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Paul Gebhart (center), Marlow, is winner of the Edward Grisso Memorial Award for 1957 as the 0 . U . male student who made greatest improvement in grade average between the freshman and sophomore years . Gebhart, geology major, received $6250 with the award, which was established in memory of Edward Grisso who died while a student at the University of New Mexico . Grisso was the son of W . D . Grisso, '28Law, and Mrs . Grisso of Oklahoma City . Pictured with Gebhart are (left) Jerome Hemry, Oklahoma City, one of the award committee members, and University's President George Cross . a series of brief news stories of events that shaped the lives of the alumni family 1893 Nahum E . Butcher, '93, retired in November, 1957, from his job at Tinker Air Force Base where he was in charge of the message center for the 12,000 employees of maintenance engineering . Butcher, 85, was honored by the military and civilian leaders with a retirement party . He holds the honor of being the first freshman to enroll at the University of Oklahoma in 1893 . 1908 Mrs . 1 . A . Stanley (the former Mary Ingold, '08mus) is living in Santa Rosa, California . She is a member of the Sonoma County Chorus which performed Handel's "Messiah" December 15 on the Santa Rosa Junior College campus . 1910 Ben C . Belt, '10ba, is author of an article, "Our Rightful Place," which appeared in the December, 1957, issue of Houston magazine . Belt, president of the Houston, Texas, Chamber of Commerce, also authored the official president's message on business for the issue, and a photograph of him appeared un the publication's cover . He is brother of the former Blanche Belt, '106a, now married to Dr . A . C . Shead, retired professor of chemistry of the University of Oklahoma. 1911 DEATH : Mrs . C . R . Chancy (the former Julia Meier, 'llmus) died September 6, 1957. Mrs . Chaney lived in Sanger, California, at the time of her death . She was the daughter of Pro - fessor Henry Meier who taught German and as' tronomy at O . U . 1915 Don Walker, '156a, in charge of personnel , PAGE 22 SOONER MAGAZINE
Dr . N. L. George, '26ed, '31na.ed, assistant He . . . . . . . . . s afety, and public relations for the Noble Drilling the Tulsa Federal Savings and Loan Association . The Barretts are from Tulsa . Corporation, Tulsa, has been honored with The superintendent of Oklahoma City schools, addressed Order of Constantine by Sigma Chi fraternity . the annual school facilities conference at is also Grand Praetor of the Central Southwestern Province of the fraternity . Texas Technological College, Lubbock, in December . He gave two talks on the general theme of "Schools of Tomorrow ." DEA'T'H : Dr Robert L Noell, '266s, '28rrred, 1918 Dr . Angie Debo, '186a, '33ph.d ., Oklahoma orthopedic surgeon, died December 12, 1957, in State University history professor, and Dr. Ennua Oklahoma City after an illness of six months . He Fstill-Harbour, '23rna, '33ph.d ., of Central State was a clinical professor of orthopedic surgery at College, Edmond, participated in the program for the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine the opening meeting of the Oklahoma college history until his illness . professors at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee . With Dr E . E. Dale, University of 1927 Oklahoma, they gave their reminiscences of early 1 . Phil Burns, '27ba, will ]read the 1958 Oklaclays in Oklahoma . All three lived in Oklahoma !x,iua City and County March of Dimes campaign before statehood . . Last year Burns headed the city campaign DEATH : Mrs . Horace Taylor (the former to raise money for the National Foundation for Louise Bierer, '18ba) died after a prolonged illness Infantile Paralysis . at her home in New York on November 29, Mrs . Loraine P . Aggas, '27mus, has been hon- 1957 Her funeral was in St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia ored by Who's Who in Music. The story of her University She was married at Guthrie, accomplishments appears in the new edition as Oklahoma, September 10, 1924, to Horace Taylor, well as two previous editions . '216a, who is now head of the economics de- DEATH : Kenneth H. Ferguson, '27, '34, died partment at Columbia University. December 2, 1957, in Houston, Texas Ferguson was a member of the Lambda Chi fraternity . 1919 Q. B . Boydstun, '19Law, Fort Gibson, has 1923 been re-elected as general counsel for the Oklahoma Howard J . Bozarth, '28bus, Oklahoma City, Grand River Dam Authority . Boydstun, in was elected president of the City National Bank his 20th year with the state water and power and Trust Company of Oklahoma City in late agency, has been general counsel since 1945 . November . The election followed the death of the Prior to that time he was assistant general counsel firm's former president, Dan Hogan, Jr . Bozartlr for about eight years . He is an authority on graduated from the Oklahoma City public schools legal matters pertaining to public revenue financing, and attended Centre College in Kentucky before water uses and the generation and distribu- coming to O. U. He joined City National in 1930 . tion of electric power and energy . Ile married the former Zereta Sutton, and thev have two children. Civic organizations of which 1920 he is a member include Kiwanis, Oklahoma City Paul Campbell, '216a, '25ma, and Mrs . Alma Chamber of Commerce, Oklahoma County Red Campbell, '206a, now live in Lansing, Cross, Men's Michigan, Dinner Club, Vestry of the All Souls' where Mr . Campbell is resident secretary for the Episcopal Church, and Bishop and Council of the Y M. C . A. Mrs . Campbel l is with Episcopal the State Department Diocese of Oklahoma . of Social Welfare as a social worker with the blind services. 