MARTIN LUTHER KING JR'S LEGACY: THROUGH EDUCATION, WE WILL OVERCOME

Germanna President David A. Sam told a crowd in Fredericksburg Sunday that Martin Luther King knew education was the key to true equality.

A portion of the remarks Dr. Sam delivered at Sunday's Celebration of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sponsored by the Multicultural OutReach Effort at James Monroe High School:

"He was educated and fought for others to be so educated. He saw his ministry and his activism as opportunities to teach with the entire nation, indeed the entire world, as his classroom.

"His too brief life modeled his belief that 'the quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.' His life is a beacon that shines a light on our successes and failures, and guides us from the shoals of failure towards his dream of a society and educational system where we can truly be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. Too many are still left behind. The beacon of his life glares a spotlight on what we have yet to do and aims us towards the way to achieve the dream of an empowering education for all of our citizens."

GERMANNA OPENS DANIEL CENTER TO PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS TUESDAY FOR GIANT-SCREEN VIEWING OF INAUGURATION

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Germanna Community College is opening its Daniel Technology Center in Culpeper to public school students from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday so that they may watch the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama on the big screens in the center's main hall.

Germanna students are invited to watch the historic event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on big screens at the Locust Grove Campus and at the Fredericksburg Campus' Sealy Auditorium.

AFTER FINDING HERSELF AT GERMANNA, LINDA OSORIO'S HELPING STAFFORD COUNTY COMMUTERS NAVIGATE THE ROAD TO WELLNESS

Former Germanna student Linda Osorio (above) recently opened Massage Matters Wellness Center in Garrisonville. She says believing in yourself and taking things one step at a time are the keys to success.
Linda Osorio says she didn't have much confidence when she came out of high school in Stafford County. She found herself, she says, as a student at Germanna Community College.

Now she's started her own business, Massage Matters Therapy & Wellness Center in Garrisonville, and is giving back to the college by sponsoring the Germanna soccer club.

She has a message for those who find themselves in a tough spot today: believe in yourself and never give up.

Osorio knows what it's like to feel that hope has almost slipped away.

She knows what it's like to be part of a stressed home environment because her mother struggled to support the family after her father left when she was 12.

"We had no electricity, no water at one point," she said. "I remember my sister and I were sitting in our bedroom one night with only candlelight. We were hungry and we talked about what we would want if we could have anything to eat. When my mom came home two hours later with two bags of KFC, it seemed like the best meal I ever had. We thought this was a miracle to be able to have something we really wanted." Good things, she said, happen when you really believe something can happen, "when you can taste it, feel it."

"Go at it moment by moment, step by step," Osorio said. "Martin Luther King once said, don't look at the whole staircase. Look at one step at a time. When you look at the whole staircase, you feel like you can't do it."

GERMANNA'S CENTER FOR WORKFORCE AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION OFFERING COMPUTER COURSES FOR SPRING SEMESTER IN CULPEPER, FREDERICKSBURG. REGISTER NOW.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. Make your company more competitive and yourself more marketable with GCC Workforce classes including computer courses.

Spring courses remain open. See what Germanna Community College has to offer the area's Workforce and register online.



•Customized Corporate Training

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• Certification & Credentialing Preparation

• High-Tech Testing

• Career Readiness Certificate

• Personal Enrichment Courses

• Courses for Children & Parents

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GERMANNA'S JOEL TATE CO-AUTHORS NEW BOOK ON HUNTING

GCC faculty member tells tale of bird hunting


Germanna Community College faculty member Joel Tate has collaborated with Ed "Eagle Man" McGaa on pheasant hunting, "Dakota Pheasant."


Donnie Johnston of The Free Lance-Star reports on the book.

GERMANNA STUDENT LEADERS LEARN HOW TO FIRE UP THEIR BASE AT RICHMOND CONFERENCE

Front row, left to right: Kristine Hadeed, Ashley Overholser, Angelica Moss, Annette Wilson. Back row, left to right: Kelly Donaghey, Karli Brittain, Andrew Moberley, Julian Greene, Nathan Yowell.


Ten Germanna Community College students attended the recent VCCS 2008 Student Leadership Conference in Richmond.

The conference was attended by over 400 student leaders from the 23 community colleges. The students learned how to fight apathy and get more students engaged in campus life. They learned effective leadership strategies, ways to help club members get to know each other, professional business etiquette and communications skills. SGA officers attended a roundtable discussion to share ideas and suggestions with others from across the VCCS.

GERMANNA NURSING STUDENTS GIVE COMFORT TO THE DISADVANTAGED DURING HOLIDAY SEASON

Left to right, Germanna student nurses Meaghan Gallagher, Kristen Fisher, Erica Duggins, Lindsey Haun and Emily Causley help out at Holiday Dinner for the needy at Fredericksburg Baptist Church.
Twenty four second-year nursing students from Germanna Community College served up holiday dinners for an estimated 400 people, many of them homeless, at the Fredericksburg Baptist Church last week.

One of the GCC students, Lindsey Haun, a Chancellor High grad, is the daughter in law of the church's pastor, Larry Haun.

Rev. Haun said he considers more than 500 children in Fredericksburg to be homeless, since many of the live week to week in city motels.

For Dec. 18's Holiday Dinner at the church, "When we opened the doors, the were lined up all the way around the block," Rev. Haun said.

"It was awesome that so many nursing students from Germanna came to help," Rev. Haun said. "I'm not sure what we would have done had they not shown up."

Germanna student nurses at the church were residents from all over the Fredericksburg area. Among them, Meaghan Gallagher is a Massaponax High grad, Kristen Fisher a graduate of North Stafford High, Erica Duggins a Courtland High grad and Emily Causley a Chancellor High grad.

On the same night, first-year nursing students from Germanna were serving holiday meals to about 200 children at the Fredericksburg Boys & Girls Club.
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