Learn From These Influential Oklahomans

Dr. C. T. Thompson
SurgeonDr. C. Thomas Thompson came to Tulsa in 1955 and became a highly respected general surgeon and administrator at St. Francis Hospital. He was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi and received his …

Dr. Jerry Gustafson
SurgeonDr. Gerald “Jerry” Gustafson graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in medicine. He completed a rotating internship and general surgery residency at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, …

Dr. John Coates
NeurosurgeonJohn Albert Coates was born December 31, 1925 in Geary, Oklahoma, a small town 30 miles west of El Reno. He was the only son of Arthur Albert Coates and …

Dr. Robert G. Perryman
SurgeonRobert G. Perryman traces his family genealogy to the beginning of Tulsa. He is a direct descendant of Benjamin Perryman who came to Indian Territory from Alabama in 1828. Arthur …

Sister Therese Gottschalk
St. John Health SystemSister Mary Therese Gottschalk was born in 1931, in a tiny village in Bavaria, Germany, the second of 14 children. Sister Therese entered the Order of the Sisters of the …

William Warren, Jr.
Petroleum to Health CareIn 1916, William K. Warren, Sr. arrived in Oklahoma on the recommendation of a friend in a Nashville, Tennessee hospital. Who knew then a seed had been planted for what …
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