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Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes--1896-

During work in St . Louis, Missouri, Ted Beaird,'216a, was privileged to visit with Mrs . Nora Be-Baun Eades (Mrs . J. W . Eades) who attended theUniversity of Oklahoma in 1896 . Mrs . Fades is themother of Dr . Dec W . Fades, '28bs, '30ined, andHelen Eades Stutsman, '28h .ec, both of St . Louis .During the visit Mrs . Eades asked about a numberof her old friends and associates of 53 years ago onthe O.U . campus . She was particularly interestedin the welfare of Dr . Edwin DcBarr .

-1899-50th Class Reunion

June 5, 1949Officers and officials of the Executive

Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1899 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Merty Collum Smith Wad-ley, '99bm, Norman, chairman ; Frank RayBriggs, '99pharm, Tehama-Willows, Cali-fornia ; Jesse L . Hefley, '99ba, '30m.ed,Norman, Minnie Wood Rose, '99pharm,Watonga, and Jennie Threadgill Salmon,'99bm, Glendale, California .The chairman and three committee mem-

bers named above constitute all the livingmembers of the Class of 1899 .



Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1904 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Gladdie Utt Goode, '04ba,Norman, chairman ; Eben Elwood Gridley,'04pharm, Sarasota, Florida ; Lot MorrillJones, '04ba, Cordell ; Rosa Haddix Logs-don, '04ph.c, Oklahoma City ; Lillie KateMiller, '04ba, Norman ; William ArthurMorter, '04ba, Plainview, Texas ; BenOwens, '04pharm, Los Angeles, California ;Lena Stubblefield Perry, '04bm, LasCruces, New Mexico, and Bernice Rice,'04bm, Davis .The chairman and eight committee mem-

bers named above constitute all the livingmembers of the Class of 1904.

1906Herbert Austin Everest, '066s, is president of the

Everest and Jennings manufacturing concern in LosAngeles . Dr . Edwin DeBarr visited with him re-cently .

(- 1908-Ralph Harold Dangerfield, '086a, '1Ima, is di-

vision manager with the Phillips Pctn,lcmn Com-pany, St . Louis, Missouri . He has held this post-tion for the past 20 years.

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1909-40th Class Reunion


Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1909 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : William J. Cross, '09 ba,Norman, chairman ; Dr . Arthur M. Alden,'07ba, '09ma, St . Louis, Missouri ; Elva Mc-Ferron Gittinger, '09bm, '12bs, Tulsa ; J.C . M . Krumtum, '09ba, '23ma, '36d .ed,Weatherford ; Nellie Robinson Milam, '09ba, Long Island, New York ; Nannie LeeMiller, '09bm, '12ba, '27ma, Tulsa ; PearlGoodrich Porter, '09bm, '10ba, Tulsa ; Rob-ert Hickman Riley, '09bs, '13med, Balti-more, Maryland ; Dr . Roscoe Walker,'09bs,Pawhuska, and Euline Capshaw Wolf,'09bm, '09ba, Emmet, North Dakota.

-1913-Bettis A . Garside, '136a, has been Executive Vice

President of United Service to China for the pasteight years . He has recently written a biographywhich was published in 1948 . He lives in NewYork City.



Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1914 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Leonard Logan, '14ba,Norman, chairman ; A. N . Boatman, '14ba,'16Law, Okmulgee ; Perrill Munch Brown,'14ba, '38ma, Norman; William J . Arm-strong, '14ba, '16Law, Oklahoma City ;Fritz Aurin, '14ba, '15ma, Fort Worth,Texas ; William L. Eagleton,'14ba,'19Law,Tulsa ; J . Dawson Houk, '14ba, '14bs, '21Law, Fairview ; E . D . Meacham, '14ba,Norman; Charles B . Memminger, '14ba,'33Law, Atoka, and Luther H. White,'14ba,Fort Worth, Texas.

-1916r-Dr. John O . Moseley, '16ma, president of the

University of Nevada, has originated a plan to takethe place of "Hell Week" in social fraternities .Called "Greek Week," Dr . Moseley recently openeda session in Washington University, St . Louis, Mis-souri . Emphasis is placed on getting the pledgeready for a fraternity . Dr . Moseley has introducedGreek Week in other universities over the nation .

~1917James H . Finley, '17Law, is supervising attor-

ney in the Department of the Interior, Five Civil-ized Tribes Agency, with offices in Muskogee . Hehas held this position for the past 18 years . He wasU . S . Probate Attorney in Ardmore for ten years .

1918~Ned Slrepler, '18, publisher of the Lawton Con-

solution, attended the annual midwinter meetingof the directors of Southern Newspaper PublishersAssociation at Coosa Pines, Alabama, during Feb-ruary .

J . D . Cox, '14- 18, is manager of the Cox FenceCompany of Dallas, Texas . He was office manager

of the Cox Steel & Wire Company in Houston,Texas, from 1939 to 1942 .Roy Heffner, '186a, 'I 9eng, died recently in Ethi-

opia of a cerebral hemorrhage . He went to Ethiopiain September to teach in Hailie Selassie's publicschools . His wife, Edna Spencer Heffner, '47ba,joined him there several months ago .

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_1919-3011: Class Reunion

[rune 5, 1949

Officers and officials of the ExecutiveBoard of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1919 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Garner G . Collums, '19ba,Norman, chairman ; Katherine HilsmeyerCobb, '19ba, Los Angeles, California ; Fay-ette Copeland, '19ba, Norman ; Jewel Ris-inger Ditmars, '19ba, Muskogee ; CharlesH . Fawks, '19ba, Pryor ; Web Glidewell,'19ba, Helena ; Maurice H. Merrill, '19ba,'22Law, Norman; Fannie Inez Bell Norris,'19ba, Riverside, California ; Callie WiestRichards, '19ba, Norman, and A. C . Shead,'19bs, '23ms, Norman.

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Julietta Kahn Arthur, '206a, will have her sec-ond book published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., this fall .It deals with the theme of "Home Businesses forHousewives ." Mrs . Arthur lives in New York City .

Earl A . Brown, '20Law, was guest speaker at theannual Seminole Chamber of Commerce banquetlate in February . Brown is assistant general counselfor Magnolia Petroleum Company, Dallas, Texas .He formerly lived in Ardmore .Thomas L . Sorey, '206a, is a member of the

architectural and engineering firm of Sorcy, Hill &Sorcy, Oklahoma City . The firm recently movedfrom the First National Building to Northwest 36thStreet.

