Perkins Resigns: Thornton Takes the Reigns
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 After being named the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior  Colleges Coach of the Year, JCJC head football coach Ray Perkins resigned over the holidays. JCJC President, Dr. Jesse Smith named David Thornton (right), who has been the offensive coordinator, quarterbacks coach and recruiting coordinator for the past two years at JCJC, as the interim head coach, pending board approval later this month.
To learn more about the new head coach click on the story from Shawn Wansley: Thornton chosen as interim head coach
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Alumnus Donates to Educators' Memorial Scholarship
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La urel native and JCJC 2006 computer information systems graduate, Chris Hill visited campus recently and left a gift for the JCJC Foundation Inc. He handed Caroline Ramagos, JCJC's Executive Director of the JCJC Foundation Inc. a check to go towards his mentor's scholarship fund. JCJC CIST instructor and division chair, Dr. Paul Hollomon died one-year ago and a memorial scholarship was set up in his memory. To read more about it, click on the link: JCJC Alumnus donates to Educators' Memorial Scholarship
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Alumni Accomplishment-Brook Jones
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 Congratulations!! to Brook Jones, a 1999 JCJC graduate. The 34-year old chief executive officer and founder of the Red Door Marketing Agency in Laurel has opened another office in Hattiesburg. As the Agency celebrates its one-year anniversary, Jones added staff to expand her full-service marketing, public relations, design and consulting company. Her mission at Red Door Marketing is to help business owners and marketers get the most out of their marketing efforts.
The Wayne County native transferred from JCJC and earned her bachelor's degree in communication with an emphasis in public relations from Mississippi State University in 2001. Jones' clientele includes local and international businesses and her agency is a partner in the "Give a Child a New Book Day" with the Favre 4 Hope Foundation, Salvation Army, and the University of Southern Mississippi's Friends of the University Libraries group.
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" Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase 'press on' has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
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Remember When...
in 1941 when Mr. N.C. Pearson of Pearson's Ice Cream Company gave each Bobcat one pint of ice cream after they won the "big" football game against Tulane University 30-6?
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JoAnna Newcomb
JCJC Alumni Coordinator
The Bobcat Bulletin is produced and written by the JCJC Marketing Team.
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