140th MSU Birthday Celebration

140th MSU Birthday Celebration
Photo by Russ Houston

February 28, 2018

MSU President Mark E. Keenum cuts the cake to celebrate the university's 140th birthday Wednesday [Feb. 28], alongside MSU students, staff, alumni and friends. The party was organized by the MSU Alumni Association and presented by Renasant Bank. In addition to the birthday celebration in the Colvard Student Union Dawg House, the university is observing the milestone in conjunction with Hail State Giving Days. Since MSU was founded in 1878, the philanthropy event goal is to raise 1,000 donations from alumni, parents, faculty, staff, students and friends in 1,878 minutes Feb. 28-March 1. For more visit hailstategiving.com.