SIX new faculty members wereappointed, numerous transfers and pro-motions were made, the University budgetfor the next year was approved and con-tract for broadcasting 1938 Sooner foot-ball games was awarded at a two-daymeeting of the Board of Regents in May.Dr . L. N. Morgan, professor of Eng-

lish, was named to succeed T. H . Brewer,head of the Department of English forthirty years, who resigned as departmenthead but remains as professor.Dr . George L. Cross, acting head of the

department of botany, was made head ofthe department, succeeding Dr . Paul B.Sears, resigned .Dr . R. J. Dangerfield was appointed

assistant dean of the Graduate School, anewly created position, and was advancedto rank of professor. He formerly wasassociate professor of government .

Savoie Lottinville, '29, formerly busi-ness manager of the University Press, wasappointed director of the Press to fill avacancy left by the resignation of JosephBrandt, '21 . Mr . Brandt will leave theUniversity July 1 to take a position as di-rector of the Princeton University Press.New faculty members include :Clarence G. Brown, formerly head of

the department of commercial subjects atCentral High School, Oklahoma City, ap-pointed assistant professor of commercialeducation.

Dr . Willard Z. Park, Northwestern Uni-versity, Evanston, Illinois, appointed headof the newly formed department of sociol-ogy and anthropology . The two depart-ments formerly were separate . The form-er department heads, Dr . Forrest Clem-ents, anthropology, and Jerome Dowd,sociology, remain as professors .

Fritz Frauchiger, University of Chicago,appointed assistant professor of Germanand French .

Mrs. Grace Davis, on leave of absencefrom Oklahoma City University, appoint-ed instructor in modern languages .

Cecil G. Lalicker, Phillips PetroleumCompany, assistant professor of geology.Dr . Orrie J. Eigsti, University of Illi-

nois, assistant professor of botany .Promotions, in addition to those already

mentioned, are as follows:R. V. James was given rank of profes-

sor of mechanics and made head of the

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The Campus

Review

Letzeiser medals and other honor awards were announced at Senior Day exercises,shown above. On the left, Helen Anderson and Wyema Adams, two of the Letzeiserwinners. In the foreground, Art Professor Good and Earl Westmoreland, and on theright are lack Luttrell, Letzeiser winner, Margaret Stephenson, women's counselor,

and f . F. Findlay, dean of men

department of mechanics, succeeding thelate J. C. Davis.Van Endicott, member of the staff of

the printing division of the UniversityPress was appointed superintendent, suc-ceeding the late Samuel Crawford .Dr . R. L. Huntington was transferred

from professor of petroleum engineeringto professor of chemical engineering andwas made director of the School of Chem-ical Engineering, a position formerly heldby Dr . Guy Y. Williams, who is head ofthe Chemistry Department .W. R. Wehrend was advanced from as-

sociate professor of music to rank of pro-

JUNE CALENDARJune 5-Baccalaureate Sunday . Honors

and Awards Program . Reunion luncheon,former editors and business managers ofOklahoma Daily . Class Reunions forClasses of '08, '13 and '18 .

June 6-Annual Phi Beta Kappa Break-fast. Commencement Exercises . Alumni-Senior Luncheon . Meeting of Alumni Ex-ecutive Board .

June 7-Summer school registration .June 8-Classwork begins .June 9-18-Institute of International

Relations .June 20-25-Home Economics Confer-

ence .June 20-25-Group Relationship Short

Course .June

20 - 25 - Community

RecreationShort Course .

June 20-30-Symphony Training Cen-ter .June 27-28-Conference for School Li-

brarians .July 7-8-Speech Teachers' Conference .

