Carroll Community College

On November 26, 2009, Dwight O Kirsten and Kayla Dingle. Friends may call at the Pritts Funeral Home and Chapel, 412 Washington Road, Westminster on Wednesday from 6 to 8 P.M. A Memorial Mass will be held on Thursday at 11 A.M. at St. John Roman Catholic Church, 43 Monroe Street, Westminster. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to Carroll Community College to establish a scholarship in his name, 1601 Washington Road, Westminster, MD 21157. Online condolences may be sent to www.prittsfuneralhome.

WESTMINSTER - J. Jeffrey Griffith, former Carroll County Commissioner, will join the Carroll Community College faculty as an assistant professor of English on a part-time basis for the spring 1991 semester.He will teach English 102, "Writing About Literature." His appointment was approved last week by the Board of Trustees of the Baltimore County Community Colleges."Carroll Community College is experiencing tremendous growth in our enrollment and we must add classes to meet the needs of our students," said Alan Schuman, CCC interim executive director.

Barbara Charnock, a member of the Carroll Community College AdvisoryBoard since 1984 and chairman for the past three years, has become one of the first contributors to the CCC Founders' Endowment Fund."

Faye Pappalardo and R. Delaine Hobbs will present diplomas to 258 graduates of Carroll Community College at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Western Maryland College in the Physical Education Learning Center. Pappalardo, the college president, will welcome students, parents and faculty and staff members. Hobbs, chairman of the Carroll Community College board of trustees, will greet students. The commencement address will be delivered by Michael L. Oster, president of BB&T Baltimore Metro Region.

The Carroll County Manufacturing Consortium held its first organizational meeting last month at Carroll Community College. Members discussed apprenticeship training, regional wage data overview, work force recruitment and retention, the Governor's Workforce Investment Board's skill standards project and collaborative marketing. Twelve companies attended the gathering: IntelliTech Inc., Evapco Inc., Shelter Systems Limited, Universal Forest Products Inc., GT Brothers Inc., Maple Grove Machining, General Dynamics Robotics Systems Inc., Black and Decker Inc., MasterWorks Machining Inc., Western Industrial Machining Inc., Fairlawn Tool and Die Company Inc., and Flowserve Pump Division.

College honors Domser for help in school programThe Carroll Community College board of trustees recently honored Patricia Domser for her support of the college's physical therapist assistant program.She was presented with a Friends of the College pin for having helped establish the program, donating $1,000 to the college foundation and opening her offices for clinical experience to CCC students.The college has enlarged its physical therapist assistant program by adding Mary Pepper to the faculty as an assistant professor.

NICHOLE BRECKER, 18, daughter of Francis and Mary Brecker of Locust Lane, Eldersburg.School: Freshman at Carroll Community College.Honored for: Taking third place in the typing competition at the Collegiate Secretaries International conference in New Orleans, La., in March.Ms. Brecker is vice president of Carroll Collegiate Secretaries International.While her typing speed is normally about 70 words per minute, Ms. Brecker said she was having a good day and probably typed faster when she competed at the conference.

Carroll Community College will continue offering courses in Mount Airy, even though Frederick Community College has decided to pull out of a partnership that created a joint satellite campus last year.This fall will be the last semester in which Frederick participates in the joint program in the college-credit courses. It already has pulled out of participation in the noncredit courses.The partnership had seemed a natural, because Mount Airy straddles the two counties, and the drive to the main campus of either college is about 30 minutes from the town, said Karen Merkle, vice president for continuing education at Carroll Community College.

Outgoing college president honored for foundationCarroll Community College recently honored the outgoing president of the Carroll Community College Foundation for his efforts during the first two years of the foundation's existence.John Salony was given a Friends of the College pin from the board of trustees and a plaque from the foundation's board of directors.As foundation president, Salony helped build the structure of the board, established new scholarships and introduced the community to the foundation's work.