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Gray
and Coterie Award Winners
Andy James, of Brandon, Mississippi, is the recipient of the
2001 Gray Award for his paper “‘Left without a
Farm to Farm’: Environmental Change and the Cotton
Culture in the Mississippi Delta.” Chris Thompson,
of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, won the 2001Coterie
Award for his paper “Hurricanes and Development on
the Mississippi Gulf Coast.” Both papers were
written for Robbie Ethridge’s Southern Studies 401
class. Both students are graduates of the
McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. James is a
Taylor Medal winner and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Thompson served as editor of the campus newspaper,
the Daily Mississippian.
The Gray award, established by Colonel and
Mrs. Homer Gray of Oxford, includes a $100 prize and
is designated for an outstanding paper that analyzes
aspects of the Southern experience. The Coterie
Award, which also carries a prize of $100, is given
by the Oxford Coterie Club to encourage student
scholarship and to support research in Southern
culture.
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