A-B Tech's Counseling Department sponsored its annual free Alcohol Screening Event April 8 in the Coman Student Center. Sixty-nine participants filled out surveys, according to Peggy Bulla, career counselor, and volunteer clinicians saw 66 of those participants.
Nursing Instructor Laura Brown was listed as a contributor and reviewer for the second edition of the textbook "Child Health Nursing: Partnering with Children and Families."
Early Childhood Teacher Associate student Gwen McKinney wrote an e-mail to Cathy Cody, Early Childhood chair and instructors, Dianne Hughes and Pam Kirby expressing her gratitude in receiving the Academic Achievement Award for her program. "Your faith in my past and future accomplishments is truly motivating," she wrote. "It was so heartwarming to see the pride in my parents' faces, as well as my husband and instructors; but the reaction of admiration from my son brought me to tears."
Alan Coxie, an Asheville attorney and Fire Protection Technology adjunct instructor at A-B Tech, has been sworn into the United States Supreme Court. In addition to his teaching duties at A-B Tech, Coxie is a practicing attorney. Attorneys are required to be sworn into any court in which they practice. His law school, the Wake Forest School of Law, selected Coxie for admission to the U.S. Supreme Court. He was sworn in with 10 other Wake Forest attorneys by Chief Justice John Roberts in a ceremony March 30 in Washington, D.C.
Robin Keith, Surgical Technology chair, has been selected to serve on the Accreditation Review Committee on Surgical Technology's program review panel for all Surgical Technology programs up for reaccreditation in 2009.
Sharon Killian, Academic Learning Center coordinator, received a note of thanks from Chip Cross, Business Administration instructor at McDowell Technical Community College, for giving a tour of the lab to three of his co-workers. "They were very impressed with your lab and very appreciative of the hospitality you showed them," Cross wrote. "We are excited about the prospect of having a learning lab at McDowell Tech."
Trustee Dr. Joe Roberson Sr. was featured in a story in the March 26 edition of the Biltmore Beacon newspaper. The article focused on Roberson's family, including his father, T.C. Roberson, former superintendent of Buncombe County Schools, and his son, Dr. Joseph Roberson, who practices at the California Ear Institute.
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