Free Asheville Art Museum passes are available for employees and students. They can be reserved for up to a week in advance for a one-week checkout, based on availability. There is a limit of six passes per person. A set of 25 passes is also available for instructors to take a class. Contact Sue Donato at Ext. 7572 or sdonato@abtech.edu for more information.
Charles deVries, Culinary Arts and Hospitality Instructor, was asked to submit his recipe for succes to the Recipe Swap column in the Winston-Salem Journal. The recipe published Aug. 27 is for a torte with a combination of meringue, buttercream, almond praline and a chocolate coating, Succes was a dessert deVries made when he was the pastry chef at La Chaudiere, a French restaurant that used to be in Winston-Salem.
Jeff Ferezan, Vice President of College Initiatives, has been elected to the WCQS Board for a three-year term beginning Oct. 1. He will be eligible to serve two terms for the public broadcast radio station.
Former student Stephen Williams recently told Jennifer Browning, English/Communications Instructor, how much he appreciated all the help he received at A-B Tech. "He talked particularly about how good a job Student Services did for him while he was here. He said everyone at A-B Tech showed him how much they cared about his success, everyone gave him consistent answers and at A-B Tech he felt like he was treated like a king," Browning wrote.
Justin Wangler, a 1998 A-B Tech Culinary Technology graduate, won first place at the Kendall-Jackson Wine Estate's Heirloom Tomato Festival. Wangler, executive chef for Kendall-Jackson, also was invited to prepare dinner at the James Beard House in New York on Sept. 18. This will be Wangler's second time to receive that honor.
Madison Early College received a donation of 46 computers from Mission Hospital after the hospital updated a section of one of its buildings. The computers are being used to establish a computer lab and for two smaller labs in the Math and English classrooms at Early College.
Phlebotomy student Beverly Reece wrote a note of appreciation for the assistance she received from Melissa Hyatt, Medical Laboratory Technology Chair, and Monique Worley, Phlebotomy Instructor. "I have been under a doctor's care since Sept. 15," Reece wrote. "Melissa and Monique have made arrangements to keep me updated on my class material and have been very patient with me. These two instructors are what makes our learning worthwhile."
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