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Oct. 1, 2004
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
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Yates and coauthor present book at Mississippi Women’s Conference

  
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. Joyce Yates, professor of health and kinesiology at Mississippi University for Women, and coauthor, Mandy Conrad, presented their book “Simple Fitness for the Body, Mind and Spirit” at the Mississippi Women’s Conference in Jackson.
   
The conference titled “Your Health, Our Future” was through the Mississippi Nurses Foundation.
   
Yates and Conrad addressed a session for women and another for teens. There were questions about simple methods of making healthier lifestyle choices to insure quality of life. 
   
Conference co-chairs were Dr. Melinda Rush, former MUW graduate nursing professor, and Mississippi first lady Marsha Dickson Barbour. Rush received her bachelor of science in nursing from MUW in 1984 and her master of science in nursing from MUW in 1991.

 
 

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