Mrs . Frank Buttram (Merle Newby, '06fa, '12ba), Oklahoma City, has been elected president ofthe Oklahoma City Kappa Alpha Theta alumnaechapter .

News was received of the death of Walter A .Davis, '10, at McKinney, Texas in January, 1941 .Mr . Davis was chief clerk with the Texas Powerand Light Company in McKinney .

Maude O. Owen, '146a, '251na, retired teacherof history at Central High School in OklahomaCity, died in Clinton, Missouri, March 15 . MissOwen resigned from the Central faculty last Junebecause of poor health, and lived in St. Louis be-fore moving to Clinton . She had taught in Okla-homa City for 25 years, coming there from Weath-erford . She was a member of Teutonia, Germanlanguage society, when she attended the Univer-sity.

Charles E . Rogers, '14ba, head of the departmentof technical journalism of Iowa State College atAmes, had an article in a recent issue of Quill, pub-lication of Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity.In the article he discusses the prospects for news-papers after the war, predicts that a new worldjournalism "will rise to satisfy the intellectualneeds of the people of the world ." Mr . Rogers wasformerly a reporter on the Tulsa World.

John N. Mabry, '19, is district attorney of thethird judicial district of Colorado, with offices inTrinidad . Mr . Mabry is a member of Sigma AlphaEpsilon fraternity and is a veteran of World WarI, having served as a major in the Artillery. Hereceived a degree at Southwestern State College inWeatherford in 1917 .

A . Rodger Denison, '21bs, '25ms, chief geologistof the Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Tulsa,was elected president of the American Associationof Petroleum Geologists at a meeting in Fort Worth,Texas early in April . He succeeded Fritz L. Aurin,'146a, '15ma, of Fort Worth . Mr . Denison, whojoined the Amerada Corporation staff first in 1922,has been chief geologist for six years . He served asvice president of the Association during the 1929-30 term . He is a member of Kappa Alpha socialfraternity, Sigma Gamma Epsilon honorary geo-logical fraternity and the American Institute ofMining and Metallurgical Engineering.

Nadine Runyan, '216a, '39ma, former NormanHigh School history teacher, has been appointed acivilian instructor at the Army Air Field at Ama-rillo, Texas.

Ray Atherton, '23ba, formerly connected withthe Office of Defense Transportation in Washing-ton, D . C ., has been appointed general managerof the American Trucking Association composedof member trucking companies in every state. Inhis previous position, Mr . Atherton served as as-sistant to Joseph B . Eastman in supervising the useof the nation's motor vehicle equipment in thewar effort.Headed for an expected long run on Broadway

was the Theater Guild's musical folk drama, Okla-homa!, adapted from Green Grow the Lilacs, aplay written several years ago by Lynn Riggs, '23,which opened late last month at St . James Theaterin New York . The original play appeared severalyears ago with Franchot Tone in the lead . Mr .

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Riggs, also the author of Russet Mantle, is now asergeant stationed at Wright Field, Ohio.

Chiefly responsible for the musical's success areRichard Rodgers, who wrote the music, OscarHammerstein, II, who wrote the lyrics and didthe adaptation from the original play, and ReubenMamoulian, who directed . Critics had especiallyhigh praise for the fidelity with which the playtreats its subject-life in Indian Territory at theturn of the century. "Thoroughly refreshing with-out being oppressively rustic," was the verdict ofTime Magazine.Lewis Nichols, writing in the New York Times,

said, "Oklahoma! is based on Lynn Rigg's sagaof the Indian Territory at the turn of the century,Green Grow the Lilacs, and, like its predecessor,it is simple and warm . . . Mr. Rodgers has turnedout waltzes, love songs, comic songs and a titlenumber which the state in question would dowell to seize as an anthem forthwith . . . Possiblyin addition to being a musical play, Oklahoma!could be called a folk operetta ; whatever it is, itis very good ."Among the numbers sung by the cast of cow-

boys, farmers and rural belles are Oh, What aBeautiful Morning, People Will Say, and The Sur-rey with the Fringe on Top.

1924'--Figuring prominently in the actions of the war-

time Congress last month was Mike Monroney, '24ba, Oklahoma's fifth district representative . Tak-ing his stand in the War Labor Board-Little Steelcontroversy, Representative Monroney, considereda liberal, urged caution on the part of John L .

In Select School

WILBURN CARTWRIGHT, '20LAWWilburn Cartwright, '201aw, former Okla-

homa congressman from McAlester, is amongover 600 handpicked civilian experts selectedto attend a special Army school at the Uni-versity of Virginia in Charlottesville . Theschool was established to train men for futureservice as advisory specialists to military gover-nors of conquered territory . Mr . Cartwright,who was a member of the House of Repre-sentatives in Washington for 16 years, holdsa commission as major .

Lewis, saying that he would do labor "a great dis-service" by calling a strike . In the House lie haspending a bill designed to make certain actions onthe part of labor leaders subject to the anti-trustlaws . An editorial in Collier's for April 10 de-scribed the measure proposed by the "young andvigorous representative from Oklahoma" as "a billwhich looks good to us ." Fulton Lewis, Jr ., nationalradio commentator speaking in Oklahoma City inMarch, said that Mr . Monroney is one of the mostrespected, intellectually honest men in Congresstoday, and praised his stand on the price ceilingquestion . He and Representative Gore of Tennesseewere leaders in the movement to freeze wages, costsand farm prices all at the same time .Mrs . W . W . Phelan, widow of a former Uni-

versity professor and mother of an alumnus, diedMarch 9 in Shawnee. The late Mr . Phelan becamepresident of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shaw-nee after leaving the faculty of the University . Mrs .Phelan's survivors include a son, Kenneth Phelan,'24ba, and his wife, the former Uarda West, '27ba,'30ma, of Shawnee .

J . E . Wimberly, father of Harrington Wimberly,'24ba, Altus publisher and former member of theUniversity Board of Regents, died April 5 in Ros-well, New Mexico . The elder Mr . Wimberly wasat one time a newspaper publisher in Hagerman,New Mexico .

-1926-G . B . (Chuck) Coryell, '26law, was appointed

county attorney of Creek County with offices inBristow. He was formerly assistant county attorney .

Belle Gough, '26ba, '31ma, former Englishteacher at Classen High School in Oklahoma City,has enrolled in training at the Air Force TechnicalSchool in Amarillo, Texas . After completing thecourse of instruction she will be assigned as aninspector in an aircraft factory .JARVIS-THOMPSON : Miss Emmalu Jarvis, '24-

'26, Poteau, and Capt. Joseph B . Thompson, '27ba,Ardmore, were married March 10 in Alexandria,Louisiana. Mrs . Thompson, a member of KappaKappa Gamma sorority, was employed as a secre-tary at the Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita,Kansas . Captain Thompson, a member of KappaSigma fraternity and former state senator, prac-ticed law in Ardmore before entering the AirForce . The couple established a home in San An-tonio, Texas, where Captain Thompson is sta-tioned .

-1927-A . D . Erdberg and Mrs . Erdberg (Helen Rubin,

'27ba), of Oklahoma City, arc the parents of ababy son, Stephen Philip, born last winter . Mrs .Erdberg is a former professional violinist, havingappeared in New York, England and on the con-tinent . Her professional name was Kazanova .

- 1928-HARBAUGH-SCHUMP : Miss Beryl Harbaugh,

'28ed, Enid, and W . M . Schump, Herington, Kan-sas, were married March 6 at Enid . Mrs. Schumptaught school at Arkansas City, Kansas, before hermarriage . Mr . Schump is associated with the RockIsland Railroad at Herington, where the coupleare at home .

Lt . (jg) Ross Morrison, '28eng, and Mrs . Morri-son have chosen the name Gertrude Ann for theirbaby daughter born recently in Oklahoma City.Lieutenant Morrison is stationed at Galveston,Texas .

