Associate degree nursing class at NRCC receives pins during May 9 ceremony

May 11 2007

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Fifty-six students in the 2007 associate degree nursing class at New River Community College received their NRCC nursing pins at a ceremony held on campus Wednesday evening, May 9.

This was third class of associate degree nursing students to hold a pinning ceremony at New River Community College. In 2003 the college began offering both the first and second year of the program, with the initial class graduating in May, 2005.

The students received their degrees in the college's 38th annual commencement on Friday, May 11. After receiving their associate degrees, the graduates will be eligible to sit for the licensure exam qualifying them to become registered nurses.

Pat Campbell, chief nursing officer for Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, was keynote speaker. Dr. Jack Lewis, NRCC president, and Dr. Glenn DuBois, chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, made welcoming remarks to the group of 600 family members, friends and guests.

Teri D. Moore, associate professor of nursing, gave background information on the design of the New River Community College nursing pin which includes a path, gate, sun, and mountains encircled by the words New River Community College Nursing. On the gate are the roman numerals MMIII for the starting year (2003) of the two-year nursing program.

Nursing students receiving pins were: from Bland County, Hilda May Hollar; from Floyd County, Christina Dawn Dickerson, Judy Juanita Fizer, Kathy Renee Sutphin Gallimore, Heather Moses Hall, and Lori Christine Price; from Giles County, Sherry Leigh Archer, Jesse Layne Bly, Amy R. Butler, Jennifer Ann Darnell, Priscilla L. Donahue, Chastity M. Fontaine, Dommetae Deonne Jarrells, Thomas Robert Kane, Katherine L. Marcussen, Desiree Noel McCroskey, Debbie L. Mullins, Kelly Suzanne Myers, Deana Rhea Williams, and Amanda Nicole Wiscarson; from Montgomery County, Kristen Grace Brugh, Heather Meadows Click, Tiffany Dawn Curtis, Crystal L. England, Evangeline B. Gordon, Bradley Ruppert Grigg, Miranda Lee Hamblin, Daniel Alan Hartless, Philip F. Hess, Julie Lilaj, Shelby Jean Mitchem, Doris Wheadon Purcell, David S. Rowe, Susan L. Scott, Jennifer Nicole Vishneski, Melinda Phillips Wilson, Christie Aunna Wright, and Brian Avery Yates; from Pulaski County, George M. Bradley, III, Kisha Shamille Cook, Casey M. Gallimore, Karen Chaffin Graham, Sally Ann Howard, Toni Annette Linkous, Ashley Nicole Mannon, Sandra H. Rorrer, and Nathaniel Jay Wade; and from Radford, Aida Kebede Alebachew, R. Gregory Bishop, Cynthia A. Cronk, Stephanie Suzanne Cuddy, Timothy Aaron Johnson, Darla S. Kerr, Mary Sue Smith, Stacy Turpin Stull, and Laura Ann Thompson.

Photo cutlines:

BLAND COUNTY: Hilda May Hollar

FLOYD COUNTY: first row from left - Heather Moses Hall, Miranda Lee Hamblin; second row from left - Judy Juanita Fizer, Kathy Renee Sutphin Gallimore, Christina Dawn Dickerson

GILES COUNTY: first row from left - Kelly Suzanne Myers, Jesse Layne Bly, Deana Rhea Williams, Katherine L. Marcussen; second row from left - Chastity M. Fontaine, Priscilla L. Donahue, Sherry Leigh Archer, Desiree Noel McCroskey; third row from left - Jennifer Ann Darnell, Dommetae Deonne Jarrells, Amanda Nicole Wiscarson, Debbie L. Mullins, and Amy R. Butler; fourth row - Thomas Robert Kane

MONTGOMERY COUNTY: first row from left - Evangeline B. Gordon, Doris Wheadon Purcell, Shelby Jean Mitchem, Miranda Lee Hamblin; second row from left - Daniel Alan Hartless, Latoya Monique Mooney, Kristen Grace Brugh, Philip F. Hess; third row from left, Bradley Ruppert Grigg, Jennifer Nicole Vishneski, Crystal L. England, Julie Lilaj and fourth row from left - Brian Avery Yates , Melinda Phillips Wilson, Darla S. Kerr, and Tiffany Dawn Curtis

PULASKI COUNTY: first row from left - Heather Meadows Click, Kisha Shamille Cook; second row from left - Sally Ann Howard, Laura Ann Thompson, Casey M. Gallimore, Toni Annette Linkous; third row from left - Stephanie Suzanne