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FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh is a busy man. But chance prevailed, and Oklahoma Today was able to photograph the Washington, D.C., power player when he was home for Thanksgiving. While his wife, Diane, and their three children relaxed upstairs, Allbaugh was photographed by contributing editor John Jernigan (far left). Writer Adam Cohen (far right), who wrote the profile about Allbaugh, stayed on for a lengthy interview after the photo session. Editor in chief Louisa McCune (second from left) and intern Heather Sugrue (second from right) also attended the photo shoot.

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EDITOR'S LETTER A difficult year behind us. By Louisa McCune

OKLAHOMAN OF THE YEAR 8 By Adam Buckley Cohen

FALLEN COWBOYS 1 6 A $one crash forever changes the OSU men's basketball team. By Damon Gardenhire

A FINAL CHAPTER 0 The execution of Timothy McVeigh. By Julie DeKour

THE YEAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS From OSUts bia win over OlJ to the arrival of Krispy Kreme ih~klahomaCity, Oklahoma Today presents the pictorial version of the year's ncws. By Jay Swearingen

THE END 71 Tulsa mayor Susan Savage plans her exit from city hall. By P.J. Lassek

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I www.oge.com 02001 OGE Energy Gorp. NYSE:OGE J wntability. stability. rdiabili . i .accountabili .power atYt 8itv. accountab~Yitv. flexib'dditv. The Land of Plenty 4 BOUT ONCE EVERY SIX WEEKS,MY TWO SISTERS, THEIR HUSBANDS, AND MY BROTHER Aand I receive propaganda from our father. Like clockwork, his neatly typed envelopes are dropped into our mailboxes like leaflets from World War I1 military aircraft. No note is attached, nothing underlined. It is simply material which, in my father's opinion, demands to be read ("I'm seldom correct but never in doubt," he loves to say). Most often, the propaganda springs from a recent col- umn in a newsweekly. Usually it's conservative in tone, and often about the "greatest generation." Around December 15, the postman delivered a column by my own writerly inspiration, Anna Quindlen, op-ed columnist for Newsweek and former New York Timeseditorial page editor. Before I share her wisdom, I'll briefly provide the backstory. Four short days before that neatly typed envelope arrived at my office, a friend and I were having a casual Saturday lunch at Taco Cabana after my weekly guitar lesson. We discussed the upcoming holidays, the parties to attend, gifts to be pur- chased. Spontaneously, we began listing all the things we wanted for ourselves. Not a Christmas list, but things we wanted right then. My abridged list included Kiehl's Ultra Facial Moisturizer, a cat-scratching post, a makeup mirror, a Martin guitar (or maybe a Baby Taylor), a duvet cover, Donald Pliner knee-high boots, a new dress to wear at my Christmas party, tin trash cans for birdseed, and the Jack Welch autobiography. My friend's equally lengthy list started with a food processor and ended with a beagle puppy for his nine- year-old son (her eight-week-old highness sits on my lap as I write this). can Z 3 An exercise like this be fun because of its safe self-indulgence (no, 5 I'm not $10,000 poorer), but as Quindlen so deftly pointed out in "Hon- I S estly, You Shouldn't Have," her Newnueek essay from December 3, 2001, that kind of realized shopping (Christmas or otherwise), billed by some as patriotic, borders on addiction and lacks basic self-control. "If maxing out your plastic at Gap is what patriotism has come to, then all the stealth bomb- ers in the world can't save us from ourselves," writes QuindIen. She then quotes Adlai Stevenson: "With the supermarket as our temple and the sing- ing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresist- ible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?" With the year 2001 behind us-haven't we collectively expelled a great big sigh of relief?-perhaps we can all find the necessary motivation to learn the lesson of desire versus need. Blind consumerism is an easier answer than genuine choice and restraint. But it's like the destructive evil of gossip or four pieces of chocolate cake: For the first ten minutes it feels -good, but what usually remains is remorse, casual disregard, and a fullness not of wonder but of excess. In the face of temptation, Quindlen (and, by association, my dad) implores us to remember the deeper meaning of life. In Oklahoma in 2001, we saw firsthand what really matters: the strength of a university in the face of tragedy (page 16), a farmer's son from Blackwell who met national disas- ter with composure and assurance (page S), and a possible step toward closure with the demise of a terrorist (page 20). These stories of disaster and heroism and healing, all definitive symbols of 2001, reveal the heart of a nation and state. Rather than indulgence and the parade of ego, we see humanity, grace, and community. Don't deny yourself that perfect little black dress or power tool, but spend the bulk of your re- sources on fullness born of the virtues-Oklahoma virtues--of friendship, forgiveness, and forti- tude. There, excess applies.

EDITOR'S LETTER 7

Cool Under Fire FOR HIS LEADERSHIP, HIS TENACITY, AND HIS GRACE IN THE FACE OF AMERICA'S' DARKEST HOUR, OKLAHOMA TODAY NAMES BLACKWELL NATIVE JOE ALLBAUGH THE 2001 OKLAHOMAN OF THE YEAR.

BY ADAM BUCKLEY COHEN

EN JOE ALLBAUGH'S PMETOUCHED DOWN AT LAGUARDIA AIR- wport on September 12, all he could think of was an old war movie. He'd seen it as a kid. A black and white film from the Fies. The lead kcterwas a submarine officer. As Allbaugh describes it, the officer is looking through a periscope. And then the perspective changes, and you're seeing what's he's seeing. It's a beach, and it's clut- tered with vehicles. Except they're all abandoned. The periscope keeps panning the shoreline, searching for signs of life. But there's nobody, nothing. Peering from the window of the C-5 military plane he'd just ridden up from Wash- ington, D.C., Allbaugh couldn't shake the feeling that he was gazing through that peri- scope. No guys in bright orange vests waving the planes to their gates. No mechanics checking turbines and fuselages. Not even a baggage handler brutalizing a suitcase within an inch of its life. Only empty planes and baggage carts and fuel trucks. A day and a half before, LaGuardia had been a hive of activity, a bustling airport in the big- gest city in America. And now it was a still life. As a helicopter whisked Allbaugh from LaGuardia toward what remained of the Financial District, it all began to sink in. That thunderhead of smoke swallowing lower Manhattan was not hiding the World Trade Center towers. They were gone. At ground zero, the firefighters staggered out of the rubble, black with soot, their eyes betraying the horrors they had seen. AUbaugh wanted to do something, anything. So he walked up to one of the firefighters, shook his hand, told him thank you. Then he did the same to another. And another. Crews scrabbled furiously at the ruins, searching for survivors. But Allbaugh already knew what few were willing to say: Chances were slim that rescue workers would pull anyone from the wreckage alive. Still, they would keep searching, hoping against hope. Sometime late in the night, Allbaugh climbed into the shower at the W, a funky hotel near Manhattan's Union Square where the flat-topped, cowboy-booted Okla- homan stuck out like a sore thumb. The steamy air felt good on his throat, raw from the fumes, the asbestos-laced dust, and God knows what else he had breathed in at ground zero. He coughed, wheezed, spit up all sorts of stuff that had settled into his lungs. And as the hot water washed over his hulking body, this man, who had built a career around playing the heavy, cried.

Joe Allbaugh, who was named director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in February 2001, is responsible for coordinating the nation's recovery efforts in the aftermath of disaster. An OSU graduate and former chief of staff for Oklahoma governor Henry Bellmon, Allbaugh served as Governor George W. Bush's chief of staff in Texas as well as his campaign manager for the presidency. Allbaugh was photographed by John Jernigan at the Marriott Hotel in Oklahoma City on November 21,2001.

OKLAHOMAN OF THE YEAR 9 ALF A YEAR EARLIER, THE MOOD HAD BEEN ANY- sor to Bush in Texas. "Big-shouldered, tough jaw, straight to the Hthing but somber as President George W. Bush swore in point. A leader. He was a guy who as chief of staff' called the shots Allbaugh as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. and as campaign manager called the shots. And he made the trains The Blackwell native had helmed Bush's 1994 gubernatorii cam- run on time. Everybody got a chance to say their piece, but decisions paign, served as his chief of staff for the next five and a half years, were made, and people marched in the appropriate direction." and then managed the campaign that made him the counuy's forty- Allbaugh cracks a rare grin when asked about his penchant for third president. In return, Bush had rewarded Allbaugh by select- playing the bad cop. "You need an enforcer. When hewas governor, ing him to lead FEMA, the agency charged with coordinating the President Bush and I had such a unique relationship that I was com- government's response to disasters both natural and man-made. fortable being the go-to guy whenever things needed to be taken care At the swearing-in, Bush poked fun at Allbaugh's lineman- of. I'm very good at it, and I don't lose a lot of sleep over it. You do like physique and got in a couple of digs about the new FEMA what you have to do, then you move on down the road. Fortunately, director's decidedly unfashionable coif. But this was no frat I've got the hair and body to pull it oE" party. "When the worst happens anywhere in America," de- But the tough guy routine doesn't work with everybody. "Joe is clared the President, "I can assure you, folks will be confident hn to tease," says Rove. "I was once on an airplane flight with Joe. I when Joe Allbaugh arrives on the was sitting next to him, and I turned to him scene..J oe will help Americans deal with and started saying"-Rove's voice shifts to a the worst, in the best, most compassionate rough approximation ofAlvin and the Chip- way possible." Over the next six months, munks on helium-"‘Are we there yet?Are Allbaugh did just that, providing emer- there yet? Are we there yet?' And after about gency assistance to victims of tornadoes in meen minutes, Joe turned to me and said, Kansas, tropical storms in Mississippi, You say it one more time, and I'll pinch your floods in Iowa, and more than two dozen head off.'" Rove &es, dearly proud of him- other natural disasters across the country. self. "Of course, it prompted me to say"- i On the morning of September 11, !! chipmunk voice again-"'Are we there yet? 3 Allbaugh was in Montana, attendq the an- w Are we there yet?'" z8 null meeting of the National Emergency 9 1 Theoldest of Marvin and Peggy Allbaugh's 8 Management Association. "I'd just given a three sons,Joe Allbaugh spent his early years speech on preparedness, weapons of mass In ,* forahdowing to hptember on a wheat firm outside Blackwell, a little destruction, first responders, fire service, law 11, Allbaugh and John Mag- of the town about a hundred miles north of Okla- enforcement," he says. 'We're pretty good at Office of National Preparedness speak to homa City. The Allbaughs had hedthe handling tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, hur- a Sen* in May about same plot of land since his gran&ther settled the president's plans for federal domestic to as well it in the Cherokee Strip Run of 1893, but ricanes. What we're not prepared do Mrrorism programs. as I would likeis handle the unknown. Weap- when PeggyAllbaugh clismvered a rattlesnake ons of mass destruction--chemical, biological,- radiological."- in a dresser drawer, the family moved to town overnight. He was preparing for a private meeting with state emergency Marvin Allbaugh continued to grow wheat, and he often enlisted management directors to discuss funding and implementation for ~oeto help out. JG, however, pref&ed the football field to the wheat terrorism response programs when the events of the day overtook fields. A big, strapping kid who loved to hit people, he dreamed of his agenda. "Someonewalkedup to me and said,'Did you hear about one day terrorizing quarterbacks for the Dallas Cowboys. the plane crash?'" recalls Allbaugh. Like much of the country, he "Joe was a good player," says Bob Niles, Allbaugh's junior high watched helplessly as the second plane hit the World Trade Center. school football coach. "Whatever you told him to do, he would do "I knew immediately it was terrorism." it, and he wouldn't askquestions." But AUbaugh's NFL dreams died He shifts in his chair, and the light catches the silver hairs that early: At age fourteen, injuries forced him to have career-ending sur- fleck his once-red mustache. "I was always karful something like gery on both knees. Fortunately, by the time his knees gave out, this would happen. I hoped and prayed that it wouldn't. But there Allbaugh had already hund another passion-politics. was sometlung in my stomach that told me that it's not if it's going When he was in seventh grade,Allbaugh's geography teacher &I- to happen, it's when it's going to happen." lenged her students to get involved in an election. "She didn't care whether it was a wunty race or a state race," remembers Allbaugh, S EASY TO SEE HOWALLBAUGH, FORTY-NINE, EARNED "so I thought, 'What the heck-let's start at the top.'" He went to Pa reputation as an edorcer. For statters, he's six-foot-four. With- the local Republican headqwrs and volunteered to hand out leaf- out the cowboy boots. He weighs somewhere well north of 250 lets for Barry Goldwater in his 1964 campaign to unseat President pounds, and there doesn't look to be a lot of fat on him. He's got a Lyndon B. Johnson. flat top that would make any drill sergeant proud. He doesn't smile much. He doesn't say much, either. But when he does, he doesn't AObaugh, with the chief eucdand his friend, President Bush, in October, above right. After the attack on New York, the marquee mince words. at Madikon Square Garden, right, was changedto indude the FEMA "He's got two demeanors-somber and somberer," says White telemgiotrcltion number. To date, more than36,500 people have House senior advisor Karl Rove, who also served as a political advi- applied for assistance using the tdhnumber.

