Calling the Roll of Sooner ClassesBy ELIZABETH LEES

-1908-George C . Smith, '08ba, assistant to the pres-

ident of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-road, has been elected chairman and presidentof the Chamber of Commerce in St. Louis, Mis-souri . Mr . Smith formerly taught economics atthe University .

_1910-Frank Buttram, '10ba, '12ma, Oklahoma City

oil man who has served as president of the In-dependent Petroleum Association of Americasince 1939, recently retired from office at theannual meeting of the association in Fort Worth,Texas . He also resigned from all other com-mittee assignments with the exception of the In-dependent Petroleum Producers Association ofwhich he is chairman .

1920~THOMASON-KUNSEMULLER : Miss Zella

Thomason, Enid, and Carl H . Kunsemuller, '20ba g Wichita, Kansas, were married December 19at Norman . Mrs . Kunsemuller has been asso-ciate district supervisor in the Farm Security Ad-ministration with headquarters in Enid . Mr .Kunesmuller is vocational rehabilitation officerin Kansas for the Veterans Administration . Thecouple will live in Wichita .

-1921-Nancy Kate Brodnax, '216a, Dallas, Texas, is

new Red Cross assistant field director at MareIsland Navy Yard, California . Miss Brodnax ison leave from the faculty of Eastern WashingtonCollege of Education, Cheney, Washington .

Fred H . Ward, '216a, manager of the Cleve-land, Ohio, branch of the United States Cham-ber of Commerce, was recently elected secretaryof the Cleveland Exchange Club . Mrs . Ward isthe former Bernice Bush, '16ba .Mrs . Leonora Horn Ward, '21ba, is employed

as a science instructor at Yukon High School .

-1922-Frances Roderick, daughter of two alumni,

presided as queen of the 1944 Southwestern SunCarnival in El Paso, Texas . Her father, Capt .Dorrance D . Roderick, '226a, is in the ArmyMilitary Government School, Madison, Wiscon-sin . Mrs . Dorrance is the former Olga Burnett,'22 . -1924-ALBRIGH'I'-DUNCAN : Miss Ethel Albright,

'24he, formerly of Alva, and John H . Duncan,Woodward, were married December 25 in Wood-ward . Mrs. Duncan was formerly hostess atShockley Hall at Northwestern State College inAlva . Mr . Duncan is manager of the KimballMilling Company in Woodward, where thecouple have established a home .

Katherine Graham, '24ph .g, '25pharm, '27ms,former member of the faculty of the UniversitySchool of Pharmacy, is employed as a controlchemist in the Sears, Roebuck and Companylaboratories in Chicago .

~1927x--Lloyd Story, '271aw, Valliant, has resigned

from the legal department of the State LandCommission to join the law firm of Paul andPaul at Pauls Valley . The firm will be knownas Paul, Story and Paul .

-1928-Fred Wallace, '28, attorney and former O . U .

basketball star, died November 29 in San Diego,

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California, after a long illness . He was 40 yearsold . Mr . Wallace was a member of a youngO. U . basketball team that first propelled Okla-homa into the limelight as a major basketballpower by defeating the University of Kansas 26-20 at Norman . Survivors include his wife, theformer Virginia Ballard, '30ba .

-1929-TOWNSEND-DICKASON : Miss Mabel Town-

send, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Don L .Dickason, '291aw, formerly of Okemah, weremarried December 24 in Albuquerque . Thecouple are making their home in Albuquerque,where Mr . Dickason has been an attorney since1931 . Mrs . Dickason is manager of a group ofapartment houses there .

Lerton W . Hooker, '29bus, Lyons, Kansas, ismanager of the Chicago office of General Mills .GIVENS-MINTER : Miss Christine Givens,

Chickasha, and Pvt. James H . Minter, '29, Pocas-set, Oklahoma, were married December 12 atAmarillo, Texas . Mrs. Givens has been em-ployed in the Borden General Hospital in Chick-asha . Private Minter was stationed at Amarillowhere the couple will make their home .

Taylor Mitchell, '29ms, Ada, has been ap-pointed professor of physics at Fast Central StateCollege, Ada . Mr . Mitchell formerly taughtphysics at the Oklahoma Military Academy, Clare-more .

SOUTHWORTH-McGEHEE : Announcementhas been made of the marriage of Miss MetricSouthm,rili . Mit,hinson, Kansas, to Rex Me-

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-1930-

Paul Miller, '30, former Oklahoma news-paperman who is chief of the Washington,1) . C ., bureau of the Associated press, hasbeen promoted to assistant general managerof the world-wide newsgathering organi-zation . He will continue as chief of theWashington bureau .Announcement of the promotion came

from Kent Cooper, general manager of thenews service in New York City .

Gehee, '30geol, Norman, September 4 in St . Louis,Missouri . Mr. McGehee is head of the strati-graphic department of the Shell Oil Company atTulsa .

Martha M . Toots, '30ba, '39ma, Dover, Okla-homa, is a visitor for the Logan County WelfareDepartment with headquarters in Guthrie .

