O. U. is one of the state universities and colleges sponsoring an exhibit at the Semi-centennial Exposition . This tower is Exposition's symbol.

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a series of brief news stories of eventsthat shaped the lives of the alumni family

1907-20Mrs. R. E. Clement (the former Ollie Briggs,

'07fa) is a housewife living in Norman . Mrs. Cle-ment serves as an amateur accredited judge offlower shows. Mr . Clement is a former city man-ager of Norman . Their three children are Belva W.Clement, '35fa, '48ma, instructor in education atO. U.'s University School ; Mrs. C. G. Daugherty,Jr . (the former Louella Clement, '38geol), CorpusChristi, Texas, and R. E. Clement, Jr ., '29-'42, La-fayette, Louisiana .

Dr . Frank A. Balyeat, 'llba, '18ma, Norman,was speaker at a dinner honoring Dr . Marlin RayChauncey in Stillwater on May 17 . Chauncey wascited for 24 years of teaching at Oklahoma StateUniversity . Dr. Balycat is a retired O. U . professorof secondary education.

Dr . Clarence E. Bates, 'I 2pharm, 'I 8bs, '20med,has been named superintendent of the state vctcr-ans' home-hospital in Sulphur. Bates resigned asmanager of Oklahoma City's Veterans Administra-tion Hospital March 1 after serving with the organ-ization 24 years.

Iris M. Baughman, '176a, now is located inOklahoma City . She is a former high schoolteacher now retired .

Walter H. Dersch, Sr ., '17med, is a physicianin Oklahoma City . His son, Walter, Jr ., receivedhis bachelor's degree from 0. U. in 1945 .

Mrs. James Blakey (the former Alta Bellmon,'196a), Enid, is a professor of home economicsteaching at Phillips University .

Dr . Fayette Copeland, '19ba, and Mrs. Ldit}tCopeland, '206a, '25ma, Norman, attended theannual spring meeting of the Associated Presseditorial association . It was held May 25 and 26in Sequoyah State Park . Dr . Copeland is directorof O. U.'s School of Journaiism, and Mrs. Cope-land is literary editor for the Daily Oltlahoman .

Miss Grace E. Ray, '20ba, '22ma, Norman, at-tended the annual meet of the Associated PressEditorial association May 25 and 26 in SequoyahState Park. She is a professor of journalism at O. U.

Dr . L. L. Klostermyer, '206s, '22mcd, is a physi-cian specializing in radiology in Asherville, NorthCarolina . He and Mrs. Klostermyer have a son,Brooks, 27, and daughter, Sandra, 25 .

MARRIAGE : Miss Helen Elizabeth Spradlingand Ebert Elwyn Boylan, '176a, were married

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June 6, 1956, in 13alboa, Canal Zone, Panama . Sheis a 1949 graduate of the University of Missouri .He is engaged in the business of investments andoil royalties . They live in Caracas, Venezuela.

DEATHS : Sam Montgomery, '17, OklahomaCity, died June 4 following a heart attack at hishome . He was 61 and had been in ill health forseveral years. Montgomery was an attorney andformer congressman . Serving with a Marine regi-ment in World War I, he was wounded threetimes in action and was awarded two Silver Starsand the Croix dc Guerre with gold star, the latterFrance's highest medal.

Chester H. Westfall, '166a, died November 12in a Tulsa hospital after suffering a heart attack .He was' president of the Westfall Drilling Com-pany, Tulsa. Formerly he served as a reporter forthe Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City ; as assistantto Oklahoma's Governor E. W. Marland, and aspresident of the Marland Oil Company of Mexico .He was 64.

1921-25Philip Clark Ashby, '22pharm, Oklahoma City,

is vice president and director of Allergy Labora-tories, Incorporated . He is married to the formerFthel Ferne Gordanier.

Dr . John Stanley Callahan, '226s, '24med, islocated in Wilburton. He is a physician andsurgeon.menter G. Baker, Sr ., '226a, works for theVeterans Administration regional office in Mus-kogee. He serves as manager.

Charles B. Daffy, '22Law, works as a lawyer inPonca City. They have two daughters, both mar-ried, and they and their husbands are all alumniof O. U.

Richard J . Clements, '22ba, Oklahoma City, isin the food products manufacturing business . Hisson, Richard H. Clements, is a 1949 graduate ofO. U .

