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Colleen Irene, the fabulous Engine Queen, ispictured in all her smiling Irish beauty on ourcover this month. Her name is Irene Bond, finearts junior and she hails from Norman . She waselected on St. Pat's day (luring the annual engi-neer week celebration and will reign as queen ofthe boys in green for the coming year .

A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and activein sorority intramurals and campus activities suchas the Sooner yearbook, she lists her hobbies as(lancing and swimming .Her mother is the former Evalyn Cralle, '256a,

Norman, and her father is Ira T. Bond, Jr., '256a,'27med, Comanche .

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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA ASSOCIATIONOfficers : Grady Harris, Alex, President; Joe Cur-

tis, Pauls Valley, Vice-President ; Ted Beaird, Nor-man, Executive Secretary-Manager, and Hal Mul-drow, Jr., Immediate Past President .Executive Board Members: Herb Branan, Okla-

homa City ; Max Cook, Clinton; C. Guy Brown,Oklahoma City ; Milt Philli s, Seminole ; H. D.Grisso, Norman ; Geor e D. Mann, Ardmore; BruceCarter, Miami ; Roy Grantham, Ponca City ; JudgeBob Howell, Holdenville-all members-at-large .Emerson Price, Vinita, District I ; William M.

Dodson, Muskogee, District II ; James C. Hamill,Madill, District III Frank Crider, Ada, District IV ;Joe Curtis, Paul. alley, District V; Grady Harris,Alex, District VI ; Harry Hughes, Weatherford,District VII ; Col. William V. Cox, Ponca City,District VIII .

Trustees of Life Membeorshi¢.FCarey, Oklahoma.Newby, Oklahoma City ; Tom

City, and Neil R. Johnson, Norman.1948-49 Representatives on the O.U. Athletic

Council : Neil R. Johnson, Norman ; Granville T.Norris, Muskogee, and Paul Reed, Sulphur.Sooner Magazine is published the fifth day of

each month by the University of Oklahoma Asso-ciation, Union Building, Norman, Okla . Entered assecond-class matter Oct. 13, 1928, at the post officein Norman, Okla ., under the Act of Congress ofMarch 3, 1879 . Subscription $3 .00 per year, ofwhich $2 .00 is for the magazine and $1 .00 forAlumni Dues. Foreign, $4.00. Life, $80.00. Singlecopies 25 cents. Opinions expressed are those ofthe editor and do not necessarily represent officialaction of the Alumni Executive Board. Member ofAmerican Alumni Council.

APRIL, 1949

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PUBLISHED EVERY MONTH BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMASooner Staff Members: David A. Burr, '50, Editor ; Ted Beaird, '216a, Managing Editor, Riding SoonerRange; Paul A. Andres, '50, Feature Writer ; Thellys Gill Hess, '47bus, Roll Call and Book Review ; Ed Dycus,'49, Staff Writer ; Mrs. Mary Turnbull, Alumni Records; Harold Keith, '29ba, '39ma, Sooner Sports ; ColbertSwanson, '50, Bob Thompson, '50, and Mary Jo Cloud, '51, Mailing. Photography by the University Pho-tographic Service .

APRIL, 1949

Riding the

From coast to coast O.U . alumni sessions are be-ing staged . An all-time record for Sooner assem-blies has been (or will be) set in this 30 day periodfrom mid-March to press time for April 1949 is-sue of SOONER MAGAZINE. Indeed, all are doinga lot of Riding on the Sooner Range!

The Alumni Round-Up (and the reactivation) ofthe MUSKOGEE COUNTY CLUB in mid-Marchwas a most outstanding pre-spring event. Beingfenced in on a close flight schedule it was warrior-flyin' BILL HAYS, '40, (and Dad-Oklahoma'sAviation Commission chairman) who buzzed overfrom their home headquarters in Muskogee to meetthe commercial flight in Tulsa and soon placedthe Range Rider on Hatbox Field runways (Mus-kogec) to begin participation in the Sooner doins'of the hour .

