History-Making Alumna, Senatorial Spouse to Speak at Mississippi College’s Central Ceremony

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History-Making Alumna, Senatorial Spouse to Speak at Mississippi College’s Central Ceremony

On May 2, Gayle Long Wicker will join a select few speakers who have delivered the Commencement address at multiple MC graduation ceremonies. The following week, her husband, Sen. Roger Wicker, will speak at MC Law’s Commencement. Gayle Long Wicker hadn’t planned to make history when she decided to run for student body president at Mississippi College in 1971. As a former member of the Student Senate, Wicker was convinced that as president, she …