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• ICC's CenterStage to present spring show, Apr. 20

  Itawamba Community College’s CenterStage will present its spring show at 6:30 p.m., Apr. 20 in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium at the Fulton Campus.             CenterStage will “Light Up the Night” with a wide variety of songs and illuminating numbers from current songs on the radio to classic hits. ICC’s show choir features vocalists, instrumentalists and technical crew.             Members include Kindal Gammill of Ackerman; Braxton McKinney of Caledonia, Meg Basden, Preston Cox, both of Fulton, Eli Head of Haleyville, Ala., Kaylee Heitger of Mooreville; Mary Beth Oliver of Nettleton, Anna Sauerwein, Timothy Locastro, both of Pontotoc, Michael Smith of Splunge; Anna Grace Funderburk, Ella Kate Nichols, both of Thaxton; Maggie Hardin of Union and Jet Adams of Vance.             Directors are Kyle Davis of Fulton and Christy Colburn of Amory.             Admission is free. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis at www.iccms.edu/etickets.             Social distancing guidelines will be observed, and masks are required.             For more information, call (662) 862-8306 or email kddavis@iccms.edu or (662) 862-8302 or cacolburn@iccms.edu.
• ICC to present Fall Choral Concert, Nov. 9, at Link Centre

  Itawamba Community College will present its Fall Choral Concert at 7 p.m., Nov. 9, at the Link Centre in Tupelo.             Students performing include             Abbeville – Marly Kesler;             Ackerman – Gavin Arnault, Brianna Eiland, Olivia Miller, Melissa Ramirez;             Amory – Anji Beato, Isaac Houk, Lillyan Madrid;             Columbus – Mecca Karriem;             Detroit, Ala. – Mackenzie Shotts;             French Camp – Leslie Fleming;             Fulton – Rebekah Anderson, Chase Baggett, Clara Green;             Hamilton, Ala. – Maggie Smith;             Kosciusko – Ty’kiaya Kern;             Louin – ZaMarion Jones;             Mantachie – Lilly Andry, Destinee Dixon;             Meridian – Noah Wade;             Mooreville – Seairra Westmoreland;             Nettleton – Cortney McCord;             Oxford – Liana Logan;             Philadelphia – Jesse Pettigrew;             Plantersville – Semaj Jones;             Pontotoc – Addison Clements, Joshua Coker, Makenna Cooper, Mikey Franklin, Caroline Holloway, Carter McNeil, Isiah Pannell, Kristin Ray, Layla Tutor;             Prairie – Ahmond Cox;             Red Bay, Ala. – Mason Bates;             Saltillo – Thomas Dillard, Hunter Johnson, Bryce McCord, Kaylee Townsend, Emma Worsham; Tremont – Sarah Brown; Tupelo – Lia Darracott, Jayden Gray, Jason Luna, Crissen McCoy, Aubrey Meredith, Rodney Simpson, Grant Sullivan; Vernon, Ala. – Ryfucious ...
• ICC's CenterStage presents Apr. 25 spring concert

  Itawamba Community College’s CenterStage, contemporary music group, has scheduled an Apr. 25 concert at the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium on the Fulton Campus.             “Oh the Places I’ll Go,” which will begin at 7 p.m., will feature selections that are associated with the theme.             The cast includes Lera Winders of Amory; Hilary Little of Collierville, Tenn.; Brady Peacock of French Camp; Lauren Johnson, Zayda Patterson, both of Fulton; Bailee Caples of Mantachie; Lindy Monts of Mooreville; Noah Wade of Philadelphia; Joshua Coker of Pontotoc; Maggie Smith of Tremont; and Rodney Simpson of Tupelo.             Members of the band are Lia Daracott of Fulton; Jared Brownlee, Tucker Hicks, both of Mooreville; Jesse Pettigrew of Philadelphia; Bryan Valentin-Colon, Eliseo Fernandez, Max Wright, Michael Franklin, Juan Ramirez, all of Pontotoc; and Aubrey Meredith of Tupelo.             The crew includes Caroline Nester, Drew Edgeworth, both of Amory; Kiara Gaunt of Brandon; Jordan Laney of Fulton; Makenzie Shotts of Hamilton, Ala.; Joseph Cassler of Marietta; Kaylan Strong, Makenna Cooper, both of Oxford; Bryce Weaver of Tupelo; and Kenna Stockman, Emma Welch, both of Vernon, Ala.             ...
• ICC's Eidt to present free humanities lecture, Feb. 4

  Megan Lewis Eidt of Tupelo, Itawamba Community College’s 2025 Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee, will present “In Your Face History: How Technology and Mass Media Have Transformed the Study of History,” Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. at the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center at the Fulton Campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.             Eidt will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony, Mar. 28, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.             Since 2004, she has taught history at ICC, where her activities have included former two-term president of the Tupelo Campus Faculty Association and former adviser to the ICC Political Science and Humanities Clubs. Her professional memberships include ICC Faculty Association, National Council on Public History, Atlanta History Center and American Historical Association.             Eidt earned the bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi, master’s degree from Mississippi College and additional coursework from the Center of Bi-Lingual and Multi-Cultural Studies in Cuernavaca, ...
• McArthur to present fifth in 'Reflecting Mississippi Series' at ICC-Fulton, Nov. 7

  Danny McArthur of Tupelo, environmental justice reporter, will present “A Conversation about Southern Journalism,” Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. in the W. O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium at the Itawamba Community College Fulton Campus.             McArthur, who is employed by the Gulf States Newsroom, a regional collaboration among NPR and public radio stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, focuses on individuals most vulnerable to climate change’s effects and the communities disproportionately impacted by environmental hazards and poor public policy. A graduate of the University of Georgia, McArthur previously spent three years as the community voices reporter for the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.             The presentation is part of “Reflecting Mississippi: Finding Yourself in Mississippi’s Reflection,” made possible by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council. Additional presentations are scheduled throughout 2022-23.
• Join ICC's Alumni Association and for a limited time, receive a free Mississippi custom car license plate

  Itawamba Community College is offering an opportunity for Mississippi residents, especially its alumni, to share its message through displaying a custom car license plate.             For a limited time, residents of the state can join ICC’s Alumni Association for a $20 yearly membership fee, and receive the license plate free of charge, according to Michael Upton, director of Advancement.             Incoming ICC Alumni Association President Joey Cox of Fulton has already ordered a tag to support the College. “I am very proud of my association with ICC and enjoyed my time spent here. I look for opportunities to show my ICC pride and think our specialty ICC car tag is a great way to express that pride.”             Karen McFerrin of Mantachie, past Alumni Association president and current board member, agrees. “I can’t think of a better way to show support for the college I love than displaying an ICC tag on my car. It’s just a small way of showing my support for a college that means so much to me, and I encourage everyone to support ICC by purchasing ...