1915-29Mildred McClellan Melville, '15ba, has retir-

ed as Denver area reporter for FairchildPublications, New York publishers of eightbusiness papers. Mrs. Melville, who is listedin Who's Who of American Women andWho's Who in the West, is continuing herfreelance work.

Lois Nethery Gallegly, '27bfa, '41m .ed, '45lib.sci, is head librarian at Andress HighSchool, El Paso, Texas, and first reader ofthe Second Church of Christ Scientist of ElPaso.

William W. Vaughan, '27bus, has beennamed survey engineer of the Oklahoma High-way Department .

George W. Goad, '28, has been appointedexecutive assistant to group vice president ofthe Getty Oil Company. He lives in LosAngeles.

Edna Hoffman Bowman, '28ba, was in-ducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame inNovember . She is a former school teacher andhas been a director of the Oklahoma His-torical Society since 1957 and its treasurersince 1958 .

John E. Eckel, '29pet.eng, has retired fromEsso Production Research Co . where he wassenior research specialist in the productionengineering division . He is serving as a part-time consultant with Oil and Gas Con-sultants, International, in Houston.

1930-39John S. Bell, '30pet.eng, has been named

to the new position of assistant to the vicepresident of Humble Oil & Refining Co'sproduction department, Houston.Madge Simon, '34ba, is in her twenty-third

year as chairman of the mathematics depart-ment at Gregory-Portland High School,Gregory, Texas.

Richard B. Holcomb, '36bus, has been ap-pointed director of citizen services for theCorporation for Public Broadcasting, NewYork .

James E. Byers, '36eng, is engineered prod-ucts sales manager for BS&B Process Sys-tems, Oklahoma City. He recently was elect-ed president of the Tulsa-Oklahoma CityChapter of Nomads for 1971 .Ralph Enix, '36pharm, Kingfisher phar-

macist, has received the Merck, Sharpe, andDohme award, a national honor for serviceto society . The award was given for his workin drug abuse education .Dr . R. B. Yadon, '376a, '39Law, is head

of the Law Enforcement Education Programat Northwestern State College, Alva.

John R. Browne, '38ba, '39Law, has beennamed president of May Avenue Bank andTrust Co ., Oklahoma City.Ed Shipp, '38Law, has assumed the post of

district judge for the 17th judicial Districtof Oklahoma serving McCurtain, Choctaw andPushmataha Counties. He is from Idabel .

Ben D. Floyd, '39bus, '40mba, has as-sumed the presidency of Fourth NationalBank and Trust Co ., Tulsa.

Dan Ralls, '39bus, is an oil lease brokerin Duncan .

Glen Rice, '39bus, is vice president anddevelopment manager of Lincoln Corp ., aspecial subsidiary of Lincoln Consolidated Inc.,to provide mobile home finance and insuranceservice programs to the banking and savingsand loan industries. The firm is headquarteredin Houston.

Eugene C. Stevens, '39bus, is manager ofAllied Personnel of Fort Walton Beach,Florida .

Jerome M. Wolf, '39eng, is owner of WolfReproduction Co., a blueprint firm in Long-view, Texas. He purchased the business aftertaking early retirement in 1969 from Serv-ice Pipe Line Co .

1940-49L. C. Parker, '40chem.eng, has been promot-

ed to technologist, fuels research, at Texaco'sPort Arthur, Texas, Research Laboratories .

James H. Richards, '40eng, is the branchchief of integration engineering at McDonnellDouglas Astronautics Co., Santa Monica, Cali-fornia.Harold E.

Schwartz Jr ., '41bs,

is controlsequipment supervisor in the computer sys-tems department of Mobil Oil Corp., a firmhe has worked for for the past 27 years. Hehas two daughters and two stepsons and livesin Norman.

Grace Rankin Robins, '41m.ed, is staff mem-ber of the business and business education de-partments at the University of NorthernColorado, Greeley.Raymond E. Johnson, '41 pet.eng, is senior

vice president for production operations ofAmerada Division, Amerada Hess Corp .

Jennie Lou Quong, '42art ed, is a studentat Texas Woman's University where she isworking toward a master's degree in occupa-tional therapy.

Col.

John A.