- 1921-Helen Berg Kline, '216a, is teaching music and

journalism at Connors State Agricultural College,Warner . She is also director of publicity and public

relations . She has been atWarner for three years .Prior to assuming her pres-ent duties she was a privatepiano teacher in Muskogeefor 20 years . While attend-ing the University she wasactive in the Women's GleeClub, receiving the RenderMedal in Harmony in 1918 .She is a member of PhiBeta Kappa and Sigma Al-pha Iota, musical societies .She is a member of GammaPhi Beta Sorority, the Bus-

iness and Professional Women's Club, and was gen-eral chairman of the Muskogee Community Con-cert Association for 15 years . She is a board mem-her of the Oklahoma Federation of Music Clubs .

William Earl McGinnis, '21ba, is assistant man-ager of the Veterans Administration Regional Of-fice in Wichita, Kansas .

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Andrew Gordon Curtin Bierer, '21ba, is an at-torney and counselor at law in Guthrie. He re-ceived his late degree from Harvard Law School

in 1925 . He also attendedthe University of Wiscon-sin. HE is a member of theGuthrie Chamber of Com-

merce, a Mason, and Shrin-cr . He is a member of Kap-pa Sigma Fraternity . He isa member of the AmericanBar Association and theJudge Advocates Associa-tion . He was formerly amember of the Council ofSection of Legal Educationand Admissions to Bar. Heis included in Who's Who

in America. Bierer and Mrs. Bierer, the formerVinita Mary McDonald, '256a, are the parents oftwo children, A. G. C. Bierer, III, 12, and AlvaMcDonald Bierer, 5.

James Frederick Tagge, '216a, is a physician inthe Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri .

Stella Sanders, '21ba, '26ma, foreign languageteacher at the University, made two French flagsfor the "Merci" train ceremonies in Oklahoma Cityrecently . On request of American Legion and 40 et8 officers, she made a cotton flag and another ofsilk for the color guard in the Oklahoma Cityparade . Miss Sanders studied in France . Duringthe war she was YWCA secretary in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil .

A. G. C . Bierer

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John Coleman Powell, '22Law, is a partner in thelaw firm of Powell & Jameson in Sulphur:Dr . Frank G. Brooks, '22ma, Mt. Vernon, Iowa,

acted as installing officer for a new chapter of TriBeta biological fraternity at Westminster College,New Wilmington, Pennsylvania . He gave the an-niversary Phi Beta Kappa address at Allegheny Col-Icgc and Nvas initiated as an aluumi member of thefraternity .

Charles B. Duffy, '22f .aw, and Mrs. Duffy, theformer Vala Solf, '19-'22, spent a March vacationin Acapulco, Mexico, with Frank Deming, '24ba,and Mrs. Deming . In returning to their home inLong Island, New York, Mr . and Mrs. Domingvisited with the Duffys in Ponca City .

Wallace L. Boyce, '226a, is pastor of the Dcpew'.Methodist Church .

-1923-Leslie Powell, '22-'23, has been given a private

exhibit of his art work at the Norlyst gallery inNew York .

Tully Nettleton, '23ba, is the author of a book-let, "Church, State and School," published by theBeacon Press, Boston . Nettleton is a special writerfor the Christian Science Monitor.

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-- 1924-2 5th Clasc Reunion

Juste S, 1949Officers and officials of the Executive

Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1924 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Coleman H. Hayes, '24ba,'26Law, Oklahoma City, chairman ; HubertBale, '24geo1, Oklahoma City ; Hillis F.Bell, '24ba, Ardmore; Robert R. Durkee,'24geo1, Houston, Texas ; Harry H. Revelle,'24ba, Ardmore ; the Rev. Don E. Schooler,'24ba, Muskogee ; Walter D. Snell, '24bus,Oklahoma City ; Brette M. Tanner, '24ba,

Alva ; W. Granville Tierney,'24ba, Wichita,Kansas, and Harrington Wimberly, '24ba,Washington, D. C.

Congressman Mike Monroney, '24ba, appearedbefore the college assembly of the Canal Zone Jun-ior College through arrangements completed bySubert Turbyfill, '25fa, '26ba, '32ma, on his recentinspection trip to the Panama Canal .

Mary Dibrell Meredith Walker, '24ba, is livingin Evanston, Illinois, where her husband is presi-dent of the Walker Insurance Agency.

-1925-J . W. Crawford, '256a, has been Assistant U. S.

Attorney in the Department of justice for the pastfive years. He and Mrs. Crawford live in Muskogee .

- 1926-Frances Frey Norton, '26ba, is director of the

personality clinic at Oklahoma College for Women,Chickasha.

William H. Dougherty, '26ba, is an accountantwith the Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlcsvillc .He was formerly associated with the First NationalBank in Bartlcsvillc . He and Mrs. Dougherty, theformer Madeline Sloncckcr, '25-'27, have one son,William H. Dougherty, Jr ., who is a pre-medicalstudent at the University .Emma Provost McDermott, '26fa, '29ba, '40ed,

is head of the IndustrialArts Department in Norman High School . She hasheld this position for thepast eight years. HEr hus-band, Virgil McDermott, isa physical cducationinstruc-tor at the University . Mrs.McDermott was active in,chool plays while attend-ing O.U . and is a memberof the Delta Gamma Soror-ity . She is now working onher master's degree at O.U .The McDcrmotts have two

children, John William McDermott, 19, and Car-oline McDermott, 13 .Mark Hanna Hargia, '26eng, is a civil engineer

with the firm of Hudgins, Thompson, Ball & Asso-ciates in Oklahoma City . He was formerly assistantcity engineer for Oklahoma City .

Lionel Vincent Murphy, '26ba, '29ma, is person-nel officer in the executive offices of the Secretary,Navy Department. He was formerly a training spe-cialist in the U. S. Civil Service Commission . Heand Mrs. Murphy live in Washington, D. C. Theyhave two children .

Marvin E. Tobias, '26ba, is vice-president of theRidgway Company, Inc., an advertising agency. Heand Mrs. Tobias and their two children make theirhome in St . Louis, Missouri .

EMDIA McDt-anlo1 -I.

-1927-Major Carleton G. Sltead, '27eng, is with the Pan

American Oil Company for the Army at Baltimore,Maryland . He attended the University of Pittsburghduring 1947-48 and received a petroleum engineer-ing degree from there.

Willie James McKinncy, '27, is owner of theW. J . McKinncy Distributing Company. He andMrs. McKinncy, the former Lucille Strickland, '30-'31, live in Muskogee.

