May 2011

Gov. Haley Barbour has been praised far and wide for his success in leading Mississippi through difficult economic times and the nation’s worst natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina.

On Tuesday, he encouraged the nearly 300 delegates to the 72^nd annual American Legion Boys State to use their own leadership abilities to continue moving the state forward.

The M.C. Johnson Natatorium will reopen for aquatics activities Tuesday, May 31. Because of damage caused by a fire last month, at this time the facility is only accessible through the Payne Center and natatorium visitors must use Payne Center restrooms and dressing rooms.

For more information, contact Southern Miss Aquatics Director Jessi Hobart at 601.266.5405; online, visit http://www.usm.edu/recsports/FACnatatorium.html

Dr. Maureen Martin, director of the DuBard School for Language Disorders at The University of Southern Mississippi, served as the Mississippi representative at the national meeting of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Speech Language Pathology Advisory Council in Washington, D.C.

The American Legion Boys State returns to The University of Southern Mississippi’s Hattiesburg campus May 29-June 4 to give rising high school seniors from across the state a unique, hands-on opportunity to learn how their government operates.