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Marge
Stauffer Creager -
Alpha
Delta Pi
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Marge
Stauffer Creager pledged Alpha Delta Pi during World War II at
Oklahoma A&M, now Oklahoma State University, earning a Bachelor
of Science degree in health and physical education. During
college, Marge met and married Mac Creager. Marge's sorority
sisters helped sew her wedding dress and served at their wedding
reception.
After graduating from college, the couple moved to Tulsa and
raised four children, Larry, Carole, Connie and Robert. Marge
began teaching in Tulsa Public Schools and was the first dean of
girls at Memorial High School. In 1986, she retired and began
working as a counselor at Leonard Public
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Schools and earned a private counseling
license. Marge has received the Human Rights Award and the
Humanitarian Award from the Oklahoma branch of the National
Counseling Association. She works as a part-time therapist for
the Crewson Youth Center. More than 60
years of volunteering for the American Red Cross began while a
college student. Marge has traveled extensively as a disaster
relief volunteer, working in mental health assistance. She has
been the Red Cross mental health chairwoman for many years and
has been part of the National Disaster Team since 1993. She has
responded to tornados, floods and fires in several states and at
national disasters including the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11
terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina.
Marge is the first Oklahoma woman to be inducted into the
National Red Cross Hall of Fame. She received the William M.
Probes Award, the highest honor presented to Red Cross
volunteers, and is an honorary lifetime board member of the
Tulsa chapter Red Cross.
In addition, Marge volunteers in Leadership Tulsa, Domestic
Violence Intervention Services/Call Rape and Operation Prison
Hope Ministries. She is a member of the Asbury Methodist Church,
where plays drums in the church band and teaches Sunday school.
In 1998, former President George Bush presented Marge with the
national Ageless Hero of the Year award for community
involvement and was chosen as National Grandmother of the Year.
She is a grandmother to eight and is a great-grandmother. In
2001, she received the Alpha Delta Pi Outstanding Alumnae
Achievement Award for her community contributions and leadership
in local and state offices.
Friends describe Marge as being humble – a woman who talks of
being the daughter of a wheat farmer who drove a tractor before
a car. But her alumnae sisters say Marge has made a remarkable
difference in the lives of people who would otherwise not have
hope.
“When we count our blessings, we count Marge twice.”
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