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Germanna Community College • 2012-2013 Annual Report to the Community 1
At Germanna Community College, we know we must not waste our
greatest resource--the potential of all of the people in our communities.
That potential lies not only in the minds of the young, but in the untapped
abilities of workers who must be retrained especially in fields where there
will be high-wage jobs.
An educated workforce creates a better economy for us all, translating into
higher pay for local people and a better quality of life for their families,
helping existing businesses be more profitable, attracting new employers
from outside the area and helping to spawn start-up companies. An
educated community makes for better citizens and brighter futures for all.
With your support, Germanna will continue to expand to meet our
communities’ needs.
With your support, we will move forward with plans for a permanent
campus in Stafford County and continue to seek ways to better serve
Caroline and Madison County residents.
With your support, we will continue to expand our Fredericksburg Campus
in Spotsylvania, to grow our respected nursing program at our Locust Grove
Campus in Orange County, offer new programs at our Daniel Technology
Center in Culpeper and offer classes at Dahlgren.
Germanna is working hard to respond quickly to provide students with the
knowledge, skills and attitude that lead to jobs that pay well and give local
companies a competitive edge in a challenging global market.
Nearly 80 percent of Germanna students remain in our area after
completing their college work, investing the skills they’ve learned in their
local communities. Secure in that knowledge, we must continue to prepare
students for jobs in STEM fields, as engineers, as workers trained in
cybersecurity, and as nurses and other health care professionals to meet our
communities’ needs
To meet those needs, we have grown to become the seventh largest of 23
schools in the Virginia Community College System. We have opened
new locations, created new programs and services, all during the most
challenging of times.
Now we must work and grow together to help sustain local economic
recovery and build future prosperity. Together, we can make a difference in
both good times and bad. I hope you find in this report further evidence that
the investment of your taxes, your donations, your employees and family
members as students, all have paid and will pay great dividends far into the
future.
Sincerely,
Dr. David A. Sam, President
The President’s Message
“Let us think of
education as the
means of developing
our greatest abilities,
because in each of
us, there is a private
hope and dream
which, fulfilled, can be
translated into benefit
for everyone...” --John F. Kennedy
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MissionAs a public, comprehensive community college, Germanna
provides accessible, quality educational and training
opportunities that meet our communities’ changing learning
needs.
This Mission is achieved through:
• Courses, programs, and services that enable students to gain
access to and succeed in higher education;
• Associate degrees and courses that prepare students to
advance to and succeed in four year colleges and universities;
• Training and services to develop successful employees who
meet employers’ specific needs;
• Training, associate degrees, and certificates for students to
enter and succeed in the workplace; and
• Services and support for community and economic
development.
VisionGermanna Community College is recognized as the region’s
leader and preferred partner providing excellence in accessible
educational opportunities and related services to our
communities. Our quality learning experiences enable students
to participate effectively in the social, economic, political,
intellectual, and cultural life of their communities. Germanna,
a dynamic learning organization, is the premiere gateway to
personal and community development.
ValuesOur values influence our thoughts, guide our decisions, mold
our policies, and help determine our course of action. Student
learning and success are at the heart of all that we do and are
demonstrated by:
Passion for learning and teaching, Integrity, Culture of service,
Excellence, Stewardship, and Respect.
Strategic Initiatives1. Become a Learning-Centered college, where quality teaching
and support services foster student learning and success.
2. Develop outreach efforts, programs, and services that fulfill
the promise of affordable access to educational opportunities
and workforce development for all the constituents of our
service area.
3. Develop partnerships and alternative resources to better
enable the College to achieve its mission.
4. Invest in people through professional development,
recognitions and rewards systems.
5. Develop systems of continuous improvement and a culture
of accountability to be better stewards of the resources and
mission in our care.
Who We Are...Germanna Community College is a public institution of
higher education in the Virginia Community College System.
As a comprehensive community college, Germanna provides
quality, accessible, and affordable educational opportunities
for the residents of the City of Fredericksburg and the
counties of Caroline, Culpeper, King George, Madison,
Orange, Spotsylvania and Stafford.
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Student Statistics
2011-12 Awards
College Transfer Degrees 1008
Career Technical Degrees 149
Career Studies Degrees 268
Certificates 54
Total Awards 1479
2011-12 Graduate Demographic
Headcount
Graduates 890
Female 595
Male 295
African-American 110
Asian 23
Caucasian 660
Hispanic 58
Native American 2
Pacific Island 24
Unknown 13
2011-12 Graduates Awards
890 1479
Passing GED Scores
2011-12 414
2011-2012 Majors
Associate of Arts & Sciences (AA&S) Business Administration
Education
General Studies
General Studies - Psychology Spec.
Liberal Arts
Science
Associate of Science (AS) Engineering
Associate of Applied Science (AAS) Business Management
Early Childhood Development
Information System Technology
Networking
Nursing
Nursing Comm. Program
Police Science
Technical Studies
Certificates Dental Assisting
Early Childhood Development
Fine Arts
Fire Science Technology
General Education
Graphic Communications
Police Science
Practical Nursing
Practical Nursing -EVHS
Career Studies Certificates
Caroline County (557)
Culpeper County (779)
Fredericksburg City (629)
King George (411)
Madison County (254)
Orange County (616)
Other (620)
Spotsylvania County (3742)
Stafford County (3243)
Jurisdiction Headcount 2011-12
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Germanna in the News
Germanna Ranked in Top 50 for Enrollment for
2010-11 by Community College Week
Despite the August 2011 earthquake that resulted in the closing
of the V. Earl Dickinson Building for repairs, Germanna
Community College was among the Top 50 fastest-growing two-
year colleges in America for 2010-2011, according to the 2012
rankings compiled by Community College Week.
GCC was ranked 45th in the nation with a 2.6 percent increase in
enrollment comparing Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, climbing by 197,
from 7,582 to 7,779.
The Dickinson Building was reopened and fully operational in
January 2013 for the beginning of the Spring semester.
Germanna President David A. Sam said the ranking shows the
college continued to serve the community without missing a beat
despite the quake. The increase in enrollment that semester also
bucked national trends in enrollment, which were beginning to
reflect a downturn.
IES Design Award
The Germanna Community College Science & Engineering
Building and Information Commons at the Fredericksburg
Area Campus that was designed by Clark Nexsen Architecture
and Engineering, won four Illumination Engineering Society
Illumination Awards of Merit for 2013. The green building is
designed to save energy by automatically adjusting lighting and
raising and lowering blinds to use natural light more efficiently.
The IES Illumination Awards provides a unique opportunity for
public recognition of professionalism, ingenuity, and originality
in lighting design based upon the individual merit of each entry
judged against specific criteria.
LEED Silver Certification for SEBIC
Germanna’s new Science & Engineering Building and
Information Commons, which opened in 2012, was officially
certified “Silver” for Leadership in Energy and Engineering
Design (LEED).
Features of the “green” building include a vegetative roof that
provides natural insulation, a rain water harvesting system used
for flushing toilets, sensors that automatically turn off lights
and adjust window shades, a wind turbine capable of powering
laptops and charging cell phones and laboratory exhausts that
harvest heated or cooled air to cut down on heating and cooling
costs.
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U.Va. RN to BSN Program Classes at Germanna,
via Interactive Video
A new agreement between the School of Nursing at the
University of Virginia and the Virginia Community College
System, including Germanna Community College, will guarantee
admission to the school’s RN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing
program.
The part time, 21-month program is designed to make it easier
for full-time working nurses to get their BSN. There will be one
class a week, with a clinical settings program in the second year
that allows students to practice what they’ve learned in class.
“Germanna has gone a little further,” said Dr. Patti Lisk, Dean
of Nursing and Health Technologies at GCC. “We have made it
possible for students to attend the University of Virginia classes
here on campus at Germanna through interactive video for their
first year of study.” She said the classes will be broadcast from
U.Va. to Germanna and that students at GCC will be able to
converse with University of Virginia faculty as if they were in the
same classroom.
Prevention with TIPS Incident Management System
Germanna has launched an online incident reporting platform
called TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and
Prevention Services) from Awareity, making it easy for students,
faculty, staff and others on campus to confidentially report
concerning behaviors or incidents.
Bullying, threats to harm, verbal abuse, assault and battery,
domestic violence, weapons, harassment, suicide risks, stalking,
hazing, alcohol or drug possession, theft, vandalism and
suspicious activity may be reported anonymously.
