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EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE Phi Beta Lambda students take top honors at National Competition

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Theta Chi also received the presti– gious Gold Seal Chapter Award and was recognized for receiving the most awards of any Mississippi chapter. Also attending the national confer– ence were Britni Wright of Louisville, William Cumberland of Union, Jonathan Federick of Hickory and Evans Summers Jones of Walnut Grove, who were among the 17 ECCC students who qualified for the nation– al contest following state competition.

East Central Community College students returned to the Decatur cam– pus with flrst-place awards for the fi.rst time and other honors following competition at the 2008 National Phi Beta Lambda Leadership Conference held earlier this summer in Atlanta, Ga. Four students - Carlos Rice of Louisville, Drew Harrison of Little Rock, and Leslie Nash and Josh Dick– erson, both of Union - won top hon– ors in the Parliamentary Procedure competition and will be inducted into the Mississippi PBL Hall of Fame at lhc organiza tion's State Leadership ConfProncc in 2009. "'l'hh:; is the first time we have had a 11rs l pl ncc winner at the national compelition ," said Business Technol– Of~Y inslrnctor Christy Ferguson, who sPt v<•s as a club adviser. "Our chapter mu l ntlv isers are obviously ver y

proud of them and all our award win– ners/' Brookes Mayes of Newton also received special recognition at the national conference for being selected to PBL's Who's Who in Mississippi. She was given the highest recognition of any Mississippi PBL member. Mayes teamed with Rice and Dicker– son to finish seventh in the Small Business Plan competition. Also winning honors at the nation– al event were Ann Valentine of Hick– ory and Leslie Hollingsworth of For– est, second place, Community Service Project; D6llye Packer of Lake and Sabra Fortenberry of Union, third, E– business; Nash, filth, Local Chapter Annual Business Report; Shaun Cooper of Decatur, eighth, Word Pro– cessing; and Brooke Barrett of Union, lOth, Partnership with Business Proj– ect.

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