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April, 1933
A News Magazine for University of Oklahoma graduates andformer
students published monthly except August and Sep-tember by the
University of Oklahoma Association, OklahomaUnion Building, Norman,
Oklahoma . Chester H. Westfall,'16 journ Ponca City, president;
Frank S. Cleckler,'21bus, Norman, secretary-treasurer. Membership
dues : An-nual $3 of which $2 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE, Life$60
of which $40 is for THE SOONER MAGAZINE . Copyright
OFFICERSChester H. Westfall, '16journ ., Ponca City,
PresidentLewis R. Morris, '15as, '17law, '15MA, Oklahoma City,
Vice
dent .Shelley E. Tracy, 'llas, Dallas, Texas, Vice
PresidentFrank S Cleckler, '2ibus, Norman,
Secretary-TreasurerJoseph A. Brandt, '21journ, Norman, Editor
BOARD MEMBERSMike Monroney, '23journ, Oklahoma City, ex
officioLuther H. White, '14as, Tulsa, at largeOtto A. Brewer,
'17as, '20law, Hugo, at large
Oklahomans at home and abroadASSOCIATION PROGRESS
Nominees : alumni executive board
AT LARGE: Mrs Walter Ferguson, '07,newspaper writer ; Earl
Foster, '12, law-yer, Oklahoma City ; J. W. Capshaw, '13,lawyer,
Oklahoma City ; Errett R. New-by, '07, oil business, Oklahoma City
;Francis M. Dudley, '16, assistant attorneygeneral, Ardmore; Orel
Busby, '14, jus-tice state supreme court, Ada; GlenClark, '1 .3,
chief geologist, ContinentalOil Company, Ponca City ; Wesley
Nunn,'17, advertising manager Continental Oil
Company, Ponca City ; Paul Walker, '12,chairman corporation
commission, Ok-
lahoma City ; Harry L. S. Halley, '15,
district judge, Tulsa ; Eugene O. Mon-nett, '16, lawyer, Tulsa;
Otto A. Brewer,'17, lawyer, Hugo; William L. Eagle-
ton, '14, lawyer, former member supremecourt commission, Tulsa ;
Ben A. Ames,'18, lawyer, Oklahoma City ; John T.Harley, '13, former
assistant United
States attorney, Tulsa ; John JosephMathews, `20, author,
Pawhuska .
DISTRICT ONE : Luther H. White, '14,chief geologist, J . A. Hull
Oil Company,Tulsa; Earl B . Sneed, '13, lawyer, Tulsa;
Tom B. Mathews, insurance, Tulsa.
DISTRICT Two : A. N. Boatman, '14,lawyer, Okmulgee ; Max
Chambers, '21,
city superintendent of schools, Okmul-
gee ; W. L. Stigler, '16, lawyer, Stigler.
DISTRICT THREE : Charles B. Memmin-ger, '14, banker, member
state senate,Atoka; Earl Brown, '20, lawyer, Ard-
OKLAHOMA ALUMNI NEWS
Presl-
more ; C. C. Williams, '12, attorney, Po-
teau .
DISTRICT FOUR : Leon C. Phillips, '113,lawyer, member
legislature, Okemah ;
Ben Hatcher, '24, lawyer, Ada; StreeterSpeakman, '12, lawyer,
Sapulpa.
DISTRICT FIVE : Lewis R. Morris, '15,county attorney, Oklahoma
City ; WalterL. Barry, '17, merchant, Norman ; Mrs
CONTENTSOklahomans at home and abroad 179The educational
executive order 185Engineering schools and economy 186
By Chester H. Westfall, '16Engineering at the university
187Contribution of Sooner engineers 188Engineering progress
190By W. H . Carson
Gayfree Ellison
193By John Alley
The comet discovery
195By Arno!d Court, '32
Anthropology-what's that?
196By Forrest E . Clements
The New Yorker of Oklahoma
197Patricio Gimeno
198By William H . Witt, '32
Toward banking reform
200By Elgin Groseclose, '20
Tuberculosis and genius
201By L-ewis J . Moorman
The Kentucky mine war
204By Angus McDonald, '33
Ole Bob
206By John Joseph Mathews, '20
Sooner roll call
208
Volume 5, Number 7
1933 by the University of Oklahoma Association . Entered
assecond-class matter October 13, 1928 at the postoffice atNorman,
Oklahoma, under the act of March 3, 1879 . Estab-lished 1928 .
Joseph A. Brandt,'21journ, editor; George McElroy,'34law, business
manager; Betty Kirk,'29, John Joseph Mathews,'20, Dorothy Kirk,'23,
Winifred Johnston,'24, Duane Roller,'23,Elgin E . Groseclose,'20,
Leonard Good, '28, Muna Lee,'12,George Milburn, '30, Harold Keith,
'28, Ross Taylor, '31,contributing editors .
Neil R. Johnson, '15as, '17law, Norman, at largeDr . Ray M.
Balyeat, '12as, '16sc, '18M .D., Oklahoma City, at largeLee B.
Thompson, '25as, '27law, Oklahoma City, at largeJohn Rogers,
'14law, Tulsa, at largeMrs Floy Elliott Cobb, '17as, Tulsa, first
districtA. N. "Jack" Boatman, '15as, Okmulgee, second districtHiram
Impson, '15as, McAlester, third districtBen Hatcher, '24as, '25law,
Ada, fourth districtFred E. Tarman, 'l0as, Norman, fifth districtH.