Dr . Joy L. McClure, '276s, '29med, has been apracticing physician for the past 18 years. He andMrs. McClure live in San Francisco . They havethree children.

Rivers M. Randle, '27med, has been appointedfinancial secretary of St . Luke's Methodist Church,Oklahoma City . He was formerly an administrationofficer in the industrial department at the Douglas

aircraft plant in Oklahoma City and for 20 yearswas superintendent of public schools and director ofteacher training at what was then SouthwesternTeachers College, Weatherford.

-1928-Lt . Col . John F. Barrett, '24-'28, Ogden, Utah,

is now enrolled in an Air Installations EngineeringSpecial Staff Officer Course at the USAF Institute ofTechnology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Day-ton, Ohio . During the war Col. Barrett served ex-tensively with the Corps of Engineers in Panama .Before entering the USAF Institute of Technologyin January he was stationed at Hill Air Force Base,Ogden, Utah, as Staff Quartermaster Officer .Dr. A. C. Stutsman and Mrs. Stutsman, the for-

mer Helen Fades, '28h .ec, announced the birth of ason January 15 in St. Louis, Missouri. They havenamed the child Albert Chesterfield Stutsman, Jr .

Ross W. Morrison, '28cng, and Mrs. Morrison,Oklahoma City, recently announced the birth of adaughter, whom they have named Mary Christine.


/tone S, 19-19Officers and officials of the Executive

Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1929 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : J. C. Mayfield,'29ba, Nor-man, chairman ; Joe Porter Ballard, '29ba,'33Law, Purcell ; Bruce Drake, '29phys,ed,Norman; Judge Weldon C. Ferris, '29ba,'31 Law, Altus ; Kermit J. Harwick,'29bus,Oklahoma City ; Savoie Lottinville, '29ba,Norman ; Byron E. McFall, '29ba, '31Law,Oklahoma City ; Merton E. Munson, '29ba,'31Law, Falls Church, Virginia ; Mex Rod-man Frates, '29ba, Oklahoma City, andGranville T. Norris, '29ba, Muskogee .Erma Margaret Bickett Morse, '296s, and her

lulsband are living in Augusta, Maine, after theirmarriage in December . Mrs. Morse was secretaryto the president of Norwich University until hermarriage . She was secretary in the Graduate Col-lege at the University of Oklahoma from 1932 to1944 .

Bernice Homann Carey, '29Law, is an attorneyin Oklahoma City with the law firm of Cantrell,Care\ & McCImld with offices in the Telephone

Building. They are generalattorneys for SouthwesternBell Telephone Company inthe state of Oklahoma .Carey is also engaged inthe general practice of law,representing other firms,corporations and individ-uals . He is immediate pastpresident of the Co-Oper-ative Club of OklahomaCity, a member of the Exe-cutive Committee of Co-Operative Club Internation-al, and the Oklahoma City

Chamber of Commerce . He is serving his secondterm as president of the Musical Arts Association .lie is also a member of the Oklahoma County,State and American Bar Associations . He and Mrs.Carey live in Oklahoma City .

Marguerite Conger Kirkpatrick, '296s, is on leaveof absence from the Oklahoma City public schools .She is a teacher in the upper grades .

William George Inglis, '29eng, has been an en-gineer with the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Com-pany for the past ten years. He and Mrs. Inglismake their home in Fort Smith, Arkansas .

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Howard Boone Fisher, '291,aw, is Assistant ChiefClerk in the U. S. Bureau of Prisons, El Reno . Heand Mrs. Fisher recently announced the birth oftheir fourth child, Thomas Boone Fisher .

Francis Weldon Crawford, '29ms, '34ph.cl, is aresearch physicist with Phillips Petroleum Com-pany, Bartlesville . He is chief of the chemicalphysics section . He %vas formerly an instructor atthe University of Oklahoma . Crawford is a incin-her of the Anurican Physical Socictc, AmericanChemical Socictv, Electron Microscope Society andA. A. A. S. IIc and Mrs . Crawford, the forniciMildrcd Ciall, '31ba, have t%%'( . s(,ns .

-193a-Bert 'hhurbcr, '306us, is eniplo\ed in ill( Farm

Credit Administration of file U . S. Department ofAgriculture, Washington, 1) . C.

J . L Gibson, '30Law, has been an att(rrne\ inOklalionia Ciq' for the past 13 \cars.F. M. Petrec, '30Law, and Mrs. Petrec, Okla-

homa City, announced the birth of a son Januar% 7.7'lic\ have named the child John Anderson I)etrec .

-1931-Elizabeth Haves Harkness, '31journ, is living

near Houston, Texas, on Galveston Ba%. She andMr . Harkness have three children .Dr. John Fielden Hackler, '31b,, 33med, is di-

rector of the Muskogee City-('ount) Health De-

partment. HE was formerly a professor in the Uni-

versity of Oklahoma School of Medicine . He andMrs. Hackler, the fornier Pauline Wilson, '31 nurse,

have three children . 'rlic\ live in Muskogcc .

Ike '1 . 'I'arver, '26-'31, is a U. S. I)cputy Marshal

in the Department of Justice in Muskogcc . lie and

Mrs. 1'arver, the former Enima Lee Fcazcl, '31ed,

have one child, I IcIcn Charlotte, 11 .

-1932-Paul Gotcher, '31-'32, is assistant U . S. attorney

in Muskogec . If(- was fo(rnicrk in the private prac-tice of law.

Hicks Fpton, '321,aw, attended the raid-yearmeeting of the I louse of Delegates of the American

Bar Association at Chicago. Mr . and Mrs. Epton

live in Wewoka where Epton is an attorney' .

-1933-Robert A . Park, '33ba, recently purchased the

Yukon Sun and is now editor and publisher .Mare Louise Kropp Hawes, '33ms, is living in

Narbcrth, Pennsylvania .NEAL-SINGLETARY : Mrs. Leah Morehead

Neal, '33ba, and Alfred Singlctar\, '311, were mar-ried reccntl\ in Pcrr%. Mrs. Singlctary is a pastpresident of the Credit Women's Breakfast Club, alife member of the YWCA and a member of theAnurican Institute of Banking, Oklahoma Cit\ . Mr .Singlctar\ is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma Fra-ternity- , the Rotary Club, Chamber of Coninierccand the Masonic lodge at I)crr\ .

Olive Vciniellc Hawes, 33ba, '351na, is an edi-torial specialist with flu United States ,mcrinnent,Washington, f) . C. She was fornicrl\ a secretary onthe O.U . campus .