The Sooner steak dinner at the home of SID, 17,and JEWELL DITMARS was indeed an event-a Sooner event to be long remembered! How thatSooner Sid can (and does) prepare "left-handedT-bones" on the outdoor grill! How wife Jewell-(JEWELL RISINGER, '19ba-NORMAN native)-past Executive Board Member of the AlumniAssociation and current president of the O.U . Moth-er's Association-can (and does) as a most gracioushostess, make for a real alumni "chit-chat ." Amongthe many O.U . Sooners who enjoyed the Ditmarshospitality were : President and Mrs. GEORGE L.CROSS, BOYD GUNNING, '376a, '37Law, O.U .'sFoundation Director, the O.U . Men's Quartet, (anddid those four young undergraduates enjoy thisfling on the Sooner Range!) ED EDMONDSON,JR ., '406a, HOWARD EDMONDSON, '42-'48,(and wife, JEANNETTE BARTLESON, '466a),GRANNY "The Sheriff" NORRIS, '29ba, CAMPBONDS, '29Law, and many others-so manymore, in fact, if came near being to the "overflow"point.From the Ditmars' home to the Sooner Round-

Up, Hotel Severs, MUSKOGEE, activities were un-derway at 7 :30 p.m . "Proxy" George brought theClub up-to-date on their O.U . of today in the ad-dress of the evening. The O.U . Men's Quartet pre-sented an excellent series of numbers and BOYDGUNNING presented the world premier showingof the sound, color, Sugar Bowl motion picture . Itwas a big evening; an evening spent in renewingfriendships ; an evening devoted to the Universityof Oklahoma-an evening thoroughly enjoyed bysome 100 enthusiastic Sooners!Among those present at the Muskogee Round-

Up were : PETE SMITH, '34-'39, former O.U .gridiron great, former assistant football coach, anAll-American in 1937, and now a businessman inMUSKOGEE ; the Reverend DON SCHOOLER,

Sooner RangeBY TED BEAIRD

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'246a, pastor of St . Pauls Methodist Church, MUS-KOGEE; EARL GARRISON, '366us, public util-ity executive, and Mrs. Garrison, the former MARYTAPPAN, '34ba, '35ma, MUSKOGEE; AlumniExecutive Board Member BILL DODSON, '29ba,'34Law, VA staff member of MUSKOGEE ; theCounty O.U . Alum Club president, GRANNYNORRIS, '29ba, along with his club secretary(male) and lady "checker of the exchequer"-RANDOLPH KIZZIRE, '27-'33, and JANETBOWER, '34Lib.sci, respectively, were present andassisted the "general-fixer-upper and MC" EDEDMONDSON in making the wheels turn . O.U .alumnus (and as of the present (late O.U . Dad andMother) JAMES STAIB, '29m .ed, and Mrs. STAIB,were interested participants in the evening's activi-ties . NORTON BURBAGE,'48Law, and Mrs. BUR-BAGE, breezed over from their TAHLEQUAHhome and were quite up and about in the Musko-gec session . Yes, in Muskogec it was a real nighton the Sooner Range!Not only in Muskogee, Oklahoma, but from

coast to coast they have been gatherin' in Soonerhuddles! Executive Vice-Proxy CARL MASONFRANKLIN and Dean JOHN FELLOWS withthe CHICAGO group; Dean GLENN C. COUCH,'316s, '37ms, the Sooner Alum Lifer and Facultyrepresentative as the guest speaker at the CLEVE-LAND, OHIO, and ST . LOUIS, MISSOURI Clubs ;JIM MAYFIELD, '286a, and O.U . party with theLOS ANGELES "gang." Up URBANA-CHAM-PAIGN, ILLINOIS way BOYCE TIMMONS, '37Law, Director of Registration at the University ofOklahoma, along with ten students representativesfrom the O.U . campus, will start the ball rolling,"meet, eat and greet" the three dozen O.U .itesclaiming residence in this Illinois center. "Lifer"and now Executive Director of the University ofIllinois Foundation, WILLIAM H. BUTTER-FIELD, '35ma, plus CLYDE D. MARTIN, '43eng,WILLIAM W. SCHRIEVER, '47eng, CATHER-INE SKINNER, '326a, 1' . E. SOLLENBERGER,'376s, '40ms, and many other Illinois Sooners, willwelcome the O.U . delegation in the late April pro-posed session for the Illini conclave .Up "West Coast Bay Area way"-SAN FRAN-

