Calling the Roll of Sooner Classes-1907-

Errett R. Newby, '076a, '086a, Oklahoma City,is president of the new General Bonding and In-surance Company of Oklahoma City . The com-pany, licensed in February, expects to be the firstin the state to write bonds.

_1910Fred E. Tarman, '10ba, publisher of the Nor-

man Transcript, has been elected as a member ofthe board of trustees of the University of Okla-hoina Foundation .

~19111-An article on "Junior Colleges in Oklahoma"

by Dr . Frank A. Balyeat, 'l lba, '18ma, professorof education, appears in the spring edition ofChronicles of Oklahoma, the quarterly publicationof the Oklahoma Historical Society .

-1912-Thomas W. Mayfield, '12law, believed by rela-

tives to be the first boy born in Norman afterthe run in 1889, died April 29 in Los Angeles,California . Mr . Mayfield moved from Norman toDallas, Texas, about 20 years ago to practice lawand went to Los Angeles about five years ago.

-'1913-Members of Phi Beta Kappa in Oklahoma City

have organized an association and Paul Darrough,'136a, '151aw, has been elected president . In Maythe association held a dinner honoring OklahomaCity high school students.Word has been received in the Alumni office of

the death in May of M. F. Meyer, '136a, '161aw,Mount Pleasant, Texas.

-1915-Micah P. Smith, '156a, '17ma, Norman resident

since 1938, died in his home May 10 after be-coming suddenly ill May 9. Mr . Smith had servedthe education profession 46 years as a teacher .

-1917-Owen C. Black, '17, chief attorney of the Vet-

erans Administration at Manila, Philippine Islands,for the past two years, is now chief attorney atthe Muskogee regional office of the Veterans Ad-ministration .H . Merle Woods, '176a, owner and publisher

of The El Keno American, and Mrs. Woods at-tended the 63rd annual convention of the NationalEditorial Association in Pinehurst, North Carolina,beginning May 6.

Ernest William McFarland, '176a, U. S. Senatorfrom Arizona and former Oklahoman, was to havekeynoted the state Democratic Convention June 7.

_1919-One of the guest speakers at the eastern district

meeting of the Oklahoma Press Association heldMay 2 in Poteau was Dr . Fayette Copeland, '196a,director of the School of Journalism at O. U. Hediscussed readership surveys .

-1920_Claude Monnet, '206a, '23law, Oklahoma City

lawyer, was elected vice-president of the nationalcouncil of the Y. M. C. A. as it concluded its22nd annual meeting in Detroit, Michigan, recently.

For the past three and one-half years AlmaDouthit Campbell, '20ba, has been a social workerwith the division of services for the blind at theBureau of Social Aids, Wayne County, Detroit,Michigan . She is an alumna of the O. U. chapterof Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority . Her husband isPaul N. Campbell, '216a, '25ma. Paul N. Jr ., re-ceived his degree from the College of BusinessAdministration in May.

-1921- .Mrs. A. F. McLaughlin, Norman, mother of four

University graduates, died at the Norman Munici-pal Hospital May 17 . The children include HomerC. McLaughlin, '216a, Norman ; Ermond S. Mc-Laughlin, '24ba, Waco, Texas ; Maurice T. Me-

Laughlin, '256a, Wichita Falls, Texas, and FloraMcLaughlin, '226a, '276a, '25ma, Norman .

Kirtland Garvin Parks, '216s, '23med, is anophthalmologist associated with the firm of Parksand Parks in Long Beach, California . Dr. Parksestablished his practice in California in 1935 . Pre-viously he had been in the general practice ofmedicine in Oklahoma City .

-1922-Price Allen Robberson, '226a, Evanston, Illinois,

has been a divisional manager for the StrombergTime Corporation in Chicago for the past sixmonths . He is a distributor of automatic timeequipment. Mr . Robberson is a member of AlphaKappa Psi and Lambdi Chi Alpha Fraternity .

-1923-B. M. "Brad" Risinger, '236a, Tulsa, recently

was appointed as assistant city attorney at Tulsa.Formerly he had served as assistant county attor-ney for Tulsa County . Mr. Risinger is at presentdepartment commander of the American Legionfor the State of Oklahoma.

Joe Hicks, '236a, Chicago, Illinois, public re-lations counselor, conducted an informal questionand answer session at the Sigma Delta Chi meetingrecently . Mr. Hicks was on the campus as a guestspeaker for the career conference .Wayne Ellsworth Miller, '23eng, has been an

office engineer with the Massman, Metcalfe, Ham-ilton Corporation in Lancaster, Tennessee, for thepast two years. Mrs. Miller is the former MaryElsie Wade, '28 . They are making their home inKnoxville.Raymond D. Meade, '23ed, has been named

registrar and associate professor of education atIllinois Institute of Technology, the appointment

being effective March 1 .Mr. Meade has been en-trance counselor at theUniversity of Chicagofor the last year . Beforethat, he was a leadingfigure in secondaryschools for about 25years. He received a cer-tificate from the Univer-site de Toulouse,France,in 1919, and a Mas-ter's Degree from theUniversity of Chicagoin 1933 . For seven years,from 1925 to 1932, he

RAYMOND D. MEADE was registrar at Ste-phens College, Columbia, Missouri . From 1933 to1947, he was principal of high schools in Scotts-bluff, Nebraska ; Aurora, and Chicago Heights,Illinois . He is author of a manual on "FunctionalCitizenship," joint author of a monograph onguidance, and author of a number of magazinearticles on school administration . Mrs. Meade isthe former Mildred Mary Noble, '24.

