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Jean Pigott Bourne—1950-52 Lady Wildcats
Basketball
. Pearl River
College 1952 all state basketball player, Jean Pigott Bourne, held the
record for the most points in a game (42) until All-American Antrice McGill
netted 46 points in a 1989 game. Charez Silas tied Bourne's 42 points
in 1990.
Bourne, and
employee of the Marion County School System since 1955 was named PRC's
top female student athlete in 1951, while scoring the most total points
in a season, a record she held until the mid seventies. She and her
twin sister, Jane Pigott Dillon of Tylertown, were instrumental in leading
the 1951 Lady Wildcats to the state playoffs.
The Walthall
County native and Foxworth resident, who attended Dexter High School, was
PRC's 1951 homecoming queen. She was also runner-up Miss Pearl River
College, a member of the PRC band, Glee Club, and was named to the list
of Outstanding Young Ladies of America.
She graduated
with special honors from PRC in 1952 and then transferred to USM where
she was a member of the National Honor Society and Phi Delta Kappa National
Honor Society.
She received
her bachelor's degree in home economics and English from USM in 1955 and
a master's degree in school administration and supervision in 1976 from
William Carey College. Bourne was a President's scholar at both USM
and William Carey College.
From 1952 through
1955, she was employed by the Walthall County Schools as an elementary
teacher. In 1955 she was employed by the Marion County School System
and has since served as an English instructor, basketball coach, curriculum
supervisor, and AIM coordinator.
Bourne coached
junior high first and after consolidation of schools in Marion County she
led West Marion to the Final Four State Tournament, involving all classifications,
in 1960, 1961 and 1962.
Bourne ws named
Outstanding Junior High School Teacher in America in 1972. In 1980
she was named her school's Star Teacher, and award which was presented
by the Mississippi Economic Council and the State Chamber of Commerce.
She is a member
of the Marion County Education Association, Mississippi Association of
Educators, National Education Association and Mississippi Association of
Secondary School Principals. She has served as consultant for Mississippi
Educational Services and as chair and member of the Mississippi State Textbook
Procurement Commission.
She and her
husband Billy, also a Marion County school administrator, have one son,
Dr. Thomas Bourne, chair of the Dow Chemical Company, Research and Development
Center in Baton Rouge. The also have two grandchildren.
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