Fall-Winter 2006 Millsaps Magazine

FALL–WINTER 2006

‘Legacy’ $160M campaign charts a bold course for the College

Afterword The campus continues to feel Eudora Welty’s profound inf luence

In the Zone Majors trounce Trinity to take the SCAC title at Homecoming

From the President When we began brainstorming ways to brand our current capital campaign, an unprecedented fund-raising effort in the history of the College, words like “Promise,” “Commitment,” “Possibility,” and “Hope” buzzed around our minds and conference rooms.

But amid a sea of catchphrases that too often seemed to echo the campaigns of other colleges and universities, one word quietly surfaced.

“Legacy.”

Legacy: A Campaign for Millsaps College distills the essence of Millsaps.

The legacy of this college is the sum of the lives and experiences of its students, not only while they are here but also after they pass through our gates and go out into the world. Indeed, we are defined by our legacy—by the students, faculty, and alumni who make their mark in ways large and small, global and local, public and private.

The importance of a legacy is illustrated in this issue of Millsaps Magazine by its coverage of the College’s partnership with the Eudora Welty Foundation.

Welty, who had a long and rich relationship with Millsaps, left a literary legacy to all of us.

The theme appears again and again in stories about scholarships endowed in honor of amazing members of our community. Every achievement of a Millsaps graduate listed in Major Notes is a legacy to the world. Every award.

Every career milestone. Every newborn.

Likewise, I am grateful for the tradition of higher education that was passed on to me. As a child I tiptoed in my father’s footsteps, observing and learning during his many years as a college president—ultimately charting the path for my own presidency.

I am forever mindful that the past shapes the future. Since coming to Millsaps in 2000, I’ve had the pleasure of watching this College begin to occupy some of the uppermost national rankings. In the category of “best professors,” our business school ranks eighth in the nation, above Harvard and Duke.That’s the kind of Millsaps legacy we applaud.

I deeply appreciate each person who has given a bit of himself or herself to make Millsaps what it is today, and I eagerly await what lies ahead.The Millsaps legacy will continue to touch countless lives. I am proud to be a part of its mission.

Warmly,

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‘Legacy’ of a Lifetime A $160 million campaign establishes a solid foundation for the future of Millsaps College

Between Welty and Millsaps, A Worn Path A cultural partnership brings Mississippi’s first lady of letters back to our door

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Executive Editor Patti Wade d i r e c t or o f c o m m u n i c at i on s and marketing Design Kelley Matthews Contributing Editors John Webb Margaret Cahoon Scott Albert Johnson Lisa Purdie Rebecca Day Jason Bronson Kevin Maloney Major Notes Editor Tanya Newkirk a s s o c i at e d i r e c t or o f a l u m n i r e l at i on s Editorial Assistants Jackie Rezk, 2007 Chris Spear, 2007 Contributing Photographers Greg Campbell Frank Ezelle Shannon Fagan © 2006 Gib Ford Scott Albert Johnson Vernon King Isabelle Patterson John Webb Paul White © 2006 Administrative Officers Dr. Frances Lucas president Dr. Richard A. Smith s e n i or v i c e p r e s i d e n t a n d d e a n o f t h e c ol l e g e Louise Burney v i c e p r e s i d e n t f or f i na n c e Dr. R. Brit Katz v i c e p r e s i d e n t f or s t u d e n t l i f e and dean of students Dr. Charles R. Lewis vice president f or i n s t i t u t i on a l a dva n c e m e n t Todd Rose v i c e p r e s i d e n t f or c a m p u s p ro g r a m s and alumni

Faculty & Staff 17 In the Spotlight 21 Campus Community Athletics 38 New Orleans Saints Major Notes 41 In the Spotlight 46 Classnotes 52 In Memoriam Parting Word 57 Our Promise to Generations to Come

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OnCampus Endowment Puts Study Abroad On the Map For More Students More Millsaps students can now take advantage of international internships or study-abroad opportunities, thanks to the generosity of Bud and Judy Robinson of Jackson, who have pledged $500,000 over

“The Robinsons’ gift will help move the College toward its long-term goal of providing every Millsaps student with an international experience.”

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the next five years to establish the Robinson International Fellows Program.

The Robinsons’ investment will help make study abroad more affordable for financially disadvantaged Millsaps students, giving them a powerful tool for understanding and appreciating our world.

“Judy and I agree that study abroad has a direct and positive impact on the student, and the intangible benefits of living and learning in a wholly different culture will dramatically affect our world for the good,” said Robinson, who has served on the Millsaps Board of Trustees since 1981 and was the chairman for 10 years.

Millsaps College has initiated a program to combine a student’s leadership skills with Plato’s four cardinal virtues: balance,

justice, wisdom, and courage. Each year, a student will focus on the understanding of a particular value and how it can be lived out in a meaningful way. The junior year, which is spent exploring wisdom, helps prepare students for their senior year abroad.

President Frances Lucas believes this gift from the Robinsons can help students by taking them beyond their usual sphere of influence and placing them in a different society. “Many of our students have high financial needs and are able to attend Millsaps only through the assistance of grants and scholarships, leaving no money for study abroad,” Lucas said.

“We deeply appreciate this gift from the Robinsons because it will help those who would otherwise be unable to have the mind-opening experiences made possible through immersion in a different culture.”

Millsaps offers dynamic study-abroad programs such as Living in Yucatán, African Studies, Else School Study Abroad, European Arts and Sciences, Adventure in Costa Rica, French in France, Summer in China, Student Teaching Abroad, Classical Studies, and field research in places such as Albania, Israel, and Yucatán.

“Over the past decade, Millsaps has developed summer study-abroad programs that have enriched the education of hundreds of students,” said Dr. Richard A. Smith, senior vice president and dean of the College. “Yet many Millsaps students have not had the resources to participate in these programs. The Robinsons’ gift will help move the College toward its long-term goal of providing every Millsaps student with an international experience.”

Preference will be given to students who are eligible for Pell Grants, are residents of Mississippi, and have completed their junior year and maintained a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.0 or higher through the fall term of their junior year.

—Lisa Purdie

Taiwan the First Stop On Grad’s Journey Into Foreign Studies Katie Beth Miksa, B.A. 2006, of Monroe, Louisiana, will study in Taiwan through a Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship from the Rotary Foundation from December 2006 until June 2007.

Miksa will study at the Taipei Language Institute-Kaohsiung Center in Kaohsiung.

In addition to working with local Rotary Clubs in Kaohsiung and their community-service projects, which focus on education and health education, she also may participate in a goodwill trip to the island of Bali to speak and serve with an all-women’s Rotary Club there.

Miksa, who won the Don Fortenberry Award (see related story, page 9), plans to use her experience in Taiwan to prepare for graduate studies in translation and interpretation in the field of international relations. “I once read that it is a dangerous business, going out your front door, because you never know where the road may take you,” said Miksa. “Living in the unfamiliar, engaging in service with persons unknown—these are the experiences that shape us, that captivate us, that help us to escape our own conventions and gain a broader perspective.

“This scholarship is an opportunity to pass through my own front door, and I gratefully welcome the new lifestyle, dialogue, and adventures that await me on the other side.”

According to the Rotary Foundation’s website, “Cultural Ambassadorial

Scholarships are for either three or six months of intensive language study and cultural immersion in another country and provide funds to cover round-trip transportation, language training expenses, and home-stay living arrangements.”

Ambassadorial Scholarship recipients are sent abroad as representatives of their homelands to discuss cultures and find common interests. Scholars are chosen from 70 countries around the globe.

—Candace Jones

What Becomes A Legend Most?

A ‘Bav’ Scholarship, Of Course . . .

Howard Bavender: The very name releases a flood of memories among Millsaps alumni.

He dared students to think far beyond their borders into a world of progressive and courageous ideas.

He challenged them to achieve a level of excellence they never dreamed possible. He gave his all in the classroom.

“Bav,” professor emeritus of political science, taught at Millsaps College for 24 years after having served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and in the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War. He taught at Springfield College in Massachusetts until 1966, when he was hired at Millsaps by John Quincy Adams, a political science professor who had

met him years before while both were in graduate school at the University of Texas. He has never had a family of his own, never had a driver’s license, and never owned a car. But his life has been one of riches, among them his friendships with former students.

Two of them are Janet Hall, B.A. 1978, and Scotty Greene, B.A. 1974. Hall and Greene are among a group of Bav’s former students who have launched a campaign to raise $300,000 to honor their mentor with the Howard Bavender Scholarship Fund.

“Bav just has an enormous network of Millsaps alumni,” says Hall. “He gave us so much, and we wanted to find a way for his former students to give back in a way that would honor him forever.”

The Bavender Scholarship will be awarded to a top scholar at Millsaps who is pursuing a degree in the liberal arts and who exhibits academic merit and financial need. The Bavender Scholar will receive an annual $15,000 tuition grant. To date, more than $120,000 has been pledged to the fund.

“Howard Bavender remains a teacher’s teacher,” says Greene. “He lives to impart knowledge, and this scholarship will reflect his lifetime of teaching and mentoring.”

For more information on the Howard Bavender Scholarship Fund, visit www.millsaps.edu/bav.

—Nancy Seepe

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Riggs Study Rooms Open New Chapter For Wilson Library Areas of the Millsaps-Wilson Library have received handsome makeovers this year, thanks to a generous gift from the late Marvin Riggs, B.A. 1933, in honor of his wife, Virginia, B.A. 1940. The Virginia Mayfield Riggs Reading Room (or Riggs Room), located in the northeast corner of the library facing the circulation desk, and the Virginia Riggs Study Center, situated along the south wall in the library’s west wing, were completed in May and are now available for use by students and faculty of the College.

The Riggs Room has substantially improved the aesthetic of the library’s reference area, replacing a drab microfilm storage room with “a space that is both elegant and comfortable,” as President Frances Lucas described it. Beginning with the large, custom-designed, and beautifully finished doors, the Riggs Room is indeed inviting; the warm lighting, contemporary furnishings, windows opening on the expanse of the campus landscape, and a wall of shelves containing Millsaps memorabilia from the years when the Riggses were students (including several books from Virginia Riggs’s personal collection), seamlessly weave together design and function.

Virginia Riggs was once the librarian at Hinds Community College, where Marvin Riggs was a teacher. They never had children, focusing on their careers in education and often traveling together. Both had a deep passion for education, and that passion was the impetus for Marvin Riggs’s desire to create a better learning space in the Millsaps library in honor of his wife.

“It was designed to fill several needs,” said Tom Henderson, College librarian. “The idea was to make this a multipurpose room, elegant enough for

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The Virginia Mayfield Riggs Reading Room brings together function and elegance in the Millsaps-Wilson Library.

hosting dignitaries on campus and holding meetings. It’s also a welcoming place where students can come and sit down, just as if they were in a living room, and study.”

Marvin Riggs’s gift also provided for the construction of the Riggs Study Center in the library’s west wing. “This gift allowed the College to put in seven more study rooms across the back,” Henderson said, pointing to the glass-enclosed rooms fit for small-group meetings and equipped with various types of media. “With these sliding glass doors, we were able to fit the library’s space needs, allowing the College to keep all the reference materials here.

The chairs allow students to sit and have a discussion while writing or using a laptop.”

“The study rooms also provide more storage space for the audio-visual equipment kept in the library, really cleaning up the space,” added Vice President for Campus Programs and Alumni Todd Rose. The gift provided new carpeting for the library’s main area as well, replacing the worn carpet that had covered the floor for years.

“We started a few years ago, with a grant from the Frueauff Foundation, to renovate the library to make it more appealing to our students,” said Dr. Richard A. Smith, senior vice president and dean of the College. “The Riggs’s gift allowed us to continue the vision. It’s really a transforming gift.”

Henderson agrees. “Updating the library is well worth the effort, especially when prospective students and their parents come and visit the library. When they see that we have a state-of-the-art

facility with modern furniture and fixtures, it gives them another reason to choose Millsaps.”

—Jason Bronson

The Princeton Review Ranks Else School 8th For ‘Best Professors’ The Millsaps College Else School of Management was recognized by The Princeton Review early this fall in one of its most prestigious publications,

Best 282 Business Schools, in which the Else School ranked eighth in the category of “Best Professors,” above Harvard and Duke.

The guide features a two-page profile of each school, with write-ups on their academics, student life, and admissions, plus ratings for their academics, selectivity, and career-placement services. The book also has 11 lists of the top 10 business schools in various categories, from “Toughest to Get Into” to “Best Professors.”

The book’s ratings and rankings are based on institutional data from the schools and on The Princeton Review’s survey of more than 18,000 students attending the

schools. The survey asked students about themselves and their career plans, as well as their schools’ academics, student body, and campus life.

According to Robert Franek, vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review: “We select schools for this book based on several criteria covering three areas: our regard for their academic programs and other offerings, institutional data we collect about them, and opinions of students attending the schools. We are very pleased to feature the Millsaps College Else School of Management in our book. We highly commend it to readers of the book and users of our website as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an M.B.A.” In April, it was also announced that the Else School would maintain its status as an AACSB-accredited business school. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation is a highly coveted distinction and represents the highest standard of business schools worldwide.

The process to achieve reaccreditation took more than two years and involved all faculty and staff members of the Else School, the Else School advisory board, and other faculty and staff from across the College.

The Else School of Management received its initial AACSB accreditation in 1990. Under the new rules, each accredited school must go through what is technically called Maintenance of Accreditation every five years. It includes an assessment by a distinguished peer-review team consisting of three deans of business schools from across the country, as well as a yearlong “self-study.”

This internal appraisal consists of collecting data and providing documentation regarding the Else School’s strategic-planning processes, faculty credentials, organizational structures, student profiles, learning-goals assessment processes, and its competitiveness in the marketplace. The efforts combined to produce more than 400 pages of required documentation.

The positive recommendation of the peer-review committee, as well as the superior documentation provided by the self-study, led to the approval of Maintenance of Accreditation by AACSB International and further solidified the Else School of Management’s status as a top business school.

—Becca Day

From the Bowl To Baghdad, Major Team Spirit Chris Daniels, a sophomore and secondary special-education major from Foley, Alabama, compares being a member of the Millsaps Majors football team with being in the Big Red One—the Task Force 177th First Infantry Division in Iraq.

Daniels returned last summer from a tour of duty before enrolling at Millsaps, and he plans to return to Iraq for another

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tour in the spring. For the past five years, Daniels has been a member of the Fourth Alabama Army National Guard and the 167th Infantry. “It’s all about teamwork,” he said. “You want the person next to you giving 100 percent.”

Before attending Millsaps, Daniels was a multitalented athlete at Foley High School.

He was a three-year letterman in football as a running back/linebacker. He also played golf and baseball and ran track.

Daniels joined the Alabama National Guard at the age of 17, and after returning home to Foley for a month Daniels knew there was a strong chance that he would be deployed. At the age of 19, he found himself sitting in Baghdad International Airport awaiting his assignment.

Daniels was issued a rifle with no ammunition, so fellow soldiers gave him rounds from their clips. “I got motivated our first night there,” Daniels said. “Our camp was attacked by mortar fire, and I wasn’t sure what had happened. Two fellow soldiers grabbed me and took me to the floor, and I put on my Kevlar [a bulletproof material].”

Daniels’s mission was to work radios

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A Banner Year Thanks to a team effort by the Board of Trustees, the communications office, the Student Body Association, and an exhibit company run by a former student, an array of purple and white banners now heralds the College to passing traffic, visitors, and the campus community. “One of the SBA’s priorities in 2006 was to beautify the campus and instill pride,” says SBA President Brad Yakots (above left), a senior from Atlanta. So the SBA responded to an invitation by the College to underwrite a portion of the Light Pole Banner Project.The banners were produced

by ExhibitMasters—a Jackson-based marketing firm owned by Clyde Satterwhite (right), who attended Millsaps from 1962 to 1966.They were designed by Kelley Matthews, a graphic artist in the Millsaps communications office and installed by the maintenance department. “The project marks the boundaries of the school and adds color to the tree lines inside the campus,” Yakots says.

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and go on patrols and convoys. Every day for two weeks he walked around Baghdad amid what he describes as just “what you see on CNN.” Several days later, he and other members of his troop were picked up by a Black Hawk helicopter and flown 60 miles north to Balad LSA, Anaconda, an area known to the U.S. armed forces as “Mortaritaville,” so dubbed for the persistence of often inept enemy mortar attacks.

After arriving, Daniels said he witnessed the residents participating in the Islamic holiday Ramadan. “I had heard, but did not believe, how life there was sort of double or nothing,” Daniels said.

“There was trash everywhere. You would see a house with no doors or windows, but surprisingly they would have a TV satellite. I felt sorry for people trying to raise a family and just trying to make it.

The residents there had no control over the people next door.

“When I first went to Iraq, it was a huge culture shock. But when I returned home after my tour of duty, it was an even greater culture shock. I owe a lot to the football team and to my fraternity. They have really helped me adjust not only to Millsaps but to being back in the United States.”

There were many incidents during the tour of duty that Daniels has elected to keep to himself, and those are the moments that he said allow us to live here in the United States as we do. “People must understand that we don’t have any control over where we go or what we do,” Daniels said. “We’re just doing our job. We all just want to come home alive.”

—Kevin Maloney

Millsaps SBA Hosts Student Government Conference at Emory The Millsaps College Student Body Association hosted the first Associated Colleges of the South Student Government Conference on the campus of Emory University in June. The ACS conference aimed to provide a setting in which student government officers of various institutions could enhance communication outlets, share ideas, and network with one another.

Participating schools also included Birmingham Southern College, Centre College, Furman University, Trinity University, and Washington & Lee University.

Students attending the conference participated in discussions addressing issues such as programming for pluralistic college communities, allocation models for student funding, and honor codes. A key interest of many conference participants was the relationship between student government officers and student body members. The officers wanted to learn how best to serve students and were candid about their success as they shared student government events, policies, and activities.

Five Millsaps SBA officers are credited with the conception and execution of the ACS conference. Brit Katz, vice president of student life, serves as the SBA adviser and commends their efforts: “The officers were in a quandary about what type of leadership experience they would purchase. None of the existing leadership or government workshops seemed to meet their needs. So they thought that a meeting of the ACS institutions could or would be helpful. But we recognized that we would need to initiate the effort, announce the work, and organize the inaugural occasion.”

The five officers are Brad Yakots, president; Ashley McPhail, first vice

president; Holly Dickens, second vice president; Ryan Zagone, treasurer, and Chelsi West, secretary.

—B. D.

Great Expectations For ‘Great Topics’ Leadership Seminars Millsaps College’s distinctive and longrunning Leadership Seminars have been renamed Millsaps Great Topics Seminars: Graduate Studies in the Humanities and Sciences. The new name reflects a fresh, renewed commitment to the goal of the original outreach program: to bring together midcareer adults to engage in collaborative discussion and seek clarification of ideas, issues, and values.

The Millsaps Leadership Seminars have offered, since Dr. James Bowley, religious 1988, graduate studies chair, will lead the spring level instruction 2007 Great Topics Seminar, in the humanities “From Scrolls to DVDs: The Long and Fascinating Journey of to community the Bible.” leaders— experienced professionals and community activists, generally over 50 years of age—in a one-of-a-kind program originally funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Designed by former Dean of Adult Learning Harrylyn Sallis, former Dean Robert King, and a faculty committee, the program has met with notable success in its 18 years. The program is now directed by Dr. Nola Gibson, who

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administers continuing education. differences are as valued as agreement. It’s The twice-yearly seminars were a mode of thinking in which you come to funded by the NEH for the first three years. know the strengths and weaknesses of your At the conclusion of the NEH period, understanding pretty accurately, and to participants encouraged the continuation value the strengths of the understandings of the program, which is now offered of others as potentially supplementing and once annually and is funded by Millsaps extending your own.”

College and the participants. Originally 12 Seminar participant Dr. Ray Kimble, applicants were selected as participants; a psychiatrist for the G.V. (Sonny) now up to 15 participants are chosen, Montgomery Veterans Administration based on their applications, to round out a Medical Center, explains the benefits of the diverse and energetic group. collaborative method. “My memories of More than 232 participants have that course [“Contemplation and Action,” enrolled in weekly seminars taught by taught by Dr. Robert King] remain vivid,” more than 20 senior Millsaps faculty, he recalls. “It was education at its best several teaching multiple courses. The for me, giving me new insight and the topics have spanned a wide spectrum, opportunity to expand my horizons and ranging from “The Fiction of Eudora Welty explore another path in life.” and William Faulkner” to “Classical Epics Kane Ditto, a frequent participant and Modern Film,” from “Gender and and former Jackson mayor, agrees. “Each Human Nature” to “America in the Sixties,” and from “Contemplation and Action” to “Faith, Fiction, and Totalitarian Regimes.”

No topic has been repeated, and each seminar features a syllabus that is based upon the specialty of the instructor.

Participants in the rigorous seminars are eligible for four Great Topics director Dr. Nola Gibson (front row, center), Dr. Robert McElvaine, chair of the hishours of graduate tory department (back row, center), and participants in the “America in the Sixties” seminar. credit; each course requires extensive reading, critical thinking, program was a treat for me,” he says. “They removed me from day-to-day concerns writing, and discussion in a collaborative and transported me back to the very best learning effort. times in my collegiate and graduate studies.

Dr. Richard Freis, one of the seminars’ The professors and the class formed a real designers and an early course teacher, learning community that made me look characterizes collaborative learning as forward to each session.” “thinking in which the identification of Says Dr. Suzanne Marrs, a five-time differences and the implications of those

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CBS’s Pinkston Calls the Class of 2006 to Action Dr. Bowley (left), spring seminar leader, and Lindsey Topp, B.A. 2005 (fourth from left), on Tel Zeitah, where they excavated an Iron Age Israelite settlement and where the oldest known Hebrew alphabetic inscription was later found.

seminar instructor: “My experience teaching Leadership Seminars has been absolutely wonderful. I come to class prepared to learn from my students, who bring their diverse areas of expertise to bear upon works of great literature, and learn I do. Talking about Eudora Welty’s fiction with my Leadership Seminar brought me new insights into it. The students in the seminar were my colleagues and friends.”

In 1997, an annual reunion of participants was initiated as a complement to the seminar. Held in February at the Duncan M. Gray Episcopal Camp & Conference Center, the reunions typically attract from 30 to 40 returning participants who renew friendships in another collaborative learning environment, with Millsaps faculty as leaders.

Among the many topics discussed have been “Southern Literature and History” (Dr. Suzanne Marrs, professor of English, and Dr. Charles Sallis, emeritus professor of history), “Karma and Compassion” (Dr. Steve Smith, professor of philosophy and religious studies), “Morality and Medicine” (Dr. Patrick Hopkins, associate professor of philosophy), and “The Meaning of Work” (Dr. Darby Ray, associate professor of religious studies). The 2006 reunion featured Dr. Tim Coker, professor of music, presenting the works of Millsaps graduate and composer Samuel Jones.

Prospects for continued success of the Millsaps Great Topics Seminars under its new name remain strong, as instructors arrive at innovative interpretations of new

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and interesting topics, and as experienced individuals in the “real world” seek understanding of issues and values in a diverse group.

The spring 2007 seminar (the first under the new name) will be “From Scrolls to DVDs: The Long and Fascinating Journey of the Bible,” led by Dr. James Bowley, chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Bowley is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls; he has published and lectured extensively and worked as an archaeologist in Israel.

He describes the seminar’s objectives: “to time-travel to the world of ancient Israel and watch and understand the creation of biblical literature, and to explore and understand the complex and fascinating journey of the literature of the ancient Israelites from their world to ours.”

The seminar will begin with a retreat at Gray Center, January 12–13, 2007, and weekly meetings will be held on Thursday mornings from January 18 through April 26 (excluding March 15) in the Millsaps Room of the Millsaps-Wilson Library.

Each session will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 11:30. A continental breakfast will be served at 8 before each class.

For more information about the 2007 seminar or the Great Topics Seminars program, contact Dr. Nola Gibson at 601-974-1130 or gibsonk@millsaps.edu.

—Jim Parks

The 112th annual Commencement ceremonies in May 2006 marked the achievements of the 244 students of the Class of 2006 with an urgent challenge from President Frances Lucas to the graduating seniors: that they remain true to Millsaps and help others along the way.

“When you become successful, don’t abandon your home college,” she said, before a crowd of some 2,500 attendees.

“If someone helped you get to where you are in life, you can do the same for someone else. Be bold, be courageous, and always measure people by the content of their character.”

Deng Mabil, a war refugee from southern Sudan, was among the graduates.

In 1989, at age 6, Mabil walked hundreds of miles to Ethiopia, seeking safety. Mabil saw many of his friends die on the perilous journey. When expelled from Ethiopia in 1991, he and his friends once again walked hundreds of miles, and once again he saw many die. When Mabil first arrived in Mississippi, he found a friend and mentor in Kenny Townsend, B.A. 2004, who was to become a Rhodes Scholar.

“When Deng came to the United States, he left behind a mother and friends in the refugee camps,” Lucas said. “We celebrate with them today this young man’s remarkable courage and perseverance, and we pray for others like him who will bring peace and justice to the world.”

CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston, B.A. 1973, encouraged the Class of 2006 to live compassionately, telling them that even the smallest gesture could make a difference. He recalled his childhood dream of flying on an airplane, and as a child of 12 or 13 bicycling to the Jackson airport. A flight attendant saw him at the gate and invited him aboard a

“I sat there for a few minutes, sipping the Coke, enjoying the air-conditioning, dreaming that someday I would fly,” Pinkston said. “It was a moment made possible by a kind woman. It was a little thing that was a big deal for a child who would someday become a frequent flyer all over the world.”

Pinkston, who has covered some of the defining world events of our time, delivered an impassioned plea that graduates go forth with a spirit of service informed by an understanding of history.

He cited the role Millsaps played as a “beacon” during the civil rights era and how faculty worked behind the scenes to help create opportunities in local broadcasting for African Americans.

“Like it or not, your future here will be shaped by our state’s past,” he said.

“As you begin your careers and become corporate, religious, and political leaders of tomorrow, I urge you to remember how our history shaped our present. Building on that, Mississippi can have an even brighter future.”

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Deng Mabil, a Sudanese refugee, was celebrated by President Frances Lucas for his “courage and perseverance.”

Pinkston, 2003 Alumnus of the Year, received an honorary doctorate of humane letters. Other recipients were Dr. Satnam Sethi, a Jackson businessman who has led the construction of more than 60 restaurants and hotels across the mid-South and who was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws; the Reverend Keith Tonkel of Jackson, renowned for his commitment to an inner-city ministry, who was awarded an honorary doctorate of divinity; and Leila Clark Wynn, an executive

and philanthropist from Greenville who was awarded an honorary doctorate of public service.

The Millsaps Founders’ Medal went to Megan Elizabeth Holcomb, who ranked at the top of her class with a 4.0 G.P.A. and completed a double major in economics and political science. She planned to attend New York University law school. Jason Jarin was honored with the Frank and Rachel Anne Laney Award for his essay on the value of a Millsaps liberal arts education.

Jarin is attending the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

Katie Beth Miksa received the Don Fortenberry Award, which recognizes the graduating senior who has demonstrated the most notable, meritorious, diligent, and devoted service to the College with no expectation of recognition, reward, or public remembrance.

She also received a Rotary CulturalAmbassadorial Scholarship to study in Taiwan (see related story, page 3).

The winner of the Distinguished Professor Award was Dr. Jamie B. Harris, associate professor of geology. Harris has created a national reputation in his field and has secured countless opportunities for Millsaps students to engage in research.

—L. P.

From left, honorary degree recipients Randall Pinkston, CBS News correspondent; Dr. Satnam Sethi, real estate entrepreneur; the Reverend Keith Tonkel, inner-city minister; and Leila Clark Wynn, executive and philanthropist.

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Homecoming: The Methodism to Our Madness

From left, Ann Wilson Holifield, Martha Wilson, Amy Lyles Wilson, and Virginia Wilson Mounger.

Wilson Scholarship Gives Students A Leading Edge

The Millsaps Majors’ 34-12 victory over Trinity University set the triumphant tone for an unforgettable Homecoming Weekend 2006. Among the highlights of the weekend was an appearance by the likeness of John Wesley, a.k.a. the Reverend Jim Matheny (below right), who addressed the Alumni Association on Saturday to promote fund raising for a statue of the Methodist theologian on campus.

On Friday, the Heritage Day Luncheon, which celebrates those who support the College with planned gifts, featured powerful testimonials from students who had traveled to India, Africa, and Appalachia through the McNair Fund for Christian Missions.

At a ceremonial brunch Saturday, the Millsaps Sports Hall of Fame inducted the late Harry Strauss, B.A. 1961; Dr. Michael Bourland, B.S. 1980; Dr. Carla Webb, B.S. 1997; Phillip Robinson,1995; Rick Grisham, B.A. 1976; Frank Ezelle, B.S. 1973; Dr. Kirk Kinard, B.S. 1996; and Danny Meyers, B.B.A. 1993. All spoke of how their Millsaps experiences on the field or court, and in the classroom, helped to shape their lives, their careers, and their friendships. Frank Ezelle, B.S. 1973, was awarded the Sam Knox Distinguished Service Award for using his photographic talents to capture the action in all of the College’s 14 sports.

In addition, a hundred or so alumni and friends attended the dedication of the stained-glass window in New South Residence Hall honoring the Reverend Don Fortenberry (below left). It was donated by the Class of 2005. Fortenberry retired that year after serving as the Millsaps chaplain for some three decades.

—Vernon King, N. S.

The family of Earl R. Wilson, civic and business leader, devoted family man, and longtime member of the Millsaps College Board of Trustees, has established a scholarship in his memory. The Earl R. Wilson Leadership Scholarship Fund was created with a generous gift from Mrs. Earl (Martha) Wilson, along with her daughters, Ann Wilson Holifield, Virginia Wilson Mounger, and Amy Lyles Wilson.

“Leadership development is of paramount importance to us,” said President Frances Lucas. “We are very grateful to the Wilson family for establishing a scholarship that will recognize and reward those students who exhibit leadership qualities, both in and out of the classroom.”

Earl Wilson, who enjoyed successful careers in the oil and gas industry as well as in banking, held leadership positions on the boards of many organizations, and, along with his wife, Martha, was instrumental in establishing Briarwood United Methodist Church and the Mississippi Methodist Rehabilitation Center.

He also served as secretary of the Millsaps Board of Trustees. His daughter Amy Lyles Wilson graduated from Millsaps in 1983.

“The Wilson Scholarship will assist us in recruiting those prospective students who have proven leadership capabilities,” Lucas said.

—N. S.

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From left, at the Millsaps Hall of Fame ceremony, the family of the late Harry Strauss, Dr. Michael Bourland, Dr. Carla Webb, Phillip Robinson, Rick Grisham, Frank Ezelle, Dr. Kirk Kinard, and, in front, Danny Meyers.

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OnCampus gender, race, sexual orientation, or their own sense of alienation. The idea was to look at the assumptions that define these margins and question them visually and socially.

Molloy’s pieces deal with topics from eating disorders (Having Been Good) to school violence. In her three Kids That

Kill Kids Commemorative Stamps

Codes: Crime, by Traci Molloy, confounds assumptions of good or ill that are based on appearance.

The exhibit called attention to those who have been pushed to the margins of “acceptable” society, whether through their gender, race, sexual orientation, or their own sense of alienation.

‘Peripheral’ Vision: Exhibiting Postcards From the Edge Millsaps hosted a provocative art exhibit this fall that highlighted the social and psychological aspects of living on the fringes and also included an interactive project that solicited the reactions of students to the artwork. “Peripheral,” which ran from September 25 through November 3 at the Lewis Art Gallery, featured the work of two contemporary artists: Kristin Powers Nowlin, based in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Traci Molloy, of Brooklyn, New York.

The exhibit called attention to those who have been pushed to the margins of “acceptable” society, whether through their

pieces, she places images from grisly murder scenes that have become all too familiar from events like Columbine within the mundane framework of a commemorative stamp. The eerie juxtaposition indicts the acceptance of violence in modern society. Her Having Been Good adorns silk-screen images of skeletal women with snippets of conversation about eating disorders.

Molloy’s work has been reviewed in national and regional publications. Select publications include: Art Papers, The Reader (Chicago), The Kansas City Star, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Molloy was interviewed and featured on National Public Radio in Atlanta. The CBS News affiliate in Atlanta also focused on one of her exhibits. She is currently directing a program with the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

Powers Nowlin also addresses the pressures and inequalities of contemporary life in her work. Horseplay, her collection of sketches of children attending the funeral of one of their slain classmates, shows the human sadness behind school shootings that is anesthetized by the media for popular consumption. Codes: Crime uses the side-by-side image of a white businessman (described as “Criminally Accountable”) and a black man in “street” dress (“Financially Responsible”) to confound the stereotypes that assume good or ill, based on appearance.

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Powers Nowlin describes her work as an exploration of issues of marginalized subcultures, stereotypes, and coded language. “From my perspective as a middle-class white Midwestern woman in an interracial marriage, the work challenges the way American culture perceives and judges groups of people, as well as the way groups of people interact with one another,” she said.

A native of Ames, Iowa, Powers Nowlin received her B.F.A. from the Columbus (Ohio) College of Art and Design and her M.F.A. in printmaking from Ohio University.

Having Been Good, by Kristin Powers Nowlin, She was whose work explores marginalized subcultures, a 2002 stereotypes, and coded language. recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship in the discipline of Visual Arts— Works on Paper.

Michelle Acuff, Lewis Art Gallery director, covertly introduced an interactive element to the exhibit. She developed a poster campaign, using an image that asked the question “Peripheral, are you???” These images quietly appeared around campus, and shortly afterward, 20 cameras showed up in random student mailboxes, with instructions to take portraits that reflected the theme. The photos were displayed as part of the exhibit.

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contemporary art in general, but also about how they may be active participants in the creation of visual culture and meaning.”

The Millsaps Lewis Art Gallery, located on the third floor of the Academic Complex, charges no admission and is open to the public Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

—Scott Alber t Johnson

Alumna Lea Barton: Portrait of the Artist In Her Second Act “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote.

He obviously never met Lea Barton.

The Millsaps grad is a classic example of someone who discovers—or, perhaps,

embraces—her calling late in life. Barton enrolled at Millsaps in her mid-30s, when most people her age were either wellensconced in their chosen fields or already flirting with an early midlife crisis. Her true journey was only beginning.

Barton, B.A. 1996, is now living a dynamic “second act” as one of Mississippi’s most acclaimed working artists. Her works have been displayed in the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her recent exhibition “another lost cause” was shown recently at the Perry Nicole Fine Art gallery in Memphis and was described by The Commercial Appeal as “intriguing and moving.” Her work will also be shown beginning January 12 at the Mississippi Invitational, a prestigious biennial exhibition hosted by the Mississippi Museum of Art. This will be the fifth time Barton’s work has been included in this exhibition.

War Bride (2004), by Lea Barton, who enrolled in Millsaps in her mid-30s and has exhibited extensively throughout the nation.

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Barton’s provocative and fascinating multimedia works challenge us by telling a visual story, combining themes like struggle, loss, and vulnerability, often in the context of epochal historical moments like the civil rights movement.

“Hopefully, it all comes together like a warm quilt or good gumbo,” she says.

Barton, who grew up in a traveling military family, spent summers in Mississippi at her grandmother’s house. She worked for many years as a legal secretary before taking steps to fulfill her dream of a college degree. “I had always wanted to go to college, but life took me in a different direction,” she says. Barton, whose husband is attorney Ken Barton, B.A. 1970, began her relationship with Millsaps by enrolling in an enrichment art class in her 30s. She decided that she didn’t want her learning to stop there, and she applied for admission to the Millsaps adult degree program as a 36-year-old freshman.

