Olney Central Col-lege instructor DavidDenton has writtenan article on Presi-dent John F.Kennedy’s assassina-tion, featuring infor-mation gatheredfrom recently declas-sified documents.

Denton’s in-depthwork, “NexusRedux,” follows uphis article, “Nexus:The JFK Assassination’s Place in History anda New Witness,” which he released late lastyear. Both articles can be accessed athttp://changehistjfk.blogspot.com.

Denton will discuss his most recent articleand other aspects of the Kennedy assassination

during presentations in OCC’s Dr. John D.Stull Performing Arts Center on Nov. 14 and atLincoln Trail College in Robinson on Nov. 20.Both events start at 6:30 p.m.

The National Archives has been chargedwith declassifying all JFK assassination-related materials by October 2017. Initial docu-ments released expose two major revelations —the mayor of Dallas had direct connections tothe CIA and Lee Harvey Oswald was sent onan anti-Castro mission to Mexico City.

Longtime researcher Larry Rivera discov-ered these two sets of documents while review-ing a portion of the material released earlierthis year.

The first was a CIA 201 File on Earle Cabell,who was the mayor of Dallas at the time ofJFK’s assassination in November 1963. Thedocument confirms he was a CIA contract

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KNIGHTLINEOlney Central College

October 2017

Upcoming Events New partnership will enable area students to earnbachelor’s degree in business administration at OCC12 Midterm

12 Last Day to Pay FallSemester Tuition and Fees

16 OCC’s 8-week ClassesBegin

18 College Fair,Wattleworth Hallway,9 a.m.-3 p.m.

20-21 OCC TheatrePresents “Subject toChange,” Dr. John D. StullPerforming Arts Center,7:30 p.m.

22 OCC Theatre Presents“Subject to Change,” Dr.John D. Stull PerformingArts Center, 2 p.m.

27 Music Department FallConcert, Dr. John D. StullPerforming Arts Center,7:30 p.m.

27-28 Student SenateHaunted Trail, 5-11 p.m.

30-31 Student SenateHaunted Trail, 5-11 p.m.

31 Spring Registration Begins for CurrentStudents

Illinois Eastern Community Col-leges and Franklin University arepartnering to offer a bachelor’s de-gree in business administration atOlney Central College.

Through the new agreement, theinstitutions have created a pathwayfor students to complete their bach-elor’s degrees by transferring theirIECC associate’s degree to Franklin. Beginning in January, students can take Franklin classes ina face-to-face format onsite at OCC through Franklin’s 3+1 Business Administration completionprogram. The program also will be offered at Wabash Valley College in Mt. Carmel.

OCC Dean of Instruction Michael Conn said the agreement opens new opportunities for areastudents seeking advanced degrees.

“It is an exciting opportunity for local students to get a bachelor’s degree in business adminis-tration and we’re glad to form this partnership with Franklin University,” he said. “The classesare offered in the evenings and designed for working adults. This is a great opportunity for themto go back to school.”

Through the new co-location agreement, students benefit from Franklin’s acceptance of previ-ously earned college and professional education credits, minimizing the time and money it takesto earn a degree. This transfer-friendly policy, coupled with Franklin’s convenient class schedules

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A table will be locatedoutside Student Services.25 U.S. Air Force RecruiterRobert Pike, 11 a.m-1 p.m. 30 Eastern IllinoisUniversity Rep. CeciliaYoakum, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.31 University of Illinois atSpringfield Rep. AndrewNicol, 10:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.

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Denton publishes new article on JFK assassination

David Denton

agent. Cabell, whose brother, Charles,was a deputy director in the CIA, has al-ways been suspicious in the Kennedycase for a number of reasons, Dentonadded.

New Orleans District Attorney JimGarrison, who indicted but failed to con-vict Clay Shaw in connection withKennedy’s assassination, felt the last-minute change in the parade route inDallas made Cabell “highly suspicious”and raised serious questions about themayor of Dallas.

“This newly found document that linksCabell directly to the CIA makes him ap-pear even more so,” Denton said.

In addition, author Phil Nelson de-scribes Earle Cabell as “at the center of aDallas crowd that was tied directly intoLBJ’s circle for many years before theassassination.”

