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UM Professor Helps Honor Mentor
Jared Spears, a University of Mississippi faculty member and alumnus of Northwest Mississippi Community College, has sculped a monument in memory of mentor and beloved NMCC English instructor John Osier.
Photo courtesy NMCC
SENATOBIA, Miss. – In his obituary, John Osier, a beloved Northwest Mississippi Community College English instructor was described as “a quiet, private, common and remarkable man.” The published author of four novels and numerous short stories and magazine articles, Osier was a “household name” around Northwest for the 35 years he taught at the college.
In 1993, Osier was honored by the Senatobia Chamber of Commerce as “Higher Education Teacher of the Year.” That was also the same year an 18-year-old freshman, Jared Spears, sat in Osier’s summer creative writing class and dreamed of becoming a writer like his teacher.
Although writing was not to become Spears’ career, he drew in