Word: oklahomas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also William E. McCoy of Dunster House and Tulsa, Oklahoma; David E. McGiffert of Eliot House and Chicago; James E. McKittrick of Kirkland House and Brookline; Forbes H. Norris, Jr. of Winthrop House and Winchester; and Jonathan Silverstone of Winthrop House and Hartford, Connecticut...
Paul L. Wright of Dunster House and Enid, Oklahoma; Chairman, United Nations Council, Harvard NSA Delegate, Secretary of Debate Council, Boylston Speech Finalist, Coolidge Debate Prize-winner...
Lyan W. Eley of Kirkland House and Zearing, Ohio; AVC, PBH, Debate Council, College Social Affairs Committee chairman. William E, McCoy of Dunster House and Tuiso, Oklahoma; House Affairs Committee Chairman, Dunster House Committee. Charles D. Baker, III of Kirkland House and Freeport, New York; Intramural Wrestling, House Baseball...
This isn't quite the way some of her Oklahoma City friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...
...luck or uncanny generalship, she ingratiated herself early with Harry Truman. She feted him as a Senator, gave the first party in his honor-a $5,000 blowout-when he became Vice President. She gave a huge "coming-out" party for Margaret Truman in 1946. When Margaret sang in Oklahoma City, Perle brought Bess Truman's bridge club all the way down from Independence to hear her, threw a big party at the Skirvin Hotel afterward...