Alumni of the El Dorado Junior High School bands are honoring their former band director by establishing the William L. and Dorothy M. Craig Endowed Scholarship at Southern Arkansas University. Craig was junior high band director from 1952 to 1969 and is a graduate of the University. Prior to beginning his teaching career, Craig served… Read More
SAU Foundation Receives $10,150 from Monsanto Fund to Purchase Equipment for the new University Science Center
Magnolia, Ark – The Southern Arkansas University Foundation recently received $10,150 from the Monsanto Fund, a private foundation and the philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company, to purchase equipment for use by the Biology Department in the new SAU Science Center, which is scheduled to open in the fall of 2010. “SAU Foundation is pleased to… Read More
Book Signing Monday for Dr. James Willis’ History of SAU
MAGNOLIA— Whenever someone asks Dr. James F. Willis why it took four years to write his recently completed centennial history of Southern Arkansas University, he replies with one word, research. Posing for a photo at the SAU Archives with the eleven boxes of notes he took while gathering information about SAU’s past 100 years, the… Read More
Book Signing for Dr. James F. Willis
MAGNOLIA—Southern Arkansas University will host a book signing for James F. Willis, University Historian and author of Southern Arkansas University: The Mulerider School’s Centennial History, 1909-2009 at 7 p.m. on Nov. 30 in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. The event will include a reception for Willis at 6:30… Read More
Albemarle Lecture to Focus on Testing in Education
MAGNOLIA─ Southern Arkansas University will host the 2009 Albemarle Lecture at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, in Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. Albemarle Corporation sponsors the annual event, and works in conjunction with the SAU College of Education to organize the lecture. This year’s speaker, Dr. Pat Cooper,… Read More
Southern Arkansas University Alum Ray Burns Establishes Nursing Endowment
Ray Burns has established the Emogene Winn Burns, Ray Burns, & John G. Winn Endowment in memory of his late wife, Emogene Winn Burns and his late daughter, Suzanne Harvey who was a nurse. Burns met the first recipient of his endowment, Christy Wust, a sophomore working on her associates in nursing earlier this week…. Read More
Southern Arkansas University will be joined by Archie Monroe, 99, for the Great Southern Arkansas Mule Ride
Archie Monroe may have more in common with Southern Arkansas University than anyone else in Columbia County. As the University celebrates its Centennial, so does Monroe who turns 100-years-old on November 23. That means that Monroe, who was born in 1909, has been around as long as the University and has witnessed the changes the… Read More
Magale Foundation Trustees—friends of the library and the Southern Arkansas University Band program visit campus
Students in the Southern Arkansas University band could be using instruments older than they were, but generous donations from the Magale Foundation Trustees have allowed for the purchase of more modern equipment. On Wednesday, August 5, several trustees of the Magale Foundation visited Magale Library on campus—named in honor of John F. and Joanna G…. Read More
First Recipients of the David Sixbey Foreign Studies Endowment Grant announced
Casey L. Hayes and Daniel S. Hammack are the first recipients of the David Sixbey Foreign Studies Endowment Grants for Study Abroad. Both students traveled to Moscow this summer. The grants are made possible by a generous contribution by Amy and Pat Sixbey in honor of David Sixbey. Professor Sixbey is a former history faculty… Read More
Ronnie Ribble Appointed on Southern Arkansas University Board of Trustees
Ronnie Ribble has been appointed by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe to serve on the Southern Arkansas University Board of Trustees. Ribble will fill the vacancy on the board left by Kelvin Wyrick of Texarkana who was appointed by Beebe in May as an Arkansas Circuit Court Judge, Division 2 of the 8th Judicial District South…. Read More
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