September 2012 Insider - South Piedmont Community College

Community input
SPCC wants to know what public thinks
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Also inside ...
• Dr. Sidor’s column
• Jill Millard on SACS
• Getting students on TRAC
• Convocation kicks off school year
• Employee awards presented
• Early Childhood national certification
• College and Career Transitions class
• Student accepted for mentoring
• New chiller for Martin Tech
• New music event debuts Friday
• Employee news
• Iron the Shirt award
• September birthdays
• Brain Teaser

The Insider September 2012
SPCC seeks community’s input
For a week in late August, President
Stan Sidor and other SPCC officials
kept a busy schedule in seeking
input from the community in the
school’s effort to continuously
improve and serve Union and Anson
counties.
During the last week of the month,
a series of eight meetings – four
for the public, two for employees
and two for students – were held at
various times on both campuses and
at the Lockhart-Taylor Center.
The meetings were held to help the
college fulfill its mission of “learning,
student success and workforce and
community development.”
Participants in the employee listening session on the L.L. Polk Campus ponder
their answers to one of the sets of questions.
During the meetings, participants
were asked to answer nine questions concerning the college’s future by attaching their suggestions on sticky notes to a
poster with each question. Some of the questions, for example, were “What do you think is our community’s perception
of SPCC and the quality of our programs?” and “What activities or initiatives should SPCC initiate or join to support
economic development in our region?” Others were more school specific, such as “What services and programs do our
students need in order to be successful?”
On the cover
Continuing Education Program
Coordinator Deb Caudle and
Union County Board of
Commissioners Chairman Jerry
Simpson post their answers at
one of the sessions in Monroe.
Additionally, an environmental scan has been developed that will be used by the
college’s senior leadership and other stakeholders to evaluate key external variables
that influence state and local workforces, and corresponding educational needs. In
reviewing the impact of external factors such as the economy, learning, politics and
technology, along with internal demographics, a strategic plan can be developed
that will move the college forward.
The environmental scan can be viewed online at http://tinyurl.com/cpuru3a.

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Year off to successful beginning
Last week I wrote to you about our successful start to this new year.
Enrollment is stabilizing and FTE is trending up. Unfortunately, this
is not the experience of our similar-sized sister colleges. Many are still
experiencing significant enrollment declines because of personal and
company relocations. A recent study by a regional economist suggests
that this trend will continue as people move to larger cities to find work.
Like you, I hope the havoc of this recession will soon end.
Over the next few weeks we will be focusing on our upcoming SACS
on-site visit through review and training. Please make those events a priority.
Next week the preliminary results of the listening sessions will be posted on the website. My quick review provided some eyeopening
suggestions from our community as to how we can add to our programs and services.
You all will have one last opportunity to comment.
I want to again thank everyone for placing our students first. We have a remarkable institution that is highly regarded by our
students and community.
See you in the halls this month,
Stan Sidor
______________
SPCC President

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SACS site visit coming in October
Greetings to everyone! As you all know by now, SACS is coming!
SPCC will be visited by a team of 10 people from Oct. 22 – 24. This
is the third phase in the process of reaffirmation of accreditation for
the college. The first phase was the submission of the compliance
certification in March. The second phase was submission in late August
of the focused report on the eight items in question, along with the
QEP and other required documentation, to the site visit team. Now it
is time for the site visit, which allows the SACS team to see that we are
reporting openly and honestly about our procedures and practices at
the college and that we are providing appropriate and effective support
services to facilitate student learning.
Jill Millard
______________
SACS Co-chair
What will be reviewed during the site visit?
• The eight Focused Report items
• Faculty Credentialing – The team will spend time in HR going through files. It is imperative that we have official
transcripts and “otherwise qualified” documentation such as copies of current certifications, licensures, previous
employment verification, etc. in each faculty member’s file
• Distance Learning – This includes our policies, procedures, and capacity to deliver DL courses; manner in which we
guarantee quality of our DL courses and programs; parity of online vs. on-campus for each of the following: student
services, course learning outcomes, and student outcomes and performance levels
• The QEP
o EVERYONE should know the acronym (TRAC), what it stands for, and what it hopes to achieve for our students
o The current QEP team will be interviewed extensively about goals of the plan, learning outcomes, proposed assessment
of the plan, and college resources dedicated to the plan, including the proposed budget
• U.S. Department of Education – specified requirements and standards as seen below:
o Number of full-time vs. part-time faculty
o Student Services (our Student Success Division)
o Qualified administrative officers