Duke Duvall, '25ba, '28Law, Oklahoma City,recently withdrew from the law firm Duvall andDudley to enter partnership with Ben T. Head,'42bus, '48Law. Head is former assistant Okla-homa County attorney . Also associated with thetwo in the new firm is Dc Vier Pierson, '536a,'57Law .

Foster Harris, '25ba, Norman, has been pro-

rooted to professor of journalism at O. U. For-merly an associate professor, he joined the Uni-versity's English faculty in 1929, then transferredto journalism in 1951 . Harris is a teacher of pro-fessional writing, and his latest book is The Loopof the Old Nest, Viking Press, 1955 .

DEATH : Mrs. J . 1' . Martin (the former AliceMurdock, '25ba, '20ma), Grandfield, died April 17in Bethania Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas. Sheis survived by Mr. Martin and a daughter, Cath-erine Lee Shaffer .

1926-30Curtis Alfred Cryer, '26ba, '27ma, Amarillo,

Texas, is a teacher of jet mechanics at AmarilloAir B ase Cryer formerly was superintendent ofschools at Borger, Texas.

Mrs. Louise Beard Moore, '27ba, Norman, re-cently was honored by Harding High School, Ok-lahoma City, when it named its newly charteredchi pier of Quill and Scroll for her. Mrs. Moore issupervisor of student publications and assistantprofessor of journalism at O. U., and the new chap-ter is part of a national journalism organization .

1 . H. Crosby, '27ma, is a New York Life In-surance Company agent in Lawton. He and Mrs.Crosby have a son, Joe, 17, and daugh-cr, Mary, 24 .

Mrs. Elsac Dyer (the former Elsac F. Andrews,'27ed) is a housewife living in Oklahoma City .Her son, Dwight E. Dyer, is assistant professor ofmusic education at O. U . ; he is married to theformer Emily Karns, '57fa.A. L. (table, '27ma, Oklahoma City, is with

Bankers Service Life Insurance Company. He isvice president and director of special policies . Cra-ble was a member of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity atO. U.

Ernest O. Casey, '276us, is co-owner of theArk Furniture Company in Caney, Kansas . He isa member of Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity.

Dr . Loren Brown, '28ma, '37ph.d, Norman, at-tended a special meeting called by the nationalOffice of Educat :on in Washington, D. C., on May16 . The conference was for studying state juniorcollege systems and methods of financing and or-ganizing . Brown is coordinating director of gen-eral services for O. U's .extension division .

Cecil Myron Goodrich, '2'86a, '32m .ed, servesas a minister in North McAlester.

Mrs. Phyllis Sapp, '30fa, Oklahoma City, haswon first prize in a contest for new novels . Her re-ligious novel, Stnall Giant, was honored in theZondervan International Fiction Contest sponsoredby a Grand Rapids, Michigan, publishing house.She is a former student of Walter S. Campbell, pro-fessor of professional writing courses at O. U.

Dr. Fred A. Barkley, '206a, '32ms, has beentransferred to Morris Plains, New Jersey, by Ne-pera Chemical Company's research division, Yonk-ers, New York . Barkley, director of the group atYonkers, will be senior research associate in thenew setup which is concerned with microbiology .

DEATI IS : Dr . Patrick S. Nagle, '266s, '28med,prominent Oklahoma City surgeon, died May 8 inVeterans Hospital after being hospitalized for tendays . He had been on the staffs of Oklahoma CityGeneral Hospital, Wesley Hospital, St . Anthony's,University and Crippled Children's Hospitals . Hewas 54 .

Karl A. Bashara, '29geol, formerly of Nor-man, was killed May 15 in an accident occurringnear Sterling, Colorado. Bashara, superintendentof the Rocky Mountain district of Anderson-Prich-ard Oil Company, was run over by his own car onan oil lease; the car, parked on a hillside, brokeloose and rolled down . Bashara attended NormanIfigh School before entering O. U. and was a col-lege wrestler . He was 50 .

Mrs. W. M. Neal (the former Nell Rose War-ren, '29-'20) died in January in Austin, Texas.

1931-35Congressman Carl Albert, '216a, McAlester, has

been scheduled to speak at the 69th annual springconvention of the Oklahoma Press Association onJune 14, Sequoyah State Park . Albert is majoritywhip in the house of representatives, and he willdiscuss functions of leadership in the house atthe meet.

