I happen to be from the great State of Alabama.  Where I live sweet tea, fried okra, turnip greens and butter are essentials.  It’s about as “Southern” as you can get.  And, I love it.  I have a good friend, Jane, who happens to live “up North.”  In fact, Jane lives so far “up North” I think she can almost see Canada.  So, once a week, I send Jane a “Southern word of the week.”  These include:  fixin’, golly-whopper, hootenanny and ‘big ol,’ just to name a few.  I don’t use those words on…

Meet Ruth: A member of the Winter Board of Regents, lover of learning, Tulsa dweller, and golfer.

How are you currently involved with Institute?

I graduated from Winter Institute in 2010.  I have always been a huge advocate of the…

I need to be more grateful of my “Over-Worked” and “Under-Appreciated” finance calendar.  I gain comfort from its content and a sense of order from its structure.

I always assemble an annual finance calendar for each organization I work with to give me a global look at the “Key” dates that affect the flow of information through the finance department.  What was unexpected was how many other uses I have found for my finance calendar.  Before I explain these many…

Chambers of commerce throughout the country are banding together in support of Moore, Oklahoma by becoming members of the Moore Chamber of Commerce.

"I just saw [on Facebook] where my friend Aaron Nelson, who is the CEO at the Chapel Hill Chamber in North Carolina, had joined and was encouraging others to do the same and I felt compelled to do it"...…