* * With the Armed Forces
SEVEN ALUMNI last month were announced
as winners of eight decorations for heroism
in action on eastern and western battlefronts .
Lt. Roy Gilbert Johnson, '39-'40, Oklahoma City, received the Air Medal and an
Oak Leaf Cluster for action over Europe
and Africa as pilot of a Flying Fortress .
He was transferred to England in June,
1942, and later on the North Africa. His
younger brother, Pvt. Herbert Johnson, '42
bus, is on duty in Australia.
Maj. Lloyd Lockett, '41ba, Norman, was
recently awarded the Order of the Purple
Heart for wounds received in action with
troops in North Africa. He was stationed
with the Field Artillery at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, before going on foreign
duty.
Lt. Virgil E. Hope, '37-'38, Maysville,
was awarded the Air Medal for heroism
in action in North Africa.
Lt. Gene Neville, '35, Oklahoma City
flier who was killed September 26, 1942,
in a raid over France, was awarded the
Purple Heart posthumously . Shortly before he was killed Lieutenant Neville transferred from the Royal Air Force Eagle
Squadron to the American Army Air
Force . His mother, Mrs. E. B. Neville, has
learned that he was buried at Brest, France,
in a military ceremony .
Lt. Russell H. Walker, '32med, Bartlesville, Navy physician attached to a Marine
Corps unit in the South Pacific, received
the Silver Star for heroism under fire on
Guadalcanal last October. He risked his
personal safety to rescue a wounded Marine private and carry him to a first aid
station . A member of the Navy Medical
Corps since 1937, Lieutenant Walker has
been stationed in Washington, D.C., San
Diego, California, Shanghai and the Philippines .
Lt. Jack N. Rivers, '36bus, Oklahoma
City, bombardier on a bomber, was awarded the Air Medal for his fighting record
from April, 1942, to January, 1943, in Australia and islands to the north . A member
of Sigma Nu fraternity, Lieutenant Rivers
was cited for meritorious achievement.
Lt. Robert Ecton, '42law, Oklahoma City,
was awarded the Order of the Purple Heart
for wounds received in killing his first
Japanese soldier in hand-to-hand fighting
on Guadalcanal . Lieutenant Ecton was in
a foxhole when he heard someone moving
around above him. In answer to his query,
"Who's there?" he received a bayonet jab
in the hand, whereupon he went into action
with his gun.
Killed in Service
Lt. Tom M. Boyd, '42eng, Norman, died
April 20 of accidental gunshot wounds at
JUNE,
1943
NEWSPAPERMAN IN NAVY
Lt . Tully Nettleton, '23ba, former editorial writer for the Christian Science
Monitor, has been assigned for Navy
duty at an "undisclosed destination ."
His home is in Waban, Massachusetts.
ing plane near Perrin Field, Texas, on
April 15. He entered the Army Air Force
soon after graduation last year. Survivors
include his parents, Mr. and Mrs . W. W.
Jones, Bartlesville; his wife, the former
Helen Richardson of Bartlesville ; three
brothers, Lt. (jg) Roy Jones, '37ph.ed, in
California with the Navy; Ensign Bill
Jones, '40bus, with the fleet in the Atlantic,
and Charles Jones, '34bus, Borger, Texas ;
and a sister, Mrs. George Bunn, Jr., (Alberta Jones, '39ed) of San Antonio, Texas.
Lt. Robert Lee McReynolds, '36-'40,
Mangum, was killed April 7 in a plane
crash west of Hondo, Texas, where he was
stationed at the Air Force Navigation
School . A former student in the College of
Engineering, Lieutenant McReynolds enlisted in the Air Force in May, 1942, and
received his commission at Pampa, Texas,
last February . Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B . McReynolds of
Mangum, and a sister, Mrs. Kenneth Crook
(Mildred McReynolds, '36ba) of Norman .
Missing in Action
Carl S. Dalbey, Jr., '40, Oklahoma City,
chief radio officer on a Merchant Marine
ship in the Atlantic and survivor of two
ship casualties, was reported missing in action in April. Last year Mr. Dalbey's ship
was torpedoed by an enemy submarine and
he drifted on the Atlantic in an open boat
for 32 days before being picked up. On a
later trip his ship was rammed accidentally
and forced to return to port.
He put out to sea on his third ship shortly after he and his mother, Mrs. Carl Dalbey of Oklahoma City, were honored as
guests of Mrs. Roosevelt in the White
House. No details were released about the
latest action, but it was conjectured that
Mr. Dalbey's ship was part of the convoy
which had a five-day running fight with
German submarines.
Three alumni serving with the Army
Air Force in North Africa were reported
missing in action which took place in April .
Included are Lt. Harold Wood, '38-'41,
Lexington, former engineering student in
the University; Capt. Walter N. Smiley,
'37-'41, Owensboro, Kentucky, winner of
the Oak Leaf Cluster ; and Staff Sgt. Norris
Dean Dickey, '28-'30, Perkins, nose gunner
in a bomber and winner of the Air Medal
and Oak Leaf Cluster . Sergeant Dickey
enlisted in the Army the day after Pearl
Harbor in Seattle, Washington, where he
was employed at that time.
Camp Swift, Texas, where he was stationed
in the Army Ordnance division. An outstanding student throughout his University career, Lieutenant Boyd was a member
of Phi Eta Sigma scholastic fraternity for
freshmen, Tau Beta Pi engineering fraternity, Pi Tau Sigma mechanical engineering fraternity, Pe-et and the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers .
He was named the outstanding freshman of his R.O.T.C. class, outstanding engineering senior for 1941-42 and Dad's Day
Award winner in 1941 . Survivors include
his mother Mrs . T. M. Boyd (Irlene Renfrow, '17), a brother, Dick Boyd, '43eng,
and a sister, Mary Ellen Boyd, a senior in
the College of Arts and Sciences, all of
Norman . His father was the late Dr.
Thomas M. Boyd, '17med, a Norman physician.
Lt. Robert F. Wadlin, '40-'41, Tulsa, was
reported killed in action with the Army
Air Force in the South Pacific on April 19.
Shortly before his death, Lieutenant Wadlin received the Air Medal for his part in
a raid on Japanese-held Wake Island . He
was a former engineering student in the
University and a pledge to Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity. Survivors include his parents, Dr. and Mrs. John A. Wadlin of Prisoners of War
Tulsa.
Capt. Charles T. Moore, '41, Oklahoma
Aviation Cadet Don Jones, '42ba, Bart- City, previously reported missing in action,
lesville, former Sooner basketball player, was believed to be a prisoner of the Italians
was killed in the crash of an Army train- after his wife, Mrs. Elaine Moore, received
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conflicting reports about his capture. The
captain's Air Force comrades notified Mrs.
Moore that his plane was last seen dropping
out of formation over Naples during a
bombing raid. They surmised he made a
safe landing and was then taken prisoner .
Later Mrs . Moore identified her husband
as one of a group of prisoners the Italians
claim to have captured in Tunisia . She
believes the latter to be propaganda to cover
up the fact that Italian territory has been
bombed . Captain Moore holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and
an Oak Leaf Cluster.
Lt. James L. Cockrell, Jr., '40geol, Tulsa,
who was previously reported missing in
action in North Africa, has been officially
announced as a prisoner of the Germans.
He landed with troops at Oran last December.
Other alumni taken prisoner by the
enemy are five Sooners who were trapped
in the Philippines and have been confined
in Japanese concentration camps .
Included are Lt. George T. Holland, '39
eng, Mount Pleasant, Texas ; Pvt . Harold
S. Hirschi, '35ba, Oklahoma City, formerly
with a Bomber Squadron ; Pvt . Samuel J. Hughes, '36-'38, Tuttle, and Sgt.
James J. (Jack) Jones, '39journ, formerly
of Madill and Ardmore, of the Coast Artillery .
Injured in Service
Edwin H. Burba, '33bus, McAlester, recently promoted to lieutenant colonel in
North Africa, was wounded in April when
bomb fragments struck his wrist. The
wounds were described as comparatively
slight. He escaped further injury when
other bomb fragments were deflected from
his body by a compass in his jacket pocket
and a camera hanging around his neck.
Maj . Jay Sherman, '25-'29, Lexington,
of the Field Artillery, was reported injured
in battle in North Africa. He was stationed
in England before his transfer .
Lt. Wesley W. Harris, '37bus, Oklahoma
City, was injured recently in the crash
near Big Springs, Texas, of an Army training plane based at Ellington Field near
Houston . The pilot was killed in the accident. Lieutenant Harris was an Oklahoma
City accountant before entering the Army
Air Force.
Flying Nurse
Lt. Dorothy Barlow, '41nurse, Sapulpa,
was assigned to duty as flight nurse with
U.S . troops on foreign service following
her recent graduation from the Flying
Nurses Evacuation Corps training school
at Bowman Field, Kentucky.
As a member of this new branch of service, Lieutenant Barlow will make trips
to the battlefront in huge hospital planes
to evacuate wounded soldiers and give
them immediate medical treatment. She
was stationed at Will Rogers Field before
entering training at Bowman Field.
First In
A radio news commentator speaking
honor appointment . In May, 1940, while
on Louisiana-Texas maneuvers, he received public congratulations from Gen.
Walter Krueger for the excellence of his
work. Mrs. Fry is the former Miss Helen
Lancaster of San Antonio,, Texas . The
couple have one son, Edmund Mortimer
Fry III, one year old.
