Richard C. Clark (Dick) Born and raised in Tulsa Graduated from Edison High School, Tulsa Attended Oklahoma State University Graduated from University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond Veteran US Army Retired from Tulsa Vo-Tech now Tulsa Technology Center Gilcrease Docent since 2007

Kathe has been a docent at the Gilcrease Museum for the past 7 years. She served as President of the Gillies (the volunteer association for the Gilcrease Museum) for the 2019-2020 term. Since becoming a Gillie in 2014, she has been editor of the Gillies Newsletter- Smoke Signals, written docent tours for both children and adults, served as President-Elect, Vice President of The Gillies. She currently sits on the Standards Committee and Executive Committee as Past President. Kathe has a Masters Degree in Educational Counseling. She has served as a teacher and counselor in public and private elementary school settings. She was also a high school counselor for eight years.

Native Oklahoman, born in Wagoner and raised in Blackwell. Tulsa resident for 50 years. Undergraduate degree in Political Science from Oklahoma State University with post graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies; Graduate School of Banking at S.M.U. Banker for thirty-eight years beginning with the former National Bank of Tulsa, now Bank of Oklahoma; retired from Chase Bank. Gilcrease Museum docent for six years; docent and board member of History and Archives Committee at First Presbyterian Church; volunteer case worker at Catholic Charities; former board member of Tulsa Historical Society. Special Interests: Historical research, with particular emphasis on pre-statehood Oklahoma; early day Indian Mission Schools; more recently the Tulsa Race Massacre of May / June, 1921.

I began volunteering as a Docent at Gilcrease Museum in the fall of 2011, just a few short months after retiring from the Tulsa City County Library. In my 21 years with the library, I was first a reference librarian, and then later a Family Literacy Specialist. My husband and I own a second home in Taos, New Mexico, where we spend lots of time in the summer and fall. While I’m there, I frequently attend lectures and museum exhibitions related to the Taos Society of Artists. These artists are among my favorites in the Gilcrease collection, and I love sharing stories and biographical information about these Taos legends with Gilcrease visitors.

I am a native-born Oklahoman. Following my career as an educator for 39 years I was looking for volunteer opportunities and first participated in the Tulsa Public Library After School Tutoring Program. I joined the Gillies in 2011 at Gilcrease and found a new passion and appreciation for this museum. As a Docent I have enjoyed sharing these treasures with visitors on site, in school classrooms and with civic organizations. I look forward to introducing The Women of Gilcrease presentation to the OLLI audience in the Spring 2021 semester.

Rod has been involved with the Gillies for over fifteen and served in many positions of leadership including serving as the President. He has a BA from San Diego State and an MSA from Georgia College. Rod is a retired USAF pilot and is retired from Williams Company Aviation.

I earned a B.S. in Education from Oklahoma State University and a Master’s in Library Science from the University of Oklahoma. That set the stage for me to earn my living working in libraries. The first half of my career I was a Media Specialist at Haskell, then at Childers Middle School in Broken Arrow, Ok. When my two daughters went off to college I was also ready for a change and I headed off to Principia College in Elsah, Illinois to serve as the Reference and Instruction Librarian, eventually becoming the Director of the Library. I retired back to Oklahoma and am enjoying family, being a Gillie serving at Gilcrease, knitting, and sketching with Urban Sketchers Tulsa.

Oliver Sundby is a Wyoming native, raised in Laramie, Wyoming. He has a BA in History from the University of Wyoming and an MA in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. He served as the director of development for the Gilcrease Museum from 2001 to 2004, and the director of development for the Charles M. Russell museum in Great Falls Montana from 2004 to 2008. The Russell Museum holds over one fourth of Russell’s more than 4000 works. While the head of the foundation for Eastern Wyoming College from 2009 to 2015, he presented over 40 programs on the life and art of Charlie Russell to service groups and organizations, libraries, historical societies and college classes. Following his retirement in 2015 and moving to Oklahoma, his work as a Gillie has included annual programs to retirement centers in the Tulsa area on Russell’s life and art, as well as to area Rotary Clubs, University of Tulsa history classes, and other groups.

Robert Taylor, of Muscogee/Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Potowatomi decent. His mother was a Full Blood Creek and Chickasaw woman and his father was part Cherokee and Potowatomi. He was born on Indian Land, attended an Indian Methodist Church and attended an Indian Boarding school. Robert is a retired Senior Special Agent from the Department of U.S. Treasury and later into the Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Internal Affairs. He is a proud member of the Gillies and proud to represent the Gilcrease Museum.