The McElroy Family
Year Inducted: 2022
Donna M. Dutton, Peggy M. Tanner, and A.H. “Chip” McElroy II
Dennis R. Neill
Year Inducted: 2022
In March 2018, Dennis retired after serving for 37 years in various positions with the Schusterman Family interests in Tulsa. From 2012 until retirement,...
Steve Turnbo
Year Inducted: 2022
Steve Turnbo is a leader – in public relations, in business and in civic affairs – throughout Oklahoma. With more than 45 years experience,...
Eva Unterman
Year Inducted: 2022
In 2019, The Synagogue/Congregation B’nai Emunah bestowed its highest honor upon Eva Unterman at its annual Touro Celebration. The event is named for Judah...
Tim Colwell
Year Inducted: 2021
Award-winning corporate communications professional and Rotarian...
B.C. Franklin
Year Inducted: 2021
B.C. (Buck Colbert) Franklin was an attorney, a rancher, a newspaper publisher, a postmaster general and a writer...
Toni Garner
Year Inducted: 2021
Antoinette Marie Garner, simply known to everyone as Toni, was born in Tulsa in 1956...
Hannibal B. Johnson
Year Inducted: 2021
Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an attorney, author, consultant, and college professor...
Jake Henry Jr.
Year Inducted: 2021
Jake Henry Jr. wrapped up more than five decades in the healthcare field when he retired after 19 years...
Frontline Heroes
Year Inducted: 2020
Health Care Workers, First Responders, Banking, Retail and Media, Supply Chain, Utilities and Postal Services, Educators, Non-Profits and Volunteers
Juley Roffers & Jim Langdon
Year Inducted: 2019
Jim and Juley met in Oklahoma City on a blind date in 1983. At the time, Juley was practicing law and Jim was working...
Madeline Manning Mims
Year Inducted: 2019
Named one of America’s Outstanding Young Women, Madeline is a Gold and Silver Olympic Medalist in track. She pioneered the 800-meter run for the...
Joe Moran
Year Inducted: 2019
When reviewing Joe Moran’s decades-long listing of work with non-profits, three things stand out: longevity; capacity to lead capital campaigns; and ability to create...
Susan Neal
Year Inducted: 2019
Susan began her career in Washington, DC where she eventually served as chief of staff to Congressman Mickey Edwards prior to her recruitment as...
Jeff Stava
Year Inducted: 2019
Jeff has always had a passion for community service and the outdoors. He became an Eagle Scout and Vigil Honor member in the Order...
Steve Bradshaw
Year Inducted: 2018
Steve Bradshaw was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and spent all but 18 months of his childhood in that community. The exception is when he...
Chet Cadieux
Year Inducted: 2018
Chester (Chet) Cadieux III, a Tulsa native, is the Chairman and CEO of QuikTrip Corporation, a regional gasoline/convenience store operation based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ...
Ken Lackey
Year Inducted: 2018
Ken Lackey has lived in Tulsa for more than 50 years. During that time he served in executive positions for several well-known Tulsa companies...
Phyllis & Guy Logsdon
Year Inducted: 2018
After moving to Tulsa in 1967 with their four daughters, Guy and Phyllis Logsdon became steeped in the culture, art and music of Tulsa....
Nancy McDonald
Year Inducted: 2018
When Nancy came to Tulsa in 1966, she set right to work blazing trails in many different sectors. As a parent of school age...
David Hogan
Year Inducted: 2017
David is a native Oklahoman, born in Vinita and moved with his family to Jones when he was pre-school age. His dad was a...
Sally & Tom Hughes
Year Inducted: 2017
Although neither Sally nor Tom are native Tulsans, they are both native Oklahomans. Sally’s family immigrated from England through Williamsburg and Kentucky and on...
Bonnie Klein
Year Inducted: 2017
Growing up on a farm in rural southeastern Arkansas, Bonnie Klein had no idea what her life would be like after moving to Tulsa....
Dayal Meshri
Year Inducted: 2017
Dayal Meshri was born in 1936 in British India. After the partition of British India in 1947 into “India” and “Pakistan”, his family moved...
