PR2009 Aug U3

SHELTON STATE NURSING PROGRAM PINS GRADUATES

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Shelton State Community College Nursing Program honored 30 graduates at its pinning ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 6, at the Bean-Brown Theatre on the Martin Campus, 9500 Old Greensboro Road.

The symbolic tradition of the nursing pin and the ceremonial pinning originated in the 1860s at the Nightingale School of Nursing Hospital in London. The nursing pin the graduates received is a type of badge, awarded by the program’s faculty as a symbolic welcome into the profession.

The graduates are as follows:

Jennifer M Boutin, William E. Snowden and Brittany Thomas; CENTREVILLE: Kellye M. Pinkard and Christy S. Wallace; COLUMBUS, MS: Armentha K. Lewis: CORDOVA: Ashley R. Franklin; DEMOPOLIS: Lanie M. Lathum; FAYETTE: Steven G. Bailey, Lee L. Griswold; GADSDEN: Ty Chambers; GORDO: Laci N. Crimm; KILLEN: Andrea Caperton; MOUNDVILLE: LaSheika S. James and Ambuir Morrison; NORTHPORT: Melissa Benton, Debbie Johnson, and Nikita L. Sewell; SAWYERVILLE: Jessica F. Bryant; SELMA: Emily Rose Johnson and Bernadette A. White; TUSCALOOSA: Ana L. Alvarez, Christina S. Bradley, Brad Hardemon, Michael Hall, Erin L. Harris, LaSheika V. Pruitt, Suzanne Schuhart and LaTonya Townsend-Isaac; YORK: Dana D. Foster.

For more information about the nursing program at Shelton State Community College, call 205.391.2245 or visit www.sheltonstate.edu.