{"id":8759,"date":"2019-02-19T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:15:08","slug":"nc-senator-to-address-nash-community-college-class-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2019\/02\/nc-senator-to-address-nash-community-college-class-of-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Senator to Address Nash Community College Class of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NC Senator Rick Horner<\/p><\/div>\n

North Carolina Senator Rick Horner will deliver the address at the Nash Community College curriculum commencement ceremony\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span>Friday, May 17, 2019 at 6 p.m. in Brown Auditorium. President William S. Carver, II, Ed.D. and Board of Trustees Chair Paul S. Jaber will preside over the ceremony.<\/p>\n

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Horner<\/span>\u00a0is in his second term representing North Carolina\u2019s 11th District, and co-chairs the Senate’s Committee on Education and Higher Education working with school districts and colleges across the state bringing increased urgency and accountability to NC education.<\/div>\n

\nSenator Horner graduated from Southern Nash High School and earned an undergraduate degree in Business Administration from East Carolina University while paying his way by working in Wilson\u2019s tobacco warehouses. He worked for three years in the United States and Far East with Standard Commercial Tobacco.<\/p>\n

For twenty years Horner was employed in the securities industry as a Financial Advisor helping families achieve\u00a0their<\/span>\u00a0financial goals. He has worked with firms like BB&T\u2019s Scott & Stringfellow and First Citizen\u2019s Investor Services. The last nine years of his professional career have been spent in commercial insurance specializing in agribusiness and education.<\/p>\n

A resident of Bailey, NC, Horner has been married 34 years to Patricia Harbaugh, a\u00a0career<\/span>\u00a0educator, and has four adult children.\u00a0Horner is a<\/span>n advocate for public education,\u00a0having<\/span>\u00a0served previously on the Wilson Community College Board of Trustees and as Chairman of the Nash-Rocky Mount Board of Education.<\/p>\n

Nash Community College’s curriculum commencement<\/span>\u00a0ceremony will be held in the\u00a0NCC<\/span>\u00a0Business and Industry Center Brown Auditorium, and streamed live online via the Nash Community College YouTube channel at\u00a0youtube.com\/user\/<\/wbr>NashComCollege<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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For more information, please call 252-451-8235.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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