WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.240 His family, he loved his friends, he loved his customers. 2 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:05.599 I don't know if you love the bank every day, 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:10.199 but he loved the associates at the bank every day 4 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.800 and just sitting in long committee and Jim just makes 5 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.600 me laugh. Loved as sooners, which there are not many 6 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:17.719 of those around here in the morning. 7 00:00:18.920 --> 00:00:20.679 Well thank you, thank you. 8 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.839 Jim and I always had their backs. But anyways, it 9 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:30.239 was it's just it's just fitting. I remember the story 10 00:00:30.280 --> 00:00:32.000 and it was told to me that the Roddy Forum 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.079 was at the Downtown branch, and Donnie's story had told 12 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:38.719 Jim either it gets people going to it or gets. 13 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.399 Gone do it or kill it. 14 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:47.079 That's exactly so here we are. Jim did it, left 15 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:49.840 it in great hands for Earl. But this is a 16 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:52.840 very special group of very special things. I can tell 17 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:56.399 you other Margins within our best have attempted to do 18 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.560 this and they have all failed. That's how that's how 19 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.320 special Jim. So he means a lot to me. I 20 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:03.960 know he needs a lot of the people are covered 21 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:05.959 and speak and all of you that are here because 22 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:07.879 of the love that you have for Jim. 23 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.439 So right now I want to dedicate the flack to 24 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.400 uh Denise, Brian and Ferry. Come on, come on up, 25 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:16.760 and then I'll let you sit down and have you 26 00:01:16.799 --> 00:01:20.480 say some words at the dirty game if you real mind. 27 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:25.680 Oh that's beautiful. 28 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.640 What this says that the Jim Bonzac group will be 29 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.480 when you leave. Jim Bonzac was a trusted voice in 30 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:34.799 Barsville and at the Harvest Frodday's Financial Forum, where he 31 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:39.400 fostered financial insight, community involvement, and friendship. His steady presence, 32 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:42.560 deep faith and love for his family continues to inspire 33 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:52.920 countless others. August first, twenty twenty five. So what you guys. 34 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:56.159 See, I can tell him what. 35 00:01:56.120 --> 00:02:09.520 To do every that you hear from you guys who 36 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:09.759 you know? 37 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:15.199 Uh now, when I put this all together, ranted by 38 00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:18.000 the nies that she said I like to blow of 39 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:18.800 this and so on. 40 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.639 But I could have asked you, cause I just scanned 41 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.319 this room. I could ask several. 42 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.800 But I spose you take three people that rot him 43 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:31.280 true well captured jump in Jim's life, those a little 44 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:34.680 bit about it, childhood friend and uh hollered it. Not 45 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:37.560 a colleague rooms someone that flop the world where we'll 46 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:38.520 I'll make those colleagues. 47 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.680 I introduce him. But again, so well, don't be offended. 48 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.680 I wish he would ask me because we all have 49 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:46.159 a story. 50 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:47.919 In fact, I wanted I had to add to this 51 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:50.919 that you made the comment that Lad, I kind of 52 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:53.960 tell you I could. It's not several stories. I could 53 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.639 tell you a hundreds of stories that the idea him together. 54 00:02:56.680 --> 00:02:58.800 But one thing I wanna talk about. 55 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:01.919 Is not not a story, just how we would get 56 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.159 to laughing, the two of us to a just literally 57 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:05.120 both of us tear up. 58 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.639 We'd laughed a hard in regards to just laughing. He 59 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.560 j he just he was contagious. 60 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:12.039 You can tell him the story and getting to laughed 61 00:03:12.039 --> 00:03:14.360 and he did that was just oh thatsh grade. So 62 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:16.759 at this time, my first speaker, I want us to 63 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.000 talk about the memory Jim Bonzack. He's a mere dear 64 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.680 friend of mine his and and offered many of you 65 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.360 in this room, who's our state representant? 66 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:28.439 Uh John b came, represent came and you just come out. 67 00:03:35.479 --> 00:03:38.520 Thank you early. It really is a honor. 