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Forty receive GED High Diplomas; 17 NCRC recognition

Click on headline for story with lists of GED recipients and those who completed the National Career Readiness Certification program, plus photo(s)

By Ed Waggener

The Adair County Adult Education Center award 40 GED high school diplomas and 17 National Career Read Certificates in ceremonies last night, Thursday, February 27, 2014, at Lindsey Wilson Colleges Hodge Center.

The 40 completed requirements between July 1 and December 31, 2013, almost doubling the pace for the previous year, when 41 obtained diplomas in a 12 month period.

The graduates were welcomed by the center's dynamic director, LeAnna Bennett. Speakers were Dean Adams, Vice President for Student Services and Enrollment Management at Lindsey Wilson College; and April Russell, Program for Adair County, Casey County, and McCreary County Adult Education.

Staff members Dwayne Hadley, Feliia Leischner, Sarah Curry, McKenzie Andrew Wiley, and Everett Luttrell and handed out GED diplomas and/or recognized the following GED Graduates:
Matthew Alexander, Matthew Antle, Wesley Brookbank, Derek Brown, Darryl Cacal, Jeremy Castleman, Andres Chacha, Miles Coffey, Markita Collins, Kim Curry, Trevor Damrell, Nicholas Easton, Lindsey Edwards;

Amber Foster, Brandon Frausto, Joe Gingerich, Lizza Gingerich, Everett Luttrell, Martha Matney, Jerry McAllister, Richard McFarland, Pamela Miller, Jason miller, Jordan Moore, Gail Passmore;

Sarah Patton, Christian Patton, Rickey Rodgers, Kathy Shrock, Joseph Shrock, Ashley Sroka, Michael Tucker, Jared Watts, Daniel Welmer, Larry Westrater, and Anthony Wilkerson.
Seventeen individuals were recognized for with awards for completion of National Career Readiness Certificates:
Gold Certificates:
Misty Gilbert, Amanda Jobe, Calton Matney, and Christian Patton.

Silver Certificates:
Hayley Beard, Janice Bryant, Tina Corbin, Terry Curry, Jeremy Durbin, Steven Durbin, Frank Hatfield, Barbara McGaha, Rita Noe, Ryan Stephens, Shane Thomas, Ted Turner, and Nately Watson.
Following the graduation, a dinner was held in Cranmer Dining Center in honor of the graduates and their families as well as staff and Community Partners, who included local banks, Darryl McGaha, Lindsey Wilson College's Cranmer Dining Center, and others.

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Adult Education Center 2014 GED Graduation - Group Photo



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo By CM staff. The Adair County Adult Education Center award GED High School Diplomas to 40 graduates last night at Lindsey Wilson College. Among those in attendance (Graduates unless otherwise noted) were From left: Dwayne Hadley (staff), Everett Luttrell, Pamela Miller (with Dalton Crawford), Kim Curry, Felicia Leischner(staff), Rickey Rodgers, Sarah Curry(staff), Andrew Wiley(staff) Amber Foster, Jerry McAllister, Krissa Powell, Gail Passmore, Lindsey Edwards, LeAnna Bennett (staff), Mackenzie Minton (staff). The 40 graduates completed requirements between July 1 and December 31, 2013. The pace is almost double the previous year, when, in a 12 month period, 41 graduated. -Felicia Leischner
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LeAnna Bennett, Director addresses graduates



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo CM Staff Photo.
LeAnna Bennett Director of the Adair Adult Education Center since it came under the umbrella of the KCTC and Somerset Community College, told the audience gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of 40 GED High School graduates, that credit for the event belonged to the students - many of whom made tremendous sacrifices to complete requirements, and to the wonderful staff she's been able to assemble. But that humility didn't stop others from heaping credit on the dyanamo behind the program, now among the top in the state of Kentucky. In addition to the 40 HS diplomas, the center also awarded 17 National Career Readiness Certificates. - Ed Waggener
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Dr. Dean Adams: Unforgettable Commencement Address



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo CM staff photo.
There's an old belief that no one ever remembers anything from a commencement address, but that wasn't the case with Dr. Dean Adam's brief message to the Adair Adult Education Center graduates in the class last night at Lindsey Wilson College. The Adair County native, Vice President of Lindsey Wilson College, interspersed humor and lessons from life to express what education had done for him, opening doors to opportunities which would not have existed for otherwise.
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April Russell: A most memorable commencement addresss



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center - Photo CM Staff photo. April Russell, Somerset, KY Program Director for Adair County, Casey County, and McCreary County, KY, told a personal story about how the GED program has helped members of her own family - her husband, she said, was one. Ms. Russell commended the work of the graduates, and was lavish in her praise of he work LeAnna Bennett, Assistant Program Director of the Adair County Adult Education Center, has done. She said that wherever she goes and people ask her how to make a GED program work, she tells them, "Look at Adair County first." Bennett, she said, only knows one way: "She's full force all the time."
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Rickey Rodgers, with his mother, Joyce Rodgers Lee



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo Staff photo.
Rickey Rodgers, Columbia, KY, with his mother, Joyce Downey Rodgers Lee, of Nancy KY. When Rodgers received his diploma, the speaker noted that he had done so by simply walking in and taking the test - without taking a single class.
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Lindsey Edwards poses with GED Diploma



2014-02-28 - Hodge Center, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY - Photo CM staff photo. Lindsey Edwards paused for a photo opportunity, after receiving her GED High School Diploma from the Adair County Adult Education Center, on Thursday, February 27, 2014, at Lindsey Wilson's Hodge Center. Behind her are ACAEC staff members Felicia Leischner and Everett Luttrell. - EW
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