Dr. Jordan Tang is a world class medical research scientist. His work in the laboratory is the first step to finding cures for disease. He has been at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City for over 50 years. His biggest thrill as a scientist is to see his work on its way to treating and helping people. Although Dr. Tang has committed his career to research, he is also a talented artist and musician. In addition, he makes time to speak to students all over the world. Dr. Tang hopes to inspire a new generation of young scientists to think, create, and discover.

Jordan Tang: Think . . . Create . . . Discover

Cheryl Schuermann

Children's Books

Oklahoma Heritage Association Publishing

Bill Wallace, an award-winning author of children's books, was known worldwide for his writings. Readers thrilled at the adventurous situations in which he sometimes placed his characters. He wrote a total of 38 books. Seven of those he wrote with his wife Carol. Bill also traveled all over the United States, giving speeches about his books. Schools would often have him speak to various grades where students would learn about his life and his writing. He was an entertaining speaker, as well as a caring person. He tried to answer every letter he received from his fans, which could be from 500 to 1,200 letters a month.

Bill Wallace: Author of Adventure and Animal Stories

Jane McKellips

Leona Mitchell was a regular little girl growing up in Enid, Oklahoma, except that she sang in church choir at the age of 4, performed soloes at the age of 8, and directed the choir at the age of 14. She always thought she was a good singer, even when her brothers teased her that she could not sing. When Leona sang for the first time in her high school choir class, she began to realize her voice might be something special. With the help of Mrs. Priebe, the choir director, Leona stepped into the world of opera. She went from a good singer to an opera star, traveling the world, sprinkling her sparkle on audiences everywhere, including the Prince's Palace in Monaco. Readers will delight in Leona Mitchell's story as they follow her from Enid to the stars.

Leona Mitchell: Opera Star

Gwendolyn Hooks

Born in 1895 in Indian Territory, Te Ata grew up during a time when Chickasaw children were not allowed to speak their native language in their own schools. They could not tell the stories or play the games of their culture. This was true for the children of many tribes throughout North America. Te Ata worried the traditions of Native Americans would be lost or forgotten forever. For more than 70 years, she used her acting talent to show people around the world the beauty and wisdom of Native American cultures. She helped change attitudes toward Native Americans. Oklahoma honored her dedication in two important ways. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. And she was named the first Oklahoma Cultural Treasure.

Te Ata: Oklahoma Cultural Treasure

Pati Hailey

The story of Leichter's journey from childhood in Vienna to his escape from the 3rd Reich and his life in Oklahoma.

On God's Polishing Wheel: The Life of Kurt Leichter

Kurt Leichter

Cathy Leichter

During the 1930s, severe and extended drought struck the Southwest and central plains, Oklahoma in particular. Dust and sandstorms were common and gave rise to the name of an era that still colors stories of that time and place. Of course, it was not one dust storm, but a series of storms that continued for many years throughout the decade. In Dust Storm, Oklahoma Heritage Association Publishing's first historical fiction title, Clara is an eleven-year-old girl who lives on an Oklahoma farm during this period of time. Although crippled from polio, Clara loves to do farm chores. Her dad is overprotective of her. He is afraid she will be hurt around the farm animals. He is also afraid that townspeople might hurt her feelings because of her handicap. So when Clara wants to go to town with her family to shop, her father makes her stay behind to watch after her younger brother Billy. One day, when her parents are in town, a ferocious dust storm strikes the family farm. Clara must work fast to save Billy, the farm animals, and herself from peril.

Dust Storm

Baptist Hospital was a dream for Oklahoma Baptists for many years before it opened on Easter Sunday in 1959. It was the first medical facility located outside Oklahoma City's downtown area. Built on a hill that is the highest geographical point in the capital city, Baptist initially served the community with 200 beds, a maternity ward, laboratory, emergency room, and a small surgery unit. Critics of the move to the outskirts of town were quickly proved wrong as the hospital operated at near capacity and launched plans for expansion. Within a few years, the hospital doubled in size as an intensive care unit, coronary care unit, and doctors medical buildings were added. Today, Integris Baptist Medical Center is one of the region s leading medical care facilities. With 544 beds and the latest in technology, BMC provides a full range of diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services, including major centers in the treatment of heart disease, strokes, burns, infertility, and organ transplantation. The story of BMC s first half century is not about buildings, equipment, or significant dates. The exciting saga is about the people, whose vision and perseverance allowed one of Oklahoma s great service institutions to rise from the plains of northwest Oklahoma City to create Excellence on the Hill.

Excellence on the Hill: A History of Integris Baptist Medical Center

Bob Burke

This is a story of our times. Making Things Better: Wes Watkins' Legacy of Leadership tells of one common man's trek through history. Marching with a confidence fueled by poverty, personal insecurities, a serious speech impediment, uneducated parents, and an alcoholic father, he rode his passion, born of heartbreak, to be elected repeatedly to one of the most powerful positions one can achieve. The young boy who was afraid to open his mouth lest his friends ridicule him, gave speeches later to both the free and oppressed, to farmers and physicists, patricians and Ivy League professors. His father broke his heart, and his mother mended it. He drew hatred from one man that was so deep it changed state history. A series of missteps cost him his most coveted role and set in motion a political earthquake of epic proportions, one whose fault-lines are felt even as these words are read and perhaps for a generation to come. He locked horns with the men and women who carved out America, and was not afraid to fight windmills against the greatest of odds. He wielded the most unexpected of weapons, clearly explained by the man on crutches who operated the elevator in his office building. He walked away from his deepest pain, but tragedy found him time and again. The woman of his dreams became his most trusted partner, closer than a sacred shadow. His children and grandchildren gave him the family he always craved. To know one man well is to know all men better, and to study the life and world of Wes Watkins opens up a Pandora's box: the coming of age of an awkward and backward State, men's senseless urgings, and the promise of words kept sanctified.

Making Things Better: Wes Watkins' Legacy of Leadership

Kim D. Parrish

Sunbeam Family Services has been a non-profit agency serving the poor and working poor of central Oklahoma communities since the birth of the state. You may have heard of Sunbeam, but do you know the back story? You'll find the answer in this book. But this is not just a book about an organization, it is a book about changed lives. Carefully researched and written with love and respect for this venerable non-profit agency, Changed Lives will allow you to peek behind the scenes of one of Oklahoma's longest serving non-profit organizations and read about lives that were changed forever because of Sunbeam.

Changed Lives: A History of Sunbeam Family Services

Jim Priest

More Than A Coach chronicles the life of Raymond Lawson Vaughn from his childhood in Washita County, Oklahoma and his college experiences as the captain of the Harding University basketball team to his service in the United States Navy during World War II as the Captain of PT Boat 243 in the South China Sea and his unwavering commitment as an educator and coach. His lifelong experiences as a coach and athletic director both at Capitol Hill High School in south Oklahoma City and at Oklahoma Christian University in far north Oklahoma City are illustrated by stories provided by athletes that he coached and mentored from 1946 through his death in 1980. Of the thousands of athletes that he influenced, two of them, J.W. Mashburn and Jeff Bennett, had the opportunity to represent their country in the International Summer Olympic Games. Coach Vaughn's devotion to his Christian faith and all those that he came in contact with over the years is evidenced through their memories of his lifelong dedication to excellence and achievement on the field of sport, in the classroom, and in life in general. The accounts of their personal experiences with Coach Vaughn will encourage and motivate the reader in the same manner he encouraged and motivated them.

More Than A Coach

Raymond L. Vaughn Jr.

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