Phala (Brown) Clough
After graduating from Col-Hi I attended Northeastern State College in Tahlequah and graduated with a double major: Major in Psychology and English with a Minor in Music. I worked summers at Cities Service Oil Company while attending college and then became employed full-time with The American Red Cross Service to Military Installations in 1968. From 1968-'75 I counseled military personnel who had family financial problems "back home" and notified military personnel when there was a critical illness or death of a family member. During my job I traveled to many different states and Europe (Belgium, Germany).

In '75 while in Hawaii, I married a Navy man, Carl Clough. I established a volunteer Crisis Intervention Hot Line, under the supervision of the Navy Chaplain. We then moved to Corpus Christi, and finally settled in the Tulsa/Sand Springs area. In '78 we moved to our present beautiful home built by my husband, father and father-in-law west of Sand Springs.

In 1978 I worked again with the American Red Cross as an Executive Secretary to The Chief Medical Director of Blood Services and later for the CEO of Blood Services. My work with the Medical Director and the State Health Dept. in 1984 was ground-breaking in locating and counseling HIV-positive blood donors. I also assisted the Chief Medical Officer in editing and publishing articles for several medical journals. This led to my own writing and publishing of several articles and a presentation given at the American Association of Blood Banks Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. I also published a poem in 1995 (by Heartworks Publishing Co.) which dealt with the Oklahoma City bombing and subsequent death of a first cousin in the bombing. I became the Executive Secretary for Blood Services Chief Executive Director and remained there till my retirement in 2002 (34 years of service). Since then, we joined the RV Camping Club and have enjoyed "seeing the USA" and Canada.