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HISTORY OF THE HOG

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When the mythic people known as Arkansawyers were paired up with a fabled beast called the Razorback, it turned out to be a match made in Hog Heaven.

THE DOCTOR IS IN

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Ten years after creation of the Doctoral Fellows program, the university’s Graduate School and its doctoral students are reaping ever higher benefits.

PUNCTUATED TRADITION!

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When the Razorback Marching Band needed a way to put an exclamation mark on the end of their performance, the senior-most cymbals player, Paul Smith, got the call to be the dot.

DEPARTMENTS

2 Campus View

4 Letters

6 Picture This

8 On the Hill

14 Profile

30 Associations

44 Razorback Road

50 Yesteryear

54 Senior Walk

64 Last Look

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ARKANSAS Publisher Graham Stewart

Editor Charlie Alison’82 ’04 Associate Editor Tammy W. Tucker ’97 ’03 Creative Director Amanda Ryan Photo Editor Russell Cothren Writers & Contributors Dave Edmark, ‘93 Diane Cook ’88 ’03 Jennifer Fulford ’89 ’95 Matt McGowan Darinda Sharp ’94 ’99 ’05 Heidi Stambuck ’88 Danielle Strickland ’09 Kevin Trainor ’94 ’05 Steve Voorhies ’78

Greetings from the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House!

As the new executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association, I am honored to be a part of an organization that works to connect and serve the YOU of A family, including the 26,000 members of the Alumni Association and all alumni who have a desire to engage with each other and with the U of A. Since beginning my duties in May, I can speak with confidence that we have the opportunity to take an excellent association to the next level. Mike Macechko’s leadership has built a program with financial strength, membership excellence and broad volunteer engagement.

Our scholarship efforts are among the best in the country, and the current staff is talented, dedicated and hardworking.

In these beginning stages, I have been, and will continue to do a lot of listening – to the Board of Directors, campus leaders, AAA staff, other alumni volunteers and stakeholders – to hear their thoughts on the association. Where are we most effective? In what ways can we work more collaboratively? I have already begun work in concert with the staff to assess all areas of the Alumni Association – marketing, programming, board development and management, financial administration, campus and volunteer relations, as well as our role in the next campaign. This assessment will provide important information on which we can build a strategic plan for the association that will guide us for the coming years.

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As Alumni Association members, you understand that the University of Arkansas is an incredibly special place, which has provided a lifetime of memories to thousands of alumni and their families. Devoted Razorback alumni and friends want only the best for the U of A and each other. It is our role as the Alumni Association to facilitate connections, provide engagement opportunities, foster memories and inform alumni about the university today. There is nothing quite as rewarding as seeing these goals realized, and we see it every day in our work.

I want to thank you for your support as the Alumni Association staff and I work to guide us towards a brighter future for the association.

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Feature Designers Laura Bennett Amanda Ryan Advertising Coordinator Catherine Baltz ’92 ’07 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters to the editor are accepted and e­ ncouraged. Send letters for publication to Arkansas Magazine, Office of University ­Relations, 200 Davis Hall, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 or by e-mail to editor@uark.edu. Letters should be no longer than 250 words and may be edited for length.

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

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

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

Graham Stewart Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Executive Director of the Arkansas Alumni Association

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Value Statement The Arkansas Alumni Association values: …the University of Arkansas Family …our members …our University and its unique heritage …lifelong connections and relationships Arkansas Summer 12-075 Cover photo by Eric Pipkin All photos by Russell Cothren unless otherwise noted Please recycle.

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The Kappa Alpha fraternity house in 1928 at 717 W. Dickson Street, the approximate location of the new Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering Building.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to an article on page 11 in the Summer 2012 Arkansas alumni magazine concerning two new fraternities to join the U of A Greek community, said fraternities being Beta Theta Pi and Kappa Alpha.

I’m getting kind of “long in the tooth,” but I have a vague recollection of Kappa Alpha being on the campus before, back in the early 1950s, and it seems like they had a new house over by the stadium, which may be where the Alumni Association sits today.

My father was a Kappa Alpha, and he wanted me to pledge it, but I chose Pi Kappa Alpha instead, as several of the men from our county were already at that fraternity, and I felt more comfortable there.

Would appreciate your checking your history, and verifying to me as to whether or not I have the “Old Timer’s” disease!

Kindest Regards, John Fuller Cross, B.S.A. 1957

M Memories VE-IN Two Facebook notes about move-in day at the university and a picture of Pomfret Hall drew notes from alumni and friends of the university: Teresa Luneau recalled her room at Pomfret:

“I lived on the top floor in 1970-1971 and had a private room overlooking the football stadium and on game days I would rent out my room and go to the library to study! Can you believe that? Now I am an avid Razorback football fan!

Shanley Lauren Compton also replied:

“I had my dad and now fiancé move me into Maple Hill. I had a ton of stuff. They did it in 2 trips and set me up. It took all of 30 minutes. Everyone asked to borrow them. haha Susan Adams Worob shared a mother’s perspective:

“Moving my daughter into Reid her first year was so much simpler than her friends’ experiences at other universities! We were so impressed at how helpful the Fayetteville community was.

Our helpers included members of the high school band and their parents! We live 9 hours away in Texas and immediately felt like a part of the Razorback Family.”

EDITOR’S REPLY:

Charlie Treece recalled his freshman move-in:

Yes sir, your memory is correct. Kappa Alpha was a fraternity on the campus from 1895 until sometime in the 1950s. I’m not sure why the fraternity was discontinued during that time period, but Kappa Alpha stops showing up in the Razorback yearbook by 1959. They returned for a shorter period during the 1980s and 1990s.

Thanks so much for your inquiry.

“Moving into Humphreys Hall was simple enough for me with only a couple of suitcases and boxes, but the trauma happened when it turned out my assigned room was that of an assistant RA who was supposed to have a private room. I was made his roommate because of lack of available rooms. He was not happy, but we survived the experience for one semester.”

Best regards, Charlie Alison

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And Debra Koch Scharf wrote:

“I lived in Pomfret for two of my four years at the university. Have lots of fun memories of Pomfret including when we had to ask the cafeteria servers what frito chili pie was.” ■ ARKANSAS

OFFICERS President John Reap ’70, Dallas,TX Past President Steve Nipper ’71, ’73, Magnolia Treasurer Tom Dorre ’68, ’81, Fayetteville Secretary Deborah Blume ’08, Fayetteville BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2010-2013 Gerri Ayers ’77, Houston,TX Ritche Manley Bowden ’86, Memphis,TN Bao Bui ’98, Fayetteville Virginia Rainwater Cox ’82, Jonesboro Don Eldred ’81, Houston,TX Vince Jones ’95, Centennial, CO Johnathon Mormon ’02, McGehee Charlene Reed ’74, ’77, Marianna Jeffrey M. Stephens ’86, Hot Springs Brandon Timbes ’98, Charlotte, NC 2011-2014 Ben Beaumont ’04, Little Rock Leslie F. Belden ’79, ’05, Fayetteville Judy Drummond Covert ’83, Bel Aire, KS Dewayne Goldmon ’85, ’87, Pine Bluff Kay Collett Goss ’63, ’66, Alexandria, VA Anthony Lucas ’99, ’04, Little Rock Carla Martin ’04, Pine Bluff Heather Nelson ’94, Little Rock Melissa Pianalto ’88, ’90, Springdale Chuck Roscopf ’79, ’83, Helena 2012-2015 Kenneth Biesterveld ’05, ’10, Bentonville John L Colbert ’76, ’81, Fayetteville John W. Cole ’76, ’78, Springdale Rita Geiger ’66, Oklahoma City, OK Teena Gunter ’92, ’97, Oklahoma City, OK Sharon Hunt ’73, ’75, Fayetteville William L. Kerr ’88,Tampa, FL Terry Rasco ’71, ’72, Little Rock Stephanie S. Streett ’91, Little Rock Joel G.Wood ’74, Germantown,TN STAFF Executive Director Graham Stewart Director, Alumni Services Terri Dover Director, Communications Tammy Tucker ’97, ’03 Director, Administrative Services Debbie Blume ‘08 Interim Director, Programs Angela Mosley Monts ’80 Debbie Abbott, assistant director; Nicole Allbritton ‘07, ‘10, communications assistant; Carolyn Baltz ’03, associate director, alumni services; Catherine Baltz ’92, ’07, print communications coordinator; Kelly Bostick, electronic communications coordinator, Heath Bowman ’10, assistant director; Brendan Curington ’02, ’06, staff accountant; Deb Euculano, associate director; Kabrina Gardner ’10, programs assistant; Meredith Hawkins, communications specialist; Airic Hughes, student programs coordinator; Robin January ’98, scholarship coordinator; Julie Preddy ‘04, associate director; Betty Rowe, Membership Coordinator; Chris Wallen, alumni records manager

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Connecting and serving the YOU of A family…

The Arkansas Alumni Association’s mission is to connect and serve the YOU of A family.

That’s why you get this magazine four times a year. These pages will show you first-hand that your membership does make a difference!

You are the YOU of A. You push us forward.

Members are our lifeblood.

Keep reading and see why.

www.arkansasalumni.org Stay connected through our new website and login today!

Create your account, update your profile, look for old classmates and view all membership VIPerks and their discount codes anytime you want!

Members of the Arkansas Alumni Association support the You of A through: Supporting education through scholarships • Faculty & Staff Awards of Excellence • Recruitment • Alumni support rankings • Career networking • Legislative advocacy network

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Repetition of Form The renovation of Vol Walker Hall includes restoration of what was originally the reading room when Vol Walker opened as the university’s library (inset). When finished, it will continue to be studio space for students in the Fay Jones School of Architecture. The school, which includes programs in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design, plans to move back into Vol Walker by the fall of 2013.

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Jane Goodall to speak at 10th birthday celebration of Honors College Legendary primatologist and conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and a United Nations Messenger of Peace, will speak on campus this fall as the headline event for the University of Arkansas Honors College 10th Birthday Celebration taking place Oct.4-5. The lecture is cosponsored by the University of Arkansas Honors College and the student Distinguished Lectures Committee.

Goodall’s lecture, “Making a Difference: An Evening with Jane Goodall,” will take place at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 5, at Barnhill Arena on the University of Arkansas campus. The event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. A book signing will follow her remarks.

“We’re delighted to work with the Honors College to bring Dr. Goodall to campus,” said Autumn Lewis, an honors political science and economics major in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences who co-chairs the Distinguished Lectures Committee. “It’s been one of our long-term goals to bring her here, and we can’t wait to hear firsthand from a woman who is so committed to our environment and its preservation.”

In 1958, Goodall sailed to Africa to pursue a lifelong dream of living with and writing about wild animals. After working with legendary anthropologist Louis Leakey, she was offered the rare opportunity to study wild chimpanzees on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika at the Gombe Stream Reserve. Armed with a diploma from the Queen’s Secretarial School in London and accompanied by her mother, Goodall persevered in an environment where others had lasted only months.

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Dr. Jane Goodall with an orphan chimpanzee that lives at an animal sanctuary. Goodall does not handle wild chimpanzees.

Her patient, unrelenting study and observation yielded surprising results. Chimpanzees fashion and use tools — a task previously thought to be a purely human characteristic — and they hunt and eat meat. Care of the young is long and close. Chimpanzees are sociable and expressive — sometimes when friends meet they fling their arms around each other in a delighted embrace. When National Geographic documented Goodall’s early discoveries in articles and television specials, “Jane Goodall” became a household name.

In 1965, Goodall founded the Gombe Stream Research Centre, and the following year earned a Ph.D. in ethology, the scientific study of animal behavior, from Cambridge University. In 1977, she established the Jane Goodall Institute, which today is a global organization with more than 27 offices that support research at Gombe, as well as community-centered conservation programs in Africa, and youth leadership and education around the world. Goodall’s book, The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior, culminated the first 20 years of the Gombe research and is recognized as a milestone in the understanding of wild chimpanzee behavior.

Honors College alumni interested in attending should visit honorscollege.uark.edu/alumni for more information. ■

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Faculty, staff confirm university rating in “Great Colleges to Work For”

Pizzolatto weaves Louisiana into Hollywood Alumnus Nic Pizzolatto M.F.A.’05 will be the producer and writer for a new twoyear series for HBO called True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

After graduating from the University of Arkansas creative writing program, Pizzolatto taught fiction and literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Chicago and DePauw University. His fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, The Iowa Review, Best American Mystery Stories and The Missouri Review, but two stories bought simultaneously by The Atlantic — “Ghost Birds” and “Between Here and the Yellow Sea” — put Pizzolatto on the national map, and his writing eventually led him to Hollywood.

As a screenwriter, he wrote two episodes of The Killing, which aired for two seasons on AMC. In 2010, his first novel, Galveston: A Novel, was awarded the prize for Best First Novel by the French Academy and received a strong review from the New York Times. The screen rights for it were recently sold to Paramount Studios, he has also been signed by MGM to script a remake of The Magnificent Seven.

Born and reared in south Louisiana, Pizzolatto knows the environs of swamp and sweat, the odor of backwater towns and Bourbon Street. While a student at the university, several of the dark and dangerous stories he wrote were set along the Gulf coast and fueled by fugitives rent by desires to stay yet go, men and women seeking something, anything other than what they held.

So it’s no surprise that True Detectives will be set in New Orleans with location shooting expected in a wide arc around the Crescent City. HBO has ordered eight episodes. ■

The University of Arkansas is one of the nation’s “Great Colleges to Work For” according to U of A faculty, staff and administrators who responded to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s fifth annual survey. The university was one of only 103 colleges and universities to make the list and one of only two schools in the Southeastern Conference. The university was recognized in the category of “Confidence in Senior Leadership.”

“It doesn’t surprise me,” said David Gay, University Professor of economics and a former chair of the Faculty Senate.“We have an exceptionally engaged leadership team on this campus – with focus, drive, direction and the ability to enlist people to support the university’s goals. There is a feeling across campus that we are all working together, using the resources that we have, to provide well-balanced educational opportunities for the people of our state.”

The results of the survey also reflect strong support from the university staff. Angela Black is a former chair of the Staff Senate, which represents nearly 3,600 university employees, and she works with university administrators to address staff concerns related to the quality of work life on campus. She said the “Confidence in Senior Leadership” ranking has been earned.

“In general, good decisions always inspire confidence and loyalty, and I think we’ve seen a lot of good decisions in the past few years,” Black said.“During the economic crisis and budget shortfalls, the administration chose to avoid furloughs.

They’ve supported scholarships for staff, made the inclement weather policy more equitable, lobbied on our behalf when the governor cut career service payments, and carved out time in official campus communications to address staffrelated issues. Throughout all of the recent changes, staff have been invited to the table and directly involved in programs that have improved the quality of our working environment.

By demonstrating a confidence in us and what we do, it’s natural to have confidence in them.” ■

Professor to advise Romney on education issues Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president, named professor Robert Costrell to his campaign’s advisory committee on education.

Costrell holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in Education Accountability in the College of Education and Health Professions.

He joined the faculty in 2006 after a career in education and public service that included seven years in major policy roles for three governors of Massachusetts. He was then-Gov. Romney’s education adviser.

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Costrell worked closely with all three governors and Commissioner of Education David Driscoll throughout the period when Massachusetts’ education accountability reforms, based on exit exams, went into effect. He also helped develop Romney’s comprehensive education reform proposal of 2005 to advance accountability to the next level in Massachusetts.

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of roles across K-12 education, postsecondary education, and workforce training in both the public and private sectors.”

Costrell was named a fellow in education reform at the George W. Bush Institute last year and previously served on the National Technical Advisory Council as an appointee of former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. He holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard. Much of his research centers on teacher pension reform. ■ 9

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M.B.A. graduates win Edison Award A Master of Business Administration team from the Sam M. Walton College of Business was awarded a 2012 Edison Award for creating a more ecofriendly plastic grocery bag. CycleWood Solutions Inc., a company started in the Walton College’s entrepreneurship program, developed the concept for a biodegradable, compostable, single-use plastic bag to replace the high-density, polyethylene bags currently used in stores.

An Edison Award, named after the prolific American inventor Thomas Edison, is one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business. The cycleWood bag was assessed by a panel of more than 3,000 judges and, after a long peer-review process, the team was presented with a bronze Edison Award.

“Winning an Edison Award provides validation that our work is innovative and compelling,” said Nhiem Cao, president and CEO of cycleWood Solutions Inc.“It shows that our technology has the potential to be a game changer. Being in the company of other Edison Award winners, such as P&G and Ford, adds some credibility and helps build our brand. We are honored to have the privilege of not only being considered for an Edison Award, but also to win one.”

Cao received an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of Arkansas and later returned to get his Master of Business Administration degree. He has 10 years of manufacturing and consulting experience. The other team members are Chief Operating Officer Kevin Oden, Chief Marketing Officer Priscila Silva and Chief Business Development Officer Jack Avery.

The Edison Awards Gala was held on April 26 at the New York Academy of Sciences in Manhattan. ■

Researcher develops personalized search engines With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In information systems research, this work is known as “implicit” user profiling, meaning there are basic assumptions about user interest and intent based on the sites they frequent and the content they view.

Gauch, a professor of computer science and computer engineering at the University of Arkansas, has expertise in developing robust and personalized search engines, which she will contribute Gauch to the work of Hypothes.is, a project started by Dan Whaley, the coder and entrepreneur who built the first Web-based travel reservation system. Hypothes.is is trying to build a system of annotation for the Web. “Since the very beginning of the Web, there has been an issue of trust,” Gauch said, “because there has always been this ubiquitous ability for anyone to create and distribute information. What Hypothes.is is trying to do is build confidence and trust about information obtained on the Web.” The work of Hypothes.is will build on the unique expertise of people like Gauch. Her work in user profiling relies on queries, log-in applications, and other identifiers. Gauch’s task then is to take this information and build a personalized search.

“If we know something about you, then we can build a profile and use different functions to tailor searches specific to your interests,” Gauch said. “Technology allows us to see which sites users frequently visit, so we have a good idea what they’re looking for when they enter vague or ambiguous search terms.”

How does this affect the user? Gauch mentions various search terms that cause great confusion without at least some basic knowledge about the user’s interests. For example, using the word “rock” as a search term might bring up geology sites, the actor Dwayne Johnson or the Rock’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. With no information about the user’s browsing history, a simple Google search finds all those sites. The information about a user’s behavior allows Gauch to build profiles that so that musicians will be directed to sites that sell guitars, and geologists will find the U.S. Geological Survey site.

Gauch is head of the department of computer science and computer engineering in the College of Engineering. She also holds the Rodger S. Kline Leadership Chair. ■

Panama joins Bumpers College Division of Agriculture in exchange pact The University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture and Panama’s Ministry of Agriculture, an international relationship started in the 1950s has been re-energized through a new agreement for collaboration signed in August. The division’s extension personnel and researchers, along with students from the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, will have access to cultural and educational exchanges between the two nations. The agreement provides for collaboration in the areas of agricultural extension, agricultural education and the support 10

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Mark Cochran, UA System vice president for agriculture, and Michael Vayda, dean of Bumpers College, traveled to Panama on Aug. 3 to sign the memorandum of understanding with the Panamanian government. Oscar Osorio, Panama’s minister of agriculture, signed on behalf of his government.

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strengthen their agricultural extension service and we will also exchange students for internships and summer work experiences.”

Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli, an alumnus of the university, praised the pact: “The idea is that they (Ministry of Agriculture professionals) receive better training, and that these specialists can, in turn, reproduce this knowledge among Panamanian producers.”

Sens. Mark Pryor and John Boozman and Rep. Rick Crawford participated in the signing ceremony. at the Presidential Palace. ■ Fall 2012

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Luckinbill Gives Papers to University Actor, playwright and University of Arkansas alumnus Laurence Luckinbill returned to campus as a McIlroy Family Visiting Professor in Performing and Visual Arts. During his weeklong stay, the donation of his papers to the University of Arkansas Libraries was also celebrated, and Luckinbill brought two historic personalities to life on stage.

“The Luckinbill papers document the varied acting and writing career of an Arkansas native,” said Tim Nutt, interim head of special collections. “From Broadway to Star Trek to one-man shows, Luckinbill has honed his craft while becoming one of the most respected names in the industry. His 40-plus year career is well-documented in his personal and pro-

fessional papers through correspondence, photographs, props, and even an action-figure, among other materials. The University of Arkansas Libraries is proud to be the home to this prestigious collection. Once organized, the collection will provide researchers, scholars and future thespians a view into the actor’s studio.”

After Luckinbill’s collection is processed, it will be open to researchers in the special collections department in Mullins Library.

Luckinbill was born in Fort Smith. He graduated in 1955 from the department of drama in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences and earned a master of fine arts in playwriting from the Catholic University of America in 1958. He was a Tony

As an alumnus, Laurence Luckinbill donated his papers to the department of special collections of the University of Arkansas Libraries, which has rare manuscripts related to entertainment such as a 1911 opera by Scott Joplin, the papers of William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, and Joseph Manckiewicz’ shooting script for Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass. As a visiting professor, Laurence Luckinbill provided workshops for university students and gave two public biographical performances, one as Clarence Darrow and one as Theodore Roosevelt.

nominee for The Shadow Box and a recipient of the New York Critics Circle Award for The Memory Box. Luckinbill works extensively as an actor, writer and director for the stage and screen. His humorous, complex and heartfelt one-man scripts examine the lives of iconic men whose challenges and struggles are as relevant today as when they lived.

