Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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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.

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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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THE PRESIDENT DB. HENBY G. BENNETT ln l9U8-O9 he served as superintendent ot school at Boswell, Oklahoma, tor his first position in the educational tield. The tol- lowing year he became the county superin- tendent ot schools in Choctaw county, Oklahoma, and served one year. ln l9lU he accepted the position as head ot the schools in Hugo, Oklahoma, and served there until l9l9 at which time he became Dr. Henry Garland Bennett, who was born on a small farm in Nevada County, Arkansas, December l4, l886, has ad- vanced irom a rural horseback mail car- rier to one ot the most prominent and re- spected educators of the nation. Dr. Bennett's edu- cational background consists of an A. B. degree from Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in l907g an M.A. degree from the University of Oklahoma, in l924, Ph. D. from Columbia University, in' l926, with the honorary LL. D. degree con- ferred on him by the Ouachita college. He was married to Vera Connell ot Dur- ant, Oklahoma, lanu- ary 29, l9l3. At the present time tive children are in the family. They are Henry Cfarland, Phil Connell, Liberty Loven, Mary Lois and Thomas Edwin. president of the Southeastern Teachers College at Durant. He served as head ot the Durant Teachers College until l928. Dr. Bennett took over his present position as president of Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, upon his resignation at Southeastern Teachers College in l928 and has served here since that time. During his first year as President of A. n Page 18