Oklahoma Christian University held a public reception Wednesday to honor Rebecca Stafford and celebrate the support for a nursing endowment in her name.
Rebecca, a former OC student, lost her three-year battle with cancer on March 10, 2012 – two months shy of her 21st birthday.
The accompanying video includes comments from Rebecca's parents, Barry and Tonda Stafford, OC nursing student Tiffany Richey, and OC representatives Will Blanchard and Linda Fly.
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The Oklahoma Christian University theater department will perform the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Doubt: A Parable,” on Feb. 22-23 and March 1-2.
“Doubt” is set in 1964 in a Catholic school and church in the Bronx, New York. In this story, Sister Aloysius Beauvier must take matters into her own hands when she suspects a priest is abusing a student.
The cast includes OC senior Hannah Faye Foster as Sister Beauvier, freshman A.J. Leingang as Father Brendan Flynn, ...
Ashleigh Hess, a 2009 Oklahoma Christian University Honors Program graduate, has left Oklahoma to explore the Spanish world. Ashleigh began learning Spanish as a second language when she was 12 years old … and soon fell in love with the culture. During her time at Oklahoma Christian, Ashleigh taught English to several Spanish-speaking staff members and helped start Spanish Chapel. She was involved in numerous educational and cultural organizations, including Teaching English as a ...
AT&T Oklahoma awarded $15,000 to Oklahoma Christian University to help fund the Bridge Program, which provides academic and emotional support for underprepared freshman students.
The gift was made during a ceremony Monday afternoon on the OC campus. AT&T made a previous donation of $15,000 to OC’s Bridge Program in 2011. “We are incredibly appreciative of AT&T’s continued generosity to our Bridge students,” OC president John deSteiguer said. “We ...
Eagle Broadcasting Director David Jurney and his students are screening their independent film “Dead Tired” this weekend.
The film (trailer featured above) was selected by the Trail Dance Film Festival and will be shown Friday at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11 a.m. in Duncan, Okla.
The film was the culmination of Jurney’s Advanced Creative Production class last year and featured work from Oklahoma Christian University’s communication and theater departments. It was ...
Oxford-educated professor Dr. Jim Baird will become the new director of the Honors Program at Oklahoma Christian University.
Baird, a professor of Bible and philosophy at Oklahoma Christian, will succeed Dr. Scott LaMascus, OC’s new vice president for academic affairs. LaMascus has directed the Honors Program since 2009.
Baird graduated from Oklahoma Christian in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in Bible and English. He received his theology degree from the Harding Graduate School of ...
Mercy donation, large matching gift help meet fundraising goal OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – Oklahoma Christian University announced today the full endowment of the Rebecca Stafford Endowed Scholarship for Nursing. A $10,000 gift from Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City helped meet the $50,000 fundraising goal, with a matching gift from an anonymous donor boosting the endowment to $100,000. Rebecca Stafford, a former Oklahoma Christian University student, lost her three-year battle with cancer in March....
Former Oklahoma governor George Nigh and Beam’s Industries president Mike Bosley will address graduates at Oklahoma Christian University’s winter commencement ceremonies on Dec. 14-15. Nigh will speak at the undergraduate ceremony at 10 a.m. Friday. Bosley, who owns bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Oklahoma Christian, will speak at the graduate ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. “We are honored to have these two distinguished leaders share their knowledge and ...
An ethics team from Oklahoma Christian University followed up its state championship with a victory at the 15th-annual Texas Regional Ethics Bowl in San Antonio.
Another OC squad placed third in the regional competition, which featured 20 teams from three states and included schools such as Southern Methodist University, the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, Cameron University, Oklahoma City University, the University of Central Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma.
The regional ...
Dr. Scott LaMascus will become Oklahoma Christian University’s new vice president for academic affairs in January. The 1984 Oklahoma Christian graduate chaired OC’s Department of Language and Literature from 2000 to 2006 and has directed OC’s Honors Program since 2009. LaMascus helped establish OC’s McBride Center for Public Humanities, which brings high-profile writers and speakers to Oklahoma, and helped the university secure a $200,000 grant from the National ...
