Nominations sought

Nominations for officers and directors of the Alumni Association are being sought prior to elections scheduled for Homecoming Weekend this fall.

The Nominating Committee will present a slate of names for election at the association's annual business meeting on Saturday, Oct. 17. Terms will begin Jan. 1, 1999.

The officer positions up for consideration include: national president, national first vice president, national second vice president, and national treasurer.

Director positions on the national board up for consideration include: North 1 Region director (Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Marshall-Benton, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tunica, and Yalobusha county chapters); Central 3 Region director (Central Mississippi, Leake, Scott, Smith, and Warren county chapters); South 2 Region director (Adams-Franklin-Wilkinson, Amite, Caliborne-Jefferson, Copiah, Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pike, Simpson, and Walthall county chapters); and Central Region young director (Attala-Choctaw, Bolivar, Central Mississippi, Holmes, Humphreys, Kemper, Leake, Leflore-Carroll, Neshoba, Noxubee, Scott, Sharkey-Issaquena, Smith, Sunflower, Warren, Washington, and Winston county chapters).

A young director must be 32 years of age or younger at the end of the term to which he or she is elected. No state shall have more than one out-of-state director; current directors are from the states of Alabama and Tennessee.

All Mississippi State alumni are eligible to recommend names for consideration for any of these positions. To do so, send the names to: Nominating Committee, P.O. Box AA, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5526. Recommendations should be received by July 22, 1998.

The annual Homecoming football game will feature Mississippi State vs. East Tennessee State.