A graduate of the department of drama, Luckinbill currently tours the world in his award-winning solo performances portraying Lyndon Johnson, Clarence Darrow, Theodore Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway.

He has been writing and acting in such performances portraying great Americans for almost two decades. ■

Dean Michael Vayda, Panama’s Oscar Osorio, Ricardo Martinelli and Mark Cochran, the U of A vice president for agriculture”

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Something New and Really Cool: Air Conditioning at Humphreys University of Arkansas students who moved into Humphreys Hall in August found a big change: for the first time their rooms, and the building, had central air conditioning.

Humphreys, which opened in 1961, was the last residence hall on campus without this modern convenience.

Why did it take so long? Cost was a factor, but just as important, students didn’t seem to mind living in rooms without air conditioning. You could even say they were cool with it.

“People wanted to live in Humphreys,” said Katie Simms, a student who worked as a resident assistant there last year and will again this fall. She admits that not having air conditioning could be a challenge, especially in August and September.

“We’d open our windows and doors and turn on the fans – and we drank a lot of water,” she explained. “We made it work.”

Simms said those open doors helped create an inviting atmosphere and a real sense of community in Humphreys.

“That’s a big part of why students picked Humphreys to live — there was a feeling of community that they didn’t find in other places.

“Don’t get me wrong — I’m definitely looking forward to having air conditioning in August,” she added. “But I’m really curious to see if the community will be the same.”

Humphreys was also popular because it has a central location on campus and was the least expensive residence hall. That won’t change: obviously, it hasn’t moved, and even though the board of trustees approved a rate increase at Humphreys, it is still the least expensive 12

place to live on campus.

Ironically, improvements to the heating system in Humphreys last summer made it possible to install the air conditioning. The work that contractors did making sure students had heat in their rooms also provided the infrastructure for a cooling system. That final part of the job was finished this spring by East Harding Construction and Petit and Petit Engineering. The total cost of the upgrade was $2 million.

There is a legend on campus to explain why Humphreys never had air conditioning.

“I call it a campus urban legend,” said Heather Schneller, associate director of summer conferences for University Housing. “I heard it when I was a student 20 years ago.”

The story goes that when Humphreys Hall and Yocum Hall opened, Humphreys was a women’s hall and Yocum was for men.

The students were reportedly given a choice between having telephones or air conditioning.

The men supposedly chose air conditioning; the women wanted phones.

Besides it being politically incorrect and a bit sexist, there are at least three other problems with this story. First, Humphreys opened in 1961, Yocum in 1963; second, both residence halls were men-only until 1969; and, third, even in 1961 telephone lines and central air conditioning were not mutually exclusive.

The truth more likely had to do with money: In 1961, air conditioning was expensive and not considered a necessity.

Not the stuff of legend, maybe – but it makes sense. ■ ARKANSAS

The University of Arkansas has begun a new relationship with PepsiCo as the campus beverage provider after many years working with Coca-Cola.

The conversion to PepsiCo has included all campus dining areas, vending machines and athletic venues. As a part of the agreement, PepsiCo will provide a variety of beverages choices on campus including Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Sierra Mist, Lipton iced teas, SoBe, Aquafina, Tropicana and Gatorade.

In addition, Rockstar Energy Drink, Muscle Milk, Starbucks ready-to-drink coffee and fountaindispensed Dr. Pepper will be available throughout the campus as these brands are distributed by PepsiCo in the region. Other popular beverage brands will also be available on a limited basis at campus convenience stores.

As part of the new partnership, PepsiCo will work with the university to support Associated Student Government initiatives and other student-oriented programs, including health and wellness and recycling initiatives.

“The university welcomes the opportunity to partner with PepsiCo to bring a popular line of beverages to the university community and campus visitors,” said Donald O. Pederson, vice chancellor for finance and administration.“The total value of this contract will be the largest beverage sponsorship agreement the U of A has ever entered into. The combination of resources the university will receive as a result of this partnership will benefit our students and campus community for years to come.”

PepsiCo has already held meetings with various student and campus leaders to develop joint partnership strategies, and strongly advocates for and welcomes student and faculty participation. A few of the events PepsiCo expects to support include: Move In Day, RazorBash, Friday Night Live, Student Government Picnic, Welcome Week, Help A Hog and Greek Life involvement.

“I hope students will be excited about the new partnership,” Tori Pohlner, president of the Associated Student Government, said earlier this year when the decision was announced.“I’ve had the opportunity to see the potential for what PepsiCo can offer our university and our student body. PepsiCo is not just filling soda fountains; it has plans for collaboration and sponsorships that will benefit our next generation of students.” ■ Fall 2012

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Scholarship Honors Nature, Friendship, and the Country’s First National River

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derness Waterways Club (OWWC), a Kansas City based conservation and canoeing group.

To bring visibility to the plight of the Buffalo, the OWWC joined forces with the budding Ozark Society and launched a campaign which included appealing to elected officials and inviting journalists on float trips and river cleanups. In May 1962, the OWWC arranged for conservationist and United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to float the BufHarold & Margaret Hedges, hiking near Whitley Creek, falo. Mr. and Mrs. Hedges coorBuffalo National River, 1981 dinated the trip, which received national attention. Mrs. Hedges wrote a detailed account in “The Justice Douglas Trip.” lished Harold and Margaret Hedges Memorial They also hosted famed artist Thomas Hart Scholarship in Ornithology in memory of Benton. Benton became a devout advocate for their friends. Harold passed away on March the river and offered emotional insight into 5, 2005, at age 91. Margaret died on October their cause in The Old Man and the River, a 10, 2010, and was 93 years old. story that appeared in the August 10, 1970 “We wanted to do something to help preedition of Sports Illustrated. serve the memory and legacy of our friends,” The Hedges’ passion for the area was said Mrs. Ferguson. “Harold and Margaret demonstrated not only through their guided instilled a love and respect for nature in everyfloats, but also in their co-authored “Bufone they met, and Hubert and I are honored falo River Canoeing Guide” (1970, Ozark to be among them.”

Society) and many articles about canoeing The award will support graduate students in Arkansas’s wild waterways and hiking its scebiological sciences who study birds and avian nic hollows and creeks. natural habitat, building on a legacy important The Buffalo campaign realized success to both the Hedges and Ferguson families. when Congress passed legislation, signed by “This scholarship will continue the signifiPresident Richard Nixon on March 1, 1972, cant work of Harold and Margaret Hedges,” to create the Buffalo National River. The law said Michael Adelman, treasurer for the Ozark gave the Buffalo the distinction of the United Society Foundation. “In addition to advocatStates’ first national river. ing for National River status for the Buffalo, Harold Hedges and Margaret Lockard they worked tirelessly to maintain native bird married in 1938. Throughout their 66 years species in Arkansas through habitat protectogether, they worked tirelessly to protect the tion, education, and research efforts, particuBuffalo River and Arkansas’s wilderness habilarly along the Buffalo River.” tat. In 1979, the Hedges’ farm of more than To give to the Harold and Margaret Hedges 700 acres became an integral part of of the Memorial Scholarship, contact the Fulbright Buffalo National River’s wilderness area.

College Development Office at 479.575.3712 Hubert and Mary Virginia Ferguson, also or Fulbright@uark.edu, or contribute on-line members of the Ozark Society, have estabat http://onlinegiving.uark.edu. ■ courtesy University of Arkansas Special Collections

Imagine U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, artist Thomas Hart Benton, congressional candidate John Paul Hammerschmidt, and Governor Orval Faubus on the same side of an issue. They united more than 50 years ago to secure the future of the Buffalo River. In the background were Harold and Margaret Hedges and members of The Ozark Society who worked for more than a decade to balance diverse personalities like these and advance the society’s goal of saving the river from being dammed.

In 1935, the state of Arkansas recognized the beauty of the Buffalo River by establishing Buffalo River State Park. About 15 years later, the U.S. Department of the Interior suggested that the area might qualify for national park status. At the same time, a regional economic development initiative to spur recreation and commerce was launched. Patterned after the success of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the plan included damming the Buffalo.

Efforts to prevent the damming soon followed. Fulbright advocated that the Buffalo River be taken over by the National Park Service in 1961. In 1962, Dr. Neil Compton of Bentonville headed a group of conservationists who formed The Ozark Society for the strict purpose to “Save the Buffalo.” For the next 10 years, the Ozark Society spearheaded the fight to maintain the Buffalo as a free flowing river.

Later, Fulbright’s idea of making the Buffalo a National River in order to protect it as a place for the public to enjoy garnered state and national approval.

This proposal met some dissention, particularly from landowners averse to the bureaucratized parks program, but the Ozark Society’s members knew that nationalizing the river was the only way to preserve the area’s unique scenic and scientific features.

Harold and Margaret Hedges had moved from the Kansas City area to Arkansas in 1968. Harold was founder of the Kansas Ornithological Society and both were already familiar with the natural beauty of the Ozarks through their involvement in the Ozark Wil-

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Sarah Colonna, B.A. ‘96

A Life Worth Laughing Alumna Sarah Colonna credits Arkansas lessons with Hollywood longevity

By Darinda Sharp, B.A.‘94, M.S.‘99, M.A.‘05 Should you stay close to home where you’re protected and supported or should you chase your dreams into a cold, cruel world against seemingly impossible odds that seem more like legend of Hollywood stuff than real life? It is a decision most people puzzle over at some point in their lives – particularly when graduating from college.

“We all have two very different personalities living inside us and sometimes those people are at war with each other. It’s confusing to see what two completely different paths can offer you . . . I want both. Or I want it all. Or I only want part of both. I don’t know.”

This is one of many reflections from Sarah Colonna’s New York Times Best Seller, Life as I Blow It: Tales of Love, Life, and Sex . . . Not Necessarily in That Order. The book includes musings on the lessons she’s learned, not yet learned and sometimes had to relearn on her journey from a girl growing up in Farmington, Ark., to higher education at the University of Arkansas, to waitressing and bartending in Los Angeles, to writing for a late night comedy talk show.

Colonna, an actress, writer and comedian, has been making her way through the perils of show business since earning a Bachelor of Arts in drama in 1996. She moved to L.A. immediately after graduation, found a job with flexible hours and started going on auditions. After living with family for a year, she and a girlfriend from Arkansas moved into a one-bedroom apartment.

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might come from. I was lucky to have friends I could trust because there are no secrets when you’re sharing a bedroom with someone. The space was really tight. We had a daybed with a trundle, and we’d slide the trundle back under the bed every morning just so we could walk though the room.”

Colonna, who returned to campus in the spring as part of her book tour, actively sought out opportunities rather than waiting to hear about them. She took every audition she could get and found ways to continually improve her craft.

“It takes a lot of hard work and humility. Any opportunity you have to improve your skills, you take it – classes, feedback from friends, auditions, meetings, all of it. I never turned anything down if I could help it (anything that was reasonable, of course – you have to be smart). I might find myself thinking, ‘Why am I doing stand-up at a Starbucks?’ but that’s something that came up, and I did it. It makes for a funny story now.”

Her frugality, persistence and hard work began to pay off over time with a stand-up comedy appearance here, a TV episode there, and a movie part looking like it might actually happen. She kept her day job (which was really a night job) through it all.

“I was still bartending until about three years ago when I started writing full-time for ‘Chelsea Lately.’ At first I thought I’d just cut back to weekend shifts until my boss at the bar looked at me and told me that it was okay, that I actually had a real job now.”

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The real job has increased the availability of other forms of work – more stand-up, more TV shows, more movies, and her first book.

Due to her explicit approach to comedy, many people have speculated about the meaning of Colonna’s book title.

“Everyone seems to think it’s dirty, but it isn’t,” she said.

“I didn’t know what I was going to call it while I was writing. Then, one day I was sitting around with a friend who asked me to tell him what the book was about. I thought about it a minute and then said that it’s basically just about life lessons. ‘You know, things I’ve learned along the way,’ I told him. “‘So, kind of a life-as-I-know-it thing,’ he said.

“More like life as I blow it,’ I said.

“I liked the play on words, and it stuck. I’m not saying that I always make bad decisions.

I’ve actually made lots of good ones. But there are those times when everything seems to be going our way and we still manage to blow it.

It happens to everyone.”

Given her book sales, touring schedule and other professional commitments, it seems that selecting a book title is a choice Colonna didn’t blow. And that’s just the most public of many good decisions she’s made that took her from a rural upbringing to a career in entertainment that is gaining momentum and generating praise from others in the industry.

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here is not a closer association between a fabled beast and a mythic people in the whole of America than between the wild razorback hog and its Arkansawyers.

The razorback is the only animal that plays so well into the Arkansaw stereotypes, both those cherished

by Arkansawyers about themselves and those meant as derogatory quips by people from beyond the borders of Arkansas. On the positive side, the Arkansas razorback is cast as self-sufficient, clever, quick of foot, fierce when backed into a corner, and deeper in American pedigree than the Mayflower pilgrims.

Its less savory qualities, so to speak, are that it has a voracious, unquenchable appetite, it steals the crops out from under its neighbors, and it is lazy. These are the qualities that surrounded the razorback and its Arkansawyers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, but they were not always thus.

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“Hunting Wild Hogs in Arkansas” gave Americans an early sense of the ferocity of the Arkansas razorback. It came via Harper’s Weekly in1887, which published this woodcut print based on a drawing by Gilbert Gaul.

Like all true folk-myths, the razorback stories have an unknown origin. Assume that someone commented on a temporary scarcity of acorns and the consequent thinness of his hogs.

A second man would agree, saying that his sows were able for the first time to squeeze through the garden gate. A third would testify that he could now hang his hat on the hips of his hogs. The Fall 2012

next would aver that his swine had to stand up twice in order to cast a shadow. One man was almost bound to swear that his hogs were so desperately starved he could clasp one like a straight razor and shave with the bony ridge of its back.

This explanation, although it might not be too far off the mark, does little to suggest why the razorback ended up tied to Arkansas.

Folklore across the South maintained that the woodland razorback was the descendant of European hogs brought to North America

by Hernando de Soto during his ill-fated search for gold, starting in Florida and meandering across the south, through the present-day states of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, where he arrived in the spring of 1541.

Writer Bob Lancaster turned a skeptical eye toward this claim of porcine proliferation in 1986 for the Arkansas Times and searched through the reports from DeSoto’s expedition for evidence. Lancaster noted that reputable historians had discounted the story of hogs, primarily by ignoring it, but he concluded that the reports indicated that European pigs occasionally had indeed escaped from DeSoto’s large droves. One report indicated that DeSoto’s men came across an escaped sow that had recently dropped a litter of 13 pigs. “So there it is,” Lancaster wrote. “If the cavaliers had backtracked more often, they undoubtedly would have found this scene repeated many times — ancestors of the razorback scattered throughout the South, with no natural enemies to speak of and no shortage of acorns — with nothing finally to check their proliferation and prosperity until the vast land-clearing and extensive hunting of the modern age.”

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The word “razorback” did not start out as a conjoined suffix to “Arkansas” much less as a reference to hogs. During the early 19th century, the term was used almost exclusively for the razorback whale, Balænoptera physalus, better known as the finback or rorqual whale. Later the term began to be applied to any animal with a pronounced spine, such as gaunt horses and bowed-up bovine.

Meanwhile, during the early part of the 19th century, feral hogs of the South were more often referred to as “alligators,” “tonawandas,” “land sharks,” or “land pikes.” The earliest known reference to a feral hog as a “razorback” came in 1843: A correspondent to The American Agriculturist reported his success at using beets as feed stock for his breeding sows and store hogs, but he warned that “a Berkshire will get fat where a razor-back would starve.” The correspondent made no attempt to explain what he meant by the word “razor-back”; he clearly thought that “razor-back” would be widely understood by the reading audience and that readers would also understand that razorbacks do not easily gain weight.

When the Writers Program of the Works Progress Administration put together a book about Arkansas during the Depression, one of the writers offered a supposition for how “razorback” came to refer to hogs:

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A Collection of Razorback mascots through the years After adoption of the Razorback as the University of Arkansas mascot in 1910, the earliest drawings depicted the razorback standing undecorously or walking in what could only be described as an amble. In the 1920s, though, a student named Hank Hancock took an art course under Elizabeth Galbraith and learned a drawing technique for giving animals a more animated look. He applied the technique to the Razorback and creating the first version of the running Razorback, a look that has only become faster and more furious as new drawings have been added.

Charlie May Simon rolled every folk saying about razorbacks into her 1972 children’s book, Razorbacks Are Really Hogs! Meanwhile, an 1882 issue of the Texas Siftings newspaper included a scurrilous drawing of a razorback.

To be fair, John Gould Fletcher mentions DeSoto’s hogs in his history, Arkansas, describing the winter when the expedition bogged down in Arkansas: “Here they eked out their lives on the corn, beans, pecans, and dried persimmons provided unwillingly by the Indians — a diet varied mainly by rabbits, which the savages had taught the Spaniards to catch in snares. There numbers were much reduced — about three hundred and forty Spaniards and a pitiful lot of some forty unshod, scarecrow horses alone remaining. At this time, or perhaps earlier, their drove of hogs took to the woods — to provide respectable ancestry for the Arkansas razorback of later years.”

The truth of whether the razorback is a descendant of DeSoto’s pigs is less important here than the fact that Arkansawyers enjoy the notion that these wild hogs of the woodland are descended from the stock of a conquistador and that their ancestral porcine progenitors had been roaming the Arkansas hinterlands some 66 years before the advent of Jamestown and nearly 80 years before the arrival of the Mayflower. It provides a sharp rebuke to New Englanders or East Coasters who want to claim that their history is somehow longer or deeper than that of Arkansas if one can cite the rangy razorback forebears that got to the New World prior to some Yankee’s great-granpappy.

Initially, jokes about the razorback were simply a poke at the animal itself and might be as easily applied to the feral hog of Alabama as the razorback of Arkansas. Perhaps the simple euphony of combining the word “Arkansas” with “razorback” was enough to bring the jokes to rest on what previously had been the Bear State. Perhaps the enormous growth of swine production in Arkansas played its part. By 1840, Arkansas had about 400,000 head swine, according to the U.S. Census, the highest number in the country per capita. By 1860 the number of swine in Arkansas had nearly tripled.

Early efforts to make fun of the razorback hog had no attachment to Arkansas. The jokesters were simply poking fun at a funny animal.

Boyce House, a Texan, told the tall tale of a razorback hog that “ate a stick of dynamite, blew up, broke all the windows in the house, wrecked the barn, killed two mules, and was a mighty sick hog.” Another writer endeavored to give a pseudo-scientific description of the animal: Arkansas has a greater variety of hogs and less pork and lard than any State in the Union. An average hog in Arkansas weighs about fourteen pounds dressed with its head on and about six pounds and a half with its head off. It can outrun a greyhound, jump a rail fence, climb like a parrot and live on grass, roots and rabbit tracks. It hasn’t 18

much tail nor bristle, but plenty of gall. It will lick a wolf or bear in a fair fight. … It can drink milk out of a quart jar on account of its long, thin head. This type of razorback is known as the stone hog, because its head is so heavy and its nose so long that it balances up behind. The owner of this type of hogs usually ties a stone to its tail to keep it from overbalancing and breaking its neck while running.

Arkansas writer Charlie May Simon boiled the descriptions down to their essence when she wrote a children’s book in which razorbacks played the antagonists: “Many a man would rather see a panther or a wildcat hanging around his farm than a herd of Arkansas razorback hogs. Lean, lanky, and hungry all the time, they could outeat any animal that ever lived, and they still didn’t weigh enough to leave their footprints where they walked. Their snouts were as long as walking sticks, and their backs as sharp as razors. They were so thin it took two of them standing together to cast a shadow. If one was by himself, he’d have to stand up twice.”

Any animal or person compared unfavorably to a razorback was in a sad state of affairs. On the eastern seaboard, the razorback hog was often referred to as a “Carolina racehorse,” which said less about feral pigs than it did about the quality of racehorses in the Carolinas.

Even when writers were not intending comic relief, their stories could give way to stereotypes of the razorback: “Breed is not everything, as is evidenced by the fact that a carload of fatted Arkansas razorback hogs sold in Chicago the last week in July at $5.80 per hundredweight.

Whether the feeder finished them at a profit is not known.” The razorback must either be too rawboned to sell at market or if fattened enough to sell must have cost a rump and a hock worth of feed to bring to market condition.

As train travel brought more people through Arkansas, though, descriptions of the state were invariably linked to the razorback. A traveler from Kansas City caught the spirit of things: “We were curious to know just what this State was that we had reached, … which man had so neglected; but not until there loomed in view that historical anmal [sic] with its long nose and razor back were we assured we were travelers in Arkansas.”

Another traveler, Dr. W. S. Caldwell, wrote to his hometown newspaper about his journey through the “Land of Cotton” and his first encounter with a razorback hog. The newspaper’s subhead tells most of

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the story: “‘Razor-Back Hogs’ seem to Have a Monopoly on the Ambition in Arkansas —The People Indolent and Shiftless.” Caldwell wrote: “Early in the forenoon we reached Little Rock where I saw the first razor-backed Arkansas hog, who roamed the street at his own free will and seemed to have the same rights upon the sidewalks as his two-legged companions. … The only living being that I saw all day that seemed to have a move on him was this razor-back hog. He rooted in the ground with an energy that showed that his environments had not paralyzed his energies and made him the lazy shiftless being that his two legged fellow citizen seemed to be.”

