Category: Education

The Northern Vance High School Key Club members have worked hard during most of this school year to complete a community service project to raise funds and purchase items to donate for use by needy families at three public service assistance organizations. Chris Pendergrass, president of the Key Club, has led the efforts by his fellow members to make valuable donations to Area Christians Together in Service (ACTS), Infinite Possibilities and the Community Partners for Hope Inc. Men’s Shelter. Several …

LOUISBURG, N.C.—The Honors Program is proud to celebrate its first graduating class with a $100,000 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Taylor ’68. The gift will allow the program to further its mission of encouraging, communicating and rewarding academic excellence and leadership. The College is proud to name the program the Roger G. and Gaile Davenport Taylor Honors Program.  An additional gift from Don Parrott ’63 will allow the program to further support student scholarships for the program.  “I am most grateful …

Vance County Board of Education  Called Meeting Wednesday, June 3, 2015 5:30 p.m. in the Administrative Services Center Superintendent’s Conference Room at 1724 Graham Avenue Henderson, N. C.   27536 AGENDA Call to Order *           II.         Approval of Meeting Agenda *           III.        Executive Session – Personnel *           IV.       Adjournment *           Requires Board Action

The Personnel Committee Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 2, 2015, at 8:30am has been cancelled.

For more than four decades, the name Lelia Brigham was synonymous with Vance-Granville Community College. A continuing education art instructor since practically the beginning of the college in the fall of 1969, Brigham had a longer association with VGCC as an instructor than anyone else prior to her death in December 2014. VGCC officials were recently informed that Brigham’s estate has left the college nearly $400,000, with additional assets pending. Through this bequest, Brigham continues the legacy of learning to …

Four local high school students participated in the third annual Vance-Granville Community College Biotech Workshop, held over the course of two Saturdays in May. VGCC Bioprocess Technology program head Dr. Tara Hamilton conducted the workshop with assistance from one of her students, Melissa Messner of Wilton. The participating students hailed from South Granville High School, Granville Early College High School, Warren County High School and J.F. Webb High School. Students had the chance to work in the state-of-the-art biotech laboratory …

Andrew Swanner, Executive Director of Oxford Preparatory School, recently completed the Distinguished Leadership Program (DLP), a year-long leadership development program for practicing school principals designed and provided by the North Carolina Principals and Assistant Principal’s Association in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and UNC-LearnNC. The Distinguished Leadership in Practice Program (DLP) uses a non-traditional professional development model that is aligned to the performance evaluation standards adopted by the State Board of Education for North Carolina’s school …

Vance-Granville Community College hosted a guest speaker in April to discuss careers in Medical Coding, as the college is preparing to offer a new opportunity for training in that field. VGCC Medical Office Administration students had the opportunity to hear from Marianne Durling, Director of Health Information Management at Granville Health System and president of the Oxford chapter of the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC). Durling told students that she has had a long, varied career in health care, …

Vance-Granville Community College recognized 38 students who graduated this spring from the Associate Degree Nursing program with a pinning ceremony in the college’s Civic Center on May 13. Among those honored with distinctive nursing pins at the ceremonies were eight who graduated through the LPN to ADN Transition Program, which helps Licensed Practical Nurses to continue their education and then become Registered Nurses. These graduates were Beverly Harris and Omolara Medaiyese, both of Durham; Selieta Lett of Littleton; Yevette Rothgery …

Twenty-six new graduates of Vance-Granville Community College’s two-year Radiography program were honored in a May 11 pinning ceremony in the college’s Civic Center. The Radiography Class of 2015 included Anabel Salina Vaughn of Bullock; Patricia Webb of Butner; Lindsey Brooke Hinkle, Heather Diane Jones and Carmen Renee Pate, all of Creedmoor; John Douglas Britton II, John T. Kelly III, Juli Mitchell-Luther and Dean Morron, all of Durham; Amber N. Lankford of Efland; Christina Cates of Franklinton; JoLynne Allan Nichole Winstead …

