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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 Don Lee, Josh Peppas, Brandy Cox, 

Dr. Doug Jeffries 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 

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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. 

Volume 28 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 

3 A Holiday Blessing 

Thanks to UOW, hundreds of kids 

will have a merrier Christmas. 

4 Great College to Work For 

National publication names Ozarks 

a “Great College to Work For.” 

ON THE COVER: 

Women’s Basketball Coach 

Carl Ramsey (front left) and 

Men’s Basketball Coach Doug 

Boxell (front right) are firstyear 

coaches with impressive 

resumes who, with the help of 

their players, are ready to turn 

around the fortunes of Ozarks 

basketball. (Photo by Mike 

Kemp.) 

See Story, Page 12 

7 Ozarks Meets Challenge 

Mabee Challenge will allow 

for student center expansion. 

8 A Day on the Buffalo 

Freshmen learn about teamwork, 

community service during outing 

on the Buffalo River. 

10 A Lifetime in Education 

Retiring professor Dr. George 

Stone discusses teacher education. 

17 2008-09 Donor Honor Roll 

Ozarks’ many cherished 

supporters for the 2008-09 

fiscal year are recognized. 

36 In Memoriam 

The University honors those 

alumni and friends who have 

passed away in recent months. 

The Hole-In-the-Wall Gang, a group of alumni from the late 1960s and 1970s, 

held a reunion in July in MacLean Hall as well as at a cabin owned by Sid Kern 

’72 of Clarksville. The Hole-In-the-Wall Gang invites all former members to 

make plans to attend the group’s next reunion, scheduled for summer of 2012. 

See Other Alumni News on Pages 14-16 

Today, FALL/WINTER 2009 3

SCM Studio is “Getting the Word Out” 

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody 

hears it, does it make a sound The answer 

to this familiar riddle is “No,” since 

sound by definition requires someone to 

hear. 

If an event takes place, and no one 

promotes it, is it successful Probably 

not. But thanks to Andrea Dankert and 

the other strategic communications majors 

and minors in SCM Studio, that 

problem need never occur. 

The SCM Studio is a campus organization 

for strategic communications 

majors, minors, and those considering 

it. Its purpose is to enhance educational 

experiences beyond the classroom, create 

awareness of and promote the strategic 

communication major, and create 

relationships with Ozarks’ students and 

Clarksville community members. 

According to SCM Studio liaison 

Andrea Dankert, strategic communications 

is a relatively new major, and SCM 

Studio combines classroom theory with 

marketing efforts and public relations to 

aid campus and community organizations 

in their advertising and event planning 

efforts. 

“Our motto is ‘filling the gap between 

thinking and doing,’” she says. 

“It’s a creative group, but business minded 

as well.” 

Dankert, a sophomore from Broken 

Arrow, Okla., said she has always wanted 

to be an actress and originally did not 

plan on going to college, but she decided 

she needed a back-up plan. She arrived 

at Ozarks undecided about her major, 

but after taking classes with Dr. Randy 

Hilton and Dr. Heather McFarland, she 

decided on double majoring in Marketing 

and Strategic Communications. 

“I was able to host a documentary 

for the Girl Scouts of America with Dr. 

Heather McFarland. We filmed in Mississippi 

and Tennessee,” she says. “I’ve 

always enjoyed public speaking. As part 

of an assignment for Intro to Rhetoric, 

we had to come up with a plan of action 

4 Today, FALL/WINTER 2009 

Some of the members of SCM Studio include (front row, from left) Jorge Linares, Karen 

Loria, Ashley Teague, Dr. Heather McFarland (advisor), David Rivas, (second row, from 

left) Mindy Choo, Dahania Pimentel, Pete Child, Zach Doty, Andrea Dankert, and Pietro 

Brol. Not pictured is advisor Dr. Greta Marlow. 

to reach our career goals. Since my alternative 

career goal is to become a travel 

host for the Travel Channel, one of the 

steps on my plan of action was to try out 

for any game/reality TV show possible 

in order to get my name out there and 

make connections, and this summer I 

took my first step towards that goal by 

auditioning for ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.’ 

I didn’t make it on the show, 

but it was a lot of fun!” 

In the meantime, Dankert and the 

other members of SCM Studio continue 

with an impressive list of local projects, 

which have included helping design and 

decorate the booths for the University’s 

recent 175th birthday carnival, fundraising 

for this year’s Family Weekend, and 

advertising for a recent Ozarks Outbackers 

and Planet Club event. 

“We hope to have a graphic design 

workshop,” Dankert says. “We wanted 

our club t-shirts to express not only 

membership in the club but personal 

creativity as well, so we created a white 

v-neck shirt that is plain on the front, 

and on the back in black it says, ‘Filling 

the Gap Between Thinking and Doing,’ 

with the SCM logo on the bottom. At 

one of our club meetings, we will have a 

workshop to design the front part of the 

shirt. On the computer, each person will 

design his or her own decoration for the 

front, and then we will print it out and 

iron it on. So that way we will all be recognized 

as SCM members, but we will 

express our own individuality as well.” 

Dankert says that although the club 

started in the 2007-2008 school year, 

this is the first year it has really made its 

presence known on campus. 

“We are a really creative group,” she 

says. “We stayed up until 10 o’clock at 

night working on booths for the carnival. 

As communication majors, we definitely 

understand the importance of getting a 

message across, and this year we’re doing 

it!”

UOW brings Christmas to county’s needy 

Thanks to a monumental effort by the University of the 

Ozarks Women (UOW), 816 children from 324 families in 

Johnson County had a more enjoyable Christmas in 2008. 

UOW’s Christmas Angels project, in its 16th year, provides 

toys and clothing for children from newborn to age 18 

throughout the county from families with financial need. Parents 

and guardians of these children applied for the program 

through the local Department of Human Services. 

UOW coordinates the efforts by collecting gifts of toys 

and clothing as well as donations. At an estimated $35 spent 

per child, the organization collected approximately $25,000 in 

donations of gifts and money for the project in 2008. 

“Christmas Angels is a wonderful project and a perfect 

opportunity for our organization to work with our community 

to bring some joy to the many in our small part of the world 

who so desperately need it this season,” said UOW President 

Connie Booty, the executive assistant to the president. “To see 

the care and concern for others that pour out of our campus and 

our community is truly inspiring.” 

Last year’s number of 816 children who applied for the 

program was by far the largest number in the program’s history. 

UOW officials are expecting even more to apply this year. 

“We’re seeing effects of the economy, where families 

just don’t have the money for Christmas gifts,” said Registrar 

Wilma Harris, co-chair of the Christmas Angels. “The people 

in Johnson County continue to rise to the challenge to make a 

difference for children during the holidays.” 

University of the Ozarks Women (UOW) show off some of the 

toys the organization has collected for the 2009 Christmas Angels 

project. Last year, UOW coordinated the project that benefitted 

816 children in Johnson County. 

Your gift to the Annual Scholarship Fund (ASF) supports students 

like Janine, a senior English major from Pine Bluff, Ark. Janine, 

who wants to work in the book publishing profession, epitomizes the 

type of students who thrive at a small, Christian-affiliated university 

like Ozarks. She is not only a dedicated student who has been on the 

university’s honor list, but she excels outside the classroom as well. 

She is president of CHANGE (Combining Honor and Achievement to 

Navigate and Guide Excellence) as well as a Resident Assistant. She 

is active in the Student Foundation Board, Rotaract and The 

Mountain Eagle newspaper. Your support of the ASF will help 

empower Ozarks students like Janine. For more information on how 

you can help empower Ozarks students, please call the 

Advancement Office at 479-979-1230. 


Ozarks named “Great College to Work For” 

U of O has been named one of the 

top universities in the country to work for 

by The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

In The Chronicle’s 2009 “Great Colleges 

to Work For” survey, released on 

Monday, July 6, 

University of the 

Ozarks was one of 

39 colleges across 

the country that 

were named to 

the Honor Roll. U 

of O was the only 

four-year college in Arkansas to make 

the Honor Roll. 

The second-annual survey recognizes 

colleges for specific best practices 

and policies, such as compensation and 

benefits, faculty-administration relations 

and confidence in senior leadership. The 

program was based on responses from 

nearly 41,000 administrators, faculty 

members and staff members at 247 institutions, 

including four-year universities, 

as well as community colleges. 

“These results are reflective of the 

quality, collaboration and effectiveness 

of our entire campus community,” said 

U of O Executive Vice President Steve 

Edmisten. “It is a special tribute to all of 

our faculty and staff.” 

The Honor Roll highlights the top 

10 colleges in each college size category 

based on the number of times they were 

recognized in 26 individual recognition 

categories. U of O was ranked in the top 

10 in 18 of the 26 recognition categories 

in the small college size category (under 

3,000 students). 

In the small college category, Ozarks 

was tied with the most top-10 category 

rankings with 18. Some of the categories 

included, healthy faculty-administration 

relations; collaborative governance; professional-career 

development programs; 

compensation and benefits; job satisfaction; 

work/life balance; and confidence 

in senior leadership. 

Several new employees have recently joined U of O and were introduced during the 

faculty and staff opening workshop on August 20. The new employees include (front 

row, from left) Dr. Deborah White, director of student support services; Chelsea Joslin, 

assistant softball coach; Evia Darter, computer services help desk coordinator; Raeann 

Meier, admission data coordinator; Shannon Vivian, assistant tennis coach; Dr. David 

Pennington, assistant professor of history; (back row, from left) Greg Stone, maintenance; 

Jason Dicamillo, grounds; Carl Ramsey, head women’s basketball coach; John 

Cossaboon, head men’s soccer coach; and Doug Boxell, head men’s basketball coach. 


9,000 

Approximate number of gallons of 

water that the fountain in the center 

of campus contains. Completed in 

1996, the fountain has been the focus 

of numerous student pranks over the 

past decade, having everything from 

dozens of pumpkins, to soap, to live 

fish dumped into it. 

7 

Total number of high school 

state basketball championships 

won by first-year men’s coach 

Doug Boxell and women’s coach 

Carl Ramsey. Boxell, who compiled 

a 670-175 (.792) record in 25 years 

of coaching in Texas, won five state 

titles in boys basketball at Ponder, 

Sudan and Santo high schools. 

Ramsey, who had a 660-227 (.744) 

record in 29 years of coaching girls 

basketball at Lamar, Ark., won state 

titles in 1989 and 1991. 

816 

The number of 

children, ages 

newborn to 18, in 

Johnson County, Ark., who received 

Christmas toys and clothing in 2008 

through the University of the Ozarks 

Women (UOW) Christmas Angels 

project. The 819 children who 

benefitted in 2008 are the most in the 

program’s 16-year history. The UOW 

project provides toys and clothing 

to children of families in Johnson 

County who show a need. 

number of trees on 

campus that were 

35Total 

completely destroyed or 

that had to be taken down following 

the severe thunderstorm that hit 

campus on June 12.

Briefs 

with an English degree, earning Summa 

Cum Laude honors. 

In August 2009, Dr. Sean Coleman, 

associate professor of biology and chief 

health professions advisor, completed 

the publication of 1,100 PowerPoint 

Lecture Notes as an instructor resource 

for McKee and McKee’s Biochemistry: 

The Molecular Basis of Life, Fourth 

Edition. The publisher is Oxford University 

Press. 

Bristle McIntare, a 2009 Ozarks 

graduate, joined the Admission Office 

as an admission counselor in September. 

McIntare graduated from Ozarks 

U of O President Dr. Rick Niece (right) recently 

thanked Arkansas State Legislators 

(from left) Rep. George Overbey of Lamar 

and Rep. John Paul Wells of Paris for 

helping the university secure $253,429 in 

federal stimulus money from the State Fiscal 

Stabilization Funds, authorized under 

the American Recovery and Reinvestment 

Act of 2009. The University will use the 

money for energy-efficiency modernization 

of a chemistry lab and to install energyefficient 

windows in the Smith-Broyles 

Science Building. Rep. Overbey represents 

District 69 and Rep. Wells, a 1978 graduate 

of U of O, represents District 84. 

University Chaplain Rev. Nancy Benson-Nicol 

served as one of the plenary 

Bible study leaders at the Presbyterian 

Women’s Churchwide Gathering held 

during the summer of 2009. She was 

also tapped to write the Presbyterian 

Women’s 2012-2013 Bible study on the 

epistles. Last year she wrote the worship 

resource for Celebrate the Gifts 

of Women Sunday. Benson-Nicol has 

served as University Chaplain since 

August of 2006. 

Dr. Rickey Casey, professor of management 

and business and executive 

director of international studies, teamed 

with Dr. Jay Robbins, professor of management 

at Ouachita Baptist University, 

to write an article titled “A Comparison 

of the Elements of Motivation in the 

Hospital Industry versus the Retail and 

Manufacturing Sectors,” which was accepted 

for publication in the Journal of 

Diversity Management. 

Several new members were elected 

to the Board of Trustees during the 

Board’s October meeting. Elected to 

the Class of 2012 were Darby Logan 

of Hot Springs, Ark.; Sue Tull of Little 

Rock, Ark.; Doug Black of Houston, 

Texas; and Sylvester Benson ’67 of 

Manhattan, Kan. Elected to the Class 

of 2012 from the April Board meeting 

were Ivan Quant ’98 of Managua, Nicaragua, 

and Jim Struthers of Stillwater, 

Okla. 

For the 11th consecutive year, University 

of the Ozarks 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 2010 edition 

of “America’s Best Colleges,” released 

to the public on Aug. 20, Ozarks was 

Dr. Stewart Dippel, professor of political 

science, had his new book, “The Sacralization 

of the World in the 17th Century: The 

Experience of Holiness in Everyday Life,” 

published in the fall of 2009 by The Edwin 

Mellen Press. The book will initiate a new 

series by the Mellen Press called 17th Century 

Studies. This is Dippel’s second book. 

In 1999 he authored “The Professionalization 

of the English Church from 1560 to 

1700: Ambassadors for Christ.” 

ranked second in the category of “Great 

Schools, Great Prices” among 97 universities 

in the 12-state South Region 

that are considered Baccalaureate Colleges. 

It is the 10th time in the last 11 

years that Ozarks has been ranked in the 

top five of the best value category. In 

the overall rankings of the universities, 

Ozarks was ranked seventh among 97 

universities that fall in the Baccalaureate 

Colleges category in the South 

Region. 

Dr. Glenda Ezell has been named the 

new chair of the Division of Education, 

replacing Dr. George Stone, who 

retired in December (see pages 10-11). 

Ezell earned her bachelor’s and master’s 

degrees from U of O and her Ed.D. 

from the University of Arkansas. She has 

taught at Ozarks since 2006. 


Compher’s support is to “return the gift of education” 

Michael Compher’s dream of working 

with nature and improving the environment 

has taken him, of all places, to 

the nation’s third-largest city, Chicago. 

Compher, a 1999 environmental studies 

graduate, is an environmental scientist 

with the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency in its Chicago office. 

Compher’s job is to assess outdoor 

air quality. This includes both air quality 

monitoring and data analysis. He is 

responsible for oversight of state and local 

air monitoring programs that receive 

federal grants to monitor air quality. 

“When I was at Ozarks, I expected 

my career would be ‘in the field’ as opposed 

to an office job,” Compher said. 

“After a short time working at the U.S. 

EPA, however, I became interested in 

the relationship between people’s exposures 

to pollutants in their environment 

and how it affects their health. Although 

I spend the majority of my time in an office, 

I do feel like my work has an impact 

on people’s lives and well being.” 

After graduating from Ozarks, Compher 

went on to earn a master’s degree in 

environmental health from the University 

of Washington. He credits his Ozarks 

education for helping him in graduate 

school and in his career. 

“U of O’s well-rounded liberal arts 

curriculum provided a foundation of 

knowledge that prepared me well,” he 

said. “I have experienced colleagues that 

attended large state universities where 

they became highly specialized in one 

area of study, but were then limited in 

their employment and professional opportunities. 

At Ozarks I was well trained 

in the sciences, but I also understood 

business, politics, history, religion, and 

the arts. I think that well-rounded education 

has contributed to my successes.” 

Despite being in graduate school, 

starting a new family and beginning his 

career, Compher has been a consistent 

donor to the U of O Annual Scholarship 


Fund since leaving the university. 

“I was fortunate to have been fully 

supported by Ozarks during my four undergraduate 

years through scholarships, 

and I am committed to continuing to 

support Ozarks to return the gift of education 

that was provided to me,” he said. 