By the end of the 19th century, the razorback was no longer the butt of the joke but often the measure of disdain. A newspaper editor in Sandia, Kansas, for instance, looked for every measure of condescension he could find to describe a rival editor at the Junction City Sentinel: “For over two long years he has been like a festering sore, a leech, a vampire or fungus, absorbing life blood from the body politic, giving no good in return but acting as a poison ivy vine upon the tree supporting it. … He endeavors to pay his bills about as much as the devil works to save lost souls. He is absolutely without good principles.

He does not look men in the face but hangs his head like a brute. His heart is as black with gratitude as the heart of a Spaniard. … His mind is as pure and his brain of the quality of a putrescent cabbage. … If he had been created a dog he would be a cowardly, sneaking, snapping yellow cur with his tail between his legs. If he had been created a hog he would be an Arkansas razorback.”

The low point may have come in the 1890s when members of the Georgia bar began using the term “razor-back” to refer derogatorily to colleagues “who make a living by inciting actions of tort growing out of personal injuries, especially against larger corporations.” Today, they might be referred to as ambulance-chasers, but in 1894, W.L. Granberry wrote of these razor-back lawyers: “The name at once commends itself, because of its fitness, in describing the class of practice-hunting lawyers. Their energy, their hunger never satisfied, their disregard for the 20

rights of others, are well typified in the family ‘razor-back,’ which no fence ever turned and no corn-field every fattened.”

Lawyers indeed.

During the first decade of the 20th century, the jokes deriding Arkansas and razorbacks were about to come to an end. Like other minority populations that have become saddled with an offensive, derogatory term, Arkansawyers took hold of the “razorback” sobriquet and didn’t let go. They embraced the razorback and made it a badge of honor. Like so many progressive movements, this one began with students at the University of Arkansas.

The university’s original mascot, the Cardinal, was adopted during the late 1890s, but it had been chosen partly by default. When students chose the school colors in 1895, they voted for cardinal. The other option was heliotrope, so cardinal was perhaps a foregone conclusion.

Athletic teams were just then being organized, and so the Cardinal was a natural choice for the team’s mascot. Likewise, the yearbook, which began publication in 1894, was also titled the Cardinal.

The Cardinal lasted until 1909. In that year, the University of Arkansas football team went undefeated, led by the university’s first full-time coach, Hugo Bezdek. The team thrashed regional powerhouses such as the University of Oklahoma and Louisiana State University. Half-way through the season, the University of Mississippi team was so cowed that they sent a telegram to Bezdek to say they would forfeit their game rather than come to Fayetteville as planned.

According to popular legend, after the late-season game with LSU, coach Bezdek told a crowd of fans and supporters that his boys had played “like a wild band of razorback hogs.” The crowd liked the sound of that and understood the inherent traits of the razorback: lean, fast, ferocious; so, soon the razorback was the newly adopted mascot, so the legend goes.

Truth be told, though, students had started referring to the team as the “razorbacks” in print as early as 1907, a year before Bezdek came to coach at Arkansas, and they were frequently called the razorbacks in stories and headlines throughout the 1909 season, well before the LSU game. One of the players from that storied team, Phil Huntley, who played center but arrived at school prior to Bezdek, talked to a sports writer many years later and recalled that he and the team, his fellow Arkansas travelers, had taken a slow train through Texas to play a

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Above, Coach Frank Broyles and the undefeated 1964 football team celebrate their win over the University of Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl.

The success of athletic teams led people from across Arkansas to identify with the lowly razorback and learn how to call those Hogs.

game. After arriving in Dallas, they got off to stretch their legs. Huntley recalled: “Somebody said, ‘Here come those razorbacks.’ See there were a lot of jokes about Arkansas back then.’”

No doubt, though, that Bezdek is the person who popularized the term. By 1910 the athletic teams had made the transition from the Cardinal to the Razorback, and by 1913 Edwin Douglass had written the words for a new fight song that included “razorback” as part of its lyrics. In the school year of 1915-16, editors of the student yearbook, still titled the Cardinal, decided to change its name to reflect the ascendancy of the Razorback as mascot. One of the assistant editors at the time, Jim Trimble, recalled that the change to Razorback created a furor on campus between detractors and supporters with opposition rooted in the derogatory connotations associated with “razorback.” A similar debate occurred when the student newspaper at the university changed its name to The Arkansas Traveler, another phrase of mixed emotional appeal, but the student editor wrote in defense of the name Arkansas Traveler: “The present name, although almost unanimously selected by the students in the name contest has been criticized by students, faculty members and by town people.

“It is not difficult to understand why some should see disgrace written in the name made famous by Opie Reed and why others should object so strongly to a reminiscent of frontier days. The students are urged to get away from the idea that razorbacks and travelers are worthy of the dignity attached to their name. The ridiculous application of rural wit to the name of a great state has been discontinued, almost forgotten and only serves to remind people of the unscholarly attainments of previous generations. ...

“The citizens of Arkansas have no cause to be humiliated when the name Arkansas Traveler is mentioned in their presence.”

Even as the “rural wit” declined, so also did the number of real razorback hogs, and domestic hogs in general. They dwindled in the woodlands of Arkansas and the farms of the South during the first half of the 20th century. In 1967, free-ranging hogs were banned from the national forests, and by the 1970s, domestic hog production in Arkansas had fallen back to what it had been in 1840.

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As if to make the point, students in 1936 went scouring the countryside to find a live razorback pig to bring to one of the football games.

A similar effort a half dozen years earlier had to rely on importation of a feral hog from Louisiana. In 1936, though, the students found a southern Arkansas farm with feral hogs and shipped one of the hogs to Fayetteville by rail in time for the game. The students christened the Arkansas razorback with the name “Traveler” and the student newspaper reported the details: “Traveler” came from John Clark Riley’s grandfather’s farm, where he had 1,500 of them running wild in a stretch of woods 30 miles long in southeast Arkansas.

Staff members send a wire to the Hamburg farm and get a reply: “TOO LATE TO GET HOG STOP SORRY.” It’s signed “Shorty.”

Riley phones Shorty, who turns out to be the foreman of the farm, and convinces him to capture one of the hogs and ship it to Fayetteville.

Shorty explains why that will be difficult: “These Razorbacks just roam wild, you know, and they’re kind of hard to get to. You’ve got to lasso ’em from a horse. But we got plenty — once we shipped out 27 carloads at a time.”

Throughout the early 20th century, Arkansas writers repeatedly reported that the real live razorback was extinct, and with the 1964 football season, jokes about Razorbacks also came to an end. Football coach Frank Broyles, like a modern-day Circe, turned nearly every Arkansas man, woman and child into a hog when his team went undefeated and claimed the national championship, notwithstanding the Associated Press. Within a decade, the Razorback was celebrated across the state in all manner of form, from hog hats to license plates, from high art to bobbles and trinkets, from hundreds of porcine-named restaurants to hundreds of thousands of T-shirts.

An alumnus who grew up in the Delta of Arkansas recalled the time in the 1960s when his family stopped for dinner at a restaurant in Jonesboro. On the table were little packets of sugar for the ice tea.

Printed on each packet were a picture of the Razorback mascot and the words “Talk Up Arkansas.” No longer was the feral hog a symbol of opprobrium. Rather the razorback had become the standard for expressing pride in Arkansas, not just its university, not just its football team, but its entire state. n

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oshua Barnett remembers receiving word he would receive a highly sought after doctoral fellowship from the University of Arkansas. He had applied to enter the Ph.D. program in public policy and was interested in specializing in education.

“I was contacted by the director of the program, Dr. Will Miller, who indicated he wanted to submit my application for a doctoral fellowship,” Barnett said. “I found out later that I was selected as a recipient and would have an opportunity to work with Dr. Gary Ritter in the newly created Office for Education Policy.

“I remember him calling as I was sitting on a futon, the only piece of furniture in my truly graduate-student-looking apartment,” Barnett recalled. “I was immediately impressed. I visited the university shortly after and met in person with Dr. Miller and Dr. Ritter, and I accepted 22

the opportunity and fellowship.

“My first year was both humbling and rewarding. I was enrolled in the interdisciplinary public policy program, and I was able to meet with students from other interest areas like social work, criminal justice, health and family services,” Barnett continues. “The opportunity to take courses with a diverse group of individuals already working towards making a difference out in the world was humbling. Additionally, I was able to learn with and from a group of distinguished faculty from different areas.

I was able to work on projects with the Arkansas State Legislature, as well as with numerous school districts. As a function of my particular fellowship, I was given a chance to be out in the field, which helped establish a foundation for everything I continued to learn.”

Today, Joshua Barnett is Dr. Joshua Barnett.

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Chancellor John A. White announces a $300 million gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation in 2002, an investment that transformed the University of Arkansas.

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dding each doctoral student requires an investment of time and resources. Unlike undergraduates, the students who pursue graduate degrees have a much closer working relationship with a faculty member, who might mentor as many as a half dozen doctoral students at a time. To increase the number of doctoral students meant increasing the number of faculty members. Meanwhile, attracting the top doctoral students meant offering graduate assistantships financially strong enough to compete against other research universities.

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s the state’s flagship university, the University of Arkansas has traditionally offered the greatest variety and number of doctoral programs in the state. Although master’s degrees were occasionally awarded early in the 20th century, the university didn’t establish a Graduate School until 1927. In 1958, the university approved its first degree program leading to a Doctor of Philosophy. By the 1980s, more than 30 degree programs could be pursued, leading to either a Doctor of Philosophy or a Doctor of Education.

Students who pursue doctoral degrees often start with one of two goals in mind.

Some students love research and innovation and want to become experts in their field. Others love their field of study and want to become college professors to teach the next generation of students.

Often, though, doctoral students pursuing either goal find that both the act of research and the act of teaching provide enormous benefits to one other. Research inspires classroom discussion about new methods, new discoveries and new solutions; meanwhile, students in those classroom discussions provide new ways of looking at old questions, fodder for the mill.

The doctoral degree is the point at which faculty and students meet as colleagues to do research that will solve problems.

To serve the state, the university has continued to grow its doctoral programs. Many of the most recently approved degree programs are interdisciplinary programs, which don’t require additional departments because the faculty who contribute to them come from other already established departments on the campus.

For example, the doctoral program in environmental dynamics uses faculty members from geosciences, biology, engineering, law and agriculture to teach students and collaborate on research — and each

interdisciplinary program can work on a separate and specific problem without adding additional departments and staff to support the work.

These programs add opportunities for students to study under the university’s finest faculty, addressing problems at the local, state, national and international levels.

The University of Arkansas research expenditures continue to grow each year. In 2002, a little more than $83 million in research expenditures were generated on the campus. This year, the number is expected to be $120 million. This research is done in fields as varied as education, biology, transportation, retailing, chemistry and engineering — every field of study offered at the university.

However, faculty researchers depend on doctoral students in their research activities. Doctoral students work alongside faculty to complete the faculty member’s research. Like the captain of a sailing ship, a research professor has to rely on a small crew of doctoral students to weigh anchor, hoist sail and give a shout of “land ho” when research bears discovery. Without doctoral students the research of many professors could never be completed.

To do this, the Graduate School’s growth during the 1980s and 90s relied primarily on the success of professors who applied for research grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation that included funding for doctoral students. The Graduate School was able to improve on both fronts, growing slowly but consistently in size and quality.

On April 10, 2002, however, the Graduate School received an unprecedented boost in its ability to attract doctoral students. ThenChancellor John A. White, joined by the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees, made an announcement “of epic proportions.” The Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation had made a historic gift of $300 million to the University of Arkansas, the largest single gift to a public university ever. The gift included $200 million to establish and endow an Honors College and $100 million to endow the Graduate School.

Speaking on behalf of the Walton family and the foundation, Rob Walton said at the time: “We want to see Arkansas in position to compete economically, to improve the standard of living for everyone, and to develop a vibrant social and cultural life as well. One of the keys for that to happen is to build a world-class public research university.”

As part of the Graduate School endowment, funding was set aside to provide doctoral fellowships to promising graduate students. Working together, the academic colleges and the graduate school planned for the influx of the new fellows — how to distribute the fellows among the various academic programs, setting criteria for who would receive the fellowship, and then recruiting students from the national pool to come to the University of Arkansas and do research.

The first group of doctoral students with the new fellowships entered in fall 2003. Over the past 10 years doctoral student enrollment at the University of Arkansas has risen more than 50 percent, bucking the national trend. In 2002, the university enrolled 772 doctoral students; by 2011, enrollment had grown to 1,183.

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Julie Trivitt entered the University of Arkansas as a doctoral candidate during the first year in which the new doctoral fellowships were awarded.

“The fellowship allowed me to get my Ph.D. without trying to work as a financial planner on the side or accumulating huge student debt,” she said. “I was able to concentrate fully on working with the economics faculty and research. I doubt I would have been able to finish in three and a half years without the fellowship. And I am immensely grateful. Now I realize that I was incredibly fortunate that the school with fantastic economics faculty was also able to provide great financial support right as I went back for my Ph.D.” The fellowship also helped her family.

“Since I did not have large amounts of student debt when I graduated I had the freedom to choose a job that kept me close to family and allowed me to have the lifestyle I wanted rather than the highest income offered,” Trivitt said.

She completed her doctoral degree in economics in 2006. After serving on the faculty of Arkansas Tech University, she returned to the University of Arkansas as a faculty member in 2011, joining the economics department in the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

Today she is Dr. Julie Trivitt.

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he gift from Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation had a secondary benefit as well. The higher number and higher quality of doctoral students allowed by the new fellowships, combined with the newly endowed professorships across campus, gave the university a leg up in its efforts to pursue new research grants. The University of Arkansas had skin in the game, as a Wall Street investor might say.

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“We have a vested stake in the research and innovation taking place on campus,” said Jim Rankin, the vice provost for research and economic development at the university. “Organizations such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health look at what our professors and the University of Arkansas bring to the table, and they know they can count on us to pursue our research vigorously and with rigor.”

Between 2002 and 2011, the university’s expenditures on research and development grew from $83 million in 2002 to more than $120 million in 2011.

Melissa Blouin, senior director of academic communications for the university, founded the university’s research magazine, Research Frontiers, in 2000 and has seen firsthand the change in research activity. “In the first issue of Research Frontiers in 2000, I wrote about two of the three researchers doing planetary science and astronomy on our campus. Today, there are more than twice that many, plus a robust interdisciplinary graduate program in space and planetary sciences.

“In 2002, I wrote about a handful of scientists who were scattered around our campus working on nanotechnology,” she said. “Today, the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering has 16 professors in tenure-track positions. Companies based on research by some of these scientists now thrive in Northwest Arkansas, employing scientists with degrees who might otherwise leave the area. Because our professors have expanded the scope of their research, graduate students have benefited from the expanded reach of research projects.”

In 2011, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognized this heightened level of research and elevated the University of Arkansas to the foundation’s highest classification. The Carnegie classifications have been the accepted standard for accredited universities and colleges since 1973. The Carnegie Foundation looks at a range of Fall 2012

quantitative data related to the amount of research grants and activating occurring, and, significantly, the number and nature of doctoral degrees being awarded annually. The university’s classification as a four-year public institution with a “very high level” of research placed it among an elite 108 universities among the more than 4,633 universities and colleges classified by Carnegie.

At the time of the announcement, Chancellor G. David Gearhart described the new Carnegie classification as “a reflection of the university’s transformation as a truly world-class institution.

“It documents our advancement as a nationally and internationally influential research university. We have reached this top status as a result of the innovation, productivity and successful collaboration of our university’s faculty, students and staff,” he said.

Sharon L. Gaber, the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas, agreed.

“This upward movement highlights the quality and depth of the academic opportunities that our faculty and students experience at this institution,” Gaber said at the time of the announcement. “The change in Carnegie classification reflects the university’s growth in ways that have enhanced its educational, economic, social and cultural value and reputation here in Arkansas and around the world.”

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esearch being done by doctoral fellows at the University of Arkansas spans the gamut, from practical inventions such as paper that won’t burn to exotic investigation determining whether life could exist on Mars to specialized examination such as the

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discovery of what early hominids ate based on the microscopic wear on their teeth. The research can be theoretical — helping explain how the world works — or it can be applied — finding ways to improve life and increase our economy.

This latter research is the reason that the university maintains experiment stations, established the Genesis Technology Incubator and the Enterprise Center, as well as collaborating with other partners to create the Arkansas Research and Technology Park. Research developed by university professors and doctoral students can be applied to fledgling companies that reside at the technology park, and the new companies also then receive business help and advice from Genesis.

When the Enterprise Center opened in 2010, it already had four client businesses — SFC Fluidics, NN Laboratories, NanoMech and Arkansas Power Electronics International — each of which is adding employees as their businesses expand.

Matt Leftwich knows well how research can turn into industry. After getting an undergraduate and master’s degrees in chemical engineering at the university and an M.B.A. from Webster University, Leftwich pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Arkansas in microelectronicsphotonics. During the past 15 years, Leftwich has been directly involved with four technology start-ups that got their start at the Genesis Technology Incubator, including Arkansas Microelectronics Development Corp., Integral Wave Technologies, Space Photonics Inc. and, most recently, Nanomatronix LLC, where Leftwich is company founder.

Even as these companies developed products, clients and business models, they also provided their own boost to research efforts at the university. Space Photonics, for instance, gave a $225,000 award to the university to help research high-tech, high-speed fiber-optic communication devices made for the extreme environments faced by military and space flight equipment. The award included funding for two graduate students who helped with new research.

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Leftwich explains Nanomatronix LLC in a similar vein, saying that the company’s main business is research and development for the synthesis of carbon nanotubes and microelectronics packaging.

“We intend to become a producer and supplier of high purity carbon nanotube material from the processes currently in development,” he said. “We will also continue to provide R&D services in regards to advancing the state of the art in a broad range of microelectronics packaging technologies. But for the most part, we’re strictly in the R&D and start-up stages of product and business development at this time.”

Nanomatronix LLC already has three part-time employees, and two U of A faculty members serve as technical advisers for the company. In addition to his business leadership, Leftwich serves as an adjunct assistant professor in the Ralph E. Martin department of chemical engineering at the university.

And he’s Dr. Matt Leftwich today.

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o what does the future hold for Arkansans with graduate degrees and how do those graduates help the state? These Arkansas graduates will be the leaders our state requires — in business, in agriculture, in education — the leaders who will help us move forward with the skills and critical thinking that complex problems will demand.

This past February, Gov. Mike Beebe came to campus to get a look at the research that graduate students are doing on campus during a competition among the students. Addressing the students, Beebe said, “The research you are doing will benefit our state in ways that we cannot even imagine at this time. In agriculture, in health care, in

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engineering and electronics, in business and policy — in all the fields that you study — Arkansas will reap rewards from your efforts. So I commend you, I thank you for studying here in Arkansas, and I wish you the best as you strive toward your degrees. And please know that the state values your work.”

As with many sectors of the economy, advancements honed by the trial and error of professors and their graduate students give businesses, farms, hospitals and local governments ways to cut costs, increase efficiency, heighten quality and improve life. Some recent examples include: • Development of advanced electrical systems for use on the national power grid, which will enable the nation to meet higher electrical power demand in a reliable way.

•E xamination of the potential of growing switchgrass and eastern cottonwood agroforests in the Mississippi River valley for use in production of biofuels, one way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

• Research into the supply chain of health care products, which has provided a road map for improving vendors’ labels, allowing hospitals to track medicines and instruments and assure proper care.

Another example that serves the health care industry is the work of Keith Roper, the Charles W. Oxford Professor of Emerging Technologies in the department of chemical engineering. Roper has patented a process that reduces the time it takes to perform DNA analysis from what has traditionally been hours or days to just minutes. This development could contribute to many areas of health care and law enforcement, including diagnosing and treating disease, developing and testing new vaccines and forensic identification.

Roper, an associate professor of chemical engineering, explained that the ultimate goal of his research is to develop a credit-card-sized device to be used in a doctor’s office or at a crime scene to quickly analyze samples of DNA. “That’s the power of being able to do this on a really tiny scale,” he said.

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odd Shields, dean of the graduate school and international education, sees a bright future for both the University of Arkansas and the state. “Our researchers will continue to break records, to challenge the status quo. To reach the heights we expect to achieve, our research will require dedicated faculty as well as bright, capable graduate students. We are so fortunate to have the doctoral fellowships to offer these students. We’ve enjoyed significant achievements over the past 10 years, and I expect we will, working together across the state, even surpass those in the next 10 years.”

Joshua Barnett, who earlier joked about his graduate-student-style apartment, has a strong appreciation for the students who are now seeking application to graduate school. A faculty member at Arizona State University, he reviews about 100 undergraduate student applications for scholarships, as well as applications for the doctoral program.

“I am constantly reminded about how my fellowship provided me with a chance to earn my education. I was a first generation college student, and I greatly benefited from the investment of others in me,” Barnett said. “The fellowship absolutely brought me to the University of Arkansas, which allowed me to meet and work with my mentor, who has provided a career’s worth of benefits for me.

“I continue to promote and recognize the University of Arkansas in every opportunity I am given,” he continued. “In short, I feel the fellowship provided a life altering opportunity, and I was humbled to have it and continue to work today to try and repay that investment in me.”

In 2002, the university awarded 106 doctoral degrees. By 2011, that number had grown 60 percent to a record number of 166 Ph.D. and Ed.D. degrees. How many will be awarded in 2021, when the university turns 150 years old?

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“I’ve seen just a small amount of what he has done to take this band to the next level, and it is definitely exciting,” said Smith. “His work ethic and dedication to the band is what I appreciate most.”

