SoonersFive Sooner alumni are in-cluded in the alumni and honorary

mem-bers elected to the University chapter ofPhi Beta Kappa scholastic society at theannual election of new members thisspring .Alumni members elected by the chap-

ter are Franklin W. Ewing, '31ba, NewYork City newspaperman ; John A. Gillin,'31ba, '33ms, geophysicist at Dallas, Tex-as ; Dr . Iva Stevens Merritt, '31ba, phy-sician and homemaker in Norman, andDr . Charles R. Rayburn, '23ba, '25med,assistant superintendent of Central StateHospital at Norman and member of theMedical School faculty .Honorary members chosen are Paul A.

Walker, '12law, federal communicationscommissioner at Washington, D. C . ; Dr .Charles N . Gould, former director of theOklahoma Geological Survey, and Dr .Carl Coke Rister, O. U. history professorand writer .Formal initiation for the total of 44

persons elected to honorary, alumni orundergraduate membership was scheduledfor May 7 with Dr . Hu Shih, Chineseambassador to the United States, as prin-cipal speaker.Frank Ewing, assistant city editor of

the Associated Press, New York, beganan outstanding newspaper career at theUniversity . He was on the staff of theOklahoma Daily and member of the journ-alistic fraternity, Sigma Delta Chi. Forseveral years after leaving school heworked on newspapers in Amarillo, Tex-as, and Oklahoma City . In 1935 hejoined the Associated Press in Denver,Colorado . Before going to New York in1939, he bad been promoted to a positionin the Associated Press bureau at Wash-ington, D. C.

Geophysicist John A. Gillin is seniorpartner, manager and director of the Na-tional Geophysical Company, Dallas, Tex-as . He first attained prominence in ge-ophysics when he left the University in1933 to go to work for the ChamplinRefining Company of Enid . His dutiesthere consisted of designing and buildingthe company's first seismograph equip-ment . In 1935 he joined Western Geo-physical Company as field supervisor andtechnical advisor. The following year hebegan his affiliation with National Geo-physical Company, became executive vicepresident, which position be retained un-til the corporation reorganized into apartnership .Mr . Gillin has been responsible for sev-

eral improvements in seismograph equip-ment and technique. He has perfectedspecial cable connectors and precisiontiming equipment. Of economic import-

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at Home and Abroadance was his discovery of a new methodof application of ref refractions to locationof underground structures .

At the University Mr . Gillin was electedto Sigma Pi Sigma, honorary physics fra-ternity, and Sigma Xi, scientific fratern-ity .Born in Canada as Iva Stevens, Dr . lva

Stevens Merritt is now a practicing phy-sician and homemaker in Norman . Shegraduated from high school in her birth-place, Gladstone, Manitoba, and receivedher medical training at the University ofManitoba . Her period of hospital intern-ship was spent at College Hospital inPhiladelphia. She belongs to both theOklahoma and the American Medical As-sociations .When Dr . Merritt came to Oklahoma,

she enrolled at O. U. in arts and sciencesand received her degree in 1931 . Shewas a member of Phi Sigma, honorary bi-ological fraternity .Another physician among the new

aluinni Phi Beta Kappas, Dr . Charles R.Rayburn, is head of the department ofmental diseases and professor of mentaldiseases in the University of OklahomaSchool of Medicine, Oklahoma City, andis assistant superintendent of CentralState Hospital, Norman .A specialist in neuro-surgery, he has

been called on to read papers in a numberof medical conventions . In 1928 he wonthe national Fiske Fund prize with hisstudy, "Epidemic Encephalitis," and twoyears later was awarded the graduate fel-lowship offered by Dr . Ernest Sachs ofSt . Louis Hospital .Paul A. Walker, named for one of the

three honorary memberships, which arebased, like alumni selections, on distinc-tion achieved in professional fields, hasbeen a member of the Federal Communi-cations Commission since 1934 . Prior tothat time be bad been member and chair-man of the Oklahoma Corporation Com-mission, attorney for the commission, ref-crcc for the Oklahoma Supreme Court,and practicing lawyer in Shawnee.Mr . Walker enrolled in the University

School of Law after completing his un-dergraduate study at the University ofChicago. While he was at O. U., heaided in the organization of Phi DeltaPhi, honorary legal fraternity, and DeltaSigma Rho, oratorical . He was also de-bate coach and instructor in public speak-ing for two years.

