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For Most A Happy Ending R ush week-1950-brought a period of annual. activity to the University when some 900 prospective sorority and fratern- ity pledges were on the campus for the September 3-8 festivities . For the sorority rushees, activities began Sunday at 4 p.m . with registration at the women's quadrangle . Sunday evening and Monday were spent in attending open house of each of the 12 sororities . The following three days were filled with rush parties, climaxed Friday by bid house and dinner parties given by the sororities for their new pledges . Fraternity rushees registered in the Union lobby Monday . Preferential breakfasts and parties followed Tuesday morning . Activities ended for the new pledges Friday evening at bid house in the University amphitheater . Numerically, the rushees hit a new high and low this year . Approximately 400 co-eds went through rush week activities-a marked increase over past years-with a total of 309 pledging sororities . Fraternity rush registration dwindled to 425-the lowest since World War 11-with 412 men being pledged to the 23 Uni- versity fraternities . The 1950 pledges found they weren't the only additions to the campus-two sorority houses also made a debut at autumn rush . The Gamma Phi Beta sorority made their initial bid for pledges in a two-story ranch style house of sandstone and red- wood flanked on the southwest by a large patio . Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity is occupying their former home . Next door to Gamma Phi's is the new Alpha Chi Omega so- rority house of brick and stone which brings a touch of modernistic architecture to the campus . The 1950 pledges include : ALPHA CHI OMEGA : Janice McLaughlin, Altus ; Nancy Joan Fite, Bristow ; Maxine McDuff, Chickasha; Jean Edrington, Duncan ; Glenna Mitchell, Frederick ; Patricia Sue Callahan, Lind say ; Karen Dickenson and Henrianna Merriott, Norman ; Jane Babcock, Owallah Crews, Margaret Ellen DcArmand, Beverly Jelsma, Rita King, Marilyn Mason, Ann Murrah and Lynn Wilk- ins, Oklahoma City ; Sherry Marie Cress, Perry ; Rebecca Donovan and Jony Shed, Seminole ; Shirley Spencer, Nebraska City, Nebraska . ALPHA DELTA PI : Georgann LeVite, Apache ; Carolyn Cummings and Deona Kay Kelb, Bartlesville ; Jimmy Riseling, Bethany ; Dorothy Shelley, Erick ; Wretha Barnhart, Jeaneann Johnston and Dorothy Sanders, Lawton ; Beverly Bosolo and Mary McSherry, McAlester ; Lora Connelly, Peggy Jean Hart, Patricia Jean Jenkins, Helen Laws, Pat Moreland, Marion W . Roper, Pa- tricia Sterrett, Vera Jo Watson, Donna White and Barbara Yar- brough, Oklahoma City ; Bettye Jeane Miller, St . Louis, Missouri ; Clara Dean Bigby and Patricia Patrick, Sand Springs ; Arlyne Louise Ross, Seminole ; Helen Mae Bousky, Nancy and Jerry Lou House, Tulsa ; Jo Ann King, Tyrone ; Margaret C. Loftus and Louanna Mary Wardian, Zanesville, Ohio . ALPHA GAMMA DELTA: Billye Lee Wells, Cheyenne ; OCTOBER, 1990 Serious-looking father, Sooner basketball coach, Bruce Drake, '29phys . ed, congratulates daughter Deonne on the Delta Delta Delta lawn . Like other Tri-Delt pledges, Deonne wore a smile . Happiness so intense that it borders on tears, blossoms on the face of pledge Sarah Phillips, as she is welcomed into the fold by her sister, Tri-Delt Pat Phillips, Oklahoma Daily editor.

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Page 1: AHappy Ending - University of Oklahoma Libraries - …29...AHappy Ending Rush week-1950-broughta period of annual. activity to the University when some 900 prospective sorority andfratern-ity

For Most

A Happy Ending

Rush week-1950-brought a period of annual. activity to theUniversity when some 900 prospective sorority and fratern-

ity pledges were on the campus for the September 3-8 festivities .For the sorority rushees, activities began Sunday at 4 p.m .

with registration at the women's quadrangle . Sunday evening andMonday were spent in attending open house of each of the 12sororities . The following three days were filled with rush parties,climaxed Friday by bid house and dinner parties given by thesororities for their new pledges.

