Education

Kingston’s Jeremy Woody was awarded a degree from Milligan College.

Woody earned a master’s degree in occupational therapy.

Milligan College is near Elizabethton in Northeast Tennessee.

Four Tusculum College students from Roane County were among the Greeneville institution’s 276 recent graduates.

Earning Master of Business Administration degrees were Amber K. Collins of Kingston and Christopher W. Lawson of Oliver Springs.

Both are members of the Omicron-Psi National Honor Society.

Members of Omicron-Psi are selected from students in master degree programs with grade-point averages of 3.5 or better.

Preston E. Daniels of Kingston earned a bacehlor’s degree in business administration.

Teresa Boshears of Oliver Springs is among the 21 new members of Lincoln Memorial University’s Tennessee Epsilon 82 chapter of Alpha Chi.

Alpha Chi is a coeducational academic honor society.

Founded in 1922, with the purpose of promoting academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students, Alpha Chi honors those who achieve such distinction. Membership is limited to no more than 10 percent of the junior, senior and graduate classes.

Lincoln Memorial University is in Harrogate.

Kingston Rotary Club and Cherokee Middle School Interact Club recently gave dictionaries to each third-grader at Kingston and Midway elementary schools.

The Rotary Clubs of Harriman, Kingston and Rockwood annually provide dictionaries to all third-graders in the Roane County school system to promote literacy.

“Dictionaries are very important at this grade level, as it is where the focus changes from ‘learning to read’ to ‘reading to learn’,”said Kingston Rotarian Deborah Alexander-Davis.