Education is Everything: A small-town boy’s journey to university president
ECU President Wendell Godwin poses with his wife and three sons at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Ada. From left are Adam, Susie, Sam, Ben and Wendell. Courtesy Photo
Wendell Godwin, his father and three brothers are photographed at Valley Bowl in Pauls Valley. Pictured from left are his father Theron, a young Wendell, and brothers Jim, Tracy and Dennis.
ADA – Growing up in small-town America is never easy. Rural Oklahoma life in the 20th century usually consisted of driving tractors, milking cows, baling and hauling hay, farming and scraping to get by most of the time. Theron and Jan Godwin, like most parents, wanted a better life for their children. To them, education was the solution.
“College was not an option,” said Wendell Godwin, who assumed…
