Excellence in Education
By Staff
Feb. 6, 2003
Brandon Pratt was recently selected by the Associated Student Body Senate at the University of Mississippi to serve as an election commissioner for the 2003 student body elections.
Pratt, a sophomore business and political science major, is a member of the Ole Miss Forensics Team, College Republicans, Student Programming Board, National Dean's List, Ole Miss Ambassadors, and Sigma Chi Fraternity.
He is the son of Don and Sharon Pratt of Bailey.
Dave Christian Hicks, a senior at Lamar School, has been named one of more than 2,600 candidates in the 2003 Presidential Scholars Program.
Candidates were selected from nearly 2.8 million students expected to graduate from high school this year. They were selected for their exceptional performance on either the SAT or ACT.
Further consideration is based on students' essays, self-assessments, descriptions of activities, school recommendations and school transcripts.
Scholars will be invited to Washington in June to receive the Presidential Scholars medallion. Hicks is the son of John and Jan Hicks.
Adam Stephenson Mitchell of Meridian has been named to Louisiana State University dean's list for the 2002 fall semester.
This distinction is awarded to students who have achieved at least a 3.5 or higher grade point average as a full-time student.
Mitchell is a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. He also was a member of the LSU football team for the 2000-2001 season.
He attends Christ the King Catholic Church. He will be honored March 16 at the Honors Convocation at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. Mitchell is the son of Manny and Melanie Mitchell.
Ten students from Lauderdale County were named to the University of Mississippi dean's honor roll for the fall semester.
A grade point average of at least 3.5 is required for full-time students.
Honor roll students from Meridian were James Andrew Murphy, John David Barr, Jennifer Leigh Barry, Amy R. Roebuck, Robert Stephen Mason, Jennifer Hester Russell, Matthew Johnson Willis and Ann Marie Hall.
Honor roll students from Collinsville were Josiefina Golden and Georgianne E. Patterson.
Seven Meridian students were among 676 candidates for graduation from the University of Mississippi at the end of the fall semester.
The candidates were Kristopher Lee Booker, Robert Lee Smith, Thomas McCarver Rayburn, Dan Henry Singley III, Frederick Douglas Grant, Ralphel Ramon Braden and Jamie Leigh Kerley.
Mississippi Power Co, will honor five first-year teachers from East Central Mississippi all part of a program to recognize and encourage new public school teachers.
The teachers will receive $750 grants they can spend on whatever they believe will best benefit their classrooms and students.
The five teachers are: Carin Collins Fondren, third-grade teacher at Newton Elementary; Donna S. Tucker, second-grade teacher at Newton Elementary; Donna M. Cole, sixth-grade teacher at N.H. Pilate Middle School in Newton; and Cami A. Reynolds, fourth-grade reading teacher at Lake Middle School.
The teachers will be honored at a luncheon Saturday in Biloxi.
