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Tulsa World: Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa - Tulsa World: Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment Make us your home page Today's Headlines My Subscription E-edition Subscribe Contact Us Welcome back, jfanch-208 Logout | My Dashboard 81° F NEWS SPORTS SCENE BUSINESS COMMUNITIES BLOGS OPINION WEEKEND WEATHER PHOTO VIDEO DATABASES OBITS CALENDAR STORE Free Access: Jobs Autos Pets Homes Classifieds Contests Deals Print Ads Special Sections Advertise with us Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa Story Print Font 4 Size: Recommend 0 96 Posted: Sunday, July 20, 2014 4:00 am By JIMMIE TRAMEL World Scene Writer | 0 comments 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa Caroline Abbott: Attorney for the Mental Health Association in Tulsa and active with the YWCA and Tulsa City-County Library. $25 for Express Auto Detail Alison Anthony: Director of diversity and Package (A $50 Value) community relations for Williams Cos. She received the Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women Pinnacle Award and has been active on the board of directors for the Oklahoma State Council for Human Resource Management, Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa, and Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma. Teenage girl dies after being run over in her driveway while Dr. Laura Arrowsmith: Director of gender sunbathing outreach for Oklahomans for Equality. Pat Bailey: Recipient of the YWCA Angel award, a longtime supporter of DVIS, Resonance World's first surviving and the arts in Tulsa. panda triplets born in Chinese zoo Lena Bennett: For more than 50 years, she worked and advocated on behalf of prisoners, minorities, underprivileged youth, the developmentally disabled and elderly. She died in May. Storm forecasters adding Betty Boyd: Known as the “Queen of Tulsa TV” during her 25 years with KOTV, channel 6, extra layers to warnings and KTUL, channel 8, she later became a state legislator. Boyd died in 2011. http://www.tulsaworld.com/women-of-moxie-honorees-from-ywca-tulsa/article_5f320d3b-a2c2-510b-b188-3e82e1930701.html[8/12/2014 1:24:56 PM] 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa - Tulsa World: Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment Jo Bright: Served as director of the Salvation Army North Mabee Boys & Girls Club for more than 27 years. Florida State social media gone wrong: Fans Yolanda Charney: Retired director of community relations for the Jewish Federation of #AskJameis about crab Tulsa and executive director of the Hispanic American Foundation of Tulsa. legs Jane Heard Clinton: Contributed to the founding of the Hyechka Club Tulsa, the city’s longest-lived arts organization; established the Tuesday Book Club and the Ruskin Art Photo gallery: Club; and passed the bond election that led to the building of what is now the Brady Supermoon captured in Theater. amazing pictures from around the world Felicia Collins Correia: This community leader was former CEO of YWCA Tulsa for eight years and director of Domestic Violence Intervention Services for 16 years. Opal Dargan: A pillar of the north Tulsa community, Dargan taught school for 35 years and served on boards of many civic groups and government agencies. She was Teacher of the Year in 1975. Sharon King Davis: Known as the “person who gets it done,” King Davis, a fifth- generation Tulsan, is an active civic leader and has been involved in dozens of community organizations and projects. Nancy Day: She guided the transition of the bankrupt National Conference of Christians and Jews to a thriving Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice, serving both organizations for a total of 32 years. Julie DelCour: A Missouri native, DelCour joined the Tulsa World in 1977 and began work in Opinions in 1998. As a state and federal court reporter for nearly 20 years, she covered the criminal trials of former Tulsa banker Wes McKinney and Colombian drug kingpin Jose Abello-Silva and a lawsuit to deinstitutionalize Hissom Memorial Center. Her most daunting assignment, however, was the three years she spent as the lead reporter covering the investigation and Denver trials of Oklahoma City bombing conspirators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. DelCour is a graduate of the University of Missouri. She has been honored by the Associated Press, including a first place award for a series by the editorial department on the Tar Creek Superfund site. She was a Tulsa Women in Communications Newsmaker, a recipient of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Liberty Bell Award and has been honored by the Oklahoma Coalition on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. In 2007, she received the Oklahoma ACLU’s Media Award. Lo Detrich: While fighting a lifelong battle with cystic fibrosis, Detrich, who died at 28, became a strong advocate in the fight against the disease. In 1997, she was given the Henry Zarrow Award, the highest honor an individual can get for work with the Sooner Chapter Latest Local Offers of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Four Seasons Sunrooms FREE Dorothy DeWitty: A trail-blazing educator in Tulsa Public Schools for 30 years, she was a In-home Estimate! HURRY, OUR FACTORY civic leader and a voice of reason on Tulsa’s first City Council. INCENTIVES WILL BE ENDING SOON! Call today for a FREE in- home estimate! Sharon Doty: As part of a team of volunteers statewide, she helped create a network of 36 community-based shelters for abused and neglected children that became known as Youth PeopleSource Current Openings Services. Combo Header Welders- Catoosa Norma Eagleton: She was the first woman elected to a voting position on the Tulsa City http://www.tulsaworld.com/women-of-moxie-honorees-from-ywca-tulsa/article_5f320d3b-a2c2-510b-b188-3e82e1930701.html[8/12/2014 1:24:56 PM] 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa - Tulsa World: Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment Commission, was a member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and served on the board of regents of Rogers State College. Rachel Caroline Eaton: Eaton, a Cherokee, is believed to be the first Oklahoma Indian woman to receive a doctoral degree and the first woman county superintendent of schools Bahama Sun "MAD Mondays & TERRIFIC Tuesdays" in Oklahoma. MAD Mondays & TERRIFIC Tuesdays! Susan Ellerbach: Ellerbach has been the managing editor of the Tulsa World since 1995 and will become the first woman to hold the position of executive editor at the newspaper Total Car Care NOW HIRING! when she assumes that role in November. Ellerbach joined the World in 1985 as a business Now Hiring Full/Part Time Automotive Technician writer before being promoted to business editor, state editor and Sunday editor in 1994. She was a reporter and editor at the Tahlequah Daily Press and managing editor of the Tahlequah American in 1983. Born in Atlanta, she graduated from high school in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, and earned a journalism degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. Her career began with a group of Kansas View more local offers community newspapers in Baldwin City, Kansas, including the Wellsville Globe. She’s a member of APME and AP/ONE, of which she has served as president. She remains active in Leadership Oklahoma and has served on the boards of Blue Cross/Blue Shield’s Caring Popular Commented Program for Children and the Child Abuse Network. Columbia Journalism Review Stories featured her in “Moms Who’ve Made It.”Nancy Feldman: Lawyer, educator and world traveler, Feldman devoted much of her life to fighting discrimination in all forms and Couple, together 20 years, runs out of time championing the arts in Tulsa. waiting for Oklahoma marriage law to change Mollie Parker Franklin: Wife of noted lawyer Buck Franklin and mother of historian John Lawsuit alleges OHP trooper raped Tulsa Hope Franklin, she was a teacher and founded the first day-care center for African- woman during traffic stop American children in Tulsa. Tired of vandals, 91-year-old WWII veteran will auction massive antique car, tractor Linda Frazier: She has been one of Tulsa’s most dedicated supporters of the arts, working collection with the Tulsa Symphony, Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, Chamber Music Tulsa, the Oklahoma Arts Council and the Oklahoma Arts Institute. Comedian, actor Robin Williams dies More Sharon Gallagher: The former executive director of Leadership Tulsa is now director of collaborative initiatives at the Tulsa Area United Way. Photos Videos Eddie Faye Gates: Educator, historian and author of such books as “Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street,” a much-acclaimed oral history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. Helen Gates: Founder of Gatesway Foundation, which has provided people with developmental disabilities the skills to live independent lives. Inez Kinney Gaylord: Wife of Daily Oklahoman publisher E.K. Gaylord and co-founder of the YWCA Tulsa. Regina Goodwin: She is a community activist dedicated to preserving the past, present and future of north Tulsa. Shan Goshorn: The Eastern Band Cherokee artist and activist has earned international Featured Businesses recognition for her basketry, in which she weaves replicas of historical documents into intricate, traditional basket forms. Metro Christian Academy 918-745-9868 http://www.metroca.com/ Risha Grant: An author and diversity expert, Grant owns Risha Grant LLC. http://www.tulsaworld.com/women-of-moxie-honorees-from-ywca-tulsa/article_5f320d3b-a2c2-510b-b188-3e82e1930701.html[8/12/2014 1:24:56 PM] 100 Women of Moxie honorees from YWCA Tulsa - Tulsa World: Tulsa World: Tulsa News, Sports, Weather, Business & Entertainment Pearl Stewart Graves: In the early 1900s, Graves helped organize a Young Women’s Decopolis Studios Christian Club in north Tulsa. After the 1921 Race Riot, she helped form the North Branch 918-382-7388 of the YWCA and became the director of the Archer Street Branch of the YWCA.
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