1990

Miss Wood, a LoUisville native, was recently selecled East Central's outstand ing faculty member and was recognized in February at the Mississippi Legislature during Higher Edu:;a,·on Appr~ u Day, Working for AcademiC Excel- lence. · The former outstanding women's basketball and tennis coach has been employed at the college for over 30 years and currenllv serves as an instructor in health, physical education and recreation. The Brackeen-Wood Physical Education Building is named in honor of Miss Wood and Denver Brackeen, former EC dean of students, coach and Hall of Fame basketball player.

1no--...-, o:rncula and eJ~.traeut· lege pro– \'tdes expenences \\htch lead \0 the development of the total individual. The college also makes every ef– fort to provide the very best in housing facilities for its students. East Central recently completed a $1.5 m1llion dollar dormitory reno– vation project with improvements made to four of six campus resi– dence halls.

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MnOr Corp~. wh1ch IS comoo cd of 'to– dents who assist in recruiting and serve as host and hostesses for col– lege activities and events. Those members include Land, Hailey, Hobby, and Louisville graduates Shea Oakley and Robbie Palmieri. Students from Winston County are also involved in college sports activities. Members of the 1989 Warrior football squad include Ronnie W1lliamson and Sean Holdiness,

The renovation project was funded through a low-interest Fed– eral loan with financial assistance variety of programs

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from all five support counties - Leake, Neshoba. Newton, Scott and Winston. Restdence halh designated in the renovation proJc"ClS include New– some, Jackson. Todd and Winston dormitories. Another reno' ation project un– derway is the orgoing effort to re– furbish Huff Auditorium, which has served since 1953 as a site for many commencement exercises, assembly programs. musicals, beauty pageants, dram~ concerts, the col– lege's first presidential inauguration and numerous other special events and memorable occasions. The project. funded solely through private contributions, is well into "pha~ two" which m– volves installau. m of an air condi– tioning system at an estimated cost of $70,000. The initial project phase concerned the replacement of stage curtains and window drapes which was comr~tcd at an approx– imate cost of $10.000. For further mformalion concern– ing the college. please contact the Dtrector of Adrrusstons, Records and Research, East Central Com– muniLy College, Decatur, Miss. 39327 or phone n35·2121.