Surprise Sub Sunk
Ocean shipping lanes last month were
less one enemy submarine thanks to the
skill and quick thinking of Lt. (jg) Herman G. Hilton, '35m.ed, Oklahoma City,
and his gun crew aboard a Merchant Marine ship.
During an abandon-ship drill held one
day out of port, an enemy submarine conveniently appeared just as though it were
part of the routine practice . Lieutenant
Hilton ordered his gun crews into action,
three rounds were fired at the sub and a
direct hit was scored.
To AID WOUNDED
Lt. Dorothy Barlow, '41nurse, Sapulpa, has been assigned to duty as
flight nurse with U. S. troops on foreign service. As a member of the new
Flying Nurses Evacuation Corps, she
will fly wounded from battlefronts .
over a national network on May 8 reported
that Capt. Dick L. Downing, '14-'15, '24'26, Norman, was the first U.S. soldier into
Bizerte after the fall of that last Nazi
stronghold. A member of the Signal Corps .
Captain Downing was reported to have
driven a jeep into the captured city.
Capt. Robert I. Morrison, '28-'32, Oklahoma City, was one of the first U.S. soldiers
to reach Gabes after the American and British armies met in Tunisia . Remarking on
the quantity of equipment the British Army
displayed, Captain Morrison said, "I think
the Eighth Army has a beautiful lot of
stuff. It is really encouraging to see it all."
Gift Reveals Station
Arrival in Tulsa of a pair of Algerian salt
and pepper shakers revealed that Lt. Col .
Harry L. S. Halley, '17law, district judge
from Tulsa on leave for Army duty, was
stationed in North Africa. Colonel Halley
sent the shakers to a friend who collects
them.
He later wrote that he had visited Casablanca, site of the historic RooseveltChurchill conference .
Ranks High With Engineers
An unusual record of rapid advancement
in the Corps of Engineers belongs to Edmund M. Fry, '38eng, McAlester, who became a lieutenant colonel early this year
at the age of 26. He received the promotion while taking advanced training at Fort
Belvoir, Virginia . In April he was on desert
maneuvers as commanding officer of a
battalion .
Colonel Fry has been in the Army since
his graduation, having entered the Corps
of Engineers as a second lieutenant on an
Posthumous Award
Presentation of a Distinguished Service
Cross awarded posthumously to Lt. Marshall Anderson, '37, first Oklahoma City
soldier killed in the war, was made to the
flier's mother, Mrs . Roy R. Anderson, late
in April at the Oklahoma City Air Depot.
Lieutenant Anderson won the cross for
heroic action on Bataan in January, 1942,
two days before he was killed .
Pilot's Toll Increases
Lt. Dugan Woodring, '36-'38, Noble,
fighter pilot, continued last month to figure
prominently in news stories from the New
Guinea battlefront as one of the pilots with
a high toll of destruction against the enemy
in that sector. Lieutenant Woodring has
won the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
Flier Has Many Talents
Capt . Julian Jacobi, '38-'40, Marietta,
Air Force pilot stationed in Hawaii, has
survived several dangerous aerial exploits
to become known as one of the most daring pilots on the island and one of the best
amateur cooks anywhere in the region.
One of his most talked-of feats occurred
when his plane crashed, aflame like a torch,
and he escaped with a badly burned arm.
Another favorite is the time he negotiated
a landing on a tiny island entirely surrounded by mountains, in weather which
cut visibility to zero.
Aside from his flying, Captain Jacobi
holds several executive positions with the
Air Force in Hawaii . His extra-curricular
skill in the kitchen makes him the favorite host of most of the other U.S. Army
men on the island. A feature story about
Captain Jacobi written by Ernie Hoberecht,
'41journ, Army correspondent in Hawaii,
recently appeared in the Daily Oklahoman.
Home on Visit
Lt. T. Hillas Eskridge, '38-'42, Elmore
City, was on leave in Oklahoma in April
recuperating from injuries received in the
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North African fighting. He suffered a
broken arm and a punctured ear drum in
a bomb explosion. While on leave, the lieutenant spent several days on the campus
where his wife, the former Martha Speer,
was attending the University.
Adds Zero to Score
Lt. Joe Griffin, '38-'40, Pauls Valley, was
pilot of one of the Warhawks which
downed from seven to fourteen Zeros and
chased the rest of a flight of thirty away
in action over Hunan Province in China .
Lieutenant Griffin accounted for one of
the Japanese planes known to have been
shot down.
Churchill's Guests
Guests at a private showing of motion
pictures of battle scenes at the country home
of Prime Minister and Mrs. Winston
Churchill this spring included Maj . Lee
Gilstrap, '19-'20, and Capt. Bill Harrison,
'37law, both of Oklahoma City.
Along with another Oklahoma City officer, Maj. Gen . W. S . Key, they were the
only Americans at the gathering which also
included the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lord Mountbatten.
Promotions
Three new lieutenant colonels are numbered among Sooners in the service recently promoted . They are Lt. Col Max G. Morgan, '37law, former Oklahoma City attorney now with the Field Artillery at Fort
Sill; Lt. Col . Merton E. Munson, '31law,
with the Field Artillery at Camp Barkeley,
Texas, and Lt. Col . E. H. (Bud) Larecy,
'26, former Oklahoma C.C.C. official, at
Fort Lewis, Washington .
Eight new majors are as follows: Byrne
A. Bowman, '24, Oklahoma City, staff
judge advocate of an Infantry division at
Fort Jackson, South Carolina ; Frank O.
Hamilton, '39law, Oklahoma City, Camp
Maxey, Texas; Mahlon D. Hickman, '31'35, Camp White, Oregon ; Hubert T.
Goodman, '36med, Terre Haute, Indiana,
Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky; Robert
Hughes, '33pharm, Apache, Camp Barkeley ; Alvan Muldrow, '33law, Norman,
Camp McCoy, Wisconsin ; George Koehne,
'38, Tulsa, with the Air Force at Casper,
Wyoming, and Moorman Prosser, '35med,
Norman, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma.
Recently promoted to captain were Archibald C. McColl, Jr., '27-'30, Oklahoma
City, Enid Flying School ; Burt Barr, '33
law, with the Fighter Command at Orlando, Florida; James J. Johnson, '41eng,
Allegheny, New York, at Fort Leonard
Wood, Missouri ; Gerald Bednar, '40med,
Chickasha, with the Medical Corps at Kelly
Field, Texas; Roy E. Caruthers, '41eng,
Chickasha, with the Air Force at Stamford, Texas ; Jim L. Gowdy, '28law, Oklahoma City, at Miami, Florida; E. W. Brockman, '34geol, Oklahoma City, at Camp
Robinson, Arkansas ; Louis M. Swanson,
'36-'40, Muskogee, at Gardner Field, California ; Perry F. Sollars, '40geol, Longview,
Texas, at Shaw Field, South Carolina ; Paul
JUNE,
1943
SOONER SPARS GET TANG OF SALT LIFE
Spar Cadets Eleanor Warren, '35fa, and Roberta Huff, '33ba, enjoy a brief rest
on board the Coast Guard training ship Atlantic before completing an inspection
tour of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. Both are
in Midshipmen's School at Northampton, Massachusetts.
O. Buckholtz, '34ba, '40ma, at the Las
Vegas Gunnery School in Nevada; Edward P. Allen, Jr., '38-'41, Oklahoma City,
at the Army Air Field, Garden City, Kansas ; Charles W. Stockton, '41bus, Oklahoma City, at Camp Hood, Texas; Donald
W. Mackie, '36-'40, Bradford, Pennsylvania, at Camp Lee, Virginia ; A. P. Callahan, '40eng, at Fort Sill; Adin H. Hall, '41
eng, Ponca City, with the Ordnance at Texarkana, Arkansas, and Maynard Williams,
'38law, Norman, at College Station, Texas.
Promoted to the rank of captain while on
foreign duty were Jack G. Morgan, '35-'39,
Walters ; Robert K. Black, '35bus ; Clifton
L. Bell, '37ba, '37geol, Gray, Oklahoma;
Milton J. Gordon, '38eng, Lester T.
Mooney, '41, Temple, who holds the Silver
Star for heroic action near Buna on New
Guinea last fall, and Don Greenhaw, '40'41, Sentinel, in North Africa.
Newly promoted from second to first
lieutenant were John L. Henry, '40-'41,
Banner and Kay Wilson, Jr., '42law, Oktaha, both at the Enid Army Flying
School ; Forrest E. Doughty, '36, Martha,
Camp Haan, California ; Virgil C. Bennett,
'37bus, Drummond, Tinker Field ; Elmer
Capshaw, '42fa, Norman, on maneuvers in
Washington ; John R. Runyan, '31-'37, on
desert maneuvers near Camp Young, California ; Carl M. White, '40-'41, Tulsa, Hammer Field, California ; Thomas A. McCoy,
'42bs, Tulsa, at Camp Hood, Texas, and
Thomas Z. Wright, '34law, at Ellington
Field, Texas. New first lieutenants on
foreign service were H. Jack Kraettli,
'40eng, Atchison, Kansas, and Joe Crenshaw, '42eng, Wichita Falls, Texas .
