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SHELTON STATE NURSING PROGRAM PINS FALL 2009 GRADUATES

TUSCALOOSA – The Shelton State Community College Nursing Program honored 40 practical nursing

graduates at its pinning ceremony on Wednesday, Dec. 16, at 6:00 p.m. in the Atrium on the Martin Campus,

9500 Old Greensboro Road.

Shelton State President Mark A. Heinrich, Ph. D., Director of Nursing Kim Smith, and several members of the

faculty and students participated in the ceremony that included presentation of the pins, the Nightingale Pledge

and the lighting of the lamp. 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 follow:

Aliceville: Nikey Nicole Prude

Brent: Kristen Bamberg

Bessemer: April Lawrence Broaden, Shanoa S. Graham

Centreville: Jonathan Clint Murphy

Coker: Selina Marshall, Abby Patton, Judy Kristi Hagler Stephens

Cottondale: Carol A. Crawford, Mathew Blake Kizziah

Duncanville: Adrienne Loren Kyzer, Megan Elyse Scalla

McCalla: Jamie Lynn Kuykendall

Moundville: Leslie Patton Ballard, Adrianne Brunner, Brittany LaNette Weatherspoon

Northport: Jeremy Ralph Channell, Amie Jones, Wendy Renee O’Bryant

Tuscaloosa: LaToya Lynnette Burton, Tiffany Elizabeth Crump, Ashley Krin Kelley, Angela Marie Lay, Taylor

Brent Lemmons, Christina Renee Malone, Karen L. Moltz, Tameka Chardell Noland, Parisa Megan Pedram,

Stephanie N. Savage, Sandra Jarrell Sexton, Karen Jude Smith, April Tolbert-Swift, Allison Nicole Walker,

Lauren Elizabeth White

Vance: Chloe A. Webster, Helen Renae White, DeAnna Victoria Wise

Woodstock: Randall Nicole Davis, Kayla Noel George

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

www.sheltonstate.edu.

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