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From YouTube: From City Hall - Ward 6 - January 2014
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Oklahoma City Ward 6 Councilwoman Meg Salyer talks with Frank Wang the President of the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. More at http://www.ossm.edu.
A
Hello,
I'm,
Meg
Salyer
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
today
to
the
ward
6
council
show.
I
have
with
me
today
a
dear
friend
doctor
Frank
wrong,
who
is
the
president
of
the
Oklahoma
school
of
science
and
math,
one
of
Oklahoma's
and
I'm,
not
just
Oklahoma
City's,
although
it's
in
Oklahoma
City,
one
of
our
state's
greatest
jams
and
so
we're
going
to
have
a
great
conversation
today
about
the
fabulous
students,
the
great
programs
and
the
benefit
to
our
state
of
having
this
wonderful
specialized
high
school
in
Oklahoma
City.
So
dr.
A
B
B
B
I
thought
it
was
going
to
be
terrible
and
I
vowed
to
myself
the
first
chance.
I
get
I'm
gonna
leave
the
state
never
come
back,
but
obviously
that
hasn't
happened.
But
what
happened
was
too
very
providential.
Things
happen
when
I
got
to
Oklahoma.
One
is
I
met
a
gentleman
named
John
Saxon,
a
very
visionary.
B
Fellow
who
just
finished
two
tours
or
few
tours
in
Vietnam
and
the
Korean
conflict
and
so
forth,
he
was
teaching
at
what
was
then
called
Oscar
rosa
junior
college,
and
he
wanted
to
get
a
book
published
based
on
his
notes
and
no
one
would
publish
his
book
so
he
decided
to
publish
it
himself.
I
met
him
as
a
16
year
old,
high
school
student,
so
about
a
year
before
I
got
my
PhD
from
MIT
mr.
Sachs
and
I'm
kind
of
compressing.
This
a
lot
mr.
Saxon
contacted
me
and
said
Frank.
B
How
would
you
like
to
run
my
company
and
I
said
mr.
Saxon
I?
Don't
know
how
to
run
a
company
I've,
never
even
run
a
lemonade
stand
so
about
basically
right
after
I
got
my
PhD
in
math
from
MIT
I
came
to
Oklahoma
and
started
running
his
little
company,
which
was
then
maybe
about
15
to
20
employees.
I
was
very
blessed
because
I
was
able
to
grow
that
company
to
one
of
the
major
textbook
publishing
companies
of
country.
Mr.
B
A
B
In
math
absolutely
absolutely
it
turns
out
that
when
I
shortly
shortly
after
I
came
here
at
my
sophomore
year
of
high
school
I
attended
Norman
high
school
and
my
high
school
math
teacher
was
a
fella
named
dr.
David
Drennen,
and
he
turned
out
to
be
one
of
the
founding
trustees
of
the
Oklahoma
school
science
and
math
and
I
like
to
think
that
some
of
my
early
conversations
with
them
a
help
in
the
founding
of
the
school.
I
met
him
in
1980
in
the
school
was
established
via
legislation
in
1983
and
dr.
B
Drennen
was
one
of
the
founding
trustees
and
remains
a
trustee
today.
But
in
New
York
State
they
have
schools
of
a
math
and
science
that
the
technically
oriented
school,
some
very
famous
ones
that
you
may
have
heard
of
stuyvesant
high
school
in
Manhattan,
bronze,
high
school
science,
Brooklyn
Tech,
and
so
when
I
came
to
Oklahoma.
I
said
why
can't
Oklahoma
have
similar
such
schools
and
I.
Think
I
got
the
wheels
turning
and
dr.
Drennen
mind,
and
so
a
lot
of
different
events
happened,
but
eventually
that
school
was
found
in
1983
opened
its
doors
in
1992.
B
Its
first
class
of
students
graduated
its
first
class
of
students
in
1992,
and
then
I
was
while
I
was
running.
Sacks
and
publishers.
I
was
invited
by
the
downtown
rotary
club
now
the
largest
in
the
world,
to
come
and
speak,
and
it
turned
out
that
my
introducer
was
dr..
Edna
Manning,
who
was
the
founding
president
of
the
school
and
I,
had
actually
forgotten
that
I
was
digging
through
my
things.
Is
it
oh
wow?
That's.
This
is
actually
probably
the
first
time
that
we
met
what.
B
B
B
B
Graduated
in
1992,
we
are
a
statewide
school.
We
accept
students
from
all
over
the
state.
In
fact,
we've
had
students
come
from
all
77
counties
in
Oklahoma
where
for
juniors
and
seniors
11th
and
12th
grade
it's
a
residential
school
so
that
students
come
and
live
on
campus,
and
so
we
have
had
that
our
class
size
is
about
72
students
we
can
hold,
our
dormitories
can
hold
total
140
for
students,
and
that
was
up
until
very
recently.
B
I
should
mention
that
in
August
at
2012
we
finished
building
two
wings,
a
new
girls
dorm,
a
new
boys
dorm.
So
we
are
effectively
able
to
double
our
size.
I
should
mention
just
a
little
thing
here,
as
we
built.
