Education Notes

degree from Bel-Rea

Jennifer D. Hobbs, daughter of Phillip and Denise Hobbs, graduated with high honors from Bel-Rea Institute of Animal Technology in Denver, Colo., on Dec. 10.

She completed her internship at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver and worked with Dr. Fitzgerald and Dr. Knor on the TV show ‘Animal Planet Emergency Vet.’ She is currently employed at the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Brentwood.

She is the granddaughter of Frances and the late Leslie R. Hobbs, and Tip and Tootie Skinner of Erlanger, Ky.

Harding University

awards diploma to White

Daniel White was among the nearly 350 graduates who received diplomas in commencement exercises Dec. 15 at Harding University. The ceremonies were held in Benson Auditorium with Howard Wright, minister of Camp Creek Church of Christ in Atlanta, as the featured speaker.

Majoring in general studies, White received a bachelor of arts degree.

Rutledge receives

white coat at ceremony

Ethan Rutledge received his white coat at the Inaugural White Coat Ceremony at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine in Harrogate.

Rutledge, a first-year osteopathic medical student, is a member of the first class at Tennessee’s newest medical school. The White Coat Ceremony is a special ceremony designed to mark a student’s entrance into medical school.

The first White Coat Ceremony was held in 1993 at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons and is now a standard ritual in institutions of both allopathic and osteopathic medical education across the country. During the ceremony, each medical student is presented and robed with his or her short white laboratory coat, formalizing and welcoming the student’s entrance into the study of medicine.

The DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine is located on the campus of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, and is an integral part of LMU’s values-based learning community, and is dedicated to preparing the next generation of osteopathic physicians.

Local residents

earn degrees

Holly Beth Grissom and Jarrod Dan Close of McMinnville were recognized among degree recipients at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Grissom earned a master of science degree in nursing at the College of Nursing’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Track. Close earned a bachelor of science degree in management.