advisory board of Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc. , publishers of Human Development 1987-88 Annual Editions, a general guide for parents of exceptional children. He and Lois Brown attended the Arkansas Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities meeting in Little Rock . Bedwell also attended the Council for Exceptional Children with Learning Disabilities meeting and the Arkansas Association for Colleges of Teacher Education's annual retreat. Lois Brown presented her paper on ''Attention Deficit Disorder Syndrome" at the Oklahoma Association for Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities Conference held in Tulsa, OK. She also compiled a booklet for distribution in classes nationwide entitled "Your Child and His Rights - A General Guide for Parents of Exceptional Children." Brown was a member of the advisory board for "Human Development" Annual Editions. She served as a member of the Arkansas State Special Education Task Force Evaluation Team. She received a service award for volunteer work at Pangburn from the Future Homemakers of America. Her volunteer work included being a consultant to the public schools, writing IEP's for special students , meeting with parents of special education students as a service to public Is it nearly five? Dr. Jerome Barnes, professor ofeducation and director of the Educational Media Center, eagerly awaits the day's end. He ·was appointed dean of campus life, and his office was moved to the second floor of the student center. His family surrounded him in his work as his wife, Barbara, taught in the physical education department, and his son, Randy, was a senior history major on campus. - photo by Bill Tripp. School of Education schools, held two PTA meetings for public schools and held three meetings for community and church on child-rearing practices in Illinois, Kentucky, and Texas. Even with all of the responsibilities that are part of being chairman of a school, Dr. Bobby Coker remained active in his extracurricular activities. Coker attended the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's annual meeting in February 1987 held in Washington , D.C. He also attended the association's 1988 annual meeting in New Orleans. Coker participated in the meeting sponsored by Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Eureka Springs as a speaker in April 1987. He spoke at the Arkansas Teachers of Reading meeting in Little Rock in November 1987. Coker spoke at the State Association for Curriculum and Supervision Conference in Hot Springs. He attended workshops for the National Council for Accreditation Teacher Education in Kansas City in 1987 and for the NCATE standards in Ruston, LA, in November 1987. He attended a meeting of the Association of Independent and Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education in Davenport, IA, and the Governor's Conference on Improving Education in December 1987. Coker held numerous positions during the year. He was reappointed to the Legislature's Act 110 Committee by the State Board of Education. He served as committee chair of elementary education, middle school, and educational examiners certificate review committees. He will also be one of a select group who will conduct NCATE evaluations. Dr. Richard Duke took his expertise to HUF in the fall of 1987. He and Benay White published an article entitled "The Rise of Public Education" in Gospel Advocate on August 6, 1987. He served as the institutional representative at the meeting of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education in New Orleans in February 1988. Dr. Tony Finley published articles and demonstrations for Arkansas basic science skills, grades four through six, basic math skills, grades four through six, Science for Elementary Teachers, and Math Bulletin Boards for Elementary Teachers. He substituted at Judsonia High School in science this year. Finley attended _the_ National Science Teachers Association meeting in Washington , D.C. He also attended the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators meeting and the Arkansas Association of Teacher Education retreat in Mountain View, Phi Delta Kappa Conference in Kansas City, Phi Delta Leadership Workshop in Conway, and the Network School of Education Workshop in Searcy. Finley served as vice president for membership for the Phi Delta Kappa Three Rivers Chapter, director of Education for Economic Security Act for the 1984-85 and 1986-87 school years, and as director of Network for the School of Education alumni at Harding. Dr. Wyatt Jones attended a professional Writer's Workshop, "Writing Across the Curriculum," Kappa Delta Pi Regional Workshop at the Southern Graduate Deans' meeting in New Orleans, and the Arkansas Teacher Education Association meeting. Jones served as a counselor for the local chapter of Kappa Delta Pi , the Nu Lambda Chapter. Dr. Jim Nichols received the Distinguished Teacher Award from Harding for 1986-87. He attended the Arkansas Association for Colleges of Teacher Education in Little Rock and Mountain View, the Arkansas Association of School Administrators' fall and spring conferences in Little Rock, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education workshop in Kansas City, the Arkansas State Association of Secondary School Principals spring conference, National Association of Secondary School Principals meeting in Anaheim, CA, in the spring of 1988, and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education workshop in Kansas City. Nichols served as president of Phi Delta Kappa, and president of Parents, Friends, Teachers Association at Harding Academy. Jeanine Peck attended the International Reading Convention in Anaheim, CA, in May 1987. She served as Arkansas representative for Teachers Educators of Reading at the convention. Betty Watson attended the Author Symposium in Little Rock , the State Reading Workshop, the State Arkansas Association of Children Under Six convention in Little Rock, and the Southern Association for Children Under Six regional convention in Memphis. - Laura Ruggles School of Education1 9 g Academic Departments
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