Millsaps College is a
privatePrivate college may refer to:*Private school*Private university...
liberal arts collegeLiberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States. The Encyclopædia Britannica Concise offers the following definition of the liberal arts as a "college or university curriculum aimed at imparting general knowledge and developing...
located in
Jackson, MississippiJackson is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County , but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin Counties...
. Founded in 1890, the college is recognized as one of the country's best private colleges dedicated to undergraduate teaching and educating the whole individual. Affiliated with the
United Methodist ChurchThe United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which traces its roots back to the evangelical, holiness, revival movement of John and Charles Wesley within the Anglican Church. As such, the church's theological orientation is decidedly Wesleyan. It contains both liturgical and...
, Millsaps is home to approximately 1,200 students. Millsaps College is featured in Loren Pope’s
Colleges That Change Lives and is one of only 24 private colleges nationwide named a
Best Buy in the 2010 edition of Fiske’s
Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.
Founding
The college was founded by a
ConfederateThe Confederate States of America was a separatist political entity existing between 1861 to 1865, established by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America, each of which had previously declared their secession from the United States...
veteran, Major
Reuben Webster MillsapsReuben Webster Millsaps was an American businessman, financier and philanthropist.-Early years/Education:He was born in Pleasant Valley, Copiah County, Mississippi, into a farming family as the second child of nine...
in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $50,000. Dr.
William Belton MurrahWilliam Belton Murrah was an American Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1910.- Biography :Born in Pickensville, Alabama, he was educated at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, and at Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana. In 1897 Murrah received the LL.D...
was the college's first president, and Bishop
Charles Betts GallowayCharles Betts Galloway was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1886.He was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. His ancestor was Richard Galloway, who came from England in 1670 and settled in Lord Baltimore's province. From there the family branched into...
of the United Methodist Church organized the college's early fund-raising efforts. Both men now have halls named in their honor. Major Millsaps and his wife are interred in a tomb near the center of campus.
Academics
Despite its religious affiliation, the curriculum is secular. The writing-intensive core curriculum requires each student to compile an acceptable portfolio of written work before completion of the sophomore year. Candidates for an undergraduate degree must also pass oral and written
comprehensive examsA comprehensive examination , often abbreviated as "comps," is a specific type of examination
in their major field of study. These exams last up to three hours, and may cover any required or elective course offered by the major department. Unacceptable performance on comprehensive exams will prevent a candidate from receiving a degree, even if all course work has been completed. "Comps" are usually associated with graduate degree requirements, so their inclusion at the undergraduate level is a source of pride (and possibly pressure) for Millsaps students.
Millsaps offers
B.S.A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years ....
,
B.A.Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
,
B.B.A.The Bachelor of Business Administration is a bachelor's degree in business studies. In most universities, the degree is conferred upon a student after four years of full-time study in one or more areas of business concentrations. The BBA program usually includes general business courses and...
,
M.B.A.The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
and MAcc degrees and corresponding programs. Millsaps sends large numbers of graduates to
graduate schoolA graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
s,
law schoolA law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- United States:...
, and
medical schoolA medical school is a tertiary educational institution—or part of such an institution—that teaches medicine.In addition to a medical degree program, some medical schools offer programs leading to a Master's Degree, Doctor of Philosophy , or other post-secondary education. Medical schools can also...
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The current undergraduate population is around 1100 students on a 103
acreThe acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre....
(417,000 m²) campus near downtown
Jackson, MississippiJackson is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County , but the city also contains areas in Madison and Rankin Counties...
. The student to faculty ratio is 11:1 with an average class size around 15 students. Millsaps offers 33 majors and 34 minors, including the option of a self-designed major, along with a multitude of study abroad and internship opportunities. Millsaps employs 91 full-time faculty members. Of those, 99 percent of tenure-track faculty hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field. The professors on the
tenureTenure commonly refers to life tenure in a job and specifically to a senior academic's contractual right not to have their position terminated without just cause.- Academic tenure :...
track have the highest degree in their field. The college offers research partnerships for undergraduate students, and a variety of study abroad programs. Millsaps reports that 45% of their student body comes from outside Mississippi; a large portion of out-of-state students are from neighboring
LouisianaThe State of Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
. Millsaps is home to nearly 1,200 students from 33 states and territories plus 18 countries. The college also offers a
Continuing EducationContinuing education is an all encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States...
program and the Community Enrichment Series for adults in the Jackson area.
