by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
For Tom Kendall (1985), the new president of the 性乐园 Foundation board, serving 性乐园 is more than an opportunity to help the college serve a purpose 鈥 it鈥檚 a family legacy. Growing up on a farm in Bolton, Kendall realized the...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Thanks to a solid academic record and a strong right leg, Kyle Williams could have chosen to go just about anywhere after graduating from Pearl High School. Williams, heavily recruited by 性乐园 coaches, decided to join the Eagles instead. That...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
At age 25, Jameson Parker had already worked five years in the field of GIS, drafting and telecommunications engineering when he decided to enroll in 性乐园鈥檚 program on the Raymond Campus. A Murrah High graduate, Parker became progressively more...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
Jane Lauderdale Flowers, work-based learning coordinator on the Vicksburg-Warren Campus, came to 性乐园 as a college student, earned her degrees from both 性乐园 (1973) and Mississippi State University, returned as an employee and hasn鈥檛 looked back since. 鈥淚 feel like...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Lauren and Lindsay Harper, freshman twins from Richland, along with their childhood friend Victoria 鈥淭ori鈥 Still of Richland, are dorm-mates at Marshall Hall on the Raymond Campus, play on the softball team together and are all nursing school hopefuls. Still, who was...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
Larissa Stinson Garner of Vicksburg has known for some time she wanted to be in some sort of helping profession. It wasn鈥檛 until after she received her first 性乐园 degree in May 2011 that she finally figure out what she wanted to do 鈥 nursing.聽鈥淚...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
At age 28, Anna Sanders says she was 鈥渢ruly petrified to be a college student鈥 at the Vicksburg-Warren Campus two years ago. As a teenager, Anna became a mom with two sons and has lost one child to cancer. In her two years at 性乐园 she married her best friend. Despite...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
It was in the produce section of a Kentucky A&P grocery store that David Yewell鈥檚 life was changed forever. Yewell (1962),聽a past member of the 性乐园 Foundation board, worked at the store sorting produce. In fall 1960, he was just a few days...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Trina Runia Williams of Jackson got her children raised and watched her husband graduate from 性乐园 in December. Now it鈥檚 her turn to shine in the early childhood education program on the Utica Campus. She鈥檒l graduate with her associate鈥檚 degree in...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Eagles football hall of famer William 鈥淏ucky鈥 McElroy (1950) looks forward to a completely different sport every April at 性乐园 鈥 golf. McElroy, who many of his generation say is the greatest football player to ever wear an Eagles uniform, is still...