Anderson Oconee Pickens

Eighty-one Associate Degree Nursing Students Receive Pins

CONTACT: JANET FULLER, 646-1343

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/18/2004
(By Lisa Garrett)

PENDLETON --- Eighty-one associate degree nursing students, the largest number since the program's inception at Tri-County Technical College in 1981, received pins during a ceremony preceding graduation.

The ceremony marks the completion of two years of classroom and clinical study which prepares the graduates to take the National Council Licensing Exam for registered nurses.

Following comments by several of the students, pins were presented to the following:

ANDERSON COUNTY:
FROM ANDERSON: Michelle Denise Belton, Jennifer Elizabeth Bowyer, Mark Russel Bruck, Donna Charpia, Lindsay Craft, Cynthia Ruth Cross, Carol Thornton Ferguson, Andrea Dunn Hannah, Tina Neese Hayne, Angela Rene Hix, Renee Susan Jones, Desiree Eve Yara Manning, Kala Joyce Manning, Tashica Jolanda Mattison, Jaime-Lyn McCall, Farrah Leonard Moore, Kelly Lynn Orr, Herbert Lewis Osbey, Jr., Latosha Martin Pearson, Ashley Catherine Phillips, Bonnie Annette Porter, April Bronwen Scoggins, Candace Dawn Seay, Ruth Elizabeth Smith, Emily Suzette Spires, Kelley Steadman-Chester, Georgia Lynn Wilson, Cynthia Denise West, Debra Allen Gollihugh-Witt and Susan Parton Wright

FROM IVA: Dorothy Ann Allen

FROM BELTON: Joyce Elaine Wilson

FROM LA FRANCE: Leslie Rhiannon Manuel

FROM PENDLETON: Morris Burroughs

FROM PIEDMONT: Arlene Shandell Phillips

FROM SANDY SPRINGS: Merissa Dawn Pruitt

FROM STARR: Lindsey Ann Wyatt

FROM TOWNVILLE: Ronda Deanne Burkhart

FROM WILLIAMSTON: Brandy Danielle Casey

PICKENS COUNTY:
FROM CENTRAL: Amanda Ann Hendricks and Andrea Newton Spencer

FROM EASLEY: Robert G. Gilbert

FROM LIBERTY:. Amy Deanne Holland, Latronya Leve Jackson, Sylvia Diane Moody and Tia Dawn Stewart

FROM PICKENS:. Jennifer Anne Day, Kathryn Evela Hallman, Carrie Denise Lance, Rhonda Lynn Shehan, Michelle DeWitt Smith and Crystal Talley Wilson

OCONEE COUNTY:
FROM FAIR PLAY: Amanda Gail Maroney

FROM SALEM: Teresa Davis Roger

FROM SENECA: Angela Atkins, Michelle Brandy Bryant, Eva Hass Gillespie, Tara Donald Harbin, Kimberly Anita LaFollete, Gabriel Mitchell McAlister and Kathryn Renee Terry

FROM WALHALLA:, Lois Becker, Vicki Edmonds, Angela Lyn Hulse and Diana Lynn Pitts

FROM WESTMINSTER: Kristin Barry, Amy Leigh Cawthon, Rebekah Charlene Cawthon, Jacquelyn Michelle Grogan, Rebecca Joan Hare, Carmen Ellice Kisner, Terri R. Pomeroy and Cynthia Lynette Whitfield

FROM WEST UNION: James Harold Fultz, Rachel Elizabeth Griffith and Lynlee Michelle Hester

FROM GREENVILLE: Malika Linee Evans, Barbara Ann McDonald and Cheryl R. Smith

FROM ROCK HILL: Diana Marie Hucks

FROM SIMPSONVILLE: Wendy DeSarro Owens

Carol Thornton Ferguson and Leslie Rhiannon Manuel received the Mary Judy Campbell Award for Academic Excellence.

Donna Charpia received the Florence Nightingale Award.

Teresa Davis Rogers received the W. F. B. Award for Academic and Clinical Excellence.

Terri R. Pomeroy received the Nursing Professionalism Award for leadership, compassion, outstanding skills and academic excellence.

Jennifer Anne Day received the Eleanor Nenstiel Leadership Award.

Amy Deanne Holland received the Virginia C. Brockway Clinical Excellence Award.

Renee Susan Jones received the Kinnebrew Award.

Bonnie Annette Porter received the Phoenix Award.

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