Peggy Clark Stephenson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

Peggy Clark Stephenson learned the bedrock Oklahoma values of faith in God, hard work, and generosity as a native of Antlers, Oklahoma.  She also met her future husband Charlie there at a birthday party when she was 14.  They became high school sweethearts and married when he was a senior at the University of Oklahoma majoring in Petroleum Engineering. The marriage created a partnership in all aspects of their lives including their philanthropic work.

Her career in volunteering and community involvement started when she was in high school and she’s never stopped.  She is executive director of the Charles and Peggy Stephenson Family Foundation which provides support for church, community, and education programs in Tulsa and throughout the state.  She co-manages their personal philanthropic activities which combine with the Family Foundation to support an array of projects.  They include renovation and expansion of Tulsa’s First Presbyterian Church and two major facilities on OU’s Research Campus in Norman.  The Stephenson Research and Technology Center is in use and the Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center is under construction.  The Life Sciences Center will be a 152,000 square foot facility accommodating 30 research groups.

Stephenson’s volunteer interests are broad and include: the American Red Cross, Cystic Fibrosis, American Cancer Society, Philbrook Museum of Art, as well as Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.  She serves on the board of the Goodland Academy near Hugo and served as a Tulsa Historical Society board member.  The Stephensons funded the installation of the Vintage Gardens on the society’s west lawn and the bronze sculptures known as the Five Moons in the Vintage Gardens. An avid genealogist, she has volunteered at libraries in Tulsa teaching genealogy skills.

Stephenson has twice been recognized as honorary chair of Tulsa Project Woman, a program providing breast cancer screening and education for women with limited financial resources.  She received the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Award in 1999; in 2002, she and her husband received the National Jewish Medical Research Center Tulsa Humanitarian Award. She received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Oklahoma last May.

The Stephensons have two children, Steven and Cindy, and six grandchildren.

Suzanne M. Warren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

Suzanne M. Warren is an example of character grown with the reverence for life and family, and a love of God and community. Warren grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.  She attended Rider College, the University of Connecticut, and graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a B.A. degree in 1973 and a M.Ed. degree in 1974.  She remained in Florida and directed federal grants serving lower income families and children.   She also taught Adult Education and received tenure as a teacher in the Palm Beach County School System. She met her husband, William K. (Bill) Warren, Jr. in Florida, and after a two year courtship, married and moved to Tulsa in 1980.

Warren’s interests include sports, medicine, mental health, extended medical care for the aged, and the Catholic Church.  She regularly works to raise public awareness and funding for Tulsa’s arts and social service organizations. She serves on the boards of the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis and the Philbrook Museum of Art and is on the Mental Health Association Advisory Board. She is past director of Cascia Hall Preparatory School, Monte Cassino School, Ronald McDonald House, and Tulsa Opera.  Her committee service includes Cascia Hall’s 75th Anniversary Celebration, the Hope Candlelight Tour, the Heart Ball, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Festival of Trees, the Perfect Setting, the University of Tulsa Tennis Camp, McDazzle, the Tulsa Opera Ball and In the Dog House with Tulsa Senior Services.

She has chaired the 75th Anniversary of the Tulsa Philharmonic featuring Reba McIntyre and the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philbrook Gala, the Cinderella Ball, the Inaugural Le Masquerade, and the Tulsa Opera Ball and as honorary chair of the Pink Ribbon 10 year celebration.  She also chaired the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis Inaugural Gala and the Painted Pony Ball in 2006 and 2007.  The Warrens co-chaired the 2003 Cirque Le Masque for the Mental Health Association.

The Warrens have six children, Stephen, William J., Carolyn, John-Kelly, Dana, and Andrew. The family enjoys playing tennis, golf, horse racing, and traveling to foreign countries to learn about different cultures.

