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DEBATE Members
of the UAM
debate and forensics
team with their
awards from the
IPDA national tournament
are (from
left, front row) Meg
Ryan, Sydney Davis,
Brittany Halley,
Anna Blace Barron,
Jessica Thrower,
Samantha Montgomery,
Bobby
Evans, (second row)
Zack Tucker, Kelly
Reed, Chris Brown,
Amanda Thompson,
Keith Milstead,
assistant coach), Jim
Evans, coach, Maggie
Parrish, Jamie
Ward, (third row)
Lei Brist, Liz Borse,
Jessica Pennington,
Yvonne Hinshaw,
Justin Walker, and
Anastasia Duff.
6 UAM MAGAZINE
Third In The
Nation!
Northwest Arkansas has been good
to UAM’s debate and forensics team
in 2012.
Chris Brown of Siloam Springs and
Kelly Reed of Bentonville won a combined
three national championships
in team and individual debate to lead
UAM to a third place finish in the overall
sweepstakes competition at the International
Public Debate Association National
Tournament held recently at Sam Houston
State University in Huntsville, Tex.
Brown won the IPDA varsity debate
national championship based on seasonlong
competition and teamed with Reed
to win the season-long IPDA team debate
national championship.
“I am so proud of Chris and Kelly for
all they have accomplished this season,”
said Jim Evans, director of debate and
forensics at UAM. “I am also extremely
pleased with our entire team. Once again
we more than held our own against some
of the best collegiate debate and forensics
teams in the country. The university
can take pride in their accomplishments.”
Competing in four divisions of
debate – team, novice, varsity, and pro –
UAM won 17 individual and seven team
awards in both season-long and national
tournament competition. As a team,
UAM placed second in the season-long
IPDA team debate competition, fourth in
IPDA varsity debate, fourth in scholastic
sweepstakes IPDA debate (a combination
of novice and varsity debate competition),
fourth in founders individual
sweepstakes IPDA debate (a combination
of novice, varsity and pro competition),
fourth in the scholastic sweepstakes at
the national tournament, and fourth in
the founders sweepstakes national tournament
competition.
In addition to his two season-long
national championships, Brown was the
10th place individual speaker in varsity
debate at the national tournament, and
joined with Reed to reach the round of
16 in team debate.
Zack Tucker of Marked Tree, a graduate
assistant, placed 10th in the professional
division of the season-long IPDA
varsity debate competition, won the fifth
place individual speaker award at the national
tournament and reached the round
of 16 in professional debate.
$30,000 Gift
he Drew County chapter of the
T Arkansas Extension Homemakers
Council, in observance of AEHC’s
100th anniversary, recently presented
a $30,000 donation to the University of
Arkansas at Monticello Foundation Fund.
Included in the donation is a $15,000
endowed scholarship fund, which will
generate an annual scholarship for a Drew
County resident; a $5,000 endowed
award, also to be presented to a Drew
County resident; and a $10,000 gift to
the Centennial Circle endowment fund.
“This is a wonderful gesture by the
Drew County Extension Homemakers,”
said UAM Chancellor Jack Lassiter. “By
their gift, they have chosen to create a
lasting legacy of providing educational
opportunities for future generations.
The institution is most grateful for their
generosity.”
The AEHC began in Mablevale when
the first Home Demonstration Club in Arkansas
was organized in 1912. Seventeen
years after the first club was organized,
the state council was formed with 125
women representing 27 counties. The organization’s
original name was the Home
Demonstration Clubs until 1966 when the
name was changed to the Arkansas Extension
Homemakers Council.
The organization, which is associated
with the University of Arkansas Division
of Agriculture, has grown into one of the
largest volunteer groups in the state with
a membership of 4,732 and a presence in
74 of Arkansas’ 75 counties.
The AEHC mission is to “empower
individuals and families to improve their
quality of living through continuing
education, leadership development and
community services.
The first extension club in Drew
County was formed in 1916 and has met
continuously for the past 96 years. There
are currently nine extension homemakers
clubs in Drew County covering all corners
of the county.