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University Administration 

Rick Niece, Ph.D. 

President 

Steve Edmisten, MA 

Executive Vice President 

Daniel Taddie, Ph.D. 

Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs 

Kim Myrick, MA 

Vice President for Enrollment Management 

Jeff Scaccia, MBA 

Chief Financial Officer 

Darrell Williams, BS 

Business Manager 

Sherrie Arey, MS 

Dean of Residential and Campus Life 

Production Staff 

Larry Isch, MS 

Director of University and Public Relations 

Editor 

Vinnie Tran, BA 

Publications Coordinator 

Design and Layout 

Photo and editorial contributions 

by Tony Baldwin, Josh Peppas, Lori McBee, 

Cara Flinn, Jay Parrot, and Kimberly Pennick. 

For more information, contact the: 

Office of University Advancement 

University of the Ozarks 

415 N. College Avenue 

Clarksville, AR 72830-2880 

(479) 979-1230; Fax (479) 979-1239 

Web site: www.ozarks.edu 

University Directory 

(479) Area Code 

Academic Affairs 979-1431 

Admission 979-1227 

Advancement 979-1230 

Alumni Relations 979-1234 

Athletics 979-1483 

Business Office 979-1208 

Financial Aid 979-1221 

President’s Office 979-1242 

Public Relations 979-1420 

Registrar 979-1212 

Student Life 979-1321 

The University of the Ozarks does not discriminate 

on the basis of religion, gender, color, national 

or ethnic origin, age, or physical handicap 

in the administration of its educational policies, 

programs or activities. 

Volume 27 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2008 

3 A Multi-Sport Athlete 

Senior Olivia Fisher has shone 

in several sports at Ozarks. 

4 Enrollment Increases 

Student body number sees jump 

of eight percent over two years. 

ON THE COVER: 

Alumni such as Zach Boatright 

(center) and (clockwise, from top 

right) Ivan Quant, Julie (Ballew) 

Kersey, Don Ferrier and Otto 

Mejia are making waves in the 

business world as entrepreneurs. 

Meet them and others who 

are running successful small 

businesses. (Main photo by 

Abigail Wilder.) 

See Story, Page 8 

6 Stability for Ozarks 

The University can overcome 

difficult times with help of donors. 

16 Alumni News 

Catch up on the latest news 

from former classmates and 

fellow alumni. 

20 Sports Hall of Fame 

Soccer player Marcos Gonzalez 

and basketball player Anthony 

Porchia are latest Hall inductees. 

21 2007-08 Donor Honor Roll 

Ozarks’ many cherished 

supporters for the 2007-08 

fiscal year are recognized. 

40 In Memoriam 

The University honors those 

alumni and friends who have 

passed away in recent months. 

Biology Professor Dr. Doug Jeffries and several students took part in the Planet 

Club’s annual Tree Planting Day, held Nov. 8 on campus. 

See Other Campus News on Pages 2-5 


Ozarks ranks in “top tier” 

with election show 

for 10th consecutive year 

November 4, 2008, was not only 

For the 10th consecutive year, U of 

O has been ranked as a “top tier” university 

in the U.S. News & World Report’s 

annual late summer publication that analyzes 

institutions of higher education. 

In the 2009 edition of “America’s 

Best Colleges,” released on Aug. 21, 

Ozarks was ranked third in the category 

of “Great Schools, Great Prices” among 

95 universities in the 12-state South Region 

that are considered Baccalaureate 

Colleges. It is the ninth time in the last 

10 years that Ozarks has been ranked in 

the top five of the best value category. 

The value rankings evaluate the cost of 

attending a college or university relative 

to the quality of the institution, according 

to the magazine’s ranking system. 

In the overall rankings of the universities, 

Ozarks was tied for seventh 

among 95 universities that fall in the 

Baccalaureate Colleges category in the 

South Region. The seventh-place ranking 

is the highest ever for U of O, which 

was ranked No. 8 in the South in 2008 

and 2006. The overall rankings examine 

such criteria as academic reputation, 

graduation and retention rates, faculty 

resources, student selectivity, financial 

resources and alumni giving. 

“I am proud that, once again, the University 

of the Ozarks is highly ranked in 

the South Region by U.S. News & World 

Report in its 2009 publication,” said U 

of O President Dr. Rick Niece. “Being 

ranked for the 10th consecutive year as 

a top-tier university is a tribute to our 

faculty, staff and students. I am equally 

gratified that Ozarks is ranked as the third 

best value in the South. To be ranked in 

the top five for nine of the last 10 years 

says a great deal about Ozarks and the 

tremendous value we are.” 

The South Region consists of colleges 

and universities in Arkansas, Louisiana, 

Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, 

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Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia 

and Virginia. 

The top five in the overall rankings 

for the “Great Schools, Great Prices” 

category in the South Region were 

Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas, 

Claflin University in South Carolina, 

University of the Ozarks, Covenant College 

in Georgia, and Alderson-Broaddus 

College in West Virginia. 

The top 10 in the overall rankings for 

Baccalaureate Colleges in the South Region 

were Ouachita Baptist University, 

Erskine College in South Carolina, John 

Brown University in Arkansas, Covenant 

College in Georgia, High Point 

University in North Carolina, Milligan 

College in Tennessee, LaGrange College 

in Georgia, Tuskegee University in 

Alabama, University of the Ozarks and 

Florida Southern College. 

U.S. News & World Report ranked 

more than 1,400 accredited schools nationally 

in its “America’s Best Colleges” 

edition, which hit the news stands in late 

August. 

KUOZ makes history 

a big moment for the country, it was 

a monumental moment for the university’s 

communications department 

and its educational access television 

station, KUOZ Channel 6. 

While the country was electing its 

44th president, U of O communications 

faculty and students were busy 

producing and broadcasting more 

than 3 hours of live election coverage 

in one of KUOZ’s biggest projects in 

its long history. 

Under the leadership of Director 

of Broadcasting Susan Edens, more 

than 25 students and other faculty 

members played a role in broadcasting 

live election coverage from Walker 

Hall on campus and from a remote 

spot at the county courthouse. 

The show included segments 

in English and Spanish, live phoneins, 

live reports from the news room, 

mini-live debates and discussions, 

taped interviews with students and 

staff, and other special presentations. 

The show lasted from 7 p.m. until 

10:30 p.m. 

The show was the brainchild of 

students Taylor Jacks and Allan Arroyo 

and was a culmination of several 

weeks of work and preparation 

by students and faculty members. 

“I know this was a very valuable 

learning experience for all of us, and 

I could not be more proud of every 

single person who worked behind the 

scenes or on the air that night,” said 

Edens, who earned a communications 

degree from Ozarks. “A wonderful 

combination of enthusiastic students 

and talented faculty came together to 

make radio-television-video and university 

history. This is most definitely 

a highlight in my teaching and broadcasting 

career to date.”

Olivia Fisher gives new meaning to 

the term multi-sport athlete. 

The senior from Mountain Home, 

Ark., enters her senior season as one 

of Ozarks’ most decorated multi-sport 

athletes in recent years. She has shone 

on the basketball court, tennis court and 

soccer field for the Lady Eagles, garnering 

numerous regional, conference and 

school awards. 

Fisher has earned all-conference 

honors in tennis, soccer and basketball. 

She has been a four-year starter in soccer 

and basketball and was the 2007 American 

Southwest Conference (ASC) East 

Division women’s tennis player of the 

year, the first such honor for an Ozarks 

tennis player in the school’s history. Last 

year she was also named the university’s 

Female Athlete of the Year. 

“I’ve always been one of those people 

who just goes from sport to sport, 

even in high school,” said Fisher. “I love 

being active, and I love competition.” 

A self-described workout fanatic, 

Fisher’s physical training routines are almost 

legendary on campus. During even 

the dog days of August, Fisher worked 

out six days a week, often running from 

3-5 miles and lifting weights in the same 

day. She hasn’t had a soda since the ninth 

grade and follows a strict diet that shuns 

fast food, pizza and fried food. 

“I believe in the philosophy that if 

you want it more than the next person and 

you put in the work and effort, you can 

defeat people who may be more talented 

than you,” said Fisher. “Plus, I’ve just 

always enjoyed working out and staying 

in shape. There’s no better feeling than 

finishing a tough workout and knowing 

you’ve accomplished something.” 

Fisher enters her senior season as one 

of the top returning basketball players 

in the ASC and a key player for a Lady 

Eagles team that is attempting to bounce 

back from last year’s 1-24 record. 

Fisher has started 72 out of a possible 

76 games for the Lady Eagles’ basketball 

team in her career. Last year she led the 

ASC in rebounding with a 9.3 per-game 

average and also averaged 9.9 points. 

“Olivia is a remarkable athlete with 

an incredible work ethic and drive,” said 

Lady Eagles Coach Christina Jost. “She 

puts in countless hours in the gym, constantly 

working to improve her game. 

She also has great leadership skills. She 

was voted team captain by her teammates, 

which proves the respect she’s 

earned from the entire team.” 

Fisher is closing in on 600 career rebounds 

and will likely finish in the program’s 

top five list for career rebounds 

despite being one of the smallest inside 

players in the conference at 5-foot-9. 

“Olivia does have a ‘nose for the 

ball,’ however, her desire to rebound 

and commitment to rebounding are the 

reasons she is so successful at it,” said 

Jost. “She is a very accomplished, strong 

leader, who we undoubtedly will look to 

lead us this season through her drive and 

her never-give-up attitude.” 

A biology major who plans to attend 

dental or pharmacy school after graduation, 

Fisher has learned to juggle a hectic 

schedule. 

“It’s been tough at times trying to 

play all three sports and keep my grades 

up, but it’s been well worth it,” she said. 

A Stellar Career 

Brian Sarber, a senior goalkeeper from 

Allen, Texas, completed a stellar soccer 

career at Ozarks in 2008 as he led the 

Eagles to a 14-3-4 record. The four-time 

all-conference performer finished his 

career as the program’s career leader in 

saves (375) and goals against average 

(.80), and was second in career shutouts 

(25) and victories (49). 


Enrollment jumps five percent 

The university saw its Fall 2008 Semester 

enrollment increase by 5 percent 

over last year’s figures. 

The university’s enrollment of 675 

students is the largest since 2003 and a 

32-student increase over 2007 Fall Semester 

figures. The number also represents 

an 8.5 percent increase over the 

past two years. It is the university’s 

third-largest enrollment figure in the past 

15 years. 

The 2008 enrollment includes 195 

first-time entering freshman, a 9.5 percent 

increase over 2007. The university 

also announced a 74 percent retention 

rate of freshmen students from 2007, 

compared with 67 percent last year. 

“We are very pleased with not only 

the increase in overall enrollment and 

in the freshmen class, but with the retention 

rate as well,” said U of O Vice 

President for Enrollment Management 

Kim Myrick. “I believe that shows we’re 

doing a good job of not only recruiting 

students to campus, but also in helping 

make sure that they are successful when 

they get here.” 

Myrick said the incoming class includes 

a record 21 Presidential Scholars, 

students who possess well-above-average 

ACT scores and high school grade 

point averages. She also pointed out that 

the university received more than 1,000 

applications for the first time. 

“We introduced new recruitment 

marketing material, enhanced the Web 

site for recruiting purposes and launched 

e-mail campaigns,” Myrick said of the 

university’s admission efforts. “We had 

a concerted application campaign for the 

first time and that definitely made a difference.” 

The U of O student body includes 

students from 21 states, 18 countries and 

48 counties throughout Arkansas. A total 

of 349 students are from Arkansas, followed 

by Texas (130), Oklahoma (24) 

and Missouri (8). 

Among the new employees at U of O for the 2008-2009 academic year are (front row, 

from left) Lori McBee, development officer for athletics; Dr. Heather McFarland, 

assistant professor of speech; Sasha Edwards, housekeeping; Charlotte Teague, 

housekeeping; Janet Stover, housekeeping; Andrea Insley, housekeeping; Monica 

McClure, housekeeping; Jennie Ballinger, access services librarian; (back row, from 

left) Martha Baldwin, admission counselor; Blake Rexroat, admission data coordinator; 

Rodnie Bohannon, residence hall director and activities advisor; Amber Willard, 

admission counselor for Walker Teacher Education Program; Brett Stone, assistant 

professor of physical education; Harvey Cowell, grounds keeper; Dr. Joel Hagaman, 

assistant professor of psychology; Joseph Leos, grounds keeper; Shaun Wiseman, 

men’s and women’s tennis coach; Bryan Drotar, women’s soccer coach; and Caleb 

Chrisman, grounds keeper. 

19.6 

Percentage of 

alumni giving for 

the 2007-08 fiscal 

year, an increase over the previous 

year’s mark of 18.8 percent and the 

highest since 2004-05. A total of 665 

alumni donated to the university. 

The university hopes to increase that 

number this year. If you would like to 

donate, please call the Alumni Office 

at 479-979-1234. 

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Number of chartered 

student organizations 

for the 2008-09 

academic year, an all-time high for 

student organizations. Among the 

newer student organizations are the 

Ozarks History Club, Fellowship 

of Christian Athletes, SCM (for 

strategic communication majors), 

the Ozarks Recreation Club and the 

Ozarks Ultimate Frisbee Club. 

1,003 

Total number of applications for 

admission received by the Admission 

Office last year, an all-time high. By 

comparison, 797 applications were 

received the previous year. 

9.3 

The average number 

of rebounds per game 

last year by Lady 

Eagles basketball player Olivia 

Fisher. The 5-foot-9 senior from 

Mountain Home, Ark., led the 

American Southwest Conference 

in rebounds during her junior 

season last year. She has 593 career 

rebounds, just 14 shy of breaking 

into the program’s top 10 career 

rebounding list. The program’s top 

career rebounder is Alicia Haney 

(1990-94), who has 892 rebounds. 


Briefs 

Dr. William Eakin, professor of philosophy 

and German, often explores issues of 

philosophical inquiry in an imaginative way 

through his genre fiction (some 70 professionally 

published short stories). In 2008, 

he questioned what it means to be human 

through the animation of a fake mummy 

(a manikin wrapped up in knee bandages) 

in his story “LOOB,” currently appearing 

in Albedo One (issue 34, 2008), one of 

Ireland’s most prominent science fiction 

magazines. His story “Bob and the Mermaid,” 

which analyzes desire and commitment, 

was sold to Realms of Fantasy, one 

of the biggest magazines in that genre in the 

U.S. (available on newsstands sometime in 

2009). He also sold stories to a number of 

anthologies, including New Writings in the 

Fantastic #2, forthcoming from the U.K. 

The U of O Students in Free Enterprise 

(SIFE) team took first place in the 2008 

Walgreens Wrangle Case Competition 

held in Magnolia, Ark., in November. The 

group included (front row, from left) Claudia 

Aguero, Daniela Chavarria, Marivi, 

Davila, (back row, from left) advisor Eric 

Leon, Zach Almager, Jorge Linares, Josue 

Lanza and Juan Paz. There were 12 SIFE 

teams competing, including Louisiana 

State University, the University of Arkansas, 

and the University of Alabama. 

Dr. Brian McFarland, assistant professor 

of chemistry, gave an oral presentation at 

the Spring 2008 American Chemical Society 

meeting in New Orleans. Dr. McFarland’s 

paper was titled, “Microencapsulation 

of Free-Radical Initiators and their Use 

in Frontal Polymerization.” Students Alissa 

Ferrari and Jessica Reed accompanied him 

and each gave poster presentations. 

Tammy Harrington, associate professor 

of art, recently had an artwork accepted to 

be part of the 2009 Arkansas Artist Engagement 

Calendar. Artists from or living in Arkansas 

were invited to submit one artwork 

to this competition. The title of her work is 

“Oriental Princess II,” and it is an intaglio 

print. The calendar is a project of the Arkansas 

Governor’s Mansion Association and 

Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe. 

Dr. Kendrick Prewitt, associate professor 

of English, and Dr. David Strain, professor 

of English and French and the chair 

of the Humanities and Fine Arts Division, 

presented papers at the southwest regional 

meeting of the Conference on Christianity 

and Literature in early October 2008 at 

Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, 

Okla. The title of Dr. Prewitt’s paper was 

“Richard Wilbur Calls Us to the Things of 

This World. Wilbur’s Materiality.” The title 

of Dr. Strain’s paper was “Doubting Doubt: 

Materiality in Richard Wilbur’s ’A Dubious 

Night.’ ” 

Dr. Robert Hilton, business and management 

professor and chair of the Division of 

Business, Communications and Government, 

was recently elected as vice chair on 

the board of directors of the International 

Assembly for Collegiate Business Education 

(IACBE). Hilton, who has taught at U 

of O since 1984, will serve as the IACBE 

board’s vice chair for 2008-2009 before 

stepping up to take the chair’s position during 

the 2009-2010 term. His three-year term 

expires in 2011. 

Dr. George Stone, chair of the Division of 

Education, was invited to present a paper at 

the 20th annual Oxford Round Table held at 

Pembroke College in Oxford, England, in 

August. Dr. Stone’s paper was titled “John 

Ozarks hosted the annual meeting of 

the presidents and administrators of 

the Arkansas Independent Colleges & 

Universities (AICU) on Oct. 19-20. The 

keynote speaker for the AICU meeting 

was U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor. Those pictured 

include (from left) U of O President Dr. 

Rick Niece, Sen. Pryor, U of O First Lady 

Sherée Niece and AICU President E. Kearney 

Deitz. The AICU is made up of the 11 

private colleges and universities throughout 

Arkansas. 

Dewey’s Philosophy of History as a Guide 

to the International Order.” The Round 

Table’s theme was History and International 

Politics: Nations and Empires an Interdisciplinary 

Perspective. Stone, who earned his 

undergraduate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees 

from Southern Illinois University, has 

taught at U of O since 2001. 

Joe Hoing, dean of students since 1985, 

was inducted into the Arkansas Tech 

University Athletic Hall of Distinction in 

November. Hoing was an All American 

offensive lineman for Tech in 1970 before 

having NFL tryouts with the Philadelphia 

Eagles and Houston Oilers. 

Maribeth King, the widow of board of 

trustee member Dr. Ernest King, is recognized 

during the Fall Board of Trustee 

meeting by Dr. Wayne Workman, the chair 

of the board’s nominating committee. Mrs. 

King accepted a plaque honoring Dr. King, 

who was posthumously elected to honorary 

lifetime membership on the board. 


Promise of Excellence Campaign: 

Stability for Ozarks in Uncertain Times 

Can you believe it In less than a 

year, October 28, 2009, to be precise, 

Ozarks will celebrate her 175th birthday! 

There are so many amazing and 

wonderful stories about all the students 

and faculty and staff members who have 

graced this institution. Some of the most 

inspirational are of the people who found 

themselves and Ozarks facing challenges 

that literally threatened our school’s very 

existence. 

The campus at Cane Hill (southwest 

of Fayetteville) burned twice, once as 

part of military action in the Civil War. 

The College was forced to move from 

Cane Hill to Clarksville in 1891 due to 

competition from a relatively 

young, upstart competitor just 

up the road, the University of 

Arkansas. Ozarks’ primary 

administrative and academic 

building, Cumberland Hall, 

burned to the ground in 1935 

(see picture at right). Its replacement, 

the Science Hall 

(later named Hurie Hall), 

which also housed the College’s 

library, suffered devastating 

fires twice. Economic 

and geopolitical challenges 

including depressions, recessions, 

and wars also took 

Ozarks to the brink of oblivion numerous 

times over the years. 

