COMMISSIONERS OF THE MONTH
William Dodd
Name: William Dodd
Birthdate: August 28
County you serve: Yazoo County
Family history: He is married to Mary E Dodd. They have three children, two deceased.
Education: Graduate of Morgan City High School (R. B. Slaughter); graduate of MS Valley State earning a BS, and a graduate of Jackson State earning a Master in Industrial Art. Retired Educator of Yazoo High School for 35 years.
Church: Mt. Vernon M.B. Church, where he serves as a deacon.
Hobbies are: Enjoys fishing, hunting, wood work, and helping others.
Comments: As a retired educator, I tried to impact as many youths as I could. Many have gone on and are now very successful. It feels really good when your past students come back and say thank you for the role you played in making his or her life what it is today.
Ralph Sewell
Name: Ralph Sewell
Birthdate: July 31
County you serve: Humphreys County
Family history: Married to Nellie Hill. They have five children.
Education: O McNair High School, Class of 1961.
Church: Christian Valley M.B. Church (serves as chair of deacon board, superintendent of Sunday school and one of the church trustees.
Hobbies are: Gardening and spending time with family.
Comments: It is indeed a pleasure, as well as an honor, to serve as Levee Board Commissioner for Humphreys County 5 terms, which is a total of 20 years.
The Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is charged with the responsibility to erect, maintain, and operate a system of levees to protect the people and property of the Delta from damages of high waters of the Mississippi River; ...
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The first levees were constructed more than 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, where a system of levees was built along the left bank of the Nile River for over 600 miles. The Mississippi levees represent one of the largest such systems found anywhere in the world.
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