Archive for October, 2009

Young Alum Feels Old-Fashioned

2001 alumnus Fred Minnick recently noticed some amusing differences between himself and current college students. Minnick will be featured in the December STATE magazine.
By Fred Minnick
At 31, I don’t feel physically old. But when I returned to Oklahoma State University Oct.7 to sign copies of my new book, Camera Boy: An Army Journalist’s War in Iraq [...]

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A New Perspective

Having grown up in Texas, I wasn’t very familiar with Henry Bellmon before I interviewed him last spring. I knew he’d been Oklahoma’s governor and a U.S. senator, but I didn’t know anything about his character, his politics, his beliefs.
But the more I learned from reading his autobiography in which he explains his political decisions [...]

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