Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Dr. Fitzgeral Hill To Speak At Kiwanis Honors Banquet

The Prescott Kiwanis Club will have its annual honors banquet Monday, May 15, at 6:30 p.m. in the McRae Middle School cafetorium.

The club honors the top scholastic students at Prescott High School each year with a banquet. Tribute will be paid to the seniors, juniors and sophomores who have a cumulative grade point of 3.5 or higher.

In addition to the meal there will be entertainment, presentations to the students and an address by Dr. Fitzgerald Hill.

The goal of the program is to present to the students and their families motivation for continued success through the application of scholarship. Dr. Hill is a splendid example of such achievement.

Dr. Hill is currently assistant head football coach, while also serving as recruiting coordinator and wide receiver coach, at the University of Arkansas. The 35-year-old Arkadelphia native is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University, where he received bachelor degrees in communications and physical education.

He received a masters degree in student personnel services from Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La., where he served as a graduate assistant football coach in 1988. In 1989 Dr. Hill served as a graduate assistant football coach at the University of Arkansas before returning to Northwestern as a full time assistant in January 1990.

Dr. Hill returned again to Arkansas in July 1990 as a dorm counselor and volunteer coach, but was summoned to military duties, where he received the Bronze Star and Commendation Medal for services rendered in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

The veteran renewed his coaching and counseling duties at the university for the 1991 football season. Dr. Hill's next coaching assignment was a brief stint at Utah State before returning to Arkansas again, this time as an assistant football coach in March 1992.

In May of 1997 Hill was awarded the doctorate of education degree from the University of Arkansas. Since the initial completion of the degree requirements Dr. Hill has continued to update his studies and has published several journal articles and made several presentations regarding the findings of his research.