Ole Miss Alumni Review - Fall 2014

Ole Miss Alumni Review

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FALL 2014 Vol. 63 No. 4

Highest Honors Alumni Association recognizes top alumni

Benefactors continue to play a role in UM’s Lott Leadership Institute

Alumnus pairs compassion with fashion

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features

20 Heart & Sole

Alumnus pairs compassion with fashion

By Annie Rhoades

26 The Man Behind the Muscle

UM grad coached on four Super Bowl teams

By Michael Newsom

36 ‘Lotts’ of

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The latest on Ole Miss students, faculty, staff and friends

16 Calendar 42 sports

‘College GameDay’ wish comes true

Leadership Experience

44 arts and culture

Benefactors continue to play role in UM’s leadership institute

46 Rebel Traveler

2015 baseball schedule announced

By Katie Morrison

50 alumni news

30 Highest Honors on the cover

Alumni Association recognizes top alumni

By Jim Urbanek

On the cover: (From top middle, clockwise) Deuce McAllister (00), James W. Davis (BBA 62, MS 63, PhD 72), Robert Khayat (BAEd 61, JD 66), Kelly English (BSFCS 02), Lanny Griffith (BBA 73, JD 76), Peggie Gillom-Granderson (BSW 80) and Michael L. Ducker (72) were recognized with the Alumni Association’s highest annual honors as part of Homecoming 2014.

Cover design by Amy Howell

Ole Miss Alumni Review P ublisher TimothyL.L.Walsh Walsh(83, (83) Timothy 91) Editor Jim Urbanek II (97) jim@olemiss.edu A ssociate Editor and A dvertising dvertising Director irector Tom Speed (91) Annie Rhoades (07, 09) tom@olemiss.edu annie@olemiss.edu C ontributing ontributing E Editor ditor C Benita Benita Whitehorn Whitehorn Editorial A ssistant A rt Director Brandon Irvine Amy Howell Designer C ontributors Eric Misty Summers Kevin Bain (98), Cowherd, Ruth Cummins (82), Bill Dabney (89), Mitchell C orrespondents Diggs Ferchaud, Erin Garrett Kevin(82), BainJay(98), Tobie Baker (96), (11), Dennis Robert (83), Rebecca LauckIrwin, Cleary (97), Jordan Lexi Combs, Nathan Katie MitchellLatil, DiggsJoshua (82), McCoy, Jay Ferchaud, Morrison (01), Michael Newsom Michael Harrelson, Robert Jordan(05), (83), Marc Rolph, Edwin (80, 93) Nathan Latil, JackSmith Mazurak, Purnell (MA 02) ODeborah fficers of the University Edwin Smith (80), Matt Westerfield of M ississippi A lumni A ssociation of

Officers of T he University Trentice Imbler (78) M ississippipresident A lumni A ssociation BillMaloney May (79),(72) Eddie president president-elect Richard Noble(76) (68), Hal Moore president-elect vice president

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Chancellor Dear Alumni and Friends,

We are accustomed to talking about growth this time of year, but this fall’s enrollment increase is significant for a number of reasons. As classes resumed in August, our student body surged to 23,096 students, up 3.6 percent from last year and again the largest in the state. That itself is reason to cheer as a sign that students and families continue to value the quality education and college experience we offer at the University of Mississippi.

This is the 20th consecutive year that enrollment has grown across all our campuses, and The Chronicle of Higher Education has noted our continued success, acknowledging the university among the 20 fastest growing in America.

From 2002 to 2013, the university grew by 43 percent, ranking 13th nationally and third in the SEC behind the universities of Alabama, at No. 4, and Arkansas, at No. 7.

Our student population this fall includes 3,814 first-time freshmen, again, a record both for the university and the state. It’s a class that sports an average ACT score of 24.3, another university record, and includes 57 class valedictorians, 52 salutatorians, 73 student body presidents, 83 Eagle Scouts and 10 Girl Scouts who achieved the Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting. The university has a long history of attracting top students with demonstrated leadership skills, and we are thrilled that this freshman class is filled with so many future leaders.

While nearly two-thirds of our students are from Mississippi, including undergraduates from every one of the state’s 82 counties, the university is more diverse than ever. Our student body also includes representatives from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 92 foreign countries. Nearly 24 percent, or 5,488 students, are minorities.

Our undergraduate schools of Accountancy, Engineering, Nursing, and Journalism and New Media all enjoyed double-digit growth. The growth is particularly dramatic in the School of Nursing, where enrollment jumped more than 18 percent this fall, to 811 students. That follows a 28 percent spike last year, reflecting our continuing commitment to help train professionals to tackle Mississippi’s pressing health care issues.

Our freshman class, of course, is only part of the story behind our amazing growth. Our faculty and staff have developed several first-year programs to help freshmen adjust to the rigors of a world-class university, and those efforts have paid off in increased retention. About 85 percent of last year’s freshman class returned this fall for their sophomore year, a rate that is the envy of many colleges and universities.

The next time you’re on campus, I hope you’ll join us in welcoming all our students to the Ole Miss family. At the same time, thank faculty and staff members for their efforts to make this university the best it can be. Together, we’re building a bright future for this great university and for our state.

Sincerely,

Daniel W. Jones (MD 75) Chancellor

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I am very humbled to have been asked to serve as your Alumni Association president. I guess you could say I was born to be an Ole Miss Rebel! Having been born right here in Oxford, reared just up the road in New Albany, and having made Tupelo our home for the last 34 years, my family and I have taken advantage of the many opportunities to attend events here at Ole Miss.

It seems as though Ole Miss just became part of our lives. I remember wearing my Archie (Manning) button and being in the stadium when he broke his arm. It seems like yesterday when we were in Memorial Stadium in Jackson, watching the football head straight toward the goalpost only to fall straight down, thereby allowing the Rebels to defeat the Bulldogs! Also, like many of you, we saw Chucky Mullins make the hit that would later take his life. Chucky told his team, “It’s time!” And I echo his words: It’s time! It’s our time!

Like many others, I met my precious spouse here at Ole Miss, and like our parents, we are continuing the tradition of raising our family at Ole Miss. Our older daughter just this week was accepted to be a freshman in fall 2015 with our younger to follow in a few years. We have made many memories tailgating at football games, bowl games, countless games at the “Tad Pad” and most recently with our Rebel baseball team in OMAHA! The University of Mississippi is a special place, and we have all benefited from our time here. We currently have almost 125,000 living alumni with more than 26,000 active Alumni Association members. Our membership grew by almost 10 percent in the last fiscal year. It’s time! It’s our time! Step up and join, renew or extend your membership, or become a Sustaining Life Member. If you do so by Jan. 15, then we will enter your name in a drawing for a Yeti cooler.

Enrollment this fall is at an all-time high of 23,096. Of this number, 3,814 are freshmen, up 6.5 percent from last year. Yes, we led the state with the largest freshman class and are the largest university in our state by more than 3,000 students! It is our time!

I know under the watchful eye of Chancellor Dan Jones, the University of Mississippi will continue to lead the state and be second to none!

In closing, I thank my predecessor, Jimmy Brown, and his wife, Susan, for their encouraging words and support. I look forward to working with Tim Walsh and his wonderful staff as they keep us on target.

Great things are happening at the University of Mississippi! It is our time!

Always a Rebel,

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UM ranked among the nation’s fastest growing colleges in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Almanac of Higher Education 2014.

Unprecedented Growth CHRONICLE NAMES UM AMONG FASTEST GROWING COLLEGES

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he Chronicle of Higher Education named the University of Mississippi among the nation’s fastest growing colleges in its Almanac of Higher Education 2014. Additionally, UM was reported as the “top fundraiser” and having the largest endowment among universities in Mississippi.

UM ranked 13th nationally, in recognition of its 43.1 percent enrollment growth from 13,135 in 2002 to 18,794 in 2012.

Based on U.S. Department of Education data, the survey tracked enrollment growth at educational institutions from fall 2002 to fall 2012. It includes total headcount of full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students. Percentages were rounded, but institutions are ranked based on unrounded figures.

Ole Miss was the only Mississippi university in the Public Doctoral Institutions category (the Carnegie classification for

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public institutions that award at least 20 research doctoral degrees) and was among three SEC institutions recognized in the top 20, along with the University of Alabama (No. 4) and the University of Arkansas (No. 7).

The almanac also features individual state studies that report data such as faculty pay, minority enrollment and average ACT scores for educational institutions in each state. While most figures are reported on the whole or average for the state, a few data points are reported comparatively among research universities.

“Largest endowment” went to Ole Miss, as did “top fundraiser.” Data for these two comparisons were collected from the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Council for Aid to Education. AR

Leading the State ENROLLMENT TOPS 23,000

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nrollment at the University of Mississippi surged this fall for the 20th consecutive year, making history with more than 23,000 students across all its campuses for the first time.

Preliminary enrollment figures show a total unduplicated headcount of 23,096, the largest in the state. That’s up 805 students from last fall, or 3.6 percent. The figures include the largest freshman class ever for any Mississippi university, a class that sports the highest ACT scores and high school GPAs in Ole Miss history.

“We are very pleased that students and families across Mississippi and throughout America continue to recognize the quality education and outstanding college experience we offer at the University of Mississippi, all at a very competitive price,” says Chancellor Dan Jones (MD 75).

“Our faculty and staff work very hard to deliver the very best academic programs for students, and it’s truly rewarding to see those efforts being acknowledged with extraordinary interest in attending our university.”

The incoming freshman class swelled to 3,814 this fall, up 6.5 percent from 3,582 last year. Student retention also remains near record levels, with preliminary reports showing 84.6 percent of last year’s freshmen have returned to campus this fall, the second-highest retention rate in school history.

“While we’re very happy with the endorsement of so many new freshmen this fall, we’re particularly pleased with the success of the firstyear programs we have in place to help freshmen adjust to the rigors of a world-class university,” Jones says. “Many of our students are the first in their families to attend college, so we try to give them all the tools they need to be successful during their time on campus and then as they launch their careers.”

Nearly two-thirds, 61.2 percent, of Ole Miss students are from Mississippi, including students from all the state’s 82 counties. The university also attracts students from across the nation and world.

Overall, the student body includes representatives from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 92 foreign countries.

This year’s freshmen are better prepared for college course work, with an average ACT score of 24.3, compared to an average of 24.1 last fall. Their high school GPA increased too, from 3.46 to 3.49. Both measures have increased every year since 2010.

The 2014 freshman class includes 57 class valedictorians, 52 salutatorians, 73 student body presidents, 83 Eagle Scouts and 10 Girl Scouts who achieved the Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting.

Minority enrollment totaled 5,488 students, or 23.8 percent. African-American enrollment is 3,285 students, or 14.2 percent of overall enrollment.

The university’s Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College continues to expand, enrolling 1,210 students this fall, a more than 15 percent increase since fall 2012. The acclaimed Honors College has a record 373 incoming freshmen, with 54 percent being Mississippi residents. This fall’s honors freshmen have an average ACT of 30.2 and an average high school GPA of 3.93. The college’s facility on Sorority Row is undergoing a major expansion and renovation to accommodate its larger student body.

The university’s undergraduate schools of Accountancy, Engineering, Nursing, and Journalism and New Media all enjoyed double-digit growth.

The number of undergraduate students in accountancy hit a record of 962, up from 869 last fall, and enrollment in the School of Journalism and New Media topped 1,000 for the first time – 1,044 this fall, compared to 886 last year.

In the School of Nursing, based on UM’s Medical Center campus in Jackson, enrollment is up by 18.4 percent this fall, from 685 to 811 students.

That follows a 28 percent spike last year. The dramatic growth reflects the school’s emphasis on lifelong learning, from the undergraduate level through its doctoral programs, says Marcia Rachel (PhD 89), the school’s associate dean for academics.

After seven consecutive years of growth, the UM School of Engineering ranks as one of the nation’s fastest growing. The undergraduate enrollment, which topped 1,000 for the first time in 2012, is 1,419 this fall, up from 1,285 last year.

To help accommodate the growing student population, the university has opened Rebel Market, a new dining facility in Johnson Commons, replacing the old cafeteria, as well as several satellite eateries across campus. Construction began this summer on a new residence hall in the Northgate area of campus, and Guess Hall is being demolished to make way for two new five-story residence halls on that site. AR Fall 2014 7

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even freshmen with outstanding academic records and the desire to pursue global careers have entered the University of Mississippi this fall on prestigious Croft Scholarships as members of the Croft Institute for International Studies. They are joined by two sophomores who were awarded the Rose Bui Academic Excellence Scholarship this year.

Five of the seven freshmen are from Mississippi, one is from Wisconsin, and one is from Grossenaspe, Germany. They each will receive $8,000 per year for four years as long as they make good progress through the international studies major. The 2014-15 Croft Scholars have ACT scores ranging from 30 to 35. They include National Merit Finalists and Semifinalists and a National Merit Commended Scholar.

“After an intensive application and interview process, we selected an outstanding crop of students for 2014-15,” says Kees Gispen, executive director of the Croft Institute. “Each student selected was heavily recruited by top-ranked academic institutions.”

The new Croft Scholars are Matthew Forgette of Oxford; Sydney Green of Hattiesburg; Natalie Gagliano of New Berlin,

Wis.; Kate Hill and Sarah Meeks of Madison; and Matthew McInnis of Canton. The International Scholarship recipient is Alexandra Gersdorf of Grossenaspe, Germany. The winners of the Rose Bui Academic Excellence Scholarships are Hadley Peterson of Jacksonville, Fla., and James DeMarshall of Mantua, N.J. “To be chosen for the Croft Institute is an honor and a blessing,” DeMarshall says. “You see the success of the people ahead of you, and you want to push yourself to achieve what they have achieved.”

As members of the Croft Institute, scholars begin a rigorous yet rewarding plunge into an international studies major specializing in a foreign language. Croft courses are taught in smaller classes by institute professors, which allow for in-depth discussion, reflection and analysis. Students also have opportunities to take classes in the larger university community.

Scholars must also spend one semester abroad in a country where their chosen language is spoken.

The Croft Institute was established in 1997 and is funded annually by the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund. AR

2014-15 Croft Scholars. Bottom row, from left – Hadley Peterson, Sarah Meeks, Matthew Forgette, Alexandra Gersdorf, Natalie Gagliano.

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GRADUATE SCHOOL DEAN RECEIVES NASA HONOR

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ohn Z. Kiss, dean of the University of Mississippi Graduate School, is the recipient of NASA’s Outstanding Public Leadership Medal.

The prestigious honor recognizes nongovernment employees for notable leadership accomplishments that have significantly influenced the NASA mission. Kiss has worked with NASA for nearly three decades, having served as vice chair of the International Committee on Space Research.

