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Georgia Hickingbotham Remembered For Generous Investment In Ouachita Students, Felley Lawson, Office Of Communications & Marketing

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Having a residential campus helps give Ouachita Baptist University its uniqueness. And Georgia Hickingbotham was a friend of Ouachita who helped give residence living its heart.

Hickingbotham, who died Dec. 7 at 89, is well known for her successful business career. She was one of the first women in Arkansas elected to serve as an officer in a bank and was a co-founder of TCBY, which became the largest frozen yogurt chain in the world.

At Ouachita, “Mrs. Georgia” is also remembered for her generous personal investment in women students that began in 2013 when her husband of nearly 50 …

Shelby Seabaugh Among Organ Donors To Be Honored At 2016 Rose Parade, Staff

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Shelby Seabaugh, a former Ouachita Baptist University student who died in 2014, will be honored as part of a float in the 2016 Donate Life Rose Parade in Pasadena, California.

Deabaugh's image will be featured with 59 other memorial floragraphs--portraits made of flowers--during the parade. Each memorial protrait will honor an individual who donated organs and tissue. The float's theme will be Treasure Life's Journey.

Ouachtia Community Mourns Loss Junior Shelby Seabaugh; Memorial Services April 2 & 3, Trennis Henderson, Ouachita News Bureau

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Shelby Seabaugh, a junior Christian studies/philosophy major at Ouachita Baptist University from Magnolia, died unexpectedly March 27.