Arkansas Winter 2013

Winter 2013 Vol. 63, No. 2

Exclusively for members of the Arkansas Alumni Association, Inc.

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Holding onto

History

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Treasures of Southern Africa November 5-19, 2014

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ome experience the cultures, local traditions and hospitality of Southern Africa. See the natural wonders of the Cape Peninsula and the power of Victoria Falls! Explore Cape Town, South Africa’s oldest city and walk in Nelson Mandela’s footsteps with a visit to the infamous Robben Island, a UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Three nights at the luxurious Thorny Bush Lodge include morning and afternoon game drives. from $7140 per person, plus airfare

You’ve never traveled like this before.

Islands and Rivieras of the Mediterranean

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ruise for seven nights from Rome to Barcelona aboard the exclusively chartered, Five-Star m.v.

Tere Moana, relaunched in 2013 after a multimilliondollar refurbishment and featuring only 45 deluxe Staterooms. This unique, comprehensive itinerary immerses you in the dynamic history, inimitable art and culture and sun-drenched landscapes of the French and Italian rivieras and islands. Visit up to five UNESCO World Heritage sites, including Carcassone.

Explore Corsica’s fortified town of Bonifacio and Sardinia’s dazzling Costa Smeralda. Visit Florence and Italy’s Cinque Terre. Along the enchanting Côte d’Azur, enjoy specially arranged excursions in Èze, Monte Carlo, Cannes and Nice. from $4495 per person, plus airfare

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Masters 2014 Golf Tournament

April 7 – April 13, 2014

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olf like the Pros! Razorbacks on Tour invites you to travel with your friends and fellow alumni to the 2014 Masters at Augusta National. Join fellow golf enthusiasts to experience this extraordinary event, this historic course, with the finest in Southern hospitality!

A variety of packages are available.

Details on availability, pricing and registration can be found at www.arkansasalumnitravel.com.

Razorbacks on Tour For details on these and other great tours, contact Julie Preddy 479.575.6368 • jpreddy@uark.edu • arkansasalumni.org/travel Follow us on Facebook (RazorbacksOnTour) Twitter (@RazorbacksOnTour)

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When William Edwin Douglass penned the words to the Arkansas Fight Song a century ago, he knew Arkansas would never yield to any foe. Neither has his fight song.

Pasted into history

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Scrapbooks kept by students now held by special collections give a personal glimpse into the history of the university.

Diamond jubilee

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In 1963, Donna Axum became the first Arkansan selected to represent the nation as Miss America. Her service to Arkansas and the nation didn’t end with the passing of her crown.

Campus View

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On the Hill

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Profile

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Associations

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Senior Walk

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Last Look

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Exclusively for members of the Arkansas Alumni Association, Inc.

On the cover The leather cover of a scrapbook that Irene Bird kept during the 1920s while a student at the university.

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CAMPUS VIEW

ARKANSAS Publisher Graham Stewart Editor Charlie Alison’82 ’04 Associate Editor Tammy W. Tucker ’97 ’03

An office brimming over with chaos

University Recreation keeps campus fit and trim Although I work day-to-day in a four-walled office with tall bookshelves and dual computer monitors, I consider my “real” office to be a little more chaotic: weights clanking, waves splashing, and students high-fiving are constant indicators that my work day is in full swing. As a staff member in the department of University Recreation, I contribute to student and faculty/ staff health, well-being, and engagement by providing out-of-the-classroom recreational and fitness experiences.

Adequate physical activity contributes positively to a multitude of short- and long-term health and happiness indicators: improved mood, better sleep, increased cognitive function, and lower chronic disease risk, just to name a few. Considering how these benefits contribute to student success, it makes sense that the University of Arkansas is willing to invest in recreation facilities and programs.

At first glance, University Recreation is most readily associated with treadmills, weight equipment, basketball goals, and lap lanes.

And while these facility provisions are a healthy part of many daily routines, they are only a small part of the deeper and more meaningful contributions to the educational experiences.

UREC’s facilities serve as important forums on campus, where students can interact not only with each other, but also with faculty, staff and alumni.

Intramural and Club Sports provide opportunities for students to be involved with a common interest, to collaborate with each other, and to develop organizational and leadership skills. It’s not uncommon for faculty members to find one of their students correcting their form on a yoga pose, or pedaling side-by-side during an indoor cycling class. Structured and informal interactions such as these contribute to the richness of the living and learning environments on campus.

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These recreation opportunities allow the introduction of lifelong health and leisure skills that are critical to continued health and happiness. A student who participates in a UREC mountain bike outing may discover a new and healthy hobby. A staff member who takes a beginning swimming course may gain the confidence and proficiency that enables them to enjoy weekends at the lake. Learning how to use the variety of exercise equipment in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building or UREC Fitness Center helps students learn exercise principles and develop healthy habits that can be used long after they graduate.

As I shut down my computer and prepare to go home for the evening, I can’t forget one of the most impressive outcomes that I see every day in my job: the UREC student-employees who wake the program before me in the morning and keep it bustling long after I’ve gone to bed.

One of the largest student employers on campus, UREC teaches student-employees essential job skills such as risk management, customer service, and problem-solving. Most of all, they are entrusted with a precious resource: the free time of the members of the U of A community.

The UREC student-employees make sure that participants enjoy and derive meaning from the time that they choose to spend with UREC. It is this responsibility that I love the most about my job, and I am proud to call the cacophony of whirring treadmills, dribbling basketballs, and “on belay!” shouts my real “office”.

Creative Director Amanda Cothren Photo Editor Russell Cothren Writers & Contributors Andy Albertson ’13 Nicole Allbritton ’07 ’10 Chris Branam ’11 Kendall Curlee Robby Edwards Jr. Jennifer Holland ’08 Barbara Jaquish ’08 Matt McGowan Camilla Medders ’01 ’09 Michelle Parks ’94 Hillary Scott Darinda Sharp ’94 ’99 ’05 Lindsay Larson Smith ’07 Heidi Stambuck ’88 ’13 Kevin Trainor ’94 ’05 Steve Voorhies ’78 Advertising Coordinator Catherine Baltz ’92 ’07 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the editor are accepted and e­ ncouraged. Send letters for publication to Arkansas Magazine, Office of University ­Relations, 200 Davis Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 or by e-mail to editor@uark.edu. Letters should be no longer than 250 words and may be edited for length.

Typewritten letters are preferred. Anonymous letters will not be published. Submission does not guarantee publication.

Arkansas, The Magazine of the Arkansas Alumni Association (ISSN 1064-8100) (USPS 009-515) is published quarterly by the Arkansas Alumni Association, Inc. at 491 North Razorback Road, Fayetteville, AR 72701. Annual membership dues are $45 (single) or $50 (couple) of which a portion is allocated for a subscription to Arkansas. Single copies are $6. Editing and production are provided through the UA Office of University Relations. Direct inquiries and information to P.O. Box 1070, Fayetteville, AR 727021070, phone (479) 575-2801, fax (479) 575-5177.

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Arkansas Alumni Association Mission Statement The Arkansas Alumni Association connects and serves the University of Arkansas Family.

Vision Statement The Arkansas Alumni Association will be nationally recognized as a model alumni relations program.

Value Statement The Arkansas Alumni Association values: • service • excellence • collaboration • relationships • diversity • learning • creativity Arkansas Winter 13-170 All photos by Russell Cothren unless otherwise noted.

Please recycle this magazine or share it with a friend.

Katie Helms Assistant Director, University Recreation

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Learning Never Stops Lifelong learning, personal growth and well being make retirement living at BTV just that – truly living.

Respecting Tradition. Embracing Tomorrow.

Lewis E. Epley, Jr. U of A '61 B.S.P.A. U of A '61 LL.D.

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Letters

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ALUMNI Officers President John Reap ’70, Dallas,TX President Elect Stephanie S. Streett ’91, Little Rock Treasurer Tom Dorre ’68, ’81, Fayetteville Secretary Deborah Blume ’08, Fayetteville BOARD OF DIRECTORS

To the Editor:

Your story on “Campus Card,” along with a short story on the building of Old Main, on Page 4 of the fall Issue of Arkansas magazine caught my eye.

I have written some on this before, but one of my grandfathers, Jacob B. Obenshain, was one of the main builders of Old Main, and you can read about this in the August 1982 and November 1982 issues of the Flashback booklets that were put out by the Washington County Historical Society, entitled “The Obenshains in Arkansas,” Part I and Part II. This was from a diary written by my greataunt Ora Obenshain, the second oldest daughter of Jacob Obenshain, who graduated from Arkansas Industrial University (now University of Arkansas), in 1889, and whose name is not too far down from the front of Old Main on Senior Walk. She states, in part, “Father worked at the university and got $2.00 a day for 10 hours. He had to be at work by 7:00 and quit at 6:00. That didn’t give him much time at home.

He put all the slate roofing on, even on the two big towers. He turned some of the big pillars that stand at the front entrance of Old Main.

I remember the piles of rock in our yard that he cut off in shaping them (Mr. Obenshain’s initials, J.B.O.---are supposed to be on the steps of Old Main).”

Later, she states in 1878, “One evening, a very black cloud came up in the north and everyone hurried home. Father locked up his shop and started for home, but he had to find shelter in

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the blacksmith shop on the corner before he got to our street. It was a hail storm. The hail came down thick and fast, and broke out all the windows in all the buildings and knocked holes in the roofs. It piled up several inches on the ground, and we had hail for many days. It turned cold, and we had to have a fire. It broke the slate roofs on the tower at the university, so they asked Father to repair them. It seemed he was the only one who knew how to put on slate.

The damage to Fayetteville was almost equal to the cyclone (mentioned previously in the Flashback Diary article).”

At the time, the Obenshains lived on Dickson Street, but in the early 1880s Mr. Obenshain moved to Eureka Springs for his health, and went to work for the new railroad that was coming to Eureka Springs in 1883. The family eventually joined him, and he built a house in the early 1890s on Spring Street, which now sits across from the Fuller House. These are the only two homes in Eureka Springs that were built and have been continuously owned by the same family.

And now, you have part of the ‘rest of the story!’

John Fuller Cross BSA’57, Eureka Springs

If you have stories to tell about the YOU of A, send letters to editor@uark.edu.

2011-2014 Ben Beaumont ‘04, Little Rock Leslie F. Belden ’79, ’05, Fayetteville Judy Drummond Covert ’83, Bel Aire, KS Dewayne Goldmon ’85, ’87, Pine Bluff Kay Collett Goss ’63, ’66, Alexandria, VA Anthony Lucas ’99, ’04, Little Rock Carla Martin ’04, Pine Bluff Heather Nelson ’94, Little Rock Melissa Pianalto ’88, ’90, Springdale Chuck Roscopf ’79, ’83, Helena 2012-2015 Kenneth Biesterveld ’05, ’10, Bentonville John L Colbert ’76, ’81, Fayetteville John W. Cole ’76, ’78, Springdale Rita Geiger ’66, Oklahoma City, OK Teena Gunter ’92, ’97, Oklahoma City, OK Sharon Hunt ’73, ’75, Fayetteville William L. Kerr ’88,Tampa, FL Terry Rasco ’71, ’72, Little Rock Joel G.Wood ’74, Germantown,TN 2013-2016 John Forrest Ales ’02, McLean, VA Emanuel Banks ’87, North Little Rock Don Eldred ’81, Houston,TX Laura H. Jacobs ’95, Fayetteville Susan Gilbert Kemp ’73, ’75, Mountain View Charlene Reed ’74, ’77, Marianna Lott Rolfe IV ’94, Maumelle Jeffrey M. Stephens ’86, Hot Springs Roger H. Sublett ’64, ’65, Mason, OH Brandon Timbes ’98, Charlotte, NC STAFF Executive Director Graham G. Stewart Director of Membership and Resource Development Terri Dover Director of Communications Tammy W. Tucker ’97,‘03 Director of Outreach and Engagement Angela Mosley Monts ‘80 Director of Finance and Administration Debbie Blume ’08 Nicole Allbritton’07,’10, assistant director of communications; Carolyn Baltz ‘03, associate director of membership and marketing; Catherine Baltz ’92,’07, manager of strategic marketing; Kelly Bostick, electronic communications coordinator; Heath Bowman ’11, associate director of regional programs; Stella Clark, record and membership assistant; Deb Euculano, associate director for special programs; Kabrina Gardner ’10, outreach and engagement support supervisor; Felicia Garner, executive assistant; Ashlee Gloede, assistant director for facilities and special events; Robin January ’98, scholarship coordinator; Ryan Miller ’07, ‘09, assistant director for young alumni and student programs; Julie Preddy ’04, associate director for lifelong learning; Alyssa Strodel ’12, student programs coordinator; Elizabeth Tipton, records and membership assistant; Chris Wallen, alumni records manager.

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Give Me an A! More than 5,600 freshmen arrived on campus at the beginning of the fall semester, helping push the university’s total student population above 25,000 for the first time in the university’s history.

The 2013 freshmen, rather than being required to wear green beanies as in yesteryear, were invited to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium to meet each other and learn how to spell the most important letter of the alphabet: the letter A.

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On the Hill

Research Lab Puts Tulsa’s Drinking Water Under the Microscope Scientists at the University of Arkansas will spend the next two years developing an activated carbon that could lead to cleaner, safer drinking water in Tulsa, Okla.

Julian Fairey, an assistant professor of civil engineering and director of the university’s Water Research Laboratory, said the goal of the project is to improve Tulsa’s drinking water by decreasing the formation of regulated Fairey “disinfectant byproducts.” These chemicals are formed as an unintended consequence when drinking water is disinfected — organic matter present in source water reacts with a disinfectant such as free chlorine or chloramine to form the disinfectant byproducts.

Since the 1970s, scientists have identified more than 600 of these byproducts, many of them suspected carcinogens.

“It’s exciting,” Fairey said. “Any time we can work with water utilities — that’s a way of helping consumers. Ultimately that’s why we do the research, to help improve the quality of drinking water in U.S. drinking

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water systems. Working directly with utilities is the best way to impact drinking water quality on a daily basis, and that’s a great thing.”

All drinking water sources contain natural organic matter, derived from algae, land plants, soil and other natural substances. While particulate matter settles out during typical treatment processes, tiny particles called colloids remain in the water and react with free chlorine to form disinfection byproducts such as trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, which are regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In collaboration with Wen Zhang, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the U of A, researchers will analyze the chemistry and biology of Tulsa’s water at different stages of the drinking water treatment process. They will systematically modify the surface chemistry of the granular activated carbons — which filter chemicals dissolved in water — to enhance the absorption of the natural organic matter that serves as precursors to trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, Fairey said.

The research, to be conducted in the Water Research Laboratory in the College of Engineering, is being funded through a $156,000 grant from the Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority. ■

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Office for Sustainability Measures Value of Campus Urban Forest Student interns for the U of A office for sustainability, in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology, are evaluating the ecosystem services provided by the urban forest of the Fayetteville campus.

Ecosystem services are the benefits that humans receive from Earth’s ecosystems. There are a number of critical ecosystem services provided by urban forests: atmospheric carbon sequestration, air pollution mitigation, direct cooling of structures and surfaces through shading, interception of rainwater runoff, increased infiltration of surface water to groundwater, habitat for wildlife (especially endangered songbirds), and critical social and spiritual value to people.

Urban forests differ from rural and wild forests in a number of ways.

For example, urban forest canopies are typically much less dense, resulting in faster growth rates for urban trees. Root zones of urban trees are often constrained by compaction zones and structures, limiting their root development. Urban forests are managed systems; they are created and maintained by people to achieve certain purposes.

In spite of these challenges, tree species commonly found in an urban forest can live for centuries. Residents develop strong affinity for these trees; they connect people to their past and their future. It is this deep connection that can make them difficult to manage.

Urban forests have not always been planned properly. Planting the wrong species too close to a building, under power lines or over water lines can result in the need to redesign those canopies. In addition, priorities for ecosystem services change over time. Understanding these driving forces is critical for managing the urban forest ecosystem for maximum human and ecological benefit.

Benchmarking of ecosystem services provided by these trees allows better management of urban forests to increase those services. Student interns in the office for sustainability are working with U of A facilities management department and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology to inventory the ecosystem services provided by the campus urban forests, identify spatial density of those services, and develop a strategy for optimizing them.

The office for sustainability is focusing on carbon sequestration, urban heat island impact reduction, and water cycling. Carbon sequestration analysis will be included in the U of A Annual Climate Change report. The Natural Systems Working Group, part of Provost Sharon Gaber’s Sustainability Council, will provide technical support and guidance for the project. ■

U of A Climbs in U.S. News ‘Best Colleges 2014’ Report The University of Arkansas moved up four places among public universities in the U.S. News & World Report list of “Best National Universities.” The ranking appears in the magazine’s “Best Colleges 2014” consumer guide book.

The U of A is ranked 63rd among public universities, a move from 67th in 2012. The university is up six places in the overall ranking of 201 top-tier national universities – from 134th place in 2012 to 128th place this year. The university is the only public institution in the state to be ranked among the top tier schools.

“This is great news for the University of Arkansas,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “It is our goal to be ranked as a top 50 public research university by 2021. Our students, our faculty, our staff and

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our administrators are all working very hard to meet this goal. The U.S. News survey shows that we are clearly moving in the right direction.”

The “Best Colleges” ranking is based on a variety of factors, including retention rate, graduation rate and class size, as well as the ACT scores and grade point averages of incoming freshmen.

“These are all areas in which the university has been steadily improving,” said Provost Sharon Gaber. “We have increased our graduation rate to 60 percent and our freshman retention rate to 83 percent. These improvements are a result of our quality educational enhancements, including adding more faculty, adding class offerings and intersessions, adding student finance seminars, and recruiting students with strong academic backgrounds.” ■

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University of Arkansas Professor Offers Ethics Education for Scientists

African and African American Studies Honors Student Blogs from Africa Margaret Gender, an honors senior in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, is studying social pluralism, development and French language in Cameroon, Africa. She’s keeping a blog chronicling her experience, margaretincameroon.blogspot.com, to stay connected with her peers and engage students across campus.

The Cameroon program is coordinated through SIT Study Abroad, which focuses on strengthening intercultural understanding, exploring critical global issues and field-based study. The program complements Gender’s academic interests as she completes a bachelor of arts with a combined major in French and African and African American studies and minor in anthropology.

“Margaret is exactly the kind of high-achieving and engaged student that makes the African and African American studies program the fastest-growing program in Fulbright College,” said Calvin White Jr., program director and associate professor of history. “With four new jointly appointed faculty and 12 affiliated faculty members, we continue to attract amazing students who not only excel in the classroom but are heavily involved in the community and in extra-curricular activities on campus.”

Gender received multiple scholarships for her study abroad experience including an Honors College Study Abroad Grant, a Sturgis Study Abroad Grant from the Fulbright College Honors Program and an African and African American Studies Study Abroad Scholarship.

“The African and African American studies program was very pleased to award Margaret a study abroad scholarship this year to help defray her travel and program costs in Cameroon,” said Jim Gigantino, assistant professor of history and chair of the program’s scholarship committee. “Combined with support from the Honors College, we were happy to help her achieve her goal of studying in Africa. When she returns, she will be an amazing asset for our students who will be preparing to study abroad this summer in Ghana.”

Gender is originally from Kirkwood, Mo., and boasts a record of extraordinary performance throughout her tenure at the University of Arkansas including being named to the chancellor’s list and dean’s list every semester. Before she enrolled at the university, Gender studied in Belgium for a year through the Rotary’s International Youth Exchange Program and will continue her study of French through the School for International Training’s Social Development and Pluralism emersion program in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. ■

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John Pijanowski started out teaching ethics to graduate students who are studying to become school administrators.

Now, he is also teaching ethics to undergraduate and graduate students who will become scientists.

Pijanowski is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Arkansas. Many of his students are teachers or early-career school administrators who are interested in becoming superintendents or holding other leadership positions in education.

He is in his second year of leading an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation for $100,000 over two years. Pijanowski is working with Marty Matlock, a University of Arkansas professor of biological and agricultural engineering, and Robyn Hannigan, dean of the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts, on the initiative.

The three are piloting a program that will eventually lead to new and more effective ethics curriculum as well as improved teaching practices for future scientists. The curriculum is being piloted at the University of Arkansas, the University of Notre Dame and the Wadsworth Center in New York.

“This curriculum is part of a program called Research Experience for Undergraduates that is designed for students who are interested in pursuing graduate degrees in biological sciences,” Pijanowski said.

Most graduate degree programs have required coursework in ethics, Pijanowski said.

“We recognized we have the opportunity to do more, particularly now with this funding,” he said. “The curriculum we are developing is a cafeteria style that allows lots of options across different topics and formats. Faculty can choose what fits their style.” ■

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‘Southern’ Attitudes More Nuanced Than Previously Known Findings from the most recent Blair Center-Clinton School Poll show that a person’s identification as “southern” has a greater impact on attitudes than place of residence, and the demographics of southern identity are rapidly changing.

In the poll’s latest report, Angie Maxwell, assistant professor of political science and Diane D. Blair professor in Southern Studies, found that distinctions of personal identity must be explored when considering attitudes in the United States. The results suggest attitudes regarding religion, national identity and other issues are more nuanced than previously understood.

