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UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTROBERT H. „DOC‰FOGLESONGRobertH.Foglesong is the18thpresidentfo Mississippi StateUniversity, a land-grantuniversity committed toexcellence in learning, research and service. His visionis for MSU to become the most respected land-grantschool in the Southeast. As president, he is responsible for planning, budgeting, and executionfor the largest university in the state of Mississippi. He is also thepresident and executive director of the AppalachianLeadership and Education Foundation, a nonprofitorganization operating to identify our next generationof leaders in Appalachia and mento/financially supporttheir journey toward academic, leadership, and character excellence. He’s a direcor of Massey Energy, of ofthe largest producers of coal in the nation, and a director of the Michael Baker Corp., an international energyand engineering firm. He also has been designatedby President George W. Bush to co-chair the UnitedState-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs.Previously, he was nominated by the President,confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and served as a fourstar general in the United States Air Force. He hadresponsibility for policy recommendations and implementation of policy relative to personnel, operations,infrastructure and intra/inter governmental affairs foran organization of 358,000 uniformed members and158,000 civilian employees. He was responsible forplaning/programming for future strategies involving anannual budget of 90 billion (equivilant to the positionof chief operating oficer for a company ranked No. 9on the Fortune 500 list). His jobs required almost dailyinterface with members of Congress, the White House,and many governmental interagency offices.Foglesong spent a significant amount of the pastdecade as a national security advisor at Cabinet andPresidential levels. In this capacity, he had opportunities to travel extensively with the most senior membersof the government and directly engage with the mostsenior civilian and military levels of foreign governments around the globe.Foglesong has spent 33 years in public servicewith a clear understanding of the role leadership playsin establishing a sense of integrity/ethics, encouraging service above self, and fost. He has receivednumerous awards for his demonstrated leadership. Inaddition, he has continued his education by attending professional military education schools, as well asadvanced civilian education forums. He is a memberof several professional aviation organizations and amembe of the Council on Foreign Relations. His 57publications cover a range of subjects including technical and leadershp topics. A graduate of West VirginiaUniversity (bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate), he wasa member and president of Tau Beta Pi, the nationalengineering honorary, as well as numerous other academic honoraries.He has accumulated 30 military awards for leadership and technical skills. He holds an honoraryDoctorate of Strategic Intelligence. He is married toMary Thrasher Foglesong. They have two sons--David,married to Laura, and father of two sons (Robert andDavid), and Mark. David is in the United State AirForce, as is Laura. Mark is in the television business.Foglesong’s hobbies include running marathons, collecting slide rules, collecting potato mashers andpublic speaking.68THE FOGLESONG FILEPERSONAL2007-08 OFFICERS OFTHE UNIVERSITYJOHN RUSHVice President forDevelopment and AlumniEDUCATIONBachelor’s: West Virginia, 1968Master’s: West Virginia, 1969Ph.D.: West Virginia, 1971WILLIAM L. KIBLERVice President forStudent AffairsAIR FORCE ASSIGNMENTSMIKE MCGREVEYChief of StaffPETER W. RABIDEAUProvost andVice President for Academic AffairsKIRK SCHULZVice President for Researchand Graduate StudiesVANCE WATSONInterim Vice President for Agriculture,Forestry, and Veterinary MedicinePAST MSU PRESIDENTSGeneral Stephen D. Lee . . . . . . . .John Marshall Stone . . . . . . . . . . .John Crumpton Hardy . . . . . . . . .George Robert Hightower . . . . . .William Hall Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . .David Carlisle Hull. . . . . . . . . . . . .Buz M. Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Hugh Critz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .George Duke Humphrey . . . . . . .Fred Tom Mitchell . . . . . . . . . . . . .Benjamin F. Hilbun . . . . . . . . . . . .Dean W. Colvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .William L. Giles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .James D. McComas. . . . . . . . . . . .Donald W. Zacharias . . . . . . . . . . .Malcolm A. Portera. . . . . . . . . . . .J. Charles Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Birthdate: July 13, 1945Birthplace: Williamson, WVHometown: Williamson, WVFamily: Wife (former Mary Thrasher);Children (sons David and Mark; 19971998-20012002-20061972-73 student, undergraduate pilot training,Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.1973-76T-41 instructor pilot, 557th Flying TrainingSquadron, Perterson Field, Colo., and U.S. Air ForceAcademy, Colorado, Springs, Colo.1976-77Aide-De-Camp o the Commander, AirForces Korea, 314th Air Division, Osan Air Base, SouthKorea1977-79AT-33 and EB-57 instructor pilot, flightexaminer and assistant operations officer, 17th DefenseSystems Evaluation Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Mont.1979-80AT-33 instructor pilot and Commander,Detachment 1, 24th Air Defense Squadron, MalmstromAFB, Mont.1980-82F-15 pilot and squadron sheduler, 9thTactical Fighter Squadron; chief of quality assurace,49th Tactical Fighter Wing; and Commander, 49thComponent Repair Squadron, Holloman AFB, N.M.1983-85Special Assistant for Tactical Isues andExecutive Officer for the Deputy Chief of Staff ForResearch, Development and Acquisition,HeadquartersU.