“Providing support to the schools that 

my wife and I attended, each of which 

were instrumental in getting us to where 

we are in our lives and our careers, is im- 

Taylors Honor a Legacy of Education 

portant to both of us. Each year we assess 

what we can provide, and feel strongly 

that any amount is better than nothing.” 

Compher and his wife, Amy, have 

two children, Matthew, 5, and Lucy, 3. 

They live in Highland Park, Ill. 

Harve Taylor III (left) of Clarksville, and 

Tom M. Taylor (right) of Tulsa, Okla., 

met with Ozarks President Dr. Rick Niece 

on September 10 to formally establish a 

scholarship endowment in honor of their 

parents, Harve Taylor, Jr. and May Mills 

Taylor ’37 (photos at right). The Taylor 

brothers grew up in Clarksville and, 

though neither attended Ozarks, said they 

both viewed the University as an integral 

part of their lives and of the community. 

The Taylors asked that scholarships 

provided by the endowment go to support 

students in the University’s Teacher 

Education Program because their parents 

believed so strongly in the value of education. 

May Taylor was a lifelong educator 

working in the Clarksville School 

System, and Harve Taylor, Jr. served on 

the Clarksville School Board, as did his 

father, Harve Taylor, Sr.

University meets Mabee challenge 

U of O has met the requirements 

to receive a $1 million challenge grant 

from the J.E. and L.E. Mabee Foundation 

of Tulsa, Okla., university officials 

announced in July. 

Ozarks raised more than $1 million 

to match the Mabee Foundation’s challenge 

gift of $1 million, which was issued 

in October 2008. The university 

had until Sept. 30 to meet the challenge. 

The University raised a total of $3.6 million 

during the challenge. 

The funds will be used as part of 

a capital improvements project that includes 

the renovation and expansion of 

the Seay Student Center and the construction 

of a new residence hall. 

A total of 55 donors contributed to 

the Mabee challenge, according to Executive 

Vice President Steve Edmisten. 

“The Mabee challenge generated 

broad support from donors with great 

capability down to those with relatively 

Family members have established 

a scholarship at U of O in memory of 

longtime family therapist John Barnes 

Coleman for students who are majoring 

in psychology or sociology and 

who want to work with children and 

families. 

The John Barnes Coleman Memorial 

Scholarship was established by his 

son, Dr. Sean T. Coleman, associate 

professor of biology at the university; 

his daughter-in-law, Jennifer A. Coleman; 

and his widow, Cheryl A. Coleman. 

John Coleman worked as a family 

therapist for many years in Rochester, 

Minn., and Russellville, Ark. He passed 

away on Sept. 2, at the age of 60. 

“Serving and helping children and 

their families was my father’s passion,” 

said his son, Sean Coleman. “I 

think this scholarship is the best way to 

Board of Trustee Members (from left) Jim 

Bruning, Judy Borck and Arvid Bean all 

played key leadership roles in helping the 

University meet a challenge grant by the 

Mabee Foundation. Borck is the chair of 

the Board and Bruning and Bean served 

as co-chairs of the capital campaign. 

Coleman Scholarship to honor father 

Dr. Sean Coleman (left) and President 

Rick Niece hold up a photo of Coleman’s 

father, John Barnes Coleman. 

help the next generation of people who 

want to follow in his footsteps.” 

Anyone interested in contributing 

to the scholarship can contact the University 

of the Ozarks’ Advancement 

Office at 479-979-1230. 

low capability but a great will to help,” 

Edmisten said. “Raising funds for any 

purpose has become incredibly difficult 

in our nation’s current economic circumstances, 

and I am convinced that without 

the Mabee Foundation’s generous 

challenge acting as a catalyst, we would 

not have been able to achieve our goals 

to improve student services in a timely 

manner.” 

The university is expected to hold a 

ground-breaking ceremony on the project 

during the 2010 Spring Semester. 

Key elements of the student center 

improvements include a new student 

health and fitness center, a new community 

conference center, and increased 

dining capacity for the student body. The 

new apartment-style-residence hall will 

house 20 students and will be the final 

complex in a four-hall quad area in the 

northeast section of campus. 

The Mabee challenge is part of the 

University’s current $40 million Promise 

of Excellence Campaign, which ends 

in March 2011. More than $37 million 

had been raised in the campaign by the 

end of September. 

Family starts scholarship 

in memory of Jake Tull 

The Jake Tull Memorial Endowed 

Scholarship has been established at 

Ozarks in memory of the junior environmental 

studies major from Little Rock 

who died in May 2009. 

The scholarship was established by 

Tull’s mother, Sue, as well as other family 

members and friends. As of the end 

of October, more than 100 people had 

contributed to the scholarship. 

The Tull Scholarship will aide students 

who use the services of the Jones 

Learning Center and demonstrate financial 

need. The recipients will be nominated 

and selected by the director of the 

Jones Learning Center with the assistance 

of the Director of Financial Aid. 

For more information on the Jake 

Tull Memorial Scholarship or to establish 

a memorial scholarship in memory 

of a loved one, please contact the Advancement 

Office at 479-979-1230. 


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. 

Several University of the Ozarks freshmen recently 

stepped out of the classroom and into canoes for a firsthand 

lesson on community service, teamwork, overcoming 

fear, and appreciating Arkansas’ natural beauty. 

More than 50 U of O students and a handful of faculty 

members spent an early September weekday floating a sixmile 

stretch of the Buffalo River near Tyler Bend. The students 

were part of the university’s Critical Inquiry (CI) program, a 

freshman-level course designed to help students succeed in 

college and in the working world. 

For most of the students, many of whom come from Oklahoma, 

Texas and southern parts of Arkansas, it was their first 

time in a canoe, not to mention their first experience on the 

scenic Buffalo River. 

Designated as the country’s first federally-protected river, 

the Buffalo flows freely over swift running rapids and quiet 

pools and cuts through massive limestone bluffs for its 135- 

mile journey through north-central Arkansas. Considered one 

of the most scenic rivers in the country, it sits approximately 

two hours north of the Ozarks campus. 

Glendon Jenkins, a freshman from the small south Arkansas 

community of Wickes, Ark., was one of those first-time 

canoeists. He admitted to being a little leery of the experience 

before the trip. But that quickly changed. 

“I was amazed by how beautiful it was, almost like something 

you would see in a movie,” Jenkins said of the scenery. 

“I’ve lived in Arkansas my entire life and had heard of the Buffalo 

River, but had no idea it was like this.” 

As it often does with first-time canoeists, the trip had its 

share of interesting moments: There were the two basketball 

players from the Dallas area who got into their canoe facing 

each other. There was a snake sighting that sent numerous students 

scattering and screaming. And, there were, of course, 

the intentional and some not-so-intentional canoe capsizings, 

sending their occupants into the chilly river. 

The group received an unexpected treat about halfway 

through their journey when a church group, camping on the 

shores of the river, entertained the canoeists with a harmoni- 

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ous early-morning 

concert of hymns. 

Echoing off the 

towering limestone 

bluffs, the 

sounds could be 

heard for miles 

up and down the 

river. 

“To hear the 

singing in a venue 

like that was a 

pretty incredible 

experience,” said 

Lakaen Maddox, a 

sophomore education 

major from Clarksville. “That’s probably one of the last 

things you expect to hear on a float trip, and it made the trip 

even more memorable.” 

Before attending Ozarks, Kursty Boyd, a junior accounting 

and economics major from Coal Hill, Ark., had never been 

canoeing on the Buffalo River despite having spent her entire 

life just two hours away. Her first experience in a canoe was 

three years ago in her freshman CI class. 

“There were three of us in a canoe, and we had no idea 

what we were doing,” she recalled. “There were 30 canoes and 

we were the 29th to finish. We were so late that we missed 

lunch, but we had a great time. I felt a real sense of accomplishment.” 

Boyd now takes the canoe trip with CI classes as a peer 

mentor, an older student who helps the freshmen acclimate to 

college life at Ozarks. 

“It’s neat to see the experience from the other point of 

view and watch the freshmen learn how to steer the canoe and 

get through the rapids,” she said. “You see how they work together 

and how they overcome their fears.” 

Overcoming fear is one of the main components of the 

trip, according to Stacy Key, an instructor of mathematics who 

also coordinates the CI program at Ozarks. 

“Usually the trip to the Buffalo River is an experience that 

students either love or just tolerate,” he said. “Most students 

view it as a challenge and enjoy the outdoors and the sights that 

they see. We have had some students that had a fear of water 

or others that had not spent any time in the outdoors. Many 

of these students have raved about their experiences of the day 

and have made strides to overcome their fears and grow from 

this trip.” 

Another component of the trip is community service. The 

students take along trash bags and pick up trash along their 

journey. Over the past several years, the Ozarks contingent has 

collected several dozen bags of trash from along the banks of 

the river. 

“We really want to emphasize the idea of conservation 

and preservation 

of our natural resources,” 

said 

Key. “It also allows 

us to discuss 

community service 

and all of us 

doing our small 

part, and that’s 

where the picking 

up of trash comes 

in. Fortunately, 

the Buffalo River 

does not have 

many issues in 

this area, which 

makes even a single piece of trash even more noticeable.” 

And, for at least a few hours, the students know what it 

feels like to be completely unplugged – no televisions, no 

computers, no cell phones. 

“It’s awesome not having to check your phone every few 

minutes and to just relax and enjoy nature,” said Boyd. “Arkansas 

is a beautiful state, and I think it’s easy to forget that 

sometimes.” 

Dr. Buddy Smith, a professor of mathematics at Ozarks 

since 1980, first started taking his CI students on the Buffalo 

River nine years ago. He said it’s a trip many of them never 

forget. 

“I’ve had students tell me that they remember the trip and 

good times they had years later,” Smith said. “One student even 

remembered going on the canoe trip with me four years later, 

but he could not remember that I was his algebra teacher.” 

In his years of taking more than 250 students — most of 

them first-time canoeists — on the Buffalo River, Smith has 

developed some interesting theories. 

“I think students learn a little about problem-solving since 

they have to paddle a canoe down some rapids and not turn 

over,” he said. “It seems like girls adapt to a canoe faster than 

the guys, and I’m not sure why that is. Maybe they are lighter 

or just more careful.” 

The CI program at Ozarks has been in place for almost a 

decade, and it has helped the university attain retention rates 

above the national average for higher education. University 

officials believe the program, which emphasizes such experiences 

as the float trip, gets students more engaged with their 

classmates and the university. 

“The canoe trip to the Buffalo River serves several purposes 

for a student in the Critical Inquiry course,” said Key. 

“In addition to the outdoor experience, we want the students in 

CI to bond with the other students in their class, get engaged 

with the Ozarks community, and learn teamwork and cooperation. 

These are some areas that students encounter on the trip 

to the Buffalo River.” 


Dr. George Stone, who is retiring in December, has been a history and teacher 

education professor for 42 years and has been a division chair at four different 

colleges, including the last nine years as chair of the Pat Walker Teacher Education 

Program. His lifetime work has positively impacted thousands of teachers. 

What are some of the biggest changes you’ve seen 

in the classroom in your career 

Let me mention just four. First, advances in technology 

certainly would be at the top of the list. I watched 

the development of VCR and later DVD machines as 

well as personal computers and their corresponding 

use in the classroom. I remember in 1979, for example, I used 

part of the money I had been awarded as a result of being selected 

the Teacher of the Year at Sterling College to purchase 

a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer. It used a cassette tape as the 

memory device. I’m talking about the kind of cassette tape 

that I plugged into my car radio to listen to music! The tape 

had a little duck programmed into it that walked across the 

computer screen. We thought it was the coolest thing we ever 

saw! I attended every state-wide computer conference held 

in Kansas during the 1980s, and there were several each year. 

Then, in 1991, I bought my first lap top, the first on the market. 

I was told that I could “control the world” with that machine. 

I’m still laughing about that remark! 

A second enormous change is centered in the textbook. I 

have textbooks on my office console that I used when I first 

started teaching history and government as a National Teaching 

Fellow in 1967-1968. Those textbooks are hardback, very 

thick, and contain hardly any pictures. Many textbooks today 

by contrast are paper back, contain lots of pictures, and 

aren’t particularly intellectually challenging. If I would bring 

textbooks to my classes today similar to those I used in the 

1960s, 70s, and maybe even 80’s, my students would rebel. 

Too many university level students today simply cannot read 

at the intellectual level of their parents and grandparents. That 

shouldn’t be surprising. They are much more oriented toward 

visual learning given the visual and audio technology that is so 


much a part of their lives. 

Third, students before the 1990s expected college level 

courses to be principally lecture courses. Professors spent 

hours preparing lectures and hours and hours reading essay 

exams. Now, that is still true to day for many professors, but 

more and more courses have become more student oriented. 

Professors still prepare, but many require undergraduate students 

to be more engaged in research and writing. And, instructors 

use dynamic technology in modern classrooms to 

enhance student learning rather than depending upon lectures. 

(Some would say boring lectures!) Undergraduate education 

today is probably much more interesting than it was when I 

started teaching. 

Fourth, university professors today are rigorously assessed 

as teachers. When I started teaching that was not at all 

the case. If a dean walked into a professor’s classroom, the 

professor would say, “The dean is here today and must want 

to talk with me. The class is dismissed!” The professor was 

the captain of his or her ship and no administrator would dare, 

would even dare, to be so presumptuous as to think he or she 

could evaluate a professor’s work. There were ways particularly 

poor instructors were asked to leave, but it was not done 

by administrators walking into the classroom and evaluating 

a colleague’s teaching. That has completely changed today. I 

have been a division chair or a dean in four private universities 

over the past 38 years, and, while I do enter professors’ classrooms 

to evaluate their teaching today because I am required 

to do so, I still feel guilty about it. If I receive complaints 

from students, then I visit with the respective professor. But, I 

am uncomfortable walking into a colleague’s classroom unless 

I’m invited. Younger division chairs don’t have that problem 

so much because all that changed before they joined a university 

faculty.

What are some of the areas in which educating 

future teachers has changed over the years 

Let me cite four. First, teacher education is much 

more rigorous today than it was years ago. Today, 

teachers are much more carefully identified, and the 

course of study is much more difficult. 

Second, the Pat Walker Teacher Education Programs at 

Ozarks require our teacher education students to have much 

more work in the arts and sciences at Ozarks than many institutions 

do. Our early childhood majors must complete a minor 

in psychology; our middle level majors must also complete 

an academic major in history/literature if he or she is seeking 

licensure by the state in social studies/language OR a major in 

composite science if he or she is seeking middle level licensure 

by the state in science/mathematics. Secondary education majors 

must also take an academic major in whatever discipline 

they plan to teach at the high school level. 

Third, our teacher education students must complete a 

year-long teaching internship in the senior year. Most institutions 

today require only one semester of student teaching. 

Fourth, our local public school colleagues are much more 

involved in the preparation of teachers coming from the 

University of the Ozarks than ever before. For generations, 

teachers were prepared to teach K-12 students in a university 

classroom without K-12 students present. That has changed 

dramatically. We now have our students in K-12 classrooms 

in our beginning education classes. 

What are some of the biggest challenges facing 

young teachers today 

My experience has shown that almost every young 

teacher worries about classroom management. Most 

are worried about whether they can control the classroom. 

The students in our program, though, generally 

don’t worry about that because they have had a full year’s 

experience in the classroom, and consequently, they have 

learned how to manage learning in their classrooms. 

Beyond classroom management, the biggest challenge 

facing young teachers today is the stress brought about by state 

testing of students. I won’t go into all of that here, but every 

teacher knows what I’m talking about. 

What are a couple of things you’d want every 

teacher education student to know before he or 

she steps into the classroom for the first time 

Teacher education students must know their academic 

disciplines. There is no time to learn what to 

teach when the teacher first steps into the classroom. 

Teachers must know the subject matter before they 

ever step into the classroom. Equally important, teacher education 

students must be committed change agents who know how 

to teach the subject matter of the child to the child. I can say 

with real confidence that graduates of the Pat Walker Teacher 

Education Program at University of the Ozarks are well-prepared 

to meet the challenges of today’s classroom. Our faculty 

and staff have made certain of that. 

How dire is the potential shortage of classroom 

teachers in the country in the coming years 

There are severe shortages of teachers in certain areas 

of the country and in Arkansas, in particular. I 

have seen preliminary figures for Arkansas, and, if 

those hold true, I can say it appears there will be a 

continuing shortage of teachers and administrators for several 

years. To meet that challenge, a good many states have adopted 

non-traditional licensure programs for people who hold 

college degrees, but who did not complete a teacher education 

program in one of the nation’s schools of education. Thus, it 

is a way into teaching for people who may have held positions 

in business or industry, but, for whatever reason, believe they 

would like to teach at the K-12 level. I understand that many 

of these folks stay in teaching for a year or less and then leave 

because they quickly learn that teaching children is not what 

they thought it was. 

