Hutchison marks 80th birthday
Yvonne Baker Hutchison of Farmington will celebrate her 80th birthday with a party from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Farmington Senior Center.
Hutchison was born April 4, 1934, in the Onda community near West Fork to Edgar and Zona Mae Baker. She has lived in Northwest Arkansas all of her life and has family in Farmington, Fayetteville and West Fork.
She worked for the University of Arkansas Police Department for more than 25 years. She has been involved with the Farmington Veterans Memorial and Life Ministries at First Baptist Church of Prairie Grove.
Her children Colette Schenewerk, Vicki Bedford and Russ Hutchison will host the party.
Shiloh Museum staff honored
Two staff members at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale received awards at the Arkansas Museums Association conference in North Little Rock.
Museum director Allyn Lord won the Peg Newton Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lord worked at the University of Arkansas Museum and the Rogers Historical Museum before becoming director of the Shiloh Museum in 2005.
Museum maintenance manager and groundskeeper Marty Powers earned Museum Professional of the Year Honorable Mention. Powers is a retired captain with the Fayetteville Fire Department who began working at the museum in 2008.
Ozarks alumni plan banquet
The University of the Ozarks Alumni Association will honor five alumni at the 2014 Alumni Weekend Awards Banquet on April 12. The banquet will be held at 12:30 p.m. in the university's Rogers Conference Center in Clarksville.
Those honored will be Dr. Danny J. Aquilar, Ivan S. Quant, Catherine "Bitsy" Rogers Bumpers, Evan Hoffmeyer and Rickey Casey.
Aquilar, of Russellville, owns the Aquilar Foot Clinic in Russellville. He will receive the 2014 Alumni Achievement Award.
Quant, of Managua, Nicaragua, will receive the 2014 Alumni Merit Award. He holds a marketing degree from the university and owns several businesses with his family.
Bumpers will be presented the 2014 Legacy Award. A Clarksville native, she worked for the university for several years and has been a supporter of the school for more than 60 years.
Hoffmeyer, of Indianapolis, is the web content writer for WTHR. He will be presented with the 2014 Young Alumni Service Award.
Casey, a professor of business managment at the univeristy, will receive the Faculty Enrichment Award. He graduated from the university in 1979.
NAN Our Town on 04/03/2014