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May, 1961

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GALLof Alumni

Newsmakers

Phi Beta Kappas

Four University of Oklahomaalumni have been elected to member-ship in Phi Beta Kappa . The Alum-ni Office annually receives nomina-lions of outstanding graduates ofmore than 10 years who are in turnconsidered by the local Phi BetaKappa chapter for membership.

GOLDEN DAYS-These two coeds were half of a well-known team on the campus in 1937. If youcan identify them drop us a line . For February's man-behind-the-peace-pipe, turn to page 16 .

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Kenneth H. Hansen . . . . Page 18George W. Rucker . . . . Page 19Donald C . Smith . . . . . Page 20Norman Wright . . . . . Page 21

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a series of brief news stories of eventsshaping the lives of the alumni family

1900-15Horace A . Sommers, '00ph .c, is now retired

and living in Perry .C . W . Davis, '05pharm, is now in retirement

at his home in Shawnee . He and his wife havetwo daughters, three grandsons and five great-granddaughters .

S . J . Bradfield, '15med, is a general practitionerin Tulsa .DEATH: Charles Armstrong, '10ba, died

April 11 in Oakwood, Oklahoma .

1916-17«'illiam E . Corkill, '1662, is now living in

San Antonio, Texas . He retired in 1945 as anArmy colonel after his return from overseas .

Marvin S . McMurtrey, '1662, Lincoln, Ne-braska, has retired after 25 years with the U.S .Department of Agriculture . He is now workingfor the State of Nebraska making a survey of thatstate's water resources .

Fred Lyman Tibbitts, '16ba, '19ma, San LuisObispo, California, recently retired as counselingpsychologist for the Veterans Administration andis now employed at the California State Polytech-nic College as a counselor . He and his wife, Lucile,'2462, recently took a seven month tour aroundthe world .T. D . D . Quaid, '1762, '21ma, '37ph.d, is now

retired and living in Enid . Before his retirementhe had taught school for 57 years .

1920-21Joseph H. Benton, '2062, '21fa, '41ma, will

onrtprte 21 years as a vocal music professor atO.U . in June. He was recently made a fellow inthe American Institute of Vocal Pedagogy, a highechelon in the National Association of the Teach-ers of Singing .

That Ruf Nek with Edd Riddle's pad-dle in the February Sooner is really LewisThompson, '48 . In February, 1947, Thomp-son smoked the ceremonial tomahawkpeacepipe which the Ruf Neks receivedfrom the University of Missouri's MysticSeven pep club . The pipe was a prize forthe Sooner victory over the Tigers at theHomecoming game in 1946.

Thompson, then a sophomore in artsand sciences, was originally from Sacra-mento, California . He served as presidentof the Ruf Neks and editor of O.U.'s latehumor magazine The Covered Wagon. In1947 he married Ellen Cain, and theymoved to San Francisco, California, tocontinue their studies at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley . Thompson workedwith an advertising agency there . Heserved in World War If .

Lee Laird, '2062, has retired after 40 yearswith Standard Oil Company of San Francisco,California . He and his wife (Zclva Compton),both natives of Texas, now live in Dallas .

Ulrich Rische Beeson, '2162, '25ma, and Mrs .Beeson now live in Little Rock, Arkansas . Theyhave a son, Dr . Charles R. Beeson, a heart special-ist in Albuquerque, New Mexico . At O.U . Beesontaught several courses under Dr . W . W . Phelan,then head of the department of education andpsychology.

Louis G . Hurst, '2162, has retired from hisbusiness and is living in Chandler .

Reverend John K . Montgomery, '2162, present-ly pastor of the First Methodist Church in North-ampton, Massachusetts, is in his 39th year as aMethodist minister . His wife is the former PearlSchafer, '19, and they have three children .

1923-25Clarel B . Mapes, '2362, '26eng, has given up

his position of general secretary and treasurer ofthe General Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Associa-tion because of illness. He has been with Mid-Continent for 35 years and was one of the com-pany's early leaders . In 1954 Mapes was listed inWho's Who in Engineering. His wife is the for-mer Elizabeth Celeste Barner of Tulsa and theyhave one son, Clare] Bowman, II .

F. Bert Grubb, '24Law, '2662, Oklahoma City,is professor of law on the Oklahoma City Univer-sity law school faculty . He and his wife, Doris K .,have a son, Berton, Jr ., and a daughter, Denise .

Ann B . Cottingham, '25ba, '26ma, of Ada,will move to Tulsa June I to become a historyteacher in Will Rogers High School .

Grace Comstock Mills, '25ba, '28ma, Okla-homa City, has been rc-elected president of theOklahoma City Federation of Women's Clubs.

February's Photo ID

Lewis Thompson

DEATH : R . Jack Christy, '2l-'24, Waukomis,died April 1 following a heart attack . Christy, withhis son, Jack, Jr ., published the Oklahoma Hornetanti the Vance Air Force Base Airmoop. Christyhas also edited the Sayre Daily Headlight-Journal,Woodward Daily Press and the El Keno American,In 1949 he was editor of the Enid Events, weeklypublication of U.S . Senator Robert S . Kerr. Sur-vivors include his wife, Esther, son Jack, both ofWaukomis, and a brother, Barney of Weatherford .

1926Mahlon L . Banks, '26bs, Seattle, Washington,

is senior engineer with Boeing Airplane Com-pany's "Minute Man" missile program . His twinsons, Mahlon, Jr ., and Merwin, are now attendingthe University of Washington .

Hale V . Davis, Sr ., '26ma, Denver, Colorado,is division sales manager for Cape Coral Propertiesof Florida .

Cecil L. Hunt, '26Law, is employed as generalcounsel and a director of Service Pipe Line Com-pany in Tulsa .