-1924-Alvin R. Jackson, '24ba, '28bs, '30med, has been

a practicing physician and surgeon in OklahomaCity since his graduation from the Medical Schoolin 1930 . He is a member of Alpha 'fan OmegaFraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Beta Pi, Alpha ChiSigma and Pe-et. He received the Letzeiser Medal,

Public relations was the topic of interest for the recent Wewoka meeting of the Oklahoma State BarAssociation with the civic clubs of that city. George Lipe, executive secretary of the Association made thearrangements . Howard Tumilty, president of the bar organization, was one of the principal speakers .Those who participated in the program designed to acquaint the people of the state with the legal profes-sion are, left to right, S. T. Spena, vice-president of the Rotary Club of Wewoka, who presided ; Mr . Lipe,Albert Trice, prominent attorney and former president of the Oklahoma Bar Association, Ada ; Denver W.Davison, '15law, member of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma ; Gentry Lee, '241aw, Tulsa ; W. PageKeeton, dean of the University School of Law; Bob Howell, '266a, '281aw, Holdenville, district judgeof Seminole and Hughes counties, and Mr . Tumilty.

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was assistant in chemistry laboratories, and assist-ant in the physical education department . Mrs.Jackson is the former Prenda H. Tidwell, '24chem.

Otis Sullivant, '24, political writer for the DailyOklahoman, attended the state government semi-nar of the American Press Institute at ColumbiaUniversity in New York City, May 3 to 21 .

Harold Arnold, '24, for many years advertisingmanager of The Daily Ardmoreite, is now adver-tising manager of a Marshall, Texas, newspaper.

-1925-Major P. Kidd, Norman, father of two Uni-

versity graduates, died at his home in NormanMay 24 . The sons are Gentry Kidd, '25geol, Hous-ton, Texas, and Phil C. Kidd, '281aw, Washington,D. C.

Guest speaker at the presentation of senior en-gineering awards May 12 was David Fields, '25eng,'38eng, vice-president of the Flint Steel Corpora-tion, Tulsa. Mr . Fields is current director of theOklahoma Society of Professional Engineers.

Harold Belknap, '256a, associate publisher ofthe Norman Transcript, spoke on "The 'Long Look'in Advertising" at the eastern district meeting ofthe Oklahoma Press Association, held May 2 inPoteau .

-1926-N. L. George, '26ed, business manager of the

Oklahoma City public schools, received his Doctorof Education Degree from Columbia University inceremonies June 1 . Dr . George wrote his Doctor'sdissertation on "A Centralized Service Center forOklahoma City Public Schools." The service centeris a part of the school's long range building pro-gram . Dr . George did not get to attend the cere-monies at Columbia .

Richard T. Pendleton, '261aw, Kansas City, Mis-souri, and Mrs. Pendleton were guests recently inNorman . Mr . Pendleton is a trust officer with theCity National Bank and Trust Company of KansasCity . He is also president of the Kansas City O. U.Alumni Club. While a resident of Cleveland Coun-ty before World War II, he was representative inthe Oklahoma State Legislature. Mrs. Pendleton isa former staff member of the home economics de-partment at O. U.

Recent guests in Norman, Purcell, and Wash-ington from Tulsa were Thomas Lloyd Brown,'266us, and Mrs. Brown, the former Mary Haxel,'25-'27 . Mr . Brown has received his discharge fromthe Army with the rank of colonel . He served forfive and one-half years, most of which was spentin the Pacific . He has returned to his former po-sition with the U. S. Post Office in Tulsa. TheBrown's oldest (laughter, Mary Catheryn, is astudent at Phillips University, Enid .

John A. Deterly, jr,, '26bs, is a chemist, inspectorand chief clerk with the Alcohol Tax Unit, Treas-ury Department, Bureau of Internal Revenue inBaltimore. He has been associated with the depart-ment for the last 14 years. Mr . Deterly was aninstructor at Louisiana State University, BatonRouge, for one year and a chemist with the ShellPetroleum Corporation in New Orleans, Louisiana,for three years.

-1927-A. B. Carpenter, '271aw, Mrs. Carpenter (Helen

Buellesfield, '266a), and daughter, Nancy, of Ros-well, New Mexico, returned recently to the stateto visit friends in Norman and Shawnee. Mr . Car-penter has, for a number of years, been a memberof the House of Representatives in the State Legisla-ture of New Mexico . This year he is a candidatefor the New Mexico State Senate in his district .While in Norman the Carpenters visited withTom R. Benedum, '281aw, and Mrs. Lucille Wil-liams Benedum, '28ba; D. Horton Grisso, '30geol,and Mrs. Evelyn Fleeger Grisso, '30 ; Ruth Elder,'43m.ed; Ted M. Bcaird, '216a, and Mrs. KatherynHaxel Bcaird, '24.

JUNE, 1948

-1928-A. Leslie Chambers, '28ba, '29ma, Kansas City,

Missouri, and Mrs. Chambers (Virginia Bartley,'286a) were visiting in the East at the time of the20th anniversary reunion of the Class of 1928,May 30 . They are the parents of two children .

"Maybe I can make it next time" was the mes-sage sent by Watson Jones, '28eng, Hollywood,California, who was unable to attend the 20th an-niversary reunion May 30 in Norman . The Cali-fornia schools do not close until late June and hewas unable to get away prior to that time .

Reading from left to right are: Ruby GramlingKing, '28h .ec; Loyd J. King, '28eng ; Mariorie

Anne King, and James Edwin King .

Loyd J . King, '28eng, and Mrs. King (RubyGramling, '28h .ec), who are making their homein Detroit, Michigan, were "two of those whowanted to be there but could not make it" forthe 20th anniversary reunion of the Class of 1928May 30 . Important business affairs also kept Mr .and Mrs. King from attending the "Sooner Gang"Detroit party recently . They are the parents of twochildren shown in the above picture.

Cecil Myron Goodrich, '28ba, '32m .ed, has beenan engineering aid with the U. S. War Departmentfor the last five years. In addition to his duties withthe War Department he is minister for the FirstChristian Church of North Bend, Nebraska .

Following in their mother's footsteps in fine artsisn't a difficult task for Rowena June and MitziKay McWhorter, daughters of Fred McWhorter,'271aw, and Mrs. McWhorter (Helen Ferree, '28bfa) . The two girls recently were presented in ajoint recital by the Conservatory of Music of Kan-sas City, Missouri, where the family resides .

