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Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Alumni Ouachita Baptist University Spring 2005 The Ouachita Circle Spring 2005 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 Spring 2005" (2005). The Ouachita Circle: The Alumni Magazine of Ouachita Baptist University. 48. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag/48 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... A few months ago, just as the fall semester was getting underway, I received an e-mail message from our registrar, Judy Jones, who is in charge of admitting new students to Ouachita. Judy indicated that her office had received several applications fo r admission that week for Fall 2005-and one application fo r Fall 201 0! Here's the story . .. T he 2010 applicant's forms lacked some important information, so one of our staff members, Jill Houlihan, sent an e-mail message to ask for a little clarification. A short time later, Jill received this reply: "I would li ke to be honest with you and let you know that I an1 only rwelve years old, but my application was sincere. I would like to go to O uachita some day. People are always telling me to start thinking about college soon, so I have done exactly that. I have dreamed of going to O uachita since I was seven years old. When I graduate from high school I will send you my SAT scores and any other information that you may require. I hope you do not think this is a prank, because I hope you will consider my application." I won't divulge the young lady's name bur I plan to send her a copy of this edition of the O uachita Circle, along \Vim mr congrarularion for making such wise decisions! T he moral to the story? Talk with your children and grandchildren about the importance of a O uachita education. We're already recruiting the entering class of 2010, so don't let the grass grow befo re you have that conversation. As always, please keep O uachita in your prayers. BOARD OF TRUSTEES Junanne Brown Jack Hazlewood Johnny Heflin Frank Hickingbotham Rex M. Horne, Jr. Vickie Keeton Taylor King Larry Kircher Jim Lagrone Ginger Morgan Mollie Morgan Quinton Moss Faron Rogers Paul Sanders Ken Shaddox William H. Sutton Lloyd Thrash Ray Turnage Mike Vinson Brice Wagner John Ward Richard Wells John Williamson Tony Yocom CHANCELLOR Ben M. Elrod PRESIDENT EMERITUS Daniel R. Grant DEVELOPMENT STAFF Joe Franz, Vice President for Development John Cloud, Associate Vice President for Estate and Gift Planning Kathy Berry, Associate Vice President for Major Gifts James Guthrie, Development Officer Shirley Hardin, Development Officer Bill Wright, Development Officer INSIDE FORMER STUDENTS • Hampton Board Room AssOCIATION ADVISORY BOARD Couple honored for decades ofservice .... Page 2 Becky Sutton Kirkpatrick, President Steve Lemmond, 1st Vice President Doug West, 2nd Vice President Flight 1420 Memorial Wesley Kluck, Tiger Network Chair Remembering june 1, 1999 ... Page 10 Arkansas Advisors: Pauline Henderson Blacknall, Pam Taylor Carroll, Tiffeny Thompson Crow, The Stephen Foster Story Suzanne Duke Franklin, Chris Lawson, Dr. Scott Holsclaw passes the torch ... Page 1 I Jeff Teague Out-of-State Advisors: Tom Aud, G. B. "Kip" Colvin, Alumni Associations formed across U.S. Denise Leverett Elliott, Susan McCain Hinger, Alumni assist with 1·ecmitment, job placement ... Page 17 Christi Lyday Nichols, Ezekiel "Zeke" Vaughn • Finding Peace Through Music The Ouachita Circle is a publication of Ouachita Baptist University, josh Payne debuts "Your Love, My Home" ... Page 20 QBU Box 3762, Arkadelphia, AR 71998-0001 • Phone 870-245-5000 e Lacy Fleming Shines on her Special Night Alumni E-mail: [email protected] Ouachita senio1·places at Miss Ame1ica ... Page 30 Deborah Root, Editor Randy Garner, Assistant to the President for Enrollment Management/Dir. of Alumni Affairs Making Connections Rebecca Jones, Assistant to the President Ouachita launches new marketing campaign ... Page 31 for Public Relations Jennifer Byrd, Asst. Dir. of Public Relations Bettie Duke, Alumni Affairs Hall of Fame Kevin Wieser, Director of Tiger Network Seven honored for athletic contributions ... Page 34 Printed by Twin City Printing and Litho, Inc. Cover photo by Karen Thormon/Page One photo by Katherine Jenkins he year was 1939. "The as the business manager for Wizard of Oz" and "Gone the yearbook. According to Twith the Wind" played Hampton, "all of this was good in theatres . Bread cost 8 cents a training and experience for later