o Institutional effectiveness and assessment for academic programs and support units
o Admission policies
o Academic program coordination (Qualified chairs)
o Financial Aid audits
o Physical Facilities - Are they adequate and appropriate to support learning and programs at the college? Facilities
Master Plan will likely be reviewed.
o All nine federal requirements listed in the SACS Principles of Accreditation
Who will be interviewed during the site visit? The SACS team will interview a number of faculty, staff and students about
a variety of subjects. Anyone on the campus could be interviewed to see if they are familiar with the QEP. Faculty could be
interviewed about student learning and core skill outcomes assessment and the improvements that have resulted from those
activities. Everyone could be asked about student support services available at the college. In preparation for the interviews
during the site visit, a number of training sessions will be held, along with mock interviews of staff and faculty in order to help
all of us feel more confident about what we might be asked. Information gathered from the mock interviews will be used to
finalize training sessions for each group. Keep in mind that Dr. Sidor has prioritized this preparation training as mandatory. If
you are a faculty member who is teaching during the faculty training session, please see your supervisor or Jill Millard about
getting copies of the training materials.
This is an exciting time and gives us an opportunity to showcase our college, students, faculty and staff. We have a lot to be
proud of and our site visit planning team is doing everything we can to conduct a smooth and efficient site visit designed to
show the great things our college does for our students.

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QEP designed to get students on TRAC
After many months of preparation, South Piedmont
Community College has announced its Quality
Enhancement Plan, or QEP. This plan, titled “TRAC:
Teaching Responsibility, Readiness and Resourcefulness
through Advising Connections,” focuses on the college’s
efforts to improve student advising.
SPCC’s QEP was developed as part of the requirements
for its upcoming accreditation visit by the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on
Colleges, or SACSCOC, in October. Once it gets the
required approval from the SACSCOC, the QEP will
be implemented over a five-year period. Surveys given
to students, employees and faculty, as well as research
conducted by the QEP team, led to the topic of academic
advising as SPCC’s area of most-needed improvement.
TRAC will focus on five key advising strategies: (1) placing
an organizational emphasis on advising, (2) restructuring
the advising process to create intentional partnerships,
To emphasize the TRAC theme, the QEP team got a TRAC train
going during convocation.
(3) integrating technology into the advising process to increase efficiency, (4) fostering a culture where “advising is teaching”
through professional development, and (5) redistributing advising loads to strengthen advising connections.
The art of advising will be tackled from several angles, including pre-advising for new students through new Advising Centers
and program workshops that teach students the ins and outs of their chosen program of study.
“The QEP puts the focus on student learning,” QEP Co-Chair and Reading Instructor Jennifer Chicosky said. “Learning how
to develop an academic plan puts students on ‘TRAC’ to reach their educational goals.”
Makena Stewart, QEP co-chair and Student Success counselor, noted that students are frequently uncertain about what
is expected of them in the advising process. “Oftentimes students are not aware of their responsibilities in the advising
partnership,” she said. “This plan clarifies the student’s role and connects them with available resources pertinent for their
success.”
For more information about SPCC’s Quality Enhancement Plan, contact Jennifer Chicosky at jchicosky@spcc.edu or Makena
Stewart at mstewart@spcc.edu.

