When MSU opened on the Oakland campus in 1957...

my dad took continuing ed classes. Later he took kids from our parish to swim at the pool. OU presented local and affordable access to college and graduate school. My wife earned two advanced degrees from OU. We used to meet at a restaurant near the campus when family birthdays fell on a class night. One year her final paper was due December 20th. We scrambled getting our Christmas tree on 12/23. ("How much for this tree?" "What'll you give me?") More than a handful of my law school classmates and legal colleagues attended OU. It has been fun and inspiring to watch OU grow from a start-up "dash school" into an independent research university with a medical school. We loudly cheered OU on last night at a favorite brewery on the heels another family birthday dinner. Go Grizzlies!