Pioneering in Oklahoma geologybrought distinction to Dr . Charles N.Gould, geologist, author, former professorof geology at the University and formerdirector of the Oklahoma Geological Sur-vey. He has held consulting positions

with a number of oil companies in theSouthwest since the turn of the century .From 1936 to 1940 he was regional ge-ologist for the National Park Servicewith headquarters in Santa Fe, New Mex-ico . Ills writings include four books, ar-ticles for the Oklahoma Geological Sur-vey, and contributions to leading geologi-cal societies and journals .A recognized writer in another field, Dr .

Carl Coke Rister bas been a member ofthe University history faculty since 1929,and now has the rank of professor . Heis an authority on history of the South-west . Some of his latest books are TheGreater Southwest, 1934, Southern Plains-men, 1938, Border Captives, 1940, andWestern America, 1941 . He is now work-ing on the story of the notable Oklahomaboomer, David L. Payne.

Geology Alumni LuncheonApproximately fifty University alumni

and faculty members attended an alumniluncheon held April 4 in Houston, Texas,during the meeting there of the Ameri-can Association of Petroleum Geologists .A number of University geology studentsand friends of alumni were also present.Alumni and others who attended in-

clude Mr . and Mrs. Fred W. Bates, La-fayette, Louisiana; F. M. Sctzer, '35gcol,Houston, affiliated with Stanolind Oiland Gas Company ; John Janovy, '35gcol,New Orleans, with Louisiana Land andExploration Company; Alfred R .

Loeb-lich, '37geol, '38ms, New Orleans, on Tu-lane University faculty; Jay B . Wharton,'35ms, and Mrs. Wharton, Lafayette ; Hil-lord Kinson, '34geol, J . C. Montgomery,'30geol, and Howard R . Born, '38geol, allof Houston and affiliated with HarrisonOil Company ; C . R. Steinberger, '26ha,Houston; Ray l? . Claiborne, '28geol, Jas-per, Alabama, California Company ; F. S.Westmoreland, '26ha, Houston; Morris E.Halsted, '28geol, Houston, Amerada Pe-troleum Corporation ; H . L. Dorgan, '37eng, Beaumont, Texas, Sun Oil Company ;George f. McFcrron, '20ba, Houston, Ad-ams Oil and Gas Company ; R . P. Bates,'24geol, Tulsa; T. E. Weirich, '22geol,Bartlesville, Phillips Petroleum Company ;John P. Klep, '34ms, Fort Worth, Texas,Sperry Surveying Company; John Hord,Norman Paul W. Foster, '39ms, Houston,Atlantic Refining Company; J. H . Pernell,'30eng, Dallas, Texas, National Geophys-ics Company; Charles R. "turner, '39eng,Hobbs, New Mexico, Halliburton OilWell Cementing Company ; W. J .

Hilse-weck,'38geol, Fort Worth, Gulf OilCor-poration ; R. D. Clark, Dallas ; Paul B.Hunter, '23ba, Houston; W. Dow Hamm,'22ba, Houston, Shell Petroleum Corpor-

