JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Millsaps College will give honorary degrees to former NBC News anchor Roger Mudd, Methodist pastor and seminary professor Lovett Weems Jr., and former Mississippi first lady Elise Varner Winter.
The three will receive the degrees May 10 at the college’s commencement.
Mudd won a Peabody Award for “The Selling of the Pentagon” and received five Emmy awards for his work at CBS. He retired in 2004.
Weems is director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. A Mississippi native and Millsaps graduate, he was a pastor in the state for many years.
Winter, the wife of former Gov. William Winter, helped found Jackson’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity and later served on the board of Habitat for Humanity International.
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