ARKANSAS: Fall 2017

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Fall 2017 Vol. 67, No. 1

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Frank Broyles

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IN THE LAND OF INCAS

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The Honors College designed a multidisciplinary course that takes students into a new world, foreign in culture, history and architecture.

Don’t forget your passport.

THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

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A century ago, Arkansas students and alumni answered the call when the United States joined World War I. Take a look back at the effort.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

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Faculty members tour northern Arkansas with Chancellor Joe Steinmetz during the U of A’s second annual Arkansas bus tour.

FIRST EDITION

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The University Libraries has assembled one of the top collections of early books and rare manuscripts related to Arkansas, from the Louisiana Purchase forward.

Campus View On the Hill Profile Association Razorback Road Yesteryear From Senior Walk Last Look

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ON THE COVER

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Frank Broyles as pictured in the 1959 Razorback yearbook during his first season coaching the Razorback football team.

C A M P U S V I EW

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

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Photographers Whit Pruitt ★ Emma Schock

Michael T. Miller ★

Advertising Coordinator Catherine Baltz ✪+ BS’92 MED’07

Dean and Henry Hotz Endowed Chair The past year seems like it lasted about five minutes! I moved into the dean’s position from serving as the senior associate dean of the College of Education and Health Professions, and after about 15 years on campus, I thought I knew what to expect. What I found, though, was an incredibly complex, exciting system and network of people who every day seemed to offer something new.

I do not think that there was any one thing that surprised me, but this past year opened my eyes to what outstanding students there are on campus.

I was constantly amazed at how many students were engaged in research or service learning, or traveled to exotic locations like our nursing students did in Africa. And for every student defining new boundaries, our faculty, too, proved to be an amazing set of individuals who extended knowledge while simultaneously caring for both undergraduate and graduate students. Whether writing a book or presenting at some academic society meeting, our faculty members continued to be simply the best ambassadors imaginable for the college.

The college continued its strong commitment to both undergraduate and graduate education, and our growing programs in Educational Studies and Adult and Lifelong Learning were especially fun to see. Dr. Rhett Hutchins’ work with undergraduate students in Educational Studies produced internship sites across the state and opportunities for our undergraduates to work in areas in which the college has never before had a presence. The

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Writers & Contributors DeLani Bartlette B.A.’06 M.A.’08 Kendall Curlee Sam Cushman Scott Flanagin Jennifer Holland ★ M.Ed.’08 Bettina Lehovec Andra Parrish Liwag Darinda Sharp BA’94 MS’99 MA’05 Kevin Trainor ★+ B.A.’94 M.A.’05 Steve Voorhies ★ M.A.’78 H.A. Young M.F.A.’04

Adult and Lifelong Learning program also expanded its presence, as over a dozen faculty and students participated in the national meeting, and the program’s externally funded grant to work with the Arkansas Department of Corrections expanded the program’s visibility both in the state and nationally.

One experience I had not anticipated was the communication of the dean’s position with so many alumni and friends of the college and university. I received numerous messages this year from random alumni contacting me to say thank you for their experiences on campus. I knew that we had something special to offer here, but I did not know that so many of our students took the time to say thank you for a special friendship, a special relationship with a caring faculty member, or for the education they received.

In my role as dean this past year, I was also inspired by the level of collaboration with the other academic programs on campus, particularly our commitment to interdisciplinary programs, such as our faculty’s work in the Public Policy program.

The recognition of former Dean Reed Greenwood was especially meaningful, as his contributions to the college will be long remembered.

I am honored to be able to serve as the dean of this great college and thank all of our faculty and staff for their commitment. The administration has been very supportive, and I am confident that we will continue to see exciting developments that position us for even greater success. n

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ON THE HILL

Alumna Maggie Benton Crowned Miss Arkansas 2017 During her coming year as Miss Arkansas, what Benton described as “a full-time job,” she will travel and make appearances across Arkansas, serving as the state’s spokesperson for the Children’s Miracle Network and the Arkansas Children’s Hospital. In addition, she will promote her personal platform, “Giving is a Gift,” which aims to encourage others to realize the gifts they have been given and to respond by giving freely of their resources – both time and money. She said she wants to talk to children about doing random acts of kindness, high school students about volunteering, and adults about asking themselves, “what pulls on your heartstrings, and how can you use that to impact your communities?”

She believes that the rewards of giving to others are immeasurable. “When we share with others, we show acts of kindness that have the potential to tremendously impact not only communities at large, but the individual lives around us.”

In addition to more than $75,000 of in-kind donations including awards, wardrobe, transportation and gifts, Benton will receive more than $37,000 in scholarship money, which she plans to use to attend the Clinton School of Public Service. “I really love the idea of working at a non-profit, maybe as a director of a charitable foundation,” she said. “But I also have an interest in working behind the scenes in government.” While she hasn’t made a final decision about what field she will be pursuing, she said she is hoping graduate school will help her find her focus. “I don’t want to be closed-minded about what opportunities will come my way,” she said. “I’m always willing to try a new path.”

Benton also represented Arkansas at the 2018 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City on Sept. 10. n photo by Emma Schock

Alumna Maggie Benton ✪ B.A.’17 won the title of Miss Arkansas 2017 at the 80th Miss Arkansas Scholarship Pageant in June. Benton was crowned by the outgoing Miss Arkansas, Savannah Skidmore, and Miss America, Savvy Shields, both U of A students.

A Jonesboro native, Benton has ties to the U of A that run deep. She has several alumni in her family, including her brother, sister, grandmother, and cousins. Her great-grandfather Murray Rasberry would host new coaches until they were able to settle in.

“I grew up coming to Razorback games,” she said, “so I was always in Fayetteville, even though I grew up in Jonesboro.”

During her four years at the U of A, Benton studied communication and journalism. A member of Chi Omega, she also served as the vice president of the Associated Student Government during her senior year. She was a student ambassador for admissions, served on the Chancellor’s Commission for Women and was vice president of marketing for the Student Alumni Board. In the spring, Benton was named a U of A “Senior of Significance.”

“My experiences on campus and with my crown parallel,” she said. “The skills I learned at each sharpened each other.” Benton credits the U of A with teaching her professionalism, hard work, time management, leadership and “how to get by without a lot of sleep!” She was also in the U of A concert choir and the women’s chorus, which gave her the muscle memory and confidence to perform her talent onstage: a vocal performance of “The Music of the Night” from The Phantom of the Opera. That performance earned her a tie for the win in the preliminary talent competition.

Department of Defense Awards SMART Scholarship to Chemical Engineering Student

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from many conditions including stroke, traumatic brain injury and Alzheimer’s disease.

As part of the scholarship program, Roberts will spend his summers as an intern at the Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The program’s website explains that it “aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories,” and that “students are also provided opportunities to continue their research in DoD civil service roles following graduation.”

“I’m very proud of Jesse for pursuing and earning this prestigious award,” said Shannon Servoss, associate professor of chemical engineering and Roberts’ adviser. “This will open many doors for him and lead to a successful career for a very deserving student. n photo submitted

Jesse Roberts, a graduate student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, is researching peptoids — molecules that are designed in the lab for specific biomedical purposes.

He wants to find peptoids that will help patients grow new brain cells, and he just got a big vote of confidence.

The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Defense Education Program awarded Roberts a scholarship that will cover his tuition and other costs while he pursues his doctorate. Roberts’ dissertation will focus on peptoids.

The program was established by the U.S. Department of Defense to support undergraduates and graduate students in fields related to science, technology, engineering and math.

Roberts is studying the use of these peptoid molecules to help patients grow new brain cells. This therapy could help people suffering

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Lemke Journalism Project Lets Students Tell Their Stories The Lemke Journalism Project was created in 2001 when a few members of the Walter J. Lemke Department of Journalism realized Northwest Arkansas was changing — specifically, recognizing the rise in the Hispanic population but without a similar rise in Hispanic journalists at the region’s media.

Among the founders was Katherine Shurlds ✪ J.D.’94, recently retired as a journalism instructor at the U of A. Shurlds said faculty realized the department needed to train more Hispanic students to work for Arkansas papers.

First, Shurlds partnered with Al “Papa Rap” Lopez, who was the Hispanic programs coordinator with Springdale Schools, to arrange for local Hispanic high school students to visit the journalism department to encourage them to consider careers in journalism.

The following year, the Lemke Journalism Project was born. Other founders, Gerald Jordan ★ B.A.‘70, who had experience with similar programs aimed at African-American students, and Patsy Watkins, then the chair of the department, worked with Shurlds to create the program.

The program takes in students from Northwest Arkansas high schools for six Saturdays in February and March. The students are coached by Lemke faculty members, alumni and working journalism professionals who help them develop story ideas and strengthen their writing skills.

“We depend on alumni who volunteer their time to work with the students,” said current director Gina Shelton, who took over from Shurlds in 2014. “It keeps the alumni connected to the U of A and gives them an opportunity to inspire young people.”

At the end of the six weeks, the students publish a newspaper, The Multicultural News, and produce a television newscast, the LJP Diversity Report.

The U of A Chancellor’s Office provided the primary funding as the

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project began, but the budget was small. Transportation was the first major obstacle it faced.

“The first year, we had to use U of A vans and the professors had to drive the students in their cars,” Shurlds said. “For the first two or three years, we paid for the transportation.” Now, she said, the schools provide the bus needed to transport Rogers and Springdale students.

In addition, Watkins worked extremely hard to find funding, securing a $250,000 foundational grant from Tyson Foods in the project’s 10th year. The Tyson grant funds the program as well as scholarships for LJP alumni who want to study journalism at the U of A. Northwest Arkansas Newspapers Inc. is also a major supporter, printing and distributing The Multicultural News.

Not all the students who attend LJP go on to become journalists, but Shurlds said the real value of the project is in teaching media literacy.

“Once you know how a story goes together, you know how to read one.” Students learn to judge the source of what they are reading and hearing and ask questions – skills vital to being engaged citizens.

They also get another benefit, Shurlds said. “They come to a college campus and see it’s not a scary place. They get encouragement, and it further affirms that they can succeed in college.”

Wendy Echeverria was one student who went through the project and, after graduating from Bentonville High School, chose to study journalism at the U of A. “The one thing I valued the most from the project was the relationships I made,” she said. “The professors involved in this program really care about the students. I felt like they really cared about my success and my career.”

Echeverria, who is on track to graduate from the U of A in December, interned this summer for NBC Dateline and Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly. n

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ON THE HILL

University Hosts Native Youth Food and Agriculture Summit The Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative at the University of Arkansas School of Law welcomed 132 Native American, Alaska native and Native Hawaiian students representing 76 tribes for its Native Youth in Food and Agriculture Leadership Summit in July.

The annual conference teaches 15- to 18-year-olds about the importance of vibrant food systems and how food and agriculture policy impacts tribal communities.

“The Ag Summit is helping to support tribal governments and their communities across the country by working alongside native youth building their dreams for improved health, economic development through food and agriculture, and sustainable local economies,” said Janie Simms Hipp, director of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative.

While living on campus for 10 days, students heard from guest speakers who presented topics including the history of American Indian agriculture, business planning, ethnobotany and seed preservation, soil conservation, legal issues in Indian Country and the importance of traditional foods.

“There should be a sense of urgency,” student leader Ellise David said. “There is a new Farm Bill coming out, there are more problems in Indian Country that are bigger than us and that we need to change.

And it has to start with us.”

The students also participated in the unique “This Is Hunger” exhibit, which was installed near Fayetteville’s historic downtown square

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in July. The exhibit, sponsored by MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, was in Fayetteville as part of a collaboration with the initiative.

Students got to visit the exhibit to understand how the food insecurity issues they confront in native communities fit into the greater struggle for national and international food security.

Since its inception in 2014, more than 200 students have completed the program, and the number of students, and number of tribes represented, have grown each year. Participants receive intensive and fun instruction in agriculture while getting an early glimpse at campus life and study.

“This summit is an example of our commitment to making higher education a reality for students who might not otherwise have the opportunity to interact with faculty and leaders at a comprehensive flagship campus,” said Stacy Leeds, dean of the School of Law. “Consistent with our land-grant mission, we know that our pipeline programs are making a significant impact across several communities, and that’s a powerful legacy for everyone involved.”

The summit is sponsored by the U of A School of Law and the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. It is funded by several supporting programs including the U.S. Department of Agriculture Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development Program, Farm Credit Council, Intertribal Agriculture Council, the Natural Resources Conservation Service at USDA, the Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma and several other supporters. n

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Padma Viswanathan to Be Awarded Porter Prize for Arkansas Literature

Arkansas novelist and playwright Padma Viswanathan is the recipient of the 2017 Porter Fund Literary Prize. She is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas. A native of Canada, she now lives with her family in Fayetteville.

The Porter Prize is presented annually to an Arkansas writer with a substantial and impressive body of work that merits enhanced recognition. The $2,000 prize makes it one of the state’s most lucrative and prestigious literary awards. Eligibility requires an Arkansas connection.

Viswanathan will be honored at an award ceremony Oct. 26 at the Central Arkansas Library System Main Library’s Darragh Center in downtown Little Rock. The event is free and open to the public.

The Porter Prize was founded in 1984 by U of A alumni Jack Butler and Phil McMath to honor Ben Kimpel, their former professor of

English at the U of A. At Kimpel’s request, the prize is named in honor of his mother, Gladys Crane Kimpel Porter. The annual prize has been given to 31 poets, novelists, non-fiction writers and playwrights.

Viswanathan was notified of her award by Fayetteville playwright and novelist Bob Ford, the 2010 recipient of the Porter Prize.

“It seemed somehow fitting that I received the call about being selected for the Porter Prize while watching my kids play in Central Park. No matter where I go now, Arkansas, my adopted home, exerts an irresistible pull,” said Viswanathan. “I didn’t know, when I moved to Fayetteville 11 years ago, whether Arkansas would have me, nor what I would have to offer this place.

“To be awarded the Porter Prize feels like a response to those questions. I am profoundly honored.”

Viswanathan’s first novel, The Toss of a Lemon, traced 60 years in the lives of an Indian widow and her gay manservant. It was published in eight countries, and was a finalist for the Commonwealth (Regional) First Book Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Prize and the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, was published in four countries and was a finalist for The Scotiabank Giller Prize. In this book, a cranky Indian psychologist comes to Canada to do what he calls a ‘study of comparative grief,’ tracing the effects of a 1985 jet bombing. Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper called it “the best kind of political novel: the kind that doesn’t force you to constantly notice it’s a political novel.”

Viswanathan also writes plays, short stories, personal essays and cultural journalism. Her translation of the novel St. Bernardo, by the late Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, is forthcoming from New York Review Books, and she is currently writing a nonfiction book. n

U of A Receives Gold Rating for Campus Sustainability Achievements The University of Arkansas has achieved a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System — STARS — in recognition of campuswide sustainability achievements. The STARS program is administered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education to promote sustainability in all aspects of higher education. The association is made up of more than 900 members in the U.S. and 20 countries.

The U of A’s STARS ranking advanced from silver to gold in 2017, in recognition of major steps towards sustainability in on-campus engagement, research and operations. The university initiated a campuswide sustainability plan after Chancellor John White signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment in 2007 — now known as the Presidents’ Climate Leadership

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Commitments. The U of A Climate Action Plan calls for the campus to be climate neutral by 2040, with interim goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to their 1990 level by 2021. This will coincide with the university’s 150th birthday. The U of A is on track to meet that goal early, despite its remarkable enrollment growth and addition of several new buildings.

The U of A received a high STARS ranking in academics, as well, with over a third its departments offering at least one sustainability course and approximately half of all sponsored research projects addressing a pillar of sustainability. This achievement reflects the global reach of U of A research and other collaborative work, touching every corner of Arkansas and the world.

For more information about sustainability at the University of Arkansas, visit sustainability.uark.edu. n

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ON THE HILL

Visionary Gift Creates School of Art, Transforms Access to Art in Arkansas The University of Arkansas announced in August an unprecedented gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation to establish the School of Art. The foundation has made a $120 million gift, which is the largest ever given to a U.S. university to support or establish a school of art. This gift creates the first and only accredited, collegiate school of art in the state of Arkansas, and will propel art education and research in the state forward while also providing unparalleled access and opportunity to students.

The gift will also help position the School of Art as a center of excellence in art education, art history, graphic design and studio art curriculum.

Former U.S. Sen. Kaneaster Hodges Jr., ✪ president and board member of the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation and University of Arkansas Law School alumnus, said establishing the school underscores the importance of art education.

“The School of Art will be constructed as a model for inclusion and diversity,” he said. “It will be built with elements from the top schools and institutes across the country.”

“The School of Art will shape a new generation of artists, historians, designers and teachers with a unique understanding of the hope art can bring to communities,” said Alice Walton, chairwoman of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s board. “The unparalleled access to meaningful American art will connect the heartland to the world.”

Joseph E. Steinmetz, chancellor of the University of Arkansas, agreed, and said the university is grateful for such a transformative gift from the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation.

“The newly endowed School of Art will transform the university and region into an international hub for the study of art,” Steinmetz

said. “The School of Art will also have an immediate, resounding positive effect on the culture of our entire state, and its imprint will be seen across the nation and beyond.”

Steinmetz said the school will also place a strong emphasis on American art and art of the Americas, which uniquely complements the mission of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, located in nearby Bentonville.

“The vision to create the School of Art could not have come to fruition without the cooperative, close and mutually beneficial relationship between the world-class Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the university,” he said. “With an emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaborations and signature outreach efforts with the museum, and a focus on student, faculty and staff diversity, the school will be uniquely positioned to develop programs to rival the top competitors in the field.”

The $120 million gift will be allocated to three primary goals: • Providing unprecedented levels of financial support for students in the form of scholarships, travel grants and internship opportunities.

• Engaging the region in outreach and public service through partnerships with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and a variety of community arts organizations.

• Expanding graduate programs and degree offerings in art history, art education and graphic design.

Additional goals include supporting the Fine Arts Library and the renovation of the historic Fine Arts Center.

-Editor’s Note: This gift was announced just as the fall edition of Arkansas magazine was going to the publisher. We will have a more in-depth story about the school and gift in the winter edition. n

Arkansas Trade Director Testifies to U.S. Trade Representative at NAFTA hearings Melvin Torres, director of Western Hemisphere Trade for the World Trade Center Arkansas, traveled to Washington, D.C., in June to testify on the North American Free Trade Agreement. The NAFTA hearings took place before the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Torres presented the needs of Arkansas companies and explained how NAFTA has largely benefited the state’s economy.

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on behalf of more than 150 Arkansas companies on June 15 to the USTR. This testimony was compiled from data collected by a survey released by the World Trade Center Arkansas in late May. After compiling this data, the USTR invited the World Trade Center Arkansas to testify in a public hearing in Washington D.C. as the federal government modernizes NAFTA. “NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to Arkansas. We are in a unique position compared to other states of the nation as we export twice as much as we import with both partners,” Torres said. “The trade agreement has enabled Canada and Mexico to become our largest trading partners. It has led to the creation of nearly 60,000 jobs in

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Field School at Leetown Yields New Finds, Unconventional Methods research assistant at the Archeological Survey, working here feels like digging in a parking lot. This is pure, unglamorous manual labor, shoveling and picking, scraping and sweating.

But, the new area has yielded a few promising pieces of “material culture,” including a hairpin from the “turn of the century” (everyone around here understands this expression to mean 1900 instead of 2000) and several small pieces of brightly colored decorative porcelain. When students present these artifacts to Brandon, he immediately tags their vintage. To the layperson, these “temporal diagnostics” can seem overwhelming, but it’s not that difficult when you’ve been doing it for almost 30 years.

“It’s sort of like cars,” Brandon said. “Everyone knows what a car from the ‘50s looks like, with their tailfins and all that chrome, compared to cars of the ‘70s or ‘80s. Identifying artifacts is just like that.”

Sometimes, Brandon’s methods are unconventional.

