MC Scholarships Reap Benefits from Clintonian's New Book
A Clintonian's new book will benefit scholarships for Mississippi College art students.
Bob Allan Dunaway's book is laced with tales of the former MC professor's life as an educator, humorist and artist.
His 186-page book is titled "Things Remembered...Recollections about Recollections." It sells for $15 per copy with proceeds to boost a scholarship he established at MC. Recipients must transfer from a community college to MC to be eligible.
Dunaway says much of the book represents a compilation of columns he penned over the years for the Tylertown Times newspaper in his native Walthall County. The book was published this summer by the Brick Streets Press, a division of the Arts Council of Clinton.
Michael Hataway, MC's graphic design coordinator and art instructor on the Clinton campus, wrote the forward. He was one of Dunaway's art students at MC. Later, they were teaching colleagues for more than two decades at Hinds Community College in Raymond. They've remained good friends for well over a quarter-century.
Hataway recalled he witnessed Dunaway's love for adventure and travel for the first time. "He was always taking us somewhere," the Raymond resident wrote in the forward. "His homespun background has woven a life and career that has touched many students and friends throughout his life."
A 1961 MC art education graduate, Dunaway worked as an art instructor at his alma mater in Clinton from 1964 until 1968. The former Provine High art teacher chaired the Hinds Community College Art Department from 1971 until 1986. The Mississippian retired in 1993 with the rank of Hinds professor emeritus. He served in the U.S. Air Force and achieved the rank of chief before retiring.
Many of his chapters deal with his growing up years in Mississippi in the 1930s and 1940s, such as going to the county fair in Tylertown. There are chapters on funerals in the old days. Another deals with postcards. There's a peachy one on Muscadine pie. He brings readers up to date with his June 2007 encounter with wild animals in Kenya, Africa near mighty Mount Kilimanjaro. His wife, Mary Lynn Moody, a retired English teacher, was on the journey.
Dunaway dedicates the book to his three children, Michael, Jimmy and Melody, for being such a joy in his life. For more information on the book, contact Michael Hataway at 601.925.7351 or hataway@mc.edu.
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