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OurStory Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community Welcome

We have always known that the story of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation is best told through our donors and their own stories. It’s their passion, generosity and thoughtfulness that make what we do possible.

Since our founding in 1969, we have been fortunate to work with thousands of donors who want to help their community through charitable giving. In this publication we are sharing a selection of donor stories from our first 40 years as a way to illustrate the impact of a single gift on the lives of many. May these stories serve as examples of how future donors can realize their charitable dreams through the Oklahoma City Community Foundation and become part of Our Story.

Nancy B. Anthony Executive Director Contents 1969 1 The Nineties 14 John & Eleanor Kirkpatrick John & Susan Frank Jerry Cooper The Seventies 2 Classen ’55 Scholars Award Muriel H. Wright Sally Jo Langston George & Ruth Bozalis Jim & LaVerna Cobb Doug & Peggy Cummings The Shirk Family The New Century 22 Maimee Lee Browne Judge Eugene Mathews Charles & Mary Lou Miles The Eighties 8 John & Joy Reed Belt Curt Schwartz Dean Wild Mary & Spencer Sessions James & Virginia Meade Roberta Eldridge Miller Barth & Linda Bracken Tom & Gladys Seale 1969Our Story John & Eleanor Kirkpatrick: Our Founders Our Story begins in the 1960s when John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick asked attorney Don Ellison to investigate the benefits of a community foundation for Oklahoma City. A concept that has been around since the early 1900s, community foundations were growing as popular alternatives for charitable giving as new tax laws began putting restrictions on private foundations and individual gifts to charities. The Kirkpatricks, longtime philanthropists, understood the importance of a community entity through which individual donors could support nonprofit organizations and projects. They wanted to provide an entity with its own systems of checks and balances over which no one faction could gain control. They also envisioned an organization that would have the flexibility to adapt to changing needs in the community and that would preserve a John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick with attorney Don Ellison. donor’s original intent. For several years, Mr. Ellison and Mr. Kirkpatrick examined the workings of the ability to enlist volunteer manpower and financial country’s most successful and respected community support from a wide variety of the public. foundations and began slowly building the framework There is no question that without the Kirkpatrick of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. family’s vision, leadership and generosity, the Banker Jack Abernathy, a longtime friend of Mr. Oklahoma City Community Foundation would not Kirkpatrick’s and one of the founding Trustees said be the organization it is today. But just as John and of his initial experience on the board: “I didn’t see Eleanor Kirkpatrick had hoped, it is through the how this thing would ever get off the ground. John is gifts of many donors that we are able to make a a very hard person to say no to but he never seemed significant impact on the community and will for to have any doubts whether it would work.” Mr. many years to come. Our Story is but a reflection of Abernathy would go on to say that the early success of the unique and generous donors, organizations and the organization was due to the degree to which donor businesses with whom we have been honored to wishes were honored and also to the Kirkpatricks’ work with since 1969.

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Muriel H. Wright: Preserving History Proud of her Choctaw heritage, Muriel H. Wright devoted her life’s work to preserving our state’s American Indian history. Born prior to statehood in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, Ms. Wright’s mother was a Presbyterian missionary teacher and her father was a notable Choctaw politician and physician. She was educated at Wheaton Seminary in Massachusetts, returned to Oklahoma and completed a teacher education course in 1912 at East Central Normal School, later East Central University in Ada. Ms. Wright taught English and history, and served as principal at various Oklahoma public schools during a time when it was a rarity among women. Preserving her biracial identity played a primary role throughout Ms. Wright’s career. She proudly boasted that her lineage included passengers aboard the Mayflower as well as a principal chief of the Choctaw Nation who is credited with suggesting the name Oklahoma for the state. She was very active in the Choctaw Nation, holding many offices and participating in tribal policymaking. Her passion for Oklahoma history led her to publish various articles and books on the subject, including three textbooks that were used in Oklahoma public schools. In 1923, Ms. Wright began writing for The Chronicles of Oklahoma, the quarterly journal of the Oklahoma Historical Society, and in 1943 took over editorial duties for the publication although she was not officially named editor until 1955. Throughout her writings she emphasized topics such as the influence of Indian history on the state, biographies of notable women and historic preservation. “It is a shame that all the old-timers are not interviewed before they pass on,” said Ms. Wright. “For when they go, much of the history of the Indian Territory and early days in Oklahoma will be lost.” It was her objective to preserve and promote public awareness of the unique history of our state. In 1951, her book “A Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma” was published and remains a standard reference material today on the subject of American Indian history. Ms. Wright also conducted most of the initial research for the Oklahoma Historical Society’s historic marker program that identifies historical sites across the state. She established a notable career in historical literature at a time when it was almost exclusively dominated by men. Honors she received included the University of Oklahoma’s Distinguished Service Award, an honorary doctorate degree from Oklahoma City University and induction into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame. Upon her retirement in 1972, the Oklahoma Historical Society established the Muriel H. Wright Heritage Fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation to support an annual publications award. Following her death in 1975, memorial contributions further funded the endowment ensuring that this great Oklahoman’s legacy will long be remembered. Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 3 The Seventies George & Ruth Bozalis: Supporting Their Community George Bozalis was a quiet, dignified and dedicated doctor. His wife, Ruth Russell Bozalis was an outgoing and gracious woman who loved people and never wanted to miss a function. “My daughter-in-law said it best when she described mother as ‘the ultimate party girl with not enough parties to go to’,” shared Dr. John Bozalis, the couple’s eldest of their three children. “Dad was very bright but very private, a real behind-the-scenes person.” Married for 58 years, the couple believed in giving back to their community. Born in 1910, George Bozalis earned undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Oklahoma. Following post-graduate study in St. Louis, he served as

