Warrior Magazine June 2020

ADAMS SELECTED MOST BEAUTIFUL Freshman pre-dental major Olivia Adams (center) of Philadelphia was crowned East Central Community College’s Most Beautiful 2020 at the annual beauty pageant held in Huff Auditorium in March. Adams is a graduate of Neshoba Central High School. Also named beauties were (from left) Elisah Jimmie, a sophomore culinary arts major from Choctaw and Choctaw Central; Ansley Rigby, a freshman pre dental major from Union and Union High School; Maurin Dooley, a freshman business administration major from Meridian and West Lauderdale High School; and Lydia Bishop, a sophomore communications major from Sebastopol and Sebastopol High School.

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Oliphant-Martin Grants help ECCC Healthcare Programs enhance skills labs

The East Central Community College Foundation awarded Oliphant Martin Faculty Excellence Fund Grants to two different Healthcare Education programs which will enhance the college’s institutional commitments of Teaching & Learning and Student Success. The East Central Community College Faculty Excellence Fund, established in 1997, was renamed in 2010 to the Oliphant-Martin Faculty

realistic hospital room setting using simulation mannequins. Also receiving a $5,000 grant was the Practical Nursing program, which plans to purchase mannequins, replaceable incision parts, and replacement veins for intravenous arms to simulate providing patient/resident care. Selection criteria for the

Oliphant-Martin grants included items such as the number of students/

Excellence Fund to acknowledge the generous contributions of alumna Dr. Beverly Henry Oliphant-Martin (’58) and her husband, John Martin. The grant program was developed two years ago to assist the academic divisions, career & technical programs, and healthcare curriculums on campus in dealing with then state appropriation reductions. A $5,000 grant was awarded to the Associate Degree Nursing program which will be used to make improvements to the simulation lab, which provides students with a

CAMPUS NEWS staff positively affected, creativity, and the impact on the institutional commitments of Student Success and Teaching & Learning found in the college’s 2020 Vision strategic plan. The grants will be offered again in the fall of 2020. The Martins also support two Oliphant-Martin Foundation Scholarships, the Class of 57, 58, & 59 Foundation Scholarship, and various other Foundation scholarships annually in addition to the faculty excellence fund.

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