Class Notes – UCA Magazine

Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre Season Reveal

The lineup for the 2020 season of the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre was announced at the annual Season Reveal party Oct. 15 at the President’s Home on the University of Central Arkansas campus. The event also featured live music and special appearances by AST actors.

Decades Brunch

Alumni from the class of 1969 were inducted into the Half-Century Club during the Decades Brunch held Oct. 26. Established in 1980, the Half-Century Club recognizes alumni who graduated at least 50 years ago. The induction ceremony takes place every year at Homecoming.

Alumni and Friends Party

Homecoming 2019 included the Alumni and Friends Party held Oct. 25 at the Centennial Events Center in Conway. During this event, the University of Central Arkansas Alumni Association presented the Alumni Service Award to Brandy Pate ’98 and the inaugural Young Alumni Award to Spencer Gordy ’07.

Scholarship Reception

“Beyond Me” was the theme for the 2019 Scholarship Reception. Nearly 500 scholarship donors and recipients attended the event held Sept. 26 at the Farris Center on the University of Central Arkansas campus.

Alums visiting UCA often comment about how different the campus looks. For some of them, it is almost unrecognizable from their time in school. In particular, they recognize the dramatic changes to the north side of campus where we have renovated facilities and built new ones from the Lewis Science Center and Conway Corp Center for Sciences to Greek Village I and II. With every ground breaking, construction tour, or grand openings for those facilities, we have continued to define UCA as a destination institution.