Frances Langerfeld of Starkville has been named Alumna of the Year by the Baptist Student Union at Mississippi State.

Alford

John Alford of Jackson, executive director of the Mississippi Food Network, has been elected chairman of the Central Region of Second Harvest Food Banks. He just completed a two-year term on Second Harvest's National Network Delegation and was chairman in 1998.

Truitt Grubbs (M.S. '66) of Brandon has been named business development officer at Community Bank, Rankin County. He previously was involved in his family's landscaping business and is a retired district manager for the MSU Extension Service.

John H. Bryan Jr. of Chicago, Ill., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Sara Lee Corp., accepted the National Medal of Arts from President Clinton last November on behalf of Sara Lee for the corporation's dedication to preserving and ensuring public access to the arts in the United States. As a patron and collector, Bryan has amassed a significant collection of impressionistic art and is making it available to major museum collections.

Philip Luchsinger of Metairie, La., has retired from Southern Pacific Railroad after 37 years with the company.

Robert J. Bailey (M.B.A. '66) of Yazoo City is vice president for advancement at Reformed Theological Seminary. He previously was executive vice president at the Bank of Yazoo City.

Jack Berkshire of Atlanta, Ga., has resigned as men's basketball coach at Oglethorpe University to devote more time as the university's athletics director. He has served as Oglethorpe's athletics director for 22 years.

Dierdre Sabine McGowan of Jackson, founder of Insight Ltd. Management Services, has received the state Professional Achievement Award from the Public Relations Association of Mississippi. In 1997, she was named one of the Top 50 Businesswomen by the Mississippi Business Journal.

Jerry Irwin of Benton has been named vice president-nitrogen production at Mississippi Chemical Corp. in Yazoo City. Irwin joined the company in 1964 and most recently has served as general manager of the Yazoo City manufacturing facility.

Jean M. Milner of Brandon has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

John David Pennebaker of New Albany has received the first Owen Cooper Memorial Award, presented by the state's transportation industry. A former mayor of New Albany and member of the state House of Representatives 1975-92, Pennebaker was honored for helping to guide the 1987 Four-Lane Highway Program to passage while serving as chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

James H. Tumlinson (Ph.D. '69) of Gainesville, Fla., a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service and faculty member at the University of Florida, has been inducted into the ARS Science Hall of Fame. Tumlinson discovered the cotton boll weevil pheromone and thereby played a key part in the eradication program against the insect in the Southeastern U.S.

Larry F. Butts of Raymond has received a master's degree in counseling psychology at Mississippi College.

Jim Carney of Jackson, president of Heritage Properties and Heritage Construction Co., served as president of the Homebuilders Association of Mississippi in 1998.

Gary E. Gaut of San Antonio, Texas, has retired after 31 years of federal government service, most recently as program manager for the Air Force Audit Agency at Randolph (Texas) AFB. During his career, he was elected to Who's Who in California for outstanding achievement in auditing and community service.

Ballard

Clements

Caron M. Ballard of Clinton has joined BankPlus as senior vice president of its Clinton location. She previously was at Deposit Guaranty National Bank.

Joel C. Clements of Waynesboro has been named president and chief operating officer of First State Bank in Waynesboro. He previously was executive vice president of National Bank of Commerce in Starkville.

Alexander Hugh Thomson of Norcross, Ga., has been inducted into the Southern Tennis Hall of Fame, which consists of only 46 members. Thomson is senior professional at Ansley Golf Club in Atlanta. While playing at Mississippi State, he achieved a 54-2 SEC record and won three SEC singles titles and four doubles titles.

Steve Brister of Jackson has been named general manager of Mississippi Chemical Corp.'s Yazoo City fertilizer manufacturing facility. He previously served as production manager.

Holley

Larry W. Holley has been named president-elect of Farmland MissChem Limited, Mississippi Chemical Corp.'s joint venture with Farmland Industries in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Holley most recently was Mississippi Chemical's vice president for nitrogen-production.

