Author: Sarah Ward

Alumni

• Alyce Loree McConnell Rice (B.S. ‘45)
• Shirley Patrick Mankin (B.A.Ed. ‘57)
• Jackie Krutsinger (B.S.Ed. ‘59)
• Charles Lewis Hunnicutt (B.A. ‘60)
• Robert “Chuck” Cantwell (B.S. ‘63)
• Ethel Rosetta (Trinkle) Werblo (B.S.Ed. ‘63)
• Tommy Alvin “Coach” Heidebrecht (B.S.Ed. ‘67)
• Thomas John Vaughn Jr. (B.A.Ed. ‘67)
• William P. Livermon (B.S. ‘68)
• Lloyd James Bush Jr. (B.B.A. ‘69)
• Walter J. Gillispie (B.S. ‘69)
• James Allen Hellams (B.A. ‘70)
• Esther “Teri” Bodanis Shifrin (M.Ed. ‘70)
• Mary Nell Traywick (B.S.Ed. ‘66, M.Ed. ‘70)
• Sue Ann Risinger (B.S.Ed. ‘71)
• Carol J. Meyer Lingreen (M.Ed. ‘72)
• Judith Stevens Raulston (M.Ed. ‘73)
• Anna Beth Heidebrecht (B.A. ‘69, M.Ed. ‘74)
• William Wray McCollum (B.S. ‘72, B.A. ‘73, M.Ed. ‘75)
• Barbara Booth Ryan (B.S.Ed. ‘75)
• Meredith Ann Cocklin (M.Ed. ‘76)
• Julie Sue Marks Blackstone (B.A. ‘77)
• David Delor Dixon (B.S. ‘78)
• Willa Mae ‘Wanzor’ Goolsby (B.S. ‘68, M.Ed. ‘78)
• Pauline Laura Wilson-Hartley (B.B.A. ‘80)
• Leonard Mathias Reynen (B.S. ‘78, M.A. ‘84)
• Walter Arthur Greenwood (M.Ed. ‘88)
• Carolyn (Malkowicz) Grosche (B.A. ‘88)
• Linda Lawson (B.S. ‘89)
• Nicole Renee Westerhoff-Sanders (B.S. ‘99)
• Wesley Allan Dickson (B.S. ‘00)

UCO alumna Sgt. Meagan Burke died Sept. 29, 2022, in a head-on auto collision. While at Central, Burke was a member, and goalkeeper, of the UCO Women’s Soccer team, and made an appearance at the 2012 NCAA Division II Women’s Soccer Championship. During her senior year, Burke played 1,677 of 1,780 possible minutes in goal during . . .  read more

‘77 Carolyn Cotton (M.Ed., ‘77) was inducted into the Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Hall of Fame.

‘79 Clayton Nolen (B.S.Ed., ‘73, M.Ed., ‘79) was selected into the Oklahoma African American Educators Hall of Fame, Inc.

‘81 Greg Winters (M.Ed., ‘81) was inducted into the Oklahoma Career and Technology Education Hall of Fame.

‘87 . . .  read more