“Can you tell what this is?” asked Michaela Conway, a junior majoring in anthropology. Stepping out of the hole next to the one dug by Rees and Faulkner, Conway handed Brandon what looked like piece of a plastic tent stake. It was black and had clumps of dirt all over it. Brandon studied the artifact for a second and then put it in his mouth and bites down on it like a bit. The students, though not surprised, snickered.

“Yeah, I put everything in my mouth,” said Brandon. “You can get a lot of information that way. That’s how I learned that bone sticks to the tongue.”

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Arkansas and currently supports nearly 100,000 jobs.”

Earlier in May, Torres went to Washington with several Arkansas leaders, including Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin and Angela Marshall-Hofmann, who served as former trade counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and has extensive experience in the negotiation and congressional passage of trade agreements. Martin and Marshall-Hofmann were present for trade advocacy and support.

“This was a unique opportunity to participate in the NAFTA modernization process at the NAFTA hearings,” Marshall-Hofmann said. “We can ensure continued cross-border access for U.S. goods and services as well as seek new terms that reduce cost, speed up delivery and simplify the way we do business with our most important trading partners.”

“We tried to emphasize Arkansas’ unique position within NAFTA,” Torres said. “We are one of the few states that has a positive trade balance with both countries. In fact, Arkansas exports hundreds of millions of dollars more in goods and services to Canada and Mexico than we import from them. We have seen an incredible 700 percent increase in our exports to Mexico since NAFTA began. Furthermore, exports from Arkansas to Mexico are growing 3.6 times faster than exports to any other country. Our state’s success can be a model for the rest of the country.”

The World Trade Center Arkansas is an outreach program of the University of Arkansas and is tasked with growing trade and increasing Arkansas exports by connecting Arkansas businesses with the world though international trade services. n

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The university’s Archeological Field School this summer focused on Leetown, a Civil War-era hamlet that served a critical role during the twoday Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862. The hamlet included two stores, a church, a Masonic hall and several homes, which were used as field hospitals during the battle. The Pea Ridge National Military Park, in collaboration with the Arkansas Archeological Survey, has embarked upon a four-year project to unearth Leetown to offer better interpretation for park visitors. The monthlong school is part of this larger project, as well as an opportunity for students to gain field experience.

The slow and tedious work of documenting floors and walls would be made easier without all the newly packed gravel on the site. In a week’s time, two new “units” have started 30 feet or so west of a series of holes that continue to provide rich information about the people who inhabited this place 80, 100, even 150 years ago.

With only a week left to dig, Jamie Brandon and his colleagues — professional and student — were trying to identify the main elements of the original log cabin inhabited by John W. Lee, the farmer who settled this area in 1840. “Original,” in this context, has two meanings: The log cabin was the first structure built at Leetown and, secondly, it was added on to, probably multiple times, and then eventually swallowed up by a larger, more modern structure.

The researchers’ efforts here were complicated by a top layer of dense, hard-packed gravel, which Brandon, an associate research professor of anthropology, thinks might be the residue of fill that was bulldozed onto the site after the modern structure — and probably the original cabin within it — was taken down in the 1960s.

For anthropology student Breezie Faulkner and Lydia Rees, a

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Laurie Adkins B.S.E.’99

Alumna Is First Woman to Umpire a State Championship Game

By DeLani Bartlette B.A.’06, M.A.’08 On May 19, Laurie Adkins made Arkansas history at Baum Stadium. At age 53, she became the first woman to umpire a state championship baseball game.

“I feel like I’m making a little crack in the glass ceiling,” she said. “But there’s still a glass ceiling.”

The road to that momentous day at Baum Stadium was a long one, and not without its challenges. Growing up in Farmington, Arkansas, Adkins didn’t have the opportunity to play softball until she was 11 or 12. By then, she said, she’d already begun playing baseball with the boys.

She recalls her first year at the U of A, dribbling her basketball up Dickson Street to play pick-up games at what was then the Men’s Gym (now the Faulkner Performing Arts Center). As a first-generation college student, she struggled through that first year, eventually dropping out to start a family.

But she wouldn’t be deterred from her goals. After six years, she came back to the U of A, this time as a single mother of two young children. “Sometimes I had my twoyear-old in tow,” Adkins said, recalling that she had to work really hard to get her GPA up.

Though she was majoring in electrical engineering, she said she felt a calling to go into coaching, and changed majors to earn a Bachelor of Science in Education, with certifications to teach math, physics, physical science and physical education. She took former Arkansas baseball coach Norm DeBriyn’s Coaching Baseball class. Later,

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DeBriyn asked her to teach the class, which she did for two years. “Coach DeBriyn ended up being a huge mentor to me,” she said.

She also listed the many faculty members who she said were instrumental in helping her stay in school. One of the few who is still with the College of Education and Health Professions, professor of kinesiology Sharon Hunt, remembered Adkins’ “keen interest in baseball.”

“I’m glad to see that she is continuing to follow her passion,” Hunt said.

All told, it took her 11 years to earn her degree. After graduating, she went to Mountainburg public schools and coached the girls’ slow-pitch softball, basketball and track. Then she came back to Fayetteville and coached at Fayetteville High School for a few years.

Even when she quit coaching in the schools and went into sales, she continued to do clinics with other college coaches and ran fast-pitch teaching on the side. She played in the men’s senior baseball league — and was inducted into their hall of fame last year.

But officiating is her first passion. “I’ve always officiated, since my mid-20s,” she said.

“I found I had a good temperament for it. You have to have a temperament where everything rolls off you, because people get emotional.”

She said she has only run into “malicious people” a couple of times. “Sometimes,” she said, “they call you names, say you don’t know what you’re doing, or call you stupid.”

She recalled a time when she was officiating

at a showcase baseball event. One coach, she said, “targeted me as the weakest link. That happens in a male-dominated field.” She said the coach kept trying to “make things into issues” and fans said derogatory things about having a woman on the field. At one point, she found “they had spit in all my waters.”

“It pisses a lot of people off,” she said.

“Some of the guys seem offended I’m in this space.”

However, she said, “the majority of people are very good. Most of the Arkansas and Missouri teams know me as a good umpire.”

The Baseball Umpires of Northwest Arkansas, an organization she’s been a part of for many years, “has zero gender bias,” she said. Though she is the only woman in the organization, “they have treated me as one of the guys.”

“I do things because I’m good at them,” she said, “and try not to let the crap get in the way.”

In July, Adkins got to be part of history again. She was chosen to officiate at the Girls’ National Baseball Championship in Rockford, Illinois, at Beyer Stadium, home of the historic Rockford Peaches. Rockford is also the future home of the International Women’s Baseball Center.

There is also the possibility that Adkins will be able to participate in spring training with Minor League Baseball, though that hasn’t been confirmed yet.

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An honors program takes University of Arkansas students into the heart of the Andes

By Kendall Curlee Photos by Russell Cothren We’re boarding the bus, heading to the next church, when a ragged brass band and thumping drums appear at the end of the street. We pause to take a few photos – and then we’re engulfed by balloons and beauty queens, folk dancers flinging confetti and Incan warriors sporting Converse sneakers. We’ve stumbled upon a parade celebrating the 135th anniversary of Arequipa’s Mercado San Camilo, and it’s not long before we spill out of the bus to catch flowers and candy and snap selfies as shimmying bands of dancers celebrating pork, potatoes, beef, fruit and other market wares pass by. The students and professor Shawn Austin dance with the revelers, and we almost lose sight of our photographer, Russell Cothren, when he perches on the tailgate of a truck to snap photos. Dylan DeLay prevents bodily harm to his classmates by catching a hefty mango with one hand, and Dani Carson cradles a tiny black puppy placed in her eager arms.

Once we’re back on the bus, breathless and sans puppy, professor Austin declares, “I will find a way to use this!” After a moment’s thought, he’s off, drawing connections between the parade we just

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witnessed and Peru’s colonial-era processions, when merchant and artist guilds marched through the city to display their civic and corporate pride. “What do you see in American parades – flags! But notice there were no Peruvian flags here,” he said. “Instead, the people who run the market have dressed up in costumes that harken to ethnic groups and possibly, the communities that they came from, carnival style. It reflects corporate identities, and connects back to colonial social organizations.”

Austin’s spin on a dime to connect Peru’s present and past was a commonplace occurrence throughout the Honors Passport trip to Peru last January. This nimble response to a spectacularly rich culture is thanks in large part to the training of Austin and his co-leader on the trip, professor Laurence Hare, both historians. And it’s also due to the fact that the 16 students on this trip are primed to see and respond to Peru’s history and culture after three semesters of rigorous study in the Honors Humanities Program (H2P) sequence. H2P is a signature part of the Honors College experience, dubbed “humanities boot camp” by alumni who have survived the voluminous readings and tough papers.

Thanks to Dean Lynda Coon, H2P has been extended beyond the classroom with Honors Passport, a two-week intersession course that functions as “field exercises” at sites around the globe.

These 16 students came to Peru well-versed on Incan huacas, the Spanish conquest and colonial era, the Andean Hybrid Baroque, the Cusco School of Art, indigenismo and so much more. Here are some lessons learned that they couldn’t get from books or PowerPoint slides.

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Shaping a Nation’s Story: Fortaleza Real Felipe, Port of Callou, Peru It’s our first morning in Peru and the students are running on a scant four hours of sleep and strong coffee. First on the agenda is this massive pentagonal stone fort. It’s one of the largest that the Spanish built overseas, constructed in 1747 to protect Lima’s port from pirates lured

by New World gold and silver.

The fort now catalogs Peru’s military history over more than 17 acres. The students are simultaneously over- and underwhelmed: the introductory video and labels are in Spanish, and creepy mannequins model modern military uniforms. Pre-Columbian ceramics and a large poster of Machu Picchu lend a random element to the march through Peru’s military past.

We pause to take stock in a courtyard lined with cannons from the Ecuadorian-Peruvian War of 1941.

“You’re noticing a really eclectic presentation of history here,” Laurence Hare says. “Think about how a site like this challenges the presentation of a master narrative. Where are the gaps, and where are the incongruities? Keep your eyes open, look for those moments, and see if you can get a feel for where those tensions are.”

And like that, the experience shifts. In the “Hall of Heroes” we notice the front-and-center placement of the bronze bust of a glaring Tupac Amaru II, a descendent of the last Inca who met a bloody end after leading an 18th-century uprising against the Spanish. The Spanish coat of arms over the entrance to the Castillo de Real Felipe has been chiseled and blurred, a post-independence attempt to erase the colonial past. And a relatively new gallery, “Tribute to Women,” remembers the camp followers, spies and wives who played an important role in past conflicts – and helps to recruit present-day women into Peru’s army.

Shawn Austin alerts the students to watch for coverage of the 19th-century War of the Pacific as a moment of reckoning when the Peruvians lost substantial territory to Chile. “There was terrible destruction and they lost, big time. How do they move forward from that loss?”

His question is answered by the poignant Casa de la Respuesta (House of the Answer), a replica of a house once on Peruvian soil, located in today’s Chile, where in 1880 Peruvian General Francisco Bolognesi refused to bow down in defeat, despite being outnumbered. “The house presents the Peruvian’s take on the War of the Pacific, a narrative of noble martyrdom,” Hare posits.

At night and on the bus throughout the trip, the students read more than 500 pages of primary sources and scholarly articles. During the day, at sites like this and many others throughout our journey, they learn to “read” how history is packaged and presented to audiences, from the Spanish colonial era to the present day.

Navigating Tourism – Isla Amantaní, Lake Titicaca Our speedboat skims across the clear blue waters of Lake Titicaca, purported birthplace of the first Inca, Manco Cápac. Dotted with islands both natural and manmade from reeds, the lake shelters indigenous peoples whose traditional way of life centers around fishing, farming, weaving – and now, tourism.

When we arrive at Isla Amantaní, our hostess Valentina and her L’Ampayuni kinswomen lay necklaces of kantuta, the national flower of Peru, around our necks and escort us up the hill to their home, a coralcolored adobe compound, lush with brightly colored flowers, that has been expanded to accommodate groups like ours.

It’s Katie Gerth’s turn to present, and she reports on the impact of tourism on the indigenous populations who make their home on Lake Titicaca. There are positives: “Tourism is Peru’s second-largest industry, and Peru itself has the second-highest growth rate in Latin America, probably thanks in large part to tourism,” Gerth says. She points to economic growth, education and cultural survival as positive benefits for the people who live on these islands at a time when global assimilation threatens.

But there are drawbacks. The locals own their land, but antimonopoly laws passed in 1991 gave tourist agencies a foothold to control the experience – first through boat transportation to the islands,

Left: The group calls the Hogs at Machu Picchu; above: Students explore the historic center of Lima, where they encountered beautiful architecture and abject poverty.

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and now management of scheduling, meals and homestays. “To gain back control one would think that the islanders should just become the tour guides, but this is difficult, because becoming a tour guide requires a four-year degree in tourism.” Cultural and economic hurdles make that degree a tall order, Gerth’s adds.

We come away from Gerth presentation a bit wary but are soon embraced in preparations for a spectacular midday meal. Rashi Ghosh and Gerth volunteer to help and practice their Spanish while chopping vegetables for soup in the tiny kitchen.

The major bustle takes place outdoors, where local men shovel hot stones from a large campfire into two earthen pits lined with eucalyptus leaves. Our hosts are treating us to a special celebratory meal of Pachamanca (“earth pot”), and quite literally, the earth cradles searing hot stones that cook chicken marinated in herbs and garlic and wrapped in oiled paper. Bright purple, gold and russet potatoes are also nestled into the steaming hot cavity. The feast is rounded out with sopa de trigo, a wheat and vegetable soup; steamed broccoli, onions, carrots and choclos, jumbo-sized Peruvian corn; and a spicy aji salsa that we slather on the chicken. “I’d say this is the best meal we’ve had so far in Peru – including fine dining,” Austin opines, and all of us agree.

Austin and several other athletes among us work off lunch with a pick-up game of soccer with two local boys on a playing field well up the mountain, where fetching the ball provides as much exercise as scoring goals. Then the whole group, led by Valentina’s brother Jacinto, decide to climb 1,000 feet to one of two shrines on the island, this one dedicated to Pachatata (“earth father”).

It’s a tough climb, at high altitude. Austin and our host take the lead, chatting in Spanish. We stop frequently to catch our breath and wait for stragglers to catch up. At one such stop, Jacinto produces a bag of coca leaves. We are invited to take three leaves each and chew on them, and following this ritual rooted in Incan times, the climb seems doable.

We make it to the top, pose for pictures, circle the shrine three times for good luck, then beat the rainstorm down the mountain.

After dinner, our island idyll takes a turn towards full-on tourism.

Our guide encourages us to don native dress – the men pull on ponchos and chullos, knitted caps with earflaps that keep them warm, a plus

given that rain has brought a steep drop in temperatures. We women are dressed in embroidered blouses and polleras, heavy wool skirts, over our jeans, and Valentina cinches the skirts tight with chumpis, intricately woven belts. Then we head to a dance in a nearby community hall, where a band plays traditional tunes and locals show up to drink beer and dance with us. I’m uncomfortable wearing the costume and later learn that others had reservations about the experience as well.

The next day, Austin summarizes the dance as a “forced fiesta” cooked up by the tour guide, but this experience becomes a defining teaching moment in the course.

Professors Hare and Austin want to cut out the trip to Amantaní altogether on the next trip to Peru, but the students describe the experience as perspective changing. “This was one of our only chances to actually engage with indigenous people on this trip,” Gerth points out.

“I learned what it is to be a tourist – this was important for us to see,” Rachel Lindsey says.

“We find ourselves – an honors class – in this complicated position of how to experience these moments,” Austin says. “And that’s what I love about this class, because these students are cognizant of this, and we’re talking about it constantly. They’re questioning, ‘what does identity mean in these contexts?’”

Above: The students tour pristine Lake Titicaca in a reed boat; Right, clockwise from top left: The group visits San Francisco de Lima, a Spanish Baroque church built with earthquake-proof Incan technology; Laurence Hare and Shawn Austin lead discussion at Museo Larco, Lima; the parade in

Arequipa; Anthony Azzun views the catacombs beneath San Francisco de Lima; the students tuck into the midday Pachamanca feast; Becca Gilliland at the Museo de Arte de Lima; Rashi Ghosh and Dani Carson study ceramics in Museo Larco.

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Seeing Machu Picchu “We’re going to have class outside today!” Laurence Hare jokes.

We’re up at dawn, getting a quick breakfast before joining the long line of tourists waiting for a bus up to Machu Picchu. After a bumpy ride zigzagging up hairpin turns, we join another line and then finally, we’re in.

It’s crowded as we climb the stone steps and we hear accents and languages from around the world – all of these people, like us, intent on having their moment at Machu Picchu. We come to the main gate, which offers our first view of the terraced stronghold, nestled beside Huayna Picchu’s steep slopes. It’s breathtaking, but unlike the postcards and pictures in guidebooks, the place is clotted with hordes of people in neon climbing garb, clutching walking sticks and selfie sticks and leaning in close to snap shots with grazing llamas.

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We finally claim a secluded terrace, and Spencer Soule shares his research on the 1911 discovery of Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham, an explorer and lecturer at Yale who paid one sol to a local farmer to lead him to the ruins. Bingham struggled to identify this spectacular find. Birthplace of the Inca? Last Incan capitol? All wrong.

“Archeologists believe it was a retreat for the 9th Incan ruler, Pachacutec, who ordered it to be created in 1450,” Spencer reports. “He came between battle campaigns in winter, because it was warm – something like an Incan Camp David.”

Bingham was more successful at romanticizing Machu Picchu as the “Lost City of the Inca,” sparking a desire to see and be seen there that persists to this day. Following Spencer’s presentation, Hare asks him, “When we take pictures here, what are we looking for, in the 21st century?”

“That’s a hard question,” Spencer replies quickly, then more slowly, says: “I think we’re arbitrarily trying to capture the moment, when maybe we should just kind of focus on living in the moment.”

Outdoor class is on. Hare reminds the students about an article they read that discussed different ways of “seeing” the Andes and Machu Picchu. We look out, but immediately focus on the hundreds of visitors crawling around the ruins. Hare asks, “Don’t you wish we could blast all the tourists to outer space and have the place to ourselves?” We agree wholeheartedly, and Hare says: “But wait. There’s one person who’s not removed. How many of you took a selfie?”

Several students sheepishly raise their hands. “What’s up with that?” he asks. Ellie Jones allows that the selfie is a “bragging picture.” “I think we’re okay with tourism if it’s us,” Spencer adds. Hare follows up: “You can buy tons of postcards of Machu Picchu, but if you’re in the picture, then you’re part of the experience.”

We spend the rest of the morning working every inch of the site.

Kaitlyn Akel, initially overcome by being here, collects herself to present on Incan construction and engineering. Austin delves deep into the Incan relationship with stones as “lithic brothers,” where stone takes on roles that range from framing views to portraying rulers by literally including traces of their hair and nail clippings. We discuss the readings while gazing out at spectacular views, a rare chance to discuss this storied site, on site.

From bottom left: Shawn Austin leads a class on Machu Picchu, at Machu Picchu; the carefully engineered Incan stonework has lasted more than 500 years; Rachel Lindsey and Summer Webers pose with a llama; Dani Carson and Rashi Ghosh get their selfie shot.

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First a sprinkle, then a steady rain finally drives us offsite for sandwiches and sodas offered at exorbitant prices in both soles and dollars. After lunch, we climb back up to Machu Picchu. Thanks to the rain, momentarily, the crowds have cleared, and we have an opportunity to appreciate, as Akel put it, the “pure Incan thought, pure Incan design at work.”

What We Take Home It’s our last morning in Cusco. We rush around buying chullos and chocolate for friends and family back home, gulping down the last bit of coca tea, and easing zippers closed on overstuffed bags. With a precipitous ascent out of the Cusco airport, we start the 19-hour journey home, arriving in Arkansas just two days before the start of the spring semester.

