June

• Coliseum named for retiring President Marvin White

• Dr. Ted J. Alexander takes over as Pearl River College’s ninth president 

• RiverSide premiers September 1986
• Dow Ford named Director of Admissions
• PRCC Wildcat Club chartered
• Mississippi’s state junior college newsletter published by the DECA Club and the Public Relations Department  wins the national award over 49 other states
• Academic Building named to honor long- time Academic Dean Enoch Seal Jr.
• PRCC has lowest tuition in state at $250 per semester

• 1726 students sets record enrollment or a 10 percent increase
• Six PRCC graduates admitted to pharmacy school
• Renovation continues on White Hall
• Joe Terrell named Alumnus of the Year
• Peter Georgian named basketball coach

November

• Industry Services recognized nationally for work with Army Ammunition plant
• Dr. Alexander writes article about how education plays an important role in economic development. “...our economic problems have in essence agreed upon its people and more especially upon   knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that they possess.”
• Nursing graduates have 100 percent RN passing rate for second straight year 

February

• Junior colleges in state take a 10 percent cut form the legislature. Fourth reduction in the last five years.
• Erosion control project of dump turns into beautification project...now site of president’s home
• Dr. Alexander cited as one of the nation’s 100 outstanding school administrators by the Executive Educator.
• Former Hattiesburg Mayor Bobby Chain  named to represent PRCC on the  Advisory Council to the Economic Development Foundation.
• Spring semester enrollment is a record with a 12 percent increase or 1593 students.

• Dr. Alexander’s report on in-house needs assessment sets stage for future
• PRCC board reinstated the five-member Presidential Search Committee to organize and implement plans for the  inauguration of Dr. Alexander.
• Industry Services report 374 were trained during the year

• PRCC graduate Dr. Thomas Malone, the president of Milliken, the world’s largest privately owned company, was named National Phi Theta Kappa Distinguished Alumnus.
• Pearl River wins first annual state-wide Computer Programming contest
• Linda Keith, a freshman nursing major from Hattiesburg, wins a national essay contest sponsored by the National Student Nurses Association. 

• Dr. Alexander’s inauguration held
• Dixie Drawl wins state top award for the tenth straight year
• Petal wins first Mississippi Show Choir Contest sponsored by PRCC

• The PRCC Building Committee, which was organized in June of 1986, presents plans for new President’s home.
• A $7 million dollar budget approved
• Donna Wilson selected to head Development Foundation & Alumni Association.
• Barbering, Single Parent and Truck Driving programs approved 
• New concession stand and bathrooms built at baseball field
• Jim Nightengale named new baseball coach
• Summer enrollment is record with 277 dayand 280 at night

• Nursing program receives National League for Nursing approval
• Jennifer Downey named first director of Research Administration and Grants
• State’s first Phi Theta Kappa Alumni Chapter formed
• Development Foundation chartered

• Foundation board of directors named
• 1987 fall enrollment is a record with 1870 students, an increase of 8.3 percent
• Martin Smith is elected first chairman of the Development Foundation

• Dr. Alexander helps form the first Mississippi Junior College Foundation
• PRCC receives a planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education

• Tatum Land Management donates 36 acres, valued at $400,000 to college
• Bruce Altman named Alumnus of the Year
• Larry Tynes is named Alumni President
• First Alumni Golf Tournament held
• Waveland American Legion honored for contributing a total of $68,000 
• First fund-raising efforts “Share The Magic Drive” initiated by Foundation
• Board hires architect to draw plans for a new Technology Center
• Board awards contract for new president’s home

December

• Forrest County Supervisors agrees to support construction of Allied Health Center
• Marion County Alumni Chapter formed
• Forrest and Lamar County Alumni have initial meeting at the home of Sidney Malone
• RiverRoad performs for the  Southern Association in New Orleans