“The breakdown of attitudes among southerners is much more complicated than where they live. Geography and identity must be considered together to more accurately measure ‘southernness,’” Maxwell said. “With distinct impacts on attitudes, a deeper investigation of those who ‘feel southern’ is required.”

According to the poll, 38.4 percent of those who currently live in the South — defined here as the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America — identify themselves as “southern,” while 9.4 percent of those who live outside the South identify themselves as “southern.”

There also are substantial differences between groups who live in the South and identify as southern. Of respondents who live in the South, 44.7 percent of African Americans identify as southern, compared to 44 percent of whites and 25.6 percent of Latinos.

“Too often the ‘southern’ label is limited solely to white southerners,” said Maxwell. “We must look deeper if we are going to understand attitudes toward important issues like national identity and how they relate to our concepts of race, religion and partisanship.” ■

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Social Sciences Faculty Ranked Fifth in Nation for Sharing Research With Media, Public A new national ranking system puts University of Arkansas social sciences departments and faculty near the top in their fields, fifth place overall, when it comes to sharing their research and expertise with the public through the news media. The system was developed by the Faculty Media Impact Project at Hawaii Pacific University and ranks faculty in 94 research universities.

The rankings are based on news media appearances by faculty members weighed against the level of federal funding received for their research. The project researchers searched the Google News archive from 2006 to 2011, looking for how many times the faculty members were cited in any of 6,000 news sources. The average number of citations for a school was then divided by the percentage of National Science Foundation funding the institution received. Individual departments in political science, anthropology, psychology, economics and sociology were also ranked, using the same system.

One reason for the U of A’s high ranking is that it had the lowest percentage of federal funding of any of the 94 institutions, while its faculty were cited more often in the news media than 24 other institutions working with higher levels of federal funding.

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“This ranking system is another reminder of the quality and variety of the research our faculty do at the University of Arkansas,” said Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor of academic affairs. “The Carnegie Foundation has recognized our ‘very high research activity,’ while this ranking shines a light on the important work that our social sciences faculty do and share, with minimal federal support. It reminds us that sharing our knowledge and expertise with the people of Arkansas and beyond is a crucial part of our mission.”

Professor Janine Parry, associate professor Andrew Dowdle – both from political science – and anthropology professor Peter Ungar were the top three U of A faculty members, in terms of media citations.

Parry, who is also chair of the Faculty Senate, said that a faculty member’s field plays a part in media interest.

“Clearly, political science is a field that’s in the news a lot. It’s also one about which much is said, but more could be known. So, responding – thoughtfully and in a timely fashion – is important,” she said. “But this is something that potentially everyone can, and should, do. I’m fascinated by my colleagues’ research on this campus and in many cases I think there is public interest, as well. ■

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U of A Rededicates Ozark Hall, Home to Honors College, Graduate School and Geosciences The University of Arkansas celebrated the renovation and expansion of a historic campus landmark with the rededication of Ozark Hall in September.

Ozark Hall has emerged from a two-year cocoon of scaffolding, fencing and caution tape to offer a fully accessible, energy-efficient facility for the Graduate School and International Education and the department of geosciences in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

An approximately 21,000-square-foot addition to the building provides a permanent home for the Honors College and a 216-seat auditorium for classes, lectures and other programs. A landscaped courtyard has been designed to accommodate special events, rest and recreation.

“Ozark Hall has served the university well for more than 70 years,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Now, following four years of careful planning, design, and construction, we have brought new life to a structure that will continue to serve our students, faculty and staff for decades to come. This project is the fifth that we have dedicated this fall and speaks to our commitment to preserving the past while providing expanded, upgraded and modernized facilities for current and future students.”

“Our new home in Ozark Hall is a game changer for the Honors College,” said Bob McMath, dean of the Honors College. “For the first time, we have a signature space in the heart of campus where honors

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students can gather to study and work on projects. We have expanded our staff so that we may develop and implement programming that engages all honors students, both in Ozark and the recently renovated Hotz Honors Hall. These beautiful facilities also help us to draw top students to the University of Arkansas. We are deeply grateful to all who have worked to make this project possible.”

“It’s great to have the Graduate School back in its Ozark Hall home, but the real excitement is for our international students,” said Todd Shields, dean of the Graduate School and International Education.

“Until now, all of the services for international education have been on the periphery of campus, and students had to go many different places to meet all of their enrollment and advising needs. The decision to house everyone together in the middle of our vibrant community shows the university’s commitment to all students.”

“The department of geosciences has called Ozark Hall home for many years,” said Ralph Davis, chair of the department. “We’re happy to be back in our old space with more room for our faculty and graduate students along with state-of-the-art equipment in our labs and classrooms. Now, we have the best of both worlds.”

The $27.5 million project has been made possible through the generous support of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation and a bond supported by the student facility fee. ■

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University of Arkansas Union is One of Nation’s Best Best College Reviews has released its list of the “25 Most Amazing University Student Unions” and the University of Arkansas is one of only two in the SEC to make the list.

The Arkansas Union is ranked 17th in the nation according to Best College Reviews’ rating, which include factors such as architectural nobility and student satisfaction. The building, which turned 40 years old on Sept. 26 this year, was praised for the approximately 205,315 square feet devoted entirely to student support, including 25 different departments, the retail stores, the Union Market Food Court and a 1,500-square-foot exercise room. The union provides what Best College Reviews, an online publication, referred to as “some of the best views of the campus,” with Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium nestled at the foot of the hill.

“American universities have been on a building and renovation spree in the past decade, producing some truly awe-inspiring student unions,” said James Arney, chief author and researcher for the list.

“College students today have it as good as they ever have when it comes to facilities, and this list amply illustrates that fact.”

The Arkansas Union has also undergone its own building and renovation work in the last few years with the creation of the Student Technology Center, the fitness facility and most recently, the South

Terrace which will provide a more casual, semi-private outdoor dining and studying area for students. This terrace space will be opened with a ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at noon.

“Our goal is to educate and inspire students outside of the classroom,” said Sue Donohue Smith, associate director of the Arkansas Student Union. “So of course it’s nice to be recognized on a national level for all the effort put in by everyone who works in the Union to achieve that goal.”

Along with the architecture and the remodeled space devoted to increasing student happiness, the Union boasts some of the biggest sustainability initiatives on the U of A campus. The union green team is a unit consisting of individuals from 18 different departments housed within the Union who work to find ways to decrease waste in the building. They’ve already established recycling stations, placed a new dishwasher in the food court that cuts down the amount of water used by 50 percent, while the South Terrace is built with environmentally sustainable wood and seats created out of recycled milk jugs. More sustainability renovations are scheduled through the beginning of the spring semester in the hopes of turning the most used building on campus into the most sustainable one. ■

School of Law Among Top Five in Nation for Value The University of Arkansas School of Law ranks No. 2 among in the U.S. in The National Jurist’s annual ranking of “Best Value Law Schools.” This marks the third straight year the School of Law has been named a top 20 “Best Value.” The law school moved up 12 places from 14th last year.

“We are particularly pleased to be recognized for delivering excellent results at an extraordinary value,” said Stacy Leeds, dean of the School

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of Law. “Our graduates pass the bar exam, find employment and enter the job market with significantly less debt than students at most other law schools.”

According to The National Jurist, the ranking is determined by a formula that uses “the percent of graduates who pass the bar exam, employment rate, tuition, cost of living, and average indebtedness upon graduation.” ■

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Gift of Cherry Trees Honors International Partnership “Celebrating 20 years of cooperation and friendship through international educational exchange and the 100th anniversary of the gift of cherry trees to the United States of America from Japan,” reads a plaque that commemorates the dedication of five cherry trees given to the University of Arkansas by the consul general of Japan at Nashville.

The dedication, held in September, was one of several events to observe multiple milestones in the relationship between the university and Japan: a commemoration of the 20th anniversary of an educational partnership between the University of Arkansas and Shimane University, the dedication of cherry trees given to the university by the Japanese government, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the gift of more than 3,000 cherry trees to the U.S. by Japan and recognition of Tatsuya Fukushima, associate professor of Japanese language, by the consul general of Japan.

The relationship between the University of Arkansas and Shimane University began in 1993 with a memorandum of understanding and was deepened in 1995 when the universities signed a supplementary agreement establishing a reciprocal student exchange.

The five cherry trees are planted between Ozark Hall and Old Main to mark the 100th anniversary of the gift of more than 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo to Washington, D.C. They also recognize two decades of collaboration between the University of Arkansas and Shimane University, whose president, Shotai Kobayashi, also attended the dedication.

“Five is a very auspicious number in Japanese culture, and trees are important symbols of strength, resilience and longevity,” said Charles Adams, a professor of English and an early participant in the Arkansas/ Shimane exchange. “These trees will remain with us as a fitting tribute to our lasting friendship with Shimane and with the people of Japan,

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and a good omen for many years of friendship to come.”

“It seems a fitting location,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart.

“Ozark Hall to the south is the new home of our international education programs. It’s also home to our Honors College, which administers one of the largest study abroad endowments in the country.

And to the north of us is Old Main, home of the Fulbright College, named for Senator J. William Fulbright. Fulbright was an Arkansas alumnus, a former president of the university and creator of the Fulbright International Exchange Program.”

Motohiko Kato, consul general of Japan at Nashville, presented a certificate of commendation to professor Tatsuya Fukushima for his distinction in the assistance of Japan’s foreign missions and his contributions to mutual understanding and friendly relations between Japan and foreign countries.

The ceremony closed with the reading of a tanka, a traditional Japanese poetic form consisting of five lines, with a specific number of syllables in each line: 5-7-5-7-7. Two students read the tanka first in English, then in Japanese.

Mika Tsujimoto, a student in the Sam M. Walton College of Business who currently serves as president of the Japanese Student Association, read the English translation. The original Japanese was read by Lukas Chupp, who went to Shimane University as part of the intensive Japanese summer program in 2012.

This auspicious day At the dawn of a new year Let us now relish The joy of a thousand years Stacking up good memories ■

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Physics Graduate Student Wins Nottingham Prize Nathan Coulter Named Harry S. Truman Scholar Nathan Coulter of Little Rock was selected as a 2013 Harry S. Truman Scholar. Coulter is majoring in political science and economics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Honors College. Coulter is one of 62 students from 54 U.S. colleges and universities to be awarded the prestigious scholarship this year. He will receive $30,000 to be used toward his graduate study.

Truman Scholars are selected based on academic excellence and a commitment to public service. This is the second consecutive year that a U of A student has been named a Truman Scholar, and Coulter is the university’s 12th Truman Scholar in the last 20 years.

“Nathan Coulter is clearly a student who will go on to a distinguished career in law and in politics,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “He has an extensive record in advocacy and volunteer work. He represents the University of Arkansas very well as a student committed to a career in service.”

Coulter learned that he had been selected when the chancellor asked him to speak to the campus executive committee about a student matter Friday afternoon. Instead he was surprised by a group of supporters who wanted to congratulate him on being selected as a Truman Scholar.

“The Truman application was very demanding,” said Coulter.

“And the interview process was tough as all of the finalists were more than qualified, so I knew the odds were long. I am excited about this opportunity and am looking forward to earning this recognition.” ■

Benjamin A. Gray, a doctoral student, was awarded the Wayne B. Nottingham Prize for the best student paper presented at the 73rd annual Physical Electronics Conference.

Gray, who has been working on the project as part of his dissertation performed in the Laboratory for Artificial Quantum Matter of Physics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, received $1,000 and a certificate at the conference held in Raleigh, N.C., June 18-21.

Gray is the first University of Arkansas student to win the prestigious Nottingham Prize.

The Nottingham Prize was established from contributions given in memory of Professor Wayne B. Nottingham of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by his many friends and associates.

Gray’s paper, titled “Interfacial controlled carrier doping of a hightemperature superconductor,” and directed by his adviser, physics Professor Jak Chakhalian, was co-authored by fellow doctoral student Derek Meyers; U of A research associates Yanwei Cao, Michael Kareev and Srimanta Middey.

The research team experimented with new methods for releasing the rich properties of complex oxide materials, Gray said.

“These are the most enigmatic class of materials,” Gray said.

“According to fundamental quantum physics models, most oxide materials should be excellent conductors of heat and electricity but surprisingly, experiments find that they are the strongest insulators.

In these materials, electrons strongly interact with each other, which essentially freeze them in place.

“Over the last few decades, researchers have discovered techniques to remove parts of these interactions and free the electrons to move through those crystals,” he said. “Once unlocked, these systems display diverse, often exotic and technologically important phenomena.” ■

University, State Education Department Awarded $32 Million Grant The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $32 million, fiveyear grant to the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas and the Arkansas Department of Education to fund a program aimed at improving the education and career outcomes of low-income Arkansas teenagers with disabilities.

The federal research grant is the largest the university has received in its history.

The federal program is aimed at youths who receive Supplemental Security Income. It is known as PROMISE, an acronym for “Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income.”

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the PROMISE grant and will oversee the project.

The PROMISE program is a joint initiative of four federal agencies: the departments of education, health and human services, labor and the Social Security Administration. Its underlying premise is that improved coordination between services can improve outcomes for youth and their families. Its goals also include decreasing reliance on SSI and reducing the cost to the federal government. The grant was submitted through a partnership between the university, the Arkansas Department of Education and other state agencies.

“Most of us in the competitive workplace had a first entry-level job or internship at the beginning of our work lives,” Williams said.

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University Museum Installs “Native Arkansas” Exhibit The University of Arkansas Museum will install “Native Arkansas,” an exhibit with views of the territory as it was seen through the eyes of European and American explorers. The exhibit will be featured in the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies’ Concordia Gallery through Feb. 22, 2014.

The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is at 401 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

Early writings of the first explorers provide records of plants, animals, rocks and fossils of the region and document evidence of the people who occupied the state during the prehistoric period, some of whom were ancestors to the native communities that populated Arkansas at that time. These writings provide information that will allow visitors to figuratively enter and experience early Arkansas.

The exhibit is curated and will be installed by Mary Suter, curator of collections, and Nancy McCartney, curator of zoology. They will be assisted by Ben Donnan, graduate assistant in anthropology; Clint Wray, a senior majoring in earth science and journalism; and Bradley Graves, a freshman majoring in anthropology. The staff of the Butler Center, particularly art administrator Colin Thompson, will also be involved with the installation.

The exhibit is sponsored by the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

Visitors will enter the exhibit as if they were at the Arkansas Post and continue to tour five regions of the state—the Mississippi and St. Francis river floodplains and Crowley’s Ridge north of the Arkansas River; the Mississippi River Valley south of the Arkansas River; the Ozarks of the northwest; the Ouachitas and the West Gulf Coastal Plain in the southwest; and the Arkansas River Valley, through the middle of the state.

The exhibit will include artifacts from the Mississippian period, bluff shelters and Caddo tribes. There will also be an in-depth look at the Native American community of Carden Bottoms, with a glimpse of how Native Arkansans understood their natural environment. ■ Maggie Jo Pruitt, a senior in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, was crowned Homecoming Queen 2013 during halftime festivities of the Homecoming game Oct. 12. The student organization Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow sponsored Pruitt, a senior from Bergman, Ark., majoring in agricultural education, communication and technology. Joseph Holloway, a senior journalism major nominated by Beta Upsilon Chi Fraternity, escorted Pruitt.

In addition to Pruitt and Holloway, this year’s Homecoming Court included the following students: • Kaprisha Fields – The National Society of Black Engineers nominated this senior advertising/public relations major.

Cameron Woods, a political science/journalism major nominated

by National Pan-Hellenic Council, escorted her.

• Elaina Blando – Panhellenic Council nominated this senior psychology major. Will Simpson, a senior economics and finance major nominated by Alpha Delta Pi, escorted her.

• Holly Hilliard – Pi Beta Phi nominated this senior industrial engineering major. Stewart Tice, a senior criminal justice major nominated by Army ROTC, escorted her.

• Autumn Lewis – Associated Student Government and Young Democrats nominated this senior political science/economics major. Austin Cole, a senior biology major nominated by Lambda Chi Fraternity, escorted her. ■ photo John Baltz

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LaTourette Wins One of Nine Arkansas Arts Council Fellowships Tim LaTourette is mostly self-taught at woodworking, which he didn’t start exploring until his adult years. However, over the past 20-plus years, he has continued to improve and expand his skills. A portfolio of his work recently won him an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council.

LaTourette is the woodshop director and an instructor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. He is one of nine Arkansas artists who each received $4,000 fellowships for their talents in three categories: Creating Contemporary and Traditional Crafts, Directing of Narrative and Documentary Films, and Playwriting. LaTourette and the other winning artists who were recognized in October at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock.

LaTourette really delved into woodworking when he and his wife, Rebecca, bought the house next to theirs years ago in Champaign, Ill., when it was in foreclosure. Their restoration of that home segued into other jobs there – like helping a friend turn a decrepit downtown building into a bar. From there, LaTourette started doing a lot of contracting work, which lasted for about 15 years.

He had training and experience in creative works, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking from Colorado State University and a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Illinois in Champaign. Though he didn’t have any background in woodworking, he learned the craft as clients asked for built-in cabinets and revamped kitchens.

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“It was a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and it just naturally moved toward furniture, which I found to be a lot more satisfying than cabinetry,” he said.

Rather than utilitarian cabinets, he now makes art cabinets – display cases for found objects and treasures. They are almost reliquaries, or shrines. The design of the cabinet is usually inspired by the displayed objects – like bug-eaten wood or porous leaves.

“They contain objects, and they speak more to the object that’s in it than to the cabinet,” he said. “They’re very much one-of-a-kind things.”

LaTourette has done about five or six of these small art cabinets.

He’s fascinated by the mechanical aspects of design and has added movement to some of them, using pulleys and gears.

“The teaching gets me going creatively, and there’s lots of problem solving that goes on with that. And then I try to incorporate the solutions to the problems that we come up with in class into my own work,” he said.

He teaches at least two furniture design classes a year, plus he works with students on independent studies. Their projects include chairs, tables and lamps. Chairs incorporate architectural issues such as loads and stresses – “and the design possibilities are just wide open.”

“The students are great. They’re full of energy; they’re very creative. I let them design what they want to design and then help them build it.

And that’s just inspiring it its own way, to see what they’re doing, and to be part of that creative process that they’re going through.” ■

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Jay Hale B.S.M.E. ’62, M.S.E.M. ’64

Paintball Engineering This mechanical engineering alumnus created the gun that started it all

By Camilla Medders ’01 ’09

It was Christmas eve, 1971. At the Daisy Manufacturing Co.’s office in Rogers, Ark., the employees had just enjoyed a companysponsored Christmas dinner, and they were heading home for the evening. Everyone except Jay Hale, who saw a rare opportunity.

Now that the engineering office was quiet and empty for once, he thought he might be able to make some progress on a project he was having trouble with.

His assignment was to design a gun that could shoot paint. Charlie Nelson, owner of Nelson Paint Co. in Michigan, had invented something he called a paintball. This was a spherical gelatin capsule, the kind used to give medication to horses, but injected with paint. Nelson knew his paintballs would help foresters and ranchers mark trees and cattle more easily, if he could get a gun that could shoot them. So he asked the Daisy company if they could make him a gun.

Hale had been struggling with the design for weeks. He couldn’t figure out how to make a gun that could hold several paintballs and shoot them with enough velocity so that they would break against a tree, while at the same time handling them gently enough so that they wouldn’t break inside the gun.

Hale gained his engineering expertise at the University of Arkansas, receiving two degrees in mechanical engineering. He has fond memories about his time at the University of Arkansas.

“The best thing about having gone to graduate school is that I met Joyce,” he said.

His future wife lived next door to him. She was studying marketing. The two got married

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in 1963. After Hale left the Daisy company, they opened Hale Engineering together. They collected equipment for a machine shop piece by piece, often rebuilding or restoring the parts they needed. Joyce helped with the shop and did the accounting for the company.

“We always laughed and said my motivation for going to college was to not have to work in a factory somewhere or keep books in an office,” said Joyce. “So I go to college, we get married and I worked in a factory and kept books!”

Hale also worked for Beechcraft aircraft, developing cryogenic tanks for the Apollo missions. After that, he worked for an ultrasonics company. Now retired, he and Joyce live in Fayetteville. They still have many of the machines from their shop, and Hale is using them to build a Kitfox IV two-place experimental airplane.

Those later projects spoke to Hale’s diverse talents and curiosities, but back in late 1971, his thoughts were swirling around the project to create a utilitarian firearm.

“I had the whole place to myself, and it was quiet,” Hale said about that Christmas eve.

“I sat down, took about an hour, and it was done. Made a sketch just like that, all the same parts.” He pointed to a framed diagram that hangs on the wall of his basement shop. It’s a patent for a “compressed gas gun with trigger operated hammer release latching structure.”

A paintball gun. Inventor, James C. Hale.

Hale’s gun uses compressed carbon dioxide to propel the paintballs. When the gun is cocked, a ball falls into the barrel, and a

hammer inside the gun is also cocked. When the trigger is pulled, the hammer knocks open a valve, letting gas into a chamber, which shoots the ball out of the gun. “It turned out to be pretty simple, actually,” said Hale.

After he had the design figured out, Hale spent a while shooting paint at the walls of an abandoned building on Daisy’s property, figuring out exactly how much compressed carbon dioxide the gun needed to work properly. But he never considered aiming the gun at a person. “Every time I would shoot a wall, I thought about how much it would hurt,” he said.

