The Class of 2002 consists of 79 seniors scheduled to receive diplomas at the commencement. Dr. Doin E. Hicks and his wife, Wanda McClung Hicks, of Deale, Maryland, will receive honorary degrees.

At the baccalaureate service tonight, the Rev. Norwood Brown III, pastor of First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville and a Lyon College trustee, will be the speaker. The Rev. Donald L. McDuff, pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church in Nashville, Arkansas, will be the liturgist. He is the father of Teryn McDuff, a member of the graduating class.

The baccalaureate service will be followed by the traditional Scots Walk, in which the graduates walk to Bryan Lake for a torch-lighting ceremony.

The careers of Dr. and Mrs. Hicks, the honorary degree recipients, have been dedicated to improving the lives of those with hearing and visual impairments, as well as other disabilities, through education.

Dr. Hicks, a native of Ozark County, Missouri, attended Lyon College (then Arkansas College), where he was senior class president. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in speech in 1953.

He completed the post-bachelor program in deaf education at Arkansas State Teacher’s College (now the University of Central Arkansas) in Conway. He also received a master’s and a doctor of education degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Dr. Hicks served as principal of the Arkansas School for the Deaf in Little Rock and as director of the Pilot School for the Deaf in Dallas, Texas, where he established the federally sponsored Center for Services to Deaf-Blind Children in the Southwestern United States.

In 1970, Hicks joined Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., as dean of Pre-College Programs and founding director of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf. In his 21 years at Gallaudet, he also held several other administrative positions.

Hicks was named a Lyon College Distinguished Alum-nus in 1976.

Wanda McClung Hicks is a native of Sheridan. She attended Lyon College, where she graduated in 1953 with a Bachelor of Science in Education. She returned to Sheridan to teach for a year before marrying Mr. Hicks in August 1954.

She started her career as an elementary school teacher while continuing her education and eventually earning a master’s degree in special education with emphasis in the area of deaf-blind from the University of Texas-Dallas.

Flake first joined the board in 1989 and served three terms before going off the board last spring. Trustees must rotate off the board for at least a year after serving three four-year terms. Flake continued to serve as an advisory trustee.

Flake previously served as chair of the Business and Finance Committee and as a member of the Executive, Building and Grounds, and Audit Committees; the Investment Subcommittee; and the board of directors of Aberdeen Development Corp. He is a partner in Barnes, Quinn, Flake & Anderson, Inc., a real estate services company in Little Rock.

Flake is an elder at Second Presbyterian Church in Little Rock. His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.

The Lyon Board also recommended the re-election of six current trustees: Mary Sue Jacobs of Little Rock, Frank Lyon Jr. of Little Rock, Robin Nichols Orsi of Des Arc, Herbert C. Rule III of Little Rock, John D. Trimble V of El Dorado, and Robert A. Young III of Fort Smith.

The trustees elected officers of the board for a one-year term beginning July 1. They are Frank Lyon Jr., vice chair; Suzanne E. Blair of Batesville, secretary; and Chares B. Whiteside III of Little Rock, treasurer. Young will continue to serve as chair of the board.

Also at the meeting Friday, the board approved resolutions expressing gratitude to three trustees and two advisory trustees who are leaving the board. The departing trustees are Doyle W. Rogers Jr. of Batesville, J.D. Simpson III of Little Rock and Paul L. Bone of Clinton. Each has served the maximum three terms before rotating off the board. Rogers and Simpson were appointed advisory trustees by the board.

Advisory trustees leaving the board are Dr. Jane B. Fagg and Teryn McDuff. Dr. Fagg, the McCain Professor of History, is retiring at the end of the semester after 34 years on the Lyon faculty. She is one of two faculty representatives on the board. McDuff is the student representative on the board. She will be graduating Saturday with the Class of 2002.

The board approved faculty emeritus status for Dr. Fagg upon her retirement at the end of the academic year.

The board also approved a resolution honoring Mary Perkins Barton of El Dorado, who died April 22 at the age of 93. Both Mrs. Barton and her late husband, Clark N. Barton, were former trustees of the college. Mrs. Barton remained an advisory trustee until her death. Mr. Barton died in 1978.

Judge Georganne Frazier examines campus safety director Wally Hightower’s knees during the annual Bonniest Knees Contest at the Arkansas Scottish Festival Sunday. Hightower was chosen the man with the bonniest knees at this year’s festival. It was the second time Hightower has won the contest.

Highlander, Scot staffers win awards

Members of The Highlander newspaper staff and The Scot yearbook staff brought home five awards from the Arkansas College Media Association’s convention and awards ceremony, which was held at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville on April 19. The Highlander’s Kevin Vornheder, Jeremy Haggard, and Lynsey Russell and The Scot’s Scott W. Shelby attended the convention. Donnie Sewell, adviser to both publications, also attended.

Shelby accepted an honorable mention award on behalf of The Scot for the cover design on the 2000-2001 yearbook.

Haggard received an honorable mention award for a feature page layout on February 20, 2002, and third place feature writing award for his article “Jim Peterson: A bad poet turned good,” which appeared in The Highlander on November 6, 2001.

Vornheder received an honorable mention award for his sports page layout in the November 6, 2001, issue and third place editorial writing award for his staff editorial: “Food for Thought,” which appeared in the same issue.

The 2003 ACMA conference will be held on the Lyon campus.

Hyde has interview published

Gene Hyde’s interview with Heasley Prize winners Fred Chappell and Donald Harington titled “The Southern Highlands as Literary Landscape,” appears in the recent issue of Southern Quarterly (Winter 2001). Hyde is the instructional services librarian at Lyon.

The Scots defeated No. 4 seed Martin Methodist 11-9 Tuesday to win their first game in the TranSouth Conference tournament at Cleveland, Tennessee. Phillip May was the winning pitcher and Chris Scarborough got the save.

The Scots lost to Union University 5-1 Wednesday in the second round of the tournament. However, the Scots remained alive in the double-elimination tournament. They were to play the loser of the Berry-Lee University game Thursday afternoon.

Lyon wrapped up the regular season April 25 with a 10-2 victory over Ouachita Baptist in a game played at Beebe. May was the winning pitcher in that one as well, picking up his 12th regular season victory.

Clete Putnam homered and Shaun Edwards was three for three and drove in two runs for Lyon.

The Scots ended the regular season with a 36-29 record.

Lyon College Campus Calendar

Friday, May 3

10 a.m. Institutional Advancement Staff Meeting             Lyon, Citizens Bank Room