February

• Dr. Alexander calls for Pearl River to provide more work in literacy training, advanced technology, and advanced manufacturing
• Dr. Alexander named chair of Mississippi Humanities Council

• 380 new parking spaces approved 
• First time in history the Lady Wildcats win 20 games in one season
• Wildcat Diamond is renovated

• Phi Theta Kappa named Top Ten in nation
• 1923 President’s Home named landmark
• First River Extravaganza planned for June 5 with Jerry Clower as performer
• Pearl River County Supervisors approves funds for technology center construction
• RiverStyle 88 staged at Clover Leaf Mall

• Record 495 graduate
• First Awards of Excellence program staged 

• 9.9 percent pay increase approved
• Record $8.2 million budget adopted
• First Extravaganza cleared $9,000 and with 365 tickets sold

• Allied Health Center plans started
• PRCC brings Jefferson lecture to state
• PRCC breaks magical 2000 mark for first time. Enrollment is 2,040

• Major long and short -range goals identified and approved

• Howard Willoughby selected 1988 Alumnus of the Year
• First PRCC Hall of Fame selected
• Dr. Becky Askew returns to PRCC to take over recruiting and counseling

• Construction starts November 29 on $2 million Technology Building
• Mike Dobbins named Financial Aid director
• Massive $7.7 million building project is featured in RiverSide

January

• Spring enrollment up 11 percent to 1,907

• Arts on the River series started
• PRCC Business Technology Department gets market’s latest equipment 
• Board begins considering giving up or transferring  vocational centers in Lamar, Hancock to local counties and transferring course work in Forrest County to local high schools. The reason is that themajority of the ad valorem taxes are going to educate high school students - not college students and that Pearl River is spending about $500,000 each year on educating high school students - not college students
• Outstanding PRCC faculty and staff recognized during Awards for Excellence program

• Board postpones decision on transfer of Vo-Tech Centers until January
• PRCC computer team wins first place again at state competition
• Justin Wilson headlines Extravaganza
• Contract let for renovation of Science Building and construction of two new dormitories 

• Steve Howard named director of data processing

• Board adopts record $9 million budget
• PRCC installs $100,000 computer system
• Report on five construction projects - Marion, Lamar, Science Building, Dormitories and Technology Center

• United States Congressman Larkin Smith, a PRCC alumnus, remembered after death in plane crash
• Final approval given for $2.7 million Allied Health Center
• PRCC board reaches decision to transfer secondary centers
• Mike Humphries named Assistant Football coach

• Total enrollment head count is 2,510 or 211 over last year - fourth increase in a row
• PRCC barbering students take top honors at state competition
• New chair-backed seats added to Dobie Holden Stadium

• Special Day held to honor Coach Holden
• RiverSide TV Show on the air in the fall

• Four named to Sports Hall of Fame
• Ann Morris and Dobie Foxworth selected Alumni of the Year
• Library and Media Center work at $500,000  announced
• PRCC hires full-time literary person

• Ross named Industrial Training Coordinator

January-February

• Kathryn Moody of Poplarville becomes chair of the PRCC board
• Automated manufacturing equipment purchased for new course
• RiverSide story tells how PRCC is planning and preparing for the 21st century. Dr. Alexander talks about     preparing the local workforce for the global competition of the workforce. Dr. Alexander invites Dr. James Morris of South Carolina to address the faculty and staff on workforce needs

March

• Formal ribbon cutting is held for $2 million Technology Center
• Dr. Alexander presents plans for cafeteria
• State of the art technology implemented at the PRCC library

• Ronnie McDowell named to headline Extravaganza III
• PRCC starts Picayune Retraining Center 
• First Donor Dinner introduced donors to scholarship recipients
• RiverStyle 90 held at Cloverleaf Mall

• 13 students graduate with 4.0 averages
• Ribbon cutting held for new Science and Math Building
• 700 students attend Spring Fest
• Wildcats make playoff in baseball for third straight year

