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Don Brattain makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

As an underclassman, Don Brattain sat in the office of the dean at Oklahoma State University’s College of Business contemplating his options. This one decision – from one discussion with Dean Eugene Swearingen – would change the trajectory of his entire career and possibly his family’s future.

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Bill Hardgrave makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Bill Hardgrave was one of the OSU alums honored when the business school announced their "Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100" in 2014 during the 100th anniversary of business education at OSU.

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Don Nickles makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Don Nickles successful career actually began during his days at Oklahoma State University. The Ponca City, Okla., native earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from OSU’s business school in 1971.

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Brad Williams makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Brad Williams’ life could have been completely different if it wasn’t for Oklahoma State University’s business school. The Ponca City, Okla., native earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics in 1977 and his master’s degree in accounting in 1979.

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Brandon Weeden makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

The NCAA likes to tout that, “There are over 400,000 NCAA student-athletes, and most of them will go pro in something other than sports.” Brandon Weeden helps offset that number because he has gone pro in two different sports yet he still possesses a degree that he is very proud of and has found useful in his professional career in both baseball and football, currently in the National Football League as a backup quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys.

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Glenn Stinchcomb makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Glenn Stinchcomb doesn’t remember the year and doesn’t recall how old he was at the time but still today, at 87 years old, he does remember his first meeting with Oklahoma A&M College President Henry G. Bennett.

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Duck-Woo Nam makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Duck-Woo Nam will forever be linked with a pair of other impressive Oklahoma State University business school graduates as the first people to receive their doctoral degrees in economics from what was then the College of Business Administration.

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Greg Massey makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Greg Massey graduated from Oklahoma State University’s College of Business Administration with a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1987.

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Chuck Hensley makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Chuck Hensley was one of the OSU alums honored when the business school announced their "Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100" in 2014 during the 100th anniversary of business education at OSU.

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David Bradshaw makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Oklahoma State University is a school in which it’s common for one generation after another to follow in the footsteps of the family patriarch or matriarch. There are numerous families throughout the state who have now graduated three, four or even five generations from the state’s major land grant university.

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Dail C. West makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

A proud Oklahoman, Dail C. West was known by family, friends and colleagues to embody what author John W. Gardner wrote, “Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.”

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Justin Courtney makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Justin L. Courtney has led a successful career that stemmed from Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business. He graduated in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in finance and a minor accounting.

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