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A NEW HOME IN ARKANSAS

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Chancellor Joe Steinmetz is intent on meeting Arkansas – its students, faculty, staff, residents and civic leaders – before forging a new mission for the university.

It’s like learning your scales before tackling Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major.

DESIGNING A BETTER LIFE

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The University of Arkansas Community Design Center helps communities across Arkansas think in new ways about the design of their place – from land forms to businesses to transportation – and makes them better.

EASING INTO RETIREMENT

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After 63 years of teaching students about zoology, particularly birds, Doug James is retiring. His legacy as an emeritus professor shows in the number and quality of graduate students who now continue his research work.

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On the Hill

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Razorback Road

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ON THE COVER Chancellor Joe Steinmetz brings an open ear and experienced eye to his role as the leader of the Fayetteville campus. Read more on Page 12.

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ARKANSAS Publisher Arkansas Alumni Association Executive Director Brandy Cox ★ MA’07 Editor Charlie Alison ★ BA’82 MA’04 Creative Director Eric Pipkin

A New Voice for Graduate Students I am completing my final year of coursework in the doctoral program in history. I am in my second year of service in the new Graduate Student Congress and currently serve as speaker for that legislative body.

Shirley Chisholm, one of my personal heroes, once said, “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” I have really taken that message to heart and feel it is my duty and great honor to serve others, especially those on the University of Arkansas campus.

It has always been my goal to leave every place I have been better than I found it. One of the major ways in which I am working to better our campus is by advocating for graduate students and their needs. I believe the Graduate Student Congress is an extraordinary opportunity to improve the graduate student experience at the University of Arkansas.

I am incredibly privileged to serve with 40 other representatives who are just as dedicated to serving the graduate student body as I am.

We have been excited by how quickly graduate students have embraced our body and involved themselves with issues across campus. The level of engagement we have achieved with the graduate student body has allowed us to build a solid foundation in our first year as a legislative body.

As the university works toward its goal of becoming a top 50 public research institution, much will be asked of graduate students.

Chancellors Gearhart, Ferritor and Steinmetz have all noted that graduate students are a critical component to reaching that goal.

Many of the issues the Graduate Student Congress is working on are aimed at putting the university more in line with peer institutions, so we can be better positioned to reach our top 50 goal. We know many of these issues have no easy

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fixes – graduate assistantship stipends, graduate student housing, health care, childcare – but our body is already putting in the hard work required to bring about the needed changes.

The Graduate Student Congress has had the benefit of great guidance and support, not only from the Office of Student Activities, which advises the entirety of the Associated Student Government, but the Graduate School as well.

This dual advising model has been a great asset and has, in part, helped us to achieve as much as we have thus far.

One of the awesome things we have learned is that everyone we have spoken with, from administrators to faculty and staff, has been willing to help us reach our objectives. Every member of the campus community we have worked with has been generous with their time, information and resources.

In fact, I have found the entire university community to be tremendously engaged and supportive. Even though my department has one of the largest graduate programs on campus, you wouldn’t know it from the amount of time and attention students receive from faculty members and peers alike. Everyone in the department is really invested in each other’s success and it shows.

I can’t think of anywhere else I would rather earn my Ph.D. than the University of Arkansas.

I feel fortunate to have arrived at the University of Arkansas in time to serve on the Graduate Student Congress since its first year as an official legislative body. I am excited to see what the future will bring as we build on our experiences and bring even more graduate students into student government.

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ON THE HILL

Laura Jacobs has been named associate vice chancellor and chief of staff for incoming University of Arkansas chancellor, Joseph Steinmetz.

She previously worked as associate vice chancellor for University Relations. In her new role, Jacobs will be responsible for executive strategy and strategic planning, advising the chancellor, serving as a liaison to internal and external constituencies, and advancing the institutional vision through special projects. The Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History will report to her.

“I was consistently impressed with Laura as I got to know her last year during the chancellor search process in her role leading the search committee,” Steinmetz said. “Her depth of experience in strategic planning and communications combined with her natural tact in dealing with others make her a perfect fit for this important role.”

Jacobs first joined the university in 1998 and held several roles with increasing responsibilities, including manager of development communications, managing editor of Arkansas magazine and senior director of strategic communications. She served for more than two years as director of communications at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, then returned to university relations in early 2014 as associate vice chancellor.

Jacobs is a graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications and a master of education in higher education administration.

Other changes in the chancellor’s office include the promotion of Marcia Overby to associate vice chancellor for administration. Overby has been with the university for 30 years, working with four chancellors

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in her 22 years in the chancellor’s office. She will be responsible for office management and budgetary oversight of accounts supporting the chancellor’s office, liaison for special events in Fowler House including managing house operations, and will serve as secretary of the executive committee and continue to prepare items for Board of Trustees agendas.

Overby is a U of A graduate with a Bachelor of Science in education as well as a master’s degree and doctorate in education. She is also a third-generation employee of the university.

Sally Adams has been named executive assistant to the chancellor and will manage scheduling as well as correspondence for the chancellor’s office. She has been at the university since 1998, starting her career at the law school before she moved to the Office of Advancement in 2001 and finally to the Chancellor’s Office in 2008. She has a Bachelor of Science in family studies from the University of Arizona. n

U of A Press, CantoMundo Establish Poetry Prize The University of Arkansas Press, in partnership with CantoMundo, has established the CantoMundo Poetry Series and CantoMundo Poetry Prize.

The $1,000 prize will be awarded to a book of poetry by a contemporary U.S.-based Latina/o poet. The University of Arkansas Press will publish the book.

The editors of the series, Deborah Paredez and Celeste Guzmán Mendoza, will select the annual winner and write a preface for the book. They serve as co-directors of CantoMundo, a national organization that cultivates a community of Latina/o poets.

Paredez is the author of the poetry collection This Side of Skin and the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Poetry, Latino Studies Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches at the Columbia University Writing Program.

Guzmán Mendoza is the author of the poetry collection Beneath the Halo. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language

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Experience, and ¡Floricanto Sí!: U.S. Latina Poetry, and elsewhere.

“Working with the University of Arkansas Press on the CantoMundo Poetry Series is an opportunity for us to realize a key part of our mission, which is to disseminate works by Latina/o poets,” said Paredez and Guzmán Mendoza. “We look forward to publishing the voices of contemporary Latina/o poets and thereby showcasing the best of American poetry today.”

According to David Scott Cunningham, senior editor of the University of Arkansas Press, this new prize and series joins nicely with the press’s longrunning Miller Williams Poetry Series and the Etel Adnan Poetry Series, established this year.

“The University of Arkansas Press has long been committed to publishing diverse kinds of poetry by a diversity of poets,” Cunningham said, “and we are excited to broaden that ambition by seeking to advance the work of Latino/o poets as part of the country’s core literary identity.”

Submissions for the prize are now open, with a deadline of this April 15 for the 2017 prize. To learn more about the prize, including submission requirements, visit uapress.com. n

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New Security Officer Program Enhances Security, Supports UAPD on Campus The University of Arkansas has added three new security officers to patrol campus on foot primarily to supplement U of A police officers.

The new security officer program allows for more flexibility in security efforts on campus. The security officers will support campus events and provide traffic and security support where needed.

“The goal is to reduce crime through an increased visible presence through foot patrols on campus while supporting our police officers by providing assistance to citizens,” said Reggie Houser, a 36-year employee of the U of A and a previous police officer who oversees the program as executive security manager for the university.

The security officers use University of Arkansas Police Department radios to call police officers if needed but do not carry firearms or have full law enforcement authority to make arrests or issue citations. They will take the lead on things like unlocking vehicles, jumping batteries and providing crowd control and security at campus events so that police officers can focus on law enforcement duties.

The security officer uniforms are slightly different than UAPD to set them apart, with white shirts and a blue UAPD security patch. But both police and security officers can assist with any security, crime or safety issue on campus, as the security officers can call in police officers if law enforcement is needed.

The U of A’s first three security officers — Jacob Davis, Ben Kovach and Joe Zodrow — finished six weeks training with UAPD and started work in mid-December.

Houser said they looked for law-enforcement career-minded candidates who might benefit from the experience and tuition assistance offered through U of A employment.

“We hope our security officers become our police officers over time,” Houser said. “This is like an in-house training program.”

While three security officers are currently funded, Houser would like to eventually grow the program to 10 officers so they can focus on more areas such as parking lot crime surveillance. n

Microfiche Recycling Project Keeps 240 Pounds of Plastic from the Landfill Faculty and staff from the University Libraries coordinated a recycling effort to keep 240 pounds of plastic out of the local landfill.

That’s the equivalent of about 7,000 water bottles – or 104,000 square feet of plastic wrap.

Lynaire Hartsell, user experience coordinator, identified and weeded thousands of microfiche from the Libraries’ collection. These particular materials contain copies of very old college catalogs that are no longer used.

Microfiche are flat plastic sheets, about the size of an index card, that hold very small copies of printed material. While this “micro” format takes up far less space than printed counterparts, it is surprisingly heavy when massed together.

Recycling this much plastic isn’t free – the company charges $9 per 30-pound box, plus shipping. But Mary Gilbertson, monographic unit head in Tech Services, and Judy Ganson, director for Collection

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Management Services & Systems, thought it was important to keep this material out of the landfill. In the end, several Libraries’ departments were involved with the effort. Gilbertson withdrew the materials from the collection and located the recycler, and Brian Curtis and Matthew Kelly from Facilities packed and weighed the boxes.

“While recycling the material is more costly, it is the responsible thing to do to help to preserve our environment. Although, the Libraries could have saved monetarily by not recycling, the accountability is invaluable,” said Gilbertson.

This process has also allowed Libraries’ staff to create a system to recycle unnecessary microfiche in the future. While no plans to recycle additional microfiche are in place now, weeding the Libraries’ collection is an ongoing process and boxes of microfiche can pile up quickly.

The U of A is committed to be a zero waste campus by 2021. The Libraries’ are proud to help support these efforts. n

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When Ann Marie Ziegler’s husband, Joe, became disabled in a bicycle accident in 2008, the couple found themselves surrounded by new healthcare challenges. Thanks to the excellent medical care from three University of Arkansas nursing students, Joe – a faculty member and chair of the Department of Economics – and his wife received the support they needed at their home until he passed away in 2013.

A former U of A faculty member herself, Ziegler felt inspired by the care her husband received and is now honoring the three former students – two of whom still live and work in Northwest Arkansas -with scholarships created in their names. The Theresa Rickert Endowed Nursing Scholarship, Meredith Warner Endowed Nursing Scholarship and Kristen Coleman Endowed Nursing Scholarship have all been established in the College of Education and Health Professions with gifts of $80,000 to each.

“We are very grateful to Mrs. Ziegler for honoring our nursing program in this way,” said Tom Smith, dean of the College of Education and Health Professions. “Endowing scholarships in the names of our nursing graduates will inspire our future students and shows the tremendous impact they will have on the people they care for.”

“Scholarships help students achieve their desire to become registered nurses at a time when the region needs baccalaureate-prepared nurses,” said Julie Hoff, director of the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing. “We thank our donors for their generosity and for recognizing the need for scholarships in nursing education.”

Theresa Rickert now works as a registered nurse for Mercy

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Ziegler Gifts Inspired by Family’s Experiences With Student Nurses Medical Center in Rogers. “I was very shocked to find out about the scholarship,” Rickert said. “It was unexpected, although I know how much the Zieglers have always loved the university. I guess you never realize how much a family appreciates your care until afterwards.”

Meredith Warner works as a registered nurse in administration in a clinic in Austin Texas, and has applied to the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the University of Arkansas. “I remember the Zieglers as being very wonderful, welcoming people,” said Warner, who recalls crying when she learned a scholarship was being named in her honor. “I learned a lot about life from Joe Ziegler.”

Kristen Coleman, originally from Plano Texas, moved to Arkansas in 2009 with her two children and enrolled in the university’s nursing program in 2011. “When you’re in someone’s home, you become very close,” said Coleman, who now works as a registered nurse at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville. “I knew Ann Marie wanted to do something, but I was surprised when I learned about the scholarship. I’m very honored. I feel like I was meaningful to them – just as they were to me.”

In addition to the three scholarships, Ann Marie Ziegler has also designated $10,000 to be used toward the Dr. Joseph A. Ziegler Experimental Economics Excellence Fund in the Sam M. Walton College of Business. n

Physicists Show Skyrmions Can Exist in Ferroelectrics

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New theoretical physics research shows that swirling particles known revealing prospective skyrmion-based applications of ferroelectric as skyrmions, which have been found in magnetic systems, can also nanocomposites.” exist in ferroelectrics.

Ferroelectrics convert changes in mechanical energy into electrical An international team of physicists, led by energy and vice versa. These changes are known University of Arkansas postdoctoral research as a piezoelectric response and are used in a wide associates Yousra Nahas and Sergei Prokhorenko, range of applications that include cell phones published its findings in Nature Communications, and heart implants. an online journal published by the journal The results were obtained through a Nature. The study has also been highlighted in collaborative effort with Igor Kornev, a former Nature Physics.

U of A research professor now at Ecole Centrale Nahas said the discovery of these electrical Paris. Two recent U of A physics doctoral skyrmions was challenging because ferroelectrics graduates also contributed to the study – lack certain interactions that are usually thought Zhigang Gui, now at the University of Delaware, to be necessary for stabilizing skyrmions in and Lydie Louis, now at the University of Yousra Nahas Sergei Prokhorenko magnetic systems.

Connecticut.

“Skyrmions have been extensively investigated in magnets but not in The U.S. Army Research Office and the Defense Advanced Research ferroelectrics,” said Laurent Bellaiche, Distinguished Professor of physics Projects Agency, which commissions advanced research for the U.S. at the University of Arkansas. “In this study, we demonstrated that Department of Defense, funded the study. n the stabilized electrical skyrmion can be as small as a few nanometers,

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Leeds Named Among Nation’s Legal Education ‘Leaders in Diversity’ The profile notes that Leeds, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is currently the nation’s only American Indian dean of a law school and one of a handful of American Indian law professors.

She has served as a mentor, student organization advisor, moot court coach and career counselor for countless diverse law students. Her non-academic activities include membership on the American Indian Law Center’s board of directors. The center has awarded more the $52 million in scholarships in its 45-year history.

It also acknowledges Leeds’ initiation of two separate diversity pipelines during her tenure as dean. Through the LSAC DiscoverLaw.org Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) Program and the Native Youth in Food and Agriculture Summer Leadership Summit, the School of Law has hosted more than 200 high school and undergraduate students on the University of Arkansas campus during the last four summers.

The story will also run in the next issue of The National Jurist’s sister publication preLaw. The magazines are among the nation’s leading news sources in legal education. The National Jurist reaches an estimated 100,000 law students, and preLaw is read by more than 45,000 prospective law students. Professors and law school administrators receive both publications. n Photo by submitted

The National Jurist magazine has named University of Arkansas School of Law Dean Stacy Leeds among a group of Leaders in Diversity.

In its fall issue, the magazine highlighted 20 professors, chosen from nearly 100 nominations, who have gone beyond the norm to further diversity efforts in legal education.

“Dean Leeds is a great example of how educational leaders should work everyday to foster greater access for students, faculty and staff as well as a more inclusive campus community,” said Charles Robinson, vice chancellor for diversity and community and interim vice provost for student affairs. “We are very fortunate to have her as part of the Razorback family.”

According to the article by Mike Stetz, 88 percent of the nation’s attorneys are white. Law schools must diversify their student bodies in order to ensure that those in key legal professions, such as public servants, judges, prosecutors, general counsels and heads of corporate, government, nonprofit and legal organizations - a group whose career path often involves law school - reflect the population as whole.

Leeds is profiled along with law professors at Loyola University, Saint Louis University, Washington University, the University of California (Los Angeles, Davis and Irvine) and Georgetown. She was chosen for her experience, leadership, accomplishments and innovation.

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Professor in Agricultural Education Recognized for Innovative Teaching by APLU Kate Shoulders, assistant professor of agricultural education in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, has earned national recognition for innovative teaching from the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities.

Shoulders, who is on the faculty in the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology, won one of five Innovative Teaching Awards selected by the APLU. Shoulders created a professional book club for agricultural education students at the U of A with students at North Carolina State University.

The award includes a $2,000 prize, which is intended to help faculty create innovative experiences for students and supports collaboration between faculty at different institutions. It recognizes and encourages innovative approaches to teaching and learning in food, agricultural and natural resources sciences in addition to serving as a base for potential

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future grant proposals. Shoulders worked with Travis Park at North Carolina State to organize the book club.

“The book club allows our preservice teachers to think about teaching from perspectives offered outside the classroom,” said Shoulders. “The books we read focus on solving the challenges current teachers face, so this sort of early professional development gives our students a head start before they become teachers. Additionally, becoming familiar with using nonfiction books as avenues for individual growth prepares the students to use similar resources on their own in the future.”

In addition to teaching, Shoulders, who earned her doctorate in agricultural education at the University of Florida, focuses research on energy conservation in agricultural settings and manages the Renewable Energy Analysis Project. Her energy stations at the U of A farm in Fayetteville and the beef farm in Savoy demonstrate to ranchers, farmers, students and city leaders how agriculture can be sustainable and more energy efficient. n

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James Patterson, Don Rice Receive U of A Honorary Degrees

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His mission is exemplified by his new children’s book imprint, JIMMY Patterson, whose mission is simple: to have every kid who finishes a JIMMY Book say: “PLEASE GIVE ME ANOTHER BOOK.” Patterson will invest his proceeds from the sales of JIMMY Patterson Books into pro-reading initiatives.

Don Rice is founder, president and chief executive officer of the Rice Financial Products Co., one of the nation’s largest minorityowned municipal investment banking firms.

Don Rice Rice and his sister were the first African American students to integrate Eastside Elementary School in Hot Springs. At Hot Springs Junior High, Rice was the first seventh grader to be elected student body vice president.

Rice earned an engineering degree from Kettering University and worked as an automotive manufacturing engineer for General Motors before attending Harvard Business School, where he received a Master of Business Administration with distinction.

Rice began his career in the financial sector in 1985, working for Merrill Lynch as a founding member of the company’s municipal derivatives products group, which developed complex bond-related products to reduce borrowing costs for state and local governments. He pioneered a technique for re-funding municipal debt that later became a common Wall Street practice, and later developed several other new financing products and techniques.

He formed Rice Financial Products Co. in 1993 with a focus on derivative-based borrowing for municipal governments, later expanding into general bond underwriting for municipalities and higher education institutions. Today, Rice Financial Products is involved in 10 percent of the state and local government borrowing done in America and has distinguished itself as the largest financier for historically black colleges and universities.

In 2000, Black Enterprise named Rice Financial its Financial Company of the Year. Rice was selected as Entrepreneur of the Year by the National Association of Securities Professionals in 2002 and the following year he was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame.

Rice has served on the governing boards for Kettering University, New York City’s United Neighborhood Houses and the New York City Head Start program. Rice has also donated to a number of not-forprofit programs and institutions, including the National Urban League and Summer on the Hill, a year-round, supplemental enrichment program for promising, low-income public school students. n Photo submitted

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James Patterson, America’s best-selling author and a passionate advocate for reading, and Don Rice, an innovative Wall Street entrepreneur and founder of one of the nation’s largest minority-owned municipal investment banking firms, were given honorary degrees from the University of Arkansas during the fall commencement ceremony.

Patterson received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.

Rice received an honorary James Patterson Doctor of Humanities degree.

“It is a privilege to be able to recognize two men who have accomplished so much in their chosen fields,” said then-interim Chancellor Dan Ferritor. “Their success is inspiring, but even more inspirational is the way they have used their success to give back to people and causes that matter. Both men have stories to tell and lessons to teach our students, and we look forward to hearing them at this fall’s commencement.”

Patterson and Rice spoke to the graduating students during the ceremony Dec. 19 in Bud Walton Arena.

James Patterson received the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the 2015 National Book Awards. This award honors individuals for a lifetime of achievement in expanding the audience for books and reading.

Patterson is the most prolific and best-selling American author in modern times. He began his career as a novelist in 1976, winning the Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author with The Thomas Berryman Number. Since then he has published in virtually every genre and is particularly proud of his series aimed at young adults and middle school readers.

Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for the most No. 1 New York Times bestsellers – he’s had 117 books make the bestseller list and 68 have hit No. 1. His books have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide.

As stated in the letter nominating him for an honorary degree, “To say that Mr. Patterson is a superstar in the publishing world would be an understatement – he is a galaxy unto himself.”

Patterson is also a tireless champion of the power of books and reading. His website, ReadKiddoRead.com, is designed to help parents, teachers and librarians ignite the next generation’s excitement about reading. The site is dedicated to helping visitors find books they can read to and with their children.

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Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Archives Move to U of A The University of Arkansas Libraries’ Special Collections have acquired the archives of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the oldest all-documentary film festival in North America.

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival Archives offer a significant addition to Special Collections’ extensive film holdings on 20th-century art, culture, environmentalism and politics. Totaling close to 300 linear feet, the archives will provide scholars and researchers access to rich resources documenting the history of one of the country’s most prominent film festivals.

“The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute’s staff and board of directors feel very privileged to have our cherished archives join the distinguished Special Collections at the University of Arkansas, and are thrilled that the ever-evolving historical records of the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will be protected for current and future generations,” said Don Gooch, chair of the institute’s Board of Directors. “We look forward to seeing them shared with film lovers, students, scholars, journalists and researchers from across the state of Arkansas and around the world.”

The archives span a fascinating 25-year history and include thousands of documentary films, as well as an extensive collection of photographs, film memorabilia and artifacts. A number of the documentaries in the collection, especially those screened at Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival before the digital revolution, were never released.

The Walton Family Foundation provided early funding to help the institute maintain a storage facility for the long-term protection and care of the archives.

“Through its rich history, the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival has screened powerful and important non-fiction films, and I’m so glad these stories will be preserved and archived at the University of Arkansas,” said Larry Foley, documentary filmmaker and chair of the Lemke Department of Journalism. “When I first heard the festival’s tapes and DVDS needed a safe and permanent home, I jumped at the chance to encourage our Libraries to accept this incredibly important collection.”

The Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute was founded in 1992 and remains one of the few organizations in the United States dedicated solely to the documentary genre. Each year, the institute presents a 10-day film festival held in October with the help of hundreds of dedicated volunteers, the institute’s board and staff members. Hosted in the historic downtown of Hot Springs, the film festival screens over 100 documentary films each year and is one of only 38 select festivals worldwide recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as Academy Award-qualifiers. This year the festival will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. n

U of A Joins Campus Climate Pact that is Part of Paris Climate Agreement The University of Arkansas is among the leading U.S. universities and colleges that have committed to the American Campuses Act on Climate as part of the Paris Climate Conference agreement approved this weekend.

U of A interim Chancellor Dan Ferritor and Chancellordesignate Joseph Steinmetz joined 318 other U.S. higher education institutions in renewing their pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The U of A was among the first 100 U.S. universities that committed to be climate neutral by 2040.

These institutions represent more than 4 million students.

The U of A was among the first group of institutions to sign the original American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2007, and developed its own longrange Climate Action Plan. The U of A is on schedule to meet its intermediate climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels next year, four years ahead of schedule. The reduction comes in spite of increasing enrollment by more than 10,000 students and adding new buildings over the past 15 years.

U of A leaders signed the following pledge:

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“The University of Arkansas through our ongoing commitment to reducing climate impact has made dramatic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the past eight years, even while increasing the number of students, staff, faculty and buildings on our campus.

We are continuing our journey to identify and implement scientifically sound, cost-effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We recognize that everything is connected so we are addressing social and community sustainability issues in concert with greenhouse gas reduction strategies. As a leader in sustainable technology innovation, we pledge to: • Provide a model for other institutions and businesses to follow through demonstrated positive financial value for the university; • Engage in robust social discourse with our campus, city, and state community to expand understanding of our common values and opportunities to reduce climate impacts; • Continue to explore the science and technologies that will protect and restore the resilience of Earth’s biosphere. n

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Olivera Jankovska, B.S.A.’09

A Passion for Home Macedonian alumna honored for commitment to her native country

By Charlie Allison ★ BA’82 MA’04

Alumna Olivera Jankovska was born and reared in Kriva Palanka, Macedonia. Despite limited resources, she managed to educate herself and her two siblings abroad. Wherever she goes today, she throws passion for her home country into her conversations as fast as Razorback fans normally talk about the Hogs.

“Every time I introduce myself at social gatherings, my Macedonian origin elicits curiosity from people who may or may not have even heard of this small Balkan country,” Jankovska said. “To better explain my heritage, I will start drawing maps, enthusiastically describing the landscape and culture of Macedonia. In no time more and more people will join in the conversation, poised with questions. By the end of the conversation, everyone walks away with a beautiful and vivid image of Macedonia, as a place filled with ancient history and diverse culture.”

Her path outside of Macedonia led to work on projects for the British Council and Peace Corps before being granted a scholarship to Perrotis College in Thessaloniki, Greece, where she was valedictorian for her graduation.

She came to the University of Arkansas in 2005 and completed a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 2009, studying agricultural business in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural Food and Life Sciences. She

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also won the Wall Street Journal Award for Academic Excellence.

Jankovska then finished a master’s degree at Virginia Tech, studying agricultural economics with an emphasis on international trade. She has since helped numerous other Macedonian students tackle the admission process, earn scholarships and academically succeed at American universities.

Since 2005, she has inspired more than 30 different groups of family, friends and professional acquaintances, from almost every continent in the world, to visit Macedonia.