• Small Business Development Center started on Hattiesburg campus
• Olon Ray named executive director of  junior colleges
• Record $9.5 million budget adopted
• College receives grant for new Life Improvement Center
• Lamar Center transferred to county
• Picayune Training Center dedicated

• PRCC and local dentist get together to discuss new dental programs coming on board at the Forrest County Center

• PRCC facing possible 5 percent reduction in state allocation
• Board adopts active military status policy
• Enrollment increases by 26 percent to 2,132 full-time students, up 446 from 1986 
• $100,000 grant awarded for Student Support Services
• Energy conservation grant awarded
• Allied Health Center contracts awarded, construction starts
• New Child Development program starts

• $20,000 scholarship endowed in honor ofMae Moody Galmiche
• Henry Thomas named top Alumnus 
• Construction begins on Learning Resource Center

• Groundbreaking held for Allied Health Center

• White Coliseum suffers major damage during tornado 
• PTK wins Outstanding Regional Award
• PRCC Coach Mike Nelson suffers stroke

January-February

• Every student attending PRCC has access to a computer terminal
• Dr. Alexander named a member of the Task Force on Arts
• Fall enrollment was biggest jump of any community college at 18.6 percent.  Official numbers at the end of six weeks had full-time enrollment jumped from 1,677 to 1,986 or 309 students...234 more academic and 91 more technical. The 1985 academic total  was 616 compared to 1,144 in 1990...total was 1,642 in 1985; 2,741 in 1990 or a 67 percent increase
• Dr. Alexander elected to serve as a delegate to the White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services
• Coach Mike Nelson recovering at home after December stroke
• Art department students double in number

• T. Graham Brown headlines Extravaganza 
• Library closed for renovation at end of semester
• Astronaut Davis was speaker for Women in Science and Technology Conference 

April

• Nelson resigns as head football coach
• First Student Alumni Foundation in state    organized here on campus
• State-wide inter-alumni association formed
• Classical guitarist DeChairo featured 

• Willie Coats named PRC’s head football coach to replace Mike Nelson
• Foundation raises more than $175,000
• Wildcat baseball team finishes runner-up in state

• Dr. George Vaught Moody is remembered after his death on July 1
• Dr. Alexander reelected to Library White House Task Force
• Foundation pushes total to over $600,000 during four years of existence
• New banking and Finance program  started on the Poplarville campus

• Enrollment jumps another 10.5 percent to 3,042
• Richard Mathis hired to replace Peter Georgian as Wildcat basketball coach
• Twelve Pearl River students participate in Johnson Controls pilot program

• Berlon Lee is 1991 Alumnus of the Year
• Rev. Jones B. Stewart received Distinguished Service Award
• Tech Prep started on the PRCC campus and first advisory board selected

• First phase of cafeteria project approved 
• Dr. Willis Lott resigned to become a vice-president at Gulf Coast

• Robicheaux is interim academic dean

January-May

• PRC and Stennis Space Center join to  pilot first Geographical Information Systems project
• Five candidates vie for first Miss Pearl River Community College title
• Dr. Alexander is featured as Hancock  Bank symposium speaker

• Cafeteria concept approved during April 
• May’s 567 graduates are a PRC record
• River Extravaganza V raises $47,000
• Pearl River County Alumni Chapter off and running

• PRC hosts first “Tech-Prep” Institute for educators and business leaders
• PRCC adopts $10.6 million budget
• Board approves Dr. Alexander’s contract through June 30, 1994

• Pearl River receives Title III Grant with first year funding for $457,247
• Wes Estey named Academic Dean
• First Hour of Accountability held 

• Dedication for Allied Health Center planned for Sunday, Oct. 11

• Dr. Homer Moody and Alyce Wanda Castleberry, both of Poplarville, were selected as top alumni of the year.
• $1.3 million becomes available for Crosby Hall renovation
• New Baptist Student Center is built

• Rural Health Corps funds made available for community colleges
• Allied Health Center is dedicated
• Wildcat football team finishes season perfect at 10-0