Gertrude Hacker Kennedy, '26ed, OklahomaCity, recently served as president of the OklahomaArt Center and is now president of the women'scommittee of the Oklahoma City Symphony Or-chestra . She is also on the National Board ofPlanned Parenthood .

H . W . Maris, '26geol, Pecos, Texas, is retiredfrom the Gulf Oil Company and is now doingpart-time work as a surveyor for soil conservation .

Dorothy Mayes, '26fa, is teaching art in theCapitol Hill Junior High School, Oklahoma City .In addition to her degree from O.U ., she has hermaster's degree from Columbia University .

Ruby L . Smith, '2662, '38ma, has been teach-ing in El Paso, Texas, since 1947 . She teaches thesixth grade .

1927-30Lewis M . floe, '28Law, anti his wife (Melds

Howard, '3162) live in Colorado Springs, Colo-rado, where Poe is secretary of the Colorado Inter-state Gas Company . The) have a daughter whois 22 .

Robert E . Wood . '30ba, '31ma, has been namedsales engineer by the De Laval Separator Com-pany of Poughkcepsie, New York, for its Denverdistrict . His previous experience includes sales tothe oil and related industries in the Rocky Moun-tain area .

MARRIAGE : Lois Nethery, '27fa, '41ma, '45Lib .sci, and John H. Gallegly were married No-vrmb-r 25 in Tucumcari, New Mexico . Mr . andMrs . Gallegly make their home in Artesia, NewMexico, where Mrs . Gallegly is in her 16th year asArtesia High School librarian .

1931Louise furl%, '31ba, '50m.ed, is the journalism

teacher in the new Waltrip Senior High School,Houston, Texas . Mrs. Early, formerly journalismteacher at John H . Reagan High School, Houston,was recently elected faculty adviser to the GulfCoast High School Press Association . Her daugh-ter, Sharley Early, is studying professional psychi-atric-nursing at John S,-21y Hospital, Galveston,Texas .

Benton Ferguson, '3162, president of Ferguson-Miller Associates, one of the state's largest public

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relations and advertising firms, was recently electedto a three-year term on the advisory board of theSalvation Army of Tulsa. He is also on the boardof Planned Parenthood of Tulsa.

Worth B. McCruley, '31 Law, Longview, Texas,is general counsel for Trice Production Companywhich has operations in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisi-ana, New Mexico and Colorado.

Lee B. Park, '316-, '33m.geol, since 1941 haslived in Midland, Texas, where he is an employeeof the Atlantic Refining Company. He and hiswife, Alice, have two daughters, Jane, in graduateschool at the University of Illinois, and Susan, asophomore in high school .

James N. Russell, '31eng, Arcadia, California,recently left for Germany where he is directingthe preparation and initial operation of a newpetro-chemical plant.

1932-34Samuel H. Minsky, '326a, '34Law, of Tulsa, is

now serving as secretary and general counsel forOklahoma Tire and Supply Company. He and hiswife have two daughters, ages 13 and 19 .

Sidney M. Wolf, '32Law, former special agentfor the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has begunhis private law practice in Hollywood, California,associated with Fink, Danoff and Thaler .

E. Jack Handley, '33eng, senior vice presidentand director of Midwestern Instruments, Incorpo-rated, Tulsa, has been appointed director of engi-neering for the company. Handley was one of thecompany's organizers in 1950 .

Edward M. Rauh, '34eng, Tulsa, is with theAmerican Machine and Foundry Company work-ing on the construction of military, missile launch-ing sites .

1936Earle E. Garrison, '366us, has resigned after 21

scars with the Oklahoma Natural Gas Companyto become president of the Great Falls, Montana,Gas Company. His oldest son, David, will gradu-ate from O.U . in June with an electrical engineer-ing degree anti his other son, Stuart, is a sopho-more at O.U .

Henry L. McConnell, '366a, '39Law, is nowliving in Tulsa.

J . Claude Whittle, '366us, formerly owner andoperator of Whittle Insurance Agency in Okla-homa City, organized the Whittle Insurance Agen-cy in 1955 in St . Petersburg, Florida. He is nowpresident of the St . Petersburg Lions Club andmanager of the highway and bridges committeeof the St . Petersburg Chamber of Commerce .

1939-40Daniel B. Pearson; '396s, '41med, is in his last

scar of study in neuro-psychiatry at the TexasMedical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He was for-merly in private practice in Perryton, Texas, from1946 until April, 1959 .

Jac Landman Goldstueker, '406us, was awardedhis doctor of philosophy degree March 16 at theUniversity of Minnesota commencement exercises .

Martin E. League, '56m.ed, and J. W. "Choc-taw" Smith, '40ed, '51m.ed, are in Drain, Ore-gon, where League is principal of the Drain HighSchool and Smith is head football coach.

Mrs. Jean Foster Reiss, '406a, '17nt.ed, is as-sistant principal at the Horton Watkins HighSchool, St . Louis. Missouri . Her daughter is ajunior at Northfield School for Girls, Northfield,Massachusetts, and her son will attend Duke Uni-versity, Durham, North Carolina, next fall .

1941Adin H. Hall, '41eng, employee in Shell Pipe

May, 1961

Bennie Schultz RetiresBenjamin F. Shultz, '18eng, '18ms,

will retire July 1 after 43 years of serviceto the University .

"Bennie" joined the O.U. faculty in1918, teaching in the electrical engineer-ing school of the College of Engineer-ing. He held this position until 1921 .He also served as a member of the petro-leum engineering school faculty from1929 to 1936 ; university electrician,1920-25 ; chief engineer, 1925-36; super-visor of light and power, 1936-43; as-sistant director of the physical plant,1943-56, and university engineer .

