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"In workforce training, at compa– nies like Raytheon, Choctaw Maid and other poultry businesses, we did 26 training projects with 1,571 employees in those facilities just in retraining and new training for indi– viduals," he said. Sutphin pledged his personal time toward the economic development effort in Scott County: "If you are talking to a prospective company about locating in this area and would like for me to come meet with the individuals and tell them a little bit about workforce training, I'll be glad to do so." The new ECCC leader talked about development efforts on the ECCC campus, led by ECCC Development Officer Larry Hogue, that have produced over $800,000 in foundation funds with $400,000 in endowed scholarships. Sutphin said the college operates on an instructional budget of $12.5 million with a total operating budget of around $19 million. "This past year, of course, you know we had the budget crunch in the state and our ~rtion of the budg– et hit was about $77,000," he said. "Our growth in enrollment helped us overcome some of those problems." Scott County provides $294,127 from county taxes for the support of ECCC. Sutphin's appearance was arranged by Rotarian John Lynn. Also representing ECCC at the civic club meeting was former Times editor and current ECCC Director of Public Information Erie E. (Bubby) Johnston of Forest.

The new president of East Central Community College made his first official visit to Forest since becoming the school's seventh president on July 1 as he shared his vision for con– tinuing the mission of the regional school with the Forest Rotary Club last Wednesday in a noon speech at Penn's Santa Fe. Dr. Phil Sutphin, who succeeded Dr. Eddie Smith as ECCC's chief executive officer, told the local civic club that the school had experienced record growth with an enrollment of 2.233 last fall and expectations of passing the 2,300 mark this fall. Faculty and staff on the Decatur campus numbers 125, Sutphin said. "Sixteen percent of our students come from Scott County," he said. "98.2 percent of our students are Mississippians and 88 percent come from our five-county support district of Newton, Scott, Leake, Neshoba and Winston counties." Sutphin said 66 percent of ECCC students are enrolled in academic programs, 30 percent in technical program and three percent in voca– tional programs. "The data we get back from employers indicate that our students do quite well," he said. "Of course, we are always working harder in the vo-tech area to deal with workforce development and workforce training to ensure that our businesses and industries in the area have the skilled employees they need to do the things that they need to do. "Raytheon is one of our bigger industries in the area that we work with and we also do quite a bit of

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