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 Millsaps
College has named Maurice H. Hall, Jr. of Meridian as the new chairman
of its board of trustees.
"Maurice Hall
brings to the position a keen knowledge of business, contagious enthusiasm
and a love of Millsaps College," said Millsaps President Frances
Lucas-Tauchar. "We could not have asked for a better board chairman."
Hall graduated from
Millsaps in 1967 with honors in English, and he received his J.D. degree
from Duke University Law School in 1970.
An attorney who also
works in timberland management, Hall has served on the Millsaps board
of trustees since 1984. He has chaired numerous board committees, including
student affairs, development and strategic planning. Hall is also a Center
for Ministry board member and a past president of the Millsaps Alumni
Council.
"I will support
Millsaps College in the Methodist way - with my prayers, my presence,
my gifts and my service," Hall told the board at his appointment.
"With the guidance of the board, Dr. Lucas-Tauchar's leadership,
the dedication of our faculty and staff and the wonderful students for
whom we do it all, the future of Millsaps is bright."
Hall is a member of
several professional societies, including the American Bar Association,
the Mississippi Bar Association, the Mississippi Forestry Association
and the Forest Landowners Association. An active participant in community
groups, he has also served on the boards of countless organizations, among
them the Meridian Rotary Club, the Meridian Museum of Art, the Meridian
Little Theater, the Meridian Arts Council and the Lauderdale County Tourism
Commission. Hall has held leadership positions with the Choctaw Area Council
Boy Scouts of America, the Wesley House Community Center, United Methodist
Senior Services of Mississippi and the United Way of Lauderdale County.
A devoted Methodist,
he is a member of Central United Methodist Church in Meridian, where he
has been a lay delegate to the Annual Conference since 1998.
Additionally, he will
continue to serve as a lay delegate to the Southeastern Jurisdictional
Conference until 2003.
Hall is the husband
of Catherine M. Hall and the father of David Hall and Catherine Hall (B.A.
'00, M.B.A. '01).
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