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1959-1961
1962-1966
1967-1980
Bobby Jack Stuart, - 1944 |
Bobby Jack Stuart, a Class of 1944
graduate who
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Donald Gene
Chandler - 1952 |
Birth: Sep. 5, 1934, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, Death: Aug. 11, 2011 Tulsa Oklahoma, USA
Professional Football Player. For twelve seasons (1956 to 1967), he played
at the punter and kicker positions in the National Football League with the
New York Giants and Green Bay Packers. Born Donald Gene Chandler, he was
raised in Oklahoma where he attended Will Rogers High School (Tulsa) and
played collegiate football at the University of Florida. Selected by New
York during the 5th round of the 1956 NFL Draft, Chandler experienced a
world championship with the Giants while a rookie. As a Packer, he
contributed to two world championship titles from the Lombardi dynasty
era (which happened to be the first two Super Bowl contests in 1967 and
1968) and during Super Bowl II, he kicked a record 4 field goals, as Green
Bay defeated the Oakland Raiders 33 to 14 played on January 14th, 1968.
Chandler set a Packers' team record, when he kicked a 90-yard punt against
the 49ers in 1965 and holds the team record of eight extra points in a
regular season game, when he accomplished this against Atlanta in 1966. In
154 regular season games, he recorded 660 punts for 28,678 yards and totaled
530 points as a kicker. He was a participant in nine world championship
contests. He achieved Pro-Bowl status in 1967. Chandler was inducted into
the Packers Hall of Fame in 1975 and was named to the NFL 1960s All-Decade
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Dr. Warren G. Guntheroth-1945 |
Dr. Warren G. Guntheroth, MD
passed away September 17 after suffering a heart attack at his office at
University Hospital. He reached the Emergency Room within minutes, fully
conscious and giving directions. Dr. Guntheroth met death on good terms; his
wife Sally nearby, with little pain and no fear, and without lingering
physical or mental disability.
Warren was born in 1927 to working-class parents and grew up in
Depression-era Oklahoma. He attended Harvard College and Medical School on
an academic scholarship. He met his first wife Ellie when he was a medical
resident and she was a nursing student. They had three children together;
Kurt, Karl, and Sten, and six grandchildren. Their marriage lasted 52 years,
only ending on Ellie's death. Warren's second wife Sally was Ellie's nursing
school roommate and maid of honor at his first wedding. Warren was an avid
skier, and climbed 500 named mountain peaks. Warren loved his dogs, and
loved to talk about them, particularly Sasha, about whom he wrote a book.
Dr. Guntheroth joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1957,
founded the department of Pediatric Cardiology, and became a full professor
in 1969. He published 184 peer-reviewed papers, four medical books and 54
chapters, including the first medical textbook on Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome. He maintained a clinical practice for 55 years, following
thousands of patients from infancy to middle-age. Dr. Guntheroth was the
first American to publish a paper calling for the "back to sleep" position
for infants, preventing thousands of deaths from SIDS each year. Professor
of pediatrics (cardiology), University of Washington School of Medicine,
Seattle; author, "How to Read Pediatric ECGs," "Crib Death: Sudden Infant
Death Syndrome." Dr. Guntheroth died September 17, 2012. |
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Ernest Moody graduated in 1944 at which
time he established the first Moody’s Jewelry. Throughout the 1950's and
60's his store was the major seller of class rings to Rogers students.
Moody later went on to establish four stores in Tulsa. He was a member of
the Rotary Club of Will Rogers and Retail Merchants. Ernest Moody passed
away about 5 years ago. |
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Fred Sanders
class of 1945 |
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Aircraft design engineer; began 41 year
career with McDonnell in
1957, retiring as vice president and general manager, St. Louis Division,
McDonnell-Douglas
Astronautics Co.; worked on Mercury and Gemini spacecrafts; program director
for Skylab
production in California. Sanders, Fred J. baptized into the
hope of Christ's resurrection, Monday, September 6, 2010.
