Mickey D. Wilson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013

Mickey Wilson is an ideal Boy Scout and he has done his duty as set out in the Scout Oath. A devoted Boy Scout volunteer, Mickey served the Indian Nations Council and was given the Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver Award, the highest honor that can be given by a local council.

A Tulsa native, he is a proud member of Central High School’s “Nifty Class of 50.” While at the University of Tulsa he earned three letters in tennis and was a member of the 1954 team that won the Missouri Valley Championship.  Mickey was also a varsity cheerleader at TU.

He received a law degree from the University of Oklahoma and then served as a Staff Advocate Judge with the Air Force at a military base in the Mediterranean.

Mickey built a successful law practice that emphasized commercial law and receivership insolvency. He was named Presiding Judge, Temporary Division #214, Court of Appeals, State of Oklahoma. In 1983 he was appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma where he served as Chief Judge until his retirement in 1997. He has been an adjunct professor and has spoken at numerous legal seminars for the Tulsa County Bar Association, Oklahoma Bar Association, and the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Mickey is an active member of St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he served in various leadership capacities.  He is the father of two children, Laura and Christopher. His wife Ann has three children by a previous marriage and between them, they have nine grandchildren.

Hannah and Joe Robson were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013

Hannah and Joe Robson were born 4 days apart in Tulsa’s St. John Hospital.  Both were raised in families with three boys and one girl, and both have spent their entire lives supporting Tulsa and its surrounding communities.

Hannah’s parents taught her to look for the best in people, stay positive and take advantage of all opportunities.  She attended college at ORU and in Hawaii.  While there, she auditioned and was accepted into Up With People, an international, musical group with a humanitarian message of goodwill.

Upon returning home, she graduated from the University of Tulsa with a degree in Communications.   The next 21 years were spent with Williams, as Managing Director of The Williams Companies Foundation and Manager of Community Relations.  During her tenure with Williams, Hannah served as president of the Tulsa Ballet, Metro Christian Academy and the Tulsa Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.  She chaired two multi-million dollar capital fund drives, and was a board member of the Tulsa Philharmonic, Tulsa Area United Way, First Presbyterian Church, and Leadership Tulsa where she received the Paragon Award.

In the late 90s, she retired from Williams.  Later, Hannah was a private investigator for 6 years.

Currently, Hannah is a member of the Oklahoma Arts Council, a Director of Tulsa Ballet and the Tulsa Zoo Management Association, a member of the Search Committee for Artistic Director of the Signature Symphony, and a Volunteer Chaplain for First Presbyterian Church.

Joe grew up on a cattle ranch east of Tulsa. His mother taught him the value of tenacity and being diligent while Joe’s father taught him that a man’s reputation is his greatest possession.

Much of Joe’s childhood was spent swimming, working on the ranch, and taking all kinds of lessons:  piano, trumpet, ballet, and speech. His swimming career led him to Memorial High School, where he was a State Champion and All American, and on to Southern Methodist University, lettering his freshman year before a career-ending injury.

After graduating from SMU, Joe came home to start his real estate career.  In 1986, he formed the Robson Companies and began to develop part of the family ranch into the master planned community of Forest Ridge.

When Joe returned to Tulsa, he began his promotion of infrastructure improvements in the Tulsa metro area—roads, water and sewer.  He helped in the efforts to widen the Broken Arrow Expressway, the extension of the Creek Turnpike, and the break up of the old University Center at Tulsa in favor of the now stand-alone satellite universities.  Joe joined the local home builders association, which led to two terms as President of the Tulsa Home Builders Association, President of the Oklahoma Home Builders, and, in 2009, Chairman of the National Association of Home Builders.  He advocated housing issues by testifying before Congress.

Joe has served on the Board, and numerous task forces, of the Broken Arrow, Tulsa, and OK Chambers of Commerce, and is a former Chairman of the Salvation Army. He also formerly served as a Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Topeka, a Director of the Greater Tulsa Association of Realtors, a member of the OK Judicial Nomination Commission, as well as the United States Golf Association Greens Committee.  He is an alumnus of Leadership Tulsa and has served on various Boards of First Presbyterian Church.

In addition to being President of The Robson Companies, Joe is Chairman of the Board of RCB Bank, Chairman of the Quality of Service Coalition, a member of the Board of the local, state and national home builder associations, a Trustee of the Tulsa Airport Authority, a Trustee of First Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army.  He loves to hunt and fish, as well as play golf, snow ski and scuba dive.

The Robsons have been married for nearly 31 years.  They enjoy spending family time with Davis and his daughter, Whitney, and Callie and her husband, Tim.

Roseline and Herbert Gussman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013

The legacy of Herbert and Roseline Gussman represents the culmination of his pioneering work in the energy industry and the couple’s life-long devotion to music, art, and their passion for family and community.  They met at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; the college Roseline’s Tulsa Central High School chemistry teacher recommended.

