ARKANSAS: Summer 2019

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6 Taking a Virtual Tour 12 That First Master’s Thesis

A new kiosk allows easy access to “visit” the family home of renowned architect Fay Jones.

The first person to write a master’s thesis at the University of Arkansas was Leila Ruth Droke, a teacher of Latin and a budding scholar of German.

18 Feeding the World

Alumna Katie McGehee found her calling while interning at an egg farm in Rwanda.

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Campus View Campus Alumni Events Yesteryear Senior Walk Last Look

On the cover: Since the university’s founding in 1871, more than 200,000 students have donned regalia for graduation.

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ARKANSAS Publisher Arkansas Alumni Association Executive Director Brandy Cox ✪ M.A.’07 Editor Charlie Alison ★ B.A.’82, M.A.’04 Associate Editor Catherine Baltz ★+ B.S.’92, M.Ed.’07 Creative Director Eric Pipkin

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Photo Editor Russell Cothren ✪ Photographer Whit Pruitt ★ Writers & Contributors DeLani Bartlette B.A.’06 M.A.’08 Amanda Cantu Kendall Curlee Nick DeMoss B.A.’11 Robby Edwards Mary Kate Harrison ★ B.A.’15, M.A.’17 Jennifer Holland ★ M.E.D.’08 Andra Parrish Liwag Shawnya Meyers B.A.’15 Michelle Parks B.A.’94 Jeri L. Thorpe Kevin Trainor ★ B.A.’94 M.A.’05 Steve Voorhies ★ M.A.’78 Advertising Coordinator Lee Shoultz ★ B.A. ’16, M.P.A. ’18

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Deacue Fields III

Dean of Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

After arriving here in May, connecting with our alumni and stakeholders throughout the state was high on my list. This is an outstanding opportunity to be in a state where agriculture is the No. 1 economic engine and the landgrant university is the state’s flagship. It is important our citizens understand as a land-grant, the university is obligated to serve the entire state through teaching, research and extension/service.

We want students from across the state who are interested in feeding the world and developing healthy communities.

Bumpers College has a comparative advantage with our natural linkage to 4-H through Cooperative Extension and FFA. I highly value these relationships.

There are over 145,000 students in 4-H and over 14,000 in FFA being exposed to agricultural, food and life sciences.

Leveraging these relationships is a win for the U of A and the state’s economy.

I’ve visited students from every region of the state. Many have the notion they will be just a face in the crowd. In Bumpers College, we pride ourselves on offering 2 / ARKANSAS / SUMMER 2019

a family-like environment where faculty, staff and students know you personally.

We have faculty advisers and invest tremendously in student experiences. More exciting is we place students in internships, study abroad and undergraduate research, and rewarding careers. Arkansas is home to several top food companies in the world, and they need highly skilled employees who understand science technology and agribusiness. Our close relationships with these companies foster incredible opportunities for our students.

Agricultural, food and life sciences have vastly changed the last few decades.

Our majors and career options have kept pace and are really amazing, ranging from apparel merchandising and product development to hospitality management, and food science to agribusiness. When students discover their choices and our family-like atmosphere, they fall in love with us. We want students to know they have a place here and will enjoy it. We want parents to know we will serve as family for a few years and lead them to rewarding careers.

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HOMECOMING Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2019 ETCHED IN STONE

ETCHED IN STONE Artwork Coming Soon!

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Homecoming Parade & Pep Rally Friday, Nov. 1

Class of 2018 Senior Walk Dedication Friday, Nov. 1

Hog Wild Tailgate at Alumni House Saturday, Nov. 2

75th Alumni Awards Celebration Friday, Nov. 1

Homecoming Football Game Razorbacks vs. Bulldogs Saturday, Nov. 2

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Hog Wild Tailgates

August 31 Portland State September 14 Colorado State

Get ready to cheer on those Hogs!

September 21 San Jose State

All are welcome to stop by the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House and enjoy Hog Wild Tailgates for Fayetteville home games.

Hungry or thirsty? Purchase one of our catered meal packages.

“Snout” tickets are also available for purchase on game days.

October 19 Auburn

Tailgates begin two and one-half hours before kickoff and conclude 30 minutes prior to kickoff. Check arkansasrazorbacks.com to confirm game time.

November 2 Homecoming Mississippi State

• Live Music: The Wranglers • Big Screens to watch the big games • Razorback Marching Band • U of A Spirit Squads

November 9 Western Kentucky

Catered meals:

Game day catered meals* are reserved with your pre-registration. A limited number of walk-ups are available for each game.

• Catered meal option* • Climate Controlled Tailgating • Special guests throughout the season

Pre-Register** Members and guests: ................$20 each Non-Members and guests: ......$25 each Ages 12 and under: ...................$15 each

Walk-Up Members: .....................................$25 each Non-Members: ...........................$30 each Ages 12 and under: ...................$15 each

* Catered meal ticket includes: 1 “Hog Pen” meal, water, lemonade, tea, and 3 “snout” tickets for ice cream, wine, beer or bottled sodas for adults.

Guests 12 and under will receive 2 “snout” tickets and meal ticket.. ** Pre-registration closes the Wednesday before each home game.

Life Member Lounge Life members attending the Hog Wild Tailgates at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House will have the opportunity to visit the new Life Member Lounge.

The lounge will be located on the Delta Gamma Patio located on the west side of the Alumni House. Stop in and visit with other Life Members, enjoy a complimentary beverage, and relax before heading to the game.

Thank you for supporting the Arkansas Alumni Association with your lifetime membership!

Learn more about our new all-inclusive tailgating rental experience, Alumni Row, at arkansasalumni.org/tailgaterental.

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Greg Herman, left, and Dave Fredrick at the Jones’s residence in Fayetteville.

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Virtual Sentimentality Exploring the Intimate Architecture of Fay Jones

Back in 1956, architect Fay Jones designed a home for his own family in the cleft of a Fayetteville hillside. If you drove by, you might not notice the house hidden amid the trees. Even if you did notice it, you wouldn’t have had the chance to see the interior.

Today, at least in the virtual sense, it’s open to the public because of an interdisciplinary project called “A House of the Ozarks,” led by Greg Herman and David Fredrick, both U of A associate professors.

Herman, Fredrick and a team of artists and programmers designed an interactive kiosk that allows a user to explore the Fay and Gus Jones House as well as 6 / ARKANSAS / SUMMER 2019

wander through a house designed on spec by Jones for the property next door but that never got built. It’s truly a virtual reality.

Not only can people explore the historic Jones home, but various documents and photographs from the Jones Collection have been collected and added into the digital project, broadening the complexity of the experience and giving users a deeper understanding of Jones.

He was an Arkansas native, U of A alumnus and long-time Fayetteville resident. Jones became a worldrenowned architect and recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. He was also a

bove, two visitors to the Fayetteville Farmers Market A try out the virtual reality kiosk, tapping the screen to move through the family home of Fay and Gus Jones.

At right, screen shots show the detail of the digital world created by the university’s Tesseract Center.

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long-time architecture professor and first dean of what is now the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, named in his honor 10 years ago. Fay Jones died in 2004 at the age if 83.

“This is our local heritage, so long neglected or marginalized,” said Herman, who teaches architecture.

“Furthermore, our local heritage has nationwide import.

This will become more and more rarified and treasured as the region grows. And, the simple fact is, there will be no more Fay Jones houses built.”

The kiosk got a test run this past fall and made its official public launch in April. Visitors to the Fayetteville Farmers Market explored the two buildings, inside and out, top to bottom, even from above.

“We allow the user to view the houses from a bird’s-eye view, giving them a different perspective – one that allows for the viewing of the entire form of the house, which would not be accessible in real life,” said Fredrick, who directs the university’s Tesseract Center for Immersive Environments and Game Design.

This interdisciplinary project is supported by an $86,000 award from the Chancellor’s Innovation and Collaboration Fund for 2017-18, with additional support provided by the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

To learn more, listen to an interview with Herman and Fredrick on the podcast Short Talks From the Hills at tinyurl.com/kiosk-jones.

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Short Takes Telling Bite-Size Stories

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The university’s ongoing film series, Arkansas Short Takes, gives viewers a brief look at various aspects of campus, from student innovations to faculty research to alumni who carry on the ideals of service and education. This past semester included the following films, available at shorttakes.uark.edu.

The Next Adventure

Always a Razorback

Empowering Young Adults With Intellectual Disabilities

At the U of A, we measure our success with the miles of sidewalks that carry our legacy: the names of our graduates going back more than a century.

And behind that legacy are thousands of journeys to new careers, new entrepreneurial ventures, or to the next step in education — like the journey of chemical engineering major Miriam Gonzalez, who will go to work in Jonesboro this summer.

“To me, the ultimate success of a university is when graduates launch themselves into meaningful and successful lives,” said Jim Coleman, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “Senior Walk is a pretty powerful reminder that the U of A is built on the legacy of everyone who has been a part of this campus.”

Even if you haven’t met Dick Trammel, it’s almost certain that you’ve seen him calling the Hogs at a Homecoming game. Trammel, a 1960 graduate, joined the spirit squad in the late 1950s and has been faithfully “Calling Those Hogs” at football games ever since.

“It is a remarkable thing to see someone who supports the university as much and as strongly as Dick Trammel,” said Chancellor Joe Steinmetz. “Our future depends on this spirit and this engagement by our alumni and friends, and Dick has certainly been central in all of this.”

The EMPOWER program at the U of A helps young adults with mild intellectual disabilities build the knowledge, skills, and friendships they need for a bright and successful future.

The four-year, non-degree experiential learning program in the College of Education and Health Professions incorporates functional academics, independent living, employment, health and wellness, and social skills within a university setting. Here participants build skills, strong friendships, and support structures for life.

The program began at the U of A in 2017 and is designated as a Comprehensive Transition Program through the U.S. Department of Education.

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Inside Out Stories Told From Death Row

Geffrey Davis started a collaborative initiative called the Prison Story Project in 2012. He’s an assistant professor of poetry in the university’s storied Program in Creative Writing and Translation.

For the Prison Story Project, Davis engaged guest artists to work with incarcerated men and women in Arkansas to explore the art of storytelling through writing, reading, poetry, mask making, song writing and life mapping.

The stories they told have been collected into several volumes of presentations, most recently as On the Row: Prison Story Project, featuring creative writing and storytelling from men on death row at Varner, a supermax prison in the Arkansas Delta.

Their stories are among those that have become a scripted performance of On the Row: Prison Story Project, a tense exploration of the lives of prisoners before and after their convictions. Performances were given in and around Varner prison, creating a rare bridge for those inside to reach the outside world before they die.

“This arts project provides such vital interventions according to what Maya Angelou reminded us: ‘There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,’” Davis said. “Of course, that’s radically true for incarcerated peoples who must navigate certain institutionally imposed silences, but in our experience that’s also true for the guards and the wardens and the judges and the greater community members, each of whom carries a story about their own proximity to the cold realities of incarceration.”

Davis’ project earned the interest of the Whiting Public Engagement Program, which is designed to lift up early career scholars who embrace public engagement in the humanities.

He is already an accomplished poet in his own right and the author of the collections Night Angler and Revising the Storm. He received the 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, and fellowships from Bread Loaf and Cave Canem.

In March, Davis was awarded one of the highly selective Whiting Foundation Grants for Public Engagement. It

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includes a $50,000 fellowship and an additional $10,000 for material and support costs.

Davis plans to use the Whiting Foundation grant to bring the performance to six Arkansas counties that are home to major prisons or have otherwise been deeply affected by the realities of mass incarceration.

The performances will be given this coming October in Sebastian, Garland, Miller, Polk, Hempstead and Philips counties.

Performances will be followed by discussions, giving audiences – many of whom have had their own direct and varied experiences with the prison system – an opportunity to consider difficult questions surrounding incarceration, criminality and capital punishment.

“My involvement with The Prison Story Project has given me the great privilege and responsibility of witnessing firsthand storytelling’s powerful ability to return a human understanding to the meaning of having a life — our own and/or another’s — lost inside the hands of an institution like the prison system,” Davis said.

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Reducing Insecurity Cindy Hunt Works to Help Homeless Students

BY DELANI BARTLETTE, B.A.’06, M.A.’08

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The problem of homelessness, hunger and poverty among students is a very real one. According to a study by researchers at Temple University and the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, more than a third of college students don’t always have enough to eat and lack stable housing.

The study also stated that 36 percent of college students say they are food insecure, another 36 percent say they are housing insecure, and 9 percent report being homeless.

One student has vowed to tackle the problem. “Student homelessness is real and very prevalent,” said Cindy Hunt, a junior communications major from Jonesboro. “It is my belief that it needs urgent and lasting attention.”

This spring, Hunt was able to join a wider network of other groups working toward the same goal at the 2019 Summit on Homelessness and Poverty at Duke University. The summit brought together a coalition of student organizations from campuses across the country dedicated to dismantling systems that perpetuate hunger, homelessness and poverty. About 50 students from across the nation were selected to attend, including Hunt, who is also an intern in the chancellor’s office.

Hunt said she was first made aware of the summit by Angela Oxford, the director of the Volunteer Action Center at the U of A. “This is important to me because I was

one of these students,” Hunt said. “Merely looking at me, you wouldn’t think that I’m a homeless student. There is no way to look at any student and tell.”

After returning from the summit, Hunt spoke to the Volunteer Action Center Board about the lessons she learned, including the conditions that can lead to homelessness and housing insecurity, as well as best practices and ways institutions can prepare for receiving homeless students.

Her specific suggestions for the U of A included keeping some buildings or dorms, along with at least one dining hall, open during academic breaks. She recommends that the availability of these facilities should not depend on whether the students are enrolled in summer school or any other academic program.

But her final suggestion was for the U of A to “reach out to the legislators, state government, and even the federal government, the alumni, and even the business community for funding.”

“One of my biggest take-aways and assessment of the Summit on Homelessness and Poverty was that it affects every segment of society,” she said.

“It is black, white, African American, Asian, and every demographic. It’s also young and old. It’s male, female, children, and adults, and, yes, students all across university campuses in America.”

Hunt said she plans to continue her work with student homelessness and poverty the rest of her life. “I will always try to make it better for those students and their future in any way that I can.”

Family Helping Family Quapaw Nation Donates to Food Pantry

ane Berrey at the L Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry on campus.

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BY DELANI BARTLETTE, B.A.’06, M.A.’08

Lane Berrey, a junior in political science and communications, is passionate about hunger and food insecurity. She began volunteering at the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry at the beginning of the 2018-19 school year.

She had interned with Arkansas Hunger Relief over the summer, and, she said, “I just wanted to continue that work here on campus.”

One day, she said, she was talking with her father, alumnus John Berrey ✪, who is the chairman of the Quapaw Nation. She was expressing her concerns about the problem of hunger on campus and the fact that certain things, like personal hygiene items and fresh produce, were regularly out of stock.

During that conversation, her father reminded her that the nation regularly donates to food banks. In fact, over the last decade, they have been donating between $40,000 and $50,000 worth of food – about 40 tons – every year to food banks in the four-state area, according to Sean Harrison, a spokesperson for the Quapaw Nation.

Chairman Berrey said that the Quapaw Nation were the original people of Arkansas, and “we are a lot

like today’s people of Arkansas — we are big-hearted, generous and thoughtful.”

So they agreed to begin regularly donating food to Full Circle, making it one of 10 food banks and pantries in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas to receive donations in two large deliveries each year, usually in the spring and again between the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

In April, the first donations arrived: 336 cases of canned food, including tuna, chicken, soup, beans, peas, carrots, corn, mixed vegetables and tomatoes. The donation also included packages of rice, pasta, macaroni and cheese, ramen, cereal, oatmeal, granola bars and more.

Last week the nation sent packages of home and personal hygiene products such as laundry detergent, toothpaste, shampoo and body wash.

Mikayla Hammers, the data and operations coordinator for Full Circle, said they really appreciate the large donation. “This means a lot to us, because it will get us through the summer.”

Berrey said that while she’s disappointed that people need to come to the food pantry, “I’m grateful that it’s here.”

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Medieval Lit The First Master’s Thesis

BY CHARLIE ALISON, B.A.’82, M.A.’04

In the late 1800s, a young woman described as being “tender, unselfish, loving, considerate, brave” and having a “gentle disposition” arrived on the campus of Arkansas Industrial University. The young woman, Leila Ruth Droke, became the first student to research and write a master’s thesis as partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master’s degree at the university.

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Droke was born in November 1882 to George Wesley Droke and Cassandra Josephine Campbell Droke.

Leila Droke grew up in Fayetteville and attended the Fayetteville public schools through Grade 8 and then enrolled for the equivalent of high school classes in the university’s Preparatory Department.

