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Amid one of the most controversial time periods in University of Mississippi history, the 2010-11 staff of the Ole Miss yearbook, The Ole Miss, came together and produced a yearbook that has since been recognized as one of the best in the country.
Each year, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association chooses finalists for its gold medal and The Ole Miss is making its first appearance on that list since the 2006-07 edition.
Alex McDaniel, editor-in-chief of The Ole Miss from 2010-11, was on her way home from New York when she heard the news.

When The Daily Mississippian rolls off the press this morning, the student newspaper will officially be 100 years old.

“Well, Happy Birthday, DM,” University of Mississippi Dean of Students Sparky Reardon said. “I think we are a much better university because we have had a student newspaper for the past 100 years.”

Julie Finley Cooper is the only student who served as editor in chief of The DM two consecutive years, from 2001-03. 

In the fall of 1962, the University of Mississippi was going through one of the most important transitional phases in its long history, and Sidna Brower Mitchell, the editor-in-chief of The Mississippian, got to witness it first hand. 

Fifty years later, Mitchell is donating to the Ole Miss library many of her letters and souvenirs from her time at the paper. 

In 1911, students at the University of Mississippi attempted to publish a student newspaper for the third time, and on Oct. 14 — almost a month before the start of the Chevorlet Automobile company — The Mississippian was born, with Forrest Cooper and Rad H. Reed as the first editors-in-chief. 

Since then, The Mississippian has survived through 18 presidents, six wars and countless other events. 

Happiness is the key to the fountain of youth. As I have said before, no matter if you make billions at your job, if you despise it at the same time, you won’t be happy. The keys to happiness are on my mind these days. With the world having more less than fortunate events lately, I seem to be drifting to the silver lining in every one. 

When I found out I was going to take over as editor-in-chief of The Daily Mississippian for the summer, I asked myself if the stress and the work were worth the effort. 

After contemplating it for about three seconds, the thought never crossed my mind again.

Terry Wooten is next in the line of the many Mississippi journalists to receive the Samuel Talbert Silver Em Award today from the University of Mississippi.

Wooten, a Pontotoc native who studied journalism at the University of Mississippi, is the editor-in-chief of Kitco News, based in New York. He will be the 52nd winner of the award.

In 2008, she meandered into the Student Media Center doing her best to stay out of people’s way. In 2011, after a trip to Troy, Ala., she strolled into the media center carrying a plaque that read 2010 College Journalist of the Year.

Alex McDaniel, now a graduate student, received her plaque at the Southeastern Journalism Conference in February.