OK SCR24

Honors Nancy Randolph Davis, a native of Sapulpa who graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1944 and earned a bachelor's degree from Langston University in 1948.

Recognizes her as the first African-American enrollee at Oklahoma State University in 1949, where she earned a master's degree in home economics in 1952 despite facing classroom segregation.

Commends her 43 years of service to the Oklahoma Public Education System, teaching at Dunjee High School until 1968 and then at Star Spencer High School, plus her activism with the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council and the Miss Black Oklahoma Pageant.

Notes her numerous honors including appointment as the first lay member of the Oklahoma Nursing Board in 1991, OSU Distinguished Alumna in 1999, Oklahoma Human Rights Award in 2008, and College of Human Sciences Enhancing Human Lives Award in 2009.

Directs distribution of the resolution to her surviving children Nancy Lynn Davis, Calvin Orlando Davis, and Freddye Mae Davis following her death on March 23, 2015, at age 88.