RAYMOND – The Hinds Community College Baseball and Softball teams will host the seventh annual Monster Mash fundraiser at Joe G. Moss Field on the Raymond Campus at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29. The Monster Mash is an annual fundraiser that features a co-ed...
The third annual Dr. J’s Memorial Golf Tournament, which funds an athletic scholarship in the name of the late Vicksburg dentist, Dr. Troy Lee “Doc” Jenkins, will be Oct. 12-13 at Meadow Oaks Golf Course in Clinton. Jenkins was born and raised in Utica. He attended...
Thanks to a solid academic record and a strong right leg, Kyle Williams could have chosen to go just about anywhere after graduating from Pearl High School. Williams, heavily recruited by Hinds Community College coaches, decided to join the Eagles instead. That...
Lauren and Lindsay Harper, freshman twins from Richland, along with their childhood friend Victoria “Tori” Still of Richland, are dorm-mates at Marshall Hall on the Raymond Campus, play on the softball team together and are all nursing school hopefuls. Still, who was...
It was in the produce section of a Kentucky A&P grocery store that David Yewell’s life was changed forever. Yewell (1962), a past member of the Hinds Community College Foundation board, worked at the store sorting produce. In fall 1960, he was just a few days...
Eagles football hall of famer William “Bucky” McElroy (1950) looks forward to a completely different sport every April at Hinds Community College – golf. McElroy, who many of his generation say is the greatest football player to ever wear an Eagles uniform, is still...
Probably few people can boast that they received degrees from two different colleges in the same month, but Hinds alumnus Joey Sherman can. Sherman, a Terry High graduate, attended Hinds Community College from 2005 to 2007 but did not graduate before transferring to...
Alexis Levy of Jackson considered jumping into university life when she graduated from Terry High School last spring but concluded she wasn’t ready for that. “I wanted to stay close to home. I didn’t think it was time for me to move away yet,” she said. “Most people...
Playing football at Hinds Community College was a decision that may have saved the life of Forest Hill High School graduate J’Vontez Blackmon, 20. During a routine preseason physical a doctor sent Blackmon to the hospital for further examination where it was confirmed...
