Calvin Thigpen

Samuel "Calvin" Thigpen graduated from the University of Mississippi with Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Math in 1999. He served as associated student body president from 1997 to 1998. While ASB President he led the student charge to remove the confederate flag from home football games by passing a "stick ban" in the student senate. Thigpen was the male winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 1999 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top male scholar-athlete. Thigpen was named a Rhodes Scholar in December 1998, and studied at Oxford University, Brasenose College from September 1999 through June 2001. He then returned to Mississippi and received his M.D. at University of Mississippi School of Medicine. In medical school, Thigpen was president of his medical school class, editor of the student newspaper "The Murmur," and received the Medical Student of the Year award. He obtained his M.D. in 2005.