Hall of

Honor

Fayetteville Public

Education Foundation

2012 Hall of Honor inductees Carl Collier, Treva Hamilton, and Jim McClelland.

 

Information on Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor

 

The Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor is a program sponsored by the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation in cooperation with the Fayetteville High School Student Council. The objectives of the Hall of Honor are threefold:

• Provide role models for students by honoring former students who have distinguished themselves
• Create excitement about education
• Honor those educators and friends of education who have made extraordinary contributions to public education in Fayetteville

Hall of Honor Inductees are chosen each year from three categories including former students, former educators, and friends of the schools. They are honored at annual ceremonies.

 

2012 Induction Ceremony:

Thursday, October 4, 2012

5:30 pm

Fayetteville Town Center

 

Tickets: $75 person. CALL NOW BEFORE IT IS SOLD OUT!

For tickets: call 479-527-3655

 

2012 Hall of Honor Inductees

 

Carl Collier

Former Student, Friend of the Schools

Born and raised in Fayetteville, Carl Collier grew up working in the family drug store on Dickson Street, starting in the soda fountain in 1951. He attended Washington Elementary and Hillcrest Jr. High School. He attended Fayetteville High School for one year before transfering to Kemper Military School, where he graduated in 1959.

 

He attended the University of Arkansas, where he completed the pre-pharmacy requirements. He graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences with a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree in 1964. He then joined his brother Morris and their father in the family business, Collier Drug Store.

 

As Collier Drug Stores grew and expanded, Carl became widely known for his ready smile, cheerful personality, and his commitment to serving his patients, creating therapeutic solutions to patient dilemmas and becoming a compassionate friend to many hospice patients. On many occasions he rises from bed in the middle of the night to fill an emergency prescription for a patient in acute pain.

 

Collier Drug Stores has grown to eight stores in Washington and Benton Counties, employing 18 pharmacists and 70 staff members.

 

Carl received the Eagle Award from the Washington Regional Foundation in 2010 for his commitment to improving health care in Northwest Arkansas, and he has also received the Community Service Award from the Arkansas Pharmacist Association.

 

Carl has also been active in several national pharmacy organizations, the American Red Cross, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Rotary, the Dickson Street Improvement Committee, Fayetteville Public Schools, and many other civic activities. He is a past president of the Fayetteville Rotary Club and former chairman of the United Way of Washington County fund drive.

 

Carl married his wife Janet (also a Fayetteville High School graduate) in 1965, and they have two children, Meredith Dowse and Mel Collier (who are both graduates of Fayetteville High School), and four grandchildren.

 

Treva Hamilton

Former Educator

 

Treva Hamilton was born and raised in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. She is a 1966 graduate of Sallisaw High School and represented Oklahoma in the 1966 America’s Junior Miss pageant.

 

She attended Northeastern Oklahoma State University where she received her Bachelor of Science in Speech Language Pathology in 1970. While in college she was selected outstanding special education major, marched as a band majorette, and was chosen Homecoming Queen.

 

Treva received a Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology from the University of Tulsa in 1971.

 

Treva began her career in education as a speech pathologist, and she worked at the Hissom Memorial Center for Mentally Handicapped Children and the Union Public Schools in Tulsa before moving to Fayetteville in 1986. She served as the speech pathologist at Happy Hollow Elementary School from 1988-1999 before accepting the job as the first full-time executive director of the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation in 1999.

 

During her tenure as executive director, the foundation’s endowment grew from $400,000 in 1999 to $2.4 million in 2011, and more than $3 million in grants have been distributed to Fayetteville Public School teachers. She initiated the Society and Decade Donor Giving Circles, which have generated over $700,000 for the foundation. Treva also created the Celebration of Excellence event to recognize teacher grant recipients and the annual A.P.P.L.E. Award (A Patron Providing Leadership by Example). The Hall of Honor grew under her tenure from 300 to more than 600 guests attending the event in 2011, the fifteenth year of the event.

 

She was named Outstanding Fundraising Executive of Northwest Arkansas on National Philanthropy Day in 2010, and she was named Arkansas Business Journal’s Nonprofit Executive of the Year in 2000. Treva retired from her position as executive director in 2011.

 

She has continued her community service on the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Ambassadors Committee and the Walton Arts Center Corporate Leadership Council. She also serves in the Senior Adult Ministry at University Baptist Church.

 

Treva married Howard Hamilton in 1974. They have two sons, Sterling and Jordan, both graduates of Fayetteville High School.

 

 

Jim McClelland
Former Student, Class of 1961

Born the son of J.E. “Ep” and Maurice McClelland, Jim McClelland was born in Fayetteville and attended Washington Elementary, Fayetteville Jr. High School, and graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1961. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.

 

After a short stint in the military, Jim worked for Mehlburger Engineers in Little Rock for ten years before deciding to open his own office in Little Rock in 1977, rather than return to Fayetteville.

 

Today, McClelland Consulting Engineers (MCE) has offices in Fayetteville and Little Rock and employs 25 engineers and 95 staff members. MCE provides civil engineering services to municipal, county, state, and federal governments in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri.

Jim currently serves as chairman emeritus of MCE.

 

MCE has worked on many projects around Arkansas, including the Junction Pedestrian Bicycle Bridge, William Jefferson Clinton Library, Heifer Project International Headquarters, Dickey Stephens Ballpark, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Bud Walton Arena, Baum Stadium, and the John McDonnell Track Facility.

 

Jim currently serves as a board member for the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation, and the Old State House Museum Association. He is a member of Little Rock 50 for the Future, and he has been involved with many engineering organizations at the local, state and national level. He has previously served as the president of the Arkansas State Board of Health and the Arkansas Licensing Board for Engineers and Surveyors, as well as on the board of directors of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce.

 

Jim lives in Little Rock with his wife, Pat. They have two children, Jay and Kirk, and two grandchildren, Sophia and Nick.

 

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"Honoring Our Heroes: 1997-2010"

 

Click the link below to view the Hall of Honor Album, containing photos and biographies of all of the inductees into the Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor from its inception in 1997 to 2010.

Honoring Our Heroes: Hall of Honor Album

 

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Past Hall of Honor Inductees

 

1997 Louise Bell Jerry Brewer Jessie Bryant Billie Jo Starr, '50 Marty Steele, '64	1998 Kathleen Alexander, '65 Sarah Caldwell, '39 David Hallin, '63 John Lewis, '57 Harry Vandergriff
1999 Tom Butt, '62 Tim Ernst, '73 Dee Gibson, '88 Feriba McNair, '38	2000 Eileen Hendricks Clark McClinton Margaret Whillock, '53 Mark Wright, '75
2001 Miles James, '86 David Lashley, '50 Laura Lieber, '90 Dorothy Lindquist	2002 Joe Holt, '51 Jay McDonald, '62 Frances G. Ross Loyd Thomas
2003 Jack Butt, '68 Joe Fennel Peggy Murphy Parks, '45	2004 Jim Blair, '53 Dr. James Mashburn, '43 Mary Lou Miller
2005 Don Deweese, '58 Rosemary Faucette Dave Gearhart, '70 Jason Moore, '89	2006 Woody Bassett, '70 Henrietta Holcomb Julian Stewart, '52
2007 Jeff Koenig Mitzi Kuroda, '77 Gregg Ogden, '80	2008 Alan Adams, '53 Larry Bittle Oma Blackwell
2009 Mary Ann Greenwood Greg Lee, '65 Frank Sharp, '56	2010 Dennis Kelly, '75 Pete Jenkins, '57 Judy Schwab
2011 Martha Agee Rob Merry-Ship, '72 Jim Stice, '45

 

 

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