Campus
The Millsaps campus is close to downtown Jackson. It is bordered by Woodrow Wilson Avenue to the north, North State Street to the east, West Street to the west, and Marshall Street to the south.
The center of campus is dominated by "The Bowl", where many events occur, including Homecoming activities, concerts, the Multicultural Festival, and Commencement. Adjacent to the Bowl is the Campbell College Center, renovated in 2000, which contains the campus bookstore, post office, cafeteria, and Student Life offices. This central section of campus also holds the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, Olin Science Hall, Sullivan-Harrell Hall, and the Millsaps-Wilson Library.
The north part of campus includes the Hall Activities Center (commonly called "the HAC"), the sports fields, and the freshman dormitories. On the far northwestern corner is James Observatory, the oldest building on campus. Operational since 1901, the observatory underwent major renovations in 1980. It is open for celestial gazing.
Upperclassmen dormitories are located on the south side of campus, with Fraternity Row and the Christian Center. Originally constructed as a memorial to students and graduates who died in service during World War II, the Christian Center houses an auditorium and the departments of Performing Arts, History and Religious Studies.
Between the Christian Center and Murrah Hall, which houses the Else School of Management, is the tomb of Major Millsaps and the "M" Bench, erected by the classes of 1926, 1927, and 1928. The Nicholson Garden was added to improve the aesthetics of this area.
Statistics (as of 2009)
Enrollment: 1,200
Average GPA: 3.5
Middle 50% SAT composite scores: 1080-1320
Middle 50% ACT scores: 23-29
Student to Faculty Ratio: 11:1
Rankings and distinctions
Millsaps fell from 81 to 89 in the 2010
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's list of "Best Liberal Arts Colleges".
http://rankings.usnews.com/best-colleges/jackson-ms/millsaps-college-2414
The 2007 Princeton Review ranked Millsaps as number 14 in "Class Discussions Encouraged", and number 3 in "Administration". The Princeton Review of 2007 also ranked Millsaps' Else School of Business number 8, for "Best Professors".
Millsaps was one of 40 schools in
Loren PopeLoren Pope was an American writer and independent college placement counselor.In 1965, Pope, a former newspaperman and education editor of The New York Times, founded the College Placement Bureau, one of the first independent college placement counseling services in the United States...
's
Colleges That Change LivesColleges That Change Lives is a college educational guide by Loren Pope. It was originally published in 1996, with a second edition in 2000, and a third edition in 2006...
.
The 2008
Princeton Review Best 290 Business Schools names Millsaps' Else School of Business as one of the nation's top business schools and ranked Millsaps number 3 for "Best Classroom Experience".
One of only 24 private colleges nationwide and the only college in Mississippi named a "Best Buy" in the 2010 edition of
Fiske's Top Financial Finds on the College Tuition Market.
Athletics
The school's sports teams
are known as the Majors, and their colors are purple and white. They participate in the
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
's
Division IIIDivision III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.-Membership:The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes...
and the
Southern Collegiate Athletic ConferenceThe Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference , founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas...
.
Men participate in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field. Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance team, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Both men and women will begin
lacrosseLacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball...
teams in 2010.
The Majors had a fierce football and basketball rivalry with
Mississippi CollegeMississippi College, also known as MC, is a private, Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi. Mississippi College comprises the main campus in Clinton, as well as satellite campuses in Brandon and Madison, Mississippi, and the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson...
in nearby
ClintonClinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States. Situated in the Jackson metropolitan area, it is the tenth largest city in Mississippi. The population was 23,347 at the 2000 United States Census.-History:...
through the 1950s before competition was suspended after an infamous student brawl at a basketball game. Campus legend says the brawl was sparked by the alleged theft of the body of Millsaps founder Major Millsaps by Mississippi College students. The rivalry was considered by many as the best in Mississippi, featuring a prank by Mississippi College students who painted "TO HELL WITH MILSAPS" (sic) on the Millsaps Observatory. The football rivalry resumed in 2000 as the "Backyard Brawl", with games at
Mississippi Veterans Memorial StadiumMississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. A state-owned facility, Veterans Memorial Stadium is the home field of the Jackson State University Tigers; it also plays host to the Mississippi High School Activities Association state championship...
