Cadet Aaron Bath receives his Montgomery Award during MSU Libraries' 2009 G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Leadership Awards Scholarship Program. Behind Bath are Terry Dickensheet (seated) and Bob Bailey.
Secession; Mississippi; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Hinds County (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, relating family and local news and telling her about the local excitement over Mississippi's secession, 1861.
2007 Montgomery Leadership Award winner Christopher Walker receives his award from Montgomery Foundation board member Bill Elliott in the John Grisham Room.
Dean of Libraries Frances Coleman (right) receives a statuette to accomopany her previously received John Y. Simon Award. Presenting the statuette is Harriet Simon, US Grant Association Executive Director John Marszalek (center), and US Grant...
Eugene P. Wilkes, Mississippi Coast newspaper publisher (right) is the first recipient of the Laurel Wreath Award, 1966. Presenting the award to Wilkes is Harold Barber, President, Coast Federal Savings and Loan Association, sponsor of the award.
Josh Burnett receives his 2007 Montgomery Foundation Leadership Award in the John Grisham Room. The bronze bust of Sonny Montgomery is in the foreground.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
Harriet Simon (left) receives a gift from Dean of MSU Libraries Frances Coleman and Executive Director of the Grant Association John Marszalek during the evening's dinner.