Soon enough, our selfies at Machu Picchu will get buried in the Instagram feed, and – dare I say it? – some of the finer points from the 533-plus pages of readings will fade as students tackle new courses, the next paper.

But the most important lessons won’t be lost: the way nations shape their stories; how conquering cultures build on old ones. For sure, Honors Passport has offered a master class on engaging respectfully with other cultures. “We’ve had a lot of good discussions about how to be a tourist, what’s okay and what’s not okay,” Anthony Azzun says. “I think my biggest takeaway from Honors Passport is realizing how important it is to be intentional when interacting with people, especially when you’re abroad, because it’s a very special opportunity that not everyone has.”

For Cami Conroy, the trip to Peru, and the three H2P courses that preceded it, have radically changed her vision of history. “I saw history as a bunch of names and dates and large-scale events that didn’t mean a lot to me. H2P reshaped that vision into something that was more about individuals and more about discovery.”

Discovering Peru’s past, its present and the way the two commingle in a street parade, an outdoor feast or at Machu Picchu will stay with these students, and gives them the tools they need to read and gracefully navigate future cultural encounters. n View videos and learn about the Peru trip for alumni and friends at honorspassport.uark.edu.

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The 100th Anniversary of World War I When the U of A Answered the Call to the Colors

By DeLani Bartlette B.A.’06, M.A.’08

A century ago this past spring, the United States entered the First World War. The U of A was at the forefront of the war effort in Arkansas, providing military instruction, material support and the lives of its sons and daughters.

When World War I began in 1914, the U.S. remained neutral, trading and maintaining relations with nations on both sides of the conflict. For most Arkansans, the European war was a world away.

Local newspapers ran few stories about it, focusing instead on more pressing concerns, like agricultural news and social events.

However, the effects of such a vast war began to be felt even in rural Arkansas. Demand for uniforms and tents sent cotton prices up, weapons manufacturing meant lead and zinc mining increased, and the need for draft animals was filled by Arkansas breeders sending out horses and mules by the boxcars. Still, people remained divided on whether the U.S. should get involved.

Public opinion began to turn following the sinking of several American commercial and passenger ships by German U-boats. Finally, on April 9, 1917, Congress declared war on Germany, thereby entering the largest war the world had ever seen.

The U of A Steps Up Within a month of the declaration of war, at least 200 U of A students – fully a third of its total enrollment – joined the war effort by signing up for the military, working on food production or joining the Red Cross.

Then in late July of 1917, Fayetteville Mayor Allan Wilson asked Gov. Charles Brough for use of the U of A dorms, since troops exceeded the local capacity. Brough approved the plan, and Company B was allowed to use Carnall Hall (then the women’s dorm) for two weeks following their Aug. 5 mobilization. By October, 222 men were training at the U of A under the direction of Maj. George W. Martin, ret., and Sgt. Joseph Wheeler, ret.

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As the state’s flagship and a land-grant university, the U of A was asked to support the war effort with another very important resource: knowledge. The U of A was established as a land-grant institution under the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 with a core mission of research, service and teaching, to include agriculture, military tactics and mechanical arts as well as classic studies. The War Committee called on juniors and seniors in College of Engineering to aid in combating “the submarine menace” by submitting their ideas. Indeed, the Campus News Service stated that war conditions seem to have resulted in better grades by engineering students, and quoted then-Dean William Gladson saying, “They realize keenly the importance of their profession in the successful prosecution of the war.”

The university also began offering radio courses for drafted men and courses in military conversational French. President Wilson’s war messages were being used as English texts by students in the teacher’s training school.

Following the recommendation of the Federal Food Administration, U of A professors encouraged students, like the rest of the nation, to adopt a “War Diet” that conserved meat, wheat and sugar. By the end of the fall term, more than 600 on-campus students were eating these patriotic meals. Women’s dorms led the way in sacrifice, serving no wheat bread and many meatless meals.

Indeed, food conservation and production were considered vitally important to the war effort. This is where the U of A’s women could, from within the confines of what was considered their appropriate role, make a difference. After the Food Administration declared that “work in home economics is to the young women of America what the training camps are to the men,” enrollment in the Department of Home Economics increased. The U of A’s women also signed on for farm work to aid food production. More than 150 women joined the Top: Officers in the U of A Battalion. Bottom: Officers in the U of A’s Reserve Officer Training Corps, 1911.

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American Girls Legion, formed by alumna Byrd Mock, to assist in food production and conservation, aid committees, home nursing, and knitting for soldiers.

Many women also joined the Red Cross to fill the need for nurses.

Women students knitted sweaters, made surgical bandages and raised funds for the war effort.

By the end of the spring semester, the U of A’s service flag had 574 stars (though it’s suspected that nearly 200 more were not on record).

At its raising ceremony, U of A President John C. Futrall said, “The University of Arkansas has more men in service, in proportion to its enrollment, than any other university in the country.”

In April, the U of A entered into an agreement with the War Department to provide instruction, meals, lodging and training grounds and facilities to enlisted men starting in the summer. In preparation, the university hired between 15 and 20 new instructors and contracted with an independent vendor to provide thousands of dollars in food and meal services.

U of A President John C. Futrall said, “The University of Arkansas has more men in service, in proportion to its enrollment, than any other university in the country.”

On June 15, 1918, the first detachment of 310 men arrived.

Practically every county in Arkansas was represented, according to the Campus News Service, which noted, “Most were volunteers who didn’t wait to be drafted.”

The university offered these enlisted men courses in concrete, carpentry, auto trades and radio/wireless telegraphy. The soldiers, or “sammies,” performed two hours of drilling a day, followed by eight hours of intensive study.

Though the students and faculty were assured that this arrangement would not interfere with classes as usual, the campus took on “the appearance of a cantonment,” with uniformed guards at the main gate on the east side of campus. Students needed a pass to enter, and civilians were not allowed to be west of Old Main after 6:45 p.m. or to loiter after 8:30 p.m. Indeed, the U of A was essentially a “military enclave,” according to historian Kim Allen Scott, with Maj. George Martin, University Commandant, sharing administrative power with Futrall.

Meanwhile, the campus population exploded – in addition to the soldiers, summer school enrollment soared to 333, twice what it had been in any previous year.

In this crowded setting, soldiers taking general carpentry laid an acre of flooring, hung 550 windows and 70 doors, and made all the frames and screens plus tables and benches for a mess hall to seat 900 men.

A “small city” of frame barracks, a mess hall, bath house, a YMCA hut and other structures sprang up in the area now known as the Arboretum. Tall wireless aerial antennae, dismantled at the beginning of the war, were ordered rebuilt.

By the end of the month, the inspector of vocational training for drafted men, H.C. Givins, praised the enlisted men, saying, “They’ve gotten to work quicker and have made more rapid progress than any

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detachment I’ve visited,” according to the Campus News Service.

Following this praise, the United States asked the U of A to continue to train more men through July 1919.

In August, the second detachment of 300 men arrived, most of them from Oklahoma.

At the same time, Futrall was appointed to the American Defense Committee, and the U of A put its best and brightest minds to work on solving the problems of war. The Chemistry Department worked with the Food Administration testing samples of food thought to be tainted or poisoned. A course in War Aims was offered to “show the supreme importance to civilization of the cause for which the U.S. is fighting.”

And in “one of its most important acts of war service,” the U of A was the first in the nation to come forward with a definitive plan for re-educating soldiers coming back from the war.

By the fall of 1918, the U of A had trained 600 soldiers as wireless operators, truck drivers, mechanics, carpenters and cement workers.

Nine hundred and eighty U of A men were “with the colors,” and another 800 joined the Student Army Training Corps on campus.

With so many men away at war, adaptations had to be made. Two of the oldest literary societies, the Garland and Lee, merged due to lack of members. Because the war had depleted the staffs of so many Arkansas newspapers, the U of A began offering journalism correspondence courses. And for the first time, women were encouraged to “train themselves to take the place of men” and take courses in typewriting, shorthand, accounting, public speaking, journalism, wireless telegraphy and the technical sciences. Many women did just that.

Despite another record-breaking enrollment number, the U of A delayed the start of the fall semester from late September until Oct. 7 in order to align with the Student Army Training Corps’ pay calendar.

Yet an unforeseen enemy would delay classes even further, and demand even more sacrifice from the men and women at the U of A. “The State of Arkansas is at a Standstill” – The Spanish Flu Hits Campus In the fall of 1918, in trenches and cities across the globe, a new influenza virus appeared. It spread quickly through airborne droplets, and those infected would die within days or even hours. Unlike previous strains, this one had a devastatingly high mortality rate, and there was no known cure. What was dubbed the Spanish flu spread rapidly into a global pandemic.

Back at home, most Arkansans still lived on farms or small towns, so the disease didn’t spread as rapidly at first. Early cases of the Spanish flu were often dismissed by the press as “plain old La Grippe,” and the newly-formed State Board of Health downplayed its seriousness.

However, the military knew it had a serious epidemic on its hands.

Newly arriving student soldiers at the U of A were immediately sent into quarantine – and within two days, many were sent to the infirmary with the flu.

By Oct. 4, the University Infirmary was filled to capacity with sick soldiers and students. Three days later, after 1,800 cases of influenza had been reported across the state, the Arkansas Board of Health declared

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a statewide quarantine, ordering all movie houses closed, discouraging public meetings and advising parents to keep their children off streetcars. Classes at the U of A were canceled until further notice.

Yet the epidemic still spread: the U of A reported 235 cases of influenza by Oct. 9. Belle Blanchard, a Red Cross nurse, appealed to Fayettevillians to donate pillows and bedsheets for the overflowing University Infirmary. She also begged for 50 women, with or without training, to volunteer to help tend the sick. But even their best efforts couldn’t save everyone.

The first U of A student to die from the Spanish flu was Harry Lee Musgrove, originally from Missouri. He passed away Oct. 9 in the Crenshaw house near campus.

Between Oct. 9 and 23, a dozen men living on or near campus succumbed to the Spanish flu. Five other U of A men, and one woman, were victims of the disease while elsewhere. See In Memory of the Fallen for a complete list of flu victims.

Finally, on Oct. 26, the Campus News Service declared the Spanish flu epidemic was “completely checked” at the U of A, thanks to the “unflagging effort and personal sacrifices amounting to heroism on the part of the voluntary nurses, students and doctors.”

Fully a third of the world’s population had been infected with the deadliest pandemic in modern history, and in one year, it had taken more lives than all of World War I. Armistice and Afterwards

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Still reeling, no doubt, from the Spanish flu’s fallout, Arkansas and the nation as a whole was given the best news imaginable: on Nov. 11, the Allies and Germans signed the Armistice, ending all hostilities.

Though the War Department declared that the Student Army Training Corps would not stop because of the Armistice, the U of A demobilized it on Dec. 21. However, the ROTC was re-installed and military training of some form continued to be offered at the U of A. Reconstruction and post-war courses were offered for a second term, and an “After the War” lecture series by veterans was intended to “give adequate conception of the war and the problems of reconstruction.”

The U of A’s sacrifice had been great. Thirty men and one woman who attended the U of A gave their lives; 29 of them are memorialized in a plaque now located in the lobby of Vol Walker Hall.

But for the men and women returning home, most just wanted to return to their pre-war lives of classes and study. “Soldiers and sailors are returning to the U of A as fast as they are discharged,” according to the Campus News Service, which added, “a considerable number” of former cadets “will continue their studies, others will return to civilian life, and some will enter other branches of government.” The General Extension Division offered Arkansans recuperating from the war an opportunity to take correspondence courses in agriculture.

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In Memory of the Fallen

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Compiled by Lisa C. Childs A total of 30 men and one woman from the U of A sacrificed their lives during World War I. Twenty-nine of them are memorialized on the Roll of Honor plaque, which now resides in the lobby of Vol Walker Hall. They are: Otto Paul Benecke of Fairmont, Oklahoma, died from the Spanish flu at Camp Pike, Arkansas, Oct. 19, 1918.

Beverly Ann Bird of Waldron is the only woman listed on the Roll of Honor, and the last of the U of A’s former students and alumni to die during service. Ann had attended nursing school at the U of A until 1917.

She was teaching in the Waldron public schools when she answered the American Red Cross’ call for nurses to help with the influenza epidemic. She was at Camp Meade, Maryland, when she fell victim to the disease Feb. 5, 1919. She was buried with full military honors for her sacrifice.

William Boykin Boone of Lonoke was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, Xi chapter, and in the Student Army Training Corps. He died from complications of appendicitis at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, in 1918.

Ted B. Cobbs, a student in the Student Army Training Corps, died of influenza on campus Oct. 17, 1918. The American Legion Post in Wynne was named in his honor.

Luke Cooperrider enlisted in June 1917 and was a private in the 32nd Division, 125th Infantry Regiment.

He died July 31, 1918, in France, where he is interred.

Roscoe Elwin Cress of Prescott enlisted in the Student Army Training Corps in September 1918, and contracted the Spanish flu soon after arriving at the U of A. He passed away from influenza Oct. 21.

William Keith Dyer of Fort Smith also enlisted in September 1918, and contracted the Spanish flu soon after arriving at the U of A. He died Oct. 14, 1918.

1st Lt. Roy Jason Fish of Garnett died in an airplane accident in France Oct. 3, 1918. The American Legion post in Star City, Arkansas, is named for him.

James Kelley Gage registered for the draft at Horatio in September 1918 and came to the U of A to enter the Student Army Training Corps. He was stricken with the flu soon after arriving and passed away Oct. 18, 1918.

Clifford Spurgeon Garner of Saline County, a radio instructor for the Student Army Training Corps, died of Spanish flu in the U of A infirmary Oct. 18, 1918.

Sgt. Leonard C. Hamby of Prescott was a member of Sigma Nu, Gamma Upsilon Chapter.

He died in Chicago on Oct. 14, 1918, of influenza and pneumonia.

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Arthur Carl Jackson of Wagoner, Oklahoma, registered for the draft in June 1918, and died of influenza and pneumonia at Gray Hall on campus Oct. 23, 1918.

Herbert B. Martin (BA’11) of Warren was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha and graduated from the U of A with a degree in chemistry. He was killed in action in France Aug. 5, 1918. The American Legion post in Warren, Arkansas (now the Bradley County Veterans’ Museum), was named for him.

Lt. Ray Martin (BSA’18) was from Austin in Lonoke County. The circumstances of Ray’s death were confusing: his family had been told Ray was wounded in September 1918. It wasn’t until March 1919 that he was reported as dead. Then, the following month, the Fayetteville Democrat reported that he was in fact “alive and fully recovered.” However, two months later, his name appeared on a casualty list as having died from an accident. His memorial at the cemetery in France where he is interred gives the date of his death as Sept. 28, 1918.

Harry Musgrave of Nashville, Arkansas, was the first U of A boy to die from the influenza epidemic. He had registered for the draft in September, only to die Oct. 9, 1918.

Milton “Willis” Odell of Stuttgart had just graduated from Stuttgart High School that June before coming to the U of A and enlisting in the Student Army Training Corps. He died of influenza Oct. 11, 1918.

James “Bud Ladd” Rainwater of Fayetteville was killed in action in France Oct. 12, 1918, and he is buried at Evergreen Cemetery near the U of A campus.

Adolph “Henry” Robeoltmann of Noble County, Oklahoma, registered for the draft in June 1918, and succumbed to influenza at the University Infirmary Oct. 19, 1918.

Thomas C. Rogers of Prairie Grove was killed in an airplane collision while training at Memphis Feb. 12, 1918.

Archie Yell Sellers of Westville, Oklahoma, died at the base hospital in Camp Dix, New Jersey, Oct. 2, 1918, just 10 days before his unit was to ship out to Europe.

Martin Lynn Shelton of Fayetteville volunteered in October 1917. While in France, he was cited for bravery for leaving the trenches during heavy bombardment to recover the bodies of three fallen comrades. He died May 28, 1918. Fayetteville’s American Legion post was named after him.

Robert Earle Shipley B.C.E.’11 of Booneville was a member of Phi Kappa Alpha and 1st sergeant in Company B in the campus military unit. He was at First Engineers’ Training School in Virginia when he died of influenza Oct. 11, 1918.

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John “Joseph” D. Watts, who was from Rison and attended the university as late as 1907, died of illness at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, Feb. 21, 1918.

Leonard T. White of Malvern registered for the draft Sept. 10, 1018, and died of influenza in the university barracks exactly one month later.

Two more men are on the university’s 1919 Gold Star List, but not on the Roll of Honor plaque: William Y. Ellis B.E.E.’02 at age 36 was the oldest U of A alumnus to die in World War I. He died in Camp A.A. Humphreys, Virginia, of influenza Nov. 21, 1918 – 10 days after hostilities ceased.

Donald D. Wilson B.A.’16 of Fayetteville died of malarial leptomeningitis in the Hot Springs army hospital Dec. 13, 1916 – four months before the U.S. entered the war.

Editor’s Note: In-depth biographies of each of these alumni will appear in the fall edition of Flashback, the journal of the Washington County Historical Society.

photo by Russell Cothren

Claude Sims of Brinkley died of disease in France Sept. 25, 1918. He was a private in the 78th Field Artillery. He is buried in France.

John Michael Toomey, 18, was the youngest of the U of A boys to die. He was from Rogers and enlisted in September 1918 while a student, then died of influenza and pneumonia Oct. 11, 1918.

Lt. Edwin Clair Tovey B.C.E.’11 of Pine Bluff was listed as assistant artist for the 1910 yearbook as well as the secretary and first bass of the Glee Club. He was in the U of A’s Company E in 1909 and a corporal in Company D in 1910. He volunteered in June 1917 and died overseas Oct. 17, 1918.

William Victor Walther registered for the draft in Stigler, Oklahoma, along with two brothers. He died in Fayetteville Oct. 13, 1918, of influenza and pneumonia.

Fay Powell Washington M.D.’17 of Clarendon died in France Dec. 11, 1918 – a month after hostilities had ceased.

The Weight of Sacrifice In 2015, when a national commission launched an international search for someone to design a U.S. World War I memorial in Washington, D.C., U of A architecture alumnus Joseph Weishaar, BARCH ’13 answered the call. His design, “The Weight of Sacrifice,” created with the help of New York sculptor Sabin Howard, stood out among the 350 other submissions.

Weishaar’s design combines modern landscape design with neoclassical memorial elements. It comprises a raised central lawn supported on three sides by walls. The walls feature bas-relief sculptures of scenes from the war, punctuated by quotations from

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war leaders, politicians and soldiers.

The project is currently winding its way through the various commissions and committees involved in approving such a bold project, which would dramatically alter Pershing Park, itself a historic site barely a block from the White House.

Weishaar has said he “feels good” about the progress of the project, and that none of these obstacles are insurmountable. As a result of feedback from these committee members and citizens, the design has evolved over the last several months.

The Weight of Sacrifice is scheduled to be opened November 2018, to commemorate the centennial of the Great War.

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On the Road Again

Chancellor and New Faculty Visit Towns Across North Arkansas

By Hardin Young M.F.A.’04

For the second year in a row, University of Arkansas Chancellor Joe Steinmetz and his wife, Sandy, took to the road to see Arkansas following spring commencement. This time, they were joined by 40 faculty members, the majority of whom were new to the university.

Also joining the party was Jim Coleman, the new provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs who just completed his first semester at the university.

“Arkansas is a very complex and rich state. This bus tour awakened an understanding of that for me,” Coleman said. “It is so important for our faculty to recognize where our students come from, what life is like in their communities and how they perceive the university.”

Trip organizer Ro Di Brezzo, vice provost for faculty development and enhancement, explained the emphasis on new faculty: “Many of our new faculty have never been to Arkansas and come from very different environments. Experiencing the state is critical so they can better understand, teach and mentor our students.”

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Last year’s tour took the university’s leadership team on a five-day, 1,000-mile trip across southern and western Arkansas, from Fort Smith to El Dorado, West Helena to Newport, and many places in between.

