2007 SEASON PREVIEW 82 83 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 84 85 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 86 87 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 88 89 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 90 91 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 92 93 2007 SEASON PREVIEW 94 95 UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT DR. ROBERT H. FOGLESONG THE FOGLESONG FILE University President West Virginia, 1968 PERSONAL Joined MState: April 2006 Birthdate: July 13, 1945 Birthplace: Williamson, W. Va. Hometown: Williamson, W. Va. Family: Wife (former Mary Thrasher); Children (sons David and Mark) oc Foglesong was born and Foglesong has been designated AIR FORCE ASSIGNMENTS raised in Mingo County, West by the President of the United States 1972-1973 Student, Undergraduate Pilot Training Virginia. He’s the son of a as the Co-Chairman of the Joint US Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. D 1973-1976 T-41 instructor pilot, 557th Flying Training Squadron steam fitter on the railroad and a first- - Russia Commission on POWs/MIAs. Peterson Field, Colo., and USAFA, Colorado Springs, Colo. grade teacher. He attendsed West Vir- He is also a Director on the Board of 1976-1977 Aide-De-Camp to the Commander, Korea ginia University and eventually earned Massey Energy and a Director on the 314th Air Division Osan Air Base, South Korea his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate Board of the Michel Baker Corp. 1977-1979 AT-33, EB-57 instructor pilot in chemical engineering—and mar- Foglesong previously was a four- Flight examiner and Asst. operations officer ried his former English teacher—Mary star general in the United States Air 17th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron Malmstrom AFB, Mont. Thrasher Foglesong of Sistersville, Force. He flew fighters, was a senior 1979-1980 AT-33 instructor pilot and commander, Detachment 1 West Virginia. leader in organizations equivalent to 24th Air Defense Squadron Currently, Foglesong is the Presi- companies ranking 9th, 110th, and Malmstrom AFB, Mont. 1980-1982 F-15 pilot and squadron scheduler dent of Mississippi State University — a 430th on the Fortune 500 List, and 9th Tactical Fighter Squadron land-grant school of more than 16,500 worked directly with the most senior Chief of quality assurance students committed to excellence in national leaders including congressio- 49th Tactical Fighter Wing Commander, 49th Component Repair Squadron teaching, research, and service. His vi- nal members, cabinet members, and Holloman AFB, N.M. sion is for the university to be the most heads of state. 1983-1985 Special Assistant for Tactical Issues respected land-grant school in the Foglesong received numerous Executive Officer for the Deputy Chief Of Staff For Research, Development and Acquisition Southeast. He also is President and awards for leadership. He is a member Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. Executive Director of the Appalachian of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1985-1987 Special Assistant to the Commander Leadership and Education Foundation, has written more than 60 publications Chief Combat Analysis Division Headquarters Tactical Air Command an organization committed to finding, that cover a range of topics, and has Langley AFB, Va. mentoring, and developing young an honorary Doctorate of Strategic In- 1987-1988 F-16 pilot and Assistant Deputy Commander for Operations men and women who will be the next telligence. He likes to run and collect 31st Tactical Fighter Wing Homestead AFB, Fla. generation of leadership across Appa- slide rules and blow torches. 1988-1990 Chief of Staff of the Air Force Chair lachia. Professor of Joint and Combined Warfare National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Wash. 1990-1991 F-16 pilot and Chief of Maintenance 347th Tactical Fighter Wing Moody AFB, Ga. 1991-1993 Director, Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s Staff Group Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1993-1993 Commander, 14th Flying Training Wing Columbus AFB, Miss. 1994-1995 Commander, 51st Fighter Wing Osan AB, South Korea 1995-1997 Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs, the Joint Staff Washington, D.C. 1997-1999 Assistant to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Washington, D.C. 1999-2000 Commander, 12th Air Force U.S. Southern Command Air Forces Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. 