68 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:41.840 Like like Earl said, many of us here, all of 69 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:43.199 us were close to Jim Bonzac. 70 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:44.280 That's just who he was. 71 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:48.240 I happened to meet Jim Bonzack in seventh grade science class. 72 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.439 Well, we both ended up at uh Is. 73 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:54.759 He liked to call it the Central Junior Highe and Slasher, 74 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.199 and I'm sure I mean he he had I laughed 75 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:04.080 and we cried. He would tell Central Junior hide jokes 76 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.360 and they were all based in truth, because it was 77 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:10.159 until Earl came and rescued m from where it was. 78 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:10.639 It was. 79 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.120 It was a rough place to go to school and 80 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.439 this and Jim was Jim, you know, when he was 81 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:18.959 twelve years old, just as he was later in life 82 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.439 that he he was so quick with and you know, 83 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:22.600 I was filling. 84 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.079 I was getting fights every day because I didn't know 85 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:24.519 what to do. 86 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:27.920 Jim just disarmed everybody with humor, everybody with. 87 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.160 His w and he never had to get in a fight. 88 00:04:30.279 --> 00:04:31.639 So I thought he was a lot. He was a 89 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:34.800 lot of sport than I was about that. But he 90 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.240 he's he just never changed. 91 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.240 And his love for Bartlesville was just beyond and he 92 00:04:41.399 --> 00:04:42.360 and his love was acting. 93 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.759 He turned it into action. You know a lot of us, 94 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:46.120 a lot of us love Bartlesville. 95 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.680 A lot of us don't do as many things, you know, 96 00:04:49.319 --> 00:04:51.360 tangible things for the good of the tak you know, 97 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:53.240 I remember when he wanted it to put makes he 98 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.800 wanted to get internet, free internet and all and downtown 99 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:57.720 the internet was first coming up, and I got he 100 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.000 went to work on it, made it happen. He he 101 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:02.839 just always had those kind of ideas. 102 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.519 That he followed through. You know, I and you know Denise. 103 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.800 I remember when you all left township briefly? 104 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:11.319 Was that in the nineties, when'd you leave late nineties. 105 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:13.680 Late nineties? Yeah, and there was a hole. 106 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.839 Yeah, there was a hole when the Bonsacks didn't leave her. 107 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.639 Yeah. I felt it, and I think many others felt it. 108 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:21.480 But I know one person that felt it, and that 109 00:05:21.560 --> 00:05:25.040 was Donny Story. And Donny's story wasn't gonna let that stand. 110 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.759 And he reached out and took all of our benefit. 111 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:33.040 He got the Bonsack family back to Barbinsville and all 112 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:35.040 the things that we all know and love about Jim. 113 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:36.519 We got the experience every day. 114 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:39.319 And you know, when I I was telling Brian and 115 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.839 Barry and Denise, when they're in town, it feels. 116 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:42.399 Like a holiday thing. 117 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.680 And I know because of Jim, they have the same 118 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:48.879 feelings of Martinsville that Jim had. 119 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:52.240 Because of Jim and Denis, but to have. 120 00:05:52.319 --> 00:05:55.519 Them here, Ikay always have a home, always at place 121 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:56.680 here in Barbinsville, O Bahoma. 122 00:05:57.160 --> 00:06:00.759 And I'm just grateful for my friendship. Has all this 123 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.160 are with Jim Bobzack. Thank you, John, Thank you very. 124 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:08.879 Alright. 125 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:11.199 John Bay's probably gonna be bad at me, but I 126 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:12.279 don't care. I love him. 127 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:18.040 He Jim Bonzac is the only one still adult doesn't 128 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:21.560 call him Johnny, and his mother, his mother, Missus King 129 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.199 calls him Johnny. 130 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:24.759 And his wife calls him Johnny or wasn't well. 131 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:29.240 But Jim Bossacks the only adult still that I knew 132 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:30.399 that was still call him Johnny. 