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JIM HARRIS women’s basketball and football starting Pictures of his dogs on point speak of in 1966. His ladies’ volleyball team pro- his passion for quail hunting with friends duced two State Championship titles at during the winter months. He says that Kremlin-Hillsdale High School. watching his dogs work a field brings him true joy for the sport. After establishing an insurance business in 1978, he has served his clients while Jim still enjoys boating and water sports also volunteering at KHS as an assistant and is happy that he can still ski at his age. to several head football coaches. He en- He awaits every lake season to see if he is joys watching young men mature and suc- good to go for one more year. ceed in the ‘’greatest game ever.” He took pride in countless hours of mowing and Jim often states, “When you think of me, I grooming the football field and says, “It hope you don’t think of insurance, but when needs to be grass, not weeds. I notice!” you think of insurance, I hope you think of me.” He expects to remain active and “stay A “Semper Fi” logo hangs in his office and in the business of working with people” for a illustrates his pride in serving his country long time. Jim Harris is a true “Local Legend.” as a Marine. In 1963 He graduated from At age 82, Jim Harris still drives his car Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virto work at Baker Harris Hopkins Insurance ginia. While stationed there, he traveled up nearly every day unless he is riding on a and down the East coast playing basketball, tractor at the farm. but that fun ended when he was sent to Vietnam for a year to protect a MASH unit. Anyone who visits his office will notice his hobbies and interests. Pictures of his Jim is often found exercising at the YMCA, wife Peggy, his daughters Renee, Leslie, and for years he was a regular player with and Paige along with his grandchildren line the noon basketball group. That led him to the walls. travel across the United States and Canada with the Oklahoma Senior Olympics Memorabilia from Oklahoma State Uni- basketball team. For over two decades, versity serves as reminders of his involve- he graduated from one age bracket to the ment in football and basketball as both a next. After a broken foot in Houston and a Cowboy player starting in 1958 and leading “small” heart attack in Minneapolis, he reto his being a lifelong fan. Jim’s love of “the tired from competition, but he has never game” steered him into coaching men and lost his desire to be his best. ENID MONTHLY | AUGUST 2022 | 3
