by Cathy Hayden | May 15, 2014 | News
Lauren Eklund made it to most of her children’s soccer games in the fall and spring but so did her nursing school textbooks. She spent many a game looking up from a book and cheering on Austin, 6, and Avery, 5. It was all worth it on Thursday, May 15, however, when...
by Cathy Hayden | May 2, 2014 | News
Photo Cutline: Spring 2014 graduation speakers are, from left, Robert Graham, Timothy Moore, Malcolm White and Congressman Bennie Thompson. Hinds Community College will see its fourth year of record-breaking graduation numbers over seven ceremonies May 15-16 and May...
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 20, 2013 | News
The mother and daughter duo of Charlene Allen and Carla Johnson, both of Vicksburg, are particularly pleased they graduated together from Hinds Community College on Friday, Dec. 20. “I took extra classes so we could graduate together,” said Johnson, a business...
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 20, 2013 | News
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by Cathy Hayden | Dec 19, 2013 | News
Medora McNair of Brandon, who describes herself as “22 times 2,” said getting her associate degree in nursing at Hinds Community College Thursday was “a long time in coming.” The 44-year-old wife and mother, whose daughter is a pre-law student at Mississippi College,...
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 13, 2013 | News
A dozen years ago, after the 9/11 attacks and the collapse of the Twin Towers, 12-year-old Amy Dykman worried about hurting and grieving children – and did something about it. The little Brandon girl started an initiative called “Amy’s Bears Care – And So Do We,”...
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 2, 2013 | News
Hinds Community College has selected two graduation speakers for ceremonies on Dec. 19 and 20 at Cain-Cochran Hall on the Raymond Campus. Charlotte Dupre’, chief executive officer for Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, is the speaker on Dec. 19 for the 10...
by Cathy Hayden | Jul 29, 2013 | News
Hinds Community College has named Doug Sills, Chief Executive Officer at River Region Health System in Vicksburg, and Sen. Briggs Hopson, District 23, Issaquena, Warren and Yazoo counties, as speakers for the summer 2013 graduation ceremonies Aug. 2. Sills will speak...
by Cathy Hayden | Jun 11, 2013 | News
Hinds Community College alumnus and local attorney Jonathan Bullock of Madison outlined a recipe for success to about 100 2012-2013 GED recipients at the annual recognition ceremony on June 6 on the Raymond Campus. “I speak on education because of the unique story I...
by Cathy Hayden | Jun 11, 2013 | News
New Gateway to College graduates are, from left, Alex Cotton, Northwest Rankin High School; Nicholas Anthony Torrence, Brandon High School; Kaitlyn Delories McNeely, Brandon High School; Larry Maples, Northwest Rankin High School; and Sam Lewis, Northwest...