GCRL's Hawkins to retire

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. - Long-time Gulf Coast Research Laboratory director Bill Hawkins plans to retire at the end of June. Hawkins has served as director since early 2008 and was executive director for six years before that. Hawkins, 64, is the seventh GCRL director. During his tenure GCRL has grown. The number of buildings on the 224-acre Cedar Point site has nearly doubled, and there are 15 buildings on the 50-acre Halstead campus. (Source: Mississippi Press, 04/23/11)