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Ouachita Professor Emerita Virginia Queen Remembered For Life Of Music And Service, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau Apr 2017

Ouachita Professor Emerita Virginia Queen Remembered For Life Of Music And Service, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

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Miss Virginia Queen, Professor Emerita of Music at Ouachita Baptist University, died Wednesday, March 29, at age 96.

Miss Queen, who graduated from Ouachita in 1944 with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees, also earned a Master of Music degree from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. She taught at Prescott High School and the Tennessee College for Women before joining the Ouachita music faculty in 1946. She retired in 1986 after 40 years of service at Ouachita. In recent years, she resided at Parkway Village in Little Rock.


Dr. J.D. Patterson, Noted Ouachita Supporter, Remembered For Life Of Ministry And Service, Trennis Henderson Mar 2017

Dr. J.D. Patterson, Noted Ouachita Supporter, Remembered For Life Of Ministry And Service, Trennis Henderson

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Dr. J.D. Patterson, a noted alumnus, benefactor and former trustee of Ouachita Baptist University, died Sunday, March 26, at age 90.

University trustees affirmed Dr. Patterson’s lifelong commitment to Ouachita by naming the J.D. Patterson School of Natural Sciences in his honor in 2002. A 1947 Ouachita alumnus, he received Ouachita’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1984 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1999. He served two terms on the Ouachita Board of Trustees from 2005 through 2011.