Todd Aaron, '31-'22, works as a drilling con-tractor in Midland, Texas. Aaron was a memberof S'gina Chi fraternity at O. U. He and Mrs.Aaron have two sons .

Professor Edwin W. Briggs, '32Law, of Mon-tana State University has been chosen by the Uni-versity of Michigan as first recipient of the EdsonR. Sunderland senior research fellowship . Thefellowship enables Briggs to take leave from teach-ing during 1957-58 and do research in Ann Arbor.

Knowlton E. Carson, '226a, works as a lawyerin Kansas City, Kansas . His and Mrs. Carson'sdaughter, Susan, graduates from Monticello Col-lege in June .

Robert N. McKinney, '226a, Santa Fe, NewMexico, was one of 50 persons who received mem-bership to Phi Beta Kappa national honorary so-ciety May 27 in Norman . McKinney is editor andpublisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican and direc-tor of both the Chicago, Rock Island and PacificIUilroad and the International 'telephone and Tele-graph Corporation. His article, "A Happier Pros-pect for Atomic Energy," appeared in the Marchissue of Sootier !Magazine.

The Rev. Richard 11 . Brauer, '32m .cd, serves aspastor of St . Paul's Lutheran (;hutch in Potter,Nebraska . He was last in Grover, Colorado .

James L. Robinson, '226a, '32Law, was appoint-ed in May to a second three years term on a com-inittce of the National University Extension Asso-ciation . His work will involve discussion and de-bate materials and interstate cooperation . Robin-son is director of the speech and drama servicesfor O. U.'s Extension Division .

Herbert Branan, '226a, '38Law, Oklahoma City,serves as assistant to the president of OklahomaGas and Electric Company.

James C. Harkin, '32Law, Oklahoma City, isassistant attorney general for the State of Okla-

homa . He and Mrs . Harkin have a daughter andfour sons .

Elouise Mesley Lewis, '32gen.nurs, is headnurse at the Missouri State Sanitorium, Mount Ver-non. She has a son, William, 15 .

Mrs. George G . Rickards (the former MontanaHopkins, '3-1fa, '42m .cd), Eugene, Oregon, is en-gaged as coordinator of publications for the Fu-gene Public Schools .

DEATHS : E. E. (Bob) Kniseley, '22, d edMay 29 following a heart attack in Waco, Texas.Formerly an Oklahoma journalist, he had servedas editor of the Pawhuska Daily journal, publisherof the Lawton Morning Press, correspondent forOklahoma City newspapers and for the KansasCity Star and the Denver Post. He was 57 .

McKinley Grant Starry, '33ro.ed, Blanchard,died May 8 following a heart attack . McKinleywas a 32-year resident of Blanchard and superin-tcndcnt of that city's schools . He was 60 .

1936-40Mrs. June Benson, '376a, '54tna, has been

named the first woman mayor of Norman . Mrs.Benson (the former June Tompkins) has longbeen a city commissioner and an active member ofthe Norman Chamber of Commerce and the Okla-homa Municipal League . She is the wife of Dr .Oliver E. Benson, '326a, '33ma, professor of gov-ernment at O. U.

Dr . Rugie R. Coates, '37med, practices medi-cne in Chickasha, He is married to the formerJewell Vera Mouck who graduated from O. U .'sSchool of Nursing in 1939 .

Aubrey D. Campbell, '37, has been promotedto the newly created position of assistant districtexploration superintendent for Pan American Pe-troleum Corporation in New Orleans, Louisiana .He joined the firm in 1928 and has been New Or-leans district landman since 1952 .

Dr . Carl M. Austin, '276a, serves as a physicianin Fort Worth, Texas. He and Mrs. Austin havethree children, Carl, 12, Annette, 9, and James, 8.

Dr. William E. Butler, '37bs, Billings, Mon-tana, is an ophthalmologist, or eye surgeon. He andMrs. Butler have two sons and a daughter .

Myrle E. Kelly, '37med, Weatherford, is pro-fessor of art at Southwestern State College.

Wayne Allen, '386us, has been appointed per-sonnel director for Borden's Milk and Ice CreamCompany in Amarillo, Texas. He has been withthe firm three years.

John V. Eakin, '40eng, was elected vice presi-dent of the Jayme Organization, Inc., in May. Hew ll also serve as general manager of the firm'sAirflex Division . Jayme deals in industrial adver-tising and related services, and is located in Cleve-land, Ohio .

