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A Chat with Longtime Tulsa Citizen and TU Advocate, Steve Turnbo, Recipient of the 2020 Twyman Award

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher

Published October 15, 2020 at 12:31 PM CDT

The upcoming 2020 Homecoming Weekend here at the University of Tulsa will be, unfortuneately, quite different this time around, given the pandemic. But one Homecoming tradition that will continue is the designation and celebration of the annual J. Paschal Twyman Award. Our guest is the distinguished recipient of that award for this year, Steve Turnbo. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Tulsa in 1967, Mr. Turnbo went on to establish the well-regarded local PR firm, Schnake Turnbo Frank, for which he remains Chairman Emeritus. Mr. Turnbo was also, among many other honors, a longtime member of the University's Board of Trustees. He joins us to look back on his time at TU as well as his 40-plus years of wide-ranging service to the City of Tulsa and its people.

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Rich Fisher

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.

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