Higher education, in the classroom, in the community, or on the farm: Myrtle Chandler
Stevens is a dedicated leader. She’s served as Science & Arts Alumni Director, Science
& Arts faculty member, as a classroom teacher, and as the partner in a large farming-ranching
operation in Caddo County. The 1959 Home Economics graduate returned to Oklahoma College
for Women as an adult student. She received her Master in Home Economics from the
University of Oklahoma in 1966 and returned to Science & Arts to earn a Bachelor of
Arts in Art Education in 1987. She taught Home Economics in high school and at the
University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma for 26 years. In addition to teaching, she
served as Director of Alumni Affairs at Science & Arts from 1994 to 2006. At college,
she was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Pi Gamma Mu. She received an award for
third highest grade average on campus and was honored by the Press Club as one of
the top ten student leaders on campus, graduating Summa Cum Laude. Mrs. Stephens was
awarded the Governor’s Award for Outstanding Women in Oklahoma and was named Oklahoma
Home Economics Teacher of the Year in 1976. She has served as director of Oklahoma
Girls State, received the National Future Homemakers of America Distinguished Service
Award and the Oklahoma FHA Alumni Achievement Award. Her Young Homemakers of Oklahoma
Chapter was named the “Outstanding YHO Chapter in Oklahoma.”