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ation ; R . J . (sullen, '24ba, Tulsa, Sun OilCompany ; Thoburn Tappart, Houston ;Robert N. Kolm, '19, San Antonio, Texas,Atlantic Refining Company ; Harry Bass,Dallas ; Clayton Smith, Houston ; NoelEvans, '21geol, Houston; R. E. McPhail,'33geol, Ardmore; Kennard Cook, Nor-man; Ross R . Durkee, Houston ; CharlesR . Eckes, '10ba, Tulsa ; Dave Richards,'40eng, Madison, Wisconsin; Dr . CharlesN. Gould, Norman; Wallace C. Thompson,'20geol, and Mrs. Thompson, '20ba, Hous-ton ; Walter M. Burress, '21ba, Shreveport,Louisiana; Walter R . Merger, '20ba, FortWorth; Robert R. Eckart, Jr ., Dallas ; MissAlice Quesenbery, '36geol, Bartlesville ;Mrs. Kathleen Kirk Gilmore, '36geol,Houston ; J . L. Tatum, '19ba, Simon, Tex-as ; F . L. Aurin, '14ba, '15ma, Fort Worth ;Robert C. Senning and Miss DorothyBaumeister, Norman ; Buford Miller,Houston; R. F. Schoolfield, San Antonio;and of the faculty of the School of Ge-ology of the University of Oklahoma,Cecil G . Lalicker, '30geol, '32ms, E. A .Frederickson, J. W. Stovall, and Dr . C.E. Decker and Mrs . Decker.

Dinner at OkmulgeeDr . W. B. Bizzell, who retires from

the presidency of the University Augustl, plans to spend the remainder of hislife in Oklahoma and "whether or not Iretain any official connection with theUniversity I shall always be working forit," he told a crowd of O. U. alumni ata dinner program at Okmulgee in lateMarch.A. N. Boatman, '14ba '16law, Okmul-

gee attorney and chairman of the O. U.advisory council at Okmulgee, had chargeof the dinner which was given to honorDr . Bizzell prior to a lecture he gave tothe Okmulgee Women's Forum . Eightyalumni, including many from nearbytowns, attended .

Speaking frankly and informally, Pres-ident Bizzell declared that since he is giv-ing up the responsibility of president, hedoes not intend to "take any more foolish-ness from politicians.""Sometimes in the past I have remained

silent for the good of the University, butnow I can speak out," he declared ."Without boasting, I tell you that I

shall turn over to Joe Brandt a smoothlyfunctioning, loyal university organiza-tion," he said . "No budget balancingamendment was necessary to balance thebudget of the University of Oklahoma .Its accounts have always been in balance.There has never been a deficit."

Discussing the impending change inadministration of the University Augustl, Dr . Bizzell said that he and Dr . JosephA. Brandt, '2lba, the president-elect, havemuch the same ideas along scholastic lines ."Of course no two men use the same

methods to get results, and there prob-ably will be discussions of whether hismethods are better than mine or minewere better than his. This is immaterial .

MAY, 1941

United States Senator Joshua BryanLee, '17, last month accepted an in-vitation to give the University's Com-mencement address June 9. Former

head of the O . U. public speaking department, Mr . Lee has served as con-

gressman since 1935 .

What is important is that the Universitymove ahead ."

President Bizzell said that in becominghead of the sociology department and anactive teacher when he retires from thepresidency, he will be doing what he hasalways wanted to do--teaching and writ-ing. He will teach a course in the ethicalbasis of society which he believes hasnever been offered elsewhere.

Kirkland Goes to McAlesterD. D. Kirkland, '33m.ed, has been

named superintendent of McAlester cityschools. He is now head of the Coalgatepublic school system .For twenty years Mr. Kirkland has been

engaged in public school administrationin Oklahoma . After serving nine monthsin the United States Army at the age of19, he tool, charge of the schools of asmall Missouri town in 1919 . He cameto Oklahoma two years later.He has been especially commended for

developing well-rounded educationalplants in the towns where he has faceddifficulty in securing adequate finances .He demonstrated ability in carrying for-ward administrative programs in Burbank,where he served as superintendent for sixyears, at Maud and at Holdenville . Hewent from Holdenville to Coalgate in1939 .A leader in state educational organiza-

tions, Mr . Kirkland was last year presi-dent of the Oklahoma School Adminis-trators Association . He is a member ofthe Oklahoma Education Association,

the National Education Association, andPhi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi,national education organizations .He has been active in chamber of com-

merce work in the towns in which helived, belongs to the Rotary Club, hasbeen both post and county commander ofthe American Legion, and during theyear 1939 was Americanism chairman ofthe Fourth District .Mrs. Kirkland also attended the Uni-

versity . They have two children, HelenMarie, 19, and Harry Hugh, 5.