PHOTO COURTESY OU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER COURTESY SCIENCES PHOTO OU HEALTH the chief resident of the St. Louis Municipal Contagious Dr. George and Ruth Bozalis established an endowment Disease until he joined the Army Medical Corps in 1940. in 1976 to benefit allergy research. During World War II, Col. Bozalis served in the Third Army under Gen. George S. Patton and was awarded five battle stars and a Bronze Star Medal. He returned to Oklahoma City to practice medicine and in 1954 founded the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic. Ruth Russell’s parents made the Oklahoma Land Run in 1889. Born in 1911 in McAlester, Ruth moved with her family to Oklahoma City in 1917 where she attended Classen High School. A graduate of the Oklahoma College for Women, she married George Bozalis in 1937. While George was a reserved individual, Ruth illustrated her interest in the community through involvement in Dr. George and Ruth Bozalis numerous civic and arts organizations, never seeming to tire. “At age 95, she could cover more ground than people my age,” John Bozalis said of his mother. “She had just an amazing level of energy.” Longtime friends of John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick, Dr. and Mrs. Bozalis established an endowment at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation in 1976 to benefit allergy research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. George Bozalis died in 1995 but his work continues at the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic now under the direction of his son, John. Ruth Bozalis died in 2009, the day after her 98th birthday. 4 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation Our Story PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO AMERICA SCOUTS BOY - LAST COUNCIL FRONTIER The Boy Scouts of America - Last Frontier Council is one of several organizations Doug and Peggy Cummings support through their advised fund. Doug & Peggy Cummings: Giving Back to Help Others Oklahoma native Doug Cummings company today along with his two grew up in the oil patch. His father was sons, Brent and Sean. an oil field foreman and during Doug’s In 1974, Mr. and Mrs. Cummings early childhood, his family frequently established an advised fund at the moved from one job site to another Oklahoma City Community Foundation throughout Oklahoma and Kansas. He through which they support a number met his wife, Peggy, after moving to of charitable organizations, including Crescent. They both graduated from the Boy Scouts of America - Last Frontier Crescent High School and attended Council. “Growing up in a small town, the University of Oklahoma, where I never really had the opportunity to Doug received his bachelor’s degree in participate in Boy Scouts,” says Doug. “I geological engineering. Doug & Peggy Cummings was always disappointed that we weren’t Doug and Peggy were married in 1951 and shortly able to get a group established, and I thereafter Doug served two years as an officer in want to make sure that every young man can have that the U.S. Army, where he was stationed in both experience I missed out on.” Japan and Korea. After returning home, he joined Additionally, the couple has made grants to a variety Kirkpatrick Oil Company where he worked for of charitable programs including a gift to support 18 years as a geological engineer. In 1972, he collaborative performances of Ballet Oklahoma, established the family business, Cummings Oil Canterbury Choral Society and the Oklahoma City Company, in Oklahoma City and still runs the Philharmonic Orchestra.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 5 The Seventies The Shirk Family: Preserving a Family Legacy Former Oklahoma City mayor George Shirk the Oklahoma City Council of Camp Fire Girls, a was devoted to his community. During his position she held until her retirement in 1979. tenure as mayor, beginning in 1964, he Both George and Lucyl were passionate about worked to redevelop Oklahoma City and Oklahoma history. George served as president helped shape downtown into the area we Carrie Shirk of the Oklahoma Historical Society and know today. Mr. Shirk’s efforts to advance the authored several books and articles detailing city eventually led to the construction of the the state’s history, and Lucyl published a Kerr-McGee Tower, Liberty Tower and Myriad history of Oklahoma City that was used in Botanical Gardens. He was also instrumental Oklahoma public junior high schools. in the creation of the Historic Preservation In 1970, George and Lucyl established the Commission which is credited with saving the George Shirk city’s historic neighborhoods and buildings Carrie Shirk Memorial Fund at the Oklahoma including the Colcord building, Overholser City Community Foundation in memory of Mansion and Harn Homestead. their mother. The fund supports the Fund for Oklahoma City which addresses the changing A first generation Oklahoman, George’s parents needs and opportunities in the community. Upon John and Carrie came to Indian Territory in Lucyl Shirk George’s death in 1977, a bequest in his estate 1903. He and his sister, Lucyl, followed in their further supported the fund, as well as a variety father’s footsteps and attended the University of of charitable organization endowments. Following Oklahoma. George passed the bar exam in 1936 and Lucyl’s death in 2008, memorial contributions joined his father’s law firm of Shirk and Danner. Lucyl benefited the fund, ensuring the Shirk family’s legacy was a teacher in the Oklahoma City public schools for and devotion to Oklahoma City will continue to impact several years and in 1956 became executive director of our community well into the future. Maimee Lee Browne: Making Dreams a Reality Maimee Lee Browne was a lady who education classes in Oklahoma City schools and later truly lived her life to the fullest. helped to establish the city’s Planned Parenthood Armed with a positive attitude and Federation. A few years later, she organized and served contagious enthusiasm, Mrs. Browne as president of the first chapter of the Oklahoma City dreamed of doing things that had not Women of Rotary. And through her tireless efforts, the been done and she did them. Redbud was named the official state tree in 1938. Married for 62 years to Virgil “With her brilliant mind and unlimited energy, her Browne and the mother of six children, Mrs. Browne mind and hands never stopped. I don’t believe she ever served many existing causes and initiated just as lost a moment of time in her life,” wrote her husband many new ones. While living in Texas and Louisiana in the introduction to a book of her poetry the family she started a college savings program for public published several years after her death in 1963. Not school children. In 1922, she established the first long after the establishment of the Oklahoma City formal citizenship ceremony that remains the model Community Foundation in 1969, Mr. Browne established for our country’s naturalization ceremony. an endowment in his wife’s memory. Fittingly, that After the family moved to Oklahoma City in 1923, endowment supports the Fund for Oklahoma City which she directed her attention toward starting parent is used by the Trustees to support innovative programs and projects that benefit the overall community. 