She started college-level classes at the age of 18,

earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1903. She helped found the Arkansas chapter of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority that same year and attended the sorority’s national conference when it was held on the University of Arkansas campus a couple of years later. After her graduation, she took a job teaching Latin and English at Springdale High School. Her story sounds not unlike the several hundred students who had by that time graduated from the university. After two years of teaching, though, she returned to the university to pursue graduate studies with the intention of attaining a master’s degree.

Prior to 1900, the university had awarded master’s degrees to students on occasion and at least a couple of doctoral degrees to faculty members for their research in their respective fields of study. The requirements for graduate degrees were very general up until the turn of the century. A master’s degree in engineering, for instance, would be offered to graduates who after three years prove worthy of successful practice. At the beginning of the century, the requirements became more objective: students should pursue graduate-level courses in one major and two minors and write a thesis.

Droke studied her major subject, German, under professor Joseph William Carr, and her Latin and French minors under professors John Clinton Futrall and Antonio Marinoni, respectively.

For her thesis, Droke chose to translate “The Legend of Walther of Acquitaine” from the epic poem written

during the 10th century by Ekkehard I, a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland. Ekkehard based his Latin poem on an early German version of the tale.

Walther of Acquitaine was a fabled king of the Visigoths, whose battles and exploits against the Vandals appear in a variety of medieval texts, the earliest believed to be from the 10th or early 11th century. The story became popular in the cloisters across northern Europe, and the exploits of Walther were rewritten in a variety of medieval languages, recasting the mythic leader as “Walter,” “Waldere,” “Waltharius” and even the Polish “Walczerz.” The locations and other characters in the tale also shifted depending on the ethnicity of the writer, but all the tales tell a similar story. A nobel named Walther is held hostage by Attila. He falls in love with Hildegund, a fellow hostage. They escape with treasure and are pursued

by Huns led by Gunther and Walter’s old friend, Hagen.

Walther fights duels with his pursuers, eventually killing Gunther and then dueling with Hagen until both are critically wounded, who call a truce. Hildegund binds their wounds, and she and Waltherius cross the Rhine to the safety of their homeland.

Droke included an introduction about these threads of the Waltherian saga and then typed a narrative of her own translation of the tale, including notes at the end. She was awarded the Master of Arts in 1906, and her thesis is still held in the Special Collections of the University Libraries.

Right, Leila Droke, portrait from the 1906 Cardinal yearbook.

Far right, Burch Grabill photographed the university’s German club, Deutscher Verein, for the 1906 edition of the Cardinal yearbook.

Leila Droke is on the second row from the bottom, second person from the right. The group also included Dr. Joseph William Carr at the center of the image, who taught German and advised Droke on her thesis. The man with the mustache is professor Antonio Marinoni. Photo from the 1906 Cardinal yearbook. bove left, A drawing from a A medieval manuscript depicts Walter dueling with Hartunc.

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W oodrow Shew

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Photo by University Relations

Division of Labor Unexpected Finding About Neurons U of A researchers recently took a look at the neurons in the motor cortex of the brain and found that they exhibit an unexpected division of labor.

The neurons fall into two groups: • “Externally focused” neurons that communicate with and control different parts of the body.

• “Internally focused” neurons that only communicate with each other and don’t send signals to other parts of the body.

It’s a finding that could help scientists understand how the brain controls the body and provide insight on certain neurological disorders. The researchers also found that when they increased inhibition of neurons in the motor cortex, the externally focused neurons switched to internally focused.

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numerous brain disorders,” explained Woodrow Shew, associate professor of physics. “When we increased inhibition in the motor cortex, those neurons responsible for controlling the body become more internally oriented.

This means that the signals that are sent to the muscles from the motor cortex might be corrupted by the ‘messy’ internal signals that are normally not present.”

Rett Syndrome, a rare but severe neurological disorder, is an example of a brain disorder associated with an increase in inhibition. Shew plans to further research the implications of these findings for Rett Syndrome.

Working with Shew were U of A graduate students Patrick Kells, Leila Fakhraei and Jingwen Li and postdoctoral researcher Shree Hair Gautam. They published their results in Nature Communications.

Mixed Media Giving Voice to Students

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Three of them are journalism majors, although two of them are double-majoring. One is an art history major; another is following a pre-med curriculum; and the sixth is majoring in management. They are the six students who will lead the U of A student media endeavors for the upcoming school year.

Ashlyn Grace Brothers, 20 Station manager: UATV Hometown: Springdale, Arkansas Major: Broadcast journalism Brothers is actively involved in student media with current and past roles including UATV senior staff volunteer coordinator, anchor, sports anchor, world news anchor, meteorologist, Razorback Reels host and producer, Lemke Journalism Project mentor, and KXUA contributor. She has spent her spare time working and interning with multiple entities including KNWA/ Fox 24, Sunday Night Football, ESPN-U, SEC Network, and HBO’s True Detective, and she will spend this summer in Little Rock interning with KATV. Brothers is extremely excited to be UATV’s next station manager, where she plans to continue the legacy of excellence while propelling the program to new heights.

Austin Cash, 22 Station manager: KXUA, 88.3 FM Hometown: Bald Knob, Arkansas Major: Art history.

Cash looks forward to promoting local artists and carrying on the long-held college radio tradition of broadcasting independent and underground music on KXUA. The station’s studios will also be making a move out of the Arkansas Union this summer and into Kimpel Hall alongside the other student media with Cash getting to organize the new studio.

Beth Dedman, 20 Editor: Hill Magazine Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas Major: Journalism and English “I have always been passionate about writing and discovered that journalism was a great avenue for expressing that passion. My time at The Arkansas Traveler showed me that I can turn my love for writing into a career, and I look forward to my time at Hill Magazine so I can explore an entirely new facet of

journalism that marries the creative writing side of my studies with the journalistic side,” Dedman said.

Morgan Lunsford, 21 Agency Manager: Main Hill Media Hometown: Frisco, Texas Major: Management When she joined the Main Hill Media team, an agency that is the newest addition to the panoply of student media, she did so because it seemed like a very practical way to get real-life sales and advertising experience, while also being a student. “I have learned so much about what it is like to work at an advertising agency and how to work on a team, and it has been so much fun,” she said.

Chase Reavis, 20 Editor: The Arkansas Traveler Hometown: Sapulpa, Oklahoma Major: Journalism and Spanish “Since my first semester at the University of Arkansas, I’ve been a part of student media. After college, I hope to work as a beat reporter and photographer, and I plan to use my Spanish degree to prioritize diversity and inclusion in my reporting,” Reavis said. He will spend this summer as an intern with the Tulsa World.

Mackenzie Reed Editor: Razorback yearbook Hometown: Wynne, Arkansas Major: Biology with pre-medicine pathway She first became interested in student media in high school and said she fell in love with yearbook’s format of storytelling. “It’s an awesome experience that allows you to be directly involved with the history of the University of Arkansas, and I look forward to being able to ‘tell’ the story of the 2019-20 school year,” she said.

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1,871 minutes.

Endless impact.

On April 3-4, the Razorback family once again joined together to give back in a big way during All In for Arkansas, the U of A’s annual birthday celebration and giving day. More than $465,123 was raised for 153 different academic and student success programs across campus—all in 1,871 minutes.

This is what happens when Razorbacks give back.

Doors of opportunity are opened. Leadership skills are unleashed. Lifelong friendships are formed. Memories are made. Lives are changed.

“I’m standing on the shoulders of giants who helped me thrive at the U of A! My contribution is to propel the next generation of Razorbacks even higher.”

Home goes way beyond the Hill. And the impact of All In for Arkansas will extend far into the future.

Enjoy a snapshot of this year’s record-breaking event—and a few of the many worthy programs made possible through the generosity of the University of Arkansas family.

“Study abroad increases cultural competencies, builds bridges between cultures, and opens doors for students by providing transformative experiences, unique learning opportunities, and essential life skills.

More students deserve financial assistance!”

– Katie Sabo, B.A.’09, M.A.’13

– Mollie Ward, ★ B.S.E.’90

“We were REALLY ALL IN with today’s Birthday Celebration challenges. We had a clean sweep for all three competitions (trivia, cake tasting & hula hooping) and raised $1,500! This will allow us to cover registration for almost seven students who want to come to R.O.C.K. Camp 2019 this fall.”

– Matt Meyers, B.A.’13, M.Ed.’15

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“I’m All In to support the amazing faculty, staff and students at the Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center!”

– Merin Macechko (Life Member)

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Past Presidents Create Endowed Scholarship

“I am going All In for Arkansas because I believe in preserving and protecting our one-of-a-kind traditions. These traditions, from calling the Hogs to Senior Walk, bind all those who love the University of Arkansas together as one Razorback community.”

– Anna Cunningham, ★ B.A.’19

“I like to help in any way I can to celebrate this university and all it does for students and faculty, the state and the world.”

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– Linda Sargent, ★+ B.A.’74

The Arkansas Alumni Association has been a part of the Office of Annual Giving’s All In for Arkansas giving day since its inception, and the virtual 1,871 minutes of giving has been a successful platform for the association. This year, the association raised over $35,000 to support association, chapter and society scholarships and programs. So, it’s not surprising that when Alumni Past President Kenny Gibbs (B.S.B.A. ’85), shared his vision for a scholarship endowment with several Alumni Past Presidents, Lawson Hembree (B.S.A. ’82) suggested using All In as a platform to start the scholarship. Hembree, the Association’s 75th president, made the first challenge gift.

Having created his own named scholarship within the Central Arkansas Alumni Chapter, Gibbs feels first-hand the rewards of giving back to his alma mater. He interacts regularly with his scholar (who is graduating this year), mentoring and sharing experiences. In fact, you can hear the pride in his voice when he shares these personally rewarding interactions with many alumni and friends. Likewise, Gibbs shared his passion with the Past Presidents, which inspired Hembree and other presidents to raise over $10,000 through All In to begin the scholarship.

At the annual meeting of the Past Presidents this year, criteria and a plan to complete the endowment will be established. Future meetings will include their scholar.

A spark of enthusiasm… A wave of excitement and possibility… A vision of giving back and staying engaged… Because of All In for Arkansas this year, the Past Presidents Endowed Scholarship is becoming a reality—all by those who are “the pride of our hearts that are loyal and true.” Thank you.

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atie McGehee, a 2013 poultry science graduate and K former alumni endowed scholar, and Donnie Smith, former CEO at Tyson Foods.

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Connected to the Land Helping Rwanda Transform Its Agricultural Future

BY KENLEY BRAMALL

Connections here at home led Katie McGehee, J B.S.A.’13, to a transformational career half a world away.

Not only did she find her calling, now she’s helping the people of Rwanda transform their own agricultural future.

“Were it not for the University of Arkansas, I wouldn’t have met the people that got me connected, I wouldn’t have had the technical expertise to get me in the door, and I wouldn’t be as lucky as I was to find my purpose in life at 20 years old,” says McGehee, an alumna of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

Between her sophomore and junior years, McGehee spent her summer in Rwanda as an intern working on an egg farm called OneEgg, advised by Tyson Foods and Cobb-Vantress. The internship pushed her to pursue her current career.

“Katie was an exceptional student in poultry science,” says Mike Kidd, head of the Department of Poultry Science. “From the time she returned to Fayetteville after spending a summer in Rwanda, I knew she was destined for a career somewhere in Africa. I vividly remember her presentation in my problem-solving seminar class on designing a poultry integration in sub-Sahara Africa. She knocked it out of the park. Her career goals and success are no surprise to me.”

Jeff Miller, a Bumpers College agricultural communications professor, worked with McGehee during her time as a student. Miller advised McGehee’s honors research focused on employment opportunities at the

OneEgg farm in Rwanda that impact the lives of women who worked on the location.

“From the day I first met Katie, she has had this burning passion for helping people in Rwanda,” Miller says. “She always knew she belonged there, but she also knew she needed to gain some experience and be patient. I was so happy for her when I heard she had taken a job over there. Rwanda is just her happy place. I think its where she knows she can make the most impact in the world.”

McGehee says her connections at the U of A helped her excel in her new position with the African Sustainable Project Foundation.

Sustainable Agriculture The African Sustainable Project Foundation was established in 2013 by Donnie Smith, the chief executive officer of Tyson Foods Inc. at that time. Smith was looking to work on hunger alleviation in Africa. The mission of the foundation is to develop agriculture systems from what is currently mostly subsistence farming to modern production value chains. The intent is to increase the wealth of small-holder farmers and commerce of communities all over the sub-Sahara.

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bove, The goal of A Zamura Feeds is to maximize genetic potential of livestock and increase yields of poultry, dairy and pork. ight, Donnie Smith R with the Seed4Africa Nova Farm team. Smith established the African Sustainable Project Foundation in 2013.

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livestock and increase yields of poultry, dairy and pork. A couple years later, the foundation acquired Rwanda’s first commercial egg farm. The African Sustainable Project Foundation has partnered with many organizations throughout the years for several projects, but the most recent partnership is with Bridge2Rwanda to establish Seed4Africa, a seed company focusing primarily on soya and maize. This company was established to increase yields and income of all farmers of Rwanda.

Bridge2Rwanda is managing the company to develop jobs for their students and achieve the goal of building African-led companies.

McGehee joined the African Sustainable Project Foundation in 2018 and moved to Rwanda.

“I was asked to ensure the current entities are profitable and sustainable, and help develop new entities to lower cost of production -- namely a hatchery to guarantee a consistent, quality, low-cost chick for our broiler farmers and egg farm,” McGehee says. “Hopefully I’ll build a small, modern processing plant as well, suitable for supplying international brands.”

McGehee said her goal is to transition all of the foundation’s entities from African-led to African-owned.

“In Rwanda, some of our entities are profitable, some are in the infant stages of sustainability and some are still working toward that goal,” McGehee says. “Our dream would be to someday sell a well-run company to Rwandan investors and take that money to build similar models in another sub-Saharan country until they all have access to sustainable protein supply chains. All Africanled, African-owned.”

Lessons From Home McGehee says her courses, specifically her Bumpers College courses, adequately helped her succeed in this position.

“I actually use a surprising percentage of my classes, especially Bumpers College courses, in my daily work,” McGehee says. “If I had to choose one, it would be my internship credits. Nothing beats real-life experience.”

Her first internship was in Rwanda for three months.

The next was a mix with six weeks spent primarily in Zimbabwe but with visits to Mozambique, Botswana and South Africa; and then six weeks in Rwanda, again doing qualitative research of the impact on the women of the egg farm that she had worked at the previous summer.

The cumulative effect was like experiencing the American poultry industry over the course of nearly a century.

“I saw the poultry industry as it was in the 1930s to

’50s in Rwanda, then 1980s to ’90s in Zimbabwe and the southern African community, and came back home to U of A to get the most modern education,” McGehee says. “It’s difficult for our Rwandan team to dream and be creative when they’ve had very little experience working in poultry industries outside of Rwanda. Piecing my experiences together from my internships and career helps me share vision, inspire, build and grow our team to see and achieve the mission of the foundation. And our team is building an entire value chain, a huge chunk of the agriculture sector for the country.”

Her internships also helped develop her heart for Africa.

She plans to spend the rest of her career fighting for the people of sub-Sahara to have access to quality, affordable protein, as well as livelihoods that give their families a better life.

McGehee also says Bumpers College left a lifelong impression on her.

“The people of Bumpers College are hands-down the best,” she says. “The greatest staff, professors, alumni, and community. I met my best friends in the world in Bumpers College. The university connected me with people I’m still working alongside nine and 10 years later.

I met so many of my mentors during that time. And I think, not surprisingly, that I would not be where I am in my career and industry if Bumpers College didn’t have the industry connections it does. We’re nestled in the poultry capital of the world. We should produce the best students for this industry, and I’m proud to wave the Razorback flag wherever I go.”

McGehee has had a few setbacks, but also many successes throughout her career, and she says without these she would not be where she is doing what she loves.

She encourages everyone to continue pursuing what they love, even through hard times.

“There’s never going to be a point you have all the answers,” McGehee says. “There’s never going to be a point you don’t blow it every once in a while. The good news is you’re never alone. I wasn’t the only person who’s ever crashed and burned in their career, so I had people help me get back up. I have great mentors and champions, which I think everyone should seek out and develop when they start a career. Don’t get discouraged if where you want to be doesn’t happen when you want it.”

For more information on the African Sustainable Project Foundation, visit sustainableagafrica.org.

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Then and Now

Courtesy of HBO’s True Detective

In the winter of 1981-82, Hollywood arrived on campus to film scenes for a television mini-series, The Blue and the Gray, about the Civil War. Actors Gregory Peck portraying President Abraham Lincoln and Stacy Keech as a Union spy filmed several scenes on the front lawn of Old Main.

