The joy of football mixed with melancholy of absorbing the passing of a legend at the University of Southern Mississippi Saturday.
endeared him to a legion of devoted followers who proudly dubbed themselves “Parrotheads” in a nod to the bird emblematic of the scenery in Buffett’s work.
Buffett was inducted into the USM Alumni Hall of Fame in 2018. He was an honorary co-chair for the University’s fundraising campaign, Give Wing: The Campaign for Southern Miss, and was also a member of the USM Foundation Honor Club and life member of the Southern Miss Alumni Association. A philanthropist, Jimmy Buffett supported USM in many ways including honoring his mother, Loraine, who was passionate about education. That led to the establishment of the Mary Loraine “Peets” Buffett Scholarship Endowment in 2002, a renewable scholarship supporting freshman students with financial need who are from Mississippi with a minimum 3.0 GPA in one of the arts and letters programs. A total of 35 scholarships have been awarded.
Buffett’s music inspires an intensely devoted legion of fans affectionately dubbed “Parrotheads;” in 2011 and then in subsequent years, the USM baseball team paid homage to them and their musical hero, wearing Buffett-inspired jerseys for “Parrothead Night at The Pete” in his honor.
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