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Corey Cameron

 

We are pleased to announce a few position changes within the North American Trans network.  Cory Cameron, Manager of Spokane, WA will be moving back to Arkansas to assume the management role in the Fayetteville office. Cory is a native of Arkansas and he and his wife Theresa are looking forward to being back near family and friends. 

 

Cory started in the Jackson Mississippi office 15 years ago, worked in the Little Rock office and later held a leadership role in Ft. Worth.  Cory has led high growth at all of his positions including his time as the manager of our Spokane office where he has been for the last three years.

  

Cory has a strong team with lots of momentum in Spokane and he will be spending time in both offices as we fill the open management position there.  Our team in Fayetteville is also very talented and they are as excited as we are about the combination of experience and skills Cory will bring to his new role!

 

Thanks,

 

The Transportation Leadership Team

 

Wendell Nier

 

Please allow me to share with you a little bit of background information about myself.  Due to the Vietnam War in the early 60’s I joined the military and had to drop out of ASTC and never came back to school.  I married Gail Wilson in August, 1966 and went to work for First National Bank, Searcy, Arkansas in September, 1967.  I was able to attended, and graduated, in 1976 from the Graduate School of Banking of the South at LSU while employed at First National Bank.  In 1984 I changed jobs and went to work with Citizens State Bank here in Bald Knob, Arkansas. I am still with Citizens State Bank and serve as the bank’s Executive Vice President and also serve on the bank’s board of directors as well as serving on the board of Citizens State Bancshares which is the bank holding company that owns Citizens State Bank.  I have been in banking for over 40 years and consider my self to be a very blessed man.  Gail and I have a 39 year old son, Jason, who lives in Pocahontas, Arkansas with his wife Sheila.  We have a 37 year old daughter, Jennifer (Jenny) Ellis, who lives in Conway, Arkansas with her husband John and our three grandchildren, Grant, Lauren and Addi Ellis.

 

I hope some, or all, of this information is helpful to you.  Please feel free to give me a call or e-mail me if  I can be of help to you in any way.  My work phone is 501.724. and my e-mail address is .net.

 

Sincerely, Wendell Nier

 

Albert Miller '65

I am currently working security at Arkansas Children's Hospital.  I retired from the Little Rock Police Dept. in 2003.  I remarried in 2006 to a girl I met at UCA in 1965.  I pledged in 1965. 

 

News from a brother at war

I'm over here in wonderful Afghanistan with the screaming eagles. If you google "lt nathan perry" you'll see some of the stuff I've been up to. I get phone calls from GOs, OSD, CENTCOM, and the white house. Its pretty crazy sometimes. I tried getting us to go to war with Pakistan but no one else liked the idea. ha Stacy and I are having our first baby "due" sept 18.

Emma Perry

How scary is that, I'll be a dad. Hope everything is going well for you and any of the other guys you still keep in touch with. Let them know I said whats up.

Damn Proud,

Nathan

Recent UCA grad

Adam Finch recently graduated from U.C.A. with a degree in Radiology and also has one more big change in his future. On July 19th, he will be marrying Stephania Koppers. Congratulation go out to both Adam and Stephania.

 

Conway Alumni Receives Award

Frank Shaw was recently voted the #1 Attorney in Faulkner County by the readers of the Log Cabin Democrat.

Wayne Cranford Newest "Ad"dition to Hall of Fame

 Wayne Cranford, the "C" in CJRW, was recently announced as a member of the inaugural class of the Southwest Advertising Hall of Fame, hosted by the 10th district of the American Advertising Federation. Cranford is one of 12 inductees and the only member of the 2008 class from Arkansas.

See the link for more information on this Phi Sig Alum http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=105088

This came from Arkansas Business where Benny was named one of Arkansas Business’ Power List top 187 Industry Leaders. Here’s the link www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aID=102795.43162.114930

Power List
Name: Benny C. Petrus
Age: 51
Job Title: Speaker
Company: Arkansas House of Representatives
City: Stuttgart
Benny Petrus is a third-term Democrat from Stuttgart, where he is a farmer and a car dealer. Like Jack Critcher (above), he won't preside over a house of the Legislature again unless a special session is called. But that could happen as early as March for the purpose of raising the state's severance tax on natural gas.

The Alumni Association would like to send out a big thank you to Bill Stovall for the $50 contribution to the scholarship fund.  Bill happened to be at Gusano's in Little Rock before the last alumni meeting and Mike Waters mentioned the alumni scholarship fund.  Bill remembered his days as an out of money college student and made a donation on the spot.  For those of you wondering why this is special, Bill isn't a Phi Sig.

