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Today, FALL/WINTER 2008
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University Administration
Rick Niece, Ph.D.
President
Steve Edmisten, MA
Executive Vice President
Daniel Taddie, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
Kim Myrick, MA
Vice President for Enrollment Management
Jeff Scaccia, MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Darrell Williams, BS
Business Manager
Sherrie Arey, MS
Dean of Residential and Campus Life
Production Staff
Larry Isch, MS
Director of University and Public Relations
Editor
Vinnie Tran, BA
Publications Coordinator
Design and Layout
Photo and editorial contributions
by Tony Baldwin, Josh Peppas, Lori McBee,
Cara Flinn, Jay Parrot, and Kimberly Pennick.
For more information, contact the:
Office of University Advancement
University of the Ozarks
415 N. College Avenue
Clarksville, AR 72830-2880
(479) 979-1230; Fax (479) 979-1239
Web site: www.ozarks.edu
Volume 27
Number 2
Fall/Winter 2008
3 A Multi-Sport Athlete
Senior Olivia Fisher has shone
in several sports at Ozarks.
4 Enrollment Increases
Student body number sees jump
of eight percent over two years.
ON THE COVER:
Alumni such as Zach Boatright
(center) and (clockwise, from top
right) Ivan Quant, Julie (Ballew)
Kersey, Don Ferrier and Otto
Mejia are making waves in the
business world as entrepreneurs.
Meet them and others who
are running successful small
businesses. (Main photo by
Abigail Wilder.)
See Story, Page 8
6 Stability for Ozarks
The University can overcome
difficult times with help of donors.
16 Alumni News
Catch up on the latest news
from former classmates and
fellow alumni.
20 Sports Hall of Fame
Soccer player Marcos Gonzalez
and basketball player Anthony
Porchia are latest Hall inductees.
21 2007-08 Donor Honor Roll
Ozarks’ many cherished
supporters for the 2007-08
fiscal year are recognized.
40 In Memoriam
The University honors those
alumni and friends who have
passed away in recent months.
University Directory
(479) Area Code
Academic Affairs
Admission
Advancement
Alumni Relations
Athletics
Business Office
Financial Aid
President’s Office
Public Relations
Registrar
Student Life
979-1431
979-1227
979-1230
979-1234
979-1483
979-1208
979-1221
979-1242
979-1420
979-1212
979-1321
The University of the Ozarks does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, color, national or ethnic origin, age, or physical handicap
in the administration of its educational policies,
programs or activities.
Biology Professor Dr. Doug Jeffries and several students took part in the Planet
Club’s annual Tree Planting Day, held Nov. 8 on campus.
See Other Campus News on Pages 2-5
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Ozarks ranks in “top tier”
for 10th consecutive year
For the 10th consecutive year, U of
O has been ranked as a “top tier” university in the U.S. News & World Report’s
annual late summer publication that analyzes institutions of higher education.
In the 2009 edition of “America’s
Best Colleges,” released on Aug. 21,
Ozarks was ranked third in the category
of “Great Schools, Great Prices” among
95 universities in the 12-state South Region that are considered Baccalaureate
Colleges. It is the ninth time in the last
10 years that Ozarks has been ranked in
the top five of the best value category.
The value rankings evaluate the cost of
attending a college or university relative
to the quality of the institution, according to the magazine’s ranking system.
In the overall rankings of the universities, Ozarks was tied for seventh
among 95 universities that fall in the
Baccalaureate Colleges category in the
South Region. The seventh-place ranking is the highest ever for U of O, which
was ranked No. 8 in the South in 2008
and 2006. The overall rankings examine such criteria as academic reputation,
graduation and retention rates, faculty
resources, student selectivity, financial
resources and alumni giving.
“I am proud that, once again, the University of the Ozarks is highly ranked in
the South Region by U.S. News & World
Report in its 2009 publication,” said U
of O President Dr. Rick Niece. “Being
ranked for the 10th consecutive year as
a top-tier university is a tribute to our
faculty, staff and students. I am equally
gratified that Ozarks is ranked as the third
best value in the South. To be ranked in
the top five for nine of the last 10 years
says a great deal about Ozarks and the
tremendous value we are.”
The South Region consists of colleges and universities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, North
Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia
and Virginia.
The top five in the overall rankings
for the “Great Schools, Great Prices”
category in the South Region were
Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas,
Claflin University in South Carolina,
University of the Ozarks, Covenant College in Georgia, and Alderson-Broaddus
College in West Virginia.
The top 10 in the overall rankings for
Baccalaureate Colleges in the South Region were Ouachita Baptist University,
Erskine College in South Carolina, John
Brown University in Arkansas, Covenant College in Georgia, High Point
University in North Carolina, Milligan
College in Tennessee, LaGrange College in Georgia, Tuskegee University in
Alabama, University of the Ozarks and
Florida Southern College.
U.S. News & World Report ranked
more than 1,400 accredited schools nationally in its “America’s Best Colleges”
edition, which hit the news stands in late
August.
KUOZ makes history
with election show
November 4, 2008, was not only
a big moment for the country, it was
a monumental moment for the university’s communications department
and its educational access television
station, KUOZ Channel 6.
While the country was electing its
44th president, U of O communications faculty and students were busy
producing and broadcasting more
than 3 hours of live election coverage
in one of KUOZ’s biggest projects in
its long history.
Under the leadership of Director
of Broadcasting Susan Edens, more
than 25 students and other faculty
members played a role in broadcasting live election coverage from Walker Hall on campus and from a remote
spot at the county courthouse.
The show included segments
in English and Spanish, live phoneins, live reports from the news room,
mini-live debates and discussions,
taped interviews with students and
staff, and other special presentations.
The show lasted from 7 p.m. until
10:30 p.m.
The show was the brainchild of
students Taylor Jacks and Allan Arroyo and was a culmination of several weeks of work and preparation
by students and faculty members.
“I know this was a very valuable
learning experience for all of us, and
I could not be more proud of every
single person who worked behind the
scenes or on the air that night,” said
Edens, who earned a communications
degree from Ozarks. “A wonderful
combination of enthusiastic students
and talented faculty came together to
make radio-television-video and university history. This is most definitely
a highlight in my teaching and broadcasting career to date.”
Olivia Fisher gives new meaning to
the term multi-sport athlete.
The senior from Mountain Home,
Ark., enters her senior season as one
of Ozarks’ most decorated multi-sport
athletes in recent years. She has shone
on the basketball court, tennis court and
soccer field for the Lady Eagles, garnering numerous regional, conference and
school awards.
Fisher has earned all-conference
honors in tennis, soccer and basketball.
She has been a four-year starter in soccer
and basketball and was the 2007 American Southwest Conference (ASC) East
Division women’s tennis player of the
year, the first such honor for an Ozarks
tennis player in the school’s history. Last
year she was also named the university’s
Female Athlete of the Year.
“I’ve always been one of those people who just goes from sport to sport,
even in high school,” said Fisher. “I love
being active, and I love competition.”
A self-described workout fanatic,
Fisher’s physical training routines are almost legendary on campus. During even
the dog days of August, Fisher worked
out six days a week, often running from
3-5 miles and lifting weights in the same
day. She hasn’t had a soda since the ninth
grade and follows a strict diet that shuns
fast food, pizza and fried food.
“I believe in the philosophy that if
you want it more than the next person and
you put in the work and effort, you can
defeat people who may be more talented
than you,” said Fisher. “Plus, I’ve just
always enjoyed working out and staying
in shape. There’s no better feeling than
finishing a tough workout and knowing
you’ve accomplished something.”
Fisher enters her senior season as one
of the top returning basketball players
in the ASC and a key player for a Lady
Eagles team that is attempting to bounce
back from last year’s 1-24 record.
Fisher has started 72 out of a possible
76 games for the Lady Eagles’ basketball
team in her career. Last year she led the
ASC in rebounding with a 9.3 per-game
average and also averaged 9.9 points.
“Olivia is a remarkable athlete with
an incredible work ethic and drive,” said
Lady Eagles Coach Christina Jost. “She
puts in countless hours in the gym, constantly working to improve her game.
She also has great leadership skills. She
was voted team captain by her teammates, which proves the respect she’s
earned from the entire team.”
Fisher is closing in on 600 career rebounds and will likely finish in the program’s top five list for career rebounds
despite being one of the smallest inside
players in the conference at 5-foot-9.
“Olivia does have a ‘nose for the
ball,’ however, her desire to rebound
and commitment to rebounding are the
reasons she is so successful at it,” said
Jost. “She is a very accomplished, strong
leader, who we undoubtedly will look to
lead us this season through her drive and
her never-give-up attitude.”
A biology major who plans to attend
dental or pharmacy school after graduation, Fisher has learned to juggle a hectic
schedule.
“It’s been tough at times trying to
play all three sports and keep my grades
up, but it’s been well worth it,” she said.
A Stellar Career
Brian Sarber, a senior goalkeeper from
Allen, Texas, completed a stellar soccer
career at Ozarks in 2008 as he led the
Eagles to a 14-3-4 record. The four-time
all-conference performer finished his
career as the program’s career leader in
saves (375) and goals against average
(.80), and was second in career shutouts
(25) and victories (49).
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Enrollment jumps five percent
The university saw its Fall 2008 Semester enrollment increase by 5 percent
over last year’s figures.
The university’s enrollment of 675
students is the largest since 2003 and a
32-student increase over 2007 Fall Semester figures. The number also represents an 8.5 percent increase over the
past two years. It is the university’s
third-largest enrollment figure in the past
15 years.
The 2008 enrollment includes 195
first-time entering freshman, a 9.5 percent increase over 2007. The university
also announced a 74 percent retention
rate of freshmen students from 2007,
compared with 67 percent last year.
“We are very pleased with not only
the increase in overall enrollment and
in the freshmen class, but with the retention rate as well,” said U of O Vice
President for Enrollment Management
Kim Myrick. “I believe that shows we’re
doing a good job of not only recruiting
students to campus, but also in helping
make sure that they are successful when
they get here.”
Myrick said the incoming class includes a record 21 Presidential Scholars,
students who possess well-above-average ACT scores and high school grade
point averages. She also pointed out that
the university received more than 1,000
applications for the first time.
“We introduced new recruitment
marketing material, enhanced the Web
site for recruiting purposes and launched
e-mail campaigns,” Myrick said of the
university’s admission efforts. “We had
a concerted application campaign for the
first time and that definitely made a difference.”
The U of O student body includes
students from 21 states, 18 countries and
48 counties throughout Arkansas. A total
of 349 students are from Arkansas, followed by Texas (130), Oklahoma (24)
and Missouri (8).
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Percentage of
alumni giving for
the 2007-08 fiscal
year, an increase over the previous
year’s mark of 18.8 percent and the
highest since 2004-05. A total of 665
alumni donated to the university.
The university hopes to increase that
number this year. If you would like to
donate, please call the Alumni Office
at 479-979-1234.
Number of chartered
student organizations for the 2008-09
academic year, an all-time high for
student organizations. Among the
newer student organizations are the
Ozarks History Club, Fellowship
of Christian Athletes, SCM (for
strategic communication majors),
the Ozarks Recreation Club and the
Ozarks Ultimate Frisbee Club.
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1,003
Total number of applications for
admission received by the Admission
Office last year, an all-time high. By
comparison, 797 applications were
received the previous year.
Among the new employees at U of O for the 2008-2009 academic year are (front row,
from left) Lori McBee, development officer for athletics; Dr. Heather McFarland,
assistant professor of speech; Sasha Edwards, housekeeping; Charlotte Teague,
housekeeping; Janet Stover, housekeeping; Andrea Insley, housekeeping; Monica
McClure, housekeeping; Jennie Ballinger, access services librarian; (back row, from
left) Martha Baldwin, admission counselor; Blake Rexroat, admission data coordinator; Rodnie Bohannon, residence hall director and activities advisor; Amber Willard,
admission counselor for Walker Teacher Education Program; Brett Stone, assistant
professor of physical education; Harvey Cowell, grounds keeper; Dr. Joel Hagaman,
assistant professor of psychology; Joseph Leos, grounds keeper; Shaun Wiseman,
men’s and women’s tennis coach; Bryan Drotar, women’s soccer coach; and Caleb
Chrisman, grounds keeper.
9.3
The average number of rebounds per game
last year by Lady
Eagles basketball player Olivia
Fisher. The 5-foot-9 senior from
Mountain Home, Ark., led the
American Southwest Conference
in rebounds during her junior
season last year. She has 593 career
rebounds, just 14 shy of breaking
into the program’s top 10 career
rebounding list. The program’s top
career rebounder is Alicia Haney
(1990-94), who has 892 rebounds.
Briefs
Dr. William Eakin, professor of philosophy and German, often explores issues of
philosophical inquiry in an imaginative way
through his genre fiction (some 70 professionally published short stories). In 2008,
he questioned what it means to be human
through the animation of a fake mummy
(a manikin wrapped up in knee bandages)
in his story “LOOB,” currently appearing
in Albedo One (issue 34, 2008), one of
Ireland’s most prominent science fiction
magazines. His story “Bob and the Mermaid,” which analyzes desire and commitment, was sold to Realms of Fantasy, one
of the biggest magazines in that genre in the
U.S. (available on newsstands sometime in
2009). He also sold stories to a number of
anthologies, including New Writings in the
Fantastic #2, forthcoming from the U.K.
The U of O Students in Free Enterprise
(SIFE) team took first place in the 2008
Walgreens Wrangle Case Competition
held in Magnolia, Ark., in November. The
group included (front row, from left) Claudia Aguero, Daniela Chavarria, Marivi,
Davila, (back row, from left) advisor Eric
Leon, Zach Almager, Jorge Linares, Josue
Lanza and Juan Paz. There were 12 SIFE
teams competing, including Louisiana
State University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Alabama.
Dr. Brian McFarland, assistant professor
of chemistry, gave an oral presentation at
the Spring 2008 American Chemical Society meeting in New Orleans. Dr. McFarland’s paper was titled, “Microencapsulation of Free-Radical Initiators and their Use
in Frontal Polymerization.” Students Alissa
Ferrari and Jessica Reed accompanied him
and each gave poster presentations.
Tammy Harrington, associate professor
of art, recently had an artwork accepted to
be part of the 2009 Arkansas Artist Engagement Calendar. Artists from or living in Arkansas were invited to submit one artwork
to this competition. The title of her work is
“Oriental Princess II,” and it is an intaglio
print. The calendar is a project of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Association and
Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe.
Dr. Kendrick Prewitt, associate professor
of English, and Dr. David Strain, professor of English and French and the chair
of the Humanities and Fine Arts Division,
presented papers at the southwest regional
meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature in early October 2008 at
Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee,
Okla. The title of Dr. Prewitt’s paper was
“Richard Wilbur Calls Us to the Things of
This World. Wilbur’s Materiality.” The title
of Dr. Strain’s paper was “Doubting Doubt:
Materiality in Richard Wilbur’s ’A Dubious
Night.’ ”
Dr. Robert Hilton, business and management professor and chair of the Division of
Business, Communications and Government, was recently elected as vice chair on
the board of directors of the International
Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE). Hilton, who has taught at U
of O since 1984, will serve as the IACBE
board’s vice chair for 2008-2009 before
stepping up to take the chair’s position during the 2009-2010 term. His three-year term
expires in 2011.
Dr. George Stone, chair of the Division of
Education, was invited to present a paper at
the 20th annual Oxford Round Table held at
Pembroke College in Oxford, England, in
August. Dr. Stone’s paper was titled “John
Ozarks hosted the annual meeting of
the presidents and administrators of
the Arkansas Independent Colleges &
Universities (AICU) on Oct. 19-20. The
keynote speaker for the AICU meeting
was U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor. Those pictured
include (from left) U of O President Dr.
Rick Niece, Sen. Pryor, U of O First Lady
Sherée Niece and AICU President E. Kearney Deitz. The AICU is made up of the 11
private colleges and universities throughout Arkansas.
Dewey’s Philosophy of History as a Guide
to the International Order.” The Round
Table’s theme was History and International
Politics: Nations and Empires an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Stone, who earned his
undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees
from Southern Illinois University, has
taught at U of O since 2001.
Joe Hoing, dean of students since 1985,
was inducted into the Arkansas Tech
University Athletic Hall of Distinction in
November. Hoing was an All American
offensive lineman for Tech in 1970 before
having NFL tryouts with the Philadelphia
Eagles and Houston Oilers.
Maribeth King, the widow of board of
trustee member Dr. Ernest King, is recognized during the Fall Board of Trustee
meeting by Dr. Wayne Workman, the chair
of the board’s nominating committee. Mrs.
King accepted a plaque honoring Dr. King,
who was posthumously elected to honorary
lifetime membership on the board.
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Promise of Excellence Campaign:
Stability for Ozarks in Uncertain Times
Can you believe it? In less than a
year, October 28, 2009, to be precise,
Ozarks will celebrate her 175th birthday! There are so many amazing and
wonderful stories about all the students
and faculty and staff members who have
graced this institution. Some of the most
inspirational are of the people who found
themselves and Ozarks facing challenges
that literally threatened our school’s very
existence.
The campus at Cane Hill (southwest
of Fayetteville) burned twice, once as
part of military action in the Civil War.
The College was forced to move from
Cane Hill to Clarksville in 1891 due to
competition from a relatively
young, upstart competitor just
up the road, the University of
Arkansas. Ozarks’ primary
administrative and academic
building, Cumberland Hall,
burned to the ground in 1935
(see picture at right). Its replacement, the Science Hall
(later named Hurie Hall),
which also housed the College’s library, suffered devastating fires twice. Economic
and geopolitical challenges
including depressions, recessions, and wars also took
Ozarks to the brink of oblivion numerous times over the years.
Yet Ozarks overcame all these challenges through the sheer determination
and perseverance of her leaders and the
members of the campus communities of
the times. On-campus leadership coming from the likes of F.R. Earle (at Cane
Hill and later at Clarksville), Wylie Lin
Hurie, Don Davis, “Prof” Smith, J.T.