“A deeper look into Cabell’s back-ground, connections and movements be-fore the assassination will be covered inmy article and it will talk more in-depthabout his connections,” Denton added.

A second significant documentpertaining to the CIA also has been declassified.

According to Judyth Baker, who wasLee Harvey Oswald’s mistress in NewOrleans in the summer of 1963, this doc-ument reveals that Chief of CIA Coun-terintelligence Jim Angleton’sright-hand man, Raymond Rocca, toldWarren Commission Attorney DavidBelin that just weeks before Kennedy’smurder Oswald was in Mexico City be-cause he was involved in a plot to killFidel Castro.

Baker points out that this confirmswhat she has been suggesting about Os-wald’s trip since 1999. (Baker will be ata conference on the JFK assassination inDallas, Texas from Nov. 17-19 https://jfk-dallasconference.com)

“This document, in effect, means theCIA knew Oswald went to Mexico City ina plot to kill Castro,” Denton added. “Attimes, although the Warren Commissionwas interviewing Rocca, he appears to bethe one asking questions.”

From the file, Denton said it is appar-ent that Rocca’s boss, Angleton, did not

want any blame laid on his department.Rocca wasn’t sure what Belin and theWarren Commission had been told byRichard Helms, Head of the CIA, whowas feeding the Warren Commissionwhat Baker referred to as “the CIA’spublic version of things.”

For instance, Rocca asks Belin, “Whydid Oswald’s lies include a denial to po-lice that he had made the Mexico tripunless there was something important tohide about it? All his other lies con-cerned key factual elements of his coverstory.”

In this statement, Denton says, Roccais admitting Oswald used a cover story.

“The most telling thing about this doc-ument is that it destroys the notion stillout there among some that Oswald wasjust a lone nut assassin,” Denton said.“It is a clear indication Oswald was in-volved in intelligence activities leadingup to the events in Dallas.”

Also significant in the documents isthe fact both Rocca and the WarrenCommission Council admit Oswald’smeeting with KGB assassin ValeryKostikov at the Soviet Embassy in Mex-ico had nothing to do with potential So-viet involvement in Kennedy’sassassination. Oswald met withKostikov because he was in charge ofgranting visas to the USSR.

Denton said this runs in direct contra-diction to new stories circulating thatRussia may have been involved in theassassination.

“A potential KGB plot againstKennedy is merely a regurgitation of dis-information that originated 50 years agofrom Angleton’s department,” Dentonadded. “He spent years torturing defec-tor Yuri Nosenko trying to extract a con-fession out of him about Sovietintentions. The idea the Russians wouldrisk WW III and send a low-level intelli-gence officer with questionable shootingskills was and still is insane.”

Furthermore, Angleton was a para-noid liar obsessed with the idea of aKGB mole inside the CIA, Denton said.He lost favor inside the agency and wasultimately let go.

As recently as July 27, Newsweek pub-lished an article “Did Russia Kill a U.S.President? New CIA Documents Reveal

Spy’s Theory About JFK’s Death.”“It’s a shame people are being side-

tracked by something that was dis-missed as disinformation 50 years ago.”Denton said.

Denton said other stories circulatingrecently in the media about the CIA’sideas on the JFK assassination thatamount to disinformation and gonowhere include an article publishedlast month by Politico Magazine, entitled“How the CIA Came to Doubt the Offi-cial Story of JFK’s Murder.”

According to the article, based on therecently declassified documents, “keyCIA officials were concerned by the mid-1970s that the agency, the FBI, the Se-cret Service and the White Housecommission led by Chief Justice EarlWarren had never followed up on impor-tant clues about Oswald’s contact withforeign agents, including diplomats andspies for the Communist governments ofCuba and the Soviet Union, who mighthave been aware of his plans to killKennedy and even encouraged the plot.”

“Suggesting the CIA was concernedabout someone besides Oswald murder-ing Kennedy is akin to O.J. wishing todiscover who murdered Nicole,” Dentonadded.

Denton has studied the Kennedy as-sassination for more than two decadesand has taught the course, Political As-sassinations of the 1960s, since 2001.Over the years, he has interviewed sev-eral people associated with the case andhas researched hundreds of documentsrelated to both Kennedy and Oswald.

