Category: Summer 2020

Class News

Geneva Scoggin ’55 recently moved to Farmersville, Texas. She is proud of her children and grandchildren and enjoys being active in their lives. After graduating from SSC, she continued her education at the University of Houston, and received an MPA from Angelo State University. J.W. Evers ’57 was recently selected

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In Memory of

1930-1939 Maureen Harris ’37 December 4, 2019 Annie Dean McGuire Rodgers ’39 April 28, 2020 1940-1949 Ellen Minor ’42 January 8, 2020 Billie Locke Culver ’43 March 21, 2020 Richard Hampton Jones ’45 February 13, 2020 William Frank ’48 November 21, 2019 Silas Fernon Smith ’48 March 4, 2020 Charles

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VISTA provides Muleriders a unique experience

With the priority goal of breaking cycles of poverty for students, the SAU+VISTA program continues to make a difference in the lives of current and future Muleriders on our campus. In 2019, an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) program was established at SAU toward the goal of poverty

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Orval’s Boys remember beloved agriculture mentor

For generations of students, Orval Childs, an agriculture professor for 34 years at Southern State College, served as a popular and profound mentor whose influence is still felt among alumni who consider themselves “Orval’s Boys.” “My dad was my best mentor,” said Jim Baker, Faulkner County judge and a 1968

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Celebrating SAU

In times of social distancing, members of the Mulerider Family that are scattered across the country found a way to come together as one. SAU alumni and friends, students, faculty, and staff, wherever they were, traded their casual quarantine apparel for SAU Blue and Gold for #MuleriderStrong Day on Tuesday,

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Mulerider Athletics: GAC All-Decade Teams

In January, the Great American Conference looked back at the league’s first nine years, which began in 2011-12 with nine charter universities, and announced the all-decade teams for 13 sponsored sports. With a voting electorate consisting of league coaches, sports information directors, athletics directors, senior woman administrators and media members,

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Forbes ’88 advances to basketball oasis

In a 2009 article for GoDuke.com, longtime Durham, North Carolina, sportswriter Al Featherston remarked that “Tobacco Road is not so much a geographical location as it is a basketball oasis – the one place in the South where the hardwood sport reigns supreme.” For former Mulerider Baseball pitcher and SAU

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Muleriders shielding the community

In response to the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the SAU Engineering and Physics Department adapted its 3D-printing resources to produce face shields for Magnolia Regional Medical Center (MRMC) and many other local medical professionals that are on the front lines of the worldwide pandemic. The Engineering Department has

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Keeping young musicians sharp

In order to keep young musicians sharp with schools out of session due to COVID-19, Southern Arkansas University music majors offered free 25-minute lessons to 9th-12th graders via Skype, Facetime or Zoom. Student-teachers in the Music Education program reached out to high school students and provided online instruction aimed at

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