

Rosa E . Means, '25he, stewardess at the Peters-burg Federal Reformatory in Virginia for thelast four years, died December 27 at Petersburgfollowing a long illness . She was 40 years old .Miss Means had been stewardess in the VeteransHospital at Columbia, South Carolina, and pre-viously was in similar work at Miami, Florida .She received a master's degree at the Universityof Chicago and took post-graduate work at Wil-liam and Mary College in Williamsburg, Vir-ginia . Miss Means was the daughter of the lateMr. and Mrs . . G. B . Means of Oilton, Oklahoma .Survivors include four brothers .

Jess I. Miracle, '21-'25, Okemah, was slatedlast month for appointment as district judge ofa new Okfuskee County district judgeship elim-inated two years ago and recently re-establishedby legislative action . Mr . Miracle was formerlycounty judge of Okfuskee county .ISHAM-POTTER : Announcement has been

made of the marriage of Miss Ora Isham, Perry,and Paul I . Potter, '251aw, Blackwell, April 24,1942 at Claremore. Mrs . Potter, a graduate ofOklahoma A . and M. College at Stillwater, wasformerly employed as deputy court clerk forNoble County . The couple are living near Black-well, where Mr . Potter practices law .

J . R. Reeves, '26ms, is a physicist at the NavalOrdnance Laboratory in Chevy Chase, Maryland .C . A . Stoldt, '26eng, served as chief engineer

and later as contract manager for the Harmon-Cowen and Norton-Tankersley ConstructionCompany, which recently completed construc-tion on Naval projects near Norman . Mr . Stoldtwas formerly efficiency engineer with the Okla-homa Board of Affairs .

Joseph W . Bird, '27ma, is a civilian trainingofficer with the Office of Chief of Ordnance inWashington, D . C . At the present he is sta-tioned at the Ordnance office in Pittsburgh.

Ira W . Davis, '27ba, formerly of Gainesville,Texas, is with the Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany in Dallas .

MARCH, 1943

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-1928-Bob Aubrey, '281aw, was sworn in as Superior

Court judge at Seminole early in January. Mr.Aubrey, a veteran of World War I, has beencounty judge of Seminole County for the lasteight years .

After a busy semester spent in carrying a fullschedule of school work while managing a home,Ruth Glaze, '26-'28, completed her college edu-cation in February when she was graduatedfrom Washington University in St . Louis witha bachelor of arts degree. She was, in addition,elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the highest scholastichonor a bachelor of arts student can receive .Mrs . Glaze left University classes and her job assecretary to the dean of the College of Engineer-ing in 1928 to marry John Glaze, '28eng, nowa division equipment maintenance supervisor forthe American Telephone and Telegraph Com-pany in St. Louis . A feature story about howshe finished college with accompanying picture,which appeared in the St. Louis Star-Timesshortly before her graduation, dubbed Mrs . Glazethe "housekeeping co-ed ." The Glazes have twodaughters, Johna, 7, and Helen, 4 .

Charles Moss, '28law, has been named pub-lic defender by the judges of Courts of Recordin Oklahoma County . He formerly served asassistant county attorney under Lewis R. Morris,' 17law .

-1929-RATLIFF-BUSHYHEAD : Miss Christine Rat-

liff, Oklahoma City, and Dennis Bushyhead, '29law, Claremore, were married January 16 inOklahoma City. Mrs . Bushyhead, who attendedCottey College at Nevada, Missouri, was em-ployed in the office of the clerk of the stateSupreme Court before her marriage. Mr . Bushy-head, a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity,practices law in Claremore and Tulsa.

Cecil S . Cary, '29eng, is a chemist with theSinclair Oil Refining Company at Houston, Tex-as .Bob M . Cornelius, '25-'29, has resigned as as-

sistant manager of the Oklahoma City BetterBusiness Bureau to accept a position in the per-sonnel office of the Douglas Aircraft plant there .Mr. Cornelius has been associated with the Bu-reau since 1937.Don Dickason, '291aw, Albuquerque attorney,

was named Democratic floor leader of the NewMexico Senate at a majority caucus in January .Former Okmulgee resident, Senator Dickasonwas first elected to the New Mexico Senate in1936. During this, the 16th session of the NewMexico Legislature, he planned to introduce abill which would prohibit members of the Leg-islature, during the terms for which they wereelected, from receiving compensation for servicesas an officer or employee of the state . He triedunsuccessfully to get similar legislation passedtwo years ago .Maj . Carmon C. Harris, '291aw, and Mrs. Har-ris have chosen Carmon Coleman, Jr., as the

name for their baby son born January 23 inOklahoma City. Major Harris was stationed atthe judge Advocate General's School at AnnArbor, Michigan .MANTOOTH-ESTEP : Miss Bea Mantooth,

'29ba, '37ma, and Lt. Raymond Estep, both ofPurcell, were married January 23 in MiamiBeach, Florida . Mrs. Estep formerly taught atEl Reno High School . Lieutenant Estep, whoholds degrees from Central State College at Ed-mond, Oklahoma A . and M . College at Stillwaterand the University of Texas at Austin, is withthe Air Force in Miami Beach . He and Mrs .Estep established a home there .