Stewart Jr .,

'43bs, is com-mander of the Army ROTC program atSyracuse University.C. A. McWilliams, '43journ, has been ap-

pointed administrative assistant to OklahomaGovernor David Hall.John G. Richards, '44bs, is a vice pres-

ident of the Fort Worth National Bank.John H. Moore, '45eng, has been promoted

to general manager of Texaco, Inc., opera-tions in Central and South America. Hisheadquarters are in Houston.Lloyd A. Krone, '46, has been appointed

regional vice president, southwest region,for the marketing operations division of thelife, health and financial services departmentof The Travelers Insurance Companies. Heand his wife and three children live inDallas.

Barbara Rockwood Griffith, '46ba, and herhusband, William, are living in Amarillo where

he is with Phillips Petroleum sales depart-ment.

Charles R. Ritcheson, '46ba, has been namedto the Colin R. Lovell Professorship in his-tory at the University of Southern Californiaeffective in the fall of 1972 . He will spendthe next year in England working on hisbook Aftermath of Revolution . He recentlywas elected a Fellow of the Royal HistoricalSociety .

Derald Swineford, '46mfa, is head of theart department at Oklahoma College ofLiberal Arts, Chickasha.Max M. Waits, '47b.mus .ed, has been named

an associate professor of music at Mt.Senario College, Ladysmith, Wisconsin.

Elwood Riley, '47bs, '54ma, is serving asthe president of the Oklahoma Hospital As-sociation, and is the administrator at New-man Memorial Hospital, Shattuck .

Paul E. Opp, '47bus, has been transferredto Eastman Kodak Co's Pacific northernregion as a sales promotion specialist .Harry Culver, '47journ, state capitol repor-

ter for United Press International in Okla-homa City, has received the 1971 BeachyMusselman Award for outstanding report-ing of government affairs .

James B. Armor, '48bs, has been appointeddirector of store operations for Thrift DrugCo ., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thrift is adivision of J. C. Penney Co.

James B. Fishburn, '48bs, has retired fromthe Air Force and is living with his familyin Wenatchee, Washington .

Bill M. Keller, '48bs, '50geol, is the managerof a branch office of Arkansas Western GasCompany, Oklahoma City.G. Howard Teeter, '48bs, '53bs, is senior

vice president of operations for BeckmanInstruments, Fullerton, California.Emmett H. Tidd, '48bus, has been promoted

from captain to rear admiral in the Navy .In November he received the DistinguishedService Medal, the nation's third highest mili-tary award, for his service as chief of stafffor the commander of the U.S . Naval Forcesin Vietnam from May 1969 to May 1970 .Gene R. Bates, '48eng, has been appointed

manager of operations in the Producing De-partment-Eastern Hemisphere for Texaco, Inc.He will be based in New York .

June Boulogne, '49ba, is employment andpublic relations coordinator in the districtoffice of Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., Okla-homa City .

Ross Thomas, '49ba, is the author of anovel, The Fools in Town Are on Our Side,published by William Morrow in December .He lives in Washington, D.C.

Col. Milton E. Key, '49bus, has been nameddirector of the Guided Missile Department ofthe Army Field Artillery School at Ft. Sill .Norma Records, '49ed, is completing a four-

year course in professional writing with theFamous Writers School, Westport, Connecti-cut.

Jack Messall, '49journ, has been promotedto vice president of Interstate Securities Co .,consumer installment finance firm . He headsa region of 36 branch offices in Kansas, Mis-

souri and Nebraska and lives in El Dorado,Kansas .Orb C. Reeder, '49journ, has been named

president and publisher of the Binghampton(N.Y.) Evening Press and Sunday Press.James Nicholson, '49journ, has been ap-

pointed to the Oklahoma Pardon and ParoleBoard. Nicholson is a Talihina newspaperpublisher .Dr. Douglas C. Holman, '49med, has been

promoted to regional medical director forOccidental Life Insurance Co. of California.

1950-52Col. Noble A. Miller, '50bs, is deputy base

commander with a unit of the Air ForceSystems Command, Los Angeles Air ForceStation.

Mitchell R. Baker, '50bus, has been promot-ed to senior vice president and treasurer ofAmerican Mortgage and Investment Co .,Oklahoma City .

Leo P. Stonis, '50geol, is chief geologist forEason Oil Co., Oklahoma City based firmwith regional exploration offices in NewOrleans, Denver and Calgary, Alberta, Canada .