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Convocation kicks off school year
SPCC’s new school year kicked off with a two-day
convocation Aug. 6-7 on the Old Charlotte Highway
Campus. In addition to hearing updates on various
things, employees engaged in a number of hands-on
activities. Above, balloons -- representing students
-- float in the air as employees try to get them to the
right place. At right, Al Odom, Gerald Millis, Todd
Morris and Kathy Moore work on a QEP team project
that wrapped up the event.

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Employee awards presented during convocation
Adams
Baucom Berger Brock Broome Chicosky Clodfelter
DeVitto Douglas Flake Frizzell Geddings Haney Jackson
A number of South Piedmont Community College employees were honored for their work in the past year during the first day
of the school’s convocation Aug. 6. The two-day event was held on the Old Charlotte Highway Campus in Monroe.
Director of Vocational Trades Dennis Baucom, EMS Coordinator Robby Smith and Masonry Instructor Terry James were
honored as Innovators of the Year after they stripped down a donated ambulance and rebuilt it inside a classroom to create an
ambulance simulator for EMT and paramedic students.
Other winners were Assistant Director of Facility and Property Services Mike Napier, Staff of the Year; Massage Therapy
Program Director Mary Berger, Continuing Education Faculty of the Year; Counselor Makena Stewart, Administrator of the
Year; and Printing Services Technician Mary-Ellen Frizzell, Outstanding Customer Service of the Year.
Also, a large group shared the Collaborative Team of the Year award for their work in preparing for SPCC’s re-accreditation
visit from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools later this fall. Those who shared that award were Jill Millard,
Elaine Clodfelter, Vicki Geddings, Mark Little, Suzanne Rumble, Lori Starnes, Rita Adams, Charlene Broome, Susan Flake,
Lauren Haney, Stuart Wasilowski, Michelle Brock, John DeVitto, Lynn Gambon, Marci Jackson, Mark Lupton, Lauren Sellers,
Makena Stewart, Hayne White, Sheilita Douglas, Ernest Simons, Jason Thomas and Jennifer Chicosky.

James
Little Lupton Millard Napier Rumble Sellers
Simons Smith Starnes Stewart Thomas Wasilowski White

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Early Childhood Ed certified nationally
South Piedmont Community College’s
Early Childhood Education program has
earned national accreditation from the
National Association for the Education of
Young Children (NAEYC).
Program Director Sharon Little was
ecstatic after SPCC President Stan
Sidor made the announcement during
convocation on Aug. 6. She had not
expected to hear anything until late
August. “We are beside ourselves,” Little
said. “It has been a process.”
The accreditation, which came with no
conditions, is good for seven years. SPCC
is one of only 16 community colleges in
North Carolina to currently hold NAEYC
accreditation.
Maria Lander, Sharon Little, Carilyn Raymond and Trinisha Dean pose with
the certificate signifying the Early Childhood Education program’s national
certification.
“For our program, it means we are meeting
national standards as far as teacher preparation for early childhood professionals,” Little said. “These are the highest standards
that any early childhood program could meet.
“Having accreditation is going to do several things,” she added. “It opens up opportunities for us to receive more grant funding
in other areas that will enhance our program. Now that word is getting out nationally about accreditation … I think students
are going to be looking for programs that are accredited. This is just a great opportunity for South Piedmont to be in the
forefront of this. It’s just been wonderful.”
Little, faculty member Carilyn Raymond, Smart Start Program Director Trinisha Dean and Dean of Applied Science and
Technology Maria Lander did much of the work on the self study and preparation for the site visit. Because of the number of
other departments involved in the NAEYC site visit, however, Little said that “this is, to me, everybody’s accreditation because
everybody worked so well with us to provide what we needed. ... I’d like to thank everybody at the college who helped us
prepare.”

