VGCC Radiography students collect supplies for Hurricane Matthew victims
Students in the Radiography program at Vance-Granville Community College recently answered a call to help those who were devastated by Hurricane Matthew, collecting a massive amount of supplies for the victims in North and South Carolina.
VGCC Radiography clinical coordinator/instructor Stacey Soles arranged a partnership with Black’s Tire & Auto Service, which has 38 locations from Raleigh to Florence, South Carolina, and was founded in her home county of Columbus. The company was encouraging residents of its service area to collect supplies, which its employees would then pick up and deliver directly to those in need. Among the items being sought were diapers, children’s toys, bottled water, cleaning supplies, toiletries, non-perishable food, new t-shirts, socks and undergarments.
Students set up drop-off points on all four of the college’s campuses, in Vance, Granville, Franklin and Warren counties. Then, on Oct. 20, Black’s Tire & Auto Service picked up the donations at the South Campus, where the Radiography program is located. Students and faculty members loaded the supplies onto the truck sent by the company, which was quickly filled, and a second truck was called. Even that truck could not hold all of the donations, so Soles took some in her own vehicle to the company’s Raleigh location.
Black’s Tire & Auto Service later delivered the items to people in Fair Bluff, N.C., and Nichols, S.C., both of which experienced extensive flooding from the hurricane.
“The Radiography students and program faculty would like to extend our thanks to everyone who helped make the hurricane relief drive a success,” Soles said. “We were overwhelmed with the generous outpouring of support from our fellow faculty, staff, students and members of the community, including several businesses around our South Campus.”
Based at VGCC’s South Campus between Creedmoor and Butner, the two-year Radiography degree program prepares graduates to be radiographers, skilled health care professionals who use radiation to produce images of the human body. For more information on Radiography, contact Dean of Health Sciences Angela Thomas at (252) 738-3397.
Above: VGCC Radiography students and faculty pose in front of the college’s South Campus with some of the donated supplies (including 40 cases of bottled water) before Black’s Tire & Auto Service loaded them onto trucks. Pictured, from left, are Black’s Tire & Auto Service Commercial Sales and Marketing representative Tim Palmer of Raleigh, students Jonathan Liddane of Oxford, Sabrina Johnson of Louisburg, Jan Maniace of Henderson, Marlene Bailey of Creedmoor, Lori Wiggins of Creedmoor, Jaime Wilson of Raleigh, Brooke Storer of Creedmoor, Mary Currin of Oxford, Brittany Chandler of Roxboro, Jamisha Twitty of Warrenton, Jennifer Rhodes of Bunn, Kristel DeHart of Oxford, Radiography instructor/clinical coordinator Stacey Soles, students Trevor Houston of Durham, Mary Beth Brewer of Henderson, Kelsey Hight of Henderson, Maricela Carbajal of Oxford and Anna Tilley of Creedmoor, and VGCC Dean of Health Sciences Angela Thomas. (VGCC photo)
Above: Radiography students load bottles of water and other supplies onto a Black’s Tire & Auto Service truck. (VGCC photo)
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