Shackouls Honor College donation

Shackouls Honor College donation
Photo by Russ Houston

April 12, 2006

During a Tuesday campus ceremony, retiring Mississippi State President Charles Lee (r) announced a $10 million gift to the university from Judy and Bobby Shackouls. The Houston, Texas, couple is endowing an honors college to be named in their honor at the 128-year-old land-grant institution. Bobby Shackouls, (c) a 1972
MSU chemical engineering graduate from Greenville, recently retired as president and chief executive officer of Burlington Resources Inc.