6 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation The Seventies Donors Our Story (The donors listed below contributed gifts to permanent endowment funds.) 1970 Jasper D. Ackerman | Jack T. & Gillette Conn | B.D. Eddie | Mr. & Mrs. Jean I. Everest | Edward King Gaylord Jane & James G. Harlow Jr. | L.A. & Pansy E. Macklanburg | Oklahoma City Opera Association | Margaret K. Replogle Carrie Shirk Memorial | Mr. & Mrs. M.A. Swatek Memorial | Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Young 1971 Luther T. Dulaney | Kerr-McGee Corporation | Dr. George Miksch Sutton | Herman & Mary Wegener Foundation Florence Ogden Wilson 1972 Harold I. Josey | The Joullian Family | Norman A. & Emilie Morse | Mr. & Mrs. Morrison G. Tucker 1973 Jack H. Abernathy | Mamie Lee Browne | Pearl H. Crickard | Harvey P. & Ruth J. Everest | Sylvan N. Goldman | Bruce H. & Frances R. Johnson | Hobart F. Landreth Memorial | Darwin & Eleanor J. Maurer | Mr. & Mrs. Dean A. McGee Leonard H. Savage | Muriel H. Wright | Hosie C. Wynne 1974 Fisher & Jewell T. Ames | An-son Corporation | C. Wayne Barbour Memorial | David Blair Benham | Webster Lance Benham Douglas R. & Peggy J. Cummings | Mr. & Mrs. C. Richard Ford | Christian K. Keesee | William M. Kilpatrick Memorial Sarkeys Foundation | George & Sharon Seminoff | Ben Shanker & Bernard Shanker | Earl & Cornelia Sneed Soroptimist Club of Oklahoma City | Berrien Kinnard Upshaw | Leon G. Voorhees Memorial | Ben C. & Addie Mae Wileman 1975 Jack D. & Anita Dahlgren | Mr. & Mrs. John Kilpatrick Jr. | Lucille E. Little | William B. & Virginia Morris Charles & Alleyne Schweinle | Michael C. Thomas Family 1976 Dr. & Mrs. George S. Bozalis | John R. & Betty Browne | Virgil Browne | Yvonne Chouteau & Maria Tallchief Tullos O. & Margaret L. Coston | R. L. Eldridge Memorial | Fred & Mary Eddy Jones Foundation Robert S. & Grayce B. Kerr Foundation | Mr. & Mrs. John Bole Kirkpatrick | Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Kunc | Mary Macklanburg William F. & Sally McNutt | Jerry & Vettye Morton | Helen Eason Murphy Memorial | Stephen B. Payne | William T. Payne Pilot Club of Northwest Oklahoma City | Alice Sias Pippin | Ray & Pat Potts | Clarence & Beulah Roberts | John & Velma Roring Willard & Lucille Scott | Seminoff Bowman & Associates | William F. & Pam Shdeed | William H. Taft Memorial 1977 Bachelors’ Club of Oklahoma City | Horace K. & Aileen Calvert | Logan W. Cary Memorial | Fern K. & R. Boze Cooper Jack & June Durland | Florida M. Knight Trust | Perry A. & Mona S. Lambird | Robert E. & Jane Lee | Dorothy A. Paul F.M. & Thelma Petree | Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Richardson | Morris & Libby Singer Foundation | Melvin & Dena Spencer Charles & Lois Stuart | Mrs. R. T. Stuart | Guy B. & Louise Treat | Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence V. Van Horn | Roy G. & Alta Woods Memorial 1978 Mr. & Mrs. R.J. Clements | Richard & Mary Clements | William Rowe & Gretchen S. Cook | O. K. Detrick Foundation Earl Q. & Lucile R. Gray | Dow Gumerson Memorial | Wann & Clara Langston | George H. Shirk | R. Emery & Mary Lee Smiser Paul & Lillyanne Smith | Roy P. & June W. Stewart 1979 Marle & Kathleen Abshere | Tom S. & Marye Kate Aldridge | Marcus & Anne Barker | F.G. Blackwood | V. Ross Brown C.B. Cameron Memorial | William B. & Helen P. Cleary | Bess M. Crane | James L. “Mike” & Pauline Early | Richard & Adeline Fleischaker Mr. & Mrs. Carl S. Ford | Gosset/Boyer | Richard D. Harrison | Judge Robert Hefner Family | Mr. & Mrs. H.A. Hewett Jr. Sarah & Dan Hogan III | Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hoover Jr. | Walter Hunzicker | Mrs. Guy James | Emma Jordan Memorial | Lloyd Minter | Don & Willadean Ramsey | Records-Johnston Family Foundation | Maxey & Norman Reynolds | J. B. Saunders | J. B. Saunders III Richard E. & Geneva T. Swan | Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie C. Thomas | Tom A. Thomas Jr. | Dr. O. Alton & Dorothy Watson | Jerome Westheimer

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 7 PHOTO COURTESY WENDY LUTZ/LYRIC THEATRE COURTESYPHOTO LUTZ/LYRIC WENDY Two Thelma Gaylord Academy participants perform in Follow That Happy Ending, an original creation written by academy staff. 8 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation TheOur Eighties Story Curt Schwartz Lyric Theatre Scholarship Fund: Encouraging Young Performers Curt Schwartz was a performer. A commercial real estate developer by day, the married father of two fueled his passion for theatre and live performances through Lyric Theatre productions and as part of a two-man comedy team. Armed with a fine arts degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1960, Curt quickly became active in local, state and national arts and cultural organizations and served on numerous boards including the Arts Council of Oklahoma City and Lyric Theatre. But performance was his calling. With his close friend Larry Bledsoe, they created the comedy team Schwartz & Bledsoe and performed across the country. He also appeared in memorable leading roles in several Lyric Theatre productions including Bye Bye Birdie and The Music Man and was the television and radio spokesperson for a local car dealership for many years. Curt always attributed his success as a performer to Maybelle Conger, his drama teacher at Central High School. When Curt died in 1985 in a commercial airline crash at the age of 46, friends and family established a memorial fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation to benefit the Lyric Theatre Academy. Each year the academy, now known as the Thelma Gaylord Academy, offers classes in acting, music, dance and theatre technology to more than 300 children, ages 5-18, as well as adults. The Curt Schwartz Lyric Theatre Scholarship Fund provides scholarships for children who would not otherwise be able to attend the academy, thus encouraging the love of performance for future generations.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 9 The Eighties Mary & Spencer Sessions: Honoring a Couple’s Impact on Their Community Education played a significant role very active in the Guthrie community, in the lives of Mary and Spencer serving as a founding member of the Sessions. Mary, a Guthrie native, Logan County Historical Society. Mary taught in the Guthrie Public Schools died in 1988. for 18 years, and her husband In 1989, their sons John and Don Spencer served on the Guthrie Board Sessions established the Mary of Education for 14 years, twice and Spencer Sessions Teaching holding the office of board president. Award Fund at the Oklahoma City Originally from Texas, Spencer moved to Guthrie in the Community Foundation in honor of their parents’ 1920s to work for a local bank and the two met while commitment to education. This fund supports an Mary was attending the University of Oklahoma. They annual award to the Guthrie Teacher of the Year for were married in 1926 and Mary continued teaching in curriculum, academic materials and training. the community until 1944. Mr. Sessions bought part “These were two people who loved Oklahoma and interest in Loy’s Hardware, later renamed Sessions we wanted to do something to honor them,” says Hardware and Gifts. Following Spencer’s death in Don Sessions. “They both had such an impact on 1962, Mary continued to run the store to help support