June, who is majoring in both piano and oboe,is, at 18, the youngest junior in the Conservatory.Mitzi Kay, who is 13, is the youngest child byseveral years to be presented in a solo dramaticrecital by the Conservatory:

-1929-William M. Dodson, '296a, '34law, Muskogee,

and Mrs. Dodson are the parents of a daughter,Daryl Denys, born May 3 at Wesley Hospital,Oklahoma City . Mr . Dodson is a member of theExecutive Board of the University of OklahomaAlumni Association . He is in the legal division ofthe Veterans Administration in Muskogee .A. J . "Bud" Haswell, '29bus, was recently elected

president of the Young Men's Dinner Club ofOklahoma City .

-1930-BUDD-WILLOUGHBY: The wedding of Mrs.

Berciean Budd, Ada, and Vester E. Willoughby,'30eng, also of Ada, took place May 15 in Okla-homa City . Mr . Willoughby is associate professorof mechanics in the University. They have estab-lished a home in Norman .

Elizabeth Patterson Petertil, '27-'30, is making

her home in Oak Park, Illinois, where her husband,Victor A. Petertil, is an industrial designer . Mr .and Mrs. Petertil are the parents of one son. Mrs.Petertil was a member of Alpha Gamtna DeltaSorority .Mrs. Mary Gilpatrick, '306a, Norman, died May

22 at the home of her mother in Norman . Mrs.Gilpatrick taught school at Carter and at Carnargo .In Norman she was active in Girl Scout work andthe American Association of University Women.

-1931-Winnie Harris Campbell, '31fa, Glendale, Cali-

fornia, recently was visiting her twin sister, MinnieHarris Townsend, '31fa, Norman, and her mother,Mrs. Alice Harris, in Norman .D. C. Frost, '316a, publisher of the Kiowa Coun-

ty Star-Review, Hobart, has been re-elected to theposition of secretary-treasurer of the Selected Week-lies of Oklahoma . It was organized in 1935 andnow has 36 members.Neale Boyd, '31bus, Oklahoma City, and Mrs.

Boyd have chosen the name Lana Lou for theirdaughter born April 27 in St . Anthony Hospital .A second daughter, Carolyn, was born April 15

to John Dyas Parker and Mrs. Parker, Philadelphia .She is the former Kathleen DeGroot, '316a, '411ib .sci .

Arlena Trayler Mallon, '31bus, is in charge ofCampfire Girls work in two Detroit schools, andis on various Campfire committees .

-1932-Herbert Branan, '32ba, '381aw ; John K. Speck,

'286us ; Tom Z. Wright, '29bus, '341aw ; W. Pres-ton Woodruff, '346a, '361aw, '37ma, and RogerS. Randolph have been appointed as a special ad-

J . BRUCE WILLS-Norman Mayor

Wiley Is Norman MayorJ . Bruce Wiley, '356s, '41m.eng, assistant profes-

sor of electrical engineering at O. U., has beenelected mayor of Norman . He was chosen at aMay meeting of the city commission to succeedO. E. Lindquist.Wiley is serving his second term as a member

of the commission . He has been active in support-ing the council's park improvement and has dis-played special interest in seeing that the commis-sion gives attention to the development of a "com-munity of interests" as well as filling physical needsof the city .

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visory committee on tax legislation to the Legisla-tive Council. Appointment was made by FrankAbbott, '27law, chairman of the tax section of theOklahoma Bar Association .W. Merl Freeland, '32ba, appeared as guest soloist

with the Lebanon Valley College SymphonyOrchestra recently when they were presented in aconcert at Engle Hall, Annville, Pennsylvania . Mr .Freeland is professor of piano at the LebanonValley College Conservatory of Music. After re-ceiving his degree at O. U., Mr . Freeland attendedthe Julliard Graduate School of Music on a fel-lowship, and has been on extensive concert toursthroughout the United States and Canada .

A. N. Griffith, '33eng, Midland, Texas, is dis-trict superintendent for the Hunt Oil Companyfor West Texas and New Mexico . Mr . and Mrs.Griffith are the parents of two sons, Louis, 15,and Joe, 9.FAUGHT-BUTNER : Frances Faught, Wewoka,

became the bride of Roger W. Butner, '331aw,May 11 in Wewoka . Mr . Butner is assistant Semi-nole County Attorney . He served four years inthe counter-intelligence branch of the Army. Thecouple has established a home in Wewoka .Dr. Oliver Hodge, '33m .ed, '37d.ed, State

Superintendent of Public Instruction, was to de-liver the spring commencement address for the57th graduating class at Central State College,Edmond, May 20 .

Mrs. Jane Wilder Poynter, '34ba, is employedas extension clerk by the county agent and homedemonstration agent in Cherokee . Her husband,H. E. Poynter, is working with the Thomas OilCompany at Cherokee .

-1935-Harrell McCullough, '356us, '46ma, is now

making his home in Chicago, Illinois, where he

ski-enthusiasts deluxe are these Sooners who recently made a trek to Colorado ski regions for a week-

end of fun and spills . The brave sportsters are, left to right, Dr . Joseph Sharpe, '47med ; Bill Clarke,

47ba; Mrs. Bob McCurdy (Carolyn Faught, '46bfa), and Dr. Bob McCurdy, '44bs, '46med.

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-1934-

is an industrial engineer for a large printing firm .After his release from the Navy, he attendedNorthwestern University for one year where heworked on his Doctor's Degree . Last year hetaught economics at Loyola University in Chicago.

J . W. Page, '32-'35, Lawton, and Mrs. Page,the former Ruth Owen, '37h .ec, have announcedthe birth May 13 of a daughter, whom they havenamed Jan. Mrs. Page is the daughter of Mr. andMrs. Ben G. Owen, Norman . Mr. and Mrs. Pagealso have a son, William Gilbert, four and one-half years old.Dr . Robert F. Loughmiller, '35ba, '35bs, '37med,

and Mrs. Loughmiller, Oklahoma City, have se-lected the name Robert Farris Loughmiller, Jr .,for their son born April 30 at St . Anthony Hospi-tal .

