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LIONS’
A publication of
Volume 15, No. 1,
East Mississippi Community College Fall 2015
PRIDE
Passing the Torch
Dr. Thomas Huebner takes over
for Dr. Rick Young
Pages 16-17
NJCAA National
Championship Coverage
Pages 10-11, 18-19

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To our biggest EMCC LION fans, we just want to say…
THANK YOU
Lowndes County Board of Supervisors
District 1 Harry Sanders, District 2 Bill Brigham, District 3 John
Holliman, District 4 Jeff Smith, District 5 Leroy Brooks
Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors
District 1 Hank Florey, District 2 Wayman Newell, District 3 Josh
Todd, District 4 Joe Norwood, District 5 Kyle Rutledge
Kemper County Board of Supervisors
District 1 Pat Granger, District 2 Johnny Whitsett, District 3 John
Paul Darnell, District 4 Mike Luke, District 5 Chris Cole
Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors
District 1 John Montgomery Jr., District 2 Orlando Trainer, District 3
Marvell Howard, District 4 Daniel Jackson, District 5 Joe Williams
Noxubee County Board of Supervisors
District 1 Larry Tate, District 2 William Oliver, District 3 Sherman
Patterson, District 4 Eddie Coleman, District 5 Bruce Brooks
Clay County Board of Supervisors
District 1 Lynn “Don” Horton, District 2 Luke Lummus, District 3
R.B. Davis, District 4 Shelton L. Deanes, District 5 Floyd T. McKee
We literally could not do it without you!

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LIONS’
Volume 15, No. 1 Fall 2015
PRIDE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Larry Bell
Kathy Dyess
Laddie Huffman
Teresa Hughes
Linda Jackson
Hazel Johnson
Rupert L. “Rudy” Johnson
Robert McDade
Jimmie Moore
Ed Mosley
Charles Rigdon
Greg Stewart
Bob Marshall, Board Attorney
ADMINISTRATION
Dr. Thomas Huebner, President
Nick Clark, Vice President for Institutional
Advancement & Alumni Affairs
Debby Gard, Vice President for
Business Operations and the Lion Hills Campus
James Gibson, Vice President for Financial Aid
Dr. Paul Miller, Executive Vice President and
Vice President for Golden Triangle Campus
Dr. Raj Shaunak, Vice President for the
Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Division
Mickey Stokes, Vice President for the
Scooba Campus and Vice President for Athletics
Dr. Thomas Ware, Vice President for Instruction
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
Kate Cherry, President
Terisa Mayatt Pittman, Vice President
Jessica Harpole, Secretary
Gina Cotton, Treasurer
FOUNDATION BOARD
Charlie Studdard, President
Philip Busbee
Nick Clark
R.B. Davis
Dikki Dyson
Johnny Fisher
Debra Gard
Ike Hopper
Dr. Thomas Huebner
Teresa Hughes
Max Johnson
Linda Malone
Carles McComb
Mark McPhail
Dr. Paul Miller
Melissa Mosley
Michael Shelton
Cheryl Sparkman
Mickey Stokes
From the Director’s Chair..................................2
Time to Build..................................................2-3
Lion Diary.......................................................4-9
Return to Form: Champs Again (Again).....10-11
Chances to Support.........................................12
Homecoming 2015: What to Expect................13
The Lions’ Pride
INSIDE
The Lions’ Pride is the official publication of the East Mississippi Community College Development
Foundation/Alumni Association. It is published by EMCC’s Public Information Office.
Project manager: Jason Browne
Editors: Jason Browne, Nick Clark, Gina
Cotton, Rocky Higginbotham, Suzanne
Monk, David Rosinski
Contributing writers: Jason Browne,
Kate Cherry, Nick Clark, Gina Cotton,
Rocky Higginbotham, Paul Jones,
Suzanne Monk, David Rosinski
East Mississippi Community College is commied to assuring that the college and its programs
are free from discrimination and harassment based upon race, color, ethnicity, sex, pregnancy, religion,
national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information,
status as a U.S. veteran, or any other status protected by state or federal law. The following person
has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies:
Theresa Harpole
District Director of Human Services
P.O. Box 158
Scooba, MS 39358
(662) 476-5274
tharpole@eastms.edu
Quick Takes.....................................................14
New Leaders...................................................15
Changing of the Guard...............................16-17
Sports.........................................................18-25
Philanthropy................................................26-31
In Memoriam/Obits..........................................32
Contributing photographers: Lee
Adams, Stan Beall, John Bowen, Jason
Browne, Mitch Deaver, Chris Ellis, Craig
Fry, Paula Merritt, Suzanne Monk, Clint
Scrivener, Bob Smith, Kerry Smith, Chris
Todd, Ben Watts, David Allen Williams
Design and layout: Rocky Higginbotham
Cover Photo: Suzanne Monk
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FROM THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR
EMCC President Dr. Tom Huebner and Nick Clark visit with alums Billy Eskridge and
Kline Shepherd prior to kickoff of the Lions’ football season opener Aug. 27 in Scooba.
We are very proud to welcome new president, Dr. Tom Huebner, and his family
to EMCC.
Dr. Huebner comes to us from Shelton State in Tuscaloosa, Ala. I am very excited
and look forward to the direction that Dr. Huebner will lead EMCC. He will
build on the groundwork laid by Dr. Tommy Davis in the 1990s when we were on
verge of closing and on the amazing accomplishments of Dr. Rick Young. I believe
Dr. Huebner is the man who will lead us to even greater success.
What a great time to be Lion!
It’s unbelievable how much is happening!
New buildings are in progress, and more are on the drawing board. We will
be in the student union building on the GT campus in 2016. Our $40M “Communiversity”
building located about 1 mile east of the GT campus will be under construction
very soon. On the Scooba campus, plans are under way for
badly-needed new student housing, an athletic center and the Kemper County
Multipurpose Building. The multipurpose building will house a basketball arena as
well as a storm shelter and evacuation center.
Enrollment is up, which is a great testament to our excellent faculty, as well
as the academic achievement of our students.
All of our athletic teams had yet another banner year. The EMCC football
team is the reigning national champion for three of the last four years. Both men’s
and women’s basketball teams advanced to postseason play. Our baseball Lions
had their best finish in several years, advanced in postseason play and ranked nationally
during the year. Our Lion golf team hosted the state tournament at Lion
Hills. The rodeo team had their highest national ranking to date; one of our bull
riders finished sixth in the nation and he was only one second off from winning the
whole thing. Softball, once again, earned one of the top GPAs in the nation.
In the last five years, the Mighty Lion Marching Band has grown from about
30 members to about 160 members. You have to hear them to fully appreciate
how good our band is. We have the numbers but, more importantly, we have
quality band members. Our band will be performing in the Thanksgiving Day parade
at Disney World.
Speaking of the Mighty Lion Band, at homecoming this year the band hall
will be dedicated to the Dottie Smith Family. Dottie and her family were not only
instrumental in building the Chapel in The Pines, but also contributed greatly to
the band hall renovation.
The Bull Sullivan Memorial Division of the EMCC Development Foundation
was formed in 1994 to support both athletics and instructional programs. To date
we have raised several million dollars in support of EMCC. The Sullivan Committee
hosts three big events each year (see page 12). But there are many other
ways to give back to the college that gave you so much. My challenge to all
Alumni and friends: get involved--you will be glad that you did.
Take Care,
Nick
Nick Clark is EMCC Vice President for
Instutitional Advancement and Alumni Affairs
RUNNING
Advances in instruction
and infrastructure are
still the norm at EMCC
As a brief recap, since 2010 EMCC has constructed the
new Sullivan-Windham Stadium (complete with a sevenfoot
bronze statue of Coach Robert “Bull” Sullivan), the
Orr Center for Christian Activity and the F.R. Young Student
Union, all at the Scooba campus. In that same span,
the college has purchased a country club and turned it into
Lion Hills, instituted an Honors Program at the Scooba and
Golden Triangle campuses, restructured all manufacturing
related Career-Technical programs under the newly formed
Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division at
the Golden Triangle campus and helped attract literally
thousands of high-paying, high-tech jobs to our six-county
district via the Workforce Services Division.
In terms of accomplishments, we’ve been named to the
Aspen Institute College Excellence Program’s Top 150
Community Colleges in the country, produced a Guistwhite
Scholar, grown the band by nearly 300 percent and
marched in nationally televised parades and won three of
the last four NJCAA National Football Championships.
And those are just the biggest items, which amounts to
all-time great stretch for any American community college
before we even factor in the smaller gains. But we’re not
even close to finished.
Golden Triangle Student Union
By summer of 2016, Golden Triangle campus administrators
and instructors should be moving into the newly
completed Student Union, and preparing for a grand opening
to students in August.
The two-story, 76,000-square-foot building will include
12 multi-purpose classrooms, a lecture hall and computer
lab with seating for about 100 people, large and
small conference rooms, a bookstore, a large cafeteria with
Instructor Ben Harris demonstrates one of the training modules
for the Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Division’s new
Electro-mechanical Program.
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WITH NO BRAKES
Plans for a Sports Operations
Center are still under way for
the Scooba campus.
an open dining area and a couple of private dining
rooms, an art gallery and space for a small
fitness room. The facility will be open to students,
staff and members of the community.
Both the campus vice president and dean of
students will relocate to the Student Union to
centralize campus administration, as will the
president’s Golden Triangle office.
The space vacated in the current administration
building will be used to expand the financial aid
and admissions offices.
Communiversity
The MTE Division has just about outgrown
the original Center for Manufacturing Technology
Excellence at the Golden Triangle campus.
But with new industrial partners like Yokohama
Tire Manufacturing Mississippi in Clay County
and the addition of all manufacturing Career-
Technical programs to its purview, it’s time to
get a bigger place.
Approximately $37 million has already
been allocated from federal, state and local
funds to erect the CMTE 2.0 — or Communiversity
— at the entrance to the Golden Triangle
Global Industrial Aerospace Park, just a few
miles from the Golden Triangle campus. The
expansive training center will house all of the
MTE Division’s non-credit Workforce Services
courses, as well as all manufacturing based
credit programs. The current CMTE portion of
the Golden Triangle campus will be renovated
to house EMCC’s allied health programs.
Instruction
With the influx of highly automated manufacturing
processes to the Golden Triangle, the
need has arisen for multiple tiers of employees
to make these extremely complex systems
work. There are the operators, currently being
trained in our Workforce Services non-credit
courses, the programmers, many of whom come
from EMCC’s Automation & Control Program,
and a third tier that has been under-manned
The Golden Triangle campus Student Union is on track to open for the fall semester of 2016.
until now: Maintenance.
To train technicians to troubleshoot and repair
the new generation of automated systems,
the MTE Division began the Electro-mechanical
Technician Program this year at the GT
campus.
The program will train technicians to troubleshoot
fully functioning production lines that
incorporate pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical
controls, computer controls, PLCs (programmable
logic controls) and robotics. And we’re even
starting to integrate vision controls and RFID
(radio frequency identification).
To offer students further specialization in
the field, in 2017 EMCC plans to make a oneyear
Mechatronics Advanced Technical Certificate
program available to Electro-mechanical
graduates. The additional Mechatronics certificate
will build on the principles covered in the
Electro-mechanical program and continue to refine
the high level troubleshooting skills employers
are seeking.
Additional courses coming online this year
include a Landscape Technology Program,
which joins the existing Recreational Turf Management
Program at Lion Hills, and a Mississippi
National Guard ROTC program called
Magnolia Gold.
EMCC is also eying an opportunity to expand
our Workforce Services non-credit courses
and Launchpad Adult Basic Education-GED
courses into Oktibbeha County at the former
West Oktibbeha High School campus. The consolidation
of the Starkville and Oktibbeha
County school districts has left WOHS vacant,
thus providing a potential future satellite campus.
More exciting developments in instruction
include the founding of Mississippi’s first early
college high school on our Golden Triangle
campus and the all-new WGTC 92.7 FM
EMCC Radio.
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Lion Diary
There’s always something going on at East Mississippi Community College.
Here’s a look at just a few of those events. More information and photos about many of these
items are available at EMCC’s website, www.eastms.edu, or on the college’s various social media:
www.facebook.com/East.Mississippi.Community.College
hps://twier.com/emccinfo
hps://instagram.com/emccig
June 6, 2014: Golden Triangle Union Groundbreaking
EMCC broke ground at the Golden Triangle campus to begin construction
on the two-story, 76,000-square-foot building.
June 24, 2014
Below: EMCC administration and guests from the Golden Triangle Economic Development
LINK and Pryor & Morrow Architects and Engineers of Columbus scoop the first
shovelfuls.
June 6, 2014
June 17, 2014: Lion Hills Billboard
Motorists driving on Highway 82 east of the Military Road exit in Columbus
will see EMCC’s billboard at Lion Hills. One side of the board is electronic
and changes displays every few seconds, while the other side is static.
The billboard will pay for itself through advertising before eventually making
money for the college.
Below: The electronic side of the EMCC billboard at the Lion Hills campus.
June 17, 2014
June 24, 2014: Dr. Mayfield Farewell Reception
A reception was held on the Scooba campus to bid farewell
to former Scooba campus vice president Dr. Andrea Mayfield,
who departed to become the president of Shelton State Community
College, former home of new EMCC President Dr.
Thomas Huebner.
Above: Dr. Andrea Mayfield with a cake custom made to pay homage
to her favorite habit.
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August 22, 2014: Nursing Grad Wins Caregiver of the Year
Nurse Brian Fitzgerald, a 2009 graduate of EMCC’s Practical
Nursing program, received Mississippi Health Care Association’s 2014
Caregiver of the Year Award for his area. The Milan, Tenn., native has
worked at The Carrington Nursing Center in Starkville for the past five
years.
At right: Fitzgerald visits with one of his favorite residents, Birdie Jackson of
Sturgis, at The Carrington Nursing Center in Starkville.
August 22, 2014
September 3, 2014
September 3, 2014: Our Spin on the Ice Bucket Challenge
At the Back 2 School Bash at the Golden Triangle campus, a special
Ice Bucket Challenge was held. Proceeds from EMCC’s Ice
Bucket Challenge went to Hidden Wounds, a local veterans’ association.
At left: Golden Triangle campus science instructor Eric Ford and history instructor
Kelly Cantrell take their turn under the ice.
September 5, 2014: Senator Cochran Pays a Visit
U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran visited the Scooba campus as his “Thad
for Mississippi” bus made its way to Tupelo. Former EMCC President
Dr. Rick Young, staff members and Student Ambassadors greeted
Cochran and the group took a windshield tour of the Scooba campus,
including a stop at Sullivan-Windham Field to take a closer look at the
bronze statue of legendary EMCC football coach Bob “Bull” “Cyclone”
Sullivan.