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.1985-87Special Assistant to the Commander andCHief, Combat Analysis Division, Headquarters TacticalAir Command, Langley AFB, Va.1987-88F-16 pilot and Assistant DeputyCommander for Operations, 31st Tactical Fighter Wing,Homestead AFB, Fla.1988-90Chief of Staff of the Air Force Chair andProfessor of Joint and Combined Warfare,National WarCollege, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington1990-91F-16 pilot and Chief of Maintenance, 347thTactical Fighter Wing, Mood AFB, Ga.1991-93Director, Chief of Staff of the Air Force’sStaff Group, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington,D.C.1993-93Commander, 14th Fling Training Wing,Columbus AFB, Miss.1994-95Commander, 51st Fighter Wing, Osan AB,South Korea1995-97Deputy Director for Politico-Miltary Affairs,the Joint Sraff, Washington, D.C.1997-99Assistant to the Chairman,Joint Chiefs ofStaff, Washington, D.C.1999-2000 Comander, 12th Air Force and U.S.Southern Command Air Forces, Davis-Monthan AFV,Ariz.2000-01Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and SpaceOperations, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington,D.C.2001-03Vice Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. AirForce, Washington, D.C.2003-04U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Comander,Allied Air Component Command Ramstein; and AirComponent Commander, U.S. European Command,Ramstein AB, Germany2004-06Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe;Commander, Allied Air Component CommandRamstein; Air Component Commander, U.S. EuropeanCommand, Ramstein AB, Germany; and Director,Multinational Joint Air Power Competence, Kalkar,Germany

ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATIONLarry TempletonAnn CarrDirector of Athleticsan atmosphere for student-athlete achieveCreatingment on the playing field and in the classroom,providing the means for a healthy financial bottom line,and keeping personnel achieving at a productive best arejust some of the requirements of the collegiate directorof athletics. On all accounts, Mississippi State University’sLarry Templeton is a resounding success.Mississippi State competes for championships in everysport program while its athletes continue to excel in theclassroom. The department has operated in the blackwhile expanding its varsity athletic sport program anddrastically improving its facilities.Templeton has overseen all that and more as thehead of the program. He is the third-longest-tenuredAD in MSU history and the longest in the SoutheasternConference with 19 seasons under his belt, and theuniversity’s athletic program has reached heights neverbefore achieved under his guidance.On the playing field, the decade of the ‘90s saw virtually every State sport establish a best-ever finish. The start of the new millennium has been nodifferent with MSU sports teams having qualified for postseason play 47 times during the pastsix seasons. A school-record 12 did so in 2004-05 and 1999-2000.During the 2004-05 school year, team and individual athletic accomplishments continuedto reach new heights. Men’s and women’s basketball qualified for postseason competition in2004-05, a fourth-straight NCAA appearance by the men and the seventh postseason showingin eight years for the women. Baseball won the SEC Tournament title in 2005, marking thesport’s second conference title since 2001. Softball remained an NCAA Tournament fixture,qualifying for its fifth NCAA Regional appearance in six years, while the men’s tennis programearned its 14th consecutive NCAA Tournament bid.But State’s student-athletes are not just succeeding on the playing field. MSU’s men’s andwomen’s athletes recorded the highest combined grade point average during the 2004-05academic year in the 15 years in which student-athlete grades were tracked. In 12 of the last 14years, the Bulldog football team has been one of just a handful of schools cited by the AmericanFootball Coaches Association for having a graduation rate exceeding 70 percent. MSU is theonly school in the SEC to make that list with that much frequency. In Spring, 2005, 141 of the269 scholarship student-athletes at Mississippi State (52 percent) earned a grade point averageof 3.00 or higher. Seventy-five scholarship student-athletes made either the Dean’s List (3.5GPA) or the President’s Scholar List (3.8 GPA).MSU has produced the Southeastern Conference’s Male and Female Scholar-Athlete ofthe Year three times each during Templeton’s tenure. State is second among league schools innumber of Academic All-SEC selections in the sports in which MSU competes.Templeton oversaw Mississippi State’s move to come into compliance with the SEC’sGender Equity plan, adding women’s soccer and softball to the school’s varsity sport menu. Thefirst season of soccer was in 1995, while softball began competition in 1997. Since that time,the soccer team has won the SEC Western Division title (2001) and the softball team has neverhad a losing season and has qualified for NCAA postseason play five of the last seven years.And for the 18th year in a row this past year, the MSU athletic program joined