Yet Ozarks overcame all these challenges 

through the sheer determination 

and perseverance of her leaders and the 

members of the campus communities of 

the times. On-campus leadership coming 

from the likes of F.R. Earle (at Cane 

Hill and later at Clarksville), Wylie Lin 

Hurie, Don Davis, “Prof” Smith, J.T. 

Patterson and many others saw the University 

through. Help from off-campus 

champions with very familiar names to 


Ozarks alumni came from near and far in 

difficult times. MacLean, Munger, Seay, 

Mabee, Boreham, and Walton are names 

revered by all friends of Ozarks, as is the 

generosity of all those who, according to 

their ability, gave what they could to protect 

the school and her students through 

thick and thin. 

Now the University again finds itself 

buffeted by the economic turmoil 

raging in America and around the globe. 

Yet, for the first time in its long history, 

Ozarks finds herself facing such a serious 

threat from a more stable starting 

point. Make no mistake, Ozarks will 

have to react effectively to the difficult 

times, but it means that the University is 

in a much better position to cope with 

such threats. 

Between the risks to Ozarks in the 

past and the threats of today there remains 

a constant key to Ozarks’ avoidance 

of the dangers posed by hard times. 

That key is the continuing philanthropic 

support of all those who have pooled 

their efforts and their gifts, great and 

small, to build Ozarks into the shining 

beacon of educational opportunity she 

represents today. To date, for instance, 

in the University’s current $40 million 

Promise of Excellence Campaign, your 

combined gifts have totaled $33.4 million. 

Thank you so much! 

We know, above all, that the same 

economic problems that threaten Ozarks 

threaten you. Indeed, it would be disrespectful 

in the extreme to ask you to 

do more (not that we would 

decline if you wanted to). We 

simply ask that you first do 

whatever you need to protect 

you and yours in these difficult 

times. Then, if you have any 

flexibility and are so inclined, 

do what you can in continued 

support of the young men and 

women seeking to achieve 

their educational dreams 

against the uncertain economic 

backdrop that they and their 

families face as well. 

If you are able and want 

to lend your support through 

gifts to the Annual Scholarship Fund, a 

new or existing endowment, or for anything 

else, simply mail a gift to the University 

of the Ozarks Office of Advancement, 

415 N. College Ave., Clarksville, 

AR 72830. You may also reach us by 

phone at 479-979-1230, or by email at 

uopromise@ozarks.edu. 

If now is not a good time, please continue 

to send your thoughts and prayers 

for our students’ success. They don’t 

cost a thing and they make a tremendous 

difference here!

There are numerous ways to help Ozarks 

“I wish I could do more to help Ozarks.” 

Those are words that accompany so 

many of the gifts we receive. Every gift, 

whether large or small, simple or complex, 

will help Ozarks reach its goal of $40 Million 

for the Promise of Excellence Campaign. 

The truth is that there are dozens 

of ways to “do more” for Ozarks’ future 

– if gifts are carefully planned. The need 

for careful planning becomes clear when 

people consider the basic questions involved 

in making an important gift: What 

should I give How should I give When 

should I give Are there special purposes 

my gift should accomplish 

What should I give 

Surprisingly, there are different tax 

results from giving different types of 

property. Even in these financially troubled 

times, some people still have highly 

appreciated securities. If stocks have been 

owned more than one year, then donors 

can deduct not just their original costs, 

but also any “paper profit” present in the 

gift. Best of all, no capital gains taxes are 

due when you give securities. Real estate, 

mutual funds, and other types of property 

offer the same advantages. At death, it 

makes sense to leave “tax-burdened” assets, 

such as U.S. savings bonds and death 

benefits from retirement accounts to charities, 

thus allowing heirs to avoid income 

and death taxes. Or, if you qualify, make 

a gift directly from your IRA and avoid 

income tax on that amount entirely. 

How should I give 

You might want to join our many 

friends who have helped Ozarks through 

bequests – gifts through their wills or 

living trusts. You also could choose to 

make a gift that reserves lifetime income 

to you or a family member. Ozarks would 

benefit in the same manner as if you had 

made a bequest, but you would be entitled 

to charitable deductions and other 

tax benefits today. Or you may prefer 

the simplicity of an immediate gift of 

cash or property. By tailoring the form 

of your gift to fit your personal situation, 

you can gain maximum tax rewards, 

maintain financial security and make a 

truly meaningful contribution. 

When should I give 

Many people plan gifts at year-end 

to provide important tax deductions. Or 

they may find charitable contributions 

most helpful in years when they have a 

large influx of taxable income, from a 

bonus, sale of a business, successful investment, 

or inheritance of taxable assets 

such as savings bonds or IRAs. Large 

deductions are often available even if 

you retain lifetime income from your 

gift. But the most practical time to make 

significant gifts may be through your 

estate plan, by means of a will, living 

trust, or beneficiary designation on a life 

insurance policy or retirement account. 

Such gifts are wholly revocable while 

you are alive, may save significant taxes 

for your estate, and if you let us know of 

your intentions, your gift may even help 

us reach our goal for the Promise of Excellence 

Campaign. 

Are there special purposes my gift 

should accomplish 

Your support should be carefully 

planned to assure your personal satisfaction. 

Your gift can be established as a 

memorial to a loved one. You may want 

to earmark your gift for a particular program 

or purpose, or simply say that your 

gift may be applied wherever the need is 

greatest. 

We invite you to explore with us the 

many sides of your own planned giving, 

the meaning your personal philanthropy 

can have for both you and Ozarks, and 

how your planned giving can help Ozarks 

reach its goal for the Promise of Excellence 

Campaign. Please contact Andrea 

Dixon, Director of Major and Planned 

Giving at 479-979-1230 or adixon@ 

ozarks.edu for more information. 

Deferred gifts benefit 

current campaign 

We have passed the halfway 

mark of the Promise of Excellence 

Campaign at University of the 

Ozarks, and we are fortunate to be 

able to include deferred gifts in reaching 

our campaign goal, even though 

these gifts may not be realized until 

well after the end of the campaign on 

March 31, 2011. 

If you have planned a gift for 

Ozarks through your will, trust or other 

estate planning vehicle and you let 

us know about it, your gift can have 

an impact on this campaign. If you 

are thinking about making a planned 

gift to Ozarks, know that your gift can 

make a difference in our campaign 

and in the lives of the students that it 

supports today and in the future. 

Please contact Andrea Dixon, 

Director of Major and Planned Giving, 

at 479-979-1230 or adixon@ 

ozarks.edu for more information. 


According to the Small Business Administration, 

approximately 650,000 new small businesses are 

created each year in the U.S. Yet a full one-third of those do not survive more than 

two years. It takes a person of creativity, resourcefulness, high-energy and business 

savvy to be a successful entrepreneur. We found several of them. 

Ivan Quant ’98 

Mr. Lee and Cocina de Doña Haydee Restaurants 

Ivan Quant credits a creativity course he took at Ozarks in 1997 taught by Business Professor Dr. Randy Hilton and Communications 

Professor Dr. Jane Cater for sparking his entrepreneurial spirit. “The course made me think out of the box 

in terms of how to approach the consumer to offer value,” said Quant. “When your business concept offers more value 

than others, then the business will develop easily. But to get to that point, you have to be creative. If you are just following or 

copying what the leader does, it will never take off.” Quant and his family own seven restaurants in the Nicaragua capital of 

Managua. Under the company name ERQ, the Quant family owns four Mr. Lee establishments --- a Chinese fast-food restaurant 

concept that operates in food courts — and three Cocina de Doña Haydee’s — a sit-down Nicaraguan food restaurant 

named for his grandmother, whose cooking skills inspired the family to get into the food business. The company employs 

about 115 people. Quant, who went on to earn an MBA from Kennesaw State University after graduating from Ozarks, serves 

as the operations manager of ERQ and directs all aspects of operations, policies, acquisitions and investments. Quant worked 

for several multinational companies in Nicaragua before getting into his own business. “I worked for companies where policies 

and bureaucracies many times matter more than value creation,” he said. “I like the opportunity to deliver quick responses 

to my customers’ demands.” Quant said ERQ plans to expand into other Central American countries in the near future. “The 

worst thing you can do as a small business owner is get too comfortable,” Quant said. “You have to always be searching for 

ways to improve and stay ahead.” 


That EntrepreneurialSpirit 

Dr. Johnny Dillard ’70 

Central Research 

Zach Boatright ’04 

D.Jones Tailored Collection 

Dr. Johnny Dillard is a disabled veteran, and he is 

proud to give other disabled veterans an opportunity 

to work. Dillard and his son, Scott, founded 

the Northwest-Arkansas-based business Central Research in 

1999. The business, which employs about 20 people, provides 

a wide variety of administrative and financial services, 

including judgement recovery, investigative services, record 

management and administrative support. Central Research is 

currently working with several companies that work for the 

U.S. Department of Education. These companies are looking 

for individuals who have defaulted on student loans. Central 

Research helps locate these individuals, specifically those 

who are deceased or incarcerated. “We confirm that they are 

either deceased or incarcerated so that they can be taken off 

the U.S. Department of Education’s default list,” said Dillard, 

who earned a Ph.D. in education from Southwest University. 

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Dillard retired from active duty 

with the National Guard in 1995 as a lieutenant colonel. In 

the 1990s he was diagnosed with exposure to Agent Orange, 

which he contacted during his tour in Southeast Asia. As a 

100 percent disabled veteran himself, Dillard emphasizes the 

hiring of disabled veterans and currently has about 10 employed 

in his business. Central Research was recently given 

a certificate of appreciation from the American Legion in 

recognition of its employment of workers with disabilities. “I 

served 24 years in the military, and I have a special place in 

my heart for veterans and veterans with disabilities,” Dillard 

said. “There is so much discrimination these days in the 

workforce. We’re not a charity organization, but if a disabled 

veteran is able to do the work, we’d love to have them. We 

hold them to the same standards as everyone else in the business, 

and they haven’t let us down.” 

Zach Boatright may be one of the university’s best 

dressed young alumni. Boatright is the vice president 

and a partner in D.Jones Tailored Collection, a 

two-year-old Dallas-Fort Worth-based business that offers 

custom-tailored suits at a fraction of what they would cost in 

stores. With founding partner Drew Jones, Boatright purchases 

high-end fabric, such as wool and silk, from Italy and 

utilizes from 4-10 tailors in China, to produce luxury suits 

for customers in the Metroplex area and beyond. Custommade 

100 percent wool or wool blend suits that can cost 

upwards of $1,500 off the rack are sold for $325, or $280 for 

college students. The concept was created to focus on college 

students or recent graduates. “There are businesses out there 

that do something similar, but the things that set us apart 

are, first, the price, second, the personal attention we offer, 

and third, that we focus on college students,” said Boatright. 

“Our goal was to make luxury suits available to the average 

college student.” Even though most of the marketing efforts 

have focused on college students — the company sold 20 

suits to one fraternity at Texas Christian University in October 

— about 60 percent of their business comes from the 

professional workplace. They sell an average 15-20 suits a 

month, but Boatright said the company just began concerted 

marketing efforts this past summer. “We want to get our 

college business up much higher, and that’s going to be our 

focus and our niche,” he said. “A lot of time college students 

don’t know the difference between a custom-made suit and 

one off the rack, so part of what we do is to educate them on 

the difference in quality and fit. We want to give them an opportunity 

to afford a nice suit or two for college functions or 

when they start going out for interviews.” More information 

on the business can be found at www.djonescollection.com. 



Otto J. Mejia ’00 

Otto J. Mejia L. Fotografía 

Otto Mejia’s love for photography started at Ozarks 

when he worked as a student worker in the university’s 

Public Relations Office. “The opportunity to 

do real assignments, work with good equipment and see my 

photographs displayed in print or on the Web site was a very 

good feeling,” he said. “That’s when my interest in photography 

really took off.” Mejia has turned his photography hobby 

into a thriving part-time business, Otto J. Meija L. Fotografía, 

in his home country of Nicaragua. While Mejia’s full-time 

job is as the Nicaragua manager for the Atlanta-based healthcare 

marketing company DrTango, his photography business 

is where his passion is. Out of a small home studio, Mejia 

photographs everything from weddings to portraits and 

products. He has numerous magazine covers, print advertisements 

and billboards in his ever-expanding portfolio. One of 

the aspects of photography that Mejia enjoys the most is the 

planning and setting up of the shoot. “I tend to get very technical 

on my shoots, and I try to challenge myself with new 

angles, composition and lighting positions,” he said. “There 

is a special feeling when you review the shot on the camera’s 

LCD and realize that you’ve just nailed it.” Ironically, Mejia 

thought he would never get into wedding photography, but 

it has become one of his favorite events to shoot. “I experimented 

shooting weddings with a photojournalist style, and it 

worked,” he said. “It turned out that I really liked the experience, 

and people liked my style and the cleanliness of the 

details.” Mejia plans to slowly expand the business. “Photography 

is a very interesting and dynamic field where the tools, 

styles and technologies are constantly evolving,” Mejia said. 

“If you are able to stay on top of those changes, there will 

always be plenty of opportunities.” His photography can be 

seen at www.ottomejia.com. 

Matt McCormick ’88 

McCormick’s One Stop 

The sign that hangs above the deli in McCormick’s One 

Stop says everything you need to know about the small 

general store: “Cows May Come and Cows May Go 

But the Bull in This Place Goes on Forever.” Located in tiny 

Harmony, Ark., a few miles north of Clarksville, McCormick’s 

store is a jack-of-all-trades of general stores. Customers can 

buy anything from gasoline and overalls to light bulbs and 

Hamburger Helper. And, there is an impressive collection 

of Coca-Cola memorabilia throughout the store. It is also a 

place where locals gather and shoot the breeze on everything 

from hunting to sports to politics. During deer season it is an 

especially popular place as a check station, processing site 

and gathering place for hunters. “Some people say it’s more 

like a beauty parlor in here,” said McCormick, whose mother, 

Diana McCormick is a program coordinator in the U of O 

Jones Learning Center. “I call it an information center. It’s 

just a good place to come and hang out.” After graduating 

from Ozarks, McCormick spent 10 years working as a store 

manager for Brookshire Grocery in Texas before a yearning to 

return home had him exploring options. Looking for a retailtype 

business to purchase near Clarksville, McCormick looked 

at the store in Harmony several times before finally deciding 

to buy it. “I wasn’t 100 percent sure about it, and I think the 

owners were getting a little irritated with me,” McCormick 

said. “One day I was going out to look at it one more time and 

decided to turn around. I was asking God for a sign on what to 

do, and I stopped at this garage sale. There at the garage sale 

were these booths and tables for sale from an old McDonald’s 

restaurant that were perfect for the store.” Fourteen years later 

the booths and tables are still in the store and McCormick, 

whose house is next door, has found a perfect place for him 

and his wife Jennifer to raise their three children. 



Pat ’73 and Karen Hilton ’80 

Arkansas Trike Center 

Pat Hilton thinks he has the answer for Baby Boomers 

who still want to hit the open road: motorcycle trikes. 

Hilton and his wife Karen (Qualls), a teacher at Lamar 

(Ark.) Junior High School, have owned the Arkansas Trike 

Center in Clarksville since 2006. Trikes are motorcycles that 

have been converted to more stable three-wheel vehicles. 

They are a recent trend in the United States, gaining popularity 

only within the last decade. It is so new, in fact, that there 

are only about six shops in the entire state of Arkansas that 

convert motorcycles to trikes. Owning a small business is 

nothing new for Hilton, who has operated Hilton Machine 

and Tool, Inc., in Clarksville since 1979. He still spends about 

half his time at his machine shop and half his time at his trike 

business, which he runs with his son Josh. Hilton got into 

the trike business when he came across a man in Clarksville 

who was building and selling the vehicles out of his garage. 

He promptly purchased the business and moved it to a larger 

location. “This guy had a small operation, but he was always 

busy, and it just dawned on me that this was the future of 

motorcycles,” Hilton said. “Baby Boomers are getting older 

and nearing retirement, and the trikes are easier to handle, 

and are safer on the roads. There are a lot of people who have 

been riding for years, but they’re getting to the age where 

they can’t hold their bikes up. But they don’t want to give 

up riding, so the trike is the perfect compromise.” Though 

Hilton’s business mainly consists of converting motorcycles 

to trikes, he is also the lone Arkansas dealer for a new factory 

made trike called the Stallion by Thoroughbred Motorsports. 

The Stallion is a sleek, rocket-shaped vehicle with automatic 

transmission that gets almost 50 miles per gallon. The business 

recently moved to a larger location off Interstate-40. The 

Web site is www.arkansastrikecenter.com. 

David Hadidi ’78 

Hadidi Oriental Rug Company 

David Hadidi started out in the real estate business 

in the late 1970s, but the native of Iran was always 

getting requests for Persian rugs. It didn’t take him 

long to realize he might be on to something. “Being from Iran, 

we grew up around the rug business, and we knew quite a bit 

about Persian rugs,” Hadidi said. “People were always asking 

us to get Persian rugs for them. It kind of started out as a hobby 

at first and then it took off.” Hadidi and his brother started 

the rug business in the late 1970s, and they moved into its current 

location on Cantrell Road in Little Rock in 1984. Hadidi 

is now the sole owner of the business, which is the largest of 

its kind in the entire state of Arkansas. This past summer, he 

doubled the size of his business by adding 3,500-square-feet 

of floor-room space to show off the hundreds of rugs he has in 

stock. Hadidi emphasizes honesty, integrity and personal satisfaction 

in his business relationships. He even lets customers 

take rugs home and try them out for a few days. “Little Rock 

is a relatively small city, and Arkansas is a small state, so if 

you’re not selling quality rugs at a good price and if you’re not 

treating people right, word will get out and your business will 

not survive,” he said. “We have to earn their trust and keep 

it. If someone is not 100 percent happy, we take the rug back 

and return their money. We want happy customers.” Hadidi 

is a wholesale direct importer of the hand-made 100 percent 

wool and silk rugs that come from throughout the Middle East 

and Asia. He said about 60 percent of his sales come from 

Arkansas and 40 percent from other states. He works closely 

with interior designers to help customers find the perfect rug 

for houses and businesses. “In this business you have to be up 

on the latest trends in rugs and in interior designs,” he said. 

“A rug is very personal, and it needs to fit the person and the 

room. That’s what we strive for.” 



Debbie Goodman ’80, Jan 

Storment ’81, Doug Bryan ’87 

Family Shoe & Fashion Boutique 

The Bryan siblings --- (pictured, from left) Jan, Bryan 

and Debbie --- grew up working in their family’s shoe 

store, starting out dusting shoes for 50 cents an hour 

and later helping customers. “We didn’t know it at the time, 

but we were learning how to run a business when we were 

10 and 11 years old,” said Jan (Bryan) Storment. “We were 

just expected to help out in the store growing up. It was a lot 

of fun, but it was also great experience.” The shoe store that 

was started by their parents — Travis and Sandra (a 1967 

Ozarks graduate) — in the mid-1970s is now operated by the 

siblings, as well as another store, Fashion Boutique, which 

opened in 1984. The two stores have been successful businesses 

in downtown Clarksville for more than a quarter of 

a century. Both Storment and Debbie (Bryan) Goodman attended 

Ozarks and earned business and teaching degrees, but 

the pull of the family business was too much to resist. “We 

considered teaching careers, but there is something special 

about owning and running your own business,” said Goodman. 

