Release Date: April 18, 2007
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Community Colleges to honor top students
RALEIGH - Marti Curtis grew up in Northern Ireland, surrounded by the ravages of war. She went to school, went to work, married, and had a family, all while the war raged on. She and her husband parted several years later and Marti decided it was time to make a big change and move to a location where there was no war in her back yard.
Marti moved her family to North Carolina for a new life…and she found it. She remarried and was happy, but still felt something was missing. She found that missing piece – a new education focus - at Beaufort County Community College and she worked to excel at it. On Tuesday, Marti and 115 other community college students will be honored for their ability to excel academically.
The North Carolina Community College System recognizes outstanding students at the Academic Excellence Luncheon on April 24 at the North Raleigh Hilton. The luncheon begins at 11:45 a.m. and the award ceremony starts at 12:30 p.m. Two students, selected from each community college by the college, will receive the Academic Excellence medal from System President H. Martin Lancaster and Dr. Linwood W. Powell, vice chair of the State Board of Community Colleges.
Marti is one of three students who will share a personal story with an audience of more than 600. The students will tell how attending a community college gave them, as Marti puts it, “the chance to start over…and to accomplish a lifelong dream.”
The North Carolina Community College System is about change. Every community college student has a compelling personal story and an important reason for enrolling at a community college, a place where lives are changed every day.
For Marti, life changes with the Associate Nursing degree she receives this May. The other two speakers are Angela Robinson, who is pursuing an Associate Applied Science degree in Office Systems Technology at Montgomery Community College and Christian Conway, a College Transfer student at Southwestern Community College.
In addition to hearing the three personal accounts, the student scholars and the audience will be entertained by singer Caley Cassell, a student at Randolph Community College.
Two additional students will be honored on Tuesday. The Robert W. Scott Leadership Award goes to James Fleming, a student at Durham Technical Community College and Sharon Smith, a student at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College is the 2007 New Century Scholar for North Carolina.
The North Carolina Community College System enrolls more than 800,000 students in 58 comprehensive community colleges. Internationally recognized for the scope and quality of its programs, the system is North Carolina's primary provider of workforce preparation and adult education.
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