2000-2001 Deputy Chief Of Staff for Air and Space Operations Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 2001-2003 Vice Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force Washington, D.C. 2003-2004 U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander Allied Air Component Command Ramstein Air Component Commander U.S. European Command Ramstein AB, Germany 2005-2006 Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander, Allied Air Component Command Ramstein Air Component Commander, U.S. European Command, Ramstein AB, Germany Director, Multinational Joint Air Power Competence Center Kalkar, Germany 96 ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION LARRY TEMPLETON ANN CARR Director of Athletics Associate AD/Women’s Sports Mississippi State, 1969 Mississippi State, 1990 Joined MState: 1969 Joined MState: 1993 uring his career as athletic director at Mississippi State, Larry Templeton has guided the veteran of 12 years in athletic administration at MSU and a former sports program to unparalleled success and overseen accomplishments never attained Lady Bulldog athlete, Ann Carr was named the university’s associate Din the near-100 years the school played on athletic fields and courts prior to his tenure. A athletic director for women’s sports in June 2006. He has overseen achievement by State student-athletes in the classroom and in competition Carr is in her second stint within the State athletic department following with the nation’s premier programs. And he has done all that while operating within the depart- seven years as Assistant Athletic Director for Student Life. In that position, ment’s now $30 million budget. she worked with the personal development of MSU’s student-athletes in ad- Mississippi State competes for championships in every sport program, its athletes continue dition to continuing her prior responsibilities as academic counselor for the to excel in the classroom, and the department has operated in the black while expanding its Bulldog football team. varsity athletic sport program and drastically improving its facilities. Templeton has overseen all Carr serves as the director of the department’s Life Skills program, which that and more as the head of the program. On the playing field, the decade of the ‘90s saw virtually every State sport establish a best- includes the support systems and career programs for all MSU student-ath- ever finish. The start of the new millennium has been no different with MSU sports teams having letes, and its CHAMPS program (Challenging Athletes’ Minds for Psersonal qualified for postseason play 51 times during the past seven seasons; a school-record 12 did so Success). in 2004-05. As SWA, Carr will oversee the operation and supervision of MSU’s wom- But State’s student-athletes are not just succeeding on the playing field. MSU’s men’s and en’s sport program. Hired in 1993 as an assistant director in the athletic aca- women’s athletes recorded the highest combined grade point average during the 2005-06 aca- demic office, she returned full-time to MState in 1999 following a one-year demic year in the 18 years in which student-athlete grades have been tracked. In 14 of the last stay in a similar capacity at the University of Southern Mississippi. 16 years, the Bulldog football team has been one of just a handful of schools cited by the Ameri- A native of Brookhaven, Miss., Carr was a four-year letter winner on the can Football Coaches Association for having a graduation rate exceeding 70 percent. MSU is Mississippi State women’s basketball team (1986-90). When Carr finished the only school in the SEC to make that list with that much frequency. In spring 2007, exactly her women’s basketball playing career, she ranked first on the career leaders one-half of all scholarship student-athletes at Mississippi State earned a grade point average of list in free-throw percentage, shooting 75.8 percent over a four-year span. 3.00 or higher. She also ranked 12th on the career points list, having scored 762 points in MSU has produced the SEC’s Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year three times her tenure, averaging 8.3 points per contest. In rebounding, Carr brought each during Templeton’s tenure. And over the past seven years, State is second among league schools in number of Academic all-SEC selections in the sports in which MSU competes. down 597 boards (6.5 per game) to finish her career sixth on the all-time list Templeton oversaw Mississippi State’s move to come into compliance with the SEC’s Gen- in rebounds and rebounding average. She also finished her career holding der Equity plan, adding women’s soccer and softball to the school’s varsity sport menu. The first the individual record in most three-point field goals made (five) in a single season of soccer was in 1995, while softball began competition in 1997. Since that time, the game. soccer team has won the SEC Western Division title (2001) and the softball team has never had A 1990 graduate of State, she later earned her master’s degree in coun- a losing season and has qualified for NCAA postseason play six of the last eight years. seling from the institution in 1992. And for the 20th year in a row this past year, the MSU athletic program joined just a small group of NCAA Division I schools nation-wide to finish in the black financially at year’s end. Templeton’s work also stretches far from the Starkville campus. He has served as chairman of the SEC’s athletic directors since 1990. He is serving a second term on the prestigious NCAA Baseball Committee, currently serving as that committee’s chairman.