Special to The Clinton Courier
Upon receiving her Bachelor of Science in education from Mississippi Christian University (Mississippi College) in 1981, Jeannie Lane of Clinton was busily applying for teaching jobs when Edward L. McMillan, then-dean of Graduate Studies at MC for whom she had worked as an undergraduate, made a recommendation.
“Dr. Mac asked me to stay at MC and work on my master’s degree until I could find the teaching job I wanted,” Lane recalled…