Students, staff and faculty played bit roles and even athletic director Frank Broyles made a cameo as the doctor who attended Lincoln after the shooting at Ford’s Theater. The south side of Old Main — with some artful construction — stood in for Ford’s Theater. Meanwhile, the east entrance of Carnall Hall became Appomattox Courthouse and its south entrance was turned into Willard’s Tavern.

This past year, another film crew arrived on campus to shoot scenes for the third season of the HBO series True Detective, written and directed by alumnus Nic Pizzolatto, a graduate of the M.F.A. program in creative writing and translation.

This time, though, the university buildings played the part of university buildings. Old Main stood in for Kimpel Hall, which was being remodeled at the time. They provided the backdrop for a visit by police detective Wayne Hays, played by Mahershala Ali, to see Amelia Reardon, a professor at the university played by Carmen Ejogo. They took a stroll down Senior Walk in front of Old Main while student extras crisscrossed the sidewalks behind them.

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Flipping the Order Empathy versus Ideology

Romantic Research Alone on an Island With Little More Than a Slime Mold Steve and Barbara Stephenson visited Christmas Island out in the Indian Ocean a couple of years ago while on one of Steve’s research trips. He’s a research professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, and she’s an instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Steve is one of the foremost experts on the funguslike organisms commonly known as slime molds. He has trekked all over the world to identify slime molds, and Barbara has often joined him.

The remote Christmas Island, nearly 200 miles away from the next nearest land, presented Steve with an opportunity to understand how slime molds have dispersed over long distances and across the scattered islands of the Indian Ocean.

He’s particularly interested in myxomycetes, known as plasmodial slime molds, but he also studies dictyostelid cellular slime molds, usually referred to simply as dictyostelids. While on Christmas Island, he collected soil samples to look for the presence of dictyostelids.

To his surprise, he discovered two species that are new to science. The description of one of the new species was published this spring in the journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

To the discoverer go the naming rights, and Steve named this new slime mold species, Dictyostelium barbarae, in honor of his wife Barbara.

And who says romance is dead?

It turns out that the way we perceive groups and empathize with others is what shapes our political ideology rather than vice versa, according to a study recently published by researchers affiliated with the U of A. The researchers used a concept called “intergroup interconnectedness,” a phrase that refers to how we view groups who are either alike us, our “ingroups,” or different from us, our “outgroups,” on some measure. The researchers then asked whether that measurement had an impact on empathy and political ideology. They wanted to know if empathy for people who shared or didn’t share some characteristic explained whether the people supported a liberal or conservative ideology.

“We thought this intergroup interconnectedness might be related to your political ideology,” said alumnus David Sparkman, who worked on the study as part of his doctorate in psychology from the University of Arkansas.

He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. “The idea is that perception of groups drives people toward one ideology or another.

Throughout the study, that is basically what we found.”

Sparkman worked with U of A colleagues Scott Eidelman, associate professor of psychology, and Derrick Till, a graduate student in the Department of Psychological Science. They surveyed 297 people on their attitudes toward the Trump administration’s 2017 executive order temporarily banning travel from several predominantly Muslim countries. Prior surveys showed support for the ban correlated to identifying as a conservative, while opposition to it correlated to identifying as a liberal. The researchers found that respondents who felt more connected to ingroups, people like themselves, tended to support the ban and have less empathy toward immigrants. The opposite was true for respondents who felt more connected to outgroups.

Findings were similar in other studies when researchers broadened the focus beyond a single policy.

“The interesting thing is that when most researchers look at political ideology, they start with liberals and conservatives and assume ideologies flow from there,” said Sparkman. “We are kind of flipping that around and saying that the way people perceive the world — and the different groups in them — drives them to adopt one ideology or another.”

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A Novel Idea Gift to Honor Professor of English

BY JENNIFER HOLLAND, ★ M.ED.’08

Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves

A professor of English had a profound effect on alumnus Stephen Dill when Dill was working on his education degree.

Dill’s teaching emphasis was English, and one of his professors — Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves — was “the only person I ever knew who had four names and used them all,” Dill said.

Eaves taught English at the U of A from 1949 to 1987, attaining the rank of University Professor in 1984. One of his favorite courses to teach was 18th-Century English Novel.

The subject of novels also proved to be one of Dill’s foremost interests, and he described Eaves’ lectures as stimulating.

“He really knew his subject and was very passionate about his discipline, but he also had a sense of humor about it,” Dill said. “I chose to teach novels as a specialty

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because of him. He kept me going in my field because his enthusiasm for his subject was contagious. I remember him fondly.”

Dill, a professor emeritus of the University of South Dakota, decided he wanted to give back to the U of A and chose to honor professor Eaves by making a planned gift of $100,000 to Campaign Arkansas and naming it the Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves Endowed Award.

“We are profoundly grateful for this gift from Dr. Stephen Dill, not only because it will tremendously help our students and faculty, but because it honors one of our department’s most well-known and fondly remembered educators, Duncan Eaves,” said Dorothy Stephens, chair of the Department of English.

The Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves Endowed Award will support both students and faculty in alternating years.

Student recipients must be enrolled fulltime in the Department of English and can be undergraduates in their second year of the program or later. Graduate students are also eligible. The student award will provide funding for schoolrelated expenses, and the faculty award will support quality teaching in the Department of English. Both student and faculty recipients must be passionate about and exhibit commitment and enthusiasm for the department.

“I hope this gift will improve the quality of education, and a good education requires both strong students and strong teachers,” Dill said. “Hopefully, the awards will improve both sides of that equation.”

Dill is a member of the Towers of Old Main, a giving society for the university’s most generous benefactors.

World Champ Out for a Spin

Savannah Miller, a broadcast journalism senior, made headlines around the world when she earned the silver medal at the 34th World Baton Twirling Championships in Kissimmee, Florida, this past year.

More than 200 of the world’s best twirlers from 16 countries competed in the championships, which are the twirling equivalent of the Olympic Games.

Miller, a native of Kansas City, Missouri, performed to an acapella version of “Amazing Grace.” A video of her performance quickly went viral, garnering more than 3.1 million views on social media. Miller also competed as a member of the U.S. Team, a group of 10 elite women twirlers from across the country, which placed fourth.

Miller said twirling was what first brought her to the U of A. The Razorback Band program hosts an annual twirling event for high-school students, and Miller attended it her senior year. “I liked the campus, and I fell in love with the experience and the people,” she said.

Miller said she was excited to become a Razorback: “I loved the atmosphere here on campus, and the people.

And calling the Hogs – no one else does that!”

As the feature twirler with the Razorback Marching Band, Miller practices anywhere from three to eight hours a day, depending on the season. A decorated athlete, she won her first gold medal at age 9, her first year competing as a member of the U.S. Team. Last year, Miller also won the silver medal at the 33rd World Baton Twirling Championships in Sweden. In total, she

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holds more than 20 national and international titles, including USTA Grand National Champion in Solo, 2-Baton, 3-Baton and Dance Twirl, USTA and NBTA Collegiate Champion, NBTA Grand National Twirling Champion and Miss Majorette of America.

When she’s was not practicing, competing, or performing, Miller serves as a producer for UATV and a University of Arkansas Ambassador, hosting campus tours for prospective students and their families.

Miller is also a member of Tau Beta Sigma, the national band service sorority, and Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Last year, Miller was named one of Alpha Delta Pi’s “30 Under 30,” a program that recognizes outstanding members who are under the age of 30 and have made outstanding contributions to their school, community, or profession. Miller was the only collegiate member to be honored.

Outside of school, Miller is a highly sought-after dance and baton twirling coach and choreographer, and has taught dance and baton in the U.S., Canada, the Czech Republic, France and Norway.

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Learning to Say Yes Mike Utley, 2019 Johnson Fellow

BY MARY KATE HARRISON, ★ B.A.’15, M.A.’17

Mike Utley, J B.A.’69, came to the U of A from Blytheville in Northeast Arkansas, planning to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather and become a doctor. However, he always knew that music was his passion. He attributes much of his success in the industry to “learning how to say yes, even if it was something I didn’t know if I could do.” Fifty years after walking across the stage to receive his diploma, Utley is now an accomplished musician, producer and composer who has traveled all over the world leaving an indelible mark on the music community.

Utley came to campus as the 2019 Johnson Fellow in April to share his wealth of knowledge about the music industry with current students. The Arkansas Alumni Association’s Johnson Fellows program is named for Dr. Jeff Johnson, J+ B.A.’70, and his wife, Marcia.

The Johnsons endowed the program in 2009 to bring esteemed alumni back to the U of A campus to engage and inspire students.

During his visit, Utley took time to speak to students in several classes about how the U of A helped propel

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him into the successful career he has today, and what he’s learned along the way. While on campus, he also participated as a featured panelist in an event titled “Business, Tech, and Creative Careers in the Arts and Entertainment Industries,” hosted by the College of Engineering, the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Utley began playing the piano at age six when his parents bought a piano for his older sister, Becky Utley Dugan, B.S.E.’64. When she decided to ditch the instrument and take up other activities, Mike’s parents signed him up for lessons. “They had bought that piano, and someone was going to learn to play it no matter what,” Utley said. He took quickly to the instrument and his affection for music began to grow.

While he was a student at Blytheville High School, Utley started bands such as The Fluorescents and The Dimensions with his friends and classmates, and they began playing around town. “I’d come home from football practice in high school and would go straight to

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bove: The Student Alumni A Board poses with 2019 Johnson Fellow and his wife, Eve Utley. Pictured from the left are: Rob Sandusky, Brook Nunn, Maeleigh Bowen, Mike Utley, Eve Utley, Anna Cunningham, Julia Rogers and Kate Truitt.Top left: Mike Utley displays his Johnson Fellow medallion.

Top right: Utley throws the first pitch at an Arkansas Razorback baseball game. Bottom left: Utley addresses a question while serving on the “Business, Tech, and Creative Careers in the Arts and Entertainment Industries� panel. Bottom right: Utley poses with Peter Lane, President and CEO of the Walton Arts Center.

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the piano to play and relax a little bit,” he said. During his senior year, his biology teacher invited him to audition for a summer tour with The Bill Black Combo. Even though he had little to no professional music experience, Utley decided to say yes. The audition went well and he got the job.

When asked whether he’d ever considered a career in the music field early on, he said, “I always thought that music would be just a hobby for me; I didn’t plan on making a career out of it.”

After high school, Utley headed for Fayetteville to become a Razorback at the university that he knew and loved. He decided to pursue a pre-med degree majoring in zoology with plans on applying to medical school after graduation. He continued to pursue music as a side gig, playing shows all over campus in bands such as University Soul Association, Daddy Jack, and Grandma’s Cookies, while also getting involved in Greek life as a Sigma Chi. In addition to playing in his own bands, Utley continued to tour summers with The Bill Black Combo while attending the U of A. During his senior year, friend Sammy Creason, the drummer for The Bill Black Combo, asked Utley to record on his first studio session with the band in Memphis.

With graduation approaching, Utley had a choice to make: continue his career in medicine or follow his passion for playing music. He chose music. “I waited until after graduation to tell my parents my plans. I didn’t expect them to be too thrilled about it,” he said. After letting his family know that he was going to “take a shot at this music thing” and put his pre-med path on hold, the news came “as no surprise to my father,” who knew that his son’s first love had always been music.

After graduation, Utley moved to Memphis, finding work recording with a group that later became known as the Dixie Flyers. Less than a year later, Atlantic Records invited Utley to work at Criteria Studios in Miami. It was here that he got the opportunity to work with performers such as Aretha Franklin, Sam & Dave, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Arthur Conley, to name a few. He then joined Kris Kristofferson’s touring and studio band, where he began a long working relationship as a musician and producer for Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge.

In 1973, a relatively unknown singer-songwriter named Jimmy Buffett heard Utley playing on a Jerry Jeff Walker album and asked Utley to record with him on his new album, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. Utley said yes, and gradually began working with Buffett more and more. The two have now been working together for over 40 years. Utley has taken on roles as arranger, producer and musical director for Jimmy Buffett and the Coral

Reefer Band and continues to tour with him to this day.

While on campus for his visit, Utley spoke to professor Kim Petrone’s business law class and discussed new copyright issues that those in the music industry are facing these days due to the digitalization and availability of music. He also met with students in a popular music course where he chronicled several stories he has collected from his many years working with some of music’s greats.

In one of the classes he spoke with, Utley was asked which artist he’d worked with who left him the most starstruck. He quickly said “Aretha Franklin,” adding that he was so astonished by her talent that, when watching her perform in the studio, he “forgot to start playing while we were recording.”

Utley’s years of learning on the job have given him a wide range of knowledge about the music industry. As a man who now wears many hats for the artists he works with, he explained to students that the key to diversifying his career in the industry was, “I learned to always say yes to things when people asked me to do something for them. Even if I didn’t know how to do it, I’d have to teach myself.”

Utley told students that one of the first things he was asked to do when beginning his musical career was to write some songs for an upcoming album. “I drove down to Fort Smith (from Fayetteville) and bought a used upright piano and wrote three songs. I’d never done that before,” he explained. “I think it took a lot of selfmotivation and learning on the job in order to work in this business. I do a lot of multitasking these days.”

As he was giving advice to students about how to accomplish their own career goals, Utley emphasized that “you should always follow your passions, because your passions will always win out,” which, he pointed out, is how “this music thing” ended up working out for him.

“You have to know that it might not work out, and that’s okay, but at least you tried. You just can’t be afraid. You can’t say ‘I can’t do that.’ You just have to try.”

Utley was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainer’s Hall of Fame in 2013. He has worked with artists such as Jackson Browne, Barbara Streisand, Booker T. Jones, Martina McBride, the Allman Brothers, and Toby Keith. He has produced more than 15 of Buffett’s records, including the No. 1 Billboard album, License to Chill, and received the Nashville Music Award for Best Children’s Album as producer of The Parakeet Album in 1997. Utley began touring full-time as a Coral Reefer in 1981 and became the musical director of the band in 1993. He has recently been working as an orchestrator and consultant on the Broadway musical, Escape to Margaritaville.

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Duska Delic Boznia and Herzegovina Fulbright Visiting Scholar Plant Pathology

I am so proud of my roots and Serbian historical heritage. If I had to choose one special woman out of all that I admire because of their extraordinary strength and grace, it would be Princess Milica Hrebeljanovic, whose roots are from the Holy family line of Nemanjic.

Milica proved that she was capable of ruling the country during a challenging period.

International Women Hope, Determination and Pride in Family PHOTOS BY KAI DRACHENBERG

The month of March is celebrated on campus as the month of the woman. As part of the festivities, the Office of International Students and Scholars created a series of more than 30 portraits of female students on campus.

Each woman also wrote a short description about themselves and the people who have inspired them. As you might guess, many of those inspirational figures were women and, of those, many were mothers or sisters.

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U of A campus to participate in Spring International, an intensive English language and acculturation program. Then they will head off to a university or college elsewhere in America to pursue their degree. A couple of them are Fulbright Scholars, but most have had to find their own international tuition and file their own paperwork to apply for student visas and then figure out where Arkansas is on the map, hoping their plane doesn’t accidentally land in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Eyra Herrera Panama Undergraduate Student Mechanical Engineering Major I would describe myself as someone who appreciates the positive side of most situations. Someone who likes to observe and pay close attention to details.

This is how I keep memories about experiences that make a difference in my everyday life. As a mechanical engineering student, I would like to be an evidence of the fact that women are equally capable of filling every position in our society, despite any difficulty we might face. I admire the women in my family, especially my sisters, because they have demonstrated to me and taught me that when you work as hard as you can, everything is possible.

Tri Murniati Indonesia Graduate Student Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies I come from the land of a thousand islands, Indonesia. I am a graduate student majoring in comparative literature and cultural studies. My mother and my sisters are those who inspire me to do my best in everything I do. One of the Indonesian women figures that I admire is R.A. Kartini. She was the person who initiated education for girls in Indonesia. Education is fundamentally important as a means to empower women.

Indrani Saha Bangladesh Undergraduate Student Business Major The person I most admire is my father.

He has always been my inspiration. Whenever I find myself demotivated and distressed, his words echo around my ears and provide me motivation to keep moving forward. He always believes in my abilities and pushes me to work hard in achieving all my goals. I consider myself an open-minded and self-driven person.

I am a person who always tries to find the goodness inside another person. I am always keen on helping others and contribute to my community to the fullest potential that I can.

Abigeal Omolewu Nigeria Undergraduate Student Food Science Major I am Abigeal Omolewu from southeastern Nigeria, a wife and a mother of two beautiful kids. I am full of life, love to smile and spend time with family and friends.