William Wharton, '35ed, has been occupationalcounselor and unit director at the Arizona StateEmployment Service in Tucson for the past fouryears. Mrs. Wharton is the former Gladys Mar-garet Murdoch, '37ed.

-1936-Sidney B. Metcalf, '366us, has been a partner

in the K. Lee Williams Theatres, Inc., in Purcellfor the past ten years. At the present time he issecretary of the Purcell Chamber of Commerce .

Claud W. Pickard, '34-'36, Dallas, Texas, andMrs. Pickard, the former Katherine Harris, '34,'44, spent Mother's Day, May 9, in Norman visit-ing Mrs. A. Pickard and Mrs. Edgar L. Harris .The Harris family is strictly a Life Membershipfamily of the Alumni Association. Both Mr . andMrs. Pickard are Life members. Her father, EdgarL. Harris, '08ba; an uncle, John F. Harris, 'llba,now in Honolulu ; a brother, Neal W. Harris, '47ba ; a sister, Edale Harris Terrill, student at O. U.and a brother-in-law, Arthur C. Terrill, Jr., student,are all Life members of the Association .V. V. Harris, Jr ., '36ba, Oklahoma City, and

Mrs. Harris have selected the name Mary Louise

for their daughter born April 19 in St . AnthonyHospital .

Lt. Col. F. S. Livermore, '36eng, recently re-ported for duty at the Watertown (Massachusetts)Arsenal as administrative officer . For the past yearhe has been in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, areacompleting a year's training in Industry . Mrs.Livermore and their two children, Betsy Wynneand James Francis, have moved to Watertownfrom Bridgeville, Pennsylvania .Earle Edgar Garrison, '366us, is sales manager

for the Muskogee district of the Oklahoma NaturalGas Company. Mr . Garrison was a member ofthe University band and Kappa Kappa Psi, bandfraternity . Mrs. Garrison is the former Mary OellaTappan, '346a, '35ma. She was a member ofAlpha Lambda Delta, honorary freshman scholas-tic fraternity, Pi Zeta Kappa, honorary religiousfraternity ; Phi Beta Kappa, and the Mortar Board.Mr . and Mrs. Garrison have three sons, DavidMerle, Stuart Earle, and Charles Michael.Dr . M. W. Mahone, '36ba, '376s, '39med,

Hobart, and Mrs. Mahone, the former Betty Abbott,'446us, are the parents of a son, Michael Abbott,who was born March 21 .

David Clinton Winslow, '36ba, former studentat the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque,received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy fromClark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, atthe 58th annual commencement May 23 .Mr. Winslow, a native of Creston, Iowa, and

former teacher of geography for several years atthe Seminole Junior College, received the Masterof Arts Degree from the University of Nebraskain 1939 .He also studied at the University of Michigan

and the University of Iowa, and was a Fellow ingeography at Clark in 1945-1946 and 1946-1947.A former resident of Cuba, New Mexico, and mar-ried, Mr. Winslow in securing his Doctor's De-gree at Clark majored in geography at the inter-nationally known Clark Graduate School ofGeography.

~1937Paul McCutcheon Sears, Albuquerque, New

Mexico, and Mrs. Sears, the former VirginiaHawks, '37, are the parents of a son born April29 in Albuquerque.W, W. (Bill) Frye, '35-'37, news editor of the

Clinton Daily News, has resigned to become gen-eral manager of a new morning newspaper inHobbs, New Mexico . Mr . Frye was state publicrelations officer for the Veterans Administrationbefore joining the Clinton staff.

Boyd R. Gunning, '376a, '371aw, director ofthe University extension division, and ThurmanJ . White, '41ms, director of the audio-visual edu-cation department, attended the 33rd annualmeeting of the National University Extension As-sociation in Chicago, Illinois, May 3 to 5. Mr .Gunning presided at the convention panel on audio-visual aids, and Mr . White participated in thediscussion.

William J . Simpson, '37bus, Bartlesville, is anagent for the Equitable Life Insurance Companyof Iowa . He has been with the company sinceSeptember 1, 1947 . Mr. Simpson qualified forattendance at a life underwriters school held atDes Moines, Iowa, May 10 to 15 .B. Paul Bolton, '37, Austin, is the proud grand-

father of Paul Bolton Sonntag, son of Jim FrederickSonntag and Mrs. Sonntag, the former Beverly

Bolton . The baby was born May 2 in Angleton,Texas.

Walter E. Curry, '36-'37, Oklahoma City, andMrs. Curry have chosen the name Claudia Kay

for their daughter born May 2 in Wesley Hospital .The Currys have one other child, Steve.

-1938-Dave Johnson, '38ma, publisher of the Nowata

Daily Star, has been re-elected to the board of di-rectors of the Nowata chamber of commerce.

Eugene C. Dickenson, '38m .ed, is employed asa railway postal clerk at Guthrie.

Jack E. Britain, '38bus, is director of dealerrelations of the Orley Freezers, Inc., in Detroit .

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Here's Another Community Service - -The Public Information Department of the University of Oklahoma Extension Division pro-

vides an information and loan service to residents of all Oklahoma towns, especially those wherethere are no public libraries . This service includes the loan of dramatic literature as well as pam-phlets and clippings on topics ranging from the history of crocheting to national parks . Assemblyand club program aids, banquet material, bibliographies, biographies, commencement and classday booklets, entertainment helps, poetry, public speaking items, and reviews of movies, operas,plays and books are all available .

This is only one of ten departments serving Oklahomans through the University ExtensionDivision .

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He has been associated with the firm for the pastyear. Mr. Britain was a member of Kappa SigmaFraternity. He did post graduate work at ColumbiaUniversity, New York City, in 1942 .

