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91-Year-Old Seeks To Travel Via Web In VGCC Computer Class

Posted on December 2, 2004 by VGCC Staff
Johnnie Young Mims Sanders pursued her love of travel after a 45-year teaching career in Vance County schools. Now, at age 91, she says she’s too old and too infirm to take off on cross-country jaunts so she is turning to the computer to open up new worlds for her. Sanders has enrolled in the … Read More

DOT Gifts Are Boon To Electronics Technology Students At Vance-Granville Community College

Posted on November 19, 2004 by VGCC Staff
You don’t know if you can get something unless you ask for it. That seems to be the philosophy of Jim Tart, program head/instructor for Electronics Engineering Technology at Vance-Granville Community College. Tart wanted to get some traffic lights for his students to use in their studies of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC). Since the N.C. … Read More

Day Care Art

Posted on November 17, 2004 by VGCC Staff
The children in the Vance-Granville Community College Day Care Center have created a variety of paintings and art works that are on display at the center on the main campus in Vance County. Above, Larraine Abbott of Kittrell admires a colorful painting done by her daughter, Austyn, 2. Vance-Granville operates day care centers at its … Read More

Coca-Cola FOUNDATION STARTS PMA SCHOLARSHIP

Posted on November 12, 2004 by VGCC Staff
F.P. ” Skip ” Pape, vice president of Classic Food Services/Durham Coca-Cola, second from left, presents $12,000 to Vance-Granville Community College President Randy Parker, left, to establish the Coca-Cola Foundation Presidential Merit Award scholarship at the college. Each fall, beginning in 2005, a deserving VGCC student will receive a $1,000 grant from the scholarship. Also … Read More

VGCC Offers Free Seminars On Shopping For A Computer

Posted on November 5, 2004 by VGCC Staff
Is a computer on your Christmas list? Notebook or desktop? Flat panel or CRT? Megahertz? Pixels? Computers are great tools, but the choices can be overwhelming, especially when you don’t even know what half the words mean! Vance-Granville Community College is ready to help you. The college’s Computer Center is offering a free seminar – … Read More

12th Grade Dropout, 60, Gets Diploma At VGCC

Posted on October 19, 2004 by VGCC Staff
Julia H. Thorpe dropped out of school while in the 12th grade at the former Henderson Institute in 1963. She spent the next 40 years working and raising her two sons, Aaron, 35, and Kelsey, 33. But she never lost her desire to learn and to get an education. “I focused my life on my … Read More

BARNES AAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP ESTABLISHED

Posted on October 18, 2004 by VGCC Staff
Linda Stanley, president of the Vance County Unit of North Carolina Retired School Personnel, presents $3,000 to Vance-Granville Community College President Randy Parker to establish an Academic Achievement Scholarship in memory of James R. Barnes. The retired personnel will add $3,000 over the next three years to complete the endowment. Barnes began teaching in Vance … Read More

VGCC Offers Advanced Shag Dancing Class

Posted on October 15, 2004 by VGCC Staff
Attention, shag dancers: here’s the chance to increase your skills. Vance-Granville Community College will offer advanced shag dancing lessons, beginning Nov. 16. The classes will be held on Tuesdays from 7 to 8 p.m. and will run four weeks, ending Dec. 7. Classes will be held in the lower level lobby of the Civic Center … Read More

VGCC Offers Medical Coding Online

Posted on October 15, 2004 by VGCC Staff
The number of computer classes offered online continues to grow at Vance-Granville Community College. Medical Coding is the latest class that students can take in their spare time in the comfort of their homes or in their offices. Medical coding is one of the fastest-growing occupations in the nation, with a median annual salary of … Read More

DRAMA: One-man Show Coming To VGCC

Posted on October 15, 2004 by VGCC Staff
A special performance will be presented Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Building 2 on Vance-Granville’s Main Campus. Local professional actor David Harrell will perform his one-man show about his journey to find out what it means to be “normal.” David was born with a disability and wrote THE QUEST in … Read More