Gene Drechsler, ’59 civil engineering, was widowed in 1998 and married Dolores Culp Merritt in 2002. The two spend their summers in Ouray, Colorado.
’50s Joe Sewell, ’50 animal husbandry, has retired after 40 years as president at First Bank and Trust in Perry, Oklahoma. He will be 90 years old on July 30 and is in good health. Robert Walton Sr., ’52 dairy science and ’56 master’s degree in animal biotechnology, received the Henry Wallace Award from Iowa State University in October 2016.
Jacque Fowler, ’54 secondary education, is proud of her granddaughter Anna Robinson for starting physician assistant’s school at Wichita State University. Her other granddaughter Caroline Robinson will start at OSU in the fall of 2017. Carl Shafer, ’55 and ’58 master’s degree in agricultural economics, and his wife, Peggy Shafer, ’56 elementary education, have retired and are enjoying their three grandchildren.
Kenneth Kirby, ’53 agronomy, is still a farmer at 90 years of age and has no plans to retire. John Fasciano, ’54 psychology, tries to keep in touch with college friends and enjoys watching the OSU Cowboys on TV.
Donald Hixon, ’59 trade and industrial education, and his wife, Margaret Hixon, ’58 elementary education, have been married 66 years and have two children, numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
’60s John Reynolds, ’60 mechanical engineering, is celebrating the birth of his first great-grandson, Graham Reynolds, born to parents Brad and Molly Reynolds of Blanchard, Oklahoma.
Ed Long, ’56 agricultural education, and his wife, Gladeen, attended the Alamo Bowl with the OSU Alumni Association.
OSU American Indian Alumni Society Honors Distinguished Graduate
R. Henry Migliore, ’62 management, was the dean of the Oral Roberts University business school from 1975-1986 and a professor of strategic planning and management at Northeastern State University from 1987-2002. Migliore has written 17 books in seven different languages. He and his wife celebrated their 54th wedding anniversary this year.
in honor of her community service. Sullivan has a lifetime of service to the Oklahoma City community, including chairing the YMCA Oklahoma City’s $15 million campaign to provide a shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Eugene “Pete” Williams, ’63 master’s degree in occupational and adult education, an Oklahoma 4-H leader and head of 4-H, was inducted into the national 4-H Hall of Fame in 2003. Williams earned his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Robert Carroll Huggins, ’64 industrial arts education, has served on the Carl Albert State College Board of Regents for the last 20 years. Huggins is the executive director and CEO of KI BOIS Community Action Foundation Inc. He lives in Stigler, Oklahoma, with his wife, Lana. Marion Council, ’65 electrical engineering doctorate, retired from Louisiana Tech University in 2002 and started a retail business selling garden containers this year. Dave Davis, ’65 architectural engineering, is the second-oldest living Pistol Pete. His daughter, Anne Copeland David, was awarded an Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Mid-America Chapter.
Tom Jackson, ’67 forestry, attended the president’s reception at the annual Association of Consulting Foresters conference in Mobile, Alabama, where he met some Azalea Trail Maids. The Trail Maids go through an extensive selection process before being chosen for the Trail Kim Ford, ’63 animal science live- Court. Jackson wore a Pistol Pete stock operations, has been mar- tie and OSU lapel pin since he was ried for 55 years and farmed the surrounded by foresters from ACC three quarters that her grandfa- and SEC schools. ther, his father and brother started in the summer of 1893. She still has the homestead certificate for each of the quarters that was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 1, 1904.
Bill Thompson, ’62 economics, is enjoying life in Tulsa with his wife of 58 years, Catherine Ann Thompson. Thompson’s grandson, Eston Blair, is a junior at OSU, studying pre-med with a 4.0 GPA.
The OSU American Indian Alumni Society recognized Chief Bill Follis, ’59 animal science, as a distinguished graduate. He serves as chief of the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma and has been instrumental in the federal recognition of the tribe. He has also played a large part in establishing Red Cedar Recycling, The Stables Casino and the reintroduction of a bison herd. Students, alumni and guests gathered to celebrate including, from left, Arielle Farve, Autumn Only a Chief, Logan Welge, Chief Follis, Paige Wofford, Zach Kensinger and Meg Baker.
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Lela Bennett Sullivan, ’63 political science, has received the Pi Beta P h i F r a te r n i t y ’s prestigious Carolyn Helman Lichtenburg Crest Award
Glenn Olson, ’69 psychology, is one of the farthest-north Cowboy fans enjoying Bedlam football from Anchorage, Alaska.