Don Dean Eudy is a veteran educator, having taught at the university level for 39 years. He served in the U. S. Air Force from 1959 to 1963 and was graduated from Southern Arkansas University in 1968 with a BA in history and from the University of Louisiana, Monroe, Louisiana with a MA in history in I971. He and his wife, Ann, have traveled widely in Europe and are the parents of three children and have six grandchildren and four great grandchildren.