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Sooner Parents Purpose & History

Serving Sooner Parents for over 90 years

Purpose

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Sooner Parents keeps you connected and helps enhance the OU student experience!

The purpose of Sooner Parents is to:

  • To provide the parents, guardians and other supporters of University of Oklahoma students an opportunity to learn more about the organization and policies of the university
  • To bring about closer cooperation between students, parents, faculty, administrative officials and regents of the university
  • To provide an organization through which parents may collectively organize their efforts in support of students and their educational experience
  • To provide an agency through which authorities of the university may more effectively present objectives, aims and needs to the public at large

It all started with the Dads' Association in 1925

A Brief History: The University of Oklahoma Dads' Association
On October 17, 1925, 272 fathers of University of Oklahoma students met in response to an invitation from University President W.B. Bizzell to organize the OU Dads' Association. 

RECENT SOONER PARENTS PRESIDENTS

2016-18    Mike Kaufmann
2014-16    Marty Dama
2012-14    Ruth Henson
2010-12    Marc Mandell
2008-10    Mary Martha Stewart
2006-04    Susan Esco Chandler
2005-06    Marsha Gore
2004-05    Jeanne & Alan Salmon
2003-04    Lisa Thompson
2002-03    Terry & Beth Henneke
2001-02    Nancy & Bruce Bolzle