by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
No excuses mindset puts paralyzed student on President’s List at Hinds By Susan Christensen Health and Research News Service The first time Adam Booker went to college, he mostly majored in having fun. “I thought I was doing good by just getting up and going to...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
For Tom Kendall (1985), the new president of the Hinds Community College Foundation board, serving Hinds Community College is more than an opportunity to help the college serve a purpose – it’s a family legacy. Growing up on a farm in Bolton, Kendall realized the...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Thanks to a solid academic record and a strong right leg, Kyle Williams could have chosen to go just about anywhere after graduating from Pearl High School. Williams, heavily recruited by Hinds Community College coaches, decided to join the Eagles instead. That...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
At age 25, Jameson Parker had already worked five years in the field of GIS, drafting and telecommunications engineering when he decided to enroll in Hinds Community College’s program on the Raymond Campus. A Murrah High graduate, Parker became progressively more...
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 | People Profiles
Lauren and Lindsay Harper, freshman twins from Richland, along with their childhood friend Victoria “Tori” Still of Richland, are dorm-mates at Marshall Hall on the Raymond Campus, play on the softball team together and are all nursing school hopefuls. Still, who was...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
Larissa Stinson Garner of Vicksburg has known for some time she wanted to be in some sort of helping profession. It wasn’t until after she received her first Hinds Community College degree in May 2011 that she finally figure out what she wanted to do – nursing. “I...
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...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | Alumni, People Profiles
It was in the produce section of a Kentucky A&P grocery store that David Yewell’s life was changed forever. Yewell (1962), a past member of the Hinds Community College Foundation board, worked at the store sorting produce. In fall 1960, he was just a few days...
by Cathy Hayden | May 22, 2013 | People Profiles
Trina Runia Williams of Jackson got her children raised and watched her husband graduate from Hinds Community College in December. Now it’s her turn to shine in the early childhood education program on the Utica Campus. She’ll graduate with her associate’s degree in...
