Contact: Kenneth Billings
STARKVILLE, Miss.--A Madison County senior at Mississippi State is the new student member on the Mississippi Business Education Association's executive board.
Morgan S. Watkins of Madison recently was named to a one-year term on the governing body of the professional organization for state business educators.
Watkins, a Madison Central High School graduate and Dean's Scholar at the university, is majoring in technology teacher education, with an emphasis in business technology. A transfer from Jones County Junior College, she is the daughter of Ralph and Melinda Sims.
Formed in 1950, the MBEA is associated with the National and Southern Business Education associations, as well as the National and Mississippi associations of Career and Technical Education. (For more, visit www.ms-mbea.org.)
LOCAL EDITORS: Morgan Watkins is the wife of MSU graduate student Andrew B. Watkins of Starkville.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.