Representatives of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board presented university president Mark Keenum with an artist's rendering of the Persian Gulf War Memorial that will be part of the Mississippi State Veterans Memorial Cemetery. Making the presentation to Keenum were Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Wayne Burkes (r), vice chairman the Board, and Adrian Grice, executive director of the Mississippi Veterans Affairs Board. The 75-acre cemetery site, located on Highway 80 between Newton and Hickory, was donated by Mississippi State University from land that formerly was part of the Mississippi State University Coastal Plains Experiment Station. Once complete, the Mississippi State Veterans Memorial Cemetery will serve approximately 50,000 Mississippi veterans and their families.