How do you see the teacher education program at 

Ozarks evolving over the next couple of decades 

Currently, our programs are further developed in 

some areas than the national accrediting agency, 

National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher 

Education (NCATE), requires. We already have in 

place, for example, a year-long teaching internship at the senior 

year level, and we require a minor in psychology for all Early 

Childhood Education majors as well as majors in the academic 

disciplines for all Middle Level and Secondary Education majors. 

The change that is coming will be a closer relationship 

between and among the Pat Walker Teacher Education Programs 

and the local public schools. It appears as though the 

accrediting agency may well be requiring us to operate professional 

development schools within our local school systems. 

It will be interesting to see exactly how that will work. 

I honestly believe, though, the biggest changes will be 

brought about over the next twenty or thirty years through 

electronic technology. Technology is moving at an astronomical 

rate today, and, if it continues as it is, I think we will likely 

see much more instruction delivered electronically. I have no 

idea how such instruction might look thirty years down the 

road, but I’m confident it will be very different from the educational 

world we live in today. I’m just curious enough to wish 

that I could live long enough to see the college and university 

of 2040. 


Armed with hall of fame resumes and a burning hunger to succeed, 

first-year coaches Carl Ramsey (left) and Doug Boxell are ready to 

take on the challenge of turning around Ozarks basketball. 

The freshly painted sign on the purple office wall of new 

Ozarks men’s basketball coach Doug Boxell is one of 

the first things a visitor sees when he enters the office. 

The message is simple and to the point: “Prepare to Win!” 

A few steps down the hall, the new women’s head basketball 

coach Carl Ramsey is showing a visitor the recently 

remodeled Lady Eagles’ dressing room, complete with name 

plates on the large new lockers and a large eagle painted on the 

wall. 

It’s a new look and a new era in basketball at Ozarks, and 

it is led by two first-year coaches with similar backgrounds 

and resumes that are quite impressive, to say the least. 

Boxell comes to Ozarks fresh off a hall of fame career as 

a high school coach in the Lone Star State. In a high school 

career that spanned 25 years, he compiled a stellar 670-175 

(.792) record, five state championships and 23 postseason appearances. 

And, while Boxell was winning basketball games at an 

amazing rate in Texas, Ramsey was doing the same in Arkansas. 

A 1980 Ozarks graduate, Ramsey quietly put together a 

girls’ basketball dynasty in nearby Lamar, Ark. From 1980- 

2009, he led the Lady Warriors to a dazzling 660-227 (.744) 

record, two state championships and postseason play an astounding 

24 times in 29 years. 

That’s a combined total of 54 years in coaching, 1,330 victories, 

seven state championships and 47 postseason appearances 

for the new head basketball coaches at Ozarks. 

But all that was on the high school level. Now they find 

themselves ready for the challenge of building a college program, 

something they both say has been a long-time goal. 

“I’ve been a part of a lot of great high school teams and 

programs, and I really enjoyed it, but in the back of my mind I 

found myself wondering if I could succeed on the next level,” 

said Boxell. “I’ve gotten to the place in my career where I was 

ready for that next step, that next opportunity to see if I can be 

successful on the next level up. This is something I’ve hoped 

for, and I’m ready for it.” 

Ramsey was also intrigued by the challenge of running his 

own college program. 

“You get to the point where another district championship 

is just another district championship,” Ramsey said. “I always 

thought I would like to coach in college, and I’ve had some opportunities 

over the years, but the timing was never right, and I 

loved being at Lamar. I felt like this time I was ready to make 

the move.” 

Both coaches have their work cut out for them at the smallest 

school, enrollment-wise, in the 16-team American South 

Conference. The Eagles have had one winning season in the 

past six years. The Lady Eagles have not had a winning season 

since 2002. 

Ramsey and Boxell both know winning begins with attitude, 

and that’s where small things such as new signs in the 

office, remodeled locker rooms, and practice jerseys with 

“TEAM” written across the back come into play. 

“We need to encourage our players to take pride in themselves, 

their teammates, their basketball program and their university, 

and that’s why we’re doing some of these things,” said 

Boxell. “We want to do something special here, but it’s going 

to take coming together as a team, as a family, and working 


for it. It’s not going to happen if we’re putting individual goals 

ahead of the team.” 

Ramsey’s explanation for the subtle changes around his 

program mirrors Boxley’s almost verbatim. 

“We want our players to take pride in their dressing room 

and pride in the ‘Ozarks’ written across their jersey,” Ramsey 

said. “It’s got to be about the team.” 

****************** 

Boxell was so excited about his phone interview for the 

Ozarks job that he made the 12-hour round-trip the day 

before to personally check out the campus so that he 

would know a little more about the university during the interview. 

His enthusiasm hasn’t waned 

in the months since he’s gotten the 

job. One of his first priorities was 

recruiting, and, despite being on 

the job just two months before the 

start of school, he brought in 18 

new players. He plans to start a junior 

varsity program, something Ozarks has not had in years. 

“We want to get to the point where we have good players 

two or three deep at every position competing against each 

other,” he said. “That’s how you get better as players and as a 

team.” 

One of the first things he did as a coach was to begin work 

on building a family atmosphere within the program. 

“I want these guys to build relationships on this team and 

at this university that will last a lifetime,” he said. “I want 

them, 15 years from now, sending out Christmas cards to their 

former teammates. I tell them that if they can get 10 lifetime 

friends out of their college experience, then that’s a great accomplishment. 

When you have those types of bonds, you’re 

going to fight for each other and for your university when you 

step on the court.” 

Boxell’s oldest son played college basketball at Sul Ross 

State University, an NCAA Division III school that also competes 

in the ASC. He has also had dozens of his former players 

go on to play college ball, though not all of them had pleasant 

experiences. 

“I’ve had former players who didn’t enjoy their college 

experience and that has always bothered me,” he said. “I always 

said that if I had the chance to coach in college, I would 

do my best to make it a fun and enjoyable experience.” 

Boxell’s success in Texas came at primarily small schools 

in towns such as Ponder --- where he won three state championships 

--- Lampasas, Neches and Alpine. He regularly scheduled 

games against the much-larger schools and often came 

away victorious. That’s why playing against programs much 

larger, as the Eagles do in the ASC, doesn’t faze him. 

“It is what it is,” he said. “We can sit around and gripe 

about facilities or the size of our enrollment, or we can step up 

and take on the challenge. I want to have a team that has pride 

in its university and that is going to represent it well on and off 

the court.” 

****************** 

Sitting in the Mabee Gym office that once was occupied 

by his father-in-law, long-time Ozarks Coach Lonnie 

Qualls, it’s been more than 20 years since Ramsey has 

been this excited about the start of a basketball season. 

“When you’ve been at a place 29 years, like I was at Lamar, 

it’s just another first game of the season,” said Ramsey. 

“When preseason practice started this year, I had butterflies 

and anxiousness that I haven’t had in years. It’s definitely got 

me recharged.” 

Ramsey was a track standout at Ozarks as a high jumper 

and shot and discus thrower, but his first love has always been 

basketball. Freshly graduated from Ozarks in 1980, Ramsey 

took over a Lamar program that 

had not won a district championship 

since 1934. In just three 

years the Lady Warriors had won 

the first of what would become an 

endless string of district titles on 

their way to becoming one of the 

top girls’ programs in the state. Among his players at Lamar he 

earned the reputation as a demanding but caring coach. 

“I’ve always had a great rapport with my players, and I 

think it comes down to having mutual respect for each other 

and letting them know you care about them as individuals,” he 

said. “There’s a saying that goes, ‘kids don’t really care what 

you know until they know you care.’ I believe that. I know I 

have to go out there every day and earn their respect.” 

Ramsey hopes to rebuild a women’s program that shone 

in the 1980s and 90s but has fallen on hard times since. From 

1980 to 1995, the Lady Eagles had 12 winning seasons. Since 

1995, they have had only three. 

“I’m aware of the tradition this college has in women’s 

basketball, and I believe we can have it again,” he said. 

Ramsey doesn’t expect to change his coaching style now 

that he is on the college level. 

“I know this first year is going to be a learning experience 

for everyone; for me with the college game and for the players 

with my coaching style,” he said. “I don’t really see my coaching 

style changing. The game is still the game, and it comes 

down to fundamentals and having the flexibility as a coach 

to adapt your style to what kind of players you have. I have 

people all the time ask me about my coaching style. I tell them 

I don’t know until I know what kind of players I have.” 

Ramsey knows the key to success at Ozarks is recruiting. 

Within an hour of learning he had gotten the job at Ozarks, 

Ramsey was at a high school all-star game looking for players, 

and he hasn’t slowed down since. He has sent out more than 

2,500 letters and made hundreds of calls to coaches throughout 

the region searching for players. 

“The first few months I was just trying to fill out a roster 

for this year, but now I’m laying the groundwork for next year 

and the year after that,” he said. “We want to get the right kind 

of student-athletes here who will represent this university in 

the best way on the court and in the classroom.” 


1950s 

Sue (Patterson) Pine ’57 and her 

husband, Robert, of Hot Springs, Ark., 

celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary 

on Aug. 15, 2009, with a reception 

hosted by family and friends. She is 

retired from the University of Arkansas 

at Little Rock, where she served as 

director of admissions. 

Robert W. Bohl ’58 was named the 

chair of Board of Trustees at Princeton 

Theological Seminary in July. Bohl is 

a 1961 graduate of the Seminary. He 

will serve as chair of the board for four 

years. 

1960s 

Joe Baker ’69 was recently named 

the local secretary (executive officer) 

of Mensa of Memphis, Tenn., which 

has approximately 300 members in the 

region. He has been a member of Mensa 

for 15 years. Joe is also a member of the 

University’s Alumni Association Board 

of Directors. 

Alumni and their friends from the early 2000s recently had an informal gathering at 

the Dallas home of alumni Paul and Jennifer Heimke. Among those at the event were 

(from left), Jennifer Hiemke ’02, Paul Hiemke ’02, Eric Plikuhn ’01, Kayde Harlow, 

Eric Steinmiller ’02, Christine Moldenhauer, Jacob Moldenhauer ’01, Daniel Sigala ’02, 

Clint Ponder ’02, Jeff Jackson ’01, Kristian Breton ’01 and Jacklyn Lambe. 


The Rev. Dr. Ralph Clingan ’63 and his 

wife, Margaret, of Bloomfield, N.J., visited 

campus in July. Rev. Clingan is a retired 

homiletics and liturgics professor for the 

Interdenominational Theological Center in 

Georgia, and has written several books. 

1980s 

Jiwa “Ji” Mohd Isa ’81 is living in 

Shah Alam, Malaysia, where he is the 

director of business development for 

Securities Industry Development Corporation. 

He earned his Ph.D. from the 

Manchester Business School in 1994 

and a master’s in management in 1986. 

Fred Romo ’68 was recently 

named interim director of the Ozark 

(Ark.) Chamber of Commerce. Fred 

retired from Whirlpool Corp., as global 

manufacturing manager in 2000 after 30 

years withthe company. 

1990s 

Lance Spence ’91 was named the 

new athletic director at Lamar (Ark.) 

High School in August. 

Claudia Cruz ’95 is living in Colon, 

El Salvador, where she is corporate 

communications manager for Cenergica-Nejapa. 

She earned a master’s degree 

in auditing and accounting from the 

University of Barcelona in 2008. She 

was recently appointed to the board of 

directors of Glasswing, an international 

non-profit organization that advises the 

private sector on social investment. 

Heidi Bidstrup ’95 earned a master’s 

degree in kinesiology from Texas 

Women’s University in May of 2009. 

Geoff Levine ’97 and his wife, 

Dara, of Knightdale, N.C., welcomed 

new twin girls, Avery Caroline and Alexa 

Lee, to the family on Oct. 15, 2009. 

2000s 

Davis Trousdale ’00 and his wife, 

Kristen, of Brandon, Miss., welcomed a 

baby girl, Jillian, to the family on Aug. 

27, 2009. 

Valerie McClaine ’02 married 

Chris Kichler on July 25, 2009, in 

Clarksville. The couple lives in Jacksonville, 

Ark., where Valerie works as a 

first grade teacher. 

Jennifer (Byford) Fields ’03 and 

husband, Chris, are living in Rogers, 

Ark., with son Braxton. She works with 

JB Hunt. 

Jeremy and Alicia (Pruett) Proctor 

’03 of Clarksville welcomed a new 

baby girl, Hannah Elizabeth, to the family 

on June 24, 2009. 

Sam Fincher ’04 was recently 

hired as a mathematics instructor at the 

University of Arkansas. He earned his 

master’s degree in mathematics at UA. 

Christa Lanphear ’04 married 

Gerald Williams on Oct. 10, 2009, in 

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Hartman, Ark. They plan to live in Baton 

Rouge, La. 

Matt Little ’05 and Judith 

(Stacks) Little ’07 are living in Clarksville 

with their son, Clayton James. 

Matt recently completed a master’s 

degree in educational leadership from 

Harding University. He is a math 

teacher and softball coach at Lamar 

(Ark.) High School 

Chris Schultz ’05 and Courtney 

(Frost) Schultz ’06 recently moved to 

Dallas, Texas. The couple had a baby 

boy, Ethan John, on Dec. 29, 2008. 

Chris is working with Centre for Neuro 

Skills and Courtney is a stay-at-home 

mom. 

Mark Smith ’05 and his wife, 

Grace, recently moved to Conway, Ark., 

where he has taken a job with Hewlett 

Packard in sales development. 

Kari (Pridgin) Tedford ’05 and 

husband, Cory, welcomed a new baby 

boy, Jackson Blake, to the family on 

Oct. 7, 2009. Jackson joins sisters Zoey 

and Kennedy. The Tedfords live in Coal 

Hill, Ark. 

Devon Bottoms ’06 and Tyler 

Clark ’09 were married on Aug. 22, 

Will Merriott ’01 and Jennifer Shaw ’04 

celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary 

on Oct. 9 and son, Liam, turned one 

on Oct. 3. The family lives in Sherwood, 

Ark., where Will works as a graphic artist 

at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, 

and Jenny is a medical technologist 

at the University of Arkansas for Medical 

Sciences. The family photo was taken by 

alumus Brian Cormack ’01 (Cormackphotos.com) 

. 

Hal Stillings ’63 and his wife, Mary Ann 

(Chadler) Stillings ’65, of Tybee Island, 

Ga., visited campus in October. The Stillings 

are both retired, Hal from the U.S. 

Drug Enforcement Administration and 

Mary Ann from a career in teaching. 

2009, in Fort Smith, Ark. The Clarks 

live in Fort Smith, where he is employed 

by Rayco Tools, and she is a 

physical therapist. 

Mario “The Love Bandit” Hernandez 

’06 is in Chihuahua, Mexico, 

where he is a program manager for 

Foxconn. 

Luc Godin ’06 was named the 

new head men’s tennis coach at Drury 

University in Springfield, Mo., in July. 

He had served as an assistant coach at 

Northwestern State in Louisiana for the 

past two years. Godin served as head 

tennis coach at Ozarks from 2004-2006. 

Brandon Schluterman ’06 and his 

wife, Brittney, welcomed a baby boy, 

Karsten Paul, to the family on Sept. 4, 

2009. Brandon is the head girls senior 

high and junior high basketball coach at 

Lamar, Ark. 

Mandi Carter ’07 and Todd Koch 

’09 were married on Aug. 10, 2009, in 

San Antonio, Texas. 

Tabitha Reed ’07 married A.J. 

Leeds in Texarkana, Ark., on Sept. 19, 

2009. The Leeds live in Denver, where 

she is an assistant director for Central 

Visitation Program, which provides 

Alumni Association 

set to recognize nine 

The University’s Alumni Association 

will honor nine of its own during 

the 2010 Alumni Weekend Awards 

Banquet, scheduled for Friday, April 

16. 

The Alumni Merit Award will be 

presented to Arvid Bean ’78 of Fort 

Smith, Ark., and Farren Sadler ’51 of 

Abilene, Texas. The Alumni Achievement 

Award will be given to Larry 

Kruse of Brevard, N.C., and Ronnie 

Cookson ’66 of Morley, Mo. The 

Young Alumni Service Award will be 

presented to Jennifer (Lockhart) Batie 

’98 of Bentonville, Ark. 