September 5, 2014
At right: EMCC Vice President Mickey Stokes, EMCC head football coach
Buddy Stephens, Sen. Cochran, Dr. Young, EMCC Vice President Nick Clark
and EMCC Vice President Jim Gibson.
November 18, 2014
November 18, 2014: First Joint Choir Concert
The Scooba campus choir and the new Golden Triangle campus
choir gave their first joint performance in the Lyceum at the Golden Triangle
campus.
At left: The combined Scooba and Golden Triangle choirs.
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November 21, 2014:
GT Campus AITP Donates to a Worthy Student
Stuart Vance of Starkville and the Association of IT Professionals
at the Golden Triangle campus teamed up to donate a computer, updated
with software and antivirus programs by AITP student members,
to EMCC accounting student and single mother Sarah Perkins of
Columbus.
November 21, 2014
At right: EMCC student Sarah Perkins of Columbus accepts a donated computer
from EMCC Association of IT Professionals President Caleb Rich.
December 15, 2014
December 15, 2014: AT&T Donates $10K
AT&T Mississippi donated $10,000 to EMCC in December in honor
of Representative Jeff Smith, EMCC 2014 Alumnus of the Year, and
his efforts to improve economic development in the Golden Triangle
and Mississippi.
At left: Jeff Smith, Dr. Paul Miller, EMCC executive vice president, and C.D.
Smith, regional director for AT&T Mississippi.
February 3, 2015
February 3, 2015: Beauty & Beau Pageant
Ashley Thomas (inset) of Columbus was crowned “Most Beautiful” from a field of 18 contestants during EMCC’s annual Beauty Revue, held
on the Scooba campus.
Above: The Top 10 Beauties in the competition are, first row from left: Keishana Johnson of West Point; Hannah Lynn Daugherty of Leroy, Ala.; Morgan McMahon
of DeKalb; Kylee McMinn of Maben; and Hannah Ruth Havens of Charleston. In the back row are Brianna McKie of DeKalb; Carlie Teffeteller of West Point;
Megan McBrayer of West Point; Abby Scott of West Point; and “Most Beautiful” Ashley Thomas of Columbus.
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February 6, 2015: Dak Visits EMCC Workforce Services
MSU quarterback Dak Prescott showed up one morning at the
Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence at the Golden Triangle
campus. Prescott was taking a master's level class from Dr. Paul
Miller, EMCC executive vice president and an MSU adjunct professor.
The Workforce Education & Development class, called "Leadership,
Theory & Practice in the Community College," calls for students to visit
community colleges and investigate workforce training.
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At right: Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Division office manager
Mary Beth Vickers and Dak Prescott.
February 6, 2015
March 1, 2015: HRT Students Win State DECA Competition
EMCC Hotel & Restaurant Management Technology students from
the Lion Hills campus won 1st Place in the Entrepreneurship category
at Mississippi DECA competition. Brenda Lobato Ford of Starkville and
Jim Swoope of West Point comprised the winning team.
March 1, 2015
At left: Brenda Lobato Ford and Jim Swoope show off their 1st Place medals
and plaques.
March 17, 2015: Grand Piano Donation
An anonymous family donated a Knabe concert grand piano to the
Golden Triangle campus. Acquired in 1958 by the Jackson Symphony
Orchestra, later the Mississippi Symphony, the instrument has been
played by Henry Mancini, Robert Goulet, Dudley Moore and Awadagin
Pratt. A dedication concert at the GT campus featured area vocalists
and instrumentalists and the newly formed EMCC choir.
At right: Pictured are, from left, accompanist Betty Bryan, GT choir director
Jamie Taylor, Logan Tate, Mason Vaughn, John Tedford, Ollie Haynes, Jamie
Mask, Gita Ramakrishnan, Haley McCullough and Mya Bell
March 18, 2015
March 17, 2015
March 18, 2015: Lucky Like A Lion
The Lucky Like a Lion non-traditional gender program, held separately
at both the Scooba and Golden Triangle campuses, aimed to
provide high school students with a deeper understanding of programs
at EMCC traditionally associated with one gender and encourage participation
from the opposite sex, i.e. men can be nurses and women
can be welders and so on.
In the photo: A student in the Electrical Technology Program at the Golden Triangle
campus explains a training module to local high school students.
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March 26, 2015:
EMCC Student Wins State Photography Contest
Pauline Pimolle, of Marseille, France, won 1st Place in the photography
category at the 2015 Mississippi Community College/Junior College
Art Instructor Association’s Student Art Competition with her
black-and-white self portrait “Veiled.”
At right: Pauline Pimolle with her winning photograph.
March 26, 2015
April 1, 2015
May 13, 2015:
YTMM Donates $250,000 to Workforce Services
At the 2015 Golden Triangle Industry Appreciation Luncheon,
Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi presented EMCC’s Workforce
Services Division a donation of $250,000 to fund scholarships
for local eleventh and twelfth grade students to take credit courses
through EMCC’s Manufacturing Technology and Engineering Division,
for manufacturing themed summer camps for local students and to
bolster manufacturing training at EMCC’s West Point Center.
April 1, 2015:
New Fitness Center Opens on Scooba Campus
The old student center on the Scooba campus is now a newly renovated
fitness center, complete with weight training equipment, treadmills,
stair climbers and much more fitness and recreation equipment.
At left: Student Krista Greenwood works on her abs in the new Fitness Center.
May 13, 2015
At right: Dr. Raj Shaunak, vice president for EMCC’s MTE Division; Osama
Zushi, YTMM executive vice president of EVP manufacturing and technology;
Tadaharu Yamamoto, YTMM president; Debby Gard, EMCC vice president for
the Lion Hills Center; Joe Cook, EMCC assistant dean for the MTE Division;
Alan Easome, YTMM senior director of new plant development; Mitzi Thompson,
director of EMCC’s West Point Center; Susan Baird, assistant dean for the
MTE Division; Dennis Dorvilliers, YTMM engineering manager; and Dr. Rick
Young, EMCC president.
May 28, 2015
May 28, 2015: Alumni & Friends Night
EMCC supporters of all ages gathered at MSU-Meridian’s
Kahlmus Auditorium for Alumni & Friends Night. The 100-plus attendees
fellowshipped and heard reports from former EMCC President
Dr. Rick Young, EMCC Vice President Dr. Raj Shaunak, football coach
Buddy Stephens and band director Steve Stringer.
At left: Kate Cherry, left, president of the EMCC Alumni Association, and her
husband, EMCC art instructor Terry Cherry, visit with alumnus Wink Glover and
his wife, Lanelle.
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May-August, 2015: John Apple Donates Cart After Cart
EMCC alumnus John Apple just won’t stop donating golf carts to
the school. The first, a heavy-duty Yamaha cart with an enclosed cab
and a heater donated in May. The second, an extended three-row cart
donated in August, will be used by Scooba Recruiter Leia Hill and her
Student Ambassadors to offer guided tours around campus.
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At right, top: John Apple drops the first cart off with, from left, Mickey Stokes,
vice president for athletics and the Scooba campus; former EMCC President
Dr. Rick Young; administrative assistant Gina Cotton; and Nick Clark, vice
president for institutional advancement and alumni affairs. Next, Apple gets a
big hug from Hill as Stokes and Clark look on.
June 10, 2015
May 2015
August 2015
July 24, 2015: EMCC Radio is Live on the Air
WGTC 92.7 FM EMCC Radio went live in late July from the
Golden Triangle campus. The new station can be picked up throughout
the Golden Triangle area and is available on the TuneIn app on
your phone. The station plays a Hot 100 rotation of modern hits introduced
by students trained as on-air talent. Students in station manager
Dr. Don Vaughan’s JOU 1313 course also learn news writing and
will deliver hourly local and national headlines, weather and EMCC
announcements.
At right: Golden Triangle campus drama and speech instructor Dr. Don
Vaughan, a former news writer and on-air personality for WKOR in Starkville,
WTBC in Tuscaloosa and WCBI in Columbus, is station manager for WGTC.
June 10, 2015: Dr. Young’s Farewell Reception
Hundreds of EMCC faculty and staff, as well as local officials,
friends and family of retiring EMCC President Dr. Rick Young traveled
to the Golden Triangle campus to wish the departing leader farewell.
At left: Dr. Young and his wife, Melinda, with EMCC alumni Buster and Jeanie
Orr, who met as students in Scooba.
July 24, 2015
July 25, 2015
July 25, 2015:
Scooba Art Instructor Wins People’s Choice Award
Scooba art instructor Lisa Spinks’s colored pencil drawing “Sneakers”
won the Drawing category at the Meridian Museum of Art’s People’s
Choice Awards. The award, voted on by attendees of the
program, netted Spinks $100 and the chance for her work to be displayed
in the museum and entered into the Bi-State Juried Art Competition
later this year.
At left: Spinks’s award winning “Sneakers.”
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CHAMPS AGAIN
For a third time in the past four seasons, East Mississippi Community College captured an NJCAA national
football championship. With their second straight national crown, captured in a second consecutive trip to the
Mississippi Bowl in Biloxi, the Lions also went undefeated for the third time in the last four seasons. EMCC
captured 44 victories in its last 46 games and entered the 2015 season with 24 consecutive wins.
No. 1 ranked EMCC captured its fourth MACJC state championship with a 54-15 victory at Copiah-Lincoln
last November, then topped No. 2 ranked Iowa Western 34-17 in the Mississippi Bowl for the national title.
Above: EMCC President Dr. Rick Young (right) and head football coach
Buddy Stephens (left) accept the NJCAA National Championship trophy
after winning the Mississippi Bowl last December. At right: EMCC
quarterback Chad Kelly poses with a member of the “Dream Program”
after the Lions spent an afternoon with program participants at the Ocean
Springs Sports Complex prior to the national championship victory.
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Clockwise from top: The Lions took the field for the first time
ever in special “ice white” uniforms at the Mississippi Bowl in
Biloxi, where they topped Iowa Western for a second straight national
title; EMCC’s Camion Patrick and Marco Montgomery stop
among the celebration to pose with the MACJC state championship
trophy following the Lions’ convincing 54-15 victory over
host Copiah-Lincoln last November; a packed stadium and a full
press box at Sullivan-Windham provided the perfect backdrop with
a setting sun for an early-season showdown between EMCC and
Co-Lin last September; and EMCC head football coach Buddy
Stephens and Iowa Western head coach Scott Strohmeier enjoy a
laugh during a pre-game press conference in Biloxi last December.
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ALUMNI NEWS
MORE CHANCES TO SUPPORT LION COUNTRY!
EMCC OLD WAVERLY GOLF CLASSIC
The Classic returns to Old Waverly this year! Oct. 19 at Old Waverly
Golf Club in West Point.
The tournament, sponsored by Southern Ionics, is a four-person
scramble. Registration begins at 10 a.m. A complimentary lunch will be
served at noon. Tee time is 1 p.m. Players and guests can stay for a 6
p.m. dinner.
The 19th Annual Old Waverly Golf Classic was held Oct. 13 at Lion
Hills in Columbus. The presenting sponsor was C Spire. The First
Place Gross went to the J&J Wholesale team with a score of 54. First
Place Net went to the Columbus Nissan team with a 52.2.
Pictured: After last year’s event at Lion Hills, the EMCC golf classic will return
to Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point.
WILD GAME DINNER & AUCTION
The “Bull” Sullivan Committee invites you to join us again at Lion
Hills in Columbus on March 4, 2016, for the 13th annual EMCC/Billy
Joe Cross Wild Game Dinner & Auction.
The social hour begins at 6 p.m., with dinner at 7 p.m. Any company
wishing to partner with EMCC as a presenting sponsor for this
event is welcome to contact Gina Cotton (info below) in Alumni Affairs.
Pictured: Nick Clark, EMCC’s Vice President for Institutional Advancement &
Alumni Affairs, auctions off an item during last year’s Wild Game Dinner.
SPORTING CLAYS CHALLENGE CUP
The Sporting Clays Challenge Cup will celebrate its eighth year on
May 13, 2016, at Burnt Oak Lodge in Crawford. Registration begins at
8 a.m. and a complimentary lunch follows the competition.
One of four Pryor & Morrow teams took the 1st Place trophy this
year, hitting 347 of 400 targets, on the strength of the event’s two top
shooters. Gary Holcomb (90/100) and Brian Fleming (89/100) earned
First and Second Place, respectively, among individual shooters. The
presenting sponsor of this event is Pryor & Morrow Architects and Engineers
of Columbus.
Pictured: From left are the 2015 1st Place Pryor & Morrow team of Gary Holcomb,
Brian Fleming, John Roberts and Nicky Fleming.
For more information about fees or sponsorship opportunities, call Gina Coon of Alumni Affairs at (662) 476-5063
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2015 HOMECOMING
ALUMNI NEWS
Alumnus of the Year & Distinguished Service Award
The recipient of both the Alumnus of the Year Award and the Distinguished Service Award for 2015 is recently retired former EMCC President Dr. Rick Young. At
left, Dr. Young joins American Eurocopter senior director and general manager Earl Walker and Dr. Raj Shaunak, EMCC vice president for the Manufacturing
Technology & Engineering Division, for a tour of the American Eurocopter plant in Lowndes County. At right, Dr. Young hosts Mississippi State University President
Dr. Mark Keenum and Mississippi University for Women President Dr. Jim Borsig at Sullivan-Windham Field for a football game.
HOMECOMING SCHEDULE
Friday, Sept. 25
6 p.m.
Sports Hall of Fame Reception, F. R. Young Student Union
6:30 p.m.
Sports Hall of Fame Banquet, F.R. Young Student Union
Reservations required, call (662) 476-5063
Saturday, Sept. 26
9 a.m.
Foundation Board Meeting, Davis Administration Building
Alumni Registration and Coffee, Stennis Hall Lobby
Memorial Prayer, Korean War Memorial
Chapel in the Pines and Orr Center open
Tailgating areas open
9:15 a.m.
Korean War Veterans’ Meeting, Stennis Hall 120
10 a.m.
Alumni/Foundation Joint Meeting, Stennis Hall Auditorium
Art exhibit opens, Aust Hall and F.R. Young Student Union
11 a.m.
Dottie Smith Family Band Hall dedication
11:30 a.m.
Alumni and Friends Luncheon
Alumnus of the Year and Distinguished Service Awards
F.R. Young Student Union
2 p.m.
EMCC vs. Itawamba, Sullivan-Windham Field
First Quarter
Recognize the 1965 EMJC State Championship baseball team
Halftime
Recognition of Alumnus of the Year, Distinguished Service Award recipient
and Sports Hall of Fame inductees
Homecoming Court Presentation
Mid-field, Sullivan-Windham Field
Postgame
Continue to enjoy the day
F.R. Young Student Union open for alumni and friends
Shuttle service will be available.
In case of rain, half-time activities will be in Stennis Auditorium immediately
after the game.
If you have questions about any of these events,
call (662) 476-5063 or (662) 476-5075.