Patterson and many others saw the University through. Help from off-campus
champions with very familiar names to
Ozarks alumni came from near and far in
difficult times. MacLean, Munger, Seay,
Mabee, Boreham, and Walton are names
revered by all friends of Ozarks, as is the
generosity of all those who, according to
their ability, gave what they could to protect the school and her students through
thick and thin.
Now the University again finds itself buffeted by the economic turmoil
raging in America and around the globe.
Yet, for the first time in its long history,
Ozarks finds herself facing such a serious threat from a more stable starting
point. Make no mistake, Ozarks will
have to react effectively to the difficult
times, but it means that the University is
in a much better position to cope with
such threats.
Between the risks to Ozarks in the
past and the threats of today there re-
mains a constant key to Ozarks’ avoidance of the dangers posed by hard times.
That key is the continuing philanthropic
support of all those who have pooled
their efforts and their gifts, great and
small, to build Ozarks into the shining
beacon of educational opportunity she
represents today. To date, for instance,
in the University’s current $40 million
Promise of Excellence Campaign, your
combined gifts have totaled $33.4 million. Thank you so much!
We know, above all, that the same
economic problems that threaten Ozarks
threaten you. Indeed, it would be disrespectful in the extreme to ask you to
do more (not that we would
decline if you wanted to). We
simply ask that you first do
whatever you need to protect
you and yours in these difficult
times. Then, if you have any
flexibility and are so inclined,
do what you can in continued
support of the young men and
women seeking to achieve
their educational dreams
against the uncertain economic backdrop that they and their
families face as well.
If you are able and want
to lend your support through
gifts to the Annual Scholarship Fund, a
new or existing endowment, or for anything else, simply mail a gift to the University of the Ozarks Office of Advancement, 415 N. College Ave., Clarksville,
AR 72830. You may also reach us by
phone at 479-979-1230, or by email at
uopromise@ozarks.edu.
If now is not a good time, please continue to send your thoughts and prayers
for our students’ success. They don’t
cost a thing and they make a tremendous
difference here!
There are numerous ways to help Ozarks
“I wish I could do more to help Ozarks.”
Those are words that accompany so
many of the gifts we receive. Every gift,
whether large or small, simple or complex,
will help Ozarks reach its goal of $40 Million for the Promise of Excellence Campaign. The truth is that there are dozens
of ways to “do more” for Ozarks’ future
– if gifts are carefully planned. The need
for careful planning becomes clear when
people consider the basic questions involved in making an important gift: What
should I give? How should I give? When
should I give? Are there special purposes
my gift should accomplish?
What should I give?
Surprisingly, there are different tax
results from giving different types of
property. Even in these financially troubled times, some people still have highly
appreciated securities. If stocks have been
owned more than one year, then donors
can deduct not just their original costs,
but also any “paper profit” present in the
gift. Best of all, no capital gains taxes are
due when you give securities. Real estate,
mutual funds, and other types of property
offer the same advantages. At death, it
makes sense to leave “tax-burdened” assets, such as U.S. savings bonds and death
benefits from retirement accounts to charities, thus allowing heirs to avoid income
and death taxes. Or, if you qualify, make
a gift directly from your IRA and avoid
income tax on that amount entirely.
How should I give?
You might want to join our many
friends who have helped Ozarks through
bequests – gifts through their wills or
living trusts. You also could choose to
make a gift that reserves lifetime income
to you or a family member. Ozarks would
benefit in the same manner as if you had
made a bequest, but you would be entitled to charitable deductions and other
tax benefits today. Or you may prefer
the simplicity of an immediate gift of
cash or property. By tailoring the form
of your gift to fit your personal situation,
you can gain maximum tax rewards,
maintain financial security and make a
truly meaningful contribution.
When should I give?
Many people plan gifts at year-end
to provide important tax deductions. Or
they may find charitable contributions
most helpful in years when they have a
large influx of taxable income, from a
bonus, sale of a business, successful investment, or inheritance of taxable assets
such as savings bonds or IRAs. Large
deductions are often available even if
you retain lifetime income from your
gift. But the most practical time to make
significant gifts may be through your
estate plan, by means of a will, living
trust, or beneficiary designation on a life
insurance policy or retirement account.
Such gifts are wholly revocable while
you are alive, may save significant taxes
for your estate, and if you let us know of
your intentions, your gift may even help
us reach our goal for the Promise of Excellence Campaign.
Are there special purposes my gift
should accomplish?
Your support should be carefully
planned to assure your personal satisfaction. Your gift can be established as a
memorial to a loved one. You may want
to earmark your gift for a particular program or purpose, or simply say that your
gift may be applied wherever the need is
greatest.
We invite you to explore with us the
many sides of your own planned giving,
the meaning your personal philanthropy
can have for both you and Ozarks, and
how your planned giving can help Ozarks
reach its goal for the Promise of Excellence Campaign. Please contact Andrea
Dixon, Director of Major and Planned
Giving at 479-979-1230 or adixon@
ozarks.edu for more information.
Deferred gifts benefit
current campaign
We have passed the halfway
mark of the Promise of Excellence
Campaign at University of the
Ozarks, and we are fortunate to be
able to include deferred gifts in reaching our campaign goal, even though
these gifts may not be realized until
well after the end of the campaign on
March 31, 2011.
If you have planned a gift for
Ozarks through your will, trust or other estate planning vehicle and you let
us know about it, your gift can have
an impact on this campaign. If you
are thinking about making a planned
gift to Ozarks, know that your gift can
make a difference in our campaign
and in the lives of the students that it
supports today and in the future.
Please contact Andrea Dixon,
Director of Major and Planned Giving, at 479-979-1230 or adixon@
ozarks.edu for more information.
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According to the Small Business Administration,
approximately 650,000 new small businesses are
created each year in the U.S. Yet a full one-third of those do not survive more than
two years. It takes a person of creativity, resourcefulness, high-energy and business savvy to be a successful entrepreneur. We found several of them.
Ivan Quant ’98
Mr. Lee and Cocina de Doña Haydee Restaurants
I
van Quant credits a creativity course he took at Ozarks in 1997 taught by Business Professor Dr. Randy Hilton and Communications Professor Dr. Jane Cater for sparking his entrepreneurial spirit. “The course made me think out of the box
in terms of how to approach the consumer to offer value,” said Quant. “When your business concept offers more value
than others, then the business will develop easily. But to get to that point, you have to be creative. If you are just following or
copying what the leader does, it will never take off.” Quant and his family own seven restaurants in the Nicaragua capital of
Managua. Under the company name ERQ, the Quant family owns four Mr. Lee establishments --- a Chinese fast-food restaurant concept that operates in food courts — and three Cocina de Doña Haydee’s — a sit-down Nicaraguan food restaurant
named for his grandmother, whose cooking skills inspired the family to get into the food business. The company employs
about 115 people. Quant, who went on to earn an MBA from Kennesaw State University after graduating from Ozarks, serves
as the operations manager of ERQ and directs all aspects of operations, policies, acquisitions and investments. Quant worked
for several multinational companies in Nicaragua before getting into his own business. “I worked for companies where policies and bureaucracies many times matter more than value creation,” he said. “I like the opportunity to deliver quick responses
to my customers’ demands.” Quant said ERQ plans to expand into other Central American countries in the near future. “The
worst thing you can do as a small business owner is get too comfortable,” Quant said. “You have to always be searching for
ways to improve and stay ahead.”
That Entrepreneurial Spirit
Dr. Johnny Dillard ’70
Zach Boatright ’04
D
Z
Central Research
r. Johnny Dillard is a disabled veteran, and he is
proud to give other disabled veterans an opportunity to work. Dillard and his son, Scott, founded
the Northwest-Arkansas-based business Central Research in
1999. The business, which employs about 20 people, provides a wide variety of administrative and financial services,
including judgement recovery, investigative services, record
management and administrative support. Central Research is
currently working with several companies that work for the
U.S. Department of Education. These companies are looking
for individuals who have defaulted on student loans. Central
Research helps locate these individuals, specifically those
who are deceased or incarcerated. “We confirm that they are
either deceased or incarcerated so that they can be taken off
the U.S. Department of Education’s default list,” said Dillard,
who earned a Ph.D. in education from Southwest University.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Dillard retired from active duty
with the National Guard in 1995 as a lieutenant colonel. In
the 1990s he was diagnosed with exposure to Agent Orange,
which he contacted during his tour in Southeast Asia. As a
100 percent disabled veteran himself, Dillard emphasizes the
hiring of disabled veterans and currently has about 10 employed in his business. Central Research was recently given
a certificate of appreciation from the American Legion in
recognition of its employment of workers with disabilities. “I
served 24 years in the military, and I have a special place in
my heart for veterans and veterans with disabilities,” Dillard said. “There is so much discrimination these days in the
workforce. We’re not a charity organization, but if a disabled
veteran is able to do the work, we’d love to have them. We
hold them to the same standards as everyone else in the business, and they haven’t let us down.”
D.Jones Tailored Collection
ach Boatright may be one of the university’s best
dressed young alumni. Boatright is the vice president and a partner in D.Jones Tailored Collection, a
two-year-old Dallas-Fort Worth-based business that offers
custom-tailored suits at a fraction of what they would cost in
stores. With founding partner Drew Jones, Boatright purchases high-end fabric, such as wool and silk, from Italy and
utilizes from 4-10 tailors in China, to produce luxury suits
for customers in the Metroplex area and beyond. Custommade 100 percent wool or wool blend suits that can cost
upwards of $1,500 off the rack are sold for $325, or $280 for
college students. The concept was created to focus on college
students or recent graduates. “There are businesses out there
that do something similar, but the things that set us apart
are, first, the price, second, the personal attention we offer,
and third, that we focus on college students,” said Boatright.
“Our goal was to make luxury suits available to the average
college student.” Even though most of the marketing efforts
have focused on college students — the company sold 20
suits to one fraternity at Texas Christian University in October — about 60 percent of their business comes from the
professional workplace. They sell an average 15-20 suits a
month, but Boatright said the company just began concerted
marketing efforts this past summer. “We want to get our
college business up much higher, and that’s going to be our
focus and our niche,” he said. “A lot of time college students
don’t know the difference between a custom-made suit and
one off the rack, so part of what we do is to educate them on
the difference in quality and fit. We want to give them an opportunity to afford a nice suit or two for college functions or
when they start going out for interviews.” More information
on the business can be found at www.djonescollection.com.
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Otto J. Mejia ’00
Matt McCormick ’88
O
T
Otto J. Mejia L. Fotografía
tto Mejia’s love for photography started at Ozarks
when he worked as a student worker in the university’s Public Relations Office. “The opportunity to
do real assignments, work with good equipment and see my
photographs displayed in print or on the Web site was a very
good feeling,” he said. “That’s when my interest in photography really took off.” Mejia has turned his photography hobby
into a thriving part-time business, Otto J. Meija L. Fotografía,
in his home country of Nicaragua. While Mejia’s full-time
job is as the Nicaragua manager for the Atlanta-based healthcare marketing company DrTango, his photography business
is where his passion is. Out of a small home studio, Mejia
photographs everything from weddings to portraits and
products. He has numerous magazine covers, print advertisements and billboards in his ever-expanding portfolio. One of
the aspects of photography that Mejia enjoys the most is the
planning and setting up of the shoot. “I tend to get very technical on my shoots, and I try to challenge myself with new
angles, composition and lighting positions,” he said. “There
is a special feeling when you review the shot on the camera’s
LCD and realize that you’ve just nailed it.” Ironically, Mejia
thought he would never get into wedding photography, but
it has become one of his favorite events to shoot. “I experimented shooting weddings with a photojournalist style, and it
worked,” he said. “It turned out that I really liked the experience, and people liked my style and the cleanliness of the
details.” Mejia plans to slowly expand the business. “Photography is a very interesting and dynamic field where the tools,
styles and technologies are constantly evolving,” Mejia said.
“If you are able to stay on top of those changes, there will
always be plenty of opportunities.” His photography can be
seen at www.ottomejia.com.
McCormick’s One Stop
he sign that hangs above the deli in McCormick’s One
Stop says everything you need to know about the small
general store: “Cows May Come and Cows May Go
But the Bull in This Place Goes on Forever.” Located in tiny
Harmony, Ark., a few miles north of Clarksville, McCormick’s
store is a jack-of-all-trades of general stores. Customers can
buy anything from gasoline and overalls to light bulbs and
Hamburger Helper. And, there is an impressive collection
of Coca-Cola memorabilia throughout the store. It is also a
place where locals gather and shoot the breeze on everything
from hunting to sports to politics. During deer season it is an
especially popular place as a check station, processing site
and gathering place for hunters. “Some people say it’s more
like a beauty parlor in here,” said McCormick, whose mother,
Diana McCormick is a program coordinator in the U of O
Jones Learning Center. “I call it an information center. It’s
just a good place to come and hang out.” After graduating
from Ozarks, McCormick spent 10 years working as a store
manager for Brookshire Grocery in Texas before a yearning to
return home had him exploring options. Looking for a retailtype business to purchase near Clarksville, McCormick looked
at the store in Harmony several times before finally deciding
to buy it. “I wasn’t 100 percent sure about it, and I think the
owners were getting a little irritated with me,” McCormick
said. “One day I was going out to look at it one more time and
decided to turn around. I was asking God for a sign on what to
do, and I stopped at this garage sale. There at the garage sale
were these booths and tables for sale from an old McDonald’s
restaurant that were perfect for the store.” Fourteen years later
the booths and tables are still in the store and McCormick,
whose house is next door, has found a perfect place for him
and his wife Jennifer to raise their three children.
Pat ’73 and Karen Hilton ’80
David Hadidi ’78
P
D
Arkansas Trike Center
at Hilton thinks he has the answer for Baby Boomers
who still want to hit the open road: motorcycle trikes.
Hilton and his wife Karen (Qualls), a teacher at Lamar
(Ark.) Junior High School, have owned the Arkansas Trike
Center in Clarksville since 2006. Trikes are motorcycles that
have been converted to more stable three-wheel vehicles.
They are a recent trend in the United States, gaining popularity only within the last decade. It is so new, in fact, that there
are only about six shops in the entire state of Arkansas that
convert motorcycles to trikes. Owning a small business is
nothing new for Hilton, who has operated Hilton Machine
and Tool, Inc., in Clarksville since 1979. He still spends about
half his time at his machine shop and half his time at his trike
business, which he runs with his son Josh. Hilton got into
the trike business when he came across a man in Clarksville
who was building and selling the vehicles out of his garage.
He promptly purchased the business and moved it to a larger
location. “This guy had a small operation, but he was always
busy, and it just dawned on me that this was the future of
motorcycles,” Hilton said. “Baby Boomers are getting older
and nearing retirement, and the trikes are easier to handle,
and are safer on the roads. There are a lot of people who have
been riding for years, but they’re getting to the age where
they can’t hold their bikes up. But they don’t want to give
up riding, so the trike is the perfect compromise.” Though
Hilton’s business mainly consists of converting motorcycles
to trikes, he is also the lone Arkansas dealer for a new factory
made trike called the Stallion by Thoroughbred Motorsports.
The Stallion is a sleek, rocket-shaped vehicle with automatic
transmission that gets almost 50 miles per gallon. The business recently moved to a larger location off Interstate-40. The
Web site is www.arkansastrikecenter.com.
Hadidi Oriental Rug Company
avid Hadidi started out in the real estate business
in the late 1970s, but the native of Iran was always
getting requests for Persian rugs. It didn’t take him
long to realize he might be on to something. “Being from Iran,
we grew up around the rug business, and we knew quite a bit
about Persian rugs,” Hadidi said. “People were always asking
us to get Persian rugs for them. It kind of started out as a hobby at first and then it took off.” Hadidi and his brother started
the rug business in the late 1970s, and they moved into its current location on Cantrell Road in Little Rock in 1984. Hadidi
is now the sole owner of the business, which is the largest of
its kind in the entire state of Arkansas. This past summer, he
doubled the size of his business by adding 3,500-square-feet
of floor-room space to show off the hundreds of rugs he has in
stock. Hadidi emphasizes honesty, integrity and personal satisfaction in his business relationships. He even lets customers
take rugs home and try them out for a few days. “Little Rock
is a relatively small city, and Arkansas is a small state, so if
you’re not selling quality rugs at a good price and if you’re not
treating people right, word will get out and your business will
not survive,” he said. “We have to earn their trust and keep
it. If someone is not 100 percent happy, we take the rug back
and return their money. We want happy customers.” Hadidi
is a wholesale direct importer of the hand-made 100 percent
wool and silk rugs that come from throughout the Middle East
and Asia. He said about 60 percent of his sales come from
Arkansas and 40 percent from other states. He works closely
with interior designers to help customers find the perfect rug
for houses and businesses. “In this business you have to be up
on the latest trends in rugs and in interior designs,” he said.
“A rug is very personal, and it needs to fit the person and the
room. That’s what we strive for.”
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Debbie Goodman ’80, Jan
Julie Kersey ’80
Storment ’81, Doug Bryan ’87 Julie’s Perks
Family Shoe & Fashion Boutique
T
he Bryan siblings --- (pictured, from left) Jan, Bryan
and Debbie --- grew up working in their family’s shoe
store, starting out dusting shoes for 50 cents an hour
and later helping customers. “We didn’t know it at the time,
but we were learning how to run a business when we were
10 and 11 years old,” said Jan (Bryan) Storment. “We were
just expected to help out in the store growing up. It was a lot
of fun, but it was also great experience.” The shoe store that
was started by their parents — Travis and Sandra (a 1967
Ozarks graduate) — in the mid-1970s is now operated by the
siblings, as well as another store, Fashion Boutique, which
opened in 1984. The two stores have been successful businesses in downtown Clarksville for more than a quarter of
a century. Both Storment and Debbie (Bryan) Goodman attended Ozarks and earned business and teaching degrees, but
the pull of the family business was too much to resist. “We
considered teaching careers, but there is something special
about owning and running your own business,” said Goodman. “I really enjoy the selling part of it, and I like people.”
