AG Boyles to address MSU grads

STARKVILLE, Miss. – Some 2.700 Mississippi State University graduates will hear Maj. Gen. Janson D. “Durr” Boyles, Adjutant General of Mississippi’s National Guard, during three separate spring commencement exercises May 2-3 at Humphrey Coliseum. Boyles has 37 years of commissioned service with the MNG and was named Adjutant General in 2016. The Jackson native is a 1982 MSU biological engineering undergraduate and a 2005 Master of Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He served as the Executive Officer of the 168th Engineer Group during Hurricane Katrina recovery and rebuilding efforts, and was in Afghanistan with the 168th Engineer Brigade in 2009. May 3’s 3:30 p.m. ceremony will include the Bagley College of Engineering and its Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and its School of Human Sciences, College of Forest Resources, and University Studies. (Source: Mississippi State University 04/26/19)