Like many adult students, Barton felt that a college degree would not only give her more professional opportunities but also a greater sense of fulfillment.

The naturally gifted Barton served as art historian Elise Smith’s Ford Fellow for two years while pursuing her undergraduate degree, and she also lectured in the Heritage Program and assisted Dr. Smith in teaching art majors.

After graduating magna cum laude from Millsaps, Barton enrolled at the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York City, where she studied under the renowned artist Gillian Jagger and received her M.F.A. She has since served as artist-inresidence at the Mississippi Museum of Art and is a twotime recipient of the Visual Arts Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Barton is also active in the community, directing an arts education program for Operation Shoestring, a nonprofit organization that assists underserved families and children in innercity Jackson.

Barton makes no secret of her debt to Millsaps College and her appreciation of the things she learned during her undergraduate years. “I am Millsaps College,” she says, “in the sense that my life is the realization of the hopes, dreams, and goals that Millsaps holds for its students.

I gained skills at Millsaps that can take me anywhere, and my experience there made me believe that I can be successful at anything.

“Millsaps did not teach me merely how to fly … it taught me how to soar.”

—S. A. J.

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In the Recital Hall, History, Hurricanes, And Harmonics The Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series, the longest continuously operating series of its type in the Jackson metropolitan area, will continue its tradition of presenting thought-provoking, entertaining, and controversial programs with Jack Lucas, a World War II hero, on Tuesday, January 16; historian Douglas Brinkley on Thursday, February 15; and the musical quintet QuinTango, on Thursday, March 29. A tribute to Ellen Douglas has also been planned for February, but no final date has been announced.

At 14, Jack Lucas lied about his age to join the Marines, and he jumped on two grenades at Iwo Jima, saving his buddies and, miraculously, surviving. He tells the tale in the book Indestructible:The

Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima. For his act of bravery, Lucas at 17 became the youngest soldier in the 20th century and the youngest Marine in history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

A best-selling historian, Douglas Brinkley, director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and professor of history at Tulane University, lived through the destruction of Hurricane Katrina with his fellow New Orleans residents. In his book The Great Deluge, he has written a complete account of the harrowing first week after the storm, telling stories of unsung heroes and incompetent officials alike. His book is a gripping narrative at all levels of the disaster.

QuinTango, a quintet of two violins, cello, bass, and piano, will bring a century’s worth of tango repertoire to the Millsaps stage. They are the only tango music group to have given a command performance at the White House, and they have been heard on NPR, CNN, and network

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bringing internationally renowned pianists Arts & Lecture to campus and drawing audiences from Series held their throughout the area. Salmon has performed first meeting. classical and jazz concerts throughout Concerned that Europe and the United States and since Jackson had too 1989 has been on the faculty at UNCfew cultural Greensboro. offerings, this Each season of the Bell Concert Series dedicated group includes a performance by a soloist, a small of visionaries ensemble featuring piano, a jazz group, planned the and the winner of the Wideman Piano startup of a QuinTango, a quintet of two violins, cello, bass, and piano, will appear on Thursday, March 29.

Competition. Pianist Angela Cheng, who culturally based television. QuinTango has also appeared public-forum series on the Millsaps campus has appeared with virtually every Canadian orchestra and several in the United States, at the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian that endures and thrives to this day. was this year’s soloist in October. The All programs, except Ellen Douglas, Institution, and the State Department.

Fischer Duo made their second appearance The Arts & Lecture Series began its will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Academic on the Millsaps campus in November, with 39th season in September with a Southern Complex Recital Hall. For more cellist Norman Fischer and pianist Jeanne songwriters program. An October program, information, call (601) 974-1043 or Kierman.

“Remembering Willie Morris,” featured email luran.buchanan@millsaps.edu.

Shreveport’s Wideman Piano friends and literary colleagues of the late Competition—held in the first week Mississippi writer, weighing in on his of December—produces the fourth literary influence. In November, Dr. Jerome performer in the Bell Concert Series each Jackson, a biology professor at Florida Gulf year. This concert at Millsaps is one of the Coast University, discussed the controversy winner’s first professional performances surrounding reported sightings in Arkansas after the competition, giving the campus of the ivory-billed woodpecker, the “holy community the opportunity to see a grail” sought by birders. promising world-class pianist before The University of North Carolina at Luran Buchanan, executive director he or she moves on to higher levels of Greensboro Faculty Jazz Trio, featuring of the series, says organizers have always competition and a professional career. This John Salmon on piano, will perform been proud of the eclectic programs the performance will take place on Thursday, originals by Salmon and standards from forum brings to the cultural landscape of March 1. the jazz repertoire on Friday, February 2, central Mississippi. Those featured over Dr. Tim Coker, professor of music and as part of the Millsaps College Bell Concert the years include authors Winston Groom, chair of the Department of Performing Arts, Series. Salmon holds a master’s degree William Styron, Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, and Lewis Nordan, B.A. 1963; in music from The Juilliard School the National Theater for the Deaf; the and a doctorate of Mississippi premiere of “Freedom on My musical arts from the Mind” (a documentary on the Mississippi University of Texas at Voter Registration Project); the Harlem Austin.

Boys Choir; the Vienna Choir Boys; Jackson Salmon, who native and Food Network chef Cat Cora; has won prizes and Islamic scholar Reza Aslan. from the University History, politics, current events, civil of Maryland, rights, writing, music, cooking, film, the Beethoven dance—all these subjects and many more Foundation, and many have been explored on the Arts & Lecture other competitions, stage. is representative of An idea for a connection between the quality of the the Millsaps community and the Jackson series, which for community became a reality in 1968, The Bell Series will feature the UNC at Greensboro Faculty Jazz Trio on Friday, February 2. four years has been when the new officers of the Millsaps

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says the goal of the series is “to recapture the experience of the piano recital for the audience.” In addition to the concert-hall ambience of the series, master classes and jazz workshops with the performers add an educational aspect to the performers’ time on campus.

The Bell Concert Series is named for Estelle Bell, grandmother of former Millsaps College and Bell Series board member John Palmer, for fostering an early love of music in young children. During his tenure on the Board of Trustees, Palmer, who later served as U.S. ambassador to Portugal, established the Jonathan M. Sweat Music Endowment, which directly supports the series named for his grandmother.

This season builds on the success of the three previous years. Says Coker, “There has not been a weak concert in the series.” For tickets or more information, please call 601-974-1422 or go to www.millsaps.edu/pfrmarts/bell.shtml.

—Margaret Cahoon

The Players, Unbridled In October, The Millsaps Players performed the Tony Award-winning drama Equus, Peter Shaffer’s powerful work infiltrating a teenage boy’s mythic internal realm after he has committed a violent act, blinding several horses. Sam Sparks, B.A. 2003, production manager at Jackson’s New Stage Theatre, directed David Lind, J.R. Braun, Andrew Thomas, and Roxie Randle in a production that was designed by Brent Lefavor, associate professor of theatre.

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FacultyChat Tackling ‘Tough Stuff’ While Keeping It Relaxed and Casual

Dr. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel Associate Professor Department of History

Areas of specialty: Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American history, colonial America, and the history of sexuality Education: Ph.D.,The University of Texas at Austin; M.A., State University of NewYork at Binghamton; B.A., Cornell College

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My journey to Millsaps College began almost 20 years ago, when I attended a small liberal arts college in Iowa for my undergraduate degree. I learned to appreciate the unique and special relationship that can form between a professor and a student, as my adviser nurtured my passion for history and my other professors introduced me to a rich liberal arts world where I studied religion, physics, and anthropology all at the same time. I knew then that I wanted to teach at a small liberal arts college, so when I interviewed at Millsaps I was immediately hooked. The collegiality of the faculty, the bright and open-minded students, and the beautiful weather drew me and my future husband to Jackson six years ago.

What I cherish most about Millsaps is my time in the classroom; I have a rare opportunity to share what I love with students who are eager to learn. Whether we’re exploring how female gossip functioned to regulate social behavior in colonial Virginia or uncovering the many failed attempts to reconcile the sectional tensions between the North and the South before the Civil War, my students and I wrestle with the “tough stuff” that is American history—both the glory and the shame. But my teaching rarely stops at the classroom door. I enjoy having students in my office asking questions, wanting more information, or simply wanting to shoot the breeze. The relaxed, casual atmosphere at Millsaps promotes this kind of interaction without detracting from the academic rigor of our programs.

Finally, I appreciate the entire Millsaps community—faculty, staff, and students— who all seem to be working toward the same goal: providing the most fulfilling and rewarding educational experience

possible for our students. And by rewarding I don’t mean getting the grades that will get the good job that will make lots of money. I think that Millsaps is infused with a spirit of service and meaning that you will find at few places.

We want our students to find satisfaction in self-knowledge and in service to others. I know this may sound a bit trite, but I think the majority of our students work for more than a paycheck— they also work to make the world a better place. I’d like to think that I have a small part in nurturing that spirit, and quite simply, it’s why I’m here.

My teaching rarely stops at the classroom door. I enjoy having students in my office asking questions, wanting more information, or simply wanting to shoot the breeze. The relaxed, casual atmosphere at Millsaps promotes this kind of interaction without detracting from the academic rigor of our programs.

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FacultyStaff & Let’s Do Lunch— Where Teaching Is on the Menu Once a month, Millsaps faculty meet for lunch to talk about topics ranging from learning how to deal with stress in the classroom to how to balance life as both a scholar and a teacher.

The Art of Teaching was developed three years ago by the Faith & Work Initiative with the purpose of encouraging faculty members to examine their own calls to teaching.

About a third of the faculty members regularly attend this forum, discussing topics such as technology in the classroom, grade inflation, creating a balanced work life, and dealing with the increasing emotional fragility of today’s students.

Each month, a different topic and faculty facilitator is featured. The facilitator makes a brief presentation and then engages his or her peers in a discussion. This series has become a hallmark of faculty development at Millsaps.

“The Art of Teaching is designed to keep the faculty in community and in conversation with one another,” says Dr. Darby Ray, director of the Faith & Work Initiative. “When we work in the real world, we don’t always get a chance to understand who the individuals surrounding us are. This program allows faculty to lead discussions with one another and get to know one another as if they Dr. Darby Ray, director of the Faith & Work Initiative, says the were family.” forums on teaching foster a sense of community among the faculty.

The Faith & Work Initiative’s mission focuses mainly on students and helping them understand the meaning of self, purpose, and vocation. However, it is also important for the faculty to do the same, even though they have already chosen their paths in life. According to Ray, it is essential for faculty to learn how to sustain their passion for teaching. This can

be a challenging task, and Ray hopes that the program will help get faculty thinking about vocation, passion, and meaningful work.

Gayla Dance, chair of the mathematics department, feels that the Art of Teaching sessions help dismantle barriers between disciplines. “Most of our faculty come to Millsaps because of their passion for teaching,” she says. “The Art of Teaching lunches allow us to come together for a college-wide conversation on pedagogy which transcends departments and divisions. Besides hearing about the latest developments in the teaching arena, these workshops give us a chance to discuss our successes and disappointments in the classroom.

“I come away from these meetings energized and enlightened, with renewed commitment to excellence in the classroom.”

—Jackie Rezk

3 Faculty Members Are Honored as Fulbright Scholars Three faculty members were honored this year as Fulbright Scholars by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars in Washington. Dr. Robert McElvaine, chair of the history department, was chosen to be a Fulbright Senior Scholar in New Zealand. He joined assistant professor Dr. Michael Reinhard, who was in Kyrgyzstan this spring on a Fulbright Fellowship for the U.S. State Department, and humanities scholar-in-residence Dr. Peggy Prenshaw, who studied in China over the summer.

McElvaine will spend the spring semester of 2007 at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, working on a research project comparing the responses of the New Zealand and U.S. governments to the Great Depression. He has taught at Millsaps College for more than 30 years

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“I came back to Mississippi with many informed impressions about China,” said Prenshaw. “It was more modern in every way than I had expected. There was construction everywhere. At one vast university of over 40,000 students, with well-designed buildings everywhere, we were told that the site had been a bean field only eight years earlier, and the university was nonexistent.

“It was a memorable experience, engaging both physically and intellectually.”

—Scott Alber t Johnson

Dr. Peggy Prenshaw, Fulbright Scholar, at the Great Wall in China. She studied the contrast between urban and rural women.

and has received many awards for his teaching, including a silver medal in the national Professor of the Year program of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He was also named Millsaps College’s Distinguished Professor in 2001, and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named him the State Professor of the Year for Mississippi in 2002. He is the author of six books, two of which have been named among the “Notable Books of the Year” by The New York Times Book Review.

“When I was in New Zealand for less than a week in 2003, I fell in love with the country,” said McElvaine.

“It ranks with Switzerland as the two most beautiful countries I have visited.

Being able to be there for three months should be wonderful. I look forward to giving lectures and conducting research comparing the work projects in New Zealand during the Great Depression with those of the New Deal in the United States.”

Dr. Michael Reinhard taught this spring at the American University in Bishkek. His travels took him through five countries in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union.

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Soviet youth in Central Asia.

Reinhard also worked for the Soros Foundation, traveling to Afghanistan to interview young students (mostly women) for scholarships abroad. Most of the young women he interviewed had been forced to study in secret, as the Taliban had a policy of beating and sometimes beheading any parents who allowed their daughters to read. Reinhard is attempting to find funding for one of the most exceptional of these students to attend Millsaps. The student is a math prodigy and wants to become a doctor so she can return home to help her people.

“One of the things we typically look for is a social conscience,” says Reinhard.

“Our unstated assumption is that a social conscience means following your genius, to do what you think is right no matter what society or the people around you say.”

Prenshaw received her award to participate in the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad, concentrating on women, family, and social change in China. A particular focus was on the contrast between women in urban and rural settings. Prenshaw saw firsthand the many ways that China is charging forward into the new millennium, confounding longheld stereotypes.

Storey Recognized With Humanities Teacher Award Dr. William Storey, associate professor of history at Millsaps College, was presented with the 2006 Humanities Teacher Award by the Mississippi Humanities Council. As the award recipient, Storey also gave a public lecture entitled “War and the Environment: A Historian’s Perspective” on campus in November.

“Every writer needs the support of colleagues and friends,” Storey said, “and now I’m particularly grateful to have the support of the Mississippi Humanities Council.”

Storey, who graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University, has been teaching at Millsaps since 1999. He has been the recipient of the Millsaps Outstanding Young Faculty Award, a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship, and a Research and Writing Fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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He teaches the global history of the environment and technology, as well as the history of the British Empire.

“Dr. Storey is widely regarded as one of the strongest teacher-scholars at Millsaps,” said Dr. Richard A. Smith, senior vice president and dean of the College. “He is a dedicated and engaging teacher, well respected by his students for challenging them to think and work harder than they thought they could.”

The Humanities Teacher Awards, given to one humanities faculty member at each institution of higher learning in Mississippi, are distributed every October to commemorate Arts and Humanities Month. The title carries a cash prize of $500, which is matched by the nominating institution by providing promotional costs and a reception following the public presentation.

—Margaret Cahoon

Bey’s Expedition To the Frontier Of Excellence Dr. George Bey, professor of anthropology and the associate dean of sciences, was awarded the AAA/McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association. Though the initial announcement was made in June, the award was presented to Bey at the AAA’s annual meeting in San Jose, California, in November.

In their recommending letter to the AAA, Dr. Michael Galaty and Dr. Julian Murchison, sociology-anthropology professors, and Dr. Richard A. Smith, senior vice president and dean of the College, said of Bey: “George is famous on the Millsaps campus for being a ‘master’ teacher. ...

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For George, the classroom is an extension of the field, and vice versa. Students react strongly and positively to this approach.

They sense George’s genuine excitement about anthropology and recognize that he is a respected, experienced scholar. ... Many students describe wandering into one of George’s classes by accident and leaving as an anthropology major.”

Upon learning of the award, Galaty said: “George Bey is an excellent scholar and a great colleague. More than that, he is a fantastic teacher, and that is why he deserves this award. Former students from all over the country sent letters of support.

All of them praised George’s efforts in the classroom as well as in the field; many described how he had ‘changed their lives.’

He is truly one of the best teachers of anthropology in the country.”

“This award confirms something that we have long known at Millsaps,” Smith said. “George is one of the finest teachers on campus and also in all of

Dr. George Bey, professor of anthropology, in Yucatán. His research largely focuses on Mesoamerican archaeology, prehistoric pottery, and such societies as the Maya and Toltecs.

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anthropology. In fact, in my 30 years in higher education I’ve never seen any faculty member combine his research and teaching so creatively and effectively and, in the process, excite so many students.

He is a role model for all of us in higher education.”

According to the anthropological association, the award was established in 1997 “to recognize teachers who have contributed to and encouraged the study of anthropology. The successful teaching of anthropology is at the core of producing successful anthropologists. By transferring knowledge and encouraging interest and study, the teacher is able to contribute significantly to the increasing success of the field of anthropology. Without such people, the growth of anthropology would be stifled.”

Bey teaches a broad range of archaeology and anthropology courses, from the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt to American Popular Culture. His area of research interest is Mesoamerican

archaeology, the analysis of prehistoric pottery, and the evolution of complex societies, such as the Maya and Toltecs.

Since 1984, he has directed field projects in Yucatán, first at the Maya site of Ek Balam and, since 2000, at the site of Kaxil Kiuic.

It sits amidst a 4,000-acre biocultural reserve created with the support of Millsaps College, offering students opportunities to study Maya archaeology, as well as the flora and fauna of the tropical forests of Yucatán.

Early in the fall semester, Smith announced that Bey had agreed to serve as the associate dean for international education, effective January 1. This new position was created to bring greater institutional focus and energy to the area of international education. It is also in response to a call by the Millsaps Board of Trustees last April to increase significantly the number of Millsaps students who study abroad.

As the associate dean of international education, Bey will help maintain and develop nationally competitive and

regionally distinctive academic programs in international education, including both oncampus and study-abroad programs.

The position of associate dean provides effective representation of the interests of the faculty and international programs.

The associate dean is also involved in the development of proposals to support and develop programs in international education, as well as effective cultivation of donors and foundations. As associate dean, Bey will present the College’s strengths in international education to the admissions staff and prospective students and parents and assist with the cultivation of prospective students and their parents, including international students.

—Becca Day

Bey has led the effort to create a Millsaps “southern campus” in Yucatán, where students have opportunities to study Maya archaeology, as well as the region’s tropical forests.

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FacultyStaff & Arts and Letters Michelle Acuff (studio art) was an artist-in-

residence this summer at The Prairie Center for the Arts in Peoria, Ill., where she created a large-scale installation and projected video. She was awarded a Mississippi Arts Council Fellowship of $4,000. She is preparing for a solo exhibition this spring at The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Veronica Freeman (modern languages) has

published a book entitled The Poetization of Metaphors in the Work of Novalis (Peter Lang, 2006). It examines the use of popular metaphoric images by the German poet Novalis; home, love, and the self are compared in the romantic and mystic tradition.

Paula Garrett (English and writing) has

co-edited a collection of works by William Wells Brown, a contemporary and an occasional adversary of Frederick Douglass.

Oxford University Press published the book in October.

In early November, Mercy Seat Press published Mississippi Sudan, by Greg Miller (English), a book of poems meditating on both the plight of Sudanese refugees in Mississippi and larger questions of conflict and peace. Profits from the book will go to the Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan for vaccines and medicines in southern Sudan. In spring 2007, Continuum Publishing will release Greg’s

George Herbert’s ‘Holy Patterns’: Reforming Individuals in Community, a scholarly study of the 17th century Anglican poet and priest. Greg has also been chosen to serve as an artist-in-residence at Camac, an international artists’ colony affiliated with UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, from February through May 2007. Camac is located in a renovated priory in the Champagne region of France, about an hour east of Paris by train.

Sandra Murchison (studio art) was invited

to teach a weeklong book arts workshop at the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts this past summer. Two of her artists’ books were featured in the Arrowmont Summer Faculty Exhibition. Two other recent mixedmedia print works were selected for the 2006 Mid-America Print Council Members Exhibition at Ohio University. Sandra was invited to be a visiting artist this November in the printmaking area at Louisiana State University. For this academic year, Sandra is on sabbatical as she creates a new body of artwork for her solo exhibitions this spring at both Rockhurst University in Kansas City and the Cottonlandia Museum in Greenwood, Miss.

or 12-tone movement, which dominated much of 20th-century music. ... Far from being a stuffy academic exercise, this was an exciting musical adventure that stimulated both the emotions and the intellect.” His performance of Stockhausen’s Piano Piece IX was singled out as “a dazzling and completely convincing performance” that “won the most enthusiastic applause of the evening from an audience by no means limited to students or new-music groupies.”

Darby Ray (religious studies) is the editor and a contributing author of Theology

That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God

(Fortress Press). The book features many of today’s most respected and original Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel (history) attended Christian thinkers, who engage such topics a June seminar sponsored by the Gilder as God, Christ, revelation, eschatology, and Lehrman Institute for American History at church in three intertwined and pressing Columbia University. The seminar, “Slavery areas: our religious life and language and Public History,” brought together in a secularized, pluralistic society, our historians from colleges around the newly globalized economic life, and our country to exchange ideas about teaching threatened environment. Darby’s essay, “It’s the history of slavery and race in America.

About Time: Reflections on a Theology of She also presented two lectures for the Rest,” considers the challenges to personal, CLIO Institute at the Kansas State Historical communal, and planetary well-being Society, a federal grant-sponsored program posed by contemporary conceptions of designed to provide high school teachers work, happiness, and God. It advocates with cutting-edge research in American “Sabbath practices” that can effectively resist these dehumanizing forces. Darby history. also contributed a chapter on St. Anselm Lynn Raley (performing arts) was the of Canterbury (1033–1109) to the book featured guest performer at the “Integrales” Theological Canon and Empire, ed. Don festival of contemporary music at the Compier, Kwok Pui-lan, and Joerg Reiger University of Southern Mississippi in (Fortress Press, 2007).

May. In June he performed at the NITLE New Music Festival at Rollins College Holly M. Sypniewski (classical studies) in Winter Park, Fla. In September he delivered a paper on “Catullus 64 and played to a capacity crowd in Sarasota, the Ps.-Vergilian Culex” at the Classical where the Sarasota Herald Tribune critic Association of the Middle-West and South wrote, “Sarasota’s music scene shook in Gainesville, Fla., in April. In June, she off the lethargy of late summer with a attended two seminars, “Hellenistic bang Saturday evening as the innovative Poetry” and “Latin Literature of the New Music New College concert series Imperial Period,” sponsored by the presented pianist Lynn Raley in ‘Developing National Institute for Technology and Variations: Modernism and Beyond.’ ...

Liberal Education and was chosen as course Raley provided an exceptionally vivid director for a collaborative classics course illustration of the evolutionary link in Latin literature. She gave a presentation between late Romanticism and the atonal on collaborative teaching practices at

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“Exploring Collaboration in Classics,” a meeting of the departmental chairs of liberal arts colleges throughout the United States, at Rhodes College in November.

Austin Wilson (English) was awarded two

residencies in spring and summer 2006, when he was on sabbatical: one at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun Gap, Ga., and the other at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. He and his wife, Gerry, were among nine artists (writers, painters, potters, and composers) who were Hambidge fellows during their residency in April 2006. Austin worked on poetry, writing new works and revising what he had begun in summer 2005, which he spent at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in California. He gave a reading of his poetry at Hambidge as part of the semiannual meeting of the Hambidge Advisory Board. At the Atlantic Center, Wilson was one of eight American, British, and Canadian poets selected for a master class taught by the distinguished poet Sharon Olds. While there, he collaborated with composers-in-residence to write a poem to be accompanied by a jazz quartet.

That piece and other new poems were presented at a public performance in June for supporters of the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the local community.

Else School Ajay Aggarwal (Else School) has been

appointed president of the south-central Mississippi chapter of the American Production and Inventory Control Society for 2006–07. He also has been appointed track chair of Statistics, Quantitative Management, and Management Science for the 2007 meeting of the Southeast Decision Sciences Institute and ad hoc reviewer for the prestigious Decision Sciences Journal. He has co-authored the article “Looking for Niches in All the Right Places: Designing an M.B.A. Program for the Next Decade,” with Ray Phelps and Pat

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Taylor (both of the Else School), accepted

by the Journal of College Teaching and Learning.

Science William Bares (computer science)

presented a paper, “A Photographic Composition Assistant for Intelligent Virtual 3D Camera Systems,” at the Sixth International Symposium on Smart Graphics in Vancouver in July.

Michael Galaty (sociology-anthropology) presented the paper “Highland Northern Albania, Ecotourism, and the Shala Valley Project: Prospects and Challenges” at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in late April.

Jamie Harris (geology) was invited in June to make a presentation at the Second International Conference on Environmental and Engineering Geophysics in Wuhan, China. His presentation, “Hammer-impact shear-wave seismic reflection methods in neotectonic investigations: General observations and case histories from the Mississippi Embayment, U.S.A.,” was designated as a keynote address and Jamie was recognized as a guest professor at the China University of Geosciences.

A paper by Mark Lynch (mathematics), “Continuity and separation in symmetric topological spaces,” has been accepted for publication by the International Journal

Combined SE/SW Regional ACS Meeting in Memphis. The presentation centers on the inclusion of ethics as a topic in the senior chemistry seminar based upon the ACS “Chemist Code of Conduct.”

Don Schwartz (computer science) gave two presentations about the Red Cross Volunteer Registration System project his students developed last year after Hurricane Katrina.

In May, he presented “A Service-Learning Course to Develop a Web-Based Database Application for the American Red Cross” at the 2006 National Conference on Service Learning in Engineering at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C. In June, he and two students presented “Service Learning, Software Engineering and Hurricane Katrina—A Case Study” at the 2006 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice in Las Vegas.

Marlys Vaughn (education) presented “A Program Accountability Process That Enhances Teacher Education Quality and Strengthens Ties with Content Coordinators Involved with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Process” in January at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education national conference in San Diego.

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Several Millsaps staff members participated in a workshop on “New Essentials in Enrollment Management for United Methodist-Related Colleges of Mathematical Education in Science and and Universities” in June. The workshop, Technology. It is a joint work with a former Millsaps math major, John Harris, B.S. 1996. held in Santa Fe, was part of the 2006 Institute of Higher Education, which the Mark and John received doctoral degrees General Board of Higher Education and from Louisiana State University in 2003.

Ministry sponsors annually. Attending from Millsaps were Kay Barksdale (institutional Jim Purser (chemistry) had a presentation advancement), Lisa Garvin (chaplain), accepted for the Southeastern Regional Janet Langley (academic support services), Meeting of the American Chemical Dr. Brit Katz (student life), Brooks Brower Society (ACS) in November at Augusta, (student life), Mathew Cox (admissions), Ga. The presentation is a followup to Mickey Quinlan (admissions), Karen his presentation last November at the

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Cadiere (admissions), and Patrick James (financial aid). The sessions, led

by a team from Noel-Levitz (a national enrollment-management firm), dealt with recruitment, retention, fiscal and enrollment management, the evolution of the enrollment manager, and the effective delivery of financial aid services.

Don Fortenberry (student life) is the new

chairman of the board of directors of the Millsaps-based Center for Ministry, a joint project of Millsaps College and the

Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church.

Scott Albert Johnson (communications) will release his debut solo album, Umbrella Man, in February. Scott is a prolific musician (singer/songwriter and harmonica player) and has toured throughout the United States and Europe. You can hear his music at www.myspace.com/scottalbertjohnson or www.scottalbertjohnson.com.

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selector for the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.

Nominated by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, Brit will serve a multiyear term in selecting the annual recipients of the Javits Fellowship for graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Javits Fellowships are named after the noted congressman and senator from New York. The fellowship honors academic ability and awards up to $30,000 per year.

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A $160 million campaign establishes a solid foundation for the future of Millsaps College

“With the commitment of you—our alumni and friends—we can build on our tradition of excellence and position Millsaps as the finest liberal arts college in the nation.”

—J. Murray Underwood Campaign Chair

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T WAS DURING HOMECOMING Weekend in November, “Millsaps has a rich legacy that has been shaped by the lives of surrounded by 350 alumni, trustees, faculty, staff, and the people who have called it home,” Lucas said. “This campaign friends, that Dr. Frances Lucas, president of Millsaps College, offers us the opportunity to build on this tradition.” announced what would be an unprecedented undertaking on The theme of this campaign speaks directly to the heart of the the part of the College—a $160 million capital campaign, the Millsaps experience. It’s about “what you were given and what largest in the College’s history. you pass on,” says Jack Woodward, B.A. 1951, who was on staff at Accompanied by J. Murray Underwood, chair of the campaign, Millsaps from 1961 to 1999 and served as dean of student aid and Lucas launched Legacy: A Campaign for Millsaps financial planning. “Some of my most rewardCollege at the black-tie 2006 Presidents Society “Our vision for the future ing days were those when former recipients of Gala. And in introducing this unparalleled projfinancial aid called me to say, ‘I want to pay back of Millsaps College starts some of what I was given.’ ” ect to propel Millsaps forward, she looked back upon the rich history of the College. “In 1889, This extraordinary initiative will allow here and now.”

Major Reuben Webster Millsaps gave $50,000 to Millsaps to increase scholarship money availhelp the Methodist Conference adopt the charable to outstanding students, attract and retain ter for Millsaps College in 1890, and the school opened two years an exceptional faculty, enhance the campus landscape and facilities, later,” Lucas said. “That gift, the first of his many generous contribu- and continue to create the kind of innovative programs that have tions to the College, created a legacy that has forever changed the distinguished Millsaps from every other college in the country.

“Our vision for the future of Millsaps College starts here and landscape of education in the Deep South. It is time we celebrate his now,” Lucas said. “This year’s freshman class came to us from an legacy—and yours.”

The theme “Legacy” was chosen, Lucas explained, to represent incredible array of 150 high schools. Independent and forward all that Millsaps has done to enrich the lives of its students—and thinking, our students were not concerned about following the how alumni hope, in turn, to help contribute to a brilliant future for pack but thoughtfully chose the place where they could flourish and this distinctive institution, which has provided lifelong professional, grow into the future leaders we expect them to be. Among this class are 22 National Merit finalists and semifinalists, 37 valedictorians, personal, and spiritual nourishment for generations.

From left, Trustee Jim Payne, his daughter Gina Payne, and Sally and Garland Sullivan of Hattiesburg at the Presidents Society Gala and kickoff of the Legacy campaign.

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and 12 salutatorians. Because our average student is already a leader, we have a greater responsibility to provide an educational environment that prepares that student for the leadership opportunities he or she will most surely embrace after graduation.”

The campaign will also help the College maintain its stellar national reputation for faculty by attracting and retaining some of the top minds in the world, providing them with the funds they need to stay at the forefront of teaching, scholarship, and research in their chosen fields.

Lucas emphasized “the Millsaps dif- Archie Lamb, left, a member of the capital campaign steering committee, with Millsaps coaching legend Harper Davis. ference” at the faculty level. “At Millsaps, our faculty are more than teachers—they are mentors,” she said.

Underwood said the campaign had already raised $75 million “They care about their students’ total development, they invest in both outright and planned gifts during its silent phase. A 22hours outside the classroom counseling their students, they encour- member steering committee and six subcommittees have worked age alumni after graduation. The lifelong bond between students steadily to solicit lead gifts and to form the structure for the impleand the scholars who teach them reflects the best of a Millsaps mentation of a wider regional campaign. “Our regional alumni education.” chapters have been very supportive of the College,” Underwood A 1963 graduate of Millsaps, campaign chair Underwood has said. “We look forward to bringing them the message you are hearworked for many years as a volunteer championing the College’s ing tonight, and we challenge them to help make a difference in the mission. “We have an exciting opportunity,” Underwood said. lives of our current students and in the lives of future generations “With the commitment of you—our alumni and friends—we can of Millsaps students. build on our tradition of excellence and position Millsaps as the fin“Although this is the most ambitious campaign in the history est liberal arts college in the nation.” of Millsaps College, this place and these people are worth the investment,” Underwood emphasized.

“I cannot possibly repay all that I’ve gained from my relationship with Millsaps College, but I’m going to try.

This college is worth every minute I can give to her and every dollar I can raise for her. My legacy for Millsaps College will be one of giving back as much as I can and making as much of an impact as I can.

“What will your legacy for Millsaps be?” Underwood asked, as he raised a toast to the campaign. “Join us.

What you do today will create a legacy of excellence for the future of Millsaps College.”

For highlights of the evening, including a video presentation, please visit legacy.millsaps.edu.

Paul McNeill, left, and Eason Leake, vice chairman of the Legacy campaign and a member of the Millsaps Board of Trustees.

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Capital Ideas Increased scholarship funding. By raising funds for both endowed and sponsored scholarships, Millsaps will be able to keep Mississippi’s best and brightest students in the state and attract more outstanding students from across the nation.

Support for faculty development. Investment in faculty development makes Millsaps more competitive in attracting and retaining top-tier professors and keeping current faculty immersed in cutting-edge information and teaching methods.

Funding to ensure quality programs. Millsaps can continue to offer a wide variety of extraordinary programs that contribute to a well-rounded educational experience, including the Faith & Work Initiative, myriad professional and preprofessional programs, performing and fine arts, and athletics.

Support for international studies. Study opportunities abroad, especially at our “southern campus” in Yucatán, help broaden students’ visions of the world and expose them to other cultures, cultivating the character, understanding, and skills that will prepare them to become global leaders.

Enhancing the campus landscape and facilities. A new chapel/recital hall will offer an improved environment for worship, reflection, fellowship, and sharing. Further improving landscaping, walkways, lighting, signage, and entrances will lend to a welcoming and secure environment. Improvements to residence halls, science laboratories, and athletics facilities will also benefit current students and make a favorable impression on prospective students and their families.

Increased support for the Millsaps Annual Fund. The Annual Fund provides support for the College and is dependent on consistent and unrestricted gifts.

Increased number of estate and planned-gift expectancies. The inclusion of Millsaps in an estate plan or the arrangement of another type of deferred gift, such as an annuity, trust, or life insurance plan, helps ensure the long-term financial integrity of the College.

Campaign Goals at a Glance Commitment to Student Excellence Commitment to Faculty Excellence Commitment to Program Excellence Commitment to International Study Commitment to Facility Excellence The Millsaps Annual Fund Estate and Planned Gift Expectancies Total Goal

$35 million 10 million 17 million 8 million 18 million 12 million 60 million $160 million

From left, the Reverends Janet Ott, 1970, and Luther Ott, B.A. 1971, Dr. Manisha Sethi, B.S. 1994, and SBA President Brad Yakots with President Frances Lucas at the gala.

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PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2006

FRANCES LUCAS PRESIDENT

Like many institutions, Millsaps College faced unprecedented challenges this year, particularly growing competition from other liberal arts and honors colleges and the need to respond quickly to those economic and social changes wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

But just as the strong and steadfast people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast are looking ahead with courage and tenacity, we too are charting a new course. Now, more than ever, we are determined to demonstrate our flexibility and adaptability.

As I reflect on this past year, I am reminded again and again of the critical role played by so many individuals in the success of the College: our bold Board of Trustees, who provided wisdom and guidance in the pursuit of our vision; our generous donors, who once again rose to meet a challenge; our exceptional students, who were drawn to live and study at this acclaimed institution; our committed staff, dedicated to their work; and our extraordinary faculty, whose contributions define the stunning national reputation of this institution.

