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Historic role awaits cattle group’s leader

 
By Bryan Painter | Published: July 4, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

WAURIKA — Terry Stuart Forst respects history. She also makes it.

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Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Convention and Tradeshow

WHEN: July 23-25

WHERE: Reed Convention Center, 5800 Will Rogers, Midwest City

INFORMATION: www.okcattlemen.org/

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Forst leads a ranch that began about three years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

This month she is scheduled to become the first female president of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association. She will take the reins at the end of the organization’s annual convention, July 23-25.

"I was certainly honored to be considered for president,” she said. "I have always felt one should only be considered for a job based on qualifications.

"I don’t think I will ever feel qualified to follow in the footsteps of so many outstanding men, but I’m not afraid of work, and I will give it my best,” she said.

Past and present
Forst’s great-great-grandfather, Robert Clay Freeny, started the ranch in 1868. The original land in Bryan County, near Caddo, was eventually passed to Forst’s grandmother, Carrie Ida Freeny, and then to her father,
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