The gun, which Nelson called the Nelspot 007, was a hit, and Daisy supplied them to the Nelson Co. into the 1990s. It wasn’t long, though, before someone found a new use for the gun. One day, Hale got a call from Nelson. “You’ll never guess what they’re doing with our gun,” he said. The game of paintball had been invented.

The first official paintball game is welldocumented. It was held in New Hampshire in 1981, and the players used the gun invented by Hale. In fact, the patent on Hale’s wall was printed to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the game. Because of this connection, Hale is something of a celebrity in the paintball world. Once, he came across a website on which paintball enthusiasts were speculating about what had happened to the legendary James C. Hale. “One guy said I had died at 93 years old,” he said.

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Centennial of Spirit The Arkansas Fight Song turns 100

by Darinda Sharp ’94 ’99 ‘05 and T. T. Tyler Thompson ‘72 The Arkansas Fight Song celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

Its creation, in conjunction with the university’s Alma Mater and newly adopted Razorback icon, was part the school’s search for a new social identity between the turn of the century and World War I. The University of Arkansas chose the Cardinal as its first mascot in the late 1800s, but in the early 1900s the mascot began to evolve.

In 1909, students, faculty and alumni were invited to submit poems as part of contest to find lyrics for a new Varsity Song. An alumnus named Brodie Payne won the contest, university music professor Henry D. Tovey set the words to music, and it is sung today as the Alma Mater.

The same year, famed Arkansas football coach Hugo Bezdek told fans his winning team had “played like a wild band of razorbacks.” The quote popularized a new animal with its own Arkansas tradition, and the Razorback began to eclipse the Cardinal as the school’s mascot.

In 1913, an engineering student and clarinet player in the U of A Orchestra named William Edwin Douglass, wrote the lyrics and tune to a spirit song. Douglas approached his orchestra director, the same professor Tovey who scored the Alma Mater, about developing the Field Song into something more. Tovey arranged the piece, adding chords and additional instrumentation to Douglass’ words and melody, to

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create the song we know today as the Arkansas Fight Song.

In the early 1900s, what is now the Razorback Marching Band was still known as the Cadet Band. All land grant colleges required courses in military tactics as part of their curriculum for male students, and the Cadet Band was officially assigned to the military department, but it also played at football games and rallies.

A century later, the Arkansas Fight Song has expanded from its football roots and become a staple at many Razorback athletic events as well as in homemade videos and concert venues including a recent rendition by the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, which played a rousing version of it during a 2011 concert.

ArkansasRazorbacks.com dedicates a page to teaching the Fight Song to new fans. On this page, the Fight Song is dubbed “Arkansas Fight” and readers are informed that “one of the first tasks of a new Razorback is learning to sing the University of Arkansas fight song” and “it is a unique tune, fitting of the only college in America with a Razorback mascot.”

For 100 years the Arkansas Fight Song has brought a smile to the face of countless University of Arkansas Razorback fans. Here’s to its continued commitment to never yield and keep fans on their toes for at least 100 more. n

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Hit that line Hit that line Keep on going, Take the ball on down the field.

Give a cheer.(Rah! Rah!) Never fear (Rah! Rah!) Arkan-sas will never yield.

On your toes, Razor-backs, to the fin-ish carry on with all your might.And for A-A-A-RK-A-N S A S

for Ark-kan-sas,

Fight!Fight! Fight!

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n 1921, when Frederick Lee Liebolt entered the University of Arkansas, he began a small tradition of his own to remember his college days. He bought a scrapbook and started filling it up.

His scrapbook included — in addition to empty pages on which he pasted photographs, playbills and ephemera — printed pages to fill out with notes.

Some of the early printed pages of Liebolt’s scrapbook included spaces for friends to sign their names and leave a witty remark. Next there were pages for Leibolt to jot down the scores of athletic competitions waged by the Razorbacks. Among these notes, he wrote that there was no basketball team because the gymnasium was under construction.

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like. The very first social entry that “Freddie” Liebolt wrote down as a freshman could have been written by nearly every freshman: “My First Dance. Went with Helen Mintun. Didn’t do so well.”

Ain’t that always the way.

Today, Frederick Liebolt’s scrapbook has a home in the special collections of the University of Arkansas Libraries. It is one of dozens donated by alumni over the years, from the latter 1800s into the 1960s. Aside from university scrapbooks, there are also professional scrapbooks, club scrapbooks and political scrapbooks, such as those kept by David Pryor, Maurice “Footsie” Britt, Clyde Ellis, Dale Bumpers, Nathan Gordon and Joe T. Robinson, among others.

And as with Liebolt’s scrapbook, each one of them fills gaps in the historical record, gaps at which formal manuscripts can only hint.

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The university’s general manuscript collection, which makes up the core of the archival collections, includes records of the work of many significant individuals, whether professional, personal, political, academic, or creative. These manuscripts are important, said Amy Allen, the archivist who takes care of materials related to the university’s history, because “they are the primary documents from which history is written.”

While the general manuscript collection is important to our construction of history, scrapbooks also hold great historical value because they include things that we would have no record of otherwise.

“Scrapbooks give us a completely different perspective than the mainstream manuscript collections,” said Allen. “Scrapbooks have primarily ephemeral materials that were never meant to be saved— things like tickets, programs, and other things that most people just look at and throw away. It’s really the day-to-day life that scrapbooks give us—a look into someone’s daily life.”

Scrapbooks are also unique in that they provide a personal snapshot of the individual who created them. They tell us what the individual thought was important, and what they intended to remember.

Scrapbooks provide a personal and historical context for each piece of ephemera that the owner selected for inclusion. These personal records complement the official record that’s saved in mainstream collections.

Scrapbooks are valuable to university history as well. “Even now the representation and the history of our university through scrapbooks is from the people who took the time to record it and then had the presence of thought or the opportunity to donate it to the university,” said Joshua Youngblood, a research and outreach services librarian for the special collections department. “There are items that have significance because they involve prominent people or because of how the university would eventually change and, for whatever reason, the record is in the scrapbook.”

An interesting example comes from the scrapbook of an early organizer for the Young Women’s Christian Association on campus.

Pasted inside the scrapbook is a piece of correspondence between her, as an organizer of the campus YWCA, and Charles Brough, thengovernor of Arkansas. This piece of correspondence was something that might normally have been included Brough’s gubernatorial files, but instead was donated to the U of A by a member of YWCA as part of a scrapbook, filling in another gap of both state and university history.

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Snapshot of history

“A scrapbook is a visual diary of someone’s life,” said Tim Nutt, head of special collections. “It shows daily life on campus and the people important to the person who kept the scrapbook.”

Many pieces also give us a glimpse into student life outside of academics. Alice Lincoln’s scrapbook, for instance, includes the cover of a program from 1939 for what must have been a slightly scandalous event titled “Hades Ladies.” She also kept telegrams from numerous friends congratulating her on rushing Chi Omega, newspaper clippings about her sorority sisters and group pictures.

Another scrapbook included photos of a student and her friends swimming in the Buffalo River, long before the Buffalo was designated a national river. The photos provide a naïve, unguarded look at life on the river with obvious opportunities for use in historical research or publications.

Some scrapbooks focused on photographs, others on newspaper clippings, still others on a wide assortment of ephemera, from letterpress embossed invitations to freshman posters to ribbons, bows, grade cards, café menus, pennants, holiday cards and railway tickets. On one page of her scrapbook, Glaphyra Wilkerson Stafford pasted in a cigarette with a photo of friends. Her caption: “Them Parties.”

“Scrapbooks are a fertile ground for pulling information about the campus or the people who kept them,” said Nutt. “They fill in the gaps of what we have.”

One of the gaps that special collections helped fill this fall was to provide some historical resources to the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, which is celebrating its centennial on campus this year. Scrapbooks kept by early alumnae of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority are providing photographs and programs from the first days of the sorority’s establishment on campus. Without the scrapbooks, without the thoughtfulness of the alumnae who collected ephemera and then made sure they were preserved, the historical record for Delta Delta Delta’s early years might have been altogether absent.

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Renown as an alumnus

Shifting media

Scrapbooking has changed over the years, especially during the last decade through the development of social media and digital imaging.

Today, a university student pulls together photographs, notes and friends’ comments digitally through a service like Facebook or YouTube.

Although scrapbooking, in this sense, has become rather ubiquitous, it is not nearly as selective or as permanent as previous records. The things one would now include in scrapbooks have also changed.

“We no longer have those beautifully, hand-printed dance programs, we don’t have dance cards and telegrams. Paper valentines and notes are being replaced by electronic messages. A lot of that is just disappearing altogether,” said Allen.

Although the things we collect and the way we document images has certainly changed over time, Allen, Youngblood and Nutt all stressed the importance of keeping and donating items to archival collections such as the special collections at the university.

“It’s essential to provide your legacy and documentation of it, whether you’re a prominent person who’s well known or not,” Youngblood said. “What comes into the collection is what becomes history. It’s your legacy. You want to record it for your own sake, but your donation of manuscript collections is what will inform the archival record and the history that gets written.”

“We want you to be part of this story, we want you to be part of this collection, that’s why we need you to donate these things,” said Youngblood. “We collect the history of Arkansas, so anyone who has a connection with Arkansas — we are interested. And it’s not just the history of Arkansas or the significant events or people; it’s the culture of Arkansas — that’s music, arts and anything else that we can get our hands on.”

Nutt added, “We want people to know that we do collect and preserve a wide variety of information about Arkansas and the university.”

His staff would be glad to come visit anyone who has materials such as scrapbooks and thinks they would add to the history of Arkansas or the university. “We’re always looking to add new material to the collection.”

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In 1925, Liebolt graduated from the university at the age of 19, the youngest student to graduate from the university at that time. Because he was too young to attend medical school, he attended graduate school at the University of Kansas for a year. By 1926, however, he was enrolled in the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine in 1930.

He moved to New York City and achieved renown as a surgeon, with innovations to orthopedic surgical equipment and some fame as part of the team that conducted the first televised surgery for members of the American College of Surgeons in 1947.

His cleverness at creating a scrapbook foreshadowed his skill as a surgeon. Page after page shows attention to detail with news articles neatly clipped, memorabilia grouped by type, ephemera carefully preserved. The university honored Liebolt with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 1948 and as a distinguished alumnus in 1973. In 1981, he established the Frederick Lee Liebolt Endowed Chair in Premedical Sciences at the university.

After his death in 1996, his papers, including his scrapbook, were donated to the university’s special collections, adding the early sojourn of his university life to the historical record of Arkansas and the university.

Even though his first dance had not gone so well, the rest of his scrapbook entries spoke of a maturing student. About the middle of his last year, he went to the Victory Theater with a girl named Alma Thompson. He had been to numerous movies at the Victory, such as The Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino, and Pay Day, starring Charlie Chaplin. They double-dated with another couple, Hugh and Jane, and he wrote: “Alma & Jane ran off with the car while Hugh & I watched.”

But they didn’t run off far. In successive social events, Alma’s named turned up more frequently until she was the only name on Leibolt’s dance card. They went on nearly 40 dates during the spring of 1925.

The end of the semester brought an end to their relationship and his scrapbook as well. His last three entries: • On June 16, 1925, Liebolt recorded a formal event, his Graduation Exercises in the university chapel: “A happy, yet touching feeling to receive the diploma.”

• The next day, he went to the Frisco Depot on Dickson Street to see Alma off: “Alma went home. Pretty hard to take.”

• And three days later he returned to the depot for his own departure. “And it’s all over!” he wrote in the scrapbook’s last entry.

Even though Frederick Lee Leibolt’s own time as a student had come to an end, the wealth of historical documentation in his scrapbook lives on. n

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Tim Nutt, head of special collections at the University of Arkansas, shows off some of the scrapbooks donated to the university. If you have a scrapbook or other manuscripts that you think would be of interest to the university or of value to Arkansas history, contact Tim at 479-575-8443 or timn@uark.edu.

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Scrapbooks featured: Ida (Pace) Purdue Scrapbook, 1888, MS P972 Ida (Pace) Purdue Autograph Book, 1884-86, MS P972a Winston L. Winters Papers, 1904-08, MC 1304 Glaphyra Wilkerson Stafford Scrapbook, 1921-22, MC 905 Irene Bird Scrapbook, 1923-25, MC 1149 Mary Virginia Norris, 1923-25, MC 535 Frederick I. Liebolt Scrapbook, 1924-25, MC 1369 Alice E. Lincoln, 1939-40, MC 615 Freida Ann Jones, 1939-40, MC 1885 Martha Marie Callahan Scrapbook, 1955-56, MC 1622 Courtesy of University of Arkansas Special Collections; photos by Russell Cothren

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by Tammy W. Tucker ’97 ’03

As a 21 year old

- - University of Arkansas senior, Donna Axum was the unlikely winner of Miss America 1964. The small-town Arkansas girl came from behind to defeat the favorites going into the competition on Sept. 7, 1963, in Atlantic City, N.J. With the silver crown shimmering against her brown hair, she walked the long runway with tears of joy running down her face.

After learning she won, she told the audience, “It’s like walking on air. I am relaxed for the first time this week. My only worry is for the other 51 girls who had such wonderful talent. God made me what I am and I am thankful for it.”

With five girls left in the competition, each girl was asked to select a word from a board onstage and give her definition of what it meant to her. Axum selected “humility.” She said, “humility is a quality obvious to others, but invisible to those who possess it.”

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of her crowning as Miss America, the now 71-yearold Donna Axum Whitworth was honored with an on-field ceremony during the Auburn vs. Arkansas football game on Nov. 2. University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart and Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Jeff Long escorted her onto the field as footage of her crowning played on the video screen at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

She began entering pageants to boost her self-esteem, winning her first title, Miss Union County, in 1958 as a high school senior in El Dorado. She was the cotton-picking queen of 1962, the Arkansas Forest Queen of 1961 and the Arkansas Poultry Princess the same year. In the summer of 1963, she entered the Miss Arkansas pageant. Her win took her to Atlantic City. She held the distinction of being the only Miss Arkansas to

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Axum used her Miss America scholarship to complete her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Arkansas in speech/drama, television and film. After college, she served as a college professor, a television host and producer, an author and as a professional public speaker. Whitworth has served on the Miss America board since 2004 in addition to more than a half-dozen other organizations’ boards with a focus on arts education. She has also judged state pageants and three Miss America pageants.

Now living in Fort Worth, Texas, with her husband of nearly 30 years, J. Bryan Whitworth, she has never forgotten her Arkansas roots. She is an A+ Life Member of the Arkansas Alumni Association, the Towers of Old Main and a member of the Campaign Arkansas Steering Committee. She previously served on the executive committee for the Campaign to Restore Old Main; the Campaign for the 21st Century Steering Committee, founding the Women and Philanthropy Committee; and the Arkansas Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

In 1988, she received the Citation of Distinguished Alumni from the Arkansas Alumni Association and was named to the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumni Academy in 2000. She has also endowed a U of A scholarship for a student who is a graduate of an Arkansas high school and shows financial need.

Her $250,000 gift led to the creation and dedication in 2003 of the 10,000-square-foot Donna Axum Fitness Center in the U of A’s Physical Education and Recreation Building, commonly known as the HPER Building. Her sorority’s national organization named her one of the “Top 100 Tri Deltas in the First 100 Years.” n

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University of Arkansas Points of Pride Degree Offerings, Enrollment & Size

New Construction & Renovations

• Fall 2013 enrollment reached a record 25,341 students.

• The percentage of new students with a high school GPA of 3.75 or higher is at a record high of 43.5 percent, and 17.7 percent of our freshman class has an ACT score of 30 or higher, also a new record for the university. The campus has also seen an 80 percent increase in minority student enrollment since 2008 and a 16 percent increase in graduate student enrollment since 2006.

• The U of A offers 213 baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral, professional and specialist degree programs — more than any other college or university in the state.

• Hope to hold enrollment at 28,000. The SEC average is 30,000.

• Since 2010, the university has added more than 60 new faculty members and 100 non-tenure track faculty.

• Since the summer of 2010, more than 9,100 U of A students have received Arkansas Challenge Scholarships funded by the Arkansas State Lottery. Of those, more than 7,700 students, or nearly 85 percent, were still enrolled or had graduated as of spring 2013.

• Honors College enrollment has increased by 17 percent since 2009, and the honors recruits are maintaining an average ACT score of 31 and GPA of 4.0. More than half of Honors College students who graduated in the last four years have studied abroad. And 100 percent of Honors College graduates have engaged in undergraduate research with faculty mentors.

• Graduation rates recently exceeded 60 percent — tops in the state among all public universities. Our goal is to reach 70 percent by 2021.

• Hotz Hall and Ozark Hall re-opened to students in August 2013.

• The university dedicated its newest student residence hall, Founders Hall, this fall. The facility adds more than 200 new beds and increases dining capacity by almost 400 seats.

• The Fay Jones School of Architecture celebrated the completion of the renovated Vol Walker Hall and the new addition, the Steven L. Anderson Design Center, a $36.6 million project that brings together the departments of architecture, landscape architecture and interior design for the first time in school history.

• The Fred W. Smith Football Center was officially dedicated in front of hundreds of special guests, including the namesake of the beautiful new $40 million home of Razorback football.

Philanthropy

• The Chronicle of Higher Education identified the U of A as the 13th fastest growing university in the nation. (August 2013) • The university earned the “Best Lifetime Return on Investment” among Arkansas universities, as ranked by AffordableCollegesOnline.org.

• The university earned the “Best Lifetime Return on Investment” ranking among Arkansas universities by AffordableCollegesOnline.org. (July 2013) • The university is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best public values by multiple sources including: • Kiplinger’s Personal Finance — which ranked the U of A 65th on its top 100 ‘Best Values in Public Colleges’ list for 2012-2013.

• The Princeton Review — which recognized the University as one of the top 75 schools on its “2013 Best Value Colleges” list.

• And Forbes — which ranked the U of A 44th on its “Top 100 Best Buy Colleges” list last year.

• In fiscal year 2013, which ended July 31, the university raised over $108.4 million in gift production. This was the third consecutive year to raise over $100 million.

• A $6 million gift was secured for the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center in September 2012.

• Since 2008, the university has raised almost $500 million for new facilities, programs and scholarships.

Research & Awards

• In fiscal year 2013, the University of Arkansas recorded a record-setting 45 intellectual property disclosures reported by campus researchers.

• The U of A is the only university or college in Arkansas in the Carnegie Foundation’s highest research classification. In 2013, the university recorded approximately $125.5 million in research expenditures.

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• Hillside Auditorium, a 35,000-square-foot building featuring a 487-seat auditorium and a smaller 290-seat auditorium, opened for classes beginning in the spring 2013 semester. The multilevel structure features green roofs and showcases public art.

• In April, the campus community gathered to celebrate the dedication of the newly renovated Charlie and Cappy Whiteside Greek Life Leadership Center. This fall, the center is providing support to the growing Greek population on campus.

• Groundbreaking is scheduled soon for Hawkins Terrace, the first phase of the outdoor learning facility to be constructed south of the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building, and Bill and Suzanne Hawkins will be recognized as“Friends”of the Bumpers College.

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• The university ranks 63rd among public universities, according to the U.S. News & World Report list of “Best National Universities” for 2014 and has moved up four places since 2012. It is the only public institution in the state to be ranked among the top tier schools.

• U.S. News and World Report ranked the Sam M. Walton College of Business No. 1 in the nation for fulltime M.B.A. graduates employed at graduation. U.S. News also recognized Walton College as 27th best in the country among public undergraduate business schools and 47th overall among public and private business colleges.

• The Walton College full-time M.B.A. program ranked 37th among public institutions, and the part-time program ranked 32nd among public colleges and universities.

• The Fay Jones School of Architecture tied for No. 1 in two different categories in the annual survey of “America’s Best Architecture and Design Schools,” a study conducted by the Design Futures Council and also published in the November/December 2012 issue of DesignIntelligence. Earning the top spot for “Regional Respect and Admiration” and “Best Small School Design Program,” the Fay Jones School was ranked 19th in the nation overall.

• The School of Law is ranked in the top tier of law schools for the fifth consecutive year and continues its steady climb in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, now at 36th place among public law schools.

• The National Jurist ranked the School of Law the 2nd “Best Value” among American law schools.

(September 2013) • QS Top Universities ranked the University of Arkansas 88th in a list of top 100 agriculture universities worldwide and 25th in the United States. (June 2013) • The rehabilitation counseling graduate program is No. 8 in the nation for scholarly productivity by faculty members.

• The program in creative writing was ranked 35th in the nation by Poets & Writers magazine. ■

An Exciting Fall The stated mission of the Arkansas Alumni Association is “to connect and serve the University of Arkansas Family.” In all issues of Arkansas magazine and in my previous communications/messages to you within this magazine, a myriad of activities have been highlighted that indicate and show how we fulfill our mission.

I want to emphasize three fantastic events that we undertook and accomplished this fall that centered around rewarding, celebrating and training.

First, our annual Alumni Awards Celebration occurred on Friday, Oct. 11. This always precedes our Homecoming football game. This celebration is the highlight event of our year at the Association. I call it our “bell cow” activity. Many stakeholders who regularly attend consider this the most rewarding activity centered around our school.