Bennie Shultz

During his years with the University,Shultz has masterminded several engi-neering projects which have increasedefficiency in the operation of campus fa-cilities . One of his more important con-tributions concerned boilers being usedin the power plant. Shultz came up withan air preheater for natural gas, thatcould be used without fans for inducedor forced draft. Three boilers wereequipped with this type of air preheater,resulting in the saving of thousands ofdollars in fuel bills.

Shultz and his wife (Audrey Flitch,'17ba, '18ma) have also established aperpetual scholarship fund with theUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation toprovide assistance for deserving upper-class students in mechanical engineer-ing. The Bennie and Audrey ShultzScholarship was established in 1955 .The $5,000 deposited in the fund is in-vested and the earnings used each yearto finance an award . The exact value ofthe scholarship varies each year withthe earnings, but the amount is usuallyabout $200 .Three of the Shultz children hold de-

grees from the University, Evalee ShultzHoman, '406a ; Ruth Shultz Stanley,'42ba, '43ma, and Bennie Shultz, Jr .,'53eng, '56m.eng. Another daughter,Marie Shultz Hatch, holds two degreesfrom the University of Virginia . Shultzis a member of the council on planningand development at the University, theNorman Chamber of Commerce, and isa 32nd Degree Mason.

Line Corporation's head office in Houston, Texas,was chairman of the papers sessions of the April26-28 American Petroleum Institute Annual Pipe-line Conference held in St . Louis, Missouri .

Don R. Pounds, '41m.ed, and Mrs. Pounds,now live in Enid where Pounds is in the wholesale-retail oil business . They have one son, JohnPounds, '60.

John Luke Shibley, '416s, is professor of biol-ogy and chairman of the department of science atLa Grange College, La Grange, Georgia. He at-tended a National Science Foundation institute inthe history of science at American University,Washington, D.C ., last summer . The Shibley's fourchildren are Marianna, 11 ; Joe, 10 ; Becky, 6, andSue Beth, 4.

Lt . Colonel Byron P. Spears, '41eng, Littleton,Colorado, is the U .S . Air Force ballistic missiledivision representative at The Martin Company's"Titan" plant in Denver .

Dick Stith, '416us, Wichita Falls, Texas, isnow associated with the United Fidelity Life In-surance Company.

1943-44H. Norman Chandler, '436a, '46med, is prac-

ticing pediatrics in partnership at Dallas, Texas.He is also instructor of pediatrics at SouthwesternMedical School and Children's Medical Center .

John W. Lesch, '43eng, is in his fifteenth yearwith Warkcn Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa. He ispresently sales manager in charge of domestic andindustrial sales in the liquefied petroleum gas di-vision . He and his wife, Sadie, have three chil-dren, Laurie, 13 ; Mike, 10, and John, 8.

Ted Taylor, '44, has been appointed an editorof the McGraw-Hill Book Company's college di-vision . Taylor joined McGraw-Hill as a salesmanin 1956, was made field manager in the southwestin 1959 and in 1960 became the first district man-ager of the new southwest district .

BIRTHS : James Bayouth and Mrs. Bayouth(Julia Naifeh, '44soc.wk), Wichita, Kansas, havechosen the name Kathleen Marie for their daugh-ter born December 30 . Bayouth owns the BayouthPrinting Company in Wichita. They have twoother children, Michael, 11, and Patrice, 9.

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Dr . Leonard N. Devonshire, '496s, '51ms, '54ph .d, and his wife (Peggy Cantrell, '44geol, '49m .geol) have chosen the name Eric l-owne for theirson born February 4 in St . John's Hospital, Tulsa.Dr . Devonshire is associate professor of chemistryat the University of Tulsa.

1946C. Buck Caviness, '466us, formerly with the

U .S . Treasury Department and Social Security Ad-ministration, is now self employed as an account-ant and tax consultant in Anthony, on the border.if Texas ant] New Mexico .

Ross L. Doyle, '46eng, '51eng, is now main-tenance supervisor in the toilet articles plant ofColgate-Palmolive Company, Kansas City, Kansas .He anti his wife (Jo De Doyle. '516a) have onedaughter, Ann Stuart, 2!z .

Marian Marie Montgomery, '46ba, is now liv-ing in San Francisco, California .

Huflman Walker, '466us, has accepted the po-sition of vice president of Ashmore Pontiac, In-

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phi beta kappaDr. Kenneth H. Hansen

An author, speaker and teacher hasnow become a Phi Beta Kappa mem-ber. Dr . Kenneth Harvey Hansen, '38ba, '40m.ed, director of the School ofEducation at Western State College ofColorado, Gunnison, was among thosehonored by the O.U . chapter this spring .

Hansen is the author of three bookson education - Public Education in,4mrrican Society, High School Teach-ing and Philosophy for American Edu-cation . He also is co-author of the bookElementary School .4dininistraiion .

Besides his writing Hansen has been

Dr . Kenneth H. Hansen

corporated, and General Finance Corporation inKansas City, Kansas, after resigning as assistantzone manager for the Pontiac Motor Division ifGeneral Motors Corporation in Oklahoma City .Walker became associated with General Motors in1948 after a year as special agent for the Fidelityand Deposit Company of Maryland . Walker is alsoa class representative for the O.U . Alumni Devel-opment Fund .

BIRTH : Robert 1. Filgas, '49eng, and Mrs.Filgas (Betty Elois Black. '466us), Tulsa, havechosen the name David Michael for their son bornFebruary 17 . Filgas is employed with the U. S.Corps of Engineers as a structural engineer . Thecouple has two other children, Cathy Sue, 9, andRobert, Jr ., 5 .

1947-50Julian B. Stephenson, '47m.ed, has been pro-

moted to assistant principal of the Horace Mannjunior High School, Tulsa .

Clyde Davis, '48ba, assistant news director of

a frequent speaker, consultant andworkshop leader in Colorado for layand professional organizations. He hasworked with the state public school sys-tems and foundations such as Kelloggand Ford and the American SocialHealth Association.

