Opinion-Editorial by Joshua Morgan (OBU)
With another session of the Oklahoma Collegiate Legislature officially underway it also means that election season is also upon us. Among the candidates for various positions is one Grace Minter from Oklahoma Baptist University running for Lieutenant Governor. Coming from Wichita Falls, Texas, she has grown up with both a love for agriculture and a drive to do great things in her life.
Grace is a superstar with great plans for the organization. Little known fact, whether an intentional secret on her part or something that slipped through the cracks, is that she is an honest to God rodeo queen who tours rodeos in her home region of [hometown here]. With an intensity few can quite comprehend, Grace is always looking for new ways to serve and looking for ways to help those in need. She is always thinking of ways to elevate not only the freshmen class of delegates, but she is also able to constantly see the potential in any delegate and try to put them into positions for them to achieve that full potential.
I am someone who can speak directly about the effect Grace can have on someone in this organization. I joined in the spring of 2021 for the tail-end of my junior year. From the moment she determined I fit the best in the House to that opening joint she made sure I had everything I needed in order to succeed. When I was still learning how to use Mason’s rules of order she would stand behind my laptop coaching me through making motions while making silly and exaggerated movements that never fail to make me smile when I think about it. When I won Best Freshman that session there was no other person I thought deserved it more than Grace, and I still credit all of my success to her. Even now when we are both well established delegates, her absolutely more so than I, she is able to recognize a hunger for responsibility in me that I sometimes I don’t even recognize and she is always willing to thrust me into those positions because she knows I can handle it. I am not an isolated incident. I have seen her pour into delegates from all schools, making sure that everyone is comfortable where they are, and I have every confidence that she will continue these character traits into whatever position she occupies in the future.
Those with questions about her candidacy, advice from her experience, or just want a great friend who cares deeply about their well-being do not hesitate to approach Grace Minter any time she isn’t running around like a headless chicken making sure the House continues to operate at the level of efficiency we have all come to expect.