Dick Mason, '29eng, and Mrs . Mason are theparents of a baby daughter, Marilyn, born lastfall in Evanston, Illinois . Mr . Mason, a patentattorney in Chicago, ranked fourth in WesternAssociation tennis doubles last year .L . D . Montgomery, '29ba, '30ms, is a meteor-

ology instructor at Lamesa, Texas . His wife,

Helen, the only woman glider instructor in thecountry, teaches Army fliers to fly gliders there.

-1930-J . W . Boone, '30ba, Atoka merchant has been

appointed a member of the Board of Regents forOklahoma Colleges which supervises the statenormal schools, junior colleges, and LangstonUniversity .Mrs . Frank Walquist (Helen Cook, '30ba)

formerly of Muskogee and Oklahoma City, liveson a Chippewa Indian Reservation in the Wis-consin north woods . Her address is Lac deFlambeau, Wisconsin .Mrs. John Drager (Berths Ours, '30fa), former

Oklahoma artist now a Civil Service employee,has been transferred from Houston, Texas to'San Juan, Puerto Rico, where her husband wasalready stationed on a Civil Service assignment .Mrs . Drager, originally from Oklahoma City, haslived during the last few year's in Honolulu,Shanghai and Saigon, French Indo-China .Dr . Frank Ravitch, '30ba, and Mrs . Ravitch are

the parents of a baby son, their second child,born recently in Baltimore. Dr. Ravitch is resi-dent surgeon and instructor at Johns HopkinsHospital there .

-1931-Samuel N . Alexander, '316a, '33eng, is a civil-

ian employee of the Navy Department in Wash-ington, D. C .Mrs . Neil Keller (Helen Moore, '31) has

moved from Norman to Muskogee to join herhusband, Lieutenant Keller, '33law, who is sta-tioned at Camp Gruber .PUTNAM-DONNELL : Miss Marjorie Putnam,

'31 ba, Carnegie, and Capt . Thomas W . Donnell,'316us, Lindsey, were married January 16 in theOld Post Chapel at Fort Sill . Mrs . Donnell washead of the history department in the Lawtonschools before her marriage . Captain Donnellwas stationed at Fort Sill in January but ex-pected to be transferred soon .Vernon Thornton, '31ms, and Mrs . Thornton

are the parents of a baby son, Vernon Richard,born December 14 in Bartlesville .

-1932-"Women Making Pishofa" was a mural painted

by Indian artist Acee Blue Eagle, '32, Muskogee,for the Coalgate Postoffice just before he en-tered the Army as a private. The mural showsa group of Choctaw Indian women under abrush arbor preparing pishofa, an Indian dishmade from corn .Capt . Oliver W . Hammonds, '32ba, and Mrs .

Hammonds are the parents of a baby son bornrecently in Washington, D . C . Captain Ham-monds is on duty at Air Force headquarters there .

1933'~Marie Dorney, '336a, resigned her position

with the United Provident Association in Okla-homa City in January to enroll in the Universityof Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh . She is workingtowards her master's degree in social work .

George W . Edwards, '33ph .c, formerly ofPrague, is owner and manager of a drug storeat Leedey.

Forrest Hasbrook, '33, Anadarko, is employedas a jig builder with the Douglas Aircraft Com-pany in Santa Monica, California.KETCHUM-CLEVELAND : Miss Lorraine

Ketchum, '33ba, Oklahoma City, and W. H.Cleveland, Jr ., Tulsa, were married February 14in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Cleveland, assistantdirector of the State Department of Public Wel-fare, will continue to make her home in Okla-homa City while Mr . Cleveland completes workon his doctorate at Harvard University . Heholds degrees from Swarthmore College inSwarthmore, Pennsylvania, and the University ofTexas at Austin.Rev. George Massad, '33, served as chaplain of

the Oklahoma House of Representatives during

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the first full week of its session. Reverend Mas-sad is pastor of St . Elijah's Orthodox Church inOklahoma City.