Rodney Odell Wallace of Houston, Texas, is manager of the Flight Systems Analysis Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Linda Hoffman Whitacre of Calhoun, Ga., has been named director of technology at Floyd College in Rome, Ga. She previously worked with the Georgia Department of Education.

Hammond

Gail Hammond (M.S. '80, Ed.S. '85) of Brandon, a teacher at Northwest Rankin Middle School, has been elected teacher director to the National Association for Gifted Children. She joins the organization's board of directors as the first teacher to serve in the position. Hammond is a past president of the Mississippi Association for Gifted Children.

Sharon Billingsley of Kailua, Hawaii, has been named general sales manager at New Planet Radio in Honolulu, which owns three radio stations in that market.

David M. Ferris Jr. of Brentwood, Tenn., has been named vice president, medical affairs at Quorum Health Resources in Brentwood.

Deborah Logan Henderson of Brandon has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Mulchand S. Rathod (Ph.D. '75) of Grosse Pointe, Mich., professor and chair of the division of engineering technology at Wayne State University, has received the Ben C. Sparks Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International. The award recognizes teaching and academic leadership and contributions to ASME International.

Paul Summers of Somerville, Tenn., has been named attorney general of the State of Tennessee by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Summers most recently served as a Court of Criminal Appeals judge.

Ron Dulaney of Powder Springs, Ga., is vice president of student services at Chattahoochee Technical Institute in Marietta. He received a Ph.D. in 1997 at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Bernice Steverson Grafenreed of Brandon has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Judith Ann Jacobs of Jackson has received a master's degree in school administration at Mississippi College.

Michael H. Logue (M.A. '84) of Vicksburg, chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Vicksburg District, has received the Corps' Locke L. Mouton Award for excellence in public relations management. He also was the winner of the Screenplay Division of the Eudora Welty Film and Fiction Festival. He is the author of a number of motion picture screenplays.

John D. Easley of Decatur, Ala., has been named Engineering Fellow at Solutia Chemical Co. A 24-year employee, he previously was an engineering specialist. The Engineering Fellow program recognizes outstanding technical achievement.

McMillan

Chris Mize McMillan of Madison has joined Bonner Travel Service in Jackson as co-owner and chief operating officer. She formerly was with Rightway/World Wide Travel. In 1997 and 1998, she was selected as one of Mississippi's 50 Leading Business Women.

Lynn Tighe Campbell of Brookhaven has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Mills

Gary C. Mills of Memphis, Tenn., has been named managing director of Morgan Keegan & Co., a full service investment firm with 40 offices in 12 states.

Patricia O'Kelly of Washington, D.C., managing director of media relations for the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, will accompany the orchestra on its nine-day tour of Mississippi in April. She has traveled to 22 countries and across the U.S. in her 21 years with the orchestra.

Linda Crosby DeBerry of Germantown, Tenn., managing director of human resource development for Federal Express Corp., has received her second Five Star Award, the company's highest honor given to management. She also was named the outstanding managing director for global sales support for 1998.

Hosemann-Butler

Anna Hosemann-Butler of Plano, Texas, recently graduated magna cum laude at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, where she received a master of divinity degree. She is assistant pastor at the First United Methodist Church in Allen, Texas.

Joel Yelverton of Clinton, assistant executive director of the Mississippi Association of Supervisors, has been named to the National Association of Counties' Environment, Energy, and Land Use Steering Committee.

Murphy

John W. Hatmaker Jr. (M.B.A. '85) of Edmond, Okla., has been named director of engineering for Kerr-McGee Chemical. He has been with the company since 1981. Hatmaker also has been named to the Industrial Advisory Committee for the School of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University.

John Murphy Jr. (M.B.A. '81) of Clinton has joined BankPlus as president of its Clinton location. He previously was at Trustmark National Bank.

