Wharton County Junior College drama students recently garnered 12 awards when they competed at the Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association’s Theatre Festival at Lone Star College in Tomball. The awards were presented for the students’ production of Anatomy of Gray. WCJC students received the following awards: Play Production: Superior award Respondent’s Choice: Victoria [...]
Gulf Coast Medical Foundation (GCMF) recently provided Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) with a grant in the amount of $162,000 for its allied health division equipment project. Pictured presenting the grant are, left to right, are GCMF Board Member Robert Taylor and GCMF President Mike Farrell. Pictured receiving the grant are WCJC President Betty McCrohan, [...]
Representatives from East Wharton County Habitat for Humanity (EWCHH) recently visited Wharton County Junior College to thank Philip Hamlin, WCJC instructor of electrical technology and Robert Sanchez, WCJC program director for Air Conditioning, Heating, Refrigeration and Electrical Technology for their efforts in overseeing students from their program who assisted with the completion of three Habitat [...]
Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) recently sponsored its first WCJC STEM (science technology engineer and math) Essay Contest celebration. The event was held on the WCJC Wharton campus in the Pioneer Student Center. Invited guests included all the middle school students; who had participated in the WCJC STEM Essay Contest; their parents, families and the [...]
A mentor said the odds were against him, yet Justin Redding, Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy Class of 2013, is about to embark on life with a doctorate in pharmacy. Redding was born in Chicago and grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, with a single mom. “The first [...]
Many people believe that memory loss and aging go hand-in-hand: as a person gets older his or her memory begins to fail. While some change may be expected as you age, that doesn’t mean you can’t do something about it. In the absence of a brain disease, such as Alzheimer’s Disease – you can be [...]
Paris Junior College’s (PJC) current group of baseball transfers include three Fort Bend players: Cline Andrews of Sugar Land, third base; G.R. Hinsley of Richmond, first base; and Blake Johnson of Sugar Land, outfielder. Andrews, Hinsley and Johnson all played together at Clements High School in Sugar Land prior to attending PJC. “During that time they (Andrews, [...]
Fort Bend Christian Academy Government/Economics Teacher and Social Studies Chair John Williams, M.Ed. was selected as the recipient of the prestigious Texas A&M University Inspiration Award for Exceptional Secondary Education. John Williams, M.Ed. was selected as the recipient of the prestigious Texas A&M University Inspiration Award for Exceptional Secondary Education. As stated in the congratulatory [...]
Houston Community College is teaming up with Ben E. Keith Foods, the eighth largest institutional foodservice distributor in the nation, to train close 100 distribution workers to work at the food giant’s recently built 475,000-square-foot distribution center in Missouri City, TX. The training was made possible by a $69,000 Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) grant to [...]
The All Babies & Children (ABC) Child Care Conference that will be held on Saturday, June 8, will offer child care providers, foster parents and other adults who work with children the opportunity to earn seven clock hours of credit. The conference will be at Wharton County Junior College at 911 East Boling Highway in [...]