“I really enjoy the selling part of it, and I like people.” 

The siblings agree that fostering relationships with customers 

is the key for a small business to succeed. “People can tell 

when you’re being sincere and when you’re truly interested 

in them,” Storment said. “The best advertising we have is 

word of mouth, so you have to have satisfied and happy 

customers.” Doug Bryan said the thing he enjoys most about 

running a small business is the control. “You don’t have to 

go through numerous channels if you have an idea; you can 

implement it right away,” he said. “You are able to try new 

ideas and get things done quicker. Of course, if things don’t 

work out, there’s no one to blame but yourself.” 

Julie Kersey ’80 

Julie’s Perks 

When you walk into Julie’s Perks in Clarksville, a 

well-coifed friendly Shih Tzu named Dexter is 

there to greet you. And, not far behind is the store’s 

owner, Julie (Ballew) Kersey ’80, who puts an emphasis on 

friendliness. “I’m a people person and owning a small business 

like this fits my personality well,” said Kersey. “I can’t 

think of anything else I’d rather be doing.” Julie’s Perks is 

a small home decor, floral, gourmet food and coffee shop in 

Clarksville. Kersey moved the store from Greenwood, Ark., 

back to her hometown of Clarksville in 2003. “I’d been away 

from Clarksville for 23 years, and it was just time to come 

home,” she said. “I had also been in the insurance business 

for a few years before and hated it. I wanted to get back to 

what I loved and that was owning my own business.” Kersey 

earned a marketing degree from Ozarks, a degree that has 

suited her well in a career based in marketing and retail. She 

served as marketing director of a Fort Smith, Ark., mall for 

several years before deciding to open her own business, one 

of the first coffee bars in the Fort Smith area. “Marketing and 

advertising is so important in business, and my background 

has really helped me,” she said. “You have to be able to get 

your message about your business out to people. If you can’t 

market your business successfully, you’re in big trouble.” 

Growing up around a family of small business owners 

sparked Kersey’s interest in being an entrepreneur at an early 

age. She said she has always enjoyed the creative side of 

owning her own business, and she is able to put that creativity 

to use in running her small gift shop. “There’s no better feeling 

than using your creativity to set up a display area and then 

seeing it pay off with sales,” she said. “I like the one-on-one 

aspect of it as well. When you’re able to give someone what 

they want and they leave happy, it’s a wonderful feeling.” 



Don Ferrier ’74 

Ferrier Custom Homes 

There was a time when Don Ferrier wanted no part of 

the family business. Now Ferrier and his daughters, 

Heather and Lacey, are happily running the soon-tobe-fourth 

generation construction business in Fort Worth, 

Texas. Ferrier has helped continue a family tradition that 

started in 1881 when his great-grandfather immigrated to 

Texas from Scotland to help build the Texas State Capitol. 

Today, Ferrier Custom Homes and Ferrier Builders are successful 

construction companies that service the North Texas 

area. “I had spent every summer and holiday working for my 

family’s construction business, so the last thing I wanted to 

do when I graduated from college was to work there,” Ferrier 

said. But after a couple of years working in the admission office 

at Ozarks, Ferrier returned to the family business. With a 

background in structural concrete, Ferrier soon found himself 

building earth-sheltered homes in Texas using concrete floors, 

walls and roof, a new concept at the time. These homes 

became many of the early generation energy efficient homes. 

Staying abreast of the latest technology, Ferrier helped Ferrier 

Homes become a leader in building energy-efficient, highperformance 

homes over the last 20 years. His company, 

which builds on average 6-8 homes a year, has won numerous 

awards in recent years for energy efficiency. “I got into highperformance 

homes by accident, and the timing was perfect,” 

Ferrier said. “Our homes use about one-third less energy than 

traditional homes, and the extra cost pays for itself in just a 

few years. There’s been a huge shift in the demand for these 

types of homes and we were fortunate to be on the right side 

of the trend.” Ferrier’s daughters work for the business and 

will take it over some day. “They bring a fresh new perspective 

to the business,” he said. “It’s very rewarding to run a 

business with your children and watch them grow with it.” 

David Morgan ’71 

Morgan’s Fashions 

David Morgan didn’t find the clothing business, it 

found him. Morgan and his wife, Deanna, own 

Morgan’s Fashions clothing stores in Clarksville and 

Ozark, Ark. He has been in the clothing business for more 

than 30 years, but it was almost by accident that it happened. 

Morgan worked for an insurance company after graduating 

with a business degree from Ozarks, but he knew he eventually 

wanted to own his own business. “I just always saw 

me working for myself, and I knew I wanted to make that 

happen,” he said. “I just wasn’t sure what kind of business it 

would be. I really struggled with ideas of what to open.” At 

the urging of friends and family who said Clarksville needed 

a clothing store, Morgan jumped in and opened the store in 

the mid-1970s. “I knew very little about running a business 

and even less about running a clothing store, but I did have 

friends in the business who I could call for advice,” Morgan 

said. “I was like a rat running through a maze, eventually he 

finds an opening. That was me in those first few years. I think 

a lot of it was just instincts.” The Morgans do everything they 

can to keep up with the latest fashions and trends for their 

store, which sells higher-end men’s and women’s clothing. 

“We go to trade shows and major markets, see what people 

are wearing on TV, read magazines to see what celebrities are 

wearing; just anything we can do to try and keep ahead of the 

trends,” Morgan said. “You have to use every means possible 

to know what people are wearing now and what they will 

be wearing in the near future. The learning process is neverending.” 

Morgan said the key to operating a successful small 

business is having the drive. “Many people don’t realize how 

demanding it can be and the long hours it requires, but it can 

also be very rewarding,” he said. “You have to have the drive 

and energy to make it work.” 



Successful business owners share common traits 

Growing up, I had the opportunity 

to watch my grandfather, 

the late John Plugge, operate 

Plugge Brothers General Store in Hartman, 

Arkansas, and my parents, John 

and Estella Hilton, operate Hilton Motor 

Company and Jamestown Fina Station. 

In addition, I observed my aunts 

and uncles operate a number of small 

family businesses in the area, including 

Hilton Coal Company, Inc., and Clarksville 

Parts Wholesale. 

After I returned to Clarksville in 

1984, my brother, Randy, and I started 

Hot Hits Dance Company, a DJ business 

which we operated for 23 ½ years. This 

past year, I helped my wife, Dayna, start 

her company, Firehouse Dog Publishing, 

LLC, through which we sell children’s 

fire safety books and audio books featuring 

our Dalmatian, Sparkles, the fire 

safety dog. 

As a young child, I thought all parents 

owned a family business. When I 

learned otherwise, I realized just how 

lucky I was. Each day after school I 

could not wait to spend time at my parents’ 

business helping out in whatever 

way I could. 

My primary motivation for attending 

college was to help my parents operate 

their business. As a senior at Clarksville 

High School, I spent many hours with 

the late Dr. James W. Perrett, Chairman 

of the Division of Business Administration 

at the University of the Ozarks, 

discussing how a college degree would 

help me achieve my plans for eventually 

operating my parents’ business. 

While in college, I wrote several papers 

on leadership. It was then that I first 

began to study the characteristics of successful 

entrepreneurs. Fortunately, I was 

in the unique position to not only study 

entrepreneurs, but also to observe and 

interact with them on a daily basis. 

The following are my top 10 characteristics 

of a successful entrepreneur, 

based on my personal observations and 

experiences. 

(1) The most important characteristic 

of an entrepreneur, in my judgment, is 

the ability to identify and satisfy unmet 

customer needs. An entrepreneur is very 

creative, having the ability to identify 

customer needs before others and being 

able to attract the necessary resources 

to satisfy those needs. The late entrepreneur, 

Ray Kroc, of the McDonald’s 

Corporation is a perfect example of an 

entrepreneur who performed this function 

very well. 

(2) An entrepreneur is a risk taker, often 

mortgaging property, taking on debt, 

and using available savings to supply the 

products necessary to satisfy customers. 

An entrepreneur has an opportunity not 

only to earn a profit, but to suffer a loss 

as a result of taking the risk. Yet, despite 

the known risks, the entrepreneur acts on 

the idea and does not quit. The late Walt 

Disney, who failed in business several 

times before successfully launching Disneyland, 

is the epitome of a risk taker. 

(3) Possessing an extremely high energy 

level and always being “on” when 

at the business or in public is another 

entrepreneurial characteristic. Generally 

positive, on the move, and happy to 

meet people, the entrepreneur works at a 

very rapid tempo and “sets the pace” for 

the entire company. My late uncle, Leo 

Wiederkehr of Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, 

Inc., taught me this important lesson. 

(4) An entrepreneur has stamina and is 

generally in good health. Often working 

long hours and refusing to get sick 

accurately describes my dad. He could 

not take time off from work for illness 

because the work had to get done. An entrepreneur 

rarely takes time away from 

the business since there is often no replacement 

for the leader. My dad never 

missed a day of work due to illness; he 

was always there. 

(5) The entrepreneur knows the importance 

of repeat business and has a good 

understanding of the 80/20 rule. That is, 

80% of sales are derived from 20% of 



the customer base. Therefore, it is very 

important to identify and take care of 

the 20%. After graduation from UCA, I 

worked for an area community bank. On 

my first day of employment, the CEO 

asked me if I understood the 80/20 principle 

and how I thought it applied to his 

bank. We then discussed the 20% of his 

customer base that I needed to focus my 

efforts on at the bank. It was a lesson that 

I will never forget. 

Robert Hilton holds up a cut out poster of 

his wife Dayna that is used to promote her 

new book, Sparkles the Fire Safety Dog. 

The book has sold more than 8,000 copies 

and is the first to be published under the 

Hilton’s new company, Firehouse Dog 

Publishing, LLC. 

(6) Focusing on people, especially customers, 

is very important. An entrepreneur 

loves to play, joke, and spend time 

in the presence of others. Part entertainer, 

the entrepreneur understands that the 

business is not only a place to buy and 

sell products — it is a social institution 

where the needs of the heart and soul are 

also satisfied. An entrepreneur has the 

ability to make the person in his or her 

presence feel very special. As a teenager, 

I loved watching my mother perform 

this role as she interacted with our customers. 

She had a way of making them 

feel very special, which drew a number 

of our customers back to the business every 

single day. 

(7) As a leader, the entrepreneur avoids 

restrictive and coercive motivation 

tactics, acting as a coach and spending 

much time managing by walking 

around. Gathering information, training 

employees, offering feedback, and gaining 

the respect of others is what successful 

entrepreneurs do. An entrepreneur 

understands that happy employees are 

very good for business and sales. Dr. 

John L. Green, founder of the International 

Assembly for Collegiate Business 

Education (IACBE) and the Association 

of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs 

(ACBSP), effectively uses this 

leadership style. 

(8) Inspiring confidence in others is an 

important entrepreneurial role. A visceral 

feeling of greatness surrounds the entrepreneur, 

who is passionate about the 

people, the products, and the company. 

Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest 

Airlines, is one of my favorite examples 

of an entrepreneur performing 

this role. 

(9) An entrepreneur is extremely competitive, 

possessing much product 

knowledge and using that information 

to quickly solve customer problems to 

generate sales. Competing to win over a 

customer’s business motivates the entrepreneur, 

and ultimately, the entire sales 

organization. I have always admired the 

competitive nature of the late Roland S. 

“Rollie” Boreham, Jr. of Baldor Electric 

Company and his entrepreneurial spirit. 

Ozarks business professors and brothers 

Dr. Robert (left) and Dr. Randy Hilton had 

their own DJ business, Hot Hits Dance 

Company, for 23 years. 

(10) Lastly, an entrepreneur possesses 

the emotional stability to handle complex 

situations as they arise. Exercising 

self-control, remaining disciplined in a 

crisis situation, and letting data drive the 

decision-making process is important to 

the entrepreneur. Jerry Gagnon, of Gagnon 

Sports in Toronto, personifies this 

trait at his hunting goods store. 

As a teacher, some of my favorite 

conversations are with those students 

who have also grown up in a family 

business. I love hearing their personal 

stories. 

On a personal level, my experience 

is with small family enterprises. What I 

love about them is that the “family” and 

the “business” are often indistinguishable. 

Such was the case in my own family, 

which left its own indelible mark on 

my professional interests. I know, from 

first-hand experience, how small businesses 

affect the family in ways that 

only a business can. The idea of everyone 

pulling together to accomplish a 

common goal means much more when 

it’s family. The closeness within a family 

because of the business is something that 

cannot be replaced. I have watched and 

learned many valuable lessons through 

my experiences in the family business. 

Today, I am lucky enough to share those 

lessons with my students so they may 

benefit from them as well. 


1950s 

Donald Marts ’51 and his wife 

Patricia of Clarksville celebrated their 

50th wedding anniversary on July 24, 

2008. They are previous owners of the 

Herald-Democrat newspaper in Clarksville. 

Several alumni recently attended 

the Clarksville High School 55-year 

reunion. They included Sue (Patterson) 

Pine ’57, Rusty Ratliff ’58, Joanne 

(Willett) Taylor ’60, Lorraine (Darnell) 

Belote ’56, Robert Ed Farris ’57, 

Bud Horne ’57, Truman Owens ’58 

and Charles Callahan ’58. 

Several U of O alumnae took part in or 

attended the wedding of Andrea (Dewey) 

DeVault ’05 (center) and Will DeVault on 

Sept. 13, 2008, in Farmington, Ark. The 

Ozarks group included Lindsey McCuen 

’05, Melanie Barrier ’05, Chelsea Joslin 

’08, Becky Stengal ’05, Kayci (Rockwell) 

Haberer ’05, Regan Brown ’07, Miranda 

White ’04, Shelly Muston ’05, Jeanne 

(Randall) Hale ’07, Holly Cornell ’04, 

Coumba Peterson ’05, Leigh (Thompson) 

Ledbetter ’04, and Katie Shay ’05. The 

DeVaults live in Prairie Grove, Ark., and 

Andrea works for Lindsey & Associates in 

Fayetteville. 


1960s 

E.L Jacobs ’60 and Dorothy 

(Armstrong) Jacobs ’64 of Paris, Ark., 

celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary 

in August with family and friends. 

They were married on Aug. 29, 1958. 

She is retired after a 35-year teaching 

career, and he is retired from a career as 

owner-operator of Jake’s Full Service 

Phillips 66 and with the Herbst Shoe 

Company. 

T.J. “Jerry” Jones ’61 of Harrison, 

Ark., was honored for his volunteerism 

during the 31st annual Arkansas Community 

Service Awards in July. Jones, 

who helped found Arkansas Freightways 

(now FedEx Freight), was also the 

recipient of the 2008 Individual Community 

Service Award by the Harrison 

Chamber of Commerce. Jones has been 

active in the Salvation Army, American 

Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and 

Share and Care. 

Phil Collins ’65 was featured in an 

article in an August edition of the Russellville, 

Ark., newspaper The Courier 

for entering his 43rd year of coaching 

football in Arkansas. He was the head 

coach at Western Yell County in 2008. 

Collins, a former standout football 

player at Ozarks, previously coached at 

Pottsville, Dardanelle and Russellville. 

Hartzell Jones ’66 is the deputy 

superintendent for personnel for the 

Springdale (Ark.) School District. He 

was recently named Personnel Administrator 

of the Year for 2008 by the Arkansas 

Association of School Personnel 

Administrators. He oversees the work 

of approximately 2,000 employees. 

1970s 

David McDonald ’72 is the administrator 

for the Arkansas State Office 

for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired. 

McDonald said he first got interested in 

deaf education when he was a student at 

Ozarks in 1970, and a professor, Gilbert 

Parks, introduced him to Parks’ father, 

who worked for the Arkansas School 

Hole in the Wall Gang 

2009 Reunion 

There will be a reunion for the 

Hole in the Wall Gang on July3- 

4, 2009, in Clarksville. For more 

information, please contact David 

Lasater ’75 at 479-754-2550, 

479-214-0763 or dlasater@agent. 

shelterinsurance.com. 

for the Deaf in Little Rock. “That led 

me to a degree in deaf education,” he 

said. “I have Professor Parks to thank 

for a wonderful career.” McDonald 

taught at the Florida School for the Deaf 

in the 1970s. 

Sue (Crouse) Endsley ’75 was featured 

in a recent Dallas-area newspaper 

for her efforts in organizing a fundraising 

walk in Flower Mound, Texas, 

in November to support the American 

Foundation for Suicide Prevention. 

Endsley, whose son Ryan committed 

suicide in 2000, is active in the national 

organization Out of the Darkness, which 

offers support to families of those who 

have taken their own lives. Sue and 

husband Steven Endsley ’74 live in 

Highland Village, Texas. 

Fernando Rivera ’03 and Maria Jose Rodriguez 

’02 were married on May 31, 2008, 

in El Salvador, where the couple resides. 

Fernando said, “Life is definitely full of 

surprises. When we were at Ozarks, Maria 

and I were simply good friends. Now we 

are married and happier than ever!”

1980s 

Steve Crotts ’85 married Donette 

Wilkins on Oct. 23, 2008, in Eureka 

Springs, Ark. The Crotts live in Lamar, 

Ark., where Steve is a farmer. 

John Hays ’89 is living in Hope, 

Ark., where he is executive vice president 

for First National Bancshares. He 

and his wife, Tonja, have two children, 

Luker and Helen, and are expecting a 

third. 

1990s 

Shannon Fawcett ’91 was recently 

named the new events coordinator for 

the Bost Foundation in Fort Smith, Ark. 

She previously served as the Northwest 

Arkansas Division Director for the 

March of Dimes. 

Tricia Hoeffer ’91 is living in Tulsa, 

Okla., where she is a store manager 

for Sprint. 

Cylla Dugan ’96 gave birth to a 

baby girl, Emily Shae, on June 20, 

2008. Emily has two sisters, Brittany 

Several alumni took part in a Graduate 

School Panel held during Family 

Weekend in October. Those who shared 

their graduate and professional school 

experiences were (from left) Andi Davis 

’2000, an attorney in Hot Springs, Ark.; 

Dr. Jose Aldana ’99, a research associate 

at the University of Arkansas; Brittney 

Flinn ’08, a law student at the University 

of Arkansas; Blake Rexroat ’06, a graduate 

student at Arkansas Tech University; 

Alissa Ferrari ’08, a pharmacy student 

at the University of Arkansas for Medical 

Sciences; Jeremey Bernard ’03, director of 

coaching at the Westside YMCA; and Julie 

(Richardson) Bernard ’03, director of student 

organizations and university events at 

the University of Central Arkansas. 

and Ashleigh. 

Dyanna (Smith) Yarbro ’96 and 

husband Lance moved from Huntsville, 

Ark., to Monett, Mo., in August. Along 

with being a stay-at-home mother for 

her son, England, Dyanna created a 

line of Christian clothing and products 

called Inspired Designs. Her Web site is 

www.IDtshirtsNow.com. 

Samantha (Snyder) Carpenter ’97 

and husband Jeff welcomed a baby girl, 

Cora Stone, to the family on Aug. 8, 

2008. Cora has twin brothers, Clay and 

Owen. 

Lori (Myers) Hines ’97 recently 

became the head girl’s basketball 

coach at George Walton Academy High 

School in Monroe, Ga. She previously 

coached at John Milledge Academy in 

Georgia where her 2007 team finished 

20-7. 