Since 1944, we have been recognizing faculty, alumni and selecting honorary alumni. This year’s event, held away from campus for the first time at the Fayetteville Town Center, honored four faculty members and seven alumni. The added space allowed us to increase attendance by more than 50 percent from 2012. The camaraderie, fellowship and program were all special. It was a joyous event. I got many positive comments from attendees. Details about the awards and awardees can be found in this issue of the magazine.

Secondly, the Student Alumni Association and Student Alumni Board provided the leadership that truly “pulled off” the bulk of our Homecoming celebrations and events held during the week of October 7. These include the parade, dodge ball tournament, American Red Cross blood drive, chili cook-off and Hot Dogs with Head Hogs. Nearly $15,000 was raised for the March of Dimes.

We are so proud of the group and its growing influence on campus, as it continues to emphasize to students, among other things, the value of alumni involvement and interest toward our school.

Finally, our Volunteer Summit was held in Fayetteville on Sept. 13 with 92 in attendance. A majority of our chapters and societies were represented. The summit was designed to bring together leaders of our chapters and societies for training.

This year a special emphasis was made on educating these alumni leaders on the re-casting of chapters into regional networks and affiliate groups. This change is made in large part to facilitate our alumni groups reaching more alumni. We, along with most other alumni associations, are having to rethink how we do a lot of things with the changing mind-sets and interests of our alumni.

In addition, during the Volunteer Summit our traditional chapter awards were presented along with a new set of awards presented to deserving individuals. You can read more about these awards in this issue.

Fall brings a ton of energy and activities to our campus. The Arkansas Alumni Association helps lead the way, and we are proud to do so! I extend a ton of appreciation to our Alumni Association staff and some very special students for making all of this happen.

John C. Reap ✪+ ’70 President, Arkansas Alumni Association

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associations The Arkansas Alumni Association honored 11 University of Arkansas alumni and faculty during the 69th annual Alumni Awards Celebration on Oct. 11, presented by Fidelity Investments. Although the Alumni Association has presented awards each year since 1944, this year marked the first time the event was moved to the Fayetteville Town Center, and the first year the award recipients participated in the Homecoming parade. They also were recognized with on-field introductions during halftime of the Homecoming football game.

The Alumni Association extends a special thank you to the 2013 awards celebration event sponsors: Butterfield Trail Village, Bank of America, Razorback Band Foundation, CitiScapes Magazine, KUAF, McBride Distributing and Lindt Chocolate.

Citation of Distinguished Alumni Mary Ann Greenwood ✪+ BSBA’62, MA’72, Ph.D.’79 President, Greenwood Gearhart Inc. Q: What is one of your greatest professional achievements?

A: One of the achievements in my career has been the joy of establishing a firm that has helped many people achieve financial success for themselves, their families and their businesses.

Accomplishing this as a woman in a man’s world was somewhat unlikely in the South some 30 years ago. My success was made possible by my own hard work, the support of my family, but perhaps most importantly, because of my education at the University of Arkansas.

Education is the great equalizer and the great hope for the future of Arkansas. Increasing the level of education for the people of Arkansas would be the ultimate project and on that I will continue to support. I am an ordinary person who has had extraordinary opportunities.

Q: What inspired you to study economics and finance, and how did you choose your career path?

A: My career path was influenced by working for Gardner McNabb, a businessman in Pocahontas – it was business, not chemistry that I chose for my major. In the late 1950s while I was an undergraduate, the university began a doctoral program in economics. That emphasis together with economics classes during summer school in Mexico sealed the deal. I wanted to study economics and finance. When I returned to Fayetteville in 1970 for graduate work, Dr. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Harold Dulan further influenced my career choice. Attaining my Ph.D. in economics and finance together with attaining the chartered financial

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analyst designation gave me the academic and professional foundation for my career. Becoming a registered investment adviser, managing money was what I knew how to do and since I was good at that activity, my career was set. Greenwood & Associates Inc. was founded in 1982.

Today, I have a partner and we are Greenwood Gearhart Inc.

Montine McNulty ✪+ BSE’68 Executive Director, Arkansas Hospitality Association Q: In your career what do you consider your greatest achievement?

A: I would have to say that my greatest career achievement was the establishment of an education foundation for our hospitality industry. Because of the generosity of the industry we have awarded $500,000 in scholarships for Arkansas students.

We have established restaurant and lodging curriculum in many high schools in Arkansas, and with our secondary school partners we have developed a seamless career path to one of the fastest growing industries in Arkansas.

Q: As an alumna, are you still engaged with your alma mater? How? A: Absolutely! It is a lifelong relationship and commitment. I had the privilege of serving two terms on the Alumni Association Board of Directors. My husband and I have supported the Alumni Association and the U of A financially and with our time since we graduated. I continually advocate for additional state funding for the U of A and higher education, which is important for all alumni to do.

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Q: What one piece of knowledge or advice would you provide to a potential college student?

A: Get your degree and figure out what you would love to do every day. Then find a way to get paid to do it!

Q: Was there any person or thing that inspired you to go into the career path you are on now?

A: Yes, in 1988 I was appointed by Governor Bill Clinton for a sixyear term to the State Parks and Tourism Commission. Twenty-five years later I continue to serve as an emeritus commissioner. In this job, I lobby for hospitality and tourism and represent the second-largest industry in Arkansas as executive director of the Arkansas Hospitality Association.

Lieutenant General (USMC Ret.) Martin R. Steele ✪+ BA’74, Associate Vice President for Veterans Research and Executive Director, Military Partnerships Q: Talk a bit about your philosophy toward your work and past military career.

A: I was fortunate to wear the uniform for 34 ½ years. I enlisted as a private and rose to a threestar general. I credit that to the education I received in Fayetteville, both at Fayetteville High School and as an undergraduate at the U of A. That experience shaped me into who I am. The value system as a non-traditional student at the university, with professors whom I could go to, it shaped who I was as a Marine, husband, father and grandfather. In 1999, I retired from the military and became president and CEO of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City.

I am now chairman and founder of Steele Partners Inc. – a strategic advisory and leadership consulting company. I also serve as the associate vice president for veterans research and the executive director of military partnerships at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla. Q: What was your most memorable experience at the U of A? A: I was born in Philadelphia and moved to Arkansas at the age of 4. I became a Razorback in 1952 as a young boy and was inspired by the head athletic trainer, Bill Ferrell. I lived in Fayetteville and was on campus in some capacity every single day. In 1964, I went to school at Arkansas and wanted to play for Frank Broyles, who was one of my major mentors. In January 1965, I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. Returning home, I was commissioned as second lieutenant, making me the youngest officer, at 20 years old, to be commissioned in the Marine Corps. I decided, as a husband and father of two, to return to the U of A in 1972 and majored in history.

Dr. James Chase was my mentor and as a non-traditional student, it was quite a different experience. However, during that time period,

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with the turmoil the country was going through, it was the standard that Fayetteville set, as well as my experience as a non-traditional student, that made a large impact on me.

Andrew J. Lucas Alumni Service Award David Woolly ✪ BSE’72, MED’77, EDS’80 Superintendent, Alma School District Q: What is your philosophy regarding service?

A: I believe that we all have an obligation to society to give, not just of our capital, but especially of our time. Whether it is the Boy Scouts, our church, a civic club, or a university, there are countless opportunities to serve. This should be a major commitment of everyone.

Q: Please talk a bit about your work in public education and what that has meant to you.

A: My career in public education, first as a band director for a short time, and for 37 years as an administrator, has been a great ride. It has been my great fortune and privilege to have the opportunity to work with young people, to see them grow and develop, and to have played a part in helping many thousands to begin their life and careers successfully.

Q: Why is it important to stay connected to your alma mater?

A: It affords one the opportunity to be of service, to continue to grow and learn, and to continue to enjoy the excitement of the collegiate environment.

Q: What piece of advice would you give to college students to become interested in giving back and being service-oriented?

A: A college degree is far more valuable than most new graduates realize. College is a life-changing event for everyone. It is incumbent on all to give back to the university, and assist the next generation of graduates to be even more successful than we were.

Q: You have been incredibly involved with the U of A over the years in myriad ways, Razorback Band Alumni Society, Dean’s Advisory Council, Campaign Arkansas to name a few. What inspired you to get involved – and stay involved – in these areas?

A: I must add to (and actually headline) your list with my continued involvement in the band program, specifically in video and audio recording of band events. I had the good fortune to enjoy this as a hobby, and have been able to lend my expertise to serve a need of the band. It has been one of the great joys of my life to have had the opportunity to serve the band for these 40 plus years, and still counting.

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associations William Woolly ✪ BSBA’68, MED’72 Educator (Retired), Arkansas Department of Vocational Education Q: What was your most memorable experience at the University of Arkansas?

A: Serving as drum major of the band and assisting Dr. Worthington with many administrative duties was the most memorable. During that time, the director used undergraduate students for duties within the band program. During my four years in school, I served as uniform manager, equipment manager and head of the student staff. One great experience was having my older brother in the UA band at the same time, and my younger brother became a music major the year after I graduated.

Q: Talk a bit about your past profession and how you utilized your university experience in your work.

A: I earned a B.S.B.A. in marketing and began a career teaching distributive education (marketing) to high school students. The students were in my class one period a day and were required to work 15 hours a week. It was more than just teaching. The job was titled teacher/coordinator. I helped the students find jobs and supervised their work to help them succeed and make sure it was a learning experience.

In addition to the “book” knowledge needed to teach the course and help the students, the organizational skills, time management and working with people skills were invaluable in every job I have ever had.

Very few college students get the opportunity to lead and learn like that of a college drum major.

Q: You have supported the Razorback Band for many years. What inspires you to get involved and stay involved?

A: The students and what they do for the UA and will do for the world when they graduate. The students give many hours to participate and represent the UA at many events. They deserve more than the scholarship money they receive and a thank you. As a group, the band members probably have the highest group GPA of any group on campus. These students will become the leaders of the world. We have tried to support the band and students in any way that will make their experience more rewarding and fun. It will also help the band directors attract the best students possible and present the UA in the best possible light.

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Community Service Award Gene Fortson ✪+ BA ’57 Little Rock City Council Board of Directors Q: What was your most memorable experience at the University of Arkansas?

A: Lots of good times and lot of lifelong friends came from my time in Fayetteville. I suppose my most memorable and enjoyable experience was serving as managing editor of the Razorback my senior year. Even many years later, the long hours, the excitement of producing the book and the many people working on it are a favorite memory of my years in Fayetteville.

Q: What inspired you to go into a public service career?

A: I have always had an interest in public service and was taught that it is a noble calling and every citizen’s duty. I majored in government and economics at the university. Although I did not seek elective office until recently, I have been involved in public service and government all my adult life, including working as a legislative liaison for both the banking industry and the insurance industry years ago.

Q: Please share your philosophy toward community service and share a bit about your personal rewards received.

A: Early in my business career I was motivated to get involved in community service by the influence of an inspiring boss and leader, Ed Penick. The environment he created developed an appreciation of community service and the obligation to put something back into the community where you live and work. That lesson has guided me over the years. The rewards that arise from community service include the satisfaction that you are “paying growth” and can lead to professional and personal development opportunities and satisfaction.

Q: Why is it important to stay connected to your alma mater?

A: Your alma mater is the launching pad from which most business and professional careers begin. The place that gave you the tools, the motivation and the connections to succeed needs and deserves your financial support as well as your influence. From a professional and personal standpoint, it will provide the network that will be the basis for your growth in the future.

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Young Alumni Award Brandy Tuft ★ BSBA ’06 Assurance Manager, Ernst & Young Q: What brought you to the University of Arkansas?

A: From the time I was very young, I always knew I wanted to be a Razorback. I visited the campus for the first time when I was a freshman in high school, and I absolutely fell in love. It was the only place I could imagine calling home. In addition to loving the campus, the U of A had a great business school, and I knew I wanted to study accounting so that only reinforced my decision to come to Arkansas.

Q: In your career, what do you consider your greatest achievement?

A: Getting to work for Ernst & Young every day. I honestly work with some of the most intelligent, thoughtful and amazing people.

They go out of their way to help me in my career. I have had the privilege to travel to some amazing places (Australia, Costa Rica, United Kingdom) and participate in some great programs (webcasts, people advisory forums, etc.). I’m so fortunate that they saw potential in me and continue to develop that potential.

Q: As an alumna, are you still engaged with your alma mater? If so, how? Why is it important to you?

A: Yes, I attend recruiting events, accounting/business school events, alumni events and sporting events. I feel as if the university helped mold me into who I am. I love being able to give back and hopefully help build that next generation of great Razorbacks!

Q: Was there a person or thing that inspired you to go into the career path you are on now? What led you to this point in your career?

A: My mom inspired me to continue my education. I was the first person in my family to receive a college degree. There was never an option according to my mother of whether or not I would attend college. It was a natural extension to high school for which I am so thankful. My high school teacher (Elizabeth Thompson) who created a self-study Accounting 2 class inspired me to become an accountant.

She was not only a great teacher but a great motivator. She made me feel as if I could accomplish anything.

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Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award Dr. Manuel D. Rossetti Professor of Industrial Engineering; John L. Imhoff Endowed Chair; Director of the Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution; College of Engineering Q: What has been your most memorable experience?

A: My son experienced all the great things that the U of A has to offer through his Honors College experience, scholarship, etc. on his way to graduate school. So, the most memorable experience to date has to be handing my son his diploma at commencement.

My son is talented enough to have attended many top-notch schools, but we decided to have him attend the U of A. Why? Because you can get a great education at the U of A. My daughter will also attend the U of A. I look forward to handing my daughter her diploma in another few years. Every student that walks across that stage at commencement should be treated as if they were your own son or daughter. That is something that we all should remember.

Q: Is there a personal philosophy that is part of your teaching?

A: I love to learn. I cannot think of a better way to learn than to teach and do research. This is why I am a scholar. I approach teaching students based on the assumption that they also want to learn. If we both want to learn, then we can learn together. I approach research as a way to teach students and myself about a topic. … Research leads to deep understanding of material and enables its application to improve the world. Research is an active process. Thus, learning should be an active process. I try to apply teaching methods that cause students to get actively involved. … Getting students to collaborate on realistic problems while I facilitate the process enables the outcomes that I am looking for. That is, students who can discover, understand, synthesize, generate and apply new knowledge.

Q: What have your students taught you?

A: Through the years, I have learned many things from students, but the one thing that stands out is that you can take risks in the classroom and if it flops, they will forgive you. Their willingness to forgive you for trying something new is amazing.

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Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award For Service

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award For Research

Dr. Cheryl Murphy Director, Distance Education College of Education and Health Professions

Dr. Russell D. Meller Hefley Professor of Logistics and Entrepreneurship College of Engineering

Q: What is your philosophy regarding service?

A: For me, service is not a chore, an afterthought, or something “extra” a faculty member performs.

Rather, service is one of the fun and exciting ways faculty contribute to the university and to society as a collective. Service activities allow faculty to share their specific areas of expertise and knowledge with a wide audience and provide them opportunities to apply their research and teaching experiences toward the enhancement of others. As a faculty member I find this very attractive and professionally fulfilling. Additionally, while some might consider service work as self-sacrificing, I disagree. I believe those who participate in service activities are as rewarded by the experience as those for whom the service is being performed.

Q: How does your research impact classes you teach at the university?

A: I find it very difficult to separate research from teaching.

On the one hand, research has only a minor impact on my courses. What I mean is that I construct a course based on the need to prepare my students for some aspect of their careers. And where research results can help to do so, I bring it into the classroom in a way that complements what they have in their textbooks. But that view leaves out how teaching a subject helps to expose the professor to the gaps in what you can teach students based on what’s available. And those gaps will inspire you to fill them with research, which then gets brought back into the classroom.

Q: Please share your most rewarding service experience.

A: Internally, I can confidently say that the service work I performed as a co-director of the Teaching and Faculty Support Center was intensely rewarding. In this role I was able to personally connect with hundreds of faculty and TAs as I attempted to assist them in improving teaching and learning. This was a learning experience for both me and for those I was attempting to assist. I grew quite a bit personally and professionally from this service experience, and I believe I helped others grow as well. Externally the most rewarding service experience has been my service work as a consultant peer reviewer with the Higher Learning Commission. In the role of peer reviewer I ensure academic institutions provide the higher quality educational experience possible to all students. In the consultant role I provided targeted support to institutions in need of assistance and help them improve the overall quality of teaching and learning.

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Q: How difficult is it to obtain funding for research and how often do you have to apply for grants?

A: I’m an engineering professor and I’m part of a system that requires funding. Not so much that I couldn’t accomplish the research without funding, but that funding enables me to support graduate students, and graduate students allow me to leverage my time so that I am able to accomplish more. I relate a time-honored saying with my graduate students that they sit in the shade of a tree they didn’t plant.

It’s their responsibility to plant a tree for the next student. Perhaps as a consequence, I don’t think too much about the difficulty of obtaining funding for research. That’s not to say that it isn’t difficult – because it is – rather to say that it’s just a reality that many proposals will be written that are unfunded. But I have always found that the projects that I’m willing to invest in, others are as well. It may take some time, but it always seems to work out.

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Faculty Distinguished Rising Teaching Achievement Award Dr. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon Associate Professor of History; Director, Program in International Relations; J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Q: What has been your most memorable experience here?

A: The university has afforded me the opportunity, through the Cleveland C. Burton professorship, to establish study abroad fellowships for undergraduate students and to develop a paid undergraduate summer internship at the British Consulate General in Houston. Through the study abroad fellowships, I have been able to play a part in supporting students going to Syria, France, India, Sweden, Japan, Morocco, and Costa Rica over the past four years where they have been able to participate in life-changing experiences.

Through the internship, I have had the privilege of placing students in a meaningful and fast-paced work environment, which has real impact on policy and governance.

Q: What, in your opinion, makes a great teacher?

A: First and foremost, passion makes a great teacher. If a professor is not passionate about what he/she is teaching, then that will become apparent very quickly in the classroom. If a professor truly loves his/ her subject, to the extent that sharing that information with students becomes a compulsion rather than a choice, then great teaching will take care of itself. A professor must love his/her material, and by doing so, the students will wish to emulate that.

Q: Is there a personal philosophy that is part of your teaching?

A: I will never require my students to do anything that I do not do in my daily activities. As a historian, I read other historians’ scholarship, I write reviews of that scholarship, and I conduct my own independent research in order to compose my own versions of history. I do not memorize names, dates and places. I do not regurgitate bullet points of information under tightly monitored time constraints.

For that reason, my students read, write, and conduct their own research. They become historians in their own right. That is my goal in each and every course I teach. â–

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More than 150 Arkansas Alumni Association scholars, volunteers and staff attended the Scholarship Celebration Event on Nov. 7. Scholars pictured from left to right are Sam Goll, Sangini Bhargava, Cailley Brumley, Meghan Shrewsbury and Laura Kirkley.

Arkansas Alumni Association Scholarship Program Reaches $1 Million Milestone

by Nicole Allbritton ’07, ’10 The Arkansas Alumni Association’s alumni scholarship program will award $1 million to 442 University of Arkansas students for the current academic year. Robin January, scholarship coordinator of the association, received the final two acceptance letters from scholarship awardees.

“We finally hit the $1 million mark for 2013-14 scholarships,” she exclaimed in an email to Alumni Association staff.

The program began in 1990 as an idea to support future alumni through student scholarships, and awarded $1,600 per year to two scholarship recipients – Shane Benbrook and Kristin Cooper Maris – in its first year. Since that time, alumni and friends of the association have worked to increase the number of recipients and the dollar amount given to future alumni.

“I’ve had the privilege of overseeing the Alumni Association’s growing scholarship program for 10 years,” January said. “Since that time, our total dollars awarded has increased by 550 percent and our average scholarship award has more than doubled. This million dollar milestone would not be possible without our more than 29,000 alumni members, 25,000-plus Razorback collegiate license plate owners, alumni chapters and societies across the country, and generous donors who contribute to our named scholarship endowments.”

Early each year, January reaches out to former alumni scholars, the association’s national board of directors, association staff and volunteers to participate in the annual scholarship review. “What is remarkable about our program is the personal approach we have taken in regards to our selection and engagement of alumni scholars,” she said.

For two days, volunteers are asked to read hundreds of applications, searching for students who stand out among their peers and who would represent the University of Arkansas in a positive light. In 2013, nearly 50 volunteers read more than 450 applications submitted by students from across the country.

Heather Nelson, an Arkansas Alumni Association board member who has participated in the scholarship review for many years, clears her calendar each year in preparation for the annual scholarship review.

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“I always say it is the best two days of my year, and I really mean it,” she said. “So much in our lives we take for granted, and it is the norm, and repetitive…but every year for two days, I am assured that I am going to be doing something completely unselfish…while also being inspired.”

Nelson has become one of the many faces of scholarship advocacy, speaking to former, current and future alumni about her experience and how important those two days are to her, the association and the U of A. Former “Roads” scholar Kristen Allbritton remembers her feeling when she learned she received a scholarship for the Alumni Association.

“Receiving the ‘Roads’ Scholarship was my first true introduction to the Arkansas Alumni Association and what great things it does for the University,” she said. This ignited a passion in me to remain involved and connected to the association, something of which I am still very much a part of today. It meant so much to be selected among a talented group of students for this scholarship, and it proved to me that working hard does pay off. This award helped me to achieve a dream of funding my college education through scholarships and not placing the financial burden on my parents.”

