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Delta State’s Alumni Association announces 2011 inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame

By November 1, 2011General

Induction into the Delta State University Alumni Hall of Fame is the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by the Delta State Alumni Association. Established in 2007, the Alumni Hall of Fame is extended to alumni and friends who have achieved professional distinction and made significant community service contributions at the local, national and/or international level and who have thus brought honor and distinction to Delta State. As part of the Homecoming activities planned for Friday, November 4,  the Delta State University Alumni Association will recognize this year’s Alumni Hall of Fame Inductees: Nancy Disharoon Loome of Port Gibson, Dr. Ronald Chance of Como, Hugh Ellis Walker, Sr. of Drew.

Nancy Disharoon LoomeNancy Disharoon Loome
Nancy Disharoon Loome received a marketing degree from Delta State in 1983 and a master’s degree in counseling in 1987. She directed university career centers, first at Delta State and later at Missouri Southern State University. Loome currently serves as executive director for The Parents’ Campaign, a nonpartisan public education advocacy group. Married to Jim Loome, she has twin daughters, Susie and Jenny, and a son, Jack. She resides in Clinton.

 

 

 

Ronald R. Chance, PhDRonald R. Chance, PhD
A native of Como, Ronald R. Chance, PhD, received his undergraduate degree in 1970 from Delta State and earned a doctoral degree in physical chemistry from Dartmouth College in 1974. He divides his time between Algenol Biofuels as executive vice president of engineering and the Georgia Institute of Technology as associate director of the Strategic Energy Institute. Chance and his wife, Judy, have two grown children, Kris and Rick, and four grandchildren—Jake, Will, Trey and Jackson. He and his wife reside in Naples, Florida.

 

 

 

 

Hugh Ellis Walker Sr.Hugh Ellis Walker Sr.
Hugh Ellis Walker Sr., a native of Drew, graduated from Delta State in 1952. In 1969, he joined Delta State as alumni secretary, serving in that post until 1987 when he was named executive director of the alumni-foundation. The Hugh Ellis Walker Alumni-Foundation House was dedicated in his honor in 1996. Married to Eloise Stratton Walker (’50) for 60 years, the Walkers have two children, Hugh Ellis Walker Jr. and Sheri Lynn Walker Wright, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The Walkers reside in Cleveland.

 

 

 

 

Tickets for the Alumni Awards and Gala Dinner are on sale now for $20 per ticket.  For more information or to purchase a ticket, please contact the alumni office at 662-846-4660 or email alumni@deltastate.edu.  The Gala Dinner will take place Friday, November 4, on the campus of Delta State University at Walter Sillers Coliseum. The social starts at 6 p.m. leading to the dinner at 7 p.m.  Visit the Delta State alumni website, by clicking on the Alumni & Friends tab off of the main Delta State webpage for the full schedule of events for Homecoming 2011.