On Tuesday, April 19th the Shidler Community and interested out of towns people met at Mandy’s Café to meet Everett Piper. Trey Clapp opened the Public Forum with a prayer followed by Dr. Piper introducing himself. For 17 years he served as President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville which time he led the school from one in financial crisis to an institution of national influence and financial well-being. In his past leadership roles, as well as in his current writing and speaking, Piper consistently shows himself to be an unapologetic conservative Christian.

Piper has served Northeast Oklahoma for 20 years and has lived in Osage County for the past five. In addition to being a tenured full professor who retired from an educational institution in good standing receiving the title emeritus president of Oklahoma Wesleyan he has been chairman of the Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce; the President of the Bartlesville Rotary Club and he has served as board member for the Bartlesville Symphony.

Piper is now a contributing columnist for The Washington Times and host of his own daily show called The Rebellion. Piper has been a featured guest on FOX News, The Glenn Beck Show, The Factor with Bill O’Rilley, NRA TV, the Dana Loesch Show, The Adam Carolla Show, The Rubin Report, the Tucker Carlson Show, The Huckabee Show, and the 700 Club. Piper was one of the first leaders to challenge cancel culture. His column titled, “This is Not a Day Care, it’s a University,” was cited by NBC Today as one of its top 10 stories of 2015.

Piper has made it clear he believes in local values and local control. He stated that “People should be heard and respected. Their phone calls should be returned. They should not be ignored. They should not be governed. Osage County citizens should be making the decisions for Osage County, not Washington D.C. or even Oklahoma City.”

Piper has been endorsed by the likes of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee as well as Osage County leaders like Myron RedEagle, Rod Hartness, Mark Spencer, Jacob and Martin Blum and Trey Clapp.