This year’s version concentrated on northern Arkansas, which included stops at Harrison High School, the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, the Johnny Cash home in Dyess, and a lunch and tour of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

At Harrison High School, U of A faculty engaged in discussions with Harrison teachers and counselors about college accessibility and the financial and academic challenges in helping pave a path for students to transition to college. Improving access to higher education and advancing student success are two of Steinmetz’s priorities for the U of A. The Ozark Folk Center provided a glimpse into the unique music and culture of the Ozarks, and a deeper understanding of life in the hills the U of A calls home.

At ASU, the discussion focused on trends in higher education and collaboration. The universities are already working together on a few projects, including a dual degree program involving poultry and animal sciences signed earlier this year. The timing was also fortuitous: the day the group visited was also the same day ASU announced its new chancellor, Dr. Kelly Damphousse. Chancellor Steinmetz was able to visit with Damphousse and welcome him to the state.

Additional stops were made in Wilson, Forrest City, Little Rock and Fort Smith. Altogether, the three-day tour covered 800 miles and 24 counties. With so many stops and a party of nearly 50 participants, it was important to keep on schedule. So Di Brezzo devised a simple rule: last one on the bus had to speak at the next stop. Her second rule?

Participants had to sit next to a new person after each stop.

Rob Wells, an assistant professor of journalism who just completed his first year at the university after moving to Arkansas from Maryland, said of the experience, “This was an incredible opportunity to visit with local leaders and educators about the state’s history and what makes it tick. As a reporter, you pick up so much by visiting these communities, seeing the landscape, the types of businesses and the rest.”

The trip wasn’t just a chance for faculty to see the state. It was also a chance for them to get to know each other. Raj Rao, both new to the university and the department chair of biomedical engineering, remarked: “It was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.

I learned a lot about the state and the university through numerous conversations with my fellow travelers. Clearly, numerous opportunities exist to make this a truly innovative, collaborative campus!”

Wells agreed: “I also met a lot of people from various departments around campus, especially in the sciences, and it was very interesting to have extended conversations about their research and activities. ... I told my colleagues back in Maryland and South Carolina about this trip, and they were pretty envious about the opportunity.”

Coleman concluded: “What I discovered in talking to faculty after the bus tour is how meaningful it was for them to see some of the places where students come from and how important we are for those communities in transforming the lives of these students.”

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Opposite: Chancellor Joe Steinmetz, Sandy Steinmetz and Provost Jim Coleman are joined on the bus trip by faculty who met with alumni, prospective students, high school teachers and counselors, and civic leaders from across northern Arkansas. They also took time to see some of Arkansas’ cultural heritage, including the boyhood of Johnny Cash, above.

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Rare Editions

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Mississippi River Valley collection chronicles European and Native American influences

By Kelsey Lovewell B.A.’11, B.A.’13, J.D.’14

photo UA Special Collections

University Libraries’ Special Collections department has acquired a variety of rare book holdings since its inception in 1967, thanks in no small part to donations from friends and alumni of the University of Arkansas. One of its most impressive and expansive rare book holdings features the exploration of the Mississippi River Valley.

“Our state was a key player in westward expansion, and we are proud to have curated such an extensive collection of rare books documenting these early explorations,” said Carolyn Henderson Allen, dean of University Libraries.

Following a generous transfer of funds from Chancellor Dave Gearhart in 2014, Special Collections was able to purchase 67 rare books, such as the Description de la Louisiane and the La Florida del Ynca described below.

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The addition of highly significant early editions through donations and strategic purchasing has enabled Special Collections to reflect the connection between Arkansas and the region in the modern United States. In these holdings, nearly five centuries of European exploration since De Soto first reached North America’s great river are documented, as are the colonial and Native American influences that shaped the state.

Many of these rare books are so significant that they are digitized and freely accessible on the Internet. Why then does Special Collections collect acquire physical copies? Joshua Youngblood, research and outreach services librarian in Special Collections, explains: “Significant early texts such as the Hennepin description exemplify the unique research opportunities available at the University of Arkansas. For instance, Special Collections has worked with faculty and student researchers translating historical texts from the original French to study Arkansas’ colonial period.”

There is another unique research opportunity in the study of individual rare books, Youngblood adds. “Many rare books have unique characteristics as well, such as marginalia from previous researchers or provenance notes and bookplates, that enhance their rarity and potential for study. The 1807 Pike was donated by Mary Hudgins, an Arkansas alumna and noteworthy collector, librarian and historian. Her bookplate and other markings from earlier owners provide a unique context to interpret that particular volume of an otherwise already important book documenting 19th century exploration.”

Lori Birrell, head of Special Collections, concludes: “Highlighting collections such as this one offers the university community and the public an opportunity to see a glimpse into the remarkable holdings our department offers for researchers. It’s our privilege to steward these collections, and we value the generosity of supporters, which enables us to further develop our Arkansas history as a core collection strength.”

All books are available for viewing in the Special Collections department, located on the first floor of Mullins Library.

Rare Books Collection Highlights Louis Hennepin. Description de la Louisiane,: nouvellement decouverte au sud’ oüest de la Nouvelle France, par ordre du roy: avec la carte du pays, les moeurs & la maniere de vivre des sauvages. Paris: Chez la veuve Sebastien Huré, rue Saint Jacques, à l’image S. Jerome, prés S. Severin, 1683.

This is a complete first edition of the early description of French holdings in America written by a priest, missionary and explorer credited as the first European to describe the Niagara Falls and the first to see St. Anthony Falls, the only major waterfall on the upper Mississippi River. The Libraries’ beautiful copy includes all of the original maps.

Vega, Garcilaso de la. La Florida del Ynca. Historia del adelantado Hernando de Soto, governador y capitan general del reyno de la Florida, y de otros heroicos cavalleros Españoles è Indios. Ex Lisbona: Impresso por Pedro Crasbeeck, 1605.

Rebound in the gilded leather, the Libraries’ 2 millionth volume includes the nearly pristine, all-original text of the first published

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Leatherbound reports from early explorers of Arkansas and the Louisiana Territory are among the rare books added to the university’s Special Collections holdings and now available to researchers.

account of Hernando De Soto’s first European encounter with Arkansas.

Irving, Washington. Miscellanies No. I: A Tour on the Prairies.

London: J. Murray, 1835.

This book provides an account of an expedition in October and November of 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now known as the state of Oklahoma. It is a fine example of the highlysought first edition of the iconic eighteenth century American writer.

Lewis, Meriwether, William Clark, Paul Allen, and Thomas Jefferson. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. By Order of the Government of the United States. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep, 1817.

The second complete edition of Lewis and Clark includes all of the engraved maps, as well as one of the “Missouri Cascades” not included in the 1814 edition.

Pike, Zebulon. An account of expeditions to the sources of the Mississippi: and through the western parts of Louisiana, to the sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, rivers; performed by order of the government of the United States during the years 1805, 1806, and

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1807. And a tour through the interior parts of New Spain, when conducted through these provinces, by order of the captain-general, in the year 1807.

Philadelphia: Published by C. & A. Conrad, 1810.

This scarce volume lacks the original maps and shows heavy wear, but it is still a remarkable first edition to have in the collection.

Humboldt, Alexander von, and John Black. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. New York: I. Riley, 1811.

This first American edition, acquired by the Libraries before 1900, still shows an Arkansas Industrial University book plate on the inside cover. The book provided a highly influential description of the geography and culture of what would later be divided between the nations of Texas and Mexico. After its initial publication by the renowned scientist and explorer, scholar Laura Dassow has stated that, “For forty years it guided a succession of exploring expeditions into what would become the American Southwest.”

Stoddard, Amos. Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of Louisiana.

Philadelphia: Published by Mathew Carey, 1812.

This first edition was gifted to the Libraries by George Donaghey, then-governor of Arkansas. The bookplate marking it as such states: “Builder, Friend of Education.” n

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President’s Message I first met Coach Broyles in 2002, and we remained friendly for many years after. I would like to share one story in his memory.

Coach, members of his family, and I had dinner in 2005. Over conversation, I mentioned two of my buddies from Chicago, Steve and Tony, were coming to Fayetteville for a weekend of golf and Razorback football. He replied, “Well, Don, bring ‘em by the North End Zone after golf.” I thanked him, but thought that was just “dinner talk.”

My friends and I were playing golf Friday morning when my phone rang. The guys deservedly gave me “the look” for the disruption, but it was Coach, “Don, what time are you fellows coming by?” “Well, gosh, Coach, thank you, I wasn’t sure you’d have time for us … is 3:30 okay?”

“That’ll be great. I’ll see you then.”

Later that day, we arrived at the Broyles Center and met Coach’s assistant. Unfortunately, he had forgotten about our meeting, forgotten to tell her, and had gone home for the day. We were disappointed and prepared to leave, but she called him, and he came back!

Coach Broyles spent the next hour giving us a tour of the North End Zone, telling stories, and just being the gracious gentleman he was. My friends came out of the Athletic Complex wide-eyed. I always enjoyed listening to Coach’s stories, but how many things are better than impressing your buddies? It was a memory of a lifetime. One of several Coach afforded me …

Coach Broyles was that kind of man. He had a knack for making you feel good … even as he had his hand on your wallet. I expect there are hundreds, if not thousands, of stories like mine. I am grateful for his many contributions to Razorback athletics, the University and the state.

I am most grateful for the opportunity to have known him.

Coach spent a portion of his later years championing on behalf of Alzheimer’s caregivers, after his first wife, Barbara, had succumbed to the disease in 2004. It was a sad day when Coach and I met at a 2011 Sugar Bowl reception, and I realized he did not remember me.

For anyone who loves the Razorbacks, Coach Broyles was “family.”

On behalf of the Arkansas Alumni Association, I offer condolences to his wife, Gen, and the entire Broyles family. We share in your loss.

Coach, I expect the azaleas are always blooming and every hole is Amen Corner.

Wooo Pig, Don Eldred ✪+ BSBA’81 President, Arkansas Alumni Association

Past Presidents of the Arkansas Alumni Association Board of Directors 1923-24 Joseph Kirby Mahone ✪ BA’07 1924-25 Robert Hill Carruth BA’11 1925-26 James E. Rutherford ✪ BA’22 1926-27 Winston Lee Winters BSCE’06 1927-28 J.L. Longino BSEE’03 1928-29 Alfred Boyde Cypert BA’12 1929-30 James William Trimble BA’17 1930-31 G. DeMatt Henderson BA’01 LLB’03 1931-32 Dr. Jasper Neighbors MD’18 1932-33 Scott D. Hamilton BA’24 1933-34 Charles A. Walls BA’07 1934-35 Arthur D. Pope BA’06 1935-36 John C. Ashley BA’11 1936-37 Beloit Taylor BA’19 1937-38 John P. Woods ✪ BA’09 1938-39 Glen Rose ★ BSE’28 MS’31 1939-40 Claude J. Byrd ★ BSA’25 1940-41 Charles Frierson Jr. ’29 1941-42 John B. Daniels BSA’33 1942-44 G. DeMatt Henderson BA’01 LLB’03 1944-45 Dr. M. L. Dalton MD’32

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1945-46 Jack East ✪ BSE’24 1946-47 Steve Creekmore ★ BSBA’11 1947-48 Maupin Cummings ✪ BA’32 1948-49 Roy Milum BA’04, LLD’58 1949-50 Paul Sullins ✪ JD’37 1950-51 Francis Cherry LLB’38 1951-52 J.C. Gibson BA’24 MS’38 1952-53 George Makris ✪ BSBA’37 1953-54 Edward B. Dillon Jr. ★LLB’50 1954-55 Beloit Taylor BA’19 1955-56 Louis L. Ramsay Jr. LLB’47 LLD’88 1956-57 Stanley Wood ✪ BA’23 1957-58 A.L. Whitten MS’40 1958-59 W.R. “Dub”Harrison BA’20 1959-60 E.M. “Mack”Anderson✪+ BA’32 1960-61 Warren Wood ✪ LLB’32 1961-62 Owen Calhoun Pearce BSBA’41 LLB’41 1962-63 James C. Hale BA’33 1963-64 Jack East Jr. BSBA’48 1964-65 J. Fred Patton ✪+ BA’29 MA’36 1965-66 P.K. Holmes Jr. ✪ BA’37 LLB’39

1987-88 Rebecca Shreve ✪+ BSE’60 MED’63 1966-67 William H. Bowen ★ LLB’49 1988-89 Robert T. Dawson ✪+ BA’60 LLB’65 1967-68 Guy H. Lackey ✪+ BSBA’49 1989-90 G regory B. Graham ✪+ BSBA’70 JD’72 1968-69 R obert P. Taylor ✪+ BSBA’47 MS48 1990-91 Blake Schultz ✪+ BA’51 1969-70 John Ed Chambers BA’39 LLB’40 1991-92 Chuck Dudley ✪+ BSBA’76 MBA’77 1970-71 Chester H. Lauck ’25 1992-93 Harriet Hudson Phillips ✪+ BA’72 1971-72 Nathan Gordon ✪+ JD’39 1993-94 R ichard Hatfield ✪+ BSBA’65 LLB’67 1972-73 Charles E. Scharlau ✪+ LLB’58 1994-95 Jenny Mitchell Adair ✪+ BA’62 1973-74 Carl L. Johnson ★ BSBA’47 1995-96 Jack McNulty ✪+ BSBA’67 JD’70 1974-75 R. Cecil Powers ✪ BSBA’30 1975-76 J.C. Reeves ✪ ’25 1996-97 Sylvia Boyer ✪+ BSE’63 1976-77 Elizabeth (Sissi) Riggs Brandon ✪+ BSE’55 1997-98 Morris Fair ★ BSBA’56 1977-78 Roy Murphy ✪+ BSIM’49 1998-00 H. Lawson Hembree IV ✪+ BSA’83 1978-79 Fred Livingston ✪ BSBA’55 2000-02 Jeffery R. Johnson ✪+ BA’70 1979-80 Tracy Scott ✪ BSE’53 2002-04 E dward Bradford ✪+ BSE’55 MED’56 1980-81 Edward W. Stevenson ✪+ BSBA’60 2004-06 Brian M. Rosenthal ✪+ BSBA’84 1981-82 Fred Livingston ✪ BSBA’55 2006-08 Kenny Gibbs ✪+ BSBA’85 1982-83 Don Schnipper ✪+ BA’63 JD’64 2008-10 Gerald Jordan ✪+ BA’70 1983-84 Mary Trimble Maier ✪+ BA’49 2010-12 Steve Nipper ✪+ BSBA’71 MBA’73 1984-85 Bart Lindsey ✪+ BSBA’67 2012-14 John Reap ✪+ BSBA’70 1985-86 W. Kelvin Wyrick ✪+ BSE’59 2014-16 Stephanie S. Streett ✪ BS’91 1986-87 Larry G. Stephens ✪+ BSIE’58

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Black Alumni Society Celebrates Biennial Scholarship Reunion The Black Alumni Society’s biennial reunion was held April 24-30, 2017. The reunion and administration’s theme, “Lean In, Reach Out and Move Forward,” “symbolizes the importance of membership, students, scholarships and the legacy of BAS,” said LaTonya Foster, BAS 2015-2017 president. Chancellor Joe Steinmetz gave the University of Arkansas Welcome for the reunion.

The reunion was filled with fun, educational engagement and a week of recognition. One highlight was a campus-wide cookout for all students on the Union Mall. Black Alumni Society, University of Arkansas Career Development Center and Walton College celebrated students with a professional development event, “Dress How You Want to Be Addressed,” hosted by alumna Helena Gadison, vice president of Sales/Merchandising for International Intimates, Inc., and Tony Waller, senior director for Corporate Affairs Constituent Relations at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The co-chairs for the reunion were Lindsey Leverett-Higgins and Shun Strickland. Dr. Synetra Hughes was the entertainment chair, and Linda Bedford-Jackson and John L Colbert coordinated the alumni professional development activities. Dr. Erica Holliday and Ella Lambey were in charge of the reunion registration. The Scholarship Endowed Golf Tournament was hosted by the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Alumni with Gus Farver, Oliver Sims and Mike Harris as co-chairs.

Student Alumni Professional Development co-chairs were Dr. Angela Seawood Williams, Keith Britton, Victor Wilson and Earnest Duckery.

The quintessence of the reunion was the BAS Awards Gala. The gala recognizes alumni, donors and faculty. This year’s award recipients and donors contributing to the diversity of the U of A were:

Standing left to right, Willyerd Collier, Bjorn “BK” Simmons, Eddie Lee Collins, Randy Coleman, D’Andre Jones. Seated left to right, Dr. Marta Collier, Angela Wilson, JerVal Watson, Dr. Barbara Lofton, Sharon Wilson.

Not pictured: Dr. Merlin Augustine and Jerry Eckwood.

•D r. Merlin Augustine, Ed.D.’82, U of A assistant vice chancellor (retired) – Dr. Lonnie R. Williams Lifetime Achievement Award • Willyerd Collier, attorney and former assistant vice provost for academic affairs and director of affirmative action at the U of A,

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and Dr. Marta Collier, and former associate professor at the U of A - Wyatt Weems Memorial Award • Eddie Lee Collins, B.S.I.E.’82, CEO of Journeyman Advancement, LLC – Citation of Distinguished Alumni • Jerry Eckwood, B.A.’88, M.Ed.’94, National Football League (retired) and Arkansas Razorback Letterman – Citation of Distinguished Alumni • D’Andre Jones, B.S.E.’09, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. –

Community Service Award

• Dr. Barbara Lofton, director of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the U of A Sam M. Walton College of Business – Honorary Alumni Award • Bjorn “B.K.” Simmons, B.S.B.A.’13, Wyzerr and The MEANT Group – Young Alumni Award • Angela Wilson, B.A.’99, M.A.’03, J.D.’07, Trademark Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline – Citation of Distinguished Alumni • Sharon Wilson, B.S.B.A.’90, business owner and CPA – Community Service Award Net proceeds from the reunion and online scholarship giving benefits the BAS Challenge Scholarship. Special thanks to the following donors for contributing over $25,000 to the U of A, BAS Endowed Scholarship or private scholarship funds: Gene E. McKissic, Corine Ackerson-Jones and Dr. Bobby Jones, Gerald and Elizabeth Jordan, Vivian and T.A. Walton, Carolyn and Ronnie Brewer, Sr., Drs. Jazmin M. and Chris Walton, Torii and Katrina Hunter, Drs. Gordon and Izola Morgan, Ronnie Brewer, Jr., Randall Ferguson, Gerald and Dr. Candace P. Alley, Dean Emeritus Cynthia Nance, Anthony and Lisa Bryant, Dr. Charles and Reynelda Robinson, and Dr. Mary Lowe Good.

The reunion sponsors included: presenting sponsor, Arkansas Alumni Association; Move Forward sponsors, Ritche Manley Bowden and U of A Office of the Chancellor; Learn In sponsor, Bank of America; Gala Table and Golf Team sponsor, Downstream Casino and Resort, Nationwide; Gala Table Sponsor Plus, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Tyson Foods, Inc.; Gala Table sponsors, GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”), Graduate School and International Education, Honors College, Ronnie Brewer Foundation, U of A School of Law, Division of Student Affairs, U of A police Department, Razorback Foundation, Inc., Sam M. Walton College of Business; Golf Sponsorship Plus Boar’s Head Brand; Students and Alumni Professional Development Sponsors U of A Career Development Center, Sam M. Walton College Office of Diversity & Inclusion; Special Recognition, U of A Office of Diversity & Inclusion, St. James Missionary Baptist Church, Tea Rose Foundation of NWA and Phi Alpha Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., U of A Global Campus; Golf Hole sponsor, Mad Duck/Earnest Duckery; Gift in kind, Dillard’s Department Store and Walker Brothers.