Home Ec ReunionAnnual reunion of home economics

alumnae has been scheduled Saturday,June 7. The morning will be devotedlargely to an inspection tour of the Schoolof Home Economics and visit to the Prac-tice House. A program luncheon will beheld at noon .Reunion arrangements are being made

by Mrs. Frank C . Morris (ClenmmontyneCorbett, '29h .ec), president of the HomeEconomics Alumnae Association, assistedby the following committee: Rebec-ca Jane Scruggs, '39h .ec, Stilwell, vicepresident; Mrs . Ethel Meadows Preble, '29h . cc, '39m.h .ec, Oklahoma City ; andMrs. Loyd Harris (Maurine Dill, '23h .ec),Mrs. Bruce Drake (Myrtle Tosh, '30h .ec),Mrs. Grace Parks Haun, '27h .ec, Mrs.Jack Orenbaum (Hazel Harris, '27h . cc),Mrs. Cora Navarro Hoover, '36h .ec, Mrs.Ray Smalley (Ovella Hackler, '30h .ec),and 1 Helen Hackett, '28h .ec, '30ms, all ofNorman.

Ensign Berry KilledFuneral services Ior Ensign Kirby Leo

Berrv, '39, were held late in March inNorman . The 25-year-old naval aviatorand five other men were killed March 17in a collision of two naval planes duringmaneuvers over the Pacific Ocean .

Ensign Berry was graduated from Nor-man High School . He attended the Uni-versity at various times until he becamea naval flying cadet in 1938 . While hewas on the campus he was a member ofthe University Quartet, Men's Glee Club,and served one season as a manager ofthe baseball team .He was the son of Mrs. H. H. Berry

of Norman . Other survivors include twobrothers, Dr . Curtis Berry, Norman, andLeRoy Berry, Vinita, and two sisters, Mrs .Tom Whetzel, Champaign, Illinois, andMiss Lorenme Berry, Shawnee.

Army Calls WoodsmanFirmly convinced that every young man

should spend a year alone in the woods,Sylvan A. Hart, '30ba, has returned tohis home in Wichita, Kansas, after morethan eight years in the Idaho wilderness .He was forced to leave his solitary wayof life by the call of the selective servicedraft .

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to spend some time in a self-sufficientfrontier existence. His father lived in asimilar manner in the Creek Indian areain Oklahoma ."Being alone and training yourself to

know that money will not buy anythingthat you cannot make or provide yourselfis a lesson needed by every man," Mr.Hart said .He made all of his own clothing out

of skins from animals he killed . Forthe past year he has been working on aflint lock gun. He made the entire gun,tempered the steel, even put the riflings iiithe barrel . He also carries a knife hemade . It has a hack saw, cutting blade,can opener, door key, leather punch, ripsaw, scissors, needle, and sharpener in it .He went fifteen miles into the nearest

town, Dixie, Idaho, by snow shoe aboutevery six months .Mr . Hart says that it cost him about

fifty dollars a year to live, and he earnedthat by helping the forest rangers in thearea fight fires .He and his brother, Tom, of Wichita,are planning to "rough it" in Alaskasometime in the near future .

Ten-Year Round-RobinProbably a new high mark in class

spirit has been recorded by the ten majorstudents in accounting who graduatedfrom the College of Business Administra-tion in 1930 . Though scattered all overthe country, from Washington, D. C ., toLos Angeles, California, they have kepta round-robin news letter going for tenyears .

Last month the round-robin, contain-ing a letter from each of the ten, reached()dies Primrose, of Norman, member ofthe group who is now operator of a fu-neral home in Norman .Other members of the class are Carl O.