Vance County Schools is supporting our elementary schools and their students by promoting the annual “Give Five – Read Five” campaign sponsored through the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI).   “Give Five – Read Five” was begun two years ago by DPI to address summer learning loss at the elementary level. The idea behind the campaign is to have families in our schools, business leaders and workers in our community and Vance County residents to donate five new or …

  VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS     WEEKLY SCHOOL NEWS     Volume 3, Issue 38 A Publication for Middle and High Schools May 26-30, 2015       The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS     ?   Thursday is the last day of classes for students at Early College High School.       SCHOOL EVENTS FOR THE WEEK …

Vance-Granville Community College recently organized a clothing drive to benefit the patients at Murdoch Developmental Center, located in Butner. The college’s Sustainability Outreach Subcommittee collected gently used clothes and shoes for both children and adults this spring, and received donations from faculty, staff and students. Geraldine Cash, the administrative assistant for VGCC’s South Campus and chair of the subcommittee, presented the donations to officials from Murdoch Developmental Center in May. “We collected approximately 20 boxes full of clothing,” Cash said. …

  VANCE COUNTY SCHOOLS       ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS   Volume 2 Issue 38                                May 26-30, 2015         The MISSION of Vance County Schools is to be committed to educating all students to prepare them for lifelong learning and productive citizenship.   IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS           State end-of-grade tests will be administered on Wednesday and Thursday to all students in grades 3-5. Make-up tests will be administered on Friday as needed.     …

High school students from throughout the region are invited to learn about health sciences and careers in medicine by participating in the 2015 “Mini-Medical School” Summer Camp, conducted by the Wake Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in partnership with Vance-Granville Community College. The intensive, week-long day camp is being offered twice: June 22-26, at VGCC’s South Campus, located between Butner and Creedmoor, and July 27-31, at VGCC’s Franklin County Campus, just outside Louisburg. At either location, students will be on …

Southern Vance High School hosted its National Technical Honor Society induction and cording ceremony in the school’s Drama Room on May 20. A total of 29 students were honored as either new inductees into the society or as accomplished graduating seniors. Those juniors and sophomores inducted as new members are shown in the first photo and include, front row from left, Eric McLean, Ariana Aguirre, Luis Amaya-Villa, Dasia Burrell and Dalton Elliott. On the second row, from left, are Kenia …

Northern Vance High School has announced students who will serve as graduation marshals for year-end events for the Class of 2015. The marshals will assist at the Class Night event at Northern Vance on May 28, and during commencement exercises on June 13. Graduation marshals are shown in the accompanying photo and include, front row from left, River Renn, Marissa Vaughan, Caroline Oakley, Jazmin White and Lauryn Williams. On the second row, from left, are Loricia Martin, Sarah Hull, Nora …

Students in Vance County Schools are already involved in state testing that will now stretch through the end of the school year with the last day of classes set for Wednesday, June 10 2015. The Early College High School has been administering state end-of-course and end-of-the-semester exams throughout this week. The Early College Class of 2015 graduation ceremony is Friday, May 22, and the school’s last day of classes for this year is Thursday, May 28. State testing began in …

Sixteen cadets graduated on May 12 from the Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) program at Vance-Granville Community College, in a ceremony held in the Civic Center on Main Campus. After passing the state certification exam, all are authorized to work in any law enforcement agency in North Carolina. Graduates of VGCC’s 100th BLET class included Joshua Adam Bailey and Ryan Hulett Woodlief, both of the Vance County Sheriff’s Office; Tyler Brady Currin and Leigh Hester, both of the Granville County …

Vance-Granville Community College’s commencement exercises on May 15 awarded a record 574 degrees and diplomas, according to an announcement Monday night from VGCC President Dr. Stelfanie Williams. Dr. Williams made the report to the VGCC Board of Trustees at the board’s bi-monthly meeting at the main campus on May 18. She noted that the registrar is still processing graduates as well as grade changes and expects additional completions. Marking perhaps the largest graduation attendance in college history, too, 18.5 percent …