2015 EMCC SPORTS HALL OF FAME
We will honor our 2015 EMCC Sports Hall of Fame inductees with a reception and banquet on Friday, Sept. 25, in the F.R. Young
Student Union. Reservations are required to attend. The 2015 EMCC Sports Hall of Fame Class is as follows:
Wayne T. “Bugar” Bailey
Football
James Cantrell
Basketball
Tony McCullough
Football
Louie Spinks
Football
Milford Brown
Football
George Henry Cummings, Jr.
Baseball/Football
Virgil Seay
Football
Syd Thweatt, Jr.
Baseball
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How do you honor a man who has made it
his mission to increase the availability of
higher education for everyone in a 100-mile radius?
You help him do his work.
Beth and John Clay of Meridian graduated
from EMCC in the 60s, but they’ve been fans
of recently retired EMCC President Dr. Rick
Young for years.
As a thank-you to Dr. Young for his service,
the couple established and donated $15,000
to the Rick Young Endowed Scholarship this
year.
“Dr. Young is a visionary who understands
the value of education,” said Beth, who is now
an attorney with The Clay Firm in Jackson.
“He’s been a master at utilizing effective
communication to promote our school. And
under his leadership, EMCC has risen from a
very small, little-known community college to
Dr. Young’s kind of gift
be an institution that is highly regarded in the
academic community, both locally and nationally.”
Beth, who served in student government
and was a cheerleader during her time at
EMCC, said she and John, who is an oncologist
in Meridian, have nothing but positive memories
from their years on the Scooba campus.
She hopes their gift will allow a deserving
student to create his or her own fond memories
at EMCC while furthering Dr. Young’s work.
“My husband and I are thrilled to establish
this endowment in Dr. Young’s honor. No individual
in Mississippi has worked harder than
Dr. Young to increase accessibility to a community
college education,” said Beth.
Donations to the Rick Young Endowed
Scholarship can be made through the EMCC
Development Foundation.
The New School: Golden Triangle ECHS opens
Mississippi’s first early college high school
began its first year on EMCC’s Golden Triangle
campus in August.
Golden Triangle Early College High
School, or G-Techs for short, offers students the
chance to earn college credits through EMCC
while they complete high school. Students will
have the chance to graduate with both their high
school diploma and an associate’s degree
(which amounts two years of free college) or a
career-technical certificate.
GTECHS principal Jill Savely said students
have already begun working toward their college
credits, even on the first day of class:
“They began taking their first college course the
minute they stepped on campus.”
The first class of 61 freshmen began this semester.
A new class of students will enter
GTECHS each year until all four classes are
full.
The school’s opening convocation was attended
by Dr. Carey Wright, Mississippi state
superintendent of education, and a delegation
from BankFirst branches around the Golden
Triangle, which presented GTECHS with a
$20,000 donation.
Beth and John Clay founded the Rick Young Endowed
Scholarship in honor of recently retired EMCC
President Dr. Rick Young.
A Fiing Memorial: Scholarship established to honor Hull
Late EMCC economics and government instructor
Lucy Hull in class on the Scooba campus in 2010.
The Lucy Hull Memorial Scholarship has been established
in her honor.
You know a teacher made an impact on
education when multiple people independently
decide she deserves a memorial scholarship
in her name.
Beloved Scooba campus economics and
government instructor Lucy Hull passed away
in February after battling cancer. Her husband
Dewayne and her co-workers on the Scooba
campus began collecting donations on their
own for memorial scholarships in her honor.
Then they got together and found out they all
had the same idea. So they combined their
donations and now the Lucy Hull Memorial
Scholarship endowment is up to nearly
$30,000.
“Lucy taught at EMCC for about 25 years.
She really loved EMCC. But the main thing
she loved was the students,” said Dwayne.
Only sophomores will be eligible so instructors
can weigh in on the student’s work
ethic.
EMCC English instructor Janet Briggs,
who worked with Lucy as advisors for the
Scooba campus Phi Theta Kappa honor society,
said students were not the only individuals
at EMCC to be touched by Lucy.
“I was very blessed when first arriving at
EMCC to be teamed as a PTK advisor with
Lucy. Words cannot explain the impact that
she made on me both as an advisor and a
person. Hopefully, this scholarship will help to
bring honor to the relationships that she had
with her students and EMCC,” said Briggs.
Dewayne adds that Lucy would have truly
been in her element this year and next as
presidential campaigns are playing out.
“Right now she would be having a ball.
She didn’t promote any candidate or party,
but she got students to express their views
and make sure they were civic-minded in their
thinking,” Dewayne said.
“She wanted students to be responsible
to their community.”
Donations to the Lucy Hull Memorial
Scholarship can be made through the EMCC
Development Foundation.
GTECHS principal Jill Savely unveils the colors and
mascot to the first class of GTECHS freshmen. The
students voted to be the Wildcats and chose blue
and gold as their colors.
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Kate Cherry
Freshman days! Oh what fun I had attending
Scooba Tech. I am sure many of us feel the same way.
Even if our hair is white and we cannot twirl a flag
or play a flute like we used to, we all can remember the
fun days. Those days were full of learning, building lifelong
friendships and a lot of craziness.
Memories of those days keep us coming back and
participating.
So, how can you participate? Keep in touch
through the EMCC Development Foundation, which is a
constant source of information about the happenings
and needs of the college.
Many of us, myself included, were benefactors of
scholarship money provided through the generosity of
THE ALUMNI REPORT
those who attended before us. It is most important that
we support the Foundation with our contributions to ensure
the stability of EMCC will last for generations to
come.
As president of the alumni association, I pledge
my support to the administration, faculty, staff and students.
And I will work to promote and protect our great
name.
Please join me in celebrating a year of unparalleled
excellence at EMCC.
Kate Cherry
President,
EMCC Alumni Association
Three new members join board of trustees
Laddie Huffman, Clay County
Mr. Huffman is a lifelong resident of Clay
County. He graduated from the West Point
School System. He attended Wood College in
Mathiston and graduated from Mississippi State
University with a bachelor’s
degree in education
in 1975.
Mr. Huffman served
the citizens of West Point
and Clay County for 34
years: six as an alderman;
eight as a Justice Court
judge, during which he
was Northern District
Hazel Johnson, Noxubee County
Hazel Johnson is a native of Noxubee
County. She retired in 1998 after teaching
grades 3-5 for more than 27 years in the Noxubee
County School System.
She currently works
part-time as a payroll
clerk for B&B and Brooks
Auto in Brooksville. Mrs.
Johnson earned a bachelor's
degree in education
from Rust College in
Holly Springs and a master's
degree in education
from the University of
Laddie Huffman Governor for the Mississippi Hazel Johnson Mississippi.
Justice Court Judges Association;
In 2005, she was appointed
Greg Stewart
and 20 as sheriff of Clay County. He
owned and operated a retail business in Clay
County for 17 years.
Mr. Huffman is a member of Trinity Baptist
Church in West Point. He and his wife, Dale
Wilkerson Huffman, have four children and
seven grandchildren.
to the Noxubee County School Board
and was elected from 2006 to 2012. She also
serves on two advisory boards. Mrs. Johnson is
a Community Coach for Turning the Tide on
Poverty, funded by Mississippi State University.
She is a member of Sylvian Ridge Baptist
Church in Macon. She and her husband, Dennis
Johnson, have one son and one grandson.
Greg Stewart, Lowndes County
Mr. Stewart moved to Lowndes County in
2006 to open Aurora Flight Sciences’ Mississippi
facility as general manager. He attended
Purdue University from 1975-1977. He currently
serves as the Director
of Community and
Public Affairs for Aurora
Mississippi. Previously he
served on and as President
of the Minneapolis Public
Schools Family and Community
Services Advisory
Council and more recently
as President and now a
member of the Base Community
Council in Columbus.
He promotes Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics education by
supporting and mentoring area grade school
through college students in rockets and robotics.
To relax, he builds and flies model airplanes,
helicopters and rockets, and dabbles at
building various electronics projects for his
home stereo. He and his wife, Clara Miyake,
have two children.
Jessica Harpole
THE YOUNG ALUMNI REPORT
Fellow alumni and friends,
At this exciting time in the history of East Mississippi
Community College, the Alumni Association is
working to enhance the involvement of young alumni
and friends by developing a Young Alumni group.
Each of us had a different but equally impactful
experience at EMCC, and we want every person to
have the opportunity to continue their relationship with
the college and give back in a way that fits into the demanding
schedules of recent graduates, young alumni
and friends.
We are focused on finding ways to help alumni reconnect
with campus and to unite in a way that ensures
the future success of EMCC, and we would like to hear
your suggestions and ideas as we move the organization
forward.
As young alumni, you are encouraged to consider
the opportunities to support the efforts of our beloved
college through participation in Alumni Association
events, mentorship of current students, recruitment of
prospective students or through financial contributions
that assist deserving scholars. Your commitment of any
kind could make a monumental impact on the life of a
student.
Thank you for your continued support of EMCC.
With Lion Pride,
Jessica Harpole, Class of 2004
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Keys to the Kingdom
Former Board of Trustees Chairman
Dennis Morgan introduces Dr. Rick
Young during the dedication ceremony
for the F.R. Young Student Union
Retiring President Dr. Rick Young leaves EMCC in capable hands of Dr. Thomas Huebner
East Mississippi Community
College has produced more than its
fair share of champions. And not
just in sports.
Football coach Robert “Bull”
Sullivan was the first, garnering
national attention and a Sports Illustrated
cover story for turning
out All-Americans in the woods of
Kemper County, and inspiring a
generation of students and athletes
who support the school to this day
in his honor.
Dr. Tommy Davis is credited
with literally saving EMCC.
Pulling the school back from the
cliff of pending closure in the
1990s with some very tough love.
Dr. Raj Shaunak assembled the
best Workforce Services team in
the state at the Golden Triangle
campus, helping to lure billions of
dollars in industrial development
and thousands of jobs to EMCC’s
district, racking up national media
exposure along the way.
Buddy Stephens coached the
football team to its first state and
national titles. Then he did it again.
And then he did it again.
And then there’s Dr. Rick
New EMCC President Dr. Thomas Huebner talks to employees during the
school’s convocation services in August.
Young. The man who wasn’t interested
in being the best in the state.
Or the best in the region. The man
who relentlessly pursued the title
of “best in the nation.”
The Perfect Job
Dr. Thomas Huebner didn’t
know he wanted to be president of
EMCC until he was halfway to
being president of EMCC.
In early 2015, Dr. Huebner was
focused on returning to the presidency
of an Alabama community
college. He had just served a
stretch as interim president at
Bevill State Community College in
Jasper, where he hoped to see the
“interim” title lifted. But politics
intervened.
He returned to a dean of students
position at his previous
home, Shelton State Community
College in Tuscaloosa, where former
EMCC Scooba campus vice
president Dr. Andrea Mayfield had
recently been named president.
Then, in January, Dr. Young
announced he would retire at the
end of the school year.
“Andrea said, ‘Listen, your
personality will fit in perfect there.
They’ll love you and you’ll love
them,’” Dr. Huebner remembers.
He saw a certain logic in applying
for the spot. His wife,
Mindy, was from Wayne County.
He had earned his doctorate at the
University of Southern Mississippi
and worked as a speech and debate
instructor at William Carey University
in Hattiesburg early in his
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Dr. Tom Huebner, left, took
over as the new president of
EMCC in July 2015 after Dr.
Rick Young retired. Above, Dr.
Huebner meets with members
of EMCC’s senior staff; while
at right, Dr. Young poses with
a pair of NJCAA national football
championship rings.
career. He saw Mississippi as a second home.
But he didn’t allow himself to get too invested.
“I submitted my stuff honestly not expecting
to make the cut,” said Dr. Huebner. “I told
my wife, if this is where I’m supposed to be,
then it will be.”
Then EMCC’s search committee narrowed
the field of applicants and Dr. Huebner received
a request to submit a video message on DVD
explaining why he should lead EMCC.
That’s when he got invested: “I spent 16 hours
working on that crazy video.”
Newly focused on where he could take
EMCC, Dr. Huebner realized it was a dream
job.
“The school had a great reputation among
my colleagues for the quality of instruction.
Obviously, it was well-known for the quality of
its athletic programs. And I was particularly impressed
by the Workforce Development program
at the GT campus and EMCC’s vision for
the ‘Communiversity.’ Where I’ve worked in
the past, we could only dream about the opportunity
to build a facility with that kind of vision
and scope.”
The Architect
At his tree farm in the Ticky Bend community
in Webster County, Dr. Young has gotten
some mowing done in his first couple months
of retirement, but he still has a list of chores he
hasn’t even started yet. First things first, and
he’s caring for aging family members before he
gets back to his plans. But there’s no doubt
he’ll accomplish every task on his list. Accomplishing
goals is his nature.
During his 11 years as president of EMCC,
Dr. Young’s single-minded determination to
mold the school into a national power saw an
unprecedented acceleration in infrastructure, instruction
and athletics. His vision to make
higher education available for as many people
as possible, whether to put them to work or see
them on to a four-year school, was only half of
the plan. The other half was to make them
proud of where they took their classes.
“We’ve made a lot of progress. It’s about
taking things to the people. Making training
and educational opportunities available and
convenient,” he said.
He singled out the immense impact of the
Workforce Services Division among the advancements
to which he’s most proud to have
contributed. Also on that list are more recent
ventures like Golden Triangle Early College
High School and EMCC’s recently launched
radio station, WGTC 92.7 FM. Growing the
marching band was also one of Dr. Young’s priorities,
as was the acquisition and launch of
Lion Hills in Columbus.
The list of improvements bearing Dr.
Young’s fingerprints is deep and broad. There
are buildings – Sullivan-Windham Field, the
F.R. Young Student Union, the Golden Triangle
Student Union, the Chapel in the Pines, the Orr
Center for Christian Activity, the rodeo barn,
the original Center for Manufacturing Technology
Excellence, and the planned Communiversity.
There are satellite campuses, West
Point-Clay County Center, Lion Hills. There’s
athletic achievement – three NJCAA national
football titles, four MACJC state football titles.
And there are instructional programs, among
them the return of associate degree nursing and
the honors program.
Of course, Dr. Young didn’t do these things
all by himself. But he assembled the right
teams and supported their efforts.
“That’s the thing I miss the most, the people.
My team members. My interaction with
people both within the college and the community,”
he said.
He’ll get a chance to see those people when
he returns to the Scooba campus Sept. 26 for
Homecoming, when he’ll be presented with
both the Distinguished Service Award and the
Alumnus of the Year Award.
“A lot of people don’t know, but I took a
few management night courses under the late
Ben Murphy during my time as an instructor at
the Golden Triangle campus back in the 80s. I
also took a lot of continuing education classes
like real estate, and I got both my open-water
scuba diving certification and took advanced
diving classes back when we partnered with
Mississippi University for Women to use their
pool.”