-1931-Oklahoma visitors in New York who were

guests recently of Sherman Billingsley, a nativeSooner who operates the Stork Club, were B . B .Kerr, '31law, and Aubrey Kerr, '28law, brotherof Gov . Robert S. Kerr, '16, and Aubrey'sdaughter Margaret, '28-'30 . Miss Kerr, a mem-ber of the Ferry Command, is on transport dutywith headquarters in Detroit, Michigan . TheKerrs saw the stage show OI<lahomal and laterinct the cast .Mr. Burr McWhirt, '316a, '32geol, '33eng, and

Mrs . McWhirt (Doris Mundy, '31fa), Washing-ton, D . C ., were visited recently by their son,Capt. Joseph R . McWhirt, who has had seven-teen months of active duty in the South Pacific .Mr . McWhirt is employed in the income tax unitof the Internal Revenue Building .IIUMPHREYS-PRICE : Miss Verna Humph-

reys, Presidio, Texas, and Lt . William J . Price,'31eng, Duncan, were married November 7 atMarfa, Texas. Mrs . Price, a graduate of theUniversity of Texas, Austin, is employed at CampHood, Texas . Lieutenant Price, a former employeeof the Texas Company in Colombia, South Ameri-ca, was stationed at Camp Hood .RIGGS-WILSON : Announcement has been

made of the marriage of Miss Lois Riggs, SaltLake City, Utah, to Lt. Archie T . Wilson, '30-'31, Elk City, October 29 at Fort Douglas, Utah .Lieutenant Wilson, who was employed as a CivilService agent with the Internal Revenue depart-ment, has been sent overseas .

-1932-Sgt . Jack S . Lewis, '32, and Mrs . Lewis have

chosen the name Jack S . Lcwis, Jr ., for theirbaby son born December 20 in Oklahoma City .Sergeant Lewis was stationed in India .

-1933-Joe Porter Ballard, '331aw, former Oklahoma

County deputy sheriff, is employed in the trustdivision of the First National Bank and TrustCompany .R . M . Bcllatti, '33ba, Blackwell, managing

editor of the Stillwatcr brews-Press, received a $50war bond offered as first prize in the OklahomaNatural Gas Company's monthly editorial con-test .COURTNEY-BRAND : Miss Ellen Courtney,

Kansas City, Missouri, and Lt . Ralph E . Brand,'33ba, '38ma, Moore, Oklahoma, were marriedOctober 30 at Goldsboro, North Carolina . Mrs .Brand is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute .Lieutenant Brand, a member of Kappa Sigmafraternity, was stationed at Seymour JohnsonField, North Carolina, in an aviation pre-tech-nical school . Lieutenant Brand, former O . U .baseball player, was field representative forLindenwood College, St . Charles, Missouri, beforeentering service.

-1934-(',us Hocnscheidt, '32-'34, is associated with the

Brauntex Theatre in New Braunfels, Texas . Mrs .Hoenscheidt is the former Joan Truitt, '32-'35 .PULLEN-HEATH : Miss Louise Pullen, of the

WAC, and Cpl . Paul W . Heath, '34, both ofWilson, Oklahoma, were married November 14in Lexington, South Carolina . Mrs . Heath wasstationed at Fort McClellan, Alabama . Corporalheath, a former employee of the Liash Drilling

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Company, Ardmore, was stationed at Fort Jack-son, South Carolina .

Lt. Comdr. W . M . Holmes, '34eng, and Mrs .Holmes (Mary Lelia Kidd, '32-'33) are the par-ents of a baby daughter Barbara born December4 in Norman . Commander Holmes has beenstationed in Washington, D . C ., with the Bureauof Navigation .

- 1935-Mrs . Pearl Fitzsimmons Burkett, '35ed, Noble,

is an instructor in the Yeoman School forWAVES at Oklahoma A . and M . College, Still-water .JONES-ELY : Miss Ethel Jones and W . E . Ely,

'35m .ed, Mangutn, were married December 11at Hooker . Mrs . Ely, a graduate of PanhandleA . and M . College, Goodwell, teaches at Hookerwhere Mr. Ely is superintendent . He receivedhis bachelor's degree at Southwestern Institute ofTechnology, Weatherford .G . Wendell Hagood, '351aw, and Mrs . Hagood

are the parents of a baby son Kenneth WendellHagood born in December. Mr . Hagood is aDurant attorney .NORTH-WELTON : Miss Elynor North, Tulsa,

and Sgt . Burrell A. Welton, '35, Stigler, weremarried November 20 at Kiefer, Oklahoma . Mrs .Welton is a former teacher at Stigler. SergeantWelton was stationed at Jefferson Barracks, Mis-souri .