Lt. Col. Shelton E. Lollis, '38eng, Holdenville,recently arrived in Ankara, Turkey, with the U.S. Air Force Group, American Mission for Aid toTurkey . Colonel Lollis is technical adviser to theTurkish Air Force on all automotive equipmentbeing delivered and will supervise all training inthe operation and maintenance of this equipment.He was employed by the Public Service PowerCompany in Lawton prior to entering active serv-ice with the Army.Thomas Calvin Grant, '35-'38, Oklahoma City,

and Mrs. Grant have selected the name CareyGaines for their son born May I in St . AnthonyHospital .

Charles Nelson Berry, '36-'38, is now associatedwith the law firm of Suits and Fellers in Oklahomacity.

-1939-Rev. Bob Lindsey, '396a, Norman, Baptist mis-

sionary in Jerusalem, has been promised by theAmerican consul that he may stay in the consulateif it becomes necessary to do so during the un-settled conditions in Palestine . He recently hadbeen to Damascus, Egypt.

Will H. Ford, Jr ., '38-'39, Oklahoma City, andMrs. Ford are the parents of a son, David Douglas,born May 16 at St . Anthony Hospital, OklahomaCity.

Samuel Milton Anderson, Jr ., '396a, '411aw, isassociated with his father in the oil business inEllinwood, Kansas . Formerly he had been an at-torney with Suits and Fellers, law firm in Okla-homa City, and the Kerr-McGee Oil Company inOklahoma City . Mr . Anderson is a member ofBeta Theta Pi Fraternity, Phi Eta Sigma, Pe-et, andwas captain of Scabbard and Blade.Mrs. Max E. Billingsley and daughter, Ann, and

son, Kent, left Norman recently for Seattle, Wash-ington, where they were to sail for Japan to spendtwo years. They were joining their husband andfather, Lieutenant Colonel Billingsley, '396us, inYokohama, where he has been stationed since earlyin March, and where he is serving with the 194thdivision . He formerly served in the Europeantheater .HIGLEY-WALDRON : The wedding of Una

Mary Higley, Enumclaw, Washington, to RexWayne Waldron, '39fa, Oklahoma City, was arecent event in Enumclaw . Mr . Waldron attendedOklahoma City University before coming to O. U.to receive his degree .

Russell L. Balyeat, '39, Los Angeles, California,recently completed his first year in the PublicRelations Department of the Los Angeles BranchOffice of the Bank of America. Mr . Balyeat is theson of Dr . Frank A. Balyeat, 'I Iha, '18ma, profes-sor of education and director of adult education.

JUNE, 1948

Roy Tant, '38-'39, and Jerry Patterson, co-publishers of the Grandfield Enterprise, are thefounders of the Chattanooga Review, distributedfor the first time April 14 . The Review is the firstnewspaper for the Chattanooga community in al-most 20 years.

Jim Swank, '39, has entered the race for theDemocratic nomination for County Clerk of Cleve-land County . Mr . Swank is a student in theSchool of Law at the University .

Betty Bogenschutz Todd, '39ed, is making herhome in Round Rock, Texas, where Mr . Todd isa distributor for the Ford Motor Company.

~1940-Winston C. Montgomery, Jr ., '36-'40, and Mrs.

Montgomery, Norman, have chosen the nameDianne Dee for their daughter born May 8 atPolyclinic Hospital, Oklahoma City .SPENCER-SPRING : The marriage of Mary Bell

Spencer, '406us, Texhoma, to Milus M. Spring,University student from Durant, was an event ofMay 8 in Norman . Mrs. Spring is employed at theSecurity National Bank of Norman . During thewar she served with the Marine Corps Women'sReserve in which she held the rank of first lieu-tenant . Mr . Spring served with the 7th Armoreddivision in the Army and held the rank of captain .The couple is at home in Norman .

Appointment of Frank "Pop" Ivy, '40phys-ed,Oklahoma's All-American end of 1939, as an as-sistant coach on the Sooner football staff to replaceWalter Driskill, was made recently by the Boardof Regents. Driskill resigned to become generalmanager of the Baltimore Colts professional club .Ivy has played seven years of professional football,playing last year with the Chicago (Illinois)Cardinals .

Arthur E. King, Jr ., '40eng, Oklahoma City,and Mrs. King have selected the name Eugeniafor their daughter born April 29 in Mercy Hospital .Mrs. King is the former Patsy Eskridge, '446a.

Marvin K. Snodgrass, '406us, is a salesman withthe Nehring Insurance Agency, Inc., in Tucson,Arizona. He has been associated with the firm forthe last year and one-half . At the University Mr .Snodgrass served his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, aspresident and was vice president of the senior class .Tommy Ashinhurst, '38-'40, joined the staff of

the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce Febru-ary 1 as manager of the visitors division . He servedsix years with the Army Air Force and holds therank of lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Re-serve.Tom E. Morton, '40eng, is employed by Halli-

burton Oil Well Cementing Company as districtengineer for North Texas. His office is in WichitaFalls, Texas. Mrs. Morton is the former FrankiePauline Davis, '40m .ed. They are the parents ofthree children, Tom, Sally and Mike .

Kenneth Walter Rees, '40eng, is an oil brokerand is making his home in Edmond . Previously he

had been an engineer with Anderson Prichard OilCompany for one year . Mrs. Rees is the formerEloise Rodkey, '396a, '40ma.

Carter Bradley, '406a, United Press bureaumanager, was a guest speaker at the UniversitySchool of journalism recently . He described theorganization and operation of the Oklahoma CityU. P. bureau .

`-1941Githen Keith Rhoads, '40-'41, is practicing law

in Lawton. He attended Cameron College, Law-ton, before entering school at O. U. Mrs. Rhoadsis the former Elaine Nolan, '486s. For the last threemonths she has been a court reporter for the Gen-eral Courts Martial at Fort Sill . Mr . and Mrs.Rhoads have one son, Githen Keith, Jr., tenmonths old.TRAMMELL-GRIFFIN : Solemnized April 26

in the parlor of the First Baptist Church, Chicka-sha, was the marriage of Billie Jean Trammelland Seabrook Griffin, Jr ., '41, both of Chickasha.Mr . Griffin was a member of Sigma Alpha EpsilonFraternity at O. U.Gene Driskell, '37-'41, is stationed with the

Army in the Panama Canal Zone . Mrs. Driskelland their three sons are with him.