William & Robert Thomas
Year Inducted: 2017
William and Robert Thomas In 1976, twin brothers Bill and Bob co-founded Gemini Properties — a real estate operating and investment company. The company’s...
Felicia Collins Correia
Year Inducted: 2016
Felicia Collins Correia served as the Executive Director of Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS) for 18 years and as CEO of YWCA Tulsa for 8 years....
Patty & Len Eaton
Year Inducted: 2016
Patty was born in New York City and is a graduate of Smith College. After graduation, she worked for IBM as a systems service analyst. Arriving in...
Cathy & Frank Keating
Year Inducted: 2016
Cathy Keating is a fourth generation Oklahoman whose great grandparents came on the 1894 Land Run. She has focused much of her energy throughout her life...
Lilah & Paul Marshall, John Marshall
Year Inducted: 2016
When the Great Depression hit, Henry Marshall used all of his family’s savings –$1.67– to turn his wife’s cottage industry of home baked sweet potato pies...
Stephanie Seymour
Year Inducted: 2016
Seymour attended Smith College, graduating magna cum laude and Phil Beta Kappa in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. She received her...
Dorothy DeWitty
Year Inducted: 2015
Ms. DeWitty had a 30-year career with the Tulsa Public Schools, serving as a classroom educator and principal at Walt Whitman Elementary School. ...
Frederic Dorwart
Year Inducted: 2015
Dorwart was the United States National High School Extemporaneous Speaking Champion in 1954, the year he was graduated from Muskogee Central High School. He earned a Bachelor...
Mary Ann Hille
Year Inducted: 2015
Coming to Tulsa in the late 1940’s with her parents and two brothers marked the beginning of putting down Oklahoma roots. Hille attended Tulsa...
Gary Trennepohl
Year Inducted: 2015
Trennepohl grew up in Tulsa living on “Route 66”. His parents ran the Desert Hills Motel whose iconic neon sign is included in many...
John Wolf
Year Inducted: 2015
Wolf served as minister of All Souls Unitarian Church for more than three decades, beginning in 1960 and retiring as Minister Emeritus in 1995....
Anne B. Cleveland
Year Inducted: 2014
Cleveland’s parents relocated to Oklahoma at the turn of the 20th century. Her mother’s family came from West Virginia and her father moved from...
Rosalind Cook
Year Inducted: 2014
In her 2014 book Capturing the Spirit in Bronze, Rosalind Cook writes, “Sculpting has been a joyful and deeply meaningful discovery of God’s calling...
Burt Holmes
Year Inducted: 2014
Equipped with a degree from The University of Tulsa and the experience of working with his father, Dan P. Holmes, in his insurance business,...
George Krumme
Year Inducted: 2014
Krumme was born and reared in rural Oklahoma about five miles northeast of Okemah. His early education took place in a rural school. He...
Rachel Perryman
Year Inducted: 2014
Known as “Aunt Rachel” to the pioneer town and Indian settlement called “Tulsey Town,” Rachel Perryman was of Creek and French descent and was...
Jon Stuart
Year Inducted: 2014
Jon Stuart was adopted as an infant in Norway by his parents Harold and Joan Stuart. He was educated in Tulsa, the Culver Military...
Randi Wightman
Year Inducted: 2014
Randi Stuart Wightman fell in love with horses before age 12. Her discipline for learning and training in the craft, natural talent, and the...
Robert W. Block
Year Inducted: 2013
As president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 2011-2012, Dr. Robert W. Block dedicated his term to the children, focusing on health...
Patrick S. Gordon
Year Inducted: 2013
By the time he was five years old, Patrick S. Gordon, the Northeastern Oklahoma watercolorist and painter, knew that he wanted to be an...
Roseline and Herbert Gussman
Year Inducted: 2013
The legacy of Herbert and Roseline Gussman represents the culmination of his pioneering work in the energy industry and the couple’s life-long devotion to...
Hannah and Joe Robson
Year Inducted: 2013
Hannah and Joe Robson were born 4 days apart in Tulsa’s St. John Hospital. Both were raised in families with three boys and one...
