Introducing Sister Cities Council Intern, Jeff Blose

(Mar. 6, 2011) When a member of this year’s Stillwater Leadership class expressed a desire to serve an internship with the Sister Cities Council we were very pleased and excited. When two members of the class chose the council for their internship the level of excitement went up exponentially. We are very honored that two members of a class whose members were selected because of the leadership skills chose to intern with us. The Kameoka Corner article a couple weeks ago was about one of the two, Latasha Wilson. This week’s article is about the second person, Jeff Blose, who along with Latasha grew up in this area.        

Jeff attended Skyline Elementary School until the 5^th grade when his family moved southeast of Stillwater in the Ripley school district and Jeff graduated from Ripley High School. After high school graduation he attended OSU and during his senior year at OSU he had an opportunity to take an intensive language course in Japanese at Indiana University. He graduated from OSU with a BS in Business Management and minors in Japanese and International Business. After graduation he worked for a few years in Tulsa during which time he met and married his wife Shelli and they celebrated their 20^th wedding anniversary less than two weeks ago. They lived for about a decade in Tacoma, Washington before returning to Stillwater in 2006 when Jeff took a job with Flintco where he was one of the project managers on Boone Pickens Stadium and is presently working with Flintco on the OSU Student Union remodeling project. He and his family have traveled to Mexico, Canada and Norway and hope to visit other countries. In the meantime they have set a goal of visiting the county seat of each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties and to eat at a local family-owned restaurant in each county seat.  Sounds like a great plan! Jeff, thank you for choosing to intern with the Sister Cities Council and we look forward to working with you. Also, congratulations on your 20^th wedding anniversary!