Dr. Young’s dedication to his own education
mirrors his philosophy about EMCC’s need to
continue growing and innovating.
“We have to maintain our willingness to
embrace what’s next and take on new endeavors.
And I think we’ve created a solid platform
for Dr. Huebner to do that. I’m very pleased
he’s taken the projects we’ve started to the next
level and I look forward to seeing what he has
in store for his own ideas.”
The Next Episode
Before Dr. Huebner rolls out any ideas of
his own, he’s gathering every available shred of
information and input.
“I just want to listen. There’s so much I
have to learn. My schedule is still booked full
and I’m talking to people from all parts of the
campus and community,” he said.
Being a veteran of community colleges, Dr.
Huebner has a missionary zeal for the work of
schools like EMCC. One that could make his
the next name on an impressive list of EMCC’s
champions.
“We’re not just another opportunity for a
kid to go to school or for someone to be retrained.
We’re literally in the life changing
business in a way that no one else is,” Dr.
Huebner said. “I tell my friends at four-year
schools, if you believe education can change
someone’s life, then why would you want to be
anywhere other than right here on the front
line?”
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The ‘Art of Winning’
Lions aempting to perfect system which has produced three titles in 4 years
By Paul Jones
Creating a championship program,
it takes time to build a solid
foundation in order to sustain success.
That’s been the blueprint for
East Mississippi Community College’s
football program under the
direction of eighth-year head
coach Buddy Stephens.
The 2014 campaign produced
yet another perfect season that
ended with a 34-17 win over Iowa
Western in the NJCAA national
championship game at the Mississippi
Bowl in Biloxi and generated
the program’s third national championship
in the past four years.
During the Stephens era, the Lions
have posted a combined 68-10
mark as the nation’s second-winningest
football program (behind
Butler CC) dating back to the 2008
campaign. With EMCC’s 2013
and 2014 national titles ranking as
the first back-to-back NJCAA national
championships for a Mississippi
junior college program, a
third consecutive national title this
year would put the Lions in a
league of their own as far as the
all-time football history of the
NJCAA.
The key to the Lions’ ongoing
gridiron dynasty is taking things
one step at a time, according to the
NJCAA’s No. 1 active football
coach in terms of highest career
winning percentage (87.2%).
Under Stephens, East Mississippi
has also claimed four MACJC
State/NJCAA Region 23 titles and
six MACJC North Division regular-season
crowns.
“We’ve pretty much set the bar
where we want to be,” said
Stephens. “Our guys have done a
really good job of understanding
we can’t get it all done at one time.
We can’t score 100 points on one
drive and we can’t shut out a team
on just one series. And you can’t
win the championship in just one
week.
“Our guys understand it is one
play at a time. Last season like
FOOTBALL
Wide receiver Allenzae Staggers, seen climbing the ladder for a catch in a
Homecoming win over Jones County Junior College last year, is back for his
sophomore season in Scooba this fall.
every season, we wanted to be 1-0
each week. That mindset has stuck
each year and that makes it satisfying
for a lot of different reasons.
The success we’ve had and the
support we get makes it very gratifying
for our staff.”
That success and support goes
way beyond the football field, too.
It carries over to the classroom and
beyond the players and their time
in Scooba. It has also been a
process aided by the avid support
of the East Mississippi administration.
“For us, it starts with the administration,”
Stephens said. “It is
important to them and when the
time comes, they are always there
for us making sure our kids get a
good education. The administration
wants the kids to graduate and
do well academically, athletically
and spiritually.
“All of that translates into a
great experience for our players
and it makes it easier for our staff
to recruit more kids to play here.
With the education here and the
opportunity to win championships,
it is a formula for success.”
Sending players to the next
level and beyond also puts a smile
on Stephens’ face. A total of 27
players have moved on to fouryear
universities from EMCC’s
2014 squad. With a total of 23
NJCAA All-Americans during the
Stephens era, the Lions have had
an All-America quarterback each
year since 2008, including Ole
Miss signee Chad Kelly, who is
bidding to replace fellow EMCC
standout Bo Wallace in Oxford, as
well as former Lion signal-callers
Jaquez Johnson and Dontreal
Pruitt playing at Florida Atlantic
and Troy, respectively.
East Mississippi also continues
to load NCAA rosters with defensive
talent, such as the University
of Alabama tandem of Jarran Reed
and D.J. Pettway along with former
EMCC defensive backs A.J.
Stamps and Byerson Cockrell at
Kentucky and Nebraska, respectively.
Stephens’ former talent can
also be seen on display on Sundays,
as defensive lineman Quinton
Dial is in his third year with
the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers and
former Kentucky standout passrusher
Za’Darius Smith was selected
in this year’s NFL Draft by
the Baltimore Ravens. On offense,
wide receiver Lance Lewis continues
to challenge for an NFL roster
spot while fellow pass-catcher Lacoltan
Bester has spent time on
NFL and AFL rosters.
Looking to reload for the upcoming
season, the 2015 Lions can
accomplish even more history.
Riding a 24-game winning streak
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on the heels of successive 12-0 campaigns, the
Lions are just three wins shy of setting a new
all-time NJCAA record for most consecutive
victories.
“The good thing about junior college football
is that you always have a new set of guys
and half of your team coming in,” Stephens
noted. “At first guys come here thinking they
will win but don’t fully understand the work
that goes behind winning. So, it is our job as
coaches to drive that point home.”
Offensively, the Lions will have several
candidates to fill in the missing pieces off last
year’s roster. At quarterback, that includes
sophomore Wyatt Roberts along with Florida
State transfer John Franklin III.
At the skill positions, the Lions expect to
rely on the likes of receivers Allenzae Staggers,
Dario Robinson, Corey Davis and Desmond
Goss along with Florida State transfer Isaiah
Jones. The Lions also bring back talented running
back D.J. Law, who will run behind an offensive
line anchored by returnees James Davis,
Ethan Orr and Reid Kellems, among others.
“We return a lot of skill guys and we feel
our quarterback depth is very good,” Stephens
said. “All of the quarterbacks bring something
different to the table and they all bring great
leadership. We have a good group of offensive
linemen back and they just have to set the tone
physically and mentally.”
With the valuable tutelage of veteran offensive
coordinator Marcus Wood, the Lions have
garnered many headlines with their explosive
offensive attack consistently ranking among the
NJCAA’s annual team statistical leaders.
At top: EMCC coaches and staffers were on hand
with head football coach Buddy Stephens when he
accepted an award from the American Football
Coaches Association. Above: Dual-threat D.J. Law
is expecting a big season as the Lions’ top returning
rusher and kick returner from a year ago.
East Mississippi’s dominant defense has
also proven its worth. In 2014, the Lions produced
five consecutive shutouts and did not
surrender a rushing touchdown during the ninegame
regular season. That has become the
norm under Jordan Lesley, who is entering his
third season as the Lions’ defensive coordinator.
“Ever since Jordan Lesley came on, we’ve
had 10 shutouts,” Stephens acknowledged.
“Jordan and his defensive staff put together a
great scheme and do such a good job of working
well together. All of our defensive coaches
are on the same page and it shows on the field.”
Sophomore defensive linemen DeShawn
Tillman, Ronald Ollie and Caleb Grant return,
while sophomore Jalen Boney is the lone starter
back in the secondary. With ample talent on the
defensive side of the ball and impact freshmen
ready for action, EMCC’s defensive mix could
prove dominant once again.
“We’ve got players back at every position,”
Stephens said. “I believe we will be really
good on defense again and they all run well
from top to bottom. And that’s a dangerous
thing when those guys like to hit people.”
The expectations remain unchanged for the
Lions this fall. It’s been that steady building
process that has put East Mississippi at the
forefront of junior college football this decade.
Competing for championships and now winning
championships at every level is the annual
goal for the Lions and 2015 will certainly be no
different.
“It used to be what we had to do to win a
state championship,” Stephens recalled. “So,
we’ve set the bar to where it is now and people
ask what we have to do to win a national championship.
For us to win a championship,
whether it’s the division, state or national
championship, we have to be healthy and be
smart on and off the field. We have to protect
the ball and play relentless on defense and be
really committed to special teams. Those are
always our goals and we want to reach that bar
again.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Begley returns to lead Lions
By Paul Jones
Above: At left, La’Datren Deas returns to EMCC after averaging 10.5 points per game as a freshman; while Jahyde Gardiner
(right) is back after putting up 13.7 points and a team-best 9.0 rebounds per game. Below: New head coach Billy
Begley is welcomed by athletic director Mickey Stokes during a press conference announcing his hiring.
The 2015-16 basketball season
will ring in a new era at East Mississippi
Community College. But,
it will be a very familiar face directing
the Lions on the court this
coming season.
After producing an impressive
eight-year composite record of
161-66 that included four straight
trips to the NJCAA Division I National
Tournament, former EMCC
head coach Mark White took the
same position at Tallahassee Community
College this past spring.
Enter Billy Begley, a former assistant
coach under White’s guidance
who is very familiar with the East
Mississippi program and the
Scooba campus.
“It is a great opportunity,” said
Begley, who had been an assistant
at Troy University the past two
seasons since leaving EMCC following
the 2012-13 campaign.
“When I left here, I always saw
myself coming back here if Coach
White ever left. It is something I
wanted and welcomed. It is a phenomenal
opportunity because of
the tradition built here at East Mississippi.”
Begley also added the rare opportunity
to coach at a program
without that “new” feel.
“I am very familiar with the
program and know how things
work here,” Begley stressed.
“That helps so much from my
standpoint.”
With a primary goal of returning
to the national tournament in
Hutchinson, Kansas, for the first
time since Begley’s last season as
an EMCC assistant, the Lions’
first-year head man returns six
players who combined for 88 total
starts as freshmen, as well as two
others who sat out a year ago with
the program.
“We have eight players returning
from last year’s team, and
that’s huge for our program,” Begley
noted. “We have a very good
nucleus back with guys who
played a lot as freshmen. Those are
the guys we will depend on for
leadership roles in taking ownership
of this team.”
Along with returning three of
their top four scorers (Jahyde Gardiner,
Daniel Simmons and La’Datren
Deas) from last year’s 18-8
squad, the Lions also welcome
back the team’s top two rebounders
(Gardiner and Simmons) and
two leading playmakers (J’Vaughnte
Harris and Deas). Also back in
the mix are Juan Davis Jr. and Jontavius
Baker.
Equally as important is thirdyear
assistant coach Drew Bernd,
who was retained by Begley when
he assumed EMCC’s coaching
reins. Joining Begley and Bernd
on the Lions’ bench will be noted
AAU coach and respected recruiter
Pete Story.
“I’ve known Drew for a long
time as a person, but what I’ve
seen from Drew as a recruiter has
been impressive,” Begley said.
“He is a tireless worker and really
helped to keep this program stable
in recruiting during the transition
of coaches.
“And I have known Pete as
well from my days at Mississippi
State. He is a relentless recruiter
with high character who has contacts
all over the country. Pete will
also be very beneficial to our program.”
Another part of the program
that will remain consistent is the
identity of the team, which will always
start on the defensive end of
the floor, according to EMCC’s
rookie hoops mentor.
“Our identity will be on the defensive
end,” Begley emphasized.
“Defense is why we were successful
when I was an assistant coach
here and why we had one of the
best defensive teams in the country.
If we can defend and rebound,
we will be in position to win every
single night.”
As Begley prepares for his first
head coaching job, his philosophy
on both ends of the floor will not
be complicated. He wants to take
all that he’s learned in previous
coaching stops and allow his players
to have freedom on the court.
“We want our guys to have
freedom to play their game to their
strengths,” Begley added. “Developing
our guys is something I
strongly believe in. If you have
guys with skills and develop them,
it makes our team a hard team to
prepare for.”
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SPORTS
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Sophomores to carry Lady Lions
By Paul Jones
Above: Coach Sharon Thompson (left) is back for her 15th season in Scooba and 11th as the Lady Lions’ head coach.
She will welcome back a solid backcourt, including former high school All-American Ki-Ki Patterson (right).
As the 2015-16 basketball season
approaches, veteran East Mississippi
Community College
women’s basketball coach Sharon
Thompson is comforted by the fact
that she can head into the upcoming
campaign with some familiar
faces.
Unlike a season ago when she
and the new-look Lady Lions
forged through a break-even 12-12
campaign with an entirely new
roster, this year’s EMCC women’s
squad features five returning players
who totaled 54 starts as collegiate
freshmen. Beginning her
11th season as a head coach and
15th year overall on the Scooba
campus, Thompson knows all too
well the yearly challenges associated
with recruiting and coaching
at the two-year college level.
“When you look at last season,
we had to rely on a lot of freshmen,”
Thompson recalled. “Our
sophomore group last year was
made up of a lot of transfers who
didn’t quite step up like we needed
them to.
“A tough part of junior college
is players often times having to
move on from your program just
as they are getting adjusted to your
system.”
Thompson’s preseason comfort
level is noticeably high with the
return of the team’s two leading
scorers from a year ago in former
Mississippi State transfer Ki-Ki
Patterson and Camry Jones. Patterson,
a former PARADE All-
American at Columbus High
School, averaged 14.0 points and
3.3 rebounds to earn first-team allstate
honors as a collegiate rookie.
Jones started 15 consecutive
games as a mid-year transfer and
made an immediate impact by averaging
just under 10 points and
4.5 rebounds per contest.
Along with Patterson and
Jones returning in the backcourt,
the Lady Lions also bring back fellow
guards Bre Jernigan, Cambrielle
Campbell and T.J. Harper.
Jernigan and Campbell topped last
year’s squad with 67 and 44 assists,
respectively.
“All five of our returning players
are guards and there is nothing
like having experience returning in
the backcourt,” Thompson noted.
“I think our roster is faster and we
can get up and down the floor
much better than last year. Though
we will be inexperienced in the
post, I think we’ll be able to score
more in transition.”
Included among EMCC’s newcomer
class is transfer Tianna Germain
from Kennesaw State in
Georgia and Florida native Chenya
Sealey of Georgetown University.
“Tianna will bring a lot of
toughness to the backcourt,”
Thompson said. “It is hard to find
toughness and you can’t teach it.”
Expected to headline the incoming
group of newcomers from
the prep ranks is East Webster
High School post player Quantesha
Patterson, who scored 39
points and collected 12 rebounds
as the championship game MVP in
leading the Lady Wolverines to
last year’s Class 2A state title.
Thompson also praises the
prospects of another other local
post product in La'Quesha
Clemons of West Lowndes.
“Quantesha can run the floor
well and has a good wing span,”
said Thompson. “La’Quesha is
similar in the way she can get up
and down the floor.”
Thompson and third-year assistant
coach Michael Morgan
have also signed Forest’s Kimmaira
Jackson and Anissia May of
Jim Hill High School in Jackson.
