William Carey College

wc_gate2.jpg - 19kb Founded in 1906 and operating for decades as Mississippi Woman's College, William Carey College became co-educational in 1954 and was renamed in honor of the eighteenth century English cobbler-linguist, William Carey, whose decades of missionary activity in India earned him international recognition as the "Father of Modern Missions." Today Carey operates under the governance of a 24-member board of Trustees elected by the Mississippi Baptist Convention.

from http://www.wmcarey.edu/college.html