Fifty Associate Degree Nursing Students Receive Pins

CONTACT: LISA GARRETT, EXT. 2315

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/19/2000
(By Lisa Garrett)

PENDLETON --- Each of you has the power to be heroes to patients by providing the best health care possible, Debbie Herman, MSN, RN, administrator of the State Board of Nursing, South Carolina, told Tri-County Technical College's 50 associate degree nursing graduates at a pre-graduation pinning ceremony.

"You will have vast opportunities to make significant changes, one patient at a time, one community at a time. You will become heartfelt heroes," said Ms. Herman, who has spent 22 years as a professional nurse.

"Heroes are real-life citizens doing the best job they can at what they do," she said.

She added that registered nurses are the largest health care profession in the United States, and statistics reveal that nursing is one of the top 40 growth jobs for the next 10 years.

Following Ms. Herman's speech, pins were presented to the following students:

FROM ANDERSON: Susan Jeannine Bailey, Ray Bouchard, Kelly Larkin Craft, Melissa McConnell Donald, Crystal Hope Girard, Victoria Pauline Lomax, Dorothy Lynn McLees, Georgia Alison Patterson, Sandra Neese Perkins, Charlotte Leigh Pierce, Cheryl Eileen Quaratararo, John Charles Rice, Mary Anne Rodriguez, Cynthia Wilson Scott, Hope Elaine Sykes, Kimberly Smith Traynum, Amy Marie Weaver, Sonya Michelle Williams and Christie Lorene Wooten.

FROM BELTON: Heather Denise Chandler.

FROM HONEA PATH: Christina Jo Gerik.

FROM IVA: Jamie Farrah Burton.

FROM WILLIAMSTON: Lori Weaver Garrison.

FROM FAIR PLAY: Melodie Jean Engle and Raye Harrison Steele.

FROM SALEM: Heather Anne Barker.

FROM SENECA: Stacey Diane Cannon Boutot, Angela Renae Foster, Arthur Shane Garrett, Carol Holt-Salter, Jerome David Mahon and Tina Smith Sanders.

FROM TOWNVILLE: Melissa Dawn Frankum.

FROM WALHALLA: Donna Alane Green, Kerri Jean Rogers and Rhonda Michelle Smith.

FROM WESTMINSTER: Debbie Jean Brock and Julie Michelle Marcengill.

FROM CENTRAL: Cherryl Fae Smith.

FROM CLEMSON: Amanda Louise Teel.

FROM EASLEY: Thomas Francis Bryan, Jr. and Jack Bradley Styles.

FROM LIBERTY: Rebekah Williamson Hemphill, Rhondalyn Hogue, Alawayne Lee, Carla Marie Smith and Lori Elizabeth Stone.

FROM PICKENS: Christopher Burke Ensign.

FROM SIX MILE: Andrea Snow Masters.

GEORGIA:
FROM CARLTON: Kathy Danyale Carey.

Carol Holt-Salter received the Mary Judy Campbell Award for Academic Excellence.

Melissa McConnell Donald received the Florence Nightingale Award.

Amy Marie Weaver received the W. F. B. Award for Academic and Clinical Excellence.
Cynthia Wilson Scott received the Nursing Professionalism Award for leadership, compassion, outstanding skills and academic excellence.

Debbie Jean Brock received the Eleanor Nenstiel Leadership Award.

Raye Harrison Steele received the Virginia C. Brockway Clinical Excellence Award.

Victoria Pauline Lomax received the Faculty Recognition Award.

Christina Jo Gerik received the Kinnebrew Award.

Thomas Francis Bryan, Jr. received the Whitley Reed Award.

John Charles Rice received the Phoenix Award.
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