Mississippi State University’s Vice President for the Division of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine Vance Watson, left, presents Dr. Lester Spell with the Vice President’s Pegasus Award at “All College Day,” held recently at MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Spell studied pre-veterinary medicine at MSU before going to Auburn to earn a doctorate of veterinary medicine in 1968. He has served as Mississippi’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce since 1996. (Photo by Tom Thompson/MSU Ag Communications)