Margaret Murphree was a firm believer in the importance of education. "My mother believed in education, both as a means of improving one's self and as a way to get ahead in life," said Robert Murphree, Margaret's son and a University of Mississippi alumnus. "I largely owe my own education to my mother's persistence and…

  The late Dr. R. Faser Triplett-the state's first board-certified allergist-immunologist and a founder of the Mississippi Allergy Clinic-is being remembered with a named faculty chair at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. A recent gift in excess of $1 million from his family foundation caps off a $2 million funding campaign for the endowed…

  With deep roots of poverty all around him, Ralph Dickerson was an anomaly in small Kenova, W.Va., when he decided to pursue a college degree. His first stop was Marshall University with the help of a baseball scholarship, and after military service, his destination was the UM School of Law.    The 1949 graduate…

  In the mid-1930s when money was tight and few part-time jobs were available, Lucian Minor struggled financially as a University of Mississippi student. The Ole Miss cafeteria had to rearrange its food line, in fact, because the creative young student would choose a five-cent bowl of soup and load it up with vegetables before…

  Susan Barksdale Howorth of Oxford had decided to pursue a master's degree in art when her life was cut short. Her great interests and passions in both creating art and providing educational opportunities for others will live on through University of Mississippi students who receive scholarships in her name.   The Susan Barksdale Howorth…

Like many University of Mississippi students, Mason Wilbanks, Sam Clayton Kelly and Walker Kelly enjoyed the Grove on football Saturdays. All three graduated from Madison Central High School, attended Broadmoor Baptist Church and pledged the same fraternity.   But on the morning of Oct. 30, 2011, the three friends were killed as they headed back…