Magnolia Bible College
announces
Terry Bowden
as guest speaker for the
27th Annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Kosciusko, MS

From outstanding student-athlete, to 1993 National Coach of the Year, to one of college football's leading television analysts and radio personalities, to much sought-after keynote speaker, Terry Bowden has known what it takes to be a success at whatever he does.

• Terry Bowden lettered two years as a running back at West Virginia University where he had the highest grade point average on the football team and graduated magna cum laude.
• After doing post-graduate work at Oxford University in England he received his law degree from the Florida State University School of Law.
• He became the youngest college head football coach at the age of twenty-six and the youngest Division 1A head coach at the age of thirty-six.
• In 1993, at Auburn University, Terry Bowden became the first coach in Division 1A history to go 11-0 in his first season and was named the National Coach of the Year.
• He won 68% of his games for a final record of 111-53-2 and is the only coach in the past fifty years to achieve 100 victories by the age of forty.
• Currently, Terry Bowden is the color analyst for Westwood One Radio's College Football Game of the Week, hosts The Terry Bowden Show on ESPN Radio, co-hosts the "Coach's Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio, and writes an exclusive college football column for Yahoo Sports.com.

Terry Bowden makes up just one part of the most famous family in college football history. Terry's father, Bobby Bowden, has won two National Championships as the head coach at Florida State and is currently the winningest coach in Division 1A history. Brother, Tommy, is the head coach at Clemson University.

For more information about Terry Bowden, go to his Web site at www.TerryBowden.com

26th Annual Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction with Willard Scott
April 21, 2007
Today's ebullient Willard Scott has made mornings much brighter for millions of viewers since he first appeared on the program in March 1980 reporting on the weather. He joined NBC's Today after having performed similar duties, beginning in 1968, at WRC-TV, the NBC television station in Washington, D.C.
Scott has traveled with Today throughout Europe, aboard the Orient Express; to China; to Australia; to South America; on a cruise ship along the eastern seaboard; to Rome during Holy Week; Hawaii; and to the heartland of America on the "Today Express."
In addition to his many weather telecasts from state fairs, fundraising events, parades, and civic events across the country, Scott is a great advocate of honoring centenarians, wishing a happy birthday to seven over-100-year-olds daily. Scott, the first Ronald McDonald, has anchored coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since 1987, and traditionally appears as Santa Claus at several White House events for children. For more than 30 years, he has lighted the national Christmas tree in Washington, D.C.
Scott has made numerous appearances throughout the country, including at Carnegie Hall in 1989 with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops, at Symphony Hall in 1989. When he narrated The Night Before Christmas with the Boston Symphony, at the Palace Theatre with George Abbott, and at the Grand Ole Opry. In addition, Scott hosted the Family Channel's The New Original Amateur Hour in 1991. Later, he hosted Willard Scott's Home and Garden Almanac on Home and Garden Television.
He began his career with NBC as a page at the Washington station in 1950. At the time he was also a weekend disk jockey for radio station WINX. Scott joined WOL Radio that same year and, with Ed Walker, formed The Joy Boys broadcast team, moving in 1953 to WRC-AM, the NBC Radio Station in Washington, D.C., and remaining there until 1972. Scott and Walker then moved to WWDC, Washington, and remained at the station until 1974. In addition, Scott reported on the weather at WRC- Am from 1956 to 1972.
Scott has distinguished himself with his public-service efforts, and has been named both Distinguished Virginian by the Virginia Association of Broadcasters (1990) and Washingtonian of the Year by Washingtonian magazine (1979). He also received the Great American Award from the Bards of Bohemia in New Orleans (1990), and was named Humanitarian in Residence by the National Society of Fund Raisers (1985). In 1985, he was recognized by President Ronald Reagan with the Private Sector Award for Public Service. Currently, Scott serves as the official voice of The J.M. Smucker Company, better known as Smucker's.
Scott is the author of several books including, The Joy of Living, Down Home Stories, Willard Scott's All-American Cookbook, America Is My Neighborhood, The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune and most recently, If I Knew It Would Be This Much Fun, I Would have been a Grandparent First. He is co-author with Bill Crider of Murder Under Blue Skies and Murder in the Mist.
Scott graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a BA in philosophy and religion. He has two daughters, Mary and Sally, and two grandchildren, John and Sally Marie. Scott was born March 7, 1934, in Alexandria, Virginia.

For additional information, please contact Kim Grymes at kgrymes@magnolia.edu.

The Prentiss County Associates hosted its annual benefit dinner and silent auction for Magnolia Bible College at the Booneville Church of Christ Annex on Friday night, March 30, 2007. Several individuals from congregations all over Prentiss County attended the event.

The Associates provided a wonderful meal for the evening. Keith Sanders, an MBC alumnus, led the opening prayer. After the meal, a group consisting of Bobby Cleveland, Allen Coker, Marshall Eubanks, Willie Bob Gates, and Jonathan Timbes sang several hymns. Willie Bob Gates, MBC student and minister for the Sunflower Church of Christ, then spoke to the audience about his experiences at MBC. Ouida McCarter, Associates President, presented the college with a donation. The evening concluded with a prayer by graduating MBC senior, Rodney Livingston.



Allen Coker and Ouida McCarter

The Prentiss County Associates have been in existence for 29 years. During that time, the chapter has contributed more than $160,000 to educate preachers at Magnolia Bible College.



Willie Bob Gates and Tommy Baragona