Mrs . Savoie Lottinville, %%itlow of Paul Carpenter, late dean of the University's Fine Arts College, recently presented Carpenter's violins tothe school .

A ith her are T . R . Benedum (left t , member of O . U.'s Board of Regents, and Harrison Kerr, now dean of the College of Fine Arts .

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

1911I)1?ATH : Dr . Blair Points, 'limed, died in

t)khh"nna City on February 11 . Points was 73 .The general practitioner established the first full-time county health unit in Oklahoma in Ottawacounty in 1918 . He practiced at Luther and Ed-mond for 20 years . During World War II he waswith the U . S . Public Health Service in Utah andIdaho, and he had been adjudication officer, med-ical specialist, with Veterans Administration inOklahoma City until his retirement three yearsago,

1916John Jacobs, ' 16ba, was honored at the All-

Spores Jamboree in Oklahoma City on February

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10. Jacobs is a veteran track coach at the University of Oklahoma.

1919Dr . Perry R. Deter, '19ba, '26bs, '28med, is in

active practice at Childress, Texas. His firm isknown as the Deter-Townsend-Butler Clinic .

Miss Elaine Boylan, '19ba, is leaving her homein New Orleans, Louisiana, to spend an indefinitetime in Florence, Italy .

Dr . Maurice H . Merrill, '196a, '22Law, hasbeen named to both the judicial administration ofjustice committee, and to the scope, program andobjectives committee for the Oklahoma Bar As-sociation . Other members of the University ofOklahoma College of Law faculty serving on com-

mittecs are Dr . Frank Elkouri, '43ba, '57Law,legal ethics committee, and Dr . R . Dale Vliet, '38Law, special committee on publication noticeevaluation .

1921Dc"',l H. Neal, '21ba, is editor of Chalk Talk,

new publication of the Oklahoma Education As-sociation. The first issue appeared January 15 . Heis also public relations director for the association .

Murray R . Womble, '21eng, resides in MenloPark, California, since his retirement in June,1957 . He still retains an interest in his buildingmaterials business located in Tulsa and OklahomaCity . Womble has been engaged in the businesssince 1922 .

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1922Dr, H . V . Thornton, '226a, '29ma, University

of Oklahoma government expert, spoke January29 to the Engineering Club of Oklahoma City .One of the Southwest's leading authorities ongovernment administration, Thornton discussed"The Need and Problems of Oklahoma Govern-ment."

1924"Mike" Monroney, '246a, U . S . senator from

()kl,ohoma, spoke at the annual banquet of theArkansas Basin Development Association heldJanuary 23 ; he discussed ways to hike waterproject appropriations . Monroney also spoke atthe Oklahoma statewide electric co-operative inlanuar\, a, did Robert S . Kerr, '16, the state's(rthcr scrwt,)r .

1925Ch,irlcs L . Caldwell, '251n .ed, assistant pro-

1(",r of education at O . U ., directed an informaldiscussion of effective teaching materials for in-struction of elementary science at a meeting ofthe Childhood Education Association on February4 . The meeting was held in Chickasha .

Mrs . G . E . Larason (the former PaulineWhite, '25fa), Oklahoma City, was the subject ofa feature story in the February 10 issue of theOklahoma City Times . Mrs . Larason, whose hus-band is an engineer for Oklahoma Gas and Elec-tric Company, is noted for her interest in paint-ing, and, at the present time, she is doing chinapainting.

Foster Harris, '256a, professor of journalism inthe University of Oklahoma professional writingschool, and Dwight Swain, '54ma, assistant pro-fessor of journalism, talk each week over a newseries of KETA-TV broadcasts called "Tips forWriters ." The program also interviews successfulformer professional writing students .

DEATH : Mrs . Eugene H . Bracken (the for-mer Salome Smith, '25ed) died February 9 in St .Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City . Fifty-threeyears old, Mrs . Bracken had been a social workerin Oklahoma City since October, 1941 . For thepast 11 years she was a case supervisor on thestaff of the Oklahoma County Department of Pub-lic Welfare . She was chairman of the project forfriendly visiting in nursing homes, initiated bythe Oklahoma Council of Churches in 1955 .

1927Col . John Embry, '27Law, is chief of the man-

.1gcment services division, Office of the Comp-troller, Headquarters, Fourth U . S . Army . TheFmhrys live in San Antonio, Texas .

DEATH : Jesse R . Carr, '27, a 52-year-old for-mer Oklahoma City resident and pioneer bushflier in Alaska, was killed February 4 near An-chorage, Alaska, while searching for a wreckedaircraft . At the time of his death he owned acharter service at Anchorage, and from 1950 until1955 he was commander of the civil air patrol inAlaska .

1928A . LeRoy Taylor, '28m.ed, Oklahoma City, is

treasurer of the Oklahoma Education Associationfor the school year 1957-58 .

Hal Muldrow, '286us, chairman of the Nor-man Municipal Hospital Board, recently ushereda 40-member committee from the Shawnee Cham-her of Commerce through the hospital .

Mrs . Edna Hoffman Bowman, '28ba, King-fisher, was elected a member of the board of di-rectors, Oklahoma State Historical Society, toserve the unexpired term of her late husband .

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George Lynn Bowman, former long-time memberand former president of board of regents, Univer-sity of Oklahoma . Bowman died August 21,1957 . Mrs. Bowman also serves on the board ofthe Oklahoma State Chapter, P. E . O-, and hasbeen elected corresponding secretary .

