Steadman Upham was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011

Dr. Steadman Upham became 17th president of The University of Tulsa in June 2004.

His administration has been highlighted by strengthening the quality of students and faculty, expanding academic programs, maintaining strong enrollments, and adding more than a million square feet of state-of-the-art facilities to the TU campus. In addition, Upham has overseen the largest fundraising campaign in TU history, totaling more than $600 million in support of faculty and program endowments, interdisciplinary research, global outreach, and engagement with the City of Tulsa. Upham will step down next June but remain at TU as a teacher and researcher.

Upham and his wife Peggy celebrated 40 years of marriage in 2011. They have two children and one grandchild.

Upham received his BA in English literature and Spanish language from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California and MA and PhD degrees in anthropology from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

His academic career began at New Mexico State University. He moved to the University of Oregon as vice provost for research and dean of the Graduate School and professor of anthropology. Prior to TU, he served six years as president and chief executive officer of Claremont Graduate University, a member of the Oxford-style consortium known as The Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California.

Upham is also a widely published archaeologist, having written or edited ten books and more than 75 book and monograph chapters and journal articles. He has lectured extensively in the United States and Canada. His specialty is the prehistory and archaeology of the American Southwest and particularly the basic questions about the development of Puebloan culture. He has been part of major discoveries in the Southwest about the antiquity of maize agriculture, the development of craft specialization, the structure of long distance trade, and the emergence of large Puebloan towns during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Steadman Upham has been singled out throughout his career for his achievements as an educator, administrator, and archaeologist. He looks forward to returning to a University of Tulsa classroom and to his study of the prehistory of the American Southwest.

John and Marge Gaberino were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011

As a couple, John and Marge Gaberino impact Tulsa through a range of philanthropic, civic, and business activities.

They grew up in Holdenville, Oklahoma and were teenage sweethearts. Marge started developing her leadership skills in high school as President of the Student Council, followed by being elected President of her freshman class at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a B.A. in History and honed her interest in politics and government as a Capitol Hill aide to the late Oklahoma Congressman Ed Edmondson. She’s in the Junior League of Tulsa, sits on the Tulsa Town Hall Council, and serves Christ the King Catholic Church on the Parish Council and as past Women’s Club president. Together, the Gaberinos have supported Operation Aware, Monte Cassino, and Cascia Hall Preparatory School in a variety of leadership roles.

John Gaberino is a shareholder in the law firm of Gable & Gotwals, which he rejoined after retiring as Senior Vice President at ONEOK in 2006. Gaberino graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Georgetown University’s College of Arts & Sciences with a degree in economics and received his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown Law School. In 1993, he received the University’s John Carroll Medal, the highest honor bestowed on an alumnus. He’s led the Tulsa and Oklahoma bar associations, Tulsa United Way and Metro Chamber, and currently serves on the boards of the William K. Warren Foundation, and the foundations for Cascia Hall Charities, Tulsa Community College, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation. He is a member, leader and supporter of the Tulsa Chapter of the National Conference for Community and Justice, and a recipient of that organization’s Humanitarian Award.

Marge and John Gaberino celebrate 46 years of marriage this year and are the parents of four daughters and one son and have 11 grandchildren.

It is rare, but incredibly fortunate for Tulsa to have such two such individuals so sharply focused on the needs of their community. The thousands they touch with love, support, and inspiration couldn’t be in better hands.

Therese Gottschalk was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011

Sister M. Therese Gottschalk led Tulsa’s St. John Hospital more than 35 years with a vision and dedication that saw St. John grow into a tri-state, fully integrated healthcare system.

Sister Therese was born Mary Therese Gottschalk in Bavaria, Germany, the second of fourteen children. She entered the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in 1952 and came to the United States the following year, attending high school in Milwaukee.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy at Creighton in 1960 and then a Master of Science degree in Hospital Administration from Saint Louis University. She moved to Roswell, New Mexico, to serve as Director of Pharmacy and Purchasing at Saint Mary’s Hospital and later became the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer.