Olivera is now a senior market analyst at Calpine Corp., an independent power producer based in Houston, where she performs quantitative analysis, conducts U.S. market research and supports business development in Mexico. She was awarded Calpine’s Commercial Impact Award for two consecutive years. She plans on pursuing a doctorate in economics, which will allow her to work in international business development.

Ultimately, Olivera hopes to become an ambassador for her small, but culture-rich country: Macedonia. She loves to travel with her India-born husband, an electrical engineer in the oil and gas industry. Olivera’s favorite hobby is learning and speaking foreign languages. She is currently working on mastering her seventh language: Hindi.

In 2015, the United Macedonian Diaspora named her one of its 40 under 40 Macedonians living abroad, “rising stars of Macedonian heritage who are rocking their field of expertise as diverse as technology, business, real estate, medical field, fitness, finance, teaching, arts, law, and government.”

“In my youth, I promoted Macedonian culture by performing in plays and folk dances in Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia,” she said. “At a U.N. youth camp in the United Kingdom, I gave presentations and organized ‘Macedonian evenings.’”

She also brought that pride of birthplace to the University of Arkansas when she came to study here. “I constantly expressed this pride while studying in college in Greece, universities in Arkansas and Virginia in the USA,” she said. “My passion for promoting my country not only exposed me to educational and professional opportunities, but more importantly provided me with personal growth, travel experiences and new friendships.

“I believe that pursuing an international education is one of the most rewarding experiences in life, and so I encourage my fellow Macedonians to seek such a journey.

No matter how great the obstacles may seem, if one has a strong will, there is always a way to achieve this goal.” ■

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Joe Steinmetz

First Step for New Chancellor is to Meet Arkansas – its Students, Faculty and Residents

By H.A. Young, M.F.A. ’04

When Joe Steinmetz was four, he began learning to play the piano.

He eventually began pipe organ lessons as well, continuing to play regularly through high school, learning a mix of classical music, rock and jazz. By the time he was 18, he was faced with a difficult choice: pursue music as a career and attend a music school, or pursue a career in science. He knew he didn’t want to teach music but rather he wanted to be a performer. So he took careful stock of his skills, assessed his probability of success, and decided it would be his hobby, not his profession.

Instead, he eventually enrolled at Central Michigan University, where he began an extraordinarily successful academic career in science that has led him from his home state of Michigan, to California, back and forth across the Midwest, and finally brought him to Fayetteville, Arkansas. It’s also why there are now two pianos in Fowler House, the chancellor’s residence — the Steinway in the foyer and the electric

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Roland baby grand he brought from Columbus, Ohio, that now resides upstairs.

This January marked a new era for the University of Arkansas as Steinmetz became just the sixth person to be named chancellor.

With enrollment soaring and a major capital campaign — Campaign Arkansas — set for a public launch in the fall of 2016, he arrives at a critical time for an institution actively seeking to improve its position among the nation’s best public research universities. After an exhaustive search process, both the Board of Trustees and Don Bobbitt, president of the U of A System, agreed he was the best candidate to take the university to the next level. But unlike his predecessor, Dave Gearhart, who spent 10 years on campus as the vice chancellor for advancement prior to his appointment, Steinmetz arrives as a relative unknown to the campus community – something he intends to rectify as quickly as possible.

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“I want to get a firm understanding of the culture of the university,” he said during a recent interview. “It’s about more than the facts. I want to know what makes this university tick. I want to know what people care about.” Toward that end, he intends to be out of the office as much as possible, visiting alumni, friends and other stakeholders both on and off campus and throughout the state. He hopes to visit every academic department within the first six months and learn about the cares and concerns of the entire campus community.

So far, he really likes what he’s seen.

“We have a great mix of academic offerings,” he said, “in terms of the programs available to students and the research being done by faculty.

Hopefully we can find ways to be more collaborative and cooperative, creating innovative new programs and research opportunities for students and faculty.” He’s also been impressed by how much the campus community cares about the university. “Everyone’s very passionate about the U of A – they want to get better. You don’t find that everywhere.”

Another thing he needs to do is get his administrative staff in place.

Currently, the positions of provost, vice chancellor for administration and finance, vice provost for student affairs, and two college deans need permanent replacements. “Universities get better when the leadership is great,” explained Steinmetz, who intends to find just that.

Key to filling the other positions will be getting the new provost is place. Fortunately, with Ashok Saxena currently filling the position, Steinmetz sees no need to rush. The university can employ a search firm to find the best possible match, one who can “make a thorough assessment of teaching and learning, as well as research and discovery and advance the academic mission of the university.”

Ultimately, Steinmetz has one overarching ambition for the University of Arkansas: to be better. What does that look like? He doesn’t know just yet. “Universities are not top-down organizations,” he explained. “That’s what makes us different from a corporation. We have to have plans that are embraced by the campus community, and it’s my job to find to include the campus community in the discussion, and do my best to move the campus forward. It’s going to be a very inclusive, bottom-up process.”

If Steinmetz arrived as an unknown, his accomplishments nevertheless preceded him. He previously served as executive vice president and provost of Ohio State University, in which capacity he oversaw the administration, coordination and development of all academic functions of the university — an enormous responsibility at an institution with nearly 65,000 students and more than 6,000 academic staff. He became OSU’s top academic officer after first serving as vice provost for arts and sciences and executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Under his guidance, five independent colleges were merged into the largest arts and sciences college in the country — nearly the size of the U of A. Needless to say, Steinmetz’s proven ability to work on a large scale was an attractive quality to a university undergoing rapid growth.

Steinmetz is also no stranger to the classroom and laboratory. A nationally respected behavioral neuroscientist, he was recognized in 1996 by the National Academy of Sciences for his contributions to the fields of experimental psychology and neuroscience. Steinmetz was

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I want to get a firm understanding of the culture of the university. It’s about more than the facts. I want to know what makes this university tick. I want to know what people care about. of “Everyone’s very passionate about the U of A – they want to get better. You don’t find that everywhere. also elected as an AAAS Fellow, an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to distinguished members of the association.

“His administrative leadership experience, his academic credentials, and outstanding national reputation were the factors that set Joe apart in our search, as well as his ability to relate to the needs of faculty, students and staff,” explained President Bobbitt. Search committee member Kathy Van Laningham added, “I was struck, first, by Joe’s warmth and how comfortable he was when we first met him. And he listened. I think he will be very receptive to what he hears from those who love this campus, both from those who live and work here and from our alumni who are all around the state and the country.”

Identified early as the strongest candidate, which was quickly confirmed during his campus visit, the only question that remained was: “How soon can you get here?” The answer: “Pretty quick.”

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years as a high school special education teacher (they have two children and four grandchildren). Her retirement didn’t last long, though, as she is already an engaged and active member of the campus community.

Even before Steinmetz officially started in January, they wasted no time hitting Razorback basketball games and this year’s Liberty Bowl in Memphis. So far, they’ve been delighted by how warm and welcoming Arkansans are — just one of many welcome adjustments. After spending the last several years in a 12-story high rise in downtown Columbus — 15th largest city in the U.S. — Fayetteville has been a breath of fresh air.

“Getting back that college town feel was one of the attractions of coming here,” he explained. “We really appreciate living so close to campus.” He does, though, have to be careful about where he puts his phone down in a place the size of Fowler House. “I can never find it again!” he laughed.

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institution Steinmetz has worked at won a national championship during his time there. Indiana University did it in basketball shortly after he signed on as a faculty member in 1987. The University of Kansas won a basketball national championship when he was there in 2008, and the Ohio State University won the first football college playoff championship when he was there last year. So not only is he committed to making the U of A better, there just might be a little fairy dust up his sleeve when it comes to winning championships.

Unfortunately, Steinmetz doesn’t get to play much piano anymore, though every few years he recommits himself to making time to play.

So don’t be surprised if some night you find yourself walking by Fowler House and hear a little Bach, Mozart, Grand Funk Railroad or Led Zeppelin coming through the windows — the tunes he played as a music student and as a member of a few rock bands. These days, on his way into work, you might even catch him humming the tune to Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Lucky Man.” n

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Framing problems, crafting solutions through design

The University of Arkansas Community Design Center helps solve for current, complex issues

By Michelle Parks, B.A.’94 When planning the move into new offices, the staff of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center focused on one thing: changing their physical environment to suit their unique character and day-to-day mission.

At first, they couldn’t see through the three layers of offices to the huge windows offering picturesque views on the east side of the space.

So they worked with architects on a plan that knocked down all of the interior walls. Now, the view is straight through to those windows, and abundant natural light flows in.

The ceiling of this large loft space is supported by brick columns and newly introduced steel beams placed in two “V” configurations. They removed the drop ceiling to expose the ductwork above, but introduced a layer of fluorescent lighting that creates an intimate feel. The floor is stained concrete.

“Everything we did was to showcase the wonderful materials – the concrete, the brick, the wood trim,” said Stephen Luoni, director of the center.

They made the most of the vertical space available in this voluminous, 3,500-square-foot space – 1,000 more than they had previously. They built two walls on each side of the open studio space, each of them functioning as much-needed storage areas. One wall holds built-in bookshelves; a kitchen, supplies, large plotters and storage space are tucked behind that wall.

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On the other side, the many awards recognizing the center’s work rest on floor-to-ceiling, front-facing shelving. A conference room with glass walls, wall-sized chalkboard and monitor is tucked behind a custom-made transparent shelving system that holds project models and publications.

“I like openness because it facilitates communication,” Luoni said.

“And, particularly in a creative industry like ours, I think you have to work horizontally and you have to have openness, particularly since we work constantly as a team. And it’s not just among staff; it’s also with our students.”

The center is an outreach program of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the U of A. The center’s former offices were just off the downtown Fayetteville square, but the new space joins other university programs, mixed in with commercial and residential spaces, in a stately red brick building that fills the east side of the square. It was built as First National Bank in 1981 and has served as subsequent banks and, more recently, as arts, retail, residential and office spaces.

After a move last fall, the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History is now housed on the main level. In July, the Community Design Center moved into its second-floor open-studio space that cleverly carves out nooks for privacy. Luoni and others worked with Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects for this adaptive reuse project of a space in a building that the

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Landscape Architecture Magazine, and it will be highlighted in the April issue of Architect magazine.

Design thinking for the public good While many universities are driven to achieve quality in research and teaching, the U of A has made an additional investment in quality by supporting this design-focused center. That means an ongoing investment in using design in the public sector to produce a public good, an improved physical environment, while also creating policies and codes that support good design.

As Luoni travels around the country, people regularly are astounded and impressed by the university’s direct support of the center. “There’s probably only a handful of centers like ours that have direct investments from their universities,” he said.

And many other centers across the country are more focused on scientific and engineering research, not design research. “So we’re a unique example, in that we are thought leaders in design nationwide. We’re really at the table on issues of urban design. No other center is doing that to the extent that we are. And our projects are grounded in the conditions around us, so they’re not theoretical.”

When the center’s staff encounters a public, social problem, the first step is to frame it. Many design problems are straightforward, such as creating a house or school. There is a known scope, and there are typological solutions – things others have done previously. But social problems are “wicked problems,” each one uniquely complex.

“With wicked problems, there is no one right solution, and the solution is never really figured out until you’re 80 percent of the way through the problem,” Luoni said. “You have to frame it and invent the vocabulary for the solution. And that vocabulary then gives you, if you do it well, solution frameworks.”

These wicked problems include climate change and food insecurity.

Others are lifestyle-caused diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, chronic stress, heart problems – preventable conditions that arise from how people live their lives. The top solutions for these public health issues will likely come through design – designing cities and spaces that encourage and facilitate exercise – rather than medical interventions.

Through design, they show people the possibilities.

“The public sector is now recognizing design as that kind of great synthetic, cognitive discipline that can help the public sector approach these kinds of problems,” Luoni said.

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firm had originally designed when Jeff Shannon, professor and former dean in the Fay Jones School, was still practicing architecture.

This new space is a more visible and publicly accessible location for the center, which was established in 1995. Over the past two decades, the center’s staff have partnered with communities, remaking and improving those places and the lives of the people who live there through design thinking and problem solving through design. In the 12 years Luoni has served as director, the center has won more than 110 awards for its design work.

Luoni is also a Distinguished Professor and the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies in the Fay Jones School.

In 2012, he was named a USA Ford Fellow, one of 54 artists to receive a $50,000 fellowship grant from United States Artists.

In 2015, the center became the third in the country to join the National Resilience Initiative, an effort by the Architects Foundation to create a network of Regional Resilience Design Studios across the country. The other two centers were formed in the wake of natural disasters that occurred in 2005 and 2012.

Mississippi State University’s Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, in Biloxi, Mississippi, was created in response to Hurricane Katrina. The New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Resilient Design in Newark, N.J., the first Regional Resilience Design Studio, was established after Hurricane Sandy.

“What we bring to the table is working in a place where the stresses aren’t necessarily from shocks,” Luoni said, though they have helped with responsive planning after the tornado that struck Vilonia and Mayflower in April 2014. “Most of the stresses here come from chronic conditions – food insecurity, poverty, lack of public sector investment in the physical environment. And of course there’s a myriad of social conditions that go along with that.”

Their Fayetteville 2030: Food City Scenario is a collaborative plan and policy platform that addresses Northwest Arkansas’ food insecurity issues.

The center led an interdisciplinary team at the U of A, as they speculated on what Fayetteville might look like if the city’s growth integrated local urban food production sustainable enough to create self-sufficiency.

Although the growing region is the most prosperous in the state, it also has one of the nation’s highest child hunger rates.

Work on Food City was sponsored in part by a grant from the Clinton Global Initiative and the American Institute of Architects under their Decade of Design initiative. The project has won several awards, including a 2015 Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning category from the American Society of Landscape Architects, a 2016 ACSA Collaborative Practice Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and a 2016 Institute Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design from the American Institute of Architects.

The project was featured in a 16-page spread in the January issue of

Above left: The University of Arkansas Community Design Center relocated last summer to an established building on the downtown Fayetteville square.

Above: Paco Mejias Villatoro, a project architect at the U of A Community Design Center, left, talks with Zachary Hale, a fifth-year architecture student in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

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Top: The ceiling of the large loft space is supported by brick columns and new steel beams placed in two “V” configurations.

Middle: The conference room features glass walls, a wall-sized chalkboard and a custom-made poplar wood table that was designed by the center’s staff.

Bottom: This wall containing built-in bookshelves helps to define the open studio space, with a kitchen, supplies, large plotters and storage space tucked behind it.

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One significant way the center has established that vocabulary is through its book Low Impact Development: A Design Manual for Urban Areas. This 230-page manual makes complex water management concepts accessible through the visual explanations used so well by architects and designers. Concepts include harvesting rainwater, design of neighborhood blocks and parking lots as natural stormwater utilities, prototypes for green streets, and low-impact development of open space at municipal and regional scales.

Traditionally, stormwater is handled through hard, civil engineering – using a system of curbs, gutters, catch basins and underground pipes that sends polluted water elsewhere. But low-impact development employs soft engineering tactics to handle stormwater closer to the source.

“With low-impact development, it’s basically an ecologically based stormwater management system that uses landscape architecture and biological processes to treat stormwater. The whole idea is to slow, soak and spread water – which is what nature does,” Luoni said.

More than 7,000 copies of the manual have been printed, and Luoni recently signed an agreement to have it translated into Chinese. To produce this manual, the center partnered with the U of A Ecological Engineering Group, under a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission. Its publication was sponsored by many regional nonprofit organizations.

The center is perfectly set up to work in such a collaborative fashion – within its walls and alongside other centers, agencies, organizations and allied professionals. Luoni calls the kind of work they do “context production,” which includes urban design, campus design, ecosystem design and neighborhood design – and it deals with ecologies and landscapes as much as cities and the urban environment.

“This business of design by thinking through the relationship of things is pretty tough because contemporary design culture hasn’t really addressed it; we’ve really addressed design through the discreet object.”

Fay Jones School students benefit from this holistic, systemic approach to design thinking when they participate in the studios offered each fall and spring at the center. The young designers can immediately tap into all the thinking, research and precedents that have gone into years of design problems and projects explored by the center’s professional staff and past studios.

The students, who are in their fifth year of school, come into this professional environment and get a taste of what an office environment might be like after graduation. To accomplish their design studio work, they often engage with outside constituents – mayors, city council members, developers, planners and citizens.

“I would like to think that it accelerates the learning that can happen, and it’s a great transition into professional office life,” Luoni said.

A model for placemaking Through all that research over the past 20 years, the center has developed eight place-making models. Social and environmental measures are recombined with economic development to solve contemporary challenges.

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“It’s not just a project-based endeavor that we’re engaged in. It’s platforms that look at environmental issues, or issues of the physical built environment that we all confront, which is why our work has currency outside the state,” Luoni said. “We are triangulating code and policy with design and best practices – so it’s not just about solutions to projects, but about defining the vocabulary of the platforms.”

Their first low-impact development project, Habitat Trail in Rogers, required 30 zoning variances. For their second such project, they worked with partners in Fayetteville – including the city council and then-Mayor Dan Coody – to modify the city codes to allow for such development. The city went on to design and complete the project, the reworking of Block Avenue between Dickson Street and the square.

“Now, Fayetteville is one of a handful of cities where low-impact development is a by-right condition – that is, you have a right to develop that without variances,” Luoni said.

Over the last 10 years, the center has worked with the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to steer funding for nonpoint-source pollution projects in the state into urban areas rather than only agricultural areas. This funding from the EPA falls under the federal Clean Water Act. Nonpoint-source pollution comes from many diffuse sources, rather than a specific industrial property or sewage treatment plant. This pollution occurs as rainfall moves over and through the ground, and that runoff picks up and carries away natural and humanmade pollutants, taking them to lakes and rivers.

Urban settings require a mixture of hard engineering and soft engineering, and downtown Little Rock is no different. The center worked with Marlon Blackwell Architects, a Fayetteville firm, to design the Creative Corridor in Little Rock. The project funding came from the EPA, which wanted to build a major nonpoint-source-pollution demonstration project in Arkansas.

This mixed-use, work-live environment promotes economic development through cultural arts rather than the traditional retail base.

It’s bringing together arts organizations, such as the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Ballet Arkansas, that were previously in scattered locations.

Based on the designers’ plans, the EPA committed $1.2 million to implement the plan’s low-impact development streetscapes, which include rain gardens, pervious paving, bio-swales, tree meanders and other methods of improving water quality. That first phase of work completed in the 500 block of Main Street opened to the public last fall.

More than $160 million in building renovations are currently underway in this area, including a mix of condos, restaurants, retail and office spaces and a boutique hotel. The $100 million Little Rock Technology Park is also in the works.

“There’s a lot of investment lining up right now. And all of a sudden, people who were opposed to the project and were critical of it now are trying to figure out how to invest,” he said. “Pretty soon, the second wave of investment is coming. Right now, you’re just getting the pioneer investors.”

The design of the Creative Corridor has won several national and international awards, including a 2013 American Architecture Award,

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a 2014 Honor Award for Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects and a 2014 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects.

Investments in design thinking As part of its work, the center seeks funding – and is sometimes selected for funding – to investigate design solutions for various community issues. The center has sought and received funding multiple times from the National Endowment for the Arts, including a $150,000 Our Town grant in 2011 that funded the Creative Corridor work.

Another was a $30,000 NEA grant through its Access to Artistic Excellence Program in 2011 for the Pettaway Neighborhood Revitalization Plan, for which the center partnered with the Downtown Little Rock Community Development Corp. The center also partnered with U of A Office for Sustainability for a $150,000 Our Town NEA grant to work on the Freeman Arts/Earth Center in South Dakota, and partnered again with Marlon Blackwell Architects for a $100,000 Our Town NEA grant for a downtown art park in Texarkana.

Another project that wrapped up in January was the result of three years of work with the U of A Division of Agriculture’s Ecological Engineering Group. The team delivered the low-impact development plan they designed and developed for the Lake Conway Urban Watershed. This project was funded by a $498,000 grant from the EPA – administered by the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission – and matching funds from the city of Conway, Faulkner County, the University of Central Arkansas, the Village at Hendrix and the Lake Conway Property Owners Association.

The Conway project took many of the concepts and principles applied in the Creative Corridor project, but employed them on a larger scale. The team combined low-impact development and green infrastructure techniques in this “reconciliation landscape” in which both the city and the watershed compete for surface area.

The center receives about 60 percent of its funding from the university, and that gives the staff the ability to spend time seeking these grants. It’s an investment similar to a teaching hospital, policy center or research lab, and it allows the center to work on issues long term.

“It’s that kind of investment from the university that allows us to get grants and project funding, which allows us to operate in a serious professional capacity. This is why we’re a model nationally, because of that investment,” Luoni said.

Design is a synthetic operation that looks at multiple issues simultaneously. While many people think of design as for the wealthy, Luoni said that good design helps the bottom half of society most because it entails spending money more wisely, which creates a ripple effect.

“We’re always solving for the triple bottom line – for economic, social and environmental issues,” Luoni said. “We’re making sure that, in our holistic thinking, we’re solving for multiple problems and multiple issues, so that any dollar spent has a multiplier effect. That only comes through design.” n

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A Legacy in Nature After 63 years of teaching and researching in ornithology, Doug James retires

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By Chris Branam, M.A.’11

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When the Wilson Ornithological Society presents its annual lifetime achievement award, it commissions an original painting of a bird that is particularly special to the recipient. Doug James ★ chose the European starling, a bird so abundant that it is sometimes referred to as the “common” starling.

James, a longtime professor of biological sciences at the University of Arkansas, said the starling is his favorite bird because it is numerous enough that one can easily study its population dynamics, behavior and life history.

“And people don’t complain if you mess with starlings,” James said.

James, 90, is retiring at the end of June after 63 years of teaching and research at the U of A. He joined the faculty in 1953 but was drafted by the U.S. Army and spent two years at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, a military installation in east Arkansas. When he returned in 1956, the university’s enrollment was about 4,500 students. The university had just accepted its first African American undergraduate students. The Arkansas Razorbacks were playing football without facemasks.

James can count on his fingers how many faculty members were in the Department of Zoology, as it was then known. He has gone on to supervise the theses and dissertations of close to 85 graduate students.

“I’m proud of all my former students,” James said. “They’ve gone on to do a variety of things, not just ornithology.”

Helen James, curator in charge of the Division of Birds at the Smithsonian Institution, said her father’s “incredible legacy” is the achievements of his graduate students.

“He’s very good at helping the student define what they are interested in and mentoring them,” she said. “As a scientist, your greatest impact, perhaps more than the papers you publish, is the people you’ve trained.”

One of those former students is H.H. “Hank” Shugart, the W.W. Corcoran Professor of Natural History at the University of Virginia, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the 1960s under James’ tutelage.

“He’s been a really important person in my life,” said Shugart, one of the world’s leading experts on climate change. “He is an excellent example of someone who focuses like crazy on doing good work. His raw love for what he was doing certainly seeped into me. He will be remembered for a long time because he touched so many people. We’ll not see his kind again.”

In the late 1960s, James, Shugart and fellow graduate student Frances C. James (James’ first wife) published papers that introduced a new way to determine aspects of the environment associated with habitat selection by animals. Developed in collaboration with mathematics professor James E. Dunn, the James-Shugart method used multivariate statistics to identify important environmental factors in ecological studies of birds and other animals.

Opposite: Doug James poses in front of a farmhouse in Farmington where he lived in the early 1950s when he first began teaching at the University of Arkansas. Courtesy Doug James

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“Doug, Fran and I became very interested in using statistics in ecology,” Shugart said. “We wanted to understand how birds selected their habitats through their behaviors. It was strongly in Doug’s wheelhouse. It was a coming-together of ideas and the creative sparks started flying. It all meshed in a wonderful way.”

Special correspondence Shugart was several years away from stepping on campus when he began a correspondence with James that continues to this day.

“I was about 12 years old and I saw a snow bunting that at the time was about 1,000 miles out of its range,” he said. “I wrote a letter and mailed it to Doug, and we began exchanging letters about ornithology.

He worked remarkably to promote my interest in science. Even today I get all kinds of letters from kids asking me about how to help with their science project. I’ve always tried to help them when I could, and that’s because of Doug.”

Gary Graves, also a curator of birds at the Smithsonian, tells a similar story. Graves, who grew up in Little Rock, wrote a lengthy letter to James, asking him how he could find some specific birds in Arkansas.

“This was in 1969 and I was 16,” Graves said. “I remember being apologetic because I was approaching it from a bird-watcher standpoint.

I got this carefully composed, two-page typewritten letter from him, which surprised the hell out of me. He explained how I could best see these birds. It was all good advice. I continued my interest in birds and ended up where I am now.”

At that time, James was planning a book about the 366 species of Arkansas birds. The project spanned the 1970s and in the late ’70s he became acquainted with Joe Neal, who later became a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service. Neal, who had both a writing background and a keen interest in field ornithology, prepared drafts of bird species accounts that James reviewed and critiqued.

In 1986, the University of Arkansas Press published Arkansas Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance. James, who shared a co-author credit with Neal, displayed his sense of humor in the introduction: “Neal provided broad stroke generalizations in the overall synopses, while James tenaciously pursued accuracy in the nagging details.”

“When we were working on the book, Doug told me that he had wanted to be a writer,” said Neal, who completed a master’s degree under James’ direction. “He is a great writer. There is a literary quality in a lot of his papers and in Arkansas Birds, there is a chapter called ‘Arkansas Birds and the Environment’ that I think is just a masterpiece.

It really shows that he knows a lot more than ornithology. That comes from a long career of looking at a lot of things and being interested in a lot of things.”

Shugart said Arkansas Birds is “an amazing piece of work.”

“I don’t think anybody will write a better version,” he said. “Fifty years from now, people will know he wrote that.”

