Mrs. Mabcl Chase Matthews, '09ba, pioneer stateeducator, died April 27 in Oklahoma City at theage of 63 after a three-clay illness at St . Anthonyhospital . Widow of the late Col. Thomas B.Matthews, '04, she was a charter member of theDelta Delta Delta sorority on the campus . Survivorsinclude two daughters and two sons, a sister, Mrs.R. H. Cloyd (Agncs Chase, '14bm), Dallas, threebrothers, Ralph E. Chase, '156a, '15bs, '27ma,Oklahoma City ; Milvil L. Cliase, Chandler ; Lt .Col. H. E. Chase, '27eng, Philippines, and sixgrandchildren.

Mrs. T. John Torkelson (Alva Jarbeau, '196a),Seattle, Washington, visited the Alunuu Office whileon a recent trip to Norman .

William E. McGinnis, '21ba, Oklahoma City,was appointed assistant manager of the VeteransHospital at Wichita, Kansas . Mr . McGinnis hasbeen a vocational adviser in vocational rehabilita-tion and education with the Veterans Administra-tion of Wichita.

Earl Bartholomew, '22eng, and Mrs. Bartholo-mew (Juanita Snedaker, '2lbm) visited inOklahoma City recently en route to California .Mr. Bartholomew is director in the researchengineering laboratories of the Ethyl Corporationfor General Motors, Detroit, Michigan .

-1923-13IGGERSTAFF-STEVENS : Miss Lucy Mae

Biggerstaff, Purcell, and Razz G. Stevens, '21law,Lexington, were married April 7 in OklahomaCity . Mrs. Stevens, who received a medicaldischarge from the WAC last year, is employedat the Guaranty Abstract Company in Purcell .Mr . Stevens, also a graduate of Harvard University,Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a law practice inPurcell . -1925-

Orville Priestley, '256a, Aurora, Missouri, haspurchase(( the Artesia Advocate in New Mexico, oneof the state's leading weeklies . Ile recently sold theCrowley Daily Signal and the Acadian-Signal,Crowley, Louisiana . Mr . Priestley served as presi-dent of the Louisiana Press Association last year .

-1928-111;'NSLI?Y-PAULSEN : Miss Dorothy L. I Icnslcy,

and (,order G. Paulsen, '26-'28, both of El Reno,were married recently in Norman . Mrs. Paulsen,a yeoman second class in the WAVES, wasstationed at the Naval Air Station, Miami, Florida .Mr . Paulsen, a member of Sigma Chi fraternity,is credit manager for the Canadian Mill andElevator Company, El Reno .

1929^Loyal H. Wells, '29,gcol, Duncan, is a party

chief and supervisor for a Gcophysic ExplorationCompany with headquarters at Denver, Colorado .

-1931(-Lt. James F. Boynton, '30-'31, and Mrs. Boynton

(Margaret Pyle, '33ba) are the parents of a babydaughter, Martha Lee, born April 16 at Abilene,Texas. Lieutenant Boynton, formerly stationed atCamp Barkelcy, Texas, has been transferred toCamp Crowder, Missouri .

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-1922-Hrr.rs BUILD B-29

funita Maxwell Taylor, '411a, is a junior engi-neer with Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, worl~ingun the central fire control system o/ the B-29 .Her husband, Clarence Taylor, '43arch,

'43errg, is also an engineer with Boeing .

Dick Pearce, '316a, former reporter on the01tlahonra City Times and 0ltlahoma News, wasincluded in the party of 14 newspapermen fromthroughout the nation who left San Franciscorecently on a six-week tour of Pacific air bases asguests of the Army Air Forces Command . Mr .Pearce is on the editorial staff of the San FranciscoExaminer .

-1933-Mrs. Mary Hackett Mitchell, '316a, '33ma,

librarian of Lynwood Elementary School just outof Los Angeles, reported that approximately 15 ofthe 85 teachers in that school are from Oklahoma .Bess Sparlin, '41m .ed, Lawton, is principal, andothers on the staff include Catherine Pool, '316a,Shawnee, and Ruth Dosscy, '4lm .cd, of Okemah .Charles Clark, '35m .ed, is superintendent ofBanning School which is located nearby in Banning,California .

Lt. Robert A. Park, '336a, and Mrs. Park arethe parents of a baby (laughter, Marcella Helen,born February 11 in Oklahoma City. LieutenantPark, on military leave from the Oklahoma CityAssociated press bureau, is Navy public relationsofficer for Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle.

1934-SULTAN-HACKETT : Miss Linda Fascr Sultan,

San Antonio, and Maj . Perry Bradbury Hackett,'34eng, Norman, were married April 6 at Fort SamHouston, Texas. Major Hackett recently returnedfrom Italy after more than three years of serviceoverseas . He was to report to Miami, Florida, forfurther assignment .

