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ANDY HOGAN
Long time educator and former Will Rogers Memorial employee Biography Life has changed for Andy Hogan, an educator more than 30 years. After retiring as an elementary school principal, he says his interests are long distance running, bow hunting and anything to do with Will Rogers. He relates personally to the man he touted in his duties at the Claremore Will Rogers Memorial. From 2004 until 2022, he was the Museum’s historical guide and Will Rogers’ interpreter, especially involved with bus tours and school groups. He wore his Will Rogers hat and with rope in hand, lead tours through the Museum’s nine galleries filled with art, artifacts and memorabilia relating to the life and times or the American legend born in Oologah, Indian Territory. Hogan acquainted himself with the chatty ways of Will Rogers and with a long history in the classroom relates to children as well as adults. An Oklahoma native born on Tulsa’s east side, he lived on Route 66 where “everything that went through the world went in front of our house.” He graduated from East Central High School in Tulsa, and then earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah. Hogan’s first teaching