As spaceflight project director of TROPI (an experiment to investigate the growth and development of plant seedlings under various gravity and lighting combinations) from 2004 to 2010, Kiss supervised 36 scientists and engineers at

four NASA centers and two centers of the European Space Agency. These efforts resulted in two successful projects on the International Space Station.

“I have worked with NASA for 27 years and feel humbled and honored to receive this medal,” Kiss says. “We have had seven John Z. Kiss spaceflight projects, which have been on the space shuttle and now the International Space Station. Thus, this award is shared by the numerous colleagues, coworkers, undergraduates and graduate students who have been part of these exciting projects.”

Kiss’ Seedling Growth-1 experiment was aboard SpaceX-2, which brought the payload to the ISS last year.

A professor of biology, he is principal investigator on “Novel Explorations into the Interactions between Light and Gravity Sensing in Plants.” Part of the Fundamental Space Biology program at NASA, the program is designed to study light and gravity signaling in plants, and their effects on cell growth and proliferation. It also has potential for improving crop species on Earth to obtain increased production and sustainability. AR

Coming Together UM DEDICATES NEW CROSS-CULTURAL CENTER Photo by Kevin Bain

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he University of Mississippi dedicated its new Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement on Sept.

24. The event brought together students, faculty and staff, as well as other supporters.

During the ceremony, Chancellor Dan Jones (MD 75) reflected on his own experiences as a medical volunteer in Korea to illustrate the rich opportunities to encourage crosscultural engagement and awareness.

“Some may misinterpret that the center is just for a segment of our population,” Jones said. “This is a service for all students, to help make this a better place, a better state and a better country.”

Brandi Hephner LaBanc, vice chancellor of student affairs, acknowledged the dedication of students in planning the center. The CICCE, which opened this fall, materialized in part because of student recommendations collected from the Multicultural Center Working Group, a student-led group charged with determining the need for more cultural engagement and diversity awareness on campus.

“What we celebrate today is true student leadership,” Hephner LaBanc said. “The dedication of the student group that first conceptualized this department has come to final realization, and the dedication of the faculty and staff that supported their ideas through that process has been rewarded.

“The CICCE, under the leadership of Mrs. (Shawnboda) Mead, will make our campus a more welcoming place and challenge us all to come together as a strong, united community.”

Grand opening of the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement

Created to provide programs and services that encourage cross-cultural interactions and provide a physical space that is both nurturing and welcoming for students from diverse backgrounds, the center emphasizes inclusion and broad cultural educational opportunities for all students.

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revolutionary aluminum plating process developed at the University of Mississippi is being recognized as one of the most technologically significant products of 2014.

The Portable Aluminum Deposition System, or PADS, invented in the laboratory of UM chemistry chair and professor Charles Hussey (BS 71, PhD 74) is a winner in R&D Magazine’s 52nd annual R&D 100 Awards. The international competition recognizes excellence across a wide range of

PADS allows manufacturers to safely conduct aluminum deposition in open atmosphere for the first time. Aluminum cannot be plated from water or most other solvents, so a special electrolyte that enables the safe plating is a critical part of the device.

“As basic scientists studying fundamental process and phenomena, so much of what we do is not immediately useful or obvious to society,” Hussey says. “Here, we have made Photo by Robert Jordan

Professor Charles Hussey with postdoctoral research associate Li-Hsien Chou

industries, including telecommunications, optics, high-energy physics, materials science chemistry and biotechnology. The award is considered to be the “Oscar” for inventors.

The work in Hussey’s lab is part of a larger project and carried out in collaboration with Sheng Dai and other scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the United Technologies Research Center. At UM, Hussey worked closely with postdoctoral research associate Li-Hsien Chou to develop PADS. This aluminum plating technology is expected to replace hazardous coatings such as cadmium, thereby potentially strengthening the competitiveness of American manufacturing companies worldwide and cutting the cost of aluminum plating by a factor of 50 to 100.

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something unique and obviously useful. This is very satisfying.”

Chou, who earned her doctorate under Professor I-Wen Sun at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, is Hussey’s “academic granddaughter” because Sun is one of Hussey’s first doctoral graduates, having earned his Ph.D. at UM in 1989.

Winning the R&D award is a dream come true for Chou.

“Every scientist dreams one day to develop a useful product with their name on it, and we did,” Chou says. “I am so happy we can bring this recognition to Ole Miss.”

Hussey has worked on ionic liquid projects for many years, including various U.S. Department of Energy projects involving the development of ionic liquid-based processes for the treatment of spent nuclear fuel. AR

Special Delivery UM RESEARCHERS STUDY NOVEL DRUG-DELIVERY SYSTEM

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niversity of Mississippi School of Pharmacy researchers are studying an improved method for delivering drugs that treat pain and inflammation.

S. Narasimha Murthy, associate professor of pharmaceutics, and Abhishek Juluri, a pharmaceutics doctoral student, are pursuing new compounds that enable easier drug delivery through the skin. Their work is supported by a collaborative agreement with Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. Murthy says the project centers on a patented cyclodextrin derivative supplied by Ligand. Cyclodextrins are cyclic carbohydrates with a “bucketlike cavity” within the molecules.

“They entrap water-insoluble drug molecules in the cavity and render them soluble in water,” he says. “The cyclodextrin derivatives we are using are prepared with multiple charges that enhance the transport of water-insoluble drugs.”

Ligand’s cyclodextrin derivatives can help highly lipophilic drugs such as steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs and antilipidemics (lipidor fat-reducing drugs), which tend to remain in tissue, enter the

circulatory system more effectively through the skin, Murthy says.

“Presently, there are no permeation enhancers to address this issue efficiently,” says Juluri, who is using the project for his dissertation. “I’m excited that Ligand’s unique cyclodextrin derivative could overcome this issue.”

Juluri and Murthy have seen promising outcomes already.

Their work on Ligand’s cyclodextrin derivative Captisol, for example, was recently published in the Journal of Controlled Release.

According to Ligand, Captisol is a patent-protected, chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs.

“Our results show that an anesthetic drug, propofol, could be delivered in therapeutically significant amounts into the circulatory system to elicit mild sedation and anesthesia,” Juluri says. “We hope to develop a delivery system that would be useful in noninvasive induction and maintenance of anesthesia in pediatric patients.”

The collaborative agreement is in effect until March 2015. AR

OVERBY TO RECEIVE COVETED LEGACY AWARD

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harles Overby (68), a champion Overby led the development of the Newof the First Amendment, has been seum, a major specialty museum that selected to receive the 2015 Leg- explores how news surrounding historic acy Award from the Ole Miss Women’s moments affects our experiences.

“At Ole Miss, he conCouncil for Philanthropy. tinues to have a significant The Legacy Award, preimpact on both students sented by C Spire, recogand the general public nizes individuals who have through the Overby Cenmade significant contributer for Southern Journaltions as philanthropists, ism and Politics. The Overby leaders and mentors and Center gives individuals brought about definitive, an opportunity to come positive changes in the Unitogether and discuss major versity of Mississippi, state issues of our region, nation and nation. A ceremony to and world, while creatpresent the award will take place April 18, 2015 at Charles Overby ing a better understanding Carrier House, Chancellor of media, politics and the Dan (MD 75) and Lydia Jones’ home on First Amendment. The Women’s Counthe Ole Miss campus, where Overby was cil believes that discussing issues helps educated as a journalist. solve them.”

“Charles Overby has traveled the globe Overby is the for mer chairin efforts to promote First Amendment man of the Freedom Forum, Newsfreedoms and to discuss media relations,” eum and Diversity Institute. For 22 years, says OMWC chair Karen Moore (BS 82) of he was chief executive officer of the FreeNashville, Tenn. “In Washington, D.C., Mr. dom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation

that educates people about the press and the First Amendment. His service as CEO of the Newseum spanned 1997 to 2011, during which time he supervised the building of the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. He also was CEO of the Diversity Institute, a school created in 2001 to teach journalists and aspiring journalists while increasing diversity in newsrooms.

The Overby Center was established at Ole Miss with a $5.4 million gift from the Freedom Forum to honor Overby’s extensive professional contributions. He continues his involvement with Ole Miss students by helping them identify beneficial opportunities and internships.

The Legacy Award is a focus of the 14-year-old OMWC, an organization that recognizes that meaningful lives and careers in and beyond college rely on strong relationships and nurturing support. Mentorship is the cornerstone of OMWC scholarships, and almost 100 students have blossomed under this program. AR Fall 2014 11

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ship with Mayo Clinic can be transformational for UMMC across its missions of research, education and health care.

“Expanding our existing research partnership with Mayo offers exciting possibilities for new discovery that will benefit Mississippians and people around the world,” Jones says.

“Beyond that, though, the Mayo Clinic is the strongest brand in health care worldwide. We will benefit from the opportunity to apply Mayo-type approaches to management of a large, public health care enterprise such as ours. We look forward to the prospect that both partners will learn, grow and perhaps influence other public academic medical centers through this relationship.”

Photo by Jay Ferchaud

ayo Clinic and the University of Mississippi Medical Center signed an agreement in October to broaden and deepen their collaboration in clinical trials, other medical research and education. The agreement is a formal commitment to enhance the relationship that has been steadily building for the past 20 years.

“This agreement builds on our already strong relationship with the University of Mississippi Medical Center and lays the groundwork for more discovery and application,” says John Noseworthy, M.D., president and CEO of Mayo Clinic. “We’re thrilled to work even more closely to improve care for patients.”

Taking part in the signing at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., were Dr. James Keeton (left), Dr. Robert Rizza, Dr. Richard Summers, and Dr. Gregory Gores, Mayo Clinic executive dean for research.

An earlier memorandum of understanding formed an institutional bond in 2010, designed to enhance and expand shared initiatives in translational research and training. A number of cooperative clinical research relationships have flourished between Mayo and UMMC since a first collaborative study was launched in 1995 in the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Arteriopathy (GENOA), with cohorts of non-Hispanic white Americans from Rochester, Minn., African-Americans from Jackson and Mexican-Americans from Starr County, Texas.

UM Chancellor Dan Jones (MD 75) believes the relation-

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In addition to research into the genetic underpinnings of disease through epidemiological research, collaboration between Mayo and UMMC includes clinical research projects that look at genetic variations in treatment response.

“This is the doorway to create more exciting opportunities between UMMC and all of Mayo Clinic,” says Richard Summers (MD 81), associate vice chancellor for research at UMMC and liaison for this collaboration. “We are going to use the synergy that already exists between our organizations to take clinical research and education to a whole new level.” AR

Heart of the Matter NEW FACILITY OFFERS WIDE SCOPE OF CARE UNDER ONE ROOF

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niversity Heart, a new diagnostic and treatment facility at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, is offering patients a full scope of heart-care services under one roof that creates a more efficient and customerfriendly experience.

The three-story building adjacent to University Hospital began receiving its first patients in July. Patients who formerly visited offices scattered throughout the UMMC campus can now make one simple stop.

The Medical Center held a grand opening in September to celebrate the new center.

“This is a brand new, state-of-the-art, spacious facility that will make for a wonderful patient experience,” says Dr. Michael Winniford, medical director of University Heart and a cardiologist in the School of Medicine, of the 49,081-square-foot building designed by Cooke Douglass Farr Lemons Architects and Engineers.

The $15 million facility includes rooms for outpatient or overnight-stay cardiovascular procedures that formerly took place at the adult hospital. It’s strategically located steps away from inpatient heart care and the Emergency Department, and it complements Mississippi’s sole heart transplant facility and sole adult congenital heart program.

The building is designed to heighten customer service, says

Bill Brown (BA 75), UMMC’s administrator for cardiovascular services. “It’s very modern and very open, and it blends in nicely with the rest of the campus. It’s very light and airy and welcoming.”

The jewels of the center are its catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories – 32,000 of the center’s total square footage – and equipment for noninvasive testing and minor surgical procedures. Patients undergo electrophysiology procedures such as implantation of pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators and catheter ablation for heart arrhythmia. They recover in one of the center’s cardiovascular beds, with an overnight stay if needed.

An array of cardiovascular diagnostic and treatment services are housed at the center, including stress testing, heart imaging, echocardiogram, cardiac catheterization, stent treatment, and coronary and peripheral angioplasty.

The center offers immediate care and access for heart attack sufferers, Brown says. “Patients will be brought to University Heart for any necessary procedures. We have rapid, direct access through our elevators to University Heart.”

Patients will continue regular outpatient doctor visits at University Physicians offices on campus and in the metro area.

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The new University Heart facility is designed to heighten customer service.

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From left: Chancellor Dan Jones; the Phillips family; Coach Billy Brewer; Acacia Santos, sophomore mechanical engineering major and recipient of the Chucky Mullins Scholarship; and Carver Phillips pose with the plaque that will be posted along Chucky Mullins Drive.

It’s Time CHUCKY MULLINS REMEMBERED AT DRIVE DEDICATION

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wenty-five years ago, Roy Lee “Chucky” Mullins (91) was a rising University of Mississippi football star whose time on the team ended abruptly following a paralyzing injury on the field. Mullins, who wore jersey No. 38, was warmly remembered on Sept. 26 as Coliseum Drive was renamed in his memory.

Chucky Mullins Drive, which connects Highway 6 to campus, is officially open. UM administrators, faculty, staff, students and alumni joined family members and friends of the famed and fallen Rebel in the Robert C. Khayat School of Law courtyard for the ceremony.

Mullins, who was paralyzed on the football field in 1989 and died in 1991, was inducted posthumously into the M-Club Hall of Fame during the night before the game against the University of Memphis on Sept. 27.

“We are extremely blessed to be influenced by the life and values of Chucky Mullins each and every day,” said Ole Miss Athletics Director Ross Bjork. “The impact he made during his time at Ole Miss is without measure. Chucky continues to serve as a spiritual hero and a rallying point for the passion, spirit and energy that define the university.”

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“Chucky means so much to our university,” said former head football coach Billy Brewer (BSPHE 64). “With every new recognition of his life, his story grows and grows. He absolutely loved Ole Miss, and to this day Ole Miss loves him.”

Each year, the Rebel football team awards the Chucky Mullins Courage Award, which is presented to a defensive captain who shows as much heart and passion as Mullins did both on and off the field. That player wears No. 38 in Mullins’ memory.

“I am truly humbled to be wearing his number,” said senior Deterrian “D.T.” Shackelford, who has held the honor the last two years and is the first player to earn the distinction twice.

“As I faced my own injuries and surgeries, I needed everything he stood for. I truly believe I’ve made it this far because of him.

He’s been a blessing.”

Carver and Karen Phillips (who were Mullins’ guardians) were also in attendance.

