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Alumni News

Entries are listed as we receive and verified them.  The date is included for the date we received the entry.

3/08: Benjamin Hancock:  Ben is completing his degree in Computer Science Software Engineering at Emporia State University in Kansas.  He and wife Stephanie are also enjoying their 3-year old daughter, Delaney.  Ben expects to graduate in December of 2008.

3/08  Katherine Hancock:  Katy has been accepted into the UCF Master's Degree Program in Criminal Justice and will begin her studies there in August of 2008.  She received a graduate assistantship position as well as substantial financial awards.  She lives in Melbourne and attends Freedom Christian Center.

8/07  Ryan Houghton and Perry Whitten of Spartanburg, S.C. were married on August
18th in the DuPont National Forest, Cedar Mountain, N.C.
They will live together happily ever after in Brevard, N.C.  Click here for a picture!

7/07  Jackie Smith:  I'm in my second year of nursing school at Keiser University. I graduate next summer as an RN. I work 20-30 hrs. a week as a Nurse Tech at Holmes Regional Medical Center and a couple days a week as a sales assoicate at Cache in the Avenues in Viera. I'm also teaching sunday school for the 5th and 6th grade at Faith Baptist. I'm still going "solo" in the world, but enjoying every minute of it. :)

7/07 Jordan Deacon: is working at the Pita Pit in downtown Melbourne. He planning to attend BCC this coming semester.

7/07 Zachary Gier:  I graduated from New Covenant Christian School in May 2005. Right now I live in Charlotte NC and work at the Cheesecake Factory in the bakery. I am getting married this October to my long time sweet heart Emily. I am still working hard at breaking into the entertainment industry. North Carolina has a lot of filming and I am getting in touch with as many people as I can. Hopefully you will see me on the big screen soon.

10/08 Kimberly Patterson:  currently living in Orlando, attending UCF fulltime, majoring in education with a minor in math. She is also working at Outback Steakhouse. 

 7/07  Amber Schulze: junior at UCF; history major

7/07  Update on the Fazio Children: Christine: Graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2005 from Southeastern University with a Bachelor of Music--Performance Piano. She is part of the worship team at our church here in Orlando, she has almost 20 piano students and she also works at Piano Distributors here in Orlando.

7/07  Wedding bells are ringing for Ryan Houghton and Perry Whitten on August 18th in Brevard, North Carolina where both are in school.  Perry is from Spartanburg, S.C. and she is a junior at Brevard College in Art.  Ryan will be graduating in December in Wilderness Leadership.  They will reside in Brevard, North Carolina.

6/07:  Nick Maslow:  As a contributor to the yearbook, reporter for The Miami Hurricane and anchor on "UMTV Today," UM's version of NBC's "Today Show," I've made several contacts in Miami and worked very hard to garner some great interviews. The list includes New York Times bestselling author Augusten Burroughs; former secretary of health and human services under President Clinton and current president of UM Donna Shalala; actors Will Smith, Shia LaBeouf, Antonio Banderas and Ice Cube; cast members of Comedy Central's "Reno! 911"; and Academy Award winners Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry. Please click the following links to see some of my most recent work, found on YouTube:

9/25/06:  Zachary Gier engaged to Emily Tussing.

 From Steve and Roxane Gier:  It is with great joy that we announce the engagement of Zachary and Emily.  Zachary proposed to Emily while they were in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago.  She said YES, and a fall 2007 wedding is planned.  We are very excited and happy as our family continues to grow.  Emily will be a wonderful addition. 

9/16/03:  Marie Yates is a 7th grade science teacher at DeLaura Jr. High in Melbourne, FL, and living at home this year.  It is great to have her back from cold Indiana and Chicago where she graduated from Taylor University and then taught in an inner city type school in the Chicago suburs.

9/16/03:  David Yates is a senior at Wheaton College and has decided to pursue Dentistry.  He is Vice-President of his class this year and taking organ lessons.

9/16/03:  Ruth Yates is a freshman at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.  She is currently happy with her five roomates and the school and is tentatively an eary elem. education majoy.  She is contunuing her violin studies.

9/16/03:  Bethany Badger, class of 1999--Bethany is finishing her last semester at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.  She is a FACs major (Family and Children, like Home Ec) and loves it.  One of her courses this semester includes taking home an electronic baby, complete with most of the demands of a real baby.  She's looking forward to her turn to play Mommy.  Bethany is also very much into budgeting.

9/16/03:  BJ Badger, class of 2002--BJ is beginning his second semester at the University of Central Florida.  He is living on campus and enjoying the luxuries of an all-you-can-eat cafeteria.  BJ continues to work out with his karate bow staff and spend his little bit of spare time either at Inter Varsity or playing computer games on the web.

