LITTLE ROCK — Teisha Bagwell of Cave City (Sharp County), a junior audio-video production major at Arkansas State University, is the 2015 recipient of Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Marvin Vines Memorial Scholarship. The award was announced at the University’s College of Media and Communication Honors Banquet April 15.

Bagwell is the daughter of Dennis and Belinda Rogers. She is expected to graduate in 2016, has worked off campus at two commercial radio groups and has a 3.5 grade point average. 

Arkansas Farm Bureau endows the scholarship, which honors the memory of Marvin Vines, farm director for more than 25 years at Little Rock radio station KAAY. Since 1980, it’s been awarded annually to a broadcast major at ASU.

Bagwell has worked for WRD Entertainment as an on-air personality, for East Arkansas Broadcasters as a board operator and as program director for a radio station in her hometown of Cave City. She is currently music director for Red Wolf Radio, the campus station. 

“I stepped into a radio station my sophomore year of high school as part of a class I was taking and experienced what it was like to be ‘on the air,’ Bagwell recalls. “I was hooked. Broadcasting was the career path I had to take. I have lived the life of a beginning media professional the past few years and am now more passionate than ever about the industry.”

Teisha Bagwell of Cave City poses with Dr. Osa Amienyi, Chair of the Department of Media at Arkansas State University, following the Honors Banquet for students in the College of Media and Communications. Bagwell is the recipient of Arkansas Farm Bureau's Marvin Vines Memorial scholarship for 2015.