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Top: Doug James (center) signs copies of his book Arkansas Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance just off the Fayetteville Square.

Also signing are David Plank (from left), who provided illustrations for the book; Joe Neal, the book’s co-author; and James’ daughter Sigrid, who also provided illustrations for the book. Courtesy Doug James Below left: Doug James observing birds with his daughter Sigrid in tow. Courtesy Doug James

Early love of nature James, who was born in 1925, grew up outside of Detroit in Royal Oak, Michigan. He remembers going to Navin Field to watch the Detroit Tigers play the New York Yankees. He saw Babe Ruth play baseball.

At the same time, he developed an interest in nature and began watching birds as a child. In elementary school, one of his teachers asked him to take the class on a field trip to a field next to the school.

He was in the third grade.

“So I took them out in the field and told the class that if they sneaked around a row of trees they would see a goldfinch,” James said.

“Sure enough, they did it and there it was, a goldfinch singing away.

My teacher asked me how I knew it was there and I told her, ‘I know its song!’”

James joined the Detroit Audubon Society in his teenage years and

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led bird-watching trips in the Boy Scouts, where he used opera glasses to spy different birds. He estimates he’s gone through at least five pairs of binoculars in his life. His current pair cost $3,000.

James enrolled at the University of Michigan with plans to become an ornithologist. He spent summers at the University of Michigan Biological Station on Douglas Lake, where he studied under Sewall Pettingill, a professor at Cornell who published in 1939 the seminal Ornithology in Laboratory and Field. One of James’ fellow students was a budding ornithologist from Chicago named James Watson, who later earned the Nobel Prize for helping discover the structure of DNA. James brought Watson to the U of A in 2005 to give a public lecture that was attended by a standing-room-only crowd. Watson agreed to give the talk if James would take him birding.

“Watson told Doug that he had never seen a red-cockaded woodpecker or a Bachman’s sparrow,” said Kimberly Smith, a Distinguished Professor of biological sciences at the U of A. “Doug took him bird watching and sure enough, Watson saw a red-cockaded woodpecker and a Bachman’s sparrow.”

James earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois and was hired over the telephone by Sam Dellinger, longtime chair of the zoology department at the U of A. James remembers stepping off the Greyhound bus in Fayetteville with all of his belongings in a suitcase.

Going to where the birds are Taking his students into the field was always important for James, who traveled to three continents as a Fulbright Scholar. For many years he took a group of students to the south coast of Texas during migration, where they would stay at the University of Texas Marine Station at Aransas Pass and camp at various parks the rest of the days.

Helen James accompanied the group when she was 12. By that time, she was used to her father’s fondness for the outdoors.

“His enthusiasm was infectious. We traveled and camped, and he always braked for birds,” she said. The “we” referred to herself and her sisters Sigrid and Avis.

Shugart jokes that traveling in a car with Doug James was a “whiteknuckle” experience.

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“There was always a likelihood that you were going to stop at any moment to look at birds,” he said. “He would shut it down instantly, even in the middle of a four-lane highway. You thought you were going to be killed.”

That passion was evident on the hiking trail, where students had to keep up with James, an avid runner who completed marathons well into his 50s. Helen James remembers her father leading students on a hike in Texas and one student pointed out an alligator that was close to the trail.

“He barked, ‘That’s OK, they don’t bite,’” she said.

Smith, who has known James since 1972, said, “When you went out in the field with Doug, it was go-go-go. We took a field trip to the White Mountains in New Mexico and we stayed up until midnight and hit the trail at 4 o’clock in the morning. It was pretty intense.”

James took meticulous field notes. He’s filled more than 100 field notebooks from his travels around North America and beyond: South America, Asia, Europe and Africa.

He never added up the different species of birds he’s seen. He didn’t keep a “life list” that is common among bird enthusiasts.

“It doesn’t help the birds,” James said. “What does it matter if you’ve seen so many birds? It doesn’t relate to science at all.”

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Above: Doug James poses next to a historical marker that describes his contributions to statistical avian ecology. Matthew Reynolds, University of Arkansas

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Deep Stats Sophomore student Johnny Carver runs numbers to find best basketball players in country Johnny Carver had a promising future on the basketball court. At 6 feet and 4 inches and still growing, he came from good stock: both his father and older brother played college basketball. Johnny hoped to do the same.

When health problems derailed all hopes of a basketball career, though, Johnny refused to feel sorry for himself. Still attending high school in Olathe, Kansas, he channeled his passion by covering athletics for his school newspaper and crunching statistics on a spreadsheet, devising a statistical algorithm to determine the greatest player in NBA history.

Now, as a sophomore management major in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, he is a published author and possibly the youngest statistician and consultant for an NBA team. His book, Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball’s Greatest Player, garnered much media

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attention for its unbiased approach in naming the 25 greatest basketball players of all time – all based solely on statistics rather than opinion.

In addition to writing and publishing Ranketology, he has interned for an NBA team, running analytics and different models in one team’s preparation for the NBA draft. His ability to determine the greatest basketball players of today and tomorrow has been featured in Sports Illustrated, SLAMonline, TV news stations in Kansas City and Northwest Arkansas as well as several sports news websites.

This has also made an impression in the sports world at large.

“They see I have a work ethic and they see that I’m willing to step outside of the box and come up with new ways to use statistics to help determine things in the NBA,” Carver says.

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Renee Clay, managing director of Walton College’s Career Johnny emailed Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, who Development Center, saw it in Johnny the day he attended new student suggested to Johnny that he self-publish his findings, which features orientation at the Walton College. Following the orientation, Johnny profiles of the NBA’s all-time Top 25 players that resulted in Ranketology. sought out Clay to tell her about his book and the algorithm he devised While Johnny won’t say whom he found to be the No. 1 player in for determining the best basketball players. the NBA (people will have to buy and read his book), he says he wasn’t Clay was impressed that someone straight out of high school would surprised what the statistics revealed. “It made so much sense in the be so focused on a career path, from devising the algorithm to selfgrand scheme of things,” he says. publishing his book. “Johnny is one of the most determined students I He sent his book and résumé to Larry Bird, former Boston Celtics have ever worked with,” she says. player and now team president of the Indiana Pacers. Impressed, Bird Johnny says Clay has helped him with finding internships, putting invited Johnny to Indianapolis to meet with the organization. together resumes and preparing him for interviews. “The biggest thing I Ever since Johnny came to the University of Arkansas, he has had love about her is that she goes above endless opportunities. Though and beyond her job,” he says. from Kansas, he was enticed by Johnny, now a sophomore the university’s NCAA basketball majoring in management at program and the Walton College’s Walton, continues to seek reputation. His parents, however, guidance from Clay. “She has been were also concerned for Johnny’s my advocate, and I needed that,” well-being. “They were so blown he says. away by the business program and It’s all been a breath of fresh air, the health center,” he says, referring especially from high school when to the Pat Walker Health Center much of his time was spent in on campus. hospitals and examination rooms With a scholarship through as doctors tried to diagnose why the Arkansas Alumni Association, he always felt fatigued – to the Johnny is serving on Leadership point that he even passed out on Walton and Walton College’s the basketball court during a game.

Dean Advisory Board. He says A bout of severe ulcerative colitis his goal is to work in basketball caused him to lose 35 pounds in operations for the NBA, and he only two days. At one point, a has even served an internship cyst in his lower tailbone left him with another NBA team, whom unable to walk for a short time. He Johnny Carver surprises his friend, Jack Weafer, with an autographed he declined to name. “I want to also suffered severe dehydration, copy of Johnny’s book, Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basket- continue doing things like this ball’s Greatest Player. Johnny says Jack, who has cerebral palsy, is also a while I’m in college,” he says. which caused him to lose even basketball aficionado and an inspiration, which is why “For Jack Weafer” more weight.

Applying statistics to basketball is in every copy.

While he worked through his was never more fun. In fact, it has discomfort and health problems to earn a position on the high school made him an eager student, says Deena Rorie, a finance doctoral student varsity basketball team in Olathe, he got some crushing news just before who taught Johnny in her Data Analysis and Interpretation class. his senior season: it was unsafe for him to play.

She says she was surprised to learn that he had already written a book Trips during the next several months to medical care facilities, which when he had enrolled in her class and started the semester with a strong included the Mayo Clinic, revealed an additional assortment of health interest in statistics. Johnny would come by her office to ask specific problems, including an adrenal insufficiency and autonomic dysfunction questions in areas that were challenging him. He says she always made – a nerve disorder. Basketball, however, remained on Johnny’s mind. “I time for him. “I hope that every teacher is that way – to meet with wanted to find another outlet to be successful,” he says. students until they get it right,” Johnny says.

That’s when he poured his energy in being a sports writer for his Yet Rorie says Johnny’s motivation was a key factor. high school newspaper. He and his brother also developed a statistical “He has a passion for math and statistics,” Rorie says. “But that’s just algorithm to determine the greatest player in NBA history and a skill. He also has a talent to utilize that skill.” crunched statistics on a spreadsheet. From there, Johnny took over and Which brings Johnny back to basketball. wrote their findings into what was becoming a book. He submitted “For me to be so young and accomplish as much as I have, it’s left me each chapter to his grandfather, a published author, who edited the very excited for the future,” Johnny says. “But I feel like I have so much copy and sent it back to Johnny. This kept going until he had more left to do. I know I can do more.” n than 300 pages of information.

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President’s Message:

New Leadership at U of A

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The start of the New Year always offers a new beginning. We are extremely fortunate to begin this year with new leadership who can build upon the amazing progress our university has made and can maximize the momentum of the Campaign for the 21st Century.

One of our new leaders is, of course, Chancellor Joseph E. Steinmetz. Please see the article, Joe Steinmetz: First Step for New Chancellor is to Meet Arkansas – its Students, Faculty and Residents on page 12 for an in-depth profile of him. Although just a few weeks on the job, Dr. Steinmetz has already met with a number of students, faculty and staff in an effort to identify the needs of our campus, and more importantly, find innovative ways to meet them. I was proud to serve on the search committee that named Dr. Steinmetz our sixth chancellor. The committee was skillfully led by Laura Jacobs, previously associate vice chancellor of university relations who was recently appointed associate vice chancellor and chief of staff to the chancellor.

I know Laura’s vast experience, combined with her communications acumen, will serve her well in this important role.

I’m also looking forward to working with Scott Varady in his new position as the executive director and general counsel for the Razorback Foundation. Scott has served the university faithfully for 19 years in the UA General Counsel’s office and has a proven record of leadership. I am proud of the growing collaboration between the Alumni Association and the Razorback Foundation and know that under Scott’s leadership, we will continue to deepen our partnership and make our campus community even stronger.

I hope that this year you will seek to renew your commitment to the University of Arkansas. Participating in scholarship programs, attending athletic events, interacting with students and coming to campus to see any of its fine art programs is a great way to stay connected.

Furthermore, when you are on campus, look for our new chancellor; welcome him; tell him what is important to you here and how you can help him continue our tradition of excellence.

Under Dr. Steinmetz’s direction, I am confident we will continue to see efforts to improve inclusiveness, communication and partnerships across all colleges, departments, organizations, clubs and associations throughout our Razorback family.

As always, I want to thank all our members for their ongoing support of our beloved university. Here’s to a great new year!

With Razorback Pride, Stephanie S. Streett ✪+ BA’91 President, Arkansas Alumni Association

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Past Presidents of the Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors 1923-24 Joseph Kirby Mahone ✪ BA’07 1924-25 Robert Hill Carruth BA’11 1925-26 James E. Rutherford ✪ BA’22 1926-27 Winston Lee Winters BSCE’06 1927-28 J.L. Longino BSEE’03 1928-29 Alfred Boyde Cypert BA’12 1929-30 James William Trimble BA’17 1930-31 G. DeMatt Henderson BA’01 LLB’03 1931-32 Dr. Jasper Neighbors MD’18 1932-33 Scott D. Hamilton BA’24 1933-34 Charles A. Walls BA’07 1934-35 Arthur D. Pope BA’06 1935-36 John C. Ashley BA’11 1936-37 Beloit Taylor BA’19 1937-38 John P. Woods ✪ BA’09 1938-39 Glen Rose ★ BSE’28 MS’31 1939-40 Claude J. Byrd ★ BSA’25 1940-41 Charles Frierson Jr. ’29 1941-42 John B. Daniels BSA’33 1942-44 G. DeMatt Henderson BA’01 LLB’03 1944-45 Dr. M. L. Dalton MD’32 1945-46 Jack East ✪ BSE’24 1946-47 Steve Creekmore ★ BSBA’11 1947-48 Maupin Cummings ✪ BA’32 1948-49 Roy Milum BA’04, LLD’58 1949-50 Paul Sullins ✪ JD’37 1950-51 Francis Cherry LLB’38 1951-52 J.C. Gibson BA’24 MS’38 1952-53 George Makris ✪ BSBA’37 1953-54 Edward B. Dillon Jr. ★LLB’50 1954-55 Beloit Taylor BA’19 1955-56 Louis L. Ramsay Jr. LLB’47 LLD’88 1956-57 Stanley Wood ✪ BA’23 1957-58 A.L. Whitten MS’40 1958-59 W.R. “Dub”Harrison BA’20 1959-60 E.M. “Mack”Anderson✪+ BA’32 1960-61 Warren Wood ✪ LLB’32 1961-62 Owen Calhoun Pearce BSBA’41 LLB’41 1962-63 James C. Hale BA’33 1963-64 Jack East Jr. BSBA’48 1964-65 J. Fred Patton ✪+ BA’29 MA’36 1965-66 P.K. Holmes Jr. ✪ BA’37 LLB’39 1966-67 William H. Bowen ★ LLB’49 1967-68 Guy H. Lackey ✪+ BSBA’49

1968-69 Robert P. Taylor ✪+ BSBA’47 MS 1948 1969-70 John Ed Chambers BA’39 LLB’40 1970-71 Chester H. Lauck ’25 1971-72 Nathan Gordon ✪+ JD’39 1972-73 Charles E. Scharlau ✪+ LLB’58 1973-74 Carl L. Johnson ★ BSBA’47 1974-75 R. Cecil Powers ✪ BSBA’30 1975-76 J.C. Reeves ✪ ’25 1976-77 Elizabeth (Sissi) Riggs Brandon ✪+ BSE’55 1977-78 Roy Murphy ✪+ BSIM’49 1978-79 Fred Livingston ✪ BSBA’55 1979-80 Tracy Scott ✪ BSE’53 1980-81 Edward W. Stevenson ✪+ BSBA’60 1981-82 Fred Livingston ✪ BSBA’55 1982-83 Don Schnipper ✪+ BA’63 JD’64 1983-84 Mary Trimble Maier ✪+ BA’49 1984-85 Bart Lindsey ✪+ BSBA’67 1985-86 W. Kelvin Wyrick ✪+ BSE’59 1986-87 Larry G. Stephens ✪+ BSIE’58 1987-88 Rebecca Shreve ✪+ BSE’60 MED’63 1988-89 Robert T. Dawson ✪+ BA’60 LLB’65 1989-90 Gregory B. Graham ✪+ BSBA’70 JD’72 1990-91 Blake Schultz ✪+ BA’51 1991-92 Chuck Dudley ✪+ BSBA’76 MBA’77 1992-93 Harriet Hudson Phillips ✪+ BA’72 1993-94 Richard Hatfield ✪+ BSBA’65 LLB’67 1994-95 Jenny Mitchell Adair ✪+ BA’62 1995-96 Jack McNulty ✪+ BSBA’67 JD’70 1996-97 Sylvia Boyer ✪+ BSE’63 1997-98 Morris Fair ★ BSBA’56 1998-00 H. Lawson Hembree IV ✪+ BSA’83 2000-02 Jeffery R. Johnson ✪+ BA’70 2002-04 Edward Bradford ✪+ BSE’55 MED’56 2004-06 Brian M. Rosenthal ✪+ BSBA’84 2006-08 Kenny Gibbs ✪+ BSBA’85 2008-10 Gerald Jordan ✪+ BA’70 2010-12 Steve Nipper ✪+ BSBA’71 MBA’73 2012-14 John Reap ✪+ BSBA’70

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Hearing from a Hog Last year the Arkansas Alumni Association launched a new program called “Hearing from a Hog.” This program consists of alumni giving back their time by hosting a dinner for 10 Student Alumni Association members that currently attend the University of Arkansas. These stellar students are heavily involved with student activities on campus and thrive on continuous professional development. This is a great opportunity for alumni to meet and mentor these amazing students who will become future ambassadors for the university. The association’s goal is to schedule two dinner events per month. As an alumnus of the university, your involvement would be an inspiration to these students.

If you have an interest in the Hearing from a Hog program, please contact the Arkansas Alumni Association and ask to speak to a member from the outreach and chapter team. n

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Arkansas Alumni Association Announces 2016 Student Alumni Board Executive Team The Arkansas Alumni Association is pleased to announce the Student Alumni Board Executive Team for 2016. The Student Alumni Board serves as the Board of Directors for the Student Alumni Association.

They have all held leadership positions on the board previously, and eight of the 12 are Arkansas residents. Seven of the SAB Executive Team are scholars of the Alumni Association’s Scholarship Program, which distributes over $1 million to current students each year.

The Student Alumni Association is the student membership program established by the Arkansas Alumni Association. Created by students in 2003, SAA was designed to inspire loyalty, preserve University of Arkansas traditions and establish the bond between students and alumni.

Originally called R.E.A.L. Razorbacks, this organization grew out of the Student Alumni Board, established in 1996. The goal of the Student Alumni Association is to connect students and alumni, preserve the traditions of the University of Arkansas and educate students about the Association and University.

The Student Alumni Association is “The Student Chapter of the Arkansas Alumni Association.” Over the last year, the chapter has grown to more than 3,000 members, making it the largest student organization on the University of Arkansas campus. This group is truly outstanding and is looking forward to beginning work in the coming year.

President BLAKE GRIFFIN ★ Blake is a Junior from Mountain Home majoring in Biology/Pre-Med. This past year he served as Director of Homecoming on SAB. He serves on campus as Historian for Kappa Alpha Order and Vice President of SOOIE. Vice President for Administration NANCY SMITH ★ Nancy is a junior from Marianna majoring in advertising/public relations. This past year she served as director of alumni relations on the Student Alumni Board. She serves with Students Acquiring Knowledge through Enterprise (SAKE) and was recently elected President of the Gamma Nu chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

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Vice President for Marketing & Outreach ANNA KAY HILBURN ★ Anna Kay is a junior from Kennett, Missouri, majoring in communication. This past year she served as assistant director for Homecoming: Spirit on the Student Alumni

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Board. She also serves on various positions within ASG and Chi Omega, and is an intern for the communications department of Razorback Athletics.

Vice President for Membership HANNAH BELL ★ Hannah is a junior from Mena majoring in criminal justice and sociology. This past year she served as director of member engagement on the Student Alumni Board.

She also has served in ASG, SOOIE, and various political campaigns and advocacy groups.

Vice President for Sponsorships BRANDON DOWNER ★ Brandon is a junior from Austin, Texas, majoring in supply chain management. This past year he served on the Student Alumni Board marketing team. Brandon also serves as the vice president for Beta Upsilon Chi and various positions within ASG. Vice President for Programming ASHLYN SMITH ★ Ashlyn is a sophomore originally from Houston who now resides in Harrisburg, near Jonesboro. She is majoring in social work. This past year, she was the member engagement chair on the Student Alumni Board.

She also serves on various positions within Zeta Tau Alpha and the Volunteer Action Center.

Co-Director of Member Recruitment ERIN SMITH ★ Erin is a sophomore originally from Houston who now resides in Harrisburg, near Jonesboro. She is majoring in communications disorders. This past year, she was the member recruitment chair on the Student Alumni Board.

She also serves on various positions within Zeta Tau Alpha and with the Volunteer Action Center. She is also an Alumni Scholar.

Co-Director of Member Recruitment REGAN BURGESS ★ Regan is a sophomore from Tulsa, Oklahoma, majoring in biology/pre-med. This past year she served as Senior Experience chair on the Student Alumni Board. She is also an Honors College Ambassador and member of the Black Students Association.

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Director of Homecoming SARAH COVERT ★ Sarah is a sophomore from Sheridan majoring in biochemistry/pre-pharmacy. This past year she was the assistant director of Homecoming: Logistics. She also is a member of the Arkansas Booster Club, Zeta Tau Alpha, and various honor societies on campus.

Director of Traditions MADELINE WAGNON ★ Madeline is a junior from Shreveport, Louisiana, majoring in communications disorders. This past year she served as the Senior Walk Dedication chair on the Student Alumni Board. She also serves as the vice president of the Booster Club and the scholarship chair for Chi Omega.

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Director of Senior Experience NATALIE COUNCE ★ Natalie is a sophomore from Fayetteville majoring in business. This past year she served on the Student Alumni Board marketing team. She also is an ASG senator, philanthropy chair for Kappa Kappa Gamma, and national advocate and speaker for the Salvation Army.

Director of Alumni Relations MADISON COLE ★ Madison is a junior from Conway majoring in biochemistry/pre-med. This past year she served as the membership events chair on the Student Alumni Board.

She has served in various leadership positions with Kappa Kappa Gamma and New Greek Council.

About the Student Alumni Association: The Student Alumni Association (SAA) offers an excellent opportunity for students to get involved and further their professional development skills. SAA oversees the University of Arkansas Homecoming Celebration, the Official Ring, and the Senior Walk Dedication. Planning campus-wide events focused on traditions, alumni relations, and the senior experience, SAA strives to provide opportunities for members to connect to campus as well as over 120,000 around the world. To learn more or to join, visit www.arkansasalumni.org/students n

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National AAA Board member, John Forrest Ales ✪ selected to the 2016 Class of Presidential Leadership Scholars The Presidential Leadership Scholars program, a unique leadership development initiative that draws upon the resources of the presidential centers of Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush,William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush, today announced the 61 scholars invited to participate in the program’s second class.

These diverse leaders were chosen because of their desire and capacity to take their leadership strengths to a higher level in order to help their communities and our country. The 6-month executive-style program begins this week at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s home.

Over the course of several months, scholars will travel to each participating presidential center to learn from former presidents, key administration officials and leading academics. They will study and put into practice varying approaches to leadership, develop a network of peers, and exchange ideas with mentors and others who can help them make an impact in their communities.

The program is non-degree bearing, entails approximately 100 hours of informative sessions and case studies, and covers expansive approaches to leadership theory, drawing upon examples from recent presidents.

Scholars will visit the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library in March, the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in April, the George W. Bush Presidential Center in May, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in June. The inaugural class will graduate at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas in July.

THE CURRICULUM At each Presidential Center, sessions will focus on a specific core component of leadership and will include an in depth case study that is illustrative of the many competencies of that president. The curriculum draws from presidential center archives and other resources related to each administration, and provides insight into how each president addressed pressing challenges. The curriculum also relies upon analysis of how leaders across all sectors address similar types of challenges.

Sessions and case studies include: • Strategic Partnerships (German Reunification, George H. W. Bush Presidential Library) • Vision and Communication (Balanced Budget Act of 1997, William J. Clinton Presidential Center) • Decision Making (The 2008 Financial Crisis, George W. Bush Presidential Center) • Influence and Persuasion (Voting Rights Act, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library) In addition to interactive faculty-led sessions, scholars will hone

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their personal leadership development through work with coaches and mentors. Leadership development learning groups will offer support and partnership as they develop personal leadership projects designed to achieve positive social impact through the application of the skills they learn through the program.

THE SCHOLARS The second cohort of 61 scholars was selected during a rigorous process that began with more than 600 applications. Scholars were selected based on their leadership growth potential and the strength of their personal leadership projects aimed at improving the civic or social good by addressing a problem or need in a community, profession, or organization.

The second cohort joins the alumni network of the first cohort of 60 scholars in the program. They include individuals from diverse backgrounds and geographies, coming from a variety of sectors, including private, public, nonprofit, military, and academia.

To learn more about the Presidential Leadership Scholars program, please visit www.presidentialleadershipscholars.org.

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Harriett Phillips ✪ recalls genesis of the Alumni Association’s scholarship program

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In 1990 the Arkansas Alumni Association accepted a challenge to fund a merit scholarship — a scholarship that would reward the students for their accomplishments in the academic and leadership arena.

The idea blossomed and grew into several different scholarships with the same central idea, to attract outstanding students to the University of Arkansas. The Alumni Association, through its members, chapters and societies, now sponsor a variety of scholarships and grant programs.

But it all started back in 1990 just as Harriett Phillips began service on the Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.

“I had recently joined the alumni board,” Phillips said. “I think Blake Schultz (BA’51) was president at the time, and he had mentioned how he wanted to start a scholarship program, but didn’t know where to start. Me, being brand new to the board, I jumped on the opportunity to be involved.”

She looked for models for developing a scholarship program.

“My company had a scholarship program,” she said, “and I used my company’s model to create a program at the Arkansas Alumni Association. Basically, I was at the right place at the right time.

One of the secrets to developing a good scholarship program at Arkansas proved to be the involvement of alumni in reviewing which students should receive the scholarships. The scholarship did nearly as much to engage alumni as it did to help students become the next

generation of alumni.

“For the first few years, I was there every year at the scholarship review,” Phillips said.

“Then in the early 2000s, I started my own scholarship and help with the selection process. That’s how I stay involved now.”

Over the years, more and more alumni contributed to the scholarship, building the amount of awards that could be made. In 2013, the Alumni Association’s scholarship program passed a milestone, awarding more than $1 million in scholarships to 442 U of A students.

Phillips said that when they started the scholarship program, they didn’t imagine being able to give $1 million in scholarships, but watching how the program worked, she also wasn’t surprised.