Tully F. Watson, '28ba, '30ms, has resigned asprofessor of physics at Northeastern State Collegein Tahlequah to become instructor in physics forU. S. Army Engineers stationed at A . and M .College in Stillwater . Before leaving NortheasternMr. Watson instructed ground school classes ofthe Civilian Training Program there . He holdsa doctor of philosophy degree from the Universityof Illinois and joined the faculty at Northeasternin 1935 .

SOONER MAGAZINE

1929-Ted H . Maley, '29ba, has been appointed news

editor of the southwestern division of the UnitedPress with headquarters in Dallas . He has beenwith United Press since 1932 and head of the NewOrleans bureau for the last six years . In his newposition Mr . Maloy has charge of news reportsfrom bureaus in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Lou-isiana, Missouri and Colorado .Mrs . Vivian Tallant McCullough, '29ba, former

Winslow, Arizona school teacher, is editor of theRosicrucian Digest-Forum published in San Jose,California .W . W . Willard, long-time member of the staff

of the Central State Hospital at Norman and fatherof an alumnus, died March 24 in Norman . Sur-vivors include his wife and a son, Lt. Com . 1) . G .Willard, '29med, former Norman physician nowwith the Navy Medical Corps on foreign duty .

~1930Mrs . Weldon W . Hall (Dorothy Carroll, '306a)

has been elected president of the Oklahoma Citychapter of Delta Gamma alumnae .

Odics L. Primrose, '30bus, and Mrs . Primrose(Blanch Turner, '26hc) are the parents of a babydaughter, Patricia Ruth, born recently in Norman .

Robert H. Sherman, '301aw, Oklahoma Countyrepresentative in the State Legislature, has beenelected Watchman of the Shepherds of the Mizpahchapter of the White Shrine of Jerusalem in Okla-homa City .A . Lilburn Vaughan, '30bus, formerly of Jena,

Louisiana, is an oil field supply dealer at Orange,Texas .

MAY, 1943

Kenneth P . Greer, '31ph .c, is a representativeof the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Company in Cle-burne, Texas .A serious shortage of lawyers in the event of a

long war was predicted recently by Elden S .Magaw, '311aw, administrator of the Temple Uni-versity School of Law in Philadelphia . Chief causefor the prospective shortage, Mr . Magaw said, isthe drop in enrollment in the country's 110 lawschools, which had 28,714 students in 1938, only7,887 in 1942 .Mrs . Ben T. Fleming (Alice Polk, '31fa, '32ed),

Norman, won third in the water color division ofthe Southwestern Art Association midwinter showat Tulsa. Her winning picture was "Victor GoldMine," a Colorado mining scene.

Robert R . Rogers, Jr ., '31bus, formerly of Kan-sas City, Missouri, is with the ]Federal Bureau ofInvestigation in Miami, Florida .

Lt . Richard E . Swan, '31eng, '40m.eng, andMrs . Swan (Geneva Taliaferro, '34ba) have chosenthe name Marilyn for their baby daughter bornrecently in New Orleans . Lieutenant Swan is sta-tioned there with the Navy .

-1932-Lee Bond, '32bs, and Mrs. Bond have chosen

the name Sonja Jean for their baby daughter bornFebruary 14 in Oklahoma City . Their other daugh-ter is named Bonnye Ann . Mr . Bond is managerof the United Press bureau in Oklahoma City .

John H. Burns, '32ba, Pauls Valley, member ofthe American diplomatic corps, has been trans-ferred from the embassy in Juarez, Mexico to Para,Brazil . Mr . Burns was at one time on the staffof Congressman Mike Monroney, '24ba, in Wash-ington, D . C .

Bruce Carter, '32ma, was named president ofNortheastern Oklahoma Junior College at Miamiin March, his appointment to take effect irrunedi-ately . Mr . Carter was formerly assistant regionaldirector of the National Youth Administration forOklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas . Be-fore joining the staff of the N.Y.A . he taught schoolin Wewoka.STEGALL-GRISSO : Miss Illawynne Stegall and

Lt . Kermit A . Grisso, '29-'32, both of Seminole'were married March 13 . Mrs. Grisso attended Okla-homa A. and M . College at Stillwater . LieutenantGrisso, who received his commission in the FieldArtillery at Fort Sill in March, was assigned toCamp Gruber .

Newsmen's Choice

Mrs . Ivan Yeaton, the former Alice MaurineMarch ; '32fa, of Lawton, is mentioned by Alice-Leone Moats in her new book, Blind Date withMars, which describes her experiences in Russiaas a magazine correspondent. Miss Moats met Mrs.Yeaton and her husband in Moscow, where ColonelYcaton was a military attache at the AmericanEmbassy . He was at one time assigned to theUniversity R.O.T .C . unit. Mis s Moats went to ahamburger supper at the Ycaton home, along witha group of journalists and diplomats . She describesMrs . Yeaton as "a long-legged tomboy, generous,kind-hearted, noisy and no respecter of persons ."

Mrs . Mildred Meyer Mench, '32ba, OklahomaCity, is a Red Cross psychiatrist working in hos-pitals in the combat zones with wounded Americansoldiers .

Vernon Sanford, '32ba, executive secretary ofthe Oklahoma Press Association, was appointed anew director of the tenth district of the Adver-tising Federation of America at a meeting inFort Worth late in March .WILLIAMS-VAN SICKLE : Miss Grace A . Wil-

liams, '32ba, Washington, D . C., and Pvt. DelbertS . Van Sickle, Casper, Wyoming, were marriedJanuary 29 in Washington . Mrs . Van Sickle for-merly taught school in Purcell . Private Van Sickle,who operated an oil business in Casper before heentered the Army, was stationed at Fort Meade,Maryland .

Maj . William H . Witt, '32ba, and Mrs . Witt havechosen the name Carolyn for their baby daughterborn March 3 in Chicago . Major Witt is stationedat the Army Training School there .

WALLACE ]FERRY, '07JOURNWallace Perry, '07journ, editor of the Las

Cruces Sun-News, was elected president ofthe New Mexico Press Association at the an-nual convention held in Santa Fc . He pre-viously served as vice president of the asso-ciation . Before purchasing the Sun-Newsin 1939, Mr . Perry was connected with theScripps-Howard organization at

ElPaso,

Texas, for 16 years . While attending theUniversity, he was first editor of the firststudent student newspaper, the semi-weeklyUmpire, when it was shifted from magazineto newspaper . Mr . Perry was one of thecharter members of the Gamma Phi chapterof Beta Theta Pi fraternity and was the firstalumnus member of the Board of Regents,serving from 1908 to 1910 .

~1933-R . B . (Bob) Curran, '33geo1, has been named

assistant to the president of the Carter Oil Com-pany in Tulsa . Mr . Curran joined the companyin 1933, has served as oil scout and statistician .'faking his place as head of the scouting andstatistical division of the company is R . D . Sloan,33eng, formerly in the geological department.

Capt . Murray Gordon, '331aw, and Mrs . Gor-don (Mildred Chase, '34ba) have chosen LynneMarie as the name of their baby daughter bornrecently in Oklahoma City . Captain Gordon wasstationed at Camp Bowie, Texa .s

-1934-13RER1"7 TON-CLARK : Miss Viola Jane Brereton,

'34ed, formerly of Lawton, and James L. Clark,Los Angeles, were married February 27 in LosAngeles . Mrs . Clark has been employed by theGilmer Oil Company there for several years . Mr .Clark is associated with the Aladdin Fabric Com-pany in Los Angeles, where the couple are at home .JUSTICE-CHRISTY : Miss Willard Catherine

Justice, Hartford, Alabama, and Capt . HarrisonRandolph Christy, Jr., '34, Oklahoma City, weremarried February 10 in Mexico City . Mrs . Christyis employed as a secretary with the Phillips Pe-troleum Company at Bartlesville . Captain Christyhas been on foreign duty with the Army Air Forcesince December, 1941, and was on leave in MexicoCity at the time of the marriage .A ten-page article with descriptive graph pre-

pared by Lt . Arnold Court, '34ba, former meteor-ologist with the U. S . Antarctic Service, appearedin the February issue of journal of the FranklinInstitute published at Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Thearticle, "Insolation in the Polar Atmosphere," dealswith the phenomenon of perpetual sunshine found310 miles straight up over the North Pole . Lieu-tenant Court, now stationed at the Air Force Offi-cer Training School at Miami Beach, Florida, wasconnected with the U. S . Weather Bureau at LosAngeles before entering active service.