Jack Brock, '50Law, has been elected districtjudge for Office Number I in Oklahoma'sFifth Judicial District . He is from Lawton .

Richard E. Martin, 'S1 ba, has been appoint-ed assistant vice president of the Jersey Mort-gage Company, Elizabeth, New Jersey . He andhis wife, Lois, and their five sons live inClifton, New Jersey .A. Haeworth Robertson, '51 ba, is enrolled

in the Ph.D . program at the University ofPennsylvania studying social insurance pro-grams of developing nations .G. Dan Rambo, '51bus, '56ms, '65Law, has

been named legal aide to Oklahoma GovernorDavid Hall.Howard G. Standridge, '51bus, has been

appointed senior staff industrial engineer forthe construction group of Owens-CorningFiberglas Corp. He lives in Toledo.Lynn D. (Buddy) Hall, '51civ.eng, has been

named chairman of the three-member Okla-homa Board of Affairs . He is a partner inCuthbert & Hall Construction Co., Elk City.

Robert R. McCall, '51eng, '52ms, has beenappointed assistant general manager of Tex-aco's producing department, New York.

Charles E. Fidler, '52bs, is the area drillingsuperintendent with Gulf Oil Corporation inNew Orleans.

Fred M. Swaim, '52bs, and his wife and fivedaughters are living in Madrid where he isinvolved in the construction, start-up andoperation of Carbon Black Espanola, a com-pany co-owned by two United States and oneSpanish business firms.

Robert Hager, '52bus, has been named man-ager of Continental Oil Co.'s Oklahoma Citymarketing division .

Lt. Col. Kenneth B. Orr, '52bus, is servingwith a unit of the Pacific Air Forces at TanSon Nhut AB, Vietnam, where he recentlyreceived the Meritorius Service Medal.

bJoe F. Buzidragis, '52ed, '54m.ed, has been

appointed Oklahoma Boys State Director for1971 .

Robert L. Bingham, '52geol, is staff geologistwith Mobil Producing Nigeria in Lagos wherehe works on petroleum exploration computerapplications .

James B. Corey, '52m .ed, has been nameddirector of information services for LouisianaState University, New Orleans. He and hiswife, Barbara, have two children, Katherineand Caroline .

1953-55Howard K. Berry Jr., '53ba, '58Law, has

been named president-elect of the OklahomaCounty Bar Association .

James M. Hart, '53ba, and Gerald C. Bar-ton, 53ba, '55Law, have been appointed tothe staff of Oklahoma Governor David Hall .Hart is taking leave from Phillips PetroleumCo ., where he was an international negotiator,and Barton is head of an Oklahoma Citymovie theatre firm.

Dr . Terrill D. Smith, '53bs, is an assistantprofessor of chemistry at Central State College,Edmond . He and his wife, Nancy Ann, havetwo children, Jeffrey and Jennifer.Marilyn Harris Springer, '53fa, '54mfa, is

the author of a novel for young people,The Peppersalt Land, published in Novemberby Four Winds Press.

Donol E. Ruminer, '54geol, and his wife(Hazel L. O'Neal) have been living in theChicago area for the past two years wherehe works with Phillips Petroleum Co. Theyhave four daughters .Dr. E. J. McClendon, '54ms, has been

elected president of the American School ofHealth Association. He is an administratorwith the Michigan Department of Education.

Charles L. Bare, '54pet .eng, has been promot-ed to director of management systems in theproduction department of the western hemi-

sphere petroleum division of Continental OilCo .Marvin S. Chupack, '55bus, has joined the

accounting firm of Sartain, Fischbein andKurtz and Co ., Tulsa.G. Douglas Fox, '55bus, '57Law, general

counsel and assistant secretary of Tulsa's Kin-Ark Corp ., has been selected to the firm'sboard of directors.

Edward D. Holstein, '55eng, is the seniorsupervising engineer of Humble Oil & Refin-ing Co .'s south Texas production division,Kingsville .

Jim F. Gassaway, '55Law, has been installedas president of the Oklahoma Bar Association.He is a partner in the Ada law firm ofDeaton and Gassaway.

Jack W. Lawter, '55Law, has been electedpresident of the Oklahoma Association ofInsurance Companies.

Virgil Francis, '55m .ed, has been retainedfor his seventh year as superintendent of cityschools by the Mangum Board of Education.

