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UAM To Honor Four With Alumni Awards At Homecoming
(10/13/09)
MONTICELLO, AR — Deltic Timber executive Kenneth D. Mann of Jersey,
corporate attorney James E. McClain of Dallas, Tex., and Monticello forester
Wayne L. Owen, Jr., have been selected to receive the University of Arkansas
at Monticello’s 2009 Alumni Awards for Achievement and Merit.
The awards will be presented during an alumni dinner on October 23 as part
of UAM’s homecoming celebration. The university will also recognize Hot
Springs art dealer Pat Scavo with the Continuing The Connection Award,
presented to the alumnus who best keeps alive the connections between
Arkansas A&M and UAM.
“We are pleased to honor this outstanding group of alumni who have
contributed so much to their professions, their communities, and to the
legacy of this university,” said UAM Chancellor Jack Lassiter. “The
individuals we have chosen to honor are very deserving of this recognition
and we are proud of their accomplishments.”
Kenneth Mann has built a successful career in energy
and natural resource management. He is currently the chief financial officer
for Deltic Timber Corporation but began his career with Murphy Oil in 1982
as a general accountant. He moved into corporate accounting in 1984 before
being transferred to the company’s internal audit department in 1988.
Mann moved to Deltic, a Murphy Oil subsidiary, in 1991 as supervisor of
accounting and climbed the corporate ladder. He was promoted to assistant
controller in 1997, added the duties of investor relations officer in 2000,
and began managing the company’s corporate governance responsibilities in
2002. He was named to the Deltic board of directors and became corporate
controller in 2004. He was named vice president, chief financial officer and
treasurer in 2007.
Mann is a 1981 UAM graduate with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and
earned an MBA from Louisiana Tech in 1982.
James McClain is vice president and general counsel for
Tetra Pak Incorporated, a food products packaging and distribution company
based in Denton, Tex. McClain is responsible for legal support for the
company’s North American and Greater Middle East operations.
McClain earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UAM in
1972, holds an MBA from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, a law
degree from Southern Methodist University, and a second law degree with a
specialization in tax law from New York University.
He began his career in private law practice in Little Rock in 1977. From
1985 to 1992, he served as tax partner and tax manager for Deloitte & Touche
LLP, working in the firm’s Little Rock, Memphis and New York offices.
McClain joined Tetra Pak in 1992 as vice president and general counsel and
became director of holdings and tax for Tetra Pak’s parent company, Tetra
Laval Group in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1996. He returned to the U.S. in
1998 to enter private law practice as a partner in the Dallas firm of
Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal LLP and became a partner in Gardere
Wynne Sewell LLP, also in Dallas, in 2001 before returning to Tetra Pak in
2003.
Wayne Owen is director of the Forestry and Vegetation
Management Group for Crop Production Services, Inc. (CPS), the largest
domestic agricultural distributor for all crop inputs (seed, fertilizer and
chemicals).
A Pine Bluff native, Owen earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry from what
was then Arkansas A&M College in 1970. He began his career in 1971 as a
field forester for Davis Forestry Corporation of Monticello, eventually
becoming the company’s vice president and general manager.
In 1983, Owen started Timberland Enterprises, Inc., a chemical distributor
serving the forestry market in Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. The business
grew to become a nationwide distributor for both forestry and the industrial
vegetation management industry before the chemical distribution portion of
the company was sold to United Agricultural Products in 2006 and purchased
by CPS in 2008.
Owen currently manages a 47-person sales team, various warehouse locations,
and all forestry and vegetation management sales and service for CPS in the
U.S. He is a member of the Arkansas State Plant Board representing the
Arkansas Forestry Association and is a member of the AFA’s executive
committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of Commercial Bank
and Trust of Monticello.
A McGehee native, Pat Scavo is co-owner of Blue Moon Art
Gallery in Hot Springs. As a student at Arkansas A&M, she was captain of the
cheerleading squad and president of Phi Sigma Chi sorority. Through the
years, she has hosted numerous sorority reunions, served on the UAM
Foundation Fund board of directors, and established a scholarship to honor
her sorority, which became Alpha Sigma Alpha in 1962.
Scavo earned a bachelor’s degree in education from A&M in 1959 and later
earned a master’s degree in education from Nova University in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla. She served as a Sarasota County educator for 20 years.
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