Having surrounded a solid
corps of returning players with dependable
newcomers, the Lady
Lions seem to have the necessary
ingredients in place to get the program
back to the level of play
when the EMCC women claimed
three MACJC North Division titles
during a recent six-year span.
“We have to make sure our
sophomores take the freshmen
under their wings,” Thompson
stressed. “I have confidence they
will do that because they know
what is expected here and they are
good leaders with high character.
We expect a lot out of our returning
players and I believe they will
get us back to where we want to
be.”
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SPORTS
BASEBALL
Lions look to continue momentum
By Paul Jones
The 2015 season saw the resurgent
East Mississippi Community
College baseball program take another
step forward. Under the direction
of sixth-year head coach
Chris Rose, the Lions plan to continue
that surge and maintain their
place among the nation’s top programs
within the NJCAA Division
II ranks.
While having combined for a
61-31 record the past two seasons,
including a 2014 MACJC North
Division title and last year’s runner-up
finish in the regular-season
MACJC standings, the EMCC
Lions have also had former standouts
LeDarious Clark (Texas
Rangers) and Chase Nyman (Seattle
Mariners) selected in the Major
League Baseball Draft the past two
years.
Among those standout players
returning from last year’s 29-18
ballclub include slugger David Pimentel
and speedster JoVaughn
McNabb.
Pimentel, an all-region first
baseman, ranked among the
NJCAA leaders a season ago with
14 home runs and 61 runs batted in
while hitting .355. McNabb, from
Hattiesburg, hit .375 as the team’s
rookie centerfielder while leading
EMCC in hits (66), runs scored
(49) and stolen bases (17).
Along with returning starters
Emil Ellis (.320), Chris McCullough
(.315, 6 HRs) and Corley
Reynolds (.285), the Lions also
welcome back former New Hope
High School teammates JC Redden
and Taylor Stafford. Stafford,
who transferred from Mississippi
State, batted a team-leading .392
as a collegiate freshman for the
Lions along with making seven
mound appearances. Redden was
3-2 on the hill as a freshman and
will be joined by returning hurlers
Layton Dill (4-1), Jay Booth (4
saves) and Ryder Davis.
“Last year was one of the best
defensive clubs we’ve had and our
bullpen was good all year long,”
Rose said. “And with the exception
of the regional tournament, we
Above: EMCC celebrates while coming off the field during one of its 29 victories in the 2015 season.
Below: Slugger David Pimentel was an All-NJCAA Region 23 selection as a freshman and is back for 2016.
swung the bats well.”
The Lions will have some
holes to fill on the mound with the
loss of two-year starting pitchers
J’Daylin Jackson and Andrew
Crane (Troy signee) along with
closer Ryan Rigby having signed
with Mississippi State. EMCC
will also need to reload up the
middle with the departure of
steady catcher Dylan Vuncannon
(Memphis signee) and minus the
solid infield tandem of Kyle Liberto
(Southern University) and
Drew Standland (William Carey
University).
“When you look at the guys returning,
we have several guys who
were very productive last year,”
said Rose. “We have vocal leaders
back and all of those guys know
where we’ve set the bar and know
what the standard is and what
needs to happen to take another
step forward.
“We did lose some pitchers,
but I believe our pitching staff will
be as deep as we’ve ever been.
With the guys coming in, we have
some pitchers that are swing-andmiss
guys and high-velocity guys.
Those are the kind of arms you
need to make a run in postseason.”
Integral to EMCC’s recent success
on the diamond, pitching coach
Anthony Izzio returns for his second
season on Rose’s knowledgeable
staff, as does fellow
University of South Alabama product
Graham Odom, who has been
elevated to full-time status after
serving as a graduate assistant for
EMCC last season.
With athletic excellence at a
premium on the Scooba campus,
the EMCC baseball program is
proud to be a part of that high standard.
In averaging 30 wins over
the past two years and garnering
No. 18 final national rankings both
seasons, the Lions’ NJCAA Region
23 Tournament appearance this
past spring was their first in more
than a decade, while the 2014 ballclub
was the school’s winningest
baseball team (32-13) since 1990
and earned the program’s first division
title since 1998.
“We knew the expectation
level within the athletic department
when we first got here,”
Rose recalled. “We knew it would
be challenging, but there’s been
good progress. The guys that have
played here before are selling East
Mississippi in a positive way. We
are putting a better product on the
field every year, and kids want to
be part of that.”
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SPORTS
SOFTBALL
Lady Lions looking to regroup
By Paul Jones
Above: Head coach Kyndall White is entering her fourth year at EMCC and will welcome back a nucleus of players
which includes Heather Abney (seen below). The Lady Lions hope for a return to the postseason in 2016.
With a balanced mix of freshmen
and sophomores on this year’s
talented roster, the East Mississippi
Community College softball
team seeks to return to postseason
play in 2016 following a year’s absence
from the playoffs.
The Lady Lions had reached
the MACJC state playoffs during
six consecutive seasons before
missing out on the postseason last
year. Fourth-year head coach
Kyndall White noted of that disappointment
and the factors that will
help EMCC get back on track.
“I think the biggest thing last
year is we just couldn’t put it all
together on the field,” White recalled
from last year’s 15-19 campaign.
“We had a lot of chemistry
and it was one of the most talented
teams we’ve had at East Mississippi.
But we just couldn’t get all
of the aspects of the game working
at once.
“We started off hot when we
swept East Central (NJCAA national
runnerup) at our place. It’s
always a long season and we just
didn’t end up where we wanted to
be. We will have to come together
and make it all work again, and I
know the girls are striving for
that.”
The Lady Lions will look to replace
four position starters and
three pitchers from their 2015
squad, including former New
Hope High School teammates
Anna McCrary and Kasey Stanfield,
Clarkdale product Kristen
Mitchell and New Orleans native
Pepper Baker.
Despite the losses, White is
confident in the players returning
this season and expects a good
mixture of veterans and newcomers
to lead the way.
“We have a good sophomore
class back this year,” said White,
whose 2015 squad earned NJCAA
All-Academic Team laurels for the
sixth straight year, including backto-back
NJCAA Softball Academic
Team of the Year honors in 2013
and 2014. “We have many sophomores
that played a lot as freshmen.
We also have two pitchers
coming back for us with Valiree
Blair and Chandler Ellis, so that is
huge for us. We have a good
group of sophomores that are competitive,
who want to win and have
a bitter taste in their mouths due to
last season.”
Expected to lead the charge
this coming season for the Lady
Lions will be returning position
players Marissa Landrum and
Emily Patrick along with sisters
Amandalyn and Heather Abney.
In addition to the team’s 12 returning
players, EMCC will also welcome
a dozen newcomers to the
fold next year, including Mallory
Vance of West Lauderdale and
Union’s Averi Pender.
Also new to the program as a
game-changing addition, White
welcomes the arrival of former
Mississippi State/Georgia standout
and current professional pitcher
Alison Owen to the staff.
“I felt like our program lacked
a solid pitching coach and with so
many pitchers this year, we needed
to give them a coach that can
spend more time coaching them,”
White stressed. Adding Alison to
our staff is extremely beneficial for
our program in so many ways.”
Change will also be felt around
the state this season, as the 2016
MACJC schedule will feature a
new challenge for all 15 members
of the competitive league. Straying
from the typical North-South
divisional format, every MACJC
member will now play one doubleheader
with each school to comprise
a 28-game conference
schedule.
“I think it is great and something
that needed to happen for the
state to become even more competitive,”
White admitted. “After
all, since everyone can recruit
state-wide then it makes sense to
open up the schedule where everyone
plays everyone.”
With a new-look team and a
challenging schedule ahead, White
remains confident that her team’s
enhanced desire to win and
EMCC’s tradition of excelling will
pay dividends in 2016.
“Our strengths will be our experience
and having girls who
have played more competitive ball
and are used to winning,” White
noted. “A lot of our freshmen
have played in the playoffs and
have won state championships.
We will be young in a couple of
areas, but our sophomores should
do a good job of leading those
freshmen.”
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SPORTS
RODEO
Program continues to make strides
By Paul Jones
East Mississippi Community
College’s rodeo program continues
to make steady strides under sixthyear
head coach Morgan Goodrich.
EMCC took another step forward
during the 2014-15 rodeo campaign
with a school-best national
finish by the men’s team and a pair
of program-first regional event titles
on the women’s side.
Having now been represented
in the prestigious College National
Finals Rodeo during each of the
five seasons of the program’s existence,
the EMCC men placed a
school-record 25th nationally this
past June by virtue of Winston
Cheek’s sixth-place showing in the
bull riding championship round.
Fellow East Mississippi cowboy
Justin Reeves also competed in the
bull riding competition at this
year’s CNFR in Casper, Wyoming.
The EMCC women made
school history themselves this past
season by claiming program-first
team titles during the fall-opening
Missouri Valley College rodeo and
the spring-opening Cossatot Community
College event of the National
Intercollegiate Rodeo
Association’s Ozark Region slate.
Individually, East Mississippi cowgirl
Kelsey Kennemer qualified for
the 2015 CNFR in the barrel racing
and team roping events after
earning all-around women’s reserve
champion honors in the
NIRA’s Ozark Region.
“We did really well last year,”
Goodrich said. “Winston drew
some good bulls in the national finals
and ended up doing really
well there. We were very proud of
Winston because he had to sit out
last year to get eligible. To see
him go out like that in his last year
was a great accomplishment.
Justin Reeves also had a good finish
in the Ozark Region to qualify
for nationals in bull riding.
“I also thought there were
some girls who reached their potential
last year. It was great to see
Kelsey reach the College National
Finals Rodeo and be named allaround
reserve champion cowgirl
Above: Katelyn Nicholson finishes off her round in a goat-tying competition for EMCC during the 2014-15 campaign.
Below: EMCC’s Winston Cheek rides in the prestigios College National Finals Rodeo bull riding competition.
in the region.”
As East Mississippi continues
to make annual progress competing
mostly against four-year colleges
and universities within the
region, Goodrich looks to again
have a full roster of competitors
consisting of a mixed group of veterans,
newcomers and transfers for
the upcoming 2015-16 season.
The NIRA’s Ozark Region action
gets underway this fall with
five events and five more rodeos
scheduled for the spring.
“We always want to have
around 25 kids on the roster and
right now we have 20 guys and six
girls,” Goodrich said. “We have
13 kids returning so we will have
experience there. We also have
four transfers from other schools
and the rest will be freshmen.
“We will have five events in
the fall and five events in the
spring again. In the fall we will go
to Missouri Valley, West Alabama,
Murray (Ky.) State, Three Rivers
(Mo.) College and our last event is
at Southern Arkansas University.
We are still waiting to finalize the
spring schedule but we do expect
to host another event this year.”
Among those newcomers expected
to make an immediate impact
for EMCC will be Marcus
Theriot of Poplarville, who captured
all-around champion cowboy
honors during the 2014 National
High School Finals Rodeo in Rock
Springs, Wyoming. Coming from
great cowboy bloodlines, his father,
Herbert Theriot, was the 1994
Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association
(PRCA) world champion
tie-down roper.
“I believe this coming season
we will be strong in every event,”
Goodrich predicted. “Marcus Theriot
really brings a lot to our program
and is an outstanding
competitor.
“ He competes in calf roping,
steer wrestling and team roping,
and his dad is also expected to help
with our team. Marcus was definitely
our No. 1 recruit, and our
team is stacked in a lot of events
this season. Blake Bell is a returning
bull rider who should also do
well for us.
“We have a lot of balance this
season and I really feel like this
could be our year.”
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SPORTS
GOLF
Williams has memorable first year
By Paul Jones
Above: The EMCC golf team listens to first-year head coach Benji Williams during a 2015 tournament. Williams and the
Lions will bring back just one player from last season in Daniel Schroder (pictured below).
It would be hard to top Benji
Williams’ first season as the East
Mississippi Community College
men’s golf coach. During his initial
season at the helm of a golf
program at any level, Williams
succeeded in helping the Lions
maintain their high standards on
the links and continue the school’s
winning tradition of late.
For the fourth time in five seasons,
the Lions claimed runner-up
honors in the MACJC State Championship
this past spring. Williams
and his sophomore-laden squad
then followed with a third-place
finish in the NJCAA Region 23
Championship.
“It was as much fun as I
thought it would be,” recalled
Williams, who attended the highly
acclaimed College of Golf at
Keiser University in Port St. Lucie,
Fla. “I was very thankful for this
opportunity and even though I didn’t
have a long background in
coaching, it was something I always
wanted to do. I was able to
meet a lot of great coaches who
helped me through that first season
and I had a great group of kids that
(former EMCC) Coach (Dale)
Peay had recruited to play for East
Mississippi.”
Also a first last season, East
Mississippi hosted the MACJC
State Championship at its home
course at Lion Hills in Columbus.
Individually, the 2015 season also
produced a pair of MACJC second-team
all-state selections in
Steven Eilders and Hunter Harmon.
Eilders also advanced to the
NJCAA Division II Golf Championship,
giving the Lions a representative
in the national
tournament for the fifth time in the
last seven seasons.
“We started off shaky because
of the weather, but we came together
to finish second in the state
and third in the regional tournament,”
Williams noted. “It was a
close group of guys that always
hung out with each other even outside
of golf. That group came in
as freshmen and became our leaders
last year and really represented
this program well.”
Looking towards the 2015-16
season, the Lions will return just
one golfer in Daniel Schroder from
last year’s five-man squad.
Among those incoming freshmen
are local product Jace Hobart of
Starkville and Stringer’s Rhett
Walters.
“We have a large group of talented
freshmen coming in,”
Williams noted. “Rhett (Walters)
claimed some medalist honors last
season and Brek Balentine was a
high school teammate of Daniel’s
in Baton Rouge. Our success
lately has definitely helped us in
recruiting. We are always up there
in the top four teams in the state
and that is what guys look at during
the recruiting process.
“So, we will be young this season,
but our approach won’t be any
different. I set a high standard for
them and I expect them to do what
we need to do in practice. We will
be younger, but they are energetic
and ready to go. Plus, a lot of
these guys know each other already
so that always helps.”
The 2015-16 campaign will
also be different from previous
years from a scheduling standpoint.
This season, fall competition
will also count as official tournaments
along with the typical spring
schedule of events.
“We will continue to try to host
a tournament at Lion Hills every
year,” Williams said. Northeast
and Northwest will also host
events that will serve as previews
for our state and regional tournaments.”
And judging from his team’s
off-season practices, Williams is
confident about his youthful Lions’
chances this coming season and he
believes their collective work ethic
will be the driving force.
“From being around the guys,
a primary strength will be our
work ethic,” Williams noted. They
are always working on their craft
and always on the golf course. We
will have a team that has to grow
up quickly, but that work ethic will
help us achieve the success we expect
to reach.”
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PHILANTHROPY
Foundation Club
$25,000 and up
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Adams, Jr.