Four Ozarks’ graduates will be 

honored with the Alumni Legacy 

Award, which recognizes a lifetime 

of unselfish giving of their resources 

to support Ozarks. The 2010 Legacy 

Award winners are Jack Patterson ’65 

of Clarksville; Robert Bohl ’58 of Naples, 

Fla.; and Bill ’52 and Jane (Wilson) 

Holder ’55 of Fort Smith, Ark. 

For more information on the 

Awards Banquet or to order tickets, 

please call the Alumni Office at 479- 

979-1234. 

children from broken homes a safe 

environment. 

David Pridgin ’07 married April 

Winkleman on July 25, 2009, in 

Haysville, Kan. The couple lives in 

Haysville, where David works for Occidental 

Chemical. 

Lee Short ’07 is in law school at 

Pepperdine University. Last February he 

was part of a two-man team that placed 

second in the J. Braxton Craven Jr., 

Memorial Moot Court Competition in 

Chapel Hill, N.C. 

Robert Mummey ’08 married 

Tiffany Warren on Sept. 6, 2009, in a 

ceremony at Lonnie R. Qualls Baseball 

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Field at U of O. Mummey is an assistant 

baseball coach at U of O. 

Jeana Feazel ’08 is living in Coon 

Rapids, Iowa, where she is director of 

sales for Dashboard Productions, a film 

production company known for producing 

“Metro Women.” She is responsible 

for signing new sponsors to the show 

and for general marketing and sales. 

Quinn Glass ’08 of Palestine, 

Texas, was recently hired by the Federal 

Bureau of Investigation as an entry 

level analyst. 

Amanda Stang ’08 is at the 

University of the Pacific where she is 

working on a master’s degree in music 

therapy. She is working with the 

geriatric population and co-leads music 

therapy sessions at a nursing home in 

Stockton, Calif., every Tuesday and 

Thursday. She also works in Pharmacy 

Admissions at the university. 

Samantha Mosley ’11 and Montana 

Hoing ’12 were married on Aug. 8, 2009, 

in Munger Chapel. The Hoings are living 

in Coal Hill, Ark. Samantha is pursuing 

a degree in business administration and 

marketing, and Montana is pursuing a 

degree in business management. 

Lauren Black ’09 recently took a 

position as youth director at First Presbyterian 

Church in Richardson, Texas. 

She also teaches swimming lessons in 

the area. 

Travis Perusich ’09 is working as a 

history graduate assistant at the University 

of Central Arkansas. He is pursuing 

a master’s degree in history. 

Courtney Taylor ’09 is living in 

Tulsa, Okla., where she is working as 

a teacher’s aid in first through fourth 

grades as well as sixth grade science 

and social studies classes. 

Jensen ’92 emphasizes work ethic 

Greg Jensen’s first job out of college 

was loading trucks for a Wal-Mart 

Distribution Center, not exactly what 

he had in mind after earning a business 

degree from Ozarks. 

But Jensen, a 1992 graduate, used 

his education, experience and work 

ethic to climb the business ladder and 

today is the executive vice president of 

transportation and logistics for Propak 

Logistics, a Fort Smith-based supply 

chain solutions company that deals 

with freight transportation, pallet sales 

and management and warehousing. 

Using his background in customer 

service, transportation and pallets, 

Jensen co-founded Propak in 1999. 

The company has grown from two employees 

to more than 1,000 and now 

counts as its main customers 20 Wal- 

Mart Distribution Centers scattered 

throughout the western United States. 

Jensen visited campus on Oct. 27 

to talk with business students as well 

as students in the Jones Learning Center. 

Jensen was a JLC student while at 

Ozarks. 

During his visit to Ozarks, Jensen 

was named by the Business Division 

as its 2009 Business Leader of the Year 

recipient. 

“The secret to success is finding 

something you enjoy doing and then 

out-working everyone else,” he told 

Carlos Gonzalez ’03, marketing manager 

for Coca-Cola in Panama, was the 

featured guest for the Students In Free 

Enterprise (SIFE) Distinguished Speaker 

Series in October. 

Greg Jensen 

his audience. “I had that attitude when 

I was a student in the Learning Center, 

and I have it today in the business 

world. If you have that burning desire, 

and you out-work the next guy, management 

is going to find you, and you 

will get your opportunity.” 

Jensen used that same type of perseverance 

when he met his wife-to-be, 

Lisa Wahman ’90, in a weight training 

class at Ozarks. 

“I asked her out and she said she 

didn’t date boys like me,” he recalled. 

“But I finally wore her down, and she 

went out with me. That’s the kind of attitude 

you need in the business world.” 

The Jensens have four boys, ages 7 

to 15, and live in Alma, Ark. 



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, Texas 

*Richard and Katherene Bagwell 

Baldor Electric Company, Fort Smith, Ark. 

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 

Judy Borck 

*Sally McSpadden Boreham 

Alvin C. Broyles Estate 

*Victor Cary 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, Ariz. 

Margaret Bost Douglass ’41 

Bebe and Tom Dunnicliffe Charitable Trust 

*Fontaine R. Earle 

ExxonMobil Foundation 

First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville

First Presbyterian Church, Ponca City, Okla. 

Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc. 

Bettis A. Garside Estate 

A.H. Gould Irrevocable Trust 

Arch Gould Estate 

George M. Green Estate 

*W. Wallace Greene 

*Catherine Haigwood ’33 

HAR-BER Village Foundation 

William Randolph Hearst Foundation 

Louise Ann Redus Hobbs Estate 

*Dorothea Hutcheson 

Hazel Johnson Estate 

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 

Margaret Ayleen Ragland Estate 

Regions Bank 

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Inc. 

James T. Rhea Estate 

Mary I. Rogers Trust 

The Rogers Foundation, Inc. 

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, Texas 

*John and *Evie Tate 

Ashley and Eleanor Thomas 

Edison T. Tingley Estate 

Tulsa Royalties Company 

Edith B. Vaughan Estate 

Juanita Farris Vaughn 

Wal-Mart Foundation 

*John T. Walton 

Whitson Morgan Motor Company, 

Clarksville 

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. 


is deceased. 

*Cora E. Adkins 

Christine Alter ’33 

*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 

*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 

*John 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. 

Maxine Koerdt 

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 

*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 

*Effie Pierson Becker 

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 Sellmeyer 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 

*W. Ragon Thompson ’56 

*Ernestine H. Thurman-Swartzwelder 

*Edison T. Tingley 

Sue Tull 

*Robert Turner ’34 

*Roy Ussrey ’30 and *Rosella Ussrey 

*Edith Brunk Vaughan 

Randy Wahlman 

*George and *Lillian Walters 

*Mrs. Felix (Ruey Stroud) Weatherly ’30 

Lee White 

Jeanie O’Brien Wiesner ’83 

*James and Juanita Winn 

Donna Manley Wolfe 


Workman 

Ed Dell Wortz 

E. Kathryn Wright ’58 

Ralph W. Wygle 

Larry Zehring ’61 

*Virginia Zehring 

The Founders’ Council 

The Founders’ Council honors donors 

who contributed $25,000 or 

more to Ozarks during the 2008- 

09 fiscal year. Names in bold indicate 

those who have contributed 

for five or more consecutive years. 


passed away in the last year. 

Arkansas’ Independent Colleges & 

Universities 

Kimberly and Reynold Behrend 

Robbie G. Blakemore 

James and Ann Bruning 

Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc. 

Margaret Bost Douglass ’41 

John Johnson Estate 

Sue Frueauff 

Bill and Adrienne Hanna 

Hanna Oil and Gas, Fort Smith, Ark. 

Virginia King 

Charlotte Melichar 


Otha H. Grimes Foundation 

Carol Park 

Presbyterian Foundation 

David Rawhouser ’69 and Jill Rawhouser 

Rogers Foundation, Inc. 

John and Gwendolen Shell 

Edward and Nikki Smith 

W. Ragon Thompson ’56 

Alice L. Walton 

Walton Family Foundation, Inc. 

Wilfred Ragon Thompson Trust 

Willard and Pat Walker Foundation 

The Trustees’ Council 

The Trustees’ Council honors 

donors who contributed $10,000 to 

$24,999 to the University during 

the 2008-09 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. 

Albert L. Looper Trust 

Alumni Association 


Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones 

Bean ’78 

Jean Berry 

Lee Bodenhamer

Ron and Diane Collins 

Pat and John Cooper 

First Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, Ark. 

Peggy Bort Jones 

Carolyn Kopper 

Jim and Darby Logan 

Charles W. McElree 

Helen McElree ’47 

Jack T. Patterson ’65 and Lisa Carlton 

Regions Bank, Clarksville, Arkansas 

James and Gladeen Struthers 

Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann Bean 

Taylor ’72 

Joanne Willett Taylor ’60 

The Seay Foundation 


Workman 

The Chair’s Council 

The Chair’s Council honors donors 

who contributed $5,000 to 

$9,999 to the University during the 

2008-09 fiscal year. Names in bold 

indicate those who have contributed 

for five or more consecutive 


someone who passed away in the 

last year. 

Bella Vista Community Church, 

Bella Vista, Ark. 

Doris and Huie Bird 

Helen C. Blakemore Estate 

Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin 

Juanita Taylor Deeds ’34 

Dillard’s, Inc., Little Rock, Ark. 

Andrea and Jeff Dixon 

Claude Donaldson ’60 


First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville 

Paula Glasgow 

Charles and Elizabeth Herlin 

Bill Holder ’52 and Jane Wilson 

Holder ’55 

Brad and Sue Johnson 

Roy Johnson and Peggy Terrill Johnson ’59 

Judith and Chuck Jones 

Maribeth King 

Kaye Leonard 

Pauline D. Leonard Endowment 

Henry and Ruth Mariani 

Drue Dillard Matheny 

Nabholz Charitable Foundation 

Gilbert Parks, Jr. 

Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips 

John and Jane Rogers 

Stephen Rowe ’90 

The Chatlos Foundation, Inc. 

The Oxley Foundation 

Lee and Mary Margaret White 

Bruce Williams ’43 and Virginia 

Laster Williams ’43 

Ann Woolley 

President’s Council 

The President’s Council honors 

donors who contributed $1,000 to 

$4,999 to the University during the 

2008-09 fiscal year. Names in bold 

indicate those donors who have 



someone who passed away in 

the last year. 

Bill Alexander ’55 and Linda Alexander 

Chris and Martha Allen 

John and Jennifer Allison 

Anonymous 

Arkansas Valley Electric Co., Ozark, Ark. 

Associates of Home Bancshares, 

Conway, Ark. 

Leslie and Ted Belden 

Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King 

Bost ’43 

Peter and Connie Bradish 

Howard Brown, Sr. ’64 

Century Tel, Russellville, Ark. 

James and Irene Clark 

Frank Cole ’50 

Deloitte Foundation 

Wallace Dobbins ’40 

Allyn Donaubauer 

Janet and Frederick Drummond 

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 

William & Vivian Eiff Foundation 

Mary and Walter Elmore 

Judith Englehart 

Susan Smith Epperson ’62 and Jon 

Epperson 

John and Marge Figliulo 

Bobby and Anne Fincher 

First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City 

First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, 

Okla. 

Michael and Toni Fisher 

Robert Fox ’96 

Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks 

John Frost ’89 and Julia Frost 

George and Sarah Gilmour 

James T., Karen, Leslie, and Amy Graves 

John Paul Hammerschmidt 

Hampton Inn, Clarksville, Ark. 

Hanesbrands Inc., Clarksville, Ark. 

Bettye Hansen ’60 and Dwaine Hansen 

Lonnie Hardgrave ’50 and Dorothy 

Atkinson Hardgrave 

Harmony Presbyterian Church, 

Clarksville 

Wilma Harris ’03 and Edward Harris ’75 

James Hawkins, Jr. and Robin Hawkins 

Virginia R. Hicks 

Van and Nancy Hill 

William and Melinda Holder 

Armeda Evans Holmes ’68 

Dick and Willena Horton 

Maura Figliulo Howerton ’80 

Doyne Hudson ’51 and Betty Hudson 



JJG Land LLC, Clarksville 

Doug Jeffries 

Jones Learning Center, U of O 

T.J. and Margaret Jones 

Christopher and Cynthia Kenna 

Hoyt Kerr 

Charles V. Landis 

Blaine and Jolie Leeds 

Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and Marvin 

C. Leister, Jr. 

Harold and Mary Lewis 

Marie Baskin Lewis ’41 

Teri Marciniak 

Edith McChesney 

James and Ruby McNeese 

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation 

Kim Myrick and Daniel Hinkle 

Charlie and Nell New 

New’s Office Machines Co., 

Russellville, Ark. 

Lewis Niece 

J. Albert Nitche ’66 and June Shea 

Nitche 

Mary Tom Mills O’Bar ’54 and 

Clyde O’Bar 

Tommy and Judy Parker 

Tom D. Patterson ’57 

Pfizer Foundation 

Mike and Susie Powell 

Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, Bella 

Vista, Ark. 

Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, Hot 

Springs Village, Ark. 

Presbytery of Arkansas 

Taylor and Mary Prewitt 



William Rader, Jr. ’42 and Birdie Rader 

William Rail ’52 and Maxine Phillips 

Rail ’52 

George Reece ’83 

Regions Insurance, Fort Smith, Ark. 

Jerry Rice ’53 and Myra Lee Rice 

Thomas Richardson ’69 and Linda 

Richardson ’61 

Loretta Figliulo Salazar ’78 and Felix 

Salazar 

Jeff and Amy Scaccia 

Dawn J.M. and Gary Scarborough ’82 

Ralph and Mary Scott 

Second Presbyterian Church, Little Rock 

Mary Anne and Don Shula 

George and Mary Sissel 

Deborah Sisson 

Mike and Fran Smith 

Southwestern Energy Company, 

Ozark, Ark. 

Spectra Energy Foundation 

State Farm Companies Foundation 

Bruce and Mary Lou Swinburne 

Synod of the Sun, Irving, Texas 

Daniel and Ann Taddie 

Sarah C. Talley 

Louise Taylor ’51 

Texas Presbyterian Foundation 

The P & G Fund 

The Trull Foundation 

Ashley and Eleanor Thomas 

Penn Thomas ’83 and Toby Colvett 

Thomas ’83 

Denton Tumbleson ’74 and Jane Tumbleson 

University of the Ozarks Women 

Vanguard Charitable Endowment 

Jim and Lynne Walton 

John Paul Wells ’78 and Michele Wells 

Roger and Kathy Willard 

Sidney and Elizabeth Williams 

Woodard Carpet & Design, Clarksville 

*Mary Beth Wilson 

Larry Zehring ’61 and Annette Lee 

Zehring ’63 

The University Club 

The University Club honors donors 

who contributed $500 to $999 

to the University during the 2008- 

09 fiscal year. Names in bold indicate 

donors who have contributed 

for five or more consecutive years. 



Cathy Angell and Ronna Biggs 

Arby’s, Clarksville, 

Arkansas Community Foundation 

Arvid Bean Insurance Agency Inc., Fort 

Smith, Ark. 

Bill Aydelott ’53 and Bettye Masterson 

Aydelott ’55 

Bank of America Foundation 

Beard Charitable Foundation Trust 

Steven Bogler ’74 

Len Bradley 

William and Elizabeth Branch 

John W. Cargile ’61 

Jane and Brent Cater 

Central Presbyterian Church, 


Trillian ’99 

Bob Chance ’69 and Mary Ann 

Becker Chance ’69 

Chevron Texaco, Princeton, N.J. 

Clarksville Cinema, Clarksville 

ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, Texas 

Louise Cook 

Berte “Mali” Dahl ’80 

Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, 

Fort Smith, Ark. 

Richard and Martha Daniel 

Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 and 

Kurtis Daniels 

John Davis ’64 and Jane Davis 

Jeffrey DeBuhr 

Stewart and Nadine Dippel 

Robert and Helen Dodson 

Robert Eddington ’54 

William Eddington ’55 and 

Charlotte Felkins Eddington ’56 

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation 

First Presbyterian Church, Camden, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, Okla. 

First Presbyterian Church, Van Buren, Ark. 

First Security Bank, Clarksville 

Orville Fletcher ’58 and Carol Fletcher 

Cara Rowbotham Flinn ’85 

Charles and Debbie Foster 

Robert Fulton, II ’42 

Courtney and JoAnn Furman 

Griffin Food Company, Muskogee, Okla. 