We
didn't
have
the
money
to
finish
out
both
buildings,
so
we
are
now
finishing
out
the
third
floors.
It
was
built
entirely
without
state
money,
so
this
is
through
private
money
and
federal
stimulus.
Now
so
did
not
cost
the
state
any
money
us
so.
B
B
Correct
order
to
do
that,
this
is
our.
This
is
the
big
challenge
for
us.
In
2009,
we
had
funding
of
close
to
eight
million
about
7.8
million,
that
funding
has
been
cut
to
about
6.2
million,
and
we've
had
to
cut
our
staffing
from
about
76
or
77
full-time
equivalents
to
57
for
full-time
equivalent,
a
faculty
and
staff.
B
A
B
Kids
participating
in
first
off
I
want
to
mention
the
faculty
world-class
faculty.
Three-Quarters
of
them
have
PhDs
in
their
field
of
study,
and
so
the
students
are
taught
by
people
who
are
experts
in
their
field.
They
take
seven
academic
classes,
each
semester,
and
so
after
those
classes
and
after
you
know
about
five
o'clock,
they
do
a
physical
education
and
the
fine
arts
and
so
forth.
So
is
a
very
demanding
program
for
graduation.
We
have
students
all
have
to
make
it
through
I
believe
through
calculus,
at
least
one
year
of
calculus,
three
semesters
of
physics.
B
B
A
B
We
had
that,
yes,
we
had
the
highest
acct
scores
of
students
graduating
of
any
school
in
the
country.
They
come
in
with
the
average,
a
CT
score
about
28
and
leave
with
the
average
a
CT
score
between
32
and
33.
Remember
perfect
is
36.
So
really
we
have,
you
know
top-notch
young
people
come
but
I'm,
very
proud
of
them.
They're
very
hardworking,
motivated,
ambitious
young
people,
and
so.
B
B
It's
about
a
half
of
them
go
out
of
state
half
of
them
stay
in
state
I
should
mention
that
of
those
have
to
go
out
of
state,
probably
I'm.
Guessing
half
of
them
come
back
and
return
to
the
state
for
further
study,
or
just
start,
you
know
their
careers
in
oklahoma.
I
do
want
to
mention.
I
know
that
you
know
for
the
this
is
an
investment
of
the
state
in
our
young
people,
but
I
believe
they're
going
to
get
a
great
return
on
investment.
You
know
we
are
modeled
in
part.
B
After
the
North
Carolina
School
signs
a
math,
they
open
their
doors
in
1980,
we
opened
their
doors
in
1990.
They
did
an
economic
impact
study
and
found
that
annually
the
state
gets.
The
state
of
North
Carolina
gets
about
500
million
dollars
of
economic
impact
from
the
graduates
we
are
ourselves
now
undertaking
an
economic
impact
study.
B
The
challenge
here
is,
is
that
and
we
believe
that
they're
going
to
come
back
with
very
impressive
numbers,
but
the
thing
is
those
numbers
are
going
to
get
even
more
impressive,
because
our
young
people
that
are
now
you
know
out
in
the
workforce
are
just
now
establishing
themselves.
So
you
know
even
those
first
graduates
from
1992,
you
think
figured.
B
Let's
say
they
did
four
years
of
undergraduate
four
years
of
medical
school,
a
few
years
more
of
residency
and
so
forth,
they're
just
getting
started,
but
you
know
I'll
jokingly
say
that
they
say
that
if
one
of
our
students
gets
needs,
medical
attention
needs
to
go
across
the
street
to
the
to
the
medical
center.
They
have
about
one
in
three
chance
of
getting
a
doctor
who's.
A
graduate
of
the
Oklahoma
School
of
Science
in.
B
The
they
did,
a
one
of
the
papers
looked
at
the
fastest
growing,
the
most
successful
entrepreneurial
companies
there
and
a
quarter
fully.
A
quarter
of
them
were
founded
by
oklahoma,
school
science
and
mathematics
graduates.
So-
and
I
want
to
also
emphasize
here
to
my
main
reason
for
coming
here
and
serving
as
a
school's
president,
is
to
be
an
example
for
the
young
people.
I
had
great
success
in
my
career
at
saks
and
publishers
then
moved
to
the
Dallas
area
and
really
had
enough.
You
know
savings
that
I
was
basically
in
semi-retirement
and
but
dr.
B
B
In
a
leadership
position,
they
will
be
called
to
serve
their
be
called
the
lead,
and
I
urge
them
to
accept
that
call
return
back
to
the
community
that
have
that
has
invested
in
them,
and
indeed
many
number
of
students
have
told
me
privately
and
also
stated
publicly
through
the
papers
that,
when
they
return,
they
plan
to
serve
one
of
them
being
mubeen
a
Shakir,
our
first
road
Scholar.
It's.
B
A
B
B
A
To
see
and
I
just
I,
thank
you
for
being
here
right.
I
can't
emphasize
enough
how
important
being
able
to
have
a
school
where
our
best
and
brightest
from
all
around
the
state
can
come
together
and
can
experience
this
rigorous
program
leave,
get
a
great
college
education
and
come
back
and
contribute
to.