University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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7 ' ..JiKll .:. Sweeping In fronn the Rocky Mountain region, Old Man Winter strikes at Oklahoma with all his tury, momentum and force to transfigure the Sooner state into a realm of gray beauty as only winter can do. At this time of year scenes like those shown on this page become familiar in contrast with their summer ' s brightness As if in mortal combat mountain crests in southeastern Oklahoma struggle with snow clouds rolling majes- tically overhead Reminiscent of the 17th century, when the first white settlemeni in Oklahoma was es- tablished on its banks, Cherokee Rock Hol- low, six miles north of Salina, patiently awaits the shade of a coming spring Fringed with white and guarded by a maze of gro- tesque trees, Lake Lawtonka sleeps peacefully at the foot of Mt. Scott

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The byway of early French and Spanish explorers, the Arkansas River, serves as the guide for its twentieth cen- tury companion, the nnodern highway, as seen in this view of Oklahoma Highway 33 a few miles west of Tulsa As if reluctant to leave the virgin forests along its banks, the lazy Kiamichi River meanders slowly through Pushmataha County, on past the site of old Fort Towson, to empty itself into the tur- bulent waters of the Red River it rt. IXNr.iVW« » »lAH ' «A(iIMVV ' 1 .v»ijvi. .-v fcn.« iwia» « » ft fv « ' « I

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; gH » « fye i - - r. DEniCATION To the memory of Hamilton de Meules, Law ' 36, this volume of the 1936 Sooner Yearbook is respectfully dedicated. Hamilton was a loyal son of the University; an idealist . . . yet intensely practical, devoted to the interests of his classmates and friends; possessed both of knowledge of men and the ability to lead them. His charm, gentlemanly qualities, and true scholastic nature have given him a place in our hearts that makes us feel his loss more than our words here enable us to describe. His death on the morning of March 19th, on his twenty-fourth birthday, cast a blanket of sorrow over the entire campus