The siblings agree that fostering relationships with customers
is the key for a small business to succeed. “People can tell
when you’re being sincere and when you’re truly interested
in them,” Storment said. “The best advertising we have is
word of mouth, so you have to have satisfied and happy
customers.” Doug Bryan said the thing he enjoys most about
running a small business is the control. “You don’t have to
go through numerous channels if you have an idea; you can
implement it right away,” he said. “You are able to try new
ideas and get things done quicker. Of course, if things don’t
work out, there’s no one to blame but yourself.”
W
hen you walk into Julie’s Perks in Clarksville, a
well-coifed friendly Shih Tzu named Dexter is
there to greet you. And, not far behind is the store’s
owner, Julie (Ballew) Kersey ’80, who puts an emphasis on
friendliness. “I’m a people person and owning a small business like this fits my personality well,” said Kersey. “I can’t
think of anything else I’d rather be doing.” Julie’s Perks is
a small home decor, floral, gourmet food and coffee shop in
Clarksville. Kersey moved the store from Greenwood, Ark.,
back to her hometown of Clarksville in 2003. “I’d been away
from Clarksville for 23 years, and it was just time to come
home,” she said. “I had also been in the insurance business
for a few years before and hated it. I wanted to get back to
what I loved and that was owning my own business.” Kersey
earned a marketing degree from Ozarks, a degree that has
suited her well in a career based in marketing and retail. She
served as marketing director of a Fort Smith, Ark., mall for
several years before deciding to open her own business, one
of the first coffee bars in the Fort Smith area. “Marketing and
advertising is so important in business, and my background
has really helped me,” she said. “You have to be able to get
your message about your business out to people. If you can’t
market your business successfully, you’re in big trouble.”
Growing up around a family of small business owners
sparked Kersey’s interest in being an entrepreneur at an early
age. She said she has always enjoyed the creative side of
owning her own business, and she is able to put that creativity
to use in running her small gift shop. “There’s no better feeling than using your creativity to set up a display area and then
seeing it pay off with sales,” she said. “I like the one-on-one
aspect of it as well. When you’re able to give someone what
they want and they leave happy, it’s a wonderful feeling.”
Don Ferrier ’74
David Morgan ’71
T
D
Ferrier Custom Homes
here was a time when Don Ferrier wanted no part of
the family business. Now Ferrier and his daughters,
Heather and Lacey, are happily running the soon-tobe-fourth generation construction business in Fort Worth,
Texas. Ferrier has helped continue a family tradition that
started in 1881 when his great-grandfather immigrated to
Texas from Scotland to help build the Texas State Capitol.
Today, Ferrier Custom Homes and Ferrier Builders are successful construction companies that service the North Texas
area. “I had spent every summer and holiday working for my
family’s construction business, so the last thing I wanted to
do when I graduated from college was to work there,” Ferrier
said. But after a couple of years working in the admission office at Ozarks, Ferrier returned to the family business. With a
background in structural concrete, Ferrier soon found himself
building earth-sheltered homes in Texas using concrete floors,
walls and roof, a new concept at the time. These homes
became many of the early generation energy efficient homes.
Staying abreast of the latest technology, Ferrier helped Ferrier
Homes become a leader in building energy-efficient, highperformance homes over the last 20 years. His company,
which builds on average 6-8 homes a year, has won numerous
awards in recent years for energy efficiency. “I got into highperformance homes by accident, and the timing was perfect,”
Ferrier said. “Our homes use about one-third less energy than
traditional homes, and the extra cost pays for itself in just a
few years. There’s been a huge shift in the demand for these
types of homes and we were fortunate to be on the right side
of the trend.” Ferrier’s daughters work for the business and
will take it over some day. “They bring a fresh new perspective to the business,” he said. “It’s very rewarding to run a
business with your children and watch them grow with it.”
Morgan’s Fashions
avid Morgan didn’t find the clothing business, it
found him. Morgan and his wife, Deanna, own
Morgan’s Fashions clothing stores in Clarksville and
Ozark, Ark. He has been in the clothing business for more
than 30 years, but it was almost by accident that it happened.
Morgan worked for an insurance company after graduating
with a business degree from Ozarks, but he knew he eventually wanted to own his own business. “I just always saw
me working for myself, and I knew I wanted to make that
happen,” he said. “I just wasn’t sure what kind of business it
would be. I really struggled with ideas of what to open.” At
the urging of friends and family who said Clarksville needed
a clothing store, Morgan jumped in and opened the store in
the mid-1970s. “I knew very little about running a business
and even less about running a clothing store, but I did have
friends in the business who I could call for advice,” Morgan
said. “I was like a rat running through a maze, eventually he
finds an opening. That was me in those first few years. I think
a lot of it was just instincts.” The Morgans do everything they
can to keep up with the latest fashions and trends for their
store, which sells higher-end men’s and women’s clothing.
“We go to trade shows and major markets, see what people
are wearing on TV, read magazines to see what celebrities are
wearing; just anything we can do to try and keep ahead of the
trends,” Morgan said. “You have to use every means possible
to know what people are wearing now and what they will
be wearing in the near future. The learning process is neverending.” Morgan said the key to operating a successful small
business is having the drive. “Many people don’t realize how
demanding it can be and the long hours it requires, but it can
also be very rewarding,” he said. “You have to have the drive
and energy to make it work.”
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Successful business owners share common traits
G
rowing up, I had the opportunity to watch my grandfather,
the late John Plugge, operate
Plugge Brothers General Store in Hartman, Arkansas, and my parents, John
and Estella Hilton, operate Hilton Motor Company and Jamestown Fina Station. In addition, I observed my aunts
and uncles operate a number of small
family businesses in the area, including
Hilton Coal Company, Inc., and Clarksville Parts Wholesale.
After I returned to Clarksville in
1984, my brother, Randy, and I started
Hot Hits Dance Company, a DJ business
which we operated for 23 ½ years. This
past year, I helped my wife, Dayna, start
her company, Firehouse Dog Publishing,
LLC, through which we sell children’s
fire safety books and audio books featuring our Dalmatian, Sparkles, the fire
safety dog.
As a young child, I thought all parents owned a family business. When I
learned otherwise, I realized just how
lucky I was. Each day after school I
could not wait to spend time at my parents’ business helping out in whatever
way I could.
My primary motivation for attending
college was to help my parents operate
their business. As a senior at Clarksville
creative, having the ability to identify
customer needs before others and being
able to attract the necessary resources
to satisfy those needs. The late entrepreneur, Ray Kroc, of the McDonald’s
Corporation is a perfect example of an
entrepreneur who performed this function very well.
High School, I spent many hours with
the late Dr. James W. Perrett, Chairman
of the Division of Business Administration at the University of the Ozarks,
discussing how a college degree would
help me achieve my plans for eventually
operating my parents’ business.
While in college, I wrote several papers on leadership. It was then that I first
began to study the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs. Fortunately, I was
in the unique position to not only study
entrepreneurs, but also to observe and
interact with them on a daily basis.
The following are my top 10 characteristics of a successful entrepreneur,
based on my personal observations and
experiences.
(1) The most important characteristic
of an entrepreneur, in my judgment, is
the ability to identify and satisfy unmet
customer needs. An entrepreneur is very
(2) An entrepreneur is a risk taker, often mortgaging property, taking on debt,
and using available savings to supply the
products necessary to satisfy customers.
An entrepreneur has an opportunity not
only to earn a profit, but to suffer a loss
as a result of taking the risk. Yet, despite
the known risks, the entrepreneur acts on
the idea and does not quit. The late Walt
Disney, who failed in business several
times before successfully launching Disneyland, is the epitome of a risk taker.
(3) Possessing an extremely high energy level and always being “on” when
at the business or in public is another
entrepreneurial characteristic. Generally positive, on the move, and happy to
meet people, the entrepreneur works at a
very rapid tempo and “sets the pace” for
the entire company. My late uncle, Leo
Wiederkehr of Wiederkehr Wine Cellars,
Inc., taught me this important lesson.
(4) An entrepreneur has stamina and is
generally in good health. Often working long hours and refusing to get sick
accurately describes my dad. He could
not take time off from work for illness
because the work had to get done. An entrepreneur rarely takes time away from
the business since there is often no replacement for the leader. My dad never
missed a day of work due to illness; he
was always there.
(5) The entrepreneur knows the importance of repeat business and has a good
understanding of the 80/20 rule. That is,
80% of sales are derived from 20% of
the customer base. Therefore, it is very
important to identify and take care of
the 20%. After graduation from UCA, I
worked for an area community bank. On
my first day of employment, the CEO
asked me if I understood the 80/20 principle and how I thought it applied to his
bank. We then discussed the 20% of his
customer base that I needed to focus my
efforts on at the bank. It was a lesson that
I will never forget.
(6) Focusing on people, especially customers, is very important. An entrepreneur loves to play, joke, and spend time
in the presence of others. Part entertainer, the entrepreneur understands that the
business is not only a place to buy and
sell products — it is a social institution
where the needs of the heart and soul are
also satisfied. An entrepreneur has the
ability to make the person in his or her
presence feel very special. As a teenager,
I loved watching my mother perform
this role as she interacted with our cus-
tomers. She had a way of making them
feel very special, which drew a number
of our customers back to the business every single day.
(7) As a leader, the entrepreneur avoids
restrictive and coercive motivation
tactics, acting as a coach and spending much time managing by walking
around. Gathering information, training
employees, offering feedback, and gaining the respect of others is what successful entrepreneurs do. An entrepreneur
understands that happy employees are
very good for business and sales. Dr.
John L. Green, founder of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business
Education (IACBE) and the Association
of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), effectively uses this
leadership style.
(8) Inspiring confidence in others is an
important entrepreneurial role. A visceral feeling of greatness surrounds the entrepreneur, who is passionate about the
people, the products, and the company.
Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest Airlines, is one of my favorite examples of an entrepreneur performing
this role.
(9) An entrepreneur is extremely competitive, possessing much product
knowledge and using that information
to quickly solve customer problems to
generate sales. Competing to win over a
customer’s business motivates the entrepreneur, and ultimately, the entire sales
organization. I have always admired the
competitive nature of the late Roland S.
“Rollie” Boreham, Jr. of Baldor Electric
Company and his entrepreneurial spirit.
Robert Hilton holds up a cut out poster of
his wife Dayna that is used to promote her
new book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog.
The book has sold more than 8,000 copies
and is the first to be published under the
Hilton’s new company, Firehouse Dog
Publishing, LLC.
(10) Lastly, an entrepreneur possesses
the emotional stability to handle complex situations as they arise. Exercising
self-control, remaining disciplined in a
crisis situation, and letting data drive the
decision-making process is important to
the entrepreneur. Jerry Gagnon, of Ga-
Ozarks business professors and brothers
Dr. Robert (left) and Dr. Randy Hilton had
their own DJ business, Hot Hits Dance
Company, for 23 years.
gnon Sports in Toronto, personifies this
trait at his hunting goods store.
As a teacher, some of my favorite
conversations are with those students
who have also grown up in a family
business. I love hearing their personal
stories.
On a personal level, my experience
is with small family enterprises. What I
love about them is that the “family” and
the “business” are often indistinguishable. Such was the case in my own family, which left its own indelible mark on
my professional interests. I know, from
first-hand experience, how small businesses affect the family in ways that
only a business can. The idea of everyone pulling together to accomplish a
common goal means much more when
it’s family. The closeness within a family
because of the business is something that
cannot be replaced. I have watched and
learned many valuable lessons through
my experiences in the family business.
Today, I am lucky enough to share those
lessons with my students so they may
benefit from them as well.
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1960s
1950s
Donald Marts ’51 and his wife
Patricia of Clarksville celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on July 24,
2008. They are previous owners of the
Herald-Democrat newspaper in Clarksville.
Several alumni recently attended
the Clarksville High School 55-year
reunion. They included Sue (Patterson)
Pine ’57, Rusty Ratliff ’58, Joanne
(Willett) Taylor ’60, Lorraine (Darnell) Belote ’56, Robert Ed Farris ’57,
Bud Horne ’57, Truman Owens ’58
and Charles Callahan ’58.
Several U of O alumnae took part in or
attended the wedding of Andrea (Dewey)
DeVault ’05 (center) and Will DeVault on
Sept. 13, 2008, in Farmington, Ark. The
Ozarks group included Lindsey McCuen
’05, Melanie Barrier ’05, Chelsea Joslin
’08, Becky Stengal ’05, Kayci (Rockwell)
Haberer ’05, Regan Brown ’07, Miranda
White ’04, Shelly Muston ’05, Jeanne
(Randall) Hale ’07, Holly Cornell ’04,
Coumba Peterson ’05, Leigh (Thompson)
Ledbetter ’04, and Katie Shay ’05. The
DeVaults live in Prairie Grove, Ark., and
Andrea works for Lindsey & Associates in
Fayetteville.
E.L Jacobs ’60 and Dorothy
(Armstrong) Jacobs ’64 of Paris, Ark.,
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August with family and friends.
They were married on Aug. 29, 1958.
She is retired after a 35-year teaching
career, and he is retired from a career as
owner-operator of Jake’s Full Service
Phillips 66 and with the Herbst Shoe
Company.
T.J. “Jerry” Jones ’61 of Harrison,
Ark., was honored for his volunteerism
during the 31st annual Arkansas Community Service Awards in July. Jones,
who helped found Arkansas Freightways (now FedEx Freight), was also the
recipient of the 2008 Individual Community Service Award by the Harrison
Chamber of Commerce. Jones has been
active in the Salvation Army, American
Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and
Share and Care.
Phil Collins ’65 was featured in an
article in an August edition of the Russellville, Ark., newspaper The Courier
for entering his 43rd year of coaching
football in Arkansas. He was the head
coach at Western Yell County in 2008.
Collins, a former standout football
player at Ozarks, previously coached at
Pottsville, Dardanelle and Russellville.
Hartzell Jones ’66 is the deputy
superintendent for personnel for the
Springdale (Ark.) School District. He
was recently named Personnel Administrator of the Year for 2008 by the Arkansas Association of School Personnel
Administrators. He oversees the work
of approximately 2,000 employees.
Hole in the Wall Gang
2009 Reunion
There will be a reunion for the
Hole in the Wall Gang on July34, 2009, in Clarksville. For more
information, please contact David
Lasater ’75 at 479-754-2550,
479-214-0763 or dlasater@agent.
shelterinsurance.com.
for the Deaf in Little Rock. “That led
me to a degree in deaf education,” he
said. “I have Professor Parks to thank
for a wonderful career.” McDonald
taught at the Florida School for the Deaf
in the 1970s.
Sue (Crouse) Endsley ’75 was featured in a recent Dallas-area newspaper
for her efforts in organizing a fundraising walk in Flower Mound, Texas,
in November to support the American
Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Endsley, whose son Ryan committed
suicide in 2000, is active in the national
organization Out of the Darkness, which
offers support to families of those who
have taken their own lives. Sue and
husband Steven Endsley ’74 live in
Highland Village, Texas.
1970s
David McDonald ’72 is the administrator for the Arkansas State Office
for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired.
McDonald said he first got interested in
deaf education when he was a student at
Ozarks in 1970, and a professor, Gilbert
Parks, introduced him to Parks’ father,
who worked for the Arkansas School
Fernando Rivera ’03 and Maria Jose Rodriguez ’02 were married on May 31, 2008,
in El Salvador, where the couple resides.
Fernando said, “Life is definitely full of
surprises. When we were at Ozarks, Maria
and I were simply good friends. Now we
are married and happier than ever!”
1980s
Steve Crotts ’85 married Donette
Wilkins on Oct. 23, 2008, in Eureka
Springs, Ark. The Crotts live in Lamar,
Ark., where Steve is a farmer.
John Hays ’89 is living in Hope,
Ark., where he is executive vice president for First National Bancshares. He
and his wife, Tonja, have two children,
Luker and Helen, and are expecting a
third.
1990s
Shannon Fawcett ’91 was recently
named the new events coordinator for
the Bost Foundation in Fort Smith, Ark.
She previously served as the Northwest
Arkansas Division Director for the
March of Dimes.
Tricia Hoeffer ’91 is living in Tulsa, Okla., where she is a store manager
for Sprint.
Cylla Dugan ’96 gave birth to a
baby girl, Emily Shae, on June 20,
2008. Emily has two sisters, Brittany
Several alumni took part in a Graduate School Panel held during Family
Weekend in October. Those who shared
their graduate and professional school
experiences were (from left) Andi Davis
’2000, an attorney in Hot Springs, Ark.;
Dr. Jose Aldana ’99, a research associate
at the University of Arkansas; Brittney
Flinn ’08, a law student at the University
of Arkansas; Blake Rexroat ’06, a graduate student at Arkansas Tech University;
Alissa Ferrari ’08, a pharmacy student
at the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences; Jeremey Bernard ’03, director of
coaching at the Westside YMCA; and Julie
(Richardson) Bernard ’03, director of student organizations and university events at
the University of Central Arkansas.
and Ashleigh.
Dyanna (Smith) Yarbro ’96 and
husband Lance moved from Huntsville,
Ark., to Monett, Mo., in August. Along
with being a stay-at-home mother for
her son, England, Dyanna created a
line of Christian clothing and products
called Inspired Designs. Her Web site is
www.IDtshirtsNow.com.
Samantha (Snyder) Carpenter ’97
and husband Jeff welcomed a baby girl,
Cora Stone, to the family on Aug. 8,
2008. Cora has twin brothers, Clay and
Owen.
Lori (Myers) Hines ’97 recently
became the head girl’s basketball
coach at George Walton Academy High
School in Monroe, Ga. She previously
coached at John Milledge Academy in
Georgia where her 2007 team finished
20-7.
Britt Bauer ’98 recently earned a
master’s degree in educational leadership from Arkansas Tech University.