Marching band students are dedicated, too.

They practice four days each week for two hours. On game days, they meet five hours prior to kick-off and run through the pregame and halftime shows. They then split up into smaller pep bands and play at the most popular tailgating spots on campus.

Razorback fans adore the band and have a deep appreciation for what it brings to each game day.

Juston Ramirez of Hindsville, Ark. loves the energy the band brings to the stadium.

“I wish they could pump the sound of the marching band over the loud speakers,” he said. “Several of my friends have seats in the end zone instead of the lower west side for this very reason. They can hear better, and it really enhances the overall game experience.”

Ellen West (B.S.B.A.’09) of Houston can’t imagine cheering for the Razorbacks without the band’s soundtrack accompanying every play. In fact, she recalls the last home game during her senior year, and the band plays a big role in that memory.

“My friends and I were very sentimental, and we were acting like we’d never again be able to attend a Razorback football game,” she said.

“We sang along, danced and cheered to every single song the band played. We had a blast, and I’ll never forget it.”

West believes the band impacts the Hogs on the field as well as the ones in the stands.

“Every student and fan knows the band’s repertoire and sings along with them,” she said. “And that, in turn, excites the players.

When the crowd is loud and excited, the players have to feed off the energy in the stadium.”

Aside from being outstanding performers on the field and in the stands, Knighten wants alumni and friends of the university to know how much the students care about the traditions of the university and how much they enjoy being the catalyst in those big arenas to get the crowd involved. They excel academically, and they are involved in countless activities on campus.

These are engaged, motivated members of the campus community.

Of the 367 students currently on the band roster, 341 receive scholarship support. For away games or competitions, one might compare their travel needs to the planning and organization required to move an army. They fill a semi-truck and seven buses with musicians, staff, luggage, instruments and uniforms.

“No facilities crew works with us,” said Knighten. “The students really learn to work together. When we are on the road, we might have 400 meals delivered, and we’re able to get everything organized and served in about 10 minutes.”

The Razorback Marching Band is one well-oiled, nationally renowned, exclamation-pointed machine. ■

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hat’s a band director to do when the GO HOGS formation runs out of space?

First, he gets excited that the Razorback Marching Band has so many exceptionally talented musicians that they can’t all fit in the space of six letters. Then, he thinks about what to do with the stragglers.

Christopher Knighten’s solution?

An exclamation point!

To be sure, punctuation is a critical component of any statement, but this sentence — altered for the first time since 1970 — required some thought. There would be space for many students to fill the staff of the exclamation mark, but only one student could be the dot.

“We didn’t want to use a tuba player because it’s too reminiscent of the dotting of the “i” at Ohio State,” said Knighten. “We wanted to do something a little different.”

Enter Paul Smith, the senior-most cymbals player in the marching band, and the dot for the new-in-2011 GO HOGS! formation on Frank Broyles Field inside the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium.

“It’s a great honor to be a part of not only an outstanding organization but also the start of something new,” said Smith. “I feel wonderful being able to start such a tradition, and hopefully set a standard and bring forward more opportunities for the future.”

Smith’s role in starting a new tradition goes beyond standing at the fulcrum of the exclamation point. He takes this new role seriously, and he has come up with his own choreography and ways to make the exclamation point stand out for the fans.

“I told Paul his job was to draw attention to himself,” said Knighten. “If you listen closely when they perform, you’ll hear cymbal crashes that aren’t a part of the music. He just decided to add them in. All of the other members of the cymbal percussion section are in the ‘H’ so you can tell that one crash is coming from a different location and at different times. We just let him go with it, and he has completely embraced it.”

Smith’s enthusiasm, which he came by honestly growing up in a musical family in Oklahoma, will undoubtedly help him in future plans as well. He intends to become a music teacher in band or possibly choir.

At this point, there’s no established standard for the dot except for what Smith has done, but he has set a precedent for what’s to come.

And it’s no surprise that Knighten expects several students will be asking if they can be the dot after Paul graduates next May. Band students have a rich passion for what they do, and the opportunity to play a special role is enticing.

“Some participate because they love band, and some participate because they are crazy Razorback fans,” said Knighten. “But we all have the love of music and performing. And the students perform better and are more spirited when they see the crowd respond.”

No matter what first draws them to the university, the respect students have for Knighten as their director is no small factor.

Volunteer Spotlight:

Awareness Creates Pride

Ebony Wyatt ★ BSBA’03

Welcome to the 2012-13 academic year and fiscal year for the Arkansas Alumni Association.

We have recently honored and celebrated with Mike Macechko as he retired after 24 years of service as our executive director. Thank you, Mike, for your service and all the fantastic accomplishments during your tenure; and, best wishes to you and Kris for many years ahead of good health and enjoyment!

With much excitement, we welcome Mike’s successor, Graham Stewart. Graham has many years of experience in alumni work, most recently as the leader of the alumni association at Ohio University.

Graham’s energy, enthusiasm and engaging personality are inspiring.

It is with a great deal of humility that I come into the presidency of the Arkansas Alumni Association. I am truly honored!! My past seven years on our board have been most informative and enjoyable. The many people I have met and been around are the best. I give special thanks to my predecessor, Steve Nipper, for his fine example of leadership.

I was born and raised in Little Rock and have deep roots in Arkansas. While I would say that I have had “appropriate” pride in my state, it has been exhanced greatly in recent years by all the success stories being written on campus, especially academic. The University of Arkansas is becoming a bright shining beacon throughout the United States. Among other things, the value of all of our degrees is constantly being increased. What drives this? Key answers are improving quality of students, faculty and staff and overall leadership of the university and its many colleges and schools. The successful private fundraising efforts that help make this happen are raising eyebrows amongst the insiders in universities nationwide.

I want to share my passion and pride for my school. Alumni Association work obviously helps me to do this, but, for the global populace of alumni, this can be done by our developing more effective ways for alumni to receive the message of our achievements. I still run into alums that for whatever reason, have not “heard the word.”

Hence, I am declaring my theme as president “Awareness Creates Pride… (ACP).” We as an association, staff and board will be taking a fresh new look at our audience, using basic marketing tools and concepts to access what you want from your alumni association – as well as the best ways for delivery.

As a board and as staff, we should be “raising the bar” each year. I eagerly look forward to helping lead this process.

Exciting times are ahead!! GO HOGS and remember, ACP!!

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Passionate about helping and seeing students succeed, Ebony Wyatt understands the importance of giving back and staying involved after graduation. As a member of both the Business Alumni Advisory Council through the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and the Arkansas Alumni Association’s Black Alumni Society, Wyatt is determined to stay connected with the students at the University of Arkansas.

A true U of A alumna for nine years, Wyatt graduated in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. Attending Northside High School in Fort Smith, she participated in the university’s Accounting Careers Awareness Program her senior year of high school, a program which she says led her to choose the University of Arkansas. Viewing her years on campus as a time that enabled her to “learn to network early and cultivate leadership skills,” she uses her experience to help current and future students succeed at the U of A. “I want to give back to the students and being a part of these alumni groups allows me to have a direct impact on the students,” she said. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Business Alumni Advisory Council. Serving as a “sounding board for the Walton College,” the council advises the dean on future programming opportunities, recruiting initiatives and the curriculum. Additionally, the council allows for student-alumni interaction during each board meeting. Just recently, she was nominated to serve as the council’s secretary, which she graciously accepted.

Grateful for the opportunity to network with the students and provide professional advice and experience, she appreciates the diverse and integrated nature of the board. Varying in age, backgrounds and geography the council provides a wide array of experienced professionals to help benefit the needs of the students.

Apart from her work with the Business Alumni Advisory Council, Wyatt also devotes time as a board member on the Black Alumni Society. As co-chair of the 2013 Black Alumni Society Reunion, she is eager to see the society’s membership grow and provide more scholarships for minority students attending the University of Arkansas.

“The Black Alumni Society helps to give back directly to AfricanAmerican students. … It is about connecting the Arkansas Alumni Association back to the U of A in a personal way and ensuring that outside of scholarships, we are staying connected to the students through mentoring and career opportunities,” she said.

The reunion theme suggests that alumni and friends “Think Back, Look Back, Come Back, Give Back.” “As successful and active alumni, we are the university’s best advertising tool,” she says. n

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Non-Traditional Student Leadership Award Rebecca Krusz, a political science major from Bentonville, is the recipient of the 2012 Arkansas Alumni Association Non-Traditional Student Leadership Award. The $1,000 award, given in partnership with Off Campus Connections, is presented to a non-traditional student who has a challenging personal situation or environment; leadership on and/or off campus; academic achievement; and promise for the future.

“Last year, Off Campus Connections was thrilled when the Arkansas Alumni Association generously offered to fund the Non-Traditional Student Leadership Award with an annual $1,000 prize,” said Susan Stiers, associate director of Off Campus Connections. “We are proud to be partners in acknowledging and appreciating the dedication of non-traditional student leaders. These students are committed to their academics and to the completion of their degree as a way of improving their lives and those around them. This year, it is an honor for us all to recognize Rebecca for her inspiring leadership and her passion to help others.”

Krusz, the mother of nine children ranging from a toddler to college students, graduated as part of the Class of 2012 with a Bachelor

of Arts in political science with a pre-law minor. She plans to use the leadership award to continue her education at the University of Arkansas by pursuing a master’s degree in political science and then a doctorate in public policy. When she starts graduate school in the fall, her two oldest children also will be attending the University of Arkansas with her as a junior and a freshman.

She credits those around her, including her husband, with helping her make time for studying. “One of the most important things is a good support system of people who approve of what I do,” Krusz said.

“This is my passion. I’ve been successful at school. I’m really organized, and I try to keep my family separate.”

Not only does Krusz juggle her family and school, she also travels often to Washington, D.C., to serve as a voice against human trafficking before Congress.

“I have people tell me all the time that I’m an inspiration,” said Krusz. “I live one day at a time. I haven’t let the fear of the unknown get to me. ... If someone is thinking about going back to college, they shouldn’t let fear dictate. Take it one step at a time. Don’t get caught up in stress. Before you know it, you’re graduating.” n

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orty-seven years ago,

the Arkansas Alumni Association established the Senior Honor Citation to annually recognize a senior man and woman who exhibit outstanding academic achievement, campus and community involvement and leadership. The citation includes a personal memento, a $500 cash award, a life membership in the Arkansas Alumni Association and permanent recognition on the student honor wall at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House.

This year’s recipients are graduating seniors Ryan Harris of Paragould and Kayln Williams of Edmond, Okla. They were presented the award during a luncheon with the alumni board of directors and representatives from their colleges on May 11, the day before commencement.

Their families, friends and faculty members were also guests.

Q: Ryan, when sharing your experiences about the U of A, what’s the first thing you share?

A: It seems like every time I am asked about my experiences at the University of Arkansas, I always go back to my first real college experience. Everyone remembers their first big round of tests. Coming in as a successful high school student, I naively thought my old study habits would be more than sufficient for college. I cannot stress how

wrong I actually was. Needless to say the first group of test scores was not as high as I wanted to start my college career. I can remember talking to my parents about changing my goal of becoming a physician.

After they calmed me down, I realized I wasn’t in Paragould anymore.

I re-evaluated my study practices and began to become a regular at the Enhanced Learning Center. I made my first friends at the center because it seemed we all were in the same situation.

Q: How difficult is it to maintain academic excellence while being an organization’s leader?

A: The difficulties that accompany being a student leader are numerous. From the stresses that accompany organizing your next meeting or project to studying for tests, your life completely changes from being a “normal” college student. The most significant change you see as a student leader is the loss of personal time due to other commitments. People often overlook this aspect of leaders. Your life becomes so compartmentalized that you lose your gym time or hanging out with friends. While these sacrifices begin to add up, the overall goal of why you are both a student and a leader of an organization must remain number one in your life to be successful.

Q: What inspires you to get involved?

A: I have always strived to be involved since high school. Whether it was my high school student council or the Student Alumni Board putting on an event, I wanted to help out and accomplish our group’s goals.

Most view getting involved in groups as work, but I have never felt it has been that to me. It is a great outlet to get out of your everyday routine, meet new people, and be a part of an organization serving others.

Q: What advice would you give future college students about giving back and being service-oriented?

A: The best advice I could give about giving back to other students is that no matter what you have accomplished in your life, somebody has helped you to get there. We all need to help others because none of us can reach our full potential on our own.

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1965 Linda J. Thompson James Lance

1971 Nancy Lou Nelson William R. Meeks III

1977 Cheryl L. Harris Carl Gessler, Jr.

1966 Judy A. Baldridge Clifton C. Stewart, Jr.

1972 Judy Lukas Taylor D. Wilkes

1978 Jean Hopkins Jefferey W. Roblee

1967 Rosemary Hoag Stephen M. Rousseau

1973 Margie Ann Chapman Jeffrey Alan Bell

1979 Jeanette L. Fetzer Timothy E. Perry

1968 Carol Jan Harris Mack McLarty

1974 Debbie Wernet Graham Catlett

1980 Susan M. Searcy Walker M.“Skip” Ebel

1969 Linda Faulkner John Michael Condit

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Carol Volk Randall G. Oxford

1981 Elizabeth Wellborn John S. McDaniel

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1976 Robert Boyd Kenneth L. Stewart

1982 Anne E. Baxley John M. James

Christine Lee Henry

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Q: Kaylyn, when sharing your experiences about the U of A, what’s the first thing you share?

A: I often share my experiences about the University of Arkansas with people from home in Oklahoma City and with people overseas while studying abroad. I find it particularly unique that our institution is able to unite the entire state of Arkansas. Despite which city you were born in, which political or religious affiliations you hold, or which profession you practice—families across our great state display incredible pride when cheering on our Razorbacks. Although I will relocate this summer to begin my career, I know that I will feel right at home when connecting with fellow Razorbacks through our Denver Alumni Association chapter. I look forward to joining them in calling the hogs this fall.

Q: How difficult is it to maintain academic excellence while being an organization’s leader?

A: When I began college four years ago, my first priority was academic success. I dedicated most of my time to my studies hoping to develop a strong foundation of grades for my first year. As I became more comfortable with college and my new town, I began actively seeking involvement opportunities on and around campus. I found that academic excellence and abundant involvement are not mutually exclusive of each other; academic excellence does not have to suffer at the hand of leadership positions. Serving as a leader should only enhance academic success as leaders strive to manage their time most efficiently. As I increased involvement in organizations and internships, I found that time management helped me to focus and improve my quality of work.

College is short, but I found that four-years time can be filled appropriately with diverse activities.

Q. What inspires you to get involved?

A: People. Throughout my four years, nothing has expanded my outlook on life, taught me more valuable lessons, or created as many memories as the students, faculty, staff and mentors that I have developed friendships with on this campus. I owe many of these relationships to the organizations I had the privilege of serving. In my opinion,

Kayln Williams attending class daily, completing coursework and achieving success in your degree should be the minimum requirement for students while in Fayetteville. I have found that involvement opportunities are just as valuable as courses to contributing to your success in college and to your ‘life toolkit’ in preparation for post-college and beyond.

Q: What advice would you give future college students about giving back and being service-oriented?

A: Four lessons: This university will endlessly contribute to your success if you allow it to; do not permit any past mishaps or trepidations to define your future here; surround yourself with people who challenge you; seek a college career and a life full of purpose. I find myself to be most fulfilled when giving back to our campus and community through service. n

1983 Lee Antoinette Miller C. Lane Keeter

1989 Frank V. Broadstreet Lesley C. Dinwiddie

1995 Tonya Threlkeld Lawless Andrew Lavery

2001 Rey Krisantis Erin Stone

2007 Dwayne Bensing Megan Harris

1984 Karen M. Cunningham Brian M. Rosenthal

1990 Charles E. King Joanna Long

1996 Nam H. Le Celisa A. Steele

2002 Jennifer David Ben Hood

2008 Zach Donnell Jessica Fay

1985 Lisa M. Bocquet Eric O. Wear

1991 Amy L. Boast John P. Hogan

1997 Michele S. Cronkhite Christopher L. Turner

2003 Stephanie Gosnell Andrew King

2009 Erin Gray Nate Looney

1986 Lisa Renee Pruitt Mark Middleton

1992 Robert E. Adair Kimbra A. Bell

1998 Ashley Rodgers Jeremy Smith

2004 Benjamin D. Austrin-Willis Shrieen Yvette Husain

2010 Mattie Miller Bookhout David Matthew Haynie

1987 Brett Avery Peters Lori Genene Aylett

1993 Michael E. Newcity Mary A. Nies

1999 Amy C. Drake James J. Carney

2005 Rebecca Lynn Stubbs N. Wesley Hunt

1988 Andrew A. Cole Donna J. Loeschner

1994 Rachel Olivia Cripps Todd A. Williams

2000 Angela Maxwell Robert Jason Reed

2006 David Deitz Catherine St. Clair

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Record year for scholarship rewards

This year, the Arkansas Alumni Association will award over $860,000 to more than 375 students. Thanks to association members, Hog Tag holders and generous donors, the Alumni Association’s program continues to make an incredible impact on students’ lives. In addition to the more than 175 upperclass students who qualified for scholarship renewal, the association is proud to introduce the newest class of Arkansas Alumni Scholars.

Alumni Endowed Scholars are the top two finalists in each year’s scholarship review. Selected from more than 500 applicants on the basis of high school involvement, community service, and academic potential, Alumni Endowed Scholars possess a unique quality that sets them apart from a competitive group of outstanding students. This year’s freshman Endowed Scholars will receive a renewable scholarship worth $6,500 per year.

Meet the endowed scholars A native of Fayetteville, William McEver considers the University of Arkansas to be an important part of his life. Attending Fayetteville High School, he lettered two years on the football team and was captain of the 2011 State Championship team. As co-founder of the ESPN club and vice president of the Spanish National Honors Society, he succeeded not only in sports and academics, but also as a leader.

Looking to continue his efforts in William McEver college, there was no doubt that he Fayetteville would spend the next four years of his life at the University of Arkansas. Growing up a dedicated Razorback fan, McEver admits, “I could think of no better place to start my college career.

“Thank you so much for awarding me with the alumni Endowed Scholarship in the amount of $6,500. I’m honored to accept this scholarship and I will do everything I can to make sure I uphold the standards of excellence represented in this scholarship while I attend the University of Arkansas,” he said. “Since I plan on attending medical school, this scholarship alleviates a significant financial burden and will allow me to save money to use to follow my dream of becoming a doctor.”

Planning for a future in the medical field, he is prepared to begin his journey on the Fayetteville campus by majoring in biomedical engineering, a new department on campus. He looks forward to building relationships that will help to further his goals in the upcoming years. Apart from academics, McEver is eager to participate in various student activities, including Greek Life, student government and intramural sports.

Setting goals since her days in high school, Heather Blalack of Atkins says getting an education has always been at the top of her priority list. Making sure she stayed focused on academics, she also made time to be involved in many school activities, including sports and various clubs, as well as maintaining a part-time job.

Looking beyond high school, one of her goals was to one day attend the University of Arkansas. When lookHeather Blalack ing at colleges to attend, she admits, Atkins “I chose the University of Arkansas because I feel as if the campus suits my personality and drive for success.

“I would like to personally thank you for the Endowed Scholarship with a value of $6,500 per year. This scholarship will greatly assist me while in college. Due to the amount of the scholarship, I will be able to attend the University of Arkansas without financial burdens. In turn, I will be able to focus on my studies and not be forced to attain a job,” she said.

Continuing to set goals for herself, her plans are to major in finance at the U of A. The spirit she possesses to get involved is an aspect of college life which she intends to fully embrace, saying that she “hopes to participate in the numerous clubs and organizations I will be exposed to in the near future.”

To learn more about contributing to the

Arkansas Alumni Association scholarship program contact Robin January at scholarships@arkansasalumni.org or 479-575-2801.

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“Roads” Scholarships Proceeds generated from the sale of University of Arkansas license plates, or Hog Tags, are the lifeblood of the Alumni Association’s scholarship programs. With the $25 annual contribution from hog tag holders across the state, the Alumni Association has awarded more than $2.25 million to nearly 1,300 students since 1994. Any Arkansas resident can obtain a University of Arkansas license plate. For more Charlotte Banister, Fayetteville Cameron Clark, Fayetteville Ashleigh Giovannini, Morrilton Emily Kaplon, Maumelle Timothy Merten, Jonesboro Allison Schneider, Maumelle

Brittany Barre’, Jonesboro Olivia Foster, Booneville Hannah Hambrice, Little Rock Alexa Koenigseder, Fort Smith Jonathan Moore, Marion Laney Sideroff, Junction City

Jessica Bettis, Malvern Sarah Fowler, Cabot Lucas Hartness, Rogers Colleen Kretzer, Siloam Springs Matthew Moore, Marion Jalen Smith, Harrisburg

information visit www.hogtags.com and learn how you can support Arkansas Alumni Association scholarships.

“Roads” Scholars are finalists in the Arkansas Alumni Association’s scholarship review. This year the Alumni Association awarded “Roads” Scholarships to the following incoming freshmen.