His professional affiliations includechairman of the state department ofeducation advisory committee on ad-ministrative certification ; he is a mem-ber of the state department advisorycommittee on accreditation, the boardof directors of the Colorado EducationAssociation, and he has served as edi-torial consultant for national book pub-lishing companies.Hansen is not only an O.U . alumnus,

but a veteran of its faculty. In 1938 heserved as a graduate assistant in educa-tion . Aftera year's teaching in the Mays-ville (Oklahoma) High School, he re-turned to O.U . in the summer of 1941to serve as a special instructor in edu-cation .

Since that time he has served as as-sociate professor of English at West-minster College, Fulton, Missouri, forthree years, visiting professor at JohnsHopkins University in the summer of1953, visiting professor at the Univer-sity of Southern California in the sum-mer of 1957 and lecturer on the inter-national teacher development programat U.S.C . from September through De-cember, 1959 .He has been on the faculty of West-

ern State College since 1949 .

KWTV, Oklahoma City, was the only state news-man chosen for a month-long tour of Europe un-der the sponsorship of the U.S . Army . Davis, oneof 18 chosen, left McGuire Air Force Base, NewJersey, April 10 for France, Germany, Italy andEngland to visit Army and Air Force installations .On his return he will report on the condition ofthe U.S . defenses in Europe over KWTV.

John E. Martin, '48m .ed, Clovis, California, isemployed as assistant professor of education atFresno State College.

Winston Weathers, '506a, '51m .fa, Universityof Tulsa English instructor, has been named re-cipient of a Danforth Foundation grant allowinghim a year's study at O.U . towards his doctor'sdegree . He was one of 65 college professors in thenation selected to receive such a grant.

DEATH : Kenneth A. Clem, '496us, died Janu-ary 18 in Norman . He had worked for Scott, Fores-man Publishing Company for 13 years. Survivorsare his wife, Pat, and son, Joe Lee, a freshman atO.U .

1951Bill M. Baird, '51geol, and Mrs. Baird (Eileen

Wegener, '44h .ec) live in Wichita Falls, Texas,where Baird is a goelogist for Fleming Oil Com-pany of Fort Worth. They have two children,Diane, 9, and Randy, 6.

Lawrence R. Bannister, 'S leng, and Mrs. Ban-nister (Margaret Trimble, '45journ) live in Floris-sant, Missouri, a suburb of St . Louis, where Ban-nister is general superintendent of undergroundgas storage for Laclede Gas Company of St . Louis.He was recently re-elected as officer and directorof the Harbor Point Yacht Club to serve as fleetcaptain of the power In)at division . The couple has

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three children,

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4, andSally Ann, 1 .

Tom Birbilis, '51eng, has opened a new officein Tulsa as a consulting engineer in mechanicaldesign . He and his wife, Dclina, have two children,Jean Marie, 5, and Ted, 3.

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Ann Carlson,

'51 fa,

'56n%xd,

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teachingvocal music at Kerr Junior High School in Okla-homa City . She is also director of the Tinker chapelchoir and sings with a band .

William E. Clark, '516us, Ardmore, was re-cently named district landlnan for the Sun OilCompany.

Lloyd E. Cole, Jr ., '511-aw, Stilwell, recentlycompleted a three-year term on the executive coun-cil of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

William O. Coleman, Jr ., '516us, OverlandPark, Kansas, is division sales manager for theClorox Company, a subsidiary of Procter and Gam-ble. His wife is the former Mildred Wade, gradu-ate of Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tex-as . They have four sons .

Mary Ellen Glines, '51fa, is now living in Mc-Lean, Virginia, while her husband, Lt . Col. C. V.Glints, '52bus, '54ma, is stationed at the Pentagonin Washington, D.C .

P. R. Godshalk, '51eng, Fulton, Texas, hasbeen made superintendent of the Tennessee GasCompany's K. G. Pearche processing plant locatedon Copona Bay near Corpus Christi, Texas.

Sumner W. Kesselman, '51bus, Stoughton.Massachusetts, is assistant manager of the RhodeIsland branch of the Grossman I-umber Company.His two sons arc ages I 1 and 7.

George A. Krahn, '51eng, is employed byStandard Oil Company of Texas. He makes hishome in Corpus Christi .

NeaI W. Mercer, '51eng, is area safety engi-neer for Humble Oil and Refining Company inHouston, Texas. He and his wife have three chil-dren .

Roy Rehm, '516us, and Mrs. Rehm (WylmaAnderson, '54ed) have recently moved from Den-ver, Colorado, to Dallas, Texas, where Rehm ismanager of the Charles Bruning Company's Dal-las operations . He had been with Bruning for fiveyears in Denver- The Rehms' have four children,Gary, 9; Bob, 7; Mary, 5, and Carolyn, 3.

Kenneth D. Roberson, '51eng, Tulsa, was re-cently appointed director of quality control analy-sis for American Airlines . He has been with Ameri-can since 1954 in their industrial engineering andquality control departments. He is married to theformer Mary Jo Cloud, '51ed, and they have threechildren, Mark, 5 ; Alan, 4, and Dana, 2.

Lloyd E. Speulda, '516us, was recently pro-moted to assistant to the chief accountant of the(Dwell division of the Dow Chemical Company,Tulsa.

C. Pleas Stringer, '516s, '53geol, '56ms, for-merly with Pure Oil Company, is now a consult-ing geologist in Denver. His wife is the formerNancy Jo Tomlinson, '52h .ec. They have threesons, Jeff, 6 ; Dan, 4, and Curt, 2.

Laurence J . Webb, '516us, is the owner andoperator of "The YVebb" shoe store in Norman .

BIRTH: A. 1 . Hankinson, Jr ., '51cng, and Mrs.Hankinson (Caroline Robison) are the parents ofa daughter, Laura Kay, born July 13, 1960 . Theyhave three other children, Jim, Steve and Mike .

