Women of Past, Present and Future Celebrating Women’S History Month and the Women Who Impacted NWOSU Series of Annual Proclamations English Department
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PRSRT. STD. Permit # 5 Alva, OK 73717 Change Service Requested Volume No. 80, Issue 22 Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 709 Oklahoma Blvd, Alva, OK 73717 March 28, 2019 Visit us online at northwesternnews.rangerpulse.com Follow us on Women of past, present and future Celebrating Women’s History Month and the women who impacted NWOSU series of annual proclamations English department. By MEGAN MAHARRY designating the month of March Shockley Hall, the current Student Reporter as “Women’s History Month.” math and computer science build- While the world has been ing on campus, is named after her. shaped by numerous influential Fryer Hall, the current girl’s Womens history has impacted women, often times these wom- dormitory, is named after Agnes lives all over the world, even in en are overlooked. Whether these Fryer and her husband James T. our small town of Alva. women were forgotten about or Fryer. They were donors to the “You may not always have the impact they left was not rec- original site of the college. a comfortable life and you will ognized, women do not always The women on Northwestern’s not always be able to solve all receive the credit they deserve. campus continue to leave an im- of the world’s problems at once, Northwestern Oklahoma State pact through their teachings and but don’t ever underestimate the University would not be where it contributions to campus. importance you can have because is today without the influence of It is important to continue to history has shown us that courage some very special women. recognize women and the impact can be contagious and hope can When NWOSU was first es- take on a life of its own.” tablished, the first two women Michelle Obama, former First teachers were Sarah Bosworth Lady of the United States, left a and Mary DeLisle. powerful impact during her time Jonny Barton knows North- in office and continues to be an western’s history inside and out. inspiration now. He spent around 29 years work- She and many other women ing as a teacher, the head of the are celebrated during Women’s speech and drama department and History Month. the dean of the school of human- According to Women’s Histo- ities, fine arts and language. ry Month, this national celebra- He said he believes women are tion got its start in 1981 when often left out of the history, even Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 at Northwestern. which authorized and request- “Many of them were some of ed the president to proclaim the the better teachers,” Barton said. week beginning March 7, 1982, “And I think we want to encour- as “Women’s History Week.” age that.” Throughout the next five years, He said there was a biology Congress continued to pass joint professor, Anna B. Fisher, who resolutions designating a week taught at Northwestern beginning in March as “Women’s History in 1927. He said she was very Week.” In 1987 after being peti- highly respected. tioned by the National Women’s “At that time, and this was a Photo provided by Megan Maharry History Project, Congress passed true statement, the adage was, if Photo provided by Megan Maharry Anna B. Fisher Pub. L. 100-9 which designat- you couldn’t get a recommen- Minnie M. Shockley, dean of women, assistant professor of English in the ed the month of March 1987 as dation from Anna B. Fisher, you 1920s. “Women’s History Month.” Be- couldn’t get into medical school,” they are continuing to leave, even tween 1988 and 1994, Congress Barton said. after Women’s History Month is passed additional resolutions re- Minnie Shockley is another over. questing and authorizing the pres- important woman in Northwest- Helen Keller said “We can do ident to proclaim March of each ern’s history. anything we want to if we stick to year as Women’s History Month. She began her career in 1910 it long enough.” Since 1995, presidents Clinton, and eventually became the dean Bush and Obama have issued a of women and an instructor in the Photo by Ashley Strehl Photo by Ashley Strehl Fryer Hall, the current girl’s dormitory, is named after Agnes Fryer and her husband James T. Fryer. They were Shockley Hall, the current math and computer science building on cam- donors to the original site of the college. pus, is named after the late Minnie M. Shockley. Inside SPECIAL • Education majors taught in art • Shannon Leaper - The greatest • ‘Captain Marvel’ has some issues • Women’s rodeo takes title at workshop- Artist-in-Residence secret of the library but it’s an OK film. Fort Scott for month of March Page 2 Pages 6 & 7 Page 9 Page 10 PAGE 2 NORTHWESTERN NEWS March 28, 2019 News Education majors taught in art workshop that’s offered in our classrooms then when we got in the classroom By CAITLYN PRAY since we have a lot of kids that are and Mr. Larson started talking Student Reporter talented in those areas.” Golightly’s about what we were going to do, I students spend amounts of time in started saying, ‘Ahh, I’m scared!’” the classroom studying the impor- Confessed McKenzie Billy, one of What do you call something that tance of art and budding creativity the morning’s students. is black, white and has teamwork within elementary classrooms, but Golightly took notice of Billy’s all over? as many may know experience and some of the others’ timidity as A class collaboration project can sometimes be the best teacher. they entered the studio. between the education and art de- Knowing this, Golightly began to “At first they were a little hesi- partments of course! ask Kyle Larson, assistant profes- tant—fearful that they would get On March 12 and 14, a number sor of art, if he might have ideas for something wrong, make a mistake, of education major students made ways they could integrate art into not doing something right—and he their way to the art studio during her classroom. was really helpful to point out that their usual class time to add a bit “It was kind of his idea,” Go- that’s what art is all about; there is of color to a canvas and spark in- lightly said. “He was really great no right or wrong,” Golightly said. spiration for ideas they could use too. He provided all the materials However, despite some of the in their own elementary classrooms and set everything up. He also tentative-ness of the students, Go- someday. pointed out how painting can lighlty said Larson was well-pre- Splashing paint on a canvas take a little bit of time to do, so pared and confident in their ability. might not be typically thought of he proposed we have a little mini “We walked in and he had all the as a stimulating, educational ex- one-hour workshop, since that’s easels set up, all the paint out, and ercise, but as many if not all those how long their class is, and he said he told them to go get their paint involved with the project might say, if I brought them over he’d teach that they wanted, step to an easel it certainly is. them just like one of his beginning and he would begin telling them “The class is for our grade one painting classes.” what to do and give them instruc- through eight certified teachers; it’s That fateful Monday morning tion,” Golightly said. called elementary creative activi- on March 12 eight of Golightly’s “He also told them that by the ties, so it’s a course that is all about students made the trek from the time they left they would have fin- keeping the arts alive in elemen- education building to the art studio, ished their composition and would tary classrooms,” Said Colleen where some looked forward for have a painting done and ready that Golightly, associate professor of the fun chance to let their creative they could take with them.” Photo by Colleen Golightly education. “Its focus is to bring out streak run, while others weren’t so Elementary education students visit Artist in Residence, Ben Zawalich. art, but also teach through it by con- sure of the idea. See ART on pg. 4.. necting with different content areas “Going into the workshop, I Elise Foss and McKenzie Billy with art professor Kyle Larson, and Artist in Residence Ben Zawalich. and trying to keep art as something was thinking ‘Oh this will be fun!’, Artist-in-residence finds inspiration in the unlikely By CHUY DOMINGUEZ Circulation Manager Ben Zawalich didn’t do very well in high school and only dis- covered his passion to create art in college. Zawalich was invited to North- western Oklahoma State University to stay four months to work on his projects. Ben is a painter and printmaker originally from Boston, “My inspiration would come from Massachusetts. local parks or walks around a town to He travels around the world and gather some general image will come has been invited to many art shows to my head.” to present and give out speeches about his artwork and has received residency awards from Ghana, Ja- pan, France, Italy and many other countries. Zawalich’s art consists of photographing his old paintings, printing them out and then using them to make a collage in newer creations. Many other universities reached out to Zawalich to hold an art show- case for people to take inspiration. He comes from many different parts of the world for others to perceive his projects and to learn more about his special technique of making col- lages and painting over them.