MARCH, 1944

- 1936-Lt . Howard Chaille and Mrs . Chaille (Naomi

Hardwick, '36fa) are the parents of a baby daugh-ter Claudia Marie . Lieutenant Chaille has justreturned from overseas duty .Bob Lee Kidd, Jr ., '36journ, Poteau, editor

and general manager of the Alva Review-Courier,has purchased an interest in the Review Publish-ing Company, which publishes the Alva WeeklyRecord as well as the Review-Courier.MOHR-MASSENGILL : Announcement has

been made of the engagement of Miss Ioda An-nabel Mohr to Earl Bernard Massengill, Jr., '36bs,both of Oklahoma City . Miss Mohr attendedOklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee . Mr .Massengill, who was formerly employed by theStandard Oil Company in South America, isstationed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, withthe Army Signal Corps under Civil Service.

Ivahugh Pickens, '36m .ed, Duncan, recentlyarrived in England as an American Red Crossrecreation worker . Miss Pickens formerly taughtdramatics at Des Plaines, Illinois .

- 1937--GAREN-FI?CATER : Miss Pearl Garen, '37ba,

'40ma, formerly in the WAVES, and Lt . John Cor-don Fechter, Berkeley, California, of the Navy, weremarried December 11 at Clinton . Mrs . Fechter is aformer history teacher at Painpa, Texas . The coupleare at home in Ft . Worth, Texas, where LieutenantFechter is stationed .Dr . Edgar Hallock, '37ba, Norman, a Baptist

minister in Brazil, was selected as one of thegroup to entertain the missionary repatriates onthe Gripsholm when it docked at Rio de Janeiroen route to the United States .Edward Harry (Mickey) Parks, '33-'37, chief

specialist in the Navy, and Mrs. Parks are theparents of a baby (laughter born December 22in New York . Mr. Parks, O . U. football star,is an athletic director stationed at Memphis .RANSON-DUNHAM : Miss Frances Ranson,

'37ma, Hitchcock, and Lowell Dunham, '326a,'35ma, Norman, were married November 5 atSan Juan, Puerto Rico . Both Mr. and Mrs .Dunham were formerly staff members of CentralState College, Edmond . Mr . Dunham is con-nected with the Federal Bureau of Investigationat San Juan, where the couple will live .STUMP-WARD : Announcement has been madeof the marriage of Miss Cora Lee Stump, Okla-

homa City, to Bart A . Ward, '37fa, '38fa, '39m.fa, Weatherford, October 16 in OklahomaCity . Mrs. Ward is a graduate of Hill's BusinessCollege. Mr. Ward, well known artist and

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sculptor and former O. U . track star, is employedas an artist in the production department of theDouglas Aircraft Plant, Oklahoma City .

-1938-Mrs . Dorothy W. Chapin, '38journ, is em-

ployed by the J . Walter Thompson Company,national advertising agency, as a radio copy-writer in Los Angeles, California .P . Jefferson Conkwright, '38ma, Princeton Uni-

versity Press art director, has designed the formatof the complete edition of Thomas Jefferson'swritings to be published by Princeton Universityand the New Yorlt Times. The set will consistof fifty volumes . Mr. Conkwright was formerlyart editor of the University of Oklahoma Press .Mrs . Orville Avery (Faye Crisp, '38ba, '39ma)

and Glory Ann Crisp, '42ba, have been employedas language teachers in Alva High School . Thetwo are sisters and both majored in languagesat the University . Mrs . Avery previously taughtat Altus .

Elizabeth Edgington, '38bus, Ponca City, is withthe American Red Cross in the Southwest Pacificas a personnel worker .

Betty Copmann Lynn, '38fa, formerly of theUniversity of Oklahoma Press staff, is employedin advertising work with Fuller and Smith antiRoss, Incorporated, New York City .RICE-RUSSELL : Miss Betty Lou Rice, '34-'38,

El Reno, and John C. Russell, '38, Wichita Falls,Texas, were married November 28 at El Reno .Mrs . Russell is a member of Chi Omega sorority .Mr. Russell is a flight instructor at MustangField, El Reno, where the couple will live .

Harold G . Shank, '34-'38, yeoman third classin the Navy, and Mrs . Shank are the parents ofa baby son born in Dallas . Mr . Shank is in theoffice of Naval Office Procurement .Edna Thain, '38soc .wk, Waukotnis, recently

arrived in England as an American Recl Crosshospital social worker . Miss Thain was previouslyassigned to Camp Phillips, Kansas .WADLEY-BOWEN : Miss Ruth Wadley, '33-

'38, Norman, and Cumbie Bowen, Tallahasee,Alabama, were married November 20 in Wash-ington, D . C . Mrs. Bowen, former secretary inthe University English department, has been em-ployed as a senior clerk in the Treasury Depart-ment . Mr. Bowen, a graduate of PolytechnicInstitute of Business Administration at Auburn,Alabama, is employed in personnel work in theDepartment of Agriculture in Washington .

-1939-Otis Blankenship, '391aw, Norman, has been

appointed Cleveland County attorney, succeedingR . O . Smith, Jr ., '301aw, who will resume pri-vate practice . Mr . Blankenship held the postprior to entering military service in 1942 . Herecently was retired from active duty as a cap-tain to the inactive reserve officers roll .