Ira Nash, '34eng, engineer with the SeismographService Corporation of Delaware in Venezuela,visited friends in Oklahoma this spring while homeon the vacation allotted by the company to em-ployees after three years. He was to return to hispost at Caracas May 1 . Mr . Nash has charge ofthe purchase of supplies, food and equipment formembers of field parties. Ile reported that Jim

McWilliams, '39-'42, and (: . C. Cody, '40geol, areemployed in Venezuela and he sees themoccasionally .SHELTON-GIPFORD : Miss Geneva A. Shelton,

'34ed, Lawton, and Cpl. Edward Gifford, Clarks-burg, West Virginia, were married April 19 atLawton . Mrs. Gifford has been employed by theEngineers Corps at Fort Sill . Corporal Giffordrecently returned from 18 months of duty inthe Aleutian Islands . The couple have establisheda home at Lawton .

-1935-Lt . J . B. Gwin, '32-'35, and Mrs. Gwin (Carol

lioone, '34-'35) are the parents of a baby sonJames B., Jr ., born February 6 in Palm Springs,California .

-1936-Elizabeth Gotwals, '36ed, Muskogee, recently

arrived in England for further assignment in theEuropean Theater of Operations as an AmericanRed Cross secretary . Miss Gotwals was formerlyemployed at the Prisoner of War Camp, CampGruber, Muskogee .

Mrs. Allie Smith Moore, '346a, '36ma, formerstate supervisor under the Works Progress Admin-istration of all library projects in the state ofCalifornia, is now librarian of a high school inLos Angeles, California . Mrs. Moore, one of theleaders in the country in the field of libraryorganization and supervision, set up the library atBirmingham Hospital, Van Nuys, California, andpreviously was connected with the Ninth CorpsArea in library work . Mrs. Moore taught inOklahoma (luring the early '20s and later madea tour of the world. She was connected with theBureau of Education in the Philippines in 1925-27and taught in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1927-33.

-1937--,I-IINES-NASII : Miss Juanita Hines, '37ed, and

Ira Nash, '34eng, both of Norman, were marriedApril 27 in Oklahoma City . Mrs. Nash has beena teacher at Washington School, Norman . Mr .Nash is employed with the Seismograph ServiceCorporation of Delaware in Caracas, Venezuela.NIT, . Nash was to join him at the end of the currentsc rrt este r .

- 1938-Richard R . Linn, '38law, and Mrs. Linn

(Betty Gibbens, '37ba) are the parents of a babyson Richard R., Jr., born March 23 in OklahomaCity . Mr . Linn is in law practice there.

-1939-El mer Cecil, '39m .ed, former principal of Clinton

High School, has been appointed superintendent ofWeatherford city schools . In addition to his dutiesas superintendent, Mr. Cecil will also serve asdirector of the Southwestern Institute of Technologyteacher training school, operated in conjunctionwith the public school .McCARTY-McKINNEY : Miss Mary Doris

McCarty and Howard E. McKinney, '39cng, bothof Temple, were married April 1 at Austin, Texas.Mrs. McKinney has been employed in the UnitedStates Department of Agriculture office in Austin .Mr . McKinney, an engineer with the Shell OilCompany, Houston, is a member of a researchgroup at the University of Texas, Austin.

-1940-CROWDER-CLIFTON: Miss Marcoline Crowder,

Dallas, Texas, and Sgt. Rae M. Clifton, '406us,Norman, were married May 7, in Dallas . SergeantClifton was stationed at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas,where the couple will live . Before entering service,

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he was employed with the North AmericanAviation Company in Dallas . Mrs. Clifton, whoattended school in Wichita Falls and Tyler, hasbeen employed with the same company.Maj. Paul A. Fisher, '36-'40, and Mrs. Fisher

(Geraldine Ware, '416a) are the parents of a babyson Paul, Jr., born February 10 in Norman . MajorFisher is overseas with the Field Artillery.C. McFerron Gittinger, '386a, '40bus, Norman,

is professor of retailing and director of thedepartment of retailing at the University of SouthCarolina, Columbia . He is the nephew of Dr. RoyGittinger, O.U . clean of admissions .Mrs. Louise Houssiere Herrington, '40geol,

recently joined the geological staff of the StandardOil Company in Cleveland, Ohio, as a geologist .Mrs. Herrington was formerly chief micro-paleon-tologist in the South Texas division of the TexasCompany, located in Houston.SWANN-LAMKIN : Miss Swans, Kettering,