Walter L. Bryant of New Iberia, La., has been named vice president of the Louisiana Division of Entex, a subsidiary of Houston Industries.

Cornelius Louis Rosenbaum III of Clinton has received a master's degree in school administration at Mississippi College.

Richard L. Baker of Decatur, Ala., has joined the Boeing Company as a principal facility engineer/construction manager at the new Boeing Delta IV Rocket Factory being built in Decatur. He previously worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Huntsville.

George Lester Tarburton (M.S. '84) of Wesson has received a master's degree in chemistry at Mississippi College.

Brad Berbette of Columbus, Ohio, has been named division president for Ameriserve in Columbus. He previously was vice president of operations for Ameriserve in Orlando, Fla.

Carolyn Correro Shanks of Canton has been named president and chief executive officer of Entergy Mississippi. She previously was vice president of finance and administration of the Entergy Nuclear division. Shanks is the only woman president of a state subsidiary of Entergy Corp., a New Orleans-based energy company.

Tammy S. Clark of Atlanta, Ga., has joined Action Lane Co. as a gallery designer. She previously was a project manager for Geiger Brickel of Atlanta.

Marcus Randell Gully of Indianola has been named vice president for agricultural lending at Community Bank in Indianola.

Michael Anthony O'Neal has been promoted to pricing manager for Chevron Retail Marketing-Sales West, which includes 11 western states.

Julie Carol Gunter Pilcher of Ridgeland has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Robin Webb Tonos of Madison has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Luke

McPherson

R.B. Luke of Madison has been promoted to intellectual property manager at ChemFirst Inc. in Jackson. He joined the company in 1987.

Myrtis Leigh Lunsford of Huntsville, Ala., is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Alabama A&M University. She received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Alabama, Huntsville in 1995.

Tracie P. McPherson of Jackson has joined Slabaugh Morgan Conefry & Associates, a New Orleans-based consulting firm, in its newly opened Jackson office. She previously was a vice president with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi.

Dottie Decell Edmiston of Knoxville, Tenn., is billing/collections coordinator for Pershing Yoakley & Associates, a regional accounting and healthcare consulting firm.

Robert L. Fleming III (M.S. '93) of Vicksburg has been named director of environmental programs at Mississippi Chemical Corp. in Yazoo City. He most recently was the company's coordinator of environmental affairs.

Sajogi Sastrahusada of Columbus, Ohio, is a senior programmer/analyst at Diversified Systems Inc. His responsibilities include analysis, design, and development of application software.

Blackledge

Walker

Jeff Blackledge and Todd Walker of Memphis, Tenn., founders of Archimania Architects, won three Awards of Merit recently at the American Institute of Architects/Tennessee Society annual convention in Nashville. The winning designs were for the company's storefront office space in downtown Memphis, an interior kiosk at a health club, and a private residence at Harbor Town.

Angela Dunham Carraway (M.S. '90) of Daleville is the chemistry instructor at Meridian Community College.

Randall Vines, a chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, recently supported Hurricane Mitch disaster relief efforts in Honduras while serving with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion SEVEN. Home based in Gulfport, Vines' unit served a seven-month Caribbean deployment to Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico.

Wanda Williams of Knoxville, Tenn., is a news reporter with WATE-TV Channel 6, an ABC affiliate, in Knoxville. She previously was news anchor and health reporter at WJBF-TV in Augusta, Ga.

Walter Norris Bone of Memphis, Tenn., a partner with multi-discipline design firm RWB & Associates, has been awarded the civil engineering and streetscape design for the downtown Memphis jail expansion and Peabody Place Garage.

Thomas M. Lestrade of Jackson has joined BellSouth Telecommunications as a specialist in the Circuit Capacity Management Group. He previously worked with the Department of Defense at Keesler AFB for eight years.