CISCO, the Club had a "shindig ." DENVER as-sembled recently . MADISON, WISCONSIN, willsoon meet with O.U .'s E. E. HATFIELD, '36m .bus.ad. COLORADO SPRINGS is unrollin' thewelcome mat. MIDLAND-ODESSA, TEXAS madethe kick-off (and chartered 'cm) under the ableleadership of M. J . KIRWAN, JR ., '43Law . M. J .was assisted by some two hundred plus Sooner as-sociates out in that Texas sector, including BOBCOCANOWER, '37-'42, TED PITZER, '30eng,

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Riding the Sooner Range . . . . . . . 5

University . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Fraternity . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Association . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The President Speaks . . . . . . . . 25

Roll Call . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

and other well-known Soonerites in the fascinatingoil game .WASHINGTONIAN alurns (headed up by Col.

MER'T'ON MUNSON, '29ba, '31Law, ELIZABETHP. BASCOM, '25, LYNDEN MANNEN, '27ba, '38tna, and numerous others) made "The District"hum again recently . Little ole NEW YORK set upto take additional notices when KEN ROBINSON,'386a, '38Law, the Prexy up East, assisted by for-mer Counselor of Women MARGARET STEPH-ENSON, the radio hotshot RUSS BLACK, '42ba,and dozens of others, enjoyed the Sugar Bowl eventvia the color motion picture film . Indeed, all rec-ords for club meetings are being smashed. On otherpages of SOONER MAGAZINE news reports onthese friends and associates of yours are given indetail . Yes-there has been, is and will be a lot ofRifling of the Sooner Range as the year 1949 clicksoff its first quarter!

Just here let's take a swing over on other Soon-er trails . Not all get-togethers arc club meetings .Many other business sessions must be and are heldin carrying forward the Association's program.Let's drop in to the Sooner "home away fromhome," the Oklahoma Biltmore. In the Biltmorewe find the official 1949 Nominating Committeelaboring over their assignment. Laboring to select15 nominees for the 1949 Executive Board ballotfrom which five Sooners will be selected for threeyear terms on the Executive Board.The 1949 Nominating Committee, appointed by

President GRADY I) . HARRIS, '18, was : HER-BERT BRANAN, '32ba, '38Law, OKLAHOMACITY ; C. GUY BROWN, '23ba, OKLAHOMACITY ; MORTON GRISSO, '30geol, NORMAN ;BEN HEAD, '42bus, '48Law, OKLAHOMA CITY ;HARRY HUGHES, '29ba, '48m .ed, WEATHER-FORD ; J . F. "MA" MALONE, '37Law, OKLA-HOMA CITY ; PAUL REED, '21, SULPHUR-OKLAHOMA CITY and DICK VIRTUE, '44ba,OKLAHOMA CITY .

After a full evening's deliberation, let's make acheck on the 15 nominees selected by the officialNominating Committee, five of whom will, afterthe ballots have been tabulated in the world-widevote cast up to midnight, May 25, 1949, guide thedestiny of the Association along with their col-leagues .

The Nominating Committee selected for DistrictI : BRAD RISINGER, '236a, SAND SPRINGS.Brad, of course, is known throughout all Soonercircles for a very outstanding year as the immedi-ate past Department Commander of the AmericanLegion and as the leader of some 75,000 of hisfellow veterans in Oklahoma . JACK CAMPBELL,'36ba, '38Law, TULSA attorney . Jack will be re-membered by thousands of his friends as a veryactive Student Council Prexy and director of kin-dred affairs while on the campus of the Universityof Oklahoma . LOIS STRAIGHT, '35Law, "thePortia" of the crew, prominent attorney of BAR-TLESVILLE, who has served in many capacities asan O.U . alumni official in the WASHINGTONCOUNTY Alumni Club .

