Northern Oklahoma College President Dr. Cheryl Evans Retirement Celebration was held June 16 at the Renfro Center at NOC Tonkawa.
The reception paid tribute to Dr. Evans for her 10 years of service to NOC and her 27 years of service to higher education in Oklahoma.
“I want to thank everyone for being here to celebrate this milestone,” Dr. Evans said. “I want to thank you for your support. I have been so blessed to have so many people invest in me and each of you have touched my life in some way.”
“I want to thank my NOC team for this special night,” she added. “I have been so fortunate to have worked with the best people in higher ed with the goal to do the best for our students.”
“NOC has a special place in my heart,” she said. “The friendships will last forever.”
“This has been the hardest decision I have ever made but you will still see me, but it’ll be for the fun stuff,” she joked.
“I know one thing,” she concluded. “NOC has changed my life for the better.”
The NOC Executive Council presented Dr. Evans with a Yatika Starr Fields original, “Beauty on the Plains.”
Video presentations from Chancellor Glen D. Johnson, Jr., Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education; Dr. Janet Cunningham, President Northwestern Oklahoma State University; Linda Brown, former Regent of the NOC Board of Regents and Current Trustee to the NOC Foundation; Carl and Brenda Renfro, former Regent Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and founder of the Renfro Endowed Lectureship Program; Bert Mackie, former Regent of the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and Trustee to the NOC Foundation; and Willie Spears, Professional Speaker – The Willie Spears Experience and former student of Dr. Evans.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Pam Stinson spoke for the NOC Executive Council.
image004.png“Through the videos, you have heard tonight from a highly respected but small sampling of the many people who wanted to honor what Chancellor Johnson rightly called the “lasting legacy” created by President Cheryl Evans.
It is no easy task, even for people like us who do a lot of talking, to follow these other speakers, nor to put into words how much she’s meant to each of us.
Dr. Cunningham, we agree, Dr. Evans was exactly the right person at the right time to lead NOC.
Over the last decade, the Executive Council has spent thousands of hours together, many of them clocked ...
