Bacone College - Warrior Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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41 ku l r 2 Religious Values Are Recognized eligious Emphasis Week at Bacone featured the preaching and teaching of the Rev. Jimmy Anderson, a member of the Creek Tribe. Anderson was the guest speaker at Religious Emphasis Week activities, Nov. 2 to 7, at Bacone College. Anderson spoke at two special services, at 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 and 5, at Bacone Memorial Chapel. Anderson's ministry includes 220 Southern Baptist congregations among 35 tribes state- wide. As the Indian church developer for the cooperative missions of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, he assists pastors Q! and missionaries in all areas of church growth. 42 ,Sophomores

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Restoration Project Nears Completion estoration of the building which housed Indian University, the school that later became Bacone Col- lege, was nearing completion, accor- ding to Dr. Garold Holstine, former Bacone president and chairman of the organization formed to raise funds for the project. ln January of 1988, the Oklahoma Historical Society turned the deed of the building over to Northeastern State University in Tahlequah. NSU will main- tain the facility where Oklahoma higher education was born. The rennovated building will be used by the Indian Clubs of Bacone and NSU, as well as other lndian organizations in the com- munity, Holstine said. The project en- sured that the site of Bacone College's original home would be preserved. e A e -....,,....., f .i 1 l I s , if t'TQ3,..ka ' 221, .r--M. ,N - SF T ' - .. -af. -i:.'ff:f-.' X. Y' - 1 1 , .,fA.-7-,aA1C,gfr,!f i .. 1 , Q. gr My if Q .- 2 .X Q E 2 .4 gg I fl., gt g' 'M 4' 'l 'A .- ,If-if-' f '..'Y35 4114 2. J . Bacone's Beginnings Bacone College was founded as Indian University in this building in 1880. Sophomores 41

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Ronnie Jamerson Catherine Jones Marilyn Keele Michael Legasse Manuel Marshall Clem McKay O'Dell Morgan Leslie Morris Barbara Polumbus Troy Powell Elizabeth Reed James Reynolds Lori Rhoden Lynelle Roberts Carolyn Rogers Leon Rucker Jay Seymour Ferlin 'Sourjohn Teresa Spradlin Terry Taldo