mrs. mccarty said, i watch her on television. and i said, i know that you do. >> she had never been on an airplane, then she was traveling all over the country, carrying the olympic torch. and so it changed dramatically. this woman who had really never left hattiesburg, who had never seen the university just a couple miles away, was now sitting on the couch with opera. -- with oprah. >> we have a store here in hattiesburg calle hotd hudsons -- called hudsons. she wanted to get a coat. people started to gather. some person said to me, mrs. tucker, whited to give that -- why did did she get that usmersity -- that money to and not another school? i said, you should ask her, because she is right over there. i went and got her, the lady asked her to send question. she said well, god told me who to give it to. the black students at the university of southern mississippi, god is the one that told me who to give it to. >> we are on the county's berg campus of -- on the hattiesburg campus of university of mississippi. probably the most si