The engagement of Tracey Roschelle Pierce of Ridgeland to Frederick Shunnard Thompson of Clinton is announced today. Vows will be exchanged at 4 p.m. Nov. 13, 2010, at Woodworth Chapel on the Tougaloo College campus. A reception will follow in Sparkman Auditorium at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum. All relatives and friends are invited to attend.

Miss Pierce is the daughter of Bennie Edmond of Vicksburg and Debra Y. Pierce Robinson Clark of Ridgeland. She is the granddaughter of Marie V. Pierce and the late Leon Pierce and Charlene Edmond and the late Henry Clark, all of Vicksburg.

Mr. Thompson is the son of Evelyn Caine of Clinton and the late Fred Allen of Pocahontas. He is the grandson of Lucille Jamison of Bolton and Katie B. Allen of Pocahontas.

The bride-elect is a 1994 graduate of Madison Central High School.

She served in the U.S. Air Force as a medical technician II and EMT and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Tougaloo College in 2004. She received the 2003 Vice Presidential Scholar Award and the 2004 U.S. National Collegiate Social Science Award.

Miss Pierce is an alcohol and drug counselor at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.

The prospective groom is a 1993 graduate of Clinton High School and attended Jackson State University.

Mr. Thompson is employed with United Parcel Service and Oakley Training Center.