THE OKLAHOMA BAR JOURNAL 44 | APRIL 2025 Bar News Bar Members Celebrate Membership Anniversaries THE OKLAHOMA BAR Association congratulates these members who reached significant milestone anniversaries in 2025. CLEVELAND COUNTY Gene Charles Smith, Norman OKLAHOMA COUNTY Gordon F. Brown, Oklahoma City William James Robinson, Oklahoma City OUT OF STATE Gerald Gaylord Barton, Monterey, CA BRYAN COUNTY Payton L. Phelps, Durant CANADIAN COUNTY Richard Meacham Fogg, El Reno CLEVELAND COUNTY Ben T. Benedum, Norman Don R. Nicholson II, Norman David S. Stratton, Norman Charles Curtis Yon, Oklahoma City COMANCHE COUNTY John Wesley Kinslow, Lawton GARFIELD COUNTY James Richard Cox, Enid LEFLORE COUNTY Mike Sullivan, Poteau OKLAHOMA COUNTY Jon Michael Belanger, Oklahoma City George W. Dahnke, Oklahoma City Rollin E. Drew, Oklahoma City David W. Edmonds, Oklahoma City Irving Lee Faught, Oklahoma City Arlen Eugene Fielden, Oklahoma City Garwin Kent Fleming, Edmond Philip Holmes, Edmond Artis Visanio Johnson, Oklahoma City Timothy D. Leonard, Oklahoma City Donald Ray Lisle, Oklahoma City K. T. Meade Jr., Oklahoma City Robert H. Mitchell, Oklahoma City Odie Allen Nance, Edmond William E. Owen, Oklahoma City James Michael Peters, Oklahoma City William W. Rodgers Jr., Nichols Hills David L. Russell, Oklahoma City William F. Shdeed Jr., Oklahoma City Kenneth W. Turner, Oklahoma City Roy Edward Williams, Oklahoma City PITTSBURG COUNTY Robt Linthicum Ivester, McAlester STEPHENS COUNTY Rick Rodgers, Duncan TILLMAN COUNTY Loyd L. Benson, Frederick TULSA COUNTY Dick A. Blakeley, Tulsa James Edward Frasier, Tulsa Phil Frazier, Tulsa James O. Goodwin, Tulsa Robert G. Green, Tulsa Vance R. Kriete, Tulsa Charles A. Purser, Tulsa Jerry C. Reed, Tulsa Harry Lauderdale Seay III, Tulsa Stephanie Kulp Seymour, Tulsa John Edgar Walker, Tulsa Stephen Charles Wolfe, Tulsa In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California; the Brooklyn Dodgers won their first World Series; the Montgomery bus boycott was sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus; President Eisenhower presented his “Open Skies” plan at the Geneva summit meeting; and General Motors demonstrated the world’s first solar-powered car.
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