Lloyd L. and June S. Goff Scholarship

The children of the late Lloyd L. and June C. Goff knew that their parents placed special emphasis on education throughout their life’s work and community activities. With that in mind, they endowed the scholarship you are receiving following their parent’s deaths in 1990. Throughout their lives, education was of paramount importance to the Goffs. It was their pursuit of education that brought them together, meeting for the first time while both were enrolled at Arkansas college (now Lyon College) at Batesville. During his teaching career, which began at Grange, AR, Mr. Goff served as a teacher, coach and administrator in the Wynne and Brinkley school districts, then became a principal and later superintendent in the Jonesboro Public Schools. After his retirement from Jonesboro in 1960, Mr. Goff was appointed assistant professor of education and psychology at Arkansas State, where he served for nine years. After retirement, he helped organize the local chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), helped secure funding for the Jonesboro Senior Citizens Center and served as president of the Craighead County Retired Teachers Organization. Mrs. Goff completed her education degree at Arkansas State in 1957 and then taught elementary students for several years at East Elementary School in Jonesboro. She was also very involved in church and community activities while she lived in Jonesboro, where she was a member of the Gladiolus Garden Club, the Readers Club, the Women of First Presbyterian Church and the ASU Faculty Women’s Club.