The Oklahoma Bar Journal April 2023

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Bar Members Celebrate Membership Anniversaries

T HE OKLAHOMA BAR Association congratulates these members who reach signifi cant milestone anniversaries in 2023.

MURRAY COUNTY Phil S. Hurst, Sulphur

OKLAHOMA COUNTY Jap Worth Blankenship, Oklahoma City

Andrew M. Coats, Oklahoma City Joseph Harold Crosby, Oklahoma City Allen D. Evans, Oklahoma City Lee Marks Holmes, Oklahoma City Russell Grant Horner Jr., Oklahoma City James F. Howell, Midwest City Don W. Kilpatrick, Oklahoma City Tom J. McDaniel, Oklahoma City Raymond E. Tompkins, Oklahoma City Brian Howard Upp, Oklahoma City

ALFALFA COUNTY Ronald R. Hadwiger, Cherokee

CARTER COUNTY William F. Parrish Jr., Ardmore

GARFIELD COUNTY Robert C. Lovell, Enid

CLEVELAND COUNTY James C. Chandler, Norman Frank Howard Seay, Norman Marvin B. York, Norman

OKLAHOMA COUNTY W. Samuel Dykeman, Oklahoma City Jack L. Freeman, Edmond

OKMULGEE COUNTY Kenneth D. Bacon, Okmulgee

CUSTER COUNTY Denver W. Meacham II, Clinton

PITTSBURG COUNTY Paul Edward Harper, McAlester

TULSA COUNTY Carl D. Hall Jr., Tulsa Burford D. Monnet, Tulsa

DEWEY COUNTY Robert William Collier, Taloga

PONTOTOC COUNTY Gordon R. Melson, Ada

OUT OF STATE Morris G. Gray, Colorado Springs, CO John Floyd Yarbrough, Rochester, NY

GARFIELD COUNTY Richard Lloyd McKnight, Enid

ROGERS COUNTY Bill Reed Scarth, Claremore

In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to successfully summit Mount Everest, the Korean conflict ended after three years and one month, the first color television sets went on sale for about $1,175, and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now Health and Human Services) was created.

GRADY COUNTY Kerry W. Caywood, Chickasha John Monroe Nelson, Chickasha

SEMINOLE COUNTY Glenn J. Sharpe, Wewoka

LINCOLN COUNTY Dan Alan Erwin, Chandler

STEPHENS COUNTY Phillip Hugh Leonard, Duncan

MCCURTAIN COUNTY Carl E. Leforce, Idabel

TULSA COUNTY James Leon Edgar, Tulsa Herbert E. Elias, Tulsa

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