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• Work of area students to be featured in ICC's Calliope

  The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2025 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.                 The poets and their work include Holly Edge of Mantachie, “Lingering Tune;” Sharlee Shumpert of Mooreville, “I Am Ambitious;” Abigael Cowsert of Myrtle, “Crickets Never Sleep;” Tytianna Brooks of Nettleton, “Solaced Thinking;” Va’Shawna Fleming of New Albany, “To Love Like Jesus; Sara Davis of Smithville, “Preacher Man;” Michaela Georges, “The World Is Ablaze;” Vidhi Patel, “The Perfect Gift;” James Ross, “Pieces of You;” and Teneshia Shells, “Wisdom,” all of Tupelo.                 The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Editors are ICC art instructor Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, art, and English instructor Keith Morris of Tupelo, poetry.
• ICC's Calliope to feature work by area students

              The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2019 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.             The poets and their work include Dylan Barnett (“RYL”) of Aberdeen, Tierra Hood (“A Small Country Church”) of Fulton, Dylan McCalla (“I AM”) of Guntown, Becky Blanton (“Letters to a Lark”) of Hamilton, Isabella McCarley (“X.I.T.”) of Mantachie, Brynmarie Cowart (“Cirque du Chagrin”) of Marietta, Chelsea Randle (“Forgetting Pain”) of Prairie, Mary Elizabeth Moore (“A Cat Sits On My Lap”) of Red Bay, Ala., Leia Kosteck (“Remember the way he held you”) of Saltillo and Madison Stanford (“Eleanor”) of Tupelo.             The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Keith Morris of the Communications Division is the sponsor.
• Area residents' work featured in ICC's Calliope during 2023 spring semester

  The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2023 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.             The poets and their work include Connor Monaghan of Amory, “Light Poles;” Sophia Matin of Amory, “Hiraeth;” Jordan Allen of Ridgeland, “Birth;” Madeline Comer of Dorsey, “Just Pictures;” Sydney Freeman of Houston, “The Rain;” Ally Melendez of Plantersville, “Gentle Monstrosity,” Emily Moorman of Pontotoc, “The Day after Valentine’s Day;” Maddie James of Tupelo, “Invisible Man;” Ta’Niya Patterson of Tupelo, “Leaves are so free;” and Kent Humphries of Vina, Ala., “The winter tree stands tall.”             The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Editors are ICC art instructor Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, art, and English instructor Keith Morris of Tupelo, poetry.
• ICC's Health Sciences Division to host Code Blue and Red event for students from 12 area schools

  Itawamba Community College’s Health Sciences Division will host a Code Blue and Red event from 8:30 a.m.-noon, Feb. 10, in the Health Science Education Center at the Tupelo Campus. Students from 12 area schools will be on campus in two shifts (8:30 and 10:15 a.m.) to view simulations of three real-life scenarios, said Michael Holloway, director of recruitment and orientation. A North Mississippi Medical Center ambulance will arrive, and the students will see first-hand the need for and the role healthcare professionals play in the process. “It will be an impactful program,” Holloway said, “Our hope is that these students see the ‘real-life’ expertise used by the graduates of ICC’s programs.” Participating programs include students and faculty from Associate Degree Nursing, Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Emergency Medical Sciences, Health Information, Occupational Therapy Assistant, Physical Therapist Assistant, Practical Nursing, Public Health, Radiologic Technology, Respiratory Care and Surgical Technology. Dean of Health Science Instruction Tonya Vaughn said that this event will be an exceptional interprofessional education opportunity. “IEP is a new emphasis area in healthcare education. The goal of these efforts is to develop knowledge, ...
• Student work selected for ICC's Calliope

              The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope, which is scheduled for publication during the 2021 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.             The poets and their work include Anna Austin of New Albany, “Are You Like Me?;” Eden Cooper of Russellville, Ala., “For Any Pronoun;” Le-Ann Cummings of Guntown, “Power of Love;” Pamela Dankins of Amory, “Oh, How You Loved the Rain;” Tandraniqua Galloway of Jackson, “Untitled;” Riley Hall of Pontotoc, “HOPE;” Ashlyn Holcomb of Fulton, “How Could I Have Known?;” Faith Knox of Houlka, “Fall of Life;” Ta’Niya Patterson of Tupelo, “French Toast;” Kylie Seymore of Smithville, “Am I Really Fine…;” J’mya Sims of Holly Springs, “Untitled;” and Whitney Williams of Fulton, “Candle in the Window.”             The Calliope is a journal of art and poetry. Shawn Whittington of the art faculty is the editor, and Keith Morris of the communications faculty, poetry editor.            
• Work of 94-year-old Virginia Jackson, one of ICC's first students, currently on display in Fine Arts Center Gallery

  “The Gift of Life,” a collection of paintings by 94-year-old Virginia Jackson of Tupelo, is currently on display in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center Gallery at the Itawamba Community College Fulton Campus.             The show includes Jackson’s acrylic paintings of landscapes and country scenes as well as two acrylic paintings by her granddaughter, Morgan Davis.             Jackson’s first recollection of an interest in art was when she received a box of Crayola crayons at the age of five. She recalls coloring the embossed flowers on doilies (small napkins or decorative mats), but she didn’t start painting until the age of 91 when her daughter, Jill Jackson King, bought her a set of acrylic paints. She describes herself as self-taught and paints most scenes from memory. Most of her paintings are landscape scenes of farm life and “pretty flowers,” but she experiments with abstracts, also.             She was born Virginia Anthony in 1929 in her family’s home outside of Tremont. Her father built their house and raised crops, cattle and hogs on their farm during the Great Depression. Growing up, she ...