“After he was paralyzed, many people in the community thought my wife and I were crazy for taking Chucky and his brother into our home,” Phillips said. “But it was a godsend that Chucky came into our lives. May all that has been done to honor him so far continue for many more years to come.” AR

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hrough Dec. 14 Ongoing exhibit: “William Faulkner’s Books: A Bibliographic Exhibit.” Open to the public. Faulkner Room, J.D. Williams Library. Email library@olemiss.edu.

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School of Accountancy Tailgate: Lawn in front of Conner Hall, three hours prior to kickoff. Call 662-915-7375.

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Student Alumni Council and Young Alumni Tailgate: Lawn of Triplett Alumni Center, three hours prior to kickoff. Call 662-915-7375.

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University of Mississippi Medical Center Tailgate: Left lawn of Triplett Alumni Center, time TBA. Call 1-800-844-5800.

Rioult Dance NY Nov. 5

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Football: Ole Miss vs. Auburn. VaughtHemingway Stadium, time TBA. Visit www. olemisssports.com.

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Performance: Rioult Dance NY, Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

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Performance: “Sister Act” national Broadway tour. Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30 p.m.

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School of Journalism and New Media Tailgate: Lawn in front of Meek School of Journalism and New Media, time TBA. Call 662-915-7375.

Football: Ole Miss vs.

Presbyterian. VaughtHemingway Stadium, time TBA. Visit www. olemisssports.com.

Mini Masters: Making prints with paper rolls and potatoes.

For ages 2-5. Powerhouse, 3:45-4:30 p.m. Call 662915-7073.

Club Meeting: Central Mississippi Ole Miss Club Fall Meeting.

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UM Gospel Choir Music Festival: “Spirit Sounds: Forty Years of Celebration,” Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30 p.m. Call 662-915-2787 or visit www.fordcenter.org.

UM Gospel Choir Music Festival: ‘Spirit Sounds: Forty Years of Celebration’ Nov. 15

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Football: Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State Nov. 29

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Law Alumni Reception: Dean Richard Gershon invites law alumni and friends to attend. Great Southern Club, Gulfport, 5:30 p.m. Call 662-915-1878.

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Law Alumni Reception: Dean Richard Gershon invites law alumni and friends to attend. Home of Melinda and Jim Koerber, Hattiesburg, 5:30 p.m. Call 662-915-1878.

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Performance: “Mystical Arts of Tibet: Sacred Music Sacred Dance.” Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

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Coy W. Waller Distinguished Lecture: “Pharmacognosy as a Collaborative Pharmaceutical Science.” A. Douglas Kinghorn, professor and Jack L. Beal Chair of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy at the Ohio State University College of Pharmacy.

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Museum Milkshake Mash-ups!: For middle schoolers and teens.

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School of Journalism and New Media Tailgate: Lawn in front of Meek School of Journalism and New Media, time TBA. Call 662-915-7375.

University of Mississippi Medical Center Tailgate: Left lawn of Triplett Alumni Center, time TBA. Call 1-800-844-5800.

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Mini Masters: Folk art 3-D snakes. For ages 2-5.

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Square Toast for Scholarships: Produced by the Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management at the School of Applied Sciences. Oxford Square, 5-9 p.m. Call 662915-2621.

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Pharmacy Alumni and Friends Reception: Dean David Allen invites pharmacy alumni and friends to attend a reception in conjunction with the American Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting. Anaheim, Calif., 5:30 p.m. Call 662915-1878.

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Performance: The Mediaeval Baebes – “Of Kings and Angels” concert. Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30 p.m. Call 662-915-2787 or visit www.fordcenter.org.

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Performance: “Anything Goes” national Broadway tour. Gertrude C. Ford Center, 7:30 p.m. Call 662-915-2787 or visit www. fordcenter.org.

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Heart Sole Alumnus pairs compassion with fashion

By Annie Rhoades

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uch time and consideration went into finding a suitable name for one of the world’s first social-impact fashion labels.

Patrick Woodyard (BA 10), co-founder and chief executive officer of Nisolo, a Spanish word meaning “not alone,” chose that name because it embodies dedication and compassion that go much deeper than the label placed on the company’s handmade leather shoes and accessories.

Photos courtesy of Nisolo

“When I was in school, there was a poster on the second floor of the Croft Institute that I always used to walk by that would grab my attention,” Woodyard says. “It was a picture of the Earth, but it was just all ocean and one country right in the middle. At the bottom it said, ‘We are not alone,’ and the idea behind the poster was to stop acting and thinking like we’re alone in the world. We are global citizens and not just citizens of the U.S.” A native Southerner, Woodyard graduated from Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Ark., in 2005.

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Shoemakers display a handmade leather shoe from Nisolo's manufacturing headquarters in Trujillo, Peru.

“I knew I wanted to stay in the South for school,” Woodyard says. “I had heard about the Croft Institute and the [Sally McDonnell Barksdale] Honors College, which definitely influenced my decision to come to Ole Miss. But I didn’t apply to either before I went to college because I kind of wanted to see what college was all about before diving deep into academics.”

Initially majoring in business administration when he enrolled in fall Patrick Woodyard 2005, Woodyard knew that his true passion lay in international development. He enrolled in the Honors College for the spring 2006 semester and the Croft Institute the following fall.

“When I started at Croft and Honors, I was immediately engaged both around students that were extremely bright and teachers that were very brilliant who challenged us,” Woodyard says. I really feel like that has a lot to do with where I am now.”

Service Centered

Woodyard excelled both academically and socially. He found volunteerism and campus engagement to be extremely important as they provided an avenue for him to give something back and make a difference.

A member of Sigma Chi Fraternity, Woodyard served as president and founder of Hope for Africa/EDUganda and Respect Mississippi, as well as director of community service for the Associated Student Body.

“My sophomore year, I realized that at Ole Miss you have a student body that, for the most part, grew up in affluent families and had a lot of resources,” he says. “It just hit me that there were all of these students around me who were interested and passionate about serving other people and their communities 22 Alumni Review

when they had the opportunity to do so, but in 2006 I didn’t see a lot of opportunity to do so. That’s when I decided to really get involved in several things that could create those opportunities.”

Spurred on by an interest in economic development and the plight of extreme poverty in Africa, Woodyard and two classmates decided to throw their first benefit concert for a nonprofit organization in Uganda.

The results were encouraging to say the least.

“Approximately 300 people showed up, and we raised about $5,000 on the first night,” Woodyard says. “I realized with just a little bit of energy we could get a lot of students really motivated to come out and support important causes.”

Woodyard counts Sparky Reardon (BAEd 72, PhD 00), former Ole Miss dean of students, as a huge motivator throughout his endeavors.

“Patrick is probably one of the most service-centered students I’ve ever known,” Reardon says. “Everything about him was about helping others and doing good for the good of society. He came to my office quite a bit just to kind of visit and bounce ideas off of me, and to find out ways to get things done that he wanted to do. I was always inspired by his visits.”

Path to Peru

Energized by his success stateside, Woodyard spent the summer of 2007 in Uganda, working with a nonprofit organization that donated most of the money raised to fund the education of children orphaned by parents with AIDS. A recipient of the Honors College’s Barksdale Award in 2008, he returned to Uganda and went on to set up a program similar to World Vision, where alumni at Ole Miss could support one student’s education directly.

Then, Woodyard truly saw that once people were given the opportunity to serve, their excitement and passion continued to build.

After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2010, Woodyard decided to put his educational background and passion for poverty alleviation to good use – which ultimately changed his life.

Possessing a strong interest in Latin America, Woodyard, a Spanish major, accepted a job in Peru with a small microfinance organization whose work had a positive impact on impoverished communities.

Nisolo showroom at the company's corporate office in Nashville, Tenn.

“I moved to Peru in the summer of 2010 and took a job in microfinance with an organization called Sinergia, which is the Spanish word for synergy,” Woodyard says. “I worked in microfinance for a year, working with impoverished women, helping them grow businesses. One day I was visiting with one of the women in her home, helping her organize her finances for a small store that she owned. That’s when I met her husband, Willan, who was hand-making a leather shoe.”

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One of more than 30,000 shoemakers living in Peru’s third largest city, Trujillo, Willan was quite the talented shoemaker but still unable to financially provide for his family.

“We were sitting in the middle of their dirt floor, metal-roofed home, having this conversation about how, despite the amazing quality of the shoe, he couldn’t afford to provide for his family or keep his kids in school,” Woodyard says. “It kind of brought me back to people that I had met in Uganda, where there was a common theme among everyone – in so many different parts of the world you confront people that have so much talent and potential, like Willan, but can’t provide for their family.”

A product of America’s public school system, where hard work and dedication opened the door for numerous opportunities, Woodyard became passionate about providing those same opportunities for impoverished workers like Willan around the world.

In a city known for being the shoe capital of Peru, competition was fierce and wages were minimal at best. However, Woodyard quickly realized that with guidance and resources, the possibilities to improve the shoemakers’ lives and working conditions were endless.

“I recognized that I had a lot of friends back in the states who would want the shoes because not only were they made with quality but also because they could have a profound social impact with their purchases,” Woodyard says. “So I decided to start Nisolo in the spring of 2011.”

Armed with little more than a passionate vision and a vast, willing workforce, Woodyard reached out to all the teachers, mentors and friends he could find for advice on how to make his dream a reality.

“I recognized that I didn’t have much background experience in the fashion industry, and I was really going to need somebody who

did,” Woodyard says. “A mutual friend and classmate, Harper Ferguson (BBA 10), was living in New York, working in the fashion industry, and introduced me to Zoe Cleary, who became my co-founder.”

Perfect Pairing

Cleary and Woodyard first met via Skype and instantly realized they shared the same passions, visions and interests.

“I told her all about my idea, which was to pretty much do the opposite of the fashion industry and instead put producers first,” Woodyard says. “To pay fair wages and ethically produce goods that had a profound impact on the lives of people making the product, as well as their families.”

At the time, Cleary had been working in the corporate side of the fashion industry for three years and had become dissatisfied with her career.

Each piece is carefully handcrafted by Peruvian artisans with generations of experience.

“I started researching different fashion brands that had a more social cause behind them, and a friend of mine said I should meet Patrick,” Cleary says. “A couple of weeks later, I flew to Peru to tour the city and really get a good understanding of the potential that existed there and the level of craftsmanship that existed. I met a bunch of the shoemakers and their families, and instantly my heart was in it. I quit my job and headed back to Peru on a one-way ticket in June 2011.”

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The company officially launched in the U.S. in October 2011 out of Woodyard’s parents’ garage in Oxford. A launch party was held at the Powerhouse, positioning the company as an e-commerce footwear brand focused on social impact.

“The reality is that people make the products that we consume, and the impact that has on them can be a very positive or very negative one,” Woodyard says. “The fashion industry today employs over 200 million people, but millions of them are held

Shelves of inventory line the walls to be shipped to Nisolo’s 50-plus domestic retailers, including Oxford-based Neilson’s (available spring 2015).

in poverty because of the poor wages they are paid. Often times, it’s pretty much a condition of slavery that still exists. We’ve become very passionate as a brand about changing that.”

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and a team of more than 50 employees and growing – it’s safe to say Nisolo is on the rise.

“As a company we have partnered with over 50 retail stores throughout the country that sell our products, and we have sold shoes through our e-commerce website in all 50 U.S. states and over 30 countries around the world,” Woodyard says. “We are just getting started. We are tiny right now compared to where we expect to be.”

Woodyard says the company’s goal is to be a household name brand not only in footwear but eventually getting into the apparel market as well.

“We know the size of the impact we can have in Peru or wherever we manufacture our goods,” he says. “Lives and whole communities are being deeply affected as a result of it. We also see ourselves eventually leading the industry in a new direction that first and foremost is about providing quality, well-designed goods to people but is also about creating a positive impact in the world by producing goods in a very ethical and transparent manner that’s really changing the game for those 200 million people in the fashion industry.”

While hard work and dedication have been the driving force behind Nisolo’s success, Woodyard knows he wouldn’t be where he is today without the help and support of the Ole Miss community.

“While I was in school, Debra Young (associate dean of the Honors College) was a huge inspiration to me,” Woodyard says.

“She motivated me to apply for the Barksdale Award and was always so encouraging with Hope for Africa and the things I was involved with. Also, Dean Douglass Sullivan-González at the Honors College, Dr. Kees Gispen (executive director of the Croft Institute) and Dr. Susan Allen (associate professor of political science) were very helpful.”

One longtime supporter and friend couldn’t be more proud of the success both Woodyard and his company have achieved already.

“I’m just thrilled but not surprised,” Reardon says. “I think Nisolo is only the tip of the iceberg of what Patrick Woodyard is going to accomplish in his life. He’s a great guy, and he and so many others are the reason I was blessed to have had my job.”

While the company’s future looks bright, the most fulfilling part for Woodyard comes from the lifelong friends he has met and the life-changing impact Nisolo is making.

“I can say that it has been 10 times harder than I ever imagined it being,” Woodyard says. “And I can also say that I can’t imagine myself doing anything else in the world right now.” AR

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was coaching in Indianola, a seventh-grade basketball player came to see him, in tears, and told him she wanted to be good, but he wasn’t working with her enough to help her get better. That changed his perspective, and he vowed to always give his pupils his best effort.

“I just had kind of a revelation,” Parker says. “If you aren’t doing the best you can, you’re cheating your kids. That changed my life entirely. Before you can demand anything from them, you have to give them your best.”

He learned about the teachings of Alvin Roy, who pioneered weight training as a championship high school football coach in Baton Rouge and later became the strength coach at Louisiana State University under coach Paul Dietzel.

“Weight training was becoming more popular, but it was not widespread,” Parker says. “We had some success in football, and the players really believed in it, and so [did] the parents. As a result of all this traveling to learn [more about weight training], I started getting offers to coach in college.”

Famous Coaches Come Calling Parker when he coached at Ole Miss

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rowing up in Shaw, Johnny Parker (BA 69) badly wanted to play football, but with only 100 pounds on his 5-foot-11.5-inch frame, he was far too skinny for the sport he loved.

“I was so thin you could read a newspaper through me,” Parker recalls with a laugh.

Though there weren’t many athletes lifting weights in the late 1950s and early ’60s, a coach, Richard Hamberlin (MEd 63), who lived near the school, let local boys lift on a set in his backyard. At first, the skinny ninth-grade Parker couldn’t raise the 45-pound barbell without help. It was, after all, almost half his body weight.

Not long after he started working out, Parker’s parents bought him his own set of weights for Christmas. Through dedication to the instructions that came with the weights, he added size and strength and grew into a 175-pound offensive and defensive tackle for Shaw High School. He also threw the discus on the track team.

His experience with weights at a young age began his lifelong interest in lifting and strength training. Today, he’s known as a legend among professional football strength coaches, having been on four Super Bowl teams, which he helped become bigger, stronger and faster. “[Lifting] was the only way I was able to play high school football,” Parker says. “Then, when I first started in education, most males in Mississippi who taught also had to coach. If weights had helped me that much, I knew it would help our players. As I realized there was a lot more to weight training for sports, I started traveling to learn about my responsibilities for football. I traveled all over the South and Southwest.”