Merle Woods, '17journ, El Reno, sixth districtDr. Lealon E . Lamb,
'26sc, '28M .D ., Clinton, seventh districtFritz L. Aurin, '14as,
'15M .A ., Ponca City, eighth district
Maude Richman Calvert, '29, author,Oklahoma City .
DISTRICT Six: Fletcher S. Riley, '17,
chief justice, Oklahoma state supremecourt, Lawton ; Ned
Shepler, '18, edi-tor Lawton Constitution, Lawton ; C.Ross Hume,
'98, lawyer, Anadarko .
DISTRICT SEVEN: George A. Meacham,'20, lawyer, Clinton ; W.
HarringtonWimberley, publisher, Altus; BuffingtonB. Burtis, '27,
editor, Clinton.
DISTRICT EIGHT: C. Robert Bellatti, '12,
editor, Blackwell; F. L. Aurin, '14, ge-
ol;;oist, Ponca City ; J . M. Gentry, '15,
automobile busines, Enid .
Union statusFull payment on the bonds of the
Union Memorial project cannot be made
April 1, Association Secretary Cleckler
who is also manager of the union, has
revealed . The drive to secure back pay-
ment on pledges has thus far not secured
sufficient funds with which to help meet
the April payment. The Union board
has been negotiating with representatives
of the bondholders but no decision has
been reached as this issue of the Maga-zine goes to press.
OUR CHANGING VARSITYSalary reductionsFor the second time in the
present bi
ennium, salaries of university faculty
members have been reduced, this time on
a scale varying from 20 to 5 per cent, by
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action of the board of regents meetingMarch 9 at the Skirvin
hotel in Okla-homa City . The reduction is applied tothe months of
March, April, May andJune .As a result of the new reduction,
the
university will return during the presentfiscal year a total of
$293,150 from themoney appropriated by the legislature tothe state
to help retire the state's deficit.This will bring the total
contributed bythe university during the current bien-nium to
$459,090, to the reduction of thestate deficit.At the beginning of
the present fiscal
year, all faculty members were presentednew contracts for the
year, in which ap-peared the provision that salaries mightbe
reduced during the year without im-pairing the contract .The
regents who attended the meeting
were C. C. Hatchett of Durant, vice presi-dent of the board,
Raymond Tolbert,'12as, '131aw, of Oklahoma City, W. N.Barry of
Okemah, Joseph C. Looney,'20as, '221aw, of Wewoka and
MalcolmRosser, '21ex, of Muskogee .The reduction will affect the
univer-
sity proper, the school of medicine at Ok-lahoma City, the
University hospital andthe Crippled children's hospital .
Universal suffrage"Universal suffrage must be trimmed
at the edges and a process of selection inthis important matter
of suffrage must
bedevised," declared Dr.P. L.Gettys, '19as,'227M.A ., assistant
professor of govern-ment in the university, in a public lec-ture in
the auditorium February 14 . Thesubject of Doctor Getty's talk was
"ThePrejudiced Voter."
"All the old restrictions of race, relig-ion, property and sex
have been removedin a liberalization of the suffrage laws .Now we
must realize it is not unreason-able to require a reasonable degree
of in-telligence in those who are privileged touse it," Doctor
Gettys said ."One believes what one wishes to be-
lieve and the factors which keep preju-dice alive in any society
are interest, ig-norance, inertia of opinion and
isolation.Prejudices may be either positive or neg-ative and the
importance of prejudice iswell known to the experienced politician
."Some progress is being made to insure
more intelligent voting, the speaker said,as evidenced by the
short ballot and liter-acy tests introduced in some states .
Pol-iticians, realizing the value of prejudicesin voters,
stimulated prejudices throughartfully contrived slogans, such as
"Backto Prosperity," "Down with the Capital-ists," and "American
for Americans."These make an appeal to the publicthrough the
channels of bias and preju-dice . Every campaign brings out a
newcrop of slogans which "catch the publicear."
In the United States, a man is usually
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elected by his opponent's enemies, and noone is feared more by
the public than the"perfect man."
WNAD winning playsEdwin I . Reeser of Tulsa won state
first prize for the best radio play in theplaywriting contest
sponsored by the uni-versity's radio station WNAD. His playwas "A
Student of Music." EugeniaWhite of Oklahoma City was awardedsecond
prize with "Radio Magic" andMrs Kara J. Holcomb, \
Louisville,Kentucky, third prize with "When Kath-leen Marries." A
play by Ernie Hill,'32as, of Norman, was among the tenfirst by the
judges, who were Vida Sut-ton of New York and C. L. Menser
ofChicago, both of the National Broad-casting Company, Don Clark of
NewYork, of the Columbia BroadcastingSystem, Merrill Dennison of
Toronto,playwright, and W. V. O'Connel of Ada,head of the
department of speech atEast Central State Teachers college .
Theplays, after presentation over WNAD,will be used by the National
Broadcast-ing Company in its "Magic of Speech"hour .
Close the universitySenator H. P. Daugherty of Chelsea,
proposed March 7 that the University ofOklahoma be closed for a
period of twoyears, in order that the common schoolsmight be saved.
Mr Daugherty woulddeclare an educational holiday for theuniversity,
Oklahoma Agricultural &Mechanical college, and two teachers
col-leges. According to Mr Daugherty'splan, the schools so closed
might be re-opened at the discretion of the governor ."The state
faces the most critical per-
iod in its history," Senator Daughertystated . "The budget lacks
millions of be-ing balanced . The income tax will fallfar short and
other sources of revenuewill provide little . We are faced withthe
necessity of abandoning either ourcommon schools for the limited
period orclosing the university . I think, that,under present
conditions, there is noth-ing for us to do but to sacrifice the
uni-versity .
