College ministry recruits through lunch and music

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…

Day care children have fun while learning

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…

The Names Behind the Buildings

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…

Alumni and friends celebrate 60’s style

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…

Gymnastics program sports

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…

FLY Dance sells out Ashmore

Matt Foster Published: October 12, 2005 The cheering, sold-out, Ashmore auditorium on the Pensacola campus played host to the “FLY Dance Company” which performed on Saturday, Oct. 8th. FLY, listed on their website as an “all-male group of street dancers,” is an innovative contemporary dance troupe that merges everything from hip-hop to classical music with…

New club celebrates anime

By Lindsey Luker Published on February 13, 2008 Anime fanatics now have a place to meet, watch and discuss anime.  A few weeks ago, the PJC Anime Club was assembled.  Anime is a type of animation originating from Japan.  The artwork is breathtakingly vivid and the themes are often futuristic or sci-fi.                                          “Anime is explosions,”…

Distinguished artists’ exhibit continues

Published on January 8, 2008 Pensacola Junior College is presenting the Switzer Distinguished Artists exhibit which began on Jan. 21 and will be continued to be showed through March 14 at the Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts gallery, Building 15 on the Pensacola campus. The honored artists are photographer Jerry Uelsmann and digital…

Del Sherburne: PJC student, volunteer firefighter

Kristin Martin Click here to see photos of Del Sherburne. 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…