ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The author wishes to thank the following persons and organizations for their aid in this endeavor—Dr. Willis H. Lott and the Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College; Kelly Castleberry, Melinda McGrath, Donna Lum, Amy Hornback, and Jason Moulder of the Mississippi Department of Transportation; Betty Rogers and Lois Castigliola of the Jackson County Archives; Sherry Owens and Renee Hague of Jackson-George Regional Library; Murclla Hebert Powell of the Biloxi Public Library; Dale St. Amant of the Hancock County Historical Society; Debbie Scott, Betty Moak, Linda Lachaussee, Kelly Long, and Eddie Burgo of Pascagoula High School; Susan (Ford) Robertson of Jackson; Warren Gautier of Pascagoula; Jon Richard Lewis of Perkinston; Melissa Ladner of Beatrice; Myrtis Khron of Wiggins; and Jane Sullivan, the author’s typist, editor, and long-suffering wife.
Charles L. Sullivan September 2003
About the Author
Charles L. Sullivan, a fiflh-generation Mississippian born December 25, 1942. earned his academic degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed course work for his Ph.D. at the University of Mississippi. A faculty member at the Perkinston Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College since 1967, he has served as chairman of the Perkinston Campus Social Studies Department since 1977.
Sullivan is the author of The Mississippi Gulf Coast: Portrait of a People (1985) and Hurricanes of the Mississippi Gulf Coast (1986). In collaboration with Bourbon Hughes he produced Valor Remembered: 20tli Century War Dead of the Stale of Mississippi (1996). In 2002 he completed a monumental 608-pagc volume titled Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College: A History, 1911-2000. His other writings include a number of scholarly monographs, journal articles, and many newspaper and popular magazine offerings. Together with colleagues Winfred Moncricf and Doug Mansfield, he wrote and produced four documentaries comprising MGCCC's award winning "Magnolia Series"- Henry Jetton Tudury: Mississippi's Most Decorated Doughboy (1988); Gathering at the River: South Mississippi's Methodist Camp Meetings (1990); Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause (1991); and No Greater Love: Roy Wheat in Vietnam (1992). Sullivan was named Biloxi Historian of the Year in 1987.
In 1989 and again in 1991 he received the National Teaching Award from the National Institute for Staff and Organization Development at the University of Texas and was twice named Perkinston Campus Instructor of the Year (1976 and 1990). The Missisisppi State Legislature honored him with its 1992 HEADVVAE award as the Outstanding Faculty Member for MGCCC. In 2000 the Mississippi Humanities Council selected Sullivan as the MGCCC (Perkinston Campus) recipient of its annual Humanities Teacher Award.
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