"I hold no animosity toward the uni-versity . There is no reason
for me to askthat this action be taken other than thatI believe
that it is more important forstudents to be given grade school
train-ing than that university courses be con-tinued . It is true
enough that free edu-cation is a myth as long as parents sendhuge
sums of money each month to theirsons and daughters, they are
receivinglittle benefit from the present system ofhigher
education."
Soonerland in briefBaylor university defeated the Univer-
sity of Oklahoma in debate at Norman
April
February 23, opposing the cancellationof war debts.
Salaries of university faculty memberswere ordered reduced
twenty per centfor the concluding four months of thefiscal year by
the board of regents Feb-ruary 23 .Coldie Charlock, of Hilo,
Hawaii,
picked up WNAD's special DX broad-cast February 11, at Hilo .The
new Norman postoffice is now
being used .Skeleton Key is the name selected by
the local group continuing the traditionof Blue Key, now
disbanded at Norman .Phi Mu Alpha officers for the semester
are: Homer Courtwright of Norman,president ; W. H . Wehrend,
associate pro-fessor of music, first vice president ; JamesWalker
of Norman, second vice presi-dent ; Hugh Comfort of Norman,
secre-tary and treasurer, and Rooney Coffer ofMagazine, Arkansas,
historian.Dr . Visser 't Hooft of Holland, secre-
tary of the World's Student Christianfederation, visited the
university March 3.Seven of the seventy-four straight "A"
students last semester were children offaculty members. They are
Harry H.and John N. Alley, sons of Col . John Al-ley, head of the
government departmentand the school of citizenship and
publicaffairs ; Evelyn Marie Anderson, daugh-ter of Dr . J . C.
Anderson, professor of ge-ology; Hugh N. Comfort, son of Rev. E.N.
Comfort, director of the school of re-ligion ; Albert Guido Kulp,
son of Dr .Victor H. Kulp, professor of law ; Kath-erine Rader,
daughter of J. L. Rader, li-brarian ; and John Walker Swinford,
sonof Dr . W. B. Swinford, professor of law.
GRADUATES IN EMBRYOPhi Kappa Sigma formalPhi Kappa Sigma
fraternity gave a for-
mal dance at its chapter house Febru-ary 17, with Dr . and Mrs
Victor Kulpand Mrs Clarence Clark as chaperons .Dates were :
Austin Rittenhouse and Marjorie Patterson ;Ralph Bolen and Sarah
McGinty; Evans Nadiand Sally Wilbanks ; Hugh Humphreys andRuth
McClung; Tom Stephens and Jane VonStorch ; Dave Stormont and Libbie
Loar ; Wil-liam Pansze and Edith Owsley ; Jake C. Hamp-ton and
Terease Edwards; Willard Gurley andHelen Spain ; Aubrey Denton and
Auretta Bell-mon; Dwight Hamlin and Nan Reardon; JamesJarvis and
Bonita Burt ; Frank Killingsworthand Phoebe Lattimore ; Lewis
Killingsworth andHarriet Parker, Arthur Hennig and OdelleCrain ;
Lloyd Drum and Bonnie Mee, AlbertKulp and Virginia Kramer ; Haskell
Walker andHelen Harbaugh ; Milton Elliott and BettyEvans; Arthur
Pansze and Helen Hayward ;Jerome Byrd and Janice Young; Dawson
Engleand Gayle McCorkle, William Morris and MaryAnn Millican ;
Waldron Wisdom and Eliza-beth Campbell ; Russell Prather and
MaryGrimes ; Donald Hayes and Stella McKnight ;Robert Beidleman and
Doris Medberry ; RobertBunch and Marjorie Meacham; Edward Dislerand
Martha Jane Dowell ; B . J. Kelley and Mil-dred Brown; Freddie
McDaniel and MarthaWatson ; Jim Duckworth and Mary Elizabeth
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Polk ; Clifford Mapel and Josephine Patterson ;Gordon Graalman
and Margaret Linebaugh,John Beauchamp and Donlop Glen .Other
members : T. J . Fuson, Harry Aggers,
Tru e Baker, William Beidleman, Melton Smith,Carl Most, George
Tarter and Thomas Carson.other guests : Jack High, Jack Highley,
Mau-
rice Gann, Charles Teel, Leslie Hemry, DaltonMcBee, William
Newblock, Robert Hert, JohnStewart, Willis Stark, Milton
Silberberger,Robert Kuntz, Donald Porter, C . T . Holmes,William
Majors, Bernard Dead, Maurine Trip-plchorn, Jack Malloway, Pat
Sinclair, Otho O .Sparks, Marion Waggoner, Dick Wilson, Ben-jamin
Birney, Paul Eldridge, Richard Price,Robert Vahlberg, Warren
Gunter, LawrenceWilson, Hirst Suffield, Gordon Watts, RobertEllis,
Armstead York, Jack Clark, Dave Roper,Harold Ritter, Carl Lewis,
Philip Archer, Rob-ert Mee, Harry W. Denton, Earl Sneed,
JohnCooper, Alvan Muldrow, James Rutherford,John Swinford, Kelley
Parker, Robert Love,William Holmes, Murray McDonald, LeonWhite,
Charles Loveless, Lionel Edwards, HarveyParker and William Harsch
.
