The special partnership between the Monroe County Manufacturing Assistance Center and Greenbrier Valley Campus of New River Community and Technical College has provide GVC its second foreign student.

Enos Harnum of St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, joined Bob Brown of Marion, Ohio, Kip Dempsk and James Kuzmic, both of Wind Lake, Wisconsin, and James Gozdowiau of Hales Corner, Wisconsin, for an intensive one week training program with David Sizemore of the Monroe County Manufacturing Assistance Center at the GVC's Annex building on McElhenney Road, southwest of the main campus in Academy Park.

"We were at Greenbrier for GE-Fanuc G Code programming class," noted a statement issued by Gozdowiau, Kuzmic and Dempski, all tool and die makers with Harley Davidson's Capitol Dome Powertrain operations plant in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. The statement continued, "The instructor (David Sizemore of MC-MAC) could not have been better," while the three also complimented the staff on helping with their stay in the Greenbrier Valley.

"It's a great area to visit with great food, golf and a lot of history," the three commented in thanking Sizemore and the MC-MAC--Greenbrier Valley Campus, New River Community and Technical College partnership.

Harnum, machinist for 20 years now working with the National Research Council of Canada, also praised the Greenbrier Valley as "a great community and the course was really well done." He is the second student from Canada to have participated in the MC-MAC/GVC programs.

Impressed with the Greenbrier Valley facility because of its providing hands on training on a three-axis mill, Brown of Sypris Technologies of Marion, Ohio, has been a tool and die journeyman for 24 years, serving as a manufacturing engineer and CNC programmer for four lathes and one mill that fabricate dies used in forging ring gears, pinions and axles for use in heavy truck market, including customers like MACK, NAVSTAR, International, DANA and Arvin Meritor.

He was at the GVC to study the language of the program O series GE Fanuc controller on a three axile mill. He holds a BSBA with a minor in engineering and an MBA, both from Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio.

"In addition to the intense study and hands on program, we try to expose the Greenbrier Valley to the visiting students through tours and visits to various sites in Greenbrier, Monroe and Pocahontas counties and the surrounding area," Sizemore adds.

In addition to the special one week intensive studies, the MC-MAC/GVCNRCTC partnership also offers local students courses through the Caldwell MC-MAC/GVC shop building. Machine Tool Technology I and II, Topics in Machine Tool Operations II and Selected Topics/Machine Tool Operations are offered at Caldwell while the Annex hosts classes in CNC Mill G-Code programming; CNC Turn G-Code programming; Basics of CNC program; and CNC Series 16i Maintenance.

The GVC also offers through Web site distance learning programs through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System classes in Computer Aided Drafting; Intermediate CAD; Advanced CAD; and Blueprint Reading.

For further information on the MC-MAC/GVCNRCTC programs, contact the Greenbrier Valley Campus at 304-647-6588 or 304-647-6560 or visit or write at 101 Church Street, Lewisburg, WV 2490l or contact the Monroe County Manufacturing Assistance Center at 304- 772-3655

August 27, 2003

Submitted by Mike Williams