Members of OU’s Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority Celebrate 100 Years
Valerie and Brad Naifeh Entertain for her uncle….Morgan Woodward
WELCOME UNCLE!
Brad and Leigh Naifeh with Morgan Woodward and Valerie Naifeh. (Photos provided.)
Valerie and Brad Naifeh entertained at a cocktail party honoring her uncle, Hollywood actor Morgan Woodward, prior to his induction into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
The guest of honor arrived late due to airplane dificulties but the 50 guests stayed around to meet him.
Guests included Wyatt McRea, Lincoln Lageson, Rob Word, Lewis Woodward, Lee Woodward, Leigh Naifeh, Valin Woodward, Bev and Roy Smith, Stan Woodward, Alison and Scott Calhoon, Leanne and Keith Waddell, Bill and Susan City.
Morgan Woodward and Susan and Bill City were at the cocktail party given by Valerie and Brad Naifeh for Woodward.
Leanne Waddel, Leigh Naifeh, Alison Calhoon, Valerie Naifeh and Bev Smith enjoy the party.
Brad Naifeh, Lee and Amelia Woodward, Valerie Naifeh and Stan Woodward have fun at the party.
OU Panhellenic Association Members Celebrate 100 Years!
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BRUNCH AND VINTAGE FASHIONS
Models at the brunch showed fashions through the decades. (Photos by Helen Ford Wallace).
One of the activities during the University of Oklahoma Panhellenic Association’s Century of Sisterhood week-end was the brunch and fashion show at the National Weather Center. OU Panhellenic was established in 1909.
Special guests at the brunch were International and national sorority officers.
The fashion show opened with a model wearing a long dress with a train which could have been worn to class or to rush week 100 years ago.
Sorority chapters involved were Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Phi Epsilon, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Zeta Tau Alpha.
Claire Turmelle was chairman.
Claire Turmelle, Kaitlin Hornbostel, Connie Turmelle and Jordan Eppler greeted guests as they arrived at the National Weather Center for the party.
Kari Dawkins, Erin Simpson, Kristen Partridge and Kate Stanton celebrate Panhellenic’s 100 years.
A model takes to the runway for the vintage fashion show.
This outfit was from the 1960’s.
Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Touring Group Has Successful Oklahoma City Stop
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Clay Bennett Honored
OKLAHOMA TODAY’S OKLAHOMAN OF THE YEAR
Mayor Mick Cornett, Clay Bennett and Gov. Brad Henry were at the Oklahoma History Center for a celebration honoring Bennett for his recent selection of the Oklahoman Of The Year by Oklahoma Today magazine.
Friends and family members were at the Oklahoma History Center April 23 for a celebration honoring Oklahoma City Thunder chairman Clay Bennett. He was chosen “Oklahoman of the Year” by Oklahoma Today Magazine.
Magazine executives Joan Henderson and Louisa McCune were on hand with special accolades for Bennett. Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department Executive Director Hardy Watkins also spoke. At the podium discussing the Thunder’s successful first season and Bennett’s vision for Oklahoma City were Gov. Brad Henry and Mayor Mick Cornett.
When Bennett took the floor, he thanked everyone involved in Thunder efforts from Gov. Henry, to his partners and his wife Louise. He also thanked the citizens of Oklahoma, “They get it, ” he said, in reference to having an NBA basketball team in Oklahoma City.
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Couple honored in Oklahoma City
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MEGAN AND ANDY
Carl and Susan Edwards, Paige and Mike Frenzel, Megan Edwards, Andy Bauml,
Binnie and Louis Bauml were at the engagement party. (Photos provided).
Megan Edwards and Andy Bauml were honored at an engagement party recently. They will be married Aug. 8 in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The party was in the home of Cathy and Mike Cross.
Co-hosts were Janie and Greg Cook , Ann and Zane Fleming, Susie and Tommy Gray, Marilyn and Jack Henley, Debbie and Ron McCord and Mary and J. Robert Reneau.
The hosts gave the couple a silver champagne bucket.
At the party were Mary Reneau, Megan Edwards, Debbie McCord and Ann Fleming, Cathy Cross, Janie Cook, Susie Gray, Marilyn Henley.