Sid Salter of Forest, publisher/editor of The Scott County Times, has sold Scott Publishing Inc. to Emmerich Newspapers Inc., Mississippi's largest home-owned newspaper organization. Concurrently, Salter was named vice president of Emmerich Newspapers. He will continue to serve as publisher/editor of the Forest newspaper and as president of Mid-Mississippi Publishing.

Jon B. Sanderson of Memphis, Tenn., has been promoted to senior vice president at Morgan Keegan & Co. A certified public accountant, he previously was assistant controller in the firm's accounting department.

Irene Dumas Tyson of Columbia, S.C., director of the South Carolina Design Arts Partnership with Clemson University, was chosen to participate in the Leadership South Carolina program for 1998-99. The program is administered by the University of South Carolina.

Anthony Hicks of Macon, Ga., has been promoted to senior industrial sales consultant at Tennant Co. He also won the company's sales contest and will go on an all-expense-paid trip to Hawaii.

Delvan Irwin of Atlanta, Ga., has been promoted to business development manager with American International Group. He has been with the insurance and financial services provider for more than seven years.

Tony Matthew Jordan (M.Ed. '91) of Memphis, Tenn., is manager of Hub Operations for Federal Express Corp.

Francis C. Lee has been elected president of First Tower Corp., a holding company serving the financial services market. Lee has worked for Tower Loan of Mississippi for 14 years.

Joel F. Shows of Madison is a licensed registered nurse and works in pediatric intensive care at University Medical Center in Jackson.

Rodney Sims of Bay Springs has been named general manager of Colonial Chapel Funeral Home Inc., an operation of 15 funeral homes in central and south Mississippi.

Danny R. Beeson of Glen St. Mary, Fla., has transferred from Lufkin, Texas, to Champion International's Whitehouse Lumber Operations in Whitehouse, Fla., as production supervisor. He also is a captain in the Mississippi Air National Guard.

Alicia Lynn Walters Burke of Brookhaven has taught in the Brookhaven School System for nine years. She recently received a master's degree in special education at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Timothy J. Caldwell of Kirkwood, Mo., is a life cycle project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District. He recently transferred from the Memphis District.

Tony Duane Holder of Yazoo City has received a master's degree in school administration at Mississippi College.

Melissa Jones (M.S. '95) has been named director of admissions at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan. She previously was recruitment specialist at Mississippi State.

Thomas C. Landin of Glen has joined Alliant TechSystems in Iuka as a composite materials process engineering lead, manufacturing Boeing's Delta IV rocket.

William David McLemore of Orlando, Fla., is supervisor of the customer service analyst department for Hughes Supply Inc., a leader in the wholesale industry.

Stuart Roy of Alexandria, Va., was campaign manager for U.S. Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell's (R-Colo.) successful reelection campaign. Roy also has been named communications director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington, D.C.

Teresa Burge Sappington (M.Ed. '92) of Starkville is outreach coordinator for Mississippi State's College of Engineering and is director of the Mississippi Science and Engineering Region V Fair.

Phyllis Williams of Jackson, an environmental engineer in training with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, is a recipient of the 1999 Theressa Hoover Community Service and Global Citizen Award presented by the Women's Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.

Gina Downs Bobo (M.S. '92) of Seneca, S.C., has been promoted to tax manager at KPMG in Greenville, S.C.

Graves

Robin Graves (M.A. '97) of Collierville, Tenn., has joined Southern College of Optometry in Memphis as associate director of records and admissions.

Bert Greenwalt of Hazen, Ark., has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis. He is an associate professor of agricultural economics at Arkansas State University and farms in Hazen.

Lisa Stigall Pinkerton (M.S. '93) of Cleveland is a fourth-grade teacher at Parks Elementary School.

Lawrence Ramsay Stewart of Durham, N.C., has been promoted to senior graphic designer at Qualex Inc. in Durham. He has been with the firm for two-and-a-half years.

Chelley Burton Bishop of Biloxi has been promoted to sales coordinator at the Isle of Capri Casino and Crowne Plaza Resort in Biloxi.