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"Comparing the two on a balance sheet, I was more philosophi- his early days with Bellmon. "The guy was a tank commander who cally in tune with Goldwater," he says. "Holding people account- had seen action on Iwo Jima, Tinian, Saipan. He was a Marine, and able. Big government is not always the answer. Throwing money he'd won a Silver Star. Just driving around with him was amazing- at the problem is not always the answer. Trying to think outside the stories he could tell. He became a second father to me." the box." Pretty sophisticated politics for a twelve year old. So Bellmon taught Allbaugh lessons he would carry with him was he crushed when his candidate carried only six states? "No, throughouthis political career. Speak your mind, he told his charge, no, not really. I didn't know enough to be demoralized. I mean, regardless of whether it's politidy palatable. Be honest with the I was in seventh grade. I was looking forward to getting my electorat-the public can see through a phony in a heartbeat. And driver's license." perseverance wins elections. This last one would prove crucial to a His appetite for politics whetted, he volunteered for Richard presidential campaign a quarter-century later. Nixon's presidential campaign in 1968and Dewey Bartlett's runs Despite the post-Watergate fallout that unseated many Repub- for governor and senator in 1970and 1972.At Oklahoma Sfate licans that year, Behon campaigned tirelessly and eked out a vic- University, he majored in political science and had his sights set tory over Ed Edrnondson, a popular Democratic representative. on law school. But that all changed when Henry Bellmon, then With that victory came the spoils for Allbaugh-a position as a running for reelection to the Senate, offered Allbaugh a paid cam- field representative in Bellmon's Enid office. But before the aspir- paign job as his driver and aide-de-camp. ing politico could come aboard, Bellmon insisted that he return The pay? A whopping $450 a month. No matter. "It was a to Stillwater and finish his degree. shock," Allbaugh says. "Someone was going to pay me money After becoming the first male in his family to graduate fiom col- for what I enjoyed doing." He took the job, leaving OSU two lege, AIlbaugh spent two years working for Bellmon in Enid, then semesters short of graduation, one year as political director of the Oklahoma Republican party, Even now, Allbaygh's voice is tinged with reverence as he recalls and the better part of the next decade working for the Republican National Committee and numerous Republican candidates across deputy secretary of transportation. Allbaugh remembers the day the country. Along the way, he managed Ed Noble's unsuccessful he got the call on the state House floor. "The guy says, 'Joe, this is 1980 Senate bid and served as deputy political regional director George Bush. What are you doing?"' AUbaugh recalls. "And I said, for Ronald Reagan's landslide reelection effort in 1984. 'Yeah, right.'" But Allbaugh soon figured out this was no prank "My life used to begin and end the first Tuesday after the first call. "He said, 'Look, I'd like you to come down and visit with Laura Monday in November in even-numbered years," says Allbaugh. and myself. As you know, I'm running for governor. And I'm not 'What draws me to campaigns is that there's something always hap- happy with the way my campaign is taking place."' Allbaugh ar- pening every five minutes, somethingnew. I like the idea of putting rived in Austin on March &the day of the primary-and took all the marbles on the table. Winner take all is very exciting to me." over as Bush's campaign manager. Still, the grind ofworkmg on campaigns in thirty-nine stateseven- Bush had undertaken what many believed was a futile attempt tuallv took its toll on Mbaugh.- "It was tough,"- he says quietly. "It to unseat popular Democratic incumbent Ann Richards. But by cost me my first marriage." May, Allbaugh was convinced his But in 1983, he met the woman man would win the race. who would become his secondwife. "Governor Bush-George- Diane Mbaugh, an Oklahoma City articulated his vision very well: native who attended Cameron Uni- juvenile justice, welfare reform, vdtyand latergraduated fiom OU education reform. And he wore , LawSchool, remembers her fim im- everyone slick beating that home." i pression of Joe. "Tall," she says, In November, Bush took the laughmg. "A huge presence. Amc- Austin statehouse with more than ,' tive smile. I don't know how to de- fifty-three percent of the vote. He scribe it. He was someone special named Allbaugh his chief of staff. from the very beginning." They In Austin, Allbaugh oversaw were married two years later. To- two hundred staffers but shunned a gether, they had a daughter, Taylor, ""a_ the limelight. At gatherings, he who joined Joe's son, Chase, and '-3' ' was sometimes mistaken for a Diane's son, David. "We have member of Bush's security detail. yours, mine, andours, but they're all g He developed a reputation for in- ours," says Die...... , ,.., .... ,... ,. ..., ,,,.,...,,. .. ,..acks, Allbaugh tegrity, strdttalk, and unswerv- In 1984 or 1985, Bellmon extensively surveyed disaster areas in Washington, D.C, ing loyalty to Bush. and New York City, above, and met with firefighters and called up his one-timehiver. m~~ Their offices were ten steps urban search and rescue workers. said, 'You know, I'm thinking (ten Allbaugh steps, that is) apart. about running for governor again,'" says Allbaugh. "And I said, Bush and Allbaugh became fast friends. The governor enjoyed 'Good, count me in."' With Allbaugh as his campaign manager, giving Allbaugh a hard time. Of course, there was the hair. The Bellmon defeated David Walters in the 1986 race. Allbaugh stayed WWF body. And Bush loved bestowing nicknames on Allbaugh: on for eighteen months as Bellmon's legislative director. Big Country, Pinkie, Are We There Yet? Sometimes the staff "We counted on Uoe] to get votes, to move our legislation would even launch into a chorus of "Oklahoma!" when Allbaugh along, and he did very well," says Bellmon. "He had a talent for entered a room. working with people across party lines." Allbaugh left the public But there was the serious side, too. Allbaugh, Rove, and sector in 1988 to join an investment banking firm, but he re- press secretary Karen Hughes formed Bush's fabled "Iron Tri- turned three years later to become Oklahoma's deputy secretary anglem-his innermost circle of advisers. Bush, says Rove, "has of transportation. depended on Joe for a long, long time. He has the utmost In early 1994, Behon, by then retired from government, re- confidence in Joe." ceived a phone call from George W. Bush, who was at the time "Joe listens," Hughes told the WashingconPost in 1999. "Both running for governor of Texas. Bush told Behon, an old acquain- Karl and I talk a lot. Joe does not. He's quiet. But when he speaks, tance, that he was looking for a new campaign manager. A former it's always well thought out. Joe's very fair and very balanced. He Bellmon staffer had recommended Allbaugh to Bush, and Bush gets things done." wanted to know what Bellmon thought of his former campaign In 1999, Bush tapped Allbaugh to run his presidential cam- manager and legislative director. "I described Joe as a take-charge paign. Yes, there were a few rough spots along the way: the drub- guy, a no-nonsense, hard-driving sort of person," says Bellmon. bing in the New Hampshire primary by John McCain, the much- "And George's immediate reaction was, 'That's exactly what I'm maligned appearance at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, looking for."' the Florida recount debacle. But on January 20,2001, after the a Bush soon called Allbaugh, who was still serving as Oklahoma's chads had finally cleared, it was Bush-not Al Gorewith his 1 I right hand On the KingJvna On which wash- As FEmdire*r, klping up morale 4thhandshakes and pats $ on heback is as important as meeting the resource needs of the ington had sworn his oath of office212 Years earlier. Once again, 8' men and women who labor at the sites. the wheat farmer's son from Blackwell had worked his magic. 1

