LLC Holds Dental Hygiene Pinning Ceremony

Published on May 21 2015 10:15 am
Last Updated on May 21 2015 10:15 am
Written by Greg Sapp

At the 2015 Lake Land College associate degree in the dental hygiene pinning ceremony, 20 dental hygiene graduates received their pins.

Several students received scholarships or awards during the ceremony.

(MARGARET MERRY-NIEBRUGGE, DENTAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTOR, WITH STAR AWARD RECIPIENT SKYLEE TAYLOR OF CASEY)

Skylee Taylor of Mulberry Grove and Jill Flood of Jewett were recognized for receiving the Linda Lee Fletcher Scholarship earlier this year. Additionally, Taylor received the Student Total Achievement Recognition (STAR), Award, which if offered to a graduating student who shows excellence and commitment to the hygiene profession by demonstrating true dedication to the profession, exhibiting extraordinary compassion in patient care, displaying enthusiasm and follow-through for community service, and demonstrating outstanding patient education and motivation skills.

Additionally, Dipal Patel, Effingham, received the Golden Scaler Award for demonstrating advanced skills in instrumentation. Rhonda Sykes, Clinton, Ind., received the Proctor and Gamble Preventive Dentistry Award for demonstrating the best patient education. Anna Thacker, Coffeen, received the Best Dental Hygienist Award, which was voted on by students in the program. Thacker, along with Stacey Eskew, Effingham, were also inducted into Sigma Phi Alpha Dental Hygiene Society.

(AT LEFT, ANNA THACKER, COFFEEN, IS PICTURED WITH BETH HATRICH, DENTAL HYGIENE INSTRUCTOR, CENTER, AND STACEY ESKEW, EFFINGHAM, AT RIGHT. THACKER AND ESKEW WERE INDUCTED INTO THE SIGMA PHI ALPHA DENTAL HYGIENE SOCIETY)