Tulsa Hall of Fame members are selected based on their exemplary dedication to their professions, civic and philanthropic endeavors. They are visionaries who have spent much of their lives working for others. The inductees have made Tulsa a better community for all of us.
Pat Crofts
Year Inducted: 2024
Pat Crofts was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2024 For more than four decades, Pat Crofts has led the development of...
John Erling
Year Inducted: 2024
John Erling was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2024 John Erling has spent a lifetime sharing the experience of real, heartfelt,...
Michelle Hardesty
Year Inducted: 2024
Michelle Hardesty is an Officer of United States Aviation, a family company, and the Executive Director and a lifetime Board Member for The Hardesty...
Marcia & Phil Mitchell
Year Inducted: 2024
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Alison Anthony
Year Inducted: 2023
Alison Anthony was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 For more than 40 years, the favorite part of Alison Anthony’s workday...
Yolanda and Harold Charney
Year Inducted: 2023
Yolanda and Harold Charney were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Upon graduating from law school at the University of Oklahoma,...
Sarah and John Graves
Year Inducted: 2023
Sarah and John Graves were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Born in Norman, OK, John Graves moved briefly to Bartlesville...
Teresa Knox
Year Inducted: 2023
Teresa Knox was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Born in Tulsa, fourth generation Oklahoman Teresa Knox is the Founder and...
Sanjay Meshri
Year Inducted: 2023
Sanjay Meshri was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2023 Sanjay Meshri was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated with a bachelor’s...
The McElroy Family
Year Inducted: 2022
Donna M. Dutton, Peggy M. Tanner, and A.H. “Chip” McElroy II
Dennis R. Neill
Year Inducted: 2022
Dennis R. Neill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 In March 2018, Dennis retired after serving for 37 years in...
Steve Turnbo
Year Inducted: 2022
Steve Turnbo was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 Steve Turnbo is a leader – in public relations, in business and...
Eva Unterman
Year Inducted: 2022
Eva Unterman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2022 In 2019, The Synagogue/Congregation B’nai Emunah bestowed its highest honor upon Eva...
Tim Colwell
Year Inducted: 2021
Award-winning corporate communications professional and Rotarian...
B.C. Franklin
Year Inducted: 2021
B.C. (Buck Colbert) Franklin was an attorney, a rancher, a newspaper publisher, a postmaster general and a writer...
Toni Garner
Year Inducted: 2021
Antoinette Marie Garner, simply known to everyone as Toni, was born in Tulsa in 1956...
Hannibal B. Johnson
Year Inducted: 2021
Hannibal B. Johnson, Esq., a graduate of Harvard Law School, is an attorney, author, consultant, and college professor...
Jake Henry Jr.
Year Inducted: 2021
Jake Henry Jr. wrapped up more than five decades in the healthcare field when he retired after 19 years...
Frontline Heroes
Year Inducted: 2020
Health Care Workers, First Responders, Banking, Retail and Media, Supply Chain, Utilities and Postal Services, Educators, Non-Profits and Volunteers
Juley Roffers & Jim Langdon
Year Inducted: 2019
Juley Roffers & Jim Langdon were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Jim and Juley met in Oklahoma City on a...
Madeline Manning Mims
Year Inducted: 2019
Madeline Manning Mims was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Named one of America’s Outstanding Young Women, Madeline is a Gold...
Joe Moran
Year Inducted: 2019
Joe Moran was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 When reviewing Joe Moran’s decades-long listing of work with non-profits, three things...
Susan Neal
Year Inducted: 2019
Susan Neal was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Susan began her career in Washington, DC where she eventually served as...
Jeff Stava
Year Inducted: 2019
Jeff Stava was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2019 Jeff has always had a passion for community service and the outdoors....
Steve Bradshaw
Year Inducted: 2018
Steve Bradshaw was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Steve Bradshaw was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and spent all but 18...
Chet Cadieux
Year Inducted: 2018
Chester (Chet) Cadieux III was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Chester (Chet) Cadieux III, a Tulsa native, is the Chairman...
