Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology - Technician Yearbook (Okmulgee, OK)

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AGRICULTURE Oklahoma Agriculture has seen many changes. Since its natives harvested Indian Corn to today's self propelled combines, Oklahoma farmers have rapidly adjusted to the demands and trends of an ever advanced era. Today A and M Tech is maintaining farming courses that are designed to adjust to advances and improvements as they appear. Since the division's inception in 1947 many improvements have been made. Only skills and information of practical nature can justify a place in a farming student's curriculum. Students completing training in any of the courses offered are qualified to operate or manage agricultural enterprises and the job opportunities are numerous in any of these fields. In agriculture as in any other highly specialized business, the success of an operation depends upon the man or men who manage it. It is the object of Tech's Agricultural Division to train men; men who are keenly aware of the responsibility and challenge that is theirs. The Division of Agriculture was established with one purpose: to make better and wiser farmers of tomorrow. The Tech Agricultural Division is divided into six departments consisting of General Farming, Dairy Management, Greenhouse Management, Nursery, Poultry Production and Machinery. The Tech students are taught a well-balanced farming program with special emphasis on the practical phases of agriculture. They are trained to be proficient farmers rather than specialists.

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Galena Oliver Chief Clerk Joan M. Sanger Secretary M. A. Gower General Maintenance Myrtle T. Jones Librarian A. F. Bybee Bookkeeper Goldie C. Eliff Dorm Supervisor O. F. Luttrell Building Maintenance Supervisor Blanche M. Ruch Accounts Receivable Clerk Ann Fagan Secretary Rose Marie Watkins Secretary E. W. Thornburgh Ass't Maintenance Superintendent Lila M. Pfalser Photo-stat Clerk Joan Barnett Clerk-typist Eula M. Mitchell Secretary W. J. Bennett Janitor Edith Johnson Secretary W. B. Swaim Assistant to Business Manager Elta L. Bybee PBX Operator

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IT Kit A. G. WIEDERKEHR Head of Agriculture E. C. Smith Instructor Agriculture C. J. King Instructor Jess Cox Instructor in Argiculture