Michael Blanchard, Rogers Kyle Franklin, Fort Smith Wes Hinson, Benton Jenna Kucginski, Mountain Home David Murph, El Dorado Jordan Smith, Hot Springs

Jillian Brenner, Marion Joanna Fureigh, Little Rock Mary Hoag, Little Rock Joshua Lee, Alma Jordan Preston, Hot Springs Jared Stone, Little Rock

Sara Bryant, Hot Springs Alex Garner, Pine Bluff Tyler Hudock, Rogers Olivia Lisenbey, Sheridan Nicholas Quinn, Bentonville Morena Valdizon, Rogers

Justin Carroll, Moro Aaron Gibson, Fayetteville Kaitlynn Jarrels, Fort Smith Paige McCullough, Rogers Jessica Ramirez, Springdale Hailey Young, Fayetteville

Razorback Generations Scholarships The top Arkansas legacy finalists in the Alumni Association’s scholarship review receive Razorback Generations Scholarships. These students have an immediate family member who is a graduate of the University of Arkansas.

Nicole Bolt, Mountain Home

Michael Bond, Farmington Riley Harris, Springdale

Drake Breshears, Rogers Lance Huckabee, Cabot

Samantha Conner, Mountain Home Jordan Hughes, Little Rock

Joseph Davenport, Yellville Robert McCauley, Jonesboro

Yasmeen Ebbini, Fayetteville Hayden Wynne, Fordyce

Jacob Falkoff, Magnolia

Alumni Board of Directors The following out-of-state finalists in the Alumni Association’s scholarship review are recognized with Alumni Board of Directors scholarships.

Spencer Anfosso, Brandon Breard, McKinney, Texas Monroe, La. Rachel Deems, Kelsey DeFreece, Coppell, Texas Cordova, Tenn.

Sarah Hopkins, Elizabeth Horne, Lake Lotawana, Mo. White Oak, Texas Samantha McCune, Conner McDade, Dallas, Texas Tulsa, Okla.

Andrew Mitchell, Rowan O’Brien-Williams, Trophy Club, Texas Kansas City, Mo. Meghan Shrewsbury, Samantha Stubbs, St. Louis, Mo. Denison, Texas

Susannah Burress, Stilwell, Kan. Katelyn Eason, Nixa, Mo. Nicole Howard, Overland Park, Kan. Alison McElhenney, Broken Arrow, Okla.

Michael Pearson, Flower Mound, Texas Bryant Sugg, Katy, Texas

Richard Clark, Overland Park, Kan. Alexa Finegan, Raymore, Mo. Hannah Hunter, Alexandria, La. Coleman McFerrin, Shreveport, La. Kyle Phipps, Ozark, Mo. John Talley, Olive Branch, Miss.

Morgan Clarke, Lee’s Summit, Mo. Paige Galbraith, Shawnee, Kan. Isabelle Hutchinson, Sherman, Texas Breanna Miller, Cassville, Mo. Wheeler Richardson, Starkville, Miss.

Colby Weishaar, Lenexa, Kan.

Alyssa Davis, Longview, Texas Kaylyn Hager, Keller, Texas Regan Keasling, Lawrence, Kan. Jacob Miller, Clarksville, Tenn.

Lauren Schoen, Springfield, Mo. Kylie Weston, Allen, Texas

Collin Davis, Poplar Bluff, Mo. Meredith Hegedus, Katy, Texas Austin McCown, McKinney, Texas Jason Miller, Broken Arrow, Okla.

Aidan Shea, Memphis, Tenn.

Lauren Wethington, Lawrence, Kan.

Chapter Scholars Chapters across the country offer scholarships to local students attending the University of Arkansas. This year chapters have awarded more than $70,000 to 65 students. Many chapters make 4 year commitments to their recipients, and more than half of this year’s chapter scholars are receiving scholarship renewals. The newest chapter scholars are below.

Alabama Capital Central Oklahoma Dallas Dallas Dallas Denver Aleczander Jackson Jacob Carter Lauren Zimmerman Brittney Dito Courtney Jahner Danielle Needham Morgan Weeks East Texas Garland County Garland County Houston Independence County Independence County Kansas City Allison Yost Brandt Cooper Josh Stadler Elisabeth Westcott Quinton Smith Madelyn Barber Maggie Everett Kansas City Kansas City Kansas City Kansas City Northeast Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Allison Flatt Sara Kuhl Nicholas Logan Lindsey Rodhouse Windom Paul Qusay Alfaori Ellen Donoghue Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas Northwest Arkansas St. Louis San Francisco Whitney Green Shelby Hooks Mary Lee Amanda Reedy Mary Young Katlyn Grimshaw Devonnie Mann Springfield Tri-State Tri-State Western Arkansas James Kyle Allison Johnson Kellie Stringer Emily Nelson Fall 2012

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Black Alumni Society Scholarships The Black Alumni Society offers scholarships to promote diversity on the University of Arkansas campus. This year the Black Alumni Society has awarded nearly $14,000 through the BAS scholarship endowment, the Trent, Sheila and Vivian Walton Scholarships and the Reginald K. Murdock Jr. Award. The following students are the newest recipients of BAS scholarships.

Ariel Bass, Arkadelphia

Alexis Freeman, Little Rock

Kenneth Hamilton, Little Rock

Brianna Hill, West Memphis

Chassidy Hurst, Marion

Micah Minter, Stuttgart

Named Scholars Several generous donors have established named scholarship endowments that annually fund awards for University of Arkansas students. The following students are the newest recipients of these special awards.

Blume Award for Non-Traditional Students Jeremy Johns, Fayetteville

Blume Award for Non-Traditional Students Everett Noblin Jr., Watts, Okla.

David and Pamela Hallin Scholarship Jeremy Johns, Fayetteville

Tommy and Sylvia Boyer Scholarship Gina Spring, Fayetteville

Membership Scholarships In 2009, the Alumni Association began directing $5 from every membership into a special scholarship account. Membership Scholarships are awarded to current University of Arkansas students who are active both in and out of the classroom and deserving of some muchneeded financial assistance. This year the Alumni Association will award $68,000 in Membership Scholarships to the following students.

Qusay Alfaori Ashley Athavichitchanyaraks Joshua Baer Umanga Bastola Celi Birke Jessica Gallagher

Whitney Green Brett Hiller Grant Hodges Hanna Holden Jennifer Holmes-Smith Daniela Jankovska

Ann Johnson Amanda Johnson Thao Le Mengjiao Liao Emily McLain Everett Noblin Jr.

Quinton Palmer Jillian Patton Kayla Sligh Gina Spring Danilo Tchoupe Eric Tobias

Phyllis Todd Andre Vargas Victoria Wood Mary Young

Harris-LaRew Scholars.

The Phoebe Todd Harris & Anne Harris LaRew Alumni Scholarship was established by the late Anne Harris LaRew to promote a diverse educational environment at the University of Arkansas. This year the Alumni Association awarded $48,000 to its inaugural class of Harris-LaRew Scholars.

Eryn Adams Jonesboro Kristen Blanks Collierville, Tenn.

Donta Dismuke Strong Whitney Frierson West Helena KaDarrius Green Bearden Breanna Hill West Memphis Del’ Juan Jackson Little Rock Aricka Lewis Fayetteville Micah Minter Stuttgart Leland Moorehead Murphy, Texas Cameron Seay Allen, Texas Imani Smith Springdale Deidre Williams Fayetteville

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Alexis Freeman Little Rock Lillian Gray Little Rock Kenneth Hamilton Little Rock Chassidy Hurst Marion PJ Lambey Fayetteville Accee Milton Pine Bluff Melanie Monts Springdale LaTanjakeithia Porchia Camden Sharda Sims Smackover Andrea Webster Parkdale

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Written by Ron Morris ’58

“I grew up in the rural southwest corner of Arkansas during the Depression era. We had no running water, no electricity and no car.

No one in that area went to college. At 12 or 13 years old, I realized that the people who made good wages had all gone to college.

“I saved all the money I could so that I could go to college. I decided to go to Arkansas and study engineering. The move was wonderful as I hitchhiked my way to Fayetteville; I was a very selfsufficient kid.

“When I arrived, I went to an orientation course and met the head of the engineering department, John Imhoff. He eventually helped me get my first job. While in school, I worked to pay my way. I had various jobs, including working as a carpenter helper, a lifeguard at Lake Wedington and even made some good money playing poker.

“At the University of Arkansas, I met Betty Douglas ’59 who was two years behind me in school. She lived in the women’s dorm. A buddy and I paid $25 a month to live in a basement apartment and his sister was in Betty’s dorm. There was a get together and that is how we met…53 years later, I couldn’t have made a better choice.

“Betty’s mother, Wilma Douglas, was teaching at Mountain Home and it turned out that they were going to require that she receive more education, so along with Betty, she attended the University of Arkansas during the summer to receive her teaching requirements.”

“In keeping with the family, our son, Ron ’84, attended the U of A and received a degree in industrial engineering. He, too, studied under Dr. Imhoff and is now part owner and president of Lyons Manufacturing Inc. It was at the U of A that he met his wife, Debra ’84.

“Their daughter, Megan ’08, also attended the U of A and received her degree in information systems. When she started her schooling, she planned to major in industrial engineering. Dr. Imhoff had me come in and talk to her class; however, she soon realized that engineering was not what she wanted to study.

“Since our time at the University of Arkansas, Betty and I have been fortunate enough to endow 13 or 14 scholarships at various schools. One, the Ben Gray Scholarship, was named in honor of Betty’s father. One of our greatest pleasures in life is receiving letters from kids who have received one of our scholarships. It lets us know that we are helping to change people’s lives.

“In 2005, I was given the Distinguished Alumni Award by the College of Engineering, and in 2012, I was chosen for the College of Engineering Hall of Fame, which is the highest award given to a graduate.

“The University of Arkansas means so much to me and my family for many reasons. It is where Betty and I met. It is where John Imhoff taught. It is where Megan went to school. The U of A was an opening for me to get away from the poverty in my life. It is a place where we can show not only our kids, but our grandkids our names on Senior Walk. To know that we will have more grandchildren and great-grandchildren with their names on Senior Walk…it makes it such a special place.” ■

Morris Family Legacy (1) Ron Morris in second grade-5-6 years old (2)Father, Mother and oldest brother with wagon load of hay (3) House where the Morrises lived (4) Ron Morris shortly before marriage to Betty Douglas (5) Betty Douglas shortly before marriage to Ron Morris (6) Ron D. and Debbie Morris while at U of A (7) Ron and Betty Morris at Saint Andrew, New Brunswick, Canada (8) Ron D., Betty, Ron and Debbie Morris – first- and secondgeneration UA graduates (9) Megan Morris McEnroe – third-generation UA graduate

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Chapters -1Members of the Greater Springfield Chapter welcomed Graham Stewart, incoming executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association, to Alumni Day Out at Hammons Field. Stewart led Greater Springfield Chapter leaders Julie Goldman, from left to right, Rebecca Pottebaum, and Judy Nichols in singing the “Star Spangled Banner.”

-2The Mid-South Chapter hosted their first Scholarship Fundraiser Pignic on May 19 at the home of Gerald and Sandra Wilson.

The event included an outdoor picnic, silent auction and entertainment by Greg Lackey.

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-4Capital Chapter alumni gathered to tailgate and watch the Razorbacks play at DickeyStephens Park on May 15.

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Holly is Oklahoma City’s new regionally based U of A admissions recruiter and has begun working with the chapter to increase visibility at area college fairs and high school student recruitment events.

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Chapters -1The Wichita Chapter hosted a Student Send Off on July 14 for local students heading to The Hill in the fall.

-2Members of the Wichita Chapter gathered to watch the Razorbacks play in the College World Series.

-3On May 1, 321 students and parents representing 23 different Dallas area high schools attended the Dallas Chapter’s “Head to the Hill” student send-off at Bent Tree Country Club in Dallas. Danny Pugh, vice provost for Student Affairs and dean of students, was the featured guest.

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-5Members of the Dallas Chapter attended a Dallas SEC Mixer at 3rd Base Sports Bar & Grill in Frisco, Texas, on June 14. Pictured from left to right are: Anthony Powell, Kristina Pool, Kristen Allbritton, Kelly Knight and Jennifer Duncan.

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-2Deb Euculano, associate director, reconnects with Mac and Shannon Lowe at the Forever Arkansas Reception in Tulsa.

-3Gary and Marjean McDonald hand Graham Stewart, executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association, his first Association membership at Forever Arkansas on June 1 in Tulsa.

-4Alumni from Austin and Dallas gathered on June 22 at The Cedar Door Bar and Grill in downtown Austin for the Forever Arkansas reception and to watch the Razorbacks play in the College World Series.

-5Society board members participated in the Forever Arkansas Society Board Retreat at the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House on June 9.

-6Capital Chapter Board members Christina and Matt Vick visit with Spencer Lucker, Buckley O’Mell, Forest Boles and Will Whiting, assistant director for development.

-7Graham Stewart, executive director of the Arkansas Alumni Association, and Forever Arkansas hosts Mary Lou and Terry Rasco.

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-8Alumni chapter board members from Arkansas and Memphis met in Little Rock on May 5 for the Forever Arkansas Little Rock Regional Board Retreat.

-9John Reap, president of the Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors, shares a laugh with Dallas Board member John Knight at the Texas Regional Board Retreat.

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Tyson Gay, second from right, stands with teammates of the U.S. silver-medal-winning 4x100-meter relay team at the Olympics.

Razorback alumni finish with silver, bronze medals in 2012 Olympiad

A dozen Razorback athletes, past and present, competed in the 2012 Olympics in London, with two alumni — Veronica Campbell-Brown and Tyson Gay — winning medals.

Gay, who competed in the 2008 Olympics as well, won a silver medal as part of the American men’s 4x400 relay team, which included Trell Kimmons, Justin Gatlin and Ryan Bailey. The American team set a new American record but couldn’t quite keep pace with the Jamaican team, which set a new world record. Gay also finished fourth in the 100-meter dash. This was his second Olympic appearance.

Campbell-Brown, appearing at the Olympics for the fourth time in her career, won the bronze medal in the women’s 100-meter dash for her home country of Jamaica. Only six-one hundredths of a second separated the gold medalist, fellow Jamaican Shelly-Ann Frazer-Pryce, and the bronze medal. Campbell-Brown, who won gold in the 200meter dash in both 2004 and 2008, defended her title in the 200 finals but finished fourth.

Another Razorback alumnus, Wallace Spearmon Jr., finished fourth in the men’s 200-meter dash. Spearmon appeared to have won the silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics but was disqualified for stepping outside his lane. In this year’s race, Spearmon finished with his season best time and only six-one hundredths of a second out of medal contention.

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Regina George, competing in her first Olympics on behalf of Nigeria, finished 11th during a semifinal round in the 400-meter dash.

Jeremy Scott, making his first Olympic appearance, finished in 15th place during the qualifying round, just missing the finals.

Tina Sutej, a two-time NCAA champion and a first-time Olympian, tied for 19th in the pole vault during a qualifying round. She represented her home country of Slovenia.

Ivanique Kemp, who holds the Bahamian record for the women’s 100-meter hurdles, finished 22nd overall during the semifinal round.

Raymond Higgs, also representing the Bahamas, finished 21st in the men’s long jump during qualifying rounds.

Alistair Cragg, making his third Olympic appearance for Ireland, finished 31st in the men’s 5,000-meter race during qualifying rounds.

Nine places behind Cragg, Samuel Vazquez, who represented his native Puerto Rico, finished in 40th place in the 5,000-meter race.

Kerri-Ann Mitchell, representing Canada in her first appearance in the Olympics, finished 41st during qualifying rounds of the women’s 100-meter dash.

Marek Niit, the Estonian record holder in the men’s 100 and 200, finished 38th in the men’s 200-meter dash and 41st in the men’s 100meter dash during qualifying rounds. ■

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Razorbacks earn top 25 national finishes The University of Arkansas finished in the top 25 of the final Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings for the third time in four years thanks to a strong finish by the Razorbacks’ spring sports teams.

The Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup began as a combined effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today with points awarded based on an institution’s finish in up to 20 sports, 10 women’s and 10 men’s sports.

The Razorbacks finished No. 24 with 726.75 points in the final standings, released by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics in July.

“Congratulations to our coaches, student-athletes and staff for earning national recognition as one of the top 25 all-sports programs in intercollegiate athletics,” said Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics. “Being ranked among the nation’s best, speaks to the depth and breadth of the Razorback program. The outstanding team and individual athletic accomplishments of our more than 460 studentathletes lifted our program to a new standard of sustained success in the Directors’ Cup. Combined with our student-athletes’ academic success and community service efforts, 2010-11 has been another exceptional year for Razorback Athletics.”

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Shauna Estes-Taylor and the women’s golf team scored a spring high 74.24 points after earning a program-best tie for fifth place at the NCAA Championship.

The Razorback men’s golf team also advanced to the NCAA Championship in Oklahoma. Brad McMakin’s squad earned 50 points for a 15th-place showing.

Dave Van Horn led the baseball Razorbacks to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Tempe Regional earning 50 points.

Men’s and women’s track and field both scored in the 60s with Chris Bucknam’s men’s team counting 66.75 points after tying for a 10th place finish and Lance Harter’s women’s team earning 60.75 points with a 14th place finish at the NCAA Championships.

Michael Hegarty’s women’s tennis team earned 50 points after a 17th place NCAA finish to round out the Razorbacks’ spring scoring.

Arkansas’ women’s indoor track team added 80 points followed by 50.5 points from the men’s team. Jeff Poppell led the Razorback swimming and diving team to a 32nd place showing for 41 points.

The Razorbacks had two teams score points in the fall paced by Arkansas’ first-ever Bowl Championship Series appearance at the Allstate Sugar Bowl, good for 64.5 points. Men’s cross country added a 10th place finish at the NCAA Championship for 60 points. ■

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Gunnar Nixon, seen here competing in the hurdles at John McDonnell Field, set the new American junior record for the decathlon.

Nixon sets American junior record in decathlon Gunnar Nixon was named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week in the first week of August, just after his gold-medal decathlon performance in the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships. Nixon, a native of Edmond, Okla., set the American junior record with his total of 8,018 points, surpassing the previous mark held by Arkansas teammate Kevin Lazas by two points.

The win for Nixon represented the first-ever decathlon medal for the USA at the World Junior Championships. Heading into the final event, Nixon was in second place overall and needed to finish 14 seconds ahead of then-leader Jake Stein of Australia. Nixon ended up with a personal-best run of 4:22.36, nearly 24 seconds clear of Stein.

During the two-day, 10-event competition, Nixon established an overall personal best in the 1,500 meters and junior-implement bests in the shot put (14.54m/47-8.5) and discus (42.23m/138-6). Nixon’s gold medal was the first of the event for Team USA. Prior to the meet, Nixon was named a co-captain for the American squad. He won the USA junior national title in the decathlon in June with a score of 7,660 points in Bloomington, Ind. Nixon was previously recognized by the USATF in February on the heels of his record-breaking performance in the heptathlon at the Razorback Invitational. At the two-day event in Fayetteville, Nixon set the world junior record with 6,022 points. Nixon, the fifth collegian to eclipse the 6,000-point barrier, surpassed the previous world junior mark of 5,953 set by Michael Kohnle of West Germany in 1989. ■

Razorbacks besting APR benchmark The University of Arkansas exceeds the benchmark Academic Progress Rate (APR) multi-year rate of 925 in 18 of its 19 intercollegiate sport programs for the fourth-consecutive year. The 18 sport programs each exceeded the benchmark by more than 10 points including a per46

fect 1,000 by gymnastics and men’s tennis.

Arkansas also posted new bests in multi-year and single-year APR program averages. The average multi-year rate for Arkansas’ 19 sports in 2010-11 was 970.3, the highest in program history since APR began in 2003-04. The single-year average of 978.5 also marked a program best.

Fifteen Razorback teams improved or maintained their APR since the previous report in 2011 including six sports that increased their multi-year APR rate by nine points or more.

In addition, 18 of 19 Razorback sport programs recorded a singleyear rate exceeding the benchmark for the 2010-11 reporting period.

Six programs recorded a perfect single-year rate of 1,000 including men’s golf, men’s tennis, women’s golf, gymnastics, women’s tennis and volleyball.

The APR is based on academic eligibility and retention of studentathletes in each athletic program. This report’s multi-year scores are based on the 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years.

The APR is in the process of transitioning to a 930 benchmark during the course of the next three years. Eighteen of the 19 Razorback programs already exceed the new targeted benchmark.

“I am proud of the continued academic progress we are making in exceeding APR benchmarks and setting record multi-year and singleyear rates for our program,” said Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics. “The vast majority of our programs are already exceeding both the current and the future benchmark target scores. We will work toward further improvement and continue to focus our efforts on helping Razorback student-athletes on the path to graduation. I appreciate the hard work of our student-athletes, coaches and staff in helping us accomplish our goal of developing student-athletes to their fullest potential through intercollegiate athletics.”

The Razorbacks have 17 programs with a multi-year rate of 949 or above, including gymnastics, men’s tennis, swimming and diving, men’s golf, women’s golf and women’s cross country. ■

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the 200 fly earned her a first-place finish and the top spot in the school record book. The Palm Harbor, Fla., native also won the 100 fly with a time of 56.26 to sweep the butterfly events. She was not done there and also touched in first in the 200 individual medley with a 2:05.90. Kastes beat the previous 200-fly record set by current Lady’Back Emily Gregory (2:02.88) in February 2007.

In addition to Kastes’ wins, Palmer’s scores of 283.70 on the one meter and 286.85 on the three meter gave her two top finishes, a sweep of the diving events and qualified her for the zone meet in March.

Arkansas was also victorious in the 200 freestyle relay. The team of junior Summer Jackson, Gregory, senior Tiffanie Silver and Kastes took first with a time of 1:37.63.