If someone has information about incidents that warrant
concern for the safety of students, faculty or staff, they can access
TIPS from GCC’s website at www.germanna.edu, select their
Germanna location and anonymously report the information.
Drop It! Donations Total $300,000 after
2013 Challenge
When Culpeper’s Drop It! The Healthy Living and Weight
Loss Challenge 2013 wrapped up, it had produced a total of
over $300,000 in donations to Germanna’s Nursing and Health
Technologies programs since the annual event began in 2010.
Joe and Linda Daniel and the Culpeper Regional Health System
have donated funds toward Germanna’s nursing and health
programs since the beginning.
Germanna President Dr. David A. Sam said the college is grateful,
“We want to thank the Daniels for their long term support for
Germanna in many ways, especially the nursing program and
health care programs. Thanks in large part to them; Germanna
now graduates two RN classes a year in December and in May.”
“We also deeply appreciate the long partnership with Culpeper
Regional Hospital and Culpeper Regional Health Care System.
They provide clinical instruction, and clinical sites. They’ve
contributed $1 million over the years to our programs.”
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Experiential Learning – NIH Internship
Program
Germanna student Ulisses Santamaria, the son of
immigrants from El Salvador, has always wanted to be a
doctor—so much so that as a child he became his own
first patient.
“I’ve always had a thing for medicine,” he says. “Even as a
kid, I was kind of my own doctor. If I had cuts or bruises,
I’d fix them myself and I was pulling my own teeth out
when they were ready.
He has worked as a volunteer at the Spotsylvania
Regional Medical Center, mostly in the emergency room
and has now become one of the early success stories
for Germanna’s new Experiential Learning internship
program. Through the program, Ulisses has landed an
internship at the National Institute for Health.
He will be mentored by Dr. Alon Poleg-Polsky in research
involving the structure and function of the retina at the
National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke in
Bethesda, MD. The work will involve investigation into
how the retina performs preliminary image processing
and transmits visual information to the brain.
The Faces of Germanna
CANstruction Event 2013
Germanna’s ”MeCANical” engineering team won the
Engineering Ingenuity award during a contest sponsored by
Stafford County Schools and 99.3 The Vibe.
Ten teams collected thousands of cans of food for the
Fredericksburg Area Food Bank, and then built structures at the
Spotsylvania Towne Center. The Germanna engineering students’
American flag design was titled “Silver Linings.” All the cans from
the competition went to feed area families in need.
The team consisted of Germanna engineering students Sarah
Kaufman, Ethan Flore, Philip Olson, Tyler Moore, Chris
Coleman, Leif Walde, Brian Keefer, Chris Boyce, Jordan
Barringer and faculty advisor Dr. Davyda Hammond.
Germanna Applied Engineering Club
The Germanna Community College Applied Engineering Club
and Dr. Davyda Hammond put on a strong showing at the ASME
Student Professional Development Conference at the University
of Virginia March 24, 2013.
The club and its Diverse Remote-Operated Inspection Device
(D.R.O.I.D.) robot took second place for student design. Over 50
engineering students from Germanna, James Madison University,
the U.S. Naval Academy, VMI, Old Dominion University and the
University of Virginia competed.
The Germanna club placed in all of the
competitions: 2nd Place - Student Design
(D.R.O.I.D.) and 2nd Place, Web Page Design
- Tristan Jones; 2nd Place, Poster Presentation -
Andrew Hallet and 4th Place, Oral Presentation
- Brian Keefer.
The GCC club built the robot “with the Fukushuma
power plant meltdown disaster in mind. It has
the ability to navigate into areas too dangerous
and restricting to send personnel.” Two on board
cameras allow the user to see what is going on. It’s
able to manipulate instruments from 10 inches
away with its probe.
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Fulfilled Dream of Playing Division I Football
Former Germanna Community College and Brooke Point High
School student Daniel Rodriguez, who earned both a Bronze Star
and Purple Heart while serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan,
saw his dream come true in 2012.
He made the Clemson football team as a walk-on and led the
Tigers onto the field carrying an American flag prior to the team’s
Oct. 21, Military Appreciation Day win over Virginia Tech.
Rodriguez’ fight was far from over after tours of duty in Iraq and
Afghanistan that saw him wounded and decorated for valor.
He returned home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and night
terrors. Using the G.I. Bill, he attended Germanna, and he credits
GCC with helping him decompress.
GI Jobs Magazine included Germanna in its 2013 list of Military
Friendly Colleges.
“My time at Germanna was incredible,” Rodriguez said. “In
a nutshell, I made the transition from combat to classroom.
Germanna really made me feel at home. There’s been nothing but
support. It’s been awesome. I loved it.”
Phi Theta Kappa Inducts New Members
Students were honored as the Germanna Community College
Alpha Lambda Psi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa held its annual
induction ceremony on April 16, 2013 at GCC’s Daniel
Technology Center in Culpeper. PTK is an international honor
society for two-year colleges.
The ceremony is held to acknowledge the academic achievements
of students who have achieved a 3.5 grade point average and have
completed 12 credits toward a degree program.
During the induction ceremony, students pledged an oath to the
chapter, signed their name into the induction record book and lit
the ceremonial candle.
Robert Lewis - Student Representative
Robert Lewis wanted to make a difference, and he realized that
to do that, he needed to go to college. He got a federal grant and
enrolled at Germanna.
“It’s a blessing to me to be able to be here and be able to get
my education and I’m going to try to make the best of it,” the
Chancellor High School graduate says.
He attended a student leadership conference in Roanoke, where
he heard a speaker talk about facing one’s fears.“Whatever it is
holding you back, just face it,” he says he was told.
“I guess I fear failure,” he said. “I’d hate to invest so much time
and energy in my education and not come out above average. I
want to excel.”
He became a student representative on College Council and was
part of a student delegation from Germanna to lobby legislators
to keep higher education affordable and accessible on Every Day
is Community College Day at the General Assembly.
“One of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of students are
going through the motions,” he said. “They don’t take the time
to become involved and engaged. If you slow down and keep
your eyes and ears open a lot of doors will open for you, a lot of
opportunities for really great things. Too many people pass those
opportunities by.”
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Sarah Pfeiffer - Student Tutor
Sarah Pfeiffer is from Molin, Germany. So when she needed a
part-time job, she thought about working at GCC’s Tutoring Cen-
ter, helping others learn to speak her native tongue, but ended up
tutoring German, English, math, biology and chemistry.
“I actually just walked over there to ask if they might need a
German tutor,” she says with a laugh. Then [GCC Coordinator of
Tutoring Ann Lyons] asked me how my English was. I ended up
tutoring everything I’ve taken so far.”
She plans to pursue a master’s degree in biology at the University
of Mary Washington, then continue to dental school at Virginia
Commonwealth University.
“I love it at Germanna,” she says. “Everybody is really helpful.”
She says she’s grateful to the Germanna Educational Foundation
for the Raynold “Randy” Collier Glazebrook III Scholarship
and the Steve and Nancy Jones Scholarship, which she says have
“made a huge difference”.
Kim Casey, R.N.
It’s been nearly three decades since Kim Casey was in high school
back in her home town of Rochester, N.Y. and very ill with an
autoimmune disorder.
“The nurses made a very big impact on me,” she says. “So I
decided that’s what I would like to do.”
She began studying to become a nurse, but as a Navy wife, she
had moved 20 times in 22 years before her husband Mike retired
in 2009 and took a job at Dahlgren.
Finally, in 2009, at age 44, she was able to resume her nursing
studies at Germanna Community College.
She was impressed with the Germanna faculty, and she says, “The
clinical aspect I received here was even better than I expected it
to be, due in part to the Virtual Hospital ,” which has high-tech
human simulators.
At Germanna, she was a model student. She received The
Florence Nightingale Award for her class. It’s presented to the
graduate deemed the most helpful and inspirational to the class.
She was accepted to work in the Virginia Commonwealth
University Massey Cancer Care Clinic in the Palliative Care Unit
during the summer of 2012 as a nurse extern.
In March, she was offered a full time position at the Massey
Cancer Center as a clinical nurse in the Bone Marrow Transplant
Unit.
At age 47, she passed the state nursing board exam and officially
became a Registered Nurse.
