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CO-LIN - NATCHEZ CENTER SMI'fH GETS POST W. S. Henley, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Copiah-Lincoln Junior College, and Billy B. Thames, Co-Lin president, announced the ap– pointment of Eddie Malvin Smith of Natchez as director of the Copiah– Lincoln Junior College - Natchez Cente~. Smith has been employ1ed since 1970 as Director of Academic Affairs ' at the University of Southern Missi– ssippi - Natchez Branch. He was Acting Director of the center and a science instructor during 1970. Prior to his employment at USM-N, Smith was an employee of Natchez-Adams Public Schools. He came to Natchez as a classroom teacher in 1965, be– came a secondary science supervisor in 1967,· and was assistant principal at Natchez-Adams High School in 1969-70. Smith and his wife, the former Lottie AHene Horne of Louisville, are the parents of two daughters, Kelli, 8, and Wendy, 5. The Hernando native is a 1961 graduate of Noxapater High School. He received an A. A. degree from East Central Junior College in 1963, a bachelor of sciience with a major in science education from Mississippi State University in 1965. He obtain– ed a Master of Education degree in 1970 from Mississippi State and has done further work at the University o·f Southern Mississippi in Education Administration and Supervision. Smith is a deacon of Parkway Baptist Church where he has served as secretary and vice chairman of the deacons, has been organist since 1965, is a past Sunday School teacher and a past Church Training leader. He is a member of the Natchez ;.Ki– wanis Club where he has served" on the Key Club Committee and was Key Club sponsor for two years. Further, Smith is a member of the Mississippi Education Association,

Adams County Education Association, and the Mississippi Science Teachers Association. A past president of Phi Theta Kappa, honorary society, Smith is a member of Sigma Tau Sigma and Phi Delta Kappa. He was twice nominated as Outstanding Young Man of the Year by the Natchez Jaycees, was named Outstanding Biology Teacher of Mississippi in 1969 by the National Association of Biology T1eachers, and he was select– ed an Outstanding Young Man of America in 1970.

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