OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME MEMBER SPOTLIGHT Stanley Draper tanley Carlisle Draper was twenty- Snine years old when he arrived in Oklahoma City for the first time on August 19, 1919. Stepping off the train at Rock Island Depot, located just north of the city’s now-historic Skirvin Hotel, he was about to begin his new job as membership secretary of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, then called the Board of Trade. Although it is true Draper possessed an exceptional measure of foresight, he had little indication at the time that he would be guiding Oklahoma City through the twentieth-century as its most renowned and pragmatic urban planner. Stanley Draper was inducted to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957. BY CHARLES WREN 50
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