news briefs In Memoriam The College of Business mourns the loss of three former faculty members, each of whom had a tremendous impact on the development of our programs, our university and our students. These educators were all honored as Notable Faculty in 2015 during the College’s Centennial Celebration.
Dr. William C. Flewellen, Jr. (1918-2019)
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Dr. William C. Flewellen, Jr., Lt. Col. U.S. Air Corp. (Ret.), was the former Dean and a Professor of Accounting at Mississippi State. He earned BS and MS degrees from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from Columbia University. After serving as an Accounting Professor and Assistant Business Dean at the University of Alabama, he was named Dean of MSU’s College of Business in 1961. Flewellen was instrumental in establishing the doctoral programs and obtaining accreditation for the master’s and doctoral degrees. He left in 1968 to take a similar position at the University of Georgia, remaining until retirement in 1989. Flewellen has held numerous national and federal appointments. He served on dozens of boards as President, Vice President or Committee Chairman. A few of these were the American Accounting Association, the Small Business Development Center Directors Association and the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.
Dr. Harvey S. Lewis (1938-2019)
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Dr. Harvey S. Lewis was a former Dean and Professor Emeritus of the College of Business. A finance alumnus, he later earned his PhD from the University of Arkansas. He was the Department Head of Finance & Economics at MSU before working at the University of Mississippi as Executive Vice Chancellor. Lewis later returned to MSU as Executive Director of the Mississippi State University Foundation, Vice President of Administration & Development and interim President. After a seven-year stint at the University of Central Florida as Associate Dean of Business, he returned to MSU as Dean of the College of Business until his retirement in 1997. In acknowledgement of his service to Mississippi State, the second-floor mezzanine in the College of Business’ Atrium was named in his honor.
W. A. (Bill) Simmons (1924-2019)
Bill Simmons with Dean Sharon Oswald
Former MSU Accounting Professor William Asbury (Bill) Simmons graduated from Meridian Junior College then spent a year in the U.S. Army after World War II, processing servicemen out of the military. He later enrolled at Mississippi State, majoring in accounting and income tax for BS and MS degrees. He practiced accounting part-time while working full-time on the MSU faculty for 39 years. After retiring from State in 1987, he practiced accounting full-time until 2014. As a faculty member, he taught honors accounting classes and was named Honors Accounting Professor of the Year and COB Outstanding Teacher of the Year. He was a past President of the Mississippi Society of CPAs, and at one time was the oldest practicing CPA in Mississippi. Locally, he served as a Director of First Federal Savings and Loan and on the Advisory Board of BancorpSouth.
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