J . T . Martin, '28tns, Grandfield, Oklahoma,retired from teaching in August, 1957 . Martinhad been in the teaching profession for 33 years .He now devotes his time to farming . Mrs . Martin(the former Alice Murdock, '25ed, '30ma) diedApril 17, 1957 .

Mrs . Ralph Bientang (the former Bess Mar-riott, '28cd), Norman, has been elected to serveas chairman of the Sooner Council of the Ameri-can Red Cross . The council includes seven Okla-homa counties .

William L . Cory, '28eng, associate professorof theoretical and applied mechanics at O . U ., hasbeen appointed acting chairman of that depart-ment by the board of regents . Travis P . Goggans,'576us, has been appointed an instructor in ac-counting ; he previously was a teaching assistant .John F. Heckinger, '506us, was named a part-time instructor in business communications forthe second semester ; he is working on a master'sdegree in finance . Jon Leslie Fitch, '58eng, hasbeen appointed an instructor in mechanical engi-neering, and Donald L . Wilson, '57eng, saw re-appointment as instructor in theoretical and ap-plied mechanics . Dolly S . Ward, '26fa, '47m .ed,assistant professor of music education, was granteda leave of absence from September 1958 untilSeptember 1959, to visit, study and compare inthe universities and colleges of Oklahoma andsurrounding states .

1929F.vc-rett F. Drumright, '296us, U . S . consul

.L!, ncr .i l to Hong Kong, was nominated by Presi-dent Eisenhower to be ambassador to NationalistChina . Upon confirmation by the Senate, Drum-right will move his headquarters to Taipei onFormosa . He has been serving at Hong Kongsince 1954 . The 52-year-old career officer hasbeen with the foreign service since 1930 .

19301lan,ld L . Pickens, '30eng, formerly, branch

� lli :c manager of Allis-Chalmers ManufacturingCompany, has been named to head the districtoffice of the firm . Pickens joined Allis-Chalmersin 1945 .

-Mrs . Stanley Sawicki (the former Anna Picek,'30phartn) is living in West Lafayette, Indiana,while her husband, Colonel Sawicki, is stationedon Eniwetok . They have two sons, Charles, asophomore at Notre Dame, and Stanley, a sopho-more in West Lafayette High School .

1931Richard V . Hollingsworth, '31geol, '33ms, is

lu ail ,d the Paleontological Laboratory, Midland,Texas . He has served this past year as president ofthe American Association of Petroleum Geologists .

Mrs . Irene Banes, '31fa, attended a short ses-sion of the University of Mexico during Januaryand February . The seminar in which Mrs . Banesis enrolled covers advanced Spanish .

DEATH : A . R . "Skivey" Davis, '31ed, '53m .ed, died January 24 at Norman Municipal Hos-pital . He was 61 . Davis has been coordinator ofgrade school athletics and official Big Eight scorerat Oklahoma home basketball games since his re-tircinent from coaching at Norman High Schoolin 1947 . He came to Norman in 1936, and manyof his teams won state and regional champion-ships . At the University, Davis starred for CoachBennie Owen's football teams of 1917-20 .

1932Dr . A . B . Smith, '32med, of Stillwater, was

recently elected president of the O . U . MedicalSchool Alumni Association . Others elected at themeeting were Dr . Carl H. Bailey, '316s, '33med,Stroud, president-elect ; Dr . John R . Taylor, '32bs,'34med, Kingfisher, vice president ; Dr . Ned H .Burleson, '266a, '296s, '31med, Prague, secretary,and Dr . W . F . Lewis, '37bs, '39tned, Lawton,treasurer . Trustees, elected to three-year terms,are : Dr . Robert C . Mayfield, '45bs, '50med, Nor-man; Dr . Douglas E . Wilson, '47med, Lawton,and Dr . Robert W. Lowrey, '366s, '36med, Poteau .

George L . West, '32pharm, and Mrs . West(the former Helen McRee, '31ma) now live inOklahoma City where West is a pharmacist withUniversity Hospital and Mrs . West is the Latinteacher at Harding High School .

Dr. Lowell Dunham, '326a, '35ma, chairmananti professor of the O. U . Department of ModernLanguages, has written the leading article for theWinter 1958 issue of Books Abroad. Book reviewshave been contributed by Dr . Betty D . Evans,'336a, '44ma, '57ph.d ; Mary E . Stith, '306a, '37ma : Wayne Dodd, '556a, '57ma, and SarahYoungblood, '506a, '51ma .

1933Charles E . Engleman, '336a, president of the

Oklalu,ma Press Association, presided at the Jan-uary 25 meeting of the organization, at whichMilt Phillips, '22, chairman of the Oklahoma His-torical Society microfilm committee, gave a re-port on the progress of the microfilming of all oldnewspapers no longer published . Phillips also ispresident of the University of Oklahoma Associa-tion .

1934Harm E . Musgrave, '346us, moved from Cor-

pus Christi, Texas, to Dayton, Ohio, in February .

1935Miss Alice Marriott, '356a, curator of ethnol-

�gx in Stmall Museum at the University of Okla-homa, was guest story teller for the OklahomaCity library system's spring story hour for young-sters . Miss Marriott told Indian legends which shehas collected .

1937Fred Grove, '37journ, Norman, had two novels

published in February. His Flame of the Osage,set in the oil field boom days of the 1920's, is aPyramid book . Another novel, Sun Dance, set inComanche country in the early 1870's, was issuedby Ballantine Publishing Company .