OKLAHOMAN OF THE YEAR 13 N THE MORNING OF SEPTEMBER 11, ALLBAUGH than 700,000 tons of debris had been removed from the twenty- 0started activating search and rescue teams from all over the acre World Trade Center site. Only two-and-a half months after counuy. When the teams arrived at the site where the Twin Tow- the attacks, FEMA had already paid out more than $500 million ers once stood, they were met by mountains of rubble, twisted steel in disaster assistance in New York alone, the bdsgoing for ev- beams as long as fbotball fields, fire trucks scatteredlikematchsticks. erything from housing grants to individuals to reimbursement to And thick, white dust covered everything. the city for debris removal. The rescuers climbed into garbage can-sized holes in the wreck- And still there is more. age, hoping they would again see daylight. In the darkness, they By year's end, fires in excess of 900 degrees still burned under- found beams so hot they burned through their coats. They found neath the World Trade Center rubble. Nearly three months af- pieces of carpet and file cabinets and human fingers. But after the ter the attacks, searchers had recovered only 225 of the roughly first day, they didn't find anybody alive. Still, for weeks and weeks, 3,000 people killed at the World Trade Center. Carbon monox- twelve hours on, twelve hours ofF, they kept searching. ide is everywhere, so thick that even with respirators, workers can Within a week, Allbaugh had imported more than six thousand only last twenty minutes before it overtakes their systems. Rubble federal workers-Coast Guard personnel, the Army Corps of En- removal will likely take the better part of another year to com- gineers, Small Business Administration employees, technicians of plete. Once all that is resolved, there's the rebuilding, which, by every imaginable stripe-to assist in New York alone. All told, di- the end of the year, was projected to cost the federal government saster medical assistance teams treated nearly ten thousand patients more than $11billion. at clinics within blocks of ground zero. As of early December, more Allbaugh has presided over this massive disaster-the largest this country has ever seen-with aplomb. He has secured significant On September 15, Allbaugh speaks to the media in Washington, additional funding from the president and Congress both for the D.C., above left, about FEMAfs role in the recent attacks. In additionto making his rounds to disaster sites, Allbaughfs job relief efforts and to improve terrorism preparedness in the future. includes meeting with victims at Disaster Assistance Service With Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, he has developed Centers such as this one, above right, in lower Manhattan. a comprehensiveplan for assessing emergency responsiveness at the

OKLAHOMATODAY m YEAR IN REVIEW 2001 I4 I heading Oklahoma City's recovery from the worst act of domestic terrorism this country had ever known. Now perhaps Allbaugh could benefit from Keating's experiences as he sought to heal the country's wounds in the wake of September 1 1. Keating had known Allbaugh since 1995, when Allbaugh be- came Governor Bush's chief of staff. The pair worked together on numerous projects during Bush's tenure as governor, from eco- nomic development to facilitating the inf$mous OU-Texas foot- ball bet. "I've always known Joe to be bright, energetic, tenacious, tough-all of the cardinal virtues," Keating says. "I have tremen- dous respect for his integrity, for his excellence." Keating believes that the country is in good hands with Allbaugh leading the recovery efforts. "He may not look like a FEMA ad- ministrator-he has that big, tough look about him-but he is ex- traordinarily willing to make decisions, to make good things come from bad events." When Allbaugh returned Keating's September 11 phone call, the governor was immediately suuck by Allbaugh's "humility and open-mindedness." Here he was, the director of FEMA-the man charged with coordinating the responses of all twenty-six federal agencies, the man who answers directly to the President-and he was asking Keating if there was anythmg he was doing wrong, if there was anything he should do differently. "I told him," recalls Keating, "'In my judgment, you're doing it right."' Since that call, Allbaugh and Keating have kept in contact. On several occasions, Mbaugh has sought the governor's advice on the post-September 11 recovery efforts. "He's willing to focus on small details," Keating says. "And that focus helps a lot of people." # Bellmon believes that his prot6gC's success has much to do with his Oklahoma upbringing. "He learned to be a hard worker on his " fither's farm, and he learned to accept responsibility. Because when you're working out in the field and something breaks down, you a -- 1 - don't have any choice but to fm it." state and local level. Allbaugh has already begun to send teams out Indeed, the wheat fields of Blackwell hold special meaning for across the country, not only to evaluate city and state emergency Allbaugh. A few ears back, he purchased part of that original tract response capabilities, but to fix any weaknesses-inadequately of land that his great-grandfither staked more than a century ago. trained emergency personnel, insufficient stock of antibiotics, you "It's not that Joe will ever go back and adytill the land itself name it-they might find. again. It's something else, something deeper than that," says Diane Rove, for one, is not surprised Allbaugh has risen to the task. Allbaugh. "He wants to pass that land on to our children. He wants "Joe is one of these guys who will ride to the sound of gunfire. If to pass on to them the significance ofwhat it took to be a pioneer, there's a battle, he'll be there. I think America's seen his superb to actually leave your hilyand go out and settle the wild West." ability during September 1 1 and its aftermath. He's a talented "I'mveryproud to be from Oklahoma," says Allbaugh. "We have leader who's been able to inspire a lot of volunteers, to give com- a rich history and tradition of doing and of helping others. And fort where it's needed, and to provide tough leadership in the face I'd like to think that in a small way, I'm continuingthat tradition." of a very, very tough crisis." He unfolds his long frame fiom the chair. Enough of taking about himself. Enough of the spotlight. ORALLBAUGH, SEPTEMBER 12,2001, FELT SADLY REMI- It hasn't been half an hour since he cried, telling of the friends Fniscent of another day-April 20, 1995. That was the day he lost on September 1 1. But you'd never know it to look at him Allbaugh visited the Murrah Building bomb site. "I was thinking as he shakes hands-firmly, of course-then strides away pur- immediately of the Mike Weavers, the Susie Ferrells, and a slew of posefully, his ground-swallowing steps echoing through the ho- other folks I knew who lost their lives in the Oklahoma City bomb- tel lobby. Time to get back behind the curtain. Time to make ing," saysAllbaugh ofhis first visit to the World Trade Center site. things happen. Em "It was like I was reliving a bad dream." On September 1 1, Frank Keating called Allbaugh to offer any Oklahoma Today contributing editor Aakm Bucklqr Cohen aho assistance he could provide. Six years earlier, Keating, like Allbaugh, ha written for the Los Angeles Times and The American Law- was new to his job when he was thrust into a similar role-spear- yer. He fives in Norman with his wife and two children.

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BY DAMON GARDENHIRE

HE YEAR HAD BARELY BEGUN WHEN ONEPLANE CRASH REVERBERATEDACROSS Ta campus, a state, and a sport. The night of January 27 was cold in Colorado, Light snow drifted from the sky and dusted the ground. The men's basketball team from Oklahoma State University spent the afternoon playing hard in Boulder, losing to the University of Colorado. It was the end of a five-game winning streak, and the Cowboys were ready to go home. At Jefferson County Airport, ten men boarded a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, one of three charter planes carrying the team and staff back to Stillwater. Just a few minutes into the 6:19 p.m. flight, the plane plunged into a frozen field near Byers, Colorado. Wreckage from the aircraft scattered more than a mile across the silvered pasture. The crash took the lives of everyone aboard: players Nate Fleming and Daniel Lawson, veteran sportscaster Bill Teegins, OSU athletic department officials Pat Noyes and Will Hancock, trainer Brian Luinstra, student manager Jared Weiberg, broadcast engineer Kendd Durfey, pilot Denver Mills, and copilot Bjorn Fahlstrom. The disaster was among the most tragic events in OSU's 1 10-year history. Pilot Denver Mills was a longtime aviator for the Cowboys. Copilot Bjorn Fahlstrom left behind a fiande. Will Hancock, thirty-one years old and the team's publicist, had just become a fither. Freshman Nate Fleming, a walk-on, was populd with the other players. Brian Luinsua left behind a wife and two young children. Pat Noyes, an East Coast transplant, was director of basketball operations. Kendall Durfey, an OSU alum and native of Perkins, was a producer and engineer for the OSU radio network. Daniel Lawson was a junior reserve guard for the team and played every game during the season leading tlp the crash. Jared Weiburg, a former walk-on player for the Cowboys, was the son of Northern Oklahoma College basketball coach, Mick Weiburg. Bill Teegins, a husband, father, and fiiendly face on Oklahoma City television for thirteen years, was named Oklahoma Sportscaster of the Year six times. On January 31, at a memorial service held in OSU's famed Gallagher-Iba Arena, more than 13,000 mourners joined the families of those lost in the crash to listen to eulogies and speeches delivered by OSU President James Halligan, Governor Frank Keating, KWTV anchor Kelly Ogle, and head coach Eddie Sutton. Thousands more watched the live broad- cast of the service as a saddened state bled orange and black. "This isn't really goodbye," said OSU forward Andre Williams, speaking on behalf of the players. "We all go down that road to death. Ifwe believe, we know this isn't goodbye. We'll see them in the morning."

On February 5, the Oklahoma State Univeristy men's basketball team, opposite page, returned to the court and competed against Missouri before a packed house at Gallagher-lba Arena. OSU won the emotional game. Above: (top row, from left) Pat Noyes, 27; Kendall Dutfey, 38; Nate Fleming, 20; Will Hancock, 31; Daniel Lawson, 21; (second row) Brian Luinstra, 29; Denver Mills, 55; Jared Weiburg, 22; Bjorn Fahlstrom, 30; Bill Teegins, 48. Head coach and surrogate father to hundreds of young men fresh from the storm of adolescence, sixty-four-year-old Sutton emerged from the tragedy as a sensitive profile in courage. He had personally called the victims' %dies on the night of the crash to deliver the news. At the service, he brought the crowd to laughter and to tears with stories of those lost. "Grief always picks someone up in one place and puts them down in another," he told the crowd. "Let it put us down in this pla ce...in this arena." After the words, the tears, the flowers, it was time to play again. The Cowboys returned to the court on February 5, beating the University of Missouri 69-66 in an emotional game. Sutton cried with his players in the lockerroom after the final buzzer. The Cow- boys continued to play through the paid season, scoring other important victories, like the Bedlam blowout against the University of Oklahoma in mid-February, 72-44. But amid the healing, sadness lingered. "They just go to practice and just ..." Sutton said to the Tub Worldabout a month after the crash, trailing OK "I think this is going to take some time." Time did perform some of its work, bringing the therapeutic salve of memories and monuments. The tragedy brought a post- humous induction into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame for Bill Teegins, the team's play-by-play announcer, and OSU awarded posthumous degrees to Jared Weiberg, Daniel Lawson, uld Nate Fleming, the three students on the flight. At an August cer- emony near the crash ite, families, friends, and Colorado residents qathered to dedicate a nemorial. Pictures of the ten men are carved into conuasting bands of black Italian granite- along with words chosen by their families-to form the sides of a deca- gon. In the center, ten starssurround a school mascot, the OSU Spirit Rider. Two arrows point the way for visitors-one west to the crash site, another southeast toward Stillwater. The dedication of the memorial dosed a chapter on the tragedy. But by year's end, the shock waves of the crash were still being felt. In early November, the Miesof Nate Fleming, Daniel Lawson, Will Hancock, Jared Weiberg, and Bjorn Fahlstrom filed wrongful death lawsuits aeainst" the ~ilot'sestate and North Bay Charter of Reno, Nevada, owner of the plane. Although the National Trans- portation Safety Board indicated a power loss might have occurred on the air&, no definitive condusionson a cause have been reached. 8 For his part, Eddie Sutton began another season at OSU in No- 6 vember doing what head coaches do best: inspiring, cajoling, and 9 . . . . 6 lookingahead. Head coach Eddie Sutfon, above, stands somber at a memorial spring, after the plane crash, we didn't really have a good 9 "LG % dedicated to the ten lives lost on January 27. The monument is practice," he said during arecent online chat with fins. 'We just tried located close to the crash site near Byers, Colorado. Right: Parents of crash victim Pat Noyes remember their son at the to get the season over with. [Bd this year is a whole new season. January31 memorial service in Stilhrvater. We don't want to let this one slip away."

