HCS holds GED graduation exercises

Thirty-one students in the Haywood County Schools Adult Education Program earned general education diplomas in June, and eleven of them participated in the GED graduation exercises on June 15 at Haywood High School.

Greeting guests and students to the ceremony was Mary C. Hood, Director of Adult Education. Speakers at the ceremonies were Haywood County Schools Superintendent Marlon King, Haywood County Mayor Franklin Smith, Haywood County Sheriff Melvin Bond, and Haywood County School Board Chairman Harold Garrett.

Entertaining at the event was Desiree Russell, who had the highest GED score in the Class of 2010. She sang “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”

Other special guests were school board members Robbie Jarrett-King and Pearlie Hess, Debbie Sterbinsky, representing Stanton Mayor Allan Sterbinsky, and Art Garrett, School and Community Relations Ambassador.

Vickie Morris-Stoots is the counselor/recruiter for the program, and teachers are Kay Gibbs, Ann Cannon, Bennie Mae Waller, Audrey Blue and Kay Cunningham.