Pearl Flaig

Pearl Emma "Neno" Nowlin Flaig was born on January 25, 1921 to Edger and Pearl Adams Nowlin. She graduated from Arkadelphia High School in 1939 and Ouachita Baptist College in 1943. She received her Masters Degree from Henderson in the early sixties and did post graduate work from the University of Indiana and Denver University
She was Dean of Women at Ouachita Baptist University from 1957 to 1987. During this time she served on many boards and committees. She was a member of both the State and National Women, Deans and Counselors. She served on the board and held many offices at the state level. When she retired in 1987 she was awarded the honorable title of Dean Emeritus. At this time, the school even retired the title of Dean of Women and opted for the more politically correct Dean of Students. So in essence she was the first and last Dean of Women at Ouachita.
While she was at Ouachita, she established the Association of Women Students, (A.W.S.) at her insistence, she also taught freshman English for thirty years. In her mid-eighties, she would still receive requests to explain grammatical or punctuation questions, (once a teacher always a teacher).
Neno was an avid reader, bridge player, and journal writer. She wrote daily in her journals with much candor and humor. She was preceded in death by a grandson Jim Guy Russell.

She is survived by her husband of 64 years Edward Guy Flaig, three daughters, Gay Burch and her husband, Dr. Lan Burch of Hot Springs, Gail Flaig of Fayetteville, and Sonny Flaig of Los Angeles, CA and one grandson Jarrod Russell of Little Rock.

Graveside funeral services will be 2 P.M. Wednesday in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Arkadelphia with Dr. Lee McGlone officiating. There will be no formal visitation. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to St. Josephs's Hospice, the Neno Flaig Scholarship Fund at Ouachita Baptist University or First Baptist Church of Arkadelphia.