Recently added articles from THE JOURNAL RECORD:
These Walls: Pops on Route 66 in Arcadia
Oct 06, 2008; Kelley Chambers ... Until last year the Round Barn was the biggest tourist attractionin Arcadia. But just west of the barn down a stretch of Route 66 somethinginteresting popped up. Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon opened a gasstation, store and restaurant. But it wasn't just any ...
First Liberty Bank in OKC: Hitting the streets with door-to-door banking
Oct 06, 2008; Brian Brus ... First Liberty Bank President Joey Root and his staff are takingtheir banking services door to door this month. The marketing effort worked well last year, Root said, attractingan estimated 50 new accounts. "If we opened two or three accounts, it would be worth it to us,"he ...
Women in Business: Glass ceiling cracked, not broken: Men outnumber women in MBA programs
Oct 06, 2008; Heather Caliendo ... When Katherine Brambl walked into her MBA class, the idea of theglass ceiling seemed apparent. "I was one of four girls in a class of 20-something," saidBrambl, an MBA student at Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. "Thereare certainly more men in the classes. There's no doubt about ...
University of Oklahoma leads port safeguarding partnership
Oct 06, 2008; Kirby Lee Davis ... The mechanics differ little from the remote-control helicopterAdam McDonald flew as a teenager. But snap on a neural networksoftware package, camera, radar or identification tag reader, andthat yard-long chopper becomes a front-line defense tool forsafeguarding the nation's ...
Work force council in Oklahoma sets 2009 plan of action
Oct 06, 2008; Janice Francis-Smith ... It's supposed to be a plan, not just a discussion, Donna Millertold members of the Governor's Council for Workforce and EconomicDevelopment on Friday. Miller was discussing the council's plan of action for 2009. The council has selected five points regarding work ...
Judge approves appointment of committee in OKC-based SemGroup bankruptcy
Oct 06, 2008; Marie Price ... A Delaware bankruptcy judge approved Friday appointment of acommittee to represent oil and gas producers who have not been paidin the SemGroup LP case. Attorney Steven Bugg estimated that the number of parties withclaims is in excess of 1 million, parties who have not ...
OKC Events: October 6, 2008
Oct 06, 2008; Joan Gilmore ... To some folks, October means football and leaf peeking. Toothers, it means orchids. Each year the Crystal Bridge and the Myriad Gardens Foundationjoin to present Orchids in October. This occasion allows a person -or in this case, a couple - to be recognized for all assistance ...
Williams Foundation provides $350K for Oklahoma State University civil engineering professorship
Oct 06, 2008 ... The Williams Foundation has donated $350,000 to create a civilengineering professorship at Oklahoma State University. Once fully matched dollar-for-dollar by T. Boone Pickens' $100million chair match commitment, as well as the Oklahoma StateRegents for Higher Education, the gift ...
State Realtor of the Year named for Oklahoma
Oct 06, 2008 ... Theresa Stewart of Ada has been named 2008 Realtor of the Year bythe Oklahoma Association of ...
Tulsa-based Williams Pipeline Partners elects independent director
Oct 06, 2008 ... Williams Pipeline Partners LP has elected H. Brent Austin as amember of the general partner's board of directors. He will serve on the board's audit and conflicts committees.Austin, 53, is managing ...
Edmond Chamber plans candidate forums
Oct 06, 2008 ... The Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce has scheduled two candidateforums in October for areas state senators and representatives. The first forum will be Oct. 14 with the second forum on Oct. 30.Both forums will be at Oklahoma Christian University from 8 a.m. to9:30 a.m. The forums ...
OESC plans job fair in OKC
Oct 06, 2008 ... The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission is sponsoring a jobfair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Coca-Cola Events Center,425 California Ave. in Oklahoma City. OESC expects 100 companies and organizations to participate,representing banking, finance, energy, ...
Businesses publish notices of intent to apply for licensing through Okla. ABLE Commission
Oct 06, 2008 ... Fourteen notices of intent have been published to apply forlicensing through the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Laws EnforcementCommission. Nine notices were published for mixed-beverage licenses, one fora beer and wine license, one for a bottle club license and three forretail ...
Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency awards funding
Oct 06, 2008 ... The Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency's board of trustees hasapproved Home Investment Partnerships Program contracts to providefunding for affordable housing. The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance AbuseServices received $291,000 to provide rental assistance to ...
Workshop offered by Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce on managing employees
Oct 06, 2008 ... The Edmond Area Chamber of Commerce will present a workshop,"Solving the Employee Mystery: Finding, Hiring and Managing," from 9a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at the chamber's office. The cost is $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers ....
U.S. Supreme Court begins new session
Oct 06, 2008; Marie Price ... It's the first Monday in October, launch time for a U.S. SupremeCourt session that may not yield the blockbuster of years past, butfeatures a religious freedom case that may yield a major decision. Professor Michael O'Shea of the Oklahoma City University Schoolof Law said the ...
University of Oklahoma College of Law professor expects bread-and- butter court term
Oct 06, 2008; Marie Price ... Once again this term, the U.S. Supreme Court headed by ChiefJustice John Roberts will hear a lot of business cases, but thisshould be a more bread-and-butter term without the blockbusterdecisions of recent years, says University of Oklahoma College ofLaw professor Joseph Thai. "I ...
Murdock submits resignation to Oklahoma Bar Association
Oct 06, 2008; Marie Price ... Oklahoma Bar Association General Counsel Dan Murdock submittedhis resignation Friday, according to information from theorganization. In August, Murdock was charged with sexual battery, stemming froman incident at Remington Park in June. Murdock's resignation is effective Dec ....
82-year-old St. Joseph Monastery in Tulsa undergoes renovation
Oct 03, 2008; Kirby Lee Davis ... Few buildings offer such a time-machine effect as St. JosephMonastery, where from the foyer's 1905 Mason and Hamlin piano,grandfather clock and flowing terrazzo floors to the library'sfrontier journals and the guest rooms' antique desks, drawers andbedding, the Benedictine Sisters ...
Oklahomans on the Move: October 3, 2008
Oct 03, 2008 ... Jockey Person to Person Susan Kierl, an Edmond independent comfort specialist consultantwith Jockey Person to Person, was ranked first in the nation inrecruiting for August. Kierl was recognized for promoting andbuilding growth for the direct sales division of JockeyInternational ...