Chick-fil-A founder to speak at Harding University, November 13, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Benson Auditorium
S. Truett Cathy is founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Chick-fil-A Inc. What began in 1946 as an Atlanta diner called Dwarf Grill is now the second-largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain in the United States based on annual sales. [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 29, 2008
Eat Mor Chikin
October 25, 2008
Walgreens donates $30,000 to Harding University College of Pharmacy
Walgreens, the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain, made a $30,000 gift to Harding University’s newly established College of Pharmacy today.
The funds will be used by the College for supplies and equipment in the pharmaceutical compounding laboratory. It is the largest gift received to date designated for student laboratories. Pharmacy students will begin using the laboratory [...]
October 25, 2008
Searcy fire department in line for national accreditation
The Searcy Fire Department received a recommendation for national accreditation from a team of assessors in Searcy this week to evaluate the fire department.
If the accreditation is ratified by Center for Public Safety Excellence officials, the designation is expected by some to lower the city’s Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating, used to determine property insurance [...]
October 20, 2008
Harding College of Nursing receives prestigious national award
Harding University’s College of Nursing received the 2008 Awards for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Education for the category of Baccalaureate-Level Curricular Innovation on Oct. 19 at the Fairmont Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The College received a $500 award and national recognition from the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing and American Association of [...]
October 18, 2008
ASU-Beebe to host musical
Friday, October 17, 2008 6:04 PM CDT
BEEBE — The Arkansas State University-Beebe Department of Theater and Speech presents Joal Paley’s and Marvin Laird’s murderous dark comedy, Ruthless! The Musical.
Eight-year-old Tina Denmark knows she was born to play Pippi Longstocking and she will do anything to win the part in her school musical. Anything includes murdering [...]
October 14, 2008
“Oklahoma!”
Monday, October 13, 2008 5:40 PM CDT
Harding University presents the popular musical, “Oklahoma!,” Oct. 24-25, as the highlight of Homecoming weekend. Tickets are now on sale for this adventure in the western frontier.
“We believe the audience will enjoy this musical theatre classic,” producer Cindee Stockstill said. “The older generation has grown up with this as [...]
October 6, 2008
Harding’s Foreign Language Department Gets National Recognition
Reported by: KARK 4 News
Monday, Oct 6, 2008 @03:25pm CST
The Foreign Language Teacher Education Program at Searcy’s Harding University has been awarded nationally recognized status from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and the National Council for Accreditation on Teacher Education (NCATE).
This program is among only 56 other schools in the [...]
October 3, 2008
Every Town Has It’s Armpit
Recently my dad, nearing 92, said, “I hope I live long enough to see that hideous pile of junk cleaned off the busiest corner in our town.”
At the corner of Beebe-Capps and South Main, stands arguably Searcy’s biggest eyesore.