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N A YEAR THAT SAW A RECORD-SETTING NUMBER earlier had given Warden Harley Lappin a poem to release as his Iof Oklahoma executions, the one most closely identified with our last words. In his own handwriting McVeigh had carefidy printed state did not even happen here. the 1875 poem "Invictus," by William Ernest Henley, which read On June 11, an hour after sunrise, Oklahoma City bomber in part, "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul." Timothy James McVeigh was put to death by the government he Before the execution began, McVeigh, an agnostic raised in a despised at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana. Catholic family, received the last rites, which ask for forgiveness The first federal execution in thirty-eight years was carried out from God in the event of death. Viewing the execution from Okla- six years, one month, and twenty-three days afkr the deadliest crime homa City, Larry Whicher, whose brother, Alan, died in the bomb- in Oklahoma history. The April 19,1995, bombing of the Alfred ing, described McVeigh as having a look of defiance. "I don't think P. Murrah Federal Building killed 168 people, including 19 chil- he gave himself to the Lord. I don't think he repented, and per- dren. Until eclipsed by the September 11 attacks on the World sonally I think he's in hell." Trade Center and Pentagon, the bombing ranked as the worst act Media witness Kevin Johnson of USA Tokysaw something else: of terrorism on American soil. "There was no sense of defiance." Johnson added that the thirty- "This is a completion of justice," Kathleen Treanor, who lost three-year-old McVeigh had aged considerably from April 21,1995, her four-year-old daughter and in-laws in the bombing, told the when, outfitted in an orange jail-issue jumpsuit and handcuffs, he Dallh Morning Neaus. "From my &nuly's standpoint, we have gath- emerged from the Noble County Courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma. ered no joy from seeing a person die. I don't think anydung can McVeigh never apologized for his crimes. bring me peace.. ..When I die and they lay me in my grave is when Strapped to a gurney, he died with his piercing blue eyes open, I'll have closure." staring straight into an overhead closed-circuit television camera From the nation's capital, President Bush issued a statement: "To- that beamed his execution to 232 victims and survivors gathered day every living person who was hurt by the evil done in Oklahoma at an Oklahoma City auditorium. City can rest in the knowledge that there has been a reckoning." Lappin pronounced McVeigh dead at 7:14 a.m. (CDT), only Originally set for May 16, the execution was delayed one month minutes after lethal chemicals, coursing into his right leg through after the FBI revealed it had withheld more than 4,400 pages of gray and yellow N tubes, put him to sleep, halted his breathing, material from the defense. McVeigh's attorneys frantically battled and stopped his heart. for more time to investigate. According to McVeigh's wishes, his body was cremated. His at- But at a June 6 hearing in Denver, U.S. District Judge Rich- torney, Rob Nigh Jr. of Tulsa, said the ashes would be strewn at a ard P. Matsch denied a request for a stay of execution, calling secret location that Nigh promised would not be in Oklahoma. McVeigh an "instrument of death and destruction." The next day, "Of course, we can say it was Tim himself [who] caused their after a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, also pain, and we would be half right. It would be a lie to say that we rejected a stay, McVeigh ordered his attorneys to abandon hr- are not responsible for doubling their pain, because there is a rea- ther appeals. sonableway to deal with crime that doesn't involve killing one more Four days later, the life of the man who took so many lives ended human being," Nigh said. quietly. The first federal execution since the Kennedy administra- The ten victim witnesses, selected by lottery to view the execu- tion went off like clockwork inside the never-used $500,000 fed- tion, embraced each other afterwards. Witness Paul Howell, whose eral execution facility, completed five years previously. daughter Karan Shepherd died in the blast, said: "I was looking Unlike his cruel and unusual crime, which ripped apart bodies directly at him.. .I thought, this man can never hurt us again in and shredded a nine-story building in a mangle of chaos and ter- any form or fashion." ror, the execution of McVeigh was an exhaustively scripted, seem- With his demise, McVeigh undid the last wish of Victor Harry ingly painless process following a fifty-four-page United States Feguer, who, in 1963,was the last federal inmate executed. Feguer's Bureau of Prisons' protocol. dying words were: "I sure hope I'm the last one to go." 5 "There was no sign of suffering," said reporter Crocker 9 Stephenson of the MiZwaukee/oumal Sentinel, one of ten media Journalists from around the world gather at the U.S. Penitentiary $ witnesses who viewed the execution. "The most remarkable thing in Terre Haute, Indiana; On the morning of McVeigh's execution, Aren Almon Kok, mother of Baylee Almon, visits her daughter's to me was how... subtle the process was in which he slipped from f chair with husband Stanley Kok at the Oklahoma City National $j life to death." Memorial: Death penalty opponent Bud Welch, who lost C McVeigh made no final statement at the execution. Instead, he daughter Julie Welch in the bombing, in Terre Haute. ?

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1 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Female Execution Takes Center Stage On January 1 1, Wanda Jean Allen became the first black woman executed in the United States since 1954 and the first woman executed in Oklahoma since statehood. Her plight drew Reverend Jesse Jackson to Oklahoma City in protest--even resulting in his arrest for trespassing--and with him the national spotlight on Oklahoma's record regarding executions. Allen, guilty of murdering her lover, Gloria Leathers, was the second of eight Oklahoma inmates scheduled to die by lethal iniection in a fourweek period.

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HIS MONTHWE DISCOVERED THAT OKLAHOMANS SMOKE TOO MUCH Tand weigh too much. The state's adult smoking rate increased to 25 percent, al- most 3percent above the national median. Fdy21 percent of us are morbidly obese- . up from 19.5percent a year earlier, according to the State of the State's Health report. I.

February was the longest month for Tulsa-based Helmerich & Payne Oil Company. -, ' Afier four months of ransom negotiationswith Ecuadorian kidnapperswho abducted two companyemployeesand three others, the body of employee Ron Sanderwas found in Ecuador with five gunshot wounds in the back. Negotiations for the other employee S continued,and the uagic situation was finallyresolved in mid-February, just days before 1 the kidnappers' deadline. PI 1 PRESIDENTIAL PRESENCE Bud Attend Museum Opening $IB Fittingly, on February 19, President's Day, George W. Bush made his first visit to Oklahoma as commander in chief to commemorate the opening of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Center Museum. After touring the museum, Bush called the exhibits "powerful" and "very touching," lauding the museum's mission of "changing the way every man, woman, and child feels about violence." At right, Ayla Medrano, a fifth-grade student at Nichols Hills Elementary school in Oklahoma City, interpreted her school choir's performance of "Let There Be Peace on Earth" in NativeAmerican sign language. 2 WRIGHT STYLE V) r Price TowerReopens Ajer Renovation P, The legacy of famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright can be found all across the 0 0 country, but nowhere is his high-rise philosophy more prom~nentthan in Bartlesville. C Forty-fiveyears ago this month, the opening of Price Tower made Oklahoma the only state to boast a Wrightde~i~nedskyscraper, a scaleddown version of a building he originally planned for New York City. After an extensive renovation, Price Tower reopened Februaty 10. Wright was a lifelong believer that the American population * would best be served by spreading out rather than congregating in congested cities. E Price Tower was one of few manifestations outside this philosophy.

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3 ADVENTURES IN BABYSIlllNG Teen Saves Boy1 Life Too often, emergency workers are called to a scene to find bystanders unsure of how to provide medical assistance like CPR or the Heimlich maneuver. While babysitting,

Ben Haikin, 19, successfully dislodged- a Lego- from the airway of his eight-year-old--, charge, Russell Morrill. For his efforts, Haikin was presented a Hero Award by Gary Davis, Emergency Medical Systems battalion chief for the Oklahoma City Fire Depart- ment. Haikin credited his health class at Putnam City North High School, saying. - he I paid attention "because you never know when it will come in handy." 4 BOX-OFFICE COWGIRL

Reba Gets Her Gun 3 Chockie native and winner of two Grammys, singer Reba McEntire joined the Broad- 2 way cast of Annie Get Your Gun in February and continued in the role through May. - Zf Referring to the backwoods girl who became a world celebrity for her sharp eye and n sharp tongue, McEntire said, "It's amazing how similar Annie and I are " The New P York Times said, "Ms. McEntire has ...managed to put a highly personal, proprietary g stamp on a role that the ghost of Ethel Merman has always dominated, creating the

u, most disarmingly unaffected Annie in years." x 5 THE SMEU OF SUCCESS $ Hog Farming Find Its Way Back to the Legislatzlre 5 In the ongoing saga of Oklahoma hog farms and their opponents, Representative = Jack Begley, D-Goodwell, authored a bill that would keep antihoggers from ' designating random properties as recreational sites, thus preventing any land within m three miles from becoming a hog farm. Begley said opponents were mocking a bill * passed two years earlier to keep a hog farm from locating near a Methodist church 5 camp. The new bill passed.

