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Mississippi College Scholarship Dinner

March 31, 2016 | fashion

On Tuesday night, Bobby and I had the privilege of attending the annual spring scholarship dinner at our alma mater, Mississippi College. A friend of ours had a table at the event, and invited us to come as guests. We never get to go to anything fancy like this, so it was a real treat. So much so, that I actually curled my hair and put on more than just mascara and concealer!

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I may have had to use a half bottle of hair spray, but it stayed put! (My thick thick hair does not like to curl. The curls fall out instantly, especially here in the humid south, but I was determined!)

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I admittedly had not been back to campus in about seven years, and as soon as we walked across the quad, all the memories came flooding back and I got super nostalgic. I can’t believe I graduated NINE years ago this spring. I vividly remember wanting so badly to be out of college so I could be a “real adult”, and now I would give my right arm to go back to those glorious days of no worries.

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The dinner was very nice, we had salad, steak and potatoes, as well as cheesecake.

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We had a very special treat, because not only was the governor, Phil Bryant at the event, but he introduced the keynote speaker, who was none other than Rudy Giuliani.

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Rudy was such a great speaker, and the time flew by (he talked for well over an hour) but I could have listened to his stories all night.

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He is hilarious, and gave his opinions on the presidential election madness, as well as gave us some words of wisdom on leadership and vision, and what our country needs.

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He told stories from September 11th, and about his time as mayor. I truly enjoyed the evening, and am so glad I was able to go and hear someone like Rudy speak (and sit right up in the front, too!)

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One funny side note, his phone rang while he was speaking, and his ringtone was the music for the song “Bad to the Bone.” I die. We just couldn’t get over how hilarious that was.

QOTD: Have you ever heard someone of political notoriety speak in person? I would love to hear who! I’m a total history and government nerd!

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  1. Joy Hargraves says

    March 31, 2016 at 4:38 am

    I work for NOAA and our administrator is Kathy Sullivan!! Some of you may be a little too young to know who she is, but she was in NASA’s first group of female astronauts. I grew up wanting to reach the stars and even went to Space Camp twice. She was definitely a childhood hero for me. She came to my building when I first got hired. I brought in my Right Stuff Award from my second trip to Space Camp and she signed it and put all 3 of her shuttle missions on it! It is now in a shadow box in my Star Wars room!

  2. Kaitlin says

    March 31, 2016 at 4:40 am

    A bunch of my friends from college were actually a year ahead of me so I went to their graduation ceremony and Former First Lady Laura Bush spoke. She was an advocate for educating women from Afghanistan and we had a program that she jump started at our school (Rodger Williams University). It was pretty cool!

  3. Alison says

    March 31, 2016 at 10:19 am

    Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy came and taught a couple classes at my law school throughout my years there and spoke to the school a few times. It was very unique to have a Supreme Court justice guest lecture for a constitutional law class. It was always very interesting when he or some other important person was on campus. I’m sure Gulianni was a great speaker to see!

  4. Kelly in Oregon says

    March 31, 2016 at 10:41 am

    Tom Brokaw was the speaker at my college graduation. I would LOVE to hear Rudy Giuliani speak!

  5. Mindy (Road Runner Girl) says

    March 31, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    You guys look great all dressed up! Your hair is gorgeous! I LOVE Rudy Giuliani! He seems like such an amazing man! How cool you got to hear him speak!

  6. Karen says

    March 31, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    The dinner looked like a lot of fun…you and Bobby look great too!! 🙂

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