Married for 58 years, George Bozalis and his wife Ruth Russell Bozalis believed in giving back to their community. Born in 1910, George Bozalis earned undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Oklahoma. Following post-graduate study in St. Louis, he served as the chief resident of the St. Louis Municipal Contagious Disease until he joined the Army Medical Corps in 1940. He returned to Oklahoma City to practice medicine and in 1954 founded the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic.
Ruth Russell's parents made the Oklahoma Land Run in 1889. Born in 1911 in McAlester, Ruth moved with her family to Oklahoma City in 1917 where she attended Classen High School. A graduate of the Oklahoma College for Women, she married George in 1937. While George was a reserved individual, Ruth illustrated her interest in the community through involvement in numerous civic and arts organizations, never seeming to tire.
Longtime friends of John and Eleanor Kirkpatrick, Dr. and Mrs. Bozalis established an endowment at the Oklahoma City Community Foundation in 1976 to benefit allergy research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. George Bozalis died in 1995 but his work continues at the Oklahoma Allergy Clinic under the direction of his son, John. Ruth Bozalis died in 2009, the day after her 98th birthday.