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Longwalk Oklahoma - About Us
Dec. 16, 2008
Posted by Tom S. Hammack
We are proud to be the representatives and leaders for Longwalk Oklahoma. We
hope all who enter here will find the neccessary information to help them
understand our goal with the LongWalk Oklahoma Backpack Challege program.
Executive Director
Mike Morris
Executive Director and Lead Guide
LongWalk Oklahoma
Mike Morris has joined our team as Executive Director and Lead Guide. He
will be a full time employee teaching leadership through the experience of
learning how to backpack. He will be guiding trips of increasing difficulty
to train young men and women how to make the decisions necessary to lead others
to safety.
Mike received his degree in Psychology and Sociology, focusing on Adolescent
Development, from OSU in 1977. Since graduating, he has been the owner of
subcontracting firms specializing in construction of school facilities. As an
avocation, he has spent the last 25 years coaching a variety of youth and high
school sports teams.
Loving the outdoors, Mike began backpacking throughout the region in the 1970's
and expanded into the Colorado Rockies in the 1980's. He has been on several extended
solo trips into the wilds. Introducing both adults and young people to the challenge
of backpacking, he has taken dozens of teams into (and out of) the wilderness of
Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado.
Our Board of Directors
Randy Buchman
President - Refractory Anchors, Inc.
Broken Arrow, OK
Randy was born and raised in Ohio and first moved to Oklahoma in 1980 for three years with A.P. Green Refractories as an
Application Engineer. He then took another position with SOHIO/Carborundum in a field sales position based out of San Francisco,
CA. In 1985 he returned to Oklahoma where he now owns a stainless steel fastener manufacturing company.
Randy is married, and the Buchman's have two children. A son 13, and a daughter 16 who has personally been on a LongWalk Oklahoma
leadership adventure challenge. Randy was so impressed with the life changing results this program had on his daughter that he
decided to join the LongWalk Oklahoma Board of Directors in 2009.
Randy is currently an active member of Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church, and serves on the Board of Trustees for Defiance College,
Defiance, Ohio. He is also currently enrolled in ORU’s Graduate Theology program where he intends to complete his Masters of Divinity.
Hannah Cole
Insurance Producer
Rich & Cartmill, Inc.
Serving as the youngest board member for Long Walk, Hannah Cole is an Insurance Producer
at Rich & Cartmill, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Born and raised in Tulsa, Hannah graduated
from Bishop Kelley High School in 2001 and went on to get her Bachelor’s Degree in Business
Marketing from the University of San Francisco.
After her graduation from college, Hannah took a year off from work and studies to backpack
around the world. Finding that her true passion was being outdoors, Hannah took an immediate
interest in the mission of Long Walk Oklahoma. She has embraced the beliefs of LongWalk Oklahoma,
and feels that it is a much needed program for the youth of our generation.
Hannah enjoys hiking, scuba diving, exercising, and reading as hobbies. She also loves playing
with her boxer Duffy and spending time with her family. Hannah attends First Christian Church
of Owasso and is also actively involved in the Rotary Club.
Tom Hammack
Senior Infrastructure and Storage Engineer
Nomerel, LLC
Tom Hammack is an active partner and Senior Infrastructure and Storage Engineer for Nomerel, LLC
in Tulsa. Tom has been in the technology field for 15 years, and has a passion for all things
"geek". He is also the owner of Wizzert Solutions, a technology consulting firm in Tulsa,
Oklahoma that specializes in website design, programming, and support.
Tom was born in Riverton, Wyoming, and moved to the Claremore area when he was very young.
He moved to Massachusetts at age 6, and lived there until moving back to Texas at
12 years old, where he graduated from Seminole High School in Seminole, Texas.
Tom and his wife Jo Ann are active in the Celebrate Recovery ministry, and also serve
in the CR-Inside Prison Ministry at Southern Hills Baptist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tom
is also the current Oklahoma State Representative for the Missing in America Project. Tom
enjoys woodworking, home improvement projects, and cooking for family and friends.
Patrick Jackson
Associate Pastor of Children
Southern Hills Baptist Church
Patrick joined the staff of Southern Hills Baptist Church as Associate
Pastor of Children in May, 2007. His responsibilities include the Elementary
and Preschool Ministries on Sunday morning, Worship Care, and the overseeing
of the Weekday Preschool, Confident Kids, and Childcare programs.
