Two Randolph Community College Students
To Be Honored At State Academic Awards Event

ASHEBORO, N.C.--Two Randolph Community College students will be among 118 community college students honored at the sixth annual Academic Excellence Awards luncheon in Raleigh on April 24. The annual event, hosted by the North Carolina Community College System, honors two students from each of the 58 community colleges and the N.C. Center for Applied Textile Technology. The goal of the Academic Excellence Award is to recognize excellence and encourage scholarship among the more than 780,000 students of the NCCCS.

Holly C. Dunn, an RCC Associate in Arts (College Transfer) student, and Sarah A. Mespelt, an Interior Design student at RCC, were selected based on their academic achievement and demonstration of leadership ability.

A Seagrove native, Dunn graduated from Southwestern Randolph High School and plans to transfer to Pfeiffer University in the fall of 2003 to study elementary education. At RCC, Dunn currently has a 4.0 GPA and is an active member of the Student Government Association, Rotaract, and Phi Theta Kappa, for which she coordinated the Compensatory Education prom and serves on the scrapbook committee. She is a member of Antioch Christian Church in Seagrove, where she teaches children's church and coordinates and drives for senior citizens' day trips. She is married to Keith Dunn and has two children, ages 5 and 3. Dunn is the daughter of Howard W. and Sarah R. Cox of Seagrove.

Mespelt is from High Point and graduated from Southwest Guilford High School, where she won the Future Homemakers of America National Award for two consecutive years. She works part time at Furnitureland South. After graduating from RCC with an associate degree in Interior Design, she plans to pursue a degree in architecture. Mespelt is the daughter of Hugh and Dana Mespelt of High Point.