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voice transmitted by a light beam, television demonstration, the wind tunnel, and an aircraft engine. At 9:30 p.m. after the open house, Queen Doris Gene Kramer dubbed the Knights of St. Pat. Alex Massad, President of the Engineers’ Club, accompanied the Queen, since St. Pat Bob Hines had already been called to active duty with the armed services. There were 25 knighted, including Alex Massad and Fulton Fears, who would later serve as a member of the CE faculty. In January 1944, the Men of Might were George Block, ME from Tulsa, Kenneth Doughty, AeroE from Martha, and Alex Massad, PE from Oklahoma City. In March, Frances Witten, an AeroE senior, was named editor of the Sooner Shamrock. There were four named Men of Might, Eddie Nakayama, ME, Earl Patterson, ChE, Jerry Johnson, CE, all from Oklahoma City, and Carl Hultin CE from Watawan, NJ. The last three were all in the Navy V-12. In the spring of 1944, some of the V-12 were moved into the new Cleveland dormitory from the fraternity houses. In March, orders came for 458 of the ASTP cadets to leave to train with the troops. These students were rushed through infantry basic and sent to the front in Europe in record time. Elizabeth Cook, an engineering senior from Topeka, Kansas, was elected Queen. She was affectionately known as “Cookie” by her engineering classmates. Carl Hultin was elected Captain of the Guard and the LKOT fired a salute to Cookie on the lawn of the Delta Delta Delta house in her honor. The Wednesday before the Friday coronation, 15 Navy men and one lawyer attempted to kidnap Queen Elizabeth on her way home guarded by three engineers. She managed to bolt into the Alpha Chi house, where the doors were quickly locked. Reinforcements for the engineering guards were quickly summoned and the engineers turned out in force hunting for the would-be abductors. The Gamma Phis and the Thetas won the Coed Capers at the Engineers’ Show on Thursday at the Sooner Theater. On Friday night, Queen Elizabeth was crowned and Earl Patterson was named St. Pat. Earl was a ChE in the V-12 program, and President of the Senior Class, as well as President of Tau Beta Pi. The Elizabeth Cook, festivities were marred when Jean Wheeler and 1944 Engineers’ Queen Beth Feagles, both runners-up, were kidnapped by a group of Naval premed students.