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*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 MoreFrom 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 MoreStudents 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 MoreA 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 MoreCook-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 MorePreparations 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 MoreDean 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 MoreCongratulations 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.
Read MoreThe Clinton School was packed this Saturday afternoon as the newest class gathered for the first time to begin orientation. Dean Skip Rutherford welcomed the group of 30 students joined by their families and friends and congratulated them on taking the first step to earning a Master of Public Service degree.
Read MoreOne highlight of my brief tenure was seeing businessman Bill Gwatney of Jacksonville, Ark., enter the political arena as a candidate for the State Senate–a race that he won. It was also the beginning of our 17-year friendship.
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