133 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.560 I just love to make that did see Johnny yet? 134 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.199 Enough set on that alright, my next speaker to represent 135 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:40.560 this great individuals and uh just a killer bark he 136 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:43.879 Uh Bill Buckles, would you please give up? Please give 137 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:44.680 Bill Buckles pots. 138 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:52.199 I'm looking around and see if I see it's some 139 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:55.360 OU shirts. There was no bigger fan of OU than 140 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:58.639 Jim Monzac cast for sure. You know we used to 141 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:01.040 go over there. He'd show me as a election of 142 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:06.160 oh you memorabilia phenomenally. Jim and I got to be 143 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.680 friends way back in the Chamber deal when he was 144 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:11.480 President of the Chamber. We did back. We did some 145 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.360 programs right in this room where he had a you know, 146 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:17.519 a lunch lunch a deal for the merchants in town, 147 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:21.079 and we would talk to them about marketing, et cetera. 148 00:07:21.199 --> 00:07:23.199 But Jim and I got along so dog on well, 149 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:27.120 mainly because of his sense of humor, and we were 150 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.879 both a little on the off the bubble kind of 151 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:33.319 because I understood him and he understood me. And that 152 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:34.199 was a great thing. 153 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:34.920 For sure. 154 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.639 We had Oh, we had one more time. But I 155 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.240 just want to tell you there's people in here in 156 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.519 this room that have this. This is a project that 157 00:07:43.199 --> 00:07:46.680 Jim and I worked on, and it all started because 158 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:51.399 I would send him stuff. He would call me, Hey, 159 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:53.360 I want to try something out on you. He knew 160 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:55.800 I was kind of in a creative business most of 161 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.759 my professional life, and it was fun. We would we 162 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:04.399 exchange ideas. Never did I change hardly anything that he 163 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.319 did because it was great. He did some super stuff. 164 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.759 I told Earl, I was gonna read this book to you. 165 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:15.720 Is that okay? I wanted to show you the cover. 166 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.040 See the kind of things he liked was. I'm sitting 167 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.199 by my window, but I can't see through the pain, 168 00:08:23.160 --> 00:08:25.759 you know, He loved those kinds of things. You know, 169 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:29.759 there's all kinds of Jim Bonzac. There was one this morning. 170 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:32.840 I was telling Denise about the prisoner escaped here in 171 00:08:32.919 --> 00:08:34.799 Oklahoma and they said, look for a man with a 172 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:38.240 lot of tattoos. Jim would have loved that because he said, okay, 173 00:08:38.399 --> 00:08:40.879 look for a man with a beard. You know, I mean, 174 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.919 everybody's got a lot of tattoos anymore, so that pretty hard. 175 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:48.759 He would have gotten a kick out of that. Jim 176 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:53.039 and I worked on this project. He is an amazing 177 00:08:53.080 --> 00:08:55.440 fact that I wanted to tell everybody was he said, 178 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.840 my biggest fear it he did these things these titties 179 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:04.639 did He's on his phone. I thought he was doing 180 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.759 him on a computer. Nope, he did him on the phone, 181 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:13.240 one letter at a time. Couldn't believe that. And he said, 182 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.759 my biggest fear is he liked to see you. This 183 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:18.960 is when he was in the pool. He said, I'm 184 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.879 gonna forget going to pool on my phone. I'm going 185 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:24.080 to lose these And I said, well, listen, tell me 186 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:27.759 what you send them to me, text them, I will 187 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:32.519 convert them. And I'm thinking eight ten. Well, when we 188 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:37.200 got to sixty, I said, then we got to do 189 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:41.039 something with this. Talk to my friend Jerry Poppenhaus. You remember, 190 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:44.279 it was a real supporter of this group too, and Jerry. 191 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.639 It was a blessing for Jerry too. He his wife 192 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.600 had Alzheimer's and he was stuck at home. He needed 193 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.240 a project. It was good for Jim, It was good 194 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:58.799 for Jerry, and it was good for me. I just 195 00:09:58.919 --> 00:10:03.080 finish off by saying, the people. I've been in Bartlesville 196 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:08.600 for fifty years. It doesn't seem possible, man. Anyway, I 197 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:12.559 met a lot of gray people, you know. I think 198 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:16.960 back to Joe Allen Lowe, all of our community leaders, 199 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:22.600 John F. Kane. There's some terrific people in this community, 200 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:26.120 but there was no figure supporter of Bartlesville into men 201 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.320 