Craig, head auditor for Arrowhead andPuritas Waters, Inc., Los Angeles, Cali-fornia (home address Glendale) ; Mrs . C.H. Butt (Elizabeth Cate), homemakerand part time accountant, Los Angeles,California ; Charles Manney, who is withthe Gas Service Company, Fort Scott,Kansas ; Buenos Sikes, merchant at Al-leene, Arkansas ; Joe Moody, cashier forthe Equitable Life Assurance Society of-fice at San Antonio, Texas; Bert Thurber,Jr ., investigator and auditor for the Fed-eral Farm Morgage Corporation, Wash-ington, D. C. ; Alvin Rosecrans, districtsales manager for Conoco, at Tonkawa,Oklahoma ; Archie Giezentanner, experi-mental operator in the research division ofthe Continental Oil Company, Ponca City ;and Clinton Gay, accountant for the Lu-per Transportation Company at Shawnee.The letters read like personal visits,

containing news, pictures, wisecracks, con-

gratulations on promotions, and condol-ences on misfortunes .

Occasionally the round-robin goes toW. K. Newton, head of the accountingdepartment in the University, who addsa letter to his former students .

Cotton in New FilmOklahoma might have had another

lawyer if Larry Cotton, '33, had notswapped his briefs in the UniversitySchool of Law for sheet music and headedfor the top rungs on the ladder of mu-sical fame . It is just as well, too, accord-ing to reports on the new film "Pot O'Gold," starring James Stewart, PauletteGoddard, and Larry Cotton vocalizingwith Horace Heidt's Musical Knights.

After Larry had finished his work onthe movie and answered the customaryquestions about how he liked Hollywoodfor correspondents of Oklahoma newspa-pers, he headed back East with the band .He is a busy lad. Besides the "Pot O'

Gold" radio show, he has his "TreasureChest" broadcast, and takes from three tofive voice lessons per week . His eighthours a day on the set in Hollywood werein addition to that schedule . Now he isabout to take up the study of piano.Work is nothing new for him, though .

At the University he sang at the VarsityShop and the Copper Kettle, was vocalistwith the Ramblers' Orchestra at theirregular engagements, janitored in a cloth-ing store, and studied voice .

All the while Law School was his bigproblem, but not a particularly interestingone. So when he went to California inthe summer of 1933, he landed a job sing-ing on a small Hollywood radio station ;then signed with Carole Lofner, thenJimmy Grier, then Heidt.That was the way Oklahoma lost

another lawyer-to-be .

Legislators EntertainedMost of the Sooner alumni who are

members of the State Legislature wereentertained at a dinner in the SkirvinHotel in Oklahoma City last month.Entertainment consisted of showing ofmoving pictures of the Santa Clara-Okla-homa and the Texas-Oklahoma footballgames under direction of Jap Haskell, '22geol, director of athletics, and Snorter Lus-ter, '22ba, '22lw, Sooner football coach.Arrangements for the dinner were

made by Richard T. Pendleton, '26law, ofNorman, Cleveland County representativein the Legislature, and the Norman Chamberber of Commerce.

Those present included :Senators Jim Nance ; Boyd Cowden, '28 ;

Bob Sibley, '23 ; Vance Posey; Jim Rine-hart, '23law; Paul Carldc, '39law ; andBill Ginder, '31law .Representatives Holly Anderson, '24law ;W. B . McDonald, '27 ; Streeter Speakman,'12law ; Herbert Hope, '38bus ; Moss Wim-bish, University student; J. D. McCarty,'40 ; Bill Cline, '21ba, '21law ; Bill Par-

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rish, '40m.ed; J. Robin Field, '34law ;Chester Norman, '38ba, '40law ; MerleLansden, '39law ; J. T. Daniel, '25bs; JackBradley, '25law ; Bill Langley, '21 ; HaroldFreeman, '25 ; Dutch Hill, student; BobBarr, '3l ; Merle Allen, '22 ; Will Rogers,Creekmore Wallace, Bill Latting, R. M.Mountcastle, Virgil Medlock, Charlie Oz-man.Governor's Office-Governor Leon C.

