"Retirement is not on the University of Southern Mississippi presidents agenda, even in the twilight of his administration. To be sure, Thames is arriving at work a little later (8 a.m.) and getting in bed a little earlier (hes shooting for midnight these days), but he is as hands-on as ever in university business large and small and looking forward voraciously to getting back to his polymer science research and economic development work." ... For more on this story, see Sunday's Hattiesburg American.
And I thought it was the faculty that were "exceedingly eager" for him to return to Poly Science. If we only knew, it could have been arrange years ago.