Mrs. Earlora Chapman Holden, who is 100 years old and still resides in Poplarville, Miss., home of Pearl River Community College, which was founded in 1909 and is Mississippi's first junior college, addressed the ceremonies last week dedicating a dorm, one to her and one to the late Kathryn Moody, who served on the board of trustees for 10 years. Mrs. Holden was the wife of the late legendary PRCC head coach Thomas Dobie Holden and served as a professor and dept. head for 27 years at the college.
PRCC President William Lewis said that the highest honor the college can bestow on a person was to name a building or structure after them. "It is something the board does not take lightly," he told the large crowd attending in the college cafeteria.
Buddy Moody, son of Kathryn Moody, said that his mother loved the college, the students and faculty as much as she did her family. "She was always looking out for them and trying to find ways to help," he said. Moody still lives on the homeplace just north of the college on Hwy. 11 North. His father is the late J.S. Moody.
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