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It's time now for our community connection
right here on O K one, the

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one you trust. We have a
friends in from Philip sixty six. Janet

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Hardy, you brought friends. How
you doing youngly? I'm doing well.

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How are you sounding? Miss Jen? It is so. I'm Jenny Brown.

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I oversee the community engagement part of
the company, and I'm also the

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corporate archivist for the company. Wow
in any Philip sixty six, shooes your

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gal. My goodness, my goodness. We brought the heavy art, Hillary,

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and didn't we. We've had a
pretty cool month so far at Phillip

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sixty six. And it's a good
energy month. And tell us what's good

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energy you mean, do Philip sixty
six? Yeah? Absolutely so. About

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four years ago the company decided to
brand April Good Energy Month. And really

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what that means is that's just our
month to really focus on volunteerism in our

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communities. And so that's not just
here in Bartlesville, although we're going to

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tell you about all the great things
we've done here, but it's company wide,

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so you're thinking thousands and thousand of
ours, hundreds of employees who are

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out in their communities across the country. Volunteering, doing good work, and

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spreading good energy just across the places. That's something that we're incredibly passionate about

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is giving back in the places where
we live and where we operate and the

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Boy and nothing says that like investing
in your community and investing in education too.

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How some of the yet nice little
love tidings that we've spread around here

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a little bit, Yeah, do
you want to jump in and talk about

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some of them? Let's do that. Yeah, we're at the end of

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the month. Yeah, so we've
done a lot and there's still more to

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come. Yeah, and there's several
of them, so I'm just going to

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kind of cheat and go through my
list here. So we started off with

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junior achievement, so we went into
two different elementary schools, So we went

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into Wilson's School and Ranch Heights and
helped with junior achievement. And then we

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helped the Boys and Girls Club over
in Dewey and help there, and then

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the Bartlesville Boys and Girls Club here
in Bartlesville, we helped with the the

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outdoor basketball court there, and then
we also helped with the Harley Burn Party.

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This set it up so we got
ready for the fundraiser there, and

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then this past Saturday we helped we
held the Operation Clean House. We had

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over forty volunteers there. I think
there was one hundred and thirty five volunteers

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and forty of those were Phillips employees
helping with that Operation Clean House. And

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this morning we have about twenty five
employees at out at wool Rock volunteering at

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the grounds there. And then we
have two more operations happening at Past Independence

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and then another one happening at the
Kitty Park. So there's all kinds of

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all kinds of projects. Ladies hit
them all well. And then we also

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did the Community center too, So
if you've been over at Unity Square and

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you see all the nice new moult
we've done that project in the past before.

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It is as a big project,
so lots of sweat equity went into

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making that space beautiful and ready to
go, ready to go for the summer.

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So kind of across April and tag
on a couple of days next week

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we'll have here in Bartlesville around two
hundred and twenty employees so I have volunteered

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their time across nine nonprofit organizations.
This is amazing. It's really a really

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cool thing. I want to talk
a little bit about STEM because you know,

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when I first came to town,
I'm just kind of surprised. I'm

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walking through Madison Middle School, my
daughter's new school. I'm seeing the Phillip

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sixty six shield out there, and
I'm going ask a few questions, and

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they said, well, they're quite
the community partner. They've got a lot

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to add to what we do around
here. And STEM is the big word.

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Tell us a little bit about that, because you had a little bit

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of a hand in that, didn't
you listen. I think that started around

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twenty fourteen and Phillips was able to
give it was one point seven million dollars

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to that to the Barthol Public schools
and it did end up going to the

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two middle schools and to the high
school, and it's grown over the years

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as more and more classes have been
added. The Grandemtter was very, very

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instrumental in helping us with that and
get it, you know, get it

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to where it is today. But
yes, the project lead the Way is

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what you know has made it more
successful. But yes, there was a

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team of seven of us that at
Bartos at Phillips that were able to make

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that happen. So yeah, we're
very very very happy that it's you know,

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continued to be more successful. Well, there are a whole slew of

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kids who are very very thankful because
all of a sudden, they're doing a

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lot of things that are quote cool. There used to be that's only from

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the kids. Yeah, well now
it's it's for everybody. There's no barrier,

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and they really feel like this is
something that's very approachable. This is

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something I want to do, this
is this is a good challenge for me.

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And you know that speaks volumes in
education because you got to have engagement

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or it's just not going to happen. Well, and you know, as

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a company, we have four giving
pillars and one of them is education equality,

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and so the STEM Labs completely fall
into that area. Right. We

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want to make sure that yes we're
a smaller community, but our kids still

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have the same access to things that
they may have somewhere else. Right,

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So we're talking hands on robotics,
we're talking computer science. These students are

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are coding in middle school, you
know, and we just believe that the

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younger you can expose them to these
type to these type of things, you

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know, you spark that passion early
and you know a little bit selfishly,

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we hope on the back end when
they graduate one day, you know,

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that they can potentially come to Phillip
sixty six right and have an amazing you

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know, engineering career or I career
or whatever it is that they may be

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interested in. And so it's been
really awesome to see it thrive in Bartlesville,

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you know, just talking to to
Chuck and Granger. Over the years,

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their numbers just continue to skyrocket and
their SIM programs. The female students

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interested in SIM is way higher than
it used to be, and so we're

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just thankful that we're able to continue
to support that through Project Lya the Way

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curriculum as well as thank you.
This is fun, Yeah, yeah,

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yeah. What are some of the
other pillars that we have? You're talking

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about education is one of the giving
pillders. What are the others? It's

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the second one is the environment,
and we give back to that through Operation

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Clean House, which I think we've
had people from Phillips come in and discuss

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that with you. Yes, that
so we've discussed that one. And then

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giving back to that we give two
different we help other different nonprofit through that

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and then the other one is safety
and well Being, which we give to

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different organizations back through that, and
then the other other one is just social

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So we give to many different non
about seventy five different nonprofits throughout the year.