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College, Career Transitions class begins
South Piedmont Community College has launched its first College and Career Transitions class.
The class is an Adult Basic Education/General Education Development class for students interested
in curriculum programs in Early Childhood Education, Medical Office Administration or Computer
Information Technology. Mechanical Engineering will be added as an option next spring.
“The goal is to prepare students to be lifelong learners, to do well on the tests necessary to get into college,
and when they get into college to compete and be successful,” said Kelly Stegall, SPCC’s Accelerating
Opportunity coordinator.
The class is being funded by an Accelerating Opportunity grant that was announced in December. SPCC Stegall
will receive $75,000 a year for three years to fund the program. The grant is funded in part by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation and Jobs for the Future. SPCC is one of nine community colleges in North Carolina to receive
grant funding for the project.
While enrolled in the class, students will receive direct, contextualized instruction in their chosen pathways; intensive math
tutoring; CPR training and College Placement Test preparation. The class will include components from the Human Resources
Development Department and students will learn strategies for success in college.
By the time the class ends, students should be prepared to pass the GED, place into college level courses on the College
Placement Test, be fully informed regarding college expectations and prepared to succeed in their entry-level college courses.
“The whole point of this is to kind of revamp or shake up the way that Basic Skills is taught,” Stegall said. “Oftentimes, Basic
Skills is taught in a lab type situation where students come in and work individually on whatever they need to work on. This is
based more on a direct teaching model. Everyone’s going to be learning the same thing at the same time, which is very different
from the way we do Basic Skills now. It’s not only holding us to a higher standard, but it’s requiring more from the students as
well.”
Stegall predicts that this is how basic skills classes will be taught nationwide within five years. “While there are other states that
have been doing this for a bit, this is something new for North Carolina,” she said. “By piloting it in North Carolina, we can
act as models for other community colleges in North Carolina.”
Students will be tracked over a three-year period to determine their successful completion of a college-level certificate, diploma
or degree.
Because of limitations in space the number of faculty available, the class size will be capped at 20, but a new class will begin
every semester.

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Patton accepted for inaugural mentoring program
Nefer Patton, a second-year Medical Sonography student, has been accepted as one of
three mentees in the inaugural group chosen for the North Carolina Ultrasound Society’s
new mentoring program.
“When the opportunity came up, I thought why not do it and have contact with
professionals who have been in the field for a while,” Patton said. “I don’t like to be
stagnant. I like to learn something new.”
Patton’s mentor will be Diane Reed of The Women’s Hospital of Greensboro. “I don’t have
a medical background, so to be able to have someone to e-mail or call is great,” Patton
said. “It’s cool to have a mentor of your own.”
Patton
Bradley
Patton, 27, is a native of Caracas, Venezuela, but moved to the United States when she was 7. She moved to Charlotte from
Florida three years ago. In Florida, she did account transfers for a brokerage firm and general customer service for a real estate
broker.
Her mother was the first to suggest to her that medical sonography might be a good field for her. But, it wasn’t until she moved
to North Carolina and was taking a physics class where she had to give a report on ultrasound that she really began to take that
idea seriously. “The more I researched, I thought it was cool that you could look into people’s bodies. It’s like superhero powers.”
“Medical ultrasound is a great field,” she added. “When I’m with a patient and see that heart beating, it’s like ‘Oh, my God,
that is so cool!’ And, you’re helping people.”
SPCC Associate Dean of Allied Health Alice Bradley, who was Medical Sonography program director at SPCC before being
promoted to her current position, was instrumental in the creation of the NCUS mentoring program, along with Cathy
Godwin of Johnston Community College and Laura Currie of Cape Fear Community College.
“Three years ago as vice president of the NCUS, I introduced the idea of allowing students to participate in the annual
meetings as ‘trainees’ – and possibly even allowing stellar student speakers,” Bradley said. “As president, two SPCC students
got to give case study presentations as a kickoff for the mentoring program in spring 2011. From there, the mentor-mentee
program was developed. It took several years to develop the guidelines and role of both the mentor and the mentee.”
Bradley’s goals in helping create the program were to mold outstanding sonography students into valuable NCUS board
members, give the board diverse representation and provide it with assistance during busy meetings. The mentees will be
required to submit case studies for publication in the NCUS newsletter and, upon graduation, could be well-equipped to serve
as full board members.
Bradley also serves as a mentor for the program.

