Terry
D. Bailey attended Western Oklahoma State College during 1975-77 and
received his Associate in Science degree the spring of 1977. While
at Western, he played baseball on scholarship, setting records in
stolen bases and batting averages. He played the lead in the WOSC
musicals, Godspell and The Fantasticks, and was named 1977 Mr. WOSC.
Continuing his education at the University of
Oklahoma, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance in
1979. He completed a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from
Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1994. He began a
career with Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1979 as a residence
service center manager in Tulsa and later worked for the company in
Okmulgee and Ardmore.
He has held a variety of assignments and positions in
sales management and business operations for many SBC subsidiaries.
He has been appointed to several management positions at the vice
presidential level with the company accepting responsibilities with
international markets and merging and overseeing several national
business and federal systems sales organizations. In December 1998,
Bailey was appointed President-Oklahoma for Southwestern Bell
Telephone and is responsible for general operations of the company
and all regulatory, legislative, governmental, external affairs, and
industry relations activities.
