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A-State Distinguished Alum, ASU Board Trustee Emeritus Charles Luter dies

Arkansas State University

An Arkansas State Distinguished Alumni has died.  80-year-old Charles Luter of Paragould was a proud supporter of A-State and education in his community.  Luter graduated from A-State in 1966 with a degree in business administration. 

He would become the president of Peoples Bank in Paragould and CEO of Spring River Bancshares, Inc.  He also was chairman of Peoples Bank in Imboden and was director of First Delta Bank in Marked Tree.

In addition to those duties, he also served as regent of the Mid-South School of Banking, was president of the Arkansas Community Bankers Association and was state director of the Independent Bankers of America. He sponsored annual banquets for stellar high school graduates from Greene and Clay counties.

He also served as president of the ASU Foundation, Inc., and was named Distinguished Alumnus by the ASU Alumni Association in 1999. His family supported A-State in many ways, including a one million dollar gift in 2016, which included 250-thousand-dollars for a scholarship endowment to the College of Business.

He was appointed to the ASU Board of Trustees by then Governor Mike Beebe in 2011 and served for five years, including being chairman of the Board.  In 2016, he was recognized by the ASU Board as Trustee Emeritus for his work on the Board of Trustees.   

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.