Student of the Year
CONGRATULATIONS, to Susan Collins Phillips
for being awarded the HRD Student of the Year
Award, in Memory of Angela Moore Trogdon.
This award was presented to Susan at the Basic
Skills/HRD/Even Start Institute on Friday, July 20,
2001 at the Adams Mark in Winston-Salem, NC.
Susan is a fantastic individual .who entered Susan Collins Phillips
this world with all odds against her. In spite of Student of the \^ar
those odds, today she still chooses to never use Robertson College
the word can’t. At birth, doctors told Susan’s mother that she would never
walk or talk and that she would probably just end up being a vegetable. The
doctor’s suggestion was for Mrs. Collins to put Susan in an instftution. Mrs.
Collins viewed that as no option and against the doctor’s wishes she took her
baby girl (Susan) home to rear her with her other siblings. With the persis
tent help of Susan s mother, Susan did everything and more of what the
doctors said she would not do. Susan Phillip’s mother fought to get her in
the public schools. After her enrollment, Mrs. Collins continued for over 13
years until she experienced downsizing. As a result of this separation, Susan
entered the Robeson Community
College’s Human Resources Development Susmi Willingly enCOUmgeS
Program (HRD) as a referral student by ntUn*- i / i
her mother. Her mother had attended StudeutS, she hdS been
a former HRD class. Since enrolling in
and graduating from the HRD class,
Susan has become a full time Business
^
a great speaker for over
twenty (20) MS classes.
Administration student at Robeson Community College. She has completed
four semesters where she consecutively carried 12, 15, 16 and 15 hours per
semester. While enrolled in college, Susan has maintained employment of
up to 35+ hours per week. Susan was told she would never marry, she
would never drive, and that she would never walk or talk.
Susan is still in the fight and struggle of continuing to overcome all of
the odds that life offers. Today, Susan is a happily married young lady who
is talking, walking, driving, working, and continuing her education with the
end result in mind because she started life with a “Finishing Attitude”.
Susan willingly encourages other students. She has been a guest speaker for
over twenty(20) HRD classes since her completion. Her presence and
speeches have helped many students CONTINUE and NOT QUIT!! Susan
was bom with Cerebral Palsy. Even though Susan talks just a little different
and walks just a little different, she always gets the job done.
Graduates Five from State MCPI
Sylva - Five area residents recently graduated from the state’s Manufac
turing Certification Program (MCP) at Southwestern Community College.
Sandrea Waldroop and Larry Cline of CR Industries in Franklin, Sandra
McClure and Martha Keener of Zickgraf Enterprises in Franklin, and Donald
Marks, Jr. of Caterpillar in Franklin are among the first students in the state
to complete the MCP.
The certification included training in statistical process control, problem
solving, measurements and math, manufacturing concepts, teamwork and
communications, and finance in manufacturing.
“Meeting people in manufacturing that manufacture different materials
than we do and manufacture differently than we do gave us ideas for change
we might want to try,” said Waldroop.
Southwestern will offer the MCP again this September. For additional
information, contact SCC Business and Training Coordinator, Keith Corbeil
at k£Qrbgil(a)southwest.cc.nc.iis SCC press release (May 29, 2001)
Huniorfor the
Contiliuing
Education
Professional
tf
SCENARIO: Rob Everett of
Alamance CC is trying to figure
out the funding formula for basi#
skilly. He emails Don Buie of
Central Carolina GC for some
assistance. The following is thein
exchange of emails:
Rob: I
was looking over your
document labeled “Presentation
in Raleigh for New Conn Ed.
Staff’ and have a question. On
Attachment A, the FTE figure
was driginally $2510 per FTE,
but you have handwritten
“$2528.93 + 125.02 = 265195
with;that. Which is correct, and
where did the handwritten figures
come from?
Don responded: The handout
developed over time, the original
Ba^ic Skills’ allotnient was $4l,
673^388 dividdd by $ 15,154 total
FTE for the system equals
$2^749,99 per FTE. The addi
tional allbtihent of 1,894,583
brought the total to $43,567.971
divided by $15,154t^^CTPTE.
equals $2,875.01 . But the sheet
that Kirihon Briggs’ office handed
out had 2,5 io on Attachment Ai,
but on Attachment G had under
Statp Allotment $2,012 and under
Federal AllOtnjenf $516,93 a
total of $2528.93, then if you add
the additional allotment of
125.02 to the total, it is
$2653,95, So, your guess is as
good as mine as to which is
correct.
Rob responded: That explains
why I couldn’t understand that
you shai^ soipething other than
what you thought you shared
when you shared what ypu shared
and Wrote what you wrote before
sharing it, why I may not neces
sarily have been confused so
much as misunderstanding of the
fundamental concepts of the
universal laws of God, Man, and
the workings of the NCCCS, and
why What was the question?
Don responded: You have got it
~ jured out, That’s a good
summary.