William D . Carr, '37, superintendent ofschools at Cushing, Oklahoma, has been honoredwith the dedication of the William D . Carr Build-ing and Gymnasium . He has served as superin-tcndcnt for the past 18 years .

Miss Mildred Andrews, '37fa, O . U . professorof music and adviser in organ, was recently ap-pointed artist adviser in organ for the NationalFederation of Music clubs . In recent years she hasprepared all the audition requirements for stu-dent musicians contests in organ for all state,regional, and national competitions .

1938(',akin Mannen, '38journ, has been elected

hrcsident �f the Arkansas Press Association . Heis editor and general manager of the Stuttgart(Arkansas) Daily Leader . He is married to theformer Marilynn Lack, '39h .ec .

Clifton B . Ruhrup, '38, is sales manager incharge of the sale of crushed stone from quarries

Charleen Gardner, '576a, recently arrived inNurnberg, Germany, for assignment as serviceclub director with the Army's Special Servicesstaff in Europe . She formerly worked as a so-cial case worker in Williamsburg, Virginia .

and sand plots in Oklahoma for the DolcseBrothers Company . Ruhrup has been with thefirm since 1936 .

Colonel James R . McBrayer, Jr ., '386us, U . S.Air Force provost marshal], now is stationed withthe 12th Air Force in Ramstein, Germany .

Dr. William E . Ham, '38geol, '39ms, of theOklahoma Geological Survey at the University,attended the annual meeting of the American In-stitute of Mining, Metallurgical and PetroleumEngineers in New York City February 16-20 .

Charles A . Kothe, '38Law, an instructor in theUniversity of Tulsa Law School anti member ofthe Tulsa firm of Kothe and Hall, was principalspeaker at the Y . M . C . A . membership campaignkickoff luncheon on February 10 . He also spokerecently at the Tulsa chapter of the Systems andProcedures Association of America . A well-knownlecturer on management-labor relations, he dis-cu-d "What the- ()Illee EXCC(tt1NC Should Know11-ut Labor R(latom, in Oklah,nna ."

1939( :� I . R . E . Gandy, '39, and Mrs . Gandy, Alex-

andri.t, Virginia, recently were recovering from anautomobile accident in which they were involvedDecember 14, 1957 . Mrs . Gandy suffered a badlylacerated left eye . He suffered a fractured rightleg, but the cast has now been removed . Both noware home from the hospital .

Robert Weldon, '39-'42, was elected presidentof the Tulsa Theta Kappa Phi Alumni Associationrecently . Weldon succeeds Bill Heckenkemper, '5lbus.

1940John Whelan, '406us, Piedmont, Oklahoma,

has taken up duties as Canadian County Attorney .Whelan, who has a law degree from OklahomaCity University, was appointed to the position bythe county commissioners on February 11 .

Miss Lucyl Shirk, '406a, author of OklahomaCity, Capital of Soonerland, was guest speaker forthe first week of a new educational television pro-gram, "Oklahoma OK," on Channel 13, Okla-homa City . The program is an enrichment andresource program for ninth grade Oklahoma his-tory classes, and Miss Shirk's book is the text be-ing used by the social studies classes .

Lieut . Col . Hugh P. Stubbs, Jr ., '406a, Okla-homa City, has been awarded the Third U . S .Army Certificate of Achievement upon his re-assignment to Korea . He is program co-ordinatorin the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff Comp-troller, Headquarters Third United States Army .He and Mrs . Stubbs have two sons and a daughter .

Frank "Pop" Ivy, '40ed, has been hired ascoach of the Chicago Cardinals of the NationalFootball League . Ivy was formerly coach of theEdmonton Eskimos of the Western Football Con-ftrence, a position now held by Sam Lyle, previ-ously assistant at Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson .Other Oklahomans playing for Edmonton areFrank Anderson, '50 ; Kurt Burris, '566us ; RogerNelson, and Joe Mobra, '57ed .

1941Malcolm Orr, 'filed, sixth grade teacher at

John Adams School, Norman, has been appointedOklahoma sales representative of the EconomyPublishing Company, Oklahoma City . Orr suc-ceeds Luke Munn, '52m.ed, who has been pro-moted by the company to assistant district salesmanager for the western division . Munn formerlywas principal of Lincoln School in Norman .

Clarence E . Gay, Jr., '41m.eng, is a member ofthe partnership of Rebmann, Gay, Hcrrold, con-sulting engineers The firm is located in St . Louis,Missouri, and its services cover all phases of me-chanical and electrical engineering .

1942Jack Bacr, '42ed, O . U . baseball coach, is con-

ducting Air Force-sponsored baseball clinics inHawaii and Japan. He has been joined on thetwo-week tour by Illinois Coach Lee Eilbract.

Harold A . Landsman, '426us, now is a mem-ber of the firm of Shandling and Landsman, lo-cated in New York City . Landsman is a certifiedpublic accountant .

Dr . William Best Thompson, '426s, '44med,Oklahoma City, president-elect of the OklahomaState Heart Association, addressed a meetingsponsored by Alpha Phi alumni association formembers and others interested in heart disease .Dr . Thompson spoke on "The Jet Age Heart."

Mrs. Anna Belle Crownover Nations, '42ed,'54m.ed, Norman, is teaching third grade in Mid-west City School, Midwest City, Oklahoma . Shehas recently returned from a two-year leave ofabsence spent in Bremerhaven and Bamberg, Ger-many . She taught in the American DependentsSchools for the U . S . Army.