“I’m not surprised given the generosity of the alumni and how involved they are,” she said. “The Arkansas Alumni Association has done a great job of making it personal. They do a great job of showcasing the students who get the scholarships. By making it personal, real people get the scholarship and when alumni give they give to a person not a number.”

Today, a variety of scholarship options are offered through the Arkansas Alumni Association ranging from traditional freshman scholarships to chapter and society affinity scholarships to need-based scholarships to alumni legacy scholarships.

“My goal for the program would be for it to continue to grow,” Phillips said. “I want the program to grow until every need of a student is met.” n

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Seniors of Significance: Alumni Association honors 71 graduating seniors The Arkansas Alumni Association honored its second class of Seniors of Significance during a reception at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House on Dec. 3. Seventy-one graduating seniors, commemorating the university’s founding date of 1871, were recognized along with their faculty or staff mentor.

The 71 students were selected from 400 nominations and represent each University of Arkansas undergraduate academic college. These are exceptional seniors who combine academic achievement, leadership skills

2016 SENIORS OF SIGNIFICANCE Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Science Paige Acklie – Mentor: Jennie Popp Elise Clote – Mentor: Emerald Hames Toni Jankovski – Mentor: Eric Wailes

Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design Adel Vaughn – Mentor: Carl Smith

J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Grant Addison – Mentor: Freddy Dominguez Joshua Anderson – Mentor: T.K.S. Kumar Haley Birch – Mentor: Casey Kayser Sara Bryant – Mentor: Kristin Erickson John Cale – Mentor: Timothy Kral Timothy Carroll – Mentor: Jaime Baum Sydney Cason – Mentor: Karen Sebold Madeleine Chaisson – Mentor: Eric Hall William Cheatham – Mentor: Christopher Shields Alex Chunn – Mentor: Gerald Jordan X’avier Clayton – Mentor: Parice Bowser Rachel Deems – Mentor: Jan Wicks Andrew Dixon – Mentor: J. Laurence Hare Kevin Dunavan – Mentor: Steven Worden Micahel Franzetti – Mentor: Nan Smith-Blair Morgan Farmer – Mentor: Jody Preece Whitney Frierson – Mentor: Anna Zajicek-Wagemann Anna Gibson – Mentor: Gisela Erf

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and substantial extracurricular campus and/or community activities.

This year celebrates the 51st year of honoring a senior male and female undergraduate through the Senior Honor Citation program, as well as the re-established Razorback Classics program. Students selected as Seniors of Significance have the opportunity to update their application in the 2016 spring semester to be further considered for these awards. During the reception, the Seniors of Significance received a special honor cord to wear during graduation. n

Amy James – Mentor: Nan Zheng Kristen Kent – Mentor: Mattias McIntosh Coleen Kretzer – Mentor: William Oliver Ashlyn Kubacak – Mentor: Alishia Ferguson Stephanie Long – Mentor: Nathan Parks Molly McKinstry – Mentor: Megan Witherspoon Kwamesha Moore – Mentor: Andrea Allan Blair Peterson – Mentor: Robyn Starling-Ledbetter Alison Schroeder – Mentor: Sidney Burris Dilasha Shreshtha – Mentor: Kathryn Koziol Hannah Jane Steinweg – Mentor: Shane Barker Margaret Watermann – Mentor: Benton Brown Ryan Wendt – Mentor: Fran Hagstrom Hilary Zedlitz- Mentor: Jeff Ryan

Rachel Stoehr – Mentor: Carole Shook Elizabeth Tanner – Mentor: Richard Lawrence Audrey McClain – Mentor: Carole Shook Ray Todd – Mentor: Jody Preece Anna Vasquez – Mentor: Robert Stapp Clayton Wall – Mentor: Skip Rutherford Kelsey Wheelhouse – Mentor: Vikas Anand

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Flavia Araujo – Mentor: Rodger Hunter Hannah Birch – Mentor: Vikas Anand Tanner Bone – Mentor: Melissa Harwood-Rom Brittany Brunson – Mentor: Molly Rapert Helen Chen – Mentor: Carole Shook Bailey Hart – Mentor: Dub Ashton Riley Nelson – Mentor: Craig Rennie Meera Patel – Mentor: Vikas Anand Andrew Pisechko – Mentor: Robert Stapp Elizabeth Pittman – Mentor: Molly Rapert Rachel Reece – Mentor: Robert Stapp Wheeler Richardson – Mentor: Vikas Anand

College of Education and Health Professions Jared Collins – Mentor: Tyrone Washington Heather Elswick – Mentor: Rodger Hunter Hadley Lewis – Mentor: Tyrone Washington Hannah Pavey – Mentor: Bonnie King Melissa Wolff – Mentor: Amber Shirey Teni Butler – Mentor: Edgar Clauson Ryan DuChanois – Mentor: Richard Coffman Reagan Fix – Mentor: Charity Walker Daniel Fritsche – Mentor: John White Ailon Haileyesus – Mentor: Myunghee Michelle Kim Andres Herrera – Mentor: Thomas Carter Christian Heymsfield – Mentor: Greg Scott Osborn Jessica Lizarazu – Mentor: Edgar Clausen Erika McGovern – Mentor: Jeremy Herman John Mark Vaughan – Mentor: Lt. Col. Buster McCall Seth Washispack – Mentor: David Zaharoff

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Class of 2016 Ring Ceremony Honors Seniors

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Official University of Arkansas class rings were presented to students who graduated in 2016 at the traditional ring ceremony on Dec. 8, 2015. The Arkansas Alumni Association hosted the ceremony at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House.

The class ring symbolizes the goals achieved by graduates of the University of Arkansas and the tradition of fostering loyalty, pride and recognition among graduates and alumni.

The official ring’s symbolism emphasizes the common bond of all University of Arkansas graduates.

Following the ring ceremony, the Alumni Association hosted a reception for all graduates and their families. During the event, participants enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, cake and a special toast to graduates.

Battle Line Rivalry Tailgate football. All proceeds from T-shirt sales, football ticket package sales, silent auction and private donations will go to benefit scholarships for Missouri students who attend the University of Arkansas. A big thank you to all who participated and volunteered to make this event successful! The Rivalry will return to Columbia, Missouri, in 2016 where the Razorbacks will defend their title to keep the trophy in Fayetteville! Go Hogs! n

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The Missouri chapters of the Arkansas Alumni Association teamed up to host the Official Battle Line Rivalry Tailgate on Nov. 27, 2015.

The second installment of the event took place in conjunction with the Hog Wild Tailgate at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House preceding the Arkansas vs. Missouri football game. Guests were treated to a catered meal, live music, appearance by the Razorback Spirit Squad and Marching Band, and a chance to win a Bret Bielema autographed

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Hog fans from around the country come together to spread Razorback Spirit at watch party’s and events!

Interested in getting connected? Check out the alumni association website to see if there is an Arkansas Alumni Association Chapter in your area. Chapters are volunteer lead and full of Arkansas fans, friends, and alumni who want to stay connected and give back to the University of Arkansas!

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There was a wide range of age groups from 2005 grads to 1951 grads interacting with each other.

The overall purpose of the weekend was to connect and engage alumni, reunite alumni by bringing them back to campus and engaging with the School of Law. We heard comments throughout the weekend from several alumni who hadn’t been back since graduation who said they were going to reach out to classmates to encourage attendance in the coming years.

This leads us to believe our objective was realized.

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-1Alaska Passage: Eighteen Razorbacks on Tour spent 10 days exploring Alaska’s Passages in July 2015. A portion of the group are featured in the photo aboard the Regatta.

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by Jack Lyon ’83: Jack and Lawana Lyon ‘84, Susan and Kay Goss ‘63, and Mickey and LaJuana Mooney ‘94 are shown above calling the hogs while touring in Cuba. They travelled in November on an educational trip sponsored by the Arkansas Alumni Association. The hog call was most certainly heard again while watching the LSU victory in the Trinidad hotel lobby.

-3Passage of Lewis & Clark: In August, sixteen alumni and friends travelled on the Columbia & Snake Rivers aboard the American Empress. The group photo was provided by the tour provider. The landscape images from the cruise were provided by Sissi Riggs Brandon ’55.

-4Razorbacks on Tour Pearls of Antiquity: From April 17- May 2, 2015 twelve alumni and friends explored the treasures of ancient Greece and Turkey on the Pearls of Antiquity cruise.

Thank you to Dr. Jay McDonald ’67 for sharing his beautiful photos of this trip.

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GREEK LIFE

Top: The Alpha Omicron Pi chapter house on Maple Avenue.

Top right: Members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Bottom right: Members and alumni of Kappa Alpha break ground for a new chapter house.

Alpha Omicron Pi Erin Nelson Class standing, major President, Alpha Omicron Pi - Xi Omicron Chapter What is the national and local history of your organization?

Alpha Omicron Pi was founded at Barnard College of Columbia University on January 2, 1897. AOII’s four founders created the fraternity as a tribute to their friendship. Our chapter—Xi Omicron— was brought on campus in 2006 and was installed on January 20, 2007. We will celebrate 10 years on campus in August.

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How does your organization give back to the community through philanthropy and service?

Each year our chapter holds “AOII Goes Blue Week.” During this week we raise money and awareness for our National philanthropy, Juvenile Arthritis Research. Last year, our chapter raised over $30,000 towards this cause. Part of these funds went towards establishing a Juvenile Arthritis Clinic in Northwest Arkansas. The establishment of the Clinic allows us to be more active in the lives of local kids with juvenile arthritis.

What is your organization looking forward to in the upcoming year?

This year we hope to establish a local philanthropy in which our Chapter will work with monthly. We also look forward to bringing back our founding members this coming Fall in celebration of Xi Omicron’s Tenth Anniversary. n

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Jaylon Robinson Class Standing, Major President, Alpha Phi Alpha – Kappa Kappa Chapter

Connor Cook Junior, Finance and Accounting Major President, Kappa Alpha Order - Alpha Omicron Chapter

What is the National and Local history of your fraternity?

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established for Black students, was organized at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on Tuesday, December 4, 1906. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. was born out of the desire for maintaining close association and unified support for members of this small minority group. It started as a small social study club that originally met at 421 North Albany Street, Ithaca, New York. The prejudices of the time, even at a relatively liberal institution such as Cornell, placed an extra burden on Black students. Furthermore, Blacks were denied, for the most part, the mutual helpfulness, which the majority of the students attending Cornell University regularly enjoyed.

The first chapter of the fraternity established was the Alpha Chapter.

From the Alpha Chapter the fraternity spread to many other college campuses. The Kappa Kappa Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated was founded on April 27, 1975 on the campus of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

What is the national and local history of your organization?

Wikipedia states it well: “Kappa Alpha Order was originally founded as Phi Kappa Chi on December 21, 1865, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. James Ward Wood, William Archibald Walsh, and brothers William Nelson Scott and Stanhope McClelland Scott are the founders of the fraternity. Soon after the founding, the local Virginia Beta chapter of Phi Kappa Psi protested the name “Phi Kappa Chi”, due to the similarity of the names, leading Wood to change the name of the fraternity to K.A. by April 1866.

Within one year, the order’s ritual would be expanded upon by Samuel Zenas Ammen, who was dubbed the “practical founder”. In the years that followed, the fraternity spread throughout the Southern United States, as well as other states such as California, Arizona and New Mexico. KA is one-third of the Lexington Triad, along with Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Nu. The founders listed Robert E. Lee’s chivalry and gentlemanly conduct as an inspiration. Alpha Omicron was rechartered December 2013.

How does your organization give back to the community through philanthropy and service?

The brothers of the Kappa Kappa Chapter are actively involved on campus and in servicing the Northwest Arkansas Community. We participate in service projects such as Special Olympics, delivering Thanksgiving and Christmas baskets to families in need, mentoring at local high schools, holding a Miss Black and Gold Scholarship Pageant, and many other service projects on the local and National level.

How does your organization give back to the community through philanthropy and service?

Each year, Alpha Omicron does philanthropy events and community service to support our national philanthropy, Muscular Dystrophy Association. Alpha Omicron does car washes, food and clothing drives, crawfish boils, and other efforts to support MDA, in addition to other acts of service to support the local community. Each year, Alpha Omicron does philanthropy events and community service to support our national philanthropy, Muscular Dystrophy Association.

We do an annual car wash, food/clothing drives, and crawfish boils to support MDA. Last semester, we supported the local community by logging 1,568 community service hours, donating 378 pounds of food, and donating over 200 books. This spring, we are looking forward to having our largest philanthropy event yet, a concert and crawfish boil combo in late April, with all of the proceeds going towards MDA.

What is your organization looking forward to in the upcoming year?

Our chapter is looking forward to building on the traditions and legacy that has been established by those who came before us, as we plan to uplift humanity on our campus and within the Northwest Arkansas Community. It is our sincere goal to uphold the mission of our Jewels in all of our endeavors as we continually strive to be “First of All, Servants of All.” n

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What is your organization looking forward to in the upcoming year?

Most importantly, Alpha Omicron is looking forward to the arrival of a new 51 man house. Located on Arkansas Avenue between the existing Pike and Farmhouse, this new house is set to be completed this fall, August 2016. Alpha Omicron is looking forward to the arrival of a new 51-man house. Located on Arkansas Avenue between the existing Pike and Farmhouse, this new house is set to be completed this fall, August 2016. We are currently working hard in our fundraising efforts to raise capital to furnish the inside of the house. If you would like to learn more about the project or to donate, please visit arkansaska.org. n

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R A ZO R B AC K ROA D

Collins Can’t Be Stopped in Liberty Bowl Win Razorback Alex Collins ran for 185 yards and three touchdowns in the Liberty Bowl, adding one more exclamation point to his stellar season and helping Arkansas knock out a 45-23 victory over Kansas State.

Arkansas stumbled early in the season but finished strongly with a 7-5 record and faced the Kansas State Wildcats (6-6) in Memphis.

Despite a strong offense showing, Kansas State couldn’t shut down Collins, who overwhelmed Kansas State’s defense in front of a sellout crowd of more than 61,000, a majority of them Razorback fans from just the other side of the Mississippi. Collins’ success also opened the field for quarterback Brandon Allen, who threw 20 completions for 315 yards, including one touchdown. Kansas State’s Kody Cook, starting at quarterback for the first time, went 12 of 24 for 163 yards with a touchdown.

The game pitted two friends and former colleagues against each other. Arkansas coach Bret Bielema worked as an assistant coach on Bill

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Snyder’s Kansas State staff from 2002-03. When Arkansas struggled early in the season, Bielema even sought Snyder for advice.

Collins scored touchdowns in the first half on runs 22 yards and 13 yards. He also made a 68-yard run on his first kickoff return of the season, setting up another touchdown run by Jared Cornelius.

Arkansas led 31-23 late in the third quarter, but Kansas State appeared to have stopped them. Instead, Arkansas did what they’ve done all season, knocking out the Wildcats with a combination of passing and running.

Allen threw a strike to Hunter Henry on the left sideline for a 43-yard gain. The next play, Collins took the handoff and bounced through several tackle attempts to spin within sight of the goal line and drag Kansas State players into the end zone, barely getting the ball across the line.

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Razorbacks No. 1 in USTFCCCA Preseason Poll

Arkansas women’s track and field started the 2016 season ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The ranking marked the sixthconsecutive year the Razorbacks have been a preseason top 10 selection.

The men’s team was ranked No. 10 on the preseason list.

The national team rankings are compiled by a mathematical formula based on national descending order lists. The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national team race.

Rankings points do not equate with NCAA Championships team

points. Preseason rankings will include marks from 2015, and the National Team Computer Rankings will continue to do so through the third regular-season edition.

The Arkansas women’s indoor team returns nine All-Americans from last season, including two members of the national champion DMR team, Therese Haiss and Jessica Kamilos, as well as NCAA 400 meter silver medalist Taylor Ellis-Watson.

Despite the loss of NCAA indoor champion and outdoor record holder Sandi Morris, the Razorbacks remain deep in the pole vault.

Assistant track and field coach Bryan Compton’s group features three vaulters well-versed on competing in the national level: Desiree Freier, Ariel Voskamp, and Megan Zimlich. The trio will be joined by a pair of former high school pole vault phenoms, Lexi and Tori Weeks, both of whom have top clearances well over 14 feet.

In addition to the vaults, the Razorbacks return All-American multis Taliyah Brooks, Leigha Brown, and Alex Gochenour.

Led by head coach Lance Harter, Arkansas won its first NCAA Championship during the 2015 indoor season off the heels of three gold medal performances by Morris (pole vault), Dominique Scott (3,000m) and the DMR team. The national title victory was the first by a women’s program in school history.

Arkansas opened its season Jan. 15 and was still ranked atop the standings by press time for the alumni magazine.

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the Razorbacks’ schedule memorized, travels four hours each way to see them play and has taught his entire church to “Call the Hogs.”

At the 2014 Red-White Spring Football Game, he electrified the crowd at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium when he took a handoff and ran 50 yards for a touchdown. Sandy was escorted by Razorback players from both sides of the ball providing a memorable Razorback moment. In May, Sandy was one of three inductees into the ESPN Fan Hall of Fame. He traveled to Bristol, Connecticut, the home of ESPN, to be a part of the official induction ceremony.

College Colors Challenge and the College Colors Day were created by the Collegiate Licensing Co., which represents the trademark licensing programs of more than 150 of the nation’s leading universities. It is an annual celebration dedicated to promoting the traditions and spirit that embody the college experience. n Photo courtsey Razorback athletics

Dedicated Arkansas Razorbacks’ fan and 2014 ESPN Fan Hall of Fame Inductee Canaan Sandy has won the 2015 College Colors Challenge courtesy of the College Football Playoff and the Collegiate Licensing Co. Sandy received a trip to the College Football Playoffs National Championship game in Glendale, Ariz., on Jan. 11.

Sandy, a native of Cave City, won the contest by participating in a series of photo and video challenges on social media, flaunting his Razorback colors and expressing his school spirit. As the grand prize winner Sandy received round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations, and two tickets to the national championship game.

Sandy has been an Arkansas Razorbacks fan since he was two months old, when he first attended a game. His mother, Ginger, says Canaan refers to himself as the “most dedicated fan the Hogs ever had.” He has

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University Relations

Jeff Long ✪ Completes Two Years as Chair of Playoff Selection Committee Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long is stepping down as the founding chair of the College Football Playoff selection committee but will continue serving as a member of the committee.

Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff series, told media that the position of chair was always envisioned as being a one- or two-year term.

“Jeff was a terrific chairman,” Hancock told USA Today. “He was the perfect choice to be the first chairman. He was a very effective leader inside the committee room and also an honest communicator outside it.”

“I am extremely proud of the work of the committee in the past two years and am confident we accomplished our mission,” Long said in a statement. “I want to thank the management committee, Bill Hancock and my fellow committee members for their confidence in and support of me in such an important role.”

Long has two years remaining on his term as a member of the committee and is expected to complete it. He has been the spokesperson for the committee since it was created to develop the playoff system and a rankings method.

“When I accepted the position of chairman,” Long said in his statement, “I did so feeling a strong sense of duty to represent all FBS athletics directors across the country and a commitment to help guide the process to determine the best four teams for the playoff as well as rank the remainder of the top 25 teams.” n

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the steps of Vol Walker Hall, then the university’s library, by staging a “read-in.” Printing is eventually done off-campus using a private gift to pay for the publication.

• Some students were expelled from the university for stealing apples.

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• The Arkansas Valley Route, the old Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, offers reduced fares for university students traveling to Fayetteville.

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• The Class of 1916 in its class history writes: “Our class has ever been a quiet, steady, studious and self-reliant class, neither asking the class ahead as a guide nor accepting the class below as a goad.”

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• A student rushes into the dining hall of Hill Hall and yells: “It’s on fire! The building’s on fire!” The Traveler reported that half of the 150 male students rushed from the dining hall to help put out the relatively small fire. “The other half remained at their tables and never missed a bite.”

• Two students in a psychology class get into a fight regarding whether one of them cheated by copying the other’s work. Turns out the fight was staged to see how other students in the class would react, psychologically speaking.

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• The University of Arkansas men’s basketball team, after winning the conference championship and defeating teams across the South, made the finals of the Olympic trials at Madison Square Garden in New York City. They lost out to a professional team sponsored by Universal Pictures.

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1936 Razorback Yearbook

• The enrollment of R.J. Nelson brings the number of students to 1,000.

Ruth Yoes, a student from Van Buren, stands high above the homecoming parade crowd. She was the crowning touch for the Pi Beta Phi sorority’s float that year.

• The Traveler staff, with backing from the athletic department, searches the state for a live razorback hog, eventually found in a 30-mile stretch of woods next to student John Clark Riley’s grandfather’s farm at Hamburg.

The foreman of the farm, Shorty, explains the difficulty of catching the razorback: “These Razorbacks just roam wild, you know, and they’re kind of hard to get to. You’ve got to lasso ’em from a horse.”

• The first Band Building opens for use by the Razorback Marching Band and the ROTC Cadet Band. It was located near the present-day location of Ferritor Hall.

• The city of Fayetteville is placed under martial law after an on-campus debate between students escalates into a riot and tears apart the Law Building.

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• Xavier Cugat and his swing band play at the Field House in November.

• Seeking to finish a degree he started in 1881, W.E. Whitford, 80, re-enrolls in the College

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• A transfer student named Ray Thornton runs for student body president. Instead of making speeches, he sets up shop in front of Vol Walker Hall, then the university library, and plays guitar and sings hillbilly songs.

Thornton, who later served as president of the university, was elected president by the thirdlargest majority of students in the history of student politics.

• The Arkansas Razorback Hall of Fame is opened during Homecoming festivities. Portraits of 81 all-time Razorback greats are unveiled.

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• The Razorbacks football team signs quarterback Houston Nutt, who led Little Rock’s Central High School to a 12-0 season, to play for the university. Nutt was also promised the chance to play on the basketball team.

• Fifteen Vietnamese refugees are among the 245 international students attending the University of Arkansas. The nation with the largest representation is Iran with 38 students.

• Fay Jones receives his fourth award from the American Institute of Architects for designing a home to be built on Eden Isle at Heber Springs.

• The university holds up publication of the student literary magazine Preview because of profane language in one of the works of fiction. Students protest on

• A measles outbreak sets off widespread concern on campus and at the health center for treatment and containment. Sites in dining halls and the Arkansas Union administer vaccine to students who were uncertain about their own status.

• Three members of the Hog Wild Band – Kevin Miller, Cathy Matson and Stan Barnhill – perform with a band at ceremonies unveiling the refurbished Statue of Liberty in New York.

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• Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bernice Young Jones are awarded honorary degrees during the alluniversity commencement.

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• The John McDonnell Outdoor Track gets a $6 million renovation, adding new stands, boxes and concessions and rebuilding the track and infield.

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LO S T A LU M N I If you have any information on the whereabouts of these law alumni please contact the Arkansas Alumni Association at 1-888-ARK-ALUM so that we may update our records.

Mr. Rahim Narziah Abdul Mr. Samuel Paul Johnson Mr. Jack M. Carson Mr. George Frederick Carter Mr. Harry L. Griffin Mr. Harold Henry Fulk Mr. Gerald McArthur Gentry Mr. Frederick Drewell Johnson Mr. J. T. McDonald Mr. Franklin E. Burks Jr. Ms. Joan Dorris Mr. Anonymous PG1 Mr. Robert L. Tipton Mr. Roy Eugene Anderson Mr. Leland R. Branting Mr. Clarence M. Thompson Mr. Donald Richard Werner Mr. Virgil B. Wofford Jr. Mrs. Betty Holmes Carretta Mr. Leonard Farmer Mr. Ira Eugene Sanders Mr. Roy H. Bray Jr. Mr. William Evan Jones Mr. James Donald Swan Mr. Joe M. Fore Mr. Warren Sanders Watkins Mr. Bert N. Darrow Mr. Jess Jonathan Noble Mr. John E. Schlegel Mr. John W. Bowlin Mr. Winfred Lee Rucker Mr. Gerald Wayne Scott Mr. Donny G. Gillaspie Mr. Alfred D. Holcombe Mr. Richard Wommack Mr. Claude W. Jenkins Mr. James Oliver Burnett Mr. James F. Dickson

Mr. Ronnie Minnick Mr. Michael Gene Rothman Mr. James G. Barton Mr. Gordon C. Firme Ms. Kay Kreck Mr. Joe T. Robinson Mr. David F. Chambers Mr. Robert H. Hall Mr. Jab E. Hoggard Mr. Jim I. Martin Mr. Joseph William Segers Jr. Mr. Marvin L. Smith Mr. Leo J. Carney Ms. Day D. Luttrell Mr. Claude E. Lynch Jr. Mr. Carl W. Widmer Mr. Richard William Box Mr. Jon Rick Coleman Mr. Lewis C. Fletcher Mr. Winston McKissick Mr. Donald C. Frazier Mr. Daniel H. Harmon Mr. Alexander W. Kent Mr. Alvin Laser Mr. George W. Mason III Mr. John McCollum Stinson III Mr. Donald W. Lingo Mr. Jay Stuart Nedell Ms. Julie A. Clark Mrs. Deborah J. Jackson Ms. Marilyn D. Jackson Mr. Jack Magruder III Mr. Thomas E. Moore Mr. Buford B. Wiley Jr. Mr. Tim D. Williams Ms. Carey Michael Brennan Ms. Janet L. Burtness Mr. William Birnie Barry

Ms. Merry Alice Heffelbein Mr. Walter S. Kyle Mrs. Janelle M. Arnold Ms. Kathryn Whaley Cook Ms. Kimber L. Durr Mrs. Ramona Holiman Gorton Mr. David C. McMahen Mr. David E. Anglin Mr. William N. Bret III Mr. John Roy Brown Mr. Rickey A. Burch Mr. Terry L. Foreman Mr. William S. LaRue Mr. William W. Ware Ms. Ann E. Williams Mr. Carl W. Behner Mr. Barry Lynn Blixt Mr. Bob Castleman Mr. Robert Lanier Jones II Mr. Keith Moser Mr. Stephen N. Anderson Ms. Peggy Berthelot Ms. Paula P. Oguah Ms. Stacey Farris Wilson Mr. Thomas William Carroll II Mr. Earl P. Hafer Mr. Kenneth R. Klotz Mr. David Schnieder Ms. Deborah K. Schnieder Ms. Penny M. Smith Mrs. Melissa McCutcheon Smith Ms. Debra K. Sullivan Mr. Michael F. Taylor Ms. Patty Jo Quinn Taylor Mr. Randall W. Dixon Ms. Martha A. Morgan Mr. John William Patton IV Ms. Mona Jan Teague Villianes

Ms. Sherry Ann Campbell Mr. Michael Ray Edwards Ms. Carol B. Groover Mr. Christopher P. Marra Mrs. Kelly Ann Moore Mr. David Scott Post Ms. Donna Joy Welsh Ms. Amy C. Duncan Mr. Gregory D. Jones Miss Rita Joann Keith Mr. Robert Fleet Malek Mr. David Brian Potter Mr. David Edward Rigney Ms. Johna C. Rickman Mr. Michael Utah Sutterfield Mr. George Robert Wadley Mr. Michael O’Neill Bjordal Mr. Ivan Alonzo Guzman Mr. Timothy G. Tucker Ms. Candace Ellen Landers Ms. Marianne Lillian Maupin Ms. LaGayle Dawn McCarty Mr. Michael Alan Ward Mrs. Victoria L. Williams Mr. Rodney Dean Fergason Mr. Dennis Arnold Cameron Mr. Michael B. Kyriakakis Ms. Patricia Lynn Farnese Mr. Eduardo Gabriel-Arana Mr. David H. Roberts Mr. Mengesha Tadesse Seyoum Ms. Bhargavi Motukuri Mr. Bo Shi Mr. Casey Wayne Hinson Ms. Irina I. Feofanova Ms. Brooke Erin Hollis Ms. Regina L. Oliveira

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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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James P. Foster ★ BSBA’49, and his wife, Wanda, celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary on Sept. 17. They reside in Fort Smith.