The Insider September 2012
New chiller arrives for Martin Tech
A new chiller was delivered for the Martin Technological Complex on Aug. 22. Air conditioning in the building had been
out of commission for several weeks after a lightning strike took out the old chiller, foreground. This caused all classes in
the building to be displaced for the first weeks of class, but the new chiller’s arrival allowed things to return to normal a
week earlier than expected. Mike Napier, director of facilities for Anson County, said the new chiller requires 100 fewer
amps than the previous one.

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New music event is Friday night
Preacher Stone, an up-and-coming
Southern rock band from Charlotte,
will headline South Piedmont
Community College’s first Carolinas
Emerging Music Festival on Friday
on the Old Charlotte Highway
Campus in Monroe.
The free outdoor concert, scheduled
from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., will also
feature Brandon Kirkley and the
Firecrackers and Steel Standing.
The Carolinas Emerging Music
Festival replaces the Night Owl
Carnival, an event that was held
annually in the spring.
With a sound reminiscent of Lynyrd
Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet,
Preacher Stone also adds a countryrock
touch to such classics as The
Beatles’ “Come Together.”
Preacher Stone will be headliner for the first Carolinas Emerging Music Festival on
the Old Charlotte Highway Campus.
A review on puresouthernrock.com says that “Preacher Stone songs feature topics close to their hearts, such as love gone bad,
drinking, Southern hospitality and friendship. The band’s undeniable ‘bread and butter’ is their live show. … I guarantee they’ll
make a fan out of everyone in ear-shot.”
In addition to the free concert, several SPCC student organizations will have food for sale. Those who attend will want to bring
their lawn chairs.
The Carolinas Emerging Music Festival is sponsored by SPCC’s Student Government Association.
Battle of the Bands postponed again
The Battle of the Bands was postponed by rain a second time on Aug. 17 and will now take place sometime in the spring. The
event was originally scheduled for last April.

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Employee news: lots of changes
Bishop Brock Castle Duncan Ekis Flake
Communications Instructor Carl Bishop has been named Social Sciences and Arts Department chair.
Michelle Brock has been promoted from director of Financial Services to assistant vice president of Finance and
Administrative Services.
Levi Castle is a new Biology instructor on the L.L. Polk Campus. Originally from Paintsville, Ky., he taught biology for
the last two and a half years at Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonburg, Ky. He earned his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees in biological sciences at Morehead State University in Morehead, Ky. He is single and has been a semiprofessional
musician for seven years. He plays guitar, keyboards, bass and trumpet, and also sings “everything from country to
jazz.” He is also a Western movie buff and his favorite book/movie is “Lonesome Dove.”
Geri Duncan has been promoted from director of Professional Programs to associate dean of Professional Programs.
Sarah Ekis has been promoted from Human Resources coordinator to director of Organizational Development.
Susan Flake has been promoted from director of Human Resources and Payroll to assistant vice president of Human
Resources, Payroll and Organizational Development.
English Instructor Tammy Frailly has been named English Department chair.
Karen Grantham has been promoted from assistant director of Financial Services to director of Financial Services.
Marci Jackson has been promoted from administrative assistant to the dean of Learning Technology and Accountability to
Institutional Effectiveness analyst I.