The association adheres to strict criteria when selecting students for scholarships. Grade point averages are calculated into the overall point system but only account for a small portion of the overall scoring. Instead, volunteers are encouraged to score a student based on leadership qualities, academic history and overall character.

“Each year, I am amazed by our scholarship recipients and what they accomplish during their time at the university. Not only are they performing well academically, they are engaged in the community and abroad,” January said.

Many of the alumni scholarships are renewable throughout a student’s four years; however, the student must maintain a specific grade point average to have his or her scholarship renewed.

January said it is a great feeling to know that a scholar found their passion during their time at the U of A and then see them express an interest in helping with scholarship review after graduation. ■

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Volunteer Summit 2013: “Charting a New Course” On Sept. 13, the Arkansas Alumni Association hosted 92 volunteers at the University of Arkansas’ Global Campus for the 2013 “Charting a New Course” Volunteer Summit presented by Bank of America and Frost Certified Public Accountants. Under the direction of Deb Euculano, associate director of special programs for the Arkansas Alumni Association, volunteers learned of new changes on the horizon for the Alumni Association’s chapter and society programs, led by Heath Bowman, associate director of regional programs.

“The overall goals of the Volunteer Summit are to provide a forum to discuss and get feedback on the recent changes to our chapters and societies, and also to provide tools and resources to be more effective volunteers and alumni groups,” Euculano said.

While learning of the new changes and opportunities to engage alumni and friends, volunteers were recognized for their hard work and dedication to the Alumni Association and its mission to connect and serve. The Mace Award was presented to the Lemke Journalism Alumni Society. The award, named for Mike Macechko, emeritus executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association, recognizes exceptional event planning, execution and attendance by alumni groups that lead by example in connecting and serving alumni and friends to the association and U of A. The Northwest Arkansas Chapter received the Board Cup, an annual award given to an alumni chapter for its outstanding work and achievements during the previous calendar year.

This year’s Volunteer Summit included new awards, including the Beacon Award’s Most Innovative Program, which was presented to the Young Alumni Board for Hogs Care Week. The Mid-South Chapter received the Razorback Rally Award for Most Improved Alumni Group and the Black Alumni Society received the Pride of Arkansas Award for Outstanding Philanthropy Event in recognition of the Black Alumni Society 2013 Reunion.

Recognizing leadership and spirit among volunteers, the Dallas and Tulsa chapters were recognized for their Outstanding Community Service, receiving the Spirit of Service Award, while three volunteers

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received the Servant Leadership Award: Judy Covert, Wichita Chapter president; Dr. Mary Ellen Harbin Kemp, Dallas Chapter board member; and John L Colbert, Black Alumni Society president.

The final awards presented recognized those who have gone above and beyond, and who exemplify what it means to be an outstanding volunteer. Receiving the Rising Star Award were Kama Marsh, Northwest Arkansas Chapter board member; Scott Noblett, Young Alumni Board president; and Robert Kolf, St. Louis Chapter president.

“The volunteers are the backbone of our Alumni Association,” Euculano said. “They give their time and talents to help us connect and engage our alumni, so appreciation is what I feel for our volunteers. … Our volunteers don’t do what they do to be given awards, but any time we can show our appreciation for their dedication and efforts, we should. The Volunteer Summit was an appropriate venue to thank those that have demonstrated a high standard of excellence. Heath and I were honored to present several volunteers and alumni groups with newly developed awards this year and hope to continue with this recognition.”

After the summit, volunteers were invited to attend a reception at the newest premier condominium establishment, The Dickson. When choosing The Dickson as the host of the Volunteer Summit’s reception, Euculano said it was “to provide a relaxing atmosphere for the volunteers to be able to informally socialize after the summit. Also, it gave The Dickson an opportunity to showcase the variety of condos they have available.” Settled in the heart of Northwest Arkansas’ entertainment district, The Dickson overlooks Dickson Street and provides stunning views of downtown and the University of Arkansas campus.

Euculano plans to host the Volunteer Summit every other year, saying, “In the off years, we will host the regional board retreats. The benefit of bringing everyone back to campus is that we can provide more sessions with a variety of presenters and they can meet other volunteers outside of their region.”

Special thanks to the following sponsors: Courtyard by Marriott, The Dickson, habitotes, McBride Distributing and Starbucks. ■

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Homecoming 2013 Focuses on Community Service

By Nicole Allbritton ’07,’10 Festivities to celebrate Homecoming Week 2013 proved to be a success as students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in various events surrounding this year’s theme “Super Hogs.”

A drive to collect food for the Full Circle Campus Food Pantry kicked off the pre-Homecoming week. Included in the Homecoming competition, 14,466 food items were donated, including more than 1,000 boxes of Macaroni & Cheese, which was one of the “most needed” items at the pantry. Apart from the food drive was the annual American Red Cross Blood Drive on Oct. 2 and 3. First place in the blood drive went to Kappa Alpha Psi, Kappa Alpha Order, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Zeta Tau Alpha. More than 200 volunteers provided assistance as donors gave more than 1,000 units of blood.

On Oct. 7, more than 1,600 people visited the Union Mall for a free lunch with “Hot Dogs with Head Hogs” sponsored by First Security.

More than 100 students, faculty and staff volunteered to hand out hot dogs, including University of Arkansas Athletics Director Jeff Long; Chancellor G. David Gearhart; U of A Baseball Coach Dave Van Horn; as well as various Razorback athletes. Also on the agenda for the day was the annual banner competition. Participating fraternities, sororities and residence halls took part in creating a unique “Super Hogs” themed banner. Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta and Pi Beta Phi took first place. Concluding the day, 500 spectators watched as 55 teams battled one another in the Homecoming dodgeball tournament.

The annual “Create-A-Hog” event at the Union Connections Lounge saw a variation of “Super Hogs” including Thor, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman, Spiderman, Superman, the Green Lantern, Iron Man and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. In an effort to promote sustainability, many of the “Super Hogs” featured recycled plastic water bottles and cardboard. Voted on by students, the event raised $14,481

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for the March of Dimes. At 6 p.m. spectators arrived at the university’s intramural fields to enjoy the Flag Football “Pigskin Classic” Tournament.

With the smell of chili in the air, students participated in the Homecoming Super Hogs Chili Cook-Off on Oct. 9. At the conclusion of the event, all of the food was donated to the Seven Hills Homeless Shelter.

In an effort to show appreciation for the troops, on the eve of Homecoming, Friday, Oct. 11, students, staff and faculty donated their time to the Hogs for Heroes event at the Union Mall. Stuffing and labeling care packages to send to Arkansas troops deployed in the Horn of Africa, participants wrote thank you notes and personal letters to the soldiers.

Other events occurring that day included the Lawn Decorating Competition, where fraternities, sororities and residence halls performed various Super Hero skits for selected judges and the Arkansas Alumni Awards Banquet at the Fayetteville Town Center, which hosted more than 300 attendees. The ever popular Dickson Street Parade was full of Homecoming floats, Arkansas Spirit Squads, the Razorback Band and various student groups marching along downtown Dickson Street, and was followed by the Homecoming Pep Rally at the Chi Omega Greek Theatre.

All of the events led to the matchup between the Arkansas Razorbacks and South Carolina Gamecocks on Oct. 12. During halftime, Maggie Jo Pruitt, a senior in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, was crowned 2013 Homecoming Queen. Joseph Holloway, a senior journalism major, was nominated by Beta Upsilon Chi Fraternity to escort Pruitt onto the field.

To view the list of Homecoming winners, visit www.facebook.com/ ArkansasSAA. Visit the Arkansas Alumni Association’s Flickr set to view the photos from Homecoming 2013. ■

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associations NWA Chapter Pig Sooie Scramble & Par-Tee Raise Scholarship Money As the sun set behind the rolling hills of Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club on a breezy August evening, team Starr Foundation’s Pig Sooie Scramble dreams became reality.

Jacob Guerin, Brandon Burks, Chase Foster and Chad Matthews, members of the winning team ”Starr Foundation” proved victorious after the final Pig Sooie Scramble play-offs that lasted well into sundown on Aug. 16.

Guerin was encouraged by his neighbor and Northwest Arkansas Chapter board member, Cathy Roe, to enter a team in the tournament.

When asked about the winning team, Roe said, “I knew my young neighbor, Jacob Guerin, played golf, and since I was asking every neighbor to put together a team, I encouraged him to do so. He told me they were good, but I had no idea they were that good.”

The Pig Sooie Scramble grand prize included the Acura College Alumni Team Championship in Pinehurst, N.C. The package includes deluxe accommodations for three nights, a welcome gift pack including Adidas team uniforms, welcome party, Acura Alumni Champions dinner and awards presentation, prizes and much more.

The Northwest Arkansas Chapter Pig Sooie Scramble Dollars for Scholars Golf Tournament presented by WealthPath Investment Advisors, is the chapter’s largest scholarship fundraiser event. The need-based scholarship is awarded to rising juniors and seniors from Northwest Arkansas. The chapter has awarded more than $70,000 in scholarships since 2000, and this year they brought in roughly $26,000.

The newest addition to the chapter’s golf tournament was the Pig Sooie Par-Tee at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House the evening before the tournament. Those who attended the event enjoyed food, drinks, a photo booth and a silent auction.

“I suggested that we bring back a social event combined with an auction as not only a thank you to our sponsors, donors, golfers and volunteers, but it would bring in the non-golfers as well. By doing this, we made over $5,000 at just the Par-Tee,” Roe said.

“We have actually doubled the amount of scholarship funds every year,” said Kama Marsh, Northwest Arkansas Chapter communications chair and event co-organizer.

Serving as the Alumni Association staff liaision for the Northwest Arkansas Chapter, Heath Bowman, associate director of regional programs, was astounded by the achievements of the chapter, as well as the hard work and dedication of volunteers and chapter board members. “This year, the Northwest Arkansas Chapter set the scholarship fundraising bar at new heights for our regional alumni groups across the country. I am proud to announce that the group raised over $26,000 through their Pig Sooie Scramble golf tournament and kick-off Par-Tee this summer. Proceeds from those efforts will be contributed directly to the group’s scholarship fund, which benefits U of A upperclassmen in need.”

To view photos from the event, visit www.flickr.com/photos/ arkansasalumni/sets/72157635182924295. ■

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As they say, all good things must come to an end, and with the Hogs closing out the season battling LSU in Baton Rouge, La., Razorbacks fans will have to wait until next fall for Arkansas football fever. The end of football season also means the end to another successful year of Hog Wild Tailgates for the Arkansas Alumni Association.

The staff at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House hosted thousands of avid Razorbacks fans throughout the season. Guests enjoyed a true tailgating experience with food catered by Catering Unlimited and Shake’s Frozen Custard, drinks, musical entertainment by Mike Chase and the Extreme Dance Machine, and a visit from the University of Arkansas cheerleaders and Razorback Marching Band.

“During the 2013 Hog Wild Tailgate season, we have weathered one of the hottest games of the season – checking in at 104 degrees – to the torrential rains that accompanied the Texas A&M game. This year’s tailgates were open to the public, though the vast majority of our guests included association members and their guests. Additionally, we have tried to incorporate more health-conscious options while serving tailgate menus that our alumni tell us they enjoy,” said Julie Preddy, associate director of lifelong learning, career and travel.

New this year was a photo booth provided by Dancenhance.

Equipped with feathered boas, wacky sunglasses, hog hats and snouts, and red foam fingers, guests were encouraged to step inside, dress up and prepare for their close up. Not only did participants enjoy the fun-filled experience, but upon exiting the booth, a strip of four photographs was presented as a keepsake.

During the Arkansas vs. Southern Mississippi game on Sept. 14, the Alumni Association staff hosted its annual Membership Appreciation Day, providing members with a “Woo Pig Sooie” scrolling banner as a special gift. Members were not the only ones enjoying the special day.

The second annual KidsZone was open to children ages 12 and under with face painting, arts and crafts, and popsicles.

The Nov. 2 Arkansas vs. Auburn tailgate saw a dramatic increase in attendance due to the sponsorship of Lowe’s, providing guests with a complete Game Zone experience. Guests watched football games on multiple screens within the Alumni Association’s Sturgis Hall, and relaxed in the Lowe’s pop-up VIP Lounge. Lowe’s also provided guests with the Lowe’s My Party Pik – a chance for Razorback fans to have their picture taken at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House with Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in the background.

“This partnership between the Arkansas Alumni Association and Lowe’s for the last home football game tailgate set the standard for the sponsorship program. We believe rally attendees truly enjoyed their time at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House,” said Terri Dover, director of membership and resource development.

The Arkansas Alumni Association would like to thank our sponsors: Lowe’s, Fidelity, Liberty Mutual, Bank of America, CitiScapes, abrakadoodle, Woodmen of the World, Dancenhance Entertainment, The Dickson, Popsicle, University of Arkansas Bookstore, Butterfield Trail Village and First Security. ■

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Frank Broyles Inducted Into Southwest Conference Hall of Fame Former Arkansas head football coach and athletic director Frank Broyles was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Dallas. Broyles is one of nine inductees in the first class to be inducted into the SWC Hall of Fame.

“We are pleased that Coach Broyles is being recognized for his contributions to the long-time success of the Southwest Conference and his positive influence on intercollegiate athletics,” said Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics. “His accomplished career as a football coach, administrator and broadcaster helped bring recognition not only to the University of Arkansas, but also helped raise the national profile of the Southwest Conference. His induction is an opportunity to help celebrate the legacy of Coach Broyles and the long and storied history of the Razorbacks in the Southwest Conference.”

Broyles has been a part of University of Arkansas athletics for more than 50 years, serving as the head football coach, athletic director and currently athletic director emeritus. His coaching tenure at Arkansas began in 1958 and continued until 1976. In that time, he amassed a record of 144-58-5, 7 SWC titles, 10 bowl bids, 20 All-Americans and 88 All-SWC selections. In 1964, Coach Broyles led the Razorback football team to an undefeated season that culminated in a 10-7 win over Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl and a National Championship.

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During his time as athletic director, Arkansas won 43 national titles, 57 Southwest Conference titles, and 48 Southeastern Conference titles and the football team went to 22 bowl games.

Before coming to the University of Arkansas, Broyles started his football career playing quarterback at Georgia Tech University (194446) and then went on to be an assistant coach at Baylor (1947-49) and Florida (1950), an offensive coordinator at Georgia Tech (1951-56) and then the head coach for Missouri (1957). From 1977-85, Broyles worked as a broadcaster for ABC with Keith Jackson.

Including this induction into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame, Broyles is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame, Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame, Orange Bowl Hall of Fame, Gator Bowl Hall of Fame, Georgia Tech Hall of Fame and State of Georgia Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the inaugural class of the University of Arkansas Hall of Honor. In 2000 he was awarded the John L. Toner Award for outstanding achievement as an athletic director by the National Football foundation. Created to honor Coach Broyles in 1996, the Broyles award is presented each year to the nation’s top assistant coach. n

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Long Selected as First Chair of Football Playoff Selection Committee Jeff Long, the University of Arkansas vice chancellor and director of athletics, has been named the first chairman of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee it was announced by Bill Hancock, executive director of College Football Playoff.

As chairman, Long will set the Selection Committee’s agenda and run the committee’s meetings. Long will also serve as spokesman for the committee alongside Hancock.

“I’m very humbled and honored to serve as the first chairman of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee,” Long said. “There is no doubt our task will be challenging. However, I am confident in the committee members’ ability to determine the four best teams in college football. I look forward to getting to work.”

Long’s 35 years in college football began when he was a four-year football letterman at Ohio Wesleyan, where he also earned three letters in baseball. Before coming to Arkansas in 2007, Long had been director of athletics at Eastern Kentucky and Pittsburgh and has previously held coaching and administrative positions at Miami (Ohio), North Carolina State, Duke, Michigan, Rice, Virginia Tech and Oklahoma. Long has experience as an athletics director or senior administrator in many of the nation’s most prominent Football Bowl Subdivision conferences including the Big 12, Big Ten, Big East, Atlantic Coast and Southeastern conferences.

“Jeff has vast experience in college football,” Hancock said. “People in intercollegiate athletics hold him in high regard. He is known for his insight, intelligence, wisdom, wit, judgment and calm demeanor. He’ll make a great chairman.”

“Jeff Long’s selection as the first chairman of the College Playoff Selection Committee is a clear indication of his leadership role in intercollegiate athletics,” Chancellor G. David Gearhart said. “Jeff is nationally respected for his integrity and his work on behalf of student-athletes at the University of Arkansas and within the Southeastern Conference. I am appreciative of his tremendous leadership of our program and am confident he represent our institution and all of intercollegiate athletics with great distinction in this very important position.”

Long participated in a press conference in Irving, Texas, to announce the remaining members of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. The College Football Playoff will begin with the 2014-15 season. The 2015 semifinals will be played Jan. 1, 2015, at the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. The first national championship game will be played Jan. 12, 2015 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“While serving on this important committee will require certain personal and professional commitments, I will not let my chairmanship interfere with my responsibilities at the University of Arkansas,” Long said. “As the leader of our athletics program, nothing is more important than my work on behalf of our great institution and more than 460 Razorback student-athletes. I sincerely appreciate the support of Chancellor Gearhart and my team within Razorback Athletics for allowing me this opportunity.” n

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Graduation Success Rate Hits New Record for Student-Athletes University of Arkansas student-athletes who entered school in a fouryear period from 2003-06 earned a school record graduation success rate of 74 percent, according to a report released on Thursday by the NCAA. The latest graduation success rate marked the fifth-consecutive rate of more than 70 percent by Razorback student-athletes and the highest since the rating was introduced in 1998.

The graduation success rate was developed as an improved measurement tool for tracking student-athletes’ academic progress leading toward graduation. The University of Arkansas has steadily improved its graduation success rate since the measurement was implemented nine years ago rising from an initial rate of 60 percent to 74 percent in the numbers released recently. The previous best graduation success rate recorded by the University of Arkansas was 73 percent, recorded by freshman student-athletes initially enrolled in 2004.

“We are pleased that this year’s GSR reflects the sustained progress our program is making in the graduation of student-athletes,” said Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics. “For the fifth-

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Now at 74 percent, the University of Arkansas student-athlete graduation success rate — as defined by the NCAA — is at its highest point since the system was adopted.

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consecutive year, we have earned a GSR exceeding 70 percent including this year’s record mark of 74 percent. While we have made substantial progress, we must continue to effectively equip our more than 460 Razorback student-athletes with the support and resources they need to earn their degree.

“The Student-Athlete Success Center will play an integral part in our continued success and more importantly in the future of the young men and women in our program. When fully funded and completed, the comprehensive facility will allow us to more efficiently and effectively prepare all Razorback student-athletes to reach the goal we have for each and every one of our student-athletes – graduation.”

The graduation success rate for all NCAA institutions was released on Thursday as well as the six-year Federal Graduation rate for each institution. The rating was established to more accurately gauge academic progress among student-athletes. Traditional federal graduation rates do not account for transfers or other student-athletes who leave institutions in good academic standing.

The most recent federal graduation rate for the University of Arkansas, 49 percent, is based on scholarship student-athletes that enrolled full time in 2006. That marks a six percentage point improvement from the institution’s initial federal graduation rate. The overall student rate at the University of Arkansas was 60 percent in the latest reporting period, the highest rate in the past eight years.

In addition to graduation success rate and federal six-year graduation rates, the NCAA established the academic progress rate that provides institutions with a more real-time indicator of academic success. Last summer, Arkansas exceeded the benchmark for academic progress in all 19 sports for the first time in school history. In 2012-13, a total of 94 current or former Razorback student-athletes earned their college degrees from the University of Arkansas.

“While we are seeing progress in both the GSR and federal graduation rate data, it does not yet provide a true reflection of the progress we have made as a combined department,” Long said. “We are confident that in the coming years we will see the long-term positive results that other real time measurements have already indicated.

Last year, for the first time, all 19 of our sports exceeded the NCAA’s academic progress rate benchmark. In addition, Razorback studentathletes posted a record grade point average of 3.09.

“As an institution, we are already seeing the results of a student body which is expanding in numbers and in academic achievement.

As we continue to progress within Razorback Athletics, we will work toward our goal of meeting the rates of the overall student population and further contributing to the increasing academic reputation of the University of Arkansas.” n

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photo from Frederick I. Liebolt Scrapbook, 1924-25, MC 1369; courtesy of University of Arkansas Special Collections.

YesterYear

1924 Homecoming photo from the scrapbook of Frederick Lee Liebolt.

1913

For the annual university picnic, 444 students boarded a Frisco train for the two-hour ride to Monte Ne resort, where they rode the Venetian gondolas and “tripped the light fantastic” to the Black Diamond Orchestra.

1923

Kappa Phi, originally a secret society for women on campus, was granted a charter by Phi Mu to become the Alpha Beta chapter of their national sorority, making it the fifth sorority on the UofA campus. This year marks Phi Mu’s 90th anniversary at the UofA.

1933

As a result of the approval of the University of Arkansas by the Association of American Universities, students of the university became eligible for transfer to any other institution in the U.S. or Europe and have their work fully accredited with full standing.

Dean Ripley amends the “28 day rule,” which banned all dates or social functions in fraternity houses for a period before final exams. The amendment would allow fraternities to hold dances on Saturday nights.

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1943

A new wartime curricula meets demands of labor shortages and wartime jobs by offering new courses of study to university women.

