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Otte celebrates

95th birthday

Margaret Knoll Otte of Rogers will celebrate her 95th birthday on July 26. Otte was born July 26, 1919, in Millboro, S.D., to William and Naomi Knoll.

She grew up in South Dakota and Iowa with eight siblings, three of whom are still living. Her brother, Glenn Knoll, lives in Rogers as well.

She was married to Clarence Otte for 45 years before his death in 1995. The couple retired to Rogers in 1978.

Otte has been active in Beta Sigma Phi, Benton County Republican Women, Benton County Republican Committee and the Beaver Shores Women's Club. She plays duplicate bridge twice a week and enjoys reading, genealogy and gardening.

She has three daughters -- Nancy Collins of Rogers, Judy Juhl of Roland, Iowa, and Mary Naber of Tulsa -- along with six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Otte will celebrate her birthday with friends and family.

Shelter hosts

sale on Friday

The Bella Vista Animal Shelter's annual charity garage sale will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday at 2 Leafield Lane in Bella Vista.

All proceeds will benefit the animal shelter, a nonprofit corporation.

The shelter is accepting donations of gently used items. Contact Anita Werts at (479) 366-2265 for a drop-off appointment at 2 Leafield Lane.

Donations are also being accepted between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday at the shelter, 32 Bella Vista Way.

For furniture and large item drop-off or pickup the week of the sale, phone Deidre Matney, shelter executive director, at (479) 644-6229.

The shelter requests no early shoppers at the sale.

To get to 2 Leafield Lane, take U.S. 71 north to Trafalgar Road, turn right onto Trafalgar and then left onto Leafield. It is the corner house on the right.

Rogers school

plans reunion

The annual fall reunion of former students, teachers, and administrators of the old Rogers Public High School in the 500 block of West Walnut Street in Rogers will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 4 in the old Kirksey gym, which is now Tillery Elementary School gym.

Former students are requested to contribute $3 to cover costs. Kirksey gym is behind the Rogers School District Administration Building on West Walnut Street in Rogers.

Information: (479) 936-9852

Glade community

presents concert

The Glade Community Historical Society will host a concert featuring local singer-songwriters Still on the Hill at 3 p.m. July 27 at the Northeast Benton County Community Center on U.S. 62 and South Wimpy Jones Road in Garfield.

The duo will tell the story of the Beaver Lake Watershed, its history and its people along with a tale or two about the community of Glade, now located at the bottom of the lake. The first 100 in attendance will receive a free copy of the band's Once a River CD.

The concert will be the last in a series hosted by the Historical Society. Admission is free.

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Lankford wins

scholarship

Megan Lankford, a horticulture major at the University of Arkansas, has been selected to receive the American Society for Horticultural Science Scholars Scholarship.

Lankford is an honors student from Oxford, N.Y. She is one of two recipients of the scholarship for 2014 and will be recognized at the Society's annual conference in Orlando on July 28.

Lankford helps manage the UA campus community garden, which provides food for the Full Circle Campus Food Pantry. She is the former vice president of the GroGreen Club.

Before moving to New York, she lived near Joplin, Mo. She works as a part-time gardener at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville and plans to become a horticulture therapist.

Her honors thesis will be a case study on five local farm families.

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Coleman receives

graduate award

Shawn Coleman, a mechanical engineering graduate student at the University of Arkansas, recently received the Materials Research Society Silver Graduate Student Award.

Coleman was recognized for his work on virtual diffraction characterization of alumina atomistic simulations at the MRS 2014 Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The awards recognize students who show promise in materials research.

Coleman was one of 29 finalists chosen from 168 students from around the world. Coleman's research uses computational models to study the way atoms interact.

Coleman successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in July and will complete postdoctoral work at the U.S. Army Research Labs in Maryland.

Cameron attends

CASE institute

Jade Cameron, an agriscience teacher at Fayetteville High School, recently attended an eight-day professional development institute at Tennessee State University in Nashville. Cameron taught the principles of agricultural science plant section of the Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education at the event.

CASE is an instructional system that promotes intense teacher professional development; inquiry-based lessons; assessment; and certification. Cameron spent 65 hours working through every lesson in the year-long curriculum and learning how to deliver lessons in an inquiry-based way during the seminar.

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Weaver named

dean of students

Steven Weaver is the new dean of students at University of the Ozarks in Clarksville. Weaver was most recently director of resident life and housing at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wis.

He will begin his new job on Aug. 3 and will oversee residential life, campus organizations and activities, student development programming and student conduct. Before working at Carroll University, he worked in the student life departments at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Minnesota State University and South Dakota State University.

He and his wife, Jodi, have two children, Morgan, 9, and Lauren, 6.

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Smith selected

for pilot program

Elecia Smith, a human resources and diversity manager at the University of Arkansas, is one of six members of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources to be selected for a pilot program designed to mentor individuals in the pursuit of organizational and workforce excellence.

More than 200 applied for the 12-month professional development program, called the Wildfire Program. The program is designed to connect early-career higher education human resource professionals with association leaders for conferences, training sessions and mentoring.

Bella Vistans

named to list

Katrina Bradley and Tyler Volz, both of Bella Vista, have been named to the dean's list for the spring 2014 semester at University of the Ozarks.

To be included on the dean's list, a student must carry at least 12 hours and achieve between a 3.5 and 3.9 grade-point average on a four-point scale.

Kauffman

earns degree

Raymond David Kauffman of Bella Vista received a master of business administration degree on May 10 from the University of Saint Mary.

More than 200 graduates, representing a portion of the university's total 2014 graduating class, walked during the ceremony. Members of the graduating class hail from Kansas to Kenya, from multiple countries and every geographic region of the United States.

The University of Saint Mary is a Catholic co-educational applied liberal arts university founded and sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kan.

Send information about birthdays, honors and reunions to [email protected], [email protected] or Northwest Arkansas Achievers, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, AR 72765.

NAN Our Town on 07/17/2014

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