Fraternity rushees registered in the Union lobby Monday .Preferential breakfasts and parties followed Tuesday morning.Activities ended for the new pledges Friday evening at bid housein the University amphitheater .

Numerically, the rushees hit a new high and low this year .Approximately 400 co-eds went through rush week activities-amarked increase over past years-with a total of 309 pledgingsororities .

Fraternity rush registration dwindled to 425-the lowestsince World War 11-with 412 men being pledged to the 23 Uni-versity fraternities .

The 1950 pledges found they weren't the only additions tothe campus-two sorority houses also made a debut at autumnrush . The Gamma Phi Beta sorority made their initial bid forpledges in a two-story ranch style house of sandstone and red-wood flanked on the southwest by a large patio . Alpha SigmaPhi fraternity is occupying their former home .

Next door to Gamma Phi's is the new Alpha Chi Omega so-rority house of brick and stone which brings a touch of modernisticarchitecture to the campus .

The 1950 pledges include :ALPHA CHI OMEGA: Janice McLaughlin, Altus; Nancy

Joan Fite, Bristow; Maxine McDuff, Chickasha; Jean Edrington,Duncan; Glenna Mitchell, Frederick; Patricia Sue Callahan, Lindsay ; Karen Dickenson and Henrianna Merriott, Norman ; JaneBabcock, Owallah Crews, Margaret Ellen DcArmand, BeverlyJelsma, Rita King, Marilyn Mason, Ann Murrah and Lynn Wilk-ins, Oklahoma City ; Sherry Marie Cress, Perry; Rebecca Donovanand Jony Shed, Seminole ; Shirley Spencer, Nebraska City,Nebraska .

ALPHA DELTA PI : Georgann LeVite, Apache ; CarolynCummings and Deona Kay Kelb, Bartlesville ; Jimmy Riseling,Bethany ; Dorothy Shelley, Erick ; Wretha Barnhart, JeaneannJohnston and Dorothy Sanders, Lawton ; Beverly Bosolo and MaryMcSherry, McAlester ; Lora Connelly, Peggy Jean Hart, PatriciaJean Jenkins, Helen Laws, Pat Moreland, Marion W. Roper, Pa-tricia Sterrett, Vera Jo Watson, Donna White and Barbara Yar-brough, Oklahoma City ; Bettye Jeane Miller, St . Louis, Missouri ;Clara Dean Bigby and Patricia Patrick, Sand Springs; ArlyneLouise Ross, Seminole ; Helen Mae Bousky, Nancy and Jerry LouHouse, Tulsa; Jo Ann King, Tyrone ; Margaret C. Loftus andLouanna Mary Wardian, Zanesville, Ohio.

ALPHA GAMMA DELTA: Billye Lee Wells, Cheyenne ;

OCTOBER, 1990

Serious-looking father, Sooner basketball coach, Bruce Drake,'29phys. ed, congratulates daughter Deonne on the Delta DeltaDelta lawn . Like other Tri-Delt pledges, Deonne wore a smile.

Happiness so intense that it borders on tears, blossoms on theface of pledge Sarah Phillips, as she is welcomed into the foldby her sister, Tri-Delt Pat Phillips, Oklahoma Daily editor.

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Rush . . .BETA THETA PI : Richard Haynes, Ada ; John

S. Badger, Altus ; Bob Cathey, Ardmore; RobertBoone, Atoka; Cyrus Richard Anderson, Duncan ;Fred Wcwerka, El Reno ; Morris D. Phillips, Fair-view ; Nolan Kelly, Frederick ; Clyde Chesnutt, Jr .,Holdenville; Bob Lomax, Muskogee ; Johnny MackArnold, Nowata ; John Culbertson, Lee H. Riley,Perry Van Wagencr, John F. Watson and John P.Wolff, Oklahoma City ; Von Wooten, Pawhuska ;Parke McAlister and Richard Neal, Ponca City ;George S. Mason, Shattuck ; Don Allen Price andClarence C. Young, Shawnee; O. W. Jones andJohn F. Washington, Tahlequah; Mildred Ingram,Tulsa; Richard Peebles, Wewoka ; Lewis 1) . Mc-Eachcrn, Wellington, Kansas ; Manford Carl Holly,Wichita, Kansas ; Lanny Keith, Roswell, NewMexico .DELTA CHI: George Patterson and Burley