Mrs. Charles F. . Berry (the former Gladys Rea-gan, '40m .h .ec), Dallas, Texas, was initiated intoSigma Xi, national honorary scientific group, MayI(i . l)r . Berry now is engaged in research in micecancer at SonthWC."Crn Medical School, Dallas .

Hiawatha Estes, '40eng, and Mrs. Estes wereone of 12 famfss who won final adoption decreesfair children in Los Angeles, California, recently .Their new son, Kenneth, is one year old.

1941-45WAC (;apt . Rose McKellar, '41h .ec, Norman,

attended a recent series of lectures held at theWalter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington,D. (: ., by the Army Medical Specialist Corps. Sheregularly is assigned to the U. S. Army Hospital,Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Mrs. Claude Southward (the former MyrtleEmbelle McCallster, '41ed) teaches second gradeat Andrew Jackson Elementary School, Norman .

Bayden Bashe, '426a, has been chosen head ofthe newly inaugurated public relations division ofSrago Advertising, Oklahoma City . Bashe, formerlywith Soltio Petroleum Company, is a member ofPhi Beta Kappa.

Raymond L. Bacon, '426us, Wichita, Kansas,is vice president and treasurer of the ImperialOil Company of Kansas, Inc. He married the for-mer Betty lane Hulsey of Oklahoma City, and theyhave two children .

Henry C. Easterling, '42pharm, practices den-tistry in Norman . He and Mrs. Easterling have twochildren .

Charles A. Houston, '42eug, '47eng ., works asa petroleum geologist in Jackson, Mississippi .Among the organizations of which he was a mem-her while in college arc Tau Beta Pi, Sigma GammaEpsilon, Scabbard and Blade, and others .

James E. French, '42eug, Lake Jackson, Texas,works as a research and development engineer forDow Chemical Company, Freeport, Texas. He andMrs. French have two sons and two daughters.

Fred L. Fredrickson, '42eug, Pasadena, Texas,serves as an engineer for Shell Chemsal Corpo-ration .

Elvin Odell Campbell, '426a, Oklahoma City,works as technical assistant to the vice presidentin charge of refining at Kerr-McGee Oil Industries .

William C. McGrew, '436us, '49m .bus, Nor-man, has been appointed a consultant in the Unit-ed States General Accounting Office . McGrew, as-sociate professor of accounting at O. U., will workas special adviser to the electronic data processingarea during the summer in Washington, D. C.

Dr . T. R. Pfundt, '44med, will take on a newassignment July I at the University's School ofMedicine, Oklahoma City . He will do research inchildren's diseases . Pfundt had planned to resignthis year as professor of pediatrics and go to anew position at Charity Hospital in New Orleans,Louisiana .

Virgil L. Scale, '456a, '47ms, was promoted toassistant technical director of Visco Products Com-pany, Inc., Houston, Texas, on April 15 . His posi-tion concerns the development of new productsand the improvement of established chemicals . Hewill assist in supervising the firm's plants at SugarLand, Texas, and Anaheim, California .

1946W. R. Smith, '46eng, has been promoted to

senior electrical engineer in Humble Oil and Re-fining Company's engineering division at the Bay-town, Texas, refinery . He works in cost estimat-ing and developing complete electrical designs formajor additions and modifications to processingunits.

Mildred O. Jacobs, '46-'52, Norman, took thefinal examination for her doctor's degree May 28Lit O. U. She is a practicum supervisor in the Uni-versity's psychological chn'c, and she formerlyserved as a psychometrist and clinician in the Vet-erans Administration guidance center and in thepsychological service center .

BIRTH: Emory C. Williams and Mrs. Williams(the former '.van Allen, '466a, '49ma), OklahomaCity, have chosen the name David Allen Williamsfor their first son, born March 6. They also have adaughter, Suzanne Gay, 17 months .

1947harry S. Barr, Jr ., '47journ, was re-elected

secretary-treasurer of the Aeronautical TrainingSociety at the close of its annual meeting held May2 in Washington, D. C. The society is an asso-ciation of aviation training schools, contract over-haul and repair bases, and firms offering othermajor aviation contract services .

Phillip C. Knisell, '47journ, has become public

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They Help O.U. GrowThe alumni pictured here have accepted the responsibil-ity as Class Agents for their graduating classes in theAlumni Development Fund program . They are helpingbuild a better University through alumni gift support .

1936-Karey Fuqua

relations director of Mercy Hospital, OklahomaCity . He formerly was assistant editor of theSouthwest Courier.

