BCCC Foundation trip to see Wicked announced

The Beaufort County Community College Foundation is sponsoring a day trip Sunday, May 6, to see the award winning musical, “Wicked,” at the Durham Performing Arts Center and the Alexander Calder Exhibit, “Form, Balance, Joy,” at the Nasher Art Museum. The trip will include brunch at Vin Rouge, orchestra seating for the show, a tour of the Calder Exhibit, and round trip van transportation. The cost per person will be $180. Van seating is limited to twelve. Please contact the foundation office at 252-940-6218 or via email at marcian@beaufortccc.edu.

Harris Awarded the Louise P. Kidwell Accounting Scholarship

Greenville resident, Jennifer Harris, has earned the 2012 Louise P. Kidwell Accounting Scholarship at BCCC. The scholarship is provided by Keith Kidwell, owner of the H & R Block franchise located at 1550 W 15^th Street in Washington and his sister Mary Lou Woolard, Real Estate agent for Coldwell Banker Coastal Rivers Realty at the same address.

Harris, now in her second year at BCCC, is a graduate of D.H. Conley High School and hopes to become a tax preparer after completing her studies at BCCC. While in school, Harris is also working as a manicurist for Co. B Salon.

“Thank you very much to the Kidwell family. As a working parent and full time student, this scholarship is a true blessing,” stated Harris when asked about receiving the scholarship.

Louise Kidwell was born in Aberdeen, Maryland. She lived and worked during a time that did not look favorably upon women in higher education or the workplace. Yet, while raising her family, she worked as an accountant for Van Riper Schmitt & Co. in NYC and later for H & R Block in Rutherford, N.J. After passing the IRS Enrolled Agent exam, she bought the local H & R Block franchise, established what would become LPK Accounting Service Inc., and relocated to Washington, NC.

The Louise P. Kidwell endowment was established by her children - Ronald M. Kidwell Jr., Mark E. Kidwell, Mary Lou Woolard, Keith D. Kidwell, and Proctor Kidwell, as well as several memorials from Mrs. Kidwell’s friends.

For more information about establishing an endowed scholarship at BCCC, please contact Judy Jennette at 252-940-6326 or judyj@beaufortccc.edu.

Pictured above are Keith Kidwell (left) and his sister Mary Lou Woolard (third from left) presenting a scholarship to BCCC accounting student Jennifer Harris and BCCC Foundation Director, Judy Jennette.

Several golf tourney winners have BCCC roots

Several winners in the BCCC Foundation's 18th annual Beaufort County Community College Foundation Golf Tournament have connections to Beaufort County Community College.

Among the winners were Ernie Glover, a winner in the Blue Flight and son of BCCC nursing instructor Sherry Glover; Red Flight winners Charlie Rasmussen, husband of BCCC Foundation Board member Radell Rasmussen, and Yeates Sprull, husband of Customized Training Coordinator Lauren Spruill; Purple Flight winner and BCCC President David McLawhorn and Gold Flight winner and BCCC Foundation Director Judy Jennette.

The tournament, held Friday, Oct. 21, at the Washington Yacht and Country Club, is the largest fundraising event held by the BCCC Foundation.

Potash Corp - Aurora, formerly PCS Phosphate, is the primary sponsor of the tournament. Other co-sponsors of the tournament include Lee Chevrolet-Buick, East Carolina Bank, First South Bank, CenturyLink, P & G Manufacturing Inc., Tideland EMC, Carver Machine Works, Flanders Filters, TriCounty Telephone, Wells Fargo Bank, JFK Architecture, and Park Boat Company.

Pictured above are Red Flight winners, left to right, Rasmussen, Spruill, Jarent Warren and Paul Manning.

Art works sought for community college exhibit

The N.C. Community College System is seeking works of art created by current and former community college faculty and staff for the 2012 N.C. Community Colleges Art Exhibition.

All media suitable for use in a public office building are welcome, including, but not limited to paintings, drawings, graphic design, computer design and animation, photography, pottery, stained glass, weaving, woodcarving, metalwork and sculpture. The works of art will be displayed in public spaces on all six floors of the Caswell Building in Raleigh, home to the community college system office, and the spaces are well- suited to large-scale work.

Each college may select up to four piece of art for inclusion in the 2012 exhibit. To enter, artists must submit a signed exhibition art entry form and up to two digital photographs of each work. The deadline for entry submissions to be in Raleigh is Dec. 2.

For more information on submitting items for the show, contact Judy Jennette, BCCC Foundation and public information director, at 252-940-6326 or by email at judyj@beaufortccc.edu.

Still time to signup for Rembrandt & Rockettes trip!

There’s still time to register for the Nov. 12 and 13 trip offered by the Beaufort County Community College Foundation to the Triangle to see an exhibit of works by Rembrandt at the North Carolina Museum of Art and a performance by the famous Radio City Music Hall’s Rockettes at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

The trip will also include a four-hour shopping excursion to the Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane as well as first class ac- commodations at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham.

The cost of the trip, open to all BCCC students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the college, is $361 per person, double oc- cupancy, and $435 per person, single occupancy. It is limited to 22 participants. The registration deadline is Friday, Oct. 28.

The price of the trip includes tours of two exhibits and lunch at the N.C. Museum of Art, a trip to Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, one night at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham, breakfast and dinner Sunday and tickets to the Christmas Spectacular at DPAC as well as transportation, tips and taxes.