Roiselle Green Grim ’53 

Helen Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 and Forrest 

Hoeffer ’65 

Tricia Hoeffer ’91 

IBM International Foundation 

Larry Isch 

Dorothy Carlisle Kelly ’51 and 

James Kelly 

David King ’54 and Patricia Hathaway 

King ’81 

Ron Laster ’64 and Maribeth Laster 

Chance Lawless ’02 

*Joe and Joyce Marler ’60 

Cole and Carol Martin 

Dan and Linda Martin

John and Kimberly McFarland 

*Virginia Mosley 

Garry Niece 

Jon Nyberg ’68 and Ruth Guastafson 

Nyberg 

Rick and Dora Otto 

Hugh Overholt ’55 and Laura Overholt 

Jack and Patricia Overholt 

Don Pennington ’68 

Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc., 

Clarksville 

Presbyterian Women of West Jersey, 

Cinnaminson, N.J. 

Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3, 

Tulsa, Okla. 

Prudential Foundation 

Verna I. Rawhouser 

Regions Financial Corporation, 

Birmingham, Ala. 

Betty Ann Eustice Riley ’49 

Noel Rowbotham ’61 and Charlotte 

Woodard Rowbotham ’63 

Saint James Presbyterian Church, 

Jenks, Okla. 

Chantel and Douglas Scheuring 

Sexton Furniture and Appliance, 

Clarksville 

Beth Shipman 

Simmons First Bank, Clarksville 

Scott and Lisa Smith 

Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith 

South Park Restaurant Inc., Clarksville 

Angela Wheeler Spencer ’98 and 

Shawn Spencer 

Mickey Stafford ’68 and Martha Stafford 

Eloise Stewart 

Ross Stricker ’78 

Freddia Sullivent ’91 and Tommy 

Sullivent 

Sue Tull 

Waffle House, Clarksville 

Pete Waldo ’56 and Carolyn Johnson 

Waldo ’58 

Barry Walker ’61 and Jane Walker 

Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and 

William Watson 

Larry White ’75 and Diane White 

Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie 

Tipton Williams ’81 

Nancy Reifsteck Wise ’54 

George Wyers ’57 and Frances Wyers 

Carol Yandell 

The Centennial Club 

The Centennial Club honors 

donors who contributed $100 to 

$499 to the University during the 

2008-09 fiscal year. Names in 

bold indicate donors who have 



someone who passed away 

in the last year. 

Raymond Acosta 

Bruce and Kathy Adams 

Shawn Adams ’02 and Jennifer 

Goodwin Adams ’04 

AgHeritage, Little Rock, Ark. 

Reza Ahrabli ’79 

Charlotte Almaguer 

Vickie Alston ’86 

Ambassador Sunday School Class, 

Pea Ridge, Ark. 

Elizabeth Rowland Anderson ’72 and 

King Anderson 

Robert and Elizabeth Anderson 

Wilda Anderson 

Gearldean Andreas 

Barbara Angell 

Dorothy Angell 

Anonymous 

Apex Communications, Clarksville 

Danny Aquilar ’90 and Jennifer Aquilar 

Robert Arbaugh ’37 

Sherrie Arey 

Arkansas Best Corporation, 


Steve Askins ’05 and Marian Askins 

Automatic Data Processing, Inc., 

Roseland, N.J. 

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 

Patrick and Dana Baldwin 

Bill Ballard ’56 and Juanita Ballard 

Emma Louise Banks ’69 

Dennis Bartlett 

Larry and Nancy Bartlett 

Loy and Linda Bartlett 

Frederick Batie ’68 and Marilyn Batie 

Margaret B. Batie 

Sam & Lisa Baxter Family and John & 

Mallory Jewell Family 

Arvid Bean ’78, Loyce Ann Taylor ’72 and 

Rena Howe 

Joseph Bechtle and Beth Reifsteck 

Wayne Benbow ’65 and Mary Trotter 

Benbow ’64 

Neil and Caroline Bennett 

Robert K. Bennett 

Thomas and Bonnie Bensberg 

Sylvester Benson ’67 and Patsy Day 

Benson ’65 

Bob Birch and Trish Blaylock 

Bryan Bishop ’99 and Christy Bishop 

Wendell and Linda Black 

O. G. Blackard ’50 and Juanita Acord 

Blackard ’51 

David and Carolyn Blakemore 

Fred Blankenship ’50 and Elsie 

Blankenship 

Bobby Teeter’s Drug Store, Clarksville 

Ruth Price Bodey ’53 and Richard Bodey 

Peggy Boerstler 

Alice Hollowell Bogard ’39 

Gary Bond ’58 and Sara Wharton 

Bond ’59 

Marlon Bonilla ’01 and Lindsay Bonilla 

Katherine Boone ’93 

Connie and Michael Booty 

Borck Family Foundation 

Judy Peavy Boreham 

Elaine G. Boyer 

Cleveland Branscum ’63 and Barbara 

Haynes Branscum ’63 

Deborah Braswell 

Jerry Bridges ’78 

Carl Briggs 

Dean Bright ’87 and Donna Yates 

Bright ’87 

Gary Briley ’66 

Keith and Marilyn Brill 

Kenneth Brodie ’50 and Jamie Brodie 

Alan Brooke ’72 and Janis Brooke 

Lee and Robin Brown 

Dale Bruns 

Everett and Frances Buck 

Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 

*William Carroll Bumpers 

Ted Butler ’60 and Claudia Butler 

Butterfield Trail Village, Fayetteville, Ark. 

Thomas Buzbee ’67 and Maureen Buzbee 

Glenda Caldwell 

Jane Kolb Callaway 

Bruce and Christie Cameron 

John Cantwell ’58 and Patricia Cantwell 

Jon and Debbie Carlton 

Terry and Janie Carson 



Catharine Carter 

Ted Cashion 

Linda Cawthorn 

Shari Caywood 

Cecil Hardware, Inc., Clarksville 

Lou and Dan Chapman 

Don Chappell ’72 and Janie Krohn 

Chappell ’73 

Chapter “Q” P.E.O., Clarksville 

Larry and Martha Chisenhall 

Jimmy and Kelli Clark 

Frank Clemmons ’53 and Carolyn 

Clemmons 

Debra Felkins Cline ’91 and Ewing Cline 

Ralph Clingan ’63 and Maria Margaret 

Clingan 

John and Belinda Cobb 

Betty Colston 

Michael Compher ’99 and Ann Compher 

Cynthia Conger 

Fred and Norma Coogan 

Arthur Cooper 

Ralph and Mary Cotham 

Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and Chad Cox ’98 

Opal Huff Farris Cox 

Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & Galchus, 

Little Rock, Ark. 

A. O. and Pat Curran 

Jessica Curtis ’03 and Chris Curtis 

Celia Decker ’62 and John Decker 

Albert and Tina Delese 

Sandra Dennison ’69 

Betty Wesson Denny 

Donald Depriest ’62 and Clara Dufek 

Depriest ’63 

Richard DeSalvo ’50 and Cecilia DeSalvo 

Patsy Rowland Desaulniers ’62 and 

Anthony Desaulniers, Jr. 

Joseph Devenas, Sr. 


R. Louis Dewett ’57 and Mary B. 

Holloway Dewett ’58 

Milton Dexheimer ’72 

Jim and Winnie Dickerson 

Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard 

Mary Alice Parker Dobesh ’56 

Vita Dodson 

Lady Bug Doherty 

*James Dorman ’57 and Anna Blackard 

Dorman ’58 

Christie Douglass 

Ed and Bobbie Douglass 

Jim and Cheryl Driedric 

Daniel Duncan ’84 and Glenda Duncan 

Lewis Dunn ’64 and Rose Dunn 

Frances DuVall ’57 

Jack Edens ’55 and Sharon Edens 

*Laura Sue Hill Ehren ’56 

Norman Ehren ’60 and Jayne Ehren 

Kimberly Ellrich 

Martha Shell Emerson ’52 

Steven Endsley ’74 and Susan Crouse 

Endsley ’75 

Entergy Corporation, New Orleans, La. 

Katrina Labude Erwin ’78 and Bill 

Erwin 

Erwin T. Koch Charitable Trust 

Glenda Varnell Ezell ’90 

Pat Farmer 

Mary Figliulo 

Michael Figliulo ’87 and Marva Figliulo 

First Presbyterian Church, Conway, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, 

Dardanelle, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, Okla. 


Springdale, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, Tonkawa, Okla. 

Sheila Fitts 

Judy and David Fletcher 

Jim Forkner ’54 and Joyce Graf 

Forkner ’57 

John and Sylvia Fougeron 

Betty Dickerson Foulke ’56 and Lester 

Foulke 

Tricia and Jimmy Fowler 

David and Jean Frazier 

Michael and Charlene Frederick 

Doug Freeth and Lucia Freeth 

Wilma York Frisque ’60 

Richard, Barbara, and Andrew Fulton 

David Fuqua 

James and Andrea Gary 

Susan Gateley 

Kenneth and Joan Gates 

Robert Gibson ’76 and Glenda Gibson 

Lawson and Judith Glover 

William Glover ’87 

Richard Golden ’50 and Helen Golden 

Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, 

Greenwood, Ark. 

James Goodson ’65 

Grace Presbyterian Church, 

Grove, Okla. 

Robert Greene ’50 and Betty Greene 

Nell Cox Griffin ’55 

Steve Griffin ’67 and Kim Griffin 

William T. Grimstead 

William and Doris Groff 

Steve and Margaret Gundale 

Homer and Eudora Haber 

Davoud Hadidi ’78 

John Haley, II 

Malcolm and Judy Hall 

Quintos Hamilton ’51 and Betty 

Hamilton 

H. H. and Mary Hammond 

Stuart W. Hankins 

Lois Woodward Hansen ’34 

Winston Hardin ’51 

Patricia Harmon ’94 and James Harmon 

Sam Harpole ’82 and Cynthia Harpole 

Don and Christine Harrell 

Ed Harrington ’56 and Janet Graf 

Harrington ’58 

Bob Harrison ’50 

Daniel Hartman ’80 and Marla McCabe 

Hartman ’81 

Harvest Food Market, Inc., Clarksville 

Mary Campbell Haynes ’51 and Joseph 

Haynes 

Mark and Floy Hebert 

Harlen Helker ’54 and Grace Helker 

Randy and Janis Henry 

Dion and Carrie Henson 

Dani and Gerald Hermesmeyer 

Mollie Hightower-Barnum 

Ike Hill, Jr. ’68 and Cheryl Hill 

Lori Myers Hines ’97

John Holder ’90 

John Hollowell ’44 and Evelyn Crutcher 

Hollowell ’45 

Vanessa and Robert Hollowell 

William Hopper ’63 and Nancy Hopper 

Jennifer Bowen Hopson ’98 and Neal 

Hopson 

L. D. Horn ’52 

David Hosley ’59 and Bobbi Dobbs 

Hosley ’61 

Roberta Parks House ’58 and Ernest 

House, Jr. 

Charles Howard ’84 

Rena and Joe Howe 

Jane and David Huffstetler 

Frank Hug Chevrolet, Charleston, Ark. 

Shannon Carlisle Huggins ’91 and Bryan 

Huggins 

Brian Hull ’02 and Liz Tomlinson Hull ’04 

Norman and Janet Huneycutt 

Gary and Mary Husa 

Mitsuko Ichinose ’68 

Douglas Inman ’58 

David and Donna Isom 

Hunter Jackson ’03 

Jeff Jackson ’01 

Sam Jackson 

Joe Bill James ’49 and Sunshine James 

Rubie Javornick ’58 

Dale Jefferson ’37 

Jay Jennings 

W. C. and Barbara Jetton 

Joey Johnson, III ’88 and Angela Johnson 

Brandon Johnson ’97 and April Johnson 

Johnson Chevrolet Buick Pontiac, 

Clarksville 

Beth Coulter Johnson ’74 and Tim Johnson 

Eric and Christine 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 

Jack Jones ’79 and Karen Haskell Jones 

Marilyn Jones ’80 

Mike Jones ’77 and Stacy Jones 

Pamela Shrigley Jones ’71 

Bill Jones ’50 and Bettye Jones 

Curt and Jennifer Joslin 

Michael and Jan Joyce 

Dennis and Cynthia Keeling 

Joe Alfred Keeling ’43 and Frines 

Keeling 

Howell Keeter 

Evelyn Kelly ’55 

Gippa King Kendall ’47 and Harold 

Kendall 

Rolland and Lorna Kerr 

L. Jane Kimzey ’88 

Joe Kindrick 

Billie Burnett King ’40 

Donald Kirby ’51 

C. Dean and Carroll Klahr 

Verna Brown Kness ’43 

Ruth R. Knote 

John and Marilyn Koch 

Norman and Mary Lou Koeller 

Glenn and Anna Koepp 

James M. Kolb, Jr. 

Jana Wills Kolb ’80 and Mike Kolb 

Joseph Kondrick ’83 

Frances Koza 

Bill and Maybell Krepps 

Kevin Labude ’79 

Charles Larson 

Laser Law Firm PA, Little Rock, Ark. 

Lee Laster ’58 and Darlene Laster 

Robert and Marilyn Laster 

Jim Layton 

Neil and Burnis Leavens 

Peter Leer ’90 and Barbara Leer 

Sharon Lessenberry 

Ruth Longman ’72 and Gary Longman 

Fletcher Lowry ’52 and Jo Nell Alsip 

Lowry ’52 

Bob Lucy 

Virgil and Marie Luke 

William and Renate Lytle 

Bill and Peggy Mainer 

Sammy Manning ’71 and Virginia 

Figliulo Manning ’74 

Raymond and Dorothy Marciniak 

Greta Rowbotham Marlow ’84 and Jeff 

Marlow 

L.L. Marshall 

Larry Marshall ’67 and Lois Marshall 

Dan and Marilyn Martin 

Jetta Martin 

Carl Mashburn ’69 and Sherry 

Mashburn 

David and Donna Massanelli 

Sam Matthews, Jr. ’73 and Nancy Ott 

Matthews 

Shannon McBee ’89 and Lori McBee 

Tina and Bryan McCain 


Sonja McCuen ’88 

Kenneth McFerran ’63 and Bernice 

McFerran 

Richard and Sondra McKelvey 

Jocelyn E. McKinney 

Martin and Karen McMillan 

Daniel and Jean McNeil 

Ruth Eddins McNeilly ’42 

Henry McNight ’93 and Gladys 

McNight ’93 

Delores Metcalf-Morrell ’65 and Barry 

Morrell 

Microsoft Giving Campaign, 

Princeton, N.J. 

Amy Byrum Miller ’41 

Creighton and Jeannie Miller 

Eleanor Long Miller ’44 

Hunter, Kathy, Alaina, Greg, and Doug 

Switzer Miller 

James and Rita Miller 

Mida Figliulo Milligan ’86 and Billy 

Milligan 



Holly Mitchell 

John and Carol Mitchell 

Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and 

Charles Mooney 

Michael Moore 

Carol Terry Morgan ’86 and Steve Morgan 

Geraldine King Morgan ’52 

Morgan’s Fashions, Clarksville 

Lera Blackburn Morris ’40 

EmmaLee and Brian Morrow 

Mignonne Morrow ’70 

James Murray ’75 and Debra Murray 

Duane Myers 

Dick and Sue Neelly 

Trenda Neff ’06 

Kenneth Nelson ’66 and Pansy King 

Nelson ’65 

Ralph Newkirk ’82 

James and Catherine Nichols 

Susie Niece 

Debby Thetford Nye ’73 

Charles W. Oates ’50 and Jean Oates 

Steven and Amy Oatis 

John and Betsy O’Connor 

Oklahoma Gas & Electric Foundation 

Glenda Dennis Owens ’71 and Steve 

Owens 

Marti Panikkar ’90 

Ann Park ’49 

Thomas Park ’49 

Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60 

Elizabeth Hodges Parrish ’65 and David 

Parrish 

Jay and Bonnie Parrot 

Ann Patterson ’75 and Max Snowden 

Edna Elkins Patterson ’67 and John 

Patterson 


Charles Pattison, Sr. ’51 and Frances 

Pattison 

Donald Pearsall, Sr. ’51 and Barbara 

Pearsall 

Morris W. Pearson ’53 

Baker Peebles ’52 and Edith Peebles 

Herb Peek, Jr. ’50 and Marie Ehren 

Peek ’53 

Dody and Jeremy Pelts 

Reed Perryman ’51 and Anita Woolf 

Perryman ’54 

Dayne and Kanna Lou Phillips 

Gene Phillips ’52 

John Phillips, III 

Joyce Phillips 

Wanda Phillips 

Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine 

Donald Pitts ’69 

R. Scott Placek 

Bill Porter ’54 and Anna Lou Porter 

Evelyn W. Porter 

Mary Sue Phillips Powers ’60 and Jimmy 

Powers 

Irvin Pratt ’77 and Emma Pratt 

Presbyterian Women, Hot Springs 

Village, Ark. 