-1934Millard A . Deason, '34eng, Oklahoma City, is

employed as an electrical engineer in New Iberia,Louisiana .

Merrill T . Endicott, '34eng, Newkirk, is em-ployed as a chemist in Port Arthur, Texas .HOOVER-WRIGHT : Miss Mary Edith Hoover,

'34ba, and Sgt . James M . Wright, both of Altus,were married December 4 at Lubbock, Texas .The couple established a home at Lubbock whileSergeant Wright was stationed at the South PlainsArmy Flying School there .Loyd Benefield and Mrs . Benefield (Margaret

Jean Weldon, '34fa) are the parents of a babyson, Barry Weldon, born December 28 in Okla-homa City .

-1935-O. I . Jantz, '35ms, is a physicist with the Geo-

physical Research Corporation at Woodville, Tex-as .Mrs . Glen E . Wilmuth (Lillian Roemer, '35ba)

has been stationed at Sulphur Springs, Texas asan aircraft communicator, after completing acourse of training under the Civil AeronauticsAuthority in Fort Worth.

Frederick L . Langhorst and Mrs . Langhorst(Lois Wilson, '35ba, '38arch) are the parents ofa baby girl, Nancy, born last summer in Berk-eley, California . Mr. Langhorst is a San Fran-cisco architect .

-1936-WELCH-CLARK : Miss Betty Earle Welch,

McAlester, and Capt . William R. Clark, '36journ,Norman, were married February 7 at Fort Sill .Mrs . Clark is a graduate of Oklahoma Collegefor Women at Chickasha. Captain Clark, amember of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, is stationedat Fort Sill. The couple are at home in Lawton.

John Cunningham, '36fa, is a special agentfor the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Knox-ville, Tennessee.

Capt . Del Vat Dale, '361aw, and Mrs. Daleare the parents of a baby son, Robert Allen,born January 25 . Captain Dale, a former Nor-man attorney, was stationed at Fort Ethan Al-len, Vermont .

Marvin J. Gordon, '36, Oklahoma City, is em-ployed with the Beech Aircraft Company atWichita, Kansas .

Capt . Bryce N . Harlow, '36ba, '42ma, andMrs . Harlow (Betty Larimore, '39ba) are theparents of a baby daughter, Peggy Gindling,born January 11 . Captain Harlow is stationedin the Office of the Chief of Staff in Washington,D . C . He and Mrs . Harlow live in Arlington,Virginia .

Kenneth Jung, '366us, and Mrs. Jung (LucyBoake, '35ed) are the parents of a baby daugh-ter born recently in Norman .Ruth Kimbrell, '35ba, '36m.soc .wk, was ap-

pointed assistant field director for the Red Crosswith United States troops overseas and assignedto Washington, D . C., in January for a brieftraining period before going abroad . Miss Kim-brell resigned as child welfare worker with theCarter County Department of Public Welfare inArdmore to join the Red Cross staff . She form-erly worked with the United Family Services inTulsa and the Alabama State Department ofPublic Welfare .Mrs . William M . Marriott (Bessie Kniseley,

'36eng) is doing architectural work with theChicago firm of Batty and Childs on an AirForce supply depot under construction at To-peka, Kansas . Her husband, Lieutenant Mar-riott, '36eng, is stationed at the Topeka ArmyAir Base .

Charles N . McKinney, '36journ, former re-porter on the Tulsa World, has been apppointeddistrict Office of Price Administration informa-tion officer in Tulsa . Mr . McKinney worked

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-1937-Maj . James R. Arkright, '371aw, and Mrs .

Akright (Elizabeth Darling, '35ba) are the par-ents of a baby daughter born February 2 inOklahoma City. Major Akright is stationed atFort Sill .BRASHEARS-BRADSHAW : Miss Marian Joyce

Brashears and Lt . William H . Bradshaw, '376us,both of Tulsa, were married there on January19 . Mrs . Bradshaw, a graduate of the Univer-sity of Arkansas, remained in Tulsa when Lieu-tenant Bradshaw returned to duty at Camp Hood,Texas .C H A N D L E R-WEISSINGER :

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CarrieChandler, '37ba, Wilburton, and Sgt. Henry H .Weissinger, Enid, were married last Novemberin Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Weissinger iscontinuing her position as financial secretary ofEastern A . and M. College at Wilburton . Ser-geant Weissinger, a graduate of Oklahoma A .and M . College at Stillwater, was director ofathletics at Eastern A . and M . before he enteredthe service. He is now stationed at Kearns, Utahwith the Army Air Force ground forces .HAMMONDS-GISH : Miss Helen Hammonds

and Pvt. David W. Gish, Jr ., '37fa, both of Fred-erick, were married there on January 15 . Mrs .Gish, a graduate of North Texas Teachers Col-lege at Denton, is public librarian at Frederick .Private Gish, professor of music at OklahomaCity University before his entrance into the Army,is stationed at Fort Sill .