A ‘Revelation’

Parker enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1964 but didn’t play football. He graduated in 1969 with a degree in history and was hired at Indianola Academy, where he worked for one season as girls basketball coach and five seasons as linebackers coach.

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Parker declined an offer to be a part-time graduate assistant coach under legendary Alabama football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, to accept a full-time job with Dietzel, who had moved to South Carolina. He worked with Dietzel for three seasons before moving to Indiana University in 1977, becoming the first strength coach in the Big Ten Conference.

At Indiana, he was responsible for strength and conditioning for both the football and basketball teams, which meant he answered to head football coach Lee Corso, who is now one of the hosts of ESPN’s “College GameDay,” and Bob Knight, the Hoosiers’ legendary basketball coach.

“They were both very supportive and so nice to me,” Parker says. “But you had to remember who you were going in to see because they were so different from each other.”

Knight taught Parker the value of having a “no excuses” atmosphere on a team, which included all coaches and players being accountable, no matter the circumstance.

Making a Name for Himself

After two seasons at Indiana, Parker was hired as head strength and conditioning coach at LSU during the 1980 season. He later had an opportunity to return to Ole Miss and helped head coach Billy Brewer’s Rebels earn a trip to the Independence Bowl in 1983 – the school’s first bowl game since 1971.

The 1980s were a busy and interesting period in Parker’s life. He earned a master’s degree from Delta State University and went to Russia to learn from weightlifting coaches who had helped their pupils win Olympic gold medals. He told The Clarion-Ledger in 2003 that the light came on while he was there.

“Think about it,” Parker says. “Offensive linemen? What do they do? They basically run 2-yard sprints. Everything they do is in quick bursts. So that’s the kind of weight training we try to do with them: explosive movements like power cleans, squats and jerks.”

A Giant of a Coach

The NFL came calling in 1984. Parker’s former boss at Indiana, Knight, had recommended him to New York Giants coach Bill Parcells for the team’s strength and conditioning coach job.

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Parcells had a new $200,000 weight room built for the team, a rarity at the time, when many coaches remained skeptical of the benefits. Parcells was committed to the program Parker wanted to build and fostered an atmosphere of cohesion on his teams.

“We were completely unified in our overall attack,” Parker says.

The team’s commitment to Parker’s off-season regimen is illustrated in comments Giants receiver Phil McConkey made to The Washington Post in 1987. He and quarterback Phil Simms were recording a training video in California but were invited to fly to Las Vegas for Sugar Ray Leonard’s epic prizefight against Marvin Hagler. The two passed on the invite and instead spent that night in the weight room working on what Parker had taught them.

“We could’ve flown on a private jet,” McConkey says. “We had offers for a private this or private that, front-row seats and everything. But we didn’t go. The fight was going on, and we were lifting weights at Mesa (Arizona) Junior College. In fact, we had to break into the (weight) room just to get in. Phil and I took turns calling SportsPhone to get the round-by-round results.”

wisest. What a great experience working for him for 11 years was.

You couldn’t be around that towering personality for more than 15 minutes without being influenced.”

The experience greatly affected Parker.

“A lot of the things I believe about working with young people, about motivating them, I don’t know if it was originally my idea or Coach Parcells’,” he says. “That’s how influential he is. You learn to believe in his way so much that eventually it becomes your way. I learned more from him than anybody I’ve worked with.”

Part of Patriots’ Resurgence

After winning two Super Bowls with the Giants, Parker followed Parcells to the New England Patriots, where he played a role in that team’s emergence as an NFL power.

The 1994 Patriots made the franchise’s first postseason game in almost a decade. That year, Parker received the Super Bowl Achievement Award from the Professional Football Strength and Conditioning Coaches Society.

In 1996, the Patriots went 11-5 during the regular season and the next year made the Super Bowl. They lost to the Brett Favreled Green Bay Packers, but the team had won its division two years straight and made the playoffs three straight times during Parker’s tenure. As in New York, his expertise in the weight room was touted as a major reason for the success.

A Fourth Super Bowl

Parker coached at Ole Miss in the early ’80s before taking the position as head strength and conditioning coach for the New York Giants in 1984.

‘The Wisest Man’

With the legendary Giants team, Parker worked with some of the biggest sports personalities of the 1980s, including Hall of Fame linebackers Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson and greats Leonard Marshall and Phil Simms. He also worked with future NFL head coaches Tom Coughlin, Bill Belichick, Al Groh and Romeo Crennel.

None of those personalities was larger than the Giants’ head man, Parcells, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Parker calls Parcells, affectionately known as the “Big Tuna,” the wisest man he knows.

“I could tell you all the pearls of wisdom that I got from him, and it would take me days,” Parker says. “To sum him up, he might not be the smartest man I’ve ever known, but he’s definitely the

Parker was hired by Jon Gruden as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ head strength coach in 2002, and the team won the franchise’s first Super Bowl to close the 2003 season.

After leaving the NFL for the 2004 season, Parker was hired by the San Francisco 49ers in 2005. There, the players respected him for his approach to training and also his fairness. Lineman Anthony Adams said in a news report, “Parker is always the same guy. You know exactly what to expect from him. He didn’t have any favorites, and he was consistently hard on everybody. That’s why I love Johnny Parker.”

After taking three different teams to four Super Bowls during his 35-years-plus coaching career, Parker retired in 2008.

‘Fruitcake’ and ‘Tuna’

Parker and his wife, Jane, live in Safety Harbor, Fla., near Tampa. He likes to travel and continues to work out. Though he made a career of whipping massive NFL players into shape, his two beloved miniature schnauzers arguably control him. Fruitcake and Tuna, named in tribute to Parcells, are a handful.

When asked whether he thinks about all of his professional success, starting when he picked up a set of weights as a scrawny teenager, Parker says he does but tries to remain humble.

“One thing I can’t stand is self-promoters,” Parker says. “As soon as anybody says ‘I did this,’ or ‘I did that,’ I tune out real quickly. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that football is the ultimate team game. There is nothing you can do by yourself.

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Highest Honors

Alumni Association recognizes top alumni

he Ole Miss Alumni Association awarded seven distinguished alumni with its highest annual honors as part of Homecoming 2014. Created in 1974, the Hall of Fame honors select alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to t h e i r country, state or the University of Mississippi through good deeds, services or contributions that have perpetuated the good name of Ole Miss.

Inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame for 2014 are James W. Davis (BBA 62, MS 63, PhD 72) of Oxford; Michael L. Ducker (72) of Collierville, Tenn.; Peggie Gillom-Granderson (BSW 80) of Abbeville; Robert Khayat (BAEd 61, JD 66) of Oxford; and Deuce McAllister (00) of Kenner, La. Lanny Griffith (BBA 73, JD 76) of Alexandria, Va., was presented the Alumni Service Award for service to the university and the Alumni Association over an extended period. Kelly English (BSFCS 02) of Memphis received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award, which recognizes alumni who have shown exemplary leadership throughout their first 15 years of alumni status in both their careers and dedication to Ole Miss.

The Alumni Association hosted a reception and dinner for the honorees on Friday, Oct. 17, in the Gertrude C. Ford Ballroom at The Inn at Ole Miss.

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Hall of Fame James W. Davis

, a native of Panola County, joined the Houston, Texas, office of Arthur Andersen & Co. after earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Mississippi.

After two years in Houston, he was hired as an assistant professor of accountancy and pursued his doctorate at Ole Miss.

In 1985, Davis received the university’s Outstanding Teacher Award, now the Elsie M. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award. He served as president of the Mississippi Society of CPAs in 1983-84 and received its Outstanding Educator Award in 1993.

He won the Patterson School of Accountancy’s Outstanding Teacher Award five times and was named the Peery Professor of Accountancy in 1995.

Davis served as dean of the Patterson School from 1993-2002. During that time, Conner Hall was completely renovated along with the construction of Holman Hall, a project that received the largest amount of donor funding in the history of Ole Miss at that point in time.

While Davis was dean, the university received the collections of the American Institute of CPAs, or AICPA, library in New York City, making the J.D. Williams Library the library of the accounting profession in the U.S. and the largest accounting library in the world.

Davis officially retired in 2009, but he has continued to teach part time and retains the title of Peery Professor Emeritus of Accountancy. He is a member of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Sigma Nu Fraternity, Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi.

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Hall of Fame

Michael L. Ducker is chief operating officer and president,

international, for FedEx Express.

He leads all customer-facing aspects of the company’s U.S. operations and its international business, spanning more than 220 countries and territories across the globe.

He also oversees FedEx Trade Networks and FedEx SupplyChain.

Ducker directs the company’s efforts to open markets, improve customs procedures and support international economic policy reforms around the world.

During his FedEx career, he was president of FedEx Express Asia Pacific in Hong Kong for four years and led the Southeast Asia and Middle East regions from Singapore, as well as Southern Europe from Milan, Italy.

He serves on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations for the Obama administration. In addition, he serves as chairman of the International Policy Committee and as an executive board member and vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ducker is also a board member of the Coalition of Service Industries, U.S.-China Business Council, Salvation Army and Amway Corp.

Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., he received his MBA from a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Peggie Gillom-Granderson

led Ole Miss to the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women State Tournament Championships in 1978-79 and a berth in the AIAW National Tournament in 1978. A four-year starter at Ole Miss in women’s basketball, she is the university’s all-time leading scorer with 2,486 points and rebounder with 1,271 rebounds. She is one of two players in Ole Miss’ history to ever score more than 2,000 points and grab more than 1,000 rebounds.

She compiled 51 double-doubles in 144 career games at Ole Miss.

Gillom-Granderson was named to the 1980 Southeastern Conference All-Tournament team and was a finalist for the Wade Trophy. In 16 seasons as an assistant coach to Van Chancellor, she helped lead Ole Miss to 14 NCAA tournament appearances, including five Sweet Sixteen and four Elite Eight appearances.

In 1991-92, she helped lead Ole Miss to its first ever regular season SEC title in women’s basketball.

As an assistant coach for USA Basketball, she helped guide the 1999 U.S. Pan American Games team to a bronze medal and the 2000 U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal.

Gillom-Granderson was inducted into the Ole Miss Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 1997 and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

The C Spire Gillom Trophy, which is named in her honor, has been presented to Mississippi’s top collegiate women’s basketball player by the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum every year since 2008.

She serves as the women’s director of Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Ole Miss and as treasurer of the Greg Gillom Scholarship Fund. She lives in Abbeville with her husband, Anthony.

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Hall of Fame

Robert Khayat

A 1956 graduate of Moss Point High School, has lived most of his life at the University of Mississippi and in Oxford. With undergraduate and law degrees from Ole Miss, he joined the law faculty in 1969. A Sterling Fellowship enabled him to earn a degree from Yale Law School in 1980.

Khayat excelled as an undergraduate history major. He was an Academic AllAmerican football player and was chosen as an All-SEC catcher for the 1959 and 1960 SEC Champion baseball teams. He was an All-Pro kicker for the Washington Redskins.

He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Football League, the Distinguished American Award from the National Football Foundation and a silver medal from the 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards for his memoir, The Education of a Lifetime.

Khayat is a member of the Ole Miss Team of the Century, Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Student Hall of Fame at Ole Miss. He holds an honorary membership from Phi Beta Kappa and was selected UM Law Alumnus of the Year in 2014.

He served as chancellor of UM from 1995 until his retirement in 2009.

His wife, Margaret (BA 93), is from Memphis and served for 14 years as first lady of the university. The Khayats have two children: Margaret, who clerks for a U.S. district judge in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Robert (BA 95), who is a partner in King and Spalding law firm in Atlanta.

Dulymus (Deuce) McAllister

is the only player in the history of Ole Miss football to record three seasons with at least 1,000 all-purpose yards. In 1999, he won the Conerly Trophy, which is awarded to the top collegiate football player in the state by the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. He finished his college career at Ole Miss with records for carries (616), yards (3,060), rushing touchdowns (36), total touchdowns (41), points (246) and 100-yard games (13).

In April 2001, McAllister was the 23rd overall pick by the New Orleans Saints. He went on to rush for more than 1,000 yards in three straight seasons – a first in Saints history. He was the first Saints running back with 22 100-yard games, including a franchise-record nine straight contests in 2003. In his first year as a starter in 2002, he led the conference with 1,388 rushing yards, scored 16 TDs and was voted to the Pro Bowl.

McAllister was voted to the Pro Bowl again in 2003 and set the all-time rushing touchdown record for the Saints in 2008. He holds the all-time New Orleans Saints’ record for most career rushing yards (6,096) and touchdowns (55). McAllister retired from the NFL in January 2010. That same year, he received the Army Community Award for his dedication to the states of Mississippi and Louisiana.

McAllister was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.

Today, McAllister applies his workhorse mentality to his emerging businesses while continuing to give back to the underprivileged communities of the Gulf South region.

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Alumni Service Award Lanny Griffith

serves as chief executive officer of BGR Group. He joined the Washington, D.C.-based government affairs and communications firm in 1993 after serving in several roles in former President George H.W. Bush’s administration.

Griffith’s political career began in the early 1980s, when he worked for the Republican National Committee, managed former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour’s (JD 73) U.S. Senate race in 1982 and served as the executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party for three years. In 1988, he served as Southern political director for Bush’s presidential campaign.

In 1989, Griffith was sworn in as special assistant to the president, serving as Bush’s liaison to governors and other statewide elected officials. In 1991, Bush nominated Griffith to be assistant secretary of education. At the U.S. Department of Education, he directed Secretary Lamar Alexander’s effort to build a national consensus around educational standards and testing.

Griffith represented the U.S. on the Education Committee of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and served as co-chairman of the Advisory Council on Dependents’ Education, which serves as the school board for all dependent schools worldwide under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Griffith’s work for the Bush family continued with his role as national chairman of the Bush-Cheney 2000 Entertainment Task Force and entertainment coordinator for the 2001 Bush inauguration. He later served as a Bush Ranger and member of the Bush 2004 National Finance Committee.

Griffith is a founder of the Trust for the National Mall and currently serves on the board of directors. He serves as national treasurer for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in the U.S.

Outstanding Young Alumni Award Kelly English

is executive chef/owner of Restaurant Iris and The Second Line in Memphis and executive chef of Magnolia House in Biloxi.

English studied family and consumer sciences at the University of Mississippi, where he was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He paid his way through college as a cook in local kitchens. The experience inspired the Louisiana native to continue to pursue his passion for food at the Culinary Institute of America, where, in addition to studying abroad in France and Spain, English graduated at the top of his class in 2004.