Walker, Oklahoma City ; Eddie Crass and RichardS. Stringer, Tulsa; Don Topper, Monument, NewMexico .DELTA TAU DELTA : Don Carpenter, Durant ;

Joseph Phelps, P.l Reno ; Wayne K . Williams, Fred-erick; Tommy Adair, Midwest City ; Ralph StanleyPenney, Norman ; Clyde Bynum, Eugene L. Chas-tain, Lco Cox, Frank Patton McGee and Harry L.Pruett, Oklahoma City ; Freddie Leonard, Paw-huska; Robert G. McBride, Ponca City ; Jerry Sim-mons and Charles Williams, Tulsa; Pat Morris,Waurika ; Dale Hinson, Tucson, Arizona; HubertF. Carson, Wilmette, Illinois ; Carl D. Hare, Am-arillo, Texas ; Wcymar Osborne, Pampa, Texas.

DELTA UPSILON: Bob Weedn, Duncan ; Ver-non Henderson, Guymon ; Gordon Marx andLeonard Kline, Pawnee ; Jim McMath, Billy Shaw,Larry N. Swanson, Oklahoma City ; Dave Dunning,Carl Bartholomew, Carty Hunter, Tom D. Dur-ham, Jr ., Jack Thomas Mordan and Donald N.Stacey, Tulsa ; Paul Stillwell, Waurika; Lynn Lott,Memphis, Tennessee.KAPPA ALPHA : Don Hurd, Antlers ; Jay R.

Bond and William C. McDonald, Chickasha; PhilSymcox, Cordell ; Bob Winklcman, Cushing; AlvisW. Harper, Frederick ; William Howell, Holden-ville ; Jerry Owens, Konawa ; Jack Gregory, Mus-kogee; Paul Keen, John Crane and Ralf Miller,Norman;Jack Miskell, Oklahoma City ; Sam Brown,Sayre ; Larry Spillman, Jerre Williams, RichardWebb, Joe A. Shea, Harrold McDowell and DavidH. Clark, Tulsa; Max T. Peach, Paris, Texas.

KAPPA DELTA RHO : James England, Ant-lers ; James E. Rowe, Jr ., Bartlesville ; Phillip Ester-line, Oklahoma City ; Jack D. Burton, Poteau ;George H. McDonald, Jr ., Tulsa; John S. Childers,Houston, Texas ; Louis Griffith, Midland, Texas.

KAPPA SIGMA : Bob Edwin and Jim Wood,Chickasha; Joe Dutcher, Lawton ; Lee Roy Bon-durant, Muskogee ; Tom Mahaffey, Marlow ; KingPrice, Robert Slagle, Edward D. Haley and RobertD. Crane, Norman ; John Kamp, Edwin Bassett,George Ellison, Sterling Jones, Donald L. Miller,Gene Conley and William A. Davis, OklahomaCity ; Hubert Ivester, Sayre; Denny Bartell, Mag-nolia, Arkansas ; Dwight M. Ross, Wichita Falls,Texas; Jack Bunn, Tyler, Texas; Gerald M. Hein-zelmann, Snyder, Texas ; William R. Guffey,Dallas, Texas.LAMBDA CHI ALPHA: Taylor Gustafson, Pat-

rick King, Bob Bourne and Elmer W. King, ElReno ; Bob Schwartz, Enid ; Glenn Allen, LloydBeveridge, Bill Pulley, Roy J . Marsh and ThomasWall, Oklahoma City ; Bob Borders, Bob Haddadand Tom Pafford, Sand Springs ; Neil Whittle, Po-teau ; Don Maxwell, Pauls Valley ; Roger Billings,Tulsa; James N. Booth, Oamden, Arkansas ; RobertVanderpool, Fort Worth, Texas.

PHI DELTA THETA: Billy L. Robertson, Dun-

OCTOBER, 1950

can ; Howard Keith, Gene Stunkle and Francis D.O'Neill, Enid ; Don Q. Hewett, Frederick ; KoehlerThomas, Lawton ; Richard Wills, Miami; WarrenDale Rouse, Newkirk; Bob Foster, Richard E.Harkins and David Grander, Norman ; Robert Best,Martin Heflin, Jerry Manderville, John Coleman,Richard R. Bailey, Jack Coleman and Glenn W.Gordon, Oklahoma City ; John L. Clifton, Shawnee ;Jitu Lewis and At N. Pcttigrove, Tulsa ; DeanVickery, Wichita, Kansas ; Richard C. Fagin andRobert Jeffries, Dallas, Texas ; Kenneth W. Perry,Odessa, Texas.