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Corine and LaTonya

Pictured left to right standing, Gene E. McKissic, Dr. Bobby Jones, Gerald Jordan, T.A. Walton, Ronnie Brewer, Sr., Dr. Chris Walton Seated left to right, Corine Ackerson-Jones, Elizabeth Jordan, Vivian Walton, Carolyn Brewer, Dr. Jazmin M. Walton Not Pictured: Torii and Katrina Hunter, Drs. Gordon and Izola Morgan, Ronnie Brewer, Jr., Randall Ferguson, Gerald and Dr. Candace P. Alley, Cynthia Nance, Dean Emeritus, Anthony and Lisa Bryant, Dr. Charles and Reynelda Robinson, and Dr. Mary Lowe Good Black Alumni Society Graduating Scholars and 2017-19 President-Elect Ritche Manley Bowden presenting roses to LaTonya Foster.

Special thanks to the BAS Board for your continued service.

Seated left to right, Dr. Synetra Hughes, LaTonya Foster, 2015-17 president, Corine Ackerson-Jones, 2017-19 president, Ritche Manley Bowden, Ella Lambey, Carolyn Brewer

BAS Board Member Dr. Lonnie R. Williams, Emeritus; Randy Coleman; LaTonya Foster

Don Eldred, Arkansas Alumni Association president; Angela Wilson; LaTonya Foster, BAS Reunion President

Don Eldred, Arkansas Alumni Association president; Eddie Lee Collins; LaTonya Foster, BAS Reunion President

Brandy Cox, Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director, Arkansas Alumni Association

Lindsey Leverett-Higgins and Shun Strickland, 2017 BAS Reunion Co-Chairs

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Standing left to right, Gus Farver, Angela Wilson, Dr. Bobby Jones, Lindsey Leverett-Higgins, Victor Wilson, Shun Strickland, Oliver Sims, Linda Bedford-Jackson, Dr. Marco Barker, Dr. John L Colbert, Shey Anderson, T.A. Walton, Dr. Erica Holliday, Randy Coleman

Chancellor Joe Steinmetz

Board Members Not Pictured: Gerrita Blakely, Keith Britton, Parice Bowser, Herbert Loudermilk, Carl “CJ” Mathis, Representative Reggie Murdock, Willie Mae Murdock, Terry Rolfe, Dr. Christa Washington, Dr. Danielle Williams

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Arkansas Alumni Association Announces 2017 Alumni Award Honorees The Arkansas Alumni Association will host its 73rd annual Alumni Awards Celebration at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at the Fayetteville Town Center.

This year’s awards celebration honors the accomplishments of 12 alumni, faculty and friends. Tickets are $100 per person, and $25 of each ticket will go directly to support the Arkansas Alumni Association Scholarship Program.

Registration is available online at www.arkansasalumni. org/2017AlumniAwards. RSVP by Oct. 20. Tables and sponsorships are available. For more information on sponsorships, contact Deb Euculano at alumniawards@arkansasalumni.org or call (479) 575-2292.

The awards and honorees are:

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Citation of Distinguished Alumni, which recognizes exceptional professional and personal achievement and extraordinary distinction in a chosen field:

Citation of Distinguished Alumni, which recognizes exceptional professional and personal achievement and extraordinary distinction in a chosen field:

Sharon E. Bernard ★ B.S.L.’69, J.D.’69, attorney (retired)

Mark Waldrip ✪ B.S.A.’77, partner of Armor Seed, LLC and founder and chairman of Armor Bank

itation of Distinguished Alumni, C which recognizes exceptional professional and personal achievement and extraordinary distinction in a chosen field:

Andrew J. Lucas Service Award, which acknowledges significant contribution of time and energy on behalf of the University and the Alumni Association:

General Terrence R. Dake ★ B.A.’66, U.S. Marine Corps (retired)

John L Colbert ✪ B.S.E.’76, M.Ed.’81, Ed.D.’17, associate superintendent for support services with Fayetteville Public Schools

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Community Service Award, which recognizes unselfish and extensive service by alumni to their community and to humankind: Jawanda Mast ★ B.S.H.E.’84, M.S.’89, disability advocate

Young Alumni Award, which recognizes exceptional achievements in career, public service and/or volunteer activities that bring honor to the University of Arkansas:

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Research Ranil Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., professor, Ross E. Martin Endowed Chair in Emerging Technologies for the Department of Chemical Engineering and site director for Membrane Science, Engineering & Technology Center in the College of Engineering

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Rising Teaching Award

heresa Fette, B.S.B.A.’99, M.Acc.’00, T J.D.’03, CEO and co-founder of Provident Trust Group

ate Shoulders, Ph.D., assistant professor K for the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Honorary Alumni Award, which honors non-alumni who have served, promoted, developed and loved the University of Arkansas in the tradition of an Arkansas graduate:

Charles and Nadine Baum Faculty Teaching Award, which recognizes outstanding teaching and is designated for a faculty member whose status is Full, University or Distinguished Professor:

Denise Garner ✪ founder/president of Feed Communities and publisher of Edible Ozarkansas, and Dr. Hershey Garner, radiation oncologist for Highlands Oncology Group

John A. White ✪ Ph.D., distinguished professor for Industrial Engineering in the College of Engineering and Chancellor Emeritus

Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Service iffany R. Murphy, J.D., associate T professor of law and director of Criminal Defense Clinic for the University of Arkansas School of Law

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Progress to Connect and Serve The mission of the Arkansas Alumni Association is to connect and serve the University of Arkansas family. With continuing improvements to the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House and the alumni association property, we are engaging more than 900 alumni and friends on game days. The recent improvements also support a better environment overall for guests at the alumni house with increased parking as the association hosts more than 80 events with 10,000 attendees annually.

More improvements are coming! We are looking to raise another $1 million for construction projects to enrich and expand the engagement experience for University of Arkansas alumni and friends.

And all of this is made possible by you: our alumni, members, friends and leaders who have paved the way for the future.

In 1978, the alumni association celebrated its 100th anniversary, and that same year, the association’s board of directors approved a resolution to begin studying the feasibility of building a new alumni house. The University of Arkansas Board of Trustees approved the building and the new site of the alumni house — on the corner of Maple Street and Razorback Road, which we have been honored to occupy since 1982.

In the early 1990s, we ushered in a new era of program development for the Arkansas Alumni Association. Programs such as Alumni Scholarships and the Student Alumni Board were established, and the alumni house expanded and rededicated the facility in 1999 as the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. Our scholarship program is now awarding more than $1 million dollars to over 400 students every year. Earlier this year our Student Alumni Association membership topped 4,500 members making it one of the largest registered student organizations on campus

In 2011, the leadership of the association was offered another opportunity to support our mission and outreach by acquiring the property directly south of the alumni house. Since that time, leaders have evaluated the space and reviewed multiple options for property enhancement to this new property as well as other areas surrounding the Janelle Y. Hembree Alumni House. The Alumni Association’s National Board of Directors made a commitment this past spring to fund the improvement project, which upon completion on Sept. 8, 2017 now provides the following: • Increased Parking – Parking spaces for use throughout the year increased from 18 to 48. Game day parking increased from 18 to 25, providing seven additional spaces.

• Enhanced Tailgating Experience – The area was resurfaced and electricity made available throughout the lot.

• Alumni, Student and Campus Engagement – The alumni house hosts events for students, alumni and campus engagement. The accessibility and use of this lot will support these events as well as providing new opportunities.

The Arkansas Alumni Association has been built by the strength of great alumni, leaders, and visionaries. Women and men who have led the association, the university, and our alumni through changing times and growing opportunities. Thank you to all who have led and continue to lead the association in being on the cusp of new opportunities and investing in the future of the organization.

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For more information, please contact Brandy Cox or Debbie Blume at 479.575.6476.

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Arkansas Alumni Association Announces New Board Members The Arkansas Alumni Association is proud to announce the newest members of the National Board of Directors who are a part of the Class of 2020. These alumni have agreed to serve a three-year term, which began on July 1, 2017.

Four board members – John Berrey, LaTonya Foster, Steven Hinds and Jordan Patterson Johnson – were selected to serve a second threeyear term.

Teena Gunter of Oklahoma City has been selected as the president-elect for the National Board of Directors. Gunter is the general counsel for the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry and has been with the department for 20 years. She also serves as the director for the Agricultural Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program for the agency and the director of the Commercial Pet Breeders and Animal Shelter Licensing Program.

New Class of 2020 Board Members Tori Bogner of Fayetteville is the director of business development at Baldwin & Shell Construction. She is an Arkansas native and earned a bachelor’s degree in communication and a master’s degree in higher education from the University of Arkansas. She is a former staff member of the University of Arkansas, and she founded and served as the inaugural president of the Associated Student Government Alumni Society. She is an annual member of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Cecilia Grossberger-Medina of Fayetteville is the assistant director of marketing & communications for New Student & Family Programs at the University of Arkansas. She is a native of Cochabamba, Bolivia, and has lived in Fayetteville since 1999. She earned a master’s degree in communication from the University of Arkansas.

Grossberger-Medina is one of the founders of the Latino Alumni Society and is currently the president of the society. She is a member of the Staff Senate and an annual member of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Regina Hopper of Alexandria, Virginia, is senior vice president of global public policy for Knoxville, Tennessee-based Gridsmart Technologies. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science and a juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas. She is the former president and CEO of Intelligent Transportation Society of America and a former

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Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent. She is the chair of the Miss America Foundation Board of Trustees and first vice-chair of the Miss America Board of Directors, and she was Miss Arkansas 1983. She was the 2011 Arkansas Alumni Association Johnson Fellow. She is an annual member of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Donald E. Walker of Fayetteville is a regional executive with Arvest Bank Group in Fayetteville.

He was previously president and CEO of Arvest Bank, Tulsa. He has a bachelor’s degree in poultry science from the University of Arkansas. He began his career with Arvest as a loan officer in February 1978. He has served as a board member of the Tulsa Area Chapter of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

He is a member of the Campaign Arkansas Alumni Association Unit Committee. He is an A+ Life Member of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

Victor Wilson of Arlington, Texas, is president of Concealment Solutions International LLC. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Arkansas. Wilson is a member of the Campaign Arkansas Steering Committee, Campaign Arkansas Alumni Association Unit Committee, the Diversity Campaign Committee and the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Selection Committee. He has also served as a board member for the Black Alumni Society. He is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. He is a Life Member of the Arkansas Alumni Association.

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–1– Mark Power, vice chancellor for advancement, and Oklahoma City Chapter President Steve Berner were two attendees of the Oklahoma City Chapter PIGnic on July 9, 2017.

–2– White River Razorback Club presented $5,000 to Independence County Chapter on May 16, 2017, to support chapter scholarship and programming. Pictured from left are Thomas Ellis; Lisy McKinnon; Chancellor Joe Steinmetz; Kirstin Rouse, 2016 scholarship recipient from Independence County; Independence County Chapter President Susan Mace; Phil Brissey, president of White River Razorback Club and Independence County Chapter board member; Mark Power, vice chancellor for advancement; and Stacy Gunderman, Independence County Chapter board member.

–3– The Las Vegas Chapter and the Arkansas Alumni Societies hosted a meet and greet on July 10, 2017, at the Coaches Room at the PKWY Tavern in Las Vegas. Pat Turner, president, and Angela Mosley Monts of the Arkansas Alumni Association gave updates on the University of Arkansas and upcoming Chapter events. Additional attendees at the event were Jack Wallis, Cherie and Lynn Grotewold, Mike Murray, Harold Loyd, Marianne Darian and Jacquie Turner.

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–1– The University of Arkansas Wind Ensemble, our top concert band, toured central Arkansas during the spring semester. The ensemble played at Conway, Beebe and White Hall high schools and ended the tour at the newly renovated Robinson Auditorium. Total attendance of the tour was over 1,200. The Razorback Band Alumni Society held a reception for the Wind Ensemble in honor of the seniors performing.

–2– Dean Stacy Leeds, University of Arkansas School of Law and the Law Alumni Society hosted a luncheon at the annual Bar Association meeting on June 15, 2017. The keynote speaker for the event was Arkansas Bar Foundation Professor Laurent Sacharoff.

–3– The Latino Alumni Society hosted Meritos Latinos on Friday, May 12, 2017, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fayetteville. Meritos Latinos is the society’s largest scholarship fundraiser. The event provides annual scholarship support for five students and recognizes faculty, staff, community individuals and organizations. Net proceeds from Meritos Latinos provide scholarships and assist with increasing diversity at the U of A. The society recognized the following award recipients: Excelencia Latin Awards Latino Academics Excellence Award: Fernando Valencia, lecturer, percussion, Department of Music, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Science Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Luis Fernando Restrepo, director, Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies, University of Arkansas Professor, World Languages, Literature and Cultures Department Excellence in Advancing Latinos: Individual: Mireya Reith, chair, Arkansas State Board of Education and executive director of Arkansas United Community Coalition Excellence in Advancing Latinos: Organization: The Northwest Arkansas Workers Justice Center Student Awards “Ayla” Inspirational Award Nezly Emiret Silva, Social Work and Latino/Latin American Studies, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences “Pay Pay” Innovation Award Paola Aidé Cortés, Apparel Merchandise Product Development, Dale Bumpers College of Agriculture, Food and Life Sciences Campus Impact Award Fernanda Suárez Claure, International Business Management, Sam M. Walton College of Business Rising Star Award Kimberly Santillán, Biology, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences

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The 11 sororities that are members of the Panhellenic Council recruited 1,469 new chapter members during the fall recruitment period in August. It was the largest recruitment session in the university’s history.

The chapters at Arkansas are among the largest in the nation, according to the National Panhellenic Conference, which also recognized the University of Arkansas Panhellenic Council as one of 20 top college Panhellenic associations in America. The conference looks at recruitment, organizational structure, communications, judicial procedures, programming, academics and community relations in its evaluations.

Today, recruitment feels a little like applying for a job. Each recruit visits the various chapter houses and meets active sorority members from across the campus. Women include their resumes and letters of recommendation with their application.

The potential members learn from recruitment counselors — Gamma Chis — active sorority members who temporarily give up affiliation with their own sorority to guide potential members through the recruitment process for all sororities.

At the end of the week Bid Day arrives, and recruits meet at the Chi Omega Greek Theatre to receive their bids. Then the whole place goes just a little crazy, and it no longer seems like a job application, but more like a best-friends-forever application.

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Frank Broyles always said he lived a charmed life, and it was true.

He leaves behind a multitude of legacies certain never to be replicated.

Whether it was his unparalleled career in college athletics, as an athlete, coach, athletics administrator and broadcaster, or his tireless work in the fourth quarter of his life as an Alzheimer’s advocate, his passion was always the catalyst for changing the world around him for the better.

Broyles, who was a life member of the Alumni Association, felt he was blessed to work for more than 55 years in the only job he ever wanted, first as head football coach and then as athletic director at the University of Arkansas. An optimist and a visionary who looked at life with an attitude of gratitude, Broyles lived life to the fullest for 92 years, almost 60 of them in his adopted state of Arkansas. To all who knew him, including thousands of Razorback fans who never met him, he was “Coach Broyles,” ambassador to the Razorback Nation and the state of Arkansas. To countless others, he was an advocate for caregivers around the world.

Coach Broyles, 92, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on August 14, 2017. A man of faith and a true Southern gentleman,

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Broyles was a native of Decatur, Georgia, but adopted Arkansas as his home in December 1957, when he became the head football coach for the University of Arkansas. He leaves an unmatched legacy of more than five decades of service to the University of Arkansas, the Razorback athletic program, and Arkansas.

Born Dec. 26, 1924, to O.T. and Mary Louise Solms Broyles in Atlanta, Broyles was the youngest of five children and was a three-sport athlete throughout high school and college. He received a B.S. degree in industrial management from Georgia Tech University in 1947, where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball and set numerous records as quarterback of the Yellow Jacket football team. He led the Yellow Jackets to four football bowl appearances, was twice All-SEC and was the 1944 SEC Player of the Year.

He joined the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1942 just prior to his 18th birthday. While still at Georgia Tech, he was activated in early 1945 and served until the spring of 1946. In 1945, he married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Day, who remained his sweetheart until 2004, when she died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease.

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The Broyleses had four sons, Jack, Hank, Dan and Tommy, and twin daughters, Betsy and Linda; 17 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren. In December 2005, Broyles married the former Gen Whitehead of Fayetteville, doubling the size of his family to include Gen’s seven children, Bruun Whitehead, Kathleen Paulson, Eric Whitehead, Joan Threet, Ruth Trainor, Ted Whitehead and Philip Whitehead, as well as 13 grandchildren. Additionally, he is survived by his sister, Louise Broyles Ferguson of Cornelia, Georgia, and numerous nieces and nephews. Broyles was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers (O.T. Broyles Jr., Charles Edward Broyles and Bill Broyles).

Following his graduation from Georgia Tech, Broyles was drafted in three sports, baseball, basketball and football, but he turned down professional offers to become an assistant football coach for Bob Woodruff at Baylor. After three years in Waco, he moved with Woodruff to Florida. A year later, Coach Bobby Dodd hired Broyles as the offensive backfield coach at Georgia Tech, and the team promptly rolled to a 31-game winning streak. In 1957, Broyles was named head football coach at the University of Missouri where he served one season before receiving an offer from U of A Athletic Director John Barnhill to come to the University of Arkansas.

Broyles arrived in Fayetteville in December 1957, beginning a more than five-decade affiliation with the U of A and the Razorbacks as a coach and athletics administrator. In 19 seasons (1958-76) as the Razorbacks’ head football coach, Broyles amassed a record of 144-58-5, seven Southwest Conference titles, 10 bowl bids, 20 All-Americans and 88 All-SWC selections.

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In 1964, Broyles led the Razorback football team to an undefeated season that culminated in a 10-7 win over Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl. The National Championship was awarded to the Razorbacks by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) following the bowl games. The Cotton Bowl was part of a school record 22-game winning streak launched in the final game of the 1963 season and ending in the 1966 Cotton Bowl.

In 1973, Broyles was named U of A director of athletics, a title he balanced with his head coaching duties until 1976 when he retired as Razorback head coach. Soon after his retirement from coaching and while still serving as athletics director, Broyles made a move to the broadcasting booth working alongside legendary sports announcer Keith Jackson with ABC’s college football coverage for nine years.

During his 33½ years as athletic director (1976-2007), Broyles transformed the Razorbacks from a program competitive primarily in football to one of the most successful all-sports programs in the nation.

His vision and leadership was the driving force behind the University of Arkansas moving to the Southeastern Conference in 1990. The move set the stage for the program’s growth and future success while dramatically changing the landscape of intercollegiate athletics.

Arkansas won 43 national titles, 57 SWC titles, and 48 SEC titles, and the football team went to 22 bowl games during his tenure as athletic director. Broyles worked tirelessly to build and renovate athletic venues including Bud Walton Arena, Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Baum Stadium at George Cole Field, John McDonnell Field and the Mary B. and Fred W. Smith Razorback Golf Center. Following

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The many looks of Frank Broyles — whether receiving a trophy for the university’s national championship season or getting a hug from Jerry Jones — reflect a singluar optimism that was contagious among family members, players, fans and the assistant coaches who became one of his greatest athletic legacies.

his tenure as athletic director, Broyles continued to serve the program at the Razorback Foundation (2008-14).

Broyles garnered numerous prestigious awards throughout his career and was inducted into more than a dozen Halls of Fame. A member of the inaugural class of the UA Sports Hall of Honor, he was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983. He is also a member of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame, Gator Bowl Hall of Fame, Georgia Tech Hall of Fame, Orange Bowl Hall of Fame, National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame, SWC Hall of Fame and the State of Georgia Hall of Fame, among others.

Broyles was honored by the National Football Foundation as the 2000 recipient of the John L. Toner Award for outstanding achievement as an athletic director. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette named him the most influential figure in athletics in the state during the 20th century.

Broyles was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, including serving as its chair from 1971-73 and later being named as a Lifetime Trustee of the organization.

In 1996, the Broyles Award was created in recognition of his long-standing history of developing successful assistant coaches. The Broyles Award is given annually to college football’s top assistant coach.

In 2007, the field at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium was dedicated as Frank Broyles Field.

In 2013, a bronze statue of him was dedicated in front of the Broyles Athletic Center, the athletics administration building.

