The Walk
Before 1970
Claud Baker, BS’66, MS’68, is an award winning teacher and volunteer. In 2006, he received President Bush’s Volunteer Service Award for more than 4,000 hours of community service. He is a professor of biology at the University of Illinois in Indiana.
James D. Brown, MS’67, spent his entire career as a Native American liaison for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After his recent retirement, he moved to Williamston, North Carolina.
Robert Cashner, MS’67, is past president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. He is vice chancellor for research and sponsored programs and dean of the graduate school at the University of New Orleans.
Gilbert Castro, MS’63, serves as executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas Health Service Center in Houston, where he is also a professor of biology and pharmacology. He is also past president of the American Society of Parasitologists.
Gordon D. Morgan, MA’56, has published a new book titled No Violence is Progress: Early African-American Student Adjustment in a Southern University.
Alvin Huffman, BA’61, is chairman/CEO of Farmers Bank and Trust in Blytheville, Arkansas.
A completely revised and edited edition of The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre by Don Wilmeth, MA’62, was published in 2007. Wilmeth is a professor emeritus from Brown University.
1970s
David Speer, BA’75, is editorial manager for Better Homes and Gardens special interest publications.
Louie Graves III, BA’70, and Jane Graves, MS’71, are co-founders of the Nashville Leader, founded in 2003. Louie Graves is also a past president of the Arkansas Press Association.
Pamela D. Dose, BA’72, Tulsa, Oklahoma, is executive director of Tulsa CASA.
D. Malcolm McNair, BA’72, MS’74, JD’77, Fayetteville, was appointed to the ABA Continuing Legal Education Committee.
Lonnie R. Beard, JD’75, Fayetteville, has been appointed to the Arkansas Law Review.
Randall Mott, BS’78, Fulbright College distinguished alumnus, was promoted by Hewlett-Packard to an executive officer.
1980s
Charla Knowles Harris, BA’81, Texarkana, received the Max R. Haddick Teacher of the Year Award as the year’s outstanding high school journalism teacher.
Slocum Pickell, BA’89, JD’92, is practicing law, with offices in Little Rock and Pine Bluff.
Erich Staib, BA’85, is journal acquisitions editor for Duke University Press.
John R. Clark, PhD’83, Fayetteville, was awarded the John W. White Outstanding Team Award for research to evaluate and characterize phytonutrients in various foods and devise ways to improve retention in fresh and processed foods.
Luke R. Howard, MS’83, PhD’89, West Fork, was awarded the John W. White Outstanding Team Award.
1990s
T.J. Holmes, BA’99, was promoted to weekend anchor at CNN News in Atlanta, Georgia.
Courtney Latta, MPA’95, is a senior program officer with the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation in Las Vegas. She manages the application process for nonprofits seeking a capital grant.
Andy Westmoreland, MA’96, accepted the job of president of Samford University in Birmingham.
Justin Hunt, BS’98, was the second resident in the history of UAMS to be selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Only 28 U.S. residents received this honor; Hunt is in his last year in the general psychiatry program.
Lori Bailey, MS’94, received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Germany and a Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship from Emory University.
Elizabeth Barnes Keener, BA’97, is a talent agent at Lieberman/Patton Casting, Los Angeles and was casting director for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
Brandon Keener, BA’97, an actor in Los Angeles, has made guest appearances on The Office, Medium, Invasion, NYPD Blue, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He landed a feature role in the film The Good German.
John Rowland Monroe, BA’90, Little Rock, is vice president of Metropolitan National Bank.
Valerie H. Hunt, BA’96, JD’99, Ph.D’04, Fayetteville, is associate director of the UA Graduate School.
Deborah Marie Walter, BSE’97, MAT’99, Bella Vista, was honored as the National Secondary Physical Education Teacher of the Year by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education.
Patrick D. Wilson, JD’99, is a partner at Wright, Lindsey and Jennings in Little Rock.
Kevin Lewis Trainor, BA’94, MA’05, Fayetteville, received the Scoop Hudgens Award from the All-American Football Foundation.
2000s
Jared Bradshaw, BA’05, received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Gratz, Austria.
Rebecca Brooksher, BA’00, was lead actress in Dying City at the Lincoln Center, New York. She was nominated for the Lucille Lortel Best Actress, an off-Broadway award.
J. D. Lowery, BA’06, is the personal assistant to Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe.
Carol E. Rachal, BA’00, received the UA Employee of the Third Quarter Award for administrative assistant.
Dr. Elisabeth Megan Lau, BSA’03, is the equine medicine and surgery Intern at Comstock Large Animal Hospital in Reno, Nevada.
Ben Beaumont, BA’04, graduated from Leadership Little Rock as the youngest member of Class XXII.
Gary Moody, BA’02, is the executive director of the Young Democrats of Arkansas.
Gaby Jabbor, MPA’03, is working for the Canadian Public Health Association on an international immunization initiative to provide vaccines to children under five in underdeveloped countries.
Julie Petty, BA’04, has a degree in journalism, a husband, and two very young children. She also has cerebral palsy. Petty gave the keynote speech in October to more than 500 people with developmental disabilities from across Vermont who attended the Green Mountain Self-Advocates’ 10th annual conference at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center.
Friends
After four years of instruction in Arabic at the U of A and a summer spent in Lebanon studying intensive Arabic, Ron Fulmer passed the oral examination administered by the U.S. State Department and was offered a position as Arabic translator/interpreter in Iraq.
Patricia Cox, Greenwood, is associate director for the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences development office.
Sandra K. Edwards, Fayetteville, is associate director of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.
Matthew Koeppe completed a master’s in Latin American studies and a doctorate in geography at the University of Kansas. He held several fellowships and research grants from the Tinker Foundation and the Academy for Educational Development. He is currently a senior project manager for the Association of American Geographers.
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