Ouachita Circle: Summer 2020 (Special Update)

A SPECIAL UPDATE

OUACHITA OFFICE OF ALUMNI RELATIONS

BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

410 Ouachita Street • Box 3762 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71998-0001

Summer 2020

Fellow Ouachitonians, I’m writing with a brief update from Ouachita. By now, disruptions to the norm are almost expected, right? We have chosen to skip publishing the summer 2020 issue of the Ouachita Circle alumni magazine. This has allowed our staff the ability to focus our attentions on preparing for a semester unlike any other. We want to put our best effort into supporting the work of our fellow faculty and staff to provide students a meaningful Ouachita experience in the fall. We take our task seriously to help the university to communicate well about the many adjustments being made in response to COVID-19.

Ouachita’s COVID-19 story is one that we still plan to tell – along with many others – in our next issue. We anticipate expanding the upcoming issue to cover the entirety of 2020, honoring the work of our faculty, staff and students during this unprecedented year. Class notes also will be published for the entire year in that issue. Take your opportunity now to submit a note at obu.edu/classnotes.

In the meantime, I invite you to pray for our faculty, staff and students as we navigate the challenges that fall will bring, and I encourage you to follow along with Ouachita online: •

We have a new “Ouachita Stories” website at obu.edu/stories that brings together news and blogs from across the university and even features stories from previous print issues of the Ouachita Circle magazine.

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Check out one of several Ouachita podcasts that have been created during the pandemic: Ouachita Chapel, Tiger for Life and Ouachita Sports Digital Network’s Talking with Tigers.

Just search “Ouachita” on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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Follow @Ouachita and @OuachitaAlumni on social media. There you’ll find frequent updates about the state of campus, plans for the fall and meaningful posts by members of the Ouachita family.

This is an historic season, for sure. As we each are daily stretched to tackle new challenges or are surprised with unexpected blessings, I leave you with the words we are sharing daily with our campus community: Take care, Tigers!

Brooke Zimny Assistant to the President for Communications & Marketing

MORE WAYS TO KEEP UP WITH OUACHITA OUACHITA’S COVID-19 RESPONSE

obu.edu/coronavirus

CHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCASTS obu.edu/podcasts

obu.edu/stories FOLLOW US: @Ouachita // @OuachitaAlumni

TA K E C A R E, TIGERS