Lt. Col. Ralph J. Hyde, '55m.ed, is chiefof the production management and technicalservices division, Directorate of SpecialWeapons, Kelly AFB, Texas.

Carol Eugene Simons, '55m .ed, has receivedthe degree of specialist in education from theUniversity of Colorado. The degree is grantedto those graduate students who cannot spendthe year in residence required for a doctoratebut who complete all other requirements .

1956-59Richard A. Neal, '56arch, has been named

a principal in the firm of Russell L. Magee &Associates . The name of the firm is nowRussell L. Magee-Richard S. Neal, Architects .Cdr. Charles G. Bassett, '56bus, has been

awarded the joint Service CommendationMedal for meritorious achievement while serv-

Tom L. Walker, '56bus, has been namedexecutive vice president of National Share-data Corp. of Dallas.

Joe A. Wheeler, '56bus, has been promotedto executive vice president of American Mort-gage and Investment Co., Oklahoma City.H. Lanier Hickman Jr ., '56civ .eng, has re-

ceived the Public Health Service Commenda-tion Medal for his work with the Bureauof Solid Waste Management .

Robert L. Knox, '56pet .eng, has been electeda vice president of Eason Oil Co.Robert E. Loughridge, '57bs, was selected

as First Year Man of the Month for Novem-ber with Massachusetts Mutual Life InsuranceCo . He and his wife, Margo Luton Lough-ridge, and their three daughters, Pamela,Becky and Marci, live in Anaheim, California.He joined Massachusetts Mutual in November1969.Jim Dixon, '57bus, has been promoted to

investment officer of the Fourth NationalBank of Tulsa.

Mike McGowan, '57bus, has been namedpresident of Community National Bank, Okla-homa City.

Willa Strong, '57d .ed, has retired fromteaching in McAlester where she served mostrecently as co-principal of McAlester JuniorHigh School .

Karen Denison Graul, '57journ, is the homeeditor of The Houston Post.Dr. J. B. Whitten Jr ., '58ba, has been

named to the faculty of the Southern IllinoisUniversity School of Dental Medicine atEdwardsville as chairman of the Departmentof Pathology, Division of Biomedical Sciences.

Jack Hammett, '58bs, has returned to theactuarial section of maintenance data atTinker AFB, after receiving a master's degreefrom the Air Force Institute of Technologyin logistics management .

Beau SelmanNeill McCown

David Norvell, '58Law, has assumed thepost of attorney general in New Mexico.Maj. Charles R. Rider, '58fa, has joined

the Army Computer Systems Command Head-quarters at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia. He andhis wife, Dorothy, '53bs, have three daugh-ters.W. L. Hawkins, '59bus, is the controller of

Hopper and Hawkins Survey Systems, Inc.,Dallas.Kenneth Crossland, '59bus, has been named

a general agent for The Northwestern MutualLife Insurance Co . of Milwaukee in OklahomaCity . He and his wife have seven children .

Billy R. Rhynes, '59bus, has been namedOutstanding Young Man of 1970 by bothTulsa and Southeast Tulsa Jaycee chapters.Dr . Bill Arnold, '59ms, '65p.hd, is associate

professor of chemistry at Central State Col-lege, Edmond. He is the chairman of theCentral Oklahoma section of the AmericanChemical Society.

1960-62

Burtram C. Hopkins II, '60arch, is vicepresident of Southwestern Dynamics, Inc., andpresident of its architectural, planning sub-sidiary, Envirodynamics, Inc., Dallas.D. Kent Meyers, '60bus, '64Law, has be-

come a partner in the Oklahoma City lawfirm of Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford,Johnson and Burdick.

Gerald W. Wilkins, '60bus, '64mba, hasbeen promoted to manager of corporate in-surance for Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.Don M. Yeager, '60bus, is the director of

marketing for First Southwest Corp ., Ardmore.Donald R. Geis, '60eng, '68ms, has been

promoted to manager of engineering andmanufacturing at Western Electric's manu-facturing operation, Vancouver, Washington.

