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Campus News | Friday, June 14, 2019 Park View Nurses Celebrate 105th Anniversary Park View Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Association celebrated their 105th anniversary with a luncheon held at The Main Course at Belmont in Rocky Mount on Thursday, May 16. More than 50 individuals attended the event, including 31 Park View nurses. Park View Hospital opened its doors as a 25-bed facility on July 1, 1914. Hospital staff witnessed and served both locally and throughout the world during the 1918 Spanish flu and during four wars. The hospital was the largest in Rocky Mount and surrounding communities. The hospital closed in 1971 with 145 beds, and patients were transferred to Nash General Hospital, now Nash UNC Health Care System. During the anniversary celebration, a candle lighting ceremony was held in memory of the nursing alumnae who passed away in the past year. A special vocal performance was provided by Kennedy Miller, UNC-Wilmington Honors Scholar and granddaughter of Carolyn Shearin, Park View Alumna. Contributions commemorating the anniversary support the Park View Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Association Scholarship which was established at Nash Community College in 1989 by the Park View Nurses’ Alumnae Association. Read More. 56th Law Enforcement Academy Graduates Nash Community College recognized eight officers for completing the College’s 56th Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) Academy on Tuesday, June 11, 2019. “Each of you have had an opportunity to experience a wealth of information and apply what you have learned in classroom practical situations during numerous scenario-based blocks,” Rocky Mount Police Department Captain Michael Whitley said in his keynote address. “This course is challenging while serving as the foundation of your law enforcement career. Upon that foundation you are personally responsible for building your career through continued learning experiences.” He cited enthusiasm, courage, wisdom, patience, self-control and compassion as characteristics necessary for the cadets’ success in their new profession. Whitley is a Nash Community College alumnus. Read More. High School Students Prepare for Dual Enrollment Nash Community College held orientation on Thursday, May 30 for high school students entering the Career and College Promise (CCP) program, and their parents and guardians. President Dr. Bill Carver welcomed the group to NCC's campus, and Dr. Deana Guido, associate vice president of transfer initiatives, provided an overview of the program. Approximately 325 new Career and College Promise students will begin at NCC in the fall. CCP allows qualified high-school-age students to pursue a two-year degree, tuition free, while they are dually enrolled at their high school and at Nash Community College. Credits earned through the program transfer into Nash Community College’s degree programs and to participating four-year colleges and universities. Students may choose from Career and Technical Education and College Transfer pathways. Read More. New and returning students are encouraged to finalize schedules and prepare for Fall Semester. Classes begin August 19. Important Dates: Summer Seminar: Navigate Nash: Wednesday, July 17, 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM Orientation Open House: Thursday, August 15, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm WebAdvisor Registration Closes: Monday, August 12 Visit www.nashcc.edu/registration for more information. A Note From the Desk of Eastern NC’s Beer Instructor BY JARED BARKLEY Wednesday, May 29, 2019 If you believe what some of the beer TV commercials and marketing will show you, craft brewers are usually all big, beardy men. Standing around wearing aprons, chatting quite seriously with our beardy buddies. Giving stern looks to liquids in large glass tubes and sniffing big beardy handfuls of the finest, freshest hops and barley that were ever grown between the sandy shores of the home of the brave. Ahhh … Work. Craft. Barrels. America. So the customers come in droves. To make their pilgrimage in tribute to these wisened men of copper and steel. The Hemingways of beverage-dom. And they sip from great pints of stout and IPAs, as they peer through the foggy brewhouse window. Hoping to see with their own eyes some small glimpse of the magic of these storied brewers performing their liquid alchemy. When like eager children at the first flakes of snow, with their eyes squinted and their noses pressed to the glass, at long last they finally see … the back end of some nerd with a clipboard washing out a plastic bucket. Read More. Nash Community College, Building A (Rotunda) Thursday, June 20 from 10 AM - 2 PM Please visit redcross.org and enter NASHCC to schedule an appointment. © 2019 Nash Community College
Campus News | Friday, June 14, 2019
Park View Nurses Celebrate 105th Anniversary
Park View Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Association celebrated their 105th anniversary with a luncheon held at The Main Course at Belmont in Rocky Mount on Thursday, May 16. More than 50 individuals attended the event, including 31 Park View nurses.