DEATH : Pearl Hamon Turner, '51m.ed, Okla-homa City grade school teacher, cited April I1 inthe Baptist Hospital in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Turn-er had taught 13 years at Madison School, previ-ously teaching five years at 11crronville, Survivorsinclude her husband, 1 . C- . ; a s , in, Joe, of the home ;a daughter, Mrs. Richard Ericson, Shreveport,Louisiana; a sister and two brothers .

May, 1961

phi beta kappaDr. George W. Rucker

Distinguished economist and holderof three degrees from the University ofC )klahoma, Dr . George W. Rucker hasbeen selected for membership in PhiBeta Kappa at his alma mater .Rucker, who is administrative assist-

ant to Congressman Al Ullman fromOregon, received his BA in 1951, MA

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1952George F. Dana, '52geol, '541ns, accepted the

i�h �f chief of ground water development for theState of Wyoming on November 1 . He is alsoworking on the Wyoming natural resource board .

Lee Jenkins, '52ba, '561-aw, his wife, Sylvia,'54ba, and daughter Amy, Midland, Texas, haverecently returned from a year in Buenos Aires, Ar-gentina . Jenkins is vice president and generalcounsel for White Eagle International, Inc.

William J . Rea, Jr ., '52bus, Tulsa, is in hissixth year as account executive with Merrill . Lynch,Pierce, Fenner and Smith.

A . T'. Stair, Jr., '526,, '56ph.d, and Mrs. Stair(Michclce Morgan) now live in Lexington, Massa-chusetts, %,here Stair is project scientist in thethermal radiation laboratory, geophysics researchdirectorate, of the Air Force Cambridge ResearchLalxoratories, Bedford, Massachusetts. Mr . andMrs. Stair were married January 31, 1959, andhave a son, Gilbert Taylor, lxorn May 20, 1960.

BIRTH : Jerry Smith, '52bus, and Mrs. Smith(Izclla Brindle\, '51la), Tulsa, are the parents ofa son, James Paul, born December 16 .

1953-54William 1' . Harrah, '53bus, has joined the

in 1953, and Ph.D in economics in 1960 .As a student, Rucker served in the

Student Senate, was president of theStudents for Democratic Action andwas a graduate assistant in the depart-ment of government. He was appointedresearch associate for the National As-sociation of Rural Electric Cooperatives,serving for one year, and with other staffmembers, was responsible for a publica-tion on rural electrification .He has specialized in the economics

of Pakistan and has published severalworks on this subject . He is the authorof "Functional Concepts of Resources ina Developing Economy of Pakistan,"Basic Data on the Economy of Pakistanand Workbook in Economics . His doc-toral dissertation was titled ForwardTrading on the Karachi Stock Ex-change .

In September of 1957, Rucker wasappointed a member of the economicsdepartment at the University of Penn-sylvania . He served in the Pennsylvania-sponsored program at the University ofKarachi, Pakistan, under the auspices ofthe International Cooperation Admin-istration . During the years 1957-59 hewas adviser in economics at the Univer-sity of Karachi with the Institute ofPublic and Business Administration .

Wichita Falls, Texas, stag of Merrill Lynch, Pierce,Fenner and Smith, Incorporated . He was tormer-ly order credit manager for Ralston-Purina Milkin Sioux City, Iowa . He and his wife (JoanneYoungblood, '53fa) and son, Casey, have estab-lished a home in Wichita Falls.

Thomas L. Wolfe, '53I .aw, '54ma, has becomea member oif the firm of Shutts, Bowen, Simmons,Prevatt and Boureau, attorneys and counselors atlaw in Miami, Florida.

Robert Lewis Kramer, '536s, '56ined, is in theprivate practice of ophthalmology in Tulsa . IIchas been on the University of Oklahoma nx-dic-ilschool faculty as a clinical assistant in ophthalmol-ogy. He anti his wife (Nortna Mattox,'526a) havetwo children, Kimberly anti Matthew David.

BIRTH : C. Taylor Yoakam, '54bus, and h:swife, Joni, have announced the birth of their firstchild, a girl, Teri Michele, NIrn February 5 . Thryare now living in Amarillo, Texas, where Yoak ::mis a lamltnan with Cities Service Petroleum .

DEATH : Peter F. Vessels, father of Billy Ves-sels, '54ed, former O.U . football player, diedMarch 30 in his Oklahoma City home . tic was aretired employee of Tinker Air Force Base . Sur-vivors are his wife (Veo Turner), three sons, twosisters, and his mother, Mrs. Flora Shipman.

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19551.. . John Eagleton, '556us, '56Law, Metairie .

I-uisiana, with the office of regional counsel, In-ternal Revenue Service since 1957, was recentlytransferred to New Orleans, Louisiana, to handletrial work before the tax court of the United States .

John C. Kinard, '55geol, '56nts, Billings, Mon-tana, has resigned as geologist for Phillips Petro-leum Company and has opened consulting officesin Billings.

MARRIAGE : Irene Elizabeth Brown of Tulsaand Edward L. Apple, '55bus, were marriedMarch 20 . Apple is now managing the GoldenDrumstick Restaurant in Tulsa in partnership withhis father, L. W. Apple.

BIRTH : Rufus V. Schmidt, '556us, and KayBundy Schmidt, Houston, Texas, have chosen thename, Carl Bundy, for their son born December 23 .Schmidt is an accountant with Tenneco Oil Com-pany, Houston, a subsidiary of Tennessee GasTransmission Company.

1956I-e Roy Anderson, '56bus, Wayne, New Jet-

is now a staff accountant in New York Cityfor the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey .

-Dr. W. Kermit Baker, '56bs, '60med, is finish-

ing his internship at the University of Kansas

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Dr . Donald Charles Smith, '40ms,'48ph.d, author of more than 30 scien-tific papers in his specialty, physics andchemistry research, has been selected formembership by the Phi Beta Kappachapter at O.U.

Smith is assistant director of researchin Phillips Petroleum Company's re-search and development department,

Dr . Donald C. Smith

Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, and will be-gin his residency in general surgery July l at theMissouri University Medical Center . He and hiswife, Coralie, have two daughters, Beth, 6, andKathy, 21 months .

Jack H. Greer, '56eng, after receiving his dis-charge from the Air Force, has moved to Enidwhere he is an engineer with the SchlumbergerWell Surveying Corporation.

Robert R. Hillis, '56bs, '59med, is doing ob-stetrics and gynecology residency at the HillcrestMedical Center in Tulsa. He and Mrs. Hillis havea seven-month-old son.

Frank A. Iddings, '56ms, '59ph.d, is presentlyin charge of the radioisotope laboratory at EssoLaboratories (Humble Oil and Refining Com-pany), Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr . and Mrs.Iddings have two daughters, the youngest, Valerie,is 16 months old .

David Love and Mrs. Love (Paula Hargraves,'56journ) live in Tulsa. They have one daughter,Lauren, whowas born September 13 .

Richard J. McKown, '566us, is working on hismaster of business administration degree at theUniversity of Washington, Seattle, Washington .W. Stanley Muenzler, '56bs, '60med, and Mrs.

Muenzler (Virginia Nelson, '56bs) now live inEvanston, Illinois, where Muenzler is interning at

Dr. Donald C. SmithBartlesville . He joined Phillips in 1951as physics branch manager in that de-partment, and was named to his presentposition in 1959 .A native of Leipsic, Ohio, he received

his BS from Muskingum College, NewConcord, Ohio . After earning his mas-ter's at O.U., Smith was employed bythe physics department of the Univer-sity on an industrial research projectwhich involved the initiation of infra-red spectroscopy work in the state. Itwas work such as this which stimulatedthe later establishment of the Univer-sity of Oklahoma Research Institute.During World War II, Smith was

employed by the Naval Research Lab-oratory in Washington, D. C., as a ci-vilian scientist in charge of spectroscopicresearch in the chemistry division .He is currently vice president of the

O.U . Research Institute and an alter-nate member of the American Petro-leum Institute's advisory committee forresearch on occurrence and recovery ofpetroleum . He is a member of theAmerican Chemical Society, AmericanPhysical Society, American Optical So-ciety, Sigma Xi, Coblentz Society andan associate member of the A.P .I .'sAtomic Industrial Forum.

Smith and his wife (Ruth CarolynIrby, '39hs, '41ms) have four children .

a Nortliwcstern University Medical Center Hos-pital . He will begin his residency in ophthalmologyon July 1 . The couple has one daughter, LynnMarie, 4 .

Marvin B. Porter, '56gcol, '57eng, formerly apetroleum engineer with Pan American PetroleumCorporation in Sweeny, Texas, is now district gaslift engineer with the Otis Engineering Corpora-tion of Victoria, Texas.

Charles Howard Skeen, '56ph .d, Canoga Park,California, has for the past year been supervisor ofthe subcritical experiments unit of the experimen-tal physics group of Atomcs International .

Dr. Richard A . Storts, '566a, '59med, is nowin orthopedic residency at University Hospital inOklahoma City . He will complete his first year onJuly 1 . He and his wife Shirley have two children,Ricky, 5, and Cheryl, 4.

Wayman J. Thompson, Jr ., '566s, '60med, isserving his internship at Highland-Alameda Coun-ty Hospital in Oakland, California . After com-pleting his internship in June, he will go on activeduty with the Navy .

Nancy Carolyn Hayes, '56geol, is a geologistassistant for Shell Oil Company in Oklahoma City .

James Litton, Jr ., '56bs, an engineer in thetraveling-wave development department of SperryGyroscope Company, Great Neck, New York, isthe co-author of the paper "Characteristic Featuresof a Broad Band Beam Parametric Amplifier." Herecently presented the paper at the symposium onthe application of low-noise receivers to radar andallied equipment held at the Massachusetts Instituteof Technology's Lincoln Laboratory .

MARRIAGES : Wanda Joyce George, '56ed,'S8m .ed, and Harold Farwell, Chicago, Illinois,were married February 10 in the First ChristianChurch, Des Moines, Iowa . Their home is in Des

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Moines where they both teach at ()rake University .Nancy Jane Steffens . Oklahoma City, and bar-

rel John Huddlcston, '56, Muskogee, were mar-ried April 7 in Sharp Manorial Chapel, Tulsa .Their home is in Tulsa .

BIRTHS : Dr . Hal Bclknap an l Nit . . Bclknap(Ann Boyle, '56h .ec, Oklahoma ( :its ) are the par-ents of a (laughter, Jamie Lucille, born February17 . Dr . Bclknap, graduate of Tulane MedicalSchool, New Orleans, is interning in Nashville .Tennessee, but in September will enter internalmedicine residency- at Fitzsimmons Hospital, Den-ver, Colorado .

Jerry L. Cross, '56bus, and Mrs. Cross (MontaSmith, '55ed) are the parents of a daughter, LauriAnne, born December 8. They live in Tulsa since:Cross' transfer from Oklahoma City to be salesmanager for Gardner-Denver Company. Theirother daughter is Suzanne, 3.

Michael Livingston Green, '54journ, and Elea-nor Green, '56, are the parents of a son, RobertSherman. born December 5. They have a daugh-ter, Anne Victoria, 2!'z .

Thomas E. Hartman, '57eng, '58ms, and Mrs.Hartman (Elinor Bynum, '56cd) announce thebirth (if a son, Timothy Elton, born January 8.They have a (laughter, Jennifer, 2V2 . Hartman isa physicist for the research department of TexasInstruments, Incorporated .