Presbyterian Women of Westminster, 

Hot Springs, Ark. 

Gary and Patti Prescott 

Kendrick and Lindsey Prewitt 

Gerald Primm ’58 and Sandra Bearden 

Primm ’78 

Tom and Terri Prusator 

Robert Pryor ’59 and Virginia Cater 

Pryor ’58 

Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada 

Mathis Qualls ’55 

Anne and Ben Queen 

Lee Ragon ’61 

Richard Rail ’59 and Dianne Bradford 

Rail 

Doris E. Ramsey 

Rayco Tool Company, Fort Smith, Ark. 

Betty Strauss Reed 

*John E. Reed and Betty Strauss Reed 

Floyd Rhoades 

Arnie Rhodes ’58 and Louise Rhodes 

Michael Rhodes 

Ann Richardson 

Douglas Ritchie ’68 and Rebecca 

Baskin Ritchie ’67 

James and Ila Roberts 

Leslie Martin Robinson ’08 and Chris 

Robinson 

Fred Romo ’68 and Andrea Anderson 

Romo ’68 

Dave Ross ’60 and Claudine Ross 

Karen Hilton Rossmaier ’77 and Joel 

Rossmaier 

John Rotenberry ’62 and Arlie Stokes 

Rotenberry ’61 

Jesse Rowe ’50 and Wayma Workman 

Rowe ’49 

Regina Russo 

Farren Sadler ’51 and Grace Pourron 

Sadler ’53 

Sanofi Adventis, Stuart, Fla. 

David and Barbara Saxon 

William Scarborough ’39 

Francis J. Scheuring 

Karen A. Schluterman ’03 and John 

Schluterman 

John E. Scott 

John Scribner ’98 and Leslie Scribner 

Charlie Sefers, Jr. ’50 and Janice Sefers 

Francis Sharpton ’58 and Wanda Sharpton 

Liz Baskin Sheffer ’58 and Eric Sheffer 

Lee and Chris Shepherd 

Susan Sherhag ’70 

Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54 

William Shrigley, Jr. ’69 

Debbie and Ronnie Siebenmorgen 

Hugh and Mary Silkensen 

Simmons First National Bank, Clarksville 

Greg Simmons ’68 and Louise Vanden- 

Nieuwenhof Simmons ’71 

Ruth L. Simpler ’43 

Richard Simpson 

Wirt and L. Torpy Skinner 

Opal Slaughter ’09 

John C. Sloan, Sr. 

Kermit Smith ’49 

Scott Smith 

Scott Smith 

William and Sherry Smith 

Sonic Drive-In, Clarksville 

Clem and Marilyn Sorley 

Southside Baptist Church, Paris, Ark. 

Louise Poynor Spanke ’36 

Hubert Spann ’51 

Phyllis Blackard Sparks ’72 

Jerry Speer ’58 and Mary Speer 

Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence

Spinal Healthcare Assoc. P.C., 

Cordova, Tenn. 

Charlie Spoonhour ’61 and Vicki 

Spoonhour 

Joann Hardgrave Stansbury ’64 and Dennis 

Stansbury 

James Stanton ’69 and Chris Stanton 

Bonnie Renfrow Starkey ’68 and Fred 

Starkey ’68 

Sara Starkey 

State Farm Insurance, Clarksville 

Darrell and Margie Stephens 

John and Wanda Stephens 

Gene and Lynda Stephenson 

Kay Stewart 

Hal G. Stillings ’63 and Mary Ann 

Chandler Stillings ’65 

Robert Stumbaugh, Jr. ’49 

James Talley ’48 and Geraldine Talley 

Donald L. Tamuty 

Tates Bluff Presbyterian Church, 

Chidester, Ark. 

Edward and Kari Taylor 

John Taylor 

Ron and Kerry Dillaha Taylor 

Philip Taylor, Jr. ’85 and Melody Jacobs 

Taylor 

Waymond Teague ’61 and Barbara Teague 

George Tenney ’42 and Grace Tenney ’41 

Peggy Thompson ’63 and R. Wayne 

Thompson 

R.H. Thompson ’59 and Patricia Thompson 

Judy Thornton 

Megan and Jarrod Toland 

Sharon Torres ’81 and Ken Torres 

Vinnie and Cody Tran 

William and Janet Trotter 

David Tucker ’59 

Hilda Turner 

Judy and Jackie Turner 

Susan and Terry Turner 

Peter Van Dyke ’87 and Heleine Van Dyke 

E. K. and Marjean Van Eman 

Steven Van Patten ’64 and Sharon Agnew 

Van Patten ’65 

Teresa Vanderbilt 

Morris and Anna Wade 

Carolyn Walker 

Betty King Walsh ’41 

Shonda Walters ’04 and Mark Walters 

Doris Owen Ward ’48 

Mark Watkins ’76 and Constance 

Watkins ’87 

Burl Watson, Jr. and Nita Watson 

David Watson 

Donald Watson ’59 and Patricia Watson 

Rick and Toni Webb 

Wilma Wendland ’54 

Whirlpool Foundation 

The Eagle Club 

The Eagle Club honors donors 

who contributed up to $99 to the 

University during the 2008-09 fiscal 

year. Names in bold indicate 

donors who have contributed for 

five or more consecutive years. An 

asterisk indicates someone who 


Case White ’08 

Linda White ’96 and Don White 

Turner and Caroline Whitson 

A. D. and Anne Whitten 

Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., 

Altus, Ark. 

Samuel Wiesner ’84 and Jeanie O’Brien 

Wiesner ’83 

William Wilhelm ’72 and Rose Mary 

Wilhelm 

Robert and Martha Williams 

Roger Williams ’51 

Dolores Abels 

Roger and Dora Williams 

Paul and Janice Allee 

Ella Mae Young Willis ’35 

Sharon Collier Allured ’65 

Larry Willis ’73 and Mary Willis 

Sarah Altland 

Rita Crossley Wilson ’70 

Barbara Cole Ames ’66 and Stephen Ames 

Robert Wilson ’86 

Ava Mitchell Amos ’56 

Doug and Bet Wise 

Amy Anderson ’97 

Karla, R.J., and Clint Wood 

Thelma Andrews Anderson ’51 

Margaret E. Woodard ’86 and John 

Elizabeth Mendenhall Arndt ’70 

Woodard 

Vivian Ashley 

Willis R. Woolrich, III 

Wesley and DeAnn Ashley 

E. Kathryn Wright ’58 

Vernon and Judy Austin 

Crawford Wyatt ’51 and Maxine Wyatt 

Bryn and Tracy Bagwell 

Robert Arnold Wyers ’55 and Marcella 

Dale Bagwell ’66 and Margaret Bagwell 

Wyers 

Leah Bridgers Baker ’86 and Steve Baker 

Catherine Yamamoto ’50 

Wayne Ball 

Joann Yates ’53 

L. B. “Yarb” Ballard ’58 and Ruth Ann 

A. Dean Yeager ’59 and Pauline Yeager 

Ballard 

Patricia Farnsworth Yoder ’53 and Lee 

The Barker Family 

Yoder 

Aaron Barling ’55 and Nell Bruner 

James Young ’56 and Betty Young 

Barling ’56 

Ruth Steuart Young ’48 

Kerri Hughes Barnes ’05 

Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann West Young ’57 

Trent Barringer 

Carole Clemmons Zahnd ’60 and 

Kathy Bartlett ’93 

Larry Zahnd 

Sherry Bartley 

Lillian Hunt Zarwell ’33 

D. Stuart Basham ’65 and Louise Basham 

Totton Zarwell ’76 

Douglas Batie ’98 and Jennifer 

Michael Zoller ’77 and Janice Forkner 

Lockhart Batie ’98 

Zoller ’78 Continued on Page 28 


J. C. Battreal 

Britt Bauer ’98 and Lori Bauer 

Emil and Amy Baumgartner 

Nikki Bayne 

Don L. Bean 

Harl Bean 

Maxine Garrison Bean ’49 and 

Garland Bean 

Ron Benham ’71 

Fay Bennett ’50 and Jean Bennett 

Chris and Debbie Benson 

Ike and Mary Benson 

Richie and Karen Benson 

Scott and Sheila Benson 

Irene Bere 

Margaret French Biazo ’45 and George 

Biazo 

Bobbie Edwards Biley ’95 and Ken Biley 

Henry D. Bishop ’53 and Ingrid Bishop 

Donald and Jodie Black 

Jim Bland 

Edward and Betty Boatright 

Paula Bodnar ’84 

Amanda Bohon ’09 

Michael Bollman ’04 and Anneke Binkley 

Bollman ’03 

Virginia Bowers 

Nancy C. Boyette 

Alfred Bradley ’56 

Gary Bradley ’84 and Linda Bradley ’84 

Shirley Vaught Bradley ’57 

Wayne Bradley ’58 and Patricia 

Huckabay Bradley 

Anthony Brandon ’07 

Reginald Brasfield ’04 

Sumner and Jackie Brashears 

James Bridges ’69 and Jan Bridges ’78 


Darrall Brinlee ’70 

Shirley Voeller Brisco ’82 

Sybil Brockett 

John and Kim Brown 

Michelle Wadley Brown ’81 and 

Bryan Brown 

Douglas Bryan ’87 and Sydra Bryan 

James and Melodie Bryant 

Susan Buck 

Juanita Buckman 

Steve and Susan Bullington 

Kevin and Cindy Burns 

Patrick and Jane Burrow 

Barbara Oldham Caldwell ’87 

Julie Cantrell 

Ellen Capehart 

William Carl, Jr. ’66 

Jerry Carlile ’66 and Arlene Carlile 

Brandon Carlson 

Elizabeth Caroscio 

Clinton Carr ’56 and Caroline 

Walkup Carr 

Gerald P. Carr and Patricia Musick 

Leslie and Elizabeth Carroll 

Jim Carter ’75 

Eula Ellison Castonguay ’58 and Joseph 

Castonguay 

Chanceree Catlett ’07 

Jenny Cawthorn 

Stephen and Tricia Chaffin 

Paula Chance 

Jim Cheek ’68 and Margaret Cheek ’71 

Holly Houser Cherry ’02 

Jo Dunn Choate ’57 and Thomas Choate 

Bryan and Cindy Clark 

Clarksville Rotary Club, Clarksville 

Charlotte Clayton 

Deborah Cline 

L. K. Cline 

Gary and Jonita Cobb 

Richard and Mary Cohoon 

Dustin Cole ’06 

C. Philip Collins ’65 and Anna Collins ’63 

Cathleen Compton 

Shirley Conner 

Olin and Millicent Cook 

Eldon Cooley 

Anita James Cooper ’77 and James Cooper 

Erica Newell Cooper ’06 and Phillip Cooper 

Donna Moore Copeland ’89 and 

Jody Copeland 

Cyleste Willis Coppage ’97 and Kelly 

Coppage 

Craig and Mary Cordell 

John and Diane Cordell 

Christi Cox 

Craig Cox 

Charles and Eileen Coxson 

Karen Coxson 

Will, Ted, Cathy and Kevin Crass 

Joe and Joann Crumpler 

Harry and June Culps 

Lisa Cummings 

Sherry Stillings Cushing ’61 and 

Durwood Cushing 

Barbara Dalke ’77 

Bryce Dalke ’75 and Pamela Dalke 

Dewey Dark, Jr. ’52 and Lee Dark 

Ed and Laurie David 

Richard and Betsy Davies 

George and Irene Davis 

David and Malea De Seguirant 

Francis Dean ’51 and Carolyn Green 

Dean ’52 

Demp and Paula Dempsey 

Philip and Joanne Desenis 

Andrea Dewey DeVault ’05 

Blaine and Joan Dierking 

Theo A. Dillaha, Jr. 

