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WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE
• Notables
• Grants
• Articles Published
• New Publications
• New Projects

COMING EVENTS

HEADLINES
• Honors Convocation is April 20
• 2006 Outstanding Alumnus
• Outstanding seniors and grad students
• Organic garden plots available at AAREC
• First Web-based degree program well received
• 300 attend 2nd Women in Agriculture Conference
• Dr. C.E. Caviness — 1923-2006
• Marie Lavallard — 1912-2006
• GSD Initiation and Awards Banquet April 13
• GSD Student Research Competition winners
• Association supports Poultry Science recruiting
• Fultons endow Animal Science award
• Animal Science awards
• Horse Festival
• BAEG shares in environmental design award
• Food Science team wins College Bowl regional
• Students develop new food products
• HESC Student Awards
• Division helps host Ozark Food Processors
• OFPA presents scholarships

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All About Advising
• Monthly newsletter index

UA Agri LInks
• Division of Agriculture
• University of Arkansas
• Dale Bumpers College of
xxxAgricultural, Food and
xxxLife Sciences
• Arkansas Agricultural
xxxExperiment Station
• Cooperative Extension
xxxService
• Alumni and Development
• Future Students
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Vision Credits
Vision is published six times a year by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station in the U of A System's Division of Agriculture and by the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. It is produced by the Communication Services unit of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education, 110 Agriculture Building, U of A, Fayetteville, AR 72701. 479-575-5647.

• Editor: Howell Medders, (hmedders@uark.edu).
• Web manager: David Edmark (dedmark@uark.edu).
• Writers and photographers: Fred Miller and Karen Eskew
• Editorial Assistant: Amalie Holland
• Broadcast e-mail support: Arkansas Alumni Association

E-mail items for publication in Vision to ahollan@uark.edu

Marie Lavallard — 1912-2006

Marie Louise Froehlich Lavallard of Fayetteville died April 3, 2006 at her home in Butterfield Trail Village. She was born July 13, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY to Egmont W. and Louise C. Koch Froehlich. She earned a bachelor’s degree (1932) and master’s degree (1933) in plant physiology from Cornell University and married John Albert Lavallard in 1936. She began her academic career at the University of Vermont, coming to the UA College of Agriculture in 1946. She retired from UA in 1981 as head of the Department of Agricultural Publications, now Agricultural Communication Services.

A memorial service is planned for May, with the date to be announced by Beard’s Funeral Chapel and Crematory in Fayetteville. To sign the online guest book, visit www.beardsfuneralchapel.com.

The “Arkansas Farm Research” journal, which consisted of articles by Experiment Station faculty about their research, was started by Ms. Lavallard in 1951. The journal was published bi-monthly until 1995. She taught a scientific writing course, primarily for graduate students, for 13 years.

Ms. Lavallard was one of 32 national recipients of the Millennium International Volunteer Award. The Millennium Award was granted for her work with the Foundation for International Exchange of Students, a non-profit organization founded in 1947 to work with international students at UA. She joined FIES in 1950, served as recording secretary from 1959 to 2000, as vice-president in 1967 and again in 1997-98 and as president in 2000. In 1994 the Marie and John Lavallard International Scholarship was established under the auspices of FIES and was fully endowed in 2005 as a University of Arkansas scholarship to honor her and her husband’s many years of work and dedication on behalf of international education.

Not only did she correspond personally with many of the former international students but since 1954 has also written an annual newsletter for FIES, detailing activities of present and former students, the university, and the Fayetteville area. She made trips to Europe, Scandinavia, Africa and South America to visit the many students who passed through UA portals.

An active Gamma Sigma Delta agriculture honor society member, Ms. Lavallard served as chapter president 1972-73 and International Historian from 1976 to 1991. She served as chapter historian from 1980 to 1994.

Ms. Lavallard volunteered with the public school system’s resource center and has twice received the Fayetteville Public Schools award for Outstanding Volunteer of the Year. In 1999 she was a finalist for the J. C. Penney Community Service Award. She was a member of the Evening Lions Club and a volunteer for UA basketball games that benefited the Lions eyesight project. She answered phones for KUAF public radio station fund-raiser events, gave an afternoon a week to the Washington County Public Library electronic media resource center, and was a staunch supporter of the American Indian College Fund, receiving their Keeper of the Flame Award 2004 for her support. A graduate of Cornell University, she visited her alma mater twice a year where she was an active alumnus with the College of Agriculture, the Veterinary College and the Department of Plant Biology.

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