DEATH : Iverson Winans Barr, '42ed, died atthe age of 35 on January 27 in Chrisman, Illinois .A Chrisman insurance agent, Barr had beensuperintendent of the Scottland, Illinois, schoolssvstem from 1950 to 1955 .

1943Carl Fischbein, '436us, '49Law, Tulsa, recently

was moderator for an income tax institute held inconjunction with the Temple Israel Brotherhooddinner . Part of the discussion was led by Myer J .Dritch, '34arch, Tulsa certified public accountant .

Homer Simmons, '43ed, '50m.ed, has takenup duties as head coach of the Amarillo, Texas,High School football team . He has just finishedeight years as assistant and head football coach inSeminole, Oklahoma .

1946DEATH : Miss Mary Seabock, '466us, '48tn .ed,

(lied February 11 when her car plunged into acreek bottom near her home in Braman, Okla-homa . Miss Seabock's mother, Mrs . Clarence Sea-bock, was also killed in the accident . They wereboth members of the First Christian Church .

1947Carter Mullaly, Jr ., '47, is appearing in his

first screen role in The Devil's Hairpin, a story ofautomobile racing. Mullaly plays a southern-talk-ing bartender in the Paramount production, whichstars Cornel Wilde . Mullaly's next role will be inThe Buccaneer, a Paramount picture casting YulBrynner, Charles Boyer and Charlton Heston . Heis at present in dramatic school in Hollywood at-tending talent classes on the Paramount lot.

Robert A . Rutland, '47journ, is author of anarticle, "President Eisenhower and His Press Sec-retary," in the fall Journalism Qrtarterly . He andMrs . Rutland (the former Peggy Marchant, '47journ) live in Los Angeles, where he is assistantprofessor of journalism at the University of Cali-fornia .

Dr. Dennis M . Crites, '476us, '49m.bus, chair-man of the O . U . Marketing Department, is thenew president of the Faculty Club. Other officersare Homer A. Brown, Jr ., '516us, '52m .bus, assist-ant professor of accounting, treasurer, and Dr.Arrcll M . Gibson, '47ba, '48ma, '54ph .d, Univer-sity archivist, house chairman . Crites succeeds Dr .A . N . McAnally, '336a, '35Li .se, '36ma, directorof University Libraries .

Lonny Chapman, '47fa, New York City, ap-peared in a leading role of the hour-long televisionprogram, "Suspicion," on January 20 . Co-starringwith him in the story ("End in Violence") wereJohn Ireland and Lisa Kirk . Chapman originallyhails from Tulsa .

Raymond Ard, '47eng, and Mrs . Ard (the for-mer Trudy Gunther, '426us) now live in Ama-rillo, Texas, where Ard is employed by Gulf OilCompany as district reservoir engineer. They haveone daughter, Laura Anne, 1 .

BIRTHS : Mr . and Mrs . J . E . Gernert (the for-tier Jeanne Martz, '47ed), Okeene, have selectedthe name Janna Jill for their daughter born Jan-uary 20 . The Gernerts have two other daughters .Gcrisuc and Jimi Joan .

Glenn P . Myer, '47eng, and Mrs . Myer (theformer Dorothy Brown, '48ed), Pryor, havechosen the name Lou Ann for their daughter bornJanuary 15 .

1948Clyde Davis, '48ba, KWTV newscaster, Okla-

hwna City, is teaching radio and television newswriting and editing at Oklahoma City Universityin the spring semester . Davis, who has been in theradio field for six years, formerly taught radiopart-time at the University of Oklahoma .

Wilmer A . Hebbard, '48m.bus, is with Prattand Whitney Aircraft as a member of the internalaudit staff . He lives in West Hartford, Connecticut .

Dr . John M . Campbell, '48m.eng, '51ph .d,chairman of the Petroleum Engineering School atthe University, addressed the faculty and studentsof the University of Texas and Texas A&M onFebruary 28 at College Station, Texas . The ad-dress was made for the annual joint meeting ofthe petroleum engineering departments of thetwo schools .

Dennis Weaver, '48fa, was a guest speaker re-cently for the All-Sports Jamboree in OklahomaCity when the O . U . track coach, John Jacobs, washonored . Weaver plays the part of "Chester Good"on the television program, "Gunsmoke ."

Al Donnell, '486a, and Mrs . Donnell (the for-mer Virginia Duffy, '47) now live in Muskogee,where Donnell is administrator of the MuskogeeGeneral Hospital .

BIRTH : Glenn H . Shipley, '48eng, and Mrs .Shipley, Bishop . Texas, have chosen the nameDonald Smith for their son born January 24 .Their other children are Linda Kay, 10 ; Steve, 8,and Jan, 6 .

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1949William V . "Bill" Gasser, '49eng, has been

made head of customer relations department forMid-Continent Manufacturing, Inc., Tulsa divi-sion . The company manufactures complex aircraftstructural components and electronic instrumenta-tion components and systems . Gasser was formerlyTulsa district manager for Marathon ElectricCorp . He and his wife (the former Mary LoisCunningham, '45ed) have two daughters, Caroland Marilyn .

J . Robert Andrtws, '49bus, moved from Ada,Oklahoma, to Norm-in in February .

John L . Rc.xl, Jr . . '49eng, is now geologist forthe W . H . Bryant 0nnpany in Tyler, Texas . For-merly a geologist for Amerada Petroleum Corpo-ration, he is now president of East Texas Geo-logical Society and is author of several technicalprpers on petroleum geology . He and Mrs. Read(the former Mary Margaret Tillery, '48ba) areparents of three sons, ages 7, 4, and 7 months.