Beautiful flowers decorated the tables.
Gardening
HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?
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Kamala Gamble’s Community Sponsored Garden (CSG) has tomato plants already in the ground and she plans to begin distributing baskets of vegetables in June.
Summer baskets will have potatoes, onions, tomatoes, peppers, squashes, eggplants, okra and corn. The locally grown produce is grown in organic soil.
If you drive by Kamala’s home, you will see gardening at its’ finest. Besides the vegetables, there are blooming flowers and trees. Kamala has a catering business too.
Top 10 dogs
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FIRST ANNUAL DOG SHOW
Elaine Levy, “Chloe”, Harrison Levy were at the dog show where “Chloe” won Best of Show. (Photos by David Faytinger).
A dog show was held at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club recently. Members brought their pets to be judged in these categories: toy, small and large. After the show, which had four judges, guests stayed for a fried chicken dinner.
Judges awarded prizes for Best trained (“Winston” and “Major Mobley”); Best of show (“Chloe”); Best personality (“Chloe” and “Major Mobly”); Best dressed (“Lola” and “Sophie”); Owner look-alike (“Chloe” and owner Elaine Levy); Most misbehaved (“Sophie”); Best looking (“ Chloe,” “Harold Quillian” and “Snickers”).
Among the owners of the winning dogs were Elaine Levy, Teddy and Tucker Jacobsen, Mackenzie Mobley, Sarah Covington, Susan and Jerry Marshall, Jennifer Quillian and Kelsey Quillian.
The runway was set in the ballroom. Judges were Michael McMahill, Aaron Baker, Susan Tomlinson and Carolyn Harl.
Dogs received special bags of treats tied in green ribbons. Their owners had a fried chicken and brisket dinner.
Dog show judges Michael McMahill, Aaron Baker, Susan Tomlinson, Carolyn Harl give out their marks during the event.
Mackenzie Mobley (7), “Major”, Madison Mobley (3) enjoy the show.
“Bricktown” Book Update
BOOK SIGNING
Steve Lackmeyer’s next book signing is set for Best of Books in Edmond on May 9th from 1 until 3 p.m. His book “Bricktown” is nearing the 900 mark in sales and will probably go to a second printing.
I caught him signing his books at Barnes and Noble, but other local retailers also selling “Bricktown” are Full Circle Book Store, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Emporium and Borders.
Colorado wedding
COUPLE MARRIES NEAR ASPEN
Donald M. Smith and Krissa Smith at the wedding. ( Photo provided by Jeanette Darnauer).
Donald M. Smith of Smith Cogeneration and Smith Algae Biofuels & BioFeeds in Oklahoma City, and Krissa K. (Van Pelt) Halter, originally from Mitchell, S.D., were married in Colorado recently.
They were married near a silver mine site in the ghost town of Ashcroft, 10 miles from Aspen. The wedding had a Victorian theme so Krissa wore stovepipe boots, Italian leather riding slacks, a ruffled shirt, and a black cowboy hat. Her Italian goat suede riding jacket featured a bustle. She wore crocodile leather boots.
The groom wore an 1880’s style, formal, wing-collared shirt with a string bow tie and a long black frock coat.
Rev. Luke Back of St Paul’s Cathedral in Oklahoma City officiated.
Guests were brought to the wedding site in a 20-person sleigh. Don, his two sons, Michael and Brian, and his best man, Mike Young, rode their quarter horses to the wedding site from up the valley in two feet of snow.
Krissa, her mother Gertrude Van Pelt, her daughter Heather Van Pelt, and her bridesmaid, Holly Gomez, rode to the wedding site in a small sleigh pulled by Clydesdales.
After the ceremony, they rode by horseback through the snow to the Blue Mirror Saloon, a 130-year-old log structure in Ashcroft, for the reception. On the party menu was hot cider and champagne.
The couple have planned a trip to Egypt to ride Arabian horses in the desert . They will live at DuckSmith Farms in Logan County, Oklahoma, and at the Lazy O Ranch near Aspen, Colorado.
