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Special tribute to PEC’s longest- tenured CEO, Randy Ethridge.


September 2016


Randy Ethridge, CEO and Executive Vice-President (1985-2016)


A newsletter for PEC’s electric consumers


More than 31 Years of Milestones Ethridge ends a record-setting era as CEO and Executive Vice-President


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Circa 1985, PEC’s CEO and Executive VP Randy Ethridge


n July 1985 when PEC’s Board of Trustees hired Randy J. Ethridge


as General Manager, he arrived prepared and ready to go to work.


A native of Stroud, Oklahoma, Ethridge was chosen in 1969 as the fi rst recipient of the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperative’s Manager-Trainee Scholarship. During the college training program, he worked at Verdigris Valley Electric Cooperative, Collinsville; Central


Rural Electric Cooperative, Stillwater; and Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Anadarko.


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Following his 1973 graduation from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Ethridge joined Alfalfa Electric Cooperative in Cherokee, Oklahoma, as Administrative Assistant. The following year, at the age of 23, Ethridge became the


youngest rural electric general manager in the nation which is an honor that he still holds 43 years later. He remained there for twelve years prior to accepting the position at PEC. Ethridge brought training and experience in rural electric management to the Ada job that would propel him for the work and subsequent success that lay ahead for the co-op. His vision paved the way as the co- op’s assets grew from approximately $26 million in 1986 to more than $200 million today.


“Randy’s leadership and service for our cooperative members has been tremendous,” said PEC’s Board President Eldon Flinn. “His dedication to People’s Electric and the entire electric cooperative network will certainly be missed. We all wish him well in retirement.”


During his distinguished cooperative career, Ethridge has served on numerous boards, including the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, CoBank, Central Area Data Processing Board, Rural Enterprises of Oklahoma,


-- See Ethridge Retires, Page 2


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Late 1980s: Became the fi rst electric cooperative in Oklahoma to pay off all loans from the Rural Electrifi cation Administration (REA); computerized billing and energy effi ciency rebates arrived along with a unique customer ID numbering system on all meter poles.


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2000s: PEC headquarters located at 1130 W. Main in Ada were sold to the Chickasaw Nation and Administrative Services and Operations are brought back together at 1600 N. Country Club Road in Ada; automated outage and payment systems evolved to include World Wide Web bill presentment and payment tools.


1990s: Became the fi rst electric cooperative in Oklahoma to remotely monitor all substations with a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.


2010s: Adopted an all-steel pole construction program while PEC’s assets increase to over $200 million.


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