In District III nominees named for the ballotarc : TOM FINNEY, '45ba, '48Law, young IDA-BEL attorney and prominent in the field of pub-lic speaking both as a highschool student and as agraduate and undergraduate student of the Uni-versity . CLINT LIVINGSTON, '48Law, MAR-IETTA (LOVE COUNTY) attorney and man-about-town . Clint enjoys a host of friends amongthe hundreds of working students who assistedthemselves through professional training at O.U .by working in the Oklahoma Memorial Unionwhile pursuing undergraduate and graduate work .D. D. KIRKLAND, '33m .ed, long-time publicschool superintendent in the State of Oklahoma,for the past several years Superintendent of Schoolsat McALESTER. D. D. has been an active O.U .almunus for a quarter of a century; has held various

While representatives of the general O.U . Alumni office were enroute sonrh on a recent field trip, anoon luncheon stop in Purcell "uncovered" the Sooner huddle (with one lone Oklahoma Aggic) pic-tured above. Jerome "Shocky" Needy, '37bs, (pen in hand), the first assistant basketball coach to O.U .'sBrace Drake, '29phys.ed, is recording the "Double Zero" (or whatever it was that enabled the Soonersto defat the Oklahoma Aggics by a 13 point margin during the season). With "Shocky" Needy on thisspecial Purcell visitation were : (seated left of Needy) Vernon "Snuffy" Turner, student in the Uni-versity College from Purcell and Jack Angel, O.U . Arts and Science Sophomore from Purcell . InterestedPurcell O.U . alurns following and checking on. the charting of the play (standing left to right) are:"Doe" Pendleton, Oklahoma A.&A4 . College, John Kennedy, '30ph.c, owner, Kennedy Drug Company,Purcell ; Dr . "Bill" McCurdy, '32ba: Hardin Ballard, '27ba, '27Law, Purcell attorney and Col. Murray

Gibbons, '15, attorney-at-law, Purcell .

positions with the organization, including presi-elent of the PITTSBURG COUNTY O.U . AlumniClub at McAlester.

In District Vthree names will appear on the bal-lot, including Dr . RALPH MORTON, '386s, '40med, SULPHUR, prominent O.U . alumnus workerin the alumni field for several years. Dr . Mortonis now and has been for some tune the presidentof the MURRAY COUNTY O.U . Alumni Club .The new assistant county attorney of OKLAHOMACOUNTY, BEN HEAD, '42bus, '48Law, (moreoften referred to by his many, many friends andassociates as the "perpetual marshal of the Home-coming parades") will appear on the ballot in Dis-trict V. Head, in both his undergraduate and grad-uate days, as well as since leaving the University,has been most active in alumni affairs . J . I . GIB-SON, '30Law, prominent attorney, will appear asthe third name on the ballot in District V. Gibsonis an active worker on special committees and com-missions for the Association, and lives in OKLA-HOMA CITY . His current assignment is on HERBBRANAN's special committee set up by the Execu-tive Board in recent months dealing with the co-ordinating of activities by and between the alumniof the University of Oklahoma and the Regents ofHigher Education for the state .

In District VI PAUL McCLUNG, '49journ, re-cent O.U . graduate who was a special feature writ-er for SOONER MAGAZINE during his under-graduate days and climaxed his University careeras editor of the Oklahoma Daily, is on the ballot.Paul is at present working with Regent NED SHEP-LER, '18, on the Lawton Constitution . Assistant at-torney general of the State of Oklahoma, GEORGEMONTGOMERY, '396a, '41Law, CHICKASHA-OKLAHOMA CITY, is a nominee for District VI .George has been quite active in alumni affairs fora series of years, his most recent assignment beingpresident of the GRADY COUNTY O.U . AlumniClub . ROLLAND NASH, '416us, businessman ofWATONGA, was natned as one of the three nom-inees in District VI . In his undergraduate days Rol-land was assistant to JIM C. MAYFIELD, '28ba,in the University Book Exchange . Serving as ageneral's aide during World War II, he "toured"most of the spots in the deep South Pacific .

