4 added to the Hall of Fame State
Now in its 10 year, Arkansas Business Hall of Fame inducted four Arkansas entrepreneurs in their ranks Friday night at State House Convention Center in Little Rock.
Lee ground Hamer, William H. Bowen, Harvey C. By the end sofa and William H. Kennedy Jr. have been adopted by the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the Arkansas Business Hall of Fame Board.
Hamer ground in Arkansas to teach at Harvard, the first variable Life Insurance Co. In addition, he founded Meridian Management Co., an investment management company. He is currently director of Centennial Consulting Co.
In 1998, worked with the ground Hamer UA Chancellor John A. White, Creating a scholarship program for newcomers to the college distinction. Hamer served in the ground for the UA campaign Twenty-First Century Steering Committee.
Bowen, after a partnership in the law firm Smith, Williams, Friday and Bowen, was elected president of the National Commercial Bank, now Bank regions, in 1971. Under his leadership national trade was the largest bank in Arkansas. After his retirement in 1991, he served as Dir Bill Clinton’s chief of staff.
In 1993, Bowen was elected President and CEO of source Arkansas Health Ventures Inc. He was dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law. Among its many functions in the public service has been president of Smith College flirt capital campaign, a founding member of the board of the Arkansas School for mathematics and natural sciences, a founding member and president of the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority.
Couch is known for electricity in Arkansas. In 1900, he founded the LA-North Telephone Co., and in 1911 he sold to Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. In 1913, he founded the Arkansas Power Co. 1915, his company was Arkansas Light and Power Co., by 1920, cord provided to the Arkansas 33 municipalities.
During his life, develops sofa Remmel and Carpenter Dam Dam for hydroelectric power of the Ouachita River. He Mississippi Power & Light Co. and Louisiana Power Co., which came during the years 1926 to do so, which ultimately Entergy. It was one of seven directors of the newly created Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corp. in the year 1931.
Kennedy has worked with Arkansas Power & Light as Vice President of industrial development in early 1950, for travel, Arkansas, for industry to the state. He took the job with the National Bank of Commerce of Pine Bluff in 1957 at the age of retirement and as chairman of the board of directors during the year 1984. During his tenure, the Bank has grown from $ 45 million in assets over $ 200 million.
Kennedy was the first Arkansan the president of the American Bankers Association. In 1983, U.S. News & World Report has designated the third-most influential American in the field of finance. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce Arkansas, Arkansas State to the economy and education of the Commission for hydraulic Arkansas.
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