Pauline Wood Lund, '41, is employed in thepublic relations division of the Oklahoma CityChamber of Commerce .

Mrs. Kate Wadsley, '41m.com .ed, has beenteaching in the Coos River High School, CoosBay, Oregon, for the last two years .S. M. "Mickie" Anderson, '411aw, is associated

with his father in the oil business in Ellinwood,Kansas . Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have been mak-ing their home in Oklahoma City.

1942-AXELSON-FOX: A home has been established

in Oklahoma City by John Wallace Fox, '41-'42,and Mrs. Fox. Mrs. Fox is the former Sara JeanAxelson, Dubois, Pennsylvania . Mr . Fox is a mem-ber of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.

Robert Brooks Hixon is the name W. L. Hixon,'42eng, Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Hixon havechosen for their son. The infant was born April23 in Mercy Hospital.

Marvin S. Terrell, '42med, is a practicingphysician in Britton . Mr . and Mrs. Terrell are theparents of a six-months-old daughter, Doris Marie.

-1943-John Davis Hill, '436s, Tulsa, and Mrs. Hill,

the former Dorothy Murdock, '406a, have an-nounced the birth of a son, Robin Barr . The boywas born April 29 in Tulsa.Janet Kay Humphreys is the name chosen by

Jack C. Humphreys, '436us, and Mrs. Humphreys,the former Bonnie Gene Mahaffey, '41h .ec, forthe daughter born May 12 in Oklahoma City .John Ingle, '43med, is doing surgical residency

work at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City.

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Harlan K. Sowell, '43med, became assistantprofessor of anesthesiology at the University Hos-pital, Oklahoma City, May 1. After one year hewill be qualified to meet the national boards inanesthesiology .

Marian Unger Hetherington, '43h .ec, is makingher home in Norman, where her husband, WilliamClark Hetherington, 42bus, is an insurance agent.Mr . and Mrs. Hetherington are the parents of a15-month-old son, William Clark, Jr . Mrs. Hether-ington is a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority,Alpha Lambda Delta, Oikonomia and Omicron Nu .

Lt . Howard Baugh, '40-'43, who has beenstationed in Japan for the past two years, returnedto the United States in June .

-1944-BADER-KAUFMAN : The marriage of Joan

Ruth Bader, Oklahoma City, to John Yates Kauf-man, '44, '47-'48, Berkeley, California, wassolemnized May 9 in Oklahoma City. Mr . Kauf-man is the son of the late Kenneth C. Kaufman,longtime member o£ the University faculty, andthe late Mrs. Kaufman. They have established ahome in Norman where Mr . Kaufman will con-tinue his study at O. U.

Evelyn Miller Balginey, '44ba, formerly ofOklahoma City, was recently advanced to assistantsupervisor of visiting nurses of the city of Brooklyn,New York . Mrs. Balginey is the daughter of RalphV. Miller, '246us, '41ma, dean of men at CentralHigh School, Oklahoma City .

Jerry Leeman Dinges, '44, is making her homein Norman where her husband, Arthur M. Dinges,is attending the University . Mr . and Mrs. Dingesare the parents of a 15-months-old daughter,Madeleine Ann. Mrs. Dinges is a member ofDelta Delta Delta Sorority and Lambda Tau.

-1945-CRAWFORD-ARRENDELL : Charotte Eliza-

beth Crawford, Black Mountain, North Carolina,was married April 17 to Dr . Cad Walder Arren-dell, Jr ., '45mcd, Ponca City. Dr . and Mrs. Arren-

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dell have established a residence in Ponca City .DISHMAN-EVANS: The wedding of Thelma

Jean Dishman, '456a, Amarillo, Texas, and Okla-homa City, to Joseph Bailey Evans, Jr ., '45ba,Oklahoma City, was an event of May 1 in theWestminister Presbyterian Church of OklahomaCity . They have established a home in Bartlesville .

-1946-Ensign T. J . Lambertson, '45-'46, and Mrs.

Lambertson, the former Francelle Rice, '47fa, arethe parents of a son, Keith Thomas, born April5 at Family Hospital, North Island Naval Air Sta-tion, Coronado, California .Homer DeVore, '466us, and Mrs. DeVore, the

former Rhoda Baskin, '466a, announce the birth ofa son, William Alan, on April 29 .ANGERMAN-PRENTISS: In a late afternoon

ceremony May 1 at the First Christian Church ofOklahoma City, Betty Bob Angerman, '46ed, '47ms, became the bride of Charles L. Prentiss, '48law, Bristow. Mrs. Prentiss is a member of ChiOmega Sorority ; Kappa Delta Pi, honorary educa-tion organization ; Eta Sigma Phi, honorary Latinand Greek organization, and Future Teachers ofAmerica, of which she was president for two years.She was also vice president of the Y. W. C. A.,a member of the senior class committee, vice presi-dent of the Graduate Club and was in the Who'sWho at O. U. section of the Sooner yearbook .While at O. U., Mr . Prentiss was a member of thedebating team ; Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity ;Delta Sigma Rho, honorary speech organization,and served as headmaster in a south campus dormi-tory. They have established a residence in Bristowwhere Mr . Prentiss is engaged in the practice oflaw.

Keith Thomas Lambertson is the name chosenby Ensign T. J. Lambertson, '45-'46, and Mrs.Lambertson, the former Francelle Rice, '47fa, fortheir son born April 5 in Coronado, California .

For the last two years Fred S. Barbee, '466a, hasbeen a vocational adviser and psychologist with

the Veterans Administration Regional Office inOklahoma City. Mr . Barbee was a member ofKappa Sigma Fraternity ; Alpha Phi Omega, serv-ice fraternity, and the Student Senate .

