Future teachers got some much needed advice from the 2013 Arkansas Teacher of the Year on Friday.

Alexia Bourisaw Weimer spoke to education majors during the orientation session in the Convocation Center at Arkansas State University.

Weimer used this as an opportunity to help more than 160 interns be ready for what takes place in a classroom.

She says before an instructor can effective teach content, they need to establish a close relationship with students.

While methods vary at each grade level, connections with students are always important.

Leona P. Aaron, 97 of Black Rock passed from this life Monday, December 31, 2012 in Walnut Ridge. Born October 25, 1915 near Imboden she was a lifelong resident of Lawrence County and a homemaker. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Black Rock.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Leland B. Aaron; brother, Louie Pruitt; sisters, Ada Holder, Pasha Atwood, Pansy March Banks, Louise Martin and Kathleen Birmingham.

Dr. Ann Paterson of Williams Baptist College has been elected treasurer of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). Paterson is the Nell Mondy Chair of Natural Sciences at WBC.