Bluefield State College - April News Releases

Carpenter Honored at NRCTC Board of Governors Meeting

Kay Carpenter (left) of Webster Springs, a member of the recently appointed Board of Governors for New River Community and Technical College, was honored at the April meeting of the NRCTC BOG for her outstanding service as a member of the former Board of Advisors for NRCTC. She was presented a plaque by Dr. Felecia B. Wooten Blanks (right), interim president of NRCTC.

Other members of the former Board of Advisors were honored at the March BOG meeting which Carpenter, the superintendent of Webster County Schools, was unable to attend.

The appointment of the BOG by Governor Joe Manchin followed the College’s full and independent accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in February.

Members of the former Board of Advisors honored at the March meeting were Edward Knight, Lewisburg; Marilyn Leftwich, White Sulphur Springs; Gerald Hough, Summersville; Vickie Nutter, Craigsville; Leslie Baker, Beckley; William Blake, Lewisburg; Marilyn Kiddle, Hinton; Mary Igo, Summersville; David Nalker, Lewisburg; Robert Farley, Princeton; William Sherwood, Princeton, and Martha Davis, Summersville.

NRCTC serves the Mercer, Monroe, Summers, Raleigh, Fayette, Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Nicholas, Clay, and Webster county region as well as neighboring Virginia from campuses in Beckley at the Harper Industrial Park; Bluefield at Bluefield State College; Greenbrier Valley in Lewisburg, and Nicholas County in Summersville.

April 12, 2005

Submitted by Mike Williams