James William (Jim) Hamm, Jr., former AT-CTI director for the OU School of Aviation Studies, died on Friday, Oct. 16, at the age of 77.
Audrey Maehl, former associate director of the Oklahoma Scholar Leadership Enrichment Program (OSLEP), died on June 26, 2020, at the age of 89.
Sgt. Ron Helus, a graduate of OU Extended Campus, died trying to save others during a mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Former CLS dean Bedford M. Vestal died peacefully in Houston, TX, on April 25, 2016, after a long battle with congestive heart failure.
CLS lost a member of its student family when Sierra Stough, age 29, died in a car accident early this year.
We lost one of our own earlier this year when Jesse Turner, an administrative leadership student, died after suffering a heart attack at the age of 51.
Ed Harris, Administrator for the Brock International Prize in Education, fondly remembers Brock Laureates John Goodlad and Elliot Eisner.
The Erna Jona MacDonnell Scholarship Fund has been established to provide OLLI at OU Memberships to age 50+ learners, so that they may enroll in OLLI at OU courses.
J. Leland Gourley, one of the first graduates of the College of Liberal Studies after it was established, passed away Oct. 19, 2013, at the age of 94.
J. Rufus Fears, professor of history and classics at the University of Oklahoma and a longtime friend of OU Outreach and the College of Liberal Studies, died October 6. He was 67 years old.