Lt . Davis Beaumont and Mrs . Beaumont (RoseBurns, '39he) are the parents of a baby daughterCarol Rose born December 10 at Boston, Massa-chusetts . Lieutenant Beaumont is with theChemical Warfare Service at the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology .JERVIS-ELLIOTT : Miss Marie Jervis, New-

castle, and Lt . Guy Elliott, '39bus, Blanchard,were married December 28 in Oklahoma City.Mrs. Elliott attended Hill's Business College .Lieutenant Elliott, a member of Acacia fraternity,was stationed at Quonset Point, Rhode Island .HARDER-ATHERTON : Announcement has

been made of the engagement of Miss GeraldineHarder, '39ed, '40m .ed, Bartlesville, to Lt. W . R .Atherton, Bangor, Maine . Miss Harder has beenemployed by the Phillips Petroleum Companyin Bartlesville . Lieutenant Atherton, a graduateof Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,was stationed in Washington, I) . C ., with theAir Corps .EARLEY-JONES : Miss Gae Farley and Cadet

Robert G . Jones, '37-'39, both of Oklahoma City,were married Christmas day in Oklahoma City .Mrs . Jones has been employed by the OklahomaPublishing Company . Cadet Jones, a former

employee of the Oklahoma Publishing Company,was stationed at the Basic Flying School at Enid .Don Loewen, '39fa, Clifton, employed by Di-

rect Mail Service Incorporated in Oklahoma City,spoke at a meeting of the Southwestern Associa-tion of Industrial Editors on cover designs andinside layouts .BRYAN-PHILPOTT : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Lucy LouiseBryan, Reynolds, Georgia, to Lt . Jimmie MendelPhilpott, '38-'39, Oklahoma City . Miss Bryan isa graduate of Mary Baldwin College, Staunton,Virginia . Lieutenant Philpott, who graduatedfrom the United States Military Academy, WestPoint, New York, was stationed at Tampa, Flor-ida, with the Army Air Force .THOMPSON-GIBBS : Miss Mary jessamine

Thompson, '39ed, Muskogee, and Capt . WilliamDwight Gibbs, Topeka, Kansas, were marriedChristmas Eve at Muskogee. Mrs . Gibbs is amember of Pi Beta Phi sorority . Captain Gibbs,who attended the Graduate School of HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, was sta-tioned at Camp Swift .WATKINS-WESBROOK : Announcement has

been made of the marriage of Miss Marie Wat-kins, '37-'3 1), lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps,to Lt. John E . Wesbrook, Aurora, Illinois. Mrs .Wesbrook, formerly of Hobart, was stationed atCamp Barkelcy, California, in the Station Hos-pita! .

1940-CLARK-PIASECKI : Announcement has been

made of the marriage of Joan Clark, '38-'40,lieutenant in the WAC, Muskogee, to Lt . WalterPiasecki, New York City, October 16 at WestPaltn Beach, Florida . Mrs. Piasecki, a graduateof Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, was sta-tioned at West Palm Beach with the Air Trans-port Command . Lt . Piasecki, who was stationedat MacDill Field, Florida, was a member of theMetropolitan trio before entering the Army AirForce . He has seen combat service in Sicily andItaly and holds the Air Medal with nine OakLeaf Clusters .SMITII-CRITES : Miss Evelyn Smith, Monroe,

Louisiana, and Ix . Carl R. Crites, '37-'40, Bar-d esville, were married December 10 at Monroe .Mrs . Crites attended Stephens College, Columbia,Missouri . Lieutenant Crites, who has been serv-ing in Europe on the Flying Fortress Woolaroc,is now on the inactive list . The couple will livein Bartlesville.G . Andy Graves, '40m .ed, Oklahoma City, is

assistant civilian administrator in charge of sup-ply training at Oklahoma City Air Service Com-mand .LEMOINE-FULTON : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Frances Lcm-oine, '37-'40, ensign in the WAVES, OklahomaCity, to Capt. David C . Fulton, Portland, Ore-gon . Miss Lemoine was stationed in Washington,1) . C . Captain Fulton is a graduate of StantordUniversity, Palo Alto, California .

Cpl . Franklin D . McElroy, '38-'40, and Mrs . Mc-Elroy are the parents of a baby son Larry Michaelborn November 25 at Norman . Corporal Mc-Elroy was reported on foreign duty .BEARD-PATTERSON : Announcement has

been made of the marriage of Miss Ann Beard,Lincoln, Nebraska, to Capt . Pat J . Patterson, '40,Oklahoma City, October 20 in Lincoln . Mrs .Patterson, a member of Kappa Alpha Thetasorority, is a graduate of the University of Ne-braska . Lieutenant Patterson, a member of Sig-tna Alpha Epsilon fraternity, was stationed atthe Lincoln Air Base as check pilot .

