OPINION | REX NELSON: A middle ground by Rex Nelson | Today at 1:46 a.m. Gwen Ford Faulkenberry of Ozark, an English teacher and mother of four whose guest columns appear on the pages of this newspaper, personifies what I consider to be the middle of the road in Arkansas. She was born at Charleston--the town that produced Sen. Dale Bumpers--where her parents were teachers. The family later moved to Ozark. She went to college at the University of Central Arkansas and attended law school for a year at the University of Arkansas. "I learned during that year that I didn't want to practice law," she says.