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Margaret Bender - King
Zeta Tau Alpha
Margaret Bender King has been a dedicated leader
in the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Tulsa and
supporter of Zeta Tau Alpha.
Margaret grew up in Wagoner and was initiated into Zeta Tau
Alpha while at Oklahoma State University. She served as
intramurals chairwoman, committee member for the Campus Chest
and as a little sister to the Delta Chi fraternity.
As a Zeta Tau Alpha alumna, Margaret has held
several office in the Tulsa alumnae club including vice
president for membership, ways and means and programming. |
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In 1998, Margaret was asked to attend the Susan G. Komen for the
Cure meetings to represent Zeta Tau Alpha, which is a national
sponsor of the race. She was hooked and served on the race
committee each year since. After serving as the Zeta liaison,
Margaret worked as the volunteer coordinator for two years than
became the registrar for race participants. For the past three
years, she has been the chairwoman or co-chair of the race.
During her time with the race, the event has grown from about
4,500 participants to 10,000.
Margaret has retired from being the race chairwomen but is on
the Tulsa affiliate’s board of directors. She plans to continue
working on the race committee in various capacities.
Margaret is also an active member of the Junior League of Tulsa.
She is the vice chairwoman, responsible for cookbooks. She is
past chairwoman of the headquarters administration.
Margaret and her husband, Michael, welcomed their first child on
Sept. 7. Daughter Morgan was born just two days after the Race
for the Cure. The family also boasts of two Whippet dogs and a
Border collie mix. Margaret is a rescuer with the American
Whippet Club’s Whippet relocation and placement group. She will
foster dogs and find them permanent homes. Her youngest Whippet
is deaf and is hand-signal trained.
For hobbies, Margaret scrapbooks, gardens and works in her yard.
Professionally, Margaret works at her family’s business selling
industrial painting equipment. Her parents open the company in
Wichita and moved it to Tulsa in 1975. She joined the business
in 1995 as the office manager and bookkeeper. Currently,
Margaret is the company’s vice president overseeing finances and
daily operations.
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