Volume 18 , Issue 23

Walking With Sweet Silly Sadie

Did you know or have any ancestors, grandparents that attended Northwestern State Teacher's College, in Alva, Oklahoma in 1926? This is from the 1926 Castle on the Hill Yearbook, concerning the Department of Biology.

Some of you might remember Thomas C. Carter, A.M. – In point of service “Tommy” Carter is one of the oldest members of the faculty. In point of esteem of the student body he is one of the most beloved. Mr. Carter himself a graduate of Northwestern, holds for her the true affection of Alma Mater.

For three summers in the under-graduate school of the University of Chicago he completed his Masters degree at the Colorado State Teachers College.

He is a member of Phi Beta Sigma and Pi Gamma Mu and holds a Fellowship from the Oklahoma Academy of Science.

The Department of Biology located on the third floor of the Science Hall occupies five rooms, a lecture room, an office and private laboratory, a general laboratory, a stock room and museum.

The museum consists of several hundred mounted specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects used for display and class work. There is also an herbarium of 2,300 species of Oklahoma plants.

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