Lewis recalled an incident about the President which occurred early in her tenure at OCW. “For instance, he met me in the hall one morning and said, ‘I just told Mrs. --- that I had the best history teacher in the state of Oklahoma.’ Then he looked at me and said ‘I believe it; if I did not, I would fire you and get the best.’ That made me feel I must do my best.”

She also wrote, “We had chapel every morning at 10 o’clock. This the president believed was the only way to create a sense of unity, and a College must have that feeling. Before his death he accepted with reluctance, Chapel three times a week. This was due to a more crowded schedule, he accepted but never liked it.”

Ever private, and ever modest, Anna Lewis gave unselfishly to her college, working long hours and then walking back to the institution in the evening from her residence at 1501 South 17^th Street to give some more. She retired from the college in 1956, after thirty-nine years of yeoman service. She returned to her home at Clayton in the old Choctaw Nation, and died there on August 1, 1961. She is buried at McAlester, Oklahoma.

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