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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Alumni Ouachita Baptist University Winter 2003 The Ouachita Circle Winter 2003 Ouachita Baptist University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag Part of the Organizational Communication Commons, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons Recommended Citation Ouachita Baptist University, "The Ouachita Circle Winter 2003" (2003). The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University. 62. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag/62 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Ouachita Alumni at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Word from the President ... As the parents of a 13-year-old daughter, Jeanna and I are reminded every day just how great it is not to be 13 years old! Of all the wistful comments that I hear from my middle-aged friends, the one I never hear is," "Wouldn't it be great to go back and relive those junior high years?" Being a teenager has always been tough, but being a teenager today may be more dangerous than ever before. We pray for our daughter, we try to impose the right boundaries, we encourage, we have straight talks, and we recognize that our credibility deteriorates during these particular years. That's why we're grateful that Riley is blessed by being a part of a great youth program in our church in Arkadelphia. So what does that have to do with Ouachita? The answer is that many of our Ouachita students are investing themselves in the lives of junior and senior high kids in Arkadelphia's churches. They speak with authority to our kids and their lives are beautiful examples of the ways in which Christ makes a difference, an eternal difference. On a recent Saturday night, David James, the leader of the collegiate ministry team for the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, spoke to the youth of our church. Afterwards, as I thanked him for making the drive from Little Rock, he looked around the room at the dozen or so Ouachita students who were caring for our kids and said, "It must be great to see the fruits of your labor return to help your own daughter." It was such a transparent observation, but it was one that I had missed. Frankly, my labor is a tiny part, if that, of bringing these students to this point of ministry. Instead, it is the parenting they received, the influence of servant-leaders in their home churches, the relationships with Ouachita faculty and staff, and - especially - the abundant grace of God. For all of these things, and especially for the presence of these students in our lives, I am grateful. As always, please keep Ouachita in your prayers. PRESIDENT Andrew Westmoreland 'rhe BoARD oF TRUSTEES Junanne Brown •••••••••••••••••••UACHITA IRCLE Jack Hazlewood • • • The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University Arkad• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••elphia, AR Vol. 2, 2003 Johnny Heflin Frank Hickingbotham Vickie Keeton Taylor King Larry Kircher Wesley Kluck Jim Lagrone Richard Lusby Ginger Morgan Mollie Morgan Quinton Moss Paul Sanders Ken Shaddox William H. Sutton Lloyd Thrash Mike Vinson Brice Wagner John Ward Richard Wells Gene Whisenhunt John Williamson Tony Yocom CHANCELLOR Ben M. Elrod DEVELOPMENT STAFF Joe Franz, Vice President for Development John Cloud, Associate Vice President for Estate and Gift Planning Kathy Berry, Development Officer James Guthrie, Development Officer Shirley Hardin, Development Officer Hickingbotham Hall 2-3 Bill Wright, Development Officer Deborah Root, Dir. of Frank Hickingbotham provides $3 million gift Development Publications for state-of-the-art business facility. FoRMER STUDENTS AssociATION ADVISORY BoARD Larry Frisby, President • AN INSIDE LooK• Becky Sutton Kirkpatrick, 1st Vice President Steve Lemmond, 2nd Vice President, Development News 4 Wesley Kluck, Tiger Network Chair Arkansas Advisors: Academic News 10 Pauline Henderson Blacknall, Vickie LeMay Keeton, Chris Lawson, Campus News 14 Bobbi Beeson Shepherd, Doug West, Bob White Out-oFState Advisors: Sports News 18 G. B. "Kip" Colvin, Denise Leverett Elliott, Susan McCain Hinger, Alumni News 20 Kathy Hossler McDonald, Ezekiel "Zeke" Vaughn, Duke Wheeler Memorials 22 The Ouachita Circle is a publication of Class Notes (marriages, births, deaths) 25 Ouachita Baptist University, OBU Box 3762, Arkadelphia, AR 71998-0001 ·Phone 870-245-5000 The Financial Adviser A-C Alumni E-mail: [email protected] Randy Garner, Assistant to the President Donor List 45 for Enrollment Management • • • •••••••••••••••••••••• and Director ofAlumni Affairs Rebecca Jones, Assistant to the President On the cover: Ouachita Student Senate President Sarah Huckabee, Arkansas First for Public Relations Lady Janet Huckabee, Governor Mike Huckabee, and Ouachita President Andrew Mac Sisson, Asst. Dir. ofPublic Relations Westmoreland