Park View Hospital opened its doors as a 25-bed facility on July 1, 1914. Hospital staff witnessed and served both locally and throughout the world during the 1918 Spanish flu and during four wars. The hospital was the largest in Rocky Mount and surrounding communities. The hospital closed in 1971 with 145 beds, and patients were transferred to Nash General Hospital, now Nash UNC Health Care System.
During the anniversary celebration, a candle lighting ceremony was held in memory of the nursing alumnae who passed away in the past year. A special vocal performance was provided by Kennedy Miller, UNC-Wilmington Honors Scholar and granddaughter of Carolyn Shearin, Park View Alumna.
Contributions commemorating the anniversary support the Park View Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae Association Scholarship which was established at Nash Community College in 1989 by the Park View Nurses’ Alumnae Association. Read More.
56th Law Enforcement Academy Graduates
Nash Community College recognized eight officers for completing the College’s 56th Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) Academy on Tuesday, June 11, 2019.
“Each of you have had an opportunity to experience a wealth of information and apply what you have learned in classroom practical situations during numerous scenario-based blocks,” Rocky Mount Police Department Captain Michael Whitley said in his keynote address. “This course is challenging while serving as the foundation of your law enforcement career. Upon that foundation you are personally responsible for building your career through continued learning experiences.” He cited enthusiasm, courage, wisdom, patience, self-control and compassion as characteristics necessary for the cadets’ success in their new profession. Whitley is a Nash Community College alumnus.
Read More.
High School Students Prepare for Dual Enrollment
Nash Community College held orientation on Thursday, May 30 for high school students entering the Career and College Promise (CCP) program, and their parents and guardians. President Dr. Bill Carver welcomed the group to NCC's campus, and Dr. Deana Guido, associate vice president of transfer initiatives, provided an overview of the program. Approximately 325 new Career and College Promise students will begin at NCC in the fall.
CCP allows qualified high-school-age students to pursue a two-year degree, tuition free, while they are dually enrolled at their high school and at Nash Community College. Credits earned through the program transfer into Nash Community College’s degree programs and to participating four-year colleges and universities. Students may choose from Career and Technical Education and College Transfer pathways. Read More.
New and returning students are encouraged to finalize schedules and prepare for Fall Semester. Classes begin August 19.
Important Dates:
Summer Seminar: Navigate Nash: Wednesday, July 17, 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Orientation Open House: Thursday, August 15, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
WebAdvisor Registration Closes: Monday, August 12
Visit www.nashcc.edu/registration for more information.
A Note From the Desk of Eastern NC’s Beer Instructor
BY JARED BARKLEY
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
If you believe what some of the beer TV commercials and marketing will show you, craft brewers are usually all big, beardy men. Standing around wearing aprons, chatting quite seriously with our beardy buddies. Giving stern looks to liquids in large glass tubes and sniffing big beardy handfuls of the finest, freshest hops and barley that were ever grown between the sandy shores of the home of the brave. Ahhh … Work. Craft. Barrels. America.
So the customers come in droves. To make their pilgrimage in tribute to these wisened men of copper and steel. The Hemingways of beverage-dom. And they sip from great pints of stout and IPAs, as they peer through the foggy brewhouse window. Hoping to see with their own eyes some small glimpse of the magic of these storied brewers performing their liquid alchemy. When like eager children at the first flakes of snow, with their eyes squinted and their noses pressed to the glass, at long last they finally see … the back end of some nerd with a clipboard washing out a plastic bucket. Read More.
Nash Community College, Building A (Rotunda)
Thursday, June 20 from 10 AM - 2 PM
Please visit redcross.org and enter NASHCC to schedule an appointment.
© 2019 Nash Community College