David Peters

author of The Campus of OAMC

November 4, 2015

David was born in Manhattan, Kan., raised in Ames, Iowa and moved to Stillwater in 1971. He graduated from OSU and served as a Peace Corps/agricultural extension agent from 1978 to 1980 in Sierra Leone, West Africa. David has worked at the Edmon Low Library since January 1986, serving first in the General Reference Department, later in Special Collections, then as supervisor of the Map Room. He returned to the Special Collections and University Archives department as coordinator of Special Collections in December 2000 and was honored that year as the Outstanding Library Employee. David co-authored The Campus book in the OSU Centennial Histories Series in 1990. He writes a regular column for STATE Magazine under the title "Proud and Immortal." David served two terms on the OSU Staff Advisory Council and three terms on the university's Health and Fringe Benefits committee. He received the OSU/SAC Distinguished Service Award in 1999, and is also a two-time recipient of the Greenberg/Howland Personnel Development Award. He completed certification requirements at OSU in Geographic Information Systems in May 2004. David has been married for 25 years and has a daughter in the 8th Grade.

This coffee-table style book highlights the OAMC campus from 1891 to 1957 and features images from the photographic collections of the Edmon Low Library's Special Collections and University Archives department. The OAMC period is broken into seven chapters with construction and campus development arranged chronologically. All significant building projects are featured and include images, maps and brief narratives. The Campus of OAMC highlights the growth of a land-grant college and experiment station on the plains of Oklahoma from its humble beginnings in the 1890s during the territorial period to the rapid expansion after World War II and the impact of the GI Bill. Many of these facilities no longer exist, or have been dramatically altered, while others continue to provide the places where education, research, and extension still thrive today.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2008-honorees/david-peters

Last Updated: 14 January 2022