Renovations to Turner Hall bring Demonstration School ‘back to life’
From 1985-1995, Alma Turner spent part of nearly every week day in her office at the Demonstration School on Mississippi University for Women’s campus.
On Friday, she was back, standing outside the office looking at the wall where her portrait now hangs, welcoming visitors to the newly renovated Turner Hall.
MUW will name buildings after Turner, Summer
Mississippi University for Women has been given the approval to name two buildings in honor of a pair of educators who devoted almost 60 years of combined experience in shaping the lives of students from age 6 to their 20s.
Crowd celebrates beloved educator
There wasn’t much space in the reception room at the Education and Human Sciences Building on the campus of Mississippi University for Women on Tuesday afternoon.
They were there to honor Dr. Alma Turner, a woman whose impact on local education has been felt by many throughout the Golden Triangle.
Columbus teachers honored for life of service
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in 1957, and Monday, people gathered at Mississippi University for Women’s Nissan Auditorium to pay tribute, not only to King but to two local educators who have dedicated their lives to this principle.
Beloved educator Alma Turner resigns from Columbus school board
In a 40-year span, she has served in just about every capacity of the Mississippi education system. Now, the Columbus Municipal School District’s venerable board of trustees vice president, Alma Turner, is relinquishing her role on the board, leaving a void her colleagues say will be difficult to fill.