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A 290% jump in enrollment left the band short of instruments. Two alumni families answered with $16,000 of new flutes, clarinets, trumpets and trombones.
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Every gift to the Foundation becomes something specific: a scholarship, a stage, a season, a second chance. This is where we tell those stories, along with the events and news that keep the Will Rogers community connected.
New stories are added as they happen, so check back often. And if you have a Will Rogers story of your own worth telling, we’d love to hear it.
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Pam Lundy · 2025–26 school year
Seven campuses, more than 500 campus experiences, and a senior class in which eight in ten are the first in their family headed to college.
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Pam Lundy · March 23, 2026
The Foundation hosted the reception as Rogers renamed its baseball field for the coach who led the Ropers to four state championships.
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Pam Lundy · November 8, 2025
Vintage cars, bean chowder, a sock hop and a pep rally brought Ropers from across the decades home to celebrate Will Rogers.
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Pam Lundy · September 11, 2024
Dancers from every decade, a proclamation from the City of Tulsa and Will Rogers’ great-granddaughter marked 85 years since the doors opened.
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Pam Lundy · April 16, 2024
After the Broadway cast visited Rogers drama classes, donors raised the money to send eight students to New York to see the show.
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Pam Lundy · March 29, 2023
A family baseball film with Will Rogers and Native American characters, to be filmed in part at Will Rogers High School.
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Pam Lundy · March 8, 2023
Cindy Largent-Williams, a Rogers dean and assistant principal since 2017, steps up to lead Will Rogers College Middle and High School.
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Pam Lundy · May 6, 2020
The grand opening of the new Will Rogers High School Athletic Stadium, planned for September 2020, was postponed by the pandemic.
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Pam Lundy · January 2019
A 1955 graduate’s $500,000 gift now sends up to $50,000 a year to Will Rogers for the things the school budget cannot cover.
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