MARSH & McLE NNAN

International Insurance BrokersTulsa - Oklahoma City

and50 additional offices throughout the world

OU Alumni with Marsh & McLennanJim Taylor

Bob Lockwood

Richard A. Wasteneys, '60geol, '62ms, hasbeen named exploration manager in Ecuadorfor Ada Oil Exploration Corp., which isbased in Houston.Don Wasson, '60journ, has purchased Fikes

TV and Appliance store in Tulsa.Charles N. Guerrero, '60m .ed, has been

appointed an assistant director in the AmericanCollege Testing Program western region . Heand his wife and their six children are livingin Sacramento, California .Maj. Richard E. Kirt, '60mech.eng, is a

civil engineering officer at Ent AFB, Colo-rado .

William

G.

Lackey

III,

'61bus,

accountexecutive for Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &Smith, Inc., has been named a stockholder ofthe international stock brokerage firm. Helives in Tulsa.Samuel G.

Meason,

'61 bus,

is

vice

pres-ident and treasurer of Riviana Foods, Inc.,Houston.

Robert W. Watts, '61bus, has been namedpresident of the Madill National Bank .

J. Arnold Hall, '61eng, is a design engineerwith Standard Oil Co. of California, SanFrancisco.

Stan Klein, '61eng, is an engineer with LTV,Grand Prairie, Texas.

Charles G. Northrup, '61ma, is teachingFrench and Spanish at Idaho State University .

Patricia Tyler, '62ba, '63m .ed, is counselorin a 1,400-student residence hall at theUniversity of Colorado, Boulder.

Gene R. Imke, '62bus, is an Oklahoma Cityinsurance agent and a qualifying memberof the Million Dollar Round Table for 1970 .

Larry L. French, '62ed, '70Law, has beenappointed an assistant attorney general in theoffice of the Oklahoma Attorney General.The French's second son, Jason Edward, wasborn December 2.

John D. Lomax, '62Law, is the assistantcounsel in American Petrofina, Inc.'s, legaldepartment, Dallas, Texas.

Charlotte Bale McGraw, '62mls, has re-turned to her position as librarian at Uni-versity School after spending last year inPretoria, South Africa, as a lecturer in schoollibrarianship at the University of South Africa.

1963-64

Gary C. Rawlinson, '63ba, is a partner inthe Norman law firm of Luttrell, Pendarvisand Rawlinson and was named Oklahoma'sOutstanding Young Lawyer o£ 1970 .Maj. William J. Starkey, '63ba, '64m.eng, is

a fighter-bomber pilot at Takhli Royal ThaiAFB, Thailand.

Capt . William M. Bishop, '63bus, is anaircraft maintenance officer at Offutt AFB,Nebraska .

William A. Everett, '63bus, has been namedsupervisor in the marketing department atthe Indianapolis casualty and surety divisionoffice of Aetna Life and Casualty.

James T. Farha, '63bus, '66Law, has beenpromoted to general counsel for the OklahomaInsurance Commission . He joined the com-mission staff in 1969.

ing with Headquarters, U.S. Military Assist-ance Command, Vietnam.Larry Jackson, '56bus, is vice president in

Curtis W. Martin, '58bus, has been namedmanager of the tax division of Conoco EuropeLtd., London.

charge of the installment loan department at Robert A. Reid, 58eng, is the manager ofthe American Exchange Bank and Trust Co., the Gas Systems Division of Wilson Industries,Norman . Inc., Houston.

Dale A. Roach, '63bus, is a pilot for DeltaAir Lines out of the Chicago pilot base.Tod F. Almquist, '63Law, has joined the

trust department staff of the First NationalBank and Trust Co ., Oklahoma City . He ismarried and has two children .Dr. Michael G. Keeran, '63med, is in the

private practice of dermatology in Little Rock,Arkansas. He is also a clinical instructor atthe University of Arkansas Medical Center.

Curtis Kimball, '63med, is practicing gen-eral surgery in Sterling, Colorado, in partner-ship with Dr. James McNight.Ed Harrington, '63m .ed, is counselor and

coordinator of McAlester's Model Cities pro-gram .

Arnold M. Melnick, '63phd, has been ap-pointed to the newly created post of ad-ministrative officer of the University ofRochester Department of Chemistry. He for-merly was with General Electric in Philadel-phia.

James T. Menzies, '64ba, is a pilot withDelta Air Lines, Miami, Florida .

Dennis J. Whittlesey, '64ba, has joined theland and natural resources division of theDepartment of Justice as a trial attorney .He lives in Annandale, Virginia.