Delbert J . Metheny, '56bus, and Mrs. Metheny,Artesia, New Mexico, are the parents of a daugh-ter, Diana Lee, born March 10 .

George M . Parker, '50bus, and Mrs. Parker(Jane Hamilton, '56ed) have chosen the nameTeresa for their (laughter born April 1 . Mr . andMrs. Parker, Oklahoma City, have an older daugh-ter, Mary Catherine, 2 i2 .

1957James P. Dixon, '576us, Tulsa, is working with

the First National Bank and Trust Company ofTulsa in its investment department while com-pleting work toward his master of business ad-ministration degree from the University of Tulsa.

MARRIAGE : Susanna Talley of OklahomaCity and John Earl Wallis, '57eng, Tulsa, weremarried April 8 in the Central Christian ('.hutch,Oklahoma City . They have established residencein Oklahoma City .

BIRTH : Donald M. Curry, '58eng, and Mrs.Curry (Nancy Nelson, '57ed) became the parentsof a daughter, Donna Carole, on February 4 inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania . Curry is employed byBettis Atomic Power Laboratory in Pittsburgh,part of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, andis finishing work on his master's degree at theUniversity of Pittsburgh .

1958Rupert Ingram, '586s, Winthrop, Massachu-

setts, has been made an editor in the college di-vision of the McGraw-Hill Book Company. In-gram, working primarily in chemistry and mole-cular biology, joined McGraw-Hill in 1958 as asalesman and has covered territories in Louisianaand Indiana .

James H. Deardcn, '58ms, Dallas, Texas, willreceive his doctor of medicine degree June 8 fromSouthwestern Medical School of the University ofTexas, Dallas . He will do his internship at theUniversity Hospital, Oklahoma City . His wife isthe former Mary E. Pannell, '56bus .

BIRTHS : Lt . John N . Hardy, '5862, and Mrs.Hardy- (Patsy Lawrence, '586us), Wurzburg, Ger-many, have announced the birth of a son, JeffreyLawrence, born April 4. Their daughter, ElizabethAnn, celebrated her second birthday the same day.

Never M. Fail, Jr ., '58eng, and Mrs. Fail

May, 1961

phi beta kappaDr. Norman Wright

A man considered by many scientiststo be the leading pioneer in the applica-tion of infrared spectroscopy (study ofphysical systems by use of wave lengthsof light) to analytical and structuralchemistry has been honored by mem-bership in Phi Beta Kappa .Dr . Norman Wright, '29ms, '33ph .d,

is director of the spectroscopy laboratoryfor Dow Chemical Company, Midland,Michigan . Wright has been with Dow

Dr. Norman 'Wrieht

(Marilyn Bryant, '58ed), Tulsa, have announcedthe birth of a son, Brian Alan, born March 31 .They have a daughter, Laura Elizabeth, 2.

1959Nancy Holland, '59ed, member of the Tulsa

Opera chorus and a teacher in Tulsa public schools,sang the role of Mamma Lucia in Tulsa Opera, In-corporated's March 16-18 presentation of theItalian opera Caaalleria Rusticana. She receivedspecial coaching for this role under the TulsaOpera scholarship program from Maestro Morescoand Robert Lansing. At O.U . she studied withEva Turner .

Robert M. Nerem, '59eng, received his masterof science degree from Ohio State University onMarch 17 .

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.Arrrnv 2d Lt . Hial B. Gernert, Jr ., '606us, Cas-pcr, Wyoming, was assigned March 27 to the elec-tronic warfare fire support unit at Fort Huachuca,Arizona. He was employed by the Wyoming Na-tional Bank before entering the Army last January.

Sondra Sala Harris, '6062, and William Har-

since 1937, joining them as a physicist .He assumed his present position in 1940 .As director of this laboratory, he hasspearheaded the extensive use of physi-cal methods of analysis in research, pro-duction control and directly to processstream control.

Wright received his BA from PhillipsUniversity, Enid, in 1927 . He was aninstructor of physics at the University ofOklahoma froth 19213-29, and researchassociate in biophysics at the Universityof Michigan, 1934-37.

His professional achievements werepreviously recognized in 1955 when hedelivered the Medallist address at thenational meeting of the Society of Ap-plied Spectroscopy in New York . Atthat time, he was honored with thefourth annual award of that society. In1958 he received the Pittsburgh Spectro-scopy Award in recognition of his con-tributions in the field of absorptionspectroscopy . Presentation was made atthe Pittsburgh Conference on Analyti-cal Chemistry and Applied Spectro-scopy.

He is a fellow of the American Physi-cal Society and the American Associa-tion for the Advancement of Science,and a member of the American Chemi-cal Society, the Optical Society of Amer-ica, the Society for Applied Spectro-scopy, the Coblentz Society and SigmaXi . He and his wife have two children .

ris live in Tulsa where Harris is an accountant with[)owcll, Incorporated . They have a son Ix,rn inAugust of 1960 .

Army Pvt. Philip R. Ratliff, '606us, El Reno,completed the final phase of his six months activemilitary training April 3 under the Reserve ForcesAct program at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana .

MARRIAGES : Carolyn Carroll Garrett, Dan-bury, Texas, and Lt . John Henry Lollor, 111, '60geol, Houston, Texas, were married March 30 inEpiphany Catholic Church, Washington, D.C . Thecouple has established a home in TwentyninePalms, California .

Gail Andrea Wilkins, '6062, Atlanta, Georgia,and Edward A. Johnston, Winchester, Massachu-setts, were married December 11 in the Post Cha-pel, Fort McPherson, Georgia. Johnson is employedby the International Silver Company of Meriden,Connecticut. Their home is in Oklahoma City.

