OU Alumni Association: February Roundup

What a month!

February was packed with events and has flown by. We hosted over 200 people for Caravan to Norman, had our first blog giveaway, featured beautiful campus love stories on Valentine's Day, took a walk down memory lane, featured awesome blogs written by OU Alumni and a Sooner attended the Academy Awards. To see photos from Journalism Senior, Chinh Doan's trip to Cali, click here.

To round out the month, OU hosted the "Teach-In on America's Founding" while "Sooners in the Desert" took place over the past weekend in Palm Springs, CA.

The Teach-In on America's Founding hosted nationally acclaimed authors and historians. Headlining the event were Pulitzer Prize winners, David McCullough and Gordon Wood. Other lecturers included David Hackett Fischer, Peter Onuf, Rosemarie Zagarri and Akhil Reed Amar. Diane Rehm, a 2010 Peabody Award winner, was also in attendance and moderated an engaging panel discuession with all of the guests and Dr. Kyle Harper, Director of OU's Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage.

What makes this event so special you ask? According to President Boren, "No university in America has brought together so many of the nation's most outstanding historians in a single day to lead a conversation about America's founding years and Constitutional heritage. It's a unique opportunity to learn about the roots of our greatness as a nation."

The Alumni Affairs office got to help with this event and it proved to be a great one! This event received rave reviews among those in attendance. Here are a few photos from the day:

Diane Rehm asks what has happened to the interest in learning about the constitution. Where have we fallen down, and how can we make it something exciting? She is facilitating the discussion at the University of Oklahoama's Teach In.

The crowd seated for the Teach-In. More than 1,000 OU students, alumni and friends attended the day's events.

David McCullough opens his lecture after dinner in the Oklahoma Ballroom at the Embassy Suites by stating that OU President David Boren is on his list of top 10 living Americans.

And finally......Sooners in the Desert! This event benefits the Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club and is held at the Indian Wells Golf Resort, near Palm Desert, California. This is the same course where the prestigious LG Skins game is hosted. This year 114 Sooners attended and raised almost $300,000, which brings the grand total to over $1.1 million since 2008! Celebrity golfers in attendance included Bob Stoops, Joe Washington, Joe Castiglione, Greg Pruitt, Jimbo Elrod, Mike Stoops and many more!