Ken Lackey
Year Inducted: 2018
Ken Lackey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 Ken Lackey has lived in Tulsa for more than 50 years. During...
Phyllis & Guy Logsdon
Year Inducted: 2018
Phyllis & Guy Logsdon were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 After moving to Tulsa in 1967 with their four daughters,...
Nancy McDonald
Year Inducted: 2018
Nancy McDonald was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2018 When Nancy came to Tulsa in 1966, she set right to work...
David Hogan
Year Inducted: 2017
David Hogan was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 David is a native Oklahoman, born in Vinita and moved with his...
Sally & Tom Hughes
Year Inducted: 2017
Sally & Tom Hughes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Although neither Sally nor Tom are native Tulsans, they are...
Bonnie Klein
Year Inducted: 2017
Bonnie Klein was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Growing up on a farm in rural southeastern Arkansas, Bonnie Klein had...
Dayal Meshri
Year Inducted: 2017
Dayal Meshri was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 Dayal Meshri was born in 1936 in British India. After the partition...
William & Robert Thomas
Year Inducted: 2017
William and Robert Thomas was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2017 In 1976, twin brothers Bill and Bob co-founded Gemini...
Felicia Collins Correia
Year Inducted: 2016
Felicia Collins Correia was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Felicia Collins Correia served as the Executive Director of Domestic Violence Intervention...
Patty & Len Eaton
Year Inducted: 2016
Patty & Len Eaton were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Patty was born in New York City and is a...
Cathy & Frank Keating
Year Inducted: 2016
Cathy & Frank Keating were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Cathy Keating is a fourth generation Oklahoman whose great grandparents came...
Lilah & Paul Marshall, John Marshall
Year Inducted: 2016
Lilah Paul Marshall & John Marshall were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 When the Great Depression hit, Henry Marshall used...
Stephanie Seymour
Year Inducted: 2016
Stephanie Seymour was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2016 Seymour attended Smith College, graduating magna cum laude and Phil Beta Kappa in...
Dorothy DeWitty
Year Inducted: 2015
Ms. DeWitty had a 30-year career with the Tulsa Public Schools, serving as a classroom educator and principal at Walt Whitman Elementary School. ...
Frederic Dorwart
Year Inducted: 2015
Frederic Dorwart was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Dorwart was the United States National High School Extemporaneous Speaking Champion in 1954,...
Mary Ann Hille
Year Inducted: 2015
Mary Ann Hille was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Coming to Tulsa in the late 1940’s with her parents and...
Gary Trennepohl
Year Inducted: 2015
Gary Trennepohl was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Trennepohl grew up in Tulsa living on “Route 66”. His parents ran...
John Wolf
Year Inducted: 2015
John Wolf was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2015 Wolf served as minister of All Souls Unitarian Church for more than...
Anne B. Cleveland
Year Inducted: 2014
Anne B. Cleveland was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Cleveland’s parents relocated to Oklahoma at the turn of the 20th...
Rosalind Cook
Year Inducted: 2014
Rosalind Cook was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 In her 2014 book Capturing the Spirit in Bronze, Rosalind Cook writes,...
Burt Holmes
Year Inducted: 2014
Burt Holmes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Equipped with a degree from The University of Tulsa and the experience...
George Krumme
Year Inducted: 2014
George Krumme was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Krumme was born and reared in rural Oklahoma about five miles northeast...
Rachel Perryman
Year Inducted: 2014
Rachel Perryman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Known as “Aunt Rachel” to the pioneer town and Indian settlement called...
Jon Stuart
Year Inducted: 2014
Jon Stuart was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Jon Stuart was adopted as an infant in Norway by his parents...
Randi Wightman
Year Inducted: 2014
Randi Wightman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2014 Randi Stuart Wightman fell in love with horses before age 12. Her...
Robert W. Block
Year Inducted: 2013
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,...
Patrick S. Gordon
Year Inducted: 2013
Patrick S. Gordon was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 By the time he was five years old, Patrick S. Gordon,...
Roseline and Herbert Gussman
Year Inducted: 2013
Roseline and Herbert Gussman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 The legacy of Herbert and Roseline Gussman represents the culmination...
