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Chuck Thompson
Appointed to Cerebral Palsy Commission By Governor
Brad Henry
Thursday, January 14,
2010) Chuck Thompson, president and CEO of Republic
Bank and Trust in Norman, has been appointed
to serve a three-year term on the Cerebral Palsy
Commission (CPC) by Governor Brad Henry. The
CPC is the governing board of directors for
the J. D. McCarty Center for children with developmental
disabilities in Norman.
Thompson brings many years
of volunteer board experience to the commission
having sat on a number of community and state
boards, including stints on the board of directors
of Norman Regional Hospital, where he served
as chairman for four years.
“We are pleased
with the governor’s appointment of Chuck
to the commission,” said Curtis Peters,
director and CEO of the McCarty Center. “He
came highly recommended by Karen Rieger who
is one of our commissioners. They had worked
together on the Norman Regional Hospital board
some years ago. Chuck brings a lot of experience,
including healthcare, to our commission,”
added Peters.
“When Karen
Rieger approached me about being nominated to
the McCarty Center’s commission I didn’t
have to think twice about it,” said Thompson.
“I’ve had a personal connection to
the McCarty Center all my life. My great grandfather,
Jude Lewis, was a member of the 40 et 8 and
one of the original founders of the center.
I’ve known about the center and been around
the center my entire life. This was a natural
thing for me to do.”
“Besides my
family’s connection to the McCarty Center,
Republic has also been a corporate sponsor of
different McCarty Center fundraising events
for years,” Thompson added.
The J. D. McCarty Center
is Oklahoma’s center of excellence in the
care and treatment of children with developmental
disabilities from birth to age 21. This pediatric
rehab hospital was founded in 1946 by a veterans
group, the 40 et 8 of Oklahoma, to provide the
physical, occupational, speech and language
therapy to Oklahoma children with special needs.
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