Alberta Faucette, '341ib .sci, has resigned as li-brarian at Capitol Hill Junior High School inOklahoma City to accept a position as librarian inthe War Department in Washington, D . C .

Leslie P. Hemry, '341aw, has been elected vicepresident of the American Mutual Liability Insur-ancc Company of Boston . Member of the legalstaff of the company's executive department, hebecame assistant secretary in 1937 and assistantvice president in 1939 . In 1941 he was appointedby Governor Saltonstall of Massachusetts to serveon the Recess Commission created to revise thedeath statutes .

Wirt Peters, '341aw, Norman, who formerly waswith the U . S . Engineers contract division in White-horse, Yukon, Canada, has been transferred toBrazil .GARNER-SCOTT : Miss Fern Garner, Idabel,

and Lt. Ellis L . Scott, '34, Chandler, were marriedFebruary 22 at Will Rogers Field . Mrs . Scott is agraduate of Central State College at Edmond .Lieutenant Scott is stationed with the Signal Corpsat Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Mrs . Scottplans to join him at the end of this school year .She has been teaching at Cotteral Junior HighSchool in Guthrie.Mrs . Madge Simon, '34ba, is teaching mathe-

matics and history in Victory High School atLoveland, Oklahoma . She has two sons, Pete, 7,and Jim, 4 .

-1935-Capt. Jerome Byrd, '35eng, and Mrs . Byrd (Ann

Lee, '40ba), are the parents of a baby daughter,Virginia Ann, born recently in Oklahoma City .Captain Byrd is stationed at Fort Sill .Mrs . I-I . Cheairs (Ann Durand, '35fa), recently

of Nashville, Tennessee, is living in Tulsa whileher husband, Lieutenant Cheairs, is on duty withthe Army Air Force there .FERRY-FELLER : Miss Naomi Grace Ferry, '35

fa, '39ed, Oklahoma City, and Pfc . Claude S . Feller,Springfield, Missouri, were married March 22 inOklahoma City . Mrs . Feller, former school teacherat Sayre, is employed in the signal section at theOklahoma City Air Depot. Private Feller, who at-tended Oklahoma A . and M . College at Stillwater,

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is an aerial engineer with the Army Air Force atAlamogordo, New Mexico .FUTOR-BERRY : Announcement was made of

the engagement and approaching marriage of MissMildred Futor, '35ed, Oklahoma City, and Lt.Raphael S. Berry, Denver, Colorado . The bride-elect, an Oklahoma City teacher, is a member ofSigma Delta Tau sorority and Mortar Board . Lieu-tenant Berry, who attended the University of Den-ver, was stationed at Will Rogers Field near Okla-homa City .

Harold G . Gray, '356us, and Mrs . Gray are theparents of a baby daughter, joy Lynn, born Feb-ruary 14, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Paul B . Quillin, '35bus, died December 16,1942, at Texarkana, Arkansas . While attending theUniversity Mr. Quillin was a student assistant inthe financial office and member of Beta GammaSigma honorary business fraternity .Howard B . Ritchie, '35ed, '36ms, has been em-

ployed to teach social studies at Capitol Hill JuniorHigh School in Oklahoma City.Mrs . Catheryne C. Settle, '351ib .sci, is camp li-

brarian at Camp Hood, Texas .Herman Ziemer, '35fa, '40m .ed, of Yale, Okla-

homa, is employed in the personnel department ofthe Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, Cali-fornia . He formerly was manager of the Uni-versity bands .

-1936-William A . Dumas, '36ed, former school teach-

er at Rantoul, Illinois, is employed under the CivilService as an instructor in hydraulics at the ArmyAir Field, Amarillo, Texas .

Violet G . Epley, '361ib.sci, is employed with thehistorical branch of the Air Staff Intelligence in thePentagon Building, Arlington, Virginia . Miss Ep-ley, who lives in Washington, D . C ., formerlyworked in the offices of the Signal Corps in theWar Department.E. Paige Mullins, '366a, formerly of Mobile,

Alabama, is a draftsman with the Gulf Shipbuild-ing Corporation in Chickasaw, Alabama .

GUILD-FOSTER : Miss Mildred Guild, '37ed,'391ib .sci, and Cpl . Theodore Foster, both of Clare-more, were married there early in March . Mrs .Foster is continuing as librarian at the Will RogersMemorial Library at Claremore . Corporal Fosteris stationed at Camp Blanding, Florida .HOFFMAN-PARKS : Miss Gloria Hoffman, Val-

ley Stream, New York, and Edward H . (Mickey)Parks, '33-'37, Oklahoma City, were married Feb-ruary 27 in Athens, Georgia . Mr . Parks, a yeomanthird class in the Navy, was stationed at the Pre-flight School in Athens . He was on the' WashingtonRedskins professional football team before en-tering the service .

Roger A. Paynter, '371aw, is associated with theBeech Aircraft Company at Wichita, Kansas.SMITH-PHILLIPS : Miss Mary Elaine Smith,

Norman, and John A . Phillips, '371aw, Durant,were married April 4 at Norman . Before her mar-riage Mrs . Phillips was secretary of the UniversitySchool of Drama . Mr . Phillips, attorney at Atokabefore entering the Army, is stationed at CampRobinson, Arkansas . The couple established a homein Little Rock .PINNEY-MONROE : Miss Valeria Pinney, '37fa,

Bartlesville, and Lt. William J . Monroe, '351aw,Marietta, were married late in February in a FortSill chapel . Mrs. Monroe, a member of GammaPhi Beta sorority, was music teacher at Bartlesvillebefore her marriage. Lieutenant Monroe, formercounty attorney of Love County, is stationed at FortSill . The couple are at home in Lawton .GENTRY-ROBINSON : Miss Lee Ola Gentry,

McAlester, and Larry Robinson, '37journ, Eldorado,yeoman second class in the Navy, were marriedMarch 28 at McAlester . Mrs . Robinson is super-visor of nurses at the Military Hospital at Mc-Alester . Before entering the Navy Mr . Robinsonwas circulation manager of the Stock Yard News inOklahoma City and previously was employed onthe El Reno American. He is stationed in Mc-Alester on recruiting duty.

Lt . Lloyd E. Schilberg, '37eng, and Mrs . Schil-berg (Esther Hutcheson, '37), have chosen thename Beverley Robert for their baby son bornJanuary 19 at Fort Sill .

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Reunion in OhioAlumni in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, have

been invited to attend a dinner and reunionSaturday, May 29, at the home of Lard Lans-downe . Reservations should be made with Mrs .Ruth Goodbread Cox, '41, before May 15 . AllSooners not personally notified were asked toget in touch with Mrs . Cox . In addition to thereunion, the group will celebrate the engage-ment of Patricia Jacques, '41journ, to Lt. L. R .Gay, of Wright Field, Ohio.

TARLTON-BRIXEY : Announcement has beenmade of the engagement of Miss Blanche Tarlton,'376a, '391ib .sci, and A . M. Brixey, Jr ., '39ba, '40zool, both of Norman . The bride-elect is employedat the Carnegie Library in Oklahoma City . Mr .Brixey, a member of Phi Beta' Kappa scholasticfraternity, is a graduating senior at the UniversitySchool of Medicine in Oklahoma City. He willserve his interneship at the General Hospital inSanta Barbara, California .Mrs . George W. Lowry (Lucile Wheeler, '37ba),

is living in New Orleans, Louisiana .