The trip will leave the parking lot at BCCC by 7:30 a.m. Nov. 12 and arrive at the art museum about 10 a.m. Once there, the group will be met by a docent and tour the museum’s collection of 17th Century Dutch and Flemish paintings. Following the tour, the group will have lunch in the museum’s Iris Restaurant.

After lunch, the group will tour the museum’s “Rembrandt in America” exhibit, the largest collection of Rembrandt paint- ings ever presented in an American exhibition and the first major exhibition to explore in depth the history of collecting Rembrandt paintings in America. The NCMA is the only East Coast venue for this exceptional show that features works of art from across the United States.

After leaving the Museum of Art, participants will be driven to the Washington Duke Inn on the campus of Duke Uni- versity an AAA Four Diamond Award-winning luxury hotel. At this point, luggage will be unloaded and participants may choose from a number of different activities: shopping at the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane, a visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, a stroll around the Duke University campus, or just relaxing in the room.

For those remaining on the bus, the new Tanger Outlet Mall in Mebane will be the next stop. The mall also features a food court where tour participants may dine-on-their-own. The bus will return the shoppers to the hotel by 9 p.m.

On Sunday morning participants can enjoy break- fast buffet until 10 a.m. in the hotel’s Vista Restaurant. After breakfast, the bus will provide a ride to Duke Chapel at 10:30 a.m. for those wishing to attend the 11 a.m. church service.

Between noon and 12:30 p.m., the bus will gather up all participants at the hotel and the chapel, and go to DPAC for a 1 p.m. performance of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” featuring the world-famous Radio City Rockettes.

After the show, the bus will take participants for din- ner to Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant at Durham’s South Square Mall for a family style meal. Dinner at Maggiano’s, the winner of the 2011 Open Table – Din- ers’ Choice, will feature two appetizers, two salads, four main course dishes, and two desserts.

By 5 p.m. the bus will reload and return to Beaufort County around 7 p.m.

For more information, or to register, please contact Marcia Norwood at 252-940-6218 or Judy Jennette at 940-6326. Information is also available on the BCCC website at www.beaufortccc.edu.

Two BCCC students receive SECU scholarships

Two area students were recently chosen to receive the State Employees’ Credit Union Scholarship to attend Beaufort County Community College this year. Selected were two residents of Bath, Katrina Spencer and William Robert “Robbie” Edwards III.

Spencer was born and raised in Beaufort County and is the daughter of Linvert and Gloria Spencer of Bath. She has two sons ages 9 and 16. She is a graduate of Northside High School.

While in High School, Spencer began working as a cashier at Walmart. She moved on to become a teller at First South Bank and lastly a Customer Service Supervisor at ResCare, a mental health service provider for adults and children. When the ResCare office closed due to state budget cuts, Spencer saw it as the perfect opportunity to move her education off the back burner and go back to school.

When asked about her decision to return to school Spencer said, “I'm loving it! “

Edwards graduated with honors in 2011 from Northside High School. Upon graduating, he received the President's award for outstanding academic excellence. While at Northside, he participated in cross country running and was a member of the Beta Club and FFA. He earned the rank of Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America in 2009. Edwards is enrolled in the College Transfer program at Beaufort County Community College. He is the son of Bill and Cindy Edwards.

The scholarships for the BCCC students are two of 116 two-year scholarships – two for each of the 58 community colleges statewide – given by the State Employees’ Credit Union Foundation each year.

The SECU Foundation is the charitable, non-profit arm of the State Employees’ Credit Union established to identify and address community issues that are beyond the normal scope of SECU itself. Its mission is to promote local community development primarily through projects in the areas of education, health and human services. The Foundation’s motto is “people helping people.”

Foundation projects are initiated through local SECU branch advisory boards and approved by the Foundation Board.

Money to fund the scholarships comes from credit union members. The SECU has agreed to temporarily assign $1.00 of the per month maintenance fee that all members pay on their checking accounts to the foundation.

“The SECU Foundation wants to support projects that help people and this is the perfect choice for our organization,” said Tom King, chairman of the SECU Foundation Board. King is a former member of the State Board of Community Colleges. The SECU Foundation wants “to help students who fall between the cracks – those who need help to finish school but aren’t eligible for other programs.”

Wesley Jones, Vice President and City Executive for Washington’s branch of the State Employee Credit Union, pictured at left, and Kimberly Jackson, SECU board member, pictured at right, congratulate Katrina Spencer and William Robert Edwards III for receiving the SECU Foundation scholarships awarded to Beaufort County Community College students this year.

Croquet tourney players can hone their skills

All croquet players interested in honing their croquet skills in advance of the Beaufort County Community College Foundation's 8^th Annual Cutthroat Croquet Tournament – scheduled for May 19, 2012 – are encouraged to join a group of those who play on the third Sunday of every month in Bath. The group gathers at 1:30 p.m. on the grassy lot beside the Bonner House on Water Street in Bath. All players of every skill level are welcome. Croquet equipment is provided. Players and spectators are encouraged to bring a folding chair and some cool beverages. For more information, please call 252-940-6326 or email judyj@beaufortccc.edu.

Pictured at left, Washington Park Mayor Tom Richter practices his croquet skills on a recent Sunday afternoon in Bath.