1953

Professor J. Paul Sheedy becomes the new champion coffee-drinker of the UofA following his heroic effort in downing 60 consecutive cups in one hour, exceeding the previous record by 18 cups.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller spoke to a crowd of 300 on campus about the illness of American theater during that period, arguing that the best theatrical productions were currently in Europe.

1963

UofA receives $150,000 grant for Animal Science Research building from the National Institute of Health, Education and Welfare.

Virgil W. Adkisson, dean of the University of Arkansas graduate school and former chair of the mathematics department, was elected president of the Conference of Deans of Southern Graduate Schools.

The University crest turned 40 years old in 1963, making it 90 years old this year.

Futrall Hall, originally a women’s dormitory, was dedicated to Annie D. Futrall, the wife of John C. Futrall, president of the UofA for 25 years.

1973

Former athletic director, John W. Barnhill, dies at age 70 following an extended illness.

1983

The university’s first Chancellor, B.A. Nugent resigns.

1993

Bud Walton arena is constructed to replace Barnhill arena, increasing student seating for U of A basketball games from 1,400 to 2,300 KUAF celebrates 20 years on air, making 2013 its 40th.

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Lost Alumni If you have any information on the whereabouts of these alumni and former students from the Class of 1964, then please contact the Arkansas Alumni Association at 1-888-ARK-ALUM so that we may update our records.

Reynolds Robert Keleher Ira Bodkoubeh Kharramy Franklin D. Kirby Patrick L. Knight Roque Acoba Labasan James Morris Lang Frank D. Long James Franklin Luther Alfreeda P. Marshall Flossie Snow Martell Carole Sue Martin William F. Masterson John Frances Mathews Jack G. Matthews Whiteford C. Mauldin III Joan Maupin Judith Ann McAdoo Marian Daniel McCarty Grace M. McEachron William M. McKinley Jr. William Nick McKown Billy Joe McMullin Kallyani Kutti Menon

Mary Gray Miller Del Roy Miller John Whitney Milton Adrian C. Moncrief III Clarence L. Montgomery III Harold Gene Morris Jack N. Morse George R. Motley Jerry L. Newcomb Laurie Jane Newman Norman Lewis Nixon Dick Oosthuizen Johnny Lee Orler Oyvind Knut Oseberg Dennis Paddie John Alan Parker Kerry A. Patrick James Norman Patterson Allen G. Petty Roy Dale Porter Chamras Prongsirivathana Ruth Yingling Rector Rollin Dewayne Reimer

Judith Boyd Robinson Ho Quang Sang Margherita Sue Scarmuzza Cynthia Russell Schierling Norman Ronald Schuh Janet S. Woodruff Sego Gerald Wayne Simmons Don L. Simmons Wilma J. Sprigg Judith Ann Stewart Sam J. Stewman Wilcher C. Stotts James E. Straub James W. Sylar Edith Tarpley Emily Lynette Gulley Taylor Larry James Taylor Ronald L. Thomas David W. Thomas Douglas W. Tiberiis Lewis C. Tilley Judith Lynn Toll Wilma Jane Turner

Rosemary Burton Vandergrift Margaret Ann Vanderpoorten Mary Lou Maurer Waldman Frances Folsom Wall Patricia Sims Wallace John L. Warner William H. Warren Donna Moore Wasson Paul F. Watson Michael A. Weaver L. D. Wells Larry E. White Nina Glynn Beebe White Julia Rebecca White Walter R. Wilding David C. Williams Jan Austin Williams Jacquelyn Warren Wilson Gene Edward Witte Kenneth E. Wood Gary P. Wood Esther Jane Center Worrell Thomas Christian Wright Jr.

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What canI do?

“Sure, I care about the University of Arkansas.

But I need to take care of my family.”

Your family comes first.

We understand. Caring for them is your highest priority.

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What if you could care for loved ones and still support the University of Arkansas?

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ohn English may be the newest dean on the University of Arkansas campus, but his relationship with the university is longstanding.

English received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in operations research from the U of A and a doctorate in industrial engineering and management from Oklahoma State University. Prior to his appointment as the ninth dean of the College of Engineering, he served as dean of the College of Engineering at Kansas State University.

Since returning to the Fayetteville campus, English has hit the ground running with his deanship, including the solicitation of benefactors for gifts benefitting his college. Along the way, he and his wife, Elizabeth, realized that, as representatives of the university, it was only fitting that they support the college as they ask their donors to do. For that reason, he and his wife have established two undergraduate scholarships with a $100,000 planned gift. “It is important to us that the university and its benefactors understand that, as a dean, I am fully committed to the university and the education we are offering our students,” says English.

The scholarships, which support both electrical engineering and industrial engineering students, were created with a life insurance policy. This option is one of several available to donors and can be utilized by just about anyone. The appeal, according to director of planned giving David C. Hall, is that it allows the donor to leverage assets like life insurance policies or retirement plans to leave their personal legacy and make an impact.

In this particular case, Hall says English’s planned gift allowed him to make a significant contribution while also serving as an incredible example to the rest of the university community. “John and Elizabeth earned my respect even before I met them,” Hall says. The Dean’s personal example enhances his leadership. It is a privilege to work with someone so committed to setting an example and giving back.

With John, serving the University of Arkansas is a way of life.” ■

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Would you consider a simple, powerful gift that won’t cost a cent during your lifetime?

Will you make us one of your beneficiaries?

You could use your life insurance, IRA, retirement plan, investments or bank account.

Make your family the primary beneficiary, but leave a small percentage to us.

Just contact your agent, broker or banker. Tell them you want a portion of your plan to benefit the University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. (Federal Tax ID number: 71-6056774).

Your example can be a lasting gift to your family.

Contact: David C. Hall Office of Planned Giving (800) 317-7526 legacy@uark.edu

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hilanthropy tells a wonderful story on the University of Arkansas campus, because it truly impacts the everyday lives of our faculty, staff and students in multiple ways.

An excellent example of this impact is Mathias Bellaiche, a senior biophysics and biophysical chemistry double major who is also minoring in mathematics and Spanish. Born in France, Bellaiche has lived in Fayetteville since he started kindergarten and came to the university when he was offered a prestigious Sturgis Fellowship.

Private giving brought him to campus and has nurtured the remainder of his academic experience. Thanks to his fellowship and membership in the Honors College, he had the opportunity to start research his freshman year and worked with a field expert at Boise State for a week in 2012; his research has been supported by a State Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grant.

The Libby Finch Study Abroad Award and an Honors College Study Abroad grant also funded a year of study at Cambridge University. Bellaiche believes the reputation of the Sturgis Fellowship contributed greatly to these opportunities.

Earlier this year, Bellaiche was named one of 271 Goldwater Scholars nationwide, an award given to top mathematics, science and engineering students. His extensive research experience undoubtedly made a difference in his selection, since his mentor, Gregory Salamo, distinguished professor of physics, is an impressive person to have in his corner. The two of them have been working together on research since Bellaiche’s sophomore year.

“He’s an amazing mentor,” Bellaiche says of Salamo. “He has been responsible for fostering my research, problem solving and communication skills. There are tremendous research opportunities in the physical sciences, and you can take advantage of them as early as you want.”

Salamo, like Bellaiche, is also the beneficiary of private gift support and holds the Joe N. Basore Professorship in Nanotechnology and Innovation. Together, they conduct research focusing on biomedical sciences, since Bellaiche hopes to attend medical school and enroll in an M.D./Ph.D. program after he graduates from the University of Arkansas.

In addition to impacting the work between student and faculty mentor, philanthropy has also made a difference in the quality of facilities available for teaching and research. Ozark Hall, home to the Honors College, was recently renovated and expanded thanks in part to private gift support from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation. The new 21,000-square-foot addition to the building provides a spacious lounge and study areas for honors students and a 216-seat auditorium for classes, lectures and other programs.

And a landscaped courtyard has been designed to accommodate special events, rest and recreation.

Whether designated for faculty, students, programs or facilities, private gift support clearly plays a part in our success as a campus. And while individual giving continues to be important, it’s the collective impact of giving that provides a robust experience for our students. ■

Philanthropy Mathias Bellaiche

Gregory Salamo

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Class Notes Let us know about your milestones and anything else you would like to share with your classmates – births, marriages, new jobs, retirements, moves and more. Please include your degree, class year, and when applicable, your maiden name. To provide the most thorough coverage of alumni news, we publish notes about members and non-members of the Arkansas Alumni Association and will indicate membership status for reference. You may send us news or simply update your information. Since the next issues of Arkansas are already in production, it may be a few issues before your item appears.

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Bernard Yesner ✪ BS’36 MD’40, Miami Beach, FL, celebrated his 98th birthday on Nov. 10.

James Stice BSCHE’49 was awarded the Benjamin Garver Lamme Gold Medal by the American Society for Engineering Education. The medal is the oldest award that the society confers, in recognition of distinguished contributions to the advancement of engineering education. Stice was honored by the University of Arkansas as a Distinguished Alumnus in 1995.

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Deryl G. Powers BSBA’53 and Lula Belle Powers AS’86, Springdale, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 19.

Sam L. Chaffin ✪+ BSCHE’59 MSIE’60, Benton, is the recipient of The Marie Award 2013. The award recognizes outstanding Arkansans who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of the public interest by word, action and example through interfaith engagement and civic service over a number of years.

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X Dotson BSA’60 and Marilyn Fern Dotson BSHE’63 MS’69, Hindsville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 23.

Judson N. Hout ✪ MD’60, Camden, has published four works of fiction, two novels and two novellas. “The Ghost of Bud Parrott,” a national award winner, 2011, and “Sweet Hope,” 2012. “Miss Carrie and The Boys From Possum Grape” is due for official release in April 2014.

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Troy W. Buck BSA’61, Alpine, has been appointed to the State Plant Board.

Ann Henry ✪+ BA’61 MA’64 JD’71, Fayetteville, has been appointed to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission.

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Gary W. Campbell BSEE’63, Fort Smith, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority.

Richard E. Griffin ✪+ LLB’63, Houston, Texas, was named among the 55 “Super Lawyers” of the Jackson Walker firm. The “Super Lawyers” are

about professional accomplishments, peer recognition and community involvement.

Neil M. Schmitt ✪ BSEE’63 MSEE’64 and Carolyn L. Schmitt ✪ BSHE’64 MS’72, Fayetteville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 31.

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Donald La Vere Bates PHD’73, Woodland, Texas, has accepted the appointment as president of the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Gulf University for Science and Technology prepares generations of young leaders and professionals for the demands of a new global technological era.

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Sheila M. Counihan ★ BSBA’64 and Jack Counihan ★ BSBA’64, Rogers, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 25.

Marvin B. Hare Jr. ★+ BSA’65, Newport, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Rice Promotion Board.

Kenneth Ron Reeves BSBA’69 JD’73, Harrison, has been appointed to the state Game and Fish Commission, which is a dedicated group that preserves the state’s heritage of hunting, fishing and conservation.

Patrick J. Morrison BSBA’71, Rogers, has joined the team of Colliers International of Arkansas at the Bentonville office to specialize in land acquisition.

Jane Dunlap Christenson ★+ BSBA’74, Harrison, recently retired from working at the Harrison Daily Times for more than 50 years but continues to serve as chair of the Arkansas State Police Commission.

Thomas Lee Smith BARCH’74, Rockton, Ill., has received the Carl G. Cash Award. The Cash Award recognizes outstanding contributions to building envelope technology through research conducted in either the laboratory or field. He is the president of TLSmith Consulting Inc. Terry Collins MA’75 PHD’79, Little Rock, has been reappointed to the Governor’s Trauma Advisory Council.

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Life Members ✪ By becoming Life Members, the University’s friends and alumni help form a strong foundation on which to build the future of the Arkansas Alumni Association. We welcome the newest Life Members, listed in order of membership number: 7117 Dr. Matthew Shawn Taylor ‘87, ‘90 7118 Julie Taylor 7119 Jimmy Kuhn 7120 Claire A. Kuhn 7121 Marsha McCurry 7122 Chelsea Elisabeth Burris ‘13 7123 Dr. Candice Clark Dye ‘00 7124 Roger B. Rucker ‘90 7125 Sarah Rucker 7126 Richard P. Osborne ‘73 7127 Patricia A. Osborne 7128 Brad Casteel ‘11, ‘13 7129 James O. Stallcup ‘73 7130 Mark J. Stephens ‘77, ‘78 7131 Kevin Lee Sánchez ‘02 7132 Charity Grubbs Sánchez ‘03 7133 George Bollier Jr. ‘71, ‘72 7134 James R. Wayne 7135 Job Serebrov ‘93 7136 Mari Serebrov ‘95, ‘02 7137 Dr. Mark A. Jones ‘82 7138 Cathy Jean Jones 7139 Taylor Noelle Mattson ‘10 7140 Melissa Kinnaird Wise 7141 Doug L. Williams ‘86 7142 Kenneth L. Stewart ‘76 7143 Dr. Lonnie R. Williams ‘78, ‘84, ‘91, ‘01

7090 Addison Frederick Smith ‘56 7091 Carol Ewell Smith 7092 Chase S. Reid ‘71, ‘78 7093 Nancy Nettles Reid ‘71 7094 Charles Riddle ‘86 7095 Janelle Riddle ‘76, ‘81 7096 William A. Finer 7097 Linda McKennon Smith 7098 Stephanie L. Sullivan ‘04, ‘05 7099 Beverly G. Bodenhamer 7100 Leila Berry 7101 Chuck Farr ‘87 7102 Tami Farr 7103 Amanda Casarotto ‘08 7104 Jeff Alan Hodges ‘97 7105 Helen T. Vanlandingham 7106 Dr. Bob D. Besom ‘72, ‘77 7107 Pat McCrary Besom 7108 William E. Clark II ‘91 7109 Joshua Michael Cory ‘07 7110 Georgia Camylle Cory 7111 Jonathan Robert Davey ‘12 7112 Grace T. Magie ‘50 7113 Amanda Cothren 7114 Russell Cothren 7115 William F. Sherman ‘60 7116 Carole Williams Sherman ‘64

Charles D. Mabry MD’75, Pine Bluff, has been reappointed to the Governor’s Trauma Advisory Council.

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Denton Damon Gay BA’76, Springdale, was named executive director of the Marian West Educational Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to discourage distracted driving and other dangerous life choices.

C. Dwayne Plumlee ★ JD’76, Salem, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Abstractors Board.

Christina W. Wilkerson ★+ BS’76, Morrilton, is the new speech language pathologist at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison, where she will assess, diagnose and treat speech

and language disorders that include cognitive functioning, all facets of communicating, voice, fluency, autism and swallowing disorders.

professor of accounting with tenure at the School of Business Administration of the University of Puerto Rico‑Rio Piedras campus.

Solomon‑Marshall‑Stuart Award for Innovative Excellence in Marketing Education, and moved to Babson College as marketing division chair.

Danna L. Bell ADN’77, Hindsville, was recognized at the Arkansas Board of Nursing’s 100th anniversary celebration.

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Art Meripol ✪+ BA’77, Hoover, Ala., has left Southern Living magazine after 25 years and is now freelancing at Art Meripol Photography, which specializes in travel and commercial photography.

Terry Black Coberly BSE’79 MED’85, Fayetteville, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council.

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7144 Mary Williams ‘06 7145 Barrett L. Bishop ‘94 7146 John E. Watkins ‘71 7147 Aaron P. Richardson ‘12 7148 Alana Elizabeth Walter Willis ‘05 7149 Eric L. Linson ‘98 7150 Kara Pasker-Linson ‘05 7151 David L. Starling 7152 Candace A. Starling 7153 Kay Ingram Williams ‘81 7154 Dr. Stephen A. Broughton 7155 Patricia Stith Cagle ‘84 7156 Dr. Deborah Ann Leach ‘94 7157 James E. McClain Jr. ‘74 7158 Pat McClain 7159 Janice Adrian Eastwood ‘68 7160 Paul D. Langston ‘58 7161 Jared Michael Woolly ‘03 7162 David E. Walston ‘64 7163 Dr. Larry R. Davis ‘75 7164 Charles D. Brown ‘51 7165 Marjorie A. Brown 7166 Jimmie D. Bennett 7167 Nancy S. Bennett 7168 Nathalie K. Tan ‘95, ‘00 7169 Chuck Halbert ‘89, ‘91 7170 Helen Halbert ‘89, ‘92

Roger J. Cardona Sr. ✪+ MBA’78, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, was promoted to associate

Stephen P. Carlton ★ JD’79, Carthage, Mo., was elected president of the Missouri Association of Associate Circuit Judges for 2013‑2014.

Victoria Crittenden ✪ MBA’80, Lexington, Mass., received the 2013 Pearson Prentice Hall’s

Bill Crittenden ✪ PHD’82, Lexington, Mass., returned to faculty status in the International Business & Strategy Group after almost six years as senior associate dean in what is now the D’Amore‑McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

Avis Lane Jones BSHE’82, Little Rock, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Child Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence Commission.

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Senior WAlk Sam Stathakis ✪ BSBA’82, Hot Springs, was appointed to the Arkansas Tobacco Control Board.

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Michael P. Sullivan ★ BSA’83, Burdette, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Rice Promotion Board.

Carlton D. Jones BA’85 JD’88, Texarkana, has been reappointed to the State Crime Laboratory Board.

Amy Marr Wilbourn BA’85 JD’03, Fayetteville, has joined the Northwest Arkansas office of Conner and Winters LLP as a partner. She acts as day‑to‑day litigation management and compliance counsel to multiple long‑term care facilities under the firm’s risk management program.

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Ritche Manley Bowden ✪ BSIE’86, Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed to a

five‑year term on the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Elaine Cattaneo BSBA’86 BSHES’97 and Steve Cattaneo, Winslow, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on July 9.

Rich Hillman BSA’86, Carlisle, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Rice Promotion Board.

Rusty Smith BSA’86, Des Arc, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board.

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Johnnie Patricia Roebuck ★ EDS’88 EDD’90, Arkadelphia, has been reappointed to the Southern Regional Education Board.

Sidney F. Ansbacher ★ LLM’89, Jacksonville, Fla., was recognized on Florida Trend’s annual 2013 Legal Elite list. This distinction honors attorneys in the state of Florida who have been voted by their peers as being the state’s legal leaders and lends proof to the hard work and talent Gray Robinson attorneys showcase on a daily basis.

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Patricia Duncan MED’89 and John Duncan, Fayetteville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 8.

John F. Freeman BSA’89, Dumas, has been appointed to the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board.

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Stanley B. Baker BSCHE’90 JD’92, Fayetteville, has joined Husch Blackwell as senior counsel in his office in Kansas City. He will advise clients on intellectual property law matters, specifically for the food and agribusiness industry.

Jeff Mitchell BA’90, Fayetteville, has been appointed to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

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Ben F. Johnson III ★ PHD’91, El Dorado, has been reappointed to the State Review Committee for Historic Preservation.

Brian Todd Yarbrough BSA’94, Bentonville, was honored for revenue performance during SERVPRO’s 44th annual convention.

He received the President’s Gold Award.

Natalie Krodell BSN’96, Fayetteville, has earned certification in emergency nursing after passing a nationally administered exam and meeting other eligibility guidelines.

Richelle Stafne ★ BSA’97 MS’99, Picayune, Miss., is senior curator/assistant director at The Crosby Arboretum/Mississippi State University.

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Kellye Beavers BSHES’98, Springdale, was hired as career services manager in Northwest Arkansas for Goodwill Industries to be responsible for the daily operations of the four career centers.

Terry Lee Esper ★ MBA’98 PHD’03, Fayetteville, has been named associate editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

Michael Levern Mcfrazier EDD’98, Houston, Texas, has been named PVAMU’s new vice president of administration. In his new capacity, he will serve as chief of staff, reporting directly to the president and is responsible for providing leadership for a broad range of academic and non‑academic matters related to operations and overseeing administrative functions, strategic planning, student services, compliance and customer service.

Danielle Lynette Wood ✪ BA’98 BSE’01 MED’02 EDD’09, Fayetteville, was promoted to director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Compliance at the University of Arkansas, where she is responsible for leading affirmative‑action programs and ensuring equal‑opportunity compliance in accordance with federal and state laws and university policies.

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Eric Thomas Stafne ★ MS’99 PHD’05, Picayune, Miss., is associate extension professor for fruit and nut crops, Mississippi State University.

Angie Dawn Waliski PHD’01, De Valls Bluff, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Legislative Task Force on Abused and Neglected Children.

Patrick Ryan Smith ★ BSA’01 MA’13 and Leslie Lancaster Smith ★ BSE’02 announce the birth of their son Evan Patrick, June 21, Fayetteville.

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Michael A. Folk Jr. ✪ BA’02 MSEE’04 and Erica Elvey Folk ✪ MS’04 welcomed their second daughter, Clara Michelle, on June 27, in Baltimore, Md. She joins her older sister, Adele Christine, who was born on Jan. 3, 2012.

Erin Nicole Tuggle BSBA’02, Austin, Texas, an associate at Jackson Walker L.L.P., was named “Five Star Wealth Managers” by Five Star Professional. To receive the Five Star Wealth Manager Award, a wealth manager must satisfy 10 objective eligibility and evaluation criteria that are associated with wealth managers who provide quality services to their clients.