1929 George C . Frickel, '29, '33, has been appointed assistant national director, Cub Scouting 1921 DEATH : Mrs . Adda Powers, '21ina, (lied Service, Boy Scouts of America . August 311, 1957 . Mrs . Po%vers ]iced in Montrose, Frank L. Dennis, '296a, has been appointed Colorado . director of public information for the U. S . Information Agency. He will continue also to be assistant 1922 deputy director of the agency's Office of Carl E . Rcistle, Jr ., '22eng, Houston, Texas, Policy and Plans . Dennis was at one time assistant has been named by the American Institute of Mining, managing editor of the Daily Oklahoman and Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers to Times, Oklahoma City . receive the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal, a major award of the institute and an outstanding 1930 honor in petroleum engineering . A former president of AIME, Reistle will receive the award up duties as president of the Gannett Company, Paul Miller, '30, Pittsford, New York, took February 19 at the annual banquet of AIME in Inc ., (luring the past summer . Miller, who has New York . He is executive vice president of been with the firm for 11 years, oversees 23 daily Humble Oil and Refining Company . and weekly newspapers, as well as five radio and two television stations. Miller is married and the 1923 father of a daughter and three sons . DEATH : Dr . Onis G. Hazel, '23pharm, '316s, M. L Powers, '30eng, '306a, director of business '31med, Oklahoma City skin specialist, died at and industrial services for the University, the age of 57 in Oklahoma City on December 8, spoke on "Training During the Next Ten Years" 1957 . Dr Hazel had been in private practice in at a meeting of the Tulsa chapter of the American Oklahoma City since 1932, and also had been a Society of Training Directors in December. member of the faculty of the University of Oklahoma L . W. Barrett, '30eng, and his son, Lynn, Jr ., Medical School for 24 years . He was past recently became members of Gamma Tau Kappa, president of the Oklahoma County Medical Society . honorary geological engineering fraternity . Barrett was initiated as a member of O. U.'s first class to receive a professional degree in geological 1926 engineering . His son, a junior in the School of Everett S . Johnson, Jr ., '266us, has been recently Geological Engineering, is a member of O. U .'s promoted to executive vice president by first fraternity organized expressly for that field . 1931 Howard Cowan, '31, has been appointed chairman of the Chamber of Commerce agriculture-area development department for 1958 . Cowan is director of public affairs for Public Service Company of Oklahoma . ( : . 1' . Bristol, '31eng, has been transferred to Midland, Texas, as vice president of the Midland area of Shell Oil Company . He was formerly vice president of the Tulsa area for four years Mrs . Alice P . Fleming, '31fa, '32ed, has a painting and a colored woodblock in the Association of Oklahoma Artists show at the Oklahonr_t Art Center, and a seriagraph in the traveling show of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts . A watercolor, "Willows," was shown in 1957 at the Smithsonian Institute Mrs . Fleming teaches art in Norman High School . Dr . Jaines G. Harlow, '31ba, '33ms, newlynamed dean of the School of Education at the University, spoke recently before the 200 persons at the annual schoolmen's dinner of Phi Delta Kappa, national scholastic fraternity . Dr . Harlow is also executive vice president of the Frontiers of Science of Oklahoma, Inc 1932 Herbert L . Branan, '326a, '38Law, Oklahoma City, was elected a vice president of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company in December Branan joined the firm in 1944 . He is a member of Nichols Hill Methodist Church and the Oklahoma Citc Downtown Rotary Club, and past president of both the Oklahoma County Phi Beta Kappa association and the Arklahoma Corporation, the latter being an organization owned by three electric utility companies for the interchange of electric power . Thomas T. Fair, '32bus, is a rancher and has interests in real estate and oil in Waynoka, Oklahoma . Fair was a member of the 1955 Oklahoma Industrial Tour, purpose of which was to interest Eastern industries in the business prospects in Oklahoma . James Robinson, '326a, '32Law, general education specialist of the University, attended a meeting in December of the southwest homicide investigators seminar planning committee in Dallas, Texas Members discussed plans for the fifth annual seminar program scheduled April 21-26 at O. U.'s North Campus . 1933 DEATH : Earl Blackburn, '33eng, Borger, Texas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, November 25, 1957 . Blackburn, 47, was vice president of the oil and gas division of the J . M. Huber Corporation of Borger . He also was a director of the Indepen- (lent Petroleum Association of America . 1935 Ira C. Gunning, '35m .ed, formerly dean of Eastern Oklahoma A&M, is now director of institutional research . Mrs . Thelma Gunning, 486s, '53Li.sei, is librarian at Eastern . Their son, Ira C. Gunning, Jr ., '48eng, '49m .eng, is a research engineer with Convair in the guided missile program at Pomona, California . Alice Marriott, '356a, first University of Oklahoma woman anthropology graduate, has rejoined the O.U . staff as the first curator of ethnology at the Stovall Museum . Chosen New Mexico's writer of the year, Miss Marriott has recently published her tenth book, entitled Black Stone Knife . Floyd Norris, '35Law, Los Angeles, California, lawyer, was elected a vice president of the newly organized Big "8" Club of Southern California . The club was formed to bind together JANUARY, 1958 PAGE 2 3
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