Finis () . Stewart, '331,a%v, is an assistant to theAttorney General in Oklahoma City .

(;harks Donald Stinchecum, '33ba, '35Law, is anattorney in Oklahoma City . Iie was formerly as-sistant attorney for the Oklahoma Tax ( .,)inm issl'l 11) .

Mrs. Stinchecum, the former Maxine Shaffer, 32ed,is secretary to the chief of the Oklahoma Cit\ F.B .I .


/uric 5, 19-19

Officers and officials of the ExecutiveBoard of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activities

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for the Class of 1934 (Sunday, June 5,1949)as the following : Sarabeth StubbemanDrace, '34ba, '39soc .wk, Norman, chair-man; Douglas E. Bell, '34eng, Houston,Texas; Helen Hutto Ford, '34ba, Wash-ington, D.C .; Albert S, Gilles,'34ba,'37Law,Tulsa ; Roy E. Grantham, '34ba, '34Law,'40m.ed, Ponca City ; Dorothy Hume Ham-mond, '34ba, '37Law, Washington, D. C. ;Irene Oakley Huey,'34ed, Norman ; GeorgeV. Metzel, Jr ., '34ba, '34ma, Tulsa ; JackL. Kerns, '34bus, Oklahoma City, andClarence D. Musser, '34ba, '39Law, Mon-roe, Georgia.Dr. James Edward Anhalt, 34ba, is a ph%sicianin Los Angeles. Dr. and Mrs. Anhalt have threesons .

Dennis O. Cabbage, '34Law, has recently beenelected assistant county attorney of Payne County .He will continue his residence in Cushing.

William I'. Stapleton, '33-'34, is construction ex-aminer with the Federal Housing Administrationin Muskogcc . He formerly ovvnc(I his ownCon-struction company.

Stanford Winton Warren, 34eng, is District En-gineer in the Oklahoma Producing Department ofStanolind Oil & Gas Company. He was formerlyfield engineer with Stanolind in Monroe and Fav-ette, Louisiana, and Turtle Bay, "Texas . HE andMrs. Warren and their two Children live in Okla-homa City.

-1935-Carl L. Easterling, Jr ., '35ba, is a U. S. Probation

Officer with headquarters in Muskogec . HE was for-merly supervisor of the National Youth Administra-tion in Sequoyah (:(lung' .

David M. Stafford and Mrs. Stafford, the formerJane Hunt, '35bus, are the parents of a son born inSeptember. They have named the boy John Morlc\Stafford . 'They live in 'Tulsa .A. A . "AI" Armstrong, '35bus, recently an-

nounced his association with Charles C. Tilghnianin the formation off the Armstrong and 'rilghnianInsurance Agency, Oklalionia City .William Thomas Brunson, '28-'35, is an attorney .

at law in Oklahoma City . He was formcrl% depart-incnt head of the Oklahoma'1'ax Commission . He isa member of the Oklaho ma City Chamber of Coin-nierce, Oklahoma County Bar Association, and theState Bar Association .

Floyd Hamilton Norris, 35Law, is in attorneyin Los Angeles. He scr\ed o\cr five \cars in thearia-\ . He is a Mason and a nictuber of the Ameri-can Legion . I lc and Mrs . 'orris, the former Martha1{untin, '31 ma, have a son, Floc d Hanulton Norris,Jr., two \cars old.

-1936-John Oli-\er Hall, '366a, is city- manager of Mus-

kogee Iie has held this position for three -\ ears .Prior to assuming these duties he served in thearmy (roan August, 19-11 to February, 1946 He%vas formely city manager of El Reno .Bryce N. 1 hirhow, 36ha, '42ma, was on a special45-day leave in November and December 1948,ffrom his position as department of the army experton flu professional stall of the I House firmed Services Committee I IC %vent on active duty to make areport on organization and procedures of handlingDepartment of National Defense legislation beforethe Congress Mid in the three subordinate depart-ments-Army, Navy,andAirForce, attherequest

off General Persons, Legislative Staff Officer ofSecretary James Forrestal.

Mary Ann Wenthroth, '36Lib.sci has been namedacting children's librarian of. Oklahoma Cit% li-braries . She is librarian at Northeast junior-seniorliighschool in Oklahoma City .

Major K. E. Hudson, 36bs, '38mef, and Mrs.Hudson, the former June Johnson, '38nurse, areliving in Ancon, Canal Zone . Major Hudson is onthe staff of Gorgas General Hospital . 'they plan toreturn to the States this summer.

Jack 1 Iigh, '36ba, '36Law, has been elected prcsi-dent of file Oklahoma (.(suit) liar Association .

Tharon Arnold Park, '36pharin, who was killedJune 21, 1945, was buried March I () in the Okniul-gee cenictcr% . He was a pharmacist mate first classin the U. S. Naval Rescryc at the time of his death .

-1937-Sooners fl- 0111 A(la attending file Sugar Bowl

game in New Orleans included Silas Frectuan, '37Law, Margaret Fleet Freeman, '41-'42, Jack B.Ryan, '-llgcol, Dean West Ryan, '41fa, Frank R.Crabtree, 38, W. 1 . Otjen, '47bus, Fva Blake O[jen,'40h .ec, Jack T. Conn, '40Law, and Adolph Brown,'37-'40 .Gene Pclsor, '37ins, '41ph.d, has resigned his

position on the physics staff at American Univer-sity in Washington, I) . C., to accept a governmentjob in Albuquerque, New Mexico .

Phil C. Bcnnctt, 37Law, and Mrs. Bennett, Okla-liotna City- , have named their daughter CorabellCorbin Bcnnctt. The infant was born February 16in St . Anthony Hospital .

1)r. Ollie McBride, '37nicd, is a partner in theGill and McBride Clinic, Ada.

-1938-Richard Woodrow Davis, '38btis, is a deputy Col-

lector of Internal Revenue with the United States'I'rcasur\ Departincnt. Iie has held this position for

three years . lie was formcr-ly an accountant for Okla-homa Gas & Electric Co .While attending the Uni-versity Davis was active inintramural athletics, wasvice president of the Ac-Counting Club and was onfile advertising staff of the1937 Sooner Yearbook . Heserved in the European the_a[re of war. He is com-mander of the East Holly-wood Post 526 of the Amer-ican Legion . He and Mrs.

Davis have one child, Anita Louise Davis, 2 \carsohl.'I'1[c\ live in Lostltigclc, .Charles I' . Got\vals, Jr ., '38ha, '-l0l .aw, and Mrs.

