by Troy Lambert With 2008’s historic election now in the record books, local students are looking to the future and speaking out about what they want from the new administration. President-elect Barack Obama will assume the nation’s highest office on Jan. 20, 2009, and faces high expectations after a long-running campaign in which he emphasized…
by Erin Smallwood Poor lighting and lack of communication have had students and teachers in Building 1 concerned about their safety for several years now. “My faculty has voiced concerns to me about safety issues in the building when they teach evening classes since I came here in 2000,” said Department head Wanda Cook. There…
by Troy Lambert Dr. John Wayne Wooten, chief astronomy professor at Pensacola Junior College, has had an extraordinary career peering at the heavens and sharing his knowledge with those of us on Earth. From a young age, Wooten knew what he was going to do with his life. Back in mid-August 1957, after a long…
by Terry Strickland This month, after 17 consecutive years of service, science professor Jeff Wooters of Pensacola Junior College will get a much-needed vacation – a paid vacation in fact — to the sunny coast of the Land Down Under. This vacation is referred to in the academic community as a “sabbatical,” in which a…
By Steven Dickens A new campus organization has formed to encourage Pensacola Junior College students to consider vocational-technical careers. SkillsUSA recently held its first regional meeting of the year at PJC’s Hagler Auditorium. It was the first time PJC participated in such a meeting, held to help students and teachers learn about the organization and…
by Kristin Martin You won’t find many 24-year-olds with as much responsibility on their shoulders as Del Sherburne. The Pensacola Junior College pre-engineering student must balance his school work, a landscaping business and his job as a volunteer firefighter for the Ferry Pass Volunteer Fire Department, which serves District 7 in Pensacola. He’s driven by…
by Katie Coseo Robinson Honors Scholar Lorraine Ogan won first place in the Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper in a Two Year College and presented it in Daytona at the Florida Philosophical Association’s annual conference. Ogan’s paper was an argumentative essay concerning whether an argument can come from just using a visual aid, like a photograph.…
By Joshua Watson For the past 39 years, Martha Caughey has dutifully served Pensacola Junior College with an exemplary work ethic and perseverance through the myriad everyday complications that arise in work as a college registrar. A graduate PJC and the University of West Florida. Caughey understands the complications that may arise while trying to…
by Steven Dickens Randall Broxton has a lifelong passion for history, for the voices of those long gone, and he loves to share his knowledge with his students at Pensacola Junior College and the public. After brief stints as a junior high and high school educator, Broxton has been teaching at PJC for 45 years.…
by Brandee Lay DVD Review: “The Strangers” (2008) “Lock the door, pretend you’re safe…” …from a bad movie. The extent of 90 minutes worth of the 2008 horror movie “The Strangers” could make a person go mad. The movie stars Scott Speedman as James Hoyt and Liv Tyler as Kristen McKay – a couple who…