Oklahoma native William W. Caudill was a graduate of Oklahoma City’s Central High School and was named outstanding male graduate of the School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University in 1937. He earned his Master’s degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939. He joined the Navy as a carpenter’s mate in World War II and wrote and illustrated eleven books and over eighty articles in his lifetime. His first book, Space for Teaching, was used in hundreds of educational projects across America and in nine foreign countries.