In 2013, he helped organize a two-dayevent at OCC marking the 50th anniver-sary of Kennedy’s death. The conferencebrought together nationally-known aca-demics, scholars and authors to lendtheir perspectives on the events leadingup to and following the assassination. In2014, Denton organized and participatedin a national conference in Washington,D.C. focusing on the Warren Commis-sion Report.

Denton, as well as the rest of the JFKHistorical Group will be hosting a con-ference in Washington, D.C. in March ofnext year entitled “The Big Event: NewRevelations in the JFK Assassinationand the Forces Behind His Death.”

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Jan Doan never imagined asimple visit to Olney CentralCollege would lead to a 40-year adventure.

“I came in one day to see ifthey would offer a genealogyclass,” she said. “I met withthe Dean of Student ServicesDr. (E.L.) Bosomworth andtalked about the possibility.He knew I had a teaching cer-tificate and finally, he said,‘Why don’t you teach theclass?’ I had planned on beinga student, but I ended upwriting the syllabus andteaching it. I have nevermissed a quarter or a semes-ter since.”

OCC offered an initial four-week mini-course in April1977. Interest in genealogywas growing rapidly at thetime following the success ofthe TV miniseries “Roots,”which traced the family of au-thor Alex Haley.

Initially, the class met onMonday nights.

“I chose Monday nights be-cause my husband nevermissed Monday Night Foot-ball,” she said. “I knew hewould be at home with thekids.”

That May, Doan organizedthe Richland County Ge-nealogical Society with helpfrom members of the class. Bythe fall, she was teachingthree genealogy courses atthe college.

“We started building a ge-nealogy library with fourbooks of mine on a shelf be-hind the front desk,” Doansaid.

They included “The 1884History of Richland, Clay andMarion Counties,” BarbaraCraddock’s “Cemetery Book,”“Early Marriages of RichlandCounty” by Lola Taylor and“Gleanings from Old Newspa-

pers of Clay and RichlandCounties.”

That handful of booksevolved into the RichlandCounty Genealogy SocietyCollection, which is stillhoused in the OCC AndersonLibrary, and offers resourcesfrom across the region. Today,the collection includes censusrecords, newspaper clippings,historical publications andeven diaries and privatescrapbooks donated by areafamilies.

The society thrived in thoseearly years and undertook anumber of projects includingtranscribing census and mar-riage records and publishinga quarterly.

The Richland County Ge-nealogical Society continuesto maintain the genealogysection. The area is open tothe public and people may usethe collection during the An-derson Library’s regularhours. Several volunteers areavailable to assist patrons onTuesdays and Thursdays.

Over the years, Doan hasspent countless hours assist-ing more than 1,000 partici-pants in tracing their familiesfrom the Old World to Colo-nial America and on to Illi-nois, where their pioneering

ancestors forged present-dayRichland, Clay, Lawrence,Edwards and Wayne counties.

“It wasn’t unusual for me tocome in the morning and stillbe here at 9 o’clock at night,”Doan said. “There were timesI had to tell them it was timeto go.”

In the early years, buddinggenealogists spent countlesshours scanning microfilm inthe library.

“I would order microfilmfrom the Shawnee LibrarySystem and it wasn’t unusualfor us to have 30 rolls of cen-sus records a week,” sheadded.

Today, the collection con-tains census records for ninearea counties covering the1820s to 1940s, but Doan saidthey are rarely used since theinformation is now readilyavailable on the Internet.Still, they remain a vital pri-mary source for those wishingto verify facts. A large collec-tion of newspapers also isavailable including Olneynewspapers from 1876 untilabout 2000, the County Com-moner from Noble, the Ste.Marie Tribune and the Sum-ner Press.

Often the classes wouldtravel on day trips in the col-

lege vans to conduct researchat libraries in Mt. Vernon,Urbana and St. Louis, Mo.Longer trips to Fort Wayne,Ind., Nashville, Tenn.,Louisville, Ky., Columbus,Ohio and Chicago were takennearly every year.

“We logged several hun-dred miles,” Doan said. “Itwas a fun time. The Internethas changed the way peopledo genealogy. We don’t travellike we used to.”

Another staple of thoseearly days, letter writing, hasalso disappeared.

“We used to do a lot of writ-ing,” she said. “We spent a lotof time working on how towrite a query. Often, youwould send letters to majorpublications with questionsabout families. That’s all gonenow.”

