From the foundation's earliest months, the Chase Morris Foundation's work has been the subject of independent news coverage, official correspondence, and public endorsement by elected officials. This page collects the public record.
"We have this in common: we've both lost loved ones, and I understand your grief. I applaud you for the work you are doing with the Chase Morris Foundation." U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe — December 16, 2013
Senator Inhofe wrote this letter five months after the foundation's incorporation, and just thirty-six days after the death of his own son Perry in an aviation accident on November 10, 2013. The letter is preserved in the foundation's archives. Senator Inhofe served Oklahoma in the United States Senate until his retirement in 2023. He died on July 9, 2024, at age 89.
News On 6, the CBS affiliate in Tulsa, has covered the Chase Morris Foundation's work multiple times across the foundation's history. Reporter Tess Maune covered the foundation's earliest screening events.
By Tess Maune, News On 6. The first major broadcast feature on the foundation, profiling the family's work in the months leading up to its first heart screening event at Metro Christian Academy.
By Tess Maune, News On 6. A profile of the screening protocol, featuring an interview with one of the families whose child was identified with a previously unknown cardiac finding at the foundation's Metro Christian event four months earlier.
News On 6 same-day coverage of the foundation's screening event at Booker T. Washington High School, in partnership with Tulsa Public Schools.
Press release issued by the office of co-author Senator Ervin Yen, M.D., documenting Governor Mary Fallin's ceremonial signing of the Chase Morris Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act in the Blue Room of the Oklahoma State Capitol on June 10, 2015. Quotes from Senator Yen and Representative Doug Cox, M.D., describe the bipartisan, cross-chamber, physician-physician origin of the legislation.
By Stacey Lindsay, KOAM News. Coverage of Governor Fallin's bill signing, with quotes from Mike Morris on the educational rather than mandatory character of the legislation: "We had 16 years, 10 months and 19 days... It is not a mandate for screening — it's an educational bill."
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak attended the foundation's January 28, 2015 screening event at Booker T. Washington High School and posted publicly about the event on the official Facebook account of the Oklahoma Insurance Department, expressing his support for the foundation's work and for the legislation that would soon move through the Capitol. The post documents the foundation's screening event and the cause it served, in the Commissioner's official capacity.
U.S. Senator James Lankford has been photographed with members of the Morris family at foundation-related events. Senator Lankford was sworn in to the United States Senate on January 3, 2015, weeks before the Booker T. Washington screening event.
All public officials referenced on this page have made public statements or appearances in their official capacities. The foundation does not represent that any official endorses every program or position the foundation has taken; we represent only the public record of the official's appearance, statement, or correspondence.
The foundation maintains an archive of news coverage, correspondence, photographs, and legislative materials from 2013 to the present. Researchers, journalists, and family historians may request access through our Contact page.