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1964 JUKE BOX
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
BILL REESE
Reese, Mr. Bill
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English & Languages 335a HM
East Central University
Ada, OK
 
 
LINDA WILLAMS REESE
 

2008 Faculty Award Winner Dr. Linda Reese

 
Reese. Dr. Linda
563
History 238d HM
East Central University
Ada, OK
 
 
Stock photoWomen of Oklahoma, 1890-1920 by Linda Williams Reese
 

Synopsis

Settlement on the Oklahoma frontier, which began as abruptly as a pistol shot on a starting line, produced a collision of cultures. Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, uses primary sources, particularly diaries and letters, to tell the stories of white, black, and Native American women who crossed racial and cultural barriers to work together, first in domestic concerns and later in community and national affairs. Linda Williams Reese tells of political activist Kate Barnard, who became Oklahoma's Commissioner of Charities and Corrections but fell from political grace, of Alice Robertson, who in 1920 abandoned the acceptable female endeavors of teaching and charity work to become a representative to the U.S Congress, and of Isabel Crawford, missionary to the Kiowas, who confided to her journal, "There are different kinds of hardships and those of the heart and spirit are harder to bear." Examining educational opportunities for frontier women, Reese describes the Cherokee Female Seminary, in Tahlequah, and Oklahoma Industrial Institute and College for Girls. She looks at the status of women in early all-black communities, recounting the cultural influence of Zelia Page Breaux, and at the social and political influence of newspaperwomen Elva Shartel Ferguson, Lucia Loomis Ferguson, and Edith Cherry Johnson. The personal stories of pioneering Oklahoma women cross boundaries of race and class; their attitudes and concerns cross the bridges of time and place. Women of Oklahoma, 1890-1920, is a significant contribution to the history of women, Oklahoma, cultural and inter-racial relations, and the American West.

 
 
LARRY HARRAL
 
 
 
SANDY MCGEE
 
 
 
ROY HARKEY
 
 
ALAN MUNDE
 

NORMAN HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1964 FACEBOOK GROUP 

LARRY BERGLAN
 

SUZY MASON
JIM STALLINGS
 
 

Jim Stallings is a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Virginia) Author Jim Stallingswith an interest in myth, ritual and narrative; he is a long-time student of literature and studied with James Dickey, Robert Penn Warren, and Larry Heinemann, among other teachers. He is a bookdoctor in fiction and a senior news editor with a major publishing company. He has written novels, scripts, short stories and poems. Through his editorial services company Mockingbird Press he has critiqued hundreds of novels and scripts and line-edited many fictional works; he has ghosted novels, novelizations, scripts, treatments and stories. His Mockingbird Press bookdoctor clients have been nominated for literary prizes like the Pushcart Prize and one client remained on the NY Times bestseller list for nine months and won a movie production contract. Jim lives in San Antonio with his wife Laurie. He likes books, music, good food, brandy and cigars, leisurely walks and lively conversation.

Jim has said about the art of writing: "Writing, the act of composing, is a daily, almost religious act of catharsis and realization. I listen for the voice, wait for the image, and then go with it to the end. From there I've learned from my various writing teachers to rewrite and read aloud until the language, the vision and voice come together. I especially enjoy the sprint of short, spontaneous, Zen-like stories; the marathon of scripts and novels are almost the same thing but repeated many times over. I've always favored the 100 yard dash and the quarter mile to twenty-six miles to break on through to the other side."

 

LAURIE STEINMEYER STALLINGS

Jim is married to a talented artist, Laurie. http://lauriesteinmeyer.com/ 

Laurie Steinmeyer is an abstract expressionist painter with a special interest in the exploration of color, energy and emotion. Artistic influences include Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Jasper Johns. 

Her goal is to have the viewer connect with the energy and beauty of the paintings.

SHOWS

Ringel Art Gallery, Needham, MA. One person show. Summer 2003.

The Massachusetts Cultural Council. Arthur Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Biennial painters’ competition. Spring 2000.