Warrior Magazine December 2018

Alumni Updates Willis Tullos (’64) was selected head boys bas ketball coach at Phila delphia High School. •

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ting. In Vaughn’s books, that setting is the trendy Fondren area of Jackson.

at the University of Southern Missis sippi. Croft, a former assistant men’s basketball coach at USM, had over 20 years of national coaching experience, before transitioning to academia. Maurice Bowie (’97) was named head girls and boys basketball coach at Lake High School. Great Southern Bank announced the promotion of Shawntal Stamper (’97) to vice president and marketing of ficer. Stamper, a native of Decatur, plans to attend the Mississippi School of Banking in Oxford. She began her financial career with Great Southern Bank in 1996 and was promoted to Decatur branch officer in 2011 before moving to Meridian’s main office in 2014 as assistant vice president and marketing officer.

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Sharron Goodman-Hill (’80) was selected as Rust College’s HEAD WAE faculty partici pant for 2017-2018.

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Lucy Young (’71) of Vicksburg was recently inducted into the Vicks

burg Warren School District Athletic Hall of Fame. She is also a member of the ECCC Athletic Hall of Fame. Rev. Bruce Taylor (’72) has released his first book, a devotional titled “That Still Small Voice: Hearing the Voice of God in the Commonplace.” Taylor is a retired Methodist minister and Deca tur native. Janet Wilkerson (’78) has been pro moted to operations officer at Trust mark Bank. She serves as wire transfer supervisor at the corporate headquar ters in downtown Jackson. Wilkerson has 35 years of banking experience and completed the Mississippi School of Banking. Carolyn Lott (’77) has been named senior vice president/deposit admin istrator at Community Bank. A na tive of Forest, Lott recently served as operations officer and has been with Community Bank for 30 years. In her new role, Lott will oversee the wire department, submit cash orders and deposits, and order foreign currency. She resides in Hillsboro with her hus band, Clayton. Forest resident and published author Brenda Vaughn (’78) signed her latest book, “Snippets in Time”, August 14 at the Forest Public Library. The collec tion of short stories is a follow-up to Vaughn’s first published novel entitled “Cinnamon Buns”. Vaughn said that the books are considered urban fan tasy which is a subgenre of fantasy in which the narrative has an urban set

The Higher Education Appreciation Day, Working for Academic Excel lence (HEADWAE) was established by Mississippi Legislative Resolution to annually honor faculty members of Mississippi’s higher education insti tutions who have made outstanding contributions in promoting academic excellence. Goodman-Hill serves as an instructor of mass communications, talk show host, and advisor for the award-winning Rust College Speech and Debate Team. She celebrated her 25th year at Rust College during the 2017-18 academic year. Philip Chamblee (’86) of Madison was recently named to the State Lottery Board. He is executive director/CEO of the Mississippi Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Stores Association and the Mississippi Propane Gas As sociation. He manages two large trade associations providing vital business services to the membership, while suc cessfully working with numerous fed eral and state regulatory agencies and the Mississippi Legislature to improve the overall business environment for the member industries. Newton County native Lt. Col. Kelvin C. Nichols (’87) assumed command of the 168th Engineer Brigade based out of Vicksburg.

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Courtney Diana Averett (’06) of Cone hatta received her Doc tor of Nursing Practice degree from Mississippi

University for Women on March 26, 2018. She is employed as a pediatric nurse practitioner with Rush Health Systems in Meridian.

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Louise Berryhill Stewart (’15) was recently awarded the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholar

ship valued at $30,000 per year for her medical training at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in Jackson. Ben Pace (’16) was recently awarded the Mississippi Rural Dentists Scholar ship valued at $35,000 per year for his dental training at the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry.

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Louisville native Chris Croft (’93) was recently named assistant profes

sor of sport manage ment in the College of Business and Economic Development

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