Quote Originally Posted by jmarkross View Post
It was front page news in the Norman Transcript--for anyone who wants to research. Also...I went to school with one of the students that was arrested. Did not know him personally. An older OU student--oddly who was wheelchair-bound--was arrested as the "ring-leader" (Norman has always been a "ring" town) and he was salted away into Griffin Memorial State Hospital, and as far as I know--never heard from again. That it happened--it indisputable fact. Talk with Normaniacs who have been there a long time. It is no secret whatsoever. Around 1962 (?)--when it happened. They were all charged with stealing religious articles from St. John's Episcopal Church to use, ostensibly, in their nefarious deeds. You must have been a DEKE to have had that sort of initiation....
I'm not saying it didn't happen. As you know from our past discussions, I grew up in Norman and I'm a couple of years older than you. If it was in 1962 I was in high school. It obviously wasn't something that made a big impression on me at the time. And I also think many times those kind of stories get way overblown anyway.