Britt Bauer ’98 recently earned a 

master’s degree in educational leadership 

from Arkansas Tech University. 

He is the principal at Butterfield Junior 

High School in Van Buren, Ark. 

Dr. Angela (Wheeler) Spencer ’98 

and husband Shawn of Edmond, Okla., 

welcomed a baby boy, Waylon Jackson, 

to the family on May 8, 2008. 

Chris Stubbs ’98 and Christy 

(Baker) Stubbs ’98 welcomed a daughter, 

Taylor Grace, to the family on Oct. 

16, 2008. 

Dr. Bryan Bishop ’99 recently 

joined the Fort Smith, Ark., dentistry 

practice of Dr. Stan Udouj & Associates. 

Bishop graduated with honors 

from the University of Tennessee 

College of Dentistry. He and his wife, 

Christy, have one son, Brayden Scott. 

The Bishops live in Alma, Ark. 

Porsha (Wright) Russell ’99 and 

husband Jason welcomed a daughter, 

Mattie Marie, to the family on July 7, 

2008. 

2000s 

Jacqueline (Janson) Presley ’00 is 

living in Fayetteville, Ark., where she 

is a bankruptcy counselor for Credit 

Victoria Sayarath ’06 married Dustin 

Seaton in Little Rock on Aug. 8, 2008 at 

the Legacy Hotel. The Seatons live in Little 

Rock where Victoria is in pharmacy school 

at the University of Arkansas for Medical 

Sciences (UAMS). 

Counseling of Arkansas. She and husband 

Spencer are expecting their first 

child in the spring. 

Matt Young ’01 is the principal 

at R.E. Baker Elementary school in 

Bentonville, Ark. He recently helped the 

school dedicate a new playground. 

Tonya Bell ’02 is living in Perry, 

Ark., where she is a direct service 

professional for Perry County Day 

Services. She serves as an instructor 

for developmentally disabled adults. 

She and her husband have two children, 

Ra’Lyn and Jaric. 

Blake Kent ’02 is living in Searcy, 

Ark., where he owns and operates an oil 

company, Mid-State Services. He and 

his wife, Georgia, have one son. 

Harley Sinor ’02 and wife Amberlee 

of Clarksville welcomed a daughter, 

Scarlett Irene, to the family on Aug. 22, 

2008. Scarlett has a sister and brother, 

Shiann and Cash. 

Samantha (Wood) Armstrong ’03 

and husband Scott of Clarksville welcomed 

a son, Sean Mason, to the family 

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on July 9, 2008. Sean has one sister, 

Erica. 

Maria Fernanda “Mafer” Reyna 

’03 married Ian Eadie recently in Spain. 

They are living in London, England, 

where she is an energy procurement 

analyst. 

Ricky Johnson ’03 is living in Dallas 

where he is a supervisor for Henry 

Schein Inc., a pharmaceuticals company. 

John Cooper ’04 recently took a 

job as video production specialist for 

university relations at the University of 

Arkansas in Fayetteville. He shoots and 

edits video for the university. 

Rachael (Marble) Schluterman 

’04 is a stay-at-home mom for daughter 

Katie in Fort Smith, Ark. She and her 

husband, Adam, are expecting another 

child in January. 

Erin (Yancey) Rowbotham ’05 

and husband Klay of Lamar, Ark., 

welcomed son Issac Terry to the family 

on July 28, 2008. Erin works for Phil 

Taylor Insurance in Clarksville. 

Kari Pridgin ’05 of Ozark, Ark., 

earned a master’s degree in instructional 

technology from Arkansas Tech University 

in December. She is teaching math 

at Ozark Middle School. 

John Burgess ’06 married Brittany 

Gideon on July 26, 2008, in Orange 

Beach, Ala. He works as an independent 

petroleum land manager for numerous 

oil and gas companies. The Burgesses 

live in Longview, Texas, with Brittany’s 

daughter Hallie. John writes that they 

are all avid sports fans, following the 

Houston Astros and Dallas Cowboys. 

India Judd ’06 is living in Seattle 

where she works as a marketing executive 

for Calee Marketing. She trains 

marketing executives for the firm, 

located in downtown Seattle. 

Jared Gordon ’07 married Heather 

Lucy Waldo, the daughter of Mark and 

Chivon (Cogan) Waldo ’03, will celebrate 

her first birthday on Dec. 10, 2008. 

Barr on June 21, 2008, in Puerto Rico. 

The Gordons live in Plano, Texas. 

Judith (Stacks) Little ’07 and Matt 

Little ’05 welcomed a son, Clayton 

James, to the family on May 1, 2008. 

The Littles live in Clarksville. 

Stay In Touch! 

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Welcomed a new addition to the family Or maybe you just 

haven’t been in contact with classmates in a few years. We want 

to know what is going on in your life so that we can share it with 

your fellow classmates in the Today magazine. Send class notes 

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Six to receive 

Alumni Awards 

The U of O Alumni Association 

will present its annual alumni awards 

to six people during Alumni Weekend 

2009, scheduled for April 17-18. 

The Alumni Achievement Award 

will go to Dr. Fletcher Lowry ’52 

of Conway, Ark. The Alumni Merit 

Award will go to Freddia Jean Sullivent 

’91 of Alma, Ark. The Young 

Alumni Service Award will be presented 

to Trillian ’99 of New York City. 

And the Alumni Legacy Award will 

be given to David Rawhouser ’69 of 

Arlington, Texas; Joanne (Willett) 

Taylor ’60 of Clarksville; and Kathryn 

Wright ’58 of Baytown, Texas. 

The Alumni Office is currently accepting 

nominations for next year’s 

awards. If you would like to nominate 

someone, please contact the Alumni 

Office at 479-979-1234. 

David Pridgin ’07 has relocated to 

Haysville, Kan., where he is employed 

by Occidental Petroleum of Wichita, 

Kan. Occidental Petroleum Corporation 

is an international oil and gas exploration 

and production company, as well 

as a major North American chemical 

manufacturer. 

Jose Aguilar ’08 is working as an 

account and financial manager for Auto- 

Excel in Honduras. 

Dennel Burke ’08 is living in 

Texarkana, Texas, where she is a dental 

assistant with Denzer-Burke DDS. 

Maria Christina Calderon ’08 is 

living in Fayetteville, Ark., where she 

is a store manager for Abercrombie & 

Fitch. 

Maria Duarte ’08 and Marlon 

Clair Sharp ’08 are both working as 


Hines named Arkansas’ Mr. Bass 

Robert Hines ’06 shocked the 

state’s tournament fishing community 

when he captured the 2008 Mr. Bass 

of Arkansas title in his rookie year on 

the fishing circuit. 

Hines, of Little Rock, won the 

prestigious title by amassing the most 

points on the Mr. Bass of Arkansas 

tournament circuit, which ended in 

July. He finished the year with 413 

points, 40 points ahead of the secondplace 

finisher. 

“Being a rookie, I really didn’t 

know what to expect this year, so I had 

very few expectations,” said Hines, 

who works at Arkansas Rod and Reel 

in Little Rock. “I didn’t have the pressure 

of expectations, and I was able to 

sneak up on people. I have to admit 

that I surprised myself. I went from 

never fishing a pro-am tournament to 

winning an entire series. I had a fortunate 

year.” 

One of the highlights of the year 

for Hines was reeling in a monster 

largemouth bass that weighed 9.27 

pounds in a tournament on Lake Millwood 

in southern Arkansas. It was 

part of a storybook rookie season for 

Hines, who said he’s been fishing 

since he was 2 or 3 years old. 

“As long as I can remember, I’ve 

had a rod in my hand,” said Hines, 

who received a gold, jewel-studded 

ring for winning the Mr. Bass title. 

“I’ve worked in fishing stores and 

guided fishing trips for most of my 

life, so I’ve always wondered how I 

would do in tournament fishing. But it 

still surprised me to do so well in my 

first year.” 

Ronnie Everett, president of Mr. 

Bass of Arkansas, said Hines surprised 

a lot of other people as well. 

“Nobody knew who this kid was,” 

Everett told the Northwest Arkansas 

Times newspaper. “He was just smok- 

Robert Hines holds up the 9.27 pound 

largemouth he caught in a fishing tournament 

this past summer. Hines won the 

prestigious Mr. Bass of Arkansas title 

for 2008. 

ing them. He didn’t win by just a little, 

either. He beat them by 20 or 30 points. 

He came out of nowhere.” 

Hines majored in business at 

Ozarks and had planned to go into the 

investment field. A downturn in the 

economy put those plans on hold and 

spurred his attempt at tournament fishing. 

“I knew if I was ever going to do 

it, this was the time,” he said. “My 

wife (Cheri) has been very supportive, 

and so I jumped in and gave it a try.” 

Hines hasn’t ruled out the possibility 

of trying his hand at professional 

fishing. 

“That’s a big step, but it’s something 

I’ve thought about,” he said. 

“Winning the Mr. Bass title has definitely 

given me the confidence that I 

can compete. I love to fish and there 

would be nothing better than making a 

living fishing.” 


manager trainees for the professional 

services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers 

in Honduras. 

Russell Davis ’08 is working in 

Austin, Texas, as an agency leasing 

broker for Transwestern, a commercial 

real estate company. 

Jeana Feazel ’08 is living in Coon 

Rapids, Iowa, where she is a resort 

manager for Whiterock Conservancy, a 

5,000-acre, non-profit land trust in west 

central Iowa. 

Robby Finnell ’08 is working as 

an adult protective services specialist 

for the State of Oklahoma. He investigates 

neglect, exploitation and abuse of 

adults. 

Robin Jennings ‘08 and Richard 

Humphreys of Clarksville welcomed a 

baby boy, Jack Anderson, to the family 

on Aug. 27, 2008. 

Enyinnaya “K.Z.” Inyama ’08 is 

working as a manager trainee for Edward 

Jones in San Antonio, Texas. 

Michelle Linares ’08 is working as 

a teacher in La Ceiba, Honduras. 

Clint McHenry ’08 and Andrea 

(Mitchell) McHenry ’08 are living 

in Tulsa, Okla., where she works as a 

teacher and he works for Enterprise. 

Several former men’s basketball players returned to compete in the Alumni Basketball 

Game on Oct. 18. Those included (from left ) Habeeb Kareem ’08, Reggie Brasfield ’04, 

Josh Joyner ’06, Michael Bollman ’04, Isaac Middlebrooks ’05, David Hamilton ’06, 

Ryan Marshall ’01, Geoff Owens ’04, Ricky Johnson ’03, Scott McCall ’07, Brad Johnson 

’06, David Pridgin ’07, Jacob Sibley ’06, Andre Webster ’98, and Bo Martin ’08. 

David Ray ’08 was busy during the 

summer and early fall working for the 

National Republican Party as a campaign 

aide in senatorial races in Louisiana, 

Mississippi and Georgia. 

Luis Sanchez ’08 is living in Chihuahua, 

Mexico, where he is a development 

and new projects manager for a 

company. 

Fidel Samour ’08 is working in 

Little Rock, Ark., as a project coordinator 

at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. 

Samantha Whitten ’08 is in graduate 

school and working as a graduate 

assistant at the University of Arkansas 

Sociology Department. 

Jonathan Vire ’10 and Savannah 

Keith ’10 were married July 12, 2008, 

in Lamar, Ark. The Vires live in Lamar 

and are students at U of O. 

Porchia, Gonzalez named to Sports Hall 

Smooth-shooting basketball player 

Anthony Porchia ’93 and high-scoring 

soccer standout Marcos Gonzalez ’01 

will be inducted into the U of O Sports 

Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Saturday, 

Feb 14, in Mabee Gymnasium. 

Porchia played for the Eagles from 

1989-93 and is the program’s second 

all-time leading scorer (1,671 points) 

and career leader in three-pointers 

(241). He was an All-Arkansas Intercollegiate 

Conference (AIC) selection 

in 1992 and 1993 and was named to the 

AIC All-Freshman team in 1990. 

Porchia was also named All-NAIA 

District 17 after helping the Eagles to a 

23-9 record and a spot in the national 


tournament during the 1992-93 season. 

Gonzalez was a four-year standout 

for the Eagles’ soccer program from 

1998-2001. Many consider him one of 

the pioneers in helping build the Eagles’ 

soccer program. The Eagles were 5-13-1 

in the year before he arrived on campus 

and 50-27-5 in his four years at Ozarks. 

A native of Georgetown, Texas, 

Marcos still holds school career records 

in assists (45), points (149) and shots attempted 

(367) and is second on the career 

list in goals (52). 

He also holds the school record for 

assists in a game with 8 against Rhema 

Bible College in 2001, which is also an 

NCAA record. His 66 points, 20 goals 

Gonzalez 

Porchia 

and 26 assists during the 2001 season 

are also all single-season school records. 

He was a four-time All-ASC East 

first-team selection and was named an 

NSCAA All-Region selection and ASC 

Offensive Player of the Year in 2001.


The Earle Society 

Named in honor of Dr. F.R. Earle 

who served as president of both 

Cane Hill College and Arkansas 

Cumberland College. The Earle 

Society recognizes donors who 

have a lifetime giving record of $1 

million or more to the University. 

An asterisk indicates someone who 

is deceased. 

Arkansas’ Independent Colleges & 

Universities 

*Roland and Judith Boreham, Jr. 

Roland S. Boreham, Jr. Living Trust 

*Alvin C. Broyles ’41 and Joan DeVee 

Dixon Broyles 

Frank P. Collins Estate 

Otha H. Grimes Foundation 

The Harvey & Bernice Jones Charitable 

Trust 

J.E. & L.E. Mabee Foundation, Inc. 

Vera M. Pfeffer Trust 

*Melba Spellmeyer Seay 

The Seay Foundation 


Mary Anne and Don Shula 

*Jackson T. Stephens 

*Willard and Pat Walker 

Willard and Pat Walker Charitable 

Foundation 

*Helen Robson Walton 

Walton Family Charitable Support 

Foundation, Inc. 

Walton Family Foundation, Inc. 

Helen R. Walton 1987 Non-Qualified 

Charitable Remainder Trust 

Sam M. Walton 1987 Non-Qualified 

Charitable Remainder Trust 

T. L. Smith Society 

Professor T.L. Smith, much beloved 

former professor at Ozarks, 

is honored by this giving club. 

T.L. Smith Society members 

have a lifetime giving record of 

$100,000-$999,999. An asterisk indicates 

someone who is deceased. 

William L. Abernathy Charitable Lead Trust 

Alumni Association, U of O 

ARAMARK Corporation, Coppell, TX 

*Richard and Katherene Bagwell 

Baldor Electric Company, Fort Smith, AR 

David Banks ’60 

*Charles C. and *Nadine E. Baum 

Nadine E. and Charles C. Baum Estate 

Jean and *Everett Berry 

*R. K. Black 

Lee Bodenhamer 

*Margaret Boone 

*Sally McSpadden Boreham 

Alvin C. Broyles Estate 

*Victor and Alice Cary 

W. F. Catlett Trust 

H.A. & Mary K. Chapman Charitable Trust 

John Joseph Conrad Trust 

Pearl H. Crickard Trust 

Jean Daniel 

William and Marian Dawson 

The Dial Corporation, Phoenix, AZ 

Margaret Bost Douglass ’41 

Bebe and Tom Dunnicliffe Charitable Trust 

*Fontaine R. Earle 

ExxonMobil Foundation 

First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Ponca City, OK 

Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc. 

Estate of Bettis A. Garside

A.H. Gould Irrevocable Trust 

Estate of Arch Gould 

Estate of George M. Green 

*W. Wallace Greene 

*Catherine Haigwood ’33 

HAR-BER Village Foundation 

William Randolph Hearst Foundation 

Estate of Louise Ann Redus Hobbs 

*Dorothea Hutcheson 

Estate of Hazel Johnson 

Roy and *Nancy Johnson 

Peggy Bort Jones 

*W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41 and Maribeth King 

Luella Langenberg Estate 

*James Lewis ’41 and Marie Baskin 

Lewis ’41 

Jessie M. Long Trust 

Helen McElree 

*Ada Parks Mills ’33 and *Joe Mills ’32 

*Flois Dickerson Miracle ’25 

James Hayden Moore Estate 

*John and Mary Nichols 

Rick and Sherée Niece 

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc. 

*Lillian Norberg 

*Vera M. Pfeffer 

The Procter & Gamble Fund 

R. L. and Nancy Qualls 

Estate of Margaret Ayleen Ragland 

Regions Bank 

Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, Inc. 

Estate of James T. Rhea 

Mary I. Rogers Trust 

Melba Spellmeyer Seay Trust 

Mary Elizabeth Vaughan Shipley Trust 

May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust 

Wilmer C. & Velma M. Smith Trust 

James and Gladeen Struthers 

The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable & 

Educational Trust 

Synod of the Sun, Denton, TX 

John and Evie Tate 

Ashley and Eleanor Thomas 

Estate of Edison T. Tingley 

Tulsa Royalties Company 

Estate of Edith B. Vaughan 

Juanita Farris Vaughn 

Wal-Mart Foundation 

*John T. Walton 

Whitson Morgan Motor Company, 

Clarksville AR 

Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty 

Bush Workman 

Ed Dell Wortz 

The Legacy Society 

The Legacy Society honors 

donors who have made plans for 

University of the Ozarks through 

deferred gifts and estate planning. 

An asterisk indicates someone who 

is deceased. 

*Cora E. Adkins 

*Stanley Applegate, Jr. 

*Richard and Katherene Bagwell 

*Carol Barnes Joyce and 

*Scevoy D. Barnes 

Joe M. Barron 

*O. Edward Basham ’31 

*L. Ray Bates 

*Charles C. and *Nadine E. Baum 

Arvid Bean ’78 

*Raymond Bean 

Margaret Glenn Fraley Beaver ’71 

*Effie Pierson Becker 

*James C. Bell ’37 

Jean Berry 

Robbie Blakemore 

*John E. Bock ’49 

Bob Bohl ’58 and Judy Capshaw Bohl ’61 

Judith Peavy Boreham 

*Roland S. Boreham, Jr. 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King Bost ’43 

*Edna Ralston Bowman ’28 

*Henry M. Britt 

*Alvin C. Broyles ’41 

*Rhea Butler ’31 

Don Chappell ’72 

Bruce Clinesmith 

Jerry Coffee ’60 

*Frank P. Collins 

*Joseph Conrad ’39 

Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and Chad Cox ’98 

Opal Huff Farris Cox 

William Cravens, Jr. 

William L. Cravens 

*Orion A. Daniel, Sr. 

Wallace Dobbins ’40 and *Carolyn 

Bush Dobbins ’42 

James Dorman ’57 and Anna 

Blackard Dorman ’58 

*Martha Farmer Drake ’33 

*Fontaine R. Earle 

William Eddington ’55 

Steve and Dorinda Edmisten 

Maxine Manuel Eggensperger ’41 

Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Blackard 

Ehren ’71 

*Allen S. Ellsworth 

*Georgia Stoker Ellsworth ’32 

Susan Smith Epperson ’62 

*Gladys Ruth Farmer ’37 

*Sue Nell Taylor Farris ’53 

Gary Frala ’80 

John Frost ’89 

*Margaret White Fry 

*Bettis A. Garside 

*Anne Gould 

*Arch Gould ’24 

*George M. Green 

*W. Wallace Greene 

Michael Haberer ’76 

*Catherine Haigwood ’33 

Virginia R. Hicks 

*Lois M. Highlester 

*Richard W. Hobbs 

*Katherine House ’41 

*Hazel Johnson 

*Cecil Johnston ’40 

Myra King Johnston ’39 

*Bernice Jones and *Harvey Jones 

*Keith Kennedy 

Polly Taylor Kennon ’46 

*Clio Thompson Kettelhut ’34 

*Basil and *Eva King 

Robert L. King, Jr. 

