PARTIES EXTRA: APRIL 7,2007

DINING OUT

Robert Conner, director of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center at Tinker Air Force Base; David Thompson, publisher of The Oklahoman; Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, deputy chief of staff, Manpower and Personnel Headquarters, U.S. Air Force and Lt. Gov. Jari Askins were at the Base/Community “Dining Out”.(Photo provided)

600 people attended the annual Tinker Community Dining Out event with Tinker Air Force Base and the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber at the Cox Convention Center on March 30.

David Thompson, publisher of The Oklahoman, was given the title president of the mess meaning that he directed the evening’s activities. Guest speaker was Lt. Gen. Roger Brady, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel.

Dining Out is a dinner where ceremony and tradition are observed and the president of the mess is from the Chamber of Commerce. Robert Conner, director of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, presented the OCCC with The Commander’s Public Service Award.

A video about the base and community partners was shown.

Jim Everest, Mary FitzSimons, Bud Beeler, Jose Freede and Christy Everest celebrate Freede’s 80th birthday at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.( Photo by Helen Ford Wallace)

ENCHANTED EVENING Jose Freede celebrated her 80th birthday with family members and friends at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country on April 1.

Guests, mostly lifelong friends, gave champagne toasts to the very special woman who came to America from England when she married the late Dr. Henry Freede.

A slide show about the honoree was shown.

Among those making toasts were daughter Cathy Freede, Bill Shdeed, Lee Allan Smith, Christy Everest, Barbara Beeler, Jim Vallion, Dr. Ron White, Judge Ralph Thompson, Paul Dudman, Byron Gambulos, Kathy Fee Droemer. Dr. Jim Hartsuck and Dick Sias.

Other guests included daughter and son-in-law Margaret and Judge Dan Owens, Jim Everest, Tricia Everest, Louise and Clay Bennett, Mary and Colin FitzSimons, Maggie Barrett, Lou Phillips, Pat Gambulos, Joan Gilmore, Al McLaughlin, Barbara Thompson, Mary Kay and Paul Massad, Lynn White, Anne and Dr. Ed Dalton, Pam Shdeed, Bud Beeler, Barbara Thompson, Debby Dudman, Jean Hartsuck, Jeannette Sias and Donna and Dr. Tom Vogel.