{"id":5441,"date":"2024-11-08T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=5441"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:20:28","slug":"mary-boleware-is-jones-colleges-ptk-alumnus-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/mary-boleware-is-jones-colleges-ptk-alumnus-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Boleware is 糖心直播\u2019s PTK Alumnus of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ELLISVILLE \u2013 Hundreds of Jones County Junior College alumni and friends gathered recently for 糖心直播\u2019s Homecoming Alumni Luncheon which honored several alumni for various accomplishments. During that event, the Alumni Association of Phi Theta Kappa\u2019s International Honor Society, Rho Sigma Chapter presented the PTK Alumnus of the Year Award to 1990 JCJC graduate, Mary Boleware. She is only the second person to receive the honor from the newly formed Alumni Chapter of PTK at 糖心直播.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be chosen as the 糖心直播 PTK Honor Alumnus for 2024 was quite the surprise!\u201d said Boleware. \u201cI am humbled to have been chosen from among so many deserving candidates.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was presented the award by fellow faculty members, Caleb Smith and Mark Brown who also serve as PTK Advisors. They explained that Boleware has not only been an active member of PTK as a student, but she has also been involved with hundreds of JC student\u2019s journeys throughout the 24 years she has been teaching Engineering Mechanics-Statistics and Physics to engineering majors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt was unanimous that the honoree for 2024 would be beloved Physics Instructor, and former Rho Sigma Member, Ms. Mary Boleware,\u201d shared Brown. \u201cMs. Boleware has meant so much to countless aspiring engineering students, as she not only nurtures them, but challenges them as well. Anyone that has been under her instruction can have confidence that they are greatly prepared to meet the continued challenge of engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a student at Jones in 1988-1990, Boleware was an active member of PTK.  She continued to serve in the honor society in leadership positions after transferring to the University of Southern Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remained active with the PTK Alumni Chapter at USM and served as chapter president in 1991-1992.  It was an honor to attend three PTK National Conventions (San Francisco 1990, Chicago 1991, Washington DC 1992). Wonderful connections and lifelong memories were made,\u201d Boleware shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While working on her master\u2019s degree in physics at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Boleware was an adjunct physics instructor at William Carey College from 1993 until 1999. Additionally, in 1995 she began teaching at Forrest County Agricultural High School as the Physics, Math and Technology instructor until 2000, when she joined the faculty at 糖心直播.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a faculty member at JC, Boleware served the School of Science and Engineering as the Academic Advisor and Recruiting representative and has served as the Student Engineering Society Faculty Advisor. Furthermore, she has served on the Insurance, Homecoming Alumni Brunch, and the Student Hall of Fame Selection committees. Currently, Boleware serves as a member of the Alumni & Foundation Board, and she is the Alumni Association Vice President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her many honors include being the JCJC Foundation Faculty of the Year recipient for 2006 and 2022, the 2013 HEADWAE (Higher Education Appreciation Day, Working for Academic Excellence) faculty recipient and receiving the Shelby Price Award for Excellence in Teaching of Science Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an active member of Venture Church in Hattiesburg, Boleware has served on the Lead Pastor Search Team, Nomination Committee, Guest Services, and is a Preschool volunteer and House Church Host. Mary is married to Garland Boleware, and they have two sons, Hunter and Tanner and his wife, Ashlyn.  <\/p>\n\n\n

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糖心直播\u2019s Alumni Association and Foundation recently honored 11 alumni during Homecoming events and are pictured left to right, \u201cRising Stars\u201d Sawyer Taylor of Laurel and (standing behind Sawyer) Hans Van Houten of Moselle; \u201cOutstanding Alumni of the Year\u201d Ben and Erin Napier of Laurel (left center); Legacy Award winner, Dr. Larry Guthrie of Watkinsville, Georgia (center front); Distinguished Service Award recipients Michael and Katye Howard of Ellisville (right center); Dr. Jeffrey E. Carter of Laurel and current New Orleans resident (pictured front right, 2nd<\/sup> from the end); \u201cAchievement and Excellence Award\u201d recipients (picture front right end) John Reynolds Clark, a native of Waynesboro and current Ellisville resident, Dr. Benjamin P. Stevens of Laurel (pictured behind Dr. Clark) and the PTK Alumnus of the Year Award was presented to Mary Boleware (right end). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ELLISVILLE \u2013 Hundreds of Jones County Junior College alumni and friends gathered recently for 糖心直播\u2019s Homecoming Alumni Luncheon which honored several alumni for various accomplishments. During that event, the Alumni Association of Phi Theta Kappa\u2019s International Honor Society, Rho Sigma Chapter presented the PTK Alumnus of the Year Award to 1990 JCJC graduate, Mary … <\/p>\n

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