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WCC student Showcase & World Cultural
Celebration: By Donny Elder
This past May at WCC, we hosted the Student
Showcase and World Celebration. It was held on May 4,
2001 in the Walker Center. Dr. Karen Staten was the
person in charge of coordinating the cultural celebration.
Her committee included Al de Lachica, Kim Faw, Arlene
Handy, Diane Harper, Scott Johnson, Donna McNeil,
and Dr. Walt Plexico. The event had a good turn out
number for both the showcase and cultural celebration.
A variety of displays were organized by many of the aca
demic programs.
The Architecture students displayed house
plans and brochures. Art students showed artwork by
faculty, staff and students. Automotive students dis
played pictures and brochures. Biology classes dis
played their cat dissection, wild edible plants, plant medi
cines, emerging infectious diseases and AIDS aware
ness info. Broadcasting students had disc jockeys and
brochures. Building Construction students displayed
blueprints and brochures. The Child Development Cen
ter posted children's art work. The Computer Program
ming students showed a display of RPG, C++ and Java
programs. The Dental Assisting students displayed their
dental clinic projects. Early Childhood students gave us
multicultural folktales and a flannel board story display.
Economics students displayed published student letters.
The Education students displayed their portfolio of les
son plans and their ideas of being our future teachers.
The Electronics students displayed electronic equipment
and gave out brochures. The English/Literature students
showed a collection of essays, professional reports and
creative writing assignments. Heavy Equipment/Diesel
students had a display of pictures and brochures. Horti
culture students had plants, pictures and brochures for
their display. Humanities/Southern Culture students did
collages, writings on Southern icons, places and folk ac
tivities and musical performances. Industrial Mainte
nance students had robotics, pictures and brochures.
Information Systems/Office Systems Tech students dis
played desktop publishing projects, word processing and
spreadsheet projects. The library staff displayed local
and oral history information. Medical Assisting students
showed their nutrition projects. Nursing students gave
everyone free blood pressure checks. Religion students
displayed their portfolios of Religion in America. Sociol
ogy students displayed pictures and projects and also a
video of class activities and a "Wall of Respect for Diver
sity." WCC international students showed up for us to
meet them and we had many students from South Af
rica, Germany, Kosovo and other countries here at
WCC.
The showcase also had a lot of activities for all
ages to enjoy. Outdoors there were displays of race
cars and diesel vehicles. Dr. Staten also had WCC
drama students to perform and Sarah Jane Masterson,
Meredith Johnston and the WCC student choir
to sing for us.
Performances were also provided by 3rd Dimen
sion (Christian rock band), a Spanish guitarist, and a hu
morous interpretation. Dr. Staten also had some of our
community people to help get involved. They were the
Acappella Choir from the First Baptist Church in North
Wilkesboro, a Non-denominational, Multi-cultural Choir
from Cornerstone Church, and our Steppin'Stones dog
gers. The showcase and cultural event had plenty of
games for all ages to attend and crafts and story telling
for us to enjoy. The WCC culinary students are owed a
big thank you for the ice sculpture of the Eiffel Tower
and the wonderful buffet that they cooked up for us to
eat. I would like to thank personally Dr. Staten for all the
hard work that she put into this event to make it happen
and to all the help that she had with the staff too. Dr.
Staten would like to thank all the students and staff and
performers for the help in this event and for making this
happen for everyone to see here at WCC.*
Ridgecrest Trip by Tim Pennell
On June 18-22 over 450 youth, from all over the
country, gathered at the Lifeway Baptist Center at Ridge
crest. NC. I was very blessed to attend. The title of this
conference was “How Now Shall We Live?” This confer
ence was 5 days of praising, worshiping, and learning
about God. My church sent 18 of us and we all agreed
that we have never had so much fun praising and wor
shiping God. Everyday had its own specific schedule.
We had a morning devotional, worship, and bible study.
We also had an evening worship and then we divided
into our church groups and had reflections and devotion-
als on the day. Every day we divided up into our “teams,”
which were our respective age groups where we were
taught in depth about how to live and witness in this
modern day life. We had no television there which was
great because we could devote our free time to study
the Bible. The closest thing that we had to TV was movie
clips from The Prince of Eovpt. Liar Liar, and The Water-
bov. All of these clips were used to tie in all that we had
learned on the day. All in all, the week was AWESOME!
God was definitely in our midst. Tears fell, miracles hap
pened, and friendships were made to last a lifetime. I
know that the youth of our church became even closer
by the end of the week. I thank God everyday for giving
us the opportunity to go.
Lunch Break
What is it called when you spend 25 minutes looking for
restaurant, 20 minutes finding a place to park, 15 min
utes standing in line to place your order, 10 minutes
waiting for your food, and five minutes trying to locate an
empty table? Fast food.
—Scott McLaughlin