New Book Helps Promote MC Scholarships
Bob Allan Dunaway's new book is packed with tales of the former Mississippi College professor's life as an educator, humorist and artist.
Hot off the presses, "Things Remembered...Recollections about Recollections" sells for $15 per copy with proceeds to enhance a scholarship he established for MC art students. Recipients must transfer from a community college to MC to be eligible.
Michael Hataway, MC's graphic design coordinator and art instructor on the Clinton campus, wrote the forward to the 186-page book. Hataway was one of Dunaway's art students at MC and later they were teaching colleagues for more than 20 years at Hinds Community College in Raymond. They've remained good friends for decades.
As an MC undergraduate, 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 book's 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 to 1968. He chaired the Hinds Community College Art Department from 1971 until 1986. He retired in 1993 with the rank of Hinds professor emeritus. The Mississippian also served in the U.S. Air Force where he achieved the rank of chief before his retirement.
Chapters in his book cover a wide range of topics - from politics to the county fair in Tylertown where the Walthall County native grew up. There's even a chapter on Mississippi's "chiggers," ticks and "skeeters." Many of the chapters touch on Dunaway's growing up years in Mississippi in the 1930s and 1940s. But he also spotlights his June 2007 encounter with wild animals in Kenya, Africa near mighty Mount Kilimanjaro. His wife, Mary Lynn Moody, a retired English teacher was along for the journey.
Dunaway dedicates the book to his three children, Michael, Jimmy and Melody. for being such a joy in his life.
The book was published this summer by the Brick Streets Press, a division of the Arts Council of Clinton. For more information about the book, contact Hataway at 601.925.7351 or hataway@mc.edu.
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