Originally a credit course,Doan’s genealogy class latercame under the umbrella ofOCC Community Services. Inrecent years, the class has op-erated independently fromthe college, with Doan volun-teering her services.

After reaching the 40-yearmilestone this year, Doan de-cided to retire. However, sev-eral of her former studentsasked if she would continuewith the genealogy group inthe future. After discussionswith President Rodney Ranes,it was decided to offer a classfor beginners and advancedstudents that would not meetregularly, but would follow aschedule agreeable to classmembers.

“I’ve enjoyed being here,”Doan said of working at OCC.“All of the librarians havebeen helpful and willing toshare the equipment andcomputers. They have also

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Jan Doan retires after 40 years as genealogy instructor

Jan Doan is retiring after 40 years as a genealogy instructor.

given us hints on doing things. Thedeans of instruction were also veryhelpful.”

Doan’s interest in genealogy began as ayoung girl in Blue Island, when shewould accompany her father to the ceme-tery to visit family graves. It sparked herimagination and instilled a yearning toknow more about these people who livedand died before her.

When Doan and her husband, a nativeof Richland County, moved from Blue Is-land to Claremont, her interest waspiqued further.

“He was taking me around the areaand we went to the cemetery,” she said.“He had a brother, who had died young,and I noticed there were several Doansburied nearby. I asked him, ‘Who arethese people,’ and he didn’t know. ‘Whydon’t you know this,’ I asked. That’swhen I started looking into the family’shistory.”

Through their journeys, genealogistsoften encounter distant relatives. Doanrecalls one summer in 1969, when a gen-tleman stopped by the Farmers Ex-change in Claremont and asked herhusband if he knew anybody namedHostettler in the area.

“My husband told him, ‘You need tospeak to my wife,’” Doan said. “He, his

wife and their six kids came to our houseand stayed in their camper for a week. Iremember while they were here, thetrain carrying (President) Eisenhowerback to Kansas for his funeral camethrough Claremont. It turns out thegrandfather of the man’s wife, Ruth, wasa brother to my grandmother.”

The gentleman’s wife later mailedDoan a copy of “Searching for Your An-cestors” and pedigree charts. Doan hasalso encountered other distant relatives.Her grandfather came to America withhis brother, leaving 13 brothers and sis-ters in their native England.

“I was eventually able to get all of theirnames and birth dates,” she said. “I vis-ited England and was able to round upsecond, third and even fourth cousins. Ialso saw the house, built in 1865, wheremy grandfather was born.”

Doan still enjoys researching and as-sisting others in breaking through anybrick walls they’ve encouraged while re-searching their family stories.

“Some questions you can spend 30 or40 years on and not find an answer,” sheadded. “People change their names orthe spelling. There are some people whodidn’t want to be found.”

Often, it can be difficult to discern be-tween individuals because ages andnames don’t align. Doan said much ofthe confusion comes from the way in

which early census records werecollected.

“The census was taken in the springwhen the roads were muddy and travelwas difficult. Census takers also werepaid by the number of families they vis-ited,” she said. “They would ask whoeveranswered the door the names and ages ofthe people living there. If someonewasn’t home or they couldn’t reach ahouse, the census taker would ask thenext family down the road for informa-tion. There was a lot of guessing.”

Doan’s favorite sources for tidbitsabout ancestors’ lives are old newspapersand court records.

“It is always fun to find out one of yourancestors was a bit of a crook,” she said.“They may have been arrested for sellingliquor on Sunday and you will find someadded details about their lives. It’s niceto find a little scandal associated withone of your ancestors because they get inthe court records.”

Doan’s fall genealogy class started inAugust and she will offer another inJanuary.

“I encourage anyone who is interestedin genealogy to attend the class,” shesaid. “It can help them find answers totheir questions. There is a lot of materialfrom the area to assist them.”

For more information, call Doan at392-7090.

COSMETOLOGYTRAININGOlney Central College’sCosmetology students at-tended Connie’s Salonand Spa for workshops inesthetics (skin care) andmassage therapy. Pic-tured are front row, fromleft, Instructors LindaMiller, Courtney Meadows,Sarah Holtz, ConnieCrutchfield and DianaEmmons. Back row,students Brileigh Noble,Nikki Littlejohn, ChaunceyButler, Casey Hinkle,Alisha Vest, ChloeyDeVore, Nicole Silvers,Emily Harp, McKennaRichardson and SomerMiller.