The Richmond hospital will pay for her to pursue her BSN, as
well as any other degree.
She says she’s leaning toward a career as an oncology nurse.
“Blackboard Collaborate” - connects students to tutors.
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Haleigh Funk, LPN
Her father’s battle with cancer started Haleigh Funk on her way
to becoming a nurse.“My dad had cancer when I was in the first
grade,” Funk said. “And he let me inject shots into his stomach.
Since then, everybody has said I ought to be a nurse.”
Her father has recovered and is doing well, but Haleigh hasn’t
forgotten the experience.
At 18, she completed Germanna Community College’s Practical
Nursing program at Eastern View High School in Culpeper and
became an LPN.
At 19, she graduated from Germanna’s Registered Nursing
program during Spring 2013 Commencement ceremonies.
“The sky is the limit for this talented young woman,” commented
the late Dean of Nursing and Health Technologies, Mary Gilkey.
“It’s definitely been a journey, and there’s been a lot of hard work,”
Funk said. But it’s been rewarding.”
She hopes to work at Culpeper Regional Hospital, and plans
to eventually get her bachelor’s degree to specialize in geriatric
nursing.
Anita Newhouse
Anita Newhouse didn’t believe she was college material.
Germanna’s Fall 2012 Commencement speaker says she came up
with every excuse she could not to enroll there.
“The truth is,” she says, “my self-esteem and confidence were
so low that I honestly didn’t think I would be successful. I
thank God I listened to a friend who convinced me to enroll
at Germanna in 2000. She suggested taking one class at a time
until I was used to that and then taking more than one class each
semester. As time passed, I became more confident and I held my
head higher.”
She was 29 years old when she started at GCC. Her goal was to
earn a bachelor’s degree by the time she was 40. She graduated
from the University of Mary Washington when she was 34.
Along the way, she received a Virginia Community College
System Chancellor’s Fellowship.
By age 36, she was the manager of Germanna’s Welcome Center
at the Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper, which brings
together counseling, financial aid and admissions resources to
help students in that area find the answer to any questions they
have, overcome any doubts they have,
and get off to a flying start.
She says she can identify with “the
hesitation, the anxiousness, the worry
and the fear” some students feel as
they enter college.
“If you have the burning desire to do
it, follow your dreams and don’t let age
or anything else hold you back from
what you want to do. Believe me, you
can,” Newhouse says.
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Jenny Stone - SGA President
Jenny Stone isn’t a typical college student body president. This
Germanna Community College Student Government Association
leader and Falmouth resident is 40 years old, and her 21- and
20-year-old sons plan to join her as students at GCC.
She’s survived two bouts with cancer. She says her first cancer
surgery took place when she was 22 in 1994. During her second
cancer surgery in 2007, she had a cardiac event on the operating
table and a major heart attack and quadruple bypass followed a
year later at age 35.
When doctors told her that her heart disease had become serious,
she said: “I’m not allowing this to stop or slow my life down. I
decided long ago not to dwell in my illnesses
or let them define me.”
She had to abandon her catering business
because of health setbacks and found herself
again at Germanna.
She’s studying psychology and plans to get
her associate’s degree, then transfer to the
University of Mary Washington for her
bachelor’s and possibly Marymount for
postgraduate work.
She has been a Sunshine Lady Foundation
Scholar through the Germanna Educational
Foundation.
Jenny Stone says GCC’s faculty has been
“inspirational,” particularly psychology
Professor Evan Gorelick.
She said she hopes her psychology studies lead
to work helping police officers who are under
stress, as well as family counseling.
Virginia Van Valzah
Stafford County Sheriff ’s Office Deputy Virginia Van Valzah has
turned a learning disability into what she calls an “addiction to
learning.”
Deputy Van Valzah, a Germanna graduate, was the college’s
keynote Spring 2013 Commencement speaker.
The determined 26-year-old has battled ADHD and dyslexia
since she was a child. When she enrolled at Germanna, she
applied advice from one of her teachers at James Monroe High
School to break courses down into easily digestible chunks and
spent a lot of time in the Tutoring Center.
“Class sizes at Germanna are small enough that you get that one-
on-one attention you need to thrive,” she said.
During the commencement
ceremony, students heard Virginia
Van Valzah’s message that there’s
no shame in having a learning
disability.
After earning her associate’s degree
at Germanna in 2006, she went on
to a bachelor’s in administrative
justice at George Mason University
in 2008 and a post bachelor’s
certificate and master’s in criminal
justice at Virginia Commonwealth
University in 2011. Using flash
cards to study, she compiled a 3.7
grade point average at VCU.
She’s now a court security deputy
for the Stafford County Sheriff ’s
Office and a training officer. She
teaches criminology at Germanna
as an adjunct faculty member.
“I’m addicted to learning and I’m
trying to pass on my addiction to
other people,” she said.
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The Faces of Germanna - Staff & Faculty
Mary Gilkey
Germanna Community College’s Dean of Nursing and Health
Technologies Mary Gilkey passed away Tuesday, July 25, 2013 at
VCU Medical Center in Richmond at the age of 55. She had been
battling an autoimmune disorder for some time.
“With the passing of Dean Gilkey, Germanna has lost a leader
whose boundless energy and enthusiasm helped the college
double the size of its nursing program and graduate two classes a
year,” said GCC President Dr. David A. Sam. “Our communities
have lost a champion for quality health care for all their citizens.”
“Dean Gilkey worked diligently with area hospitals to anticipate
and meet health care needs ,” Dr. Sam said.
“She loved her students and the college dearly. The students she
inspired will be her legacy. She will be missed.”
Ode to a Nurse
She is a symbol in her immaculate white,
Softly treading through the stillness of the night,
Quick to cope with a sudden emergency,
She is that wonderful nurse who is on duty;
Day in and day out the constant rounds she will make
Weary, tired, the patient, she does not forsake,
Gently caressing the crying, frightened child,
Tenderly caring for the bedridden senile;
She is the nurse, the beautiful Angel in white.
She is like a star, shinning ever so bright,
Many tears, and smiles along the way she has seen,
But she will stand up, ‘ever like a great Queen.
- A. J. Sam
Dr. Richard E. Mezo
Dr. Richard Mezo, an adjunct professor at Germanna, a veteran
of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force, an author and a poet, passed
away on July 6, 2013 at his home in Stafford County at the age 74.
His 2008 anti-waterboarding op-ed column, “Why it was Called
Water Torture,” appeared in The Washington Post and The Free
Lance-Star.
Dr. Mezo taught English language and literature at universities,
colleges, and high schools in the United States and overseas
and on military bases. He taught composition, literature and
developmental English part-time at Germanna’s Fredericksburg
Area Campus in Spotsylvania.
Dr. Mezo was the author of a number of books, including:
Concepts and Choices: A Writer’s Companion and Personal
Advisor, Essential Structures: A Guide to English for Readers and
Writers, Nothing’s Out of Place and Recovering Argument: A Guide
to Critical Thinking and Writing.
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Germanna Employees Honored at Innovations
Conference in Dallas - Roueche Excellence Award
Named in honor of John E. and Suanne D. Roueche, leaders in
the community college field and early proponents of the idea
that every college employee has a role in how well students learn
and succeed, the awards celebrate outstanding contributions and
leadership by community college faculty and staff.
The Germanna winners for their work in 2012 are: Celestine
Cool, former Manager of the ACC and Testing Services, Garland
Fenwick, Facilities Manager, Winferd Stevens, Coordinator of
Disability Services and Michael C. Farris, former Financial Aid
Coordinator. Farris returned to his hometown as Director of
Financial Aid at Randolph College in Lynchburg in February, but
continued to teach at GCC.
“I am easily motivated just with watching our students grow and
succeed knowing that our services had a hand in helping them on
their way,” Cool said. “Communication, perseverance, and vision
are my key strategies. Communication is the key to a strong
relationship with students as well as the college community.
Perseverance is necessary to implement resources when they
are needed and money is tight, and vision for the future; always
thinking ahead of new initiatives that will keep improving the
quality of our services. “
“As a Facilities Manager, I am inspired and motivated to provide
the most effective and efficient facilities,” Fenwick said. “I feel
by providing safe and well maintained buildings and grounds, it
creates an atmosphere that contributes to student learning. “
“This is a great honor and I would like to thank all the great
people that are working in community colleges who are giving
their heart and soul to helping others,” Stevens said.