Promotions among non-commissioned
men included Hal M. Stewart, '36bus,
Muskogee, to master sergeant at Camp
Gruber, and John L. Riddle, '38-'40,
Madill, to staff sergeant at the Basic Flying
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School at Greenville, Texas. Other new
sergeants include Harry Ford, '40journ,
Altus, photographer in England with the
Air Force; James E. Choat, '37238, attached to a Station Hospital in India; Albert C. Hunt, Jr ., '38-'40, Oklahoma City,
with the Air Force in Africa ; L. O. Addy,
Jr ., '42ed, at the Altus Army Air Base ; Max
Silverman, '31bus, Eufaula, at Camp
Stoneman, California, and William F.
Cope, '34fa, Branch, Arkansas, at Fort Benning .
Recently promoted to corporal were
Robert Kirk, '41=42, Muskogee, at Will
Rogers Field; Harry N. Brunson, '39fa,
Altus, overseas, and Charles P. Montgomery, '41-'42, Delaware, Oklahoma, at the
Syracuse, New York, Army Air Base .
Private first class stripes have been given
to Tom Peters, '39, Shawnee, at Tinker
Field; James H. Sneed, '29-'30, '33-'34, Madill, with the Air Force Technical Training
Command at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
and Elwood R. Crawford, '38-'40, Delaware, Oklahoma, a patient at the Percy
Jones General Hospital in Battle Creek,
Michigan.
Navy men receiving promotions recently include John Kessler, '35m .ed, Edmond,
formerly on duty as chief petty officer at
the Oklahoma City recruiting station, assigned to Columbia University in New
York as lieutenant junior grade ; William
N. Greene, '41law, Hugo, on duty in the
Pacific, to lieutenant junior grade, and William S. Tenhagen, '41eng, Kansas City,
Kansas, on sea duty, to full lieutenant .
In the Marine Corps, Tom R. Watts,
'38ba, Oklahoma City, on duty at Portsmouth, Virginia, and William B. Oldfield,
'39ba, Oklahoma City, in the Southwest
Pacific, have been promoted to the rank of
major. Major Oldfield holds the Order of
the Purple Heart for wounds received on
Guadalcanal . His brother, Maj. John F.
Oldfield, '35bus, is with the Marines at
Quantico, Virginia .
New Officers
Among alumni who received commissions last month were three commissioned
directly from civilian life . They were Cordon Bierer, '21ba, Guthrie attorney, who
was commissioned a captain in the Judge
Advocate General's Department and assigned to Ann Arbor, Michigan, for training; Vance Lucas, '42med, Tulsa, commissioned a lieutenant junior grade in the
Navy Medical Corps and assigned to the
Navy Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, and Roland F. Hughes, '26eng, '33
m.eng, Norman, commissioned a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps and stationed
at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, for training.
Of the twenty-three newly commissioned
officers in the Army Air Force, seventeen
received their wings from the advanced
flying schools of the Gulf Coast Training
Center in Texas. The men and the schools
from which they graduated are Lt . Edwin
D. Sunderland, '39-'41, Chickasha, Lub10
deman, '43bus, McAlester; LeRoy Harmon,
'42ba, Oklahoma City ; Tom Hedley, '41
geol, Wewoka ; Ray Painter, '38-'43, Afton ;
Ernest Webster, '42ba, Bartlesville ; George
Burkett, '4lba, Oklahoma City ; Harry
Nunn, '39ba, '41ma, Norman, and Wilford
S. Thomas, '28ba, Lawton .
WAAC COMPOSER
Lt. Ruby lane Douglass, '39fa, stands
before the backdrop of her song which
has been played on the radio several
times, recently in connection with the
first birthday celebration of the Women's Army over the Sunday program,
the Army Hour
bock ; Lt . George A. Meacham, '40-'42,
Clinton, Foster Field ; Lt. Bert E. Taliaferro, '35-'38, Elmore City, Moore Field ;
Lt . Fred B. Jones, Jr., '40-'41, Durant,
Blackland ; Lt. William S. Nicholson, '34'35, Shawnee, Pampa; Lt . Charles R. Mertz,
'40, Ponca City, Moore Field ; Lt . Coy Ponder, '39-'41, Pauls Valley, Aloe Field; Lt .
Leroy K. Patterson, '38-'39, Mountain
Park, Moore Field; Lt . Russell L. Hendrickson, '32-'35, Oklahoma City, Moore
Field; Lt . Norman C. Miller, '40-'42,
Lyons, Kansas, Pampa; Lt. Robert A. Robards, '37-'39, Birmingham, Alabama,
Pampa; Lt . Fred Mehew, Jr., '40bus, Kingfisher, Pampa; Lt . Robert A. Bonnell, Jr .,
'37-'38, Tulsa, Aloe Field ; Lt . Will is A.
Bynum, '39-'42, Oklahoma City, Ellington
Field; Lt. Foley D. Collins, Jr.' '37-'39,
Oklahoma City, Blackland; Lt. Wayne L.
Moore, '39-'40, Oklahoma City, Moore
Field, and Lt. William E. Merritt, '38-'42,
Oklahoma City, Moore Field .
Maxwell D. Hinsley, '39, Houston, and
John C. Pierce, '34, Hugo, were both commissioned second lieutenants in the Air
Force at the Army Flying School, La Junta,
Colorado . Others receiving Air Force commissions were Lt . Dale Badgett, '40-'41,
Chickasha, at Luke Field, Arizona ; Lt.
Samuel H. Miller, 37'42, Norman, at New
Haven, Connecticut ; Lt . William J. Howard, '38-'39, Chickasha, at San Angelo,
Texas, and Lt . Paul Gamino, '39bus, Bartlesville, at Miami Beach, Florida.
Recently commissioned second lieutenants at the Field Artillery Officer Candidate
School at Fort Sill were Leo H. Bellieu,
'43ba, Norman ; Alvin Burch, '38243,
Maud ; Charles Cole, '38243, Tulsa ; Harry
Diamond, '39-'43, Holdenville ; Cecil Har-
Other new Sooner officers and the officer candidate schools from which they were
commissioned include Lt. Bernard L. Cordon, '37law, Oklahoma City, and Lt. Walter L. Doggett, '40law, Ponca City, Adjutant Generals School, Fort Washington,
Maryland ; Lt . James M. Doolin, .'42bus,
Alva, Anti-Aircraft, Camp Davis, North
Carolina ; Lt . D. Rowe Guest, '36-'40,
Hollis, Infantry, Fort Benning, Georgia;
Lt . W. H. Jones, '28-'31, Army Administrative Corps, Fargo, North Dakota, and
Lt . Roger L. Messman, '36geol, Medical
Administrative Corps, Camp Barkeley,
Texas.
New ensigns recently graduated from the
Naval Air Training Center at Corpus
Christi, Texas include Foley W. Vaden, Jr .,
'40-'41, Oklahoma City ; Jesse G. Lawyer,
'42, Oklahoma City, and Russell Cobb, Jr .,
'41, Tulsa.
Commissioned second lieutenants in the
Marine Corps Reserve at the Corpus Christi Naval Training Center were Robert J.
Lynch, Jr ., '40=41, Bradford, Pennsylvania ;
David Riley, '40-'41, Bronx, New York,
and William C. Durham, Jr., '40, Oklahoma City .
Overseas
On duty in Africa were Capt . Joe M . Mills, '37
eng, Norman ; Lt. William S . McCready, '41eng,
Bartlesville ; Lt . Quynton Hampton, '37-'41, Tishomingo, and Lt. Denver B. Davison, '36-'41, Oklahoma City . Lieutenant Davison, holder of the Air
Medal for ten sorties against the enemy, was credited with shooting down one Messerschmitt in early
April .
Souvenirs from Africa and England, a handcarved brass dinner gong, tiny silver hands for
her charm bracelet, woven leather sandals and a
small straw fan, are gifts which Sgt . Roy Bailey,
'36238, has sent home to his wife in Oklahoma
City since going overseas . Sergeant Bailey was in
the first contingent of American troops to land in
Ireland .
P . M . Casady, '29ba, chaplain in North Africa
who holds the rank of first lieutenant, was without bars for a time this spring . One of the men
in his unit was promoted to first lieutenant, but
could find no silver bars. To keep him from smearing his gold ones with white paint, the chaplain
gave him his . Lieutenant Casady, former Episcopalian rector in Berkeley, California, conducted
services for the first American dead in Africa last
November .
Capt. Francis R . Thompson, '37-'40, El Reno,
was assigned as a pilot to a Troop Transport squadron in New Guinea . Captain Thompson was stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines when war
broke out and was evacuated to Australia . He
holds the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in ferrying bombers from Hawaii
to the Philippines before the war .
On duty in the Southwest Pacific were Lt. Ernest E. Bleakley, '416a, Lawton, with the Air Force,
Capt. Bryan L . Rakestraw, '39law, Oklahoma City,
recently transferred to the staff of the commanding general of an Air Force, and Lt . George S .
Corbyn, '38bus, Oklahoma City, with a Cavalry
Reconnaissance unit .
Stationed in England were Lt. Charles C . Ludwick, '33eng, with an Electronics Training Group ;
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Sgt. R . E. Clements, III, '39-'42, Norman, with
the Air Force, and Maj . Lou Charney, '28med,
Oklahoma City, who reports he is on the staff of
a hospital so big he uses a bicycle to make his
rounds .
Lt. Hershell L. Farish, '18ba, Oklahoma City,
was on duty at a Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico .
Somewhere overseas were Col . Wallace N .
Davidson, '19med, former Cushing physician ; Lt.