Sister Therese moved to Tulsa and St. John in 1974. What followed was a remarkable time of renovation and expansion. Healthcare technology began an exponential upward curve. Information systems exploded with new techniques and problem solving approaches that would forever change health care delivery. She oversaw physical expansion while maintaining the highest standards of service. She became President and CEO of what is now the St. John Health System in 1982. She guided the creation of a fully integrated healthcare system of nine hospitals serving northeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, and northwestern Arkansas.

She stepped down as the President & CEO at the end of 2010, but her service continues. Her order, the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, joined its healthcare facilities with that of two other orders in 1998, creating the Marian Health System. Sister Therese is its President. Marian is one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems, which sponsors the St. John Health System as well as large health systems in Kansas and Wisconsin.

She has an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Oklahoma. She is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and serves on more than a dozen healthcare boards.

Sister Therese’s life has been and continues to be, a life of service and a gift to God

and humanity.

Sharon King Davis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011

Things catch your eye in the beginning of the resume of Sharon King Davis. Her grandchildren Cooper and Eden are sixth generation Tulsans, and she’s taught preschoolers in her church Sunday School for 30 years.

Sharon is partner in the King family businesses, commercial real estate such as KingsPointe Village and Kings Landing, and some oil and gas but perhaps better known as one of Tulsa’s busiest community leaders.

Her current community activities include the Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa Community College Foundation, Chamber Of Commerce, Friends of the Fairgrounds, and leadership to revitalize the Armory at Expo Square, among others. She also serves on a half dozen Advisory boards from Family and Children’s Services to Habitat for Humanity.

Sharon’s paternal great grandfather brought his wife and 10 children to Sand Springs in a wagon. Her dad started work as a disc jockey but realized home building was where he belonged. Her maternal grandfather Sam Avey was in vaudeville but came back to Tulsa where he helped start KAKC radio and the F&M Bank and brought professional wrestling to his Coliseum. Sharon was in the first graduating class of Memorial High School and has a BA from Colorado Woman’s College. She was married to the late Coleman Davis for 36 years and is the proud mother of three daughters.

Civic organizations and publications have showered her with awards and honors reaching from among the “Most Powerful Women in Tulsa” in 1994 to “Best Dressed” in 2007.

She is recognized, however, as the person who gets it done when it comes to the big project and the long view. She helped in the Oklahoma Centennial and chaired Tulsa’s Centennial. She’s led a City Streets Task Force, cochaired a third penny sales tax extension, served on the state Women’s Commission, and directed the unearthing of Tulsa’s Semi-Centennial Time Capsule containing a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried for 50 years.

And to think all that started when St. Francis Hospital opened and Sharon King Davis won a special pink striped lamp pin in recognition of her long volunteer hours as a summer Candy Striper.

Roy Clark was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011

Roy Clark was 15 when he earned $2 for his first paid performance with his dad’s band in Washington D.C. He started playing weekends at bars and hot spots and then, dropping out of school, played every night. Then he made his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. He had arrived. He was 17 years old.

Highly regarded as a guitarist and banjo player, Clark is also skilled in classical guitar and several other instruments, recognized as one of the world’s finest multi-instrumentalists and one of the first cross-over artists to land singles on both the pop and country charts. Turning to television in the late ‘60’s, he combined his musical and comedic talents to star in “Hee Haw,” a country variety show. Watched by millions, it would become one of the longest-running syndicated programs in television history. He opened the Roy Clark Celebrity Theatre in Branson, Missouri in 1983, becoming the first country music star to have his own venue there. It marked the trend that saw Branson become a center of live music performance. However, he considers the highlight of his career a pioneering, sold-out 1976 tour of the then-Soviet Union.

Clark is the first country artist to headline at the Montreux International Jazz Festival in Switzerland, he appeared in London on “The Tom Jones Show,” has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is a member of the Gibson (Guitar) Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame, the first country artist inducted into The Entertainers Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, a winner of the Academy of Country Music’s Pioneer Award and the Minnie Pearl Humanitarian of the Year Award, and the 63rd member of the Grand Ole Opry. Somewhere in there, he played Carnegie Hall.

Roy and Barbara, his wife of almost 50 years, have made their home in Tulsa nearly 40 years. There is a school named after him in the Union School District and he remains actively involved with the children who attend Roy Clark Elementary. After all, as he says, live performance is what it is all about.