Leong, Ronald Y. K.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

I serve as Treasurer of the Photograph Art & Science Foundation, which is organized as a S501(c)(3) “not for profit” and which has offices and a public museum in Oklahoma City known as the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

I serve as Secretary of the Oklahoma Employment Law association (OELA), an association of lawyers with a major goal of sharing of new information as it evolves through speakers at monthly meetings and formal continuing legal education seminars for members and non-members.

Background and Personal Injury

I first visited my wife’s family in McAlester over twenty three (23) years ago and I have a tremendous love for that area of the state and easily understand why my father-in-law (Richard L. Gossett) moved from Michigan to that area of the world to practice law over fifty (50) years ago.

At age 22 (in 1982) I started a photo supply business in Columbia Missouri and built it to nearly $1,000,000.00 in annual sales. I incorporated the business and brought in an investor in 1986 and later sold the business before moving with my wife to Oklahoma City for her to attend law school at Oklahoma City University.

I was employed by Candid Color Systems, Inc. as the Photographic Equipment buyer for several years while the Glamour Shots portrait studios were in a dramatic growth stage. I watched the number of stores grow from 65 to well over 300 with as 111 stores being opened during a single 12 month period.

Although there hasn’t been sufficient time to continue I was an active member of the Metro Camera Club in Oklahoma City for several years and continue to take photographs and utilize visual evidence every time the opportunity arises.