I like to talk about my country and culture (our food, dressing, ceremonies, etc). I admire my elder sister, Dorcas Owolabi. Her strength is like that of 10 men, her love for people and God is so pure and her humility is beyond words. She is beautiful from the inside out.

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Keomany Phengmeuang Laos Visiting Student Architecture You can just call me “Nout.” It is my nickname. I do not want people to forget me by trying to remember my first name, so I prefer to be called N-OO-T. I am from a small landlocked country, Laos. I got a scholarship funded by the U.S. Department called Global Undergraduate Exchange Program. Personally, I think I am pretty friendly and talkative. Since I have been at the University of Arkansas, I never met anyone from Laos. It is very sad. However, I am proud to represent my culture and country. The person I admire the most is, of course, my mom. My mom is a single mom raising her five kids with her warm heart and kindness. I would call her “A Supermom.” She works twice as hard than other moms and never says that she is tired. My sisters and I all are studying abroad with scholarships, trying to make her be proud of us.

Sunaira Javed Pakistan Spring International Student Computer Engineering I’m a versatile person who is curious and excited about almost everything! I wanna live life to its fullest and wanna do everything possible for the sake of humanity, which is basically the purpose of my life. I admire my parents the most for teaching me all about humanity and kindness.

Ju Eun Kang Republic of Korea Exchange Student Finance I’ve lived in Seoul, where the past and the present coexist, for more than 20 years. I’m a senior at Dongduk Women’s University in English major, and I came here as finance major. I feel so lucky that I go to and study at the Women’s University. In there, I met so many warmhearted friends who are independent, passionate, active and sincere. And also I really, really appreciate my family.

They are always supportive, love each other, and consider each other. My family, my friends made me become who I am now.

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Francia Ravelombola Madagscar Graduate Student Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences My name is Francia Ravelombola, and I am originally from Madagascar. I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas working on soybean breeding and genetics. I have a strong interest in plants and agriculture. I love traveling around the world and discovering new things. I admire my family (my parents and my brother) who have always been a great support for me in what I have done. They are doing their best whatever the situation when we might have been challenged in our life.

Mariam Moustafa Egypt Graduate Student Higher Education I am an ambitious girl who does not give up on her dreams. I turn my dreams into plans. I cherish my peace of mind which urges me to balance between what I am doing, what I want to do and how I feel. Everything “good” I am today is because of my mom. She’s a strong woman, an amazing wife and mother of four. Aside from her work as an agriculture engineer, she was able to raise the four of us, boost our confidence and teach us to see the bright side and only the bright side of everything. She’s a source of empowerment to the people around her. I hope I can one day empower people just like she does.

Akane Atoe Japan Graduate Student Higher Education I am from Hiroshima, Japan. I am currently working as a graduate assistant for International Culture Team while I pursue a master’s degree in higher education.

I feel very fortunate to have this opportunity to be a part of this amazing team to interact and learn about different cultures from people all over the world. The person I admire the most is my mother. She always put my brother and me first before anything else and she supports us no matter what. Because my mom and I are the only females in the family, we often went for lunch, shopping, or even just chatting in a car and I love those girls’ times! She likes to travel abroad, so I would love to continue taking her to places as a translator and enjoy every moment together!

Ya-Hsuan Chang Taiwan Graduate Student Human Nutrition I am from Taiwan, a beautiful island in Asia, and lived in Shanghai, China, for many years. When we were in Taiwan, I enjoyed walking on the beach and watching the blue Pacific Ocean with my mother and elder sister. After that, a bowl of ribbon ice was what my sister and I looked forward to having. Also, I miss the adorable night view in Shanghai with the women in my family. They are happy that I am studying abroad and wish me the best.

Itto Outini Morocco Fulbright Scholar and Graduate Student Journalism I am Itto Outini. I was born and grew up in a rural area of Morocco. The interesting thing about me is that I was not given a chance to attend school in my childhood.

But I was able to finally achieve my dream of becoming an educated woman at the age of 17. After graduating from high school I majored in English studies. That led me to be awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, so that I can achieve my childhood dream and become a voice for the voiceless. Not only did I become a Fulbright Scholar, but I represent my country as the first female with disabilities to become a journalist. My hero is J. William Fulbright who is the founder of the Fulbright Program. I am delighted to follow his example to change thousands of lives through exchange programs and education that foster peace.

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Campus

The Season of No. 1 From Starting Blocks to Finish Line

Coach Lance Harter, far

left, and the University of Arkansas women’s track team call the Hogs after winning the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Ranked No. 1 from the preseason to the NCAA Championships, the University of Arkansas women’s track and field team brought home their third team title in program history, making it the 44th NCAA title between the men’s and women’s programs on the Hill. Coach Lance Harter and crew scored 62 points on the way to the Indoor Championship while fielding 12 All-American performances in total, including back-toback championships in the pole vault by Lexi Jacobus.

Jacobus, a senior, successfully defended her indoor title from a year ago, clearing 4.61 meters in the pole vault. She earned her fourth NCAA title and along with Tori Hoggard concluded their final NCAA Division 1 Indoor Championships as the most decorated teammates in women’s collegiate indoor track and field history,

each securing All-America honors for the fourth straight year. Hoggard took third in the event clearing 4.46 meters, while Desiree Freier finished fourth with an identical clearance of 4.46 meters.

Carina Viljoen and Lauren Gregory took fifth and 10th in the mile. Payton Chadwick went third in the 60-meter hurdles and second in the 200. Janeek Brown, a sophomore, finished fifth in the 200. Kiara Parker took eighth in the 60-meter finals.

Taylor Werner led the 3,000-meters through most of the race before settling for second place. Gregory who returned from running the mile, finished seventh.

Arkansas’ third-place finish in the 4x400 relay secured Arkansas’ third NCAA title and the second indoor title joining the championship from 2015 in Fayetteville.

Campus

When You’re a Jet Loggains Starts as Offensive Coordinator for New York Loggains, met while on a trip to the 2000 Las Vegas Bowl. Loggains was a redshirt freshman and she was a U of A cheerleader.

“Everyone was able to hang out while we were in Vegas. We actually met for the first time while walking down the strip,” Loggains recalled. “It took me about a year to convince her to date me.”

Walking on at Arkansas

umni Dowell Loggains A and Beth Burnett Loggains with their children.

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Dowell Loggains, the new New York Jets’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, has hung on to the same cell phone number he was given during his freshman year of college at the University of Arkansas.

And he’s still happy — anytime, anywhere — to call those Hogs.

The same goes for his wife, Beth, also a U of A alumna, and their three children, ages 9, 7 and 2. Baby No. 4, their third girl, is due in July. She’ll also be a Razorback supporter, they suppose.

“They’ve all become little Razorback fans,” Loggains said, a smile in his voice, along with the slow Southern drawl that’s also stuck around.

Loggains and his wife, Beth Burnett

Loggains spent four seasons as a backup quarterback and a holder for extra points and field goals at the U of A. He recounted the glory of winning the 2002 SEC Western Division — one of his most prized possessions is the ring they all snagged that day — at the first “Miracle on Markham” win against LSU. “Walking on at Fayetteville was one of the best experiences of my life,” he said. “I spent five years there. Those relationships go on.”

Since he hasn’t lived in the area for many years, those relationships are often maintained through phone calls and texts. Lots of texts. Especially during a Razorback football game.

Loggains said if he’s traveling with the NFL and there’s a Razorbacks football game happening that day, he’ll typically turn on his phone to find a lengthy group text trail among his Fayetteville friends. If he recorded the game to watch later, he’ll usually save the mountain of texts for later to avoid spoilers.

Loggains was born in Newport, but his family moved to Dallas when he was a toddler. They moved to Abilene, Texas, when Loggains was in third grade. He was the quarterback at Abilene Cooper High School before being accepted to the U of A. Loggains graduated with a bachelor’s

degree in kinesiology and a master’s degree in education.

Beth Loggains, originally from Bryant, graduated from the university with a kinesiology degree as well (his emphasis was in K-12 and hers was in pre-professional) then went on to earn a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Belmont University while living in Nashville when Dowell was with the Tennessee Titans.

U of A kinesiology professor Sharon Hunt had Dowell Loggains in her Administration in Physical Education course in the early 2000s. He was a stand-out student, she said.

“Even as an undergraduate student, he was professionally motivated and possessed a solid work ethic,” Hunt said. “Our entire department is very proud of his noteworthy professional accomplishments, and prouder still of the fine man he has become. I often cite Dowell as an example to my undergraduate students, pointing out that hard work and networking opportunities can often lead to professional success.

“It worked for Dowell Loggains, and they, too, can follow their dreams if they are willing to do those things that give them a chance to be successful.”

Dowell started his pro football career as a scouting

assistant with Dallas in 2005. He spent eight years with the Titans in several roles, including offensive coordinator from 2012-13. For the 2014 season he was in Cleveland as the Browns’ quarterbacks coach before being hired

by Chicago.

Loggains was the Miami Dolphins’ offensive coordinator in 2018 before being hired by the Jets in January.

He and the other Jets coaches recently made it through free agency, he said, the time period when a player’s fouryear NFL contract is up and they’re free to move to — or be stolen from — other teams.

“I’m pleased with the players we were able to sign on,” Loggains said.

Spring practice started in late April, but June and July will offer a respite for everyone — and a little downtime for the coaches and players to be with their families.

Family Time Baby No. 4 (the first three Loggains kids call her “Jelly Bean”) is expected to arrive on July 8. Loggains said (Continued on page 63)

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Alumni

Connect

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President’s Message

Connect and Serve. It may seem like a simple mission statement, yet it is wholly encompassing of everything the Alumni Association stands for. Each one of our constituent groups — chapters, societies, students, and young alumni — all embrace this mission.

As my first year as president comes to an end in June, I find myself reflecting on a key component of this mission statement — “connect.” The Alumni Association must continue to provide relevant and optimal programming to alumni and friends. That includes keeping you informed and continually offering a multitude of opportunities for members to be involved and engaged.

This past spring has been especially busy! One hundred and thirty-eight volunteers have provided their time in reviewing 216 applications to select the Seniors of Significance and Razorback Classic students. These top students were recognized at the Cardinal and White banquet in May. Additionally, over 100 volunteers have simultaneously worked to review 1,173 scholarship applications for the Association’s scholarship program. Chapters and societies are currently reviewing applications for their individual area scholarships. We anticipate being on target as we have the past 3 years in awarding over $1.1M of support! Reading about these amazing students is inspiring. Their goals and aspirations always leave me amazed.

Societies have also been busy this past April, with the Black Alumni Society holding their biennial reunion. Over 350 participants were on campus during the week for various events. Additionally, the Lemke Journalism Society held its annual J-Days, and the Law Alumni Society sponsored a reunion as well! The Alumni Association brought back ’69 alumnus Mike Utley as this year’s Johnson Fellow. This renowned music producer and keyboardist for Jimmy Buffet’s Coral Reefer Band spent nearly a week on campus visiting classes and student groups. Each of these programs offered opportunities to our alumni and friends for a way to “connect” with each other, the Association and your alma mater.

There are more opportunities on the horizon! Visit arkansasalumni.org or the Arkansas Alumni mobile app for event listings. My hope is that you will take advantage of these kinds of opportunities to stay in touch and “connect” with the Arkansas Alumni Association!

With Pride,

Teena Gunter, ✪ J.D.’92, LL.M.’97 President, Arkansas Alumni Association

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Past Presidents of the Arkansas Alumni Association ARKANSAS Board of Directors ALUMNI 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 MS48 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’51 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 2014-16 Stephanie S. Streett ✪ BS’91 2016-18 Don Eldred ✪ BSBA’81

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Arkansas Alumni Association National Board 2019 Changes Announced

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Sarah Katherine Hudson ★ B.S.B.A.’07, J.D.’10 of Washington, D.C., is manager of government affairs for FedEx. She is the fifth U of A graduate of three generations in her family. Hudson earned her U of A bachelor’s degree in marketing from the Sam M. Walton College of Business followed by a Juris Doctor from the U of A School of Law. She is a current member of the Law Alumni Society and a former board member of the D.C. Alumni Chapter.

She is active in her community through many local D.C. nonprofits including serving on the Junior League of Washington, Young Professions Board of Directors and as president of the Arkansas State Society of Washington, D.C. Bill Stovall J B.S.B.A.’72 of Charleston, South Carolina, is president of Stoval Insight and Solutions, a consulting practice specializing in funeral and cemetery operations and expert witness services. Before attending the Citadel to

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Richard Welcher ★ B.S.C.E.’99, M.S.C.E.’04 of Fayetteville is vice president, principal and chief operations officer for Tatum-Smith Engineering Inc. of Rogers. A second-generation alumnus, Welcher earned his U of A bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering. As a U of A student, Welcher was founding member of the Student Alumni Association and Board.

Since 2012, he has concurrently held the position of adjunct professor of structural and geotechnical engineering. In 2018, he expanded his role at the U of A by teaching a second-year structures course in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

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Ashleigh Buckley ★ B.A.’07, J.D.’10 of Fort Smith is an attorney with The Buckley Firm LLC. A first-generation college student, she earned her U of A bachelor’s degree in political science from J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences followed by a Juris Doctor from the U of A School of Law. Her legal career includes work as deputy prosecuting attorney for Arkansas’ Sebastian County and assistant United States attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She has served as vice president of the Fort Smith Alumni Chapter. Buckley is active in her community, serving as president of the Junior League of Fort Smith.

earn his master’s degree in business, Stovall earned his U of A bachelor’s degree in marketing from the Sam. M. Walton College of Business. He also holds a mortuary science degree from the Dallas Institute of Funeral Service. Stovall is active in his community, having served in a number of volunteer positions including work with Hospice of Charleston and the Daniel Island Rotary in Charleston. He currently serves as president of the Charleston Alumni Chapter.

Kristen Collier Wright ★ B.A.’98, J.D.’01 of Forrest City is senior vice president, general counsel and secretary for AutoZone in Memphis, Tennessee.

Wright earned her U of A bachelor’s degree in English from the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences with a minor in communication and followed by a Juris Doctor from the U of A School of Law. As a U of A student, Wright was a Fulbright Scholar and staff editor for the Arkansas Law Review. A successful attorney, she broke the glass ceiling in a very traditional automotive aftermarket industry and assumed the top legal role at AutoZone in 2014. Active in her community, Wright is immediate past chair of the Board of the Memphis in May International Festival, which expands cultural educational programing to Shelby County schools.

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The Arkansas Alumni Association is proud to announce the newest members of the National Alumni Board of Directors who are a part of the Class of 2022. These alumni have agreed to serve a three-year term, which will begin July 1.

Alumni Leaders Summit 2019 Three board members were selected to serve a second three-year term as part of the Class of 2022. They are Linda Bedford-Jackson B.A.’80 of Austin, Texas; Paul Parette B.S.B.A.’89 of Dallas, Texas; and Brian Wolff B.A.’89 of Washington, DC. A change in officers for the 501(c)(3) corporation will also take effect July 1, 2019:

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Ron Rainey J B.S.A.’91, M.S.’93 of Little Rock will assume the position of president-elect for one year. Rainey is professor of economics with the University of Arkansas’ Division of Agriculture and works as an economist within the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. He has been active in the association having served as president of the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Alumni Society in the fiscal 2009 and 2010 years and as president of the Central Arkansas Chapter in 2009. He has served on the National Alumni Board of Directors since July of 2016.

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Donald E. Walker J+ B.S.A.’74 of Fayetteville will assume the position of treasurer. Walker is regional executive with Arvest Bank Group. Having served as assistant treasurer during the 2019 fiscal year, Walker has also served on the National Alumni Board of Directors since July of 2017.

He served as a board member of the Tulsa Alumni Chapter from 2012 to 2016. Walker currently is also a member of the association’s Campaign Arkansas Committee.

Kenneth B. Biesterveld J B.S.B.A.’05, M.B.A.’10 of Centerton will transition from treasurer to assistant treasurer. Biesterveld is senior director of merchandise and finance strategy with Walmart. He has served as a board member of the association’s National Alumni Board since July 2012 and as treasurer of the corporation since July 2016.

The Arkansas Alumni Associated hosted the Alumni Leaders Summit on March 1 and 2 at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. Alumni volunteers representing 14 chapters, 9 societies, and the National Alumni Board attended the Summit. Attendees had the opportunity to network with each other, meet the Alumni Association staff, share best practices and participate in roundtable discussions. Presentations on a variety of relevant topics included marketing, membership, finance sponsorships and scholarships. The Chapter Leader Advisory Council presented a new format for chapter programming and assessment. The advisory council worked with association staff over a 15-month period to develop the chapter program changes.

