Peggy S. Gilbert
Faculty Emeritus, Marketing Department
While recently retiring from a 30 year career with the Marketing Department, Peggy Gilbert continues a 40 plus year devotion to serving her community. This length of service has seen many projects and volunteer activities, but her passion to impact academic excellence in impoverished rural areas of southeast Arkansas and standing up for other who cannot stand for themselves continues today. Locally, Peggy is known for her involvement in assisting and defending the elderly against abuse and bullying. For over forty years, Peggy has been “on call” responding to visitation and transportation needs as well as diffusing intense, confrontational situations involving a variety of elder abuse circumstances. Calls for help come from churches, local hospitals and from those around the community who know of Peggy’s fearless passion and devotion to assist elderly persons who are lonely, gravely ill, harassed, mistreated or suicidal. She travels to those individual’s homes, nursing facilities and/or hospital rooms caring for their specific needs at all hour’s day and night. Peggy’s efforts have benefited many organizations and individuals over the years both by her personal efforts and through her academic teaching.
Her passion and devotion to others and her mission to ‘stand for others when they cannot,’ has impacted countless lives in untold ways. For all these reasons, we recognize Peggy Gilbert with the Public Affairs Faculty Spotlight!