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825 E. 2nd Street, Suite 100 Edmond, OK 73034 (405) 34 1-4344 or visit our website at: www.visitedmondok.com HOCK-FULL OF SPORTSHONORS, HOLLYWOOD CONNECTIONS, ROYAL C visits, and business developments, the state's local papers laid down the ink in March. Presit nt Bush called the Sooner football and softball teams "champs" during their simult~musvisit to the White House. The name ofAnadarko High School cheer-

leader Sara Rebecca Smith, who died in a car accident in November 2000, was used as ,a cheer of inspiration that led the squad to a national cheerleading championship. Mean- while, the Daily Okkzbomanrecognized Boeing in its pages for having doubled the number of its employees in Midwest City over the past five years, and Tulsa native Troy Scott Norton appeared as "cute guy Jake," Phoebe's boyfriend on NBC's hit series Fiiendr.

1 FIELD DAY OU ContinuesIts Winningarreatz It seems Sooner fever is contagious. The University of Oklahoma women's basket- ball team wrapped up the Big 12 title for the second year in a row, with head coach Sherri Coale once again grabbing the sport's Big 12 Coach of the Year honors. The Big 12 Player of the Year award went to six-foot guard Stacey Dales, third from right on the back row. She also was named an All-American first-teamer by the Associated Press and Kodak. 2 BRUNEI TIME The Sultan and His Family Pay a Visit to the Sooner State Owner Bob Benham called it "a historic day for Balliet's" as the two wives of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei unburdened themselves of their American currency with U) purchases of Ferragamo shoes and St. John knits from the 50 Penn Place high-end I retailer. The sultan, one of the world's richest men, and his family were in town for a (3 complex medical procedure for their teenaged son. Performed by Florida native Dr. Warren "SonnyuJackman, a heart specialist at the 0" Health Sciences Center, the = procedure was to correct Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a potentially lethal m irregular heartbeat. Jackman is the first physician to use this method, called radio 2 frequency catheter ablation; he has treated more than 1,300 patients since the mid- * Eighties. Prince Azim was reported to be in "excellent condition" upon his release E from the hospital.

30 I OKLAHOMATODAY YEAR IN REVIEW 2001 MARCH 1 31 3 WWDY FOREVER! Okemah Native at the Top of List You don't have to convince Oklahomans that Woody Guthrie's words and music supplied the songs for his own era, but evidently his was a voice for several genera- tions. While selecting the top 365 songs of the century, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America placed Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" in the number-three slot, behind only Judy Garland's "Over the Rainbow" and Bing Crosby's "White Christmas." 4MINNIE MORE Serendipity at Disngkznd It's a small, small world. Tinker Air Force Base employee Mark Rameriz was flying high this month after being honored as Disneyland's 450 millionth visitor. Not only was Rameriz given a lifetime pass to the theme park and a suite for his family at the Grand Californian Hotel, he got to change the official park attendance sign from 400 million V) to 450 million. 5 THE PRISON FACTOR Oklahoma Among Nation i Leaders in Incarceration *e More penal press hit Oklahoma this month. The state's prison population grew by 4.5 percent for fiscal year 2000, triple the national rate for state prisons, according to the Daily 'rn Oklahoman. Pklahoma also claims the distinction of having the nation's thirdhighest * incarceration rate, following only Louisiana (793)and Texas (779).The Oklahoma State E Penitentiary, shown at right in a historic photo, houses many of the state's prisoners.

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S BEAUTIFULWEATHERACCOMPANIEDAPRIL'S RETURN TO OKLAHOMA, Athe news of the month was considerably varied. First Lady Cathy Keating an- nounced her candidacy to fill OktahomaysFirst Congressional District seat in the U.S. Hobe of Representatives. And President Bush named Oklahoma Transportation Sec- retary N4McUeb to head the federal Bureau of Indian &rs. Attendance at the

, \ -, Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was already exceeding expectations just 1-2.: mo months lfraits opening. "It's a little more than what we expected," Kari Watkins, f executive director of the memorial, told the Daily Okahoman, "averaging about 1,150 I people a day." Although they may not have any plans to serve enchiladas, Sonic began making its mark on Mexico by expanding into Monterrey, ninety miles fiom the Rio Grande. "If Sonic is able to compete with major hamburger guys in the states, it can do I it in Mexico," said Michael D. Smith, a Kansas City equity analyst. C 1 ASHCROFT VISITS MEMORIAL Vi&'mDFamiliesWeigh in on Execution king On April 10, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft visited the Oklahoma city National Memorial, where he signed the museum's guest register, right. Later that day, he met with victims' families at the U.S. Attorney's office in downtown Oklahoma city as he decided whether or not to allow them to view Timothy McVeigh's execution. Less than a week later, Ashcroft announced that the families could do so via closedcircuit telecast.

Za 2 SO LONG, FARMIELL 2 Troy Aikman Hangs His Cleats " On April 9, former Hentyetta High School yarterback Troy Aikman retired from he 1 NFL after 12 seasons with the Dallas Cowboys. An emotional Aikman made his 1 announcement at Texas Stadium, acknowledging all the people who helped sculpt his % career. Aikrnan, the number-one draft pick in 1989, followed with a winless record w during his rookie year. His career record was 93-71, 11-4 in the playoffs. Aikman led the Dallas Cowboys to three Super Bowl wins in a fouryear period between 1992 and 1995. He is currently a sportscaster with FOX Sports. I

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3 SATELLITE CITY Tulsa World ClaimsHonor Satellite, the Tulsa World's youth section, was named best in the country by the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, taking the award for overall excel- lence in the over 100,000 circulation category. Satellite also took the "Rookie of the Year" title in the 2000 competition; the back-to-backwins placed the paper in the foundation's hall of fame. 4 THE BEAR TAKES ON TULSA Legendary Golfer to Design Oklahoma Course April brought big golf news to the state. Jack Nicklaus will design his first Oklahoma course on property in west Tulsa, above. The Gauntlet at BlackJack Ridge is set to begin construction in early 2002. Five hundred home sites will adjoin the course, which organizers hope to complete in 2003. I "3 5 PAPAL REQUEST 2 The Pope Seeks Mercy for Mc Veigh In a letter to President Bush mailed the week of April 28, PopeJohn Paul II, shown at ' right reacting to an earlier execution, requested clemency for Oklahoma City bomber a Timothy McVeigh, at that time scheduled to die on May 16. In response, a Bush spokesperson said that the president believed McVeigh had been treated fairly. Federal * guidelines allowed McVeigh to request clemency up to one month after his execution E date was set, but he failed to do so.

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EWS REGARDING THE IMPENDING EXECUTION OF TIMOTHY N McVeigh filled the papers for most of May. FBI documents pettaining to

McVeigh's case surfaced days before his scheduled execution. Although the FBI was criti- cized heady, Attorney General John Ashcroft said the documents would have had no

bearingon theuial's outcome; he set a new execution date of June 11. In state politics, the House stopped short of repmtions to victims of the 1921Tulsa race riots but did vote to

hd$750,000 to help build a race riot memorial. More state news: The U.S. Depamnent of Commerce pMOklahoma dkLbehind Texas and Wornia-in the total number of Indimawned businesses. And Forbes named Oklahoma City among the one hundred i. best places to have a business and advance a career. From a businessman-in-ttainii Then someone gives you an opportunity, take advantage of it," philosophized sixth grader Zach I Weyland of Tulsa afkdung first place in the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund national es-

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1 ICING THE CAKE B h snag CHL Title i3 The winningest coach in Central Hockey league history led the Oklahoma City Blazers if hockey squad to their second national championship in five years. "We put all the V) pieces of the puzzle together," said coach Doug Sauter. "We got the momentu m... and took advantage of it." The Blazers captured the title in the fifth game of the best of (3 L seven series with a 4-1victory over the Columbus (Georgia)Cottonmouths in a sold-out Myriad Convention Center. a. F3 3 2 FREE AT LAST 3 "L !r 2 Fzj?een Years Later, an Innocent Man Hedfor Home i On May 7, Jeffrey Todd Pierce was pronounced innocent and released from the Joseph : Harp Correctional Center in Lexington after serving 15 years of a 65year sentence for k- l OKLAHOMATODAY. YEAR IN REVIEW 2001

~pe.The DNA fulal~sictesting prw~crmof the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System exonerated Pierce by retesting crime scene evidence misidentified by embattled Okla- homa Cipolice chemist Joyce Gilchrist. The House later rejected a measure that would have allowed Pierce to seek monetaty damages from the state. In October, DNA evidence also heed Albert Wesley Brown, who was released from the Lawton Correc- tional Facility after sewing 20 years of a firstdegree murder sentence. 3 HORSE FUES Tuhizn Cekbras Derby Win "Nothing could be more exciting, more incredible, more thyilling, more astonishing, and more unbelievable than today," said Tulsa oil man John Oxley. His horse, Monarchos, ridden by Jorge Chavez, pictured above with John and Debby Oxley, won the 127th Kentucky Derby in Louisville with a time two-Fifths of a second shy of the record set by Secretariat in 1973. 4 HOW DO YA UKE HIM NOW? Toby Keith WhBig After years on the national country music scene, Moore native Toby Keith won his first two Academy of Country Music Awards in 2001, snatching "Album of the Year" from Johnny Cash and Lee Ann Womack and "Male Vocalist of the Year" from George

V) Strait and Tim McGraw. I 5 SCHOOL Of THOUGHT 2 Western Oaks Middle School Ranks High on National List "We're not some hoiiy-toify private middle school," said Western Oaks Middle School principal Don Wentroth to the Daily Oklahoman. The school, in Oklahoma City's ' Putnam City district, was named to the National Association of Secondaty School w 3 Principals' list of the 100 most effective middle schools in the nation. High levels of * parental involvement, a talented faculty, and a safe environment won Western Oaks E the coveted award. What's more, the list is only compiled every ten years.

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scandal OUTSIDE: At month's end, Oklahomans paid the lowest gasoline prices in the nation. ' 9€N & HEARD: ~klahbmaCify native Alan Greenberg stepped - down after Ibyears heading Bear Stearns in New York City. - -- AT THE PUMP: $1.69/$1.3 1

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.k-ird *moral cataht~7"in ddpnrlry caws. The governor wasn't finished -7,. , . < . 'is' ' -'.. *;@*lawid healsoparticipateet in an uninteionaadyprapheticbioterrorism . * . 1- I. - -.,,- ,., 'I zt$* zt$* - AhPoseeBase. Theflhonth also had its skeofcon3ic~.A Briseow . .. " r&osnalp&nad a 56.5 &ion dement&a nlleguythathe was defamed by ~rif- " - , 7 * , I . ' - ~ o former lcbYn~reporter Chds Hahe~ during n news~ repon on thed c - . - . " ' &r9~rbe, s and show hem. But June found heroism in tragedy, as well: - .@ur$lli&$xdtdj, Nicow Park science teacher Dayid WI drowned in the Gulf of ' , kkd&h&&m~uin~afourteen-year-old student.

