Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

A newsletter for faculty, staff and students

July-August 2004 • Vol. 30, No. 4

Gifts provide new scholarships, graduate student award

Three new scholarships and a graduate student award have been established by recent commitments to Bumpers College.

A pledge of $25,000 by Richard Hudson of Harrison, BSA ’54, will create the Hudson Family Endowed Scholarship for students majoring in animal science, with a preference for students on the livestock judging team.

Neill and Nancy Sloan of Lake Village will provide $25,000 to create the Nancy and Neill Sloan Endowed Graduate Award for master’s level graduate students whose thesis research involves cotton. Mr. Sloan serves on the Division of Agriculture/Bumpers College committee in the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century.

Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences Alumni and Friends Committee Chairman Gerald Wilson said the committee is providing $25,000 to create the James L. Barrentine Endowed Scholarship. Wilson, of Germantown, Tenn., with Cheminova, Inc., said part of the proceeds from Delta Classic golf tournaments will fund the endowment.

The McKee Foods Endowed Scholarship for food science students was established with a gift of $25,000 from McKee Foods Corporation, Collegedale, Tenn.

The Division and College had raised more than $67 million in the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century as of June 30 toward the goal of $69,350,000 by July 1, 2005.