just a smallgroup of NCAA Division I schools nation-wide to finish in the black financially at year’s end.Both the local and national media have noticed the work done by Templeton at MSU. TheState men’s program was ranked second-best in the SEC in a 1996 New York Times poll. AndTempleton was chosen 1998 Sports Person of the Year in the state of Mississippi by the JacksonClarion-Ledger.Templeton’s work also stretches far from the Starkville campus. He serves as chairman ofthe SEC’s athletic directors and is serving a second team on the NCAA Baseball Committee. Heis a former member of the NCAA Championship Committee and the NCAA Bowl CertificationCommittee.Templeton is married to the former Linda Jo Nichols. They have a son, Brian, who receivedhis second degree (landscape architecture) at Mississippi State in May 2002. A second son,Stephen, received his doctorate from Mississippi State in August 2002, and a daughter, Nici, isan attorney in Columbia, S.C.Associate AD/Women’s SportsMississippi State Director of Athletics LarryTempleton has named Ann Carr the school’sSenior Woman Administrator.A veteran of 12 years in athletic administration at MSU and a former Lady Bulldog athlete, Carr succeeds Samye Johnson, who retiredas the university’s SWA this past June.Carr is in her second stint within the Stateathletic department. She assumes her newrole following seven years as Assistant AthleticDirector for Student Life. In that position, sheworked with the personal development of MSU’sstudent-athletes in addition to continuing herprior responsibilities as academic counselor forthe Bulldog football team. Carr serves as thedirector of the department’s Life Skills program,which includes the support systems and career programs for all MSU studentathletes, and its CHAMPS program (Challenging Athletes’ Minds for PersonalSuccess).As SWA, Carr will oversee the operation and supervision of MSU’s women’ssport program.Hired in 1993 as an assistant director in the athletic academic office, shereturned full-time to MState in 1999 following a one-year stay in a similarcapacity at the University of Southern Mississippi.A native of Brookhaven, Miss., Carr was a four-year letter winner on theMississippi State women’s basketball team (1986-90). A 1990 graduate ofState, she later earned her master’s degree in counseling from the institution in1992.When Carr finished her women’s basketball playing career in 1990, she rankedfirst on the career leaders list in free-throw percentage, shooting 75.8 percentover a four-year span. She also ranked 12th on the career points list, having scored762 points in her tenure, averaging 8.3 points per contest. In rebounding, Carrbrought down 597 boards (6.5 per game) to finish her career sixth on the all-timelist in rebounds and rebounding average. She also finished her career holding theindividual record in most three-point field goals made (five) in a single game.Greg ByrneDr. David C. BolesJim EllisStraton KaratassosDuncan McKenzieAssoc. AD/External AffairsAssoc. AD/Student ServicesAssoc. AD/Mark. & Corp. Dev.Assoc. AD/Athletic DevelopmentAssoc. AD/Internal OperationsRay BerryhillMike RicheyBobby TomlinsonPat WallaceDr. Steven C. TurnerAsst. AD/Academic AdvisingAsst. AD/Bulldog ClubAssoc. AD/Event Mngmt., FacilitiesAsst. AD/Ticket OperationsFaculty Athletics Representative69

ATHLETIC ACADEMICSThe MSU Athletic Academic Office is committedto preparing Mississippi State University student-athletes for life after college. In order toaccomplish this mission, the Athletic Academic Officewill provide quality programs and services to facilitategraduation and promote the overall development ofour student-athletes. The student services providedby the Athletic Academic Office are designed to promote the personal, educational and career development of the student-athletes. The Athletic Academicstaff is committed to empowering student-athletes todevelop independence, self-reliance, personal values,leadership skills, and responsibility for their own lives.The primary purpose of the Athletic AcademicOffice is to provide quality academic assistance toMSU student-athletes during their tenure at the university and beyond. Assisting student-athletes in thesuccessful completion of their degrees is our main concern. In order to accomplish this mission, the AthleticAcademic office has developed programs and activities in areas such as CHAMPS/Life Skills, Orientation,Academic Advisement, Academic Mentoring, TutorialServices, Development, Study Skills, Career Explorationand Development and Life Management Skills.ADVISEMENTThe Athletic Academic Office assigns counselors bythe program participants' sport. Academic Counselorsassist student-athletes with class advising, tutoring,mentoring with career development, and selectedpetition processes. Counselors also serve as a resourcefor students in personal development areas includingmanagement of test anxieties, personal counseling anddeveloping time management skills. Athletic AcademicCounselors assist student-athletes throughout theireducational experience at Mississippi State Universityand are available on both a walk-in basis and throughscheduled appointments. All student-athletes areencouraged to utilize the Athletic Academic Counselorservices.In just eight seasons, the Mississippi State Women’sSoccer program has established itself not only on thefield, but also in the classroom. The Bulldog soccerteam continued a lasting tradition for itself in 2002as a school record 13 players were named to theSoutheastern Conference