The Delta State University Alumni Association will host the Greenwood/Leflore County Chapter meeting at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta on Tuesday. Registration and a social will begin at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and the program at 6:30 p.m. Abe’s BBQ will provide catering for the event.
“The Alumni and Foundation staff looks forward to visiting our Leflore County alums,” said Jeffrey Farris, director of Alumni Affairs. “We hope to ignite the Delta State family in the area so they will make plans to visit campus this fall.”
Featured guests from campus will include: Todd Cooley, head football coach; Matt Jones, senior associate athletic director of communications and marketing; Emily Jones, university archivist; Rebekah Arant, admissions recruiter; and the Delta State Alumni-Foundation staff.
The cost for the meeting is $10 per person. Prospective students are invited to attend as guests of the Alumni Association. To RSVP, contact the association at 662-846-4660 or visit https://www.deltastategiving.org/alumniassociation/greenwoodalumnievent. Supporters are asked to consider contributing to the Greenwood/Leflore County Alumni Scholarship Fund and the Delta State University Marketing Dollars Campaign. Donations can be made on the event page.
The mission of the Museum of the Mississippi Delta (formerly Cottonlandia Museum) is to collect, preserve, interpret and exhibit tangible artifacts which enable the museum to educate the public about the art, history and natural history of the Mississippi Delta. The collection consists of historical items related to agriculture with particular emphasis on the cotton industry; military history emphasizing the Civil War; a regional art collection; the largest collection of Spanish Colonial trade beads in the Southeast; and an extensive collection of Pre-Columbian pottery.
The museum is home to the remains of a 12,000-year-old mastodon skeleton and skeletal remains of various land and aquatic mammals dating back 53,000 million years. For more information, visit the museum’s website at www.museumofthemississippidelta.com.
To stay up to date on the Alumni Association’s activities, follow these social media sites: Facebook (Statesmen Graduates), Twitter (@DSU_Alumni), Tumblr (http://www.dsualumni.tumblr.com), LinkedIn (DSU alumni), Instagram (dsualumni) and You Tube (dsualumni1). Save the date for Pig Pickin’ (Sept. 24) and Homecoming (Oct. 15).