He is the principal at Butterfield Junior
High School in Van Buren, Ark.
Dr. Angela (Wheeler) Spencer ’98
and husband Shawn of Edmond, Okla.,
welcomed a baby boy, Waylon Jackson,
to the family on May 8, 2008.
Chris Stubbs ’98 and Christy
(Baker) Stubbs ’98 welcomed a daughter, Taylor Grace, to the family on Oct.
16, 2008.
Dr. Bryan Bishop ’99 recently
joined the Fort Smith, Ark., dentistry
practice of Dr. Stan Udouj & Associates. Bishop graduated with honors
from the University of Tennessee
College of Dentistry. He and his wife,
Christy, have one son, Brayden Scott.
The Bishops live in Alma, Ark.
Porsha (Wright) Russell ’99 and
husband Jason welcomed a daughter,
Mattie Marie, to the family on July 7,
2008.
2000s
Jacqueline (Janson) Presley ’00 is
living in Fayetteville, Ark., where she
is a bankruptcy counselor for Credit
Victoria Sayarath ’06 married Dustin
Seaton in Little Rock on Aug. 8, 2008 at
the Legacy Hotel. The Seatons live in Little
Rock where Victoria is in pharmacy school
at the University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences (UAMS).
Counseling of Arkansas. She and husband Spencer are expecting their first
child in the spring.
Matt Young ’01 is the principal
at R.E. Baker Elementary school in
Bentonville, Ark. He recently helped the
school dedicate a new playground.
Tonya Bell ’02 is living in Perry,
Ark., where she is a direct service
professional for Perry County Day
Services. She serves as an instructor
for developmentally disabled adults.
She and her husband have two children,
Ra’Lyn and Jaric.
Blake Kent ’02 is living in Searcy,
Ark., where he owns and operates an oil
company, Mid-State Services. He and
his wife, Georgia, have one son.
Harley Sinor ’02 and wife Amberlee of Clarksville welcomed a daughter,
Scarlett Irene, to the family on Aug. 22,
2008. Scarlett has a sister and brother,
Shiann and Cash.
Samantha (Wood) Armstrong ’03
and husband Scott of Clarksville welcomed a son, Sean Mason, to the family
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on July 9, 2008. Sean has one sister,
Erica.
Maria Fernanda “Mafer” Reyna
’03 married Ian Eadie recently in Spain.
They are living in London, England,
where she is an energy procurement
analyst.
Ricky Johnson ’03 is living in Dallas where he is a supervisor for Henry
Schein Inc., a pharmaceuticals company.
John Cooper ’04 recently took a
job as video production specialist for
university relations at the University of
Arkansas in Fayetteville. He shoots and
edits video for the university.
Rachael (Marble) Schluterman
’04 is a stay-at-home mom for daughter
Katie in Fort Smith, Ark. She and her
husband, Adam, are expecting another
child in January.
Erin (Yancey) Rowbotham ’05
and husband Klay of Lamar, Ark.,
welcomed son Issac Terry to the family
on July 28, 2008. Erin works for Phil
Taylor Insurance in Clarksville.
Kari Pridgin ’05 of Ozark, Ark.,
earned a master’s degree in instructional
technology from Arkansas Tech University in December. She is teaching math
at Ozark Middle School.
John Burgess ’06 married Brittany
Gideon on July 26, 2008, in Orange
Beach, Ala. He works as an independent
petroleum land manager for numerous
oil and gas companies. The Burgesses
live in Longview, Texas, with Brittany’s
daughter Hallie. John writes that they
are all avid sports fans, following the
Houston Astros and Dallas Cowboys.
India Judd ’06 is living in Seattle
where she works as a marketing executive for Calee Marketing. She trains
marketing executives for the firm,
located in downtown Seattle.
Jared Gordon ’07 married Heather
Lucy Waldo, the daughter of Mark and
Chivon (Cogan) Waldo ’03, will celebrate
her first birthday on Dec. 10, 2008.
Barr on June 21, 2008, in Puerto Rico.
The Gordons live in Plano, Texas.
Judith (Stacks) Little ’07 and Matt
Little ’05 welcomed a son, Clayton
James, to the family on May 1, 2008.
The Littles live in Clarksville.
Stay In T
ouch!
Have you recently started a new job? Received a promotion?
Welcomed a new addition to the family? Or maybe you just
haven’t been in contact with classmates in a few years. We want
to know what is going on in your life so that we can share it with
your fellow classmates in the Today magazine. Send class notes
to alumninews@ozarks.edu or go to the University’s Web site at
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Six to receive
Alumni Awards
The U of O Alumni Association
will present its annual alumni awards
to six people during Alumni Weekend
2009, scheduled for April 17-18.
The Alumni Achievement Award
will go to Dr. Fletcher Lowry ’52
of Conway, Ark. The Alumni Merit
Award will go to Freddia Jean Sullivent ’91 of Alma, Ark. The Young
Alumni Service Award will be presented to Trillian ’99 of New York City.
And the Alumni Legacy Award will
be given to David Rawhouser ’69 of
Arlington, Texas; Joanne (Willett)
Taylor ’60 of Clarksville; and Kathryn Wright ’58 of Baytown, Texas.
The Alumni Office is currently accepting nominations for next year’s
awards. If you would like to nominate
someone, please contact the Alumni
Office at 479-979-1234.
David Pridgin ’07 has relocated to
Haysville, Kan., where he is employed
by Occidental Petroleum of Wichita,
Kan. Occidental Petroleum Corporation
is an international oil and gas exploration and production company, as well
as a major North American chemical
manufacturer.
Jose Aguilar ’08 is working as an
account and financial manager for AutoExcel in Honduras.
Dennel Burke ’08 is living in
Texarkana, Texas, where she is a dental
assistant with Denzer-Burke DDS.
Maria Christina Calderon ’08 is
living in Fayetteville, Ark., where she
is a store manager for Abercrombie &
Fitch.
Maria Duarte ’08 and Marlon
Clair Sharp ’08 are both working as
Hines named Arkansas’ Mr. Bass
Robert Hines ’06 shocked the
state’s tournament fishing community
when he captured the 2008 Mr. Bass
of Arkansas title in his rookie year on
the fishing circuit.
Hines, of Little Rock, won the
prestigious title by amassing the most
points on the Mr. Bass of Arkansas
tournament circuit, which ended in
July. He finished the year with 413
points, 40 points ahead of the secondplace finisher.
“Being a rookie, I really didn’t
know what to expect this year, so I had
very few expectations,” said Hines,
who works at Arkansas Rod and Reel
in Little Rock. “I didn’t have the pressure of expectations, and I was able to
sneak up on people. I have to admit
that I surprised myself. I went from
never fishing a pro-am tournament to
winning an entire series. I had a fortunate year.”
One of the highlights of the year
for Hines was reeling in a monster
largemouth bass that weighed 9.27
pounds in a tournament on Lake Millwood in southern Arkansas. It was
part of a storybook rookie season for
Hines, who said he’s been fishing
since he was 2 or 3 years old.
“As long as I can remember, I’ve
had a rod in my hand,” said Hines,
who received a gold, jewel-studded
ring for winning the Mr. Bass title.
“I’ve worked in fishing stores and
guided fishing trips for most of my
life, so I’ve always wondered how I
would do in tournament fishing. But it
still surprised me to do so well in my
first year.”
Ronnie Everett, president of Mr.
Bass of Arkansas, said Hines surprised a lot of other people as well.
“Nobody knew who this kid was,”
Everett told the Northwest Arkansas
Times newspaper. “He was just smok-
Robert Hines holds up the 9.27 pound
largemouth he caught in a fishing tournament this past summer. Hines won the
prestigious Mr. Bass of Arkansas title
for 2008.
ing them. He didn’t win by just a little,
either. He beat them by 20 or 30 points.
He came out of nowhere.”
Hines majored in business at
Ozarks and had planned to go into the
investment field. A downturn in the
economy put those plans on hold and
spurred his attempt at tournament fishing.
“I knew if I was ever going to do
it, this was the time,” he said. “My
wife (Cheri) has been very supportive,
and so I jumped in and gave it a try.”
Hines hasn’t ruled out the possibility of trying his hand at professional
fishing.
“That’s a big step, but it’s something I’ve thought about,” he said.
“Winning the Mr. Bass title has definitely given me the confidence that I
can compete. I love to fish and there
would be nothing better than making a
living fishing.”
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manager trainees for the professional
services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers
in Honduras.
Russell Davis ’08 is working in
Austin, Texas, as an agency leasing
broker for Transwestern, a commercial
real estate company.
Jeana Feazel ’08 is living in Coon
Rapids, Iowa, where she is a resort
manager for Whiterock Conservancy, a
5,000-acre, non-profit land trust in west
central Iowa.
Robby Finnell ’08 is working as
an adult protective services specialist
for the State of Oklahoma. He investigates neglect, exploitation and abuse of
adults.
Robin Jennings ‘08 and Richard
Humphreys of Clarksville welcomed a
baby boy, Jack Anderson, to the family
on Aug. 27, 2008.
Enyinnaya “K.Z.” Inyama ’08 is
working as a manager trainee for Edward Jones in San Antonio, Texas.
Michelle Linares ’08 is working as
a teacher in La Ceiba, Honduras.
Clint McHenry ’08 and Andrea
(Mitchell) McHenry ’08 are living
in Tulsa, Okla., where she works as a
teacher and he works for Enterprise.
Several former men’s basketball players returned to compete in the Alumni Basketball
Game on Oct. 18. Those included (from left ) Habeeb Kareem ’08, Reggie Brasfield ’04,
Josh Joyner ’06, Michael Bollman ’04, Isaac Middlebrooks ’05, David Hamilton ’06,
Ryan Marshall ’01, Geoff Owens ’04, Ricky Johnson ’03, Scott McCall ’07, Brad Johnson ’06, David Pridgin ’07, Jacob Sibley ’06, Andre Webster ’98, and Bo Martin ’08.
David Ray ’08 was busy during the
summer and early fall working for the
National Republican Party as a campaign aide in senatorial races in Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia.
Luis Sanchez ’08 is living in Chihuahua, Mexico, where he is a development and new projects manager for a
company.
Fidel Samour ’08 is working in
Little Rock, Ark., as a project coordinator at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Samantha Whitten ’08 is in graduate school and working as a graduate
assistant at the University of Arkansas
Sociology Department.
Jonathan Vire ’10 and Savannah
Keith ’10 were married July 12, 2008,
in Lamar, Ark. The Vires live in Lamar
and are students at U of O.
Porchia, Gonzalez named to Sports Hall
Smooth-shooting basketball player
Anthony Porchia ’93 and high-scoring
soccer standout Marcos Gonzalez ’01
will be inducted into the U of O Sports
Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Saturday, Feb 14, in Mabee Gymnasium.
Porchia played for the Eagles from
1989-93 and is the program’s second
all-time leading scorer (1,671 points)
and career leader in three-pointers
(241). He was an All-Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) selection
in 1992 and 1993 and was named to the
AIC All-Freshman team in 1990.
Porchia was also named All-NAIA
District 17 after helping the Eagles to a
23-9 record and a spot in the national
tournament during the 1992-93 season.
Gonzalez was a four-year standout
for the Eagles’ soccer program from
1998-2001. Many consider him one of
the pioneers in helping build the Eagles’
soccer program. The Eagles were 5-13-1
in the year before he arrived on campus
and 50-27-5 in his four years at Ozarks.
A native of Georgetown, Texas,
Marcos still holds school career records
in assists (45), points (149) and shots attempted (367) and is second on the career list in goals (52).
He also holds the school record for
assists in a game with 8 against Rhema
Bible College in 2001, which is also an
NCAA record. His 66 points, 20 goals
Gonzalez
Porchia
and 26 assists during the 2001 season
are also all single-season school records. He was a four-time All-ASC East
first-team selection and was named an
NSCAA All-Region selection and ASC
Offensive Player of the Year in 2001.
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The Earle Society
Named in honor of Dr. F.R. Earle
who served as president of both
Cane Hill College and Arkansas
Cumberland College. The Earle
Society recognizes donors who
have a lifetime giving record of $1
million or more to the University.
An asterisk indicates someone who
is deceased.
Arkansas’ Independent Colleges &
Universities
*Roland and Judith Boreham, Jr.
Roland S. Boreham, Jr. Living Trust
*Alvin C. Broyles ’41 and Joan DeVee Dixon Broyles
Frank P. Collins Estate
Otha H. Grimes Foundation
The Harvey & Bernice Jones Charitable Trust
J.E. & L.E. Mabee Foundation, Inc.
Vera M. Pfeffer Trust
*Melba Spellmeyer Seay
The Seay Foundation
Mary Anne and Don Shula
*Jackson T. Stephens
*Willard and Pat Walker
Willard and Pat Walker Charitable
Foundation
*Helen Robson Walton
Walton Family Charitable Support
Foundation, Inc.
Walton Family Foundation, Inc.
Helen R. Walton 1987 Non-Qualified
Charitable Remainder Trust
Sam M. Walton 1987 Non-Qualified
Charitable Remainder Trust
T. L. Smith Society
Professor T.L. Smith, much beloved former professor at Ozarks,
is honored by this giving club.
T.L. Smith Society members
have a lifetime giving record of
$100,000-$999,999. An asterisk indicates someone who is deceased.
William L. Abernathy Charitable Lead Trust
Alumni Association, U of O
ARAMARK Corporation, Coppell, TX
*Richard and Katherene Bagwell
Baldor Electric Company, Fort Smith, AR
David Banks ’60
*Charles C. and *Nadine E. Baum
Nadine E. and Charles C. Baum Estate
Jean and *Everett Berry
*R. K. Black
Lee Bodenhamer
*Margaret Boone
*Sally McSpadden Boreham
Alvin C. Broyles Estate
*Victor and Alice Cary
W. F. Catlett Trust
H.A. & Mary K. Chapman Charitable Trust
John Joseph Conrad Trust
Pearl H. Crickard Trust
Jean Daniel
William and Marian Dawson
The Dial Corporation, Phoenix, AZ
Margaret Bost Douglass ’41
Bebe and Tom Dunnicliffe Charitable Trust
*Fontaine R. Earle
ExxonMobil Foundation
First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Ponca City, OK
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Estate of Bettis A. Garside
A.H. Gould Irrevocable Trust
Estate of Arch Gould
Estate of George M. Green
*W. Wallace Greene
*Catherine Haigwood ’33
HAR-BER Village Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Estate of Louise Ann Redus Hobbs
*Dorothea Hutcheson
Estate of Hazel Johnson
Roy and *Nancy Johnson
Peggy Bort Jones
*W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41 and Maribeth King
Luella Langenberg Estate
*James Lewis ’41 and Marie Baskin
Lewis ’41
Jessie M. Long Trust
Helen McElree
*Ada Parks Mills ’33 and *Joe Mills ’32
*Flois Dickerson Miracle ’25
James Hayden Moore Estate
*John and Mary Nichols
Rick and Sherée Niece
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.
*Lillian Norberg
*Vera M. Pfeffer
The Procter & Gamble Fund
R. L. and Nancy Qualls
Estate of Margaret Ayleen Ragland
Regions Bank
Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
Estate of James T. Rhea
Mary I. Rogers Trust
Melba Spellmeyer Seay Trust
Mary Elizabeth Vaughan Shipley Trust
May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust
Wilmer C. & Velma M. Smith Trust
James and Gladeen Struthers
The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust
Synod of the Sun, Denton, TX
John and Evie Tate
Ashley and Eleanor Thomas
Estate of Edison T. Tingley
Tulsa Royalties Company
Estate of Edith B. Vaughan
Juanita Farris Vaughn
Wal-Mart Foundation
*John T. Walton
Whitson Morgan Motor Company,
Clarksville AR
Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty
Bush Workman
Ed Dell Wortz
The Legacy Society
The Legacy Society honors
donors who have made plans for
University of the Ozarks through
deferred gifts and estate planning.
An asterisk indicates someone who
is deceased.
*Cora E. Adkins
*Stanley Applegate, Jr.
*Richard and Katherene Bagwell
*Carol Barnes Joyce and
*Scevoy D. Barnes
Joe M. Barron
*O. Edward Basham ’31
*L. Ray Bates
*Charles C. and *Nadine E. Baum
Arvid Bean ’78
*Raymond Bean
Margaret Glenn Fraley Beaver ’71
*Effie Pierson Becker
*James C. Bell ’37
Jean Berry
Robbie Blakemore
*John E. Bock ’49
Bob Bohl ’58 and Judy Capshaw Bohl ’61
Judith Peavy Boreham
*Roland S. Boreham, Jr.
Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King Bost ’43
*Edna Ralston Bowman ’28
*Henry M. Britt
*Alvin C. Broyles ’41
*Rhea Butler ’31
Don Chappell ’72
Bruce Clinesmith
Jerry Coffee ’60
*Frank P. Collins
*Joseph Conrad ’39
Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and Chad Cox ’98
Opal Huff Farris Cox
William Cravens, Jr.
William L. Cravens
*Orion A. Daniel, Sr.
Wallace Dobbins ’40 and *Carolyn
Bush Dobbins ’42
James Dorman ’57 and Anna
Blackard Dorman ’58
*Martha Farmer Drake ’33
*Fontaine R. Earle
William Eddington ’55
Steve and Dorinda Edmisten
Maxine Manuel Eggensperger ’41
Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Blackard
Ehren ’71
*Allen S. Ellsworth
*Georgia Stoker Ellsworth ’32
Susan Smith Epperson ’62
*Gladys Ruth Farmer ’37
*Sue Nell Taylor Farris ’53
Gary Frala ’80
John Frost ’89
*Margaret White Fry
*Bettis A. Garside
*Anne Gould
*Arch Gould ’24
*George M. Green
*W. Wallace Greene
Michael Haberer ’76
*Catherine Haigwood ’33
Virginia R. Hicks
*Lois M. Highlester
*Richard W. Hobbs
*Katherine House ’41
*Hazel Johnson
*Cecil Johnston ’40
Myra King Johnston ’39
*Bernice Jones and *Harvey Jones
*Keith Kennedy
Polly Taylor Kennon ’46
*Clio Thompson Kettelhut ’34
*Basil and *Eva King
Robert L. King, Jr.
