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Former Rust College Chief Dies in Accident

Associated Presscmaadmin (EDU)
Mar 16, 2009

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss.  _ The former president of Rust College has died in a weekend traffic accident in Holly Springs.

Marshall County Coroner James Anderson says 89-year-old William A. McMillan died from injuries he sustained in a car wreck Saturday.

Anderson says McMillan was transported to Alliance Medical Hospital where he died from head trauma and internal injuries.

Rust is a historically Black college in Holly Springs with an enrollment of about 900. McMillan served as president from 1967 to 1993.



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