LCC Surgical Tech Club spreads cheer
Members of the Lenoir Community College Surgical Technology Club provided Christmas cheer to the Homeless Shelter of Kinston/Lenoir County and Mary’s Soup Kitchen.
Program Chair Jimi Spears said that each year students choose a community service to assist others at the holiday season. Students provided food items, household products and toys for the younger children.
For more information about the program, call LCC at 252-233-6817
Red Cross awards gallon pins
The Lenoir County Unit of the American Red Cross has presented gallon pins to blood donors for September and October.
Receiving one-gallon pins are Ashley Pollock, Kristen S. Guyer, Sue Wiggins, Beverly J. Crabtree, Jessie M. Daughety III and Leslie Singleton.
Two-gallon pin recipients are James Respass, Ira T. Rice, Raymond Murphy, Betty Hines, Jared L. Edwards and Frank Bartlett.
Receiving three-gallon pins are Georgia M. Daughety, Joyce A. Stallings, Timothy L. Sawyer, Gregory R. Murphy, Cleatis E. Jones, Luther J. Whaley Jr. and Marcus Lucas.
Four-gallon pin recipients are James E. Warren Jr., Rashaad Q. Thomas, Michael L. Jones, Ryan C. Gardner and Tony A. Smith.
Timothy L. Mitchell and Courtney B. Sutton received seven-gallon pins. Tracy Edmundson was presented an eight-gallon pin. Gail C. Alcock and Gail Edwards received nine- and 10-gallon pins, respectively.
Perry G. Jerrell was awarded an 11-gallon pin, and Malcolm Bloomefield was presented a 12-gallon pin. Michael W. Cannon received a 16-gallon pin.
Swannie Turner and Luther Ledford were recognized for donating 25 and 27 gallons, respectively.
Kinston native graduates with honors from FSU
The Center for Defense and Homeland Security of Fayetteville State University congratulates Mario S. Sutton, the 2012 FSU salutatorian, for graduating with dual Bachelor of Science degrees in mathematics and computer science.
During the summer, Sutton was selected for an internship appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He worked with a team on the Beholder project.
According to Dr. Stacy Prowell, Oak Ridge’s chief Cyber Research Scientist and Cyber Warfare Team leader, Sutton worked successfully, was a good team member and paved the way for future FSU students to be accepted into the program.
“When Mario left at the end of his internship, we lost a scientist,” said Joseph P. Trien, group leader, Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence Research Group and Center for Quantum Information Sciences.
The national laboratories and industry partners provide valuable internship experiences for CDHS student scholars and contribute to FSU’s mission of preparing the next generation of national security STEM workforce, especially from severely underserved populations.
Sutton is a Kinston native and a 2005 graduate of Kinston High School.