GSC Leadership Earns Top National Award

The Graying of Graduate Studies

Diversity Advocate Opens Doors at Ole Miss

A Message from the Dean

Distinctions

Dateline: Oxford

Alumni Notes

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

For a compilation of all Alumni Notes from all issues of Advances, please go to this page. Those marked with a light bulb (at right) have indicated a willingness to respond to e-mail requests for advice regarding career opportunities in their areas.

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Martha Anice Sanderson (M.A. in Spanish), who was a Taylor Medalist as an Ole Miss undergraduate, has spent her career as a secondary and junior college teacher, including a stint of 40 years in Corpus Christi (Texas) area. She was honored in 1983 as one of The Most Prominent Educators in Texas. In 1996 she returned to her roots in Houston, Mississippi, where she raises flowers, attends her childhood church, coaches Spanish, and helps as needed in the local schools. She writes that it is not true that "you can't go home again" and that her greatest contribution was probably helping bridge the culture gap for the students she taught in Texas.

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Richard E. Whalen (M.A. in education) has held several academic posts, including superintendent of schools in Wheeler, Mississippi; a faculty position at Bradley University (Illinois); president of Black Hawk Junior College (Illinois); dean of students at New Mexico Highlands University; director of research at Long Beach, Mississippi; and consultant for the Jackson County school system. (Loscan9921@aol.com)

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Clarice Thompson Campbell (Ph.D. in history) is a 92-year-old writer who won the 1998 Mississippi Authors Award from the Mississippi Library Association for nonfiction. Campbell has moved from Tupelo to retire near her children in Palm Desert, California. Her second book, Civil Rights Chronicle: Letters from the South (University Press of Mississippi), is a narrative of her "small adventures" between 1956-1965 at Ole Miss, Tougaloo, and Rust Colleges.

'76

Robert W. Hamblin (PhD English) is director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University and is co-editor of A William Faulkner Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press). (Rhamblin@semovm.semo.edu)

Cora Potts Roten (M.Ed. in special education) taught learning disabled students for 27 years at Ripley Elementary School and is now retired. She has two children, Donald Perrin Rotten and Betty Roten France, who both attended Ole Miss; and a grandson, Donald Perrin Roten, Jr., who also graduated from the Oxford campus and from the The University of Mississippi Medical Center with an M.D. degree.

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Romell W. Barry (MPA) is currently a teacher with the Columbus Municipal School District. Previously he had worked with the Jackson Public School system and with the Mississippi Department of Rural Services. (RBarry2546@aol.com)

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Jane Clayton Hodges (Ed.D.) has not slowed down after her retirement from her position as director of the Mississippi University for Women’s Reading Center in 1996. She has founded a company, Literacy LLC, that produces books, including Astronauts to Zippers, that are designed to help K-3 grade children learn to read using a phonetic and multi-sensory approach. Her books are now used in several Mississippi school districts. Hodges’ motivation for this undertaking were her studies at MUW, which indicated that approximately 50 percent of youngsters incarcerated in juvenile correctional schools would not have become involved in crime if they had not been failing in school and had poor reading skills. To learn more about her company and her books and learning materials, visit web site www.TeachAnyoneToRead.com or write to Literacy LLC, 680 Rivermont Drive, Carrollton, AL 35447. (DrJane@Pickens.Net)

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Geneva Waits England (M.Ed. in English, specialists in English) teaches English composition, literature, and creative writing at Holmes Community College. She says that after 37 years of teaching, she is "still not burned out" because of her thirst to help "anyone willing to work hard at learning". She adds that "learners have to be rewarded, and I know that I have." (Gengland@holmes.cc.ms.us)

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Kenneth G. Ray (M.S. in chemistry) is QA manager for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients for Pharmacia and Upjohn in Kalamazoo, Michigan. During his years as a graduate student at The University of Mississippi, he was president of the Associated Graduate Student Body when this group was first getting off the ground. (Kenneth.G.Ray@am.pnu.com)

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Sheb Lee True (Ph.D. in business administration) is associate professor and director of the Mexico Study Tour Program at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta. He has joint academic appointments in the departments of Marketing & Professional Sales and Leadership and Professional Development. (Strue@coles2.kennesaw.edu)

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Chuck Yarborough (M.A. in Southern studies) teaches history at the Mississippi School for Mathematics & Science in Columbus. He serves on the Mississippi Humanities Council and is on the board of directors for the Mississippi Historical Society. He also published a teacher's guide for the traveling exhibit, "Crossroads of the Heart: Creativity and Tradition in Mississippi." For a free copy of this guide on the Internet, go to www.arts.ms.us/crossroads.main.html. (Cyarboro@msms.doe.k12.ms.us)

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Collin Billingsley (Ph.D. in educational psychology) is a psychology faculty member at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville. This past year he received the Mississippi Counseling Association Research Award. His research is in the area of attentional processing and occupational behavioral health. (Cbillin@necc.cc.ms.us)

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