the people of Guthrie during their lives, we hope to her sons through college. After their youngest son’s continue their legacy through this award.” graduation, she sold the store and continued to remain Roberta Eldridge Miller: A Passion for Art and her Community As a child, Roberta Eldridge Robert and Grace Eldridge Gallery in memory of her Miller developed a deep passion parents and supported many other museum activities for art, and from her father, over the years. a wealthy businessman, she Throughout her life, she used her Eldridge learned the importance of giving inheritance to support varied organizations and back to the community. These charities that were close to her heart, and to help her two factors would influence children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren Mrs. Miller’s charitable giving achieve their educational goals. “My mother, as far throughout her life. back as I can remember, always taught me that if you Born in Binger, Okla., where her parents owned several have been able to provide for yourself and your family businesses and oil and gas interests, Roberta Eldridge with what you need and you have something left over, studied art at Oklahoma City University. Married to you should share your good fortune with those who Navy officer Oscar H. Miller, M.D., the couple lived still have needs that can’t be met,” says Martha Miller in California until moving back to Oklahoma City in Evans. “It was and is an important life lesson.” 1951. Once settled, Mrs. Miller returned to her love of Mrs. Miller died in November 2007. A long- painting. An accomplished painter in her own right, time donor to the Oklahoma City Community she encouraged new artists and would often purchase Foundation, she left the assets of a revocable trust to their works. Mrs. Miller became a patron of art shows the Roberta Eldridge Miller Legacy Fund, ensuring throughout the country including the annual Prix the support she had so lovingly and generously given de West show at the National Cowboy and Western to her community over the years will continue. Heritage Museum. She established the museum’s 10 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation Our Story PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO VARIETY CARE Variety Care provides maternal and child health care to low-income families and is one of several nonprofit organizations Barth and Linda Bracken have supported through their advised fund. Variety Care is the former Variety Health Center. Barth & Linda Bracken: One Gift Benefits Many Working with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation in 1981, Barth and Linda Bracken found a way to make a difference in their community that didn’t require a significant outlay of cash. The couple assigned part of the working interest from an oil and gas lease and established an advised fund. Since then, earnings from this one gift have allowed the couple to recommend an annual grant from the Barth and Linda Bracken Fund to a worthy organization or charitable project. “It gives us an opportunity to support a cause or organization we’ve become aware of during the year,” says Linda Bracken. “It’s been a great investment on our part and we’re just so glad we did it.” Barth Bracken echoes his wife’s sentiments. “It’s volunteering their time and support to a variety really an easy process,” he says. “All we have to do is of youth-based and arts projects. Since 1981, decide which organization we want to help out.” the couple has recommended grants to several Both Barth and Linda grew up in Okmulgee but Oklahoma City-based organizations including Youth raised their family in Oklahoma City where their Services for Oklahoma County and Variety Care as company, Bracken Exploration, is headquartered. well as nonprofit groups near the family’s 400-acre The couple became involved in the community and ranch in eastern Oklahoma. Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 11 The Eighties PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY The Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County offers many programs including homework assistance. Tom & Gladys Seale: Making a Difference in Children’s Lives Married in 1932, native Texans Tom and Married 56 years, Tom and Gladys built Gladys Seale moved to Oklahoma City a life together in Oklahoma City that when Tom accepted an engineering job included socializing with their many with a small independent oil company friends, attending social events and named Kerr-McGee. traveling. Although childless, Tom Known as a hard worker and shrewd and Gladys Seale loved children. The engineer, Tom played a key role in couple established a donor advised designing and building the world’s first off- fund at the Oklahoma City Community shore drilling platform outside the sight of Foundation in 1986 to support a land in 1947 in the famed Block 32 located 11 miles off the number of youth-serving organizations including coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Boys & Girls Club of Oklahoma County. an American Heritage article, Tom believed in working A school teacher prior to her marriage, Gladys would 24 hours a day and he would often go hunting for his continue to support these groups following Tom’s men. “Hiding from Seale on days off became a feature of death in 1989. A dedicated bridge player and antiques working for Kerr-McGee,” the article states. Tom’s work hunter, Gladys was 99 years old when she died in philosophy would influence the oil industry’s workweek 2006. Thanks to a bequest in their estate, the Tom for many years. Later in his career he would serve on the and Gladys Seale Fund will continue to support the company’s board of directors. organizations they cared about as a couple.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 13 PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO REGIONAL FOOD OF OKLAHOMA BANK John and Susan Frank are longtime supporters of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma that provides many programs including Kids Cafe, an afterschool and summer program for chronically hungry children. 14 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation TheOur Nineties Story John & Susan Frank: Sharing With Their Community Longtime supporters of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and other charitable organizations, John and Susan Frank truly appreciate the value of giving. “We have nothing of our own, but are given all that we have,” says John. “To not share would be embarrassing. The emotional rewards of sharing must be experienced rather than described.” An Oklahoma native, John graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1967. Originally from Indianapolis, Susan graduated from Purdue University and moved to Oklahoma in 1974 for a job opportunity. The two were married in 1976 and have established successful careers in Oklahoma City, John owns an accounting firm and Susan is the development director at Westminster School. In 1993, the Franks established both Legacy and Express Funds at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation to provide vehicles for continued and regular giving to charitable organizations and programs in the community. “The Oklahoma City Community Foundation allows us to provide continued support of the programs we care about,” says John. “We feel comfortable knowing that our charitable wishes will be carried out