Our success continues to be validated by outside groups such as U.S. News &World Report’s America’s Best Colleges, which placed Millsaps at No. 82 in the top 212 liberal arts institutions in the country, establishing the College as the only Mississippi institution in the top tier of national colleges. Also, The Princeton Review selected Millsaps for inclusion in the 2007 edition of its book the Best 282 Business Schools. Millsaps College’s Else School is ranked eighth in the category of “Best Professors,” just above Harvard and Duke. The Else School is one of 45 schools that The Princeton Review is adding to its annual “best business schools” guide this year. And our revolutionary Writing Program has been ranked among the top 17 in the nation.

Now, with the kickoff of Legacy: A Campaign for Millsaps College, we are poised to extend our national reach and reputation even further. This unprecedented $160 million fund-raising initiative will allow us to offer more scholarship money to outstanding students, continue to attract and retain an exceptional faculty, enhance the campus landscape and facilities, and create more innovative programs that will continue to distinguish us among the best colleges and universities in the country.

As donors, you are opening minds and opening doors. And while the short-term impact of your gifts will be most evident, it is the long-term benefits that will shape the future of Millsaps. It’s your legacy. It’s our legacy. And it’s the legacy of the difference that Millsaps-educated minds will continue to make in this state, the country, and the world for generations to come.

It is to each of you that the Millsaps President’s Report 2006 is gratefully dedicated.

Thank you for your commitment to the College and your investment in its future.

The handsome, lighted gateposts marking the entrance to Millsaps College were a gift from the senior classes of 1939, 1940, and 1941. The original cost of the project was $300—an astronomical sum for its day.The project was funded by a donation of 75 cents from each member of the three senior classes.Their legacy of generosity still shines today, lighting the way for all who are drawn to Millsaps.

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Leila Clark Wynn

The Millsaps College Founders Society is made up of individuals and organizations of the highest distinction. Each member has played a profound role in shaping the future of the College through lifetime gifts to Millsaps of $1million or more.

These preeminent supporters help make possible a superior liberal arts education for generations of students to come, in much the same way the founders of the College did more than a century ago. The Founders Society members are listed here and are also recognized on the Millsaps Tower, alongside the College’s three founders—Reuben Webster Millsaps, Charles Betts Galloway, and William Belton Murrah.

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Henry Vergil and Carol Howie Allen Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg BellSouth Corporation Paul T. Benton The Chisholm Foundation Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Charitable Foundation Inc. Robert H. Dunlap Charles W. and Eloise T. Else The Ford Foundation Gertrude C. Ford Foundation M. H. Hall Family Phil Hardin Foundation Robert and Dee Leggett Lilly Endowment Inc. Raymond and Margery Martin H. F. McCarty Jr. Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Hyman F. McCarty Jr. Selby and Richard McRae Millsaps Navy V-12 Unit 1943–45 Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church Merle Berry Montjoy Edward L. and Helen Moyers North Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church F. W. Olin Foundation Inc. Luther and Janet Ott Mr. and Mrs. Nat S. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Joe Frank Sanderson Mary Davenport Spiva Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sumners Foundation Celia Brevard Trimble and Janice Trimble Vicksburg Hospital Medical Foundation Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc. R. E. Williams

Ruth Curtis Alford 1929 Carol Howie Allen 1936 William (1950) and Minna Appleby William F. Appleby Jr. 1978 Henry A. Ash 1962 W. E. (1954) and Diane Brown (1953) Ayres Dorothy Ford Bainton 1955 Fred A. Barfoot 1961 Lottie L. Bash 1996 T. Michael (1969) and Jennifer Beam William H. (1939) and Rita Bizzell Tina Foraker and A. Kevin (1986) Blackwell Richard L. (1958) and Martha Blount Daniel S. (1977) and Libby Bowling Robert and Johnnye Catherine Bradford Alleen (1955) and Jim Bratton Buddy (1962) and Luran Luper (1963) Buchanan Oralee Graves Buie 1936 Mary Elizabeth Wharton (1947) and Neal Calhoun Alexander (1986) and Carla Jenkins (1980) Campbell James B. Campbell Jr. 1995 William (1948) and Yuvette Carter James (1941) and Clara Porter (1944) Cavett Blanche Jones Caviness 1930 Ann Hanson Chamberlain 1967 Reynolds S. Cheney II 1957 William (1982) and Julie Chism John (1948) and Barbara Robertson (1949) Christmas H. Wyatt (1936) and Hazel Clowe

The Millsaps College Heritage Society was inaugurated in 1990 as a means of honoring those individuals who have made a planned gift to the College. Planned gifts include bequests, annuities, trust arrangements, life insurance gifts, and other deferred giving options that allow donors to meet charitable goals while making plans beneficial to their financial circumstances. The individuals listed in this report represent many, but not all, of those who have chosen to make a planned gift to Millsaps College. Other planned gifts have been made by many individuals who wish to remain anonymous.

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Heron S. Collins Robert (1969) and Pam Capps (1971) Collins Theresa Terry Conerly 1955 Peter (1953) and Maria (1967) Costas Roy C. DeLamotte 1939 Robert (1948) and Frances Ashley (1946) Donaldson James K. Dossett Jr.1965 Luther M. Dove 1966 Elizabeth McGee (1952) and Paul Engel Kenneth L. (1949) and Lois Farmer Homer Ellis 1937 George (1972) and Olivia Fleming Maggie Wynn Fortier 1979 J. Thomas (1965) and Donna Fowlkes Marilyn Dickson Foxworth 1965 James T. Gabbert Jr. 1966 Stewart (1957) and Lynn Gammill James (1966) and Mary Beth Gentry Janet W. Gildermaster George E. Gillespie Jr. 1970 N. J. and Jennie Golding Nancy Sue Gregorie 1982 Maurice (1967) and Cathy Hall Charles (1967) and Alice Wofford (1969) Hallford Ira B. Harkey George and Bessie Harmon Monica Sethi (1988) and Ray (1990) Harrigill Kenneth R. Harrison 1974 David (1979) and Helene Holleman (1981) Hassell George S. Haymans III 1972 J. Herman Hines Louis (1954) and Helen Davis (1954) Hodges William (1952) and Anne Sisson (1952) Holland J. Henry (1939) and Donna Holleman Robert (1947) and Kate Hollingsworth Joe (1941) and Pat Humphries Philip (1949) and Mary Helen Irby William and Paula James William (1959) and Susan Jeanes Charles R. (1960) and Lady Ann (1960) Jennings Janice M. Johnson 1976 Peder R. Johnson 1979 Ayrlene McGahey Jones 1935 Elliott Anna Jones 1959 Robert P. Jones Jr. 1986 Maurice and Lois Joseph Daniel (1954) and Rose Keel Timothy V. Kemp 1980

William B. Kerr 1959 Mildred Kirkland John (1975) and Marcella LaFoe Archie C. Lamb 1977 David M. Lassiter 1965 R. Eason (1968) and Ellen Leake Clifton M. LeCornu 1960 B. F. (1952) and Ruth Lee Robert (1962) and Dee Leggett James H. Lemly 1936 Catherine Herring Lindsey 1947 J. Walton (1956) and Evelyn Lipscomb Edna McShane Lipson 1960 Kathie Gunn (1982) and Chuck Lott Frances Lucas Sutton (1948) and Helen Murphy (1947) Marks John (1974) and Dianne Humphries (1972) Mason Raymond McClinton 1936 Dan (1947) and Beth McCullen David C. McNair 1960 W. Melton (1959) and Ann McNeill Michael T. McRee Timothy (1966) and Jean Nicholson (1968) Medley Esther Read Miller 1947 Marjorie Miller 1941 Merle Montjoy 1962 Edward L. and Helen Moyers C. Lee Nicholson 1957 Austin (1968) and Carol Parker Cynthia Harper (1983) and Hugh Parker Frances Patterson Robert D. Pearson 1943 Richard Lee Perry 1970 George (1966) and Lynne Krutz (1965) Pickett Rudy R. Pollan (1971) Rex (1963) and Lenda Poole Jessie D. Puckett Jr. 1949 Jane Ramsey 1961 C. Robert (1935) and Sara Ridgway C. R. “Bob” IV (1968) and Naomi Tattis (1970) Ridgway Ellnora Riecken 1955 Virginia Mayfield Riggs 1940 E. B. and Judy Robinson Nat (1941) and Helen Ricks (1942) Rogers Sandra Sabatini 1962 Polly Crisler Shanks 1947 T. Stanley Sims Harmon L. Smith 1952 Nell Permenter Smith 1938

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William B. Murrah Council 4th AND 1 Inc. *Joy Williamson Ainsworth 1966 *W. Eugene Ainsworth 1964 Asbury Foundation of Hattiesburg Associated Colleges of the South Dorothy Ford Bainton 1955 *Bradley R. Benton 1982 *Mary Frances Hillman Benton 1985 Paul T. Benton 1976 A. Kevin Blackwell 1986 Tina Foraker Blackwell Robert Ivens Brock 1974 *Reynolds Smith Cheney II 1957 The Chisholm Foundation M. A. Chisholm Charitable Trust Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Charitable Foundation James A. Coggin Pat Coggin *Estate of Dorothy Edwards Cortright Eugene G. Douglass Jr. 1972 Judith Lane Douglass 1974 Robert H. Dunlap 1951 Dunlap and Kyle Company Inc.

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*Mary Sue McDonnell Mitchell 1963 Alma Moreton *Robert R. Morrison Jr. *Twick Morrison *Edward L. Moyers *Helen Moyers *Janet Sanderson Ott 1970 *Luther S. Ott 1971 P. P. I. Inc. Estate of James Rhea Preston 1929 Jessie D. Puckett Jr. 1949 Estate of Mildred Clegg Rhea 1938 Sharon Scott Rhoden 1969 Thomas H. Rhoden 1967 *C. Robert Ridgway III 1935 *Sara Raney Ridgway *E. B. Robinson Jr. *Judy Robinson *Helen Ricks Rogers 1942 *Nat S. Rogers 1941 Deborah B. Salmon Gary L. Salmon Joe F. Sanderson Jr. 1969 Kathy Sanderson Sanderson Farms Inc. Scholarship America Leo W. Seal Leo W. Seal Family Foundation James W. Searcy Raksha Sethi S. L. Sethi Charles Shanor Susan McRae Shanor Estate of Myriam McAllister Smith 1941 Estate of Thomas L. Spengler 1942 Preston W. Stokes *Mike P. Sturdivant *Ygondine W. Sturdivant *Rowan H. Taylor Trustmark National Bank *J. Murray Underwood 1963 *Sandra Rainwater Underwood 1964 Valley Vicksburg Medical Foundation Fentress Boone Waits 1965 James L. Waits 1958 Estate of Wilbourn W. Wasson 1938 John H. Wear Jr. Foundation Lynn H. Webb *Terrance Burt Wells 1976 Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Estate of Earl R. Wilson Martha Wilson Carolyn Allen Wolfe 1957 *Herbert S. Yates *Jennifer Stocker Yates 1964 Marion L. Smith Council Diane F. Baker Patty Barbee Guy Barbee Melanie Lee Bernheim 1985 Peter J. Bernheim 1983 *Daniel S. Bowling III 1977

*Libby Bowling Brenau University Dan E. Campbell 1993 David W. Clark 1970 Victoria Clark Coca-Cola Bottling Company W. Christopher Crosby 1989 *Elaine Crystal *Emanuel Crystal Ollie Dillon Jr. 1951 *David H. Donald 1941 Kevin S. Douglas 1992 Mark J. Douglas 1991 *Janet W. Gildermaster GLS LLC Monica Sethi Harrigill 1988 Ray Fulton Harrigill 1990 Edgar B. Horn 1942 HPS Oil and Gas Properties Jackson Iron and Metal Laura Lee Lillard 1979 Porter Loring Lynn A. Loring Frances Lucas Harold Clark Malchow 1973 Steve McNair Foundation *Laurie Hearin McRee Jean Nicholson Medley 1968 Timothy C. Medley 1966 Brad E. Mutchler Phyllis A. Mutchler Jonathan Stuart Neff 1993 Clementine B. Palmer Sheila C. Palmer James Y. Palmer John N. Palmer John Palmer Foundation Inc. Peggy W. Prenshaw Cecil M. Ranager 1987 Tana Browning Ranager 1984 *Mildred Clegg Rhea 1938 C. R. Ridgway IV 1968 Naomi Tattis Ridgway 1970 Nita W. Ridgway W. Bryant Ridgway 1940 Ridgway Realty Inc. Josephine E. Roby Victor Mills Roby 1938 *Tom B. Scott III 1976 John E. Seddelmeyer Sarah R. Seddelmeyer *Sandra B. Sims *T. Stanley Sims Ollie D. Smith 1943 Nancy Ann Smith Steven W. Smith 1981 Eugenia Summer SunTech Inc. Jonathan M. Sweat Janice Trimble 1943 John C. Vaughey Marcia C. Vaughey John E. Welles Catherine Welles James K. Wetzel

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The Millsaps M.B.A. program is included in the 2007 edition of The Princeton Review’s Best 282 Business Schools, and the College is ranked No. 8 in the category “Best Professors,” just above Harvard and Duke.

“It’s hard to find an undergraduate dissatisfied with the academic experience at this small gem of a school in Jackson.” president’s report

Ida G. Ballard George J. Bey Sheryl Bey Ann Anderson Blumer 1956 Frederick E. Blumer 1955 Doris Alford Branton 1929 Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes Cellular South William G. Duck 1967 Entergy Corporation First Security Bank *Rachel Davis Fowlkes 1967 Mr. and Mrs. Isak Gerson Dale W. Green Mary Lene Harrison Newt P. Harrison 1957 Hickson Family Foundation *J. Herman Hines Albert L. Hopkins The Florence O. Hopkins Fund R. Brit Katz Matthew Houston Kaye 1986 Robert Clyde King 1977 Clifton M. LeCornu 1960 Nancy LeCornu *Lynda G. Lee 1962 Porter Loring Mortuaries *James Sanford Love *Evelyn Godbold Maddox 1948 *George L. Maddox Jr. 1949 Mississippi Puppetry Guild *Estelle Noel Mockbee 1967 *Michael M. Mockbee Jr. 1967 Jim A. Payne Emily J. Pointer Gift Trust Lenda H. Poole Rex D. Poole 1963 Pamela Gosda Purcell W. Thomas Purcell III 1985 *John E. Rawson 1960 *Mary C. Rawson *Linda Wells Rice 1977 *Robert E. Rice Jr. 1978 Jeanenne Pridgen Riecken 1954 W. E. Riecken Jr. 1952 David Ruml Sue Spang William F. Spang St. Dominic Health Services *Jerry M. Sullivan *Patti McCarty Sullivan 1970 UPS Gulf South District Kay Van Skiver Ward William Van Skiver 1965 *Kathryn L. Wiener Robert C. Wingate 1941 Leila Clark Wynn James Leon Young 1952 Joan Wignall Young 1954

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Members Michael P. Ameen Lillian R. Ameen W. Franklin Appleby Jr. 1978 William K. Austin 1966 Austin Medical Consultants Timothy Ayres 1978 Johnny R. Baker 1963 Martin H. Baker Jr. 1979 Jean P. Baker Ronald K. Baker Bancorp South Erin K. Barbee *Kay Barret Barksdale 1964 Beverly Featherston Bartlett 1966 Rodney J. Bartlett 1966 Lottie L. Bash 1996 Bradley Bennett 2000 R. Edward Bergmark Julia Dawson Bishop 1962 Janis Graves Black 1972 Warren C. Black Jr. 1971 Robert H. Blades Cynthia J. Blades *Martha Blount *Richard L. Blount 1958 A. Gary Boone 1961 Barbara Van Gilder Boone Chip Bowman Melba Bowman Janet Boyle John J. Boyle Jennifer Honeycutt Breazeale 1995 Collins Brent Lea Brent Family Charitable Trust Elizabeth Martin Brister 1991 William Brister Carl G. Brooking 1971 Patsy Brooking Diane M. Bruser 1974 Buddy Buchanan 1962 Luran Luper Buchanan 1963 The Bob and Margene Bullock Family Leigh Ann Burns-Naas 1986 John H. Caldwell Sr. John H. Caldwell Jr. Wesley A. Caldwell Foundation *Martha H. Campbell Canizaro Cawthon Davis William O. Carter Jr. 1948 Yuvette K. Carter Louis Cataldie Christ United Methodist Church *Barbara Robertson Christmas 1949 *John H. Christmas 1948 Citizens National Bank Betty Weems Clarkson 1948 Clarkston Consulting William Rodney Clement Jr. 1980 Laura Lea Adkins Cobb 1979 Thomas Joseph Cobb 1979 Cheryl Coker

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Timothy C. Coker Lauri Stamm Collins 1983 *Pamela Capps Collins 1971 Riley B. Collins Jr. 1999 *Robert K. Collins 1969 A. Wallace Conerly Sr. 1957 Frances Bryan Conerly 1958 E. Brinson Conerly-Perks 1959 Cheryl Barrett Converse 1969 Philip Ray Converse 1964 Arie Jacobs Cooper 1961 Charlie W. Cooper 1957 *Maria Lekas Costas 1967 *Peter J. Costas 1953 Peter J. Costas Enterprises Brian C. Courville 1998 Angie Crafton Eugene Middleton Crafton 1987 *O’Hara Baas Croswell 1967 *William W. Croswell 1966 Anne Johnson Culpepper 1981 David Hunt Culpepper 1980 Sam Weeks Currie 1961 Marilyn J. Currier *Jimmye B. Danks Sue Davis *June Langston DeHart 1974 Deborah Davis Denson 1969 William F. Denson Betsy M. Ditto J. Kane Ditto *Louisa O. Dixon *Joyce Nall Dortch 1958 *Richard W. Dortch Victor George Dostrow 1979 Frank M. Duke Susan Barry Duke 1964 *Henry N. Easley 1956 Clyde B. Edwards *Yvonne Moss Edwards 1957 Renee Ethridge 1981 Ben Fatherree Bible Class Feild Co-Operative Association Inc. Donald H. Flynt Katherine McCarty Flynt *Douglas S. Folk 1983 *Gretchen Folk Robert Scott Fortenberry Maggie Wynn Fortier 1979 *Deward Green Fountain Jr. 1959 *Margaret Fountain Fountain Family Foundation Harry C. Frye Jr. 1947 Helen McGehee Frye 1945 Susan Galandiuk Paula Garrett Christina Glick Marguerite Darden Godbold 1940 Edwina Goodman William F. Goodman Jr. 1949 Deborah N. Graham William N. Graham 1972 Ashley Hewitt Greenbaum 1995 Michael Ray Grubbs 1973 Janet Marie Hall 1978

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Monty Paul Hamilton 1984 Lisa Holland Hannah 1990 William Ray Hannah 1991 Mary Harmon William Ken Harmon James Huel Harris 1978 Lynn C. Harris Carol Burrus Hartman 1979 Claudia Dell Carithers Hauberg 1972 Robert E. Hauberg *Clotilde Hendrick *Harry Julian Hendrick 1937 Lucile Pillow Hicks 1960 William W. Hill Chadwick Hill Helen Davis Hodges 1954 Louis W. Hodges 1954 James David Holland 1978 Ouida Holland John Courtney Holleman Betsy D. Holleman Mary Alice Howkins 1973 Margaret Ferrell Hubbert 1962 Arlene J. Huber Michael T. Huber Kevin O’Hara Hughes Vicki Loflin Hughes 1981 Joe T. Humphries 1941 Pat Humphries Patrick J. Hutzel Margaret D. Hutzel Beth Boswell Jacks 1966 Gerald Haggert Jacks 1965 Jackson Vaughan Agency Robert Wayne Johnson 1980 *Wilton J. Johnson III 1972 Howard S. Jones Sr. 1958 James Spencer Jones Renee S. Jones *Kathryn Jones Susan Shands Jones *William Marett Jones Jr. 1950 Marion Fleming Jordan 1965 Gregory Joseph Elizabeth R. Joseph Daniel Talmadge Keel III 1984 Lauren Bailey Keel *Rose Keel *Daniel T. Keel Jr. 1954 Ina Kimbrough Alan Russell Kirk 2000 Bronwen Houston Kirk 2000 *Rachel Anne Laney *Genrose Mullen Lashinger 1967 *Charles R. Lathem 1981 *Louise Lathem Matthew Joseph Lautar 1963 Clyde W. Lea 1970 Eloise Leech Charles R. Lewis Jane Bryan Lewis

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Julia Aust Lewis 1954 T. W. Lewis III 1953 Mary Lee Busby Livesay 1943 David M. Loper 1986 Robert T. Lott 1953 Jeanne Burnet Luckett 1966 Mark R. Mahoney 1985 J. David Marsh 1973 Patricia Pharr Marsh 1976 Bettye West Mason 1962 Dick B. Mason David R. McCollum 1972 Lee B. McCormick Jr. 1966 Mark J. McCreery 1988 Sharon O. McCreery *Beth McCullen *Dan McCullen 1947 John Melton McDonnell Vicky R. McDonnell Diane McGowan John W. McGowan Emily Chaney McInnis 1984 Robert Glade McInnis 1978 McInnis Electric Company Thomas W. McNair 1958 Paul F. McNeill 1987 Janie McQuinn William C. McQuinn *Doug Medley 1962 *Marilyn Medley Doug D. Mello Gina M. Mello Johnny A. Milazzo Angela C. Milazzo Alton Bruce Miller 1974 Dorothy Huddleston Miller 1960 Harold D. Miller Jr. 1957 Mississippi Dental Association Mississippi Power Education *Kathleen Montgomery Mitchell 1992 *Thomas McDonnell Mitchell 1993 *Willard S. Moore 1962 *Louise T. Morgan *Frances Morrison *Paul Cooper Morrison 1978 Morrison Development LLC John Charles Moseley 1963 *Robert Giles Mullins 1971 Jere Nash Frances Jean Neely Walter P. Neely John Alexander Neill Sr. 1949 Mary Neill Jeanne Roe Newbern Jefferson Lamar Newbern Wendy Caldwell Nixon Ida Alford Noblin 1937 *Julia Park Ogden 1985 *Paul Friedrich Ogden 1984 Dale Owen Overmyer 1952 David M. Palmer

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Judy Parker *William H. Parker Jr. 1966 *Robert D. Pearson 1943 Margaret J. Pharr Max L. Pharr Estate Fund Richard Pharr 1972 *George B. Pickett Jr. 1966 *Lynne Krutz Pickett 1965 John L. Piraino Constance M. Piraino Howard D. Pittman 1978 Hiram C. Polk Jr. 1956 Barbara Swann Price 1957 Roy B. Price Jr. 1955 David M. Read 1983 Joseph Todd Reeves 1998 Bethe Rimmer John Robbins Rimmer 1938 J. Richard Robbins 1968 Janis Roberts Stanley Roberts Michael R. Robichaux Bonnie Robichaux *Charlton S. Roby Sr. 1942 *Marie Roby Carmen P. Ronken Todd Spencer Rose Charles Randlett Sandel 1973 Andre Schwitter Jacalyn Schwitter Michael Anthony Schwitter 2002 Laura Elizabeth Hewes Scott 1946 Tom B. Scott Jr. 1944 Louis H. Shornick Leonette Walker Slay 1972 Colleen C. Y. Smith *James K. Smith Richard A. Smith *Sarah Posey Smith 1944 *Alfred G. Snelgrove *Frances Ogden Snelgrove 1940 Samuel Durell Sparks 2003 Susanne Lamb Stevens 1964 Rose Stokes Mack Boyd Stokes *John H. Stone III 1958 D. Wayne Sturdivant 1955 Mary Elizabeth Waits Sturdivant 1961 Anne R. Sutherlin Carol Hederman Tatum 1968 Texas Tech University John Ed Thomas III 1959 Margaret Ewing Thomas 1958 James D. Thompson III 1967 Andrew R. Townes 1953 Kay Townes Training Resources Associates Donald G. Triplett 1958 Carolyn Caves Vaughan 1971 Holly Wagner James D. Waide III 1968

Robert Ferris Walker 1999 Betsy Stone Walkup 1968 John Knox Walkup Christopher M. Walters 2004 Elizabeth Barfield Walters 1956 Summer L. Walters 1957 Peter C. Ward William S. Ware 1973 Dorris S. Wasson R. Warren Wasson 1955 H. Barkley Wedemeyer Marjory Wedemeyer Janis Mitchell Weems 1961 Nanette Weaver Weems 1954 Robert A. Weems 1959 W. Lamar Weems 1953 Charles Donald Wells Jr. 1975 Lynn Potter Wells Lee Inman White Cleve J. Whitley Virginia Anne Jones Whitley 1968 Jerry D. Whitt Sue Yeager Whitt Jane Clark Wilson 1942 Terry Glen Winstead 1973 Elizabeth Ridgway Wofford 1950 John David Wofford Sr. 1950 Grace Cunningham Wood 1939 Jack L. Woodward 1951 Nelda W. Woodward Luanne Wooldridge Thomas D. Wooldridge 1968 Dan Andrews Wright 1947 Trustees *W. Eugene Ainsworth 1964 (PS-M) Paul T. Benton 1976 (PS-M) Warren C. Black Jr. 1971 (PS) A. Kevin Blackwell 1986 (PS-M) *Daniel S. Bowling III 1977 (PS-S) *Martha H. Campbell (PS) Alveno N. Castilla 1975 (DA) *Elaine Crystal (PS-S) J. Michael Culbreth Robert H. Dunlap 1951 (PS-M) *J. Thomas Fowlkes 1965 (PS-M) Gale L. Galloway (DA) *Maurice H. Hall Jr. 1967 (PS-M) Monica Sethi Harrigill 1988 (PS-S) *J. Herman Hines (PS-F) *Carolyn Hood (PS-M) Vicki Loflin Hughes 1981 (PS) *William R. James (PS-M) *William T. Jeanes 1959 (PS-M) Earle F. Jones (PS-M) *R. Eason Leake 1968 (PS-M) *Robert N. Leggett Jr. 1962 (PS-M) John L. Lindsey (PS-M) *James S. Love III (PS-F) *J. Con Maloney Jr. 1961 (PS-M)

Abbreviations after donor names indicate annual giving society membership. PS-M: Presidents Society, Murrah Council ($10,000 or more); PS-S: Presidents Society, Smith Council ($5,000-$9,999); PS-F: Presidents Society, Finger Council ($2,500-$4,999); PS: Presidents Society, Member ($1,000-$2,499); DA: Deans Associates ($500-999); SC: Scholars Club ($350-499); SCC: Second Century Club ($200-349); CC: Century Club ($100-$199).

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*Richard D. McRae (PS-M) *Vaughan W. McRae (PS-M) *Michael T. McRee (PS-M) Timothy C. Medley 1966 (PS-S) *Don Q. Mitchell 1964 (PS-M) *Robert R. Morrison Jr. (PS-M) *Edward L. Moyers (PS-M) *Helen Moyers (PS-M) *Luther S. Ott 1971 (PS-M) John N. Palmer (PS-S) Jim A. Payne (PS-F) Thomas H. Rhoden 1967 (PS-M) C. R. Ridgway IV 1968 (PS-S) *E. B. Robinson Jr. (PS-M) *Nat S. Rogers 1941 (PS-M) Tom B. Scott Jr. 1944 (PS) *Mike P. Sturdivant (PS-M) *Rowan H. Taylor (PS-M) John Ed Thomas III 1959 (PS) Janice Trimble 1943 (PS-S) *J. Murray Underwood 1963 (PS-M) John C. Vaughey (PS-S) Hope Morgan Ward (DA) Sue Yeager Whitt (PS) Leila Clark Wynn (PS-F) William G. Yates (PS-S) Major Generals (Early Days) 37% Participation A. Ray Adams 1944 (CC) Frances Dansby Adams 1949 (DA) James M. Ainsworth 1942 (CC) Ruth Curtis Alford 1929 Bettye Smith Allen 1953 Frank T. Allen 1949 (CC) Billy R. Anderson 1952 (SC) Donald H. Anderson 1952 (CC) Rosemary McCoy Anderson 1953 (SC) Linda McCluney Anglin 1951 (SCC) Eugene B. Antley 1955 (DA) William F. Appleby Sr. 1950 (DA) Kathryn Carver Arant 1948 John L. Ash III 1949 (CC) Betty Dement Bailess 1951 (CC) Oren Bailess 1951 (CC) Dorothy Ford Bainton 1955 (PS-M) R. Fulton Barksdale 1955 (SCC) Lynn Bacot Barlow 1953 Ouida Eldridge Barnes 1952 Elizabeth Hulen Barr 1953 (CC) John Ray Barr 1953 (CC) Martha Conner Bartsch 1940 (SCC) Francis M. Beaird Jr. 1951 (SC) Betty McGaha Bennett 1950 Richard L. Berry Sr. 1951 (SC) Peggy Marie Billings 1950 (DA) William H. Bizzell 1939 (DA) Catherine Hamilton Blanton 1952 Frederick E. Blumer 1955 (PS-F) Dorothy Bourgeois Boone 1952 John M. Boone 1950 Darden J. Bourne 1953 John Lewis Bowie 1952 Elizabeth Harris Box 1952 (SC)

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Doris Alford Branton 1929 (PS-F) Alleen Davis Bratton 1955 (CC) James Barry Brindley 1953 (DA) D. Elton Brown 1950 (CC) Daphne Middlebrooke Bruce 1950 Margaret Vandiver Buchorn 1947 Oralee Graves Buie 1936 (CC) Clarice Black Burch 1955 (CC) Frederick Judson Bush 1939 Walter Butler 1949 (CC) Robert Yates Butts 1955 Helen Hargrave Cabell 1935 Sara Selby Caldwell 1953 (CC) Charles Ellis Carmichael 1947 Elizabeth Williams Carr 1950 Gordon L. Carr 1949 Evelyn Newman Carroll 1950 (DA) Joseph William Carroll 1950 (DA) William O. Carter Jr. 1948 (PS) Clara Porter Cavett 1944 (SCC) James R. Cavett Jr. 1941 (SCC) Van Andrew Cavett 1953 (CC) Billy K. Chapman 1947 (CC) Dorothy Lauderdale Chastain 1946 (SCC) James Garvin Chastain III 1944 (SCC) Ann Simpson Chenault 1951 (CC) Barbara Robertson Christmas 1949 (PS) John H. Christmas 1948 (PS) Duncan A. Clark 1952 (SCC) Patricia Busby Clark 1951 (SCC) Roy C. Clark 1941 (SC) Betty Weems Clarkson 1948 (PS) Rosemary Williams Cloughley 1955 William Franklin Coleman 1951 Edward McDaniel Collins Jr. 1953 (CC) Peggy Suthoff Collins 1954 (CC) Mildred Ellis Colotta 1946 (SCC) Robert H. Conerly 1949 Theresa Terry Conerly 1955 (CC) Alice Whitfield Connelly 1952 (CC) Oscar Weir Conner III 1949 (SC) John E. Cooper Jr. 1954 (SCC) John A. Cope 1943 Dorothy Dean Copeland 1934 Eleanor Johnson Corban 1947 Magruder S. Corban 1954 (CC) Margaret Hathorn Corban 1955 (CC) Peter J. Costas 1953 (PS) Mabel Buckley Crawford 1953 (CC) Wilma Dyess Crosby 1950 (CC) Betty Langdon Currey 1947 George T. Currey Sr. 1951 Lois Fritz Curtis 1946 William Edwin Curtis 1952 (SCC) Dannie Rice Davis 1945 Harper Davis Jr. 1947 Anne Roberts Dean 1953 (SCC) Elizabeth Hardwick Dean 1954 Mary Dent Dickerson Deaton 1952 (DA) Dunbar Babbit Denham 1954 Clara Foy Derrington 1946 Dudley E. Dickerson Jr. 1949

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Ollie Dillon Jr. 1951 (PS-S) Robert Caxton Doggett 1936 (CC) David H. Donald 1941 (PS-S) Frances Ashley Donaldson 1946 (CC) Robert W. Donaldson 1948 (CC) Wilford C. Doss 1942 (SCC) Ann Katheryn Duke 1943 Robert H. Dunlap 1951 (PS-M) Mary Ruth Hicks Dupree 1949 (CC) Sara Nell Dyess-Floyd 1952 (SCC) Roy Andrew Eaton 1952 (CC) Joseph Leroy Ebersole 1955 (DA) Martha Ford Edwards 1953 Mary Moore Ellis 1940 Nell Vaughan Ellis 1955 (CC) Roderick Entrekin 1950 Sybil Casbeer Eppinger 1955 (SCC) Alfred T. Eubanks 1955 (SCC) Homer Ellis Finger Jr. 1937 (CC) Audrey Jennings Franks 1954 (SCC) Imogene Harrell Freeman 1953 (CC) Harry C. Frye Jr. 1947 (PS) Helen McGehee Frye 1945 (PS) David C. Fulghum 1951 Carolyn Hudspeth Gaby 1955 John Garrard Jr. 1949 (SCC) Edward Lawrence Gibson 1951 Marguerite Darden Godbold 1940 (PS) Jo Anne Weisinger Godwin 1951 (CC) William F. Goodman Jr. 1949 (PS) Robert Earl Gorday 1952 (SCC) Albert N. Gore Jr. 1952 (SCC) Edgar A. Gossard 1954 (CC) Sarah Dennis Gossard 1954 (CC) Ivey Wallace Gosser 1955 Ola Burns Grant 1942 Anne Finger Graves 1955 (SCC) Bernice Edgar Green 1954 (SCC) Ann Carter Gulledge 1955 (SCC) Jerry Babb Gulledge Sr. 1954 (SCC) Clyde H. Gunn Jr. 1948 (CC) Frances Baker Hager 1930 George Waverly Hall Jr. 1951 (DA) Frances Williams Hardy 1947 Ethel Eastman Hase 1948 (CC) Robert V. Haynes 1952 Bernice Flowers Hederman 1936 (PS-M) Harry Julian Hendrick 1937 (PS) Evelyn Walker Herm 1947 (DA) Byron T. Hetrick 1953 George T. Hicks 1955 Joe Weems Hobbs 1954 (SCC) Helen Davis Hodges 1954 (PS) Louis W. Hodges 1954 (PS) Virginia Cavett Hogan 1952 (SCC) Anne Sisson Holland 1952 (SCC) William H. Holland Jr. 1952 (SCC) Eugene C. Holmes 1955 Shirley Shipp Holston 1953 (CC) Edgar B. Horn 1942 (PS-S) Nat Hovious 1947 (CC) John Michael Howell 1954 (CC) Lou Skidmore Hubbard 1947 Marguerite Stewart Hudson 1947

