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The Rockingham Community College Foundation Inc. kicked off its annual campaign on Feb. 24 and hopes to raise $175,000 by the end of March.

At the kick-off event, college alumn a and guest speaker April Gibbs  of Eden shared how RCC helped her find success.

“I had a 5-year-old and was pregnant with my second child,” Gibbs said. “But with the financial assistance I received through the foundation, I was able to attend RCC.”

Gibbs worked for 12 years at Morehead Memorial Hospital after graduating with an associate’s degree in nursing. She works as a labor and delivery nurse at WakeMed Health & Hospitals. Her two children also are enrolled in a nursing program and the Early College High School at the campus.

This year more than 130 volunteers will help the foundation in its campaign effort. The campaign chairpersons are: Kathy Hale and Tom Harger of Eden; Kalynn Roland of Madison; Eugene Russell and Tim Simpson of Mayodan; Jimmy Thompson and Susan Thompson of Reidsville; Mary Hux, Judge Pierce, Alice Smith, and Bobby Wharton of Rockingham County; and Charles Davis and Julia Tuggle of Stoneville.

Money raised by the foundation helps pay for:
■ Student-aid grants and college work-study programs.
■ Peer-tutoring programs in seven areas of study.
■ Professional development and training for staff and faculty.
■ Community enrichment
projects such as the Rocking­ham County Historical Collection Room and the Concert/ Lecture Series.

For more information about the campaign, call Gaye Clifton in the foundation office at 342-4261, Ext. 2201.

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Khori Navarre of Reidsville will receive the N.C. Community College System’s Academic Excellence Award after earning a 4.0 grade point average at Rockingham Community College.  

Navarre earned a GED at RCC in 2008. She then enrolled full-time as a college transfer student in the associate in arts program.  Navarre hopes to earn an accounting degree at UNCG and become a certified public accountant.

“Receiving my GED gave me the confidence to further my education,” said Navarre.  “During my first semester, I found out that if I concentrated on my school work, I would be rewarded with good grades and recognition for those grades.”

Navarre works as a tutor in the college’s math lab, and is a member of Phi Theta Kappa,  an international honor society, and Sigma Kappa Delta,  an English honor society.

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The following Rockingham County students earned a place on the dean’s list at N.C. State for Fall 2009 semester: 

Eden: Joshua Alexander Blitz, Kara Alyce Hall (4.0 grade point average), Nerissa Diane Peace, Amelia Adair Seaver, Callie Thomas Tucker

Madison: Daniel Wallace Brumfield, Andrew Scott Hewitt, Joseph A. Silvers (4.0 grade point average), Kaitlyn Rose Tucker, Sonni Leanne Wilson (4.0 grade point average)

Mayodan: Matthew M. Haentschke (4.0 grade point average)

Reidsville: Peggy Elizabeth Cervantes, John Robert Claybrook, Jesse Wayne Clifton, Heather L. Gentle, Aaron D. Griffith, Samuel Webster Griffith, Andrew Ross Moore, Geoffrey William Murphy, Allison Jeanne Nolker, Daniel C. Rowe, Jessica Lane Tabor, Emily Taylor Westmoreland

Ruffin: Justin Michael Thacker, Katherine Dianne Walker 

Stokesdale: Jacob Troy Sanders

Stoneville: David Michael Mabe (4.0 grade point average), Matthew I. Mckinlay (4.0 grade point average), Albert Taylor Chase Patterson (4.0 grade point average), Angela G. White (4.0 grade point average)

Wentworth: Sara Jane Marley

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Melanie Bridge,  an assistant district attorney for Rockingham County, was selected as one of four traffic safety resource prosecutors for the state. She was selected by the N.C. Conference of District Attorneys to serve her second one-year term.

Bridge will organize regional instructions for prosecutors and law enforcement, provide technical assistance to district attorneys’ offices, and participate in traffic safety campaigns.

Bridge is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the UNC School of Law. She has served as a prosecutor in Rockingham County for four years. 

Contact Morgan Josey Glover at 627-4881, Ext. 119, or morgan.josey@news-record.com