Cincinnati street houses were built going east on Jasper street. The hill in general wasn't really settled. In 1900, the school was a small frame building which housed all the grades. A fee was charged for each pupil. Now Tulsa is a city full of public schools, as well as several private ones. These are functional, modem plants. Some even have air conditioning. The Catholic schools also have grown from one school on Third between Elgin and Frankfort where the students could also be boarded. 

Now they too have beautiful school plants and grounds as do the public schools. Both public and private systems have neighborhood schools. In 1917, Tulsa Central High School was the first Tulsa public school to have a gym with a swimming pool. Kendall College (now The University of Tulsa) was the only college here as I grew up. Of course we had business schools, including Tulsa Business College and Draghan's School of Business. Kendall College had three buildings -the classrooms, a dorm for girls, and a dorm for boys. Kendall was a long way from town, but a streetcar did go to it. 

This school is now very close in as Tulsa has built up for miles on all sides of it It is now a well-known university allover the world, especially for oil-related subjects. Law, the arts, sciences, mathematics, music, and the education of teachers all are areas fully accredited. The university has expanded with state of the art equipment for each area. TU, as it is familiarly called, is in a beautiful campus setting. Tulsa is proud of it Now we have a relatively new college -Oral Roberts University, built by Oral Roberts, an evangelist. 

It is made up of outstanding buildings which cover many acres. This university also strives to be considered tops. It is a show place of Tulsa. We now have Tulsa Junior College which has expanded in answer to student needs to cover three campuses. This school offers students a variety of subjects at a reasonable price. The college does not go into the specialized areas such as TU and ORU offer because it is a two-year program, but it has answered a definite need for many Tulsans.

In my early childhood the horse and trains were our means of travel. Today planes and cars are most commonly used. We now have rockets that travel the celestial sphere and we have found that the moon is not made of 'green cheese,' a remark we used to use in jest. Our way of life has been changed by the inventions made in my lifetime. I would not like to go back to "the old days" and leisurely pastimes. However I must say here that Tulsa has always been a fast moving town, quick to make changes for progress and the people are always on the go. 

Communication in my early days was by letters. Before 1903, long distance calls were limited, because very few homes had phones. We depended upon telegraph for news of the outside world. If you were in the waiting room of a small town train depot, you would hear the clicks of the telegraph. The stationmaster had his ears tuned to hear and read the clicks even when selling you a ticket Now the voice can be heard allover the world as you talk and the pictures of what you are doing are shown on the TV screen. This was done when our men were on the moon. We saw them doing their job of collecting materials to bring back and people here on earth were talking with them. 

Both the ones on the moon and the "earth people" were visible and their voices could be heard. By satellites we now can see happenings and hear what is going on nearly any place on the earth immediately. Instead of walking up stairs or getting on an elevator with an operator to run it, we now use elevators where we punch a button for the floor we want and the elevator stops at the desired floor and even opens the door for us. Escalators are also used. All these things have come into use during my lifetime. Even our way of washing clothes has changed. 

No longer is rubbing on boards or putting clothes into a hand-operated washer necessary. Automatic washers and dryers have given us many free hours. Most families have their own washers and dryers, but this too has changed things as we used to have laundries that did our clothes and dry-cleaned those that needed dry-cleaning. Summing up, there is no end to the advances that have been made during in my lifetime. Computers have completely changed our methods of data handling. 

Some sort of airplane travel has been in Tulsa since the early twenties. Tulsa is easily accessible by plane and cars, but the dependable and comfortable train travel is at a minimum. The days of fancy train cars, owned by celebrities, pulled behind Pullman cars and side-tracked at the desired destination for their booked appearance at a theater are now gone. Many such people now have fancy mobile homes instead. No wonder most people use planes and stay in hotels because within a few