Roger D. Malkin agricultural pioneer
▼ Allen Lamar Edwards (’50)—75, Indianola; retired farmer and World War II veteran, Dec. 8, 2000. Jack Williams Hayden (’50)—76, Batesville; retired manager of operations and engineering for Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association and World War II veteran, March 17, 2001. Felix Thompson Henley (’50)—79, West Point; teacher and leader in radiology, Sept. 20, 2000. Lonnie S. Meaders (’50)—75, Laurel; retired coach and teacher, July 22, 1999. James C. Nicholson (’50)—74, Gulfport; retired senior vice president of Hancock Bank, Sept. 15, 2000. William H. McFarland Sr. (’51)—72, Baton Rouge, La.; retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and retired administrator for Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, May 11, 2000. James P. Minyard (’51, Ph.D. ’67)— Harrisonburg, Va.; professor emeritus of chemistry at Mississippi State and state chemist 1967-91, Jan. 24, 2001. John A. Montgomery Jr. (’51)—73, Houston, Texas; retired petroleum geologist for Exxon Oil Co. and World War II veteran, Oct. 14, 2000. Earl Kenneth Reynolds (’51, M.S. ’55)—71, Greenwood; retired insurance agent, former county agent for Leflore County, and Korean War veteran, Dec. 15, 2000. Oscar H. Johnson Jr. (’52)—Decatur, Ala.; retired chemical engineer for Monsanto, Dec. 20, 1999. Donald Myron Keady (’52, M.S. ’57)—72, Starkville; retired geology professor at Mississippi State, Dec. 10, 2000. Karl H. Miller (’53)—69, Plantersville; retired Soil Conservation Service employee and Korean War veteran, Feb. 12, 2001. R. Jack Freeman (’55, M.S. ’66)—88, Columbus; retired education administrator, Oct. 16, 2000. Edgar E. Sharp (’55)—Longboat Key, Fla.; retired businessman, July 13, 2000. Bob Branum (’56)—67, Destin, Fla.; retired lieutenant colonel in the Mississippi Air National Guard, Dec. 29, 2000.
Lawrence Mullins (’56)—70, Starkville; retired merchant, Aug. 17, 2000. Albert S. Munsch Jr. (’56)—Alexander City, Ala.; retired Air Force Lt. Col., June 9, 2000. Lowell T. Livingston (’57)—66, Brandon; retired director of intermodal transportation for the state Department of Transportation. William W. Sykes (’57)—69, Jackson; retired licensed engineer and president and chairman of the board of the Engineering Service of Jackson, Sept. 14, 2000. Avis Elizabeth Mullins (’57)—88, Meadville; retired schoolteacher in the Hazlehurst, Greenville, and Franklin County schools, March 25, 2001. Kenneth Geno Sr. (’58)—67, Booneville; retired advanced agriculture adult farmer specialist for Prentiss County, Oct. 2, 2000. Thomas A. Hester Jr. (’58)—93, Shelby; retired conservationist for USDA Soil Conservation Service Elio Tarsi (’58)—64, Boyle; salesman, Sept. 5, 2000. Walton E. Finley (’59)—66, Mendenhall; plant engineer for Presto Industries and Magnetek, March 5, 2001. William R. Lacey (’59)—El Paso, Texas; retired English teacher and World War II veteran, Dec. 16, 1999. Anjel Winston Lopez (’59)—68, Escatawpa; retired aeronautical engineer, Aug. 1, 2000. L.L. Bishop (’61)—66, McKinney, Texas; convenience store owner and former plant manager for Nemanco Buildings in Philadelphia, Jan. 13, 2001. Robert D. Cox (’62)—57, Jennings, La.; comptroller for Bolton Ford Inc. in Lake Charles, March 10, 2001. Carlos Dale Smith (’62)—59, Vaughan; physical therapist, June 17, 2000. Mary Sue Wood (’62)—94, Birmingham Ridge; retired teacher for Lee County Schools, March 15, 2001. Phillip Edwin Jacks (’63)—59, Kilmichael; health care manager, July 27, 2000. Leon Polewoda Jr. (63)—63, Greenwood; retired sales representative, March 15, 2001.
Roger D. Malkin of Scott, chief executive officer and chairman of Delta and Pine Land Co., died Nov. 22, 2000. He was 69. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, Malkin earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College in 1952 and a master’s the following year from the college’s Tuck School of Business. In 1978, he led a team of investors that acquired Delta and Pine Land Co. Under his direction, the enterprise focused on developing better seed varieties and became the foremost cotton breeder in the world, with commercial activities in 19 countries. In 1996, D&PL commercialized the first transgenic row crop with the sale of its cotton seed with Monsanto’s bacillus thuringiensis gene technology. A tireless supporter of education, Malkin was a major benefactor and member of the advisory board of the Mississippi State University Agribusiness Institute. He also provided a major endowment for MSU’s new Biotechnology Institute and served on the steering committee that recommended its formation.
Liz Depoyster (’64, M.S. ’79)—58, Mooreville; retired business manager for the Lee-Itawamba Library System, Aug. 7, 2000. Ray Jenkins (’65)—57, Marks; certified public accountant, Aug. 9, 2000. David M. Shaw (’65)—59, Forest; election commissioner of Scott County, July 26, 2000. Charles Leslie Herron (’66)—56, Forest; retired area director for the state Department of Human Services, Feb. 18, 2001. Marion Logan Laster (’66)—68, Alco, Ark.; employed by Delta Branch Experiment Station in Stoneville, July 13, 2000. David McNeil Megginson (’67)—65, Tupelo; People’s Insurance Agency employee, Dec. 2, 2000.
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