He returned to New Orleans in 2004 to cook under the auspices of Chef John Besh in some of the city’s most celebrated restaurants. English eventually decided to move to Memphis and opened Restaurant Iris in 2008. Two years later, he was named a James Beard Award Semifinalist for Best Chef: Southeast, appeared on Food Network’s “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” and earned Memphis Restaurant Association’s “Restaurateur of the Year” award.

English has been featured in Food & Wine, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Bon Appétit, and Garden & Gun magazines, and the cookbook Wild Abundance. He also serves on the Founders Council for the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival and was named a “Young Memphian” by the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce and “Top 40 Under 40” by the Memphis Business Journal in 2013. He was again recognized in 2013 with the Thomas A. Crowe Outstanding Alumnus Award

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‘Lotts’

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of Leadership Experience Benefactors continue to play a major role in UM’s leadership institute

By Katie Morrison

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Former U.S. Sen. Lott speaks with second-session students of the 15th annual Summer Leadership Institute for High School Students.

eadership is not just about elected office – so says program – selective admission, challenging academics, small former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (BPA 63, JD 67), who classes – plus the advantages of a large public university with his wife, Patricia, is helping University of Mississippi – affordable tuition and a wide range of resources and opporundergraduates seek meaningful careers in medicine, tunities. Additionally, LLI matches students with internships law, education and goverand study abroad opportunities, and nance by way of a public brings a range of speakers to discuss curpolicy leadership education. rent policy issues.

From reviewing student applications and “Early on, no one in our area was interacting with UM and high school stufamiliar with public policy leadership as a dents to nurturing their established scholardegree program, and the Lott Institute was ship endowment, the Lotts are providing so new, few were familiar with it either,” valuable resources to enable more students says Bill Gottshall (BBA 68), LLI executive to pursue their educational aspirations at director and Lott’s former chief of staff. “So UM’s Lott Leadership Institute. our initial $10,000 scholarships attracted The Lotts’ legacy at the university began very bright students who were being comin the 1990s, when then-Chancellor Robert petitively recruited by top schools. Once Khayat (BAEd 61, JD 66) approached the those first students were here, they spread senator about creating academic opportunithe word to other promising students, ties at Ole Miss in policy and leadership. meanwhile showing the region – in conjunc“We discussed several options, but tion with our knowledgeable and respected finally we landed on the idea of a leadership faculty – what the institute was capable of institute,” Lott says. “We wanted it to be an achieving.” academically accredited program, and with The early years were spent identifying lots of work from many, we were able to get faculty members from a variety of disciit there.” plines. The PPL curriculum is designed to The Lott Leadership Institute (LLI) Austin Harrison received several Lott expose students to philosophy, ethics, comhonors Trent Lott, a longtime leader on scholarships to study abroad. munication, economics and geography, as Capitol Hill, and undergirds a rigorous well as civic engagement and policy. interdisciplinary academic degree program in public policy “Our program improved, so we spread that support around, leadership (PPL). giving even more students who were attracted to the goals of our As an institute, LLI offers students the benefits of a small program an opportunity to obtain a degree,” Gottshall says.

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And spread the wealth they did. Gottshall continues to build scholarship support and soon will have $80,000 to award in scholarships per year. Additionally, the LLI student population has grown from 36 students in 2007 to 180 students this fall.

Today, LLI uses its most effective recruiting tool: summer programs for high school students. Sixteen of this year’s 42 public policy leadership freshmen previously attended an LLI high school summer program, a pattern common now for several years.

“In the summer of 2008, I attended the Lott Leadership Institute for Rising High School Seniors,” says Austin

many new types of ideas, people and experiences to which I had never been exposed.”

Robinson was awarded a Patricia Lott Scholarship, a determining factor when making her college decision.

“I have a twin sister who attended Mississippi State, so my decision to attend Ole Miss made me a ‘Rebel’ in more ways than one. The Lott Institute, particularly the Lott Scholarship, was the main reason I chose Ole Miss and provided me the freedom to focus on excelling in the classroom and on campus,” Robinson says.

“Some of the achievements it made possible include being co-director of the UM Big Event, president of my sorority and a Columns Society member. I was able to devote my summers to personal and professional development, studying abroad in South Africa and later interning in Washington, D.C. Without the Lott Scholarship, I would not have been afforded many of the opportunities that distinctly [influenced] my future.”

A member of the 2013 Hall of Fame, she was also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society and graduate of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.

Robinson now works in Washington, D.C., fundraising for the Republican National Committee, which she calls “a lifelong dream.”

Sarah Robinson at the Student Hall of Fame Reunion with Bill Gottshall

Harrison (BA 13), former Colonel Reb (Mr. Ole Miss) and Louisville native. “I had the opportunity to meet various state and national officials and interact with students from all over the country. After spending a month on the Ole Miss campus, immersed in the Lott Institute culture, I knew this was the place for me.”

And thanks to LLI, Harrison was able to expand his horizons.

“My freshman year of college, I received a Lott Scholarship to study abroad in Quito, Ecuador. Knowing this would be my first opportunity to travel abroad, I was beyond excited,” Harrison says. “The Lott family gave me the ability to spend one of the most remarkable weeks of my life. I had the opportunity to spend multiple nights in a hut, deep in the Amazon rainforest, and learn from the indigenous people of the Yasuni National [Park].”

Harrison received two more Lott scholarships to study abroad in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and Seoul, South Korea.

“Like my trip to Ecuador, these excursions abroad really opened my eyes to the globalized culture that we all experience today. Without the help of Patricia and Trent Lott, I would have never been given the opportunity to have any of these incredible experiences.”

Similarly, Sarah Robinson (BA 13) of Pelahatchie attended an LLI high school summer program before enrolling as a freshman.

“That summer proved to be a defining experience in my life,” she says. “I immediately fell in love with Ole Miss. The experience greatly expanded my worldview and confronted me with

LLI graduate Caleb Herod is working in the Mississippi Delta with the Delta Health Alliance and the Indianola Promise Community to provide after-school and summer youth programs.

“Because of the investment that Senator and Mrs. Lott made in my life, I feel compelled to return the favor,” Robinson says. “It is my goal to one day return to Mississippi and give back to the state and the university that have given me so much.

Through Senator and Mrs. Lott’s generosity, I was able to achieve more than I thought possible. The Lott Institute and Patricia Lott Scholarship are forging leaders in our state at a time when leadership is critical.”

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One such leader, who is already making a difference in Mississippi, is Caleb Herod (BA 12), LLI graduate and Hall of Fame inductee.

After teaching Algebra II and Geometry at West Tallahatchie High School in Webb through Teach for America, Herod is in the Mississippi Delta working with the Delta Health Alliance and the Indianola Promise Community to provide after-school and summer programs to engage youth in worthwhile, enriching activities.

“From birth to graduation, we want to give youth and the community all the tools they need to break the cycle of poverty,” Herod says.

Originally from Abbeville, Herod graduated from Lafayette High School, where teachers and the 2008 presidential election

Patricia and Trent Lott continue to support the students of the leadership institute bearing their name.

inspired him to seek an education in public policy leadership.

As a high school senior, he was heavily recruited by Ole Miss for the Lott Leadership Institute and Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College.

“Dr. Don Cole (PhD 85), Dr. Charlotte Fant Pegues (BA 92, MEd 94, PhD 01) and Mr. Gottshall all encouraged me not just to apply to UM but to seek all that was possible through these programs. I knew I would have hands-on exposure to policy and politics as opposed to only academic classroom experiences.”

While a student, Herod participated in the Lott Leadership Exchange, where he studied abroad and worked in orphanages in South Africa, learning about the country’s struggles during and after apartheid, as well as leadership issues as the country moved into a post-Mandela existence.

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office and the Office of Legislative Counsel for the Department of Defense in the Pentagon.

“The Lott Institute provides a great camaraderie and community,” Herod says. “It was extremely validating as a freshman to have an upperclassman tell me that an idea I had was a good one worth exploring. It is one thing to have supportive teachers, but to also have your peers tell you they respect your ideas can be extraordinarily encouraging. I made sure to pass on that same kind of encouragement – I knew how much that meant and how it helped me succeed.”

Chancellor Dan Jones (MD 75) recognizes the effect that the Lott Leadership Institute and the Lott scholarships have not just on students but also on the reputation and influence of Ole Miss.

“Senator Lott and Tricia have given much to the university that we are thankful for, and that includes their latest gifts that build upon those of friends and colleagues who originated this scholarship in Tricia’s honor. Because of their generosity and foresight, the Lott Leadership Institute will continue to produce leaders in government, health care, education and beyond. LLI has in less than 10 years become a cornerstone program at UM and one of the top in its field.”

The Lotts stay in touch with LLI students from their initial application through their budding careers, reviewing incoming student applications and resumes, and tracking students as they forge their paths as public servants and leaders.

“Senator Lott meets personally with each class, both in Oxford and as they take trips to Washington, D.C.,” says JoAnn Edwards (MA 83), who coordinates many LLI programs. “The references he provides for students, as they find their professional legs looking for internships and jobs, are extremely valuable. The Lotts are heavily invested in our program and our students.”

The Patricia Thompson Lott Scholarship Endowment was established in 2005 with gifts from Gottshall and his wife, Donna (BA 69); Lott’s former state director Guy Hovis (BBA 63) and his wife, Sis; and former Secretary of the Senate Gary Sisco (BSCVE 67) and his wife, Mary Sue. Almost 10 years later, the endowment has grown to more than $1 million and granted 55 scholarships to public policy leadership students.

“I am honored that Trent and our friends thought of me as this scholarship was being developed,” Patricia Lott says. “It serves as a great recruiting tool for the institute, and helps the institute’s faculty, staff and graduates have a huge impact on Mississippi and the world.”

The Lotts have contributed $500,000 to the Patricia Thompson Lott Scholarship Endowment since 2010.

“When I retired from the Senate, we decided to focus our contributions to one place to make the greatest impact,” Trent Lott says. “When you look at the resumes of our students and track where they have gone – law degrees, Fulbright scholarships, graduate degrees, the Clinton School for Public Service – these students are going to have a tremendous impact in the future on our country.” AR Katie Morrison (BA 01) is a communications specialist for the UM Foundation. For more information on the Lott Leadership Institute, visit http://lottinst.olemiss.edu.

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Singer Katy Perry, who served as a guest picker for ‘College GameDay,’ hangs out with fans and Rebel.

Miss Rebels (5-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) vaulted into the top five of the national football polls for week seven of the 2014 NCAA football rankings.

Ole Miss tied for third in the Associated Press poll and jumped to fourth in the USA Today Coaches poll. The No. 3 ranking is the Rebels’ highest since being preseason No. 1 in 1964. The last two times Ole Miss cracked the top five were 2009 and 1970, both at No. 4. AR

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ebel Nation clamored for it, and its wishes were granted.

For the first time in the show’s 28-year history, ESPN’s “College GameDay” came to Oxford as the Rebels faced the Crimson Tide on Saturday, Oct. 4.

The popular college football pregame show set up on the Grove stage in the heart of the best tailgating scene in the country. The three-hour show featured host Chris Fowler, analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard, and celebrity guest picker Katy Perry.

On one of the biggest weekends in Ole Miss football history, the Rebels’ impressive defense stood tall, and the offense rallied and took advantage of opportune turnovers to top the No. 1 ranked Crimson Tide 23-17. It was the first win over a topranked team in program history, and it was the Rebels’ first win over Alabama (4-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) since 2003.

“I’m just so proud of our young men,” Ole Miss Head Coach Hugh Freeze said. “At the end of the day, you get in this job to mentor young men, first. I preach that to our staff. I have the best staff of men that you want your kids around. These are great life lessons. Sometimes you’re on the other side of it, and it stings and hurts. We’ve had our share of those. We have tremendous respect for Coach (Nick) Saban and Alabama. It’s a huge win for our program and our fans. It’s been a tremendous day.”

After the historic victory over Alabama, the undefeated Ole

Commentators for ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ discuss the day in front of a lively crowd of Rebels.

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Special Group Joins M-Club Hall of Fame 2014 CLASS HEADLINED BY OLE MISS FOOTBALL GREAT

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ix outstanding individuals were hon- 1999-2002), Ken Lucas (football, 1997- Johnson (1961-63) with its Lotterhos Serored with their induction into the 2000) and Chip Sullivan (golf, 1984-86). vice Award. Established in 2008, this award The M-Club Alumni Chapter also is based on leadership, dedication, service M-Club Hall of Fame on Sept. 26.

The 2014 class is headlined by the late recognized former football player Larry and commitment to the M-Club. AR Chucky Mullins, whose life and influence were celebrated that weekend, including the renaming of Coliseum Drive to Chucky Mullins Drive. “ It ’s a w e s o m e ,” s a y s Carver Phillips, who was Mullins’ guardian. “It’s really a dream come true with the dedication of Chucky Mullins Drive and then the induction into the M-Club Hall of Fame. Chucky would be smiling. He would have thought it was a great honor.”

The other five members of the 2014 M-Club Hall of Fame class include Julie Link Clark (volleyball, 1983-86), Armintie Price Herrington From left: Chip Sullivan, Armintie Price Herrington, Julie Link Clark, Ken Lucas and Burney Hutchinson were (basketball, 2003-07), Bur- inducted into the M-Club Hall of Fame in October, along with Chucky Mullins, whose award was accepted by his ney Hutchinson (baseball, guardian Carver Phillips.

REBEL BASEBALL ANNOUNCES 2015 SCHEDULE

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he Ole Miss baseball team will play 21 games against teams that competed in the NCAA Tournament last season, including five games against teams that advanced to the 2014 College World Series.

“We’re really excited about this schedule and how it can prepare us for the always rigorous SEC slate,” Head Coach Mike Bianco says. “We face a number of teams with high RPIs from a year ago, and nearly half of our road games are against NCAA Tournament teams. That will be great competition for our team, and we’re looking forward to taking it on.”

Ole Miss opens the season with its first eight games at home.

The Rebels will face William & Mary (Feb. 13-15), Arkansas State (Feb. 17), Wright State (Feb. 20-22) and Central Arkansas (Feb. 25) to start the year. Following road games against University of

Central Florida (Feb. 27-March 1) and Southern Miss (March 4), Ole Miss will play its final nonconference weekend series March 6-8 when it hosts Stetson for a three-game series.

The Rebels return 20 players from last season’s team and welcome 18 newcomers, including 12 freshmen and six transfers.

Ole Miss had a fantastic year last season, going 48-21, winning the Southeastern Conference Western Division Championship, hosting a regional and advancing all the way to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., where it was one of the final four teams remaining.