After three months of travel interrupted bynumerous delays and stopovers, Edgar Hallock,'376a, and Mrs. Hallock (Zelma Curnutt, '37soc.wk, '38m .soc .wk) arrived in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, in January . The Hallocks, who went toSouth America as representatives of the BaptistChurch, went by boat from New Orleans toSantiago, Chile, and from there to Buenos Aires,Argentina by plane. They were forced to waitthere for two months while difficulties abouttheir visas were cleared up . When official per-mission was granted Mr . and Mrs . Hallock withtheir small daughter Virginia, flew to Rio .Raymond M . Jones, '376a, formerly of Sa-

vannah, Georgia, is resident agent with the Fed-eral Bureau of Investigation in Logan, West Vir-ginia .LINDSAY-BRADY : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Mass Dorothy Eliza-beth Lindsay, '37he, Lindsay, and Lt . Francis J .Brady, Titusville, Pennsylvannia. The bride-elect is a staff dietitian at the Marine Hospitalin Detroit . Lieutenant Brady, a doctgr of den-tal surgery, is stationed with the U . S . PublicHealth Service at Fort St. John, British Columbia,Canada, where the wedding will take place thisspring .

-1938-Murray Hughes and Mrs . Hughes (Frances

Adams, '386us) are the parents of a baby sonborn recently in Oklahoma City .ADDINGTON-FLESHER : Miss Sue Adding-

ton, '386a, Los Angeles, and Lt . W . J . Flesher,Granite City, Illinois, were married December31 at Granite City . The bride, former Okla-homa newspaperwoman, is a member of PhiBeta Kappa honor society . Lieutenant Flesher,formerly of Amarillo, Texas, served seven monthsoverseas at the beginning of the war . He waslast stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri .PENN-ALLEMAND : Miss Jacinta Lewis Penn,

Jacksonville, Florida, and Lt. Arnold E . Alle-mand, Jr ., '38, Pensacola, Florida, were marriedDecember 10 in Jacksonville . Mrs. Allemandattended Florida State College at Tallahassee.Lieutenant Allemand is a member of the NavyAir Corps, stationed at Charleston, South Caro-lina, where the couple are at home.Nina June Appleman, '36-'38, formerly of

Oklahoma City, is a violinist with the AmericanLittle Symphony which was touring the nation'sArmy camps under the sponsorship of the U . S . O.

Miss Appleman attended the Juilliard Schoolof Music after leaving the University .

Arl D . Barry, '38m .ed, formerly of Randlett,Oklahoma, is principal of schools in Hamlin,Texas .C. A . Childers, '34-'38, and Mrs . Childers are

the parents of a baby daughter, Kay Terry, bornFebruary 2 in Oklahoma City.

Helen V . Gunn, '38m .ed, is employed in thesupply department at the Oklahoma City AirDepot .NANNY-NANCE: Miss Maxine Nanny, Tulsa,

and James W . Nonce, '38geol, formerly bf Altus,were married January 23 in Tulsa . For thelast several years Mr. Nonce has been a geologistwith the Standard Oil Company in Caracas,Venezuela . He is now working in Tulsa, wherehe and Mrs . Nonce are living .NORTON-BOCK : Miss Faye Norton, '381ib .

sci, Norman;and Warrant Officer Granville Bock,Lockhart, Texas, were married January 20 inLubbock, Texas. Before her marriage Mrs . Bockwas employed as a librarian in Lubbock . Mr .Bock is stationed at the Army Flying School there .Mrs . Clare Lyon (Stella Radley, '37238)

formerly of Pawnee, is living at Hattiesburg,Mississippi, while her husband, Lieutenant Lyon,is stationed at Camp Shelby .FRANKLIN-REYNOLDS : Miss C h a r l o t t e

Franklin, Oklahoma City, and Copt. Lloyd L.Reynolds, '37-'38, Tulsa, were married January9 in Tulsa . Captain Reynolds has been on ac-tive duty as a navigator in the Army Air Forcefor the last two years, and is credited withsinking a submarine . Captain and Mrs . Reyn-olds are now in Florida where he is stationedtemporarily .W . H. Watford, '386a, '39ma, former prin-

cipal of the high school at Ralston, is an in-structor at Sheppard Field, Texas .

