Category: <span>Features</span>

By: Troy Lambert Published: January 8, 2009 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...

Kristen Bailey Published: December 7, 2005 This is the face of a woman who knows the dirt on Pensacola Junior College, and not just the physical dirt. Spending hours every day cleaning Building 4, custodian Angie White gets PJC’s dirt- everything from which professors to take to the scoundrels of the building. Arriving at 4...

Heather Adams Published: December 7, 2005 Richard Carmean isn’t just an ordinary student.  He’s a 50-year old motorcycle-riding military veteran who has lived life to it’s fullest extent. Carmean came to PJC after he retired from the military to get an associate’s degree in history.  He will graduate this spring, and then he plans to...

Ryan Freeman Published: December 7, 2005 For the graduating students of the Fall 2005 term, graduation will again take place at the Pensacola Civic Center.  It will be held at 7 p.m. on Dec. 16. “I am ready to go out into the world to accomplish more things, with the education and skills I have...

Erika Wilhite Published: December 7, 2005 Last November the Wesley Foundation established a club at PJC, a youth ministry sponsored by Cokesbury United Methodist Church. Initially there were only a few students involved, said Sheila Feltner, the club’s director, but “God has blessed our efforts as we have grown to nearly 25 students.” The club’s...

Heather Adams Published: November 9, 2005 Baptist Collegiate Ministries hosted Schmack, an annual cookout with music and prizes, on Oct. 26.  It was a good turnout for the group with approximately 490 students coming to get a free hamburger and to listen to the music from Takin Back, a local band. Tony Olesky, director of...

Lucretia Brown Published: November 9, 2005 Students and instructors who wish for their small children to have a head start in education may want to sign them up for enrollment in the PJC Child Development Center, according to Director Sheila Banks. Camp Fire USA PJC Child Development Center is a learning based facility.  There is...

Lindsay Spencer and Matt Brown Published: October 12, 2005 Quick quiz:  If you were asked to meet at the Baars Building on the PJC Pensacola campus, would you know what building that was?  If you said it was building 1, you would know exactly where to go. Most of the buildings on campus have names...

Ashley Carter Published: October 12, 2005 Want to party retro style? The PJC Foundation is throwing an alumni and friends celebration party to commemorate past alumni, and to bring together current students with past students. It’s from 7 to 10 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Lou Ross gymnasium on the Pensacola campus. The celebration...

Trenton Willnecker Published: October 12, 2005 The PJC Gymnastics Program is back on its feet after almost a year long hiatus because of Hurricane Ivan. Last September when the storm hit PJC, the gymnasium on Pensacola campus was hit just as hard as the gymnastics program that was housed inside. “$120,000 of equipment was damaged...