Mrs . Rosalyne Smiser Shatublin, '401ib.sci,Norman, is a librarian in San Antonio, Texas .Don C . Smith, '40ms, Leipsic, Ohio, research

worker at the Naval Research Laboratory,Washington, D . C., has been on the campussince December supervising the construction ofthe spectrograph which the University physicsdepartment is building for the Navy under theauspices of the Oklahoma Research Institute .Mr . Smith will design certain auxiliary parts forthe machine while at O . U .

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Capt . Perry Fred Sollars, '40geol, Norman, andMrs- Sollars are the parents of a baby son bornDecember 2 at Shreveport, Louisiana . CaptainSollars was stationed in Florida .KOENIG-TURK : Miss Frances Koenig, Halletts-

ville, Texas, and Capt. Herbert A . Turk, '40ba,Norman, were married December 16 in SanAntonio . Captain Turk was commandant of cadetsat Foster Field, Texas . He was a law student beforeentering service . The couple were at home in Vic-toria, Texas .WOODRING-SKINNER : Miss Betty Freda

Woodring, '37-'40, Oklahoma City, and EdwinN . Skinner, '37-'40, Norman, were married De-cember 18 in Oklahoma City. Mrs . Skinner hasbeen employed at Beech Aircraft Company, Wich-ita, Kansas . Mr . Skinner, a former employee ofthe Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, has re-ceived orders for Marine Corps training .

MARCH, 1944

- 1941 -Lt . William G. Barry, '39-'41, and Mrs. Barry

(Rose Louise Groothouse, '36-'42) are the parentsof a baby daughter Gcorgiana Groothouse bornNovember 27 in St . Louis .

Lt . Edward O . Brennan, '38-'41, and Mrs .Brennan (Ruth Ballinger, '41fa) are the parentsof a baby daughter Patricia Ann born December26 at Texarkana, Texas . Lieutenant Brennan isstationed there in the Ordnance department.

Joe A . Callaway, '41fa, Michigan State Col-lege drama and radio professor, was recentlylauded by Boris Karlofl for his acting ability andespecially his interpretation of Shakespeare . Mr .Karloff said Mr . Callaway was one of the fun-niest comedians he had ever seen .GRAY-CAVANAGH : Miss Evelyn Jeanette

Gray, Tulsa, and Lt. Arthur Lawrence Cavanagh,'411aw, Lawton, were married December 4 inTulsa . Mrs . Cavanagh, a member of Alpha ChiOmega sorority, is a graduate of the Universityof Tulsa . Lieutenant Cavanagh, a member ofSigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, was stationed atCamp Gruber, Muskogee .Roy C . Crews, '41m .ed, chief petty officer in

the Coast Guard, and Mrs . Crews are the parentsof a baby son Donald Roy born in August in St.Augustine, Florida .ARNESON-GORHAM : Announcement has

been made of the marriage of Miss Martha S .Arneson, Portland, Oregon, to Sgt . Robert J.Gorham, '38-'41, Canton, October 12 at Portland .Mrs . Gorham is a graduate of the University ofOregon . Sergeant Gorham, who also attendedHill's Business College at Oklahoma City, wasstationed in San Francisco at headquarters of theFourth Air Corps .Marie Hays, '41ba, Tulsa, has been appointed

ticket agent at the Tulsa office of American Air-lines. Other Sooners employed by the AmericanAirlines at Tulsa include Jean Labadie, '39-'41,and Mary Frances Brownlee, '37-'39 .HUMPHREY-THIRIOT : Miss Ella Humphrey,

'411etters, Chickasha, and Lt . Joseph Peter Thir-iot, Jr., Chicago, were married November 17 atChickasha . Mrs . Thiriot is a member of Pi BetaPhi sorority . Lieutenant Thiriot was stationed atthe Borden General Hospital, Chickasha, in theMedical Administrative Corps.HAVENER-KITE : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Dorothy AnnHavener, Middletown, Maryland, to Dr. WilliamC . Kite, '41ba, Oklahoma City. Miss Havener,a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, is at-tending Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland .Dr . Kite, a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternityand Phi Beta Kappa, has begun his interneshipat Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore .SHOCKLEY-LeGATE : Miss Donna Rae Shock-

ley, O, U . student, Norman, and Sgt . DarmusDeloyd LeGate, '39-'41, Haskell, were marriedNovember 23 in Tulsa . Mrs . LeGate, a mem-ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, is a juniorin the College of Business Administration . Ser-geant LeGate was stationed at Langley Field, Vir-ginia.

Lt . Bert McElroy, '411aw, and Mrs . McElroy(Nella Fae Colyar, '40ba) are the parents of ababy son Bert Colyar born November 22 . Lieu-

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tenant McElroy was stationed at Camp Shanks,New York .

Emily Ann Moore, '41he, Owasso, is a homedemonstration agent at the University of Missouri,Columbia .