Sigma Chi formalSigma Chi fraternity held its spring
formal dance at its chapter house Feb-ruary 17, with Mrs W. L.
Perkins, Dr.and Mrs Joseph H. Marshburn and DeanCornwall as
chaperons. Dates were :
Clay Underwood and Patsy Edwards, Dallas,Texas ; James Taylor
and Kathryn Polk, For,Worth, Texas ; William Perryman and
LetaHoltzendorf ; John Young and Ellen Fullenwid-er ; Fred Hoyt and
Mary Lelia Kidd ; Tom Car-son and Mildred Miller ; William
Woffordand Martha Lake Dudley ; Roland Philipsand lone Wright ;
Jack Highley and HelenSpivey ; Mont Highley and Mary Doyle ; T
.Myron Pyle and Hester Day, Oklahoma City ;Seymour Spears and
Winette Souligny ; F . Nor-ton Cobb and Georgia Lee Abbot ; James
Co-lumbus Green, jr., and Louise Kayser ; GeorgeSt. John and Garnet
Wright ; Harry Jordan andVera Frances Swigert ; J . iC . Mytinger
andMadelvne McCarty, Wichita Falls, Texas ; AltonBookout and
Florine Hurst ; Jack High andAnna Perkins Young ; Frank Kennedy and
JuliaKennedy ; Dennis Cubbage and Marian Bryant,Cushing ; Edward
Clarke and Jean Garnett ; RexChaney and Marietta Darlin ; Don
Machenheimerand Louise Laux ; Tommy Beeler and Marge-nell Elliott ;
Charles Wilson and Louise Garrett ;Bernard Kennedy and Betty
LeCompte ; TomCubbage and Maxine Williams ; James Vandland-ingham
and Dainty Anne Lennington ; PaulHarrison and Jerry Mason ; Richard
Carpenterand Bobbie Bowling ; Clint Moore, OklahomaCity, and Addie
Lee Davis ; Matthew Kane, Ok-lahoma City, and Marjorie Kennedy ;
WilliamHarsh and Mary Agnes Riley ; Bernard Doudand Marian Mills ;
William Lewis and LouiseJohnson, Tulsa ; Roland DcBaker and
FrancesNeal ; Max Wilson, Oklahoma City, and Mar-jorie Newbern ;
Clarence Carpenter and LeRoyMcNeil : Mr and Mrs Ernest Hill, Dr .
and MrsWyatt Marrs, Mr and Mrs Gene Springer, Dr .and Mrs G . A.
Merritt .
Other guests : John Stewart, Louis Bond, JohnZwick, Gordon
Green, Robert Henderson, Rob-ert Hull, J . N . Childers, Allan
Calvert, BillBrooks, Jack Hart, Clarence Birney, Ed Hick-ey, George
Borelli, Robert Williams, H . C.Luman, Lawrence Wilson, Harry
Trentman,David N . Roper, Glen Davis, Walter Marshall,James Ludlum,
Leo Bell, Ralph Brand, DanielBoone, Charlie Stewart, Baxter Taylor,
MurrayMacDonald, James Riley, Charles Engleman,Eugene Nolen, Rupert
McClung, Joseph Rucks,Frank Schofield, Norman Jones, Albert
Kulp,Ralph Bolen, Lloyd Drum, Jack Kerns, Jo Ed-wards, Jack Kitten,
Dick Wilson, DonaldSmith, Charles Mooney, Dale Moody, George
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McGhee, Joe Thompson, Clark Roberts, AlbionBailey, Sullivan
Ashby, Paul Eldridge, ToddDowning and Richard Mealey.
Beta Gamma SigmaBeta Gamma Sigma, national honorary
fraternity for commerce students (whoare not eligible for
election to Phi BetaKappa, which confines its membershipto arts and
science students), has estab-lished a chapter at Norman .
Eighteenstudents have been elected to member-ship, which embraces
the upper ten percent in scholarship in the college of bus-iness
administration . Those announcedas members are :
Jack LeFevre, Hartshorne ; Howard A . Ens-minger, Turpin ; Del
Val Dale, Norman ; Har-old W . Donnell, Amarillo, Texas ; William H
.Cies, Bob W. Fowler, Virginia Fisher and RevaClark, all of
Oklahoma City ; Joseph Ruzek andJames Ruzek, both of Enid ; Robert
Searcy,Tulsa ; Fred E . Brown, Muskogee ; Carrie RaeCondit and
Charles F . Jones, both of Bartles-ville ; Harry B . Brown,
Drummond ; Jack Kir-ton, Amber ; Carl O. Craig, Cleo Springs ;
andDavis W . Sides, Farwell, Texas.
