60 years ago, May 19, 1960
14 Tonkawans Will Receive Degrees At Oklahoma State
Fourteen Tonkawa students at Oklahoma State university are among 1,821 candidates for degrees, which will be awarded by President Oliver S. Wilham at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 29, at graduation excercises in Lewis field stadium.
These include 1,430 undergraduate degrees, 269 advanced degrees and 122 associate degrees, which are given in the two-year Technical Institute program.
The 1,821 degree candidates come from 595 towns and cities, including 310 in Oklahoma, 247 in other states and 38 from outside U. S. borders. Forty-five states are represented in the 1960 graduating class.
The 19 other countries and territories are Canada, Ecuador, Formosa, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordon, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Tanganyika, Thailand, and Venezuela.
Advanced degree candidates include 16 doctor of philosophy, four doctor of education, two master of arts, 246 master of science and one master of architectural engineering.
Engineering degree candidates number 373, arts and sciences 241, business 239, agriculture 228, education 175, home economics 137 and veterinary medicine 37.
Local degree candidates and the degrees they seek are:
H. J. Barclay, BA, architecture; Gary Donovan Bracken, BS, business adminstration; Donald Joseph Caughlin, BS, agronomy; Jack Paul Caughlin, BS agronomy; Delbert Lee George, BS, industrial arts education; Jack Hudack, MS, elementary education; Charles Virgil Jueschke jr., BS, agricultural economics; Thomas Eugene Jueschke, BS, pre-veterinary science; Joe Dean Mills, BS, business administration; William H. Mugg, BS, business administration; Arlyn Adrian Vincent, BS, agronomy; Bob Walker, BS, secondary education; Don Ray Witter, BS, electrical engineering; Jimmy Donald Wood, BA, arts and sciences.
Two Tonkawa Boys Receive Diplomas From OBU
Two Oklahoma Baptist university seniors from Tonkawa are among 200 candidates for graduation who will hear Undersecretary of the Army Hugh M. Milton at the annual commencement May 28.
The address will be given at Clark Craig fieldhouse, 9:30 a.m.
A veteran of two world wars, Milton received the Silver Star for valor and held the rank of major before being appointed assistant secretary of the army for manpower and reserve forces by President Eisenhower. He became undersecretary of the army August 25, 1958.
The 1960 graduation class is the 46th to be graduated since the founding of the school’s charter in 1910. Activities for the Golden Anniversary year include a senior woman’s coffee honoring several past graduating classes at 10 a.m. May 27, given by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Crawford of Tulsa, followed by a ...