Elizabeth S. Shonts, '64bs, is editor ofContrails, the magazine of the Officer's WivesClub at Columbus AFB, Mississippi. She alsois on the governing board of the club .J. C. Davenport, '64bus, has been promoted

to manager of the tax division of Apco OilCorp.

Sandra Trout Montre, '64bus, and herhusband, Garry, are living in Rio de Janeirowhere he is a director and manager of salesfor Torrington Bearing Co. for South andCentral America and Mexico.

Jeff P. McLemore, '64journ, is the adver-tising manager of the Pauls Valley DailyDemocrat.

Dale Crowder, '64Law, has become a part-ner in the Edmond law firm of Service andMarshall. He and his wife have two sons .

Joyce Smith, '64ma, is teaching home eco-nomics in Mustang. She has two children,Marisa, 10, and Andrea, 13 .

Col. Jean L. Coover, '64m.elec.eng, has beennamed system program director of the com-munications program at the Air Force Elec-tronic Systems Division, Hanscom Field, Mass-achusetts.Herman L. Totten, '64mls, '66phd, is dean

of the college at Wiley College, Marshall,Texas.

Jim Lovell, '64pharm, is manager of thedrug department at the recently openedHumpty Supermarket in Anadarko.

1965

Thomas L. Hudman, '656a, has been ap-pointed secretary-treasurer of Oklahoma CityFederal Savings and Loan Assoc.

Charles D. Watson Jr., '65ba, '67Law, hasentered a partnership for the general practiceof law with Doyle Watson, '37bus,'40Law,under the firm name of Watson and Watsonin Drumright.

Capt. Gerald W. Jones, '65bs, is a clinicallaboratory officer at Edwards AFB, Califor-nia.

Capt. James D. Messenger, '65bus, is sta-tioned at Vance AFB. He was selected out-standing instructor pilot for the month ofDecember .Bruce Schutte, '65bus, has joined the Broken

Arrow Insurance Agency, Inc.Maj. Lyon E. Speegle Jr., '65eng, is a

navigator with the Air Force at Nha TrangAB, Vietnam.

Lynette Mehl Hilliard, '65h.ec, is teachingat Marsh Junior High School in Dallas. Sheand James R. Hilliard were married in July1969 .

David D. Pearce, '65ind.eng, '66m.ind .eng,and his wife, Carolyn Bayless Pearce, '62bs, areliving in Grand Prairie, Texas, where he isan adviser on technical standards in computertechnology. They have two children, AlisaAnn, 4, and Angela Aleen, 2.Joe Robertson, '65Law, has been named an

assistant district attorney in Pittsburg County.He and his wife have two sons and are livingin Bartlesville .

John Denny Riley, '65ma, is professor ofAmerican history at Tarrant County JuniorCollege, Fort Worth.

Jarrell W. Garsee, '65ms, is professor ofpsychology at Mount Vernon (Ohio) NazareneCollege. He was selected to appear in the1970 edition of Outstanding Educators ofAmerica.

1966

Richard M. Bash, '66ba, is secorid secretaryand economic/commercial officer for the U.S .embassy in Accra, Ghana. He previouslyserved two years in Rio de Janeiro.

Capt . Jack G. Clark, '66ba, '69Law, is sta-tioned in Sakon Nakhon, Thailand, as a legaladvisor for the 809th Engineer Battalion.

Capt . James A. Riedler, '66bs, is a com-munications-electronics officer at Keesler AFB,Mississippi .

Capt . Charles K. Misak, '66bus, is an airoperations officer at Keflavik InternationalAirport, Iceland .

George Shannon, '66bus, has been promotedto trust officer of the Fourth National Bankof Tulsa.

Capt. Thomas W. Weeks, '66bus, is stationedat Ft . McClellan, Alabama, where he is serv-ing in the office of the staff judge advocate .He will go to Vietnam in May.Henry L. DeVilliers, '66journ, '68ma, is an

instructor of journalism at New Mexico JuniorCollege, Hobbs, where he is sponsoring thecollege newspaper and yearbook. He and hiswife Maria have four children .Dr . William C. Noblett, '66md, is a

second-year resident in internal medicine atBaylor University Medical Center, Dallas .