Anonymous
John Apple
AT&T
Oneta Pearce Baker
Mrs. Dottie Smith Boring
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie J. Briggs
C Spire Wireless
Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Cloar, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Tommy Davis
Elizabeth M. Irby Foundation
Ikie E. Ethridge
Mr. and Mrs. Henry “Buddy” Faulkner
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Frascogna
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Garner
Golden Triangle Development Link
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gray
Henderson Steel
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hopper
Mr. and Mrs. Ike Hopper
Mr. Dewayne Hull
Pansy Light
Meridian Coca-Cola
MS Power Education Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Orr
The Citizens Bank of Philadelphia
Pryor & Morrow Architects and Engineers
Renasant Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rigdon
Sodexo, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Rick Young
President’s Club
$10,000-$24,999
Dr. and Mrs. Louis T. Anderson
AT & T Foundation
East MS Electric Power Assn.
BankFirst Financial Services
Cadence Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Clark
Dr. and Mrs. John Clay
Columbus Orthopaedic Clinic
Mrs. Leola Knight Cowart
Create Foundation
Dunlap & Kyle Company
Encore Rehabilitation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Fisher
J. W. Furr
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Galloway
Mrs. Peggy Harbour
Max H. Johnson
Dr. and Mrs. Scott Jones
Wade Lunday
The McCaskill Family
Mitchell Automotive Center
Elizabeth B. Mitchell
Partners for Kemper County
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Russell
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith
Eddie Al and Cheryl Sparkman
Sports Specialty
Charles and Marjorie Studdard
Robert H. Temkovits
Electronics Technology Program instructor Bob Lovelace speaks to West Point
citizens attending a Manufacturing Technology & Engineering Division information
session at the West Point Civic Center following the announcement of
Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi coming to Clay County.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Vaughan
Mr. Chip Wells
Super Lion King
$5,000-$9,999
Tom Adkins
Jose and Rosa Arellano
Ken and Sheila Aust
Johnny H. Baker
BanCorp South
Betty Morgan Benton
Al and Brownie Briggs Bounds
Carolyn D. Bourrage
Bessie Ann Cherry Briggs
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Brown
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bryan
BSN
Corbett Legge & Associates
Mr. and Mrs. Dana Dunbar
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Dyess
Mr. and Mrs. Don Edwards
EMCC Alumni Association
EMCC Forestry Club
EMCC Student Government Association
Electric Mills Wood Preserving
Founders Federal Credit Union
The Gildea Foundation
Hoot Gipson
Mike Godfrey
Jimmy Gray
Bunk Harpole
Hollis Roofing, Inc.
Jimmie G. Hopper
Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Jeffries
Mr. Tommy Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Latham
Liberty Fuels Company, LLC
Linda Eldridge Marsh
Jay McCrary
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. McDade
Mr. and Mrs. Dick McSpadden
John Meacham
Mr. and Mrs. Hu Meena
MS Organization for Associate Degree
Nursing
North Atlantic Security
Pilot Club of Columbus
Richard Price
Mr. and Mrs. Al Puckett
Corey Ravenhorst
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Rigdon
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Rowell
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Salmon
Bruff and Melanie Sanders
Mr. Buddy Sauls
Tom Scarborough
Scooba United Methodist Church
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Secrest
Kline Shepherd
Chuck Simpson
Roy Simpson
John and Marjorie Briggs Solomon
Buddy and Robyn Stephens
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Stovall
Mr. Milton Sundbeck
WAR Construction, Inc.
Mr. Bobby Westmoreland
Lion King
$2,000-$4,999
4-County Electric Power Assn.
Anderson Regional Medical Center
Mr. and Mrs. Greg Andrews
Clay Armstrong
Columbus Bank Assoc.
Bill Baldner
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Beasley General Agency, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwin Box
Brasfield and Gorrie, LLC
Greg and Janet Briggs
Browder & Sons Veneer Co.
Minnie Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buckner
Burnt Oak Lodge
Donald E. Canada
Terry and Kate Cherry
Albert Clark
Commercial Bank of Meridian
Century Construction
Andrew and Christine Couch
David E. Crawley, III
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Charles Eskridge
American Eurocopter
Jimmie Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Rick Farr
Kevin Flaherty
Jack Forbus
IBM International Foundation
Bill and L.L. Gates
Mr. and Mrs. Wink Glover
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Green
National Guard
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gully
Ms. Rufina Gully
Mr. and Mrs. Hiawatha Harrison
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Heard
Wayne Henson
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Higginbotham
Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Hildreth
Mr. and Mrs. Gert Hill
Rick Hodges
Pete Hodo
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Holbrook
Garry V. Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hunter
Joe Jackson
Jon Jackson
Coach William Jones
Jimmy and Jo Ann Kibe
Mrs. Mary Lou Kitchens
Jim Koutroulis
Edward J. Lee
Van E. Lee
Danny and Carolyn Lipscomb
Mrs. Martha Marion
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Marshall
Richard and Dawn McCann
Mr. and Mrs. Carles F. McComb
Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. McPhail
Mildred Cade Mickler
Glenn Miller
Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Morrow
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Murray
Jack Newell
Noxubee Baptist Association
Old Waverly Golf Club
Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Peters
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Poole
Frank Portera
Clyde Pritchard
Molpus Forest Products, Inc.
Mac & Betty Robinson
Langston Rogers
Michael Ross
Lanelle Brown Russell
Scooba Presbyterian Church
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David C. Shelton
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Skipper
Carolyn Smith
N. James Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Sparkman, III
Slay Steel, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Earl Stennis
Rea, Shaw, Giffin, and Stuart
Gun Dog Supply
Flint Tedder
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew "Bulldog"
Turner
Dr. and Mrs. Don Vaughan
Billy D. Walton
Emily Warren
Mike Waters
Becky Watson
Weyerhaeuser
Coach Mark White
Yvette Wilkerson
Dr. Walter L. Willis
Margaret S. Womble
Pride Leader
$1,000-$1,999
Tommy & Janith Abston
Joel Alexander
Joyce Craig Aust
Mrs. Phyllis Aust
Liberty Baptist
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Barge
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barge
James Bearden
Big Oak United Methodist Church
J. L. Blankenship
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Briggs, Jr.
Senator and Mrs. Terry Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Allen D. Bruton
Martin and Joanne Buchanan
Jerry and Gayle Butler
John and Jeanette Chancellor
Briggs Chapel Memorial Church
DeKalb Assembly of God Church
Shuqualak Baptist Church
Circle M Plantation
Mr. and Mrs. Conner Clark
Blanche Clay
Peoples Bank & Trust Co.
Charles "Bulldog" Coggins
Dr. David Cole
Bobby Collins
Community Bank
Deerbrook Company
T. E. Lott & Company
Panola Construction
Coy Methodist Church
CPI, Inc.
Billy Joe Cross
Dr. Ed Davis
Patricia W. Dehmlow
DeKalb Baptist Church
Commercial Bank of DeKalb
Dr. and Mrs. Conrad DiMichele
Lance and Phyfa Eiland
Mr. Leon Ellis
Springer Engineering, Inc.
Highlands Entertainment
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Erby
John Featherston
Carol P. Floore
Marilyn Young Ford
Exxonmobile Foundation
Jerry & Cris Hayes Foundation
Sam's Club Foundation
Sara Lee Foundation
Doug Fowler
Residence assistants Paige Morgan and Krista Greenwood and Student Ambassador
Byron McCrary prepare for an ice cream social to welcome students
back to campus.
Patrick and Debra Gard
Hoot Garriga
Gator Athletics, Inc.
Jerry Gibson
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Gibson
Jack Gordman
Marie V. Gordon
Green-Save, Inc.
Aaron Gregory
Mr. and Mrs. Miller Griffin
Bryce Griffis
Pillar Sales Group
The Carrbridge Berkshire Group
Bubba Hampton
Karl Hansen
James (Cubby) E. Harris
Phil Harris
Bobbye May Henderson
Darwin Holliman
David Hopper
West Alabama Animal Hospital
Charles and Linda Jackson
Rudy Johnson
Colbert and Debbie Jones
Dr. Anne Marie Lamb
Matt Lautar
Starkville Civic League
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Limerick
Greater Columbus Lions
Collinsville Chevron LLC
Fabricators Supply, LLC
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lohman
Thomas Mayberry
Dr. Andrea Mayfield
J. Roy McComb
Tony and Ruby McCullough
Ben McDade
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson McDaniel
Price McGiffert
Cora T. Mitchell
Charlie and Pam Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Morgan
Tim and Susan Morgan
Doug Moulds
Dr. David F. Mullins
Northeast Metal Processors
Jason Pepper
Peggy Persons
Billy W. Phillips
Pilgrim Foodliner
Henry Pilkinton
Richard Powell
Will Raiford
Robbie Robinson
Graham Roofing, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Rose
Frances Rush
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Sanders
Subway of Scooba
Electric Motor Sales & Service
Structural Steel Services
Dr. and Mrs. Kimble Shepherd
Galen Shumaker
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Smith
Lori M. Smith
Lisa Spinks
Louie Spinks
Dr. Jackie Stennis
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Stokes
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Studdard
Dan Sullivan
Robert Cooper Sullivan
Kemper County Board of Supervisors
Noxubee Farm Supply
George Taylor
Lucent Technologies
Charles A. Temkovits
The Commercial Insurance Agency,
Inc
Coach Sharon Thompson
Moody Land & Timber, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Treloar
Union United Methodist Church
W. G. Yates & Sons Construction Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Waddell
Steve and Lynn Waddle
Wal-Mart
West Brothers Construction, Inc.
Delta Western
Doug Wilkerson
Barbara (Bobbie) S. Young
PHILANTHROPY
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Young
Lion
$200-$999
03 Animal Health Clinic
Boyce Adams
Paul K. Adams
Robert and Margie Agnew
Doug and Jane Aldridge
Mark Alexander
Diane Allday
Tim Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Allsup
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Allsup
Alply, Inc.
Bank of America
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Amick
Amsouth Bank
Marcus & Nelia Anderson
Jason Armstrong
George Arrington
Trey Askew
Nolan J. Atkins
Adventure ATV
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Atwell
Dan Augustine
June and Bubba Aust
Automotive Machine Company, Inc.
George Nick Autrey
B & G Equipment, Inc.
James L. Bailey, Jr.
Kevin L. Baird
Bobbie Neal Baker
A Touch of Home Bakery
Guaranty Bank
SHF Banquet
Barefield Poultry Farm
Ann Barefield
Charles Barnett
Jackie C. Barrett
John A. Barron
Brenda Barton
Barry & Karen Beach
Romie Bearden
Glynn Beasley
Jerry L. Beavers
Harry Bell
Mr. and Mrs. George Belvin
Benefits Management Group, Inc.
Angela Bennett
Tommy Bennett
Billy F. Benton
Charles Berry
Dawn Best
Jennifer Bible
Rick Bishop
Barry and Margaret Black
Stevan Black
Barry Boatner
Jerry W. Boatner
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Boggess
Danny Bohon
David Boteler
Bottled Water Co.
Beth Boyd Bounds
Zeal Boutique, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bowie
Mr. Sean Bowie
Kelby Bowman
Timothy and Laura Bowman
Larry Box
Andy and Sherry Boyd
David Boyd
Ruth Hutcherson Boyd
Sharon Boyd
Sherry Boyd
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PHILANTHROPY
Stephen H. Boyd
Boykin-Coleman Dirt
Randall Bradberry
Mike and Suzanne Brady
Community Bank of Brandon
Hines & Linda Brannan
Verdia Brannan
James T. Briggs
John Lyle and Lisa Briggs
Mary Ruth Briggs
Tom Briggs
Tommy and Polly Briggs
C.B. Bright
Brislin, Inc.
H.D. Brodnax
Williams Brothers, Inc.
Al Brown
David Brown
Dr. James Brown
Mr. John Brown
Tanzie Brown
Robert Brownlee
Donna C. Bruce
Brunini, Grantham, Grover, and
Hewes
David and D. D. Bryan
Mr. and Mrs. Wilkes Bryan
Robert and Georgia Buchanan
Builders Sunday School Class
H.D. Bullock
Kemper County Farm Bureau
Stafford's Big Burger
Kimberly Burk
Sue Burkhalter
Diane Burnham
Jon Burt
Johnny Burton
Johnny and Beverly Burton
Mr. and Mrs. Philip H. Busbee
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bush
Carey Nelson Butler
Jim H. Butler
Larry & Joann Butler
Bobby Cade
Mrs. C.M. Cade
Mrs. C.A. Cade
Gary A. Cagle
Jenny Caldwell
Calvary Baptist Church
Joseph A. Cammaleri
Chip Campbell
James Mason Cantrell
Capital Bolt & Screw Co.
Mary Caraway
Carl Hogan Automotive Inc.
Brenda Carpenter
Gayla Carpenter
Roger Carr
Janelle Carter
Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Carter
Justin Casano
Danny Cash
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Caskey
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Caskey
Cathy Castleberry
Tracey K. Caver
Barbara R. Cavey
Frank Chailand
William R. Chambers
Will Chancellor
Tina Chick
Jim Clark
Clay County Co-Op
Lauren Clay
Dianne Cleveland
Mrs. W.D. Clifton
DeKalb Lions Club
EMCC’s Funeral Service Technology Program hosted its annual Bucket List
Golf Tourney at Lion Hills in September 2014. The next Bucket List tournament
is scheduled for Sept. 27, 2015.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Cockerham
Philip A. Coco
Mr. and Mrs. Derek Cody
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Coleman
Cliff Collins
James Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Colloredo
Dodie Colvin
Dialogic Communications
Bill and Barbara Conner
Mrs. Jimmie Cook
Jimmy R. Cook
Henry Cooley
Coon Agency
Cooper Marine & Timberlands Corp
Herman Cooper
Will Cooper
Conway Copies, Inc.
Fred Corley
Chris Cornett
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Coston
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cotton
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cotton
Jerry Wayne Covington
Rachel M. Covington
Elonda Cox
Coy & Lynville Methodist Church
Craig Martin, DMD
Richard Crane
William Crozier
Cub Lake Farms
E.B. Culpepper
Mike Culpepper
Glen Cunningham
Marvin D. Cunningham
David Curtis
George Curtis
D & E Construction
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy P. Daniels
Jim and Pauline Darby
Bob Davis
Mr. John R. Davis
W. T. Davis, Jr.
Rebecca Davis
Vanessa A. Davis
Pres Dawkins
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Daws
Daddy's Hands Daycare, Inc.
Railroad Center Daycare
Gary Dedeaux
DeKalb Christ Assembly
Dekalb Methodist Church
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dennis
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Dickson
Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dill
Norman Downey
Carol Driskill
Ben and Mary H. Dudley
Liz Dudley
Robert D. Dugan
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Dupre
Jerry V. and Kathleen I. Dyess
Thomas and Michelle Easterling
Edwards Storey Marshall Helveston &
Easterling
Bonnie Edwards
Mike Edwards
Eka Chemicals
Future Educators of America of
EMCC
Lance Eskridge
Amy Esslinger
Jim Ethridge
Jeremy and Connie Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Billy E. Ezelle
Falcon Contracting Co., Inc.
