WCC Students Receive WCC Students
Awards at Charlotte Food Show Recognized
Wilkes Community College food
service management students recently
returned from the North Carolina
Restaurant Association’s 1994 Caro
lina Food Service Exposition which
was held in Charlotte, NC March
21-24.
Three WCC students’ entries in the
pastry division earned them each a
medal. Penny Woodard, a sophomore
from Creston, NC, won a silver medal
as did freshman Amanda Marze from
Crumpler, NC. Christina Reynolds, a
sophomore from Ronda, NC won a
bronze medal.
Each student had to choose from a
list and select two items from the list
in order to qualify for the competi
tion. The WCC students each chose
to make a cake plus four cookies to
meet the requirement for their div
ision. All five items were judged as
one entry.
Penny Woodard entered a Cham
pagne Wedding/Anniversary Cake.
The cake contained three layers of
vanilla cake with champagne color
butter cream icing with rolled fondant
which gave it a smooth look. A draped
ruffle was applied to the side of the
cake and attached with small bows.
The cookies in Ms. Woodard’s
entry included an ice box cookie called
checkerboards; brandy snaps; Les
Langues-de-Chat(Cat’sTongues); and
Les Cigarettes.
Amanda Marze entered a Golden
Sponge Cake consisting of three layers
of creamery butter cake with rolled
fondant icing and marzipan decora
tion. A large bow adorned the center
with ribbon woven along the edge.
The cake had a white icing with peach
colored accent.
Language changes daily, and one of
the greatest contributors to this trend
is technology. Acronyms, words, and
phrases evolve overnight; much of
language is younger than those who
speak it. Consider a few constituents
of English that have only been uttered
forty (more or less) years. Near the
end of the 1950’s a new organization
was formed that would prove to be the
forefront of technological exploit
ation; laser is a new addition to our
language, but we already prefix other
new terms with laser to identify even
newer technology. We speak of laser
disks, laser holograms, laser tran-
sits, and laser printers. We have
microwave ovens, and nuclear
reactors; we have particle accelera-
tors, and we have digital audio sys-
Ms. Marze's cookies included two
varieties of almond macaroons deco
rated with marzipan, shortbread cook
ies with raspberry filling and Italian
meringues dipped in chocolate.
Bronze medal winner, Christina
Reynolds entered a Chocolate
Groom’s Cake. It was decorated with
chocolate rolled fondant butter cream
icing and garnished with pink marzi
pan flowers on top and a matching
braided marzipan rope at the base.
Ms. Reynolds chose to make choco
late candies for the second portion of
her entry. She made chocolate butter
flies from white and dark chocolate
piped on plastic wings and shaped like
butterflies; chocolate almond nuggets;
kirsch ganache truffles rolled in
cocoa; and grand marnier ganache
truffles rolled in almonds.
In May, these students will attend
the National Restaurant Food Show
in Chicago, IL with 12 classmates and
approximately five chaperones. The
Chicago show is the country’s largest
trade show. While in Chicago, the
students will experience a first class
hotel and gourmet restaurants. The
experience is helpful for their careers
as they can see how world class estab
lishments operate.
The Charlotte show and the Chi
cago show are all-expense paid trips
and are funded by Ye Host Club, the
food service management depart
ment’s club. Ye Host Club earns
money through projects that include
selling concessions at the annual Merle
Watson Festival, a weekly catering job
at a local church, and the college’s
June Dairy Month celebration in
which they are also responsible for
concessions.
tems. We stretch the ability of science
fiction to entertain us with techno
babble. Now we speak of N.A.S.A.
from the late 1950’s) as matter-of-
factly as an apple; speaking of which,
an Apple® is not an IBM®, is not a
Nintendo® (...is not an apple) — it’s a
microcomputer. We speak of micro
computers as if the Magna Carta were
drafted on one (the first personal
computers were built in the 1970’s).
With computers come a plethora of
new terms. Just to list a few: RAM,
ROM, CD-ROM, VGA, microp
rocessors, object-oriented'
programs, LAN, and WAN. Yes,
technology changes things, and one of
the most noticeable changes is our
conversation.
