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Winter Commencement Awards PI Lambda Theta Grade Point Average Debbie Manis and Tina Owens Fort Sanders Nursing Department celebrates milestones T en years ago Tennessee Wesleyan College graduated its first class of Fort Sanders nurses. Throughout the last ten years, the Fort Sanders Nursing Department has graduated more than 400 nurses whose TWC education prepared them for lives of significance, leadership and service through a quality baccalaureate nursing education. Friday, November 30, the college held a 10-year reunion that brought together students from Fort Sander’s first graduating class as well as former and current nursing faculty. The reunion was a gathering that celebrated the achievements and milestones of both the former students and the program throughout the last ten years. “You are pioneers,” said TWC President Dr. Harley Knowles, who addressed the first Fort Sanders nursing graduates at the event. “As the inaugural class, you were the first of a long line of quality nurses who have graduated from Tennessee Wesleyan and continued on to provide exemplary patient care within the healthcare system.” “What makes me proud of Tennessee Wesleyan and particularly the nursing program is the tremendous impact that we have on the lives of people. I was talking with someone from Covenant, asking them what Tennessee Wesleyan means to them, and I was told that every year Covenant employs at least 50 TWC graduates. I continuously hear through various healthcare professionals and even patients that have been in your care, how kind, intelligent and talented TWC nursing graduates are.” 6 ARCHES | Spring 2013 Athens Area Chamber of Commerce Scholastic Award Fran Lane and Kevin Bishop Jeffrey L. Barnes Award Allison Bridges
TWC senior chosen for prestigious summer medical program O n May 26 Tennessee Wesleyan College senior Christine Lumbasio will be headed for Nashville, Tenn. to participate in Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Summer Science Academy. A biology major and chemistry minor at TWC, Lumbasio will spend three months of her summer shadowing doctors and participating in Vanderbilt’s clinical research program. Chosen from over 600 applicants, Lumbasio is one of 15 undergraduate students who will attend Vanderbilt’s summer program which is designed specifically for students who wish to pursue a career in medicine. “This is such a wonderful opportunity for me,” said Lumbasio, originally from Masai Mar, Kenya. “I grew up as a translator for missionary doctors who came to my village to treat those in need of medical care. Being around medicine at a young age inspired me to become a doctor. This opportunity at Vanderbilt is a stepping stone between my undergraduate career at Tennessee Wesleyan and my future in medical school.” A talented player on TWC’s women’s basketball team, Lumbasio transferred here in her sophomore year from Martin Methodist in Pulaski, Tenn. Biology students attend Gulf Coast Research Laboratory T “I have truly loved my time at Tennessee Wesleyan,” said Lumbasio. “I was lucky to be educated in a family atmosphere where everyone is willing to help you achieve your goals. I came from a small village in Kenya. Athens still seems so big to me. I know Nashville will be an even bigger experience for me to embrace. As I continue to work toward my dream of becoming a doctor, I’m looking forward to the opportunities and challenges Vanderbilt’s summer program will offer me.” While at Tennessee Wesleyan, Lumbasio has maintained honors for four years in a row as well as made academic all-conference in basketball all four years. She was inducted to the Alpha Chi Honor Society and nominated for Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. “I feel like I have accomplished so much at TWC, given the background and the hardships I had to endure to get to this point in life,” said Lumbasio. “Leaving all that you have known for 19 years, your entire family and friends, to embark on a journey 6,000 miles from home, with the hope that one day you will return and make a difference in people’s lives because you want to be the change you want to see in this world.” “Growing up in Africa prepared me for this. Life there was tough, coming from that small village without running water or electricity and living in the most extreme poverty conditions helped to build the tenacity and perseverance that has carried me through and will continue to carry me through this process of achieving my goals in life.” ennessee Wesleyan College students Jordan Bean, Stephanie Breeden, Ben Graves, Janelle Johnson and Bobbi Stone attended the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Miss. during the summer of 2012. GCRL is associated with The University of Southern Mississippi and boasts one of the finest coastal research centers in the Southeastern U.S. Bean and Breeden took field and course work in Dolphin and Whale Biology while Graves studied Marine Biology and Marine Ichthyology. In addition, Johnson and Stone took field and course work in Coastal Herpetology. “We have been sending quite a few students to GCRL over the past few years and it is something that we, the faculty, are encouraging them to pursue,” said Dr. Allen Moore, TWC associate professor of biology. “It gives our students the opportunity to study the ecology of organisms from an entirely different biome from that of East Tennessee.” www.twcnet.edu 7
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