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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Issues Challenge at Honors Convocation
September 13, 2017
OXFORD, Miss., Sept. 13 -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news release:

Legendary FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith challenged University of Mississippi honors students Tuesday (Sept. 12) to continue having academic conversations with the aim of developing workable solutions to national and global problems.

Smith was the keynote speaker for the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College's Fall Convocation at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for . . .

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