-1938-Louise Allbritton, '35-'38, one of Hollywood's

more promising young blond actresses, has beenfilmed in two new pictures, It Comes Up Love, withIan Hunter and Gloria Jean, and Good Morning,judge, with Mary Beth Hughes and Dennis O'Keefe .Miss Allbritton is under contract to Universal Stu-dios.

Elizabeth Edgington, '386us, Ponca City, hasreceived an honorable discharge from the WAVESbecause of her eyesight. She was in training atSmith College in Northampton, Massachusetts .Mrs . Charles L. Rogers (Pauline Gilles, '38ed)

is employed at the Air Depot in Kansas City, Kan-sas . Her husband is a chemical engineer withPhillips Petroleum Company .HADLEY-MILLER : Miss Helen Hadley, '386a,

Oklahoma City, and Thomas W . Miller, Jr ., for-merly of Oklahoma City and Dallas, were marriedJanuary 15 in San Antonio, Texas. Before hermarriage Mrs . Miller was employed as secretaryin Washington, D . C., to Paul A . Walker, '121aw,of the Federal Communications Commission. Mr .Miller, who was associated with the United Pressbefore entering the service, expected to receive hiscommission in the Army Air Force in March .Norman. D . Lemmons, '38pharm, formerly of

Eastland, Texas, is now a druggist at Stephenville,Texas .SEEGER-MOREHEAD : Miss Aldine Seeger, San

Francisco, and Capt. Bruce Morehead, '38, Wash-ington, Oklahoma, were married last December inSan Francisco. Mrs . Morehead attended the Uni-versity of California at Berkeley . Captain More-head, who holds the Distinguished Service Crossand the Silver Star for action against the enemyin the Pacific, is now an instructor in combat flyingat Fort Van Nuys, California. He and Mrs . More-head are living in Van Nuys .Mrs. Finis Parham (Elizabeth Morris, '38he), of

Oklahoma City, has been chosen for training as aground school instructor with the Air Force atAmarillo, Texas .RAGSDALE-BARNUM : Miss Elsie Ragsdale,

'38ed, Norman, and Beuford E . Barnum, Atoka,were married February 27 at Atoka . Before hermarriage Mrs . Barnum was an employee of theUniversity Press in Norman. She also taught inGuymon Junior High School . Mr . Barnum, agraduate of Oklahoma A . and M . College at Still-water, is an instructor at the Spartan School ofAeronautics in Miami, where he and Mrs . Barnumare living .

Sue Rainbolt, '38journ, Norman, has accepteda position with the Federal Bureau of Investigationin Washington, D . C . She was formerly on thestaff of the Ponca City News .

William Haskell Rich, '38ma, instructor inmathematics and history at Eastern Oklahoma A .and M. College at Wilburton, died March 28 . Mr .

iRich's home *as at Red Oak, Oklahoma . He wasprincipal of the high school at Calera before goingto Wilburton.SHANKS-ROE : Miss Marie Shanks and Edward

O . Roe, '38eng, both of Frederick, were marriedFebruary 19 in Boston. Before her marriage Mrs .Roe was employed in the State Land Departmentoffice in Oklahoma City . Mr. Roe, a member ofthe Signal Corps, is taking a special course inelectronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology . The couple are living temporarily in Boston .Mrs . Bob Wynd, (Doris Tague, '38fa, '39m.ed),

who formerly taught school at Hobart, is directorof music and instructor in Spanish and Englishat the Chandler High School .

'RICHARDSON-WALLACE : Miss Wilma Ray

Richardson, Albany, Georgia, and Lt. William C .Wallace, '36-'38, Oklahoma City, were marriedrecently in the Air Base chapel at Savannah, Geor-gia . Lieutenant Wallace is a member of KappaSigma fraternity . He and Mrs. Wallace are livingat DeRidder, Louisiana, where he is on dutywith the Army Air Forces.Wilbur Watford, '386a, '39ma, and Mrs . Wat-

ford are the parents of a baby son born April 1at Wichita Falls, Texas . Mr. Watford is a civilianinstructor at Sheppard Field .K. J. Whittet, '386s, '40ms, formerly of Cyril,

Oklahoma, is assistant supervisor of the chemicallaboratory of the Standard Oil Company of Louisi-ana in Baton Rouge.

1939~Rudolph F . Anderson, '39ms, and Mrs . Ander-

son (Eulalee Long, '41he), are the parents of ababy daughter, Juanita, born January 16 at Mattoon,Illinois .Sam N. Bailey, '39pharm, Oklahoma City, is a

civilian instructor at the Lincoln Air Base in Lin-coln, Nebraska.

Bruce Bingham and Mrs. Bingham (PeggyCloughly, '39journ), Denver, Colorado, are par-ents of a baby daughter Sabra .

John J . Hamilton, '39ba, is working towarda doctor's degree at Southern Baptist TheologicalSeminary in Louisville, Kentucky .TALBOTT-HUGHES : Miss Elaine Talbott,

Charleston, Illinois, and Lt . Al J. Hughes, '38-'39, Tuttle, were married March 13 at Tuttle. Mrs .Hughes attended Eastern Illinois State TeachersCollege at Charleston . Lieutenant Hughes, a grad-uate of the United States Military Academy atWest Point, New York, is stationed at Fort Sillwith the Field Artillery .LANDERS-ZWAAN : Miss Margaret C . Landers,

'39m .ed, Lawton, and Henry Cornelius Zwaan,Detroit, were married March 5 at Lawton . Mrs .Zwaan is an instructor in chemistry, mathematicsand Civilian Pilot Training at Cameron College.She is a licensed pilot. Mr . Zwaan, now in thearmed forces, was formerly a portrait photographerin Detroit. He received his-education in Holland,Germany, and at the University of Dijon in France.

Robert L . Lindsey, '39ba, and Mrs . Lindsey arethe parents of a baby son, David Lisle, born re-cently in Louisville, Kentucky .SMITH-NORTHCUTT : Miss Omega Smith and

Lt . Carol R . Northcutt, '38-'39, both of Lexington,were married March 20 at Mission, Texas. Mrs .Northcutt was formerly employed with the BellTelephone Company in Lawton . Lieutenant North-cutt received his commission in the Army AirForces several days before his marriage.VOGEL-O'DOR : Miss Elizabeth Charlotte Vogel,

Chicago, and Pvt. Charles O'Dor, '38-'39, Alma,Oklahoma, were married February 13 in Chicago .Mrs . O'Dor, a native of Austria, was educated inVienna and England . She is employed with theAmerican Optical Company in Chicago wherePrivate O'Dor was stationed at the Army Air ForceTechnical Training Center .

Elizabeth Patton, '39fa, has been appointed rep-resentative of the National Advisory Committeefor Aeronautics on the United States Civil ServiceBoard at Fort Monroe, Virginia . Miss Patton wasformerly on the N.A .C.A . board at Langley Field,Virginia. Before going into government aviationwork she taught school in Erick and Hobart.PICKARD-BARKER : Miss Addie Lee Pickard,

'39journ, and Lt. Norman M. Barker, '40, both ofNorman, were married March 9 in Atlanta, Geor-

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gia . Mrs . Barker formerly was employed at theUniversity Press . Until recently she was connectedwith Douglas Aircraft Company . Lieutenant Barkerwas stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, with aParatroop unit. He and Mrs . Barker established ahome near there.TATE-SHOCKLEY : Miss Iris Tate, Southern

Pines, North Carolina, and Lt . Thomas E. Shock-ley, '36-'39, Wilburton, were married February20 in Cheraw, South Carolina . Mrs . Shockley at-tended North Carolina Teachers College in Ashe-ville . Lieutenant Shockley is stationed at FortBragg, North Carolina, near Southern Pines, wherethe couple are living. He is assistant communica-tions officer with a Parachute battalion .SOBOL-LEAMAN : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Gussie May Sobol,'396a, of Seminole and Oklahoma City, to Sgt.Max Leaman, Crane, Texas . No date was an-nounced for the wedding . Miss Sobol is secretaryto the chairman of the State Highway Commissionin Oklahoma City . Sergeant Leaman, who receivedhis education at the University of Texas in Austin,was stationed at the Army Flying School at Mid-land, Texas .REYNOLDS-SUNAFRANK : Miss Mary Jane

Reynolds, Tulsa, and William O . Sunafrank, '38-'39, Oklahoma City, were married recently in LasVegas, Nevada. Mr . Sunafrank is a member ofSigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity . The couple estab-lished a home in Tulsa, where he is associatedwith the Douglas Aircraft Company.Lt. Raymond Carter and Mrs . Carter (Martha

Trosper, '39ed) are the parents of a baby daugh-ter Carolyn born February 23 in Oklahoma City.Lieutenant Carter was assigned to Tucson, Arizona.

