Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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CAMPUS BY NIGHT f A lightning flash reveals that part ot the campus now passing into subordination .... the old Biology spires now hidden from View by the new tire station . . . . the beltry of Old Central, the building which was once so indispensable to the college .... the library which will soon be replaced by a larger, more beautiful and accommodating building .... seem small and insignificant compared to the new structures looming in the West.

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-1!.d.l', ' if 1 dk rye P ly' Ps ' ' rx. Bottles, flasks, test tubes, cmd toul odors come to the mind ds We pdss the Chemistry buildinq .... freshmen shudder to think of the long hours spent in borinq lctbs .... its rncrjestic columns mctrlc it ds the most distinctive building on the cctmpus .... elements are put toqether cmd tdken ctpctrt .... qdses otre condensed to liquids, ctnd liquids to solids in the notme ot scientific resectrch. , 'lf ' X ' l Ns . .usp CHEMISTRY

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xx I . ' , Leon C. Phillips, a man with the ideals of a minister and the human understand- ing of a politician, is the Governor of Okla- homa as the state enters its fiftieth year. Very few common- wealths can boast of a leader so pre-emi- nently an American. Before the Revolutions t ary War his ancestors were colonists in Con- necticut. A l w a y s seeking new frontiers, the family moved westward. Leon was born in Missouri. When he was two years old his father moved to the new land of Oklahoma. Phillips, who grew up as a red-haired farm boy in Custer County, inherits his shrewdness from his Scotch-lrish father and his peity from his Pennsylvanian Dutch mother. That com- bination has pro- duced a man with a mind keen enough and clean enough to determine what is right, and tough enough to stay on the track, pushing ideas to completion. Phillips' decision to become a lawyer came after several years of preparation for the ministry. l-le entered the University of Oklahoma Law School in l9l3. As an undergraduate he made an out- standing record. He was president of his class and of the student council in his senior year. l-le was a guard on the l9l5 Page l 7 ay! A .i ggmfj V GOVERNOR LEON C. PHILLIPS all-victorious football team. He was also named best all-around student in his senior class. l-lis wife, former Miss Myrtle Ellenberger of Norman, was a class-mate at the univer- sity. Still wobbly from a stay in an Okla- homa City hospital Red returned to Nor- man for the fatal step. He then hung out his shingle at Okemah, Oklahoma where he practiced law until lanuary 9, l939.