The nominees in District VIII are HAROLDREEDY, '47eng, prominent geologist of ENID . Inhis undergraduate days Reedy was a secretary inthe general headquarters of the Alumni Associationand later was assistant business manager in theexecutive offices of the Oklahoma Memorial Union.BILL HOLSTEIN, '486us, PONCA CITY, is anominee for District VIII . Bill, a more recent grad-uate than many of the nominees, was the very ablepresident of last year's senior class at O.U . whenmore than 2,000 seniors looked to him to "solvetheir problems ." J. PHIL BURNS, '27ba, FAIR-VIEW businessman and immediate past DistrictGovernor of Rotary International for the State ofOklahoma, will appear on the ballot for DistrictVIII . Phil Burns has been active in alumni affairsfor years. In addition to being instrumental in or-ganizing the MAJOR COUNTY O.U . Alumni Clubsonic years ago, and serving as its president, he andhis business associates, through co-operation withCoach I3UD WILKINSON, HAROLD KEITH, '29ba, '39ma, president GEORGE CROSS and theAlumni Association, sponsor the very popular BudWilkinson's Football Letter each football season .

So there you have the 15 who will be considered(and for whom votes will be cast) by the O.U .alumni membership scattered world-wide . The"top" five selected will become Executive Boardmembers and will be seated in the annual JuneCommencement meeting for three year terms .Yes-the annual Commencement meeting of the

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Association-June 6, 1949-will mark the seatingof five new three year term members. But whatabout the seven who will leave the Board after afine contribution in helping in the establishmentof new policies, in carrying their share of adminis-trative (and legislative) responsibilities these pastthree years? These seven men (with their Boardcolleagues) clue to the trend of the times, haveindeed been called upon to carry a heavy load sinceCommencement, 1946! Readjustment of the gen-eral service program of the Association in the after-math of World War 11, helping to establish the Dis-tinguished Service Awards program, re-shaping theLife Membership Trust Fund program, co-operatingwith the University administration and Regents injointly sponsored features pointing toward a gen-eral development for a greater University of Okla-homa-all these items of business, along with dailyand weekly decisions to make on "routine expan-sion," called for sacrifice of time, money and en-ergy on their part . Three years of service on analumni board may seem to be taken as a matter ofcourse by the average Alumni Association mem-ber. But it is three years of real sacrifice to thoseelected to represent these thousands. These menhave served and served well!The seven whose terms expire June, 1949, are:

HERBERT BRANAN, '326a, '38Law, OKLA-HOMA CITY ; MAX COOK, '39ba,'41Law, CLIN-TON ; WILLIAM V. COX, '216a, '24ma, PONCACITY ; JOE CURTIS, '206a, '22Law, PAULSVALLEY ; JAMESC. HAMII,L, '36Law, MADILL ;HAL MULDROW, JR., '28bus and EMERSONPRICE, '30, VINITA .

But just here, in order to reach a -30- and inorder to take a swing over on some other activeSooner trails, we must be up and away to meetthe alumni committee in charge of the specialawards dinner to be staged on April 12 at whichtime some five citizens will be presented the Dis-tinguished Service Citations of the University ofOklahoma . A jointly sponsored project by andbetween the Regents of the University of Okla-homa and the Executive Board of the Alumni As-sociation, it indeed confers upon the citizens se-lected the most outstanding recognition that canbe granted by the University . Yes-its a "welldone!" document given as a recognition for theircontributions made while they were Riding theSooner Range!