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GED students collect donations for Texas schoolOlney Central College’s

Learning Skills Center cele-brated National Adult Edu-cation and Family LiteracyWeek, Sept. 24-30, by help-ing others.

GED students teamedwith OCC faculty and staffto collect classroom items forEast Early College HighSchool in Houston. The dual-credit high school, whichserves primarily economi-cally disadvantaged stu-dents, sustained heavydamage in the historic flooding following Hurricane Harvey.

The donations included paper, pens, notebooks and even giftcards, which the GED students packed and shipped to assiststudents effected by the natural disaster.

“It feels nice to help students who need it,” said GED studentGwyn Atkins.

LSC Developmental Support Specialist Lindsey Buck organ-ized the collection after reading a social media post asking forschools to volunteer to be matched with an educational institu-tion effected by the hurricane. Buck signed up and was part-nered with East Early College High School teacher DeborahVine.

In her correspondence, Vine stressed the dire need for itemsto assist the school’s students who have lost everything. Shealso expressed her gratitude to OCC for helping.

“Many of my students attending EECHS will receive an asso-ciate degree upon completion of high school credits,” sheadded. “We have a number of students who are first generation

to the U.S. or DACA stu-dents who want to make adifference.”

GED student AustinJames feels a special con-nection to the city. He wasvisiting friends in theHouston area shortly beforethe hurricane and his girl-friend’s brother-in-law isstationed at Ft. Hood.

“Texas is a great placeand it’s great to be able tohelp the students outthere,” he said.

National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week raisesawareness about the need and value of adult education andfamily literacy. In the United States, 36 million adults strugglewith basic academic skills, making it difficult to function effec-tively as workers, parents, citizens and consumers in today’ssociety. Nearly 30 percent of adults with household incomes ator below the poverty line do not have high school credentials.

OCC’s Learning Skills Center is working hard to assist localresidents. The LSC provides free classes and books to assiststudents who want to earn their GEDs. Classes begin everyeight weeks and are offered in the day, evening and online toensure everyone who wants to earn a GED can.

Past graduates have found better-paying jobs, earned theirassociate’s degrees at OCC and completed their bachelor’s de-grees at a four-year university.

OCC is now registering students for GED classes. The nexteight-week session begins Oct. 16. For more information, con-tact Buck at 395-7777, ext. 2265.

College Fair Oct. 18OCC will host a College Fair from 9 a.m. to 3

p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18 with tables locatedthroughout Wattleworth Hall.

Information about OCC’s transfer and technicaldegrees will be available. Representative from thefollowing institutions also will attend: MurrayState University; Southern Illinois University atCarbondale; University of Illinois at Springfield;McKendree University; Southern Illinois Univer-sity at Carbondale, Allied Health; University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign; University ofEvansville; Indiana University Health Occupa-tions; Southeast Missouri State; University of Illi-nois at Chicago; Southern Illinois University,Criminal Justice; Vincennes University; and Vin-cennes University, College of Technology.

For more information, call 395-7777, ext. 2019.

Sports SchedulesBaseball

Oct. 14 — OCC at University ofIndianapolis, noon

SoftballOct. 13 — OCC at University ofEvansville, TBAOct. 14 — OCC at Wabash ValleyCollege, noonOct. 20 — OCC at Murray StateUniversity, 5 p.m.

Men’s BasketballOct. 15 — OCC at Vincennes Jam-boree, 9 a.m.Oct. 22 — OCC vs. John A. Logan,10 a.m. & Three Rivers Commu-nity College, 4 p.m. at Jamboree,CarbondaleOct. 29 — OCC at Parkland Col-lege, 4 p.m.

OCC Theatre acquires sewing machineCostumes are an

essential element inany theatrical pro-duction. The OlneyCentral College The-atre is finding themeasier to producethanks to a new com-mercial sewing ma-chine purchased withfunds from the OCCFoundation.

“We are so thank-ful to the Foundationfor all they havedone, not just for thetheatre, but the entire college,” said Director Jon Wright. “They have been verygenerous.”

Costumer Lori Kilpatrick said the program currently has three machines, butthey weren’t designed to handle the various materials used in the theatre.

