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Vickers to present ECCC humanities program Nov. 1

The "Ups and Downs of Poetry" will be discussed Thursday. 1\ovember l by longtime East Central Community College faculty member Ovid Vickers, this year's recipient of the Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher Award. The special presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the Vickers Fine Arts Center auditorium. The public is invited and there is no charge for admission . Vickers, who retired from full– time teaching duties in 1995, contin– ues to teach on a part-time basis as needed. Prior to his retirement, Vicl

tion and service. ln 2004, the organi– zation presented Vickers with the prestigious Doster Award for his con– tributions to the organization, includ– ing co-authoring its history. A folklorist, essayist, newspaper columnist and poet, Vickers' articles, essays, short stories and poems have appeared in such publication as Southern Living, Misstssippi Magazine, The Texas Review and The Southern Quarterly. As one ofthe founders of the Mississippi Folklore Society, he served for 25 years as an officer in that organization and con– tributed on a regular basts to its jour– nal. the Mississippi FolkloreRegister. Vickers' poetry is included in two volumes of the University Press of Mississippi's anthologies, Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth and the com– panion volume, An Anthology of Mississippi Writers. Vickers was one of four Mississtppians selected to Director of External Communication' for the Nissan Company in Canton She is married to Jim Laird and th~' have two daughters, Hannah and Harper. Ovid Vickers III teaches ~uto collision repatr technology at Hind., Community College in Raymond.lle is marned to the former \1ar) Beth Chandler and they have two son!> , Ovid JV and Raymond Chandler. See VICKERS, page 11A

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Conference on English in the Two– Year College and was honored by that organtzation in 1990 for his dedica-

Field of Humanities. and tn 2005 he was named one of Mississippi's A!!eless Heroes. . ~Vickers and his wife Carol restde in Decatur They have three grown children. Nona Vickers serves as assistant principal at . Steele Elemt.:ntary School in Btrmmgharn, Ala.. and has two children. Jon an.d Carol Anne Creel. Harnet Lrurd IS

read from their work at the 2000 ma~­ curation of Governor Roome ~ 1 u,grove. His short !>tories ~ave appeared in national and regiOnal ma!!azine, and JOurnah. He also writes a weekly column or a number of east Mississippi A.PPEARncw:.pape~ and has been ho~o~ o~ • 1 hree occasion-; by the MtSStSSlppt f ~,s Association for Best Column in . In 1995. when Vickers retrred SCOTT ( · •m fu\ltime teaching, East Central c )mmunity College honored h~m by UNION ft ·· tl11ing the Fine Arts Center m hts honor. VVINSTO In 2003. he was recognized by the \

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