Category — Graduation

Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) named graduating students Jonathan Westley Hicks and Amanda Renfroe as recipients of the 2009-2010 President‘s and Vice President’s Awards, respectively. The College presents the awards during commencement each spring in acknowledgment of students’ exceptional academic performance. Both recipients are graduating summa cum laude with 4.0 grade point averages.

Hicks and Renfroe are among nearly 1,000 students who have applied to graduate during the 2009-2010 academic year. This figure includes students who completed their curriculum requirements in summer 2009, fall 2009, and those who have applied for graduation in spring 2010. Graduating students will receive certificates, career studies certificates, or a combination of these academic credentials. Criteria for the President’s and Vice President’s awards include attaining the highest cumulative grade point average, completing at least 60 semester hours of course work and receiving an Associate’s Degree for the current year, among other criteria.

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Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) will recognize several government officials and community members for their contributions in education and public service during its 41st commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Hampton University Convocation Center. TNCC President Alvin J. Schexnider will present several new awards, including the Thomas Nelson Medallion and the Dana B. Hamel Award. The President will also present an Honorary Associate Degree to a local business/industry leader and the annual Distinguished Alumni Award.

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Thomas Nelson Community College’s (TNCC) Office of Financial Aid has announced that students due to graduate at the end of spring semester who have received a Federal Subsided or Unsubsidized Stafford Loan during their attendance at TNCC are required to attend an Exit Loan Session. The session will provide students with vital loan repayment information.

Sessions will take place as follows:

Thursday, May 6
6:00–7:00 p.m.
Room 100, Diggs Hall

Monday, May 10
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Room 100, Diggs Hall

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Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) will celebrate its 41st commencement ceremony Saturday, May 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Hampton University Convocation Center.

The Commencement speaker is Mrs. Thomasina R. Wright, a Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding executive and TNCC alumna. One of the two highest ranking African American women at Northrop Grumman’s Newport News location, Mrs. Wright is Trade Director of the Aircraft Carriers Program.

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The deadline to file a graduation application for Spring 2010 is March 1, 2010. If you plan to graduate this semester, your application must be in the Registration & Records Office, 206 Griffin Hall no later than March 1st. The application can be found on the TNCC website:

• http://tncc.edu/documents/gradapp.pdf

The commencement ceremony will be held May 15, 2010 at the Hampton University Convocation Center at 10 a.m. Please indicate on your graduation application whether you plan to attend the commencement ceremony.

Thomas Nelson Community College named graduating students Matthew Paul Faubion and Sandra Joy Brooks as recipients of 2008-2009 President‘s and Vice President’s Awards, respectively. The College presents the awards during commencement each spring in acknowledgment of students’ exceptional academic performance. Both recipients are graduating summa cum laude with 4.0 grade point averages.

Criteria for the awards include attaining the highest cumulative grade point average (GPA), completing at least 60 semester hours of course work and receiving an Associate’s Degree for the current year, among other criteria.

Faubion enrolled at TNCC in 2007 and has completed the requirements for an Associate of Science in Social Science. He plans to study Sociology/Criminology at Christopher Newport University in the fall and become a police officer, but his goals don’t stop there. Ultimately, he envisions himself as a local government official, possibly a mayor. “TNCC was excellent to prepare me for life at a four-year college. The teachers’ one-on-one interactions with the students really helped to facilitate a better learning environment,” Faubion said.

Faubion juggled his studies with a job as a waiter at Surry House Restaurant, but working didn’t impede his academic success. He maintained grades sufficient for membership in Phi Theta Kappa, the International Honor Society for two-year colleges.

In his spare time, Faubion leads the youth group at Surry United Methodist Church and plays bass guitar. He is also a member of 4-H, an organization that promotes leadership, citizenship and more. Faubion resides in Surry County. His parents are Kent Faubion of Mount Pleasant, S.C. and Jeannie Rowland of Surry County.

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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Practically every day like clockwork Mac Morning would be the first person to arrive at Thomas Nelson Community College’s (TNCC) Historic Triangle campus at the Busch Corporate Center in Williamsburg. Most days he arrived between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m. before the building opened and waited about an hour until the faculty and staff arrived to open for the day.

For the past two years, 22-year-old Morning has made his way from Toano to TNCC via the public bus line to attend classes. This commute short takes nearly two hours on public transit due to the bus system’s schedule. As Friday, May 15, Morning’s days of waking up before dawn to catch the bus headed for class were over when he graduated during TNCC’s fortieth annual commencement.

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If Natasha Hubbard’s class started at 10 a.m., she was on campus by 8 a.m. Her philosophy: being early surely beats showing up late. Before class, the Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC) student usually found a relaxing place to sit near the shrubbery outside of Templin Hall on the Hampton campus. Nothing disturbed her there – not even the bumbles bees that swarmed around her seat. “I never moved,” Hubbard said with a laugh. “I couldn’t see them anyway.”Hubbard lost sight in her left eye when she was 12 years old. At 16, she lost sight in her right eye, leaving her completely blind. With plenty of determination and assistance from TNCC’s Disabled Student Services team, Hubbard completed the requirements for an Associate of Science in Social Science degree at the end of the fall 2008 semester with a 3.5 grade point average.  She graduated with the class of 2009 during the College’s fortieth annual commencement ceremony. “She’s an inspiration,” said longtime friend Karen Perez.

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