. The rivalry took a one-year hiatus in 2005 but resumed in 2006.
Millsaps was the summer training camp home for the
NFL'sThe National Football League is the largest professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of...
New Orleans SaintsThe New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Millsaps was also home to the famous game-ending play in the
2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football gameThe 2007 Trinity vs. Millsaps football game is best known for the memorable play that occurred at the end of the game. On October 27 2007, the NCAA Division III 19th-ranked Trinity University Tigers threw 15 lateral passes and scored a 60-yard touchdown to win a game against the 24th-ranked...
, in which
Trinity UniversityTrinity University is a private, independent, primarily undergraduate, university in San Antonio, Texas.-History:Trinity was founded in 1869 by Cumberland Presbyterians in Tehuacana, Texas. The school was formed from the remnants of three small Cumberland Presbyterian colleges that had failed...
defeated Millsaps by a score of 28-24 after the miraculous play that later won the Pontiac Game-Changing Performance of the Year award, which had never before been bestowed upon a play outside of the NCAA's Bowl Subdivision.
In 2008, Millsaps quarterback
Juan JosephJuan Joseph is a professional Canadian football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as an undrafted free agent in 2009...
was awarded the Conerly Trophy, which goes to the best football player in the state of
MississippiMississippi is a state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi . The state is heavily forested outside of the...
.
Organizations
The school is home to five different
fraternitiesFraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In English, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in North America, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
:
Alpha Phi AlphaAlpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940...
,
Kappa Alpha OrderKappa Alpha Order is a social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 124 active chapters, 3 provisional chapters, and 2 commissions...
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Sigma Alpha EpsilonSigma Alpha Epsilon is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. Founded at the University of Alabama in 1856, it is the only fraternity founded in the Antebellum South still in operation...
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Pi Kappa AlphaPi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international secret social Greek-letter college fraternity. It was founded at 47 West Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868.-History:...
, and
Lambda Chi AlphaLambda Chi Alpha is one of the largest men's general fraternities in North America, by its own count, having initiated more than 270,000 members and held chapters at more than 300 universities. It is a member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference and was founded by Warren A. Cole,...
; as well as six
sororitiesFraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In English, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in North America, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
:
Delta Delta DeltaDelta Delta Delta , also known as Tri Delta, is an international collegiate women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888. With 138 chapters in the United States and Canada it is one of the largest women's organizations in the world....
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Kappa DeltaKappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the universities Kappa Delta (ΚΔ) was the first sorority founded at the State Female Normal School (now Longwood University), in Farmville,...
,
Phi MuPhi Mu is the second oldest female fraternal organization established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. The organization was founded as the Philomathean Society on January 4, 1852, and announced publicly on March 4 of the same year...
,
Chi OmegaChi Omega is a women's fraternity and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters. The fraternity's headquarters is located in Memphis, Tennessee.- History :Chi Omega was founded April 5, 1895 at the...
,
Alpha Kappa AlphaAlpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle...
, and
Delta Sigma ThetaDelta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community. Delta Sigma Theta was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University by twenty-two young women. Today, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority...
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Notable alumni
- Dr. Rodney J. Bartlett
Rodney J. Bartlett, born March 31, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S., is Graduate Research Professor of Chemistry and Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He received his B.Sc. degree from Millsaps College in 1966 and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 1971. Bartlett was an NDEA...
, noted quantum chemistA chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component...
and Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
winner
- Michael Beck
John Michael Beck Taylor , commonly known as Michael Beck, is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Swan in the 1979 film, The Warriors.-Biography:...