-1939-Dale Barnett, '39, was appointed physical edu-

cation instructor at the Shawnee Junior HighSchool in January .

Staff Sgt . Parks Moore Lafferty, Jr ., and Mrs .Lafferty (Christine Browning, '39) are the par-ents of a baby son, Robert Parks . Mrs . Laffertyis living at Pawnee while her husband is onactive duty in Louisiana .Mrs. John Lokey (Lucia Jane Clark, '396a) is

living in Brooklyn, New York, while her hus-band, Ensign Lokey, '39journ, is stationed at aNew York City airport.FULLERTON-RUNNELS : Miss Oleta Fuller-

ton, '39ed, Sayre, and John B . Runnels, Wichita,Kansas, were married January 2 at Sayre . Mrs .Runnels, former teacher at Erick and Sayre, isan employee of the Cessna Aircraft Company atWichita . Mr . Runnels, who attended the Uni-versity of Missouri, is associated with BoeingAircraft there .

Clyde Kenneth Harris, '39fa ; Konawa, is aninterior designer with offices in the Apco Tower,Oklahoma City .HILTON-FIREBAUGH : Miss Vada Mae Hil-

ton, '38-'39, St. Louis, Oklahoma, and Lt. CharlesM . Firebaugh, '38-'39, Hugo, were married Dc-cember 20 in Oklahoma City . Before her mar-riage Mrs . Firebaugh was employed in ArmyAir Force offices in Washington, D . C . Ljeu-Lieutenant Firebaugh is stationed with the Field Ar-tillery at Fort Sill . The couple are living atLawton .Mrs . Robert D . Huggins (Daphyne Dunford,

'39soc.wk) lives in Hodgenville, Kentucky nearFort Knox, where Lieutenant Huggins, '372 39,is stationed.LAWTON-JOHNSON : Miss Babs Lawton,

'39fa, Bartlesville, and Paul H . Johnson, KansasCity, Missouri, were married January 30 inBartlesville . Mrs . Johnson, a member of KappaAlpha Theta sorority, was employed by the Phil-lips Petroleum Company before her marriage .Mr. Johnson, a graduate of the University ofMinnesota, is employed with Phillips as a re-

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search engineer in Kansas City, where the coupleare at home .Hugh McCullough, '38-39, and Mrs . McCul-

lough are the parents of a baby girl, Sally Jane,born recently in Oklahoma City . One-timesooner football star, Mr . McCullough is a chiefpetty officer in the Navy stationed at the GreatLakes Naval Training Station in Illinois .Edwin Sees, '39ms, is a physicist in the Naval

Research Laboratory in Washington, D. C .R . B . Yadon, Jr., '39law, formerly of Wood-

ward, is connected with the Federal Bureau ofInvestigation in Washington, D . C .BEHRINGER-SPENCE : Miss Mary Jane Beh-

ringer, Detroit, and Lt. John B . Spence, Jr., '39journ, Pawhuska, were married January 15 inSan Antonio, Texas . The couple are living inSan Antonio where Lieutenant Spence is assist-ant public relations officer at Third Army Head-quarters .

1940-ADAMSON-JOHNSON : Miss Mary Louise

Adamson, '406us, Edmond, and Capt. AustinW. Johnson, Ogden, Utah, were to be marriedin January at Edmond . The bride-elect, a mem-ber of Chi Omega sorority, is manager of theticket office of Braniff Airways in San Antonio,Texas . Captain Johnson, who attended the Uni-versity of Utah at Salt Lake City, is squadroncommander at Majors Field, near Greenville,Texas .BALL-HARRISON : Miss Myra Jean Ball, '39-

'40, Ponca City, and R . L . Harrison, Jr., '40,Wichita, Kansas, were married February 6 atPonca City . Mrs . Harrison is a member of AlphaChi Omega sorority . Mr. Harrison, a memberof Delta Upsilon fraternity, is associated withthe Curtis Publishing Company of Wichitawhere the couple are living,BAUM-HENRY : Miss Vernell Baum, '39-'42,

Willow View, and Lt . Berford L . Henry, '406us,Wanette, were married December 26 at Purcell .Mrs . Henry will continue in her position asteacher in the Willow View schools . LieutenantHenry is stationed at Camp Barkeley, Texas .

Lt . James W. Billings, '40eng, and Mrs . Bil-lings (Loralu Dean, '386a) are the parents ofa baby daughter born recently at Norman . Lieu-tenant Billings is stationed in Africa .

