Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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ro 3 thought Oklahoma was an Jlndian reservation where cowboy, de horSeSy the women were brow-beaten pioneers and the Schools wen fog cabins. Or at least »3 thought it in the b ach of mg mine though J) h new about the Oil SoonerS the recreational facilities and the famous OlmericanS such as Witt IZ 9eri anJ L WcJn tyre who had been from Oklahoma. .3 was surprised to find that some of the natives one-room even were no,

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an an 9ndian, had never ridden a horse and had gone to schools more modern and educationally advanced than the ones 3 went to on the west coast. 3 had come to Southeastern with my grandparents for a homecom- ing while a freshman in high schoo l. J tu ik e para de, the football d all. DL campus was pretty with a M e flowers, magnolia trees dh encheS. +9 thought ntayhe 3 might lihe to come here for college. It hen 3 was a senior, 3 had good grades and got a chance to go to several big-lime schools, (jramps and Cjranny came in fo, graduation and hept telling me how proud they were of me. 3 started thinhing about their education at Southeastern and how we ll they had done. THaybe Southeastern was for me. 3 ve been here nearly three years. 3 no longer thinh 3 made a good choice. 3 hnow 3 made the right choice. 3 ve had classes in computers, art, journalism, drama, iCnglish, classical languages, math and so much more. Jk ave learned so much. Cdne of the main things 3 have learned has been that the people of Southeastern and the surrounding area are big on education of the mind through classes, the body through recreation and the heart through hindnesses. Southeastern has Dhe flight Stuff! A —Si iunior 8