in the Govern01's Conference Room at the State Capitol. (st01y Bettie Duke, Alumni page 9) • photo courtesy of Jim Harris/Governor's Office Kevin Wieser, Director of Tiger Network Printed by Twin City Printing and Litho, Inc. Hickingbotham Hall Frank H ickingbotham provides ~3 million gift for state-of-the-art business facility HICKINGBOTHAM SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ctJ OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY "It has been a plea ure ,·orking alongside friend a 0 wchita to be a part of this u d hope that he n11e m it effon - - ne:rt 2 • Hickingbotham Hall Business students at Ouachita will the site of Old Main Hall, one of the by earning accreditation from AACSB soon have the opportunity to study in first campus buildings, so the new I nternationa 1-The Association to a new state-of-the-art facility thanks facility will serve as a connection to Advance Collegiate Schools of Busi­ ( to a ~3 million gift from Frank D. the university's history. ness. Hickingbotham, according to Dr. "In this competitive economic "We are grateful for Mr. Andrew Westmoreland, president of climate," said Westmoreland, "we Hickingbotham's generous support of Ouachita. The new facility will offer a believe it is important to give our our program," said Dr. Ph il Rice, dean total of approximately 40,000 square students the best tools possible to of the Hickingbotham School of feet of space, which will almost assist them in the educational process. Business. "He is a member of our double the space currently used by Hickingbotham Hall will help us to executive advisory board and never the Hickingbotham School of Busi- accomplish that goal. The new facility misses a meeting. That type of per­ ness. will include computer labs, an audito­ sonal commitment from leaders such "Over the years, Ouachita's school rium, classrooms, faculty offices and a as Mr. Hickingbotham is t remen­ of business has demonstrated a student lounge. We are honored to dously valuable to our students. Also, commitment to constant improve­ have Mr. Hickingbotham's continued I believe that the addition of this ment and has a reputation for provid­ support, and we look forward to facility will provide a critical element ing students with a high quality working with other friends to finish that will help take our program to the education," sa id Hickingbotham. " It the financing for the project." next level. Over the years, we've has been a pleasure working alongside Hickingbotham, the chairman of worked to put together the four friends at Ouachita to be a part of this the board and chief executive officer necessary ingredients for a strong undertaking. It is my hope that the of Hickingbotham Investments, Inc. program. We've sought to assemble a new building will help the sc hool of the founder and former cha irman of strong faculty, to attract and mentor business to continue in its efforts the board, and CEO of TCBY Enter­ students who want to learn, to toward educating the next prises, Inc., has a long-held interest in develop a curriculum that is relevant generation's business leaders." Ouachita. A former student, Hicking­ and challenging and to house all of The gift will be matched through botham ha s maintained support of the this in an environment most condu­ fundraising efforts that will take place school for many years and has been a cive to learn ing. Frank D. Hicking­ over the next nine months with contributing factor to the growth of botham Hall is the final needed construction of the new Frank D. the business program. ingredient and will be a wonderful Hickingbotham Hall set to begin next Business courses have been learning center." year. The total cost of the building is offered at Ouachita for more than 100 The gift moves Ouachita past the estimated to be ~6 million. years. A division of bu siness was ~47 million mark in its Circle of Hickingbotham Hall will serve as organized in the early 1950s, and the Excellence ca mpaign. Th e campaign the anchor for a series of buildings Frank D. Hicking botham School of goal of ~62.5 million is Ouachita's known as the mega-structure, which Business was established in 1992. In most ambitious fund-raising campaign houses the majority of class room 1999, Hickingbotham and severa l to date. The campa ign is the f irst space at Ouachita. Centrally located family members ass isted t he school by phase in what will be a decade-long on campus, the new hall will be helping to endow the program. In effort to reach a goal of ~125 million in positioned in an area that was once 2002, the school ga ined recognition support for the University. • Rebecca Jones Hickingbotham Hall • 3 Challenge gift pron1pts fall phonathon Students at Ouachita ference, and it provides a per­ the only change in the Phonathon since there was no have been busy contacting fect opportunity to involve Phonathon's format.

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