that time. It was a pleasure of knowing. It was 202 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:35.000 great to work with him. I just I can't take 203 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:37.720 you off of my cell phone. The one thing I 204 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:39.559 want to leave you with is a piece of advice 205 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.480 that he gave me we were talking. This was fairly 206 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.200 late in his life. He said he got ready to 207 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:49.919 hang out and he says, hey, I love you man, 208 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.600 And it caught me by surprise, and I hesitated. Does 209 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:59.000 that embarrass you. I said, no way. I'm just trying 210 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.320 to think of a way that i could respond to 211 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:04.279 that as worthy of that. I said, you are a 212 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.320 great man and a true for him, and he said, 213 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:10.679 be sure and tell people if you like him, tell 214 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:22.159 him you may not get another chance. Thank or I'm all. 215 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:28.120 Finis, thank you, thanks sir. 216 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:35.799 I always give a little comment in between these just 217 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:37.519 talking about Barbersville. 218 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:41.399 No, but he just loved our community would step. 219 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:41.799 Up for you. 220 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:44.159 Just there's just not a project that he really just 221 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:46.000 didn't have his foot front him either. 222 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:47.480 Just you know, he helped a little bit or he 223 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:49.960 had a major impact on I can tell you that 224 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:54.000 Ed Gordon called uh Gemini to his office. 225 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:59.080 And ask us to both be the chairman's of a 226 00:11:59.720 --> 00:12:02.720 of one of the last huge UH bomb proposles that 227 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:03.759 we had in our community. 228 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:09.960 And Jim's part was to extend he was gonna extend 229 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.759 the course and sales tax and my part was to 230 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:15.919 go out and to sell. He was the taxpayer would 231 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:17.840 go to the polls and volte for to increase and 232 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:20.799 bonding and and these proposals to buy the purchase these 233 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:25.159 bonds and taxes, and from that we got the the 234 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:27.600 what we all now call. 235 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.440 The Dinks Expressway, which is right there at Lows. 236 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:33.159 I mean he named that that was in that bad 237 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.480 proposal and extending Shawnee all the way out to twentieth Street. 238 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:40.159 A lot of work was done on twentieth. 239 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:43.879 Anyway, there was other projects in regardless of completely refurbished 240 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:47.360 and uh and redid the city complex. 241 00:12:47.759 --> 00:12:48.759 So's I'll stop there. 242 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.720 We both I mean, we just we I mean we 243 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.000 went to frog jumping contest to get that presentation. 244 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.480 It was it was almost like a roof of a 245 00:12:58.559 --> 00:12:59.360 comedy routine. 246 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.799 And we give that just making that point, not about us, 247 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.159 but to make the point. He just was always there 248 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:08.879 for Barfield. He just just in any endeavor than want. 249 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:12.799 So my next speaker that I'd asked to capture, uh, 250 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.399 Jim bondsay you also need to know him. 251 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.840 He was very very active in the political world. 252 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:23.240 He was very very u on top of people that 253 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:27.320 wanted to represent us and who that person should be 254 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:28.279 if if. 255 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:31.240 You got behind that person, actively campaigned for that person. 256 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.559 And so at this time and again. 257 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:35.840 Not only were they already good friends, Senator fod you 258 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:36.840 start had nothing this way. 259 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:39.440 Senator Ford will tell you all this. 260 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.039 But I'll I well, I'll wait till he's finished the 261 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:45.720 tenspression asking a word please give s former Senator uh stay, 262 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:46.519 Senator John. 263 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:51.399 Earl, thank you. 264 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.879 And it was interesting when Earl asked me to come 265 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.080 up and be one of the three that made a 266 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.440 few comments about Jim. I mean, we we all know 267 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.960 what he has done and so many things he's done, 268 00:14:04.600 --> 00:14:07.759 and I was thinking, how do I say something that's 269 00:14:07.799 --> 00:14:10.799 not just going to be a repetition of what everybody 270 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:14.279 else has talked about, because we know what he was 271 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:15.039 to all of those. 