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Former Ole Miss Athletics Administrator, First Rebels SWA Passes Away

OXFORD, Miss. – Kathryn "Kittye" Strickland, 92, a former athletics administrator at Ole Miss, passed away Tuesday in Oxford. An Oxford native and a 1954 University of Mississippi graduate, Strickland spent 44 years working in the Ole Miss Athletics department (1954-1998), including serving as the Rebels' first senior women's administrator.

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