PR2010 Aug 25 NURSING
SHELTON STATE NURSING PROGRAM PINS GRADUATES
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Shelton State Community College Nursing Program honored 51 graduates at its
Summer 2010 Pinning Ceremony recently 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 honored are as follows:
Atlanta(GA): Autherine Trotter Talton:
Brookwood: Amber Renee’ Sellers, Eric Thomas
Buhl: Kala Marie Clark, Magen Marie Dodson
Cottondale: Sherri Lynn Carter
Greensboro: Arkelya RonZien Grice
Jackson: Trenece C. Taylor
Marion: Amy Rebecca Parsons
McCalla: Amy Lea Owenby
Moundville: Rachel Grace Lambert, Doris Charmise Vawters
Northport: Molly Anne Fulmer, Tiffany Lynne Johnson, Kimberly Chambers Jones, Nikki Lynn McDonald,
Mary Ellen Taylor, Marilyn Ashley Watson, Lindsay Jordan Wilson
Pensacola(FL): Nicole Lei McDuff
Pickensville: Laquetta Asheen Hampton
Ralph: Kimberly Nicole Dunn
Samantha: Leslie Kimbrell Branyon
Sawyerville: Charlene Lynette Williams
Tuscaloosa: Jaclyn Bailey Ashcraft, Martha Ann Beverly, Kawana C. Cooper, Lauren Shea Davis, Joshua,
Michael Elledge, Cari-Rene’ Danielle Hughes, Britney Shantell King, Justin Lewis, JaBrayla Mayfield, Angela
Hamner McCullough, William Trey Moon, Patrice Shanell Patton, Regina Beck Slatton, Lindsay Marie Tant
Kendra Sade’ Tidmore
Uniontown: Lequesha S. Miller
Waynesboro(GA): Lori McCumber
For more information about the nursing programs at Shelton State Community College, visit the Web site at
www.sheltonstate.edu and follow the links under Prospective Students to programs of study. You may also call
205.391.2457.
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