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OSU accounting faculty member, alumni honored with OSCPA awards

The Oklahoma Society of Certified Public Accountants recognized Alyssa Vowell, assistant department head in OSU’s School of Accounting, as the 2026 Outstanding Accounting Educator. Spears Business alumni Jacob Pasby and Craig Riffel also received
OSU accounting faculty member, alumni honored with OSCPA awards
Jesse and Armon Bost makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

Jessie Thatcher Bost believed education held the key to independence and opportunity. She became the first woman graduate of Oklahoma A&M College in 1897, and was the first woman graduate of an upper institution in the state of Oklahoma. She spent

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James R. Taylor makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

After spending 44 years in the public accounting world, James R. Taylor looks back on his life with the utmost satisfaction. He didn't always know what he wanted to do with his life or where it was headed but he had the drive to keep pursuing a

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Jack Allen makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

Immediately after graduating with an Oklahoma State University business degree in 1969, Allen joined the career development program with the Hartford Insurance Company. Over the next four years he spent time in Oklahoma City; Hartford, Connecticut;

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

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

David Woods learned early that it takes hard work to succeed in life. But that never scared the 58-year-old who was born in Germany and lived in Virginia, California, Arizona, Texas and Oklahoma while growing up the son of a two-star general in the U

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Garth Brooks makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

There was the normal excitement in the air on Friday night, May 6, 2011, as hundreds of Oklahoma State University graduate students were preparing to walk across the stage inside Gallagher-Iba Arena to receive their diplomas. But the graduates,

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Ann E. Bradshaw makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

Ann E. Bradshaw, Tax Partner and Southwest Region Director of Credits and Incentives Services for Ernst & Young, credits the success of her career as a tribute to the outstanding foundation she received at Oklahoma State University's business school.

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Suzanne Carlile Myers & Norman Myers makes 'Spears School Tributes: 100 For 100' list

Sat, Nov 1, 2014

Norman and Suzanne Myers began their path at the Oklahoma State University business school. "Our path was one that we could never have imagined we would follow. I do believe we blazed a new trail, and our path has led us right back to the Spears

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

Sat, Nov 1, 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

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