Darlene Bullard Dobbs ’84 and Wayne 

Dobbs 

Allen Dobson 

Mark and Laura Doramus 

George and Betty Doty 

Mary Lou and Jimmie Douglas 

Kenneth and Nettie Douthit 

Bonnie Downes ’70 

Timothy Driedric ’08 

James Duff ’63 and Sue Kauffeld Duff ’63 

Phyllis Duncan ’80 and Bob Battaglia 

Dale Dunlap ’53 and Irma Dunlap 

Jeffrey and Christen Dunn 

Randy and Nancy Duren 

Paul DuVall ’62 

Bill and Kody Eakin 

Bart and Renee Easley 

Janice Edmonson

Jack Edwards ’72 and Debra Edwards 

Assefa Egziabher ’78 

Judy Elkins 

Joan and Robert Erickson 

Elaine Eubank 

Erla Hardgrave McCracken Everitt ’41 

and J. Donald Everitt 

Robert and Neva Everts 

Duane Farris ’43 

Guy and Brenda Featherston 

Edna Hunnicutt Fell ’56 

Rick and Deanna Ferguson 

Leonard and Myra Finnell 

Jennifer Fisher ’93 

Miriam Guedel Fitch ’97 

Paul and Marilyn Flaum 

William and Betty Fletcher 

Thomas Foley ’86 

James Robert Fontaine, II 

Mark Forbes 

Sandra Forbus ’70 

Earl and Dorothy Foster 

Jamison and Candy Foster 

Sandra Fowler 

Luther Freeman ’49 and Wanda Cavalena 

Freeman ’45 

Joseph Fritz and Lynda George 

John and Karen Froggatt 

Cara Holcomb Frye ’53 

A. D. and Kathryn Fudge 

Darrell and Terri Fuller 

Helen Rader Fulton ’40 

Michael Fultz ’70 and Elaine Fultz 

Ronnie Funderburg ’74 and Rita 

Funderburg 

Bo Funderburk ’00 and Kelly 

Funderburk ’05 

Cayenne Carter Gammon ’08 and Sean 

Gammon ’08 

Brenda Garcia ’97 and Anthony Chavez 

Duane and Karen Garcia 

Susan Garner 

Katherine Rader Garrett ’39 

Harold and Marjorie Garrison 

Jason and Jennifer Gary 

Michael Giamboy ’51 

Patricia Gilkey ’66 

Gill Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman, PA, 


Eugene Gipson ’76 and Phyllis Gipson ’75 

James Glidewell ’69 

Roy and Virginia Goates 

Deborah Green Goff ’69 and James Goff 

Gregg and Kellie Goff 

George and Earleen Gold 

Mona Goldman 

Debbie Bryan Goodman ’80 and Don 

Goodman 

Larry and Patsy Goodner 

Mary Gould and Jay Gould 

Melinda Wish Gould ’80 

Sam Gould ’86 and Coral Yandell 

Gould ’91 

*Ann Davidson McKinney Goza ’69 

Bill Grashoff ’75 and Crista Grashoff 

Jesse Graves ’58 and Betty Graves 

Tim Graves ’50 

Clark Gray ’79 and Debra Gray 

Sandra Pitts Gray ’57 

Roland Green ’50 and Elaine Burton 

Green ’51 

Jon and Debbie Gregory 

Russell Gregory ’01 and Julie Gregory 

Brooke Grice ’08 

Wayne Grober ’75 and Bonnie Easley 

Grober ’73 

William and Kathleen Groce 

Ethel Grover 

James Madison Guest ’77 

Lucille Hagan ’51 

Garrett and Patricia Haiflich 

Jeanne Randall Hale ’07 and Chase 

Hale ’06 

Claud and Marcia Hall 

Margaret Hamerson 

Judy Blackard Hardgrave ’72 and Ben 

Hardgrave 

Charles Harper ’04 and Misti Ponder 

Harper ’04 

Brian Harris 

Eugene Harris ’53 

Fred Harris 

Julie Harris ’01 

Karie Allen Harris ’05 

Susan Harris 

Vernon and Reba Harris 

Vernon and Belinda Harris 

Danny Hartlein ’68 

Glenn Hartlein ’69 

Wayne and Diane Hartlerode 

Carol Thompson Hartley ’82 and Miles 

Hartley 

Jeff and Laura Hathaway 

Joette and David Haudrich 

Jessica Flusche Hayes ’98 and Justin Hayes 

John Hayes 

Jack Haynes ’53 and Joan Haynes 

Brett Hays ’05 

Harold and Pam Hays 

Vendon Hays, II ’96 and Joyce Hays 

Jessie M. Head 

J. David Henderson 

Treva Henry 

Mary and Stanley Henson 

Donna Hern 

Kelly Herndon 

Corrinna Risinger Hester ’81 and 

Ken Hester 

Paul Hiemke ’02 and Jennifer Jungman 

Hiemke ’02 

Tamara Higdon ’05 and Foster Etheredge 

Robert Maury Hightower ’64 

Jim Hill 

Leon and Charlotte Hill 

Harvey Hoffman ’68 and Noreen Hoffman 

Marilyn Hogan 

Donna Hogge ’78 and James Hogge 

Deanna Denhard Holman ’01 

Leslie Hoppers ’55 and Annie Hoppers 

Flora Eustice Horne ’54 and Charles 

Horne, III 

Robert Hudgens ’50 and Harriette 

Hudgens 

Kyle Hudson ’08 

Bob Hurley ’59 and Susan Snyder 

Hurley ’69 

Braxton and Courtney Hurst 

Greg and Debbie Hutto 

Seksan Inswang ’81 

Shelia Jackson 

Adele and Mike Jacobs 

E. Jacobs ’60 and Dorothy Armstrong 

Jacobs ’64 

Joel James ’80 and Deborah 

McKinney James ’79 

Connie Nowotny James ’76 

Druzelle Black Jenkins ’80 

Irma Jewell 

John T. Armstrong Trust 

Bob Johnson ’60 and Anita Johnson 

Hugh Johnson ’74 and Ellen Johnson ’75 

Peggy Johnson ’65 

Charles Johnston ’85 and Lynn Roberts 

Johnston ’84 

Cecil and Jean Jones 

Hartzell Jones ’66 and Marsha Jones 

Chelsea Joslin ’08 

Christina Jost 

Jamie Johnson Joyner ’05 

Philip Kaplan 

Robert and Lois Kayhoe 

Betty Shaffer Kendall ’56 



Everett Kendrick ’64 

Glen Kern 

Jerry Keyes 

Shirley Kiefer ’90 and Jim Kiefer 

Earl Kile, III ’72 

David Kimbrough ’84 and Mitzi Chrisman 

Kimbrough ’84 

Debbie Sorley King ’76 

John and Mary King 

Sylvia Kauffeld Kinnear ’66 

Connie Shepherd Kitchens ’75 

Frank and Amanda Knight 

Mandi Carter Koch ’07 and Todd Koch ’09 

David Koch 

Shelly Koch 

Ralph Kodell ’69 and Valerie Kodell 

Cassandra Koenig ’06 

Terry and Twyla Kok 

Lawrence Kruse ’59 and Susan Kruse 

John Kukar 

Robert and Linda Kyle 

Bettye LaBorn 

Kristine Wood LaMonda ’96 

Barbara Haller Langlois ’71 

Joel Laster ’85 

Pat Voeller Laster ’64 

Rena Sue Laster ’71 

Kevin Lawrence ’08 

Tom and Terri Lawrence 

Mike Lechner ’75 and Karen Lechner 

Louis Lee 

Mark and Leslie Lee 

Walter Lee ’66 and Judith Lee 

Eric Leon Villarreal ’03 

Arthur Leonard ’69 and Nina Leonard 

Bobby Lewis ’87 

Maurice Lewis ’55 and Betty Lewis 

Stephen and Elaine Lienhart 

John Lierly 

Larry and Patsy Linder 

Jerry Lingenfelter ’58 and Latricia Voss 

Lingenfelter ’61 

Michael and Christine Logan 

Jim and Carol Looney 

George Loss ’54 and Kay Fox Loss 

Joseph Lundquist ’73 and Johnnie Bradley 

Lundquist ’85 

Amanda Luney ’05 

Ruby Lunsford ’90 

Joe Magnani ’54 and Shirley Magnani 

Mallory & Associates, Little Rock, Ark. 

Cooper Mann ’00 

Ryan Marshall ’01 

Floyd and Rebecca Martin 

Tim Martin 

Mary Martindale ’63 and Kenneth 

Martindale 

Ronnie Marvel ’65 and Jeanette 

Estep Marvel 


Joan Mason 

William and Jo Ann Maxey 

Francis and Elton Mayes 

Robin Mays 

Denton and Regina Maze 

Eva Maze 

Van and Myrna McAnulty 

Blake McBride 

Scott McCall ’07 

Lee and Joanie Mills McCleskey 

Nancy McClure ’76 

Herschel and Mardell McClurkin 

Larry McCollum ’80 and Cynthia 

McKinney McCollum ’81 

Lynda McCollum ’07 

Russ McCollum 

Sidney and Kathryn McCollum 

Jean McCormack 

Robert McCoy ’50 

Virginia McCracken 

Carolyn McCrary 

Jeanne McDaniel 

Vernon McDaniel ’55 

Forest McDermott ’73 and Karen 

McDermott 

Regina McElhaney ’81 and James 

McElhaney 

Beatrice McKindra ’65 

Allen and Sharon McKinney 

Lex and Marcia Meigs 

Frances Farmer Meldrum ’58 and Ray 

Meldrum 

William and Frances Mellin 

Joe and Barbara Melton 

Rachel Messbarger ’86 

Carl Miller ’64 and Madge Miller 

Jean King Mills ’52 and Jerrel Mills 

Carl Minden ’94 and Angela Minden 

Christina Minden ’89 

Ron and Janie Mitchell 

Abdolreza Mobarak ’67 and Judy 

Stewart Mobarak 

David and Cathy Moczygemba 

Carol Taylor Mohlman ’51 and David 

Mohlman 

Linda Moncrief 

John and Leslie Monroe 

James Mooney ’57 and Colleen Rickard 

Mooney 

Davis and Lisa Moore 

Glenn Moore ’83 and Lea Ann Moore 

Kelly Wade Moreland ’85 and Paige 

Moreland 

Betty R. Morris ’58 

Larry and Sarah Morse 

Jennifer Morton ’98 

Trible Moseley ’87 

Virginia Moser 

Vicky Mullen 

Robert and Alice Mummey 

Timothy and Bari Lynne Mummey 

Brian and Jamie Murphy 

Dorothy J. Murray 

B.T. Myatt ’50 

Dale and Natalie Myers 

Robert Neilson ’92 and Mary Wilson 

Neilson ’92 

Nancy Newell ’70 

Patrick Newman ’86 and Sandra 

Gadbury Newman ’85 

Charlotte Altes Norman ’67 

Ted Oberg ’71 and Donna Oberg 

William Oliver, Jr. ’71 and Joan Coulter 

Oliver ’71 

Linnea Oosterman ’06 

Rebecca Osborne Rogers ’78 

John and Izetta Osmond 

Sue Osmond 

Kari Overton ’06 

Geoff Owens ’04 

Berta Steele Ownbey ’50 and Orla 

Ownbey 

Ozarks Softball Team 

Gordon Page ’75 and Margaret Page 

Robert Page, Jr. ’52 and Flois Page ’54 

Janice Palmer 

Mary Virginia Hurie Parks ’43 

Dustin Parsons ’07 

Torie Parsons ’09 

Jay Patel ’06 

Janet Payne 

Marjorie R. Payne 

Wanda Daniel Pearson ’48 

Carroll and Susan Penick 

Joshua Peppas ’00 and Kelli Peppas 

Jose and Juana Perez Garcia 

Tammy Pettigrew 

Bernard and Sherry Pianalto 

Jessica Pianalto ’08 

Kimberly Pierson ’86 

Ronald Pitchford 

Eileen Taylor Pitts ’29 

Poe Travel, Little Rock, Ark. 

Michael Posey ’83 and Debbie Posey 

Dick Postels ’72

Kent Presley 

David Pridgin, Jr. ’07 and April Pridgin 

Dorothy Prunty 

Donald and Ann Prusator 

Karen Prusator 

Bill and Nancy Puddephatt 

Terry Purifoy ’75 and Sharon Purifoy 

Charles Puyear ’65 

Brian and Ginger Quinn 

Richard Rafferty ’80 

Faye Williams Raible ’72 and Gary 

Raible 

Myrna Ramsey ’69 

Claudia Randall 

Jerry Ray ’64 and Sarah Wiley Ray ’65 

Jim and Melody Reasoner 

Deborah Reck ’00 and Ian Reck 

Daren and Karen Reed 

John Reed, Jr. ’74 

Seville and Annis Reed 

Mary Reese ’50 

Robert Reese ’70 and Kathy Reese 

Thomas Reid ’68 

Fred and Mary Lou Reisbick 

Frank and Shelly Relja 

Blake Rexroat ’06 and Lauren Wilson 

Rexroat ’07 

Joe and Betty Reynolds 

Kermit Reynolds ’72 and Melard Reynolds 

Shirley Keith Richardson ’66 and Rick 

Richardson 

Loretta Eacret Ridener ’53 and Eddie 

Ridener 

Benny and Wanda Riley 

Mary Jane Ring ’80 and James Ring 

Ronnie Roach ’67 and Dianna Roach 

David Roberts ’74 

Fred and Teresa Roberts 

Martha Dow Robinson ’62 and Buford 

Robinson, Jr. 

Nancy A. Robison ’92 and Gary Robison 

Joan Rodemann ’71 and James Rodemann 

Karen Crumpley Rogers ’91 and 

Chris Rogers 

Gary Rollins ’78 and Pam Rollins 

Charles Roscopf 

John and Pamela Royer 

Herb Russell ’42 

Kathryn Hamilton Russell ’84 and 

Dannie Russell 

Johnny and Trevelyn Russo 

J.L. “Skip” and Billie Rutherford 

W. H. Rutledge and Charlene Yancy 

Rutledge ’53 

Kirk Sanderson ’92 and Jamie Sanderson 

Ann Henderson Schaubroeck ’87 and 

Daniel Schaubroeck 

Elry Schnelle 

Jacob Schulte ’02 and Sharon 

Hershberger Schulte ’03 

Otto and Jo Ann Schwab 

Marie Jennings Selby ’52 

Kim Sexton 

Thomas and Rusta Sexton 

Glen Sheffer ’72 and Anne Sheffer 

Sara Sheppard 

Russell Sherhag, II ’68 and Pamela Sherhag 

George Sherlock ’75 and Sue Smith 

Jon Shermer 

Don and Connie Shoffit 

R.E. Short 

Jacob Sibley ’06 and DeAnna Miller 

Sibley ’06 

Daniel Sigala ’02 

Jimmie and Wanda Simmons 

Mark Simpson ’79 and Lisa Simpson ’88 

Vickie Singleton ’89 

Ryan Skelly ’07 and Callie Williams 

Skelly ’07 

Billy and Joan Smith 

Frank Smith ’56 

Jean Smith 

Billy Sopshire ’80 

Hank Sparks ’62 and Edie Sparks 

Luann Spence 

Clayton Spencer ’50 and Billie Spencer 

Kimberly Spicer ’98 

Bruce Spradlin ’58 and Louise Spradlin 

Jack and Carol Spruiell 

Jerry Standridge 

Audra Casey Stengel ’72 and Charles 

Stengel 

Billy Stevens 

Caroline Stevenson 

Florence Stevenson ’43 

Carlene Stiegler ’83 and Paul Stiegler 

Jan Bryan Storment ’81 

Sam and Elinor Story 

Francis and Gloria Strong 

Carol Brown Struckmeyer ’81 and 

Randy Struckmeyer 

Keith and Sara Stucky 

Fred Sutton, Jr. ’87 and Dana Galyen 

Sutton ’85 

Dewey Talley ’60 and Donna Killgore 

Talley ’60 

Janie Tanksley 

Philip and Gina Tappan 

Fred Taylor ’58 and Billie Taylor 

Michael and Marie Teaster 

Kari Pridgin Tedford ’05 and Cory Tedford 

Jimmie Thames ’53 and Ailene Thames 

Frank Thomas ’77 

Peter and Penny Thomas 

Rena Thomas 

Robert and Rachel Thomas 

Douglas Thompson ’89 and Cindy 

Thompson 

Jerry Thompson ’80 

Raymond Thompson ’59 and Jane 

Thompson 

William Thompson ’74 

Linda Tillman ’92 

Harry and Janet Todd 

James Tolbert ’62 and Burnice Self 

Tolbert ’60 

James and Wanda Tormey 

Emma Lou Hudson Travis ’76 and 

Jerry Travis 

Geoffrey and Sharon Treece 

Jim Trone ’70 and Marilyn Houston 

Trone ’66 

John and Mary Tull 

United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas, Inc., 




Fred and Sharon Ursery 

Kim Van Scoy and David Cooper 

Jonathan Vance ’03 

Jeffrey Vaughn ’78 

Tommy Vaught 

Dan Verser 

Laura Martin Vertrees ’78 and Thomas 

Vertrees, Jr. 

Bill View 

Nichole Villegas 

Sue Vines 

Kendall Wagner ’06 and Kathie Wagner 

Jerry Wagoner ’58 and Dolores 

Wagoner ’56 

Mitchell Wagoner 

Judith Walden and Michael Ream 

Elizabeth Walker ’43 

George Walker, III and Carole Walker 

Henry and Jo Ann Walton 

Russell Wambles ’87 and Rebecca Crossen 

Wambles ’86 

Jo Ward 

Lou and Wesley Watkins 

Mary Ellen Waychoff ’78 

Jeff Weaver 

Patsy Weaver 

Roderick Weaver ’71 and Judy Lawton 

Weaver 

Hugh and Dott Webb 

John and Marilyn Weidler 

Kurt and Kimberly Weidler 

Wanda Weise 

Jesse and Holli Weiss 

Hal and Nellie Welch 

Steve and Marie Wenninger 

Berton Westerland 

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 


Ross and Mary Whipple 

Mike and Susie Whitacre 


David and Bridget White 

Linda Kauffeld White ’67 and Don White 

Kara Whitkanack ’91 and Michael 

Whitkanack 

Kenneth Whitson ’73 

Clarice Widell 

Lucile Wilcoxen 

Kenny, Terrie, Blake and Drew Wilkerson 

Charles and Dawn Wilkinson 

Freda Kauffeld Willett ’52 and Guy Willett 

Archie Williams, Jr. ’49 

*Clarence Williams ’48 and Katala 

Williams ’49 

James Tyler Williams ’07 

Jeff Williams ’82 and Tina Ray 


Shannon Williams ’93 

David and Rebecca Wilson 

Julia Wilson ’85 and Donald Wilson 

Laura McClendon Wilson ’55 

Franlee Jo Wise ’81 

Sammy Wish ’50 

Ramona Witcher ’78 and Ronald Witcher 

Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra 

Bartlett Wofford ’77 

Jim Wolfe 

Women of the Church, Hot Springs, Ark. 

Kenneth Wood ’74 and Mary King Wood 

Sally Wood 

Steve and Joy Wood 

Woodland Heights, Little Rock, Ark. 

Linda Sherrod Woody ’86 

Jeanette Crotts Wright ’74 

Don and Polly Wright 

Rhonda Yarberry ’82 and Robert Yarberry 

Dyanna Smith Yarbro ’96 and Lance Yarbro 

Barbi Fisher Yarnell ’98 and Jarrod Yarnell 

Mary Bricker Young ’52 and John Young 

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. 

Ambassador Sunday School Class, 

Pea Ridge, Ark. 

Bella Vista Community Church, 


Central Presbyterian Church, 


Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, 



Camden, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, Conway, Ark. 


Springdale, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville 

First Presbyterian Church, Dardanelle, Ark. 




Van Buren, Ark. 

First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City 

First Presbyterian Church, Stillwater, 

Okla. 

First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, Okla. 


McAlester, Okla. 

First Presbyterian Church, Tonkawa, Okla. 

Good Shepherd Presbyterian, 

Greenwood, Ark. 

Grace Presbyterian Church, Grove, 

Okla. 

Harmony Presbyterian Church, 

Clarksville 

Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, 


Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, 

Hot Springs Village, Ark. 

Presbyterian Women, Hot Springs 

Village, Ark. 

Presbyterian Women of West Jersey, 

Cinnaminson, New Jersey 

Presbyterian Women of Westminster, 


Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3, 

Tulsa, Okla. 

Saint James Presbyterian Church, 

Jenks, Okla. 

Second Presbyterian Church, 

Little Rock, Ark.

Southside Baptist Church, Paris, Ark. 

Tates Bluff Presbyterian Church, 

Chidester, Ark. 

Westminster Presbyterian Church, 


Women of the Church, 


Gifts-In-Kind 

The following individuals and 

corporations generously supported 

Ozarks with gifts of services or 

products during the 2008-09 fiscal 

year. 


