07-21-2005, 07:55 PM
LITTLE ROCK - George Dunklin of Stuttgart has taken his seat on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission for a seven-year term, and it followed closely the agency’s 60th birthday.
The Commission was created in its present form July 1, 1945, after Amendment 35 of the Arkansas Constitution was approved by voters in November 1944.
There has been a Stuttgart resident on the Commission two-thirds of the time - 40 years -- over those 60 years. Nine Stuttgart commissioners have served, including Dunklin, matching the nine who have been Little Rock residents. Three commissioners have been Pine Bluff residents, and no other Arkansas locality has supplied more than two AGFC commissioners.
Some Arkansas old-timers occasionally referred to “the Stuttgart seat” on the Commission, although there have been gaps down through the years. Stuttgart residents were commissioners in 1945 to 1956, 1960 to 1962, 1967-1974, 1978 to 1983 and 1987 to 2002 before Dunklin.
The roster includes Roger Crowe (1945-49), F.H. McCormack (1949-1956), Wayne Hampton (1960-62), Lloyd McCollum (1967-74), Rick Hampton (1978-83), Harold Ives (1987-94), Pat Peacock (1994-95), Marion McCollum (1995-2002) and Dunklin.
The nine Little Rock AGFC commissioners’ terms covered 37 years. They were Shuffield (1951-58), Ben Hogan Sr., (1958-64), Ben Hogan Jr., (1964-65), Frank Lyon Jr., (1982-89), Tommy Sproles (1983-90), James Moore (1990-97), Witt Stephens Jr., (1993-2000), Sheffield Nelson (2000-present) and Brett Morgan (2003-present).
When Sproles joined Lyon on the Commission in 1983, it was the first time two persons from the same town had been commissioners together. Since then, Moore and Stephens have served together, and Sheffield and Morgan have served at the same time.
The state constitution provides for the chairman of the zoology department at the University of Arkansas to be a non-voting commissioner. These have been Fayetteville residents, and two other Fayetteville residents, George Cole Jr., and Bill Ackerman, have been governor-appointed, voting commissioners.
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The Commission was created in its present form July 1, 1945, after Amendment 35 of the Arkansas Constitution was approved by voters in November 1944.
There has been a Stuttgart resident on the Commission two-thirds of the time - 40 years -- over those 60 years. Nine Stuttgart commissioners have served, including Dunklin, matching the nine who have been Little Rock residents. Three commissioners have been Pine Bluff residents, and no other Arkansas locality has supplied more than two AGFC commissioners.
Some Arkansas old-timers occasionally referred to “the Stuttgart seat” on the Commission, although there have been gaps down through the years. Stuttgart residents were commissioners in 1945 to 1956, 1960 to 1962, 1967-1974, 1978 to 1983 and 1987 to 2002 before Dunklin.
The roster includes Roger Crowe (1945-49), F.H. McCormack (1949-1956), Wayne Hampton (1960-62), Lloyd McCollum (1967-74), Rick Hampton (1978-83), Harold Ives (1987-94), Pat Peacock (1994-95), Marion McCollum (1995-2002) and Dunklin.
The nine Little Rock AGFC commissioners’ terms covered 37 years. They were Shuffield (1951-58), Ben Hogan Sr., (1958-64), Ben Hogan Jr., (1964-65), Frank Lyon Jr., (1982-89), Tommy Sproles (1983-90), James Moore (1990-97), Witt Stephens Jr., (1993-2000), Sheffield Nelson (2000-present) and Brett Morgan (2003-present).
When Sproles joined Lyon on the Commission in 1983, it was the first time two persons from the same town had been commissioners together. Since then, Moore and Stephens have served together, and Sheffield and Morgan have served at the same time.
The state constitution provides for the chairman of the zoology department at the University of Arkansas to be a non-voting commissioner. These have been Fayetteville residents, and two other Fayetteville residents, George Cole Jr., and Bill Ackerman, have been governor-appointed, voting commissioners.
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