JALC plans eight new ag courses for next fall

John A. Logan College has been working for years on an agriculture program, and that hard work has produced results. Beginning next fall, students can enroll in eight new agriculture courses and three degree programs.

Newly hired agriculture instructor Dr. Wayne Griffith has been meeting with prospective students and promoting the program across the area. Griffith spent the past 20 years teaching agriculture to students at Marion High School.

"I can't say enough about all of the people from the administration and staff to the faculty who have helped me prepare and answered my questions," he said. "They have been nothing but enthusiastic and supportive."

Griffith said that the focus the first year will be students who want to transfer to four-year universities.

After that, the work will begin on preparing a two-year zprogram designed for students wanting to enter an agriculture-related field after completing their work at John A. Logan.

New term faculty to start this year

The John A. Logan Board hired LaVernne Cline as a part-time health information technology instructor, Nikki Travelstead and Susan Hoyle as part-time nursing instructors, Anita Petersen as a part-time English instructor, and Cheryl Walton as a part-time early childhood education instructor.

The board also hired Lawrence Alvarado as a Chess for Kids community-education instructor. He will teach these classes at Du Quoin Elementary School.

And as part of the workforce development staff, the board hired William Jackson as a highway construction careers training instructor, Kristine Sherrill as a professional human services instructor, and Nikki Travelstead as a cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructor.

Volunteers line up, board signs them up

The board also appointed these volunteers for literacy: Ellen Bogacki, Miran Byun, Ronald Doering Jr., Benequea Hale, Janet Hartwig, Reba Ourun and Dorothy Schachel. Charlie Jones was appointed as a volunteer for the diversity committee and Debra Blythe for the Purdy School.</group><group id="613CB0FD-78C7-418A-803E-F75AE2AF5F1B" type="seoLabels"><seoLabels></seoLabels></group></idf>