by Cathy Hayden | Oct 22, 2014 | News
Neilsen Hinds Community College will honor Ray Neilsen, the 2014 Alumni Service Award winner, at the Alumni Dinner, held at 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23 in Mayo Gymnasium on the Raymond Campus. Neilsen believes in second chances. His second chance came at the...
by Cathy Hayden | Oct 16, 2014 | News
Hinds Community College will honor Bob Mullins, the 2014 Alumnus of the Year, at the Alumni Dinner, held at 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 23 in Mayo Gymnasium on the Raymond Campus. Also being honored at the Alumni Dinner is Ray Neilsen, the 2014 Alumni Service Award winner,...
by Cathy Hayden | Mar 27, 2014 | Arts, News
Hinds CC alumni Jody Gore, left, and Gary WaltersBack on March 29, 1939, a legend was born out of a tragedy. When Clear Creek in Edwards flooded during a torrential rainstorm, washing out the Highway 80 bridge and plunging cars headed from Jackson to Vicksburg into...
by Cathy Hayden | Feb 28, 2014 | News
Members of a competitive running group that includes Hinds Community College employees and alumni have been going the extra mile to make sure the disabled in their communities get to participate. After learning of the story of Dick Hoyt and his disabled son Rick, a...
by Cathy Hayden | Sep 27, 2013 | News
Hinds Community College will honor Hinds graduate and former athlete Dean Liles of Plano, Texas, as the 2013 Alumnus of the Year at the Oct. 17 Alumni Recognition Dinner, held at Mayo Field House on the Raymond Campus. The reception begins at 4:30 p.m. and dinner is...
by Cathy Hayden | Jul 9, 2013 | News
Joe Nelson Jr., a graduate of Hinds Agricultural High School and Hinds’ Utica Campus, was recently named the Mississippi Middle Level Principal of the Year by the Mississippi Association of Secondary School Principals. The MetLife/ National Association of Secondary...
by Cathy Hayden | May 24, 2013 | Alumni, News
All 2012-2013 GED achievers in Hinds Community College’s district of Hinds, Rankin, Warren, Copiah and Claiborne counties are invited to participate in the ceremony at 6 p.m. at Cain-Cochran Hall on the Raymond Campus. Bullock received a General Education...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
Jane Lauderdale Flowers, work-based learning coordinator on the Vicksburg-Warren Campus, came to Hinds as a college student, earned her degrees from both Hinds (1973) and Mississippi State University, returned as an employee and hasn’t looked back since. “I feel like...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
At age 28, Anna Sanders says she was “truly petrified to be a college student” at the Vicksburg-Warren Campus two years ago. As a teenager, Anna became a mom with two sons and has lost one child to cancer. In her two years at Hinds she married her best friend. Despite...