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Yeah, one of them in the
safety area that we're really proud of

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is our partnership with Washington County Emergency
Management. So I think Carrie was probably

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in fairly recently. But if you've
seen that big communications trailer that they drive

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around and are able to take to
incidents when they need it, you know

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that's something that Philip City six and
Genue were instrumental in the funding on that

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and not only buying the trailer but
outfitting it with all of the technology to

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go into it. And again,
like we have employees who volunteer for that

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organization, and so we actually have
one in it and he's a volunteer there

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and he actually helped outfit the trailer
right using the knowledge networking knowledge that he

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has to do that and to give
back. And then we have a volunteer

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employee grant program and so all of
the hours that our employees volunteer in the

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community that actually equates to dollars that
also goes to that organization. So twenty

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five dollars for every hour that you
volunteer at an organization, they get that

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money back in cash. So it's
a when when type of situation. Yeah,

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this kind of participation at work and
away from work together, I mean,

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it builds a lot of teamwork.
It also builds a different way of

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engaging with your co workers in a
completely different environment and you get to see

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each other differently. Yeah too.
Yeah, it's good energy. It's a

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very good energy. Yeah, that's
why it's good. Yeah, and it

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really it shows, you know,
it really shows. Yeah, you know,

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you've got to be proud of all
the good things that are happening in

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the way that it falls together.
It's so true. And you know,

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on top of good energy, obviously, we're huge supporters of United Way.

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So pretty soon we'll kick off all
of the planning for our fall United Way

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campaign, the golf tournament that of
course we do in partnership with Phillips,

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So it's a good say just that
little golf term. Yeah, just a

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small little thing. Yeah, I've
been I'm involved with that from first year,

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so that that that's a whole nother
that's a whole nother chapter. That's

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a whole other chapter. Well,
you know, that thing brings in not

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only a great deal of revenue for
the United Way, but also for our

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community. Really, and believe it
or not, there are people who just

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kind of showed up here to play
golf and the next thing, you know,

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five years later, there are residents
here. You know, it all

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starts with a visit. I wonder
how that happened, right, But anyway,

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it's always a good thing and a
great thing. I don't know how

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you guys pull it off every year. I'm not even gonna ask, because

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I think I would be just blown
away. But just thank you for doing

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that. And now you're the archivist
historian a lot of people a lot of

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times maybe historian maybe okay, because
all of a sudden, I'm seeing you

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with the glasses late at night.
Just why and serial numbers down on little

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things. And at the downtown there
is a corporate archives down in the basement

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area of the building. And it
used to be where we could do external

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request, where we could assist with
that, but we can only just assist

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with the internal request now, so
we only just help just internal internally now.

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So the fun facts about folks head
alone. Yeah, we did the

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the museum through that years and years
ago. So but so don't don't start

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giving out my name and number for
people to start calling me, going she

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can help you with anything, because
I will come back and say I'm sorry,

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I can no longer we can get
that externally anymore. No, no,

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no, yeah, yeah, so
she's got a life. Well,

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I tell us a little bit more
about the Phillip sixty six and then what's

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what's on the horizon. And we've
got a few things coming up here in

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May at the Big Golf Tournament,
it's coming up this fall. But Philip

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sixty six hands as a gentle handed
just about anything and everything in town,

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everything from some of the things that
we have here at our community center to

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just about well even the kids.
Where do they swim? Well, they

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got the Splash Club and they've got
the Phillips sixty six pool there, and

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like I said, it just touches
a variety of different points in a lot

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of people's lives, and some folks
might not really realize that. Yeah,

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we definitely are thankful that we're able
to have our hands and a lot of

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things. So, you know you
mentioned swim, We'll have. We'll have

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some partnerships this summer with the Splash
Club to offer some swim lessons for students

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who may not have that opportunity otherwise. You know, we're big supporters of

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the Bartlesville Community Foundation, So if
you're going to see the Broadway in Bartlesville

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series as it wraps up this summer, you know, we helped to provide

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that opportunity as well. You mentioned
United Way, which will be becoming,

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you know, and I think one
of the coolest things next week. You

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know, Past the Independence is such
a beloved organization in our community and back

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in the fall, and he was
able to to kick off a project with

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them, you know, as they
as they renovate their building right and that

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we're right, you know, and
that sort of thing. We kind of

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were able to pull on our environment
pillar right of our of our giving and

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we actually put in a bicycle path
around their playgrounds so those students and have

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a safe place to ride their bikes
during the day, and then helped with

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some landscaping. But then next week, now that it's spring, we have

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employees going out to plan a sensory
garden for the students that you have kept

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Claire back in to discuss it.
Yeah, but I actually what's going on.

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There are just a few houses down
from where I live and another large

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contribution that we give us to Frank
Phillips Foundation or to Wollock too. That's

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that's going That's one of our very
large and what a jemned is in our

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region, not just our city,
but I mean just the whole region absolutely,

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and I just love I love the
full circle moments of Bartlesville. Right.

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So you know, we have this
great partnership with wool Rock. We

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have employees out there today working on
landscaping, and then Thursday I'll be out

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there with my first grader and with
this Wilson Elementary you know field trip,

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right and we'll get to enjoy the
grounds. And I think that's just part

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of the beauty of living and working
here and having these moments of full circle.

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I want to thank you both for
being here today ensuring so good.

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Thank you for having us. Yeah, thank you flower land where emotions are

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expressed and creativity