James W . Darden, '41eng, Oklahoma City ; Lt .
John R. Couch, '401aw, Pryor ; Capt. Earle A . Casey,
'30bus, '316a, '33bs, '34med, San Leandro, California ; Capt. Cecil D. Baird, '27med . ; Lt . Tom F .
Hendricks, '40bus, Oklahoma City ; Lt . Thomas A .
Cardwell, Jr ., '41eng, Oklahoma City ; Lt . Harry
F. Lorenzen, '42law, El Reno ; Lt . Col . Paul
Hinds, '21-'23, Weleetka ; Maj. James O . Gilliland,
'32med, Brownwood, Texas ; Lt . Roy W. Lappin,
'35eng, Logan, Kansas ; Lt. Michael Wagner, '40'41, Wellsville, New York ; Lt. Robert P. Bixler,
'42eng, Oklahoma City ; Maj . James C. Todd, '31
law ; Lt . Karl D . Emerson, '42bus, Cromwell ; Cpl .
Gilbert W . Knecht, '38-'41, Muskogee ; Lt. Gene
Jones, '41, Oklahoma City Lt. Harry P . Frantz,
'41bus, Enid ; Capt . Phil J. Newkumet, '37eng ;
Staff Sgt . Robert M. Wright, '42, Eldorado, Arkansas ; Lt. Ray T . Lehman, '42bus, Guthrie ; Pfc.
George A. Bridges, '42-'43, Bartlesville, and Pvt .
Herbert W . Johngon, '42bus, Oklahoma City .
At Sea
On duty with the Navy in the Atlantic and the
Pacific were Ensign Charles P . Brooks, '42eng,
Norman, in the submarine service; Lt . Jack Levering, '29bus, Oklahoma City ; Ensign Rex M . Painter,
'40bus, Afton, a supply officer; Ensign Myron S .
Maddox, '39-'40, Aline ; Ensign Samuel K . Shook,
'39-'42, Binger, a fighter pilot ; Paul Eldridge, '19
ba, assistant professor of English on leave, a seaman first class ; Lt. Shirley A. Fuhring, '32med ; Lt.
R . L . Gittings, '39eng, Grandfield ; Harold M.
Parks, 37-'42, Payson, hospital apprentice first
class ; Floyd L. Zimmerman, 39pharm, Fitzhugh,
pharmacist's- mate first class ; Ensign William E .
Wilson, '39bus, Okmulgee ; Houston L. Crabb, '39,
storekeeper second class ; Alfred Gionta, '35geol,
carpenter's mate first class James C . Woodward,
42, Apache ; Lt. John F . Reed, '40law, Oklahoma
City ; Lt . Comdr . Richard B. Ford, '28med, and
Edgar L. Isbell, '41bs, Cloud Chief, pharmacist's
mate third class .
Members of Navy Construction Battalions on
active duty were Ensign William J. Whitehead,
'38bus, Norman ; Franklin D . Durbin, '15-'17,
Oklahoma City, quartermaster first class, and William P . Stapleton, '34, carpenter's mate first class .
missioning as a second lieutenant at the Administrative Officer Candidate School at Fargo, North
Dakota.
Capt. Charles H. Eads, '33med, former Oklahoma City physician, was attached to the Station
Hospital at March Field.
Lt. Stuart F . Brady, '36, Norman, has been
transferred to Marysville, California, where he
is with an Armored division .
Lt . Beryl Clark, '40geo1, Cherokee, formerly
with the Military Police, has been transferred to
the Air Force and was in training at Oxnard,
California .
Lt. Bernard B . Raizen, '39-'41, Duncan, was
assigned to an Ordnance company at Camp Roberts,
California.
Pfc . William E. Thomas, '40ed, Norman, has
been transferred to San Diego where he is a
meteorologist with the Air Defense Wing.
Lt. Earnest Crain, '36m .ed, was attached to a
training squadron at the Santa Ana Air Base in
California .
Lt. Ray H . Kietz, Jr., '426s, Oklahoma City,
and Lt. David W . Bean, '38-'42, Maud, were
with the Mountain Pack Artillery at Camp Carson, Colorado .
Capt . Luther L . Bohanon, '27law, Oklahoma
City, has been transferred to Denver, Colorado,
where he is assistant staff judge advocate at Air
Force district headquarters.
Attached to the Air Force Cadet Training
Detachment at the University of Denver were
Harry Culver, '40-'43, Homestead, Dwight Howell,
'41-'43, Blackwell, and Virgil Hill, Jr., '41-'43,
Elk City .
Capt . Harold C . Kirkpatrick, '406s, Hydro, has
been transferred to the Army Air Field at La
Junta, Colorado .
Pfc . John W . Simmons, '38-'40, Chickasha, and
Rutledge N . Beasley, '38-'40, Bartlesville, were
with the Air Force at Lowry Field, Colorado.
Aviation Cadets Marvin K . Redfearn, '38-'42,
Duncan, and Edwin S . Calvert, Jr., '42eng, Tulsa
were in training with the Air Force in New Haven,
Connecticut.
Working in the huge Pentagon Building near
Washington, D. C. were Maj . Philip H . Fry, '31-
Army
Lt . William B . Thompson, '41eng, Shawnee,
was assigned to the Air Force Modification Base
at Birmingham, Alabama.
Staff Sgt. Joe V. Addington, '39-'40, Hammon,
was assigned to the Air Force Gunnery School at
Kingman, Arizona, as a statistical clerk .
Lt. Dale Desper, '396a, formerly on the University R .O.T .C . staff, was assigned to the Basic
Flying School at Marana, Arizona .
Capt. Harrison R . Christy, '34, Oklahoma City,
pilot who recently returned from foreign duty, was
stationed at the Davis-Monthan Field near Tucson,
Arizona. Also there were Lt. W. Earl Buck, '41eng,
Eldorado, Texas, an Air Force engineering officer,
and Sgt. Francis Pease, '40, Hollis, who was attached to a Bombing squadron .
Capt. James R . Cowles, '36phys, Tulsa, was assigned to the Air Force Sub Depot at Walnut
Ridge, Arkansas .
Lt . Buddy Rex Daughtrey, '40-'41, Oklahoma
City, has been transferred to Newport, Arkansas,
where he is a flight instructor.
Lt . P . D. Sullivan, '41, has been transferred to
Camp Beale, California, where he is with the Field
Artillery .
Maj . Alfred A. Hellams, '38med, Oklahoma City,
and Lt . Wendell J. Smith, '37, were stationed at
the Army Airdrome at Glendale, California . There
with an Ordnance company was Lt. George W .
Jordan, '42eng, Norman.
D . Frank Plater, '406us, Oklahoma City, was
assigned to duty in Los Angeles following his comJUNE, 1943
WRITES FOR ARMY
Sgt. Lynn Riggs, '23, former Broadway playwright, writes explanatory
scripts for Signal Corpsfilms at Wright
Field, Ohio . He is the author of
"Green Grow the Lilacs," play from
which the highly praised new musical
"Oklahoma!" was adapted.
'33 McAlester, assigned to the Motor Transport
Division of the Office of Chief of Ordnance, and
Capt. F. A. Benesh, '36eng, Oklahoma City.
In Washington, D .C., Lt . Carrel Valentine, '36'37, Oklahoma City, was assigned to the Adjutant
General's School, and Lt . Col . A . Wood Rigsby,
'29law, Oklahoma City, was a member of the
judge Advocate General's staff.
With the Field Artillery at Camp Blanding,
Florida, were Lt. Jim Thomas, '396a, and Lt.
Byron Williams, '34ba .
Lt. George G. Hamilton, '37-'38, Harmon, Air
Force fighter pilot, was assigned to Dale Mabry
Field at Tallahassee, Florida .
Lt. William B . Clayton, Jr., '416us, Oklahoma
City, was with the Corps of Engineers at the WAAC
Training Center at Daytona Beach, Florida.
Lt . Oran J. Reynolds, '39-'40, Oklahoma City,
was attached to a Bombing squadron at Drew
Field, Florida .
Lt . I . D . Warden, '36-'40, Norman, was with
an Infantry company at Camp Gordon Johnston,
Florida .
Capt . C . O. Hunt, '40law, Purcell, member of
the Army Air Force, has been transferred to Jacksonville, Florida .
Lt. Robert J . Group, '38, Oklahoma City, was
assigned to a Transport Trainer Detachment at
Miami .
Lt. Jack Dclozier, '41bus, Sapulpa, was assigned
to the Orlando, Florida, Army Air Base as supply
and motor transport officer of a Signal construction battalion . Lt . Emerson N. Price, '30, Vinita,
was attached to a Quartermaster company there.
Attending Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia, were Walter E . Jordan, '426a,
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, George H . Hunt, '39ed,
McAlester, and Charles Krumtum, '41 m .ed, Weatherford. Lt. John Miskovsky, '38bus, Oklahoma
City, was stationed there with the Paratroops. Capt .
Robert T. Hughes, '286a, Norman, was to be assigned to Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, following completion of an Officers Training Course at Benning .
Capt. B . C. Holtzschuc, '34ba, Oklahoma City,
Field Artillery officer, has been transferred to Camp
Gordon, Georgia .
Glenn L . Bowerman, '42bus, Norman, was stationed at Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia.
Lt. Burton E . Speck, '40-'42, Altus, was stationed at Camp Stewart, Georgia, with the Coast
Artillery.
