Poet Laureate (1995-1997) Daniel Nicholson – Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing, University of Oklahoma College of Law Doug Roby – U.S. Olympic Committee President Everett Shelton – University of Wyoming basketball coach George H. Wilson – U.S. Oklahoma Representative Harold Taft – "The World's Greatest Weatherman" Henry E. Stubbs – U.S. California Representative James Clark Brown - Minister (Cleveland Park, San Francisco, Carmel Valley) James W. Valentine – Paleontologist Pat Moran McCoy – Jazz pianist Jim Spainhower – Missouri State Treasurer John Newbold Happy Camp – U.S. Oklahoma Representative John Turner – NBA basketball player for Houston Rockets John Levi – Hominy Indians Football Joseph Bunn – Professional basketball player Lawrence Schovanec - Texas Tech University President Merwin Coad – U.S. Iowa Representative Michael Hedges – Musician Oral Roberts – Televangelist Pete Earley – Journalist and author Shirley Knight – actress Steve Owen – New York Giants Head Coach (1930–1953) Susan Pamerleau, retired United States Air Force major general and the Republican sheriff of Bexar County, first woman elected, 2012; Phillips trustee and recipient of honorary doctorate degree Julie Ledgerwood – Chief of the Clinical Trials Program at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, led first human trial to test the Ebola vaccine Beverly Roberts Gaventa – a New Testament exegete and theologian, elected president of the Society of Biblical Literature for 2016 Bess Truitt - Oklahoma Poet Laureate (1945-1963) Jaimie Muehlhausen - Art Director and Musician Faculty Bill Quayle, tennis coach and associate professor from 1972 to 1979; left to become athletics director at Emporia State University from 1979 to 1999. References Further reading Burke, Bob, In Reverence We Stand: Memories of Phillips University, Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2003 Marshall, Frank Hamilton, Phillips University's First Fifty Years Volume One: The Early Days of Phillips University, 1957 Marshall, Frank Hamilton and Powell, Wilfred E., Phillips University's First Fifty Years Volume Two: the Turbulent Middle Decades, 1960 Marshall, Frank Hamilton and Martin, Robert G., Phillips University's First Fifty Years Volume Three: the Period of Greatest Advance, 1967 External links Phillips University Legacy Foundation Phillips University Alumni and Friends Association Defunct private universities and colleges in Oklahoma Universities and colleges affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Educational institutions established in 1906 Educational institutions disestablished in 1998 Schools in Enid, Oklahoma Phillips Theological Seminary 1906 establishments in Oklahoma Territory 1998 disestablishments in the