placemaking conference: iqc in oklahoma

“Don’t look for the easy job—it is already taken!”

Unknown

“Only the dead have done enough!”

C.R. AnthonyFounder, Oklahoma-based Anthony’s clothing stores

“Kites rise highest against the wind—not with it.”

Winston Churchill

Tontz and Herschi Hardware

Gaffney Building

The Victor Block

100 Block ofWest Oklahoma Avenue

Chandler, Wolcott Building

Pawhuska, Ki-he-hah Avenue

“Even poor people know ugly.”

Richard C. Riley, Jr., Mayor Charleston, South Carolina

“Your tenants are not going to put nice things in their apartments until YOU fix the DAMN roof!”

Lee Adler, Preservation LeaderSavannah, Georgia

“There are two ways of spreading the light— to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

Edith Wharton, Vesalius In Zante

“Unless someone else like you cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

Dr. Seuss,The Lorax

Stephanie Josephine Martin, 1950

Mary Frantz, 1990

We outgrew the bungalow!

“The first step toward building and sustaining a winning team

is getting people to talk to one another. It doesn’t matter if you don’t like each other,

but you’ve got to respect each other. “

Legendary Coach Herman BooneRemember the Titans

Newkirk, OklahomaJunior Main Streeters’ Fund Raising

Pauls Valley, OklahomaThe Toy &

Action Figure Museum

El Reno, OklahomaOklahoma Vintage Guitar

Wilburton, OklahomaGoldberg and Joseph Heritage Park

Stockyards City, OklahomaEntry Gate

Enid, Oklahoma Park Avenue Thrift

Hobart, OklahomaGeneral Tommy Franks

Leadership Institute & Museum

Claremore, OklahomaDesign Committee Façade Squad

Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Barnsdall Station Perry, Oklahoma, Kemnitz Oil Co.

Collinsville, OklahomaCollinsville Main Street Office

Ponca City, OklahomaGhost Sign Restoration

Sapulpa, OklahomaWells Building Senior Housing

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions

of the bad people, but for the appalling silence

of the good people.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Fill the organization with people who want others to succeed, and you have an organization capable of doing what others can’t even dream about doing.”

Ed Nfuler and Ross Hunt(quote on wall, OU Writing Center)

“A university is a place where we should learn how to argue and debate with each other without

ceasing to love and respect each other.”Guido Calebresi, Dean EmeritusYale Law School

“Every decision should be made with the goal

of increasing community.”

President David BorenA Letter to America, Page 96

“Placemaking starts with getting engaged.”Ron Frantz

“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness,to pull another hand into the light.”

Norman B. Rice

closing

“They had qualities of humor and courage and inventiveness and energy that appealed to me…

I thought if we had a national character and national genius these people who were beginning to be called Okies were it...

With all the odds against them, their goodness and strength survived…

and it still does.”

John Steinbeck