CAS CONNECT 2015

22 NOBLE CAUSE a Stillwater’s new mayor makes changes in the classroom and the community STORY BY Jamie Hadwin | PHOTO BY Rachael Maltby Thirteen years ago, Gina Noble had no idea that her future would lie in Stillwater, Okla. Noble left Stillwater after receiving her bachelor’s in jour- nalism from OSU in 1985. Even when she returned to OSU as a graduate student in 1999, she started by taking classes at the OSU-Tulsa campus. After she graduated with her master’s, Noble and her son moved in with her father at his home in Joplin, Mo. Their stay was short-lived because two weeks later, the director of OSU’s journalism school called. Gina Noble learns she’s been elected mayor of St i l lwater.