2002

As students romp n I exams and begin mo.-mg their belongmgs home f ~ the summer, Machine Shop Teclmology instructor Richard W. Clark will be– gin >acking ~ manY. ears ot Enst Central Community College memories as he re– tires at the end of the spnng term. Clark has been at East Central since 1969 \\hen has goOd friend AI Deaton. ,.. ho he h.1s knmm since the\ were students and neighbors at MtSSlSSippa State Un• vcrsitv, took him to the College's 1\e\\' vocattonal– technical center o " him the machine sh!J? technology lab. ClcUk, who was ,.,.,n-r~hna at U.S. Electnc'al M m Philadelphia ·at Ute. t1e1e said they went 0\ er m a Sunday aftemoon and a fe" days later O.L Ne\\ el former director of the voca– tional-technical division of the college, called and asked if he would like to inten·iew for the position. He did apply and is now completing his thirty-first year. Clark attended Arlington High School and graduated from Nt.:shoba Central I Iigh School. He attended East Central Junior College from 1959·61 and completed his associate's degree in 1980. He also attended Mis· sissippi State Univ~rsit} He is a membE.'r of MAVI• (M1ssissippi Association of Vocational Educators) and VfCA (Vocational hldus– trial Clubs of America) and is c\ past member of AVA (Amerkan Vocational As– sociation). In 1987, he was c;elected to Who's Who

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ette. w o 1 lOOk– keeper and office m<~nager for the N .... hoba Count' Co– Op ha1-e three duldr n Kent as a poult£) famu:r m Phtladelphia and Glyrm IS a truck dnvcr m Bessemer, Alabama. Debbie lives in 011\ e Branch ,md j<; at– tending Mid-America Seminary where she is seclang an additional mas– t r degree m cross cultural udu.•s and preparing to be a JTe~gn 1russwnary. The cta!ks have thn:c grand- lren: ]onaothi.lll, Air.anda and lfanna. Rfi:~!'dmg rus ye.us at Central Clark said, n a plcar,ure lor l he f.:rl I think it's a real the

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