Mickey D. Wilson
Year Inducted: 2013
Mickey Wilson is an ideal Boy Scout and he has done his duty as set out in the Scout Oath. A devoted Boy Scout...
Bryan B. Close
Year Inducted: 2012
Many military BRATS, which Hall of Fame inductee Bryan B. Close calls himself, never think of themselves as having a hometown. But that’s just...
Mouzon Biggs, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2012
Our community is better place because Mouzon Biggs Jr. did not become a chemical engineer. There is no doubt that if he had gone...
Jean B. McGill
Year Inducted: 2012
Jean B. McGill never backed down from a challenge. In her personal life, in the volunteer roles she took on, in business, or in...
Joseph W. Morris
Year Inducted: 2012
Judge Joseph W. Morris has been at more than one crossroads during his career if, as defined by the first century Roman philosopher Seneca,...
Alfred Randolph “Bill” Tandy
Year Inducted: 2012
Alfred Randolph (Bill) Tandy flew his B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine, medium bomber, over Europe on 50 successful missions during World War II. The resolve...
Roy Clark
Year Inducted: 2011
Roy Clark was 15 when he earned $2 for his first paid performance with his dad’s band in Washington D.C. He started playing weekends...
Sharon King Davis
Year Inducted: 2011
Things catch your eye in the beginning of the resume of Sharon King Davis. Her grandchildren Cooper and Eden are sixth generation Tulsans, and...
John and Marge Gaberino
Year Inducted: 2011
As a couple, John and Marge Gaberino impact Tulsa through a range of philanthropic, civic, and business activities. They grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma...
Therese Gottschalk
Year Inducted: 2011
Sister M. Therese Gottschalk led Tulsa’s St. John Hospital more than 35 years with a vision and dedication that saw St. John grow into...
Steadman Upham
Year Inducted: 2011
Dr. Steadman Upham became 17th president of The University of Tulsa in June 2004. His administration has been highlighted by strengthening the quality of...
Robin Flint Ballenger
Year Inducted: 2010
Robin Flint Ballenger, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is the first female chairman of The Flintco Companies, Inc. Flintco is the largest...
Judith Z. Kishner
Year Inducted: 2010
In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in Tulsa, cousins Judith Z. Kishner and Gail Zarrow Richards serve as co-chairs of...
Bill Lobeck
Year Inducted: 2010
As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck impact Tulsa through a broad range of philanthropic, business and civic interests. Bill Lobeck’s...
Gail Zarrow Richards
Year Inducted: 2010
In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in Tulsa, cousins Judith Z. Kishner and Gail Zarrow Richards serve as co-chairs of...
Kathy Taylor
Year Inducted: 2010
As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck impact Tulsa through a broad range of philanthropic, business and civic interests. Kathy Taylor...
Michael Wallis
Year Inducted: 2010
Best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael Wallis is a historian and biographer of the American West with an international reputation as a speaker and...
George and Phyllis Dotson
Year Inducted: 2009
George and Phyllis Dotson are two of Tulsa’s most admired and effective leaders. A native Oklahoman, George S. Dotson graduated from M.I.T. in 1962,...
Linda Sellen Frazier
Year Inducted: 2009
Three beliefs motivate Linda Sellen Frazier’s volunteer work: Every child should have access to education in the arts; the arts are vital to the...
George Fulton Collins III
Year Inducted: 2009
George Fulton Collins III sought challenges for himself and created opportunities for others during his 65 years that was a model for a life...
Michael P. Johnson
Year Inducted: 2009
“Human Resources” takes on a new meaning when applied to Michael P. Johnson. He graduated from North Carolina Central University with a Bachelor’s degree...
Clayton Vaughn
Year Inducted: 2009
“The Dean of Tulsa Television,” Clayton Vaughn’s broadcast journalism career spanned nearly half a century. He retired from broadcasting in 1999 and became Executive...
Richard B. Williamson
Year Inducted: 2009
Richard B. (Dick) Williamson’s influence in his chosen industry circles the globe, and the same reach touches humanitarian needs in this country and overseas. ...
