Tommy, Annette Sasser Scholarship endowed

The Tommy and Annette Sasser Scholarship was recently endowed with the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Foundation by the Sasser family. This scholarship was established to benefit a student majoring in science with at least a 3.0 GPA and demonstrated financial need.

Sasser’s family hosted a lunch to surprise him with this honor at the Thames Center in January. During the announcement his son, Stan, said they wanted to honor him and his late wife, and they could not think of a better way after his many years of service to the school.

“I’m not normally speechless,” Sasser said emotional at the gift, “But that’s what I am –speechless.”

Tommy Sasser graduated from Bogue Chitto High School in 1963 and attended

Co-Lin before transferring to the University of Southern Mississippi, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. He received a master’s degree from Mississippi College with further study at Mississippi

State University. Sasser has served on the Co-Lin Board of Trustees for more than 30 years and is a past member of the CoLin Foundation Board. He has served as a deacon at Calvary Baptist Church in

Bogue Chitto for more than 50 years. He is past president of the Lincoln County Forestry Association, Lincoln County Education Association and South Central Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, Bogue Chitto Lions Club and