• Adopts random drug testing policy for all Pearl River nursing and health related program students

January-February

• Dr. Alexander’s contract extended through June 30, 1995

• Dr. Stanley Hill becomes director of AHC Dental Hygiene program
• Mississippi Community College Foundation receives national Silver Paragon Award by the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations
• Lady Wildcats finish No. 2 in Region 23 

• Dixie Drawl wins general excellence award for the 18th time.
• Baseball Wildcats are South Division  champs

• Record $11.7 million budget
• College will offer college life and self affirmation classes for the first time.

• College begins process for reaffirmation of accreditation from Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
• Ott Brockman is Alumnus of the Year and Jeanette Crain is Alumnae of the Year
• More than 350 took part in Marion and Jefferson Davis County Alumni Chapter fall meeting
• Dental hygiene program begins accepting patients

• 20 Pearl River students participate in new Mississippi Rural health Corps program
• Wildcats pick up 460 yards in 35-28 loss to the No. one ranked Mississippi Delta Trojans and Chris Ryan sets PRCC rushing record with 1425 yards.

• Mississippi’s 15 community colleges are linked through high-tech Community College Network (CCN)
• PRCC receives a $250,000 Endowment Challenge Grant from the US Departmentof Education
• 15 faculty and staff members learn how to travel data superhighway - the internet
• New Library Learning Laboratory gives students advantage of computer assisted instructional programs

January-February

• PRCC uses Screening In - Not Out  theme to provide World Class workforce for Hattiesburg’s Sunbeam-Oster plant moving to Hattiesburg.
• PRCC’s first annual report on the condition of the community college’s overall health published in RiverSide.
• New cafeteria opens to raves from students and staff

• Dental hygienist, dental assistants and physical therapist assistant programs allreceive good reports from national accreditation agencies.
• Lady Wildcats win South, State, and are runner-up in Region 23

• 548 graduate at end of year
• $24.6 million budget adopted
• Physical Therapist Assistant Program receives national accreditation
• Board approves top vocational-technical scholarship to students within district
• Project LEAP, the nation’s only satellite-based literacy program, prepares womento take the GED and provides job readiness.
• Health Fair provided variety of health screening service and information
• Wildcats lose baseball title to Mississippi Delta and then finish strong in Region 23 
• Elaine Powell is nation’s leading scorer 

July

• Occupation Therapist Assistant course, the only one in the state, started at theForrest County Center
• A new Career Center approach was started along with a statewide interactive video network. The state-wide network isthe first in the nation.
• Dr. Alexander receives contract extension through June 30, 1996
• Development Foundation passes  $200,000 goal in fund raising
• District Workforce Council named 

• New $3.6 million nursing building and wellness center approved
• Both dental programs at PRCC are nationally accredited
• New $675,000 computer system will automate college operations.
• New course to unleash leadership potential started in fall to go along with Honor’s Program
• Computer Aided Drafting becomes norm in drafting department
• Columbia’s practical nursing class transferred to Poplarville campus
• Forrest County Board of Supervisors approves funding for 5,500 square footaddition to Allied Health Center to houseOccupational Therapy Assistant Program 

• D.R. Davis named Alumnus of the Year
• Elaine Powell is featured as the to junior college basketball player in the nation by College Sports Magazine

• Board approves renovation and approves low bid for renovating Crosby Hall into Student Life Building with a college store, grill, counseling offices and security.