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wJ Twentyhe years after becoming the first athlete to post seven perfect scores in an Olym- piad, Nadia Comaneci, former Romanian gymnast, became a U.S. citizen on June 29. d Comaneci lives in Norman with her husband, Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner. c3 21 ATETHE HOLE THING Krispy Kremes Melt in theMouths of Oklahoma City Residents

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3 A GOO%, NOT A TlGER Rttief Gooma Wns US.,Open at Southern Hih Tulwns had the opportunify to show off Oklahoma hospitality and the treed maiesty of Southern Hills Country Club Golf Course this month as they hosted the 101st U.S. Open. Soh Akian Retief Goosen, abve right, snuck in a two-stroke victory over Mark Brooks of Fort Worth in an 1%-holeplayoff, taking home a $900,000paycheck.Tiger Woods, above left, was not among the top finishers. 4CRASHNDW TdaGets Big Bucks fir Dangeraus littersecttions Tulsa got a mtional black eye this month as State Farm Insurance named two of the city's intersections to their national top ten list of the most dangerous. State Farm made $1 00,000 available to Tulsa for each of the two intersections-5 1st and 71st at Memoriaks an incentive to study ways of improving their safety. City officials said i' they disagreed with the accident counts State Farm used in devising the list, adding tha they were nonetheless happy to take the money. rU, i 3 5 "DOC" IS IN-SHAPE, THAT IS I 0 Mahbta hnettAaL5 to His Tmphy Case ! 8 Eighty-twg/eardd Mahlon "Doc' Bennett won eight gold medals in this year's Soaner I -r State Games at Mmre High School, adding to an estimated 800 track and field medals he has earned since he began competing in the games at the spry age of 64. w All are stored in gallon buckets at his farm near Pontotoc in southeastern Oklahoma. When asked about his training methcd, Bennett told the Daily Ok,OWahornan, :I've got a E bull that's pretty mean, so I make him mad, and he chases me home."

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_) and city councilorJoe Wiams, who allegedly exchanged not only hot words during a ',. . weekend encounterat Whs'home but duelinggrievances afterwards. Reports of the in- .&&

cident were leaked to the media, but sinceno chargeswere filed, the case remains a source of .-,Ir-, lt~ public speculation. Onl Roberts Universityhad a gmd -bad news month. Despite a $- < $27 million debt, the announcement of a planned $17.5 donstudent center was but- % tressedby an anonymous $5million gdi in earlyJuly. Proof thata good night's sleep can save

your life: Incredibly, Sarah Sullivan slept soundly between the rails as a half-mile-long BurhgtonNorthern SantaFe uain rolled overhead. "If shehad awakened andraisedher head,

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1 TRAFFIC Highway Bust Nea Biggest Drug Haul in State History A year earlier, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol confiscated 430 pounds'of cocaine, but on July 25, on 1-40 near Elk City, the OHP seized 827 pounds of the psychostimulant from a motor home traveling from California to Tennessee. With an estimated street value of $1 billion, the bust netted the OHP the biggest drug seizure in state history. Right, Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer Pete Norwood showed off the stash. I BY THE NUMBER: 2 DECISIONS, DECISIONS 25%:The rate at which * " E WesLane Repkaces Bob Macy and Takes His Time with Nichob Decision Oklahomans 85 and okiler grew d Bob Macy served as Oklahoma County's district attorney for 2 1 years. Shown at right at his * 1: Number of 'U!S. House of .- (3 1980swearing-in, Macy stepped down on June 30. Days after replacingMac-on July 2 Repesentatives seats bst in i$ g as Oklahoma's lead prosecutor, new district altaney Wes lane refused to make a quick Oklahoma due to dedining decision about the prosecution of convicted bombing conspirator Terry Nichols. Mocy e advocated seeking a state conviction of the federally convicted Nichols, and Oklahomans were anxious to see where lane stood. He defended his hesitancy, saying, "I want to know * in my heart of hearts that I'm doing the right thing." On September 5, Lane announced at E the Oklahoma City Nationdl Memorial that he would proceed with Nichols' state trial.

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JULY 1 47 3 DOG DAYS OkIahoma Dog in National Calendar Garth Brooks, Hanson, Megan Mullally: Add one more Oklahoma face to the national spotlight. Making her debut in America's Favorite Dog Calendar is Phoebe, a female dachshund. After ten years, four dogs, and dozens of photo submissions, Tulsan Lisa Steinmeyer's efforts to get one of her pooches in the calendar were finally rewarded: I Phoebe's mug graced the July 9 page. 4 STORM CHASERS, INC. Joel Taylor Wins Weather Channel Contest In July, a May tornado swept one young Elk City man from Oklahoma to the top of a Hawaiian volcano, thanks to the Weather Channel. Besting 500 other WeatherQuest contestants, University of Oklahoma meteorology student Joel Taylor's passionate recounting of his May 3, 1999,tornado chase won him an all 1 expenses-paid trip to Hawaii and an appearance on the Weather Channel's prime- time program Atmospheres. Above right, Taylor, left, and his friend Lance Northington enjoyed a beach in Kauai. I 5 ABOUT-FACE V) Years Later, Writer Recants Charges Against Anita Hill Nearh/ a decade ago, University of Oklahoma law Anita Hill was called 2 away to Washington, D.C., to testify in the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. This month brought a new twist to the ongoing water fountain debate over who was right and who was wrong. In early July, on the National Public Radio e program All Things Considered, American Spectator reporter David Brock admitted to printing charges against Hill he knew to be false. In addition, he said he lied to protect * Thomas from exposure and participated in a cover-up. Hill, a Lone Tree native, is E currently a professor of law at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. I OKLAHOMATODAY YEAR IN REVIEW 2001 reMarkable Rooms

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UGUST'S HEAT BROUGHT WITH IT A RASH OF CRIME CONCERNS. ATulsa jail officials were in the hot seat after Brandon Florence switched ID badges and cells with fellow prisoner John Proffitt, memoriihis Social Security number and home

address, and walked out. Officials say another such incident could result in sanctions for the facility. The Oklahoma City Council voted unanimously to ban police pursuit of sus- I peas driving against dcon area roadways. A year earlier, two police officers and two citizens died after a similar police chase in Oklahoma City.

1 AT LONG LAST McAhter Man Receives Word of His Brother? Death in World War II I Walter Hancock, 70, of McAlester called the news bittersweet. After nearly 60 years of uncertainty surrounding the disappearance of his brother, John, during World War II, the army notified Hancock that a crash site discovered on a mountainside in Papua New Guinea contained the wreckage of the 51 7 his brother was flying and several of his personal effects, including the full cigarette case below. "It's sad to know, but it is a relief, too," Hancock said.

2 COMEBACK KIDS After More than Four Decades, Bacone Brings Football Back 1 I At Bacone College in Muskogee, financial problems caused the football program to 2 be discontinued after the 1957 season. But last year, the college's president, Dr. Norman P. Madsen, reinstated the sport. Eighteen months later, "This is a hungry bunch of kids that want to play a football game," head coach David Ross, right, said of his team. On August the Bacone Warriors played their first football game in tn 25, 44 years, earning a decisive 48-20victory over Haskell Indian Nation University. d g 3 HEAD HONCHO B Larry Cohr Lanh High-Pro$Le Coaching Gig at University ofMiami 1 After Tahlequah native Butch Davis resigned as head coach of the University of Miami a Hurricanes, the door was open for interim head coach Larry Coker-who spent time as an assistant at Tulsa, Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma-to assume the top spot at one 7 * of the premier college football programs in the nation. Coker, an Okemah High School +I graduate, was a former defensive star for Northeastern State University in Tahlequah. 1 OKLAHOMATODAY. YEAR IN REVIEW 2001 AUGUST 51 OUTSIDE: Congressman Stevgdlargent, in Idaho on a hunfing / trip, didn't find aut aboutthe attacks until September 13. SEEN &FRD: ~~d,~lnsAmrim'' AT THE Puwgi:67/9 142 --4-

ERROR STRUCK AMERICA. SEPTEMBER 2001, A MONTH THAT DEFIED Tdescription, was filled with reports of Oklahomanswaiting for news about friends, relatives, or coworkers known to be in New York City or Washington, D.C., on the day terrorists hijacked bur planes, crashing two into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon. From September 11on, the world changed, and each day's headlines showed the human side of the tragedy. From the sadness came anger, bllowed by reports from

Oklahoman: Two Tulsa men were arrested for beating a Pakistani man the night of the

attacks. Rumors and misinformation led to a run on filling stations as fears spread that fuel supplies would dry up and brce gasoline prices to all-time highs. And American Air-

limes-which had two flights hijacked September 1I-responded to the tragedy by laying off 3,500 jobs nationwide, 750 in Tulsa. Capitalizing on his experience from the Okla- homa City disaster, Albert Ashwood, director of Oklahoma's Civil Emergency Manage-

ment Department, was called to New York City to help coordinate the rescue efforts.

1 TWO HEARTS Oklahomans and New Yorkers Share Bond British poet John Donne once wrote, "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind." Oklahomans seem to feel these words more strongly than most. In the aftermath of September 1 1, a kindred spirit developed between the two cities, a bond created between two in battle. Fiveyear-old Lauren Maisch, middle right, sent U) money to President Bush in the wake of the attacks. An OU football game on September 29 at Owen Field, right, proved a fitting place for patriotic pride. !? 2 CROSSES TO BEAR P A Guthrie Church Pays Tibute to Victim To visually represent the number of people killed by the September 1 1 attacks, Bible M Baptist Church in Guthrie set in the ground over 5,000 white wooden crosses, one for each victim. "Each one of these represents a family that was devastated," said Zach *nu E Robbins, whose father, Pastor Robby Robbins, conceived the idea.