Randy A. Foutch
Year Inducted: 2008
Randy A. Foutch fits the bill as an entrepreneurial oilman. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, he earned a Bachelor of Science in...
John B. Johnson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2008
John B. Johnson Jr. is nearing a half century of service to his community and the law. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas,...
Roxana Rozsa Lorton
Year Inducted: 2008
Roxana Rozsa Lorton has had a remarkable career of leadership of Tulsa’s most prestigious institutions. Lorton was born in Waco, Texas and moved with...
Julius Pegues
Year Inducted: 2008
Lifelong Tulsan, Julius Pegues graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1953 as valedictorian and a star basketball player. He wanted to be...
Peggy Clark Stephenson
Year Inducted: 2008
Peggy Clark Stephenson learned the bedrock Oklahoma values of faith in God, hard work, and generosity as a native of Antlers, Oklahoma. She also...
Suzanne M. Warren
Year Inducted: 2008
Suzanne M. Warren is an example of character grown with the reverence for life and family, and a love of God and community. Warren...
Major Charles E. Snyder, USAF (Retired)
Year Inducted: 2007
Charles E. “C.E.” Snyder was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1931and attended grade and high school in Silver Lake, KS. In 1949 he enrolled...
Joe Craft
Year Inducted: 2007
A native of Hazard, KY, Joseph W. Craft III came to Tulsa in 1980 to join MAPCO Inc. MAPCO was an integrated energy company...
Richard and Sally Minshall
Year Inducted: 2007
Richard Minshall’s grandfather came to Tulsa in 1901 from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania for an oil company. As a third generation Tulsan, Minshall says it has...
John T. Nickel
Year Inducted: 2007
John T. Nickel is a native Oklahoman. He was born in Muskogee and graduated from Muskogee Central. He attended Connors State College in Warner,...
Sam Avey
Year Inducted: 2006
Sam Avey loved Tulsa, once remarking that he would rather be broke in Tulsa than rich anywhere else. Sam E. Avey was born in...
John A. Brock
Year Inducted: 2006
Businessman and community leader John A. Brock was born in Durant, Oklahoma. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geological engineering from the University...
David Kyle
Year Inducted: 2006
David Kyle joined Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, a division of ONEOK in 1974. He spent three years as president and chief operating officer of...
Steve Malcolm
Year Inducted: 2006
Steve Malcolm is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Williams and exemplifies his motto to “work hard, have fun, and treat people with...
Frances W. O’Hornett
Year Inducted: 2006
A life long supporter of the arts, Frances O’Hornett was born in Tulsa to Frederick and Pauline Walter. In 1935, she graduated from Holland...
Joe and Patty Cappy
Year Inducted: 2005
Joe Cappy is a retired rental car executive and he and his wife Patty form one of Tulsa’s most dynamic couples when it comes...
J.M. Jack and Ann Graves
Year Inducted: 2005
J. M. (Jack) Graves’ death in July 2005 was a profound loss for his family, friends, and the larger private and public communities he...
Edward Campbell Lawson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2005
Edward C. Lawson, Jr. is an oilman, philanthropist, American Impressionist art collector, and politician who has entertained George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Margaret Thatcher,...
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman
Year Inducted: 2005
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rabbi Charles P. Sherman was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion...
Robert E. Thomas
Year Inducted: 2005
Robert E. Thomas has a distinguished career and world wide reputation in the energy industry. He was a founder in 1974 of the International...
Cyrus Avery
Year Inducted: 2004
Cyrus Stevens Avery was born in 1871 in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Missouri, where he rode a horse to attend high...
Michael D. Case
Year Inducted: 2004
Michael D. Case formed Case & Associates Properties in 1983. The company owns and operates more than 23,000 apartment units in six states and...
David Halpern
Year Inducted: 2004
David Halpern’s interest in photography began in childhood but remained a hobby while he pursued a career in marketing and public relations until he...
P. C. Lauinger
Year Inducted: 2004
P. C. Lauinger, a long-time Tulsa business leader, headed the PennWell Corporation, publisher of Oil & Gas Journal and other trade magazines and business...