Roseline was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1913 to Isadore and Sophie Nadel.  The Nadel family moved to Marietta, Ohio and then on to Tulsa Oklahoma where her parents opened a grocery store at 18^th and Cincinnati.  To provide for their only child’s college education, the Nadels started by putting a nickel in a jar every day.  Their hard work and good fortune made life easier for their daughter.  Roseline ultimately obtained a degree in German studies from Cornell.

Herbert, an economics major from New York, partially supported himself through college by playing piano and alto saxophone in a small band he had established called, “The Pied Pipers.” He played for campus and local audiences and spent his summers, working and entertaining at vacation resorts by playing the piano.  Herbert also excelled in track and field.

After graduation, the couple married in 1935 and settled in New York City.  Ten years later, they moved to Tulsa where Herbert joined his father-in-law in forming Nadel and Gussman, a small independent oil company. Herbert served on several boards – among them the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the First National Bank of Tulsa and the Tulsa Philharmonic.  He also loved sports and took both golf and piano lessons well into his mid-nineties.

Roseline was very active in Hadassah, eventually joining the National Board, Bnai Emunah Synagogue and other civic organizations.  Throughout her life, she continued to take classes in music and art appreciation at the University of Tulsa.  Roseline loved to travel and followed news of the political world for her entire life, going to Washington, D.C., joining American Foreign Policy groups and encouraging others to become involved in education and philanthropy.  She lived a long life filled with books, her family and friendships.

Herbert, and his Cornell classmate, Burch Mayo, founded the Tulsa Philharmonic in 1948. Throughout the years, he maintained great friendships with many of the artists who performed with the Tulsa Philharmonic.  During the 1940s and 1950s, Herbert spent one month each summer studying piano at Julliard.

Herbert’s encouraged young artists at the University of Tulsa where he established the Gussman prize for outstanding graduate and undergraduate students.

The Gussmans’ interest in art grew throughout their marriage and so did their personal collection.  Herbert developed a love of African art and with his brother, Lawrence who lived in New York, spent many summers travelling in Africa.   Roseline and Herbert endowed and donated many works to the Gussman Collection at the Philbrook Museum to be treasured and enjoyed for present and future generations.

They were proud of this city, and loved its natural beauty, its people and its potential to offer the best of music, the arts and loyal friendships.  The Gussman family includes: two daughters, Ellen Adelson and Barbara Heyman, six grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.

Patrick S. Gordon was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013

By the time he was five years old, Patrick S. Gordon, the Northeastern Oklahoma watercolorist and painter, knew that he wanted to be an artist. With a stellar international reputation, Patrick exceeded his young dreams. Galleries, businesses and private collectors display his realistic, large-scale still lifes and exacting portraits.

Patrick was born into an artistic family in Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother, Janell S. Gordon, a respected still life painter, was his first art teacher and he learned an unusual technique from her. “I usually work with the canvas turned upside-down as I develop each area of the painting.” He says this concentrates his ability to see abstract patterns rather than the object he’s painting. “Most of the time I don’t consider whether I’m painting a leaf or a petal and just focus on the relative color and value of what I’m painting.”

He attended the University of Oklahoma then transferred to the University of Tulsa where he studied with widely-regarded watercolorist Glenn Godsey. He received a baccalaureate degree from TU in 1974, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and took an additional year of graduate study in watercolor.   Patrick was named as a 2003 distinguished alumni of the University of Tulsa.

Following a nine-year-stay in New York City, Patrick returned to Tulsa in 2012. “Growing up in Oklahoma gave me a good sensibility about work and people.”

His work has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979), the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York City (1992-1993), the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (1999), and the Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa (2001).

Robert W. Block was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013

As president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 2011-2012, Dr. Robert W. Block dedicated his term to the children, focusing on health equity, health education and literacy, immunizations and early brain and child development.

Dr. Block is widely lauded for his work with abused children. He believes, “To succeed as a nation, we must invest in early childhood health, mental health, education, nutrition, and social stability. All adults once were children. Who we are as adults is, in many ways, affected by our childhood experiences, environments, and relationships.”

He earned a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and then completed a pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He has been named one of the “Best Doctors in America” and he was the first chair of the AAP’s sub-board on Child Abuse Pediatrics. Dr. Block has been the board chair and past president of the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA), where he focused on increasing education for health care professionals and academic research on the health effects of violence and abuse.

He is a past chair of the Department of Pediatrics at The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and has been a member of the OU College of Medicine faculty since 1975.

The author of numerous papers and a textbook, Dr. Block has delivered over 2,000 public presentations on his work.

Robert and wife Sharon, a retired science teacher and registered nurse, have two daughters, Erika and Andrea, and two grandchildren.