Broyles was an avid golfer and a member of the Augusta National

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Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, for more than a half-century. Seven times Broyles hosted the awards ceremony at the Masters, including presenting the coveted “Green Jacket” to such legendary golfers as Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player. In 1982, Broyles appeared in the TV miniseries The Blue and The Gray. Broyles played the doctor who pronounced the death of President Abraham Lincoln (played by Gregory Peck) after the president was shot at Ford’s Theater.

Beyond his professional career in athletics, Broyles’ second legacy is his personal commitment to improving the quality of life for those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and their loved ones. In 2006, Broyles established the Barbara Broyles Legacy, later becoming the Frank & Barbara Broyles Legacy Foundation.

From 2005-10, Broyles appeared before governmental agencies in Washington, D.C., and served on the White House Council on Aging. He spoke throughout the country at countless events and seminars on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association, as well as private eldercare organizations.

In 2006, he turned his energies toward the publication and national distribution of a guidebook for caregivers, titled “Coach Broyles’ Playbook for Alzheimer’s Caregivers,” which is based on his family’s personal experience caring for his first wife, Barbara Day, in their home. To date, more than 1 million copies of the playbook have been distributed.

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Frank Broyles Remembered for Strong Support of U of A Academics

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in 1985 he turned to Broyles again in a campaign to save Old Main.

At that time the signature building on campus had been closed and fenced off for almost 5 years, with little chance for state funds to renovate the building. Broyles agreed to open doors, introducing the new chancellor to friends and supporters.

“We developed a strategy where we would contact these potential donors and say that Dan Ferritor and Frank Broyles would like to see them to talk about an important project for the University of Arkansas,” Ferritor said. “I have no illusion that they agreed because they wanted to see Dan Ferritor. Frank would renew his friendship with the potential donor and introduce me, saying ‘Dan has something really important to tell you about my school.” After I made my case, as we were leaving, Frank would say, ‘I hope you can help us on this.

I think it is the most important thing we have going on now and we need your help.’ Was it successful? Go look at Old Main today. I cannot remember how many such visits Frank made, but I do remember he never said no.”

Broyles showed his support in a less public way as well.

“The state allowed the academic program to transfer $450,000 of state money to the athletics program,” Ferritor said. “Early in my time as chancellor, Frank asked me if we were going to make the transfer and I told him we needed the money to build our academic program.

He never asked again. When we won the national championship in 1994, the athletics program received a sizable prize, somewhere around $1 million. When Frank told me about it, I said, ‘our scholarship fund could really use that money.’ It was ours.”

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Frank Broyles’ achievements with Razorback athletics are known across Arkansas and beyond.

His accomplishments on behalf of University of Arkansas academics are not as well known as the 55 years he served as coach and athletic director, but they clearly demonstrate his pride in the U of A. “For almost 60 years, Frank Broyles has been an indelible part of the university,” said Chancellor Joe Steinmetz. “As our head football coach, and then as our director of athletics, Coach Broyles redefined excellence for our athletics programs and, more importantly, impacted the lives of thousands of people. His contributions to the University of Arkansas and to our state are immeasurable, and his passing will be felt by many. On behalf of the university family, I want to extend my sincerest sympathy to the entire Broyles family. His legacy will live on.”

His direct involvement with academic campaigns started in 1982 when he agreed to chair the university’s first major fundraising effort, the Campaign for Books.

Chancellor emeritus G. David Gearhart was vice chancellor for advancement at the time: “Through his efforts as chairman of the campaign we added 100,000 volumes to the university library.”

Chancellor emeritus Dan Ferritor, a faculty member when the campaign started, credits Broyles with the success of the $2 million fundraiser.

“From my perspective, Frank’s greatest contribution was his willingness to make a public statement that the academic mission of the university was important and that he was willing to encourage his friends and supporters to give to the campaign.”

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solid support from Broyles. It helped that White had come from Georgia Tech, Broyles’ alma mater.

“He said he wanted the University of Arkansas to enjoy the same level of respect in academics as Georgia Tech, enjoyed,” White recalls.

Toward that end, Broyles introduced White to people around the state who had supported the athletics program.

“In the meetings, he encouraged them to support my efforts to enhance the academic reputation of the university. Those meetings turned out to be instrumental in launching the Campaign for the 21st Century. Coach Broyles not only encouraged donors to support academic programs, he also played a major leadership role in the campaign. Through his contacts, hundreds of individuals who had only provided financial support for athletics began supporting academic programs and have done so ever since.”

Dave Gearhart was back at the U of A by this time, once again as vice chancellor for University Advancement, leading the new ambitious new campaign. Frank Broyles was one of the first people he turned to.

“We asked Coach Broyles to serve as one of the chairmen of the campaign, which ended up raising over $1 billion. This would not have happened without his extraordinary leadership,” Gearhart said.

As co-chair of the University’s Campaign for the Twenty-First Century, Broyles particularly helped with fundraising efforts for the Pat Walker Health Center and the Razorback Marching Band.

Broyles contributed more than his time and effort to the academic side of the University of Arkansas: In 2001, he made a gift of $200,000 to University Libraries for an endowment to supplement collections and purchase library equipment such as digital scanners and microfiche reader printers.

“Coach Frank Broyles has helped build the athletic and academic programs at the U of A and made incredible contributions to the welfare of our beloved institution,” said Gearhart. “His contributions to this university are unparalleled. He has also been a generous personal benefactor to the university and continues to serve on the current campaign committee. He has helped make the University of Arkansas a premier institution of higher learning.”

“While his main responsibility was the athletic program, Coach Broyles understood and cared deeply about the entire mission of the university,” said U of A System President Donald R. Bobbitt. “When I was dean of Fulbright College, I greatly appreciated his understanding that the purpose of athletics was to showcase our students – not only the talents of the players, but also the cheerleaders, the marching band and others involved. He saw the big picture and because of that, he and the university had great success during his tenure as coach and athletic director. I’m saddened by his passing, but his legacy will live on for generations.”

Former U of A System President B. Alan Sugg said, “I’ve known and observed Coach Broyles since my time as an undergraduate at the university. He was one of the most impressive and capable people I’ve ever worked with. During his tenure as a coach, athletic director and fundraiser, Coach Broyles did more to help and support the University of Arkansas than anyone who has ever been associated with the institution. We will miss him.” n

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Razorback to become an AllAmerican athlete.

• Edward H. Murfee is named president of the university.

• Eddie Sutton and his Running Razorbacks win eight in a row, beat Kansas and Kansas Stare within three days and enjoy a top 20 national ranking for the first time in school history.

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• The first Physics Building is finished.

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• New head football coach Norman C. Paine leads his team composed of only seven returning players to an almost undefeated season, losing only to Texas.

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• Harry M. Telford wins the first graduate scholarship given by the College of Business Administration.

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• Campbell and Bell Dry Goods Store offers a free tie to any man if the Homecoming game ends in a tie. (It doesn’t.)

• In conjunction with the 16th Homecoming, Grace Upchurch, an assistant librarian, arranges a display of selected Traveler Homecoming issues.

• The final football games are played in Hog Wallow on the west side of campus while Razorback Bowl, which will accommodate 13,200 spectators, is under construction. The Hogs play Texas A & M for Homecoming and win 26-13.

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• As post-World War II collegiate athletics continue to find a new foothold across the country, Arkansas fields a baseball team after a lapse of 17 years.

• Citing increases in enrollment and lost texts, the U of A library institutes a system that requires the use of identification cards for book check-out.

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Melissa Muncy, a senior dietetics major, and Ross Barber, a junior dietetics major, add the finishing touches to entrees being served at Ella’s Restaurant at the Inn at Carnall Hall in 2007. They were part of a course in which students developed a menu each week for the restaurant, this one titled “An Evening at Aesop’s Table.”

• Mrs. Caswdl McRae, a former Theta Kappa Nu house mother, records her 25th year of not missing a single Razorback home football game.

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• The agriculture queen Sue Ann Sykes is crowned by U of A President John Tyler Caldwell, who is clad in overalls and a bandana.

• Religious Emphasis Week kicks off and centers around the theme “Religion – Major or Minor?” and daily convocations attract hundreds.

• The Four Lads, Columbia recording artists, open Gaebale weekend with a concert.

• Students in business get practical experience operating office machines such as calculators and comptometers.

• The Arkansas State Senate approves a bill proposing the establishment of an engineering and physical science graduate

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• The College of Education offers certification in counseling, supervision and school administration. Its teacher education program is accredited by the State Board of Education and the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.

• The editor of the yearbook treats staff members to dinner at the D-Lux as a reward for their faithful efforts.

• The March issue of the Arkansas Engineer features spreads of the six candidates for St. Patricia, which soon become pin-ups in rooms all over campus.

• A discarded cigarette ignites a trashcan outside the University Press warehouse and closes both the Student Union and Mullins Library, resulting in smoking bans across campus.

Smoke damage extends to the University Museum and the Home Economics Building from smoke swirling through the underground ventilation system.

• Darby and Wilson Sharp Hall are renamed in honor of Walmart co-founder Bud Walton.

• Physics professors Zhengzhi Sheng and Allen Hermann, working with graduate students, discover a thallium-based material that sets the world record for highest temperature at which a material becomes superconducting.

1997

• Miller Williams, creative writing professor, is chosen as the inaugural poet for President Bill Clinton’s second inauguration.

1977

• The university, in conjunction with alumnus E. Fay Jones, Fayetteville’s nationally recognized architect, announces plans to build the Fulbright Memorial Peace Fountain.

• Football player Leotis Harris is the first African American

• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hears arguments by U of A law students who are participating in the spring moot court competition.

• The new plant sciences building adjoining the agriculture building is completed.

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Life Members ✪

By becoming Life Members, the University’s friends and alumni help form a strong foundation on which to build the future of the Arkansas Alumni Association. We welcome the newest Life Members, listed in order of membership number: 8053 Rylie Shane Akins ’15 8054 Caitlin R. Akins ’14 8055 Tom Spradling 8056 Donna Spradling 8057 Robert R. Durden ’65, ’68 8058 Grace Ann Durden ’67 8059 Laura E. Jakosky ’05 8060 Mark James Watts ’96 8061 Cathey Watts 8062 Courtney Dawson Beland ’90, ’99 8063 Colby Beland ’97 8064 Ray Horner 8065 Mary Jean Horner 8066 Dr. George Timothy Burson 8067 Lucinda Burson ’88 8068 Roy A. Clinton Jr. ’58 8069 Hattie Clinton 8070 Ericka J. Pulphus ’93 8071 Shevonya T. Noble ’93 8072 Beth Beavers Prescott ’86 8073 Harold A. Prescott 8074 Katie Ramsey ’11, ’14 8075 Sarah K. Covert 8076 Arthur W. Pillow ’76 8077 Dee Pillow 8078 Dustin Blake McDaniel ’94 8079 Bobbi McDaniel 8080 David R. Evans ’71 8081 Cathy G. Evans ’71, ’85 8082 Dr. Thomas H. Garrett ’72 8083 Dick N. Holbert ’65 8084 Linda C. Holbert 8085 Taylor Farr ’17 8086 Dr. Lane B. Garner ’95 8087 Jamie L. Garner 8088 Blakely Taylor Dodson 8089 Grady Joe Tolleson 8090 John S. Laster ’75, ’78 8091 Nancy N. Laster 8092 Carole Lynn Bryant Jackson ’76 8093 Tony Dean Freeman ’88 8094 Andrea Lynn Freeman 8095 Kenneth B. Biesterveld ’05, ’10 8096 Stephanie L. Biesterveld ’05

2007

• Steve Gahagans is named director of the University of Arkansas Police Department.

• The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute partners with the

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8097 Brigette Beaton Wright ’97 8098 Sean Wright 8099 Derek Justin Dollar ’08 8100 Rebecca Hurst ’05 8101 Lindell Clayton Bridges ’80, ’83 8102 Joyce Hopson ’75, ’77 8103 Eric Joe Robinson ’99 8104 Lisa Robinson 8105 Dr. Raymond M. Harris ’69 8106 Connor Flocks ’17 8107 Victoria Maloch ’17 8108 Jeffrey A. Litteken ’89 8109 Laura Litteken 8110 Clayton F. Schaefer ’97 8111 Nikki Schaefer ’98 8112 J. Louis Moles Jr. ’62, ’71 8113 Jean Ann Moles ’66 8114 Dr. Nirmal K. Kilambi ’90 8115 Cherie Dillingham Kilambi ’93 8116 Savannah J. Skidmore 8117 Maggie Benton ’17 8118 Carol Burnside ’79 8119 Doug Prichard ’90 8120 Barbara L. Prichard ’83, ’86 8121 Timothy J. Myers ’93 8122 Melissa Myers 8123 Latanya Marie Walker ’03 8124 Sherri Cunningham Karber ’76, ’79 8125 Nancy E. Porter ’94 8126 Rickie Porter 8127 Ed Pat Wright 8128 Betsy Wright 8129 Edgardo Antonio Moreno ’08 8130 Carole Moreno 8131 Christopher E. Shelby ’06 8132 April L. Shelby ’05 8133 Terry L. Baker ’69 8134 Susan Baker ’71 8135 Danny Thomason 8136 Debbie Stouffer Thomason 8137 Pat Ebeling ’75 8138 Douglas Ebeling 8139 Fred E. Reed ’55 8140 Jimmy L. Williams ’66, ’72

university to provide people over age 50 with affordable courses on wide-ranging subjects.

• The School of Architecture wins national recognition from the Association of Collegiate Schools, the American Institute

8141 Mark Lindsay ’77, ’79 8142 Sherrie M. Lindsay ’75 8143 Todd Curtis Spain ’10 8144 Dwight E. McDonnell 8145 Sabrina M. McDonnell 8146 David A. Short 8147 Deborah A. Short 8148 Dr. Don W. Finn ’82 8149 Toni J. Finn 8150 Dr. Boo Heflin 8151 Michelle Lynn McBride ’98 8152 Amy S. Morris ’17 8153 Brady Paddock ’89 8154 Nataleigh A. Marley 8155 Dr. Mary Ann Keese Thomas ’63 8156 Dr. Bryan Clark Oetting ’86, ’88 8157 Dr. Phyllis Ann Duncan ’82 8158 Robert Battaglia 8159 Michael Scott Ramage ’93 8160 Kelli Diane Ramage ’92, ’93 8161 Suzanne E. Pidcock ’75 8162 James L. Pidcock 8163 Gary Wilks ’87 8164 Natalie Jane Wilks ’91, ’92 8165 Elaine Durbin Wakeham ’62 8166 Byron E. Wakeham 8167 Thomas L. Castleberry ’03, ’06 8168 Deann Castleberry ’04 8169 Clinton R. Bennett ’98, ’04 8170 Elissa Jean Bennett ’06 8171 Dr. Hunter Kelso Carrington ’06 8172 Brittney Nichole Carrington ’07 8173 Lott Rolfe IV ’94 8174 Terry Nicole Rolfe ’94 8175 Charla A. McAnelly 8176 Patti S. Sanders ’08 8177 Trisha R. Jett ’07 8178 Ashleigh L. Alecusan ’14, ’15 8179 James Phillip Walden ’05 8180 Kathryn M. Walden ’07 8181 Dr. Martha Ellen Myers ’95 8182 Bo Siever ’69 8183 Cathey Siever

of Architects and the American Institute of Architecture Students.

• Jeff Murray, a professor in the Department of Marketing, studies the way consumers use tattoos to find meaning, permanence and stability — thus

a coherent identity — in ways that traditional commercial products don’t necessarily provide.

• Grace Riley, a political science student, wins $50,000 competing on the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. n

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Class Notes Let us know about your milestones and anything else you would like to share with your classmates — births, marriages, new jobs, retirements, moves and more. Please include your degree, class year, and when applicable, your maiden name. To provide the most thorough coverage of alumni news, we publish notes about members and non-members of the Arkansas Alumni Association and will indicate membership status for reference. You may send us news or simply update your information. Since the next issues of Arkansas are already in production, it may be a few issues before your item appears.

Submit Class Notes online at www.arkansasalumni.org/classnotes; by mail: From Senior Walk, Arkansas Alumni Association, P.O. Box 1070, Fayetteville AR 72702; or by email: records@arkansasalumni.org.

These symbols indicate Alumni Association membership:

’50 ’60

Hugh R. Kincaid ★ BSBA’56 JD’59, retired after 15 years of serving as senior vice president of the Bank of Fayetteville.

James R. Redeker MA’65, has been named to “The Nation’s Most Powerful Employment Attorneys” list for 2017. The list, compiled by Human Resource Executive magazine and Lawdragon, considers recent clients and cases, leadership, affiliation and association in peer-selected organizations, and noteworthy publications and speaking engagements for inclusion. Redeker is a member of the Hall of Fame, a distinction given to lawyers with 35 years of employment law experience and who are consistently recognized for excellence in counseling clients, contributing to the bar and serving as a visionary to improve workplaces.

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Larry Foley BA’76 was inducted into the Silver Circle of the Mid America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He was honored along with three other Arkansas broadcasters during an awards dinner July 22, 2017,

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★ Member ★+ Member, A+ ✪ Life Member ✪+ Life Member, A+

at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.

Sallie Bernard Armstrong JD’79 has joined Nevada-based McDonald Carano law firm as partner. Armstrong specializes in bankruptcy law. In 2012, she was chosen as Best Lawyers’ Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Lawyer of the Year.

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John Smart JD’87 has joined Dallas-based Bell Nunnally and Martin LLP as partner.

Gary M. Samms JD’89 is among the recently released 2017 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers.

Nelson E. Peacock ★ BSBA’91 JD’95 became the new president and CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council.

Christopher Robert Thyer ★ JD’95 has joined the trust department of Centennial Bank as a senior vice president.

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Christine J. Henry JD’00 has joined the Sustainability Office of PepsiCo Inc. as vice president for Global Agronomy Solutions.

Anne C. Hazlett LLM’01 has been named assistant to the secretary for rural development by United States Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue.

Nealy Kathryn Morton and J. Adam Wells JD’05 were married on May 20, 2017, in Little Rock.

Michael Alan Thompson BA’06 JD’10 is the winner of this year’s Arkansas Bar Foundation Best Legal Writing Award. His winning article, “The Emerging Field of Drone Law,” was published in the Fall 2016 edition of The Arkansas Lawyer.

Ashley Christine Batchelor ★ BA’07 and Patrick Brian Fitzsimmons were married June 24, 2017, at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville. They reside in Bentonville.

Ashley Driver Younger BA’07 JD’10 was recognized as one of Little Rock Soirée magazine’s 2017 “Women to Watch.” Driver is the executive director of Central Arkansas Effort for Animals Inc., CARE, in Little Rock. The list, published annually, recognizes women who are making a big impact in business, philanthropy and community. Younger is a licensed lawyer in Arkansas and often relies on her legal skills to help in making decisions at CARE.

Maneesh Krishnan MSCE’08 was recently promoted to senior associate. He worked as a civil engineering intern with the city of Little Rock Public Works Department. He has been working as a project engineer since joining the McClelland team in August 2007.

Maneesh’s primary focus has been on roadway and intersection design. On all projects, he not only provides the design, but also provides a traffic management plan for the project.

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Kent A. Devenport JD’12 received the 2017 Northwest Arkansas Worker Justice Center Community Leader award.

Elisabeth E. Mathews ★ BSCHE’13 has been selected as the inaugural fellow for the Arkansas Pharmacists Association Executive Fellowship in Association Management.

Taylor Michelle McGregor BA’15 was recently named the Lead Sports Anchor for KTHV. Brenden A. Sherrer BSBA’12 JD’16 MBA’17 has joined the mergers and acquisitions division of Fayetteville-based Zweig Group. The advancing engineering group consults with architectural, engineering and

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environmental consulting firms in order to enhance business performance.

Jessica Danielle Adams JD’16 has joined the Carthage Law Firm.

Quincy A. Jordan MACC’13 JD’16 and Philip T. Jones MACC’13 were married on April 22, 2017, in Rogers.

