EDHE 105 History of Ole Miss Exam #1 Questions with
correct answers
Sarah Isom McGehee - ✔✔first female falculty member at the University of
Mississippi
John Howard Vaught - ✔✔Head Coach of the Ole Miss Football Rebels from 1947
to 1970
Sixteenth Chancellor of the University of Mississippi who took office on July 1,
2009 - ✔✔Dr. Dan Jones
First President of the University of Mississippi - ✔✔George F. Holmes
"Father" of the University of Mississippi and its first Trustee - ✔✔James Alexander
Ventress
First and perhaps one of the greatest Chancellors of the University of Mississippi -
✔✔Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Date when the University of Mississippi first opened for classes - ✔✔November 6,
1848
Beloved Chancellor who prevented Governor Bilbo from moving the University to
Jackson - ✔✔Alfred Hume
correct answers
Sarah Isom McGehee - ✔✔first female falculty member at the University of
Mississippi
John Howard Vaught - ✔✔Head Coach of the Ole Miss Football Rebels from 1947
to 1970
Sixteenth Chancellor of the University of Mississippi who took office on July 1,
2009 - ✔✔Dr. Dan Jones
First President of the University of Mississippi - ✔✔George F. Holmes
"Father" of the University of Mississippi and its first Trustee - ✔✔James Alexander
Ventress
First and perhaps one of the greatest Chancellors of the University of Mississippi -
✔✔Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
Date when the University of Mississippi first opened for classes - ✔✔November 6,
1848
Beloved Chancellor who prevented Governor Bilbo from moving the University to
Jackson - ✔✔Alfred Hume