Beloved husband of Marceline F. Sanders (nee Shaw); dear father
of Fred W. (Debbie) Sanders of Forest Lake, MN; grandfather of
Niccole Sanders and Brendon Sanders; brother of Ann (Richard)
Gibbs of Tulsa, OK and Mary (Jack) Graeber of Broomfield, CO;
dear brother-in-law, uncle, cousin and friend. Fred retired as
the Vice President and General Manager of The McDonnell Douglas
Astronautics Co. Services: Memorial Mass at Ascension Catholic
Church, Chesterfield, Friday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. Interment
Memorial Park Cemetery, Monday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m. In lieu of
flowers, contributions may be made to Alzheimer's Association |
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Gordona Duca- 1958
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Gordona Duca is president of Gordona Duca,
Inc., REALTORS. She received her real estate license in 1971 and was
recognized locally and nationally as one
of the outstanding salespeople in residential real estate. With service as
her
#1 priority, she opened her own real estate firm in October of 1975 with
three sales agents and no staff. Today her company is one of the leading
real estate companies in Tulsa and Oklahoma. She currently employs a staff
of 18 and has more than 75 agents associated with her firm. She is active
at all levels in the real estate industry and is an active participant in
the Tulsa community donating time to the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of
Commerce, Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority, Tulsa Junior League,
University of Tulsa, Tulsa Philharmonic and her company adopted Grissom
Elementary School |
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William Lewis - Class of 1949 |
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William Lewis, a member of the Class of 1949 who
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performed 140 major roles in ten languages during a 35-year stint with
the New York Metropolitan Opera
A heralded leading tenor of the Metropolitan
Opera in New York City from 1957 to 1992. Renowned internationally at
Teatro alla Scala, Milano; Royal Opera Covent Garden, London; Vienna
Staatsoper; Hamburg Staatsoper; Opera de Paris; San Francisco Opera; and
the festivals at: Salzburg, Edinburgh, Spoleto Italy, Spoleto USA,
Wexford, Ireland and Amsterdam. He is a distinguished professor of the
Butler School of Music of the University of Texas and the president of
FAVA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lewis_(tenor) |
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Frank and Carol Morsanni |
Frank and Carol Morsanni, two members of the
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of 1949 who have donated more than $34 million to a variety of charities
and educational institutions |
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Paul Davis Class of 1955
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Illustrator, graphic designer, art
director; Art Directors Club Hall of Fame,
1995, and Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame, 2009; author, "The
Poster Art of Paul Davis"
and "Faces";
Paul created Tulsa's 2002 Mayfest poster.Davis
was born on February 10, 1938 in Centrahoma, Oklahoma. His father who
was a Methodist minister was given assignments that took him to
different towns, including Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Davis attended Will
Rogers High School. He was always interested in drawing, so at fifteen
he took a job with a local illustrator, Dave Santee, doing odd jobs
around the studio. He left Tulsa for New York City when he graduated at
seventeen. New York in the early fifties was the place where a young
illustrator could either flourish or be stuck in the salt mines of the
art service agencies. Davis was lucky, for at this time a revolution
with a profound impact on the method and content of illustration was
beginning at The Cartoonists and Illustrators School (later renamed The
School of Visual Arts) where he attended both day and night classes.
Robert Weaver, Phil Hays, George Tscherny, Sal Bue, Tom Allen and Eugene
Karlin offered classes in illustration and design that engaged the young
Davis. “It was a turning point in American illustration,” he says. “It
was a rejection of Norman Rockwell, who was at his best a great Flemish
painter and at his worst a bad cartoonist, as well as of the entrenched
Westport style of romantic illustration.”
Davis' high school art teacher, Hortense Bateholts, introduced him to
the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe and the Regionalists, Thomas Hart
Benton and John Stuart Curry. He also had a grounding in Western art
including work by Alexander Hogue and Charles Banks Wilson. Tulsa's
Gilcrease Museum has an excellent collection of Western Art including
many paintings by Russell, Remington, Bierstadt and Catlin. Davis
therefore became rather skilled at realistic rendering. Art school
taught him how to see, feel and expressionistically record his
observations. But when the time came to make a commercial portfolio,
Davis decided to set this knowledge aside and draw like a five-year-old.
