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Mar. 21, 2005 Volume 29, Issue 28 |

Dr. Richard Holmes, staff physician at the Longest Student Health Center, was honored recently during a campus reception marking the 40th anniversary of his admission to Mississippi State. The event is the first of several that will commemorate his enrollment in 1965 as MSU’s first African-American student.
