Podcasts History Mississippi Moments Podcast MSM 500 Imogene Borganelli - The Mississippi Humanities Council

MSM 500 Imogene Borganelli - The Mississippi Humanities Council

Published: Oct. 10, 2016, 3:15 p.m.

Imogene Borganelli of Greenville graduated from Ole\u2019 Miss with dreams of becoming a medical technician. \u201cMy father had been a superintendent and my mother had been a teacher and I said, I did not intend to teach school. I didn\u2019t want to starve to death.\u201d\xa0 It was the chance to coach girls\u2019 basketball at Shaw High School in 1950 that lead her to become a teacher, anyway.\xa0 In this episode, she remembers when her team beat the team of her friend \u2013 coaching legend Margaret Wade.

The Mississippi Humanities Council was founded in 1972 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Borganelli details the first Scholar-In-Residence Program. Borganelli served on the Mississippi Humanities Council for six years. She looks back with pride on her time with the Council and reflects on its importance to the state.

Podcast Extra - Dr. Cora Norman was the founding Executive Director of the Humanities Council and served on it for 24 years. Borganelli describes her friend as the epitome of the what is good about the Humanities.