Patrick grew up in Tulsa and is a graduate of Booker T. Washington
High School. He earned his BA in Family Relations and Child Development
at OSU and a Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky.
Patrick worked in camping and adventure ministries throughout college
and seminary. Patrick enjoys photography, hiking, cooking, and eating
what he cooked (most of the time).
David Morris
President - Indirect Lending
Arvest Bank
David Morris was born in New York and grew up in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. He graduated
from Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, and earned his Business Degree from Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. David is President of Indirect Lending for Arvest
Bank, based in Tulsa.
David and his wife Leslie live in Tulsa, and have been married for 20 years. They are
the proud parents of two teenage boys, Ethan and Elliot. David is a fan of NASCAR, and
professional soccer.
David's role as President of Indirect Lending for Arvest Bank, the group which handles
consumer financing for local auto dealerships, allows him to act as a valuable financial
accountability resource for LongWalk Oklahoma, as well as providing key business leadership
for our organization.
Ginger Morris
Employee Development Manager
Flint Energy Services Inc.
Ginger Morris was one of six children, raised in a military home in numerous locations. She
attended Southeastern College in Lakeland, Florida where she received her BA degree in Bible
and Missions and her MSM degree from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. She
also has completed additional graduate work in Adult Education with an emphasis in Human
Resources Development from Oklahoma State University.
Ms. Morris is currently the Human Resources Manager for Flint Energy Services Inc. in Tulsa,
Oklahoma and is an active member of TAHRA, the Tulsa Area Human Resource Association. She has
worked in various capacities in the Human Resources field in a Corporate environment over the
past 28 years, with significant experience in developing and delivering leadership, management
and team building curriculum in a business environment. Ms. Morris also teaches a variety of
Management, Leadership, Team Building and HR courses at Universities in the Tulsa area in the
evenings and has for the past eight years.
Ginger has raised 4 children; a daughter and son who presently live in the Tulsa area and two sons
who are full time Air Force. She currently resides in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with her 2 beagles,
Sammy and Bella. Ginger has taught Sunday School over the past 30 years and particularly enjoys
her time teaching adults. She has taught several Bible Studies through Precept Ministries and has
developed her own curriculum for Bible studies as well. She currently attends Church on the Move
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Mark Wilson
Division Manager – Tulsa
Cantera Concrete Company, LLC
Aside from a short stint in the oil field in his younger days, Mark Wilson has been in the
commercial construction industry for thirty years plus, starting in 1977 and moving through
the ranks of foreman, superintendent and project manager. Mark has been with Cantera Concrete
since 2003 and is currently the Division Manager for the Tulsa area.
Mark was born in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and has lived in or around Coweta, Oklahoma for most
of his life. He has four grown children and five grandchildren. He and his wife, Lori, still
live in the Coweta area.
Mark was actively involved in coaching fast pitch softball while his children were young and
has moved on to Men’s Church League softball now that the kids are all grown. He is also active
in his church, First Baptist Broken Arrow. Mark enjoys fishing, hunting and anything outdoors.
Sharon Cherry-Davis
Executive Assistant to Ambassador Francis Rooney
Manhattan Construction Co. - Tulsa, OK
Sharon was born in Muskogee, and moved to Broken Arrow in 1980 taking a job as Contracts Administrator
and then Jr. Estimator for Manhattan Construction Company. Since 1996, Sharon has worked directly, as
Executive Assistant, for Ambassador Francis Rooney, who owns Manhattan Construction, Cantera Concrete,
Manhattan Road & Bridge, and Rooney Insurance Agency.
Sharon is the proud mother of three grown daughters. Her oldest daughter lives in Dallas, Texas and works
for an architectural firm. Sharon's middle daughter works at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The
youngest daughter just graduated from High School in Tulsa. Completing her family is her two dogs, Bongo
and Daisy, and a cat named Azrael.
Sharon's hobbies involve traveling (France, Italy, England, Ireland, Japan, Florida, Washington state,
California, Colorado, New York), cooking, mystery novels, camping, and antiquing/garage sales. Sharon is
also found of remodeling, and is perpetually doing some sort of home renovation project.
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