“The new machine will replace three that aren’t fully-functional,” Kilpatrick said.“Each of the machines we were using had something wrong with it. I often had totake items home with me. Now, I can sew here at the college instead of takingthings to another location.”

Kilpatrick said the commercial machine affords a larger lever space, which willenable her to sew bigger pieces. It will also accommodate specialty fabrics like vel-vet and satin and thicker materials like denim or sequins that standard machinesjust can’t handle.

The new machine also includes various attachments for zippers and buttonholes.Kilpatrick said the machine was especially helpful in creating the intricate cos-tumes for the spring production of “The Little Mermaid.”

Make appointments nowfor spring registration

Olney Central College is now ac-cepting appointments for spring se-mester registration.

For registration information andappointments, call OCC StudentServices at 395-7777 or request anappointment online atwww.iecc.edu/occ/appointment.

Spring classes start Jan. 8.

The OCC Learning Skills Centeroffers free tutoring for all subjects.Professional tutors are available formath and English courses.

The Math Lab is available from 9to 11 a.m. Monday through Friday.English tutoring and tutoring inother subjects is available, typicallyin the afternoon but also by ap-pointment.

Tutoring is also available to thosestudents taking online courses andis assigned on a case by case basis.

For more information, visit theLSC in the back of the Anderson Li-brary.

Free tutoring available

John Racklin and Chelsea Rude of TrustBank’s Investment Department talked toOCC’s morning and afternoon welding students about the different options for in-vesting their money. They also discussed credit scores and how they can impactan individual’s future. Instructor Curtis Marshall invites the pair to meet with stu-dents every year to explain the importance of investing in their futures.

WELDING STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT INVESTING

Tickets available for ‘Subject to Change’Tickets are

available for theOCC Theatre’sproduction ofJules Tasca’s“Subject toChange,” spon-sored by CarleRichland Memo-rial Hospital.

Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20 and Saturday, Oct. 21.An afternoon performance will begin at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 22.

Tickets are $12 for reserved seating for the production and may be purchased onlineat www.iecc.edu/occtheater. Tickets will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Mondaythrough Friday in the lobby of the Dr. John D. Stull Performing Arts Center. Theyalso may be reserved by calling 395-7777, ext. 2408, during the hours designated forticket sales.

Tasca’s play introduces the audience to the two Bassett sisters. Gertrude is prudish,capable, hardworking, and says only “Oh, fudge,” when she is upset. Madeline is com-pletely dependent on her sister. She is sloppy, fat, cunning, and sounds like a plumberwho has lost his number four wrench. When Gertrude decides to marry, leaving Made-line to fend for herself, the situation becomes traumatic.

In an attempt to break up Gertrude’s romance, Madeline runs the gamut, makingobscene telephone calls to the bridegroom’s 80-year-old lush of a mother, outrageouslyinsulting the groom to be, sneaking off to New York to trip on LSD, and finally sneak-ing back home to live in the attic and sulk. When all efforts fail, she feigns a stroke.

This show is rated PG due to mild adult language.

Register nowfor concealed carryclass Oct. 26-28

Individuals interested in ob-taining an Illinois ConcealedCarry permit are encouraged toenroll in an upcoming course atOlney Central College.

The Concealed Carry class pro-vides 16 hours of requiredfirearms training, includingclassroom and range instruction.

During the course, participantswill receive instruction on how tosafely handle a handgun whilehoning their marksman skills.They also will learn how to sur-vive a real-world encounter andto maintain the proper mindset,skills and abilities that comewith “bearing arms” for the pur-pose of self-defense.

The course is designed for boththe beginner and experiencedshooter.

The class will meet from 6 to10 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 26 andFriday, Oct. 27 at OCC. On Sat-urday, Oct. 28, the class will beheld from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at theOlney Gun Range.

Tuition and fees for the classare $175 for residents of the Illi-nois Eastern Community Col-leges District, and must be paidin advance to reserve a seat inthe course.

Tuition is waived for residentsof the IECC District who are age60 and older, but course feesmust be paid. To register, call395-7777.

For questions regarding theprogram, email Concealed CarryCoordinator Bryan Hart athartb@iecc.edu, or call 618-879-9420.

