Robert N. Green II of Zephyr honored as HPU Outstanding Young Graduate

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Robert N. Green II was honored as an Outstanding Young Graduate of Howard Payne University during HPU’s annual Alumni Awards Banquet. He is pictured riding in the HPU Homecoming Parade.

BROWNWOOD , TX (10/10/2013)(readMedia)-- Robert N. Green II of Zephyr, a math teacher at Ron Jackson State School in Brownwood, was honored last week by his alma mater, Howard Payne University, during the university's annual Homecoming celebrations. He was recognized as an Outstanding Young Graduate during the Alumni Awards Banquet on Friday night and was featured in the Homecoming Parade on Saturday morning.

Green graduated from HPU's Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom multidisciplinary honors program (now the Guy D. Newman Honors Academy) in 2004 with a degree in political science and a minor in mathematics. Since graduation, Green has taught high school math in three settings – at the Ron Jackson State School, a public school and at Paradigm Accelerated Charter School. While at Paradigm, he started and ran a successful martial arts program that helped many troubled youth find proper ways to deal with life's stress. 

Green holds a second-degree black belt in Kaju Bujutsu Kwai and teaches the system as head instructor of K.B.K. Martial Arts in Early. He is skilled in more than 13 different forms of weapons and was inducted into the Universal Martial Arts Hall of Fame as the 2012 Distinguished Instructor.

Green is married to Marie Stephanie S. Green, a published writer/journalist, and they live on their family farm in Zephyr.

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Founded in 1889, Howard Payne University is a Christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to God and humanity.

Located in Brownwood, Texas, HPU offers a full array of undergraduate programs and a limited number of graduate programs in a traditional residential academic community. The university also offers selected undergraduate and graduate course work by electronic means and at extended learning centers in El Paso, Texas, and New Braunfels, Texas. HPU maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio, which contributes to the university's reputation of being "a place where everybody is somebody."