Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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I f, 1 1 • .. . (i a fr in the heart of a great city rises a great university — a university founded three years before Oklahoma became a state. That was in 1904 and this university was called Epworth University. Seven years later it became Oklahoma Methodist University at Guthrie. Seven years, still later, the university was moved back to Oklahoma City and ' : ailed Oklahoma City College. In 1922 the present campus of 50 acres was acquired and in 1924 the name was changed to Oklahoma City University. O.C.U. is owned by the East and West Conferences of Oklahoma Methodism, has ten brick buildings, 18 frame buildin gs, 172 apartments for married students, dormitories for 600 single students, and an auditorium and Student Union which serve many more interests than those entertained by the students. Of the 113 Methodist Colleges, Oklahoma City University has the largest enrollment. It offers 386 courses in Arts and Sciences, including Music, Art, and Speech, leading to the degrees of B.A., B.S., in Business, and B.Mus. Graduates of Oklahoma City are admitted to the leading graduate and professional schools everywhere. The most recent addition has been the department of Technical Education — radio, radar, television, refrigeration and air conditioning. J The slate capilol building The Oklahoma City Civic Center d ' lMlLI '

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Dr. John Peters TO an idea that dares to fling the Christian hfe into the teeth of the Godless hierarchy of communism; TO a faith that would win the world by holding the light of Christian love above the darkness of the Iron Curtain; TO a challenge that offers the Christian ideal to the oppressed peoples of the earth for comparison with any other way; TO a spirit that will not be conguered by a superiority of numbers, arms or physical strength; TO a courage that leads rather than follows, exemplifies rather than pleads, invites rather than commands; TO an imagination that draws upon the power of the Almighty so that it may know no bounds; TO a persistence that sees the goal, clear and bright, and will not be turned aside while it is still to be reached; TO a knowledge that nourishes and strengthens for the struggle it must face against ignorance and force; TO World Assistance, Incorporated, the concrete base onto which the feed of Christendom may be firmly planted to brace itself for the battle; TO the plan which has been drawn up to out-live, out-love, out-serve and out-die communism; AND to the man whose mind conceived of, and whose life is dedicated to this golden crusade. Dr. John Peters, your 1952 KESHENA is humbly and respectfully dedicated. —19—

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