Community Businessmen Helped Convince Legislators to Fund Continued School Operations

Community Businessmen Helped
Convince Legislators to Fund
Continued School Operations

State law makers discussed and proposed agricultural school closings. When in April 1913 a legislative committee charged with gathering information that would be used to discuss possible school closures visited the school, faculty, students, and local residents were well-prepared. A "delegation" of businessmen accompanied committee members from the city to the school where they found

. . . everything . . . in working order--class periods being met regularly, creamery running, domestic science department and manual training rooms operating, and even the work in the fields and livestock yard going regularly forward.

Making the best possible use of the final product of combined agricultural and domestic science efforts, domestic science program "girls . . . served an elegant dinner to the guests." The businessmen gave the visit memorable closure when they used automobiles to drive the visitors to the nearby Fort Sill United States Army Field Artillery School and Medicine Park Resort. [1]

1. "Legislative Committee To Cameron," Lawton Constitution Democrat Weekly, April 3, 1913.

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