Will Ladner ’81 

*Luella Langenberg 

Rena Sue Laster ’71 

*George Lee ’36 

*James Lewis ’41 and Marie Baskin 

Lewis ’41 

Keith Lewis 

*James and *Florence Lockhart 

*Jessie Marie Long 

*Albert Looper ’39 and Alene Looper 

William and Eileen McCarthy 

Diana Altes McCormick ’65 



*Bill McCuen ’68 

Vernon McDaniel ’55 

Helen McElree ’47 

*Sarah T. McLane 

*Ada Parks Mills ’33 and *Joe Mills ’32 

*Flois Dickerson Miracle ’25 

*Vivian Misenhimer ’22 

*James H. Moore 

*Elizabeth McCoy Murphy 

*Lucile Lucas Murphy ’33 

*W. Grover Murphy 

*Art Nichols ’35 and Lou Seale 

Nixon Nichols ’35 

Buddy Nichols ’72 

*Maudress Hefner Overstreet ’30 

*Milford Park ’38 and *Laura Waters 

Park ’38 

Tom D. Patterson ’57 

Sara Jane Shertzer Patteson 

Donald Pearsall, Sr. ’51 

Donald Pennington ’68 

*Vera M. and *Eugene Pfeffer 

Reba Pridgin ’81 and David Pridgin ’71 

Robert Quade ’50 and Rita Kaiser Quade 

*M. Ayleen Ragland ’31 

*Alice Ralston 

*F. Willard Ralston ’29 

Leonard and Annemarie Ralston 

David Rawhouser ’69 

*James T. Rhea 

Phillip Richmond ’79 

*Mary I. Rogers 

*Christine Roller 

Fred Romo ’68 and Andrea 

Anderson Romo ’68 

Dorothy Caldwell Salter ’41 

*DuBose Scarborough, Jr. ’35 

*Melba Spellmeyer Seay 

Phyllis Thurman Shaw ’80 

*Richard Shaw 

John and Gwendolen Shell 

*Charles F. Shertzer, Jr. 

*Mary Vaughan Shipley ’42 

Mary Anne Shula 

Edward V. Smith, III 

*Velma Boydstun Smith ’38 

James R. Struthers 

*Garner Taylor, Sr. ’34 

*Mildred Smith Taylor ’37 

*Elizabeth A. Taylor ’34 

Jimmie and Ailene Thames 

Ashley C. and Eleanor Thomas 

*Ernestine H. Thurman-Swartzwelder 

*Edison T. Tingley 

*Robert Turner ’34 

*Roy Ussrey ’30 and *Rosella Ussrey 

*Edith Brunk Vaughan 

Randy Wahlman 

*Mrs. Felix (Ruey Stroud) Weatherly ’30 


Lee White 

Jeanie O’Brien Wiesner ’83 

*James and Juanita Winn 

Donna Manley Wolfe 

Wayne Workman ’44 and Betty Bush 

Workman 

Ed Dell Wortz 

E. Kathryn Wright ’58 

Ralph W. Wygle 

Larry Zehring ’61 

*Virginia Zehring 

The Founders’ Council 

The Founders’ Council honors 

donors who contributed $25,000 

or more to Ozarks during the 

2007-08 fiscal year. Names in bold 

indicate those who have contributed 

for five or more consecutive 

years. An asterisk indicates 

someone who passed away in the 

last year. 

Arkansas’ Independent Colleges & 

Universities 

Basil & Eva Lee King Irrevocable Trust 

Kimberly and Reynold Behrend 

Judy Peavy Boreham 

Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc. 


Estate of Helen R. Walton 

Sue Frueauff 

Bill and Adrienne Hanna 

Hanna Oil and Gas 

Otha H. Grimes Foundation 

Presbyterian Foundation 

David Rawhouser ’69 and Jill Rawhouser 

Roland S. Boreham, Jr. Living Trust 

John and Evie Tate 

Ashley and Eleanor Thomas 

University of Arkansas Foundation, Inc. 

Alice L. Walton 

Walton Family Foundation, Inc. 

Wilfred Ragon Thompson Trust 

Willard and Pat Walker Foundation 

*James and Juanita Winn 


Bush Workman 

E. Kathryn Wright ’58 

The Trustees’ Council 

The Trustees’ Council honors 

donors who contributed $10,000 to 

$24,999 to the University during 

the 2007-08 fiscal year. Names in 

bold indicate those who have contributed 




last year. 

Alumni Association, U of O 


Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones 

Bean ’78 

Doris and Huie Bird 

Lee Bodenhamer 

Judy Borck 

Judith Boreham 

Martha Rice Brewer and Hugh Brewer 

James and Ann Bruning 

Ron and Diane Collins 

Andrea and Jeff Dixon 

Claude Donaldson ’60 

Janet and Frederick Drummond 

Pat Farmer 

Virginia King 

Will Ladner ’81 

Kaye Leonard

Helen McElree ’47 

Heber and Stephen McKissack 

Charlotte E. Miles 

Richard Murray 


Jack T. Patterson ’65 and Lisa Carlton 

Presbytery of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 

Regions Bank, Clarksville, AR 

Rogers Foundation 

John and Gwendolen Shell 

Joanne Willett Taylor ’60 

Louise Taylor ’51 

The Chair’s Council 

The Chair’s Council honors donors 

who contributed $5,000 to 

$9,999 to the University during the 


indicate those who have contributed 




last year. 

Century Tel, Russellville, AR 

Drue Dillard Corbusier 

Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin 

Dillard’s, Inc., Little Rock, AR 


Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center, 

Little Rock, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, 

Clarksville, AR 

Estate of Catherine Haigwood ’33 

Bill Holder ’52 and Jane Wilson 

Holder ’55 

*W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41 and 

Maribeth King 

Richard and Diana Lirtzman 

Nabholz Charitable Foundation 

The Oxley Foundation 

Gilbert Parks, Jr. 

The Presbyterian Foundation of Arkansas 

Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips 

Bob and Colleen Rogers 

Mary Anne and Don Shula 

Spectra Energy Foundation 

James and Gladeen Struthers 

Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann 

Bean Taylor ’72 

Charles and Marlene Tefertiller 

Texas Presbyterian Foundation 

Lou and Wesley Watkins 

Bruce Williams ’43 and Virginia 

Laster Williams ’43 

Ann Woolley 

Ed Dell Wortz 

President’s Council 

The President’s Council honors 

donors who contributed $1,000 to 

$4,999 to the University during the 


indicate those donors who have 

contributed for five or more consecutive 


someone who passed away in 

the last year. 

Bill Alexander ’55 and Linda Alexander 

Chris and Martha Allen 

Arkansas Committee, National Museum of 

Women in the Arts 

Arkansas Valley Electric Co-Op, 

Ozark, AR 

Arkansas Western Gas Company, 

Fayetteville, AR 

Ayco Charitable Foundation 

Bella Vista Community Church, 

Bella Vista, AR 

Jean Berry 

Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn 

Robbie G. Blakemore 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King 

Bost ’43 

Peter and Connie Bradish 

Beverly Bridgman 

Howard Brown, Sr. ’64 

Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 and 

Carroll Bumpers 

Rickey Casey ’79 and Lisa Casey 

Fred and Joan Chapman 

James and Irene Clark 

Frank Cole ’50 

Pat and John Cooper 

Allyn Donaubauer 

Richard P. Dulaney 

Jerry Duncan ’58 and Dorothy Boyd 

Duncan ’58 

E.A. Franklin Charitable Trust 

Julio and Vivian Echegoyen 


Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita 

Blackard Ehren ’71 

Ralph Ehren ’55 and Betty Hodges 

Ehren ’53 

Mary and Walter Elmore 

Robert Farris ’57 and Mary Farris ’58 

Bobby and Anne Fincher 

First Presbyterian Church, Camden, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City, 


Stillwater, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Van Buren, AR 

First Security Bank, Clarksville, AR 

Jennifer Fisher ’93 

Michael and Toni Fisher 

Robert Fox ’96 

John Frost ’89 and Julia Frost 

Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks 

Richard Gaston ’94 and Carrie Gaston 

Paula and Roger Glasgow 

Pete and Nancy Grant 

James T., Karen, Leslie, and Amy Graves 

John Paul Hammerschmidt 

Hanesbrands Inc., Clarksville, AR 

Bettye Hansen ’60 and Dwaine Hansen 

Harmony Presbyterian Church, 


Wilma Harris ’03 and Edward Harris ’75 



Virginia R. Hicks 

Maura Figliulo Howerton ’80 

Doyne Hudson ’51 and Betty Hudson 

JJG Lands LLC, Clarksville, AR 

Doug Jeffries 

Brad and Sue Johnson 

*Norma M. Johnson 

Jones Learning Center, Clarksville, AR 

Hoyt Kerr 

Blaine and Jolie Leeds 

Mira Ann Ingram Leister ’63 and 

Marvin C. Leister, Jr. 

Harold and Mary Lewis 

Marie Baskin Lewis ’41 

Cole and Carol Martin 

Dan and Linda Martin 

Edith McChesney 

James and Ruby McNeese 

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation 

James Miller ’82 and Melanie 

Davis Miller ’83 

Minden Presbyterian Church, Minden, LA 

Kim Myrick and Daniel Hinkle 

Buddy Nichols ’72 and Patsy Nichols 

Lewis H. Niece 

J. Albert Nitche ’66 and June 

Shea Nitche 

Mary Tom Mills O’Bar ’54 and 

Clyde O’Bar 

Tommy and Judy Parker 

Pfizer Foundation 

Eileen Taylor Pitts ’29 

Danny J. Poirier 

Mike and Susie Powell 

Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, AR 

Presbyterian Women’s Association, 



Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, Hot 

Springs Village, AR 


R. E. Lee Wilson Trusts 

William Rader, Jr. ’42 and Birdie Rader 

William Rail ’52 and Maxine Phillips 

Rail ’52 

Leonard and Annemarie Ralston 

Doris E. Ramsey 

Rebsamen Insurance Foundation 

George Reece ’83 

Jerry Rice ’53 and Myra Ann Rice 

Doyle and Raye Rogers 

Fred Romo ’68 and Andrea Anderson 

Romo ’68 

Stephen Rowe ’90 

Farren Sadler ’51 and Grace Pourron 

Sadler ’53 

Jeff and Amy Scaccia 

Dawn J.M. and Gary Scarborough ’82 

Second Presbyterian Church, 


George and Mary Sissel 

Mike and Fran Smith 

Alice Souchek Charitable Trust 

Elizabeth Quaile Spanke ’34 

State Farm Companies Foundation 

Gene and Lynda Stephenson 

Tom and Sammie Stephenson 

Ross Stricker ’78 

Bruce and Mary Lou Swinburne 

Daniel and Ann Taddie 

Sarah C. Talley 

The Trull Foundation 

Penn Thomas ’83 and Toby Colvett 

Thomas ’83 

University of the Ozarks Women 

Vanguard Charitable Endowment 

Audrey Jane Walton 

Jim and Lynne Walton 

Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and 

William Watson 

Whirlpool Foundation 

Larry White ’75 and Diane White 

Lee and Mary Margaret White 

Roger and Kathy Willard 

Sidney and Elizabeth Williams 

The University Club 

The University Club honors donors 

who contributed $500 to 

$999 to the University during the 


indicate donors who have contributed 


years. An asterisk indicates someone 

who passed away in the last 

year. 

Danny Aquilar ’90 and Jennifer Aquilar 

Arkansas Best Corporation, Fort Smith, AR 

Arkansas Community Foundation 

Bill Aydelott ’53 and Bettye Masterson 

Aydelott ’55 

Ball Corporation, Broomfield, CO 

Bank of America Foundation 

Margaret B. Batie 

Beard Charitable Foundation Trust 

Steven Bogler ’74 

William and Elizabeth Branch 

Jerry Bridges ’78 

John W. Cargile ’61 

Jane and Brent Cater 

Central Presbyterian Church, 

Russellville, AR 

ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX 

Louise Cook 

Opal Huff Farris Cox 

Richard and Martha Daniel 

John Davis ’64 and Jane Davis 

Stewart and Nadine Dippel 

Janet and Charles Doak 

Andrej Dolenc 

William Eddington ’55 and Charlotte 

Felkins Eddington ’56 

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation 

Judith Englehart 

John and Marge Figliulo 

First Presbyterian Church, Arlington, TX 

First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, OK 

First United Presbyterian Church, 


Stephen and Laurie Fisher 

Orville Fletcher ’58 and Carol Fletcher 

Charles and Debbie Foster 

Robert Fulton, II ’42 and Carol Fulton

Judd Giezentanner ’55 and Priscilla 

Giezentanner 

Maggie Gilliam 

Bill Grashoff ’75 and Crista Grashoff 

Griffin Food Company, Muskogee, OK 

Roiselle Green Grim ’53 

Lonnie Hardgrave ’50 and Dorothy 

Atkinson Hardgrave 

William and Melinda Holder 

Vanessa and Robert Hollowell 

IBM International Foundation 

Hal and Yvonne Jackson 

David King ’54 and Patricia 

Hathaway King ’81 

Corbet and Verna Lamkin 

Ron Laster ’64 and Maribeth Laster 

Fletcher Lowry ’52 and Jo Nell Alsip 

Lowry ’52 

Teri Marciniak 

Joe Marler ’60 and Joyce Wilson 

Marler ’59 

Charlie and Nell New 

Garry Niece 

Office Tech 2000, Russellville, AR 

Rick and Dora Otto 

Ann Patterson ’75 and Max Snowden 

Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc., 


Shirley Plugge 

Presbyterian Women of West Jersey, 

Cherry Hill, NJ 

Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3, 

Tulsa, OK 

Prudential Foundation 

L. Mark and Jody Ralston 

Betty Ann Eustice Riley ’49 

Noel Rowbotham ’61 and Charlotte 

Woodard Rowbotham ’63 

William Shipman ’50 and Beth Shipman 

Simmons First Bank, Clarksville, AR 

Edward and Nikki Smith 

Louise Poynor Spanke ’36 

Trillian ’99 

Eloise Stewart 

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) 

Freddia Sullivent ’91 and 

Tommy Sullivent 

The Presbyterian Church of Pryor, OK 

Shonda Walters ’04 and Mark Walters 

John Wells ’78 and Michele Wells 

Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie Tipton 

Williams ’81 

Doug and Bet Wise 

Nancy Reifsteck Wise ’54 

George Wyers ’57 and Frances Wyers 

Carol Yandell 

Larry Zehring ’61 and Annette Lee 

Zehring ’63 

The Centennial Club 

The Centennial Club honors 

donors who contributed $100 to 

$499 to the University during the 

2007-08 fiscal year. Names in 

bold indicate donors who have 

contributed for five or more consecutive 


someone who passed away 

in the last year. 

Shawn Adams ’02 and Jennifer 

Goodwin Adams ’04 

Advanced Micro Devices 

Kendra E. Akin-Jones ’01 

Elizabeth Rowland Anderson ’72 and 

King Anderson 

Wilda Anderson 

Gearldean Andreas 

Robert Arbaugh ’37 

Arby’s, Clarksville, AR 

Sherrie Arey 

Aquilar Foot Care Clinic, Russellville, AR 

Tiffany Armstrong ’07 

Arvid Bean Insurance Agency Inc., 

Fort Smith, AR 

Steve Askins ’05 and Marian Askins 

Richard Averwater ’85 

Terry Avery ’67 and Carolynn Cook 

Avery ’68 

Martha Holden Bagley ’57 

Howard Benjamin Bailey ’86 

Joseph Baker ’69 and Marge Baker 

Bill Ballard ’56 and Juanita Ballard 

L. B. “Yarb” Ballard ’58 and Ruth 

Ann Ballard 

Bank of the Ozarks, Clarksville, AR 

David Bawden ’88 

Eddie Bean ’68 and Georgia Reynolds 

Bean ’72 

Wayne Benbow ’65 and Mary Trotter 

Benbow ’64 

Sylvester Benson ’67 and Patsy Day 

Benson ’65 

Beta Sigma Phi “Laureate Kappa 

PI 1089” 

Thomas Biery 

Brenson Bishop ’81 and Mary Reehm 

Bishop ’79 

Bryan Bishop ’95 and Christy Bishop 

Lauren Bishop ’05 

O. G. Blackard ’50 and Juanita Acord 

Blackard ’51 

Robert Blanchard ’50 and Judith Blanchard 

Fred Blankenship ’50 and Elsie 

Blankenship 

Ruth Price Bodey ’53 and Richard Bodey 

Peggy Boerstler 

Christopher Boettcher 

Carl Bogard ’39 and Alice Hollowell 

Bogard ’39 

Oscar and Lilia Bonnevie 

Katherine Boone ’93 

Connie and Michael Booty 

Don and Rebecca Bostwick 

Elaine G. Boyer 

Gary Bradley ’84 and Linda Bradley ’84 

Len Bradley 

David Brane ’69 

Cleveland Branscum ’63 and Barbara 

Haynes Branscum ’63 

Deborah Braswell 

Elmer and Jody Braswell 

Bill Brewster 

Dean Bright ’87 and Donna Yates 

Bright ’87 

Keith and Marilyn Brill 

James Brooke ’69 and Rae Walters 

Brooke ’71 

Alan Brooke ’72 and Janis Chandler Brooke 

Gerald and Sharla Broussard 

Randy and Linda Broussard 

Robert and Patricia Broussard 

Everett and Frances Buck 

Joanne Austin Bunch ’76 

Wade and Sarah Burnside 

Ted Butler ’60 and Claudia Butler 

Tim and Karen Caldwell 

Joe Dan and Johnnie Calvin 

Bruce and Christie Cameron 

Bruce and Frances Cameron 

Mike Cantrell 

William and Pamela Caroscio 

Terry and Janie Carson 

Robert Carter 

William Cartwright ’51 

Linda Cawthorn 

Shari Caywood 

Cecil Hardware, Clarksville, AR 

Bob Chance ’69 and Mary Ann Becker 

Chance ’69 

Don Chappell ’72 and Janie Krohn 

Chappell ’73 

Chapter “CJ” P.E.O. Sisterhood 

Chapter “Q” P.E.O. 

Nicholas and Margaret Chipponeri 

Clarksville Cinema, Clarksville, AR 

Clarksville Sign Works, Clarksville, AR 

Frank Clemmons ’53 and Carolyn 

Clemmons 

Comfort Inn, Clarksville, AR 

Michael Compher ’99 and Ann Compher 

John Coppic ’49 and Alice Coppic 

Jose and Rosenda Coria 



Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and Chad Cox ’98 

Curran’s Abstract and Title, Clarksville, AR 

Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, 

Fort Smith, AR 

Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 

Jeffrey DeBuhr 

Celia Decker ’62 and John Decker 

Juanita Taylor Deeds ’34 

Deltic Timber Corporation, El Dorado, AR 

Betty Wesson Denny 

Donald Depriest ’62 and Clara Dufek 

Depriest ’63 

Richard DeSalvo ’50 and Cecilia DeSalvo 

Joseph Devenas, Sr. 