Rebecca Ely Hudson 1947 Barbara Walker Huggins 1954 (CC) Joseph R. Huggins 1950 (CC) Joe T. Humphries 1941 (PS) Lenora Thompson Irby 1952 Philip E. Irby Jr. 1949 (SCC) Kathryn Klumb Izard 1947 (CC) Glenna Goodwin James 1953 Sybil Foy James 1954 (SC) William J. James 1955 (SC) Cecil G. Jenkins 1951 (SCC) Patsy Abernathy Jenkins 1950 (SCC) Carolyn Baria Johnson 1954 (DA) Olva Yates Johnson 1954 (SCC) Lonnie B. Johnston 1953 (SCC) George K. Jones 1955 (CC) Lois Boackle Jones 1954 (CC) Virginia Hewitt Jones 1955 (DA) William Marett Jones Jr. 1950 (PS) William B. Jones II 1950 (SCC) Daniel T. Keel Jr. 1954 (PS) Josephine Kemp Kersh 1943 John D. Krebs 1945 (CC) Rose Campbell Lancaster 1948 B. F. Lee 1952 (DA) Clay Foster Lee Jr. 1951 (CC) Dot Stricklin Lee 1953 (CC) Louise Campbell Legate 1953 (DA) Carol Brown Leggett 1955 (CC) Earl T. Lewis 1950 (SCC) Helen Head Lewis 1955 (SC) John T. Lewis III 1953 (SC) Julia Aust Lewis 1954 (PS) T. W. Lewis III 1953 (PS) Evelyn Hawkins Lilly 1952 (CC) Sale Lilly Jr. 1952 (CC) Catherine Herring Lindsey 1947 (CC) Mary Lee Busby Livesay 1943 (PS) Duane E. Lloyd 1951 (CC) Samuel Thames Lloyd Jr. 1940 (SCC) George T. Locke 1945 (SCC) Martha Jo Nall Loflin 1954 (CC) Mary Bass Loftin 1948 James E. Long 1955 (CC) John B. Lott 1955 Robert T. Lott 1953 (PS) Jean White Lowe 1946 (DA) Evelyn Godbold Maddox 1948 (PS-F) George L. Maddox Jr. 1949 (PS-F) Delos Bryan Mahaffey 1950 Ann Orsborn Mallard 1955 (SC) Frank Burnett Mangum 1954 (CC) Helen Murphy Marks 1947 (CC) Sutton Marks 1948 (CC) Beatrice Williamson Martin 1955 Paul E. Martin 1949 Raymond S. Martin Jr. 1942 (SCC) Betty Pittman May 1947 (CC) Jewel Hill Mayer 1952 Martha Mayo Simmons 1952 Roy Dean McAlilly 1952 (CC) R. L. McCarter 1955 (CC) Joe Barry McCaskill 1955 (CC) Winnie Foster McCaskill 1953 (CC) Raymond McClinton 1936 (PS-M)

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Herberta Watkins McCool 1940 Dan McCullen 1947 (PS) Dorothy Evans McDaniel 1949 Curtis Henry McGown II 1952 (CC) David Alexander McIntosh 1949 Rosemary Thigpen McIntosh 1950 Hugh C. McLellan 1954 (CC) Selby Watkins McRae 1946 (PS-M) Archie Leigh Meadows 1938 Syble Hinson Meadows 1938 Marie Stokes Melichar 1950 (CC) Esther Read Miller 1947 (CC) Mary Graves Moody 1955 Inman Moore Jr. 1947 John W. Moore Jr. 1953 (SCC) Virginia Edge Moore 1953 (SCC) John H. Morrow Jr. 1946 (CC) Louise Lancaster Mumpower 1943 Anna Coleman Myers 1951 L. Leslie Nabors Jr. 1955 Franklin A. Nash Jr. 1954 John Alexander Neill Sr. 1949 (PS) James Bennett Nicholson 1950 Ida Alford Noblin 1937 (PS) Rachel Simpson Norris 1953 Norma Lane Norton 1954 (SC) Elizabeth Wilson Oatman 1939 (CC) A. M. Oliver 1940 (CC) Fay Conlee Oliver 1949 Lynda Wasson Ollerton 1954 Dale Owen Overmyer 1952 (PS) Leslie J. Page Jr. 1954 (SCC) Roy Acton Parker 1955 (CC) Patricia Patrick Phillips 1954 Betty Jo Davis Pearson 1951 Don Ray Pearson 1951 (CC) Robert D. Pearson 1943 (PS) Frances Johnson Pelegrin 1949 Rubel L. Phillips 1950 (CC) Priscilla Morson Picheloup 1944 Bettye Smith Pierce 1955 Franz A. Posey 1951 (CC) Linda Langdon Posey 1951 (CC) Mary Emma Ervin Potts 1943 (CC) Joe Jordan Powell Jr. 1949 (SCC) James Rhea Preston 1929 (PS-M) F. William Price 1949 (SCC) Norma Newell Price 1955 (CC) Roy B. Price Jr. 1955 (PS) Ruby McDonald Price 1950 (SCC) Julian Day Prince Sr. 1949 (SCC) Carl Henry Privette 1933 Charles Vernon Prouty 1951 (CC) Jessie D. Puckett Jr. 1949 (PS-M) Dorothea Mitchell Queen 1935 Carolyn Webb Ray 1950 (CC) Franklin Wilson Ray 1944 (CC) Kathryn Runge Reaves 1951 (SCC) Nina Hazel Reeves 1945 (SCC) Mildred Clegg Rhea 1938 (PS-M) Norma Neill Richards 1955 (SCC) Van Milan Richardson 1941 (SCC) Vera Coffman Richardson 1944 (SCC) Robert Linley Richter Sr. 1953 (CC) Sara Linn Richter 1954 (CC)

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Class of 1956 55% Participation Marjorie Boleware Albrycht (SCC) Emma Atkinson John M. Awad Neal B. Biggers (SCC) Ann Anderson Blumer (PS-F) Elsie Drake Brindley (DA) Cecil E. Brown Jr. Shirley Stanton Brown Annette Johnston Champion Clyde X. Copeland Jr. (CC) Charles M. Deaton Sr. (DA) Henry N. Easley (PS) Albert W. Felsher Jr. (CC) Minnie Mitchell Fields Edwin E. Flournoy (SCC) Barbara Ballard Gordon Valera Bailey Jones (CC) Richard R. Jost (CC) J. Walton Lipscomb (DA) Jack Milton Loflin (CC) Reginald S. Lowe Jr. (SC) William F. Lynch Jr. (SCC) Robert M. Maddox Floyd Mobley Jr. Eddie Joe Morgan (CC) John W. Morris (CC) Virginia Slater Noblin Robert H. Parnell Hiram C. Polk Jr. (PS) Ernest Ray Porter (CC) Amaryllis Griffin Price Thomas Eugene Price Terry D. Rees (CC) Milly Wadlington Robinson (CC) Virginia Sanders Robinson (SCC) Robin Smith Sciortino William K. Stallworth (CC) William Gibson Sumrall Dorothy Murray Terry Nona Kinchloe Tillman (CC) O. Gerald Trigg (DA) Jeanelle Howell Waldrop (CC) Walter I. Waldrop (CC) Helen Maddox Wall (CC) Elizabeth Barfield Walters (PS) George A. Whitener Nancy Vines Wilson (SCC) Class of 1957 54% Participation Jo Anne Abernathy (CC) Ezra M. Alexander Anita Perry Barlow Ramon V. Belart (SCC) Alice Starnes Bolton Benjamin E. Box (SC) Shirley V. Brown (SC) Kathryn Lyon Bufkin (CC) John Henry Carney (CC) Carl B. Causey (DA) Danye Miller Chaffin (CC)

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“During their time here, our students learn to view their pursuits in the wider context of what makes life worth living for men and women—how their expertise fits in with life’s great undertakings, how to ask questions of their crucial role as engaged citizens of society, and how to weigh evidence in our endless pursuit of truth. We offer our students the tools they need to think for themselves, to make their own decisions, and to forge their way in the world long after they’ve left our campus.”

—Dr. Michael Gleason Professor of Classics president’s report

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Reynolds Smith Cheney II (PS-M) A. Wallace Conerly Sr. (PS) M. Olin Cook (SCC) Millicent King Cook (SCC) Charlie W. Cooper (PS) Enoch G. Dangerfield Kenneth R. Dew (SC) Eugenia Kelly Dickinson (CC) J. Oscar Dowdle (CC) Harry W. Dowling (SCC) Lloyd A. Doyle Yvonne Moss Edwards (PS) Mary Brandon Flournoy (SCC) David D. Franks (SCC) Nancy Peacock Geyer Tommy D. Gilbert Nena Doiron Griffis (CC) Newt P. Harrison (PS-F) James W. Hudson Jr. Lucy Price Inkster Samuel L. Jones (CC) Paul D. Kern (CC) Ilah Nicholas King (CC) Jack B. King (CC) James Ray McCormick (CC) Patricia Chunn McCormick (CC) Max H. McDaniel (SCC) Sandra Miller McDaniel (SCC) Martina Riley McRae Mary Huntley McSwain Carolyn Goff Middleton (CC) Harold D. Miller Jr. (PS) Warren Curtis Moffat Carolyn Williams Pate John C. Philley (CC) Elwyn Addkison Porizky Barbara Swann Price (PS) Jeanette Dale Pullen (SCC) Walter Jean Lamb Reed Helen Reilly Richards (SCC) Sedley James Robertson Peggy Sanford Sample (DA) Tex S. Sample (DA) Lora Gossard Shepherd Rose Cunningham Trigg (DA) Summer L. Walters (PS) Frances Jernigan Williams (CC) Carolyn Allen Wolfe (PS-M) Class of 1958 57% Participation Bobby D. Ainsworth Ted J. Alexander (DA) Janice Baeur Arnold (SCC) Louise Riddell Bethay Richard L. Blount (PS) Albert Glenn Calloway (SCC) Betty Trapp Chapman (CC) Caroline Watson Cheek (CC) Frances Bryan Conerly (PS) Betty Eakin Dane Kay Collums Davenport (CC) Joyce Nall Dortch (PS) Helen Thorne Eskridge

O

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L

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Thomas B. Fanning (SCC) Sue Ferguson Grace Blythe Jeffrey Hardin (SC) William Joel Hardin (SC) Curtis O. Holladay Howard S. Jones Sr. (PS) Mary Smith Jones (SCC) Sarah Louisa Jones Edwin King Douglas MacAllister Lay (CC) Dorothy Cargill Liberty (CC) Mary Lambert Lord Margaret McCorkle McDougall Thomas W. McNair (PS) Bill Rush Mosby Jr. Susan Young Mosley Thomas H. Naylor (CC) Barbara Bowie Neel Jimmie D. Newell Charles Warren Nicholson Sr (CC) Robert Henry Read III Clifton L. Rushing Jr. (CC) Gerald Edward Russell Betty Miller Sadler Johnny Boyd Sharp (CC) Ruth Ann Short (SCC) Jeannette Ratcliff Stagg John H. Stone III (PS) Carolyn Hutchins Tarpley Margaret Ewing Thomas (PS) Sam A. Tomlinson III (SCC) D. Keith Tonkel (CC) Donald G. Triplett (PS) James L. Waits (PS-M) William C. Wall Jr. (CC) Herbert A. Ward Jr. (CC) Joan Anderson Whitener Edwin W. Williams (CC) Mabel Gill Workman Class of 1959 53% Participation Richard M. Alderson Virginia Perry Armacost Jeanette Harpole Bell Peggy Seay Brent (SCC) Arnold Arlington Bush Jr. (SCC) Sue Mozingo Carter (CC) John Morrison Case Shirley Stoker Cherry Nancy Reed Chickering Brinson Conerly-Perks (PS) Myrna Drew Cooper (CC) Joseph R. Cowart (SCC) Betsy Salisbury Creekmore Wade H. Creekmore Jr. Julia Beckes Dawson (CC) Fred B. Dowling Laurene Walker Eakin (CC) John L. Eddleman Elizabeth Taylor Eure Rosemary Parent Felsher (CC) Deward Green Fountain Jr. (PS)

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Robert E. Gentry (SC) Betty Ford Gibson Gay Piper Gwinner (SCC) Inge Mobley Halbert Martha Egger Halbert Herman Lester Heath Avit J. Hebert (SCC) William Richard Hendee (CC) William T. Jeanes (PS-M) Elliott Anna Jones (SCC) Lynda Munson King Ralph North King Henrietta L. Lamkin Henry L. Lewis III (CC) Marguerita Krestensen Lyda (SCC) E. Stuart McIntyre Edwin P. McKaskel (CC) James Maxwell Miller (CC) Rebecca Larche Moreton (CC) Ellen Dixon Mosby William S. Mullins III (DA) Frances West Page (SCC) Mary Reid Ratcliff (SCC) S. Smiley Ratcliff (SCC) Paul J. Register William W. Rhymes III Patsy Robbins Robinson James Paul Rush (CC) Robert Day Sartin (CC) Bryan T. Scarbrough (CC) William Lee Smith Jesse Otho Snowden Jr. (CC) John Ed Thomas III (PS) Lillian Starnes Thomas (CC) Jane McInvale Tompkins D. Clifton Ware (CC) Robert A. Weems (PS) Betty Horne Whisnant Clyde V. Williams (CC) Clara Smith Wimberly (SC) Anne Brooks Winstead (CC) Henry G. Winstead (CC) Class of 1960 50% Participation Frank D. Allen Jr. (CC) Regina Harlan Boyles (CC) W. Gardner Brock (CC) Margaret Woodall Brooke (DA) Zoe Harvey Bush (SCC) Mary Stubblefield Carraway Hubert L. Causey (SCC) Lester Clark Jr. (CC) Hunter McKelva Cole (CC) Alva Sadler Dalton Jr. Ina Paine Davis (DA) Beverly Jumper Dickson Carole Shields Dye Kurt Lansing Feldmann Thomas J. Gardner III (SCC) Jackie R. Giffin Lynne McCreight Gillikin Jeannie Wesley Hendee (CC) Charles Gerald Henson

H

Lucile Pillow Hicks (PS) Robert Merrill Houston Ruby Allen Houston John C. Hunsucker James E. Inkster Mary Clark Jancis Charles R. Jennings (CC) Lady Snuggs Jennings (CC) Charles Robert Johnson (CC) Roger W. Kinnard (SCC) Clifton M. LeCornu (PS-F) Edna McShane Lipson (SCC) Albert Myer Lovett Lawrence Marett Elizabeth Smith Matthews Marcia Brocato Maynard (CC) Robert E. McArthur (CC) Walter Archabal McKellar (CC) David C. McNair (PS-M) Sue Hemphill McRaney (SCC) Dorothy May Davis Miley Dorothy Huddleston Miller (PS) Scott Francis Miller (DA) Glenda Chapman Moore (CC) Alfred Elliott Moreton III (CC) James Franklin Oaks III Ann Kelly Raley (SCC) John E. Rawson (PS-F) Beverly Bracken Rhodes John Terrell Rush (SCC) Margaret Merrell Smith Jane Ellis Soehner Clay Marler Stone (CC) Betty Smith Taylor Mary Lott Walters (CC) Bettye J. Ware (CC) Linda Hampton Wesson Shirley Bridges Wheat (CC) Elizabeth Walter Willcockson Mary Semmes Wright Margaret Bennett Yerger (CC) Paul Winford Young (CC) Class of 1961 40% Participation Nancy Dunshee Baker Cynthia Karer Barrow Ruth Wallace Black (CC) Janice Davidson Blumenthal (CC) A. Gary Boone (PS) James Gary Boutwell (CC) R. Russ Buckley Gail Alexander Buzhardt Arie Jacobs Cooper (PS) Ella Butler Cox (SCC) William J. Crosby (SCC) Sam Weeks Currie (PS) Emily Gammage Denmark Betty Burgdorff Dowling Mary Hamilton Ezell Francis M. Libbey J. Con Maloney Jr. (PS-M) Rita Randall Martinson William Boyd Mooney

O

N

O

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L

Barbara Himel Mullins (DA) Virginia Cowan Pierson (SCC) Edwin Linfield Redding (CC) Nina Cunningham Redding (CC) Hilda Cochran Roberts (SCC) Margaret Renfroe Singleton (SC) Sara Webb Smith (SCC) Richard L. Soehner Phyllis Johnson Spearman Mary Elizabeth Waits Sturdivant (PS) Eleanor Crabtree Taylor (CC) Betty Jones Varner (CC) Joe Ed Varner Jr. (CC) Jon Belton Walters (CC) Janis Mitchell Weems (PS) Gayle Graham Yates (CC) Class of 1962 38% Participation Nancy Grisham Anderson (DA) Bettie Joan Williams Austin Sue Jenkins Baltz (DA) Julia Dawson Bishop (PS) Walter Robert Brown Buddy Buchanan (PS) Ivan Blackwell Burnett Jr. Mary McClung Case Carole Cater Ciskowski Jack Reese Clement (SCC) Frances Heidelberg Coker Penelope Wofford Cox Wilkes H. Davis Jr. (CC) Donald P. Fortenberry Elizabeth Warren Foster (CC) Linda Faye Gates John Fred Gipson Lockwood Hutchins Gregory (CC) Katherine Walt Grice Judith Jones Hamilton James F. Haynes (CC) Margaret Ferrell Hubbert (PS) Lynda G. Lee (PS-F) Robert N. Leggett Jr. (PS-M) Martha Stephens Lemieux Carolyn Baumgartner Loposer Lewis J. Lord (CC) Virginia Lamb MacNaughton (SCC) Bettye West Mason (PS) Judy Monk McArthur (CC) Doug Medley (PS) Willard S. Moore (PS) Mary Simpson Morgan Thomas R. Mullins (CC) Emily Lemasson Newcomb (CC) Linda Neely Powell (SCC) Terry J. Puckett (SCC) George H. Robinson (CC) J. Eldridge Rogers (CC) William R. Sanders (CC) Leah Park Schott Eloise McClinton Shannon (CC) Robert T. Sharp Judith Brook St. John Ellen Burns Treadway (DA)

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Cynthia Orcutt Virden Miriam Cooper Wankerl (DA) Susanne Batson Weaver Amy Wilkerson Whittenberg Patricia Thompson Wilson Edward E. Woodall Jr. (CC) Class of 1963 38% Participation Johnny R. Baker (PS) Susan Hymers Boutwell (CC) Luran Luper Buchanan (PS) Virginia Kathro Buckner Robbie Clark Susan Ward Clement (SCC) William Lynn Collins (SCC) John Crampton Penny Tumbleson Culley William Eugene Davenport (CC) James Russell Dumas Jr. (CC) Billy Chambers Elrick (CC) Betty Williams Hartley (SCC) William Larry Hawkins (SCC) Anne-Marie Mendell Hewitt Penny Simmons Jackson Elizabeth Jenkins-Joffe Judy McGuffee Johnson (SCC) Matthew Joseph Lautar (PS) Carleen Smith Leggett Rivers Yerger Lurate Ann Guidroz Marion Roberta Erwin McHugh Mary Sue McDonnell Mitchell (PS-M) Margaret Riley Montgomery Alice Wells Moreland (CC) John Charles Moseley (PS) Rex D. Poole (PS-F) E. Carol Posey Joan Allen Sanders (CC) Sharon Graves Shanlever Richard Jeffery Stamm Mary Williamson Stanley Sara Clark Stone George Russell Sumner (DA) Marcus A. Treadway Jr. (DA) J. Murray Underwood (PS-M) Marjorie Buie Underwood J. Rockne Wilson (CC) Class of 1964 52% Participation W. Eugene Ainsworth (PS-M) Pauline Dickson Akers David L. Allen (CC) Dorothy Herron Allen (CC) Theresa Griffin Arnold Kay Barret Barksdale (PS) William A. Barksdale (CC) Jerry B. Beam Gabrielle Beard Gerald M. Bell Robert C. Bowling (SCC) Suzanne DeMoss Brown

Celia Breland Burnham (SCC) Katherine Clark Sammy Hugh Clark (CC) Sue Thomas Coker Samuel G. Cole III (CC) Philip Ray Converse (PS) Sigrid Andre Conway (CC) Thomas L. Cooley (SCC) Lynda A. Costas (SCC) William Dudley Crawford (CC) Sandra Robison Davenport (CC) Susan Barry Duke (PS) Barbara Phillips Garcia (SCC) Thelma Koonce Gerdine Jack Ray Gordy (CC) Marilyn Fincher Hathcock Lewis Edwin Hatten (CC) Virginia White Jackson (SCC) Barbara Tate Jepsen (CC) Warren C. Jones Jr. (CC) Paul Charles Keller (SCC) J. William Kemp (SCC) Mary Ivy Kemp (SCC) John H. Kohler III (CC) Janice Ray Kynard (SCC) Rachel Gerdes Lewand (CC) John South Lewis Jr. (SCC) Margaret Smith Lowery Sammie Pickering Malone Martha Norman Markland Clyde H. Mathews (CC) Barbara Lefeve McCleese (CC) Judy Shaw McCormick L. Ben McEachin Don Q. Mitchell (PS-M) J. Rhett Mitchell (SCC) Samuel A. Montgomery (CC) Jacquelyn Miller Nabors (CC) Paula Vivian Page Mary Dell Fleming Palazzolo Sarah Irby Parsonson (CC) Burt Laguin Patterson (CC) Frederick G. Rendfrey (CC) Kay Nelson Rendfrey (CC) Newton Rowan Reynolds (DA) Alice Scott Schutte (CC) Grace Moore Smith (SC) Kathryn Alexander Smith (SCC) Vence Smith Jr. (SCC) Susanne Lamb Stevens (PS) Sandra Rainwater Underwood (PS-M) Marilyn Stewart Witt (CC) William J. Witt (CC) Brian Woo Jennifer Stocker Yates (PS-M) Class of 1965 55% Participation Julia Price Arther Nan McGahey Baker (SCC) Ronald J. Barham (CC) Vera Evelyn Barron (CC) Connie Cutrer Blair (CC) Myron Alvin Casteel (SCC)

2006

H

James Alfred Cloy Ruth Pickett Cole (CC) Patricia McIntosh Coles (CC) Fay Lomax Cook (SCC) Jean Thickens Cooper Evelyn Freeney Crawford (SCC) Harry H. Dinham (SCC) Joanne Edgar Edgar (CC) J. Thomas Fowlkes (PS-M) Gary M. Fox Gale McDonnell Fuller (SCC) Vicki Jones Fuller Mary Ervin Gildea Mabel Mullins Greene John R. Hailman (CC) Regan McGrew Hailman (CC) Raymond Bernreuter Hester (SC) Milly Hockingheimer (SCC) Barbara Donald Hogan (CC) E. Stuart Hudnall (SC) Gerald Haggert Jacks (PS) Francis Fulton Jacobs (SCC) Frank Hawkins Jones (DA) Marion Fleming Jordan (PS) Boyd E. Kynard (SCC) Raymond L. Lewand Jr. (CC) Robert Earlton Lewis (CC) W. Lee Lewis (SC) William E. Lindsey Jr. (SCC) Gaines Roger Massey (CC) Natalie Maynor Jane Owen McCraney Pearl Mackler Meltzer (SCC) T. Jerry Mitchell (CC) Joe Edward Morris Sarah C. Neitzel Richard Leigh Newsome Max Brown Ostner Jr. (DA) Judith Weissinger Painter Lynne Krutz Pickett (DA) Bonnie James Powell (SC) Jimmie M. Purser Theodore Moffett Richards (CC) Mary Ray Ridgway (CC) Mary Ford McDougall Roach (SCC) Gary Colvin Scales (CC) Mary Elizabeth Witherspoon Smith (DA) Charles Edward Steele Jr. Alix Hallman Travis Ward W. Van Skiver (PS-F) Fentress Boone Waits (PS-M) Richard B. Warren Jr. (SCC) Billy Ray Wilson (SCC) Willis C. Woody Jr. (SCC) Class of 1966 52% Participation Larry E. Adams (SCC) Joy Williamson Ainsworth (PS-M) William K. Austin (PS) Carol Lowry Baird (CC) Beverly Featherston Bartlett (PS) Rodney J. Bartlett (PS)

O

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O

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R O

Shirley Ryland Butt William W. Croswell (PS) Judith Ferrell Dye Nat B. Ellis (CC) Delores Kirkfield Feldman (SCC) James Tate Gabbert Jr. (SC) Dorothy Boswell Gamblin Elaine Lord Gemmell (CC) Michael K. Gemmell (CC) Carol Ann Goris Douglas H. Greene Sr. John Richard Harper (SCC) Louise Perkins Hetrick Laura Zeiss Holiman (CC) Rosemary Hillman Hopkins Ronald P. Husband Beth Boswell Jacks (PS) Janice Williams Laws (CC) Linda Banes Lewis (SC) Waverly B. Liles (SCC) Jeanne Burnet Luckett (PS) Beauvais Staples McCaddon (CC) Thomas S. McClary Jr. Lee B. McCormick Jr. (PS) James E. McWilliams Timothy C. Medley (PS-S) John Henry Morrow III (SCC) Benjamin Wright Nichols Jr. (SC) Mary Fairfax Nichols (SC) William H. Parker Jr. (PS) Jerry M. Pettigrew (SCC) George B. Pickett Jr. (DA) Elizabeth Parks Pigott Marion Taylor Reid (SCC) Susan Wright Roberts (CC) Wilson Ragan Rodgers (SCC) John H. Rohrer Jr. Albert Pitt Shepherd Jr. (SCC) Melissa Darnell Shepherd (SCC) Amanda Frank Stokes (SCC) Ann Williamson Stubblefield (SCC) Martha Byrd Thompson (SCC) Frank Venturini Jr. (CC) Virginia Alford Warren (SCC) Norma Watkins Watkins (CC) Class of 1967 38% Participation Janet Vance Barham William Charles Cooper (CC) Maria Lekas Costas (PS) Dema Bosarge Crockett (SCC) Robert Stephens Crockett (SCC) O’Hara Baas Croswell (PS) J. Torrey Curtis Fred G. Davis (CC) Pauline Ormond Dement (CC) William G. Duck (PS-F) James Ward Fite (CC) Rachel Davis Fowlkes (PS-F) Kathryn Park Green Maurice H. Hall Jr. (PS-M) Charles Robert Hallford Jerry Huskey (CC)

president’s report

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Beverly Humphries Jones (CC) Darrell Bush Jones Genrose Mullen Lashinger (PS) Daniel Deupree McKee Patsy White McLemore (CC) Estelle Noel Mockbee (PS-F) Michael M. Mockbee Jr. (PS-F) F. Holt Montgomery Jr. (CC) Mary Desha Dye Montgomery (CC) Kennedy O. Quick (SCC) Sally Williams Quick (SCC) Thomas H. Rhoden (PS-M) James T. Roberts (CC) Margaret Allen Roberts (CC) Sandra Scott Salvo Eleanor Ferrell Sanders James E. Sandusky (DA) Harry H. Shattuck A. Jerry Sheldon (CC) Earl Thompson Stubblefield (SCC) James D. Thompson III (PS) Charles E. Varner Sr. Lovett Hayes Weems Jr. (CC) Richard Steven Whatley (DA) Class of 1968 45% Participation William R. Barnett (DA) Anita Hall Baroni Mary Morrison Bollinger Willis J. Britt Jr. (CC) Gary H. Brooks Florence Meyer Cartier Lucy Cavett Cobbe (CC) Lindsay Mercer Diaz (SC) A. Millsaps Dye Jr. William E. Gamble (SC) Cynthia Tollison Harrison (CC) Brenda Davis Hawkins (SCC) Russell Hawkins (SCC) Floy Simpson Holloman (SCC) Faye Junkin Hudnall (SC) Judith Sanders Hutson R. Eason Leake (PS-M) Sue Lowery Leuschke (SC) Martha Tatum Lopez (SCC) Edwin Lee Makamson (DA) Irene Carroll Marshall Annette McCaskill McMullen Jean Nicholson Medley (PS-S) Sara McDavid Meeks (CC) Ben Larkin Mitchell (CC) Carolyn Davis Mizne Patricia Woodmansee Monsour (CC) Marilyn Moore Hammond Charlotte Cox Morrow (SCC) Stacy Simmons Patterson Gerald Thomas Pearson (SC) C. R. Ridgway IV (PS-S) J. Richard Robbins (PS) James N. Robertson (CC) Elbert Sam Rush Jr. (SCC) Leslie Floyd Shannon Russell S. Tarver (CC)

Carol Hederman Tatum (PS) A. Thomas Tucker Jr. Ernest Harmon Tumlinson E. Wayne Upchurch (CC) Alec Carmon Valentine Beryl H. Van Lierop James D. Waide III (PS) Betsy Stone Walkup (PS) Edward C. Weller Marilynn McDonald Whatley (DA) Virginia Anne Jones Whitley (PS) Roger Mac Williamson (CC) Thomas D. Wooldridge (PS) Class of 1969 41% Participation Virginia Lee Allen (SC) Jones E. Allison Jr. (CC) Russell Peyton Atchley (SCC) Leon M. Bailey Jr. (SCC) Judith DeWolfe Barnett (DA) Donald L. Bishop Linda Hines Broadus (SCC) William Edward Campbell (SCC) Anthony M. Champagne (DA) Alice Moore Clark Robert K. Collins (PS) Cheryl Barrett Converse (PS) Kathryn Grabau Davis (SC) Deborah Davis Denson (PS) Wayne E. Ferrell Jr. (SCC) Paul Gee (CC) Jane Baker Gibbons James H. Godbold Jr. Margaret Atkinson Graham (CC) Alice Wofford Hallford C. Rebecca Meacham Charles G. Millstein (CC) Linda Boswell Montgomery (CC) Evelyn Snipes Petterson (CC) Stennett D. Posey (CC) Carroll Perrett Putzel Sharon Scott Rhoden (PS-M) Darrelyn Clawson Sanders (SCC) Joe F. Sanderson Jr. (PS-M) Patricia Miles Sandusky (DA) George W. Self Jr. (DA) Susan Moak Sheldon (CC) James D. Spinks (SCC) Esther Marett Still (CC) Mary McDonald Swenson (SCC) Mary Baroni Tarver (CC) Perry K. Thomas III Susanne Hicks Van Lierop Katherine Drake Wade Dorothy Sibley Walker James Conrad Wentworth Charlotte Oakley Whitehead (CC) Patricia Hawthorne Wilson James M. Wray Jr. (CC)

H

Class of 1970 43% Participation Elizabeth Campbell Bailey (CC) Lillie Smith Bailey (CC) Clyde W. Biddle (SC) Donald S. Blythe (DA) Sally Ann Boggan Elizabeth Davis Bowman Beverly Brooks Brooke Thomas Roy Bryant (SCC) Z. Terry Buckalew (SCC) Deborah Williams Campbell (SCC) Clinton Moore Cavett (DA) Connie Elliott Cavett (DA) Coela Jordan Clark David W. Clark (PS-S) Kathy Murray Cohen Foster Edmund Collins Jr. (CC) Robert E. Cunningham III Martha Clayton Dale (SCC) Danny Earl Epps Don Albert Gibson Sr. (CC) George Edward Gillespie Jr. (DA) Stanley Graham (CC) Gloria Horton Harrison J. Erik Hearon (SCC) Robert Frank Hester (CC) H. Lee Hetherington (DA) Caroline Massey Hillhouse (CC) Elizabeth Hood Jolee Childs Hussey Donna Daniel Jackson (DA) Hugh B. Jones Jr. (CC) Paul Rodgers Jordan (CC) Elizabeth Furr Kimbriel Mack Alan Land (DA) Clyde W. Lea (PS) Dianne McGovern G. Rodney Meeks (CC) Margaret Anne Sample Mitchell (SCC) Andrew P. Mullins Jr. Janet Sanderson Ott (PS-M) Richard Lee Perry Barry K. Plunkett (SCC) Naomi Tattis Ridgway (PS-S) Patricia Lefoldt Shappley Patti McCarty Sullivan (PS-F) David J. Walker Dianne Partridge Walton (SCC) Robert F. Ward (SCC) Timothy Wayne Whitaker (CC) Fred P. Wilbur (CC) Vicki Newcomb Womack Jeanne Terpstra Yarbrough Class of 1971 34% Participation Richard J. Aubert (DA) Mary Craft Barth (SCC) Warren C. Black Jr. (PS) Janis Crenshaw Boothby Carl G. Brooking (PS) Cynthia Matheny Brooks (SCC)

O

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Sandy Lee Voyd Byrd (SCC) Sharon Piper Carraway William C. Carraway Pamela Capps Collins (PS) JoAnne Stevens Connell Robert Charles Cuendet Jeffrey Smith Deblieu (SCC) Rebecca Saxton Doyle (CC) Thomas Randall Dupree (SCC) Beverly Ann Fabian Richard Millard Farrell Sandra I. Hackemann Margie McDavid Harper (SCC) Eugenia Hathorn Henson William Carter McKie Jr. (DA) Jamelin Pierce McKlemurry (CC) Alice Rhea Mitchell (SCC) Lem E. Mitchell (SCC) Robert Giles Mullins (PS) Sharon Lynn O’Brien (SCC) Luther S. Ott (PS-M) Pamela Lash Patrick (CC) William Howard Patrick Jr. (CC) Barbara Stauss Plunkett (SCC) Rudy R. Pollan (CC) Reed Walser Prospere (SCC) David Banister Russell (SCC) Rosemary Gregg Shows (CC) John Edward Spencer (DA) Kathy Rowell Spire Robert C. Strong Nan Weakley Thomas Carolyn Caves Vaughan (PS) Candice Dudley Ward (SCC) Deborah Jennings Warriner Class of 1972 42% Participation Janis Graves Black (PS) Marion Cox Bolz Phillip R. Brooks (SCC) Barbara Champion Bush (SCC) Fred L. Callon (CC) Robert B. Capps (CC) Michael F. Covert Jennifer Goolsby Davis Eugene G. Douglass Jr. (PS-M) Robert Earle Farr II (SCC) George H. Fleming Jr. (PS-M) Jerry W. Fuller Maridith Walker Geuder (CC) William N. Graham (PS) Robin Hamilton Camille Ann Harris Claudia Carithers Hauberg (PS) George S. Haymans III Fran Houser (CC) Charles L. Howorth Jr. Wilton J. Johnson III (PS) Carolyn Jackson LaBarbera (CC) Jane Mitchell Leech (CC) Steven Herschel Leech Jr. (CC) Tony F. Martinez David R. McCollum (PS)

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L

O

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D

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Betsy Brasell McKenzie James Robby McLeod Stephen L. Meeks (CC) Edwin Bruce Mitchell Jr. Michael A. Parnell (SCC) Richard Pharr (PS) David N. Sawyer (SCC) Leonette Walker Slay (PS) Constance Maize Smith (CC) Portia L. Smith William H. Smith Jr. (CC) Ferrell L. Tadlock (SCC) James H. Williams David Ray Williamson Thomas A. Woodall (CC) Phyllis A. Yarbrough Class of 1973 39% Participation Signe Pearson Adams James E. Anding (SCC) Austin Blaine Baggett (SCC) Ann Mitchell Bartling (CC) Joan Sauer Bertaut (SCC) Allyn Clark Boone (CC) Douglas S. Boone (CC) Janis Crawford Booth (CC) Guy Blann Britton Thomas Stevens Burnett (SCC) Terry James Butcher Robert M. Corban (CC) Virginia Cooper Farr (SCC) Joan N. Geiger Jessica Helen Germany (CC) Joel Leslie Gill Frances Moran Gordy (CC) Rachel Hallas Greil (CC) Michael Ray Grubbs (PS) Deborah Kay Hall Brian Paul Hearon (SCC) Ann Sumner Holmes (CC) Mary Alice Howkins (PS) Carol M. Hudson Eugene C. Johnson (SCC) Dorothy Hannah Kitchings Sandra Williamson Litkenhous (CC) Alvin A. Loewenberg Mary Grace Loftin-Hayes (SCC) Elisabeth J. Lord (SCC) Harold Clark Malchow (PS-S) J. David Marsh (PS) W. Randall Pinkston (DA) Robert Hugh Randle (SCC) Charles Randlett Sandel (PS) Linda Wilson Taylor (SCC) Timothy C. Terpstra (DA) Rowan M. Torrey (CC) John David Wade William S. Ware (PS) Robert Wayne West Mary Wiginton (CC) Terry Glen Winstead (PS) Phebe Heard Winters Jane L. Woosley (CC)

Johnny W. Wray (SCC) Marsha Caves Yon Rebecca C. Youngblood (SC) Rocky Harold Zachry Jr. (CC) Class of 1974 31 % Participation R. Bruce Bartling (CC) Robert Ivens Brock (PS-M) Diane M. Bruser (PS) Georgia Triplett Bullocks Celia Dunn Butcher Janet Clogston Cavalier (CC) Elaine Marie Coney (SC) Florence Jo Smith Corban (CC) Jacqueline Frazier Crudup Marybeth Wood Davis June Langston DeHart (PS) Judith Lane Douglass (PS-M) Louis Gregory Frascogna (SCC) Sue Tremaine Glenn (CC) William F. Goodman III (SCC) Katie L. Holder Wendell H. Holmes (CC) Sallie Bush King Patty Barry Love Vincent M. Lynch (CC) Alton Bruce Miller (PS) E. Lyle Miller Jr. Joseph Lowry Morris Lloyd Bruce Nunn III Roger G. Stuart Jr. (CC) Thais Brown Tonore (CC) Arthur A. Vingiello Elizabeth Bass Vogt Melanie Boswell Wadlington (SCC) Warner Wadlington III (SCC) Rose Marie Ridgway Walden (CC) William Earl Wheeler (DA) Janet Roby Wofford (SCC) John D. Wofford Jr. (SCC) J. Daniel Young Class of 1975 39% Participation Martha Ann Ashe Paul S. Black (CC) William F. Blair (DA) John Stewart Bown (SCC) David W. Boydstun (SCC) Cornelia Boozman Brewer Alveno Nelson Castilla (DA) Janet Dykes Crawford Robert H. Darville III (CC) Carrie McKenzie Davidson (CC) Michael B. Flautt Diane Foust (SCC) Gregory D. Freeman William Gaston Gamble (SCC) Nan Graves Goodman (CC) Arvis Lynne Hawkins (SCC) Ronnie Eugene Hendrix (CC) Mark D. Herbert (SCC)

2006

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Laurie Newton Howorth John Wilson LaFoe Frank T. Laney Tommy G. Lyle (DA) Gerald K. McCullough (CC) Kathleen Smith Miles (CC) Jean Bailey Norton Marianne Hogan Nsour (CC) C. Edward Pruett (CC) Claire Chastain Schmid (CC) Rachel Wallace Starnes Brenda Twyner Thordarson Belmont Dickerson Trapp (CC) Cynthia Trauernicht Harriet Underwood Turner Charles Donald Wells Jr. (PS) Marcia Melichar Whatley William Chris Wilkerson (CC) James B. Wiseman Jr. (CC) Rebecca Simmons Young Class of 1976 37% Participation

“Here at Millsaps I have experienced classmates that are outgoing, welcoming, and interesting, as well as professors that are highly intelligent yet completely approachable and warm. I feel confident that Millsaps has provided me with an education that will help me to succeed not only in the business world but also as a productive member of society.”