Sgt. Joe M. Johnson, '39-'40, Pawhuska, was
stationed at an Army Signal Corps School in Chicago.
Herman F. Rusch, Jr ., '40bus, Oklahoma City,
was assigned to Scott Field, Illinois.
Lt . John H. Folks, '36law, Sallisaw, was stationed at Camp Atterbury, Indiana .
Pvt. Chandler B . Foster, '29-'30, was assigned to
a Finance Training battalion at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana .
Pvt. William E. Kent, '43bus, Dewey, was with
a training unit at the University of Iowa in Iowa
City .
Aviation Cadet J. S . Munsey, '38-'42, Norman,
was in training at the Army Air Field at Coffeyville, Kansas.
Lt. Selwyn Webber, '426a, Enid, was stationed
at Fort Leavenworth . Mrs. Webber, the former
Rosamond Stephenson, '42fa, was there with him.
Lt. Bob L . Lawrence, Jr ., '42, Anadarko, and
Lt. Foy George, '36ba, '40ed, were Field Artillery
officers at Camp Phillips, Kansas.
Capt . Robert West, '33-'34, '38-'39, Healdton,
was with an Armored Division at Fort Riley, Kansas . Capt . Charles B . Bolar, '356s, '38geol, was
there with the Cavalry.
Lt . Richard D . Jones, '40bus, Oklahoma City,
has been assigned to Bowman Field, Kentucky .
Lt. Ernest E. Aust, Jr ., '37-'41, Lawton, was
with the Field Artillery at Camp Breckinridge,
Kentucky .
Cpl . Paul L . Emerson, '31fa, Kansas City, Kansas, was attached to an Engineer Camouflage battalion at Camp Campbell, Kentucky . Corporal
Emerson was a technician with the gigantic Army
War Show which toured the country last year.
Also at Camp Campbell were Lt. George P. Pitcher, Jr., '42law, Miami, and Lt. Don Atchinson, '42.
Mrs. Atchinson is the former Virginia Waterbury,
'38-'42, Hobart .
Lt. J . E . Sarles, '41ms, has been transferred to
Godman Field at Fort Knox, Kentucky .
Lt. Phillip M . Rubins, '41phys, Oklahoma City,
was assigned to the Signal Corps Depot in Lexington, Kentucky.
Assigned to Barksdale Field, Louisiana, were Lt.
Ira D . Cornelius, '38-'40, Chickasha, Lt . Hugh F.
Burnett, '34-'35, Seminole, and Lt. Robert C.
Weldon, '39-'42, Tulsa .
Lt . Lloyd W. Winkler, '42, Duncan, was at
Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, with an Engineers regiment.
Ralph D . Wilson, '39-'40, Wynnewood, was a
flight officer at the Lake Charles Army Air Base
in Louisiana .
Capt. George T. Metcalf, '386us, was assigned
to a Field Artillery cadre at Camp Livingston,
Louisiana .
Lt. William H . Ferguson, '38-'42, Bartlesville,
and Lt. Herbert L . Durgan, '37eng, were on
maneuvers in Louisiana .
Pvt . Charles Baldwin, '42-'43, Oklahoma City,
was attached to the camouflage department of the
Corps of Engineers at Bangor, Maine .
Pvt. Ray P . Smith, '38-'40, Tulsa, was with an
Air Force weather squadron at Presque Isle, Maine.
Claude B . Patrick, '38law, Skiatook, has been
transferred from a foreign post to Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, to attend the Chemical Warfare
Officer Candidate School .
Lt . Cliff Trice, '42eng, Waurika, was attached
to the Ordnance Replacement Training Center at
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland .
Pvt. John M . Montgomery, '36law, Oklahoma
City, was assigned to a Training battalion at the
Military Police Replacement Training Center at
Fort Custer, Mich .
Lt. John K . Hanks, '38, Purcell, was assigned to
the Air Force Flying School at Jackson, Mississippi .
Staff Sgt. Jerry Pence, '42ed, Chugwater, Wyoming, was stationed at Keesler Field, Mississippi .
He and Mrs . Pence (Jeanne Marie Wells, '38-'42),
formerly of Crescent, Oklahoma, were living near
there in Biloxi .
Lt. Col . Clark Kegelman, '34-'36, El Reno,
holder of the Distinguished Service Cross and heropilot of the European front, was transferred to Key
Field, Mississippi, where he will fly with an operational unit. He returned to the United States from
foreign service in February . Also at Key Field was
Lt . James M . Updike, '36-'38 .
Pvt . William M . Tooke, '42-'43, Tulsa, was attached to the Military Intelligence department at
Camp McCain, Mississippi .
Lt . W. R . Sander, '42pharm, Seiling, and Lt .
James A . Cheek, '40law, Oklahoma City, were
stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi .
Lt . Elgin T. Fuller, '30law, was stationed at
the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot in Kansas
City, Missouri.
Stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, were
Lt . Thomas P'. Ryan, '42eng, Ponca City, Lt. H . C .
Rowland, '35eng, Oklahoma City, and Pvt. George
B . Balay, '37-'39, Tulsa.
Lt . Melvin M . Anderson, '39-'40, Oilton, and
Lt . Floyd Sooy, '35-'38, have been transferred to
Sedalia Army Air Base at Warrensburg' Missouri.
Donald A . Edwards, '33law, Cordell, recently
commissioned a lieutenant, was on duty at the
Internment Camp at Scottsbluff, Nebraska .
Capt. A . H . Schmidt, Jr ., '36bus, was assigned
to the Sioux Ordnance Depot at Sidney, Nebraska.
Lt . E . D . Walborn, '39-'41, Enid, was with the
Air Force at Omaha, Nebraska .
Lt . Howard B . Ray, '22, of the Signal Corps, was
stationed in Reno, Nevada .
Pvt. Theodore R. Matteson, '40-'41, Tulsa, was
attached to the Intelligence division at Fort Dix,
New Jersey .
J . Lee Rodgers, '20ba, Hugo, has been transferred to the personnel and civilian training division at Raritan Arsenal, New Jersey. He and
Mrs . Rodgers (Wilma Wickizer, '206a) are living
near there in Metuchen.
Lt. William E. Graham, '39 -'40, Los Angeles,
regularly stationed at the San Angelo, Texas, Army
Air Field as an instructor, was assigned to the
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Former director of the University Extension Division, Herbert H . Scott,
'26ba, '26ma, was commissioned a
Navy lieutenant and assigned to Naval
district headquarters at New Orleans,
Louisiana, to take up immediate administrative duties .
Carlsbad, New Mexico, Army Air Base for a refresher course as a bombardier .
Aviation Cadet Houston Levers, '42journ, Okmulgee, has been transferred to the Army Flying
School at Roswell, New Mexico .
Pvt. Frederick Jack Sheller, '42, Bartlesville, was
in training with an Air Force meteorological detachment at the University of New Mexico in
Albuquerque .
Lt . James L . Barr, '40eng, Oklahoma City, was
in charge of all field operations at the Seneca
Ordnance Depot at Romulus, New York.
Lt . Robert G . Walton, '34-'36, Muldrow, was
assigned to the Syracuse, New York, Army Air
Base following completion of his training at Miami
Beach, Florida .
Lt . James M . Doolin, '42bus, Alva, was assigned
to an Anti-Aircraft Air Warning battalion at Camp
Davis, North Carolina .
Recently transferred to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, were Lt . W. W. Turnbull, Jr., '42bus, Hobart, with an Air-borne division ; Lt. Hugh Garnett, '32bus, Altus ; Lt. Col . Robert R. Crowdus,
'26eng, Dallas, and Maj . James T. Wilcoxson, '35
bus, Lawton, acting commander of a Glider Field
Artillery battalion .
Cpl . John Heard, '40-'42, Cleveland, Oklahoma,
was assigned to the Signal Corps radio school at
Camp Lejeune, New River, North Carolina.
Lt. B . D. McCampbell, '41eng, Oklahoma City,
was assigned to a Paratroop battalion at Camp
Mackall, North Carolina.
Aviation Cadet A . J. Alexander, '42-'43, Arapaho,
was in training with a College Training Detachment at East Central State College in Ada .
Lt. Harold E . Ottaway, '40-'41, Tyrone, and
Lt. R . Gladson Turnbull, '37bus, were stationed
at the Altus Army Air Base . Cadet Robert R. Parks,
'39-'41, Tipton, was in advance flight training
there.
Lt. Felix F. Simmons, '42bus, Oklahoma City,
was in pilot training at Cimarron Field .
Members of the Medical Corps and Army
Nurses Corps on duty at the Borden General Hospital in Chickasha include Lt . Col . Bert Mulvey,
30med, Maj . Robert Howard, '38med, and Maj .
Robert Noell, '28med, all former Oklahoma City
physicians ; Lt. Mildred Evans, '32-'33, Oklahoma
City ; Lt . Martha Gist, '42nurse, Enid ; Lt . Artie
Marie Garrett, '33he, Lexington, and Lt. Lora Mae
Sullenberger, '38nurse, Oklahoma City . Before being transferred to Chickasha, they were all on duty
at a California desert post, training under battle
140-degree heat, sleepconditions. As a relief from "C..'
ing in tents, and living on
rations, the nurses
visited Hollywood shortly before they left California . There they met Bob Hope, Gary Cooper
and Ingrid Bergman, visited the sets of This Is the
Army and So Proudly We Hail, drama of Army
nurses on Corregidor and Bataan . '
Cpl . Phil H. Deschner, '406us, Oklahoma City,
was stationed at the Enid Army Flying School .