Gotwals, the Iornwr Mary Frances Brownlee, '43-'46, are the parents (d a son born January 7 in'Tulsa . 'I-lie% fornicrl% lived in Muskogec .Woodrow Crunibo, 3fi-'.38, is now living in '1'uos

Pueblos, New MCx1Co, With studios in T,tos village .I Helen Kirkbride Canfield, 386us, 'Tulsa, recent-

1% passed the bar examinations and %vas sworn in asa full-fledged law\cr on March I5, I per tiurther wasalso sworn in as a lawyer .

li . W. DAVIS

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1111/i Ch(ss RerniiuaOfficers and officials of the Executive

Board of the University of Oklahoma(Alumni) Association announce the com-mittee in charge of Reunion Day activitiesfor the Class of 1939 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)as the following : Theatus E. Greeson, '39journ, Oklahoma City, chairman ; WilliamE. Bender, Jr ., '39bus, Muskogee ; A. M.Brixey, Jr ., '39ba, '40bs, '43med, OklahomaCity ; Ivy Mae Coffey, '39journ, PoncaCity ; Max Cook, '39ba, '41Law, Clinton ;Andrew Crosby, Jr., '39ba, '41Law, Law-ton; James H. Ivy, Jr.,'39ba,'41Law, Wau-

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rika ; William W. Musser, Jr., '39ba, '41Law, Enid ; Robert S. Trippet, '39ba, '41Law, Tulsa, and Jack E. Wilson, '39bus,'42Law, Oklahoma City .

C: . R. Bixler, Jr ., '39Law, and Mrs. Bixler visitedin Tulsa and Oklahoma City during March. Theylive in Midland, Texas. The Bixlers have threedaughters.

John L. Dalke, '39ms, and Mrs. Dalke, Bethesda,Maryland, announced the birth of a son in January.They have named the child Roger Allen.

Kathryn Lathim Berglund, '39ed, formerly ofMuskogee, is now residing in Oklahoma City .

Charles Sims, '39Law, was honored recently bythe Seminole Junior Chamber of Commerce asthe outstanding young man of 1948 . 1'. M. Beaird,'21ba, gave the principal address . Milt Phillips, '22,was the master of ceremonies at the luncheon .

1940-L. W. Goudy, '40geol, and Mrs. Goudy, Jackson,

Mississippi, announced the birth of a son on Feb-ruary 25 .Edward K . Livermore, '40journ, and Mrs. Liver-

more, the former Melba Hudson, '40journ, an-nounced the birth of a daughter March 5 at St .John's Hospital in Tulsa. They live in Claremore.

Jack Rinn, '40bus, is employed by the AlexanderSmith Carpet Company in Los Angeles as an areasalesman .

Hiawatha Estes, '40eng, published a book ofhome plans in November, called HarmoniousHomes. The book is being distributed nationally .Estes lives in Los Angeles.

Donald Charles Smith, '40ms, '48ph.d, is head ofthe Chemical Spectroscopy Group in the Naval Re-search Laboratory, Washington, D. C. He and Mrs.Smith, the former Ruth Caroline Irby, '396s, '41ms, have two children, Owen Irby Smith 2, andCarol Jean Smith, 1 year old.E. L. Evans, Jr ., '40, and Mrs. Evans, Ardmore,

have named their first child, born March 1, Eb-berly

Rutledge Beesley, '38-'40, formerly of Bartles-ville, is now associated with the Richardson BeltMotor Company, Ada.Norman Barker, '40, and Mrs. Barker, the for-

mer Addie Pickard, '39journ, announced the birthof a son March 4. HE was named Norman Allen.The Barkers have two other children, Gail Ann, 5,and Forrest, 3 . They live in Ada.

Major CharlesW. Allen, Jr ., '40ba, '42Law, Guth-rie, has been assigned to headquarters of the FirstCorps with the Eighth Army in Kyoto, Honshu,Japan, as assistant intelligence officer .Memorial services for Capt . Victor James France,

'40journ, were held recently in Edmond . Francewas killed while flying over Germany on his 131stmission, April 18, 1944 . He was awarded the AirMedal for hazardous flying over Caribbean waters.This medal, with three Oak Leaf Clusters, and theDistinguished Flying Cross with three Oak LeafClusters, were presented to his mother, Mrs. LenaFrance, '39m.ed, Oklahoma City .Mrs. Jo Lee Rodkc, '40ed, presented a special

showing of landscapes, portraits in oil, and water-colors in the Birtain Hall gallery at Oklahoma Bap-tist University, Shawnee, on February 20 .

Joe M. Bower, '40bus, and Mrs. Bower, Bartles-ville, announced the birth of a daughter January20 . They have named her Dana Jane Bower.

Reburial rites for Lt . Louis L. Surber, Jr ., '37-'40,were held recently in Norman . Surber was killed inaction in Italv in 1944 .

-1941-Phillip H . Fntz, '41eng, is an engineer with Boe-

ing Aircraft, Seattle, Washington .Herbert A . Koch, '41eng, has been appointed

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head of the Fort Worth area oflice of Dowell, Inc.He will be sales co-ordinator for Texas, New Mex-ico and Louisiana .

Jack 13 . Ryan, '41gcol, and Mrs. Ryan, the formerDean West, '411a, are making their home in Ab-ilene, Texas. Ryan is with Stanolind Oil Company.They have a (laughter, Terry Jane, 19 months old.

Ralph W. Jones, '41tn.nuis.cd, presented a jointrecital in the Faculty Recital Series of the South-western University School of Fine Arts in George-town, Texas. He is associate professor of woodwindinstruments. He is also first flutist with the Austin(Texas) Symphony Orchestra .Edward White Pribyl, '38=41, is vice president

of the Corbett-Barbour Drilling Company, Tulsa.Major Robert A. Norman, '37-'41, and Mrs. Nor-

man, Garland, Texas, have selected the name Rob-ert Law Norman for their son born February 4 inDallas . Major anti Mrs. Norman have two otherchildren, Sally Anne, 6, and Josephine Frantiska, 2 .

