JANUARY � At the end of the Fall 2007 Semester, students enrolled in Lee Armstrong�s Theatre Appreciation course complete their final class projects by performing original plays they�ve written and directed. Lee and those attending the performances then determine the night�s award winners.
� Less than a month after the N.C. Community College System recognized her for teaching excellence, PCC nursing instructor Amy Campbell is named �Outstanding Graduate Student� for her graduate work at East Carolina University.
� Ayden trio Don Brown, Gary Evans and Tony Tripp join the PCC Foundation Board.
� PCC Athletics announces the school will once again field a basketball team and taps Chad Reynolds as coach.
� George Whitfield, a coaching legend and one the individuals responsible for bringing baseball to PCC in 1995, speaks to PCC athletes during the college�s annual athletic banquet.
� In the Fulford auditorium, the college announces that a new 34,000-square-foot addition to its health sciences building will be named for Herman Simon, an ardent PCC supporter and financial advisor with the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation.
� The PCC Foundation kicks off its Futures First Campaign�the first capital campaign in PCC history�to raise $8 million for the Simon Building�s construction and new educational opportunities. FEBRUARY � PCC�s Disability Services Department helps sponsor Disability Simulation Day in the college�s Charles Coburn Center to shed light on the needs of students with disabilities and to share information about the resources the school has to offer them.
� College holds FAFSA Day to help high school seniors from Pitt and Beaufort counties complete federal financial aid forms.
� The Continuing Education Division holds an open house at the school�s newly-renovated Greenville Center on Memorial Drive.
� Students, faculty and staff celebrate Black History Month with a speech by retired educator and author Don C. Locke and a panel discussion that features black professionals from Greenville sharing their thoughts on everything from race relations to their personal experiences in breaking down color barriers.
� PCC softball players raise $600 through a �celebrity server� fundraiser at Golden Corral in Greenville.
� The Associate Degree Nursing program receives Candidacy Status from the prestigious National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc.
� Former SGA President Karen Perry dies in an automobile accident in Greenville. The Merry Hill native was a 20-year-old PCC nursing student at the time of her death. MARCH � College hosts �Sleepless in America,� a seminar on sleep disorders that features a presentation by Dr. Daniel Lee, a neurologist with East Carolina Neurology and medical director for PCC�s polysomnography program.
� OST Instructor Kathy Clark is named the 2008 Woman of Substance during PCC�s annual Women�s History Month celebration.
� The Writers Reading Series, a collaborative effort between faculty and administrators from PCC and ECU, returns to campus with music from Grant Haze and poetry by David Wojahn and Mark Cox.
� Pitt launches the Next Level program to help the school�s minority male population excel academically, personally and professionally. Andre Gregory is named the program�s coordinator.
� The PCC community gathers near the school�s Memorial Tree to celebrate the life of Karen Perry.
� Artist and PCC graduate Richard Wilson participates in the Greenville Art Exhibit.
� Adult High School students travel to Washington, D.C., to learn firsthand from Holocaust survivors about the atrocities that took place in Nazi-controlled Germany.
� A Career Fair in Coburn Center provides students with opportunity to speak with area employers. APRIL � SGA holds annual Spring Fling in front of the Ed and Joan Warren Building under sunny skies.
� Utilizing special video equipment at the Bioprocessing Center, Biology Instructor Tammy Atchison teaches students at Bergen Community College in New Jersey without ever leaving the Tar Heel State.
� The PCC Foundation honors 50 of the college�s best and brightest for their efforts in and out the classroom with its Academic Excellence Awards Luncheon.
� Radiography student Michele Albertson receives the 2008 Greenville Morning Rotary Scholarship.
� PCC and Greenville Fire and Rescue team to offer a 25-week Fire College.
� ECSU Chancellor Willie Gilchrist stresses the value of education to minority males during College Bound: Here We Come program.
� PCC Baseball reaches #8 in NJCAA Division I rankings.
� PCC golfers finish atop the leaderboard at the Scalf Invitational in Rocky Mount.
� Pitt golfer Adam Andrews medals at a Williamsburg golf tournament.
� Cynthia Archbell and Derek Combs represent the college at the N.C. Community College System Academic Excellence Awards Luncheon in Raleigh.
� PCC holds its annual Employee Appreciation Dinner at Rock Springs Center. Matt Smith is named Staff Person of the Year while Ella Atkinson receives the Outstanding Customer Service Award.
� The local Chamber of Commerce concludes its annual Teen Leadership Institute with program at PCC.
� Accounting Instructor Robert Tallo is selected to serve as national vice president of Gamma Beta Phi International Honor Society.
� Student Support Services holds a banquet to celebrate the success of students in the program.
� Five sophomores close out their softball careers in style with a doubleheader sweep of Louisburg College. |