Jason Jones is a new Chemistry instructor on the L.L.Polk Campus. Previously, he taught chemistry at Francis Marion
University in Florence, S.C. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, and his Ph.D.
in Physical Chemistry at Middlesex University in London. He has been married for 11 years and has a 4 ½-year-old son.
Outside of work, he enjoys home improvement projects, chess, following soccer and tennis, and road cycling “to keep in some
sort of condition,” he said.
Mathematics Instructor Susan Lauer has been named Mathematics Department chair.
Leo Maganares has switched from Basic Skills recruitment/assessment/retention coordinator to Mechanical Engineering
faculty.
Katie Mayer is a new Communications instructor on the L.L. Polk Campus. She recently moved to the area from Milwaukee
when her husband, Brady, was transferred to Charlotte in February. Prior to the move, she was communications specialist for
Roundy’s Supermarkets and also was an adjunct Communications instructor at Concordia University. She earned her B.A. with
a major in Communications Studies and a minor in Human Resources at Marquette University, and an M.A. in Organizational
Communication, also at Marquette. She has a 14-month-old daughter and is expecting the birth of son in November. Outside
of work, she enjoys cooking and yoga.
Katrina McClain is the new liaison for the Anson County Early College. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the
General Education Department at the Art Institute of Charlotte. She has a B.S. in Sociology and an MLA in Cultural Studies
from UNC Asheville, an Ed.S. from Walden University and lacks only her dissertation to earn an Ed.D. from Walden. A native
of Kings Mountain, her interests include writing poetry, playing trumpet and managing two bands. She also plays for one of the
bands, as well as for her church, The Park Ministries in Charlotte.
Susan Miller has been promoted from Institutional Research analyst to Institutional Data coordinator.
Ginger Pope is a new Psychology instructor on the L.L. Polk Campus. She worked in public schools for 34 years in South
Carolina – teaching grades two through eight, school psychologist, principal – and had been retired for seven before working
last year with a company in Cabarrus County that works one-on-one with special needs students. A native of Lancaster, S.C.,
she earned her B.A. in Elementary Education at Erskine College and her master’s in Education at Clemson. She and her
husband, Mike, moved to Union County four years ago and he coaches football at Wingate University. Outside of work, she
enjoys volunteering for Union Family Services as a rape crisis companion and at the Tree House (for abused children), and as
a literacy coach for the Literacy Council of Union County. She is active at Lakeview Baptist Church and also enjoys following
Wingate football.
Amanda Secrest has been promoted from Admissions evaluator to assistant director of Admissions.
Lauren Sellers has been promoted from assistant director of Human Resources to director of Human Resources.
Karen Elizabeth Smith has been promoted from Continuing Education lead program coordinator to Continuing Education
registrar.
Basic Skills Instructor Kelly Stegall has also taken on the job of Accelerating Opportunity coordinator.
William Truett has been promoted from director of Facility and Property Services to assistant vice president of Facilities.
Biology Instructor David Wheeler has been named Natural Sciences Department chair.

Andrew Young is a new developmental math instructor on the Old Charlotte Highway Campus. He recently graduated from
East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., and before that earned a B.S. in Applied Computational Math at
Appalachian State University in Boone. A native of Greensboro, he and his wife, Ada, are expecting a son in December. In his
spare time, he likes to swim and run, and in March ran the 50-mile Land Between the Lakes ultra-marathon in Kentucky. “I
was debilitated after that,” he said. “I can barely run five miles now.”
In addition to these changes, several employees not listed have had their job titles change without a change in responsibilities.
Frailly Grantham Jackson Jones Lauer Maganares
Mayer McClain Miller Pope Secrest Sellers
Smith Stegall Truett Wheeler Young

