Governor Mike Beebe and Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford will pay tribute to Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe on Monday evening at a dinner benefitting the Interfaith Hospitality Network of Little Rock. The Interfaith Hospitality Network is composed of 19 church congregations that house homeless families. Mrs. Beebe is being honored as the organization’s 2008 Homeless Advocate of the Year.
Read MoreDeltaMade Preview Party
As Helena residents worked vigorously to get their downtown ready for the flood of people planning to attend today’s Arkansas’ Blues and Heritage Festival, Dean Skip Rutherford and I dropped by the preview party for the Arkansas DeltaMade marketplace which will be open throughout the festival.
Read MoreNotes From the Dean
Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD –
*I made plans to attend my first Clinton School kickball game Sunday to watch our team ( the SOB’s–Students of Bill) play. When I arrived at the field shortly after the game was to have started, I discovered that we had won by forfeit. Instead of watching us compete against another team, I took in a few minutes of an intra-squad scrimmage match
Read MoreBuffalo River Camping
From there, we hiked the Indian Rock House Trail, passing by waterfalls and “natural bathtubs” and ending at a giant, beautiful rock cave that was once home to Native Americans. After finishing our hike, we went swimming in the Buffalo River, below the majestic limestone bluffs at Buffalo Point.
Read MoreNational Issues Discussed
Students and faculty members attended the National Issues Forum at the Clinton Library to discuss important public policy issues. All 12 Presidential Libraries are participating in the initiative, which is sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration
Read MoreServing Arkansas
A map in the lobby of Sturgis Hall marks all of the locations of the Clinton School Practicum (group) public service projects throughout Arkansas this year. The projects include helping establish a kitchen incubation facility for food service entrepreneurs in West Memphis; laying the groundwork for a community arts center in Newport
Read MoreCycle for Schools
Cook-Deegan created Cycle for Schools in the summer of 2006 with the goal of bicycling the length of Laos (about 900 miles). By the end of that summer, the total distance he traveled tripled and he added two countries to his journey, raising more than $22,500, enough money for a school in Laos and two K-12 scholarships for girls in Cambodia.
Read MoreReflections on Ole Miss Visit
Preparations are underway in the impressive Ford Center for the Performing Arts where it will take place. An impressive large tent has been installed adjacent to the Ford Center and will serve both as the post debate “spin alley” and the media center. Ole Miss is raising $5 million in sponsorships to help offset costs. Most everyone on the campus is proud and excited about hosting this historic event, and I would be too.
Read MoreOxford Bound
Dean Skip Rutherford is spending today at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. Dean Rutherford is having lunch with the student scholars from the Trent Lott Institute, speaking to a public policy class, meeting with faculty and staff and participating in a forum with students from Chancellor Robert Khayat’s Leadership Program.
Read MoreNotes on Orientation Week
Congratulations and sincere thanks to Clinton School staffer Joe Ballard for planning, organizing and executing a very successful and productive orientation week. Joe also deserves credit for coordinating the 2008 summer International Public Service Projects (IPSP). The 2008 IPSP’s were our best ever.
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