R. Louis Dewett ’57 and Mary B. 

Holloway Dewett ’58 

Milton Dexheimer ’72 

Richard and Marilynn Dietz 

Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard 

Frank and Kimberly Divis 

K. O. and Carolyn Dixon 

Lady Bug Doherty 

Ralph Downward ’45 and 

Bernice Downward 

Kenneth and Marian Drahos 

Jim and Cheryl Driedric 

Maria Denise Duarte Noguera ’08 

Daniel Duncan ’84 and Glenda Duncan 

Anna Figliulo Dunker ’87 and Curt Dunker 

Cleveland and Edna Dyess 

Chris and Melanie Earnhardt 

Jack Edens ’55 and Sharon Edens 

Laura Hill Ehren ’56 

Donny Ellison 

Bruce Elmore 

Steven Endsley ’74 and Susan 

Crouse Endsley ’75 

Erica Eneks ’08 

Katrina Labude Erwin ’78 and 

Bill Erwin 

Erwin T. Koch Charitable Trust 

Glenda Varnell Ezell ’90 

Family Shoe Store, Clarksville, AR 

Walter and Cely Faster 

David Field ’69 and Shelia Field 

Martin and Gloria Figliulo 

Mary Figliulo 

Michael Figliulo ’87 and Marva Figliulo 

First Presbyterian Church, Dardanelle, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Jonesboro, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Searcy, AR 


Springdale, AR 

Betty Sallis Fiser ’45 and James Fiser 

John and Sue Fisher 

Judy and David Fletcher 

Keith Fletcher 

Cara Rowbotham Flinn ’85 

Bonnie Johnson Flint ’39 and Dudley Flint 

Al, Betty and Cindy Flynt 

Jim Forkner ’54 and Joyce Graf 

Forkner ’57 

John and Sylvia Fougeron 

Fountains at Canterbury, 

Oklahoma City, OK 

Gary Frala ’80 and Laura Jenkins Frala ’92 

David and Jean Frazier 

Wilma York Frisque ’60 

Richard, Barbara, and Andrew Fulton 

Courtney and JoAnn Furman 

J. C. Juan Gabriel ’05 

Kenneth and Joan Gates 

General Mills Foundation 

Joel Gibbons ’57 and Sue Gibbons 

Robert Gibson ’76 and Glenda Gibson 

George Miles Gilliam ’85 

George and Sarah Gilmour 

James Glidewell ’69 

Lawson and Judith Glover 

James Goodson ’65 

Scott and Carolyn Gordon 

*Ann Davidson McKinney Goza ’69 

Grace Presbyterian Church, Grove, OK 

Greenbrier Creek Animal Hospital, 


Robert Greene ’50 and Betty Greene 

William T. Grimstead 

Daniel and Ana Gudahl 

Steve and Margaret Gundale 

John and Harvene Gustafson 

Homer and Eudora Haber 

William Hadley ’62 

James and Ann Halligan 

Quintos Hamilton ’51 and Betty 

Hamilton 

Hampton Inn, Clarksville, AR 

Lois Woodward Hansen ’34 

Robert and Polly Hardin 

Winston Hardin ’51 

Patricia Harmon ’94 

Ed Harrington ’56 and Janet Graf 

Harrington ’58 

Bob Harrison ’50 

Harvest Food Market, Inc., Clarksville, AR 

Jack Haynes ’53 and Joan Haynes 

Harlen Helker ’54 and Grace Helker 

Christine P. Henderson 

Dion and Carrie Henson 

Dani and Gerald Hermesmeyer 

Robert Maury Hightower ’64 

Mollie Hightower-Barnum 

Nancy McCabe Hill ’85 and Troy Hill 

Ike Hill, Jr. ’68 and Cheryl Hill 

John and Estella Hilton 

Helen Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 and Forrest 

Hoeffer ’65 

Ricky Hogan 

John Holder ’90 

John Hollowell ’44 and Evelyn 

Crutcher Hollowell ’45 

William Hopper ’63 and Nancy Hopper 

L. D. Horn ’52 

Rena and Joe Howe 

Hoyle’s Walkin’ Western, Clarksville, AR 

Claude and Mary Hughes 

James Hurley ’49 and Patricia Davis 

Hurley ’49 

Frank Hyde ’52 and Polly Hyde 

Mitsuko Ichinose ’68 

Douglas Inman ’58 

Jeff Inness ’98 and Lisa Gruben Inness ’93 


Seksan Inswang ’81 

Larry Isch 

Jeff Jackson ’01 

E. Jacobs ’60 and Dorothy Armstrong 

Jacobs ’64 

Joe Bill James ’49 and Sunshine James 

Dale Jefferson ’37 

W. C. and Barbara Jetton 

Joco Java, Clarksville, AR 

Peggy Johns ’82 

Brandon Johnson ’97 and April Johnson 

Beth Coulter Johnson ’74 and Tim Johnson 

Johnny and Robin Johnson 

Kay Johnson ’77 and Don Johnson 

Mary Ragon Johnson ’37 

Mildred Owens Johnson ’79 

Phyllis Johnson 

Ruben Johnson, Sr. ’52 and Charlotte 

Newsom Johnson ’69 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. Johnston 

Myra King Johnston ’39 

Cliff and Holly Jones 

Pamela Shrigley Jones ’71 

Bill Jones ’50 and Bettye Jones 

Becky Steele Jorgensen ’74 

Chris Judd ’02 

India Judd ’06 

Joe Alfred Keeling ’43 and Frines Keeling 

Howell Keeter 

Dorothy Carlisle Kelly ’51 and 

James Kelly 

Evelyn Kelly ’55 

Betty Shaffer Kendall ’56 

Gippa King Kendall ’47 and 

Harold Kendall 

Polly Taylor Kennon ’46 

Rolland and Lorna Kerr 

Phillip and Leslie Killgore 

*Burley King ’40 and Billie Burnett 

King ’40 

Robert King 

Charles D. Klahr 

Verna Brown Kness ’43 

Ruth R. Knote 

John and Marilyn Koch 

Glenn and Anna Koepp 

Jana Wills Kolb ’80 and Mike Kolb 

Frances Koza 

Kraft Employee Involvement Programs 

Richard Kruse ’63 

Ralph and Trini Lares 

Lee Laster ’58 and Darlene Laster 

Neil and Burnis Leavens 

Peter Leer ’90 and Barbara Leer 

Andrew Lester 

Charles Liston ’65 and Elizabeth Liston 

Ruth Longman ’72 and Gary Longman 

Virgil and Marie Luke 

William Lyons ’54 

Dr. and Mrs. Albert D. MacDade 

Greta Rowbotham Marlow ’84 and 

Jeff Marlow 

Larry Marshall ’67 and Lois Marshall 

Jetta Martin 

Carl Mashburn ’69 and Sherry 

Mashburn 

Greg and Kay Massey 

Master Printing, Clarksville, AR 

Sam Matthews, Jr. ’73 and Nancy Ott 

Matthews 

S. Walton Maurras 

Mazzio’s Pizza, Clarksville, AR 

Tina and Bryan McCain 

Lee and Joanie Mills McCleskey 

Diana Altes McCormick ’65 

John McCown ’62 and Martha Vera 

Kenneth McFerran ’63 and Bernice 

McFerran 

Richard and Sondra McKelvey 

Jocelyn E. McKinney 

Ruth Eddins McNeilly ’42 

Henry McNight ’93 and Gladys 

McNight ’93 

Michael Meadors and Pat Meadors 

Delores Metcalf-Morrell ’65 and Barry 

Morrell 

A. Delbert Mickel, Jr. 

Microsoft Giving Campaign 

Creighton and Jeannie Miller 

Eleanor Long Miller ’44 

Mida Figliulo Milligan ’86 and Billy 

Milligan 

Linda Moncrief 

Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and Charles 

Mooney 

Geraldine King Morgan ’52 

Morgan’s Fashions, Clarksville, AR 

Lera Blackburn Morris ’40 

EmmaLee and Brian Morrow 

Jennifer Morton ’98 

Virginia Mosley 

Robert and Alice Mummey 

Timothy and Bari Lynne Mummey 

James Murray ’75 and Debra Murray 

Dick and Sue Neelly 

Trenda Neff ’06 

Kenneth Nelson ’66 and Pansy King 

Nelson ’65 

Ralph Newkirk ’82 

James and Catherine Nichols 

Susie Niece 

Nite Lite, Clarksville, AR 

Florence Smith Norris ’35 

Charles W. Oates ’50 and Jean Oates 

Occidental Petroleum Charitable 

Foundation 

John and Betsy O’Connor 

Oklahoma State University Foundation 

Hugh Overholt ’55 and Laura Overholt 

Deborah and Laron Owens 

Glenda Dennis Owens ’71 and 

Steve Owens 

Fernando and Steff Padilla 

Ann Park ’49 

Thomas Park ’49 and Lucy Park 

Eric Parker ’02 

Mary Virginia Hurie Parks ’43 

Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60 

Jay and Bonnie Parrot 

Tom D. Patterson ’57 

Charles Pattison, Sr. ’51 and Frances 

Pattison 

Donald Pearsall, Sr. ’51 and Barbara 

Pearsall 

Morris W. Pearson ’53 

Baker Peebles ’52 and Edith Peebles 

Don Pennington ’68 

Joshua Peppas ’00 and Kelli Peppas 

Reed Perryman ’51 and Anita Woolf 

Perryman ’54 

Jean and Malcolm Peters 

Michael Phelps ’71 and Gail Shanabrook 

Phelps ’78 



John Phillips, III 

Joyce Phillips 

Wanda Phillips 

Jessica Pianalto ’08 

Donald Pitts ’69 

Pizza Hut, Clarksville, AR 

Pizza Pro, Clarksville, AR 

R. Scott Placek 

Diane Pohlmeier ’99 

Bill Porter ’54 and Anna Porter 

Evelyn W. Porter 

Mary Sue Phillips Powers ’60 and Jimmy 

Powers 

Irvin Pratt ’77 and Emma Pratt 

Presbyterian Women, Hot Springs 

Village, AR 

Presbyterian Women of Arkansas 

Presbytery, North Little Rock, AR 

Presbyterian Women of Lake Charles, LA 

Presbyterian Women of Westminster, 

Hot Springs, AR 

Taylor and Mary Prewitt 

James Price ’53 

Robert Pryor ’59 and Virginia Cater 

Pryor ’58 

Charles Puyear ’65 

Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada Mathis 

Qualls ’55 

Anne and Ben Queen 

Quizno’s Subs, Clarksville, AR 

Radio Shack, Clarksville, AR 

Diane Ragsdale 

Richard Rail ’59 and Dianne Bradford 

Rail 

John and Jane Rankin 

John E. and Betty Strauss Reed 

Tabitha Reed ’07 

Ann Richardson 

Gerard Ritchie ’68 and Rebecca Baskin 

Ritchie ’67 

River Valley Sporting Goods, 


Wesley Robinson, Jr. ’66 and Barbara 

Robinson 

Kenny and Nelda Rogers 

Gary Rollins ’78 and Pam Rollins 

Dan Ross 

Dave Ross ’60 and Claudine Ross 

Jesse Rowe ’50 and Wayma Workman 

Rowe ’49 

Loretta Figliulo Salazar ’78 and 

Felix Salazar 

Luis Sanchez Navarro ’08 

Scott Sandstrom 

David and Barbara Saxon 

William Scarborough ’65 and Kary Hardin 

Scarborough ’65 

William Scarborough ’39 


Chantel and Douglas Scheuring 

Francis J. Scheuring 

John Schillinger ’07 and Donna Schillinger 

Karen A. Schluterman ’03 and John 

Schluterman 

John E. Scott 

Billy and Traci Scott 

John Scribner ’98 and Leslie Scribner 

Charlie Sefers, Jr. ’50 and Janice Sefers 

Lawrence and Carol Sewell 

Sexton Furniture and Appliance, 


SGL Carbon Corporation, Charlotte, NC 

Claudine Shankle ’89 and William Shankle 

James and Tracy Shaw 

Liz Baskin Sheffer ’58 and Eric Sheffer 

George W. Shellenberger 

Susan Sherhag ’70 

George Sherlock ’75 and Sue Smith 

Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54 

William Shrigley, Jr. ’69 

Debbie and Ronnie Siebenmorgen 

Hugh and Mary Silkensen 

Billy Simco ’60 

Greg Simmons ’68 and Louise Vanden- 

Nieuwenhof Simmons ’71 

Ruth L. Simpler ’43 

Tim and Vicki Simpson 

Wirt and L. Torpy Skinner 

John C. Sloan, Sr. 

Donald Smith 

Kermit Smith ’49 

Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith 

Xiao Fei Song ’05 

Sonic Drive-In, Clarksville, AR 

South Park Restaurant Inc., Clarksville, AR 

Hubert Spann ’51 

Phyllis Blackard Sparks ’72 

Jerry Speer ’58 and Mary Speer 

Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence 

Mickey Stafford ’68 and Martha Stafford 

James Stanton ’69 and Chris Stanton 

Bonnie Renfrow Starkey ’68 and Fred 

Starkey ’68 

State Farm Insurance, Clarksville, AR 

Jimmy Stephens ’88 and Traci Price 

Stephens ’89 

Kay Stewart 

Hal G. Stillings ’63 and Mary Ann 

Chandler Stillings ’65 

Wendell and Linda Stoltenberg 

Rebecca Baker Stowers 

David Strain 

Jon Strobel 

Student Government Association, 

University of the Ozarks 

Robert Stumbaugh, Jr. ’49 

Lehman Sullivan ’35 

Synod of the Sun, Irving, TX 

Donald L. Tamuty 

Beverly French Taylor ’76 and 

Richard Taylor 

Ron and Kerry Dillaha Taylor 

Philip Taylor, Jr. ’85 and Melody 

Jacobs Taylor 

Tom Taylor 

Waymond Teague ’61 and Barbara Teague 

The Catfish House, Clarksville, AR 

The Home Showcase, Clarksville, AR 

R.H. Thompson ’59 and Patricia Thompson 

Thrivent Financial For Lutherans 

Nolan Tomasik ’89 and Nicole Tomasik 

Sharon Torres ’81 and Ken Torres 

Vinnie and Cody Tran 

William and Janet Trotter 

David Tucker ’59 

Hilda Turner 

Judy and Jackie Turner 

Tom and Cathy Ulrich 

Ritamarie Valencia Younger 

Peter Van Dyke ’87 and Heleine Van Dyke 

E. K. and Marjean Van Eman 

Kevin Van Es 

Steven Van Patten ’64 and Sharon Agnew 

Van Patten ’65 

Teresa Vanderbilt 

Waffle House, Clarksville, AR 

Pete Waldo ’56 and Carolyn 

Johnson Waldo ’58

Barry Walker ’61 and Jane Walker 

George Walker, III and Carole Walker 

Doris Owen Ward ’48 

Burl Watson, Jr. and Nita Watson 

Donald Watson ’59 and Patricia Watson 

Roderick Weaver ’71 and Judy 

Lawton Weaver 

Wendy’s, Clarksville, AR 

Michael T. Werner 

Corinne Werth ’83 

Western Sizzlin’, Clarksville, AR 

Linda White ’96 and Don White 

Lucette and Harold White 

Whitson Morgan Motor Company, Inc., 


Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., Altus, AR 

Samuel Wiesner ’84 and Jeanie O’Brien 

Wiesner ’83 

William Wilhelm ’72 and Rose Mary 

Wilhelm 

Sue Rail Wilkerson ’82 and Danny 

Wilkerson 

Philip and Judith Koon Willcoxon 

Robert and Martha Williams 

Roger Williams ’51 

Steve and Lynna Williams 

Ann Garrett Williamson ’41 

Ella Mae Young Willis ’35 

Juanita M. Willis 

Doug and Davis Wilson 

Rita Crossley Wilson ’70 

Robert Wilson ’86 

Karla, R.J., and Clint Wood 

Margaret E. Woodard ’86 and 

John Woodard 

Woodlands Presbyterian Church, Hot 

Springs Village 

Willis R. Woolrich, III 

Crawford Wyatt ’51 and Maxine Wyatt 

Robert Arnold Wyers ’55 and Marcella 

Wyers 

Glen and Margie Yarbrough and the Willis 

Reunion 

Joann Yates ’53 

A. Dean Yeager ’59 and Pauline Hurley 

Yeager 

Patricia Farnsworth Yoder ’53 and 

Lee Yoder 

James Young ’56 and Betty Young 

Mary Bricker Young ’52 and John Young 

Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann West Young ’57 

Carole Clemmons Zahnd ’60 and 

Larry Zahnd 

Lillian Hunt Zarwell ’33 

Zia Concrete Supply Company, 

Albuquerque, NM 

Michael Zoller ’77 and Janice 

Forkner Zoller ’78 

The Eagle Club 

The Eagle Club honors donors 

who contributed up to $99 to the 

University during the 2007-08 fiscal 

year. Names in bold indicate 

donors who have contributed for 

five or more consecutive years. An 

asterisk indicates someone who 

passed away in the last year. 

Raymond Acosta 

Reza Ahrabli ’79 

Sharon Collier Allured ’65 

Ray and Eleanor Almgren 

Paula Alonso 

Robert and Raye Alwood 

Ava Mitchell Amos ’56 

Amy Anderson ’97 

Eugene and Susan Anderson 

Linda Anderson 

Arkansas Presbytery Women, 

Walnut Ridge, AR 

Elizabeth Mendenhall Arndt ’70 

Vivian Ashley 

Sandra Elmore Atchley ’69 and 

Jimmy Atchley 

Amanda Austin 

Bob Aylward 

Elizabeth Aymond ’05 and Clint Aymond 

Terry Babcock 

Dale Bagwell ’66 and Margaret Bagwell 

James and Melissa Ball 

Meghan Ball ’02 

Emma Louise Banks ’69 

Eleanor Barker 

Aaron Barling ’55 and Nell Bruner 

Barling ’56 

Melanie Bartlett 

Donna Fox Barton ’68 and Bill Barton 

Fred Bates, Jr. ’52 and Anne Bates 

Douglas Batie ’98 and Jennifer Batie ’98 

J. C. Battreal 

Britt Bauer ’98 and Lori Bauer 

Don L. Bean 

Maxine Garrison Bean ’49 and 

Garland Bean 

Curt and Vonda Belford 

Fay Bennett ’50 and Jean Bennett 

Ike and Mary Benson 

Irene Bere 

Gene Bergstresser 

Jane Cheek Berryman ’55 and 

Oscar Berryman, Jr. 