• $1=$3 Challenge started by Development Foundation
• Reported that 2000 students were receiving financial aid
• One Stop Career Center off and running
• During 1994, there were $4.3 million ingrants categorized as direct cash awards which were processed by Office of Research and Grants

January-February

• Began planning to offer more academic course offerings in Hattiesburg to go along with support of the Allied Health 
• Choir gets invitation to sing in England
• Plans for new Nursing Building and Wellness Center unveiled
• Preparation continues for April visit from the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
• Pearl River one of five schools in the nation selected to study technical trainingin Japan

• Tracy Williams first student to receive full-tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan. Retired Army Lt. Colonel John O. Robertson, a PRCC graduate, sets up the scholarship in honor of Ruth Lobdell.
• Foundation meets its $125,000 Endowment Challenge. The college received an additional $250,000 from the U.S. Department of Education.
• Extravaganza VIII sets record with $50,400
• Pearl River Lady Wildcats make history by  winning Region 23 crown and advancing to the overall national  tournament where the Lady Wildcats finished seventh.
• Wildcats win 1995 state basketball championship, the first time since 1965.
• Keith Daniels named head football coach
• Elaine Powell named Kodak All-America 
• Jamie Saul selected Most Distinguished Phi Theta Kappa Student

• Board approves $30.4 million budget
• Dental Hygiene course named best vo-tech program in the state
• DNA workshop on campus focuses on O. J. Simpson trial

• Lourie Barnett of Picayune is the Outstanding Mississippi Association of Vocational Education Alumnus 
• One Stop Career Center is only center in state chosen as an ACT WorkKey Center for business and industry
• Foundation starts selling inscribed bricks as part of Brick by Brick...A Foundation for the Future”

• Doug Mooney is Alumnus of the Year
• Automotive Mechanics Program receives National Service Excellence certification
• Showchoir chosen to perform for American Choral Director Association in Virginia and in Washington D.C.

• Pearl River, one of 12 colleges across the country, to receive a $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation
• Respiratory Therapy and Medical Laboratory programs accredited
• Bids accepted for Nursing and Wellness building
• American Legion Post 77 of Waveland recognized for Distinguished Service

• Moody Hall gets handicap wheelchair lift
• Renovation of four suites in Marion Hall and old Administration Building have money allocated 
• On Dec. 12 the college learns that it was reaccredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools until 2005
• Total of $4.2 million in new grants awarded through Research and Grants Department

January-March

• PRC Stage Band and RiverRoad selected to perform at Disney World”
• Mold Build and Repair” program gets national attention
• Board approved new district scholarship
• Darla Baker receives first Customer Service Award

• Memorial Scholarship set to honor PRCC Alumnus Pamela McGill
• Calgon Carbon and PRCC receive “Best Practices” award for the State Workforce Development Council
• Amy Polk wins first annual Parade of Beauties” contest on campus
• L.D. Brinkman donates $20,000 for new weight room equipment
• Groundbreaking held for Nursing and Wellness Center
• Wildcat golfers defend Region 23 title

• Dental Hygiene Technology program receives Forum Award of Excellence from the Public Education Forum 
• Child Development Technology’s Laboratory School accredited by the National Association for Education of     Young Children
• Adopted $31.8 million budget
• Video sewer camera used to detect two-inch water leak underneath six inches of concrete
• 558 graduate during two ceremonies 
• Tennis revival begins with scholarships
• Two new tennis courts are constructed and the old ones were renovated
• Two dorms on campus are designated “honor” dorms

• Legendary Wildcat Coach Holden inducted into National Junior College Hall of Fame
• College starts working with Wellman Company in Hancock County to screen900 potential employees
• New 75,000 gallon water tank approved 

• Unique class provided new opportunities for several classes. It was part of the “Major Opportunity Class” sponsored through the Single Parent Program
• Foundation tops goal with $249,000 
• CCN becomes available on Poplarville campus
• Second lab in Mathematical Science Department was equipped with 14 new Pentium computers

• New 47 passenger transport bus bought 
• PRCC grad Thomas Malone named to The President’s Circle of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine
• Funeral Services held for long-time  Academic Dean Enoch Seal Jr.
• Funeral services held for board member  Marion Fortenberry
• Funeral services held for former PRC Physical Therapist Program director
• A new Career Exploration course is added, along with a three-credit hour internship in Criminal Justice, a field lab option for Biology II and a one-hour step aerobics
• English Department began requiring all students in development courses to enroll in the Learning Lab

