JT Galloway Dacus

❤️ the life you live | Alum @msstate 🐶

[City of Starkville @COStarkville]

Start your weekend with fresh finds, local flavors, and community connections at Starkville’s award-winning Community Market. Join us every Saturday at 8 AM through October at Fire Station Park and experience one of Starkville’s favorite traditions.

[JT Galloway Dacus @jtdacus]

Go Jill! You are making a difference!

[Lynn Spruill @lynn_spruill]

Thanks to Jill at Connie’s Chicken for sharing some of the marvelous blueberry cake donuts and chicken biscuits. We appreciate their participation in the city in so many ways. ⁦@mscollegetown⁩

[JT Galloway Dacus @jtdacus]

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[Lynn Spruill @lynn_spruill]

Lesa has been an extraordinary part of our leadership team over the years. I am deeply grateful for her dedication to our community and her excellent professional service to Starkville.

[Starkville PD @Starkville_PD]

Introducing Starkville's new Chief of Pawlice, Elvis. Today's event hosted by the @GSDPartnership also named Starkville's Pet Mayor (Natty) and Board of Pawldermen (Krieger, Itty Bitty, and
Roscoe). The event included a $3,000 donation to the @ochsms.

Congratulations to today's winners!

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

Vote for Itty Bitty for @mscollegetown Pet Mayor. https://t.co/VIUXmdeH57

[Mississippi State Football @HailStateFB]

This is The Best Small Town in the South.

This is the @StarkvilleDerby.

#HailState

[JT Galloway Dacus @jtdacus]

Musings of an Accidental Deer Girl https://t.co/Q8r0S8s5tE

[Starkville PD @Starkville_PD]

It’s that time of year again! We’re getting more and more calls because of collisions with deer. Here’s a few helpful tips below.

[Starkville PD @Starkville_PD]

‼️Updated‼️

Cotton District Safety Station and Rideshare Pickup/Drop Off

SPD operates a safety station and rideshare pickup/drop off in the Cotton District. The areas will be in operation this fall on Friday and Saturday nights from 10:00 p.m. until the area has cleared.

[Starkville PD @Starkville_PD]

Know your role. 😎

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

At the @HailStateBB scrimmage...and a lady bug just graced the @1TortillaGrill. #IYKYK #GoodLuck

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

I absolutely love this story........ It made me cry.

"An 87 Year Old College Student Named Rose
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.

I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me
with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.
“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…”

“No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine”
as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.”

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

1) You have to laugh and find humor every day.

2) You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!

3) There is a huge difference between growing
older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older.

That doesn’t take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

4) Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those
with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died
peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s
never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they’ll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS
OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

We make a Life by what we give."

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

Ok @hailstate family, here's your chance to get behind the best candidate for @mscollegetown Pet Mayor. Vote early and often! Vote Itty Bitty!!!
https://t.co/UFsiO1ACYO…
#HailState #PetMayor #USA #vote

[Megyn Kelly @megynkelly]

Hey, US women’s soccer team - this is how much we in America value the sacrifices our men & women in uniform have made. And why we salute the flag & put our hands over our hearts during the Nat’l anthem & SING when it plays - esp when we are representing the USA. DO BETTER.

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

LET"S GO!!!!!
#HailState

[Mississippi State Football @HailStateFB]

Until the clock reads 𝟬:𝟬𝟬

#HailState🏴‍☠️

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

I have 2 tickets for @WidespreadPanic NYE in Nashville at @BrdgstoneArena for sale. We aren't going to be able to go. #wsmfp #wspnye #NYE2022

[Chad Dacus @chaddacus]

Let's get @MissStateSigEp in the Top 25! I’m joining thousands of SigEps in giving today to the SigEp Foundation to provide opportunities for our 12,000 brothers in college. You can see the scoreboard and give now at https://t.co/TUzx2YorJY
#SigEpFoundersDayofGiving

[Laura Rutledge @LauraRutledge]

Still can’t believe this is happening! So thankful @ZTAFraternity