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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. «
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TD COLLEGE MEN AND WOMEN This article and those which follow were contributed by former editors and business- managers of the SOONER Yearbook. History is still young enough to be closely interesting; this country is only a long lifetime old. Our own Soonerlcmd, home of the im- mortal Will Rogers, is a land of youth and opportunity. Oklahoma ' s opportunities for the future are boundless. A new era of industrial development has been introduced by the war; decentralization of heavy industry has gone a long way to liberate the South and Southwest from a colonial status in the national econ- omy. Our state has untold natural wealth as yet underdeveloped. Oil is producing many compounds known only to the laboratory at present; familiar glass sand will produce build- ing blocks for our growing cities; steel will be produced and its products will help enrich our citizens; our agricultural development will be greatly expanded. Think of the new frontiers opened up by technology and invention. Think of the foreign markets as industrialization sweeps the world. Good free land may no longer be available, but there ' ll be new oppor- tunities all over the old landscape for those who are willing to hustle around and find them. The frontier has always been closed to the young man who is afraid. TOMORROW ' S CHALLENGE In an address delivered at the 1944 com- mencement exercises, Columbia University, Nicholas Murray Butler challenged youth to be optimistic. He said that optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. Back some of our college men and women into a comer today and they will calmly inform you that the day of opportunity is gone, killed by the capitalistic system. They will say that there is no chance for a young man unless he has plenty of money or influential friends. This unwholesome attitude is one probably en- gendered in part by the fact that millions reached maturity during the depression. Mil- lions of us have never known a normal Amer- ica but many of us believe that, if business and industry are given opportunity to prove what can be done without the restraint of unneces- sary governmental shackles, youth will quickly rediscover that rich rewards can still be earned by hard and intelligent work. William Benton, vice-president of the Univer- sity of Chicago, says that youth ' s worst enemy is fear of failure. Too many college graduates demand the security offered by a big company. They don ' t mind starting at the bottom but they want someone else to hold the ladder. Their fathers and grandfathers were unhindered by this concentration on security, this Maginot line point of view. It was individual hard working men who built the wealth of this country, not big business. Large companies suffer from the disease of bigness and tend to become ultra- conservative. The individual ' s flexibility, drive, and imagination are too frequently submerged. Tomorrow ' s challenge to college men and women is that they seek opportunity for per- sonal growth. They must battle to overcome a degree of timidity that would have lost this country to the Indians a century and a half ago. A man or woman who forges ahead in a big company would likely go farther if he trav- elled alone. One who works for himself takes risks but he also gets the employer ' s cut. He has the best right to be proud and the greatest opportunity for personal growth. CHARLES L. FOLLANSBEE, B.A., 1936, LL.B. (Harvard Law School), 1941. -■■V m ¥ ' m
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