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3 CANINE COMFORT Tahkquah Dog Helps out at Ground Zero Patty Taylor of Tahlequah and her three-year-old Labrador search and rescue dog, Coach, iourneyed to New York City just days after the attack to help find possible survivors amid ihe building wreckage. ~he~korked12-hour days fruilessly searching for survivors. 4 ON LOCKDOWN Nation iAirports Close in Af2emath ofAttacks Travelers around the nation were siiting in closed airports watching the news of the incident on airport terminal televisions. For security reasons, the federal government grounded all flights in the nation for two days, halting commercial traffic at the Tulsa International Airport, right, and Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. 2- i 5 BElTER SAFE THAN SORRY ;2 At Tinker, Waiting Is the Word as Security Measures Increase Gaining access to state militaty bases became an exercise in patience following the attacks. Tinker Air Force Base had workers in line at the gates for more than six hours as security 2 prmnel checked every car entering the base. And Tinker's 507th Air Refueling Wing has been instrumental in supporting the F-15and F-16 fighter jets deployed to the Persian Gulf. f 6 MAYORAL BONDING Kirk Humphrqs Supports Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Traveling to New York City to witness the destruction firsthand, Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys presented Mayor Rudolph Giuliani with a seedling from the Oklahoma City V) National Memorial's Survivor Tree. Humphreys then visited ground zero. "Pictures on d television don? do justice to what this is actually like," he said. 0 7THE GIFT OF LIFE n Okhomans Lead the Pack in Blood Donations Afrcr September 11 The Oklahoma civilian contribution came in a record-breaking donation of 15,900 units w $ of blood within nine days after the terrorist attacks, far exceeding other parts of the U.S. "Oklahomans always respond with such caring and concern in times of disaster," said E Richard F. Cox, executive director of the Red Cross Blood Services in Tulsa.

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OBER IN OKLAHOMA CAME WITH DEVASTATING WEATHER AND urprising events. U.S. RepresentativeJ.C. Watts of Norman illegally parked his car at Will Rogers World Airport and was ticketed by Oklahoma City police officer Sgt. Edward Stupka,who claimedWatts treated him disrespecddy. The Fraternal Order of Police got involved, Watts tried to apologize, Sgt. Stupka refused to accept the apol- ogy, and more controversyensued. On the gridironfront, the Soonersended their twenty- game winning streak by losing to longtime rival Nebraska 20-10. Oklahomans contin-

ued to excel in the political arena: President Bush named native Tulsan Robert Jordan ambassador to SaudiArabia. And a national libraryorganizationnamed Okemah a Lit- ; 1 erary Landmarkin honor of favoriteson Woody Guthrie. Tragedystruckour stateagain I I i when a Tecumseh woman, Regina Stabler, died October 20 from a fall in Hawaii Vol- I canoes National Park. In the arts: The OklahomaArts Council announced a $520,000 3 grant from concrete giant Roger Dolese, paving the way for Tulsa native Wilson Hurley to finish a series of four landscape paintings for the State Capitol. i 1 BLOWN AWAY Unseasonal Cyclone Hits Cor&ZI Twisters blew into Oklahoma, racking up the highest number of strong tornadoes the state had ever seen in October. Catching the brunt of Mother Nature's wrath was Cordell, where more than 600 structures were destroyed or damaged. Cordell's F-3 tornado packed winds of nearly 200 miles per hour and cut a path 500 yards wide and more 3 than a mile long. Governor Keating said in an emergency declaration, "Mercifully, there : 0 were no fatalities." Cordell Police Chief Gary Coburn, whose house, right, was damaged 1 g in the storm, attributed the low number of injuries to ample warning. z ! 1 Z 2 BADGES OF HONOR I ! 2 Jenks Teen Scouts 119 c Fifteenyear-oldJenks High School junior James Derlyberry, on a quest to earn more Boy E Scout badges than his father's 53, became the only scout in Oklahoma ever to earn all k

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119. On the previous page, Denyberry checked out sweying equipment in pursuit of hbfiiol badge in drahing and surveying. 3~LAlETHIWr(NMR Sixty Yam+ Workd War II, Vranmr Receive Hkb School D;PI@& Thanks to recent state kslation allowing honorably discharged World War II veterans to receive heir high schsd diplomas, more than 75 Oklahomans graduated from high schod this fall. Nearly 60 years after hefact, commencement ceremonies around the state honored many who served our country. On October 18, 24 men enjoyed a C graduation ceremony at Capitol Hill High School in Oklahoma City, above. 4 BUILDING. PEWITS A Tuba Fim Wins National Honor The Ross Group, a 65employee company with more than $1 8 million in annual revenues, was named 2001 National Minority Construction Ffrm of the Year by the Minority Business Development Agency. Jesse Ross, above on the right, and son Warren Ross founded the company in 1496. The company's current endeavors include a $6.2 milbn veterans affdirs prow in Clinton and work on the Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks. 2 3 5AIR DlS*STER g CadianPh Crash Claims the Life of Two Taha Ledn S On October 8, a Canadian hunting trip went terribly wrong. A singleengine airplane z carrying six Tulsa burinessmen and one pilot crashed into Lake Mdlet in Quebec while - attempting to land. Four survived, but the Canadian pilot, Alexandre Meunier, and two Tulsa businessmen, James Pielsticker, above, and Charles Ryan, below, died as a result 2 of the crash. Ryan was president and COO of the Nordam Group aerospace com- E pany, Pielsticker president and CEO of Arrow Trucking Company. I OKLAHOMATODAY. YEAR IN REVIEW 2001 I ,_ 1 NISON .+.Renew Your Spirit - Ksit a Taas Treasure

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NTHRAX FEARS WERE ON THE MINDS OF MOST AMERICANS THIS month, and some of the news hit dose to home. A hanm of students who took the SAT at Eastern Oklahoma Sate College in Wdburton were notified that they might have to take it again. Their answer sheets were held at a New Jersey post office contami- a nated by anthrax. Good news for Oklahoma City schools as voters passed both the MAPS

for Kids initiative and its accompanying tax increase. Midmonth, java junkies perked up when Seattle-based Starbucks opened their first stand-alone coffeehouse at Nichols Hills

Plaza in Oklahoma City. From coffee to cows: Carter County is considering sanctions against owners of cows that consistently limbo out of their pens and journey to greener

pastures. Induded among those sanctions, the animals themselves will be impounded and

their owners financially responsible for "Found Cow" advertisements.

1 LES IS MORE Cowboys Pull Out Unexpected Bedlam Football Victory The fourth-ranked OU Sooners were heavy favorites in this year's Bedlam game against rival OSU on November 24, but the Cowboys walked away with a mark in the "win" column after a 16-13 game at Owen Field. OSU's victory meant the end of Big 12 and national championship hopes for the Sooners. At right, OSU coach Les Miles reacted to the win. Coach Stoops threw his headset after a disappointing call. Rashaun Woods with the winning touchdown catch over OU defender Derrick Strait.

2 A SUPREME UNDERTAKING I Owasso Mom Takes School Right to Privacy Issues to the Nation $ High Court Although the ruling may not come for some time, the U.S. Supreme Court heard 3 arguments this month on a case that began in Owasso. Kristja Falvo, mother of four 8 children in the Owasso school system, believed that allowing students to grade each = others1 work might be detrimental to some students and encourage cheating. The fight originally began in order to persuade the Owasso school district to change its policy but rYI ended as a Supreme Court matter regarding the release of school records without I parental consent. The court is expected to rule on the case sometime this summer. Falvo I E and her husband, Jim, right, as they left the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

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3 SIXTH SENSE Jenks Is Premier High School Football Program in the State Jenks High School fans aren't taking their sixth-in-a-row state championship for granted. "Each time is like the first time," Jenks senior Kimi Stenstrom told the Tulsa Wodd following the 38-28 victory over Putnam Ciiy North for the state 6-A title. With the November 30 victory at Lewis Field in Stillwater, head coach Allan Trimble celebrated a 79-4 record.

4 LET IT SNOW Oklahomans Face Early Cold Weather Spell w

A wintry mix of ice and snow hit early, dumping as much as eight inches of the white e2 stuff in some areas. Power outages, school closings, traffic accidents, and event cancellations were the norm.

5 A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR Magazine Recognizes Beloved Steed Hightide, a pony from Landmark Farms south of Tulsa, won Young Rider magazine's r first-ever School Horse of the Year award. Nineyear-old Hailee Myers of Jenks nominated Hightide for the award when he refused to budge on a iump he recognized as too much for her to handle. The 3 l year-old Hightide took the honors over 480 equine competitors for his easy temper and neverquit attitude. *I 4 6 MOVlNG ON 5 ' A* Merger with Conoco, Philips Pulh Co?porate Center out OfBartlesvill Phillips Petroleum, which employs 2,400 at its Bartlesville headquarters, and Conoco, E 5 with a large refinery in Ponca City, agreed to a "merger of equals" this month and $ announced that the new company, ConaoPhillips, will be headquanered in Houston Y ConocoPhillips assured Governor Keating that they would maintain a "significant ,,, presence" in Oklahoma. CEO Jim Mulva, right, discussed the merger and corporate relocation at a press conference in Bartlesville.

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1 THE WORD ACCORDING TO GARTH Brooks' Last Stand It was a year of endings for Garth Brooks. Scarecrow, released in November and Brooks' last album with Capitol Records, is his last, period, according to the Yukon native. Next, Brooks said three televised concerts in November--one, right, on November 2 1 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in Norfolk, Virginia-would be his final live perfor- mances, emphasizing that his priorities have shifted to fatherhood. And more than a year after filing, Brooks' divorce from wife Sandy was final. The two live with their three daughters in separate homes on a 2,OOUacre spread in Owasso. 2 SECONPCLASS VICTIMS? "E April 19 Victim Feel SLigbted After September 11 Settlements On December 20, the federal government announced that victims of the September 1 1 Q attacks would receive an average of $1.65 million each. The fund was initiated as part of a $15 billion airline bailout package; victims who accepted the money agreed not to sue the airlines. Though they did receive tax relief from the same bill, authored by New a York senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, the news frustrated some victims of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Okla- & homo City. After that event, the government paid death and disability benefits in much E smaller amounts to only federal employees and their families. No benefits went to

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ham City. The individual loss was just as great for us." 3 FASUUMBLY LATE &*5w+ iatrp Co& F~@ddWd ofFame The bookggds bqgot in-finally. After iwice being passed over on the ballot for the College F&Il Hall of Fame, OU fdallcoach Barry Switzer was inducted on l%kcemfagv1 1, uhgwih he besf tightend of his coaching em, Keith Jackson, above la?. hdng his 18 damns as he kners' head man, Swiker established a reputation as an excepti~nalam& arid a man who helped integrate college footboll. His career record at OU ~3 157-23-4,wifh three national championships.