Lt . John E . Brumm, '40journ, and Mrs . Brumm(Oletha Gault, '37-'38) are the parents of a babyson, James Earl, born December 19 . LieutenantBrumm is stationed at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin .

Alan S . Cameron, Jr., '401etters, is teachingin the Wagoner High School .SAMUELSON-CARMICHAEL : Miss Genevieve

Samuelson, Perry, and Lt (jg) Carl Carmichael,'33-'40, Norman, were married January 24 atPerry . Mrs . Carmichael is continuing in herposition with the telephone company in Perry .Lieutenant Carmichael, who received his com-mission from the Naval Academy at Annapolisin 1941, has returned to his station in the Carib-bean .

Betty Coleman, '40phys .ed, Norman, hasjoined the staff of the Red Cross as an overseasrecreational director and will be assigned to for-eign duty following training . Miss Colemanspent the last 18 months in New York City at-tending Columbia University and teaching atCalhoun School for Girls .SEAMAN-HULME : Miss Anna Ruth Seaman,

'40bus, Ardmore, and Woodrow W. Hulme, '40bus, Chickasha, were married January 24 at Ard-more . Mrs . Hulme is a member of Delta Gam-ma sorority. Mr. Hulme is associated with theUnited States Department of Justice in NewHaven, Connecticut, where the couple are living .

Joseph T . Kendrick, '40, member of theUnited States Foreign Service, has been trans-ferred to the Department of State in Washing-ton, D. C ., from Managua, Nicaragua. Whilein Managua Mr. Kendrick took correspondencestudy work air-mailed to him by the UniversityExtension Division . He has been connectedwith the diplomatic service for several years .

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Lt . (jg) Benjamin J. Kerr, Jr., '40bus, andMrs. Kerr (Marrian Grace Hardie, '396a) havechosen the name Benjamin J. Kerr III as the namefor their baby son born January 28 at Kirkland,Washington . Lieutenant Kerr is on Naval dutythere .WEBB-MATTHEWS : Miss Sally Ann Webband Sam M . Matthews, '40bus, both of Norman,were married February 13 at Ardmore . Mrs .Matthews is employed in Norman by the Okla-homa Tax Commission . Mr. Matthews, a

memberberofSigma Chifraternity, isassociated withthe Chickasaw Lumber Company at Normanwhere the couple are at home.LOVELL-MAYFIELD : Miss Mary Ruth Lovelland Leo C . Mayfield, '37-'40, both of OklahomaCity, were married there January 17 . Mr . May-

field is a chief petty officer in the United StatesCoast Guard, stationed at Providence, RhodeIsland .BENTON-RAUH : Miss Ermal Benton, Hous-ton, Texas, and Arthur John Rauh, '36-'37, '39-'40, Alva, were married December 31 in Hous-

ton . Mrs Rauh is a graduate of Hardin BaylorCollege . She and Mr. Rauh are living in Hous-ton.BLOUNT-REED : Announcement has beenmade of the engagement of Miss Laura JuneBlount, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lt. JohnM . Reed, '37-'40, Oklahoma City. No date hasbeen set for the wedding . Miss Blount, who at-tended the University of New Mexico, is a mem-ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She isemployed with the Albuquerque National Trustand Savings Bank . Lieutenant Reed, a memberof Sigma Nu fraternity, is a bombardier in-structor at Williams Field, Arizona .SWAN-PADBERG: Miss Helen Swan, '40fa,

Konawa, and Dr . Frank T . Padberg, Ann Ar-bor, Michigan, were to be married February 6at Konawa . The bride-elect, a member of PiBeta Phi sorority, was violinist with Ada Leon-ard's All-American Girl Orchestra which touredArmy camps last year. She was winner of theHolmberg Memorial Award in 1940 . Dr. Pad-berg, member of Phi Beta Pi fraternity and a,graduate of Northwestern University MedicalSchool, is an interne at the University Hospitalin Ann Arbor.FRISBY-THOMPSON : Miss Louise Frisby andLt . Theodore R . Thompson, '37-'40, both ofOkmulgee, . were married there on January 16 .Mrs . Thompson, a graduate of Oklahoma Bap-tist University at Shawnee, taught school atWellston before her marriage . LieutenantThompson, a member of the Medical Corps, isstationed at Camp Barkeley, Texas. The coupleare at home in Abilene .WARD-TOWNSEND ; Announcement has beenmade of the marriage last August 9 in Shawneeof Mrs . Blanche Ward and Lt. Owen Townsend,'401aw, both of Marietta . Lieutenant Townsend,former state representative from Love County,is stationed at Fort Washington, Maryland, inthe Adjutant General's Department .GODWIN-WILLIAMS : Miss Margaret Godwin,Sherman, Texas, and Walter T . Williams, Jr .,'40bus, Ardmore, were married January 10 inDallas . Mr . and Mrs . Williams are living inDallas where they are both employed by theNorth American Aviation Company.

