EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Former Mississippi Gov. William F. Winter will present the first-ever Kit Carson Carter Lecture in Southern History and Politics at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Claudia Crosby Theatre at Troy University.

Gov. Winter, 83, served in Mississippi’s top executive post from 1980until 1984. Prior to that, he served as the state’s lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state tax collector and as a member of the State Legislature.

He serves as chairman of the National Commission on State and Local Service, and is a member of the National Advisory Board on Race Relations. He is past chairman of the Kettering Foundation, the Commission on the Future of the South, the Foundation for the Mid South, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Southern Regional Education Board and the Southern Growth Policies Board.

Among his honors is an honorary degree from Troy State University, Tougaloo College, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Davidson College, Millsaps College, Mississippi University for Women and William Carey College.

Mr. Winter is a fellow of the Institute of Politics and Harvard University and a fellow of the Mississippi Bar Foundation. He is a recipient of the National Education Association’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Award.