Bill J . Weldon, '466us, visited the campus re-cently on his way to a new job with the Cleveland(Ohio) Press. He will serve on the national ad-vertising staff of the paper.

William (Bill) B. Austin, Jr ., '46bus, is a partnerin the Austin-Elliott Men's Clothing Store in ElkCity . The new firm opened its doors for businessApril 15 .

-1947-Donald Daniel, '47, Norman, and Mrs. Daniel

are the parents of a son, whom they have namedJohn Alvin. The baby was born May 7 at MercyHospital in Oklahoma City. Mr. Daniel is a controlengineer with radio station WNAD, Norman .Two former University students have con-

summated a plan developed while both were at-tending the School of Journalism . Ross Strader,'47ba, '48ma, and Jack Wettengel, '486a, havepurchased two weekly papers in Henrietta, Texas.Mr . Wettengel is in charge of the papers . Mr .Strader received his Master's Degree in May andis to join the staff of the Texas publications .WILSON-WILLIAMSON: The wedding of

Nancy Jane Wilson, '476a, Oklahoma City, toWalker Kendrick Williamson, Fort Worth, Texas,was solemnized May 1 in the Crown HeightsMethodist Church, Oklahoma City . Mrs. William-son graduated from Hockaday School for Girlsin Dallas, Texas, and is affiliated with Pi Beta PhiSorority at O. U. They have established a home inOklahoma City.LINDQUIST-WYATT: Mrs. Lila Obuch Lind-

quist, '47h .ec, Antlers, became the bride of Wil-liam D. Wyatt, Jr ., Grant, in a ceremony readApril 24 in Paris, Texas. Mrs. Wyatt is teachingin the Antlers schools . Following the completionof this term the couple will reside in Hugo whereMr . Wyatt is secretary-manager of the Choctaw

pictured above is the group from the University of Oklahoma School of Pharmacy who were guests of the Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, April25 through 27 . The invitation was extended to all Junior and Senior students in the School of Pharmacy . The 82 students who made the trip are : PatriciaAtha, Swain A. Ball, Mr . and Mrs. C. Hadley Bowman, Mary Maxine Bussman, Aulton B. Chisum, Donald Crane, Floyd M. Crittenden, Lester C. Delzell,Helen Louise Dunn, Gerald Mark Eliss, William W. Freeman, Jr ., W. E. George, Moree Glover, Evelyn L. Harris, Lawrence Johnson, Betty M. Kerr, S. L. Lout,Thomas C. Lout, Edward Lyons, Jack R. Magee, Donald A. Morrison, Stanley J. McCurdy, Dolores H. Ray, Leon Renfrew, Bettye Sue Riley, Belle Standifer .John C. Stone, Barbara Anne Underwood, Mr . and Mrs. Thelton Wright, Rudolph Zerba, Robert V. Baker, Mr . and Mrs. Robert H. Lattimore, Mr . and Mrs.Adelbert Briggs, Hat L. Hefner, Mr . and Mrs. Johnnie Braun, Lucille Molley, Marguerite Jones, Roberta Cecil, Mr . and Mrs. John W. Broyles, Mr . and Mrs.William T. LeGrange, Nancy Clarkson, Anna Simmons, Bobbie E. Miller, Mr . and Mrs. Jasper E. Cobb, Mr . and Mrs. Melvin L. Bradley.George Koneval, Paul B. Martin, Luther D. Edwards, James R. Garner, Hal L. Lusk, John W. Powell, Floyd L. Reed, Mr . and Mrs. Walter L. Leslie, C. C.Horton, Arthur Marion Smith, Velma Deloi Smith, Robert A. Grantham, Marian Grantham, Ralph C. Embrey, William J . Ewalt, Jack R. Koch, Jack E.McKinster, James C. Sawyer, Carolyn Loy, Robert M. Hurd, Mr. and Mrs. Alex F. Buckley, and Ed Payne.They were accompanied by William G. Bray, professor of pharmacy ; Porter H. Stoval, instructor in pharmacy ; Marcus L. Cox, instructor in pharmacy, andMrs. Cox.

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County chamber of commerce.

C. Gene Killian, '47eng, is working as a civilengineer for Humble Oil Company in the gasplant construction in East Texas. lie is makinghis home in Port Arthur .

Pete Ralston, '47eng ; Jim Laubach, '47eng, andZane Johnson, '47eng, are working in the GulfOil Corporation refinery at Port Arthur, Texas.

Wilson B. Swan, '47eng, is employed withHumble Oil Company at Talco, Texas.

John A. Siebs, '47med, has been an intern atGrace Hospital, Detroit, for the last year. Dr . Siebsis a member of Phi Chi medical fraternity .

Lewis M. Watson, '471aw, who in Februaryopened a law office in Ada,has just announced that hewill make the race forcounty attorney for Pon-totoc County. In a recentletter to the Alumni officehe commented, "Seemsthat a number of the newattorneys, including mygood friend, Totn Brett,'406us, '481aw, will beseeking the county attorney-ships over the state . I notethat Tom has filed for theattorney's race in Cleve-'land County ." Mr . Watsonwas president of the junior

class in the Law School and was a member of phiAlpha Delta, law fraternity .

Lcwis ~11 . Watson

William G. Smith, '471aw, is practicing lawin Oklahoma City . He is chairman of the juniorChamber of Commerce committee working on thesavings bond drive.

Medrith Mozell Atkins, '476a, has been assistantbuyer for the Junior Oklahoma Shop of Kerr's inOklahoma City for the past six months .

Ross Strader, '47journ, instructor in journalismat O. U., discussed readership surveys at the May2 eastern district meeting of the Oklahoma PressAssociation in Poteau .

Fred L. Sawyer, '47ba, is now on the news deskof the Tulsa Daily World. He is acting as city edi-tor on Sunday and as assistant city editor on Men-(ay. On other days he does special assignmentreporting .

Clarence E. Bergman, '47eng, St. Louis, isamong 171 recipients of fellowships and scholar-ships awarded by the Graduate College of theUniversity of Illinois for advanced study duringthe coming academic year . Mr . Bergman has beengranted a $850.00 fellowship in electrical engineer-ing.

