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Cheryl Bolen has joined Glasspro Inc. as an internal sales representative. Education Jack Shortridge has been named assistant director of the Charleston campus of Webster University. He is also the state counseling director for the school's campuses in South Carolina. He has more than 30 years of experience in mental health administration and clinical practice, mainly with the Department of Defense. He holds a doctorate from Indiana University. Nonprofit Ron Glover, Kevin Carpentier, Dale Orren and Mike Atkinson have been promoted at Advanced Technology Institute, an affiliate of the S.C. Research Authority. Glover is senior vice president. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a master's degree in business administration from Brenau University.
New school puts pizzazz into career classes
Students who attended open house Thursday at the new Woodville-Tompkins Career and Technical Institute saw why tech-ed courses won't be anything like they were last year. The new career and technical high school will teach financial services, health care sciences, hospitality and information technology programs like CISCO Systems when classes resume Tuesday. Partnerships with area businesses and dual-enrollment programs with Savannah Technical College will enable students to get hands-on job training, apprenticeships and college credit. Some will even complete job certification by the end of their senior year. All students will be required to participate in an entrepreneurial program to enable them to earn money in their fields of study. "I want to be an engineer," said Savannah High senior Anterrio Reddick, who toured the facility, met teachers and spoke with business partners about study and work opportunities Thursday night.
Salon offers free haircuts for donations
On Aug. 26, Romeo & Juliet Salon Spa will sponsor a food drive to keep area families from going hungry. To encourage participation in the food drive, salon and spa owner Julie Katz and her team of hairdressers plan to provide area school-age children (kindergarten through 12th grade) with complimentary back-to-school haircuts in exchange for a donation of four or more items for the Frisco Family Services Center and Little Elm food pantries."The food drive will be a great way to gather food for families in need and a rewarding way for us to thank those who participate," Katz said. "We wanted to do something to pay back the community who has been so wonderful to us."Romeo & Juliet Salon Spa opened its doors in December 2006. The day provides an opportunity for the people of Frisco and Little Elm to participate in a great cause."Most of us may not know that more than half of the people these food banks serve are children," Katz added.
Adams County's two colleges show student works
There's a new kind of art called pun pie. Stephen Bruer, sculpted an igloo and put it in a sculpted pie pan. It's an Eskimo Pie. Margaret Carter made a white hen with red head feathers and a cooking pot - a chicken-pot pie. Courtney Leith did the same with a key and a lime. These projects were part of the basic design 3-D course taught last year at Gettysburg College, and these works, along with a mud pie, are on display at the annual Student Exhibition at the college's Schmucker Art Gallery. Gallery director Shannon Egan said the works among the 90 or so displays in the student exhibition were the best of the best of last year's classes, selected by professors throughout the visual arts department. They represent the works of future career artists and those of students in other majors who showed some talent in an art elective.
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