Phi Mu Founder's dayPhi Mu fraternity observed founder's
day with a banquet at the chapter houseMarch 4. The guest list
follows:
Ione Cooper, Dallas, Texas ; Alfreda Nauk,Anadarko ; Margaret
Barnes, Guthrie ; LouiseBarnett, Charline Penner, Florence
MacDon-ald, Thelma Bradford and Helen Brady, all ofNorman ; Lucille
Mann, Doris Asburn, DorothyMcBrayer, Nadine Nabours and Beulah
HelenSpears, all of Oklahoma City ; Edith Mayes,Enid ; Ruth Oman
and Helen Field, both ofMcAlester ; Marjorie Capps, Mountain Park
;Roberta Alden, Tulsa ; Ann Elizabeth Short,Okmulgee ; Selma
Huggins, Frances Lauderdale,Mrs H . V . Beck. Elizabeth Cox and
JuanitaChurchwell, all of Norman ; Alice Shumate,Mrs Ruth Crawford,
Sally Collier, Mrs Eliza-beth Michell, Larry Hoberger, Mrs Ray
Weems,Eva Louise Purdum, Mariam Moyer, KathleenMauck, Doris Taylor,
Mrs Stella Stiler, LoisMinnick, Mrs Grace Anderson, Mrs HelenMurphy
and Margaret Brittain, all of Okla-homa City ; Gladys Marsh, Fort
Madison, Iowa ;Mrs C . M . Field, McAlester ; Mrs Laurita Mote-ly,
Cushing ; Thelma McCullom, Apache ; GraceCombest and Hazel Rollins,
both o£ Blackwell ;Ellen Rice and Vernice Johnson, El Reno ;
MrsMarie Stedman, Davis ; Mrs Mary Sessions, Guth-rie ; Ayle
Tomberlin, Wetumka ; and Mrs Paul-ine Chase Baker, Tulsa .
Kappa Sigma formalKappa Sigma fraternity held a formal
dance at the College shop March 4, withMr and Mrs Joe E. Smay
and Mrs FloraD. Nifong as chaperons. Dates were :
James Miller and Ann Ragsdale ; HunterJohnson and Ruby Lee
Parshall ; Charles Stuardand Aileen Petway ; Denver Meacham
andFlorence Gannaway, Clinton ; Harris Van Wag-ner and Mildred
French ; Otho Sparks and JanieRussell ; Eugene Hodges and Dorothy
LouNash ; Dan Boone and Helen Meyers, Oklaho-ma City ; Richard
Price and Hilma Lee Eck-land, Clayton, New Mexico ; George Hayes
andMary Hatt Hively ; Robert Satterfield and Lou-ise Dills ; John
Montgomery and Elizabeth Plas-ter; Clyde Hightower and Maxine
Williams ;Jacob Collar and Helen Harbaugh ; A . W . Nis-bet and
Louise Lillard ; William Loy and CoraNell Fundis ; William Wantland
and EdnaYost, Oklahoma City ; Glenn Taylor and JoHoppel ; Harold
Webster and Page Peck ; Bert
Tuttle and Helen Hoffman ; Rupert Fogg andMary Lois Holmes;
Ralph Kelly and PatsyO'Sullivan ; Don Miller and Margery Meach-am ;
Eugene Gill and Lida Lea ; H . J . Brown-son and Louise Laux,
Oklahoma City ; RobertWilliams and Virginia Shire ; Frank Zeliff
andLouamma Edwards ; Ithomar Tuttle and JanetJohnson ; Carlton
Cornels and Jennie Lee Suggs ;Marion Estes and Carolyn Shaw ;
Samuel Co-bean and Sarita Mendoza ; Dan Gill and Vir-ginia Parriss
; Mr and Mrs Strother Simpson,William Pansze and Edith Owsley ; Ray
Snod-grass and Georgia Lee Abbot.
Other guests : Walter Marshall, Carl Mayhall,Alfred Bungardt,
Dalton McBee, Herbert Cham-plin, James Riley, Dan Alguire, Richard
Taft,Rupert McClung, Norman Jones, Fred Mills,George Herr, Fred
Carder, James Ray, C . T .Holmes, J . N . Childes, Eldon Frye, Fred
New-ton, Ralph Wolverton, Spotswood Lomax, Eu-gene Bennett, Orval
Hill, Maurice Gann, HarryJordan, Mont Highley, Seymour Spears,
BruceMiller, Billy Longmire, Earl Sneed, Jack Hart,B . J . Conners,
William Livingston, KennethFerguson, Charles Woods, Harold
Landram,Paul Lyon, Romeo Settle, Leo Garner, CharlesGreer, William
Wilson, Boyd Gunning andBruce Beesley .
Sig Alpha formalSig Alpha Epsilon fraternity held its
formal spring dance at the OklahomaUnion March 4, with chaperons
beingMr and Mrs John H. Rowland, Mr andMrs John O. Moseley and Mrs
ReneStone. Dates:
Cotton Hill and Pansy Love ; Robert Loveand Vera Frances Swigert
; Fred Owen andRuth McClung ; Kelly Parker and MariettaDarling ;
Fenton Lamb and Kaye JohannaThomas ; Kenneth Alfred and Marjorie
Ken-nedy ; James Lewis and Helen Flemming, Ok-lahoma City ; George
McBee and Catherine AnnHivick ; Frank Fitzpatrick and Garnet B .
Wright ;Richard Bryant and Glynna Fay Colwick ; Mar-tin Miller and
Elizabeth Hustmyre ; CharlesMooney and Mary Jane Jones, Shawnee ;
RobertLee Wilson and Mary Jo Sullivan ; HarrellChiles and Wilma
Klein ; Marion Owens andAnne Stinnett ; Roy Johnson and Maurine
Jane-way ; James Cleary and Julia Kennedy ; FredDunlevy and Mary
Lelia Kidd ; Pierce Cantrelland Thelma Tate ; James Rutherford and
MaryAnn Millican ; Harold Simmons and FrancesPhillips ; Thomas
Braly and Helen Kelly ; Cur-tis Cannon and Marian Barrowman ;
McMillanLambert and Page Peck ; Wilbur Jones and Lou-amma Edwards;
John Browne and Mary Eliza-beth Stanton ; C. A . Hustmyre and
MargaretLinebaugh ; John Farnum and Mary Grimes ;William Oxford and
Inez Hysaw, Austin, Texas ;Howard Fleet and Ione Wright ; Alton
Sullivanand Pauline Taylor ; Robert Holland and Elea-nor L .