BIRTH: Robert Hume Brady, '606us, andMrs. Brady, Oklahoma City, have chosen the nameJames Gavin for their son born March 17 .DEATH: Patsy Jane Malone, wife of Bill G.

Malone, '606us, Norman, died March 27 from in-juries suffered in an auto accident in Norman .

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New Books

THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTSWERETHERE by Ken KraftDoubledayKen Kraft, '57, writes in the vein of the

Jean Kerr school of homefront humor . Hiswit is neither as rapid fire nor as razor sharpas Mrs . Kerr's and his books haven'tcracked the best seller barrier with suchspectacular results, but Ken Kraft is greatfun anyway and I for one hope he keeps thelight but entertaining tales coming .The Birds and the Beasts lacks even the

loose story line which held his earlier Landof Milk and Omelets together, but if youliked that one (and I did) you will enjoythis one as well . Each chapter deals withone of the many "problem pets" that havecomplicated Kraft's life from youth to man-hood . You have the feeling that Kraft istrying to convince you that he is a perfectlynormal fellow who leads a fairly tranquillife-until contact with the animal worldbrings him disaster . Indeed each incidentdoes have the air of the familiar about it-as if something similar had happened toeach of us but just didn't seem particularlyfunny at the time . Perhaps that's why it'sdoubly enjoyable to be able to laugh (orsmile) at Kraft's misfortunes .

Kraft swears that he himself doesn't hateanimals . I read the book-and if he does-n't, I can't help wondering why he doesn't .

BOOTS AND SADDLES by ElizabethB . Custer with introduction by Jane R.StewartUniversity of Oklahoma PressThe terrible hardships, loneliness and

pure wretchedness of life on an Army cav-alry post in the Dakota territory is broughtforth graphically in Boots and Saddles orLife in the Dakotas with General Custer .Written in 1885 by the widow of GeneralGeorge Armstrong Custer, the book is stillone of the best on life in the days of thefamous Indian wars.Taken strictly for what it is-a descrip-

tion of everyday life on the bleak Armyposts-Mrs . Custer's book is a fine piece ofwork. Her writing is colorful, interestingand genuine . Taken as a look at her hus-band, it is a biased (to say the least) accountof "Yellow Hair." Jane Stewart's introduc-tion is as interesting as the rest of the book,

May, 1961

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and she does an excellent job of pointingout how Mrs. Custer dedicated her life toperpetuating a picture of her husband asthe perfect man as well as the perfect sol-dier . All the controversial aspects of Cus-ters' life are omitted from her writings .Even the disastrous "Last Stand" is scarcelymentioned . Miss Stewart explains that thisone woman, more than any other singleperson or event, kept the Custer legendfrom becoming more tarnished than it istoday .Whether you believe that Custer was a

bungler and blowhard, or are convincedthat he is one of our country's great he-roes, or if you are just a fan of his era ofour history, you will enjoy this book.

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NEGLECTED AREAS IN FAMILYLIVING by Thomas Earl SullengerChristopher Publishing HouseThomas Earl Sullenger, '20ba, '20ma, is

a former instructor at the University, hav-ing taught community organization afterreceiving his O.U. degree. He also holdsa Ph.D. in sociology from the University ofMissouri . During World War I he servedin the Navy medical corps and received na-tional recognition for his work with thefirst Americans known to be suffering fromthe then newly-named "shell-shock ."

Sullenger's latest work is, as the title im-plies, a look at some of the areas that hefeels the average marriage or family rela-tions course textbook misses . The bookis a collection of writings taken from vari-ous sources, with Sullenger's instructionsand comments on the different sections .Some of the selections are taken from suchwell-known writers as Vance Packard andEric Johnston .One of the most interesting parts is a

chapter devoted to the family meal . Au-thored by Sol W. Ginsburg, this selectiondelves into "The Psychological Aspects ofEating." Ginsburg attempts to show that"personality traits such as timidity or ag-gressiveness, tidiness or sloppiness, stingi-ness or generosity" can be closely related toearly eating experiences of the individual .He examines several different types of "eat-ers" and shows how their backgrounds areresponsible for the way they eat .

If nothing else, this section can provide

you with an interesting guessing game forthe next time you eat out . You may dis-cover all sorts of fascinating facts aboutyour dinner companions.

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THE LIFE OF JOHN WESLEY HAR-DIN, As Written by Himself, with intro-duction by Robert C. McCubbinUniversity of Oklahoma Press

If you are tired of getting violence andmurder via the television screen alone, trythe brief but bloody autobiography of JohnWesley Hardin, No. 16 in the O.U . Press'Western Frontier Library .

Certainly the life of John Wesley Hardinhas its place in any series of Western Amer-icana, for his name is foremost among thequick-draw, shoot-em-between-the-eyes he-roes of the West who are so popular today .And Wes Hardin shot all his men right be-tween the eyes, or in close proximity there-of, if his story can be taken as truth .The most interesting thing about this

work is the complete incredibility of it all .Scan the book's jacket and you see that inthe 10 years between his first killing in 1868at the age of 15, and his final capture andimprisonment, Hardin killed more than ascore of men in personal combat . But afterreading the book, you will swear that thenumber must be double that, since heseems to be giving vivid details of a newkilling on every other page .

Hardin's numerous murders (and thatis certainly what the great majority must betermed) were accomplished through a com-bination of a great dexterity with his pis-tols, and an amazing accuracy once he gotthem into action . His gun notches cameboth by way of mass killings and single en-counters.Hardin regards the taking of human life

with a chilling calm. On page after pagehe tells of his killings with no more re-morse than if he had just swatted a fly . Ifall contained is true, Hardin was quickerthan a rattler, and his marksmanship madeAnnie Oakley look pale by comparison . Asuspicion lingers that perhaps he was car-ried away with his own legend and thatmost of his victims died as did Hardinhimself-shot in the back of the head .

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