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OU alumna and beloved teacher Katherine Rader instilled an appreciation for English and literature in countless students during her long career in Oklahoma higher education and continues to touch generations of students through a $1.23 million estate gift to OU.
The gift, which is divided equally among the departments of English, History, and Classics and Letters, is endowed to provide support in perpetuity.
"Unrestricted gifts, such as Dr. Rader's, are vitally important," OU President David L. Boren said. "They provide resources to serve students and faculty in myriad ways, such as bringing guest lecturers to campus to complement our own fine faculty members, providing travel assistance to students or faculty who need to conduct first-hand research with original documents, and funding student achievement awards and scholarships for top students."
A Norman native, Professor Rader was the only child of Mary Frances "Fannie" and Jesse Lee Rader, a member of the OU Class of 1908. Mr. Rader became OU's librarian in 1909, continuing in that position until his retirement in 1951. He also served as the first director of the School of Library Science, established in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1929.
Professor Rader herself was an outstanding student, selected for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Mortar Board, Alpha Lambda Delta and Sigma Tau Delta honorary societies. She earned three degrees from OU: her bachelor's degree in library science in 1936, a master's degree in English in 1940 and her Ph.D. in English in 1951.
She began her professional career in 1936 as reference librarian at Northwestern State College (now Northwestern Oklahoma State University) in Alva, where she also served on the English faculty. She joined the English faculty of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee in 1944 and rose to full professor in 1955. During her long and distinguished tenure at OBU, she chaired the Freshman English Program from 1947 to 1949, the English Department in 1956-1957 and 1960-1961, and the Languages and Literatures Division in 1960-1962. She was honored with OBU's Professor-of-the-Year Award for the 1961-1962 academic year, and the OBU yearbook was dedicated to her in 1962 "with love and admiration" from her students. She served on the OBU faculty until 1967. From 1967 to 1980, she served as professor of English at Central State University (now the University of Central Oklahoma) in Edmond.
She died in October 2005 at the age of 90.
Example bequest language - Please feel free to change the numbers or percentages as you desire.
1. Bequest of cash
"I bequeath the sum of $10,000 to The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., 100 Timberdell Rd., Norman, OK 73019."
2. Bequest of a percent of the estate
"I devise and bequeath 20% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., 100 Timberdell Rd., Norman, OK 73019."
3. Contingent Bequest
"If my brother John Doe survives me, I devise and bequeath 20% of the remainder and residue of property owned at my death, whether real or personal, and wherever located to John Doe. If John Doe does not survive me, then I devise and bequeath 20% of my residuary estate, whether real or personal property and wherever located to The University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc., 100 Timberdell Rd., Norman, OK 73019."
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