Dr . R. G. Bowers, '47bus, is engaged in thepractice of dentistry in Shawnee.

Dr . Robert Allen Rutland, '47journ, Los An-geles, California, was honored with the presenta-tion of a Phi Beta Kappa key at a meeting of thenational honor society May 27 in Norman. Heis an assistant professor of journalism at the Uni-versity of California .

Dr . William O. Coleman, '47med, is located inOklahoma City, where he works as a physician . Heand Mrs. Coleman have a son, 7, and a daughter, 2 .

Everett E. Berry, Jr ., '476us, '491 .aw, Stillwater,is attorney for the Thomas N. Berry and Com-pany, an independent oil firm . Berry was editorof the Sooner Yearbook in 1947 .

Don A. Eaton, '47-'49, Washington, 1) . C., hasbeen named assistant director of the National As-sociation of Home Builders field service depart-ment. He has served on the organization's publicrelations staff for more than five years. Eaton isa native of Weatherford .

George E. Carver, Jr ., '47ms, is a geologist forUnited Carbon Company in Charleston, West Vir-ginia. He is married to the former Mary LouMil ner.

BIRTH : Lyle N. Baker and Mrs. Baker (theformer Elizabeth Kitchens, '47ed, '49m .ed), Tulsa,have chosen the name Stephen Lyle for their sonborn May 5.

1948Air Force Capt. Daniel C. King, '48eng, Enid,

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1912 Charles Nesbitt

has been assigned to the engineer research and de-velopment laboratories, Fort Belvoir, Virginia . Heis operations officer with the Army's power pack-age reactor unit.

BIRTH: Bruce Morrison, '486a, and Mrs. Mor-rison (the former Eleanor Salyer, '48ba), OklahomaCity, have announced the birth of a son on May 6.

1950Mort Glassner, '50journ, has been appointed

city editor of the Great Bend (Kansas) Tribune.He has worked for newspapers in Oklahoma, Mis-souri and South Carolina .

Carl L. Rollins, '50eng, has joined WarrenPetroleum Company in Tulsa. His last positionwas in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

loseph R. Whittington, '50ba, Oklahoma City,has been awarded a Southern Fellowship for ad-vanced study and research after June 20 . Whit-tington, an O. U. graduate student in English, wasone of 94 students to be so honored.

Dr . Kenneth Godfrey, '50med, Okeene, hasbeen cited by the Daily Oklahoman, OklahomaCity, for his work at Okeene High School, wherehe has made it possible for the study of chem-istry to be offered for the first time in five years.Godfrey agreed last Sepxmber to sacrifice hislunch hour each day and spend it teaching thecourse to 15 youngsters who otherwise would nothave the chance to study pre-college chemistry.He is one of the town's two medical doctors .

MARRIAGE : Miss Rosalie Ann Frain, Casper,Wyoming, and William N. Veatch, '50bus, Afton,were married in May in Casper . They live inTulsa.

1908-Ed Harris

1943-- Wendell Cates

1921-Paul X. Johnston

1946--Ann Hardy Braddock

1951Kenneth 1) . Soule, '51ur.geol, recently was

named district geologist for Pan American Petro-leum Corporation in New Orleans, Louisiana . Hepreviously served in the same capacity in thecompany's office in Corpus Christi, Texas.

BIRTH: Abbott A. Bernstein, '51ba, and Mrs.Bernstein, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, have chosenthe name Eric Martin for their son born May 5.h.ric weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at birth.

1952Dr . Lynn W. Abshcrc, '526s, '56med, plans

to return to University Hospital, Oklahoma City,in July for training in obstetrics and gynecology .He has been interning as a physician at VirginiaMason Hospital, Seattle, Washington .

Robert L. Boothe, '52fa, now is connected withSunray Mid-Continent Oil Company and lives inAbilene, Texas. He is a former member of O. U.'sband, orchestra, glee club and choir.

Orville Eastland Jones, '52m .ed, took his finalexamination for the degree of doctor of educationJune 12 at O. U. Moues, who received his bachelor'sdegree from Bethany Nazarene College, served ascounselor of men and associate professor of educa-tion and psychology° 1952-57 at Arkansas College,Batesville, Arkansas .

Eugene W. Cllapnan, '52ba, works in Pitts-burgh, Pennsylvania, for Westinghouse ElectricCorporation . He is an industrial relations staff as-sistant.

