Amanda Sumner and husband Phil at the final four playoffs in San Antonio.
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When it comes to OSU pride Amanda Sumner, senior administrative assistant in the student affairs office, can out-orange just about anyone.
“She’d wear orange every day if she could,” says co-worker Sarah Quinten of Sumner’s passion for vintage OSU tee-shirts, orange shoes, orange anything.
Maybe it is heredity. Her parents met at OSU and were dedicated alumni when they lived and farmed in the Texas panhandle. Sumner graduated from OSU with a degree in English in 1992 and her brother, Joel Thompson, also is an alumni.
She met husband Phillip Sumner through OSU. “We both posted on an OSU message board,” Sumner says, smiling at the memory. “I like to joke that we met on-line.”
When they married there was no question that they’d need to get their orange on with a “Pokes-power” hitching at Tulsa’s stately Harwelden mansion. Their orange-frosted wedding cake sported white trim and a prominent OSU logo.
A Barry Sanders figure in Heisman pose topped the groom’s cake. Four bridesmaids, resplendent in pink and orange dresses with orange wraps, helped seal the deal.
Sumner joined student affairs last year. “It’s not hard for me to sell OSU to prospective students,” she says. “I love my alma mater and I can see how great the medical students are.”
It isn’t surprising that Sumner’s OSU zeal extends to sports. She prizes signed sports items from OSU athletes Rashaun Woods, Leslie O’Neal, Alonzo Mayes and Fredrick Jonzen.
She has cheered the Cowboys at Missouri and Iowa State games after winning tickets at Posse Club auctions. The Sumners attend all home football and basketball games, have gone to the Cotton Bowl, Alamo Bowl and Houston Bowl, and can be found in their regular tailgating spot on home game days.
If the weather is agreeable Kelso, the couple’s three-year-old Chocolate Lab, comes along togged out in his OSU doggie duds. With all that orange going on, you wonder: If Sumner could make anything OSU orange, what would she choose? Her answer is instant. “Probably a big old Suburban that I could take to tailgates.”
Do you, or does someone you know, show OSU pride at work? Do you have an OSU Pride Works story to share? Contact Marla Schaefer, Rounds editor, at marla.schaefer@okstate.edu
The OSU-CHS Family Fund drive continues on campus.
Karen Senger , director of development, says the Family Fund Drive raises additional funding for CHS departments, scholarships and other needs. Donors can choose from a list of funds they want to support. New funds include a Staff Scholarship Fund, which will award grants to staff members pursuing an OSU degree from any OSU campus, and a Staff Support Fund, which will support staff funding during celebrations and bereavements and provide refreshments at staff meetings and gatherings where the entire campus participates.
Robert S. Conrad, Ph.D., a consistent long-time donor, chooses to give through payroll deduction. “This institution and this profession have been good to me and I think it altogether fitting and proper for me to contribute to the future of an organization that has given so much to me," he says about why he gives.
For more information about making a donation, contact Senger at 561-8206 or ksenger@osuf.org.
The TAKE CHARGE! program at the OSU Women’s Health Care Center offers free breast exams, mammograms and pap smears for women ages 50 through 64 who meet income eligibility guidelines and do not have Medicare, Medicaid or insurance for screening tests.
TAKE CHARGE! services include a health history, screening pelvic exam and Pap smear, clinical breast exam, instruction on breast self-exam and education about lowering cancer risk. For more information, call Athea Stapleton, R.N., at 561-8573 or 561-8390.
Thirty high school students (grades 9-12) attended a summer academic program on campus, studying health careers, English, math, chemistry, creative writing and biology, participating in job shadowing. The program is part of OSU’s Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP). Here Corey Babb, MS II, demonstrates OMM technique.
Congratulations to Terry Drenner (photography), Mary Jane Nichols (logo design) and Ellen Stockton (4-color poster), whose entries won honors from among a record 450 entries at the annual Oklahoma College Public Relations Association. The awards were announced July 11 at the association’s annual conference.
Abstract Publications
“Keratin Intermediate Filaments in the Frog Optic Nerve,” The FASEB J 19(4):A796, 2005 - Warren Finn, Ph.D. and William Meek, Ph.D.
“Effects of High Protein Diet on Mouse Glomeruli,” The FASEB J 19(5):A905.12, 2005 - William Meek, Ph.D. and Al Rouch, Ph.D.
Interview
Interviewed by ABC News for pain series article entitled “Do Lobsters Feel Pain?” Craig Stevens, Ph.D.
Keynote Speaker
“The Importance of Graduate Education for Practicing and Training Forensic Document Examiners with a Focus on the OSU Graduate Programs,” Keynote Speaker at the Forensic Seminar: Forensic Document Examiner Journeyman Training: General Acceptance by the Academic Community for The Forensic Document Examiners of the Washington, D.C. Area. Held at the U.S. Secret Service Headquarters, Washington, D.C. - R. Tom Glass, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Presentations
“In-vitro Model to Study Estrogen Regulation of Host Bacterial Interaction,” presented at the OU Research Day, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine – Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D.
“Protective Effect of Estrogen on E.coli Invasion in Primary Human Hepatocytes and HuH-7 Carcinoma Cells,” presented at the AACR Meeting, April 16-20, Anaheim, Calif. - Rashmi Kaul, Ph.D. and Senait Assefa, Ph.D.
“Keratin Intermediate Filaments in the Frog Optic Nerve,” presented at the Experimental Biology Meeting, April 4, San Diego, Calif. - Warren Finn, Ph.D. and William Meek, Ph.D.
“Effects of High Protein Diet on Mouse Glomeruli,” presented at the Experimental Biology Meeting, April 5, San Diego, Calif. - William Meek, Ph.D. and Al Rouch, Ph.D.
“Pets or Plants: Are They Therapeutically Different?” The Healing Power of the Human-Animal Bond: Companion Animals & Society. Pets are Wonderful Support Research Conference. Hollywood, Calif. (and published online in SeniorJournal.com). “The Human Concept in Horses: Can They Tell Us Apart?” The 14th Annual Conference of the International Society of Anthrozoology. Niagara Falls, NY. - Sherril M. Stone, Ph.D.
Reviewer of Research Manuscripts
Reviewed manuscripts for Life Sciences and Brain Research journals Craig Stevens, Ph.D.