Paula Marshall-Chapman
Year Inducted: 2004
Paula Marshall-Chapman grew up in Tulsa and spent her teenage years working at the Bama Companies in various occupations. She received her bachelor of...
Thomas R. Brett
Year Inducted: 2003
Known for his commitment to ethics in the legal profession, The Honorable Thomas R. Brett has long symbolized the highest standards of the legal...
Frederick W. Insull
Year Inducted: 2003
When Frederick W. Insull came to town in 1913 to organize Public Service Company of Oklahoma (PSO), Tulsa was a small community of 30,000...
William K. Warren, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2003
Tulsa native William K. Warren, Jr. graduated from Cascia Hall Preparatory School in 1952 and from the University of Notre Dame in 1956. He...
Lillian Norberg
Year Inducted: 2003
As “First Lady of Oklahoma Libraries,” Lillian Norberg’s legacy is incalculable. Every adult or child who has used the library system is indebted to...
John T. Oxley
Year Inducted: 2003
John T. Oxley built a liquefied petroleum business and brought world-class polo to Tulsa, but his most recognized legacy is the Mary K. Oxley...
Jack and Maxine Zarrow
Year Inducted: 2003
Jack Zarrow is a native Tulsan; Maxine Foreman, originally from Texas, moved to Tulsa upon her marriage to Jack in 1947. Both are graduates...
Margery Mayo Bird
Year Inducted: 2002
Margery Mayo Bird counts herself fortunate to be the daughter of prominent Tulsa pioneers John and Lillian Mayo and the sister of Burch Mayo....
Chester Cadieux
Year Inducted: 2002
Chester Cadieux is chairman of QuikTrip, a Tulsa based regional convenience store operation. QuikTrip employs more than 6,000 workers in nearly 400 stores from...
Ray H. Siegfried II
Year Inducted: 2002
Tulsa native Ray H. Siegfried II acquired a bankrupt NORDAM with eight employees in 1969. The NORDAM Group is now an international aviation service...
Henry Kravis
Year Inducted: 2002
Tulsa native Henry Kravis is a founder of the New York merchant banking firm that pioneered the development of the management buyout. Kravis earned...
James W. Pielsticker
Year Inducted: 2002
His family and his community lost James William Pielsticker in a plane crash in Canada in 2001. Jim grew up in Tulsa, graduated from...
Joseph H. Williams
Year Inducted: 2002
Joseph H. Williams is a 1956 graduate of Yale University. After serving as an Artillery Officer from 1956-58, he joined the PipeLine Construction Division...
Patrick J. Hurley
Year Inducted: 2001
The late Patrick Hurley was born in Indian Territory, practiced law in Tulsa and had a distinguished diplomatic career. In the 1920s he invested...
Wilson Hurley
Year Inducted: 2001
Wilson Hurley, the only son of Patrick J. Hurley (above) grew up knowing how to meet presidents and other world leaders. His path, however,...
Nelle Jackson
Year Inducted: 2001
Miss Jackson’s, one of Tulsa’s longtime traditions, of fashion excellence, came about because of the woman from whom it is named. Nelle Shields Jackson...
Peter & Nancy Meinig
Year Inducted: 2001
The Meinigs were born in Reading, Pa. and graduated from Cornell University. Pete also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is chairman...
Bob Parker
Year Inducted: 2001
Bob Parker, a Tulsa native, started his success early. He was only 16 when he won the World’s Open Skeet Championship. He graduated from...
Sid W. Patterson
Year Inducted: 2001
Sid Patterson just might have had something to do with Oklahoma being Green Country. He planted his first tree, a cedar, in his back...
Marylouise Tandy Cowan
Year Inducted: 2000
Arts patron and newspaper publisher Marylouise Tandy Cowan is a Tulsa native who maintains strong local ties while making her home in Boothbay Harbor,...
Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. graduated from the University of Oklahoma and began his long career in petroleum engineering at several companies, including Amerada Petroleum...
Charles & Lynn Schusterman
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles and Lynn Schusterman personify commitment to sharing good fortune in the face of personal obstacles. Charles founded Samson Investment Company in 1971. About...
