Specifically, three RN nursing students and one EMT student each received a $1,000 scholarship to pay for their educational expenses and encourage their perseverance and success in the healthcare field.

Des Peres Hospital has hired several of Jefferson’s nursing graduates in the past and has been very pleased with their skill level and training. The hospital offers quality medical and surgical care in such specialties as surgical weight loss management, heart care, senior care, orthopedics, and emergency care. Des Peres is one of 38 regional hospitals within the Tenet Healthcare Corporation.

Since 1998, the Tenet Healthcare Foundation has given more than 8,700 grants totaling over $50 million to charitable organizations. Grants are issued for health and wellness, health education, human services, education, civic and community, and arts/humanities.

Foundation Supports Athletics Scholarship Golf Tournament

In a cooperative effort to support the 24th annual Jefferson College Athletic Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament, the Foundation and several of its Board members (and corresponding businesses) participated by sponsoring the event, donating prizes, or playing in the tourney. 

Dobbs Tire & Auto Centers sponsored meals for the event.  Additional Foundation sponsors and donors included Vest Benefit Solutions, Eagle Bank, and Food Service Consultants. Participating Board members/golfers were Terry Coleman, Wes Griffith, Dr. Craig Ruble, and Rick Vest.

We sincerely thank them for their generous support!

Jefferson College and Bridges Across Racial Polarization Host Multicultural Film Festival

In conjunction with the Jefferson County chapter of Bridges Across Racial Polarization, Jefferson College hosted a multicultural film festival suitable for all ages featuring the acclaimed presentation of “Whale Rider” and “Rabbit-Proof Fence” on Saturday, April 17, in the Fine Arts Theatre on the Hillsboro campus.

Bridges Across Racial Polarization is an organization of people of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds who meet four to six times a year to promote better communication and understanding across racial/cultural lines. The “Bridges” chapter in Jefferson County produces one event per year to inform and educate county residents about diversity issues.

Additional sponsors for the Multicultural Film Festival included Leader Publications, the Jefferson County Women’s Bar Association, the Jefferson College Foundation, and the Jefferson College Cultural Council.

Whale Rider is set on the east coast of New Zealand. The Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whagara chiefs, always the first male born, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Rabbit-Proof Fence is set in Western Australia, in 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them 1,000 miles away to indentured servitude, “to save them from themselves.” Molly (14), Daisy (10), and Grace (8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly’s lead. For days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government’s “chief protector of Aborigines” A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view and conventional wisdom.

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