Laura Knox, education instructor at Arkansas State University-Mountain Home was recently selected Faculty Member of the Year by her peers.

After graduating Mountain Home High School, Knox attended Stephens College in Columbia, MO, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communications with an emphasis in public relations.

She was employed by the University of Nebraska-Wesleyan before moving to Denver where she earned her master’s certification in elementary education K-6 at the University of Colorado-Denver.

Monday July 15, 1963, was pretty much like any other day in Your Region 8.

The sun had burned off a morning fog, according to the Farmer’s Almanac, lifting the temperature to a toasty 88 degrees.

Cardinals fans were probably feeling a little hot under the collar after Lou Brock and the Chicago Cubs shut out St. Louis, 2-0. A year later Brock would be playing for the “right team.”

Aside from Paul McCartney being fined 17 British pounds for speeding through his hometown of Liverpool, not much else was happening around the rest of the world.