Will Ladner ’81
*Luella Langenberg
Rena Sue Laster ’71
*George Lee ’36
*James Lewis ’41 and Marie Baskin
Lewis ’41
Keith Lewis
*James and *Florence Lockhart
*Jessie Marie Long
*Albert Looper ’39 and Alene Looper
William and Eileen McCarthy
Diana Altes McCormick ’65
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*Bill McCuen ’68
Vernon McDaniel ’55
Helen McElree ’47
*Sarah T. McLane
*Ada Parks Mills ’33 and *Joe Mills ’32
*Flois Dickerson Miracle ’25
*Vivian Misenhimer ’22
*James H. Moore
*Elizabeth McCoy Murphy
*Lucile Lucas Murphy ’33
*W. Grover Murphy
*Art Nichols ’35 and Lou Seale
Nixon Nichols ’35
Buddy Nichols ’72
*Maudress Hefner Overstreet ’30
*Milford Park ’38 and *Laura Waters
Park ’38
Tom D. Patterson ’57
Sara Jane Shertzer Patteson
Donald Pearsall, Sr. ’51
Donald Pennington ’68
*Vera M. and *Eugene Pfeffer
Reba Pridgin ’81 and David Pridgin ’71
Robert Quade ’50 and Rita Kaiser Quade
*M. Ayleen Ragland ’31
*Alice Ralston
*F. Willard Ralston ’29
Leonard and Annemarie Ralston
David Rawhouser ’69
*James T. Rhea
Phillip Richmond ’79
*Mary I. Rogers
*Christine Roller
Fred Romo ’68 and Andrea
Anderson Romo ’68
Dorothy Caldwell Salter ’41
*DuBose Scarborough, Jr. ’35
*Melba Spellmeyer Seay
Phyllis Thurman Shaw ’80
*Richard Shaw
John and Gwendolen Shell
*Charles F. Shertzer, Jr.
*Mary Vaughan Shipley ’42
Mary Anne Shula
Edward V. Smith, III
*Velma Boydstun Smith ’38
James R. Struthers
*Garner Taylor, Sr. ’34
*Mildred Smith Taylor ’37
*Elizabeth A. Taylor ’34
Jimmie and Ailene Thames
Ashley C. and Eleanor Thomas
*Ernestine H. Thurman-Swartzwelder
*Edison T. Tingley
*Robert Turner ’34
*Roy Ussrey ’30 and *Rosella Ussrey
*Edith Brunk Vaughan
Randy Wahlman
*Mrs. Felix (Ruey Stroud) Weatherly ’30
Lee White
Jeanie O’Brien Wiesner ’83
*James and Juanita Winn
Donna Manley Wolfe
Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty Bush
Workman
Ed Dell Wortz
E. Kathryn Wright ’58
Ralph W. Wygle
Larry Zehring ’61
*Virginia Zehring
University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc.
Alice L. Walton
Walton Family Foundation, Inc.
Wilfred Ragon Thompson Trust
Willard and Pat Walker Foundation
*James and Juanita Winn
Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty
Bush Workman
E. Kathryn Wright ’58
The Founders’ Council
The Trustees’ Council honors
donors who contributed $10,000 to
$24,999 to the University during
the 2007-08 fiscal year. Names in
bold indicate those who have contributed for five or more consecutive years. An asterisk indicates
someone who passed away in the
last year.
The Founders’ Council honors
donors who contributed $25,000
or more to Ozarks during the
2007-08 fiscal year. Names in bold
indicate those who have contributed for five or more consecutive years. An asterisk indicates
last year.
Arkansas’ Independent Colleges &
Universities
Basil & Eva Lee King Irrevocable Trust
Kimberly and Reynold Behrend
Judy Peavy Boreham
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Estate of Helen R. Walton
Sue Frueauff
Bill and Adrienne Hanna
Hanna Oil and Gas
Otha H. Grimes Foundation
Presbyterian Foundation
David Rawhouser ’69 and Jill Rawhouser
Roland S. Boreham, Jr. Living Trust
John and Evie Tate
Ashley and Eleanor Thomas
The Trustees’ Council
Alumni Association, U of O
Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones
Bean ’78
Doris and Huie Bird
Lee Bodenhamer
Judy Borck
Judith Boreham
Martha Rice Brewer and Hugh Brewer
James and Ann Bruning
Ron and Diane Collins
Andrea and Jeff Dixon
Claude Donaldson ’60
Janet and Frederick Drummond
Pat Farmer
Virginia King
Will Ladner ’81
Kaye Leonard
Helen McElree ’47
Heber and Stephen McKissack
Charlotte E. Miles
Richard Murray
Jack T. Patterson ’65 and Lisa Carlton
Presbytery of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Regions Bank, Clarksville, AR
Rogers Foundation
John and Gwendolen Shell
Joanne Willett Taylor ’60
Louise Taylor ’51
The Chair’s Council
The Chair’s Council honors donors who contributed $5,000 to
$9,999 to the University during the
indicate those who have contributed for five or more consecutive years. An asterisk indicates
last year.
Century Tel, Russellville, AR
Drue Dillard Corbusier
Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin
Dillard’s, Inc., Little Rock, AR
Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center, Little Rock, AR
First Presbyterian Church,
Clarksville, AR
Estate of Catherine Haigwood ’33
Bill Holder ’52 and Jane Wilson
Holder ’55
*W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41 and
Maribeth King
Richard and Diana Lirtzman
Nabholz Charitable Foundation
The Oxley Foundation
Gilbert Parks, Jr.
The Presbyterian Foundation of Arkansas
Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips
Bob and Colleen Rogers
Mary Anne and Don Shula
Spectra Energy Foundation
James and Gladeen Struthers
Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann
Bean Taylor ’72
Charles and Marlene Tefertiller
Texas Presbyterian Foundation
Lou and Wesley Watkins
Bruce Williams ’43 and Virginia
Laster Williams ’43
Ann Woolley
Ed Dell Wortz
President’s Council
The President’s Council honors
donors who contributed $1,000 to
$4,999 to the University during the
indicate those donors who have
contributed for five or more consecutive years. An asterisk indicates someone who passed away in
the last year.
Bill Alexander ’55 and Linda Alexander
Chris and Martha Allen
Arkansas Committee, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Arkansas Valley Electric Co-Op,
Ozark, AR
Arkansas Western Gas Company,
Fayetteville, AR
Ayco Charitable Foundation
Bella Vista Community Church,
Bella Vista, AR
Jean Berry
Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn
Robbie G. Blakemore
Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King
Bost ’43
Peter and Connie Bradish
Beverly Bridgman
Howard Brown, Sr. ’64
Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 and
Carroll Bumpers
Rickey Casey ’79 and Lisa Casey
Fred and Joan Chapman
James and Irene Clark
Frank Cole ’50
Pat and John Cooper
Allyn Donaubauer
Richard P. Dulaney
Jerry Duncan ’58 and Dorothy Boyd
Duncan ’58
E.A. Franklin Charitable Trust
Julio and Vivian Echegoyen
Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita
Blackard Ehren ’71
Ralph Ehren ’55 and Betty Hodges
Ehren ’53
Mary and Walter Elmore
Robert Farris ’57 and Mary Farris ’58
Bobby and Anne Fincher
First Presbyterian Church, Camden, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City,
Stillwater, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Van Buren, AR
First Security Bank, Clarksville, AR
Jennifer Fisher ’93
Michael and Toni Fisher
Robert Fox ’96
John Frost ’89 and Julia Frost
Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks
Richard Gaston ’94 and Carrie Gaston
Paula and Roger Glasgow
Pete and Nancy Grant
James T., Karen, Leslie, and Amy Graves
John Paul Hammerschmidt
Hanesbrands Inc., Clarksville, AR
Bettye Hansen ’60 and Dwaine Hansen
Harmony Presbyterian Church,
Clarksville, AR
Wilma Harris ’03 and Edward Harris ’75
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Virginia R. Hicks
Maura Figliulo Howerton ’80
Doyne Hudson ’51 and Betty Hudson
JJG Lands LLC, Clarksville, AR
Doug Jeffries
Brad and Sue Johnson
*Norma M. Johnson
Jones Learning Center, Clarksville, AR
Hoyt Kerr
Blaine and Jolie Leeds
Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and
Marvin C. Leister, Jr.
Harold and Mary Lewis
Marie Baskin Lewis ’41
Cole and Carol Martin
Dan and Linda Martin
Edith McChesney
James and Ruby McNeese
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation
James Miller ’82 and Melanie
Davis Miller ’83
Minden Presbyterian Church, Minden, LA
Kim Myrick and Daniel Hinkle
Buddy Nichols ’72 and Patsy Nichols
Lewis H. Niece
J. Albert Nitche ’66 and June
Shea Nitche
Mary Tom Mills O’Bar ’54 and
Clyde O’Bar
Tommy and Judy Parker
Pfizer Foundation
Eileen Taylor Pitts ’29
Danny J. Poirier
Mike and Susie Powell
Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, AR
Presbyterian Women’s Association, Clarksville, AR
Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, Hot Springs Village, AR
R. E. Lee Wilson Trusts
William Rader, Jr. ’42 and Birdie Rader
William Rail ’52 and Maxine Phillips Rail ’52
Leonard and Annemarie Ralston
Doris E. Ramsey
Rebsamen Insurance Foundation
George Reece ’83
Jerry Rice ’53 and Myra Ann Rice
Doyle and Raye Rogers
Fred Romo ’68 and Andrea Anderson Romo ’68
Stephen Rowe ’90
Farren Sadler ’51 and Grace Pourron Sadler ’53
Jeff and Amy Scaccia
Dawn J.M. and Gary Scarborough ’82
Second Presbyterian Church,
Little Rock, AR
George and Mary Sissel
Mike and Fran Smith
Alice Souchek Charitable Trust
Elizabeth Quaile Spanke ’34
State Farm Companies Foundation
Gene and Lynda Stephenson
Tom and Sammie Stephenson
Ross Stricker ’78
Bruce and Mary Lou Swinburne
Daniel and Ann Taddie
Sarah C. Talley
The Trull Foundation
Penn Thomas ’83 and Toby Colvett Thomas ’83
University of the Ozarks Women
Vanguard Charitable Endowment
Audrey Jane Walton
Jim and Lynne Walton
Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and
William Watson
Whirlpool Foundation
Larry White ’75 and Diane White
Lee and Mary Margaret White
Roger and Kathy Willard
Sidney and Elizabeth Williams
The University Club
The University Club honors donors who contributed $500 to
$999 to the University during the
indicate donors who have contributed for five or more consecutive
years. An asterisk indicates someone who passed away in the last
year.
Danny Aquilar ’90 and Jennifer Aquilar
Arkansas Best Corporation, Fort Smith, AR
Arkansas Community Foundation
Bill Aydelott ’53 and Bettye Masterson Aydelott ’55
Ball Corporation, Broomfield, CO
Bank of America Foundation
Margaret B. Batie
Beard Charitable Foundation Trust
Steven Bogler ’74
William and Elizabeth Branch
Jerry Bridges ’78
John W. Cargile ’61
Jane and Brent Cater
Central Presbyterian Church,
Russellville, AR
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX
Louise Cook
Opal Huff Farris Cox
Richard and Martha Daniel
John Davis ’64 and Jane Davis
Stewart and Nadine Dippel
Janet and Charles Doak
Andrej Dolenc
William Eddington ’55 and Charlotte Felkins Eddington ’56
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Judith Englehart
John and Marge Figliulo
First Presbyterian Church, Arlington, TX
First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, OK
First United Presbyterian Church,
Fayetteville, AR
Stephen and Laurie Fisher
Orville Fletcher ’58 and Carol Fletcher
Charles and Debbie Foster
Robert Fulton, II ’42 and Carol Fulton
Judd Giezentanner ’55 and Priscilla
Giezentanner
Maggie Gilliam
Bill Grashoff ’75 and Crista Grashoff
Griffin Food Company, Muskogee, OK
Roiselle Green Grim ’53
Lonnie Hardgrave ’50 and Dorothy
Atkinson Hardgrave
William and Melinda Holder
Vanessa and Robert Hollowell
IBM International Foundation
Hal and Yvonne Jackson
David King ’54 and Patricia
Hathaway King ’81
Corbet and Verna Lamkin
Ron Laster ’64 and Maribeth Laster
Fletcher Lowry ’52 and Jo Nell Alsip Lowry ’52
Teri Marciniak
Joe Marler ’60 and Joyce Wilson
Marler ’59
Charlie and Nell New
Garry Niece
Office Tech 2000, Russellville, AR
Rick and Dora Otto
Ann Patterson ’75 and Max Snowden
Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc.,
Clarksville, AR
Shirley Plugge
Presbyterian Women of West Jersey,
Cherry Hill, NJ
Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3,
Tulsa, OK
Prudential Foundation L. Mark and Jody Ralston
Betty Ann Eustice Riley ’49
Noel Rowbotham ’61 and Charlotte
Woodard Rowbotham ’63
William Shipman ’50 and Beth Shipman
Simmons First Bank, Clarksville, AR
Edward and Nikki Smith
Louise Poynor Spanke ’36
Trillian ’99
Eloise Stewart
Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
Freddia Sullivent ’91 and
Tommy Sullivent
The Presbyterian Church of Pryor, OK
Shonda Walters ’04 and Mark Walters
John Wells ’78 and Michele Wells
Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie Tipton Williams ’81
Doug and Bet Wise
Nancy Reifsteck Wise ’54
George Wyers ’57 and Frances Wyers
Carol Yandell
Larry Zehring ’61 and Annette Lee
Zehring ’63
The Centennial Club
The Centennial Club honors
donors who contributed $100 to
$499 to the University during the
2007-08 fiscal year. Names in
bold indicate donors who have
contributed for five or more consecutive years. An asterisk indicates someone who passed away
in the last year.
Shawn Adams ’02 and Jennifer
Goodwin Adams ’04
Advanced Micro Devices
Kendra E. Akin-Jones ’01
Elizabeth Rowland Anderson ’72 and
King Anderson
Wilda Anderson
Gearldean Andreas
Robert Arbaugh ’37
Arby’s, Clarksville, AR
Sherrie Arey
Aquilar Foot Care Clinic, Russellville, AR
Tiffany Armstrong ’07
Arvid Bean Insurance Agency Inc.,
Fort Smith, AR
Steve Askins ’05 and Marian Askins
Richard Averwater ’85
Terry Avery ’67 and Carolynn Cook
Avery ’68
Martha Holden Bagley ’57
Howard Benjamin Bailey ’86
Joseph Baker ’69 and Marge Baker
Bill Ballard ’56 and Juanita Ballard
L. B. “Yarb” Ballard ’58 and Ruth
Ann Ballard
Bank of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR
David Bawden ’88
Eddie Bean ’68 and Georgia Reynolds
Bean ’72
Wayne Benbow ’65 and Mary Trotter
Benbow ’64
Sylvester Benson ’67 and Patsy Day
Benson ’65
Beta Sigma Phi “Laureate Kappa
PI 1089”
Thomas Biery
Brenson Bishop ’81 and Mary Reehm
Bishop ’79
Bryan Bishop ’95 and Christy Bishop
Lauren Bishop ’05
O. G. Blackard ’50 and Juanita Acord Blackard ’51
Robert Blanchard ’50 and Judith Blanchard
Fred Blankenship ’50 and Elsie Blankenship
Ruth Price Bodey ’53 and Richard Bodey
Peggy Boerstler
Christopher Boettcher
Carl Bogard ’39 and Alice Hollowell
Bogard ’39
Oscar and Lilia Bonnevie
Katherine Boone ’93
Connie and Michael Booty
Don and Rebecca Bostwick
Elaine G. Boyer
Gary Bradley ’84 and Linda Bradley ’84
Len Bradley
David Brane ’69
Cleveland Branscum ’63 and Barbara Haynes Branscum ’63
Deborah Braswell
Elmer and Jody Braswell
Bill Brewster
Dean Bright ’87 and Donna Yates
Bright ’87
Keith and Marilyn Brill
James Brooke ’69 and Rae Walters
Brooke ’71
Alan Brooke ’72 and Janis Chandler Brooke
Gerald and Sharla Broussard
Randy and Linda Broussard
Robert and Patricia Broussard
Everett and Frances Buck
Joanne Austin Bunch ’76
Wade and Sarah Burnside
Ted Butler ’60 and Claudia Butler
Tim and Karen Caldwell
Joe Dan and Johnnie Calvin
Bruce and Christie Cameron
Bruce and Frances Cameron
Mike Cantrell
William and Pamela Caroscio
Terry and Janie Carson
Robert Carter
William Cartwright ’51
Linda Cawthorn
Shari Caywood
Cecil Hardware, Clarksville, AR
Bob Chance ’69 and Mary Ann Becker Chance ’69
Don Chappell ’72 and Janie Krohn
Chappell ’73
Chapter “CJ” P.E.O. Sisterhood
Chapter “Q” P.E.O.
Nicholas and Margaret Chipponeri
Clarksville Cinema, Clarksville, AR
Clarksville Sign Works, Clarksville, AR
Frank Clemmons ’53 and Carolyn Clemmons
Comfort Inn, Clarksville, AR
Michael Compher ’99 and Ann Compher
John Coppic ’49 and Alice Coppic
Jose and Rosenda Coria
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Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and Chad Cox ’98
Curran’s Abstract and Title, Clarksville, AR
Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church,
Fort Smith, AR
Callie Harmon Daniels ’89
Jeffrey DeBuhr
Celia Decker ’62 and John Decker
Juanita Taylor Deeds ’34
Deltic Timber Corporation, El Dorado, AR
Betty Wesson Denny
Donald Depriest ’62 and Clara Dufek
Depriest ’63
Richard DeSalvo ’50 and Cecilia DeSalvo
Joseph Devenas, Sr.