Ross Swimmer
Year Inducted: 2000
Ross Swimmer served ten years as Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma before leading the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Assistant Secretary of...
Charles P. Williams
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles P. Williams grew up in Cuba, where his father was in the heavy construction business. He graduated from Yale University in 1937 and...
Keith Bailey
Year Inducted: 1999
Engineers know how to make things work. In the case of Keith Bailey, this knowledge is not limited to the technicalities of making fluid...
John Kirkpatrick
Year Inducted: 1999
He is among Oklahoma’s most distinguished citizens. With a resume that includes more honors and awards than could be listed here, John Kirkpatrick’s career...
Robert Lorton
Year Inducted: 1999
Inheriting a legacy can be a tremendous responsibility. In Tulsa, few legacies carry the weight of possessing the last name “Lorton.” The history of...
Ruth K. Nelson
Year Inducted: 1999
Ruth Nelson cares about people. In an environment where it has become fashionable to boast of one’s compassion, Mrs. Nelson makes no boasts. Instead,...
Josie Vann
Year Inducted: 1999
Retirement for most people is a period when they can contemplate lazy days with their feet up, interrupted only by the occasional puttering in...
Grace and Franklin Bernsen
Year Inducted: 1998
In a city widely known for its civic spirit and the ample generosity of its early leaders, the commitment of Grace and Franklin Bernsen...
Pocahontas Greadington
Year Inducted: 1998
Calculating the impact an individual has made upon a community often involves adding up a list of accomplishments and awards. In the case of...
E. Fred Johnson
Year Inducted: 1998
The term “community builder” can have many meanings. The term can define individuals whose vision leads to the creation of civic institutions. Or, it...
Virginia Kramer Kulp
Year Inducted: 1998
Growing up in the Oklahoma oil patch, Virginia Kramer Kulp learned to make changes. Due to her father’s changing assignments, each school year found...
Mildred Sanditen
Year Inducted: 1998
The spirit of volunteerism frequently is cited as one of Tulsa’s greatest strengths. Volunteers work innumerable, unpaid hours to make the city’s organizations successful....
Nancy and Raymond Feldman
Year Inducted: 1997
A partnership of 51 years is a remarkable achievement, particularly between attorneys. In the case of Nancy and Raymond Feldman, it has been a...
James Maxwell
Year Inducted: 1997
Youth may have been one reason for his tremendous energy. James Maxwell was the youngest person ever to have been elected Mayor of the...
Cass A. Mayo & John D. Mayo
Year Inducted: 1997
The pioneers who came to Tulsa, I.T., at the turn of the century gave much to the City of Tulsa. Like other pioneers, Cass...
B.S. Roberts
Year Inducted: 1997
Reverend B.S. Roberts recognized the link between Tulsa’s spiritual life and civic health. His career in the service of the St. John AME Church...
Mollie and Richard Williford
Year Inducted: 1997
Any study of Tulsa’s history confirms one important fact. Tulsa has been blessed by citizens who have come to the city and adopted it...
Mary Veasey Leech
Year Inducted: 1996
In a quieter and more gracious era, the stately residences of Stonebraker Heights stretched from downtown to the river. Across from the Creek Council...
Edgar R. Sanditen
Year Inducted: 1996
Service was a quality customers of OTASCO learned to expect when the company was under the stewardship of Edgar Sanditen. As both President and...
Jill Tarbel
Year Inducted: 1996
The architectural landscape of Tulsa has been changed by Jill Tarbel. Having contracted polio at the age of 13, she has a perspective many...
Clifton LeMoure Taulbert
Year Inducted: 1996
Born in the Mississippi Delta, author Clifton Taulbert has reaped rewards for his observances of the strong family bonds that seem to spring from...
Thomas Gilcrease
Year Inducted: 1995
Rooted in nature, self-educated in Western classics, appreciative of Native American mysticism and wise in the ways of the oil business; these are just...
Ruth G. Hardman
Year Inducted: 1995
An active mind matched with boundless energy are the hallmarks of Ruth G. Hardman. As a “hands-on” volunteer, board member or patron, these qualities...
