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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