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

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Reba McEntire—29

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 We Love Ya, Reba is theme of conce Country singing sensation Reba McEntire brought back the love she received at Southeastern with a concert benefiting the university music department. The campus turned out to present her with the Distinguished Alumna honor, the highest bestowed on a graduate, A 1976 graduate, the famous alumna found a way to work the benefit into her heavy country-wide tour. We've wanted to honor Reba with—the award for some time now, Dr. Hibbs said. The concert provides the perfect opportunity. Reba has always been special to many of us. She has had a charismatic touch with people and music as long as I've known her, and she has a fan club here that dates back to long before she cut her first record. McEntire split her time at school between singing, studying music and rodeoing. The pretty, red-haired Oklahoman began expanding her name as a budding vocal talent about 10 years ago while a sophomore. Country and Western star Red Steagall heard her and lent some help. A year later, she signed her first recording contract, McEntire's home is in the Stringtown-Limestone Gap- Kiowa area. She and her steer wrestling champion husband Charlie Battles maintain a 215 acre ranch there. 28—Reba McEntire

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Southeastern theatre gains recognitio 30—Theatre