“I am truly honored to have been selected for this award,” Farris
said. “I will continue to work hard so that students can achieve
their dreams. Thanks to all who helped make this possible.”
More than 800 colleges are League members. According to its
website, “The League is spearheading efforts to develop more
learning-centered community colleges through its Learning
Initiative. The goal is to assist community colleges in developing
policies, programs, and practices that place learning at the heart
of the educational enterprise, while overhauling the traditional
architecture of education.”
Excellence in Education Awards at New Horizons
Ann Lyons and her team won first place on the project of
“Beyond Face-to-Face and Online Tutoring: Bb Collaborate
Connects Students and Tutors” in the category of Improving
Student Success—Institutional.
Julie Mersiowsky collaborated with other institutions and won
first place on two projects of “LOGO” and “TOTAL” for both
categories - Best Practices in Teaching Face-to-face, Online and
Student Success and Innovative Use of Technology in the Face-
to-Face and Online Classroom.
GCC Center for
Workforce’s O’Keefe
Wins Women’s
Leadership Award
Germanna’s Martha O’Keefe
received the Patricia Lacey
Metzger Award during the
19th Annual Leadership
Colloquium for Professional
Women at the University of
Mary Washington.
O’Keefe is Dean of Workforce and Professional Development at
Germanna’s Center for Workforce and Community Education.
The Metzger Award honors those who “uphold high standards in
their personal and professional lives while fulfilling a career goal
of significant nature.”
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2012 President’s Recognition Awards
The recipients of the 2012 President’s Recognition Awards were
Michelle Norton, Paula Gentry, Nick Morgan, Cheryl Huff and
Tina Lance.
Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow for 2012-13
Germanna’s faculty member, Professor of Nursing Karen Mittura,
was selected as a Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow for 2012-13. Karen
is one of three faculty members across the Virginia Community
College System to receive this award.
In addition to being recognized for her outstanding work as a
faculty member, Professor Mittura has been awarded a one-year
fellowship to continue her studies. She will pursue a Doctorate
of Nursing Practice in Educational Leadership at Case Western
University.
Special Certificate from the Governor for a High
Rating on Emergency Planning
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia on behalf of the
Office of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security
recognized Germanna Community College for its outstanding
and exemplary initiatives in the areas of all-hazards emergency
preparedness. This certificate honors the hard work, leadership
and overall dedication to students, faculty and staff at Virginia’s
Colleges and universities.
Those who lead our emergency planning included: Craig Branch,
Rick Brehm, Garland Fenwick, Jacque Larsen, Ollie Burton and
many more.
Dr. Davyda Hammond
Her mother passed away when she was 5 and her father
was unable to care for her, so at the age 12, she moved to
Birmingham, Alabama to live with her grandmother.
Her life had taken a turn for the better thanks to her
grandmother. So it rankled her when, as a child, she would see
shady mechanics take advantage of her, charging her a lot and
refusing to explain what was wrong.
When she was 12, her teachers in Alabama told her she should
become a math teacher. She knew that math was important to
engineering, and she says with a smile that she thought to herself
back then, “Well, engineers, they learn about cars.”
By the time she was in college, she would take her grandmother’s
car to a dealership and confidently and firmly say: “This is what’s
wrong. Don’t tell me anything else is wrong with it.”
In 2012 she did some research and found that more job openings
were listed for electrical engineers across Virginia than for
mechanical engineers.
Until now, Germanna’s Associate of Science degree in
Engineering program focused on mechanical engineering and
engineering science.
Seeing a need, she pushed to add a concentration in electrical
engineering at Germanna and succeeded.
Dr. Hammond explains that because Germanna has guaranteed
admission articulation agreements with both U.Va. and Virginia
Tech, “If you get at least a ‘B’ in all your engineering and science
and math classes at GCC and an overall GPA of 3.2, you’re
guaranteed admission into the schools of engineering at U.Va.
and Virginia Tech. They get so many applications at Tech that
automatically knowing you’re getting in is a real advantage.”
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Cheryl Huff
The Virginia Community College System considers rising
textbook costs a hindrance to enrollment and student success.
According to the Virginia College Board, the typical student
spends about $1,000 on textbooks.
In the Spring of 2013, the VCCS awarded grants to faculty
members who went to work finding ways to use free Open
Educational Resources in classes and research to bring down the
cost of textbooks.
Cheryl Huff, an associate professor of English and humanities
at Germanna Community College, was one of 12 VCCS faculty
members awarded $3,000.
The Chancellor’s Reengineering Task Force supported the OER
grant effort for use in classes with high enrollment, including
English, psychology, biology, business, chemistry, history, math
and information technology.
The grant will pay for work designing an English 112:
Composition II class that uses only OER. It is to be piloted in the
Fall semester of 2013 and the Spring of 2014.
She said students will save on textbooks while learning about
high quality, free resources they can use for years.
Professor LaZalia Richardson by Nancy W. Noel, Instructor of English at Germanna
Community College
The August 2011 earthquake shut down Germanna
Community College’s largest building until January 2012. But
another event that took place last year shook the college to its
core with deeper and longer-lasting consequences. Temporary
loss of bricks and mortar couldn’t begin to compare to the
loss of professor LaZalia Richardson, who retired to focus
her energy on recovering from a March 2011 stroke. Her
contributions to the community and Germanna’s students,
faculty, and staff are too numerous to list.
The Fredericksburg native and James Monroe High School
graduate’s character, dignity, integrity, intellect, and her passion
for teaching make her irreplaceable.
At Germanna, she held many leadership positions, among them: English Department coordinator, member of the Faculty Senate, and
chair of the College Council. She taught composition and literature at GCC for 24 years, specializing in American literature and the
Bible as literature.
Dr. Richardson changed students’ lives because she genuinely loved them. She held students to a very high standard, yet never failed to
provide what they needed to meet it. There was always a cluster of students waiting outside her office door for academic help, advice,
coaching, and mentoring. She did not merely teach. She shaped lives.
In recognition of her service to college, the college’s English Department has established a scholarship in her name through the GCC
Educational Foundation. Her legacy will live on in those she so believed in and loved so much—the students.
Germanna is a far better place because of her.
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Alison Gauch Hieber
Germanna’s first Dean of Enrollment Services has overseen some
significant changes since she joined Germanna in 2012.
She has overseen the expansion of Germanna’s Welcome Center
concept, which brings together counseling, financial aid and
admissions resources to help students more easily find the answer
to any questions, overcome any doubts and get off to a flying
start.
She has overseen the hiring of Veterans Support Counselor
Robert Dixon and the continuing development of Germanna
President Dr. David A. Sam’s vision for a Veterans’ Center.
“When I arrived,” she said, it was to pull together enrollment
pieces—financial aid, admissions and recruiting.”
Dean Hieber has 25 years of experience. Her first job out of
college was as Assistant Director for Admissions overseeing
transfers at James Madison University. She then worked at the
University of Mary Washington for 19 years as Associate Dean
for Admissions before coming to Germanna.
When she was doing her undergraduate work at James Madison
University she majored in marketing.
“But I like to say I double-majored in student life,” she said.
“We had a fabulous vice president for student affairs who said,
‘You know you don’t have to leave college.’ “ Dean Hieber then
proceeded to get her master’s degree in higher education at the
University of South Carolina.
“What I find most enjoyable is the people”, she said. “I have great
people on my team and I enjoy seeing them come together to
help a student. There’s a lot of possible energy.”
She said she also enjoys working at Germanna because
“community colleges can address the needs of students who are
blocked because of their environment such as needing to work
full time to take care of a family while pursuing a degree.” She
said Germanna is “a breath of fresh air” to students who need a
chance to overcome obstacles.
Robert M. Dixon
Germanna’s new Student Veterans Support Counselor
understands what it’s like to be deployed in Afghanistan and he
understands what it’s like to make the transition from active duty
to civilian life.
Robert M. Dixon had a 22-year career in the U.S. Army, serving
during the Gulf War as part of Operation Desert Storm and as
part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. He retired
as a lieutenant colonel.
“Veterans returning to civilian life face a transition that
sometimes is difficult to make,” Germanna President Dr. David
A. Sam said. “From structured jobs, they must find a career
among too many options. Combat veterans may need more than
career counseling.”
