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The end of August was a time of cel-
ebration at two Lindsey Wilson College
community campuses.A total of 20 graduate students from
the Mountain Empire Community
College in Big Stone Gap, Va., and
Southwest Community College in
Richlands, Va., participated in those
campuses first pinning ceremonies.
Many of the graduates were also mem-
bers of LWCs first baccalaureate class-
es at the two community campuses.
Eleven students from Southwest
Community College were honored Aug.
20 for earning a master of educationdegree in counseling and
human devel-
opment, and then nine students from
Mountain Empire Community College
were honored on Aug. 21 for earning a
masters degree.
Thanks to partnership between LWC
and the two Virginia community col-
leges, the students earned a graduate
degree while attending weekend classes
in their home communities.
Although Big Stone Gap and
Richlands are more than 190 milesfrom the LWC A.P. White Campus
in
Columbia, Alumni Director Randy
Burns reminded the 20 students who
were pinned in August that they are
Blue Raiders for life.
Burns gave the graduates a Blue
Raider wrist band to signify the bond
they share with LWCs more than 7,000
other alumni.
From the moment on, you are a
Blue Raider for the rest of your life,
he said at Mountain Empire.
Mountain Empire, Southwest Campuses Celebrate Graduate
Classes
Graduate students at the Lindsey Wilson Big Stone Gap Community
Campus pose for a class
picture following their pinning ceremony.
B L U E RA I D E R S F O R L I F E
Watch the pinning
ceremonies at the
Southwest and
Mountain Empire
community campuses
on the Lindsey Wilson YouTube Channel:
ww.youtube.com/lwcpublicrelations. SearchSouthwest and Mountain
Empire.
Pinnings on YouTube
ABOVE: Graduate students at the Lindsey Wilson Richlands
Community Campus celebrate with
Alumni Director Randy Burns 93 (back row, left). BELOW: New LWC
alumni display their Blue
Raider wrist bands.
