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In 1999, the College began offering Distinguished
Alumni Awards, in recognition of the talents and accomplishments
of Fulbright College graduates.
These distinguished alumni were inducted into the
Fulbright College Alumni Academy for 2005. Congratulations to them
all.
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History: PAUL BERRY
Paul Berry operates his own government consulting and public
relations firm, Berry & Associates, which he established
in 1992. A 1964 graduate of the U of A, Berry served as campaign
director for U.S. Senator David Pryor’s re-election
campaign in 1984, and was a member of the Arkansas Finance
Committee during the 1992 Clinton for President Campaign.
He was senior vice president of Union National Bank of Little
Rock for 18 years. Currently he represents clients in a variety
of lobbying efforts with the Arkansas General Assembly, including
Alltell Corporation, Entergy Corporation, and the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce. From 1993 until 1998, he was vice president of
Global USA, Inc., a Washington, D.C. public affairs and lobbying
firm. Berry currently serves on the Board of Directors of
One Banc of Little Rock, a locally owned community bank.
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School of Social Work: BETTY ANDERSON GUHMAN
Betty Anderson Guhman, a native Arkansan and former UA Professor
of Social Work, returned to Arkansas in 2005 following eight
years of public service in Washington, D.C. For two years,
she served as Chief of Staff to Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson
in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. For over thirty
years, Betty has been a dedicated public servant and social
worker, investigating child abuse and neglect in northwest
Arkansas and providing service training to social workers
across the state. While at the U of A, Guhman also served
as Director of the Undergraduate Social Work Program and as
the Director of the Fulbright School of Public Affairs from
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Pre-Medical Studies: EDITH IRBY JONES
One of today’s most accomplished physicians, Edith
Irby Jones has forged a career of firsts: in 1952, she was
the first black graduate from the University of Arkansas School
for Medical Sciences, was unanimously elected as the first
female president of the National Medical Association, and
was the first black woman resident at an all white school,
the Baylor College of Medicine Affiliated Hospitals. In 1962,
she set up a private practice in inner city Houston. She later
founded the Edith Irby Jones Foundation to fund scholarships
for the needy. She is a charter member of Physicians for Human
Rights, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998. She established
and supports a clinic in Vera Cruz, Mexico, and helped set
up a clinic for the poor in Haiti. Jones is currently chief
of medical staff at Riverside General Hospital and medical
director of the Universal Healthplan of Texas, Inc.
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Mathematical Sciences: RANDY
MOTT
Randall Mott is senior vice president and chief information
officer for Dell Inc., a $49.2 billion supplier of information
technology. Mott is responsible for managing Dell's global
information-technology infrastructure, including the backbone
of its extensive Internet, supply chain and Web-based capabilities.
After graduating from the U of A in 1978 with a B.S. in mathematics,
Mott joined Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. as a programmer for distribution
systems. Subsequently, he held numerous leadership positions
at Wal-Mart Stores, including senior vice president and chief
information officer from 1994 to 2000. Mott was instrumental
in developing many of the company’s world-class systems
and its IT strategy. In 2003, President George W. Bush named
Mott to the President’s Information Technology Advisory
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Journalism: RON ROBINSON
Ron Robinson is former chairman and chief executive officer
of Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods, a Little Rock marketing
agency he joined in 1970 after working 11 years in journalism
and as a public information officer. After spending five years
as a sportswriter for the Arkansas Gazette, he earned a B.A.
degree in journalism from the U of A in 1965. In 1966, he
studied public relations at the Boston University Graduate
School of Public Communications. He is a charter member of
the National Public Relations Network and a past member of
the Board of Directors of the Arkansas Advertising Federation.
In 1989, the Advertising Federation presented him with its
Distinguished Public Service Award for contributions to the
communications community. In February 1995, Robinson was named
"Business Executive of the Year" by Arkansas Business.
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Biological Sciences: ALBERT
LOUIS STEPLOCK, JR.
After earning a B.S. degree with honors from the U of A in
1972, Albert Louis Steplock, Jr. began medical school at Tulane
University in New Orleans, and in 1981, completed residency
in General Surgery at the Ochsner Clinic. In Memphis, he completed
a residency in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at the University
of Tennessee for Health Sciences in 1983. He moved to Casper
in 1985, becoming the only heart surgeon in Wyoming. While
at St. Peter Hospital in Washington from 1991 to 1997, he
began a new heart surgery program. During his career in heart
surgery, Steplock has performed about five thousand open heart
operations and has operated in six states. He is a member
of the American Medical Society, the American College of Surgeons,
and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is currently the
Medical Director for Cardiac Surgery at Wyoming Medical Center.
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