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Krista Lynn Coffee BSBA’03, Bentonville, has been promoted to director in the Northwest Arkansas office of the American Diabetes Association. She coordinates the association’s largest fundraiser of the year, the Kiss a Pig Gala; works with the chapter’s community board; and oversees two employees in the Bentonville office.

Lauren Marie Marquette BA’03 MSW’06, Fayetteville, has been appointed to the Social Work Licensing Board.

Chris Traxson ✪ BA’03 and Heather Brown announce the birth of their son, Owen Scott, June 19, Bella Vista.

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Jonathan Davis Allen BSBA’04, Rogers, has been named compliance officer of Parkway Bank in Rogers.

Bradford H. Smith BSBA’04, Baton Rouge, La., has been promoted by FedEx from senior manager to assistant hub manager in Memphis, Tenn.

Ross E. Wolfenden BSA’04 PHD’10, Pea Ridge, was given the Early Achievement Award by the Poultry Science Association.

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Glenda Gail Ezell EDD’05, Magazine, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Early Childhood Commission.

Elizabeth Saxman Underwood ✪ MED’05 PHD’12, Winslow, has made “the leap” from alumni relations to government and community relations at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.

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Elizabeth Pledger Barker BA’06 MED’10 and Daniel Friedline were married on July 26 and reside in Mobile, Ala.

Robert N. Fitzgerald BM’06 and Alexandra Morrison were married on June 29 and reside in Springdale.

Derek Allen Harrison ★ BSBA’06 MACC’11 and Marjorie Ann Staton ★ BA’08 were married on May 4 and reside in Springdale.

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Kassandra M. Bentley JD’07, Jenks, Okla., has joined the Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Firm as an associate in the litigation group.

Her practice focuses on commercial litigation and tax‑related disputes.

Friends

Sheryl L. Davis MSN’07, Hindsville, has recently achieved the designation of certified nurse, operating room, which required meeting eligibility guidelines and passing a nationally administered exam.

Charles F. Allen ✪+, Little Rock, has been reappointed to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Kristen Leigh Kobe BSBA’07 and Matthew Seth Williams were married on May 18 and reside in Little Rock.

Sara Yell BA’07 MSOM’09 and Reid A. Phillips PHD’09 were married on June 9 and reside in Fayetteville.

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Charles Ellis George BSBA’08, Springdale, will be on the Poultry Federation’s board of directors for Northwest Arkansas.

Elizabeth M. Miller BA’08 and Ezekial Barnes Ridout BA’10 were married on June 1 and reside in New York City, N.Y.

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Christina Renee Eilskov MED’09 and Jeffrey Byron were married on June 22.

Sarah K. Landau BA’09, Geneva, Ill., has received the second consecutive year of the Eagle Award for sales excellence from Hearst Television.

Nate C. Looney ✪ BA’09, Jonesboro, has accepted a position with Waddell, Cole & Jones. In addition to practicing law, he will continue teaching in a part‑time capacity for the University of Arkansas.

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Christopher A. Binko BSBA’11, Fayetteville, has been hired by First Security Bank as a new mortgage loan originator.

Emily McCullough BSBA’11 and Andy Sanders were married on July 6 and reside in Fayetteville.

Olivia A. Welch BA’11, Fayetteville, will be the lead staff person in the association’s annual health expo and in outreach and mission delivery activities.

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Nick M. Culpepper ★ BS’13, Rogers, has recently graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry and he will be opening his own private practice, Culpepper Family Dentistry in Rogers in late August.

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Vaughn King ★+, Fayetteville, will be on the Poultry Federation’s board of directors for Northwest Arkansas.

Marty D. Matlock ★, Fayetteville, has been appointed to the Arkansas‑Oklahoma study committee that is tasked with setting a limit on maximum phosphorus concentrations in the Illinois River basin.

Phillip M. McBee ★, Pine Bluff, has been appointed to the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging.

Diane Zook ★, Melbourne, has been appointed to the Board of Education.

In Memoriam Carleton C. Conrad BA’33 MS’37, Haddam, Conn., July 3. His entire professional career was spent with the E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company.

During his time with DuPont, he held various research and management positions, retiring in 1976 as manager of the central patent index. Survivors: one son, one daughter and two grandchildren.

Sallie Dudley Bridgforth BSBA’37, Forrest City, Aug. 10. Survivors: one son, three daughters, five grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Donald T. Beaman BSBA’39, Austin, Texas, June 24. When World War II started he joined the U.S. Army, serving in the Air Corps from 1941‑1946. He reached the rank of captain at the time of his discharge after the war ended.

His job in business administration took him to cities all over Texas, then to South Carolina and Virginia. Survivors: one daughter, one son and three grandchildren.

Bettie Lu Rogers ✪+ BA’39, Hot Springs, Aug. 2. She taught in elementary schools in Pine Bluff and Camden for 18 years. Survivors: one son, one daughter, one brother, one sister, five grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Flossie W. Boles ★ BSHE’41, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 22. During the 1960s

and ‘70s, she had a television cooking show for 12 years in Dayton, Ohio, while working as a home economist for Dayton Power and Light. Survivor: one daughter.

Mary Sue Reagan ✪+ BA’42, Rogers, Aug. 21. She taught school in the Rogers School District for 47 years and was a large influence on many students.

She received the Benton County Bar Association’s Liberty Bell award for outstanding teaching of American history and government and has been honored as Teacher of the Year in Rogers. Survivor: one sister.

Betty Hurst Murray BSE’43, Muskogee, Okla., July 26. She was a substitute teacher in elementary schools in Little Rock and in Long Beach, Calif. Survivors: one son, one daughter, one granddaughter and two great‑grandchildren.

Ellen Plunkett Akins BS’45, Benton, Aug. 27. She taught elementary school for the Camden School System for many years. In her later years she worked part‑time for the Camden and Ouachita County Library. Survivors: one daughter, one stepson, three stepdaughters and one brother.

Doris Johnston ★ BS’45, Little Rock, Sept. 5. Survivors: one son, two daughters, one sister, six grandchildren and five great‑grandchildren.

William T. Flynt BA’46, Fayetteville, July 13. He served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Millington, Tenn., Ashland, Ky., Conway, Ark., and Danville, Va. He also became a pastoral counselor and the director of pastoral care at the newly formed Ozark Guidance Center where he remained until retirement in 1983. Survivors: his wife, Carolyn, one daughter, two sons, six grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Gloria Holman ★ BSSW’47 MS’48, Portland, Ore., March 8. Survivors: her husband, William, one daughter, three sons and nine grandchildren.

Salona Cornett Wachs BA’47, Aberdeen, S.D., July 21. She was the office manager at First United Methodist Church. Survivors: two sons, 12 grandchildren and nine great‑grandchildren.

Harry H. Ellis JD’48 BSL’58, Crossville, Tenn., May 24. He served with the 10th and 14th Air Forces in the China‑Burma‑India Theater. After

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during World War II. He became a certified public accountant in 1952 and co‑founded the CPA firm of Pitcock & Howard. He then became a partner with the international accounting firm of Pannell Kerr Foster. A highly respected professional, during his more than 30 years with the firm, he rose to the position of senior partner.

Survivors: his wife, Camilla, one daughter, one son, one sister, two brothers and four grandchildren.

William Neal Harrison, emeritus professor and founder of the creative writing program at the University of Arkansas, died Oct. 22, 2013. He was 79.

He was the adopted son of Samuel Scott and Mary Harrison and grew up in Dallas. He attended Texas Christian University, where he became editor of the campus newspaper, The Skiff. He later attended Vanderbilt University where he studied to teach comparative religion. After a year of teaching at a Christian college, he moved his young family to Iowa, where he studied creative writing. He sold his first short story to Esquire and published reviews in The Saturday Review.

Harrison accepted a teaching job in the English department and moved to Fayetteville in 1964. He started the creative writing program with James Whitehead in the mid-’60s and retired in 1998.

He was well known for delivering his critiques with tact and care, and always quick to tell a student or writer what needed to be added or what needed to be cut. He was a novelist and short story writer, known for works like The Theologian, In a Wild Sanctuary, Africana and Savannah Blue.

The 1975 dystopian science fiction film Rollerball was based off Harrison’s short story “Roller Ball Murder,” which was first published in Esquire magazine in 1973. Harrison also wrote the screenplay for the film. His novel Burton and Speke was the basis for the 1990 film Mountains of the Moon.

He inspired countless students to become authors, poets and teachers, including author, Steve Yarbrough. Yarbrough credits much of his success to Harrison, saying Harrison always helped students to be the best writers they could be. Harrison was offering his critiques until his death.

Harrison is survived by his wife, Merlee Harrison, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. n

a brief career with the Internal Revenue Service, he established and maintained a private law practice in Kansas City, Mo., for 19 years before returning to service with the U.S. Treasury Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Survivors: his wife, Anne, three sons, five daughters, 11 grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

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R.H. Hedgecock BSCE’48, Tulsa, Okla., July 6. He served in the U.S. Army. He worked in property acquisition for Columbian Carbon company, which became part of Cities Service Oil Co. It later became part of Occidental Oil and Gas. Survivors: one daughter, two sons, one sister and six grandchildren.

Sanford Howard ★ BSBA’48, Fuquay Varina, N.C., July 2. He served

Paul H. Jameson BSEE’48, Magnolia, Aug. 9. He was an electrical engineer and owner and operator of Custom Products in Magnolia for more than 30 years.

Survivors: his wife, Mary, one daughter, two sons, three grandchildren and four great‑grandchildren.

Kenneth B. Clark BSA’49, Berryville, July 24. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was retired from the Farmers Home Administration.

Survivors: one son, two daughters, one sister, three brothers, eight grandchildren and 16 great‑grandchildren.

Mary Johnson Cox BA’49, Bella Vista, Sept. 23. She was a dedicated career teacher in elementary English, teaching the second and sixth grades. She was an adept small‑business investor and operator from Nautilus of Tulsa Fitness Center to Recovery Resources. Survivors: two sons, two daughters, one sister, one brother and three grandsons.

Chester L. Haynes BSEE’49, Grand Prairie, TX, July 30. He joined the U.S. Army where he served five years in World War II and the Korean War. He retired from LTV in 1985 after 27 years of service. Survivors: his wife, Joyce, two daughters, three sisters and two grandchildren.

John N. Killough ★+ BA’49 LLB’50, Wynne, August 6. A World War II veteran, he saw action during the Battle of the Bulge. He was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney of Cross County in 1955. He and Bob Ford formed the Killough and Ford Law Firm and practiced there for more than 50 years.

Survivors: his wife, Esther, two sons and two grandsons.

William I. Rainwater ✪+ BSCE’49 BSIM’50, Jonesboro, Sept. 30. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Navy. In his early career he was operating cotton gins and grain elevators in Northeast Arkansas counties, during the mid‑60s he began developing and

operating hotels, principally Holiday Inns, in Arkansas and surrounding states. Survivors: his wife, Angie, one daughter, one son, one brother and four grandchildren.

James W. Ritter ✪+ BSBA’49, Springdale, Aug. 31. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II until 1946. He had a lifelong insurance career.

He founded the Boone Ritter Insurance Agency in Springdale. Survivors: one daughter, two sons, six grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

Ottice Tidwell BSEE’49, Loudon, TN, June 26. He was a veteran of World War II serving in the U.S. Army.

He worked for 35 years at AT&T. Survivors: his wife, Mary, one son, three daughters, nine grandchildren and seven great‑grandchildren.

Harold E. Henson Jr. ✪ BSBA’50, Van Buren, Aug. 8. He fought in Korea as a captain and commander during the Korean War. He served as president and chief executive officer of BancorpSouth from 1972 until his retirement in 1993. Survivors: his wife, Helen, two daughters, two sons, 16 grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

Francis A. Humphreys BSBA’50, Springfield, VA, June 20. He was a second lieutenant stationed at the Dover Air Force Base. He was assigned as chief, Air Force Section, Military Assistance Advisory Group in Iran, in June 1974.

He was the commander in charge of the Air Force base in Iran. He was a highly decorated command pilot. After his military service, he started a general contracting business, HFI, Inc. Survivor: his wife, Evelyn.

Eva Power Moore BS’50, Benton, June 26. Survivors: one daughter, two sons and eight grandchildren.

Mary Coleman Pakis BSSW’50, Jackson, TN, June 30. Survivors: her husband, George, three sons and three grandchildren.

John W. Vinzant ✪ BA’50, Fayetteville, Aug. 2. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II and served as a flight instructor in England during the Korean War. After his residency, he opened his medical and surgical practice in 1960. Survivors: his wife, Nona, one daughter, one son, three sisters, one brother, six grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

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Joseph D. Bailey Jr. BSBA’51, Memphis, TN, July 2. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran serving in the Korean War. He was an executive with International Harvester Credit Corp. for 28 years.

He was the chief operating officer of Fogelman, Byrnes, and Dogget and North Star Construction. Survivors: his wife, Sheila, two sons, one stepson, two stepdaughters, seven grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Thomas John Binig ✪ LLB’51, Houston, TX, July 1. He served aboard the S.S. Gervais, S.S. Frederic Remington and S.S.H.H. Bancroft during World War II. He practiced civil litigation for insurance, property and family law, and later established himself as an oil and gas attorney and landman working for Ashland Oil, Gulf Oil, Houston Oil and Minerals Corp. and Tenneco Inc., until he retired in 1997.

Survivors: his wife, Mary, two sons, three daughters and 12 grandchildren.

Allen L. Formby BSCHE’51, Hot Springs, July 16. He was a U.S. Army veteran having served in the occupation forces at the end of World War II. He was a chemical engineer and worked at and managed Arizona Chemical Company’s plant in Springhill, LA, before his retirement in 1989. Survivors: his wife, Mary and one daughter.

James N. Higgins Jr. BSBA’51, Bartlett, Tenn., July 1. He worked with engineers for many years mostly on large buildings, including hospitals, helping people solve problems. Survivors: his wife, Ann, one son, one daughter, seven grandchildren, 10 great‑grandchildren and two great‑great‑grandchildren.

Roy W. Roberts Jr. ✪ BSEE’51, Cupertino, Calif., Sept. 8. He served in the U.S. Army and Air Force from 1946‑1952. He had a long career in electrical engineering, semiconductors and other technologies that laid the foundation for today’s digital world.

Survivors: his wife, Catherine, three daughters and one sister.

Hemp J. Davis BSPH’52, Little Rock, June 30.

Margie Wayne Homard MS’52, Little Rock, July 23. She was a guidance counselor at Parkview High School.

Survivor: her husband, Richard.

B. J. Kingdon BARCH’52, Wichita, Kan., Sept 3. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Pacific during World War II. He was co‑founder

and former president of LawKingdon Architecture. Survivors: his wife, Phyllis, one son, two daughters, one stepdaughter, one stepson and seven grandchildren.

Geno Mazzanti Jr. BSEE’52, Greenville, Miss., July 24. He was a retired farmer and a former state representative for southern Arkansas for 12 years. Survivors: two daughters, three brothers, one sister and five grandchildren.

Don R. Rapier MS’52, Reston, Va., Sept. 22. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy Seabees shortly after the outbreak of World War II. He had a long career as a teacher and principal of many different schools. Survivor: one brother.

Jake E. Clements Jr. ✪ BS’54 MS’58, Little Rock, June 23. He served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. After his discharge from the military, he was employed as a geologist in the Materials Division of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department for 44 years. Survivors: one daughter and one stepson.

Calvin R. Ledbetter Jr. ★ JD’54, Little Rock, August 10. He joined the U.S. Army as a member of the Judge Advocate General Corps and served in Germany for three years. He was a revered professor, author, politician and philanthropist. Survivors: one son, one daughter and five grandchildren.

Mary Moffitt McCoy ★+ BSHE’54, Little Rock, Aug. 18. She taught in the Little Rock School District for more than 20 years, teaching at Southwest Junior High School and Dunbar Junior High School. Survivors: her husband, Bennie, one son, two daughters and five granddaughters.

James A. Mosley BSPH’54, Vivian, La., July 27. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a radio operator.

He eventually opened up Mosley’s Greenacres Drug Store. He opened up two more drug stores in the Bossier City area. Survivors: his wife, Virginia, one daughter and one grandson.

Roy S. Woodson ★ BSBA’54, Conway, Oct. 1. He served during the Vietnam Conflict with the U.S. Air Force and retired after 20 years of service as a lieutenant colonel. He was employed for 20 years as a certified public accountant for the state health department.

Survivors: his wife, June, one son, two daughters and six grandchildren.

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Paul D. Chapman BA’55, Springdale, Aug. 11. He served in the U.S. Navy on a destroyer in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. He took the position of executive director of Tulsa Urban Renewal Authority in 1962 and retired in 1992. Survivors: his wife, Jo, one daughter, one son, one sister and three grandchildren.

James M. Hopper ✪ BSCHE’55, Little Rock, June 25. He was an industrial specialist at the University of Arkansas Industrial Research Center, where he conducted plant location studies in support of Winthrop Rockefeller’s Arkansas Industrial Development Commission. He was then affiliated with the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where he was the assistant to the dean and director of development, funding the building of the Monroe Gutman Library and brought about substantial increases in the alumni fund and joined the dean in the annual solicitation of David Rockefeller. He was the director of advancement associates and owned two tree farms full of Loblolly Pines.

John T.“Jack” Meriwether ✪ BA’55, Little Rock, June 27. He was the city manager of Texarkana and Little

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Rock and later vice president of the University of Arkansas, a job he used to bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the state system of higher education.

Between those jobs, he was the general manager of the Arkansas Gazette and vice president for development of the First National Bank of Paragould. Survivors: his wife, Judy, one stepdaughter, one stepson and two step‑grandchildren.

Lionel C. Skaggs ★+ BSBA’56, Fayetteville, Sept. 25. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1948‑1950. He was a retired university administrator in the field of human resources. Survivors: his wife, Barbara, two sons, one brother, two sisters, two step‑sisters and five grandchildren.

Mary Jane Farney Cox BA’57, Kirkwood, Mo., Aug. 14. Survivors: her husband, David, and one son.

Donald L. Dempsey MED’57, Russellville, July 29. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict.

He became the head coach at Arkansas Tech from 1967‑1975. He was also ATU’s athletic director from 1974‑76, and was inducted into the ATU Hall of Distinction in 1995. He continued at Tech as a professor until his retirement in 1996. Survivors: one son, two

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Helen Goss MED’57, El Dorado, July 11. She was a retired elementary teacher and principal at Hugh Goodwin Elementary. She served her 34‑year career in the El Dorado Public School System. Survivors: one daughter, one brother and two grandchildren.

Mayry Brumitt Moon MED’57, San Antonio, Texas, July 17. She was a lifetime educator who was committed to helping people achieve their education goals. Survivors: one daughter, one son and one grandson.

Sally Hall MA’58, Ashford, Ala., July 11. She taught for several years at Ashford High School and Ashford Academy. She also taught at Wallace College and Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., for several years. Survivors: one son and one sister.

Royal R. Osburn BSA’58 MED’63 EDS’74, Prairie Grove, June 25. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict. He was a school administrator and educator for 42 years. Survivors: his wife, Sally, two daughters, one brother, four sisters, 10 grandchildren and five great‑grandchildren.

Sandra Garner ★ BA’59, Fort Smith, July 3. She began her career in editorial journalism at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. She continued her journalism career in San Francisco with the National Pharmaceutical Society before returning to Fort Smith to join the family business. Survivors: one son, one stepson, one sister, one brother, five step‑grandchildren and five step‑great‑grandchildren.

Dimitris Panayiotis Papaleonardos ★ BSME’59 BSEE’61, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 6. A lieutenant in the Greek Army in the Signal Corps, he retired from Lucent Technologies, where in the late ’70s and early ’80s he served on the Bell Lab/Western Electric engineering team that developed “Autoplex,” now known as the cell phone. Survivors: his wife, Holly, one daughter, three sons and one grandson.

Dewey W. Stark Jr. LLB’57, Dallas, Texas, July 22. He served in Germany for two years as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He served as assistant city attorney and had a private law practice for a number of years in Tulsa,

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Okla. In 1975, he was appointed as an administrative law judge with the federal government and he served in that position until his retirement in 2005. Survivors: his wife, Donna, two daughters, two brothers and five grandchildren.

volleyball, tennis and golf. In 1992, she received the Ethel K. Miller Award for Religious and Social Awareness in recognition of sensitive and humane service from Hendrix College. Survivors: her husband, Bruce, one daughter, one son, one brother and five grandchildren.

Julian D. Streett BA’58 LLB’61, Little Rock, July 18. He practiced law in Camden and Fayetteville and served five terms in the Arkansas General Assembly as a state representative from Ouachita County. He relocated to Little Rock where he founded Community Resources Network, an advocacy organization that coordinated efforts statewide among nonprofit providers serving people with developmental disabilities. Survivors: his wife, Sharon, two sons, four daughters, one brother, two sisters and eight grandchildren.

Jack L. Stiles BARCH’60, Southern Pines, N.C., July 16. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953‑56, as a chaplain’s assistant in Guam. He received the Henry Adams Award of Excellence for his work in architecture. Survivors: his wife, Linda, five sons, two daughters, one brother, 20 grandchildren and 10 great‑grandchildren.

