Biography

Peggy George – Rotary Biography

Peggy George has been a member of Southeast Tulsa’s Rotary Club since 1988. She was the first woman Rotarian inducted into Southeast Rotary. She served on their Board of Directors as Club Service Director, Secretary, President Elect, President, and Past President before becoming District 6110’s first woman Assistant Governor, where she served for four years. She is also the first woman to be named Governor of her District. Peggy was editor of Southeast Rotary’s newsletter for six years and chaired many committees and projects for the club. She was named their “Outstanding Rotarian of the Year” in 1996. Peggy has 16 years of perfect attendance and is a multiple Paul Harris Fellow and a Benefactor. In 2003, Peggy was part of a Rotaplast team, which traveled to Romania to perform plastic surgery on children and youth affected with cleft lip and cleft palate. This experience led her to arrange a GSE project with that country for the upcoming year, when District 6110 will host a Romanian team at our 2006 District Conference in Tulsa.

Peggy attended the University of Tulsa, majoring in Journalism with emphasis in Advertising and Public Relations. She was employed with KTUL-TV, the ABC affiliate in Tulsa for three years in production and programming areas before moving to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, where she was General Manager of Traco, Inc., their in-house media and promotion agency. As GM, she was responsible for program placement and national promotion for the weekly television and radio programs and quarterly prime-time specials. She was Associate Director for their television programming and worked with many entertainment personalities including Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis, Pearl Bailey, Mel Torme, Minnie Pearl, and Roy Clark in the production of their prime-time specials.

Following a 12-year career at ORU, Peggy established her advertising agency, Peggy George & Associates, which she operated for 16 years. Active in media throughout her career, Peggy has served as President of the Tulsa Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and the Tulsa Advertising Federation. She was awarded the Silver Addy in 1996 as Tulsa’s Outstanding Advertising Executive.

Her son Doug, resides in Bentonville, AR and is an information systems specialist with Wal-Mart. Son Mark operates his own company, Industrial Fiberglass Systems, in Washington, New Jersey. Peggy has five grandchildren. She is a very active member of Asbury United Methodist in Tulsa where she teaches, sings in the chancel choir and rings with two handbell choirs, the Asbury Ringers and the Celebration Ringers. She has a passion for the blood donor program and has donated more than 128 pints of blood to date.