The Lady’Backs placed fourth in the 400 medley relay before finishing 2-3-4 in the 1,000 free. Freshman Ashley Largo (10:01.65), junior Stephanie Carr (10:02.96) and freshman Jamie Marks (10:09.19) swam the event.

Pelphrey plays in Red-White game A three-point bucket by head coach John Pelphrey, along with a pair of 20-point outings by Darian Townes and Sonny Weems, wasn’t enough for the White team to overcome the Red’s 84-78 victory in Arkansas’ annual team scrimmage Oct. 26.

Eight minutes into the first half, Pelphrey checked in and later received a standing ovation from the crowd for a no-look pass to freshman Michael Sanchez. “There was a lot of discussion about (playing) when we realized we had a short bunch of guys,” Pelphrey said. “I said if I have to then, well, I’ll go in.”

“The whole team absolutely loved playing with Coach tonight,” forward Charles Thomas said. “I noticed his ankles in the locker room before the game and asked Sonny, ‘Are those taped?’ It’s just awesome that he takes this much pride in the program and wants to do everything he can for us.” Pelphrey played because the Razorbacks were limited to 10 players for the scrimmage and four players were benched for a variety of reasons. Assistant coach Isaac Brown also played briefly for the Red.

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Schimmel named head swimming, diving coach Sean Schimmel has been named the head women’s swimming and diving coach at the University of Arkansas.

Schimmel joins the Razorback program after spending the last four seasons as the head coach at the University of Maryland. Prior to his tenure with the Terrapins, he was an assistant coach at LSU and at Harvard.

“We are pleased to announce the selection of Sean Schimmel as the head coach of our swimming and diving program,” Long said. “Sean brings a tremendous wealth of experience to our program including a clear understanding of what is required to build and maintain a competitive swimming and diving program within the Southeastern Conference and nationally.

“He has been an integral part of nationally competitive programs as a student-athlete, assistant coach and head coach. Throughout his coaching career, he has mentored student-athletes enabling them to achieve at a high level in the pool and in the classroom. I am confident that under Coach Schimmel’s leadership our swimming and diving program will continue to succeed athletically and academically while proudly representing the University of Arkansas.”

He is married to the former Tricia Starr, and they have two daughters, Peyton Lilly and Dillan Rose. ■

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For the seventh time in program history, the Arkansas baseball team advanced to the College World Series. The Razorbacks advanced to the semifinals of the CWS, tying the second-best finish in program history.

Arkansas won its first two games of the College World Series for the first time since 1979, defeating Kent State in the opener and snapping South Carolina’s 22-game postseason win streak with a 2-1 win in game two. The appearance in the CWS capped an impressive postseason run for the Razorbacks, which included wins at the Houston Regional, hosted by No. 8 Rice, and taking two of three games from No. 4 national seed Baylor in the Waco Super Regional.

The Razorbacks finished the 2012 season with a 46-22 record. The 46 wins were the most for Arkansas under head coach Dave Van Horn and the most in a season since the 1990 team won 47 games. Overall, the 46 wins were the sixth-highest single-season total in school history.

On the strength of its semifinal appearance in the College World Series, Arkansas finished the season ranked in the top six in all of the major national college baseball polls. The Razorbacks were ranked third in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll, in the NCBWA poll and in the Collegiate Baseball poll. Arkansas finished the season sixth in the Baseball America top 25.

The 2012 Arkansas pitching staff will go down as one of the best in program history. Razorback pitching combined for a 2.83 team ERA in 2012, the second-lowest single-season ERA in program history.

Arkansas pitching had 10 shutouts, which also ranked as the secondhighest total in a season. As dominant as the Razorback pitching staff was during the regular season, the staff was even better in the NCAA Tournament. In 10 NCAA Tournament games, Arkansas’ pitching staff had a team ERA of 1.92. In the College World Series, the Razorbacks compiled a team ERA of 1.80.

Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn reached a milestone with Arkansas’ victory over Rice on June 2. The victory was the 400th for Coach Van Horn in his tenure as the Razorbacks’ skipper. Following the 2012 season, Coach Van Horn’s record at Arkansas is 405-223, while his career record is 990-463.

Arkansas finished the 2012 season ranked second nationally in average and total attendance. Arkansas has finished in the top five nationally in attendance each of the last eight seasons. ■

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Stacy Lewis gives $100,000 to alma mater Former University of Arkansas and current Ladies Professional Golf Association star Stacy Lewis became the first female member of the Razorback Foundation’s Century Circle, with her recent gift to the golf program.

Lewis is the first former female student-athlete to donate $100,000 or more to the program. Her gift is earmarked for expansion of the Razorback golf training facilities at Blessings.

“We are grateful to Stacy Lewis for her generous gift which will directly benefit current and future Razorback student-athletes,” said Jeff Long, vice chancellor and director of athletics. “Despite her demanding schedule, Stacy continues to support the Razorbacks in a variety of ways including remaining active with our women’s golf program. Stacy’s personal story of overcoming adversity to achieve success continues to serve as an inspiration to others. We are extremely proud of Stacy and what she is doing on the LPGA Tour and in our community. She is a tremendous ambassador for the University of Arkansas and for the Razorback program.”

Lewis is a three-time winner on the LPGA Tour including two victories this season and a major championship at the Kraft Nabisco last year. Lewis is currently ranked No. 2 in the world and is the highest ranked American player.

“I was fortunate enough to get to know Stacy at a time when golf took a back seat to her getting healthy after surgery,” said Arkansas head coach Shauna Estes-Taylor. “It was during this time I really began to understand her commitment to her dream of becoming a professional athlete. As I worked with her that first year when she was so limited physically, I saw that Stacy was invested in not only her own success but the success and growth of our program. She had a great student-athlete experience at Arkansas and now her gift will enhance the experience of others who have the dream of being Razorbacks.”

“We are so proud of all that Stacy has accomplished,” said G. David Gearhart, the university’s chancellor. “This generous gift reflects her own pride in her alma mater and her commitment to helping other U of A students pursue their dreams and goals. We are most appreciative of her gift.”

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“I’ve fallen flat on my face more than once,” she said. “But eventually I started to learn that just because a joke bombs once doesn’t mean you should scrap it and go cry in the bathroom – although I’ve done that, too.”

She credits much of her success to the things she learned from her drama professors.

“I was lucky to have a small department where I was exposed to everything – all aspects of theatre, not just acting. You learn a little bit about every piece that goes into putting a production together. Even when I first got to L.A., I could walk onto a set and feel like I knew what’s going on because I was exposed to set design and lighting and directing and staging. I even had to sing in one production. I didn’t like it, but it didn’t kill me, and I learned I could do it if I had to. As for the people who had to hear me sing, it might have damaged them somewhat.”

“Some of the people I’ve met who went to larger programs didn’t understand anything about putting on a full-scale production. They just knew how to act or sing or dance or tell jokes – not because they didn’t want to learn other things, they just never had the opportunity. And even their opportunities to be in shows were much more limited, given the amount of people all vying for the roles.”

The small department also allowed Colonna to get to know her classmates. And she has held on to many of those friendships through the tumult of all of their careers. She has friends in Los Angeles whom she met on the University of Arkansas campus, and others whom she sees while on tour in various cities throughout the country.

“I think everyone should keep in touch with the people that they have a bond with because it’s important on a personal level to have that support group. It can be really lonely at first, and you need those people who knew you when you were young and acting stupid. They’re also the only ones who will call you out when you’re old and acting stupid.”

These are the kinds of friends she made in Arkansas, the people who helped bolster her during the lean times and continue through her successful times. Her fast-paced life has brought new people into her world, but the foundation she built in college taught her that success isn’t dependent on conquering others; support and hard work are what lead to a strong career.

“It’s like any other profession, really. You have to learn who the positive, hardworking people are, and you gravitate toward them. You learn who the negative, lazy people are, and you get as far away from them as you possibly can.

“I’m glad I went to a program where people supported one another.

We were all up for the same parts, we were happy for everyone’s success, and that taught me that you can be happy for someone else’s success without sacrificing your own. Plus, life’s just a lot more fun that way.”

--Colonna is a writer and roundtable regular on the late night talk show “Chelsea Lately.” She is also a producer and star on E!’s After Lately. Her book, Life As I Blow It, came out in February. It debuted at No. 5 on the New York Times Bestseller list and is available in stores and online. To learn more about Colonna and her career or to get dates and locations for her book and comedy tour, go to her website, SarahColonna.com. n

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University of Arkansas divides into three colleges.

The college of arts and sciences, the college of agriculture, and the college of engineering. Lower classmen at the university hold a debate that the women of the United States should be granted equal suffrage with the men. Arkansas Engineers publish a magazine called the “Arkansas Engineer.”

The university made projections for the expansion by the year 2000, and projected that enrollment would be 40,000 students.

President Nixon has a landslide victory. A one bedroom furnished apartment next to campus is for rent for $155.00.

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The endowment drive for Fulbright College begins.

Mr. Jack and Mary Late afternoon sunlight glints off the hoods of hundreds of automobiles, parked in “the pit” Anne Stephens for a 1962 Razorback football game. The same parking lot today remains packed with vehicles donate $1 million on weekdays but becomes a sea of tail-gating tents and barbecue grills on game days.

1922 to the College of A bronze tablet Arts and Sciences. is dedicated to the The enrollment students who lost their lives in the World 1952 total at the U of A is 15,000 students. The War. Francis A. Schmidt is named the new The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity university makes the top 100 in research, director of athletics. The Agri day parade is demolished their house and made plans for gaining national and international reputation the biggest yet, with 26 different floats. No a new $180,000 house at its present site. In and respect. The separate position of final exams are given for the spring semester. a public relations move, 200 University of chancellor is created for the University of Arkansas students went into high schools Arkansas campus. The Engineering Research 1932 to talk to and attract future students. Over Center is established on land about a mile Famous Arctic explorer, Vilhjalumur 1,000 University of Arkansas men raided south of the main campus.

Stefansson, visits the university to speak. An women’s dorms for lingerie souvenirs. excursion to the Arkansas “Porkers” football A School of Nursing is established at 1992 game vs. Baylor in Little Rock is offered for Fayetteville and a School of Pharmacy at The men’s Razorback track and field team a round-trip price of $3.00. In a student Little Rock. wins its ninth NCAA title. Burger Plus offers poll, the students voted majority for Franklin a cheeseburger, tater tots, and a coke for D. Roosevelt of the Democratic Party over 1962 $2.99. Hill Hall, the second-oldest building Herbert Hoover and Norman Thomas.

The Science Foundation grants the on campus, is demolished to expand Mullins University of Arkansas $18,000 to support Library.

1942 a research project concerning the expansion The Red Cross put on the biggest drive in of gas bubbles in a vacuum. The ROTC 2002 the history of the school. The University of honors 50 cadets at the annual awards day University of Arkansas receives the Truman Arkansas granted honorable discharge to any for outstanding achievement in the fields of Honor Institution Award for its commitment man who joined the United States war effort. scholarship, military leadership, discipline, to assisting students interested in a career in Enrollment was down 14 perent to 1,760 and service. public service. The Razorbacks reach the students. All University of Arkansas students 2002 SEC-Championship game in football were encouraged to take a syphilis test. under Houston Nutt. n

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If you have any information on the whereabouts of these alumni and former students from the Class of 1962, then please contact the Arkansas Alumni Association at 1-888-ARK-ALUM so that we may update our records.

Mr. Wesley C. Abbott Ms. Jean L. Jones Abbott Mr. Robert T. Anderson Mr. Carlton E. Anderson Mr. John Marshall Bailey Ms. Mary Frances Baker Mr. Carroll L. Bandy Ms. Frankie Marie Barker Mr. George M. Barnwell Jr. Ms. Mary Martha Bass Mr. Richard Lewis Bell Mr. Howard W. Bennett Jr. Mr. Lawrence H. Berner Mr. Paul Gene Black Dr. Carroll Fairfax Blakemore Mr. Thomas Hugh Bogard Ms. Lela West Bounds Ms. Annetta Brannon Mr. Chester A. Bratton Ms. Jessie May Bridges Mr. Berry Lee Bridges Mr. Michael R. Broadway Dr. Robert Lewis Brown

Mr. Robert D. Brown Mr. Ellis Merle Bull Mr. Jack William Burks Mr. Stephen A. Butler III Dr. James K. Byers Ms. Lonnie D. Campbell Mrs. Nellie Grimes Carpenter Mr. Kelly Moss Carter Jr. Mrs. Lois Bevington Casey Mr. Roberto R. Castellon Mr. John B. Chapman Mr. John R. Chapman Jr. Dr. William W. Childs Mr. Jerry Donald Chitwood Mr. John Cintron Jr. Mr. Donald Lee Clegg Mrs. Barbara Allen Coleman Mrs. Margaret Collar Mr. Carroll E. Corbell Mr. Bailey M. Coulter Jr. Mr. Derrell Eugene Cox Mr. Luther L. Crabtree Mr. John H. Crane

Mr. Don W. Currier Jr. Mrs. Jamie Blackmon Dale Mrs. Frieda Davis Mrs. John M. Davis Mr. James Fred Deal Dr. Prayoon Deema Ms. Ina DeWeese Mr. Morris D. Dobbs Ms. Nancy Ann Stevens Dominguez Mr. Jorge H. Doria-Medina Mr. Bill Dormon Mrs. Laura Frances King Dorsey Ms. Nita Jean Elmore Mr. Max Rutledge Evans Mrs. Myrtle Porter Evans Mr. Clyde Fairbanks Jr. Mrs. Betsy Sage Fallen Mr. John Nolyn Faris Mr. Charles R. Farris Mr. Cyrus William Fears Mr. Nils Florentz Mrs. Margaret Cotton Fox Mrs. Patricia O’Brien Fulford

Mrs. Margaret Lynch Gaston Mr. Joe L. Gaston Mrs. Barbara Dennard Gibbons Mr. Clifton Louis Giles Mr. Allan Douglas Gist Ms. Patricia Marie Graham Mr. Walter Lee Graves Mr. John F. Graves Ms. Dixie Lee Green Mr. Clyde Homer Greenert Jr. Mr. George V. Griffin Mr. Gene Griffin Mrs. Barbara Moberg Grinstead Mr. Thomas Jackson Gross Ms. Sara McGregor Hagan Mr. Wade Eldon Hahn Mr. William D. Halbert Mr. Kenneth McCoy Hall Mr. Bernice Garland Hancock Jr. Mr. William A. Hanson Ms. Helen E. Harris Mr. James Richard Hayes Mr. Christopher Knapp Haynes

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Margaret Martin

Privileged to Call Herself a Hog Margaret Martin and her late husband, R.S., had a motto: “You work hard and make money so you can do for others.”

Raised by a family of University of Arkansas alumni, Martin knew this was the right school for her. It’s the place her dad graduated from in 1914. It’s the place her mother attended, who is pictured on the wall in Carnall Hall. It’s the place her boyfriend — and later, husband — continued his education after going off to war. It’s the place both of their sons would call their alma mater.

Margaret earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, and R.S. earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 1948. They are two of several in their family with names forever etched in stone on Senior Walk.

“It just means everything to me to know I’m a Razorback and a graduate of the University of Arkansas,” she said. “It’s a real privilege that my parents were able to send me, and I felt privileged that our boys could go to the University of Arkansas, too.”

The university has played such a significant role in Martin’s life — even, as she recalls, during the war when there weren’t many fellas on campus — giving back to enhance the institution’s future seems like a natural thing to do.

“Giving is the joy of my life,” said Martin. “My mother and I have always believed that you have to look toward the past to build for the future, so that’s what I try to do.”

Martin’s most recent generosity funds the Margaret Gerig & R.S. Martin, Jr. Doctoral Fellowship in the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

“The university not only gives you the sense to do something with your life; it also provides the encouragement and desire to be successful,” she said. “My husband started a company with one truck, and I was the bookkeeper. Today, that company, Martin Resources, Inc., is run by my son and is thriving. I hope this support provides similar opportunities for others.”

Martin, who lives in Kilgore, Texas, figures she’ll keep giving until she can’t give any longer. And she knows she’ll be OK. “If I give all my money away, I can always sell pencils on the corner,” she quipped. “But I haven’t had to do that yet.”

Martin gave to the university through charitable gift annuities. She receives income through her gifts.

“I’ve always wanted to stay independent,” she said, “and I don’t want my sons taking care of me. I wanted to make sure I always had an income, so giving in this way allows that to happen. I encourage others to give to the university. I couldn’t think of a better place to help others.”

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the fundraising total for the 2011-12 fiscal year :

$108.1 million The Annual Fund, with a goal set at $1.3 million, also exceeded its goal for the year, raising $1.35 million.

BENEFACTORS

Annual contributions

8%

support every aspect of an Arkansas education, and

• never turns a student away because of financial barriers.

• creates meaningful educational experiences, such as community engagement, study abroad, and research opportunities.

• sustains a top-notch faculty dedicated to student learning and research.

• maintains and builds facilities that meet the growing needs of the university.

Corporations

26%

put to immediate use.

• puts students first by offering a challenging and exciting academic environment while also providing the necessary support for student success.

Foundation

35%

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Individuals

31%

Other Organizations

$26.2 million designated to athletics and the

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Jean Elizabeth Perdue ✪+ BSBA’47 and John W. Perdue ✪+, Conroe, TX, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on June 21.

Mary Ann Barlow Vowan ✪ MA’48, Dallas, TX, announces the birth of her twin grandchildren, Nathaniel and Emma Grace.

Pendleton Woods ✪+ BA’48, Oklahoma City, OK, received the 2012 national first place award for community service by an elderly individual from the American Association of Area Agencies on Aging.

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William A. Myers BSCHE’56 MSCHE’58, Fayetteville, received the Alpha Chi Sigma John R. Kuebler Award for 2012. The award was presented by Alpha Chi Sigma, the national, professional chemistry fraternity.

Marjorie Marugg Wolfe ★+ BSHE’57 EDS’82 EDD’93, Rogers, was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award in Education by the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

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Ron Morris ✪+ BSIE’58, Dallas, TX, is the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Hall of Fame medal recipient. The College of Engineering’s Alumni Awards recognize graduates of the college who have demonstrated exceptional professional and personal accomplishments and made important contributions to their professions and communities.

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Sue Dennis ★ BSHE’59 MED’67 and Troy Dennis ★, Huntsville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

W. Roy Penney BSME’59 MSME’62, Fayetteville, was named a fellow by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Being designated a fellow recognizes significant accomplishments in engineering.

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Bill Walsh BSA’61 MS’63 and Kathryn Walsh, Fayetteville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 21.

B. Leon Davis ★ BSBA’62 and Priscilla Johnston, Hot Springs,

celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Dec. 24.

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Jerry R. Rogers, Ph.D. ★ BSCE’63 MSCE’64, Houston, TX, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

Mac Hogan ★ BSME’65, North Little Rock, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

Jeanie Garrett ✪+ and John L. Garrett ✪+ MD’66, Gravette, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 1.

Richard W. Poe BSEE’66 and Ruth Poe, Harrison, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 3.

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James E. McClelland Jr. ★+ BSCE’67, Little Rock, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Chester Johnson ✪ BSE’68, New York, NY, has had four of his long verse pieces included in the Civil Rights Archives at Queens College, which recently received the library of the late James Forman, a civil rights leader.

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David Folsom ★ BA’69 JD’74, Texarkana, TX, was chosen to lead the Jackson Walker LLP office in Texarkana.

John W. Allegretti ★ BARCH’71, Saint Joseph, MI, won a Merit Award for Laketown Residence in Saugatuck, MI, during the Fay Jones Alumni Design Awards competition.

Joel P. Cook ✪+ BA’73 MD’78, Athens, GA, completed a breast imaging fellowship with William Poller, MD, at Allegheny General Hospital and is currently on the teaching staff at Allegheny General and West Penn Hospitals Breast Centers in Pittsburgh.

Donald Calvert Jackson BS’73 MS’77, Starkville, MS, published his book, Wilder Ways, with the University Press of Mississippi.

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Christene Ann Doyle ’94 James Brian Doyle Darla Hutcheson ’92, ‘95 Frank Wood ’00 Steven K. Morgan ’77 Bradley W. Hargrove ’02 Amanda Hargrove Allen M. Pettit ’82 Christie D. Burnett-Yarnell ’01 Rashawn Rebel Randazzo ’99 Ryan H. Harris ’12 Kayln Williams ’12 Kimberly Gray Lewis Caroline J. Bercher ’82 Kerry Lance Bercher ’69 Tyler McGuire Barger ’09 Jay L. Shue ’96 Dr. John L. Kallmeyer M.D. ’71 Magdalene Mayfield Moore ’57 Jimmy R. Johnson ’63, ‘65” Emily C. Lee ’12 Dr. Thomas Smith ’93 James Clinton Johnson ’12 Robbie Dale Neville ’94 Rick Rust Kevin Neeley ’93 Donald B. Holler ’12 Stephen Beck Harris ’12 Yasmeen A. Abdelaal ’12 Robert Michael Stephens ’12 John A. Meyers ’06 Dr. James L. Cheshier ’71, ‘77 Kimberly Cheshier Don Cash Ann Cash Amy Yaryan Cole ’96 Gary Lee Clark ’85 J. Ryan Woody ’12 Tyler C. Bowman ’12

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Rick J. Couvillion ✪ BSME’75, Fayetteville, was recognized for his Outstanding Service to Students by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

Henry Migliore ★ PHD’75, Jenks, OK, has published two new books, Fall 2012

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Ryan S. Waters ’09 Jennifer Free Waters ’09 Dr. Dub Ashton Sandra Ashton Jacquelyn Johnson ’91 Kelsy J. Litchenburg ’12 Graham G. Stewart Rhonda L. Sledge ’71 Stephen E. McGuire ’62 Kyle C. Sawyer ’12 Mary Beth Lane ’49 Nancy G. Robbins Dr. Joseph R. Robbins ’80 James D. Rankin Jr. ’90 Larry E. Goodsell ’72 Susan R. Goodsell ’73 Mark Leo Wright ’80 Stephanie Wright Roger J. Cardona Sr. ’78 David Hodges Sr. ’65 Marian Alford Hodges ’64 Jo Ann Winningham Clark ’72 Charlotte Downs ’88 Frances E. Wilson ’11 Earl Benton Jr. ’77 Debi Arend Havner ’75, ‘78 Dr. Galen Havner Nick E. Spinazze John Darren McKuin ’93 Michael J. Dodd ’12 Martha Bynum-Woolbright Londagin ’87,‘93 Ross E. Irwin ’01 Oliver L. Sims III ’85 Todd L. Martin ’86 Martha Morio Martin ’85 Mary Irwin Dr. William Laughlin Hawkins ’96 Amber Hawkins Derek Ronald Jones ’91

Strategic Planning and Strategy for New Millennium and Biblical Approach to Life Planning.