Michael Riley Cathey JD’16 has been accepted into the attorney general law clerk program at the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General. Cathey is clerking in the State Agencies Department and will enter the United States Marine Corps to serve as a judge advocate in the fall.

Jace E. Motley BA’17 is currently working for U.S. Sen. John Boozman as a staff assistant.

Friends

Cynthia Nance ✪ received the 2017 Presidential Award of Excellence from outgoing Arkansas Bar Association President Denise Reid Hoggard.

Mercedes B. Gazaway ★ and Tonney Gazaway of Fayetteville announce the birth of their daughter, Ember Lily Gazaway. She was born Aug. 5, 2017.

Karen L. Grady, Charleston, Arkansas, was selected as a member of the NOAA Teacher at Sea Class of 2017. She sailed on a 15-day experimental survey of sharks and reef fish on the NOAA ship Oregon II in April 2017. She then was invited to speak at “Expert Is In” in June at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.

Stacy L. Leeds, has been appointed to a two-year term on the Law School Admission Council Board of Trustees.

The council serves 222 law schools in the United States, Canada and Australia. It is primarily known for the development and administration of the Law School Admission Test but also provides many other services to prospective law students and law schools.

In Memoriam

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George W. Bruehl BSA’41, Meridian, Idaho, Dec. 20, 2016. He served in World War II as a naval aviator in the Pacific where he served for a time on the USS Enterprise. He also served as an officer in the Pacific Division of the American Phytopathology Society and

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in the National Society. He authored a book, SoilBourne Pathogens, in 1987.

Survivors: wife Arline L. Bruehl, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Eloise Jackson ✪+ BSHE’46, Fayetteville, Dec. 7, 2016. She often served as a substitute teacher at Leverett Elementary, and she was active in projects at the agricultural college as well as the University Bridge Club. Survivors: son, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mary Carolyn Pendleton ✪+ BA’46, Fayetteville, Dec. 28, 2016. She was a founding member of Junior Civic League and Town Club, and she was also a member of PEO Sisterhood and served as state president. Survivors: sons and four grandchildren.

Ray C. Adam ✪ BSCHE’46, New Canaan, Connecticut, Dec. 8, 2016.

He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of NL Industries Inc. He joined NL Industries in 1972 as chief operating officer and a director of the company. In July 1974, he was elected chairman and chief executive officer serving until 1983. Prior to joining NL Industries, Adam had been with Mobil Oil Corporation for 26 years, starting as a process engineer. He served that company in a number of senior staff and operating positions, including the director of the North American and Corporate Planning Departments, executive in charge of North American Refineries and Pipelines. He was appointed a corporate vice president and president of its Mobil Chemical Company subsidiary in 1970. Survivors: wife Dorothy Adam, children and grandchildren.

William R. Wynn ★ BSEE’47, Ruston, Louisiana, May 7, 2017. He was a retired electrical engineer with ITW/Signode.

Survivors: sons and grandchildren.

Mary Beth Damm BS’48, Little Rock, Dec. 30, 2016. She worked at the Little Rock Diagnostic Clinic and retired at the age of 66. Survivors: nephew.

Jack Cross ✪ BSE’48 MS’49 EDD’55, Denton, Texas, May 13, 2017. He was on the faculty of the University of North Texas from 1955 until his retirement in 1987. Survivors: wife Betty Jo Cross ✪ BSHE’54, three sons, six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Sue Greig ✪ BSHE’48, New York, Dec. 5, 2016. She was a registered dietitian and a certified secondary teacher. She had an extensive professional background,

Spotlight Alumnus Publishes a History of African-Americans in Arkansas Sports In African-American Athletes in Arkansas: Muhammad Ali’s Tour, Black Razorbacks & Other Forgotten Stories, alumnus Evin Demirel (BA’05) brings to light a littleknown part of Arkansas history.

The journey from his roots in central Arkansas to historian is a bit circular. He went to Central High School in Little Rock, where he said race relations was a common topic discussed in hallways and classrooms. At the U of A, he majored in Classical Studies and taught Latin for a time.

But he got back into doing what he loved most: writing, specifically about public history. He went on to become an award-winning feature writer for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, often writing about Arkansas history, culture and race relations. He then went on to a successful freelance career in journalism, publishing stories in the New York Times, Daily Beast, SLAM Magazine, Vice and Arkansas Money & Politics.

In July, Demirel brought some of his previous essays and features together into African-American Athletes in Arkansas, a 200-page volume he self-published. Many of the chapters, both previously published and brand new, are about the Razorbacks. “When it comes to sports in Arkansas,” Demirel said, “they are the defining brand, a unifying force for the state.”

He said that on the surface of this unifying force, there seemed to be a total exclusion of African-Americans prior to 1960. “But there were these exceptions to the strict rule of Jim Crow,” he said, “essentially all the time.”

These exceptions, and other important stories about AfricanAmericans in Arkansas, are often not remembered and little known.

“There is a vast disparity in the public records of whites and blacks in Arkansas,” Demirel said.

In his introduction, he says the history of pre-integration AfricanAmerican communities is vanishing as the people who lived through those times die. To that end, he created heritageofsports.com. One of the site’s purposes is to support an ongoing online project to commemorate people and events relating to sports and race in the South.

He said he wants to inject these “forgotten stories” into the sphere of public history. “I want it to become part of our state’s history and part of the curriculum at high schools and at the U of A,” he said.

“I don’t see this as the end of something,” he said, “but the start of something.”

–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– African-American Athletes in Arkansas is available at local bookstores and online outlets such as Amazon.com.

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which included serving as a teacher for the Manhattan Public Schools, a teaching and administrative dietitian at Kansas State University, director of food service for USD 383 schools in Manhattan, and an adjunct professor at Kansas State University’s school of hotel, restaurant, and institutional management. She also consulted for Clay County Hospital in Clay Center, and the area technical and vocational school in Manhattan.

Survivors: sons, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Bill L. Terry BSBA’48 LLB’50, Little Rock, Dec. 25, 2016. Terry clerked for Arkansas Supreme Court Justice George Rose Smith and worked for the Arkansas State Highway Department. In 1954, he became the ninth attorney to join the firm of Mehaffy, Smith & Williams. He retired from full-time practice in 1988 but continued to be of counsel to the firm until 2014. He was a member of the Pulaski County Bar Association (serving as president in 1977-78), the Arkansas Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. In 1993, he was presented the Lawyer Citizen Award by the Pulaski County Bar Association. In 2012, the Pulaski County Bar Foundation honored him as an Ike Scott Fellow. Survivors: wife Elizabeth K. Terry, children and grandchildren.

Edgar S. Milton ★+ BSA’49, Ozark, Dec. 26, 2016. He was a World War II veteran and achieved the rank of master sergeant in the Army Air Corps.

Survivors: son, granddaughter and greatgrandchildren.

Howard W. Meadows ✪+ BSA’49, Sedgwick, Oct. 27, 2016. He was a World War II veteran. Survivors: son and daughter.

W. R. Hart BSA’49, Harrison, Jan. 2, 2017. He was a World War II veteran serving in the U.S. Navy. Survivors: wife, children and grandchildren.

1950 Frances S. Lewis BA’50, Madison, Alabama, April 13, 2016. Survivors: John B. Lewis.

Rex N. Moore BS’50, Dec. 25, 2016.

He was a doctor. Survivors: three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Charles F. Piles BS’51 MS’55, Fort Smith, July 21, 2017. He was a retired geologist in the oil and gas industry, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force attaining

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the rank of first lieutenant as a ground electronics officer during the Korean War. Joseph R. Whiteley MS’51, Oakley, Idaho, Dec. 16, 2016. He spent a few years serving in the military. He was stationed in Maryland. Survivors: wife, children, grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Jerry Jefferson Thompson MS’51, Hockessin, Delaware, Dec. 27, 2016.

He served in the U.S. Navy. The tools of his trade were early computer languages such as COBOL and FORTRAN, and the mass spectrometer, which he used to study the intricate details of fractured atoms. He customized some of the first generation of mainframe computers for use in the physics laboratories at the Savannah River Plant in Aiken, S.C., and later adapted software for product troubleshooting at the DuPont Elastomers Laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware. Survivors: wife, son, daughters, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

John M. Powell Jr. BA’52, Little Rock, Dec. 20, 2016. Powell served in the U.S. Air Force for two years as a fighter pilot, flying some of the first jet fighters during the Korean War. He received commendations from the Air Force during his service for landing and saving his plane and crew in an unpowered jet fighter after losing power during flight. He later became a self-employed architect and freelance artist. Survivors: sons, six grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Stanley Russ ★ BSE’52, Little Rock, Jan. 5, 2017. Russ served as a senator from Conway from 1975-99. He led the Senate as president pro tem from 1995-97 and served as majority leader in 1997. He served in the Army from 195254 and later in the Arkansas National Guard. Survivors: two children.

William B. Kirk BSIM’52 MBA’81, Fort Smith, Dec. 10, 2016. He was a retired employee of Oklahoma Gas & Electric, where he served as commercial sales manager. Survivors: three daughters, son, sister, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Burl Boyd BSA’53, Danville, Dec. 30, 2016. He was an Army veteran. He was instrumental in the development of the poultry industry in Yell County along with Senator Joe Ray and Leon Millsap.

Boyd was a former deputy for the Yell County Sheriff Department and later was

an officer for the Danville City Police.

Survivors: son, daughters, brother, sisters, grandchildren and one great-grandson.

Linda D. Johnston BSHE’53, Plano, Texas, Nov. 24, 2016. Linda was the founder and former president of the Lake City Craft Company, the largest manufacturer of quilling supplies, books and tools. She started the company in 1974 after taking a class in the craft that involves rolls, scrolls and swirls of paper strips. During her career she published more than a dozen books, including the quintessential “The Art of Paper Quilling,” which Lark Publishing translated into several languages and sold around the world. She frequently collaborated with Martha Stewart’s craft business, which featured her work in the Martha Stewart Living magazine.

Survivors: daughters and grandsons.

Bert R. Adams Jr. BA’54, Roswell, Georgia, Dec. 8, 2016. He served in the U.S. Army as a captain and also worked for Nationwide Papers, a division of Champion International Corp. Survivors: wife, son and grandchildren.

Charles D. Willis BARCH’54, Springdale, Dec. 15, 2016. He served as head of the Department of Building Construction at John Brown University from 1954 until his retirement in 1986.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Charles contributed to the design and supervision of multiple construction projects on the JBU campus, including the sanctuary paneling and furnishings for the Cathedral of the Ozarks, the Library Building, and the Science Building.

Under his leadership, JBU joined the Associated Schools of Construction. He authored the book Blueprint Reading for Commercial Construction, which was published in 1979. Survivors: two sons, daughter, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Elizabeth Cash Reed MA’54, Jacksonville, Florida, Dec. 9, 2016. She taught English language and literature at the high school level and then as a professor at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. She and her husband moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1968 where they both taught at Florida State College of Jacksonville until they retired.

Survivors: daughters.

Jim H. Gray ★ BSBA’54, Little Rock, Dec. 16, 2016. Gray was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and serving for two years in Bury St. Edmunds, England. In 1968, Jim was

a named plaintiff in successful litigation to require complete desegregation of the Little Rock School District. Jim was a member of the Little Rock City Beautiful Commission that crafted Little Rock’s first sign ordinance. Survivors: wife, children and grandson.

O. Dean Austin BSA’54, Maysville, Dec. 6, 2016. He was manager of Peterson’s L.P. Gas Company in Decatur and also managed and delivered for Empire Gas in Siloam Springs.

Survivors: wife, three daughters, son, six granddaughters, seven greatgrandchildren, stepson, stepdaughter and step-grandchildren.

Bill B. Baker Sr. ★ MED’54 EDD’62, Gilbert, Jan. 6, 2017. He was the founding president of North Arkansas College (Northark) in Harrison. Baker led Northark from 1974 until his retirement in 2001. As a result of his vision, Northark’s off-campus programs led to two new colleges: Arkansas State University Mountain Home and NorthWest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville. Survivors: wife, two sons, daughter, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Richard Haegele BSA’55, Prairie Grove, Dec. 13, 2016. He was a veteran of the Korean War. He taught in Farmington during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was also a member of the Fayetteville Elks Club. Survivors: wife Bonnie Haegele, two sons, one daughter, seven grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren.

Bill R. Williams ✪ BSBA’56, Houston, 2016, served in the U.S. Air Force and then later obtained his bachelor’s degree in accounting at the University of Arkansas. He joined the firm of Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co. (predecessor of the current KPMG). He later became senior partner of KPMG in Germany and then vice chairman of the firm for the southwest region based in Houston.

Survivors: two sisters, two daughters and four grandchildren.

Jerry A. Miller MED’57, Little Rock, Jan. 8, 2017. Survivors: children and grandchildren.

Murphy Bird Jr. ★ BSBA’57 MBA’63 PHD’68, Milford, Delaware, Nov. 14 2016. Murphy was a professor of business administration at Virginia Tech and a private industry consultant, and a veteran of the Louisiana National Guard.

Survivors: daughters and brother.

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ADVANCE ARKANSAS The Advance Arkansas scholarship initiative creates campus-wide scholarship endowments to support new, returning, and transfer students from Arkansas who exhibit financial need, records of academic success, and a strong desire to complete their degree at the University of Arkansas. Scholarships may be given in the categories of

ADVANCE

ARKANSAS SCHOLARSHIP

CATEGORIES FIRST GENERATION Awarded to new freshmen who aspire to be first in their families to earn a four-year college degree.

COMMUNITY LEADER Awarded to new freshmen who demonstrate significant acts of service within their communities.

RESILIENT RAZORBACK Awarded to U of A students who have persisted in maintaining a compelling academic record.

TALENTED TRANSFER Awarded to incoming transfer students with a strong academic record and commitment to degree completion at the U of A.

first generation, community leader, resilient Razorback or talented transfer, and are renewable to students regardless of their field of study with acceptable progress toward a degree. Scholarships specifically supporting study abroad experiences are also encouraged. This scholarship endeavor centers on changing the lives of all Arkansans.

Five Reasons to Support Advance Arkansas 1. R einforce the land-grant mission of the University of Arkansas by making higher education affordable for students from Arkansas.

2. F oster student success through renewable scholarships in any field of study on the University of Arkansas campus.

3. D ouble the impact of your investment’s spendable earnings with a university match to increase the scholarship award.

4. C reate a sustainable endowed fund that will support the academic journeys of future Razorbacks for generations to come.

5. J oin alumni and friends who believe in educating all Arkansans and providing life-changing opportunities for students, while also showing your support for Campaign Arkansas.

The Need for Advance Arkansas With the approximate total cost of attendance for residents at $24,916, Advance Arkansas scholarships will comprehensively help residents cover the full cost of tuition for their academic careers at the University of Arkansas. Given the state median income is $41,262, the total cost of tuition for residents is over half of a typical family’s income, making Advance Arkansas a necessity for the growth and success of the state.

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In 2016-2017, 2,242 of our 2,422 first-time, full-time freshman (from Arkansas only) applied for needbased financial aid.

1,382 of the 2,242 were awarded any financial aid.

Only 216 (or roughly 15.6%) of these 1,382 students had their financial need fully met.

Of the 1,166 remaining Arkansans, the average unmet need was $8,489. (based on the total cost of attendance) For more information, please contact: Ben Carter, Senior Director of Development (479) 575-4663 bcarter@uark.edu

Campaign Gift from Fayetteville Couple Honors Family Alumna Katy Nelson-Ginder ✪ has traveled to several countries with faculty and students during her career, and she has seen firsthand how study abroad experiences can be life-changing for students. With that in mind, she and her husband, alumnus Grant Ginder, are establishing two scholarships through a $100,000 planned gift that will make international education and study abroad experiences more accessible for U of A students.

The Talmadge and Laverne Nelson Study Abroad Scholarship will support students in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences who wish to participate in a Global Community Development Program or study abroad program with a service learning component.

The scholarship is named after Nelson-Ginder’s parents, who both contributed years of service to the Bumpers College. Her father is an emeritus faculty member, and her mother is an emeritus staff member.

“Grant and I wanted to honor my parents’ contributions to the Bumpers College, the Division of Agriculture and the university as a whole,” Nelson-Ginder said. “I have many fond memories of their time on campus.”

The Grant Ginder and Katy Nelson-Ginder International Excellence Fund will benefit students with financial need and faculty in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences or the Sam M. Walton College of Business who

are participating in a Global Community Development Program or a study abroad program with a service-learning component.

“The faculty at the U of A are dedicated and spend countless hours developing meaningful experiences for the students,” Ginder said. “Katy and I are impressed with their commitment and passion to the students and university.”

Consider the following advantages of remembering the University of Arkansas in your will. A bequest…

• Can easily be revoked or amended; • Ensures that no unnecessary taxes are paid; • Can be prepared at modest cost and allows you to select your executor and waive the cost of a bond for your executor; and • Lets certain assets, such as life insurance or retirement funds, be easily gifted through a beneficiary designation form.

Visit our website to learn more, or call or email us for a free illustration that demonstrates how a planned gift can benefit you and the university.

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Patricia B. Singer BSE’58, Donaldson, Dec. 15, 2016. She was a teacher and taught in schools in Houston and North Little Rock. Survivors: son, daughter and four grandchildren.

Sally K. Boyd BA’58, Conway, Jan. 3, 2017. She worked in the education field at the Arkansas Department of Education. Survivors: husband, two sons, daughter, grandson and greatgranddaughters.

Windsor R. Giles BSPH’58, El Dorado, Dec. 24, 2016. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force as an officer and was stationed primarily at Barksdale Air Force Base in Northwest Louisiana and briefly overseas at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England. After serving, he got a pharmacy degree and later opened a drugstore of his own, Giles Hospital Pharmacy. Survivors: son, daughter, five grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Charles W. Vines Jr. BSE’59 MED’62, Stamps, Dec. 14, 2016. He was a distinguished military graduate of the University of Arkansas. He took

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ROTC while he was at the University of Arkansas and went into the Army, serving on active duty as a commissioned officer of the Adjutant General’s Corps. After serving two years in the Army, he went back to the University of Arkansas and received his master’s degree in education.

He taught only in military schools, and each summer he would travel to different colleges to work on another degree such as Harvard, Ohio State, and Trinity College in Connecticut. Survivors: sister and nephew.

1960 Karen H. Lawman ★ BA’60, Springdale, Jan. 4, 2017. She served America’s heroes for over 40 years at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. Survivors: Lola West, Scott Taliaferro and sister.

Jo Ella Clemons MED’61, Harrison, Nov. 28, 2016. She was an elementary teacher for 37 years. Her purpose in life was to be an educator. She was extremely active in her community. Survivors: husband Joe Wessley Clemons MED’61, daughters and grandchildren.

Larry Evans BSE’61, Yellville, Dec. 29, 2016. He was an active leader of the Yellville community. He was a Rotarian, former president of the Chamber of Commerce and owner of Evans Real Estate Company. Survivors: wife Evelyn Evans, daughter, stepsons and four stepgrandchildren.

Joe L. Gaston BSA’62 MS’63, Bentonville, Dec. 10, 2016. He served in the U.S. Army as an SP5 and was stationed in France. He obtained two degrees in agricultural conservation as a soil scientist. Survivors: wife Margaret Lynch Gaston BSE’62 MED’67, son and granddaughter.

James R. Glasgow BSIM’62, Bella Vista, Dec. 18, 2016. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1962-66 as a fighter pilot and war veteran. He eventually settled in Lubbock, Texas, where he trained student pilots at Reese Air Force Base before entering into commercial construction in the mid 1970s. He moved back to Arkansas in 1988 and became a licensed real estate agent for Wylie Realty in Bella Vista. Survivors: wife, son, sister and grandchildren.

