The
WCC
41st
issue
Spring
Wayne Community College, Goldsboro, NC 27533-8002
Happy 45th
Anniversary, WCC!
Historial highlights
1957 established as Goldsboro
Industrial Education Center
1962-63 first full-tirne courses offered
1964 name changed to Wayne
Technical Institute
1967... name changed to
Wayne Community College
1996 move to new campus
May 1. 2002
wayne:
community
college
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Educating
Wayne
County
FOR
45 Years
Bonds assure growth, change despite state budget woes
By BETH JONES and
CHRISTOPHER POPE
Groundbreaking day for
Wayne Community College’s
new day care and preschool is
expected for June 1, said
Kenneth Ritt, Vice President
for Educational Support
Services.
Construction is expected to
take 8-10 months. State bond
money along with $200,000
from Wayne County will fund
this project.
The estimated budget will
be about $700,000 for the
5,000 square foot building.
This money will cover a
circular driveway and parking
lot, landscaping, and utilities.
Space has been an issue
for the current day care
situated on Cox Boulevard.
A new cay care center will
solve inadequacies such as
space, no kitchen, and other
barriers to having a star rating
from the state of 5. The star
rating is now a 4.
The current center is a
modular home with all open
space and 24 children ranging
from age 2-5.
The designers/architects of
the new center are Hayes-
Howell from Southern Pines.
It will be designed with 4
individual classes with infants
and toddlers sharing 1 room,
and the two’s, three’s, and
four’s with their own rooms.
The staff of the new facility
will be Barbara Lofton,
interim director, who works
with the 3 and 4 year olds;
Kim Jones, who works with
the 4 and 5 year olds; and
Donna Flowers, who works
with the 2 year olds.
Work-study students who
also help with the children
include Reeshema Woods,
Brenda Johnson, April
Ramsey, and Emily Bolar.
Other students could be
involved in the center, Ritt
said.
Students in WCC’s Early
Childhood Development and
nursing programs will use the
center for their labs and hands
on work with the children.
Sherry Cranberry,
instruction in the Early
Childhood program, said,
“We want to be a model for
infant/toddler care in the
community, and the new
facility will help us achieve
that goal.”
Ritt said that parents would
be more confident about the
care of their children in an
improved facility.
It will feature a catered
kitchen, a work/conference
room, and, cameras in eveiy
class so that parents can log
onto the Internet to watch
their children during the day.
Ritt said that much of the
equipment at the current
daycare would be moved to
the new site.
With better equipment and
not sharing one open space,
the children will experience a
lowered noise level.
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Groundbreaking slated for June 1
Day care children currently enroUed pose with their adult caretakers and Vice
President Ken Ritt on what will be the circular driveway of the new day care center
PHOTOS: VOICE STAFF