BIRTH : William J . Dierker, '49, and Mrs.Dierker have selected the name Thomas Bernardfor their son born January 17 in Oklahoma City.The Dierkers have another son . Charles . 1!i .

1950( ;Icnn Butler, '50journ, '53m .ed, journalism

in,tructor at Central State College, Edmond, re-Cntly attended the Southwest District conventionof the American College Public Relations Associa-tion in Odessa, Texas .

E . A . Ernst, '50ene . has been appointed dis-trict engineer in Wichita Falls, Texas, for Dowell,Inc. He was most recently district engineer in NewOrleans, Louisiana . Ernst joined Dowell as a clerkin Wichita Falls in 1945 .

Tom Grant, Jr., '50Law, and Robert E. Grant,'526us, are members of the newly-formed realestate firm, Whiteside and Grant, with offices in'Tulsa . The Grant brothers have been associatedwith their father, T . G . Grant, in the Grant realestate firm before the formation of the new com-pany .

Charles T . "Chuck" House, '50journ, recentlyaddressed students in journalism 102, newspaperediting, at the University . House, assistant cityeditor of the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City,talked on copyreading, headline writing and deskprocedures .

Winston Weathers, '506a, '51ma, is now in-structor in English at the University of Tulsa .Weathers was recently initiated into Phi GammaKappa, senior honorary society .

Valor E . Thiessen, '50ma, Oklahoma CityUniversity professional writing teacher, has takenover correspondence teaching duties for the Uni-versity of Oklahoma professional writing courses .Thiessen is a former student of the late ProfessorW. S . Campbell, who previously directed thecorrespondence studies .

BIRTH : George V . Copland, '50eng, '51eng,'53ms, and Mrs . Copland (the former MarthaShock, '506a), Duncan, have announced the birthof a son, John Robin . He arrived January 28 inDuncan and weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces . Cop-land is an oil field development engineer for aDuncan firm .

1951MARRIAGE : Miss Jo Ann Wikle, Ponca City,

and Dr . Robert N . Barnes, '5lbs, '54med, Okla-homa City, were married November 30, 1957 .Mrs . Barnes is a graduate of the University ofOklahoma School of Nursing.

BIRTH : James A . Dyal, '51bs, and Mrs. Dyal(the former Earlene Russell, '526us), Dallas,Texas, have selected the name Jack David for theirson born January 15 .

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1952John Freed, '52fa, '57m .fa, has taken up duties

as supervisor of the Art Museum at the Universityof Oklahoma .

Captain Granville J . Womack, '52med, trans-ferred from Oklahoma City to Alexandria, Louisi-ana, in January .

MARRIAGE : Miss Norma Mattox, '526a,Shawnee, and Dr . Robert Lewis Kramer, '536s,'56med, Tulsa, were married February 1 in St .Luke's Methodist Church, Oklahoma City . Mrs .Kramer is a speech therapist in the OklahomaCity schools, and Dr . Kramer is completing hisresidency in ophthalmology at the University Hos-pital .

1953Dorothy Young Mallory, '53fa, has been

awarded first prize in the national compositioncontest sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, nationalmusic sorority . Her entry was "Three ReligiousSongs ."

Cecil O. Wood, Jr ., '53ba, '54Law, has beenappointed probate attorney for the Bureau of In-dian Affairs with the Department of Interior, withoffices in Muskogee . He was previously operatorof an insurance agency in Blackwell .

John C . Martin, '53pharm, is assisting Dr . PaulSmith, University of Oklahoma Medical Schoolprofessor, with research on the way femalehormones work to protect the heart muscle againstthe rhythm changes brought on by an excess doseof digitalis . Martin is a teaching fellow in theDepartment of Pharmacology .

Gene Bettes, '53fa, former Norman, Oklahoma,resident, currently is holding a one-man art showat the J . Walter Thompson Galleries in San Fran-cisco, California. Bettes has been on the WestCoast for the past three years, working in adver-tising . After the month-long run of his show of

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Dr . R . M . Troop, '53ms, '55ph .d, is now as-sistant professor of pharmacology at the Universityof Tennessee Medical School .

BIRTH : John A . Brock, '53eng, and Mrs .Brock (the former Donnie Vaughn, '53ed) havechosen the name John Vaughn for their son bornFebruary 1 in a Longview, Texas, hospital . TheBrocks live in Kilgore, Texas, and have a daugh-ter, Kimberli Ellen, 1 .

1954Robert A . Mannix, '54bus, has been named

supervisor of service stations in the OklahomaCity area of Tidewater Oil .

Janett Sanger, '54journ, now is enrolled in theSchool of Medicine at Vanderbilt University,Nashville, Tennessee . After graduation from O. U .,she worked as a Tulsa Tribune reporter .

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Lieut. Jewett E. Huff, '546a, Lawton, is amember of the 265th Field Artillery Battalion,stationed in Baumholder, Germany. Huff is anexecutive officer in the battalion's Battery B, andhas been in Europe since January, 1956 .

Helen Jean Todd, '546a, is working for Foley'sDepartment Store in Houston, Texas. At present,she is an assistant buyer for women's accessories.

MARRIAGES : Miss Marilyn Kinder and Lieut.George B. Murray, '546a, were married December21, 1957 . Murray is a jet pilot with the Air Force,stationed in Ankara, Turkey . Mrs. Murray at-tended George Washington University, Washing-ton, D. C.

