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VGCC Golf Tournament Raises $28,000-Plus For Scholarship Fund

May 30, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
For the second consecutive year, 200 golfers – 21 teams in the morning and 29 in the afternoon – drove, chipped and putted their way around Henderson Country Club in the 19th annual Vance-Granville Community College Endowment Fund Golf Tournament. At the end of the morning and afternoon rounds on May 20, some great scores … Read More

On To Kindergarten

May 29, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
A dozen 4- and 5-year-olds “graduated” from the Vance-Granville Community College Day Care Center May 23 and are now ready to enter kindergarten this fall. Gathered for the graduation picture are, front, from left: 4-5 year-old teacher Deborah Harris, Asia Nicole Cooper of Henderson, graduation marshal, graduates Jacob Stephen Capps of Oxford, Miller Ann Bartholomew … Read More

VGCC Graduates, Certifies 12 New Officers

May 28, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
Twelve “strangers who came together as a team” graduated from Basic Law Enforcement Training Class Number 75 at Vance-Granville Community College on May 14. Kenneth L. Bullock of the Oxford Police Department, Richard H. Garrett of the Granville County Sheriff’s Department and Stephen L. Scott of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department were among the graduates, … Read More

VGCC Offers Course To Prepare Students For Bioworks Training

May 27, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
The Human Resources Development and Bioworks programs at Vance-Granville Community College are offering a Pre-Biowork course in June at the Franklin County Campus. This will be an introductory course for persons interested in enrolling in the college’s Bioworks course but who may need preparation in order to increase their likelihood of successfully completing the course. … Read More

VGCC Trustees Laud College For 9 Years Of Outstanding Financial Audit Reports

May 27, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
For nine straight years, Vance-Granville Community College has received financial audit reports that reveal no exceptions to sound practices and procedures. When this was reported to the college’s Board of Trustees during their bi-monthly meeting May 19, the trustees praised the administration, faculty and staff for the manner in which fiscal records and processes have … Read More

Large VGCC Class Of Future RNs Get Pins

May 23, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
One of the largest Associate Degree Nursing classes in many years – 34 women and one man –graduated from Vance-Granville Community College May 13, and the night before they received their nursing pins. Forty students usually begin the two-year nursing program, but the difficulty of the curriculum can pare that number down considerably, college officials … Read More

VGCC Schedules Advanced Office Skills Computer Course At Creedmoor Campus

May 22, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
The Computer Center of Vance-Granville Community College will offer a new class this summer at its South Campus between Creedmoor and Butner. Advanced Office Skills will teach students how to use advanced computer skills in their home or work environments. The class will expand upon the skills learned in the Office Assistant class and will … Read More

Daughters Show Mom The Way To Community College Education

May 22, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
“The family that studies together succeeds together.” That could well be the motto of the Cobbins family of the Williamsboro community of Vance County. Two family members, mother Brenda and daughter Teleza, graduated from Vance-Granville Community College on May 13, something Teleza’s sister, Kendra, did several years ago. The girls’ brother, Ronald, is completing his … Read More

Still Time To Get In New VGCC Art Class

May 21, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
A new summer art class gets under way Thursday, May 22, at Vance-Granville Community College, and interested persons can still begin on the second class night on May 29. Dorothy Overby will teach a 30-hour class in the wet-on-wet technique of oil painting. Many people are familiar with this from seeing Bob Ross demonstrate it … Read More

VGCC Offers Popular Scrapbooking Class

May 19, 2003 | by VGCC Staff
“Creative Scrapbooking,” a class that teaches students to bring memories of their life alive, will be offered at Vance-Granville Community College beginning May 29. The class will be held on Thursday evenings for eight weeks from 6:30 to 9 at the VGCC main campus in Vance County. Connie Roberson, a Henderson florist who has taught … Read More