Dr . Loren V. Boke, Jr ., '52med, now is a resi-dent in surgery at Parkland Hospital, Dallas,

1924 W. R. McClelland

1947-Jerry Keen

Texas.George F. Dana, '52geol, '54ms, works as a

geologist in Durango, Colorado . He is a member ofTheta Xi and Sigma Gamma Fpsilon fraternities .

Buell Awtrcy, '52m .cd, serves as principal ofthe Charles Evans Flcmentary School in Ardmore.I Ic and Mrs. Awtrcy (the former Janet Crccl) havetwo sons, Racoon, 25, a missionary to Flawaii, andDon, 22, a student teacher .

William J . Howe, '52eng, works as an clectrical engineer for an Fast Alton, Illinois, firm . Heis with Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation.

Licit. Col. Carroll V. Glints, '52bus, '54m .bus,is a member of the Air Force stationed in Mont-gomery, Alabama. He served on the Air ForceROTC staff at O. U. while earning his degrees .

Mabry G. Blaylock, '52ba, '53ma, is a profes-sional tutor living in Norman. Blaylock majoredin letters and Spanish at O. U.

Licit. Sam A. Perrine, '52bus, serves as anAir Force pilot and now is stationed in Greenville,South Carolina .

MARRIAGES : Miss Irene Adelaide Beardsleyand Leigh Natus Ortcnburger, '52bs, were marriedJune 22 in Washington, 1) . C. She is the daughterof Rear Admiral and Mrs. George F. Beardsley . Heis the son of Dr . A. I . and Mrs. Roberta Orten-burgcr, both professors of zoology at O. U.

Miss Edith Johnson, '52pharm, and W. M .Christie, '39pharn, recently were married in Ok-lahoma Citv, where they have made their home .

1953Hugh David Hall, '526s, Oklahoma City, was

honored for scholastic excellence on May 31 at

1929-1!leanor Tracy

1919- -Clee Fitzgerald

193:' -Charley Engleman

19.50-Charles DovA ell

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts . Amember of the 1957 class graduating from Har-vard's school of dental medicine, Hall was pre-sented the American Academy of Dental MedicineAward. Two other honors also came to him inthe form of the Grace Milliken Award "for thebest essay on the general subject of dental health,"and the Mosby Award "for scholastic achievement."

Mrs. Cullen B. Johnston, Jr . (the former Caro-lvn Ruth Howell, '53fa) is attending classes at theAmerican Institute for Foreign Trade, Thunder-bird Feld, Phoenix, Arizona. Her husband gradu-ated from the institute May 21 after specializingin Latin America. The courses concentrate ontechniques of international business administra-tion, foreign languages and characteristics of for-eign countries .

Bobby Joe Williams, '53ba, Idabel, has beenawarded a $1,200 scholarship for study and re-search at the University of Michigan's graduateschool beginning in September . I le is now doinggraduate work at O. U . and will receive his mas-ter's degree in August .

1954Bill Hill, '54m .fa, Oklahoma City, received a

scholarship on May 21 for summer study at O. U.toward his doctor's degree . The scholarship camefrom the Science Research Associates of Chicago,Illinois, and was awarded at an appreciation lun-cham arranged by Capitol Hill High School P-TA .Hill is counselor at the school .

Donald D. Davis, '54eng, was separated frommilitary service in May and resumed work in thepetroleum industry. Formerly a Navy lieutenant

1935 -William Pansze

1952-Nadine Norton love

(jg), he returns from his last post in San Fran-cisco, California, to Amarillo, Texas.

Lieut. Richard A. Elms, '54eng, recently wasstationed at Qtumdco, Virginia . He is photographysupervisor for the informational services section ofthe Marine Corps schools, and he is a staff memberof the schools' newspaper, The Sentry .

Licut .

Robert

'1 ' .

Stuart,

'54hus,

OklahomaCity, recently graduated from a field artillery offi-cers basic course at Fort Sill, Lawton . Ile is amember of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity .

MARRIAGI?: Miss Mary Carer, '54ba, andRobert 1) . Allen, '51ba, '551 .aw, were marriedMay 18 . They have made their home in Okla-homa City .

