CHAPTER LEADER PROFILE:
John Andrews John Andrews, a 1992 Oklahoma State University graduate with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, serves as president of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter of the OSU Alumni Association. Andrews has enjoyed serving the chapter in many different ways throughout the years as a board member, vice president and now as president. Andrews grew up in Edmond, Oklahoma. He quickly knew that OSU would be his home when he toured the campus and fell in love with the scenery and the kind faces that greeted him. He loved attending sporting events. One of his most vivid memories is watching Barry Sanders breaking football records. Andrews was a freshman in 1988 when Sanders broke 34 NCAA records and captured the Heisman Trophy. “That solidified the process of me bleeding orange, watching him not only break records, but the classy manner in which he did it,” Andrews says. Andrews still enjoys taking his family to watch football and basketball games at OSU each year. He has influenced his wife and children to bleed orange as well. The Andrews family lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, and makes it a point to travel to Stillwater as often as they can to catch some Cowboy football and basketball. After college, Andrews began working for Wal-Mart in Phoenix and was later transferred to the home office in Bentonville. He now works for MoneyGram International, a worldwide
The Andrews family, Connor, Kendra, John and Katie, enjoy America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration on the Oklahoma State University campus in Stillwater. financial services company. Many years after planting his roots in Northwest Arkansas, a friend of his started an OSU Alumni Association chapter in their area and encouraged Andrews to get involved. Andrews became a board member and expressed interest in the office of chapter vice president. The next year, he became president and has enjoyed serving the chapter and all of the philanthropic efforts. Andrews’ favorite part of being involved in an OSU Alumni Association chapter is the effort to provide scholarships to students from Northwest Arkansas who will attend OSU. He is passionate about helping pave a way for
future Cowboys to have the opportunity to go to school. “We started off giving one scholarship per year, then last year we expanded it to two, and this year we’re going to give twice as much,” he says. “Our goal was to try and give more and more every year.” The Northwest Arkansas Chapter hopes to one day have an endowed scholarship, so that the opportunities for students will never end. Andrews enjoys riding bikes since he retired from racing in triathlons. He and his wife Kendra stay busy with their two children, Katie and Connor, who usually have their own sporting events to attend on many weekends, too.
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHAPTER BY THE NUMBERS
2,430 alumni and friends 213 members 211 current students from Arkansas
164 miles from Stillwater
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SPRING 2017