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Each year, Holmes Community College faculty and staff members select the winners for the prestigious Hall of Fame. This year, the Hall of Fame inductees from the Goodman Campus included: Alexis McBride of Kosciusko, Christopher Nalls of North Carrollton, Vivian Lake Shipp of Benton, Tyler Sylvester Sloan of Choctaw and Mary Morgan Stafford of Kilmichael.

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.

All three of Holmes Community College’s Phi Theta Kappa chapters received awards at the 2019 Awards Gala at Mississippi State University March 1-3.

At Holmes Community College, it’s not just the students who are continually furthering their education. Ridgeland Campus Financial Aid Advisor Mary Haralson earned a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration in December and wants to encourage others to never give up on their dreams.

Each year, Holmes Community College faculty and staff members select the winners for the prestigious Hall of Fame. This is the highest honor a student can achieve at the institution. This year, the Hall of Fame inductees from the Grenada Campus included: Macie Craddock, Courtney Dees, Bradford James and Kendall Preston.

Each year, the Ridgeland Campus holds a Creative Writing Contest. All winners receive cash prizes furnished by the Holmes Foundation. First and second place winners are forwarded to the Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association contest and will be published in Holmes’s Creative Writing Journal, Reflections.

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.”

Lily Kate Saxton of Benton was crowned Most Beautiful during the 2019 Parade of Beauties pageant held Feb. 26 in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Goodman Campus.

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.