Vivian Ruth Vanderpool, '39ed, Norman, is em-ployed in the Office of War Information in Wash-ington, D . C .

George Wilhelm, '36-'39, and Mrs. Wilhelm arethe parents of a baby son born recently in LosAngeles . Mr. Wilhelm played center and guardon Sooner football teams in '37, '38 and '39 .SUTER-WILSON : Miss Amy Aldis Suter, Bos-

ton, and Ensign William E . Wilson, Jr ., '39bus,were married March 8 in Philadelphia. Mrs . Wil-son is a graduate of Ashley Hall in Charleston,South Carolina . Ensign Wilson, a member ofDelta Chi fraternity, was employed by the Stand-ard Oil Company in Barcelona, Venezuela prior tohis entrance into the Navy .

Capt. Jacob W . Zadik, '39geo1, and Mrs . Zadik(Sarah Anne Fox, '36) are parents of a babydaughter Susan born March 27 at Muskogee . Cap-tain Zadik is stationed at Camp Gruber.

BELCHER-BROWN : Miss Myra Lael Belcher,'40ed, Norman, and Homer B . Brown, Durant,were married March 5 at Norman . Mrs . Brownis employed as registrar at Classen High School inOklahoma City. Mr. Brown, who recently returnedfrom Northwest Territory, Canada, where he wasemployed as a petroleum engineer, will graduatethis month from the University with a degree inpetroleum engineering. He holds a reserve com-

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mission in the Army, and will go on active dutysoon after graduation .

Betty Coleman, '40phys .ed, former OklahomaCity teacher, is in North Africa as a Red Crossrecreational director with American troops .

Patricia J . Connor, '40ed, formerly of WichitaFalls, Texas, is in New York City studying musicand working as an airline reservationist .BARNHART-CRIDLAND : Miss Jean Barnhart,

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and Lt . Willard L . Crid-land, Jr ., '39-'40, Nowata, were married February27 at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Mrs . Cridland at-tended Maryland College for Women at Luther-ville. The couple will be at home in Carlisle whileLieutenant Cridland is stationed at Carlisle Bar-racks with the Medical Administrative Corps.

William L . Delbridge, '40bus, and Mrs . Del-bridge (Joyce Watford, '38ed) are the parents ofa baby son born March 5 in Seattle, Washington .GORMAN-LOWEN : Miss Patricia Mary Gor-

man, '39-'40, Rivera, California, and Lt . CliftonG . Lowen, Pawhuska, were married March 3 atWhittier, California . Mrs . Lowen is a member ofKappa Alpha Theta sorority . Lieutenant Lowen isstationed at Fort Bliss, Texas .

J . T. Hickey, '40, Alva, was employed as amember of a petty seismic party by the CaribbeanPetroleum Company in Maracaibo, Venezuela.

William D . Johnson, '406us, formerly of Tulsa,is district accountant for Montgomery Ward andCompany in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania,with headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia.KILFOY-GABLE : Miss Mary Ellen Kilfoy, '40,

and Tom P . Gable, '41ba, both of Oklahoma City,were married there recently . Mrs . Gable is em-ployed at the University School of Medicine inOklahoma City . Mr. Gable, a member of SigmaAlpha Epsilon fraternity, expects to graduate fromMedical School this month . He plans to take hisinterneship at San Diego County Hospital in Cali-fornia .SLOAN-LEACH : Miss Carolyn Sloan, Jeannette,

Pennsylvania, and Capt. Lendol B . Leach, '40eng,Oklahoma City, were married April 15 in Jean-nette . Mrs . Leach, a member of Pi Beta Phi soror-ity, attended the University of Kansas at Law-rence . Captain Leach is a member of Sigma Nufraternity . He is- assigned to the Office of Chiefof Ordnance in Washington, D. C ., where thecouple established a home.BURNS-MYERS : Miss Opal Alta Burns and Lt .

Warren G . Myers, '40, both of Norman, were mar-ried March 7 at Crewe, Virginia . Before her mar-riage Mrs. Myers was employed by the South-western Bell Telephone Company in Norman .Lieutenant Myers was stationed at Camp Pickett,Virginia .

Capt . Eldon Rogers, '40eng, and Mrs . Rogers(Maribeth Smith, '41ba) are the parents of a babydaughter, Janice Lee . While Captain Rogers is inforeign service, his wife lives with her parentsin Tulsa .MORSE-TIPPITT : Miss Ann Morse, Denver,

and Capt. John H . Tippitt, '401aw, Marietta, weremarried February 27 at Westwood, California .Mrs . Tippit attended Randall School in Denver,

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-1941-John J . Andrews, '41eng, is employed with the

architectural and engineering firm, H . E. BeysterCorporation, in Detroit. He was until recentlyworking at a U . S. Army base in Newfoundland .

Lt. Clyde W . Beson, Jr ., '41eng, and Mrs . Beson(Mary Virginia Lindsey, '41fa) are the parents ofa baby son, Clyde W . Beson III, born recently atNorman . Lieutenant Beson was stationed at Charles-ton, South Carolina .Mrs . Winifred T . Blanchard, '41ed, is head of

the war bonds and insurance department of thepersonnel office at the Borden General Hospitalin Chickasha.

Joe A . Callaway, '41fa, director of radio educa-tion at Michigan State College in East Lansing,was in New York last month as a guest of theRadio Directors' Guild to attend broadcasts andconfer with radio officials . While there he talkedwith Norman Corwin, radio dramatist, about pro-ducing a series of his programs over the MichiganState radio station.THOMAS - DAUGHTREY :

Miss Mary LeeThomas and Lt. Buddy Rex Daughtrey, '40-'41,both of Oklahoma City, were married March 25at Turner Field, Albany, Georgia . Mrs . Daughtrey,who attended Oklahoma City University, was em-ployed at the Douglas Aircraft plant in OklahomaCity before her marriage. Lieutenant Daughtreywas assigned to Turner Field as an instructor .Mrs . Inez Dukes, '41m.ed, former English teach-

er at Putnam High School, was taking a coursein inspection training in Stillwater, preparatoryto becoming an inspector at the Douglas Aircraftplant in Oklahoma City .POOLE-HALIBURTON : Miss Bernice Poole

and Pfc. John A . Haliburton, '41ba, both of Allen,were married February 18 at Ada . Mrs . Haliburtonteaches school in Holdenville. Private Haliburtonwas stationed at Sheppard Field, Texas .RODKEY-HALL : Miss Alice Joyce Rodkey, Alva,

and Jack Lee Hall, '41fa, Norman, were marriedFebruary 27 in Oklahoma City . Mrs . Hall attendedNorthwestern State College at Alva . The couplehave established a home in Ponca City, where Mr .Hall is an announcer with radio station WBBZ .LOSEY-HAMMOND : Miss Dorothy Ann Losey,

Independence, Kansas, and Robert W. Hammond,'39-'41, Purcell, were married March 10 at Purcell .Mrs . Hammond is a senior student in Kansas StateTeachers College in Emporia . Mr . Hammond isa member of the Coast Guard stationed at StatenIsland, New York City.