—Lacey Cook

David A. Anderson (CC) Charles A. Araujo Paul T. Benton (PS-M) Russell Gene Buys (CC) Susan Strong Cannon (SCC) Jeffery Nelson Cook Albert Glynn Delgadillo (CC) Edward Langhoff Emling Jr. (SCC) Mark Barton Eppes (SC) Lloyd Spivey Gray Sr. (SC) Ralph C. Griffin Jr. (SCC) Janet Bergman Groue (CC) Kenneth J. Groue (CC) Mary Breed Harris J. Stacy Jenkins (CC) Susan Roberson Johnson Elizabeth Allen Lyle (DA) Mark James Lynch (SCC) Patricia Pharr Marsh (PS) Robert Bruce McDuff Owen Patterson Phillips (SCC) Caryn Salter Quilter Betty Clark Reiff Joseph T. Reiff Tom B. Scott III (PS-S) Elizabeth Holmes See (SC) Howard Branch Smith Jr. (SCC) Hubert O. Thompson (DA) Walter Scott Varnado III (CC) Terrance Burt Wells (PS-M) Steve A. Whatley A. Terrel Williams (CC) Class of 1977 37% Participation

Meridian, Mississippi English Major Class of 2007 president’s report

Mary Cobb Alford (DA) Toni McMillan Bailey (CC) Daniel S. Bowling III (PS-S) Donald B. Brady (DA) Sibyl M. Child

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Kerry Matheny Cook Diane Bosarge Everett (CC) George Allan Eyrich (SCC) Anna C. Furr (CC) Michael Hartung (CC) Ronald Glenn Herrington (DA) J. Steven Jenkins (DA) Edley Hicks Jones III (SCC) Robert Clyde King (PS-F) Nancy Williams Lang Catherine Ivy Larsen (CC) Douglas E. Levanway (SCC) Edward Lawrence Manning Toni Walker Manning Margaret Wilson McCarty Freda Muller McDaniel (SCC) Jenny Bates Miller Douglas M. Minor (CC) Elizabeth McKinnon Parry (SCC) Thomas C. Parry III (SCC) Karen Roemer Paxton Daryl M. Plunk (SCC) Linda Wells Rice (PS-F) Sue Humphrey Geier Pamela Janette Turner Kathryn Byler Turpin (CC) Lindsey Shallcross Varnado (CC) Cherese Ward Washington Robert Lewis Wells (SCC) Diane Wiltshire (SCC) Class of 1978 41% Participation Timothy J. Alford (DA) Kathryn Carter Amburgey W. Franklin Appleby Jr. (PS) Timothy Ayres (PS) Ken H. Barnett (CC) Lisa L. Blount (SCC) C. Rebecca Brent (SCC) David Wesley Carroll (CC) Beverly J. Clement (CC) John George Cox (DA) Janette De Boever-Smith Harry Charles Frye III Janet Marie Hall (PS) Thomas Lamb Haltom (CC) James Huel Harris (PS) James David Holland (PS) Sally Sudduth Isaacs (CC) Robert Latane Lewis W. Criss Lott (SCC) William Thomas McAlilly (SCC) Robert Glade McInnis (PS) Paul Cooper Morrison (PS) John Oliver Paxton (SCC) Howard D. Pittman (PS) Elizabeth Box Plunk (DA) James Crawford Ray Robert E. Rice Jr. (PS-F) Elise McNees Ryan (CC) Mark Alan Scarborough (CC) Robert Earl Scott (CC) Gail Gober Sweat (CC)

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Ralph Phillip Wells (SCC) Homer Herbert Williams (DA) Frank Lewis Young (SCC) Mary Martin Young (SCC) Class of 1979 41% Participation Martin H. Baker Jr. (PS) Kate Bradley Bledsoe Michele Coincon Bunch (CC) William G. Bunch (CC) Tina Kiefer Burns (SC) Laura Lea Adkins Cobb (PS) Thomas Joseph Cobb (PS) Charlene Rosenthal Cunningham Robert J. Dambrino III (CC) Jeffery Earl Delmas (CC) Douglas Paul Demmons (CC) Victor George Dostrow (PS) Maggie Wynn Fortier (PS) Sonja Fuqua Carol Burrus Hartman (PS) Kenneth Eldon Hipple (SCC) Kent Leroy Kebert (SCC) William Robert Lancaster (DA) Joseph C. Langston Nancy Bush Lawrence Laura Lee Lillard (PS-S) James Lowe III (CC) Lisa Lowe (SCC) Hing Bao Luong Richard Edward MacNealy Lynn Woodard McBroom (CC) Edward William Mizell James Byron Morris (CC) Helen McCormick Parsons Beth Thomas Ploch William T. Siler Jr. (CC) Terry Toler Smith William O. Thomas III (SCC) Janice Bacon West Nancy F. Williams Joy Chastain Wood Class of 1980 25% Participation Ann Roscopf Allen (CC) Kathy Weston Brun (SCC) William Rodney Clement Jr. (PS) Elise Norfleet Crockett (SC) David Hunt Culpepper (PS) JoAnn Shanks Daugherty Gerald Maurice Davis Robert J. Giraud (CC) William Curtis Griffin (SCC) Emily Crews Hatch Michael Anthony Henderson (DA) Janet Herold Ishee (CC) Roger Ernest Ishee (CC) Randy Joseph Johnson (CC) Robert Wayne Johnson (PS) Lynn Stone Kebert (SCC) Barbara McLemore Melvin (CC)

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Sylvain M. Metz Kellye Miller Montjoy (CC) Kristina Karol Morris Lisa Lee Mullins S. Dixon Myers David M. Ott (DA) Esther Bailey Smith (SCC) Benjamin D. Sydboten Jr. (CC) Frank Colvin Wade Jr. (SCC) Jackie Ladnier Winkelman (CC) Bobby Howell Wroten Jr. (SC) Class of 1981 32% Participation M. Jonathan Altman (CC) Kathleen Payne Berg Christopher Stanton Brunt (SCC) Michael Rowe Byers (CC) Necie Coats-Borroni (DA) Shari Lorraine Cochran Kimberly Mansel Costa (CC) Anne Johnson Culpepper (PS) Deborah Campbell Dambrino (CC) Melissa Thomas Darden Virginia Simpkins Darwin Thomas Tarver Dunbar (CC) Linda Schrayer Dupree (SCC) Renee Ethridge (PS) Kenneth Michael Ezell (CC) David Keith Foley Susan Eskridge Frazier (DA) Michael Emmanuel Grillis (CC) Randall Scott Hearon (SCC) Vicki Loflin Hughes (PS) Charles R. Lathem (PS) Linda Joyce Lofton (CC) Jimmy L. Middlebrook Michael H. Morris (SCC) John Fargason Murrah (SCC) Dan Hillman Murrell Annwn Hawkins Myers Shane Pittman (CC) Gusanita Grant Roberson Steven Warren Smith (PS-F) Ann Decker Snyder (CC) Jane Franklin Tyson Billy Gene White Class of 1982 30% Participation Gary E. Alderman C. Lynette Little Altman (CC) Deborah Palmer Arrington (CC) Carol Wead Baucum Bradley R. Benton (PS-M) Shelley Wyckoff Boltri (CC) Betty Whitehurst Coggin John Eric Corban Jocelyn Borne Doran (DA) Debra Basham Fauss (SCC) Nancy Sue Gregorie (CC) William Bransford Harper (SCC) Brenda Ware Jones (SCC)

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Gretchen Kurzweg Keller Anita Creel Lewis Steven Bryan Lott Joanne Shipp Lyell Gerald Eugene Maddox Jonette McMullin Maxwell Victoria Irene McDonald Dennis Wilentz McGraw (CC) Claudia Stewart Morris George Augustus Morris III (SCC) James Selser Morris Thomas Whitelaw Murrey Jr. (CC) Ann Scott McGehee Paradise Gilson Davis Peterson Laura Wright Phillips Elizabeth Sekul (SCC) Earl William Spooner III Class of 1983 29% Participation Steven J. Allen Frederick Scott Bauer (CC) Marie Nation Becker Carolyn Ross Bedenbaugh (CC) Peter J. Bernheim (PS-S) Anthony P. Bonds Kenneth Scott Bowie Charles Andrew Brown (CC) Gwenllian Clopton Clopton Richard Grady Coggin Jr. Lauri Stamm Collins (PS) James Lynn Crawford Nancy Bagby Dunn Laurel Catherine Eskridge Douglas S. Folk (PS) Phyllis Pfanschmidt Gay (SCC) Patrick Jarrett Hare William Edward Harper III Paul Ivan Hathorn Mikell Jenkins Jarratt (SC) Rhonda Jones Jones (SC) Grace Nevins Krauss Katherine Stark Landrum Anna Bennett Liddell (CC) Susan Lauer Lilley Jesse Marion McRight Jr. (SCC) Vicki Sallis Murrell Elizabeth Wilson Peterson Larisa Krolls Phillips Richard Wayne Poulter W. Whitaker Rayner (CC) David M. Read (PS) Walter Joseph Sikora II (CC) Vicki Lee Sydboten (CC) Robert Morris Thompson (CC) Michael D. Turello Hilda Benson White Peter Yates Whitehead (SCC) Amy Lyles Wilson (DA) Cordelia Douzenis Zinskie (SC)

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Class of 1984 35% Participation Carrie Arnold Bowie Julia Elizabeth Bradsher (CC) Timothy Patrick Carrigan (CC) Cecilia Ann Collins (CC) Lee Edward Dempsey (SCC) George Marion Dickens Jr. (SCC) Steven Lynn Dickerson (SC) Erin Margaret Fairley (SCC) Roger Edward Garrett Patrick Kevin Gregory Robin Adams Gregory Monty Paul Hamilton (PS) William Thomas Hetrick (CC) Karen Krutz Horne (CC) Melanie Lee Hunsberger (CC) Daniel T. Keel III (PS) Kenneth Neal Lancaster Maud DeLes Gober Lancaster Keri Slaton McGraw (CC) Emily Chaney McInnis (PS) Sonya Michele Meggs Suzannah Bowie Moorman James Doyle Morgan Billie Carol Dunahoo Murphy Paul Friedrich Ogden (PS) Kevin Albert O’Malley Elizabeth Jordan Orians (CC) Etoile Frazier Patrick Tana Browning Ranager (PS-S) Scott Davis Singletary (CC) Gregory Alan Sliman (SC) Pamela Chance Stamps (CC) William Scott Stephens Diane Chill Studdard Elizabeth Sullivan Turello Janet Louise Van Walsh Evelyn Stewart Westover (SCC) Thomas Albert Williamson Class of 1985 24% Participation Nicholas G. Anderson Elizabeth Bland Bauer (CC) Mary Frances Hillman Benton (PS-M) Melanie Kaye Lee Bernheim (PS-S) Harry Patrick Byrd (CC) William Garner Cheney Jr. (CC) Elizabeth Tansel Collins (SCC) Rhonda Cecilia Cooper (CC) Amy Dankel (CC) Roger John Dankel (CC) Patrick Rowan Doherty (SCC) Jennifer Jennings Frankel Jo Watson Hackl (SCC) Lisa Celeste Hapgood (DA) Cindy Ashcraft Harris (CC) Porter Carraway Hudson Susan Graves Hyde Sigurds Michael Krolls Henry Clay Lyons (SC) Mark R. Mahoney (PS)

Mark Anthony Mitchell (CC) Carol Young Mowen J. Greg Murphy James Franklin Noble III (CC) Julia Park Ogden (PS) Christine Clark Olsson (SCC) Cynthia Ann Phelps W. Thomas Purcell III (PS-F) R. Blake Smith (CC) Janna Ingle Sowers (CC) Robert Marion Taylor (CC) Class of 1986 25% Participation Olen McCadoo Bailey Jr. (SC) A. Lee Barlow A. Kevin Blackwell (PS-M) Archibald Webb Bullard Leigh Ann Burns-Naas (PS) Jeffrey Damon Crout Nancy Williams Green Stuart Byron Green Renee Coates Harrison Ralph Todd Hines Jennifer Jack-Cashmore Matthew Houston Kaye (PS-F) David M. Loper (PS) Anne Lee McElvaine Neely Pemberton McGrew William Stewart McKell (CC) C. Nicholas Mowen Kirk Albert Patrick III (DA) Leona Kusick Polson (CC) Kevin Alexander Russell (CC) John Bibb Saye (SCC) Calvin Seals Andrew Woods Sessions Milton DeKalb Terrell Jr. (CC) Laura Allison Wheeler (SCC) Lynn Toney Williamson Catherine Lewis Wiygul Mary Theresa Woodward Class of 1987 29% Participation Jane Biggs Alexander Eleanor Taylor Anthony Robert V. Barham Catherine Benton-McCallum Gregory F. Bost James W. Boswell III (CC) Lisa Bowden Boswell (CC) Martha Lott Caskey Reynolds Smith Cheney III (CC) Victor Vando Cooper Holly Walters Craft (SCC) Eugene Middleton Crafton (PS) James Bryan Edwards (CC) Michelle Marie Forrester Kara Winsett Gibson Melissa Cumbest Groff Mary Dulaney Hurley (SCC) Lee Darden Johnson (SCC)

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Margaret Solomon Kaplan Maria Karam Kelley (CC) Cathryn Derrow LaCour Laurie Pruitt Lovely (CC) Sheila Farnsworth Malvagna Robert Joseph Mangialardi (SCC) Paul F. McNeill (PS) Daniel Shawn Moore MD Nadine Middour Peacock (SCC) Cecil M. Ranager (PS-S) Tom Ridgway Shima (CC) Dee Parks Spencer (SCC) Lynn Starrett Stall (CC) Wayne Eric Stracener Jr. William Jerry Strowd Marcus G. Taylor Brian Lee Wilkinson (CC) Class of 1988 26% Participation David A. Adkins (CC) Michael B. Bacile Bethany Akers Bennett (CC) Crisler Moffat Boone (CC) LeAnne Pyron Brewer (SCC) William Joel Brown Dana Miller Bullard Susan Sanders Byrd (CC) Kenneth Joseph Carpenter James Plemon Coleman II (SCC) Lynwood Keith Cook (CC) Martha Campbell Cooke Robert Tobias Davis (CC) Barbara Hess Elias Misty Skelton Hammett (CC) Gilroy Hunter Harden (SCC) Monica Sethi Harrigill (PS-S) Martha McRaney Hill (CC) Kathleen Watson Hodges Gregory John Hurley (SCC) Ronald Alan LaCour Wesley Randolph Lominick III Donald Marston Mark J. McCreery (PS) Mary Kiser Meeks (CC) Brian Wayne Milner Paul Allen Mitchell Thomas Bryant Moore (SC) Teresa Holland Odom (SCC) Thad C. Pratt Justin Paul Ransome (CC) Andrea Pritchett Rosler (SC) Jeanne Louise Rozman Judith Jens Seabrook (CC) Charlotte Harness Seals John Lindsay Sewell Cheryl Brooks Ware Tracie McAlpin Woidtke Class of 1989 27% Participation Ralph Bernard Armstrong Joseph G. Baladi

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Krista Atkinson Barnhart (CC) Carah Lynn Billups (DA) Lisa C. Brown (CC) W. Christopher Crosby (PS-S) Michael Cloy Doherty (SCC) Randy Marion Dukes (DA) Polly Roach Dunlavy (CC) Yvette Edwards Cook (SCC) Michelle Hensley Evans (SCC) Jeffrey Alan Ezell Margaret Weems Feldmayer Susan Jacquin Tewes Fulton (SCC) Susan Grant Hagler (CC) Edith T. Hall (SCC) John Todd Helbling (CC) Kathia Simo Hicks Chris Shawn Kochtitzky James Alan Lancaster (CC) Robert E. Lancaster (CC) Marc E. Leffler Deborah McNeill Lominick Charles Daniel McLaughlin (CC) John L. McLemore John William C. Meyers (SCC) Beth Smith Mikeska Mitylene Morrison Myhr (CC) Chris Lloyd Nevins (SC) Catherine Lightsey Payne (CC) Gibson Roland Sims III (SCC) Dorree Jane Smith (CC) Victoria Anne Smith (SCC) Mary Ellen Vanderlick (SCC) Jason W. Walenta (SCC) Carole Woods Williams (CC) Timothy Allan Wise Class of 1990 26% Participation Kenneth T. Andrews Monica Meeks Baker Jeffrey R. Blackwood Zeba Afzal Boughner William Robinson Buras (CC) David Martin Chancellor (CC) Jeannie Hsuman Cheng (CC) Thomas William D’Armond (SCC) Lydia Marble Dell Lee Arnold Denton (CC) Kristin Magee Doherty (SCC) David Allen Ellner Christine Bakeis Esser Clytice Robertson Gardner (CC) Norton McGaughy Geddie (CC) J. Lynn Gieger Amy Ridlehoover Green Anne Dye Haire Lisa Holland Hannah (PS) Ray Fulton Harrigill (PS-S) John Frederick Hawkins (SCC) Sharon Barkley Healy Julee C. Howard Jonathan Milnor Jones Leslie Petrus Kennedy (SCC) Erin Clark Mason (SCC)

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William Mark Mays (SCC) Tyrone McDonald Jeffrey Otto McIntire-Strasburg Tiffany Mixon Merriman (SCC) Patricia Lynne Nation (CC) David Lee Ozborn Jerry Benjamin Peavy Wyn Ellington Pratt Beverly Vignery Renfroe Christine M. Schott Adrianna Spain Sharon Louise Stephenson (SCC) Barry Taylor Weeks Bradley Dean Wellons David Dodd Williams (CC) Martin Earle Willoughby Melissa Crane Worden Class of 1991 23% Participation Arin Clark Adkins (CC) Daniel R. Ayres Alicia Clifton Baladi Patricia Gleason Barrios Anne Best Burdick Max William Burdick Jean McMorris Burns Todd Cassetty (SCC) Eric Dewayne Chisolm Jeffrey Lynn Clay (CC) Amy Ball Coleman (SCC) Kelly Blake Denton Mark J. Douglas (PS-S) John Prentis Everett (CC) Anne Verret Fulcher Anne Lewis Gamble (CC) Jodi Lee Graves Tim Douglas Gray (SCC) Eryn Lynn Hackett Fisher Price Williams Halford (DA) William Ray Hannah (PS) Dorothy Allen Hawkins (SCC) William Elliott Henderson (CC) Jennifer Miller Hoffman (SCC) Shelley Lose Johansson (CC) Kenneth Maurice Kellum (SCC) Laura Riemer Kellum (SCC) Kathryn Cascio Lewis Lee K. Lofton Richard Jason Manning Kelli Kriss McKie Cherie Walker Meadows Marne A. Meredith Charles Howard Mitchell (CC) Margaret Jones Moore Stacey Fleming Oliver (SCC) Regan Marler Painter Allen Shane Reed Stephanie Stacy Richter Steven W. Sansome (SCC) Harold Clifford Stanley Shannon Williams Stanley Kathleen Conner Strickland Christopher Charles Thacker (SC)

Elizabeth Stuckey Williams Kenneth Weaver Williams Jr. Rachel Cook Wise Class of 1992 22% Participation John Alexander Armstrong Alicia Jackson Atteberry Shawn Linette Barrick Christopher J. Beckman Dameron Black IV (SCC) Kim Kalkitis Bowman Marcus Dale Buckley Tracy Lynn Butchee (CC) Sarah Emma Crisler Jennifer Jane Davis Kevin S. Douglas (PS-S) Allison Lynn Edwards (SCC) April Lea Grayson Suzanne E. Gueydan (SCC) Margaret Minor Harvey John Elliott Hendrix Christina Coker Hrivnak Jessica Deffes Huckaby (CC) Lee Huckaby (CC) Kathleen Ann Hutchinson J. Banks Link (SC) Tracy Pennebaker Link (SC) John F. Mangum John Lewis Maxey III (CC) James Montrose McKeown II Nathan Whitehead McKie Jr. Julie Kemp Miller Douglas Dean Mitchell Kathleen Montgomery Mitchell (PS) Milton M. Ourso III (CC) Kimberly Robin Pace William L. Painter Shelley LeBlanc Payne (CC) William Brian Payne (CC) Susan Perry Loveless James Alan Prescott (CC) Arleen Rosner-Barwick (CC) Stacey Perkins Stracener John Lacy Sturdivant (CC) Rachel Furner Sturdivant (CC) Christopher Scott Verdery Kimberly Warren-Ellis Charles Steven White (CC) Melinda Faye Wiggins Georgia Plomarity Zaemes (CC) Class of 1993 20% Participation Julie Lynn Anderson Elizabeth Burch Banks (CC) Evelyn Michael Beier Nicole Billeaud-Poncelet Scott E. Blissman Lee Waskom Bryan (SCC) Dan E. Campbell (PS-S) Matthew Meador Crosby Russell Edwin Dorris

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Amy Reid Felder (CC) David Perrette Felder (CC) Angela Lynn Gafford-Asmos Paul Deveil Garrett (CC) Rachel Spiller Garrett (CC) Lisa Garvin (CC) Bruce Dyer Golden Michael Ford Griffith (DA) Peter Daniel Halverson Carol Vickers Hardwick (CC) Mimi Mitchell Jeffers Edward Patrell Jordan William Calvin Kelly Jr. (DA) John O’Donovan Lawrence (SCC) Andrew Michael Macey Thomas McDonnell Mitchell (PS) Samuel O. Morris Jr. Jonathan Stuart Neff (PS-S) Jennifer Scherer Nieman (CC) Molly Nichols Pace (SCC) Sonja Solze Peaspanen Cynthia Doiron Pugh David Shane Rasner Walter Burley Salmon Deana Michelle Sanders Rebekah McKeown Sanders Jane Greaves Sargent (SCC) Mary Montgomery Seely (CC) Jennifer Renae Tillman (DA) Leigh Cox Travis (SCC) Angela Harton Tschantz Julia Carol Wallace (SCC) Stephanie Ann Warmbrod Ryan McCullough Weaver Matthew Cary Whittington David Wendell Wilkinson Class of 1994 15% Participation David C. Armistead (CC) Teresa White Bailey (CC) Jennifer Howell Brady (CC) Elizabeth C. Carraway Elizabeth Hewitt Colley Adam Patrick Cooper Richard Gillespie Diethelm William Lowrey Duncan Jr. (CC) Anthony Briggs Evans Katherine Rodgers Fagan (CC) Laura Santoro Flynn Joshua Aaron Fowler (SCC) Sarah Overman Freed (CC) Martha Roberson Frye William Davis Frye Brian Rhodes Huskey James Sanford Love IV (CC) John Peter Crook McCall Lucy Lee Molinaro Janice LaBlue Nicholson Edgar Stewart McNeil Reeves Manisha Sethi (DA) Laura Catherine Slavin Monroe McLeod Turner Karen I. Varney

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Class of 1995 19% Participation Amy White Bagby Russell W. Bagby Jennifer Honeycutt Breazeale (PS) Mary-Margaret Sneed Buchanan James Boyd Campbell Jr. (CC) James Clayton Cazier (CC) Monique Susane Clark Kimberly Williams Crowder (SCC) William Harris Crowder IV (SCC) Susan Elson Dean Christopher Chadwick Duncan Jennifer Beal Duncan Derek Scott Dyess (CC) Laura Hartness Dyess (CC) Michelle Dean Easterling Ashley Hewitt Greenbaum (PS) Russell Edward Hawkins Jr. (CC) Elaine Trotter Kerr Michael Brian Kittrell Shelton McMain Lott Alice Blaylock Macey Susan Kasperbauer Mascari Dorian E. McIntyre Anne Stallworth McKeown Christopher Matthew Nelson Forrest Vannerson Nesbitt Kelly Abney Orr (CC) Lynn Marie Pohl Jenness B. Simler Edie King Simmons William Wyatt Simmons Clare Brown Thomas (CC) Ellen Elise Treadway (CC) Suzanne Strong Willis Class of 1996 15% Participation Lottie L. Bash (PS) Jennifer Renae Biard James Knox Boteler III (SCC) Michael Stafford Brooks Elizabeth Hollis Cooper Charles Elwin Dann III Jean Grayson Davis Geney Sanders Galey Cora Elizabeth Gee Richard Alexander Grant Adrian Coleman Green Mitchell Warren Holloway Kimberly Hollimon Hoover (SCC) Wynton Chase Hoover (SCC) Robert Murrah Mayo III Martha Graves McCall Kelly Merriman McMullen Benjamin Howard Nelson III (CC) Daniel Alan Nix Vickie Ann Pettis-Cooper Margaret Scheppke Pigott Christopher Alan Price Jacqueline Harper Ray Michael Todd Reese (SCC)

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Robyn Rae Ryle (CC) Lendy Van Slyke Sevick Michael Dale Tagert Joseph Reed Townsend III (SCC) Minette Marley Townsend (SCC) Ginger Bargman Webster Heather Gilliam Young Class of 1997 16% Participation Halley Agee Austin Amy Baier Batson Julie Whittington Buhrman Mary Beth Chrestman Janet Foley Davis Angela Whittington Doss Shana Dae Fondren Kristen McRae Fowler (SCC) Kutenia Tate Good Phillip Lee Hartness (CC) John Eric Herrington Hillary Wilson Horn Janice Jordan (CC) Shannon Rogers Manning Eloise Harris May James Philip McDermott John Warren McGehee Jr. Austin Lenoy McMullen Thomas Howard Moore (SCC) John Lamar Myers Christy Sylvan Nash Amber Shippee Nix Harmony Albert Pittman James Brian Ponder Jason Michael Powers Dora Gail Robertson (CC) Dana LaNell Roe Amy Balducci Shepherd William Bienville Skipper James Wesley Thompson Carla Dawn Webb (SCC) Winston Scott Webster Heather Lott Welch Class of 1998 12% Participation Michele Dawn Biegel (SCC) Catherine Simmons Bond Cynthia Leigh Butler Brian C. Courville (PS) Patricia Campbell Eltiste David Scott Fontenot Mary Elizabeth Huff L. Heather Lindsey Amber Edwards Luttrell Erin Best Margolin Walter Preston May Amelia Brown Metcalf Emily Peoples Neely David Allen Nelsen Benjamin Gregory Nonnenmacher (CC) Ashley Anne Phillips

Mark Post (SCC) Bethany Gratham Powers 1998 Joseph Todd Reeves (PS) April Harris Roberson Christina Maria Robertson (CC) Amy Borgman Simpkins Mary Mortimer Tagert David Powell Touchstone (CC) Isaac Cooper Wankerl (CC) D. Duncan Welch Lauren LeGendre Williams (SCC) Class of 1999 15% Participation Albert Ray Adams III Albert M. Austin Michael P. Barham (SCC) Rachel Evangeline Barham Junko Fukuma Barnes Robert McNutt Boyce Jr. Nicole Saad Bradshaw Charles Craig Brewer (CC) Stephanie Fanguy Bryant (CC) Ann Jane Campbell Cox Danielle Bowling Fontenot Chad Andrew Gardner Andrew Magruder Hazlip Tara Chase Herrington Paul Michael Holland II (CC) Tracy Perry Holland (CC) Kathryn Bratton Hughes Andrea Kersh Johnson David Richard Jones Bonnie Mitchell Kraybill Stephanie Elaine Land William Bartling Liles Ashley Austin Martin Lori Lee McNeil Ursula Bernice Price Jennifer Jones Skipper Erika Rachelle Slaton Marcus B. Smith Daniel H. Walker (SCC) Robert Ferris Walker (PS) Kate England Walton Tyler Matthew Walton Rhonda White-Richard Class of 2000 12% Participation Lindsay Meyer Akers Bradley Bennett (PS) Clifton L. Boren Lauren Gardes Boyce Matthew Thomas Carroccio Elizabeth Ann Dubuisson David Benjamin Greer (CC) Catherine Elizabeth Hall (CC) Shanell Hudson-Watson Jaime Miles Jones Zane Duran King Alan Russell Kirk (PS) Bronwen Houston Kirk (PS)

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Susan Hubbard Mareno Matthew Adams Miller Margaret Caulfield O’Beirne Andrew Steven Kemp O’Dell Jon Tucker Robert Rusty Dean Shaw Susan Lacouture Stegall (CC) William A. Stegall Jr. (CC) Heather Sullivan Wise Kellie Ann Woodling Class of 2001 7% Participation

“I am Millsaps College, in the sense that my life is the realization of the hopes, dreams, and goals that Millsaps holds for its students. I gained skills at Millsaps that can take me anywhere, and my experience there made me believe that I can be successful at anything. Millsaps did not teach me merely how to fly . . . it taught me how to soar.”

