User talk:Ashlux/Henry Bennett
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- General bio - http://www.sosu.edu/lib/bennett.htm
- December 14, 1886, Nevada County, Arkansas
- At 8 years old, he enrolled in the Primary Department of Quachita College
- Received his Bachelor of Arts in 1907
- While at college, served as president of Philomathian Literary Society, vp of student athletic association, business manager of campus newspaper
- Paid tuition by working various jobs while in college
- Teaching certificate and taught at business college
- Quit teaching to sell textbooks. Trip to Boswell, OK revealed they needed a teacher. Applied, hired, and eventaully became principal.
- Became school superintendent at Boswell in 1908
- Became Choctaw County school superintendent in 1909
- Becamse Hugo city school superintendent from 1910 to 1919
- president of Southeastern Teacher's College in 1919
- Received masters degree from University of Oklahoma in 1924
- Ph.D from Columbia University in 1928
- Books published
- Coordination of State Institutions for Higher Education in Oklahoma
- Anthologies fro high schools:
- Trail Breaking
- On the High Road
- American Literature
- English Literature
- Southeastern Teacher's College
- After assuming control of the school, kept power to a small group of trusted people
- "Great institutions do not result from haphazard development; they are the fruition of years of planned growth under the guidance of wise policy."
- While president, 3 new buildings were constructed (gym, science build, library)
- While president, enrollment increase from 300 to 1500 (between 1919 to 12928)
- Left Southeastern in June 1928 for Oklahoma A&M (now OSU)
- Under his leadership, enrollment went from 3,800 to 12,000 by 1949
- Master paln of 25 years to build campus
- By the end of the 1930s, $7 million on expanding the school, two residential halls, engineering and ag buildings, and other stuctures.
- Fire training school in 1939
- Openned a branch college in Okmulgee in 1946
- Dairy center, more residence halls, student union, power and water plants by end of 1949
- Veterinary Medicine in 1948
- Delegate for the US to Quebec International Foods and Agricultural Organization, which was part of food rehabilitation in Europe
- Died in a plan crash on December 22, 1951 while in Iran as director of the Point Four Program.
- The library at Southeastern Oklahoma State University was named after him during homecoming ceremonies on October 23, 1982
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