Autor: Samuel Burns

Samuel A. Burns Jr. was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. He attended secondary and high school in Tulsa Oklahoma and in 1971, graduated from Langston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a major in Accounting. Church and community activities include Church Treasurer, Trustee, Sunday school teacher, church choir, church brotherhood, Tulsa Urban League, YMCA, and in 1987 and 1988 he served as president of the Tulsa Chapter Sickle Cell Anemia Association. An active Alpha Phi Alpha he has held the office of, Vice President, Treasurer and Financial Secretary. A career in sales ended in June 2012 when he retired from the Hilti Corporation. Sam continues to work in his church and community and is President of the Heather Burns Memorial Scholarship Fund. He discovered he carried the Sickle Cell Trait in 1973. In 1971 Sam and Patricia married. Patricia Burns was born in Langston Oklahoma. A 1972 graduate of Langston University with a Bachelors of Arts in Education, she completed her Masters of Education and Counseling degree, (plus thirty) at Northeastern State University. A teacher and counselor in Tulsa Public Schools, her lifelong career in education ended with her retirement in 2001. Church and community activities include Vice President of Paradise Baptist Church, Sunday school teacher, church choir, Missionary Society, Tulsa Urban League Guild, and worked with Mrs. Mabel Rice (former executive director of the Sickle Cell Anemia Association) in the founding of the first Sickle Cell Anemia Support Group in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She continues work in her church, as an advocate in the Sickle Cell Community, and is Chairperson of the Heather Burns Memorial Scholarship Fund. She discovered she carried the Sickle Cell Trait in 1973.