STARKVILLE — Approximately 1,200 Mississippi State students received degrees at the conclusion of the university’s 2007 fall semester.

Honor graduates include all bachelor degree candidates with exceptional scholastic averages and at least half the total required course hours earned at MSU. Their specific levels of recognition and the minimum required averages for each, based on a 4.0 scale, include, summa cum laude, 3.80; magna cum laude, 3.60 and cum lade, 3.40.

Graduates from the area include:

Eddreka S. Anthony of Woodville — bachelor’s of accountancy, cum laude

Michael G. Arnold of McCall Creek — bachelor’s of science in arts and sciences

Ruth A. Brown of Natchez — bachelor’s of science in agriculture and life sciences

Leon T. Bullen of Fayette — master’s of science in engineering

Marques D. January of Natchez — bachelor’s of science in arts and sciences

George F. Johnson of Woodville — bachelor’s of business administration in business and industry, magna cum laude

Richard G. King of Meadville — bachelor’s of business administration in business and industry

Samuel C. Knight of Centreville — bachelor’s of arts in arts and sciences, cum laude

Naketa N. Perryman of Fayette — master’s of science in education

Evelyn R. Smith of Natchez — bachelor’s of arts in arts and sciences

Joanna L. Stubbs of Natchez — bachelor’s of science in education

John H. Taylor of Natchez — bachelor’s in business administration in business and industry, cum laude

Brittany L. Thomas of Natchez — bachelor’s of science in arts and sciences, magna cum laude