• Dr. Alexander receives Mississippi Association of School Administrators Golden Lamp Award
• Workshop held for south Mississippi child care and head start teachers
• Injection Mold Design & Manufacturing Lab is billed as the best equipped laboratory of its type in the world
• Al Brooks named Alumnus of the Year

• PRCC board holds its regular meeting on the Hattiesburg campus for the first time
• Group of Thailand educators tour the PRCC Technical programs
• 41 graduate from Forrest County GED 
• During the year $2.5 million in grants were awarded for individual programs or institutional development

January-March

• Physical Therapist Assistant Program selected best by the Mississippi Office of Vocational and Technical Education
• Hattiesburg Rotary Club donated $10,500 to PRCC in honor of Dr. Milam Cotten
• New Administration Building unveiled
• Wildcats lose state basketball championship 116-113 after two overtimes
• Iota Mu becomes a Five-Star PTK chapter

• Two programs named Exemplary by National Council of Instructional Administrators. One of 62 colleges     singled out in the nation. The college’s Dental Hygiene program is recognized as an exemplary program in the category    of “best programs using technology with occupations students” and on the Poplarville campus the Learning Alternatives program is singled out for “best programs using technology in staff development”
• Instructor Joyce Mullins receives Phil Hardin award to study the Black Howler in Argentina
• PRCC wins Educational Computer Association programming contest
• Extravaganza Ten raises record $62,000

• Senator Cochran agrees to deliver dedication address for Nursing Building on August 12
• Board approves $29.5 million budget
• Student Brian Cuevas wins PTK’s George O. Bierkoe award. Only one of 25  nationwide selected.
• Respiratory Care Technology program wins top honors at regional competition
• Kohler announces coming to Hattiesburg and cites PRCC as one of the top reasons
• Medical Lab Technology students wins regional competition
• Occupational Therapy Assistant is nationally accredited

• $446,432 raised by Development Foundation. The goal was $225,000
• Formal dedication of new building starts the unique approach of combining nursing instruction and wellness education

• Pearl River selected as a pilot school to offer Science and technology in the state.
• RiverRoad selected to perform at the Phi Theta Kappa International Convention in Nashville

• Two Pearl River students were killed in a September car accident.
• Public Relations office agrees to publish premier issue of The Magic River, the English Department’s literary magazine 
• Foundation uses phonathon during September to enroll 554 new members
• Wildcats beat Perk 61-55 in football game

• Alcan Cable and PRCC receive “Best Practices” award from Workforce Council
• English Instructor Rosemary Woullard receives Humanities Teacher Award
• Milam Cotten cited for service

• $2 million Fiber Optics throughout the campus will soon become a reality 
• First Strategic Plan Accomplishments Report on Indicator of Excellence published
• First Departmental Program reviews completed for Associate Degree Nursing, Business Administration and Communications
• $931,434 reported new grant awards 

January-February

• President Ted Alexander and his wife, Barbara, are in a one-car accident Wednesday, Feb. 4 on Mississippi  Highway 26 near the Poplarville campus.  Alexander is listed in good condition when first hospitalized but is later moved to intensive care for three days with internal bleeding that led to hemorrhagic shock. He is first released home Thursday, Feb. 12, readmitted early Feb. 18 with complications and released again on Feb. 20.  On March 3, Dr. Alexander has a mass of fluid and  infection in the pleural spaces around his lungs and an elevated temperature. He is admitted to the hospital for the third time and remains there another two weeks. Barbara suffers minor bruises and is not hospitalized.