Rexina Hempler, '411ib .sci, Cameron, is incharge of the post library at the Enid Army FlyingSchool . She was formerly county librarian of Gar-field County in Enid .Myron L . Johnson, '41m.fa, has resigned as in-

strumental music teacher at Capitol Hill JuniorHigh School in Oklahoma City to become aninstructor at the Amarillo Air School in Amarillo,Texas .CURRY-JONES : Miss Reba Jo Curry, Altus, and

U . V. Jones, II, '41law, Hobart, were marriedApril 11 at Altus . Mrs . Jones is a graduate of AltusJunior College. Mr . Jones was recently appointedcounty attorney of Kiowa County, with offices inHobart, where the couple are living.JORDAN-OTTAWAY : Miss Ruth Jordan, '40-

'41, Oklahoma City, and Lt. Harold E . Ottaway,'40-'41, Tyrone, were married , February 14 atPampa, Texas . Before her marriage Mrs . Ottawaywas employed by the Southwestern Bell TelephoneCompany in Oklahoma City. Lieutenant Ottawayis stationed at Pampa, where the couple are athome .Mrs . Floyd H . Keller (Lepha Beebe, '416a) has

moved from Topeka, Kansas, to Denison, Texas,where she is employed in the U . S . Engineer Office .Her husband, Lieutenant Keller, '39pharm, is onforeign service .

Jeanne Miller, '41he, is employed in the homeservice department of the Wyandotte County GasCompany with offices in Kansas City.

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Ensign William B . Morrison, '41journ, and Mrs .Morrison (Kay Dudley, '39-'41) are the parentsof a baby son born February 12 at Pensacola, Flori-da . Ensign Morrison was oil and sports editor ofthe Daily Ardmoreite at Ardmore before he joinedthe Navy .WALLACE-PHILLIPS : Miss Martha Wallace,

Dustin, Oklahoma, and Lt. Robert R . Phillips, '41,Weleetka and Oklahoma City, were married March6 in Washington, D . C . Mrs. Phillips attended Cen-tral State College at Edmond . Lieutenant Phillipswas stationed at Quantico, Virginia, with the Ma-rine Corps .RUSSELL-MARSTON : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Sally Ben Rus-sell, '40-'41, Oklahoma City, to Lt. Hunter S.Marston, Jr ., of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, andNew York City . The wedding was set for latespring. Miss Russell, who attended Smith Collegeat Northampton, Massachusetts as well as theUniversity, is a member of Kappa Alpha Thetasorority . Lieutenant Marston, now stationed atFort Jackson, South Carolina, attended PhillipsAcademy at Andover, Massachusetts and PrincetonUniversity .REARDON-SCHROCK : Miss Jeanne Louise

Reardon, Oklahoma City, and Jess Schrock, '39-'41,Wichita, Kansas, were married March 20. in Okla-homa City . Mrs . Schrock was a senior in theUniversity College of Business Administration . Mr .Schrock is associated with the Boeing AircraftCompany in Wichita .VOLLMER-SHOOP : Miss Louise Vollmer, Dal-

las, and Lt. Glen P. Shoop, '38-'41, Hydro, weremarried March 19 in Dallas . Mrs . Shoop attendedNorth Texas Agricultural College. LieutenantShoop is with the Air Transport Command at LoveField near Dallas, where the couple are living .The copy of Sooner Magazine sent each month

to the Snider family of Muskogee eventually circu-lates among scattered members in Oklahoma, Ala-bama and Texas . The parents, Mr. and Mrs . F .P. Snider, send the magazine from Muskogee totheir son Ferd Snider, '41eng, in Mount Vernon,Alabama, who forwards it to his sister Mary Ade-laide Snider, '39he, in Dallas, Texas. Miss Snideris connected with the Bradford Hospital in Dallas .STEWART-HOCKMAN : Miss Loretta Mae

Stewart, '40-'41, and Sgt. Charles Nedwin Hock-man, '41-'42, both of Carnegie, were married Feb-ruary 24 in Whittier, California . Mrs . Hockmanwas employed as a secretary at the Oklahoma CityAir Depot. Sergeant Hockman, student radio an-nouncer when he attended the University, was sta-tioned with a motion picture unit at Culver City,California, awaiting transfer to foreign duty.Duane R . Weinert, '41ma, has been employed

to teach social studies at Roosevelt Junior HighSchool in Oklahoma City.

Junior K . Knee, '41soc .wk, '42ma, Lawton, isemployed as a correspondence clerk with theOffice of Price Administration in Washington,D . C .

William C . Kite, Jr ., '41ba, Oklahoma City,has been elected president of Phi Beta Pi medicalfraternity at Johns Hopkins University in Balti-more, where he is a medical student .STEELMAN-LYON : Miss Lois Ann Steelman

and Earl Lyon, Jr., '40-'41, both of OklahomaCity, were married there on January 30. Mrs .Lyon, who attended Hockaday Junior College inDallas and Oklahoma A . and M . College atStillwater, is continuing in her position with theFirst National Bank and Trust Company in Okla-homa City. Mr. Lyon had orders . to report forduty with the Army Air Force on February 6 .PACE-MOORE: Miss Bobbe Jean Pace, '41fa,

Mangum and Ensign Homer Gail Moore, '41ed,Benton, Illinois, were married December 31 atMangum . Mrs . Moore, a member of KappaKappa Gamma sorority, formerly taught schoolat Shamrock, Texas . Ensign Moore, a memberof Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, was stationedat Pensacola, Florida .

Bess Sparlin, '41m.ed, formerly of Lawton,has been appointed principal of the LindberghGrade School in Lynwood, California, where shehas taught for three years . Before going toCalifornia Miss Sparlin taught school in Lawton,Devol and Indiahoma .

POTTER-SPRADLING : Miss . Barbara Potter,West Orange, New Jersey, and Lt . John ThomasSpradling, '41ba, Oklahoma City, were marriedat Orange on January 9 . Mrs . Spradling is agraduate of Smith College at Northampton, Mas-sachusetts . Lieutenant Spradling, a member ofBeta Theta Pi fraternity, was stationed at CampShelby, Mississippi .ROMIGH-STOCKMAN : Miss Betty Bill Rom-

igh and Lt . James Stockman, '41eng, WichitaKansas were married there January 15 . Mrs . Stock-man, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, attendedNorthwestern University. Lieutenant Stockmanis stationed at Maxwell Field, Alabama . Thecouple are living near there in Montgomery .THOMPSON-WESTBROOKE : Miss Shari

Thompson, Warren Ohio, and Lt . Jack West-brooke, '41eng, Hugo, were married January 23in Hugo . Mrs . Westbrooke was employed bythe telephone company in Warren before hermarriage . She and Lieutenant Westbrooke areliving in Lawton while he takes a Battery Of-ficers Course at Fort Sill .Shannon Wheeler, '39-'41, formerly employed

by the Sallisaw Democrat-American, has joinedthe staff of the Weevoka Times-Democrat .

Earl F. Wilson, '41m.ed, formerly principal ofthe high school at Springdale, Washington, is aninstructor in social science at Crosby College,Crosby, Minnesota . Mrs . Wilson is the formerMildred Glass, '41 .

Rupert E. Wilson, Jr ., '411aw, recently com-pleted a job as cost engineer on the constructionof an Ordnance plant at Flagstaff, Arizona . Heis now living in San Francisco .

