Mathematics Instructor Mary Bradley encouraged students to strive for excellence. Bradley was the featured speaker during Southwestern Community College’s Academic Awards Ceremony Tuesday, April 17, on the Jackson Campus.
As Bradley addressed the students, she said, “One of the most important things a teacher can do is to encourage excellence. Education is like life…you can make excuses and give up, or you can persevere and succeed. Success at anything takes practice and a lot of hard work. The greatest single lesson that you, as a college student will learn is that you are capable of teaching yourself.”
The 29th Annual Academic Awards Ceremony highlighted the academic achievements of 230 students plus award nominees of NCCCS Academic Excellence, All USA Today, Dallas Herring, and Who’s Who Among Junior Colleges.
To qualify for participation in the Awards Ceremony, a student must have earned a minimum of 30 semester hours’ credit within the last four years by the end of fall semester at SCC, be enrolled spring semester and have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above.
Buncombe County, from left: Tabitha Evans and Ashley Mines
Haywood County, from left: Kelly Miller, Marilou Rathbone, David Hall, Mary King, Rachelle Ferguson, and Michael Bruce
Jackson County, from left, (front row) Nanci Sherley, Jennifer Walkingstick, Sarah Hanson, Lindsey Turrentine, Kendall Wilson, Gloria Patterson, Lisa Jones, Tishina Carrol, Jared Zullo, Kayla Creason; (back row) Lori Quinn, Jennifer Martin, Landon Tholkes, Samantha Green, Jill Cotton, Brandy Anders, David Ivey, Pamela Hardin, Adam Merrill, Timothy Buchanan, Virginia Weaver, Daniel Riddell, Sabrina Miglino, Kaleb Frizzell, Rachel Barnes, Angela Stanley, Chelsea Lydeen, and Kathleen Kiser
Macon County, from left, (row 1) Gaitry Aruwani, Winta Le, Ashley Ritter, Lexie Edwards, Tawana Valentine, Linda Browning, Edith Jennings, Bonnie MacDonald, Julia Picou, Christine Grant, Alyson Payne; (row 2) Ethan Edwards, Nathan Miles, Tyler Cook, Michaela Russo, Kimberly Jakushev, Bethany Steiert, Amanda Muse, Angelica Rawdon, Anna Ramos, Karen Martin, Katie Bowman, Jakin Ivey, Jessica Kanai; (back row) Andy Timan, Stephanie Morgan, Susan Bradshaw, David Parrish, Britney Janow, Dana Mills, Judith Johannsen, Brian Stiles, and Sean Meagher
Swain County, from left: Ceri Bolt and Kayla Wike
