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History

Meeting every Friday since 1983.

What started as a handful of young entrepreneurs around a Campus Corner table became one of Norman's longest-running business institutions.

  1. 1983

    Founded in October over a meal at a Campus Corner restaurant by John Dwyer, Steve Hoelscher, Fred Walden, Randy Woods, Kim Bollinger, and Robert Wilkerson - entrepreneurs mostly in their mid-to-late twenties. John Dwyer served as the first president.

  2. 1980s

    Early meetings moved from the Red Parrot, a remodeled gas station on S University Boulevard, to the Holiday Inn's Bud Wilkinson room. The logo was created and the first bylaws were drafted.

  3. 1990s

    The mission statement took its current shape and the association published its first website. A member recognition program honored the members whose referrals most helped other members.

  4. Today

    The NBA still meets every Friday at 7 a.m., now at the Trails Golf Club - an unbroken run of weekly meetings stretching back to 1983.