fessor ; Dr . Cortez A. M. Ewing, associateprofessor of government to professor ; Dr .Oliver Benson, instructor in governmentto assistant professor; Katherine Culbert,instructor in physical education to assist-ant professor ; and Helen Gregory, instruc-tor in physical education to assistant pro-fessor .While they retain the same rank the

following faculty members were trans-ferred to different departments: Dr . LoydHarris, transferred from the School ofPharmacy to the department of chemistryas professor of chemistry ; Dr . C. T. Lang-ford, transferred from the department ofchemistry to the School of Chemical En-gineering as professor of chemical engi-neering; and Lawrence Cherry, transferredfrom instructor in engineering drawing toinstructor in mechanical engineering .Three physicians on the Medical School

faculty were retired as professors emeritus.They are Dr . Edmund S. Ferguson, Dr.John F. Kuhn and Dr . William Taylor .Dr. J. Rud Neilsen, professor of physics,

was granted a year's leave of absence todevote time to research .The Board of Regents approved a Uni-

versity budget of $1,220,000 for the nextfiscal year, as submitted by President W.B. Bizzell .The regents also authorized a study of

possible modifications in the week-nightstudy rule, better known to students asthe "no-date rule ."

Football broadcastingContract for broadcasting all Sooner

football games on the 1938 schedule has

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been awarded to WKY radio station ofOklahoma City by the University Boardof Regents.

In view of the fact that controversy fol-lowed the signing of a football broad-casting contract last year, the Board ofRegents had requested that bids be askedof all radio firms in the State, and that thebids be opened at a meeting of the board.A formal notice to bidders was accord-

ingly mailed to all radio firms in Okla-homa, and the three bids that were sub-mitted were opened at a meeting of theBoard of Regents May 2.KOMA, the Oklahoma City unit of

Hearst Radio, Inc., offered a bid of $3,800 .The Oklahoma Network offered a bid

of $2,600 .WKY, Oklahoma City, offered $2,500

if the games should be unsponsored by anadvertiser ; and if sponsored, to pay the_Athletic Council "fifty percent of the netamount received from such sponsor, suchamount to be in excess of twenty-fivehundred dollars."The regents and the athletic department

concluded that the guarantee of $2,500 anda chance to share in revenue from a spon-sor, as offered by WKY, was more at-tractive than the flat amounts offered ineither of the other bids .

In discussion of the merits of the var-ious bids, it was stated that under theWKY bid the Athletic Department mightexpect to receive more than under eitherof the other bids, if a favorable advertisingcontract with a sponsor were obtained .

Sigma Xi initiation

Three O.U . alumni were included inthe group of scientists initiated as mem-bers of the University chapter of SigmaXi, national honorary scientific society .The three are Glenn C. Couch, '31, '37

ms, instructor in botany, initiated as aregular member ; and George C. McGhee,'33, Dallas, Texas, and Ludwig Schmidt,'21, '24eng, Bartlesville, who were initiatedas alumni members. McGhee is on thestaff of a petroleum laboratory at Dallas,and Schmidt is with the experiment sta-tion of the Bureau of Mines at Bartles-ville.The prospects for careers in the field of

biology, chemical and allied sciences arenow brighter than ever before, Dr . KarlMason, professor of anatomy at Vander-bilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, saidin the principal address at the initiationprogram.Twenty-nine pledges were admitted to

membership in the society .

Professors lose ball game

Scorning possible reprisals, Senior Classbaseball players defeated a team of pro-fessors in the first annual faculty-seniorbaseball game, last month. The final scorewas 20 to 13 .

JUNE, 1938

Nc, : alumni members of Sigma XI", hon-orary scientific fraternity, are LudwigSchmidt (left) and George C. McGhee

Modernized summer session

Classwork for the Summer Session willbegin June 8, with an increased enrolmentexpected as a result of several importantchanges in curriculum and requirementsand the addition of numerous special at-tractions.

In the College of Education, a master'sdegree may now be obtained without athesis, by substituting other work . Grad-uate courses arc now arranged to enable astudent to do work for a doctor's degreeduring summer terms.An Institute of International Relations,

a Creative Writing Short Course, andmany other short courses of general inter-est are scheduled during the summer term .A second summer term, of four weeks,

will follow the main term . It is designedto provide an opportunity for graduatework to persons unable to attend the regu-lar winter or summer terms.

ANational I .M .A . convention

The University of Oklahoma continuedits national leadership in promoting theinterests of non-fraternity men by playinghost last month to the first national con-vention of representatives of independentstudent organizations .