Robert D . Sheehan, '40-'41, Tulsa, was an aviation cadet in training there .
Lt . Floyd Brown, '41m .ed, Oklahoma City, was
assigned to Camp Gruber as billeting officer . Also
there was Lt. Robert Billingsley, '40 .
On duty at Fort Sill were Capt . George Norris,
'39eng, Field Artillery School ; Bill Nolan, '37-'42,
Norman, Officer Candidate School ; Capt . Thomas
B. Campbell, '37eng, staff of the Field Artillery
School ; Lt . Allen A . McDonald, '43eng, Norman,
Officers Basic Course ; Pvt. Bruce E . Holmes, '306a,
'39m .ed, a Medical Detachment ; Maj . William H .
Pretty, '30pharm, Shawnee, Dental Corps ; Lt. William C. Woodward, '42zool, Norman, Field Artillery School ; Maj . B . B . Hunkapiller, '33eng, observation Section faculty of the Field Artillery
School ; Capt . V . Harold McCollum, '34ba, Los
Angeles ; Lt. Darwin D . Warner; '41, Enid, Officers Basic Course, and Lt. Joseph M. Barnhill, '34
law, Oklahoma City .
Lt . Louis V. Abernathy, '22law, Military Police
officer, was on duty at the Internment Camp at
Stringtown, Oklahoma.
Lt . Wendell C. Phillips, '4lbus, Oklahoma City,
has been transferred to the U . S . Engineer Office
in Tulsa as transportation officer .
Capt . E . E . Bartlett, '366a, Idabel, was assigned
to the Air Force Technical Training Detachment at
Weatherford in April as commanding officer .
Lt. Robert A . Sellman, '40eng, Oklahoma City,
has been transferred to Will Rogers Field . Lt . Jack
McWilliams, '42eng, Wichita, Kansas, was assigned
there as an engineering officer.
With the Field Artillery at Camp Adair, Oregon,
were Maj . Norman A. Anderson, '33bus, and Lt .
William F. Collins, Jr ., '40-'42, both of Oklahoma City. Maj . Raymond Criswell, '38law, Wewoka, was assigned there as a member of the Provost Marshal's department .
When Joseph C . Grew, former U .S . ambassador
to Japan, addressed the student body at the Air
Intelligence School at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
he was introduced by Lt. Erik Rhodes, '27ba, former Hollywood and Broadway actor . Lieutenant
Rhodes is public relations officer at the school . Also
stationed there as an instructor in Japanese history was Lt. Ben Blakeney, '29ba, Oklahoma City,
who met Mr . Grew during his visit.
Lt. Roy D . Clem, '39-'42, Granite, was assigned
to a Bombing squadron at the Greenville Army Air
Base in South Carolina .
Assigned to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, were
Lt. Keegan Carter, '42geol, Hugo ; Capt. Glenn
E . Hess, '40eng, Oklahoma City ; Lt . D . F. Pendley,
Jr ., '37-'41, Paoli ; Lt. G . R . Nichols, '36-'41, Cordell ; Lt. W . W . Musser, Jr., '4llaw, Enid, and Lt.
S. E. Cockrell, Jr ., '386us, Tulsa.
Maj . J . Russell White, '27bus, Cushing, was
attached to Army Headquarters in Memphis,
Tennessee .
Capt . Joe B . Thompson, '27ba, was with an Observation Group at the Abilene Army Air Base in
Texas.
Maj . M . M. Appleton, '34med, Oklahoma City,
was assigned to the Station Hospital at Camp Wfkeley, Texas, after completing a period of specialized
training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota . Also on the hospital staff was Lt . Marie Watkins, '37-'39, Hobart, Army nurse . Capt . John V.
Clark, '39med, Oklahoma City, was on the staff
of the Medical Corps Replacement Training Center
at Barkeley . There with the Field Artillery were
Lt. Felix W . Curtis, '37-'38, Sparks, and Lt . Leonard Wagner, '34-'37, Cement.
Lt. William M. Sammons, '39-'42, Oklahoma
City, was a pilot with the Troop Transport Command at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas .
Pvt. Alfred E . Rubins, '42-'43, Oklahoma City,
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was with a weather unit of the Air Force at Big
Springs, Texas.
At Fort Bliss, Texas, were Capt. Thomas W .
Darnall, '35bus, Marlow, Lt . Earnest McIntyre,
'36-'40, Kiefer, and Sgt . William C. Robinson,
'42ed, Oklahoma City, member of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Training Center band .
Pvt. Donald Etter, '43bus, Norman, was with
a Tank Destroyer battalion at Camp Bowie, Texas.
Lt. Burton E. Hull, Jr ., '39eng, was an Air Force
instrument instructor at Bryan Field, Texas .
Lt . Jerry D . Jarratt, '39-'41, Uvalde, was assigned
to Concho Field, Texas, as a pilot in the Air Forces .
Lt . Richard W. Bell, '41bus, Oklahoma City,
Air Force bombardier, was stationed at the Dalhart,
Texas, Army Air Base .
Lt. William J. Byron, Jr ., '39-'40, Shawnee, was
stationed at the Air Force Training School at Del
Rio, Texas.
Lt. Coy A . Ponder, '39-'41, Pauls Valley, was
attached to a Troop Carrier squadron at De Delvalle,
Texas .
Aviation cadets in training at Ellington Field,
Texas, included Charles L. Coates, '406s, Oklahoma City ; Raymond D . Crews, '41law, Norman,
and John W. Reeder, '38-'42, . Amarillo .
Assigned to duty at Gatesville, Texas, were Lt.
Taylor C. Anthony, '42, Blanchard, and Maj . Eugene J . McCormick, '29-'33, commander of a
Tank Destroyer battalion.
Melvin B. Russell, '40, Norman, was an aviation cadet in primary training at Gibbs Field,
Texas .
Lt. Jack Barr, '40eng, Oklahoma City, was on
duty at the Greenville, Texas, Army Air Base .
Lt. Col . A. N. Hudson, '35m .ed, has been transferred to post headquarters at Hensley Field near
Dallas, Texas .
Lt. Robert L. Davis, '39-'40, Fort Worth, was
with a training squadron at the Army Navigation
School at Hondo, Texas.
Attached to the Tank Destroyer School at Camp
Hood, Texas, were Maj . John W. Cameron, '23-'26,
Capt . Harold L . Gasaway, '36law, and Lt . William J. Price, '31eng, Norman . Gerald S . Young,
Jr .-, '38-'43, Duncan, was attending Tank Destroyer
Officer Candidate School there .
Lyman A . Bryan, '42-'43, Norman, was an aviation cadet in training at Kelly Field, Texas .
Lt. Stephen R. Gammon, '38-'39, Ennis' Texas,
Army Air Force pilot, was attached to a fighter
group at the Laredo Army Air Field in Texas.
Lt . Vol . Crawford, '19ba, Ada, was a Military
Police officer in Longview, Texas.
Cliff M . Otto, '37bus, Edmond, was with a
Ferrying group at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.
Lt . Fred Mehew, Jr ., '406us, Kingfisher, newly
commissioned Air Force pilot, was assigned to the
South Plains Army Flying School at Lubbock,
Texas .
Staff Sgt . Robert L . Hoskinson, '32-'35, Norman, was transferred to the Advanced Glider
School at Lubbock.
Lt. Marvin G. Elkins, '38med, was attached to
the Station Hospital at Camp Maxey, Texas.
Lt . William D . McLennan, '38-'39, Oklahoma
City, formerly with the Ordnance division of the
Army, has transferred to the Air Force and was in
training at Moore Field .
William S . Nicholson, '34-'35, Shawnee, was
an aviation cadet in training at the Army Flying
School at Pampa, Texas.
Lt. Jim Almond, '38-'42, Duncan, has been
transferred to the Air Force Basic Flying School
at Pecos, Texas .
Lt. James R . Norris, '38-'41, Cushing, was assigned to the instrument training unit of the Central Instructors School at Randolph Field, Texas .
Lt. Alton E . Brown, '35ed, '39m.ed, former school
superintendent at Asher, was to be stationed there
following completion of his training at Miami
Beach, Florida.
Lt . Col. John L . Virden, '29-'30, former Seminole newspaperman, and Lt . Felix F. Simmons,
42bus, Oklahoma City, were with the Army Air
Forces is San Antonio, Texas.
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Lt. Robert Whittet, '37-'41, McAlester, was an
Air Force bombardier assigned to the San Marcos,
Texas, Air Base .
Pvt. E. H. Marshall, '34-'39, former advertising
manager of the Altus Times Democrat, was in
training with the Air Force at Sheppard Field,
Texas. Aviation Cadet Charles D . Price, '41-'42,
Duncan, was assigned there .
Cpl . Travis U. Price, '30, was with an Engineer
Combat Group at Camp Swift, Texas .
Lt . Daniel K. Barton, '40-'41, Oklahoma City,
was with a Student Officer Detachment at Tarrant Field, Fort Worth, Texas .
