2023SummerWarriorWEB

Alumni Updates

Dr. Clyde Muse (’49) was inducted into the Scott County Sports Hall of Fame on April 22, 2023. 40 s

In Memoriam Katherine Majure Farned (’45), May 12, 2023 Mary Sula Wansley Bishop (‘47) Dec. 31, 2022 Imogene Johnson Borganelli (’47), April 15, 2023 Betty B. Harrison (’48), Oct. 10, 2022 Betty Bridges Harrison (‘50) Oct. 10, 2022 Billy C. Breazeale (‘51) Nov. 27, 2022 Cecil Morris Murray (’51), Sept. 16, 2022 Dr. Martha Mayes Park (’53) Feb. 13, 2023 John Rushing Jr. (’54), November 1, 2022. Carl Mack Sullivan (‘54), Sept. 17, 2022 Donald Gray “Don” Triplett (’55), June 15, 2023 June Livingston Fuller, (’56), Jan. 29, 2023 James Chester Sawyer, Jr. (’59), Feb. 22, 2023 Elizabeth Majors Staton (’59), March 14, 2023 Palma “Ann” Jones Harrell (‘60) Dec. 12, 2022 Glynda Victoria Ming Triplett (’61), Oct. 23, 2022 Fred Kirkland (‘64), March 21, 2023 Edward A. Williamson (’66), Oct. 18, 2022 Ben Wilkerson (’67), November 1, 2022 Barbara Jo Walker Holmes (’68), Oct. 20, 2022 Billy Nicolson (‘69), January 14, 2023 William Mack Allmand (’72), August 30, 2022 Mike Allen (’78), Oct. 14, 2022 Terry Leon Thrash (’80), Oct. 16, 2022 Dr. Kevin Brent Meador (‘87) Dec. 27, 2022 Randall Allen Butler (‘94) Jan. 29, 2023 Richard Curtis Lancaster (‘00) Dec. 1, 2022 Ellen Skinner Harrison (‘01) Dec. 20, 2022 Angela Holdiness Hearn (‘02) Dec. 20, 2023 Vanassa Ninette Smith (‘02) Dec. 6, 2022 LaQuinta LaSha Renee’ Bonds (‘05) Jan. 31, 2023 Jeris Edward Shoemake (‘06), Oct. 18, 2022 Lola Mae Thomas Jackson (‘13), Jan. 6, 2023 Judson Gary Bounds (‘13) June 20, 2023 Former Physical Plant Staff Member Alton Foreman died November 27, 2022. Mr. Alton D. Foreman Sr., 87, retired as a member of the ECCC Physical Plant staff in 2008 after 29 years of service. He retired from the Army after 27 years. He was a lov ing husband, father, and grandfather. He was a mem ber of Hopewell Baptist Church in Little Rock where he was also a member of the church’s brotherhood ministry. Survivors include four sons: Dewayne Fore man (Barbara) of Little Rock, David Foreman (Sarah) of Lucedale, Artie Foreman (Pam) of Little Rock and Adam Foreman (Dana) of Meridian; 7 Grandchildren; 5 Step Grandchildren; 5 Great Grandchildren; 12 Step Great Grandchildren; a sister, Joyce Ivy; and a sister in law, Gatha Foreman. Former Business Technology Instructor Stella Stamper Dickerson (‘89), a retired ECCC Business Technology instructor, died Jan. 18, 2023. She is survived by her husband of 53 years Rev. Ed Dickerson of Union; four children: Angela Jordan of Conehatta, Jonathan Dickerson (Michelle) of Merid ian, Margie King (Nathan) of Starkville, and Josh

District, principal at Pearl High School, junior high principal at Webster County School District, and elementary principal at Neshoba County. Choctaw Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben (’98) was named Citizen of the Year by the Community Development Partnership in Neshoba County. Carthage native Justin A. Thornton (’98), Ph.D., was re cently promoted to Professor at Mississippi State University be ginning in August of this year. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at USM in Microbiol ogy in 2000 and then attended graduate school at UMMC in the Microbiology and Immunol ogy Department, graduating in 2005 with his Ph.D. in Microbi ology. From there he went to St. Jude Children’s Research Hos pital for a postdoctoral posi tion in the Infectious Diseases Department. He became an Assistant Professor at MSU in Spring of 2011, and was pro moted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016. He main tains a research lab at MSU and where his research focuses on pathogenesis and host respons es to the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. He is currently focused on conserved surface proteins which aid in colonization of the nasopharynx, which could be novel targets for a protective protein-based vaccine. He pre viously and currently has NIH grant funding for this research. He also has two sons, Jack (10) and Noah (8).

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Donald Triplett (’55) of Forest was re cently featured

in the Scott County Times in a story about In A Different Key, a film premiering on PBS which follows the mother of an autis tic son as she finds and then befriends the first child ever diagnosed with autism – Forest native Don Triplett.

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Haywood Reeves (’67)

was inducted into the Scott County Sports Hall of Fame on April 22, 2023. Genia Jackson (’95) was induct ed into the Scott County Sports Hall of Fame on April 22, 2023. Phillip Prince (’95) was recently named to the Leake Academy Sports Hall of Fame. Lundy Brantley (’95) of Philadelphia was named Missis sippi’s Superintendent of the Year in November. He recently retired following six years as superintendent of the Neshoba County School District. He pre viously served as superinten dent of the Union Public School 90 s •

Weddings Baleigh Faye Mitchell (’21) to Brandon Allen Davis

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