• Anonymous donor gives Athletic Department $35,000
• Work begins on New Administration Building

• PRCC alumnus and volunteer Betty Hudson is found slain in her Prentiss home.  Betty had helped stage a huge Marion-Jefferson Davis Alumni Chapter meeting the week before her death.
• Board adopts $30.6 million budget
• PRCC basketball player Danny Lucas, a member of the 1998 state championship basketball team, is killed in auto accident. The same severe storm which blows a tree through Lucas’ car window on Interstate 59 near Hattiesburg, does severe damage to Forrest County campus.
• Dr. Alexander named chair of the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges.
• Pioneer Aerospace, Johnson Controls and PRCC cited for standards in workforce training.
• Magic River named best literary magazine

• New web site attracting 100 hits per day
• The famed Jimmy Buffett remembers Pearl River in his book
• Hurricane Georges forces campus to close. Coliseum damaged and huge old oak trees uprooted
• New water tank towers over campus and Poplarville’s Author Moore Gandy is Alumnus of the Year

• Adult Learning Center opened by college and the Marion County School District at Carl Loftin Vo-Tech in Columbia

January-February

• Nursing Department and Wellness Center will promote health and wellness in local communities

• Senior citizens take advantage of college’s Body Recall class
• Record $58,000 raised at Extravaganza
• PRCC and Mississippi State team up to provide youth glimpse of medical careers
• New student Mississippi Association of  Student Educators chapters

April

• DECA chapter picks up 15 awards at state conference
• VICA takes home five state awards
• Soccer teams approved for fall
• Physical Therapist Assistant Program cited by National Assembly of Physical Therapist
• Susan Nodurft will head Mississippi Academy of Sciences
• Golf team wins Region 23 championship

• Chrissy Martin one of 10 in nation to receive $5000 Gistwhite Scholarship
• All seven Wildcat sophomore cheerleaders advance to senior cheerleading squads
• Job market looking up for nursing graduates. Jobs were waiting for most of the graduates
• Advanced Technology Center Board of Directors appointed

• Advanced Center for Technology Partnership stages news conference at Lake Terrace Convention Center

July

• Advanced computerized Machine training program set for August
• Campus-wide sidewalk program completed
• Highway entrance to Administration Building completed with parking spaces
• Pearl River and Huff Hall renovation  approved and ready for to start

• College receives $65,000 COPS grant
• Workforce Center reported serving  9,026 citizens last year
• Theater scholarships offered by the college for the first time
• President Alexander announces retirement on June 30, 2000
• Asbury Foundation donates $60,000 in honor of Dr. Alexander

• "Paw Paw" Dub Herring receives Distinguished Service Award
• Bill Davis is Alumnus of the Year
• Nationally known motivational speakersponsored in high schools by Tech Prep
• Soccer team ends first season with double overtime loss in championship game
• Presidential Search announced

• Online registration tested on campus with sophomores
• Learning Center playing major role in  assisting students
• Business manager Ron Holmes named  Outstanding Chief Business Officer of region
• Pearl River telephone numbers change  from  795 to 403
• RiverRoad receives standing ovations at Southern Association of Schools and Colleges national convention
• Biology and science instructor Aleta Sullivan named Outstanding Science Teacher by Mississippi Science Teachers Association

January-February 

• 16 apply to fill Dr. Alexander’s position 
• Mississippi Legislature says there is not enough money, community colleges will have to take big cuts.  Could mean PRCC losing $1.3 million.
• Tribute planned for Dr. Alexander on May 6 in Crosby Hall Cafeteria
• Presidential search list cut to 6

• Presidential hopeful field trimmed to four
• Extravaganza raises $57,000

• Dr. William Lewis of Petal selected tenth president of Pearl River 
• Tiffany Vines is named to the All-USA  Academic First Team. Vines received a $2,500 stipend and was     featured in the April 10  edition of USA Today. Vines was one of only 20 selected from 1,400 applications. 
• Dixie Drawl wins first place in the state for the 20th time 

• Tribute staged to recognize and honor Dr. Alexander for his untiring and  emarkable leadership of Pearl River Community College
• Graduation exercises held on May 12