News Flashes, Dots & DashesBy STLWARr HARRAL, '36MAO.U . Director of Public Relations

Thirty staff members will visit 125 high schoolsthis spring . . . Here arc two football dates to re-mernber-October 15-Oklahoma-Kansas-Dad'sDay and October 29-Oklahoma-Iowa State-Homecoming . . . . WNAD plans a little openhouscwhen the new transmitter headquarters are com-pletely equipped . . . . Kenneth Harris, '396a, hasbeen named assistant director of short courses butalso will retain his title as senior assistant in publicrelations . . . . Roscoe Cate, '266a, explains that youmust have a policy so that you'll know what to de-viate from . . . . PHILNEWS, employee magazinepublished by the Phillips Petroleum Company, willuse an O.U . campus scene to illustrate a forthcom-ing article on scholarships granted to children ofemployees. . . . Film strips will be used by homeeconomics staff members in their visits to state com-munities . . . . "Gee, but this is really soft" said oneof the students as he sat in President Cross' chair atthe recent Prexy's Hour . . . . O.U .'s oldest shortcourse is the one for gas measurement men-it willbe held April 12 to 14 . . . . Nine Bryan Countyteachers drive 280 miles every Saturday to attend

APRIL, 1949

Pawls Valley (Oklahoma's Garvin County Capitol) proved to be another interesting spot on the SoonerRange in a recent around-tire-clock March day tour. Representatives of the general alumni headquartersvisited with the Sooner alums pictured above in the Pauls Valley law office of alumni executive boardmember, Joe Curtis, '24ba, '22Law . (Reading from left to right) James T. Blanton, Jr ., '31ab, '31Law ;Joe W. Curtis ; Walter Dean Hart, '41ab, '41Law ; Roy Ambrister, '16ab and District Judge Ben T.

Williams, '31ab. '33Law . The lady seated-Clara Ellen Merkle Bowling, 'llba.

classes on the campus . . . . Miss Dorothy Truex,counselor of women, will exhibit drawings of thenew women's dormitories at the national meetingof deans of women in Chicago. . . . Dr . LeonardLogan, '14ba, director of the Institute of Commu-nity Development, has completed a survey on "TheCare of Chronic and Convalescent Patients in Okla-horna"-it was a joint project of the institute andthe state department of health. . . . Free chest x-raysare available to faculty members and Universityemployees at the Student Health Service from 1to 4 p.m . daily, Monday through Friday, thismonth. . . . LIFE photographers took shots duringthe recent Religious Emphasis Week but at presstime no one knew if the pictures would appear . . . .Activities and services of the University of Okla-homa Research Institute are explained in a newbulletin to be issued by Dr . Lloyd E. Swearingen,'20bs, '21m,, dirccwr.

Like Father Like . . .There are no hereditary dukedoms at the Univer-

sity, yet somehow, at least in YM-YWCA leader-ship at O.U ., certain families seem to hold a prior-ity on the elective offices .

Take for example Ann Darrough . An arts andsciences senior and also a Theta, she has just re-tired as YWCA president . Ex-tennis star fatherPaul G. Darrough, '136a, '15Law, was YM presi-dent in 1913, and her mother, the former MargaretArchdeacon, '186a, was also YWCA proxy as anundergraduate .

Darrough, now an attorney in Oklahoma City,served in the navy in the first World War and wasa draft board member during the second . Bothparents are still very interested in "Y" activities .

Other distinguished daughters of distinguishedparents on the 1949 "Y" rolls include Edith Long,arts and sciences sophomore, intercollegiate affairscouncil member, whose father, Frank Long, '086a,

'09ma, was YMCA cabinet president just about 40years ago.

Mr . Long for many years was "Y" secretarv inBrazil where Edith was born, and is now co-ordi-nating supervisor in the Roanoke, Virginia, schools .

Pauline Eagleton, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and anarts and sciences sophomore, is another who in-herited an interest in "Y" work . She is a memberof the YWCA upper class council, following in thefootsteps of her father, W. L. Eagleton, '146a, '19Law, now a prominent Tulsa lawyer, who pre-sided over the YMCA cabinet back in 1912 .

