March 16, 2018
By Paragon News Director Paul Joseph –
Southwestern Oklahoma State history instructor who additionally moonlights on KECO’s The Early Morning Show has won a major academic excellence award.
Landry Brewer, SWOSU’s history instructor on the Sayre campus, is the winner of the Bernhardt Academic Excellence Award for 2018 at SWOSU. It was announced Thursday night at the annual Bernhardt banquet on the Weatherford campus.
Brewer was presented the prestigious award at the annual Bernhardt banquet held on the Weatherford campus. For winning the award, Brewer received a $5,000 cash award, clock, pen and medallion.
SWOSU alumni Dr. William and Theta Juan Bernhardt of Midwest City are sponsors of the annual award that goes to an outstanding faculty member who exhibits exceptional achievement in teaching, scholarship and service.
Landry Brewer grew up in Elk City and graduated from Elk City High School in 1994. He is the first SWOSU-Sayre faculty member to win the Bernhardt Award.
Brewer says – not only was the announcement a surprise – he doesn’t know who else was nominated.
Brewer has earned five college degrees—all from SWOSU including a Master of Education degree in Social Sciences in 2004, and Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 2012.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude, received the SWOSU Political Science Academic Excellence Award and earned a 4.0 GPA while completing 54 graduate hours.
After teaching part time at the Sayre campus for several years, Brewer joined the SWOSU faculty at the Sayre campus full time in August 2005.
In addition to teaching, Brewer is busy with scholarly activity, most notably his research and the recent publication of his paper in The Chronicles of Oklahoma about the Atlas missile sites in southwest Oklahoma in the early 1960s.
Brewer will soon have another paper published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma about an Oklahoma professor who was accused by the state legislature of being a Communist in 1941.
Brewer is deeply involved in campus activities and committees.
Brewer teaches United States History To 1877, United States History Since 1877, World History, and American Government and Politics.
He and his wife, Erin, live in Elk City. Erin homeschools three of their five children.
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