Hannah and Joe Robson
Year Inducted: 2013
Hannah and Joe Robson were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 Hannah and Joe Robson were born 4 days apart in...
Mickey D. Wilson
Year Inducted: 2013
Mickey D. Wilson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2013 Mickey Wilson is an ideal Boy Scout and he has done...
Bryan B. Close
Year Inducted: 2012
Bryan B. Close was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Many military BRATS, which Hall of Fame inductee Bryan B. Close...
Mouzon Biggs, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2012
Mouzon Biggs Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Our community is better place because Mouzon Biggs Jr. did not...
Jean B. McGill
Year Inducted: 2012
Jean B. McGill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Jean B. McGill never backed down from a challenge. In her...
Joseph W. Morris
Year Inducted: 2012
Joseph W. Morris was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Judge Joseph W. Morris has been at more than one crossroads...
Alfred Randolph “Bill” Tandy
Year Inducted: 2012
Alfred Randolph (Bill) Tandy was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2012 Alfred Randolph (Bill) Tandy flew his B-26 Marauder, a twin-engine,...
Roy Clark
Year Inducted: 2011
Roy Clark was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Roy Clark was 15 when he earned $2 for his first paid...
Sharon King Davis
Year Inducted: 2011
Sharon King Davis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Things catch your eye in the beginning of the resume of...
John and Marge Gaberino
Year Inducted: 2011
John and Marge Gaberino were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 As a couple, John and Marge Gaberino impact Tulsa through...
Therese Gottschalk
Year Inducted: 2011
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...
Steadman Upham
Year Inducted: 2011
Steadman Upham was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2011 Dr. Steadman Upham became 17th president of The University of Tulsa in...
Robin Flint Ballenger
Year Inducted: 2010
Robin Flint Ballenger was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 Robin Flint Ballenger, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, is...
Judith Z. Kishner
Year Inducted: 2010
Judith Z. Kishner was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in...
Bill Lobeck
Year Inducted: 2010
William E. “Bill” Lobeck was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck...
Gail Zarrow Richards
Year Inducted: 2010
Gail Zarrow Richards was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 In an ambitious and inspiring goal to end chronic homelessness in...
Kathy Taylor
Year Inducted: 2010
Kathy Taylor was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 As a couple, Kathy Taylor and William E. “Bill” Lobeck impact Tulsa...
Michael Wallis
Year Inducted: 2010
Michael Wallis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2010 Best-selling author and award-winning reporter, Michael Wallis is a historian and biographer...
George and Phyllis Dotson
Year Inducted: 2009
George and Phyllis Dotson were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 George and Phyllis Dotson are two of Tulsa’s most admired...
Linda Sellen Frazier
Year Inducted: 2009
Linda Sellen Frazier was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 Three beliefs motivate Linda Sellen Frazier’s volunteer work: Every child should...
George Fulton Collins III
Year Inducted: 2009
George Fulton Collins III was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 George Fulton Collins III sought challenges for himself and created...
Michael P. Johnson
Year Inducted: 2009
Michael P. Johnson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 “Human Resources” takes on a new meaning when applied to Michael...
Clayton Vaughn
Year Inducted: 2009
Clayton Vaughn was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 “The Dean of Tulsa Television,” Clayton Vaughn’s broadcast journalism career spanned nearly...
Richard B. Williamson
Year Inducted: 2009
Richard B. Williamson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2009 Richard B. (Dick) Williamson’s influence in his chosen industry circles the...
Randy A. Foutch
Year Inducted: 2008
Randy A. Foutch was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Randy A. Foutch fits the bill as an entrepreneurial oilman. Born...
John B. Johnson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2008
John B. Johnson Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 John B. Johnson Jr. is nearing a half century of...
Roxana Rozsa Lorton
Year Inducted: 2008
Roxana Rozsa Lorton was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Roxana Rozsa Lorton has had a remarkable career of leadership of...
Julius Pegues
Year Inducted: 2008
Julius Pegues was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Lifelong Tulsan, Julius Pegues graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in...