R. Louis Dewett ’57 and Mary B.
Holloway Dewett ’58
Milton Dexheimer ’72
Richard and Marilynn Dietz
Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard
Frank and Kimberly Divis
K. O. and Carolyn Dixon
Lady Bug Doherty
Ralph Downward ’45 and
Bernice Downward
Kenneth and Marian Drahos
Jim and Cheryl Driedric
Maria Denise Duarte Noguera ’08
Daniel Duncan ’84 and Glenda Duncan
Anna Figliulo Dunker ’87 and Curt Dunker
Cleveland and Edna Dyess
Chris and Melanie Earnhardt
Jack Edens ’55 and Sharon Edens
Laura Hill Ehren ’56
Donny Ellison
Bruce Elmore
Steven Endsley ’74 and Susan
Crouse Endsley ’75
Erica Eneks ’08
Katrina Labude Erwin ’78 and
Bill Erwin
Erwin T. Koch Charitable Trust
Glenda Varnell Ezell ’90
Family Shoe Store, Clarksville, AR
Walter and Cely Faster
David Field ’69 and Shelia Field
Martin and Gloria Figliulo
Mary Figliulo
Michael Figliulo ’87 and Marva Figliulo
First Presbyterian Church, Dardanelle, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Jonesboro, AR
First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Searcy, AR
Springdale, AR
Betty Sallis Fiser ’45 and James Fiser
John and Sue Fisher
Judy and David Fletcher
Keith Fletcher
Cara Rowbotham Flinn ’85
Bonnie Johnson Flint ’39 and Dudley Flint
Al, Betty and Cindy Flynt
Jim Forkner ’54 and Joyce Graf
Forkner ’57
John and Sylvia Fougeron
Fountains at Canterbury,
Oklahoma City, OK
Gary Frala ’80 and Laura Jenkins Frala ’92
David and Jean Frazier
Wilma York Frisque ’60
Richard, Barbara, and Andrew Fulton
Courtney and JoAnn Furman
J. C. Juan Gabriel ’05
Kenneth and Joan Gates
General Mills Foundation
Joel Gibbons ’57 and Sue Gibbons
Robert Gibson ’76 and Glenda Gibson
George Miles Gilliam ’85
George and Sarah Gilmour
James Glidewell ’69
Lawson and Judith Glover
James Goodson ’65
Scott and Carolyn Gordon
*Ann Davidson McKinney Goza ’69
Grace Presbyterian Church, Grove, OK
Greenbrier Creek Animal Hospital, Clarksville, AR
Robert Greene ’50 and Betty Greene
William T. Grimstead
Daniel and Ana Gudahl
Steve and Margaret Gundale
John and Harvene Gustafson
Homer and Eudora Haber
William Hadley ’62
James and Ann Halligan
Quintos Hamilton ’51 and Betty Hamilton
Hampton Inn, Clarksville, AR
Lois Woodward Hansen ’34
Robert and Polly Hardin
Winston Hardin ’51
Patricia Harmon ’94
Ed Harrington ’56 and Janet Graf Harrington ’58
Bob Harrison ’50
Harvest Food Market, Inc., Clarksville, AR
Jack Haynes ’53 and Joan Haynes
Harlen Helker ’54 and Grace Helker
Christine P. Henderson
Dion and Carrie Henson
Dani and Gerald Hermesmeyer
Robert Maury Hightower ’64
Mollie Hightower-Barnum
Nancy McCabe Hill ’85 and Troy Hill
Ike Hill, Jr. ’68 and Cheryl Hill
John and Estella Hilton
Helen Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 and Forrest Hoeffer ’65
Ricky Hogan
John Holder ’90
John Hollowell ’44 and Evelyn
Crutcher Hollowell ’45
William Hopper ’63 and Nancy Hopper
L. D. Horn ’52
Rena and Joe Howe
Hoyle’s Walkin’ Western, Clarksville, AR
Claude and Mary Hughes
James Hurley ’49 and Patricia Davis Hurley ’49
Frank Hyde ’52 and Polly Hyde
Mitsuko Ichinose ’68
Douglas Inman ’58
Jeff Inness ’98 and Lisa Gruben Inness ’93
Seksan Inswang ’81
Larry Isch
Jeff Jackson ’01
E. Jacobs ’60 and Dorothy Armstrong
Jacobs ’64
Joe Bill James ’49 and Sunshine James
Dale Jefferson ’37
W. C. and Barbara Jetton
Joco Java, Clarksville, AR
Peggy Johns ’82
Brandon Johnson ’97 and April Johnson
Beth Coulter Johnson ’74 and Tim Johnson
Johnny and Robin Johnson
Kay Johnson ’77 and Don Johnson
Mary Ragon Johnson ’37
Mildred Owens Johnson ’79
Phyllis Johnson
Ruben Johnson, Sr. ’52 and Charlotte Newsom Johnson ’69
Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. Johnston
Myra King Johnston ’39
Cliff and Holly Jones
Pamela Shrigley Jones ’71
Bill Jones ’50 and Bettye Jones
Becky Steele Jorgensen ’74
Chris Judd ’02
India Judd ’06
Joe Alfred Keeling ’43 and Frines Keeling
Howell Keeter
Dorothy Carlisle Kelly ’51 and
James Kelly
Evelyn Kelly ’55
Betty Shaffer Kendall ’56
Gippa King Kendall ’47 and
Harold Kendall
Polly Taylor Kennon ’46
Rolland and Lorna Kerr
Phillip and Leslie Killgore
*Burley King ’40 and Billie Burnett
King ’40
Robert King
Charles D. Klahr
Verna Brown Kness ’43
Ruth R. Knote
John and Marilyn Koch
Glenn and Anna Koepp
Jana Wills Kolb ’80 and Mike Kolb
Frances Koza
Kraft Employee Involvement Programs
Richard Kruse ’63
Ralph and Trini Lares
Lee Laster ’58 and Darlene Laster
Neil and Burnis Leavens
Peter Leer ’90 and Barbara Leer
Andrew Lester
Charles Liston ’65 and Elizabeth Liston
Ruth Longman ’72 and Gary Longman
Virgil and Marie Luke
William Lyons ’54
Dr. and Mrs. Albert D. MacDade
Greta Rowbotham Marlow ’84 and
Jeff Marlow
Larry Marshall ’67 and Lois Marshall
Jetta Martin
Carl Mashburn ’69 and Sherry Mashburn
Greg and Kay Massey
Master Printing, Clarksville, AR
Sam Matthews, Jr. ’73 and Nancy Ott Matthews
S. Walton Maurras
Mazzio’s Pizza, Clarksville, AR
Tina and Bryan McCain
Lee and Joanie Mills McCleskey
Diana Altes McCormick ’65
John McCown ’62 and Martha Vera
Kenneth McFerran ’63 and Bernice McFerran
Richard and Sondra McKelvey
Jocelyn E. McKinney
Ruth Eddins McNeilly ’42
Henry McNight ’93 and Gladys
McNight ’93
Michael Meadors and Pat Meadors
Delores Metcalf-Morrell ’65 and Barry Morrell
A. Delbert Mickel, Jr.
Microsoft Giving Campaign
Creighton and Jeannie Miller
Eleanor Long Miller ’44
Mida Figliulo Milligan ’86 and Billy Milligan
Linda Moncrief
Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and Charles Mooney
Geraldine King Morgan ’52
Morgan’s Fashions, Clarksville, AR
Lera Blackburn Morris ’40
EmmaLee and Brian Morrow
Jennifer Morton ’98
Virginia Mosley
Robert and Alice Mummey
Timothy and Bari Lynne Mummey
James Murray ’75 and Debra Murray
Dick and Sue Neelly
Trenda Neff ’06
Kenneth Nelson ’66 and Pansy King
Nelson ’65
Ralph Newkirk ’82
James and Catherine Nichols
Susie Niece
Nite Lite, Clarksville, AR
Florence Smith Norris ’35
Charles W. Oates ’50 and Jean Oates
Occidental Petroleum Charitable
Foundation
John and Betsy O’Connor
Oklahoma State University Foundation
Hugh Overholt ’55 and Laura Overholt
Deborah and Laron Owens
Glenda Dennis Owens ’71 and
Steve Owens
Fernando and Steff Padilla
Ann Park ’49
Thomas Park ’49 and Lucy Park
Eric Parker ’02
Mary Virginia Hurie Parks ’43
Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60
Jay and Bonnie Parrot
Tom D. Patterson ’57
Charles Pattison, Sr. ’51 and Frances Pattison
Donald Pearsall, Sr. ’51 and Barbara Pearsall
Morris W. Pearson ’53
Baker Peebles ’52 and Edith Peebles
Don Pennington ’68
Joshua Peppas ’00 and Kelli Peppas
Reed Perryman ’51 and Anita Woolf Perryman ’54
Jean and Malcolm Peters
Michael Phelps ’71 and Gail Shanabrook Phelps ’78
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John Phillips, III
Joyce Phillips
Wanda Phillips
Jessica Pianalto ’08
Donald Pitts ’69
Pizza Hut, Clarksville, AR
Pizza Pro, Clarksville, AR
R. Scott Placek
Diane Pohlmeier ’99
Bill Porter ’54 and Anna Porter
Evelyn W. Porter
Mary Sue Phillips Powers ’60 and Jimmy Powers
Irvin Pratt ’77 and Emma Pratt
Presbyterian Women, Hot Springs
Village, AR
Presbyterian Women of Arkansas Presbytery, North Little Rock, AR
Presbyterian Women of Lake Charles, LA
Presbyterian Women of Westminster,
Hot Springs, AR
Taylor and Mary Prewitt
James Price ’53
Robert Pryor ’59 and Virginia Cater
Pryor ’58
Charles Puyear ’65
Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada Mathis Qualls ’55
Anne and Ben Queen
Quizno’s Subs, Clarksville, AR
Radio Shack, Clarksville, AR
Diane Ragsdale
Richard Rail ’59 and Dianne Bradford Rail
John and Jane Rankin
John E. and Betty Strauss Reed
Tabitha Reed ’07
Ann Richardson
Gerard Ritchie ’68 and Rebecca Baskin Ritchie ’67
River Valley Sporting Goods,
Clarksville, AR
Wesley Robinson, Jr. ’66 and Barbara Robinson
Kenny and Nelda Rogers
Gary Rollins ’78 and Pam Rollins
Dan Ross
Dave Ross ’60 and Claudine Ross
Jesse Rowe ’50 and Wayma Workman Rowe ’49
Loretta Figliulo Salazar ’78 and
Felix Salazar
Luis Sanchez Navarro ’08
Scott Sandstrom
David and Barbara Saxon
William Scarborough ’65 and Kary Hardin Scarborough ’65
William Scarborough ’39
Chantel and Douglas Scheuring
Francis J. Scheuring
John Schillinger ’07 and Donna Schillinger
Karen A. Schluterman ’03 and John Schluterman
John E. Scott
Billy and Traci Scott
John Scribner ’98 and Leslie Scribner
Charlie Sefers, Jr. ’50 and Janice Sefers
Lawrence and Carol Sewell
Sexton Furniture and Appliance,
Clarksville, AR
SGL Carbon Corporation, Charlotte, NC
Claudine Shankle ’89 and William Shankle
James and Tracy Shaw
Liz Baskin Sheffer ’58 and Eric Sheffer
George W. Shellenberger
Susan Sherhag ’70
George Sherlock ’75 and Sue Smith
Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54
William Shrigley, Jr. ’69
Debbie and Ronnie Siebenmorgen
Hugh and Mary Silkensen
Billy Simco ’60
Greg Simmons ’68 and Louise Vanden-
Nieuwenhof Simmons ’71
Ruth L. Simpler ’43
Tim and Vicki Simpson
Wirt and L. Torpy Skinner
John C. Sloan, Sr.
Donald Smith
Kermit Smith ’49
Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith
Xiao Fei Song ’05
Sonic Drive-In, Clarksville, AR
South Park Restaurant Inc., Clarksville, AR
Hubert Spann ’51
Phyllis Blackard Sparks ’72
Jerry Speer ’58 and Mary Speer
Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence
Mickey Stafford ’68 and Martha Stafford
James Stanton ’69 and Chris Stanton
Bonnie Renfrow Starkey ’68 and Fred
Starkey ’68
State Farm Insurance, Clarksville, AR
Jimmy Stephens ’88 and Traci Price
Stephens ’89
Kay Stewart
Hal G. Stillings ’63 and Mary Ann
Chandler Stillings ’65
Wendell and Linda Stoltenberg
Rebecca Baker Stowers
David Strain
Jon Strobel
Student Government Association,
University of the Ozarks
Robert Stumbaugh, Jr. ’49
Lehman Sullivan ’35
Synod of the Sun, Irving, TX
Donald L. Tamuty
Beverly French Taylor ’76 and
Richard Taylor
Ron and Kerry Dillaha Taylor
Philip Taylor, Jr. ’85 and Melody
Jacobs Taylor
Tom Taylor
Waymond Teague ’61 and Barbara Teague
The Catfish House, Clarksville, AR
The Home Showcase, Clarksville, AR
R.H. Thompson ’59 and Patricia Thompson
Thrivent Financial For Lutherans
Nolan Tomasik ’89 and Nicole Tomasik
Sharon Torres ’81 and Ken Torres
Vinnie and Cody Tran
William and Janet Trotter
David Tucker ’59
Hilda Turner
Judy and Jackie Turner
Tom and Cathy Ulrich
Ritamarie Valencia Younger
Peter Van Dyke ’87 and Heleine Van Dyke
E. K. and Marjean Van Eman
Kevin Van Es
Steven Van Patten ’64 and Sharon Agnew
Van Patten ’65
Teresa Vanderbilt
Waffle House, Clarksville, AR
Pete Waldo ’56 and Carolyn
Johnson Waldo ’58
Barry Walker ’61 and Jane Walker
George Walker, III and Carole Walker
Doris Owen Ward ’48
Burl Watson, Jr. and Nita Watson
Donald Watson ’59 and Patricia Watson
Roderick Weaver ’71 and Judy
Lawton Weaver
Wendy’s, Clarksville, AR
Michael T. Werner
Corinne Werth ’83
Western Sizzlin’, Clarksville, AR
Linda White ’96 and Don White
Lucette and Harold White
Whitson Morgan Motor Company, Inc., Clarksville, AR
Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., Altus, AR
Samuel Wiesner ’84 and Jeanie O’Brien Wiesner ’83
William Wilhelm ’72 and Rose Mary Wilhelm
Sue Rail Wilkerson ’82 and Danny Wilkerson
Philip and Judith Koon Willcoxon
Robert and Martha Williams
Roger Williams ’51
Steve and Lynna Williams
Ann Garrett Williamson ’41
Ella Mae Young Willis ’35
Juanita M. Willis
Doug and Davis Wilson
Rita Crossley Wilson ’70
Robert Wilson ’86
Karla, R.J., and Clint Wood
Margaret E. Woodard ’86 and
John Woodard
Woodlands Presbyterian Church, Hot
Springs Village
Willis R. Woolrich, III
Crawford Wyatt ’51 and Maxine Wyatt
Robert Arnold Wyers ’55 and Marcella Wyers
Glen and Margie Yarbrough and the Willis Reunion
Joann Yates ’53
A. Dean Yeager ’59 and Pauline Hurley Yeager
Patricia Farnsworth Yoder ’53 and
Lee Yoder
James Young ’56 and Betty Young
Mary Bricker Young ’52 and John Young
Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann West Young ’57
Carole Clemmons Zahnd ’60 and
Larry Zahnd
Lillian Hunt Zarwell ’33
Zia Concrete Supply Company,
Albuquerque, NM
Michael Zoller ’77 and Janice
Forkner Zoller ’78
The Eagle Club
The Eagle Club honors donors
who contributed up to $99 to the
University during the 2007-08 fiscal year. Names in bold indicate
donors who have contributed for
five or more consecutive years. An
asterisk indicates someone who
passed away in the last year.
Raymond Acosta
Reza Ahrabli ’79
Sharon Collier Allured ’65
Ray and Eleanor Almgren
Paula Alonso
Robert and Raye Alwood
Ava Mitchell Amos ’56
Amy Anderson ’97
Eugene and Susan Anderson
Linda Anderson
Arkansas Presbytery Women,
Walnut Ridge, AR
Elizabeth Mendenhall Arndt ’70
Vivian Ashley
Sandra Elmore Atchley ’69 and
Jimmy Atchley
Amanda Austin
Bob Aylward
Elizabeth Aymond ’05 and Clint Aymond
Terry Babcock
Dale Bagwell ’66 and Margaret Bagwell
James and Melissa Ball
Meghan Ball ’02
Emma Louise Banks ’69
Eleanor Barker
Aaron Barling ’55 and Nell Bruner
Barling ’56
Melanie Bartlett
Donna Fox Barton ’68 and Bill Barton
Fred Bates, Jr. ’52 and Anne Bates
Douglas Batie ’98 and Jennifer Batie ’98
J. C. Battreal
Britt Bauer ’98 and Lori Bauer
Don L. Bean
Maxine Garrison Bean ’49 and
Garland Bean
Curt and Vonda Belford
Fay Bennett ’50 and Jean Bennett
Ike and Mary Benson
Irene Bere
Gene Bergstresser
Jane Cheek Berryman ’55 and
Oscar Berryman, Jr.
