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Congratulations to Robert Landrum! Robert is a Magee High School graduate who grew up in Magee!
ELLISVILLE- Jones County Junior College’s 2017 Honor Alumni have contributed a lifetime of service to the institution in numerous ways. Ironically, the Ellisville residents are also neighbors. Eddie Lee Endom, a 1968 JCJC graduate, along with1967 JCJC graduate, Robert Landrum and his wife, Jennie Landrum, who transferred from Jones in 1967, will be honored at the annual JCJC Alumni Luncheon on Homecoming Saturday, October 21, at 11:30 p.m. in the A.B. Howard Gymnasium. Reservations for the luncheon can be made through the Alumni and Foundation Office at 601-477-4145 or by emailing jcjcalumniinfo@jcjc.edu.
“Each of the three Honor Alumni has poured their heart and soul into working or volunteering in various ways at JCJC. Robert and Jennie dedicated their lives here as educators and volunteers. Both Eddie and Robert played football in 1966, with Robert also playing on the 1965 team and Eddie playing on the 1967 team. Jennie started her elementary education degree at Jones and met her future husband here. Eddie has contributed his time and business wisdom as a JCJC Foundation Board member and President of the JCJC Alumni Association. Eddie and the Landrum’s bleed ‘maroon and gold,’” said VP of Advancement and Executive Director of the JCJC Foundation Inc., Charlie Garretson.
Endom continued his education at the University of Southern Mississippi, graduating in 1976. He began Endom Trailer in Ellisville in 1970 with two people. Currently, he employs 25 people. The entrepreneur has served his community as President of the Ellisville Rotary Club, twice-President of the Association for Educational Excellence, and a board member of the Jones County Economic Development Authority. The JCJC Lifetime Alumni Association member and his wife Beth, have five children, Katye Howard, Joshua Endom, Matthew Endom, Chad Williamson and Cade Williamson, and four grandchildren, Anna Kate Howard, Andrew Howard, Abby Howard and Liza Ray Endom.
The Landrum’s served in the JCJC Alumni and Foundation Office for nearly a decade after they retired from their professional careers. Robert was one of the first graduates of JCJC’s Data Processing program in 1967. The Magee native continued his education at Mississippi College earning his bachelors of science in business management in 1969, his MBA in business administration in 1972, and later in 1990, he earned his master’s in education in computer science. After teaching at Holmes Junior College for five years, he returned to JCJC in 1974 to teach and lead the Computer Science Technology division. Robert moved to the Career Resource Center to plan and assist in the development of the Advanced Technology Center until he retired in 2002 after 41 years at JCJC.
His wife, Jennie earned her Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from USM in 1970. While her husband finished his education, Jennie Landrum taught at Hinds and Holmes County school districts, and Durant Separate School District before the couple moved back to Jones County in 1977. Jennie taught one-year in Petal before joining the Jones County School district in 1981 as a remedial reading teacher and in 1995 as one of the county’s first computer discovery teachers. In 1990, the Mize native earned her master of education in computing science. For three years, she was a National Science Foundation computer networking workshop instructor at JCJC along with her husband. In 1999, she was one of the two Certified CISCO Networking Academy instructors.
Robert and Jennie Landrum are the parents of one son, Josh who was born in 1977, and a student at Ellisville State School in 1983, until 2000 when he passed away. The couple has worked in various capacities with the State Board of Mental Health over their lifetimes. Jennie served as president, past-president, and secretary of the Ellisville State School Parents Association as well as a member of the five-year Educational Planning Committee for the Ellisville State School. Robert has been appointed by five successive governors to the State Board of Mental Health where he has served as Chairman of the Board in 1998, 2004, 2011, and is the current chairman. Both are JCJC Alumni Association Lifetime members.