North Hamptonshire, England, and Lt. JamesLamkin, '38-'40, Carnegie, were married April 2in England. Mrs. Lamkin is a member of the TSA,an organization similar to the WAC. LieutenantLamkin, a maintenance engineer and inspector,has been overseas since May, 1944 . They plan tolive in America after the war.BRACKETT-MOON: Miss Edna Brackett,

lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, Peace Dale,Rhode Island, and Lt. Howard Earl Moon, '38-'40,Bartlesville, were married recently in Honolulu,Hawaii. Mrs. Moon is an Army flight nurse,assigned to the Pacific Division, Air TransportCommand. Lieutenant Moon, a member of AlphaTau Omega fraternity, is a navigator in the AirTransport Command.Romney Philpott, '406a, and Mrs. Philpott are

the parents of a baby (laughter, Julie Anne, bornMarch 21 in Oklahoma City .Maj. Hugh Porter Stubbs, '40ba, and Mrs.

Stubbs are the parents of a baby daughter, SusanFerriba, born February 15 in Oklahoma City .Major Stubbs was stationed at Camp Hood,Texas.

Lt. William J . Sutton, '40bus, and Mrs. Sutton(Florence Potter, '40-'41) have chosen the nameEmily Lee for their baby daughter born February14 in Chicago.

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1941-ANDERSON-MORRISON: Miss Mary Erle An-

derson, '41ed, Norman, and Sgt. Paul OliverMorrison, Warrensburg, Missouri, were marriedApril 15 in Norman . Mrs. Morrison was employedin the business office of the Southwestern BellTelephone Company in Oklahoma City . SergeantMorrison, who recently returned from 14 monthsof service in England with the Army Air Forces,was to report to the Army Hospital at Longview,Texas.WILLIAMS-BELL: Miss Martha Kccsce Williams,

Fort Worth, Texas, and Lt. (jg) Gerald EdwardBell, '39-'41, Stigler, were married March 15 atSan Diego, California . Lieutenant Bell is in theDental Corps of the United States Naval Reserveat San Diego, where the couple will live .

Cecil E. Cross, '4lpharm, was to graduate June 3from the School of Dentistry of the University ofKansas City . Mrs. Cross is the former Alice FayeClark, '41ma.PENSON-HOWARD : Miss Anne Penson, Perth

Amboy, New Jersey, and Lt . George C. Howard,'41eng, McAlester, were married March 25 inMcAlester. Lieutenant Howard was stationed atthe Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, New Jersey . Beforeentering service he was employed with theStanolind Oil Company.

William Thomas Milam, '41cng, and Mrs. Milam(Betty Skogsberg, '41ba) have chosen the nameSallyann for their baby daughter born April 23in Wichita, Kansas .PETREE-REAGAN : Miss Frances Petree, '41ed,

and Charles A. Reagan, Lamesa, Texas, weremarried April 7 in Altus. Mrs. Reagan wasemployed in the office of the county judge atAltus. Mr . Reagan is a supervising irrigationengineer for the Soil Conservation Service workunit in the Altus-Lugert irrigation district. He is

a discharged veteran, having served with theArmy Engineers near Hudson's Bay in Canada, andin India and Burma.McCANDLISH-PRICHARD : Miss Nancy Mon-

tague McCandlish, Fairfax, Virginia, and Lt. EdgarAllen Prichard, '40-'41, Tulsa, were married April7 in Cairo, Egypt. Mrs. Prichard, a graduate ofSweet Briar College, Virginia, has been overseassince last summer . Lieutenant Prichard, a memberof Phi Beta Kappa honor society, was stationed inCairo.

-1942-GLOVER-BROOKS : Miss Mary Glover, Lake-

land, Florida, and Lt . (jg) Charles Phillips Brooks,

Award for InventionCarl E. Baird, '38eng, Oklahoma City, has been

granted the Department of Interior's "award ofexcellence" and a $l,000 cash bonus for inventionof an automatic cut-off valve to prevent pipelineleakage. Mr . Baird, now employed by the Bureauof Mines at Otis, Kansas, invented the valve whenlie was stationed at the government helium plantat Amarillo .

'42eng, Norman, were married April 1 in SanDiego, California . Mrs. Brooks is a graduate ofFlorida Southern College and a member of AlphaChi Omega sorority. Lieutenant Brooks recentlyreturned from two years of duty at sea in thesubmarine service . He was to be stationed ashoreon the Pacific coast.

Willard Blanton and Mrs. Blanton (GretaCarter, '42he) are the parents of a baby son, RobertBarch, born April 18 in El Reno . The (late wasthat of their second wedding anniversary.

