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. |