Author: Mary Margaret Busby

Bayley Cook of Winona was named 2017 Most Beautiful in Holmes Community College’s Parade of Beauties pageant held Feb. 28 on the Goodman Campus. Cook, daughter of Shannon and Robyn Dunn, and of Rod and Renee Cook, is a freshman pre-dental hygiene major on the Grenada Campus.

The Holmes Community College Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) students were a part of the 2017 Mississippi Physical Therapy Association’s (MPTA) Physical Therapy Legislative Day.

A piano recital with Dr. Harlan Zackery, Jr. is set for March 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the D.P. “Pat” McGowan Workforce Training Center on the Holmes Ridgeland Campus. A reception will follow the recital in the lobby. The event is free and open to the public.

The Center for Online Education released its list of the 50 best online community colleges for 2017, and Holmes Community College came in at number three in the nation.

Holmes Community College has been named one of the nation’s Best Online Community Colleges for 2016 by AffordableCollegesOnline.org (ACO), a leader in higher education information, resources and rankings.

Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus Academic Dean Tonya Lawrence was presented with a Patriot Award from the Mississippi Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) on Thursday, Feb. 2.

Holmes Community College’s program for online has been recognized as one of the best in the nation by The Community for Accredited Online Schools (AccreditedSchoolsOnline.org).

The Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus SkillsUSA chapter, along with the Ridgeland Fire Department, recently collected Christmas gifts for Sunnybrook Children’s Home, and delivered them on Dec. 7.

The Holmes Community College Rotoract Club, advised by Assistant Librarian Jennifer Smith, recently collected Angel Tree items for The Home Place and delivered them on Dec. 7.

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