“This position was a next step in developing Germanna’s Center
for Veterans’ Retraining and Support,” Dr. Sam said. “Here
veterans can find help in translating their military training into
college credit. Here they can explore career options. Here they
can connect with resources from the Veterans Administration
to pay for their education. Here they can connect with other
veterans who understand, as Bob Dixon does, what it means to
be a veteran.”
“I’m grateful to have the opportunity to help the young men and
women who have given so much already,” Dixon said. “Education
is so important to setting our veterans up for the rest of their
lives—it’s the difference between just getting by and having a
good life.”
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Shashuna Gray
Germanna’s new dean of Arts and
Sciences said, “I love Germanna and I
believe in it 100 percent. I really believe
in the community college system.”
She has 19 years of college teaching
experience, eight of those in the
Virginia Community College System.
A doctoral student in Old Dominion
University’s Community College
Leadership Program, Dean Gray has
both a Bachelor of Science degree and
a Master of Science degree in biology
from Alabama State University.
She spent the last year serving as acting Dean of Arts and Sciences. Before that, she was
teaching biology and microbiology. She believed that through teaching biology she could
ease the anxiety many have about the study of science in general. “I wanted to make the
students feel comfortable in the classroom and make a difference,” Gray said. “I have a
passion for teaching and for helping students succeed.”
At Germanna, she said, helping students succeed goes well beyond the classroom
Germanna students, “find themselves in an environment where they can come to faculty
when they have other problems -- not just enrolling in classes and having their financial
aid approved. Both on the credit side and through the college’s non-credit Workforce
Development side, she says, “We’re able to provide students skills and opportunities they
might not otherwise have a chance to develop, and to find their passion.”
C. Douglas Elliott
C. Douglas Elliott was named Vice
President for Institutional Advancement
at Germanna will also serve as Executive
Director of the Germanna Community
College Educational Foundation.
His responsibilities will include planning,
leadership and implementation of all
college fundraising initiatives, grant
writing, planned giving, endowment,
scholarships, and alumni research
and records, and parent engagement
programs. He will also be responsible for
leadership of all college marketing, public
information and media relations activities
and high-level support for community and government relations activities. Elliott will
lead a team of development, marketing and public information, media professionals and
administrative staff.
Elliott has served in leadership positions in advancement and marketing for a diverse
group of nonprofit institutions from higher education to social service agencies to global
entities such as the Smithsonian Institution and the International Center for Missing and
Exploited Children. Previously, he had served as vice president for several publishing
firms and then as president of his own award-winning company, which he founded,
Elliott & Clark Publishing.
He coauthored two books, Florida Rediscovered and Vietnam: Images from Combat
Photographers.
Employees Years of Service
45-Years of Service
Richard Gossweiler
30-Years of Service
Sarah W. Somerville
25-Years of Service
Richard Brehm
Delois McCormick
20-Years of Service
Valerie Miller
Phyllis Smith
15-Years of Service
Craig Branch
Pamela Frederick
Frances F. Lea
Karen Mittura
Sandra Monroe
Mike Shirazi
Beverly Unkle
10-Years of Service
Sheryln A. Farrish-Barner
Susan Brown
Paula Gentry
Shashuna Gray
Melba Morrozoff
Nancy Noel
Ronald Williams
Samantha Wilson
5-Years of Service
Rosie Henderson
Michael Hurley
Kelly Rudnick
Jeanne Wesley
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New Automotive Technology Center in Stafford County
In April 2011, the Stafford EDA approved a $75,000 grant toward
bringing GCC’s automotive program to a location on Blackjack
Road off U.S. 1 near the county airport.
“It’s a state of the art facility we can afford,” Dr. Sam said. “We can
double enrollment at low cost.” The new center has the capacity
to serve about 150 students.
Michael Adams owns the 1.5-acre site and his JON Properties
development firm built the facility. Germanna leases 11,000
square feet for auto labs, classrooms and office space.
The Germanna automotive program is certified by the National
Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), a certification
group that certifies professionals in the automotive repair and
service industry.
The 24-credit automotive technician certificate includes training
in the ASE areas of engine repair, suspension and steering,
brakes, and electrical systems. The 26-credit automotive
diagnostician certificate includes training in the ASE areas of
automotive transmission, manual drive train, climate control,
and entire performance.
Commencements
Germanna’s 2012 Fall Commencement,
held at the Fredericksburg Expo Center,
saw 571 students receive a total of 942
associate’s degrees.
Germanna Welcome Center Manager
Anita Newhouse, the commencement
speaker, told graduates she came
up with every excuse she could not
to enroll at Germanna because of a
lack of confidence. Once she did, her
self-esteem rose and she graduated from both GCC and the
University of Mary Washington.
During Germanna’s 2013 Spring Commencement ceremony,
503 students received a total of 854 associates degrees, and
certificates.
They heard Germanna graduate Virginia Van Valzah’s message
that there’s no shame in having a learning disability and that
sometimes people with disabilities can be the best at a job.
Opening of Germanna Offices at Central Park
Germanna Community College officially opened new offices
for its Educational Foundation and the office of Marketing and
Public Information at the Central Park Corporate Center at 1320
Central Park Blvd. in October 2012.
GCC has campuses in Spotsylvania County and Locust Grove
and centers in Stafford and Culpeper counties. No classes will be
offered at the Central Park location.
Germanna President Dr. David A. Sam thanked the Rappaport
Companies for donating the space for three years. He and Jane
Wallace, President of the GCC Educational Foundation, cut the
ribbon to open the new facility. About 100 local business people
and friends of the college looked on.
Events
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2013 Nursing Idol Competition
Faith Resto of Fredericksburg won the RN portion and
Emily Lunceford of Caroline County won the LPN phase of
Germanna Community College’s Third Annual Nursing idol
competition held at the Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper.
The competition, held before a crowd of about 400 nursing
students, faculty and local healthcare officials, is a combination of
American Idol and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? without the
lifelines, and the ER. Students answer questions from a panel of
medical expert judges on how they would handle cases.
“Nursing Idol is a wonderful way to demonstrate the quality of
our nursing program and students,” said Germanna President
Dr. David A. Sam. “These young people have to stand up in front
of all their peers and answer extremely tough questions under
pressure–in many cases, questions you would expect a doctor to
answer. They demonstrate all that they learned and that they are
able to think on their feet critically and solve problems and it’s
exactly the kind of thing they’ll have to do in the real world.”
“Under pressure, they’ll have to apply everything they know. It
shows that we’ve got a fine program with great teachers and great
students,” Sam said.
Students display the poise developed in GCC’s high-tech Virtual
Hospital at the Locust Grove Campus, where computerized
human simulators are used.
Startup Weekend Fredericksburg
Startup Weekend, which helps fledgling entrepreneurs launch
companies, was held at Germanna’s Fredericksburg Campus in
Spotsylvania in partnership with the GCC Center for Workforce
& Community Education.
Part of a global movement to inspire, educate, and empower
individuals, teams and communities, Startup Weekend
Fredericksburg was a 54-hour event designed to support
creative, focused, and collaborative innovation. It helps
participants form a team to work on a concept and refine it, then
pitch it to investors so they can launch a startup.
“We have the facilities and support, and we work closely with the
business community, so it’s a good fit,” said Germanna’s Martha
O’Keefe, Dean of Workforce and Professional Development.
Germanna’s Center for Workforce provides training and
professional development for the region’s business community,
including courses and programs supporting small businesses.
And, she pointed out, two-year college degrees are available, also
meeting the needs of businesses in Germanna’s service region.
“We work closely with the region’s offices of economic
development to respond to workforce needs,” Dean O’Keefe said.
“We work collaboratively with offices of economic development,
K-12 school divisions, other higher education schools, Chambers
of Commerce, etc. to help connect the business community to
programs and resources.”
She said Germanna’s Center for Workforce pivots quickly to meet
the needs of local businesses, including those of startups.
There have been over 1,000 Startup Weekend events held in
478 cities around the world and from these events over 8,000
startups have been created. Organizers say Startup Weekend is an
opportunity to get experience that enhances creative and critical
problem-solving, to try new skills, and to get expert instruction
on new methods of brainstorming.