Peggy Clark Stephenson
Year Inducted: 2008
Peggy Clark Stephenson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Peggy Clark Stephenson learned the bedrock Oklahoma values of faith in...
Suzanne M. Warren
Year Inducted: 2008
Suzanne M. Warren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2008 Suzanne M. Warren is an example of character grown with the...
Major Charles E. Snyder, USAF (Retired)
Year Inducted: 2007
Major Charles E. Snyder, USAF (Retired) was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 Charles E. “C.E.” Snyder was born in Topeka,...
Joe Craft
Year Inducted: 2007
Joe Craft was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 A native of Hazard, KY, Joseph W. Craft III came to Tulsa...
Richard and Sally Minshall
Year Inducted: 2007
Richard and Sally Minshall were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 Richard Minshall’s grandfather came to Tulsa in 1901 from Pittsburg,...
John T. Nickel
Year Inducted: 2007
John T. Nickel was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2007 John T. Nickel is a native Oklahoman. He was born in...
Sam Avey
Year Inducted: 2006
Sam Avey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Sam Avey loved Tulsa, once remarking that he would rather be broke...
John A. Brock
Year Inducted: 2006
John A. Brock was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Businessman and community leader John A. Brock was born in Durant,...
David Kyle
Year Inducted: 2006
David Kyle was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 David Kyle joined Oklahoma Natural Gas Company, a division of ONEOK in...
Steve Malcolm
Year Inducted: 2006
Steve Malcolm was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2006 Steve Malcolm is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Williams and...
Frances W. O’Hornett
Year Inducted: 2006
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...
Joe and Patty Cappy
Year Inducted: 2005
Joe and Patty Cappy were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Joe Cappy is a retired rental car executive and he...
J.M. Jack and Ann Graves
Year Inducted: 2005
J.M. Jack and Ann Graves were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 J. M. (Jack) Graves’ death in July 2005 was...
Edward Campbell Lawson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2005
Edward Campbell Lawson, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Edward C. Lawson, Jr. is an oilman, philanthropist, American Impressionist...
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman
Year Inducted: 2005
Rabbi Charles P. Sherman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Rabbi Charles P. Sherman was...
Robert E. Thomas
Year Inducted: 2005
Robert E. Thomas was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2005 Robert E. Thomas has a distinguished career and world wide reputation...
Cyrus Avery
Year Inducted: 2004
Cyrus Avery was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Cyrus Stevens Avery was born in 1871 in Pennsylvania and moved with...
Michael D. Case
Year Inducted: 2004
Michael D. Case was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Michael D. Case formed Case & Associates Properties in 1983. The...
David Halpern
Year Inducted: 2004
David Halpern was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 David Halpern’s interest in photography began in childhood but remained a hobby...
P. C. Lauinger
Year Inducted: 2004
P. C. Lauinger was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 P. C. Lauinger, a long-time Tulsa business leader, headed the PennWell...
Paula Marshall-Chapman
Year Inducted: 2004
Paula Marshall-Chapman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2004 Paula Marshall-Chapman grew up in Tulsa and spent her teenage years working...
Thomas R. Brett
Year Inducted: 2003
Thomas R. Brett was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Known for his commitment to ethics in the legal profession, The...
Frederick W. Insull
Year Inducted: 2003
Frederick W. Insull was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 When Frederick W. Insull came to town in 1913 to organize...
William K. Warren, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2003
William K. Warren, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Tulsa native William K. Warren, Jr. graduated from Cascia Hall...
Lillian Norberg
Year Inducted: 2003
Lillian Norberg was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 As “First Lady of Oklahoma Libraries,” Lillian Norberg’s legacy is incalculable. Every...
John T. Oxley
Year Inducted: 2003
John T. Oxley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 John T. Oxley built a liquefied petroleum business and brought world-class...
Jack and Maxine Zarrow
Year Inducted: 2003
Jack and Maxine Zarrow were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2003 Jack Zarrow is a native Tulsan; Maxine Foreman, originally from...
Margery Mayo Bird
Year Inducted: 2002
Margery Mayo Bird was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Margery Mayo Bird counts herself fortunate to be the daughter of...
