University of Central Oklahoma - Bronze Book Yearbook (Edmond, OK)

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.EE at Rogers and Hammerstein brougcht great fame to the College boys celebrate a CSU homecoming just before World War II. Soon State with their musical play, O lahoma. they would be in uniform in different parts of the world. hw ,tk Y 1 'gf i ' 3' 'ex V si . - L r-r. -ax XM- X 5 . I 1 ,QF .X 655 --E 'if l ' Q t. 1 fu 1. -' 'ay t t 'Mo X ,- ,wi 1 M- ,gf V ' if was f' . Q nf, 3 g lg it 5 5 , ,,-L 7, Vfjf g g .- Q - Y - ' 'Lt Oklahoma Astronaut Thomas Stafford. World War II had come and gone, and once more students crowded the walks of Central State, seekin an education and lookin to the future. X During World War II, Air Force students marched and studied in the shadow of Old North Tower.

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V-I Day on the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma! A grand and glorious and happy day for a generation of Americans. Soon the boys would be coming home agair for the girls in this picture. World War II and the Post-War Period E : uddenly the depression TOL and hard times were forgotten. The Nazis ix' were overrunning Europe, and then Americans were shocked as never before - the Iapanese had bombed Pearl Harbor! American boys who had been riding on running boards and fenders of cars at college now found themselves in uniform and in far-off places such as Guadalcanal, North Africa, Guam, Great Britain. Then one daly it was over. The nation ce ebrated and turned to things ahead: getting a colle e education, enjoying the Rogersl and Hammerstein classic, Oklahoma, taking part in thel nation's race in the sixties to bel the first to reach the moon, even as other Americans sought economic and social justice long denied them.

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ii. i 'N UB The National Finals Rodeo held annually at Oklahoma City is a hi hli ht state event. And So 'fherels Toda uffalo Bill Cody waves his rifle exultantly Persimmon Hill at Cowboy Hall of Fame. 'll 1, X ,-. I The symbol of Oklahoma - an oil well decorates the entrance to the Stal Capitol. rg-5 hen, briefly, it is now, prosperigy which the boomers S the present. Now we oomed or, the settlers 2 are modern and up- S O' to-date, with new edifices towering high. Now we enjoy the lusty, happy life of a booming oil economy in Oklahoma. Now there is the endured for, the depression families prayed for, and others fou ht for in wars gone by. Oklilhoma has come a long, long wa - but the journey to a betterlife never ends.