Cbowning ; Herbert Morgan and Dor-othy Melton, Chickasha ; Joseph
Massie andImogene Melton, Chickasha ; Clay Chiles andMary C . Lynde
; William Scion and DorothyBeck ; Dennis Cubbage and Marian Bryant
;James Crawford and Louise Holmberg ; JamesEvans and Kelsey Lee
Browne ; Paul Balbin andBetty Mae Love ; Wayne Chestnut and
MaryTrapp ; Maurice Gann and Ruth Nesbitt ; JohnDudley and Margaret
Hanna ; Edgar DeMeulesand Katherine Cannon ; James Miller and
AnnRagsdale ; Alvan Muldrow and Vera Kennedy ;Bernard Doud and
Marian Mills.
Other members : William Mullins, JohnSwinford, Charles Mount, jr
., Dale Moody, JackWagner, William Vaughn, Ben Franklin andRoy Neel
.
Other guests : Ralph Bogart, Joseph Thomp-son, Clark Roberts,
Robert Allen Street, JackHigh, Thomas Carson, Clay Underwood,
Thom-as Cubbage, James Mytinger, James Hopkins,Alfred Bungardt,
William Dalton McBee, Rob-ert Hert, Walter Marshall, George Massey,
James
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Ludlum, Bruce Miller, James Buchanan, EarlSneed, John Edward
Cooper, Roy Gardner, Har-old Sullivan, Jack Fleming, Steiner Mason,
War-ham Parks, William Majors, Robert Lockwood,Fred Mills, James
Fellers, Melvin Smith, JakeHampton, James Gurley, Jerome O.
Edwards,Charles Capelentz, Hirst Suffield, William Bate-man, James
Roy, Stanley Marsh, William Major,Richard Taft, Joseph Rucks, Glen
Hall, PaulLyons, Glen Davis, Malcolm Hudson, RobertMee, Wayne
Heckler, Charles Engleman, Rich-ard Wilson, Paul Hodge, Denver
Meacham,James Mendenhall, Hunter Johnson, CharlesHaves, Millard
Sinclair, Marshall Brown, Wil-liam Lewis, Maurice Tripplehorn,
Baxter Tay-lor, John lilep, Albert Laughmiller, David St .Clair,
Don Stinchecurn and Jack Cheairs,
Out-of-town guests : James Johnson, JewellScott, Hadvn
Linebaugh, Joseph Hert and Rob-ert Barbre, all of Muskogee ; Edward
Parks, andLeslie Ford, both of Shawnee ; Wilson Gibson,Hoyle Jones,
jr., and Robert Cloid, all of Tul-sa ; J . H . Shelburne, Stewart
Mark, WarrenSherman, Millard Prety, Connie Ahrens, JohnNValbert and
William Roach, all of OklahomaCity.
SPORTS OF ALL SORTSBasketballThe feat of Andy Beck, University
of
Oklahoma forward, in scoring eleven fieldgoals and two foul
shots, a total of 24points, against Iowa State at Norman Feb-ruary
20, establishing a new individualscoring record for the Sooner
Fieldhouse,prompted an extensive basketball researchhere, object of
which was to unearth thegreatest scoring achievements of all timeby
Sooner players since basketball was in-augurated here in 1907 .
Ernest C. Lambert of Okmulgee, cap-tain and forward of the
Sooner five of1909, emerged from the excavating as thedemon scorer
of them all . Mr Lambert,the records show, scored 47 points in
agame against the Edmond, Oklahoma,Teachers January 15, 1909 in the
old gym-nasium, twenty three field goals and afoul shot . Oklahoma
won 93 to 7.
Besides Mr Lambert's feat, two otherindividual scoring
performances by Soon-ers stand out during the era from 1907to 1920,
although each was aided by thefact that Sooners were meeting a
weakopponent and playing in the old "cracker-box" gymnasium, whose
dimensions were
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50 by 30 feet, and which had no out ofbounds, the ball being
played off the wallsas in handball .Howard McCasland of Duncan,
tallied
35 points February 30, 1916 against theEdmond team, shooting
seventeen fieldbaskets and a foul shot, for the secondbest
performance . Mr McCasland jumpedcenter for the Sooners.Homer Risen
of Hooker, forward on
the Oklahoma team of 1918, scored 34points against the Durant
Teachers Feb-ruary, 1918, for the third best score . Ok-lahoma won
this game, 116 to 13, believedto be the greatest score ever amassed
by aSooner five . Mr Risen got seventeen fieldgoals, Maurice
"Slick" Bass of Ramona,sixteen, and Dorsey Boyle of Anadarko,ten,
making three Sooner players who shotat least ten field goals in the
same game .
In 1920 Sooner teams moved from theold gym to the new R.O.T.C .
