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August 17, 2010 OHS Extra! Archive

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Mark your calendars for a special program with Fritz Buckallew, Carl Hubbell For a full listing of biographer, at the Oklahoma History Center. This special programming is hosted benefits, download by the museum and 46 Starr Press on Thursday October 7, 2010. Admission is our brochure. Free. The museum will open at 6:00 PM and the program will begin at 7:00 PM Individual memberships This program will look at a number of Oklahoma's major league players and focus start at just $35. on Carl Hubbell and his World Series record. Hubbell made World Series appearances in 1933, 1936, and 1937 and won MVP in 1936 and 1937. Hubbell found his way onto the All Star Team nine times before his induction into the Events at OHS Historic Hall of Fame in 1947. Sites and Museums include: Yearly reporters asked him about his legendary moment at the 1934 All-Star Game. He had Oklahoma History scored five consecutive there: a feat Center:

for the ages, considering that all five of the 8/25 Lunch & Learn: batters he bested were to become among the Finding the Girls, 11:30am, brightest figures in baseball's Hall of Fame. Lou (405)522-5225 Gehrig, , , , and all failed to master Hub's baffling 9/30-10/2 OHS Fall Book while the crowd was hushed in Sale

disbelief. 10/7/10 Oklahomans in the World Series, 7pm., Biographer Fritz Buckallew will be available to (405)522-0785 sign copies of his book, A 's Moment Carl Hubbell And the Quest for Baseball Immortality. Oklahoma Route 66 The book chronicles Carl Hubbell's rise from an Museum: Oklahoma village through fifteen years of major league pitching excellence. The book also looks at his influence beyond that as a 8/10-31 "Sun on Earth" travelling tpestry exhibit, file:////maindc/users/gphillips/PDFs%2051/OHS%20Extra/8172010.html[5/4/2011 12:51:57 PM] OHS EXTRA! from Oklahoma Historical Society

top executive with his Giants (in New York and San Francisco). It's a compelling Clinton, (580)774-3035 tale of a pitcher who became much more than a baseball player. Pawnee Bill Ranch: For more information on Okies and the World Series please contact Jason Harris at (405)522-0785 or by email at [email protected]. 8/10 Quilt Block of the Month Class, 6:30pm, (918)762-2513 OHS Fall Book Sale Oklahoma History Center September 30 - October 2 Visit OHS Online

Don't miss our biggest book sale of the year! The sale includes books on a Museum & Research Center variety of topics including history, geology, Hours education, genealogy, and more. Shop for rare and out of print books as well as Become a Volunteer microfilm, maps, photos, CDs, records and Visit OHS Museums and Sites videos.

Current OHC Exhibits The book sale runs 10am to 4:45pm Thursday & Friday; 10am to 3pm on Saturday. OHC Blog

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Annual Donor Board On the importance of July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010 history...

This list is to recognize donors to the Annual Fund Campaign of the Oklahoma "History is the self- History Center and the Friends of the Oklahoma History Center during the consciousness of recently completed fiscal year. Pledges, matching grant pledges, grants, and humanity." Droyson donations made during FY10 are included. The Annual Donor Board is prominently located on the first floor of the History Center.

$100,000 plus Family of Emily Bell Cherokee Nation Chesapeake Energy Corporation Continental Resources, Inc. Devon Energy Corporation Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation George Kaiser Family Foundation Kirkpatrick Family Fund Nazih and Annette Zuhdi Oklahoma $50,000 to $99,000 Historical Society

file:////maindc/users/gphillips/PDFs%2051/OHS%20Extra/8172010.html[5/4/2011 12:51:57 PM] OHS EXTRA! from Oklahoma Historical Society Chickasaw Nation Marvin D. and Barbara Jirous E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation State Regents for Higher Education 800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr. Oklahoma City, OK $20,000 to $49,000 73105 George and Nancy Records Oklahoma Humanities Council Inasmuch Foundation Shelly Crynes, Editor [email protected](405)522- $10,000 to $19,999 0317 Frederick and Janet Drummond The 1889ers Society Junior League of Oklahoma City Tierra Media Group National Geographic Education Foundation

$5,000 to $9,999 Aubrey and Katie McClendon Mustang Fuel Corporation Doug and Peggy Cummings John Steele Zink Foundation Ed and Mary Malzahn Robert Klemme Frank and Kathy Keating Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Herman and LaDonna Meinders The Oklahoma Publishing Company

$1,000 to $4,999 Paul and Leigh Ann Albers Majors Energy LLC Ann Alspaugh Jack and Sue Massey Glenn and Arlene Ashmore John Massey Mike Barber Ann Maxwell Bob and Debbie Blackburn Ella McDonald Barney and Virginia Brown Joseph and Carol McGraw Henry W. Browne, Jr. Samonia Meredith Chaparral Energy LLC Larry and Polly Nichols Chisholm Trail Arena Mark Novitch Norvell Clark Oklahoma Cotton Council Tiajuana Cochnauer Oklahoma Humanities Council Elizabeth Coe Susan Paschall ConocoPhillips Pete's Place of Krebs Cox Connects Foundation DeVier and Shirely Pierson James and Teresa Day The Puterbaugh Foundation Drummond Law PLLC Gene Rainbolt Mohammad and Jalal Farzaneh Richard James Family Foundation Charles and Carla Flournoy J.B. and Patti Saunders, III Josephine Freede Dr. Clyde Schoolfield, Jr. Arch Gothard Richard and Jeannette Sias Melvin and Bobbie Gragg Mrs. Troy Smith, Sr. John and Virginia Groendyke Sonic Corporation Michael and Mary Beth Guard Southwestern Urban Foundation V. Burns and Ann Hargis Stanley & Jerry Lee Foundation Claudean Harrison Stillwater National Bank Richard Lee Hauschild, Jr. Joe and June Stone Bonnie Hefner Bill and Wanda Swisher Richard Hillemeyer Lew and Myra Ward Nadine Holloway Chuck and Renate Wiggin Steve and Pam Holton C. Craig Williams James H. & Madalynne Norick Foundation Laurie Williams file:////maindc/users/gphillips/PDFs%2051/OHS%20Extra/8172010.html[5/4/2011 12:51:57 PM] OHS EXTRA! from Oklahoma Historical Society

Robert Lemon Martha V. Williams Harrison and Elaine Levy Winters Family Foundation Duke R. Ligon Catherine Wootten Leonard Logan Allen Brookes Wright, Sr. Tom and Judy Love John and Debbie Yoeckel

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