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Angelina College Vocational Nursing Program Holds Pinning Ceremony: Class of 2025 Features Traditional, MEEP Graduates

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Angelina College’s School of Health Careers on Thursday held a traditional pinning ceremony for its newest Vocational Nursing program graduates, with a total of 40 students receiving their awards inside Temple Theater. 

The new graduates from the Class of 2025 included students from the “Traditional” Vocational Nursing program and from the Multi-Entry/Exit Program (MEEP). 

Dr. Winifred Ferguson-Adams, Dean of the School of Health Careers, recognized the wealth of experience joining her on the stage in the form of faculty and staff members.

“If you take all the years of nursing experience available here and add it together, you’re looking at hundreds of years,” Ferguson-Adams said. “And for you new nurses, I consider myself the gold standard for you. If I wouldn’t let you take care of me, I wouldn’t be sending you out to take care of others.”

Joining the staff onstage was the Deep East Texas Nurse Honor Guard, a group comprised of retired, active and student nurses. 

Ferguson-Adams cited Florence Nightingale’s mantra as a reminder to the newest nurses that “we will do no harm” while welcoming the new graduates. 

“You are entering an honorable and trusted profession as our newest colleagues,” Ferguson-Adams said. “Remember that you are an Angelina College nurse, and we are the best of the best.”

Graduate Mary Kimani provided the invocation, while graduate Neena Smith offered the benediction. 

Following are the graduates of the Class of 2025, along with their home towns. (Cities are in Texas unless otherwise specified.)

Vocational Nursing Traditional Students: Angelina Alvarez (Corrigan), Guadalupe Florencio (Center), Ariana Garcia (Nacogdoches), Kristy Hernandez Contreras (Guatemala), Mary Kimani (Kambal, Kenya), Amber Lopez (Livingston), Ashley McAdams (Trinity) and Cynthia Zamora-Hernandez (Lufkin). 

Students from Angelina College’s Vocational Nursing Program (Traditional option) Class of 2025 pose before Thursday’s traditional pinning ceremony held inside Temple Theater. (Gary Stallard photo for AC News Service)

Lufkin MEEP (Multi-Entry/Exit Program) Students: Mark Bagonoc (Lufkin), Ricardo Bautista (Huntington), Savannah Bearden (Wells), Christina Bell (Mount Enterprise), Cade Boston (Lufkin), Natalie Cervantes (Alto), Daniel Crespo (League City), Kendra Esquivel (Burke), Amber Evans (Hudson), Abbigail Evett (Huntington), Isabelle Hodge (Lufkin), Ethan Hopson (Lufkin), Valeria Jacobo (Lufkin), Brianna Lee (Livingston), Kryclei Loving (Lufkin), Nikolas McNiel (Livingston), Rachel Middleton (Livingston), Hannah Monroy (Rockwall), Heather Myers (Lufkin), Xavier Randolph (Liberty), Angelique Rodriguez (Lufkin), Shara Rubio (Lufkin), McKenna Simmons (Lufkin), Karson Smith (Diboll), Neena Smith (Shelbyville), Neena Smith (Shelbyville), April Stanbery (Lufkin), Gabriela Tamez (Hudson), Josalyn Urbina (Lufkin), Amber Wetherell (Lufkin) and Bailee Youngblood (Hudson). 

Students from Angelina College’s Vocational Nursing Program Class of 2025 pose before Thursday’s traditional pinning ceremony. A total of 40 new nurses (both traditional and MEEP students) received their pins inside Temple Theater. (Gary Stallard photo for AC News Service)

Traditional Vocational Nursing Faculty: Dr. Susan Adams, Dr. Charlet Blades, Patricia Hooks and Mary Hastings.

MEEP Vocational Nursing Option Faculty: Kelley Durr, Vergie Hines, Kathy Jackson, Dr. Nancy McClurg, Anna McReynolds and Dr. Bobbie Williams. 

Students from Angelina College’s Vocational Nursing Program (MEEP option) Class of 2025 pose before Thursday’s traditional pinning ceremony held inside Temple Theater. (Gary Stallard photo for AC News Service)

For further information regarding Angelina College Health Careers, email healthcareers@angelina.edu.   For information regarding this press release, contact Gary Stallard at gstallard@angelina.edu.

Gary Stallard
Sports Information Director Gary Stallard, who also serves as a Liberal Arts Instructor, begins his eleventh season with Angelina College. Following a career as a U.S. Marine, Stallard completed his bachelor’s degree at Stephen F. Austin University, where he majored in English and Journalism. For more than 16 years, he has worked as a sports writer/columnist/photographer for the Lufkin Daily News; he continues to contribute free-lance articles on occasion. Stallard has won several awards for writing, including the Golden Hoops Award for basketball writing in 2003, Regional Sports Writer of the Year in 2004, and the Texas Press Association’s first-place award for column writing in 2007 and in 2014. He has also done basketball, football and baseball radio and live streaming play-by- play and color commentary for an ESPN affiliate. Currently Stallard serves as play-by-play broadcaster for AC basketball, baseball and softball games. Prior to arriving at Angelina College, Stallard taught English at Lufkin High School for four years. He currently teaches Developmental Writing classes at AC. He and his wife Susan live in Lufkin.

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