Mary Jane See Adamson BA’58, Little Rock, Nov. 2.

She taught public school in Memphis, Tennessee and in Little Rock school systems. Survivors: her husband of 56 years, James S. Adamson, three children and three grandchildren.

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Sherman D. Cullum ✪+ BSA’60, Hickory Ridge, retired and now works as a part‑ time real estate broker.

Nellita Jane Dempsey MED’61, Roswell, New Mexico, Nov. 11. She taught for two years in McCroy, Arkansas and in Morrilton for eight years. She moved to New Mexico where she taught music at Edgewood Elementary. Survivors: her two daughters, two sons, six grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Shirley E. Friend McAllister ✪+ BSHE’62 EDD’69, Sun City, Arizona,

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was awarded the lifetime achievement award by Arizona Advocacy Network of Phoenix on March 21. She was recognized for her lifetime of passionate work advocating for progressive policies and government, of, by and for the people.

Kay Gentry Collett Goss ✪+ BA’63 MA’66, Alexandria, Virginia, was elected as president for the International Emergency Management Society Jim Capps ✪ MD’65, and wife, Judy, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary, Aug. 27. They reside in Conway.

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Joe W. Hill ✪+ BSEE’80, Hallsville, Texas, was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering. He achieved senior member status in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and promoted to associate electrical engineer for Eastman Chemical Company.

John F. Hogan ✪+ BSBA’80, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, retired after 35 years of working for Johnson and Johnson. Recently he was president of Johnson and Johnson, Healthcare Systems and corporate vice president of customer logistics services.

Ben Hyneman ✪ BSBA’71, Jonesboro, is the current chairman of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees. He was appointed to the board in 2008 by Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Sheri Towne ✪+ BSE’80, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, received her master of education, education and human resource studies, specializing in adult education with training from Colorado State University on May 15.

She presented a full‑day workshop at the 2015 College Reading and Learning Association’s Conference, Nov. 5‑7 in Portland, Oregon. The workshop was titled “Formative Assessment Learning Activities: Discovery, Innovate and Share!”

Kacey DeNoi ✪ BA’74 JD’77, Albuquerque, New Mexico, after 35 years of practicing law, retired at age 59.

Ben F. Lewis ✪ MED’83, Fort Smith, received his Doctor of Theology from North Carolina College of Theology in June 2014. He currently serves as

Sandra S. Flora ✪ BA’65 and Richard W. Flora ✪ LLB’65, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They reside in Dallas.

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director of pastoral care for the Area Agency on Aging in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Myra Ransick ★ BA’80 JD’83, Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 4. She finished her law career as assistant general counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C. Survivors: Husband of 31 years, Scott Ransick ★ JD’83, son, three daughters and ten grandchildren.

Edward Schieffler ✪ BSBA’85 JD’88, scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 20, was awarded the Whitney M. Young Award. This award recognizes outstanding service through demonstrated involvement in the development and implemented of scouting opportunities for youths from rural or low‑income backgrounds.

Lisa Pruitt ★+ BA’86 JD’89 appears in the documentary The Uncondemned, which looks at the first successful prosecution in Rwanda of rape as a war crime.

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Dan Marchant Jr. ✪ BA’90, Council Bluffs, Iowa, was recently assigned to the Drug Enforcement Administration as a unit chief.

Michael J. Raley BSE’91, Coleraine, Minnesota, Aug. 19. He was an Army

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Martha Bynum‑Woolbright Londagin ✪ BSE’87 JD’93, has been promoted to business consultant in the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center in the Walton College.

Shirley Lucas ✪+ BSN’96, Fayetteville, celebrated her 80th birthday in June. She went skydiving from 10,000 feet at Skydiving Ranch in Siloam Springs. She was asked if she would do it again and she replied “Nope, been there, done that!”

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John Slayden Daugherty BSE’01 and wife Marsha of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, announced the birth of their

7680 Carol Beatty Marsh ’73 7681 Joe C. Culp ’55 7682 Norma C. Culp 7683 Brandy L. Mitchell ’96 7684 Dwight Mitchell 7685 Dr. Shannon J. Featherston ’83 7686 Abbey Norwood 7687 Dr. Gregory D. Reed ’71, ’73, ’76 7688 Dr. Kay Reed ’72, ’73 7689 Lance Eric Johnson ’01, ’05 7690 Tracey Borders Johnson ’01 7691 Matthew Clark Kincade ’98 7692 Angela Kincade 7693 Anne Elizabeth Daniel ’95 7694 Arthur F. Bowie ’69 7695 Dr. James A. Wellons Jr. ’67 7696 Tena Wellons 7697 Morgan R. Clark ’13, ’14 7698 Billy E. Songer ’13 7699 John David Gill ’86 7700 Grant K. Gerleman ’12 7701 Mark Preston Fowler 7702 Lisa D. Fowler 7703 Suzanne Klein 7704 Matt T. Crawford ’97 baby girl, Crislee Ann Daugherty, born June 30.

Douglas Dale Hayter ★+ EDD’01, retired from Branson School District after 32 years in public education and 13 years at the head of the district.

Jessica Peters ★ and Ryan Gregory Peters ★ BSBA’03 of Fayetteville announced the birth of their second daughter, Willow Grace Peters, born July 23. Their oldest, Lakelyn Rose was born April 23, 2013.

Roberto Nello Loar ✪ BS’03, Laredo, Texas, completed his residency in pediatric dentistry through University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.

Lori Yazwinski Santa‑Rita BARCH’05, Oct. 19, made partner in Maurice Jennings and Walter Jennings Architects, PLLC.

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7705 Michelle A. Pafford ’95 7706 Dr. Michael B. Pafford 7707 Michael R. Smith ’60 7708 Patricia Payne Smith ’59, ’60 7709 Brian T. Swain ’92 7710 Jovie Swain 7711 Catherine I. Erickson ’07 7712 Norman D. Morrison ’01 7713 Patty Lorraine Morrison 7714 Dr. Kevin Joseph Gancarczyk ’91 7715 Shannon Leigh Gancarczyk ’91 7716 Donald E. Walker ’74 7717 Sheroll J. Walker ’75 7718 Wade H. Chessman ’92 7719 Travis Lee Clayton 7720 Hui Wu ’00 7721 Terrence Heath Willis ’95 7722 Dr. Ronald Lee Rainey ’91, ’93, ’01 7723 M. Jenel Rainey 7724 G. Allen Hale ’75 7725 Jensey F. Hale 7726 June D. Sherman ’54 7727 Sarah Pratt Loughborough ’97 7728 Drake M. McGruder ’06, ’12 7729 Kelly A. McGruder ’06

Tyler E. Davis ★ BSA’06 and wife, Mandy, of Ashdown, announced the birth of their son, Tucker Wilson Davis.

He was born on April 27.

Heather Renee Flora BSBA’08, coordinates training for Nestle USA, a Fortune 100 company.

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Amanda Weaver BSA’10 and Lance Weaver of Amarillo, Texas, welcomed their new baby girl, Ella Nicole Weaver on Feb. 10, 2015.

Stephanie A. Bedinghaus ★ BARCH’10, has received her license as a registered architect and also received the Rosebud Award for Outstanding Woman in Construction 2015 from the Southwest Missouri National Association of Women in Construction Chapter #366.

Danielle M. Terrell BID’11 has been promoted and is now an associate at KSQ Architects.

In Memoriam

Murray I. Goodfriend ✪ BA’38, New Hyde Park, New York, June 8, 2013.

Earl A. Rhein ✪+ BSA’40, Little Rock, age 100. He was drafted into the Air Corps during WWII. Later, he retired from Farm Security Administration, later named Farmers Home Administration.

He then took up rice farming. Survivors: his daughter, two granddaughters, three great‑grandsons, his brother and his sister.

James R. Woodruff BA’40, Black Forest, Colorado, Aug. 21. He served as chaplain in the Army Air Corps during World War II and in the Air Force in Europe, Iceland and Turkey. He taught

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philosophy at McMurry College in Texas. Survivors: his wife Myra Lee Jones Woodruff, three daughters, one son, ten grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Larry Slamons Former Direcror of University Police

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Lawrence “Larry” Slamons, founding director of the University of Arkansas Police Department, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. He was 79 years old.

Slamons joined the University of Arkansas in 1972, initially serving as director of the security department with a mission to develop it into a full-fledged campus police department.

“The university has lost one of its strongest resources and pioneers in the field of law enforcement,” said former Chancellor Daniel E. Ferritor. “Larry Slamons literally transformed the University of Arkansas Police Department from a small unit to a fully accredited, nationally respected police department. He not only transformed the university’s police department but was one of the first instructors in the law enforcement degree program in the Department of Sociology. He had the ability to deal effectively with all he encountered. He will be missed greatly by the university and by all the people who knew him.”

The department had about 19 low-paid security officers when Slamons started, and none of them had police authority. He spent the next two years reorganizing the department, hiring people who were capable of becoming police officers and working to build the department’s credibility on campus. In 1975 the first university officers graduated from the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy certification class. Later that year, after considerable debate on campus, the trustees approved arming qualified DPS officers.

In 1980 the university recognized that the department’s transformation was essentially complete, renaming it the University of Arkansas Police Department. By this time university officers were regularly investigating crimes on campus, enforcing traffic laws, making misdemeanor and felony arrests, providing security on campus as well as security training for students, faculty and staff and in every way fulfilling the responsibilities of a law enforcement agency. The department was progressive in its policies and practices. It was among the first in the state to emphasize proactive approaches to crime prevention. It was also the first in Northwest Arkansas to hire a minority officer, and among the first to hire a female patrol officer.

In 1995 the department became one of the first university police agencies accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, and that accreditation was renewed in 2000, 2003 and 2006. ■.

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construction projects. Survivors: His wife, Lorna R. Shivley ✪, one daughter, two sons, nine grandchildren and eight great‑grandchildren.

Vernon Wills ★ BSA’40, Hot Springs, Oct. 27. He was employed as a County Agricultural Agent for the University of Arkansas Extension Service. He was honored to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the National County Agricultural Agents’ Association in 1970. Survivors: three daughters, four sisters, four grandchildren, six great‑grandchildren and four great‑great‑grandchildren.

Madeline Thetford Roan ★+ BSHE’41, Tomball, Texas, Sept. 26.

She enjoyed traveling all around the world, playing bridge and Mah Jong and enjoyed her many family and friends.

Survivors: one daughter, Darlynn Roan Pittman ★ BSE’76, grandchildren, Harold Pittman and Nicolas Alexander Moore BA’08.

Mary Parnell Perry BA’41, Monroe, Louisiana, Nov. 13, 2013. Survivors: four children, 14 grandchildren, 20 great‑grandchildren and one great‑great‑grandchild.

Martha Belle Heasley Cox MA’43 PHD’55, San Francisco, Sept. 5. She taught for 34 years at San Jose State University. In 2000, she received the Tower Award recognizing the highest service to the University.

Colleen C. Boland BS’44, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Nov. 16. She taught Algebra and Geometry in the El Dorado public schools for many years. Survivors: her three children, seven grandchildren, four great‑grandchildren and her brother.

Virginia Clement Beard BSHE’44, Little Rock, Oct. 24. Survivors: two children and five grandchildren.

John B. Roberson BSBA’47, Nashville, Tennessee, April 16, 2014. He served in the South Pacific in World War II. James M. Shivley ✪+ BSCE’48, Bandon, Oregon, Aug. 23. After high school he began work in the CCC Camps and then joined the Army Corps of Engineers and went to help with the Panama Canal Commission. He later returned to the U.S. and served for a few more years in the Army. Shivley’s passion was construction and he worked on several dam projects throughout the nation. He became a expert at managing

Leroy J. Harrington Jr. BSBA’48, El Paso, Texas, Nov. 12. He served a General Agent for The Aetna Life Insurance Company. Survivors: his three daughters, six grandchildren and seven great‑grandchildren.

Oswald F. Pederson MA’48, Kansas City, Missouri, Jan. 6, 2013. Survivors: his wife Maurine, his sister, one son, two daughters, eight grandchildren and eight great‑grandchildren.

Adam Guthrie Jr. BSBA’49, Hope, Sept. 3. He was a local business man for many years. Survivors: two sons, one daughter, three grandsons and six great‑grandchildren.

Douglas Price Holmes Sr. BSBA’49, Newport, Sept. 25. He served in the U.S. Navy and was awarded the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Award of Heroism in 1945 for saving the life of a shipmate. He later joined his father and brother in business at the P.K Holmes Department Store. He also became a partner in the Ben Franklin Store and P.K. Holmes Men’s Store. He and his wife owned and managed Ben Franklin Stores in Heber Springs, Fordyce and Gulfport, Mississippi. Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Phyllis, two children, four grandchildren and one great‑grandson.

Lewis A. Barefield BSA’49, Little Rock, Nov. 19. Lewis spent 39 years serving variously as field inspector, seed analyst, microscopist, department head and director of administration at the Arkansas State Plant Board, retiring in 1988. Survivors: his wife of 63 years, Jetty, two daughters, Cindy Williams and Rebecca and four grandchildren.

Milton F. Halter BSBA’49, Little Rock, Oct. 16. He worked for insurance companies his whole life before retiring. Halter was a World War II veteran having served in the U.S. Navy on the transportation ship U.S.S. Oconto, where he received a Bronze Star, an American Theatre Medal, an Asiatic‑Pacific Medal and received an honorable discharge in 1946. Survivors: three daughters, two grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

Ben W. Newby BSBA’50, Lindsay, Oklahoma, April 27, 2013. After a year of flight training, Newby earned his wings and received his commission

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In Memoriam Albert Matthew Francis Witte Emeritus Law Professor

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Albert Matthew Francis Witte, University of Arkansas professor emeritus, former NCAA president and World War II bombardier, died Wednesday, Dec. 23, at the age of 92. According to his son Rob, Witte died peacefully and was surrounded by family, friends and loved ones.

He joined the university in 1957 after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Chicago, teaching English literature at Ripon College, graduating from the University of Wisconsin School of Law and practicing law in a Milwaukee firm. Aside from two years at Emory University, Witte spent the rest of his career at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He officially retired in 1994 but continued teaching until the fall 2015 semester.

“Al Witte will be missed by all of us, students, faculty, staff, graduates and the legal community as a whole,” said Dean Stacy Leeds. “He taught at the University of Arkansas School of Law for nearly six decades – that’s almost two-thirds of the school’s 91-year existence. He has shaped generations of graduates through his intellect, insight and legendary quick wit.”

Witte chaired the law school’s committee that hired professors when former President Bill Clinton applied for a teaching job.

Clinton applied before graduating from law school and was in his mid-20s when Witte interviewed him at the Fayetteville Country Club.

“Al Witte was a wise counselor to Hillary and me when we were young faculty members at the law school,” Clinton said in a statement. “For more than 40 years, he never stopped the friendship or the shrewd — and often hilarious — observations and advice. He was a real gift to decades of law students and one of the university’s greatest assets. I wish he could have lived 90 more years.”

Twenty years of service as the university’s faculty athletic representative required working with the Southwest and Southeastern Conferences, the College Football Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. His NCAA involvement included terms as Division I vice president and as the association’s president (1989-91).

Witte is survived by two sons: Robert and his wife Kim along with their daughter Anna; and son Michael, all of Fayetteville. ■

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Edward E. Breashears BS’50, Harrison, Nov. 28, 2014. Moved to Lincoln in 1950 and began his career at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company until his retirement in 1992. Survivors: wife, Jean, three children and five grandchildren.

Gene Mason ★+ BSBA’50, Little Rock, Oct. 31. Gene was the owner and president of Rushing and Mason Equipment Company. Survivors: his wife of 59 years, Cynthia Rushing Mason ★+ BSSW’55, his three sons and three grandchildren.

Harold E. Foster BSA’50, Hope, Nov. 30. He entered the military service in 1944 and served overseas more than 14 months, he was apart of the 331st Combat Infantry, 83rd Division of the U.S. Army and won the European Theater Ribbon with three Battle Stars, the Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Victory Ribbon and American Theater Ribbon.

Later, he was employed at the Farmers Home Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years, retiring in 1981. Survivors: two sons, daughters, Rita and Cynthia Foster Serio ★ BSBA’82, nine grandchildren and 15 great‑grandchildren.

Luther T. Stuckey Jr. BSBA’50, Siloam Springs, Nov. 12. Luther was offered a contract to join the St. Louis Cardinals baseball farm team prior to joining the Army Air Corp in Africa and Italy during World War II. Survivors: one daughter, three sons, 14 grandchildren and 19 great‑grandchildren.

Roger C. Wilson BSBA’50, Atlanta, Oct. 6. He worked in the insurance industry his entire career and ultimately formed his own agency, specializing in high risk life and health insurance.

Survivors: wife of 64 years, Jane Lee, three children and two grandchildren.

Willis G. Maddox BSA’50, Fort Smith, Oct. 26. Gene served in the U.S. Navy and was a veteran of World War II. After graduating from the U of A, he started his career by teaching agriculture to returning veterans. In 1956 he taught science at Ramsey Junior High. Survivors: his son, his daughter, one granddaughter and one great‑granddaughter.

Connie Simmons Griffith BS’51, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sept. 25. She worked as an assistant at the Spring Branch ISD Science Center and as an assistant to the headmaster at Saint Francis Episcopal Day School. Survivors: two daughters and four grandchildren.

Ernest L. Cashion MD’51, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Nov. 28. Cashion served in World War II with the American Division in the Pacific. He later graduated in Medical Sciences and began a long career in medicine. In 1967, he became the chief of neurosurgery at the Memphis VA Medical Center where he stayed until his retirement. Survivors: his wife of 65 years, Polly F. Cashion ✪+, two sons, two grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Ruth M. Riddick BA’51, Conway, Oct. 1. She worked as an interpreter for a German Publishing Company.

Survivors: two sisters, two nieces and two nephews.

William M. Waller BA’51, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Oct. 19. Waller spent a brief time in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After college he worked as a ditch digger for Oklahoma Natural Gas Company. He pursued his passion for writing and was managing editor of the Claremore Daily Progress. He also later worked as longtime CEO and chairman of State Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was also chairman of many commissions including Metro Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, American Automobile Association and Tulsa Economic Develpement Commission, just to name a few. Survivors: his wife of more than 60 years, Jo Waller, one daughter, one son and two grandchildren.

Charles Wilson Allbright, Little Rock, Oct. 22. He had a career in journalism spanning over 50 years. Beginning in 1955 with the Our Town column in the Arkansas Gazette, as public relations manager and speech writer for Governor Winthrop Rockerfeller. Survivors: daughter, son, five grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

James R. Rasch BS’52, Maumelle, Nov. 24. From 1963 to 1966 Dr. Rasch was chief of medicine at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. From 1986 to 2013 he was on staff at the Central Arkansas Veteran’s System.

Survivors: one daughter, two sons, six grandchildren and one brother.

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Marjorie Jean Jamrowski BA’52, Plymouth, Washington, Sept. 22.

Noland H. Hagood Sr. ★+ BSBA’52, Hot Springs, Sept. 9. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force and upon his return he worked in the car industry, eventually owning and operating Hagood Ford Co., until his retirement in 2004. Survivors: his wife of 54 years, Betty, two children, five grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

Richard Earl Hendrix BSE’52 MED’58, Kingman, Arizona. He was a WWII veteran, serving in Company B 46th Engineer Construction Battalion as a rifleman. He was honorably discharged in 1946 and received his degrees in biological sciences and physical education and a master’s in education administrations. He was an educator, coach and principal. Survivors: his wife Dorothy, two sons, two grandsons and two great‑grandsons.

Roland L. Finley BSCE’52, Huntsville, Alabama, Aug. 9. He served two years active duty in the medical department of the U.S. Army then in the Army reserves for many years until he retired at the rank of colonel. He was employed at Boeing Aerospace, where he worked on many aerospace engineering projects such as the Saturn 5 program, the design team for the lunar rover (the moon buggy) that was used to transport astronauts on the moon and on military weapons design.

Survivors: five children, three grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

Spence A. Leamons LLB’52, Van Buren, Sept. 11. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a corporate attorney for 26 years for Stephens Production and chairman of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission. Survivors: his wife, Louise, two daughters, two grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

W. Dane Clay LLB’52, Fort Smith, Nov. 24. Dane was a partner with the Rose Law Firm for more than 50 years.

He also served as captain in the U.S. Air Force, J.A.G. from 1951 to 1954.

Survivors: his wife of 54 years, Ann S. Clay ★+ and his sister, Carolyn.

Bethel P. Cunningham ★ BSHE’53 MS’58, Fayetteville, Oct. 8. Survivors: one brother, one son and three grandchildren.

Cordy A. Ramer Jr. ★+ BSA’53 MED’54, Fordyce, Oct. 31. He worked in an aircraft factory until 1942 when he enlisted in the Army Air Force.

He was trained and qualified to be a bombardier during World War II. He was on his 29th mission in Messerberg, Germany, when the plane was hit by German fighter planes and shot down.

After his military career, he taught school for six years. Survivors: his wife, Evelyn Ramer ★+, three sons, 12 grandchildren, 21 great‑grandchildren and five great‑great‑grandchildren.

Guy Stanley Caldwell III ✪ BA’53, Tallahassee, Florida, April 1. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, serving in the Asiatic Pacific Area on the U.S.S. Crosley during World War II. He was also a retired residential building contractor. Survivors: two children and three grandchildren.

James Hugh Little BSCE’53, Jefferson City, Missouri, Nov. 4. Jim served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956.

Later, he was awarded a fellowship from the Automotive Safety Foundation to undertake graduate studies at Yale University. He was a member of the Missouri Professional Engineers where he was name Outstanding Young Engineer of the Year in 1963. Survivors: his sister and many nieces and nephews.

Joseph Spenser Gillespie BA’53, Richardson, Texas, June 26. He was an Army veteran serving in Korea during the Korean War. He was active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Fort Smith and served as commander. Survivors: three children and eight grandchildren.

Oscar B. Holiman ★ BSBA’53, Little Rock, Oct. 29. He served in the Army and Navy during World War II. He also owned and operated his own business, Holiman Brick Company in Little Rock.

Survivors: His wife, Mary Holiman m.

Edmund L. Williams Jr. BSBA’54, Monticello, Georgia, April 25. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict as a First Lieutenant pilot. He was a retail operations manager for J.C. Penny and spent the last 15 years with Herman Miller before his retirement in 1994. Survivors: his wife, Sue Garrison Williams ✪, four children and seven grandchildren.

John Kaiser II BSEE’54, Seattle, Washington, July 27. He worked for Boeing for more than 40 years as an electronic engineer where he then retired.

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In Memoriam Dale Bumpers Honorary Law Degree from U of A 1999 Dale Bumpers, the namesake of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, passed away Friday night at his home in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was 90.

Bumpers, a four-term U.S. senator and former governor of Arkansas, had been suffering from Alzheimer’s as well as a broken hip.

Bumpers served as the 38th governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975 and in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1999, where he played an instrumental part in showcasing the agriculture of Arkansas. In 1995, the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees recognized his service by renaming the college in honor of Bumpers.

