OKC FRIDAY www.okcfriday.com facebook.com/okcfriday Serving affluent far north Oklahoma City, Nichols Hills and The Village for 44 years Vol. 53 No. 28 • Four Sections • 40 pages November 15, 2019
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Tricia Everest leads by example By Vicki Clark Gourley Publisher
Hope. OCU President Martha Burger said “Tricia creates respect with her humility, quiet dignity
Compassion and a determination to better the lives of everyone around them earned these women the respect and the admiration of city leaders, to whom more than 300 ballots were mailed. Women leaders in business, law, medicine or nonprofits almost always find time to volunteer to help others. #1 Tricia Everest is a petite dynamo determined to reform criminal justice in Oklahoma. She took a leave of absence as Assistant Attorney General to volunteer at least 40 hours a week working at Palomar in the office and expanding partnerships and systems of service from legal to health to breaking cycles of abuse, addiction and incarceration. At a recent reception to celebrate Tricia’s induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame this year, Palomar CEO Kim Garret said of Tricia, “Tricia leads by example, from pulling weeds to doing the head lice check on all the kids at Camp
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#1 TRICIA EVEREST
#3 JUDY LOVE
#2 SUE ANN ARNALL
and grace. Tricia is the third generation of Gaylords to top an OKC FRIDAY Most Powerful list since its inception in the 1980’s. Her grandfather Edward L. Gaylord and mother, Christy Everest preceeded her. Tricia said it is her great aunt, the late Edith Kinney Gaylord, who founded the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism and the Inasmuch Foundations, who inspires much of her work. #2 Sue Ann Arnall is a lawyer who started her career in the oil business while still in high school. Her Arnall Family Foundation supports child welfare programs with an emphasis on foster children. Arnall’s concern for companion animal’s welfare is credited with achieving the passage of Oklahoma’s Puppy Mill regulations. She is a strong supporter of the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and horse welfare. Sue Ann teamed up with Judge Cindy
#4 CHRISTY EVEREST
#5 DEBBY HAMPTON
C4K: A pair of shoes can change a life By Rose Lane Editor Sometimes something as small as a pair of shoes can make a big difference. “Some people look at it like it’s a pair of shoes, but there is a story behind them and a life that’s being changed,” Cleats 4 Kids Executive Director Stacy McDaniel said. Stacy and Mark McDaniel decided that was true as they cleaned out their garage in 2011 and found sporting equipment their three children, Cole, Josh and Meghan had outgrown. They knew those basketball shoes, soccer cleats and football gear could help another kid whose families couldn’t afford sports equipment. “The cost of sports is such a roadblock,” Stacy said. “Mark and I had no idea of the need and of the number of kids who wanted to play, but couldn’t.” “We really wanted to level the playing field.”
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C4K President Stacy McDaniel in the organization’s locker room where kids can come and pick out sports equipment.
Both attorneys, Stacy and Mark founded the nonprofit which has grown to help kids play sports in 107 school districts and collaborates with 50 other nonprofits. That first year, they
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operated out of their garage. “It was a hobby for us when we first started,” Stacy said. Stacy and Mark decided they needed to expand to at least a shed. Stacy said she
was driving by a house with a shed as the For Sale sign was going up. They saw the writing on the wall, bought the house and went full force. They knew they were in the right place when in March 2012, the Northwest Classen soccer coach came to them and said there were 14 varsity players and 12 of them were playing in tennis shoes. “Do you have anything that can help us?” he asked. The next year, 40 girls went out for the team and Cleats 4 Kids was able to answer the call for sports equipment, Stacy said. Now, the nonprofit operates out of an office in the Chesapeake Community Plaza and has its own locker room where kids can come and pick out the equipment they need. There are countless stories of how the organization has helped kids. Stacy said there was the softball player whose life was turned See C4K, Page 6
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