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

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He who works with his hands is a mechanic He who works with his hands and head is a craftsman Ah, but he who works with his hands, head and heart is an artist Now I say to you - go out and be artists.

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he future of Oklahoma is in good hands when so many of the right kind of young people learn how to do useful things-both for them- selves and for others. Oklahoma is developing an unusual school at Oklahoma State Tech which is pulling new and vitally needed skills into the quick changing economic picture. At Tech young men learn how to do things. It is an extraordinary school. There is no other like it. Its goal is better living - simple as that. In its short life, having lust celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, it has trained more than 18,000 young and mature persons to do at least one kind of work well. The school is dedicated to the ideal that men and women should be edu- cated to make a good living. Important is the need for worthwhile persons to have added opportunity to build a good and secure future along with a happy and rewarding life. , Human dignity and the supreme worth of both the youth of the nation and the mature citizen desiring to improve are basic principles. This is the true belief of instructors and officials of this technical school devoted exclusively to training in crafts, service industries, business as well as technical skills. Knowing that it takes success to teach success, a group of highly qualified persons were selected to lead and instruct students. These men had a wealth of knowledge in their chosen fields as well as a love and understanding of their fellow man. The purposeful education abandoned tradition for practicability. Only those courses are offered where a student can find successful employment. Industrial and business leaders meet on the campus regularly to key the instruction to the fast developing and high technical iob requirements. As an example, the automobile manufacturers with their production have made enormous progress in building a better and more powerful automobile. This has meant drastic changes in design, higher compression, more compact engines, automatic transmissions, power steering, air conditioning and other im- provements. There must be highly skilled men to maintain the automobiles in the nation today. It is only reasonable that leaders in this and other industries would take particular interest in the students and lend assistance in maintaining a high quality of instruction. Along with keeping training keyed to rapid advances, Tech has set up problems and experiences for each student that are the same as those of the industrial technician and craftsman. Each student works under conditions iden- tical to those on the regular iob. Thus he learns and develops work experience at the same time. Shops are filled with delicate testing devices, massive motors and machin- ery. Students spend four hours each day working directly with the tools, mater-