Phillips, '16law ; Carl Raymond, JackWalsh.Ponca City-C . C. Brown, former tax

commissioner .Norman-John E. Luttrell, Phil C.

Kidd, R. T. Spaulding, secretary Chamberof Commerce ; King Price, '25; and R. O.Smith, '30law.Oklahoma City-Bus Haskins, '29ba ;

Bill Lampkin, chief enrolling and engrav-ing clerk of the House of Representatives ;and Bill Harkey, assistant insurance com-missioner.

Young Lawyers Win FightSuccess has crowned the long struggle

of a group of young Oklahoma lawyers,graduates of the University, for legisla-tion curbing "loan-sharks." For morethan two years members of the juniorBar Conference worked on the problem.They did not quit until final passage ofthe small loan bill by the Oklahoma Leg-islature last month.James D. Fellers, '36ba, '36law, was

president of the Junior Bar about twoyears ago when the situation first cameto the attention of Oklahoma City at-torneys through requests for advice fromvictimized "charity" clients . With BenFranklin, '35ba, '37law, another Oklaho-ma City attorney, and with the encour-agement of other Junior Bar members,Mr . Fellers set up the first "loan sharkclinic" in the state .Also interested in the problem, the se-

nior bar association named Charles E.France, '23law, as chairman of an advis-ory committee to work with the younglawyers .Combined efforts of the men resulted

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mittee investigating loan sharks declared war onthe usurers, they exposed themselves to a lot ofsniping.

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For example, they were accused of being inleague with outside loan companies who mightprofit from the enactment of such a law. Theywere bullyragged bullyragged and sneered at. Rut theycourageously stood their ground over a periodof more than two years, knowing that the onlyreward they would have would be the conscious-ness of haying been on the side of poor, helplesswage-earner victims of the loan sharks .

Governor Phillips is to he commended for hisleadership in inducing the legislature to pass thebill . And when passing the credit around, thecommittee headed by John A. Johnson of theJunior Bar association should be given specialpraise . Mr . Johnson himself was particularly onthe firing line . So far as material benefit wasconcerned, these )'oung men had all to lose andnothing to gain except the knowledge of ameritorious public service well done . It is ahopeful augury for our democracy when suchunselfish crusades are undertaken and completed.

Ad Club DinnerO. U. alumni now in the advertising

profession were special guests at the "FirstAnnual Banquet" of the University of Ok-lahoma Ad Club held in late March inthe Union Ballroom.Ray Kimball, '30ba, publisher of the

Magnolia (Arkansas) Banner-News, andVernon T. Sanford, '32ba, manager of theOklahoma Press Association, OklahomaCity, were presented certificates of awardas outstanding graduates of the School ofJournalism .

Harrington Wimberly, '24ba, publish-er of the Altus Times-Democrat and mem-her of the University Board of Regents,and James C. Nonce, Purcell, publisherand member of the State Senate, were rec-ognized by awards as outstanding employ-ers of O. U. journalists graduates. Thesefour men were principal speakers of theevening.The program included a variety of mu-

sical and dancing numbers.Alumni present among the nearly two

hundred persons attending the dinnerwere : Lois June Adams, '39journ, now inthe advertising department of Hallibur-ton's store at Oklahoma City ; HaroldBelknap, '25ba, business manager Nor-man Transcript ; Ida Sloan,'35ba, reporter,Norman Transcript ; Elta Hibler, '40journ,First National Bank, Tulsa ; Harry Bul-len, '36, First National Bank, Tulsa ; DonMcVay, '38journ, Eugene Carter, '34, andSteve Elam, '39, all of the Shawnee Newsand Star; Wallace Dunn, '40 journ, andGeorge Tarter, '34, both of radio stationKOCY, Oklahoma City ; Jane Ehrlich, '39,Nissen's Shoe Company, Oklahoma City ;IZ . Douglas Foote, '24, direct mail adver-tising, Oklahoma City ; Tom Gordon, '31ba, Beal's Creative Printers, OklahomaCity ; Ned Shepler, '18, publisher Latv-ton Constitution ; Melba Hudson, '40journ,and Norman Pierson, '36journ, Oklaho-ma Publishing Company, Oklahoma City ;Joe W. McBride, '28bus, Mrs. McBride(Clella LeMarr, '27ba), Ed Livermore,'40journ, and Virginia Hoops, '39journ,all of the Anadarko Daily News; HiramImpson, '15ba, McAlester publisher andpostmaster ; Harrington Wimberly, '24ba,Bob Lee Kidd, '36journ, Paul Flippin,