Sharon Day Clark of Louisville, Ky., an audit consultant for Humana, has attained Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Information Systems Auditor certifications.

Al Gamble of Atlanta, Ga., has been named satellite broadcast coordinator with Vyvx Inc., a national satellite uplink distributor. He previously was the company's video duplication supervisor.

Lee Lee Gray Marlow of Meridian has been named director of children and youth services at Weems Community Mental Health Center in Meridian. She also is a pediatric/adolescent psychologist at the facility.

Paul Jacob Megehee of Huntington, W.Va., has received the Dr. James R. Ross Award for outstanding second year resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Marshall University School of Medicine.

Connie Lynn Murphy of Pelham, Ala., has passed the CPA exam and has been promoted to chief financial officer at NaphCare, a Birmingham-based pharmaceutical company.

Bradley B. Rounsaville of Birmingham, Ala., has joined Bradley Arant Rose & White as an associate attorney.

Paul Brian Scruggs (M.S. '97) of Antioch, Tenn., has joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a research assistant in radiation oncology.

Kimbel D. Shepherd of Jackson is completing a pediatric residency at University Medical Center and plans to join North Mississippi Pediatrics in Tupelo as a general pediatrician in August 1999.

Scott Stricklin is assistant athletic director at Tulane University.

Philip Betbeze of Nashville, Tenn., is focus editor of the weekly Nashville Business Journal.

Keith G. Carr, a Marine Corps private, has completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.

LaTonya Angenetta Clay of Indianola received a master's degree in developmental biology at the University of Cincinnati in 1997 and subsequently entered the Ph.D. program in biological sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi. She is completing graduate research with the Catfish Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at its Stoneville facility.

Douglas Alan Evans of Baltimore, Md., graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in May 1998 and has begun a residency in anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.

Wendy Walker Lacey of Birmingham, Ala., is employed with the firm of Ernst & Young.

Melinda Alice Miller of Waveland was selected as a 1998 Woodrow Wilson Fellow for the Biology CORE Institute. She, along with 40 other biology teachers, studied at Princeton University last summer.

Michael Mola of East Norwalk, Conn., professional assistant at Grandfather Golf & Country Club, and his partner won the Titleist/Foot-Joy Pro Assistant Championship held last July at Pinehurst Country Club, N.C.

Jay Murphy of Starkville is a realtor with Coldwell Banker S.R.E. Realtors.

Doug Pinkerton of Cleveland has been named director of wellness activities and recreation at Delta State University.

Mark Edward Strickland of Shreveport, La., has been promoted to terminal manager at USF Dugan Inc. in Shreveport.

Miriam Moffett Balzli of Starkville has been named business development coordinator at Bank of Mississippi in Starkville.

Winfred Scott Bounds of Union teaches at Neshoba Central Elementary School and heads the Accelerated Reading Program there.

Mary Carolyn Ikerd of Jackson has received a master's degree in elementary education at Mississippi College.

Navy Lt. j.g. Stephen E. Johnson has completed a six-month deployment to the Mediterranean Sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

James Charles Purdy of Metairie, La., is a territory manager for Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology in New Orleans.

Shannon Gayle Rodman of Memphis, Tenn., is an account supervisor at TMP Worldwide, an international advertising agency.

John M. Rogers II of Collins has been named compliance officer for Citizens State Bank of Magee. He previously was assistant vice president of operations at First National Bank of South Mississippi at Hattiesburg.

Matt Taylor (M.A. '96) of Marietta, Ga., has joined the Georgia Department of Audits as a management analyst.

Stacy Burgess Walker of Gulfport has received a master's degree in guidance and counseling at Mississippi College.

Nanette Darlene Whitehead of Austin, Texas, is a child life specialist at the Children's Hospital of Austin.

Chadwick Taylor Whitten of Jackson has received a master's degree in mathematics at Mississippi College.

