Granville Man Gets Top VGCC Vocational Honors

“They work with me to adjust my class hours so I can go to school and still work 32 hours a week,” Jonathan Brewer of Bullock said of his instructors in the Electrical/Electronics Technology program at Vance-Granville Community College.

Brewer has repaid that cooperation by working diligently and being selected as the college’s Vocational Student of the Semester for the spring.

Vocational Department program heads select their top students each semester, and James H. Wheeler Jr., chairman of Public Services and Vocational Education, chooses one of them as the department’s Student of the Semester.

While a student at J.F. Webb High School, Jonathan Brewer took vocational classes and said he liked electrical work and began studying it at VGCC as a dual enrollment student. Since graduation in May 1998, he has been a night student in the VGCC program while working days with Aire-Wise of Oxford, doing residential and commercial electrical wiring.

Brewer is on track to wrap up his electrical studies at Vance-Granville at the end of summer term in August, and he plans to take the state licensing exam in September. He plans to continue working in the electrical field, and he said he may also continue at VGCC in its multi-skills program, obtaining training and skills in one or more other vocational fields.

He is the son of Roy and Judy Brewer of the Grassy Creek community.

New fall semester classes in all vocational programs will begin at Vance-Granville Community College on Aug. 23, and both day and evening classes will be offered. For more information, interested persons may contact Herbert Washington, vocational advisor, at 492-2061.

Shown in the photograph above are, from left: Herbert Washington, vocational counselor; James H. Wheeler Jr., chairman of Public Services and Vocational Education; Brewer; and his instructor, Mike Ward.