Lost and FoundIf you have lost an item, please

check with the switchboard deskin Student Services.

and regionally accredited curriculumallow today’s adult students to achievetheir education and career goals in bal-ance with their personal, career and fi-nancial responsibilities, all while stayingwithin their own community.

Courses are offered in a six-week for-mat and free textbooks are available foronline courses.

“The signing of our co-location partner-ship with Illinois Eastern CommunityColleges provides students in Olney, Mt.Carmel and surrounding areas with theunique opportunity to benefit from anexpanded physical and financial access

to education,” said Samantha Shear, Di-rector of Community College Allianceand Domestic Locations at FranklinUniversity.

Shear said the new agreement pro-vides students with a cost-effective andaccess-oriented option to complete adegree.

Franklin University has a long-stand-ing relationship with more than 230community and technical colleges acrossthe country to provide greater access tostudents of all ages through its Commu-nity College Alliance (CCA).

One of the largest programs of its kindin the nation, Franklin’s CCA Programserves students by providing a bachelor’s

degree through a combination ofcourses taken at community collegesand on campus or online throughFranklin.

By expanding its CCA relationship tocreate partnerships such as this new co-location partnership, IECC students atOCC and Wabash Valley benefit from anew face-to-face bachelor completion op-tion with a university they know andtrust.

For more information about the pro-gram or upcoming classes, contact NicoleJackson at transferinfo@franklin.edu orcall 614-947-6053.

Additional information also is avail-able at www.franklin.edu/inquiry/iecc.

OCC!hostingFAFSA NightOct. 26

The Olney Central College Music De-partment will present its Fall Concert at7:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27 in the Dr.John D. Stull Performing Arts Center.

In addition to the OCC Concert Band,Concert Choir and Jazz Ensemble, theMusic Department will welcome to thestage the Richland County High SchoolConcert Choir under the direction of War-ren Weitkamp.

The Concert Band will perform selec-tions including Into the Clouds by Richard Saucedo and David Holsinger’s A ChildhoodHymn, conducted by OCC’s new Director of Bands Wade Baker. An internationallytouring jazz and blues musician, Baker joined OCC in August. He attended the Univer-sity of Indianapolis and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with a focus in JazzStudies.

Selections by the Concert Choir will include Boogie Woogie, King of New York fromthe Broadway musical Newsies and Claudio Monteverdi’s God of Mercy. The choir alsowill perform Get Happy, The Beatles’ When I’m 64 and Hallelujah, by legendary Cana-dian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who passed away late last year. The choir isunder the direction of Andrew Pittman, who is entering his fourth year as OCC’s Direc-tor of Choral Activities.

The evening of music also will include the Jazz Ensemble performing Sonny Rollins’Tenor Madness, Contemplation by McCoy Tyner, Cold Duck Time by Eddie Harris, JoeZawinul’s Mercy, Mercy, Mercy and Antonio Carlos Jobim’s So Danco Samba.

OCC will host a FAFSA (FreeApplication for Federal StudentAid) Completion Night from 4:30to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct.26 in Rooms 207 and 208 of Wat-tleworth Hall.

OCC Financial Aid staff willbe available to answer questionsand assist students and parentsin completing their 2018-2019FAFSA application. A represen-tative from the Illinois StudentAssistance Commission also willbe on hand. Those attendingshould bring their 2016 taxes,W2 forms and bank statements.

OCC Coordinator of FinancialAid Andrea Puckett is encourag-ing current students and thosewho will be entering college inFall 2018 to file their FAFSAs assoon as possible since some fi-nancial aid programs, such asthe Illinois Monetary AwardProgram, award funds on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, contactPuckett at 395-7777, ext. 2017,or by email atpucketta@iecc.edu.

Music Department Fall Concert Oct. 27

Massage Therapy accepting appointmentsOCC’s Massage Therapy Program is ac-

cepting appointments for clinicals. The clinics are open to the public and

will be held from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct.28, Nov. 11 and Dec. 2 at the West Rich-land Center in Noble.

The cost for a relaxing, Swedish-stylemassage is $30 for an hour and $15 for

half an hour. A 20-minute chair massageis $10.

To make an appointment, call 392-2430.Callers should leave a message with theirname and contact information, the datethey would like to schedule an appoint-ment and the therapy treatment theywant.

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