Pvt . Thomas (Eddy) Nolen, '39ed, '40m .ed,
How Sooners Serve
ARMY
Privates ------------------------------ 540
Corporals ____________________________ 114
Sergeants
___________________________ 155
Warrant Officers ----------------------- 27
Cadets -------------------------------- 253
Lieutenants ___________________________1,946
Captains ----------------------------- 716
Majors -------------------------------- 310
Lieutenant Colonels -------------------- 77
Colonels ------------------------------ 17
Major Generals ------------------------2
WAACS ----------------------------- 56
TOTAL
_________________________4,213
NAVY
Seamen ------------------------------ 260
Petty Officers -------------------------- 36
Cadets __ ___ ______________ ___ _ ___ 64
Ensigns ------------------------------ 280
Lieutenants --------------------------- 175
Lieutenant Commander ________________
1
Commanders ----------------------2
Captain -----------------------------1
WAVES ----------------------------- 28
TOTAL
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_ _______ 867
MARINES
Privates ------------------------------ 33
Corporals ----------------------------2
Sergeant ----------------------------I
Cadet
1
Lieutenants --------------------------- 33
Captains ----------------------------5
Majors ___ ________________ _
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5
Lieutenant Colonels -------------------3
Colonel -----------------------------I
Women's Branch ----------------------I
TOTAL
COAST GUARD
Seamen -----------------------------Petty Officers -------------------------Cadets ____
_
Ensigns ______________________________
Lieutenants ___________________________
SPARS ________________ __ ___________
TOTAL --------------------------
85
36
5
2
2
2
2
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GRAND TOTAL _ _________________-__5,214
Cyril, was in flight training at Hardin-Simmons
Junior College in Abilene, Texas .
Lt. Charles W. Ward, '42, Tulsa, and Pvt, James
L . Brooks, '42, Oklahoma City, were with the Infantry at Camp Wolters, Texas .
Lt. Ira Monroe, '40law, Marietta, was attached
to the Internal Security Division at Fort Douglas,
Utah.
Maj . George H. Koehne, Jr ., '38, Tulsa, has been
transferred to Wendover Park, Utah . He recently
returned from several years' duty in the Panama
Canal Zone with a patrol squadron.
Lt . Owen S. Parrish, Jr ., '38-'40, Las Vegas,
New Mexico, was a pursuit pilot attached to a
fighter squadron at Langley Field, Virginia .
Lt. Lowell Doggett, '40law, Ponca City, was
assigned to the post intelligence office at Camp
Patrick Henry, Virginia, after receiving his com-
mission at the Adjutant Generals School, Fort
Washington, Maryland, in April .
Capt . Joseph D . Anderson, '34law, Oklahoma
City, was with the Field Artillery at Camp Pickett,
Virginia. Pfc. Thim Finley, '36-'39, Marlow, was
attached to a Military Police platoon there.
Lt . Jack M . Bowers, '39fa, '41m .fa, Norman,
was assigned to the School of Special Services at
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
Lt. O . G. Smith, '34-'36, and Lt . M . H. Breckenridge, '40, Pond Creek, have been transferred
to Geiger Field, Washington.
Sam Magoffin, '37'39, McAlester, newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington .
Lt. Andrew J . Salmon, '39, Coalgate, was attached to an Engineers battalion at McChord Field,
Washington .
Capt . John L . Coffey, '216a, has been transferred
to Camp Hathway at Vancouver, Washington .
Lt. Quentin T. Brooks, '42geol, Okmulgee, was
assigned to the Artillery Firing Center at Yakima,
Washington .
Lt . Col . Homer S . Reese, '22ba, '29ma, former
superintendent of schools at Mangum and Heavener, was G-4 on the staff of an Infantry division
at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin . There with the Field
Artillery were Lt. Frank L . Killingsworth, '30-'35,
Seminole ; Lt. Col. Valley H. Taylor, '32law, former Tulsa attorney, and Capt. Ralph W . Wolverton, '35eng . Capt. Charles W. McClelland, '41med,
Claremore, was with the Medical Corps at Camp
McCoy.
Capt . D. D . Duskin, '40eng, Oklahoma City,
has been transferred to General Mitchell Field at
Cudahy, Wisconsin, where he is with the Air
Transport Command .
WAAC
Recently commissioned second lieutenants in
the WAAC were Agnes O. McDanel, '25-'26, Norman, who was assigned to recruiting duty in Houston, and Emma Pawson, '38fa, at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia . In training were Margaret Stobaugh, '39ma, Mannsville, Oklahoma, attending
Officer Candidate School at Fort Des Moines, Iowa ;
Aux . Hope Gregory, '27-'32, Norman, at Monticello, Arkansas ; Aux . Elizabeth Wood, '33-'34,
Eufaula, Aux . Martha Leer Hull, '38ba, Miami,
and Cpl . Ann E . Wynngate, '39-'41, Tulsa, at
Fort Des Moines, and Doris Riley, '39ed, Healdton, and Mildred M . Stewart, '34ma, at Daytona
Beach, Florida.
New inductees, as yet unassigned for training,
included Mildred Riling, '26ma, English instructor at Southeastern State College in Durant ; Isabel
Rushing, '31, McAlester school teacher, and Charlene Cathey, '32-'34, head cashier of the Oklahoma
Gas and Electric Company office in Norman .
Assigned to active duty were Lt . Laura L . Smith,
'35-'40 , and Lt. Helen Barr, '36ed, Nowata, recruiting officers in Little Rock, Arkansas ; Aux.
Marguerite Patchin, '36-'38, Pawhuska, at Fort
Custer, Michigan ; Aux . Mary K . Bryden, '39ba,
Bixby, at Camp Hood, Texas, and Afc. Alfreda
Hoagland, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, at Denton,
Texas .
Navy
William B . Vick, '39, Oklahoma City, is believed
to be the youngest chief petty officer in the Navy .
Joining the Navy as an apprentice seaman in the
fall of 1940, he was promoted to chief this spring
at the age of 21 . He was a signalman on board ship
during the Pearl Harbor bombing but is now assigned to a land station in the United States as a
signal instructor .
Cliff F. Caldwell, '38=42, Mountain View, photographer's mate second class in the Navy, was
mentioned in a dispatch sent from the Aleutian
Islands early in May which described the flight
of a Navy patrol plane over the mountains near
Kiska and Attu . Mr. Caldwell, former photographer
and engraver for the Oklahoma Daily at the University, took pictures of bays, harbors and mountains during the flight.
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Lt. (jg) Harold Tacker, '40fa, former University photographer, was on duty at the Naval Air
Station at Dutch Harbor, Alaska .
Ensign Olen R. Keith, '41, Hollis, a Navy flier,
is attached to a Transport squadron at Alameda,
California.
Velma Lee Kenney, '38-'39, Healdton, ensign
in the Navy Nurse Corps, was assigned to duty
in San Diego, California. Ensign Kenney is a graduate of the Baylor School of Nursing in Dallas .
Also with the Navy in San Diego were Lt. Kenneth E . McAfee, '34law, Oklahoma City ; Lt . (jg)
Eugene C. Stevens, '39bus, Tulsa, and Paul E .
Browne, '43eng, Chickasha, apprentice seaman .
Edmund C. Payne, '31-'34, Tishomingo, was a
pharmacist's mate second class on duty at the
Medical Supply Depot at San Francisco .
In the District of Columbia, Ensign James R.
Rea, Jr., '426us, Snyder, was attending a Navy
bomb disposal school in Washington, Ensign Elliott C. Fenton, '37law, was on duty at the Navy
Yard Receiving Station, and Lt. (jg) Alvin D .
Turquette, '40-'42, Oklahoma City, was assigned
to the photographic interpretation school at the
Anacostia Naval Air Base.
Ensign C . C . Evans, Jr., '37, Sand Springs, was
a Navy pilot stationed at Jacksonville, Flordia.
Ensign Jack L. Hartin, '37, '41, Tuttle, was a
Navy flier at the Naval Air Station in Sanford,
Florida . Ensign Carl Lochner, '42, was assigned
there for advanced training.
Ensign Jack T. Smith, '34-'36, was on duty
at the Naval Air Training Center at Pensacola,
Florida . Mrs . Smith (Jane Proctor, '37ed) is living
in McAlester.
With the Navy in Miami, Florida were Ensign
Allen G. West, '40law, Oklahoma City ; Ensign
Donald K . Groom, '40 -'41, Slick, and Ensign
John P . Baldridge, '38law, Oklahoma City.
Lt. Mark Jones, '40-'42, Billings, Marine pilot,
was on duty at the Naval Air Station in Atlanta,
Georgia .
Ensign Mac Otts Boring, Jr., '37eng, Fort Worth,
was on duty at the Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii .
Marvin Whited, '38-'41, Hollis, famed Sooner
athlete, was a chief specialist with the Navy, stationed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho .
R . Thornberg Brock, '40letters, '41lib.sci, Norman, was a specialist third class at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station in Illinois .
Paul Campbell, '42, Oklahoma City, formerly
at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, has
been selected for training at the Navy Yeoman's
School in Chicago.
Billy Wolff, '40-'43, Hugo, has been called to
training at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's
School in Chicago .
Jack Fezler, '38-'42, Oklahoma City, and Searcy
F . Griffin, '426s, Watonga, were in training at the
Navy Reserve Midshipmen's School at Notre Dame
University, South Bend, Indiana .
Lt. Charles E. Earnheart, Jr., '28law, Oklahoma
City, was assigned to Navy headquarters in New
Orleans .
Ensign Richard H. Flynn, '356a, '36m.ed, Elgin,
Kansas, attached to the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C ., recently underwent an
operation at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland . Lt . Olsen L . Anderson, '256a, Carney, Oklahoma, was stationed at Annapolis .