through our estate plans, so that we may continue to help future generations.” One of the many charitable programs the Franks support is the Regional Food Bank’s Kids Cafe program. An afterschool and summer program, Kids Cafe provides food, mentoring, tutoring and a variety of other activities to approximately 850 chronically hungry children at 16 sites in central and western Oklahoma. Through the support of donors such as the Franks, the organization is able to better fight childhood hunger and, as a result, the children served show improvements in behavior and school performance. “Children living in poverty have to do without a lot of things – we believe food should not be one of them,” says Rodney Bivens, executive director of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. “Thanks to many generous donors, the Regional Food Bank’s Kids Cafe program provides at-risk children with a safe after-school environment where they can get help with their homework, enjoy healthy activities and receive a nutritious snack or meal. Were it not for Kids Cafe, many of these children would have no place to go and nothing to eat after school.” Additionally, John and Susan support other charitable organizations through their advised funds including World Neighbors, Infant Crisis Services, Heritage Hall and Hospice Foundation of Oklahoma. Thanks to their generous spirit and selfless giving, they are truly making a difference in our community.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 15 The Nineties Jerry Cooper Marching Band Scholarship: Helping the Music Play On Jerry Cooper may have lived and worked in “the capital of the world” for nearly two decades but he delighted in returning home to attend University of Oklahoma (OU) football games and watching the marching band perform at halftime. The “Nebraska (game) was a must,” says his mother, Barbara Cooper. “He couldn’t understand why so many people leave their seats at halftime.” Jerry loved music and realized a dream when he earned a place in the OU marching band playing baritone. A journalism graduate, Jerry held a variety of reporting jobs before moving to New York City where he initially worked as a freelance writer. He was hired by a hospitality trade magazine and worked his way up the editorial ladder before accepting the job of senior editor at Interior Design Magazine, the position he held when he died in 1989 at the age of 34. Described by his co-workers as a crackerjack editor who was sensitive and forward thinking, it comes as no surprise that before his death Jerry asked PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA BAND MARCHING The Jerry Cooper Marching Band Scholarship provides awards his parents to establish an endowment that would to deserving OU band members. provide a scholarship each year for a member of the OU marching band. “He wanted others to have the kind of positive experience he had,” his mother says. Since 1993, the Jerry Cooper Marching Band Scholarship endowment at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation has helped other OU band members realize their dreams. “The scholarship makes it possible for us to reward deserving students for their outstanding service to the Pride of Oklahoma,” says Brian Britt, band director. “We are truly grateful for the Jerry Cooper Marching Band Scholarship and are a better organization as a result of the scholarships provided by the fund.”

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An appreciation for the education they received at Classen High School inspired the Class of ‘55 to create an endowment to award scholarships to students now attending the Classen School of Advanced Studies. Classen ’55 Scholars Award: Connecting the Past with the Future Classen High School, located at the corner of a current student with a scholarship. In 1997, the Northwest 19th Street and Ellison Avenue in central group established the Classen ’55 Scholars Award Oklahoma City, was constructed following the close at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation that of World War I and is the city’s oldest high school provides an annual scholarship to a graduating building. The 6.3 acres on which it was built was senior based upon financial need, scholastic or part of an area owned by real estate developer Anton artistic merit and good character. H. Classen. Initially opened as a junior high school “Like all students fortunate to have attended Classen in 1919, the school was converted to a high school in High School, we remember with appreciation the 1925, graduating its first senior class in the spring great education we received,” says Don Zachritz. of 1926 and its last in 1985. In 1994, Classen became “That’s why it was important to our class of ’55 a magnet school for grades 6-12 and renamed the to assist other students with their education by Classen School of Advanced Studies. establishing the scholarship endowment.” During its first 60 years, the school graduated more The Classen graduating classes of 1945 and 1954 have than 20,000 students, many like Don and Carolyn followed the lead of the 1955 class and established Zachritz who recall with great fondness their time similar funds also for the benefit of current spent as Classen Comets. The couple and many Classen students. In addition, the Classen Awards of their fellow 1955 graduates wanted to both Foundation endowment provides scholarships to recognize their connection to the school and reward graduates of the school.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 17 The Nineties PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO AMERICAN OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA RED CROSS Because of the support of donors like Sally Jo Langston the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma was able to assist thousands of people affected by the 2007 ice storm. Sally Jo Langston: Helping Others in Need Sally Jo Langston believed that the support of others like her helped the organization a home was the heart for every meet the needs of the thousands of families who were family. Together with her impacted by the December 2007 ice storm in central husband Wendell, they created Oklahoma. Thousands of individuals sought refuge at custom homes for dozens of the Cox Convention Center in downtown Oklahoma families for more than 25 years. City and were served by more than 100 volunteers who provided meals as well as medical attention. The daughter of Oklahoma jewelry business pioneer B.C. Clark, Sally “Without our donors we would have no hope of Jo also understood the importance of giving back to fulfilling our mission. It is only through the generosity the community. Throughout her life she focused her of our donors and volunteers that we are able to serve charitable giving on organizations that give a “help others,” says Vince Hernandez, chief executive officer up instead of a hand out” especially those groups who of the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma. provided assistance during an unexpected crisis like Sally Jo died in 2008 but thanks to her thoughtfulness the American Red Cross of Central Oklahoma. For and concern for others, her support of the American many years, Sally Jo made regular contributions to the Red Cross of Central Oklahoma and other charitable organization’s endowment fund at the Oklahoma City organizations will continue to benefit others for many Community Foundation. Her longtime support and years to come. 18 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation Our Story