“We are truly saddened to hear about the loss of Sen. Bumpers,” said Bumpers College Dean Mike Vayda. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to Betty, their children, families, and all their friends and supporters. What he did for agriculture, farmers and researchers in the state of Arkansas cannot be overstated. He was a great ambassador for the state, and our agriculture and food industries. We are proud to have his name associated with the Bumpers College and to honor his legacy with the Dale and Betty Bumpers Distinguished Lecture Series. What he accomplished in his years of service to the state and to the nation will be evident for generations to come. He was a great person and will be missed.”

During his Senate service, Bumpers’ efforts secured federal funding to develop several projects and initiatives in the agricultural, food and life sciences for Arkansas, including the John W. Tyson Building, the Poultry Health Laboratory, the Research Feed Mill, the Pilot Processing Plant, the USDA-ARS Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, all based at the Fayetteville campus.

His work also led to creation of the Food Safety Consortium, the National Center for Agricultural Law Research and Information, the Center for Alternative Pest Control, the National Center for Resource Innovation-Southwest, and the High Density Electronics Center.

The Bumpers papers (Manuscript Collection 1490) were donated to the U of A Libraries special collections department by the senator in 2000 and they were opened in 2014.

He is survived by wife Betty, sons Brent and William, daughter Brooke and seven grandchildren. ■

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Jim Lackey ✪+ BSBA’52, Jonesboro, July 21. He was a retired executive director of Trumann Housing Authority and an Army veteran of the Korean War.

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Larue “Larry” Harrison Andre BSE’54, West Lake Okoboji, Iowa. He was a teacher for 30 years. Survivor: one daughter.

Doris M. Cook BA’45 MS’49

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Doris M. Cook, the first woman hired as a full-time accounting professor at the University of Arkansas who taught in the Sam M. Walton College of Business for 53 years, passed away Jan. 4. She was 91.

“Dr. Doris Cook was a woman of many firsts, including first in the hearts of generations of accounting students,” said Karen V. Pincus, Walton College accounting professor. “She dressed in Razorback red every day, and her devotion to the University of Arkansas knew no bounds – an unforgettable professor.”

Cook joined the business college faculty in 1947 and taught at the Walton College until 2000, including three years teaching part-time after her retirement in 1997.

“Dr. Cook made a monumental contribution to the profession and to the department and college that helps us to be where we are today,” said Walton College interim Dean Matthew A. Waller.

“She dearly loved her students and her colleagues and will be long remembered in the Walton College.”

Cook was honored over the years for research and teaching and for her many firsts at the university and in the state and the nation. Among those were: • First full-time woman professor hired in the Department of Accounting • First woman certified public accountant in Arkansas • First woman member of the Arkansas Society of CPAs • First woman to serve on the National Council for Beta Alpha Psi, the International Honor Organization for Financial Information Students and Professionals • First woman to serve as national president of Beta Alpha Psi • First woman at the University of Arkansas to hold an endowed lectureship or chair (the Nolan E. Williams Lectureship in Accounting) • First woman at the University of Arkansas to hold the rank of University Professor • First person in the Department of Accounting to hold the rank of University Professor The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees approved the Doris M. Cook Chair in Accounting in 2000. The stated goal of the endowed chair is “to support a faculty member who will continue Dr. Cook’s traditions of excellence in educating students and advancing the field of accounting.” ■

Lowell O. Harris ★ BS’54, Hope, Aug. 8. He practiced medicine in Hope 1956, and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1957 to 1960. He returned to Hope, practicing medicine until his retirement in 2004.

Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Charlene, four sons, 11 grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Mosco Love Jr. BSA’53, Little Rock, Sept. 3. He had a career in sales, public relations and entertainment. He worked at Consolidated Talent Corporation, later to become Porter Entertainment, placing talent across Arkansas and even Las Vegas until his retirement in 2001. He was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in 2005, and the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation Hall of Fame in 2006.

Always an entrepreneur, he later opened a recording studio, theater, arcade and first integrated country club. Survivors: his wife of 39 years, Lillian, five children, eight grandchildren and five great‑grandchildren.

Nancy Beard Head BSE’54, Woodlands, Texas, Aug. 6. She was 91 years old. She taught in public schools fro nearly 40 years, including 22 years at Parkers Chapel Elementary. Survivors: two children, four grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Doyle E. Shirley Jr. BSBA’55, Hot Springs, Nov. 8. He was one of the original owners of Magic Springs Theme Park and in 2008, he was honored by KARK‑TV, the DHS Department of Volunteerism, and the governor’s office by being a recipient of the Arkansas Community Service Award in recognition of all of his volunteer service.

Survivors: Wife, Sherry L. Shirley, five children, 13 grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

Ed Albritton ★ BSAGE’55, Junction City, Louisiana, Nov. 8.

Ed worked for many years for the Soil Conservation before accepting a position in Victoria with Wesson Farms. He was instrumental in their catfish farming operation. in 1988 he accepted a position with the drainage district manager from which he retired in 2011. Survivors: his wife, Sue, three daughters, five grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Francis L. Robinson MED’55, Little Rock, Nov. 29. After graduating high school, he was assigned to the Navy Hospital Corps as a pharmacist mate and then trained as an X‑ray technician. He served the United States in Puerto Rico during World War II and was discharged in 1946. He later took a principal position at Arkansas School for the Blind. Later, he was the Business Manager at Little Rock Junior College and earned his 30 year tenure. He was in charge of financial affairs, security, student aid, scholarships and construction projects until his retirement in 1986. Survivors: his wife, Sybil, daughter, two grandchildren, one great‑grandson, two sisters and a brother.

Garlan D. Reading BSA’55 MED’58, Fayetteville, Nov. 2. He maintained many interests in agriculture, primarily in the cattle market. Upon retirement, Garlan started I‑40 Livestock Auction in Ozark with his son. Survivors: His wife of 60 years, Georgia, two daughters, his son and two grandchildren.

Jeanette Crawford BSBA’55, Biloxi, Mississippi, Sept. 7. She spent her career in real‑estate appraisal business.

Jeanette M. McCormack MS’55, Dallas, Sept. 21. She was 107 years old.

She taught English, history, journalism and drama at Prescott, Stuttgart, North Little Rock, Little Rock Central and Little Rock Parkview high schools and eventually became a school guidance counselor. Survivors: two grandchildren, one great‑grandson and two great‑great‑grandchildren.

William W. Miller BSA’54 MED’55, Sage, Aug. 26. He was 94 years old. He worked for Warren McArthur Aircraft Corporation in Bantam, Connecticut during WWII as a supervisor in building aircraft seating, until he entered in the U.S. Navy, where he served for seven years. He later became a teacher, district manager and farmer. Survivors: one son, six grandchildren and five great‑grandchildren.

Clyde Lingelbach ★+ BSE’56, Independence, Missouri, July 11. He was a public school teacher and librarian, where he started his career in a one‑room school house in Southwest City, Missouri. He proudly served in the U.S. Army during WWII. Survivors: two children and four grandchildren.

George L. Pugh ✪+ BSBA’56, Portland, Oregon, July 25. He was

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a veteran of the U.S. Navy, a farmer, businessman, president of GPS Gin, Inc, and was instrumental in getting the new Cotton Gin built. He was a former State Senator for the Arkansas Legislature and served as a Director of Delta Trust and Bank. Survivors: his wife, Anna, six children and 12 grandchildren.

Grace S. Kolb BSBA’56, Carlisle, July 3.

She was 92 years old. She taught at Little Rock Central high school and worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital until her retirement. For more than 45 years, she also worked as a business manager for the Smiley Farm Partnership.

Survivors: two children, five grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Harlin J. Perryman BA’50 MA’52 LLB’56, Zion. Served in the U.S Navy.

After returning, he began a lengthy law career. Survivors: His two sisters.

Harold Lee Miller ★ LLB’56, Dumfries, Virginia, Sept. 14. He served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, rising to the rank of Colonel. He was also a legal adviser and legislative assistant and retired in 1986 after serving as chief of the Army Trial Defense Service. From 1986‑2002, he served as the executive director of the South Carolina Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization.

Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Virginia, four children and four grandchildren.

James L. McConathy Sr. MED’56, Rayville, Louisiana, July 14. He served in the U.S. Air Force, retiring as a major in the USAF Reserve. He was a teacher, coach, principal and superintendent of schools. Following his retirement from education, he began a successful 20‑year career as a financial adviser with New York Life Insurance Company.

He later became a reputable cattleman.

Survivors: his wife of 65 years, Mary, three children, 12 grandchildren and nine great‑grandchildren.

James W. Duke BS’56, Indianapolis, July 6. He served in the U.S. Army before launching two separate successful careers in Indianapolis. He spent 20 years in sales and management positions with American Optical Company Inc. In 1987 and 1988, he attended and graduated from Indiana College of Mortuary Science and subsequently served as a licensed embalmer and funeral director before retiring in 1999.

Survivor: a daughter.

John G. Hall MA’56, Arkadelphia,

Aug. 14. He served in the U.S. Army as a chaplain’s assistant and organist in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. As a Ford Fellow, he taught history at Hot Springs High School. He had a 50‑year career at Henderson State University, where he advanced through the ranks from instructor to professor and retired as professor emeritus. He was named director of development and executive secretary of the HSU Foundation, where he retired in 2013. After retirement he was an assistant to the president for special projects. Survivors: his wife, Julia, one daughter and two grandchildren.

Lynn C. Rowe BA’56, Royal, July 19. At the age of 17, he earned his private pilot’s license and then began his lifelong love of planes and flying.

He was an Army veteran and had a 30‑year career with Cromwell Architects Engineers in Little Rock. He worked on many significant projects, including the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department Building, the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital in Little Rock and Arkansas Bank and Trust Company in Hot Springs.

Survivors: his wife Martha, three children, six grandchildren and 23 great‑grandchildren.

Mildred Jarvis Minor BSBA’56, Newport, Aug. 19. She worked in retail and occasionally as a substitute teacher before becoming a homemaker.

Survivors: her husband, John, five children and eight grandchildren.

Thomas H. Choate Jr. ★+ BSBA’56, Little Rock, Oct. 12. He served two years in California as captain in the United States Army. He later acquired the Ford dealership in Helena, beginning a long and influential career in the automotive business. He was elected president of the Arkansas Automobile Dealers Association. Survivors: his wife of almost 60 years, Blanche Lambert Choate ★+ BSHE’56, one son, Becky Choate, two daughters, eight grandchildren, seven great‑grandchildren and one sister.

Virginia Hembree Leslie BSE’56 MED’59, Springdale. She started her 38-year-long education career at Springdale High School but spent most of it in the Rogers Public School system. She taught high school math and developed and taught the first psychology course offered at Rogers High. She also served as school counselor for many years. Survivors: one son and two sisters.

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Ward N. Marianos ✪+ BSBA’56, Plymouth, Michigan, July 1. Marianos proudly served his country by serving in combat during the Korean Conflict as a member of the 27th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division U.S. Army.

Survivors: wife, Helen A. Marianos ✪+, three children and six grandchildren.

Catherine C. Boyd MA’57, Fayetteville, Nov. 25. She taught English at schools and universities in Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Puerto Rico and Tennessee. In the 1970s, she began her career in real estate. Survivors: daughter, two sons and three grandchildren.

Jimmie Lue Liles MED’57, Charlotte, Aug. 30. She taught for more than 30 years in the Batesville School District.

Survivors: her husband, William, two children, three grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

Jimmy J. Moss BSPH’57, Searcy, Aug. 16. He had a long career in education, serving 28 years as Central Schools Superintendent and later became the White County School Supervisor until his final retirement in 1992. Survivors: his wife of 64 years, Jewell and three sons.

Lowell David Roberts BSA’57, Cleveland, Georgia, May 12. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was later employed with Ralston‑Purina for 23 years in Louisiana, Florida and Georgia. He was with American General Insurance for 10 years before retiring.

Survivors: his wife, Jan, three sons and two daughters.

Max Kopp ✪ BSEE’57, Van Nuys, Californina, May 17, 2014. He served in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force Arkansas Air National Guard. In 1968 he co‑founded Validyne Engineering Corporation where he retired as president in 2012. Survivors: three children, 13 grandchildren and 19 great‑grandchildren.

T. C. Sanders BSBA’57, El Paso, Texas, Oct. 29. After joining the military he served two tours in Vietnam and two tours in Germany. He later taught accounting at El Paso Community College and was an internal auditor for Life Management Center until 1998.

Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Patricia and his only daughter, Yvette.

Bob Coffman BSA’58, Hot Springs, Oct. 24. He served during the Korean War in Germany from 1951 to 1952.

He also worked at the Arkansas State Health Department from 1968 until his

retirement in 1987. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Phyllis J. Coffman BSE’57, two daughters and two grandchildren.

Donald N. Offutt ★ BA’58, Hot Springs, Oct. 24. He served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1966 as a physician stationed in France. He later established his longtime private psychiatric practice in Dallas. Survivors: his wife of 54 years, Myrtle Dyer Offutt ★, his two sons, five grandsons, and two brothers.

Geneva Pruett Tedder BSE’58, Charleston, Dec. 4. Survivors: one daughter, one son, three grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Gerald W. Andrews BSIE’58, The Villages, Florida, Jan. 6, 2013. He worked as a professional industrial engineer and was a Korean War veteran.

Survivors: wife, Dorthy, one son, 2 daughters, 6 grandchildren and 6 great‑grandchildren.

H. V. Maulding Jr. BSPH’58, Mendham, New Jersey, Oct. 27. In 1966, after teaching at the University of Houston for two years, Dr. Maulding accepted a research position at Sandoz Pharmaceutical, East Hanover, New Jersey and later retired in 1992.

Survivors: he wife of 34 years, Joanne, son, Nicholas and daughter, Mary.

James Aug.us Piskos MED’58, Ocala, Florida, Aug. 31. James taught deaf children in residential schools in Arkansas and Indiana. While on Active duty with the U.S. Army, he completed the Basic Infantry Officer Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. He served as a reserve officer with the Missouri and Indiana National Guard, and in the Army Reserve in Arkansas and Michigan. After 32 years of military service, Col. Piskos received the Meritorious Service Medal upon retirement. In civilian life James spent 25 years as a bank examiner for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Survivors: wife of 61 years, two children and one granddaughter.

Jerry B. Holden ★+ BA’58, Chesapeake, Virginia, Oct. 31. He retired as the U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander. Survivors: his wife, Barbara L. Holden ★+, daughter, two sons and eight grandchildren.

Robert Jarvis Rhinehart Jr. BA’58, Pine Bluff, Oct. 27. He served in the Army during World War II as staff sergeant in the Adjutant General Corps, a trooper with the Third

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Constabulary Regiment guarding post war security in Germany. He had also served in the Civil Air Patrol.

Survivors: wife, Barbara Rhinehart, son, daughter, two granddaughters and four great‑grandchildren.

Samuel Martin Taylor MED’58, Mansfield, Texas, Nov. 21, 2003. He spent 39 years teaching in agriculture at Carnegie, Oklahoma, and Okolona and Bismarck. He was a director of the Bank of Mansfield for 50 years. Survivors: two sons, seven grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Winifred Whitfield MED’58, Brooklyn, New York, Aug. 5. She was 102 years old. She taught elementary grades in Little Rock Public Schools for 39 years. Survivors: four children, five grandchildren and many great‑grandchildren.

Carolyn Anne Darrough MED’59, Seattle, April, 15, 2013. Survivors: many nieces and nephews.

Charles Vincent BSA’59 MED’64, Dayton, Nov. 25. Charles was a public school teacher for many years. Survivors: his wife of 56 years, Janette, and five siblings.

Dale R. Bedgood MA’59, Commerce, Texas, Oct. 17. He joined the U.S. Air Force serving four years in the 8th Weather Group spending two years at Fairbanks, Alaska, as a meteorologist.

He taught math at N.E. Louisiana State University then returned to East Texas State University as Chairman of the Mathematics Department. He continued as a Professor from 1988 until his retirement in 1995. Survivors: His wife of more than 50 years, Betty Bedgood MA’60, one son, one daughter, one sister and one brother.

Donald M. Epperson MED’59 MS’62, Little Rock, Aug. 21. He actively served in the Army from 1953‑1955. He was a teacher and worked for IBM for 26 years, where he retired as a senior systems engineer.

Survivors: his wife of 27 years, Mary, three children, two step‑children, six grandchildren, three step‑grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Harry J. Crigger BA’59, Lakewood, California, April 25. Survivors: wife, Teresa Crigger, son, David and two daughters, Susan and Becca.

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colleges and universities in Florida, Illinois and Arkansas.

Patsy Harrison Roberts BSE’59, Crossett, Arkansas, Aug. 31. She was an educator and taught for 50 years. She was elected Teacher of the Year at Crossett High in 1995 and again in 2003.

Rosetta Johnson Sykes BSHE’55 MS’59, Clinton. She taught school for 31 years, 29 of which were at the Arkansas School for the Blind. Survivors: one son and three step‑children.

Thomas F. Simco BSBA’59 MS’60, Springdale, Aug. 20. He was retired from Tyson Foods and a U.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Survivors: three sons, six grandchildren and 11 great‑grandchildren.

Wayne Cash BS’59, Bella Vista, Aug. 24. He served two years in the U.S. Army. He worked for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma for 25 years as a systems analyst and took early retirement to return to Bella Vista.

James Conway Sexson MED’60, Fairfield Bay, Nov. 24. Survivors: wife of 58 years, Doris, two daughters, four grandchildren, one great‑granddaughter and many nieces and nephews.

Lionel Barton ★ BSA’58 MS’60, Fayetteville, Sept. 19. He served in the Army six‑month active‑duty program and the 238th Transportation Reserve Unit at Camp Leroy Johnson in New Orleans, which was mobilized by President Kennedy due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. He joined the UA faculty in 1967 and served 28 years as a Cooperative Extension Service Poultry Specialist, retiring in March 1995. He remained active in his retirement as an professor emeritus in the Center of Excellence at the U of A and served as the first president of the U of A’s Poultry Science Alumni Association. Survivors: four children and four grandchildren.

Raymond L. Shepherd MS’60, Auburn, Aug. 3. He was a decorated military veteran and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel after 30 years of service. He was also an award‑winning scientist and internationally known for his contributions to cotton breeding and genetics and received national recognition for his work developing a root‑knot nematode resistant cotton, which he named “Auburn Cotton.”

Survivors: his wife of 65 years, Margie, three children, 10 grandchildren and eight great‑grandchildren.

Richardson M. Perdue BSBA’60, Little Rock, Oct. 17. Perdue served in the United States Army. When he returned from service, he worked in the family business, The Perdue Company Inc. Survivors: his wife, Charlotte, one daughter, one granddaughter and a brother.

Robert F. Gwinner Jr. MBA’60 PHD’63, Scottsdale, Arizona, July 7. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving in the intelligence area in Washington, D.C. He was also a university professor at the University of Wyoming and University of Alabama and chairman of the marketing department at Arizona State University and where he retired in 1998.

Survivors: four children.

William A. Robins BSBA’60, Conway, Aug. 17. He was an U.S. Army veteran and served in the military band.

Survivors: his wife of 50 years, Billie and one son, Raymond.

Willie M. Melvin Sr. MED’60, Ruston, Louisiana, Aug. 1.

Cecil C. Gentry Jr. BSIE’61 MSME’65, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Oct. 9. He was a registered professional engineer in Oklahoma and spent the last 28 years of his career at Philips Petroleum Company, retiring as manager, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics. Survivors: wife of 54 years and two sons, Mark Cecil Gentry BSME’93 and Matt Calvin Gentry ✪ BSME’90.

Jack Adams Nowlin Jr. BSBA’61, Little Rock, Aug. 22. He served in the U.S. Army Reserve as second lieutenant and pilot. He was honorably discharged as a first lieutenant and began a career as an investment adviser, specializing in commodity brokerage, a field he pursued until retirement. Survivors: a daughter, two grandchildren, a former wife of 25 years, Barbara Williamson Nowlin Rhodes, one step‑daughter and two step‑grandchildren.

James F. Keenan BA’61, West Palm Beach, Florida, July 4. He served in the U.S. Navy as a pilot. He founded Pace Industries, an aluminum die‑casting company that supplied castings for the housing, industrial and recreational industries that were sold worldwide. He later sold the company.

Later he was asked by President George H.W. Bush to serve as consulate general to Bermuda. Survivors: his wife of 32 years, Susan Goldwater Keenan, six children, nine grandchildren and one great‑grandson.

John T. Babb BA’61 MED’68 EDS’88, Versailles, Illinois, Nov. 12. Babb served as an educator, administrator and coach for over 20 years in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois. He also served as the vice president of the Brown County State Bank in Mount Sterling for several years. Babb served his country in the U.S. Army from 1961 to 1963 having obtained the rank of first lieutenant.

He then served for several years in the Army reserves. Survivors: wife, Beth, three sons, six grandchildren and eight grandchildren.

Johnny F. McDaniel BSME’61, Germantown, Tennessee, July 22. He served 28 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, having flown over 13,000 hours at the time of his retirement.

After retirement he worked as a defense contractor and C‑141 simulation instructor. Survivors: his wife of 55 years, Rita, four sons, nine grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Joyce Tillman Burgess BSHE’61 MS’65, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 4. Joyce was a registered dietician and worked as a home economist and taught home economics at John Adams Middle School in Albuquerque.

Survivors: her husband of 54 years, Ed L. Burgess BSEE’61 PHD’66, two children, three grandchildren and sisters Patsy and Carolyn Tillman Henry BSE’65.

Linda Austin Brown BSE’61 passed away Jan. 25, 2014.

Robert Raible BS’61 MS’62, Charleston, North Carolina, Oct. 29. Raible was an avid gardener and loved giving his neighbors vegetables that he grew.

Surivivors: his wife of 58 years, Patsy Ward Raible, two children, four grandchildren, one great‑grandchild and two siblings.

Sam Boellner ✪ MD’61, Little Rock, Sept. 5. He was generous, and compassionate physician, who enjoyed family and the practice of medicine, in the private practice of Pediatric Neurology and Clinical Research. Survivors: his wife, Marilyn, two step‑children and seven step‑grandchildren.

Sammye Price Clark BSE’61, Arlington, Texas, Sept. 29. For many years she was an elementary school teacher throughout parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Survivors: her husband of 51 years, Bill, two children and three grandchildren.

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Douglas J. Drake BSPH’62, Hope, Sept. 19. He owned and operated his own pharmacy, Village Rexall Drug, and retired after 42 years of service.

Survivors: two sons, five grandchildren and four great‑grandchildren.

George G. Staley MS’62, Midland, Texas, Nov. 10. He served as a Marine in the Korean War and after graduation from college, his first job was with Texaco in Roswell, New Mexico. He later moved and worked on the Discovery well in the Crittenden Field. Survivors: his wife of 47 years, Sandra H. Staley, four children and three grandchildren.

Lou Ann Pew MED’62, Conway, July 18. She was an Arkansas educator for 33 years, teaching home economics, specializing in sewing. Survivors: her husband of 57 years, James, two children and six grandchildren.

Virginia Littlefield Taylor BSHE’56 MS’62, Nashville, Sept. 18. She was a home economics teacher for more than 30 years. Survivors: her husband of 54 years, Freddie.

Ann R. Canode ✪+ BSBA’63, Rogers, Oct. 10. Canode was a successful business woman and owner of In‑Depth Profiles Company and was also a well‑known pianist performing for local events. Survivors: her husband of 50 years, Melvin R. Canode ✪+, her son Melvin R. Canode ✪+, two grandchildren and two sisters.

Bonnie H. Bonsell BSE’63, Little Rock, Nov. 28. Bonnie enjoyed a long and successful career as a teacher and counselor at schools in Wyoming, Kansas, Nevada and Arkansas. Survivors: two daughters and her twin sister.

Frank Lyon Jr. BSBA’63, Little Rock, Nov. 8. Frank served his country in

the U.S. Army earning the Army Commendation Medal. He later earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1967. He was also Arkansas business chairman and president or director of many companies including The Frank Lyon Company and Coca‑Cola Bottling Company of Arkansas just to name a few. Survivors: his wife, Jane Lyon, two daughters and four grandchildren.

Frank McHan MS’63 PHD’67, Athens, Georgia, Nov. 10. Following his service in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He later went on to receive his doctorial degree and accepted a research position with the USDA at the Richard Russell Research Center. Survivors: Wife, Joyce McHan, daughter, grandson, two brothers and a sister.

Kirk K. Hale Jr. ★ BSA’63 MS’67, Fayetteville, Aug. 17. He was a retired naval captain, professor of poultry science at the University of Georgia and Clemson University, an entrepreneur and inventor. Survivors: his wife Marcia, two children and three grandsons.

Minor Ross Jenkins II BSEE’63, Montgomery, Alabama, July 13. He served in the U.S. Army. Survivors: three children and four granddaughters.

Robert Temple Munday Jr. BSBA’63 MBA’67 PHD’74, Austin, Texas, Sept. 21. He taught for 27 years at St. Edward’s University in Austin until his retirement in 2003. Survivors: his wife of 39 years, Gretchen Munday, four children, one grandson and his brother.

Anne Canaday Sloan BSHE’64, Louisville, Kentucky, July 12. She was an accomplished seamstress and an expert in garment construction, a wonderful cook and nutritionist. Survivors: her husband, Larry, three children, two step‑children, 14 grandchildren and step‑grandchildren.

Chester L. Smith Jr. BA’64 LLB’66, Mountain Home, Aug. 30. He was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 28 years, until his retirement in 1994. After retirement, he taught for several years at Arkansas State University‑Mountain Home. Survivors: his wife, Patricia, two daughters and three grandchildren.

