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Holly Springs chamber debuts new coordinator By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer  | Photo by Sue Watson
Business After Hours
Enjoying
the Business After Hours last Thursday evening at the Bank of Holly
Springs on Highway 7 South are (from left) Rebecca Bourgeois, Dick
Sanders and Suzanne Langley. |
Rebecca Hilliard Bourgeois has accepted a part-time coordinator’s position with the Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce. The
chamber has been without a director since the resignation of Amy Heaton
last year. Suzanne Langley has served as consultant in the interim. Bourgeois is from the Red Banks area and the daughter of Fran and James Hilliard. She
graduated from Briarcrest High School in Memphis, Tenn., then attended
Ole Miss where she obtained a bachelor’s in psychology, a Juris
Doctorate and a master’s of fine arts with a major in theater and
communications. Bourgeois practiced law with former county
attorney Fred Belk for a brief period of time and passed the
Mississippi Bar but is on inactive status. Her voice announces the time and temperature at the Bank of Holly Springs (662-252-5030). She
served as business manager for the Oxford Arts Council and is a
graduate of Leadership Lafayette with the Oxford Chamber of Commerce.
Bourgeois is also a soloist singer with the Farmington Presbyterian
Church in Germantown, Tenn. As part-time coordinator, Bourgeois said she will work to be full-time and has some irons in the fire already. “I’m happy to be here,” she said at the Chamber After Hours held at the Bank of Holly Springs last week. “I want to get a website up and running and to let people know we are here and we are busy working for our members,” she said. President
Steve Gresham with the Bank of Holly Springs provided a brief history
of the bank which is the oldest bank in Mississippi, chartered by the
Mississippi Legislature in February 1869. The bank survived the
yellow fever epidemic of 1878, the Great Depression and numerous
recessions since, and has made it thus far through the recent economic
downturn without accepting government bail-out money. The bank
underwent one major renovation on its 100th anniversary, ran out of
room at its downtown office and in 1999 planned to renovate the old
bank and open a new office on the south side of town. The bank broke
ground in 2005. Bank of Holly Springs has branch banks in Potts Camp, Slayden and Abbeville. “It’s
been a good ride,” Gresham said. “We have had a lot of fun and seen a
lot of changes. What was once done by hand is done now a lot by
computer.” The next Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce Business
After Hours is scheduled for November 9 at 5 p.m. at Booker Hardware
downtown. For more information on chamber activities call
662-252-2511 or go by and visit in the chamber building at the corner
across from the tax collector’s office.
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