Hall of Fame
From Byhalia Mississippi, Mark French arrived in the fall of 1959 on the Lipscomb campus, where he played basketball for the Lipscomb Bisons. He studied in Lipscomb’s nationally known Accounting program, serving as an officer in Alpha Kappa Psi, Lipscomb’s business fraternity. A cum laude graduate, Mark began his business career with the accounting firm now known as KPMG, where he became a CPA and worked for nine years. For the next 27 years he fulfilled several financial and accounting roles at the national insurance brokerage Corroon and Black/Willis Group before retiring in 1999 after a successful 36-year business career. He and his wife, Mary, continued traveling the world to “spend their kids' inheritance,” but he never stopped supporting Lipscomb Athletics, both with his financial support and his attendance at Lipscomb games. Mark became a founding officer of the Bison Club when Lipscomb Athletics formed the organization in 1977. He also was thrilled to be at Lipscomb's first team championship when the Bisons won the 1977 NAIA World Series in St. Joseph, Missouri and has attended most other milestone moments in Lipscomb Athletics history. Mark French will be long remembered for his unwavering support of Lipscomb Athletics.
