Volume 10, Number 2 September 2013
impack Alumni and friends investing, improving and impacting.
Homecoming 2013 events planned
Former Wolfpack Football Player Uses Reality TV Fame to Influence Youth
Copiah-Lincoln Community College is planBy Angela Furr ning Homecoming events for Friday and SatThe CBS reality show “Big Brother” rose urday, Oct. 11 and 12. Alumni, friends and to its highest ratings numbers of the season on students are welcomed to the campus to reAug. 1, and the network has a Co-Lin alum to connect and enjoy activities. thank for the boost. Friday Activities Howard Overby (’04), of Hattiesburg, com Homecoming events begin with a golf peted on the show from June 26 until the Aug. tournament at noon sponsored by the base1 episode, which marked his farewell. Overby ball team. The fee is $50 per team and inis no stranger to competition. He was a twocludes cart and green fees, lunch, snacks on time All-State defensive back while suiting the course and prizes. For more information, up for the Wolfpack football team and went contact Clay Smith at (601)643-8412. on to play two seasons at Southern Miss. Co-Lin retirees will be honored with a re After receiving a psychology degree ception beginning at 5 p.m. at the president’s and working as a youth counselor for several years in the Pine Belt, home. If you have retired from Co-Lin and Overby found himself unemployed after the grant he was working under ended. He took that have not received an invitation by Oct. 1, please opportunity to attend the show’s open audition in New Orleans “on a whim.” After making contact the alumni office at 601-643-8313 or by it through the first round of auditions, he flew out to Los Angeles, where he was in the top e-mail at danielle.white@colin.edu. 25, before making the final cut, and was then sent straight to the Big Brother house to Saturday Activities begin filming. General registration for Saturday’s Homecoming “Big Brother” takes place in a house filled with cameras and little else. Overby will be in the J. M. Ewing Administration Building says there are over 100 cameras in the house, including some in the walls that apfrom 9:00 until 11 a.m. Guests can also register at the pear to be mirrors, that capture every move of the 16 houseguests. The housegcafeteria from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. uests are completely isolated from the outside world and spend most of their time The Sports Hall of Fame inductions and a business meetscheming, plotting and seeking to make voting alliances. ing of the Athletic Alumni Association are planned for 9:30 Each week, contestants must compete in challenges to decide who will be until 11:00 a.m. in Rea Auditorium. Inductees into the Sports sent home. The first competition is to establish who will be the “Head of the Hall of Fame include Tiania Burns, Tommy Dykes (deceased), Household.” Also known as the HOH, that person then nominates two people Ken Fortenberry, Lance Newman and P.B. Walker. for eviction. Another competition is held for immunity. Immunity can be used The Band and Colette Alumni Chapter will hold its Hall of to remove a person from the eviction chopping block. The final step is the Fame induction ceremony and recognize its Outstanding Young eviction ceremony and the removal of the evicted from the Big Brother house. Alumni recipient at 10:00 a.m. in the Fred and Jewett Taylor This process takes place each week until the show is whittled down to two Chapel. Johnnie Ruth Carlisle will be inducted into the Hall of houseguests. The winner of the show is decided by the “Jury of Seven,” comFame, and Angela Smith will be recognized as the Outstanding prised of the last seven houseguests to be evicted from the house, and receives Young Alum. The chapter will also hold its annual business a cash prize of $500,000. meeting during that time. Although Overby didn’t make it to the end of the show, his family and The Alumni Association will hold its awards luncheon in friends from Mendenhall, Co-Lin and Southern Miss are extremely proud of the Cafeteria in the Henley Building at 11:30. Tickets are $12 him and have been supportive of him during the whole experience. and may be purchased at the registration tables or the door. “I’m just a country boy,” Overby said. “It was such a blessing to be on the Reunion classes, Outstanding Alumni, Sports Hall of show, and I wanted to use that platform to bring God glory.” Fame inductees, Band and Colette Hall of Fame inductee Coach Calvin Green, Wolfpack assistant football coach, remembers Overby as and Outstanding Young Alumni recipient and Outstanding a good player and a good role model when he coached him during his two years Instructors and Staff will be recognized. A business meet(continued on page 7)
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