It was the 12th time in 14 seasons under Bianco that the Rebels advanced to the NCAA Tournament, which is the most postseason appearances by a head coach in school history and one of the best active stretches of NCAA postseason participation by any program in the country. AR

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Culture Luck Be a Chicken b y J a m e s o n G r e g g , 342 pages, $19.95 ( Pa p e r b a c k ) , I S B N : 9781941165041 Butterbean and Ruby Sweat, the heads of a fantastically redneck Southern family, are trapped in generational poverty and facing a gut-wrenching crisis — how to raise money for their baby daughter’s operation.

Memorable characters swarm the pages. Slob extraordinaire Bean sails through life as trailer park philosopher, clown prince and champion to his fellow chicken plant workers. Ruby styles in her leopard leotard at her beauty parlor, Ruby’s Curl Up ’N Dye. Bean’s nemesis, Calvin Butler, looms as the unscrupulous chicken plant owner. Bean suspects a “sal-vanilla” cover-up then faces the dilemma of a lifetime. Luck Be a Chicken is a hilarious and heartbreaking Southern satire flavored with a bit of farce. Will the baby get her operation?

Will Butler face true justice?

An award-winning humorist, Jameson Gregg (BBA 78) has had his works published in literary anthologies, magazines and newspapers. He lives in the Georgia mountains. Luck Be a Chicken is his first novel.

V icious Cycles: When Nice People Meet Not So Nice People b y Larry Tu r n e r, 2 8 8 p a g e s , $ 1 4 . 9 9 ( Pa p e r b a c k ) , ISBN: 9781490378343 In relationships, when nice people meet not-so-nice people, the outcome is predictable.

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and unconditional trust struggle against deceit and manipulation until eventually they are smothered.

Any potentially great relationship has a poor chance to succeed when injected with so much poisonous turmoil. As more and more not-so-nice people meet nice people, the vicious cycle multiplies like cancer cells.

Vicious Cycles demonstrates how love, trust, hurt and circumstances can cause an individual to become consumed by another person’s actions and lose sight of his or her own journey to a complete life. This book reveals the key to circumventing life’s challenges and enjoying its pleasures.

Larry Turner (BS 80), who introduced his pen name L. Donnell with this book, served as a forensic scientist for 26 years in four crime laboratories and taught forensic science as a college professor for more than 13 years.

He has worked on three criminal cases that have been profiled on the television shows “The New Detectives,” “America’s Most Wanted” and “The FBI Files.”

Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 b y David Hitt and Heather R. Smith, 352 pages, $36.95 (Hardcover), ISBN: 9780803226487 After the Apollo program put 12 men on

the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the space shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world’s first reusable spacecraft, it launched like a rocket, landed like a glider and carried out complicated missions in between.

Bold They Rise tells the story of the space shuttle through the personal experiences of the astronauts, engineers and scientists who made it happen — in space and on the ground, from the days of research and design through the heroic accomplishments of the program to the tragic last minutes of the Challenger disaster. In the participants’ own voices, readers learn what so few are privy to: what it was like to create a new form of spacecraft, to risk one’s life testing that craft, to float freely in the vacuum of space as a one-man satellite and to witness a friend’s death. A “guided tour” of the shuttle — in historical, scientific and personal terms — this book provides a fascinating, richly informed and deeply personal view of a feat without parallel in the human story.

David Hitt (BA 96) is a writer specializing in spaceflight history and co-wrote Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story (University of Nebraska Press, 2008).

Information presented in this section is compiled from material provided by the publisher and/or author and does not necessarily represent the view of the Alumni Review or the Ole Miss Alumni Association.

To present a recently published book or CD for consideration, please mail a copy with any descriptions and publishing information to: Ole Miss Alumni Review, Ole Miss Alumni Association, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677. AR

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Alumni and friends obtain group rates and discounts. All prices are per person, based on double occupancy and subject to change until booking.

Airfare is not included unless noted. For a brochure or more information, contact the Alumni office at 662-915-7375.

You also can find the most current and complete listing of trips and prices on the Ole Miss Alumni Association’s website at www.olemissalumni.com/travel.

nights aboard the exclusively chartered, five-star M.V. Tere Moana, featuring only 45 deluxe staterooms. Visit Panama’s San Blas Islands. Cruise through the aweinspiring Panama Canal to remote island paradises, and snorkel in pristine waters that are home to diverse marine life. Tour Panama City, and explore the terrestrial wonders of Costa Rica’s national parks and Osa Peninsula. Enjoy lectures by exclusive onboard study leaders. Panama pre-program and Costa Rica’s Volcanoes post-program options are offered. — From $4,995

PANAMA CANAL AND COSTA RICA JAN. 3-11, 2015 Join this spectacular nine-day journey through the mighty locks of the Panama Canal to the Costa Rican rainforest.

Spend one night in a deluxe hotel in San José, Costa Rica. Cruise for seven

SAFARIS, SANDS AND SARIS JAN. 5-FEB. 5, 2015 From serene, sun-soaked beaches and impressive game reserves to timeless colonial and Asian architecture and cutting edge skyscrapers, discover the distinct splendors of Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Embark on your remarkable 30-day voyage in cosmopolitan Cape Town, and cruise to beautiful South African cities rich with remnants from their colonial pasts, including Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban and Richards Bay. Stroll past time-worn palaces intermixed with modern high-rises in laid-back Maputo, Mozambique, and find a tranquil escape on the gorgeous island of Nosy Be. Visit Dar es Salaam, a bustling metropolis sprinkled with intriguing monuments, and explore the historic centers in Zanzibar and Mombasa, where an exotic eruption of colors and aromas await. Sail east toward Asia, relax on the sugar-white sand beaches of Mahé, and admire ornate mosques in Malé. Encounter a fascinating fusion of grand, centuries-old buildings, pristine beaches, and fine museums and galleries in Colombo, Phuket and Penang.

Round out your odyssey in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, magnetic cultural hubs complete with enticing cuisine, vibrant ethnic quarters and chic boutiques. — From $9,999 including airfare VENICE AND TRIESTE JAN. 16-25, 2015 This unique vacation to Venice and Trieste promises beautiful scenery, magnificent art and architecture, excellent food and wine, and most importantly, the camaraderie of traveling with Ole Miss alumni and friends. Since the 18th century, tourists have flocked to Venice as a major stop on the classic European “Grand Tour” with its beautiful cityscape, uniqueness and rich musical and artistic cultural heritage. In the 19th century, it became a fashionable center for the rich and famous. Today, the attractions in Venice are too many to enumerate. The Grand Canal, Piazza San Marco and St. Mark’s Basilica head the list. But the entire city is a UNESCO World Heritage site, every building a monument.

Trieste is situated at the head of the Adriatic Sea on a narrow strip of Italian land separating it from Slovenia, which even today demonstrates its crossroads with Latin, Slavic and German cultures.

Today, the city is in one of the richest regions of Italy and is an important center for shipping, shipbuilding and financial services. — From $4,195 SAILING THE WINDWARD ISLANDS JAN. 21-FEB. 7, 2015 Escape the depths of winter on this eight-day sailing experience amid the Caribbean’s tropical Windward Islands and aboard the exclusively chartered, 64-passenger sailing yacht Le Ponant.

Enjoy classic “life under sail” aboard this elegant three-mast yacht, featuring all ocean-view staterooms and an observation platform near sea level for ideal viewing of marine life and optional water sports. Cruise round trip from Fort-de-France, Martinique, into secluded harbors to explore the natural and cultural treasures of the Windward Islands. This custom-designed itinerary features Martinique’s Balata Garden, showcasing 3,000 varieties of tropical

plants and flowers; Bequia, the most beautiful isle of the Grenadines; the awe-inspiring reefs and marine life in the lagoons of Tobago Cays Marine Park; Grenada, the Spice Island; St. Vincent and its historic capital, Kingstown; St. Lucia’s iconic twin mountain peaks, the Gros and Petit Pitons; and Dominica, where it is said there is a river for every day of the year. — From $4,295 ISLAND LIFE IN CUBA FEB. 15-23, 2015 Be among the first U.S. travelers for nearly 50 years to visit Cuba. This exciting, much anticipated nine-day program provides an unprecedented “People to People” opportunity — engaging Cuban citizens and U.S. travelers. Share commonalities of values and interests, and experience firsthand the true character and traditions of the Caribbean’s largest and most complex island. By special arrangement and U.S. Treasuryapproved license, see the UNESCO World Heritage site of Old Havana, Matanzas, Santa Clara, Guanabacoa, Regla and Pinar del Río. Enjoy deluxe accommodations in Havana’s historic Hotel Nacional de Cuba and Meliá Cohiba Hotel, in the Hotel America in the heart of Santa Clara and in the Meliá Las Americas near culturally rich Matanzas. Accompanied by experienced, English-speaking Cuban hosts, immerse yourself in a comprehensive and intimate travel experience that explores the history, culture, art, language and cuisine

while experiencing the rhythm of daily Cuban life at just the right pace. Interact with local Cuban experts including musicians, artists, farmers, academics and architects. Savor authentic Cuban cuisine in private, family-run paladares and fine restaurants. — From $4,995 AMAZON RIVER EXPEDITION FEB. 20-MARCH 1, 2015 This unforgettable, custom-designed journey features a cruise in the Amazon River Basin aboard the recently refurbished La Amatista, a small expedition river vessel, and two nights in Lima, Peru, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Led by Peruvian naturalists, cruise into one of the Earth’s most exotic natural realms and our planet’s largest rainforest ecosystem. Seek rare indigenous flora and fauna, and visit local villages to observe the traditional way of life of the ribereños (river people). A special post-tour option to Machu Picchu and the Sacred Valley is offered. This program is an exceptional value, and space is extremely limited. — From $4,195 PARIS IMMERSION APRIL 16-27, 2015 Paris earned its nickname — the City of Light — because it embraced education and the exploration of new ideas during the Enlightenment. Today, Paris remains unparalleled in its cultural wealth. For 10 nights, explore the city and its environs at an unhurried pace.

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Traveler of the French Revolution and the oldest café in Paris. Marvel at the opulent palace at Versailles. Discover the places that played a large role during the World War II occupation of Paris. Expand your horizons with excursions to the Burgundian town of Dijon, including lunch at a hôtel particulier, and journey to Rouen, the capital of Normandy. This unique opportunity includes an extensive meal program with wine at dinner, accommodations in the heart of the city, Metro tickets so you can travel through Paris like a local, and ample independent leisure time to pursue your individual interests. — From $3,340

World Heritage sites while cruising the ancient trade routes aboard the exclusively chartered, five-star, 45-stateroom M.V. Tere Moana. A two-night Lisbon pre-cruise option and two-night Barcelona postcruise option are offered. — From $5,295 WATERWAYS OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM APRIL 20-28, 2015 Join us in Holland and Belgium for nine days, cruising for seven nights aboard a deluxe, state-of-the-art AMA Waterways vessel when Holland’s breathtaking tulip fields are in bloom! Meet local residents during the exclusive River Life Forum for a personal perspective of the Low

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TRADE ROUTES OF COASTAL IBERIA APRIL 17-25, 2015 This exclusive eight-day itinerary and small-ship voyage showcases the coastal jewels of the Iberian Peninsula between Lisbon, Portugal and Barcelona, Spain.

Cruise up Spain’s legendary Guadalquivir River into the heart of beautiful Seville.

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Countries’ modern life and cultural heritage. Expert-led excursions include private canal cruises in Amsterdam and Bruges, the windmills of Kinderdijk, the prestigious Rijksmuseum, world-class Kröller-Müller Museum, famous Keukenhof Gardens, medieval Antwerp and the impressive Delta Works. A pre-cruise option in Amsterdam is offered. This comprehensive, all-inclusive itinerary — an exceptional value — is continually praised as the ideal Holland and Belgium experience. — From $3,395

ITALIAN RIVIERA MAY 2-10, 2015 An area known for its sparkling turquoise sea, sun-kissed beaches and charming towns, the Italian Riviera has been captivating visitors for centuries. Experience the enchantment of this famous region on a seven-night program that takes you to key landmarks and historic villages.

Your home base is Sestri Levante, with its historic town center and brightly colored buildings framing the coastline. Venture to Santa Margherita, a town of colorful flowers, swaying palm trees and hillside villas, then cruise to Portofino, playground of the rich and famous. Visit the walled city of Lucca, and explore Genoa, the maritime republic believed to be the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.

Visit the picturesque villages of the Cinque Terre, the famous Five Lands. Journey to Carrara, and discover the origin of the beautiful white marble that sculptors have turned into works of art for centuries. This Alumni Campus Abroad program includes excursions and informative educational programs, deluxe accommodations and an extensive meal plan with wine at dinner, and no single supplement for solo travelers.

— From $3,040 TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE MAY 4-16, 2015 This 13-day transatlantic voyage is aboard the six-star, all-suite small ship M.V. Silver Whisper. This opportunity offers many complimentary features aboard ship: all onboard gratuities and port taxes, personal butler service, beverages in your suite and throughout the cruise, and even complimentary fitness classes. Cruise from New York to London on a classic journey across the Atlantic Ocean, with port calls in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and St. John’s, Newfoundland; along the coast of Ireland; and in the quaint Cornish port of Fowey. Unpack only once! An excellent value for this one-of-a-kind opportunity. A London post-cruise option is also available. — From $4,995

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BILL F. COSSAR (BBA 62) of Charleston was appointed to the Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.

E. JACKSON GARNER (68), president of The Ramey Agency in Jackson, joined Metropolitan Bancgroup Inc.’s board of directors.

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MICHAEL BRUNT (BA 76), professor of surgery and section chief of minimally invasive surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo., was elected president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.

the History of Music Education, sponsored by the National Association for Music Education.

LANCELOT L. MINOR III (BA 71), partner with Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez, Minor & Matthews in Memphis, was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2015 Best Lawyers in America and Mid-South Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters.

JAMES O. NELSON (BA 77, JD 80) of Scottsdale, Ariz., was appointed vice president and deputy general counsel of operations for California-based First American Title Insurance Co.

JAMESON GREGG (BBA 78) of Dahlonega, Ga., published his first novel, Luck Be a Chicken, A Comic Novel.

DARDEN NORTH (BA 78, MD 82) of Jackson released the audio version of his novel Points of Origin, available on audible.com, iTunes and Amazon.

JERE T. HUMPHREYS (BM 71), professor of music at Arizona State University, presented the keynote address at the St. Augustine Symposium on

REV. DAVID O’CONNOR (MA 73), rector of St. Mary’s Basilica in Natchez, celebrated the 50th anniversary of his ordination.

Delta State President Named VP of Gulf South Conference

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illiam N. LaForge (JD 75), president of Delta State Un i v e r s i t y i n C l e v e l a n d , w a s selected to serve a two-year term as vice president of the Gulf South Conference.

The Gulf South Conference is a charter member of NCAA Division II, dating back to its creation in summer 1970. The league is composed of eight full-time members, one associate member and four future members.

