Rear Admiral Margaret Deluca “Peg” Klein

– Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Military Professionalism A native of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Rear Admiral Margaret Klein was commissioned in May 1981 upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. She earned her Master of Education from the University of Southern Maine in 1999. A naval flight officer, Klein’s operational assignments include multiple […]

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Joy Hofmeister

– State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister was sworn in as Oklahoma’s 14th State Superintendent of Public Instruction on January 12, 2015. She is a former public school teacher and small business owner. She served on the Oklahoma State Board of Education from January 2012 through April 2013 as an appointee of Governor Mary Fallin. […]

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OCU Rotaract Club Update

– From Marty O’Gwynn The club hosted an info table (with cookies and flyers) at the university’s version of a “campus organization fair” on Thursday, September 3. We had about 30 students (mainly freshmen) sign up to express interest in the club. (The event was focused on freshman students.) Our first official club meeting of […]

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A Unique Volunteer Opportunity

– Paul Moore The power of committed volunteers never ceases to amaze me. Throughout my 40 year career in the nonprofit arena, I saw people do so much good, and now I am seeing it again. Bankers, lawyers, insurance executives, CEO’s, marketing experts and so many more are donating their expertise through ESCCO (Executive Service […]

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Seyed Hossein Mousavian

Seyed Hossein Mousavian is an associate research scholar at the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a former diplomat who served as Iran’s Ambassador to Germany (1990-1997), Head of the Foreign Relations Committee of Iran’s National Security Council (1997-2005), Spokesman for Iran in […]

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Gean B. Atkinson

Gean B. Atkinson is president of Atkinson Advertising Associates. He is a past president of Club 29 and of the Committee of One Hundred. He has bachelors and masters degrees in Journalism and Radio & Television from the University of Central Oklahoma and was named the Outstanding Journalism Graduate Student and later a Distinguished Alumni. […]

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Frank Wang

  Dr. Wang joined the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics as its President in August, 2012.  He succeeded Dr. Edna McDuffie Manning, who had served as the school’s president since its inception. Dr. Wang earned his Bachelor of Arts in Math from Princeton University in 1986 and his Doctorate in Pure Math from the […]

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Observations on China

– Susan McVey I recently returned from my first ever visit to China. The trip was on my husband’s bucket list and since we aren’t getting any younger and the flights aren’t getting any shorter, we decided this was the year to go. My husband and I travelled with friends who are originally from China. […]

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Deana McCloud

Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Center Deana McCloud is the Executive Director of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa’s Brady Arts District. She is a member of the Brady Arts District Business Association, Folk Alliance International, and the Tulsa Regional Chamber. In addition, she serves on the board of The Oklahoma Center for Poets […]

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Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and Jalal Farzaneh moved to the United States in 1978 and made Oklahoma their new home.  Both Jalal and Mohammad received their bachelor and Master of Architecture from the University of Oklahoma; they serve on the Board of Visitors at the OU College of International Studies. In 1981, the brothers started their homebuilding company Home Creations, now Oklahoma’s largest homebuilding company. Jalal […]

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