1955Robert S. McKown, '55bs, is scheduled to fin-

ish his tour of active duty with the Navy in Juneand will return from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, toOklahoma City, where he will enter the insurancebusiness . Ile will join the firm McKown and Me-Williams, formed by his father, Dave R. McKown,'21geol, and his partner, William R. McWilliams,'48bus . Robert's younger brother, Richard J . Mc-Kown, '5(bus, also plans to join the firm afterfinishing his tour of duty with the Army in Ger-manv in late 1958 .

Lieut. (jg) Rex J. Goodwin, '55bus, OklahomaCity, and Cadet Jimmy I_. Wilson, '55, Yukon, re-cently made their first solo flights as Navy pilotsat Sauflcy Field, Pensacola, Florida . They arenext scheduled to train in formation flying in thePcnsacola area .

ISeverly L. Baldwin '55journ, Madill, has been

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Seven years ago, a Stanford graduate joinedNew England life at our branch office in Palo

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anpointed copywriter on the creative staff of SragoAdvertising, Oklahoma City . She has worked forthe Madill Record and served as assistant editor ofthe TV Guide Oklahoma edition . Miss Baldwin ex-pects to receive her master's degree from O. U.in June.

Kuyk Logan, '55journ, has entered the Armyand is stationed at Fort Holabird intelligence cen-ter, Baltimore, Maryland . At O. U. lie was editorof the Olklahonia Daily student newspaper. After-wards he worked for the Daily

Oklahoman Oklahoma Cily Times and San Angelo (Texas) Standard-T i mes

Gerard Robins, '55geol, Houston, Texas, washonored May 20 by the Hillel Foundation for hiscontinuing interest in the group. lie is a pastpresident of Hillel, Norman, and recipient of thenational Hillel award.

1956Luther G. Cowden, '56, Norman, is undergoing

pre-flight training as a Naval cadet at Pensacola,Florida . After 16 weeks in his present phase, hewill enter primary flight training at the same base .

Lieut. Bertram S. Shelby, '56gcol, OklahomaCity, recently assumed command of the Army's19th Antiaircraft Artillery Group's headquartersbattery at Fort Myer, Virginia . He was last sta-tioned at Fort Bliss, Texas, and before entering ser-vice lie worked as an exploration geologist for Ar-kansas Fuel Oil Corporation in Lafayette, Lou-isiana .

Miss Noel Sjoberg, '56journ, has joined Halland Thompson, Inc., Oklahoma City advertisingagency . Formerly she worked for the BlackcvcllJoin-nal-Tribune and for United Press.

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Lieut. Joe A. Wliecler, '566us, Tipton, has beenassigned to the First Armored Division at theArmy's Fort Polk, Louisiana . He was last stationedat Fort Sill, Lawton .

(:laude Nations, Jr ., '56ed, Oklahoma City, re-cently received a $1,0-10 grant from the NationalScience Foundation and will use it to study foreight weeks at O. U. during the summer . Nations,an Oklahoma City high school science teacher,curlier received another grant which will allowhim to study for ten months at Oklahoma StateUniversity next year .

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think of a dub who'd shoot his own arinoff?" He never let the loss of the arm hin-der him : his finest teams carne after 1907,and today, at age 81, he is as bright-eyedand active as a man could wish to be .Oklahoma lost to Kansas, 15-0 .Then the team lost Harry Hughes, its

fiercest fullback, due to the 12-hour eligi-bility ruling . Days later, on the way toAustin for a game against Texas, the teamwas in a train wreck. Fortunately no onewas injured. At the game itself one of ()k-lahorria's best guards was undeservedly ex-

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pelled because the referee thought he wasslugging .

"The decision was so palpably wrong,"wrote Keith, "that for the first time in histhree-year coaching stint at Norman, Owenwent on the field to protest. With eloquentgestures of his left arm, the Oklahomacoach was trying to explain the situation tothe official who had ruled (the guard) out.However from the uninterested look onthe referee's face Owen saw that his remon-strations were having no effect. Then oneof the Texas players told Owen the officialwas the coach of the nearby Texas Schoolfor the Deaf, and was himself deaf anddumb . This was frustration to which therecould be no appeal . Owen didn't arguefurther with the deaf man, but turning onhis heel walked back very fast to the varsitybench and sat down. Varsity players of theera still chuckle over the incident, main-taining it was the only time in their livesthey ever saw an expression of utter help-lessness in Owen's usually cheerful face ."Texas won, 29-10.On the eve of one of the games that sea-

son, students attempted to hold their usualshirttail parade in downtown Norman . A

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