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Mary Katherine (Katie) Sparkman of Decatur was recently selected Service Learning Coordinator at East Central Community College in Decatur, announced Dr. Phil A. Sut– phin, College president. The new position is fu.'ld– ed by a grant from the Mis– sissippi Higher Education Consortium Lighthouse Partnership. Partners with ECCC in the three-year pro– ject include the Newton County School District and Decatur United Methodist

~ tutor· _chools, licana.~ rkers and - epatitiS B shots at ntaiT £Ch ools.. n saul a VISTA ber will also be placed ECCC to assist in the ser– ce learning program. Sparkman is a December 2000 graduate of the Univer– sity of Southern Mississip· pi in Hattiesburg, where she completed service learning courses and served as a tutor in after· school programs. She also attended ECCC and com· H

Sparkman her new dunes 2003, said her first P',....;"',..."' ··will be the further de\ p– ment of the after-schoo tutoring/mentoruag p~ gram for kmde.rgarten through e!ghth-grade stU·

Sparkman plett>d eoursework on the Golden Triangle campus of East Mississippi Communi– ty College. She is a 1999 graduate of Starkville High School. She is the daughter of Dr. Lavinia Sparkman, Vice President for Instruction at ECCC, and Jesse Sparkman of Macon.

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