, actorAn actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
- Johnny Carson
John William “Johnny” Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
, former TV host of The Tonight ShowThe Tonight Show is an American late-night talk and variety show airing on NBC since 1954. Tonight is the third longest-running entertainment program in U.S...
on NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
.
- Roy Clyde Clark
Roy Clyde Clark is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980.-Biography/Family:...
, a BishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of the United Methodist ChurchThe United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which traces its roots back to the evangelical, holiness, revival movement of John and Charles Wesley within the Anglican Church. As such, the church's theological orientation is decidedly Wesleyan. It contains both liturgical and...
- Lisa D'Amour
Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists....
, Obie AwardThe Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards bestowed by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists and groups in New York City. As the Tony Awards cover Broadway productions, the Obies cover off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions...
winning playwrightA playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors...
- David Herbert Donald
David Herbert Donald was an historian of the American Civil War.- Career :...
, noted historianAn historian is an individual who studies and writes about history, and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all events in time...
- Ellen Gilchrist
Ellen Gilchrist is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet.-Life:Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and spent part of her childhood on a plantation owned by her maternal grandparents. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and studied creative writing, especially...
, author
- Alan Hunter, MTV
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VJ
- Chris Jackson, professional football
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player
- Clay Foster Lee Jr
Clay Foster Lee, Jr. is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1988.-Birth and Family:Clay was born 2 March 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. On 27 May 1951 he married Dorothy “Dot” Stricklin . They have five children: Cecilia Ann Lee, Jack Stricklin Lee, Lisa Margaret...
, a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
- Lewis Nordan
Lewis Nordan grew up in Itta Bena, Mississippi. He is a graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1983, at age forty-five, Nordan published his first collection of stories, Welcome to the Arrow-Catcher Fair...
, author
- Casey Parks, former Jackson Free Press
The Jackson Free Press, referred to often as simply "JFP", is an alternative weekly newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi founded in 2002 by Mississippi native Donna Ladd, author and technology expert Todd Stauffer and a group of young Jacksonians wanting a progressive voice in the state...
Assistant Editor and journalist; New York Times Win a Trip with Nicholas D. KristofNicholas Donabet Kristof is an American journalist, author, op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. He has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since November 2001 and is widely known for bringing to light human rights abuses in Asia and Africa, such as human trafficking...
winner
- Christopher Lee Nutter
Christopher Lee Nutter is the author of The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block , and co-author of Ignite the Genius Within .-Early career:Nutter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from...
, journalist (The New York Times, The Village Voice); author, The Way Out: The Gay Man's Guide to Freedom (HCI Books, 2006); and co-author Ignite the Genius Within (Penguin, 2009)
- Claude Passeau
Claude William Passeau was an American starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From through , Passeau played with the Pittsburgh Pirates , Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs . He batted and threw right-handed...
, an All-Star pitcher in Major League BaseballMajor League Baseball is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between...
during the 1930s and 1940s
- Tate Reeves
Tate Reeves is the State Treasurer of Mississippi. He is a Republican and one of the youngest state officeholders in the USA.As State Treasurer, Reeves maintains the official financial records of Mississippi....
, MississippiMississippi is a state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi . The state is heavily forested outside of the...
State Treasurer
- Robert C. Robbins, Chair of Cardiothorascic surgery at Stanford University
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- Robin Robinson, deputy assistant secretary of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
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, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesThe United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...
- Kevin Sessums
Kevin Sessums is an American author, editor and actor from Forest, Mississippi. Sessums served as executive editor of Interview and as a contributing editor of both Vanity Fair and Allure....
, journalist and author
- General Louis H. Wilson, a decorated war veteran who served as Commandant of the Marine Corps
The Commandant of the Marine Corps is the highest-ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
.
Important dates in Millsaps history
- 1890 - Major Reuben Webster Millsaps founds the college with a personal gift of $50,000.
- 1901 - Millsaps builds the first golf
Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
course in Mississippi.
- 1902 - Mary Letitia Holloman becomes the first female graduate of Millsaps.
- 1908 - Sing-Ung Zung of Soochow, China
The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...
, becomes the first internationalInternational or internationally most often describes interaction between nations, or encompassing two or more nations, constituting a group or association having members in two or more nations, or generally reaching beyond national boundaries...
student to graduate from Millsaps.