☻     Recent article from the Log Cabin about John Hutchcraft.  Click here to read

Gillian Waters, the six year old daughter of Mike & Kyla Waters recently completed her first year of the Cheer Force All Stars competitive cheerleading team. They competed in five meets throughout the state and took home a first place trophy in Hot Springs and came in third (out of nine teams) at the state competition in Jonesboro in the Tiny Division.

Brent Morris (Fall 2005) was hired to work at ESPN radio in Little Rock station 1380 AM.  He is the producer of 12-4 show on m-f.  He can be heard interacting regularly with the shows hosts and guest.  The station is AM1830 but the show is also streamed on the Internet via Hogville.net.
 

2LT Nathan A. Secor left for Iraq, Saturday, March 15, 2008.  He will receive text messages via his cell phone and will forward a mailing address after he is settled.

As soon as we hear what Nathan’s new email address is, we’ll start sending some care packages.If anyone else knows any brothers in Iraq or Afghanistan, please let me know so we can take care of them.

Phi Sig Alumni Reunion

March 1st

Click here for pictures of the reunion

We are expecting more than 70 93 Phi Sig Alumni to attend the reunion.  Below, see the list of confirmed attendees.  We had a late rush of RSVP's.  Check with Mike Waters to ask if someone you know will be there.

Mike Waters
Jim Mitchell
Jamie Vann
Gary Birdsong
Danny Harris
Bob Sebourn
Terry Rhoades
Mike Temple
Derek McCormick
Tommy Shackleford
Mike Green
Robert Balentine
Ritchie Howell
Terry Milam
English Cook
Wade Wilson
Roy Erickson
Brad Youngblood
Nathan Hotchkiss
John Boatman
Dennis Pistole
Tim McKenna
Kent Pray
Jason Keith
Kit Moffatt
Neal Anderson
Gaylon Eoff
Carol Bell
Ray Bellinger
Dan Ratliff
Jerry Harrod
Kenny Hall
Kirk Whitmore
Mike Woiteshek
Jim Malone
Mike DeJarnette
Charles Whiting
Benny Petrus
Dean Bell
Stan Hilliard
Tony Davis
Bob Williamson
Bernie Lassiter
Steven Frye
Bill Darwin
David Curtis
Don Eifling

 

 

Mike and Shelli Woiteshek and kids Ashley and Austin are now living in Avon, IN and obviously huge Colt fans.

Mike is a Phi Sig from the 80's and is hoping to make it back to Conway in March for the big alumni meeting.

November 2007

David Bakke's Wife recently won first prize for the second year in a row in her company chili cookoff.  Congratulations Mrs. Bakke!

 

Tim Mckenna's wife Holly won second place in a statewide scrapbook page competition.

 

C'mon guys, haven't any of you done anything worthy of the 'news page'? 

 

October 2007

Update on 'chippin for Chuck' golf tournament

Kristin Cummings would like to thank everyone involved in the charity golf tournament, below is the most recent update on Chuck and the golf tournament. See pictures of the event here.

 

 

 

Oh my goodness… how do I even begin!? What a great day!!!!!!!

 

First and foremost.. Liz..oh my goodness… what an amazing feat you pulled off. Thank you especially to you and to all the volunteers-Jackie, Anne, Jack, Jerry, Stacie, Mark, Tracy, Gwen, Jean, Holly, Amanda, Shannon, Delaney, Leah, Tina, Jamie, Alan, Metreece, Cathy, anyone I missed- who put this all together. It was a great event and SO much fun. It was especially wonderful to see so many of our friends, colleagues and family come together and have such a great time.

 

Chuck and I both were truly blown away and very touched by all the support and well wishers Friday. I hope we were able to get around and speak to most of you or at least wave. J I think we were just so speechless at the turn out and we thank each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts.

 

This experience has taught both of us a lot but it has truly restored my faith in the good nature of people and we are blessed and extremely fortunate to know all of you and we will pay it forward and hope to be able to help any of you out in the same way you have helped us if ever needed some day. You have not only lent your time (and spent your money J ) but it was a huge emotional boost for us and we can never really express how grateful we are.

 

Treatment #6 is today and hopefully/maybe the last one.. Keep your fingers crossed!!!!!!

 

Thank you again and God Bless!!!!
Chuck is looking great in this photo taken just this November.

Does anyone recognize this guy?  This is Wade Finley's son.  Wade passed away a few years ago, but some alumni are staying in touch with his family.  The photo on the left was taken of Wade III at Greers Ferry  lake and  made Rural Arkansas magazine.  This is the second time they have featured  one of his photo's in the magazine. 

 

July 2007

 

Kenny Davis came back from his tour of duty in Iraq in early July.  He's pictured here with his oldest son Ethan.  A group of friends and family greeted Kenny at his house when he arrived home.