For retired Clinton Public Schools teacher Wilma McElmurry, frugality was a way of life. She preferred not to spend money on herself, going so far as to collect promotional items such as hats and T-shirts to avoid having to purchase those items. Yet there was one area where the rural Custer County resident spent freely: […]
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Stephen Prescott, M.D., named new OMRF president
The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation has named Stephen Prescott, M.D., president, effective May 1, 2006. Prescott, 58, comes to OMRF from the University of Utah, where he is a professor of internal medicine and holds the H.A. & Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair. An internationally recognized leader in the studies of the basic mechanisms of […]
OMRF President Capra to retire
J. Donald Capra, M.D., who led the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation during a nine-year period of unprecedented growth, will retire as OMRF’s president, effective May 1, 2006. “When I came to OMRF in 1997, I still vividly recall that several members of our board took me aside and told me, each in their own way, […]
Mothers’ Clubs Bake for OMRF
A group of Edmond women tied on aprons, pulled out rolling pins and put their culinary skills to work by baking 50 apple pies and selling them to support medical research. The Edmond chapter of the Oklahoma Association of Mothers’ Clubs joined eight other chapters in raising $3,000 for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. The […]
RF Hosting Women, Wealth and Wellness Conference
On May 6, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation will host the 2006 Women, Wealth and Wellness Conference. The event, which will provide women with strategies for improving their physical health and financial future, runs from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at OMRF, 825 NE 13. The conference will address such topics as balancing a family […]
Young scientists spend day researching in OMRF laboratories
Some of them needed stools to peer through the microscopes. Others had to double-roll the sleeves on their lab coats. But these minor inconveniences didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the 17 Putnam City School District elementary students who spent Thursday morning in the labs of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. “To think that I got […]