Armory,which had a floor ninety by forty eightfeet, and Ed Waite,
of Oklahoma City,Oklahoma's all-Missouri Valley center of1922,
twice scored 24 points there duringthe period from 1920 to 1924
when oneplayer could throw all his team's freethrows . On March 3,
1920 Mr Waite madeseven field goals and ten free throwsagainst
Oklahoma A . and M., and on Feb-ruary 11, 1921 he repeated those
figuresagainst Washington university .Maurice "Doc" Ruppert of
Tulsa, set
the scoring record at the Armory afteradoption of the rule in
1924 requiring theplayer fouled to attempt his own freethrow. On
February 13, 1924 Mr Ruppertshot eight field goals and two free
throws,18 points, against Iowa State.The Sooners moved into the
Fieldhouse
in 1928 and on March 3, 1928 Vic Holtof Oklahoma City, scored 19
points againstNebraska, Tom Churchill of OklahomaCity, tying it
February 3, 1929 againstOklahoma A. and M. Then Elvin Ander-son of
Norman, scored 22 points againstTulsa university here last
December, whichwas the mark Mr Beck broke last week .
Best known scoring performance by aSooner player on a foreign
court wasHomer Montgomery's fourteen field goals
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against the Springfield, Missouri, Y.M .C.A . five at
Springfield February 21, 1916,which was tied on the same road trip
byMr McCasland's f o u r t e e n field goalsagainst Kemper Military
academy atBoonville, Missouri . Mr Montgomery wasfrom Muskogee .Mr
Holt's 25 points, eleven field goals
and three foul shots, scored against IowaState at Ames, Iowa is
the best road gamescore made by a Sooner on a large for-eign
court.
Best scoring records by opposing playersat Norman since 1907 are
: OLD GY~-,r-24 points by Johnston, Edmond Teachers,February 28,
1917 : OLD ARMORY-25points by PayseuA, Drake, forward, Janu-ary 11,
1922 ; and FiELDHOIISE-15 pointsby Larsen, Bethany college, center,
Janu-ary 5, 1930 . Johnston scored twelve fieldgoals, Payseur eight
field goals and ninefree throws, and Larsen four field goalsand
seven free throws .The boss free throw performance by
an opposing player at Norman occurredFebruary 12, 1921 at the
Armory whenThompson, Washington forward, sankfifteen of sixteen
free tosses .
Bruce Drake, Sooner guard of 1929, hasthe best free shot record
since each playerwas compelled to shoot his own fouls . AtLincoln,
Nebraska, in 1929 Drake pocket-ed nine free throws out of nine
tries .
Coaching schoolThe second annual free coaching
school for state high school coaches andathletes, sponsored by
the University ofOklahoma, will be held at Norman May31 and June 1,
2 and 3. Last year theschool attracted a splendid attendance .Each
Sooner coach conducted coursesin both theory and practice in his
par-ticular sport, while Ray Morrison, South-ern Methodist
university football coach,attended and interpreted the new
foot-ball rules . Moving pictures of several ofOklahoma's 1932
football games will beshown in the football theory courses
thisyear, says Lewie Hardage, footballcoach.
Speedy Dawson"I just didn't run fast enough," wrote
Glen Dawson, University of Oklahoma'sgraduated distance runner,
to friends herein describing his defeat by Glenn Cun-ningham,
University of Kansas phenom,in the 880-yard dash at the
BrooklynCurb exchange meet February 13 . Cun-ningham won and Dawson
was second .Dawson and Cunningham are rooming
together in a New York hotel . "Bauschlives next door and Frank
Wykoff about
Coaches Hardageand Roland giving theirmen a chalk-talk
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three doors down the hall . We have beenseeing New York," the
Oklahoman wrote.He added that he may stay back east forthe Knights
of Columbus meet March 15 .Dawson said Cunningham made good
time considering that the runners didn'tuse spikes and that the
track wasn'tbanked . Dawson was awarded a 16-inchhigh figure of a
track athlete as the sec-ond place winner . Dawson won the
1,000yards event at the Boston A . A. games aweek earlier,
defeating Earl Bonthron,Princeton, and George Bullwinkle, NewYork
Athletic club, in 2 :17.62 .
First spring practiceFirst spring football practice held at
the University of Oklahoma was back in1908, exactly twenty-five
years ago, news-paper correspondents have discovered.The March 25,
1908 issue of The Um-
pire, Sooner student newspaper of thatera, said :
Spring practice for football games goes mer-rily on . Boyd field
looks quite fall-like withthe old stars getting down after the ball
again .Capt . Key Wolfe is in charge of the squadand Bennie has
been out a few times droppinga number of hints on how things
footballshould be done .And the 1908 spring practice must
have brought results because Coach Ben-nie Owen's Oklahoma team
of 1908swept its schedule clean with the excep-tion of a tie with
Washburn on a mud-dy field, and a 0 to 11 defeat at Law-rence,
Kansas to one of the greatest Jay-hawker teams ever developed.
Indoor trackWhen the University of Oklahoma track
team tied Nebraska for the Big Six indoorchampionship March 11
at Columbia,Missouri, it marked the fourth time in thelast seven
years that Coach John Jacobs'Sooners have either won or tied for
thetitle .
In 1927, 28 and 29 Oklahoma won threeconsecutive indoor
championships . In 1930,31 and 32 Coach Henry Schulte's Ne-braska
team tied this record by winningthree in a row. Previous to these
runs bythe Sooners and Cornhuskers, no MissouriValley team had ever
won more than twoconsecutive indoor championships.The squad Coach
John Jacobs took to
Columbia numbered thirteen men, thesmallest attending the meet.