Miss Peggy L. Fletcher and Jay P. Irby, '546a,were married January 3 at the First MethodistChurch, Mountain View, Oklahoma . They areliving in Elmore City, Oklahoma, where he servesas minister of the Methodist Church .

1955Mrs. Teresa Costiloe, '55ms, Oklahoma City,

u now clinical psychologist with the new StudyCenter for Exceptional Children located at theUniversity of Oklahoma Medical Center . Mrs.Costdoe is testing a backlog of mental retardationcases from Children's Hospital clinics . Dr . T. R .Pfundt, '44med, Oklahoma City pediatrician,heads the program which will be a cooperativeeffort of all medical center services, the State

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Dr . Lonnie Gilliland, '55d .ed, director of safe-ty education in Oklahoma City schools, has beenappointed to an evaluation committee of the na-tional commission on safety education of theNational Education Association . The new groupwill be used to analyze and check safety educationmaterials to be published by businesses or the na-tional commission .

J . D. Roberts, '55ed, is now on the footballcoaching staff at O.U . Roberts has been with Den-ver University as line coach.

1956Jane Quaid, '56fa, Norman, a graduate stu-

dent at the University of Kansas, is directing aplay, Judith, to be performed from February 24through March 1 in the experimental theater ofthe Music and Dramatic Arts Building on theK. U. campus at Lawrence . The assignment willfulfill part of her work toward a master of artsdegree .

Lieut. Jerald D. Adelman, '566us, Lawton, isa member of the 551st Antiaircraft Artillery Mis-sile Battalion at Van Nuys, California . Adelmanis a platoon leader in the battalion's Battery D.

Private Roy H. Britton, Jr ., '56ed, Kingfisher,is a member of the Third Armored Divisionchorus which recently gave a concert at the Army'srecreation center in Berchtesgaden, Germany.Britton has been in Germany since last April.

John Brinkley, '56fa, assistant art editor of theUniversity of Oklahoma Press, has designed twobooks which were among the 36 best examples ofAmerican book design and manufacture in theannual Southern Books competition conducted bythe Southern Library Association . The two de-signed by Brinkley were The Best of the AmericanCowboy, by Ramon F. Adams, and The IndianTipi, by Reginald and Gladys Laubin .

Donald H. Baepler, '56ms, is preparing tospend a year in Guatemala studying the birds ofthat country in preparation for his doctoral dis-sertation . He expects to spend a few weeks at thenatural history museum in Guatemala City, andthen to establish headquarters in the village ofHuehuetenango. Baepler has had three years ofornithological work under O. U.'s Dr . George M.Sutton.

James E. Dunegan, '56eng, '57m.eng, Hous-ton, Texas, was a top prize winner in the nationaltechnical paper competition of the American In-stitute of Mining, Metallurgical and PetroleumEngineers. Dunegan won first prize in the So-ciety of Petroleum Engineers graduate division .

Lieut. James F. Fentries, '566us, OklahomaCity, now is stationed at the Naval Air Station,Hutchinson, Kansas, where he is undergoing ad-vanced flight training in multi-engined aircraft .He was last stationed at the Barin Field NavalAuxiliary Air Station, Foley, Alabama.

Bob Herndon, '56ed, former Oklahoma Uni-versity halfback, is new assistant football coach atthe University of California . Herndon, 27, was anassistant under Coach Bud Wilkinson at O. U.

Lieut. John L. MacFarlane, '566us, Sapulpa,is enrolled in advanced flight training in multi-engined aircraft at the Naval Air Station, Hutchin-son, Kansas . He previously qualified in radio in-strument flight .

Lieut. James T. Weeks, '56journ, and Mrs.Weeks (the former Mary Lyle Childs, '56journ)are living in Darmstadt, Germany, where he iswith the missile artillery division- Previously theywere stationed in Babaenhausen, Germany, for ayear .

MARRIAGES : Miss Alice Melinda Pershall,

'56ed, Snyder, and Richard E. Determan weremarried December 29, 1957, in the First MethodistChurch, Snyder . The couple lives in OklahomaCity where Mrs. Determan is a teacher at La-fayette Elementary School .

Miss Nelda McCasland, '56ba, Duncan, andThomas B . Darby, Pampa, Texas, were marriedDecember 21, 1957 . They live in El Dorado,Kansas .

Miss Barbara Goodin, '566us, Oklahoma City,and Russell M. Reed, Colorado City, Texas, weremarried January 25 in the Second Baptist Church,Oklahoma City . They live in Houston, Texas.

BIRTHS : Lieut. Cedric E. Devin, '566us, andMrs . Devin, Pensacola, Florida, have chosen thename Cedric Earl Devin. Jr ., for their son bornJanuary 12 .

Lieut. Bertram Sterling Shelby, '56geol, andMrs. Shelby (the former Marilyn Hammett, '55ed), Washington, D. C., have chosen the nameKent Sterling for their son born February 5. Theyalso have a daughter, Lissa Diane, 2 .

John R. Simpson, Jr ., '306a, has been elected afull vice president of Massachusetts MutualLife Insurance Company. A native of Seminole,Oklahoma, he now lives in Longmeadow, Mass .,with Mrs. Simpson and their two children .

1957William M. Murray, '576us, and Mrs. Mur-

r.i e (the former Dorothy Lehman, '43h .ec) noware managers of the Wolf Cafeteria in Wichita,Kansas . The cafeteria has the distinction of beingthe oldest one in the state.

Lieut. James D. Moore, '576us, Vinita, re-cently arrived in Germany and is a member ofthe 78th Ordnance Company there. Moore is amotor officer in the company.