Steve Askins ’05 and Marian Askins 

Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones Bean ’78 

Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn 

Christopher Boettcher 

Elizabeth Caroscio 

Don Chappell ’72 and Janie Krohn 

Chappell ’73 

Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin 

Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, Fort 

Smith, Ark. 

Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 and 

Kurtis Daniels 

Andrea and Jeff Dixon 

Claude Eubanks, II ’56 and JoAnne 

Eubanks 

Pat Farmer 


Charles and Debbie Foster 

Glenda Gibson and Robert Gibson ’76 

Van and Nancy Hill 

Helen Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 and 

Forrest Hoeffer ’65 

Tricia Hoeffer ’91 

Roy Horne ’57 

Judy and Dutch Houston 

Brian Hull ’02 and Liz Tomlinson Hull ’04 

Larry Isch 

Roy Johnson and Peggy Terrill Johnson ’59 

Christina Jost 

Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and 

Marvin C. Leister, Jr. 

Eric Leon Villarreal ’03 

Teri Marciniak 



Moore & VanAllen, Charlotte, N.C. 

New’s Office Machines Co., Russellville, 

Ark. 


Torie Parsons ’09 

Kendrick and Lindsey Prewitt 

William Rail ’52 and Maxine Phillips 

Rail ’52 


Sadler ’53 

Jeff and Amy Scaccia 


Scott Smith 

Southwestern Energy Co., Ozark, Ark. 

Sara Starkey 

Darrell and Margie Stephens 

John and Wanda Stephens 

Louise Taylor ’51 

Judy Thornton 

Megan and Jarrod Toland 

Kim Van Scoy and David Cooper 

Judith Walden and Michael Ream 

Holli and Jesse Weiss 

Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., Altus, Ark. 

The Aerie Club 

The following individuals and 

businesses supported The Aerie 

Club during the 2008-2009 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. 

Raymond Acosta 

Bill Alexander ’55 and Linda Alexander 

Chris and Martha Allen 

Apex Communications 

Arby’s, Clarksville 

Arvid Bean Insurance Agency, Inc. 

Maxine Bean ’49 and Garland Bean 

Lorraine Belote ’56 and Doug Belote 

O. G. Blackard ’50 and Juanita Blackard ’51 

Bobby Teeter’s Drug Store, Inc., Clarksville 

Jerry Bridges ’78 

Carl Briggs 

Gary Briley ’66 

James and Ann Bruning 

Everett and Frances Buck 

Cecil Hardware, Inc. 

Jimmy and Kelli Clark 

Clarksville Cinema 

Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 

A. O. and Pat Curran 

Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 and Kurtis 

Daniels 

Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard 


Family Shoe Store, Clarksville 

First Security Bank, Clarksville 


Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks 

H. H. and Mary Hammond 

Hampton Inn, Clarksville 

HanesBrands Inc. 

Sam Harpole ’82 and Cynthia Harpole 

Bob Harrison ’50 

Harvest Food Market, Inc. 

Billy and Martha Helms 

Lori Myers Hines ’97 and Will Hines 

Holiday Inn Express, Clarksville 

Bill Holder ’52 and Jane Wilson Holder ’55 

Larry Isch 

Johnson Chevrolet Buick Pontiac 

Mike Jones ’77 and Stacy Jones 

Glen Kern 

KXIO Radio Station, Clarksville 

Lee Laster ’58 and Darlene Laster 

Robert and Marilyn Laster 

Chance Lawless ’02 

Harold and Mary Lewis 

Raymond and Dorothy Marciniak 

Morgan’s Fashions, Clarksville 


John and Betsy O’Connor 

Hugh Overholt ’55 and Laura Overholt 

Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60 

Jack T. Patterson ’65 and Lisa Carlton 

Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc., 

Clarksville 

Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips 

Pioneer Signs, Clarksville 


Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada 

Mathis Qualls ’55 

Quizno’s Subs, Clarksville 

Regions Bank, Clarksville 

Jerry Rice ’53 and Myra Lee Rice 


Sadler ’53 

Jeff and Amy Scaccia ’09 


William Scarborough ’39 

Sexton Furniture and Appliance, Clarksville 

Simmons First Bank, Clalrksville 

Mark Simpson ’79 and Lisa Simpson ’88 

Scott Smith 


Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith 

Sonic Drive-In, Clarksville 

South Park Restaurant Inc., Clarksville 

Jerry Speer ’58 and Mary Speer 

Charlie Spoonhour ’61 and Vicki 

Spoonhour 

State Farm Insurance - Scott Smith 

Waffle House, Clarksville 

Mitchell Wagoner 

Turner and Caroline Whitson 

Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie Tipton 


Woodard Carpet & Design, Clarksville 

Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann West Young ’57 


May 15, 2009 through 

Sept. 21, 2009 

Zainab (Mama Zara) Ansell 

Sue Tull 

The Class of 1956 

James Young ’56 and Betty Young 


Len Bradley 

Robert Hannan 

Sue Tull 

Brian Hull ’02 and Elizabeth Hull ’04 

Dorothy Prunty 

Beverly Lindsey 

Sue Tull 

Bruce Lindsey 

Sue Tull 

Sia Marandu 

Sue Tull 

Donald Pennington ’68 

Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and 

Bob Pine 

Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine 

Dawn J.M. and GaryScarborough ’82 

Bruce Rienstra 

Sue Tull 

Dallas Bean Scarborough ’43 

Dawn J.M. and GaryScarborough ’82 

Scout Snowden 

Westover Hills Presbyterian Women 

Mark Swei 

Sue Tull 

May 15, 2009 through 

Sept. 21, 2009 

Charles Angell 

Cathy Angell and Ronna Biggs 

Virginia Bowers 

Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita 

Blackard Ehren ’71 

Dennis and Cynthia Keeling 

Charles Larson 

Ann Patterson ’75 and Max 

Snowden 

James and Ila Roberts 

Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann 

Bean Taylor ’72 

Bill View 


Billie Hudson Bagby 





Weston Baker 


Nancy Blizzard 

Raymond Green ’71 

W. Carroll Bumpers 

Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 

Nancy Capps 






Ron and Kerry Dillaha Taylor 

Betty Emery Carter ’52 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. Johnston 

Elmo H. Cater 


Willie M. Cater 


Polly Caveness 

Jimmie and Wanda Simmons 

John Barnes Coleman 

Sean and Jennifer Coleman 





Dawn J.M. and Gary 

Scarborough ’82 

Eva Davis 

Sonja McCuen ’88 

Kaethe Hoehling 

James Dorman ’57 

Roy Horne ’57 

Kermit Eggensperger ’41 


Laura Sue Hill Ehren ’56 

Reba Pridgin ’81 and David 

Pridgin ’71 

Elizabeth Eisenmayer ’00 


Forrest Hoeffer ’65 and Helen 

Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 

Fred Fisher 


Laura Ruth Garrett ’35 




Sarah Carlin Graves ’85 



Albert Green 


Effie Green 


William Green 


Odys A. Hardcastle 


Hazel Hatchett 

Kenneth Wood ’74 and Mary King 

Wood 

John Hilton 


Francis C. and Bessie Simmons 

Ingram 

Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and 

Marvin C. Leister, Jr. 

Dickie Jones ’72 

Faye Williams Raible ’72 and Gary 

Raible 

Fred A. and Ophelia Jacobs Kauffeld 

Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54 

Mary Lou Kinder ’69 


Burley King ’40 

Billie Burnett King ’40 

W. E. King 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn Bost ’43 

Phyllis Kirby 

Donald Kirby ’51 

Shelli Stewart Lamberson 





Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and 

Charles Mooney 


Coy Lee 


Michael Zoller ’77 and Janice 

Forkner Zoller ’78 

Ruth Bost May ’51 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King 

Bost ’43 

Mackie McElree 

Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and 

William Watson 

Ada Parks Mills ’33 

Mary Tom Mills O’Bar ’54 and 

Clyde O’Bar

Denver Misenhimer 


Vivian Misenhimer ’22 


Edith Morin 


Kenneth and Virginia Mosley 

Jerry and Marlene Mosley 

Virginia Mosley 

Citizens Security Bank 

Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes 

Cox ’99 





Candy Thomas 

A. Dean Yeager ’59 and Pauline 

Hurley Yeager 

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 

Edward Myron Parker 

Tommy and Judy Parker 

J. T. Patterson ’38 and Lucile Sanders 

Patterson 


Selba Patterson 


Michael A. Rail ’80 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. 

Johnston 

Harriet and Joe Reece 

George Reece ’83 

John Edwards Reed 


William D. Reifsteck ’59 

Joseph Bechtle and Beth Reifsteck 

William Sissel ’28 and Ruth Sissel ’29 

George and Mary Sissel 

Curtis Lee Spence 


Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence 

Cecil L. Suitt 


Euna Lowe Suitt 


Harve and May Mills Taylor ’37 



May Mills Taylor ’37 


Jake Tull ’10 

AgHeritage 

Associates of Home Bancshares 

Bryn and Tracy Bagwell 

Patrick and Dana Baldwin 

Wayne Ball 

Bank of America Foundation 

The Barker Family 

Sherry Bartley 

Nan Barlow 

Sam & Lisa Baxter Family and 

John & Mallory Jewell Family 

Neil and Caroline Bennett 

Chris and Debbie Benson 

Lee and Robin Brown 

Steve and Susan Bullington 

Kevin and Cindy Burns 

Patrick and Jane Burrow 

Stephen and Tricia Chaffin 

Larry and Martha Chisenhall 

Cathleen Compton 

Cynthia Conger 

Eldon Cooley 

Arthur Cooper 

Ralph and Mary Cotham 

Will, Ted, Cathy and Kevin Crass 

Harry and Patty Criner 

Cross, Gunter, Witherspoon & 

Galchus 

Ed and Laurie David 

Richard and Betsy Davies 

George and Irene Davis 

Demp and Paula Dempsey 

Philip and Joanne Desenis 

Allen Dobson 

Mark and Laura Doramus 


Janice Edmonson 

Elaine Eubank 

Rick and Deanna Ferguson 

Tricia and Jimmy Fowler 


Susan Garner 

Gill, Elrod, Ragon, Owen, & Sherman, PA 

Mary Gould and Jay Gould 

Elizabeth Gray 

Stuart W. Hankins 

Don and Christine Harrell 

Jon and Bonnie Harris 

Jeff and Laura Hathaway 

Leon and Charlotte Hill 

Randal and Jan Hundley 

Jay Jennings 

Irma Jewell 

Janet Jones 

Philip Kaplan 

Jerry Keyes 

Laser Law Firm PA 

Jim Layton 

Mark and Leslie Lee 

L.L. Marshall 

Dan and Marilyn Martin 

Floyd and Rebecca Martin 

Joan Mason 

William and Jo Ann Maxey 

Robin Mays 


Russ McCollum 

Carolyn McCrary 

Jeanne McDaniel 

Joe and Barbara Melton 

Hunter, Kathy, Alaina, Greg, and Doug 

Switzer Miller 

James and Rita Miller 

John and Leslie Monroe 


Jack and Patricia Overholt 

Carroll and Susan Penick 

Poe Travel 

Ann Pride 

Bill and Nancy Puddephatt 

Brian and Ginger Quinn 

Fred and Teresa Roberts 

Charles Roscopf 

J.L. “Skip” and Billie Rutherford 


R.E. Short 

Simmons First National Bank 


Caroline Stevenson 

Courtney and Kim Swindler 

Philip and Gina Tappan 

Peter and Penny Thomas 

Geoffrey and Sharon Treece 

Sue Tull 

United Cerebral Palsy of Arkansas, Inc. 

Fred and Sharon Ursery 

Watts, Donovan & Tilley 

John and Marilyn Weidler 

Wanda Weise 

Ross and Mary Whipple 

Mike and Susie Whitacre 

Kenny, Terrie, Blake and Drew 

Wilkerson 

Louise Hervey Vaught ’31 

Tommy Vaught 

Harley Wagoner 

Connie and Michael Booty 

Len Bradley 

Linda Frala Bradley ’84 and Gary 

Bradley ’84 


Charles Howard ’84 

Peggy Johnson ’65 

Jetta Martin 


Janice Palmer 


Don Pennington ’68 

Phillip Sanders ’57 and Wanda 

Sanders ’60 

Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra Bartlett 

Wofford ’77 

A. Dean Yeager ’59 and Pauline Hurley 

Yeager 

Myra B. Walker Shutz 

Barry Walker ’61 and Jane Walker 

Clara Williams 


Clarence Williams ’48 




Myra Jo Wilson 


Robert “Bob” Wise 

Franlee Jo Wise ’81 

Almeta Blackard Yerby ’53 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. 

Johnston 


Lucille (Bivins) Baskin ’40 

Lucille (Bivins) Baskin ’40 of Clarksville, died Oct. 6, 2009, 

at the age of 93. She was a retired school teacher. 

Kay (Rodgers) Anderson ’41 

Kay (Rodgers) Anderson ’41 of Harker Heights, Texas, died 

March 1, 2009, at the age of 89. 

Polly (Taylor) Kennon ’46 

Polly (Taylor) Kennon ’46 of Clarksville, died Oct. 9, 2009, 

at the age of 93. “Miss Polly” was a retired school teacher, a 

lifetime member of Arkansas Retired Teachers Association, 

and a long-time member of the Ozarks Alumni Association. 

Dulcie (Green) Cecil ’48 

Dulcie (Green) Cecil ’48 of Mena, Ark., died on Oct. 9, 2009, 

at the age of 92. She was a retired school teacher. 

The Rev. John Marshall Coppic ’49 

The Rev. John Marshall Coppic ’49 of Waynesboro, Va., died 

Sept. 6, 2009, at the age of 80. He was an ordained Presbyterian 

minister for more than 40 years, serving congregations in 

Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Missouri. 

E.E. Hudson ’49 

E.E. Hudson ’49 of Russellville, Ark., died Sept. 4, 2009, at 

the age of 82. He was a former school teacher and long-time 

professor and department chair at Arkansas Tech University. 

Wilma (Owens) Wendland ’54 

Wilma (Owens) Wendland ’54 of Pueblo, Col., died July 4, 

2009, at the age of 77. She was a retired school teacher and 

child welfare worker. 

Laura Sue (Hill) Ehren ’56 

Laura Sue (Hill) Ehren ’56 of Paris, Ark., died Aug. 7, 2009, 

at the age of 75. She was involved in ministry work for more 

than 45 years and was preceded in death by her husband of 53 

years, Robert C. Ehren ’55. 

Jim Sweeden ’57 

Jim Sweeden ’57 of Tomball, Texas, died May 17, 2009, at 

the age of 76. He was a former color guard in the U.S. Navy. 

David Lee Vardaman ’57 

David Lee Vardaman ’57 of Quincy, Ill., died Aug. 31, 2009, 

at the age of 75. He was a retired teacher, coach and also 

worked in the transportation industry. 

Archie Benegar ’61 

Archie Benegar ’61 of Fort Smith, Ark., died May 25, 2009, 


Polly Kennon 

Laura Sue Ehren 

at the age of 90. He was a retired Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army 

and a recipient of the Purple Heart Award. 

Wayne Allen May ’66 

Wayne Allen May ’66 of Van Buren, Ark., died Sept. 8, 2009, 

at the age of 68. He was a retired teacher and coach. 

Rudolph Justice, Jr. ’71 

Rudolph A. Justice, Jr., ’71 of Kalamazoo, Mich., died May 

30, 2009, at the age of 64. He was retired from the U.S. Navy 

and from the Department of Veteran Affairs. 

Gary Lynn Harrington ’72 

Gary Lynn Harrington ’72 of Oklahoma City, died Sept. 8, 

2009, at the age of 60. He served for 27 years as the head 

archivist for the state of Oklahoma and was a professor at 

Oklahoma State University. He is survived by his wife of 39 

years, Netta (Trowbridge) Harrington ’71. 

Fred G. Jones ’73 

Fred G. Jones ’73 of Fort Smith, Ark., died Aug. 20, 2009, at 

the age of 71. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and a national service 

officer for the Disabled American Veterans organization. 

Marcia Lee Owen ’76 

Marcia Lee Owen ’76 of Van Buren, Ark., died Sept. 14, 

2009, at the age of 78. She was a retired Alma (Ark.) school 

teacher and a lifelong resident of Crawford County. 

Romesh Algama ’91 

Romesh Algama ’91 of Fort Worth, Texas, passed away on 

Sept. 5, 2009, at the age of 41. He was a restaurant manager. 

John E. Tate, Jr. 

John E. Tate, Jr., of Bella Vista, Ark., died Oct. 6, 2009, at the 

age of 89. He was a retired attorney and a former member of 

the University’s Board of Trustees.

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