Hancock County – Heather Antee, Amber Bounds, Angelica Childress, Samantha Clark, Misty Daniels, Blaine Freeman, Jessica Gilbert, Robbin Jagodzinski, Jeramie Lee Kelly, Jamies Koscinski, Leslie Moran and Reba Louis Revelle. Peters, Christopher Rice and Christina Sledge. Hyatt, Octavia James, Haley Ann Johnson, Elizabeth Kelly Lambert, Cody Lane McClendon, Caitlyn Allie McRaney, Nichelle T. Hattiesburg – Hector Emilio Amaya, Delilah Bonner, Lisa Ann Brown, EsquRita Collins, Sharon Dean, Steven Dickinson, Willie Edward Ellis Jr., Marcia Liseth Gomez, Jessica Nicole Graham, Shureka Graham, Terrance Hinton, Jerry Hodges, Charles A. Those who participated in graduation are listed by the site they attended: On behalf of the Board of Trustees and the faculty and staff of Pearl River Community College, I want to wish you well.”Īpproximately 225 students earned the GED certificate during the 2012-13 year after studying at one of the PRCC program sites.
You’ve created a big opportunity for yourself. “I want to be among the first to pat you on the back,” Lewis said. William Lewis, PRCC president, congratulated the students and encouraged them to continue their education at PRCC. She works two jobs and plans to study to become a paralegal.ĭr. She easily passed all of the GED test sections on the first try except for math but earned the certificate in January. All they could say was I attended.”Ĭollins lost her diploma from the Tennessee high school in a fire and had no proof of her graduation. “I went to apply at Antonelli College and went there for about two months and my high school had lost all my records. “I actually graduated high school in 1998,” she said. It wasn’t too hard.”įor EsquRita Collins of Hattiesburg, the walk across the stage fixed a bureaucratic error. “Employment doors were closing,” he said. He’s been out of school for about 30 years and hopes finishing his high school education will allow him to move up to a crane operator’s job.
Jerry Hodges of the Bellevue community near Hattiesburg attended GED preparation classes during the weeks he was home from his off-shore job. “Everything changed when my son asked me for help with his homework.” “Because I was afraid of the math, I’d leave the program,” said Sharon Dean of Hattiesburg, who tried for more than 10 years to get her GED and was one of two student graduation speakers. The ceremony recognized their hard work to earn GED certificates after they didn’t complete high school.įor some, the certificate represents years of struggle. HATTIESBURG – Family and friends cheered and applauded as 58 graduates of the Pearl River Community College adult basic education program received completion certificates Thursday, May 23, at the Forrest County Center.
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