Funeral services held for former USM president Dr. Shelby Thames

Funeral services held for former USM president Dr. Shelby Thames

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) – Funeral services were held Saturday for Shelby Freland Thames, the eighth president of the University of Southern Mississippi. Services were held at Bennett Auditorium. Thames passed away at his home on April 17. He served as president of USM from 2002 to 2007. Before that, he worked at Southern Miss as a faculty member and administrator for nearly four decades. Thames established USM’s polymer science programs, and …