Lillian Jeffries, '42ed, is a Red Cross workerassigned to the United States Naval Hospital,Corona, California.Sam H. Johnson, '42chem, seaman first class,

and Mrs. Johnson (Elizabeth Mansfield, '39-'42)are the parents of a baby son, Sam Houston, 111,born January 4 in Los Angeles. They also havea (laughter Mary Karen, 2.

Junior Knee, '41soc .wk, '42ma, a social scienceanalyst with the vital statistics division of theCensus Bureau in Washington, D.C., was on athree-month field trip to various parts of theUnited States . Mrs. Knee (Ruth Irelan, '41soc .wk)is working as a psychiatric social worker in themental hygiene unit of the United States PublicHealth Service dispensary for federal employees.

Hazel Irene Smith, '42ba, Norman, has beenappointed missionary to Latin America by theforeign mission board of the Southern BaptistConvention . Miss Smith, who has studied at HouseBeautiful, a training center for girls at Louisville,Kentucky, will go either to Argentina or Brazil .SWAN-WADDINGTON: Miss Helen Swan,

'42soc .wk, lieutenant in the WAC, and Lt . HarryK. Waddington, of the Medical Corps, weremarried last November at Camp Barkeley, Texas.Mrs. Waddington was stationed in the Quarter-master Executive office at Camp Barkeley .Lieutenant Waddington is a graduate of theUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine .CALDWELL-WARREN: Miss Mary Margaret

Caldwell, Oklahoma City, and Lt. Robert H.Warren, Jr ., '42, Hugo, were married April 24 inOklahoma City . Mrs. Warren is a graduate ofOklahoma A. and M. College, Stillwater . LieutenantWarren, who also attended the University ofChicago, was stationed at Tinker Field, OklahomaCity, as weather officer .

Capt. Mentor G. Baker, Jr ., '426us, and Mrs.Baker have chosen the name Menter G., III, for theirbaby son born February 16 in Giddings, Texas,where Mrs. Baker is making her home duringCaptain Baker's absence overseas.BOTTOM-SPERRY : Miss Betty Jane Bottom,

'41-'42, Wichita Falls, and Loren C. Sperry, '39,Army Air Corps flight engineer from Creek, Okla-homa, were married December 31 at El Paso, Texas.

Mrs. Sperry attended the Texas State College forWomen, Denton . Mr. Sperry was stationed at BiggsField, Texas.Fred A. Byers, '42m .ed; is doing graduate work

in music at the University of Arizona, Tucson .Lt . John T. Cordell, '42, and Mrs. Cordell are

the parents of a baby son, John Camblin, bornJanuary 10 in Tulsa.DAVIS-ANDERSON : Miss Charlaine Davis, '42,

Cushing, and Lt. Oscar S. Anderson, '40geol, Oil-ton, were married March 4 in Cushing. Mrs. Ander-son, a graduate of Hockaday Junior College atDallas, has been employed by the American Air-ways in Tulsa. Lieutenant Anderson, attached tothe intelligence division of the Navy, has beenbased overseas for the last 30 months . lie was toreport to the Anacostia Naval Base, D. C., for fur-ther assignment .Lt . Clyde P. Fisher, '426a, and Mrs. Fisher arc

the parents of a baby son, Clyde, Jr ., born February19 in Oklahoma City . Lieutenant Fisher is over-seas .

Jeannctta Frances, '42ed, Altus, has been em-ployed by the Oklahoma Publishing Company assecretary to J. I . Meyerson, director of the promo-tion department for the entire organization includ-ing the Daily 01~lahoman, 01~lahonza City Times,Mistletoe Express, radio station WKY and otherbusiness ventures .Walt Grove, '38=42, Dallas, is the author of a

story, "Search and Rescue," in the March 3 issueof Collier's magazine .TURNER-HIPPEN : Miss Dorothy Turner, Mem-

phis, Tennessee, and Lt . (jg) Robert Lee Hippcn,'426s, Oklahoma City, were married March 17 inMemphis. Mrs. Hippcn attended Southwestern Col-Icge, Memphis. Mr . Hippen received his M. 1) . de-gree from the University of Tennessee College ofMedicine and his commission in March.Capt . Joseph L. IIull, Jr ., '42law, and Mrs. Hull

(Dathel Haskins, '42ed) have chosen the nameI)atl(el Lois for their baby daughter born March 30in Oklahoma City . Captain Hull is overseas .MEDER-LAWRENCE : Miss Naomi Meder,