Julius Pegues was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

Lifelong Tulsan, Julius Pegues graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1953 as valedictorian and a star basketball player.  He wanted to be an engineer, but racial segregation denied him entry to any Oklahoma college that offered such a degree.  Tulsa oilman E. Alex Phillips, a University of Pittsburgh graduate, had seen Pegues play basketball and helped pave the way for him to enter Pitt.  After spending a year at a Detroit technical school taking advanced mathematics, Pegues enrolled at Pitt.  He would become the school’s first black basketball player.  When he arrived he was classified as a walk-on.  He won a scholarship when he averaged 20 points a game in his first month.  Along with being Pitt’s first black player, he was one of only 34 players in the school’s basketball history to reach 1,000 points in career scoring.

Pegues went through Air Force ROTC at Pitt, and after graduating with an engineering degree, he studied meteorology at Saint Louis University and became a weather forecaster in the Air Force.  Returning to Tulsa, Pegues worked for Douglas Aircraft and American Airlines.  He now works as a consultant for the Federal Aviation Administration.

His commitment to human rights, human relations, and equal education opportunities led him to involvement across the community. He served on the boards of the Tulsa NAACP, Tulsa Urban League, Tulsa Comprehensive Health Services, Family and Children’s Services, Hutcherson Branch YMCA, Tulsa Housing Authority, and Tulsa Board of Education Human Relations Committee. He is a member of the City of Tulsa Economic Development Commission.

He also served on the Mayor’s Economic Development Task Force, Tulsa Public School’s Task Force on Enrollment, Goals for Tulsa Steering Committee, Goals for Tulsa Task Force on Education, Citizens Coalition for Community Development, and Tulsa Economic Opportunity Task Force.  Pegues also was a member of the Coalition for Quality Education, which developed the voluntary desegregation plans for Booker T. Washington and what is now Carver Middle School. He also leads the commission planning the memorial to Tulsa’s 1921 race riot, the John Hope Franklin Memorial Museum of Reconciliation.

Pegues has been honored by the Oklahoma Education Association Tuskahoma Brown Miller Citizens Award, named as one of the 1971 Outstanding Young Men of America, and given the North Tulsa Optimist of the Year, Sigma Gamma Rho Community Service, and the YWCA Community Service awards.

Pegues is married to Dr. Wennette Pegues, and they have three children, Mary, Michael, and Angela.

Roxana Rozsa Lorton was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

Roxana Rozsa Lorton has had a remarkable career of leadership of Tulsa’s most prestigious institutions. Lorton was born in Waco, Texas and moved with her parents to Tulsa when her father became a music professor at the University of Tulsa.  She is married to Robert E. Lorton Jr., chairman of the family owned newspaper, the Tulsa World.   Ms. Lorton serves on the World Publishing board of directors.

The daughter of the music professor attended TU.  Before graduation, Lorton made Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities in her junior and senior years.  She also became the first woman business manager of the TU year book, perhaps an indication of things to come.

Those things would include a life of working to raise awareness and funding for organizations in Tulsa, the state, and the nation.  She chaired the boards of the Gilcrease Museum, the Tulsa Philharmonic, Tulsa Town Hall, and the Philbrook Museum of Art. She served on boards of the Tulsa Opera, the Junior League, Planned Parenthood, Girl Scouts, the Tulsa Arts Council, and on the advisory board of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra.

She is Chairman Emeritus of the Oklahoma Heritage Association. As chair, she helped raise $15 million to provide a home for the Association in a newly restored historical building in Oklahoma City. She is also a member of the National Council for the Performing Arts at the Kennedy Center.

Along with such wide ranging interests, Lorton though the years has been a staunch supporter of her alma mater.  She is a TU trustee, co-chaired TU’s New Century Campaign which raised 108 million, and is the co-chair of the new University of Tulsa Campaign with a $400 million goal.  Her support has been recognized by a Distinguished Alumna award and the President’s Outstanding Service Award.

