SEARCY, ARK. - Like many Harding University students on a recent spring break mission trip to Panama, Betty Fulop of Athol, Idaho, was compelled to work with the elderly, poor and abused. Unlike other students, Fulop already had experience in all three areas.

Fulop, 76, known as “Miss Betty” to her classmates and professors, is the only full-time Harding student who can claim five children, 15 grandchildren, and “five and a half great-grandchildren.” The sixth is due this summer.

She has become well-known to many Harding students since arriving at the university last fall. read more

Happy the Clown makes her recent smiling debut at Gulf Coast Christian Schools in St. Petersburg, Fla., as first-grader Bethani Bruce looks on. Principal Linda Smock had promised students that she would be a clown for a day if they collected 150,000 pennies to help improve the school playgrounds. Dressed in a full clown costume, Smock bounced into chapel to cheers from the students. She announced that they had achieved their goal. read more