-1942-BALLINGER-MUSSER : Miss Jean Ballinger,

'42, Walters, and Lt. William W . Musser, '411aw,Enid, were married February 14 at Walters. Lieu-tenant Musser, a member of Alpha Tau Omegafraternity and Phi Delta Phi law fraternity, wasstationed at Fort Sill . He and Mrs . Musser estab-lished a home in Lawton .BOLLENBACH-JONES : Miss Evelyn Bollen-

bach, '40-'42, Kingfisher, and Lt. Mark Jones,'40-'42, Billings, were married March 13 in Okla-homa City . Lieutenant Jones, a member of theMarine Air Corps, was stationed at the Naval AirStation in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he andMrs . Jones established a home.Lt. John V . Bryan, '42geo1, and Mrs . Bryan

(Dorothy Lee Jones, '39-'42) have chosen JohnVictor, Jr ., as the name for their baby son bornMarch 14 at Alexandria, Louisiana. LieutenantBryan was stationed near there at Camp Claiborne .CHAMPLIN-DENNEY : Miss Eleanor Champlin,

'421etters, and Cpl . Maurice Denney, both of Law-ton, were married March 28 . Mrs . Denney is amember of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority andPhi Beta Kappa scholastic fraternity . She is em-ployed in a Lawton business office . Corporal Den-ney, who attended Cameron Junior College at Law-ton, is stationed at Drew Field, Florida with theSignal Corps .KOENINGER-CLASON : Miss Mary Jo Koen-

inger and Philip Stephen Clason, '40-'42, both ofDuncan, were married February 21 . Before hermarriage Mrs . Clason was employed as secretaryin the county agent's office in Duncan . Mr. Clasonis a civilian instructor at Mustang Field, El Reno,where the couple are at home .DANDRIDGE-MILLER : Miss Rosamonde Dand-

ridge, '42fa, and Aviation Cadet S . Herbert Miller,'37-'42, both of Norman, were married March12 at New Haven, Connecticut. Before her mar-riage Mrs. Miller was employed at the Naval AirTechnical Training Center south of Norman . Thecouple will live at New Haven while Cadet Millercompletes training as an Air Force maintenanceengineer at Yale University .ERICKSON-HERR : Miss Addie Lu Erickson,

'42he, Guthrie, and Francis V . Herr, Kankakee,Illinois, were married February 14 in Chicago .Mrs . Herr was an interne in dietetics at the MichaelReece Hospital there before her marriage. Mr .Herr, who attended Colorado University at Boul-der, is a department manager in the DuPont mu-nitions plant at Kankakee where the couple areliving .

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Mrs. Charles D . Van Dyke (Carroll Greer, '42ed)has been employed as instructor in instrumentalmusic at Capitol Hill Junior High School in Okla-homa City .HALL-HINCH : Miss Margaret Frances Hall,

'39-'42, Tulsa, and Lt. R . Verlet Hinch, '39-'40,Borger, Texas, were married March 3 at Clovis,New Mexico . Mrs . Hinch is a member of ChiOmega sorority. Lieutenant Hinch, a graduate ofthe Cal-Aero Flying Academy at Ontario, Cali-fornia, was stationed at Clovis, where the couplewere living.HUDELSON-TOEPFER: Miss Berna Deane

Hudelson, '42speech, Newkirk, and Lt. Lyle E .Toepfer, Blackwell, were married March 9 atBlackwell . At the time of her marriage Mrs . Toep-fer was teaching school at Yukon . Lieutenant Toep-fer was stationed at Camp Forrest, Tennessee .HALE-HUDSON : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Betty Jo Hale,'40-'42, and Lt . Reed O. Hudson, '426us, both ofOklahoma City . The wedding was to take placein early spring . Lieutenant Hudson is a memberof Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was stationedin California with the Army Air Force.Sam H . Johnson, Jr ., '42chem, and Mrs . John-

son (Elizabeth Mansfield, '39=42) are the parentsof a baby daughter, Mary Karen, born March 31in Vinita . Mr . Johnson is employed at the PryorOrdnance Works.LOUDEN-KILPATRICK : Announcement has

been made of the engagement of Miss FrancesLouden, Oklahoma City, to Lt. Earl (Buddy) Kil-patrick, '42bs, Clinton . No date has been set forthe wedding . The bride-elect is a senior in theUniversity College of Business Administration .Lieutenant Kilpatrick was stationed at Fort Sill .Homer V . Lale, '426us, is an accountant in the

cashier's department of the Travelers InsuranceCompany in Oklahoma City.LONGWELL-WASSAM : Miss Winifred E .

Longwell, '41-'42, Frederick, and Ensign SturgisWassam, '426a, Enid, were married February 21at Frederick. Ensign Wassam is a member of PhiKappa Psi fraternity . Commissioned an ensignin February, he was assigned to the Naval Acad-emy at Annapolis, Maryland, for additional train-ing in communications .EDWARDS-LUTTRELL : Announcement has

been made of the engagement of Miss GenevieveEdwards, Oklahoma City, to Cadet Robert T.Luttrell, '42bus, Muskogee, of the U. S . CoastGuard . The bride-elect graduated from OklahomaCollege for Women at Chickasha and did graduatework at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.She teaches speech at Stonewall Jackson JuniorHighschool in Oklahoma City . Cadet Luttrell wasin officer's training at the Coast Guard Academyin New London, Connecticut .

John Mathews, '42bs, was engaged in researchwork on arc welders at the General Electric Com-pany laboratories in Lynn, Massachusetts .

Lt . Raybourn H . Smiser, Jr., '42bus, and Mrs .Smiser (Mary Vaughn Oliver, '39-'42) are theparents of a baby daughter born recently in NewYork City . Lieutenant Smiser is a member of thesubmarine patrol of the Army Air Force.HADDAD-SHADID : Miss Madelyn Haddad,

Mangum, and Tannell Shadid, '42speech, Okla-homa City, were married March 1 at Mangum .The couple are living in Oklahoma City whereMr . Shadid is associated with the Acme GroceryStore .MAGOFFIN-SMETHERS : Miss Mima Magoffin,

McAlester, and Ensign Richard E . Smethers, '42bus, Ponca City, were married March 7 at Mc-Alester . Mrs . Smethers, a senior in the School ofjournalism, is president of Theta Sigma Phi jour-nalism sorority and former editor of the OklahomaDaily . She expects to graduate this month andjoin Ensign Smethers at his station in Bremerton,Washington . He recently received his commissionat the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Chi-cago .SWARTZ-GORDON : Miss Betty Miriam Swartz,

'42ba, Trenton, Missouri, and Ensign Norman A .Gordon, '426us, Oklahoma City, were marriedApril 4 in Kansas City, Missouri . Mrs . Gordon isa member of Sigma Delta Tau sorority . EnsignGordon, a member of Pi Lambda Phi fraternity,

received his commission recently at the Naval Re-serve Midshipmen's School in New York City .Henry O . Tuell, '42bus, Lindsay, is a member

of the United States Border Patrol stationed at Sa-sabe, Arizona .WALLACE-WHITE : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Cleo Wallace,Ardmore, and Clark White, '421aw, Durant . Thewedding was scheduled for early spring. The bride-elect, a graduate of Southeastern State College atDurant, teaches at Meadowbrook School in LoveCounty.ZIEGLER-DOUGLASS : Announcement has been

made of the engagement of Miss Mary FrancesZiegler, '41-'42, Tulsa, and Aviation Cadet DavidR . Douglass, '39-'42, Oklahoma City. No datewas set for the wedding. Cadet Douglass was intraining with the Army Air Forces at Santa Ana,California.Darwin Richardson, '42bs, and Mrs . Richardson

are the parents of a baby son, Darwin Wayne,born recently in Norman .