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College Board
2012Germanna Community
College Board
Doug Rogers, Chairman
Orange County
Catherine Washington
Vice Chairman
Stafford County
Sherry Gravatt
Caroline County
Angela Greene
Spotsylvania County
John H. Jenkins
Culpeper County
Teri McNally
City of Fredericksburg
Harold “Dick” Scheibe
King George County
William Thomas
Culpeper County
Ann G. Tidball
Madison County
Greetings from the Germanna Local College Board,
There is no doubt in my mind that Germanna Community College’s service region will
continue to be a leader in coming back strong from our nation’s economic downturn.
I believe that part of our area’s economic resurgence has to do with the over 600,000
Germanna credits that have accumulated over the years. Those credits benefit not only
our students and their families, but local businesses and our entire communities.
Nearly 80 percent of Germanna students remain in our area, putting what they’ve learned
to work. An educated and trained workforce is critical to keeping existing businesses
competitive and attracting new ones that bring with them more good jobs that pay well.
We continue to work hard at priming our region’s economic pump:
• As Stafford County celebrates its 350th Anniversary, we join with the county’s
Economic Development Authority and Board of Supervisors in working to ensure
a prosperous future. In August 2013, we opened a high-tech new Automotive
Technical Center to complement our Stafford County Center, which has been bulging
at the seams since it opened in 2009. GCC is one of three colleges offering classes at
the new Stafford Technology & Research Center. Now the county urgently needs a
full Germanna Stafford Campus to meet future educational and training demands,
and we are working with officials there to make one a reality.
• At Germanna’s Locust Grove Campus in Orange County, we have doubled the capacity
for our well respected nursing program and more classes than ever are being offered
there. We are working toward expanding and our facilities there, including our high
tech Virtual Hospital, to meet the health care needs of graying Baby Boomers.
• More classes are being offered at GCC’s Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper, and
we’re working to add even more, making degrees and certificates more accessible to
Culpeper and Madison counties.
• As Caroline County prepares for expected future growth, we are planning a
Germanna Center there.
• We are expanding Workforce Development in our communities and Dual Enrollment
offerings that allow students to earn college credit at their own high schools and
saving their families money.
• We have continued to expand our Fredericksburg Campus in Spotsylvania by adding
a much needed parking garage to go with our beautiful and cutting-edge Science &
Engineering Building and Information Commons and renovated Dickinson Building.
• Residents of King George County will be pleased to know that Germanna will pilot
three classes by interactive video in fall 2013 at the University of Mary Washington
Dahlgren Campus – Calculus 1 and 2 and Engineering.
• Germanna and University of Mary Washington have partnered to offer courses at
UMW at GCC tuition rates.
We thank community leaders who have played a major role in our funding, service and
expansion.
Special thanks go out to the donors, fund-raisers and all those who played a role in
increasing support for Germanna student success.
Let there be no doubt that, with your help, the college that continued to grow and
maintain its academic excellence through economic storms and an earthquake will
continue to succeed in its mission of making quality higher education affordable and
accessible to all in our service region.
Doug Rogers
Chairman, Germanna Local College Board
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Educational Foundation
A Message from Jane Wallace, President
Making a Difference Feels Good
Dear Friends of Germanna,
Harlan Ellison once wrote that the only three words more meaningful than “I love you” are
“Let me help.”
During the March 15, 2013 Germanna Community College Educational Foundation
Scholarship Reception at the College’s Fredericksburg Area Campus in Spotsylvania, donors
learned how much their uttering the words “Let me help” has meant to students they have
given a hand up at GCC.
They learned that their donations are turning lives around.
And they learned that providing they’re making a real difference not only for the students
and their families, but for our communities. Over 80 percent of Germanna students remain in our area to put the skills they’ve
learned at GCC to work helping their neighbors in growing fields such as health care and engineering.
In the past academic year our Educational Foundation has provided about 275 students scholarship awards of more than
$230,000. Still, many more students need assistance to realize their potential.
We’ve been able to give more students the help they need thanks to new scholarships from donors including Atlantic Builders, its
CEO Adam Fried and his wife Rhonda, and through the continuing generosity of longtime supporters like Joe and Linda Daniel.
Continued support from Mary Washington Healthcare and CEO Fred Rankin has boosted our widely respected nursing program.
And continued support from Culpeper Regional Health System and its President and CEO Lee Kirk have made it possible for us
offer Dual Enrollment nursing students at Eastern View High School as part of a program through which they can graduate from
high school as LPNs.
Our annual events were all smashing successes.
• Our Sept. 6, 2012 GCCEF Golf Tournament raised nearly $30,000.
• A big crowd came out to the Fredericksburg Country Club as the GCCEF honored Charles G. McDaniel on Feb. 15, 2012 as
Distinguished Person of the year for decades of making a difference
• Our April 20, 2012 Scholarship Monte Carlo Night raised a record $144,000 for our Germanna Guarantee Scholarship
Program
CRHS CEO Kirk presented the Germanna Educational Foundation with a $40,000 donation at the November 16, 2012 GCCEF
Annual Dinner & Celebration of Philanthropy.
These difference makers were recognized at the annual dinner:
• The Rev. Lawrence A. Davies, who had recently retired after 50 years as pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) in
Fredericksburg and was the city’s first black mayor from 1976-96 as GCCEF’s first ever Community Member of the Year.
The new award will be named for Davies and will recognize an individual each year that has made a major difference in our
communities.
• Madison County husband and wife John W. “Bill” Price III and Patricia Adams Price were named Germanna Community
College’s 2012 Philanthropists of the Year. Bill Price is CEO of Madison Wood Preservers.
• Steve B. Jones of Spotsylvania County was named GCCEF Alumnus of the Year. He is President and Chief Operating Officer
of the Fried Companies, Inc.
• John J. “Butch” Davies, III, a Culpeper attorney and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, was named the
GCCEF Board Member of the Year.
Thank you for saying to our students, “Let me help,” and in doing so, making a difference in our communities.
Sincerely,
Jane WallacePresident, Germanna Community College Educational Foundation
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2012 Germanna Community
College Educational Foundation Board
Jane Wallace, President
George P. Snead
Immediate Past President
Felix Fraraccio, Treasurer
David A. Sam, Secretary
Darla K. Burton, Chair,
CORPs Volunteers
Wendell Anderson
Linda C. Beale
Earl Thomas “Tom” Blalock, II
Henry “Hap” Connors, Jr.
Trish Crowe
Joseph “Joe” R. Daniel
John “Butch” J. Davies, III
Carlos Del Toro
Kenny L. Dotson
Georgia M. Fauber
Chris Hallberg
Edward “Ted” B. Hontz
Edd Houck
Gordon “Pete” Humes
Russell James
Barbara Kane
Constance R. Kincheloe
Ann M. Lewis
Linda J. “L.J.” Moyer
Stanley Palivoda
J. William Price, III
Terika Richardson
Jack Rowley
Frank S. Turnage
Annual Dinner & Celebration of Philanthropy
The Reverend Lawrence A. Davies, who retired after 50 years as pastor of Shiloh
Baptist Church in Fredericksburg and was the city’s first black mayor from 1976-96,
was honored as Germanna Community College Educational Foundation’s first ever
Community Member of the Year at the 2012 GCCEF Annual Dinner & Celebration of
Philanthropy at Stephenson’s Ridge Lodge in Spotsylvania County.
Germanna President Dr. David A. Sam said the new award will be named for Davies
and will recognize an individual each year who has made a major difference in the
community.
GCCEF President Jane Wallace said Davies and his wife Janice have together “been a
force for peaceful and positive change” over the past half century.
Reverend Davies expressed his gratitude that Germanna was a place where their
daughter Lauren, who had sickle cell anemia and passed away at age 36, felt comfortable
as she broadened her horizons.
Culpeper Regional Health System President and CEO Lee Kirk presented the Germanna
Educational Foundation with a $40,000 donation at the dinner.
Other honors conferred at the dinner: John J. “Butch” Davies, III, a Culpeper attorney
and former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, was named the GCCEF Board
Member of the Year.
Steve B. Jones of Spotsylvania
County was named GCCEF
Alumnus of the Year. He graduated
from Germanna in 1979 with
an associate’s degree in business
management. He is President and
Chief Operating Officer of the
Fried Companies, Inc. a regional
residential and commercial real
estate development firm based
in Fairfax County with offices
in Springfield, Spotsylvania and
Greene County.
