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Carter and Dothard competed in every game, nearly a dozen in all, on their way to victory. In the final round of competition, they accumulated 4,728 points with no deductions, while Holly Pond finished in second place with 2,217.60 points, and Marshall Technical finished in third place with 1,489.30 points. When asked midway through the event, when they already seemed comfortably in the lead, if they’d be back next year, Carter said, “I don’t know. This is so stressful!”He was all smiles when it was over. Weaver advanced to the South’s BEST Regional Robotics Championship at Auburn University.
In the book, authored by John C. Hall, Young has 155 full-color breathtaking photographs portraying her travels and scenes from state rivers. WSCC students were treated to free pizza for lunch and all cardboard boxes, aluminum cans and plastic water bottles used were recycled. Two oaks were planted in the lawn area beside the Robert T. Wilson Nursing building. The Shumard oak planted in memory of Wallace State friend and benefactor Mrs. Evelyn Burrow was placed in the ground at a different location for the third year in a row and another was planted a few feet away in support of the
Wallace State’s 2011 Earth Day Highlighted by Two Tree Dedications Wallace State continued its annual tradition of celebrating Earth Day, hosting a variety of events on campus and planting two trees. Earth Day 2011 began with a campus clean-up. Different organizations on campus adopted a building and cleaned up the premises. For the second consecutive year, Alabama conservation photographer and author Beth Maynor Young visited campus and expounded on her book, “Headwaters: A Journey on Alabama Rivers.”
Students celebrating Earth Day at WSCC posed for this photo following the presentation by Beth Maynor Young.
Planting Baby Toomer are, from left to right, Dr. Bill Moss, Tracie Fuqua, and Dee Retha Preuitt.
oaks at Toomer’s Corner in Auburn. “We’re naming that oak Baby Toomer,” said Tammi Gattis, a Wallace State ACTION Center advisor and head chairperson of the Green Team Committee. “It’s our way of celebrating good sportsmanship in honor of Toomer’s Corner and taking care of the earth.” The tree planting, compliments of the WSCC Horticulture Department, followed lunch and then students and faculty were given a tour of the college’s Sustainable Construction Technology Program by Project Manager Michael Hart. Earth Day 2011 was sponsored by sponsored by the Wallace State Green Team. “It was our most successful Earth Day to date,” said Dr. Bill Moss, the Director of Student Development in the Wallace State ACTION Center and the Earth Day coordinator. Arts in April Wallace State welcomed poet Joel Brouwer to campus for a Literary Arts Read-in and Author Forum as part of the College’s sixth annual Arts in April festivities and in celebration of National Poetry Month. Brouwer, director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama,