Honoring the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Alumni Class of 2025
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
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The Oklahoma State University Alumni Association honored six deserving alumni with the 2025 OSU Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony on Sept. 18 at the ConocoPhillips OSU Alumni Center.
The award recognizes members of the Cowboy family who have distinguished themselves through their particular field or profession and the betterment of their community.
Ken Case
Dr. Kenneth E. Case returned to Stillwater in 1975 to join the School of Industrial Engineering and Management in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology. He served as department head for three years, but his true passion was teaching and mentoring. His exceptional teaching earned him the Oklahoma Medal of Excellence.
Case designed and developed OSU’s fully online master’s degree program in engineering and technology management to serve working professionals in technical fields who wanted to pursue an advanced degree. In addition to his academic work, Case consulted extensively, bringing real-life examples back to the classroom.
Case earned countless awards for his teaching, research, publications and leadership. He was named Outstanding Engineer in Oklahoma. He received the Lohmann Medal from CEAT and was inducted into the CEAT Hall of Fame, among many others.
He served for 29 years on the board of directors for Webco Industries, whose values of quality, character and work ethic he shared.
“Ken loved OSU from the minute he stepped on campus as a freshman. For the 30 years he spent teaching some of the world’s brightest students, for working with the fantastic administration and faculty and staff, and for all the years beyond retirement where he retained all the great relationships that he made.”
Tony LoPresto
Tony LoPresto began his career in Oklahoma City at KPMG. He was in KPMG’s audit practice for seven years before departing to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores. After an 11-year career at Love’s, he left his position as the director of finance to become the chief financial officer at Griffin Media.
In his current role at Griffin, LoPresto oversees the company’s financial strategy, planning and risk management. He serves as a key advisor on corporate strategy to the family office and in investment decisions.
LoPresto previously served as board chair for the OSU Alumni Association from 2019 to 2021. Additionally, he has been actively involved with the OSU Foundation and served as a presidential appointee to the OSU Athletics Council.
He is a licensed CPA and has been inducted into the OSU Spears School of Business Accounting Hall of Fame.
LoPresto is a life plus member of the OSU Alumni Association.
“Success is never an individual achievement. It’s built together step by step with people who believe in you and challenge you to be your best.”
Ken and Jennie Moyes
Ken Moyes’ career started in accounting with a national accounting firm after receiving the highest score on Oklahoma’s 1978 spring CPA exam. For more than 30 years, he has built and currently serves as CEO of EH Media. This business-to-business media company created and produced over 100 media products, including major trade shows and major trade media in eight different industries.
In 1984, Jennie began her career in sales at Xerox Corporation, where she served as a sales manager and trainer. She then went on to earn her realtor’s license from the California Association of Realtors. Over the past 25 years, Jennie has been awarded top salesperson several times, selling more than $500 million throughout her career. She currently works as a realtor, specializing in luxury golf course homes.
The Moyeses have committed a significant amount of their time and resources to OSU, helping students and university initiatives, including serving as donors to both the Cowboy and Cowgirl golf teams and participating in their annual pro-ams. They are also Karsten Creek Hole 17 donors, serve on the Karsten Creek Board of Directors, the OSU National Campaign Committee and on the OSU Foundation Board of Governors. Jennie is also a member of the Women for OSU council.
Ken and Jennie Moyes are both life members of the OSU Alumni Association.
“My personal, most impactful experience at OSU included being part of the President’s Club as a freshman, which gave me some great relationships with other top freshmen who were entering Oklahoma State.”
“The most impactful thing about Oklahoma State is the fact that I met my husband, Ken, and best friend. We’re able to share our love for and support Oklahoma State.”
Patty Walker
Patty Walker’s geoscience career with ExxonMobil began in 1986 as a production geologist, followed by several exploration assignments. From 1997 to 2004, she worked as an independent geologic consultant focused on asset evaluations for multiple companies. She returned to ExxonMobil in 2004 and worked on diverse energy projects in both technical and management roles, which have taken her to six continents.
In 2013, she was named a senior principal geoscientist in upstream, and in 2015, she was promoted to chief geoscientist. In this role, she served as a technical expert and advisor to senior leadership on global ExxonMobil activities.
In May 2018, Walker was selected to deliver the commencement speech for the OSU College of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of the Boone Pickens Entrepreneur Bootstrap Award, and in 2022, she was named a Distinguished Alumni of the OSU College of Arts and Sciences.
Walker’s husband, Lawrence, is also an OSU alumnus and retired geoscientist from ExxonMobil. Together, they established the Lawrence & Patricia Walker Endowed Scholarship Fund for geoscience students.
Walker is a life plus member of the OSU Alumni Association.
“This university has served me well. My husband and I have been fortunate enough to give back through active participation on the geology school’s alumni board and by establishing an endowed scholarship at the Boone Pickens School of Geology to enable young, bright minds to also achieve their dream.”
Shane Wharton
Shane Wharton began his career as an auditor with KPMG in Oklahoma City. In 1994, he became a controller at DataTimes. In 1997, he joined Love’s as a budget analyst — when the company had around 45 travel stop locations — and steadily earned leadership roles, including controller, vice president, and executive vice president and CFO.
In April 2019, Love’s named him its first-ever non-family president, entrusting him with oversight of operations, fleet sales, information technology, human resources, legal and more. His financial acumen and strategic insight have supported Love’s growth from a regional chain to one of the nation’s largest private companies with a network of over 650 travel centers across the U.S.
In 2020, Wharton was inducted into OSU’s Spears School of Business Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma City (Class XXV) and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and the Oklahoma Society of CPAs.
Wharton is a life member of the OSU Alumni Association.
“OSU has been good to me and my family. I ended up at OSU by luck, but what I’ve never done is discount what OSU has done for me, my career and my family. I’m forever a Cowboy.”
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Story by: Will Carr | STATE Magazine