Lorton’s other honors include: induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, two Governor’s Arts Council Awards, Tulsa Central High School Foundation’s Distinguished Alumna, the 100th year anniversary National Humanitarian Award from the National  Jewish Medical and Research Center, Honorary Award of the Juliette Low Leadership Society of the Girl Scouts, the Tulsa Press Club Headliner Award, and selection last year as one of the 50 “Women of the Year” in Oklahoma by the Journal Record newspaper.

The Lortons have three children, Robin, Tracy, and Bobby, and eight grandchildren.

John B. Johnson Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

John B. Johnson Jr. is nearing a half century of service to his community and the law.  He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, grew up in Oklahoma City, and moved to Tulsa in 1961.  He received BBA and LL.B. degrees from the University of Oklahoma and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School.  Johnson was a four year letterman in golf at OU.  He served a three year tour of duty in the United States Air Force (JAG) and was awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal.

Johnson has practiced law in Tulsa since 1961 and is a partner with Johnson, Jones, Dornblaser, Coffman, & Shorb.  He has been listed among “The Best lawyers in America” each year since the list’s inception in 1983.  He received the Outstanding Service to Public Award given by the Oklahoma Bar Association in 1989.

Johnson is past president or board chair of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, the Metropolitan Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club of Tulsa, Southern Hills Country Club, and the Summit Club.  He is president of The First Tee of Tulsa.  He is a past director or trustee of the Philbrook Museum of Art, the Tulsa Area Chapter of the American Red Cross, Oklahoma City University, and Holland Hall School.

Johnson served as an usher at the Boston Avenue Church for 41 years and served as chairman of the Budget Committee for 30 years.  He served as co-chair of the Metropolitan Tulsa Economic Development Foundation, chairman of the Goals for Tomorrow, Health Care Task Force, and a board member of: the Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Industries for Tulsa Inc.; Community Foundation for Indigent Health Care, Inc.; and Tulsa Medical Education Foundation.

In 1982, Johnson chaired the Uncompensated Health Care Delivery Task Force of the Tulsa Chamber and in 1988 chaired its Tulsa Medical Education Task Force. In 1985, he chaired the mayor-appointed Arkansas River Corridor Task Force. In 1998, he chaired the Search Committee to select the new president of the Tulsa Chamber.

Johnson has been married to his wife Nan for 52 years.  They have three children, Bryan, Laura, and Brad and six grandchildren, Allison, Paul, John, Sarah, Abigail, and Katherine.

Randy A. Foutch was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008

Randy A. Foutch fits the bill as an entrepreneurial oilman.  Born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Geology at the University of Texas and a Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Houston.

His success as an oil and gas executive began with forming privately held companies.  Foutch founded Lariat Petroleum, Inc. in 1996 and served as President until January 2001 when it was sold to Newfield Exploration, Inc.  Foutch also founded Latigo Petroleum, Inc. and served as President and CEO until selling it to Pogo Producing Co., for 750 million dollars in 2006.  Latigo co-won an Oklahoma Venture of the Year Award.

He is Chairman and CEO of Laredo Petroleum, Inc., an independent oil and gas company with headquarters in Tulsa.  Laredo focuses on the acquisition, exploration, and development of oil and gas properties in the Mid-Continent region of the United States

Foutch serves on the boards of directors of the Bill Barrett Corporation, Helmerich & Payne, the Catholic Foundation of Eastern Oklahoma, and the Indian Nations Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and the board of trustees of the University of Tulsa.  He is also a board member and president of the Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, a member of the C.M. Russell National Advisory Board, member of the National Petroleum Council and board member emeritus of Leadership Oklahoma.  His previous industry positions include service as chairman of the International Society of Energy Advocates and the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board and its Scholastic Outreach Committee. He also serves as a board member of the Philip Neri Newman Center, Broad Oak Energy, Gryphon Exploration Company,  MacroSolve, Inc., and the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.

Foutch received the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Public Service Award in 1999.

He and his wife Jean have four daughters, Laura, Stephany, Annie, and Caroline.