The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 48, No. 127, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 10, 1962 Page: 1 of 16
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A Student Newspaper Serving the University of Oklahoma
4$th Year No. 127
NORMAN OKLAHOMA TUESDAY APRIL 10 1962
AP DPI Wire Services
Top OU Students Recognized
Outstanding Independent BW-BMOC
Mortar Board Selections Revealed
100 Top Independents 77 Chosen BW-BMOC Mortar Board Taps 23
Outstanding Independents of 1962 will be honored at
an Independent Students association banquet at 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday in dining rooms five and six of the Union.
One hundred Outstanding Independent Student awards
will be presented by Charles F. Daily jr. president of
the association. President and Mrs. George L. Cross will
present the Outstanding Independent Man Woman and
Foreign student awards. Executive Council awards will
be given and officers for 1962-63 will be introduced.
Following the invocation given by Mike Crosslin. Wes-
ley Foundation male quartet will entertain. Rose Marie
Weber will begin the program Your ISA with the his-
tory of the association. Janice Pullin and Barbara Lutrell
will talk on the social activities of ISA. Joe Harbison will
speak on the special projects of the organization and
Mike Lauderdale newly elected president 1962-63 will
end the program with his plans for the future.
Senior Outstanding Independents named are Clark
Andersen Robert L. Beasley John Pat Berryhill Peter
Constantine Bargeliotes Lloyd L. Benson Lynne Fowler
Capehart Karen' Carder Mary Lou Carter Thomas C.
Caves Mike Crosslin Charles F. Daily jr. Barbara JoAnn
Dees Linda Driskill Lavelle Roger Gibson Robert Berl
Greenstine Bill Hadwiger Joel Edward' Haggard Eldon
G. Hallum Earl Paul Johnson and James L. Joyner.
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Seventy-seven juniors and seniors have been select-
ed Big Woman Big Man on Campus (BW-BMOC.)
Winners were chosen by a committee appointed by
the senior class officers. The top men and women are sel-
ected on the basis of activities and grade point.
JUNIOR WOMEN: Rose Marie Weber Nan Crawford
Cynthia Curtis Karen Cullen Mary Ann Bulla Karen
Eggert Paula Hughes Judy Prescott Lynn Livingston
Janet Clark Carol Byrd and Betty Pond.
SENIOR WOMEN: Betsy DeFord Robbie Tiffany
Mary Lou Carter Alice Van Eaton Carolyn Watson
Glenda Hamilton Carmen Betzer June Harms Sherry
Turner Judy Ludlum Jackie Dull Kay Husky Clara
Loewen Juanita Wherry Floyanne Griffin Sandie Davis
Linda Conklin Patti Rose Lyntha Nicklas Judy Corbett
Carol McCarty Mary Ellen Thompson Mary Lou Braddy
Carolyn Cook Pat ONeill Copple Lynn Capehart Carolyn
Pratt and Sherry Miller.
SENIOR MEN: Robert Owen Willis Moore Richard
Sinclair Terry Barham. Ray Hall Lavelle Gibson Glenn
Cunningham Charles Evans Tom Forney Russell Phil-
lips Steve Holaday Frank Sweeney Keith Smith Bob
Grove Kent Miller Verne Griffith Hugh Barrett Gardner
Randall Jim Sinex Sam Bradshaw Bob Kinzer Charles
Daily Terrell Dixon and Bob Luke
JUNIOR MEN: Jim Machen; Sam Hallman Jack
Stout Ralph Barhydt Bruce Armour Robert Foster Bob
McFarland Jerry Gamble Red Hawkes Barry Srago
Jay Maxwell Jack Kinnebrew Toby Kell Bill Wines and
Don Smith.
Twenty-three outstanding coeds were chosen Monday
for membership in Mortar Board national honor society
for senior women. Candidates are selected on the basis
of scholarship leadership and service to the university.
The Mortar Board candidates elected by members
from a group of the universitys outstanding women were
tapped in their classrooms. The Mortar Board members
were dressed in the traditional black caps and gowns.
New members who are all juniors are Julianne Allin
Norman; Judith Brauch St. Louis Mo.; Mary Ann Bulla
Duncan; Carol Byrd Coalgate; Janet Clark Norman;
Nan Crawford San Antonio Tex. Karen Lynn Cullen
Woodward; Cynthia Curtis Midwest City; Karen Akins
Egger Antlers; Paula Kay Hughes Tulsa; Letitia Mariq
Johnston Oklahoma City; Joanie Larson Blackwell; Lynn
Livingston Tulsa and Barbara Carol McCarty Oklahoma
City.
Others are Joyce Nash Wichita Kan.; Sissy Phillips
Jackeonville Tex.; Betty Pond Enid; Judy Prescott
Altus ; Virginia Self Norman; Mary Sue Thompson Okla-
homa City; Sherry Turner Tulsa; Rose Marie Weber
Omega; and Charlotte Jones Weeks Bethany.
JULIANNE ALLIN language arts; 3.48; French
club. Pi Omega rush chairman and president of Chi
Omega.
JUDITH BRAUCH physical therapy? 3.23 vice
president Physical therapy club; vice president of cate
center; secretary cate center judicial board; national
foundation health scholarship.
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Four Receive OUs Best
BOB STEVENS
Stevens Picked
Cage Mentor
Its official! Bob Stevens 39-year-cld
South Carolina university cage
mentor is OUs new' basketball
coach.
