Advisory Board

Advisory Board members hail from coast to coast

 

About 50 people from across the country make up the Advisory Board of the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration.

 

“They bring a wealth of expertise and advice to the board,” said Jim Barnett, NLCC Co-chairman, representing Mississippi Department of Archives and History, one of four sponsoring agencies of the conference.

 

Barnett, Director of Historic Properties for the MDAH, is one of three NLCC co-chairmen. Other co-chairmen are Kathleen Jenkins, Superintendent of the Natchez National Historical Park; and Carolyn Vance Smith, former Public Relations Director and English instructor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College in Natchez.

 

Smith and Co-Lin founded the Celebration in 1990.

 

The three co-chairmen form the NLCC Steering Committee and serve as leaders of the Advisory Board, which was established in 2000.

 

"We are delighted to have the support and energy of the Advisory Board members," Barnett said. "The Board provides suggestions for programming, speakers, fund-raising, publicity and promotion."

 

Members of the Advisory Board are:

Ronnie Agnew, Executive Director, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Jackson, Miss.

John Bergeron, Century Investment Group, Natchez, Miss.

Valerie Bergeron, Owner and Innkeeper, Pleasant Hill Bed-and-Breakfast, Natchez, Miss.

Jean Biglane, Cathedral High School, Natchez, Miss.

Emma Blissett, Former NLCC Co-chairman and Instructor of English, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Wesson, Miss.

Henri Bollinger, Henri Bollinger Associates, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Maria Bowser, retired California college administrator, Natchez, Miss.

Betsy Bradley, Director, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Miss.

David C. Bramlette, U.S. District Court Judge, Natchez, Miss.

M. Christopher Brown, Jr., President, Alcorn State University, Alcorn State, Miss.

Susan Cassagne, Director, Natchez-Adams-Wilkinson Library Services, Natchez, Miss.

Douglas B. Chambers, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Jennifer Ogden Combs, Producer, Natchez, Miss.

Kevin Cooper, Publisher, The Natchez Democrat, Natchez, Miss.

Ward Emling, Manager, Mississippi Film Office, Mississippi Department of Economic and Community Development, Jackson, Miss.

John Evans, Owner, Lemuria Books, Jackson, Miss.

Roderick Givens, President, Board of Trustees, Trinity Episcopal Day School, Natchez, Miss.

Darryl Grennell, Member, Adams County Board of Supervisors, Natchez, Miss., and Assistant Professor, Alcorn State University, Lorman, Miss.

John D. W. Guice, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Alferdteen Harrison, former Director, Margaret Walker Alexander Research Center, Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss.

Sam Haskell, formerly with The William Morris Agency, Beverly Hills, Calif., and now of Encino, CA. and Oxford, Miss.

Les Hegwood, Trinity Episcopal Day School, Natchez, Miss.

Emily Smith Henderson, Past President, Brookhaven Trust for the Preservation of History, Culture, and the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

Dr. Frederick Hill, Natchez-Adams Chool District, Natchez, Miss.

Suzanne Hirsch, Executive Director of the Mississippi School of the Arts, Brookhaven, Miss.

H. T. “Hank” Holmes, Director, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss

Greg Iles, author, Natchez, Miss.

Ann Kimball, Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Jackson, Miss.

David King, Adams County Christian School, Natchez, Miss.

Philip Kolin, Editor of Southern Quarterly, The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Donzell Lee, Chairman, Honors Program, Alcorn State University, Lorman, Miss.

Douglas Lewis, Emeritus Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., now of Liberty, Miss.

Aubrey K. Lucas, President Emeritus, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Stuart Margolin, Actor/Producer/Director, New York, N.Y

Scott Dixon McDowell, Professor of Film, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Miss.

Gerald McRaney, actor, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Peggy W. Prenshaw, Millsaps College Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, Jackson, Miss.

JoAnne Prichard Morris, Editor, Jackson, Miss.

Ronald "Ronnie" Nettles II, President, Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Wesson, Miss.

Cora Norman, Past President, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, and Emeritus Executive Director, Mississippi Humanities Council, Crossville, Tenn.

Ted Ownby, Director, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Director, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

Lani and Ron Riches, Los Angeles, Calif.

David G. Sansing, Emeritus Professor of History, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

Clifton L. Taulbert, author and lecturer, Freemount Corporation, Tulsa, Okla.

Connie Taunton, Manager, Natchez Film Commission, Natchez, Miss.

Layne Taylor, Executive and Artistic Director, Natchez Little Theatre, Natchez, Miss.

William Terrell, Publisher, The Bluff City Post, Natchez, Miss.

Charles Vahlkamp, Emeritus Professor of American Film Studies, Centre College, Danville, Ky.

Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, La.

Thomas E. Weed, physician, Houma, La.

Samuel L. White, Director, Resource Development, Alcorn State University, Lorman, Miss.

Charles Reagan Wilson, Professor of History and former Director, The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

Clara Smith Wimberly, Pensacola Junior College Guild, Pensacola, Fla.

William F. Winter, retired President, Board of Trustees, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss.

Charles Wright, Richard Wright Family Historian, Natchez, Miss.

Charles Yarborough, History Instructor, Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus, Miss.