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Jim Shirley of Yazoo City, physics and engineering instructor, and Lane Spell of Lexington, a sophomore mechanical engineering student, have been named Holmes Community College’s honorees for the Legislature’s HEADWAE (Higher Education Appreciation Day – Working for Academic Excellence) program for 2017. Shirley and Spell are both on the institution’s Goodman Campus

Former Holmes Community College pre-dental student Ashley Weaver of Madison recently scored in the 95th percentile in the nation on her Dental Admission Test (DAT). On Nov. 16, she came and spoke to students on the Holmes Ridgeland Campus about preparing for professional school. An energetic, animated speaker, she kept the students’ attention from start to finish as she doled out meaningful advice on how to follow their dreams.

Holmes CC closed Nov. 21-25 for Thanksgiving Holidays

Two Holmes Community College alumnae, Taylor Adcock of Sallis (Class of ’16) and Lily Fran McCrory of Lexington (Class of ’15), each recently received early admittance into professional school programs. Adcock was admitted to School of Pharmacy at The University of Mississippi and McCrory received admittance to medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Both young ladies will begin their programs in the fall of 2017.

Holmes Community College student David Colby of Clinton was announced the lucky winner of the Fall Full-Time Contest on Wednesday, Oct. 26. His prize? A 2016 Honda Rancher 4×4, Holmes special edition! Colby, a pre-medical student on the Ridgeland Campus, was chosen from the pool of 4,000 Holmes students from 71 counties who registered for 16 hours or more this fall semester.

Arnetra O. Pleas, an English instructor on the Ridgeland Campus, has been named Holmes Community College’s 2016 Humanities Teacher of the Year.

Robert Reeves of Holmes Community College has been selected to travel to NASA’s Stennis Space Center Oct. 17-20 to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS).

On Thursday, Oct. 11, the Holmes Community College Mortuary Science Department’s Merchandising and Management Class was privileged to tour Batesville Casket Company’s Panola Plant in Batesville, followed by Garner-Harper Funeral Home in Grenada. The students were accompanied by instructor David R. Jones.