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interim position for a year. Bond began her career at NRCC in 1978, during which time she was a support staff member in various positions for 10 years and then a professor for 30 years. Also, Angie Covey, an NRCC graduate, started the decade as the associate vice president for advancement. In 2010 Covey was named the executive director of the NRCC Educational Foundation. In 2014 Diane Gray joined the Workforce Development staff, and in 2015 Gray assumed the interim director of transitional programs position. Next, she became the director of transitional programs in 2016. Gray, a graduate of NRCC, started her career at the college in 2007. Dr. Amy J. H. Hall, a graduate of NRCC, began her career as a support staff member in 1987. She later served as executive assistant to the president and as coordinator of emergency planning and special projects. From 2016 until her retirement in 2019, she was the associate director of the ASLP and the emergency coordinator officer/Title IX coordinator. W hen asked to compose a poem honoring Dr. Huber’s presidential inauguration, I gave a lot of thought to how I might best represent her as cent to the greatest heights of leadership through a single symbol. I settled on the Hawthorn tree for its multiple ties to the moment. Like the tree, Pat had grown into her role by selflessly giving whatever was needed in each season of her career, always reaching for the light above to grant her a wood hardened strength. Also, the Hawthorn is viewed as a protector in Celtic culture, so it seemed fitting to give a nod to her commitment as protector of our beloved college and the greater Appalachia around it that she so proudly calls her home.

2020 • Phyllis M. Anderson • Peggy M. Dunn • Carlotta B. Eaton • Anthony (Tony) J. Nicolo • Glenda J. Salerno

Anderson, nursing admission advisor in admissions and records, began her career at NRCC in 1977; Dunn, an academic advi sor, in 2007; Eaton, professor of informa tion technology, in 1997; Nicolo, director of facilities services, in 1993; and Salerno, administrative assistant in student services, in 1981. Reassignments . From 2010 to 2019, several faculty and staff assumed new roles. Melissa Anderson, who was an NRCC graduate and began her career at the college as a cashier in the Business Office in 2002, served as a purchasing officer at the beginning of the decade before being named interim human resources manager in 2012. In 2013 Anderson became the human resources and business operations manager; and then in 2016, her title changed to director of human resources and business operations. Starting his employment at NRCC as the project coordinator for a three-year Health Information Technology Education (HITE) grant in 2011, Peter Anderson, a graduate of NRCC, was named dean of business and technologies in 2014. In 2018 Anderson was named vice president for instruction and student services after serving as the interim vice president for a year. Another reassignment occurred when Debbie Bond, an NRCC graduate and professor of administrative support technology, was named dean of business and technologies in 2018 after serving in the

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