“I became interested in artists like Joan Miro and Paul Klee and their
child-like approach to painting,” he says. His teachers responded with
mixed reviews: Weaver was against it. Hays, Bue and Tscherny approved,
reasoning that it was a fascinating and necessary return to elemental
form. At the end of the semester Hays arranged for Davis to have a small
exhibition at the school. “Some students were upset that I was violating
the rules of academic drawing,” he recalls, “and Weaver, as he said
years later, was disappointed that I did not become one of his
imitators. He felt that I could have carried the torch—I consider that a
huge compliment.” Not only did Davis get some needed reinforcement from
his teachers, but he also got an agent who landed him a freelance
assignment with Playboy. A job from Art Paul, art director of Playboy,
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LT Neil R.
Sparks, Jr. USN Class of 1954 |
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Presented the Navy Cross, for
extraordinary heroism in aerial flight on 17 July 1967 as aircraft
commander of an armored helicopter in Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron
TWO, during a search and rescue mission over North Vietnam. Lieutenant
Sparks courageously penetrated the coastal defenses of North Vietnam to
rescue a downed naval aviator in a heavily defended area thirty miles
south of Hanoi. Although the helicopter was hit by intense and accurate
enemy fire, disabling the radios, automatic stabilization equipment, and
airspeed indicator, he skillfully hovered for twenty minutes until the
survivor was safely hoisted aboard. Under intense antiaircraft fire,
Lieutenant Sparks, through adept maneuvering, prevented further damage
to the helicopter during the flight back to the coastline. Two and
one-half hours after penetrating the coastal defense over North Vietnam,
and having traveled two hundred miles over heavily-fortified hostile
territory, he brought his crew and the downed aviator to safety. By his
courageous actions, exceptional skill and fearless devotion to duty,
Lieutenant Sparks prevented the capture by hostil forces of a fellow
aviator, thereby upholding the highest traditions of the United States
Naval Service. |
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Nancy Jo (Daulton)
Beier Class of 1956
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Outstanding career of opera and light
opera; performed
with symphonies in Detroit, San Francisco, Missouri and Washington; sang
dramatic soprano
five years with symphonies in Germany; recitals in Holland, Denmark,
Italy and England;
teaches voice; judges vocal competitions. Sang role of Bloody Mary in
first amateur production
of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, at WRHS, 1956. |
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Russell Myers
Class of 1956 |
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American
cartoonist for newspaper comic strip Broom-Hilda |
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Philip Butler - 1956 |
PHILLIP N. BUTLER Class of 1956 was
a
Lieutenant Commander - United States Navy. He was
Shot Down: April 20, 1965 in North Vietnam. He was Released: February
12, 1973 |
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Anita
Bryant – 1958 |
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Anita Bryant was born on 1940 in Barnsdall, Oklahoma. She starred in the school production of “South Pacific”, the first amateur
showing of the Broadway musical.
After leaving
Rogers she
became "Miss Oklahoma" in 1958. She was 2nd runner-up in the 1959 Miss America Pageant. In 1961 she
was the Cashbox Award Winner for "Most Promising Female Vocalist. In
1961 she recorded Kisses Sweeter Than Wine with Columbia records.
In 1962 Anita recorded
Across the Alley from
the Alamo. She was nominated for three Grammy awards for outstanding
gospel singing. She supported the armed service men in Vietnam with seven
USO Tours. In 1977, 1978 and 1979 she was voted "Most Admired Woman
in America" by Good Housekeeping. She co- chaired the Statue
of Liberty fund raising effort with Lee Iacocca and was a 1986 Ellis
Island Medal of Honor winner. She has had three million-selling records,
published 13 books and has made many live performances across the country.
She was spokeswoman for Coca Cola and the Florida Citrus Growers. Anita
presently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where she continues her career and
participates in a variety of civic and business interests. |
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Charles Bell Class of 1953 was an American
Photorealist known primarily for his large scale still lifes |
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JAMES W. JONES,
Class of 1959
M.D., Ph.D., M.H.A |
Recipient of numerous
awards for his ground-breaking medical research
Married to Joan Wachna Jones, M.S., J.D.
Current Title: Professor of Medicine and
Medical Ethics (Visiting)
The Center for Medical Ethics and Health
Policy
Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas
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