FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 8, 2008
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7124

Biddy named post secondary Educator of the Year at Link banquet

COLUMBUS, Miss. – William “Peppy” Biddy, chair of the Department
of Music and Theatre at Mississippi University for Women, was named the
2008 post secondary Educator of the Year at the Columbus-Lowndes
Development Link’s annual Excellence in Education Awards Banquet.

Each year, the Link sponsors the banquet to honor outstanding seniors
who attend city, county and private schools and students who are home
schooled. Elementary, middle school, high school and post secondary
educators were also recognized. The banquet was recently held at MUW.

Biddy was the recipient of the Kossen Faculty Excellence Award for
2007. He has been a full-time member of the faculty at MUW since 1991.
Aside from his many activities on campus, He is very active in
professional theatre, including as a director at New Stage Theatre in
Jackson and as a production manager at the Sundance Theatre Lab in
Utah.