Frances W. O’Hornett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 Hall and then graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a bachelor’s degree in 1939. She credits Sarah Lawrence with shaping her strong interest in the arts. She returned to Tulsa and joined the Tulsa Junior League in the fall of 1939. That same year, she opened the first pottery studio at Philbrook Museum of Art. Because there was no kiln, Mrs. O’Hornett made arrangements with Mr. John Frank to have the items fired at the Frankhoma Potter factory. She later underwrote a complete pottery studio at Philbrook. Mrs.O’Hornett managed a large wartime auction at Southern Hills Country Club where several million dollars worth of war bonds were sold in one evening. As a Red Cross volunteer, she served hospitals in Tulsa and in Colorado Springs. Because of her service to the Tulsa Psychatirac Center, Mrs. O’Hornett was named a permanent member of the Board of Trustees.

Mrs. O’Hornett’s support and interests have benefited Holland Hall School, the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Tulsa Ballet Theater, Tulsa Opera, Philbrook Museum of Art, Gilcrease Museum and the former Tulsa Philharmonic. She also has supported St. Simeon’s in Tulsa and Canterbury Retirement Center in Oklahoma City and served on the vestries of two Episcopal churches. She endowed the Frances W. O’Hornett Chair of Literature at the University of Tulsa. In 2006, O’ Hornett was recognized by the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council with the Katie P. Westby Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1940, she married Winthrop Ingersoll. The couple had three children Paula, Win, and Niente. These marriages produced six grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. In 1973, she married Patrick O’Hornett adding five more children and a number of grandchildren to her family.

Steve Malcolm was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 respect.” He graduated from the University of Missouri in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and joined Williams in 1984 as director of business development for Williams Natural Gas Company. In 1998, he was named president and chief executive officer of Williams Energy Services and named president and CEO of Williams in 2001. Malcolm sits on the boards of the Tulsa Community Foundation, YMCA, St. John Medical Center, Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the University of Tulsa Board of Trustees, the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce and Tulsa Educare. He also serves on the YMCA Executive Committee, the University of Tulsa Building and Grounds and Athletics Committee, the board of the Oklahoma Business and Education Coalition and is a former board member of the Gas Processors Association. Malcolm is also a member of the Business Roundtable, National Associate of Corporate Directors, Oklahoma Business Roundtable, the Domestic Petroleum Council, the National Petroleum Council, the 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry, and is a former member of the National Energy Services Association.

Malcolm is in great demand as a public speaker with more than 20 years experience presenting on a broad range of energy and energy policy related topics. He has spoken at numerous analyst conferences, industry, and corporate and philanthropic events.

David Kyle was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 the company. In August 2000, he was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of ONEOK. Kyle, a native of Wichita, Kansas, grew up in Oklahoma City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and management from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Tulsa and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s advanced management program.

Kyle is a director of the Bank of Oklahoma, N.A., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Business & Education Coalition, Oklahoma Business Roundtable, Oklahoma Heritage Association, Tulsa Area United Way, and the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as a trustee of Tulsa Community Foundation, The Philbrook Museum of Art, and the University of Tulsa. He is a past chair of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and a past director of the Oklahoma Academy for State Goals and the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

Kyle is also a past governor of the Oklahoma State University Foundation Board of Trustees and has served as a trustee for OSU-Tulsa and the OSU Alumni Association. He has served as a trustee of the Hillcrest HealthCare System and the former Children’s Medical Center. Kyle is also a director of Bank One Oklahoma, and Junior Achievement of Greater Tulsa.

Kyle was recognized as a 2002-2003 Outstanding Business Alumnus by the University of Tulsa, College of Business Administration. In 2004, he was inducted into the Oklahoma State University College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Hall of Fame.

John A. Brock was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 of Oklahoma in 1953 and served as an artillery officer in the Korean War. Brock has spent some 50 years exploring and producing oil and gas. Since 1981, he has been the president and chief executive officer of Rockford Exploration, Inc. and serves as chair of the board of directors of Brighton Energy, LLC, the AGOS Group, LLC, as a director of Fabtec, Inc., and as an advisory director of Ward Petroleum, Inc.

Brock organized and is chair of Oklahomans for Lawsuit Reform and is co-chair of Oklahomans for Workers Compensation Reform. He is a founder and director of the University of Oklahoma Sarkeys Energy Center. He endowed the Brock Chair of Energy Economics and Policy at OU and is an organizer and director of The Trust Company of Oklahoma. He created the Tulsa Innovation Center to provide new opportunities for employment and to enhance the economic environment in northeast Oklahoma.

Brock is a director of the Sutton Avian Research Center, a supporter of the Philbrook Museum, Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Opera, and the Tulsa Zoo. He serves on the board of the Salvation Army, the Oklahoma Nature Conservancy, Gilcrease Museum, and the Indian Nations Council of Boy Scouts. Brock is a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, the University of Tulsa College of Business Hall of Fame, and the recipient of the University of Oklahoma Regents Award.

Sam Avey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 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 Kingfisher, Oklahoma in l895 and lived his early life in Cherryvale, Kansas. He spent six years traveling with theatrical stock companies (vaudeville) as a prop man and actor before returning to Cherryvale to enter the grocery business with his family. Moving to Tulsa in l924, he became involved in sports management and promotion in boxing and professional wrestling. He later formed Tulsa’s first professional football team and the Oilers ice hockey team. In l942, he bought the Tulsa Coliseum at Fifth and Elgin and made it the center of sports activities for Tulsa until it was struck by lightening and burned in l952. He also founded KAKC AM/FM radio station with studios in the basement of the Coliseum.

Avey was well known for his support of children’s charities. Under his leadership, the Babies Milk Fund, which began in the depths of the depression, became one of Tulsa’s best-known philanthropic promotions with a benefit wrestling show each year. For years, Avey gave an annual Christmas party for as many as 9,000 of Tulsa’s children without regard to color or creed. He chaired the Oklahoma Santa Claus Commission providing Christmas gifts for orphans across the state.

Avey served as president of the Downtown Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and was one of the founders of F&M Bank. In 1958, he announced his retirement from all his business endeavors, but within a week he was behind a desk at F&M Bank continuing there until his death at age 67 in 1962.