Chester Cadieux
Year Inducted: 2002
Chester Cadieux was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Chester Cadieux is chairman of QuikTrip, a Tulsa based regional convenience store...
Ray H. Siegfried II
Year Inducted: 2002
Ray H. Siegfried II was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Tulsa native Ray H. Siegfried II acquired a bankrupt NORDAM...
Henry Kravis
Year Inducted: 2002
Henry Kravis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Tulsa native Henry Kravis is a founder of the New York merchant...
James W. Pielsticker
Year Inducted: 2002
James W. Pielsticker was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 His family and his community lost James William Pielsticker in a...
Joseph H. Williams
Year Inducted: 2002
Joseph H. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2002 Joseph H. Williams is a 1956 graduate of Yale University. After...
Patrick J. Hurley
Year Inducted: 2001
Patrick J. Hurley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 The late Patrick Hurley was born in Indian Territory, practiced law...
Wilson Hurley
Year Inducted: 2001
Wilson Hurley was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Wilson Hurley, the only son of Patrick J. Hurley (above) grew up...
Nelle Jackson
Year Inducted: 2001
Nelle Jackson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Miss Jackson’s, one of Tulsa’s longtime traditions, of fashion excellence, came about...
Peter & Nancy Meinig
Year Inducted: 2001
Peter & Nancy Meinig were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 The Meinigs were born in Reading, Pa. and graduated from...
Bob Parker
Year Inducted: 2001
Bob Parker was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Bob Parker, a Tulsa native, started his success early. He was only...
Sid W. Patterson
Year Inducted: 2001
Sid W. Patterson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2001 Sid Patterson just might have had something to do with Oklahoma...
Marylouise Tandy Cowan
Year Inducted: 2000
Marylouise Tandy Cowan was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Arts patron and newspaper publisher Marylouise Tandy Cowan is a Tulsa...
Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. graduated from the University of Oklahoma...
Charles & Lynn Schusterman
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles & Lynn Schusterman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles and Lynn Schusterman personify commitment to sharing good fortune...
Ross Swimmer
Year Inducted: 2000
Ross Swimmer was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Ross Swimmer served ten years as Chief of the Cherokee Nation of...
Charles P. Williams
Year Inducted: 2000
Charles P. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 2000 Charles P. Williams grew up in Cuba, where his father was...
Keith Bailey
Year Inducted: 1999
Keith Bailey was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Engineers know how to make things work. In the case of Keith...
John Kirkpatrick
Year Inducted: 1999
John Kirkpatrick was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 He is among Oklahoma’s most distinguished citizens. With a resume that includes...
Robert Lorton
Year Inducted: 1999
Robert Lorton was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Inheriting a legacy can be a tremendous responsibility. In Tulsa, few legacies...
Ruth K. Nelson
Year Inducted: 1999
Ruth K. Nelson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Ruth Nelson cares about people. In an environment where it has...
Josie Vann
Year Inducted: 1999
Josie Vann was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1999 Retirement for most people is a period when they can contemplate lazy...
Grace and Franklin Bernsen
Year Inducted: 1998
Grace and Franklin Bernsen were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 In a city widely known for its civic spirit and...
Pocahontas Greadington
Year Inducted: 1998
Pocahontas Greadington was inducted into Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 Calculating the impact an individual has made upon a community often involves adding...
E. Fred Johnson
Year Inducted: 1998
E. Fred Johnson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 The term “community builder” can have many meanings. The term can...
Virginia Kramer Kulp
Year Inducted: 1998
Virginia Kramer Kulp was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 Growing up in the Oklahoma oil patch, Virginia Kramer Kulp learned...
Mildred Sanditen
Year Inducted: 1998
Mildred Sanditen was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1998 The spirit of volunteerism frequently is cited as one of Tulsa’s greatest...
Nancy and Raymond Feldman
Year Inducted: 1997
Nancy and Raymond Feldman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 A partnership of 51 years is a remarkable achievement, particularly...
James Maxwell
Year Inducted: 1997
James Maxwell was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Youth may have been one reason for his tremendous energy. James Maxwell...