— Lea Barton B.A. 1996 Jackson Artist

president’s report

Christine Ann Ambrosek-Lusk William H. Black Lewis Anthony Bullock Lindsey May Henley Brandi Walker Khan Jennifer Runnels Koenigsberger Lee Valentine Martin April Slayden Mitchell (SCC) Jeffrey Rhea Mitchell (SCC) Amy Michelle Neely Charles Daniel Redmond Mary Elizabeth Serpa Julie Christine Skipper (SCC) Jason Mitchell Stine Melissa Holley Wempren Chivers Richard Woodruff Class of 2002 10% Participation Mary Jane Barber Julius Carter Burns Christopher Alan Burrow James Walker Coburn (CC) Matthew Brent Devall (CC) Colleen Susan Fagan Krista Elizabeth Hansford Christopher Jay Hedglin Brett Vivian Mehrtens Malia Pelly Metzner Victoria Josephine Myers Ellen Laurel Schoolar Michael Anthony Schwitter (PS) Jessica Renae Short Matthew Ryan Surrell Melissa Skertich Sutherlin Raymond Michael Waters IV (SCC) Class of 2003 11% Participation Jill Christienne Adams Thomas Floyd Adams Jr. (CC) Marlana Evans Barousse (SCC) Ryan Christopher Busekist (CC) Amanda Kathleen Cashman Robert Charles Caskey Maria Colquitt Neill Dean Lauren Rebecca Dunagin Denesha Day Evans

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Kendall Neal Grisham Jacquelin Adams Hankins Shane Austin Hard Amy Sue Janovsky James Ronald Johnson Mary Emrey Liles Ann Courtney Long Rebecca McRaney Ayako Asada Miller Jared Ridley Mott Brendan Charles Quigley Erin Melissa Redding Aldan James Shank Laura Michelle Smallwood Samuel Durell Sparks (PS) R. Bradford Sutherlin Jr. William Bedford Wadlington Class of 2004 13% Participation Jesse V. Anderson Brian Jeffrey Bourn Steven Robert Campbell Sonya Brown Clemmons Stephen Matthew Cutter Benjamin Patrick Delatte Anu Goel Patricia Ellen Greene George Richard James Catherine Claire Kurtts Joseph Eugene Lamberth Raymond Greyson Messer David Theodore Metzner Julia Lane Mitchell Demeria Leshanta Nichols William Michael Pickard Malcolm Bowling Roberts Monica Diane Roberts Martha McNeese Rosado Walter David Smith Michelle Cenac Steinkampf (CC) Gloria Beth Surber Kenneth Lane Townsend Anna Crell Wadlington Christopher M. Walters (PS) Allison Mae Williams Lisha Jenine Cox Woodard

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William Temple Withers V Class of 2006 17% Participation Timothy Abston Andrew B. Adams Katie Anderson Stephen R. Belden Katie Benvenutii Andrew G. Cain Dylan Chatterjee Gina M. Colon Sherwood Colette Paul T. Dearing Andrea J. Dewey Anna K. Ellis Amberely N. Etheridge Kellie Lee Giorgio Emily Caroline Greaney Lindsey D. Greer Khyati Gupta Drew Harmon Tal Hendrix Kate M. Jacobson Theon L. Johnson III Kristen E. Keating Thomas Clay Kirkpatrick Lauren A. Lippincott Helen A. Loring Carrie E. McDonnell Katie Beth Miksa John G. Musso Major J. Norman Jr. William B. Privett Ross D. Rutledge Michael M. Sawyer Ashley Schettler Stuart T. Schmidt Leah M. Seddelmeyer Kiger L. Sigh Shay A. Steckler Shannon J. Tedrow Ashley M. Weber Garner J. Wetzel

Class of 2005 7% Participation

Graduate Alumni* (Does not include alumni who received a bachelor’s degree from Millsaps College) 11% Participation

Doc McAlister Billingsley Arlene Rose Chiemprabha Ryan Brent Day Jivka Ivanova Eleanore Davies Kelly (CC) Samantha Rose King Jana Nicole Santoro Robert John Sawyer Suzanne Elizabeth Scales Emily Choi Stanfield Trevor Clanton Theilen Robert Greer Whitacre Benjamin Houston Wilson

James A. Acker 1985 Joy Brashears Amerson 1992 Philip U. Becker 1996 Jill Rushing Beneke 1987 Douglas R. Boone 1994 (CC) Jonathan P. Breazeale 1999 (DA) Elizabeth Martin Brister 1991 (PS) S. Louise Burney 1996 (DA) Mark T. Buys 1992 Zian Chen 2003 Riley B. Collins Jr. 1999 (PS) Craig Dukes 2003 (CC) Mary Yerger Dunbar 1985 (CC)

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Richard Michael Farquhar 1995 Victor Clawson Fettes 1996 (CC) William H. Fulcher Jr. 1999 William P. Furr 1999 Allison Graves 1996 (SCC) Lei Han 2004 Phillip Donald Hardwick 1984 (CC) Melissa Harkins Hopkins 1984 (CC) John Mills Hurt 1983 (SCC) Marsha P. James 1999 Mary Margaret Judy 1988 (CC) Sara B. Kimmel 1997 Janet Gottfried Larsen 1998 Stacey Singleton Martin 1999 (CC) Ruth C. May 1991 James Malcolm McCullouch 1989 Ronnie G. Michaels 1998 (SCC) Eleanore W. Miller 1990 (CC) Benjamin Brook Montgomery 2001 Sharon F. O’Shea 1983 (CC) Lee Ann Whitfield Poland 1985 Don Allen Pomeroy III 1983 Gerald L. Printz 1989 Julius Mosal Ridgway Jr. 1993 Darin Wayne Rowell 1994 Joseph Rike Sandlin 1999 Thomas C. Shelton 2000 (CC) Lenard Alan Smith 1999 (CC) Michael J. Smith 1988 (CC) James Dan Snyder Jr. 1993 Carolyn Christian Tindall 1991 (CC) Suzelle Weems 1987 (DA) Amanda Leigh Wellington 2004 (CC) Albert Joseph Woelfle 1985 (CC) Chris Banks Wright 1994 Chunfang Zhu 2004 (SCC) Faculty and Staff ** Emeriti Faculty * Retired Faculty or Staff Theodore G. Ammon (CC) Diane F. Baker (PS-S) **Richard B. Baltz (DA) Kay Barret Barksdale 1964 (PS) Bradley Bennett 2000 (PS) George J. Bey (PS-F) Stephen T. Black Janis Crawford Booth 1973 (CC) William Brister (PS) Carl G. Brooking 1971 (PS) Kristen M. Brown Luran Luper Buchanan 1963 (PS) **Billy M. Bufkin Murray T. Burch S. Louise Burney 1996 (DA) Gail Alexander Buzhardt 1961 Karen D. Cadiere (CC) *Beth Canizaro (CC) Claudine Chadeyras (CC) Raymond Clothier Cheryl Coker (PS) **Frances Heidelberg Coker 1962 Timothy C. Coker (PS) John A. Conway (CC)

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Adam Patrick Cooper 1994 Tonya Craft David Hunt Culpepper 1980 (PS) David C. Davis (CC) Scott Essex Colleen Susan Fagan 2002 *Donald P. Fortenberry 1962 Veronica Grace Freeman (SCC) Catherine R. Freis (CC) *Richard S. Freis (CC) Stanley Galicki (CC) Delbert E. Gann (SCC) Paula Garrett (PS) Nola Kay Gibson (SCC) Michael Ray Grubbs 1973 (PS) *Charles Robert Hallford 1967 Mark Allen Hamon William Ken Harmon (PS) James B. Harris (SCC) Rachel P. Heard Thomas W. Henderson (DA) Jean H. Heslin (CC) Louise Perkins Hetrick 1966 *Dick R. Highfill (CC) Patrick D. Hopkins (CC) Patrick G. James (CC) Rushton W. Johnson Janice Jordan 1997 (CC) Robert J. Kahn R. Brit Katz (PS-F) Asif Khandker (CC) Vernon E. King (SCC) Wolfgang H. Kramer Katherine Stark Landrum 1983 Martha McMullin Lee Charles R. Lewis (PS) W. Criss Lott 1978 (SCC) Frances Lucas (PS-S) Mark James Lynch 1976 (SCC) Larry E. Madison (CC) R. Dudley Marble (SCC) Suzanne Marrs Robert S. McElvaine David G. Miller (CC) **Lucy Webb Millsaps (SCC) Julian Mills Murchison Walter P. Neely (PS) Robert B. Nevins (SCC) Linda S. Nix Elmer Marshall Palmer (CC) Trenee Pennington Palmer (CC) Laura Pitre *Francis E. Polanski (SCC) *Sandra Polanski (SCC) Peggy W. Prenshaw (PS-S) Penelope J. Prenshaw (CC) Jimmie M. Purser 1965 H. Lynn Raley Darby K. Ray Dora Gail Robertson 1997 (CC) Todd Spencer Rose (PS) Donald R. Schwartz (CC) Hunter Rumsey Scott (CC) Elise Smith (DA) Richard A. Smith (PS)

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Steven G. Smith (DA) Kristina L. Stensaas Ruth E. Stewart William M. Storey (CC) *Don E. Strickland Vicki Stuart (CC) Theresa Surber (CC) **Jonathan M. Sweat (PS-S) Patrick Taylor (CC) Susan Washburn Taylor (CC) Andrew Kurt Thaw Ming Tsui Paul Andrew Van Hooydonk (DA) Marlys T. Vaughn (CC) Patti Page Wade (SCC) Holly Wagner (PS) **Jerry D. Whitt (PS) *Sue Yeager Whitt (PS) Timothy Allan Wise 1989 *Jack L. Woodward 1951 (PS) *Nelda W. Woodward Rebecca C. Youngblood 1973 (SC) Sanford C. Zale Parents (Includes parents of current and former Millsaps students) *indicates a gift to the 2005–06 Parents Fund for Campus Improvement Ms. Betty C. Adams (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Hans W. Adams (SCC) Dr. and Mrs. James G. Adams *Mr. and Mrs. John E. Adams III *Mr. and Mrs. Mulak R. Ahuja Mr. and Mrs. James T. Alderman (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Alderson (SCC) The Rev. Jane B. Alexander Dr. and Mrs. Ted J. Alexander (DA) Dr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Alford (DA) *Mr. Henry T. Allain Mr. Edgar L. Allen Dr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Allen *Jerry E. Allen and Patricia J. Wyatt Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Alley *Mr. and Mrs. Tim L. Allred *Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Ameen (PS) Mrs. Edgar L. Anderson Jr. (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Mark K. Anderson (DA) *Mr. and Mrs. Michael Anderson (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Anderson *Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Andrus III (DA) Mr. and Mrs. William F. Angell (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Antone *Mr. and Mrs. John Antonini (CC) The Rev. and Mrs. William F. Appleby Sr. (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. John Arnold (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Lee Arrington (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Nickolas E. Arther The Rev. and Mrs. John L. Ash III (CC) Mr. and Mrs. M. Wayne Atkinson (CC) Dr. William K. Austin (PS)

*Mr. and Mrs. Usama Y. Awwad Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Ayres *Mr. and Mrs. Gregory B. Baber (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Wesley R. Bailey Jr. (CC) Mr. and Mrs. William D. Bailey *Mr. and Mrs. William L. Baker Ms. Ida G. Ballard (PS-F) Mr. and Mrs. H. Allen Ballenger Jr. (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Balton Dr. and Mrs. Richard B. Baltz (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Joel E. Barber (SCC) Mrs. Mary Jane Barber (CC) *Mr. Samuel R. Bardwell Mrs. Janet V. Barham The Rev. and Mrs. Ronald J. Barham (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barlow Mrs. Lynn B. Barlow *Ms. Patricia D. Barlow Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Barnes (CC) Colonel and Mrs. John R. Barr (CC) Mr. Stewart Barry Mr. Kenneth L. Bass (SCC) Mr. Wallace W. Bass (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Batson (CC) Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. John A. Beal The Rev. and Mrs. Jerry B. Beam *Dr. and Mrs. Jerry S. Beam Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Bebensee (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Beeks *Sargent Major and Mrs. August Beilmann *Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Belden (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Bell *Mr. and Mrs. James K. Bell *Mr. and Mrs. Mark Bellish (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Bender Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery A. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Charles Benvenutti (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. David C. Berry (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Roy A. Berry Jr. (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best Mr. and Mrs. William Bibb Mr. Clyde W. Biddle (SC) *The Rev.s James P. and D. Claire Biedenharn *Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Bishop Dr. Ruth W. and Mr. D. C. Black Jr. (CC) The Rev. and Mrs. Warren C. Black Jr. (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Blades (PS) Mr. William F. Blair (DA) *Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Blanche Mr. and Mrs. David Blaylock Dr. Richard L. and The Rev. Dr. Martha Blount (PS) *Mr. and Mrs. Adam Blumer Jr. (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. James A. Bobo (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. D. Keith Boland *Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Bonneau Mr. Paul R. Boone Mr. and Mrs. John R. Booth II (DA) Drs. Philip G. and Janis C. Booth (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Wallace L. Boteler The Rev. and Mrs. John L. Bowie

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*Mr. and Mrs. George Frierson II (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fromkin Dr. and Mrs. Harry C. Frye Jr. (PS) The Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Furr (CC) Mrs. Carolyn H. Gaby Mr. and Mrs. John M. Gannon Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gardner (CC) Judge and Mrs. Thomas Gardner III (SCC) Mr. Joe E. Garvin (CC) *Dr. and Mrs. James J. Gaudet (CC) *Dr. and Mrs. Don A. Gibson Sr. (CC) *Dr. Nola K. Gibson (SCC) Mrs. Janet W. Gildermaster (PS-S) Mr. and Mrs. George E. Gillespie Jr. (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Leon L. Giorgio (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Leo P. Giurintano (SCC) Dr. Christina Glick (PS) Mr. and Mrs. F. Russell Glidewell III (CC) Mr. David K. Glisson Mr. and Mrs. John R. Golliher Mr. and Mrs. Jerry C. Goode Mr. and Mrs. Gary Goodenough (CC) Mr. and Mrs. William F. Goodman Jr. (PS) *Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Goodwin (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Gorham Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Gosnell Jr. The Rev. and Mrs. Duncan Gray Jr. (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Tim D. Gray (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Greaney (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Green (SCC) *Ms. Nicki M. Green Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Greene Sr. Dr. and Mrs. David N. Greenhaw (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt L. Greer *Mr. and Mrs. William C. Griffin (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Grimes Mr. V. W. Grisham *Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Grissom (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Gulledge Sr. (SCC) Mrs. Jane Gunn *Drs. Rao J. and Kumari V. Gutti (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. T. Craig Hadley *Mr. and Mrs. Imad Hajj (SC) Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Hall Jr. (PS-M) The Rev. and Mrs. Charles R. Hallford Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Hamblen (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Hanna Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Hapgood Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Harb (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hardin (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Phillip D. Hardwick (CC) Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Harkins III (CC) Dr. and Mrs. George M. Harmon (CC) *Ms. Mary A. Harmon Ms. Cindy A. Harris (CC) *Dr. and Mrs. James Huel Harris (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harrison (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Greg Hartzog Mr. and Mrs. Roger C. Hastings *Mr. and Mrs. David Havird Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawkins (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Claude P. Hays III

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*Mr. Robert K. Mitchell (CC) The Rev. and Mrs. T. Jerry Mitchell (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. James F. Mixson *Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Mizerany (SCC) The Rev. and Mrs. Warren Curtis Moffat Mr. and Mrs. Bob Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Moody Mrs. Emma J. Moore *Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Moore (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Moreton III (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Winfred H. Morgan (CC) Mrs. Sue Ann Morris Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cooper Morrison (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Morrison Jr. (PS-M) *Mr. and Mrs. Craig P. Morrow The Rev. and Mrs. John H. Morrow Jr. (CC) Mrs. Susan Y. Mosley *Mr. Rickey D. Murrell Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Musso Dr. and Mrs. Brad Mutchler (PS-S) Mrs. Dorothy P. Myers (CC) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mylroie *Mrs. Vivian V. Napier Mrs. Barbara B. Neel Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. Neely (PS) Mr. and Mrs. John A. Neill Sr. (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Nevins (SCC) *Drs. Jefferson L. Newbern III and Jeanne Newbern (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin W. Nichols Jr. (SC) Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Wis Nichols Jr. (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Marco W. Nicovich *Mr. Charles W. Norton (CC) *Ms. Sharon H. Norton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. O’Beirne (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. O’Brien (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Allen L. Odum Sr. *Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oglesbee (CC) *The Rev. and Mrs. Ross A. Olivier Ms. Nancy A. O’Neal Mrs. Martha Oseman The Rev.s Luther S. and Janet S. Ott (PS-M) Mr. and Mrs. John C. Ozier (CC) Ms. Ann R. Pace *Mr. and Mrs. John Pacillo III (DA) Mr. William H. and Dr. Judith Page (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Suman K. Pahwa Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Palmer (DA) Dr. and Mrs. Ravi Pande *Mr. and Mrs. John F. Papale (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Paradise *Dr. and Mrs. Satish Pareek (CC) Mr. and Mrs. James L. Parker (SCC) *Mrs. Janien D. Parker (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Parker (CC) Drs. William H. and Judy Parker (PS) Mr. and Mrs. Rodney H. Paulk Mrs. Jeanne M. Peet (CC)

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“Millsaps was a beacon of light at a time of political darkness.”

—Randall Pinkston B.A. 1973 CBS News Correspondent 2006 Commencement Speaker

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Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robertson (CC) Mrs. Elizabeth A. Robertson *Dr. and Mrs. Michael Robichaux (PS) The Rev. and Mrs. Joseph O. Robinson (CC) Mr. Charlton S. Roby Sr. (PS) Mrs. Marie Roby (PS) *Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Rochelle Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Ragan Rodgers (SCC) Mrs. Bobbie N. Roe Mr. and Mrs. Lewis P. Rogers (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Rolen (SC) *Mr. and Mrs. James A. Rollins Mr. and Mrs. Jacques H. Roman IV (CC) *Mr. and Mrs. Scott Roth Dr. and Mrs. Glen A. Rountree *Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Rutledge (SCC) Dr. and Mrs. Marcelo J. Ruvinsky *Dr. and Mrs. Naim J. Salloum (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Fred N. Salvo Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John C. Sandefur (CC) Mr. Ernest D. Sanders (CC) *Dr. and Mrs. Jack C. Sanford Jr (CC) *Mr. John S. Sargent (CC) *Ms. Karol K. Sargent (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Sawyer Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sawyer (SCC) The Rev. and Mrs. Bryan T. Scarbrough (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Scharr (SC) *Mr. and Mrs. William Schettler (SC) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Schmidt (SCC) *Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. Schnec Mr. and Mrs. James R. Schoolar Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Schott Mr. and Mrs. Andre Schwitter (PS) *Mr. David A. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Tom B. Scott Jr. (PS) Mr. and Mrs. John E. Seddelmeyer (PS-S) Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. Sellers Mrs. Marion C. Senteno (CC) Ms. Liz Serpa Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Sethi (PS-M) *Mr. and Mrs. Rickey Settlemires (SCC) Mrs. William E. Shanks *Mr. and Mrs. Andy Sharp Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Shaw (CC) Mr. and Mrs. A. Jerry Sheldon (CC) Mr. and Mrs. David C. Shelton (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Albert P. Shepherd Jr. (SCC)

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Mrs. Carol Bergmark (DA) Dr. R. Edward Bergmark (DA) Mrs. Rita Bizzell (DA) Mrs. Katie Black Mrs. Sarah C. Blackwood Mrs. Catherine Bland Mrs. Rebecca K. Blythe (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Boone (CC) Mr. David R. Bowen Dr. D. Royce Boyer (DA) Mr. Allen E. Brewer (SCC) Mr. James F. Brooke III (DA) Mrs. Marjorie Broome (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Cleve Brown Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Brown (CC) Ms. Polly M. Brown Mrs. Jane P. Brumby Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Buckley Mr. John R. Buhrman (CC) Mrs. Sharron S. Burch (SCC) Mrs. Ingrid S. Burnett Mrs. Joanne M. Burnett Brigadier General Dick Burney Ret Mr. Robert Burns Mr. and Mrs. Duke Cain (DA) Mr. William M. Cameron (CC) Mr. William R. Capps (DA) Mrs. Sarah W. Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Carter S. M. Shettar and S. Chandraiah Mr. William I. Chenault (CC) Mr. James K. Child Jr. Mrs. Dorothy H. Christesen (CC) Rev. Henry C. Clay Jr. (SCC) Mr. Philip M. Coburn Mr. Lee E. Coker Dr. W. Q. Cole Mrs. Janice D. Connor Mr. John A. Conway Jr. (CC) Mr. Jack Cooke Mrs. Elizabeth W. Copeland (CC) Mr. C. R. Cox (SCC) Mr. and Mrs. Blythe B. Cragon Rev. Tom Crosby Jr. (CC) Mrs. Gloria M. Culbreth Ms. Rebecca M. Cutler (CC) Ms. Laurie L. Davidson Mrs. Janet E. Davis (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dean Mr. Wayne E. Derrington Mrs. Peggy Joy Dumas (CC) Mr. Henry N. Dupree (CC) Jean K. Durkee Mrs. Katherine Eck Mr. Tim Ellis Mr. Billy E. Ellison Mr. and Mrs. John F. England Ms. Sue Estroff (SCC) Mrs. Cornelia S. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Farr Mr. Irving Feldman Dr. E. Harold Fisher (CC) Mr. Richard Flanagan (DA) Dr. and Mrs. James D. Fly Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Foreman

Mrs. Kaye Fortenberry Mrs. Jane D. Fox Mr. and Mrs. Bill Franks (CC) Dr. William D. Frazier (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Rod Freeman Mr. William W. Fuller (SCC) Mr. Colby Galey Mrs. Connie Galloway (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Gardes (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Garlington Mr. and Mrs. John H. Geary (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gollner Mr. Henry Granberry (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Marty Gray (SCC) Mr. James B. Grenfell Mr. and Mrs. James H. Grier and Sons (CC) Dr. Richard Gruetzemacher Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Guerin Han Beng Gunn (CC) Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Guy (SCC) Mr. Maurice Gwinner (SCC) Mr. Robert Halford (DA) Mrs. Kay K. Haltom (CC) Dr. and Mrs. George Hamilton (CC) Ms. Marla Harbor (SCC) Ms. Sarah F. Hardy (CC) Mrs. Bernadette Hawkins (SCC) Mr. Kent L. Hayes (SCC) Ms. Martha Hederman Ms. Gail Henderson (SCC) Mr. Gerald M. Henson Mrs. Marilyn S. Hetrick (CC) Mr. Andrew J. Higgins Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Hines Mr. Kenneth E. Hodges Mr. Cam Hoge Mr. Michael J. Hrivnak Mr. Donald C. Hubbard Mr. and Mrs. Rennix Isner Mr. William D. Jackson (DA) Mrs. Elaine Jarratt (SC) Mr. and Mrs. Hal Jeanes (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Jones (SCC) Ms. Barbara Juister Mr. W. A. Kean (SC) Ms. Margaret S. Kessels Mrs. Nazneen Khandker (CC) Dr. Darnita R. Killian (SC) Ms. Nancy King (SCC) Mr. Ralph N. King Mrs. Susan King Mr. Jeffrey A. Klingfuss (SCC) Mrs. Dyna R. Kohler Mrs. Marcella LaFoe Mr. and Mrs. Willem L. Lamar (SCC) Ms. Jean M. Lamkin (SCC) Ms. Martha J. Langford (CC) Mr. J. Henry LaRose III Mr. Jack Laws (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Lee Ms. Tressa K. Love (CC) Ms. Marian P. Lowry (SCC) Dr. and Mrs. Aubrey K. Lucas (SCC) Mr. Aubrey Bell Lucas

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Mrs. Nelwyn Madison (CC) Ms. Laura Magee (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Windell J. Manuel Mrs. Betty M. Marble (SCC) Dr. Daniel J. Margolin Mr. and Mrs. Brian Martin Mrs. Margery L. Martin (SCC) Mrs. Cynthia Maxey (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Bob L. McCullough Mr. and Mrs. Bryan McDonald (DA) Mr. David J. McDougall Jr. Ms. Tara McGowan Mr. William D. McKellar (CC) Mrs. Molly McKenzie (SCC) Ms. Patricia McLain (DA) Ms. Patricia C. McMullan (SCC) Mr. Edward W. McRae Mr. Bernard D. Meltzer (SCC) Mrs. Starr Miller (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Miskelly Ms. Charlotte Montague (CC) Mr. R. Wilson Montjoy II (CC) Mrs. Nellie R. Moore Ms. Jane Morgan Mrs. Joy Morgan (CC) Mrs. Michele Morgan Mrs. Raleigh M. Morris (SCC) Mrs. Sandra S. Morris Mr. and Mrs. John G. Morten Ms. Bobbie N. Mortimer Mr. D. L. Mumpower Mr. and Mrs. Glen Myers (CC) Dr. Magdalena R. Naylor (CC) Mr. James A. Newquist (SCC) Mr. R. Nash Neyland Ms. Margaret O. Nicholas (CC) Mrs. Narma L. Nicholas Mr. Randolph Noble Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Major B. Norman Mr. Henry A. Paben (SCC) Ms. Michelle Partridge (DA) Ms. Lisa L. Perry (SCC) Mr. Scott Phillips Mr. Maurice J. Picheloup III Mr. Brad Pigott Mr. and Mrs. Don Powell (SCC) Mrs. Jeanette Prescott (CC) Mr. and Mrs. George L. Ranager (DA) Mrs. Helen B. Ranager Mr. and Mrs. R. Vance Randall Mr. Tim Renfroe Mrs. Ann C. Reynolds (DA) Mrs. Betty Ricks (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Roberts Mr. Ronald E. Robinson (SCC) Mrs. Bebe Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rodgers (SC) Mrs. Sheryl H. Rogers (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Jack Root Mr. Thomas A. Ross Jr. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Rush (CC) Mrs. Linda K. Russell (CC) Mr. John Ryan (CC) Mr. Jassie M. Sample Mrs. Penny L. Samuels (SCC)

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Dr. F. H. Savoie (SCC) Dr. John Schimmel (CC) Mr. and Mrs. George J. Schnepf (CC) Mr. Gregory and Dr. Jennifer Schulmeier (SCC) Ms. Bronwyn Scott (DA) Mr. Joseph D. Sevick Mrs. Kim Sewell Mrs. W. C. Shands Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shaw III Ms. Dorothy Shawhan Mr. William D. Shepherd Dr. Robert J. Sigsby Dr. Edward B. Singleton (SC) Mr. Alexander M. Sivewright (CC) Mr. and Mrs. Don A. Skelton (CC) Ms. Lynn Slack Mr. and Mrs. Dan C. Smith (CC) Mrs. Elise B. Smith (CC) Dr. J. G. Smith (DA) Ms. Jan S. Songy Mr. Jeffrey Sonis (SCC) Rev. John W. Steen Jr. Mr. J. Dan Stephens Jr. Mr. John Stroud (SCC) Mr. and Dr. Wayne Sullivan Mr. Fred A. Tarpley Jr. Mrs. Patricia C. Tate Mr. Paul Tauchar (CC) Mrs. Judy J. Taylor (CC) Mr. Leonard F. Thomas Mr. Trevor D. Thomas (CC) Mr. Paul T. Thordarson Mr. and Mrs. Ken Toler Mr. James W. Troy Mrs. Janie B. Upchurch Mr. and Mrs. Joel E. Varner Mr. and Mrs. Paul Varner (CC) Mr. David Velten Ms. Carmon Vestal Mr. Robert D. Vought (DA) Mr. Roger D. Watts Mrs. Melissa Weaver Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Weaver (DA) Ms. Linda M. Webster Mr. Erskine W. Wells Mrs. Rebecca Wheeler (DA) Mr. and Mrs. C. R. White Mr. and Mrs. William L. White III (CC) Mr. and Mrs. E. Marcus Wiggs III (SCC) Dr. Lester S. Wilson (DA) Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Wiman Mr. Reese M. Wise Mr. James W. Wood Dr. and Mrs. Allen R. Yates Mr. Wilson Yates (CC) Ms. Doris W. Yock Corporations, Foundations, and Organizations 4th AND 1 (PS-M) Alabama Directory Albemarle Corporation American College Marketing

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Hire Dynamics (PS-S) The Hogg Family Charitable Corporation (PS-M) The Florence O. Hopkins Charitable Fund (PS-F) Horne CPA Group Houghton Mifflin Company HPS Oil and Gas Properties (PS-S) Jackson Iron and Metal (PS-S) Jackson Jewish Welfare Fund Jackson Optimist Club-Boys Work Jackson Vaughan Agency (PS) Langston Law Firm (PS-M) Lilly Endowment (PS-M) Judge Little Company H. F. McCarty Jr. Family Foundation (PS-M) McInnis Electric Company (PS) Southwood Realty (PS-S) Selby and Richard McRae Foundation (PS-M) Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (PS-M) Miller and Hamer Millsaps College - Alumni Relations Office Millsaps College - Beta Beta Beta Millsaps College - Center for Ministry Millsaps College - Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity Theta Eta Zeta Millsaps College - Sigma Alpha Epsilon Millsaps College - Student Affairs Mississippi Baptist Health Systems Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church (PS-M) Mississippi Dental Association (PS) Mississippi Foundation of Independent Colleges (PS-M) Mississippi Power Education (PS) Mississippi Puppetry Guild (PS-F) Mississippi Tennis Association Morrison Development (PS) National Awards Ben Nelson Golf and Utility Newtann Limited Partnership Northpark Acura The Northside Sun John Palmer Foundation (PS-S) P. P. I. (PS-M) Parkway Properties The Pittman McLengan Group Porter Loring Mortuaries (PS-F) Preston Derivaux Agency Prism Automotive Service Rabbi Discretionary Fund Ridgeway Realty (PS-S) Ross and Yerger S. R. Inc. Saks Sanderson Farms (PS-M) Scholarship America (PS-M) Leo W. Seal Family Foundation (PS-M) Service Printers Sharon’s Coiffure Salon Siemens Building Technology St. Dominic Health Services (PS-F)

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Andrew B. Adams Katie Anderson Frances Brevard Antley Dwight W. Andrus IV Howard G. Bavender Catherine C. Benvenutti Roy A. Berry Jr. B_O Sorority Elizabeth Black Brent D. Blackburn Gail Alexander Buzhardt Christopher J. Campbell Edward F. Childress John H. Christmas Julye L. Clark Cheryl Coker Lee E. Coker Timothy C. Coker Sherwood Colette Gina M. Colon Sarah E. Cowan Mia M. Cowgill Erika Cruz James O. Darnell Paul T Dearing Benjamin L. Downer Anna K. Ellis Meghan N. Federico Dr. and Mrs. N. Bond Fleming Donald P. Fortenberry Nickolas J. Fowler Doris B. Fowlkes Lisa Garvin Kellie Lee Giorgio John Goerlich Emily C. Greaney John L. Guest Ann Carter Gulledge Jerry Babb Gulledge Maurice H. Hall Charles R.”Chuck” Hallford Drew Harmon Tal Hendrix Major C. Hollis Roy Horne Adam T. Huffman Joyce Hunt Jewel H. Johnson Rose Johnson Ron Jurney Sue Kessler Brent Lafavor Rachel Anne Laney Viveca P. Latham Clay Foster Lee Lauren A. Lippincott Helen A. Loring Frances Lucas Mary Markley Cathy Martella Carrie E. McDonnell James P. McVaugh Yale P. Murphy Jefferson L. Newbern IV

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The generosity of many individuals, families, and foundations is directly responsible for the scholarship funds at Millsaps. The scholarships listed below were established before July 1, 2006, and provide the funding for our merit- and need-based institutional aid.

• H. V. and Carol Howie Allen Endowed Scholarship Fund • Robert E. Anding Endowed Scholarship Fund

“It never fails. Faculty from other schools are inevitably envious of the Millsaps community and the campus-wide

• Annie Redfield and Abe Rhodes Artz Endowed Scholarship Fund • Asbury Foundation Endowed Scholarship Fund • Burlie Bagley Endowed Scholarship Fund • Violet Khayat Baker Endowed Scholarship Fund

involvement in our conversation about writing.”

—Dr. Paula Garrett Director Millsaps Writing Program

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• Michael J. (Duke) Barbee Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund • Professor Howard Bavender Endowed Scholarship Fund • Professor Howard Bavender Sponsored Scholarship Fund • Bell-Vincent Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Allen Bishop, Gene Cain, and Al Berry Endowed Scholarship Fund

• J. Blaine and Bertha S. Brown Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Kathryn and Derwood Blackwell Scholarship Fund

• Dr. T. M. Brownlee and Dan F. Crumpton Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Kevin and Tina Blackwell Sponsored Scholarship Fund

• C. Leland Byler Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Maj. Gen. Robert and Alice Ridgway Blount Drama Endowed Scholarship Fund

• A. Boyd Campbell Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Roy N. and Hallie L. Boggan Sponsored Scholarship Fund • Alfred Bourgeois Sponsored Scholarship Fund • Cawthon A. Bowen and Nellie Sloss Bowen Endowed Scholarship Fund • Daniel S. Bowling Jr. Sponsored Scholarship Fund • Jesse and Ruth Brent Scholarship Fund

• Bergmark Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Pet and Randall Brewer Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Dr. Robert E. Bergmark Endowed Scholarship Fund

• W. H. Brewer Endowed Scholarship Fund

• George and Sheryl Bey Sponsored Scholarship Fund

• Lucile Mars Bridges Endowed Scholarship Fund

• J. E. Birmingham Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Rev and Mrs. A. M. Broadfoot Memorial Scholarship Fund

• James Boyd Campbell Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund • Charles Noel Carney Endowed Scholarship Fund • CFS-Sun Tech Servicing Katrina Relief Scholarship Fund • Henry Elbert Chatham Environmental Studies Endowed Scholarship Fund • Dr. Elbert Alston Cheek and Son Endowed Scholarship Fund • Cheney Memorial Scholarship Fund in Memory of Reynolds Smith Cheney and Winifred Green Cheney and Allan Walker Cheney • Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Clark Endowed Scholarship Fund • G. C. Clark Jr. and Frances R. Clark Scholarship Fund

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• Coca-Cola Foundation Minority Endowed Scholarship Fund • Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Sponsored Scholarship Fund • Louise Vivian Cortright and Dorothy Louise Cortright Endowed Scholarship Fund • Ella Lee Williams Cortright and Dorothy Louise Cortright Endowed Scholarship Fund • George Caldwell Cortright Endowed Scholarship Fund • George Curtis Cortright Endowed Scholarship Fund • Ira Sherman Cortright and Dorothy Louise Cortright Endowed Scholarship Fund • Magnolia Coullet Endowed Scholarship Fund

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• Josie Millsaps Fitzhugh Scholarship Fund

• John L. Guest Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Ralph and Hazel Hon Endowed Scholarship Fund

• Helene B. Fleming Memorial Sponsored Scholarship Fund

• Haining Family Endowed Scholarship Fund

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Between Welty And Millsaps, A Worn Path

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A cultural partnership brings Mississippi’s first lady of letters back to our door

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Hubert Worley Jr.

NEVER DOUBTED THAT IMAGINING yourself into other people’s lives is exactly what writing fiction is,” Eudora Welty once said. Now, through an alliance between Millsaps and the Eudora Welty Foundation, students and faculty have the opportunity to “imagine” the author into their own lives and work.

Indeed, the opening last spring of the Eudora Welty House as a literary museum, just three blocks away from campus, allows those interested in Welty’s writing and photography to expand their understanding of this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who died in 2001.

The house and garden offer a richly detailed glimpse into the creative process of the writer known for such short stories as “Why I Live at the P.O.,” “Petrified Man,” and “A Worn Path,” the novels Delta Wedding and The Optimist’s Daughter, and many other works. Welty’s home illuminates her personality and values: The books that inspired her line the shelves, paintings and personal photographs adorn the walls, and the very desk and typewriter upon which she wrote are in place in the upstairs bedroom.

Welty’s relationship with Millsaps began almost half a century ago. She spoke at a campus symposium in 1960, the 1963 Southern Literary Festival, the Civic Arts Festival in 1964, and the Arts & Lecture Series several times. She has been particularly remembered for her impact on the College during that 1963 literary festival.

At the time, the festival was hosted by all-white institutions—including Millsaps, which was still segregated. Welty agreed to be the festival’s keynote speaker, with one request: Her audience should be integrated. The Millsaps administration agreed, and Tougaloo College professors and students were invited.

She was the College’s writer-in-residence from 1964 to 1966, was awarded a doctor of humane letters degree in 1969, joined the Board of Trustees in 1978, and became a Life Trustee in 1985.

The Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Studies was created in her honor in 1983 (and first held by Cleanth Brooks), and her 75th birthday was celebrated with an international literary festival on campus in 1984. And Welty has read and discussed her work in classes, forums, seminars, and at other campus gatherings. fall-winter 2006

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Dr. Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, welcoming staff and faculty to the Eudora Welty House during a Millsaps tour last spring.

As the relationship between Eudora Welty’s legacy and Millsaps College continues to evolve, English courses, conferences, lecture series, and tours are stimulating increased interest not only in the author, but also in the College itself.

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TUDENTS OF DR. SUZANNE MARRS, the current Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence, have had the opportunity to inventory Welty’s correspondence and library and prepare the collection for use by researchers at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Easy access to the home and belongings of such a renowned writer is almost unheard of, and the opportunity to read, organize, and engage with Welty’s work is a benefit of the College’s proximity to the home and its relationship with the Eudora Welty Foundation. “Using the students [to inventory Welty’s work] gives them an ability to look firsthand at literary correspondence that no one has seen yet, and that is a rare privilege for them,” said Hank Holmes, B.A. 1973, director of MDAH. Kate Dyess Fillingim, B.A. 2005, studied Welty’s work under Marrs in fall 2003. “At a glance, the Welty house is refreshingly unpretentious, quite obviously a home,” she said. “Working with Welty’s personal correspondence and cataloguing her books gave me a more tangible sense of the writer as a real person. I loved thumbing

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through her books and finding her often humorous notes penciled in the margin. You never knew what Welty had tucked away between the pages—letters from well-known people or just a grocery list.

“I often found myself sitting on the sofa, reading and wondering what Welty was working on when she first read that same book.

It was fascinating to look through her library and begin to see how her literary interests reappear in the imaginative and extraordinary elements of her stories.”

In addition, there is Welty’s Belhaven neighborhood, where many residents have specific, personal, and evocative memories of how the writer lived. Students at Millsaps can tap these sources for information that cannot be found in books. There is a vibrant living memory here of an author who was deeply immersed in the community just a short time ago. The answer to almost any question about Welty rarely seems more than a couple of Jacksonians away.

Welty & Artistic Transformations

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N SPRING 2006, MARRS’S CLASS and lecture series “Eudora Welty and Artistic Transformations” brought an interdisciplinary dimension and a diversified audience to the author’s work. Millsaps and the Eudora Welty Foundation invited three artists to campus to discuss the challenges of interpreting Welty’s complex and densely layered writing.

Bruce Schwartz, a Los Angeles filmmaker and associate professor

of literature and film at Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes, spoke about the way he started by examining Welty’s text and then California, was the first guest of the lecture series. He discussed the decided what he wanted to do with the piece, and the way the proprocess of translating Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” into film. cess progressed.

No stranger to this conversion process, Schwartz has adapted many Alfred Uhry, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play Driving Miss pieces of classic American short fiction, including John Updike’s Daisy and an Academy Award for the screenplay based on that work, “A&P,” Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral,” Langston Hughes’s “Salva- was the final speaker of the series. Uhry lectured on his musical play tion,” Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use,” and Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here The Robber Bridegroom—based on Welty’s novella—which found Ironing.” success on Broadway. Three years before Uhry’s campus visit, the The second speaker of the series was Samuel Jones, B.A. 1957. Millsaps Players had performed The Robber Bridegroom in the ChrisJones, composer-in-residence for the Seattle Symphony Orches- tian Center auditorium. tra, composed Eudora’s Fable: The Shoe Bird, based on Welty’s only He said that after reading the novella he realized that it would children’s book. Jones was commissioned in 2000 to adapt Eudora’s make “a terrific musical.” So he wrote to Welty and was touched Fable for the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Mississippi that she responded with a handwritten letter. So he pursued the Boychoir, established and directed by Millsaps alumna Margaret project, always with an eye to remaining as faithful as possible to the story—even when pressure came from the producers and early (Ewing) Thomas, B.A. 1958.

