MADISON, Wis. - Miss Katherine A. Price, 1877 Villard St., Eugene, was among 284 freshmen women honored for outstanding work in their studies at the University of Wisconsin this year at the annual women's Freshman Scholarship luncheon April 13 at the State University. The daughter of Prof. and Mrs. W. C. Price, she is majoring in chemistry.

MISS KATHERINE PRICE is engaged to David Gray of New Lisbon, Wis., and both are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Price, for the holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Price of Eugene announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine, to Davis Gray of New Lisbon, Wis. Both Miss Price and her fiance are senior students at University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she is majoring in chemistry, he in physics. Mr. Gray is a guest in the Price home here during the Christmas holidays. A graduate of Eugene High School in 1956. Miss Price has been enrolled at Wisconsin since that fall. The couple's marriage is planned for early summer, following commencement at University of Wisconsin, and will take place in Madison.

Catherine Abbey Price Weds David Frank Gray

The wedding of Miss Catherine Abbey Price and David Frank Gray took place in Wesley Methodist Church Saturday at 3 p.m. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Price, Eugene, Ore., and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray, New Lisbon. The Prices are University of Wisconsin graduates. The Rev. Carl W. Stromberg of the First Methodist Church officiated. The bride chose a princess gown of white silk peau de sole and lace with seed pearls and iridescent sequins  on the bodice and a bouffant hoop skirt. She wore a matching queen's crown of seed pearls with a waist-length veil and carried a white Bible with white carnations. Miss Noretia Wilcox, Crown Point, Ind., the bride's college roommate, was maid of honor. The bridesmaids were Miss Peggy Price, Eugene, Ore., and Miss June Gray, New Lisbon, sisters of the couple. They wore white nylon eyelet street-length frocks over emerald and pale green taffeta. Jerrold Jayne, Laramie, Wyo., was best man, and Gary Gray, New Lisbon, and William Price were groomsmen. Ushers were Phil Rose and Marshall Lih. The bride, a 1960 graduate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, will be employed by the chemistry department for the summer. The bridegroom, a 1960 physics graduate of the university, will be employed by the physics department. They will live at 502-D Eagle Heights Apartments. In September they will move to Ann Arbor, Mich., where Mr. Gray will be a graduate student in astronomy.

MR. AND MRS. DAVID FRANK GRAY

Katherine Price Bride; Wedding in Wisconsin

Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Price of Eugene traveled to Madison, Wis., for the marriage there July 2 of their daughter, Katherine Abbey Price, to David Frank Gray. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gray of New Lisbon, Wis. The ceremony took place at 3 p.m. in Wesley Methodist Church in Madison, the Rev. Carl W. Stromberg reading the vows. Garden flowers in yellow and white were used to decorate the church, with a large arrangement of white gladiolus upon the altar. Two selections were sung by Miss Geri Waite, classmate of the bride, before the service began. Miss Price was given in marriage by her father. She wore a princess gown of peau de soie and Chantilly lace with bodice trim of seed pearls and sequins. The gown had cap sleeves and bouffant hoop skirt, and tiny covered buttons were its back fastening. A queen's crown of seed pearls and sequins secured her waist-length veil of imported silk illusion. Maid of honor was Miss Noretia Wilcox of Crown Point, Ind., college roommate of the bride, and bridesmaids were Miss Peggy Price of Eugene, the bride's sister, and Miss June Gray of New Lisbon, sister of the bridegroom. All wore dresses of white nylon eyelet embroidery over soft green taffets, and carried bouquets of white daisies and yellow gladiolus. Their headdresses were matching caps of eyelet, flower-trimmed. Best man was Jerrold Jayne of Laramie, Wyo., and groomsmen were William Price, brother of the bride, and Gary Gray, brother of the groom. Philip Rose and Marshall Lih, both of Madison, seated guests. At the reception in the Fellowship Hall of the church, Mrs. Roy Woboril of Milwaukee, Wis., a cousin of the bride, assisted in serving by classmates of Miss Price. Both bride and groom were graduated this year from University of Wisconsin, of which her parents are also alumni. Miss Price majored in chemistry. He has a fellowship for graduate study in astronomy at University of Michigan this fall. The young couple made their wedding trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., their future home, where they located an apartment for September occupancy. They will spend the balance of the summer in Madison. Other out-of-state guests, besides the bride's parents, were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Miller of Milwaukee, Wis., cousins, and Elmer Shidell of Milwaukee, uncle of the bride; also Mrs. Bertha Ansley and Mr. and Mrs. Adam Gracyzk, all of Chicago, grandparents of the bridegroom.

UO Professor Price Found Dead on Train

Warren C. Price, professor of journalism at the University of Oregon and teacher of many hundreds of Oregon newspapermen, was found dead Monday morning. The body of the 58-year-old Price was found in his roomette on the Union Pacific Railroad's "City of Portland," about 30 minutes out of Portland at Troutdale. Death was apparently due to a heart attack. Price had boarded the train in Chicago on Saturday, en route home from a trip to Milwaukee. The place of his death seemed somehow symbolic to those who knew him. For trains - along with the Milwaukee Braves, $2 bills and journalism excellence - were a passion with him. Price was known to students and friends as a practicing eccentric, a crotchety man with an amazing memory and many quirks. But he was also known as an expert in the fields of journalism law and journalism history, and as an excellent mathematician and historian who sometimes was called on to teach courses in those fields at the university. He was national president of Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalistic equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, and was returning from a Kappa Tau Alpha function when he died. Price was on a one-year leave of absence from his university post to write a history of the Register-Guard, which was to be published in October of this year. A series of articles based upon his research has been appearing in the paper for several months. The most recent one - a profile of Price's friend, the late former Register-Guard Editor William Tugman - appeared in Sunday's paper. For 15 years, from 1945 to 1960, Price worked part-time for the Register-Guard. He said this job -, which involved putting the Sunday's edition to press on Saturday nights, enabled him to "keep his hand in" in the field of practicing journalism. Alton F. Baker Jr., editor and publisher of the Register-Guard, called Price's death "a great loss to journalism." Said Baker, "He was a newsman, a scholar, a fine teacher dedicated to the importance of journalism in our society . . . You never replace men of the caliber of Warren Price."