4 HUNGRY, HUNGRY HIPPO * N.~%v.hidat&eOktEhom c* Zoo A erectture native to nhwest Africa has made himself at home in the capital city. On kcember I, the ninspound pygmy hippo wa~born at ths Oklahoma City Zoo to parenb Hope and The breed, an endangered species, is slightly smaller and VI Wdee. : H Ie3s aquatic thm he wmrnon hippo. A pygmy birth is extremely rare: This was only 1 the second in North America over fhe pasf five years, d ' % 5REDUGHTDETItlCT Traflc-StoppifigTicieef~in Tuba

of Violations for running red lights in Tulsa are up, way up. In 2001, Tulsa police officers issued a record number of tickets for the offenses-more than 4,000--ina i + stepped-up effort to keep city streets safer. That figure is double the number written just E five years ago. An updated edition of the Special Memorial Issue of Oklahoma Today is now available. Call today to reserve your copy of this critically acclaimed issue for only $9.95, plus $4 for shipping and handling. Major credit cards accepted. This expanded edition will not be included with regular subscriptions to Oklahoma Today.

Call tollfree 1-800-777-1793 Or order online at www.oklahomatoday.com Into That Good Night REMEMBERING OKLAHOMANS THROUGH THE FACE OF TRAGEDY

BY BROOKE DEMETZ

KLAHOMANS WATCHED THROUGH THEIR TELEVISION SCREENS THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF 0September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks sent an entire nation into mourning, and many Oklahomans grieved because of an eerie similarity to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. These Okla- homans were victims of terrorism, and we will remember them: David Shelby Berry, forty-three, born in Oklahoma City, worked on the eighty-ninth floor of the south tower of the World Trade Center. Wayne T. Davis, twenty-nine, an Edmond Memorial High School gaduate and Maryland resident, was in New York City for a conference at the World Trade Center. Major Ronald Milam, thirty-two, born and raised in Muskogee, worked in the Pentagon. Brian Moss, thirty-four, a Sperry native and Cherokee Nation mem- ber, was a U.S. Navy officer working in the Pentagon. Rick Rescorla, an OU graduate, worked for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter on the forty-fourth floor of the World Trade Center. David Harlow Rice, thirty-one, a graduate of Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School, worked on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center. Chin Sun Pak,or "Sunny" to those who knew her, was a Lawton native working in the Pentagon. She was a twenty-four-year-old army specialist.

in 1918. Little, who College Football Hall United States' wrote Fire on Mt. Zion: of Fame in 1974. youngest person to My Lz> and Histo~yns a Vessels also served as receive a double Black Woman in an officer in the army. transplant: a new America, once said, The Cleveland native heart and lungs. The "Life is too short not to is considered by many thirteen-year-old be used to help others." one of the greatest Fuller said to the ~klahomafootball Daily Oklahoman, players. He was "You have to know fighting cancer, but a where you're going fall caused complica- and how you're going tions that led to his to get there. You have death. He lived in to have a positive Coral Gables, Florida. attitude." At seven- teen, her novel, Home, was published by St. Martin's Press, AMABELB. LITTLE Billy Vessels, seventy, and in 2001, she Mabel B. Little, 104, won the University of graduated magna cum survived the Tulsa Race Oklahoma's first laude with a Riot of 1921. She Heisman Trophy in bachelor's degree in adopted twelve children 1952 and finished the English from Okla- and helped many needy season second in the homa City Univer- children through her nation in rushing and A KIMBERLY FULLL~' sity. Fuller was at community service. She scoring. Vessels, who Kimberly Fuller was a work on an autobiog- worked more than fifty played for the living advocate for raphy when she died years in the salon Baltimore Colts from organ donation. In in April from health business, organizing the 1953 to 1956, was 1985, at nine years complications. She Tulsa Beauticians Club inducted into the old, she became the was twenty-five.

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Myriad Convention fiftv-eight years old. Center and oversaw the construction of LA' the Lloyd Noble A M \ICE L. Center in Norman. He took the post as Oklahoma State president of the fair University's four- In 1985. Hotz died of teenth president, cancer in October. Lawrence L. Boger, died in May of 'KENNETH W. &SPENCER RNARD leukemia at age TOWNSEND Spencer Bernard, who seventy-seven. He Executive director of died in March at 1'DWIGHT C. served as president of the National Cowboy eighty-six, spent CLAPHAN WOODRELL JR. the university from and Western Heritage eighteen years in the Former University of More than two 1977 to 1988. During Museum since 1996, Oklahoma House of Oklahoma offensive thousand friends and his administration, Kenneth W. Representatives. In tackle Sammy Jack family members packed more than a dozen Townsend was most 1978, he was elected Claphan, forty-five, the Cleveland High new buildings were known for his love of to Oklahoma's died of a heart attack School auditorium to built, student enroll- Oklahoma. A lifelong second-highest - in November. He pay respects to a sheriff ment peaked at more resident of Oklahoma executive office as played on the OU who always had time than 23,000, and City, he received the Lieutenant Governor, football team from for Pawnee residents. capital expenditures 1976 to 1978. After Sheriff Dwight C. exceeded $200 college, the Stilwell Woodrell Jr., thirty-six, million. He served in native played seven was killed in October the military during seasons with the San while on duty as sheriff World War I1 and was Diego Chargers. He of Pawnee County. awarded with a coached at Stilwell Undersheriff Don Presidential Citation, 5 High School and Sweger told the Daily Bronze Star, and $ Midwest City's Carl Oklahoman, "Law Purple Heart. IF Albert High School. enforcementwas his 5 At the time of his life. That's what he death, Claphan taught expected out of his I2 special education in employees-I mean 5 Stilwell. total dedication." g 5

A DONALD JERRY 1990 Arthritis where he served for HOTZ Foundation's Hu- eight years. As second Donald Jerry Hotz, manitarian Award for in command, he took a sixty-seven, spent his many years of special interest in Asia's fifteen years as the civic work. "Anything agricultural and Oklahoma State Fair that I can do to economic development, President. Born in increase the quality of exporting Oklahoma's Hinton, Hotz life in Oklahoma City know-how to less !graduated from is a reward to every- developed countries. Southwestern State body in Oklahoma Funeral services for University and was City," Townsend told Bernard were held in drafted into the army the Daily Oklahoman Rush Springs. 4 OU ranks in the top five public universities in the United States in the graduation of Rhodes Scholars since the scholarship was established.

4 OU ranks first among the Big 12 universities in the growth of research hnding. OU's research and training programs have grown twice as fast as the national average over a 10-year period, according to a survey by the National Science Foundation.

4 OU's recently completed five-year Reach for Excellence Campaign raised over $5 14 million and was one of the largest hnd-raising campaigns in U.S. history conducted by a public university. It tripled the number of endowed faculty positions from 100 to over 330.

4 OU ranks first in the Big 12 and at the top in the nation in international exchange- agreements- with I countries around the world. The university has student exchange"" agreements with 129 The seed sower - the centerpiece of OUS seal and a universities in more than 50 nations. longcine symbol of Sooner pride - will soon be a Presidential travel scholarships give students mawred landmark on all three OU campw. an opportunity to travel and study around The larger-than-@ bronze smlptum have been installed at the entrance to the South Oval on the the world. OU has students from over Norman campus and at the ennance to OUs 110 countries on the Norman campus. Schusterrnan Center in Tulsa. A third seed sower will be placed at the OU Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma Ciw

4 OU ranks at the top in the nation per capita among all comprehensive public universities in National Merit Scholars. More than 800 National Scholars are currently enrolled at OU. The 2001 freshman class includes 129 National Scholars.

4 OU has the highest ranked student body at a public university in the history of the state. OU's 2001 freshman class includes 251 State Regents Scholars, more than two times the number at the school in second place. State Regents Scholars rank in the top one-half of 1 percent in the nation in test scores.

The Harold Powell Garden weIcmes visitors to the University of 4 OU's endowment ranks among the top 25 Oklahoma5 North Oval with Allan Homer5 "May We Have Peace" public university endowments in the nation. sculpture.

Th Univmiry of CMInkis an equal opnuniy im'mtion, Graceful Exit SUSAN SAVAGE LEAVES THE TULSA MAYOR'S OFFICE

BY P.J. LASSEK

EADY FOR CHANGE AND NEW CHALLENGES, RTulsamayor Susan Savage surprised supporters and critics alike when she announced her departurefrom the political arena this year. "I want to serve out this term, and I want to evaluate my options," she said at a May 10 press conference. For Tulsa, Savage represents many firsts. Not only is she the herOil Capital's first female mayor, she is also the mayor who holds the longest reign in Tulsa history. Formerchief of staff under Tulsa mayor Rodger Randle, Savage was elected to her first-ever political seat-the mayoral seat-in 1992during a special election after her boss resigned in the middle ofhis four-year term.Shewas reelected in ageneral election in 1994and againin 1998.

A third-generation Tulsan, Savage has directedthe city's > 1f1 future during one of its most dynamic times in history, particularlyas the city emerged from an oil bust and into the lure of a technology hre.At age forty-nine, her nearly decade-long efforts have brought her both praise and criticism. "I've worked as hard as Iknow how to move Tulsa for- ward to build ne&borhoods, tohelp create jobs, improve education, to address water and air quality issues, and to work to contribute to a quality of life that really super- sedes an individual standard of living," she said in May. Although her foes laud her for her public service and political savvy, they perceive a weakness in leadership qualities which they say has slowed Tulsa's progress. Her supporters say her record speaks for itself. Three times, she received voter approval for the third-penny sales tax extension that is vital to maintaining and expanding the city's irdkmucture. Savageas0 has eamed accolades&om the Environmental Protection Agency for the city's inno- vative ways of hankair and water qdtyissues. The mother of two daughters says she isn't dosing the door to future community service. "I just don't know whether that return will translate into another political office or into political service relating to air and water is- sues, I haven't thought that fk ahead." Tulsa mayor Susan Savage As Savage prepares for her departure from office, one announced in May 2001 that she thing appears dear, her first exposure to the political arena will not seek reelection. Savage, rn photographed in her office on ;unlikely to be her last. April 24, 2001, will stay in office until April 1,2002, whqthe new P.J. Lassek has writtenfor the Tulsa World for kgh- I .'mayor is sworn in, - , - fenyean and covered Tulsa City Hall since I99Z Oklahoma's Public Radio I OMRF Congratulates Jordan Tang, PhoDo recipient of the National Alzheimer's Association PIONEER AWARD

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