Cass A. Mayo & John D. Mayo
Year Inducted: 1997
Cass A. Mayo & John D. Mayo were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 The pioneers who came to Tulsa, I.T.,...
B.S. Roberts
Year Inducted: 1997
B.S. Roberts was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Reverend B.S. Roberts recognized the link between Tulsa’s spiritual life and civic...
Mollie and Richard Williford
Year Inducted: 1997
Mollie and Richard Williford was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1997 Any study of Tulsa’s history confirms one important fact. Tulsa...
Mary Veasey Leech
Year Inducted: 1996
Mary Veasey Leech was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 In a quieter and more gracious era, the stately residences of...
Edgar R. Sanditen
Year Inducted: 1996
Edgar R. Sanditen was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 Service was a quality customers of OTASCO learned to expect when...
Jill Tarbel
Year Inducted: 1996
Jill Tarbel was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 The architectural landscape of Tulsa has been changed by Jill Tarbel. Having...
Clifton LeMoure Taulbert
Year Inducted: 1996
Clifton LeMoure Taulbert was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1996 Born in the Mississippi Delta, author Clifton Taulbert has reaped rewards...
Thomas Gilcrease
Year Inducted: 1995
Thomas Gilcrease was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Rooted in nature, self-educated in Western classics, appreciative of Native American mysticism...
Ruth G. Hardman
Year Inducted: 1995
Ruth G. Hardman was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 An active mind matched with boundless energy are the hallmarks of...
Ed Lacy
Year Inducted: 1995
Ed Lacy was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 While the roar of the crowd and the love of the game...
John Mabee
Year Inducted: 1995
John Mabee was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Eulogized upon his death as “Oklahoma’s Mr. Philanthropy,” John Mabee and his...
Maurice De Vinna
Year Inducted: 1995
Maurice De Vinna was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1995 Before there was an Oklahoma, there was Maurice De Vinna; his...
Betty B. Bradstreet
Year Inducted: 1994
Betty Buell Bradstreet was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Betty Buell Bradstreet is music to art lovers’ ears. She has...
Warren C. Hultgren
Year Inducted: 1994
Warren C. Hultgren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Warren C. Hultgren is known as “the minister’s minister.” His tenure...
David Randolph Milsten
Year Inducted: 1994
David Randolph Milsten was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 David Randolph Milsten has played a central role in the intellectual...
Jeanne & Edward Goodwin, Sr.
Year Inducted: 1994
Jeanne & Edward Goodwin, Sr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Jeanne B. and Edward L. Goodwin, Sr. were leaders...
Leta Chapman & Pauline Walter
Year Inducted: 1994
Leta M. Chapman and Pauline M. Walter were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1994 Leta M. Chapman and Pauline M. Walter,...
Amos T. Hall
Year Inducted: 1993
Amos T. Hall was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 Amos T. Hall pursued a law career that led him to...
Peggy Helmerich
Year Inducted: 1993
Peggy Helmerich was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 Peggy V. Helmerich traded stardom in Hollywood to play a starring role...
James M. Hewgley, Jr
Year Inducted: 1993
James M. Hewgley, Jr. was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 James M. Hewgley, Jr. epitomizes the term “public service.” In...
George Renberg
Year Inducted: 1993
George Renberg was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 George Renberg is a part of the fabric of Tulsa. The hallmark...
John H. Williams
Year Inducted: 1993
John H. Williams was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993 John H. Williams has made contributions to Tulsa that are obvious...
Ben Henneke
Year Inducted: 1992
Ben Henneke was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 The high caliber of Tulsa’s intellectual discourse has been among the most...
Dan P. Holmes
Year Inducted: 1992
Dan P. Holmes was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 Thousands of drivers travel old Highway 33 east of Tulsa every...
Roberta Campbell Lawson
Year Inducted: 1992
Roberta Campbell Lawson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 Roberta Campbell Lawson sought to achieve a “spiritual balance” between her...
Henry Zarrow
Year Inducted: 1992
Henry Zarrow was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 His belief that he should “give back to the community” has allowed...