Organization problems, including rela-tions of non-fraternity and Greek lettergroups, were discussed .

J . F. Findlay, dean of men at O.U ., andTheatus Greeson, executive secretary ofthe Oklahoma Independent Men's Asso-ciation, were elected on the executiveboard of the new National IndependentStudent Association which was organizedby convention delegates.

Don Lesher, secretary of interfraternityaffairs on the University campus, told theconvention that he believes fraternity andDon-fraternity groups can work togetherin sponsoring many activities . He blamedyounger members of fraternities for mostof the friction between Greeks and non-Greeks .

Gas measurement courseMore than seven hundred persons from

twenty-four states and Mexico attendedthe fourteenth annual Gas MeasurementShort Course offered by the College ofEngineering and the Extension Division .

This course is one of the oldest of thistype given by the University and has at-tracted nationwide attention. W. H. Car-son, clean of the College of Engineering,has been invited to go to California in thesummer of 1939 to organize a similar shortcourse there.

Men's council dinnerSeventy high school seniors representing

the cream of the crop from state highschools were entertained by the Men'sCouncil during the annual InterscholasticMeet . The two outstanding seniors fromeach of the larger high schools in the Statewere invited to the dinner.The guests bombarded the University

deans and officials who were present withquestions about the University and cam-pus life . T. M. Beaird, alumni secretary,and Tom Stidham, football coach, ad-dressed the group.

Student honor awards

As the school year closed, Letzeisermedal winners were announced and Uni-versity officials announced that three stu-dents had been chosen to receive the high-est award the University can confer-adegree with honors .

Students who qualified for the honordegree are Katherine Armstrong, PoncaCity ; Patience Sewell, Clinton; and Wil-liam Hilsewick, Oklahoma City . Oral ex-aminations were given to the candidatesby the honors committee, which washeaded by Dr . R. J. Dangcrfield .

Candidates for the degree were requiredto have a grade average of 2 .5 for the lastfour semesters, and they were given acomprehensive oral examination coveringnine different fields of study.Gold Letzeiser medals were awarded to

Ellen Ash, Cordell, and Jack Luttrell,Norman, as the most outstanding manand outstanding woman of the senior class .

Wyeina Adams, Norman, and Bill Mar-tin, Blackwell, won silver medals . Thebronze awards went to Helen Anderson,Norman, and Ben Hill, Duncan .

The undergraduate scene

Jim Flinchurn, Wichita, Kansas, hasbeen named editor of the Oklahoma Dailyfor the first semester of next year . Harry

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Roberts, Oklahoma City, has been madeeditor of the Covered Wagon, humor mag-azine. Marvin Johnson, Tulsa, will editthe 1939 Sooner Yearbook . . . DoakStowe, Blackwell, has been installed aspresident of the newly established chapterof Delta Chi social fraternity .

. . . Flossie Greene, senior arts and sci-ences student from Erick, has been award-ed a scholarship to Columbia University,New York, and plans to take specialwork in languages . . . Wendell Tomber-lin, Oklahoma City, was selected by theArt School faculty to be the first Univer-sity art student to study abroad, as holderof the Parsons scholarship to the Parisbranch of the New York School of Fineand Applied Art . . .

. . . Leaving a note telling that he wasfailing in some of his University coursesand that he did not want to disappointhis father, Harold Pittsenbarger, 20-year-old freshman student, gassed himself withcarbon monoxide at Shawnee and died ina hospital there . . . University men vot-ed 347 to 126 in favor of a proposal to al-locate 10 cents from each enrolment feepaid by a male student, for activities Ofthe Men's Council. The ballot figures anda proposed budget of expenditures weresubmitted to the Board of Regents forpossible action . The Oklahoma Daily com-mented that the vote was so small that itwas inconclusive .

. . . Worried over election of popularco-eds to numerous activity positions, theWomen's Self Government Associationhas adopted a regulation restricting thenumber of offices a woman student mayhold in thirty-six principal campus or-ganizations .

