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For Immediate Release

2025 Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society 31st Hall of Fame Banquet and Induction Ceremony

Press Release 3 – November 3, 2025 – Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society 31st Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

The 2025 Hall of Fame Inductees included Stephen Smith, Robert Graalman, Jr., Sean Burrage, Harry Birdwell, Joe Alexander, Jennifer Barger Johnson, Laku Chidambaram, Chan Hellman, Sunderesh Heragu, Marvin Lamb,  Mark Parker, and (not in photo) Lance Lobban.

The 2025 Inductees' bios can be downloaded at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usaodrovers/albums/72177720309828550.

The OHEHS Board of Directors, photographed, includes Cynthia Ross, Michael Lorenze, Pamela Fry, Duane Anderson, John Hargrave, Glen Johnson, Belinda Biscoe, Phil Moss, and OHEHS Executive Director Donna Richardson.

The 31st annual induction ceremony and banquet was held on Nov. 3, 2025, in the Nigh University Center’s Grand Ballroom at the University of Central Oklahoma.

In 1991, a not-for-profit organization was created to promote awareness of higher education’s vital role in Oklahoma history and to honor individuals for their outstanding service to higher education in the state. Over the years, it has evolved, and in 2003, it took the name of the Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society.  The Oklahoma Hall of Fame has inducted over 350 educators, administrators, and others who have made distinguished contributions to higher education into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame.

To be eligible for consideration, nominees must have been employed full-time by an institution or institutions of higher education in Oklahoma as a faculty member, administrator, or staff for a minimum of ten years and demonstrated excellence in scholarship, teaching, research, administration, outreach, or public service, or any combination thereof, and in doing so brought honor and distinction to Oklahoma higher education. Additionally, individuals who have rendered meritorious service to higher education within the state may be considered for induction. Visit the OHEHS website for more information about the OHEHS Hall of Fame.

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