Ensign James P. Parks, '426us, Dustin, Oklahoma, has been transferred to Soldiers Field Station
in Boston, Massachusetts .
Assigned to the Naval Training School at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts were
Ensign Maurice Willis, '42pharm, Eldorado ; Ensign Roy Randerson, '41bus, Oklahoma City, and
Ensign Robert R. Eckart, Jr ., '41eng, Dallas .
Charles L . Miller, Jr., '38, formerly with the
Stanolind Oil and Gas Company in Tulsa, was assigned to Sheepshead Bay for training with the
Merchant Marine .
Glen E . Paul, '40bs, Glenwood, Alabama, was
stationed at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx, New York,
after receiving his commission as an ensign in the
Navy . He was formerly a pharmacist's mate second class at the Naval Recruiting Station in Richmond, Virginia . Also at Fort Schuyler was Ensign
William L. Delbridge, '40bus, Edmond . He and
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Mrs . Delbridge, the former Joyce Watford, '38ed,
have one son, Craig.
William A . Richards, '41bus, Okmulgee, and
Jack Yocum, '43ed, Maysville, were in training
at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in New
York City .
W. O. Smythe, Jr, '38ba, specialist third class
in the Navy, was on duty at the Naval Training
Station at Sampson, New York .
On duty at the Naval Air Technical Training
Center south of Norman were Ensign Robert D.
Blinn, '42ba, Oklahoma_ City ; Chief Charles E.
Cummings, '38 ; Kris K. Kourtis, '39, yeoman third
class, and Robert D . McCandless, '22, Perry, yeoman second class .
Ensign Harry H . Jordan, '39fa, was attached to
the Naval Air Gunnery School at Purcell .
Clark Northcutt, '39-'42, Lexington, has been
assigned to the Naval Air Station at Memphis,
Tennessee, for primary flight training as a cadet.
Ensign Fred T. Damon, '42eng, Council Bluffs,
Iowa, was with a cadet regiment at the Naval Air
Training Center at Corpus Christi, Texas . Cadet
Arthur Blaine Imel, Jr., '41-'42, Cushing, was in
training there .
Ensign Lester F . Hall, '34-'38, Ponca City, of
the Navy Air Corps Reserve, was stationed at Texas
Christian University in Fort Worth.
Lt. (jg) John L. Fortson, '346a, former director
of public relations for the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ of America, is now a public
relations officer in the chaplain's division of the
Navy in Arlington, Virginia .
Ensign Al Horwitz, '42journ, Oklahoma City,
was a Navy deck officer assigned to duty in Norfolk, Virginia .
Ensign Clyde L. Murray, Jr., '42, Enid, was on
duty at the Pasco Naval Air Station in Washington
as an instructor .
Carroll T. Slack, '40m.ed, former Atoka High
School principal, was assigned to the Naval Air
Station in Seattle, Washington after graduating
as top man of his class at the Navy Aerographers
Training School at Lakewood, New Jersey. Mr .
Slack has a rating as aerographer's mate third class .
WAVES
Ensign Estella M . Knapp, '42ba, Fort Worth,
was on duty with the WAVES . in Washington,
D.C. In training with the Women's Navy at
Northampton, Massachusetts, were Margaret
Stallings, '39fa, McAlester, an officer candidate,
and Sylvia Adams, '37-'38, Locust Grove, and
Pearl Garen, '37ba, '40ma, Norman, apprentice
seamen . Betty Lou Ursey, '42-'43, Norman, was an
apprentice seaman in training in the Bronx, New
York .
Coast Guard
John L . Thornbrough, '42pharm, Oklahoma
City, was a pharmacist's mate second class in the
Coast Guard, stationed at Clallam Bay, Washington .
Marines
Mary Bell Spencer, '40bus, employee of the Security National Bank in Norman, enlisted in the
Marine Corps Women's Reserve and was awaiting
call for officer candidate training late in April .
Lt. Roy Loftis, '42bus, Holdenville, has been
assigned to active duty with the Marine Corps following completion of advanced training at Quantico, Virginia .
Pfc. Marinn P . Moran, '40, '41, Tipton, was a
member of a Marine Detachment aboard ship in
the Pacific.
Mark G. Holliday, '42journ, Anadarko, has
been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps and stationed at San Diego . Also there
was Pvt. Jack Watkins, '41-'42, Tribbey, a member of the basketball team which won this year's
M .C .B . championship .
Lt. Robert R. Read, '41eng, Lawton, was a Marine pilot assigned to the Marine Corps Air Station at Mojave, California.
Lt. Paul Rudell, '42bus, Stonewall, with the
Marine Corps, has been transferred to Camp Elliott,
California.
Lt. Ben F. Bragg, Jr., '40-'42, Cushing, was
transferred to Miami for advanced dive bomber
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training after receiving his commission in the Marine Corps Reserve at the Naval Air Training
Center at Corpus Christi, Texas .
Lt. Robert J. Lynch, Jr., '40-'41, Bradford,
Pennsylvania, Marine Corps Pilot, was stationed
at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida.
Lt. David Riley, '40-'41, Bronx, New York,
Marine Corps flier, was stationed at the Naval
Air Station at Melbourne, Florida .
Lt. James D . Thomson, '26ba, Oklahoma City,
member of the Marine Corps, was assigned to the
Naval Air Station at Corpus Christi, Texas, as an
instructor .
Pvt. Robert Jack Elston, '41-'42, Shawnee, was
with a Marine detachment at the Naval Training
School at Logan, Utah .
Lt . James H . Pope, '42phys .ed, Alma, has been
transferred to Portsmouth, Virginia, with the Marine Corps .
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tory nations. The people of the nations
which do not want to accept and comply
with just peace terms must be forced to do
so if the world is to have lasting peace ."
Besides the four basic freedoms outlined
in the Atlantic Charter, the peace treaty
must include, he said, guarantees of the
right of the majority to rule in all nations,
the right to reasonable access to the markets
and natural resources of the world, and the
protection of all nations against the aggressions of larger nations .
Dean Adams recommended that no
monetary reparation payments be demanded of the Axis nations at the end of the
war, as they would be impossible to pay
and would merely cause endless international financial difficulties . He recommended instead that the defeated countries provide labor, capital goods, natural resources
and territories for the rehabilitation of the
now-conquered European nations .
Bizzell Recovering
President Emeritus W. B. Bizzell last
month was recuperating in an Oklahoma
City hospital following a heart attack in
early May.
Physicians reported that Mr. Bizzell's
condition was improving and that he would
return to his home in Norman after several
weeks. The attack occurred the weekend
after commencement in which Mr. Bizzell
had participated actively .
Commentary to Be Broadcast
A weekly commentary and analysis of
world and national news by Cortez A. M.
Ewing, University government professor,
recently was added to the schedule of the
state's educational station WNAD (640
kilocycles) .
In addition to carrying the commentary,
WNAD will continue to broadcast Mr.
Ewing's class in the development of political thought three days a week. He will
present the news analysis each Friday at
5 :45 p.m.
Resumes of Ewing's comments will be
prepared each week and sent to state newspapers. Subjects of the first two broadcasts
were "Reciprocal Trade Agreements" and
"The Poll Tax Bill." Time of the broadcast is 5 :45 p.m. on Friday .
Teacher Aid Broadcast
Aid for Oklahoma teachers preparing
for impending state examinations will be
broadcast by the state's educational station
WNAD in two 30-minute programs to be
carried daily throughout June.
The programs, which will cover various
subjects included on the state examinations,
are the University of Oklahoma's contribution through WNAD to help remedy the
widespread teacher shortage, Virginia
Hawk, station director, said. This will be
the first time direct aid has ever been given
by any college station to state teachers, Miss
Hawk said.
Co-operating in the broadcasts is the State
Department of Education. Department officials have placed the current teacher shortage at approximately one-third.
Because of the terrific loss of teachers to
the armed forces and war industries, war
emergency teaching certificates will be
granted to high school graduates, having
less than 40 semester hours of college work,
who have passed state examinations.
WNAD's programs, designed to aid these
new teachers who will fill vacancies next
fall, will be broadcast twice daily from 5 :00
to 5 :30 p.m. and from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Subjects to be covered include arithmetic,
English composition, federal government,
English grammar, geography, Oklahoma
history, physiology and hygiene, American'
history and agriculture.
In addition to passing state examinations,
prospective teachers must also attend a-twoweek workshop under a new ruling of the
State Department of Education . These
workshops will be held during the summer at state colleges. The workshop at the
University of Oklahoma is scheduled for
June 7 to June 19.
Henryetta Debaters Win
Henryetta High School won first in the
debate division of the debate-speech tournament held on the campus recently by the
Oklahoma High School Public Speaking
League . Henryetta debaters won over representatives from Classen High School in
Oklahoma City in the final round . The
debate question concerned the possibilities
of a post-war federation of nations.
First place winners in other divisions of
the tournament included high school students from Sulphur, Ada, Enid and Classen
and Central in Oklahoma City.
For Soldier-Writers
Many O. U. men in the armed forces
who have a yen to write might be interested to know that the correspondence
course in creative writing offered by W. S.
Campbell of the English faculty, has been
approved by the Army Institute as one of
the courses that may be taken by soldiers at
half price . Full details may be obtained by
writing Lucy Tandy, head of the correspondence study department of the University
Extension Division.
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