272 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:17.399 So I started to try and to think. 273 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:20.799 How best to summarize how I think of Jim bonseat 274 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:25.519 And it really came down to three main things, and 275 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:29.200 I put them under the headings of family, of friends, 276 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:34.799 and of community. And those were the areas that meant 277 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.039 so much to him and that he was so involved 278 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.720 in for all of us. Oh there's one other thing, 279 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:44.240 bad jokes that we won't talk about those. 280 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:47.600 But when you talk about. 281 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.000 Family and Denise, you were not only his wife, but 282 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:53.240 I think in life you were more of a partner 283 00:14:53.720 --> 00:14:58.200 because every activity that Jim did, you were involved, and 284 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.000 you were involved because you loved it. You loved him 285 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:05.120 and you guys were great as a team, and Brian 286 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:07.720 and Barry, I know what he thought of you, and 287 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:12.000 not only robotic said oh you football and everything else, 288 00:15:12.559 --> 00:15:16.240 but the family was absolutely number one in his life. 289 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:20.679 And then the second group is friends. And I would 290 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.039 ask if you in here think you're Jim's friends. Everybody 291 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.360 would raise their hand and I tell you, if you 292 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:31.360 think about it, there's a difference between acquaintance and friend 293 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:33.639 and Jim had friends. 294 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:38.879 Jim knew individuals, He kept in touch with them, He 295 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:41.000 constantly reached. 296 00:15:40.679 --> 00:15:44.679 Out and he was good for them and they were 297 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.759 good for him. It was a type of friendship that 298 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:50.799 I know, I wish I had more like Jim. 299 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.480 I never will that. 300 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.480 That was something that was important to him. He worked 301 00:15:55.559 --> 00:16:00.639 at and it was very meaningful. And then the third community. 302 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.399 You know, we've talked about Earl John b. Everybody's talked 303 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:06.919 about some of the activities that Jim has been involved in. 304 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:11.200 From the president of the Chamber, he was a founding 305 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:16.320 member and president of Our Day Great Rotary. But everything 306 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.919 that came about Jim was parted and he did it 307 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:23.320 because he had a passion. It's not because he did 308 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.960 it to be better at work or to get recognized 309 00:16:26.039 --> 00:16:29.480 for something else. He did it because he truly believed 310 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.919 in what he was doing and he wanted to help. 311 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:37.879 So wherever there was a need, Jim was there and 312 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:43.279 he made a difference. Now, think about yourself in this room. 313 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:47.279 I know over the last couple of decades, I have 314 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:51.679 literally spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in this room, 315 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:56.159 not only at the Friday Forum, but there are seminars, 316 00:16:56.399 --> 00:17:00.600 there are educational opportunities. I voted in this room, and 317 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:04.359 it has been a community room that we use for 318 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.920 all activities like that, and some of these I've written down. 319 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:09.880 I like to talk from the heart, but also I 320 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:10.880 wanted to make sure that. 321 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.559 I said some specific things. 322 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:16.880 So of the hours that I've spent in this room, 323 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:20.440 and I think all of us, we have watched people 324 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:26.960 gather to learn, to plan, to serve, and to celebrate. 325 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.200 And that's just how Jim spent. 326 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:32.839 His life, in what he was doing in his life, 327 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.160 and only fitting that it carries his name as a 328 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:42.880 lasting reminder of how one person's love for their family, 329 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:47.240 their friends, and their community can shape the. 330 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:51.920 Lives of so many of us in this room. May 331 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.359 this room inspire others to lead with the same heart, 332 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:00.839 the same dedication and good humor that Jim did. 333 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:09.759 Thank you, John, you. 334 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:12.200 Did a great job put the capstone on that and 335 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:15.400 those comments there. But no worry. 