Capt . Gail R . Palmer, '41eng, '41arch, andMrs . Palmer are the parents of a baby son GailR . Jr ., born January 1 in Oklahoma City . Cap-tain Palmer is stationed in India .REYNOLDS-GROUND : Miss Billye Reynolds,

'411etters, Vinita, and Lt . John Wesley GroundIII, Joplin, Missouri, were married December 7at Joplin . Mrs . Ground is a member of the Kap-pa Kappa Gamma sorority . Lieutenant Ground,a member of Delta 'ran Delta fraternity, attendedthe University of Texas, Austin . He has beenstationed at the Fort Worth Army Air Base.EMERY-RICIITER : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Virginia Emery,Oklahoma City, to Lt . Robert Edward Richter,'40=41, Norman . Miss Emery has been attend-ing Oklahoma City University . Lieutenant Richter,former member of the varsity football team, wasstationed at Pensacola, Florida, with the Marine AirCorps .

John G . 1-I. Scoon and Mrs . Scoon (Anna BelleRouse, '411cttcrs), Norman, will be associatedwith Joseph A . Brandt, '21ba, as editors in theUniversity of Chicago Press . The Scoons wereformerly connected with the University of Okla-homa Press .RUMSEY-WILSON : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Marion Rumsey,'411etters, Oklahoma City, to Lt . Howard Wil-son, Salt Lake City, Utah . Miss Rumsey is amember of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Lieu-tenant Wilson, a graduate of the University ofUtah, Salt Lake City, was stationed at CampPhillips, Kansas .SAMUELSON-EASON : Announcement has

been made of the engagement of Miss MarianSamuelson, '41, to Lt . Gerald N . Eason, '39-'43,both of Oklahoma City . Miss Samuelson is em-ployed by Valley, Douglass, Felix and Douglass,attorneys . Lieutenant Eason was stationed withthe Armored Field Artillery at Camp Chaffee,Arkansas .MURPHY-SAYLES : Miss Leila Murphy, Kim,

Colorado, and Pvt . Clinton Sayles, '40-'41, PaulsValley, were married November 2 at ColoradoSprings . Private Sayles was stationed at NorthDakota Agricultural College, Fargo, with theASTP . The couple will live at Fargo .

Robert S . Trippet, '411aw, Amarillo, is em-ployed in the legal department of the PhillipsPetroleum Company .

-1942-Sooner Magazine wishes to correct an erroneous

statement made in the January issue that Lt . J . H .Almond, Jr., '38-'42, was killed in service. Lieu-tenant Almond is the son of Julius Almond, Enid,who was recently elected vice president of theAmerican War Dads Association . According to thelatest information received in the Alumni Office,Lieutenant Almond has been assigned to foreignduty with the Air Force with an APO address outof New York City .

Lt. Don R . Atchinson, '42, and Mrs . Atchinson(Virginia Waterbury, '39-'42)have chosen thenames Terry Gail and Linda Dale for their twindaughters born December 28 in Hobart . Lieu-tenant Atchinson was stationed at Camp Polk,Louisiana .CLARK-SPONENBERG :

Miss

K a t h a r i n eClark, '42bus, and Lt . Victor Sponenberg, bothof Bartlesville, were married December 5 inOklahoma City . Mrs . Sponenberg, a member ofAlpha Chi Omega sorority, is employed by theNational Business Machines Corporation . Lieu-tenant Sponenberg, a graduate of SouthwesternCollege, Winfield, Kansas, is a former employeeof the Phillips Petroleum Company at Bartlesville .

Ensign Harold E . DeShurley, '42eng, andMrs . DeShurley are the parents of a baby sonGeorge Robert born November 29 in Norman,where Ensign DeShurley is on Naval duty .ENDICOTT-McDADE : Miss Agnes Ruth Endi-

cott, '42, and John Bryce McDade, '39-'42, both

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of Norman, were married November 30 at Nor-man . Mrs . McDade is employed at the SoonerTheater . Mr . McDade was stationed in the ad-ministrative branch of the Army Air Force atLaughlin Field, Del Rio, Texas .ENGLAND-CRAWFORD : Miss Sybil England,

'42ed, Carter, Oklahoma, and Lt . Joseph Craw-ford, Indianapolis, Indiana, were married De-cember 18 in Denver, Colorado . Mrs. Crawfordformerly on the staff of radio station WKY inOklahoma City, was employed at KLZ in Denverat the time of her marriage . Lieutenant Craw-ford, a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, isa former student in Purdue University, LaFay-ette, Indiana . A bomber pilot in the Army AirForce, he was awaiting orders to a new station .FALTER-AVERY : Miss Mary Elizabeth Falter,

'426us, Oklahoma City, and Lt . W . M . Avery,'43ba, Clinton, were married December 3 inOklahoma City . Mrs. Avery was a member ofDelta Gamma sorority . Lieutenant Avery, amember of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, was sta-tioned at Fort Sill . The couple have establisheda temporary home at Lawton .CREEGAN-FAVOR : Miss Bette Creegan, Okla-

homa City, and Pvt . William E . Favor, '42, Cres-cent, were married November 20 at Holland,Michigan . Private Favor was stationed at Hol-land with the ASTP .