-1941-Mrs . Floyd H . Keller (Lepha Beebe, '41ba) isemployed in the accounting department of HallsBookstore in Topeka, Kansas . Lieutenant Keller,'39pharm, is on foreign duty .Cpl. James A . Biondo, '41fa, and Mrs . Biondo

Lucille McGuire, '32fa) are the parents of ababy daughter, Mary, born last November. Cor-poral Biondo, formerly on the faculty of theSchool of Drama, is stationed at Fort George G .Meade, Maryland with a Medical Detachment.GRIFFES-BOOTZ : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Charlotte LouiseGriffes, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Cadet Charles R . H .Bootz, '39-'41, Oklahoma City . No date was

announced for the wedding . Miss Griffes is em-ployed by the Hazeltine Service Corporation, Lit-tle Neck, New York . Cadet Bentz, a memberof Phi Delta Theta fraternity, will graduate fromthe United States Military Academy at West Point,New York, in June, 1944 .Dale Ray Cole, '41eng, is employed as an en-

gineer with the Curtiss-Wright Airplane Com-pany in St . Louis .Ruth Goodbread Cox, '38-'41, reported she raninto three Sooners on the main street of Dayton,Ohio in one hour one evening . She saw PatriciaJacques, '41journ, employed nearby at Wright

Field, and Lt. James C . Hubbard, '37-'41, andhis wife, the former Ruth Coyle, '416a . Mrs .Cox is employed in the cataloging department ofthe Dayton Public Library .CHESNUT-STEINMEYER : Miss Marion Ches-nut, '39-'41, Oklahoma City, and Lt . George

Steinmeyer, Jr., '40, St . Louis, were marriedJanuary 30 in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Steinmeyeris a member of Delta Gamma sorority . Lieuten-ant Steinmeyer, a member of Phi Kappa Psi fra-ternity, is stationed at Fort Sill . The couple areat home in Lawton.

Lt . Denver B . Davison, '36-'41, and Mrs . Dav-ison (Susan Norris, '41ba) are the parents of ababy son born January 21 at Ada. LieutenantDavison is serving on the Tunisian fighting front.Arthemise Doughty, '411ib .sci, was recently ap-pointed librarian at Oklahoma City University . .She was formerly a librarian in Kansas City,

Missouri .Joe Dunham, '396a, '41m .ed, was appointedprincipal of the high school at Elgin followinghis recent medical discharge from the Navy . Mr.Dunham resigned from the Elgin faculty lastyear to join the Navy .C . Harlan Dunn, '41eng, and Mrs . Dunn arethe parents of a baby daughter, Beverly Sue,born January 27 in Tulsa . Mr . Dunn is a civilengineer with the U . S . Engineers Office there .LAWRENCE-ESTES : Miss Evelyn Lawrence,

Tulsa, and Cpl . Robert J . Estes, '41, Coalgate,were married February 3 in Baltimore . Mrs .Estes attended Southeastern State College at Dur-ant and East Central State College at Ada . Cor-poral Estes is stationed at Edgewood Arsenal,Maryland . Mrs . Estes has returned to her homein Tulsa for the present.MILLS-EVERETT : Miss Margaret Ellen Millsand J. P. Everett, '36-'41, seaman first class inthe Coast Guard, both of Hominy, were marriedon December 18 . Mrs. Everett was employed atthe Cessna Aircraft plant in Wichita, Kansas be-fore her marriage. Mr . Everett is stationed atNorfolk, Virginia, where he and Mrs . Everett areat home .NICHOLS-HERLACHER : Miss Lucille Nich-

ols, '37, Montebello, California, and Lt. Leo Her-lacher, '37-'41, Shawnee, were married Decem-ber 13 at Las Vegas, Nevada . Mrs . Herlacher isemployed as a cashier in a Las Vegas bank .Lieutenant Herlacher is an instructor at the ArmyGunnery School at Las Vegas where the coupleare at home .

