Officials will announce plans Friday, Oct. 29, for a scholarship program to be named after a University of Central Arkansas student and basketball player who died in an apartment fire in April.
The scholarship is being named after Aaron B. Mackey, a 22 year-old UCA student from Maumelle. He was a member of the UCA basketball team. On April 29, he died in an apartment fire outside of Conway in Faulkner County.
The Aaron B. Mackey Endowment will be formally introduced during a reception in the Little Rock Adult Center 6401 W. 12th Street about one-quarter mile west of University Avenue in Little Rock.
The endowment eventually will provide two student scholarships at UCA, said Eleen Mackey, who is Aaron B. Mackey’s mother.
More information about the endowment is available from Willie Hardin, UCA’s associate vice president for academic development, at (501) 450-5804 in Conway or Aaron Mackey’s parents the Rev. James E. Mackey and Eleen Mackey of Maumelle, at (501) 803-9101.