Keynote addresses were provided by Mark Power, vice chancellor for advancement; Hunter Yurachek, vice chancellor and director of athletics; and Teena Gunter, National Alumni Board president.

The Summit culminated with the presentation of the Alumni Volunteer Awards. The Morris Fair Heart Award was presented to alumnus and life member Oliver Sims, III, B.S.B.A. ’85 for his dedication and leadership with the Black Alumni Society. Sims demonstrates an exemplary volunteer spirt, commitment and enthusiasm to engage and support fellow alumni and has been instrumental in the success of the Southwest Classic service project.

The Austin Alumni Chapter received the Board Cup, which recognizes overall excellence by an alumni group. The Austin Alumni Chapter hosted a successful PIGnic in addition to hosting approximately 28 events during the period of evaluation. They also collaborated and worked with the Greater Austin SEC Fan Club to (Continued on page 51)

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Alumni

Farmer, Hylton Awarded Alumni Association Senior Honor Citations Recognizing Two Graduating Seniors

The Arkansas Alumni Association recognized University of Arkansas graduating seniors Erin Farmer of Fayetteville and Grant Hylton of San Diego, California, with the 2019 Senior Honor Citation.

The award was established in 1965 by the Arkansas Alumni Association to recognize a senior male and female student who each exhibits outstanding academic achievement, leadership skills and co-curricular activities at the University of Arkansas.

The award was announced by U of A Chancellor Joe Steinmetz at the conclusion of the annual Cardinal and White Banquet.

Farmer and Hylton were among 71 students chosen by the alumni association as the Class of 2019 Seniors of Significance. From this group, 22 Razorback Classic honorees were selected, and the two Senior Honor Citations were then selected. As the winners of the Senior Honor Citation, Farmer and Hylton received life membership in the Arkansas Alumni Association, permanent recognition on a plaque at the alumni house and will be invited back to campus to represent their class at events, including speaking at their Senior Walk Dedication.

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Erin Farmer J Erin Farmer, a member of the Honors College and Bodenhamer fellow, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics. She minored in international economic

development.

Farmer has participated in numerous research efforts in economics and physics. She is the second author on a paper, “Quantum Paraelastic Two-Dimensional Materials,” which was published in Physical Review Letters.

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programs in Vietnam and Mozambique and studied abroad in Madrid and India.

Farmer was involved with the Volunteer Action Center in numerous ways including serving for two years with the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry and one year as president of the Volunteer Action Center. Farmer has also served as vice president of the Society of Physics Students and as a student member of the Chancellor’s Commission on Women.

Farmer expressed surprise that she was selected for the Senior Honor Citation and expressed admiration for her fellow Razorback Classic honorees. Her mother is a professor at the University of Arkansas and she grew up as a member of the Razorback family: however, she says that the one thing that surprised her once she became a student is how “close knit” the campus community feels.

Farmer’s advice to incoming freshman is to “try things outside your major” and to try things that will challenge them. Following graduation, Farmer will be pursuing her master’s degree at the London School of Economics.

Grant Hylton J Grant Hylton, a member of the Honors College, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in three years. He has accepted an offer to intern for Ernst and Young in Rogers before pursuing his master’s degree in accounting in fall 2019.

Hylton taught for the U of A’s CLASS+ program both as a Level I Certified Tutor and a supplemental instructor. He served as a tax & audit intern at Lavine, Lofgren, Morris & Engelberg, LLP the summer after his freshmen year. Hylton spent the following summer as a student of Princeton in Beijing, a two-month language immersion program through Princeton University.

Hylton was a founding member of the Kappa Zeta (Continued on page 62)

Generations of Arkansas Traditions Rhodes – McGee - Corbitt

Chris Corbitt ✪ B.A.’95, B.A.’98, B.S.C.E.’00, M.S.C.E. ’01 followed the names of his family engraved in stone on Senior Walk to attend the University of Arkansas and earn four degrees in Fayetteville. After a year at the Air Force Academy, Chris transferred to the U of A. He felt a strong family connection to the school and grew up a Razorback fan. His father had brought him to all the football games, rain or shine.

The family’s relationship with the U of A began with Chris’ great-grandfather, Stanley White Rhodes, who attended classes on campus to earn education credits to teach. Stanley’s daughter, Helen Rhodes McGee, attended the U of A and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1942. While at the university, Helen was president of the Rootin’ Rubes and was the vice president of the junior class. She lived in Carnall Hall. After graduation, Helen moved to Pine Bluff and worked as a chemist at the U.S. Army Arsenal during World War II. Later, she traveled for 30 years with her husband during his service in the U.S. Army. Helen and her husband then settled in Florida, and she taught school for 22 years. Helen says she had a “wonderful, wonderful life” and she enjoyed her time at the university.

Helen’s daughter, Rebecca “Becky” Nelson ★ B.S.E.’70, also attended the U of A. Becky lived in Carnall Helen Rhodes McGee B.S. ’42 was president of the Rootin’ Rubes. She is seventh from the left in the front row of the group picture.

Four generations of Razorbacks: seated is Helen McGee with (l-r) Becky Nelson, Chris Corbitt, and Ellie Corbitt.

Hall, as her mother had. Becky remembers having to wear an overcoat over her workout clothes to go the gym because the university dress code at the time did not allow girls to wear shorts on campus. Since graduation, Becky has taught school and continues to teach at J.A. Fair in Little Rock. Becky also met her first husband, Reggie Arnold Corbitt ★+ B.S.C.E.’70, M.S.C.E.’71, while attending the university. Since graduation, Reggie has spent 45 years as an engineer with the last 30 years as the chief executive officer of Little Rock Wastewater Utility.

Becky and Reggie had two children who attended the U of A, Brian A. Corbitt B.S.B.A.’95 and Chris Corbitt.

Chris and his wife, Barbara “Suzy” Davis Corbitt ✪ B.S.E.’99, reminisced about attending Red Eye while students. Chris was active in Sigma Phi Epsilon, and he is still in regular contact with five of his Sig Ep brothers. He shares that they called the Hogs in Alaska while on one of their fishing adventures. Since graduation from the U of A, Chris also earned his law degree, and he has both a law firm and engineering business. Chris and Suzy have three children, Elizabeth “Ellie,” Patrick, and Piper.

The next generation of this Razorback family will be attending the U of A in the fall of 2019 when Ellie will begin her first year, as will Chris’ adopted sister Sophie Nelson. hris Corbitt’s C children admire their greatgrandmother’s name on Senior Walk in front of Old Main.

Ellie, Piper and Patrick are pictured left to right.

Reggie Corbitt B.S.C.E. ’70, M.S.C.E. ’71 enjoys a vacation.

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Alumni

Razorback Classics Class of 2019

The Arkansas Alumni Association is proud to announce the 2019 Razorback Classics.

This class represents the top 11 female and top 11 male graduating seniors at the University of Arkansas for the academic year. Students were selected from the 71 Seniors of Significance honored this spring for academic achievement, leadership skills and co-curricular activities.

This year’s class includes representatives from a variety of academic disciplines. The majority of awardees are students in the Honors College.

The 22 students were recognized by their mentors at the Cardinal and White Banquet on May 2 in Boyer Hall at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. During this

eft to right, Sam M. Walton College L of Business; J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences; College of Engineering; Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences; College of Education and Health Professions; Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design

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dinner and ceremony, each recipient and their mentor were honored. Mentors, chosen by the honorees, are individuals who have made an impact on the students during their time at the University of Arkansas. All of the Razorback Classics will be featured in the Razorback yearbook and received a special honor cord which was worn at commencement. Guests at the Cardinal & White Banquet included university leadership, advancement staff, mentors, parents of honorees, past senior award winners and the association’s National Board of Directors.

At the conclusion of the event, Chancellor Joe Steinmetz announced the 2019 Senior Honor Citation honorees. See page 42 for the details.

2019 RAZORBACK CLASSICS are: Nikki Anderson J, Fayetteville Sam M. Walton College of Business and J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, economics, criminal justice, and marketing Anthony Azzun, Bolivar, Missouri J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry*

science, history, African and African American studies* Nate Garcia, Olathe, Kansas College of Education and Health Professions, kinesiology* Brayley Gattis, Fort Smith J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, chemistry and French*

Spencer Bone, Jefferson City, Missouri Sam M. Walton College of Business, marketing with a minor in economics*

Madelaine Giebler, Neosho, Missouri Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, agricultural education, communications, and technology with a concentration in communication*

Emma Buckner, White Hall J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry and biology*

Laura Gray, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma College of Engineering, biological engineering*

Skylar Caldwell, Harrison J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, political science and international studies* Mattison “Matty� Cato, Conway J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry* Theodore Christian, Arlington, Texas College of Engineering, mechanical engineering* Emily Daniels, Harrison J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, psychology and pre-medical with a minor in biology* Erin Farmer J, Fayetteville J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, economics, physics, and mathematics* Lydia Fielder H, Bentonville J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, broadcast journalism with a minor in Spanish and political science* J.P. Gairhan, Cabot J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, political

Larry Hill, Amity J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, biochemistry, biology, psychology with a minor in Spanish* Grant Hylton J, San Diego, California Sam M. Walton College of Business, accounting* Emily King, Wichita, Kansas Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, food science and agricultural business* Madison Lester, Russellville J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, English, international studies, Middle East studies, and Arabic* Colt Malloy, Bella Vista Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, architecture with minors in foundations of sustainability, history of architecture and design, and planning* Manny Mejia H, Fayetteville Sam M. Walton College of Business, accounting Kathryn Rhomberg, Fort Smith Sam M. Walton College of Business, accounting* *Denotes student of the Honors College

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The Time is Now The 2019 Black Alumni Society Reunion The Black Alumni Society Reunion welcomed alumni of many generations back to the University of Arkansas campus and Northwest Arkansas. This year’s theme was The Time is Now. Since 2017, Corine AckersonJones B.S.E.’82, M.Ed.’85 ✪, BAS president, has been passionate about increasing scholarships for students.

The main reunion activities began on Friday, April 5, with BAS Endowed Golf Tournament at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Course. Special thanks to the Kappa Alpha Psi, Iota Tau Chapter, alumni for hosting the golf tournament. The following are the results of the tournament.

• 1st Place: Kappa Alpha Psi • 2nd Place: Sign Studio • 3rd Place: Team Ricky Nichols Later that afternoon, Ackerson-Jones presided over the annual meeting for the Black Alumni Society. The meeting highlighted The Time is Now administration’s goals and accomplishments. The 2019–2021 slate of officers was ratified. They are Ritche Manley Bowden B.S.I.E.’86 ✪, president; Synetra Hughes B.S.B.A.’04, Ed.D.’12 ✪, vice president; and Marco Barker B.S.I.E.’00 ✪, secretary. Two new members, De’Arrius Howard B.S.E.’07 ✪ and Brandon Pickett B.S.B.A.’07, J.D.’15 ★, will join the BAS board beginning on July 1 for a three-year term.

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The Arkansas Alumni Association celebrated with alumni at the Welcome Back Reception and a Friday Night Old School Party at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House.

Students and Young Alumni also had an opportunity to enjoy individual Friday night parties as well.

Daytime activities on April 6 included a Pregaming Event for young alumni at the Alumni House and a Cookout and Stroll Off event for all at The Gardens.

The Stroll Off ’s winning Greek organization for first place, bragging rights and a trophy was the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Kappa Iota Chapter, represented by members and alumnae.

The highlight of the reunion was the Black Alumni Society Awards Gala at the Fayetteville Town Center as BAS celebrated 27 years of reunions. More than 350 guests attended the event, including founding members of the BAS Board, U of A senior administrators, faculty, staff, alumni, sponsors and students.

Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz presented a welcome message via video. Yvette Murphy-Erby, vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, and Brandy Cox, associate vice chancellor and executive director for the Arkansas Alumni Association, also provided welcome messages. The Gala honored five exceptional awardees as well as faculty, staff, students and community leaders. This year’s Black Alumni Society award recipients were:

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Mrs. Vivian Walton ✪ — Wyatt Weems Memorial Award. The award recognizes individuals who are not graduates of the university but have contributed a significant amount of time to promote the purpose and mission of the Black Alumni Society.

Airic Hughes B.A.’11, M.A.’15 ✪, founder of the Visionairi Foundation — Myron “Mike” Macechko Advocate for Diversity Award. This award is named after Myron D. “Mike” Macechko, associate vice chancellor and executive director emeritus. The recipient/recipients selected in this category has demonstrated an appreciation for increasing diversity and evidenced skill in building and maintaining harmonious cross-cultural relationships.

JoAnn C. Kvamme, assistant director of the environmental dynamics program for the Graduate School and International Education — Myron “Mike” Macechko Advocate for Diversity Award.

Cedric Williams B.S.B.A.’93 ★, mayor of Forrest City, and State Farm insurance agent — Dr. Margaret Clark and Dr. Gordon Morgan Living Legacy Award. Recipient should be an alumna, alumnus, staff, or faculty member making outstanding accomplishments at the local, regional, state, or national level who has performed work worthy of recognition.

Emanuel Banks B.S.C.E. ’87 ✪, deputy director and chief engineer of the Arkansas Department of Transportation — Dr. Lonnie R. Williams Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes an alumna/ alumnus who has made significant lifetime achievements professionally or personally, and who is considered to have extraordinary distinction in a chosen field. This award is presented to an alumna or alumnus for accomplishments at a local, regional, state or national level worthy of recognition.

The Shades of Ebony 2019 Student Awards recipients were also recognized. The Black Students Association and the Black Alumni Society Scholars selected the awardees.

The award recipients were: Caribbean Students Association — Registered Students Organization of the Year India Callahan — Community Service Individual Award Yvonne Richardson Community Center — Foundation of the Year Visionary — Foundation of the Year Additional awards presented included: Malik Dedner — Dr. John L Colbert Leadership Award Alexis “Broox” Piggee — Dr. Barbara Lofton Leadership Award

Daniel Marsh — Adrian Smith Service Award Rickelle Burney — Parice Bowser Service Award Adrian Smith — Dr. Calvin White Excellence in Education Award Vincent Phillips — Dr. Calvin White Excellence in Education Award Brande Flack — Dr. Yvette Murphy-Erby Excellence in Education Award Jessica White — Dr. Yvette Murphy-Erby Excellence in Education Award Justyce Yuille — Black Alumni Society Scholars Student Volunteer of the Year Following acknowledgement of the winners, Corine Ackerson-Jones accepted a $5,000 gift for the Black Alumni Society’s Challenge Scholarship Fund from Troy and Gerald Alley during a special presentation.

Ackerson-Jones also thanked the scholarship donors who supported the BAS scholars and raised over $105,000 for scholarships. She recognized the Gamma Eta Chapter Endowed Scholarship (Omega Psi Phi, Fraternity Inc., alumni) for being the first National Pan-Hellenic Greek organization to endow a scholarship. The Kappa Alpha Psi, Iota Tau Chapter alumni is the second NPHC organization to endow. The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Kappa Iota Chapter and the Delta Sigma Theta, Lambda Theta Chapter alumnae are also contributing to the endowment of their scholarships.

As the Gala was concluding, the time came to pass the gavel to the new Black Alumni Society administration.

Ackerson-Jones welcomed Ritche Manley Bowden, 2019–2021 Black Alumni Society President, to the stage for the passing of the gavel. Bowden introduced her administration’s theme.

CONNECT with the Past, ENGAGE and be Present, INSPIRE for the Future.

Connect with the past by recognizing contributions and challenges of African American persons who have attended the university, and by building on the relationships we have established. Engage and be present by actively supporting BAS initiatives that assist African American students and their communities. Inspire for the Future is actually tied to the association’s efforts to Engage and Be Present. It has been said “inspiration is a fire that catches from another fire.”

The final event of the reunion was the Old School/ New School Generation Party that followed the Gala. The Black Alumni Society looks forward to welcoming alumni back for the reunion on April 17, 2021.

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Events

Batesville Hog Bash

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The Batesville/ Independence County Chapter collaborated with the Batesville Razorback Club as they welcomed head football coach Chad Morris to town!

Happy Hour with Dean Matt Waller

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The Kansas City Chapter welcomed Dean Matt Waller from the Sam M. Walton College of Business to a Kansas City Happy Hour.

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Shades of Ebony Shades of Ebony is an annual event hosted by the Black Students Association, Black Alumni Society Scholars and the Black Alumni Society during Black History Month to highlight the accomplishments of campus and community leaders.

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Law School Reunion On April 5 - 6, the Law Alumni Society and The U of A School of Law held reunion opportunities designed to bring together alumni, faculty, family and friends.