Members of the Wilkes Commun
ity College honors fraternity. Phi
Theta Kappa (PTK), recently received
the Most Distinguished Chapter
Award at the PTK International Con
vention in Anaheim, CA. WCC was
one of only twenty PTK chapters
receiving this prestigious award. There
are over 1,000 PTK chapters world
wide.
The award was given in recognition
for the work done by PTK students at
WCC. Students submitted work on
various topics and in a variety of for
mats. Four students, Bruce Monks,
Connie Pruitt, Anita Blackburn, and
Brent Triplett combined to write
essays on scholarship, fellowship,
leadership and service. Robert
Woodside submitted a poem, Jerald
Weaver also wrote an essay, Ted
Leads composed an original musical
score and Ray Hill submitted a
painting.
According to Mr. Monks, chapter
presiaent, over 1(X) hours of work
went into this year’s effort. "Each
student used his or her talent to con
tribute to the overall chapter presen
tation,” Monks said.
Chapter members, Jason Maloney
and Don Whitten, traveled to the
international convention to represent
the chapter. At the convention, they
attended workshops, took part in a
political debate between Senator
George McGovern and Edwin Meese,
III, and heard addresses by author Ray
Bradberry and Dr. Joyce Brothers.
The WCC chapter had earlier
received recognition at a regional PTK
convention in Charleston, SC. The
chapter was awarded Tiie Most Im
proved Chapter Award and receive a
Five Star Rating.
WCC President Jim Randolph
stated that he was very proud of the
members of the college’s PTK chap
ter. He also recognized the hard work
of the chapter sponsors, Drs. Jo Hen
drix and Barbara Holt.
Mr. Monks is from Ronda, NC and
is enrolled in the Nursing Program.
Ms. Pruitt is from North Wilkesboro
and majoring in Early Childhood. Ms.
Blackburn is a College Transfer major
from Purlear. Mr. Triplett is from
Wilkesboro and a Associate in Science
major. Mr. Woodside’s major is Pre-
Computer Science. He is from
Wilkesboro. Mr. Weaver is a College
Transfer major from McGrady. Mr.
Leads is from Jonesville, NC and
majoring in Associate in Science. Mr.
Hill is from Wilkes County, majoring
in Business Administration (Account
ing). Mr. Maloney is from Wilkes
County and is a freshman pre-law stu
dent. Mr. Whitten is from Memphis,
TN and is a Sophomore Nuclear
Engineering major.
Month of Career
Services For
Students
Wilkes Community College is plan
ning several career related events for
students this month that could very
well help them find the job they are
looking for.
The first event was a Career Day for
criminal justice students and basic law
enforcement training (BLET) students
on Tuesday, April 12 from 9:00 am
until 11:00 am at the Walker Center
located on the WCC campus.
Betty Brame, director of coopera
tive education and job placement
training, said that over 25 law en
forcement agencies was represented.
The agencies came from Wilkesboro,
Lenoir, Charlotte, Greensboro, Sta
tesville, Boone, Chapel Hill, and
Hickory in addition to many other
cities.
Ms. Brame said, "The students
found all the information that they
needed in terms of salaries and job
availability. Representatives from the
agencies set up booths allowing stu
dents the opportunity to talk with
them and leave resumes, if they so
desired.
In addition to the 25 law enforce
ment agencies, Gardner-Webb Uni
versity was also represented. Gardner-
Webb, located in Boiling Springs,
NC, offers a four-year criminal justice
program which is open to WCC’s col
lege transfer students.
Criminal justice instructor, Michael
Archenbronn, was on hand to answer
questions about WCC’s Professional
Advancement through College Edu
cation (PACE) program. The PACE
program is a night program for those
desiring a college degree in criminal
justice, but unable to attend day
classes.
The second event for career advance
ment is Career Week, April 25
through April 29. During these ses
sions, students report to the assigned
classrooms and are visited by area
professionals from their fields. Stu
dents attending the sessions will learn
about the job outlook for their pro
fession, hiring practices of the firms
represented, skills required, salary
ranges, employee benefits, and ways
to succeed and get ahead on the job.
Students are encouraged to bring their
resumes with them.
The first session, for building con
struction students, was held on Mon
day, April 25 from 8:00 am until
10:00 am in Lovette Hall, Room 518.
On Tuesday, April 26 there was a
session for business and computer-
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