2004

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~ Retired E CC instructor to receive Doster Award

Author and retired Ea:,t Central Community College English instructor Ovid Vickers of Decatur is thb year's recipient of the Doster Award. the highe~t honor presented by the Two-Year College English Associauon-Southeast (TYCA– SE). a regional affiliate of the l\atJOnal Council of Teachers of Engli<,h. Vickers will receive the award at the organization's 2004 conference cheduled February 26-29 at the Huntsville (Ala.) Marnott. A reception will also be held in Vickers' honor beginning at 3:30

'.tnous publications such a" S1mthcrn Linng. Mississippi ~Jaga7ine, The Texas Re\tC\\, Southern Quarter!). and The Yalobu,ha Review. As one of the founders of the ~1issbsippi Folklore Society. he erved 25 ) car' a' an officer in that org:mi7ation and contributed on a regular ba.,is to the ~fis.,i-;sippi folklore Register. He abo writes a \\eekl) column for a number of Mt..,,i,stppi newspapers and has hccn honored on three occru,ions by the ~li..,sissippi Press Association for the Bc:-.t Column in a weekly DC\\ spaper.

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