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September 10, 2008
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40th ANNIVERSARY CAR WINNER ‘THANKFUL’
Sheldon Parham of Bremen may have been the name called September 5 to take home the grand prize at West Central Technical College’s 40th Anniversary Celebration in Carrollton, but it’s his wife who’ll be hitting the road in it.
Heidi Parham, already an LPN graduate from West Central, will be graduating from the RN program in June, and Sheldon Parham said she’s the one who will be driving.
“Our family is extremely thankful for the new car we received in the 40th anniversary car giveaway contest,” he said. “We are most appreciative of our new blessing.”
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Sheldon Parham of Bremen drove away from West Central Technical College’s 40th Anniversary Celebration September 5 in a 2003 Nissan Sentra donated by the College’s Foundation. Congratulating him is West Central President Dr. Skip Sullivan.
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The car – a loaded 2003 Nissan Sentra – was donated by the West Central Technical College Foundation to help draw attention to the College’s 40th anniversary.
“We, as a Foundation, tried to think of the biggest idea to really get the public excited about the College’s anniversary and to prompt them to be at the party,” Vice President of Institutional Advancement Dawn Cook said.
Judging by the crowd on the College’s Carroll Campus last Friday, the plan worked. Tickets were available for about two weeks before the party on each West Central campus, but in order to win, the person whose name was drawn had to be present in Carrollton on September 5 at 3 p.m.
Out of the thousands on campus for the celebration, a crowd of at least 300 people was waiting for the car drawing, but Parham’s name wasn’t the first called. WCTC President Dr. Skip Sullivan said he didn’t know how many names were going to have to be drawn to get a winner.
“We had one of our board members, Dean Jackson from Coweta County, under the tent with me to draw the winning name, and I thought we were going to wear him out before we got a winner. I would think we drew five or six names before Sheldon Parham’s,” Sullivan said. “I would hate to be the person who won the car but wasn’t there to claim it.”
After Parham pushed his way to the front of the crowd and turned in the ticket, Cook – who served as chair of the 40th anniversary organizing committee – finished his paperwork and handed over the keys.
“We wanted people to be on campus for the celebration,” Cook said, “and we wanted the winner to drive out of the parking lot Friday in the car.”
Parham did, with a big smile on his face.
West Central Technical College, with campuses in Carroll, Coweta, Douglas and Haralson counties, offers over 90 associate degree, diploma and technical certificate programs of study. A unit of the Technical College System of Georgia, West Central last year served over 10,000 students including credit enrollment, adult education, ESL classes, continuing education and corporate training.
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