Wyman R. Wade Jr. ★+ MA’75 JD’79, Fort Smith, was named the Outstanding Lawyer Citizen for 2011– 2012 by the Arkansas Bar Association and Arkansas Bar Foundation.

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Mark B. Sutton BSBA’77, Austin, TX, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

Donald L. Enockson MA’77, White Bear Lake, MN, opened Enockson Law

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Dr. E. Lynn Zechiedrich ’85 Lyndal M. Waits ’75 Shirley F. Waits James Brandt Huckleberry ’91 Shellie Perme Huckleberry ’91 Jimmy R. Ballard ’56 Donald W. Pearson ’81, ‘94 Lawrence Bordovsky Kimberley Bordovsky Greg T. Judkins ’99 Jennifer L. Judkins ’00 Chris Wayne Sooter ’98 Jamie Ross MacLean ’89 Kent E. Shreeve ’60, ‘65” Anna R. Shreeve Robert L. Jacobs ’85 Dr. Danielle Lynette Wood ’98,‘01,‘02,‘09 Kristin Lee Long ’02 Trung-Khanh Le Brill ’01 Adam Wayne Brill ’03 Jon C. Fletcher ’90 Lisa Fletcher ’89 Gregory Reed Sue Green ’60, ‘61 Clara Higgins Garrett ’87, ‘90 Benjamin David Austrin-Willis ’04 Dr. Lance Allen Forster Jr. ’94 Kristina Forster Auvergne W. Arnold ’69 Larry M. Arnold John DeForest ’08 Robert O. Bonham ’59 Cheryl Frederick ’10, ‘11 Marjorie S. Brooks ’72 Elizabeth Bogy Allen ’80 Kenneth Robert Allen ’80 Dr. Frederic Spies ’74, ‘78

Office, LLC. His practice is focused in all areas of family law.

Mark Lindsay ★+ BSBA’77 JD’79, Fayetteville, was re-elected to his third six-year term as circuit judge for the 4th Judicial Circuit serving Washington and Madison counties in Arkansas.

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Steven M. Cousins BSCHE’78, El Dorado, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Alumnus Dusty Higgins, B.A.’03, has illustrated a new book

by Bob Smith, a former University of Arkansas provost, with the whimsical depictions of the characters from The Wizard of Oz. Higgins graduated from the University of Arkansas with an art degree in 2003 and is now an award-winning graphic artist and illustrator. He has worked for several Arkansas newspapers and magazines, including presently being the graphic-artist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He is also a current artist with SLG Publishing.

While attending the University of Arkansas, Higgins drew editorial cartoons for The Arkansas Traveler and credits the newspaper for giving him the work ethic, the experience and the portfolio to transition into drawing professionally. Higgins was working on his master’s degree in journalism when a job opened up for a graphic artist and illustrator at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock, where he still works during the day. In the evening, though, he works on books.

Higgins’ illustrations have garnered many awards. The Young Adult Library Services Association chose the graphic novel he created and drew, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer, as one of the top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens in 2009. He has also been awarded first place for his graphics by the Arkansas Associated Press Managing Editors, first place for Editorial Cartoonist Portfolio by the Arkansas Press Association and first place for National Mark of Excellence for editorial cartoons by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Most recently, Higgins partnered up with former Provost Smith, author of The Way of Oz: A Guide to Wisdom, Heart, and Courage.

This is the third book Higgins has illustrated with Smith, whom he met while Smith was at the University of Arkansas.

The Way of Oz blends the stories of L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz, with the biography of Baum to give college students and college-bound students a thoughtful guide “to leading a life of meaning, integrity, service and love.” It’s available from Texas Tech University Press in paperback, ebook and hardcover.

Higgins describes illustrating each book as a “unique, and fun experience.” This was the seventh book that Higgins has illustrated, and he already has multiple projects lined up for the future.

He currently resides in Bryant with his wife Kristin Netterstrom Higgins, B.A.’03, whom he met while working at The Arkansas Traveler. He also has a 2-year-old daughter, Kahlan, and a dog, Starbuck. ■

Carl H. Imhoff BSIE’78, Richland, WA, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Richard C. Renfro ✪+ BARCH’79, Brooklyn, NY, received a Merit Award for the Morgan Library & Museum during the Fay Jones School of Architecture Alumni Design Awards.

Coleman Dale Sisson Jr. BSBA’80, The Woodlands, TX, received the Entrepreneur of the Year award from the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business.

Charlotte A. Taylor ✪+ BA’80, Fayetteville, was promoted to senior director of development for University Initiatives with the University of Arkansas.

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Sherrie Bayles ★ BSE’81 MED’82 and Charles Allen Bayles ★ BSCE’87, Springdale, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on July 2.

Tom Spicer III ★ BSCHE’81 MSCHE’84 PHD’85, Fayetteville, was named a fellow by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Being designated a fellow recognizes significant accomplishments in engineering.

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Kimberly Bland Clower ★ BSE’83 MS’87, Austin, TX, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

Shari Lynn H. Witherspoon FS’83, Prairie Grove, won the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions’ Outstanding Service to Faculty and Staff Award for the spring of 2012.

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Jim Harris ★ BSBA’85 JD’88, Rogers, is the executive director of the University of Arkansas Office of Gift & Estate Planning. The office was recently rated the top

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fundraising gift planning office in the United States for public or private universities for 2011 by the Council for Aid to Education.

John Alan Jennings MS’85, Conway, received the Extension Award of Merit from the Arkansas Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.

Alan Mantooth ✪+ BSEE’85 MSEE’86, Fayetteville, was recognized as an Outstanding Researcher by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

Molly Inhofe Rapert ★ BSBA’85 MBA’87, Fayetteville, received the Excellence in Teaching award from the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business and has been honored with the Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award from the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Oliver L. Sims III ✪ BSBA’85, Carrollton, TX, was promoted to senior director of global presales with CA Technologies.

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Elliott West BS’87, Fayetteville, is the recipient of the 2012 Faculty Achievement Award. The award was presented by the Southeastern Conference and honors a professor from each SEC university who has an outstanding record in teaching and scholarship and who serves as a role model for others.

Rex William Eads Jr. ★ BSCSE’87, Vancouver, WA, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

Sherman L. Black ★ BSEE’87, Eden Prairie, MN, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Mark A. Robertson BLA’88 MS’91, Little Rock, was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows for 2012 by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

James A. Davis Jr. BSME’89 MSME’91 PHD’00, Fayetteville, was recognized as an Outstanding Teacher by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

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Nathan Alan Slaton ✪ MS’89 PHD’98, Springdale, received the Research Award of Merit from the Arkansas Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.

Rodney D. Williams BSCE’89 MSCE’91 PHD’97, Fayetteville, was recognized for his Outstanding Service to Students by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

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Richard Douglas Baugh ✪ BSBA’90 and M. Robyn KellerBaugh announce the birth of their son, Richard Haven, April 30, Fort Worth, TX. Robyn also was promoted to director of accounting at the University of Texas-Arlington.

Bruce Eugene Westerman BSBAE’90, Hot Springs, received the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Kathleen M. Barta ★ EDD’92, Springdale, was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research for a case study she wrote highlighting NURS 4812 Special Topics: Minority Health Disparities.

Nathan Sanko BSBA’92, Kansas City, MO, received the Outstanding Service Award from the University of Arkansas Sam M. Walton College of Business.

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Wendy Dinning Stouffer ★ BA’94 JD’98, Rogers, was named executive director of the University of Arkansas scholarship and financial aid office.

Heath Bebout ★ BSEE’95 MSEE’97, Baltimore, MD, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Frederick Anthony Doss BSBAE’96, Springdale, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of

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Mark A. Brewer BSIE’97 MSIE’99, Rogers, was inducted into the Arkansas Academy of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas.

Kieran Joseph Fogarty PHD’97, Kalamazoo, MI, was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award in Health and Human Services by the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

Todd Richard Reust BSME’97 and Kelsey Leap were married on Nov. 5, 2011, and reside in Chicago, IL.

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Josh Quincy Hurst BA’98 JD’03, Hot Springs, was named No. 1 lawyer in Hot Springs by readers of the Hot Springs Sentinel Record.

Raegon Elizabeth Barnes ★ BSCHE’99, Bentonville, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Peter Edward Nierengarten BSCE’99 MSCE’01, Portland, OR, accepted a position as the sustainability and strategic planning director for the city of Fayetteville.

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Stephan Anthony Durham BSCE’01 MSCE’03 PHD’05, Athens, GA, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Timothy Wilson Maddox ★ BARCH’02, Fayetteville, received the Merit Award for Vetro 1925 at the Fay Jones School of Architecture Alumni Design Awards.

Tea Williams BSEE’02, Dallas, TX, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

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Kimberly A. Spickes ★ BS’03 and Justin D. Spickes announce the birth of their son, Tyler Dean, Dec. 7, 2011, Little Rock.

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Marie-Pierre Koban, B.A. ’58, M.A. ’59 Marie-Pierre Koban’s signature even looks French. A native French Moroccan and 1959 alumnus, Koban embraces her love of France and her alma mater with twinkling eyes, an accent and a long list of accomplishments.

“It was lovely, lovely,” she recalled of her first impressions of 1950s Fayetteville.

Although it’s been years since she has visited Arkansas, Koban, 83, lives a busy life connected to her roots. She sits on the board of the alumni chapter in Seattle, the city she has called home since graduation. She’s spent her life promoting cultural exchanges with France. Tellingly, side-by-side on her bookshelf is French novelist Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days next to A Diplomatic History of the American People.

Koban came to the university in 1955 from Morocco with her American husband, the late Albert Koban of Little Rock, shortly after marrying him overseas. She followed him to the states so he could continue his education on the GI Bill. Never one to be idle, she earned her education degree at the same time. Her lasting impression of the U of A is the quaint atmosphere. While on campus, she rubbed elbows with many of the university’s biggest names – E. Fay Jones and J. William Fulbright.

She taught French to Fulbright’s children. “I taught his children for maybe two years,” she said. “I would go to their house.

But he was always flying. He was teaching one day in Fayetteville and then go to Washington, D.C. We were impressed because we knew who he was.”

After she and her husband earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Arkansas, they moved west. She earned a doctoral degree at the University of Washington in Seattle and then taught at Lakeside School for 24 years. Bill Gates was a student when she joined the faculty at Lakeside. “I knew Bill Gates when he was 13 years old and his sister. His sister took French. He took Latin,” Koban says. “The school, once a year, has a reunion, … so one time I saw the French president, not this one, but (Jacques) Chirac, and I saw Bill talking to him, and I said, ‘Oh, I saw you with Chirac. Do you speak French?’ He said, ‘I don’t know why I learned Latin. It doesn’t do me any good.’”

She is equally taken with being a Razorback. As an active member of the Seattle alumni chapter, she wears Razorback red and speaks fondly of her time at the U of A. She even occasionally attends alumni get-togethers for Arkansas games at sports bars.

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Steven R. Hinds ✪+ BSPA’89 MED’92, Fayetteville, accepted the position of executive director of public relations and marketing with the NorthWest Arkansas Community College.

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Jessica R. Black ★ BSN’04 and Aaron Black announce the birth of their son, Jackson Reid, Aug. 9, 2011, Conway.

Tyler Nix ★ BA’07, Fayetteville, was promoted to assistant director of development for the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

Jennifer Leigh Coldiron BSHES’04, Fayetteville, was awarded best of region for the presentation “Soldiers to Students,” a presentation she and fellow academic counselor Jill Geisler Wheeler created.

Alice Caroline Talbot ★ BSBA’07 and Jamie Waller were married on April 21 and reside in Magnolia.

Tyler Garrick Gipson ★ BSBE’04, Broken Arrow, OK, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Chase Everett Rainwater BSIE’04, Springdale, was recognized as an Outstanding Teacher by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

Jill Geisler Wheeler BSBA’04 MED’07 MS’10, Fayetteville, was awarded “Best of Region” for the presentation “Soldiers to Students,” a presentation she and fellow academic counselor Jennifer Coldiron created.

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Thomas Aaron Duncan BSIE’05, Charlotte, NC, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Jeffrey James Maland BSBA’05 and Traci Burleson were married on May 28 and reside in Fayetteville.

Kelly Beth Reed BSBA’05 BA’05 MSW’09 and Dusty Gray BSBA’99 MBA’02 were married June 16, and reside in Bentonville.

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Britani Leigh Bach BA’07 and Andrew Heim were married June 16 and reside in Fayetteville.

Joshua Heath Barnett PHD’07, Glendale, AZ, was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award by the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

Brandy Cox ★ MA’07, Clarksville, accepted the position of senior director of development for university programs at the Oklahoma State University Foundation.

Tom W. Haynes ★ BA’07, Little Rock, is an associate with Rose Law Firm in Little Rock.

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Meagan Kiley Berlau BSCE’08, Kansas City, MO, is a 2012 recipient of the University of Arkansas College of Engineering Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Molly Amanda Rawn BA’08 and Jeremy Rawn BSCE’09 announce the birth of their daughter, Opal Rawn, April 21, Fayetteville.

Jennifer L. Quinton FS’08, Prairie Grove, received the staff diversity award from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.

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Kendall L. Key BS’09, Fayetteville, accepted a position with Hull Dermatology as a physician assistant.

Katherin Elizabeth Wallace ★ BA’09 MAT’10 and Ty Hunton ★ BSA’11 were married May 27 and reside in Moore, OK.

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Courtney E. Kell BSBA’10 and Trey Becton BS’09 were married June 30 and reside in Little Rock.

Korydon Howard Smith EDD’10, Fayetteville, published Introducing Architectural Theory, a book about the complexities of architectural theory and thinking critically.

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Laurie N. Brigham ★ BA’11, Fayetteville, won the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions’ Outstanding Service to Faculty and Staff Award for fall 2011.

Susan Glenn Byram ★ BA’11, Fayetteville, was honored for her commitment to graduate education at the second annual University of Arkansas Graduate School cookout.

Friends Jamie B. Banks ★, Fayetteville, was promoted to senior director of development and external relations within the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

Marcia B. Imbeau ★, Fayetteville, received the Mentoring and Advising award from the University of Arkansas College of Education and Health Professions.

Luis F. Restrepo ★, Fayetteville, has been appointed by Gov. Mike Beebe to the Arkansas Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap. Craig Thompson ★, Fayetteville, was recognized for his Outstanding Service to Students by the University of Arkansas College of Engineering.

Chris M. Wallen ✪, Fayetteville, was promoted to alumni records manager with the Arkansas Alumni Association.

In Memoriam Thomas L. Quay ✪ BS’38, Raleigh, NC, April 16. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a lieutenant in the South Pacific. After finishing his doctorate, he joined the faculty at North Carolina State College and taught ornithology until he retired in 1980. Survivors: one son.

Thomas H. Chambers ★ BSA’39, Hamburg, May 28. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during World War II as a combat infantry platoon leader and forward observer in the 13th infantry, 8th Army Division, landing on Omaha Beach. After the war, he worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a supervisor for Farmers Home Administration in Conway and Lake Village for 10 years and in Hamburg for 30 years. Survivors: his wife, Margaret.

William F. Laman BS’39, North Little Rock, April 16. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and was a radio operator on a B17. After the war, he went to work at a furniture store and served on the North Little Rock School Board for nine years. At 47 years old, he ran for mayor and served as the city’s mayor for 16 1/2 years. Survivors: one daughter, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Jane Stewart Cumnock BSHE’41, Greenwood, April 22. She owned a

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business, Kettle Smoke House, with her husband, Earl. They later expanded to a second site in Springdale. Survivors: one daughter, two sons, two brothers, six grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Wilma Wyatt Stewart BSBA’43, Paragould, March 10.

Charlotte Wacker Wortz BA’43, Hot Springs, May 26. Survivors: one daughter, one grandchild and two greatgrandchildren.

Sara Aldridge Allman ✪ BSHE’46, Lawton, OK, May 7. She had a passion for teaching and taught home economics and Future Homemakers of America for several years. She eventually retired from Amarillo, Texas, schools, moving to Lawton in 2006. After retiring, she volunteered at The Bridge, a child advocacy organization in Amarillo.

Survivors: one daughter, one son, one brother, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Inez Waldron Riggs ✪ BSE’46, Austin, TX, Mar. 28. She was a homemaker. Survivors: her husband, Orval E. Riggs lm BS’51, two daughters and one brother.

Harold E. Hirsch ✪+ FS’47, Harrison, May 4. Hirsch worked as a real estate salesman and cattle farmer in the Sharp County area. He also worked with Cooper Land Co. and was one of the first two people inducted into the Arkansas Soil Conservation’s Hall of Fame in Hot Springs. Survivors: two sons, two grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, three great-grandchildren and three step-great-grandchildren.

Anamarie Johnson BA’47, North Little Rock, May 27. She worked in the Norfolk, VA, library and public school system before moving to Morrilton and working as an assistant librarian. There, she established the first bookmobile library for local and rural service. Relocating to Blytheville, she taught in the public school system. Survivors: five sisters.

Albert M. Raymond BS’47 MS’48, Conway, May 19. He served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during World War II and was later, a highly respected teacher. Survivors: his wife, Eloise, two daughters and two grandchildren.

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officer in Korea during the Korean Conflict. Abercrombie went on to begin a career as an associate pathologist with Arkansas Baptist Hospital before becoming the president and chief executive officer of Boston University Medical Center Hospital in 1980. He retired in 1994. During his 24 years with the hospital, he helped to create the University Medical Center and also initiated a 5050 partnership in the creation of BioSquare. Survivors: his wife, Anne, two daughters, three sons and 11 grandchildren.

Oddist D. Murphree BA’48 PHD’52, North Little Rock, May 13. He was a veteran of World War II, serving as a bomber pilot in Europe. He later went on to work as a research psychologist for the VA at Fort Roots. Survivors: one daughter, one son, one brother, three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Catherine Cahill Ponder BS’48, Sugarland, TX, May 14. She worked as a teacher for many years. Survivors: two sons, four grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

Trilby Brenner ★ BSBA’49, Parkin, April 20. Survivors: her husband, John A. Brenner ★ BSBA’49, two daughters, one son, one sister, 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Charles E. Cook ★ BSEE’49, Shreveport, LA, June 18. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a flying cadet and later became a Lead Crew Training Officer for the 493rd Bomb Group. After the war, he worked at SWEPCO, retiring in 1983. He was vice president of personnel, safety and insurance in Shreveport. Survivors: two daughters, two sons, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Joe Gillespie ✪+ BSME’49, Little Rock, April 26. He worked with engineering and corporate management companies over the years, but settled back in Arkansas in 1986. Survivors: his wife, Estelle, two sons, one daughter, one brother, one sister, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Julius A. Moody ✪ BSA’49, Clarksville, May 28. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II before going on to become a genealogist. He also worked as a live haul manager for Swift and Company, and Tyson Foods.

Survivors: one son, one daughter, three brothers, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Harvey Eugene Smith Sr. BSE’49, Fayetteville, May 11. He served in the U.S. Navy for three years in World War II. After the war, he moved to California where he and his wife worked in the nursery and garden supply business. Survivors: three daughters, one son, numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren and one great-greatgrandchild.

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Ralph L. Armstrong Jr. FS’50, Grand Junction, CO, May 17. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, specializing in underwater demolition.

He later worked as a real estate developer and broker in San Antonio, Texas.

Survivors: his wife, Susanna, two sons, one stepson and three grandchildren.

Raymond A. Bradley BSBA’50, Little Rock, May 7. He joined the U.S. Air Force during World War II and flew the P61 Night Fighter, but did not see combat. He later worked for American Airlines, retiring after 30 years of service.

Learning how to use computers, he volunteered in his later years at Senior Net through the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, teaching seniors how to use computers and software.

Survivors: his wife, Dottie, one daughter, one sister and two grandchildren.

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Delbert Bright ✪+ BSME’50, Longview, TX, May 28. He worked for ArkLaGas for 14 years before owning and operating Southern Gas Co. from 19631971. Later, he served as senior vice president of KN Energy and Texas Commerce Bank. Survivors: his wife, Jean, one daughter, two sons and six grandchildren.

