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May 5, 2008

Issue: XV Volume: V
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May 6
Pellissippi State Golf Tournament


May 19
Deadline to Pay Fees for
Summer Priority Registration


May 26
Holiday (College Closed)
Memorial Day

May 27
Classes Begin

Summer 08


birthdays

May Birthdays


Thomas Alley
Anita Amburn
Barbara Bailes
Dale Bohanan
Robert Boyd
Ben Bryan
Jane Cameron
Allen Farvin
H.L. Ford
Bill Galyon
Ramzi Ghezawi
Gary Grubb
Cindy Hicks
Gary Hinshaw
Lois Jackson
Stuart Maher
Rhonda Mattingly
Liz McCowan
Nick Morgan
Pat Myers
Elaine Oswald
Marilyn Palatinus
Deanne Pannell
Donna Pasternak
Bonnie Powell
Delores Ramsey
John Reaves
Pat Riddle
Janice Rowland
Doris Rutledge
Michael Ryion
Cheryl Slayden
Ann Snodgrass
Anne Swartzlander
Brenda Tate
Susan Thomas
Leigh Anne Touzeau
Tom Walker
Mike Walters
Tamela Wheeler
Joe Zitka




































Pellissippi State’s Small Business Development Center wins excellence award

The Knoxville area Tennessee Small Business Development Center office, an affiliate of Pellissippi State, has been chosen to receive the first Excellence and Innovation Center Award by the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Tennessee district office in Nashville. (more)

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Front row (l-r), Jutta Bangs, senior business specialist, Tennessee Small Business Development Center, Roane State Community College; Larry Rossini, director, and Jane Shelton, secretary, TSBDC, Pellissippi State. Back row (l-r), Joe Andrews, senior business specialist, TSBDC, Pellissippi State, and David Tiller, business development specialist, Tennessee District Office, U.S. Small Business Administration. Unavailable for photo: Bruce Hayes, senior business specialist, TSBDC, Pellissippi State.

VPT students win grand prize in Scripps competition

vptAt 7:30 on the morning of April 14, Ella Ruggles, assistant professor of Video Production Technology, sat nervously at home at her computer.

She was watching the votes come in. She had encouraged the students in her script-writing class to enter an online video contest. But would they win the grand prize? She would know when the contest ended at 8 a.m. (more)


Couple graduates from Pellissippi State with 4.0

4.0 graduatesDo smart people attract smart spouses?

Maybe so, because the “opposites attract” rule certainly doesn’t seem to apply in the case of one couple who has graduated from Pellissippi State. (more)


Outstanding Pellissippi State faculty and students recognized

Pellissippi State recognized its outstanding faculty and students at the 2008 Academic Awards ceremony March 31. The event took place in the Performing Arts Center on the Pellissippi Campus on Hardin Valley Road. (more)

Farragut preschool wins TSBDC Rising Star Award

rising starLearning how to open a new school can be an education in itself, especially if you’re at the beginning of the proverbial “learning curve.”

That’s what happened when Rosemary and Randy Overton decided to leave their careers and lifestyle in Chicago to enter the field of preschool education in the town of Farragut. (more)


Free financial aid offered during FAFSA Help Days

Need financial aid, but dread filling out the paperwork? The College’s Financial Aid Office is hosting a free series of “FAFSA Help Days” to make dealing with the red tape of getting financial assistance a little less stressful. (more)

Russian student earns second degree from Pellissippi State

anatastiaAnastasia Aksenova’s mother was at her daughter’s graduation from Pellissippi State May 2.

Unlike most parents attending the ceremony, though, she had to leave home nearly a full day before the event to get there on time. (more)



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cs1Name: Claire Suddeth

Title: Assistant Professor, Mathematics

Major responsibilities: Lead for Division Street’s DSPM 0890 (Developmental Studies) course

Length of service at the College: 6 ½ years


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