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The Alumni Foundation would like to for providing a digitized copy of his Class of '65 Group Photo to replace the missing photo at Hale. If you would like to have a copy of the full-size 200dpi jpeg file emailed to you, just send your request to info@NathanHaleAlumni.org. |
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We recently
acquired a 1963 Patriot yearbook that had some bonus items tucked
inside. One of these unexpected treasures was the program from
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Announcing the marriage of Paul Cooper, Class of '65 on The couple first met when
Donna's family moved next door to Paul, from After a two year relationship,
the couple went separate ways but rediscovered each other when Paul
inquired about Donna's fate after Katrina, to find that her Both had previous marriages ending in divorce and after a 40 year separation, they discovered love has no time limits. |
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Thank You! The Alumni Foundation and Hale's 2007 National Honor Society would like thank Donald Hudson, for serving as the keynote speaker for the recent NHS Leadership Convention at Hale. The convention brought in NHS students from all over Oklahoma. Donald made a great motivational presentation to this group of young future leaders. We were proud to have him here to represent us. |
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Skip
Sandberg is an accomplished photographer. His web site has
several galleries of stunning black and white photos he has taken in
various locations around the world. The following is the biography
from his web site: Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Skip Sandberg came west to UCLA and settled in Mill Valley in 1977. Only 12 miles north of San Francisco and |
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the base of 2600 ft. Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley is a year round paradise for
outdoor activities. Skip enjoys trail running, hiking, mountain biking,
and landscape photography. 5/7/07 UPDATE: Skip has a new gallery of photos from his trip to Scotland last year. His photography will be shown at Marin Open Studios in Mill Valley, CA, on May 12-13, 2007. Visit Skip's web site
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Allen Smallwood's honor was for the betterment of the nation's solo practitioners.A longtime Tulsa attorney has received national recognition for his legal career from the American Bar Association. |
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Allen Smallwood
received the Donald C. Rikli Lifetime Achievement Award from the
ABA's General Practice Solo and Small Firm Division at the group's
annual meeting in Honolulu.
Smallwood, 59, is a lifelong resident of Tulsa. After graduating from Hale High School in 1965, he served in the Marine Corps from 1966 until 1968, spending 14 months as an infantryman in Vietnam. He received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University in 1972 and his law degree from the University of Tulsa in 1974. Smallwood has practiced law since 1975, concentrating primarily on criminal defense work in both state and federal courts. He has previously received awards for ethics and professionalism from the Oklahoma and Tulsa County bar associations. Smallwood is currently a fellow with the American College of Trial Lawyers. He previously was a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association Board of Governors. The Donald C. Rikli Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a lawyer who has worked diligently toward the betterment of the nation's solo practitioners, according to the ABA's Web site. Smallwood said last week that receiving the award was a "huge honor." He said he has been told that the Rikli Lifetime Achievement Award is not presented every year. Smallwood said he
originally was not planning to attend the meeting in Hawaii but then
learned that his presence was required. He said he bought an airline
ticket on short notice and made a whirlwind trip to Honolulu to
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Tulsa attorney Michael
McBride said Friday that he co-nominated Smallwood for the award.
He said new 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jerome Holmes,
Tulsa County District Judge Tom Gillert, outgoing Federal Public
Defender Paul Brunton and Tulsa attorney R. Thomas Seymour all
submitted letters supporting the nomination.
McBride described Smallwood as a "consummate trial lawyer" who served as his mentor. He wrote in his nomination letter, "If my liberty ever were at stake, Allen would be the first lawyer I would call." by David Harper, Tulsa World, August 13, 2006 |
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Steve Kauffman and
Fran Emery went "steady
during their senior year at Hale. They were married in 1967. Steve and Fran write: After almost 40 years, we have three married sons, five grand kids and now live in L.A. (Lower Alabama) on the Gulf Coast. We visit Tulsa often and would like to hear from old friends. |
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MARY KAY PLACE We're very proud to be able to brag about one of our most well-known Rangers - Mary Kay Place - but where do we begin? I spent the entire evening looking at photos and reading
about all her accomplishments - beginning with her days at Hale. She
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We won't be able to fit it all in, but we're including a great mix of
photos through the years, including several from Hale yearbooks, and a
well written biography from one of her latest films. Plus, an added bonus we found digging through Hale's archived files - an article that Mary Kay wrote for the TPS newspaper, Tulsa School Life, dated September 17, 1964, early in her senior year. |
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Born and raised in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, Mary Kay Place was first critically acclaimed for her role as
country singer Loretta Haggers on the hit comedy series, Mary
Hartman, Mary Hartman, for which she won the Emmy for Best
Supporting Actress in a comedy. After working for the head writers of
Maude at Norman Lear's Tandem Productions, Place began
co-writing for numerous TV series, including M*A*S*H, (for
which she earned an Emmy nomination in 1973 with Linda Bloodworth),
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Editor's Note:
3/5/06 Knowing that Carol Adams-Stutzenbecker was a resident
of New Orleans, I contacted her to see how she was doing after Katrina.