Lt . Chester Force, '421xis, and Mrs . Force arethe parents of a baby son Larry Allen born Jan-uary 2 in Oklahoma City . Lieutenant Force isstationed at Fort Sill .GALLAGHER-REYMAN : Miss Mary Gal-

lagher, '426us, Norman, and Charles F . Reyman,Chicago, were married January 12 in Chicago .The couple are making their home in Chicago,where Mrs . Reyman is an auditor with Sears,Roebuck and Company, and Mr . Reyman is as-sociatcd with a trucking corporation .GOLDFAIN-ORBACH : Miss Harriette Gold-

fain, '40-'42, and Lt . Robert Leon Orbach, '42bus,both of Oklahoma City, were married Thanks-giving clay in Oklahoma City . Mrs . Orbach isa member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority . Lieu-tenant Orbach, a member of Sigma Apha Mufraternity, was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas .The couple will live at Manhattan, Kansas .TABER-HAMII.L : Miss Irma Taber, Miami,

Florida, and John W . Hamill, '39-'42, of theCoast Guard, Guthrie, were married November21 in Miami . Mrs . Hamill took nurse's trainingin Tulsa . Mr . Hamill was stationed in Miamias pay clerk in the district Coast Guard office .

Calendar Before CongressA resolution proposing that the Perpetual

Calendar plan of Lt . Willard E . Edwards,'29eng, Pearl Harbor, be studied and presentedat peace conferences after the war is now up forconsideration by the House Committee on For-eign Affairs .The resolution, entitled House Concurrent

Resolution 39, entered the Congressional Rec-ord September 17, 1943 .

Introduction of the resolution into Congressclimaxed years of promotional work for Lieu-tenant Edwards, who now has the support ofeducational and other leaders all over the coun-try for the Edwards Perpetual Calendar .The Edwards Perpetual Calendar is a simple

plan for calendar reform which would not be aradical change from the present system, but stillwould have a great many advantages, such asstandardizing the length of each quarter of theyear and making the months fall into a regularpattern of 30, 30 and 31 days each quarter.

Persons interested in securing approval ofthe Edwards Perpetual Calendar by the U.S .Congress should write the House Committee onForeign Affairs asking the favorable support ofthe members for House Concurrent Resolution39. A similar resolution has already beenpassed by the legislature of Hawaii .

Lieutenant Edwards is stationed with theNavy at Pearl Harbor .

PRICE-HERRING : Announcement has beenmade of the engagement of Miss Ann Price toMike M. Herring, '41=42, both of OklahomaCity . Miss Price was attending Oklahoma A .and M . College, Stillwater. Mr. Herring, whowas on active duty in Newfoundland for sevenmonths, has returned to the United States forcadet training in the Air Force.HESS-BRAKE : Miss Betty Rae Hess, '42ba,

Oklahoma City, and Lt . Charles Murray Brake,'41ba, Norman, were married November 25 atFresno, California . Mrs . Brake is a member ofChi Omega sorority . Lieutenant Brake, a mem-ber of Kappa Sigma fraternity, was stationed atFresno with the Army Air Corps.LYONS-HUSER : Miss Yvonne Lyons and Lt.

Oliver Stanley Huser, Jr., '40-'42, both of Hold-enville, were married December 20 at Holdenvillc .Mrs . Huser, who formerly attended OklahomaA . and M . College, Stillwater, is now a studentin Columbia Law School, Scwanec, Tennessee .Lieutenant Huser, a member o£ Sigma No fra-ternity, was stationed at Hamilton Field, SanFrancisco, California .CROCKER-MITCHELL : Announcement has

been made of the marriage of Miss Thelma MacCrocker, Norfolk, Virginia, to Earl Hugh Mitch-ell, '35, '42, Wynnewood, October 15 at Nor-folk . Mr. Mitchell taught school at Konawabefore entering the Navy .SANFORD-GORDON : Miss Frances Louise

Sanford, '426us, Hobart, and Sgt . James T' . Gor-don, Cocoa, Florida, were married November 3in Tampa, Florida . Mrs . Gordon is a memberof Delta Gamma sorority . Sergeant Gordon wasstationed at Drew Field, Tampa, with the ArmyAir Force.STEARNS-SANDERS : Miss Polly Elli Stearns,

'42ed, Shawnee, and Sgt . Zcno L . Sanders, SanAntonio, Texas, were married November 20 atShawnee . Mrs . Sanders, who taught for oneyear at Oak Grove School, has been employedby the Oklahoma City Air Service Command .Sergeant Sanders was stationed at Camp Crowder,Missouri . The couple will live in Joplin, Mis-souri .BURR-STRATE : Miss Marion Burr, Maryville,

Missouri, and Lt. Harry E . Strate, '42, El Reno,were married December G at El Reno . Mrs .Strate has been teaching in Maryville HighSchool . Lieutenant Strate, a former employee ofthe Rock Island Railroad, was assigned for ad-ditional training as a navigator in the Army AirForce at Ardmore .WAKEFIELD-TOWERS : Miss Eleanor Mae

