Background
Powell, Anice Carpenter was born on December 2, 1928 in Moorhead, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Horace Aubreyand Celeste (Brian) Carpenter.
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Anice Carpenter Powell
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Student Sunflower Junior College, 1945-1947,Mississippi State College Women, 1947-1948. Bachelor of Science, Delta State University, 1961, Master of Library Science, 1974.
Career
; children: Penelope Elizabeth, Deborah Alma. Librarian, Sunflower (Mississippi) Public Library, 1958-1961. Teacher English, Isola (Mississippi) High School, 1961-1962.
Director Sunflower County Library, Indianola, Mississippi, 1962-1997, retired, 1997.
Member of advisory county State Institutional Library Services, 1967-1971. Member of advisory board library services and construction act committee Mississippi Library Commission, 1978-1980, member public library task force, 1986.
Member Public Library Standards Committee, 1988. Member state advisory county adult education, 1988-1992.
Member steering committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration community involvement program Mississippi Delta Community College, 1990, adult education advising committee.
Member District Workforce Council, 1994, Mid Delta Enpowerment Zone Alliance, 1995. Commission member Mid-Delta Empowerment Zone Alliance. Member Executive Committee Sunflower County Alliance for Youth, 1998.
Achievements
Membership
Member of advisory county State Institutional Library Services, 1967-1971. Member of advisory board library services and construction act committee Mississippi Library Commission, 1978-1980. Member Public Library Standards Committee, 1988.
Member state advisory county adult education, 1988-1992.
Member steering committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration community involvement program Mississippi Delta Community College, 1990, adult education advising committee. Member District Workforce Council, 1994, Mid Delta Enpowerment Zone Alliance, 1995.
Member Mid-Delta Empowerment Zone Alliance. Member Executive Committee Sunflower County Alliance for Youth, 1998.
Member American Association of University Women, National Organization for Women, American Library Association (speaker senate subcommittee on illiteracy 1989, honoree American Library Association 50th Anniversary 1996), Mississippi library association (executive director National Library Week 1975, steering committee 1976, chairman Right to Read committee 1976, co-chairman, 1987, chairman legislation committee 1979, chairman intellectual freedom committee 1975, 80.
Membership committee 1982, 98, president 1984, chairman nominating committee 1986, chairman election committee 1989, co-chairman awards committee 1998.
Connections
Married Robert Wainwright Powell, July 19, 1948 (deceased. Children: Penelope Elizabeth, Deborah Alma.
