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Hille Foundation to Award College Scholarships to Lee Prince and Garrett Powders
TULSA, Oklahoma. The Membership of Southern Hills Country Club and the First Tee of Tulsa will join members of the Hille Family to recognize high school seniors Lee Prince and Garrett Powders as recipients of the new Jo Bob Hille Memorial Scholarship. The ceremony will take place at 1:00 p.m. this Saturday, March 29th on the grounds of the
First Tee of Tulsa Junior Headquarters & Learning Center at Mohawk Park Golf Course. The Jo Bob Hille Memorial Scholarship was established in 2007, created to provide the opportunity of a college education to First Tee participants who are without the means to do so on their own. Exclusive to First Tee of Tulsa participants, applicants must be participants in the First Tee of Tulsa program, maintain a High School minimum grade point average of 2.0 or above and continue to be active in a number of First Tee activities. Details of this unique opportunity were previously announced last August during the week of the 89th PGA Championship at Southern Hills with members of the PGA Board of Directors and National First Tee Executive Board in attendance. The Jo Bob Hille Memorial Scholarship will provide up to $10,000 per student, per school year, for use towards achieving a higher education as a full-time student enrolled at an accredited University or College located within the State of Oklahoma. Lee Prince and Garrett Powders will be recognized as the first two winners of the Jo Bob
Hille Memorial Scholarship and will each receive $10,000. Lee Prince is a senior at Central High School. Prince has been a participant in the First Tee of Tulsa program since its doors opened in 2001, serving as both a mentor and coach. Prince established the Golf Team at Central High and currently serves as its Captain. “My goal as a First Tee Coach,” said Prince, “… is to show the students, that no matter where they come from or how they lived in the past, they can do something with their lives and be ‘Somebody, Someday’.” Prince plans to pursue a degree in Petroleum Engineering. Garrett Powders is a senior at Union High School. Another charter First Tee of Tulsa participant since 2001, Powders is a member of the Junior Varsity Golf Team at Union and currently maintains a 3.75 grade point average. A proud mentor with the First Tee program, Powders noted, “As long as the First Tee of Tulsa program is around, I will be a part of it, giving back to our community.” Powders plans to pursue a degree in Broadcast Journalism. The Hille Foundation was founded in 1997 as a way to efficiently formalize Jo Bob and
Mary Ann Hille’s strong support and belief in giving. The Hille’s are well known for their generous support within the Tulsa community and their dedication as active volunteers. The First Tee of Tulsa program was established by the membership of Southern Hills
Country Club in 2001 as an opportunity to give back to the game of golf and to give back to the community by offering a program designed to welcome and educate children who would not normally be exposed to the game of golf and the positive values it teaches. The Southern Hills
Country Club Charitable Foundation has raised and contributed more than $600,000 to the First Tee of Tulsa program through on going member support, gifting and annual fund raising events. Located at Mohawk Park Golf Course in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over 6,600 students have participated in the First Tee of Tulsa program, providing junior golfers with a meeting place, classrooms, specialized tools and activities designed to develop participants’ self-esteem, civic responsibility and confidence to broaden life goals. www.thefirstteetulsa.org
Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden
Ground has been broken for the 240-acre, Oklahoma Centennial Botanical Garden Research and Education Center seven miles northwest of downtown Tulsa. The entire project is scheduled over a 10-year period at an estimated cost of $40 million. The building of the Garden is planned in three phases: the Centennial Phase, Phase One and Phase Two. Construction is underway on the Centennial Phase which includes a temporary visitor center, lake with an island, an entrance road and parking lot and will be completed in spring 2008. Phase One is the nucleus of the garden. Plans include a permanent Visitor Center, Children’s Garden, Oriental Island Garden, Amphitheater, the Main Lawn and Garden, Watercolor Gardens and Pattern Garden. When completed, the Garden will have 15 major theme gardens, 60 specialty gardens, education center, conservatory, interfaith chapel, observation tower, research laboratory and much more.
The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis
The Saint Francis Health System’s largest facility expansion in 25 years, the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis, opened its doors on January 31. The new $72.6 million, 104-bed Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis is the area’s only dedicated children’s facility that provides pediatric inpatient and outpatient care, medical/surgical procedures and pediatric intensive care services. Planning for The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis has been a collaborative effort that included the project team, nurses, clinical staff, administrators and many other professionals who care for children. Parents and children have also teamed up to help shape the design of the ground-breaking new hospital. Community support of the new hospital has been vital to its construction and will continue to play a role in the future of services through contributions to the Children’s Hospital Foundation at Saint Francis. Approximately $23 million has been raised to help fund the construction of the new hospital. The Tulsa community has rallied to support this special facility and most importantly our children. Family-centered care is a major focus for The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. This philosophy is characterized by the collaboration between hospital staff and parents in the medical care of a hospitalized child. Patient care areas have been designed with this concept in mind. Special accommodations include all-private patient rooms. Comfortable sleep areas for two family members to stay with a child, a nurse’s station with each room, work space for parents within the room with wireless internet access and child-friendly television programming and video games. In addition, three special “hotel-style” rooms are on-site for parents during extended hospital stays. It is obvious through the overall design of the new facility, features of the patient floors, layout of the rooms, the colorful décor and even in the artwork in this hospital that kids truly come first at The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis is a part of the Saint Francis Health System, a not-for-profit healthcare organization, and treats over 70,000 patients each year. This number includes annual inpatient admissions of approximately 7,000 patients.
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