Today, FALL/WINTER 2008 1 - University of the Ozarks

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.
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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!”