9/16/03:  Christine Fazio just began her junior year at Southern College in Lakeland, FL.  She is majoring in Music Performance--Piano.  She would love to hear from people.  Her e-mail is qtbug1224@hotmail.com

9/16/03:  Letter from Michael Stansfield:  Hello!  Things are going well here in the Marine Corps.  I left Hawaii (Aug 99-May 03) in May and I am now stationed at Fort Meade, MD, where I work at the Infomation Warfare Support Center (IWSC) of the National Security Agency (NSA).  I attended a 4 1/2 month Signals Intelligence Analysis course enroute from Hawaii to Maryland (I was the Honor Graduate of the 12 students in my class).  I did not go overseas with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) from June to December of last year, during which time we were in the Middle East area including going ashore to work in Djibouti (August) and Kuwait (October).  The trip also included port visits to Singapore, Bahrain (x2), Darwin Australia, and Guam.  Before the deployment I was in California for six months, so it was a long trip.

I will write again soon, I am off to work.

Michael Stansfield

Sergeant USMC

Click on the below link to view the lastest on Michael (2/13/07) http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=970&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1246066&om=1

9/16/03:  As of August 2003 Stephanie Weeks is a High School junior with 14 college credits from BCC, and on the President's List at BCC.  Kimberly is a High School sophomore.  Eric is in the sixth grade.  We joyfully remember the fun we've had with New Covenant Christian School, and are grateful for the blessing they have been helping us get started in Homeschool!  We "shout out" a friendly "Howdy all-y'all!" to our pals at NCCS.

9/16/03:  Ben Hancock attended Asbury College for 5 semesters.  He then worked as an airport refueler for airplanes in Raleigh, NC.  Then he worked in a frozen food factory in Ohio and later as an assistant store manager in the travel supplies industry in Lexington, Kentucky.  After 9-11, he joined the US Army.  After boot camp in Georgia and a year of training in Texas and Hawaii, Ben is now stationed at Fort Bragg, NC as a medical labe Technician.  He married fellow Medical Lab Technician, Stephanie West, on August 2, 2003.  They met in Hawaii during training.  She is currently awaiting transfer from Germany to NC.  Ben says he enjoys playing golf on his lunch breaks and is close to both ocean and mountains.

9/16/03:  Katy Hancock attended Brevard Community College in Melbourne.  She became a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.  Katy graduated in May of 2003 with an AA in general studies and a 4.0 average.  She now attends University of Central Florida as a junior majoring in Journalism with mios in Math and Sociology.

6/20/05:  Update on Katy Hancock:  Katherine Hancock, homeschooled with NCCS from Kindergarten through high school. graduated from UCF in May and received a 2005 Founder's Scholar Award at the University of Central Florida, given to graduating seniors whose GPA places them in the top 1% of their graduating class.  She now plans to work with the underprivileged in urban missions.

9/16/03: Julie Rowland attended University of North Florida, receiving her degree in nursing.  She now works in pediatric nursing in Jacksonville, FL.  Julie Married Christian McKenna on September 6, 2003.

9/25/03:  Chelle Bruner, now Chelle Regal, was NCCS's FIRST graduate.  She graduated in 1988 as a class of one!  She writes:  "Residing in the north Georgia mountains, I have been very happily married for almost five years.  I am a stay-at-home mother of two, Callie, 3 1/2, and Clairs, 5 years.  We enjoy "doing school", going to the park, cooking for Daddy, and visiting Yado and Granddaddy (Mack and Jan Bruner)!"

12/26/03:  Dan Exley writes: "I am an appkication Analyst for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.  I am a Certified Cardiac Technician by CCI International, and am also certified by Epic Ststems Corporation of Madison, WI, to implement EpicCare Inpatient and EpicCare Emergency Department.  In my current position at ENH, I am the lead implementation/project coordinator for analyzing, planning, building, impleing, and supporting the Epic electronedical record system for our 3 Emergency Department (two are Level II Trauma Centers and on Level I Trauma Center) as well as implementing Epic in our 150+ Hospital Outpatient Departments (Cath Lab, Vascular La, GI Lab, Physical Therapy, etc.--most of the departments that treat both inpatients and outpatients).  As a result of the Epic project, ENH is getting rid of all their paper charts.  Patient documentation is typed or templated into the EMR (electronic medical records).  Instead of scrawling their orders on paper to be transcribed by a unit secretary, physicians are entering the orders themselves into the computer.  This reduces errors and allows for the orders to transmit to the performing departments much faster.  All medication administration documentation id also done in the EMR as well.  Our goal is to "revolutionize the practice of nursing in America", while at the same time reduce errors and increase the efficiency."  For more info about this sort of thing, check out www.epicsystems.com 

12/31/2003:  Brittany Evans:  "My first semester at Southeastern was amazing.  I finished with a 3.7 and had a wonderful time learning a variety of new things.  I can't wait till next semester.  I really enjoy the college life.  Thank you for all your encouragement and helping me in getting to college."