'39journ, and Ruth Smith Ferris, '30ba,all of the Altus Times-Democrat ; W. Ray-mond Kimball, '306a, publisher Magnolia(Arkansas) Banner-News ; Calvin Man-nen, '38journ, DeQueen (Arkansas) Cit-izen ; Eleanor Lain, '40letters, Brown's,Oklahoma City ; Rawlcigh Ralls, '32ba,publisher Cleveland County Times; LoweRunkle, '30ba, Ray K. Glenn Advertis-ing Agency, Oklahoma City ; Vernon T.Sanford, '32ba, manager Oklahoma PressAssociation, Oklahoma City ; RoxannePlu

mmer Thams '39journ, Kerr's, Okla-homa City ; Idabel Hendon, '40journ, Har-bour-Longmire, Oklahoma City .

Back From ArabiaPetroleum geologist Phil Hurry, '35

geol, is back home in Oklahoma Cityafter spending three years working inArabia and Bahrein Island in the PersianGulf, in oil fields vital to Britain's de-fense. He reports little in the way of ad-venture.He missed the only real excitement that

occurred on the island . He was on leavein Beirut, Syria, one night last Octoberwhen Italian planes bombed the place.There was only the single raid, however,and little damage was done .Mr . Hurry was in the employ of the

California-Arabia Standard Oil Company .He and his colleagues lived in a campwhich sported air-conditioned cabins togive relief from the desert temperaturesof almost 130 degrees.His comments on the international tur-

moil were brief. "If Turkey holds outagainst the Germans," he said, "every-thing ought to be safe in the oil country.""When you live with the British, you

learn this : It is a very serious thing tothem and to all of us, but you don't goaround asking questions and prying in-to situations . You just go ahead and doyour work and keep your mouth shut."

Death Takes AttorneyTax law specialist Robert H. Ledbetter,

'20law, of Oklahoma City, died quietly athis home April 3. To his friends he wasknown for his well-kept yard, his crafts-manship with carving tools and his com-panionship with boys . These things heseemed to prize more than the legal dis-tinction he had earned .

In his room were the carvings of bone,cowhorn and wood with which he haddelighted young friends who frequentlygathered to hear his stories of bird andflower life .

Born in Ardmore in 1893, Mr . Led-better went to Oklahoma City in 1909 .He attended school there. He saw ser-vice overseas in World War I, and wasone of the soldiers chosen to study inFrance after the war.

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the administration of William H. Mur-ray. Later he established offices with hisbrother in Oklahoma City and special-ized in tax cases .At the University he was one of the

founders of Ruf Neks, pep organization,and was a member of Phi Delta Phi,honorary legal fraternity, and Sigma Chisocial fraternity .

Surviving him are Mrs. Ledbetter, twosons, Robert, student at Oklahoma A. andM., and Myron, student in Stillwater HighSchool . The family was spending thewinter in Stillwater where Mrs. Ledbetterteaches home economics at A. and M.college . Other survivors include hismother, Mrs. W. A. Ledbetter, OklahomaCity, two brothers, Eugene P. Ledbetter,'14law, Oklahoma City, and Brig . Gen.Louis A. Ledbetter, '12law, Camp Barkley,Texas; and three sisters, Mrs. HelenThompson, Mrs. Wynn L. Pulley andMrs. Grace Cutler, all of Oklahoma City .

