MCC to induct distinguished alumni into Hall of Fame
Alumni who have excelled in their respective professions and life missions and have elevated MCC's esteem through their achievements, service, and association with the institution will be inducted into MCC's Hall of Fame on Wednesday, March 6.
Each year, MCC honors a group of servant-leaders who have distinguished themselves in their professions and community service with the Hall of Fame award.
The ceremony gets underway at 2 p.m. in the McCain Theater. A reception will follow in the College’s PTK Courtyard of Scholars, adjacent to Ivy-Scaggs Hall.
Inductees for this year's class are Dr. Sarah Garner Abernathy, David Charles Garner, and David Quave. Dr. Abernathy is a family nurse practitioner for the G.V. Sonny Montgomery Veteran Affairs Medical Center, and Garner is an associate chief financial officer for the government of the District of Columbia. Quave retired from Medtronic Corp., marketing biomedically-engineered products. Dr. Abernathy and Garner are sister and brother, marking the first time siblings will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Moreover, former employees who have passed away since last year's ceremony will be remembered by the tolling of bells. They include Clara Castle, Jimmie Evans, Mark Gunn, Tina Reena Keenan-Bonner, Kelly McKee, Morris Sweatt, Mary Tolbert, Sally Widen, and Darlene Withers.
The Hall of Fame ceremony is hosted by the MCC Foundation.
Former inductees into the MCC Hall of Fame include Dr. Bill Scaggs, Tommy Dulaney, Lou Weddington Hart, Ronald Miller, Phillip Martin, Dr. Tommy McDonald, Veldore Young, Billie Sollie, David Little, Sylvia Autry, Barbara Jones, Ed Skipper, Richard Kelly, Videt Carmichael, Dr. Clarence Roberts, Norma Bourdeaux, Mark McPhail, C.D. Smith, Wallace Strickland, Ralph E. Young Jr., Esq., B.B. Archer, Jacquelyn Van Zyverden Hogan, Leslie Usher, Charles Frank Winstead, E.M. “Hoot” Gipson, Larry Love, Tony Pompelia, Gerry Purvis, Jack Shank, Gene Goldman, J.F. “Bud” Thompson Jr., F.E. “Eddie” Holladay, Pam Tvarkunas, Terry Williams, Dr. Jennifer Avara Lott, Dr. David Batarseh, Von Burt, Dr. Randy Vance, Syria Sturdivant, Esq., Dr. Ricardo Gillispie, Donald R. Massey, Gary Wilkinson, Dr. Leigh Adams White, Jamie Cater, Joyce Frank, Roscoe Jones, Joe Charles Sanders, Robert Sanford, Dr. Kim Benton, Kathy Brookshire, Dustin Markham, Esq., Joe McCraney, Mark Porter, Dr. Lana Jackson, Dr. Ben Rush, Dr. Shawn Anderson, Dr. Lavon Fluker Reed, Fannie Johnson, Dan Hollingsworth, Dr. Joe Anderson, Rev. LaBaron Hedgemon, Ret. Col. Howard Malone, Ben Scaggs, Dr. Jamie Osby Williams, Rhonda Burrage, Dr. Betty Davis, Dr. Miles Shirley, Joe Clay Hamilton, Esq., Billy Beal, Jimmie Evans, Rev. Scotty Cole, Dr. Kathy Baxter, Dr. Daniel Newell, Richie McAlister III, Shirley Nell Goodman, Janet Heggie, Dr. Cedric Bradley, Dusty Culpepper, Debbie Galyean Mathis, Dr. Richie McAlister, Michael Thompson, Soraya Welden, Betty Young-Cryer, McKenzie Corey Dickerson, Justice Kenny Griffis, Joseph Michael Ponds, Wanda McPhail, Dr. Reginald Sykes, Michele Smith, Neil Henry, Anne Dowdle, Dr. Ray Denton, Wilhelmine Damon, Dr. Tajudeen Soyoye, Randy E. Carroll, Pamela Speights Harrison, and Debroah Bourrage Stokes.
For more information, visit meridiancc.edu/halloffame.