Ken Copeland, Sam Houston State Renaissance, was a 19-year veteran of the San Marcos, Texas, Police Department. Copeland, who was the first officer killed in the line of duty in the history of the department, was also an active-duty member of the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve at the time of his passing and had previously…

R. Sterling Hennis Jr., North Carolina ’52, earned his undergraduate, master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He served briefly in the Army’s military police corps and guarded the atomic bomb at the Sandia Base in New Mexico. His teaching career began in Winston-Salem, but he quickly returned to his alma…

SigEp Citation recipient Barney Ebsworth, Washington-St. Louis ’57, was a highly successful entrepreneur and world-renowned art collector. He began college at the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship. After two years as a sprinter on the school’s track team, he earned an academic scholarship to attend Washington University in St. Louis and transferred to…