Robert L. Bailey, '66m .ed, '68edd, formerregistration director at OU, has been appoint-ed director of admissions and records for thenew Governors State University, Park ForestSouth, Illinois .

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but packa MasterChef inevery can

1967David F. Ellis, '67b.mus.ed, and his wife,

Marie Elaina Heath Ellis, '68h.ec, are livingin Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is di-rector of instrumental music at Creston HighSchool and she is a home economics instructorat Coldbrook and North Park Schools . Bothare active in civic symphony and choir per-formances.

Capt. Gary K. Dotson, '67bs, has receiveda regular commission in the Air Force. He isserving with an ROTC unit at the Universityof Hawaii.

Capt. Don G. Holladay, '67bs, '69Law, isstationed at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, wherehe is serving on the judge advocate staff.The Holladay's second son, Michael, was bornMarch 17, 1970. Their other son, David is 7.

Lt. Billy C. Wilkinson, '67bs, is stationedat Ent AFB, Colorado, where he is a spacesystems officer .

Capt. Robert R. Willhoite, '67bs, is stationedat Randolph AFB, Texas, where he is a weatherinstructor.

Capt. James H. Neuschaefer, '67bus, hasreceived a regular commission in the AirForce. He is a logistics officer at KellyAFB, Texas.

Capt . Charles Pruett, '67bus, is studyingtoward a master's degree at Florida StateUniversity .

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Births

To SoRelle Land Fitzgerald, '596a, and DonW. Fitzgerald, '58bus, a daughter, Erin Leigh,September 22 . Fitzgerald is chairman of theboard of the First Wagoner Bank and TrustCompany, Wagoner; president of the FirstOklahoma Bank and Trust Company, Sulphur,and a director of the Plaza National Bank,Bartlesville. He and his family live in Okla-homa City.To David Rutherford, '63bus, and Paula

Martin Rutherford, '64bs, a son, Michael Alan,in Rota, Spain. The family has since beentransferred to Philadelphia .To Mary Alice Clarkson Truss, '66ba, and

Nash P. Truss III, '64bus, their first child,Holly Elizabeth, December 5. The Trusses

Deaths

Harvey L. Short, '01, December 27 in Okla-homa City. Short was the first dean ofBethany Nazarene College and had servedon its board of regents .

Etta Hutchins Ambrister, '06mus, Decem-ber 3 in a nursing home in Purcell.

Clement O. Gittinger, '08eng, Decemberf in Tulsa. He had retired five years agofrom the Gittinger Photocopy Co.

Charles Housh, '08pharm, December 5 inKansas City, Missouri, after a lengthy illness.He was retired office manager for ParkeDavis and Co. and a pharmacist .

Clara Meyer, '14ba, October 9 in Shawnee.Miss Meyer was a retired teacher.

Eugene P. Ledbetter, '14Law, pioneer Okla-homa City attorney and former OU regent,in Oklahoma City .

Bourke H. Bayless, '16ba, retired Claremorepostmaster, in December in Claremore.

Corinne Breeding, '18ba, long time Okla-homa City insurance agent, January 26 inOklahoma City .W. Homer Hill, '18ba, '28ms, October 26

in Leavenworth, Kansas. Hill was formersuperintendent of schools in Perry and statesuperintendent of schools for Oklahoma.G. Emery Meador, '20ba, '23ma, retired

mathematics professor, in August in Tucson,Arizona.Mrs. Undine B. Mouso, '20ba, former teach-

er, January 20 in Oklahoma City.Dr. Dora Ann Stewart,'20bs,'21ms,'30phd,

January 1 in Alva . She was a former profes-sor at Southwestern State College and memberof the state Hall of Fame.

Lewis E. Salwaechter, '21eng, former coachand school superintendent, October 2, inMeeker .

Bernhard Willie Hammert, '23, farmer andrancher, in November in Anadarko.Mrs. Helen Sue Keller, '23ba, former Okla-

homa school teacher and principal, December26 in El Reno .

