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MEMBER NEWS FOCUS MAGAZINE | FEBRUARY 2022

Lansing Community College Celebrates December Graduates

ansing Community College (LCC) celebrated its
December graduates with in-person ceremonies. The
LLCC’s Fire Science Academy graduated 16 recruits at
its ceremony on Dec. 17. Retired LCC Fire Science Academy
Coordinator Bill Pawluk served as guest speaker.

A nurse pinning ceremony was held on Tuesday, Dec. 14,
with 69 graduates being pinned. One nursing student was
pinned a few weeks early and with excellent reason. Nursing
student and U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jacob Showerman
received orders for deployment to Uzbekistan, which would
prevent him from taking part in the traditional ceremony.

The LCC’s nursing program worked with Showerman to
provide accommodations for him to complete his clinicals
before his deployment, and he has since completed all
his program requirements.

Showerman received his pin from the U.S. Ambassador
to Uzbekistan, Daniel Rosenblum. He also received the The Mid-Michigan Police Academy at LCC graduated its
nursing program’s Florence Nightingale Award for the newest recruits on Friday, Dec. 13 at the West Campus,
graduating student who went above and beyond. As a which had 24 graduates in its 108th class. Sheriff Tom
military student in the Nursing Program, Showerman was Reich from the Eaton County Sheriff’s Office served as
also the recipient of an LCC Foundation scholarship. the guest speaker. l

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