HOLLY SPRINGS • In her first State of the Institution address, Rust College President Ivy R. Taylor laid out her plans for modernizing the state’s oldest historically Black college and
5 Star Stories Black History: The story behind Rust College
5 Star Stories Black History: Rust College honors the past, looks to the future By Kym Clark | March 2, 2021 at 8:54 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 10:41 PM
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. (WMC) - This 5 Star Story celebrating Black History shines a light on the oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) associated with the United Methodist Church, and the second oldest private college in Mississippi.
We’re talking Rust College, where last summer, the school’s 12th president and the first woman was installed to lead the institution into the future.
The college is nestled in the idyllic Marshall County seat of Holly Springs, Mississippi which is 55 miles south of Memphis. It was founded in1866 by the Freedman’s Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, just one year after slavery was abolished.
TUPELO
⢠Northeast Mississippi is mourning the loss of Nathaniel Stone, a longtime educator, school administrator, community leader and fisherman.
Stone, 90, died at his home on Tuesday.
Stone was a graduate of George Washington Carver High School in Tupelo and served in the U.S. Army from 1951 to 1953. He graduated from Mississippi Industrial College in 1957 and soon after began a 40-plus year career with the Tupelo schools. He was a longtime principal at Green Street Elementary and later at Milam Intermediate School.
âNat was an excellent school administrator who cared strongly for his children,â said former Tupelo Separate School District Superintendent Julian Prince. âHe followed many of them after they left his school.â