LaForge will follow his vice presidency as president, also a position held for two years. He will serve on the executive committee and chair the finance committee and strategic planning committee. AR 50 Alumni Review

STEVEN G. ROGERS (BA 76) of Jackson was elected to the board of directors of RREEF America REIT III Corp.

OTIS SANFORD (BA 75) of Memphis was inducted into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame.

C. PATRICK THARP (PhD 71) of Saint Charles, Mo., received a 2014 award from the Missouri Department of Mental Health for public service in suicide prevention.

PATRICK ZACHARY (BPA 79, JD 82), partner with Zachar y & Leggett PLLC in Hattiesburg, was selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2014 Best Lawyers in America.

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DONALD H. FULLER (BSHPE 80), girls’ basketball coach and assistant athletics director at Gulfport High School, was inducted into the Mississippi Association of Coaches Hall of Fame.

JAY MCCARTHY (BBA 86) of Madison accepted the position of chief financial officer with the Mississippi Development Authority.

JOHN STROUD (BSHPE 82, MEd 86) opened the first Mississippi Lapels Dry Cleaning franchise in New Albany.

HUGH E. TANNER (BBA 80, JD 85) was named managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Houston, Texas.

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TARA C. MAY (BAccy 94), certified public accountant and qualified 401(k) administrator, joined Pinnacle Trust in Madison as senior vice president of ERISA Retirement Plan Oversight and Advisory Services.

BRIAN MCMILLIN (BBA 93) of Tupelo accepted the position of customer service manager of Master-Bilt.

DAVID MIDLICK (BS 91, BS 94) accepted the position of women’s basketball associate head coach at the University of Memphis.

Boy Scouts of America Honors OMAA Past President

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n Nov. 13, the Chickasaw Council of Boy Scouts of America will present the 2014 Delta Distinguished Citizen Award to Ole Miss Alumni Association immediate past president Jimmy Brown (BBA 70) of Grenada. The award was established by the Boy Scouts of America to recognize noteworthy and extraordinary leadership of citizens in communities across the United States.

UM Chancellor Dan Jones (MD 75) will be the keynote speaker for the evening and pay a special tribute to Brown, who has a very strong Scouting history. Brown has served on the District Committee of Malmaison District as steering committee chairman, Friends of Scouting chairman and nominating chairman for the board. He also serves on the executive board of the Chickasaw Council.

Brown oversees Regions Financial Corp. banking operations in the North Mississippi region.

For more information on this dinner event, contact Jay Gore at jgore@gorekilpatrick.com or Emily Havens at 662-719-5157 or emily.havens@scouting.org. AR

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DEANNE MOSLEY (BPA 91, JD 94) of Jackson was elected president-elect of the National Association of State Personnel Executives.

REV. EDDIE RESTER (BA 93) was named senior pastor at Oxford-University United Methodist Church.

TREA SOUTHERLAND (BBA 92, JD 97) of Memphis was named lead counsel in the Federal Express Corp. Litigation Department.

PENNY NEWTON (BBA 91) accepted the position of vice president in the Denver, Colo., office of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC.

GARY C. RIKARD (JD 94), partner with Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada PLLC in Jackson, was appointed executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality by Gov. Phil Bryant (79).

GRADY F. TOLLISON III (JD 90) of Oxford was awarded one of three 2014 awards for Leadership in Juvenile Justice Reform by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Juvenile Justice Network.

AUDRA RESTER (BA 94) accepted the position of assistant principal at Oxford Middle School.

Alumnus Named Athletics Director at Alcorn State

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erek Horne (BBA 87) of Lorman accepted the position of athletics director at Alcorn State University, overseeing its 17 athletics programs. He previously served as the athletics director at Florida A&M. Before that, Horne worked for his alma mater, Ole Miss, for 15 years in its athletics administration department.

“Horne’s background and accomplishments as an athletic director also demonstrate his strong leadership abilities and his commitment to develop leaders in and out of the classroom,” says Alfred Rankins Jr., president of Alcorn State.

Horne was a four-year letterman on Ole Miss’ basketball team from 1983-86. He earned Academic All-Southeastern Conference accolades as a senior and was team captain his final two seasons. AR

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Scholarly Social ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONGRATULATES 2014-15 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS

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he Alumni Association held an ice cream social in September to honor all recipients of the Herb Dewees Alumni Association Scholarship, Ben Williams Minority Scholarship, Wobble Davidson M-Club Scholarship, Clay Waycaster Student Alumni Council Scholarship, Alumni Association Band Scholarship and Grove Society Scholarship. In all, 267 scholarships totaling $233,790 were awarded for the school year. For more information on alumni scholarship opportunities, visit www.olemissalumni.com. AR

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uests and visitors of The Inn at Ole Miss noticed a newly renovated and reinvigorated Brandt Gift Shop in September, fully stocked with snacks, sundries and exclusive Ole Miss Alumni Association merchandise.

The gift shop, conveniently located in The Inn at Ole Miss lobby, is now directly operated by Inn staff and the Ole Miss Alumni Association, which manages the Inn. The gift shop was made possible by a generous donation from Mr. and Mrs. Louis K. Brandt (BA 59) of Houston, Texas. For six years, it was managed by Barnes & Noble, which manages the Ole Miss Bookstore in the Student Union.

“The new Brandt Gift Shop officially opened for the first home football game against UL-Lafayette,” says Gaye Bukur, general manager of The Inn at Ole Miss. “Under direct

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operation by the Inn, visitors and guests will enjoy a shop with extended hours, better merchandise and more convenience.

We are excited to have this amenity for our guests who may have forgotten to pack everything they need.”

Cold soft drinks, snacks, candy and necessary items for busy travelers all have a home in the new gift shop.

OMAA management also means more popular Ole Miss Alumni Association merchandise. Visitors and guests will enjoy a new retail location for OMAA clothing and gifts, including polo shirts by Nike, Fairway & Greene, Ping, Under Armour and Ashworth. Caps, T-shirts and a wide array of Ole Miss gifts are for sale in the gift shop. The full stock of Ole Miss Alumni merchandise was previously only available online at www. olemissalumni.com/shop. AR

EDWARD TURNAGE III (BAccy 94, MAccy 95) was elected partner in the Jackson office of accounting firm BKD LLP.

MICHAEL NELSON BAILEY (BA 02, BAccy 02) of Memphis joined NewSouth Capital Management as vice president and equity analyst.

WILL PEPPER (BBA 01, MBA 03, PhD 14) earned a doctorate in management information systems from the University of Mississippi.

RYAN WATERS (BS 98) of Boulder, Colo., completed a 13-year journey to become the first American to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam, climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents and skiing unsupported to the North and South poles.

MICHAEL S. CARR (BA 03, JD 05) of Griffith & Griffith Attorneys in Cleveland was presented the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award by the Mississippi Bar Association at its annual meeting.

SHIRLEY RENA SMITH (BAEd 08) of Coldwater wrote and illustrated two children’s books, Don’t Color on the Wall and Dad Made a Mess.

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DR. AMELIA PURSER BAILEY (BA 02, MD 07) completed her fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School and joined Fertility Associates of Memphis as director of minimally invasive surgery.

BILL KILDUFF (BBA 05) was promoted to senior vice president for Community Bank in Ocean Springs.

W. HUNTER NOWELL (BBA 02, JD 06) of Cleveland was appointed county court judge of Bolivar County by Gov. Phil Bryant (79).

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EMILY CUTRER (BBA 12) joined The Ramey Agency in Jackson as an associate account executive.

SANFORD MOORE (BBA 14) joined the sales production team of the Jackson office of Boyles Moak Insurance.

SARAH LINDSEY OTT (BA 13) of Oxford was awarded a full merit scholarship plus a feeder school stipend from Mississippi College School of Law.

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WEDDINGS Katherine Marie Cliburn (BBA 09, BAccy 09, MAccy 10) and Richard Kyle Widdows (BBA 08, MBA 09), May 31, 2014.

Amanda Lea Holloway (BA 12) and Jarrod Trent Bloodworth (BA 12), June 28, 2014.

Katherine Marie Simpson and Zachary Elliott Brent (BSPh 10, PharmD 14), May 18, 2014.

Lindsey Marie Sneed (BSChE 14) and John Patrick Sullivan, June 7, 2014.

BIRTHS Elizabeth Cambre, daughter of Amelia Purser Bailey (BA 02, MD 07) and Michael N. Bailey (BAccy 02, BA 02), May 19, 2014.

Carter Stearns, son of Ginny Stearns Breckenridge (BAccy 05, MTax 06) and Irvin L. Breckenridge III (BAccy 98, MAccy 00), Aug. 26, 2013.

Quinn David, son of Misty M. Murphy (BBA 08) and Benjamin David Murphy (BBA 04, JD 06), Feb. 23, 2014.

Elizabeth Love, daughter of Sara Lovelady Rawlings (JD 07) and James Whitney Rawlings Jr. (BBA 02), Aug. 10, 2014.

Ann Eliza, daughter of Ann F. Roberson (BBA 98) and W.M. Roberson II (BBA 96), July 28, 2014.

Callie Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Neal Sanders (BAccy 02, MAccy 03) and William Alex Sanders (MAccy 01), July 17, 2014.

Osborn Jones, son of Melissa Dixon Turner and David R. Turner (BBA 02), Aug. 20, 2014.

In Memoriam 1940s Catherine Mercier Ashley (BAEd 49) of Cleveland, July 31, 2014

Katherine Edmunds, daughter of Virginia Peacock Douglas and Matthew Troy Douglas (BA 06), July 14, 2014.

William Abraham Daggett Jr. (BA 49) of Pascagoula, July 28, 2014

Hayes Gregory, son of Anna Greer Giachelli (BA 05) and Gregory M. Giachelli II, Feb. 22, 2014.

Joyce Blomquist Gibbes (BA 46) of Ridgeland, July 9, 2014

William Jennings, son of Meredith Cleland Johnson (BA 00) and Chad Lane Johnson (BSPh 98, PharmD 00), Aug. 1, 2014.

Edwin Michael Horner Sr. (BSHPE 49) of Germantown, Tenn., Aug. 23, 2014

Ava Kate, daughter of Kate Rogers Lyon (BBA 01) and Gregory A. Lyon, June 5, 2014.

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JoAnn Alexander Dunn (BA 48) of Dallas, Texas, Aug. 21, 2014 Miller Payne Holmes (BSC 41) of Ridgeland, July 16, 2014 Ira Thomas May (BBA 48) of Abilene, Texas, Aug. 4, 2014 Sally Anne Reilly Morse (BA 49) of Biloxi, Aug. 6, 2014

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Sparky Reardon (right) accepts the Ralph ‘Dud’ Daniel Interfraternal Award from Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

Retired Dean of Students Recognized

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homas J. “Sparky” Reardon (BAEd 72, PhD 00), retired University of Mississippi dean of students, received the Ralph “Dud” Daniel Interfraternal Award from Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and was elected to the fraternity’s General Council.

The award is presented to an individual who exemplifies the true meaning of interfraternalism.

Ralph “Dud” Daniel was a Phi Kappa Psi ambassador to the interfraternal world for more than 60 years. In the same way, each award recipient has dedicated his or her career to enhancing fraternity and sorority life and has made great strides in the Greek movement.

Reardon began working for the university in August 1977. He began his tenure as director of pre-admissions and served as associate dean of students from 1986 until 2000, when he became dean of students.

The Clarksdale native retired as dean of students on April 30, 2014, after 36 years of service to the university. AR

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Agnes Johns Norman (BAEd 45) of Corinth, Aug. 28, 2014

Julia Banks Ready (55) of Meridian, Aug. 8, 2014

Samuel Joseph Simpson (BSC 40, LLB 48) of Winona, July 25, 2014

Frank Thomas Rives (MS 52) of Decatur, Aug. 3, 2014 Robert Clinton Scott (BA 54) of Aiken, S.C., July 29, 2014

1950s Ann Helgason Ammons (BAEd 59) of Greenville, Aug. 7, 2014

Archie Lynn Shepherd (54) of Hendersonville, Tenn., Aug. 17, 2014

Douglas Weldon Aultman (BSPh 50) of Charleston, July 1, 2014

Barbara Crum Spell (BAEd 55) of Jackson, June 28, 2014

Duff David Austin Jr. (MD 58) of Florence, Ala., July 21, 2014

Roy Bedford Strickland (BA 58, LLB 61) of Gulfport, Sept. 1, 2014

Milton Richard Barnhill Jr. (BBA 54) of Hammond, La., July 8, 2014

Rosa Gambill Terry (BA 57) of Sheffield, Ala., July 9, 2014

Steve Hightower Butler III (55) of Vicksburg, July 3, 2014

Willis Edgar Young Jr. (BBA 52) of Decatur, Ala., Aug. 27, 2014

James Alfred Shepherd (55) of Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 2, 2014

R.A. Byars (MEd 55) of Arcadia, La., July 3, 2014 Lawrence C. Corban Jr. (BBA 51, LLB 53) of Biloxi, Aug. 4, 2014 William McCarty Deavours (BBA 50, LLB 54) of Laurel, Aug. 24, 2014

1960s Robert Bennett Boswell Jr. (BBA 65) of Jackson, July 31, 2014

Frederick Ray Dinkler (MEd 59) of Mount Hope, W.Va., July 15, 2014

William Brinley Boyles (BAEd 68) of Tupelo, July 10, 2014

Joan Tarzetti Donnels (BBA 55) of New Orleans, La., July 9, 2014

Carol Cassidy Bush (BAEd 68) of Bogalusa, La., Aug. 26, 2013

David Bradley Ellis Sr. (MedCert 54) of New Albany, July 22, 2014

Sam Wallace Coker (MCS 66) of Rainbow City, Ala., July 9, 2014

Walter Watlington Eppes Jr. (LLB 52) of Meridian, June 25, 2014

Judith Ryan Mixon Collins (62) of Sumrall, Aug. 22, 2014

Lawrence J. Franck (BBA 53, LLB 58) of Madison, Aug. 4, 2014

William Harold Cook Jr. (BAEd 64, MEd 68) of Rogers, Ark., Aug. 16, 2014

Charles Harold Heidelberger (BSHPE 51) of Gainesville, Fla., Aug. 6, 2014

Roger Duane Cox (BA 68) of Chapel Hill, N.C., Aug. 19, 2014

Rufus Clinton Johnson Jr. (BBA 51, BSPh 58) of Leland, June 30, 2014

Richard Matthew Farrell (BSME 63) of San Rafael, Calif., June 21, 2014

Bobby Paul Keith (BBA 58) of Birmingham, Ala., July 6, 2014

Francis Drake Hall (BBA 68) of Jackson, Aug. 9, 2014

Sarah Alice Williams King (BM 53) of Inverness, Aug. 7, 2014

William Byron Harvey (JD 67) of Theodore, Ala., July 31, 2014

Ben Prentiss Lester (50) of Palm Desert, Calif., July 2, 2014

Roberta Jane Gilly Hood (BBA 69) of Biloxi, July 25, 2014

David Shelton Lingle (MEd 53) of Ellijay, Ga., Aug. 4, 2014

William Clady Jaudon Jr. (MEd 62) of Grenada, Aug. 31, 2014

John Chester Majure Sr. (BBA 55) of Gulfport, Aug. 11, 2014

Thomas Leon Jones (BA 62) of Clearwater, Fla., May 26, 2014

Shelby Wilson Mitchell Sr. (MS 50, MedCert 52) of Clinton, July 1, 2014

Robert J. Katrishen (MEd 66) of Hazleton, Pa., Aug. 20, 2014

James Elmer Nix Sr. (MedCert 54) of Jackson, Aug. 9, 2014

Thomas David Kirschten (BA 67, JD 70) of Carrollton, July 24, 2014

Attorney Receives Bar’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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. Scott Welch (LLB 64) of Baker Donelson in Jackson was presented the Mississippi Bar’s Lifetime Achievement Award, an award given to an individual who has demonstrated devoted service to the public, profession and the administration of justice over the span of a professional career.

