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     In the fall of 2008, Pearl River Community College will open its doors for the 100th year of service to the citizens of Mississippi.
     As Mississippi's first two-year institution of higher learning, Pearl River has been a leader in providing quality and innovative educational opportunities.
     A century of service and providing opportunities for those who desired to seek higher eduation has given the institution a special place in the history of our state.
     The centennial year provides the college with a special opportunity to showcase not only its unique history, but also its current programs and services.
     A Centennial Celebration Steering Committee has been at work since the summer of 2007 and has developed a year-long agenda of special activities. Three major Centennial Celebration events are being
planned beginning on Sept. 8, 2008, with an activity to commemorate the first day of class that occurred in 1909.
     Pearl River occupies a special place in the lives and hearts of many people. It is a place that has endeared the affection and loyalty of many thousands of people who have been touched in some manner by the
insitution. It is a place, carved in rural America, that has created dreams and opened the world to its students.
     From its ambitious beginnings in 1909 to its far-reaching programs and services of today, Pearl River Community College has been Mississippi's first and finest two-year institution of higher learning.