Inducted: 2002 W.U. McCOY (1921-2012) spent more than 40 years covering arts and music, culminating in the book Performing and Visual Arts Writing and Reviewing in 1992. A graduate of Arkansas State University where he was named Outstanding Journalist, he served in the U.S. Army in WWII. He was feature editor for Western News Service, […]
Inducted: 2002 PAM OLSON (1949- ) was the first woman to anchor a prime-time television newscast in Oklahoma City. Born in Midwest City, she began her journalism career in high school for a church youth paper. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma and interned at the Oklahoma Journal, the Midwest City Monitor and KWTV, […]
Inducted: 2002 JIM MYERS (1947- ), a native of Tonkawa, worked for The Enid News & Eagle and Lawton Constitution before joining The Tulsa World in 1981. The veteran political and government reporter is known for his tenacity to get to the truth and the pursuit of fairness and accuracy. In 1984 was promoted to […]
Inducted: 2002 JAMES H. REID (1917-2005) was born in Muskogee and attended Oklahoma A&M in mechanical engineering. When WWII broke out he joined the Army Air Corps, where he met war correspondent Dixie Tighe who urged him to enter journalism after he wrote a story for Stars and Stripes. After the war he graduated in […]
Inducted: 2002 J. LANDIS FLEMING (1907-1997) wrote a neighborhood newspaper at age 10 and sold it for a penny a copy. He was editor of the Enid High School and Phillip University papers. He worked at the Springfield (Mo.) News, The Oklahoman and Times, and The Norman Transcript. He bought the Wes-Ten News in Oklahoma […]
Inducted: 2002 FRANCIS LANGDON (1922-2003) was born in California and was a combat submarine veteran from WWII. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma Journalism School in 1948. He began his journalism career as ad manager for three and a half years at the Henryetta Daily Free-Lance and then became publisher of the Tonkawa News […]
Inducted: 2002 FRANCES “FRAN” MORRIS (1930- ) has always used her writing career as an advocate for children. Born in Britton, she graduated from the University of Oklahoma in English after majoring in radio and TV. She became “Miss Fran” every morning on KWTV from 1958 to 1967, after working for three years as a […]
Inducted: 2002 E.G. “BOB” ALBRIGHT (1922-2010), a native of California, came to The Daily Oklahoman and Oklahoma City Times in 1952 to begin a 33-year career as a photographer. A WWII veteran and tech school graduate, he is the embodiment of a photojournalist. He began with Speed Graphics and flashbulbs and met the changes of […]
Inducted: 2002 DAVE STORY (1930-2009) got his first taste of journalism as editor of his high school newspaper in Mississippi. He moved to Oklahoma in 1961 after serving in the U.S. Air Force as military newspaper editor at several Strategic Air Command bases. He also worked at newspapers in Arkansas and Alaska. He served as […]