2022 Scholarship Recipients
May 20, 2022
Special host: Mr. Jay Hanna
Jay Hannah is Executive Vice-President of Financial Services BancFirst, Oklahoma City. He has been in banking for 33 years. Mr. Hannah holds a BA/ED from Northeastern State University in his native Tahlequah, a Masters degree from Oklahoma State University, is a SLEP Graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and holds banking certificates from the University of Colorado’s Graduate Banking School and from the American Bankers Association’s National Lending School at the University of Oklahoma. He is a charter class graduate of Leadership Oklahoma.
Mr. Hannah is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation where he served as the Secretary-Treasurer and chaired the Nation’s first Constitutional Convention in 1999. He has written extensively on Native Government Reform, and was a participant in Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Executive Project on Native Constitution Reform.
A biographical sketch in The Oklahoman sheds light on the distinction of his profession by identifying him as a “connector.” He connects customers to their dreams and ambitions; he uses his musical talent to connect the causes he supports to their goals; and, as a Cherokee and citizen of Oklahoma, he ‘connects practically everything with his heritage and upbringing.”
Mr. Hannah received his minor in history. He says “history is a very vibrant weave in my personal tapestry. Concepts of history, the continuity between the past and present, are very apparent.”
BancFirst—El Reno
El Reno Tribune
Heritage Integrated Solutions
Option One
MidFirst Bank
Cavin Wrecker
C2 Security
El Reno Board of Education
Festivities Event Center
Fogg Law
Gemini
Mark and Dana Gibson
Great Plains Bank
Hensley’s Best Western
King Electric
Mercy Health
OGE Energy
Ratliff Accounting
Russell-Murray Hospice
Wise Sales Company, Inc. and Stone Chase Stables
Advantage Insurance Group
Bill’s Auto–Gary and Terry Bates
Diffee Ford and Lincoln
Farmer’s Insurance Group–Bud Chronister and Jill Phillips
Handley Law
Lynn and Michelle Tate
El Reno Family Dentistry
Interbank
Midwest Music
Old Republic Title
State Farm–Gary Baumwart
Ward Construction
Bretz Computers
Carder Chiropractic
JKM
Dr. Karen and Larry Jennings
Rick Jones Buick GMC
Rinehart, Rinehart, Rinehart, Attorneys at Law
Schwarz Oil
El Reno Public Schools Foundation held our Annual “Thousands of Reasons” Gala honoring Distinguished Alumni and Educators. Our Distinguished Alumni honoree, Jeff Wills, is pictured with his family. We are so proud of his family and their accomplishments in servant leadership and “work that matters”.
