Author: Steve Diffey

The 2019 HCC Sports Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on Thursday, April 4 at 6 p.m. in the Frank Branch Coliseum on the Goodman Campus.

Since 1993, the annual Pops Concert from the Holmes Community College Choral Music Department has been one of the major concerts at the college. This year, however, due to the renovation of McDaniel Hall on the Goodman Campus, the concert “A Night to Remember” will be moved to the Corey Forum on the Grenada Campus on Tuesday, April 30 at 7 p.m.

Fifty-eight junior and senior girls from the Holmes district attended the Career and Technical Education’s Girl Boss Day event last Friday on the Goodman Campus.

JACKSON- In an effort to get the Mississippi Legislature’s attention, Community College presidents, faculty, and students reminded everyone at a Capitol building press conference, community/junior colleges provide a vast array of educational and economic opportunities for everyone. Additionally, the two-year college system also provides a healthy return on every dollar spent on the nation’s oldest community college system. MACJC Legislative Co-chair and Jones College President, Dr. Jesse Smith encouraged legislators to “face the facts.”

The Holmes Community College Alpha Mu Beta Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, housed on the Grenada Campus, inducted 25 new members into the honor society on Tuesday in the Corey Forum on the Grenada Campus.

Academic and technical students with exemplary quality point averages are recognized at the end of the fall and spring semesters by being named to the President’s or Dean’s list. To be eligible for such recognition a student must be enrolled in at least twelve semester hours.

Holmes Community College registration for the spring term began on Nov. 5. The college offers transferable academic courses, the Associate of Arts degree, the Associate of Applied Science degree, technical certificates and career certificates, as well as workforce training.

November 8 is Military Appreciation Night at Holmes Community College. All military (both active and retired) will be admitted free to tomorrow night’s basketball games at 6/8 p.m. in Frank Branch Coliseum.

A scholarship honoring the late Bobby Eugene and JoAnn Robertson Killebrew is being established at Holmes Community College. The Killebrews lived in Durant until 1976, and thereafter in Forest before Mrs. Killebrew passed away in 2013 and Mr. Killebrew in 2016.