1998

Thrash joins ECCC faculty Bobbv Thra-.h t l.Tnion was recently' selech.d computer sci– ence instructor at East Central Commurutv Coll~e tr Decatur. Thrash previou-;ly S<"twd as math and computer snence instructor at Ea 1 Mississippi Community Coli e in Scooba. He earlier Served a' Drrector of Software Engtneenng at WIN– TEC, Inc. in Fort \\alton Beach, Florida He has a ~ .-er. ed as a soft– ware engu"'~~· th Harris Corporation-GS~:1 Orlando in Winter Par' F. nda· ~{artin Marietta Aer"-.pace in Baltimore, Mar and, and Orlando Florida; and Texas lnstrumems, Inc. in Le\dsville, Texas. Thrash ,,·a:. a graduate assistant at the l! niversitv of Southern \H'"''''ippi. He' has been an adJunct taculty member at ECCC smce 1992 A graduate of Sebastopol High School. Jhra-.h received his associate'... cJesree from East Central Jumor College He obtamed bacht-lor c: and mas– ter s deg.r~~ tn m.Jthematics from the ~Unh erslt) '"'t ::>couthem Mississippi. Ht> recet\ ed a rna~

Shackelford is ECCC instructor Carol Shackelford of Union wa 5 recently named Cnghsh instructor at East Central Community College in Decatur. Prior t(l joining the ECCC staff Sh.:Kkelford 5erved as Engii!'-h ii1structor at Union High School and was a member of the ECCC ildjunct filculty Shackelford is a 5ix time recipient of the STAR leacher award and was chosen to attet~d the Lamplighter conf:rence tn 1996 whtch recogmzes out– standing community I ju_mor college instructors. She IS a member of Delta Kappa Gamma teacher's sorority and the Union Present Day Club.. A graduate of Lake Htgh School. Shackelford _received h"er associate's degree trom East Central Junior College and her bachelor's degree in f:n~lis~ education from MtsSI'>SIPP' State Univerc;ity. She also obtained the master of educa– tion and the educational c;;pe– cialist degrees from MSU. She and her husband, Rick, have a daughter, Sandy Thornton of Ridgt'land, w ho . works with Union Planter Bank and a son, Casey, who attends Union Junior H

ter's degree in computer science from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and has completed post-master's work in computer science and control sys tems at the University of North Texas and the University of West Florida. Thrash's wife, Marjory, teach– es eighth gr ade English at Hawkins Middle School in Forest. They have four children: Andrew, 14; Jenna, 12; Bridget, 6; and Michael, 3.

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