HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -
Jones County Junior College
hosted its annual Black History Celebration on Thursday at its Fine Arts
Auditorium.
Keynote speaker, Andre Heath, Assistant to the Dean
for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Southern Mississippi, spoke to
students and faculty on leadership, personal development, and civic engagement.
Selected by the Mississippi Business Journal as one
of its 2012 class of leaders in its, "Top 40 Under 40', JCJC Dean of
Student Affairs believed Heath would not only inspire the audience, but also
help them realize it's time to ‘make a difference'.
"I think it's always important to just take
some time to just reflect on those that have gone before us, and today's
speaker did a great job of laying it out for our students," said JCJC Dean of
Student Affairs, Dr. Samuel Jones. "Black history is important because it's not
only black history, it's American history. I think we all can learn something
from it, and learn how to persevere through life."
Along with featuring a guest speaker, the celebration also included special musical guests, the Laurel High School Gospel Choir.
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