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Chris Howard (MBA ’03), once securely on the fast track at GE, today is associate vice president at the University of Oklahoma, thanks to the persuasive powers of OU president David Boren. According to the Oklahoman (September 5, 2006), Boren was so impressed with Howard after a chance meeting that he hired him to head OU’s leadership programs and to work with its International Programs Center and other campus initiatives as an inspirational role model for students.
And who wouldn’t he inspire? A helicopter pilot and now a major in the Air Force Reserve, Howard was class president at the Air Force Academy, a running back on the team that defeated Ohio State in the 199o Liberty Bowl, and an Academic All-American. A Rhodes scholar, he earned a doctorate in politics at Oxford. Then he and his wife, Barbara, founded an organization to help young apartheid victims in her native South Africa, before he returned for a time to the military as an intelligence officer hunting war criminals in Bosnia and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Howard said he’s been given a lot and wants to make a difference. “My great-great-grandfather was a slave, and I’m a Rhodes scholar, so that’s not lost on me. I take that to heart.”
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