POPLAR BLUFF - Three Rivers College announced its Spring 2011 Dean’s List.

To be named to the Three Rivers Dean’s List, students must be enrolled in classes full-time (at least 12 credit hours), while maintaining a 3.5 grade point average.

Stoddard County students earning Dean's List honors include:

• Advance: Misty Burton, Kendra Moore, Cody VanGennip

• Bell City: Mallory Dockins

• Bernie: Christopher Costin, Miranda McGowan, Janette McGuire, Nichole Reif

• Bloomfield: Marvin Briscoe, Cynthia Griffin, Sarah McCulley, Brittany Revelle, Brandon Roper, Erin Tompkins, Ellen Yates

• Dexter: Anthony Coffer, Shannon Creado, Alan Cullum, Mark Duncan, John Gaines, Roger Garris, Cynthia Heaton, Samantha Karmas, Melissa Marron, Kimberly Misouria, Gwendolynn Oliva, Crystal Radin, Lavonda Spradling, Kecia Wyatt

• Dudley: Rebecca Carter

• Essex: Alex Holloway, Marie Hyten, Linda Rivera, Tiffanie Smith

• Puxico: Diana Craft, Peggy Fowler, Tyler Gholson, Raymond Gibson, Aaron Guillams, Jerrie Ketcherside, Samanth Lawrence, Michael Mantia, Cherie Markham, Donna Riggins, Larry Riggins, Schree Wilson

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Rodney D. Green Endowed Scholarship has been endowed through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation.

The $10,000 endowed scholarship was established through memorial contributions of friends and family.

The renewable scholarship is open to students enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University who are graduates of Bernie, Dexter or Malden high schools. Candidates must have a 3.5 grade point average and plan to pursue a bachelor of science in business administration degree.

The University Scholarship Committee will select the recipient. The first Rodney D. Green Endowed Scholarship will be awarded in fall 2012.

The late Rodney D. Green, of Bernie, who died last month, most recently served as president of the First State Bank and Trust in Dexter. He began his banking career as an officer with the State Bank of Bernie in 1976. He became Bernie manager for the First Community Bank in 1992. A decade later, he was promoted to senior vice president and named the Malden Bank manager. Green was promoted to president of the Malden branch of First Community Bank in 2003. Most currently, he was the president of the First State Bank and Trust in Dexter.

Green, son of Dale and Betty Jo Bowman of rural Campbell, Mo., was born on Sept. 2, 1954, in Kennett, Mo. He was raised on a farm west of Malden. He was a 1972 graduate of Malden Senior High School and attended both Southeast Missouri State University and Arkansas State University. Green completed the Nebraska School of Banking program in 1978 and completed the Graduate School of Banking of the South in 1988.

Green was a member of the Sunnyvale Baptist Church in Malden and the Dexter Kiwanis Club. He married Mary Hueckel Ward at Essex, Mo., on June 17, 2005. Mrs. Green survives and is a resident of Bernie.

In addition to his wife and parents, Mr. Green is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Valerie and husband Chad Crow of Sikeston, Mo., and Jennifer and husband Daniel Neuhaus of Dexter; a stepson, Dustin Ward of Kennett; a sister and brother-in-law, Linnie Harris and husband Max of Jackson, Mo.; and three grandchildren, Karsyn, Carter and Chloe.

POPLAR BLUFF, MO – Three Rivers College president Dr. Devin Stephenson has been invited to serve as a commissioner with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).

AACC Commissions advise the Board of Directors on issues that “reflect key aspects of the Association’s work on behalf of its member colleges.” Stephenson has been asked to serve on the Commission of Communications and Marketing.

“This appointment gives Three Rivers a voice at the table as AACC markets the value of community colleges,” said Stephenson. “Nothing could be more advantageous to students than to know the quality and cost of higher education delivered by community colleges.”

Stephenson’s term as an AACC advisor began on July 1, and will last three years. The next Commission meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., November 9-10.

“This is a very exciting time for community colleges,” said AACC Board Chair Myrtle Dorsey. “Service as a commissioner can benefit not only your national Association, but also your fellow institutions.” In the invitation letter, Doresy praised Stephenson’s commitment and leadership.

“Selected to be a Commissioner is a great honor,” said Stephenson. “This is a very good appointment and one that Three Rivers should benefit from.”

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's community colleges. The association represents almost 1,200 two-year, associate degree–granting institutions and more than 12 million students.

JONESBORO, Ark. – A number of area students have been named to the Chancellor’s and Dean’s Lists for the spring 2011 semester at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.

The two lists recognize undergraduate students who achieved the highest grade point averages while enrolled in 12 or more credit hours of study. The Chancellor’s List includes students who earned a grade point average of 3.80 to 4.0. The Dean’s List includes students with a grade point of 3.6 to 3.79.

Chance Holden, Dexter, Chancellor’s List; Whitney Hyten, Dexter, Chancellor’s List; Timothy Moore, Dexter, Chancellor’s List; Sarah Phillips, Dexter, Chancellor’s List; Amanda Pixley, Dexter, Chancellor’s List; Jennifer Thorntown, Gatewood, Chancellor’s List; and Grant Cagle, Bernie, Chancellor’s List.

By Annabeth Miiler,
ShowMe Times Editor

A Dexter native has received an educational grant from an international women’s organization.

Tommie Love was recently awarded a $3,000 scholarship from P.E.O. Sisterhood, local chapter CP. Love is the daughter of Tom and Carmen Love of Dexter. She currently lives in St. Louis. She is just six weeks away from completing her bachelor’s of science in nursing (BSN) degree from Chamberlain College of Nursing in St. Louis.

Love received the scholarship award at the local group’s meeting on Thursday.

Love has long had a servant’s heart – working as a doula and coaching women through childbirth and working with other programs in the St. Louis region. A mother with two children, she started this educational path toward a nursing degree as a “nontraditional” student.

“I started five years ago,” she said. “I was working and went to school part-time. I went to Meramec Community College to get all my sciences in. I was a psychology major first time around, and I only had to take biology for science. I’m so old my biology had expired!”

Love said that after a long hiatus from classes, some classes like biology need to be taken a second time around. And so she started at St. Louis Community College at Meramec and took advantage of the community college’s lower tuition. She attended Meramec part-time for three years, and has been attending Chamberlain full time for a little over two years.

“And I graduate in six weeks – I am so excited,” she said enthusiastically. She said the award from P.E.O. will help pay for that final semester.

P.E.O. ((Philanthropic Educational Organization) was founded on January 21, 1869, by seven students at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. One of the organization’s primary missions is promoting educational opportunities for women. In fact, the P.E.O. Sisterhood proudly sponsors no less than six international philanthropies, including ownership of Cottey College in Nevada, Mo.