Wayne Community College pharmacy technology students recognized at pinning ceremony
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Published in News on June 24, 2018 3:05 AM
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Members of the Wayne Community College Pharmacy Technology Class of 2018, front row from left, Hannah Cooley, Tessa Jones, Marlo Bryan, Crystal Jones, Lexi Sprague and Dalall Hamdan. Back row, Daniel Garza, Sarah Crooks, Cuyler Howington, Sean Heeren and Justin Parrish.
Wayne Community College recognized 11 members of its Pharmacy Technology class in a formal pinning ceremony.
The annual service included presentation of pharmacy technician pins by the faculty of the program and the recitation of the "Oath of a Pharmacy Technician."
It denotes the graduates' passage from students to professionals in their field.
This year's graduates included Marlo Bryan, Hannah Cooley, Sarah Crooks, Danielle Garza, Dalall Hamdan, Sean Heeren, Cuyler Howington, Crystal Jones, Tessa Jones, Justin Parrish and Lexi Sprague.
Addressing the latest class, director of the pharmacy technology program Laura Skinner reminded the students that each is "a multi-tasking, pharmacist-asking, prescription-filling, insurance-billing, bottle-labeling, paper bag stapling, medicine-pouring, supply-storing, badge-wearing, patient-pleasing pharmacy technician," who should "go and make a difference in the health care world."
Sprague presented the graduates year in review message, pointing out that their jobs are more complex than being a pharmacist's good-looking sidekick.
During the program, Garza was recognized for earning the "Outstanding Curriculum Award" for the program.
Skinner said she was "very devoted to her studies and a great mom" noting that she was outspoken in class, volunteered with community projects, offered her time to help her classmates, and was raising her six children, all while her husband has been deployed with the U.S. Air Force.
The Pharmacy Technology program is a limited-admission, two-semester program that leads to a diploma.
Graduates can choose to take the National Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam to earn the title of certified pharmacy technician.
Cooley, Crooks, Garza, and Parrish have already earned the status of nationally certified pharmacy technicians.