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Full Speed Ahead: MC Leaders Prepare for Record Attendance at New Student Orientation Sessions

For Kelsey Sanchez, early summer is the most wonderful time of the year. It’s not that the assistant director of first year experience at Mississippi College has any outstanding vacation plans for the weeks following...

June 5, 2023

Terry Headlight News

THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 3 is the correct date for the Meet - and - Greet the Terry Candidates in the town park across from Town Hall. We hope to see a good crowd there. In my looking at the calendar last week, I only got as...

June 3, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Jubilee Singers Alumni Choir St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, June 11, 3 PM

JUBILEE SINGERS ALUMNI CHOIR CONCERT-- The Alumni Jubilee Singers, under the direction of Dr. Bobby Cooper, will present a concert on June 11, 3 PM at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Bolton. The Alumni Jubilee Singers,...

May 31, 2023

Terry Headlight News

There was a major error in last week’s column that will now be corrected. I think that everyone realized that the date for the Meet - the - Candidates in the Terry Park was incorrect. The correct date is Saturday,...

May 29, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

TEL Associate Chair’s Commitment to Tomorrow’s Teachers Lands MC’s Young Faculty Honor

Refining established best practices in education and discovering innovative teaching approaches motivate Katherine Horlock to enhance the classroom experience for future generations of America’s students. They’re...

May 25, 2023

Mississippi College-Tufts University Pipeline Prepares Med Sciences Students for Careers in Dentistry

Several years ago, a few Mississippi College graduates interested in pursuing careers in dentistry migrated to Tufts University, a world-class research institution in the Metro Boston Region, where the exceptional...

May 21, 2023

Terry Headlight News

On this coming Saturday (May 20th) from 10:00 a. m. until 2:00 p. m., there will be a Meet-and-Greet the Candidates whose names will appear on the primary ballots on August 6th at the park in Terry (on Cunningham Avenue...

May 19, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

New Design Chosen for Mississippi Standard License Plate

A new standard license plate has now been approved in Mississippi. The new license plates will begin being issued starting with January 2024 renewals. “We had so many fantastic designs submitted that it was really...

May 16, 2023

Musical theatre returns to Hinds CC

With the fall 2022 reorganization of the Fine and Performing Arts Department, Hinds Community College will produce a musical at Brooks Theatre for the first time in 12 years. The musical is “The Spitfire Grill.” The...

April 15, 2023 · Cathy Hayden

MC Students’ Dance Marathon Activities Demonstrate Philanthropic Effort is ‘Greater Than Us’

Each academic year, men’s service clubs, women’s social tribes, and several other community-minded students at Mississippi College band together to host a variety of fundraising activities to support Dance Marathon,...

March 30, 2023

Louis James Lyell (1925-2023): A Tribute to a Gentle Giant of Mississippi

A long-form tribute to Louis James Lyell (1925–2023) — Jackson native, insurance agent, gentle giant, and visionary behind the Speer-Lyell Observatory at St. Andrew’s School — by Gazette Editor Lucius Lampton.

March 18, 2023 · Lucius Lampton, Gazette Editor

Terry Headlight News

Are you enjoying these beautiful May days that we have been having this February? I know that I have! But, it should be remember that during this month of February, it has thundered at least twice - on the 9th and on...

March 4, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Reeves/Presley Governor’s Election This November Will Be a Horse-Race, Early Polls Reveal

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves could be headed back to the banking world after the state’s November general election. One poll shows Reeves is in disfavor with many Mississippi voters, while another survey...

February 24, 2023 · Mac Gordon

Terry Headlight News

There are two deaths to report this week. The first one is that of longtime Terry resident Mary Joyce Kister. She attended high school here in Terry, although she graduated from Central High School in Jackson. She...

February 23, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Hinds CC Opens Dual Art Exhibit

“Women of Cherry Street: Recent Paintings by Chatham Kemp and Hannah Wegner” will be on exhibit at the Marie Hull Gallery on the Raymond Campus of Hinds Community College. The exhibit began on Feb. 20 and continues...

February 23, 2023 · Cathy Hayden

Sudden Death, Come-from-Behind Finish: MC’s Academic Competition Boasts Thrills, First-Time Champion

Jackson Academy survived a sudden-death semifinal match and overcame a first-round deficit in the finals to capture its first Mississippi College Academic Competition championship Jan. 19 on the Clinton campus. JA’s...

January 29, 2023

Terry Headlight News

On Saturday morning, Susan Champion Yates announced the death of her father, J.B. Champion. This was particularly sad to most of us in town, as J.B. had built the car garage on Cunningham Avenue in between Sweeney’s...

January 28, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Utica Institute Museum to Receive State Award

The Utica Institute Museum at Hinds Community College’s Utica Campus is the winner of the Mississippi Humanities Council’s Reflecting Mississippi Award for 2023. Co-directors of the museum are English instructor Dan...

January 27, 2023 · Cathy Hayden

Terry Headlight News

January 2023 has come. It is already the 16th when I write this week’s column. 2023 is the year during which most of our elected officials in Mississippi will be elected (on November 7th) after being elected in the...

January 19, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

STEM Research, Reasoning Symposium Nurtures MC Students’ Scientific Communication Skills

Scientific research requires countless hours of careful planning, rigorous testing, and precise communication. The painstaking work of developing a specific research question, formulating a clear hypothesis, and...

December 24, 2022

Terry Headlight News

We have waited and studied and thanked throughout the four weeks of the Advent season. By the time you are reading this, it may well be Christmas Day. It will certainly be one of the days immediately before Christmas....

December 21, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Terry Headlight News

Unfortunately, there are two deaths with connections to the town of Terry to report. This morning, I learned of the death of Albert Pleasant. He was a graduate of Terry High School and the widower of fellow graduate...

December 18, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Mississippi College Family Mourns Loss of Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Department Chair

By any standard, Dr. Joe M. Cooper lived a full life. He was an ordained Baptist preacher who pastored two churches in Mississippi, ministering to the spiritual needs of his congregation and sharing the love of Christ....

December 16, 2022

Mississippi College Archers Make Significant Strides During Fall 3D Season

To be successful in the sport of archery, an athlete must demonstrate extraordinary precision, unmitigated determination, and exceptional control. Just as Anna Carraway started to shoot during a tiebreaker in the...

December 12, 2022