Inside Pellissippi
  January 14, 2008
Issue: VII  Volume: V 


Calendar

January 14
Classes Begin

January 17
January Jam
Pellissippi Campus
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

January 18
January Jam
Magnolia Ave. Campus
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

January 14
Martin Luther King Day
College Closed

January 18
John Fain “Sanctified Trial: The Diary of Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain, a Confederate Woman in East Tennessee.”
Goins Auditorium
2:00 p.m.

January 23
January Jam
Division St. Campus
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

January 27
Deadline to Drop a Class Without a Grade of "W"


Employee Birthdays

Cindy Alexander
Randy Atkins
Julie Bell
Becky Blackwell
Rick Bower
Jennie Braden
Bill Brewer
David Brown
Cathy Clay
Trudy Coleman
Bill Davis
Joan Davis
Sally Day
Marcia Dean
Michele DeFelice
Allen Edwards
Tiffany Elder
Maritza Fernandez
Cata Folks
Jake Hamric
Mike Hudson
Bobby Jackson
Marcia Lawson
Sue Lewis
Susan Lovingood
Cynthia Manning
Darell McBee
Martha Merrill
Charles Miller
Liam Powell
Nancy Rasnake
Andy Rayfield
Marty Salter
Beckie Scott
Jerry Sherrod
Laurie Stapleton
Travis Whitson
Anthony Wise





Rick Horner
Information Processing Specialist
Enrollment Services



Stuart Starr
Computer Operations Specialist
Financial Aid

A newsletter for the faculty and staff of Pellissippi State


Student-created creatures featured in exhibition

Visitors to the World Grotto and Gallery on Knoxville’s Market Square January 4 may have thought they were being invaded by alien creatures. (more)


Les Fout named regional director of resource development council

Les Fout, director of major gift development for the Pellissippi State Foundation, has been named regional director of the Council for Resource Development’s board of directors. (more)



Editor of Confederate woman’s diaries to speak January 18

In 1892, a devoutly religious farm woman and staunch Confederate sympathizer named Eliza Fain was laid to rest in Rogersville. The East Tennessee community was the site of a Civil War battle fought nearly three decades earlier. (more)



Prospective students and parents invited to open house

Pellissippi State is hosting a “Pellissippi Preview” on January 31. Prospective students and their parents are invited to attend the College’s open house from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center. (more)



Paralegal student earns scholarship award

Anne Tharp, a Paralegal Studies major at Pellissippi State, has received a $500 scholarship from the Smoky Mountain Paralegal Association. (more)



Alcoa grant keeps College on cutting edge of engineering

Pellissippi State is taking another step into the technological future, thanks to a grant from the Alcoa Foundation. (more)



College contributes $127 million annually to area economy

The 20th annual analysis of the economic impact of the College on the Knox and Blount county area revealed that the value of business volume, jobs and individual income amounted to about $636 million in the 2002-2007 period, or $127 million each year. (more)



New game design, programming certificates offered this semester

Starting this semester, students will have the opportunity to earn certification in what was formerly only a popular pastime: video games. (more)



College brings visiting writers to Blount County high schools

What makes a writer? That question and others were addressed at a recent authors’ teach-in organized by Pellissippi State for English students participating in the College’s Dual Enrollment program at Blount County high schools. (more)



Employee Profile

Name: Kathleen Affholter

Title: Instructor, Geology

Major responsibilities: Teaching Physical Geology and Historical Geology for students wanting to go to a four-year college and Concepts of Earth Science for pre-service teachers.

Length of service at the College: I am in my third year here.

(more)




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