Lieut. Clark W. Greenlee, '57geol, has grad-uated from the field artillery officer basic courseat the Artillery and Missile School, Fort Sill, Okla-homa . Greenlee is a native of Breckenridge,Texas.

Lieut. Thomas P. Hallren, '576us, Fairview,recently was graduated from the 15-week officerbasic training course at the Infantry School, FortBenning, Georgia.

Nancy Davis, '57fa, Poteau, was student solo-ist with the University of Oklahoma symphonyorchestra in January. She is a graduate studentwith a major in organ .

Lieut. Thomas J. Kennedy, '57ba, Norman,

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graduated January 29 from the 16-week armor

officer basic course at the Armor School, FortKnox, Kentucky.

Lieut. Richard J . Greer, '57eng, is stationedat Fort McClellan, Alabama, with the Air Force.He is a platoon leader in the 62nd ChemicalCompany.

Richard C. Gaworski, '576us, Sand Springs,was second high in the grade list of recent exami-nations for certified public accountants' certifi-cates. Other O. U. alumni who qualified areWilliam Edward Owens, '57bus, Oklahoma City ;James H. Mauldin, '55hus, Ponca City ; Charles G.Richmond, '556us, Norman; William R. Wilson,'56m.bus, Shawnee; Kenneth W. Anderson, '57bus, and William A. Hess, '56bus, both of Tulsa ;Howard Jim Snavely, '57bus, Anadarko, andFloyd D. Hammons, '56bus, Hugo .

Ensign John V. Bell, '576us, recently wasgraduated from Navy Officers Candidate School atNewport, Rhode Island . Bell was assigned to theNavy Supply School, Athens, Georgia.

Pvt. John W. Chadwick, '57, Tulsa, has beenassigned to the Army Signal Training regiment atFort Gordon, Georgia. He is serving as a clerk atthe signal school .

MARRIAGES : Miss Sarah Jane Cobb, '57, andEnsign James Paul Jackson, Jr ., '576a, were mar-ried December 28, 1957, in the First BaptistChurch, Durant . The couple lives in Pensacola,Florida.

Miss Marcia Ann Worsham, '57cd, andCharles R. Elkins were married November 26,1957, in the First Baptist Church, Temple, Okla-homa . They are living in Temple.

Miss Mary H. Ruark, '57, and Jack Byrum,'57, were married January 19 in the EpiscopalChurch, Vinita . The Byrums arc enrolled in theUniversity and live in Oklahoma City .

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Miss Lynn Pryse, '57ed, and Ted M. Elam,'57bus, were married in Grace Episcopal Church,Ponca City . They are living in Norman whileElam is attending the O. U. Law School .

Miss Marlene Bracksieck, '57, Maysville, andRoy Bruce Hall, '576us, Kingman, Kansas, weremarried December 22, 1957, in the First Presby-terian Church, Pauls Valley . The Halls live inPensacola, Florida, where he is a second lieu-tenant in the Marine Corps.

Miss Lenora Jane Gaasch, Cleveland, Okla-homa, and Walter Eugene Crowder, '57ms, Semi-nole, were married December 22, 1957, in theBaptist Student Center, Norman . Mrs. Crowderreceived a BS degree in science education fromCentral State College and is now enrolled at O. U.Crowder is a graduate assistant in the O. U.Zoology Department and is working toward aPhD degree in physiology .

Miss Mary Lou Zachary, '57, and Joel Ken-neth Smith, '57, both of Norman, were marriedFebruary 1 in the Wesley Collegiate Chapel . Sheis employed at Tinker Air Force Base in Okla-homa City, and he is a junior at the Universitywhere he is majoring in government and history.

Miss Margaret Kay Winterringer, '576a, andJ . B. Whitten, Jr ., '586a, both of Shawnee, weremarried December 21, 1957, in the First Presby-terian Church, Shawnee.

Miss Barbara Phillips, '57, Norman, and Win-fred Poemoceah, '576a, Indiahoma, were marriedNovember 29, 1957 . Pocmoccah is with the civilservice, working at Fort Sill, Lawton . They livein Indiahoma.

Miss Lela Brown, '57, Norman, and John J.Dunlop, '576a, Broken Bow, were married De-cember 27, 1957, in the First Church of the Naza-rene, Norman . The couple is living in Lubbock,Texas, where he is studying for his masters de-

41gree in rehabilitation counseling at Texas Tech-nological College.

Miss Patricia Sue Fleming, '57ed, and DavidJohn Hansen, '58, both of Oklahoma City, weremarried December 28, 1957, in May AvenueMethodist Church. They are living in OklahomaCity, where Mrs. Hansen is an English teacher atNorthwest Classen High School . Hansen is asenior at the University .

Miss Mary Beth McWhorter, '57, Blair, andDr . Berkley Sinclair Eichel, Hollywood, Califor-nia, were married February 8 in the PresbyterianChapel, Stillwater . Mrs. Eichel has been promo-tion director of KUVY, O. U.'s student radio sta-tion . The Eichels live in Hollywood, California .

Miss Donna Powell, '576a, Ventura, Califor-nia, and Robert Alan Kruger, Oklahoma City,were married January 11 in the First ChristianChurch, Ventura. Kruger is a former O. U. stu-(lent and a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of

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BIRTH: Roy K. Valla, Jr ., '57eng, and Mrs.Valla (the former Ruth Ann Montgomery, '56ed), Odessa, Texas, have selected the name Ken-dra Ruth for their new daughter . She was bornJanuary 13.