James L. Skinner ★ MA’62 PHD’65, Clinton, South Carolina, Dec. 27, 2016. He was a professor at Presbyterian College. He was awarded the PC Alumni Teaching Award in 1972, was named both the State and Governor’s Professor of the Year in 1991, and served as the Charles A. Dana Professor of English for more than a decade at the end of his career. Survivors: wife, son, granddaughter and brothers.

Jenny L. Henry Garrison BSPA’83, Dierks, Dec. 14, 2016. Survivors: husband, mother, brother and sister.

Kenneth Ray Holley BSCE’63, Apr. 7, 2016.

Roy J. Murdock MBA’64, Pine Bluff, Dec. 25, 2016. He was an officer in the United States Navy. He later became the owner and operator of Murdock Insurance Company. Survivors: wife, son, daughter and granddaughters.

Boyce R. Davis BA’64 JD’74, Lincoln, Jan. 5, 2017. Boyce practiced law in Lincoln for 40 years. In 1972 he was a delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention. He was a past president and

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board member of the Lincoln Kiwanis Club and the Lincoln School Board. He was former Lincoln mayor, city attorney, Library Board member, choir director, Lincoln Leader newspaper owner and publisher of four newspapers. He penned a weekly column “On The Wry Side.” He was in the Naval Reserve and a member of the Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association and Arkansas Bar Association. He was instrumental in founding the Arkansas Apple Festival. Survivors: wife, children, 13 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

Donald L. Corbin BA’64 LLB’66, Hot Springs, Dec. 12, 2016. He was a U.S. Marine before he started law school at the University of Arkansas. In 1971, he was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives where he was instrumental in passing the Rural Medical Practice Act and in obtaining funding for the neonatal unit at ACH. In 1980, he was elected to the Arkansas Court of Appeals and served four years as chief judge. He was elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1990 and served until he retired in December 2014. Survivors: wife Dorcy K. Corbin, five children and grandchild.

Lucy M. Martin BSBA’65, Jane, Missouri, Dec. 25, 2016. From 1965 to 1999, she served as a business consultant with McDonnell Douglas/Boeing. She volunteered with the White Rock Fire Department and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, as well as various other community organizations. Survivors: husband William C. Martin Jr. BSCE’61 BSME’62, and several nieces and nephews.

Vada M. Reeves BSE’65, Huntsville, Dec. 20, 2016. She was a teacher in public schools for 42 years. Survivors: two daughters, grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

1970 Butch Martindill Jr. ★ BSBA’70, Little Rock, Dec. 21, 2016. He served as treasurer on the Board of the Arkansas State Fair for years and in 2002 was designated president of the Arkansas Auto Dealers Association. Survivors: wife, children and granddaughters.

Michael C. McKenna BA’70 MA’72 BS’75, Charlottesville, Virginia., Dec. 14, 2016. He received the Albert J. Kingston Award, the Edward Fry Book Award and the American Library Association Award for Outstanding

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Academic Books. In 2016 he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame. His work was also creative and innovative, most notably in his collaboration with Jim Davis, who originated the cartoon character Garfield, to develop the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey. His most recent innovation for practice is the Bookworm curriculum for reading instruction. Survivors: wife Beverly Edens McKenna BSE’76, daughter and grandchildren.

Louis R. Welcher BM’71 MM’74, Russellville, Jan. 9, 2017. Welcher performed as an opera singer throughout the United States and Germany. His appearances included concerts extensively in Southern and Central California, Utah and Arkansas. He was the leading tenor at the Muenster Stadtsoper in Muenster, Germany (1986-1991), where he performed the world premiere of Die Rache as well as Mozart and Strauss operas. He was a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Music Educators National Conference, where he was the national vocal winner in 1971. Welcher also performed extensively with the Arkansas Tech University Theater and Russellville Community Theater. He founded the Russellville Community Choir. His choir from El Montecito Presbyterian Church was well respected in Southern California (1974-76, 1981-87). He taught vocal performance at University of Arkansas, Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, and Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and he was chair of the vocal division at the University of Utah.

He taught adjunct at Arkansas Tech University. Survivors: wife Candace Vestal Welcher BM’73, two sons, mother and grandchildren.

Mary Lynn Baker BSE’71, Watertown, Massachusetts, Dec. 4, 2016. She was a local pioneer in the Reading Recovery program in Fort Smith Public Schools system. Survivors: Larry Baker, two sons, daughter, grandson, patents, brother and two sisters.

Robert L. Durant EDD’71, Savannah, Missouri, Dec. 30, 2016. He worked for many years as a clinical psychologist.

Durant was also on the Colorado State Psychology board for several years.

Survivors: cousin and nieces.

David L. Oswalt BARCH’71, Dallas, Texas, March 30, 2016. He was an architect, devoting his entire career to

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specializing in residential work, custom homes and major remodels. He was a true artist in his craft and loved by all. His patient spirit and distinctive laugh will be long remembered. He was most active in Highland Park United Methodist church, singing in the Chancel Choir and serving as chair of the Board of Trustees. Survivors: wife Lora Oswalt BA ’71, twin daughters, four grandchildren, and three brothers.

Gregory P. McKenzie BA’71 JD’74, Fort Smith, Dec. 15, 2016. He received his law degree from the University of Arkansas. Survivors: wife Nancy J. McKenzie BSE’75, son and four grandchildren.

Kathy A. Guest BSE’72, Longview, Texas, Dec. 29, 2016. She was a teacher for 36 years, a member of the Junior League of Texarkana, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She served on the Arkansas Education Board and was a certified judge of the Miss America Association. She also received the 50th Girl Award at Arkansas High School. She was a co-owner in Guest Beauty Services.

Survivors: husband, son, stepson, stepdaughter and five grandchildren.

Tony F. Daugherty BSIE’72 MSIE’74, Magnolia, Dec. 9, 2016. He was an industrial engineer. He began his career in industrial engineering with E.I. Dupont de Nemours in Wilmington, Delaware, followed by positions at General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan and Tenneco Inc. in Houston, Texas. He later studied to become certified as a financial planner, starting his own successful practice (The Wealth Planning Group) and worked hard in that field until 1995. Survivors: children, grandson, brother and sister.

Carl Blaine Taylor BSEE’74, Fairhope, Jan. 3, 2017. He served in the Air Force as a technician during the Vietnam War. He earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Arkansas in 1974, and went on to work for Motorola, Chrysler, and SCI, among others. He later transitioned to the field of computer software consulting. Survivors: wife, daughters and grandchildren.

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In Memoriam

Peggy Parks

University Relations

Peggy Sue Murphy Parks of Prairie Grove, a teacher, community leader and philanthropist, passed away July 17 at the age of 89.

She was born in Fayetteville and graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1945. She married Donald Parks in 1949 and moved to Prairie Grove, where he worked in the family business, the Prairie Grove Telephone Company. Their son, David, was born in 1954.

She discovered her love for teaching in 1957 and attended the University of Arkansas during her summer breaks to earn a Bachelor of Science in Education. She taught 4th grade for 30 years.

Her public service included work on the state Democratic Committee, the Fayetteville City Hospital board and the Washington Regional Foundation board. She served on the Ozark Guidance Foundation board and on the board of the Arts Center of the Ozarks. She was also appointed to the Prairie Grove Battlefield Park Commission.

The Parks family generously supported the renovation of the former student health center into the Epley Center for Health Professions, which houses the Eleanor Mann School of Nursing and the U of A Speech and Hearing Clinic. The family also established the Parks Family Professorship in Science and Technology Education within the College of Education and Health Professions.

The family has also contributed to the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Peggy and Donald Parks Teaching Scholarship, Peggy and Donald Parks Nursing Scholarship, KUAF Building Fund, and the Reed Greenwood Student Award for Excellence.

In 2012, the second floor of the Epley Center for Health Professions was dedicated to Peggy and her mother, Emilia Murphy, R.N. This building enabled the university to double the number of its graduating nurses.

Memorials may be made to Washington Regional Foundation, Ozark Guidance Foundation, or Fayetteville Public Education Foundation. n John Harold Johnson PHD’74, Libertyville, Illinois, June 18, 2009.

Survivors: children and grandchildren.

Scott B. Martin BSCE’75, Little Rock, Dec. 29, 2016. He worked for Cromwell Architects Engineers as a structural and civil engineer. He was also passionate about historic sites, preservation and

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restoration. Survivors: wife and daughter.

Franz Keith Baskett Sr. BA’75 MFA’90, Fayetteville, Jan. 6, 2017.

He was a lecturer in literature at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, for five years, and has held a management position at Northwest Arkansas Media for over 10 years in

Fayetteville. Survivors: mother, sister, children and grandchildren.

Agronomy Department. Survivors: daughter and grandsons.

David B. Switzer JD’76, Hot Springs, Dec. 17, 2016. He had served as district court judge for Hot Springs and Garland County since 2009. Prior to becoming district judge, Judge Switzer served 19 years as circuit judge, serving in every division in the 18th Judicial Circuit East: Circuit, Chancery and Probate, and Circuit/Chancery, Juvenile Division. He also served as deputy prosecuting attorney, and juvenile judge and master for paternity, in Garland County. He maintained a private general practice beginning in 1976, following his graduation from the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he served on the Law Review until 1991. Survivors: three children and five grandchildren.

Ronald N. Jordan BSBA’79, North Little Rock, Dec. 13, 2016. He was a talented musician. Survivors: daughter and two grandchildren.

Jimmie Sue Roark MED’77, Hampton, Jan. 1, 2017. She was a schoolteacher for 60 years. Survivors: husband Thomas Winfred Roark MED’77, four daughters, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Vada Sue McMann MED’77, Fordyce, Dec. 15, 2016. She was an elementary school teacher and principal for 31 years.

She also worked at Southern Nursing Home in the maintenance department.

She was very involved in her community.

Survivors: Daughter, two grandsons and two great-grandsons.

David W. Shelby BSE’78 MED’80, Fayetteville, Dec. 21, 2016. Shelby was a retired schoolteacher for Gentry Public Schools, teaching for 35 years. He played bass guitar in the River City, Monarch and Full House bands. Survivors: son, daughter, mother and two grandchildren.

Rick Rhodes BA’78 MA’79, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Dec. 28, 2016. He practiced law for more than 25 years in the areas of business and communications law. In his career, Rhodes engaged in private practice in two well established Washington, D.C., firms. His clients ranged from small, closely held businesses to major Fortune 500 companies. He also was an educator at the university level and was part of the faculty at East Carolina University.

Survivors: wife, sister and brother.

Helen M. Brown BA’79, Fayetteville, Dec. 5, 2016. She was an accomplished violinist. When she was a young woman, she attended New Mexico State College in Las Cruces for a year and a half.

She also worked as a secretary in the

1980 Theodoshia S. M. Cooper MED’80, Maumelle, Dec. 16, 2016. Survivors: children and granddaughter.

William C. Tilley BSA’80 MS’82, Little Rock, Dec. 11, 2016. He practiced medicine in Little Rock for 30 years.

Survivors: wife, mother and brothers.

Garry M. Koettel BSCE’82, Little Rock, Jan. 11, 2017. Koettel was a former member and past president of the Farmington School Board and the Farmington Planning Commission. He was a member of the Society of Civil Engineers. Survivors: wife, mother, two sons, brother and two grandchildren.

Pamela Lynn Wallace BSBA’84, Cabot, Jan. 9, 2017. She worked as a sales representative for Harland Checks.

She later became a senior business analyst for Entergy Corporation where she worked for 27 years. Survivors: two daughters, one granddaughter and one sister.

George Peter Bieber BSA’85, Pittsburgh, Dec. 16, 2016. He served in the United States Army. Survivors: brother.

Paul H. Smith PHD’86, Oakland, California, Dec. 23, 2016. He was a veteran of the Korean War. He received the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

He later became a professor teaching economics and accounting. Survivors: wife and sister.

Karen J. Hatcher EDD’87, Grove, Oklahoma, Dec. 8, 2016. She taught for 19 years in the Joplin, Missouri, School District and also in the Springdale School District. Survivors: husband Gordon M. Hatcher EDD’91.

Clara F. Garrett ✪ BSE’87 MED’90, Fayetteville, Dec. 11, 2016. She taught special education in Dallas for 27 years.

Survivors: two daughters, two sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Mary Lou Bowles AS’89, Kent, Washington, Dec. 12, 2016, She was a registered nurse. Survivors: son, daughter, eight grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren, and five great-greatgrandchildren.

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ALUMNI OFFICERS President Don Eldred ✪+’81, Houston President-Elect Teena Gunter ✪ ’92, ’97, Oklahoma City, OK Treasurer Kenneth Biesterveld ✪ ’05, ’10, Bentonville Secretary Debbie Blume ✪+ BSBA’08, Fayetteville BOARD OF DIRECTORS Class of 2018 Kristen Allbritton ★ ’04, Frisco, TX Ashley Harris ✪ ’95, Fayetteville Sharon Hunt ★ ’73, ’75, Fayetteville Kristin Kaufman ✪ ’83, Dallas Bill Kerr ✪ ’88, Tampa, FL Dustin McDaniel ★ ’94, Little Rock Drake McGruder ✪ ’06, ’12, Fort Smith Charles Redfield ✪ ’89 Bentonville Class of 2019 John Forrest Ales ✪ ’02, Bentonville Linda Bedford-Jackson ★ ’80, Austin, TX Susan Kemp ✪ ’73, ’75, Mountain View Robert Kolf ✪+ ’78, Wildwood, MO Greg Lee ✪+ ’70, Fayetteville Paul Parette ✪+ ’89, Dallas Ron Rainey ✪ ’91, ’93, Little Rock Lott Rolfe IV ★ ’94, Maumelle Roger Sublett ✪ ’64, ’65, Mason, OH Amy Tu ★ ’96, Seattle Brian Wolff ✪ ’89, Washington D.C. Class of 2020 John Berrey ✪ ’91, Tulsa, OK Tori Bogner ★ ’13, ’16, Fayetteville, AR LaTonya Foster ★ ’96, Springdale, AR Cecilia Grossberger-Medina ★ ’08, Fayetteville, AR Steven Hinds ✪ ’89, ’92, Fayetteville, AR Regina Hopper ★ ’81, ’85, Alexandria, VA Jordan Patterson Johnson ✪ ’00, Little Rock, AR Don Walker ✪ ’74, Fayetteville, AR Victor Wilson ✪ ’85, Arlington, TX STAFF Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni and Executive Director of the Arkansas Alumni Association Brandy Cox ✪ MA’07 Director of Membership and Marketing Terri Dover ✪+ Director of Constituent Engagement Angela Mosley Monts ✪, BA’80 Director of Outreach and Chapters Thomas Ellis ★ BA’96, MBA’98 Director of Finance Hal Prescott ✪ Mercedes Alberson ★ Student Outreach Coordinator; Lisa Ault ★ BSBA’94, Accounting Specialist; Catherine Baltz ✪+ BS’92, MED’07, Manager of Affinity Programs & Analysis; Shanna Bassett ★ Associate Director of Membership and Marketing; Debbie Blume ✪+ BSBA’08 Board and Campaign Coordinator; Deb Euculano ✪ Associate Director of Alumni Special Events; Amber Jordan ★ Administrative Support Supervisor; Lisy McKinnon ★ BA’97, Assistant Director of Chapter Programs; Ryan Miller ✪+ BSBA’07, MED’09, BSBA’13, Associate Director of Student and Young Alumni Outreach; Wren Myers ★ Special Projects Coordinator; Emily Piper, Administrative Specialist; Alyssa Pruitt ★ BSBA’13, MED’15, Marketing Specialist; Patti Sanders ✪+ Associate Director of Alumni Scholarships; Julie Simpson ★ Assistant Director of Facilities and Special Events; Lauren Tyson ★ Fiscal Support Analyst

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Patricia M. Cross MED’96, Jenks, Oklahoma, Nov. 25, 2016. She was a teacher in the Fort Smith Public School System for 18 years. She later became a special education teacher. Survivors: two sons, brother and four grandchildren.

2000 Herbert Carlos Redden II MS’01, Memphis, Tennessee, Dec. 9, 2016.

Redden dedicated his life to firefighting and civil service with the Memphis Fire Department and the Dayton Fire Department, where he was the first African American to hold this level of authority. Survivors: wife, children and grandchildren.

Robert Kipling Heth PHD’06, Carthage, Missouri, Dec. 14, 2016.

He was a biology professor at Missouri Southern State University with an emphasis in aquatic ecology. He was very active in his community. Survivors: wife, daughters and siblings.

Oakleigh E. Roberts BSBA’07, Fayetteville, May 27, 2017. She attained her Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, where she was also recognized for her academic excellence. She served a three-year internship at AETN and became a certified mediator as well as teaching courses in mediation. Oakleigh started an empowerment program utilizing the character of Snow White to teach little girls that they are all princesses in God’s kingdom. Survivors: mother and grandmother.

2010 Chase Oneil Trusty BSEE’13, Bigelow, Dec. 8, 2016. He was an engineer and worked with his father at Mike Trusty Engineering. He was also a coach for the Arkansas Special Olympics bicycling team. Survivors: wife and two daughters.

Friends Bill Looney, Proctor, Nov. 28, 2016. He was a farmer and a John Deere dealer for 52 years. He was the last independent John Deere dealership in the state of Arkansas. He also served in the U.S. Navy in World War II as a Seabee assigned to duty on the island of Saipan in the Pacific. Survivors: wife Elaine Looney, son, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Christopher J. Lucas, Fayetteville, Dec. 25, 2016. He taught at the University of Missouri, Kent State University in Ohio, and subsequently at the University of Arkansas. He was the founding Executive Secretary of the Council for Learned Studies and was the past-president of the Society of Professors of Education.

He authored over a dozen books and numerous professional reports, reviews, and scholarly articles. Survivors: son and sister.

Donna Galchus, Little Rock, Dec. 4, 2016. She was a founding member of Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon and Galchus, where she practiced labor and employment law and immigration law. Survivors: husband Ken Galchus ★, two daughters, grandchildren and brother.

Elaine B. Bretz, Mena, Dec. 12, 2016.

She was an avid gardener and cook and also enjoyed painting, hosting and traveling, particularly exploring and mastering international cuisine.

Survivors: sister, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Frank S. Billingsley ✪, Bethesda, Maryland, Nov. 2, 2014.

Harry L. Jones, Springdale, Dec. 11, 2016. Harry was one of two sophomore starters on Arkansas’ dominating defense in 1964, which ended the regular season with five consecutive shutouts. He returned two interceptions for touchdowns that season as the Razorbacks went 11-0, including a 10-7 victory over Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl, and were crowned national champion by the Football Writers Association of America. He was later drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles where he played running back, wide receiver and defensive end for five years. Harry was inducted into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2004 and into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. Survivors: children and grandchildren.

James E. Martin, Hartselle, Georgia, June 3, 2017. He was the 14th president of Auburn University. He also served as president of the University of Arkansas from 1971 to 1973 and 1975 to 1977.

Survivors: wife Ann F. Martin.

Pruitt Jacob Wright, Lake Village, Nov. 25, 2016. He was athletic and enjoyed the outdoors. Survivors: parents, two brothers and step siblings.

John J. Truemper Jr., Little Rock, Dec. 18, 2016. He was appointed president

of the Cromwell Firm in 1974 and was chair of the board in 1980. Truemper’s professional personal legacy resides in the scores of buildings he and the Cromwell Firm designed. Survivors: Julia Wood Truemper ★ BSE’53, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. n

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

Hungry or thirsty? Food and drink tickets are available for purchase on game day and food trucks will be located in the west alumni parking lot.

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Soooieclipse The front lawn of Old Main proved a quiet spot for students to watch the 2017 solar eclipse on the first day of fall classes. The campus fell within the zone with 90 percent coverage of the sun by the moon. The Associated Student Government held a cookout on the Union Mall, and the Pat Walker Health Center and Mertins Eye and Optical provided safe glasses for viewing the eclipse. The student club SPACE Hogs traveled to Fulton, Missouri, to view the eclipse from the zone of totality, where the skies overhead went dark and the horizon dimmed as though sunset had arrived early.

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