Houston, Texas, and Lt. Robert L. I.awrcnce, '42,Anadarko, were married in March, soon after Lieu-tenant Lawrence's return to the United States fromthe European front. After a leave in Anadarko andOklahoma City, Lieutenant Lawrence was sent toMcCloskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas, formedical treatment of injuries received in combat.C. B. Thomasson, chief petty officer in the Navy,

and Mrs. Thomasson (Priscilla Merkle, '40-'42) arethe parents of a baby daughter, Linda Ann, bornFebruary 18 in Norman . Mr . Thomasson, formerlystationed at the Norman Naval Air Technical'Training Center, was on duty at Alameda, Cali-fornia .Lt. (jg) Dec A. Replogle, '42, and Mrs. Replogle

have selected the name Mary Elizabeth for theirbaby (laughter born February 28 in Oklahoma City .Lieutenant Reploggle is stationed in Washington,D. C.RINSLAND-KELLY : Miss Almeda Rinsland,

'41-'42, Norman, and Lt. (jg) Gregory LouisKelly, Beverly Hills, California, were marriedJanuary 30 in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Kelly hasbeen attending George Washington University .Lieutenant Kelly, a member of Kappa Sigma fra-ternity, attended Stanford University, Palo Alto,California . Lieutenant Kelly was stationed at theSanford Naval Air Station, Florida, where thecouple have established a home .

Robert L. Schmitz, '42ed, is the supervism''ofmusic at Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York .

J . Lynn Stratton, '396s, '42m .eng, and Mrs .Stratton (Bettye Gayle Cooley, '37-'40) are theparents of a baby son, Michael Lynn, born March7 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Mr . Stratton is connect-ed with the U. S. Bureau of Mines in Tuscaloosa .IIARDER-TANNER : Miss Wilma Harder, Fair-

view, and Ensign Walter Tanner, '41-'42, Okla-homa City, were married February 6 in Fairview .Mrs. Tanner is a graduate of Fairview High School .Ensign Tanner, who also attended the Universityof Kansas, Lawrence, was stationed at the NavalAir Station, DeLand, Florida .CAMPBELL-HUNT: Miss Lola Gene Camp-

bell, '42journ, Norman, and Paul Hunt, Oklahoma

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City, were married April 26 in the bride's home inNorman . A member of the editorial staff of theDaily Oklahoman, Mrs. Hunt previously was con-nected with the United Press in Chicago, the Hous-ton Press and the Houston Chronicle in Texas.While a student in the University, she was editorone year of the Covered Wagon. Mr . Hunt is dis-trict traffic manager of American Airlines and wellknown to Oklahoma sports fans as a sports an-nouncer. The couple have established a home inOklahoma City .

1943-BLANTON-HEERWALD : Miss Betty Blanton,

'43ed, Norman, and Lt. (jg) Elmo Heerwald,'42bus, Manitou, Oklahoma, were married April20 in Norman . Mrs. Heerwald has been assistantdirector of visual education and short courses inthe University Extension Division . LieutenantHeerwald, who recently returned from 17 monthsof duty in the Pacific, was to report to Miami,Florida, for further assignment .CUNNINGHAM-JONES : Miss Arlen Cunning-

ham, '43he, Tulsa, and Lt. (jg) Ralph HowellJones, Henderson, North Carolina, were marriedApril 29 in Tulsa. Mrs. Jones, a member of DeltaGamma sorority, has been employed as homeservice director for the Oklahoma Natural GasCompany in Shawnee, Holdenville and HughesCounty . Lieutenant Jones, whp recently returnedfrom 13 months of combat duty, was stationed atthe Naval Air Station, Shawnee.WATTERS-MARTENEY : Miss Shirley Mac

Watters, Lawton, and Lt . James Ivan Marteney,'43bus, Hutchinson, Kansas, were married March17 at Lawton . Mrs. Martcncy was supervisor ofthe Southwestern Bell Telephone office in Lawton .Lieutenant Marteney was assigned to SheppardField, Wichita Falls, Texas, for special liaisontraining .

Earl E. McReynolds, '43eng, processing engineerfor the J . S. Abercrombie Company and theHarrison Oil Company at Old Ocean, Texas, isauthor of an article, "New Method of EquilibriumVaporization Calculations," which appeared in theMarch issue of Petroleum Refiner published inHouston, Texas.MERRITT-WESTERVELT : Miss Nanalain Mer-

rit, '40-'41, and Floyd B. Westervelt, '37-'38, bothof Norman, were married April 7 in Fort Worth,Texas. Mrs. Westervelt has been employed in thecomptroller division of Douglas Aircraft inOklahoma City . Mr . Westervelt is with the Mari-time Service in New Orleans, Louisiana, where thecouple will live.SHELTON-BAUBLITS : Miss Gloria Shelton,

'41-'43, Oklahoma City, and Lt . Bob Baublits, '42,Ada, were married May 10 in Oklahoma City . Amember of Delta Gamma sorority, Mrs. Baublitswas a stewardess with American Airlines withheadquarters at Fort Worth. Lieutenant Baublits,a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, wasstationed at Liberal, Kansas, as a B-24 instructor .FOX-WALLACE : Miss Elva Fox, Norman, and

Sgt. Joe S. Wallace, '43law, El Reno, were marriedApril 20 in Chickasha. Mrs. Wallace has beenemployed at Borden General Hospital in Chickasha.Sergeant Wallace was attending Medical Adminis-trative Corps Officers Candidate School at CarlisleBarracks, Pennsylvania.

