Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ford Music hall at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, is rapidly going up."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Here's a perfect example of why doctors do all in their power to save the human spark of life. Larry Robert Wiegert, Harrah, Premature."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Tecumseh's chamber of commerce and Rotary club combined this week to reward one of the city's leading boosters, and the head of the school there 25 years."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Parts of two thigh bones and a tooth of an Ice Age mammoth are examined by Dr. J.A. Trent, professor of biology at Oklahoma Baptist university, in Shawnee, and Leon Haddock, junior biology major from Hanford, Calif."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This peaceful scene part of the beef herd grazing on the expansive acres which are part of the self sustaining community."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. F. Erdmann Smith, first graduate of Oklahoma Baptist college when the school was located in Blackwell, joins Miss Eunice Short, alumni secretary at OBU, in looking over the college service roll."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Architect's drawing of the proposed $275,000 center for Shawnee's First Baptist church."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., began limited radio tube production here Monday at it's plant that was recently completed."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Lee B. Spencer, new dean of men, confers with Mrs. James Travis, OBU library assistant aid."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of the newest additions to the Oklahoma Baptist University campus picture is the new home for the university president. The presdidentioal mansion overlooking the campus from the north."

Students gathered outside of Oklahoma Baptist University's library.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An Oklahoma A&M graduate who had to wait a year to receive his reserve commission because he was too young at the 1926 commencement has taken temporary command of the 22nd armored division, now in summer training at this west Louisiana post."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer Harber . . . Likes his Shawnee job."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Pfc. Patricia Hill."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Judge J. Knox Byrum / Shawnee"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only minor scratches. They were assisted to the bank by several unidentified men who were fishing nearby. Car Plunges Off Bridge The car landed on the driver`s side in about five feet of water. Most of the last four or five months, the river has been bank-full and has had a swift current. But the last two weeks it had fallen four or five feet. If the river had been at the higher level, several feet of water would have covered the car. Mrs. Thompson said she was driving the car across the bridge, which is about a half mile east of Shawnee. She said the car slipped off the plank runners which are on the bridge flooring. When she tried to bring the car back …

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Nineteen-year-old Mary Elizabeth Cox of Shawnee, left, made history Tuesday when she became the first young woman to be sworn into the WAVE at the Oklahoma City station."