Oklahoma State University - Redskin Yearbook (Stillwater, OK)

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THE COVER GR Dear Students: ln this time of transition which is the year 1952, you college students face heavy responsibilities. You represent the future. And whether we reap chaos or joy in that future depends, to a great extent, on how well you are able to carry on from where those of us a little older leave off. The mistakes my generation has made, and they are many, stand ready for you to correct. Our dreams of ultimate good are also for you to carry forward to reality. Guard well your youthful ideals and the studious approach, They are the finest helpers you can have in the search for truth. You are now at the threshold of learning and understanding. Whether you pass through the door to wisdom will be decided by how well you avail yourself of the opportunities for knowledge at your disposal. I hope you will store up a great deal of that knowl- edge. There is great need in the world for men of wisdom. Sincerely, IoHNsToN MURRAY Governor Governor Murray is shown discussing a recent legislative bill with Senator Raymond Gary. Madill, on the left, and Rep. Don Welch, Madill, on the right. The chief executive of our state has a tiring and exacting job. The moments are infrequent when the governor is able to sit at his desk and relax. Visitors come in a never-ceasing stream. The governors day begins about 6 a. m. and usually continues until midnight or later. He has been averaging a speech a day recently, in addition to his countless other duties, which include every- thing from important executive business to giving capsule Oklahoma history lessons to visiting school children. lack McElroy, ABC radio entertainer, introduces Governor and Mrs. Murray at a recent banquet. 3 na

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YOURS IS THE E RTH ..... AND EVERYTHING THAT'S IN IT. ln these words of Rudyard Kipling dwell much of the philosophy of Dr. Henry G. Bennett, late presi- dent of the Oklahoma AGM college. They are a part of the great legacy he left behind. They are inseparable from the goals he attained in the building of an educational institution of lasting strength and character that won fame for both the AGM college and himself, In his faith and fidelity to humanity he became a diplomat of peace and educa- tion of international significance. The legend that will be Dr, Bennett at ASM will be enduring . . . for within its bounds burned the eternal flame of unselfish service to the brotherhood of mankind. The fatal mission to the far east that claimed his life, and that of his wife, in an airplane crash Dec. 22, 1951, was a part of his saga of service. He lived for a cause and the end came in pursuit of the same. For over two decades at the Oklahoma AGM col- lege, he had made history as a college president, ad- ministrator, builder and educator. His prominence as a progressive school man took deep root from early statehood days and on through the twenties, won national recognition in the thirties and claimed inter- national attention in the forties. The school room, from the rural scene to the most rigid requirements of graduate level in institutions of higher learning, have been his life. His greatest single service was in behalf of education in which he spent 115 years. Of these, he served 33 years in the role of college president. As Oklahoma's most dy- namic man in education, Dr. Bennett first began his career as a city and county school superintendent in southeast Oklahoma, Choctaw county, 1907-18g sec- ond as president of the Southeastern State Teachers college, Durant, 1919-28, and last as the memorable president of the Oklahoma AGM college from 1928 until his death. Dr. Bennett was born December 14, 1886 in Ne- vada county, Arkansas. His education reached from the country schoolhouse of his community through Ouachita college, the University of Oklahoma and Columbia university. The versatility that was his as a college leader brought him into world prominence. Following a series of vital international services he became director of the U, S. state departments Point 11 program, Ian. 1, 1951, in the service of which and for his country he died. lt was his plan that the AGM college should pro- vide an unsurpassed physical plant and a notable professoriate through which it might claim a place of highest distinction as a center of learning and cul- ture, This was realized. Opportunity unlimited, for the college he helmed was the star he reached for, lt was virtually in his grasp. He was a master architect of planned destinies for the students he served. As a builder at ASM, the college he guided earned the title of a miracle of the western plains. The goals and plant he left is a rich heritage, symbolizing the success of a leader whose simplicity of manner, humility, energy, ambi- tions and talents made him a world figure. As long as its halls, towers and columns shall stand, his memory, too, will survive. How well it was said by Emerson of Dr. Henry Garland Bennett and the college from whose growth he was inseparable, Uhis institution is but the lengthened shadow of one man. President Truman and Dr, Bennett confer on the details of the Point Four program. Mrs. Vera Bennett. . , Dr. Bennett S vsifc and inspiration through many vears r