A Treat in the Heat

Lindsey Shelton and Tyrone Tolbert Jr., staff at The Graduate School at 91��ý, hand out Bully's Ice Cream to partakers in the department's free ice cream social on the Drill Field, the perfect remedy to Starkville's summer heatwave. — Photo by **Grace Cockrell**

June 28, 2023

Working to keep 91��ý graduate students, faculty and staff cool this week at a Drill Field ice cream social were representatives from the university’s Office of the Graduate School and Alumni Association Young Alumni group. With temperatures hovering around 100 degrees, Lindsey Shelton and Tyrone Tolbert Jr. served up the iconic 91��ý-churned flavors, a perfect remedy to what some meteorologists have called the “heat dome.”