We received the following reply: It was good to hear from an alumni of Hale. The greater New Orleans area continues to improve daily. However, the neighborhoods of the hard-hit areas are still for the most part uninhabitable. Entire communities are nonfunctional. It is incredible to see the devastation. |
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Efforts to restore
these communities is very slow. My neighborhood, (Driftwood Park, Kenner), was hit hard by Katrina, but homeowners are working hard to get their houses repaired. Many families are living in FEMA trailers on their property. We had wind and flood damage to our house in Kenner. We have successfully been able to get a new roof and our vinyl siding has been repaired. Getting the inside of our house fixed has been real slow. We are still waiting to get our sheetrock repaired and new kitchen cabinets, then new floors. We are able to live in our house. We left behind a car, and it got flooded (it was totaled). We have bought a new car to replace it after sharing a car for 5 months. I am fortunate to still have my school teaching job. Life here is hard, but every day you see improvement. It will take the area many years to recover. Our hospitals and school systems have suffered greatly. In spite of all of this, let me say that there have been good things to come out of a bad thing. This in itself has been a real life lesson. We must focus on the good things and trust that our lives will again take shape. Good to hear from you. Carol (Adams) Stutzenbecker, Class
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After graduating from the
University of Tulsa in 1969, Paul Cooper entered the Air Force and
attended pilot training at Moody AFB in Georgia. Paul writes: In 1970 I went to Strategic Air Command and was assigned to fly the KC-135 at Travis AFB near San Francisco, CA. |
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I had numerous duty assignments around the world, including three tours to the Viet Nam war zone where I flew 63 combat sorties and was awarded the Air Medal. I separated from the Air Force in 1975 and am currently a film and television screenwriter living in the Los Angeles area. Visit Paul's bio on the Rangers in the Military page. Editor's note: We sincerely appreciate Paul sending us his military career information for our Rangers in the Military page - but being who we are, we just couldn't resist doing a little research and adding the information about his screenwriting career also. |
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AWARDS Three Emmys · Five Emmy Nominations · One Humanitas Prize · Two Humanitas Nominations · One Writers Guild Award · Four Nominations · Spur Award - the Western Writers of America · Epiphany Prize Nomination · The Movie Guide Award MOTION PICTURES INTERACTIVE CD-ROM STAFF EXPERIENCE & ACADEMIC TELEVISION CABLE IN DEVELOPMENT |
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Congratulations to Bill Grimm. He was recently elected to serve as President of the Oklahoma Bar Association for 2006. Bill is the director and treasurer of the Tulsa law firm, Barrow & Grimm. |
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Tulsa
World, January 25, 2006 Jim Moon did not graduate from Nathan Hale High School, nor does he attend sporting events there. But he has given the school's athletic program an assist. Moon donated nearly $7,000 for two scoreboards in the Hale gymnasium. Three of Moon's children and one granddaughter attended Hale, 6960 East 21st St. His daughter, Karen Moon-Tinker a member of the Nathan Hale Alumni Foundation and a 1974 Hale graduate, told Moon about the need for the scoreboards after a Hale alumni foundation meeting. "We were just talking about things that I was involved with at the school. I told him we were trying to raise money for new scoreboards," Moon-Tinker said. Moon told his daughter he would be happy to help the school. "I thought it was great," Moon-Tinker said. "He's always been a generous guy, but this was a surprise -- a pleasant surprise." Moon said it is an honor to help the community. "You don't really get that many chances to affect so many people," said Moon, who retired in 1998 as owner of Time Mark Corporation, an industrial electronics manufacturer. "It's worth it if they (students) can keep their interest in the sports program. It's just nice to be able to do something like that." John Houchin, a 1965 Hale graduate, is president of Houchin Electric Co., an electrical contractor. His company installed the new Electro-Mech Model 2655 basketball-volleyball-wrestling scoreboards on Jan. 19 and 20, free of charge. "It's just good business. It promotes community spirit," Houchin said. Houchin has good memories about his alma mater. One of those came in 1964, when he was on Hale's state championship swim team. "That year, we won almost everything. We excelled in athletics," he said. Those memories are part of the reason he wanted to help. "I guess it's a little pride in my school," Houchin said. "It was a great school when I went there." The scoreboards were scheduled to be used for the first time on Jan. 24 for basketball games against Memorial High School. Hale Principal Chris Johnson said the donations show the importance of community involvement. "The administration, students, coaches and staff