PR2009 Dec U2
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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