Ed Lacy
Year Inducted: 1995
While the roar of the crowd and the love of the game have their appeal, for Coach Ed Lacy, education is the ultimate goal....
John Mabee
Year Inducted: 1995
Eulogized upon his death as “Oklahoma’s Mr. Philanthropy,” John Mabee and his wife, Lottie Jane, arrived in their adopted state in 1907. Coming via...
Maurice De Vinna
Year Inducted: 1995
Before there was an Oklahoma, there was Maurice De Vinna; his birthdate coming several months before statehood. This is quite fitting, as Mr. De...
Betty B. Bradstreet
Year Inducted: 1994
Betty Buell Bradstreet is music to art lovers’ ears. She has worked to secure funding to nurture the complete spectrum of Tulsa’s arts and...
Warren C. Hultgren
Year Inducted: 1994
Warren C. Hultgren is known as “the minister’s minister.” His tenure as pastor of the First Baptist Church was marked not only in the...
David Randolph Milsten
Year Inducted: 1994
David Randolph Milsten has played a central role in the intellectual development of Tulsa. A practicing attorney for over sixty-five years, he is also...
Jeanne & Edward Goodwin, Sr.
Year Inducted: 1994
Jeanne B. and Edward L. Goodwin, Sr. were leaders in the effort to secure equal opportunities for all Tulsans. In their role as the...
Leta Chapman & Pauline Walter
Year Inducted: 1994
Leta M. Chapman and Pauline M. Walter, the daughters of oilman Robert McFarlin, were philanthropists whose generosity continues to be lavished on Tulsa. Their...
Amos T. Hall
Year Inducted: 1993
Amos T. Hall pursued a law career that led him to landmarks in legal history. His advocacy of equal opportunity led to the integration...
Peggy Helmerich
Year Inducted: 1993
Peggy V. Helmerich traded stardom in Hollywood to play a starring role in service to Tulsa. The annual award to distinguished American authors which...
James M. Hewgley, Jr
Year Inducted: 1993
James M. Hewgley, Jr. epitomizes the term “public service.” In addition to almost 50 years of successful drilling and oil production, Mr. Hewgley has...
George Renberg
Year Inducted: 1993
George Renberg is a part of the fabric of Tulsa. The hallmark of quality in both merchandise and service that Renberg’s is known for,...
John H. Williams
Year Inducted: 1993
John H. Williams has made contributions to Tulsa that are obvious from a glance at the city’s skyline. His business acumen helped to make...
Ben Henneke
Year Inducted: 1992
The high caliber of Tulsa’s intellectual discourse has been among the most important facets of the city’s development. Ben Henneke’s voice has been at...
Dan P. Holmes
Year Inducted: 1992
Thousands of drivers travel old Highway 33 east of Tulsa every day. The vast majority of those travelers automatically think of one name, Dan....
Roberta Campbell Lawson
Year Inducted: 1992
Roberta Campbell Lawson sought to achieve a “spiritual balance” between her Native American heritage and the modern world. This was one motivation for her...
Henry Zarrow
Year Inducted: 1992
His belief that he should “give back to the community” has allowed Henry Zarrow to have an impact on the lives of thousands of...
John Steele Zink
Year Inducted: 1992
A fertile imagination and a zeal for the unorthodox were two personal qualities of John Steele Zink that have had a lasting impact on...
Jane Heard & Fred S. Clinton
Year Inducted: 1991
Jane Heard & Fred Severs Clinton were Tulsans whose aspirations for their city knew no bounds. Jane Heard Clinton was born in Elberton, Georgia,...
Allie Beth Martin
Year Inducted: 1991
Allie Beth Martin’s career with the Tulsa Library began in 1949. Mrs. Martin was a leader in the campaign to secure facilities and permanent...
Charles E. Thornton
Year Inducted: 1991
Charles E. Thornton has been instrumental in the development of the city’s oil industry. In 1985 he retired as president and chief operating officer...