Don R. Owens BSE’64 MS’68, Hot Springs, Oct. 20. He worked for 18 years at Union Carbide and taught Geology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Survivors: his son and grandson.

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In Memoriam Paul Noland Former Faculty Professor Emeritus Paul R. Noland had only been on the University of Arkansas faculty for a few years when he volunteered to spend two years in Panama to develop an animal research program there. That program served as a foundation for a 60-year collaboration between Panama, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Noland, 91, died Dec. 31 in Fayetteville. He was emeritus professor of animal science.

“Paul was not only a pioneer and excellent educator, but he was a neighbor and great friend,” said Michael Vayda, dean of Bumpers College. “He helped the University of Arkansas become the first U.S. land grant institution in the country to establish a foreign agricultural mission with his work in Panama. His efforts in agriculture, extension, teaching and research are still evident today. His service went well beyond his roles as head of animal and poultry science. Our students benefitted tremendously from his expertise. He will be missed.”

Noland’s founding efforts in Panama from 1955 to 1957 were cited in 2012 when the Panamanian Ministry of Agriculture signed an agreement with the Division of Agriculture and Bumpers College to exchange faculty and extension professionals for lectures, study tours and professional discussions.

Noland’s work was recognized by Panama in 2009 when President Ricardo Martinelli, a U of A alumnus, presented him the Vasco Nunez de Balboa Award, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Martinelli credited the Arkansas program that Noland developed with stimulating Panama’s agricultural growth and enhancing academic ties with the university.

Noland served as head of the Department of Animal Science from 1988 until his retirement in 1994, during which time he participated in the establishment of the department’s poultry science program into a separate academic department. He joined the faculty in 1951.

Noland’s honors include the Paul R. Noland Graduate Student Award, established in 2014. In 1995 he was inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame. He served for 25 years as the faculty advisor to Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.

Survivors include his wife, Eunice Noland; brother Albert Noland; four sons; eight grandchildren; and 10 greatgrandchildren. ■

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David P. Lambert BSBA’62, Washington, D.C., Oct. 16. He had a distinguished career in public service and was an internationally recognized advocate for global food and nutrition security, lecturing and traveling widely on these issues. In 1999, President Clinton appointed Lambert as permanent alternate representative and foreign agriculture service counselor to the U.S. Mission to the U.N. agencies. Before his diplomatic appointment, Lambert was senior vice president of the New York Stock Exchange, directing all public affairs programs, both U.S. and internationally.

Survivors: two sons, former wife, Diana Cassedy Rich, and two brothers.

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In Memoriam Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

C.D. Wright ★ MFA’76 Former Citation of Distinguished Alumni Awardee

Alumna C.D. Wright, a prize-winning poet and professor of writing at Brown University, died at her home on Jan. 12, 2016. She was 67.

A native of Mountain Home, Wright earned a Master of Fine Arts in creating writing from the University of Arkansas in 1977. Among her many honors, she was the recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Award in 2005 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in .

She came to the University of Arkansas after earning a bachelor’s degree at Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis. Wright’s first poetry collection, Room Rented by a Single Woman, was the first volume published by Lost Roads Publishers, founded by Arkansas poet Frank Stanford.

After Stanford’s death in 1978, she took on direction of Lost Roads Publishers and moved to San Francisco the next year, where she married poet Forrest Gander. Together, they continued operation of Losts Roads Publishers until 2005.

In 1981, she received a National Endowment for the Arts Award for poetry, which allowed her to live in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, for a short period while completed her next book, Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues, published by the State University of New York Press in 1982.

In 1983 Wright joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and was named the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English. She also created the 1994 Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas, a multimedia exhibit that included letterpress broadsides by Arkansas authors and photographs by Deborah Luster, which was eventually turned into a book and a poster-sized map, “The Reader’s Map of Arkansas,” which showed the geographic location of writers from the earliest European explorers to the latest writers of that day.

In addition to the MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, she was honored with two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She also received the Lange-Taylor Prize, a Whiting Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award, and she was a finalist for the National Book Award. She also served as the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1994 to 1999. In 2013, Wright was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

She published 15 collections of poetry and prose in all. Wright’s most recent book was published days before her death. ■

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JoBelle Reed Carnes BSE’64, Springdale, May 16. She was an elementary school teacher and a member of Terra Firma garden club where she was known for her beautiful long stemmed roses. Survivors: her husband of 69 years, Kenneth Carnes, two daughters and two grandsons.

John A. Treon MA’64, Spring Hill, Florida, Nov. 23, 2013. Survivors: his son Stephen and his sister Elaine.

school before becoming a full‑time homemaker. She continued to substitute in subsequent years after her children began school. Survivors: her husband, Jim, two sons, a daughter and nine grandchildren.

Glenda C. McDougal BA’65, Fort Smith, Oct. 26. After graduating from the U of A, she volunteered a lot of her time with juvenile counseling. Survivors: her husband,

Kenneth Roland Walker MED’64, Russellville, July 21. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1958. He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a colonel.

He was a professor, assistant academic dean, dean of arts and sciences and head of the history and political science department at Arkansas Tech University. He was a professor emeritus and author of four books, and in recent years, he wrote a weekly column for the Atkins Chronicle.

Survivors: two daughters, 12 grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Tommy O. McDougal BA’67 MBA’72, three children, her sister and nieces and nephews.

Mina Marsh BSE’64, Fayetteville, Nov. 16. For 26 years Mina served as deputy director of the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. Survivors: a son, a daughter, two grandchildren and two sisters.

Jim D. Fant ✪+ BSIE’65, Roland, Oklahoma. Fant was in his 11th year of teaching at Heavener. He was a math and credit recovery teacher. Fant retired as an engineer when he realized that wasn’t what he wanted to do and that’s when he went into teaching.

Onis James Cogburn BS’64, Mena, Aug. 8. Survivors: his wife Judy, two children and seven grandchildren.

Ralph W. Donaldson BSBA’64, Kansas, July 21, 2002.

Thomas B. Goldsby Jr. ✪ BSBA’64, West Memphis. He was the founder and chairman of the Board of Mid South Mortgage Company and a recipient of the Towers of Old Main. Survivors: his wife of 50 years, Sandy Goldsby ✪ BSE’63, four children and nine grandchildren.

Vicki Schanlaber BSE’64, Hot Springs, Aug. 29. She was an avid reader, loved to play bridge and golf. Survivors: two sons and five grandchildren.

Virginia Louise Ogden MA’64, San Jose, Califonia, June 26, 2013. She taught school for many years. She is survived by her brother George and two nephews.

Diane Gillison BSE’65, Lake Village, Nov. 11. She was a school counselor for the Garland, Texas School District for many years before moving back to Lake Village and retiring. Survivors: her brother and twin sister and many nieces and nephews.

Edna Lucille Clark BA’65, Albany, Georgia, Oct. 21. She taught elementary

James Frierson LLB’65 MBA’70, Johnson City, Tennessee, Sept. 25. He was a professor and taught business management and marketing for 34 years at East Tennessee State University, where he was also a distinguished faculty member in 1977 and the ETSU Foundation Research Award in 1986.

Survivors: his wife of 49 years, Lynn, two children, brother and two sisters.

Lawson E. Glover Jr. ✪+ BS’65, Little Rock, Aug. 30. He served two years in the U.S. Army and then joined the Arkansas National Guard. He left the National Guard in 1976 with the rank of major and thereafter devoted his energies entirely to his medical career.

Survivors: his wife, Ameila, one son and three grandchildren.

Margaret McLarty ★ BSBA’56, El Dorado, Nov. 8. She worked as the chief financial officer for Milam Construction before her retirement. Survivors: her son, daughter, three grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Terry Jean Baird BSE’65, Bradenton, Florida, Nov. 23. She taught at the School for the Deaf in Arkansas, Indiana, Maryland and Washington, D.C. She was also, later, a PE teacher, basketball coach and driver’s education instructor.

She retired in 2001. Survivors: her sister and many nieces and nephews.

Thomas R. Knapp BSE’65, Leslie, Aug. 16. He was an educator, coach, a horseman and an avid outdoorsman.

Survivors: his wife of 48 years, Sandra, two children, and three grandchildren.

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Evelyn Benish Halbrook MED’66, Paragould, Aug. 9. She spent 30 years in the educational system teaching math and science. Survivors: two sons, one step‑daughter, four grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Frank J. Phelps BSA’66, Bastrop, Louisiana, July 24. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was an independent agricultural consultant. Survivors: his wife, Roberta, two children, two step‑sons and four grandchildren.

Jay F. Myers ★ BARCH’66, Seminole, Florida, Nov. 14. His architectural firm, Myers and Associates, was recently named to the Top 10 Architects in Pinellas County. Survivors: his wife, Penny, a niece and a nephew.

Marty Nord MA’66, Nashville, Tennessee, July 28. She was an expert in communications/management coaching, she taught 17 years at the School of Engineering and the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University before founding her own national communications consultancy.

Survivors: her husband, Larry, two sons, two step‑children, four grandchildren and three step‑grandchildren.

Netta Jackson Simek ✪ BSBA’66, Bryan, Texas, Nov. 26. Netta began her career with Coty Cosmetics in Kansas City, Missouri, then moved to New York City where she was the national sales director for Coty. Survivors: her loving husband of 23 years, John E. Simek and sister.

Rita S. Keever BSE’66 MED’71, Indianapolis, Oct. 1. She was employed at the Department of Veteran Affairs and retired after 35 years of service. Survivors: her loving husband of 42 years, Karl, two children, six grandchildren, four sisters and four brothers.

Carl Ivan Grable MS’67, of Springdale, Jan. 7, 2014. He worked in Washington, D.C., for many years with the EPA. Survivors: Wife of 46 years, Frida N. Grable, one son, two grandchildren and one brother.

Georgia P. Hobby BSN’67, Little Rock, July 9. She spent much of her time on mission trips to Africa, teaching elementary school to the children. She later earned an registered nurse license so that she could serve as a health care provider in Africa. Survivors: three children, 11 grandchildren and 27 great‑grandchildren.

James H. Shields III BSIE’67 MSIE’71, Fort Smith, Nov. 14. He was a successful business man with his work in Estee Lauder, Revlon, and Bausch and Lomb. Shields served in the U.S. Army Cavalry, here and in Germany.

He achieved rank of first lieutenant.

Survivors: wife, Sarah Shields, one son, James Homer Shields IV, two granddaughters and one sister.

Jim Caudle BSA’67, Conway, Oct. 8.

He was employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation Service from 1968 to 2008.

Survivors: his wife, Zettie, two children, five grandchildren and two sisters.

M. Elizabeth Roberts MED’67, Pine Bluff, Nov. 5, 2014. She taught school for 26 years. Survivors: two sons, six grandchildren and 12 great‑grandchildren.

Noel N. McGuire MED’67, Little Rock, Aug. 9. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy, having served on the U.S.S. Saipan. He was a wholesale representative for Western Auto, D.E. coordinator for the Little Rock school district and coordinator of the of the pilot project of “DEEP,” the Developmental Economic Education Program. He retired from the district as vocational supervisor. Survivors: his wife of 60 years, Katalah.

Cloyse A. Ritchey BSEE’68, Little Rock, Sept. 8. He was a captain and fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force where he served two tours in Vietnam.

Survivors: five children and seven grandchildren.

Jim Dyer ★ BSEE’68, Huntsville, Aug. 27. He was a computer programmer and served in the United States Navy in the Vietnam Era. Survivors: his wife, Dorothy, two sons, two step‑sons and eight grandchildren.

Juanita Thomas Ballard BSE’68, Benton, Oct. 6. She loved children and spent six years as a counselor at the Girls Training School in Alexander.

She became a counselor at Bryant High School in 1976 and retired as dean of girls in 1992. Survivors: her husband of 38 years, Juanita Thomas Ballard BSE’68, two children, six grandchildren, six great‑grandchildren, two stepchildren, two step‑grandchildren and two step‑great‑grandchildren.

Paul D. Gant ✪+ BSBA’68 JD’73, Van Buren, Sept. 8. He was a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves,

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95th Division Infantry Training Battalion. He opened his private law practice in Van Buren in 1973 and was joined by his father in 1976. He served six years as deputy prosecuting attorney for Crawford County and 10 years as its juvenile referee. He served as city judge of Alma for more than 37 years. Survivors: his wife, Linda, one daughter, two granddaughters and one step‑grandson.

Bob E. Lutz ★ BSBA’69, Punta Gorda, Florida, Aug. 1. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, where he was a trained military policeman. He started his own successful public accounting firm, various business ventures and, in retirement, became a multi‑store franchisee for Great Clips Inc. Survivors: two children and three grandchildren.

John E. Slaven ✪+ MD’69, Little Rock, Sept. 8. He enjoyed his years as a pathologist at PLA Baptist Hospital and in Fayetteville NAPA. Survivors: his wife of 52 years, Rebecca, three children and nine grandchildren.

Larry Huse Bilbrey BSBA’69, West Fork, Nov. 26. He was a certified public accountant. Survivors: his wife, Sheila Bilbrey, his mother, two children and four grandchildren.

Terry R. Smith BSBA’69, Little Rock, Nov. 20. After graduating college, he went on to own and operate G.D Smith Mercantile Store that was his family business then later going on to operate Smith’s Clothing Store and Farmer’s Gin from 1968 to 1986. Survivors: his four children, his eight grandchildren and his two sisters.

William Marion House BSBA’69, Hot Springs, Oct. 26. After serving two years in the U.S. Army, he moved back to Oklahoma where he worked in sales and real estate for 40 years before retiring. Survivors: his wife, Bobbie, son, daughter and eight grandchildren.

David Moore Spatz BS’70, Sherman, Texas, Nov. 29. Survivors: wife, Terri and two brothers.

Earlene Fowler MED’70, Little Rock, Sept. 9. She was a retired teacher, who worked in the Little Rock school district for 39 years. Survivors: two sons and four grandchildren.

James H. Williams ★+ BA’70, Fort Smith, Sept. 4. He was a retired journalist, who spent his entire 37‑year career with the Texarkana Gazette as a

sports writer and editor. Survivors: his wife, Phyllis, two sons, a step‑daughter and many grandchildren.

Jerry B. Dossey BSBA’70 JD’74, Bella Vista, Sept. 6. He practiced law in Bentonville for 41 years, served as a special associate justice in the Arkansas Supreme Court and served on many local boards. Survivors: his wife, Linda, five children and five grandchildren.

Jim R. Pate JD’70, Russellville, Aug. 11. He was a U.S. Army veteran and served in the Vietnam War as a first lieutenant in which he received the Army Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star for Valor. He practiced law for 45 years in Little Rock and the River Valley and also served as the Russellville Deputy Prosecuting Attorney. Survivors: his wife of 48 years, Sue, four children and seven grandchildren.

Judson L. Erwin BSBA’70, Anchorage, Alaska, Sept. 30. He worked as a librarian and technology technician for the U.S. Army in Germany, South Korea, Huntsville, Alabama and San Francisco. Survivors: three sisters.

Pamela Gay Beam BA’70, Pelham, Alabama, Aug. 20. She taught honors English for 34 years throughout Arkansas and Texas.

Tom W. Cardin BA’66 JD’70, Nixa, Missouri, July 14. He practiced law for over 40 years. Survivors: wife Brenda, two children, two step‑children, six grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Floyd E. Wood MS’71, Little Rock, Oct. 1, 2010. He owned and operated the County Liquor Store and Restaurant. He also worked in the American Overseas program serving as bio/chemical teacher in Kuwait and Taiwan for four years. Survivors: Daughter, Vicki Wood Skarda ★ BSE’77 MED’83, three grandchildren, Randa D. Saul BSN’07, and Seth and two great‑ grandchildren.

Paula W. Smartt ✪+ BSE’71, Knoxville, Tennessee, Oct. 15. She was employed for 18 years by Bust Bros. and Company and served as temporary chairperson for Healthcare 21. Survivors: husband of 17 years, John, one son, one daughter, five grandchildren, one stepdaughter and one sister.

Wilson F. Webster BSBA’66 JD’71, Jonesboro, Feb. 12, 2014. He was elected to the bench and served

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Craighead County for 16 years as municipal judge and practiced law in Jonesboro until 2004. Survivors: his wife of 38 years, G. Kaye Neal Morgan Webster, one son and one granddaughter.

Billy R. Griffin MS’68 PHD’72, Prescott, Aug. 12. He served in the Arkansas Army National Guard and worked for the United States Government in various rolls. Survivors: his wife, Marsha, three children, nine grandchildren and one great‑grandson.

Davidson H. Humphreys BSA’72, Hot Springs, Nov. 2. At the University of Arkansas, he served as president of both the Blue Key and Independent Men Society. After graduating, Humphreys volunteered with the Peace Corps and later returned to Hot Springs for a career at Humphrey’s Dairy. Survivors: two children and eight grandchildren.

Kay Burrell BSE’72, Keller, Texas, Aug. 17. She was an educator, legal secretary and the longest‑running school principal in the Fort Worth Diocese, receiving her 30‑year service pin in 2014. Survivors: her husband, Denver, one daughter and one grandson.

Lyle G. Shields BSA’72 MS’78 MSA’79, Rogers, Sept. 29. Lyle worked as a CPA for many years. Survivors: his wife, Cynthia and one sisters.

Nealia Neal BSN’72, Heber Springs, Aug. 19. She was a retired public health nurse administrator.

Survivors: her husband, Dick, two children, five grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Thomas C. Swafford BA’72, Little Rock, Sept. 26. He served in the U.S. Navy.

Survivors: two sons and two sisters.

Truman E. Yancey ★ JD’72, Fayetteville, Dec. 3. He retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel after 23 years of service. His highest award in his military career was the Legion of Merit. He later practiced law in Fayetteville. Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Sylvia M. Yancey, sons Steven William Yancey BSEE’86 MSEE’89, a grandson and two sisters.

Darrell F. Brown BA’69 JD’73, Little Rock, Oct. 31.

Frank W. Joenks MED’73, Wahpeton, Iowa, Aug. 22. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He served as the mayor of Wahpeton for many years and had a long career in education as

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an assistant principal and principal.

Survivors: one son.

Jamie Leora Whitlatch ADN’73, Fayetteville, Nov. 3. She was a registered nurse in emergency medicine and cardiology at Washington Regional Medical Center and multiple other hospitals for almost 40 years. Survivors: three children and one brother.

Shela Joy Duby Snyder EDD’73, Warrensburg, Missouri, July 14. She was an educator, teaching at the University of Arkansas laboratory school, director of Fulbright Hall, the freshman women’s dormitory, and later taught in the College of Education at Central Missouri State University. She retired from UMC in 1996. Survivors: her husband, Don, many children, step‑children, grandchildren, step‑grandchildren and great‑grandchildren.

William S. Mayo MA’73, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, July 15. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Air Force during Vietnam and retired from the Air Force in 1988 as a lieutenant colonel. He received the Air Force Commendation Medal and two Joint Service Meritorious Service Medals. He went to work at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., for 15 years. While there he worked as a political analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Edith Hill BSE’74 MED’83, Spiro, Oklahoma, Nov. 14. Edith was a first grade teacher and reading specialist until she retired at age 75. Survivors: daughter, son, five granddaughters and her sister.

James A. Wilson EDS’74 EDD’80, Bismarck, July 19. He was lifelong educator. He enjoyed reading history and western books, sketching, poetry, carving and gardening. Survivors: two daughters, three grandchildren and four great‑grandchildren.

Jerry L. Elkins BSE’74, Batesville, Oct. 6. He worked as a high school principal at the Cave City School District before he retired.

Survivors: his wife of more than 30 years, four children, two grandchildren and one sister.

L.T. Simes II ★ JD’75, Helena, Oct. 10. He co‑owned Delta Force 3 radio, KCLT‑FM 104.9, the first black‑owned radio station in the Arkansas Delta, where he taught Bible lessons on‑air for more than 25 years. He was later elected to the position of circuit judge for the 1st Judicial District in 1996. He served from

Jan. 1, 1997, to Nov. 9, 2009. Then again from Jan. 1, 2011, until his death.

Prior to his election, he practiced law for 21 years. Survivors: wife, Edelma Simes ★ MS’76, three children, seven grandchildren, his mother, two brothers and two sisters.

Lee Anne Harris BSBA’75, Rogers, July 27. She worked at the First National Bank of Rogers for many years before opening the Harris House gift store in Rogers.

Thomas D. Williams BSEE’75, Hot Springs, Oct. 3. He was a manager of engineering and maintenance at Reynolds Package Rolling Mill. He loved spending time with his family and participating in outdoor activities.

Survivors: his wife, Glenda, two daughters, two grandsons, one brother and one sister.

Henry Hood Jr. MA’76, Marshall, Texas, July 24. He was an English professor at East Texas Baptist University for many years until 2000, at which time he accepted a professor position with Jarvis University in Hawkins, Texas.

Jane R. Basse BSE’76, Rogers, Nov. 5. She taught many in Rogers the gift of piano and sewing. After graduating college, she began her life’s work as a kindergarten teacher for the Rogers Public School System. After 29 years as an educator, she retired in 2005. Surviviors: her husband of 56 years, Charles, her son, seven grandchildren, two great‑grandsons, her brother and her sister.

Mary Jo Horton ✪ MED’76, Little Rock, July 30. She was a reading specialist with the Instructional Resource Center and Assistant Reading Supervisor with the Little Rock schools. Survivors: her husband of 62 years, Clyde, two daughters, six grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Thomas S. Davis PHD’75, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jan. 9, 2007. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Survivors: five children, six grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

William L. Fergus JD’75, Jonesboro, July 21. He had been a sitting Circuit Court Judge since 2001. Formerly, he was a municipal judge and creator of the juvenile drug court. He had practiced law in the Osceola area for many years and served as a medic in the U.S. Army Reserve. Survivors: his wife of 36 years, Marla, two daughters and three children.

Danny J. Bolin BSPA’76, Rogers, Nov. 5.

He served for two years in Vietnam while in the U.S Army. He had owned North West Contractors since 1975. Survivors: his wife of 37 years, Scherrie, a son, grandchildren and two sisters.

Diane Clark Vogler MED’76 EDS’83, Flower Mound, Texas, Nov. 27. She spent 44 years in education working with children as a teacher and principal prior to her retirement. Survivors: two daughters and two grandchildren.

Gary E. Carter BA’76, Alexandria, Virginia, Oct. 17. He served 23 years in the U.S. Navy retiring as a commander in 1999. He continued his service to the country by working in many areas of the government including executive director, Department of Homeland Security, Program Accountability and Risk Management. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award posthumously. Survivors: his wife, Julie A. Carter, two sons.

Tommy C. Watts III, DeWitt, Oct. 16.

Survivors: brother, Garry, Sister, Kay, cousin and special friend, Jane.

Greig Roberts ★ BSPH’77 BA’82, Fayetteville, Sept. 14. He taught thousands of students biology at the University of Arkansas, where he was bestowed the Teacher of The Year Award and was the inaugural speaker for The Mortar Board’s Last Lecture series. He was also an award winning musician, performing most notably as Mo Brothers and leader of The Decoys. Survivors: his wife Vivian and one daughter, Oakleigh.

Marcel L. Soucy BA’72 MED’77, Fort Smith, Dec. 20, 2014. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving as captain in the Army artillery and retired from his 26‑year career in the Fort Smith public schools. Survivors: his wife of 59 years, Deloris, five children, 13 grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Elizabeth Price Anderson ★ BA’78 MED’09, Pine Bluff, July 26. She worked for 20 years as a teacher and librarian in the Pine Bluff school district.

She later served as manager of corporate education at Jefferson Regional Medical Center for eight years. She was also a reading specialist in the Shawnee Mission School District while she and her husband lived in Kansas. Survivors: her husband, Patrick, two sons and five grandchildren.

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was a chemical sensor development engineer for the University of South Florida. Survivors: his wife of 36 years, Freda, two sons and four grandchildren.

Roy L. Foreman MED’78, Decatur, Aug. 31. He was a retired high school teacher and also worked for Peterson Industries after retiring. He served his country in the Army during the Korean War. Survivors: his wife, Frances, two children, two grandchildren, two great‑grandchildren and four step‑grandchildren.

Harrell Lee Sellers PHD’79, Westville, Oklahoma, Sept. 9. He was the head of University of Illinois computational science department, a chemistry professor with South Dakota State University and later employed with IBM, where one of his final projects was carbon sequestration. Survivors: his wife, Billy and two sons.

Rudolph F. Wacker II BSBA’79 MS’86, Fair Grove, Missouri, Aug. 9. He had a 27‑year career in hospital administration and eventually retired in 2009 as CAO of Heartland Health Care. After retirement, he kept busy as a management consultant, at Q.B.II. with his partners Ron and Patty Marshall of Red Crow, Inc. Survivors: two children and two grandsons.

Donald James Winnike BSME’80, Sycamore, Illinois, Oct. 26. Don served his country proudly in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. Winnike was later employed for many years as a mechanical engineer in research and development. Survivors: his two children and his two grandchildren.

James O. Strother, J.D. ★ BA’60 JD’80, Wichita, Kansas, Oct. 9. He spent two years in the army and was later commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers in 1959.

After his graduation from the U of A, he practiced law for 23 years in Springdale.

Survivors: his wife, Irene, three sons, four grandchildren and two brothers.

Jim Coleman BSIE’80, Rogers, Sept.

10. He worked for 30 years at Preformed Line Products in Rogers. He proudly served his country in the United States Army, earning the rank of SP4 and completing a tour in Vietnam. Survivors: three children and three granddaughters.

Charles D. Engstrom BSCE’81, Sherwood, Aug. 26. He was a structural engineer in his cousin’s firm, H. James Engstrom and Associates Inc. for more 35

years. Survivor: one daughter.