College RegentMrs. Norman W. Brillhart (Mildred

Colby, '22fa), of Madill, has been appoint-ed a member of the board of regents ofOklahoma College for Women, Chick-asha, by Gov. Leon C. Phillips, '16law .Mrs. Brillhart is a homemaker for her

husband, who is an oil producer andpresident of the University of OklahomaAlumni Association, and their 13-year-olddaughter, Ellen Rowe Brillhart. She alsois vice president of the First NationalBank of Madill .

Active in the affairs of the Business andProfessional Women's Club, she is a pastpresident of her local chapter, and hasserved as chairman of the organization'sstate committee on program coordination .She also is a member of the Eastern Star,Parent-Teacher Association, and BaptistChurch .

AS a student at O. U., Mrs. Brillhartwas a member of Kappa Kappa Gammasorority, and Phi Mu Gamma honorarydramatic society .

Bar OfficialsSooners recently named to posts in the

junior Bar Conference of the AmericanBar Association include Ben Franklin,'35ba, '37law, Oklahoma City, appointedto the membership committee; and JamesD . Fellers, '36ba, '36law, Oklahoma City,appointed executive council adviser to thecommittee in co-operation with junior bargroups .

Head of Safety WorkHarold L. Mueller, '19, Oklahoma City

newspaperman, was re-elected presidentof the Oklahoma State Safety Council atthe annual meeting held last month atTulsa. Boyd Gunning, '37ba, '37law, as-sistant director of the Oklahoma Exten-sion Division and director of UniversityShort Courses, was elected vice presidentof the organization division, and J. And-rew Holley, '31, of the Oklahoma A. and

MAY, 1941

M. College faculty, was elected vice pres-ident of the home and school division .

In recognition of unusual traffic safetyhonors won by Oklahoma in recent years,Mr . Mueller recently was appointed to heada new educational subcommittee of theNational Safety Council. This group,consisting of about twenty members, willintegrate educational technique, newspa-pers, radio and the movies, to tie in withvarious civic educational groups .Oklahoma won the southern division

traffic safety honors this year for thefourth consecutive year . It is the firsttime in the history of the National SafetyCouncil that any state has won a divis-ion award four times in succession .Much of the credit for this record goes

to Mr . Mueller, because of his safety pro-motion work as president of the Oklaho-ma Safety Council, and also as an editor-ial executive of the Oklahoma PublishingCompany.

Geologist Dies in FallRoger W. Sawyer, '15ba, widely known

geologist was killed March 16 when hefell from the roof of a downtown garagein Roswell, New Mexico .Mr . Sawyer, who was 45 years old, had

been employed by oil companies in Okla-homa, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana andNew Mexico . For the last four years hewas employed by the Pure Oil Company,and had been stationed in New Mexicofor a year .Mr . Sawyer was elected to the Univer-

sity of Oklahoma chapter of Phi BetaKappa in 1933 in recognition of his out-standing contribution to his profession .During the World War I he served in

the United States Army with rank ofcaptain .

Survivors include his father, Dr . G. W,Sawyer, Chickasha ; a brother, W. C. Saw-yer, Lindsay; and three sisters, Dr . EdithHammond, professor of chemistry andphysics at the Oklahoma College forWomen, Chickasha ; Dr . Mary Sheppard,Oklahoma City, and Mrs. W. L. Vaughan,Canyon, Texas.

Funeral services and burial took placeat Chickasha.

Recreation ExecutiveLt. Norval M. Locke, '40ed, captain of

the Sooner football team in 1939, is nowon duty at Fort Sill with the unusualresponsibility of directing an athletic andrecreation program for nearly 8,000 men.His official title is athletic and recreation

officer for the Field Artillery ReplacementCenter, Fort Sill . One of the four reg-imental athletic officers who assists him isLt . John F. Shirk, '40, who played endon the football team that Locke captained.

Before being called to active army duty asa reserve officer, Locke had been appointedassistant football coach at Bartlesville HighSchool . As a student in the Universityhe played football in 1936, '38 and '39, wasan 1. M. A . key man, and completed ad-vanced work in the R. O. T. C.

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