Hall of Honor Album - Fayetteville Public Schools

Jerry Brewer
Friend of Education
Born in 1940, Jerry Brewer grew up to be a coach. A four-sport letterman at Springdale
High School, he left for college on a basketball scholarship and took a degree in
physical education, which brought him to Woodland Jr. High and Fayetteville High
School, where he fielded winning teams.
A coaching job in Texas led Jerry to an offer of temporary employment as a savings and
loan officer. Intending only to “try it out” and ultimately return to coaching, Jerry spent
the next sixteen years proving his worth as a banker and establishing a thriving real
estate proprietorship. His success in these enterprises allowed Jerry to retire in 1986
back to Northwest Arkansas.
That “retirement” proved to be otherwise; Jerry’s 1988 purchase with his son of a small
employment agency became, by 1997, the controlling interest in a publicly-traded
national employment service known as StaffMark, with over 175 offices, 1,200
employees, and hundreds of millions of dollars in gross revenues.
Jerry has demonstrated his friendship to the Fayetteville Public Schools in many ways.
The most recent is a substantial and key contribution to the Fayetteville High School
athletic program, allowing it to complete a new fieldhouse--so that student athletes may
learn the principles that Jerry has himself learned and which he instilled in his own
players: hard work, discipline, and fierce but principled competition pays off in everyday
life.