User talk:Ashlux/Henry Bennett

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Fire program - http://firechief.com/mag/firefighting_fireman_heart/index.html
- Worked with Ray Pence to establish the Department of Firemanship Training, the first fire service academic program in North America.

Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame - 1994 http://www.okhistory.org/mus-sites/masnum17.htm

Ethiopia & OSU (http://ieo.okstate.edu/ieo.aspx?page=39)
- Emperor Haile Selassie requested Bennett (as president of A&M) to possibly establish an agricultural college there
- November 14, 1950 President Truman appointed Bennet to Assistant Secretary of State in charge of the Point Four Program (also known as the Technical Cooperation Administration). The Point Four Program was to help developing nations with assistance in education, public health, industry, and agriculture.
- On June 16, 1951, A&M was awared a contract between the US and Ethiopia governments to develop an ag college modeled after the American land grant system.
- Emperor Haile Selassie visited A&M on June 18, 1954.
- Since then, OSU has joined Alemaya University and other Ethipia higher education institutions in many joint research programs.

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

Master plan - http://www.purchasing.okstate.edu/BidDocuments/os061150glk2.pdf
- 25 year plan present in 1930
- Called for 25 new buildings
- Callede for enlargements of over 6 main campus buildings
- Modified Georgian architecture for all new buildings

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