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2019 J-Days On April 3, the Lemke Journalism Alumni Society and the School of Journalism and Strategic Media held the SJSM Scholarship Ceremony, during which over $135,000 in scholarships were awarded to 60 students, and the Roy Reed Lecture, which featured Josh Dawsey, White House correspondent for the Washington Post.

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Events

Razorback Roundup in Jacksonville, Florida

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The Jacksonville, Florida Chapter hosted a Razorback Roundup in March at Players Grille.

In March, the Charleston Chapter welcomed university officials with a happy hour at the home of Peggy Lewis.

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Charleston Chapter Cocktail Party

Members of the Northwest Arkansas Chapter enjoyed a brewery tour of Black Apple Crossing in Springdale during their monthly Happy Hour.

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UPGRADE to LIFE

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Life Members ✪ By becoming Life Members, the University’s friends and alumni help form a strong foundation on which to build the future of the Arkansas Alumni Association. We welcome the newest Life Members, listed in order of membership number: 9174 Andrea Lauren Hill ’17 9175 Charles Alan Collins ’11 9176 Brooke Elizabeth Anderson ’14 9177 Kathleen Lease Martin ’83 9178 April Jill Seggebruch ’05, ’08 9179 Kim M. Smith ’75 9180 Nancy Brandt Smith ’75 9181 Joy Carla Carter ’95, ’97 9182 Judy B. Frost 9183 Lester Frost 9184 Eva G. Middleton ’05 9185 Sharon Bailey 9186 Inga Jensen 9187 Jason D. Fuqua ’11 9188 Courtney Owens Johnson ’98 9189 Jon R. Johnson ’71 9190 Carolyn Gill 9191 William D. Blocker ’06 9192 Dr. Kelley Linton ’90 9193 Richard Turner ’71 9194 Valerie Turner 9195 Russel Popejoy ’98 9196 Misty Jo Popejoy ’98 9197 Brenda Kay Laguarta ’87 9198 Graydon Chase Laguarta 9199 Gregory L. Trout ’92 9200 Ashley F. Daniel ’00, ’07 9201 David E. Daniel

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host a number of other social events. In addition to their events, the chapter also has a scholarship to support students attending the U of A. The Mace Award recognizes exceptional event planning or program development and execution. The PRIDE Alumni Society was honored with this award for their unique signature event, the PRIDE Drag Brunch. This event demonstrates a connection and service to alumni and friends, a benefit to members, and showcases the PRIDE Alumni Society,

9202 Ashley Marie Quaintance ’15 9203 Colana Bostic Mathis ’79 9204 Derrick T. Little ’91 9205 Hoyte Calvin Cole ’91 9206 Suzanne Cole 9207 Scott R. Jackson ’95 9208 Ann Jackson 9209 Brandon Jay Rush ’14, ’18 9210 Leah Marie Frieden ’13 9211 John E. Sharum ’77 9212 Larry Starr ’83 9213 Barney Woods ’14 9214 Dr. Kazufumi Goto ’79, ’81 9215 David W. Jacobi ’74 9216 Anne Jacobi 9217 Chuck S. Steger ’75, ’82 9218 Jennifer Jones Davis ’93 9219 David Davis 9220 Dennis Lee Anderson II ’02 9221 Fionna Anderson 9222 Erin Elizabeth Farmer 9223 Grant Hylton 9224 Ruth Ann Williams ’72, ’74, ’83 9225 Don M. Henry ’74 9226 Connie J. Henry 9227 John W. Sooter ’70 9228 Deborah Arnold Lindsey ’76

9229 9230 9231 9232 9233 9234 9235 9236 9237 9238 9239 9240 9241 9242 9243 9244 9245 9246 9247 9248 9249 9250 9251 9252 9253

Paul E. Lindsey ’78 Greg T. Boyle ’00 Amber K. Boyle ’99 Dr. Steven L. McCullar ’99 Jason G. Baxter Michael F. Lovett ’73 Deborah K. Lovett Lisa Mikus ’89 James Mikus Sheridon Glenn ’98 Gaye R. Spruell Dr. Wayne Cooper ’67, ’69 Alice Faye Cooper Dr. Christa Washington ’00 Carrie Mae Washington ’81 Robin Thomas Derrick Thomas ’88 Duane L. Kratz ’78 Sharon K. Kratz Gary Spencer ’75, ’78 Sue E. Kelleher ’90 Kenneth W. Duncan ’83 Charyl F. McAfee Duncan De’Arrius R. Howard ’07 Sonya D. Mumford

the Arkansas Alumni Association and the university of Arkansas. This annual event helps support the society’s scholarship fund, which reached endowment in less than two years.

All the award recipients will be recognized at the annual Alumni Awards Celebration on Friday, November 1.

A special thank you to our Alumni Leaders Summit sponsors: First Security Bank, Presenting Sponsor; Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Silver Sponsor; and B-Unlimited as the Reception Sponsor.

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9146 D r. Ricardo David Ekmay ’08, ’11 9147 Joan E. Titus 9148 Dinah Gail Gant ’78 9149 Marcus Allen Jones ’94 9150 Ella Katherine Long ’89, ’92 9151 Rodger S. Kline ’66 9152 B. A. Haynes 9153 Fred A. Berry ’61, ’66, ’77 9154 William G. Gilbert ’74 9155 Dr. Beverly Gilbert 9156 Larry R. Clark ’64 9157 Roger A. Glasgow ’69 9158 Jennifer Barrett Glasgow 9159 Joshua P. Woodard ’01 9160 Carol Hurley Kaplan ’80 9161 Allen W. Bird II ’68 9162 Sherry G. Bird 9163 Katherine Mahan Myers ’51 9164 Courtney Backus Norton ’07 9165 James Hunter Norton ’05 9166 Michael Moss ’68, ’72 9167 Kathy Moss 9168 Mary Sue Jacobs ’64 9169 John H. Jacobs ’63, ’69 9170 Sue H. Waugh ’76 9171 James Phillip Jett Jr. ’92 9172 Amanda Jett 9173 Judith L. Englehart ’71

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Razorback Yearbook

Yesteryear

Yesteryear M uhammad Ali, a boxing star who had been a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, spoke on campus in 1969 as part of a Symposium Series that brought speakers from across the country to campus to talk about issues of the day.

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1879 • Professor W.D.C. Botefuhr raises funds to purchase a chapel organ.

• Greek is required of all students who wish to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.

1899 • The Arkansas Industrial University changes its name to the University of Arkansas after an editorial campaign by the student magazine, The Ozark.

• The Ladies Industrial Art Department is abolished by the legislature on the grounds that no provision had been made for it.

1909 • The Torch organization is founded by the senior girls of 1909 at the suggestion of the dean of women.

1919 • The university community has the opportunity to see recent Broadway performances at the Ozark Theatre, including the traveling musical comedy Some Baby.

1929 • The Globe Trotters Orchestra is organized and plays at university student dances and other engagements.

• Deutscher Verein, a student organization promoting the study of German life and literature, is reorganized after the club was forced to drop its activities during World War I. • The U of A Library orders 600 magazines for students to use, including general and technical periodicals.

1939 • U of A President John C. Futrall is killed in a car accident on U.S. 71 near West Fork. The Board of Trustees appoints a 34-yearold law professor, J. William Fulbright, to lead the university.

• Martha Reid, dean of women and a Latin instructor, sponsors the Women’s League and holds an annual tea for all senior women each spring.

• A committee assigned to examine compulsory participation in ROTC votes to change to a voluntary program. Enrollment in ROTC drops markedly.

1949

• Boxer Muhammad Ali, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick, broadcaster Edwin Newman and Sen. Charles Percy are just a few of the speakers brought to campus for Symposium ’69.

• Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Gould Fletcher teaches art and English as a visiting professor.

• The Student Senate appoints a committee to investigate the high cost of new textbooks and the low price received for used textbooks.

1979

• The U of A receives the Civil Rights Award of Merit from seven civil-rights organizations following the admission of AfricanAmerican students to the graduate school.

• LIFE magazine features Chi Omega sorority, which was founded at the U of A and is now the largest college women’s fraternity in America.

• Three clay tennis courts are resurfaced to hard courts.

1959 • Storm Whaley is appointed acting president of the university.

• Four professors who refuse to comply with a state mandate that requires public employees to file a report listing every organization to which they belong or have contributed are released from service. All four are invited to return after the law is deemed unconstitutional in 1968, but none of them return.

• The Kingston Trio performs to a sold-out house on campus.

1969 • The Division of Continuing Education is created out of what had been the General Extension Division, and Hugh L. Mills is the first dean.

• The Arkansas-Texas football game draws President Richard Nixon, Rev. Billy Graham, a halfdozen congressmen and thousands of fans.

• James E. Halligan becomes the fifth dean of the College of Engineering.

• Clyde Treece, 71, goes back to school for the fifth time.

He first took classes at the U of A in 1926, but returns to learn about new subjects.

• Razorback Stadium becomes the first stadium in the Southwest Conference to install Astroturf.

• More than 14,000 students register in the fall, causing an enormous housing problem.

Fayetteville motels become temporary living quarters for many of the students.

1989 • Razorback Transit has nearly 100,000 riders during the month of March.

• A new computerized ticket system makes it easier for parking department staff to issue and track parking violations. A freshman ticket writer, Alan Hughes, says: “It’s a necessary evil.”

• The Department of Agricultural Engineering is renamed the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.

• The indoor track team wins its ninth-straight Southeast Conference championship.

1999 • The Sam M. Walton College of Business establishes the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame.

• Assistant professor Janine Parry conducts the first Arkansas Poll to gauge Arkansans’ opinions and thoughts about their politics, policies and culture.

• One of the tasks for the eight sessions of orientation during the summer is to teach new students how to register for classes via Hogcall, a telephone registration system.

• The Goo Goo Dolls perform at Barnhill Arena.

• Alumnus Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, former special envoy to the Americas under President Clinton, donates his papers to the University Libraries Special Collections Department.

2009 • Sharon Gaber is named the second provost and fifth vice chancellor for academic affairs.

• History professor Elliott West is one of three finalists for the $215,000 Cherry Award for Great Teaching.

• The San Francisco-based group Third Eye Blind brings its intense music to Barnhill Arena.

• Professor Sidney Burris and Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who teaches at the U of A, lead a group of 15 students to Dharmasala, India, where they conduct oral history interviews with Tibetans who are living in exile.

• Tom Smith is named interim dean of the College of Education and Health Professions and chosen as dean the next year.

• Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, speaks as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture series.

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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

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1960s

1970s

W. Robert Thurlby ✪ BA’66 MD’70, Russellville, is a physician at Arkansas Hospice River Valley Home.

Bob East ★ BSBA’70, Little Rock, received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the college’s annual awards banquet on April 18. The award is presented only to those who make significant achievements in his or her career and are recognized as industry and community

George Billy McGill ✪ BSE’69 MBA’77, Fort Smith, is mayor of Fort Smith. He is the first African American mayor of the city.

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P.O. Box 1070, Fayetteville AR 72702; or by email: records@ arkansasalumni.org.

These symbols indicate Alumni Association membership: ✩ Student Member ★ Member ★+ Member, A+ ✪ Life Member ✪+ Life Member, A+

leaders. To be considered for this award, a Walton College graduate must exemplify the core values of the college, inspire students and be a source of pride for the school.

1980s Virginia Smith Fields ★ BSBA’87 JD’91, Austin, Texas, is the director of enforcement for the Texas Racing Commission.

Aaron Shane Burkes ✪ BS’89, Bethel Heights, is the chief executive officer of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. He was recently named to the Transportation Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

1990s Scott Allen Senseman MS’90 PHD’94, received the

Catherine Irene Williams BSA’91 MS’93, Fayetteville, was awarded the 2018 Arkansas Veterinarian of the Year while attending the Arkansas Veterinary Medical Association Winter Meeting on Feb. 2.

Heather R. Nelson ✪+ BSBA’94, Little Rock, received the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the college’s annual awards banquet on April 18. The award recognizes a Walton College graduate who has proven innovative and successful in a business venture of his or her own creation or reinvention.

Dawn Thomas Warrick ★ BLA’94 MA’99, Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a project manager in the Tulsa office of Reese and Nichols.

Kevin Warren ✪ BSCE’94, Joelton, Tennessee, is the senior director of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Jennifer Leigh Wallach BA’95, Denton, Texas, has published Every Nation Has Its Dish through UNC Press.

Arlington, Texas, is an associate in the Dallas office of Lathrop Gage LLP. Joanne Tam MBA’14, Fayetteville, received the 2019 Outstanding Service Award from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the college’s annual awards banquet on April 18. The award recognizes service by a Walton College graduate who helps build and sustain the alumni and student network through active engagement, such as helping students find jobs and internships, participating in and promoting alumni activities and volunteering for one of the many Walton College department, center or advisory boards.

Bobby Gene Hampton III BSCHE’15, Boston, Massachusetts, is an associate at Fish & Richardson, a global intellectual property law firm.

James L. Crone ★ BA’18, Memphis, Tennessee, is the marketing specialist at The Crone Law Firm.

Friends Kim LaScola Needy ★, Fayetteville, is a board member for United Way of Northwest Arkansas.

B. J. Curtis BSBA’96 is the chief financial officer for HiSpeed Industrial Service.

In Memoriam

2000s

Vivian Horton BSHE’40, Yukon, Oklahoma, December 23, 2017.

She was a bookkeeper for The Springdale News until retirement in 1985.

Survivors: a daughter.

Bertha E. Gutierrez ✪ BA’07, Las Vegas, Nevada, is the Volunteer Program Director at Get Outdoors Nevada.

Molly Amanda Rawn BA’08, Fayetteville, is the president of the Northwest Arkansas Tourism Association.

2010s Ryan C. Hale BSBA’12,

1940s

Margaret Elmore BSBA’42, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 14, 2012. She worked for many years at McVay Drilling.

Survivors: husband, Kenneth Elmore; a son; a daughter; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

In Memoriam

Henry Palmer Hotz, B.S.’48

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2019 Outstanding Alumnus Award from the U of A’s Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science.

Henry Palmer Hotz of Foster City, California, a retired senior scientist and professor, University of Arkansas alumnus, and generous university benefactor, passed away on Feb. 18 at the age of 93.

Hotz received a Bachelor of Science in physics from the University of Arkansas and a doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis. His wife, Marie Brase Hotz, also holds a doctorate from Washington University.

In 2015, the College of Education and Health Professions at the U of A created an endowed dean’s chair thanks to a gift from Palmer and Marie Hotz and a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. The chair was the first of its kind in the college and was named in honor of Palmer Hotz’s father, Henry G. Hotz. Henry Hotz was a member of the university faculty for 24 years, including 11 years as dean of the College of Education.

In addition to this gift, the Hotzes had previously established the Hartman Hotz Lectures Series in honor of Palmer Hotz’s brother, who was an honor graduate of the university and later went on to earn a law degree from Yale before returning to Fayetteville to join the faculty in the School of Law. “Jane and I were so sorry to learn of the passing of Dr. Palmer Hotz,” said David Gearhart, former U of A chancellor. “Both Marie and Palmer were extraordinary academics who love and continue to love the University of Arkansas. Their astute understanding of the great importance of private philanthropy has had a measurable impact on the University of Arkansas. They were extraordinarily generous to the university. They are truly a family of educators.”

Palmer Hotz taught physics until the early 1970s when the family relocated to California and he started working in what became Silicon Valley. They have three children — Henry Brase Hotz, Mary Hotz Hogen and Martha Hotz Vitaterna — as well as five grandchildren.

In 1964, Palmer’s parents’ contributions to campus were recognized with the naming of Hotz Hall. Because of their philanthropy, the Hotzes were recognized in the Towers of Old Main, a giving society for the university’s most generous benefactors. They have also been members of the Chancellor’s Society, life members of the Arkansas Alumni Association and are recognized as Thoroughbreds for their consecutive years of giving to the university.

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Never before has higher education been more important to the state of Arkansas, our nation and world.

The generosity of alumni and friends has transformed the University of Arkansas and continues to provide life-changing opportunities for our students and faculty. Those who consistently make this possible and have dedicated their resources to supporting academic excellence at the University of Arkansas are known as…

Created in 1999, the Towers of Old Main is a giving society for the university’s most generous benefactors and recognizes individuals and couples whose cumulative giving to the University of Arkansas meets or exceeds $100,000.

Now, after 20 years, the giving society includes more than 900 donors as members.

A TRIBUTE TO HISTORY The physical towers of Old Main serve as an icon for higher education across the state of Arkansas. Completed in 1875, when the university was only four years old, all of the university’s colleges and schools can trace their origins to Old Main, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

Because of its distinctive history and importance on the University of Arkansas campus, it is only fitting that donors who are dedicated to the success of the university and support it through private giving are recognized as Towers of Old Main.