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Annual Golf Tournament raises nearly $30,000
Germanna Community College’s Educational Foundation raised
nearly $30,000 when sponsorships, entry fees and additional
donations were tabulated following the September 2012 GCC
Annual Golf Tournament at the Fredericksburg Country Club.
The tournament was won by a team from StellarOne.
The start was delayed for about two hours by a thunderstorm, but
the skies cleared and the sun came out and players were able to
complete 18 holes.
Stafford EDA Honored with
Philanthropy Award
The Stafford County Economic
Development Authority was awarded
the 2012 Virginia’s Community Colleges
Chancellor’s Award for Leadership in
Philanthropy at a luncheon ceremony at the
Country Club of Virginia in Richmond in
April 2012.
It was nominated by Germanna Community
College, which had earlier named the
Stafford EDA GCC’s 2012 Philanthropist of
the Year.
In May 2011, the EDA awarded Germanna
a matching challenge grant of up to $1 million toward the
establishment of a permanent campus. EDA officials said the
campus will aid workforce and economic development. GCC is
looking at possible sites in the Stafford Courthouse area for the
campus, which it expects to serve 10,000 students.
“Germanna is grateful to the Stafford EDA for its investments in
the college,” GCC President David A. Sam said, “and we will work
hard to help give Stafford students an edge in the job market and
make county businesses more competitive in an evolving world
economy.”
“The Stafford EDA’s vision and leadership make this is a well-
deserved honor,” said Michael A. Catell, Director of the GCC
Educational Foundation. “Their support of Germanna is making
a real difference for county residents.”
The EDA has awarded a total of $1.375 million to Germanna, also
donating $300,000 toward Germanna’s Stafford County Center,
which opened in 2009 and is now over capacity with about 1,200
students.
The EDA also awarded $75,000 toward the construction of a
GCC Automotive Program facility near the county airport.
Stafford EDA Chairman Don Newlin and member Jack Rowley
accepted the honor at the Chancellor’s Award for Leadership
in Philanthropy luncheon, hosted by the Virginia Foundation
for Community College Education to honor the leading
philanthropists from each of the state’s 23 community colleges as
well as the statewide foundation. This marks the seventh year the
awards have been given.
This year’s class of distinguished philanthropy leaders has
contributed a combined total of more than $48 million dollars to
Virginia’s Community Colleges.
“These philanthropic leaders are tremendous partners,” said
Glenn DuBois, Chancellor of Virginia’s Community Colleges.
“These individuals, organizations and employers are difference-
makers who play an essential role in helping our colleges fulfill
their mission of addressing Virginia’s unmet needs in higher
education and workforce development.”
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Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River
Region, Youth in Philanthropy Awards Scholarships
Four $500 scholarships were made available through funds
awarded to Germanna Community College’s Middle College by
the Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region,
Youth in Philanthropy organization. These funds were awarded
to assist Middle College graduates in their pursuit of higher
education at Germanna Community College.
The Middle College Program is designed to meet the needs of
those between 18-24 years old who have not graduated from high
school. The goal of the program is to have the students complete
the Middle College Program, enroll in a certificate or degree
program at Germanna, and enter the workforce.
Michelle Ly - Legacy Scholar
Unlike most 18-year-olds, Michelle Ly knew what she wanted to
do when she graduated from high school.
The 2012 Culpeper High School graduate has a gift for math.
“It’s always come easily to me,” she said.
Ly knew she wanted to become an accountant and decided she
wanted a bachelor’s degree from George Mason University. And
she knew the smartest way to get where she wanted to go was
to spend her first two years at Germanna Community College.
Ly was selected as a Virginia Community College System
Commonwealth Legacy Scholar based on her work at CCHS.
The Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship Program awards
scholarships to first-time students attending one of Virginia’s 23
community colleges, providing $3,000 for a full-year of tuition,
books, and fees.
Ly plans to earn her associate’s degree in business administration,
then study accounting at George Mason. Ly eased into
community college life by taking online courses, then classes
on campus. She said online courses require a little more self-
discipline, “but if you apply yourself, the quality is good.”
Rappahannock Electric Coop’s Operation Round Up
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative’s Operation Round Up has
raised $5,000 to support Germanna’s Middle College. Middle
College Director Carolyn Bynum said the GED test will be
changing in 2014, and the funds will be used to purchase new
curriculum.
According to REC’s website: “Operation Round Up lets REC
members volunteer to have their electric bills rounded up to the
next highest whole dollar, with the extra change dedicated to
charitable causes and “The purpose of Operation Round Up is
to support individuals, school programs, philanthropic groups,
non-profit organizations and other deserving causes within REC’s
service area. A board of directors reviews applications for support
and decides how donations are made.”
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GCCEF 2013 Distinguished Person of the Year
The Germanna Community College Educational Foundation honored
Charles G. and Mary Wynn McDaniel on February 15, 2013 for decades of
making a difference.
“We want to thank the McDaniels for all you’ve been and done, for your
model of leadership and service,” said Germanna President Dr. David
A. Sam. “It will be hard for anyone to follow in your footsteps.”
“Together, you have served this community … in economic development
and job creation, philanthropy and community service,” said the
foundation’s Distinguished Person of the Year Committee Chair Darla K.
Burton.
“Mary Wynn and I are both very strong on family and education,” Charles
McDaniel said in accepting the GCCEF 2013 Distinguished Person of the
Year Award at the Fredericksburg Country Club. He said that despite the
fact that the family was not always well off, four generations of McDaniels
had gone from public school at James Monroe High School to highly
regarded colleges like the University of Richmond and the University of
Virginia. “The world of education has changed” in a way that makes higher
education seem out of reach to too many, he said. “The reason we’re here is
to support Germanna.”
“Germanna is the ideal answer to many of our problems,” he said. “It
allows people with very little resources to go and get an education.
Germanna trains a lot of the workforce, whether it be the nurses at Mary
Washington [Hospital], truck drivers–they train all kinds of people,” he
said.
The award has been given since 2009 for exemplary service to
the community over an extended period of time. Past winners have been
Jane Ingalls, Sen. John Chichester, Ed Allison and Fred Rankin.
19th Annual Scholarship Monte Carlo
The Germanna Community College Educational Foundation’s 19th Annual
Scholarship Monte Carlo Night grossed a record $144,000 for the Germanna
Guarantee Program. The program provides financial assistance to students unable
to continue their education because of financial obstacles.
“Joe Daniel’s leadership was instrumental in the record gross for the event,” said
Mike Catell, former director of the Foundation. “This year our net will exceed our
gross goal of $120,000. That has never happened in the history of the event.”
Catell said a crowd of about 250 attended the event.
In 2012, more than 100 students benefited from the Germanna Guarantee
Program.
