8 Alumni News & Memories Karen Allen Morgan (1987-88) Last year was an amazing year in the life of this Geographer who just keeps on keeping on. I graduated in 87/88 along with my many young geographer friends, some of whom I still communicate with. I received notice in April that I would represent the OSU Geography Department through the School of Arts and Sciences as their Distinguished Alumni. What an amazing surprise! The celebration took place in September in a beautiful ceremony. Thank you OSU Geography Department! I stay busy as a part time Patient Care Coordinator for a doctor's office, President of the Green Country Water Garden Society, ramrodding my class of 1958 Class Reunion and nurturing milkweed plants and Monarch butterflies. Seven of my 8 grandchildren are either in college or have graduated and the youngest is a high school junior. They will all have amazing futures with the most recent granddaughter graduating this May from Duke School of Law. Husband Mike is doing great and enjoys our water garden and growing flowers and vegetables. Age is only a number and this Geographer/Grandmom says she'll never give up on the JOYS of life and living! Gail Pickens-Barger (1981) Talking with a former co-worker for Conoco Oil Company, I was reflecting on how we made those computer contour maps using seismic data and Landsat Satellite data. I am tickled that I was able to use my geography degree and actually use it in my first job out of college. I collaborated with contour mapping systems companies, both Radian's CPS-1 and Zycor Mapping Systems. I taught both geologists and geophysicists how to use their data to create oil-in-place maps. Years later working for DuPont did a lot of computer, software, and desktop support. Now teaching yoga for veterans online since the pandemic and getting to teach in-person classes too. The Department of Geography gave me experience in the CARS lab as an undergraduate and as a student assistant in the Remote Sensing class coursework. Came full circle now, back to helping people but in a different manner. If I were to be getting this same degree, all these years later it would be considered to be Geographical Information Systems. Attended Dr. Vitek's Geomorphology summer course. One of my fondest memories and toughest one's too at Oklahoma State University. Thanks, OSU for all the fond memories as a student and participant in the marching band too!
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