Author: Mary Margaret Busby

Joel C. Hill, Holmes Community College director of choral and vocal music on the Goodman Campus, was recently named a Joint Board Member and Conference Registrar for the State Chapters of both the (MMEA) Mississippi Music Educators Association and (ACDA) American Choral Directors Association.

Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus practical nursing student Carmen McKey of Florence placed second in the state at the Mississippi LPN Association Convention held April 13-15 in Biloxi.

Goodman Campus English instructor Jessica Brown received one of the faculty’s highest honors on April 25 during the Goodman Campus Awards and Honors Banquet – the Sally Wilson Distinguished Educator Award chosen by the student body from the Goodman Campus.

On Thursday, April 21, the Holmes Community College Alumni Association held a banquet to honor the 2016 Sports Hall of Fame inductees at the Frank Branch Coliseum in Goodman.

David R. Jones, Funeral Service Technology instructor at Holmes Community College in Ridgeland, has been selected as a 2016 Moody Institute Fellow.

Mary Brantley, an English instructor on the Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus, recently served on the advisory board for the national textbook, “The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing” (11th edition Annotated), and her reviews were featured in the acknowledgments section. Not only was her name included in the list of acknowledgments (on p. xiii) in the national student edition, her review of the book was featured on the cover of the complimentary copy sent to instructors.

The Holmes Community College Development Foundation, Inc. Golf Classic will be held Wednesday, May 11, at Deerfield Golf Club in Madison.

The Holmes Community College Attala Center in Kosciusko is excited to announce the addition of a new course offering – Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMS 1118) – for the fall of 2016. Instructor Allen Green from Grenada plans to teach the course, which will meet on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.