Barbara Heeb Sanders

Background

Sanders, Barbara Heeb was born on May 15, 1938 in Harrisburg, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of Raymond and Irene (Rice) Heeb.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Education, Arkansas State University, 1963; postgraduate, Lyon College, 1972-1973, 74; postgraduate, East Texas State University, 1979.

Career

Assistant, Poinsett County Tax Assessor' General’ s Office, Harrisburg, 1956; secretary, clerk, Jackson Life Insurance Company, Memphis, 1956-1957; owner, Heeb, Heeb and Sanders Farms, Harrisburg, 1962-1974; cashier, Entergy Corporation, Harrisburg, 1963; teacher, Harrisburg Public Schools, 1963-1966; owner, director, Ozark Attractions, Inc., Mountain View, Arkansas, 1976-1969; owner, Sanders Ranch, Timbo, Arkansas, 1976-1987; director teacher workshops, East Texas State University, Mountain View, 1973-1984; freelance writer, consultant, Harrisburg, since 1987. Owner, board directors Battle Music Inc., Timbo. Advisor, consultant Governor Bill Clinton, Little Rock, since 1981.

Consultant Chaplin-Martinov Prodns., Woodland Hills, California, since 1982. Music director Crowley's Ridge Folk Festival, 1972-1973. Performer numerous festivals and schools.

Poinsett County Motion Picture and Film Commission, since 1992.

Achievements

• Barbara Heeb Sanders has been listed as a notable Writer, consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Governor's Task Force on Education, Little Rock, 1973-1974, Arkansas State Library. Board, Little Rock, 1988-1997, Friends of the Library. of Craighead County, since 1989. Delegate Democratic Party State Convention, Little Rock and Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1978-1982.

Member advisory committee H.P. Maddox Senior Educational Foundation/Arkansas Community Foundation, Inc., since 1989. County coordinator United States Senator Dale Bumpers, Washington, 1973-1974, Governor Bill Clinton, Little Rock, since 1981. Board directors Folk Music Hall of Fame, Mountain View, 1973.

Justice of the peace County of Poinsett, 1989-1991. Member Poinsett County Educational Planning Committee, Harrisburg, 1975, Poinsett County Fair Board Association, 1972-1974, Northeast Arkansas Forum on Early Childhood Education, Little Rock, 1974, Poinsett County Farm Bureau, since 1963, rice promotion committee, 1969. Active volunteer fund drive Heart Fund, Harrisburg, 1964, American Cancer Society, Harrisburg, 1971, 72, Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, 1970, 71, local chair, 1972.

Member state advisory committee Keep Arkansas Beautiful Commission, since 1989. Arkansas planner Statue of Liberty Centennial, New York City, 1986. Member Poinsett County Democratic Women's Club, correspondent secretary, 1979-1981, member ways and means committee, 1982, member state planning committee for national meeting, 1986.

Active local campaign organizations. Member Vocational Business Education (chairman advisory council since 1984), White House Conference on Library and Information Services (task force), Rackensack Folklore Society, Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission (advisory member), Harrisburg Garden Club, The American Philatelist Society, Delta Kappa Gamma (honorary member).

Connections

Married Carmack Wilson Sanders, July 6, 1956. Children: Gregory Wilson, Stephanie.

Father:

Raymond Heeb

Mother:

Irene (Rice) Heeb

Spouse:

Carmack Wilson Sanders

child:

Stephanie Sanders

child:

Gregory Wilson Sanders