Foundation announces 2021 Academic All-State scholarships
The Shawnee News-Star
The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence has announced the recipients of its prestigious 2021 Academic All-State Awards. These 100 top public high school seniors, selected from 379 nominations statewide, hail from 77 schools in 69 Oklahoma school districts.
Those selected in Pottawatomie County include Noah Drew from Bethel High School, Jared Stone from Chandler High School and Olivia Todd from Shawnee High School.
The 2021 Academic All-State class is the 35th to be selected by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence. Since the award program’s inception in 1987, some 3,500 high school seniors from 330 school districts have been named Academic All-State scholars. Four high schools will celebrate their first Academic All-Stater: Davenport, Porum, Soper and Stigler high schools.
Submitted Content
Feb 28, 2021
OKLAHOMA CITY â The Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence has announced the recipients of its prestigious 2021 Academic All-State Awards. These 100 top public high school seniors, selected from 379 nominations, hail from 77 schools in 69 school districts.
The 2021 Academic All-State class is the 35th to be selected by the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence.
Each of this yearâs All-Staters will receive a $1,000 merit-based scholarship and a medallion. The All-Staters will be recognized at the foundationâs 35th annual Academic Awards Celebration on May 22 at the Cox Business Center in Tulsa.
Students must meet one of the following criteria: an American College Test composite score of at least 30; a combined SAT evidence-based reading & writing and math score of at least 1370; or be selected as a semi-finalist for a National Merit, National Achievement or National Hispanic Scholarship. This yearâs All-Staters scored an average of 33 o
The iconic World War II romance "Casablanca" introduced me to Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, the classic screwball comedy "Some Like It Hot" introduced me to Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, and the uproarious rom-com "Teacher's Pet" introduced me to Clark Gable and Doris Day.
But the man who made the introductions was B.J. Wexler, the longtime host of the popular "OETA Movie Club."
Every weekend for three decades, Wexler affably appeared on television screens across Oklahoma with a full bucket of fresh popcorn and a generous helping of fun facts and behind-the-scenes trivia to accompany the show's slate of classic films.
Wexler died Feb. 10 at the age of 83, and the hearts of movie fans across the
Q: Iâm looking for a needle in a haystack. I have an 83-year-old father who wants nothing more than to watch Lawrence Welk episodes 24/7. I have exhausted every possible means to find the entire Lawrence Welk series, color episodes only, from eBay, Amazon and so on â to no avail. I have only been able to find four episodes here and there. Can you possibly assist?
M.D.
Answer: The reason you can t find any Lawrence Welk DVDs is because they don t exist. Susie Dowdy, the publicist for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, which has produced several Lawrence Welk specials said, âWe syndicate the series therefore no DVDs are available for purchase. Any found on the internet are made by fans and are illegal. We do have DVDs of our specials but those are few and only available through stations for a pledge of support.
OETA to debut documentary about early 1900s Osage murders Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020
OETA will premiere the documentary Back in Time: Osage Murders - The Reign of Terror in January.
OKLAHOMA CITY â The Oklahoma Educational Television Authority will premiere its newest documentary, Back in Time: Osage Murders - The Reign of Terror, Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7 p.m. The short film explores the systematic murders of the Osage from 1910 to 1930 in an organized effort to rob them of their oil and money.
In this new half-hour documentary from OETA, the team from Back In Time presents the story of the Osage in their own words.