Okarche junior high and high school awards assembly:

Apron Annies HCE Scholarship – Nick Baustert.

Community National Bank Scholarship – Madison Owens.

Lions Club Junior Lion and Lioness 2020 - Joseph Schaefer, Michael Smoot, Nick Baustert, Bryce Reese and Tyler Schwarz. 2021 – Evan Endres, Lexi Wilson, Trenton Neiderer, McKenzie Stewart, Payton Kerby, MacKenzie Schneiter, Tyler Schwarz, Madison Owens, Bryce Reese, Chloe Wanger, Joseph Schaefer, Osbaldo Barcenas, Abigail McIlvain, Hayley Coffey, Nick Bausert, Hannah Shepherd, Trey Gilles and Karsyn Vallerand.

Funeral services for Doris Jean McBee, 89-year-old Oklahoma City resident, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 22, 2021, in the Resthaven Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow in Resthaven Cemetery, Oklahoma City.

Visitation for family and friends will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 20, and from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, June 21 at Huber-Benson Funeral Home, El Reno. Also, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 22 at Resthaven Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home of Enid.

Funeral services for Dr. Col. Virgil Jerry Shepherd will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 19 at Bethany Assembly of God.

Dr. Shepherd died June 11, 2021, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. He was born Dec. 2, 1931, in Seminole County.

Jerry graduated from Norman High School and from the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He continued his education at OU School of Medicine in the field of opthalmology.

As part of its “diversity, equity and inclusion” focus, one University of Oklahoma college recently vowed to teach white students “cultural humility,” and OU President Joseph Harroz said legislation that prohibited requiring students to take any orientation “that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or a bias on the basis of race or sex” is “contrary to the goals we have laid out for ourselves as part of our Strategic Plan.”