-1942

CHARLES H . PROCTER

Charles H. Procter, '42mus .ed, is assistant man-ager of the Broadway Theatres, Inc., in Muskogec .lie has held this position for three years. While at-tending O.U . Procter was a member of the bandand svmphon) - orchestra, receiving the outstandingbandsman cup in 1940 . He is a member of Alpha'1'au Omega Fraternity . He served in the Air Corpsduring World War II in 23 different fields, includ-ing Italy . He is a member of Rotary, Chamber ofCommerce, Jaycees, Masonic lodge and Shrine . Heis director of the Shrine band . IIe and Mrs. Procter,the former Margaret Emcline Mitchell, '40-'41,have two daughters. Anne, and Lillian . The pic-ture shown of Procter was taken at the Indian Cen-tennial in Muskogec last October.STARNS-ISENBE.RGI'R : Frances Lou Starns,

'42ba, Altus, and John R . lscnbcrgcr, '46-'48, Okla-homa City, were married recently in St . Luke'sMethodist Church, Oklahoma Citv . The couple hasestablished a Dome in Oklahoma City .

Dr . Millington O. Young, '42ba, '44mcd, was re-cently promoted to senior assistant surgical resident,Department of Surgery, Yale University School ofMedicine, New Haven, Connecticut.L. A . Pettet and Mrs. Pettet, the former Margaret

Frock, '42h .ec, announced the birth of a son Feb-ruary 26 . They have named the child Albert Brad-shaw Pettet, II . The Pettets live in Evanston, Illi-nois .

Dr . Warren McGonnaglc, '421ris, '41ph .d, andMrs. McGonnaglc, the former June D. Cleveland,'42journ, are living in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where

Dr . McGonnaglc is teaching at Western MichiganState College .

Charlie Love, '42ed, '47ms, principal of thePershing School, Muskogee, has been elected presi-dent of the Muskogee Education Association .Tom A. Patterson, '40-'42, and Mrs. Patterson

have selected the name Vicki Jayne for their daugh-ter born February 21 . They live in Oklahoma City .

Lt. Gus Kitchens, Jr ., '38-'42, was buried in Pur-cell on February 19 . Kitchens was the 1940 captainof the O.U. football team, and is believed to be thefirst Sooner athlete to lose his life in World War If .He became a combat pilot early in the war and wasshot down by the Japanese in the southwest Pacificsoon after hostilities began.

Luke Alton Wilkcrson, '42ba, '471.aw, is a part-ner in the law firm of Wilkerson & Wilkerson,Pryor. He is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Asso-ciation, the Chamber of Commerce and the LionsClub . He and Mrs. Wilkerson, the former JaneCarolyn Sibley, '47mus .ed, were married in July,1948 .

'-- 1943-Harry Rayl, '43bus, is a certified public account-

ant with offices in the petroleum Building, Tulsa.Mary Alice Carmichael Hill, '43h .ec, is vice presi-

dent and program chairman of the MuskogeeBranch of the American Association of UniversityWomen.

David Newby, '43cng, and Mrs. Newby, the for-mer Ruth Ann Hummer, '43, have moved to theirranch six miles north of Hobbs, NewMexico, wherethey expect to raise irrigated alfalfa . Newby re-signed his position as district petroleum engineerfor Phillips Petroleum Company in December .

William C: . Schmidt, '43bus, and Mrs. Schmidt,the former Ruth Dudley, '43bm, have named theirson, born February 15, William G. Schmidt, Jr .,They have another child, Kaye, 3 . The Schmidtslive in Oklahoma City.

Herbert E. Pictschker, '43cng, has been trans-ferred from the Creole Petroleum Corporation SanJoaquin Camp to the Temblador Camp, where heis working as a drilling engineer . The TembladorCamp is in Venezuela.McKENZIE-HALE: Virgie Lee McKenzie, Lind-

say, and Harold Hale, '436a, Minco, have estab-lished a residence in Oklahoma City following theirrecent marriage .

John G. Loeffler, '43cng, is now working forthe Southern California Gas Company in Los An-geles. He has recently returned from Berlin wherehe was with the U. S. Military Government .

John B. Baumert, '43bus, '48Law, is an attorneyat law in McAlester. He is a member of Beta ThetaPi Fraternity .

Margaret McLeod Lehman, '43bus, is living inMuskogec, where her husband, Ray T. Lehman,'42bs, is in the insurance business .

James Maynard Samis, '43, and Mrs. Samis, haveselected the names Margaret Susan and Linda Kayfor their twin daughters born January 28 in Okla-homa City .

Lloyd George Minter, '43Law, and Mrs. Minter,Bartlesville, have named their son, born January17, George Arthur Minter .Dorothy Ann Steele, '436s, is employed by the

Atlantic Refining Company in Houston, Texas.Harold E. Kirkpatrick, '43bus, '49Law, is asso-

ciated with W. W. Whiteman, Jr ., with law officesin the First National Bank Building, OklahomaCity . He and Mrs. Kirkpatrick recently announcedthe birth of their second child, a son, born Feb-ruary 2 .

John James Moffat, Jr., '436us, is owner andmanager of the Moffat Insurance Agency in Musko-gec. He is a member of the Delta Upsilon Fratern-ity. He received the Keyman award in the Musko-gec Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1948 .

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Lt. Tommye J. Duncan, '43journ, was trans-

ferred March I from Walter Reed General Hospital

in Washington, 1) . C. to the Fitzsimmons General

Hospital, Denver, Colorado . She has been a second

lieutenant in the Army in the Women's Specialists

Corps, Occupational Therapy Branch for some time .

She was stationed at Brooke General Hospital for

three and a half years. She was chosen as one of

two occupational therapists selected to attend an

advanced course in psychiatric occupational therapy

at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington . In Den-

ver she will be chief occupational therapist in the

neuropsychiatric section . She is the only Oklahoman

in her branch of service .



Board of the University of Oklahoma

(Alumni) Association announce the com-

mittee in charge of Reunion Day activities

for the Class of 1944 (Sunday, June 5, 1949)

as the following - Durward K. McDaniel,

'44Law, '44ba, Oklahoma City, chairman ;

William Ross Anthony, '44eng, Lubbock,

Texas; Robert E. Craig, Jr., '44ed, San

Diego, California ; Martha Colvert Evans,

'44ba, '47ma, Bartlesville ; Cornelia Lasley

Field, '44ba, '45ma, Berkeley, California ;

John B. Leake, '44bs, Aurora, Missouri ;

Ruth McSpadden,'44ba,'47ma, Tulsa; Bet-

ty Abbott Mahone, '44bus, Hobart ; Betty

German Pettit, '44journ, New York, and

Ira Y. Rice, Jr ., '44journ, San Francisco,

California .ZIMMERMAN-TURNBULL : Elizabeth Zimmer-

man, '44bus, and John E. Turnbull, '49eng, weremarried February 19 in a ceremony performed in

the First Presbyterian Church of Norman. Turnbull

has been employed by the U. S. Engineers in Paw-

huska and the couple will make their home there.George E. Bloch, '44eng, recently received the

State of California Professional Mechanical Engi-

neers License . He is associate mechanical engineer

with the Department of Water & Power, Los An-

geles.Suzanne Everidge Graham, '44bus, is employed

in the Collector of Internal Revenue office in Mus-kogee.