Debbie Farmer
Allen Farms
J & J Farms
Linda L. Farrar
Mrs. Marion Farrar
Karen Farrow
Phil Ferguson
Fifteenth Avenue Baptist Church
John Files
Casey Finch
Truman D. Finchum
The Hendren Law Firm
Tom Fisher
Betty Carol Thompson Flanagan
Bill Fleming
Dr. Clint Fletcher
Mattson Flowers
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Floyd
Dr. and Mrs. William Ford
Dennis Foster
Mark and Karla Foster
Frank Chiles Insurance Agency, Inc.
Grace H. Franks
Steve Fredrickson
Sharon Frey
Charles Friend
Michael D. Fulton
Gregory J. Fuselier
Eugene M Futato
Edward Garrard
John Garrison
Mrs. Delane George
Susan George
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gibbs
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gibson
Jerry Gibson
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gibson
Larry and Grace Gibson
Mike and Kim Gibson
Rebecca Gibson
Mrs. Tim Gibson
Robbye Gilbreath
Mary Nell Gill
John Gilliam
Doris W. Gipson
Hampton W. Glover, III
Coye Assembly of God
Golden Triangle Dental Center
Golden Triangle Golf Assoc.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom G. Goode
Walter Leslie Goode, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Goodwin
Paul Goolsby
Eddie Gore
Rev. and Mrs. James Granger
Lucas Grantham
GrassMasters
Bill T. Gray
Gene Gray
Robin Gray
Greater Meridian Health Clinic
Green Chapel Baptist Church
Jason D. Green
Janie R. Gregg
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grondin
Insurance Advisory Group
Scooba Focus Group
Taylor Group
The Armistead Group
Daryl Guest, M.D.
Gulf South Piling & Construction
Miller's Gymnastics
H & O Truck and Trailer Company
Eddie Haddock
J. Don Haggard
Betty Gayle Hailey
George L. Hailey
Wade Hailey
Janie F. Hailey-Tarlton
Judy Beazley Hairston
Hall Management Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Keith Hall
Peter Hankinson
Sherry Harbour
Bobby & Thretha Harcrow
Phillip's Hardware
Michael Hardy
Viola W. Harper
Caroline Bryan Harrell
Ms. Betty Harris
Daniel Harrison
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Harrison
Carolyn Hay
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Hays
Thomas and Stacy Hays
Philip and Lynn Brooks Head
Hebron Methodist Church
Donald Hefner
Mr. and Mrs. Shane Hegwood
Airbus Helicopters
Mr. and Mrs. James Henders
Retha Hand Henderson
Perry S. Hendrix
Roger Henry
Brian and Mary M. Henson
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Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Henson
Kelly Herrington
Danny Hicks
Judy Stokes Higginbotham
Veranice R. Hill
Laura E. Hines
Whitney Hodges
Gains A. Holder
Brian Hollis
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Holloman
Zak Holloway
Angela Holmes
DeCarlos Holmes
Aliceville Manor Nursing Home
Seven Oaks Funeral Home
Skelton Funeral Home
Kenneth Hood
Renee Hood
Bobby Hooks
Jerry Hooks
Gail Hopper
Janice Hopper
Mary and Dennis Hopper
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Horton
Rush Foundation Hospital
Till-Newell Animal Hospital
Waffle House
Cheryl Hubbard
George E. Hubbard
Richard and Sandra Hubbard
Betsy Hubbuch
Hubert B. Scrivener Fndn.
Joe Hudnall
Shelia Hudnall
Bob Hudson
Jimmy Hudson
Henry B. Hudspeth
Jim Huerkamp
Teresa Hughes
Earline Hull
Les Hull
Teresa Hull
Nelda D. Humphries
Ed and Tonya Hunt
Chad Hunter
Zachary M. Hutchens
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Hutcherson
Boyles Moak Insurance
Prince Investments
Snowden Forestry Investments
Southern Outdoor Investments
George Irby
Leland and Glynese Irby
Sandra Irby
Dwight Jackson
Rodger D. James
Ethel B. Jarvis
Phillip Jenkins
John O'Neal Johnson Motor Co.
John K Johnson
Kim Johnson
Thomas Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Jolly
Ben Jones
Billy and Judy Jones
Bobby Joe Jones
Bryan Jones
Garry and Rhonda Jones
Jim Jones
Kandice Jones
Napoleon Jones
Wes and Renee Jones
Jeff Jowers
ETA Upsilon Chapter Phi Theta
Kappa
Tina Keenan
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Keene
Diane Keith
L. C. Kellogg, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Kelly
Cathy Kemp
Lamar Kemp
Kemper Chamber of Commerce
Kemper County Baptist Association
Kemper County Economic Dev. Auth.
Bill Kennedy
Foster Kennedy
Kyle and Cindi Kennedy
William Kennedy
James and Janelle Key
A. J. Kilpatrick
Marilyn Klaus
Claude Pat K. Knight
Cletius Knight
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Knox
Sylvia Lackey
James Randal Lagergne
Jason Laird
Lindsay and Emma Lampton
Steve Landwehr
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Lang
Bob Langford
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Langston
Roy Lanier
Jack Larmour
Kemper County Civic League
Noxubee County Activity League
Jane Lee
Lindy Lee
Michael Lee
Mable Lester
Walter F. Lewis
Wanda Lilly
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Lindsey
Mr. and Mrs. Travis Lindsey
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Litwiller
Prairie Livestock
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Livingston
Daws Family LLC
E. G. Johnson Enterprises, LLC
Equine Mega Omega, LLC
Harrison, Jackson, and McGowen,
LLC
Lawrence Motors, LLC
Oil Mop LLC
RTR, LLC
Stockman's Supply, LLC
Local Express #2
Sam Logan
Danny Martin Logging
Dr. Chester Lott
Danny Lott
Charles Love
Lowndes Count Cattleman's Assoc.
Benpak, LTD
Chuck Luke
Corey Luke
Mr. and Mrs. David Lummus
Zelton Mabry
Greg Malatesta
Maloney Glass & Overhead Door
Maloney Management
Progressive Group Management
Mail Managers
Phillip Maples
Outcast Marine, Inc.
Marion Chevron
Anthony's Good Food Market
T & D Mini Market
Hubbard Maroney
James Martins
Don R. Massey
Richard Mathis
Belinda McKee Matlock
Gary Matlock
Ricky Mauldin
Genevieve Maxon-Stark
Ann Maxwell
Linda May
Jana Mayatt
McAdams Consulting
Alma McAlister
Rocky McBride
Kate and Josh McCarty
Angela McCollum
Dwight McComb
Thelma Briggs McConnell
Wesley and Linda McCool
Lynn McCoy
Grindle McCray
Mrs. Dodie McCrory
James McCulloch
Mitchell McDonald
April McDougle
Mr. and Mrs. Michael McGrevey
Donald McKee
Robert and Tonia McKee
Jim McKern
Bob and Janet McKie
Prentiss C McLaurin
Barbara P. McLauring
Marcille McLendon
Pete McMinn
Sue Meacham
Mercier Electrical and Mechanical Inc.
Patterson Co. Medco
Ed Medley
Mars of Meridian
Mr. and Mrs. J. Gary Miller
Joe Miller
Dr. Paul Miller
Timothy G. Miller
Jacob Mills
DeMando Mingo
Mississippi Beef Council
Prestage Farms Mississippi, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. John Mitchell
John and Shery Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Mitchener
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Mitchener
Tony Montgomery
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Moore
Rosemarie Moore
Steve Moore
Tammy Moore
LaPari Morant
Morgan Construction Co.
Bobby and Becky Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Morgan
Dr. Larry Morris
Debra Morrow
Bobbie Mosley
E.T. & Nellie Mosley
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mosley
Mitch Mosley
Donna Moulder
Marlan Theodore Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Myatt
George and Leisa Neel
Lee Wayne Neely
Neshoba County Gin Assn.
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Nester
Newell Paper Company
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Newton
Richard E. Newton
Irene Nichols
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Nickels
Elmer Nielsen
NE MS Coca-Cola Sales & Distribution
Sallie Oglesby
PHILANTHROPY
Doug Olinger
OmniBank
T's The Big One
Angela Oneal
Grayson's Optical
Manuel Orman
James C. Ott
A.J. Oubre
Break Away Outdoors
Hass Outdoors, Inc.
Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Overstreet
Terri Pace
Mr. and Mrs. Butch Palmer
David Palmer
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Papas
Tammy Parkes
Jarrod Parks
NAPA Auto Parts
Ken Pate
Robert A. Patrick, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Pearson
Van Pearson
Keith Peel
Justin Pender
Catherine Penick
Mr. and Mrs. Mike A. Perkerson
Janell Perkins
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Permenter
Dr. John F. Perry
Kiyomi E. Persons
Mitzi Phelps
Clyde Pierce
Rhen W. & Nell M. Pierce
Charlie Pilkinton
Tracy and Pam Pitcher
Glynn Pittman
Terisa Pittman
Hill's BP Truck Plaza
Southern Performance Horse Dentistry
Bank Plus
GCM, Inc. of West Point
La Fiesta Brava of West Point
Gerald D. Poole
Oscar Poole
Donald Pope
Dudley Ann Pope
Porter & Singley Family Dentist
Betsy Porter
Debra Harbour Porter
Mrs. Valcus Porter
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Posey
Beth Powell
Mrs. Kathy Powell
Jonathan Powers
Ana Maria Preller
Prince Oil Co. Inc.
Stockyard Productions
Diana Pruett
Harry Puckett
Paula Rainey
Bob Ramage
Chris and Deana Ramey
Melissa Ramsey
Nancy Ramsey
Meadowview Ranch
Larry Taylor Ray
Linda H. Reed
Magnolia Outpatient Rehab
Old Mexico Mexican Restaurant
Ivan and Shirley Reynolds
Jenny Reynolds
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Rhea
Donna J. Richards
Sue Richards
Wayne Richards
Clay H. Richardson
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PHILANTHROPY
Doug Richardson
Mr. C. V. Rickman
Gary Rigby
Angie Rigdon
Hollis Risley
Thomas L. Rivers
Ricky and Lynn Roberson
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Paul Roberts
Nina Roberts
Bobbie J Robinson
Newton Robinson
Willie Robinson
Steve Rogers
Gail Rolison
Rita Rushing
George Rutledge
Victor Rzepecki
Turner Shaw Fence Sales, Inc.
Boswell's Golf Car Sales
John Sampietro
Sanders, Inc.
Charles Sanders
Glen Sanders
Joe Charles Sanders, Sr.
Sanderson Construction Co.
William Sansing
Rita Satcher
Thomas F. Scarbrough
Shaunak Scholarship
Lander Valley High School
Kemper County Schools
Bobby and Melinda Sciple
Linda Sciple
Teresa Louise Sciple
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scoggins
Scooba Baptist Church
Charles Scott
Jim Scribner
Randy & Michele Scrivner
Tina Seals
Eddie and Mitzi Sellars
Noxubee Tire Service
Global Valuation Services, Inc.
Shamrock Medical & Office Supplies
Stanley Shannon
Steve Sharp
Dr. Raj Shaunak
Sunbelt Shavings
Dorothy W. Shaw
Herman Shaw
Thomas and Jean Sheffield
Michael Shelton
Robert and Kathleen Shine
Stanley Shows
Shuqualak Lumber Co., Inc.
Melissa Simmons
Claude Simpson
David E. Skelton
Bettye Bounds Sledge
Virginia Sloan
Bud Smith
John and Beth Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith
Margie R. Smith
Nelson Smith
Rob and Lori Smith
Dr. Todd Smith
Dr. W.S. Smith
Dusty Snider
Southeastern Pro Rodeo Association
Southern Agcredit, FLCA
Southern Chevrolet
Southwire
Chase B. Spencer
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Sproat
EMCC Faculty & Staff
Clay Stafford
Jimmy Standland
John W. Starr
Ed Staten
David Stephens
J. Steven Stewart
Macon Stockyard, Inc.
Charlene Stokes
Don and Sue Stokes
Sara Stokes
Fred Stoops
Madden Store
David and Marilyn Stowe
Gerald Stuart
Marianne G. Stuart
Laws Stained Glass Studios, Inc.
Tammy Sudduth
Auzie Sullivan
Bobbie Sullivan
Bobby Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Vic Sullivan
Sunbelt Wholesale Supply Co.
Kemper Co. Farm & Building Supply
Yates Building Supply
Leann Swafford
Homer F. Swain
Steve Swedenburg
Gary Bradley Swink
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swoope
Warren "Oop" Swoope
Larry Tabor
Mr. Dale Tate
Dawn Tate
Dr. Jim Taylor
Tennessee Valley Authority
Jim Terry
Forever Green Plants & Things
Suzanne Thomas
Larry & Nancy Thomason
Larry Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Pat Thornton
Lillie Thornton
Bobby F. Thrash
John Tierney
Central Miss. Land & Timber
Leslie Touchstone
On Time Transportation
Meridian Coach & Travel
Bill Travis
David J. Triplett
Stockstill Trucking
Trustmark Bank
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tucker
TVA
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Underwood
Mark Underwood
Triangle Federal Credit Union
Univ. Miss. Medical Center
Debbie Upton
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Utsey
Sam Vaughn
Korean War Veterans
Alex Vlahos
David and Brenda Vowell
Wade, Inc.
Donna R. Wade
Delita and Don Waldron
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Walker
Dr. Joyce and Mr. Ricky Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Sparky Walker
Steve Walker
Michael Wallace
Lance & Carol Walters
James and Paige Wamble
Pete Ware
Dr. Thomas Ware
Mr. Bubbles Car Wash
Cosmetology student MarkAnne Hobart
won the first Red, White & Blue
contest to accompany the Golden
Triangle campus’s annual Proud to
be an American Day in November.
Watt Equipment Company
Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Weatherford, Jr.
Dana Weatherford
Linda Weatherly
Dr. and Mrs. Don Weaver
Don Webb
Woody and Cathy Webb
Earl and Siglinda Weeks
C. H. Welch
Jonathan Wells
West Point Livestock Auction
Bill West
Don West
Way Out West
Nikita Whitaker
Joe L. White, Jr.
Charlie White
Patten Whitten
Felix Wicks
Mr. and Mrs. R. Lamar Wilbourn
David Wilder
Prairie Wildlife
Jerry Wilkerson
Davern Williams
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Williams
John L. Williams
Randy Williams
Shane Williams
Wayne & Sandra Wilson
Stephen and Teresa Windish
Al Wiygul
WLS, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Wofford
Scarlett Wolverton
Wood Carriers Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Wood
Marcus Wood
Peter Wood
Glenn Machine Works, Inc.