Nelle Hampton Bischoff ’45 

Henry D. Bishop ’53 and Ingrid Bishop 

Donald and Jodie Black 

A. B. Blocker ’70 and Myrtis Blocker ’69 

Fred Blohm ’61 and Anna Blohm 

Paul and Julie Bloss 

Edward and Betty Boatright 

Paula Bodnar ’84 

Leonard and Peggy Bollman 

Michael Bollman ’04 and 

Anneke Binkley Bollman ’03 

George Boltwood 

Gary Bond ’58 and Sara Wharton 

Bond ’59 

Phil Bourne 

Kermit and Fern Bowling 

Mary Boyer 

Wayne Bradley ’58 and Patricia 

Huckabay Bradley 

Anthony Brandon ’07 

Sumner and Jackie Brashears 

Donald Brent ’70 and Beverly Brent ’70 

Jeffrey and Wendy Briggs 

Gary E. Briley ’66 and Vanessa Briley 

Darrall Brinlee ’70 

Richard Bromley ’74 and 

Karen Pierce Bromley ’74 

C. Victor Brown 

Selby Brown ’49 and Mildred Brown 

Michelle Wadley Brown ’81 and 

Bryan Brown 

Susan Buck 

Juanita Buckman 

Richard and Alena Buckmaster 

Lisa Burk 

Jon and Krista Burkhardt 

Berry and Jennette Burnett 

Penni Peppas Burns ’95 and Jeremie Burns 

Thomas Buzbee ’67 and Maureen Buzbee 

Barbara Oldham Caldwell ’87 

Charlotte Cameron 

Ellen Capehart 

Connie Carpenter ’78 

Clinton Carr ’56 and Caroline 

Walkup Carr 

Robert Carrillo 

Charles Carter ’80 and Linda Gaines 

Carter ’80 

Eula Ellison Castonguay ’58 and 

Joseph Castonguay 

Chanceree Catlett ’07 

Jenny Cawthorn 

Pat Cedeno 

Kent Chaney ’92 

Jodie Clark ’07 

Mary Clark ’53 

*James E. Clarke and *Anna B. 

Clarke Fund 

Charlotte Clayton 

Jennifer Cleveland 

Debra Felkins Cline ’91 and Ewing Cline 



Dick and Bonnie Clough 

Richard and Mary Cohoon 

Dustin Cole ’06 

C. Philip Collins ’65 and Anna Collins ’63 

Raymond Conatser, Jr. ’46 and 

Lella Galrani Conatser 

Shirley Conner 

Olin and Millicent Cook 

Brad and Roxann Cool 

Donald and Dona Cooper 

Cyleste Willis Coppage ’97 and 

Kelly Coppage 

Michael Corzatt ’81 

Anthony and Pamela Costa 

Barbara Dalke ’77 

David Dalke ’75 and Pamela Dalke 

C. David and Cathy Dalton 

Dewey Dark, Jr. ’52 and Lee Dark 

Charles and Sue Davenport 

Billy Gene and Ann Davis 

Gwendolyn Davis 

Robert and Carolyn Davis 

Tyronne Davis ’86 

Bruce Dean ’86 and Angie Dean ’86 

Sandra Dennison ’69 

Arthur Dercksen 

Patsy Rowland Desaulniers ’62 and 

Anthony Desaulniers, Jr. 

Andrea Dewey ’05 

Billy Dickerson, II ’77 and 

Marion Dickerson 

Jim and Winnie Dickerson 

Theo A. Dillaha, Jr. 

Darlene Bullard Dobbs ’84 and 

Wayne Dobbs 

Joe Dorman ’62 and Mary Head 

Dorman ’62 

John Douglas ’50 

Gretchen Douthit 

Pamela Downing ’73 and Robert Downing 

Mary Lee Hert Draper 

Jason and Lori Drummond 

David Dryer ’85 

Tom and Ann Dugger 

Phyllis Duncan ’80 and Bob Battaglia 

Dale Dunlap ’53 and Irma Dunlap 

John Dunlap, II ’52 and Carolyn Dunlap 

Lewis Dunn ’64 and Rose Dunn 

Timothy and Kim Dunn 

Frances DuVall ’57 

Rickey and Donna Dyess 

Bill and Kody Eakin 

Karen Earwood ’72 

Jeffrey Eddleman 

Jack Edwards ’72 and Debra Edwards 

Assefa Egziabher ’78 

Devin and Chandra Ellison 

Neal Ellison ’84 and Patsy Ellison 

Vivian Ellison 


Bryan and Kim Elmore 

Joan and Robert Erickson 

Annette Estes ’67 

John and Billie Evans 

Melissa Myhand Evans ’98 and Jason Evans 

Erla Hardgrave McCracken Everitt ’41 

and J. Donald Everitt 

Robert and Neva Everts 

Duane Farris ’43 

Steven Felkner ’99 and Sally Felkner 

Edna Hunnicutt Fell ’56 

Leonard and Myra Finnell 

Vivian Finnell 

First Presbyterian Church, Malvern, AR 

Richard and Malinda Fischer 

Roger Fisher ’67 and Jerre Fisher 

Miriam Fitch ’97 

Curtis and Patsy Fitzgerald 

Brent Flickinger and Suzanne Broussard 

James Fontaine, II ’73 

Sandra Forbus ’70 

Alan Ford 

Betty Dickerson Foulke ’56 and 

Lester Foulke 

Michael Frala ’73 and Linda Frala 

Jeffrey and Kay Franco 

Luther Freeman ’49 and Wanda 

Cavalena Freeman ’45 

Helen Rader Fulton ’40 

Matthew Fultz 

Michael Fultz ’70 and Elaine Fultz 

Ronnie Funderburg ’74 and 

Rita Funderburg 

Karen Gallagher and Robert Jay McCracken 

Katherine Rader Garrett ’39 

Jason and Jennifer Gary 

Sonje and Richard Gejji 

Michael Giamboy ’51 

Eugene Gipson ’76 and Phyllis Gipson ’75 

Sandra Goetze 

Deborah Green Goff ’69 and James Goff 

Larry and Patsy Goodner 

Melinda Wish Gould ’80 

Sam Gould ’86 and Coral Yandell 

Gould ’91 

Lonnie and Mary Gragg 

Bruce and Amy Graves 

Jesse Graves ’58 and Betty Graves 

Tim Graves ’50 

Sandra Pitts Gray ’57 

Raymond Green ’71 

Roland Green ’50 and Elaine Burton 

Green ’51 

Russell Gregory ’01 and Julie Gregory 

Nell Cox Griffin ’55 

Wayne Grober ’75 and Bonnie 

Easley Grober ’73 

William and Kathleen Groce 

Ethel Grover 

James Madison Guest ’77 

Bobby Gunter ’57 

Jon Guyton ’83 and Rhonda Guyton 

Albert Haberer ’43 and Marjorie Haberer 

Brenda and James Hagan 

Lucille Hagan ’51 

Martha Bloyd Haigwood 

Jeanne Hale ’07 and Chase Hale ’06 

John Haley, II 

Daniel and Laura Hancock 

Dawna Hancock 

Judy Blackard Hardgrave ’72 and 

Ben Hardgrave 

Betty Curtis Hardin ’58 and Robert Hardin 

Chad Harris ’01

Eugene Harris ’53 

Julie Harris ’01 

Karie Allen Harris ’05 

Danny Hartlein ’68 

Carol Thompson Hartley ’82 and 

Miles Hartley 

Daniel Hartman ’80 and Marla 

McCabe Hartman ’81 

Joette and David Haudrich 

Wanda Furr Hawkins ’66 and 

Jerry Hawkins 

Beth Hayes ’86 and Randy Hayes 

Jessica Flusche Hayes ’98 and Justin Hayes 

John Hayes 

Mary Campbell Haynes ’51 and 

Joseph Haynes 

Brett Hays ’05 

Edward and Lauren Hays 

Harold and Pam Hays 

Vendon Hays, II ’96 and Joyce Hays 

Brian Heckmann ’06 

J. David Henderson 

Treva Henry 

Harlene Henson 

Albert Hepler, III ’69 and Renae Hepler 

Corrinna Risinger Hester ’81 and 

Ken Hester 

Paul Hiemke ’02 and Jennifer 

Jungman Hiemke ’02 

Tamara Higdon ’05 and Foster Etheredge 

Travis and Margaret Hill 

Harvey Hoffman ’68 and Noreen Hoffman 

Marilyn Hogan 

Donna Hogge ’78 and James Hogge 

James and Frances Holbach 

Deanna Denhard Holman ’01 

Brandi Holt ’92 

Leslie Hoppers ’55 and Annie Hoppers 

Jennifer Bowen Hopson ’98 and 

Neal Hopson 

Flora Eustice Horne ’54 and 

Charles Horne, III 

Roy Horne ’57 

David Hosley ’59 and Bobbi Dobbs 

Hosley ’61 

Virgil and Barbara Howard 

Robert Hudgens ’50 and 

Harriette Hudgens 

Jake Hudson, Jr. ’84 and Angie Hudson 

Vivian Hudson 

Shannon Carlisle Huggins ’91 and 

Bryan Huggins 

Carl Hunter ’64 and Pat Hunter 

Ronald and Blanca Hutson 

Joe and Sue Iacobucci 

Nelson and Saralyn Ingram 

Joe and Gayle Ironside 

Megan Istre 

Hunter Jackson ’03 

Jane Hughes Jackson 

Jeff Jackson ’01 

Jessie Jackson 

Jerry and Carolyn Jacobs 

Joel James ’80 and Deborah 

McKinney James ’79 

Connie Nowotny James ’76 

Max and Ruth Ann Jewell 

John T. Armstrong Trust 

Joey Johnson, III ’88 

Bob Johnson ’60 and Anita Johnson 

Bradford Johnson ’06 and Kara Johnson ’07 

Colba Jones Johnson ’59 and 

Ralph Johnson 

Johnny and Joanne Johnson 

Cecil and Jean Jones 

Hartzell Jones ’66 and Marsha Jones 

J. T. and Maxine Jones 

Samuel and Lisa Jones 

Shannon Jones ’88 

William and Mary Jones 

Jason Jordan ’98 and Jennifer Ewing 

Jordan ’01 

W. E. and Lorena Jordan 

Kenneth Joslin 

Ralph and Barbara Joslin 

Gale Joslin-Moore 

Brett and Janice Kelley 

Clare Martin Kelley 

Robert and Ann Kerr 

Bradley Kessler ’76 and Janet Wilson 

Kessler ’76 

Shirley Kiefer ’90 and Jim Kiefer 

Earl Kile, III ’72 

Sylvia Kauffeld Kinnear ’66 

Shirley Klein 

Marjorie Knoop 

David Koch 

Ralph Kodell ’69 and Valerie Kodell 

Eugene and Maxine Koerdt 

James M. Kolb, Jr. 

Lawrence Kruse ’59 and Susan Kruse 

Charles and Phyllis Kuykendall 

Bettye LaBorn 

Guy H. Lackey, Jr. 

Kristine LaMonda ’96 

Barbara Haller Langlois ’71 

Pat Voeller Laster ’64 

Chance Lawless ’02 

Gwynneth Ledbetter 

Terrence P. Ledwig 

William Lee ’87 

Maurice Lewis ’55 and Betty Lewis 

Virginia Lewis 

Joseph and Patti Lienhart 

Drew and Paula Linder 

Larry and Patsy Linder 

Rhonda Lock 

Jim and Carol Looney 

Hermann and Shari Ludl 

Ruby Lunsford ’90 

William P. Lytle 

Mary MacMartin 

Cooper Mann ’00 

Patricia Mann 

Sammy Manning ’71 and Virginia 

Figliulo Manning ’74 

Raymond and Dorothy Marciniak 

Tom and Myrna Mardis 

Carol Marshall 

James Martin ’68 and Janet Martin 

Mary Martindale ’63 and 

Kenneth Martindale 

Ronnie Marvel ’65 and Jeanette 

Estep Marvel 

David and Donna Massanelli 

Carolyn May ’79 

Glenn and Ethel Mayle 

Christine Mays ’82 

Michael Shannon McBee ’89 and 

Lori McBee 

Marlin and Caroline McCabe 

Nancy McClure ’76 

Rodney McClure 

Herschel and Mardell McClurkin 

Larry McCollum ’80 and 

Cynthia McCollum ’81 

Sidney and Kathryn McCollum 

James McDaniel 

Vernon McDaniel ’55 

Regina McElhaney ’81 and 

James McElhaney 

B. Denton and Mary Allie McLelland 

Staff of University Academic Services, 

Oklahoma State University 

Wanda Nichols Meador ’50 

Myrtle Ruth Meadors 

William and Frances Mellin 

Gordon and Jane Mertz 

Lena Jane Metzler 

David and Kathryn Michalak 

Amy Byrum Miller ’41 

Carl Miller ’64 and Madge Miller 

Donna Miller ’91 and Billy Miller 

Marjorie Mills 

Marie Milwee 

Carl Minden ’94 and Angela Minden 

Christina Minden ’89 

Holly Mitchell 

Marvin and Paula Mitchell 

Nancy Mixon 

Abdolreza Mobarak ’67 and Judy 

Stewart Mobarak 

Carol Taylor Mohlman ’51 and 

David Mohlman 

James Mooney ’57 and Colleen 

Rickard Mooney 



Glenn Moore ’83 and Lea Ann Moore 

Lynne Dee L. Moore 

Michael and Kim Moreland 

Carol Terry Morgan ’86 and Steve Morgan 

Betty R. Morris ’58 

Mignonne Morrow ’70 

Larry and Sarah Morse 

Trible Moseley ’87 

Virginia Moser 

John and Cindy Murcek 

Brian and Jamie Murphy 

Jerome and Beverly Murphy 

Dorothy J. Murray 

Dana and Shane Neighbors 

James and Donna Nelson 

Erica Newell ’06 


Nancy Newell ’70 

Patrick Newman ’86 and Sandra 

Gadbury Newman ’85 

Jon and Jerry Newton, Shawn and 

Tanya Newton 

Lindsey Nietert ’07 

Charlotte Altes Norman ’67 

John and T. Norris 

Robert and Linda Norvell 

Steven and Amy Oatis 

Ted Oberg ’71 and Donna Oberg 

Lisa Ghio O’Brien ’00 and Michael O’Brien 

William Oliver, Jr. ’71 and Joan Coulter 

Oliver ’71 

Paul and Cynthia Osborn 

Berta Steele Ownbey ’50 and Orla Ownbey 

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

Marti Panikkar ’90 

James Pannell ’08 

Rosemarie Parker 

Wilma Partain 

Jay Patel ’06 

Edna Elkins Patterson ’67 and John 

Patterson 

Janet Payne 

Kelly and Trudy Pearson 

Wanda Daniel Pearson ’48 

Wilson and Barbara Pearson 

Robert and Mary Jean Pell 

Dody and Jeremy Pelts 

Leanita Pelts ’04 and Larry Pelts 

Elsie Mae Pianalto 

Silvia Pianalto 

Lance Pillstrom ’91 

Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine 

Gary Pitman 

Scott and Jennifer Poirier 

Lockwood Porter 

Michael Posey ’83 and Debbie Posey 

Kendrick and Lindsey Prewitt 

Walter and Jane Price 

Wendi Price 

Kari Pridgin ’05 

David Pridgin, Jr. ’07 

Gerald Primm ’58 and Sandra Bearden 

Primm ’78 

Elizabeth Lee Pruitt ’83 and 

Robert Pruitt 

Betty Eddington Quadros ’45 

Faye Williams Raible ’72 and 

Gary Raible 

Lisa Rail 

Shannon Rainbolt ’06 

Ronald Ramsey ’91 

Claudia Randall 

Jeremy Ray 

Jerry Ray ’64 and Sarah Wiley Ray ’65 

Pat and Charlotte Razook 

Deborah Reck ’00 and Ian Reck 

John Reed, Jr. ’74 

Joseph and Destiny Reese 

Robert Reese ’70 and Kathy Reese 

Thomas Reid ’68 

Blake Rexroat ’06 and Lauren Wilson 

Rexroat ’07 

Jeanne Reynolds ’94 

Ruby Steuart Reynolds ’48 

Arnie Rhodes ’58 and Louise Rhodes 

Shirley Keith Richardson ’66 and 

Rick Richardson 

Fannie Rickman 

Loretta Eacret Ridener ’53 and 

Eddie Ridener 

Mary Jane Ring ’80 and James Ring 

Sean Riordan ’06

Ronnie Roach ’67 and Dianna Roach 

David Roberts ’74 

Glendyne Robins ’41 and Harvey Robins 

Martha Dow Robinson ’62 and 

Buford Robinson, Jr. 

Nancy A. Robison ’92 and Gary Robison 

Faye Pipkins Roble ’49 

Lee Rocole, Jr. ’99 and Cathy Jones 

Rocole ’00 

Joan Rodemann ’71 and James Rodemann 

Frank Rofkahr 

Chris Gaiennie Rogers 

Larry and Judy Rogers 

Lily Rogers 

Thomas Rogers 

Karen Hilton Rossmaier ’77 and 

Joel Rossmaier 

John Rotenberry ’62 and Arlie Stokes 

Rotenberry ’61 

John and Pamela Royer 

Charles and Geneva Ruff 

Gail Russell ’72 and Diana Russell 

Herb Russell ’42 

Kathryn Hamilton Russell ’84 and 

Dannie Russell 

W. H. Rutledge and Charlene Yancy 

Rutledge ’53 

Kirk Sanderson ’92 and Jamie Sanderson 

Leon and Barbara Ann Sawicki 

Sophie Sawicki 

David Scarborough ’49 and Dallas 

Bean Scarborough ’43 

Ann Henderson Schaubroeck ’87 and 

Daniel Schaubroeck 

Louis Schneider, Jr. 

Otto and Jo Ann Schwab 

John Selby ’38 and Marie Jennings 

Selby ’52 

Marie Jennings Selby ’52 

Bobbi Sharp ’90 and Donald Sharp 

Bradford Sharpe ’89 and Sharon Sharpe 

Lois Sheets ’64 and Melburn Sheets 

Glen Sheffer ’72 and Anne Sheffer 

*Alvin Sherby ’68 and Marilyn Sherby 

Roy Shook ’60 and Judy Shook 

Christie Shuffield ’02 

Jimmie and Wanda Simmons 

Berniece Simpson 

Richard Simpson 

Vickie Singleton ’89 

Judith Streussnig Skabardis ’61 and 

Gaitis Skabardis 

Max and Roylene Slaughter 

Andrew Smallwood ’98 

Karren Smedley 

Alice MacLafferty Smith ’39 

David Smith ’76 and Phyllis Smith 

Donald and Jennifer Smith 

Eric and Cheryl Smith 

Jean Smith 

Kenneth and Barbara Smith 

LaVonne Smith 

William and Sherry Smith 

Clem and Marilyn Sorley 

Larry Spanke, II ’66 and Sherrill Spanke 

Hank Sparks ’62 and Edie Sparks 

Luann Spence 

Kimberly Spicer ’98 

Bruce Spradlin ’58 and Louise Spradlin 

Jack and Carol Spruiell 

Larry and Marilyn Staton 

Don Stecks ’51 and Maxine Dean 

Stecks ’52 

Brandon Steimel ’01 

Bradley and Bobbie Steinert 

Melodye and Russell Stickley 

Jan Bryan Storment ’81 

Donald Stribling ’78 and Denise Stribling 

Keith and Sara Stucky 

Roy and Ruth Sturgeon 

Dellana Summerhill ’84 and 

Paul Summerhill 

Fred Sutton, Jr. ’87 and Dana Galyen 

Sutton ’85 

David and Debbie Swofford 

Dewey Talley ’60 and Donna Killgore 

Talley ’60 

George Taylor, Jr. ’52 and Gaye 

Strong Taylor 

Robert and Candasi Taylor 

Michael and Marie Teaster 

Jimmie Thames ’53 and Ailene Thames 

Virginia Thomas 

Dorothy Thompson 

Peggy Thompson ’63 and R. Wayne 

Thompson 

William and Catherine Thompson 

James Tolbert ’62 and Burnice 

Self Tolbert 

Emma Lou Hudson Travis ’76 and 

Jerry Travis 

Jim Trone ’70 and Marilyn Houston 

Trone ’66 

Judy Tucker 

Denton Tumbleson ’74 and Jane Tumbleson 

Kenneth Turner ’90 and Vernette Turner ’90 

Vernon Tygart ’90 and Vicky Moffit 

Tygart ’90 

Sam Tyler 

Thelma Curtis Van Arsdale ’41 

Tommy Vaught 

Elizabeth Vernon ’86 

Laura Martin Vertrees ’78 and 

Thomas Vertrees, Jr. 