Merritt Aldrich Neale, '44eng, is teaching at Car-negie Institute of Technology while workingtoward his master's degree in civil engineering. Heand Mrs. Neale are living in Bcllarae, Pennsyv-vania.Mary Jane Murray Hoffman, '44bus, is living in

Bartlesville, where her husband is an engineer withPhillips Petroleum Company. Prior to her marriagelast May she was employed by the Shell Oil Com-pany in Tulsa.Dr . J. W. Strode, '44med, has joined the medi-

cal division of Merck & Company, Inc., manufac-turing chemists, Rahway, New Jersey . Dr . Strodeinterned at the Los Angeles County General Hos-pital, later serving as a medical officer in the Army .He formerly lived in Pawnee and Stillwater .

-'1945"'HARDEMAN-HAAS : Betty Hardeman, '45fa,

McAlester and Joseph S. Haas, Haverford, Pennsyl-vania, were married recently in Bryn Mawr, Penn-sylvania . Mrs. Haas is a member of Kappa AlphaTheta Sorority . Haas is a graduate of Williams Col-lege, Williamstown, Massachusetts .

~1946~STEELE-BOLENE: Rosalie Steele, '46bs, King

fisher, was married recently to Dr . Robert V. Bo-lene, '48med, Enid . They are living in Detroit,Michigan, where Dr . Bolene is taking his intern-ship . Mrs. Bolene is employed as an associate bac-

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teriologist at the Henry Ford Hospital .

Mary Ann Nesbitt Harris, '46ourn, is contribut-

ing a column to the Miami News-Record. She was

formerly a reporter for the Oklahoma City Times.

Capt . John M. Perry, Jr ., '46med, and Mrs. Perry

have selected the name Marilyn Ann Perry for their

(laughter born March 2 in Fort Lewis, Washington .

~19471-John Toole Griffin, '476us, is president of the

Griffin Grocery Company in Muskogee .James Kilgore Devote, '47med, is a physician in

Columbus, Ohio .George W. Taylor, '47eng, is a geophysicist with

the National Geophysical Co ., Inc., in Dallas, Texas.

Gordon Hart Dempsey, '47eng, is production

foreman with the Procter & Gamble ManufacturingCo . i n Dallas, Texas.

Robert Dillon, '476m, will receive a master of

music in theory this year from the University of

Southern California . Ile has composed "Sonata for

Flute and Piano" in three movements.Lon T. Jackson, Jr ., '47bus, is in the insurance

business in Sapulpa. He is a member of the Rotary

Club, American Legion, V.F.W . and Jaycees .William John Otjen, Jr ., '476us, and Mrs. Otjen,

the former Eva Harris Blake, '40h.ec, are living in

Ada, where Otjen is general manager of the Ada

Coca-Cola Bottling Company.Edward I) . M. Fugate, '47med, has been ap-

pointed Research Associate in physiology at WayneUniversity, Detroit, Michigan . Besides doing re-

search, Dr . Fugate will also assume teaching duties

at Wayne.Dr . Tom S. Gafford, Jr ., '47med, and Mrs. Gaf-

ford announced the birth of a son March 14 in

Oklahoma City .Dr . John F. Gaines, '47med, is assistant medical

resident at St . Louis County Hospital, Clayton, Mis-

souri. He and Mrs. Gaines have a son 9 months old.

Patricia Anne Powell, '476s, has been a hostess

with American Air Lines for almost two years.

In a national contest among stewardesses, Miss

Powell was selected as one of the twelve for an all-

expense trip to Europe . The group left in April for

the 18-day tour .R. W. Roring, '47eng, Davis, Texas, is attending

the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company Drilling Mud

School in Ulysses, Kansas . /Joan Yarmuk, '47journ, Lawton, has joined the

editorial staff of the Lawton Constitution . She has

been news editor of the Marlow Review .Leslie H. Long, '47eng, and Mrs. Long, have an-

nounced the birth of a daughter. The child was

named Kathryn Marlis . They live in Ponca City .

GREEN-NELSON : Frances Marden Green, '47

soc.wk, Bartlesville, and Delmar Lee Nelson, '48

journ, Durant, were married February 13 in the

First Methodist Church of Bartlesville . Nelson was

managing editor of the Oklahoma Daily while at

O.U . He also served as commander of the Veterans

of Foreign Wars . He is a member of Sigma Delta

Chi. Before her marriage Mrs. Nelson was a case

worker with Child Welfare Services, Oklahoma De-

partment of Public Welfare. Nelson is now on thereportorial staff of the Arizona Republic . The cou-

ple is at home in Tucson, Arizona.

-1948-Betty Jane Worstell, '486s, is working as a litera-

ture abstractor for the Hanover Works in Wash-

ington, an atomic energy commission plant.MILLIGAN-REIMER : Kathleen Milligan, '48ba,

Oklahoma City and Paul A. Reimer, Jr ., Yale, weremarried recently in Stillwater . The couple has estab-

lished a home in Oklahoma City .Russ Winfree, '47-'48, is a graduate student in

the department of writing, speech and drama at

Johns Hopkins University and a junior instructorin writing . An article written by Winfree, "The

Basic Plot Formula" appeared in the winter issueof The Hopkins Review, literary quarterly of theUniversity .

Charles V. Wheeler, '48Law, is associated with

the law firm of Cantrell, Carey & McCloud inOklahoma City .Wade Pierson Wells, '48eng, and Mrs. Wells,

McAlester, have selected the name Wade PiersonWells, Jr ., for their son born March 3.

Harvey Mizel, '48eng, is an engineer for NorthAmerican Aviation, Los Angeles.

William C. Larson, '48eng, is employed with the

Holley Carburetor Co., Detroit, Michigan, as a re-search engineer in their turbo-jet governor depart-ment .Anna Rhea Keatley, '48m .ed, is librarian at the

Horace Mann Junior High School in Tulsa. She wasformerly a teacher in Seminole .Dr . Marvin K. Margo, '48med, and Mrs. Margo,

the former Bobbie June Cravens, '44ed, are the par-ents of a son, Robert Cravens, born March I in In-dianapolis, Indiana.

