Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1955-1980

KANSAS CITY - Harding. ~ollege Public Relations Director,· St3J1 Green, has been named as the 1979 winner of the Clarene "Ike" Pearson Award as the NAIA sports information director of the year, according to Dr. Harry Fritz, executive director of the NAIA. ·presidency from 1974 to 1976. NAIA District 17 for 10 years and coordinates media activities at the Arkansas The award was made at . the annual NAIA Hall of Fame Banquet (March 15) -at the Radisson Muehlebach Hotel. · The award honors Pearson who served 26 years as the official statistician for the NAIA Basketball Tour– nament before ·his death in 1976. The recit>lent is chosen for "oo.tstan g service to the sports information . profession.'' Green joined the Harding f ulty in 1968. He served as N IA Distri t 17 publicity c airman for -1~ years, has~ been president of the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference-SIDA and has served in all offices in the NAIA-SIDA in luding the Anative of Waldo, Green is a 1959 graduate of the University of Houston with a area . B.S.E. degree (cum laude The 42-year-ol~ Green has received numerous awards honors). . •d d Green has been active in for his press gu1 es an . NAIA at the national·, district brochures from the NAIA, and local levels. He has . the . ~ollege Sport_s ser~ed as media coordinator Ass~1abon and the Councll at national playoff events for the Advance~ent and and at the NAIA track and Suppor_t of E~ucabon. field championships for five Previous wmners of the years at Arkadelphia. award have been Mel At the district level Green Shreves, Elon (NC) College, has served as secretary of 1977.; and Gene Warren, Pembroke · State, North Carolina; 1978. .: Green and 'his wife; t'Betty, have two sons, Gregory and Todd, and a daughter, Stacy. KANGAROO TWINS TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) - Tuskegee Institute fans are calling basketball · stars, Willie Perry and ~enny Morant, the . Kangaroo Twins. Perry is only 5-9 and Morant is 5-10. Morant has a. vertical leap of 40 inches and is a redoubtable slam~unker. Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Starks of Florence, Alabama and Mr. and Mrs. Montez Eastland of Tyler, Texas, announce die upcoming marriage of their children, Patricia Lynn to John Joseph. Miss Starks is a junior dietetics major; a member of Zeta Rho, A . Cappella Chorus, and In– ternational Campaigns. Eastland received his B.A. in marketing,and accounting from Harding in 1977. While atHarding he was a member of Chi Sigma Alpha social club, · the Harding swimming team, and was active in Belles and Beaux, .orchestra, Men's Dorm Council, the A Cappella, and International Campaigns. · The couple will be married Jan. 13, 1979 at 2:30 p.m., at the College Church of Christ in Searcy. After the •wedding they will reside in . Houston"' where Eastlanc'i is presently a stucient at South Texas College of Law. Friends of the couple are invited to attend the ceremony and the · ·reception to follow.