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ScholarshipsAgetro Fund
Alfred & Mary Jane King Scholarship for
Nursing
Ann J. Sam, RN Scholarship for Nursing
Anna Ruth Inskeep Scholarship
Ardiena Ann Tromley Scholarship for
Teaching
Atlantic Builders Scholarship
Bertha M. Massey Scholarship
Byrd L. “Jack” Daniel Scholarship
Caroline County Agricultural Fair
Scholarship
Charles H. Huffman Scholarship
Commonwealth Legacy Scholarship
Corbin Homebuilders Family Scholarship
Culpeper Regional Hospital Scholarship
Culpeper Wood Preservers Scholarship
D. French Slaughter, Jr. Scholarship
Dale Featherston Scholarship
Dulcie H. Potter Memorial Scholarship
Duval Scholarship
Elizabeth Golsen Schneider Scholarship
Elna H. Daniel Scholarship
Frank S. & Nancy W. Turnage Scholarship
Fredericksburg Ambulatory Surgery
Center Scholarship
Fredericksburg Rotary Club Scholarship
Fredericksburg Savings Bank Scholarship
Freta B. Napier Scholarship
Gencorp Engineering Scholarship
George P. Beard, Jr. Scholarship
Georgia Willis Scholarship
Germanna Guarantee Program
Scholarship
Gertrude Hudson Yates Scholarship
Giles H. Miller, Jr. Scholarship
Glenn DuBois Student Success Fund
Hazel Harris Heath Scholarship
Henrietta Margaret D. Pattishall RN
Memorial Scholarship
Henry & Iva Smith Scholarship
India Studies Fund
J. Carlton “Zeus” Clore Scholarship
Jack Condon Memorial Scholarship
Dr. Jane Ingalls Nurse Educator
Fellowship
Janet Swan Scholarship
Jean B. Oravits National Security
Scholarship
Jefferson Home Builders Scholarship
John A. Nere Scholarship
John J. “Butch” Davies, III Scholarship
John William Price, Jr. Scholarship
June B. Stallings Nursing Scholarship
Kaye and Marie Andrus Scholarship
Kristen and Kati Lisk Memorial
Scholarship
Lake of the Woods Lioness Club
Scholarships
LaZalia Richardson Scholarship
Linda Nelson Memorial Scholarship
Loren Franklin & Linda Fagan Sealy
Scholarship
Margaret & Tommy Pitts & Richard
O’Neill Scholarship
Mary Ball Woman’s Club Scholarship
Mary Frances and James G. Willis
Scholarship (Kiwanis Club of
Fredericksburg)
Mary Washington Hospital Nursing
Alumni Association Scholarship
Mildred C. King Scholarship for Nursing
Molly K. Nogrady Scholarship
Nursing & Health Technologies Fund
OMWCF Dental Hygiene Scholarship
Otis & Mescal Burke Scholarship
Papa John’s Books-for-Students
Scholarship
Pearline T. Soltes Memorial Scholarship
Phylis Martin Faculty Chair Scholarship
PNC Bank Scholarship for Nursing
Ray and Joyce Zachmann Scholarship
Raynold “Randy” Collier Glazebrook, III
Scholarship
Rebecca Boniface Scholarship
Richard Gossweiler Student Emergency
Fund
Ron Parker Hope Scholarship
Second Bank & Trust Floyd White
Memorial Scholarship
Shannon Broom Scholarship
Somerset Steam & Gas Engine
Association
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
Nursing Fund
Stella Rhodes Almond Scholarship
Stepping Stone Scholarship
Steve and Nancy Jones Scholarship
Technologist to Nursing Award
The Reynolds Family of Orange
Scholarship
The Sunshine Lady Foundation
Scholarship
The Woman’s Club of Fredericksburg
Viola M. Smith Scholarship
Volkswagen & GCC Partners in
Education
William & Rosemary Walker Scholarship
for Nursing
Willis Clyde Locker Scholarship
Middle College Scholarship
William Carpenter Scholarship
Workforce Development & Community
Service Fund
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Local ScholarshipsAfrican Methodist Episc. Church
Allen, Allen, Allen & Allen
Alpha Delta Kappa
American Farm Publications, Inc.
American Legion
AT Johnson Alum Assoc.
Belmont Ruritan Club
Bowen Engineering Corp
Career Partners, Inc.
Caroline’s Promise
Carter-Bennett
Chancellor High School
Charlottesville Postal Fed.
Chic-fil-A
CNV Scholarship
Colonial Beach Education Found
Colonial Beach High School
Columbia Lodge 285
Comm. Foundation Rappahannock River
Region
Courtland High School
Culpeper Bus. and Prof. Women
Culpeper County High School
Culpeper Lions Club
Culpeper Reg. Health System
Culpeper Regional Hospital
Culpeper Unit. Meth. Church
Culpeper Women’s Club
East Orange Ruritan Club
Eastern View High School
Emmanuel AME Church
EOD Mem. Scholarship
Erma Chadwick School
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Fredericksburg Agriculture Fair
Gables Limited Partnership
Growing Hope, Inc.
GW Carver High School
Hopewell United Methodist Church
Hunter Garner School
King George Fall Festival
King George High School
King George Lodge 314
Kitchentech
Lake of the Woods Lioness Club
Lake of the Woods Lions
Lake of the Woods Players
Lake Youth Foundation
Liberty High School
Little Ark Baptist Church
Local Funds Scholarship
Loyal Order of Moose
Margaret Johnson
Marine Corps Scholarship Found
Mary Washington Healthcare
Massaponax Band Parents’ Assn.
Metropolitan Community Church
Military Firefighter Heritage
Mom’s Scholarship
National Youth Cutting Horse Assoc.
Orange County Education Foundation
Orange County High School
Orange Grove Baptist Church
Potomac Chpt MOAA
Prince William County
Project Big Heart
Rappahannock Rotary Club
Rappahannock Rotary Ed. Foundation
Rehoboth United Methodist Church
Rising Zion Baptist Church
Rotary Club of Caroline
Round Oak Baptist Church
Ruritan National Foundation
RWS Enterprises, Inc
Salem Ed. Foundation
Scholarship America
Sgt. Joshua Frazier Memorial
Sharon Masonic School Fund
Sheet Metal Workers Local Union
Sisters of Ivy Foundation
SMART Scholarship
Spotsylvania High School
St. John Baptist Church
St. Peters Lutheran Church
Stafford High School
Stafford Rotary Club
Stafford Voc. Education Foundation
Sunshine Lady Foundation
The San Diego Foundation
Theresa and William Brosche
Timothy Murphy School
Tulsa Community Foundation
Two Ten Footware Foundation
UDC Chapter of Culpeper
Union Belle Baptist Church
US Bowling Congress
USMCCCA Foundation
VA Space Grant Scholarship
Virginia DECA Foundation
Virginia Tech. Foundation
Volkswagon & GCC School
Wayland Blue Ridge Baptist Assoc.
Welcome Lodge #125
William A. Cooke
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Community
Connie Kincheloe Receives Honorary Degree
President Dr. David A. Sam presented Culpeper community
leader Connie Kincheloe with an honorary degree during
the 2013 Spring Commencement held on May 8 at the
Fredericksburg Expo. & Conference Center.
“It is my privilege to recognize a member of the community for
her significant and long-standing contributions to Germanna
and the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Dr. Sam said. “Connie
Kincheloe has been a friend to the College for many years. She
has furthered the College’s mission by serving on the Germanna
Educational Foundation for nearly 20 years.”
“I want you to know how much this means to me,” Kincheloe
said. “There is no organization I admire and respect more than
the VCCS.”
“Ms. Kincheloe’s dedication to education extends beyond
Germanna to serving the Virginia Community College System,”
Dr. Sam said. She was appointed by Gov. Mark Warner to the
State Board for Community Colleges, where she served for five
years, including one year as chair. She has served five years as a
State Board member on the Virginia Foundation for Community
College Education. She was instrumental in establishing the
DuBois Student Success fund in 2010. It provides unrestricted
emergency funding for students enrolled in Middle College.
“She has served the entire Commonwealth and VCCS and is
universally respected and admired,” Dr. Sam said. “She always has
the greater good in mind, seeking to open doorways for countless
students. Even when some students did not believe in themselves,
Ms. Kincheloe has always believed in them and has taken action
to help them find and achieve their dreams.”
Chmura and Senator Reeves Speak at Annual
Workforce Advisory Board Meeting
Christine Chmura, President and Chief Economist for Chmura
Economics & Analytics in Richmond, spoke at the Annual
Germanna Community College Workforce Advisory Board
Meeting at the Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper.
Chmura told the crowd the national economy was healing, but
had slowed, partly because of federal reductions in spending and
spoke about the risk sequestration posed to Virginia.
State Senator Bryce Reeves was the keynote speaker and over 100
business leaders from Germanna’s service region provided the
college with feedback on training needs at the meeting.
Chmura has been named one of The 50 Most Influential
Virginians by Virginia Business Magazine.
The meeting featured IT, Health Care, Industry & Construction
and Business & Professional breakout sessions.
Science Saturday
Fredericksburg Parent and Family magazine won an $8,000 grant
from the Rappahannock Community Foundation’s Women and
Girls Fund and partnered with Germanna Community College in
a four-week Science Saturdays “mini med-school”, The magazine
described it as allowing girls as young as fourth-graders to “tackle
hands-on projects, including dissections.” The purpose of Science
Saturdays is to foster interest among girls in careers in STEM
fields.
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Associate of Arts & Sciences (AA&S) • Business Administration
• Education
• Education (K-8)
• General Studies
• General Studies - Psychology Specialization
• Liberal Arts
• Science
Associate of Science (AS) • Engineering – Mechanical
• Engineering – Electrical
Associate of Applied Science (AAS) • Business Management
• Dental Hygiene
• Early Childhood Development
• Emergency Medical Services (EMT)
• Information System Technology
- Information Management or Network
Security
• Information System Technology
- Networking
• Nursing
• Police Science
• Technical Studies Industri