Faculty newsJohn H . Casey, professor of journalism,

has been elected president of the FacultyClub for next year . . . Joseph E. Smay,director of the School of Architecture, waselected president pro tem of the AmericanInstitute of Architects at a meeting of of-ficers in New Orleans . . . Dr . HowardO. Eaton, professor of philosophy, hasbeen elected a member of the executiveboard of the western division of the Amer-ican Philosophical Association .

. . . Dr . J . J . Rhyne, director of theSchool of Social Work, has been re-electededitor-in-chief of the publications for theSouthwestern Social Science Association .W. K. Newton, head of the department ofaccounting, was named chairman of theaccounting division, and Dr . John H.Leek, professor of government, was namededitor of the division of government .

. . . A new type of prehistoric reptilefossil has been discovered near Normanby J. Willis Stovall, assistant professor ofpaleontology . The fossil is that of a liz-ard-like reptile, with an eye in the middleof its head, which lived in the Permiangeological age . . . Dr . J. M. Thuringer,professor of histology and embryology, hasbeen elected president of the University

New officers of the University Mothers' Club :

left to right, Mrs. J. R. Hinshaw,Butler, president; Mrs. J. Browne Hopkins, Norman, secretary-treasurer; and the fol-lowing district vice presidents : Mrs. Reese Fvans, Ardmore; Mrs. George Miller,Norman ; Mrs. H. A. von Unwerth, Muskogee ; Mrs. A. L. Fisher, Enid ; Mrs. EarlRiley, Tulsa; Mrs. S. I. Swanson, Watonga; Mrs. John T. Cooper, Wervoka. Mrs. W.

L. Robinson, Hammon, not in the picture, is also a district vice president

of Oklahoma Society of Medical Sciences .Annual banquet of the society was heldMay 20 in the Skirvin Hotel at OklahomaCity, when the main speaker was Dr.Meyer Bodansky, professor of pathologicalchemistry at the University of Texas Med-ical School and director of the John SealyMemorial Hospitals.

. . . Dr. Ernest C. Ross, associate pro-fessor of English, will return in June froma year's leave of absence spent in England .He has spent two years in England in re-search on Mary Lamb in the British Mu-seum and in private libraries, and will re-turn with his biography of Mary Lambready for publication in September. Mr .Ross was elected a member of the dis-tinguished Charles Lamb Society April11, and during the winter he gave a lec-ture to the society on Mary Lamb .

Harral heads groupStewart Harral, '36ma, director of press

relations and assistant professor of journ-alism, was elected president of district 10of the American College Publicity Asso-ciation at a meeting held at Stillwater thisspring. Seventeen Oklahoma and Texasschools were represented at the meetingat which Dr . M. L. Wardell, assistant tothe president, was one of the principalspeakers .

Woodworth play presentedJohn Woodworth, '25, speech teacher at

Roosevelt Junior High School, aided inpreparations for presentation of his play,Cheat and Swing, by the University Play-house April 22 and 23 . This play is theOklahoma prize play for the last year .

Home economics honorFloreine Dietrich, Oklahoma City, grad-

uating senior in home economics, has beenselected as one of ten students from Unit-ed States colleges and universities to dograduate work in dietetics at Johns Hop-kins University, Baltimore, Maryland .She was one of two hundred applicants .

AHigh school groups entertainedAn innovation at the University this

year was a series of campus tours sponsoredevery Thursday by the Extension Divi-sion, headed by Herbert H . Scott, for rep-resentatives from high schools over thestate. Students from a particular countyare selected by school officials to be guestsof the University on a date specified byextension officials .From forty to fifty students, a few

school executives and parents usually makethe trip to Norman, remaining from 10o'clock in the morning until late in theafternoon. Their day's schedule includesa tour of the campus with guides, an edu-cational motion picture, and a thirty-min-ute broadcast over radio station WNADby talented members of the group. Fre-quently the students in the county repre-sented meet in special assemblies to%eartheir classmates broadcast.The tours, supervised by University au-

thorities and planned through offices ofcounty superintendents, have proved bene-ficial for all concerned. Many superin-tendents have written to express enthusi-asm over the project, stating that thesetours bring students in contact with Uni-versity methods and serve to interest themin securing higher education.

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