University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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. . . cr?H€ MouH CHARLES L. FOLLANSBEE Charles L. Follansbee, counsel Mid- states Oil Corporation, member of American, Oklahoma and Tulsa Bar , Associations. Vice-President Men ' s ■ Council of the Y. M. C. A. Member of the Young Men ' s Club. President of the East Oklahoma Alumni Association of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, Received LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School, 1941. Before moving to Tulsa in 1942 to become associated with Midstates Oil Corporation, he was a partner in the law firm of Amote. Amote and Follansbee in McAlester, Oklahoma. Born and raised in Eu- faula, Oklahoma, and was graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1936. While there he had an outstand- ing student record. He was awarded Dad ' s Day Cup as outstanding man student of the University for 1934-35. Was editor-in-chief of Sooner year- book. 5fc Men and women of college age are the builders of the world ahead. If they will but dare to dream and to differ, this world can be a world of new splendor, new freedom. Only by dreaming new dreams until they dream them into reality can they prove their devo- tion to the rugged pioneer virtues that carved America out of the wilderness and made it rich and great. PREPARATION FOR TOMORROW The first task is to complete the training. The neces- sity for university education should not be questioned. From the ivy-clad buildings and tree-shaded campuses step the men and women who will wield tremendous influence in building the America of tomorrow. By providing dynamic leadership, the colleges helped America from the very beginning. Consider the Decla- ration of Independence and its signers who were the founding fathers of the United States — 27 of them were college graduates ... in a day when colleges were few and far between. Today, college graduates repre- sent 80 per cent of the U. S. Senate — 75 per cent of the House of Representatives — 85 per cent of the governors of our 48 states. The current issue of Who ' s Who lists 31,692 men and women, of whom nearly 90 per cent attended college -many having worked their way through and on up to the top. A liberal education leads the way to knowledge and to understanding as nothing else can possibly do. THE NEW FRONTIERS The center of civilization has been moving steadily westward for more than twenty-five hundred years. The people of the world today look to America for hope and leadership. Ten years of depression and partici- pation in the greatest war of all time have given the United States the greatest sociological education in its history. Although scars remain, our people have no reason to be conscious of anything but a sense of strength. «