Richard and Tamara Von Schwarz 

Kendall Wagner ’06 and Kathie Wagner 

Jerry Wagoner ’58 and Dolores 

Wagoner ’56 

Mitchell Wagoner 

Carolyn Walker 

Elizabeth Walker ’43 

Emily Walker 

Henry and Jo Ann Walton 

Jo Ward 

James Warren ’67 and Dureta Porter Warren 

Wood and Mary Warren 

Ronald and Linda Watkins 

Phillip Watts ’89 and Leslie Watts 

Mary Ellen Waychoff ’78 

Jeff and Vicki Weaver 

Patsy Weaver 

Paige Weis ’98 

Wilma Wendland ’54 

Alan Brock Whisenhunt 

David and Bridget White 

Linda Kauffeld White ’67 and Don White 

Michael White ’98 and Shirell White 

Russell and Betty White 

Kenneth Whitson ’73 

A. D. and Anne Whitten 

Jo Ann Rainwater Whorton ’61 

John and Tammy Wickline 

Charles and Dawn Wilkinson 



Freda Kauffeld Willett ’52 and Guy Willett 

Clarence Williams ’48 and Katala 


Jack Williams ’71 

David and Rebecca Wilson 

Julia Wilson ’85 and Donald Wilson 

Kevin and Lisa Wilson 

Laura McClendon Wilson ’55 

Franlee Jo Wise ’81 

Sammy Wish ’50 

Ramona Witcher ’78 and Ronald Witcher 

Larry Wofford ’65 and Diane Wofford 

Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra 

Bartlett Wofford ’77 

Scott Wolf 

Women of the Church Highland 

Presbyterian Church, Hot 

Springs, AR 

Kenneth Wood ’74 and Mary King Wood 

Sally Wood 

Steve and Joy Wood 

Linda Sherrod Woody ’86 

Rick and Carol Wyman 

Catherine Yamamoto ’50 

Rhonda Yarberry ’82 and Robert Yarberry 

Dyanna Smith Yarbro ’96 and Lance Yarbro 

Terry Younts, Jr. ’50 

Religious Organizations 

The following churches and religious 

organizations generously 

support University of the Ozarks 

in its mission to provide a quality, 

comprehensive education founded 

on Judeo-Christian values. Bold 

indicates at least five years of consecutive 

giving. 

Arkansas Presbytery Women, Walnut 

Ridge, AR 

Bella Vista Community Church, Bella 

Vista, AR 

Central Presbyterian Church, 

Russellville, AR 

Dallas Oaks Presbyterian Church, Fort 

Smith, AR 

Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center, 


Financial Service Agency, Synod of the 

Sun, Irving, TX 

First Presbyterian Church, Arlington, TX 

First Presbyterian Church, Camden, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Clarksville 

First Presbyterian Church, Dardanelle, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Fort Smith, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Huntsville, AR 



Jonesboro, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, Malvern, AR 

First Presbyterian Church, McAlester, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma 

City, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Searcy, AR 


Springdale, AR 


Stillwater, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Tulsa, OK 

First Presbyterian Church, Van Buren, AR 

First United Presbyterian Church, 


Grace Presbyterian Church, Grove, OK 

Harmony Presbyterian Church, 

Clarksville 

Minden Presbyterian Church, Minden, LA 

Presbyterian Church of Bella Vista, Bella 

Vista, AR 

Presbyterian Kirk in the Pines, 

Hot Springs Village, AR 

Presbyterian Women of Arkansas 

Presbytery, North Little Rock, AR 

Presbyterian Women of Lake Charles, 

Lake Charles, LA 

Presbyterian Women of Presbyterian 

Kirk in the Pines, Hot Springs 

Village, AR 

Presbyterian Women of West Jersey, 

Cherry Hill, NJ 

Presbyterian Women of Westminster, Hot 

Springs, AR 

Presbyterian Women’s Association, 

Clarksville 

Presbyterian Women’s Circle #3, Tulsa, OK 

Second Presbyterian Church, Little 

Rock, AR 

The Presbyterian Church of Pryor, 

Pryor, OK 

The Presbyterian Foundation of Arkansas, 


Women of the Church, Highland 

Presbyterian Church, Hot Springs 

Woodlands Presbyterian Church, Hot 

Springs Village, AR 

Gifts-In-Kind 

The following individuals and 

corporations generously supported 

Ozarks with gifts of services or 

products during the 2007-08 fiscal 

year. 


Cathy Blackburn ’71 and Greg Blackburn 

Christopher Boettcher 

Beverly Bridgman 

Clarksville Sign Works, Clarksville, AR 

Callie Harmon Daniels ’89 and 

Kurtis Daniels 

Rebecca D’Aquin ’01 and David D’Aquin

Wallace Dobbins ’40 and *Carolyn 

Bush Dobbins ’42 

Pat Farmer 

Charles and Debbie Foster 

Virginia King 

Dan and Linda Martin 


Office Tech 2000, Russellville, AR 


Sadler ’53 


Harve Taylor, III and Loyce Ann Bean 

Taylor ’72 

Louise Taylor ’51 

Tom Taylor 

Wiederkehr Wine Cellars, Inc., Altus, AR 

Robert Wofford ’79 and Debra 

Bartlett Wofford ’77 

The Aerie Club 

The following individuals and 

businesses supported The Aerie 

Club during the 2007-2008 fiscal 

year. The Aerie Club supports the 

athletic teams and student-athletes 

at U of O. To become a member of 

the Aerie Club, contact Lori 

McBee at 479-979-1354. 

Arby’s 

Aquilar Foot Care Clinic 

Arvid Bean Insurance Agency Inc. 

Bank of the Ozarks 

Eddie Bean ’68 and Georgia Reynolds 

Bean ’72 

Lorraine Darnell Belote ’56 and Doug 

Belote 

Wayne Benbow ’65 and Mary Trotter 

Benbow ’64 

Jerry Bridges ’78 

James and Ann Bruning 

Bruce and Frances Cameron 

The Catfish House 

Cecil Hardware, Inc. 

Clarksville Cinema 

Clarksville Insurance Agency 

Clarksville Sign Works 

Comfort Inn 

Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 

Curran’s Abstract and Title, Inc. 

Johnny Dillard ’70 and Kathy Dillard 


Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Blackard 

Ehren ’71 

Family Shoe Store 

First Security Bank 

Orville Fletcher ’58 and Carol Fletcher 

Richard Franks ’65 and Arvella Franks 

Hampton Inn 

Hanesbrands, Inc 

Eugene Harris ’53 

Harvest Food Market, Inc. 

The Home Showcase 

Hoyle’s Walkin’ Western 

Larry Isch 

Joco Java 

Glen Kern 

KXIO 106.9-FM 

Fletcher Lowry ’52 and Jo Nell Alsip 

Lowry ’52 

Master Printing 

Mazzio’s Pizza 

Morgan’s Fashions 


Nite Lite 

John and Betsy O’Connor 

Deborah and Laron Owens 

Rudy Parks ’60 and Ellen Parks ’60 


Phil Taylor Insurance Agency, Inc. 

Jack Phillips, Jr. ’50 and Ann Phillips 

Pizza Hut 

Pizza Pro 


Charles Puyear ’65 

Quizno’s Subs 

Radio Shack 

Regions Bank 

River Valley Sporting Goods 


Sadler ’53 



William Scarborough ’39 

Sexton Furniture and Appliance 

Simmons First Bank 


Terry Smith ’64 and Paula Smith 

Sonic Drive-In 

South Park Restaurant, Inc. 

Spectra Energy Foundation 

James Stanton ’69 and Chris Stanton 

State Farm Insurance 

Harve Taylor III and Loyce Ann Taylor ’72 

Waffle House 

Mitchell Wagoner 

Wendy’s 

Western Sizzlin’ 

Whitson Morgan Motor Company, Inc. 

Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie Tipton 


Woodard Carpet & Design 

Ted Young ’58 and Joe Ann Young ’57 


May 16, 2008 through 

Sept. 30, 2008 

Yoselin Alvarez Reyes ’08 


Kenneth J. Cater ’94 

Jane and Brent Cater 

Patrick A. Farmer 


In Celebration of the Graduation of Debra 

Carl Freeman 

Dawn J.M. and Gary 

Scarborough ’82 


Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada 

Mathis Qualls ’55 


Len Bradley 

Lonnie Qualls ’55 and Levada 


Randy Hilton ’75 

Blake Rexroat ’06 and Lauren 

Wilson Rexroat ’07 

Myra Johnston’s 90th Birthday 


Harlene Henson 

Ann Park ’49 

Reba Pridgin ’81 and David 

Pridgin ’71 

Willie and Carolyn Kimbrell 

Wilma Harris ’03 and Edward 

Harris ’75 

Barbara Lindstrom ’08 

Gary and Mary Husa 

Robin Wise Milligan ’92 


Holly Mitchell 

Robert K. Bennett 

Jack Thomas Patterson ’65 


Fritz and Juanita Ehren 

Virginia McCracken 


Joe Pennington ’05 


Janet and Warner Phillips 

Robert K. Bennett 


Dallas Bean Scarborough ’43 


Amanda Stang ’08 



Brandy Rhodes Cox ’99 and 

Chad Cox ’98 

Darrell Williams ’76 


May 16, 2008 through 

Sept. 30, 2008 

Bernie Anderson 


Charles Angell 

Dorothy Angell 

Debbie Sorley King ’76 

Clem and Marilyn Sorley 

Karen Newton Bean ’74 

Don L. Bean 

Keith and Sara Stucky 

Roderick Weaver ’71 and Judy 

Lawton Weaver 

Helen Blakemore 

David and Carolyn Blakemore 

Davis and Lisa Moore 

Francis and Gloria Strong 

Hal and Nellie Welch 

Christopher G. Boyette ’70 

Nancy C. Boyette 

Marian Riddell Cargile ’64 

John W. Cargile ’61 

Betty Emery Carter ’52 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and O.G. 

Johnston 

Elton Henry “Al” Donaubauer 

Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon 

Jones Bean ’78 






Kermit Eggensperger ’41 


Elizabeth Eisenmayer ’00 



Forrest Hoeffer ’65 and Helen 

Groskopf Hoeffer ’81 

Edith McChesney 

Cecil and Ruth Boddie Farmer 


Sarah Carlin Graves ’85 

Shari Caywood 



Weston Luke Guiltner, son of Clayton 

Guiltner ’95 

Chad Cox ’98 and Brandy Rhodes 

Cox ’99 


Monetta Dickerson Hadley ’62 


O. D. Hightower ’49 

Mollie Hightower-Barnum 

Jeffrey Dixon Hoffman 



Steven and Amy Oatis 

Francis Shell Hudson 

Martha Shell Emerson ’52 

Frank Ingram ’48 and Marie Ingram ’33 



Frank Ingram ’48 

Arkansas Best Corporation 


Marie Hervy Ingram ’33 

Arkansas Best Corporation 

Greenbrier Creek Animal Hospital 

Hoyt Kerr 


Norma M. Johnson 

Catherine Rogers Bumpers ’47 and 

Carroll Bumpers 

Wanda Nichols Meador ’50 

Presbyterian Women’s Association 


Fred A. and Ophelia Jacobs Kauffeld 

Wanda Kauffeld Shively ’54 

Burley King ’40 


Mary Jane Ring ’80 and James Ring

John E. King 




Bruce and Mary Lou Swinburne 

W. E. King 

Roger Bost ’43 and Kathryn King 

Bost ’43 

W. Ernest King, Jr. ’41 

Arvid Bean ’78 and Sharon Jones 

Bean ’78 

Judy Borck 



Fritz Ehren ’53 and Juanita Ehren ’71 

Sue Frueauff 




Flora Eustice Horne ’54 and 

Charles Horne, III 

Rena Sue Laster ’71 


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

Mary Virginia Hurie Parks ’43 

Sue Patterson Pine ’57 and Bob Pine 

Bill Porter ’54 and Anna Porter 


Betty Ann Eustice Riley ’49 


Spinal Healthcare Assoc. P.C. 





Betty King Walsh ’41 


Bush Workman 

Frank and Sadie Koon 



Shelli Stewart Lamberson 





Jones Learning Center 

Tina and Bryan McCain 

Debbie Stallings Mooney ’82 and 

Charles Mooney 


Cooper Mack 




Darrell Williams ’76 and 

Debbie Tipton Williams ’81 

Nita Manning 

Mida Figliulo Milligan ’86 and 

Billy Milligan 

Charles Martin, Jr. ’57 

Jetta Martin 

Ruth Bost May ’51 

Roger’43 and Kathryn King Bost ’43 


Rebecca L. McCollum ’98 

Sanofi Adventis 

Mackie McElree 

Charlene McMillan Watson ’44 and 

William Watson 

Lucile Lucas Murphy ’33 

Rubie Javornick ’58 

John Nichols 



Dortha Niece 

Lewis H. Niece 


Margaret “Peg” Niece 

Garry Niece 

Melvin Niece 

Susie Niece 

Tommy E. Owens ’70 

Robert Gibson ’76 and Glenda Gibson 

Glenda Dennis Owens ’71 and 

Steve Owens 

Milford Park ’38 and Laura Waters 

Park ’38 

Charlotte Melichar 

Carol Park 

Edward Myron Parker 


J. T. Patterson ’38 and Lucile Sanders 

Patterson 




Patty Petty 


Philip Pittman ’41 and Susie Maude 

Pittman ’39 



Denton ’74 and Jane Tumbleson 

Jo Ward 

Michael A. Rail ’80 

Georgia ’53 and O.G. Johnston 

Harriet and Joe Reece 

George Reece ’83 

Kathy Rich 


Joanne Willett Taylor ’60 

Lewis Rogers ’34 

John and Jane Rogers 

Lora Beth Henry Rogers 

Linda Anderson 

Tom and Ann Dugger 

John and Jane Rogers 

Marjorie Scarborough 


Alvin Sherby ’68 



Curtis Lee Spence 


Lance Spence ’91 and Virginia Spence 

Robert Dennis Spurlock ’65 


Eddie Strong 


John Talley ’43 

Sarah C. Talley 

John Torbett ’53 

LonnieQualls ’55 and Levada 


Helen Robson Walton 


Lyle Ward 


Ancil Williams 

Arvid ’78 and Sharon Jones Bean ’78 




Sue Frueauff 

Jones Learning Center 


Reba Pridgin ’81 and David 

Pridgin ’71 






Darrell Williams ’76 and Debbie 

Tipton Williams ’81 

Robert “Bob” Wise 


Cletus Wofford 


Len Bradley 



Jerry ’58 and Dolores Wagoner ’56 

Karla, R.J., and Clint Wood 

Jimmy C. Wright 

Jeanette Crotts Wright ’74 

Almeta Blackard Yerby ’53 

Georgia Johnston ’53 and 

O.G. Johnston 

If you would like to make an 

Honoraria or Memorial in 

recognition of a loved one to the 

University of the Ozarks’ 

Annual Scholarship Fund, 

please call the Advancement 

Office at 479-979-1230. 


Leonard “L.C.” Pardue ’33 

Leonard “L.C.” Pardue of Portland, Ore., died Sept. 21, 2008, 

at the age of 100. He was a retired founder and president of 

Pardue Masonry, Inc. As a student at Ozarks, he helped build 

Munger Chapel. 

John R. Selby ’38 

John R. Selby of Clarksville died May 25, 2008, at the age of 

94. He was a retired science teacher. 

Dr. William “Ernest” King, Jr. ’41 

Dr. William “Ernest” King, Jr., of Russellville, Ark., died 

June 28, 2008, at the age of 89. He was a retired physician, a 

veteran of World War II and a longtime trustee at Ozarks. 

Irene (Steuart) White ’44 

Irene (Steuart) White of Clarksville died Aug. 20, 2008, at the 

age of 89 in Clarksville. She taught for 37 years. 

Betty (Griffin) Blackwell ’47 

Betty (Griffin) Blackwell of Russellville, Ark., died Oct. 1, 

2008, at the age of 83. She was a long-time member of the 

Central Presbyterian Church and was a volunteer with Main 

Street Mission. 

Mary Maude Gallagher ’47 

Mary Maude Gallagher of Coal Hill, Ark., died July 4, 2008, 

at the age of 84. She was a retired school teacher and a 

member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Altus, Ark. 

Betty (Brown) Davis ’50 

Betty (Brown) Davis of Fort Wayne, Ind., died June 20, 2008, 

at the age of 78. She was a retired school teacher. 

Claudie D. Freeman ’51 

Claudie D. Freeman of Longview, Wash., died May 18, 2008, 

at the age of 73. 

Bobby Earl Mills ’58 

Bobby Earl Mills of Dardanelle, Ark., died July 30, 2008, at 

the age of 69. He was a 25-year veteran of the Arkansas State 

Police and also served in the military. 

Dr. Arlie Metheny ’59 

Arlie Metheny of Conway, Ark., died Sept. 15, 2008, at 

the age of 90. A veteran of World War II, he had a 21-year 

career in the military before serving as superintendent of 

several schools in Arkansas, including Mulberry, Conway and 

Mayflower. While in the military, he coordinated the entry 

of Elvis Presley into service in 1958 and was the U. S. Army 


Dr. William “Ernest” King 

Leonard “L.C.” Pardue 

liaison during the integration of Little Rock Central in 1957. 

Betty E. Dalke ’68 

Betty E. Dalke of Fort Smith, Ark., died Aug. 31, 2008, at the 

age of 86. She was a retired teacher. 

Alvin Sherby ’68 

Alvin Sherby of Mt. Laurel, N.J., died June 2, 2008, at 

the age of 66. He was a long-time educator and coach in 

Camden, N.J. 

Martha (Homer) Goza ‘69 

Martha (Homer) Goza of Clarksville died July 26, 2008, at 

the age of 76. She was a retired teacher, homemaker and 

member of the Cabin Creek Baptist Church. 

Diana F. Hartzell ’69 

Diana F. Hartzell of Virginia Beach, Va., passed away on May 

15, 2008. She worked in child care in several churches. 

Larry A. Keys ’71 

Larry A. Keys of Cedarville, Ark., died July 16, 2008, at 

the age of 59. He was a U.S. Army veteran and a retired 

Whirlpool employee. 

Jerry P. Stumbaugh ’72 

Jerry Paul Stumbaugh of Little Rock, Ark., died Sept. 30, 

2008, at the age of 58. He was a CPA. 

Charles L. Holman ’74 

Charles L. Holman of Clarksville died May 5, 2008, at the 

age of 58. 

Dr. John E. King 

Dr. John E. King of West Columbia, S.C. died June 28, 2008, 

at the age of 94. He was a lifetime member of the U of O 

Board of Trustees.

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