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Alumni+Friends DROP US A LINE!
Get Involved! ith the spring semester now over, I must say your Alumni Association has kept a very busy calendar for the last several months, recapped below. If you missed out on our events this spring, though, it’s not too late! Most of our activities will become annual traditions. As you read through our spring recap, I encourage you to think about how you would like to become a part of this in the future. If you have any questions or would like to get involved, please contact me or visit www.uafsalumni.com. • Former athletes returned to campus to celebrate the women’s basketball program with Coach Whorton. • Our alumni office brought breakfast to alumni employees at Arkansas Best Freight and USA Truck. • Our Student Alumni Association produced many events, including a clothes drive for Fort Smith’s Golden Rule Clothes Closet. • The Easter Bunny and our Numa mascot were joined by nearly 200 alumni and their children at our Alumni Easter Egg Hunt. • Little Rock-area alumni mingled with current students at a reception at the Manees House in North Little Rock. • The 1972 baseball team reunited with Coach Crowder and Coach Harpenau at a pre-game reception. • The UAFS community celebrated Numa’s Birthday with cheer performances, hot dogs, and cookie cake. • The Alumni Advisory Council and Young Alumni Council held meetings at the Alumni Center. This fall, we’ll continue to provide opportunities for you to connect with UAFS at events like Freshman Convocation, Career Week, Alumni Weekend, and, of course, Alumni Reunions! If volunteering at any of these sounds like fun, please don’t hesitate to contact me at (479) 788-7026 or elizabeth.underwood@uafs.edu.
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ELIZABETH S. UNDERWOOD Executive Director of Alumni Affairs
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BELL TOWER spring/summer 2012
KAT WILSON ’96
Sincerely,
Let us—and the people you went to school with—know what you’ve been up to! Please take five minutes to sit down and tell us what you’ve been up to since your time at UAFS, Westark, or FSJC. Tell us about your job, your family, your hobbies, your adventures, your plans—whatever you want to share with other alumni. We love to get photos too, and we’ll happily run them in this section. Be sure to include your name (and your name while you were in school if it has changed since then) and the year you graduated or the years you attended. Email your class note to alumni@uafs.edu or mail it to Alumni Office, UAFS, P.O. Box 3649, Fort Smith, AR 72913.
as a missionary doctor to the Dominican Republic for 20 years before returning to the U.S. to fly for Northwest Airlines.
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Charles R. Preston ’72 was recently named to the adjunct graduate faculty in the Program in Ecology at the University of Wyoming and was invited to convene a plenary session at the Fourth International Wildlife Management Congress in Durban, South Africa, in July 2012.
Warren E. McLellan ’41, a noted World War II pilot who flew in the Pacific Theatre, passed away August 24, 2011. He is survived by Wanda Stewart McLellan ’42, whom he married in 1944, and by their two sons, six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
1960s Ramon Elkins ’61 is a semiretired accountant who does compassion ministry in Ecuador. He is also involved, through Central Christian Church, with a number of international students from UAFS, who, he writes, have “broadened his vision of the world.” Gary C. Hicks, M.D. ’68, now retired in Oklahoma City, served
Robert ’74 and Rhonda Bishop Yarberry ’78 retired at the end of the 2011-12 academic year after 37 and 28 years, respectively, in education. Allyson Dalley ’79 earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Arlington