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Iron the Shirt
This month’s winners of the Iron the
Shirt award are Jeff Wood, coordinator of
skilled trades for the Facility and Property
Services Department, and Nadine
Burckhalter, a systems analyst II in the
Information Services Division.
Wood was nominated by Student
Activities Director Mike Maffucci for his
work in refurbishing the Helen Goodman
Amphitheater on the L.L. Polk Campus.
Maffucci wrote that “Jeff has taken the
project of rebuilding the amphitheater
to a whole new level. When the Battle
of the Bands scheduled for April was
rained out, he quickly became involved
with rebuilding the amphitheater. The
old, brown, three-separate-stage venue
has been transformed into one beautiful,
bright blue stage, conducive for Battle
of the Bands and many other events we
hope to have there.
Jeff Wood
Nadine Burckhalter
“Aside from installing new wood throughout, and connecting the three stages into one, Jeff was also responsible for adding new
lights, repairing existing lights, running four new electrical circuits from the panel box to the stage, and creating a temporary
partition for the stage, which is a very nice, king-size blanket material, handmade by his girlfriend.”
While appreciative of the award, Wood noted that many others in his department, as well as security guards who kept a check
on tools that were left at the amphitheater while the work was ongoing, also helped with the project.
Burckhalter was nominated by Health Admissions Technician Joy Pope, who wrote, “Saturday morning I was having my
morning cup of coffee and catching up on Facebook news. While scrolling down, I saw one of our returning graduates, who
is taking classes with SPCC for her BSN in Nursing, was very unhappy because she could not log into her Moodle class. She
named SPCC in her message and wished that she were back at her ‘other school,’ which is one of our neighboring community
colleges. I immediately sent her a message and gave her the format to log in. She responded that she had tried that with no
success.

“I called Nadine and she told me to send the student a private message on Facebook and give her cell phone number to the
student so she could help her. The student called Nadine and everything was worked out and the student was very happy that
she could get started in her class after a 3 ½-day delay.
“Nadine did not have to give her private cell phone number on a Saturday morning to a student and help her out, but she did
because that is the kind of customer service that Nadine gives our students.”
Burckhalter noted that others in her department have also worked on Saturdays.
About Iron the Shirt
The Iron the Shirt award is named after an interaction in a Raleigh clothing store where a clerk helped a man who was buying
a shirt by offering to iron his shirt for him. At SPCC, the award has been presented to employees who demonstrate exemplary
customer service. To nominate someone for the award, e-mail Jim Muldrow at jmuldrow@spcc.edu with a brief description of
a specific action deserving recognition.

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September birthdays
Sept. 1: Sharon Little
Sept. 2: Grant LeFoe
Sept. 3: Miriam Sallee
Sept. 5: Tracie Boone, Terry James
Sept. 6: Carl Bishop, Cindy Crenshaw, Emily Jarrell
Sept. 7: Vickie Cameron
Sept. 11: Diana Gagné
Sept. 12: Tim Goosch
Sept. 22: Nathan Shepherd
Sept. 23: Maureen Little, Debra Winkler
Sept. 24: John Hill
Sept. 25: Dawn Hildreth
Sept. 26: Christy Winfield
Sept. 28: Pam Runkel
Sept. 30: Steve Ennis, Al Johnstone, Lynn Raye

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Brain Teaser
A woman who lived in Germany during World War II wanted to cross the German/Swiss border in order to escape Nazi
pursuers. The bridge that she has to cross is a half mile across, over a large canyon. Every three minutes, a German guard comes
out of his bunker and checks if anyone is on the bridge. Anyone caught trying to escape the German side is shot. Anyone
caught crossing from the other direction without papers is sent back. She knows it takes at least five minutes to cross the
bridge, in which time the guard will see her crossing and shoot her. How does she get across?
E-mail answers to Jim Muldrow at jmuldrow@spcc.edu. All correct entries received by noon Sept. 13 will be placed in a drawing
to determine the winner. Be sure to put “Brain Teaser” in the subject line.
Last month’s winner
Nadine Burckhalter poses with her prizes – an SPCC apron and a $25
gift card to Longhorn Steakhouse in Monroe – after her entry was
drawn at random from among all the correct answers to last month’s
question. The question, from Lew Powell’s “The Ultimate North
Carolina Quiz Book,” was “Although best known for his television
series, Andy Griffith won applause from movie critics for his role in
what 1957 drama?
A) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
B) Come Back, Little Sheba
C) The Three Faces of Eve
D) A Face in the Crowd”
The correct answer was D) A Face in the Crowd.