Major C. M. McCoy, '48eng, is now living inMurfreesboro, Tennessee. He moved recently fromPrairie du Chien, Wisconsin.Dr . Glenn Samuel Collins, Jr ., '48med, is an in-

tern at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles.He and Mrs. Collins announced the birth of theirfirst child in December .

Joseph R. Coleman, '48arch, is supervising archi-tect on the Theatre Drome, Chicago. He was for-merly with an architectural firm in Oklahoma City .

Lloyd D. Blancett, '48bus, is employed in the ac-counting department of the Stanolind Oil and GasCompany, Tulsa.

Joe Newton Croom, Jr ., '48journ, has been em-ployed as a newspaper advertising salesman sincehis graduation. He is employed by the GuthrieDaily Leader, Guthrie. While attending the Uni-versity Croom was employed in the addressographdivision of the Alumni Association. He and Mrs.Groom have two children, Joe Newton Croom, III,and Diane Frances Croom.

Jerry Lee Pennington, '48bus, is a public ac-countant in Ada.

Monroe F. McGuire, '48bus, is a refinery cost ac-countant with the Sunray Oil Corporation in Tulsa.He was formerly supervisor of the accounting de-partment in the Boeing Airplane Company inWichita, Kansas .

John Leonard Woody, Jr ., '48bus, is a salesmanfor the Woody Motor Company in Madill .Donovan Emery Welch, '48Law, is an attorney

in Madill . He has recently been admitted to practicein the U. S. Federal District Court for the EasternDistrict of Oklahoma .PROPST-GODFREY : Virginia Carley Propst,

Borger, Texas, and James H. Godfrey, '48eng, for-merly of Oklahoma City, were married in March atthe home of the bride's parents in Borger .

Lewis Henry Carter, Jr ., '48eng, and Mrs. Carter,the former Marilyn Massey, '476a, have selected thename of Lewis Henry Carter, III for their son bornFebruary 5 in Oklahoma City .

Donald Jay Keen and Mrs. Keen, the former PatLydick, '48fa, announced the birth of a daughteron February 14 . They have named the infant Cyn-thia Louise. Keen is a student at the University ofOklahoma .

Charles Benick Jones, '48bus, is associated withthe First National Bank at Madill .

John R. Potts, '48bus, and Mrs . Potts have an-nounced the birth of a daughter whom they havenamed Janice Elizabeth . They are living in LasCruces, New Mexico .W. L. Gaither, '48eng, is working for Sunray

Oil Corporation as district engineer in the GreaterSeminole area . Also associated with Sunray in theSeminole area is V. L. Smith, '42eng . Gaither is

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living in Wewoka.RAMSEY-MUNDE : Jean Ramsey, '48fa, Sul-

phur,-anti Henry Lawrence Muntle, Norman, are athome in Norman after their marriage in February .Muntle is an engineering student at the Universityof Oklahoma .HAGGARD-SPURI,IN : Ouincy Pearl Haggard,

Piano, "Texas, and Marion George Spurlin, '48bus,Clinton, were married recently in the home of thebride's parents . Th e y arc residing in Clinton.

-1949-Fred W. Gill, '41-'4t), has cnrvdlcd in the Ben

Bard School of Drama in Hollywood, California .He is thing practice reading for his first play .

Betty McLean McDonald, '49ba, is now employedby the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Okla-lioma City .BRAY-STEPHENSON: Virginia C. Bray, '49,

and Larry E. Stephenson, '48journ, were marriedMarch 12 in Edmond. Mrs. Stephenson is a soph-omore in the University of Oklahoma . Stephensonwas president of Sigma Delta Chi, journalism fra-ternity, and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon Fra-ternity . He was editor of Sooner Magazine duringthe summer and fall of 1948 . He is head of thepromotion and sales division of U. S. Savings Bondsin Oklahoma City, where the couple has establisheda home .

Sports Continuedvault waiting to see if he makes or misses it . Car-roll chews dextrose cakes, more as a release from hisnervousness than for the quick pickup the productis noted for.What does a pole-vaulter do when he hits a

slump' That's when Carroll looks up his coach."Jake can take one Hook and tell you what you'redoing wrong," says Carroll, "Also, he knows howto relax you by coming in there with a wisecrack."

"Pole-vaulting is all mental," Jacobs told Carrollwhen the latter was having a bad week last winter,"If a fellow can't go 14 feet, he hasn't got goodmentality."

Starting from that witticism, Carroll began thethree-week climb that was culminated by his recordindoor sail of 14-1 a month ago in the Central Col-legiate indoor meet at F'ast Lansing, Michigan, be-licyctl the trip indoor jump fi)r an American col-Icgian this year .

Oklahoma Leads All SportsFinishing no Hower than third in any sport,

Oklahoma leads the Big Seven conference all sportstable for the school year 19-}8-4t) with six of theloop's ten recognized sports finished .The Sooners had a How of H%2, followed by

Nebraska 17',4, Kansas and Missouri 26 each, IowaState 2(i ;_, Colorado 27 and Kansas State 33'/2 .

Nebraska has the most championships so far,baying carried wrestling, indoor track and tied forbasketball .

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But Oklahoma's superior balance told . Coach BudWilkinson's Sooner football team won the cham-pionship . Coach Bruce ])rake's team tied for thebasketball crown. Coach John Jacobs' crosseountryteam, Coach Port Robertson's wrestling team andCoach Joe Glander's swim squad all picked offrunner-up honors in their sports and Jacobs' in-door track squad was third.

Emphasizing every sport on the calendar, Okla-homa has won the Big Seven all sports champion-ship 13 times to Nebraska's three, Iowa State'sthree, Kansas one, Missouri one.Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa State and Colorado

participated in every sport officially recognized bythe conference . Kansas has no wrestling, KansasState no swimming, while Missouri has neither awrestling nor swimming team .

With golf, tennis, baseball and outdoor track stillto be heard from, here's the Big Seven all sportstable for 19-18-49 :

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Oct . 1 Texas Aggies at Norman

Oct . 8 Texas at Dallas

IOct . 15 Kansas at Norman(Dad's Day)

tOct . 22 Nebraska at Lincoln

tOct. 29 Iowa State at Norman(Homecoming)

fNov .

5 Kansas State atManhattan

tNov . 12 Missouri at Columbia

Nov. 19 Santa Clara at Norman(Band Day)

Nov. 26 Oklahoma A&M atNorman

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