1998 Tiger Pride Award

Mary Ann Eggers Beahon

Mary Ann was nominated by Linda McCall, of the Callaway County Alumni Chapter for Mary Ann’s active leadership of that chapter. Linda soon learned that was only the tip of the iceberg!

Although she spent some time in Kansas, moving to Florida was too far from the Mizzou she loved, so Mary Ann accepted an invitation to participate on an alumni planning committee in Miami. That proved to be a fateful event!

Soon, she became enmeshed in all facets of alumni event planning. She arranged several alumni events, including visits from the Chancellor and the football coach, picnics, luncheons, and TV watch parties. In 1990 she was the founding president of the South Florida Alumni Chapter which included a 4-county area. She served in that role for 3 years, leading the chapter to Honor Status each year. She also served on the scholarship selection committee.

In 1992 she was elected to serve on the Alumni Association board of directors, representing alumni from the Southeastern Region. Even Hurricane Andrew could not keep her from her volunteer duties, but in 1995 she had to resign when she moved back to Missouri and could no longer ‘represent’ alumni in Florida!!

That didn’t stop her! She was aghast that there was no alumni chapter just 30 miles east of campus, so she set about starting one. Again she organized events, took pictures, kept scrapbooks, wrote news releases, made phone calls, and solicited new members. The Callaway County Chapter was chartered in May, 1996, has achieved Honor Status each year since then and Mary Ann continues to serve on the Chapter Board.