Alumni dinner funds scholarships
The Pea Ridge High School Alumni Associaiton’s annual pulled pork barbeque dinner and pie auction will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, April 20, with the pie auction beginning at 6 p.m. DInner will be served until 7 p.m. The event will be in the Pea Ridge Middle School cafeteria. The BBQ Dinner and Pie Sale is an annual Alumni fundraiser supporting the Alumni Scholarship Program.
The menu will consist of Bar-B-Que pulled pork, prepared by Rheldon Bray, along with coleslaw, baked beans and tea or coffee. Adult dinners are $7, and $4 for children from 4 to 10 years old. For dessert, see pie auction.
The Pie Auction will begin at 6 p.m., with Jerry Fitzner as auctioneer.
Volunteers are needed to bake pies for the Pie Sale. Call Linda Schooley at 4518574, or Nancy Nichols at 451-9219, to sign up to make pies.
Since it’s beginning in 2007, the PRHS Alumni Scholarship Program has awarded scholarships to members of the graduating classes of Pea Ridge High School, applicable to tuition and books, for the first two semesters at the college or university of the recipient’s choice. With the community’s help and financial support, the Alumni Scholarship Program has grown from offering a single scholarship in 2007, to awarding ten scholarships in 2012. Alumni Scholarships normally are for $500 per semester, and are renewable for a second semester when a sufficient grade point is achieved on the student’s course work.
Each year on the second weekend of July, the PRHS Alumni Association sponsors Alumni Day, an All-Years Reunion of former students, teachers, administrators and staff of the Pea Ridge Schools. Members of the Association’s Board of Directors are elected at the reunion, and serve a three-year term. Current Board officers are Jamie Cotton, Lori Littrell, Sherry Barnett, Penny Schwitters and Jerry Nichols. Other members of the board are Fayrene Jones, Gwen Edmundson, Marcia Cothran and Linda Schooley.
Currently the Alumni Association is also selling Blackhawk chairs, and a composite book of the PRHS graduating classes from 1946 through 2012. These may be purchased at either Arvest Bank or Community First Bank, the Times office or Silver Moon Flea Market on West Slack Street.