David Wood, '43, Muskogee, was attending theUniversity of Texas, Austin, and working on anewspaper there.EDWARDS-BALFOUR : Miss Margie Lou Ed-

wards, Cherokee, and Lt. R. Id. Balfour, '39-'43,Hunter, Oklahoma, were married February 17 inCherokee . Mrs. Balfour, who attended the Univer-sity of Arizona, Tucson, has been employed at theFirst National Bank, Ponca City . Lieutenant Bal-four was stationed at Fort Sill, where the couplewill live.FITZGERALD-BRAGG : Miss Phyllis Anne

Fitzgerald, '43ba, Muskogec, and Lt. BenjaminFranklin Bragg, Jr ., '40-'42, Cushing, were mar-ried March 4 in Muskogec. Mrs. Bragg is a mem-ber of Delta Delta Delta sorority . LieutenantBragg, a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, re-

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Gently returned from 20 months in the South Pa-cific . He was stationed at the Marine Air Base atCherry Point, North Carolina, where the couplewill live .Tommye Duncan, '43journ, is a civilian mem-

ber of the Army Medical Corps in training as anoccupational therapist at the University of SouthernCalifornia, Los Angeles.L. D. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson (Virginia

MacLean, '43), Baltimore, Maryland, are the par-ents of a baby daughter, Carole, born last October.Tom Nielsen, '43, seaman first class in the Navy,

and Mrs. Nielsen have chosen the name AlvinRandolph Milford for their baby son born Feb-ruary 18 . Mr . Nielsen, son of Dr. J . Rud Nielsen,University physicist, and Mrs. Nielsen, was sta-tioned at Great Lakes, Illinois .

Lt . Jack B. Pitts, '43, and Mrs. Pitts have chosenthe name Lynda Jean for their baby daughter bornrecently in Madill . Lieutenant Pitts is overseas .ROWNTREE-KELTNER : Miss Tully Jo Rown-

tree, '43soc .wk, Oklahoma City, and Capt . T. N.Keltner, '39-'42, Tishomingo, were married Feb-ruary 19 in Dodge City, Kansas. Mrs. Keltner alsoattended Maryville College, St . Louis. CaptainKeltner recently returned from overseas . He holdsthe Distinguished Flying Cross, the PresidentialUnit Citation, the Croix de Guerre, and the AirMedal with ten Oak Leaf Clusters .

Mrs. Dick Virtue (Sue Starr, '43soc .wk), formerfield representative for the O. U. Alumni Associa-tion, has been employed as public informationchairman for the Oklahoma County Red Crosschapter . Corporal Virtue is on overseas duty .TUTTLE-TANKERSLEY : Miss Jamie B. Tuttle

and Lt . Dan A. Tankersley, '40-'43, both of Okla-homa City, were married February 18 in OklahomaCity . Mrs. Tankersley attended Oklahoma CityUniversity . Lieutenant Tankersley, a member ofBeta Theta Pi fraternity, was stationed at Fort Sill .

Lt . Mac Bradley and Mrs. Bradley (JoyceThompson, '43journ) are the parents of a babydaughter, Margaret Ann, born January 29 inCharlotte, North Carolina .GERMAN-VANCIL: Miss Barbara Louis Ger-

man, Ellensburg, Washington, and Cadet ArleyVancil, '39-'43, Ada, were married February 7 inLas Vegas, Nevada . Mrs. Vancil attended Washing-ton State College, Pullman. Mr . Vancil, a memberof Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, was stationed atPecos, Texas, for further training as a navigator.WALKER-NAGLE : Miss Harmony Welton

Walker, '43ba, Hominy, and Lt . Paul R. Nagle,Jr ., '43, Spencer, were married February 27 at Vic-torville, California . Mrs. Nagle is a member ofChi Omega sorority . Lieutenant Nagle, a memberof Sigma Chi fraternity, has been transferred toWilliams Field, Arizona.

Lt. Robert W. Wheeler, '43eng, and Mrs. Wheeler(Betty Ray Webb, '42-'43) are the parents of ababy daughter, Barbara Kay, born April 1 in Okla-homa City. Lieutenant Wheeler is stationed inAkron, Ohio .

