Adjutant General Janson D. Boyles will be among the outstanding speakers honoring the legendary Major General Fox Conner of Slate Springs, who made an immeasurable military contribution in World War I. The event will be held at the Calhoun City High School Auditorium Friday, Jan. 27 at 10 a.m.
AG Boyles will be joining speakers– retired Major General Bill Lee of Jackson, and Perry Sansing, Associate General Counsel and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Governmental Affairs at the University of Mississippi.
Boyles
AG Boyles serves as the Commanding General of both the Mississippi Army and Air National Guard. He is responsible for providing the state of Mississippi and the United States of America with a ready force of 12,275 Citizen Soldiers and Airmen.
Among his many awards and decorations he received the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Mississippi Magnolia Cross, and Mississippi War Medal. He is a Mississippi State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science and Biological Engineering degree.
Other achievements include national president of the Mississippi State University Alumni Association.
Lee has 29 years of combined service with the Mississippi Army and National Guard and the Mississippi State Guard. He also served as Commanding General of the Mississippi state Guard. He is the Past Commander of Camp 635 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is the Senior Vice President of Gulf Guaranty Life Insurance.
Sansing previously worked at the Mississippi University for Women as Assistant to the President and University Counsel. He has also served as a partner at two Jackson law firms and served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Charles Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Mississippi, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Mississippi Law Journal.
Steven Rabalais authored the newly published book, General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations and Eisenhower’s Mentor. He has practiced law for more than 33 years. He founded the partnership of Rabalais and Hebert of Lafayette, Louisiana.
Calhoun City High School Principal Mike Ray is inviting the public to attend this program which will honor one of Mississippi’s noted sons, General Fox Conner. General Conner was born and raised in Slate Springs.