Meet Our Student Tour Guides

Being a Southern Miss student tour guide is an honor. Our student tour guides are successful students who have a variety of interests, majors, personalities and hometowns, but they all have one thing in common: Southern Miss is their home. 

Kacie Bailey

• Hometown: Gretna, La.
• Major: Journalism

Julia Bradley

• Hometown: Hattiesburg, Miss.
• Major: Accounting

Lesley Brumfield

• Hometown: Murfreesboro, Tenn.
• Major: Sociology

Jazmyne Butler

• Hometown: Vicksburg, Miss.
• Major: Public Relations
• Role model: My mother–she handles every situation, bad or good, with grace.
• Favorite spot on campus: The Payne Center (Check out the Boot Camp class!)

Ann Marie Chilcutt

• Hometown: West Point, Miss.
• Major: Communication Studies

Rudy Chopin

• Hometown: Petal, Miss.
• Major: Accounting
• What's the best way to meet people at Southern Miss? Live on campus and join some student organizations.
• Favorite TV show: Lost!

Kimberly Gaddis

• Hometown: Meridian, Miss.
• Major: Political Science
• Favorite class so far: My Honors Political Science 101 class–we traveled to Washington, D.C., for the '08 Presidential campaign.
• Favorite book: (Currently) Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Nathan Harrell

• Hometown: Petal, Miss.
• Major: Communication Studies

Rachel Harris

• Hometown: River Ridge, La.
• Major: Kinesiology
• What are the people like at Southern Miss? They are friendly, interested in helping you, and excited about school.
• Career plans: Become a physical therapist and open my own clinic one day

Zach Jones

• Hometown: Hattiesburg, Miss.
• Major: English
• Favorite Web site: stumbleupon.com
• Why should someone choose Southern Miss? Because it's more than meets the eye, and it already looks really good.

Ben Knaus

• Hometown: Paducah, Ky.
• Major: Business Administration and Information Technology
• Favorite place to eat in Hattiesburg: Leatha's BBQ Inn

Chad Lyman

• Hometown: Mobile, Ala.
• Major: Exercise Science

Jeffrey McLendon

• Hometown: Greenville, Miss.
• Major: Communication Studies & Political Science

Lacey Myers

• Hometown: Daphne, Ala.
• Major: Speech Communication
• Favorite thing to eat on campus: Grab-and-go sushi from the Agora
• Favorite Web site: Facebook, of course

Stephanie Smith

• Hometown: Mobile, Ala.
• Major: Psychology

Taylor Welborn

• Hometown: Ridgeland, Miss.
• Major: Biological Sciences/Pre-Dental
• During finals week, you can find me: At Sonic--the vanilla Cokes keep me going.
• Favorite band: Led Zeppelin