Sara Ross Viguet BA’57, Fort Smith, July 9. She was very active in architectural restoration and preservation in Fort Smith. She was instrumental in the formative years of the Clayton House and the Fort Smith Historic District. She co‑authored the book, “Reflections of Fort Smith,” which was published for the promotion of historic preservation in Fort Smith. Survivors: her husband, Robert, two daughters, two sons, two sisters and 10 grandchildren.

James R. Berry ✪ BSCE’60, Fairfield Bay, July 1. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict. For 36 years, he worked as a civil engineer in Little Rock at Garver and Garver Engineers.

Survivors: his wife, Leila, one son, one daughter and five grandchildren.

Lyndell J. C. George BSCE’60, Heber Springs, Sept. 5. His career as a civil engineer included working for the Arkansas State Department of Health and being the city engineer of Jacksonville. Survivors: his wife, Doris, one son, one daughter, two sisters, two half‑sisters, two step‑sisters, five grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

J.W. Keener BSA’60, Mena, Sept.

3. He was an U.S. Air Force veteran.

He was a teacher in Cove, Acorn and Hatfield. Survivors: his wife, Alice, one daughter, two sons, one sister, two brothers, four grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Barbara Jean Netherton BSE’60, Morrilton, Aug. 18, 2005. She taught high school for 15 years and coached

John D. Bartee MS’61, Clarksville, Tenn., July 7. He was the University of Tennessee extension director for Montgomery County. Survivors: his wife, Lois, one son, three daughters, six grandchildren and two step‑grandchildren.

Gordon F. Engeler Jr. LLB’61, Mountain Home, June 26. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He was stationed in England from 1951‑1953, where he intercepted and translated enemy communications and conducted interrogations. He was appointed city attorney and was elected municipal judge, serving 16 years in that capacity at Mountain Home. When he retired from law, he returned to active duty with the U.S. Army serving as chief of the language division. Survivors: one daughter, three sons, one sister, three brothers, six grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Dan McCraw JD’61, Hot Springs, Sept. 6. He served on the Garland County law library board. Survivors: his wife, Joan, three daughters and three grandchildren.

James C. Boyd MED’62, Bentonville, Aug. 29. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1980 as a lieutenant commander.

He taught vocational agriculture at Bentonville High School for more than 30 years. Survivors: his wife, Frances, one son, four daughters, three brothers, 10 grandchildren and four great‑grandchildren.

Tom S. Williams ★+ MS’62, Apex, N.C., Sept. 28. He worked and retired from the Environmental Protection Agency after 30 years of service.

Survivors: his wife, Kathryn, one

daughter, two sons, two brothers and three grandchildren.

Dianne Proctor ★ BSBA’63, Heber Springs, Aug. 31. She had a 26-year career with Aromatique Inc., where she served as vice president of product development. Survivors: one daughter, one son and four grandchildren.

David K. Dober BSBA’64, Roswell, Ga., Sept. 5. He began his career with the former Union National Bank of Little Rock, then Capital Savings and Loan, which subsequently merged into First South Federal Savings and Loan of Pine Bluff. In 1989, he relocated to Atlanta to work for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Survivors: one son, three daughters, one sister, one brother and eight grandchildren.

Stanley R. Reed EDD’65, Batesville, Aug. 15. He served in the U.S. Army.

He was the head resident of men at the University of Arkansas, was the dean of students at University of Arkansas for Medical Science, and for 20 years, he was a professor at Arkansas College.

Survivors: his wife, Urba, one son, one daughter, one stepdaughter, one brother, one sister, four grandchildren, two step‑grandchildren and five great‑grandchildren.

Donald E. Edwards PHD’66, Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 17. He was a professor and department head at several universities, including University of Louisiana at Lafayette and University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Survivors: his wife, Judy, one daughter, one sister and two grandchildren.

Annie L. Mixon Jaggers MA’66 MA’78, Dardanelle, Aug. 21. She was the author of four books, including an acclaimed biography of Arkansas Poet Laureate Lily Peter titled, A Nude Singularity: Lily Peter of Arkansas.

She taught humanities philosophy courses at Arkansas Tech for 24 years.

Survivors: one daughter, one son, four grandchildren, six great‑grandchildren and one great‑great‑grandchild.

James C. Johnson LLB’67, Mountain Home, Aug. 15. He practiced law in Mountain Home for 44 years. He began his law practice in 1969 joining Fred Engeler’s Firm and retired in 2011 as a senior partner in the law firm of Johnson, Sanders & Morgan. Survivors: his wife, Jennie, two daughters, one sister and one granddaughter.

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Daniel G. Ogden BSBA’67, Van Buren, July 14. He worked in furniture sales and retired from sales at KDYN Radio in Ozark. Survivors: his wife, Connie, one daughter, one son, two sisters and two grandchildren.

Floyd A. Walker EDD’66, Warrensburg, Mo., June 3. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946. He originally came to Central Missouri in 1962 as head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach. In 1966 he was named director of athletics and served in that capacity until 1980. He was the associate athletic director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City from 1986 until his official retirement in 1992.

Roger Stanley Almond BSCE’68, Hot Springs, Aug. 27. He spent his entire professional career as a registered professional engineer with the Arkansas State Highway and Department of Transportation. Survivors: his wife, Jean, one daughter, one brother and three grandchildren.

Dolores Shelley Bryant MED’68, Springdale, July 14. She was a professor of music education at the University of Arkansas. Survivors: her husband, Horace, two sons, three daughters, nine grandchildren and nine great‑grandchildren.

Charles R. Buck MED’68, Monroe, La., Aug. 22. He served in the U.S. Army where he was stationed in Germany. He served on the faculty of Northeast Louisiana University from 1967 to 2001 when he retired from teaching. Survivors: his wife, Bobbie, two daughters, one stepdaughter, one stepson, one grandson, eight step‑grandchildren and seven step‑great‑grandchildren.

William Arthur Hough BSBA’69 JD’72, Woodbine, June 27. He worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as district counsel of the Savannah District

from 1987 to 2004. He was inducted into the 2012 Gallery of Distinguished Civilian Employees. Survivors: his wife, Charlotte, mother, two sons, one brother and one grandson.

Bill T. Pugh BSA’69, Paris, June 10.

He was the retired natural resources conservationist for Logan County. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. Survivors: his wife, Betty, mother, one daughter, two sons, one sister and three grandchildren.

J. C. Bell ✪ BSBA’70, North Richland Hills, Texas, July 29. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, making an around the world tour in 1954 aboard the destroyer, U.S.S. Ross.

He worked with McCrory’s Stores as a store manager and as their national employee and labor relations director.

He was retired from Wal‑Mart as vice president of human resources in their logistics system. Survivors: his wife, Nadean, one daughter, one sister, two brothers, one step‑brother, two grandsons and one great‑granddaughter.

Earl L. Bell BSA’70, Wilson, N.C., Sept. 10. He worked with Elanco Health Company, a division of Eli Lilly for 30 years in Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Survivors: his wife, Carol, two daughters, four brothers, five sisters and four grandchildren.

James Carney Owen BA’70, Conway, Aug. 1. He was a long‑time history teacher at Conway High School.

Survivors: his wife, Sherry, one daughter, one son, two sisters and one brother.

William M. Cromwell BSBA’71 JD’76, Fort Smith, Sept. 6. His legal career included private practice at Rose, Kinsey and Cromwell before going on to serve his country as an assistant U.S. attorney. Survivors: two sons, three sisters and three brothers.

D. Derrell Davis JD’71, Bryant, July 28. He was a member of the Arkansas Air National Guard, 1963‑1964, and the Arkansas Army National Guard, 1964‑1970, attaining rank of first lieutenant. He was the first municipal judge in Bryant, serving from 1975 to 1993, when he retired from that position. He also served as part‑time city attorney, Bryant, before becoming the Saline County attorney until he retired in 2007. Survivors: his wife, Rachel, one daughter, one son and two grandsons.

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In Memoriam Searcy W. Harrell, Jr. ✪+ B.S.B.A.’62, L.L.B.’64

Searcy W. Harrell, Jr., 72, a lawyer from Camden, died Nov. 1, 2013. Harrell practiced law for more than 40 years, was an Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1988, and former board member of the Arkansas Alumni Association National Board of Directors.

Harrell graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science in business administration and from the U of A School of Law in 1964 with a bachelor’s degree in Law. Harrell practiced law in Prescott before working in private practice for the last 42 years in Camden. He was well-practiced as a lawyer, representing International Paper Co. and Ouachita Electric Cooperative Corp. for more than 30 years, and representing as an attorney for Camden Airport Commission for more than 40 years. He served as circuit judge of the 13th Judicial District in 2012 and on the Committee of Professional Conduct for Arkansas Supreme Court.

Harrell was involved in many different business interests. He was a former member of the Board of Directors of Worthen National Bank of Camden and First Community Banking Corporation. He was the chairman of First Bank, which was chartered out of Hampton, Ark. He was also the former president and CEO of First Bank. In the past, he served as president of the Boys and Girls Club of Camden, Kiwanis Club of Camden, and was president of Camden Country Club and a member of Ouachita Partnership for Economic Development from 2007 to 2011. He volunteered for Angel Flight, an organization that arranges free air transit for humanitarian efforts.

He is survived by three sons, one daughter, one step-daughter, one sister, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. ■

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Alton C. Manning ✪+ MED’67 DAS’70 EDD’89, Springfield, Mo., July 21. He joined the U.S. Army serving in Germany. He was dedicated to improving the education and well‑being of children and youth. During his career he taught high school science, served as principal of Reed Junior High School and as director of pupil personnel services for Springfield Public Schools.

Survivors: his wife, Elizabeth and one sister.

Thomas P. Connell BSA’72, Benton, July 9. He retired after working 40 years for Centerpoint Energy in Little Rock as a warehouse foreman. Survivors: his wife, Toni, one daughter, two sons, one sister, two brothers and seven grandchildren.

Cynthia C. Miller ✪+ BA’72, Little Rock, July 12. She was involved with more than a dozen nonprofits throughout Little Rock and Arkansas and worked as the advocate for charities in Arkansas to the Sturgis Educational Charitable Trust at Bank of America.

She also worked in politics and courts as state field director for Arkansas for Al Gore for President, a bill clerk for the

Arkansas General Assembly, executive assistant to Chief Judge John F. Stroud of the Arkansas Court of Appeals, and administrative assistant to appeals Judge David M. Glover. She was instrumental in developing the Sturgis Fellowships in the U of A’s Fulbright College. Survivors: her husband, Pat ✪+ BSBA’70, her mother, one daughter, one son and three grandchildren.

Nan Nelson Simmons ★ BA’72 MA’74, Pine Bluff, July 26. She improved the lives of others as a speech pathologist, serving her community as a volunteer and stepping up to not only assume command of her late father’s

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business, Knox Nelson Oil Co., but lead in its expansion. Survivors: one son, one daughter and four grandchildren.

Wanda Allen Belzung ★

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Wanda Allen Belzung, University of Arkansas instructor emeritus of journalism, died at 89 years old, Sept.

27 in Fayetteville. She was 89.

She was born the daughter of Marcus L. and Mae Crumpler Allen on Feb. 23, 1924, in Village, Ark. Belzung began her career in journalism after she received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism in 1947 and 1950 from the University of Texas at Austin. She married Laurie Dennis Belzung in 1947 while she was a graduate student. They made their homes in Austin, Dallas and Houston.

She started her career as an administrative assistant to the press secretary of the governor of Texas. She moved on from there to work as a copywriter at an advertising agency in Austin.

Later, she worked in advertising for the Skillern’s drugstore chain in Dallas. She became the associate editor of The Texas Outlook magazine after moving back to Austin.

Belzung and her husband moved to Fayetteville in 1960 when her husband was named professor of economics and associate dean in the College of Business Administration. She joined the University of Arkansas as a teaching assistant in 1972 and began teaching journalism classes in 1974, developing the advertising/ public relations sequence of the journalism degree at the U of A. In 1982, her students won first place in the 10th District of the American Advertising Federation and received national recognition in the AAF student advertising competition.

In other awards, she was a recipient of an American Academy of Advertising Faculty Advisory Committee award and was a member of the AAF Education Foundation. She was selected V.I.P. (Very Important Professor) by the Specialty Advertising Association International, and named “Outstanding Educator for 1985” by the 10th District AAF. When she retired in 1988, the Wanda A. Belzung Scholarship Fund in advertising was created by students and professionals in advertising.

Belzung was a valued member of the community as a member of Central United Methodist Church, University Women’s Club, Twentieth Century Club and P.E.O. Chapter BH, and she also served on the Board of Directors and Foundation Board of Altrusa International Inc. of Fayetteville.

She and her husband traveled widely, visiting and touring more than 25 countries in Europe, the Balkans, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, China and other eastern nations. She was an avid supporter of the Razorbacks, attending football games until the age of 85 and basketball games until her death. Survivors include three daughters, one brother and four grandchildren. n

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owned Zies Fine Art Gallery in Fort Smith. Survivors: two sisters.

Linda F. Beck BA’73, Oklahoma City, Okla., July 20. For almost 40 years, she was an award‑winning executive administrator for Hertz Corp. Survivors: her mother and three sisters.

Paul Michael Mortensen BARCH’80, Fayetteville, Aug. 8. He loved architecture, working with clients and looking at the technical side of structures. Survivors: his wife, Laura, parents, one son and one daughter.

Bonnie Ann Childers BSE’73, Bentonville, June 30. She was a longtime elementary school teacher for the Gravette School district, beginning her career in the Hiwasse Elementary School. Survivors: her husband, Neal, one son, three daughters, one brother, one sister and 13 grandchildren.

Freddie L. Jones MPA’82, Little Rock, June 25. He was an educator, spending nearly 25 years with the Little Rock School District teaching young people American history and civics. Survivors: his wife, Marilyn, four daughters, five brothers, two sisters and two grandchildren.

Dennis Wayne Harpool MA’74, Haymarket, Va., August 10. He served with distinction in the U.S. Army as a military adviser in Vietnam. Following his military duty, he served as a U.S. government civil servant retiring from the Pentagon in 2008 after 33 years of service. Survivors: his wife, Cathy and two brothers.

Eva Faye Coe MSE’83, Ocala, FL, July 9. She was a life‑long educator. She also started the Kingdom of the Sun Doll Club in Ocala, stemming from her love of collecting dolls. Survivors: one daughter, one son, five grandchildren and two great‑granddaughters.

Thomas F. Anderson BA’75, Fort Smith, Aug. 7. He was retired treasurer of Anderson Martin Machine Co. Survivors: his father, three daughters and one brother.

Otto Bert Potter BSCE’75, Hope, July 8. He spent more than 20 years as a professional engineer for the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, including several years as the resident engineer in Hope. He was also the engineer for Construction Materials Testing Services in Hope.

Survivors: his wife, Donna, mother, one daughter, four sons, 13 grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

Jimmy D. Sherwood PHD’75, Angleton, Texas, Aug. 24. He had a long and distinguished career in nuclear chemistry. For the past 33 years, he was employed at the South Texas Project.

Survivors: his wife, Linda, step‑mother, one son, one daughter and one sister.

Sandra K. Cooper BA’78, Fort Smith, Aug. 9. She retired from Macsteel in Fort Smith in 2007. Survivors: her husband, Larry, father, one son, one daughter, one sister, two brothers and three grandchildren.

George L. Zies Jr. BA’78, Fayetteville, July 17. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam era. He was an assistant curator of the Old Washington Historic State Park. He

Cynthia Gabbard Schmidt BSE’83 MED’93, Springdale, June 25. She was an elementary school teacher for 25 years. Survivors: her husband, Andrew, parents, one son, one daughter, one sister and five grandchildren.

Richard A. Houston BSE’84, Fort Smith, Aug. 10. He was a former football coach for Cedarville High School. Survivors: his mother, three sons, one sister and one granddaughter.

F. Neill Williamson BA’84, Fayetteville, Aug. 9. For several years he worked the front door for the fabled Friday Happy Hour at George’s Majestic Lounge.

Survivor: one brother.

Wendy Rooney Beadle BSBA’85, Little Rock, July 2. She worked for the state of Arkansas throughout her career.

Survivors: her husband, Dan, two daughters, two sisters and two brothers.

Patrick Hannan BSBA’85, Fayetteville, Aug. 30. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam Conflict. He was a retired accountant. Survivors: one son, one daughter, one sister, one brother and five grandchildren.

Doane White BSBA’86, Breckenridge, Texas, Aug. 1. He worked as a certified public accountant. Survivors: his parents, one sister and one brother.

Jana Lynn Britton BLA’88, Fayetteville, July 11. She worked summers for the National Park System: the Buffalo National River, Isle Royal

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National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. Survivors: her husband, Charles, one son, two daughters, one sister, six grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Donald E. Wilson JD’90, Fayetteville, Aug. 8. He was an attorney, electrical engineer, pilot, musician and U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam Conflict.

Survivors: his wife, Barbara, his mother, four daughters, three sons, two sisters and 13 grandchildren.

George Wolfer EDD’90, Sun City, Ariz., April 25. He was an artist and educator. Survivors: his wife, Elizabeth, one son and two granddaughters.

Philip J. Young ★ PHD’90, Aurora, Mo., June 21. He was announced as the Tom E. Hendrix Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise at UT Martin in 2005. He had previously served as vice president of university relations at the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute in Charlottesville, Va. Survivors: one son, three daughters, one sister, two brothers and six grandchildren.

Christopher L. Battle BA’92 MA’95, Alexandria, Va., Aug. 8. He began his professional career as a political reporter for the Northwest Arkansas Times before entering public service and moving to Washington, D.C., as a top aide to Congressman Asa Hutchinson. Most recently, he served as a partner in one of Washington’s top public affairs firms, The Adfero Group. Survivors: his wife, Dena, his parents, two daughters and two brothers.

Sally Clower Brezinski BA’97, Leakey, Texas, June 27. Survivors: her husband, Robert, three daughters, three sons, one sister, one brother and seven grandchildren.

Randall Guy Dixon BSCSE’98, Oklahoma City, Okla., July 8. He was employed at General Dynamics, where he worked on various military defense projects. Survivors: his wife, Amy, his parents, one sister and one brother.

Amelia Hiltz BSBA’02, North Augusta, S.C., July 23. She worked as a controlling accountant for Remington College. Survivors: her husband, William, her parents, one daughter, one son, her maternal grandparents and one sister.

Crystal Gale Buswell MED’10, Greenwood, Aug. 29. She was a high school teacher in Alma and Ozark.

Survivors: her husband, Nick, her father and stepmother, her mother and stepfather, one son and one sister.

Kari Jo Armstrong ★ BSN’12, Anoka, Minn., July 4. She was a nurse. Survivors: her parents, two sons, two stepsons, one sister and three grandchildren.

Friends O.B. Harrington ✪, Memphis, Tenn., July 17. He served in the U.S. Navy. In 2006, he was awarded the Tennessee Outstanding Physician for his leadership and “tremendous contributions” in the field of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery for more than 50 years. Survivors: his wife, Barbara, three sons, one brother, one sister, eight grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren. ■

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“That experience, good or bad, was instrumental in our later workplace success. Adolescents who receive Social Security disability benefits typically do not have a first job or internship experience. As such, they remain cut off from the world of work. The PROMISE grant seeks to provide 1,000 adolescents with disabilities who receive Social Security disability benefits with their first paid work experience.”

A total of 2,000 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 16 who receive SSI will be recruited for the project. The youth will be divided into two groups, with half receiving the intervention of job coaching and benefits counseling, and the other half serving as a control group that does not receive the intervention.

University researchers will gather data on the participants over the course of the five years. Tom Smith, dean of the College of Education and Health Professions, said the focus of the project will be to develop a model program to assist adolescents with disabilities to become independent adults.

“We are extremely excited to work with the Arkansas Department of Education, Gov. Mike Beebe’s office and numerous state agencies on this project,” Smith said. ■

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Researchers name new organism ‘Pygsuia biforma’ Researchers at the University of Arkansas have discovered and characterized a new organism that will help scientists understand the molecular mechanisms and ancestral genetic toolkit that enabled animals and fungi to evolve into diverse, multicellular life forms.

Jeffrey Silberman, a professor of biological sciences, isolated a new unicellular anaerobic eukaryote, and worked with former graduate student Matt Brown and others in the lab of Andrew Roger at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the genomics and description of this organism, which they named Pygsuia biforma. Brown, now a biology professor at Mississippi State University, is the lead author of the study, which was published this past August in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (Biology), the top British biological research journal.

“The importance of this finding is that it helps us decipher how multicellularity evolved,” Silberman said. “It demonstrates that some genes and proteins that most people think are specific to being

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multicellular in animals are already present in their unicellular relatives. It is as if the genetic toolkit for becoming multicellular was assembled and modified bit by bit in the single-cell lineages that share a common ancestry with animals.”

The genus name for Pygsuia biforma is derived from part of the Razorbacks sports cheer, “Wooo Pig Sooie,” because the cell has a row of structures resembling the dorsal bristles of razorbacks. “Pyg” replaces “pig” as a play on the Latin Pygmae, a mythical race of pygmies, a reference to their small size, and “sui” replaces “sooie” for brevity and a reference to the animal family to which suids, the ancient biological family of pigs, belong.

Consequently the genus name also means “little pig” in mock Latin. The species name, biforma, is derived from the presence of two distinct cell forms that are observed in the life cycle.

A culture sample of Pygsuia biforma has been submitted to the Smithsonian Institution. ■

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