Shorter College News

A Sonoraville High School senior returned to the school following graduation last year for help applying to college during the summer months.

Private providers in Floyd County are beginning to get their first shipments of the H1N1 Influenza-A vaccine in from the state.

Dr. Craig McDaniel, president of Georgia Northwestern Technical College, has named Anthony Gallman as cosmetology instructor; Larry Jarrett as aviation maintenance instructor; Lura Sheppard as GED chief examiner; Lee Ann Williams as practical nursing instructor; and Denise Wittman as medical business administrative technology instructor.

Shorter College students Emily Tweedy and Laura Collins swept the recent Georgia Music Teachersa Association Young Artist Voice Competition by winning first and second place, respectively.

Tim Spriggs is led into the Floyd County Jail by Floyd County Police Officers for booking.

The Shorter Chorale, widely regarded as one of America's finest collegiate choral ensembles, will perform a concert on Nov.

Rome artist James Schroeder will display several new pieces of pop art during an exhibition at All Things Artistic starting on Friday.

Shorter College is offering free admission to Saturday's game between the Shorter Hawks and the Bethel Wildcats at Barron Stadium with the donation of five or more canned food items.

Shorter College students Michael Lindsey of Madison and Elizabeth Telford of Duluth received the highest scores at a recent Georgia Theatre Conference.

Shorter College will have a wrestling program starting in the fall of 2010, the college announced today.

Madge and Will Crawford of Rome share a dance. Will is a sixth-grader at Darlington Middle School.

Two Shorter College seniors recently received $1,000 scholarships from the Atlanta Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon.

McHenry second-grader MaKenzee Liggons plays a bongo drum. Dozens of first- and second-graders from the Floyd County School System took a field trip to Ghana by way of Shorter College thanks to a special partnership designed to broaden cultural understanding among elementary school students.

An exhibit of artwork by Shorter College senior Matt Clark titled "A Trip to Australia" will be on display Nov.

Rome, Ga. - Christmas cards featuring scenes from Shorter College and downtown Rome are now on sale and are available for $15. The cards, sold by the Shorter College Parents Council, showcase the original artwork of Shorter students Elisabeth Watts and Brittni Dekle.

It's Halloween in Rome and the Downtown Development Authority really got into the spirit Friday during its monthly Coffee Break.

Shorter College's Roberts Hall will be transformed into dorm full of frights, as the Hill will play host to a Halloween Haunted House on Oct.

Sophomore Justyna Mudy dominated the field by nearly 45 seconds and sophomore Sarah Massey posted a 13th-place finish to lead No.

Shorter students Emily Tweedy, who plays Gretel, and Jasmine Habersham, in the role of Sandman, meet up in the forest during a scene from the upcoming opera.

Shorter College and visiting Bethel combined for four goals in an end-to-end first half, but neither side could find the net in the final half or two overtime periods as the squads settled for a 2-2 draw in the first-ever soccer match held at Shorter's new Ben Brady Field.