When Thomas suggested “The Shoe Bird” as the basis for his audiences to cut bawdy or violent scenes.

“I didn’t think I pulled it off,” Uhry said, “but Eudora Welty was commissioned piece, Jones was somewhat skeptical. “Turning this long and rather rambling story into a succinct piece for narrator so gracious about it.”

Uhry said he learned to appreciate the difficulties of adapting to and orchestra and the Boychoir, it seemed like it just wouldn’t fit,” Jones recalled. “Another feature of its unlikeliness in my mind at the stage the work of a writer whose characters are drawn using so that point was that it’s … full of witty puns, at least half of which much interior material. “I was young then,” he said. “Now, I would could be appreciated only by an adult sense of humor.” Despite the obstacles, the distinctive texture of Welty’s writing inspired Jones to compose a piece twice as long as he had originally envisioned.

Jones’s The Trumpet of the Swan is also based on Welty’s work, this one on two stories from The Golden Apples : “June Recital” and “The Wanderers.” Millsaps College commissioned the composition for the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Millsaps Singers. The Millsaps Singers and the Jackson Symphony Orchestra (now the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra), under the direction of Dr. Timothy Coker, premiered the piece in 1985.

“I have been a resident composer at many colleges throughout my life,” Jones said, “and in every instance I’ve been a guest of the music department. It was a great pleasure to be invited by the Eng- Amy Steadman, curator of the Eudora Welty House, explaining the author’s “cut-and-pin” technique for revising her manuscripts. lish department.” Jones stayed on campus for a week, going to Marrs’s classes twice and giving his try to honor the dark side of the story more.”

Both Uhry and Jones provided behind-the-scenes glimpses into public lecture.

“Suzanne had really done a terrific job of preparing the stu- their efforts to interpret Welty. “I find that people are very interested dents, and they had read the works beforehand and had lots of in the creative process, and they love to have a look at what goes on insightful questions,” Jones said of his visits to the classroom. He to pull these things off,” Jones said. fall–winter 2006

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Visitors to the Eudora Welty House can see the desk in the upstairs bedroom where Welty wrote her world-renowned short stories, novels, and novellas.

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N FEBRUARY 2006, MARRS and Dr. Peggy Prenshaw, a colleague in the Millsaps English department, led high school teachers from across the state in a course on teaching Welty’s fiction. Fifty teachers attended this program, which was sponsored by the Millsaps Teachers’ Institute and the Eudora Welty Foundation, and discussed ways of incorporating Welty’s works into a variety of classes.

“For students in Mississippi classrooms, Welty’s stories are particularly engaging because she writes about the natural world that they know and recognize,” said Prenshaw, humanities scholarin-residence and former Eudora Welty Chair. “And she writes about characters in ways that make us care and wonder about them—what makes them tick.

“In the teachers’ workshop, we shared many of Welty’s own comments about reading fiction. Stories, she said, were supposed to be suggestive, not fixed in symbols like some algebraic equation.

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hopes to suggest all kinds of possibilities,’ she said. That’s an encouraging way for teachers and students to think about reading stories.”

Marrs said the institute also gave qualified teachers the opportunity to discuss literature on a scholarly level with their peers and published Welty scholars.

Marrs wrote her dissertation on Ralph Waldo Emerson and had never encountered Welty’s work until she had already begun teaching at the State University of New York at Oswego. On a trip home to Oklahoma in 1975, a family friend recommended that Marrs read Losing Battles. She did—and loved it.

When Marrs went on sabbatical in 1980, she began to study Welty in more depth and wrote her first articles about the author.

In 1983, she came to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to do research on—and meet—Eudora Welty. After teaching at Millsaps in the summer of 1984, Marrs returned to Jackson on a yearlong grant as the Welty Scholar-in-Residence at MDAH and finally came to Millsaps permanently in 1988.

The close friendship Marrs developed with Welty led to long discussions about the writer’s work. When Marrs had a question about the author, her writing, or influences on her writing, she

Her Own Words

could ask her directly. “I learned a lot from her about fiction and the writing of fiction,” Marrs said, “not because she was trying to teach me, but just because of who she was.”

Marrs would ask Welty about the origins of her stories. For instance, Welty was inspired to write the short story “The Whistle” after she had gone to stay with a friend in Utica. She awoke with alarm when she heard a loud siren. Her friend met her in the hall and explained that the ruckus was the way her uncle warned the tomato farmers that there was going to be a freeze.

When Welty looked out of the window the next morning, she saw nightgowns, sheets, and other kinds of cloth covering the ground to protect the crops. When she fictionalized the story, Welty added a scene of her own devising, in which the tenant farming couple burn their furniture to try to keep warm after covering their plants. The story of “The Whistle” thus emerged from Welty’s observation and imagination to depict the desperation and vulnerability inflicted by the Great Depression.

Thanks, perhaps, to the recommendation three decades ago that Marrs read Losing Battles, she became the foremost Welty scholar in America and wrote the widely acclaimed Eudora Welty: A Biography with the permission of Welty herself. Marrs also is the author of One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty and The Welty Col-

lection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She is also co-editor of EudoraWelty and Politics: Did the Writer Crusade?

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VENTUALLY, MARRS HOPES TO expand the Welty Foundation’s partnership with the Millsaps Teachers’ Institute so that high school teachers from across the country can enhance their teaching of Welty’s fiction. A summer conference of lectures at Millsaps about Welty has also been proposed.

Furthermore, with the centennial of Welty’s birth in 2009, plans are in the works between Millsaps and the Welty Foundation to hold events all year long to commemorate this great Mississippi author.

The landmark year has already garnered the attention of many national and local groups, including the Eudora Welty Society. The organization, which promotes Welty studies through conferences and meetings, has expressed interest in participating in and facilitating the events.

Welty’s work can affect and inspire artists and students across the disciplines. “It’s just so universal, and the roots of the interaction are so good and so true, and then there’s the exalted language,” composer Jones said. “You are climbing a whole series of Everests when you are working with her words.”

I met Miss Welty 30 years ago this fall, during my first semester teaching at Millsaps, at Paul Hardin’s house on West Street, across from the College. Paul was not only a longtime English professor but also the registrar, and he was having the English department over for cocktails. When Miss Welty arrived, Paul fixed her a drink and called me over and introduced me as the new member of the department. He added that I was going to teach creative writing and that I was a writer.

She looked at me a little askance and smiled with what I came to regard as her look of tolerant amusement. “Oh,” she said, “I write too.” I practically fell all over myself trying to make clear I knew she was a writer and started telling her how much I admired “Powerhouse,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” “The Wide Net,” The Optimist’s Daughter. … She stopped me by raising those eloquent hands of hers, her palms toward me. Don’t make such a fuss, her hands seemed to say. She knew what she had written, just as I knew who the real writer was, and it finally dawned on me that Eudora Welty was pulling my leg! She told me that evening about her experiences teaching creative writing at Millsaps 10 years earlier, “even though,” she said, “I didn’t know the first thing about teaching writing.”

I once knew a very good short story writer who claimed he slept with A Curtain of Green under his pillow, like a bridesmaid might sleep with her head on a piece of wedding cake, hoping that osmosis worked with fiction. I could imagine all that her classes learned just by being in the same room with her, just listening to her stories, just reading her.

She sometimes told the story of the woman who had asked her to tell one of her published stories “in your own words.” Everything she told, just like everything she wrote, was in her own memorable words. Sometimes Suzanne Marrs and I just look at each other and say “Jackknifed!” in unison when someone is caught in a tight spot or awkward situation, both of us remembering how Miss Welty used the word in one of her funniest stories and explained its etymology, which went back to the days of outdoor privies.

A few years after I first met Miss Welty, Paul Hardin and one of her other good friends in the English department, Bob Padgett, and I went to her house to present an idea: It was the College’s turn to host the Southern Literary Festival again, and we wanted to turn the festival into a party celebrating her 75th birthday. She held up her hands just as she had the first time I met her. She didn’t want us to make a big fuss over her. We finally had to convince her that she would be doing it for us—for the English department and the College.

Well, she would do anything for Millsaps. She agreed not only to read and be part of a panel, but to let us bring in her friends and admirers from all over—France, England, New York. I was put in charge of the birthday party/festival, primarily, I think, so Bob and Paul could just be part of the audience. Miss Welty seemed to enjoy it even more than they did.

But among the festival’s greatest pleasures were all the stories—like a funny one she and Reynolds Price told about being stranded in Tuscaloosa during a band and choir convention that filled every motel in town, including the Moon Winx Lodge (“Imagine!” she said, “ ‘winks’ spelled with an X as if that was its rating”). They ended up in a trailer, one whose furniture showed such evidence of a dubious past that Miss Welty said, “If this sofa could talk, they’d have to burn it.”

I learned a great deal about Hubert Worley Jr. point of view and the art of storytelling listening to both Price and Welty give their versions of that adventure. The last night of the festival, when Miss Welty blew out the candles on the cake, I hoped that she had made a wish that Millsaps would hold such a festival and birthday party for her again. So I am happy that we’ll have another Southern Literary Festival in April 2009 at Millsaps to celebrate the centenary of her birth. It should be another great party. Everyone’s invited. I guarantee there will be a big to-do over Miss Welty’s words.

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Majors Tear Up Paper Tigers Millsaps declaws Trinity to take SCAC title at Homecoming BY

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OU DON’T SEE IT OFTEN: Millsaps fans throwing confetti and fireworks going off from the field house, while students climb fences, bypass security, and tear down goalposts to the tune of “We Are the Champions.” Then again, this wasn’t just any Homecoming game.

Nearly 3,800 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends packed Harper Davis Field on a cold, windy November day to watch the Millsaps Majors beat the Trinity University Tigers 34-12 for their first Southeastern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship since 1996 and their first NCAA playoff berth since 1975. The title-clinching win was especially noteworthy for its timing, as it came during an unusually late-in-theseason Homecoming weekend, giving the Millsaps faithful twice the reasons to celebrate. It also came against a school that had dominated the conference for more than a decade.

Senior Chris Jackson scored three touchdowns, starting with a 67-yard punt return that gave the Majors a 14-0 lead. Just a few minutes later, Jackson returned a second punt 51 yards for another score. It was the first time a Millsaps player had ever returned two punts for touchdowns in one game; Jackson also set a single-game record for punt return yards with 150.

Junior linebacker Ronnie Wheat, who had his second interception return for a touchdown in as many weeks, saw the game’s result as the culmination of the squad’s growing cohesion.

“We played very well together defensively as a team, and everyone made plays when given the opportunity,” said Wheat. “We have come together as a team and really became a family over the past year, and I believe that Coach DuBose has a lot to do with that.”

Said junior defensive tackle Casey Younger, “The team’s cohesiveness showed with the outcomes of the last seven games and our conference championship victory.”

For the previous 13 consecutive years, Trinity had either won or shared SCAC titles in one of the longest streaks in NCAA football history. Since their first title in 1993, the Tigers had posted a 63-5 mark in SCAC games, including a 33-1 SCAC record since 2001.

Still, the Majors were undaunted by Trinity’s record. Not only did they beat the Tigers, but they dominated them in a way that few teams ever have. The 22-point loss was the worst regular season setback that the Tigers had suffered since 1993 and their worst SCAC defeat since falling 40-17 to Millsaps in 1992.

(Margaret Cahoon and Scott Alber t Johnson contributed to this story.)

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Athletics When the Saints Came Marching In For Summer Training When the New Orleans Saints announced their intention to hold their summer training camp at Millsaps College, many asked, “Why?” Why would an NFL team choose a small school with a penchant for rigorous academics, located more than 200 miles from their home city, as the site for their training camp?

The answer, however, was obvious to many observers: The organization and hospitality shown by Millsaps College made this the smartest decision by the New Orleans Saints’ brass since they drafted Reggie Bush.

Impressed by the efforts and flexibility of the Millsaps administration and staff and the quality of the grounds and training facilities, Saints owner Tom Benson and general manager Mickey Loomis began to consider using Millsaps as their new camp facility. “The enthusiasm and welcome that we received really made it an easy decision,” Loomis said.

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The excitement began to mount as contract conditions were discussed, and the decision was officially announced at a press conference held on June 22 on the Millsaps campus. With more than 50 members of local and national press in attendance, as well as several Saints players (including star running back and Jackson businessman Deuce McAllister), Benson and Loomis announced a four-year partnership between the Saints and the College.

McAllister highlighted the strong relationship between New Orleans and the Jackson metropolitan area, saying, “We’re rebuilding [in New Orleans] and also exploring avenues to strengthen our presence in the region. I’m proud the team wants to be in Jackson.”

Almost as soon as the ink on the contract was dry, the campus began to ready itself for the Saints’ arrival.

Dorms were converted to accommodate behemoth football players, classrooms became makeshift offices for front-office employees, and the indoor and outdoor athletics facilities were renovated to maximize practice space. The Saints arrived on July 27, and the campus was ready to receive them.

Opening weekend of training camp set the tone for the rest of the five-week stay for the Saints. The combination of good weather, excellent advance planning, immense media attention, and great facilities yielded solid attendance on Friday, full stadiums on Saturday, and a good crowd on Sunday afternoon. Only Sunday morning practices, which coincided with church services, had smaller attendance.

The camp continued to see large groups of locals and visitors, all excited to watch the

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When camp closed on August 25, physical plant director and maintenance supervisor David Wilkinson and his team transformed what had been a professional football practice venue back to the College’s quiet, familiar campus. Any lingering signs of the Saints’ presence were quickly erased in time for freshman move-in day.

Though long hours were spent planning the transition, Wilkinson had a little help from some new friends. There were no linebacker-size dents or marks to be seen when the Saints said their farewells; they left everything as they found it. The Saints team, support staff, and higher-ups treated the campus and its community with respect and kindness.

And, of course, one can only assume that the Saints’ brilliant start to the 2006 season can be attributed to the summer spent here at Millsaps College.

—Becca Day

Millis Is Tapped To Lead the NFL Referees Union Tim Millis, B.A. 1967, a standout Millsaps athlete, has been selected as the executive director of the NFL Referees Association, a union representing league officials.

In 1965, Millis transferred to Millsaps, where he played and lettered for two seasons as a linebacker and fullback. In his two seasons, Millis garnered top honors, receiving the 1965 H.T. Newell Most Valuable Player award, the Outstanding College Player of the Year (Mississippi) award in 1966, and the

Jackson Touchdown Club Award. He was inducted into the Millsaps Hall of Fame in 1985.

Upon graduation from Millsaps, Millis began officiating games for his former teammates who were going into coaching.

“I knew I wanted to do something where I wouldn’t gain too much weight,” Millis says. “The guys told me to come on down and officiate for them, so that’s what I did.”

After that, Millis proceeded to officiate at levels ranging from peewee to junior high and high school varsity through Division I (Southwest Conference) and, by 1989, the NFL, while continuing his work at the collegiate level. “The officiating never was permanent work,” Millis says. “I never wanted to be dependent on anyone else for money, so I always held several different jobs.”

While working part time at the Division I level and for the NFL, in 1996 Millis joined the Big XII Conference and was offered the position as the director of officials. After his retirement from the NFL in 2001, Millis continued his work with the Big XII Conference as an officials supervisor, while concentrating most of his time on his own financial consultant business.

In March 2006, he was selected for the leadership position with the referees union.

In that role, Millis travels year round, evaluating all 120 NFL officials. He meets with each of the 17 crews at a game once a year, spends the weekend with them and then addresses each one individually to discuss working conditions. Millis then meets with the union the following week to synchronize his evaluations with those of the league.

During the off season, Millis works with the league on how to better select officials, train them, and determine the best sites for competition.

Millis was born and raised in Mendenhall. He and his wife, the former Diane Johnson, reside in Wylie, Texas. They have four children and eight grandchildren.

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Forward Position: Basketball Coach Wise Heads Athletics Tim Wise was promoted from head men’s basketball coach to the director of athletics in April 2006. Wise will continue to serve as head basketball coach, in addition to performing his new duties as athletic director.

Since coming to Millsaps in 1998, Wise has also served as head coach for men’s golf and assistant basketball coach. Wise succeeds Ron Jurney, who resigned in April to take the position as head football coach and athletics director at Canton Academy. In his 13 years of service to the College, Jurney had a big hand in the mass improvements made to the athletics facilities, thanks in part to large fund-raising efforts.

A native of Memphis, Wise is a 1989 graduate of Millsaps, earning a B.A. in economics. During his years as an undergraduate, Wise earned multiple varsity letters in basketball and golf. He also received a master of science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in sports administration.

“Tim is a seasoned, committed, and valued administrator and educator,” said Dr. Brit Katz, dean of students. “As an alumnus, his devotion to the College is evident. Tim is best poised to continue our history of effectively blending nationally ranked academics with award-winning NCAA varsity programs.”

In addition, Mary Bolton was hired as the new head women’s basketball coach, Lee Johnson was promoted to business manager, and Anne Clark took over as office manager.

Longtime softball coach and newly appointed director of facilities Joe Kinsella has stepped down to move back to Chicago and take over as the head softball coach at Lake Forest College.

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Bolton Moves To Center Court

Another Benchmark For Majors Baseball

After Robin Jeffries, head women’s basketball coach, announced her resignation from the Millsaps staff to take the same position at Spring Hill College in Mobile, the athletics department had to look no further than Mary Bolton.

Bolton, now the head women’s basketball coach at Millsaps, is no stranger to the college courts, having served as an assistant coach at the University of Southern Mississippi and Jones County Junior College. She was also head coach at Perry Central High School.

The former mayor of McLain, from 2001 to 2004, Bolton is a graduate of Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, where she received her B.S. in physical education and participated in the sports program as a women’s basketball student-athlete. She went on to receive her M.S. in educational leadership from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Basketball runs in the Bolton family, as two of Bolton’s sisters, Ruthie and Mae Ola Bolton, are former WNBA players. Ruthie is widely known for playing on two U.S. Olympic women’s basketball teams.

Bolton, who joined the staff in August, will also serve as senior women’s administrator for the athletic department.

The Millsaps baseball program was once again on top last season, posting a school best 37-13 record en route to an SCAC Championship and a trip to the regional finals in St. Louis.

A large part of the Majors’ success is credited to their longtime head coach, Jim Page. Page has been a part of the Millsaps program for nearly three decades, graduating from the College in 1985 and joining the staff shortly thereafter.

Not only did the Majors have a watershed season, but Page reached a milestone of his own, earning his 400th career victory by defeating Mississippi College 16-1 at Smith-Wills Stadium only three games into the season.

The Majors were fortunate to have a roster full of talent, including outfielder Garner Wetzel and pitcher John Fox. Wetzel was chosen in the 18th round of the 2006 Major League draft by the San Diego Padres, while Fox signed an independent contract with the Edinburg Coyotes out of Edinburg, Texas.

“I’m thrilled with what John and Garner are doing,” Page said. “They both have a competitive fire and represent the College well, on and off the field.”

Millsaps has begun fall practice for the 2007 season, and the team is gearing up for a trip back to the regional finals and a chance to defend its conference championship.

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MajorNotes A Youthful Grad, Sethi Now Treats Both Young and Old The field of medicine is demanding and frequently changing, and doctors are obligated to keep abreast of new developments. But keeping up has never been a problem for Manisha Sethi, M.D., B.S. 1994. Sethi typically is ahead of the curve.

She just marked the one-year anniversary of the opening of her medical clinic, Internal Medicine and Pediatric Associates of Ridgeland. At 30, she’s near the age most physicians begin their practices, yet Sethi has already served on the faculty at University Medical Center for two years and one year as chief resident Dr. Manisha Sethi just marked the first anniversary of her medical clinic in Ridgeland. of pediatrics, and she has completed a four-year dual residency in pediatrics and internal medicine.

Her path to a medical career began at Millsaps College at age 15, yet those who know her well would say it started as early as age 4, when Sethi set her sights on being a baby doctor. “Everybody asks a child what you are going to be when you grow up,” said Sethi. “I always wanted to be a baby doctor.”

Sethi didn’t plan to leave high school early, but her desire for more challenge prompted her to begin college classes.

So, encouraged by family members, she enrolled in Millsaps College summer courses.

“I was scared, of course,” she said of that summer in 1991. “I had completed a ninth-grade education when I came to Millsaps. People thought it was pretty wild that I was there.” It helped that she was living in the home of her sister, Monica Sethi Harrigill, B.A. 1988. The girls’ parents, Dr. S. L. and Raksha Sethi, were living in Greenwood at the time. Her brother, Sandeep (Sunny) Sethi, is also a Millsaps alumnus, receiving his B.B.A. in 2000.

Sethi didn’t expect to continue her Millsaps education after that summer. She fully expected to return to high school at Pillow Academy in Greenwood. She had been taking advanced placement classes all along, and had taken the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, and her hope was to graduate from high school one year early and attend college out of state. Her parents’ hesitation about her leaving the state, along with her summer experience at Millsaps College, changed those plans.

She thrived at Millsaps, and there was no turning back.

“As I adjusted to being around people of different opinions, I liked it,” said Sethi.

The different ages, the different ways of thinking about things, the discussions and activities like Phi Mu and student government all compelled her to stay. “I realized I didn’t want to go back to high school. I wrote a letter to Dean [Robert] King asking if they would let me in the next fall. I did not know I was going to get to come back.”

By age 18, three years after entering college, Sethi held a Millsaps degree with the distinction of highest honors and membership in the nation’s highest academic honorary, Phi Beta Kappa. “She is extremely intelligent,” said her sister, Monica Sethi Harrigill, a member of the Millsaps College Board of Trustees.

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for her sister because she had also one navigates to become a entered Millsaps at 15. doctor—are considered a major As do many students who accomplishment. But Sethi added enter college early, Sethi exhibits another element of challenge—not determination and a passion for one, but two medical residencies challenges. “Manisha is a kind, completed in tandem. loving, caring individual with the The dual residency in internal kind of drive and determination medicine and pediatrics is a few people have. She believes in demanding program that combines God, works very hard, looks to the training of two residencies into our dad [Satnam Sethi, Ph.D., a rigorous four years. Typically, president and chairman of Jackie’s after medical school, a physician International chain of commercial completes one residency in his or properties] for advice and attacks her chosen specialty. In the dual every challenge head on with great program, residents spend three passion,” said Harrigill. months in pediatrics training and Sethi says her belief that “you shift to three months in medicine can do anything you set your mind training for the duration of their to, as long as you don’t give up,” four years. Sethi said between two comes from her father’s influence. and four residents complete the She remembers rides to school Dr. Sethi not only entered Millsaps early and excelled, but she also chose a demanding program at UMC each year. dual residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. when her father would encourage Sethi found the breadth of the her with the words “Try, try, try, dual residency—seeing newborns nurturing faculty who consider teaching and you will do it. Try, try, try, and you will their first priority. “I don’t think I ever had to geriatrics—just to her liking. “I’ve always get it.” loved pediatrics. I knew I wanted to do a bad professor,” she recalled, noting the Millsaps has enrolled other students something with children,” she said. “The names of Dr. Eugene Cain, Dr. Al Berry, over the years who entered college early sheer fact of being able to assist so many Dr. George Ezell, and her faculty adviser, and excelled while here. Annah Marshall, people was appealing. I like the idea of the late Dr. Johnnie Marie Whitfield, who B.A. 2001, Hannah Page, B.A. 2003, Meg having a broad background.” worked with Sethi on her honors research Hyneman, B.A. 2005, and Walter Young, Also, the level of care and depth of thesis, “Investigation of the Role of Nitric B.A. 2005, are graduates from this decade. knowledge with disease processes allows Oxide in Neuronal Degeneration.”

Students often skip their senior year, and the physician to achieve expertise with She graduated magna cum laude at 18. some have skipped two years of high Afterward, she entered medical school and, complex cases. “I’m comfortable providing school, yet Sethi missed the last three of services to patients of all ages and also fortunately, had the Millsaps experience as her high school years. those with complex medical needs,” she ample preparation.

Sethi contends that good family and said. This training allows Sethi to manage “Millsaps did a great job preparing me social support is essential to a successful cases proactively and aggressively in the for medical school,” said Sethi. “Medical adjustment for a young college student. “I clinic setting. Administering intravenous school is very difficult regardless of where had, and continue to have, good support,” (IV) fluids in the office to a child or adult you went to undergraduate school. What said Sethi, who adds that believing in in the appropriate situation is one of the I was not prepared for was the realization oneself is also crucial. “You need to know most beneficial services she renders and that everybody in medical school was at inside that this is what you want to do often may avert a hospital visit. In the the top of their class in college. The other and realize that it is not the norm, so there larger sense, keeping a patient well and unexpected thing was the sheer volume will be opposition and challenges. Be thus avoiding a hospital stay helps reduce of what you learn in medical school.” committed about your decision. Believe in health-care costs, Sethi said.

Fortunately, the foundation she received at yourself. Have clear-cut goals.”

Just one year into practice, Sethi Millsaps and the study skills she developed “Age got lost at times,” Sethi said of is watching her clinic grow. Another proved valuable for managing the volume. her campus experience, explaining that physician who completed the dual Besides achieving success at an early there was certainly a period of adjustment. residency program, Jason Hicks, M.D., age, Sethi has achieved it in double She excelled in the environment offered joined Sethi’s medical practice in October. measure. College, medical school,

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so others who complete the program could practice in this clinic,” said Sethi. She has also recently added a nurse practitioner, Josie Bidwell.

“I am thankful to Millsaps College for allowing me to come to Millsaps early. I appreciate the education I received. It was excellent,” Sethi said.

Her sister summed up their experience: “Millsaps is a world where everyone is equal, where a lifetime of friendships are made, where great minds are nurtured.

When you think back about Millsaps, you know that your dreams began there.”

—Patti Wade

‘Tell Me True’: Recalling ‘Tammy’ Author Sumner While such Mississippi writers as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Willie Morris are renowned for both their literary contributions and the colorful lives they lived, there are others who have drifted from public awareness, despite accolades from critics of their time and lives no less enthralling than those of the state’s more famed authors.

One such writer is Bertha (Cid) Ricketts Sumner, B.S. 1909, the author of several best sellers published from the 1940s through the 1960s. Born in 1890, Sumner is perhaps best known for her novel Quality, written in part to distract her from the worry of sons deployed overseas while she worked in a munitions plant during World War II. Quality, published in 1946,

was a groundbreaking and controversial story about racial taboos in America that was later made into an acclaimed film by an equally controversial director, Elia Kazan.

The film, called Pinky, garnered three Academy Award nominations, despite being blacklisted in some areas due to its subject matter of interracial marriage. The film was considered ahead of its time and helped launch Sumner’s career as an author.

Sumner went on to pen the popular Tammy series of books, several of which were made into television programs and films such as Tammy and the Bachelor and Tammy Tell Me True. She wrote more than 10 novels, as well as short stories and nonfiction.

After graduating from Millsaps, Sumner did postgraduate work at Columbia University and went on to medical school at Cornell, where she studied for just a year before marrying a professor there, Nobel Prize winner James Sumner, from whom she was eventually divorced.

Tragically, in 1970, at the age of 80, she was killed in Massachusetts, and her grandson was charged with murder.

Sarah Holcombe, a writer based in Brookhaven, Sumner’s hometown, has spent the last three years researching Sumner’s life and work for a biography, reading her books and conducting interviews with her family and friends.

Holcombe describes Sumner as “gentle, without pretense, witty, calm, and kind,” while quoting Sumner’s granddaughter, Meg Cutler Chandler, as saying, “She was beautiful, charming, gracious, loving, and modest about her own accomplishments. ... It seemed that anyone who met her loved her.” In fact, the nickname “Cid” was bestowed upon the young Sumner by her parents because of her placid disposition as a baby—a quality that carried over into adulthood.

Sumner’s ties to Millsaps are many.

Her father, Robert Scott Ricketts, was a professor at the College, and Sumner herself taught French at Millsaps before relocating to Massachusetts and focusing her career on writing. Despite moving

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to the North, Sumner loved the South and thought of it as home, according to Holcombe. “I don’t think she ever regarded herself as anything other than a Southerner, and there were a great many things she missed about it when she was away,” Holcombe said. “Things she disliked about the South are the things that most of us do … she disliked the heat and preferred the climate in the North. She was offended by racism, even back when most people didn’t recognize it as such. But she loved the people here.”

Sumner frequently returned to the South to visit family and friends; in 1967, she was the featured speaker at a Millsaps Alumni Day and was named Alumna of the Year in honor of her accomplishments as a socially conscious—and very successful— writer. “Cid was delighted about the honor,” Holcombe said. “I think she had a very high regard for Millsaps because she connected the place to her father, to whom she was devoted and whom she adored.

She had a high value for education and felt that she had a really good educational foundation from her time at Millsaps.”

—Jason Bronson

Casey Parks: Out of Millsaps And Into Africa Casey Parks, B.A. 2005, beat out 3,800 other contestants in a NewYork Times essay competition to spend 10 days trekking through Africa with two-time Pulitzer Prize winning op-ed columnist Nick Kristof.

Parks reported on the highs and lows of life in Africa, from dance-centered AIDS demonstrations to the heartrending effects of understaffed hospitals, as she traveled with Kristof in September. During the trip, Parks blogged for MTV and wrote about her experiences for the NewYork Times website.

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“Make sure you read Casey’s blog,” read Kristof’s own entry on September 14.

“I know I picked the right person for this trip, because her entries are actually more interesting than mine. I’m delighted to be shown up!”

Parks graduated with a degree in English and then attended graduate school in journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia. During her time at Millsaps she served as both editor of the Purple & White and assistant editor of the Jackson Free Press, an alternative newsweekly.

“I want to learn by seeing,” Parks wrote in her winning essay. “I feel deeply, and I know journalism. I’m strong and have no need for five-star hotels or other luxuries.

In person, I’m charming and sweet and considerate, but still bold and fearless.”

side of the issues—some good, some bad, all real.

Parks’s blogs reflected the qualities she admires in Kristof: “One thing I’ve always loved about Nick’s columns is that he doesn’t tell a sad tale, then leave you hanging with no idea of what to do,” Parks wrote. “He almost always gives a clear way readers can help change these problems. I want to be able to do that, too. I know it is so important.”

In one of her final blogs from Africa, Parks gave contact information for Roger Seukap, a reproductive health expert in Cameroon who declared his willingness to get donations directly to the families of those Parks saw suffering in hospitals.

On their return to the United States, Parks and Kristof went on a whirlwind

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Parks’s video blogs follow her journey with Kristof from the coastal community of Malabo to the rocky roads of the nation of Cameroon in western Africa. “There is a risk in covering Africa to harp on what’s bad, like poverty or disease,” Parks said in one video blog. Through her writing and reporting, she delved into the humanitarian

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publicity tour to wrap up their trip before heading home. As Ann Curry of NBC’s Today show put it: “Casey Parks, we expect great things from you.”

—Margaret Cahoon

Alumnus Takes On The Greening of The Golden Years A Millsaps alumnus is changing the way nursing homes operate in Mississippi, one house at a time.

Steve McAlilly, B.S. 1977, leads the Green House Project in Tupelo, a new approach to long-term care that promotes a personal environment. With its small-scale community orientation, the project—one of the more recent initiatives from Mississippi Methodist Senior Services, an institution created by the United Methodist Church and dedicated to providing care to its elder members—is garnering national attention, with hundreds of organizations across the country gathering in Tupelo to observe and evaluate the first functional Green Houses in the nation.

In 1999, McAlilly heard of the Eden Alternative principles of Dr. William Thomas, a forward-thinking advocate for shifting the focus of long-term care away from the current model of largescale medical facilities and closer to a personal, communal setting, much like the residential homes they’d left behind.

McAlilly, head of the Methodist seniors institution, is planning a 140-bed wing for the existing retirement center.

He saw the opportunity to reinvent the template and considered a long-term care model that would include the Eden Alternative principles from the start. After he approached the institution’s board of directors, and after extensive investigation on their part, the group decided to shift funding from the new wing and into the untested Green House concept.

“We didn’t realize we’d be the first in the nation to put the Green House principles into action,” McAlilly says. “It just made sense.”

McAlilly reports that many of the families of current Green House Project

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elders are pleased with the quality of care shown their relatives in the new system.

“People live better in small homes,” he says. “Their children have pride rather than guilt that their parents live there. The current system is broken [and] consumers will not settle for less.”

McAlilly points out that Methodism sprang from some of the same ideological seeds as the Green House Project. The Green House Project “comes straight out of our Wesleyan Methodist heritage—serving those who are the least, last, and lonely,” he says. Given the mission of serving people in the spirit of Christian love, as the senior services agency is charged, the project “provides the platform to do that in a unique way.”

The Green House Project, its director predicts, will soon become the norm for long-term care in the United States.

“Millsaps helped lay the perfect foundation for me to accept a totally new paradigm,” he says. “The things I learned at Millsaps— to think critically, to think outside of the box, to not be afraid to try something different, and to really find out what the answers are if you know how to look— opened my eyes to a whole new world.

They laid the foundation to help develop all of this.”

—Chris Spear

In Swearingen, A Hero and An Inspiration Charlie Swearingen, B.S. 1999, of Jackson played first base for the 1997 Majors baseball team, served as an emergency medical technician for American Medical Response upon graduation, shortly thereafter attended paramedic school, and currently works as a flight paramedic with the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s AirCare.

He has also lived his whole life with

two prostheses for legs. Born without most of the bones in the lower part of his legs, he has been prepared throughout his life by both his parents and his Millsaps experiences to be able to handle anything on his own.

Swearingen is passionate about his job and knew that his aspiration was always to become someone who could protect and help others. He says that every day he works is a rewarding day. “It’s just like in the movies when the hero saves the day and that tingle hits your backbone—I get that every week I work,” he says.

He is also very good at what he does.

He knows how to predict what will happen and what exactly he needs to do in any given situation. Swearingen compares his emergency medical work to something he is very well acquainted with—baseball.

“As a baseball player, you become very aware of every bump in the ground around your position,” he says. “You know that when a ground ball comes at you headon that it will bounce right just slightly because you have practiced there for so long. You can anticipate the reaction of the ball before it happens, read the bump, and begin to move early into position. That’s what I do in this job. I have practiced so much that I can read all the bumps and position myself to best treat the patient. Is it tough? Sure, and I love every minute of it. I hate that people get injured or ill, but if they do, I want to be the one who takes care of them.”

Swearingen says his father “fought back the pain” when his son would fall as a young child. “He refused to let anyone pick me up in an effort to prepare me for the world,” he says. “It taught me how to do things on my own. My mother is the hardest worker I could possibly fathom. I, too, am a hard worker as I try not to give up easily on certain tasks and goals. This lesson helped me get through school and helped me to achieve my goals.”

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Charlie Swearingen has lived his whole life with two protheses for legs and now works as a flight paramedic for UMC.

much of his time at Millsaps. Burch describes him as an inspiration for all student-athletes and the entire Millsaps community. “The fact that Charlie has two prostheses for legs has not slowed him down a bit; if anything, it motivates him and others around him,” he says.

Swearingen was back on campus this past summer when he worked for the New Orleans Saints, providing intravenous fluids to the players.

Never will he forget his experience at Millsaps: “It has taught me to be versatile, diligent, and astute, but it also reminded me that life is short, and youth is shorter.

We must take advantage of the privilege that is life and explore all we can. We must climb the metaphorical mountains with vicious tenacity and strive for our goals as if we were starving for their accomplishment. Millsaps was like a third parent for me; gracious at times of joy and stern when I stumbled.”

