Don Day by day Jr. of Atkins, Lou Nell McCraw Davis of Lamar and Jayne Jones of Pottsville have been chosen for the very best honor Arkansas Tech College can bestow on a person.
They are going to be inducted into the ATU Corridor of Distinction through the 2024 Spring Graduation in Could in Russellville.
Day by day will enter the Distinguished Alumnus class, whereas Davis and Jones might be inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Service class.
Don Day by day Jr.
Day by day has been an NCAA Division I basketball official for 25 years and is in his second time period as president of the Southeastern Convention Basketball Officers Affiliation. Because the group's chief, Day by day works with the SEC on points affecting officers, similar to compensation and efficiency evaluations.
A former Arkansas Tech Marvel Boys basketball participant, Day by day was chosen to officiate within the NCAA Match 16 consecutive years and was a part of the group that referred to as the championship recreation of the 2023 Nationwide Invitation Match. As soon as every season is over, Day by day invests a big a part of his free time through the summer season elevating the subsequent technology of basketball officers, teaching camps and serving as a mentor.
Day by day graduated from Arkansas Tech in 1990 with a bachelor's diploma in enterprise administration. He owns and operates Don Day by day Shelter Insurance coverage in Atkins. He gives a scholarship to native highschool graduates via his enterprise and has given of his time to learn the Lions Membership, the Pottsville Neighborhood Scholarship Committee, Picklefest and the Financial institution of Atkins Board of Administrators.
Lou Nell McCraw Davis
Davis coordinates a scholarship from Caraway Corridor Ladies, a gaggle centered round alumni who lived collectively on the third flooring of Caraway Corridor within the 1950s. Their friendships had been rekindled by a 50-year reunion in 2009 that Davis helped her set up.
In 2013, Caraway Corridor Ladies started its annual scholarship to learn a feminine scholar at Arkansas Tech. Nearly yearly since, often round Homecoming, the Caraway Corridor Ladies have stunned the scholarship scholar by coming to considered one of her lessons and giving the presentation. Most of the time, the recipient is a severe, decided scholar paying homage to a sure group of feminine tech college students from greater than 60 years in the past.
A retired music trainer from the Russellville College District, Davis earned her Bachelor of Music diploma from Arkansas Tech in 1959. Fifty years later, she was a part of an effort by the Tech Class of 1959 to buy the digital carillon bell ringing from the highest of the Ross Pendergraft Library and Expertise Middle.
Jayne Jones
One of many longest tenured workers in ATU historical past, Jones has given 46 years of service to her alma mater. She superior from an entry-level secretarial place to develop into the primary feminine vp in Arkansas Tech historical past, and her management helped the ATU Basis develop into a important help useful resource for the college's mission of scholar entry and success.
Jones joined the ATU workers on January 5, 1976, underneath the supervision of Gerald Edgar of the Arkansas Tech information desk. Shortly after receiving his bachelor's diploma in enterprise administration from Arkansas Tech in Could 1988, Jones' profession started to speed up. She grew to become director of scholar accounts in 1989, enterprise supervisor in 1993, and shortly thereafter was promoted to affiliate vp for administration and finance. On this position, Jones supplied management for the development of the Ross Pendergraft Library and Expertise Middle, the Doc Bryan Pupil Companies Middle, and the Nutt Residence Corridor.
Jones grew to become a Licensed Public Accountant and started taking programs towards a Grasp of Training diploma in Instructional Expertise, which he earned from Arkansas Tech in Could 2001. A couple of months later, then-ATU President Dr. Robert C. Brown, supplied him the chance to develop into vp of improvement. When Jones took over as vp, the ATU Basis's portfolio stood at about $7.5 million. When he retired from ATU's Development Division twenty years later, that determine exceeded $50 million.
Concerning the ATU Corridor of Distinctions
Established in 1964, the Arkansas Tech Corridor of Distinction acknowledges the achievements of Arkansas Tech alumni and mates in 5 classes: Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna, Distinguished Alumni Service, Distinguished Younger Alumnus/Alumna, Distinction in Intercollegiate Athletics and Distinguished Service (non-alumna).
Nominations for the Arkansas Tech Corridor of Distinction could also be made by any Arkansas Tech alumnus, any present or former member of the Tech school or administration, any full-time scholar enrolled at Tech, or any member of the Corridor of Distinction. Nominations can’t be made by a member of the family of the candidate.
The nomination deadline is October 1 annually. Honorees are chosen by the ATU Board of Administrators.
No tenured member of Arkansas Tech's board of trustees, school, workers or administration is eligible for nomination for any Corridor of Distinction class.
For extra details about nominating somebody for the Arkansas Tech Corridor of Distinction, go to www.atualumni.com, name (479) 968-0242 or e mail alumni@atu.edu.