The Dr. William R. and Camille B. Smith STEM Scholarship was recently endowed with the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Foundation by Dr. William R. and Camille B. Smith. This scholarship was established to benefit a student who is majoring in pre-med or a STEM-related field, with priority given to a student with financial need.
Smith, a Wesson native, attended both Co-Lin High School and the college, where he was named to the student Hall of Fame in 1974. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1979. He had a brief stint in private practice in Texas but returned to Mississippi to join the internal medicine staff at the Jackson Veterans Administration Medical Center in 1983 where he was awarded the title of Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He was also promoted to assistant professor of medicine at UMMC and went on to practice Nephrology at Central Nephrology Clinic serving St. Dominic Memorial Hospital until his retirement in 2016.
Smith is married to Camille Brock Nelson and is the father of four children, Mark, Desiree, Diana, and Mary-Emma. He also has three stepchildren, Benjamin, AnnaLyn and Leslie; and 11 grandchildren.
Contributions to the Dr. William R. and Camille B. Smith STEM Scholarship, or any other scholarship, can be mailed to the Co-Lin Foundation at P.O. Box 649, Wesson, MS 39191, or made online at https://www.colin.edu/alumni-foundation/give-now/.
CUTLINE: The Dr. William R. and Camille B. Smith STEM Scholarship was recently established with the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Foundation. On hand for the presentation were (from left) Camille Smith, Dr. William Smith, and Co-Lin Foundation Executive Director Angela Furr.