People & Places

Brothers attain Eagle Scout rank

Garrett and Greyson Snell, both of Bentonville, are new Eagle Scouts. Thescouts are members of Troop 36, sponsored by First Christian Church of Bentonville.

They are the sons of David Snell of Bentonville. For their Eagle Scout projects, the boys worked with the Benton County Cemetery Preservation Group to restore several historic cemeteries.

Garrett worked with the group to clean up Williams Cemetery in Bentonville and Woods Cemetery in Little Flock. He and his volunteers cut and hauled off dead trees, dug up invasive bushes and removed brush and debris from the cemeteries.

Greyson helped restore Crain Cemetery near Elm Springs. The cemetery is located in the middle of a field, and the cattle had damaged a chain-link fence and knocked over some headstones.

Greyson and a volunteer crew cleaned up the cemetery, removed the old fence and installed a new barbed-wire fence around the cemetery.

Wilson earns scholarship

Andrea Wilson, 17, of Elkins has earned an Academic Distinction Scholarship from the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.

Wilson is a student at Elkins High School and will graduate in May. She is the daughter of Justin and Amber Wilson.

Wilson is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the student council and the National Honor Society. She is also a member of the basketball, softball, track and golf teams.

Roenfeldt named to USC Dean’s List

Rachel Roenfeldt, a 2011 graduate of Fayetteville High School, made the Dean’s List for spring and fall 2013 semesters at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Roenfeldt is a junior majoring in environmental studies. She works as an intern at The Nature Conservancy during the summers and has studied abroad in Guam and Palau doing marine biology research.

She plans to pursue a doctorate in cave biology conservation.

Jones participates in convention

Herman Jones of Fayetteville was a delegate to the 95th American Farm Bureau Convention, held Jan. 12-15 in San Antonio, Texas.

Voting delegates set this year’s policies for the national organization at the conference.

The policies will guide this year’s goals for the Farm Bureau.

Hotel employee honored for service

Christopher Jones, an employee at the Chancellor Hotel in Fayetteville, was honored by the Fayetteville Visitors Bureau as the inaugural Hero of the Year award recipient during aluncheon at the Fayetteville Town Center.

Jones was selected from 12 monthly winners who were chosen for their commitment to providing outstanding service to visitors.

Jones received an engraved plaque and a gift basket that included Razorback basketball tickets, a massage and tickets to a TheatreSquared production.

Dunsworth wins alumni award Richard L. Dunsworth, president of the University of the Ozarksin Clarksville, has been selected as one of 14 recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Graduate Alumni Award at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill.

The award recognizes the achievements of university alumni who hold graduate degrees. Dunsworth earned a master’s degree in education from the university in 1994.

Award winners will be recognized at a campus-wide event in the spring.

Dunsworth became the 25th president of the University of the Ozarks last June. He was previously interim president and vice president of enrollment at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill.

UAFS professor publishes e-book

“The Arms of Michael,” an e-book by University of Arkansas at Fort Smith professor Robert Willoughby, is now available to readers on Amazon Kindle.

The book is a supernatural Christian novel set in Israel during the excavation of a 12th-century castle. Willoughby’s novel focuses on matters of faith and science.

The novel was published by Phoenix International in Fayetteville. A print version may follow.

Willoughby is the author of three other books - “The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West,” “Robidoux’s Town: A 19th-century History of St. Joseph, Mo.” and “The Great Western Migration to the Gold Fields of California.” He came to UA Fort Smith in 2006.

Casey selected as collegiate officer

Rickey Casey, a professor of management and business at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, has been elected vice president for Region Six of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.

Casey’s term began Jan. 1 and will run through the end of the year. He will become president of the assemblies in 2015.

Region Six includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Casey has been a full-time faculty member at the university since 1987.

Bentonville names Outstanding Citizens

Bentonville Mayor Bob McCaslin announced the fourth quarter winners of the city’s Outstanding Citizen Award on Jan. 21. Winners are Caroline Fox, Drew Collom and Friends of the Bentonville Library.

Caroline Fox, a senior at Bentonville High School, was recognized for her community and school involvement. She is an honor roll student with a 4.0 grade-point average.

Fox was an American Heart Association Sweetheart her sophomore and junior years. She is a member of the Health Occupation Students of America, Distributive Education Clubs of America, National Honor Society, Tiger Jungle and Cobblestone Club.

Collom has served as a board member for the Boys and Girls Club of Benton County for eight years, including a stint as the board president. He is the former chairman of the Cancer Challenge, and he volunteers every Saturday morning at the First Presbyterian Church of Bentonville food pantry.

The Friends of the Bentonville Library members serve as advocates and financial supporters of library programs. In recent years, the group donated $30,000 to library special collections and materials, $19,000 for teen services, $18,000 for summer reading programs, $10,000 for new facilities and $5,500 for laptops.

The group celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2012.

Chiropractor writes fibromyalgia book

Katinka van der Merwe, a chiropractor and owner of The Neurologic Relief Center in Fayetteville, has released a new book, “Taming the Beast: A Guide to Conquering Fibromyalgia.” The book is available at Amazon.com, on Amazon Kindle or at the center, located at 124 W. Sunbridge Drive.

Fibromyalgia effects more than 5 million people in the United States, most of whom are women.

Information: seeingyouwell.com or tamingthefibrobeast.com.

White named to board

Calvin White Jr. of Fayetteville has been named a board member of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the group announced Jan. 22. White is an associate professor of history and director of the African and African-American Studies program at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.

White joins fellow Fayetteville residents Diana Gonzales Worthen and Yvette Murphy-Erby, both of whom will continue their terms this year on the board. Worthen is the director of Project Realizing and Increasing Student Excellence at the UA, while Murphy-Erby is interim associate dean of the university’s J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

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