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instructor and adjunct faculty member. She is also a fonner biology and human anatomy instructor at Philadelphia High School and previously served as a science instructor at M1ssiss•ppi State University and Kosciusko Middle School. Hardy has received several other teaching honors while at EC, including her selection as Lan1pHghter instructor in 2010, an annual progran1 that recog– nizes the state's outstanding community and junior college faculty member:,. She was aho named to Who's Who Among Commuruty College Instructors. In addition to her teaching duties, Hardy serves as sponsor of the Sigma Sigma Mu Tau

Selected as East Central Community College's HEADWAE (Higher Education Appreciation Day: Working Toward Academic Excellence) S!udent and Instructor of the Year, respectively, are sophomore Andrew Hanna (left) of Union and bi0logy instructor Kim Hardy of Philadelphia. They represented the two-year instiMion in Decatur at the annual program in Jackson. HEAD– WAE was established by the Mississippi Legislature to recognize the academically talented stu– dents and faculty members from each of the 36 public and private member institutions of the Mississippi Association of Colleges. (EC Photo)

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She continued her education at MtssJsstppi State University in Starkville, where she received bachelor and master's degree m b1ology m 1990 and 1991, respectively Her professional affihations include membership m the Mississippi Sctence Teache ~ · As!>ociation. She is married to Bobby Hardy and they reside m Philadelplua. She has a daugh– ter. Mrs. Tommy Wayne (Leigh) McDaniel: two step-daughters, Mrs. Grant (Carmen) Ford and Deanna Hardy: and four grand– chLldren, Mason Payne, Brian, Pastley Grace, and Hooper McDaniel Hardy':. parents are Glo1s and Dons Daniels of Philadelphia.

She rec~;J\ed several leach– ing honors prior to joinine the EC fa~.-ulty. She was the 1993 reciptent o the Herbert ~. Handley Outstanding Teacher Award prl'semed by the Mississippi Science Teachers' Association She also recetved the 1992 Sl-iencc and Mathematics Teach~r Award from the Mississtppi State University Chapter or Sigma Xi Scientific Research Soc1ety. A 1974 graduate of Ncsboba Central High School Hardy received an associate\ degree in dental hygtene from Mendian Community College in 197Q, where she was graduated with bighe t honors and wa!. cho~cn for Who's Who Among Students in American Commuruty

Honorees Continued from page 6A of Clarke-Venable Baptist Church in Decatur and serves as a Sunday school teacher. Hanna is also involved m m.tssion work and went to Thailand in the ,ummer of 2012 as a part of a team that served m,issiooaries of Southeast Asia fbr 10 days. He plans to return to the same area this ummer and a. stst a missionary doctor in his duucs and teach Enghsb speak– ing classes. He was one of 48 students selected from across the nanon APPEARED IN:

to attend the FBI National Academy Youth Leadership Program in 2008 at Quantico, \A. He was chosen prestdent of the 11th Session of the FBINA Youth Leadership Program. Hanna also participated in the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leader;bip (HOBY) program in 2009. His parents are Rusty and Lanette Hanna of Union. Hardy joined the EC faculty in the fall of 2005 after previ– ou~ly ser\img as an interim

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