6 WCC CAMPUS VOICE - APRIL 26. 2000
MLK, Jr. Day speaker urges
students: 'Be prepared to change'
Judge Herbert Richardson responds to a question
following his speech during the Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. Memorial Tribute.
By BRANDY PATE
“Be prepared to change” and
“be honest with yourself’ were the
keynotes of Judge Herbert
Richardson’s speech during the
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memorial Tribute held Thursday,
January 13 at WCC Lecture Hall.
Sponsors of the program
included the Diversity Committee
and the Multicultural Association
■for Enrichment (MCAE). The
Rev. Timothy Dortch, Pastor of
Goldsboro Chapel Free Will
Baptist Church led the audience of
about 200 in “Lift Eve^ Voice
and Sing,” and Alfonzo Jones,
student soloist, performed “No
Weapon Held Against Me.”
- Dr. Edward H. Wilson, Jr.,
President of Wayne Community
College opened the program with
a welcome and the wish that the
new millennium will see the
realization of the goals of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wayne County Commissioner
Mr. Jimmie Ford, introduced the
guest speaker, The Honorable
Herbert Richardson, Sr., who was
born in Nash County. A graduate
of Northern Nash High School, he
attended NC Central where he
was a political science major,
despite having been told that he
did not have the grades to get into
college.
Richardson, 47, said he had
been on the bench for 22 years.
He said there is no place in the 21®*
century for lazy people. “Work
yourself to death if you want to
succeed. There is no excuse to be
untrained or uneducated. In
America, television teaches us to
deceive and cheat each other, but
when you can look at yourself and
tell the truth you become a bona
fide person.”
From 1994 to the present, he
has been the Chief District Court
Judge of Robeson County. He
said, “My daddy always told me
that everything I needed to
succeed was in me from the day I
was born, put there by God. All I
needed to do was go out and get
it.”
After the speech, Tracey Ivey,
history instructor and chairperson
of the Diversity Committee,
presented Richardson with a
check of appreciation which he
gave to President Wilson for the
student scholarship fund.
Chris Durand
Dr. Larry Jahn
Speakers extoll benefits
of wood products careers
By SAM DAVIS
On Wednesday, February 23,
about a dozen pre-engineering,
math, and science students heard
about the benefits of a degree
program in the wood products
industry.
Dr. Larry Jahn from NC State
and Chris Durand, representing
Georgia Pacific Corporation, one
of the leading companies in the
field, spoke at the Holly uilding
(formerly HSS) at 2:00 p.m.
Durand discussed the rewards
available to graduates in North
Carolina.
Currently a shortage exists of
educated, technologically oriented
people in the field.
Jahn said that NC State boasts a
100% job placement for graduates
of this program.
Prior to graduation, students
normally have 2 or 3 job offers
they can consider.
This demand has led to higher
starting -salaries, averaging in the
mid- $30,000 range. Many
graduates earn over $50,000 a
year after a few years.
Officers for the WCC Association of Nursing Students
include (1 to r) Phyllis Hembree, president; Tonya
Sibbett, vice president; Kathy McAlduff, treasurer;
and Jay Brim, historian.- PHOTO: JASON ROWE
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