Lt . James C. Hubbard, '37-'41, and Mrs . Hub-hard (Roberta Ruth Coyle, '41ba) are the par-ents of a baby daughter, Linda Carol, born lastNovember . Lieutenant Hubbard is chief of thepayroll unit at Wright Field, Ohio .Mary Frances Hunter, '41phys .ed, former Tul-sa teacher now overseas with the American RedCross, was reported the first Oklahoma womanin foreign service on the Red Cross recreational

division staff .-1942-

ALEXANDER-WHEELER : Miss Doris LouiseAlexander, '39-'42, New Orleans, and Lt . Otis B .Wheeler, '426a, Tulsa, were married January 17at Tulsa . Lieutenant Wheeler was stationed atCamp Chaffee, Arkansas with the Field Artillery .He and Mrs . Wheeler were living near there atFort Smith .BAKER-HOUCK : Miss Catherine Baker, '42soc.wk, Cordell, and Lt . Frederick L. Houck,

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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, were married February6 at Cordell . Lieutenant Houck, a graduate ofthe Teachers College at Bloomsburg, Pennsyl-vania, is stationed at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.He and Mrs . Houck are living near there atMuskogee .S. C . Barton, '38-'42, and Mrs. Barton (Nova

Dell Scruder ; '42speech) are the parents of ababy daughter born February 2 at Ada. Mr .Barton is assistant manager of several movingpicture houses in Ada .BERRY-PERNALETE : Miss Patricia Berry, '41-

'42, Oklahoma City, and Gaston Pernalete, Cara-cas, Venezuela, were married November 5 atPerry . Mr. Pernalete is a student in the Collegeof Engineering at the University . He and Mrs .Pernalete will live at Norman until he completesschool work . Later they plan to make theirhome in Caracas .BRETZ-CRAWFORD : Miss Olive Bretz, '40-

'42, Oklahoma City, and Ensign William F .Crawford, Jr., '42bus, Mobile, Alabama, weremarried January 30 in Oklahoma City . Mrs .Crawford is a member of Chi Omega sorority .Ensign Crawford, a member of Sigma Nu fra-ternity, received his commission January 28 fromthe Naval Training School at Notre Dame Uni-versity in South Bend, Indiana .BROOKS-HIXON : Miss Frances Gibbons

Brooks, '40-'42, Purcell, and William L . HixonIII, '42eng, Barrington, Illinois, were to be mar-ried in February . The bride-elect is a member ofKappa Alpha Theta sorority . Mr. Hixon, amember of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, expected tograduate with an ensign's commission from theNavy Midshipmen's School in New York on Feb-ruary 17 .

Jose Cirigliano, '42eng, was employed as a ju-nior petroleum engineer by the Standard OilCompany of Venezuela at Caripito .COSSOTA-CLARY : Miss LeVeta Cossota,

Oklahoma City, and Lt. James C . Clary, '38-'42,Ada, were married January 10 in the post chapelat Tinker Field near Oklahoma City . Mrs . Clarywas employed in the general offices at TinkerField before her marriage . Lieutenant Clarywas stationed in the armament office there.JORDAN-CLAY : Miss Martha Ruth Jordan,

Long Beach, California, and Pvt . Charles L . Clay,'31-'42, Kansas City, Missouri, were marriedJanuary 10 in San Diego, California . Mrs . Clayis employed with the Douglas Aircraft Companyin Long Beach . Private Clay is on foreign dutyas a Marine Corps draftsman .

Vivian E . Daugherty; '42ed, Ada, was assignedto the Station Hospital at the Amarillo, Texas,Army Air Field .DORNEY-THROWER : Miss Betty Dorney, '41-

'42, and Floyd Thrower, both of Oklahoma City,were married there on December 25 . Beforeher marriage Mrs. Thrower was employed by theOklahoma Paper Company . Mr . Thrower is as-sociated with the Hanson-Whitney Company inHartford, Connecticut, where the couple are mak-ing their home .

Charles B . Gangwer, '42eng, Kilgore, Texas, isa mechanical engineer in the Navy Departmentin Washington, D . C .

Margaret Gilbreath, '42journ, has been em-ployed by the MacArthur Photo Company inOklahoma City.GUNTHER-ARD : Announcement has been

made of the marriage last August 10 of MissTrudy Gunther, '42bus, Norman, to RaymondE . Ard, Pauls Valley. The wedding took placein El Reno . Mrs . Ard is employed in the bus-iness office of the Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany in Norman . Mr . Ard, a senior in theCollege of Engineering, is a member of the ArmyReserve Corps . The couple will live at Normanwhile he continues his school work .JAQUA-BODMAN : Miss Joanne Frances Jaqua,

'41-'42, and Ensign Glenn T . Bodman, Jr., '42bus, both of Ponca City, were married there onDecember 27 . Ensign Bodman received hiscommission from the Navy Midshipmen's Schoolat Notre Dame University in South Bend, In-diana .

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