- 1914 - Old Main, one of the first buildings on campus, burns and is replaced by Murrah Hall.
- 1916 - Major Millsaps dies and is buried on campus.
- 1931 - The first night football
American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
game in Mississippi is played on the Millsaps campus between the Majors and Mississippi A&M (now Mississippi State UniversityMississippi State University is a land-grant university located in north east-central Mississippi, United States, adjacent to the town of Starkville and is situated 125 miles northeast of Jackson and 23 miles west of Columbus. With an enrollment of 18,601, it is the largest university in the...
).
- 1943 - Johnny Carson
John William “Johnny” Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
attends Millsaps for V-12The V-12 Navy College Training Program was designed to supplement the force of commissioned officers in the United States Navy during World War II...
naval officer training, entertaining his comrades with a magic and humor act.
- 1944 - Louis H. Wilson, born in Brandon, Mississippi
Brandon is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 16,436 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Rankin CountyBrandon is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area.- History :...
and who graduated from the college in 1941, receives the Medal of HonorThe Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while...
for his actions at the Battle of GuamThe Second Battle of Guam was the American capture of the Japanese held island of Guam during the Pacific campaign of World War II.- Background:...
during World War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. Wilson was also promoted to GeneralA general officer is an officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is simply called general.-All general officer...
and became the 26th Commandant of the Marine CorpsThe Commandant of the Marine Corps is the highest-ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
in 1975. He was the first Marine Corps Commandant to serve full time on the Joint Chiefs of StaffThe Joint Chiefs of Staff is a group of military leaders in the United States armed forces who advise the civilian government of the United States...
.
- 1953 - Dean Martin
Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor and comedian. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That A Kick In The...
and Jerry LewisJerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the...
judge a Millsaps beauty contest.
- 1965 - Millsaps becomes the first all-white college in Mississippi to voluntarily desegregate
Desegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v...
.
- 1967 - Robert Kennedy speaks at the college about obligations of young Americans to give back to their country.
- 1975 - Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
speaks to Millsaps students about the crisis in the Middle EastThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, southeastern Europe, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East...
.
- 1988 - Millsaps initiates the first campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity in Mississippi.
- 1989 - Millsaps becomes the first school in Mississippi to have a chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
List of presidents of Millsaps
- William Belton Murrah
William Belton Murrah was an American Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1910.- Biography :Born in Pickensville, Alabama, he was educated at Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, and at Centenary College in Jackson, Louisiana. In 1897 Murrah received the LL.D...
- 1890-1910
- David Carlisle Hull - 1910-1912
- Dr. Alexander Farrar Watkins - 1912-1923
- Dr. David Martin Key - 1923-1938
- Dr. Marion Lofton Smith - 1938-1952
- Dr. Homer Ellis Finger, Jr. - 1952-1964
- Dr. Benjamin Barnes Graves - 1965-1970
- Dr. Edward McDaniel Collins, Jr. - 1970-1978
- Dr. George Marion Harmon (1978-2000) - After 22 years of leading Millsaps College, Dr. Harmon announced his resignation in the Spring of 1999. His last day as president of Millsaps College was June 30, 2000.
- Dr. Frances Lucas
Dr. Frances Lucas is the outgoing president of Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.-Personal life:Dr. Lucas is the daughter of Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas, who himself is the former president of Delta State University and later The University of Southern Mississippi.Lucas grew up in Mississippi...
(2000-2010) - Dr. Lucas was the first female to hold the post at Millsaps. Before her hiring at Millsaps, she was the Senior Vice President for Campus Life at Emory UniversityEmory University is a private research university in the metropolitan area of Atlanta in unincorporated Dekalb County, Georgia. In addition to its three undergraduate divisions, Emory has nine graduate and professional schools, including schools of business, law, medicine, theology, nursing, and...
. Dr. Lucas resigned on April 23, 2009. Lucas cited disagreements with faculty as the reason for her resignation.
- Howard McMillan, Dean of Millsaps' Else School of Management took over as Interim President in August 2009.
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