Moreover, itwas composed largely of sophomores andwas competing in
its first indoor meet thisseason whereas all the other schools
hadparticipated in at least one dual meet . Butwith Coach Jacobs
expertly juggling hissmall squad to get the maximum of scor-ing out
of it, the team came through, and20 of the 33 points it scored were
made bysophomores . The mile relay team that tiedthe Big Six record
and won by twentyfive yards from its nearest opponent, wascomposed
entirely of sophomores.When the mile relay, last event on the
program, started, Oklahoma was trailingNebraska and Kansas in
team scoring.
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Bob Moore led off for the Sooner quartetand handed a five-yard
lead to BillThompson, of Tulsa, regarded as theslowest of the four
Sooner runners. ButThompson had his dander up and ran ascorching
quarter to increase the lead stillfarther, and then the rest of the
race wasjust a romp for Loris Moody and BartWard .Although the
Columbia track was slow-
er this year than ever before (Glen Cun-ningham, great Kansas
miler, could dobut 4:21 .8 on it although pushed consider-ably by
Chapman of Iowa State), two newUniversity of Oklahoma indoor
recordswere set . Moody's 880-yard time of 2:00.1replaces the old
mark of 2:01.8 set atKansas City in 1930 by Warren "Bus"Moore. The
Sooner mile relay team'stime of 3:29 broke by three full secondsthe
old indoor mark of 3 :32 set by Guth-tie, Schaff, Ringo and Frank
at KansasCity in 1925, and tied by Potts, Cherry,Abbott and Mell at
Columbia in 1931 . Italso tied the Big Six record set at Colum-bia
last March by England, Siefkes, Rod-gers and Ostergard of Nebraska
.Ward ran a heady race to win the 440
yards by four yards. The Weatherford boyled every foot of the
distance, turning onthe power when his foes challenged himon the
straightaways and gliding smoothlyaround the curves to hold his
lead .Moody was harder pressed in the 880,
and ran third until half the race was gonewhen he shot around
Guse and Lebertewof Iowa State and sprinted the entire lastlap of
220 yards to win by five yards.
Bill Newblock won the high jump at6 feet 2 inches, clearing that
height onhis first jump. He then postponed histrials for a new Big
Six record until heran the 60-yard low hurdle finals, placingfourth
in a blanket finish with the secondand third place winners.
Newblock thenresumed his high jumping at the 6-foot4-inch level,
and cleared the height withhis body but knocking off the bar
withhis elbow.Ward did 23 feet 4.5 inches for second
in the broad jump, Albert Gilles did 44feet 11 inches for second
in the shot,Douglas Barham leaped 6 feet 1 inch totie for second in
the high jump, Don Ad-kison won a tie for third in the 60-yarddash,
and Bob Moore finished third in the440 yards. John Meikle was sixth
in theshot with 40 feet 8 inches, Jack Clark wassixth in the broad
jump at 21 feet 6.25inches, Jesse Hill was eliminated by onlyinches
in the dash, while Ralph Dale wasflagged out of the two-mile by
CoachJacobs who feared he might have to usehim in the mile relay
."We've certainly got a fine bunch of
boys on our team this year," says MrJacobs . "They're all
competitors, they allrun curves well, and they all train. I
alsowant to say a word for our cripples . Bar-ham's ankle went dead
after his first jumpbut he went on anyhow to tie for second
.Clark's ankle also bothered him but he
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toughed it out and went on to lack butone inch of qualifying for
the finals .Mood), showed no ill effects from beingin the infirmary
for three days last weekafter running a nail in his foot ."
JohnKniseley, the team's only polevaulter dis-located his ankle the
afternoon before theteam left and stayed at home .
BaseballPitchers and catchers, both varsity and
freshmen, at the University of Oklahoma,reported to Coach
Lawrence "Jap" Has-kell early in February at the varsity base-ball
field for the first of several daily pre-liminary workouts
preceding the generalcall to arms to be made early in March
.Missouri's Big Six champions will playat Norman April 18 and 19
while fourcontests with Kansas State, two at Nor-man and two at
Manhattan, also may bebooked . Haskell's Sooners probably willplay
a 16-game schedule this season .
Night track meetAnother night track meet has been
booked between the University of Okla-homa and Oklahoma A. and M
. college,it was announced today by Ben G. Owen,othletic director .
At 8 P.m . on May 12Coach John Jacobs' Sooner team, and whatpress
dispatches pronounce the strongesttrack team Coach Wash Kenny has
everdeveloped at Stillwater, will clash . Okla-homa won a night
meet at Stillwater twoyears ago, 86 to 45 .
Briefer mentionThe Kansas City Star and the United
Press named Andy Beck and BudBrowning of the Sooner basketball
teamas members of their All-Big Six team .Ben G . Owen, director of
athletics,
was made a member of the nominationcommittee of the National
CollegiateAthletic association .
Oklahoma ended its wrestling matchwith Oklahoma Aggies February
17with a draw, 12 to 12 ; the decision oCthe referee was booed
liberally since thespectators felt that Ellis Bashara hadgained
falls on his opponent, but thereferee ruled otherwise.Kappa Sigma
fraternity defeated the
College shop 9 to 0 February 23 to winthe soft ball intramural
championshipof the university .Joe Levine, baseball scout for the
New
York Yankees, may sit in on some of theUniversity of Oklahoma's
home baseballgames this year . Lawrence "Jap" Haskell,Sooner coach,
recently received a wirefrom Levine asking for Oklahoma's BigSix
conference home baseball dates. "Iwant to scout your games for my
club,the Yankees," Levine's message said . Has-kell has developed a
number of minorleague baseball players, among whom isColonel "Bus"
Mills, who is now with theRochester Red Wings of the
Internationalleague .