Wakefield, Crescent City, California, and Lt. RoyMarlow Towers, '426us, Pawnee, were marriedNovember 4 at Crescent City . Mrs . Towers wasemployed in the office of Forestry at the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley . LieutenantTowers was stationed at San Rafael, California,where the couple will make their home .CHLOUBER-VANDERVORT : Miss Edna

Chlouber, Carnegie, and Pvt . Jack W. Vandervort,'40-'42, Wichita Falls, Texas, were married No-vember 5 in Ann Arbor, Michigan . Mrs . Van-dervort was employed by the First National Bankin Anadarko . Private Vandervort, a member ofSigma Chi fraternity, was stationed at KalamazooCollege, Kalamazoo, Michigan .WOOD-WEBER : Miss Kathleen Wood, '40-

'42, Norman, and Lt . Russell E . Weber, '43bus,Buffalo, New York, were married November 10at Norman . Mrs . Weber is an employee at theNaval Air Station, Norman . Lieutenant Weberwas stationed with an Infantry division in Louis-iana .

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J e a n eBroome, '43m .ed, Oklahoma City, and Dr . Nor-man Harris, Hereford, Texas, were married No-vember 24 in Ponca City . Mrs . Harris has. beenemployed as a music teacher at Jefferson Schoolin Ponca City . Dr . Harris is a graduate of theKansas City College of Osteopathy and SurgeryKansas City, Missouri . The couple will live inHereford .

Eunice Alice Cormack, '43he, El Reno, is

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teaching in Alabama College for Women atMontevallo .

Beverly Brewer, '43, Tulsa, is secretary to anofficial of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce .DAVIS-INGLER : Miss Marilyn Davis, '43

journ, Holdenville, and Pfc . William Ingler, '40-'43, Clinton, were married January 1 at Holden-ville . Mrs. Ingler, a member of Pi Beta Phisorority, was society correspondent for the DailyOklahoman and 01tlahoma City Times and astaff member of the Covered Wagon while atO . U . She has been employed by the ShawneeNews-Star. Private Ingler, who was the Uni-versity correspondent for the _Daily Olklahomanand Oklahoma City Times, is stationed at O . U .with the ASTU .WARDELL-DULIN : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Margaret AnnWardell, O . U . senior, to Lt. John J . Dulin, '43cng, El Reno . Miss Wardell, (laughter of M . L.Wardell, '19ba, University professor of historyand acting director of the Extension Division,and Mrs . Wardell, is a ineiuber of Pi Beta Phisorority . Lieutenant Dulin, a member of ThetaKappa Phi fraternity, was taking an electronicscourse at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massa-chusetts . He expects to be sent to the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology soon for furthertraining .FAST-HOUSE : Announcement has been made

of the engagement of Miss Freida Fast, '43m .ed,Weatherford, to Lt . Melbourne House, GrantCity, Missouri . Miss Fast is a former graduateassistant in counseling at the University . Lieu-tenant House, who attended Northwest MissouriState Teachers College, Maryville, was stationedat the Ardmore Army Air Base .

Lois Forde, '43ed, Cherokee, is teaching inTonkawa .FAIRBANK-FURGASON : Miss Theda Eileen

Fairbank, Laverne, and Pfc. Pleasant V. Furga-son, '40-'43, Buffalo, Oklahoma, were marriedDecember 3 in Norman . Mrs . Furgason wasemployed by the Laverne First National Bank .Private Furgason is in the ASTI' at the Uni-versity .POLK-GELLER : Miss Mildred Polk, Valeda,

Kansas, and Ensign Raymond Geller, '40-'43,Coffeyville, Kansas, were married December 23at Norman. Ensign Geller, a member of PhiKappa Sigma fraternity, was ordered to reportto Washington, D . C ., after receiving his com-mission in December with the first class of NavalR.O .T.C . graduate s at the University .

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field, former government professor ; JosephH. Rhoads and Mrs . Rhoads (May Frank,'22ba) ; Maj . Henry D. Rinsland, '20ba,'24ma, Mrs . Rinsland and their daughterAlmeda ; Josh Lee, '17ba, and Mrs . Lee(Louise Gerlach, '23) ; Paul A. Walker,'121aw, and Mrs . Walker (Myra Williams,'12) ; Elgin Groseclose, '20ba, who recent-ly returned from Iran, and Mrs . Groseclose ;and Frances Hunt, '29ba, formerly of theO.U . journalism faculty .The Oklahoma State Society operates a

service bureau for new Oklahomans inWashington who want to know how to getin touch with other Oklahomans, advice onwhere to live and other information . Secre-tary of the service bureau is Mrs . J . H .Rhoads (May Frank, '22ba), whose addressin Washington is 2100 19th Street North-west, phone North 6359.The Oklahoma Clubhouse is located at

2301 Calvert Street Northwest and is openevery Sunday for Oklahomans .

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