Away from Home Announcements for November 2016

Jessica Heacock, of Court House, recently transferred from Atlantic Cape Community College to East Tennessee State University where she received a Midway Honors Scholarship that recognizes outstanding undergraduate performance of transfer students. Midway scholars take honors courses, complete an honors thesis and pursue research projects that may be presented at local and national conferences.
Before transferring this fall, Heacock had earned 58 credits as a General Studies major at Atlantic Cape and had completed all her courses at the Cape May County Campus or online. She is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design with a minor in Business Management at ETSU. Her dream is to open her own business as a residential interior designer; and she confides, “I always wanted to open my own business.”
But, in fact, this young entrepreneur has already started her own business, inspired by a public speaking class she took at Atlantic Cape last year. Students were assigned to explain a process they were familiar with, so Heacock explained how to make soaps and facial scrubs. She received such a positive response from her classmates that she developed a small business making natural soaps and scrubs using essential oils, fragrance and sugar.
Heacock believes her community college education provided a good foundation for the university courses she is currently taking. “Atlantic Cape was a good start for me,” she recently said, noting that her Introduction to Business class taught her the basics and that her psychology course gave her a familiarity with terminology she is using in a current course.
The Midway Honors Scholarship provides tuition for four semesters, a $500 allowance for each semester and the opportunity to apply for a $2,500 award to use for study abroad, a Washington internship, summer research, summer courses or a fifth semester of study.
Heacock was aware of the Midway Honors Scholars program because her sister, Holly, is currently a second-year senior in the program who is studying history and secondary education as a minor. And before Holly arrived on campus as an Atlantic Cape transfer student in 2014, their father, Henry Heacock, also of Court House, attended ETSU. Over the years, the Heacock family has also vacationed in the area surrounding the Johnson City campus, particularly in Gatlinburg which sits at the base of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Park University’s Mountain Home Air Force Base (Idaho) Campus Center held its commencement ceremony Nov. 18 at the Gunfighter Theater on the base. 
James Robert Marcucci received a Bachelor of Science degree. His degree concentration was Management/Logistics. He attended Lower Cape May Regional High School.
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Over 300 students participated in Stevenson University’s annual volunteer day known as Mustangs Make A Difference Day (MMADD), including Lauren Novsak, of Court House, and Erik Arenberg, also of Court House.
MMADD is a university-wide day of service, where clubs and organizations on campus set up varying volunteer opportunities for students to participate in. Some of the service activities included: stream clean-up, book drive, bird feeders, and card making.
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Rowan University Art Gallery and Creative Glassboro collaborated to ‘yarn bomb’ Rowan Boulevard. Many groups participated, bombing lampposts, benches, and bike racks. This is essentially an extension of the fiber works gallery exhibit for the winter.
Hanna Dietrich, pictured in purple sweatshirt, graduated from Cape May County Technical High School two years ago. She attends Rowan University, majoring in Biomedical Engineering. She has developed an interest in knitting over the past few years.
Dietrich and Rachel Adams are the co-leaders of the Honors Knitting Group at Rowan. Dietrich is also very interested in recycling, and when she heard about the Yarn Bombing program, she decided to use recycled material to decorate some of the benches, light posts, and bicycle stands along Rowan Boulevard, to merge her interest in art, recycling, and knitting.
Dietrich gathered several friends to help her collect plastic grocery bags. They filled a room in the dorm with the bags, and Nov. 5, the group of students took the bags to their utility pole and began knitting.​
Students who participated include Allison Gilbert, Adams, Olivia Grasso, Ellie Leick, Erica Spatafore and Marissa Ciocco.
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Lauren Peterson has been named to the summer 2016 Dean’s List at University of the Sciences. Selection for this award is based on completing and passing all assigned courses with no grade below a “C” and attaining an academic average of at least 3.4 for courses taken in the summer of 2016.
Peterson of Corbin City, is a doctor of pharmacy student.