Sophie Altsbiller Court, '23ma, November21 in Norman. Mrs. Court emigrated fromPoland in 1908 and tutored and taught atOU and Colorado College.

live in Oklahoma City where he is an in-dependent insurance agent.To Susan Anderle Hammond, '66fa, and

Hobart Hammond, '67bus, their second daugh-ter Karen Lynne, November 6. The Hammondslive in Fayetteville, North Carolina.To Frank Lee Bollinger, '63ba, '66Law, and

Mary Gale Parker Bollinger, '66bs, a daughter,Caroline Lee, January 21 in Oklahoma City .To Arthur H. Thompson, '66ba, and Betty

L. Greenstine Thompson, '66ba, a daughter,Kathryn Nissa, in September in Prague, Okla-homa .To George T. Sawabini, '67pharm, and Mary

Jane Quackenbush Sawabini, '70ed, their firstchild, a son, George T. Jr., September 29.

George L. Carey, '24ba, November 17 inShawnee, where he had been a druggist formore than 40 years.

Lester E. Smith, '24Law, attorney and for-mer state senator, December 17 in OklahomaCity .

Joe C. Hemphill, '26geol, in Wellington,Texas, of a heart attack. He was employedby Mobil Oil Co .Y. E. Jones, '27ed, November 14 in Norman

of a heart attack . Jones was a long-timeCleveland County educator.

Webster L. Babb, '29pharm, Watonga phar-macist and drug store owner, January 10 inWatonga.Mayo Tench Tilghman, '31, attorney, Oc-

tober 13, in Oklahoma City following abrief illness.

Lucius (Bud) Babcock Jr., '31Law, El Renoattorney, August 19 in El Reno.Bernice

Berry

Beckham, '31 Law,

one

ofOklahoma's first woman lawyers, August 27in Oklahoma City .

Johnny May, '32bus, December 13 in Hy-dro.Maj. Gen. Edwin H. Burba, '33bus, in Oc-

tober in the crash of his twin-engine planenear Huntington, West Virginia .

John Bunyan Turner, '33m .ed, retired edu-cator, October 2 in Oklahoma City.

Frederick T. Cherry, '34eng, long-time Bap-tist evangelist, in November in Atlanta, Texas.

Samuel H. Minskey, '34Law, in July inRochester, Minnesota. He was a Tulsa busi-ness, church and civic leader.Ira G. Howlett, '35m .ed, December 8 at

Veterans Administration Hospital, OklahomaCity. He was an electrical engineer for morethan 40 years.

Col. (set) Cecil Vernon Storm, '36, ofNorman November 13 in Oklahoma City.

Ralph R. McCarty, '40m.ed, veteran Lawtonteacher, in Lawton after a heart attack .Dr. Grafton Adrian Smith, '43, October 19

in Columbia, Missouri, where he was apracticing surgeon.

W. E. Monsey, '47ma, in November at hisranch near Sterling. Monsey had been aneducator in the Duncan area for 38 years.Tony D. Vaughan, '47m .ed, '51edd, dean

of the School of Special Education at theUniversity of Northern Colorado, October3 in Greeley, Colorado.

Lennox I. Petree, '48geol, December 13 ofan apparent heart attack in Enid .

John Robert Puckett, '49journ, December13 in an auto accident in Dallas. He wasassistant managing editor of the Dallas Morn-ing News.Eva May Baker, '49m .ed, retired Oklahoma

City teacher, October 29 in Oklahoma City.Dr . Joseph W. Funnel, '49med, Oklahoma

City physician, January 31 in Oklahoma City .Martha Abston, '50, in a car accident in

New Delhi. Mrs. Abston was a professionalpainter and author .

James J. Story, '5Obs, December 29 aftera lengthy illness .Dr. Joseph G. Dollins, '53m .ed, '55d .ed, Sep-

tember 29 after the bicycle he was ridingnorth of Alva was struck by an automobile.He was a professor at Northwestern StateCollege.

James D. Iverson, '61 Law, Tulsa attorney,January 5 in a car accident in Tulsa.

Orval L. (Buddy) Harris Jr ., '65bus, Ft.Sill Civil Service employee, in November inLawton .

Judy Holcomb, '67fa, November 27 inMuskogee. She was a staff member of theOklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City.The Rev. Jerry Crawley, '70m .ed, former

rector of the Church of the Good ShepherdEpiscopal church in Sapulpa and formerpsychologist for the Southeast CommunityGuidance Center, Del City, January 19 inOklahoma City after a long illness. He andhis wife and three children had been livingin Norman.Dr. Sherman P. Lawton, professor of radio

and coordinator of broadcasting instructionand a faculty member at O'U since 1945,January 22 in Norman after a heart attack .