Medical School NotesByron Louis Bailey, '47med, will begin a resi-

dency at St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa on July 1,1948 .James William Clopton, '45med, is employed

temporarily by the Oklahoma State Health De-partment to work at the West Oklahoma Tuber-culosis Sanatorium, Clinton. He plans to servea residency in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat at Uni-versity Hospital, Oklahoma City, starting Septetn-her 1, 1948 .B. O. Coleman, '47med, is serving a three year

residency in surgery at the Kansas City GeneralHospital, Kansas City, Missouri .

Robert Duran, '47med, will begin a residencyin pathology at the St . Elizabeth Hospital in Lafay-ette, Indiana, soon .Thomas H . Fair, '47med, will be at-St. Johns

Hospital, Tulsa, beginning July 1, 1948 .Edward M. Fugate, '47med, has a Fellowship in

Surgery for 1949 at the Receiving Hospital in De-troit, Michigan .Douglas E. Wilson, '47med, now at Indiana Uni-

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GREB-DICKERSON : Virginia Evelyn Grcb,Gotebo, and Warren W. Dickerson, '47-'48, Ar-kansas City, Kansas, were married recently in Gote-bo . Mr . Dickerson is a senior student in the Schoolof Pharmacy at O.U . They have established a homein Oklahoma City.

Two McAlester veterans, Daniel B. Allen, juniorin engineering, and Lloyd D. Blancett, junior inbusiness, will have their names and service recordsenshrined on the National Roll of Honor at theWashington Cathedral, Washington, D. C. Thepermanent roll is featured in the War Memorialchapel of the yet unfinished cathedral .Imogene McCabe, '486us, Wilson, has accepted

a position with the Magnolia Petroleum Companyin Dallas, Texas. At the University she was a part-time secretary in the accounting department, amember of Beta Gatnnta Sigma, Alpha LambdaDelta, and the Accounting Club .

SOUTER-BUSSEY : The marriage of Mary RuthSouter, '48, to Hez J . Bussey, '48, was an event ofMay 29 in St . John's Episcopal Church, Norman .Mr . Bussey is a student in the University School ofLaw.

BUTLER-JONES : Ola Butler, Taloga, becamethe bride of Edward Jones, '48, Carnegie, in aceremony performed recently in Oklahoma City .Mr . and Mrs. Jones have established a home inOklahoma City .

Leonard C. Blood, January graduate in geology,has been employed for thepast three months as ageologist with the Black-well Oil and Gas Companyin Cushing. At the Univer-sity Mr . Blood was a mem-ber of the Pick and Ham-mer Club and was a stu-dent assistant for geologylaboratories. He is a mem-ber of the American As-sociation of PetroleumGeologists . He attended theUniversity of Wichitafrom 1938 to 1941 beforeentering the Army in July,1942 . He was discharged

in April, 1946, with the rank of first lieutenant .

Gerald M. Webster, senior from Tulsa, is thefirst winner of the Samuel Watson Reaves scholar-ship . The award is based on excellence in mathe-matics and promise of future accomplishment . Mr .Webster has a 2 .7 grade average. This scholarshipfund was established in 1945 by friends and form-

versity Medical Center, will be a resident in surgeryat St. Johns Hospital, Tulsa, after July 1, 1948 .C. Jack Young, '47med, will be taking a resi-

dency in Dermatology and Syphilology at the Uni-versity Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia .E. W. Young, '47med, will be assistant resident

in medicine, Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland,for the year 1948-49.

Martin Berger, '47med, will be a resident inSurgery for the year 1948-49 at Providence Hos-pital, Seattle, Washington .

Hospital Grant ApprovedThe University Hospital in May was assured of

120 much-needed beds when the U. S. PublicHealth Service approved a $37,087 federal aidgrant. The grant was made to help equip the newhospital wing completed earlier this year .

Representative Mike Monroney said the federalmoney amounts to one-third of the $105,261budgeted to equip the new addition .The grant was issued just one month after Dr .

Mark Everett, clean of the University of OklahomaMedical School and superintendent of UniversityHospital, appealed for federal help .

er students of Samuel Watson Reaves, cleanemeritus of the College of Arts and Sciences andprofessor of mathematics, in honor of his 40 yearsservice in the mathematics department .

Preston Moore, commander of the AmericanLegion post No . 303 at the University, has an-nounced his candidacy for Legion state depart-ment commander. A Bartlesville resident, he isnow a senior law student at O. U.

less W. Neck, Jr ., '48journJess W. Heck, '48journ, Quapaw, editor of

Sooner Magazine for the past year, graduated withthe class of '48, and is vacationing in Chicago priorto entering the journalism profession in July .

While at the University, Heck served as vice-president of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, and was amember of Sigma Delta Chi, professional journal-ism fraternity .He is also a graduate of Northeastern A. & M.,

Miami, and Ramona High School . At Northeast-ern he was the first editor of the Norse Wind, stu-dent newspaper. During summer vacations he hasserved as reporter on the Miami News-Record.

Nurses' Home Is DedicatedDedicatory services for the new University Hos-

pital nurses' home were held in early May. DenverN. Davidson, justice of the Oklahoma SupremeCourt and representative of Governor Turner, de-livered the address .Approximately 500 persons assembled in the

park in front of the building to hear Davidson speakof the building as one "with a noble purpose," thededication as one "to humanity ."The home was accepted for the University by

Dr. Cross ; for the School of Medicine by MarkR. Everett, clean, and for the School of Nursingby Mary R. Caron, director . The dedication coin-cided with graduation week for a class of 12nurses .The building, which is modernistically design-

ed and decorated, cost an estimated $475,000 . Ithouses 88 nursing students, and is complete witha lounge, auditorium and classrooms . The planis to increase the capacity of the nurses' trainingquarters for 300 student nurses .

Residence rooms contain paneled desks andcloset space, two beds and the latest in auxiliaryfurnishings .

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