Ouachita Baptist University News

Sen.Bob Johnson has appointed Paul Dumas , a Morrilton lawyer, to the state Ethics Commission t o fill a seat vacated by a commissioner running for office.

The San Marcos Area Board of Realtors has announced the recipient of its second annual Corporal Michael W. Davis Scholarship of $2,000. Paul Hill, a 2009 graduate of San Marcos High School, will attend Ouachita Baptist University in the fall to major in political science.

Following the 1992 presidential election, some Republicans probably wondered if anything good could come from Arkansas.

Joyce Hood and Jerry Gribble II of College Station are pleased to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.

Ouachita Baptist University has released its honor rolls for the spring 2009 semester.

HARRSION - Local students named to the dean's list at North Arkansas College for the spring semester include: Full-time - Russell Presley, Amanda Roberts, Adam Stoner , Andrea Wallis, Jo Grayson , Gary Hancock, Stephen McGee , Cory Shelton , and Emily Walkins Part-time - Sharon Deming , Alicia Alvarez , Michael Codemo , and Ariane Hampton , ...

It's signing day in Conway but the students heading to college aren't athletes, this group earned college scholarships because of their academic abilities.

Upset that the gift had melted on its trip to Arkadelphia and that she was alone on her birthday, she turned to her dorm mother, Rosemary Chu, known on campus as Mom Chu.

Some things in life are a given, like death, taxes and for more than four decades, a dorm mother at Ouachita Baptist University.

Four Ouachita Baptist University faculty and staff members with more than a century of combined service to OBU will be honored at a retirement reception on Wednesday in Ouachita's Walker Conference Center.

GRADUATIONS Evan Soper, a 2004 graduate of Arkansas High School, has received a Bachelor of Science in biology from the University of Central Arkansas at Conway and has been accepted in the graduate program to study stream ecology.

Left: Morgan Harrison was recently crowned Miss Southwest Arkansas Outstanding Teen and will compete at Miss Arkansas Teen Pageant in Hot Springs in June.

The first phase of the Ouachita Baptist University Student Village in Arkadelphia should be completed by December.

In fact, laughter - and even music - could be heard from the library during a reportera s visit.

Jim and Ruth Monroe of White Hall and Stephen and Susan Pyle of Mountain Home announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their children, Sarah Monroe and Andrew Pyle.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Nyberg of Clinton announce the engagement of their daughter, Lindsay Rebecca, to Scott Russell LaRoe, son of Mrs.

SCHOLARSHIPS Hollyn McCarty, a senior at Fouke High School, was recently awarded two Ouachita Scholars scholarships to Ouachita Baptist University and a Tiger Network Leadership Award.

Ouachita Baptist University says it will cut about 12 percent of its administrative and staff positions, but no faculty members are to lose their jobs.

Officials at Ouachita Baptist University say the school is planning to eliminate several staff positions as part of a series of "budget adjustments" for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

BETHANY WHITFIELD, left, of Bryant is crowned Miss Ouachita Baptist University 2009 by Lauren English of Hot Springs, the 2008 queen.