PHI GAMMA DELTA: Clarke Coulter, Ard-more ; Frank W. English, Chickasha; Robert Davis,Cushing; Bobby Lee Townsend, Durant ; FredWright, El Reno ; John Klass, Jr ., Lawton ; JohnnyHudson, Bob Noever and Jim Rowscy, Muskogee ;David Jeter, Norman ; Lloyd Peck, Oilton ; JohnCain, B b Lockridge, Larry McFarland, DickSwanda, Jerry Amundsen, George Murray and BobWaller, Oklahoma City ; Homer Paul, Jr ., PantsValley ; Charles Casey, Charles Johnson, Bill West,David Trapnell, Robert L. Wilson and Rollo S.Maxwell, Ponca City ; Bill Cook, Shawnee; ChesterE. Cadieux, Ira T. Parker, Jr ., and Grady B . Skil-lcrn, Jr ., Tulsa; Tom Morton, Wichita, Kansas ;James I) . Bradley, Evergreen, Colorado ; Earl L.Pool, Springfield, Missouri ; Harry I . Clarkson,Chcvy Chase, Maryland .

PHI KAPPA PSI: Maynard Howard, Chickasha;Jack Willard, Lyndon Munkrcs, Enid ; J . RussellEgelston, Guthrie; Gilbert Hyroop, Fort Supply ;Paul M. Goode, Mangum ; John Johnson, BobJordon and? Donald McLaughlin, Oklahoma City ;James Northcutt and Warren Adam, Ponca City ;Wyman Ewing, Purcell ; Richard Race, Shawnee;Richard H. Chauncey, Jr ., and Paul O'Barr, Tulsa.

PHI KAPPA SIGMA : James Barrett, Ardmore;James Vineyard, Cushing ; W. T. Huddleston andJim Douthit, Konawa ; Bill Goodner and WalterDonald Head, Miami; Joe Whistler, Norman ; BobAldridge, Robert Ferrin, Robert Trosper, MiltonB. Silver, Bill Turner, Jack Baldwin, Milton Spiveyand Jack Locwen, Oklahoma City ; Charles D.Tomlins, Tulsa; George Holeman Greer, Owens-boro, Kentucky ; James W. Campbell, Pampa,Texas; Hubert Miller, Wichita, Kansas .

PI LAMBDA PHI : Jerry Marvin Gordon andDavid L. Mackcr, Oklahoma City ; Barry Segall,Shawnee; Henry Bercutt, Michael Green, HerbertPlost and Jerry Solow, Tulsa; Norman Ray Gelph-man, Iowa, Kansas ; Sheldon Kamen, Wichita, Kan-sas; Marvin Newberg, Nathan Novak and StuartRockman, Omaha, Nebraska ; Samuel Gilbert, FortWorth, Texas.

PI KAPPA ALPHA : Ross Burnett, Ardmore;Jack Russ, El Reno ; J . C. Drennan and HaroldWall, Medford; Peyton Bucy, Forrest R. Means,

Jr ., Steve Shaw, Jimmie Spencer and William D.Nicholson, Oklahoma City ; Jerry Brown, Tulsa;

Rike D. Wooten, Denver, Colorado ; Ben Coppedge,Augusta, Georgia; Carlton E. McMullin, Hutchin-son, Kansas ; Larry C. Shannon, Sedan, Kansas ;David Ainsworth and Jon Van Wormer, Wichita,Kansas .SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON: John Davis, Altus;

Albert Riesen, Jr ., and Gene Morrell, Ardmore;Alvin R. Powell, Guthrie ; J . B. Barrett, Mangum ;Bill Wells, Joe Early, Jimmy Little, Bob Hankinson,Henry Coffeen, David Wilson, Dick Coyle, HiltonGallion, John W. Hood, Keith Hickox,H. B. Talia-ferro, Jack Bowles, Claude T. Yoakam, Robert C.Johnston and Jack Sadler, Oklahoma City ; BarthW. Bracken, Okmulgee ; William G. Odell, Sapul-pa ; Tom Thixton, Thompson Keenan and TomHubeli, Tulsa; Gordon Williams, Weatherford ;Jim Newby, Woodward ; Hunter Puckett, DonWinn and R. M. Beverley, Amarillo, Texas;Charles Newton Roe, Dallas, Texas.