1958James H. LaFon, Robert A. Reid, J. Gary

Braman, Lyndal L. Cole and Marvin J . Morrison,all '586a, have received commissions in the U. S.Army . The five Norman men expect to go onduty sometime this year.

Mrs. Ruth Ahsmuhs Kraemer, '58journ, willwork in the Oklahoma State University public in-

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John C. Campbell, '58journ, is news editor ofthe Nowata Daily Star. He has been a reporterfor the Pauls Valley Daily Democrat .

Wesley Holley, '58, Oklahoma City, has re-ceived an appointment to the physics faculty ofCentral State College, Edmond . Holley is com-pleting work on a masters degree at the Univer-sity of Oklahoma .

Doyle Jennings, '586a, starting tackle forOklahoma last season, has signed a contract toplay professional football with the Montreal Clubof the Canadian League.

Frank L. Harrison, '58journ, has received acivil service job as a management trainee atTinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma City . He hasbeen news editor of News and Views, CentralState Hospital publication, Norman .

MARRIAGES : Miss Janice Lynn Spradling,'58, and Vaughn W. Brower, '536a, both ofOklahoma City, were married January 24 in theNorthwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City .Mrs. Brower is a senior nursing student in theUniversity of Oklahoma School of Nursing

Miss Emma Kathryn Kendrick, '58, OklahomaCity, and Leroy Marvin Milton, Shawnee, weremarried December 24, 1957, in the chapel of theOklahoma Medical Research Foundation . Thecouple has established a residence in OklahomaCity, where Mrs. Kendrick is a junior in the Uni-versity of Oklahoma School of Nursing and Ken-drick is a junior at the School of Medicine . Hehas a BS degree from Oklahoma State University .

Miss Donna Rae Baker, Kingfisher, Oklahoma,and Richard Herman Martin, '586us, Fort Smith,Arkansas, were married January 4 in St. JosephCatholic Church, Norman . She is a graduate ofthe St . Anthony Hospital's school of X-ray tech-

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of the Oklahoma Memorial Union, Inc .

VOTING REGULATIONS: In accordance with Article VIII, (Nominations and Elections) of the Amended Articles of In-corporation of the Board of Governors of the Oklahoma Student Union, the following nominees are candidates for membership onthe Union's Board of Trustees . Every paid member of the University of Oklahoma (Alumni) Association is entitled to vote for four(4) of the nominees . The four elected will each serve three-year terms.

IMPORTANT : Vote for only four (4) nominees . Ballots must be received on or before May 1 at the office of the Secretary,Board of Trustees, Oklahoma Memorial Union, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma . Each ballot must be signed to be valid.(Both husband and wife, if paid members, are entitled to vote . Both may use this ballot, showing a double vote, but both must sign .)

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Dr. Dean E. Wooldridge, '32ba, '33ms, has beenelected president of Thompson-Ramo-Wool-dridge Products, Inc., new subsidiary of Ramo-Wooldridge Corp ., of which he is also presi-dent . Wooldridge, former teacher of physicsat O .U ., now lives in Los Angeles, California .

nology, Oklahoma City. They live in Norman .Miss Kathryn Marrinan and J. Clark Bowling,

'58, both of Oklahoma City, were married De-cember 27, 1957, in Chandler . At present, Bowl-ing is majoring in aeronautical engineering atO. U.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Angus, '58h .ec, Lawton,and Donald Neil Sherman, '57bus, Purcell, weremarried February 8 in the First Presbyterian

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NOMINEES(Vote for 4)

Harold Belknap 0 Joe Curtis D Ben Floyd 0 Hal MuldrowNorman Pauls Valley Tulsa Norman

Herbert Branan 0 Charles Engleman Howard McBee F1 Lee B. ThompsonOklahoma City Clinton Frederick Oklahoma City

Church, Lawton. The Shermans are living inPurcell .

Miss Virginia Smith, Stillwater, and WilliamKline, '58, Pawnee, were married December 21,1957, in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Kline attendedOklahoma State University and Draughon's Busi-ness School . Kline is a senior at O. U. with amajor in accounting .

Miss Caroel Spangler, '58, Wichita Falls,Texas, and James David Iverson, '58, Tulsa, weremarried February 9 in Trinity Episcopal Church,Tulsa . The couple are making their home in Nor-man, where both are continuing their studies atthe University.

Miss Shirley Marie Newberry, '58, Tulsa, andWilliam D. Robinson, '58, Oklahoma City, weremarried December 21, 1957, in Wheeling AvenueChristian Church, Tulsa . The Robinsons are liv-ing in Norman while he is a pre-med student atO. U., and she is a junior in the College of Busi-ness Administration .

BIRTHS : Craig Nelson, '586us, and Mrs. Nel-son (the former Shirley Franks, '56journ), Nor-man, have selected the name "Tracy Anne for theirfirst child, a daughter, born December 2, 1957,in Norman . Nelson formerly worked as advertis-ing manager for Sooner Magazine.

Stephen Curtis Champlin, '58geol, and Mrs.Champlin (the former Beth Gump, '54-'56), Nor-man, have selected the name Cynthia Lynne fortheir daughter born January 7 at Norman Mu-nicipal Hospital. Cynthia weighed 6 pounds, 13ounces. They have another daughter, StephanieAnne, 1 . Champlin is studying for a master's de-gree at the University . Mrs. Champlin formerlywas employed as a secretary in the Alumni As-sociation's offices .

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