Outlook: Regional Food Bank director’s past experiences offer incentives for the future

Rodney Bivens says past experiences have given him an incentive as he leads the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.

 
BY BRYAN PAINTER | Modified: April 29, 2012 at 1:16 am | Published: April 29, 2012   

To begin to understand Rodney Bivens, executive director and founder of the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, you might want to start with his childhood friend, Walter. Then add Walter to the faces of those Bivens met at Hamilton Courts, Kerr Village and Ambassador Courts in the early 1970s during his graduate school practicum work in the field.

photo - Michael Higginbottom unloads food from a mail truck as he helps volunteers sort food during the Stamp Out Hunger food drive at the Britton Post Office in northwest Oklahoma City on May 14, 2010. Every year, letter carriers collect nonperishable food donations from households on their route to benefit the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVE PHOTO
Michael Higginbottom unloads food from a mail truck as he helps volunteers sort food during the Stamp Out Hunger food drive at the Britton Post Office in northwest Oklahoma City on May 14, 2010. Every year, letter carriers collect nonperishable food donations from households on their route to benefit the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. OKLAHOMAN ARCHIVE PHOTO

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As a child, Walter, who later was killed in Vietnam, was thin and would quickly devour what little food his family had. Bivens, even though his family would have given it gladly, would sneak...
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