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With Renovation, Expansion, Arkansas Hall Provides Home for Theatre, Communication Majors, Page 3 From the President’s Pen Dear Reddie Alumni and Friends: I am pleased to welcome you to another edition of the Reddie Report. As you will see on the pages that follow, a lot is going on at your alma mater. It is simply not possible to tell you everything that is happening, but I can tell you that Henderson students, faculty, staff and alumni are engaged in a multitude of activities. Every week there are opportunities to attend and participate in concerts, plays, athletic contests, art shows, and other activities. Our Reddie and Lady Reddie basketball teams are positioning themselves for the playoffs, so that is exciting to watch. We recently had the opportunity to attend the fourth annual President’s Concert, a special occasion that showcases our best student musicians as they play with a string section from the Arkansas Sym- phony Orchestra. We also celebrated the grand opening of our new studio theatre in Arkansas Hall with a production of Thornton Wilder’s play, Our Town. Incidentally, if you managed to see that production, you know that your Henderson president enjoyed playing a small role as the pedantic Professor Willard. While performances and activities abound, we are also focused on academic success. Do you know that our accounting students regularly score at or near the top of the CPA exam each year? Or, that graduating pre- medical students at Henderson are so prepared that they are almost guaranteed to get admitted into medical school? Or, that our teacher education graduates are among the most sought after teachers in the region? We work very hard to ensure that we recruit a diverse, superior student body that will benefit from the curriculum and activities at Henderson State University. We continue to be very proud of our students and their achievements. I hope you will resolve to become a bigger part of Henderson in the year 2004. We need your help now more than ever. The effect of state budget cuts in recent years has been to shift much more of the cost of education to our students who often struggle to meet that growing expense. Scholarships in all areas are needed more than ever before. Your help in that regard might mean that a capable, but needy student can enter or remain in school. Please consider assisting Henderson with a generous donation this year. I am sure the members of the HSU Alumni Board would welcome your gift to the Alumni Scholarship Fund or we can help you find an area of interest that suits you better. Henderson is a wonderful place to be! Please visit and keep in touch with your alma mater as often as you are able. I hope to see or hear from you soon. Best wishes. Sincerely, Charles D. Dunn, Ph.D. President What’s Inside Letter from the Director..............................................................2 Arkansas Hall .......................................................................... 3-4 Duke Makes Cut for 2004 PGA Tour .........................................5 Jesse Branch Selected for Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame...............5 Jacobs, Takahashi Are Distinguished Alumni...............................6 Three Alumni Honored ..............................................................7 New Administrators ....................................................................8 Finding a Place to Soar................................................................9 Where They are Now ................................................................10 Alum Notes, Births, Weddings, Obituaries.......................... 11-12 President’s Concert, $1 Million Year, Cullen Scholarship ..........13 Brady Scholarship & Annual Fund News ..................................14 Honor Roll of Donors 2002-2003 ...................................... 15-18 'Photographs and Memories'–Reddies at Work and Play ..... 19-21 Henderson State License Plate...................................... back cover The background photograph on this page is courtesy of the Reid Sloan family. The cover is the work of Henderson graphic design student Jay Epperhart. Director of Alumni Services Alumni Association Board The Reddie Report is published twice a year. SUSAN WESSON MYERS, ‘01, ‘02 VELDA HAYNIE HOLMES, ’57, President For information or to publish material contact Alumni Services. TIMOTHY BARNES, ’88, President Elect Director of Development ELLIS COKES, SR., ’55, Past President JOHN GYLLIN, ‘94, ‘96 SUNNIE DILLARD SMEDLEY, ’56, ’77, Secretary Office of Alumni Services GWENDOLYN ADAMS, ’76, ‘78 1100 Henderson Street, HSU Box 7703 Publication Coordination TERRY BLAYLOCK, ’76, ‘77 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71999-0001 Office of Public Relations RUSSELL CERRATO, ’61, ‘65 KENNETH MULDREW, ‘72 Toll Free 1-877-RED-ALUM (733-2586) Contributors KATHERINE DRAPER RICHARDSON, ’65, ‘72 CRYSTAL CAMPBELL, Alumni Services or 870-230-5401 BILL SHIRRON, ‘58 JAY EPPERHART, Graphic Design Student ANDREW TOLBERT, ’74, ‘77 [email protected] BRENDA HAWKES, Development Officer DON DYER, ’55, ‘62 SUSAN MARGRAVE, Coordinator of Media Relations CHARITA FUTRELL, ‘97 President C.C. MCDONALD, ’62, ‘78 Office of Development CHARLES D. DUNN, Ph.D. RANDY STEWART, ’74, ‘02 1100 Henderson Street, HSU Box 7540 ROBIN CARROLL, ‘93 Board of Trustees ROSELLE COE ROBERSON, ’96, ‘02 Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71999-0001 ANITA CABE, '66, Chair WINCIE DAVIS HUGHES, ‘54 Toll Free 1-877-RED-ALUM (733-2586) BRUCE MOORE, '89, Vice Chair BILL CAMPBELL, ’57, ‘73 CAROL JO ATKINSON, '73, '74, Secretary MAX TACKETT, ‘76 or 870-230-5401 PAUL DIXON, '56 [email protected] ROSS M. WHIPPLE, '73 TIMOTHY “ALEX” STRAWN, '71 CAROLYN TENNYSON, '74 Calendar of Events April 5& 6 HSU Opera Workshop Harwood Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. April 8-10 & 15-17 Arkansas Hall Studio Theatre HSU Theatre presents Picnic, 7:30 p.m. Letter from the Director April 12 Ken Duke Golf Tournament Greetings, Reddie Alumni! DeGray State Park Golf Course With the start of a new year, we have the opportunity to look back at the past year and April 14 look forward to opportunities ahead. Homecoming was very successful with many alumni Heart and Key Scholarship Reception returning for reunions and the game. Mark your calendar for next year’s homecoming GACC Banquet Room, 6:30 p.m. weekend October 15-16. The class of 1954 is already preparing for their Golden Reddie April 15 reunion! Founders Day One of our greatest successes of 2003 was the Red-e-news e-mail newsletter. We have April 16, 8:00 p.m. and April 18, 3:00 p.m. constantly been adding e-mail addresses, and we are excited that we can keep in contact with Turandot by Giacomo Puccini alumni across the globe! If you sent your email address to [email protected], but you are not presented by HSU Concert Choir, Harding receiving the Red-e-news on the second Friday of each month, then please try again. We had University Choir, Hendrix Choir, soloists, & some technical difficulties and may have lost some of those e-mails. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Robinson Center Music Hall, Little Rock Tickets secured by calling The Arkansas We are also working to find the addresses of some of our lost alumni. You can view lost Symphony office at 501-666-1761 alumni by class year through our website www.hsu.edu/dept/alum. If you know where any of these lost alums are, give us a call with an update. April 22-23 Dance Company in Concert We are always looking for exciting ways to share the Reddie Spirit. If you would like to Arkansas Hall, 7:30 p.m. have Dr. Dunn come to your home and host other alumni in your area for a ‘Heartstring Gathering’ then let us know. We strive to be the link between the university today and your April 23 memories from yesterday. Nu-Fusion Concert HSU Quad, 8:00 p.m. Sincerely April 24 Sporty Day Carpenter-Haygood Stadium Susan Wesson Myers April 27 Director of Alumni Services ('01,'02) Spring Choral Concert Harwood Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. May 7 Distinguished Alumni Dinner GACC Banquet Room, 6:00 p.m. May 8 Commencement Carpenter-Haygood Stadium, 9:00 a.m. Subscribe to the Red-e-news. Send an e-mail to [email protected] June 28 with “subscribe” in the subject line. School of Business Golf Tournament ******* Diamante Golf Club Hot Springs Village Would you like to purchase a VHS tape or DVD of your graduation? You can order tapes or DVDs from as far back as 1990. The cost for a DVD is $17 and a tape is $15. For more information, contact Sandy Rogers at (870) 230-5326. Reddie Report Spring 2004 • Page 2 With Renovation, Expansion, Arkansas Hall Provides Home for Theatre, Communication Majors By Susan Margrave It’s simple, really. specially constructed three-manual Möller organ theatre facility was in Arkansas Hall, but we If you’re looking for a music major on the and the latest type of stage and projection didn’t have offices or other facilities there. Some Henderson State University campus, you go to equipment. The second floor came to house the were in Goodloe. One was in the basement of Russell Fine Arts Building. If you’re looking for Henderson Museum, which previously had had Newberry. We had space in Turrentine. When a chemistry or biology major, you go to no real home but did contain pieces that were of Arkansas Hall closed for the renovation, the Reynolds Science Center. If you’re looking for museum value. theatre program lost its performance space, and an English major, you look in McBrien Hall. The renovated structure houses a communica- the TV program lost the studio.” Until the spring semester of 2004, however, if tion lab, which provides speech tutoring for oral Last year, Henderson closed down the television you were looking for a theatre major or a communication students and research facilities program, he said, because there simply was no communications major, you’d just have to find out where a class was being held or where a particular professor’s office was located – and that could be most anywhere on the campus.