Jim & LaVerna Cobb: Giving Back Through Scholarships Jim Cobb’s love for his alma mater combined Jim’s support of his alma mater began soon after with his sincere appreciation for the education his graduation. In 1965, he and four other OSU he received led him and his wife LaVerna to help alumni established the OSU POSSE, a fundraising students pursue their dreams of a college education. organization for the OSU Athletic Department that “My college education did a lot for me,” says Jim. today boasts 8,200 members. He was inducted into “When I got out I made a promise to myself if I ever the OSU Alumni Association Hall of Fame in 2008, had an opportunity to give back I would.” is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award Originally from Norman, Jim received both and is a member of the OSU College of Engineering, his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil Architecture and Technology Hall of Fame. engineering from Oklahoma State University In 1990, Jim and LaVerna established a charitable (OSU). He and LaVerna met in Stillwater and organization endowment fund at the Oklahoma City were married in 1956. Upon Jim’s graduation, the Community Foundation to support scholarships couple moved to Oklahoma City where Jim joined at the OSU School of Civil and Environmental Cobb Engineering Company, which was founded Engineering. Later, they added to the endowment by his father, Fred, in 1921. Jim bought the family with distributions from their retirement plans, business from his father in 1971 and today serves continuing their support for the education of future as director of the company. engineers at the university so dear to their hearts. Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 19 The Nineties Donors (The donors listed below contributed gifts to permanent endowment funds.) 1990 Cain’s Coffee Company | James D. & LaVerna L. Cobb | Oklahoma City Economic Development Foundation | Quail Creek Bank George J. & Nancy Records 1991 Margaret Annis Boys Trust | Frank & Merle Buttram String Awards | Jerry Cooper Memorial | Jon Ronald Elm Memorial Friends of Music United Fund | E. Phil & Roberta L. Kirschner Trust | Colin & Brooke Lee | Dr. Bertha Levy McCasland Foundation | Oklahoma City Future Fund 1992 C. R. Anthony Foundation | Charles F. & Carol Ann Blackwood | Thomas & Patricia Dix Brewer | B.C. Clark Family Fund Nancy Payne Ellis | Rex & Janet Fryar | James L. & Carol M. Hall Family | Donald S. Kennedy Grace LaMar/Epworth United Methodist Church | David W. & Lynn Lee | Mr. & Mrs. R.W. Lee Memorial | Malzahn Family Fund Marilyn B. Myers | Oklahoma Natural Gas | Jerry A. Reed | Allie P. Reynolds | James R. Tolbert III | Marie Welch Scholarship Carol Elizabeth Young | Don T. & Carolyn T. Zachritz 1993 Anna Andrash | Clay & Louise Gaylord Bennett | R. K. Black | Ben Brown | The Everett Foundation | John Erich & Susan R. Frank Genevieve & Bentley Frayser | Robert D. & Blanche H. Gordon | Historical Preservation Inc. | Blanche & Mildred Holland Bill Larson | Raymond Long/ Words of Jesus Foundation | Lt. Felix Christopher McKean Memorial James C. & Virginia W. Meade | Mary and Milton Meier | Peter G. & Virginia M. Pierce | Robert & Judith Raulston Mary Baker Rumsey | Roy & Jo Thein | Justin E. & Marguerite E. Vogt | Carl Busch | Kathleen Wilcox 1994 Ray T. Anthony | William “Bill” Bevers | Charles & Cassandra Cavins Bowen | Thomas D. Carey | T. Ray Cox | Robert Y. & Kathryn E. Empie | Alice Allen Everett | Marguerite S. Fitzwilliam Fund | Mex L. Frates | Bill & Josephine Goff Dr. & Mrs. Charles Haunschild | Gary & Betty Huckabay | Imke Family | Fred Jones Industries | Michael P. & Peggy Madden Thomas O. McCullough | Howard & Merle Francis Melton | Betty Skogsberg Milam | Edgar R. Oppenheim Family Deborah R. Parker Scholarship | Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation | Robert C. Saunders | Carl & Beth Shortt | Olive May Steward Tom Swyden | Kathleen Everett Upshaw 1995 Angie Hester | Ms. Anita Hill | Kathleen Lister | Thomas Marshall Rogers Meredith Memorial | James Morris Family Fund H. E. & Jeannine Rainbolt | Jack D. & Evelyn B. Trachtenberg 1996 Dr. Berlin B. Chapman | Mr. & Mrs. B. C. Clark Jr. | Sue Dowling | James A. Embry Jr. | Gamba Family Fund | Gary Good Greenberg Family | Diane Gumerson Memorial | Edward J. Harvey | Herschel & Frances Hobbs Carlolyn Young Hodnett Memorial | John and Claudia Holliman | Dr. & Mrs. J. William Hood | Jana Lee Johnston Sally Jo Langston | Edward P. & Norma Leslie | Elizabeth Melton | Merrick Foundation | Donna Nigh Foundation Mary E. and Paul B. Odom Jr. | Rosary Home & School Association | St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church St. John Missionary Baptist Church/Waltine Lynette Jackson | Sheetmetal Workers/Valerie Koelsch Scholarship Janice and Joe L. Singer | Peter S. White

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Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 21 PHOTO COURTESYPHOTO LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA Judge Eugene Mathews established an endowment to benefit Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, a nonprofit law firm that aids low-income families with civil legal issues. The organization helped Jessica and her son, Trevor, escape from an abusive household. Now in a safe home environment, Jessica hopes to be a paralegal one day to help others like herself. 22 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation TheOur New Century Story Judge Eugene Mathews: Encouraging Social Justice For All Judge Eugene “Gene” Mathews was passionate about two things: his family and social justice. Born in 1928 in Oklahoma City, Gene began his law practice in 1954 and early on was a vocal leader in the struggle for racial equality in the community. At a time when few white professionals were speaking out against segregation, he stepped forward and offered legal representation at no cost to people who had participated in sit-ins and demonstrations against Jim Crow laws or who pressed to segregate the Oklahoma City public schools. In 1966, he and his wife, Doli, began a movement known as “Thirty Families” that encouraged 30 white families, beginning with their own family that included five daughters, to move into an area of northeast Oklahoma City that had been affected by white flight. “Gene had a deeply held conviction of the integrity of each person, regardless of their race, religion or bank account,” says Doli. “This conviction was at the root of his concern for those who suffered discrimination or injustice; a concern that fueled his work and really his life.” Gene continued to practice law until 1988 when he was appointed judge of the Oklahoma District Court Bench, a position he held for 11 years until his retirement. In 1999, Judge Mathews established a charitable organization endowment fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation for the benefit of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma, a nonprofit law firm that assists eligible low-income individuals and seniors with civil legal problems, a cause close to his heart. Following his death in 2005, memorial gifts from friends and family were directed to the endowment, ensuring that Judge Mathews’ passion for social justice will continue.

