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Robert Lewis

After graduating from WRHS, I attended the University of Tulsa and received a B.S. degree in journalism. Launched my career at the Tulsa World and seven years later discovered people actually paid for what I was doing. This led me into the world of corporate and agency public relations. The lure of newspapering never left, however, and when Bill Retherford asked me to head up the Ledger, I couldn't resist.
One of the highlights of my PR career was the opportunity to help a brand new company named United States Cellular introduce wireless communications to Northeast Oklahoma. Phones in those days were a far cry from what we have today, but it was a challenging and exciting time as we got the ball rolling.
I was pleased to be an originator of the Roy Clark Celebrity Golf Classic to benefit Children's Medical Center and the Gatesway International Balloon Festival which was named by former Gov. Frank Keeting the state's number-one tourist attraction.
The close of my career brought another challenge -- conversion of the Ledger from a five-days-a-week broadsheet newspaper into a color tabloid that was distributed free to more than 25,000 BA households.
Unfortunately, just before retirement,I lost my beautiful wife, LaVerne.
In addition to some free-lance assignments today, my "job" involves spoiling my kids, two grandkids and two great grandsons, fishing and buzzing around town in a bright yellow Corvette I treated myself to.

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