Gloria Yates, '436a, Seminole, recently receivedher master's degree at the American Conservatoryof Music in Chicago, Illinois . Miss Yates, who plansto remain in Chicago to do radio and concert work,will go cast this summer before coming home for avisit . Since going to Chicago, she has sung on pro-grams there and in Kansas City, St . Louis and In-dianapolis, and has appeared at USO centers as amember of a trio she organized.

1944--HALL-MORGAN : Miss Willa June Hall, '44fa,

Perry, and Lt. Robert Morgan, Ponca City, weremarried March 11 in Perry. Mrs. Morgan is amember of Delta Gamma sorority . LieutenantMorgan, a member of Acacia fraternity, wasstationed at Gainesville, Florida, where the couplewill live .GARDYNE-HARDIN : Miss Mary Jane Gardyne,

St. Louis, Missouri, and Ensign Sylvester HarveyHardin, '44eng, Chelsea, were married April 28at Davisville, Rhode Island . Mrs. Hardin wasemployed by the Bell Telephone Company in St .Louis. Ensign Hardin is an instructor at the NavalTraining Center at Davisville, Rhode Island . Thecouple will live at Wickford, Rhode Island .

Gene Potes, '44journ, Oklahoma City, has re-signed as capitol reporter for the Tulsa World tobecome capitol reporter for the Associated Press inOklahoma City .RUYLE-WYNN : Miss Betty Eileen Ruyle,

'44speech, and Capt. Paul E. Wynn, both ofOkmulgee, were married April 29 at Okmulgee .Mrs. Wynn has been employed by radio stationKHBG at Okmulgee . Captain Wynn recentlyreturned from 17 months of service in the Southpacific with a Marine Transport squadron . He wasstationed at El Centro, California, where the couplewill live .SIMPSON-FEZLER : Miss Jo Clcta Simpson, '44,

To Work With AirlineDorothy Vieregg, '44ba, Clinton, was in train-

ing at Miami, Florida, to become an airline hostessfor Pan American Airways. Miss Vieregg has trav-eled in Mexico and expects to be stationed at NewOrleans, Miami, or Brownsville, Texas.

and Ensign Day Fezler, Jr., '45, both of Okla-homa City, were married February 25 in Okla-homa City . Mrs. Fezler, who also attended Linden-wood College, St. Charles, Missouri, is a memberof Delta Gamma sorority. Ensign Fezler, who re-ceived his commission from the N.R.O .T .C . inFebruary, was assigned to San Francisco . He isa member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.SULLIVAN-COLLINS : Miss Margaret Azilce

Sullivan, Cushing, and Cpl. Henry Walker Collins,Jr ., '44, Oklahoma City, were married February 11in Duncan . Mrs. Collins has been employed as asecretary with the Halliburton Oil Well CementingCompany in Duncan . Corporal Collins, a memberof Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, was stationed atCamp Barkeley, Abilene, Texas, where the couplewill live .COOK-KEMENDO : Miss Frances Virginia Cook,

'44journ, Atoka, and Lt. (jg) Chris V. Kemendo,Jr ., '42bus, New Orleans, Louisiana, were marriedMarch 11 in Atoka. Mrs. Kemendo, a member ofChi Omega sorority, was a member of the advertis-ing staff of the Oklahoma Daily. Lt. Kemendo, amember of Delta Tau Delta- fraternity, has recentlyreturned from 17 months of duty in the SouthwestPacific where he was in command of a rescue ves-sel . Lieutenant Kemendo was assigned to FortLauderdale, Florida .DEISTER-LEMMONS: Miss Helen Margaret

Deister, '44fa, and Sgt. Virgil Lemmons, both ofTecumseh, were married March 12 in OklahomaCity . Mrs. Lemmons, a member of Pi Beta Phi soror-ity, also attended William Woods College, Fulton,Missouri, and Oklahoma A. and M. College, Still-water. Sergeant Lemmons has been a radio operatorin the Air Corps overseas for 32 months .MURRY-HORIGAN: Miss Joan Murry and En-

sign James E. Horigan, '44, both of OklahomaCity, were married March 8 in Oklahoma City .Mrs. Horigan attended Texas State College forWomen, Denton . Ensign Horigan, a member ofPhi Gamma Delta fraternity, received his commis-sion from the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's Schoolat Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois . Hewas assigned to San Francisco, California .KIBLER-DOUGLAS : Miss Bette Kibler, '43-'44,

and Ensign James A. Douglas, '45ba, both of Okla-homa City, were married February 25 in OklahohiaCity . Ensign Douglas was assigned to San Fran-cisco, California, where the couple will live .MARZETTI-BRIDGES : Miss Marian Marzetti,

'441)a, and Sgt. Afton C. Bridges, both of Spring-field, Missouri, were married September 14 inSpringfield. Mrs. Bridges is a member of AlphaChi Omega sorority . Sergeant Bridges, a memberof Kappa Alpha fraternity, is a graduate of theUniversity of Missouri, Columbia . He was sta-tioned at Bushnell General Hospital, Brigham City,Utah, as a vocational rehabilitation counselor .