John M. Graves ★ LLB’50, Camden, April 11. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a ball turret gunner during World War II. After receiving his law degree, he worked as a city attorney and a city prosecuting attorney for the 13th Judicial District. He was also elected circuit judge of the same district in 1973, retiring in 1998 after 26 years of service. Survivors: his wife, Maurice, four daughters, 12 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Glen E. Keller BA’50 MD’55, Houston, TX, May 26. He served in the U.S. Navy Construction Battalion in the Pacific Arena during World War II. After the war, he served in the U.S. Air Force. He went on to spend 55 years in the medical field, building a hospital in Arkansas, two Houstonarea hospitals

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and participating in humanitarian trips to Costa Rica. Survivors: his wife, Sally, two sons, two daughters and eight grandchildren.

Hillman S. Koen Jr. ✪+ BSA’50, Hope, April 23. He was a successful poultry grower. In 1965, he set up Koen Farms Inc. and was the owner and president of the egg operation for many years. He was also inducted into the Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2002. Survivors: his wife, Frances, one son, two daughters, four stepsons, five stepdaughters, six grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

Jesse R. Johnson Jr. ✪ BSE’50 MS’55, Nashville, TN, March 3. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II before working as a teacher, feed mill manager, farm corporation manager and farm loan banking officer.

He later began a career at the U.S. State Department, Agency for International Development, as a Food for Peace officer.

Survivors: his wife, Joan R. Johnson lm BSE’50 MS’55, one son, one daughter, one sister, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Arthur H. Brady BSA’51, Conway, May 3. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, in the Pacific theatre, landing in the second wave in the battle of Okinawa. After the war, he went to work for the Farmers Home Administration where he arranged finance for lower income farmers.

Survivors: his wife, Hilda, one son, two daughters, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Grace Fields Hill BSE’51 MED’58, Rogers, Jan. 30. She was a long-time educator until her retirement from the Rogers School District in 1981. She was inducted into the Rogers’ Educator Hall of Fame in 1984.

Elton Thompson LLB’51, Poteau, OK, May 12. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. After receiving his law degree, he practiced law in LeFlore County. Survivors: his wife, Dorene, two sons, six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Park Dale Edmonson BS’52 MS’54, Saint Louis, MO, Dec. 30, 2011.

Survivors: his wife, Bernice, two daughters, two sons, five grandchildren, one greatgrandchild, five sisters and two brothers.

H.G. Frost Jr. ✪ BSBA’52, Little Rock, May 11. He served in the U.S. Air Force before joining the staff of Russell Brown 60

and Company. In 1974, he formed Jack Frost and Company and was a managing partner until 1980. He also served as president of the Arkansas Arts Center, was elected to the board of trustees of Hendrix College and later, joined several friends in managing American Fuel Cell and Coated Fabrics Co. in Magnolia.

Survivors: his fiancee, Elizabeth, two daughters and five grandchildren.

Bertie Holder BSE’52 MED’58, Fort Smith, May 25. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and later worked as a math teacher at Westark Community College from 19571986.

Survivors: one son, one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

Sam Penix ✪ FS’52, Newport, May 5. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was commissioned in the Army ROTC and served for 30 years. He was also the sales and general manager of numerous automobile companies for more than 40 years and owner of Sam Penix Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, Penix Chrysler, and Penix Realty and Sales.

Survivors: two sons, one daughter, one sister, two half-sisters, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Verna Pennington ✪ MS’52, Clarksville, May 30. She spent 42 years teaching at Clarksville junior and senior high schools, retiring in 1973. Survivors: two sons, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Thomas Lee Ashcraft ✪ MD’53, Tulsa, OK, May 2. He worked in the medical profession for more than 60 years. Beginning his career as a country doctor in Arkansas, he moved to Chicago and became a staff member at St. Luke’s Presbyterian Hospital and Cook County Hospital. He served as president of the Midwest Anesthesia Society before moving to Tulsa and becoming chief of anesthesia at Doctors’ Hospital. He ended his career as a specialist in pain management.

Survivors: his wife, Carol, two daughters, one brother and one granddaughter.

Kenneth R. Brock LLB’53, North Little Rock, May 19. He was a World War II veteran before working as a trial attorney for the Arkansas Highway Department. He was also a retired federal administrative law judge.

Survivors: two daughters, one son and one sister.

Rita S. Davis ✪+ BSPA’53 MPA’76, Fayetteville, April 16. She taught at Fayetteville High School and served on the City of Fayetteville Planning

Commission. Davis also served as a federal court clerk for Judges Paul X Williams and Frank Waters. Survivors: her husband, Sidney P. Davis Jr. ✪+ JD’60, one daughter, one stepson, one stepdaughter, two sisters, six grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

Jane Kolb Callaway ✪ BA’57, North Little Rock, April 9. She was certified as one of the first practicing perfusionists in the country and was an asset to heart surgeons at UAMS and St. Vincent’s Infirmary. Survivors: one son, one daughter, one brother and one grandchild.

Janet Gregory O’Quinn BSE’53, Quincy, IL, April 10. She worked as the bookkeeper at Crescent of Quincy and was the assistant manager and sales clerk at Frame Art Gallery. Survivors: her husband, Arthur, two sons, one daughter, one brother and nine grandchildren.

Virginia T. Rowland, Ph.D. ★ BSHE’57 MS’65, Bentonville, April 4.

William C. Hoover MED’54 EDD’71, Jackson, MO, May 28. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, he worked as a teacher, principal and superintendent for 20 years. Once obtaining his doctorate, he served as a full professor at Southeast Missouri State University until his retirement.

Survivors: one brother.

E. R. Pomeroy ✪ BSBA’54, Monticello, April 7. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and later became president of Ozark Badger Lumber Co., The Wilmar Co. and owner of Pomeroy Forest Management. Survivors: one daughter, one son, two sisters, one brother and five grandchildren.

William N. Christenbury ✪+ BSCE’55, Memphis, TN, April 2. Survivors: three sons and 10 grandchildren.

Dwight Cheney BSPH’56, Conway, April 5. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a medic in the submarine corps. After he received his doctorate, he worked as a pharmacist at St. Vincent Hospital. Survivors: his wife, Jessie, one son, two daughters, one brother and four grandchildren.

Paige E. Mulhollan ★ BSBA’56 MA’62, Fayetteville, June 30. He developed a career in academia, working at various universities, including Kansas State University, the University of Oklahoma, Arizona State University and Wright University. He served in the position of history professor, associate dean, executive vice president, chief operating officer and lastly, as president.

Survivors: his wife, Mary Bess Mulhollan ★ BSHE’56, two sons, one brother, three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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David H. Frieze BA’58, Hot Springs Village, April 2. He served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After two years in law school, he started a career in the insurance industry and worked for Travelers Insurance and Reed Roberts and Associates before creating David H. Frieze Associates Inc. Survivors: his wife, Charlotte, five daughters, one son and nine grandchildren.

James N. Gray III MED’58, Grand Cane, LA, Oct. 26, 2006. He served in the U.S. Navy and taught junior high and high school until becoming principal of Fairfield Elementary School.

He retired from Caddo Public Schools in 1980. Survivors: two daughters and one son.

Raymond T. Yeatman FS’58, Springdale, April 30. He spent 20 years as an U.S. Air Force weather operator and later received assignment duty as an Air Force ROTC professor at the University of Arkansas. Retiring in 1978, his last assignment was at Altus Air Force Base as a commander of air weather services. Opting to re-enter the working world, he started a new career in the feed ingredient business, becoming president and owner of Farm Commodities Inc. Survivors: his wife, Marjorie Ann Thompson Yeatman BSHE’57 and two daughters.

Fred L. Boss ★ BSBA’59, Tulsa, OK, June 7. Survivors: one son.

Shirley Sue Pierce BSHE’59, Austin, TX, March 20. She worked as a teacher at Brentwood Elementary School, retiring at the age of 69. Survivors: two sons, one daughter and two grandchildren.

Charles R. Tanner ✪ MD’59, Parker, CO, April 10. He was a partner with Anesthesia Associates in Beaumont, TX, for almost 43 years. Survivors: four daughters, one brother and five grandchildren.

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Gailya Stilwell Childress ✪ BSE’60, Blytheville, May 9. While attending the U of A, she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, she was elected to homecoming court and served as an honorary cadet lieutenant colonel for the Army ROTC. After graduation, she pursued a career as a school teacher before later becoming an insurance agent. Survivors: three daughters, one brother and six grandchildren.

Ronald R. Goforth BS’60 MS’62, Fayetteville, April 13. He was a pioneer in developing hightech companies in Northwest Arkansas. He cofounded the Virtual Incubation Co. with his son, Calvin, founded BetaRubicon Inc. and was cofounder of EquityNet LLC. He was a tenured professor of computer systems engineering at the University of Arkansas and was the founding director of the university’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems and the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Laboratories. Survivors: three daughters, one son, one brother, one sister and 11 grandchildren.

Ewald G. Kruggel BSBA’63, Jan. 24.

He was in the U.S. Air Force for more than 33 years and flew in three wars.

Survivors: his wife, Barbara, one son, one daughter, 10 grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

Audrey P. Core BSE’64 MED’70, Rogers, May 24, 2011.

William Cullen Gifford BSEE’64, Loxahatchee, FL, April 18. Gifford worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for 33 years as an electrical engineer.

Survivors: his wife, Patricia, one son, three daughters, three brothers, three sisters, 11 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Carl W. Hurst BSE’64, Mountain Home, April 26. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a peacetime veteran.

He later worked as a general manager for multiple lumber retailers. Survivors: his wife, Patricia, one son, two brothers and two sisters.

W. K. Pryor BSBA’60, Topeka, KS, April 14. He worked at Monarch Cement Co. until his retirement in 1996. He also owned Fly Ash Management and Ash Grove Resources. Survivors: his wife, Mary Jane Taylor Pryor BSE’56, two sons and four grandchildren.

James R. Grigsby ★ BSBA’66, Hot Springs, April 23. Grigsby was a U.S. Air Force pilot who flew C130 airplanes during the Vietnam War. Later, he worked as a certified public accounting in Mountain Home before moving to Pine Bluff and working as the finance manager for VarcoPruden Steel Buildings Co. Survivors: his father, one son, one daughter and five grandchildren.

Phyllis Wolters BSE’60, Little Rock, May 14. She was a retired school teacher from the Pulaski County Special School District. Survivors: one son, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

Tommy W. Lewallen BA’66 MA’69, Mulberry, April 11. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was a retired speech pathologist. Survivors: three daughters, one son, one sister, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Eddie R. Epperson MED’61, Waldo, April 29. Working as a band director in Van Buren, Epperson went on to work in Magnolia Public Schools and at Southern Arkansas University. Having a passion for music, he enjoyed teaching band students and stayed active in several musical organizations. Survivors: four sons and six grandchildren.

Robert D. Parsons BSA’66, Springdale, April 23. He coowned Glendale Turkey Farm and Bob’s Country Market. Survivors: one son, one daughter, five grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

James Williamson BSAGE’61, El Dorado, May 27. He was a registered professional engineer and surveyor.

Survivors: two sons, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

Mary Willform Jones MED’62, Wynne, May 14. She was a former educator, retiring after 44 years in the Parkin School District. Survivors: three daughters, one grandchild and five greatgrandchildren.

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Thomas D. Ledbetter LLB’67, Little Rock, Apr. 2. He practiced law for almost 30 years in Harrison.

Survivors: his wife, Martha Ann Milum Ledbetter BSE’61, two sons, one brother, two sisters and four grandchildren.

William Patrick Anderson BSCE’68, Little Rock, April 19. He worked as a resident engineer with the Arkansas Highway Department and served as the city engineer for Little Rock. Survivors: his wife, Rita, two sons, one brother and two grandchildren.

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In Memoriam Lloyd L. Rutledge (A + Golden Life Individual) BSA’40 Lloyd L. Rutledge, 94, of Alexandria, Va., passed away on May 2, 2012, surrounded by his family. Born in 1918 at Dardanelle, he obtained degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Missouri before attending North Carolina State University and earning his doctorate in 1971.

In 1965, he and two colleagues were chosen to lead the implementation of the Civil Rights Act. Through his work, he helped to create ways to bring 4-H staff, community leaders and youth of all races together. Becoming a national community development program director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service 4-H Division, he worked to implement 1971 Congressional legislation that helped to facilitate youth involvement in communities throughout the nation.

As a way to recognize him for his work, in April 2012, Rutledge was chosen for the National 4-H Hall of Fame by the National Association of Extension 4-H Agents. He was cited for Distinguished Service in 1974.

After retiring, he continued to serve others as executive director of a National Church Commission where he served the youth, by teaching gardening skills to disabled youth and by delivering farm produce to a battered women and children’s shelter.

He is survived by his wife, Lorene, five children, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. n

Phillip C. Dozier JD’72, Fayetteville, April 14. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps before earning a law degree at the University of Arkansas. For 35 years, he worked as the regional program manager for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, retiring in 2002.

Survivors: one daughter, one brother and one grandchild.

G. William Glezen Jr. MBA’77 PHD’80, Fayetteville, May 21. He was a retired professor of accounting at the University of Arkansas. Survivors: his wife, Sylvia Glezen BA’91, two sons and two grandchildren.

Mike E. Muller BSE’73 MED’75, Memphis, TN, May 16. Survivors: one brother and one sister.

Sue Adams BSBA’74, Hockessin, DE, March 27. She worked as the director of financial management services at Christiana Care Health Systems until her retirement in 2005. Survivors: her husband, Bill, two daughters and one grandchild.

Larry J. Dowell BSBA’74, Elkins, April 12. He owned Dowell Appraisal Co. Survivors: his wife, Debbie, one son, one daughter, two brothers, one sister and two grandchildren.

wife, Janis, two sons, one daughter, one sister, seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Judy L. Jones ✪+ FS’68, Ponca City, OK, May 5. Survivors: her husband, Kenneth F. Jones ✪+ MS’71.

Bill Burns Jr. ★+ FS’70, Memphis, TN, May 17. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War before becoming a real estate agent for CryeLeike Realtors Inc. Survivors: his wife, A. Blayne Burch ★+ BSBA’82 MBA’83 and his father.

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her husband, Charles, one daughter, one stepson, two brothers, two sisters and one grandchild.

Calvin L. Muldrow Jr. MED’72, North Little Rock, April 9. He served in the U.S. Army before going on to serve 29 years as an educator in the North Little Rock Public School District. He also served 22 years as an elementary school principal.

Survivors: his wife, Lucy, one daughter, two sisters and two grandchildren.

William A. Grenwelge BSA’68, Scranton, May 19. He helped to raise beef cattle and chickens on his farm and was a member of the Scranton Rural Fire Department. Survivors: his wife, Judy, one daughter, one son, three sisters, one brother and five grandchildren.

Don R. Roberts EDD’69, Little Rock, May 23. He worked as a teacher and coach in Weston, OR, and was promoted to principal and superintendent. In 1974, he became superintendent of the Newport News, VA, schools and in 1979, he returned to Arkansas as head of the state department of education. Retiring in 2003, he accepted the appointment of director of the Arkansas Retired Teachers Association. Survivors: his

she managed their foreign currency accounts. Survivors: her husband, Hugh, and two sons.

Lola H. Lehman MS’69, Woodward, OK, May 25. She was a home demonstration agent in Arkansas who served several counties and traveled many miles.

Carl J. Madsen BSE’70, Stuttgart, April 24. Survivors: his wife, Penni, three sons, three daughters, two brothers and 11 grandchildren.

Sherrill Marks Byrd ★ BA’71, Nashville, TN, April 27. She worked at First American National Bank where

Roy A. Roe II MS’74, Fernandina Beach, FL, April 17. He served in Vietnam as a first lieutenant, supervising a mobile advisory team. Later, he taught in the Gentry and Bentonville school districts before becoming a master rigger and professional skydiver, as well as a licensed pilot. Survivors: his mother, one daughter, one sister and one grandson.

John C. Johnson BSBA’75, Springdale, May 14. He worked in accounting and administration in the health care industry. Survivors: his wife, Kathy, one daughter, two sons, two sisters and one grandson.

Steve Petway BA’77 MED’78, Royal Palm Beach, FL, April 25. He worked as a school psychologist for 30 years in Florida and Colorado. He was also the first recipient of the “Petway Award,” which recognizes excellence in school psychology. Survivors: his wife, Diana, and his parents.

Conrad Krauft ✪ JD’79, Fayetteville, April 10. He was a faculty member in psychology and the education department at the University of Arkansas for seven years. He also worked as an attorney for 14 years, a professor at NorthWest Arkansas Community College for 20 years and a landlord for more than 40 years. Survivors: his wife, Virginia Rae Krauft ✪ EDD’73, two sons and two grandchildren.

Charles D. Gunselman ASRT’79, Springdale, May 30. He worked at Regency Hospital as a respiratory therapist. Survivors: his wife, Cindy, his mother, one daughter, one son, one sister and one grandchild.

Ralph G. Hawkins EDD’79, Springfield, MO, Feb. 15. Survivors: his wife, Dorothy.

Curtis E. Carter BSBA’80, Springfield, MO, Jan. 20.

Gregory L. Farque MSE’83, Little Rock, May 20. He worked for 10 years as a physician at College Station Community Health Clinic. He later taught at the UAMS Family Practice Department before retiring. Survivors: his wife, Susan, one daughter, two brothers and one grandson.

Shirley M. Schaefer ★+ MED’76, Fayetteville, May 3. She was a retired elementary school teacher. Survivors: her husband, Don E. Schaefer ★+ MED’84, three daughters, one sister, 11 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Patricia A. Grant MFA’86, Monroe, LA, April 14. She was a gifted teacher who taught English for more than 40 years. She taught in Detroit Public Schools, Detroit College of Business, Pan American University, the University of Arkansas and Northeast Louisiana University. She also taught for two years in Athens, Greece. Survivors: her partner, Elisabeth, and one sister.

Jann K. Herriman Baker BSBA’77, Peachtree City, GA, May 12. Survivors:

W. Vernon Lyons Jr. BA’86, Conway, April 18. He worked as a mason and was

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a retired chief warrant officer, serving in the U.S. Navy, Air Force and Army. He was also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Green Beret. Survivors: his wife, Cheryl Christensen Lyons MA’84, two sons, two daughters, one brother and five grandchildren.

Jennifer Kay Hahn BA’96, Fayetteville, May 4. Hahn worked at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, CA, before becoming the executive assistant at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville. Survivors: her parents, one brother and two sisters.

Debora Elaine Leek FS’98, Paris, April 4.

Nola Ethyl Titsworth MED’88, Fort Smith, May 1. She worked as a teacher and was the recipient of the 2002 WalMart Neighborhood Market Teacher of the Year. Survivors: one daughter, two sons, one brother, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Steven Linn Murphy BA’96, Fayetteville, May 15. He worked as a travel agent for Delta Airlines. Survivors: his parents and one sister.

Tiffanie Anne Lericos BSN’10, Cape Coral, FL, May 9.

Todd Steven Phillips MA’92, Macon, Mo., March 31, 2011. He was the director of the Student Success Center at Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo. Survivors: his mother, one brother and one son.

Kenneth Shawn Loyd FS’94, Dardanelle, May 17. He worked as an auto collision technician. Survivors: his parents, one son and three sisters.

Kevin O’Neil Penix EDD’97, April 24.

He was an education consultant and an AllState Insurance owner/operator in Little Rock. Survivors: his wife, Sherri, two sons and two sisters.

Anthony Lee Richardson FS’97, Kirkland, WA, May 4. He served in the U.S. Air Force during Desert Storm and worked as an aeronautical engineer.

Survivors: one daughter, one son, his parents, two brothers and one sister.

Regina Marie Vernon BA’99, Farmington, April 29. Survivors: two daughters, four sisters, one brother, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Casey Jaycob Lowe ★ BA’11, Bella Vista, April 14. He taught English communication in Japan. Survivors: his parents, one sister and one brother.

Friends Becky A. Pilant ★+, St. Louis, MO, April 1. Survivors: her husband, Dale Pilant MBA’68.

Rickey L. Langham, Elkins, June 12.

He served in the U.S. National

Guard before devoting 40 years to the University of Arkansas, working as a zone coordinator at the physical plant.

Survivors: his wife, Vaneta, his father, one daughter, two sons, one sister and one granddaughter.

Donald G. Moore ✪, Rogers, May 23. He served in the U.S. Air National Guard of Arkansas and the Reserve of the U.S. Air Force from 19681974.

He later owned Southwest Tools, was founder and president of the Northwest Arkansas Conservation Authority, and owner of TXS Oil. He also owned and founded Novus Products. Survivors: his wife, Gloria, his mother, one daughter, one sister and one brother.

Cornelia Martin Morris ✪, McCrory, May 5. She worked with the Girl Scouts, as well as various other organizations.

Survivors: one daughter, one son, five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. ■

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LAST LOOK

A stickler for form Alumnus Flint Richter weaves sticks and sapling branches together from atop a scaffolding above the Walton Arts Center plaza in Fayetteville to create one of several two-story-tall sculptures for the Artosphere Festival.

Artist Patrick Dougherty was commisioned to design the “stickwork” sculptures for the festival, and Richter led volunteers in helping construct the figures.

Workers trimmed sapling branches of their leaves and then interlaced the branches together in a fashion that seemed one part Ozark basket-weaving and two parts robin’s nest to create tall lumbering figures around the arts center’s plaza next to Dickson Street. ■

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