Matthew James Gray of Lubbock, Texas, is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas Tech University, studying spatial and temporal dynamics of amphibians.

Gregory M. Johnston of Ridgeland recently graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law and is serving a one-year clerkship with Justice James L. Roberts Jr. of the state Supreme Court.

Kyle B. Powell of Clinton, Mo., is an at-risk teacher and varsity football coach in Warsaw, Mo.

Danny Ray Rochelle II of Clinton has received a master's degree in counseling psychology at Mississippi College.

Scott Sartor of Nashville, Tenn., is a commodity futures broker with The Jernigan Group/FIMAT USA, specializing in cotton.

Stephen Skinner of Olive Branch has joined the professional staff of Archimania Architects in Memphis, Tenn. He also is chairman of the Design Review Board for the City of Olive Branch.

Philip Ramsey Allison of River Ridge, La., has been named assistant director of Athletic Media Relations at Tulane University.

Daniel Todd Borst of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is assistant director of student life at the University of Alabama.

Mindy H. Buchanan of Oxford is office manager at Sen. Thad Cochran's district office in Oxford.

Joel E. Easley of New York, N.Y., has worked in New York as a graphic designer since March 1997.

Robin Booth Gardenhire of Parsons, Kan., received a master's degree in exercise physiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in June 1998, and currently is career center associate at Labette Community College in Parsons.

Thomas Duane Gordon of Canton has been promoted to news editor at the Madison County Journal in Ridgeland. He previously was a staff reporter for the weekly newspaper. In two years, Gordon has received nine Mississippi Press Association awards.

Joy Patrice Lewis has moved with her husband, a captain in the Air Force, to Singapore.

Shannon Michele McKissack of Alexandria, Va., is a government accountant in Washington, D.C. She is planning a trip to Germany this spring.

Crystal Dawn Medders of Jackson was named 1997 Rookie of the Year by the Public Relations Association of Mississippi, Central Chapter.

Taylor

James Kevin Sykes of Huntsville, Ala., works for Sverdrup Technologies as a member of the Marshall Space Flight Center Engineering Support Group. His title is mechanical engineer/unigraphics and solid edge coordinator.

Susan Taylor of Hattiesburg has been named southern regional director of the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi. She previously was public relations specialist for Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.

Ted Marshall Tice of Richmond, Ind., has completed a two-year management training program with Belden Wire & Cable. He has been promoted to business and technology analyst for the company's Richmond plant in its production planning department.

Richard Todd Bennett of Jackson is attending the Mississippi College School of Law.

Michael L. Brown of Greenville has been assigned to the 85th Flying Training Squadron at Laughlin AFB, Texas, to begin Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training.

William E. Harrison III of Bryan, Texas, is a breeder service technician with Sanderson Farms in Brazos.

Gerald David Horton Jr. of Mooreville is a systems analyst for North Mississippi Health Services.

Rebecca Dawn Kerr of Twenty-nine Palms, Calif., works at Youth Villages Children's Residential Home.

John Nathanael Mills of Longview, Texas, works for Coltec Industries at the company's Stemco Truck Products Division.

Cheryl Lynn Pardue of Tishomingo is employed as a quality control technician at Sunshine Mills Pet Nutrition Center in Red Bay, Ala.

Casey Lynn Coleman of Memphis, Tenn., works with Reformed University Fellowship at the University of Memphis.

Michael Seth Mott of Elgin, Ill., has been named assistant professor of elementary education at National-Louis University in Chicago, where he will teach graduate students in the master's of teaching program.

Jeff W. Olyniec of Shenzhen, China, is head golf instructor at the Doc Holloway Golf Academy located at the Xili Golf and Country Club in Shenzhen and at Noble Merchant Golf and Country Club.

Christy Robinson has joined the Nashville-Moore General Agency of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. in Nashville, Tenn., as a marketing representative.

Jennifer Whalen has joined Design Collective Inc. in Nashville, Tenn., where she will assist in furniture selection and pricing.