SUMMER NEWSLETTER • JULY 2016
GTCC Commencement
Congratulations to our graduates!
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TCC held its 50th Commencement on May 12 at the Greensboro Coliseum. Approximately 1,400 students graduated. During the ceremony, several students were recognized for their academic achievements:
• Phydesia Lewis, Outstanding Diploma Graduate; • Sarah Mayer, Outstanding Associate in Applied Science Degree Student; • Jenny Carratello, Outstanding College Transfer Graduate.
Phydesia Lewis benefited from a successful career in corporate America, but cosmetology was always her passion. She decided to finally follow that love and enrolled in GTCC’s Cosmetology program equipped with employability skills. She is responsible, accountable, a team player and serves as a mentor for her peers. According to her nominee, “Phydesia is every instructor’s dream student.”
C) arla Kucinski/GTC Phydesia Lewis. (C
Sarah Mayer is a single mom of three children and a U.S. Army veteran. She juggled two to three jobs while attending GTCC and still found the time to volunteer for just about everything going on at the college and at local charity events. She won the 2015 Biscuitville Challenge and she was part of a team that received first place in the Southeast Regional Collegiate Ice Carving Championship in Blowing Rock, N.C. earlier this year. Sarah also was nominated by the American Culinary Federation as student chef of the year and represented GTCC at SkillsUSA twice, placing both times.
Sarah Mayer. (Car la Kucinski/GTCC)