The University of Oklahoma College of Allied Health celebrated the graduation of its first class of doctoral-level occupational therapy students this month. The OU program is the first accredited occupational therapy doctoral program in the state of Oklahoma. The program, which serves students in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, was recently changed from a master’s program to a doctoral program in order to widen opportunities for graduates in the future.

Layne Keep will graduate from the University of Oklahoma this May, carrying on a century-old tradition in her family. Keep’s mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother all graduated from OU. Her great-grandmother, Laura Focht Morgan, graduated exactly 100 years before Layne in May 1925.