336 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:18.839 You brought up the jokes and got things were good, 337 00:18:19.079 --> 00:18:21.960 were bad. There were just no infeen and I can 338 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:24.200 still remember this crowd right here. You tell about room 339 00:18:24.200 --> 00:18:31.160 the dog over uh anyway, thank you the three that 340 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:33.200 I asked to speak. He did a great job in 341 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.079 capturing this individual in regards to what do you who? 342 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.759 He was family and what he go to Barsville. So 343 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.720 at this time, Denise and your two sons, would you 344 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:43.640 please come up. We're gonna allow you to make some 345 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:46.799 remarks before we wrapped this all up. But again there's 346 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:49.160 four just put a great capstone on it. 347 00:18:49.599 --> 00:18:50.839 Was this room. 348 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:56.559 We called it the east Side Room, meeting Room Upper Truman. 349 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:57.880 It's just we've we've. 350 00:18:57.759 --> 00:18:58.440 Named it everything. 351 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:01.400 I am absolutely honored me Now the Jim Bonsack Coffee 352 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:05.039 of SPH Community group on the east Side that uh. 353 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:07.519 Our Fasts had named after him. 354 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:10.279 So I've burder pleased and decided that we have that 355 00:19:10.680 --> 00:19:12.359 and we'll talk more about that as all. 356 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:13.640 The biden to look At as we go out, so 357 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:15.519 please give the Bonsat family. 358 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:16.319 I'm nice. 359 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:24.680 Well, I'm gonna see Jim Breidenstein, who was the former 360 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:27.559 head of NASA, was gonna be here too. 361 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:30.519 He called me last night. He said, Denis, I'm in Washington, DC. 362 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:32.279 I'm so sorry. There's storms here. 363 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.519 They've canceled this flight that put me on one Friday 364 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:39.039 that it lands right about the time the boar him 365 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.519 is so he he couldn't make it, but he sends 366 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:43.319 his regards. 367 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:48.240 Jim love the Bank and love Bartlesville. He also loves space. 368 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:50.400 And both of you may know both my boys are 369 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.839 working on the program to to send the astronauts back 370 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:54.440 to the Moon. 371 00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:55.480 And they could tell you more about that. 372 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.200 And one of the happiest days for Jim because, as 373 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:02.920 U John put it, Jim felt it was really important 374 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:08.039 that we have people representing Oklahoma in all the right places, 375 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:10.359 and he would push whatever he could do to get 376 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:12.359 the right places, whether it be Earl, whether it be 377 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:17.200 John Ford, whether it be Johnny Kane. And also the 378 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:22.240 day that Jim Britenstein was picked to be the NASA administrator, 379 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:25.319 Oklahoma had never had one, probably was. 380 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:28.480 Never gonna have one, and he goes we got one. 381 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:34.240 Oklahoma finally got one and so Oklahoma, I won't go 382 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.880 into that, but has a big role in space and 383 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.440 Jim thought that was important too, and he would be 384 00:20:39.519 --> 00:20:41.400 proud of his boys that they are. 385 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:42.240 Working on that now. 386 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.079 But you know, back to the to the to the 387 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:50.200 other things, Johnny b which is what Jim always called you. 388 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:54.599 Thank you for representing the wildcats. I know you had 389 00:20:54.680 --> 00:20:58.440 many wildcat y'all had great friends like David Oakley sitting 390 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:02.039 here and it was always a Wildcats. He would never 391 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:08.480 call it the Barnosil girls and so and John was 392 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.519 so nice to invite me to their latest reunion. And 393 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:14.880 everyone here makes me feel so loved as well as. 394 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:15.680 That class did. 395 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:16.480 Uh. 396 00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:20.480 David Nichol, thank you so much for naming this room, 397 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:24.839 working on that to make that happen. Bill Buckles, thank 398 00:21:24.880 --> 00:21:26.920 you for putting that book to go. What a great 399 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:30.400 thing legacy for us to have. It's so nice that 400 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:32.720 it's in the bartlesill my grave. If it wasn't for you, 401 00:21:32.920 --> 00:21:34.039