William (Bill) Edwin Segall passed away peacefully in his sleep on October 11, 2023 at Iris Memory Care in Oklahoma City.

Bill was born in Mankota, Saskatchewan, Canada on November 4, 1938, to Morris and Edith Segall. Along with his two older brothers, Herman and Ed, he enjoyed many of the typical activities of a young boy growing up in Canada, the most popular, of course, being hockey. When he played goalie for the grade school hockey team, he imagined he would surely obtain the same stature as the Canadian great Turk Broda. After graduating Moose Jaw Tech in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, he attended Yankton College in Yankton, South Dakota, earning a B.S. in Economics. A teaching year in Moose Jaw provided the funds for his M. Ed. at the University of Texas at El Paso. A second teaching stint in Edmonton, Alberta funded his doctorate at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. During a summer session in 1966, at the University of Arkansas, he met Nedra Crocker, a fellow graduate student. A week after he received his degree at the U of A, Bill and Nedra married on June 9, 1967, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the couple departed Oklahoma immediately for Murray, Kentucky, where Bill began his university teaching career. When Bill was offered a position at Murray State, his major professor, Dr. R. K Bent told him, "Segall, you take this position. It'll help you grow up. You're 28 years old, have very little teaching experience - none in this country - and are going to get married. Don't you think that is trouble enough for one year?" The two years in Murray provided a valuable launch into what became a 40+ year career in higher ed. Dr. Bent gave very good advice.

On a whim, while visiting Nedra's parents in Bixby during Spring Break in 1969, Bill made a visit to Oklahoma State University's College of Education to visit with professors there. Soon after returning home, he received an invitation to interview for a position in the College of Ed. He accepted the position offered him, submitted his resignation to Murray State, and prepared to move to Stillwater, OK. A recent graduate of OSU, Nedra never imagined she would be returning to her alma mater so soon. A house was found and, along with their dog Duffy, the young couple relocated from Murray, KY, to Stillwater, OK, in the summer of 1969 thinking that this would be a good location to live and work for a couple of years. The temporary move in 1969 became permanent and Bill remained in Stillwater for the rest of his life. Eventually, the gunny sacks used for trash pick-up morphed into trash cans, Perkins Road was no longer a gravel road, and the small town of 1969 grew in all directions.

Christopher Andrew, Bill and Nedra's first born, arrived on March 6, 1972. With his addition to the family, the house on Willham Drive no longer seemed adequate and the now family of three moved to a new housing area across from Boomer Lake. Lorna Elizabeth joined the family on November 30, 1977, and the foursome remained in that location for 27 years before moving to the other side of the lake, Brooke Hollow II.

Bill's years at OSU provided a wealth of adventure. His true love was teaching but he also enjoyed research and writing. Ever hopeful that students would expand their view of the world, he loved devising new ways of learning. He was asked by the Office of International Studies to create a program in which Japanese students would come to the United States to live with an American family, complete the Oklahoma high school senior year curriculum, improve their language skills, and immerse themselves in a new culture. He organized opportunities for teachers to travel to other countries to visit schools and better understand their own school experience. Accepting a challenge from a colleague that American schools were inadequate, he started a statewide academic challenge program for high school students which became known as the Texaco Star Academic Challenge. He partnered with a professor in the College of Engineering, Dr. Bennett Basore, to develop a course for all undergraduate students that would add an international dimension to their university program. One sabbatical allowed him the opportunity to return to El Paso where he studied how education in that city was impacted by its proximity to Juarez, Mexico, located just across the Rio Grande. Another sabbatical provided an opportunity to teach a semester on the World Campus Afloat program. Traveling with 500+ students approximately 25,000 nautical miles and exploring 10-12 destinations around the world made international education a personal experience for both professors and students. A wealth of information gleaned from all these experiences gave Bill much to choose from as he wrote Introduction to Education: Teaching in a Diverse Society, Oh, Do I Remember, and School Reform in a Global Society.

Not only did Stillwater grow since that move in 1969, but the family also expanded. A daughter-in-law became part of the family when Andrew and Sarah married. A son-in-law, Nathan, joined when he and Lorna married. Two amazing granddaughters, Bailey and Camdyn, completed the family. To Camdyn, Bill gives credit for the spark he needed to complete his memoir, The Education of Professor Segall.

Bill stated simply in his Epilogue, "It has been a good life and a grand education."

Memorial gifts may be made to the Oklahoma State University Study Abroad Program and the First Presbyterian Church Music Program.