SIGMA ALPHA MU: Bernard Adler, HaroldBayliss, David Galerston, Leon G. Hirsh, Dick Mayand Michel May, Oklahoma City ; Elton Green-berg, Wichita, Kansas ; Charles Brooks, New York,New York .SIGMA CHI: Maurice DeFord, Anadarko;

Henry L. Cullins, Jr ., David G. Poe, Weldon W.Saylor and Ralph Alan Wall, Ardmore; FrankHarris, John Imel, Eddie Kitchen and Buster Wal-ters, Cushing; Bob Dunn and Gene Eoff, Duncan ;Dickson Milton, Healdton ; Neil Vaughn, King-fisher ; Scotty Coffman, Mangum ; James Marrs andJohn Watson, Norman ; Spencer Black, Oscar S.Burrow, Tom Clark, John Hope, Jr ., Willard Ken-nedy, Frank M . Mitchell, Patrick H. Moorehead,Charles Robinson and Thomas Robinson, Okla-homa City ; David A. Baker, Bob Murrell and W.Fred Sponsler, Okmulgee ; James A . B. Worrell,Olustec ; John Eagleton and Lewis Mosburg, Tulsa;Robert Patterson, Wewoka ; Donald D. Brown,Shreveport, Louisiana; Jim Frank Reid, Dumas,Texas; Harry Elsworth Nicholls, San Antonio,Texas ; Ed Burleson, Waco, Texas.SIGMA NU : Bruce E. Oakley, Cherokee ; Harry

Mack Brown and Cham King, Duncan ; James L.Burton, Robert Fraker, Robert Grant, Joe BobThompson and Claude Woody, Oklahoma City ;Billy W. Ballard, Eldorado, Arkansas ; ClarenceMaher, Peoria, Illinois ; Jim Land, Kansas City,Kansas ; Jay Gcbbcrt, Wichita, Kansas ; Ed Larsonand Jack Grant, Joplin, Missouri .

SIGMA PHI EPSILON : William Crawford,Granficld; William C. Barton, Healdton ; Jim Pat,Madill ; Ronald W. Cook, Oketnah; Robert G.Harston, Mickey Hill and Charles E. Marshall,Oklahoma City ; John M. Hutto, Pants Valley ; Har-rell Followwell, Poteau ; Clifford Vaughan andRobert V. Waldrop, Shawnee; Tom Harris, Stroud ;Rodney G. Buckles and David W. Sirmus, Tulsa;11 . E. (Gene) Latimer, Yale ; Middleton Ray, LittleRock, Arkansas ; E. A. Paschal, Amarillo, Texas ;Wayne B . Abernathy and Frank E. Wolf, Dallas,Texas.THETA KAPPA PHI: Gerald L. Glahn, Bar-

tlesville ; Charles Hoover, Chickasha; Thomas Wil-liams, El Reno ; Albert Niklas and Terry Zellers,Henryetta ; Teddy Saab, Haskell ; Charles Boeck-man, Okeene ; Bert Kapp and Thomas Rheinberger,Tulsa.THETA XI : Harold Haxton, Gotebo ; Richard

Young, Lawton ; Istani Annis Moussa and LoydHoofard, Norman ; Richard Walter, OklahomaCity ; Bruce Furlow, Seminole ; John Raveill, Tulsa;Conner Van Hoy, Eastland, Texas.

Richard Matzene DiesRichard Gordon Matzene, prominent Ponca City

photographer and painter, died at his home therein the late summer following a heart attack. Hewas 69 .

Matzene had been a resident of Ponca City forthe last'25 years, having come to Oklahoma fromSimla, India.

In 1936, he and Lew Wentz, late Ponca Cityoilman, donated a collection of oriental art objectsvalued at $250,000 to the University's art school.

Brown Finishes ManuscriptCharles Brown, '336a, '34ma, former member

of the University journalism faculty and now onthe staff of Pennsylvania State College, returned toNorman this summer to complete work on a text-book manuscript .Brown is co-author of the Bald Eagle Press pub-

lication Walt Whitman of the New Yorlt Aurora .The book is a collection of recently discoveredWhitman writings.

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