Vivian Saunkeah, '426us, participated in cere-monies at which Believe-It-or-Not Man RobertRipley became an honorary chief of the KiowaIndian tribe this spring in Oklahoma City . Mr .Ripley was there to address the city chapter ofthe National Aeronautics Association at a lunch-eon. Miss Saunkeah is the daughter of theKiowa tribal chieftain, who assisted in the cere-mony .STEWART-FRANKS : Miss Frances Elaine

Stewart, '42ed, Muskogee, and John S . Franks,New York City, were married December 26 inMuskogee . Mr . Franks, a senior in the Univer-sity, plans to enter- the Navy Air Corps upongraduation this spring. The couple are livingin Oklahoma City.Rev . Ross O. Ward, '39-'42, and Mrs . Ward(Ola Mae Patrick, '42ed) are living at Willow,Oklahoma .WELLS-PENCE : Miss Jeanne Marie Wells,

'38-'42, Biloxi, Mississippi, and Sgt . Earl JerryPence, '42ed, Miami, were married December 20in Biloxi . Before her marriage Mrs . Pence wasemployed at the Naval Training School southof Norman . She and Sergeant Pence are livingat Biloxi while he is stationed nearby at KeeslerField .PEROT-WILSON : Miss Sara Jo Perot, formerly

of Ada, and Lt . Kay Wilson, Jr ., '421aw, Oktaha,Oklahoma, were married January 3 in the chapelat the Enid Army Flying School . Mrs . Wilson,a graduate of East Central State College at Ada,taught school in Roy, New Mexico, before hermarriage . Lieutenant Wilson, a member of PhiDelta Phi fraternity, is on duty at the Enid base .

Earl K . Howard, '41-'42, is the author of "TheNew Glory," a short story which won the HelenKellar Literary Award and appeared in World Di-gest, a British magazine .

Richard E . James, '42eng, and William G . Hen-derson, '42eng, are employed as structural detail-ers by the American Bridge Company, Ambridge,Pennsylvania.

Lavada F . Jarboe, '42he, Norman, is a stenogra-pher at the Naval Gunnery School at Lexington.

Sam H . Johnson, '42chem, is a chemist with theDuPont Company at Pryor .ESKRIDGE-KING : Miss Patsy Eskridge, '40-

'42, and Ensign Arthur E . King, Jr., '40eng,both of Oklahoma City, were married thereDecember 21 . Mrs . King is a member of KappaAlpha Theta sorority . Ensign King, a memberof Beta Theta Pi fraternity, is on Navy duty inLos Angeles where he and Mrs . King have es-tablished a home.

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man, Grandfield, and Wiley Gilbreath, '42bus,Apache, were married December 14 in Chicago .Mr. Gilbreath, a petty officer second class inthe Navy, expected to be transferred from Chi-cago early in January .Ima Jeanne Goose, '42nurse, is doing general

duty work at Kiowa Hospital in Lawton .HALLEY-FOX : Miss Margaret Halley, '42m .

ed, Edmond, and Eugene J. Fox, '40, Yukon,were married December 24 at Edmond . Mrs .Fox was formerly a teacher in Tulsa . Mr. Fox

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is employed as a ground school instructor atCimarron Air College, near Yukon, where thecouple are at home .Mrs . Joyce Proffer Jemison, '426e, was in train-

ing as a junior student dietitian in University Hos-pital in Oklahoma City taking a streamlined warcourse shortened to six months, because of thewartime demand for dietitians .THOMPSON-JORDAN : Miss Louise Thomp-

son, Oklahoma City, and Aviation Cadet Emer-son Jordan, '39-'42, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,were married December 23 in Urbana, Illinois .Mrs. Jordan, a graduate of Oklahoma A . and M .College at Stillwater, has returned to her po-sition with the First National Bank and TrustCompany in Oklahoma City . Cadet Jordan, amember of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, was sta-tioned at Chanute Field, Illinois, and expectedto receive his commission in March .B . A . Larson, '42ba, is a flight instructor with

Southern Aviation Incorporated, in Oklahomacity .McLEOD-LEHMAN : Miss Margaret Ann Mc-

Leod and Lt . Ray T . Lehman, '426us, both ofGuthrie, were married there January 20 . Mrs.Lehman is a senior in the University and formerpresident of Mortar Board . Lieutenant Lehmanis on duty at Camp Shelby, Mississippi .

Jeanne Malloy, '41-'42, Kansas City, was at-tending a school operated by Transcontinentaland Western Air, Incorporated, training to be-come a meteorologist at one of the airline'sweather stations . Miss Malloy was a memberof Gamma Phi Beta sorority while attending theUniversity .PARNELL-PITTS : Miss Doris Parnell, Anni-

ston, Alabama, and James B . Pitts, Jr., '426a,Oklahoma City, were married there recently .Mrs . Pitts, a junior in the University, is anX-ray technician at Ellison Infirmary . Mr . Pittsexpects to enter the University School of Med-icine in June . He holds a commission as a lieu-tenant in the Reserve Corps .MILLER-DRAPER : Miss Bette Miller, '42,

Norman, and Lt . Merle S . Draper, '426us, Med-ford, were married December 20 at Norman .Mrs . Draper was a student in the University atthe time of her marriage . Lieutenant Draperwas stationed at the Quartermaster TrainingPool at Fort Sam Houston, Texas . The coupleestablished a home near there in San Antonio .

Rosa Scaramucci, '42fa, is employed as a pro-duction illustrator by the Boeing Aircraft Com-pany in Wichita, Kansas.

Frances Sheedy, '42fa, Norman, has been em-ployed as artist at the Douglas Aircraft plantnear Oklahoma City.Mrs . Mac Bradley (Joyce Thompson, '42journ)

has been employed as an airplane mechanic atDeming, New Mexico . She was formerly onthe advertising staff of the Guymon Herald .WALTON-TABS : Miss Luverne Walton, '42,

Enid, and Lt . Herschel Tabb, '416a, Altus, weremarried December 15 at Greenville, South Caro-lina . Mrs. Tabb was a junior in the Universityat the time of the marriage . Lieutenant Tabbis stationed at the Army Air . Base near Green-ville where the couple have established a home .

-1943-Jack L. Blanton, '43eng, Norman, is employed

as a test engineer with the Humble Oil and Re-fining Company at Baytown, Texas .BOLAND-PACE : Miss Zuleika Boland, '43ma,

and Pvt. Ray Pace, both of Caddo, were marriedMarch 7 . Mrs . Pace teaches school at Caddo. Pri-vate Pace is a member of the Army Air Forcesstationed at Strother Field, Winfield, Kansas .ROACH-THORNBROUGH : Miss Martha Nell

Roach, '43pharm, Oklahoma City, and John L .Thornbrough, '42pharm, Clinton, pharmacist'smate second class in the Coast Guard, were mar-ried March 24 in Brooklyn, New York . Mrs . Thorn-brough, a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority,was employed as a technician at St. Anthony'sHospital in Oklahoma City before her marriage .Mr . Thornbrough is stationed at Manhattan Beachin Brooklyn . The couple are living in New York .

MAY, 1943

Watch for Announcement

of the Complete 1943 Sooner

Football Schedule

With government sanction of the continuance of col-lege sports in wartime if at all possible, University athleticofficials have already made considerable progress in pre-paring the Sooner football schedule for 1943 .

Four home games are booked, some of which maybe played in Oklahoma City . Here is the present 1943 homeslate :

Oct. 2

Oklahoma Aggies .Oct. 16 Tulsa University .Oct. 30 Iowa State.Nov. 6

Kansas . _

ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

University of Oklahoma

Semieentennial

Souvenir BookletsUniversity of Oklahoma Semicentennial Souvenir Booklets,

containing twelve views of the campus, will be especially appreci-ated by Sooner alumni everywhere, particularly those far fromO. U. with the armed forces or in civilian war work .

Each booklet (four and a half by six inches) comes in anenvelope ready for mailing as a gift and can be delivered any-where in the United States, bound in white cardboard for 30 cents,each or bound in red leather for 60 cents each .

USE THIS FORMJ . C . Mayfield, ManagerUniversity Book ExchangeNorman, OklahomaPlease send me ____________ Semicentennial Souvenir Booklets . I enclose $__________for ____________ red leather booklets at 60 cents each and ________ ___ booklets boundin white cardboard at 30 cents each .

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