greatly appreciate a donation of this size," Johnson said. "(The donation) means a further improvement of our athletic program and further improvement for our facilities." Hale recently added a new roof, a new air conditioning system, new interior paint, and new exterior windows and doors throughout the school, Johnson said. Improvements also were made to both gymnasiums and all the locker rooms, where new floor tiles were installed. This summer, the lockers and the gym floors will be replaced, Johnson said. "This scoreboard kind of keeps pace with the other improvements in the school," he said. Tammy Altaffer, girls' basketball and track coach at Hale, said the new scoreboards were overdue. "They (were) very old and outdated, so it hurt the appearance of our gym, which looks great since the new painting," she said. Boys' basketball coach Lester Johnson agreed. "The upkeep on our gym makes it one of the most modern in the city right now. The way the gym is kept and the way our scoreboard is, it's time for a new one. I'm more than glad to see them come," he said. By Cory YounBy Cory Young Tulsa World 1/25/2006 |
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Faithful Men Ministries was founded in February of 2003 by Jack King to continue the ministry established by the “father of men’s ministry”, the late Dr. Edwin Louis Cole. The vision of Faithful Men Ministries is to see men's lives changed through the gospel of Jesus Christ and to see men mature in the Lord, become committed and faithful men. |
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Bill
Burnett moved to southern California where he served as an Orange
County campaign coordinator for Robert F. Kennedy. He built a
successful career in the electronics and security field and retired in
1989 from a position as a national sales manager to start a medical
billing service. He is currently working in the real-estate and telecommunications business. |
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In December of 1998, in Riverside, CA, a 19-year old black woman was killed by police. The shooting of Tyisha Miller became international news and attracted the attention of such diverse media as "60 Minutes" and The New York Times. Bill chaired the Grand Jury investigation looking into the Riverside Police/Tyisha Miller tragedy. He soon became convinced that Greg Preece and the other officers involved were being "railroaded" by city officials for a variety of political and economic purposes. He has
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Donald
Hudson's professional accomplishments began while he served in the
United State Air Force and was stationed in Udorn Thailand. While
there and working with the Royal Tai Air Force, he developed and taught an
English course and was recognized for his efforts by being awarded a
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In the technical arena, Donald was the co-designer of the telecommunications backbone system now installed at the FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. He was the data security architect for the 1989 modernization effort for the IRS, developing an architecture that was approved the the U.S. Department of Treasury, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the General Accounting Office. Donald led the initial effort to develop an e-learning program for the IRS and recently led the effort to develop a knowledge management portal for executives throughout the Department of Treasury. Donald is
the author of two books, and is currently writing the third. His
first book "Maximize Your Potential" addressed all of the things we
think, do and say to sabotage our true potential and alternative ways of
thinking. The second book, published in 1999 is titled "Stress
Management 101", a tool to help identify stresses As a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Donald developed the concept and practice of Integrated Relational Hypnotherapy (IRH) which is a holistic treatment approach, recognizing the integration of mind, body and spirit and the necessity to address all three aspects simultaneously. He also has designed a model for the integration of technology and accelerated learning techniques into a single e-learning event and has had initial meetings with the University of Texas regarding a potential development project. Donald's most recent accomplishment was being recognized in the 2001-2002 edition of the National Register of Who's Who In Executive and Professionals for his accomplish-ments as an Entrepreneur and Business Executive. Donald has been a professional speaker for over 30 years, beginning his distinguished career as an ordained minister. His speaking experience includes being called upon to brief Congressional Sub-Committee members for the US Congress on several occasions, hosting his own radio program and being interviewed on television. Donald has been a speaker at numerous national conventions in the US for organizations and events such as IFTDO, ASTD, The Government & Learning Technology Symposium, The Information Management Forum and Telcom West, speaking primarily on the subjects of e-learning, knowledge management and the integration of technology. You can contact Donald through his web site: www.hudson-enterprises.org |
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