Welch received the award at the Mississippi Bar’s annual meeting in Destin, Fla., where he was also recognized among attorneys who have been practicing law for 50 years.

A shareholder in the firm’s Jackson office, Welch is a civil trial lawyer who served as president of the Mississippi Bar, national president of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and a member of the American Bar Association board of governors and House of Delegates for many years.

He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the Litigation Counsel of America and was among Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America for five consecutive years. In 2012, he was recognized with the Mississippi Defense Lawyers Lifetime Achievement Award. AR

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Congratulations to Jimmy Brown.

Regions Bank is pleased to congratulate Jimmy Brown, North Mississippi Area President, on completing his term as the 2013-2014 Ole Miss National Alumni Association President.

Jimmy, who has been with Regions for 39 years, currently serves on the University of Mississippi Alumni Board Executive Committee, the Rust College Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Chickasaw Council, Boy Scouts of America. Jimmy has also taught high school Sunday school classes at First United Methodist Church in Grenada for 26 years. Jimmy’s commitment to excellence and community service is a true inspiration, and the Regions team is proud to see him be recognized for his achievements.

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an M. Wardlaw (MBA 90) of Chattanooga was named executive vice president of external relations with Tennessee Valley Authority. He most recently served as senior vice president for customer resources.

“Van has been instrumental in strengthening TVA’s relationships with our local power companies and directly served customers,” says president and CEO Bill Johnson. “He will bring this same level of leadership to his expanded role in working with elected officials, economic development professionals and other external stakeholders.”

Wardlaw is responsible for leading the customer resources, economic development, government relations and external stakeholders teams and will serve on TVA’s executive management committee.

He has more than 30 years of leadership experience in the planning, operating, commercial and customer sectors of the utility industry.

The Memphis native is a registered professional engineer and certified power executive. AR

John Howell Lewis (BSPh 67) of Yazoo City, Jan. 2, 2014

Winton Edwin Williams (LLB 62) of Gainesville, Fla., June 27, 2014

Judy Brown Lohrmann (66) of Jackson, July 25, 2014

Harold Clay Wispell (BSME 60) of Grand Prairie, Texas, July 5, 2014

Kenneth Lavelle Netherland (BSHPE 63) of Collierville, Tenn., July 12, 2014

Walter Eugene Wylie Sr. (BSCvE 67) of West Columbia, S.C., Aug. 10, 2014

Jimmy Owen Phifer (BAEd 65, MEd 74) of Tucson, Ariz., Aug. 8, 2014 Harold Ralston Simmons Jr. (BA 61) of Clarksdale, Aug. 12, 2014

1970s Marilyn Conoway Agnew (BSB 79) of Tupelo, July 10, 2014

Robert Elliott Strauss (MEd 67) of Jacksonville, Fla., March 14, 2014

Lucy Hamblin Burnside (PhD 72) of Carthage, June 13, 2014

James Robert Tuttle (BSCvE 62) of Vicksburg, Aug. 16, 2014

Barbara Champion Bush (BAEd 72, MEd 77) of Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 20, 2014

James Don Porter (BBA 61) of Dade City, Fla., July 1, 2014

James Madison Wells Jr. (BBA 63) of Cordova, Tenn., Aug. 3, 2014

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Stanley Gordon Cole (JD 78) of Paul, Idaho, Aug. 7, 2014

Brian Girard McCusker (BSPh 87) of Forest, July 10, 2014

Steven Aldred Cooke (BA 72) of Cranston, R.I., Oct. 25, 2013

David Woodring Noland USN (Ret) (83) of Baton Rouge, La., June 29, 2014

John Melvin Currie (BBA 71) of Peachtree City, Ga., July 9, 2014

Todd Christian Richter (BBA 87) of Brandon, July 15, 2014

William Frederick Davidge Jr. (PhD 76) of Brentwood, Tenn., June 23, 2014

Katherine Kaigler Salter (BBA 81) of Hattiesburg, Aug. 2, 2014

Joseph Claude Elliott (BPA 75) of Swannanoa, N.C., July 12, 2014

Richard Paul Steiner (87) of New Orleans, La., Aug. 21, 2014

Michael Edward Garner (BA 70, JD 73) of Jackson, July 27, 2014

Michael Earl Swindle (BPA 87, MPA 91) of Saltillo, Aug. 26, 2014

Donna Hjerpe Henderson (BAEd 71) of Saint Louis, Mo., July 16, 2014 James Rodney Lippincott (BBA 75) of Scobey, July 16, 2014

1990s Robert Rodney Beckett Jr. (98) of Cleveland, Aug. 6, 2014

Mark Stevens Mayfield (BPA 78, JD 81) of Ridgeland, June 27, 2014

Roger Clinton Douglass (94) of Oxford, Sept. 1, 2014

Henry Welch Palmer (BPA 70, JD 72) of Meridian, July 16, 2014

Richard Kevin Hilbun (MBA 90) of Birmingham, Ala., July 8, 2014

David Wade Pounds (BSPh 75) of Belmont, July 12, 2014

Christopher Eric Jones (BAEd 94) of Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 15, 2014

Willie Bryant Rutherford (MBEd 75) of Booneville, Aug. 14, 2014

Perry Jerone Lishman (MD 94) of Kosciusko, Aug. 5, 2014

Ellen Junkin Saunders (BAEd 74) of Natchez, July 27, 2014

Frank Patzius Jr. (BBA 90) of Ripley, Aug. 18, 2014

Robert Bruce Smith IV (BA 72) of Tupelo, Aug. 13, 2014

Edward Albert Spencer (BBA 91) of Olive Branch, Aug. 15, 2014

Sharon Hall Jefferson (BAEd 71) of Tupelo, July 27, 2014

Thomas Hansell Stewart (BA 74) of Ridgeland, Aug. 2, 2014 Robert Leist Warnock (MEd 70) of Moorhead, Sept. 2, 2014 1980s Ann Bronaugh Andrews (BA 80, MBA 82) of Mount Juliet, Tenn., June 21, 2014

2000s Allen Christopher Cauthen (BBA 09) of Brandon, Aug. 27, 2013 Chase Bonds Haberstroh (06) of Olive Branch, Aug. 9, 2014 Wesley Haynes McKay (BAEd 01) of Baldwyn, Aug. 29, 2014

Charlton Bryan Blakeney (DMD 84) of Gulfport, Aug. 14, 2014

Kendall Youngblood Simon (BA 07) of San Antonio, Texas, July 15, 2014

William Franklin Jackson (MEd 87) of Sardis, July 26, 2014

Casey Wilson Spradling (BA 05, MA 07) of Mantachie, July 18, 2014

Sidney Justin Lambert (BA 84) of New Orleans, La., June 28, 2014 Jesse Ray Luther (BAEd 80) of Saltillo, Aug. 5, 2014 Sandra Maria Martin (MEd 85) of Liberty, Jan. 13, 2014 John Robert McCullough (BBA 82) of Paris, June 28, 2014

2010s Channing Blake Jackson (14) of Gulfport, July 28, 2014 Thomas Parker Rodenbaugh (11) of Madison, Aug. 10, 2014

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Faculty and Friends Nina Chadick Bianco of Seminole, Fla., Aug. 21, 2014

Claire Davis Smith of Atlanta, Ga., May 16, 2014

Dewitt Hill Day Sr. of Collierville, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2014

Mary Browning Varner of Rogersville, Mo., Aug. 25, 2014

Richard Jennings Field Jr. of Centreville, July 22, 2014

D.P. Waring Jr. of Vicksburg, Sept. 2, 2014

Ella Brooks Flagg of Marietta, Ga., June 28, 2014

John Luke Winters of Oxford, July 6, 2014

Chance Randall Tetrick of Oxford, Aug. 4, 2014

Nancy Erb Fretterd of Natchez, Aug. 15, 2014 Emily Rebecca Grace of Batesville, Aug. 7, 2014 A.J. Hairston of Oxford, Aug. 13, 2014 Bobby Gene Hannon of Vicksburg, Sept. 2, 2014 Bennie F. Hollis of Biloxi, July 24, 2014 Katherine Hadaway Jamison of Oxford, Aug. 21, 2014 Johnnie Keith Kelley of Orange Beach, Ala., Aug. 20, 2014 Jonelle Embry McClurkin of Oxford, Aug. 2, 2014 Estelle S. Ruffin of Oxford, Aug. 6, 2014

Due to space limitations, class notes are only published in the Alumni Review from active, dues-paying members of the Ole Miss Alumni Association. To submit a class note, send it to records@olemiss.edu or Alumni Records Dept., Ole Miss Alumni Association, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848. Class notes also may be submitted through the Association’s website at www.olemissalumni.com. The Association relies on numerous sources for class notes and is unable to verify all notes with individual alumni. AR

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The Lafayette County Planning Commission has ordered the owners of Williams Equipment Co. to

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“I need a schedule of how this is going to progress with a time frame I can put my hands on by June 1,” County Engineer Larry Britt said at Monday’s Planning Commission meeting.

Williams Equipment started con-

struction in the summer of 2008 on its new home for the commercial business on 4.3 acres of land located on Highway 6 West. Since construction began, neighbors have complained the runoff from the graded property has caused silt to run onto their lawns, destroying grass and bushes, as well as cause local flooding.

A year ago, a cease and desist order was issued until erosion problems were handled.

BUSINESSMAN ARRESTED A local businessman who has been on the lam from the law was arrested last week. Get the details on Page 2.

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The Guinness World Record Association measured Rochester’s Igor Vovkovinskiy (voh-kov-IN’-ski) at 7 feet, 8.33 inches tall during NBC’s “The Dr. Oz Show” on Monday. He edged out Norfolk, Va., sheriff’s deputy George Bell by a third of an inch.

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“We have had some problems with erosion out there that we’ve been dealing with for a year and a half,” Britt said.

When 3 inches of rain fell in Oxford within 30 minutes last week, the issue resurfaced when silt and water caused erosion on some of the adjoining landowners’ property.

also owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

The other three areas of focus for the investigation involve the cementing and casing of the wellhead, which was Halliburton Inc.’s responsibility.

COVINGTON, La. — Oil giant BP said its internal investigation of Assessing decisions the unchecked Gulf oil spill In BP’s release, Chief is largely focused on work Executive Tony Hayward done by other companies as stopped short of assigning a new government report responsibility. President today showed workers at the Barack Obama has blasted federal agency that oversees executives from the compaoffshore drilling accepted nies for blaming each other sports tickets, lunches and during Congressional hearother gifts from oil and gas ings this month. companies.

“A number of companies BP PLC said in a release are involved, including BP, that an initial investigation and it is simfound mulply too early tiple control “...it is simply — and not mechanisms too early — and not up to us — should have to say who p r e v e n t e d up to us — to say who is at fault,” the accident is at fault.”

Hayward that started said. with an oil — TONY HAYWARD G e n e rig explosion Chief Executive, BP Beck, a April 20 off petroleum the coast engineer of Louisiana that killed 11 at Texas A&M at College workers.

Station who worked in the Seeking the cause drilling industry for two BP, the largest oil and decades, said the list of gas producer in the Gulf, Gulf problems BP is investigating listed seven areas of focus appears exhaustive. But he as it hunts for a cause. Four said the company also needs involve the blowout pre- to look at decisions made by venter, venter a massive piece of people on the rig. machinery that sits atop the “That needs to be inveswellhead and should have tigated: Why did they do acted as a safety device what they did?” Beck said. of last resort but did not.

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (center) speaks at a press conference in Galliano, La., Monday. Standing behind Salazar are Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Meanwhile, a new Interior Department report released today found that staffers in the Louisiana office of the Minerals Management Service violated a number of federal regulations and agency ethics rules, including accepting gifts from oil and gas companies and using government computers to view pornography. pornography The report by the department’s acting inspector general follows up on a 2007 investigation that revealed what then-Inspector General Earl Devaney called a “culture of ethical failure” and conflicts of interest at the minerals agency. agency

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar called the latest report “deeply disturbing” but stressed that it only covered a period from 2000 to 2008. He said he wants the investigation expanded to include agency actions since he took office in January 2009.

BP filed its site-specific exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon in February 2009.

The Obama administration has come under increasing pressure as frustrations build, oil washes up in delicate Louisiana wetlands, and efforts to cap the well prove unsuccessful.

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Members of the Oxford School Board set a public hearing for June 14 at 5 p.m. for the public to discuss the district’s 2010-2011 budget.

Despite continued budget cuts from the state during the past several months, the Oxford School District has put together a budget for the coming school year that ensures no jobs will be cut.

The school board has a proposed $29 million budget that, while not yet finalized, won’t cut jobs and won’t raise the tax rate.

On Monday, Gov. Haley Barbour signed the FY 2011 education funding bills, House Bill 1622 and House Bill 1059, Mississippi Department of Education Superintendent Tom Burnham said.

“HB 1622 is the primary funding bill that we recommend (districts) develop the FY 2011 budget around,” Burnham said. “HB 1059 is contingent upon the passage of federal legislation that would extend the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage provided for in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.”

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Revenue is expected to be up about $420,000 from 2009-2010 for a total of $29.5 million. Mississippi Adequate Education Program funding is slightly down to $12.54 million from $12.56 million the year before. Ad valorem tax collections will go up from $14.1 million to $15.4 million. With athletic admission tickets expected to be down about $10,000, the district may have to dip deeper into its reserve funds.

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In other business, the school board: — Approved salary scales for employees, teacher assistants and administrators.

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