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Warwick and Vickers’ wife, the late Carol Farish Vickers, were classmates at Noxapater High School. His second book, Notes in the Margin: A Collection of Columns About East Central Community College, is a collection of essays Vickers pulled from his weekly newspaper columns, which highlight various people, places, and events associated with the college. His first book, The East Central I Knew: A History of East Central Community College, covers the college from its beginning in 1928 through 2013. He published two books with profits benefiting the East Central Community College Foundation. Throughout his career, Vickers was not only a teacher, but was also a published poet, newspaper columnist, public speaker, playwright, practicing folklorist, and a collector of antiques. Vickers joined the then East Central Junior College faculty in 1955 when he was just 24 years old and would later serve as chair of the English Department for many years. Vickers, a native of Dodge County, Ga., spent 40 years on the ECCC campus and taught generations of students to love literature and poetry. In 2004, he married ECCC alumna Bobbie Ruth Oliphant of Carthage, a former student of Vickers. He married fellow artist Henrietta Green in 1965 and they exhibited art together and lived in Nashville for a number of years before her death in 1995. He completed a brief stint at the Student’s Art League in New York. Warwick attended East Central in 1955-56 before studying art at the University of Southern Mississippi. Vickers and his family resided in the home for a number of years after a new President’s Home was built. The Alumni House is the former college President’s Home located on the southwest corner of campus. The painting depicts Vickers during his early years and will eventually be displayed in The Alumni House once renovations are complete on the facility. Vickers’ daughters, Nona Vickers of Trussville, Ala., and Harriet Vickers Laird of Starkville were also in attendance for the presentation. Brent Gregory during a recent visit to the Decatur campus. Warwick made the presentation to ECCC President Dr.
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Leake County native Dwayne Warwick of Carthage recently donated a painting of beloved East Central Community College English instructor Ovid Vickers to the college.