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Columbia College honors military servicemembers with flag ceremony
2009 Military Recognition Day
Columbia College held its second Military Recognition Day on Thursday, May 21, 2009, beginning with an 11 a.m. flag raising ceremony on Bass Commons featuring an American flag from Naval Air Station Lemoore in California. Columbia College has a campus on NAS Lemoore and has been educating sailors and military family members there since 2001.
Watch as Columbia College students and ROTC Cadets Jonathan Dudley, Army, D. Neal Ethington, Air Force, and Midshipman Kevin Mills, Navy, raise the flags. Also includes remarks by Tery Donelson, assistant vice president for Enrollment Management and Dr. Gerald Brouder, president, and music by Nollie Moore, director of the Jane Froman Singers.
Military Recognition Day commemorates the nearly four decades that Columbia College has served military members and their families. In 1970, the college began offering classes tailored to men and women in the military. The military student population has since blossomed to one in three of the college's nearly 25,000 students worldwide; 18 of the college’s 35 nationwide campuses are located on military installations. In 2008, Columbia College was named one of the top 20 military-friendly institutions in the country by Military Advanced Education.
2008 Military Recognition Day
A ceremony recognizing members of the U.S. military was held Thursday, May 22, 2008, at Columbia College. Watch as Columbia College graduate U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Cortez Pree presents Dr. Gerald Brouder, college president, with a U.S. flag and a Columbia College flag that flew over Pree's military installation in Iraq. Also features interviews with Pree, Brouder and Mike Randerson, vice president for Adult Higher Education and retired USAF colonel.