Henry G. Bennett
Sixtieth Birthday Celebration

Admiring the portrait of OAMC President Henry G. Bennett unveiled at his sixtieth birthday celebration are (from left to right:) C. W. "Bill" Thomas, an unidentified woman, the portrait of Dr. Bennett, OAMC first lady Vera Connell Bennett, Robert Murphy, Sr. (later State Senator), and Murphy's daughter.

Friends, family and colleagues gathered for President Henry Garland Bennett's sixtieth birthday celebration on December 14, 1946. President Bennett (far right) serves cake to his wife Vera Connell Bennett (2nd from left). In the center is U.S. Senator Robert S. Kerr (D-Oklahoma). The person at far left is unidentified.

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