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Charles & Mary Lou Miles: A Legacy of Learning Charles and Mary Lou Miles credit their education with City, they both obtained master’s degrees in 1955 and bringing them far from their humble beginnings. taught for nearly 40 years at various middle and high Growing up in Fairfax, Charles attended the town’s schools throughout the community. Now retired, they only all-black elementary school and moved to continue to instill the value of education in their family. Tulsa to finish high school. After serving in the Navy Their oldest daughter Gayle Miles-Scott is a CPA and a during World War II, he earned a bachelor’s degree retired accounting professor, and daughter Vicki Miles- in industrial arts from Hampton University in LaGrange is the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Hampton, Va. Mary was familiar with the challenges the Western District of Oklahoma. of receiving an education as a black student during “Education was a way up and a way out for my segregation. Originally from Buford, Ga., she parents,” says Vicki. “Because of the challenges of the was sent to attend Stillman Boarding School in time, they were forced to continue moving further Tuscaloosa, Ala. She earned her bachelor’s degree away from home to receive a quality education.” in English from Clark College, now Clark Atlanta In 2007, the Miles family established a scholarship University in Atlanta. fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation in Charles and Mary Lou met as teachers in Gainsville, Ga. honor of the couple’s 60-year marriage and to ensure and were married in 1948. After moving to Oklahoma that their family legacy of learning will live on. 24 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation Our Story John & Joy Reed Belt: Helping to Preserve the Paseo District With its rich history dating back to the 1920s, the Paseo District is a truly unique neighborhood located in central Oklahoma City. Its Spanish revival architecture stucco buildings were once home to jazz clubs in the 1950s and the counter culture in the 1960s. It was during the 1970s that the area began its transformation into a vibrant artist haven that today is home to nearly 20 galleries as well as restaurants and boutiques. Its annual arts festival, held each Memorial Day weekend, attracts a wide and varied crowd. For over 30 years John and Joy Reed Belt have led the charge to revitalize the area and make it a desirable neighborhood in which to live and work. John, who has served as the General Counsel of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation since 1984, owns a majority of the commercial space in the Paseo District. In addition to her career as an executive recruiter and corporate consultant, Joy works to promote local and regional artists through her Paseo gallery, JRB Art at the Elms. John was also the founder of Harding Fine Arts Academy, a charter high school located near the Paseo District. In 2007 the couple created a Legacy Fund at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation, ensuring The Paseo Arts District is home to nearly 20 artist galleries as their support of the Paseo District and other arts- well as restaurants and boutiques. related and beautification projects continues well into the future. “The many years of experience I have had with the Oklahoma City Community Foundation as well as several other foundations, enables me to say that it is the most efficient and certain way of achieving a donor’s charitable goals that I have seen,” John said.

Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 25 The New Century Dean Wild: Finding Fairness For All In 1956, segregation was prevalent throughout the country but in Frederick, Okla., head football coach Dean Wild recognized athletic talent, regardless of skin color. His decision to integrate the high school team was more about giving young men a fair chance than about politics. That year he teamed 12 players from the town’s black high school with 27 white players. Together they would go undefeated and become the first integrated team to win a state championship, a full 10 years before Frederick schools would be integrated. Mildred & Dean Wild “It was tough, real tough,” Dean’s wife Mildred says of the 1956 season. “Dean always said the saving grace was the fact the team beat everybody.” Born in 1912 near Granite, Okla., Dean Wild was the youngest of six. He graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma Teacher’s College and would coach and teach mathematics for more than 30 years before serving as the vice principal at Putnam City West High School soon after the school opened in the 1968. As an administrator, Dean would bring the same fairness he used as a coach and quickly earned the respect of the students and faculty. As a trailblazing coach, Dean Wild earned many honors. What may have meant most to him though was the scholarship fund established by the Putnam City West Alumni Association in his honor at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. “It was one of the few times I’d seen him at a loss for words,” says Mildred, who had been married to Dean for 69 years when he died in 2008 at the age of 95.