Kathleen P. Westby
Year Inducted: 1991
Kathleen P. Westby has worked with many social services as well as the Tulsa Opera, Tulsa Philharmonic, the Tulsa Ballet Theater and the Tulsa...
Ellis Walker Woods
Year Inducted: 1991
Ellis Walker Woods – in 1913, he was the first principal of Booker T. Washington High School. Under his 35 year tenure, Washington became...
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Year Inducted: 1990
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, in his roles as publisher, columnist and world traveler, has spread the name “Tulsa” to the antipodes. Mr. Jones was introduced...
Thelma & Henry C. Whitlow, Jr
Year Inducted: 1990
Thelma and Henry C. Whitlow, Jr. have left their mark on Tulsa’s future through their motivation of several generations of the city’s young people. ...
Carol & T.D. Williamson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 1990
Carol and T.D. Williamson, Jr. are native Tulsans whose tireless efforts in all facets of the city’s development eloquently express their love for their...
Raymond F. Kravis
Year Inducted: 1990
Raymond F. Kravis, has dedicated himself to improving the lives of his neighbors, whether they live down the street of half a world away. ...
Waite Phillips
Year Inducted: 1990
Waite Phillips epitomized a tradition of generosity that has become the hallmark of Tulsa’s success. A native of Iowa, Phillips and his family arrived...
Daniel J. Boorstin
Year Inducted: 1989
Daniel J. Boorstin has taken principles nurtured by a Tulsa upbringing and has brought them to bear on the national intellectual stage. The son...
William R. & Hope Holway
Year Inducted: 1989
William R. and Hope Holway dedicated themselves to building Tulsa from beneath the ground up. As the designer of the Spavinaw Water System, Mr....
Janice C. Jones
Year Inducted: 1989
Janice C. Jones believed that a community’s health was only as good as the health of its individual citizens. As a registered nurse, she...
George & Josiah Perryman
Year Inducted: 1989
George and Josiah Perryman, members of a family who first arrived in the Tulsa area in 1848, were pioneer Tulsans who reflect the city’s...
William G. Skelly
Year Inducted: 1989
William G. Skelly was the embodiment of the qualities which earned for Tulsa the title “Oil Capital of the World.” When Skelly arrived in...
Alfred Aaronson
Year Inducted: 1988
There are times when people simply have to be told. In Tulsa during the 1950’s and 1960’s the voice that invariably did the telling...
John Hope Franklin
Year Inducted: 1988
If a commitment to reason and justice is the hallmark of a civilized person, then John Hope Franklin certainly must be considered among America’s...
Moscelyne Larkin & Roman Jasinski
Year Inducted: 1988
Thirty-two years of love and labor have established the Tulsa Ballet Theatre as a dance company worthy of national and international acclaim. The venerable...
Robert J. LaFortune
Year Inducted: 1988
Harmony and consistency, Robert J. LaFortune once said, creates the best climate, politically and financially, for a city. For fourteen years, Robert LaFortune helped...
Dode McIntosh
Year Inducted: 1988
Waldo Emerson “Dode” McIntosh is much like Tulsa. Like the city he has called “home” since the early 1920’s, McIntosh is firmly rooted in the...
James Monroe Hall
Year Inducted: 1987
James Monroe Hall was a pioneer Tulsan whose arrival with the Frisco Railroad in 1882 marked the beginnings of modern Tulsa. Hall, credited as...
Benjamin Harrison Hill
Year Inducted: 1987
Benjamin Harrison Hill’s contributions to Tulsa derived from his double role as a leading religious figure and a state lawmaker. His accomplishments provided a...
Charles Page
Year Inducted: 1987
Charles Page envisioned a self-sustaining institution that would support orphaned children. That dream materialized on June 2, 1908, when he established the Sand Springs...
William Kelly Warren
Year Inducted: 1987
William Kelly Warren embodies the spirit of the independent oilmen who developed Tulsa from a sleepy cowtown into the Oil Capital of the World....
Patti Johnson Wilson
Year Inducted: 1987
Patti Johnson Wilson, civic leader, philanthropist and world traveler, was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, and moved to Tulsa at the age of four....