Active YWCA member Helen McKown, KappaAlpha Theta and education sophomore, gets herleadership ability from both sides of the family. Herfather Dave McKown, '21bs, well-known Okla-homa City insurance broker, was "Y" president in1920, and her mother, the former Florence Mon-nett, '226a, was YW president during her studentclays .

Dr . Edward P. Allen DiesDr . Edward P. Allen, 20 years a member of the

University Medical School faculty before his re-tirement in 1947, died unexpectedly at his homein Oklahoma City, March 25 . He was 64 .

Since his retirement from active teaching Dr .Allen, professor of obstetrics at the school, had beenprofessor emeritus and had headed the medicalstaff of the Oklahoma County Health Association .

Often called the dean of Oklahoma obstreticians,Dr . Allen delivered more than 10,000 OklahomaCity babies from 1913 when he began practice inthe area to his retirement .

Survivors include his wife, Myrtle : and threesons, Edward P., Jr ., '38-'41 ; Robert W., senior ingeology at the University ; and Paul B., a pre-ruedstudent at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee.

University

Pictured above are "the sixteen bosses" handlingthe 1001 details incident to class business for theO.U . Senior Class of '49 in which it is estimatedsome 2,800 degrees will be granted from the Uni-versity of Oklahoma .The Senior Class of '49 Executive Council pic-

tured above is under the immediate direction ofClass President Joe Woodson, who in June will re-ceive his B. S. degree in Zoology : Woodson is fromPotcau, Oklahoma .The Executive Council of 16 handling all details

relative to senior class activities, awards assembly,senior class day, securing biographical informationon the many prospective graduates, distribution ofsenior class invitations, supplying of caps and gownsfor each individual graduate, as well as handling

The officers of the 1949 senior class recently de-cided to combine their efforts with the Class of1948 in the continuance of the Memorial Scholar-ship Fund established last year .The resolution of the Class of 1948, which this

year's class adopted, reads as follows :THE MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Established by the University of oltlahouia SeniorClass of 19=18 and Adopted by the University of

0/tlahonia Senior Class of 1949."On behalf of the University of Oklahoma, Class

of 1948, we, the duly selected officers of the ClassCommittee, hereby- establish in the University ofOklahoma Foundation a Class Memorial, to beknown henceforth as THE MEMORIAL SCHOL-ARSHIP FUND of the Class of 1948 . This gift ofmoney or other personal property is transferred tothe Foundation under the Provisions of Article VIof the Declaration of Trust dated December 1,1944 ."On behalf of the Class, we Hereby wish to desig-

nate the use to which the gifts made to this fundand the income derived therefrom shall be applied .

1, Name and Purpose"'I"he principal of the money and property col-

lected and all additions thereto and the incometherefrom shall be known as the Memorial Scholar-ship Fund of the Class of 1948 . The income <mly ofthe said fund sliall be used for scholarships forstudents at the University of Oklahoma .

11, Disbursements from the, Fund"Disbursements from tile fund shall be made

pursuant to directions received by the trustees ofthe University of Oklahoma Foundation from theMemorial Scholarship Fund Committee.

111, Personnel of the Committee"The Committee shall consist of the Director of

Student Affairs, the Dean of University College,University of Oklahoma, and the Executive Secre-tary, University of Oklahoma Foundation . Should

the many business activities incident to the Me-morial Scholarship Fund-has been in session forthe past several weeks on the University campus .Soon these busy seniors will have completed theirmission and will be Riding the Sooner Range world-wide .

Seniors arc listed with the degrees the\, will re-ceive this spring.

(Reading from left to right) 'fed M. Beaird,'216a, Executive Secretary-Manager, Alumni Asso-ciation, Advisor ; Bob Tidwell, '49bs, Potcau, Chair-man of Caps and Gowns Cornmittcc; Milton 1' .Christensen, '49eng, Hartington, Nebraska, Co-Chairman of Awards Assembly Committee; EdDaniel, '49ed, Davenport, Vice-President ; JoeWood-son, '49bs, Poteau, President ; Shirley Sureck, '496a,

Class of "49 Selects Giftsuch offices cease to exist, the President of the Uni-versity of Oklahoma shall appoint the new memberor members of tile Committee.

