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An Evening with Fred Smith, CEO and Founder of FedEx

An Evening with Fred Smith, CEO and Founder of FedEx

An Evening with Fred Smith, CEO and Founder of FedEx

Celebrating twenty years of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, DSG welcomed Jim Barksdale, who introduced the evening’s special guest, Fred Smith, founder and CEO of FedEx. A select number of honors students enjoyed dining with Jim and Donna Barksdale, Fred Smith and his daughter Samantha Smith, UM’s First Lady Sharon Vitter, Vice Chancellor for Development Charlotte Parks, and Dean Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez. For more pictures of the evening, visit our Facebook page.

2017 Fall Honors Convocation. Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications

2017 Fall Honors Convocation. Photo by Thomas Graning/Ole Miss Communications

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