To become a Tower of Old Main, donors may choose any of several philanthropic methods to qualify for recognition:

A CELEBRATION OF PHILANTHROPY Private philanthropy becomes more significant with each passing year, and benefactors with cumulative or planned giving of $100,000 or more are invited to be recognized as Towers of Old Main. Donors may choose to become a Tower by accepting this honor. Those who choose to be inducted are presented with a medallion, designed exclusively for the society, at a black-tie event. Additional milestones of lifetime giving are also recognized, including: • A silver pin for the $500,000 milestone • A gold pin for the $1 million milestone • A ruby pin for the $5 million milestone Participating in the Towers of Old Main event is an experience to treasure, knowing you are sharing in the university’s highest honor of giving.

All Towers members are included on the Wall of Honor, a special display of names located in the University Room of University House on campus. Guests are welcome to view the display.

• Cash, including employer matching gifts • Real estate for which the value has been substantiated by appraisal • Gifts in trust, including charitable trusts, testamentary bequests and charitable gift annuities • Securities or other appreciated assets • Life insurance policies, retirement funds and donor-advised funds • Gifts made by family members from family foundations or closely held corporations

THE 2019 TOWERS OF OLD MAIN EVENT At the 2019 event, more than 50 benefactors were honored as Towers of Old Main, while alumni Gerald Alley, Troy Alley and Rick Massey were each recognized with the Chancellor’s Medal, an award given to individuals who embody leadership philanthropically and as volunteers. Held at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, the evening featured presentations from recent graduates Joseph Daniels III and Erin Farmer, as well as performances involving students from the Department of Music, Department of Theatre and the university’s Spirit Squads. Students from the Department of Horticulture created the flower arrangements, demonstrating the truly collaborative spirit of the event.

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In Memoriam

Harry F. Barnes, J LL.B.’64

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Harry F. Barnes, a 1964 graduate of the School of Law and long-time federal judge for the Western District of Arkansas, died Feb. 27, 2019, at the Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden. He was 86.

Barnes was born on May 14, 1932, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Jack and Roberta Crutcher Barnes. He grew up in Joiner and was a graduate of Castle Heights Military Academy. He attended Vanderbilt University for two years, and he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1956 with an engineering degree. He served for 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring from the Marine Corps Reserve in 1986 at the rank of colonel.

After earning his law degree at the U of A, he went into the private practice of law in Camden for 20 years, initially as law partner of David Pryor, who later became a governor and U.S. senator. From 1975 until 1993 he served as a municipal and then circuit judge. In 1993, Barnes was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. After his confirmation by the U.S. Senate, Barnes served as federal judge for the next 25 years.

Judge Barnes was a member of the First United Methodist Church. Two of his children and a son-inlaw also earned law degrees at the university, including Michael Barnes, B.A.’1985, J.D.’88; Elizabeth Ridout, J.D.’94; and Ross Ridout, J.D.’94.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Barnes of Camden; sons, Danny Barnes, Michael Barnes and Patrick Barnes; daughter, Betsy Ridout; eight grandchildren; and two great-granddaughters.

Austin H. Bacher BSME’43, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 19, 1997.

a daughter, a son, a brother, five grandchildren and a greatgranddaughter.

Eddie Louise Baker BSHE’43, New Franklin, Ohio, November 2017. She was retired from teaching home economics. Survivors: two daughters, two sons, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

James A. Strang BSA’48 MS’52, Lavaca, Jan. 8, 2018.

He was a U.S. Navy veteran.

He was a community and state leader and taught agriculture at Lavaca. He also served in the Sebastian County Farm Bureau for over 40 years. Survivors: two sons, a daughter, five sisters, two brothers, eight grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Lavon V. Watson BSA’43, Wesley, November 6, 2017. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force and was a farmer. Survivors: wife, Evelyn Bates Watson; three daughters; two brothers; five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Letitia Shanks Downs BSSW’44, Little Rock, Feb. 16, 2004. Survivors: husband, Dr. Don Downs FS’43; two daughters; a son; a brother and three grandchildren.

Ruth Marie Acton BS’46, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 10, 2006. She was a public school teacher.

Survivors: two daughters and two grandchildren.

Caroline T. Briggs FS’46, Pine Bluff, December 29, 2016. She was an executive secretary. Survivors: two sons and two grandchildren.

Lawrence E. Dawson LLB’48, Pine Bluff, November 11, 2017. He served as a probate and chancery judge for many years and was honored with the position of chancellor at large, where he tried cases throughout the state. Survivors: wife, Margaret Ann Dawson BSHE’52, and two daughters.

Wayne Pyeatt ✪+ BSBA’48, Memphis, Tennessee, January 8, 2018. He was a U.S. Navy veteran. He had a long, distinguished career in banking and served as an instructor at the Stonier School of Banking (Rutgers University), the Fogelman School of Business (University of Memphis) and Rhodes College. Survivors:

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Charles W. Williams Jr. BS’48, Denison, Texas, October 22, 2017. He retired after 33 years as a research chemist for the Safeway Corporation, Brookside Division in Denison. Survivors: two sons, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Robert H. Wilson BSCHE’48, Lynchburg, Virginia, January 13, 2018.

He was a veteran of World War II and was a retired engineer with Babcock and Wilcox Co. Survivors: a son, a daughter, a brother, two sisters, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Richard E. Anderson BSCE’49, Ennis, Montana, October 22, 2017. He briefly served in the U.S. Army and later joined the U.S. Navy advancing through the grades to captain before retiring from military service.

Following retirement from the Navy, he had a varied career including many years in the land and cattle business. Survivors: two daughters and a sister.

Barbara Hampton Clark FS’49, Rogers, November 3, 2017. Survivors: a daughter, two sons, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Hillard R. Duckworth BA’49, Piggott, December 27, 2017. He was a physician at the Piggott Community Hospital. Survivors: wife,

Gwen Duckworth; one son; one daughter; a sister; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

W. Charles Marak Sr. ★ BSCE’49, Little Rock, Jan. 14, 2018. He was a World War II veteran and went on to become a registered engineer. Survivors: wife, Joyce Marak; a son; two daughters; a granddaughter and two great-grandsons.

Mary S. Schumacher BSE’49, Reno, Nevada, August 20, 2017.

Survivors: three sons, nine grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

George Anna Hurst Tow ★ BA’49 MA’55, San Leandro, California, April 5, 2017.

1950s

Max L. Fairley Sr. ★ BSBA’50, Osceola, January 5, 2018. He was a World War II Army veteran and was awarded a Bronze Star. He retired after 35 years in sales with Swift & Co. (Conagra).

Survivors: wife, Bennie Fairley; a son; a daughter, and three grandchildren.

Don W. Allen JD’51, January 1, 2015.

Arlen Martin Crass BSA’51, Pine Bluff, December 22, 2017. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. After graduating from the university, he worked for the Army Corp of Engineers until his retirement in 1984. Survivors: a son, four grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Carrie L. Holland BSE’51 MED’55, North Little Rock, November 20, 2017. She taught at higher education institutions including Central Missouri State College and Henderson State Teachers College.

Gerald Pearson LLB’51, Jonesboro, Jan. 21, 2018. He was a district judge for more than 20 years. Survivors: a son, a daughter and five grandchildren.

Henry Sidney Neel Jr. BA’51 LLB’53, Fayetteville, December 10, 2017. He was a World War II veteran in the U.S. Army. After a career as a special agent in the FBI, he retired to Fayetteville and worked for Knox Investigations. Survivors: wife, Eleanor S. Neel BSE’52; a son; two daughters and three grandchildren.

Rosemary M. Rapley ✪+ BSE’51, Fort Smith, October 10, 2017. She was a teacher and a former member of the Arkansas Alumni Board of Directors. Survivors: husband, Eugene G. Rapley BSBA’51; a daughter; a son; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Edward F. Smith BSBA’51, Rancho Mirage, California, December 5, 2017. He was a United States Air Force veteran of the Korean War and spent most of his life as a farmer.

Lewis D. Clemons MS’52, Wheaton, April 8, 2011.

Pauline Ardell Johnson MS’52, Little Rock, December 13, 2017. She taught school for 39 years.

Julius Michael Komarmy ✪ MS’52 PHD’58, Grand Blanc, Michigan, October 25, 2017. He was a World War II veteran, serving in the 8th Air Force as a B29 mechanic. He retired from General Motors after 28 years as a supervisor of chemical research and then taught chemistry at Mott Community College for more than 20 years. Survivors: wife, Margaret Brainard Komarmy; two sons; two daughters; two stepsons; and five grandchildren.

Robert W. McCuistion JD’52, Arlington, Texas, March 28, 2016. In 194647, he served as the feature writer/make up editor for Stars and Stripes from the Wiesbaden Post in Germany.

He spent many years as a hospital administrator and

then served as a church administrator, retiring from Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville in 1991. Survivors: wife, Sue M. McCuistion; one daughter; four sons; a brother; 16 grandchildren; a five greatgrandchildren.

Nada Joy Clemons BSE’53, Fayetteville, November 5, 2017. She taught school for 40 years in Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Survivors: a son, a daughter, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Robert Irvin Emmert BSEE’53, Roswell, Georgia, November 1, 2017. He was a retired aerospace engineer. Survivors: wife, Ruth Emmert; two sons and a grandchild.

J.G. Jones BSA’53, Bentonville, January 11, 2018. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He retired after 23 years as district conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service in Benton County. Survivors: wife, Mae Morton Jones ★ BSE’53, MED’80; two daughters; one son; a sister; three grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Thomas L. Stanford Jr. BA’53, Huntsville, Alabama, November 24, 2015.

Donald E. Chaney ★ BA’54, Springfield, Missouri, Nov. 16, 2018. He served in the Air Force as a navigator for three years and was an attorney with Chaney & McCurry LLP until his retirement. Survivors: wife, Caryl L. Chaney ★; two daughters; a son and four grandchildren.

Martha White Hemphill BSE’54, West Memphis, Jan. 22, 2018. She was a guidance counselor for 40 years.

Survivors: a daughter and two grandchildren.

Wayne F. Swofford BSBA’54, Fort Smith, November 13, 2017. He was

a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army. He retired as trust officer from First National Bank of Fort Smith.

Survivors: wife, Sandra Swofford; two daughters and two grandchildren.

William A. Townsend BSEE’54, Lake Worth, Florida, October 26, 2017.

He was a retired senior engineer. Survivors: four daughters, two sons, 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Ann Marie Cobb BSBA’55, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 5, 2010.

Survivors: two sons and four grandchildren.

Jack D. Lowrey BSJ’55, Russellville, January 4, 2018.

He was president of Lowrey Picwood Inc., a movie theater business, before selling to UEC. Survivors: husband, Tim Johnston, and a son.

John Bruce Streett BA’55, Little Rock, December 29, 2017. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He retired after 32 years at Wittenberg Delony and Davidson Architects.

Survivors: wife, GeorgeAnn Streett; two daughters; a sister and two grandchildren.

Don E. Wyatt BSE’55 MED’58, Overland Park, Kansas, October 24, 2017.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in the Korean War. Wyatt was a teacher and school principal.

Survivors: wife, LaRue Hawkins Wyatt BSBA’54; a daughter; a son; a brother and one grandson.

Robert L. Ambler BSE’56, Midwest City, Oklahoma, January 1, 2018. He retired as Midwest City High School coach and science teacher after 30 years.

Betty Hamilton Pool BSHE’56, Houston, Texas, Jan 8, 2018. She had a career as a secretary for Texas Medical Center, retiring from the UT School of Public Health. Survivors: a daughter, two sons and two grandchildren.

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James H. Simmons MED’56, Daytona Beach, Florida, December 16, 2017. He was a U. S. Army veteran and a high school teacher and coach. Survivors: wife, Sunny Simmons; two sisters and a brother.

Frances Angelee Arnold MED’57, Rogers, December 15, 2017. She was a public school teacher. Survivors: husband, William F. Arnold MED’56, and a daughter.

Henry L. Bowden BSA’57, Springdale, January 6, 2018. He retired as an area agent for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture after more than four decades in the field of agriculture.

Mark D. DeLay ✪+ BSE’57, Lemont, Illinois, June 21, 2016. He was a U. S. Army veteran. Survivors: wife, Marianne Goodyear Delay; a daughter; a son; a sister and two grandchildren.

Freeman F. Glover BSE’57, East Edgewood, Washington, December 24, 2017. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army having served in three overseas tours of duty and remained in active reserves for 26 years, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He was awarded two Bronze Stars.

He also had a long career in education and retired from teaching and coaching.

Survivors: wife, Bobbie Glover, a daughter; a son; and four grandchildren.

Paul A. Engelke BSBA’58, Siloam Springs, January 8, 2018. He was an accountant and tax consultant. He also had a career as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service.

Survivors: wife, Janette Findt Engelke FS’58; two sons; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Rex Marsh BSBA’58, Arkansas City, Nov. 1, 2014.

Greg Pinkston BSA’58, Weslaco, Texas, January 20, 2017.

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Don B. Weis BSBA’58, Collierville, Tennessee, January 4, 2018. He had a long career in the propane industry. After retirement, he became president of the Tamak Transportation Corporation. Survivors: wife, Helen Cooper Weiss; four daughters; one son; two sisters; and nine grandchildren.

Neta C. Cox ✪ BSBA’59, Clovis, California, December 24, 2017. She was a retired program director from UNISYS and a renowned breeder of Tonkinese cats.

Survivor: a brother.

Raymond S. Morris BA’59, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 25, 2017. He was a financial planner for more than 40 years with Raymond James Financial. Survivors: two sons, two daughters, 11 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Theodore D. Rogers BSBA’59, Little Rock, December 31, 2017. He retired after 33 years with the Arkansas National Guard. He also retired as vice president of sales for the Arkansas Farm Bureau. Survivors: wife, Martha Womack Rogers BSE’60; two sons; a sister and three grandchildren.

Sue Trotter BSE’59, Pine Bluff, January 5, 2018.

Survivors: a daughter, a son, and five grandchildren.

Richard Dorris Weaver BSE’59 MED’62, Bentonville, October 27, 2017. He was a teacher, principal and school administrator in Bentonville Public Schools. Survivors: wife, Glenna Weaver; one daughter; one son; nine grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren.

1960s

Roger C. Crum Jr. ★ BSA’60, Rogers, November 1, 2017.

He worked in the animal health industry. Survivors: wife, Brenda Crum; one son; two brothers; one sister and two grandchildren.

Jane Davidson ★ BSHE’60, North Little Rock, Jan. 20, 2018. Survivors: two sons, one brother and three grandchildren.

Jerry Alan Evers BS’60, El Dorado, December 12, 2017. He was a pastor and a geophysicist. Survivors: two daughters, six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Jolene Garrett BSE’60, Vinita, Oklahoma, December 10, 2017. She was a retired contracts analyst, working for the United States Department of Energy in Tulsa and the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Survivors: five children; a brother and 11 grandchildren.

Jerry Wayne Hobbs BSEE’60, Savannah, January 10, 2018. He retired from the telecommunications industry after 30 years. Survivors: wife, Nellie Jo Roth Hobbs; a daughter; two grandchildren and a great-grandson.

Martha M. Tooley BSBA’60, Port Charlotte, Florida, September 24, 2016.

Elizabeth Barron Evans MED’61, Little Rock, Jan. 11, 2018. She retired after many years of dedicated service to public school systems as a teacher. Survivors: a son, a daughter, 15 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and eight great-greatgrandchildren.

Allan W. Horne LLB’61, Little Rock, Jan. 21, 2018.

Ken Hughes MED’61, Benton, December 28, 2017.

He was a teacher and real estate agent. Survivors: wife, Helen Hughes; two daughters; one son; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Jack W. Sanders ★ BSME’61, Saint Louis, Missouri, January 9, 2019.

He was a veteran of U.S. Army and achieved the rank of captain. He retired from

Procter and Gamble after working as an engineer for 33 years. Survivors: wife, Sara B. Sanders ★ BA’61; three sons; one brother and six grandchildren.

Joe C. Smith MED’61, Collierville, Tennessee, December 26, 2017. He was employed as a teacher for 17 years. He ended his career as a district director for the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service.

Survivors: wife, Mary Scott Smith; two sons; a daughter; a sister; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and two great-greatgrandchildren.

Jack Curtis Hammett Jr. BSEE’62, Paeonian Springs, Virginia, Jan. 1, 2018. He was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps for over 20 years, achieving the rank of colonel.

