Marti Curtis
As a child in Northern Ireland in the mid-1960s, Marti Curtis grew up surrounded by the ravages of war in her Belfast neighborhood. She went to school, went to work, married and had a family – all while the war raged on. After Curtis and her husband parted, she decided it was time to make a big change and move to a place where there was no war in her back yard.
Curtis 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 a new educational focus as a student in Beaufort County Community College's Associate Degree Nursing Program – and she excelled at it.
In May 2007, Curtis was one of 200 BCCC students who received degrees, diplomas, certificates and high-school equivalency degrees at BCCC's 40th commencement exercises.
“When my children and I moved here in 2001, my goal was to give them a better life than we had in Ireland,” she said. “I have been able to meet that goal through Beaufort County Community College.”
Today, Curtis works as a nurse at Pitt Memorial Hospital.
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