Nelle Hampton Bischoff ’45
Henry D. Bishop ’53 and Ingrid Bishop
Donald and Jodie Black
A. B. Blocker ’70 and Myrtis Blocker ’69
Fred Blohm ’61 and Anna Blohm
Paul and Julie Bloss
Edward and Betty Boatright
Paula Bodnar ’84
Leonard and Peggy Bollman
Michael Bollman ’04 and
Anneke Binkley Bollman ’03
George Boltwood
Gary Bond ’58 and Sara Wharton
Bond ’59
Phil Bourne
Kermit and Fern Bowling
Mary Boyer
Wayne Bradley ’58 and Patricia
Huckabay Bradley
Anthony Brandon ’07
Sumner and Jackie Brashears
Donald Brent ’70 and Beverly Brent ’70
Jeffrey and Wendy Briggs
Gary E. Briley ’66 and Vanessa Briley
Darrall Brinlee ’70
Richard Bromley ’74 and
Karen Pierce Bromley ’74
C. Victor Brown
Selby Brown ’49 and Mildred Brown
Michelle Wadley Brown ’81 and
Bryan Brown
Susan Buck
Juanita Buckman
Richard and Alena Buckmaster
Lisa Burk
Jon and Krista Burkhardt
Berry and Jennette Burnett
Penni Peppas Burns ’95 and Jeremie Burns
Thomas Buzbee ’67 and Maureen Buzbee
Barbara Oldham Caldwell ’87
Charlotte Cameron
Ellen Capehart
Connie Carpenter ’78
Clinton Carr ’56 and Caroline
Walkup Carr
Robert Carrillo
Charles Carter ’80 and Linda Gaines
Carter ’80
Eula Ellison Castonguay ’58 and
Joseph Castonguay
Chanceree Catlett ’07
Jenny Cawthorn
Pat Cedeno
Kent Chaney ’92
Jodie Clark ’07
Mary Clark ’53
*James E. Clarke and *Anna B.
Clarke Fund
Charlotte Clayton
Jennifer Cleveland
Debra Felkins Cline ’91 and Ewing Cline
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Dick and Bonnie Clough
Richard and Mary Cohoon
Dustin Cole ’06
C. Philip Collins ’65 and Anna Collins ’63
Raymond Conatser, Jr. ’46 and
Lella Galrani Conatser
Shirley Conner
Olin and Millicent Cook
Brad and Roxann Cool
Donald and Dona Cooper
Cyleste Willis Coppage ’97 and
Kelly Coppage
Michael Corzatt ’81
Anthony and Pamela Costa
Barbara Dalke ’77
David Dalke ’75 and Pamela Dalke
C. David and Cathy Dalton
Dewey Dark, Jr. ’52 and Lee Dark
Charles and Sue Davenport
Billy Gene and Ann Davis
Gwendolyn Davis
Robert and Carolyn Davis
Tyronne Davis ’86
Bruce Dean ’86 and Angie Dean ’86
Sandra Dennison ’69
Arthur Dercksen
Patsy Rowland Desaulniers ’62 and
Anthony Desaulniers, Jr.
Andrea Dewey ’05
Billy Dickerson, II ’77 and
Marion Dickerson
Jim and Winnie Dickerson
Theo A. Dillaha, Jr.
Darlene Bullard Dobbs ’84 and
Wayne Dobbs
Joe Dorman ’62 and Mary Head
Dorman ’62
John Douglas ’50
Gretchen Douthit
Pamela Downing ’73 and Robert Downing
Mary Lee Hert Draper
Jason and Lori Drummond
David Dryer ’85
Tom and Ann Dugger
Phyllis Duncan ’80 and Bob Battaglia
Dale Dunlap ’53 and Irma Dunlap
John Dunlap, II ’52 and Carolyn Dunlap
Lewis Dunn ’64 and Rose Dunn
Timothy and Kim Dunn
Frances DuVall ’57
Rickey and Donna Dyess
Bill and Kody Eakin
Karen Earwood ’72
Jeffrey Eddleman
Jack Edwards ’72 and Debra Edwards
Assefa Egziabher ’78
Devin and Chandra Ellison
Neal Ellison ’84 and Patsy Ellison
Vivian Ellison
Bryan and Kim Elmore
Joan and Robert Erickson
Annette Estes ’67
John and Billie Evans
Melissa Myhand Evans ’98 and Jason Evans
Erla Hardgrave McCracken Everitt ’41 and J. Donald Everitt
Robert and Neva Everts
Duane Farris ’43
Steven Felkner ’99 and Sally Felkner
Edna Hunnicutt Fell ’56
Leonard and Myra Finnell
Vivian Finnell
First Presbyterian Church, Malvern, AR
Richard and Malinda Fischer
Roger Fisher ’67 and Jerre Fisher
Miriam Fitch ’97
Curtis and Patsy Fitzgerald
Brent Flickinger and Suzanne Broussard
James Fontaine, II ’73
Sandra Forbus ’70
Alan Ford
Betty Dickerson Foulke ’56 and
Lester Foulke
Michael Frala ’73 and Linda Frala
Jeffrey and Kay Franco
Luther Freeman ’49 and Wanda
Cavalena Freeman ’45
Helen Rader Fulton ’40
Matthew Fultz
Michael Fultz ’70 and Elaine Fultz
Ronnie Funderburg ’74 and
Rita Funderburg
Karen Gallagher and Robert Jay McCracken
Katherine Rader Garrett ’39
Jason and Jennifer Gary
Sonje and Richard Gejji
Michael Giamboy ’51
Eugene Gipson ’76 and Phyllis Gipson ’75
Sandra Goetze
Deborah Green Goff ’69 and James Goff
Larry and Patsy Goodner
Melinda Wish Gould ’80
Sam Gould ’86 and Coral Yandell
Gould ’91
Lonnie and Mary Gragg
Bruce and Amy Graves
Jesse Graves ’58 and Betty Graves
Tim Graves ’50
Sandra Pitts Gray ’57
Raymond Green ’71
Roland Green ’50 and Elaine Burton
Green ’51
Russell Gregory ’01 and Julie Gregory
Nell Cox Griffin ’55
Wayne Grober ’75 and Bonnie
Easley Grober ’73
William and Kathleen Groce
Ethel Grover
James Madison Guest ’77
Bobby Gunter ’57
Jon Guyton ’83 and Rhonda Guyton
Albert Haberer ’43 and Marjorie Haberer
Brenda and James Hagan
Lucille Hagan ’51
Martha Bloyd Haigwood
Jeanne Hale ’07 and Chase Hale ’06
John Haley, II
Daniel and Laura Hancock
Dawna Hancock
Judy Blackard Hardgrave ’72 and
Ben Hardgrave
Betty Curtis Hardin ’58 and Robert Hardin
Chad Harris ’01
Eugene Harris ’53
Julie Harris ’01
Karie Allen Harris ’05
Danny Hartlein ’68
Carol Thompson Hartley ’82 and
Miles Hartley
Daniel Hartman ’80 and Marla
McCabe Hartman ’81
Joette and David Haudrich
Wanda Furr Hawkins ’66 and
Jerry Hawkins
Beth Hayes ’86 and Randy Hayes
Jessica Flusche Hayes ’98 and Justin Hayes
John Hayes
Mary Campbell Haynes ’51 and
Joseph Haynes
Brett Hays ’05
Edward and Lauren Hays
Harold and Pam Hays
Vendon Hays, II ’96 and Joyce Hays
Brian Heckmann ’06
J. David Henderson
Treva Henry
Harlene Henson
Albert Hepler, III ’69 and Renae Hepler
Corrinna Risinger Hester ’81 and
Ken Hester
Paul Hiemke ’02 and Jennifer
Jungman Hiemke ’02
Tamara Higdon ’05 and Foster Etheredge
Travis and Margaret Hill
Harvey Hoffman ’68 and Noreen Hoffman
Marilyn Hogan
Donna Hogge ’78 and James Hogge
James and Frances Holbach
Deanna Denhard Holman ’01
Brandi Holt ’92
Leslie Hoppers ’55 and Annie Hoppers
Jennifer Bowen Hopson ’98 and
Neal Hopson
Flora Eustice Horne ’54 and
Charles Horne, III
Roy Horne ’57
David Hosley ’59 and Bobbi Dobbs
Hosley ’61
Virgil and Barbara Howard
Robert Hudgens ’50 and
Harriette Hudgens
Jake Hudson, Jr. ’84 and Angie Hudson
Vivian Hudson
Shannon Carlisle Huggins ’91 and
Bryan Huggins
Carl Hunter ’64 and Pat Hunter
Ronald and Blanca Hutson
Joe and Sue Iacobucci
Nelson and Saralyn Ingram
Joe and Gayle Ironside
Megan Istre
Hunter Jackson ’03
Jane Hughes Jackson
Jeff Jackson ’01
Jessie Jackson
Jerry and Carolyn Jacobs
Joel James ’80 and Deborah
McKinney James ’79
Connie Nowotny James ’76
Max and Ruth Ann Jewell
John T. Armstrong Trust
Joey Johnson, III ’88
Bob Johnson ’60 and Anita Johnson
Bradford Johnson ’06 and Kara Johnson ’07
Colba Jones Johnson ’59 and
Ralph Johnson
Johnny and Joanne Johnson
Cecil and Jean Jones
Hartzell Jones ’66 and Marsha Jones
J. T. and Maxine Jones
Samuel and Lisa Jones
Shannon Jones ’88
William and Mary Jones
Jason Jordan ’98 and Jennifer Ewing
Jordan ’01
W. E. and Lorena Jordan
Kenneth Joslin
Ralph and Barbara Joslin
Gale Joslin-Moore
Brett and Janice Kelley
Clare Martin Kelley
Robert and Ann Kerr
Bradley Kessler ’76 and Janet Wilson
Kessler ’76
Shirley Kiefer ’90 and Jim Kiefer
Earl Kile, III ’72
Sylvia Kauffeld Kinnear ’66
Shirley Klein
Marjorie Knoop
David Koch
Ralph Kodell ’69 and Valerie Kodell
Eugene and Maxine Koerdt
James M. Kolb, Jr.
Lawrence Kruse ’59 and Susan Kruse
Charles and Phyllis Kuykendall
Bettye LaBorn
Guy H. Lackey, Jr.
Kristine LaMonda ’96
Barbara Haller Langlois ’71
Pat Voeller Laster ’64
Chance Lawless ’02
Gwynneth Ledbetter
Terrence P. Ledwig
William Lee ’87
Maurice Lewis ’55 and Betty Lewis
Virginia Lewis
Joseph and Patti Lienhart
Drew and Paula Linder
Larry and Patsy Linder
Rhonda Lock
Jim and Carol Looney
Hermann and Shari Ludl
Ruby Lunsford ’90
William P. Lytle
Mary MacMartin
Cooper Mann ’00
Patricia Mann
Sammy Manning ’71 and Virginia Figliulo Manning ’74
Raymond and Dorothy Marciniak
Tom and Myrna Mardis
Carol Marshall
James Martin ’68 and Janet Martin
Mary Martindale ’63 and
Kenneth Martindale
Ronnie Marvel ’65 and Jeanette
Estep Marvel
David and Donna Massanelli
Carolyn May ’79
Glenn and Ethel Mayle
Christine Mays ’82
Michael Shannon McBee ’89 and
Lori McBee
Marlin and Caroline McCabe
Nancy McClure ’76
Rodney McClure
Herschel and Mardell McClurkin
Larry McCollum ’80 and
Cynthia McCollum ’81
Sidney and Kathryn McCollum
James McDaniel
Vernon McDaniel ’55
Regina McElhaney ’81 and
James McElhaney
B. Denton and Mary Allie McLelland
Staff of University Academic Services, Oklahoma State University
Wanda Nichols Meador ’50
Myrtle Ruth Meadors
William and Frances Mellin
Gordon and Jane Mertz
Lena Jane Metzler
David and Kathryn Michalak
Amy Byrum Miller ’41
Carl Miller ’64 and Madge Miller
Donna Miller ’91 and Billy Miller
Marjorie Mills
Marie Milwee
Carl Minden ’94 and Angela Minden
Christina Minden ’89
Holly Mitchell
Marvin and Paula Mitchell
Nancy Mixon
Abdolreza Mobarak ’67 and Judy
Stewart Mobarak
Carol Taylor Mohlman ’51 and
David Mohlman
James Mooney ’57 and Colleen
Rickard Mooney
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Glenn Moore ’83 and Lea Ann Moore
Lynne Dee L. Moore
Michael and Kim Moreland
Carol Terry Morgan ’86 and Steve Morgan
Betty R. Morris ’58
Mignonne Morrow ’70
Larry and Sarah Morse
Trible Moseley ’87
Virginia Moser
John and Cindy Murcek
Brian and Jamie Murphy
Jerome and Beverly Murphy
Dorothy J. Murray
Dana and Shane Neighbors
James and Donna Nelson
Erica Newell ’06
Nancy Newell ’70
Patrick Newman ’86 and Sandra
Gadbury Newman ’85
Jon and Jerry Newton, Shawn and
Tanya Newton
Lindsey Nietert ’07
Charlotte Altes Norman ’67
John and T. Norris
Robert and Linda Norvell
Steven and Amy Oatis
Ted Oberg ’71 and Donna Oberg
Lisa Ghio O’Brien ’00 and Michael O’Brien
William Oliver, Jr. ’71 and Joan Coulter Oliver ’71
Paul and Cynthia Osborn
Berta Steele Ownbey ’50 and Orla Ownbey
Robert Page, Jr. ’52 and Flois Page ’54
Marti Panikkar ’90
James Pannell ’08
Rosemarie Parker
Wilma Partain
Jay Patel ’06
Edna Elkins Patterson ’67 and John Patterson
Janet Payne
Kelly and Trudy Pearson
Wanda Daniel Pearson ’48
Wilson and Barbara Pearson
Robert and Mary Jean Pell
Dody and Jeremy Pelts
Leanita Pelts ’04 and Larry Pelts
Elsie Mae Pianalto
Silvia Pianalto
Lance Pillstrom ’91
Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine
Gary Pitman
Scott and Jennifer Poirier
Lockwood Porter
Michael Posey ’83 and Debbie Posey
Kendrick and Lindsey Prewitt
Walter and Jane Price
Wendi Price
Kari Pridgin ’05
David Pridgin, Jr. ’07
Gerald Primm ’58 and Sandra Bearden Primm ’78
Elizabeth Lee Pruitt ’83 and
Robert Pruitt
Betty Eddington Quadros ’45
Faye Williams Raible ’72 and
Gary Raible
Lisa Rail
Shannon Rainbolt ’06
Ronald Ramsey ’91
Claudia Randall
Jeremy Ray
Jerry Ray ’64 and Sarah Wiley Ray ’65
Pat and Charlotte Razook
Deborah Reck ’00 and Ian Reck
John Reed, Jr. ’74
Joseph and Destiny Reese
Robert Reese ’70 and Kathy Reese
Thomas Reid ’68
Blake Rexroat ’06 and Lauren Wilson
Rexroat ’07
Jeanne Reynolds ’94
Ruby Steuart Reynolds ’48
Arnie Rhodes ’58 and Louise Rhodes
Shirley Keith Richardson ’66 and
Rick Richardson
Fannie Rickman
Loretta Eacret Ridener ’53 and
Eddie Ridener
Mary Jane Ring ’80 and James Ring
Sean Riordan ’06
Ronnie Roach ’67 and Dianna Roach
David Roberts ’74
Glendyne Robins ’41 and Harvey Robins
Martha Dow Robinson ’62 and
Buford Robinson, Jr.
Nancy A. Robison ’92 and Gary Robison
Faye Pipkins Roble ’49
Lee Rocole, Jr. ’99 and Cathy Jones
Rocole ’00
Joan Rodemann ’71 and James Rodemann
Frank Rofkahr
Chris Gaiennie Rogers
Larry and Judy Rogers
Lily Rogers
Thomas Rogers
Karen Hilton Rossmaier ’77 and
Joel Rossmaier
John Rotenberry ’62 and Arlie Stokes Rotenberry ’61
John and Pamela Royer
Charles and Geneva Ruff
Gail Russell ’72 and Diana Russell
Herb Russell ’42
Kathryn Hamilton Russell ’84 and
Dannie Russell
W. H. Rutledge and Charlene Yancy
Rutledge ’53
Kirk Sanderson ’92 and Jamie Sanderson
Leon and Barbara Ann Sawicki
Sophie Sawicki
David Scarborough ’49 and Dallas
Bean Scarborough ’43
Ann Henderson Schaubroeck ’87 and Daniel Schaubroeck
Louis Schneider, Jr.
Otto and Jo Ann Schwab
John Selby ’38 and Marie Jennings
Selby ’52
Marie Jennings Selby ’52
Bobbi Sharp ’90 and Donald Sharp
Bradford Sharpe ’89 and Sharon Sharpe
Lois Sheets ’64 and Melburn Sheets
Glen Sheffer ’72 and Anne Sheffer
*Alvin Sherby ’68 and Marilyn Sherby
Roy Shook ’60 and Judy Shook
Christie Shuffield ’02
Jimmie and Wanda Simmons
Berniece Simpson
Richard Simpson
Vickie Singleton ’89
Judith Streussnig Skabardis ’61 and
Gaitis Skabardis
Max and Roylene Slaughter
Andrew Smallwood ’98
Karren Smedley
Alice MacLafferty Smith ’39
David Smith ’76 and Phyllis Smith
Donald and Jennifer Smith
Eric and Cheryl Smith
Jean Smith
Kenneth and Barbara Smith
LaVonne Smith
William and Sherry Smith
Clem and Marilyn Sorley
Larry Spanke, II ’66 and Sherrill Spanke
Hank Sparks ’62 and Edie Sparks
Luann Spence
Kimberly Spicer ’98
Bruce Spradlin ’58 and Louise Spradlin
Jack and Carol Spruiell
Larry and Marilyn Staton
Don Stecks ’51 and Maxine Dean
Stecks ’52
Brandon Steimel ’01
Bradley and Bobbie Steinert
Melodye and Russell Stickley
Jan Bryan Storment ’81
Donald Stribling ’78 and Denise Stribling
Keith and Sara Stucky
Roy and Ruth Sturgeon
Dellana Summerhill ’84 and
Paul Summerhill
Fred Sutton, Jr. ’87 and Dana Galyen
Sutton ’85
David and Debbie Swofford
Dewey Talley ’60 and Donna Killgore
Talley ’60
George Taylor, Jr. ’52 and Gaye
Strong Taylor
Robert and Candasi Taylor
Michael and Marie Teaster
Jimmie Thames ’53 and Ailene Thames
Virginia Thomas
Dorothy Thompson
Peggy Thompson ’63 and R. Wayne Thompson
William and Catherine Thompson
James Tolbert ’62 and Burnice
Self Tolbert
Emma Lou Hudson Travis ’76 and
Jerry Travis
Jim Trone ’70 and Marilyn Houston
Trone ’66
Judy Tucker
Denton Tumbleson ’74 and Jane Tumbleson
Kenneth Turner ’90 and Vernette Turner ’90
Vernon Tygart ’90 and Vicky Moffit
Tygart ’90
Sam Tyler
Thelma Curtis Van Arsdale ’41
Tommy Vaught
Elizabeth Vernon ’86
Laura Martin Vertrees ’78 and
Thomas Vertrees, Jr.
