Class Pages:

In these pages I have collected information, photos and memorabilia from the classes that I have been able to secure from students and social media. If you have materials from your class, please contact me. I will happily add items to the page. My email is oakes@physics.utexas.edu.

 

June Aden, Lavern Burns?, Ruby Jewel Ferguson, Sharkey Russell, Barbara James Shumaker, Albert McMullen, Bobbie Barber Anderson

Charles Opperman, Mr. Redwood and Mary Cecil Jone, Miss Redwood. 1948

June Aden & Thelma Muirhead

Charles Edward Trusty

 

Back: Billy Evans, Theodore Jones, Albert McMullen, Charles MacBroom?, J. R. Hardin, Howard Mallett, Everett Jones
Front: Robert Earl Steele, Tommy Bishop, Billy Ray Hackler, Charles Wells, Pete Martin, Charles Opperman
Very Front: James Thomas

Bobbie Sue Barber, Barbara Parker and Marie Walker

Bobbie Anderson, former dean of the Jackson Campus-Nursing Allied Health Center, is the speaker for the nursing graduate ceremony. Anderson, of Vicksburg, spent 24 years at Hinds’ nursing campus, retiring in 1993 when an annex building on the Chadwick Drive campus was named for her. Her work as an adjunct faculty member for the Associate Degree Nursing program and consultant to other programs continued until 2014. She began her career as a nurse in 1951 as a staff nurse at Vicksburg Hospital. Her education began at the Mercy Nursing School in Vicksburg, where she was a student. She then attened the University of Alabama. She holds two master’s degrees, in Counseling and Guidance from Mississippi College, and in Psychiatric/Mental Health from the University of Mississippi. In 2009, she was inducted into the Mississippi Nurses Association Hall of Fame. In 2017, Bobbie was selected as one of he one hundred people most passionate about Hinds Community College. Donald Oakes, another Redwood graduate, was also selected.

Bobbie Sue was born in 1931 in Pennington, Bradley, Arkansas, to Jessie Madison (1892-1983) and Tommie Eloiza (Bond) (1896-1943) Barber. Her mother died while Bobbie Sue was in junior high school. Bobbie Sue moved to Redwood High School in the tenth grade.

Hinds CC nursing/allied health dean, retired dean inducted into professional academy

Dr. Libby Mahaffey, left, and Bobbie Anderson
Dr. Libby Mahaffey, left, and Bobbie Anderson
A current Hinds Community College dean and a retired dean were recently inducted into a prestigious national professional academy at its inaugural event.

Dr. Libby Mahaffey of Raymond, dean, Nursing and Allied Health, and Bobbie Anderson of Vicksburg, retired dean of the same programs, were inducted into the newly established Academy of Associate Degree Nursing by the Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (OADN) on Nov. 5 in Dallas, Texas.

The two were among 10 inductees. The Academy of Associate Degree Nursing (AADN) program recognizes associate degree nursing educators, and others committed to associate degree nursing education, who model exemplary dedication to nursing education and practice. Appropriately, Mrs. Anderson was the first person inducted into the Academy as a full member.

Anderson began teaching in Hinds Community College’s Associate Degree Nursing program in fall 1969 and in 1973 was named the program director. In 1984, after the program moved to the Chadwick Drive location as Jackson Campus-Nursing/Allied Health Center, Anderson became the first dean. In 1993 the first building at NAHC was named Anderson Hall in her honor upon her retirement. Anderson continued to teach including at the Vicksburg-Warren Campus.

During a time of uncertainty for Associate Degree Nursing programs, Anderson was a state and national advocate, holding numerous leadership positions. This included serving as the chair of the organizational steering committee and later a president of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing (N-OADN), now recognized as OADN.

“Associate Degree Nursing Education is a part of the fiber of my life,” Anderson said. “I willingly gave of myself because of my strong belief in associate degree nursing education. My goal in any leadership position was to lead with integrity and to role model leadership for others.”

Dr. Elizabeth “Libby” Mahaffey, became dean, Nursing and Allied Health in 2005. Mahaffey began teaching at Hinds in 1982 and served as a team leader and sophomore coordinator before transitioning to the dean role. Following in the steps of her mentor, Mahaffey served on the N-OADN Board for six years, including two years as president. She also served for six years on the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission Board of Directors, including four years as chairperson.

“I still strongly believe in nursing education at the community college where access, affordability, and graduate success continue to make a difference in the lives of students and in the healthcare of our communities,” she said.

As Mississippi’s largest community college, Hinds Community College is a comprehensive institution offering quality, affordable educational opportunities with academic programs of study leading to seamless university transfer and career and technical programs teaching job-ready skills. With six locations in central Mississippi, Hinds enrolled nearly 12,000 credit students in fall 2016. To learn more, visit www.hindscc.edu or call 1.800.HindsCC.

 

Bobbie was selected one of the 100 Passionate People about Hinds Community College, 2017

Bobbie Sue attended Warren High School in Warren, Arkansas. Above is a photo from the 1945 Pinecone yearbook. Boobie Sue is second from the left on the back row. She is in the ninth grade.

 

Rockets Obituaries of Class of 1948

Gone But Not Forgotten