IV, Authority of the Committee"Disbursements from the fund may be made in

an amount not to exceed annual income from thefund . Either income or principal may be used forexpenses of administering the fund, irrespective ofthe amount of income .

"In selecting students as recipients of the scholar-ships, the committee shall be the sole judge and themajority shall prevail . Preference where possibleshould be given to individuals who have demon-stratcd the qualities of good citizenship, and who,in the opinion of the members of the committee,arc in need of financial assistance . Any student iseligible to receive a scholarship regardless of sex,place of residence, major field of study or classifi-cation in the University .

"One individual may not receive a scholarshipfrom this fund in successive years.

"Payment of the scholarships shall be made bytile 'trustees of the Foundation to the recipientsin tile anuIunt designated by the Cornmittcc .

"Scholarships shall be awarded annually, exceptthat should the committee decide that no indi-vidual shall receive an annual scholarship, the in-come of the fund for that year shall be added tothe principal of the fund, or reserved as incomefor disbursement in a subsequent year . Directionin this regard shall be given the Trustees of theFoundation in the same manner as directions forordinary disbursements.

"Income balance in the fund on May Ist of eachyear shall be taken as the amount available for dis-bursement through one or more scholarships (lur-ing the following school year . The recipient or re-cipients shall be selected by tile Committee as m)onafter May 1st as is feasible . and a report of actiontaken made in writing to the trustees of the Foun-

Oklahoma City, Chairman of AnnouncementsCommittee; J . C. Mayfield, '28ba, Manager, Uni-versity Book Exchange, Advisor; Mary A. Archer,'49bs, Oklahoma City, Secretary ; Margaret Dent,'496us, Mexico, Missouri, Chairman of Senior DayCommittee ; Dean Glenn C. Couch, '316s, '37ms,University College, Advisor; Mary A. Morse, '49journ, Tulsa, Chairman of Publicity Committee;Lien Tankersley, Co-ordinator of Student Activities,Advisor; Stan Rubenstein, '496a, Alton, Illinois,Chairman of Gift Committee; Dan Schusterntan,'49eng, Tulsa, Co-Chairman of Awards AsscmblyCommittee; Virgil Neal, '496us, Helena, Treasurer;R. Boyd Gunning, '76a, '371-aw, Executive Secre-tary, O.U . Alumni Development Fund, Advisor.

dation .

"In case a scholarship is declined or a recipientfails to enroll in the University of Oklahoma, theCommittee may select an alternate for the saidscholarship.

F, Additions to the Feud"It shall be permissible for any individual or

organization to make additional contributions tothe fund by transmitting said sums to the trusteesof the University of Oklahoma Foundation withthe direction that they be placed in this fund . Suchadditional sums shall be added to the principal ofthe fund by the trustees and held by them undertile conditions set forth herein .

"Recipients of scholarships from this fund shallbe invited to contribute to the fund when and ifthey arc able to do so, but this shall not be con-sidered as a condition to acceptance of said scholar-ships."

Collection Given to Library

The University- has scored a "beat" for its news-paper collection in the journalism school's pro-posed memorial library .

Files of the Watoga Republican, established in1892 by territorial governor Thompson 11 . Fergu-son, have been received by the O.U . archives . Ben-ton Ferguson, '31ba, Oklahoma City, grandson ofthe founder, presented the historically importantnewspapers for future display in the MemorialJournalism Building . Fuels for the structure arcbeing raised by the Oklahoma Press Association .

Since 1930, the files had been kept in the homeof Mrs. Walter Ferguson, mother of the donor andwidely known newspaper columnist. Students ofOkhdtoma history have frequently consulted theWatonga collection for material .

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