February 2017 - Page 23 of 25

Don Fletcher

ACM Star Students

The A.C. Moore Elementary Star Students for January were named Friday, January 27. They are, from left, seated, Jimmy Craft, Rachel Pruette, Mallory Gibson, Kennedy Williams, Zechariah McCants, and Jayshawn Farmer; standing, Jenna Moreland, Azyiah Sinquefield, Lazavion McKenzie, Chelsea Trice, Zariyah Haynes, Shaveh Johnson, Carmelo Brown, and JaKayla Bullard.

ECMS create quilt from book study

Escambia County Middle School’s Enrichment Class read the book Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone. The novel study was six weeks long. One of the class projects was to create a quilt that represented the book. Each student recreated scenes from their favorite parts of the book on blank quilt squares. The students pieced the quilt together and had a member of the Atmore community sew the quilt squares together to create…

CACC hosts Tedder math tourney

The Coastal Alabama Community College Michael Tedder Mathematics Tournament was held on Thursday, January 26, on the Brewton campus. Nine high schools and a total of 192 students participated in the day-long event. Teams competed for trophies and awards on a 35-question exam and 16 “quick answer” cipher questions. Michael Tedder, retired mathematics and physics instructor for the college and the founder of the tournament over 30 years ago, was…

Nurses pinned

The Woodfin Patterson Auditorium was the setting on December 8 for a Nursing Pinning Ceremony for 13 graduates of the Nursing Program at Jefferson Davis Community College. Graduates represented the Standard Track Nursing Program (RN) and the Career Mobile Track Nursing Program (LPN to RN). Special honorees for the Standard Track were Valedictorian Casey Nolen and Salutatorian Ashley Schlossberg, and for the LPN Career Mobililty Track were Valedictorian Claudette Johnson…

JDCC releases honors lists

Jefferson Davis Community College has released the President’s and Dean’s lists for Fall Semester 2016. Requirements for inclusion on the President’s list are a semester grade point average of 4.0 and completion of a minimum semester course load of 12 semester credit hours of college-level work. Atmore students named to this list are Madelyn Hope Boatwright, Jerame Heath Conn, Caleb Grant Hochstetler, Pamela Joy Powe, James Bryan Sizemore. Requirements for…