Academic Honor Roll. Thenumber also brought the total number of MississippiState athletes that have been honored to 62 in theseven seasons that any SEC soccer player has beeneligible for the award.The Bulldog soccer team has played a vital role inhelping the overall athletics program at MississippiState garner national recognition for its high marksin the classroom and in the athletic arena. Each year,Mississippi State University produces a lion’s shareof Academic All-Southeastern Conference classroomstars.The goal now is to increase this level of academicsuccess. This is a daunting task for athletes competing with a full load of classes and a full schedule ofopponents and practices. However, Bulldog athletescontinue to prove that they are up to the challenge as,each year, its number of academic all-SEC honor rollmembers increase.The secret behind the academic success for Bulldogathletes is Mississippi State’s athletic academic counselors, headed by Assistant Athletic Directors RayBerryhill and Ann Carr, along with academic counselorsLynda Moore and Dow Thomas. Joining this group aretwo graduate assistants and 40 part-time tutors whowork in Hathorne Hall.The Athletics Academic staff works as a liaisonbetween the Athletics Department, undergraduatedivisions and the administrative office of MississippiState University. The staff offers career advice andcounseling, makes sure all athletes are maintaining satisfactory progress toward their degrees and monitorsTHE ATHLETIC ACADEMIC STAFFMONITORS: Academic Progress Class Attendance Class Scheduling NCAA Rules to Ensure Academic EligibilityEach SemesterHAS RESPONSIBILITY FOR: Study Hall Attendance Tutors Academic Counseling A Computer Lab With 17 Computers Issue of Textbooks To Scholarship StudentAthletesacademic eligibility. The advisors also secure tutorsand schedule study sessions.ASSESSMENTThe Athletic Academic Office provides educationalskills assessment for all incoming student-athletes.The assessment process is designed to provide thestudent-athletes and counselors with knowledge ofstudent-athlete's strengths and weaknesses in suchcontain areas as reading, writing, and mathematics.With this information, Athletic Academic Counselorscan determine if student-athletes possess the necessary skills to succeed in standard entry-level coursesat MSU. Scores below the established minimum donot disqualify a student-athlete from continuing andachieving scholastic success at MSU. It may however,indicate a need for additional testing, enrollment indevelopmental courses and/or the use of the various academic services provided on campus for thestudent's ultimate collegiate success. The focus of theassessment process is to ensure that all student-athletes have available all appropriate academic supportservices to have a successful academic experience.SUPERVISED STUDYSupervised study is a monitored study programdesigned to provide student-athletes with organizedstudy/tutoring time in flexible environment conduciveto successful learning. Study sessions are required forall first semester freshmen, transfer student-athletesand any student-athlete whom the appropriate coaching staff and the Athletic Academic Office staff believewould benefit from the experience. Study sessions areto provide a more structured environment to assiststudent-athletes in their transition from high school tocollege. Any study area or learning center is availablefor use during these times. The hours required by thestudent's adviser will be totaled at the end of eachweek. The ultimate goal of supervised study is to assiststudent-athletes in developing their intellectual andacademic potential and to familiarize the student withall services offered by the academic center.TUTORINGTutors are provided for student-athletes in all subject areas. They are available on a one-to-one basis andin small group sessions. The Athletic Academic staffmay recommend tutors for you, or you can request onefor yourself. Tutoring services are usually arranged onan appointment basis. Student-athletes are expectedto keep all tutoring appointments they schedule.MEASURING SUCCESSOver the past eight academic seasons, MSU trailsjust Florida in the number of its student-athletes whichreceive academic all-conference accolades. In the measure of the sport of soccer alone, Mississippi State hasproduced a lion’s share of academic all-SEC honoreessince the sport’s inception in 1995. The Bulldogs havedecorated 43 different MSU soccer athletes with thehonor in the nine seasons that any MSU player hasbeen eligible for the award. A total of 26 of thoseathletes have earned the laurel on more than one occasion.AA STAFF70Lynda MooreVictor ParkerBrittany WagnerShelly EllisEricka BazzillAcademic CounselorAcademic CounselorAcademic CounselorTutorial Services CoordinatorAdministrative Assistant

MSU TRADITIONSTHE BULLDOG STORYMississippi State University athletic teams arecalled Bulldogs, a name earned and maintained over the decades by the tough, tenacious play of student-athletes wearing the Maroonand White. The official school mascot is an AmericanKennel Club registered English Bulldog, given theinherited title of ‘Bully.’As with most

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY 66 Mississippi State is a comprehensive land-grant institution and the largest university in Mississippi, with a statewide enrollment of more than 16,000 students. Established in 1878 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi, the univer-sity has traditional strengths in engineering and