John Robert Bowles MPA’81, Camden, Sept. 16. He served in the U.S. Navy and was a contracts specialist administrator with Aerojet Rocketdyne.

Survivors: his wife, Kathy, three children, six grandchildren and one great‑granddaughter.

John William Bailey MED’81, Conway, Aug. 25. He worked for the American Softball Association of Oklahoma and then worked for 27 years in the promotion department for Wilson Sporting Goods.

Survivors: his wife Vickie, two daughters and three granddaughters.

Linda Sue Rorie EDS’81, Van Buren, Jan. 12, 2014. She was an educator in Arkansas public schools retiring in 2001 as principal at City Heights Elementary in Van Buren. Survivors: her husband, Kenneth, two children and four grandsons.

Dennis R. Millard BSA’72 MED’81, Hot Springs, Dec. 4. Dennis retired following a distinguished career with the Arkansas Cooperative Extension Program where he was a dedicated leader of the 4‑H program and county agent and the U.S. Department of Commerce where he was an International Trade Specialist. Survivors: his wife, Darlene Zeh Millard ★ BSHE’76 MS’82, two daughters, two grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

Gertrude P. Schimmel MED’82, Pine Bluff, Oct. 13. She was a member of many associations including Arkansas Education Association, National Education Association and Arkansas Retired Teacher Association just to name a few. Survivors: two sons, three grandsons, two granddaughters and six great‑grandchildren.

Randy Lynn Bridges BSE’82 MED’89 EDS’93 EDD’95, Fort Smith, Aug. 24.

He worked with the Fort Smith School System for 33 years until his medical retirement in June 2015.

Rick L. Rauh ★ BA’82, Owasso, Oklahoma, March 27. Rauh was a sales manager for various companies ranging all across North America, ending up inn Savannah, Georgia. He then became a Scoutmaster for many years.

Survivors: his wife of 27 years, Kim E. Baker‑Rauh ★ BS’82, and one son.

Robert Lawrence Raible BA’82, Fort Smith, Oct. 9, 2014. He was a mortgage banker for Bank of the Ozarks.

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Survivors: wife Pamela K. Raible, a daughter, Jennifer S. Kaley BSBE’06, his parents, two sisters, a brother and one grandchild.

Anna Williams Weaver AA’83, Springdale, Sept. 10. She worked for Procter and Gamble in administration.

She enjoyed playing golf, sewing, volunteering, Mah Jongg, solving puzzles and playing board games. Survivors: her husband, Lester, three daughters and seven grandchildren.

Jerry E. Currence BARCH’83, Little Rock, Oct. 8. Upon graduating from college, he was awarded the Edward Durell Stone Medal, which was given to the graduate who produced the most outstanding design projects throughout their college career. He went to work for what is now known as TAGGART/ Architects where he was president and co‑owner of the firm. Some of his most notable design collaborations included Verizon Arena, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, and White County Medical Center just to name a few. Survivors: his wife, Kelly, three children and his mother.

Warren A. Adams BA’83, Winslow, Sept. 14. He worked in the print business most of his life. He worked at a newspaper as a young man. He recently retired from Packaging Specialties, a dynamic product film printing firm he called home for more than 30 years.

He was a U.S. Navy veteran during the Vietnam War. Survivors: his wife, Nancy, two sons and two grandsons.

Howard E. Jones Jr. BSBA’84, Springdale, Arkansas, Aug. 18. He had a business career in banking and the insurance industry. He was an insurance agent for 27 years, serving agencies in both Central and Northwest Arkansas, starting his own agency, Ed Jones & Associates in 2005. Survivors: two children.

James Milton Jennings MED’84, Little Rock, Oct. 27. Dr. James was the pastor of the Church of God of Forrest City and the Cynthia Cook Sandefur Odyssey Professor of Education and History at Hendrix College of Conway. Survivors: his wife, Lottie, two daughters, two grandchildren, his mother and two brothers.

Marvin Bixby BSBA’85, Tontitown, Nov. 17. He was a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He served 22 years and was a command pilot with nearly 8,000 hours and over

2,500 combat and combat support hours; primarily in the C‑130. Honors included the Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster, and the Viet Nam Service Medal with six service stars. Survivors: wife, Carolyn, a son, a sister, five grandchildren and six great‑grandchildren.

Thomas Mitchel Hill BSBA’86, Bentonville, Dec. 2. Tom was a deacon and faithful member of First Baptist Church and he worked for Walmart Home Office for nine years and loved his work. Survivors: his wife, Penny Hill, his daughter, Kathryn M. Hill BA’13 MAT’15, a son, his father and two sisters.

Arthur Raymond Nation BA’87, Lockesburg, Oct. 28. Survivors: his son, his parents, a brother, two sisters and his grandparents.

Jane M. Beane BARCH’87, Little Rock, Oct. 7. She worked in Annapolis, Maryland, before breaking for motherhood and then at H-W Architects in Little Rock for nine years contributing on both residential and commercial projects, such as Southwest Health Clinic and University Place Residence Hall at HSU. Survivors: her husband of 31 years, Thomas F. Beane BSEE’74 MSOR’86, her daughter, one brother and three sisters.

Mike Pohlkamp ★+ BA’87, Little Rock, Nov. 7. He was twice voted the best dentist in Central Arkansas by the public in the Arkansas Democrat‑Gazette. Survivors: his wife, Michelle Pohlkamp, his son, mother, father and two brothers.

Charles Bryan Dyer Jr. JD’89, Alma, Sept. 30. He was the owner of Edwards Title Co. and an attorney and a certified public accountant. Survivors: his wife, Stacie, six children and one grandson.

Robert Lee Robinette BSEE’89, Maumelle, Nov. 18. Robert was a master electrician, registered professional engineer and past president of the Electrical League of Arkansas. During his 26 years Robinette was supervisor of meter services at the Baseline Service Center, he was manager of wholesale business for Entergy Arkansas and also worked as an engineer and an industrial account representative.

Survivors: his parents, brother, grandmother, niece and fiancee.

Robert Griffin Harris BA’90,

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Russellville, Oct. 29. He was the general manager of Valley Motors in Russellville for 20 years. Survivors: his wife, Angie, two children, three grandchildren and his parents.

William E. Coyle MS’91, Hilliard, Ohio, Nov. 24. Coyle worked in manufacturing throughout his career, most recently as a logistics manager for L’Oreal USA. He served on the board of Apics and taught certification classes.

Survivors: his wife of 36 years, Deb, his mother, brother and sister.

Archie Albert Simmons ✪ BSBA’92, Hollister, Missouri, Feb. 2. Simmons served our nation as a Russian linguist in the U.S. Navy. Survivors: his wife, Liza, son and siblings.

Carey Dwain Hartsfield BA’92, Fayetteville, Nov. 28. He was a Sergeant with the Fayetteville Police Department from 1992 until 2015, when he retired.

He was promoted in 2003. Survivors: his parents, two sons, one sister and many nieces and nephews.

Deedra J. Jefferson ’94, Ada, Oklahoma, Oct. 8. Jefferson was a Licensed Practical Nurse and was employed with the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center. Survivors: her parents, two sisters and many nieces and nephews.

Phyllis A. Brown BA’95, Ozark, Sept. 22. She was retired from the Norman, Oklahoma, police department.

Survivors: three children and three grandchildren.

Elizabeth Suzanne May BS’96, Fayetteville, July 13. She worked as an interpreter‑naturalist for Pinnacle Mountain State Park in Little Rock.

Survivors: two children.

Damon J. Brewer ’98, Springdale, Oct. 15. Survivors: wife, April, one daughter, his parents, one sister, one brother and many nieces and nephews.

Edward Miller Jr. MS’01, Jacksonville, July 10. He served his country for 20 years in the United States Air Force, working as an Air Traffic Controller before retiring as a master sergeant. Following his retirement from the U.S.A.F., he worked for and retired from the Veterans Affairs office in North Little Rock. Survivors: his wife of 40 years, Rileyetta, two children and two grandchildren.

Renaldo Jeremiah Hemphill MS’01 PHD’07, Pine Bluff, July 5. Survivors: his parents and two siblings.

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Chase Dawson Hilton BSA’06, Batesville, Nov. 17. Chase was the Agriculture instructor and FFA advisor at Southside Charter High School.

Survivors: his wife of 10 years, Rana, a daughter, his father Johnny Hilton, mother Mary Charlton BA’64, his brother and a host of friends.

James Jeffrey Anderson MSOM’06, Fort Hood, Texas, Sept. 9. In 1992 Anderson enlisted in the U.S. Army where he served as a cannon crewmember in the Field Artillery Ccorps. He was separated as an enlisted man from active duty on June 6, 1994, with an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduation he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery Corps. Within a few months, he was recommissioned as a major in the Army.

Survivors: wife, Farasat, mother, father, daughter, son, grandmother, two sisters and two brothers.

Rachel A. Yingling BA’06, Winslow, June 11. She worked at the U.S. Department of Labor as a Presidential Management Fellow and continued there as a budget analyst. Survivors: her parents, Keith Yingling and Sara Sanderson and her siblings, Sara, Emma, Jesse and Leslie Yingling.

Karen J. Hardamon BA’07, Fayetteville, Oct. 14. She was a volunteer for the Aug. ine Foundation. Survivors: her daughter, Patricia, two sisters and a cousin.

Robert Champ Williams MSOM’11, Fort Smith, Nov. 6.

Steven Furseth MSOM’13, Munford, Tennessee, Aug. 10, 2014. Survivors: his wife, Rebecca, one daughter, three sons and one grandchild.

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Allen Rufus Thompson ’48, Greenville, Mississippi, Oct. 25. After high school, Rufus began a stint in the Army. After returning and graduating from college, he worked in cotton sales, insurance business, and ultimately opened his own real estate company. Rufus was one of the earliest licensed real estate brokers in the state of Mississippi. He held his license for over 50 years. Survivors: wife, Patricia Durham Thompson BA’50, two daughters, four grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Andrea Ruth Burba ’00, Little Rock, Nov. 8. Survivors: her daughter, son and brother.

Angela S. King, Youngsville, Louisiana, Sept. 26. She lived and worked as a school teacher in California and in marketing in Connecticut, until her retirement. Survivors: one sister and one brother.

Ben E. Harvey 04, Hot Springs, Aug. 30. He was a freelance graphic artist and passionate musician and visual artist.

Survivors: his parents, Katherine Tweedle Harvey and John Stansel Harvey.

on several mission trips. She continued her love of education, teaching at Arkansas School for Math and Science, College of the Ouachitas, National Park Community College and for the Arkansas Department of Correction.

Chotsie Ward, El Dorado. She worked for Lion Oil and Monsanto as a draftsman until her retirement.

Survivors: her many cousins.

Christina Michelle Geweniger, Irving, Texas, Oct. 9. She worked in the pharmaceutical industry. Survivors: her two children and their father, her parents, her brother and her grandfather.

Ben Hines 57, Bentonville, Aug. 28. He was a WWII Army veteran.

He was an educator, coach, principal and served as senior pastor in United Methodist Churches across Arkansas.

He retired to Bentonville and became the associate pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Bentonville and later pastor emeritus. Survivors: two children and four grandchildren six great‑grandchildren.

Clifford P. Goplerud, Iowa City, Iowa, Sept. 9, 2007. He served his country in the U.S. Army as a MASH physician in the first year of the war in Korea.

He was later honorably discharged as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1956. He later joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Iowa Hospitals. He had many distinguished years as a physician before his retirement in 1991. Survivors: his wife, Eileen Goplerud, and four children.

Beverly B. Schlott, Hot Springs Village, Sept. 19, 2012. She worked for many companies and as a Navy commander as a secretary. Survivors: two sons, give grandchildren and three great‑grandchildren.

Bill Valentine, Little Rock, April 26. At 18, he became the youngest umpire in professional baseball history. He spent 18 years as an umpire in various professional leagues, culminating with five years in the American League. He holds the distinction as one of the only two umpires who ever threw Mickey Mantle out of a ballgame. During baseball’s off‑season and after his American League career, Bill refereed college basketball in the Southwest, Missouri Valley, and Gulf Coast conferences. He also served as radio play‑by‑play announcer for Travelers games and was assistant executive director of the Arkansas Republican Party. From 1976 to 2009, he was general manager of the Arkansas Travelers baseball team. Survivor: his wife of 24 years, Nena Rose Hays Valentine.

Carolyn Cox Stewart‑Earley, Bartlesville, July 10. She owned and operated the Will Rogers Fabrics store in Eastland Center from 1966 until 1980. Survivors: her husband, George, three daughters, three stepchildren, four grandchildren, nine step‑grandchildren and five step‑great‑grandchildren.

Cherie Kaye Honeycutt, Hot Springs, Aug. 27. She loved to travel, working for Carnival Cruise Lines as a youth counselor, and also worked as a tutor and interpreter for various organizations and

Courtney Lee Pruitt, Fort Smith, Sept. 15. She was a counselor at Bost Inc. Survivors: her parents Jerry and Cyndi and three sisters, Heather Black, Shannon Shoptaw and Lindsey Pruitt.

Darwin R. Smith ★+, Rogers, Sept.

6. He proudly served in the United States Army. He was also very proud of his service to Walmart for 19 years.

He started with Walmart in 1966, and had various roles at the corporate office and with running stores.

Survivors: his wife of 59 years, Eva, four children, 10 grandchildren and 11 great‑grandchildren.

Donald F. Frantz, Pea Ridge, June 12, 2004. He worked for Haynes and Associates in Rogers for more than 22 years. He also worked in design consulting for 50 years. Survivors: a son, a daughter and four grandchildren.

Dorothy Budde Mohler, Arkansas City, July 15, 2010. Dorothy taught home economics at Garden City Public schools and later worked as a home economist for Kansas Gas Services in Arkansas City and Hutchinson.

Survivors: husband, Stanley Mohler, her daughter, her son, Stephen Mohler, a sister and eight grandchildren.

Dorothy E. Pomraning, Newville, Pennsylvania, March 21, 2013. She

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OFFICERS President Stephanie S. Streett ✪ BS’91, Little Rock President-Elect Don Eldred ✪ ’81, Houston, TX Treasurer Kenneth Biesterveld ★ ’05, ’10, Bentonville Secretary Deborah Blume ✪+ BSBA’08, Fayetteville BOARD OF DIRECTORS Class of 2016 John Forrest Ales ✪ BA’02, Fayetteville Emanuel Banks ✪ BSCE’87, North Little Rock Susan Gilbert Kemp ★ BSHE’73, MS’75, Mountain View Charlene Reed ✪+ BSHE’74, MS’77, Marianna Lott Rolfe IV ★ BSE’94, Maumelle Jeffrey M. Stephens ✪+ BSIE’86, Hot Springs Roger H. Sublett ★ BSE’64, MA’65, Mason, OH Brandon Timbes ✪+ BSBA’98, Charlotte, NC Amy Tu ★ JD’96, Seattle, WA Class of 2017 Ben Beaumont ★ BA’04, Little Rock John Berrey ★ BA’91, Tulsa, OK Marvin Caston ★ BA’00, MED’03, Fayetteville Judy Drummond Covert ✪+ BA’83, Bel Aire, KS Latonya Foster ★ BA’96, Springdale Steven Hinds ✪+ BSPA’89, MED’92, Fayetteville Jordan Johnson ✪ BA’00, Little Rock Carla Martin ★ JD’04, Pine Bluff Melissa Pianalto ✪ BSA’88, MS’90, Springdale Molly Rapert ★ BSBA’85, MBA’87, Fayetteville Class of 2018 Kristen Allbritton ’04, Frisco, TX Teena Gunter ’92, ’97, Oklahoma City, OK Ashley Harris ’95, Fayetteville Sharon Hunt ’73, ’75, Fayetteville Kristin Kaufman ’83, Dallas, TX Bill Kerr ’88, Tampa, FL Dustin McDaniel ’94, Little Rock Drake McGruder ’06, ’12, Fort Smith Charles Redfield ’89, Bentonville STAFF Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni and Executive Director of the Arkansas Alumni Association Brandy Cox ★ MA’07 Associate Executive Director Dale Green ★ Director of Membership and Marketing Terri Dover ✪+ Director of Constituent Engagement Angela Mosley Monts ✪, BA’80 Catherine Baltz ✪+ BS’92, MED’07, Manager of Affinity Programs & Analysis; Shanna Bassett ★ Associate Director of Membership and Marketing; Ashley Batchelor BA’07, Associate Director; Debbie Blume ✪+ Board and Campaign Coordinator; Thomas Ellis ★ BA’96, MA’98, Director of Outreachand Chapters; Deb Euculano ✪ Associate Director of Alumni Special Events; Elton Ford ✪ BSHES ’12, Manager of Outreach and Programs; Felicia Garner ★ Administrative Support Supervisor; Ryan Miller ✪ BSBA’07, MED’09, Assistant Director of Student and Young Alumni Outreach; Amanda Schoenbaum ★ BSB’12, MED’14, Manager of Chapter Programs; Julie Simpson ★ Assistant Director of Facilities and Special Events; Alyssa Strodel ★ BSBA’12, MED’15, Marketing Coordinator; Elizabeth Tipton ✪ Membership and Marketing Assistant

and her husband operated a fruit and vegetable farm in Newburg and attended the West Shore Farmer’s Market in Camp Hill for 40 years. She later went on to teach Home Economics at James Madison University for ten years. Upon retirement she returned to the family business for many years. Survivors: her son and daughter and her four grandchildren.

Dustin Roger Waldrep, Texarkana, Texas, Sept. 28. He was a great story teller and always loved hosting crawfish boils for friends and family. Survivors: two sisters, grandparents and many cousins.

Dylan E. Capps, Little Rock, Oct. 8.

He was recruited to join the Arkansas Naturals or Kansas City Royals in management. Dylan is survived by his parents, his brother and his grandparents.

Eugene Johnson Hosey Sr., Marvell, Oct. 27. He served in the U.S. Army as a scout under General Patton in Europe during World War II. He later began the business Farmers Supply Company.

In 1957 he served as mayor of Marvell until 1966. Survivors: his wife of 63 years, Merrie Jack Hosey, one son, Gene Hosey ★ BSCE’77 MSCE’78, one daughter, four grandchildren and eight great‑grandchildren.

Jack Fryer Jr., Hattieville, May 28.

James A. Matthews, Little Rock, Nov. 24. James spent 30 years in his commercial real estate and banking career, serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Community Bank.

Survivors: his wife, Jill, four children, granddaughter and sister.

James A. Mays, Los Angeles, Aug. 21. He was a prominent South Los Angeles cardiologist and community activist, who helped found support organizations, wrote more than 20 books and created a masked superhero to visit schools and give life lessons.

Experiment Project in Japan and a Fulbright Scholar in Christchurch, New Zealand. He taught vocational agriculture in Lake City, Minnesota, for six years then decided to pursue his doctorate. He taught agricultural education and extension at the University of Arkansas, retiring in 1997 as professor emeritus. Survivors: his wife, Ann Louise, three daughters, five grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

Justin Gray Albright, Little Rock, Oct. 31.

Kathryn A. Speed Kelly, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 6. She was a reporter, often covering politics, including the young Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. Later she moved to Canada and worked as a technical writer and freelance journalist. Survivor: a daughter.

Lorine L. Padgett, Maumelle, Aug. 22. She had a varied career working as a bank teller, for NBC, a buyer in the lamp department for Goldsmiths and deputy treasurer for Crittenden County. Survivors: two children, four grandchildren and one great‑grandchild.

Louis B. Toney, Dallas, Nov. 3. After graduating, Toney joined the U.S. navy as a Naval Aviation Cadet. After his tour of duty, he was hired as a pilot for Delta Airlines, a career spanning nearly 30 years. Survivors: his wife, Tanya, daughter, grandson and his sister.

Mary Jane Pflederer, Bella Vista, July 27, 2014. She worked as an unemployment compensation analyst and adjudicator for the state of Wisconsin. Survivors: her sister, two daughters, one son and five grandchildren.

Orville S. Clark, Louisville, Kentucky, Sept. 5. He spent 30 years as a staff anesthesiologist at Methodist Evangelical Hospital. Survivors: his wife of 61 years, Bobbie, three children and six grandchildren.

Jerry C. Martin ✪, Texarkana, Texas, Sept. 21. He had a long career with Southwestern Electric Power Company and retired in 1994. After retirement, he went to work with the Texarkana Funeral home until 2010. Survivors: his wife, Janice, two daughters and four grandchildren.

Patricia Griffin ★+, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 80, Sept. 16. She worked for the United States Postal Service before retiring in the Veterans Administration. Survivors: her husband, Richard, three children, one step‑son, three grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

John A. Rolloff, Fayetteville, Aug. 28.

He was in the Merchant Marine and a seargent in the U.S. Army. He was a consultant to Kiyosato Agricultural

Paul E. Smith, Monticello, Iowa, Oct. 30, 2013. Survivors: his wife Evelyn, three children, three grandchildren and two great‑grandchildren.

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Richelle Fry ★, Springdale, Oct. 21. She was a homemaker and full time student.

Survivors: her grandparents, parents, husband, Terry Fry, and three sisters.

Robert D. Duckworth, Pollard, Aug. 8. He worked in Plano, Texas for many years and loved to golf. Survivors: his wife, Terri.

Robert E. Baker, Springdale, Aug. 2.

He was a retired computer technician.

He enjoyed working on the computer, reading, watching movies, fishing, cooking and having serious debates on various topics. Survivors: his wife, Tammy and one son.

Sam J. Beard Jr. ✪, Dallas, Oct. 27.

He began selling stocks and bonds and by his early 30s he’d established himself as a successful investment banker with the Nashville firm of Equitable Securities. In 1967 Goldman, Sachs, and Company engaged him and his long‑time business partner, Thomas Walker, to open the first Dallas Goldman office. Survivors: daughter, Alex Ramsey, grandson and two great‑grandchildren.

Stephen C. Ratcliffe, Huntsville, Alabama, June 22. He retired from Dassault Falcon Jet in 2009 as an engineer in aerospace interiors.

Survivors: his wife, Betty, three children and four grandchildren.

Stephen Graham Schulte, Clinton, Nov. 6. Survivors: father, Stephen W. Schulte, mother, Gaye Schulte, two brothers and wife, Melissa.

Theda Dennington, Dec. 2, Lewisville.

Mrs. Dennington was a stay at home mom and loved to teach Bible school.

Survivors: five children, 13 grandchildren and 24 great grandchildren.

Thomas J. Privett, Lonoke, July 11.

He was a Real Estate Broker and started Privett Real Estate Company. He owned and operated Lonoke Lumber Company for more than 50 years prior to his retirement and developed Privett Park Subdivision that had over 150 houses within the community. He was mayor of the city of Lonoke for four years and city treasurer for 29 years. Survivors: his wife of 57 years, Linda and one daughter. n

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Reflections on the 2016 Liberty Bowl When the Arkansas football team took the field on Jan. 2 for the AutoZone Liberty Bowl, their helmets made a statement even before their fleet feet, sharp passing and heavy hitting could.

The sunlight’s reflection off the cardinal chrome color of the new helmets might have momentarily blinded the Kansas State Wildcats, who couldn’t keep pace with the Razorbacks. The University of Arkansas shined throughout the game and claimed a 45-23 victory.

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Q: Why is the University of Arkansas advocating for a campaign? : The campus has been truly transformed by the previous campaign. But as

state appropriations become more of a challenge and we continue to work to keep tuition as low as possible, additional funds are needed to provide the level of education, experience, and environment that ensures the UA stays a top tier instution for our students and our state.

Q: Why is it important for the university to continue aspiring to greatness? : Our goals aren’t about chasing rankings. They’re about doing the right things

for students, faculty and the state of Arkansas. Improving retention and graduation rates, enhancing our academic reputation and faculty resources, increasing our student selectivity and maintaining strong alumni giving will continue to propel the university forward.

Q: What will the campaign do to advance our goals? : Campaign Arkansas will raise funds for scholarships and fellowships, endowed chairs, capital projects, interdisciplinary academic programs and other priority areas that will advance the university’s goals and objectives.

Q: How will the campaign result in achievements for the state? : Long term, Campaign Arkansas will result in benefits for the entire state of

Arkansas, through the economic impact and research productivity generated.

The campaign will help the campus recruit and retain students and faculty, provide the margin of excellence expected by our stakeholders and elevate the university to the next level.

HOLIDAY MARKETS November 25 to December 6, 2016 Recapture the magic of the holidays as you escape the frantic pace and pressures of the holiday season at home and step into scenes that glitter with fairy-tale charm. Spend seven nights cruising along the Rhine and Mosel rivers aboard the exclusively chartered, award-winning MS Amadeus Silver. New for 2016, enjoy a customizable journey with a choice of included excursions in many ports of call. Begin your adventure in Germany, then discover historic Strasbourg, France. Cruise to Speyer, your gateway to Heidelberg, before exploring ancient Worms. Visit the village of Rüdesheim, then sail through the romantic Rhine Valley to Koblenz at the confluence of the Rhine and Mosel rivers.

Continue on the Mosel to explore Cochem, Trier and Bernkastel, the Pearl of Mosel.

Travel via both motorcoach and train to Luxembourg before ending your journey with a three-night hotel stay in Paris. Your program includes flexible excursions, the chance to shop at holiday markets in three countries; deluxe accommodations; an extensive meal plan featuring wine with lunch and dinner.

From $3390 per person, plus air with no single supplement for solo travelers.

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For details on these and other great tours www.arkansasalumni.org/tours • travel@arkansasalumni.org 800-775-3465 • 479-575-3151