He also served as a senior vice president for the Science Applications International Corporation for over a decade. Survivors: his wife, Sharon Long Hammett; two daughters; two stepsons; a stepdaughter; three grandchildren and nine stepgrandchildren.

Jo An J. Rhode BSE’62, Corpus Christi, October 29, 2013. She taught school for 20 years. Survivors: a son, a daughter, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Bette Barnett Davis BSN’63, Texarkana, Texas, December 18, 2017. She was a registered nurse. Survivors: husband, Dr. Terry R. Davis; a daughter; a son; two brothers and one grandson.

Leonard E. McKinney BSIE’63, Magnolia, December 22, 2017. He was an industrial engineer with Firestone and Amfuel for most of his career, and he retired from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. Survivors: wife, Patsy Ann Reid; four daughters; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Howard M. Holthoff BSBA’64 JD’73, Dumas, December 4, 2017. He was an attorney and a Desha County District Judge.

Survivors: wife, Rita Rial Holthoff BSE’76; four sons; a brother and four grandchildren.

Lester H. Hutchins Jr. MBA’64, Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 1, 2018. He retired from Phillips Petroleum Company.

Survivors: his wife, Andie McGowan Hutchins; two daughters, a sister, and four grandchildren.

Sam E. Keilberg BSE’64, Euless, Texas, December 26, 2017. After 17 years teaching school, he worked for the General Motors Acceptance Corporation until retirement. Survivors: wife, Linda Edwards Keilberg; a son; two daughters; a brother; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Jerry R. Stewart ✪ MD’64, Fort Smith, December 26, 2017. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He spent more than 25 years practicing internal and pulmonary medicine.

He transitioned to medical administration serving for 10 years as the CEO of Cooper Clinic. Survivors: wife, Sandra Stewart; one daughter; two sons; a sister and five grandchildren.

John E. Aist BSE’66, Fayetteville, November 22, 2017. He was a retired teacher from the Fort Smith School District. Survivors: wife, Carlotta Spencer Aist BSE’69, MED’72; four sisters and two brothers.

David R. Magness BSBA’66, Bella Vista, December 21, 2017. He worked for Amoco

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Oil Company. Survivors: a son and a brother.

Lem Tull, B.S.C.E.’58

Larry R. Sharp BSBA’66, Sam Rayburn, Texas, December 31, 2017. He was a U. S. Army veteran. He retired after working for the Shell Oil Company for 30 years. Survivors: wife, Shirley Sharp; two daughters a sister and a step-grandson.

Donald Rodney Cassil BSBA’68, Hot Springs, October 29, 2017. He had a successful advertising business. Survivors: wife, Paula Cassil; a son; a daughter; two stepchildren and a granddaughter.

Tim N. McKendry BSBA’68, Mineola, Texas, December 27, 2017. He was a municipal bond salesman for First City Bank in Houston. Survivors: wife, Carolyn McKendry, a son and one grandchild.

Lee A. Munson LLB’68, Little Rock, December 21, 2017.

He had a long legal career including serving for 20 years as chancery judge in the Sixth Judicial Court. He retired as a municipal/district judge after 18 years of service. Survivors: wife, Alice A. Fiser Munson MA’64; a son; a daughter; a sister and five grandchildren.

Carmen Beshoner MA’69, Fort Smith, July 1, 1998.

Jacob P. Mikles III BSBA’69, Booneville, December 4, 2017. He served on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and was an election commissioner. He was a consultant. Survivors: two daughters and two grandsons.

Charles H. Pearson MA’69, Russeville, December 3, 2017. He was a U.S. Army veteran. He was a math and science teacher at Morrilton High School and taught math and mechanical drawing at Arkansas Tech. Survivors: wife, Margaret Freeman Pearson; a daughter; a son and four grandchildren.

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Reedy R. Buzbee BSBA’64, Austin, Texas, October 27, 2017. He was a U. S. Navy veteran and a real estate developer. Survivors: wife, Mary Holt Buzbee; two daughters; a brother and four grandchildren.

Lemuel “Lem” H. Tull, 85, one of the co-founders of the Crafton and Tull engineering firm in Rogers, died Jan. 31, 2019, at Mercy Hospital in Rogers.

Tull was born in Lonoke County on April 18, 1933, to Lilburn and Arkie (Autry) Tull. He lived in Keo until 1944, when his family moved to Sylvan Hills where Lem attended North Little Rock High School.

He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1958. He was a member of and served as president of Sigma Pi Fraternity. He was an honorary member of Chi Epsilon, and was a Registered Professional Engineer in Arkansas and Missouri. In 1983, Lem was inducted in the Arkansas Academy of Professional Engineers.

Tull served in the U.S. Army from 1956-1958 at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1962.

He married Margaret Ann Kennan of Rogers in 1961 in Little Rock. They had two children, Melissa Ann and James Lemuel.

Tull worked for the Missouri Highway Department before serving in the U.S. Army but returned to Arkansas to work as a bridge design engineer, assistant resident engineer, and resident engineer for the Arkansas Highway Department. In 1963, Lem and fellow engineer Bob Crafton left the Arkansas Highway Department to start a civil engineering company in Rogers.

At Crafton and Tull, Lem served in various roles including chief executive officer and chair of the board.

During his 30 years of service the company grew to over 90 employees merging with local firms to include architectural services, including work on Discovery Hall on the university campus.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Crafton Tull Foundation, which gives grants to local charities and scholarships to area youth, First United Methodist Church, or the charity of your choice.

Tull is survived by his wife, Margaret Ann (Kennan) Tull; a daughter; a son; a sister; six grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

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In Memoriam

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Hugh Brewer, ✪+ B.S.E.E.’59 Hugh H. Brewer Jr., passed away peacefully on April 22 at the age of 82. He was born in Fort Smith on June 19, 1936. He graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in electrical engineering.

While at the university, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Following graduation, Brewer served in the U.S. Army as a 1st Lt. and Battery Commander of the Nike missile site on Lake Michigan in Chicago. He later returned to Fayetteville and earned his registration as a Professional Electrical Engineer in 1966. Following employment with SWEPCO and McClelland Consulting Engineers, Brewer purchased Upchurch Electrical Supply, where he served as president and chief executive officer until his retirement.

Brewer was an active leader in the community and served with multiple organizations over the years, including the Fayetteville Downtown Rotary Club, the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, the Arkansas Air Museum, the Fayetteville Civil Service Commission, and the Arkansas Academy of Electrical Engineering.

He served on the Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors for several years, including serving as the treasurer of the association. Brewer was also a member of the Alumni Center Building Committee during the expansion of the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House.

Brewer and his wife Martha created the Hugh and Martha Brewer Endowed Scholarship in Electrical Engineering at the University of Arkansas in 2015.

Brewer received multiple awards and honors from the University of Arkansas and College of Engineering. The Arkansas Alumni Association honored him with the Arkansas Alumni Community Service Award in 2014.

In 2015, he received the Arkansas Electrical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award and was inducted into the Engineering Hall of Fame, the highest honor from the College of Engineering.

He is survived by his wife, Martha Rice Brewer B.A. ’58, M.A. ’02 ✪; two sons; a daughter; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

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Sandra Kay Stacey BSBA’69, Springfield, Missouri, August 14, 2017. She was retired from the Missouri Division of Employment.

Philip L. Wilkerson MA’69, Paragould, Nov. 7, 2017. He was a professor of history at Crowley’s Ridge College for 50 years and a Church of Christ preacher for 45 years. Survivors: wife, Shelia Wilkerson; two sons; two brothers and a grandson.

1970s

Nancy Haller Young BA’70, Jasper, March 8, 2017. She was an emergency room physician.

Kenneth S. Peters FS’71, San Antonio, Texas, April 3, 2017. He was a teacher for over 20 years at Northside ISD, Somerset ISD and San Antonio Academy. Survivors: a brother.

Charles A. Daniels ✪ MA’72, Clements, Maryland, Feb. 27, 2016. He was a retired educator. Survivors: a brother.

John P. Nutt Jr. BSEE’73, Benton, November 29, 2017. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He retired

from Alcoa. Survivors: wife, Annette Prince Nutt; two stepsons; two sisters and a stepgrandson.

H. L. Polsgrove MED’74, Russellville, Jan. 19, 2018.

He was a retired school administrator. Survivors: wife, Sherry Nordin Polsgrove; two daughters; a sister and two grandchildren.

Richard Warner St. John Jr. BA’74, Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 13, 2014. Survivors: a sister.

1980

Jennifer Jackson Eads BSCSE’88, Vancouver, Washington, Jan. 12, 2018.

1990

Shirley Lucas ✪+ BSN’96, Fayetteville, Jan. 22, 2018.

She had a 31-year nursing career. Survivors: husband, Andy Lucas ✪+ BA’59; four sons; a daughter; a sister; nine grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Randall Dean Austin PHD’97, Chadron, Nebraska, Dec. 12, 2006. He was a beloved history professor for 10 years. Survivors: his father, three sisters and three brothers.

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Chapter of the Theta Chi Fraternity and served as the chapter’s philanthropy committee chair and then as its treasurer. He was a member of The Inspirational Chorale and served as its secretary-treasurer.

Additionally, Hylton was a Walton College ambassador.

Hylton says he felt surprise and shock upon being named the recipient of the Senior Honor Citation.

He continued by saying that he was humbled and honored to be recognized, especially amongst the whole class of Razorback Classics whose “pedigrees were just amazing.” Hylton would like people to know that for each of his accomplishments he had amazing support from family, friends and the faculty and staff at the university. He would like to give back to the university by using whatever platforms he has to advocate for the U of A, as he believes that everyone should know that it is a top tier university.

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OFFICERS President Teena Gunter ✪ ’92, ’97, Oklahoma City, OK Past President Don Eldred ✪+ ’81, Houston, TX Treasurer Kenneth Biesterveld ✪ ’05, ’10, Centerton, AR Assistant Treasurer Don Walker ✪ ’74, Fayetteville, AR Secretary Deborah Blume ✪+ ’08, Fayetteville, AR BOARD OF DIRECTORS Class of 2019 John Forrest Ales ✪ ’02, San Francisco, CA Linda Bedford-Jackson ✪ ’80, Austin, TX Susan Kemp ✪ ’73, ’75, Little Rock, AR Robert Kolf ✪+ ’78, Wildwood, MO Greg Lee ✪+ ’70, Fayetteville, AR Paul Parette ✪+ ’89, Dallas, TX Ron Rainey ✪ ’91, ’93, Little Rock Lott Rolfe IV ✪ ’94, Maumelle, AR Roger Sublett ✪ ’64, ’65, Mason, OH Amy Tu ✪ ’96, Fayetteville, AR Brian Wolff ✪ ’89, Washington, DC Class of 2020 John Berrey ✪ ’91, Sperry, OK Tori Bogner ✪ ’13, ’16, Fayetteville, AR LaTonya Foster ✪ ’96, Springdale, AR Cecilia Grossberger-Medina ★ ’08, Fayetteville, AR Steven Hinds ✪ ’89, ’92, Fayetteville, AR Regina Hopper ✪ ’81, ’85, Alexandria, VA Jordan Patterson Johnson ✪ ’00, Little Rock, AR Don Walker ✪ ’74, Fayetteville, AR Class of 2021 Kristen Allbritton ✪ ’04, McKinney, TX Ashley Harris ✪ ’95, Fayetteville, AR Kristin Kaufman ✪ ’83, Dallas, TX Chris Johnson ✪ ’93, North Little Rock, AR Bobby Jones ✪ ’84, Savannah, GA Connie Lewis Lensing ✪ ’74, JD’77, Memphis, TN Drake McGruder ✪ ’06, ’12, Fort Smith, AR Dustin McDaniel ✪ ’94, Little Rock, AR Courtney Backus Norton ★ ’07, Fayetteville, AR STAFF Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni and Executive Director of the Arkansas Alumni Association Brandy Cox ✪ MA’07 Director of Membership and Marketing Terri Dover ✪+ Director of Outreach and Programs Thomas Ellis ★ BA’96, MBA’98 Director of Finance Hal Prescott ✪ Lisa Ault ★ BSBA’94, Accounting Specialist; Catherine Baltz ✪+ BS’92, MED’07, Assistant Director of Communications; Tim Barker ★, Fiscal Support Analyst; Shanedra Barnes ✪, Assistant Director of Outreach and Engagement; Debbie Blume ✪+ BSBA’08, Board and Campaign Coordinator; Melissa Brawner ★ B.S.B.A.’99, marketing coordinator; Carol Cooper ★, Chapters and Student Programs Assistant; Deb Euculano ✪, Senior Associate Director of Alumni Special Events; Florence Galbraith ★, Fiscal Support Analyst; Mercedes Gazaway ★, Assistant Director of Student Programs; Brock Haegele ★ BA’17, Chapters and Student Programs Assistant; Mary Kate Harrison ★ BA’15, MA’17, Special Projects Coordinator; Ryan Jones ★, Membership and Marketing Assistant; Lisy McKinnon ★ BA’97, Associate Director of Chapter Programs; Rachel Moore ★ BSHES ’07, Assistant Director of Membership & Marketing; Emily Piper ★, Administrative Specialist; Patti Sanders ✪+ BSA’08, Associate Director of Alumni Scholarships; Julie Simpson ★, Associate Director of Facilities and Special Events; Elizabeth Lee Shoultz ★ B.A. ’16, MPA ’18, Manager of Affinity Programs and Analysis

he’s glad she’ll be an “off-season” baby.

That will make two off-season and two in-season babies, he said.

But first, the rest of the family has to move to New York. Beth and the kids are still in Fort Lauderdale, soaking up the sunshine. Loggains said they’ll all have to get used to the cold weather again. He said his family is highly adaptable, though.

Loggains said his wife often has to operate like a single mother and he gives her major props for taking care of the kids so well, not to mention navigating all the moves they’ve made.

“She’s an incredible mom,” he said.

Beth is currently trying to close on their house in Fort Lauderdale so she and the kids can move to New York.

“This is our seventh move, not counting coming from Arkansas and Texas,” she said. “Navigating the logistics is the hard part, but moving to a new place also means we get to meet people we didn’t know we’d get to meet.

“And we can keep in touch with all the other friends we got to meet before.”

Beth Loggains said coaching is a calling for her husband, while pediatric physical therapy is hers. When their first two children were young, she was able to work in the field at a clinic which had a preschool on campus. She plans to get back into the profession after “baby girl” is born and gets a little older.

That might be in New York, or maybe a new city.

She said it’s not always easy being married to an NFL coach, but it’s always an adventure.

“That’s the word I use to describe our life,” she said. “We used to try and make plans, but we’ve learned that the Lord may have a completely different plan. We just have to fulfill our mission.”

Beth Loggains said she ignores her husband’s inevitable critics. He’s more resigned.

“That’s just part of it,” he said with a little laugh. “When you’re winning, it’s

great, but when you lose, those passionate fans can go the other way.

“But we love our passionate fan base.

And we just try to win as many games as we can.”

As a big fan of sports of all sorts, Loggains said he understands that passion.

But he sympathizes with the coaches and doesn’t fault them when a team loses.

“I have a great appreciation for all coaches in all sports,” he said.

Solid Work Ethic Loggains said when it comes to winning or losing, he focuses on having a solid work ethic and putting in the time. He sees his ultimate goal as a coach to help each team member play to his potential.

The best part of coaching life is celebrating a win in the locker room, he said.

“It’s the best feeling in the world to see the looks on everyone’s faces,” he said.

“The faces of the coaches, the players, the wives and kids.”

Loggains said he’s always been fortunate to have good head coaches who make sure families feel included.

He looks forward to that experience in New York.

Loggains tries to get back to Arkansas on occasion. He was in Hot Springs for a high school football clinic last year. For 12 years straight, he was able to visit Fayetteville, but broke his streak a few years back when life got too busy.

Regardless, the area — not to mention the Razorback team — will always be special to him.

“Walking on at Arkansas was something I’d always wanted to do,” he said. “It was a dream to have a role with the Razorbacks.”

When asked if he thought his kids might go to college at the U of A, Loggains didn’t rule it out.

“They all know how to call the Hogs,” he said. “They’ll be strongly influenced.”

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Photo by Russell Cothern

Last Look

Lifetime Experience Former First Lady Bush Gives Lecture Former first lady Laura Bush talks with Robyn Ledbetter-Starling, instructor of journalism and director of student media, as part of the university’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Bush told a crowd of several thousand students and members of the public about her continued work on education reform and women’s rights in developing countries. An international student from Kenya, Mosa Agare, told the media he couldn’t miss the opportunity to hear Mrs. Bush speak in person. “I just used to hear her over the radio, and I didn’t know one day I would have this lifetime experience to see her and hear her talk.”

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