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Friday, October 17, 2014 Vol. 78 No. 6 Serving Kilgore College since 1936
Pruett named to KC board Former employee fourth woman to serve as trustee FROM STAFF REPORTS The KC Board of Trustees approved J. Karol Pruett to fill the vacant Place 6 seat during their regular business meeting Tuesday evening. Charlie Hale, former board president, resigned the seat in August, citing health reasons. Pruett will fill the unexpired term in the Central Zone (Kilgore ISD), until a special election can be called in May 2015. “I am overwhelmed by the positive responses I received all day after my appointment to the KC Board,” Pruett said. “In all my deliberations, I plan to keep the core mission of the college at the top of my mind: that we prepare students for success in J. KAROL life.” PRUETT Pruett graduated salutatorian from Kilgore Named to Board of Trustees High School in 1973 and attended Kilgore College. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate, and then a master’s degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin. Pruett began working at KC in 1987 as a Library Audiovisual Technician. From there, she moved to secretary to the dean of occupational therapy, then personnel officer, and later assistant dean of occupational therapy. She was assistant to KC President Dr. Bill Holda from 1996 to 2012. After leaving the college, she spent the summer conducting land title research for T.S. Dudley Land Company in Sullivan County, Penn. She currently works part-time since January 2013 as office manager at the Law Office of Jeff Jackson in Kilgore.
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Angela Falcone, Dance instructor, remodels the KC Dance Club by participating in community events.
Steppin’ in Former Rangerette returns to replace retired dance instructor
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Tiffany GriGG Staff Writer
he KC Dance Department is under the new leadership of Angela Falcone, lead dance instructor, who took the reins from Kathy Beckman when she retired last summer. “[Beckman] gave me her blessing as I took over the program this past summer,” said Falcone. “She retired after more than 35 years here [at KC] and I’m now trying to go in a new direction while continuing her legacy.” Falcone began her dance education at KC where she performed as one of the “World Famous” KC Rangerettes, from 2007 to 2009. Following her time at KC, Falcone went on to the University of Texas at Austin where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts
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in Dance with High Honors in 2012. Eager to return to KC as an instructor, Falcone continued on her dance education track to claim a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. “It’s been my dream to come back [to KC],” Falcone said. “It’s part of the reason why I went to graduate school to get my master’s degree. Luckily, this position opened up and although I wasn’t finished with my degree yet, I had finished all of my period classes, and TWC allowed me to finish the rest of my degree virtually so I was able to take the job.” Though Falcone has been lead instructor for a short period of time, she has already begun implementing changes to the dance program along side fellow instructor and mentor, Shelley Wayne.
TYLER — Former KC journalism instructor and publications adviser Bettye H. Craddock was inducted into the Distinguished Hall of Honor at the Texas Community College Journalism Association’s annual conference last Friday. KC student publications also took home 19 awards, including Sweepstakes for Division II newspapers. With 29 years at the helm, Craddock’s staffs have won Sweepstakes 47 times and individual staffers have taken home more than 1,000 awards at TCCJA as well as Texas Intercollegiate Press Association competitions.
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