University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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(irailuatts vith degrees secure pay heed tci the advice offered by commencement speaker. Hands gripping enrollment packets were the order of the day during registration at the Field House. SlflTf P O Today ' s stiulcnt.- mmiht-r high in the thousands. There were 11,302 in resiik-ncc durinu: the 1949-50 fall semester — close to the record heights of the years just preceding. Increase in stu- dent citizens has meant development of the University State along every line. Facilities must grow. This year we saw dedi- cation of the new Women ' s Quadrangle as one of the nation ' s finest centers for college women. Enlargement of Owen Field Stadium to hold 53,000 OV football fans was completed. And we watched the beginning of a new expansion of the Oklahoma Mcniinl;;! rn .n buiMin ' -. With the physical growth of the University mushroomed a new development, Sooner City. Owen Stadium Is -nI;iiii;L ' d and modernized l v the addition of a new north end. Steam shovels and trucks make way for the new south of the Union Building.

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■%t . The Education Building when it was the Library with the first G mnasium in the background. THE GROWTH OF jy Of the people, by the people and for the people may be saiil, too, of a State University. True enough, the University of Oklahoma existed before there was a State of Oklahoma. Hur progress and welfare of the two have been, and always will be interwoven closely. In 1892, in a rented building, the L niver- sity opened her doors to pioneer Territorial students. Soon sin- occupied a lone building of her own on bald prairie. H l ' X)7, when Oklahoma become a State, there were 7 ' X1 students — ,1 6 of them at college level. The late president, William Bennett Bizzell, leading an early graduating class into Holinberg. first building was destroyed by lire few years after completion.

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n HI E n T J ' .xpaiision and growth bring problems that must be solved by efficient administration and the in- tense, sincere interest ot Soo; .cr educators and Sooner citizens. Oklahoma State Regents tor Higher Education form one of the imjiortant lii k.i between OU go - ernment and Olclahoma govern- ment. University of Oklahoma Board of Regents forms another. The bond is a strong one. At the head of the organization ■hich is our University, President George L. Cross directs a program of re- search, instruction and service. Three men work closely with Dr. Cross to keep abreast of the many-phased, ever-charging task of go erning our Uiiiversity. An executive vice president, a finai;cial ice president and a legal coun- selor arc inipnitanr ;c presidential ,iii I ' s ' -iv. .AiMitiniial ;i.l fcv is re- ciiMil trom rhf- l)(-;ins ' Council and the Faculty Senate. ' z !ir (K-orge L. Cross, Carl M. Franklin, Roscoe Cate, Dr. John B. Cheadle. Stair Ri-gnils for Highrr Education: Guy H. James, John H. Kane, Thomas C. Sexton, .Administrative .Assistant V. D. Little, Or. M. A.. Nash, Chancellor Clee O. Doggett, Guy Harris, John Rogers, Frank Buttram, Dial Currin, Wharton Mathies. • ■ - ' • ■ : : ti i=ii S .. K