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Matt Wolak takes Grand Award with ‘Two’ at first-ever HAVOC Film Festival

The Goodman Campus recently had two visual arts students place first and third in painting in the Mississippi Community/Junior College Arts Instructions Association state art competition.

Author Richard Grant, who wrote “Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta,” will speak at the Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus on Tuesday, April 10 at 12:30 p.m. in the Pat McGowan Workforce Building. Grant will discuss his New York Times Bestseller as well as his time in the Mississippi Delta.

From meeting new people and adjusting to a new environment to dealing with academic pressures and learning the art of time management, the college years can be tough for anyone – and even more so for those who have an autism spectrum disorder. While autism brings about its share of challenges that might impede college success, this has not been the case for Holmes Community College student Elizabeth “Liz” Howell.

The 2018 HCC Sports Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on Thursday, April 26 at 6 p.m. in Frank Branch Coliseum on the Goodman Campus.

The Holmes Community College Development Foundation, Inc. Golf Classic will be held Wednesday, May 9 at Deerfield Golf Club in Madison.

The Mississippi-Louisiana Region of Phi Theta Kappa recently bestowed an honor on Goodman Campus instructor and Kappa Alpha Chapter advisor emeritus Billy Wilson by naming a lifetime achievement award after him.

Holmes Community College won three awards in the 2018 Mississippi Press Association (MPA) Better Newspaper Contest. Individually, Ethan Burton, a sophomore on the Goodman Campus, won third place in the Cartoon Category for his cartoon “Shade,” and The Growl as an entity won third in General Excellence and third in Editorials. The awards were presented during the 2018 O.C. McDavid Journalism Conference held March 28 at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Museum in Jackson.

Ann-Clark Price, a graduate of the Paralegal Technology program on the Ridgeland Campus of Holmes Community College, recently passed the Accredited Legal Professional Exam, given by the National Association of Legal Professionals, receiving the highest score in the nation.

On Wednesday, March 21, the Goodman Campus Creative Writing class traveled to Turnrow Book Co. in Greenwood for a reading and book signing in celebration of the release of “The Fighter” by Mississippi novelist Michael Farris Smith.