Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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The GIILD BRIC . 'Y TOP ROW: Stanley Pate, Bob Spooner, Hi Doty. BOTTOM ROW: Margafe. Mitchell, Virginia Estes, Ruth Harris. CARABIA was astounded in April, 1936, when the good yeomen of the faculty did not suppress the current undergraduate evil, which was the new-born Gold Brick, O. C. U. humor magazine. A humor magazine at a Christian college! Horrors! One of the good yeomen explained the tolerance: The faculty has dis- cussed it and decided that it soon will die a natural death. So was the first crisis passed. But it takes more than tolerance to publish a magazine. There's the matter of advertising, for instance. Late in August, 1936, the W. B. Bradbury advertising agency, New York City, received a special delivery from The Gold Brick, It began: Gentlemen: This is our last Word. Either you get us two pages of ads or we go broke and you lose a customer. Short and terse! Bradbury came through, Ameri- ca's leading undergraduate monthly resumed publication, and the second crisis was passed. There was turmoil on the campus when Vol. 11, No. l, of The Gold Brick ap- peared in October, 1936. Some of the jibes and jests were-well, really nowl The axe, the axe! cried the sterner of the profs. Prexy, and the city newspapers, took heed. UO. C. U. EDITORS CALLED ON CARPET. But Prexy was pacific. Promise to keep it clean and you may stay in school. The editors promised and the third crisis was passed. Since then the sailing has been comparatively smooth. The Gold Brick was established in April, 1936, by four freshmen and a sophomore, working together as a communistic organization. They were Phil Dessauer, editor: Stan Pate, managing editor, Hi Doty, feature editor, Harry Roberts, business manager, and Vernon Dennis, advertising manager. The first number, 24 pages, was dedicated by Walter Harrison, Oklahoma City editcr. lt was published in April, May, and Iune. Last September only Stan Pate and Hi Doty were left of the founders. They be- gan the year as co-editors and took in Eob Spooner as business manager. In De- cember Doty withdrew as co-editor and became associate editor and Spooner resign- ed 'from the staff. Editorial assistants named were Margaret Mitchell, right hand gal, Virginia Estes, thinker-upper and Ruth Fears Harris, artist and heartist. Editor Pate and The Gold Brick were the subject of a skit in the Press Club Gridiron, presented in March. Cigarette Song, a light verse by Hi Doty, was re- printed in the April number of College Humor.-Ray Doty. -6- 28 'wL-

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O. C. Ufs BEAUTIES uk FIRST .............. ........ D oris Bitler Andrews ........ ........ . 14 points SECOND ......... ......... C harolette Postelle ...... ......... 1 1 points THIRD .................................... Billie Newton ............,................... 10 points lt was May 6, 1937, no beauty queens had been selected for the bigger and better l937 super Scarab, and what is a year book without campus beauties, cried the editors. Letters had been writ- ten to the selected judges early in December, the pictures had been taken, but no judges had volunteered. Came a reply from Robert Taylor saying that his studio would not let him choose beauty queens, then someone had a brilliant idea, Why not put to test Dean Replogle's theory that if you want an accurate judge of any- thing, appeal to a number of people, thus it came about that Phyllis Taylor, Rebecca Harrison, and Ruth Mathis toured the city and asked fifteen of its most prominent men to pick the most beautiful girls at O. C. U. The judges were Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General, who followed the blond route and chose Charolette Postelle, first, Doris Andrews, second. Iames E. Berry, Lieutenant Governor, called from the House of Representatives where he was presiding, selected Virginia Iudah, first, Andrews, second. T. G. Gammie, of the State Planning Board, liked Postelle, first, Billie Newton, second. Post- master Morris decided he'd better start back to school if there were so many good-looking girls, and chose Andrews, first, Postelle, sec- ond. M. B. Galloway, of Galloway Clothing Co., Eileen Parker, first, Newton, second. I. C. Birge, manager of the Midwest theater, Andrews, first, Parker, second. Basil, artist for city Standard thea- ters, studied each girl with careful deliberation and selected New- ton, first, Iudah, second. lack Waterman, assistant manager at Harry Katz, declared: l know beauty when I see it, and chose Andrews, first, Parker, second. I. W. Neuffer, sergeant of traffic violation bureau, police station, exclaimed, What kind of a gag is this! and chose Andrews, first, Postelle, second. I. C. Mersfelder thought they were all nice looking, but to be specific it is Andrews, first, Postelle, second. Ancel Earp said it could be any of them very easily and pointed to Andrews, first, Newton, second. Dr. K. F. Rodgers, who married a former O. C. U. beauty queen winner, selected Newton, first, ludah, second. H. Dorsey Douglas, lr., was pensive, then, Postelle, first, Newton, second. Wayrnond Ramsey, program director at KOMA, Newton, first, Postelle, second. First place was given two points, second place one. lt was May 7, 1937, the day after the beauty queens had been judged. ln the Scarab mail box were two letters: One from lack Benny, the other from Iames Montgomery Flagg, saying that they would be glad to judge the beauty queens at O. C. U.-M. L. M.