Lynn and Ginger Wright
Young Adult Methodist SS Class
Johnny Young
Lisa M Young
Russell Young
Lee Younger
Cub
$25-$199
Cash Saver #22
Todd Ables
Kimberly Adams
Scott and Kristel Adams
North Alabama Power Air
Edwin Albin
Mr. Tgood
Steve and Melody Anderson
Elizabeth Applin
Candy Ashmore
Byrd Athletics
Quality Body Works and Auto
B & B Automotive
Wallace Automotive
Marie Frey Baehr
Susan Baird
James T. Baker
Hill Street Bakery
Marion and Frances Ball
Citizens Bank of Columbia
Hancock Bank
John Bankhead
Wayne Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Shane Baty
Mrs. Lessie Belk
George Bethany
Dennis Birchall
George and Lisa Blackwell
Michael Blair
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blair
Jared and Emily Blalock
Joseph Bonicard
Glitz and Glam Boutique
Park Place Boutique
Serious Bread
Brewski's
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bridges
Rebecca Brumfield
Brooks Bryan
Bubba and Jan Bryan
V. P. Bryant
Carrie B's
Deborah Busbee
William H. Butler
Richard Byers
Louisville Eye Care
Joshua Carroll
Mark Carter
Billy Caskey
Velma Caskey
Dixieland Home Farm and Garden
Center
Jamie's Family Hair Center
Smith's Bargain Center
Elaine Chance
Donald Childress
Wayne Christoffersen
Binnsville United Methodist Church
Carl Douglas Clark
Noxubee County MS Chancery Clerk
Cumberland Chiropractic Clinic
Hoda Chiropractic Clinic
Mitchell Dental Clinic
Herring Gas Co.
Lowndes County Radial Tire Co.
Pioneer Credit Co.
Oktibbeha County Co-Op
Jimmy Cockroft
Keith and Tracy Coleman
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Marthenia Tisdale Coley
Loran Collins
Citizens Bank of Columbia
Eugene and Carolyn Columbus
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Columbus
Bishop Sign Company
Byars Furniture Company
Southern Pipe & Supply Company
The Molpus Company
Massey Constrcution, Inc.
J & J General Contractors, Inc.
James and Nancy Cook
Waide Cook
Barkley Cooksey
Rhonda Cooksey
Central Heating and Cooling, Inc.
Howell Electrical Heating & Cooling
Barry Corbett
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Corley
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Corn
Newtons Trophy Corner
Andy Roy Cotton
Robert and Teresa Crane
Brenda Crenshaw
Julie Cunningham
Willie Dancy
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Daugherty
Mr. and Mrs. Barron Davis
Carolyn Davis
Deshon Davis
Mrs. Lesa Davis
Peggy Davis
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Daws
Mary Hudnall Daws
John and Kay Dawson
Autumn Ridge Dental
Stacy Dew
Glenda Dill
Neal Draper
Brown's Discount Drugs
Michael Duke
Brian Ellis
Hope Ellis
Mary B. Ellis
Mary C. Ellis
Robert Ellis
Dental Group of Ellisville
Fifteen D Enterprises
Melissa Vaughn Tenhet Real Estate
Wilson Real Estate
Darrell and Stefani Evans
Michael and Heather Evans
Bernard and Elizabeth Expose
A-1 Exxon
Gerald Ezelle
Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Ezelle
Toni Farello
Bar J Farm
Mel-Ann Farms
Mr. and Mrs. Todd Ferguson
Shirley Fields
Haynes Law Firm
Webb Law Firm
Kristy Fleming
Reba Fleming
Pop's Southern Comfort Foods
Cheryl Frey
Kathleen Frey
M & S Furniture
Pine City Lawn and Garden
Tammy Gillett
Southern Grace
Terry Grassaree
Billy and Wanda Griffin
Casadores Mexican Grill
Paul Gundy
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Guttuso
Yulanda Haddix
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Harper, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Vester Harvey, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David Headley
Michelle Heidelberg
Tammy Hendry
Kim Henley
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hill
Ms. Dovie Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Hill
Virginia Hill
Craig Hitt
James and Melanie Hogan
Kelly N. Hollowell
Wilcox Funeral Home
Charles Hudson
Ashley Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hull
MS Band of Choctaw Indians
Donald Wofford Insurance
Farm Bureau Insurance
Shelton Insurance
Richard Israel
Evelyn Ivory
Col. Herman James
Mr. and Mrs. Houston Jarvis
Suzanne Jasper
Robert Jennings
Bobby's Jewelry Inc.
David C. Johnson
Trudi Johnson
Luann Persons Jones
Joe Jordan
Nilene Junker
Kademi
Scott Keller
Alan Key
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. King
Thomas Lester King
Donna's Hair Bou'Cou, LLC
Guest Body Shop, LLC
James Gray Sales, LLC
Jantz Enterprises, LLC
Limeco, LLC
Tinsley Insurance Agency, LLC
Upper Deck Sports Bar, LLC
Tim Lamb
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Landrum
Helen Landrum
Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Lauderdale, III
Lauren Leathers
Tina Lee
Fortune Mart Limited
Prime Line, Inc.
Lillie Dale Little
Shelia Littleton
DeWeese Title Loan
Joseph E. Logan, Jr.
Grantham Brothers Logging
Kathy Long
David and Dedra Luke
Mr. and Mrs. Luke Lummus
Angie's Little Farmers Market
M & M Market
Fairy Martin
Mr. and Mrs. John Mason
Terry Massey
Mike Matthews
Walter and Patricia Mattingly
Gloria Jean McCaskill
Mary McCray
Rodney McCray
Cody McDaniel
Joshua McGee
M. D. McKeithen
Sylvia McMinn
Eddie McNeal
Dot Merchant
Philip and Anna Middleton
Willie and John E Miller
Hazel Milling
Cindy Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. James Mitchell
Dee Mize
Spunky Monkeys
Melanie Moody
Bizzy B's Consignment and More
Griffis Motors, Inc.
Lee Nabors
Marlena Nance
Susie Nichols
Terrence Nicholson
Brenda Smith Nowell
Coleman Nursery
O'Neal's
Leann Olsen
Evans Optical
Joseph Osborne
R. Kent Stribling, O.D., P.A.
Ross Kelley and Martin PLLC
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Pace
Mark Paris
Burlon Parker
Jamie Parker
Cynthia Partridge
Joe Keith and Marsha Partridge
Dale Paulson
Janice Payne
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Payne
Mr. Pat Peay
Matthew Pellegrin
Linda Peoples
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peters
Dickerson Petroleum
The Adams Place
Watkins, Ward and Stafford of West
Point
Palmer Properties
Ricky Rawles
Steve Rawson
Calvin and Tamra Ray
Britt Barnes Realty
Eve Reardon
H. &. V Jenkins Rentals
Endom Welding and Trailer Repair
Los Rodeo's Mexican Restaurant
Mr. and Mrs. Errol Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds
Mary Jo Reynolds
Megan Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ricks
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Rigby
Mary B. Rigdon
Rowdy Rigdon
Virginia Rigdon
Clay Riser
Joe Robbins
Tammy Robertson
Amber Rogers
Bari Lynn Ross
Lincoln Builders of Baton Rouge, Inc.
Royal Trucking
Modern Nail Salon
Oh La La Salon
Lorine Sanders
Mary Sarco
Curt Schoenrock
Dean Sciple
Parker's Seafood
Michele Sears
David and Darlene Seay
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Selke
April Sellers
PHILANTHROPY
Louis' Tire Repair Service
McGivney Tire Service
Sourcing Services, Inc.
Thompson Services, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Shannon
Louis Sheppard
Danny Irons Paint and Body Shop
Hairworld Barber and Beauty Shop
Jamie's Body Shop
Jones Body Shop
Meridian Dive Shop
West Side Body Shop
Roger Simmons
William Simmons
Monica Simpson
Tara Smiedala
Jack D. Smith, Jr.
Andrew Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Smith
Christee L. Smith
Cloteal M. Smith
Corky Smith
Dana F. Smith
Scott and Jennifer Smith
Florence Smith-Haney
Stanz Integrated Cleaning Solutions
Toms Two Sons
Oasis Sun Spa
In Sports, Inc.
BSN Sports
Rex Team Sports
Durward Stanton
Lindie G. Stewart
Fox Run Quick Stop
Nance's Northside Short Stop
Shaw's Northside General Store
Anita Summerlin
Ellisville Auto Supply
Murry Supply
Studio 13
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Tarver
Annette W. Taylor
M and N Technologies
Jeff and Beverly Terry
Hometown Physical Therapy
Robert Thornton
Ted W Thornton
Tonya Threet
Jo Beth Tolbert
Ed Trehern
All Star Turf, Inc.
Lester Tzotzolas
Pine City Veterinary
Kevin Vickers
David Wallace
Vowell's Market Place #2
Keith Ware
Phyllis Ware
John Warren
Dutch Maid Car Wash
Daniel Watson
James Richard Watson
Cheryl Weichmann
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon West
Kay White
Traci Wilcox
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Wilkerson, III
David Wilkerson
Robert Williams
Roy Williams
Chris and Jorga Wilson
Gail Wilson
John and Marie Wood
Virginia E Wood
Richard and Cindy Woodall
Crowson Auto World
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Senator Terry Brown
Columbus September 4, 2014
Bill Buckner
Madison May 23, 2014
Senator Terry Brown roasts retired EMCC President Dr. Rick Young during the
dedication ceremony of the F.R. Young Student Union in 2012. Inset, Brown
was voted Most Handsome at EMJC in 1969. He played football for legendary
EMCC coach “Bull” Sullivan and served in the Mississippi House of Representatives
from 1988-2000. He won a state senate seat in 2004, which he held
until his death. He was inducted into the EMCC Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
Bill Buckner’s daughter, Wendy, speaks during the dedication of William “Bill”
Buckner Memorial Drive on the Scooba campus during Homecoming 2014.
Inset, Buckner as a player at EMJC in 1965. Buckner was a two-time All American
under coach Bull Sullivan and was later drafted by the Atlanta Falcons. He
coached at the high school and college level, including EMCC, before a long career
as state and regional director for the Federation of Christian Athletes.
Ikie Ethridge
Meridian – September 23, 2014
EMCC Sports Hall of Fame inductee Ikie Ethridge had
a long history with EMJC athletics.
It began in 1947 when the Martin School (Lauderdale
County) grad began playing
both basketball and baseball for
EMJC. He also served as student
body vice president during
his sophomore year.
Beginning his coaching career
in 1951, Ethridge began at
Martin, where his 1953 boys
basketball team competed for
the state title. His athletic career
continued during his time in the
Army, building a baseball field
for troops in Korea and playing
on the Rear 8th Army Championship
basketball team.
After serving as coach and
principal at Collinsville and West
Ikie
Ethridge
Lauderdale high schools, he returned to EMJC in 1964 as
academic dean/registrar and baseball coach. He coached
the 1965 team to a state championship and narrowly lost
the 1966 state title game.
Ethridge went on to serve as superintendent of education
for Lauderdale County schools and as a county supervisor
for 12 years. He is survived by his wife Terry, four
children and his grandchildren.
James “Shug” Henders
Aliceville, Ala. – October 19, 2014
Shug Henders served a tour of duty in Japan before
even graduating high school. But he eventually found his
way to EMJC on a football scholarship in 1950, where he
was promptly called away to
duty again, this time in Korea.
When finally able to play for
coach Bull Sullivan, Henders
was a two-way starter who
started every game during his
time at EMJC. He also played
baseball, was a member of the
Glee Club and voted a class favorite.He
continued to play at
Livingston University before
going to work at the Huyck Felt
Company in Dancy, Ala., and
later the JJ Ranch in Aliceville.
Henders was inducted into the
EMCC Sports Hall of Fame in
2005. He and his wife, Lelia, had
three children and four grandchildren.
James “Shug”
Henders
Bill Stovall
Phoenix, Ariz. – March 2, 2014
After football and track success at Greenville High
School, Bill Stovall traveled to Scooba to play for Bull Sullivan
in 1950, garnering All-State Honorable Mention.
Stovall served in the Marines for the next three years,
including playing for the All-Marine Championship team.
He was inducted into the EMCC Sports Hall of Fame in
2006.
He finished school at the University of Arizona, earning
a Master’s of Education, and went on to compete professionally
in bodybuilding. In 1982
he was the third runner-up in the
Mr. America Over-40 bodybuilding
contest. In 1983, he won the
Mr. Senior America contest.
After 37 years of teaching
high school biology and coaching
football and track, Stovall retired
to Phoenix with his wife
Sylvia. The couple had three
sons, one daughter and four
grandsons.
Before Bill’s passing, the
Stovalls served as religious volunteers
for the Maricopa County Juvenile
Detention Centers.
Dr. Virginia “Ginger” Young
Columbus – May 5, 2015
Bill
Stovall
Dr. Alice Virginia “Ginger” Young was a student, faculty
and staff favorite during her time as an English instructor
and dean of instruction over night courses at EMCC’s
Golden Triangle campus.
The EMCC family remembers these Lion alumni who passed away between February 2014 and July 2015:
Jerry J. Anderson
DeKalb
July 20, 2015
Albert C. “Pete Bailey
Columbus
February 9, 2015
Mae Stevens Barrett
Shuqualak
November 14, 2014
Charles Blackston
Eupora
June 28, 2014
Howard Boone, Jr.
Tupelo
July 13, 2015
Barbara Palmer
Durant
Preston
February 13, 2015
Lovey Geraldine Vance
Ethridge
Collinsville
July 9, 2014
Cora Mae Grady
Preston
February 21, 2014
Timothy Joseph Hamiter
Cottondale, Ala.
May 27, 2014
Lucy Hull
DeKalb
February 23, 2015
Kate Kinard Jernigan
Louisville
April 21, 2014
Charles Jerome Lathan
Columbus
April 16, 2015
Devin Montgomery
Columbus
May 23, 2014
Tammy R. O’Neal
DeKalb
June 26, 2015
Edna Earle Peden
Belzoni
February 9, 2015
Turner S. Pigford
Collinsville
May 28, 2015
James Roger Pippins
Macon
May 3, 2014
Alvin D. Porter
Columbus
April 2, 2014
Lt. Col. Joe R. Price
DeKalb
May 19, 2015
Oakley Wayne Pyron
Chelsea, Ala.
April 15, 2015
Jim B. Richards
Mashulaville
October 20, 2014
Vanessa Riley
Meridian
April 2, 2014
Evelyn Slay
Pearl
July 7, 2015
James Lamar “Jim”
Sledge
Crystal Springs
April 27, 2014
Florence R. Smith
Brooksville
April 1, 2014
Dr. Russell A. Stokes
Oxford
September 16, 2014
Jonathan Christian
“John B” Sullins
Meridian
May 12, 2015
Billy D. Walton
Ackerman
April 25, 2014
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