loaf. Pan American airlines began life." making commercial flights across The fall semester of the Atlantic O cean, and the first Hampton's junior year-1941- "automatic" cars were available. was a pivotal time in his life. Franldin Delano Roosevelt was It was during this time that he president, and he insisted that would meet the woman who the United States would not would become his wife of almost become involved in the war in 60 yea rs. It was also during this Europe. semes ter that the United States At Ouachita, a new student entered World War II. entered his fres hman year of In September of '41, college, the first in his family Hampton met Betty Lou Stanfill, to have the opportunity. He a freshman from North Little would make a lasting impact on Rock. "We met at the dining the campus. He would go on to hall, and I liked what I saw. I serve his country in World War II did immediately like her as a and the Korean Conflict, and he person. She was easy to be with, would even sell automatic cars at her background as a preacher's the dealership he would own. His daughter pleased me, she was Jeral Hampton (center) with children, name was Jeral H ampton, and beautiful and we just seemed to John Hampton & Janie Woolley on a hot August day in 1939, he fit." Hampton was a member of began a legacy at Ouachita that the Sigma Alpha Sigma men's Hampton Board Room continues today. social club. He invited Stanfill on "No one on either side of a first date, a hay ride sponsored my family had been to college, by the social club. The couple even though my mother and found they had a lot in common. Jeral & Betty Idampton father were schoolteachers," They dated occasionally and said Hampton. "But, it was eventually became an exclusive just assumed that I was going pa1r. honored for to college, and I was going to On Sunday, December 7 Ouachita, even though it was a of that same year, Hampton long way from Booneville." learned that the United States service to @uachita Hampton made the 3. 5 had entered World War II. It hour trip from Booneville to was an unnerving rime, so much Arkadelphia where he majored so that Hampton and a friend in business and minored in from Booneville made the trip history. Hampton's father was home that evening so they could in the business of selling cars, be with their parents. They "It's enjoyable. which allowed him the unique returned to campus the following opportunity of having a car on morning in time to make their 8 There is a satisj1ctirm that is similar campus. It also gave him the o'clock classes. Hampton and chance to work as a student. many other Ouachita students to thrrt which we er!joy when seming in the church. Hampton was responsible for participated in the university's You are seruing people, and I love people. advertising campus athletic ROTC program. Participation in events in nearby communities. the program allowed Hampton It hrt.s been rm opportunity rl service for my Lord He would use a loud speaker to complete his studies before and also .fi'r young people. " system on loan from Ouachita entering the armed forces full and would drive through time. • _) eral Hampmn towns like Benton and Prescott The day after his 1943 announcing upcoming football graduation ceremony, Hampton games. He was paid 3 cents per left for Fort Benning, Georgia, mile for his wo rk, and the profit to complete an officer training helped him to fund his education. program. While there, he He also worked in other jobs penned a letter to Stanfill asking while at Ouachita, including for her hand in marriage. The assisting a professor and serving two exchanged vows in February 2 of 1944, just weeks before the second longest tenured board of value on their relationships Hampton was overwhelmed Hampton went overseas to begin member in Ouachita's history with Hampton as well. "Although by the news and grateful for his first tour of duty. He served having spent a total of 32 years Jeral Hampton was chairman Ouachita's recognition of his his country as a 2"d Lieutenant from 1964-2003 on the board. of the OBU board of trustees service and of his wife's support. in Company K 331" Infantry, Hampton credits his wife, in 1969 when I was elected "My voice broke," he said. "Here 83'd Division. Hampton served who passed away in December of president, and for many years was a resolution that was going bravely and was even among 2003, for her continued support after that, I still think of him first to name a board room after Jeral those who defended the territory of his service.