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An Exchange of People and Ideas between Japan and
Mississippi
May 30-June 14, 1986
The Mississippi Opinion Makers' Tour
represented the first opportunity of its kind for State leaders in the
areas of government, business, agriculture, the media, and education to
meet with their counterparts in Japan and exchange ideas on a wide
variety of issues, all with the intent of laying the foundation for a
constantly expanding, multi-faceted set of mutually beneficial
relationships between the peoples of Japan and Mississippi.
Mississippi Delegation:
Government Agencies
- Mr. Dale Danks, Mayor, City of Jackson
- Lieutenant Governor Brad Dye, Lieutenant Governor, State of
Mississippi
- Mr. Bryce Griffis, President of the Board of Trustees of State
Institutions of Higher Learning, State of Mississippi
- Mr. Dick Hall, Representative, Mississippi House of
Representatives
- Mr. Paul Latture, Director, Jackson Chamber of Commerce
- Mr. Jim Meredith, Director, Mississippi Research and Development
Center
- Mr. Chip Morgan, Executive Director of the Delta Council
- Mr. Buddie Newman, Speaker of the House of Representatives, State
of Mississippi
- Mr. John William Powell, State Senator, District 38
Private Sector
- Mr. John Emmerich, Editor and Publishers, The Greenwood
Commonwealth
- Mr. Joseph Rougeau, Hughes Aircraft Company
- Mr. Alan Walters, Vice President and Manager of Corporate Products
Group, Deposit Guaranty National Bank
- Mr. Francis Welsh, Jr., Space & Defense Sector, TRW
- Mr. Kelly Williams, First Mississippi Corporation
Academia
- Mr. Herman Blake, President, Tougaloo College
- Dr. David Mason, Associate Director, Center for International
Security and Strategic Studies, Mississippi State University
- Dr. János Radványi, Director, Center for International Security
and Strategic Studies, Mississippi State University
- Dr. Donald Zacharias, President, Mississippi State University
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