Coach Dean Wild, Frederick High School

26 | Oklahoma City Community Foundation Our Story JOSEPH MILLS PHOTOGRAPHY Jim and Virginia Meade are longtime supporters of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. At right, the Meades with one of their five daughters, Virginia Meade Fox (left), and niece Elizabeth Meade. James & Virginia Meade: Enriching the Art Community A successful oil and gas producer, James Meade and their collections, personal resources and knowledge his wife, Virginia, are longtime art collectors who in so many ways,” he says. “Whether it be hosting share their passion with the community through their Evenings in the Homes of Collectors or lending longtime support of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. superb examples of antique pistols, marine paintings Mr. Meade, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. and 18th-century English and American silver Meade, who was born in Mexico City, moved to for exhibitions, or establishing endowments and Oklahoma City in 1958 when he was transferred providing operating support, their philanthropy by Snee and Eberly, an Appalachian oil and gas inspires our work and the community.” producer, to oversee drilling throughout Oklahoma In 2007, the couple established the James C. and and the Arkoma Basin. Today the company operates Virginia W. Meade Collections Fund at the Oklahoma as the Meade Energy Corporation. City Community Foundation to assist the museum During the time Mr. Meade was growing the in acquiring art for its permanent collection. “As an company, the couple began acquiring their varied and art collector, I believe an appreciation for the arts is vast art collection and became involved with the art important to Oklahoma City,” Mr. Meade says. “We museum. Over the years, Mr. and Mrs. Meade as well were a little behind our neighbors like Dallas and as their eldest daughter, Virginia Meade Fox, have Tulsa and my wife and I wanted to do something to held leadership positions on the museum’s volunteer make up the difference.” board. In fact, Mr. Meade was the museum’s first The Meades have been donors to the Oklahoma City board president and remains a lifetime Trustee. Community Foundation since 1993. “We have a high Glen Gentele, museum director, says the Meades’ regard for the purpose of the community foundation leadership and commitment to the museum has and the way they conduct business and keep donors made a difference in its development. “They share informed,” he added. Our Story: Celebrating 40 Years of Helping the Community | 27 The New Century Donors (The donors listed below contributed gifts to permanent endowment funds.) 2000 Brad R. Corbett Memorial Scholarship Fund | Judge Dick Lynn Memorial | Mr. & Mrs. Aubrey McClendon Marilyn M. & K.T. “Bud” Meade Jr. | Warren Rice Memorial | Scott & Geneva Smith 2001 Guyton Anderson III | Florence & Russell Baugh | David Berry Memorial | Annie and Issac Bloom Educational Scholarship Cobb Engineering Company | Sam & Rita Combs | A.C. & Ruth Commander | Richard & Linda Farris | Barbara G. Feiler Roger & Virginia Gohrband | David W. Gorham | D. Allan & Dorothy Harmon | Mrs. Pauline Jackson | Walter Kann Foundation Diane Neal Kremm | Katherine D. Lacy | Karyl Gean Lee | A.G. “Bud” & Lena Bruckner Magerus | McGee Foundation Ruth Mershon Fund | Edna Ratliff Fund | Dr. Bob Rutledge | Robert S. & Tammy Weiss | Deral E. Willis Scholarship 2002 Philip E. Daugherty | Jack & Mary Ann French | Jim Gunter Memorial | David & Lucinda Huffman | Medical Center Volunteers Shannon & Wanda Murchison | Michael A. & Brooke S. Murphy | Gary L. Nelson/Advanced Financial Solutions Tracy & Suzanne Silvester | Stephen L. Stark Memorial Fund | Pete and Lela Stavros | Walter Stiller | Don R. & Mary Louise Symcox | Sherril & Viola J. Williams | Dr. Nazih Zuhdi 2003 Steve & Karla Boone | Brenda Brown | Carballo Family Foundation | Clinton High School ‘52 Graduates | Lolly Compton Everett & Jean Dale | Emanuel Synagogue | Michael Adam Everett Trust | Maida Parr Frensley | Jack and Pauline Harper Family Heritage Trust Company | Holocaust Resource Center | Omer Gene Hosier | Huston & Lexy Huffman Jr. Harry E. & Donna J. Kornbaum | Howard Meredith Memorial | Marvin & Jeanne O’Neil | Ken & Gae Rees Family Treva M. Reimink | Al & Susan Salomone | Satori Trust - Zero to Hero Scholarship 2004 Clyde Albright | Hal Almen | Anderson Family | Branan Family | BSO Ivy Foundation | Melvin and Bobbie Gragg Andrew and Judi Gregory | Edward A. and Barbara N. Krei | Jack and Johanna Price | Brig. Gen. William Rex Wilson Dorotha Wolfe 2005 Brenda Brown Trust | Alton L. Fritts | E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation | Melvin and Bobbie Gragg | Kay Jewell Scholarship John and Sadhna Kelly | William J. and Gladys O’Hare | Pick Family Fund | Milton H. Schonwald 2006 Stella V. Anderson | Christopher Baranano & Christine Anthony | Joy Reed & John Lampton Belt H. Blanton Brown & Dr. Faith L. Phillips Family | Kirkland & Julia Hall | Coyle & Berry Families | Everett & Jean Dale Charles & Ann Dungan | Glenn A. & Suzanne D. Foster Jr. | Franklin Family | David W. Gorham | Habluetzel Family Foundation Byrdell Hardeman | Terry & Vickie Hill | Lynn & James H. Holloman Jr. | Janet Kennedy | Harry & Rosemary Koelsch Dorothy Goodman Langsam Memorial | Joe C. & Karen L. Moehlenhoff Leonard | James A. Logan Jr. | Mike & Jenna McIntosh B.G. & Sylvia McPherson | Trina and Bob Medley | Paul M. Milburn Foundation | Newchurch Ministries/Jeffry Rogers Memorial Fr. Lee O’Neil Sister Mary Dennis and Sister Catherine O’Neill Memorial | Oklahoma Speaker’s Ball Col. (USMCR-Ret) Homer and Ramona Paul | Mr. & Mrs. William G. Paul | Plater Family Fund | G. Jeffrey Records Jr. John C. Ross | Steve & Becki Seay | Skirvin Hotel/Marcus Corporation Foundation | J. Eugene & Marilyn Torbett | Tyler Family Zarah L. Virgin | Charles Scott Waldrop | Steve & Pamela Westerheide | Tom & Jane Ann Workman

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