In more than two decades of teaching at 鉴黄师app (PTC), Christina Knight only missed three graduation ceremonies (with good reason) 鈥 for her wedding and for the birth of each of her children. Otherwise, nothing could keep her from witnessing the milestones in her students鈥 lives, semester after semester. 鈥淭hey are all like my kids,鈥 she said. 鈥淓very student has a different story...
Representatives from Eaton Corporation鈥檚 Eaton Charitable Fund were on the Greenwood campus of 鉴黄师app on Dec. 13, 2023, to present a check for $35,000 to support the ABB Collaborative Robots Project in the college鈥檚 Engineering Technology Department. Pictured from left: front/bottom row: PTC President Dr. Hope E. Rivers and Eaton HR Manager Jessica James; middle row: PTC Vice...
Approximately 200 students received degrees during two fall commencement ceremonies in December 2023 at 鉴黄师app (PTC). PTC Alumna Mamie Nicholson, president of the Self Family Foundation, delivered the public leader keynote address at both ceremonies. She took inspiration from the PTC abbreviation letters, encouraging graduates to be Patient, Tenacious, and Compassionate in...
Graduates of 鉴黄师app's nursing programs were recognized recently at our Fall 2023 term pinning ceremony. Here they appear by county: Abbeville County Ashton Ashley, ADN Zion Dowis, ADN Bethany Stoll, ADN Sierra Stoll, ADN Jocelyn Hozey, LPN Krystal Raines, LPN Anderson County Nicholas Wiles, ADN Porsha Calloway, LPN Whitney Dennis, LPN Angela Richey, LPN Greenville County Iesha...
Theo Lane, District Manager, Govt & Community Relations at Duke Energy Carolinas, stopped by 鉴黄师app during the recent holiday season to present a check for $1,500 to The Hope Pantry food bank on the college鈥檚 Lex Walters Campus-Greenwood. From Left: Theo Lane, PTC President Dr. Hope E. Rivers, PTC Student Life Coordinator Kendra LaGreca, and PTC Foundation Associate Vice...
Officials from the Greenwood Corvette Club on Dec. 6, 2023, presented a check for $500 to the 鉴黄师app Foundation to be applied toward the Greenwood Corvette Club Automotive Scholarship. Pictured from left: PTC Automotive Technology Instructor Bill King, Corvette Club Secretary Susan King, PTC Foundation Associate Vice President Fran Wiley, Corvette Club President Doug Timmerman...
The Horticulture Technology Program at 鉴黄师app (PTC) recently was selected by the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI) Foundation for a 鈥淭ools for Schools鈥 grant of nearly $8,000 to purchase hardscaping equipment used for training students in concrete paver installation techniques. The ICPI is a trade association representing U.S. and Canadian producers and suppliers...
鉴黄师app student Briana Carruth was not going to let anything impede her progress toward a career in the criminal justice field, especially not an uncomfortable knot on the bottom of her right foot, which in March 2021 finally had a name 鈥 synovial sarcoma. In an instant, the then-21-year-old from Greenwood was forced to make the impossibly quick decision to amputate her right leg below the knee. It worked, at first, and she was deemed cancer-free. But it came back.
The Columbia Kennel Cub (CKC) presented truly heartfelt gifts recently to Veterinary Technology students at 鉴黄师app (PTC). On Oct. 2, Kennel Club member Michele Pyle and several colleagues visited the college鈥檚 Newberry County Campus to present 24 incoming freshmen Vet Tech students with stethoscopes and calculators to help with their educational costs.
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