Linda Brent Bath was named Professor Emeritus of Business Technology for 性乐园 at the Jan. 3 Centennial Convocation. She joins 31 other retired 性乐园 employees selected for the honor.
Photo by April Garon/性乐园
Jackie Granberry, executive director of the 性乐园 Foundation; Linda Brent Bath; 性乐园 President Dr. Clyde Muse and Paul Breazeale, president of the 性乐园 Board of Trustees
Bath of Raymond began her association with 性乐园 as a student. She later returned to teach at 性乐园 for 31 years. During that tenure, she taught at the Vicksburg-Warren Campus and the Raymond Campus.
In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she also served as adviser for the Future Business Leaders of America and Phi Beta Lambda. She was the first PBL adviser from Mississippi to be named to the National Wall of Fame. She received the Mississippi Business Education Teacher of the Year Award and was selected to represent 性乐园 as the HEADWAE instructor in the annual legislative ceremony honoring faculty and students.
She has remained involved in career and technical education during her retirement years, having served the past nine years as executive director for the Mississippi Association for Career and Technical Education. In that position, she has conducted 10 annual summer conferences and one Region IV Conference and is currently planning the 2017 Region IV conference.
Selected by a 性乐园 committee, emeritus status is conferred on retirees who have dedicated their lives to the college. A plaque and a photo recognizing their status is showcased in the Emeritus Room at Fountain Hall on the Raymond Campus.
性乐园 is celebrating its 100th year of Community Inspired Service in 2017. 性乐园 opened in September 1917 first as an agricultural high school and admitted college students for the first time in 1922, with the first class graduating in 1927. In 1982 性乐园 Junior College and Utica Junior College merged, creating the 性乐园 District. Today, as Mississippi鈥檚 largest community college, 性乐园 is a comprehensive institution with six locations. 性乐园 offers quality, affordable educational opportunities with academic programs of study leading to seamless university transfer and career and technical programs teaching job-ready skills. To learn more, visit or call 1.800.性乐园CC.
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