Richard and Tamara Von Schwarz
Kendall Wagner ’06 and Kathie Wagner
Jerry Wagoner ’58 and Dolores
Wagoner ’56
Mitchell Wagoner
Carolyn Walker
Elizabeth Walker ’43
Emily Walker
Henry and Jo Ann Walton
Jo Ward
James Warren ’67 and Dureta Porter Warren
Wood and Mary Warren
Ronald and Linda Watkins
Phillip Watts ’89 and Leslie Watts
Mary Ellen Waychoff ’78
Jeff and Vicki Weaver
Patsy Weaver
Paige Weis ’98
Wilma Wendland ’54
Alan Brock Whisenhunt
David and Bridget White
Linda Kauffeld White ’67 and Don White
Michael White ’98 and Shirell White
Russell and Betty White
Kenneth Whitson ’73
A. D. and Anne Whitten
Jo Ann Rainwater Whorton ’61
John and Tammy Wickline
Charles and Dawn Wilkinson
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Freda Kauffeld Willett ’52 and Guy Willett
Clarence Williams ’48 and Katala
Williams ’49
Jack Williams ’71
David and Rebecca Wilson
Julia Wilson ’85 and Donald Wilson
Kevin and Lisa Wilson
Laura McClendon Wilson ’55
Franlee Jo Wise ’81
Sammy Wish ’50
Ramona Witcher ’78 and Ronald Witcher
Larry Wofford ’65 and Diane Wofford
Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra
Bartlett Wofford ’77
Scott Wolf
Women of the Church Highland Presbyterian Church, Hot
Springs, AR
Kenneth Wood ’74 and Mary King Wood
Sally Wood
Steve and Joy Wood
Linda Sherrod Woody ’86
Rick and Carol Wyman
Catherine Yamamoto ’50
Rhonda Yarberry ’82 and Robert Yarberry
Dyanna Smith Yarbro ’96 and Lance Yarbro
Terry Younts, Jr. ’50
Religious Organizations
The following churches and religious organizations generously
support University of the Ozarks
in its mission to provide a quality,
comprehensive education founded
on Judeo-Christian values. Bold
indicates at least five years of consecutive giving.
Arkansas Presbytery Women, Walnut
Ridge, AR
Bella Vista Community Church, Bella Vista, AR
Central Presbyterian Church,
Russellville, AR
Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, Fort
Smith, AR
Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center,
Little Rock, AR
Financial Service Agency, Synod of the Sun, Irving, TX
First Presbyterian Church, Arlington, TX
First Presbyterian Church, Camden, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville
First Presbyterian Church, Dardanelle, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, AR
Jonesboro, AR
First Presbyterian Church, Malvern, AR
First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma
City, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Searcy, AR
Springdale, AR
Stillwater, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, OK
First Presbyterian Church, Van Buren, AR
First United Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville, AR
Grace Presbyterian Church, Grove, OK
Harmony Presbyterian Church, Clarksville
Minden Presbyterian Church, Minden, LA
Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, Bella Vista, AR
Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines,
Hot Springs Village, AR
Presbyterian Women of Arkansas Presbytery, North Little Rock, AR
Presbyterian Women of Lake Charles,
Lake Charles, LA
Presbyterian Women of Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, Hot Springs
Village, AR
Presbyterian Women of West Jersey,
Cherry Hill, NJ
Presbyterian Women of Westminster, Hot Springs, AR
Presbyterian Women’s Association, Clarksville
Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3, Tulsa, OK
Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock, AR
The Presbyterian Church of Pryor, Pryor, OK
The Presbyterian Foundation of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Women of the Church, Highland Presbyterian Church, Hot Springs
Woodlands Presbyterian Church, Hot Springs Village, AR
Gifts-In-Kind
The following individuals and
corporations generously supported
Ozarks with gifts of services or
products during the 2007-08 fiscal
year.
Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn
Christopher Boettcher
Beverly Bridgman
Clarksville Sign Works, Clarksville, AR
Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 and
Kurtis Daniels
Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin
Wallace Dobbins ’40 and *Carolyn
Bush Dobbins ’42
Pat Farmer
Charles and Debbie Foster
Virginia King
Dan and Linda Martin
Office Tech 2000, Russellville, AR
Farren Sadler ’51 and Grace Pourron
Sadler ’53
Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann Bean
Taylor ’72
Louise Taylor ’51
Tom Taylor
Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., Altus, AR
Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra
Bartlett Wofford ’77
The Aerie Club
The following individuals and
businesses supported The Aerie
Club during the 2007-2008 fiscal
year. The Aerie Club supports the
athletic teams and student-athletes
at U of O. To become a member of
the Aerie Club, contact Lori
McBee at 479-979-1354.
Arby’s
Aquilar Foot Care Clinic
Arvid Bean Insurance Agency Inc.
Bank of the Ozarks
Eddie Bean ’68 and Georgia Reynolds
Bean ’72
Lorraine Darnell Belote ’56 and Doug
Belote
Wayne Benbow ’65 and Mary Trotter
Benbow ’64
Jerry Bridges ’78
James and Ann Bruning
Bruce and Frances Cameron
The Catfish House
Cecil Hardware, Inc.
Clarksville Cinema
Clarksville Insurance Agency
Clarksville Sign Works
Comfort Inn
Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99
Curran’s Abstract and Title, Inc.
Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard
Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Blackard
Ehren ’71
Family Shoe Store
First Security Bank
Orville Fletcher ’58 and Carol Fletcher
Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks
Hampton Inn
Hanesbrands, Inc
Eugene Harris ’53
Harvest Food Market, Inc.
The Home Showcase
Hoyle’s Walkin’ Western
Larry Isch
Joco Java
Glen Kern
KXIO 106.9-FM
Fletcher Lowry ’52 and Jo Nell Alsip
Lowry ’52
Master Printing
Mazzio’s Pizza
Morgan’s Fashions
Nite Lite
John and Betsy O’Connor
Deborah and Laron Owens
Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60
Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc.
Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips
Pizza Hut Pizza Pro
Charles Puyear ’65
Quizno’s Subs
Radio Shack
Regions Bank
River Valley Sporting Goods
Farren Sadler ’51 and Grace Pourron
Sadler ’53
William Scarborough ’39
Sexton Furniture and Appliance
Simmons First Bank
Mike and Fran Smith
Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith
Sonic Drive-In
South Park Restaurant, Inc.
Spectra Energy Foundation
James Stanton ’69 and Chris Stanton
State Farm Insurance
Harve Taylor III and Loyce Ann Taylor ’72
Waffle House
Mitchell Wagoner
Wendy’s
Western Sizzlin’
Whitson Morgan Motor Company, Inc.
Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie Tipton Williams ’81
Woodard Carpet & Design
Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann Young ’57
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May 16, 2008 through
Sept. 30, 2008
Yoselin Alvarez Reyes ’08
Mike and Fran Smith
Kenneth J. Cater ’94
Jane and Brent Cater
Patrick A. Farmer
Jeffrey DeBuhr
In Celebration of the Graduation of Debra
Carl Freeman
Dawn J.M. and Gary
Scarborough ’82
Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada
Mathis Qualls ’55
Len Bradley
Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada
Mathis Qualls ’55
Randy Hilton ’75
Blake Rexroat ’06 and Lauren
Wilson Rexroat ’07
Myra Johnston’s 90th Birthday
Harlene Henson
Ann Park ’49
Reba Pridgin ’81 and David
Pridgin ’71
Willie and Carolyn Kimbrell
Wilma Harris ’03 and Edward
Harris ’75
Barbara Lindstrom ’08
Gary and Mary Husa
Robin Wise Milligan ’92
Holly Mitchell
Robert K. Bennett
Jack Thomas Patterson ’65
Fritz and Juanita Ehren
Virginia McCracken
Joe Pennington ’05
Mike and Fran Smith
Janet and Warner Phillips
Robert K. Bennett
Dallas Bean Scarborough ’43
Amanda Stang ’08
Mike and Fran Smith
Trillian ’99
Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and
Chad Cox ’98
Darrell Williams ’76
May 16, 2008 through
Sept. 30, 2008
Bernie Anderson
Charles Angell
Dorothy Angell
Debbie Sorley King ’76
Clem and Marilyn Sorley
Karen Newton Bean ’74
Don L. Bean
Keith and Sara Stucky
Roderick Weaver ’71 and Judy Lawton Weaver
Helen Blakemore
David and Carolyn Blakemore
Davis and Lisa Moore
Francis and Gloria Strong
Hal and Nellie Welch
Christopher G. Boyette ’70
Nancy C. Boyette
Marian Riddell Cargile ’64
John W. Cargile ’61
Betty Emery Carter ’52
Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G.
Johnston
Elton Henry “Al” Donaubauer
Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon
Jones Bean ’78
Judy Peavy Boreham
Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann Bean Taylor ’72
Kermit Eggensperger ’41
Elizabeth Eisenmayer ’00
Forrest Hoeffer ’65 and Helen Groskopf Hoeffer ’81
Edith McChesney
Cecil and Ruth Boddie Farmer
Jeffrey DeBuhr
Sarah Carlin Graves ’85
Shari Caywood
Weston Luke Guiltner, son of Clayton
Guiltner ’95
Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes
Cox ’99
Trillian ’99
Monetta Dickerson Hadley ’62
O. D. Hightower ’49
Mollie Hightower-Barnum
Jeffrey Dixon Hoffman
Steven and Amy Oatis
Francis Shell Hudson
Martha Shell Emerson ’52
Frank Ingram ’48 and Marie Ingram ’33
Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and Marvin C. Leister, Jr.
Frank Ingram ’48
Arkansas Best Corporation
Marie Hervy Ingram ’33
Arkansas Best Corporation
Greenbrier Creek Animal Hospital
Hoyt Kerr
Norma M. Johnson
Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 and Carroll Bumpers
Wanda Nichols Meador ’50
Presbyterian Women’s Association
Fred A. and Ophelia Jacobs Kauffeld
Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54
Burley King ’40
Mary Jane Ring ’80 and James Ring
John E. King
Judy Peavy Boreham
Bruce and Mary Lou Swinburne
W. E. King
Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King
Bost ’43
W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41
Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones
Bean ’78
Judy Borck
Judy Peavy Boreham
Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Ehren ’71
Sue Frueauff
Flora Eustice Horne ’54 and
Charles Horne, III
Rena Sue Laster ’71
Robert Page, Jr. ’52 and Flois Page ’54
Mary Virginia Hurie Parks ’43
Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine
Bill Porter ’54 and Anna Porter
Betty Ann Eustice Riley ’49
Spinal Healthcare Assoc. P.C.
Bean Taylor ’72
Betty King Walsh ’41
Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty Bush Workman
Frank and Sadie Koon
Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and Marvin C. Leister, Jr.
Shelli Stewart Lamberson
Jones Learning Center
Tina and Bryan McCain
Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and
Charles Mooney
Cooper Mack
Darrell Williams ’76 and
Debbie Tipton Williams ’81
Nita Manning
Mida Figliulo Milligan ’86 and
Billy Milligan
Charles Martin, Jr. ’57
Jetta Martin
Ruth Bost May ’51
Roger’43 and Kathryn King Bost ’43
Rebecca L. McCollum ’98
Sanofi Adventis
Mackie McElree
Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and William Watson
Lucile Lucas Murphy ’33
Rubie Javornick ’58
John Nichols
Dortha Niece
Lewis H. Niece
Margaret “Peg” Niece
Garry Niece
Melvin Niece
Susie Niece
Tommy E. Owens ’70
Robert Gibson ’76 and Glenda Gibson
Glenda Dennis Owens ’71 and
Steve Owens
Milford Park ’38 and Laura Waters
Park ’38
Charlotte Melichar
Carol Park
Edward Myron Parker
J. T. Patterson ’38 and Lucile Sanders
Patterson
Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and
Marvin C. Leister, Jr.
Patty Petty
Philip Pittman ’41 and Susie Maude
Pittman ’39
Denton ’74 and Jane Tumbleson
Jo Ward
Michael A. Rail ’80
Georgia ’53 and O.G. Johnston
Harriet and Joe Reece
George Reece ’83
Kathy Rich
Trillian ’99
Joanne Willett Taylor ’60
Lewis Rogers ’34
John and Jane Rogers
Lora Beth Henry Rogers
Linda Anderson
Tom and Ann Dugger
John and Jane Rogers
Marjorie Scarborough
Alvin Sherby ’68
Forrest Hoeffer ’65 and Helen
Groskopf Hoeffer ’81
Curtis Lee Spence
Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence
Robert Dennis Spurlock ’65
Eddie Strong
John Talley ’43
Sarah C. Talley
John Torbett ’53
LonnieQualls ’55 and Levada
Mathis Qualls ’55
Helen Robson Walton
Lyle Ward
Ancil Williams
Arvid ’78 and Sharon Jones Bean ’78
Judy Peavy Boreham
Sue Frueauff
Jones Learning Center
Reba Pridgin ’81 and David
Pridgin ’71
Bean Taylor ’72
Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie
Tipton Williams ’81
Robert “Bob” Wise
Cletus Wofford
Len Bradley
Jerry ’58 and Dolores Wagoner ’56
Karla, R.J., and Clint Wood
Jimmy C. Wright
Jeanette Crotts Wright ’74
Almeta Blackard Yerby ’53
Georgia Johnston ’53 and
O.G. Johnston
If you would like to make an
Honoraria or Memorial in
recognition of a loved one to the
University of the Ozarks’
Annual Scholarship Fund,
please call the Advancement
Office at 479-979-1230.
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Leonard “L.C.” Pardue ’33
Leonard “L.C.” Pardue of Portland, Ore., died Sept. 21, 2008,
at the age of 100. He was a retired founder and president of
Pardue Masonry, Inc. As a student at Ozarks, he helped build
Munger Chapel.
John R. Selby ’38
John R. Selby of Clarksville died May 25, 2008, at the age of
94. He was a retired science teacher.
Dr. William “Ernest” King, Jr. ’41
Dr. William “Ernest” King, Jr., of Russellville, Ark., died
June 28, 2008, at the age of 89. He was a retired physician, a
veteran of World War II and a longtime trustee at Ozarks.
Dr. William “Ernest” King
Leonard “L.C.” Pardue
Irene (Steuart) White ’44
liaison during the integration of Little Rock Central in 1957.
Betty (Griffin) Blackwell ’47
Betty E. Dalke of Fort Smith, Ark., died Aug. 31, 2008, at the
age of 86. She was a retired teacher.
Irene (Steuart) White of Clarksville died Aug. 20, 2008, at the
age of 89 in Clarksville. She taught for 37 years.
Betty E. Dalke ’68
Alvin Sherby ’68
Betty (Griffin) Blackwell of Russellville, Ark., died Oct. 1,
2008, at the age of 83. She was a long-time member of the
Central Presbyterian Church and was a volunteer with Main
Street Mission.
Alvin Sherby of Mt. Laurel, N.J., died June 2, 2008, at
the age of 66. He was a long-time educator and coach in
Camden, N.J.
Mary Maude Gallagher of Coal Hill, Ark., died July 4, 2008,
at the age of 84. She was a retired school teacher and a
member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Altus, Ark.
Martha (Homer) Goza of Clarksville died July 26, 2008, at
the age of 76. She was a retired teacher, homemaker and
member of the Cabin Creek Baptist Church.
Betty (Brown) Davis of Fort Wayne, Ind., died June 20, 2008,
at the age of 78. She was a retired school teacher.
Diana F. Hartzell of Virginia Beach, Va., passed away on May
15, 2008. She worked in child care in several churches.
Claudie D. Freeman of Longview, Wash., died May 18, 2008,
at the age of 73.
Larry A. Keys of Cedarville, Ark., died July 16, 2008, at
the age of 59. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a retired
Whirlpool employee.
Mary Maude Gallagher ’47
Betty (Brown) Davis ’50
Claudie D. Freeman ’51
Bobby Earl Mills ’58
Bobby Earl Mills of Dardanelle, Ark., died July 30, 2008, at
the age of 69. He was a 25-year veteran of the Arkansas State
Police and also served in the military.
Dr. Arlie Metheny ’59
Arlie Metheny of Conway, Ark., died Sept. 15, 2008, at
the age of 90. A veteran of World War II, he had a 21-year
career in the military before serving as superintendent of
several schools in Arkansas, including Mulberry, Conway and
Mayflower. While in the military, he coordinated the entry
of Elvis Presley into service in 1958 and was the U. S. Army
Martha (Homer) Goza ‘69
Diana F. Hartzell ’69
Larry A. Keys ’71
Jerry P. Stumbaugh ’72
Jerry Paul Stumbaugh of Little Rock, Ark., died Sept. 30,
2008, at the age of 58. He was a CPA.
Charles L. Holman ’74
Charles L. Holman of Clarksville died May 5, 2008, at the
age of 58.
Dr. John E. King
Dr. John E. King of West Columbia, S.C. died June 28, 2008,
at the age of 94. He was a lifetime member of the U of O
Board of Trustees.
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