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Michael Bonesse of Austin Bonessi, Rodriguez named Mr., Miss SFA 01-30-08/R. Minton Michael G. Bonessi of Austin and Gabriela Valentina Rodriguez of Houston will receive this year’s Mr. and Miss SFA Awards on Feb. 2 at Stephen F. Austin State University. The two students will be honored at halftime of the 6 p.m. women’s basketball game between SFA and University of Texas at Arlington in William R. Johnson Coliseum. The Mr. SFA Award was established in honor of the late Stan McKewen, a 1934 SFA graduate. The Miss SFA Award was established in honor of Arnodean Covin, who was named Miss SFA in 1940, 1941 and 1942. Kilgore residents Larry, a former Mr. SFA and 1942 graduate, and Arnodean Covin, a 1943 and 1972 graduate, are scheduled to participate in the presentation ceremony. Bonessi is a member of the Residence Hall Association, Student Dietetics Association, Order of Omega and Phi Upsilon Omicron. The 2005 Cam Murray Scholarship recipient also served as president of Sigma Chi fraternity. He represented his classes on the Homecoming court during his freshman and sophomore years and was the 2007 Homecoming King. He also served as an SFA 101 student instructor. Rodriguez, who will receive the Arnodean Covin Miss SFA Award, is a senior elementary education and Spanish major who will graduate in May 2008. A 2004 graduate of Clear Lake High School, Rodriguez is the daughter of Carmen and Lee Tompkins of Houston. Rodriguez has been active in the Student Activities Association, Organization of Latin Americans and Student Government Association. She also is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Jack-2-Jack worked on campus as a tour guide and an Orientation Leader. Her list of honors includes the President’s Volunteer Service Award, Orientation Leader of the Year and Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She also was named recipient of the “Region 4 Outstanding Orientation Student Leader Award” by the National Orientation Directors Association; the award winner is selected from applicants from universities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri. The Mr. and Miss SFA title is an award presented each year by the SFA Alumni Association to exemplary students who well represent and promote SFA. Recipients are selected based on their scholarship, participation and leadership in academic and co-curricular activities, citizenship and service and loyalty to the university. Selections were made by a committee of faculty, staff, students and alumni. —30—
1-28-08/R. Minton Still Scholarship to benefit forestry majors
The Alan Still Nacogdoches Chapter Safari Club Scholarship will benefit students who major in wildlife biology and forestry at the university and who support and participate in hunting. Recipients must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade-point average, and the scholarship is renewable to its current recipient. Born Feb. 18, 1949, Still was one of five boys born to John Charles and Margaret Barrett Still. Still attended Nacogdoches public schools and was a member of the Dragon football team during high school. He enrolled at SFA in 1967 with a major in accounting and a minor in agriculture. He was a member of Phi Delta fraternity and served as its president during his senior year. Still earned his bachelor’s degree from SFA in 1970. In April 1970, he married Jeannette Ellen Cox and the couple relocated to Houston where he worked as an accountant and she taught school. The couple returned to Nacogdoches in 1973, and Still began work with Heins Farm Equipment as business manager. He and business partner Andy Fish bought the company in 1978, and the dealership became known as Fish and Still Farm Equipment. In 1988 the company moved to the west loop from its original location on Highway 59 south. It moved to its current location in 2001. The company received a “Gold Star” rating for two years, and, in 2005 was presented a “Gold Medallion” rating from John Deere. The company also was listed at the No. 2 spot for total volume of hay equipment sales. The Stills have two children, Jonathan and Allison. Still was an avid hunter and golfer before his death in Aug. 12, 2005. For more information about the SFA Scholarship Fund, contact the SFA Alumni Association at PO Box 6096-SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX 75962; visit www.sfaalumni.com or call 936-468-3407.
 Skeeter & Glenda Carolyn Boudro Davis Davis Scholarship established A scholarship honoring Raymond “Skeeter” and Carolyn Boudro Davis of Nacogdoches has been established by L. Bruntze Boudro of Nacogdoches through the Stephen F. Austin State University Alumni Association. The Skeeter and Glenda Carolyn Boudro Davis Scholarship will benefit junior or senior interdisciplinary studies majors who seek ECH-4 certification at the university. Recipients must maintain a minimum 3.0 grade-point average, and the scholarship is renewable to its current recipient. A 1971 graduate of Dayton High School, Skeeter graduated from SFA in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology and math. His teaching and coaching career began in Alto, and he has taught mathematics at Douglass ISD for the past 20 years. The daughter of Bruntze and Lorine Boudro, Carolyn graduated from Dayton High School in 1973. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in education from SFA in 1977 and added a Master of Education degree in early childhood education in 1982. She earned a Ph.D. in education from Capella University in 2007. Carolyn spent 24 years teaching in Texas public schools before joining the SFA faculty. She currently is an assistant professor in the SFA College of Education. The Davises have two children—Ryan, a senior at Nacogdoches High School, and Scott, an eighth grader at Douglass ISD. —30—
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