—Jackie Rezk

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Dr. Ted J. Alexander, B.A. 1958, of Hattiesburg was selected in February 2006 to serve on the Southeastern Council of Foundations’ board of trustees. The council represents more than 350 grant makers and 11 states, with a net worth of $34 billion in philanthropic assets. Alexander is the founding chair of the Mississippi Council on Economic Education. In January 2006, he was named to the National Advisory Committee for the Hurricane Fund for the Elderly—Grantmakers in Aging.

Alexander is the chief executive officer of the Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation, a philanthropic entity that seeks to improve the community by participating in creative, innovative, and educational endeavors.

Darrell B. (Bush) Jones, B.A. 1967, of Houston, Texas, is the program coordinator for the Institute for Rehabilitation & Research in Houston.

1965 Ernest J. (Joe) Roberts, B.A. 1965, of

1969 Clifton G. Lamb Jr., B.A. 1969, of Palm

Desert, Calif., is the president of C. G. Lamb Accountancy Corp. in Palm Desert.

1972 Dianne H. (Humphries) Mason, B.A. 1972,

of Matthews, N.C., is the author of Danny’s Ghost, a novel for fourth- through sixthgrade readers, published by Lulu Press in December 2005.

1978 William H. Leech, B.A. 1978, of Flowood

Jackson and co-host Kristen Alexis present the “Radio Therapy Tip of the Week” psychodrama on WLEZ-FM 103.7 in Jackson.

is an attorney with Copeland, Cook, Taylor & Bush, P.A. He joined the firm as a shareholder in June 2006.

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Marion T. (Taylor) Reid, 1966, of San Marcos, Calif., was named to the 2005 Order of the Pearl, a recognition given biennially to Kappa Deltas who have made contributions to their communities in a nonsorority capacity. Reid is dean of library services and interim vice president of external affairs at California State University-San Marcos. She is a member of the Association for College and University Libraries and a past president of Beta Phi Mu.

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Dr. James P. (Patrick) Moulds, B.S. 1982,

of Baltimore announces the adoption of his 3-year-old son, Vladislav Owen, from Russia on April 24, 2006. A board-certified anesthesiologist and medical review officer, Moulds is currently not practicing in order to be a full-time father.

1983 Dr. Vicki Sallis Murrell, B.A. 1983, of Memphis received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Educational Psychology from the University of Memphis on April 23, 2006. The award was presented to a student enrolled in

educational psychology and research based on scholarship, research, clinical work, and professional service. In May, she began her appointment at the university as director of professional and continuing education.

1984 Anna Walker Crump, B.E. 1984, and

her husband, minister Greg Crump, of Jackson co-founded The Body of Christ Fellowship Ministries, LLC, in November 2003. The nondenominational faith-based management-support consulting agency provides training and technical assistance through organizations such as the Rapides Foundation of Alexandria, La., to nonprofit faith-based organizations and churches in a nine-parish area in central Louisiana.

She also serves as the deputy director for Mississippi Families for Kids, a statewide nonprofit organization committed to building strong families by finding and maintaining homes for children in foster care and the child welfare system.

Dr. Benjamin R.Wynne, B.B.A. 1984, and Carlise Elaine Womack of Watkinsville, Ga., were married July 21, 2006, in Tallahassee.

Hugh Alan Vestal, B.B.A. 1984, served as best man. Wynne is an assistant professor of history at Gainesville State College in Gainesville, Ga. Womack is an assistant professor of education at Bainbridge College in Bainbridge, Ga.

1986 Stephen C. Bush, B.A. 1986, and the Rev. Katherine M. Bush of Memphis announce the birth of their twin sons, John Carroll and Henry Arnold, on May 17, 2006.

Stephen is the supervising attorney in special litigation for the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office in Memphis.

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Katherine, a full-time Episcopal priest, serves as associate rector at the Church of the Holy Communion in Memphis.

1989 Dr. Ralph B. Armstrong, B.S. 1989, of Hollister, Calif., is an obstetrician/ gynecologist with his own practice in Hollister.

Dosha F. Cummins, B.S. 1989, of Jonesboro,

Ark., received the Preceptor of the Year award from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in May 2006. She is an associate professor of clinical pharmacy and an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University’s Area Health Education Center in Jonesboro. A member of the Jonesboro University Rotary Club, she was named Rotarian of the Year in 2005.

Mitylene M. Myhr, B.A. 1989, of Austin, Texas, has been promoted to assistant professor of history at St. Edward’s University in Austin.

1990 James R. (Richard) Huckaby Jr., B.B.A. 1990,

of Tampa is a partner with the accounting firm of Pender Newkirk & Co. LLP in Tampa.

William M. (Mark) Mays, B.A. 1990, of

Flowood was re-elected in April 2006 to a second term as chapter secretary of the Mississippi Magnolia Chapter of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriters (CPCU). The organization is dedicated to meeting the needs of professionals who have earned and are pursuing the CPCU designation so that they may serve the public and the property and casualty insurance industry in a competent and ethical manner. Mays is a business insurance account manager in The Nowell Agency, Inc.’s new Byram office.

The Millsaps alumni online community makes it easy for alumni to stay in touch with classmates and their alma mater. Access to the online community is a password-protected benefit exclusively for Millsaps alumni. Registered users enjoy a number of services, including an online search for other alumni and permanent email forwarding, which allows alumni to receive email no matter how many times their addresses change. An online calendar alerts alumni to upcoming events on and off campus, enabling graduates to stay informed. Alumni can also report changes in their addresses and personal information. If you would like additional information or if you have questions or comments about the online community, please email us at alumni@millsaps.edu or call 1-86-MILLSAPS.

1991 C. Shelley Lose Johansson, B.A. 1991,

and Ola B. Johansson of Johnstown, Pa., announce the birth of their daughter, Linnea Marie, on Oct. 24, 2003. Shelley is the marketing manager for the Johnstown Area Heritage Association, a nonprofit organization that operates three museums and organizes an annual music festival, the Johnstown FolkFest. Ola is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

Dr. Kathryn Cascio Lewis, B.A. 1991, and Robert P. (Pratt) Lewis,

M.B.A. 1996, of Greenville are the parents of Robert Joseph, born Aug. 9, 2006. He has two sisters, Mary and Elia. Kathryn was named the new executive director of the Greenville Arts Council in August 2006.

She was chosen for her knowledge of arts education, superior grant-writing skills, exemplary work ethic, and understanding of the needs of artists and arts organizations. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship and professional accomplishments, including the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award from the Mississippi Art Education

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Association in 2005, the Mississippi Award from the National Art Education Association in March 2006, and the Higher Education Award from the Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education in June 2006. Kathryn also serves as a field adviser for the Mississippi Arts Commission’s Whole Schools Initiative.

Pratt is vice president of Guaranty Bank and Trust in Greenville.

Danny L. Pace, M.B.A. 1991, of Aurora, Ohio, is the senior vice president of engineering with First Energy Corp. in Akron.

1992 Dr. Jana M. Rose, B.S. 1992, and David R. Wehrstein of Demorest, Ga., are the parents of Jakob David, born Feb. 19, 2006. He has one sister, Ava. Rose is a podiatrist in private practice in Cornelia, Ga. Wehrstein is the administrator at Riverpoint Community Church in Cornelia.

Selena C. (Cook) Swartzfager, M.B.A. 1992,

of Brandon is the chief consultant and trainer for her own company, Swartzfager Consulting LLC in Brandon. The general business consulting firm offers services such as staff development sessions, business development, and expansion planning.

1993 The Rev. Angela L. Gafford, B.A. 1993, and

Joel S. Asmos of Indianola, Iowa, were married July 8, 2006, in Indianola.

1994 David C. Armistead, B.S. 1994, and Laura R. Armistead of Birmingham are the parents of Dean Adam, born March 28, 2005. He has one brother, Ethan. David is the vice president of SunGard, a privately held Fortune 500 company that provides software and information technology solutions for the financial services industry, higher education, and the public sector.

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Michael L. Foley, B.B.A. 1994, and Alisa Foley of Birmingham announce the birth of their daughter, Josephine Lartigue, on Sept.

19, 2005. Michael is the chief financial officer for SunGard EXP, a subsidiary of SunGard. A privately held Fortune 500 company, SunGard provides software and information technology solutions to the financial services industry, higher education, and the public sector.

Dr. Sarah O. (Overman) Freed, B.S. 1994, and Brian S. Freed of Memphis are the parents of Eleanor Elizabeth, born Sept. 30, 2005. She has one sister, Katherine. Sarah sold her podiatry practice in October 2004 to become a full-time mother.

Timothy J. (Jason) Sharp, B.S. 1994, of Azusa,

Calif., has been promoted to vice president of Indymac Bank in Pasadena. Indymac is the eighth-largest mortgage bank in the United States and the largest in Los Angeles County. His duties include managing the departments of measurement (the bank’s performance-review process) and analytics (workforce analytics and other quantitative decision support studies). Sharp earned a master’s degree in statistics from the University of Tennessee in 2001 and an M.B.A. from Mississippi State University in 2005.

parents of Benjamin Willoughby, born May 26, 2005. He has one brother, Sam. Meg earned an M.A. in gallery studies from the University of Essex in Colchester, England, and an M.F.A. in 2D art from Mississippi College. Since 1997, she has taught art part-time at the K-12 and college levels.

From 2005 to 2006, she home-schooled her first-grade son full-time. Rob is the clinic director and a physical therapist at Kentucky Orthopedic Rehab Team in Lexington.

Dr. Michael H.Vanderlick, B.S. 1994, and Emily (Prejean) Vanderlick, B.B.A. 1997,

of Lafayette, La., announce the birth of their son, Henry James, on Sept. 21, 2005.

Michael is a physician with a private practice in internal medicine in Lafayette, and Emily is a full-time mother.

The Rev. Cynthia Dee Weems, B.A. 1994,

and Amauri F. Silva of Rose Hill, Kan., announce the birth of their daughter, Mariana Weems, on Jan. 8, 2006. Cynthia Dee is the pastor of Rose Hill United Methodist Church.

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Jenness B. Simler, B.S. 1995, of Alexandria, Va., is a staff member with the U.S. House of Representatives’ House Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C. Margaret E. (Willoughby) Swayze, B.A. 1994, and Rob Swayze of Lexington, Ky., are the

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Emily E. Berg, B.S. 1996, and Sean Thomas Patin of Jackson were married April 23, 2005. She earned a Master of Public Health degree with an emphasis in occupational safety and environmental health, as well as health-care policy and administration, from the University of Southern Mississippi in May 2000. She is a corporate safety and health specialist with Ergon Inc. in Flowood.

Elizabeth H. Cooper, B.A. 1996, of Jackson

received a master’s degree in education from Belhaven College on May 6, 2006.

She teaches third grade in the Jackson Public School system.

Christina F. (Finzel) Gomez, B.A. 1996, and

Eduardo Gomez of Commerce City, Colo., announce the birth of their daughter, Isabella Maria, on Sept. 12, 2005.

Dr. Jennifer C. Irons, B.A. 1996, of Clinton, N.Y., received the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award from Hamilton College on May 5, 2006. The award is presented annually to a tenure-track faculty member who has been employed by the college for fewer than five years and who has demonstrated superior teaching, highquality scholarly research, and a significant and positive impact on students. Irons has been an assistant professor at Hamilton for three years. She is the author of two journal

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articles about women in the civil rights movement and the relationship that existed between the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission and the Citizens’ Councils.

This fall, she began work on a book based on her dissertation research, exploring the relationship between the state, social movements, and race.

Katherine V. Kemp, B.A. 1996, of Oxford

William A. (Ashton) Randall III, B.S. 1997,

of Dallas has been selected as a 2006 Texas Rising Star in Commercial Litigation by Texas Monthly. The distinction, published in the March 2006 issue, recognizes the top 2.5% of lawyers under age 40 in the state.

Randall is licensed in Texas, Washington, D.C., and Mississippi, and practices in the business litigation section of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Dallas office. He also teaches and lectures at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law in Dallas.

was elected president of the board of directors for 2006–08 of the Yocona International Folk Festival in May 2006. The first annual Yocona Festival is scheduled to be held in Lafayette County in August 2007, Dr. Amy Balducci Shepherd, B.S. 1997, and William D. (Dale) Shepherd of Flowood and will showcase dancers and musicians announce the birth of their son, William from around the world and the region.

Abraham, on Feb. 28, 2006. Amy is a It will highlight Mississippi culture and heritage such as the blues, dancers from the pediatrician in the Pediatric Emergency Department at the University of Mississippi Choctaw Indian tribe, and steppers from Medical Center. Dale is an executive African-American fraternities throughout support and maintenance officer with the the state. Kemp’s responsibilities include 172nd Airlift Wing of the Mississippi Air coordinating meetings, fund raising, National Guard. providing housing for visitors, and appointing and organizing committees to Heather L. (Lott) Welch, B.S. 1997, and D. carry out the festival’s mission. In May, she was also appointed public relations chair (Duncan) Welch, B.B.A. 1998, M.B.A. 1999, of Brandon are the parents of Davis Duncan, for the Rotary Club of Ole Miss. She is born Nov. 2, 2005. He has three brothers, an attorney with Holcomb Dunbar PA in Gray, Tristan, and Aidan. In February 2005, Oxford.

Heather was promoted to groundwater specialist for the Mississippi Water Science Kelly (Merriman) McMullen, B.B.A. 1996, Center of the U.S. Geological Survey in and Austin L. McMullen, B.B.A. 1997, of Nashville announce the birth of their son, Jackson. Duncan is the manager of credit Reagan Mark, on March 4, 2006. Kelly is a operations for Saks Inc. full-time mother, and Austin is an attorney with Boult, Cummings, Conners & Berry.

Douglas G.White, B.S. 1997, of Decorah, Iowa, began an appointment as visiting Dr. Stephen A. Morgan Jr., B.S. 1996, of professor of anthropology at Luther Houma, La., is a dentist with his own College in Decorah in August 2006. practice in Houma. His wife, Amanda B. During the 2006–07 academic year, he Morgan, is completing a Ph.D. in education is teaching Introduction to Archaeology at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.

Lauderdale, Fla. He earned an M.A. in anthropology from the State University of New YorkBuffalo, where he served as a teaching assistant. He is completing a Ph.D. in Mary B. (Mary Beth) Chrestman, B.A. 1997, sociocultural anthropology from Arizona of Austin, Texas is a social worker with AIDS State University, where he served as a Services of Austin. guest lecturer, teaching associate, and instructor. Luther College, a selective four-

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1998 Noble B. Black, B.A. 1998, of New York City is the vice president of Corcoran Group Real Estate.

1999 Dianne H. Dyer, B.A. 1999, and Wyatt Russell Fields of Atlanta were married April 22, 2006, in Greenville. She is a Realtor and senior marketing consultant with Harry Norman Realtors in Atlanta. He is a manager at BearingPoint Consulting.

Mary Virginia (Ginger) McElwee, B.B.A. 1999, and Dr. K.C. Harbour of Brandon were married June 19, 2004, in Vicksburg.

Ginger is director of marketing at Merchants & Farmers Bank, headquartered in Kosciusko.

Shannon (Husband) McLaughlin, B.A. 1999,

of Jackson is marketing and community relations representative with River Oaks Health System in Flowood.

Suzanne E. Wahrle, B.S. 1999, of Richmond Heights, Mo., completed the requirements for a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis on June 30, 2006. She is in the sixth year of the university’s combined M.D./Ph.D. program.

2000 Thomas H. (Hayes) Bryant, B.B.A. 2000, of

Nashville was hired as a vice president with Gen Cap America Inc. in July 2006. The corporation, based in Nashville, focuses on investment activity in managementled acquisitions and recapitalizations of established middle-market businesses.

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structuring and negotiating acquisitions.

He is married to Sarah K. (Young) Bryant, B.A. 2000, who is working as a private tutor in Nashville.

Leon C. (Cord) Campbell, B.B.A. 2000, of Canton, Mich., is a senior financial analyst with Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn.

Matthew T. Carroccio, B.A. 2000, and Carolyn Carroccio of Bethesda, Md., announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Marie, on Oct. 29, 2005. He is a financial adviser with Smith Barney in Washington, D.C. Sarah B. Osso, M.B.A. 2000, of Jackson is assistant vice president of product management with Trustmark National Bank in Jackson.

Michael L. Wade Jr., B.B.A. 2000, of

Mooresville, N.C., is an attorney with Moore & Van Allen PLLC in Charlotte. He was hired in January 2006 to join the firm’s litigation team.

Moore & Van Allen is one of the largest law firms in the Southeast, with 250 attorneys and offices in Charlotte and the Research Triangle of North Carolina, as well as Charleston, S.C. Dr. Kellie A.Woodling, B.S. 2000, of Charlottesville, Va., received a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Florida in December 2005. She is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia-Charlottesville.

2001 William H. Black, B.S. 2001, of Pearl

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of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine and School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences’ 45th Annual Honors Day on May 5, 2006. He received a Book Award for Scholastic Excellence and the Dean’s Award for remaining in the upper one-third of his class. He received the Douglass Wills Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a sophomore student exemplifying promise in medicine, scholarship, and good character. He also received the Curtis Delgadillo Roberts, M.D., Scholarship, awarded on the basis of exceptional merit and/or need and for successful completion of the four-year curriculum. Black is a third-year medical student at UMC in Jackson.

Erin K. (Erin Kate) Holston, B.B.A. 2001, of Clinton was hired as the assistant to the vice president for institutional advancement at Millsaps in July 2006.

Leigh Pennebaker, B.A. 2001, of New York City held the opening reception of her solo show in August 2006 at the Simie Maryles Gallery in Provincetown, Mass. Titled “Haute Couture in Wire,” the show featured 25 new wire dresses.

Pennebaker’s signature pieces are created with painted metal fencing wire. To view the show online, go to www.simiemaryles. com/exhibit2. The artist’s work was also featured in the July 2006 issue of House & Garden and on the cover of the spring/ summer 2006 Bergdorf Goodman beauty catalogue.

Dr. Charles (Charley) W. Scales, B.S. 2001,

of San Ramon, Calif., earned a Ph.D. in polymer science and engineering with an emphasis in polymer chemistry from the University of Southern Mississippi on May 12, 2006. He is a scientist in research

and development with The Clorox Co. in Pleasanton, Calif. Charley is married to Theresa (Tracie) Houston Scales, B.A. 2002.

2002 S. Denise (Perry) Barrett, B.A. 2002, M.B.A. 2005, of Lexington, Ky., is the development officer for Frontier Nursing Service Inc., a nonprofit organization that includes a hospital, four rural health-care clinics, and the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She is responsible for raising the endowment and funding for the nursing school.

Kenneth T. (Taylor) Beasley, B.B.A. 2002, M.Acc. 2003, of Memphis is a financial analyst with Pinnacle Airlines Inc. in Memphis.

Julius C. (Carter) Burns, B.A. 2002, of Natchez graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law in May 2005. He is a law clerk for Judge John M. Roper, the chief magistrate judge for the Southern District of Mississippi.

Paul J. Gagliano III, B.A. 2002, of Burbank, Calif., began appearing in the first of 12 promotional “webisodes” sponsored by Diet Pepsi and the NFL in August 2006.

In “The Reggie Bush Project,” he plays Rob Nelson, a film student and avid sports fan whose goal is to document the beginning of Bush’s career as a running back for the New Orleans Saints. Nelson’s documentary includes information about Bush’s life and the charity program Yard

by Yard, through which Diet Pepsi will donate money for every yard Bush runs to an organization rebuilding homes in New Orleans. To view the webisodes, go to www. thereggiebushproject.com.

Aleksey M. Mashnitskiy, B.B.A. 2002, and Alla Mashnitskiy announce the birth of their son, Edward Alex, on May 17, 2006.

Aleksey is pursuing an M.B.A. in the Texas Evening M.B.A. program at the University of Texas-Austin.

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Emily K. Merriman, B.B.A. 2002, M.Acc. 2003, of Nashville is a senior internal auditor with ClientLogic, a global business process outsourcing provider in the customer care, fulfillment, and back-office processing industries.

Theresa (Tracie) Houston Scales, B.A. 2002,

of San Ramon, Calif., is the associate manager of marketing intelligence and consumer insight with The Clorox Co. in Pleasanton, Calif. She is married to Dr. Charles (Charley) W. Scales, B.S. 2001.

2003 Amelia Ellard Chisholm, B.S.

Amy S. Janovsky, B.B.A. 2003, M.Acc. 2004,

of Memphis is an accountant with Federal Express Corporation.

Amy R. Loy, B.A. 2003, of Oceanside,

Calif., is the director of dynamic associate relations for the headquarters of Dynamic Church Planting International, an interdenominational Christian mission that trains church planters around the world.

Her duties include maintaining contact with trainers in other countries, overseeing training events, communicating plans, budgets, and outcomes, and traveling with the mission as a trainer.

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2003, and Jason E. Goodenough, B.A. 2004, of Philadelphia, Pa., were married May 13, 2006, in Leland, Miss. She is enrolled in a premed program at Drexel University in Philadelphia. He graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., in August.

Brett Bateman, M.Acc. 2004, of Florence is an accountant with the CPA group Horne LLP, headquartered in Jackson.

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Matthew N. Renna, B.B.A. 2004, of Dallas was promoted to account executive on the Monster.com account with Moroch Advertising in January 2006. This fall, he began the M.B.A. program in corporate finance at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

Allison M.Williams, B.S. 2004, of Ellicott

City, Md., is pursuing a master’s degree in teaching from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She is a geologist with the Maryland Department of the Environment.

2005 Alisa Millet, B.S. 2005, of Tallahassee is

pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Florida State University.

B.B.A. 2004, and Robin R. Rockco, B.B.A. 2004, of Baytown, Texas, were married Nov. 27, 2004, in Pascagoula. He is an administrative representative for

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died July 14, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Charles I. (CI) Allen, B.A. 1947, of Jackson

died July 6, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, Gamma Gamma Gamma, The Millsaps Singers, and the tennis and basketball teams. In 1947, he was named Master Major.

Judge John R. Countiss III, B.A. 1950, of Jackson died Feb. 22, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity.

A long-standing financial supporter of the College, he was a donor and scholarship representative for the Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Countiss, Sr., Endowed Scholarship Fund, established by his grandparents in 1950.

James D. Cox, B.A. 1947, of Clinton died

July 6, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He attended the College as part of the Navy V-12 officer training program.

Judge Dan R. Anders, B.S. 1954, of Carrollton, Ga., died Jan. 4, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, Delta Kappa Delta, and the tennis team.

David P. Denny, B.A. 1975, of Spring, Texas, died Feb. 27, 2006.

Capt. Hampton (Hamp) H. Ballard, B.S.

Maxine N. (Nelson) Dubard, Grenada

1939, of Huntsville, Ala., died April 7, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of the baseball, football, and basketball teams.

College 1933, of Grenada died June 7, 2006.

Katherine A. G. (Grimes) Ezelle, B.A. 1942,

of Ridgeland died May 27, 2006. While at Millsaps, she was a member of the Purple &White staff, the Beethoven Club, The Millsaps Players, and the YWCA. A medalwinning pianist with classical training, she was also a member of The Millsaps Singers. She was on the Dean’s List and served as treasurer of Kappa Delta sorority.

Ezelle continued her dedication to her sorority after graduation by serving on the committee that built the KD lodge.

She was also instrumental in establishing the Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series. A longstanding financial supporter of the College, she was a scholarship representative for the Robert L. Ezelle Jr. Scholarship Fund.

She and her husband Fred J. Ezelle, B.S. 1937, established the fund in memory of his brother, Robert L. Ezelle, who served as Chair of the Millsaps College Board of Trustees from 1946-54.

The Rev. James F. Elliott, 1940, of Shaw Laura C. (Collins) Blair, 1957, of Jackson

died Feb. 11, 2006.

died March 20, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.

Norma C. (Caldwell) Bradshaw, B.A. 1927,

Garvice P. (Pennington) Erwin, Grenada

of Macon died Feb. 15, 2006.

College 1931, of Memphis died Oct. 19, 2005. She was a member of the Philomathean Literary Society, the Players Guild, the French Club, the Annual Staff, the Grenadian staff, the Town Girls’ Club, and played varsity basketball.

Dr. Susan McLaren (Laren) Brooks, B.S.Ed.

1990, of Madison died June 26, 2006.

While an undergraduate at Millsaps, she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, the Campus Ministry Team, and The Millsaps Singers. She also served as a peer adviser and was on the Dean’s List. Brooks returned to Millsaps in 2000–01 to serve as an adjunct professor of education.

Albert G. (Glenn) Calloway, B.S. 1958, of

Clinton died June 11, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. A consistent financial supporter of the College, he contributed to the Rev. Arthur C. Miller Pre-Engineering Endowed Scholarship Fund.

Lurline J. (Johnson) Cook, 1958, of Meridian

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Calvin E. Flint Jr., 1938, of Batesville died March 16, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity and played baseball.

Dr. Richard H. Flowers Jr., B.S. 1953, of Greenwood died April 25, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Delta.

Dr. Clyde H. Graves, B.S. 1928, of Dolores,

Helen T. (Thorne) Eskridge, B.A. 1958, of

Colo., died Dec. 3, 2005.

Tupelo died Jan. 9, 2006. While at Millsaps, she was a member of Eta Sigma, Theta Nu Sigma, the Women’s Council, and the Majorette Club. She also served as treasurer of Chi Omega sorority.

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Anne H. (Henry) Evans, 1947, of Jackson

Houston, Miss., died Feb. 28, 2006. He attended Millsaps as part of the Navy V-12 officer training program.

died May 22, 2006. At Millsaps, she served as vice president and pledge trainer of Phi Mu sorority. She was also a member of the YWCA, the International Relations Club, the Majorette Club, the Bobashela staff, the Purple &White staff, and the Women’s Panhellenic Council.

Otho T. Greenlee, B.A. 1958, of Pearl died

Chief Justice Armis E. Hawkins, 1947, of

Dr. Gwin J. Kolb, B.A. 1941, of Chicago

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Steven C. Moak, B.B.A. 1990, of Brandon

Dr. William D. Ross Jr., B.A. 1942, of

died Dec. 14, 2005. At Millsaps, he majored in finance and graduated cum laude.

Birmingham died June 29, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity and Alpha Epsilon Delta.

Baton Rouge, La., died May 12, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Eta Sigma, Delta Kappa Delta, the YMCA, the Panhellenic Council, The Millsaps Players, and the Debate Team. He also served as vice president of Kappa Alpha fraternity and was on the Dean’s List.

Dr. William E. Riecken Jr., B.S. 1952, of

William E. Rowsey, B.S. 1957, of Franklin,

Kosciusko died April 18, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Delta, The Millsaps Players, and Theta Nu Sigma. A longstanding financial supporter of the College,

Va., died June 16, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a lab assistant and a member of The Millsaps Singers. He was also on the Dean’s List.

he and his wife, Jeanenne P. Riecken, 1954, established in 2001 the Dr. William E. and Alma G. Riecken Endowed Scholarship Fund in honor of his parents.

Herbert W. Selman, B.S. 1940, of Madison

Dr. Malcolm L. Pigford, 1938, of

Dorothy R. (Reeves) Martin, 1940, of Purvis

died April 16, 2006. While at Millsaps, she was a member of Phi Mu sorority and The Millsaps Singers.

Monica K. (Kay) Farrar McCarty, B.A. 1958, of Atlanta died March 15, 2006. At Millsaps, she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, Pi Delta Phi, Eta Sigma, Theta Nu Sigma, the International Relations Club, and the Women’s Student Government Association. She was also on the Dean’s List and the President’s List.

Louis A. McCurley, 1944, of Brandon died

May 3, 2006. He attended Millsaps as part of the Navy V-12 officer training program.

The Rev. Archie Leigh Meadows, B.A.

1938, of McCarley died July 9, 2006. At Millsaps, he served as president of the Ministerial League and was a member of the Barbarians.

John H. Miller, B.A. 1951, of Raymond died

April 25, 2006. While at the College, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity.

A member of the football, baseball, and basketball teams, he was inducted into the Millsaps Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.

Justice Stokes V. Robertson Jr., 1933, of

Jackson died July 19, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Debate Team, the Student Body Association, and The Millsaps Players.

Milly W. (Wadlington) Robinson, 1956, of

Tulsa, Okla., died June 13, 2006. While at Millsaps, she was a member of Kappa Delta sorority.

died July 30, 2006. At Millsaps, he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, the French Club, the YMCA, the International Relations Club, the M-Club, and the Student Executive Board. He was also on the baseball team and served as president of the Panhellenic Council.

Bonnie L. (Harmer) Smith, B.A. 1947, of Ava, Mo., died Oct. 16, 2005. While at Millsaps, she was a member of Beta Sigma Omicron and Kappa Delta Epsilon.

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Zachary Taylor Jr., B.A. 1944, of Jackson

The Rev. Dr. Carroll H.Varner, B.A 1938, of

Burnice C. (Crosby) Wittel, B.S. 1935, of

died Aug. 20, 2006. He attended Millsaps as part of the Navy V-12 officer training program. While at the College, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, the Baptist Student Union, The Millsaps Players, Kit Kat, and Delta Kappa Delta. From 1953 to 1954, he served as president of the Millsaps College Alumni Association.

Lakeland, Fla., died April 28, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Jackson died Dec. 1, 2005.

Mary Elizabeth N. (Nordin) Teague, 1942,

of Austin, Texas, died March 30, 2006. At Millsaps, she was a member of the YWCA, the Glee Club, the Purple &White staff, Kappa Delta Epsilon, and the Women’s Council. She served as vice president of her senior class and secretary of Chi Omega sorority. She was also a student assistant and was on the Dean’s List.

The Rev. Dr. Edwin T. Upton, B.A. 1956,

of Dallas died June 9, 2006. While at Millsaps, he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Purple &White staff, the Bobashela staff, Kit Kat, and the Cheerleaders. He also served as president of the Wesley Foundation and the Christian Council.

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Katherine D. Wade, B.A. 1969, of St.

Joseph, La., died June 29, 2006. At Millsaps, she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, the Purple &White staff, the Women’s Student Government Association, and Beta Beta Beta. She was also on the President’s List.

Susanne B. (Batson) Weaver, B.A. 1962,

of Mobile, Ala., died May 31, 2006.

At Millsaps, she was a member of the International Relations Club, The Millsaps Singers, the Women’s Council, the Social Science Forum, and the Bobashela staff. In addition, she served as chapter correspondent and personnel chair for Chi Omega sorority, as news editor of the Purple &White, and was on the Dean’s List.

Robert Shannon (Shan) Whiteside, 1993,

of Southaven died March 4, 2006. While at Millsaps, he played varsity basketball.

Joan W. (Wignall) Young, 1954, of Madison died August 5, 2006. While at Millsaps, she served as treasurer of Phi Mu sorority. She was also a member of Eta Sigma Phi, The Millsaps Players, and the Bobashela staff.

Friends Dorothy (Dot) B. Perkins of Jackson died

June 12, 2006. She was a part-time employee for the College from 1980 to 1995. While at Millsaps, she worked for the offices of continuing education, business, and maintenance. She also operated the switchboard.

Paul L.Wells Jr. of Jackson died Sept. 18, 2006. A former Millsaps parent, he has bequeathed a gift to the College in memory of his daughter, Mary Melissa (Missy) Wells, who passed away in 1969 during her senior year.

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Edward L. Moyers Former Trustee,Visionary Industrialist, Supporter of Yucatán Field Study Former Millsaps Trustee Edward L. Moyers Jr. died June 5, 2006, in Naples, Florida. He was 77.

Moyers joined the Millsaps Board of Trustees in 1988 and served on its executive and development committees. He was named a Life Trustee of the College in 1998. He was a member of the Founders Society and the Heritage Society and gave the Commencement address in 2000.

“Ed Moyers was a great friend to Millsaps College,” President Frances Lucas said. “His contributions included not only his generous financial support but also his vision for field study and his consistent interest in the academic strengths of Millsaps. He didn’t just talk about what we could do. He made it possible for us to do it.”

“Ed Moyers was not only a valued professional colleague but a close personal friend with whom I remained in regular contact almost weekly until the day of his passing,” said President Emeritus George Harmon. “Ed was a self-made man, if ever there was such a person, who rose from very humble beginnings to the height of his profession, the railroad industry. In the process he served as counsel to at least one U.S. president and to countless business colleagues. Even so, Ed never forgot from whence he came and was always willing to help anyone who wanted to better himself or herself.”

In the last 10 years of his life, Moyers developed a strong interest in supporting undergraduate education and biocultural preservation. Dr. Richard A. Smith, senior vice president and dean of the College, credits Moyers and his wife, Helen, with making possible an extraordinary environmental field experience for Millsaps students. The couple provided both financial support and business guidance for the development of the 4,000acre Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve in Yucatán.

“Mr. Moyers was convinced that Millsaps students would benefit from a program where they could not only study and undertake research but also learn the lessons that come from hard work,” said Dr. George Bey, Millsaps professor of sociology and anthropology. “He believed that challenging work was a key to developing character and moral strength.”

No matter how busy he was, Moyers was always eager to hear how the students were doing and how he could help the project, Bey said—whether that be by scholarships for students with financial need or a new van to assure they could travel safely while at work in Yucatán.

A native of Vicksburg, Ed Moyers was a 1947 graduate of Chamberlain-Hunt Military Academy in Port Gibson. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Korean War and was a 1955 graduate of Louisiana Tech University.

He had a long and distinguished career in the railroad industry, mainly with the Illinois Central Railroad in Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. He served as president and C.E.O. of MidSouth Rail Corporation in Jackson, president and C.E.O. of Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, and president and C.E.O. of Southern Pacific Railway in Denver.

Before retirement, he divided his time between his new home in Florida and his business office in Brazil, from which he managed two railroads for a syndicate of U.S. investors and directed the largest railroad building project in history, the 7,000-mile Ferronorte.

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“Mr. Moyers was convinced that Millsaps students would benefit from a program where they could not only study and undertake research but also learn the lessons that come from hard work. He believed that challenging work was a key to developing character and moral strength.”

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Our Promise to Generations to Come I loved my years at Millsaps. Lazy afternoons in the Bowl. Daytime football games under a sun so hot we felt as if we might melt. Study sessions spent tucked away in the library’s stacks, fraternity parties, sorority parties, and any other parties we could find. Long talks with a friend, longer talks with a professor.

Millsaps did more than simply educate me. Millsaps offered me a sense of place, a sense of home where I learned about myself and others. It was a place secure enough for me to think about who I was and what I wanted. A place that helped me shape my dreams.

Today, Millsaps is still that place. Every student who passes through this campus brings the desire to discover the world, and at the same time discover himself or herself. Here, each student finds both the challenge and the encouragement to do just that.

Our responsibility as alumni and friends is to build on the legacy that is distinctly Millsaps. By finding the resources for scholarships, faculty support, program support, and capital improvements, we can assure the solid future of a noble past.

Legacy: A Campaign for Millsaps College is an unprecedented and ambitious undertaking, but I strongly believe in it. This campaign will offer more scholarships to deserving students, those young people who are the new generation of leadership in business, government, ministry, medicine, law, and education. It will enhance classrooms and improve research environments to promote academic discovery, while allowing for interaction with professors and fellow students. It will allow us to attract and retain the best teacher-scholars—who will create vital learning experiences inside and outside the classroom.

The campaign will also help prepare students for our ever-growing global society by offering learning experiences in national and international settings. And it will provide a safe, comfortable, and aesthetically pleasing learning environment that encourages reflection and interaction.

The Millsaps legacy is one of excellence, handed down from generation to generation, and it has been given to us. Millsaps deserves our best. The time is now. We need you to join us as we strive to ensure the future and the legacy of Millsaps College.

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