Robert O. Matthern, '44eng, is employed by theDelaware, Lackawanna, and Western RailroadCompany on the Scranton Division, doing generalcivil engineering work .

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MILLER-McCORD : Miss Nancy Virginia Miller,'41-'44, Oklahoma City, and Gus Pennington Mc-Cord, '44,seaman firstclass in theNavyfrom

Shawnee, were married March 11 in Houston,Texas. Mrs. McCord, a member of Kappa AlphaTheta sorority, also attended Sarah Lawrence Col-lege, Bronxville, New York . Mr . McCord, a mem-her of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, was stationed atHouston.

Walter A. Hitchcock and Mrs. Hitchcock (Na-dine Rainbolt, '40-'44) are the parents of a babyson, Paul Henry, born recently in Fort Worth,Texas.THOMAS-STARK : Miss Joan June Thomas,

'44ba, Ponca City, and David Joseph Stark, '44eng,Calgary, Alberta, Canada, were married February25 in Ponca City . Mrs. Stark, a member of GammaPhi Beta sorority, was employed in the researchdepartment of the Phillips Petroleum Company,Bartlesville. Mr . Stark is employed by the ShellOil Company as a chemical engineer in Montreal,Quebec, Canada, where the couple have establisheda home.TINCH-RAMAY : Miss Rebecca Tinch, '446a,

and Lt . (jg) Wayne P. Ramay, both of McAlester,were married February 18 in McAlester. Mrs.Ramay, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, also at-tended the University of Colorado, Boulder. Lieu-tenant Ramay is a graduate of the United StatesNaval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and OfficersSubmarine School in New London, Connecticut.He was stationed in San Francisco, California .

-1945-DOTT-BIRD : Miss Bobette Dott, '44-'45, Nor-

man, and S. Frederick Bird, '44eng, Ottawa, (an-ada, were married March 10 at Talara, Peru . Mrs.Bird is the daughter of Robert H. Dott, director ofthe Oklahoma Geological Survey at the University,and Mrs. Dott. Mr . Bird is employed by the Inter-national Petroleum Company, Negritos, Peru,where the couple will live . Mrs. Bird flew to Perufor the wedding.JOHNSON-PRICE : Miss Bonnie Dolores John-

son, '45he, Peoria, Illinois, and Ensign PhilipMitchell Price, Brownsville, Texas, were marriedFebruary 24 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Price, amember of Chi Omega sorority, attended StephensCollege, Columbia, Missouri, as well as the Uni-versity. She was attended by her sister Marta,'44bus, as maid of honor. Ensign Price was attend-ing Texas A. and M. College where he enlisted inthe Navy Air Corps. He received his commissionand wings in March, 1944, and served for sevenmonths in the South Pacific . Ile was stationed atCorpus Christi for further training.POWELL-TIDD: Miss Margaret Elizabeth

Powell, Tyler, Texas, and Ensign Emmett HulcyTidd, '42-'45, Oklahoma City, were married Feb-ruary 25 at Tyler. Ensign Tidd, who received hiscommission from the Naval Reserve Officers Train-ing Corps at the University in February, was sta-tioned at Norfolk, Virginia, for advanced training .Carmen Amador, '45lib.sci, Hatillo, Puerto Rico,

is teaching English in the junior high school atQuebradillas, Puerto Rico . Miss Amador is theniece of Dr . J . M. Hernandez, professor of Span-ish at the University. . She has a brother, JuanAmador, who is now enrolled in the School ofArchitectural Engineering at O. U.DOWNING-MEACHAM: Miss Mary Patricia

Downing, '45, and Ensign John Ferrell Meacham,'45, both of Norman, were married February 25in Norman . Mrs. Meacham is a member of DeltaGamma sorority . Ensign Meacham, a member ofKappa Sigma fraternity, is the son of Dr . E. D.Meacham, clean of the College of Arts and Sci-ences at O. U. He was assigned to duty in thePacific area .FAULKENBERRY-KEITH : Miss Juanita Faulk-

enberry, '45bus, Oklahoma City, and Ensign GuyKeith, '44eng, Eureka, California, were marriedJanuary 20 at Davisville, Rhode Island . Mrs. Keithis a member of Chi Omega sorority . Ensign Keith,member of Pe-et, honorary scholastic society . formen, received his commission at Camp Endicott,Rhode Island .

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