With only a token approval by the
OU board of regents needed the
assignment became official Mon-
day when Stevens accepted the re-
quest of athletic director Bud Wilk-
inson and the OU athletic council.
Stevens will replace coach Doyle
Parrack who resigned under fire
last month after finishing his sev-
enth season as head of the OU
team.
The n e w Sooner coach will ar-
rive in Norman later this week to
lind a home and start visitation of
high school players.
The selection and signing cli-
maxed a week of negotiations and a
3-week search for Parracks suc-
cessor. Parracks resignation becomes
effective at the end of the present
school year in May but Stevens will
be here throughout the remainder
of the spring session to conduct his
recruiting program.
A native of Indiana and a grad-
uate of Michigan State university
Stevens has been tutoring the
Gamecocks the last three years.
His teams have posted 10-16 9-17
and 15-12 records the last three sea-
sons. His last outfit finished fourth
in the league with a 7-7 mark and
Stevens was named the leagues
Coach of the Year.
This years recipients of the
highest honor offered by OU and
the alumni association Dis-
tinguished Service Citations
were announced Monday.
The four men are Carl Albert
majority leader of the U. S. house
j of representatives; Carl E. Reis-
! tie jr. president of Humble Oil
and Refining Co.; John Joseph
Mathews Osage Indian historian
and author and Dr. J. Rud Niel-
sen research professor of phy-
sics at OU.
Selections made annually by
an anonymous appointive com-
mittee of faculty and alumni
is based on positive contribut-
ions to human progress through
devotion to enduring values and
unselfish and sustained services
to mankind.
The 1962 winners will be re-
cognized at the annual alumni
luncheon on commencement day
Sunday May 27.
All four of the 1962 selections
are nationally recognized in their
fields and all received part of
their training at OU.
Carl B. Albert entered OU in
1927 and before he w as graduated
in 1931 with a BA degree in gov-
ernment had won a Phi Beta
Kappa key served as president
of the university student council
and won a Rhodes scholarship to
oxford university England where
he studied law.
Albert was born in McAlester
the son of a farmer and the old-
est of five children. He received
his elementary education at Big
Tussle now officially Flowery
Mound and at McAlester high
school was valedictorian.
Not only has Carl E. Reistle
jr. Houston received credit for
being largely responsible for
changing Humble Oil and Refin-
ing Co. from largely a Texas
outfit into the largest domestic
operation oil company in the na-
tion but he is considered one of
the oil industrys most significant
men of science and technology.
He joined Humble in 1936 and is
now' president and a member of
its board of directors.
Reistle entered OU in 1918 to
study chemical engineering after
graduating from high school in
Oklahoma City.
From a cabin on his ranch
near Pawhuska John Joseph
Mathews wrote the book Wah
Kon-Tah published by the Uni-
versity Press in 1932. Through
this and other works Mathews
an Osage tribal leader has be-
come the outstanding chronicler
of his peoples history.
In the same year Wah Kon-
Tah was published he began re-
search on another book. The re
sult is his most recent w-ork
The Osages: Children of the
Middle Waters which repre-
sents a 30-year project. For this
work Mathews is receiving na-
tional acclaim. It traces the
metamorphosis of the Osages
ever intensely religious as they
envolved from reverence of the
Great Mysteries to Christianity.
After receiving his degree from
OU and Oxford university Math-
ews traveled in Africa and
Europe.
Dr. Nielsen graduate of the
University of Copenhagen Den-
mark and the California In-
stitute of Technology Where he
received his PhD degree . has
been described as one of the
half-dozen leading infra-red spee-
troscopists in the world. -He is
a world authority in the field of
Raman spectroscopy and the
worlds leading authority in the
field of molecular spectroscopy.
He is one of the pioneers in
spectroscopy the measuring of
light frequencies to study the
structure of molecules of a given
substance. He worked with Niels
Bohr founder of the quantum
theory of atomic structure and
Nobel prize winner when he re-
turned to his native Denmark in
1931 on a Guggenheim and Rask-
Oerstead fellowship to-the In-
stitute for Theoretical Physics.
JOHN SHARP
Sharp Chosen
Sooner Editor
John Sharp Tulsa junior was
selected 1962-63 Sooner Yearbook
editor by the publications board
Monday.
He previously served on the
staff as index editor organizations
editor and assistant editor.
Sharp is a government major
and a member of Delta Upsilon
social fraternity. He is a member
of a university standing commit-
tee and URC.
He also directed the DU Sooner
Scandals act.
Bulletin
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS
Applications for candidates run-
ning for senior class officers are
available in 303 Administration
building. All applications are due
by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Offices op-
en are president vice president
secretary treasurer.
Inside
Shriver Speaks page 4
DeGaulle Considers page 8
OAS Takes Over - page 8
Atom Test Ban page 8
More on Stevens page 3
Campus News page 5
Editorials page 6
CITATION WINNERS OUs highest honors go this year to the four men pictured here selected for
Distinguished Service Citations. At left Dr. J. Rud Nielsen OU research professor of physics; Carl
Albert Democratic majority leader in the house of representatives; Carl E. Reistle jr. Houston Pres-
ident of Humble Oil Co. and John Joseph Mathews Pawhuska noted author and Osage Indian historian.
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