Millsaps College
Millsaps is a privately supported national liberal arts college in Jackson, Mississippi, founded by members of the Methodist Church in 1890. Consistently ranked as one of the best values in higher education, Millsaps has been praised by Colleges That Change Lives, The Princeton Review, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, the John Templeton Foundation, The Fiske Guide to Colleges, and Insight Magazine.www.millsaps.edu
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Sep 17, 2026
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Webb batting right-handed.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He went to the University of Mississippi when he was a kid, and the opposing moundsman out there, Claude Tassot, went to Millsaps College down in Mississippi.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So a couple of old Mississippi collegians going at it again.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
All those things are forgotten.
Sam WilliamsHOST
Cappy had him an interception and a forced fumble this weekend.
Sam WilliamsHOST
So getting on the field for Millsaps up in Jackson, Mississippi, real close to where we played the first week.
Sam WilliamsHOST
And then Kingston's been balling out.
Sam WilliamsHOST
I don't think he's missed a PAT or a field goal yet.
Al HelferSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's worked the plate in the series, and he's hitting it 3-7-5.
Al HelferSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Paso, a graduate of Millsaps College back in the year of 1932, gets himself ready again, twists, throws.
Al HelferSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a fastball hit right down the shortstop.
Al HelferSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Hughes comes up with it on a big skip, throws it into first to Cabaretta, and that's all for Webb going out from short to first.
1 HR 11 MINS LATER
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So a couple of sons of Mississippi are going at it.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Paso pitches a called strike to him.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Paso, I told you, went to Millsaps College.
Bill SlaterSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, Jimmy Webb here went to the University of Mississippi.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Sure.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Um, it was actually my last semester at Millsaps and I was living over on Jefferson street, just kind of down the street from where I live now, 25 years later, I haven't really branched out too much, I guess.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
And, uh, I remember my mom called me that morning and was saying that, you know, a building hit the World Trade Center.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
But at that time, we kind of thought it was just like an accident.
Cam McKinneyGUEST
They'll be in next year.
Cam McKinneyGUEST
Millsaps, they'll be in next year out of Mississippi.
Cam McKinneyGUEST
Hendricks, and then in Arkansas, man, a lot of traveling, a lot of road trips out of Mississippi.
Cam McKinneyGUEST
I was going to say, it sounds
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Wasn't there one that killed somebody at Millsaps, actually, too?
Clay EdwardsHOST
The girl went to Millsaps, and she was living in Baton Rouge.
Clay EdwardsHOST
Living in Baton Rouge, yeah.
Clay EdwardsHOST
I think that's when I went to
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Millsaps.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah, I
Clay EdwardsHOST
remember that.
Grace BarterHOST
Dubbed America's Best Singer by Time Magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country, and beyond.
Grace BarterHOST
at the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots she died in her native jackson mississippi on tuesday morning heinz county coroner jeremiah howard confirmed born and raised in jackson to musician herman fulkes and teacher mary fulkes wilson showed an early love of music listening to motown miles davis and felonious monk at six she started piano lessons She played clarinet in marching bands and performed at coffee houses and in cover bands while studying at Millsaps College and Jackson State University.
Grace BarterHOST
In the early 80s, she mentored under jazz greats in New Orleans before moving to New York City and joining Steve Coleman's M-Bass Collective, eventually becoming its main vocalist.
Grace BarterHOST
In 2022, Wilson was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, one of the highest honors awarded to jazz musicians in the U.S.
Clay EdwardsHOST
But did y'all know there was like three mass serial killers in Baton Rouge in the 90s? Three different ones?
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah, wasn't there one that killed somebody at Millsaps, actually, too?
Clay EdwardsHOST
The girl went to Millsaps, and she was living in Baton Rouge.
Clay EdwardsHOST
Living in Baton Rouge, yeah.
Clay EdwardsHOST
I think that's when I went to
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Millsaps.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah, I
Clay EdwardsHOST
remember that.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Wasn't there one that killed somebody at Millsaps, actually, too?
Clay EdwardsHOST
The girl went to Millsaps, and she was living in Baton Rouge.
Clay EdwardsHOST
Living in Baton Rouge, yeah.
Clay EdwardsHOST
I think that's when I went to
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Millsaps.
Sean YurtkuranGUEST
Yeah, I
Clay EdwardsHOST
remember that.
Don WilliamsHOST
Her catalog showcased the full breadth of her native Mississippi's musical heritage, drawing primarily from jazz, but spanning every foundational American genre.
Don WilliamsHOST
After attending Jackson State University and Millsaps College, she got a job at a New Orleans television station which put her in the orbit of local jazz legends Ellis Marsalis and Alvin Batiste, among others.
Don WilliamsHOST
She moved to New York City and joined saxophonist Steve Coleman's influential M-Bass Collective, debuting with her 1986 album Point of View.
Don WilliamsHOST
She earned a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail and in 2022 was named an NEA Jazz Master from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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