Joseph H. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 of what was then Williams Brothers Company. He rose to Resident Manager of the Overseas Construction Division in Iran and returned to the United States in 1968 to the expanding Williams Companies and became Williams Chairman in 1979. He remains a Director of Williams and several other industrial and civic organizations.

Joe’s life outside the company remains rich and varied. Conservation is a favorite activity. He has chaired both the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy and its national counterpart. He is a member of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Leadership Council, and on the Advisory Council for the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center.

His business service includes formerly serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, and the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce & Industry

He’s also served as a Fellow of the Yale Corporation, and is a member of the Augusta National Golf Club.

He and his wife Terry have lived in Spring Island, South Carolina since his retirement in 1994. Joe Williams remains an avid outdoorsman and naturalist, devoting his time to hunting, fishing, golf, and photography while continuing to support numerous conservation projects in Oklahoma and the Carolinas.

Ray H. Siegfried II was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 and manufacturing company with six divisions on three continents, and a staff of over 2,500.

Siegfried graduated from the University of Notre Dame where he was on the boxing and wrestling teams.

He has chaired the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa Area United Way and serves on boards of Notre Dame, the Tulsa Community Foundation, and the Oklahoma Aquarium Foundation.

He’s donated time and talent to educational institutions as varied as Notre Dame, the University of Portland, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Oklahoma State University at Tulsa, the University of Tulsa, and Tulsa’s Monte Cassino and Cascia Hall schools.

He’s led such diverse groups as the American Boxing Federation, the Tulsa Aerospace Alliance, the Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless, and the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas A&M University.

Recognition for his service has come from Honorary Doctorate degrees from Notre Dame and the University of Portland,  the National Conference for Community and Justice,  the American and National Management Associations, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the Tulsa Press Club, and with his wife Milann from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.

He and Milann have six children and four grandchildren.  He is a devout Roman Catholic, an affiliate of St. Augustine Order, and was instrumental in establishing the chapel at the Tulsa International Airport.

Tulsa is fortunate that Ray Siegfried continues to serve his church, his family, and his community with grace, love, and humility.

James W. Pielsticker was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 Notre Dame and the OU Law School, served as an Army officer in Germany, and practiced law in Tulsa before acquiring the small Arrow Trucking Company in 1968.  Arrow grew to 1400 trucks and 3000 trailers serving the US, Canada, and Mexico.

Jim and his wife Carol met on a blind date at OU.  They had two children, and Jim’s devotion to his family was absolute.  His family, friends and employees knew him as a man of love, kindness, and modesty.

He was an avid naturalist and hunter.  He supported the Nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, and the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center; developed a duck marsh in Oklahoma’s Deep Fork Bottoms; and chaired the Tulsa Zoo’s campaign for its $2,500,000 Discovery and Education Center.

He gave back to his community, whether that community was as small as his neighborhood or as large as his nation.  He led the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, the Oklahoma Business Roundtable, the River Parks Authority, Hillcrest Medical Center, the Tulsa Area United Way, the Tulsa Utility Board, and Southern Hills Country Club and the Tulsa Tennis Club.

 Jim Pielsticker enjoyed his family, led a successful business, gave back to his community, and always spread kindness in the world he traveled.

Henry Kravis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 a B.A. in Economics from Claremont McKenna College, California and an M.B.A. from the Columbia University in New York.  While at Columbia, Kravis was also Vice-President of Katy Industries, where he designed and implemented the company’s acquisition program.

He and two partners pioneered the development of the management buyout after they founded the merchant banking firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in l976.

The firm’s largest and most successful acquisitions include RJR Nabisco, Beatrice, Safeway, Duracell, Owens-Illinois and Autozone.

He served, or is serving, on numerous corporate boards of directors, including RJR Nabisco, Safeway, Gillette, Borden, Owens-Illinois, Sotheby’s and Primedia.

His civic contribution is prodigious.  Kravis serves on the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mount Sinai Hospital, The New York City Partnership, Public Television Channel 13 in New York, Columbia Graduate School of Business and Claremont McKenna College.  He has received three honorary doctorate degrees from various colleges.

He has two children, Robert & Kimberly.  He and his wife, Marie-Josée, live in New York City.

Kravis also founded and is Chairman of the New York City Investment Fund.  The Fund is a private entity working with the city and state creating jobs and assisting small businesses to make New York City a better place to live and work.

Chester Cadieux was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 Atlanta to Phoenix.  Annual sales top three billion dollars.  He co-founded QuikTrip with Burt B. Holmes in 1958. Chester was working then with the dual title of Night Manager/President.  He still considers both positions critical to the success of the organization, since he believes people are QuikTrip’s most important asset.

Chester is a Tulsa native and a graduate of Central High School and the University of Oklahoma.  He has six children and seven grandchildren. He enjoys reading, history, world events, and running.  He and his wife Debbie are active members of the Harvard Avenue Christian Church.

He believes in giving back to the community, and proves it by   QuikTrip giving 5 percent of its profit to local charities.  Chester serves on five outside boards, is Chairman of Phillips Theological Seminary, is past Chairman of the Tulsa River Parks Authority Board of Trustees, National Association of Convenience Stores, and Tulsa Area United Way. 

He likes say, “It’s better to be lucky than smart.”  He was lucky to enter the convenience store business in Tulsa when things were simple, cheap, and there was no competition.  That may have been lucky, but Chester Cadieux is also smart, smart enough to build QuikTrip into the largest privately held company in Oklahoma.

Margery Mayo Bird was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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.

Margery graduated from Holland Hall, attended Connecticut College for Women, and graduated from Erskine School in Boston.

Tulsa was growing rapidly, with women becoming more involved in community service, and the Junior League opened lifelong interests.

Her first marriage, to Don Feagin in 1939, produced two sons, but one died in infancy.  The other, John Donald Feagin, courageously fought cystic fibrosis and lived until 1981, leaving a widow, Linda.

Margery is past President of Tulsa Town Hall, a longtime Trustee of the Philbrook Museum of Art, an original member of the Women’s Alliance of the Tulsa Philharmonic, and a lifelong and active member of First Presbyterian Church.

Margery served on the boards of the Tulsa Garden Center, the Tulsa Center for the Physically Limited, the Tulsa Historical Society, and Holland Hall School.  She ardently supports Tulsa Ballet, Gilcrease Museum, the Arts and Humanities Council, and Tulsa Opera.

She also donates her talents to the University of Tulsa in numerous ways to honor the memory of her son, Donnie.

She married Jim Bird in 1992.  Margery Mayo Bird shows that having Tulsa as her home continues to challenge, strengthen, and reward her while she and Jim find the world a wonderful place to visit.