Price was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and held both bachelor's and master's degrees from that school. Since 1942 Price had taught journalism courses at the university, serving as acting dean of the School of Journalism in 1960. John Hulteng, current dean of the school, called Price "one of the greatest pillars of our faculty. He was certainly one of the ablest teachers of journalism in the country - and in the fields of law of the press and history of journalism, he hardly had and equals anywhere." A former student said of Price, "He was not a great teacher, because he lacked the philosophical, kindly touch we usually attach to great teaching. But as a journalism teacher, he was just rough enough, tough enough, hateable - deliberately - enough to get kids used to what they might expect in the field."

Price was a working newsman on a number of papers throughout the country, both before and after becoming a teacher. He spent some six years as reporter and copy editor for the Milwaukee Journal, and also worked on the Washington Post and Times Herald, Des Moines Register and Oklahoma City Oklahoman. Milwaukee-born in 1906,Price retained a loyalty to that city which included his regard for the Milwaukee Journal as one of the world's greatest papers, and the Milwaukee Braves as one of the world's great baseball teams. His class assignments frequently included something to do with the Journal. And he and his son William were familiar summer sights in the Register-Guard offices each evening during the baseball season when they came to look for the last Brave's results and box scores on the teletype. When the Braves moved to Atlanta, Price was thunderstruck and virtually disavowed them. He championed use of $2 bills, writing feature articles about his experiences passing them, and lamenting the Treasury Department's decision to abandon them. For years he labored on a bibliography of books in the field of journalism, and when his "The Literature of Journalism" was published in 1959, it won awards for distinguished research from both the Sigma Delta Chi journalism fraternity and Kappa Tau Alpha. He held national offices in a number of journalism and education organizations. Among Price's quirks - either real or pretended - was a dislike of women in Journalism. When a veteran showed up to register on day shortly after the end of World War II, Price exclaimed: "Thank God, here's a man!"

But his youngest daughter, Peggy, a graduate of Stanford University and now on a tour of Europe, studied journalism and has worked as a reporter. He and his wife, Lillian, were married at Milwaukee June 29, 1935. They have one other daughter, Mrs. David Gray, who lives at London, Ontario, Canada, and their son William, at home. Funeral arrangements were still pending Monday.

Peggy Price recites vows

Marriage vows were recited by Margaret (Peggy) Price and Albert Burford Crenshaw Aug. 11 in First Congregational Church in Eugene. The Rev. Wesley Goodson Nicholson performed the single-ring ceremony. Yellow and white gladiolus decorated the altar. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Warren C. Price of Eugene and the late Mr. Price. The bridegroom is the son of Mrs. Ollinger Crenshaw of Lexington, Va., and the late Mr. Crenshaw. The groom's mother traveled to Eugene for the wedding. Miss Price wore a gown of silk organza over taffets, trimmed with Venise lace on the long sleeves, at the neckline and front of the gown. Ivory yellow organza encircled the wrists of her sleeves and formed a border at the hemline. The bride wore her sister's veil, held by a crown of seed pearls. She carried yellow roses, stephanotis and Ivy and in her shoe was a sixpence, a gift from Mrs. John McCloskey. The bride was given in marriage by William Wasmann, a family friend. Mrs. David Frank Gray, bride's sister from Ilderton, Ontario, Canada, was matron of honor. Other attendants were Anne Brophy and Mrs. Stephen H. Frey of San Francisco and Catherine Mayer of Madison, Wis. Their gowns were of blue voile trimmed with lace of a rose hue. They carried yellow and white chrysanthemums, ivy and blue statice. Elizabeth and Rebecca Gray lighted the candles. Donal F. Holway of New York City was best man. Ushers were Dr. Stephen H. Frye, David F. Gray and Spencer Hall. Ann French played the harp and Janet Walsh played the organ music. A reception was held at the church. Serving were Alyce Sheetz, Mrs. John Barber, Mrs. Waldo Schumacher, Lois Sparkman, Mrs. Robert Haworth, Stacie Smith, Mrs. Carl Webb, Dr. Sheryl Gardner, Mrs. Ed Baer and Lisa Nickerson of Washington, D.C. Mary Taylor kept the guest book. After a wedding trip to the Coast Mr. and Mrs. Crenshaw are driving to their new home in Washington, D. C. The groom is assistant national editor of the Washington Post. The bride will continue her law studies at Georgetown University and is also a part-time editor at the Washington Post. She received bachelor and master degrees from Stanford University and has been attending University of Oregon Law School. The groom has degrees from Harvard College, University of Virginia and Columbia University.

William Price

COOS BAY - The funeral will be held today, Jan. 30, for William Charles Price of Coos Bay, who died Jan. 28 of a heart attack. The former Eugene resident was 57. Price was born Sept. 29, 1941, in Des Moines, Iowa, to Warren and Lillian Price. He graduated from South Eugene High School. He married Teresa Mulvihill in Eugene on Dec. 6, 1997. Price was passionate about baseball, and he also enjoyed camping and bowling. Survivors include his wife; his mother; a stepdaughter, Joanne Madden of Coos Bay; two sisters, Katherine Gray of London, Ontario, and Margaret Crenshaw of Washington, D.C. Today's service is at 1:30 p.m. at Rest-Haven Memorial Park & Funeral Home in Eugene.