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Get a degree, Beebe decrees

Single Parent Scholarship Fund hails program’s backers, successes

 Wayne Woods, Wally Caradine and Bob Ferguson
Wayne Woods, Wally Caradine and Bob Ferguson

— Be Like Mike, an event honoring Gov. Mike Beebe and benefiting the Single Parents Scholarship Fund, paid tribute not only to the governor, but his mother, the late Louise Beebe, and single parents who received scholarships and those who support them.

The fund-raising dinner and tribute was held May 19 at the Embassy Suites.

Jennifer Hefner, a single-parent scholarship recipient who now has her law degree, spoke about how a scholarship helped her “break the cycle.” She also introduced a video tribute to the governor produced by Joan Early Strauss.

Afterward, in his remarks thanking and encouraging sponsors and attendees, the governor noted, “I don’t know that you’ll do anything that will have a more significant effect on a momma, a daddy or children than what you’ve done here tonight.”

The evening concluded with a choir of current or former scholarship recipients’ children singing “Go Light Your World” with a featured solo by Jacquez Swanigan.

Serving as event chairmen were Vicki Saviers and Mary Ann Greenwood. Pamela Smith was the master of ceremonies.

Among the guests were Ben and Kyle Noble, Dora Jane and Greg Flesher, Milton Dejesus, Nidia Cochran, Ellen and Dale Ingram, Vincent Insalaco, Judy Tenenbaum, Rick Fleetwood, Gary Davis, David Ashley and his son Dennie, Joyce Elliott, Martie North and Kedrin Edgerson.

High Profile, Pages 36 on 05/29/2011

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