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29 Graduate from MAC Nursing Program

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Centene Center in Farmington was filled with guests and area dignitaries attending the July 25 graduation and pinning ceremony for 29 new nurses from the Mineral Area College Program in Practical Nursing.

These graduates are now eligible to take the National Certification for Licensure Examination to obtain LPN licensure.

The group included:

Angela Boyer, Cadet

Melissa Canterberry, Farmington

Jennifer Chinetti, Desloge

Rafe Dean, Desloge

Paula Dyer, Farmington

Kari Ellis, Park Hills

Erin Emert, Pilot Knob

Elizabeth Ferguson, Marquand

Timothy Francis, Fredericktown

Sarah Gibson, Blackwell

Catherine Hager, Desloge

Darla Holloway, Park Hills

Pamela Junge, Farmington

Serena Kinney, Fredericktown

*Becky Lankford, Farmington

Ashley McDaniel, Fredericktown

Brittany Micco, Festus

Brittany Newsom, Park Hills

Casey Pogue, Park Hills 

Tracy Robinson, Park Hills

Melissa Rouse, Fredericktown

Casey Shepard, Park Hills

Sherri Sikes, Fredericktown

Michelle Thebeau, Farmington

Barbara Warren, Potosi

Patricia Washburn, Bonne Terre

Tabitha Willis, Mineral Point

Rose Anna Wisdom, Farmington

Andrea Wolk, Ste. Genevieve.

The Rev. Curtis Warren, Assembly of God pastor and husband of graduate Barbara Warren, gave the ceremony's invocation.

Al Sullivan, former dean of Vocational-Technical Education at Mineral Area College, was the guest speaker. Sullivan was dean 12 years ago when the articulating Practical Nursing to Associate Degree in Nursing option was approved by the Missouri State Board of Nursing, and implemented on the MAC campus.

Lisa Lucas-Dean, 2005 graduate of the program and 2007 graduate of the Associate Degree Nursing program Fast-Track articulation option, led the class of graduates in the Nursing Pledge. Lucas-Dean sang the song "Hero," accompanied by her husband Rafe, who is also a MAC nursing graduate, on guitar.

PN instructors Mary Eimer and Cathy Hutcheson, MAC Allied Health Department Director Teri Douglas, and Vice President of College Affairs (also Career and Technical Education Dean) Gil Kennon participated in the graduation and pinning ceremony.

Highlights of the ceremony included PowerPoint presentations of the class members and their year-in-review, created by graduates Kari Ellis and Betsy Ferguson with the assistance of MAC's A-V department staff and Photo Majik of Farmington. The graduating class's composite photo, created by Camden's Custom Framing, was generously donated to the college by Parkland Health Center and Mineral Area Regional Medical Center.

This was the 12th graduating class with the Fast-Track LPN-ADN Educational Option. Though many more are eligible, 20 of these graduates applied and were accepted into the abbreviated sophomore year of the ADN program at MAC which begins in August as part of the Fast-Track articulation option. $$