Editor's note: This story originally reported that the ring ceremony would take place this Friday, Oct. 10. The ceremony will actually take place on Oct. 17. The error has been corrected.
A ring ceremony honoring OU seniors and an alumna for their commitment to education will be held next Friday, Oct. 17.
The Ring Ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in Oklahoma Memorial Union’s courtyard. The ceremony will be moved to the Union’s Beaird Lounge if there’s inclement weather.
The honoree at this year’s Ring Ceremony will be Carol Burr, director of publications for the OU Foundation who has worked with Sooner Magazine on-and-off since before she graduated from OU in 1959, according to the press release.
The ceremony awards OU rings as symbols of the receivers — in this case the Class of 2015 and Burr — to serve as symbols of each’s commitment to higher education, according to the press release.
Burr worked on Sooner Magazine part-time as a journalism senior and after graduation remained on the staff for four years before the birth of her first child, Burr said. As a mother Burr worked freelance for OU’s Alumni Association and in the 1980s was asked to return to OU to revive Sooner Magazine, after it had folded in the 1970s, she said.
“The nice thing [about Sooner Magazine] is that you never run out of story ideas,” Burr said. “You meet very interesting people who are doing interesting and important things. They make good stories.”
Even when she wasn’t with the university, Burr’s husband, the late David A. Burr who served as OU’s vice president of University Affairs, kept Burr close to the OU community.
“I never really left the university in my activities [or] in my heart,” Burr said.
Burr said she was surprised and honored to be a part of the ceremony.
Burr will also be the parade marshal in OU’s Homecoming Parade on Saturday, Oct. 18. Burr said that although the parade marshall role is demanding and something she never anticipated doing, she thinks she will have fun.