John Steele Zink
Year Inducted: 1992
John Steele Zink was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1992 A fertile imagination and a zeal for the unorthodox were two...
Jane Heard & Fred S. Clinton
Year Inducted: 1991
Jane Heard & Fred S. Clinton were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Jane Heard & Fred Severs Clinton were Tulsans...
Allie Beth Martin
Year Inducted: 1991
Allie Beth Martin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Allie Beth Martin’s career with the Tulsa Library began in 1949. ...
Charles E. Thornton
Year Inducted: 1991
Charles E. Thornton was inducted into the the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Charles E. Thornton has been instrumental in the development of...
Kathleen P. Westby
Year Inducted: 1991
Kathleen P. Westby was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Kathleen P. Westby has worked with many social services as well...
Ellis Walker Woods
Year Inducted: 1991
Ellis Walker Woods was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1991 Ellis Walker Woods – in 1913, he was the first principal...
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Year Inducted: 1990
Jenkin Lloyd Jones was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Jenkin Lloyd Jones, in his roles as publisher, columnist and world...
Thelma & Henry C. Whitlow, Jr
Year Inducted: 1990
Thelma & Henry C. Whitlow Jr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Thelma and Henry C. Whitlow, Jr. have left...
Carol & T.D. Williamson, Jr.
Year Inducted: 1990
Carol & T.D. Williamson, Jr. were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Carol and T.D. Williamson, Jr. are native Tulsans whose...
Raymond F. Kravis
Year Inducted: 1990
Raymond F. Kravis was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Raymond F. Kravis, has dedicated himself to improving the lives of...
Waite Phillips
Year Inducted: 1990
Waite Phillips was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1990 Waite Phillips epitomized a tradition of generosity that has become the hallmark...
Daniel J. Boorstin
Year Inducted: 1989
Daniel J. Boorstin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 Daniel J. Boorstin has taken principles nurtured by a Tulsa upbringing...
William R. & Hope Holway
Year Inducted: 1989
William R. & Hope Holway were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 William R. and Hope Holway dedicated themselves to building...
Janice C. Jones
Year Inducted: 1989
Janice C. Jones was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 Janice C. Jones believed that a community’s health was only as...
George & Josiah Perryman
Year Inducted: 1989
George & Josiah Perryman were inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 George and Josiah Perryman, members of a family who first...
William G. Skelly
Year Inducted: 1989
William G. Skelly was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1989 William G. Skelly was the embodiment of the qualities which earned...
Alfred Aaronson
Year Inducted: 1988
Alfred Aaronson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988. There are times when people simply have to be told. In Tulsa...
John Hope Franklin
Year Inducted: 1988
John Hope Franklin was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 If a commitment to reason and justice is the hallmark of...
Moscelyne Larkin & Roman Jasinski
Year Inducted: 1988
Moscelyne Larkin & Roman Jasinski was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Thirty-two years of love and labor have established the...
Robert J. LaFortune
Year Inducted: 1988
Robert J. LaFortune was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Harmony and consistency, Robert J. LaFortune once said, creates the best...
Dode McIntosh
Year Inducted: 1988
Waldo Emerson “Dode” McIntosh was Inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1988 Waldo Emerson “Dode” McIntosh is much like Tulsa. Like the city...
James Monroe Hall
Year Inducted: 1987
James Monroe Hall was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 James Monroe Hall was a pioneer Tulsan whose arrival with the...
Benjamin Harrison Hill
Year Inducted: 1987
Benjamin Harrison Hill was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Benjamin Harrison Hill’s contributions to Tulsa derived from his double role...
Charles Page
Year Inducted: 1987
Charles Page was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Charles Page envisioned a self-sustaining institution that would support orphaned children. That...
William Kelly Warren
Year Inducted: 1987
William Kelly Warren was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 William Kelly Warren embodies the spirit of the independent oilmen who...
Patti Johnson Wilson
Year Inducted: 1987
Patti Johnson Wilson was inducted into the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1987 Patti Johnson Wilson, civic leader, philanthropist and world traveler, was born...